For months, California did many of the right things to avoid a catastrophic surge from the pandemic. But by the time Gov. Gavin Newsom said on Dec. 15 that 5,000 body bags were being distributed, it was clear that the nation’s most populous state had entered a new phase of the COVID-19 crisis.
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A model for what, government overreach?
My county here in Tennessee has never had a mask mandate and a good number of businesses ignored the shutdown orders ordered by our RINO governor last year, people continued to gather as they always have, yet our fatality rate is a whopping .0015 percent.
Businesses in California are going under at a rate never seen before, yet the sheeple there continue to submit to even more regulations and restrictions to 'protect' them.
Fuck California.....
ReplyDeleteI agree. They drifted towards the illogical and now they are getting it hard. Sometimes experience is the best teacher.
DeleteTen months into these ridiculous lockdowns and everyone's still wearing the face diaper to shop at CVS, Safeway and the like. No indoor or outdoor dining is killing the restaurants, they are closing at the rate of 2 - 3 per day here in my Bay Area county. No church services, no bars open, no high school sports, no in person school classes (unless you're Comrade Gavin and the like who send their kids to private schools which remain in-person classes and open). Here in my small town one person owns 2 of the 5 restaurants in town, how much longer he can hold on just doing takeout orders is anyone's guess. All for a virus which in this county has killed 340 people out of a county population of 1.2 million, and half of those were in nursing homes. It's beyond ridiculous to keep everything locked down at this point. Gavin needs to be swinging from a tree.
ReplyDeleteThat's right, "please protect me from a virus that has a 98.7% survival rate"
ReplyDeleteThe so-called safety measures can actually make you more susceptible to covid and other diseases. Staying inside deprives your body of natural vitamin D from sunlight. Studies have shown that wearing a mask can actually be more harmful than helpful, as it can actually cause respiratory illnesses, which would then make you more susceptible to covid.
ReplyDeleteHave been reading up on the natural ability of the body's skin to process Vitamin D from sunlight. Turns out it works best in the summer months and gets progressively worse in winter when the sun's angle decreases, especially at latitudes north of 37.5 degrees. Worse yet, the form of UV light that our skin responds to is known as UVB, a subset of the UV spectrum (there is also UVA and UVC). A lot more of the UVB gets absorbed by the atmosphere in the winter and does not even hit out skin when we are bathed in sunlight. And the darker your skin the less it absorbs UVB. Some writers suggest under those conditions-especially in winter-your body gets very little Vitamin D from sunlight. Solution: go south for the winter or get your D out of a vitamin bottle.
DeleteAlso, in 2015 some Canadians figured out that the quasi-govermental body that sets Recommended Daily Allowances for nutrition (a joint effort for US and Canada) made a major error when they calculated Vitamin D requirements-which are variously stated between 400 and 800 IU per day. The correct number is thought to be in the 8,000 IU per day range (there are different estimates-nothing is simple and clear cut when it comes to nutrition guidelines). Do your own research and decide what is best for you. I have been taking 7,000 IU daily and after a month likely will throttle it back to 5,000 IU. One thing seems to be consistent when reading about vitamin D: it is almost unheard of to overdose on D, as the body can store the excess. Not so strangely, there are claims that many Americans are vitamin D deficient.
Same goes for many Covid patients being found to be zinc deficient upon admission to the hospital. If you have loss of taste and smell your are zinc deficient; if you also have Covid your chances of survival are less than if you have enough zinc, which is inexpensive and easy to maintain. Again, do your own research and decide what is best for you.
It hasn't been a model for a couple of decades, but people used to write songs about how California was the golden state at the end of the rainbow. The place where the poor and downtrodden could get a new start. But immigration killed that California.
ReplyDelete"...get a new start", you mean like using your talents, getting a job, living within your means?
DeleteThat lifestyle hasn't been active since the '60's.
California is still a model. A model of the results of being a sanctuary state. Most of the areas being hit the hardest by the WuFlu are the areas with large numbers of our friends from south of the border.
ReplyDeleteBingo. Aesop kinda spilled the beans (pun intended) on his post on 12/27:
Delete"Page 6: ethnicity of hospitalizations in the LA County public hospitals, 3/1/20-present:
72% Hispanic. 2% white.
Go back and read that again. Yes, it said what you thought it said."
Interesting.
DeleteMy opinion was based on the fact that Mexicans with Covid have been crowding the borders in an attempt to get to the best (free) healthcare in the world. They've been doing it since this thing started, and that would certainly explain Aesop's numbers.
You get what you vote for, at least the big cities!!!! grayman
ReplyDeleteWell, you get what the majority - legitimate or not - vote for, not necessarily what you vote for.
Delete"There’s a moral imperative for people who can follow stay-home orders to help prevent spread that is harder to contain in other areas."
ReplyDelete-- Paula Cannon, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California
She used obedience to fiat government edicts and moral in the same sentence.
Ha ha. You have to guess the next two words coming out of my mouth.
"yet the sheeple there continue to submit to even more regulations and restrictions to 'protect' them"
ReplyDeleteThat's kind of like saying that the populace of Hiroshima submitted to an atomic bomb - they didn't have a lot of say in the matter. Depending upon where in the state you are, you may have a greater or lesser degree of flexibility in dealing with Newsom I's Fuhrerbefehls. Where I am, going out and about without a mask generally isn't that problematic (few Karens to lecture you, police ignore you unless you're doing something else to attract their attention); but going into a business, especially the places where you get things like food and medicines, is. Other areas are more draconian, but some are much more open.
FWIW: It's called culling. Deal with it, California. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Just stop moving into my A/O. Keep your syphilitic, leftist ideas to yourselves.
ReplyDelete“ Just stop moving into my A/O.”
ReplyDeleteNo shit! Every CA plate I see in my state makes me less hopeful for the future.
Now don't confuse commie scum with Californians. Commies aren't worthy of such a title. Bay Arean Dude here...
ReplyDelete1) Most of the idiots in CA that aren't from Mexico came here from somewhere else: your states. Own that. Native Californians kept this state solid red for over a century. Sorry if that reality is inconvenient for anyone, but there it is.
ReplyDelete2) The Mexicans who're here (in the millions), along with the other illegal aliens, are here because the representatives from everywhere else - that'd be your states again - keep letting them come, and have for over 70 years. Ask Florida, Texas, and Arizona how that's working out for them, too. How, how about that president-elect Biden, huh? Not building The Wall got you His Fraudulency.
3)There are more hispanics in county hospitals (as opposed to private ones) because it's last-ditch care, they have no insurance, so that's where they go. And because they have too little education in general, or scientific savvy specifically, and live in large, extended family groups, with 6-8-10-more people from age 1-84 all in the same apartment or small house. It's one big multi-generational COVID party. And they wait until the last second before they'll risk going to the hospital, because someone in the family is usually illegal. QED.
4) The lockdowns ended here for the most part in June, when things were small, and tapering off, Which is what prompted people to be idiots, and blow it up again. The lockdowns weren't re-instituted until about Halloween, but by then it was too late, and stupid people playing stupid games win stupid prizes.
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ReplyDelete5) Kenny's county, in TN, probably only has about a 1% or less penetration of virus.
SoCal, OTOH, has 10-20%, based on actual results from testing millions and millions of people in this state. If/when TN, or anywhere, gets that many people sick, you're going to be dealing with CA levels of COVID. It's just math, not politics.
6) We aren't having problems because of the lockdowns as much as we're having lockdowns because of stupidity: People thought this was over when things were eased up, and stopped doing common-sense things like they were before, and gravity works.
If you wear a snot-mask, wash your hands, and keep your distance as much as possible, you won't get Kung Flu, and you won't spread Kung Flu. (That's why seasonal flu nationwide is a non-issue: handwashing, masks, and distancing kill a lot of communicable disease spread, just like every actual medical expert - Pasteur, Lister, Semmelweis, Nightingale, Barton, etc. - 100-150 years ago figured out.)
7) CA is paying for, now, the idiots who thought those rules were no longer operative from 4th of July to Thanksgiving. Just like the @$$holes in NYFS who did that from New Year's to Easter. As bad as it is now - and trust me, it's bad, here - we're still bracing for the biggest coming peak, which will be the bigger @$$holes from Christmas and New Year's. About 1-3 weeks from now, most likely. LA and Orange County are completely full, most days, with no capacity to deal with ordinary problems like car accidents, heart attacks, strokes, shootings, stabbings, or any other serious medical issues. So now, people we used to save will die too, and not from COVID. But even more fun: now our traumas are coming in with COVID, to a trauma area that has no ability to function in MOPP Level IV, or decon quickly, nor isolate patients with COVID from the other trauma patients. So if you come in after a car accident without COVID, you're probably going to leave with it anyway. We already have half our trauma docs out with it, and they're no spring chickens. We may lose any or all of them.
At that point, you have no one who can save you from anything that happens, and we're about a hot minute or a bad day from beginning to put patients outside, into "Don't Bother" and "Maybe Worth Trying" piles.
Like Italy did, 11 months ago.
Good luck and best wishes when - not so much if - you or your hometowns have to deal with that someplace with a lot less medical capacity than what we have here. (That'd be 120 hospitals in just 2 counties serving 14M people, BTW, which is twice as many people as live in the entire state of TN, Kenny.) I really hope you don't have to find out about this firsthand, but some people everywhere only learn about hot stoves after pressing their hands on one, instead of learning from other people's mistakes.
That's why I call them Gilligans.
Every place has them.
And yours are going to get you here, given half a chance, just like always.
We're all at the mercy, in any pandemic, of the stupidest 10% of the population.
That's just how it works, everywhere, since ever.