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95% of deaths with coronavirus in England's hospitals had underlying health conditions


Sky News
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 09:23 UTC
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The data was provided by NHS England
Ninety-five percent of people who have died with COVID-19 in hospitals in England had underlying health issues, according to figures obtained by Sky News.

The data provided by NHS England shows that, as of 5pm on 26 April, 18,749 people had died in hospital with the virus.

In a small number of cases, it was not possible to confirm if a patient did or did not have an underlying health condition.

But for those where it was, 95% were found to have serious pre-existing issues.

Comment: This report supports data from all over the world that old people with multiple comorbidities were most vulnerable to infection, however given the overall mortality rate it would appear that it wasn't the coronavirus that killed them. It's becoming increasingly clear that deaths due to the disruption caused by the hysteria and the tyrannical lockdown are many times greater than deaths due to coronavirus:

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California doctors say they've seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus since lockdowns

Andrew Mark Miller
Washington Examiner
Thu, 21 May 2020 20:50 UTC
Dr. Michael deBoisblanc
Dr. Michael deBoisblanc
Doctors in Northern California say they have seen more deaths from suicide than they've seen from the coronavirus during the pandemic.

"The numbers are unprecedented," Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told ABC 7 News about the increase of deaths by suicide, adding that he's seen a "year's worth of suicides" in the last four weeks alone.

DeBoisblanc said he believes it's time for California officials to end the stay-at-home order and let people back out into their communities.

Comment: See also:

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Flashback When viruses escape the lab

Olga Khazan
The Atlantic
Tue, 20 May 2014 00:01 UTC
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© Nakhon Pathom/Reuters
Scientists are creating new, incurable diseases in labs. Is that reasonable?

Swine flu, or H1N1, had been dead for 20 years when it suddenly re-emerged in 1977 with a curious twist. The new strain was genetically similar to one from the 1950s, almost as though it had been sitting frozen in a lab since then. Indeed, it eventually became clear that the late-70s flu outbreak was likely the result of a lowly lab worker's snafu.

Lab accidents like that are extremely rare. Still, two scientists are now arguing that it's not worth continuing to create new, transmissible versions of deadly viruses in labs because the risk that the diseases will escape and infect the public is too great.

Comment: It's not exactly comforting knowing the scientists are working with lab created deadly diseases to be better prepared for pandemics in the future, knowing that their hubris is likely to cause those very outbreaks they're preparing for.

See also:

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Suspect arrested after video surfaces showing violent beating of elderly nursing home patient

Breck Dumas
The Blaze
Thu, 21 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Twitter video screenshot
The helpless victim was hospitalized for treatment of his injuries, but did survive the attack.

A man has been arrested in connection with the beating of a 75-year-old nursing home patient in Detroit, after a leaked video of the violent attack went viral.

Disturbing footage circulated on social media this week, showing a male suspect beating a helpless elderly man in what appears to be a room in a care facility. The perpetrator repeatedly punches the victim to the point of drawing blood, then cussing at the elderly man — calling him the N-word and repeatedly telling him, "get the f**ck off my bed."

Comment: Reddit and Twitter users have been rather proficient at unmasking the identity of the deranged assailant (see the James Woods tweet thread here for details). Apparently the idiot posted the video himself. No conscience and no brain.

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Dave Portnoy unloads on Fauci in blistering rant on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'


Fox News
Sat, 23 May 2020 09:23 UTC
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Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy tell's Dr. Fauci to "pick a side," on coronavirus lockdowns.


Comment: The full original rant:


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Ten reasons why immunity passports are a bad idea

Natalie Kofler & Françoise Baylis
Nature
Thu, 21 May 2020 00:01 UTC
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© Kevin Frayer/GettyA woman in Beijing shows a health QR code on her phone to access a shopping area, as a security guard checks her temperature.

Comment: The following article rests on the assumption that SARS-CoV-2 is a dangerous disease that we need to protect ourselves from. There is far too much evidence showing this is not the case to take this assumption seriously. Nevertheless, the article is valuable in showing that, even if the fear narrative were correct, immunity passports are a very bad idea.


Restricting movement on the basis of biology threatens freedom, fairness and public health.

Imagine a world where your ability to get a job, housing or a loan depends on passing a blood test. You are confined to your home and locked out of society if you lack certain antibodies.

It has happened before. For most of the nineteenth century, immunity to yellow fever divided people in New Orleans, Louisiana, between the 'acclimated' who had survived yellow fever and the 'unacclimated', who had not had the disease1. Lack of immunity dictated whom people could marry, where they could work, and, for those forced into slavery, how much they were worth. Presumed immunity concentrated political and economic power in the hands of the wealthy elite, and was weaponized to justify white supremacy.

Comment: The article really fell apart at the end. If you take off the lefty social justice gloss, what it comes down to is protecting the vulnerable (regardless of their skin colour, age or sexual identity) and let everyone else go about their business. The virus is not dangerous to ~99% of the population. Scrap the tracking, the vaccinations and social distancing, let the virus spread throughout the community naturally (while protecting those at risk of complications), build up herd immunity and let the world carry on as normal, just like we do every cold and flu season.

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The results of Europe's lockdown experiment are in

Elaine He
Bloomberg
Wed, 20 May 2020 06:29 UTC
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© Giulio Napolitano/Bloomberg via Getty Images
With governments across Europe reopening their economies for business, it's a good moment to look back on the different paths taken to control Covid-19 outbreaks to try to see how effective they were.

The chart below shows the relative severity of Europe's restrictions based on work done by the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, which tracks a range of measures and scores how stringent they've been each step of the way.

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For many European countries, stringency levels increased substantially after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, even when their case loads were low.

Comment: And yet, z-scores is a terrible way to measure excess mortality. See also: Lives vs lives - The global cost of lockdown

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$21M Brooklyn field hospital never saw a patient amid coronavirus pandemic

Carl Campanile & Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
Sat, 23 May 2020 06:28 UTC

Comment: Remember the story blasted around the world about how the bodies were piling up so high in Brooklyn that they were being put into overflow refrigerated trucks?..


Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
© APThe Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook
A roughly $21 million Brooklyn field hospital authorized by the de Blasio administration at the height of the coronavirus pandemic opened and closed without ever seeing one patient, according to city officials.

The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook was one of several sites across the five boroughs converted into a medical facility as a way to relieve the city's overburdened hospital system as the COVID-19 crisis mounted.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Mar. 31 — a day after the USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor to aid in the coronavirus fight — for the $20.8 million Red Hook field hospital with an estimated capacity for 750 beds.

The field hospital was built by Texas-based construction company SLSCO.

"They are going to set it up rapidly and we're then going to go to the next site, the next site, the next site to meet our goal," de Blasio told reporters of the site during that press conference in which the mayor also outlined the details to turn Queens' Billie Jean King National Tennis Center into a 350-bed temporary hospital.

Comment: They didn't 'save' any lives because there was no 'killer virus' to begin with. They may in fact have unnecessarily killed thousands, however, via their reckless lockdown.

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We're all in this together - but not in the way you think

Robert Blumen
Mises Institute
Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00 UTC
networked city
We are all in this together. No, by that I do not mean what Andrew Horney calls "all those cloyingly saccharine, feel-good public service announcements being delivered by famous faces on television and social media platforms, telling us "we're all in this together." We are all interdependent through the production of goods and services that constitutes the market order. Some critics of the current crisis see it as yet another case of the rich getting one over on the rest of us. I will argue that this cannot be correct, because the rich as well as the poor (and the middle class) depend on the freedom to produce, and are all harmed by the lack of it.

Angelika Albaladejo writes, "The Rich Are Getting Richer," citing a new report that "shows that some American billionaires are making substantial gains during the global health crisis." Wilamette Week asks, "How Will the Rich Get Richer During the Pandemic-Fueled Economic Collapse?"

Israel Shamir in "Deep Pockets Love Lockdown" suggests that the rich do not like the widespread availability of travel:
No more travels for us. The very rich folks will regain their solitary possession of Venice, the Côte d'Azur, and all the other elite destinations so recently inundated by mass tourism. Once again they will have it as good as they had it in the 19th century. Travel is a luxury, and ordinary people do not deserve luxury. They tried to keep us away by making travel as unpleasant as possible with body searches, but it didn't help. If this global pandemic doesn't stop us, they are simply going to cut us off.
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Best of the Web: For resisting lockdown orders prohibiting religious services, Mississippi church is burned to the ground

Phil Helsel
NBC
Fri, 22 May 2020 21:50 UTC
"Bet you stay home now you hypokrits" was written in parking lot at church that had sued the city over its public health orders.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he's "heartbroken and furious" after a fire this week at a church that has challenged coronavirus restrictions. The fire is being investigated as arson.

The fire Wednesday in Holly Springs destroyed the First Pentecostal Church, and investigators found graffiti in the church parking lot that reads, "Bet you stay home now you hypokrits," NBC affiliate WMC of Memphis reported.

The church was "burned to the ground" and had been trying to open services, Reeves tweeted Thursday.

First Pentecostal filed a lawsuit last month against the city over its public health order on in-person worship services, the station reported.

Comment: It's said that crises don't change people; they reveal them.

Well, this 'scamdemic', so global and profound in its effects on everyone, is certainly revealing a lot of diabolical people who relish and thrive on the lies...

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