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Covid-19 deaths getting redder and redder, Increasing in the red counties and states.
After the Covid-19 vaccines arrived, there is greater and increasing difference in the death rates of
people who reside in red states and red counties in blue states versus those who live in blue alternatives.
This is due to the reluctance of the red citizens to simply get vaccinated. Russian and conservative propaganda has seeded mistrust by the Republicans in the vaccines and the most reliable news sources. I partially blame this on the lack of unified Republican leadership to urge people to get vaccinated and to wear a mask in public.
Yesterday afternoon from the NY Times;
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people who reside in red states and red counties in blue states versus those who live in blue alternatives.
This is due to the reluctance of the red citizens to simply get vaccinated. Russian and conservative propaganda has seeded mistrust by the Republicans in the vaccines and the most reliable news sources. I partially blame this on the lack of unified Republican leadership to urge people to get vaccinated and to wear a mask in public.
Yesterday afternoon from the NY Times;
In response to:
COVID Gets Even Redder
David Leonhardt
Mon, November 8, 2021, 2:13 PM
As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic’s first year might have been worse in red America. There were also good reasons to think it might have been worse in blue America.
Conservative areas tend to be older, less prosperous and more hostile to mask wearing, all of which can exacerbate the spread or severity of COVID-19. Liberal areas, for their part, are home both to more busy international airports and more Americans who suffer the health consequences of racial discrimination.
But it turned out that these differences largely offset each other in 2020 — or maybe they didn’t matter as much as some people assumed. Either way, the per capita death toll in blue America and red America was similar by the final weeks of 2020.
It was only a few percentage points higher in counties where Donald Trump had won at least 60% of the vote than in counties where Joe Biden crossed that threshold. In counties where neither candidate won 60%, the death toll was higher than in either Trump or Biden counties. There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to COVID during the first year that it was circulating in the United States.
Then the vaccines arrived.
They proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in COVID’s death toll quickly emerged.
The gap in COVID’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.
In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from COVID, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny. (If weather or age were a major reason, the pattern would have begun to appear last year.) The true explanation is straightforward: The vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe COVID, and almost 40% of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10% of Democratic adults.
Charles Gaba, a Democratic health care analyst, has pointed out that the gap is also evident at finer gradations of political analysis: Counties where Trump received at least 70% of the vote have an even higher average COVID death toll than counties where Trump won at least 60%.
As a result, COVID deaths have been concentrated in counties outside of major metropolitan areas. Many of these are in red states, while others are in red parts of blue or purple states, like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Virginia and even California.....
COVID Gets Even Redder
David Leonhardt
Mon, November 8, 2021, 2:13 PM
As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic’s first year might have been worse in red America. There were also good reasons to think it might have been worse in blue America.
Conservative areas tend to be older, less prosperous and more hostile to mask wearing, all of which can exacerbate the spread or severity of COVID-19. Liberal areas, for their part, are home both to more busy international airports and more Americans who suffer the health consequences of racial discrimination.
But it turned out that these differences largely offset each other in 2020 — or maybe they didn’t matter as much as some people assumed. Either way, the per capita death toll in blue America and red America was similar by the final weeks of 2020.
It was only a few percentage points higher in counties where Donald Trump had won at least 60% of the vote than in counties where Joe Biden crossed that threshold. In counties where neither candidate won 60%, the death toll was higher than in either Trump or Biden counties. There simply was not a strong partisan pattern to COVID during the first year that it was circulating in the United States.
Then the vaccines arrived.
They proved so powerful, and the partisan attitudes toward them so different, that a gap in COVID’s death toll quickly emerged.
The gap in COVID’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point.
In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from COVID, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.
Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny. (If weather or age were a major reason, the pattern would have begun to appear last year.) The true explanation is straightforward: The vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe COVID, and almost 40% of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10% of Democratic adults.
Charles Gaba, a Democratic health care analyst, has pointed out that the gap is also evident at finer gradations of political analysis: Counties where Trump received at least 70% of the vote have an even higher average COVID death toll than counties where Trump won at least 60%.
As a result, COVID deaths have been concentrated in counties outside of major metropolitan areas. Many of these are in red states, while others are in red parts of blue or purple states, like Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Virginia and even California.....
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A Reminder of Why Not
What does the Jab do to the Body?
Heck, what does that foot-long Q-tip test do to your body?
Reminders, all in one place.
How's your heart feeling right about now?
"Vaccine" lines your circulatory system with shag carpet, causing clotting, heart attacks
A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS
Ethylene Oxide, on those Test Swabs Up Your Nose, Cancer-Causing, Mutagenic
PCR Test, as Used for Covid, is Fraud.
How the Fake-Vaccine Operates. Delayed reaction, 4 to 14 months. Dr. Tenpenny.
mRNA, DNA Changes, NanoMedicine and MIT
Heck, what does that foot-long Q-tip test do to your body?
Reminders, all in one place.
How's your heart feeling right about now?
"Vaccine" lines your circulatory system with shag carpet, causing clotting, heart attacks
A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS
Ethylene Oxide, on those Test Swabs Up Your Nose, Cancer-Causing, Mutagenic
PCR Test, as Used for Covid, is Fraud.
How the Fake-Vaccine Operates. Delayed reaction, 4 to 14 months. Dr. Tenpenny.
mRNA, DNA Changes, NanoMedicine and MIT
This Could Save Your Life: Part Deux
It's one thing to post dire warnings, it's another thing to offer constructive advice when it comes to avoiding Covid, avoiding the Jab, and post-Jab, doing something to minimize its effects.
I am gratified to hear from Mrs. Fedex, that the Pineneedle Tea seems to have helped to control her Post-Jab inflammation.
While some assistance blogs have been de-rezzed, these Assistance Blogs survive (for the moment) and have information which could prove very useful.
Stay healthy my friends.
This Could Very Well Save Your Life
N-Acetyl Cysteine & Severe COVID-19
How to make Pine Needle Tea (fights Spike Proteins)
How to Get Ivermectin
Liver health and Natural Supplements
How To Detoxify and Heal From Vaccinations – For Adults and Children
I am gratified to hear from Mrs. Fedex, that the Pineneedle Tea seems to have helped to control her Post-Jab inflammation.
While some assistance blogs have been de-rezzed, these Assistance Blogs survive (for the moment) and have information which could prove very useful.
Stay healthy my friends.
This Could Very Well Save Your Life
N-Acetyl Cysteine & Severe COVID-19
How to make Pine Needle Tea (fights Spike Proteins)
How to Get Ivermectin
Liver health and Natural Supplements
How To Detoxify and Heal From Vaccinations – For Adults and Children
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"A Puzzling Disparity" - It Was Posted In A Comment On The Blog ...
... And It's Damned PUZZLING, Awright! - A Good Premise For A Twilight Zone episode.
Anyone Got Any Ideas To Account For It??? ...
Oily, Dripping Contempt from Pfizer CEO
Who is, as they say: "vaccine hesitant?"
You know, only mostly those Rubes with advanced degrees, and those who've been on the wrong end of government experiments like Tuskeegee.
Pfizer CEO: ‘Vaccine hesitancy is never based on facts and data.’
F/U, Bourla, and the donkey you rode in on.
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.
FACT: "Vaxx" Leaves One More Vulnerable to Covid
Normal Blood. Unvaxxed.
Post-vaxx, Red bloodcell clumping in Rouleau formations (like stacked coins).
When the blood gets to this condition, the amount of oxygen that can be transported is severely diminished.
You are free to volunteer as a guinea pig for Big Pharma and the Eugenicists who want a big die-off of "useless eaters."
We'll be the Control Group.
You know, only mostly those Rubes with advanced degrees, and those who've been on the wrong end of government experiments like Tuskeegee.
Pfizer CEO: ‘Vaccine hesitancy is never based on facts and data.’
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pfizer-ceo-vaccine-hesitancy-is-never-based-on-facts-and-data/
F/U, Bourla, and the donkey you rode in on.
The protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that didn't protect the protected.
FACT: "Vaxx" Leaves One More Vulnerable to Covid
Normal Blood. Unvaxxed.
Post-vaxx, Red bloodcell clumping in Rouleau formations (like stacked coins).
When the blood gets to this condition, the amount of oxygen that can be transported is severely diminished.
You are free to volunteer as a guinea pig for Big Pharma and the Eugenicists who want a big die-off of "useless eaters."
We'll be the Control Group.
online now!
Pandemic Policies Have Been Catastrophic
The "Swedish Exception" To Acquire Herd Immunity May Prove More Sensible In The Long Term ...
While the rest of the World now deals with the Delta Surge, it's been virtually Non-Existent in Sweden
Compare Sweden's New Case Timeline Above to that of Norway Below
what causes cancer
We know...or at least hear all the time that smoking causes cancer. We hear that certain chemical products have been known to cause cancer. We hear that this that and the other causes cancer....
But....what about smoking causes cancer? Is it the whole process of smoking that causes it? Is it just one ingredient in it that starts the cancer? How does cancer start in the first place? To me, saying that smoking causes cancer is just to vague of a statement. I would suspect that our science has narrowed down more specifically what it is about smoking that causes and starts it. If so, why don't they remove that element from smoking....or from the certain chemicals that have been known to cause cancer?
This blog is not about quitting smoking....it is about getting a more detailed explanation of the origins and starting causes of cancer.
But....what about smoking causes cancer? Is it the whole process of smoking that causes it? Is it just one ingredient in it that starts the cancer? How does cancer start in the first place? To me, saying that smoking causes cancer is just to vague of a statement. I would suspect that our science has narrowed down more specifically what it is about smoking that causes and starts it. If so, why don't they remove that element from smoking....or from the certain chemicals that have been known to cause cancer?
This blog is not about quitting smoking....it is about getting a more detailed explanation of the origins and starting causes of cancer.
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Put your money where your mouth is...
Let's say someone was boasting and you didn't believe the story they were telling. You could suggest a wager... bet money against what they say is true. Put your money where your mouth is would be a common saying.
This blog is not about boasting or betting. It's about a trip to the dentist.
Earlier this year, I had some food trapped between 2 crowned teeth and was heading to a client appointment. Within a few hours I had some serious pain coming from the outside just below the gum line. Lucky for me, the dentist was able to see me without much wait. X-rays didn't show anything but the area was red so the doctor prescribed antibiotics and very slowly the pain subsided, but not enough to be considered gone.
The dentist referred me to a specialist who probed around and pulled out what appeared to be a tiny filament lodged deep in the gum line that didn't come out from daily waterpik rinses. I believe it came from the dental floss. I persisted and the pain was nearly gone. If I pressed on the jawbone near the area I could feel pressure.
Unhappy, the next trip was to the primary doctor who referred me to an ENT. From that visit got me a CT scan that showed negative. However, he prescribed Naproxen to reduce swelling. Within a week, I began to feel human again.
Fast forward and eventually, the pain/pressure returned. My trip to see my brother was booked so I saw the primary car who prescribed Naproxen and some antivert in-case I got dizzy from the flight.
Next stop: Dentist.
More inclusive x-rays and a prescription for antibiotic.
While I was there, they wanted to book a cleaning, but I had issues with the hygienist and told them I planned to go elsewhere for a cleaning. Within seconds another person came into the office and sat down. She must have overheard me and asked why. Not wanting to go into too much detail, I said it's wasn't sufficient to be called a cleaning. Introducing herself as a hygienist, she had a cancellation and asked if I wanted to book with her. Now?
Yes...
Okay, this must be my lucky day.
I said hand scaling only... no cavatron.
She said okay.
(this blog is running longer that I thought)
Something I've never seen before is she had a tiny rubber-tipped probe with graduations that is used to measure the gap between teeth and spaces at the gum line. Basically, mapping out the entire mouth and entering this information into my chart.
I rarely fall for gimmicks (like nitrogen filled tires) and was a little skeptical about the service/procedure she suggested. It's a deep cleaning and injecting antiseptic gel between the teeth/gums. It lasts for weeks. Okay, let's do it.
The cleaning was the best I've had in more than 20 years and injecting the gel into the gums was painless. The cost combined with the cleaning was a few hundred, but I'm at the point (despite a few crowns) I still have all my teeth and hope this treatment helps to keep it that way!
Already the antibiotic has started to 'kick in' and the swelling is down.
I think it was a good idea to put my money where my mouth is...
This blog is not about boasting or betting. It's about a trip to the dentist.
Earlier this year, I had some food trapped between 2 crowned teeth and was heading to a client appointment. Within a few hours I had some serious pain coming from the outside just below the gum line. Lucky for me, the dentist was able to see me without much wait. X-rays didn't show anything but the area was red so the doctor prescribed antibiotics and very slowly the pain subsided, but not enough to be considered gone.
The dentist referred me to a specialist who probed around and pulled out what appeared to be a tiny filament lodged deep in the gum line that didn't come out from daily waterpik rinses. I believe it came from the dental floss. I persisted and the pain was nearly gone. If I pressed on the jawbone near the area I could feel pressure.
Unhappy, the next trip was to the primary doctor who referred me to an ENT. From that visit got me a CT scan that showed negative. However, he prescribed Naproxen to reduce swelling. Within a week, I began to feel human again.
Fast forward and eventually, the pain/pressure returned. My trip to see my brother was booked so I saw the primary car who prescribed Naproxen and some antivert in-case I got dizzy from the flight.
Next stop: Dentist.
More inclusive x-rays and a prescription for antibiotic.
While I was there, they wanted to book a cleaning, but I had issues with the hygienist and told them I planned to go elsewhere for a cleaning. Within seconds another person came into the office and sat down. She must have overheard me and asked why. Not wanting to go into too much detail, I said it's wasn't sufficient to be called a cleaning. Introducing herself as a hygienist, she had a cancellation and asked if I wanted to book with her. Now?
Yes...
Okay, this must be my lucky day.
I said hand scaling only... no cavatron.
She said okay.
(this blog is running longer that I thought)
Something I've never seen before is she had a tiny rubber-tipped probe with graduations that is used to measure the gap between teeth and spaces at the gum line. Basically, mapping out the entire mouth and entering this information into my chart.
I rarely fall for gimmicks (like nitrogen filled tires) and was a little skeptical about the service/procedure she suggested. It's a deep cleaning and injecting antiseptic gel between the teeth/gums. It lasts for weeks. Okay, let's do it.
The cleaning was the best I've had in more than 20 years and injecting the gel into the gums was painless. The cost combined with the cleaning was a few hundred, but I'm at the point (despite a few crowns) I still have all my teeth and hope this treatment helps to keep it that way!
Already the antibiotic has started to 'kick in' and the swelling is down.
I think it was a good idea to put my money where my mouth is...
Give me a woman
There are certainly things that women seem unable to do as well as men, but there are also things that women do better than men. This morning I experienced an example of female superiority.
I have always been phobic about injections, they terrify me. Apart from local anesthetic at the dentist's -which doesn't seem quite the same- I have not allowed anyone to stick a needle in me since I was a child. It wasn't easy for me to make myself have the Covid jab, my fear of the needle took a great deal of overcoming. In the event, I hardly felt a thing. It was much easier when I went for the second one, and again, it was completely painless. I went for the booster jab this morning, and when the needle went in, it stung like Hell.
My first two jabs were administered by women, but my third, the one that hurt, was given to me by a man. I know that 3 is much too small a number to be statistically significant, but it's good enough for me. Women are better at giving injections, and that's official as far as I'm concerned.
I have always been phobic about injections, they terrify me. Apart from local anesthetic at the dentist's -which doesn't seem quite the same- I have not allowed anyone to stick a needle in me since I was a child. It wasn't easy for me to make myself have the Covid jab, my fear of the needle took a great deal of overcoming. In the event, I hardly felt a thing. It was much easier when I went for the second one, and again, it was completely painless. I went for the booster jab this morning, and when the needle went in, it stung like Hell.
My first two jabs were administered by women, but my third, the one that hurt, was given to me by a man. I know that 3 is much too small a number to be statistically significant, but it's good enough for me. Women are better at giving injections, and that's official as far as I'm concerned.
Covid-19 vacs
Who isn't tired with the Covid topic...
I do feel like getting the vaccine helps to some degree as far as possibly not getting it to getting a mild case of Covid. And yes, I know there still has been a few Covid deaths after having been vaccinated, but there has been a lot more deaths with people not having received the vaccine. I work in the e.r. and I have seen a lot of patients coming in who have not been vaccinated that have tested positive for Covid, and with some of these patients, they are sent back home after being treated, but are told to quarantine themselves for fourteen days since the symptoms are mild. We do have a lot of patients that have been admitted from Covid that had refused to get vaccinated. My opinion on that is it's on them that they haven't been vaccinated.
Now, I don't believe in mandates, it should be left to the person to decide if they want the vaccine or not. As I stated, I do believe the vaccine helps to some degree.
I had my first Covid vaccine back on Dec. 22, 2020, and my second one on Jan. 18, 2021. Right now my place of work is now offering a vaccine booster, and it's not mandatory. Right now I'm leaning against getting the booster for myself. I have been very fortunate to not having gotten Covid all this time in the e.r., but I do believe there are other factors in me having not gotten it, such as my blood type (O positive), taking precautions with what we're suppose to do, and being in good physical health.
My girlfriend (type A positive blood) had been vaccinated twice, but she still ended up getting Covid back in early August. I di believe since she received her vaccines, the symptoms were mild, and she quickly bounced back from it. Her having some underlying health issues, Covid would have been much worse on her had she not received her shots.
Right now, Covid cases are starting to drop at my work place, and hopefully we can get past all of this.
If people don't get vaccinated and don't want it, that's their right. They shouldn't be made into a villain. But at the same time, people who choose to get the vaccine shouldn't be called sheeps for it. It should be free will, not force mandated!
I do feel like getting the vaccine helps to some degree as far as possibly not getting it to getting a mild case of Covid. And yes, I know there still has been a few Covid deaths after having been vaccinated, but there has been a lot more deaths with people not having received the vaccine. I work in the e.r. and I have seen a lot of patients coming in who have not been vaccinated that have tested positive for Covid, and with some of these patients, they are sent back home after being treated, but are told to quarantine themselves for fourteen days since the symptoms are mild. We do have a lot of patients that have been admitted from Covid that had refused to get vaccinated. My opinion on that is it's on them that they haven't been vaccinated.
Now, I don't believe in mandates, it should be left to the person to decide if they want the vaccine or not. As I stated, I do believe the vaccine helps to some degree.
I had my first Covid vaccine back on Dec. 22, 2020, and my second one on Jan. 18, 2021. Right now my place of work is now offering a vaccine booster, and it's not mandatory. Right now I'm leaning against getting the booster for myself. I have been very fortunate to not having gotten Covid all this time in the e.r., but I do believe there are other factors in me having not gotten it, such as my blood type (O positive), taking precautions with what we're suppose to do, and being in good physical health.
My girlfriend (type A positive blood) had been vaccinated twice, but she still ended up getting Covid back in early August. I di believe since she received her vaccines, the symptoms were mild, and she quickly bounced back from it. Her having some underlying health issues, Covid would have been much worse on her had she not received her shots.
Right now, Covid cases are starting to drop at my work place, and hopefully we can get past all of this.
If people don't get vaccinated and don't want it, that's their right. They shouldn't be made into a villain. But at the same time, people who choose to get the vaccine shouldn't be called sheeps for it. It should be free will, not force mandated!
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