Thinking that the US will never get out of Mouth-Diaper Jail?
That's what 'health officials' and the MSM want you to believe.
The state Department of Health Services reported 926 new cases on Saturday, following two previous record-setting days. On Friday, 845 new cases were reported and on Thursday, the state announced 754 new cases. Last Saturday, July 4, kicked off the record-setting week when 738 cases were reported.
The 926 positive cases reported Saturday account for 7.7% of the 12,019 tests processed since Friday,...
There's a subtle shift in the description from "cases" to "positive.....tests processed". See that?
BIG DIFFERENCE.
During my usual jog around the intertubes this morning, I ran across this from Ticker:
UNDER THE MEDICAL DEFINITION OF DISEASE IF YOU HAVE NO SYMPTOMS YOU ARE NOT DISEASED.
Being RT-PCR positive for a virus DOES NOT, legally, medically or otherwise make you diseased.
You're only diseased if a disorder in your body is produced.
So I checked with a pal who is a Nurse Practitioner. I asked "Under standard medical protocols does "testing positive" mean "having the disease" even if one is asymptomatic?"
And she replied: "It means positive for SARS-Cov-2 if done by PCR. It does NOT mean having active or infectious Covid-19."
Oh.
"We are .....having people PCR positive [for 2 months] and our MD's are saying these individuals do NOT have Covid-19."
And: "We do not know who is infectious.......data on that changes daily based on contact tracer info...."
IOW, "health officials" are feeding the MSM a bunch of bullshit, deliberately using the term "cases"--which to normal people means "sick puppies." But that's NOT what it really means; it means "positive test"--which may or may NOT mean "diseased." One is only "diseased" if one is symptomatic.
Don't believe that? Check with your own MD.
No, the "health officials" are NOT being completely honest.
Surprised??
You shouldn't be. The Wisconsin Hospital Ass'n website about Covid tells us that the peak hospitalization in Wisconsin was April 9, with 446 patients (not "cases.") As of July 11, that had dropped to 264.
Don't let the "health officials" and their trained monkeys in the MSM think on your behalf. It's bad for your mental health.
Joke of the day: How bad has 2020 been? In the future, we’ll say “Hindsight is 2019.”
ReplyDelete"There's a subtle shift in the description from "cases" to "positive.....tests processed". See that?"
ReplyDeleteWhat we see is willful ignorance on your part.
The number of positive tests in a state is NOT equal to the number of cases, as one person may be tested more than once.
The CDC has three levels to classify a potential case of COVID-19:
Person Under Investigation (PUI): Any person who is under investigation for having the virus that causes COVID-19, or who was under investigation but tested negative for the virus.
Presumptive Positive case of COVID-19: Anyone who has tested positive for the virus, but testing was conducted at the local or state level. Currently, presumptive positive cases must have sample undergo confirmatory testing at the CDC.
Laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19: Anyone who has tested positive for the virus at the CDC laboratory.
Coronavirus cases reported to the CDC include BOTH CDC-confirmed cases and presumptive positive cases reported by the states. The CDC updates its numbers on the total presumptive and confirmed cases Monday through Friday at noon. Each update is based on all state reports received by 4 p.m. the previous day.
New cases are presented as daily counts as reported by the state; for smoothed data presented as a 3-day rolling average. Due to fluctuations in daily reporting, testing rates are presented as 7-day rolling averages.
As guidance evolves on Covid-19 case reporting, some states are modifying their reporting to include both confirmed cases, based on laboratory testing, and probable cases, based on specific criteria for symptoms and exposure reflect. This may cause new case data to “spike".
It is important to note that the quality of testing data varies by state.
Nuance escapes Dad29.
mmm...K. So the only VERIFIED numbers are CDC Laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19. It would seem prudent, therefore, to withhold other case count reporting from the public as unverified data.
ReplyDeleteAssuming the CDC Laboratory-confirmed case count is valid, it is still a meaningless number unless combined with additional information. At a minimum case description should be classified as asymptomatic, symptomatic not requiring hospitalization, or symptomatic requiring hospitalization.
Public health decisions based on case counts alone strike me as a violation of medical ethics, by providing the public a deliberate misrepresentation of the health risk to the community.
Trump is the one providing this deliberate misrepresentation. You are being hoodwinked.
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