Five months of COVID-19 lockdowns have created a mental health crisis In February, Lorri Evans’ mom was walking the equivalent of four blocks, twice a day, around her memory care facility in Santa Cruz, California. “She used a walker for support,” Evans says, “but her legs worked fairly well for someone who is 99.” “Just…
Month: September 2020
NY Post reports “Elon Musk says he won’t take coronavirus vaccine, calls Bill Gates a ‘knucklehead’”
SpaceX founder Elon Musk stirred the pot yet again after claiming that neither he nor his family would take a COVID-19 vaccine even if it was readily available. The 49-year-old billionaire dropped the bombshell during a Monday appearance on the New York Times opinion podcast “Sway.” “I’m not at risk, neither are my kids,” Musk told host Kara Swisher…
Real Clear Politics reports “The Tragic Hydroxychloroquine Debate and Dr. Fauci’s Denial of Evidence”
As an epidemiologist trained to make causal inference, especially from observations, I feel strongly that there is an urgent need for an open and honest debate on the ability of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to save lives. I had not paid much attention to discussions related to the efficacy of pharmacological interventions in the treatment of Covid-19…
100% Fed Up reports “Woman Wears Scandalous Medical Mask Bikini To Grocery Store”
Michigan Conservative Coalition held the first-ever protest against lockdown orders by their overreaching governor, Gretchen Whitmer on April 15, 2020. Since that date, multiple protests have taken place in a number of states against governors who are imposing irrational or draconian measures on their citizens via executive order, in an effort to “keep them safe” from…
ResearchGate reports “Evaluation of the virulence of SARS-CoV-2 in France, from all-cause mortality 1946-2020”
We are certain that this “COVID-peak” is artificial because it: i. occurs sharply (one-month width) at an unprecedented location in the seasonal cycle of all-cause mortality (centered at the end of March), 2 ii. is absent in many jurisdictions (34 of the USA States have no “COVID-peak”), and iii. varies widely in magnitude from jurisdiction…
Medical Xpress reports “Study: 35% of excess deaths in pandemic’s early months tied to causes other than COVID-19”
Since COVID-19’s spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account for about two-thirds of the increase in March and April, according to a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale…
Investment Watch report “CDC publishes new survival rates for Covid … MSM Goes Silent”
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/cdc-publishes-new-survival-rates-for-covid-msm-goes-silent/
Times Union reports “Cuomo: ‘I wouldn’t recommend’ trusting a pre-election COVID-19 vaccine”
Governor calls for investigation into what Trump knew about lethality of virus ALBANY — In a wide-ranging Thursday press conference, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo discussed the state’s plans to prepare for an eventual COVID-19 vaccine, called for Congressional investigations into Trump administration’s COVID-19 response, and continued his pitch to the federal government for relief funding…
USA Today reports “Exclusive: Two-thirds of Americans say they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine when it’s first available”
Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won’t try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available, and one in four say they don’t want to ever get it, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll released the same week that the number of COVID-19 cases surpassed 6 million. “I don’t plan on being…
NBC News reports “Many parents are hesitant to give their kids a Covid-19 vaccine. What if schools require it?
This is going to be a huge issue, and I don’t think most people understand that yet,” a school law attorney said. Michelle Vargas of Granite City, Illinois, has always vaccinated her 10-year-old daughter, Madison. They both typically get flu shots. But when a vaccine for the coronavirus eventually comes out, Vargas will not be giving it…