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That absurd NY Times scare piece this morning ("Omicron Threatens Red America")
/alexberenson.substack.com ^ | Dec 17 | Alex Berenson

Posted on 12/19/2021 8:06:58 AM PST by Hojczyk

guessing you know, the Trump county data [NOTE: these are figures David has repeatedly published showing more Covid deaths in counties that voted for Trump, which also tend to have lower vaccination rates] is completely confounded by age - Trump voters are older - and obesity - the Southern states that have the most Trump voters are more obese (and in the Southern counties that went hard for Trump, the DEMOCRATIC voters are more obese too, as they are likely African-Americans, and African-Americans unfortunately have notably higher rates of severe obesity).

Meanwhile, in South Africa, which is all of 26% vaccinated, not only has there been no surge in Covid deaths, they are the lowest they've been in 18 months. And we are now more than three weeks into Omicron in SA - if a surge was coming, it would have started by now. Not to mention the fact that the SA doctors say the Omicron cases are far less severe. Not "30 percent less" (talk about a made-up number that is intended to sound scientific), but far less.

Not to mention the fact that the UK as of now has reported 1 (1!) Omicron death, and it was "with" the virus. Have any other Omicron deaths been reported anywhere? I haven't seen any.

Not to mention the fact that the Danish data and tons of anecdotal evidence (all those vaccinated and boosted outbreaks) suggests the vaccines have essentially NO protective effect against Omicron.

Meanwhile, non-Covid all-cause mortality continues to increase all over Western Europe (and probably in the United States too, though our data are too lousy to tell for a month-plus). That's the most basic marker of population health, and no one has offered any coherent explanation why this is happening NOW when it wasn't nine months ago.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: berenson; omicronismild; thecommoncold; truthteller
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1 posted on 12/19/2021 8:06:58 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

meanwhile NY is setting daily records for cases.


2 posted on 12/19/2021 8:09:39 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Hojczyk

Hojczyk, this is the kind of post we should see much more of on FR. Not posting the lying headlines of the Lying Left which tends to confuse and demoralize Patriots, but posting THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIES from reasonably credible sources which emboldens Patriots to fight against the Left and their lies.


3 posted on 12/19/2021 8:12:13 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Hojczyk
showing more Covid deaths in counties that voted for Trump

Not surprising when Trump won 2,589 counties and Biden won only 552.

4 posted on 12/19/2021 8:13:44 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Hojczyk

This is right on the money.


5 posted on 12/19/2021 8:14:40 AM PST by MarMema (Its over. )
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To: Hojczyk

We are a red family living in a blue state. Does that mean we are safe?

L


6 posted on 12/19/2021 8:15:39 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Hojczyk

If it were really affecting ‘Red’ America instead of rat-infested blue cesspool cities, they’d just leave it alone and let it happen. But isn’t affecting them, not as much as in their leftist hellholes.


7 posted on 12/19/2021 8:15:45 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Hojczyk

The forced installed government is trying too scare everyone back into masking uo and testing for Covid.

They can’t control us when we are refusing to mask up and test for Covid.


8 posted on 12/19/2021 8:17:32 AM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: Hojczyk

The NYT is rendering a real public service. It is important that all blue state liberals understand that they face certain death from COVID if they set foot into a red state.

This could save us the cost of building a wall.


9 posted on 12/19/2021 8:18:37 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Hojczyk

Cases, sure, but no one is really sick. I was at a restaurant yesterday while on the road and happened to see NBC “news” for the first time in ages. It was just like early 2020. Panic, hospital workers in hazmat suits, fear, fear, fear, danger, danger, danger. Yet all this time nothing much is really happening to the unvaxxed in the red states. I will never watch network news again. It was outright fear porn. I would extend my rant to admonish NYers to throw off their chains, but they seem to have swallowed the BS hook, line, and sinker. Wear your mask, stand in line for your jab, give up your humanity. I guess the stereotype of the tough New Yorker is a thing of the past. I see videos showing millions across Europe marching and demanding their freedom. How can the scumbags that run NY move about without there being hundreds of thousands protesting the heck out of them? This amazes me. They call us southerners rubes and hicks. At least we aren’t frikkin sheep.


10 posted on 12/19/2021 8:22:00 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bk1000

I stopped watching FOX immediately after Megyn Kelly attacked Trump at the debate. I stopped watching all news over a year ago. My life is much more stress-free now than it was a year ago.


11 posted on 12/19/2021 8:23:16 AM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: Hojczyk

It scares Red america for one reason, The Bidet and his crew will use this to circumvent voting laws to steal another election...Period end of story.


12 posted on 12/19/2021 8:23:18 AM PST by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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Slanted reporting by Berensen. Again.

He notes carefully that voters for President Trump tend to be older, and in the Southern states, fatter.

Then he carefully announces South Africa has low rates of serious disease and only vaxed 26%. How can he not have done the same research he just did? SA’s 26% is 60+% in the over 50 population and even higher in the over 60 population. The young don’t die. The old do without some sort of immunity boost, and we’re seeing that fade. But this is horrible reporting from this guy. It’s not hard to get this data.


13 posted on 12/19/2021 8:26:24 AM PST by Owen
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To: Hojczyk

All we hear about is the infection rate of the Omicron variant, but not a word about why we should fear it. I heard that there’s been one death so far. One.


14 posted on 12/19/2021 8:30:51 AM PST by Spok
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To: Hojczyk; God luvs America
New Yorkers slam de Blasio as city runs dangerously low on COVID tests: Pharmacies run out of home kits, appointments are impossible to get and thousands are forced to wait HOURS in the rain amid record Omicron surge

The virus is so, so, so, so bad, people must wait on line for hours in order to take a test to see if they have it!!!

#2 posted on 12/18/2021, 12:29:00 PM by God luvs America

Then, what do they do if they have it or don’t!???

15 posted on 12/19/2021 8:31:27 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Want to make America great again. Stop talking about government reform. Thanks: precisionshootistst)
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To: Owen
— “It's not hard to get this data.”

Indeed it is not hard.

Data as of 18 December 2021
Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

( 5,344,177 “official” COVID dead worldwide / 7,914,199,792 global population ) x 100 = 0.0675 %

0.0675 percent “officially” dead from COVID worldwide after almost two year time.

( 805,823 “official” COVID dead in the US / 331,002,651 population ) x 100 = 0.243 %.

Less than one quarter of one percent “officially” dead FROM and WITH Sars CoV2 over almost two years time.

If you would like the same data examination for South Africa, updated, I will add it.

Or maybe since it is “not hard to get this data,” you can do it for yourself.

16 posted on 12/19/2021 8:36:22 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: TennTuxedo

I dumped television in general ten years ago. Some conversations I have with friends and family who have television and watch a lot of news almost require the participation of an interpreter.

I see television news as bubble gum. A mindless activity that has no nutritional value whatsoever.


17 posted on 12/19/2021 8:41:04 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Hojczyk

They just keep throwing sh!t on the wall hoping something sticks. The problem for them is that they have already convinced the gullible and week minded that COVID and it’s variants are deadly, and the rest of us are convinced otherwise.

At this point COVID reporting and mandates are just mental masturbation and virtue signaling crap.


18 posted on 12/19/2021 8:43:15 AM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Spok

He died with Covid not because of it?????


19 posted on 12/19/2021 8:45:13 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

How is that relevant to the vulnerable population? The global population is not vulnerable. Only the older global population is.

That’s not hard information to find. Why didn’t you?


20 posted on 12/19/2021 9:00:11 AM PST by Owen
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