26,166 TOTAL CRITICAL COVID CASES IN ALL OF U.S. FEWER THAN 7,000 NATIONWIDE ON VENTILATORS. 12/03/2020.

AS OF DECEMBER 3, 2020, 100,667 AMERICANS ARE HOSPITALIZED NATION-WIDE WITH A POSITIVE TEST FOR COVID-19. 

 19,442 WERE LISTED AS BEING IN ICU NATION-WIDE.

 6,867 WERE ON VENTILATORS. 

ONE DATA SET STATES 26,166 OF THOSE WITH A POSITIVE TEST HAVE A "CRITICAL" DIAGNOSIS. 

NO DATA SHOWS COMORBIDITIES OF HOSPITAL PATIENTS, WHETHER CANCERS OR OTHER LONG TERM ILLNESSES. 

NO DATA TELLS US HOW MANY ON VENTILATORS ARE DUE TO COVID OR TO OTHER CONDITIONS, SUCH AS INJURIES, PATIENTS WHO NEED VENTILATION AFTER SURGERY, OR WHO HAVE CONGENITAL PROBLEMS OR MAY BE PREMATURE NEWBORNS THAT REQUIRE A VENTILATOR TO LIVE. 

OF THE ALMOST 8 BILLION, BILLION WITH A "B", HUMANS ON THIS PLANET, COVID-19 HAS INFECTED A TOTAL CONFIRMED 65,336,643 HUMANS WORLDWIDE, HAS KILLED 1,508,246 WORLDWIDE DURING A 12-MONTH TIME FRAME. 

LET'S PAY ATTENTION TO FACTS, NOT FEAR... 
THERE ARE CURRENTLY  106,648 TOTAL CRITICAL CASES ONGOING WORLDWIDE, AND 26,166 TOTAL CURRENT CRITICAL CASES IN AMERICA (FEWER LISTED AS CRITICAL THAN IN MANY YEARS OF JUST 'NORMAL' INFLUENZA OUTBREAKS), BUT STILL CURRENTLY MORE THAN ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH. 

IS THAT BECAUSE AMERICA IS DOING MORE TESTING THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY?
NO.
CHINA IS VERY STRICT ABOUT FORCING TESTS, AS IS ITALY, SPAIN, JAPAN...  

WHAT IS AMERICAN MEDIA REPORTING?
THAT THE SUDDEN SURGE, THE 'SECOND WAVE' IS DECIMATING OUR NATION, "STRAINING HOSPITALS".
THAT'S A DAMNED LIE, OBVIOUSLY. 

EGO-MANIACAL CONTROL-FREAK POLITICIANS ARE DECIMATING AMERICA.

OUR HOSPITALS WEREN'T COMPLAINING OF BEING "STRAINED" WHEN 40,000 OR MORE CRITICAL PATIENTS HAD TO BE HOSPITALIZED FROM THE OLD FLU IN YEARS PAST. 

REMEMBER THE HOSPITAL SHIPS AND FIELD HOSPITALS SET UP THAT WERE NEVER USED?
NPR WROTE ABOUT THAT. 
ARE THEY GOING TO ROLL THOSE OUT AGAIN?
NOT LIKELY. 

WE ARE MERELY HITTING PEAK, AS OTHER NATIONS ARE. 
AND MORE ARE BEING TESTED NOW THAN WERE IN MARCH, JULY, SEPTEMBER. 
MANY MORE LINED UP TO BE TESTED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. 

HOWEVER, IT IS A FACT THAT EVEN THIRD-WORLD NATIONS ARE SEEING BETTER (FEWER POSITIVE) RESULTS THAN THE USA! 

INDIA, WITH A POPULATION OF 1,403,327,959 HAS ABOUT 4 MILLION FEWER CONFIRMED 'CASES' (A POSITIVE TEST IS NOT A TRUE ACTIVE MEDICAL CASE THAT REQUIRES TREATMENT) THAN THE USA, EVEN WITH AMERICA's SMALLER 2020 POPULATION OF  331,002,651.

13,563,731 TOTAL CONFIRMED 'CASES' FOR AMERICA, 9,534,964 FOR INDIA. 

LOOK AT THE CHART LABELED "Top 15 infected countries"! 

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT 'PICTURE', THINKING PEOPLE? 

WE ARE NOT IN A "SECOND WAVE", BUT ARE MERELY PEAKING, AT LAST, AFTER ONE ENTIRE YEAR OF COUNTING ... COUNTING CANCER DEATHS AS COVID DEATHS, COUNTING EVERY DEATH ANYONE CAN AS COVID DEATHS.

LOOK AT THE CHARTS. 
THEY EBB AND FLOW IN A PATTERN, REPEATEDLY. 
BUT WHERE ARE THE USUAL FLU DEATHS, THE THOUSANDS THAT WE LOSE EVERY YEAR TO FLU? 

THE W.H.O. STATS OF TODAY'S UPDATE SHOWS THE SAME SAD FACT...BY COUNTING MOST DEATHS AS COVID DEATHS, AMERICA LOOKS LIKE IT'S  REALLY SCREWED UP ON STOPPING THE SPREAD WHILE WE ARE UNDER MANDATORY MASK RULES, SOCIAL DISTANCING, CONTINUED 'LOCK-DOWNS', THE WHOLE NINE YARDS. 

SOMEBODY IS MISLEADING US...CAN WE IMAGINE WHO THAT MIGHT BE? 
MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
FAUCI, ET AL? 
CDC? 

MAINSTREAM MEDIA 'FORGOT TO MENTION SEVERAL PERTINENT FACTS, SOME GOOD NEWS:

--Patients have been leaving the hospital faster, according to the data. The average length of stay declined from 10.5 days in March to 4.6 days in September. 

--More patients are surviving critical care stays, being on a ventilator. 

--Our clinicians, our nurses, our medical professionals have more direct experience with this virus, are better trained, are better experienced and are providing that lifesaving care.
Clinicians quickly realized that fewer of these patients needed to go through the invasive process of being put on ventilators. Instead, simpler interventions could boost their oxygen levels sufficiently.

We don’t intubate people as quickly as we used to, and we don’t admit them like we used to. 

NEWS AGENCIES AREN'T "REPORTING" THESE FACTS.
WHY NOT? 

AND WHY KEEP COUNTING EVERY DEATH AS A COVID DEATH JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE DIE WITH CO-MORBITITIES AFTER A POSITIVE TEST,  USING A VERY FAULTY TEST, THE PCR, ONE RULED ILLEGAL TO USE FOR QUARANTINE BY PORTUGAL?

WHY NOT SIMULTANEOUSLY TEST FOR INFLUENZA IN AMERICA SINCE HAVING FLU AND CoV-19 AT THE SAME TIME WILL MOST LIKELY RAISE THE RISK OF DYING FROM EITHER? 

IN ANY OTHER YEAR, WE'D BE GETTING ALL KINDS OF STATS FROM CDC AND WHO ON INFLUENZA CASES AND "HOT SPOTS". 

MORE CHILDREN DIE FROM "COMMON FLU" THAN HAVE DIED FROM COVID, SO WHY NOT TEST AT LEAST OUR CHILDREN FOR FLU NOW? 

IN YEARS PAST THE CDC HAS NOT LUMPED ALL DEATHS AS DEATH BY FLU JUST BECAUSE THE DECEASED HAD A POSITIVE FLU TEST. 

THEY DID INCLUDE DEATHS BY PNEUMONIA IN WITH FLU DEATHS, HOWEVER. 

NOW, PNEUMONIA DEATHS ARE COUNTED WITH COVID DEATHS, NOT FLU, EVEN IF THEY TEST POSITIVE FOR FLU AS WELL.

WHY? 

THINK!

A NATIONAL TOTAL OF 26,166 CRITICAL CoV-19 PATIENTS...SOME OF WHICH HAVE CO-EXISTING/PRE-EXISTING VERY SERIOUS MEDICAL CONDITIONS. 
26 THOUSAND...IN AMERICA, POPULATION OVER 300 MILLION. 

MORE PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWING MASK MANDATES NOW THAN WERE EARLIER ON. INFECTIONS STILL SPREADING. 
WE'RE DOING AS TOLD AND YET THE MEDIA IS STILL SCREAMING, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"

SPEAKING OF MASKS...

The first randomized controlled trial of more than 6,000 individuals to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection found masks did not statistically significantly reduce the incidence of infection.

MAJOR TAKEAWAYS: 
--Among mask wearers, 1.8% ended up testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, compared to 2.1% among controls. When they removed the people who did not adhere to proper mask use, the results remained the same — 1.8%, which suggests adherence makes no significant difference.

--Among those who reported wearing their face mask “exactly as instructed,” 2% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 compared to 2.1% of the controls.

--1.4% tested positive for antibodies at the end of the month-long study compared to 1.8% of controls.

--0.5% in the mask group and 0.6% tested positive for one or more respiratory viruses other than SARS-CoV-2


The first randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection specifically — which journals initially refused to publish — is finally seeing the light of day.

The so-called “Danmask-19 Trial,” published November 18, 2020, in the Annals of Internal Medicine (3), included 3,030 individuals assigned to wear a surgical face mask and 2,994 unmasked controls. Of all subjects, 80.7% completed the study.

To qualify, participants had to spend at least three hours per day outside the home and not be required to wear a mask during their daily work. 

At the end of the study, participants reported having spent a median of 4.5 hours per day outside the home.

For one month, participants in the mask group were instructed to wear a mask whenever they were outside their home. Surgical face masks with a filtration rate of 98% were supplied. In accordance with recommendations from the World Health Organization, participants were instructed to change their mask after eight hours.

Antibody testing was performed before the outset and at the end of the study period. At the end of the month, they also submitted a nasal swab sample for PCR testing.

What the Danmask-19 Trial Found

The primary outcome was a positive PCR test, a positive antibody test result (IgM or IgG) during the study period, or a hospital-based diagnosis of COVID-19. 

Secondary end points included PCR evidence of infection with other respiratory viruses.

Based on the adherence scores reported, 46% of participants always wore the mask as recommended, 47% predominantly as recommended and 7% failed to follow recommendations. 

So, what did they find? 

As you might expect, the researchers had a hard time getting this study published. 
It flies in the face of what "experts" like little Tony Fauci are pushing. 

--Among mask wearers, 1.8% (42 participants) ended up testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, compared to 2.1% (53) among controls. When they removed the people who reported not adhering to the recommendations for use, the results remained the same — 1.8% (40 people), which suggests adherence makes no significant difference.

1.4% (33 participants) tested positive for antibodies compared to 1.8% (44) of controls.

--Among those who reported wearing their face mask “exactly as instructed,” 2% (22 participants) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 compared to 2.1% (53) of the controls.  

--52 participants in the mask group and 39 in the control group reported COVID-19 in their household. Of these, two participants in the mask group and one in the control group developed SARS-CoV-2 infection — a finding that suggests “the source of most observed infections was outside the home.”

--0.5% (nine participants) in the mask group and 0.6% (11 individuals) tested positive for one or more respiratory viruses other than SARS-CoV-2 (secondary outcome).

Masks May Lower, or Raise, Infection Risk

All in all, this landmark COVID-19-specific study failed to deliver good news to those who insist face masks are a crucial component of the pandemic response. 

Masks may reduce your risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection by as much as 46%, or it may increase your risk by 23%. In other words, it's sort of a "trade-off" and the preponderance of evidence still shows that masks have virtually no impact on viral transmission.

Another take-home point that you get from this study, which Del Bigtree points out in a video on 'The Highwire', is that the vast majority — 97.9% of those who didn’t wear masks, and 98.2% of those who did — remained infection free.

So, we are locking down most of the world, destroying economies and wrecking lives around the world, for what, exactly? 

To protect a small minority from getting a positive PCR test result which, as detailed in “Asymptomatic ‘Casedemic’ Is a Perpetuation of Needless Fear,” means little to nothing. As reported by the authors: (4)


“Although no statistically significant difference in SARS-CoV-2 incidence was observed, the 95% CIs are compatible with a possible 46% reduction to 23% increase in infection among mask wearers.

These findings do offer evidence about the degree of protection mask wearers can anticipate in a setting where others are not wearing masks and where other public health measures, including social distancing, are in effect …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 may take place through multiple routes. It has been argued that for the primary route of SARS-CoV-2 spread — that is, via droplets — face masks would be considered effective, whereas masks would not be effective against spread via aerosols, which might penetrate or circumnavigate a face mask. 

Thus, spread of SARS-CoV-2 via aerosols would at least partially explain the present findings …

The present findings are compatible with the findings of a review of randomized controlled trials of the efficacy of face masks for prevention (as personal protective equipment) against influenza virus …

Our results suggest that the recommendation to wear a surgical mask when outside the home among others did not reduce, at conventional levels of statistical significance, the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mask wearers in a setting where social distancing and other public health measures were in effect, mask recommendations were not among those measures, and community use of masks was uncommon.”

As noted by Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and affiliate of the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security, in a November 15, 2020, op-ed in The Guardian,10 our immune systems know how to handle the virus; it’s our politicians who have failed to cope with it. 

She writes:11

“Most of the evidence in both COVID-19 patients and animal models shows that the immune response to this is quite typical for an acute viral infection. Initially, the body ramps up high levels of IgG antibodies, but after the infection is cleared, those antibodies drop to a baseline level, which may be below the limit of detection of some serological tests.

Antibodies are produced by B-cells, a specialized type of immune cell that recognizes a specific antigen, or viral target. When an infection is cleared, B-cells producing antibodies convert from being plasma cells, which are specialized to pump out massive quantities of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies, to being memory B-cells.

These cells produce lower levels of IgG antibody; but, importantly they persist in the body for years. If they are re-exposed to SARS-CoV-2, they rapidly convert to plasma cells and begin producing high levels of antibody again.

There is no indication that most COVID-19 patients are not developing immune memory, and animals experimentally infected with SARS-CoV-2 are protected against rechallenge with high doses of virus …

Furthermore, antibodies are not the only important part of the immune system. T-cells are also a key component to the immune response. They come in two flavors: helper T-cells, which coordinate immune responses and facilitate immunological memory, and killer T-cells, which kill infected cells. Previous studies have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces robust T-cell responses.”

As noted by Rasmussen, the data collected on the responses of T-cells to SARS-CoV-2 infection “underscore that SARS-CoV-2 is not an anomalous virus capable of miraculous feats of immune evasion.”

In other words, provided your immune function is normal, the Covid virus is as vulnerable as any other virus and you’re not destined to die just because you develop symptoms. 

So, the reason we’re in the situation we’re now in, Rasmussen says, is not because SARS-CoV-2 is somehow different or more lethal than anything that has come before. We’re in this situation due to political failures.

Mask Mandates Have Had No Impact on Infection Trends

Other data analyses that add support to the Danish study’s results include Yinon Weiss’ work presented in his article12 

“These 12 Graphs Show Mask Mandates Do Nothing to Stop COVID.” 

In it, he shows that states’ mask rules appear to have had nothing to do with infection rates, which is what you’d expect if masks don’t work.

Weiss points out that “No matter how strictly mask laws are enforced nor the level of mask compliance the population follows, cases all fall and rise around the same time.”

 To see all of the graphs, check out Weiss’ article13 or Twitter thread.14 

Data clearly show that COVID-19 has not resulted in excess mortality, meaning the same number of people who die in any given year, on average, have died in this year of the pandemic.17,18   

Several studies19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26 also suggest immunity against SARS-CoV-2 infection is far more widespread than anyone imagined.

In an October 28, 2020, Wall Street Journal opinion piece,27 Joseph Ladapo, an associate professor at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, points out that we really must accept reality and move on with life, unpredictable as it may be. He writes:

“By paying outsize and scientifically unjustified attention to masking, mask mandates have the unintended consequence of delaying public acceptance of the unavoidable truth.

In countries with active community transmission and no herd immunity, nothing short of inhumane lockdowns can stop the spread of COVID-19, so the most sensible and sustainable path forward is to learn to live with the virus.

Shifting focus away from mask mandates and toward the reality of respiratory viral spread will free up time and resources to protect the most vulnerable Americans ...

Until the reality of viral spread in the U.S. … is accepted, political leaders will continue to feel justified in keeping schools and businesses closed, robbing young people of the opportunity to invest in their futures, and restricting activities that make life worthwhile.”

FOR ME, AND IT APPEARS TO BE MILLIONS OF OTHERS,  the lockdowns are essentially just conditioning us to accept a radically new way of life — one in which we have limited ability to travel or work, one in which we’re conditioned to being partially or wholly dependent on a government handout, one in which we must submit to being tracked and surveilled with little or no right to privacy, one in which the government dictates how you can spend your time, where you can go, who you can spend time with and for how long. 

WHEN STUDIES LIKE THE ABOVE ARE HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, WHEN FACTS ARE COVERED OVER BY POLITICAL RHETORIC AND SPUN IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA UNTIL ANYONE WHO OPPOSES THE ACCEPTABLE NARRATIVE BECOMES AN OBJECT OF RIDICULE, YOU CAN BET THE FARM IT'S NOT A "CONSPIRACY THEORY" THAT WE 'SHEEP' ARE BEING HERDED BY WOLFISH SHEPHERDS, IT'S A FACT. 

THE SPANISH FLU THAT KILLED MILLIONS IS NOW OUR "COMMON" FLU... H1N1.

THE PLAGUES THAT ONCE DECIMATED THE EARTH ARE NOW A FEW CASES A YEAR, MAYBE, AND NOT OFTEN SPOKEN OF. 

NO PANIC.

BUT MASKS DIDN'T STOP THEM! 

LET'S STEP AWAY FROM THE HYSTERIA CREATED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND PEOPLE LIKE "WUHAN" FAUCI AND JUST THINK! 

LET'S SEPARATE REALITY FROM HYSTERIA, REGAIN CALM AND RIDE THIS OUT LIKE WE DID ALL THE PLAGUES THAT CAME BEFORE THE DREADED
SARS-CoV-2.

REMEMBER ZIKA?
SWINE FLU? 
SAME MEDIA-HYPED HYSTERIA, NO APOCALYPSE. 

ONCE WE ATTAIN NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY, THE PANDEMIC WILL RUN ITS NATURAL COURSE, AS PANDEMICS HAVE DONE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 
NEXT YEAR, AND FROM NOW ON, MUTATIONS WILL ARISE AND VEX US AGAIN, BUT WE'LL SIMPLY COPE WITH THAT AS WE HAVE IN PAST VIRAL EPIDEMICS. 

THERE WILL BE NO MASS EXTINCTION OF HUMANITY FROM THIS CORONAVIRUS. 

WE MUST STOP DESTROYING NATIONS BASED ON HYPE AND FALSE NARRATIVES. 




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