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https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html

The argument we all bought back in March–remember March?–was that a two week break in normal social and employment circulation would help to get the hospitals time to get ready for the flood of cases, both by cancelling existing scheduled medical work, and by getting PPE and ventilators (remember ventilators, which we were told were essential to people’s hopes of not dying, and which turned out to be death machines?).

Well, that time period came and went.  The hospitals told the people who were going to get cancer screenings, and stress tests for their hearts, and hip and knee replacements, and a host of other things: sorry buddy, but the wave is coming.  Don’t know when we will be back.

Then nothing.  Nothing.  Half empty hospitals.  Cheating by miscoding cases as COVID so as to defray the holding cost of large numbers of empty beds and laid off healthcare workers.

But who DID show up in the hospitals?  Old people.  Look at that chart. Scroll over it to get the meaning of the lines.  The hospitalization rate for the Over 65 is presently 301 per 100,000 population.
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For 50-64 it is 151, which is half that.

For 18-49–which includes college age kids, certainly, it is 60.

And for 0-17 I’ll call the average 5.

Here is my point: not only is there a quantum leap from the category Over 55 to Under 55 in DEATHS, there is also a quantum leap in HOSPITALIZATIONS.

So if we just opened up the gates to the young, the hospitals would not overflow.  No doubt some would be hospitalized, some may even die, just as some people die every year from vaccinations, or infections in hospitals, or medical malpractice.  But opening up would quickly be good for 99% of us.

There is no excuse to continue this shut down for the under 55.  No reason for masks, no reason to ban mass gatherings.

And every reason to encourage people to live healthy lives, to get enough sun, to take Vitamin D, to exercise, and to lose weight if they carry too much.

The good people of the world, the people you would see on first and second look as easily empathic, caring, compassionate, good people, are abandoning reason in large numbers.  Why?

They love puppies.  They love children.  They love sunsets and bird watching.  And if you tell them the pandemic is bullshit they grow fangs and hiss at you.  If you tell them you love Trump as a President their faces turn red and nothing good comes out of any further conversation at that point.  A transition happens, a transmogrification, from something seemingly benign, to something nigh on demonic.  I’ve seen this happen more than once, in front of my eyes.  In general, I forestall it by lying.

But how is this happening?  Why is this happening?

What is stupefying to me, horrifying, and unbelievably frustrating, is that the world could be saved NOW.  We could secure for the  next 100 generations prosperity, freedom, comfort, and peace.  We could become a planet where most people spend most of their time on spiritual pursuits.  We could make all of our public lives, and all of our social lives beautiful.  We could build beautiful towers in the sky, vast swathes of flowers.  We could built heaven on Earth.

But I would guess at least 100 million Americans have fallen under the sway of ideas which will take that future away from us all.  It will take it from them, and from me, and from my children.  They work every day, tirelessly, in the pursuit of ugliness and stupidity.  They work in the name of the Good for the reality of the Bad, of the extreme, of the hideous, bound, and terrified.

Why?  Have demons infiltrated our world and filled them like so many body snatchers?  Why are they so fucking stupid?  Why can’t they pause for JUST A MOMENT and realize what they are doing so blindly, so compulsively?

It is a question for the ages.  Why do humans build Hell so assiduously even when given all the tools to build Heaven.  We have not been left without resources.  On the contrary.

Good people: can you please wake up now?  It’s much too late to be sleeping.  And if you insist on sleeping, you are not good people, are you?  Sustained stupidity can and should be viewed as willful.

And I would add that, almost by definition, cowards cannot be truly good people.  Goodness requires bravery.

Posted elsewhere:


162 total deaths ages 15-24, which pretty well covers most college students. That is out of 112,000 supposed COVID deaths, and 1.276 million overall deaths in this country since Feb. 1 2020. And that is out of 12,369 total deaths in the 15-24 demographic. This means not quite 1 in 700 deaths from COVID is in that age group. It also means that ONE PERCENT of all deaths in that age group were from COVID. ONE BLANKING PERCENT, in the middle of a pandemic so horrible we have to stop the economy, traumatize a generation of kids, flip we don’t know how many tens of thousands of people into massive depression, suicide, and drug and alcohol abuse and related deaths. This is a disease SO BAD that at least half the people who have it don’t even know it. Here is a newsflash: if you don’t want to kill grandma, stay away from her. I’m not telling you to rub every surface in every bathroom, spend days drunk in a bar, then go hug and kiss your grandmother and have an intimate conversation in close proximity to her that lasts for hours. Nobody is saying that. You people are just being obtuse because you are SCARED. Is courage even a value any more? The masked people seem to think attacking old people with walkers while massed in groups is brave.


From here: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Death-Counts-by-Sex-Age-and-S/9bhg-hcku

I will add that if I add up the WHOLE of 0-24 I now get 191.  Since Feb. 1 22,585 people in that age group have died of some cause or other.  Cancer for many I would suppose, and car accidents, accidental drownings (I wonder if those are up?), falls and that sort of thing.

191 divided by 22525 is .008.  .1 is ten percent, .01 1 percent, so .008 is 8 parts in a thousand.  Out of all the kids who have died since the world losts its fucking mind, 8 out of every thousand have died, we are told, of COVID-19.

I’ve never actually connected Bill Gates and John Brennan, but as I’ve shared, I think Bill Gates has a huge server farm under the lake next to his house and given that he will have been able to write back doors into nearly every piece of Windows software ever sold–the operating systems, obviously, but Word, Excel and the like as well–he will be able to easily hack nearly every connected computer on the planet.

Why would not Gates as an individual and the CIA work together?  Gates doesn’t even really need the money, and even if greed and ego dictated money change hands, above board, regular deals could be negotiated.

Is Gates spying for a power elite? Is he a private outsourced NSA who is accountable to no one?  It’s a reasonable question.

Even now, even at this chaotic, seemingly late moment in time, all of our problems have good solutions.  All of them. 

But the solutions require balls. They require fortitude.  They require people willing to risk the condemnation of lunatic assholes who are busily trying to break everything in this country that will bend.

They require common sense backed by determination.  Both seem to be lacking.  I feel little but contempt for the bulk of our leaders at all levels.

If you go back on this blog, I was an early, early supporter of Trump.  Why?  Because he had the balls to point out that Obama’s birth certificate was a farcical joke, an OBVIOUS farcical joke, but one which everybody else dutifully at least said publicly that they accepted.

We still haven’t sorted that out, but the best guess by far is that the actual father was Frank Marshall Davis, who was about 30 years older than his mother, who was 19-20, and who most likely posed nude for one of Davis’s pornographic magazines.  That guy–whose father was a literal card carrying Stalinist–was our President for two terms, and none of this came out.

That is why Trump was and remains so essential.  That is why he is so hated, so opposed.  They had a plan–a good plan–and they got sloppy and arrogant before they had finished it.  Now he is undoing decades if not generations of work, or at least making a noble effort to.

We all need to pray he is able to see this massive regeneration of America through.  None of us want to live in the fascist state men like John Brennan and Bill Gates want for us.

I read a large swathe of teachers are threatening to strike if they are forced to do their fucking jobs this fall.

This may be a good time to convert many traditional schools to Charter Schools.  Charter Schools–at least the one I personally saw–involve individual learning on computers with a circulating instructor or two that you can ask questions of.  The same job could be done better at a fraction of the cost and without the need for the teachers. 

En masse, our teachers have been failing us for at least fifty years.  There are no doubt some admirable and even saintly individuals in their masses, but the overwhelming average is depressingly low, and that lazy idiots are allowed to subsist at the expense of our kids, our collective future, and taxpayer expense is really beyond dispute.  

Given the devastating effect the lockdown is having on the psychological, economic and social health of America–consider as a rough metric that someone locked down and unemployed is probably at roughly twice the risk of all diseases they would normally be, and multiply this by 25 million or so–there needs to be an articulated end game with a schedule.  Our leaders owe us that.

No vaccine has ever been developed for any coronavirus, despite the fact that coronaviruses cause the common cold.  No cure has been developed for the common cold.  Many palliatives exist, like zinc supplementation, but no cure, and no vaccine.

Normal vaccines take many years to develop and test for safety.  5 years would be on the low side. 

This means that there is ZERO, ZERO, ZERO reason to think a safe vaccine CAN be made available in the next several years.

This means that to return to life as normal, where we are not all traumatized daily by the loss of most social contacts, the inability to play sports, to watch sports, to go to movies, to relax without worrying some fucking asshole is going to yell at us about some stupid shit, we need to move to Herd Immunity as fast as possible.

Dr. I am a fucking douchebag Fauci–who needs to be fired, since he is no friend of America–says we can’t get to Herd Immunity.  Why the fuck not?  That is how EVERY EPIDEMIC IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND HAS ENDED.

The thing has between a .02 and .4% death rate, across all ages, and much, much much less than that for healthy people under 55.

My take: all people under 55 should be encouraged to socialize without masks for the next two months.  Sporting events, movies, bar hopping, etc.  COVID-19 cases will spike a LOT.  But death rates will not, or not by much.  Most of the most vulnerable among us have already been killed. 

Everyone over 55 needs to stay home just a while longer.  They are in any event older, less active, and less in need of work.  And if we need special payments to take care of them, I support that.

Roll around July and August, by September both infection rates and death rates will plummet, and we can go on with life as normal.

What is OBVIOUS is that the Left does not want this.  They hate all of us. They hate themselves. 

But they don’t have to win this fight. 

So my final take is that for the under 55 mask wearing means you hate America and want this pandemic to last as long as possible.  That is only mild hyperbole, as I see it.

Order a disclosure of the suicide and drug overdose numbers during this lockdown.

I would get the numbers, talk it over with someone I trust, but if they have more than doubled, then we all have to ask WTF we are doing, pretending we are saving lives by locking people in their fucking homes where they are shooting and hanging themselves, and getting sick from diseases which stem from despair.

One day we will look back on all this, I hope, as a gray haze from which we always had the ability to escape, but within which far too many of our leaders chose to keep us confined.

Look at Sweden.  They are doing fine, and much closer to the end state of not worrying much about this disease at all.

All we needed, and all we need now, was two weeks for the hospitals, then a general suggestion to go out a bit less, to stay home if sick, and to work remotely for a month or two if it wasn’t too inconvenient.

We needed HCQ to not be torpedoed by a Deep State funded strawman, and we need Dr.  Fauci on a beach somewhere lamenting his lost job, and perhaps his lost fortune.

We need kids back in school, everyone back at work, and Federal government funded fireworks shows around the country to celebrate our grand reopening.  We need hope, and we need leaders who don’t hate us.

Well worth the watch: https://banned.video/watch?id=5f03aaa8672706002f4227a2

There are truly evil people in this world.  History is replete with examples.  It is easy to feel helpless, and all these things are making it worse.

Trump will be our saving grace, I hope.  I really believe that is possible.  All the evil is in the street.  It’s in the open.  None of the basic facts are really deniable any more, in my view, by anyone with a conscience, a heart, and a brain.

It’s not what you watch, but THAT you watch that most dulls your mind.

But having said that, much programming cannot but stupefy–I intend here both making people dumber, and numbing them into insensate imbecility–people.

Do people still sing songs?  Can anyone recite poetry?  Can anyone who is not a professional still perform?  We have outsourced “cultural production” to people we don’t know.  This is a bad thing.