Pediatric hospitalization rates: Flu 2017-18 vs. COVID

The product of my exploration of the CDC’s data deeps doesn’t disappoint. Compare Y-axes: the height of the flu season sees ped. flu hospitalizations reach almost 3.5 per 100k, while COVID never gets beyond 1.5 per 100k. Why was there no outcry for universal masking back then, when kids were in far more danger? Because everyone knew that masks had no effect on transmission of a respiratory virus that spread through aerosols. We live in the stupidest of times.

R0 is .85 for Oklahoma

Cases have already started their descent, and the dirtbag hospital admins, teachers union thugs, and Dem parasites didn’t get their state of emergency, menaing that their opportunity to victimize our state’s schoolchildren has passed them by. It’s like watching the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre when the kids get away in the car and Leatherface begins flailing and screaming in the street with his chainsaw. We’re dealing with crocodiles in skin suits.

Oklahoma hospital system dirtbags attempt a Hail Mary with BS press conference

Press conference today with four OK health systems reps. You already know what they said:

“No hospital is adequately equipped for the scenario that this pandemic has forced us into, which is that so many people with one condition – COVID-19 – are coming to the hospital needing a very high level of care,” said Bahar Malakouti, M.D., a neurohospitalist and Stroke Medical Director at Mercy Hospital. “Unless something changes, the care we provide to all of our patients will be compromised. Our healthcare providers and staff are under incredible pressure right now.”

Hey Malakouti, here’s ICU data for your hospital. Notice that Mercy stopped reporting 142 ICU beds back in November of last year. That’s because, in the midst of a ginned up crisis, hospitals were allowed to change the way they calculated occupancy. Why in gods name were they allowed to fiddle with the numbers in such a deceptive way? You’ve got plenty of unused, licensed ICU beds, so pleae, STFU.

Here’s ICU occupancy for the state over the course of the entire “pandemic”:

Oklahoma’s hospitals are overrun?

If we’re still falling for this garbage then maybe we deserve it. These white collar thugs have all the media connections. They make their calls, set a date, fabricate their numbers, and then deliver them in somber tones before their kept stenographers. The public buys it, and local governments act on it.