Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Horowitz: The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media? - TheBlaze
Horowitz: The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media? - TheBlaze:
The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.
CDC now says 'it may be possible' for COVID-19 to spread on surfaces - Washington Times
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its guidance once again, acknowledging new information on its website was confusing about the low risk of contracting COVID-19 from contaminated surfaces.
The CDC is now saying coronavirus can “possibly” be spread on surfaces and objects, though the virus is mainly transmitted between people.
This is not the first time the nation’s premier public health agency has had to reverse course on information related to the coronavirus pandemic, including the agency’s evolving guidance on whether a face mask should or should not be worn in public.
- The CDC initially changed the information about transmission risk from surfaces Wednesday, saying the novel coronavirus “does not spread easily” by “touching surfaces or objects.”
- In March, CDC warned “it may be possible” to spread the coronavirus on surfaces and objects.
- Two months later, the CDC updated its website advisory to classify surfaces as a medium by which the virus does not easily spread...
Study: Lockdown “Will Destroy at Least Seven Times More Years of Human Life” Than it Saves – Summit News
- “Likely more than 90 times greater.”
As we have repeatedly highlighted, the untold cost of the lockdown in terms of untreated serious illnesses and the impact on mental health will not be fully known for years, but discussion around the issue has been limited in the mainstream media.
Now a new study finds that debilitating stress and anxiety caused by the lockdown, including turmoil caused by huge job losses, could lead to a plethora of negative health problems that will have a far greater overall toll on human life than the number of lives saved by the lockdown...
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains why COVID lockdowns may have cost more lives than they saved - TheBlaze
Stanford School of Medicine Professor Michael Levitt, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, says the strict lockdown measures imposed to combat the coronavirus pandemic may have cost more lives than they saved.
"I think lockdown saved no lives," Levitt said on Saturday, The Telegraph reported.
"I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives, things like that, but social damage — domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism — has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions," he explained.
He sure seems well on his way to beating Joe Biden.-----Joe Biden Tells Voters He's 'Going To Beat Joe Biden'' - Sara A. Carter
Joe Biden Tells Voters He's 'Going To Beat Joe Biden'' - Sara A. Carter
"In an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday, when former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was asked to speak directly Democrats aligned with Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s progressive agendas, he wasted no time saying he’s “going to beat Joe Biden” before laying out several areas of his policies.
"In an interview with CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Friday, when former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was asked to speak directly Democrats aligned with Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s progressive agendas, he wasted no time saying he’s “going to beat Joe Biden” before laying out several areas of his policies.
Good morning to everyone except people who think this is completely normal: Biden: “I’m Going to Beat Joe Biden”
“...I do believe that any going to school that in fact goes to a public university and/or community college, they should be able to go for free if income is under $125,000.”...
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Detroit Cops Have Issued 2,528 Tickets For Lockdown Violations – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Detroit Cops Have Issued 2,528 Tickets For Lockdown Violations – Michigan Capitol Confidential:- More than 5,600 warnings and 39 parties busted, too
- 2,528 citations for violations related to the COVID-19 epidemic lockdown orders.
- 56 tickets a day, police in Detroit have issued
- 5,663 warnings and
- shut down 39 parties and
- 47 businesses.
The data tracks enforcement of coronavirus violations from April 4 through May 18, and was obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act from the city of Detroit."
Republicans Sue California Gov. Gavin Newsom over Vote by Mail Mandate
The Republican National Committee (RNC), the National Republican Congressional Committee (RNCC), and the California Republican Party (CRP) sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Secretary of State Alex Padilla (D) on Sunday over Newsom’s order earlier this month to send every registered voter a vote-by-mail ballot for November.
Miscalculating Risk: Confusing Scary With Dangerous | RealClearPolitics
Miscalculating Risk: Confusing Scary With Dangerous | RealClearPolitics
"The coronavirus kills...But is it the most dangerous?
Or even close?
There are four ways to categorize any given reality.
It can be scary but not dangerous, scary and dangerous, dangerous but not scary, or not dangerous and not scary.
...To date, the virus has tragically killed nearly 100,000 people in the United States...
But on a scale of harmless to extremely dangerous, it would still fall into the category of slightly to mildly dangerous for most people, excluding the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions.
In comparison, many have no idea that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 650,000 people every year, 54,000 per month...
This qualifies as extremely dangerous.
...It’s critical to be able to distinguish between fear and danger.
Fear is an emotion, it’s the risk that we perceive.
As an emotion, it is often blind to the facts.
...Imagine if an insurance actuary was so scared of something that she graded it 1,000 times riskier than the data showed.
This might be a career-ending mistake.
This is exactly what people have done regarding COVID-19: making decisions on fear and not data...
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"The coronavirus kills...But is it the most dangerous?
Or even close?
There are four ways to categorize any given reality.
...To date, the virus has tragically killed nearly 100,000 people in the United States...
But on a scale of harmless to extremely dangerous, it would still fall into the category of slightly to mildly dangerous for most people, excluding the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions.
In comparison, many have no idea that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 650,000 people every year, 54,000 per month...
This qualifies as extremely dangerous.
...It’s critical to be able to distinguish between fear and danger.
Fear is an emotion, it’s the risk that we perceive.
As an emotion, it is often blind to the facts.
...Imagine if an insurance actuary was so scared of something that she graded it 1,000 times riskier than the data showed.
This might be a career-ending mistake.
This is exactly what people have done regarding COVID-19: making decisions on fear and not data...
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It’s Time To Bring Grandma-Killing Governors To Justice - DC Dirty Laundry
It’s Time To Bring Grandma-Killing Governors To Justice - DC Dirty Laundry"In April, Governor Gretchen Whitmer posed and primped on The Daily Show in a “That Woman from Michigan” t-shirt as a narcissistic slam at President Trump.
That same month, that woman from Michigan issued an executive order, that the Daily Show and SNL didn’t mention, “protecting” residents of long-term care facilities, by forcing nursing homes to admit patients infected with the coronavirus.
Her order dictated that a “long-term care facility must not prohibit admission or readmission of a resident based on COVID-19 testing requirements or results” and told hospitals to discharge coronavirus patients back to the homes they had come from.
Some nursing homes were designated as ‘hubs’ and coronavirus patients were transferred into them, even though these facilities had uninfected residents...
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Aiding America's enemies?-----Colleges stonewall feds on China records
Colleges stonewall feds on China records:
- The Department of Education says colleges are blocking attempts to obtain documents pertaining to foreign gifts.
- Among the countries from which the colleges have received money are China, Russia, and Iran.
"The U.S. Department of Education launched a federal investigation into Harvard and Yale Universities in February regarding alleged undisclosed foreign gifts, including ones from China, but the department has yet to receive all of the documents it requested from the Ivy League institutions in order to conduct a thorough a complete probe.
...Noting that the colleges "claimed Freedom of Information Act exemptions and legal privileges to block record production to Congress," the letter says that "the Department has yet to receive critical information needed to confirm the accuracy of previously submitted...reports."...
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Questions Whether Worship Is Essential
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told reporters this weekend it is not clear that worship constitutes something essential, challenging President Trump’s assertion it is.
“I think the case that the president is making and that may be up for debate in this country of deeming houses of worship essential, essential services and that’s one that we take into consideration,” the Democrat governor said during an hour-long briefing on opening up religious services during the coronavirus lockdown.
The Revolting Inquisition of K.T. McFarland �|� Ricochet
The Revolting Inquisition of K.T. McFarland �|� Ricochet
"In her brief but agonizing stint as Deputy National Security Advisor under General Michael Flynn, K.T. McFarland played a key role in helping the new Trump team get organized following the 2016 election.
Their actions were shocking and, as I said in my original post, could have destroyed her life.
"In her brief but agonizing stint as Deputy National Security Advisor under General Michael Flynn, K.T. McFarland played a key role in helping the new Trump team get organized following the 2016 election.
...In her new book, McFarland takes us back to the interviews that the FBI conducted with her.
Their actions were shocking and, as I said in my original post, could have destroyed her life.
...The FBI ended up scheduling three more interviews with her over several hours. Each time when she asked about her status, they insisted she was only a fact witness.
She realized fairly early in the process they were setting her up for a perjury trap.
Here’s her description of the methodology:
...Once they charged Gen. Flynn, they lost interest in her. She was never accused of anything.As with the three previous FBI interviews, I found the challenge was in following their format. They would ask rapid fire questions, switching back and forth from one topic to another, and one time period to another, and then circle back to the same questions again, but worded slightly differently. I forced myself to remain on high alert for hours on end, knowing that one slip-up might prove fatal...
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Keep in mind that McFarland was no novice to the workings of government; she had served in four administrations.
...One concluding statement she made:
...One concluding statement she made:
If anything, I am now more convinced than ever that what we are experiencing now is not just a group of Democrats, Never-Trumpers, and the liberal media who have made common cause in their efforts to get rid of Trump. It is an entrenched self-perpetuating Washington Establishment locked into a battle with the American people over who is sovereign. Is it the American electorate who voted for populism and nationalism with Donald Trump as their flagbearer? Or does the ultimate power rest in the hands of the entrenched Administrative State and the governing class who are using the system to get rid of Trump and everything he stands for?
It is time, against at all levels of government, for us to take back our country!"
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