Maggie’s Farm

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

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

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.

Just in case anyone forgot how much of a dirtbag George W. Bush is, he reminds us on 9/11

Bush is the founders mutation of modern American totalitarianism. He set into motion the events that we are still struggling with today. He started the unbelievably destructive, pointless mid-East wars that caused so much needless death, suffering, chaos, that millions of people all over the world have had to deal with. And he has the gall to say this crap on 9/11.

Listen to the authoritarians when they’re this honest. They tell you who they are.

I’ve come to the conclusion that people like Wen have been control freaks their entire lives. They hate personal autonomy, and personal liberty,with a vindictive burning passion. It’s not about the virus, it’s the fetish for control that’s on display here. These hall monitor types are everywhere, but most of the time we all try to avoid them. Think back to all the moments youv’e encountered someone like Wen. You feel revulsion, and you want to get away. Want to bet how many people feel this way about Wen who know her personally? Imagine the hollowness of the life of someone like this, the total emptyness. The obsession with control/the hatred of the uncontrolled eats away at whatever spirit is left of the person so infected, until there is nothing left other than a desire to impose control on others. It’s inner darkness projected onto the world.