Month: September 2021

HHS ICU capacity data for Oklahoma: 8/23 vs. 9/16

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This time last month, everyone seemed to be screaming from the rooftops regarding the dangers of opening schools in this state without a firm mask mandate in place. Welp, they opened anyway and here are the results.

First, August 21st capacity:

Now, today’s capacity:

Looks like we’re doing pretty good. No crisis at all. And no mask mandates since school began over three weeks ago. Will the hysterics acknowledge their mistake, apologize, and pledge to be more humble in the future? Fat chance.

Maggie’s Farm

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Very meaningful in light of current events.

Original Dylan. As great as his song is, I have a very bad feeling that Dylan himself would’ve guarded the gates of the COVID concentration camps, stiff-goosing his step to the tune of CDC directives.

Rage Against the Machine

Study: almost half of hospitalized COVID patients have mild or asymptomatic infection

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Very important piece in The Atlantic: Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number is Losing Meaning:

“Instead of meticulously looking at why a few hundred patients were admitted to a pair of hospitals, they analyzed the electronic records for nearly 50,000 COVID hospital admissions at the more than 100 VA hospitals across the country. Then they checked to see whether each patient required supplemental oxygen or had a blood oxygen level below 94 percent. (The latter criterion is based on the National Institutes of Health definition of “severe COVID.”) If either of these conditions was met, the authors classified that patient as having moderate to severe disease; otherwise, the case was considered mild or asymptomatic.

The study found that from March 2020 through early January 2021—before vaccination was widespread, and before the Delta variant had arrived—the proportion of patients with mild or asymptomatic disease was 36 percent. From mid-January through the end of June 2021, however, that number rose to 48 percent. In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.”

We need an audit of COVID hospitalizations, and we need to audit hospitals.

Sounds a fascist makes

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Sure it’s funny, and the State deserves to be ridiculed, but the violence behind this avatar of authoritarianism is very real, and very dangerous. It’s funny because it sounds so insane, but lets not forget the driving force behind her words.