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[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
Do you miss having a blue rag clamped over your mouth and nose? Frowns from the people wearing masks? Having to shuffle six feet apart from the line at the supermarket counter?
In Governor Gavin Newsom’s California, the local health officials have you covered.
Across California, ‘health officials’ are calling for bringing back masks. They’re describing a “summer COVID wave” in September (trust the science) before a predicted “winter wave” and warning that everyone will either be dead or masked by the spring.
“California is experiencing a summer COVID wave,” Dr. Aimee Sisson, the health officer for Yolo County, claimed in a press release, and recommended that everyone over the age of 2 in West Sacramento “wear a mask when they are around others in indoor public spaces.”
Why do we have to mask children? Because it’s fun for the whole family. And for that most useless and destructive element of California officialdom: the professional health official.
How much COVID is there really in Yolo County? It’s hard to say because the databases that were urgently tracking COVID gave up once there was no longer any bad news to report.
The latest figure in Yolo is from July which records 0 deaths. Last year there were 0.4 deaths and we must offer our condolences to the 40% of the one person that was deceased. There’s still no word on where the other 60% of him, her or xer is, but hopefully that 60% is doing well.
Sisson had formerly left her position in Placer County once it declared that there was no longer a COVID emergency because she claimed that the lack of a state of emergency “made it clear that I can no longer effectively serve in my role as Placer County Health Officer and Public Health Director.” If you can’t mask 2-year-olds, how are you supposed to do your job?
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is also calling for masks, not when passing the piles of human waste outside, but in indoor spaces. Conveniently enough, SF’s DPH ‘paused’ COVID hospitalization data in July “to assess data quality and completeness”.
Back in July, a total of 53 people were admitted to San Francisco hospitals who tested positive for COVID. If you’re going to argue for masking everyone, it’s understandable that you would want more “completeness” than less than two people a day coming to the hospital.
But in more media friendly news, the number of people testing positive for COVID jumped from 7.4% to 12.3% at the end of August. Those numbers however fail to mention the sample size.
The number of tests had dropped from 310 to 163. The question of how many people actually tested positive for COVID is left as an exercise for the reader, but the full total should be able to fit into one of those San Francisco micro-apartments marketed to starving tech workers.
Test positivity rates are one of the most common measures still being used to calculate COVID risks even as the number of people actually taking COVID tests dramatically declines.Far fewer people take the tests and those who do are more likely to be sick. Sample sizes this small are all but worthless, and yet continue to be used to calculate risks across entire counties.
How many people actually died in San Francisco in August? One.
San Francisco has a population of 827,526. That’s a COVID death rate of 0.0001208%.
There have been 428 drug overdose deaths in San Francisco so far this year. It’s projected to hit 706 by the end of the year.
In July, 2 people died of COVID and 51 died of overdoses. Over the course of the year, 23 people have died in San Francisco of COVID. That annual toll is less than half the overdose deaths in one month. (And that’s even if we assume that the numbers are correct and that these don’t represent elderly people in nursing homes or the homeless who may have died of other causes but tested positive for COVID as has happened all too often in the past.)
San Francisco doesn’t have a COVID epidemic, it does have a drug and crime epidemic.
But the same Democrats who think nothing of masking toddlers to fight 1 death a month are determined to keep drugs legal and plentiful on the streets no matter how many die of overdoses or shootings. And they’re also going to keep criminals out of jail and out roaming the streets even as bodies pile up in the morgues.
Jose Gomez Bustamante, who got drunk and allegedly stabbed a man to death at a station in August, killed as many people as COVID did. The local health authorities would save more lives if they insisted on locking up criminals (instead of freeing them) instead of trying to bring back masks for little kids.
But what about Los Angeles County, the home base of the Los Angeles Times, which decided to once again promote masking? The county of nearly 10 million had 5 COVID deaths. By which they mean 5 death certificates where COVID-19 was listed as “the underlying or contributing cause of death.”
To put that into context, 182 people were murdered in the city of Los Angeles this year alone.
The COVID wave is a manufactured crisis based on “wastewater testing” and a limited shift in “positivity” results from a small sample of COVID tests. There is no crisis of mass deaths. The real crisis is that the same health bureaucrats who were able to terrorize California under Gov. Gavin Newsom are trying to once again make another bid for relevance and importance.
California isn’t suffering from a COVID crisis: it’s suffering from a government crisis.
When one death and dozens of positive COVID tests in San Francisco lead to a call for universal indoor masking from the San Francisco Department of Public Health, while 428 drug overdose deaths lead to no action against drugs, that’s not science, it’s political science.
The only masks still being worn are those covering the faces of the activists playing doctor.
How about those Health Officials should all resign from their Jobs teir doing a terrible job at it
Did he get hit by a bus or have 20 comorbidities? Trust the science.
Exactly. Did he trip at his campsite and crack his head on a rock?* Crash his motorcycle into a brick wall head first*
No, it was comorbitities, no doubt.
* Both are actual deaths attributed to the Wuhan Flu, along with ordinary flus which kill 80,000 Americans a year on average, and most cases of heart disease. “He died of a heart attack! COVID strikes again! Get your masks out!”
People are still scared of catching a cold?
You’d be surprised how many hypochondria freaks are out there. And plenty of city governments have been itching for a chance to impose impositions again. I guess they hate small businesses and love control measures.
The federal government seems to have given up, hence the ridiculous attempts to use monkey pox and bird flu to put us all back under the yoke that went nowhere.
The Alzheimer Joe administration used bird flu as an excuse to kill an obscene amount of egg laying hens at chicken farms right before Trump took office, which drove egg prices up to $10, $15 and $20 bucks a dozen. President Trump got them down to $5 in some stores which is still too high but doable. I got a crate of 25 for $8 which wasn’t so bad.
Idiots who wear masks just help cities fuck us. Not even Grease head Newscum here in California is going to impose any more draconian Wuhan flu restrictions because he knows even his retarded supporters would turn against him. I bet he’d like to, though.
The DC bureaucrats are trying to shut down hospitals in conservative rural California counties, typical political blindness, strengthening Democrat control over the state.
The Democrats are always in an urgent crisis
Close, but not quite.
The Dems ARE the urgent crisis.
You are correct sir.
I’m surprised they don’t all wear diapers…….just in case.
Last week I watched the Democrat temper tantrum, with Sens Warner, Fauxcahontas and Sanders bloviating, on full display in their pathetic efforts to force RFK out. It was like watching children throwing their toys around. A typical example of stupidity.
But what really struck me was the obsession with the covid vaccines and their attempt nail RFK on the issue. Hint Demis, or is it Dhimmis…he’s not going anywhere. It may get you a few votes. especially when democrats cobble together their hearing clips
The covid vaccine focus, and the equally stupid focus on the Jan. 6 lies about cops being killed is getting tired, but I suppose it’s all you losers have.
We are at least 5 years past Jan.6 and the covid mask tyranny. Find something new to b**ch about.
Yeah, now they have a racist black guy who murdered a beautiful young immigrant from the Ukraine to worry about……..and he didn’t even have the Dirtbagocrat decency to use a gun. They’re fucked over this and their attempts to point fingers at Trump, MAGA supporters and the Republicant’s just makes it worse for them.
President Trump, Vice President Vance, Secretary of Defense Rubio and Secretary of Defense Hegseth went to a restaurant named Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant last night and were accosted by a swineherd of Code Pink pigs chanting “free DC, free Palestine, Trump is the Hitler of our time!”
The D-Bags just don’t get it. Everything they try just makes mainstream America hate them more and more.
Another great job by the SS, too. (Secret Service.) The sows even had little banners. How could the SS possibly have missed those, or the blue hair?
And why weren’t the Code Pink pigs thrown to the ground, cuffed and arrested? One of the sows can be seen holding a dinner knife. Yet they were allowed to chant away and disturb all the diners for a video op and presented a clear threat to the President.
I think Trump has a severe problem with “his” SS. Director Sean Curran is either incompetent or a traitor.
On that basis, there are several socio-economic cohorts in San Francisco that should be put on garbage scows and dumped in the Pacific.
How did we get here and how do we get back? That is the daily question. California is still America.: we cannot write her off. DeGreen you should be published in every newspaper in the country
And the sheeple comply is what. Pathetic.
So interesting how we went from doctors proclaiming to patients “it’s a virus. Do this…” to: “It’s COVID”. Really ? After 5 YEARS? I guess ANY virus is now automatically considered “covid”. How stupid. And those tests were faulty from the beginning. Anyone who lets the government “experts” tell them how to live their lives has forgotten how to use their own brains. Just because one works in a position paid for by taxpayers does NOT make them an “expert”. In fact, it probably makes them LESS of one than normal people.
Died from covid or with covid?
Perhaps they’re recommending masks to hide the identities of their goons’ future attacks on ICE.
Thanks… eliminating all doubt is a valuable public “good deed”
Used o be they’d take mental defecives like these louts and hous them in nice public facilities to keep the masses safe. Now they pay them the big bux, put badges on them, and feed the delusions they have.
Well come on,there are elections coming
I read a number of reports awhile back concluding that masks, especially the cheap ubiquitous Chinese ones, were extremely dangerous due to micro fibres and chemical used in their manufacture. Also the PCR and Rat tests have long been proven to be virtually useless to indicate Covid. The latest scientific claims are that many more people died from the hot shots and hospital malfeasance than ever did from covid.
The virus size is so small that it passes through the mask. The science, as proclaimed by Fauci, knew at the very beginning that the masks did not prevent the virus from spreading but it was a very effective tool of both propaganda “science” and issuing control over people.
In California, control over the people has been carried out most successfully with fear induction being rolled out yet again.
Time for more Californians to rent the U-Haul trucks and head for saner states where they actually understand REAL science and individual rights are not usurped by group think.
The use of what are commonly referenced as surgical masks are specifically designed to prevent aerosolized particles (they are larger than viruses) from the person wearing it coming into contact with the sterile field during surgical procedures.
Individuals with active respiratory coughing wearing a mask helps to prevent aerosolized particles from spreading to others. Well people don’t need them and making them wear masks creates other breathing related issues. The grease headed, former maskless, restaurant attendee during Covid was aware of this since the beginning. However, following in the footsteps of Rahm Emmanuel’s, “never let a crisis go to waste”, California is ginning up one and the people there will suffer once again.
Thanks to bringing this to our attention. It’ll be added to the voluminous collection of Radical Leftist Sicko stories.
Frankly, I am past caring about Leftists. I think that we need millions of John Galts to walk away from any contact with these psychos whenever possible.
Besides their own efforts in reducing their own population via abortion and transitioning, we need to stop funding drug rehab centers and stop police patrols in the deepest darkest urban ‘hoods. At the same time, nearby suburban residents need to arm up and heighten property and personal security. No more help. Let the Blue cities BURN TO THE GROUND.
Isn’t this like doing the same thing again and expecting different results??