Month: February 2021

Apparent capacity calculation shenanigans at OKC’s Mercy hospital

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There also appears to have been an abrupt change in the way capacity is calculated at Mercy Hospital back in November, with the result of the hospital appearing far more full than it actually was.

This is just shameful, particularly so given stories like this that ran during the height of the “winter surge” hysteria: “We need help”: Mercy Hospital gives inside look at COVID-19 unit as hospitalizations surge

That story ran on November 25th. Do you see a surge in there? I don’t. What I do see is a sudden change in the way that capacity is counted. Staffed inpatient beds dropped by over 200 around the time that this “surge” was supposedly occurring. And we have the local news media behaving in an unbelievably despicable manner, recklessly and dishonestly stoking the hysteria, and scaring the living daylights out of the public. The corporate press is clearly rotten to the core, and completely uninterested in truth.

Hey Duncan Regional, why the sudden change in ICU capacity calculation back in October?

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This appears to be a massive deception, and not unique to Duncan Regional. There has been a change in the way that capacity is calculated in order to appear that these hospitals are on the verge of being overrun when they clearly are not. Economically devastating policy is being based on these phony percentages, a crime that needs to be treated as such. Source

The dangerous insanity of pursuing “zero COVID”

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There are many powerful and influential people who have increasingly begun calling for a government policy of “zero COVID”, meaning that government would implement the harshest lockdowns and behavior restrictions possible in order to attempt to reach a point where all COVID-19 cases are eliminated. It’s an insane, unachievable policy, but these people appear to be willing to sacrifice everything to this chimeric goal. Well, they themselves wouldn’t sacrifice. We would sacrifice, as we suffered under Soviet-style totalitarianism for possibly years. Similar to “zero terrorism”, it is an unachievable goal, but it does hand government absolute power for an indefinite period of time.

Jenin Younes writes about the insanity of the zero COVID movement at AIER:

“ZeroCovid promoters appear to agree that much stricter border controls, lockdowns, and mask mandates are needed than exist in most nations today. Sam Bowman, one of the most prominent ZeroCoviders, claims for instance that the only way to address the coronavirus problem is with “lockdowns, school closures, travel bans, mass testing, contact tracing, and masks.” Likewise, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair’s think-tank has stated that the only way to avoid another lockdown is to bring coronavirus cases to zero. China, Australia and New Zealand are portrayed as successes by ZeroCovid proponents, and prove that suffering now brings with it the promise of eventual freedom. 

While marketing themselves as theoretically opposed to lockdowns, ZeroCovid adherents actually aspire to implement a totalitarian-style state, which we are supposed to believe will exist only temporarily. For example, Devi Sridhar, one of the movement’s most public faces in the United Kingdom, has claimed that the only way out of endless lockdown is a “crude, harsh, catastrophic lockdown” now, the first phase. Given that the third phase of Sridhar’s plan entails an “East Asian and Pacific model of elimination” that prohibits travel abroad, I can only imagine precisely what sort of totalitarian nightmare Sridhar envisions during phase one.”

Madness in the vein of double-masking and social distancing. Instead of doubling down on every failed mitigation measure, we have to trash them all entirely. Far too much has been sacrificed already. It’s time to allow the economy and society to heal from the biggest false-alarm in history.