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DIY-HP-LED

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He survived severe Covid-19; now he's getting vaccinated, but losing friends

(CNN)Jim Sells is 71, a self-described "strong conservative" who's on social media all the time. As the pandemic unfolded in the United States, his online social network was the source of a lot of his ideas about Covid-19 and what the risks of the virus could be.

It was there where he read about a high survival rate among people who'd had Covid-19, and where he saw people questioning whether masks were effective. Sells said he and his friends didn't think addressing the pandemic was particularly urgent. And based on posts he saw on social media, Sells decided he didn't need to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
"That attitude is what left me totally unprepared for Covid," he said.
In late July, Sells, a retired pilot, flew from Georgia, where he lives, to attend an air show in Wisconsin.
"My last post before I disappeared was that event, and I posted, I'm with 500,000 people, hardly a single mask, and it smells like freedom," Sells said...
 

printer

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Case numbers are a bogus metric. More political science. Very easy to rig the results to what ever you want.
Political science? Really.

COVID test positivity rate in Southern Health region soars

Surging COVID-19 cases and a nearly 15 per cent test positivity rate in southern Manitoba are the "tip of the iceberg," sparking warnings the whole province will pay the price.

The spread of novel coronavirus in that region means Manitoba will likely have to add more public health restrictions and/or increase enforcement of the existing rules that limit the number of unvaccinated people who can gather, experts say.
The 14.5 per cent test positivity rate in the Southern Health region, revealed in provincial data Friday, is triple the provincewide number. It indicates there is a much wider spread that is undetected, said Winnipeg medical microbiologist Dr. Philippe Lagace-Wiens.

It means too few tests are being conducted; too many people are not getting tested at all or are not getting tested until they are very sick and need to be admitted to hospital, he said.

"That's very concerning because what it means is that there's probably a large amount of people out there with minor symptoms who are potentially spreading the virus within their communities," he said. "Basically, it suggests that we're seeing the tip of the iceberg, that there's probably a lot more community disease than we know about."

Test positivity in Manitoba, by region Reported on Nov. 3, 2021:
Southern: 14.5
Northern: 9.5
Interlake-Eastern: 5.3
Prairie Mountain: 4.8
Winnipeg: 2.0

On Friday, Manitoba reported 130 new COVID-19 infections and three deaths. Of the cases, 64 were in Southern Health, home to the highest proportion of unvaccinated residents. The provincial average test positivity rate was 4.9 per cent.

Case numbers increasing week over week in the region "are concerning," Health Minister Audrey Gordon said in a prepared statement. It acknowledged half of Manitoba's ICU patients are Southern Health residents, but was careful not to point the finger of blame.

So the Southern Health District has 64 of the 130 cases that day. So basically half of the province number. Let's look at the population of the different districts.

Southern: 14.5% 211,896
Northern: 9.5% 77,283
Interlake-Eastern: 5.3% 133,834
Prairie Mountain: 4.8% 172,641
Winnipeg: 2.0% 791,284
Total 4.9% 1,386,938

So the Southern district which makes up 15% of the province's population where vaccinations are is putting the greatest demand on the hospitals.


Province's reaction to Southern Health COVID-19 crisis is... crickets

It’s not just the test positivity rate or the high number of cases in Southern Health that are cause for concern. More than half of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (14 out of 24) are from Southern Health and 50 of the 118 hospitalizations come from that region, which makes up about 15 per cent of the Manitoba population.

By contrast, only four ICU patients are from Winnipeg.

The connection between high infection rates and low vaccination uptake in Southern Health is indisputable. Only 65 per cent of people over the age of 12 in that district have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In Winnipeg, it’s 87 per cent. It’s between 79 and 80 per cent in the three other health regions.

Low vaccination uptake is also linked to higher hospitalization rates. Provincewide, almost three-quarters of active COVID-19 patients in hospital are not fully vaccinated; 95 per cent of active cases in ICU have not been immunized.

This might be a lot of political science for a little berry to comprehend in one sitting though. Mind you, who needs political science when you have your own make belief science to guide you.
 

schuylaar

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he was over covid itself a while at that point but was a long hauler with some quality of life issues. he went back to drinking after sobering up too. hope he gets straight again, sounded loke he had many decent years left
are you able to reach out to him?
 

schuylaar

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Case numbers are a bogus metric. More political science. Very easy to rig the results to what ever you want.
and by reporting directly to Der Kommissar (which he had the states doing; bypassing the CDC), what amount of cases do you think he reported?

  1. More
  2. Less
  3. Same
brace for it..they didn't pay more for Covid cases at the hospital if Covid was on your Death Certificate.

 

schuylaar

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"A FIVE-DAY COURSE of molnupiravir, the new medicine being hailed as a “huge advance” in the treatment of Covid-19, costs $17.74 to produce, according to a report issued last week by drug pricing experts at the Harvard School of Public Health and King’s College Hospital in London. Merck is charging the U.S. government $712 for the same amount of medicine, or 40 times the price."

we allow it; i've also noticed RX was taken off the BBB Bill..we're getting elder care- someone to fold your laundry oh! and a hearing aid if you need.

so i'm not getting anything from this.

@UncleBuck will have a lot of work from Infrastructure..Colorado needs housing desparately..this is his opportunity to kill it.
 

Three Berries

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Political science? Really.

COVID test positivity rate in Southern Health region soars

Surging COVID-19 cases and a nearly 15 per cent test positivity rate in southern Manitoba are the "tip of the iceberg," sparking warnings the whole province will pay the price.

The spread of novel coronavirus in that region means Manitoba will likely have to add more public health restrictions and/or increase enforcement of the existing rules that limit the number of unvaccinated people who can gather, experts say.
The 14.5 per cent test positivity rate in the Southern Health region, revealed in provincial data Friday, is triple the provincewide number. It indicates there is a much wider spread that is undetected, said Winnipeg medical microbiologist Dr. Philippe Lagace-Wiens.

It means too few tests are being conducted; too many people are not getting tested at all or are not getting tested until they are very sick and need to be admitted to hospital, he said.

"That's very concerning because what it means is that there's probably a large amount of people out there with minor symptoms who are potentially spreading the virus within their communities," he said. "Basically, it suggests that we're seeing the tip of the iceberg, that there's probably a lot more community disease than we know about."

Test positivity in Manitoba, by region Reported on Nov. 3, 2021:
Southern: 14.5
Northern: 9.5
Interlake-Eastern: 5.3
Prairie Mountain: 4.8
Winnipeg: 2.0

On Friday, Manitoba reported 130 new COVID-19 infections and three deaths. Of the cases, 64 were in Southern Health, home to the highest proportion of unvaccinated residents. The provincial average test positivity rate was 4.9 per cent.

Case numbers increasing week over week in the region "are concerning," Health Minister Audrey Gordon said in a prepared statement. It acknowledged half of Manitoba's ICU patients are Southern Health residents, but was careful not to point the finger of blame.

So the Southern Health District has 64 of the 130 cases that day. So basically half of the province number. Let's look at the population of the different districts.

Southern: 14.5% 211,896
Northern: 9.5% 77,283
Interlake-Eastern: 5.3% 133,834
Prairie Mountain: 4.8% 172,641
Winnipeg: 2.0% 791,284
Total 4.9% 1,386,938

So the Southern district which makes up 15% of the province's population where vaccinations are is putting the greatest demand on the hospitals.


Province's reaction to Southern Health COVID-19 crisis is... crickets

It’s not just the test positivity rate or the high number of cases in Southern Health that are cause for concern. More than half of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (14 out of 24) are from Southern Health and 50 of the 118 hospitalizations come from that region, which makes up about 15 per cent of the Manitoba population.

By contrast, only four ICU patients are from Winnipeg.

The connection between high infection rates and low vaccination uptake in Southern Health is indisputable. Only 65 per cent of people over the age of 12 in that district have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In Winnipeg, it’s 87 per cent. It’s between 79 and 80 per cent in the three other health regions.

Low vaccination uptake is also linked to higher hospitalization rates. Provincewide, almost three-quarters of active COVID-19 patients in hospital are not fully vaccinated; 95 per cent of active cases in ICU have not been immunized.

This might be a lot of political science for a little berry to comprehend in one sitting though. Mind you, who needs political science when you have your own make belief science to guide you.
Completely missed my point but proved it. The numbers are easy to rig for the headlines.
 

printer

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Completely missed my point but proved it. The numbers are easy to rig for the headlines.
How are the numbers rigged? The hicks (actually good Christian folk that are not that educated and do not trust government) are the ones that are passing around the virus and using up hospital resources when a shot could keep them out of a hospital bed or the ICU. Some of their pastor's held anti-mask rallies.

Please explain how the numbers are being rigged for the headline. No really, I want to know how you come up with that.
 

Three Berries

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How are the numbers rigged? The hicks (actually good Christian folk that are not that educated and do not trust government) are the ones that are passing around the virus and using up hospital resources when a shot could keep them out of a hospital bed or the ICU. Some of their pastor's held anti-mask rallies.

Please explain how the numbers are being rigged for the headline. No really, I want to know how you come up with that.
The actual test and how many times they screen to look for whatever it is they are looking for, sometimes 15 which would be normal (as I understand it) but up to 50 times if they really really need to find something.. These are not the old school petrie dish test. That won't find anything......

I believe the only way the Covid-19 virus has been isolated is through DNA fragments and that is what the test look for. So it's all computer generated data.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

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we allow it; i've also noticed RX was taken off the BBB Bill..we're getting elder care- someone to fold your laundry oh! and a hearing aid if you need.

so i'm not getting anything from this.

@UncleBuck will have a lot of work from Infrastructure..Colorado needs housing desparately..this is his opportunity to kill it.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2021/11/06/the-prescription-drug-price-negotiation-plan-in-the-biden-bbb-bill-is-not-what-its-claimed-to-be/

there are "rx negotiations"...but not really...i'm guessing sinema had something to do with this...too bad we didn't know 13 republicans would vote for the bill, we could have told sinema and manchin to get fucked and given them the big fat fucking goose egg they deserved
 

schuylaar

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How are the numbers rigged? The hicks (actually good Christian folk that are not that educated and do not trust government) are the ones that are passing around the virus and using up hospital resources when a shot could keep them out of a hospital bed or the ICU. Some of their pastor's held anti-mask rallies.

Please explain how the numbers are being rigged for the headline. No really, I want to know how you come up with that.
Delta Airlines has a non-vaxx surcharge of $200/month to offset the cost of hospitalization..somewhere the idea of not covering a Covid hospitalization due to available vaccine has been bandied about.

Ummmmmmm it's not cheap, The average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 patients without insurance or who receive out-of-network care varies greatly by age – from $51,389 for patients between 21- and 40-years-old to $78,569 for patients between 41 and 60 years old, according to updated cost analysis data from FAIR Health.Nov 5, 2020
Average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 ranges from ...
https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com › news › average...


just get the fvckin' shot man.
 
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