NEW YORK COVID-19 CASES FALLING. IHME AND WHO PROJECTS PANDEMIC HAS PEAKED, GLOBAL NUMBERS FALLING.

LET'S LOOK BACK AT WHAT THE "EXPERT" SAID DURING THE 2009 SWINE FLU (H1N1) PANDEMIC AFTER THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HAD DIED..

Nowhere in the 2009 interview does Fauci use inflammatory, fear-inducing rhetoric, despite the number of H1N1-infected individuals, increased hospitalizations and deaths, including MANY children, occurring at that time.

Eleven years later, 2020, Fauci is gung-ho about COVID-19 being the scariest, deadliest thing in the universe.
"Shut down America! Mandatory quarantines, close all the schools, shut-down small businesses, 200,00 are going to die!"

Well, Fauci was wrong.
Birx was wrong.
The "experts" were wrong, as usual.
And their "expertise" has ruined the American economy and cost American people jobs, incomes, dreams.

Their newest big scare is crumbling around them as the STATES make their own data available, and the news is GOOD, not doom and gloom.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that recent drops in the rate of hospitalizations and deaths related to Covid-19 suggest that the virus might be nearing its peak in the state. The governor pointed to new data showing that the number of coronavirus-related deaths has declined, with 594 reported in the last 24 hours, compared to 630 in the previous 24-hour period. Some 574 New Yorkers, meanwhile, had been hospitalized with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, about half of the 1,000-plus hospitalized the previous day.

(16,837 TOTAL have been hospitalized, and a TOTAL of 4,504 of those patients have received treatment in an Intensive Care Unit. To date, 13,366 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 have been discharged from NY hospitals statewide. 4,504 CURRENTLY IN HOSPITAL THERE. )
NOT ALL ARE IN ICU, NOT ALL REQUIRE A VENTILATOR; CUOMO STATED DAYS AGO THAT HE HAD ALMOST 4,000 VENTILATORS IN STORAGE AND TRUMP SENT HIM 4,000 MORE.
" The Chinese government is sending New York 1,000 ventilators and Oregon is shipping another 140."

California shipped ventilators to New York, Washington state returned 400 for Cuomo's use.


ONE OF THE KINGS OF FEAR-MONGERING, THE NEW YORK TIMES, ACTUALLY REPORTED ONE FACT THAT EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE OVERLOOKED...AND THEY WERE FACT-CHECKED FOR THEIR BIG, FALSE SPIN ON THAT ONE SINGLE FACT.

"There are at most 200k ventilators in the US." 200,000 AVAILABLE NOW. 

A former Times writer chimed in and absolutely eviscerated NYT with a scathing fact-check.

"The number comes from a March 19 SCCM paper: [One estimate is that 1/2 of] ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support. Such projections are gross estimates."

More importantly: this is everyone who may need ventilation OVER THE COURSE OF THE EPIDEMIC...
In fact, the paper states explicitly "that U.S. hospitals could absorb a maximum of 26,000 to 56,000 additional ventilators at the peak of a national pandemic, as safe use of ventilators requires trained personnel."

THE USA HAD 200,000 VENTILATORS THE TIMES SAID.
200,000 WAS PLENTY. 
CUOMO ALWAYS HAD MORE THAN HE NEEDED AVAILABLE, AND NOW, NEW YORK HAS PEAKED, NEEDS FEWER EVERY DAY. 


MORE GOOD NEWS! 

BELOW, THE CURRENT IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) "PROJECTION", AS OF SUNDAY, FOR WHERE WE'LL BE ON APRIL 15, 2020.
WAY, WAY DOWN FROM PREVIOUS "PROJECTIONS".

These numbers were posted on their website on Sunday.


DID THEIR CRYSTAL BALL BREAK?
DID THEY LOSE THEIR WIZARD HATS?


Official IHME Model for Coronavirus Used by CDC Just Cut Their Numbers by Half.

ARE THEY MAKING IT UP AS THEY GO ALONG?
HOW DID THEY MISS THE MARK BY SO FAR?

Global coronavirus cases peaked on April third and are dropping fast.
Total new cases peaked on April 3rd.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA (MSM) SHOULD HAVE JOYOUS HEADLINES SPREADING THIS GOOD NEWS.
THEY DON'T. 


Worldwide new COVID-19 cases PEAKED on April 3 at 101,566, and are FALLING at a substantial rate -- with a drop of 16% on April 4 and another drop of 15% on April 5 to 71,418, marking the lowest level of reported new cases since March 30.

Via The Worldometer Coronavirus:

April 2 — 79,864
April 3 — 101,566
April 4 — 84,821
April 5 — 71,418

This is quite stunning.
The government models used to predict the extent of the coronavirus pandemic are off by huge margins in the latest coronavirus tracking numbers.


The government predictions reported by the IHME Covid Tracking (https://covidtracking.com/data/ ) for Apr 5th were as follows:

– All beds needed: 179,267
– ICU beds needed: 33,176
– Invasive ventilators: 26,544


Those were the predictions.

The actual numbers as recorded at The Covid Tracking Project:

– Actual hospitalizations: 22,158
– In ICU: 5,207
– On ventilator: 656

The actual numbers show:
(Via Dr. Ned Nikolov)

– Overestimation of hospitalizations: 8 times
– Overestimation of of ICU beds needed: 6.4 times
– Overestimation of ventilators needed: 40.5 times

WHEN THE REALITY OF THE SITUATION BEGAN SHOWING UP IN THE STATES' REPORTING, WHEN THE STATES BEGAN TESTING MORE AND REPORTING MORE POSITIVES BUT DEATH RATES DIDN'T CLIMB AS NHC/CDC PREDICTED, WHEN HOSPITALS BEGAN REPORTING THERE WAS NO "DRASTIC CLIMB" IN ICU PATIENTS, THAT SO FEW WERE ON VENTILATORS THAT STATES LIKE WASHINGTON COULD SEND THEIR EXTRAS TO HARDER-HIT STATES, WELL, THE COVID-19 TRACKING CENTER TOOK ITS MARBLES AND WENT HOME...NO MORE UPDATES FROM THEM ON HOSPITALIZATIONS, ICU ADMISSIONS OR VENTILATORS IN USE!
HOW TWISTED IS THAT?

FROM THEIR WEBSITE TODAY, APRIL 6, 2020:

"States are currently reporting two fundamentally unlike statistics: current hospital/ICU admissions and cumulative hospitalizations/ICU admissions. Across the country, this reporting is also sparse.

In short: it is impossible to assemble anything resembling the real statistics for hospitalizations, ICU admissions, or ventilator usage across the United States.

As a result, we will no longer provide national-level summary hospitalizations, ICU admissions, or ventilator usage statistics on our site.

We will continue tracking these numbers on a state-by-state basis, but it does not feel responsible to continue to display these US-wide statistics for a general audience. These heavily caveated numbers will remain in the API for advanced data users."

AWWWWW, WHATSA MATTER, GUYS?
END OF PANIC AND FEAR-MONGERING GOT YA' DOWN?

GO SEE FOR YOURSELVES ALL THE STATE-BY-STATE DATA.
IT LOOKS BETTER SANS THE HYSTERIA. .

WANT THE FACTS ON NEW YORK STATE, HARDEST-HIT IN AMERICA? 

130,689 Positive tests/cases
4,504 CURRENTLY hospitalized
4,758 Total deaths
13,366 RECOVERED

The roughly 3,500 ventilators in New York City hospitals had going into the coronavirus crisis compares to a total of 2,688 ventilators the health department counted in a 2005 survey.

In 15 years, state and city planning had added only about 800 ventilators, fewer than 60 per year.
And after this type failure, Cuomo and MSM blamed...Trump?  

That's not what ProPublica found. 

"How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block"          
A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to maintain them."

ADD IT ALL UP...

- FAILED DATA
- BAD 'VOODO' PREDICTIONS
- POOR PREPAREDNESS SINCE THE 2009 SWINE FLU SCARE
- CDC's SHODDY TESTING FROM THE BEGINNING
- CDC's BOTCHED, CONTAMINATED TEST KITS AND CONTAMINATED ATLANTA TEST LAB
- FAILURE OF MEDICAL SUPPLY COMPANIES TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PRODUCTS NECESSARY IN A PANDEMIC
- MSM's INITIAL DOWNPLAYING OF THE COVID-19 IN CHINA FOLLOWED BY RABID, FEAR-MONGERING, PROPAGANDIZING, ANTI-TRUMP, DAILY SPINS, LIES, AND MISINFORMATION
- THE PUBLIC'S UNWILLINGNESS TO QUESTION AND DEMAND PROVABLE FACTS
- THE DRIVE BY WALL STREET'S WHORES IN CONGRESS TO GRAB MONEY FOR BIG BUSINESS, TO BAIL OUT MISERABLE EXCUSES IN 'CORPORATE AMERICA' AND PANDER TO VOTERS BY DANGLING THAT "STIMULUS MONEY", THAT MEANINGLESS PITTANCE THAT AMOUNTS TO A SPIT IN THE OCEAN OF LOSS THAT AMERICANS HAVE SUFFERED AGAIN BECAUSE OF THIS LATEST ROUND OF BULLSHIT, POLITICAL ONE-UPMANSHIP AND CONTINUED ANTI-TRUMP EVERYTHING

This is completely unacceptable.
At this time in history and with the technology in place it is absolutely shocking that this could happen.
Millions of Americans will lose their jobs due to these panic-driven lockdowns.
The first people to be fired should be the ones who drove this panic.

DEEP STATE PUPPET 'DOCTOR' FAUCI IS NOW SAYING THAT, LIKE H1N1, COVID-19 WILL BECOME SEASONAL.
JUST LIKE SWINE FLU, IT WILL BECOME PART OF OUR REGULAR "FLU SEASON".

"In September 2009, after millions had become infected with the H1N1 influenza and thousands had died, some of whom were young people and children, a relaxed and unalarmed Dr. Anthony Fauci told an interviewer that people just need “to use good judgment.”

“Parents should not send their kids to school if they’re sick, if you’re sick don’t go to work … avoid places where there are people who are sick and coughing, now that’s a difficult thing to do,” he said. “…You can’t isolate yourself from the rest of the world for the whole flu season.”

That’s quite a change from the "esteemed expert’s views" on the current virus from China sweeping the world.

WHY DON'T THE CROOKS AND LIARS JUST ADMIT THIS WAS ANOTHER 'ZIKA, ZIKA' AND SWINE FLU, "OH MY GOD, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" SCARE THAT THEY HOPE WILL SELL A LOT OF VACCINE AND A LOT OF HIGH-PRICED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS?

MSM AND LIBERAL TALKING HEADS ARE DAMNING TRUMP FOR SUGGESTING WE TRY THE DRUG HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE.

BUT THEY FAIL TO MENTION, USUALLY, THAT FDA APPROVED ITS USE IN THIS "EMERGENCY SITUATION".

VIA POLITICO:

"The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.

The agency allowed for the drugs to be “donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible,”
HHS said in a statement, announcing that Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine."


HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE IS CHEAP.
SO IS ANOTHER DRUG USED RECENTLY THAT SEEMS PROMISING.
IVERMECTIN.

HOW MANY MSM HEADLINES MENTIONED THIS?

(Newsweek) – Australian researchers have published a study showing a drug commonly used to treat parasite infections can also kill coronavirus in a laboratory setting in under 48 hours. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia have discovered that the antiparasitic drug Ivermectin can inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus the causes COVID-19, according to a study published Friday in the journal Antiviral Research.

“Ivermectin is very widely used and seen as a safe drug."

"Ivermectin's status as a drug that has already been studied and approved to treat other conditions offers a decided advantage over the development of new drugs, a long process that typically involves many years of studying safety and efficacy before being able to reach human patients," Newsweek stated."

MSM AND THE FAR LEFT "CHIEFS" WOULD RATHER SEE AMERICANS DIE BY THOUSANDS THAN ALLOW TESTING OF CHEAP DRUGS THAT CAN SAVE THEM AND MAYBE TRUMP GET THE CREDIT FOR PUSHING FOR THEIR USE.

IF ASPIRIN WAS FOUND TO CURE CORONAVIRUSES AND CANCER TODAY AND TRUMP SAID IT WAS A GOOD THING, THE NAYSAYERS, BIG PHARMA, CDC AND TRUMP HATERS WOULD TRY TO DESTROY EVERY ASPIRIN TABLET ON EARTH.


IN SPITE OF THE DATA, THE FACTS, DAMNABLE MSM LIKE THE ACCURSED WASHINGTON POST, STILL TRIES TO KEEP THE PANIC GOING! 

"America’s most influential coronavirus model just revised its estimates downward. But not every model agrees."

That glimmer of potential good news came on the same day New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) said his state may already be experiencing a “flattening of the curve.” New York reported 599 new deaths Monday, on par with Sunday’s count of 594 and down from 630 on Saturday.

Experts and state leaders, however, continued to steel themselves for grim weeks ahead, noting that the revised model created by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington conflicts with many other models showing higher equipment shortages, deaths and projected peaks."

DESPICABLE FEAR-MONGERS AT WA-PO!
THEY NEVER DISAGREED WITH IHME WHEN IHME SAID 200,000 WOULD DIE!
THEY NEVER OFFERED OTHER "MODELS" WHEN IHME SAID HOSPITALS WOULD COLLAPSE UNDER THE BURDEN OF THOSE NEEDING CARE, VENTILATORS.

THIS NEXT SENTENCE GIVES AWAY THE REAL REASON WA-PO NOW, SUDDENLY PROTESTS THE ACCURACY OF IHME:

"Some state leaders have also grown increasingly concerned about how the federal government is using IHME’s lower estimates to deny states’ increasingly desperate requests for equipment and help..."

SEE, IF THE HORRIBLE CATASTROPHE IS AVERTED, IF THINGS CAN GET BACK TO NORMAL, STATES, BIG BUSINESSES, ALL WHO JUST GOT A SUPER CUT OF THAT "STIMULUS MONEY" WILL HAVE TO STOP SUCKING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DRY, AND CONGRESS WON'T NEED TO PASS MORE "BILLS" THAT WE TAXPAYERS AND OUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO PAY.

THE OLD FEDERAL GRAVY TRAIN WILL HAVE TO RETURN TO THE STATION UNTIL THE NEXT MEDIA SUPER-HYPE. 

I SO WISH THAT, ONCE THIS IS OVER, ALL AMERICANS WOULD DEMAND PROSECUTION OF THE MSM, CONGRESS, THE CDC, THE WHO, ALL OF WHOM HAVE, THROUGH LIES, HALF-TRUTHS, SPIN, MANIPULATION OF DATA AND FACTS, ROBBED US ALL OF PEACE, INCOME, JOBS, HAPPINESS AND HOPE. 

OUR ECONOMY WAS BOOMING, UNEMPLOYMENT WAS AT RECORD LOWS, WE'D BECOME OIL INDEPENDENT, BUSINESSES WERE MOVING BACK FROM OVERSEAS...
AND THEN THIS...JUST LIKE THE OVER-HYPED SWINE FLU, AVIAN FLU, "ZIKA,ZIKA"...AND WE GET A DECLINE IN EVERYTHING...EXCEPT PANIC AND FEAR AND ECONOMIC DESTABILIZATION.


Why did Dr. Fauci not sound the alarm in 2009 as urgently as he has done in 2020?

 "Why did he not insist we ‘force’ hospitals to cancel elective tests and surgeries to save room for future infected patients during the H1N1 outbreak?
Why did he pointedly target restaurants and bars in his concern for the spread of the coronavirus but not H1N1?
 As a specialist in infectious diseases, and as a self-described “man of science,” why support the closing of schools, businesses, and home quarantine for one virus and not the other?

 H1N1’s duration from April 2009 to April 2010 with 60 million infected and almost 13,000 deaths in the U.S. alone was no less serious than the 2020 coronavirus so why was Dr. Fauci taking a more measured approach in 2009?

The answers may come too late.

The economy that was setting records has been broken, at least, and hopefully, temporarily. The working and middle classes, who only a month ago were celebrating the purchase of a new car, a house, a raise, moving out of their parents’ home or the promise of a better job are wondering if they can hold on, and some are waking up to the realization their lives have been turned upside down over a virus that is no more deadly than the flu they got last year."

LET ME ADD THE STATS FROM OUR STILL-ONGOING FLU SEASON OF OCTOBER 2019 TO TODAY, FROM THE DAMNABLE CDC.  

THE CHART BELOW SHOWS HOSPITALIZATIONS, SO FAR, FROM H1N1 AND THE B/VICTORIA STRAIN OF FLU, THE 2 MAIN VIRUSES THAT INFECTED AMERICANS BEGINNING LAST OCTOBER.

OVER 500,000 WERE HOSPITALIZED, BUT NO SCREAMS OF HOSPITALS BEING OVERWHELMED AND NO CRIES FOR MORE MASKS, GLOVES, GOWNS OR VENTILATORS. 


"The number of hospitalizations estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates. This table also summarizes all estimated influenza disease burden, by season, in U.S. from 2010-11 through 2017-18."


162 influenza-associated deaths in children have been reported so far this season, 7 IN THE PAST WEEK.
This number is higher than recorded at the same time in every season since reporting began in 2004-05, except for the 2009 pandemic.

CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu."  

400,000 WHEN THEIR OWN CHART SHOWS OVER 500,000?

AS OF THIS WEEK, FLU IS STILL GOING STRONG IN THE FOLLOWING STATES: 
High – the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and 28 states (Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin)

Moderate – five states (Idaho, Maine, Michigan, Nebraska, and Utah)


I SAW A RECENT SCARE-HEADLINE YESTERDAY THAT STATED THE 10,000 WHO HAVE DIED, ALLEGEDLY OF COVID-19, WAS MORE THAN HAD DIED IN 6 RECENT WARS
SEVERAL OTHER MSM FEAR-MONGERS TOOK THAT HEADLINE AND SPLASHED IT ON THEIR WEBSITES.
THE SIX WARS?
"The American Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War and Desert Shield/Desert Storm."

MSM WILL STOOP TO THIS TO INCREASE FEAR AND PANIC. 

WHEN HEADLINES SCREAMED "WHO Director: Global COVID-19 Cases Will Reach 1 Million and 50,000 Deaths", THE MSM AND THE WHO FAILED TO MENTION THAT THE "NORMAL" FLU SEASON SAW 30 TO 60 MILLION AMER ICANS INFECTED, DEPENDING ON WHICH MSM REPORTED FLU STATS.

500,000 AMERICANS WERE HOSPITALIZED AND THE USA SAW 24,000-60,000 DEATHS (SEVERAL ESTIMATES CIRCULATING), INCLUDING MORE THAT 160 CHILDREN HERE, 7 CHILDREN JUST THIS PAST WEEK.

I HOPE YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
I HOPE YOU LOOK BACK ON THE SEVERAL OTHER TIMES A PANDEMIC HAS BEEN USED TO TERRORIZE THE PLANET.

THIS TIME, TOO MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING OUR POTUS, FELL FOR THE HYPE.

AMERICA LIES IN FINANCIAL RUIN AND CONGRESS IS SET TO ADD MORE "STIMULUS" TO TAXPAYERS' "BILLS" THIS MONTH.

WE ARE MERE SERFS, WORKER BEES, SERVANTS TO THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. 

UNTIL WE CHOOSE TO STOP BEING SLAVES TO INDUSTRY AND THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM, WE'LL JUST KEEP  CARRYING THE BURDEN OF UNENDING, UNPAYABLE  DEBT AND LEAVE THAT ENORMOUS DEBT TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.  

WE MUST LEARN FROM THESE WILD PANICS, SO THAT WE NO LONGER PERISH FROM FEAR. 
WE MUST LEARN TO QUESTION EVERYTHING, DIG FOR TRUTH, UNCOVER THE LIES AND DISINFORMATION, RECOGNIZE THE MEDIA SPINS, READ THE "BILLS" BEFORE CONGRESS, DEMAND 100% PROOF OF MEDIA-CREATED "NEWS". 
WE'RE NOT MINDLESS SHEEP, MY FRIENDS.
WE'RE CAPABLE, INTELLIGENT, ABLE TO SORT THINGS FOR OURSELVES.
INDEPENDENT THOUGHT BECOMES US.

AS YOU CAN SEE ONCE AGAIN FROM THIS LATEST FIASCO, WE TRULY ARE ON OUR OWN.
LET'S START SHOWING THE POWERS THAT BE THAT BEING ON OUR OWN IS FINE WITH US.

WE DON'T NEED "EXPERTS" OR MEDIA OR CONGRESSES TO "HELP" US.

OUR ANCESTORS HELPED THEMSELVES AND SO CAN WE!



















//WW

STATS WRONG COVID-19 DEATHS .

THE STATS ARE BEING SKEWED BY ADDING PNEUMONIA, INFLUENZA AND DEATHS FROM PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS TO THE COVID DEATH LIST.

STANFORD PHYSICIANS SHOW WHY STATS ARE INSUFFICIENT TO DETERMINE CAUSE OF DEATH.

Birx says government is classifying all deaths of patients with coronavirus as 'COVID-19' deaths, regardless of cause. 
The federal government is classifying the deaths of patients infected with the coronavirus as COVID-19 deaths, regardless of any underlying health issues that could have contributed to the loss of someone's life.

Dr. Deborah Birx, the response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, said the federal government is continuing to count the suspected COVID-19 deaths, despite other nations doing the opposite.

"There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition, and let's say the virus caused you to go to the ICU [intensive care unit] and then have a heart or kidney problem," she said during a Tuesday news briefing at the White House. "Some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.

"The intent is ... if someone dies WITH COVID-19 we are counting that," she added.
Asked whether the numbers could skew data the government is trying to collect, Birx said that would mostly apply more to rural areas where testing isn't being implemented on a wide scale.

AS MANY HAVE POINTED OUT, DEATH WITH COVID-19 IS NOT DEATH BECAUSE OF THE VIRUS.

GIVEN THIS "DIRECTIVE" BY WHO/CDC, A TERMINALLY ILL CANCER PATIENT ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL, WHO THEN SUCCUMBS TO THE CANCER, BUT TESTS POSITIVE, EVEN POST-MORTEM,  FOR COVID-19, CAN BE DECLARED A DEATH BY
C-19.
DITTO FOR A PATIENT WHO DIED OF A MASSIVE CORONARY, A RUPTURED BRAIN ANEURYSM, COMPLETE RENAL FAILURE, ETC.

BUT, NOW, THE HOSPITALS DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TEST. THEY CAN "PRESUME".
THAT CERTAINLY MAKES THE MORTALITY RATE SKYROCKET.

THIS ALSO DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE NASAL SWAB TEST THE CDC ALMOST INSISTS ON.
CHINA AND OTHER NATIONS PROVE INFECTION AND CAUSE OF DEATH BY A BLOOD TEST.
NOT IN AMERICA.

APRIL 19, 2020

"Nearly 130,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have now been documented in the five boroughs of New York, city statistics revealed on Sunday.

An additional 3,420 diagnoses were made between 2 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, raising the total number to 129,788 — up from 126,368.

The tally of CONFIRMED coronavirus fatalities, meanwhile, rose to 8,811, while the number of “PROBABLE” deaths ATTRIBUTED to the disease hit 4,429, with respective increases of 363 and 165.

COMBINED, the two figures now stand at a staggering 13,240."

WHAT'S "STAGGERING" IS THE IDIOCY OF THIS COMBINING", THIS "PROBABLE|. THIS |ATTRIBUTED" AND "PRESUMED" LOAD OF BS.

SUCH STATS ARE NOT STATS AND THE BUCKET THAT WHO/CDC IS COMBINING THESE IN CAN'T HOLD WATER.

WE MIGHT AS WELL SAY, "WELL, WE PRESUME THEY ALL DIED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER, PROBABLY, MAYBE, SO WRITE WEATHER AS CAUSE OF DEATH ON THAT DEATH CERTIFICATE. IT'S AS GOOD A GUESS AS ANY."

MUST WONDER...HOW MANY WERE HOSPITALIZED AND DIED IN NEW YORK PER DAY DURING THE ONGOING, STILL WIDESPREAD 2019-2020  FLU SEASON? 

FROM 3,000 TO 10,000 WERE TESTING POSITIVE PER WEEK IN NEW YORK LAST FLU SEASON AND THIS FLU SEASON WAS WORSE, CDC SAYS.


NOT ALL REPORTED COVID-19 DEATHS ARE A RESULT OF THE VIRUS.

Alex Berenson, Apr 3Former NYT reporter and author of 'Tell Your Children',

"As you sit home watching #COVID death counts spiral, please know the official
@CDCgov guidance for coding COVID-related deaths is as follows: any death where the disease “caused or is *assumed* to have caused or *contributed to* death.” Confirmed lab tests are not required.." .






They’re saying U07.1 is now the “catch all”; they don’t specify between primary covid death vs death by other cause *secondary to covid*.

FROM THE CDC WEBSITE, IN PDF:

National Vital Statistics System
COVID-19 Alert No. 2
March 24, 2020
The new ICD code for Cornavirus Disease 2019 UO7.1   
"The WHO has provided a second code, U07.2, for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available. Because laboratory test results are not typically reported on death certificates in the U.S., NCHS is not planning to implement U07.2 for mortality statistics.
NCHS does not plan to implement UO7.2 for mortality statistics.
"the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause (of death) more often than not.

THIS WILL GREATLY INCREASE THE NUMBERS OF "COVID-19 DEAD".
FOR EXAMPLE, AN ELDERLY PATIENT ARRIVES WITH A PROBABLE RUPTURING BRAIN ANEURYSM, EXPIRES, IS TESTED POST-MORTEM FOR COVID-19 WITH A POSITIVE RESULT, LEAVING WHOMEVER FILLS OUT DEATH CERTIFICATES TO CHECK THE BOX U07.1.
U07.2 IS NOT BEING IMPLEMENTED, REMEMBER.

NO FURTHER LAB TEST OR DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS ARE REQUIRED OR GIVEN.

PATIENT'S CAUSE OF DEATH BECOMES COVID-19, NOT CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE.

IS THIS WHY CORVID-19 DEATHS ARE RISING SO QUICKLY? 

CDC IS REPORTING ANYONE WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, AND THEN DIED, AS DEATH BY CORONAVIRUS.
"IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PEOPLE ON THE DEATH LISTS DIED AS A RESULT OF
A PRE-EXISTING CONDITION THEY HAD BEFORE CONTRACTING CORONAVIRUS."

THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, FOLLOWING PROTOCOL, includes anyone who tested positive for COVID-19, and died, in their tally of deaths related to the coronavirus.

It is possible that individuals on the list died as a result of another condition that they had in addition to COVID-19.

40 percent of hospitalized patients with confirmed COVID-19 patients have cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease.   
Jaquan Anderson,age 17, who died in New Orleans Sunday, had tested positive for COVID-19, but the cause and manner of the teen's death remained under investigation.
Anderson’s father, Kevin Moran, said Thursday that he understood his son had died from “heart failure.”

He said he was surprised at the suggestion his son may have died as a result of COVID-19 and disputed that was a certainty.

“It was heart failure,” Moran said. “People don’t want to let you heal. … I’m so upset.”

Anderson’s father, said his son had “not been ill” in the days leading up to his death.    

On Wednesday, Los Angeles officials reported what was believed to be the first COVID-19 case in the United States involving a child who tested positive and died.

However, according to media reports, officials said the California child — also 17 — would require additional investigation because “the case was complex and there may be an alternate explanation for this fatality.”

THE BABY THAT RECENTLY DIED IN CONNECTICUT WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19 WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOSPITAL BY AMBULANCE, UNRESPONSIVE AND DECLARED DEAD FROM "POSSIBLE ACCIDENTAL ASPHYXIATION" OR SIDS...SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME.

Candace Owens calls for governor to step down after he lied about newborn death link to COVID-19

"The baby arrived unresponsive at a Hartford area hospital and, though the cause of death was unknown when Lamont reacted, the infant reportedly tested positive during a postmortem exam for the virus, which has not normally been seen in otherwise healthy children.

“The death of the infant in Connecticut had nothing to do with COVID-19. I know exactly how the infant died. I know this because people that were involved were mortified and angry, and they were so happy that I spoke out and called out this double-speak. These people reached out to me, not the mother and the father,” Owens said, adding that their account of what happened “completely checks out.”

“I think Governor Ned Lamont should have to step down,” Owens added.

“The post mortem, after this infant had already succumbed, they tested this infant for COVID-19. God knows why,” she said. “Because as I have been trying to shout to you all, it does not matter how you die, they will test you for COVID-19. Then they will use the exact same language that Ned Lamont used: ‘a death linked to COVID-19,’ knowing fully well that the manner in which that infant died had nothing to do with coronavirus.”

“How many more deaths that we are seeing are deaths like this?” Owens asked, pointing to the inaccuracy of figures being “manipulated” to create fear, and demanding to know why journalists are only publishing what politicians tell them."

WHY IS THIS BEING ALLOWED?
HOW CAN PHYSICIANS KNOW WHAT THESE PATIENTS DIED OF WITH NO POST-MORTEMS, NO AUTOPSIES?

HOW CAN WE BE SURE THEY EVEN HAD COVID-19 IF NO LUNG CT SCANS PROVED IT AND ONLY THE INACCURATE CDC TEST WAS USED FOR DIAGNOSIS?
(SEE BELOW ON THAT TEST ACCURACY)

WHAT WOULD ACTUAL DEATH RATES BE IF WE RULE OUT DEATHS FROM SUDDEN HEART ATTACKS IN THE ELDERLY, PRE-EXISTING HEART DISEASE OR LONG-TERM LUNG DISEASE, SIDS, CONGENITAL DEFECTS/ANOMALIES, CANCER?

WHAT WILL THEY COUNT AS COVID DEATHS NEXT, AUTO ACCIDENTS, GUNSHOT WOUNDS, SUICIDES?

LOOKS LIKE WE'LL BE COUNTING FEWER DEATHS! GOOD NEWS!

Key Coronavirus Model Now Predicts Many Fewer U.S. Deaths

A Sunday update of a prominent COVID-19 forecasting model suggests that fewer lives will be lost during the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak than previously thought.

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) now predicts that 81,766 people will die of COVID-19 in the U.S. through early August.

When the model was last updated, on April 2, it predicted 11,765 deaths more deaths, for a total of 93,531.

The change in prediction is due to “a massive infusion of new data,” IHME director Dr. Christopher Murray said in a press release.



The model also revised downward the prediction for the number of ventilators needed at the height of the outbreak. It now predicts the need for 18,992 ventilators, down from 31,782.

One thing that didn’t change between the April 2 and April 5 models is the projected date of the outbreak’s peak. The model still predicts an April 16 apex for the daily COVID-19 death rate. Hospital use is expected to peak on April 15.
BUT ABOUT THOSE QUICK TESTS...THOSE NASAL SWABS...THEY'RE PROVEN INACCURATE.



THE MOST ACCURATE TEST FOR COVID-19 IS A CT SCAN OF THE LUNGS, AS SHOWN ABOVE IN A COVID-POSITIVE PATIENT, BUT THIS IS VERY EXPENSIVE AND IS NOT BEING DONE IN THE U.S. AS MUCH AS IT WAS DONE IN CHINA.
 
February 26, 2020 — In a study of more than 1,000 patients published in the journal Radiology, chest CT outperformed lab testing in the diagnosis of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The researchers concluded that CT should be used as the primary screening tool for COVID-19 (also called SARS‐CoV‐2).

In the absence of specific therapeutic drugs or vaccines for COVID-19, it is essential to detect the disease at an early stage and immediately isolate an infected patient from the healthy population.

[SEE ALSO: RADIOLOGICAL PRESENTATION OF CORONAVIRUS ON CT IMAGING]  



ABOVE: CLASSIC "GROUND GLASS" OPACITIES OF COVID-19.

A 3-D rendering created from the chest CT scan of a 41-year-old coronavirus patient in China showing ground-glass opacities in several areas of the lungs from the coronavirus pneumonia. This was from one of the first medical imaging studies published on COVID-19 in the journal Radiology.

According to the latest guidelines published by the Chinese government, the diagnosis of COVID-19 must be confirmed by reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) or gene sequencing for respiratory or blood specimens, as the key indicator for hospitalization.

However, with limitations of sample collection and transportation, as well as kit performance, the total positive rate of RT-PCR for throat swab samples has been reported to be about 30 to 60 percent at initial presentation.

In the United States, similar RT-PCR test kits used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to test patients and confirm coronavirus infections were cleared for clinical use in the U.S. by an emergency approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Jan. 30.

However, when these kits were sent to states, local authorities performed verification testing for quality control and found the tests are not 100 percent accurate, and showed some false negative results.


AS FORBES REPORTED, "The available test is not 100% accurate. Therefore, negative results don’t necessarily preclude an infection. The FDA has stated that the test should be used as one of several tools.

ADD THAT THERE IS NO PROOF OF DEATH BY AUTOPSY.
UNTIL THIS VIRUS OUTBREAK, AUTOPSIES WERE USUALLY PERFORMED TO ASCERTAIN CAUSE OF DEATH. 
"Coroner is to perform an autopsy and the results will take several weeks to be communicated to the family."

Autopsies usually take two to four hours to perform. Preliminary results can be released within 24 hours, but the full results of an autopsy may take up to six weeks to prepare.

The College of American Pathologists [CAP] recommends that an autopsy be performed at every death, and experts say that competent autopsies can be beneficial in a wide range of circumstances:

Autopsies are not covered under Medicare, Medicaid or most insurance plans, though some hospitals -- teaching hospitals in particular -- do not charge for autopsies of individuals who passed away in the facility.

A private autopsy by an outside expert can cost between $3,000 and $5,000.

In some cases, there may be an additional charge for the transportation of the body to and from the autopsy facility.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Stephen J. Cina says that autopsies are best if performed within 24 hours of death, before organs deteriorate. Second autopsies have certain limitations because organs have often already been removed and dissected, and the fluids necessary for an evaluation are now no longer available.


AND NOW, MANY NATIONS LIKE ITALY , THE PHILIPPINES AND LIKE INDIA ARE SENDING THE DEAD STRAIGHT TO A CREMATORIUM AND NOT DOING POST-MORTEMS.

NEW YORK IS CONSIDERING DOING THE SAME THING. 


FORBES, March 18, 2020  
Study: 17.9% Of People With COVID-19 Coronavirus Had No Symptoms
"Both studies reinforce the notion that many people are walking around unaware that they are carrying the virus and potentially spreading it to others. That means just because you
feel well doesn’t mean that you should go out."

The available test is not 100% accurate. Therefore, negative results don’t necessarily preclude an infection. The FDA has stated that the test should be used as one of several tools,


WASHINGTON POST, March 26, 2020
A ‘negative’ coronavirus test result doesn’t always mean you aren’t infected.

No test is 100 percent accurate.
Some test results may incorrectly say that a person has a condition, but they don’t. That’s a false positive.

Other tests may incorrectly say someone doesn’t have a condition, but they do. That’s a false negative, and for covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, at this stage of the outbreak, experts are more worried about this type of inaccuracy.

“If it’s positive … you absolutely can make a [clinical] decision. If it’s negative, you may be early on in the infection and the viral load may be so low you don’t get it,” Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, said in a Q&A with JAMA.

Documentation for the test approved for New York’s state lab explains the possibility of a false positive or false negative, emphasizing that a negative test doesn’t rule out infection.
Another researcher said anecdotal reports peg the genetic coronavirus tests being used in the United States at about 85 percent sensitive.

That means that for someone who has the virus, there’s a 15 percent chance they test negative.

A critical-care blog, EMCrit, estimated that the genetic tests are about 75 percent sensitive and suggests that a single negative swab doesn’t rule out the disease.

“A negative result does not rule out COVID-19 and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or patient management decisions,” according to the fact sheet for health-care providers. “When diagnostic testing is negative, the possibility of a false negative result should be considered in the context of a patient’s recent exposures and the presence of clinical signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19."

NOR DOES A POSITIVE TEST MEAN YOU HAVE COVID-19!
HERE'S WHY...FALSE POSITIVES, LIKE FALSE NEGATIVES, ABOUND.


COVID-19 Very Similar to MERS and SARS.
COVID-19 COMES FROM INFECTION WITH THE SARS-CoV2 VIRUS, THE "NOVEL" CORONAVIRUS CAUSING THE PANDEMIC.

COVID-19 is a betacoronavirus, like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and presenting as viral pneumonia with a wide range of acuity, the bulletin states.

As of Feb. 12, COVID-19 appears to have greater infectivity rate, but a lower case fatality rate, when compared to SARS and MERS.

LOOKING AT THE WHO's DAILY  "SITUATION REPORT"
NOTICE HOW MANY NATIONS ARE REPORTING NO DEATHS TO UNDER 100 DEATHS.
NO MEDIA HEADLINES FOR GOOD NEWS.

LOOK AT WHO's "CASE DEFINITIONS":
Case definitions for surveillance

Case and contact definitions are based on the current available information and are regularly revised as new information accumulates.

Countries may need to adapt case definitions depending on their local epidemiological situation and other factors.
 All countries are encouraged to publish definitions used online and in regular situation reports, and to document periodic updates to definitions which may affect the interpretation of surveillance data.

 Suspect case A.  
 A patient with acute respiratory illness (fever and at least one sign/symptom of respiratory disease, e.g., cough, shortness of breath), AND a history of travel to or residence in a location reporting community transmission of COVID-19 disease during the 14 days prior to symptom onset;

OR B.
 A patient with any acute respiratory illness AND having been in contact with a confirmed or probable COVID-19 case (see definition of contact) in the last 14 days prior to symptom onset;

OR C.  A patient with severe acute respiratory illness (fever and at least one sign/symptom of respiratory disease, e.g., cough, shortness of breath; AND requiring hospitalization) AND in the absence of an alternative diagnosis that fully explains the clinical presentation.
  
[THESE SYMPTOMS ARE IDENTICAL TO COMMON FLU SYMPTOMS AND COULD BE CAUSED BY COMMON FLU, WHICH IS STILL RAMPANT ACROSS AMERICA AND THE GLOBE, AND ARE ALSO THE SYMPTOMS OF BOTH BACTERIAL AND VIRAL PNEUMONIA.] 

 [ACCORDING TO THE CDC, Other possible serious complications triggered by flu can include inflammation of the heart (myocarditis), brain (encephalitis) or muscle (myositis, rhabdomyolysis) tissues, and multi-organ failure (for example, respiratory and kidney failure).

Flu virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis, the body’s life-threatening response to infection.
Flu also can make chronic medical problems worse. For example, people with asthma may experience asthma attacks while they have flu, and people with chronic heart disease may experience a worsening of this condition triggered by flu.
CDC: What are the emergency warning signs of flu?]


Probable case A. 
A suspect case for whom testing for the COVID-19 virus is inconclusive;

OR B.
A suspect case for whom testing could not be performed for any reason.
Confirmed case
A person with laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 infection, irrespective of clinical signs and symptoms.

See laboratory guidance for details: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technicalguidance/laboratory-guidance

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/laboratory-guidance

If a negative result is obtained from a patient with a high index of suspicion for COVID-19 virus infection, particularly when only upper respiratory tract specimens were collected, additional specimens, including from the lower respiratory tract if possible, should be collected and tested. 
To monitor the full extent of the circulation of the virus in the general population, WHO recommends implementing testing for COVID-19 via existing national sentinel surveillance sites for influenza-like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infection (SARI).

Guidance will be made available at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technicalguidance/surveillance-and-case-definitions

MEDIA MYTHS, LIES AND  SPIN ARE SELDOMLY CORRECTED IN A WAY THAT CALLS PUBLIC ATTENTION TO ANY RARE CORRECTION.

LIKE THESE:
#1 - NO, NEW YORK IS NOT DECIDING WHICH PATIENTS MUST DIE DUE TO A SHORTAGE OF VENTILATORS.
GOVERNOR CUOMO ADMITTED HOSPITALS THERE HAD PLENTY AT THAT TIME.

#2- NO, THOUSANDS OF SURGICAL MASKS WERE NOT STOLEN FROM A NEW YORK HOSPITAL.
THEY FOUND THEM WHERE THEY HAD LEFT THEM. 

#3- W.H.O. STATS FOR THE U.S. ARE STILL NOT MATCHING WHAT CDC POSTS.
WHO POSTS CONFIRMED CASES ONLY.

CDC, ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE, STATES THAT
*Data include both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 reported to CDC or tested at CDC since January 21, 2020. 


Children stricken with COVID-19 frequently contracted the illness from a family member. 
[An unfortunate 'side-effect' of "sheltering in place".] 

#4-- NO, A 39-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DID NOT DE IN NEW ORLEANS OF CORONAVIRUS WHILE WAITING FOR TEST RESULTS.
SHE DIDN'T HAVE COVID-19 WHEN HER DOCTOR DID THE FIRST TEST.
 
A second coronavirus test came back NEGATIVE on Natasha Ott.

We also now know that Ms. Ott had been suffering for two years with an diagnosed intestinal infection.
She was NOT a healthy adult as was previously reported.

The exact reason the woman, Natasha Ott, died remains under investigation by the Coroner’s Office, spokesman Jason Melancon said.

Such investigations can take several weeks to complete.   

Ott’s foster sister, Emily Coalson Stamets, has revealed that tests taken both pre- and post-mortem have come back negative for the virus.

Writing today on her own Facebook page she said, ‘When her results came back, they showed that the virus was ‘not detected.’

Note that no coronavirus/COVID-19 test results will say ‘negative’ rather, they will show that the virus was detected or not detected in that particular specimen.’

According to Stamets the doctor who administered Ott’s original test was ‘incredulous’ when the results came through and immediately called LabCorp to have her specimen retested.

She said, ‘The coroner also sent in a specimen to be tested at a local university.’

As of March 25, she wrote, ‘These tests have come back indicating that the coronavirus was ‘not detected.’


 AS THE BBC REPORTED 2 DAYS AGO, SWEDEN HAS A LOWER NUMBER OF COVID-19 CASES PER MILLION THAN THE U.S. AND NO, SWEDEN DID NOT SHUT DOWN ITS COUNTRY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC.

YES, SWEDEN'S CLIMATE IS THE TYPE THAT COVID-19 THRIVES IN.

"Sweden Has Lower Number of Coronavirus Cases per Million People than United States -- And Sweden Did Not Shut Down Country or Destroy Its Economy"

Sweden has 239 cases per million people.

The United States has 550 cases per million people.

Sweden remains open for business and life goes on as usual with few restrictions.



The government's strategy here: self-responsibility.

Public health authorities and politicians are still hoping to slow down the spread of the virus without the need for draconian measures.

There are more guidelines than strict rules, with a focus on staying home if you're sick or elderly, washing your hands, and avoiding any non-essential travel, as well as working from home.


Families are able to enjoy the fresh air in a Stockholm park without any restrictions.

Dr. Emma Frans says history will be the judge of which politicians and scientists around Europe have made the best calls so far.

"Nobody really knows what measurements will be the most effective," she says. "I'm quite glad that I'm not the one making these decisions".


COVID-19 cases in America, on March 29, 2020 by CDC:
* Data included both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 reported to CDC or tested at CDC since January 21, 2020

Total cases: 122,653

Total deaths: 2,112

THIS GIVES US A 1.7% DEATH RATE FOR COVID-19. 
About 8,500 people are currently hospitalized, in the U.S.

Of those, 2,037 are in intensive care units, which ARE equipped with ventilators.
6.9% OF ALL CURRENT U.S. CASES (122,653) ARE HOSPITALIZED.

ONLY 1.6% OF ALL U.S. CASES NEED TO BE IN ICU. 

GLOBALLY, ACCORDING TO W.H.O. ON MARCH 29,2020: 

638,146 Confirmed cases.

30,105 Confirmed deaths 

(WHO reports only confirmed cases.)

OF 7,774,312,000+ HUMANS ON EARTH, 638,146 HAVE THE NEW CORONAVIRUS.

ISN'T  THAT 0.0008% OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION? 
A 4.7% DEATH RATE, GLOBALLY. 

THERE ARE SOME ODD STATS PUBLISHED BY W.H.O.

WHY HAVE SO FEW FALLEN ILL IN HIGHLY-POPULATED INDIA WHEN THEY ARE PACKED SO CLOSE TOGETHER?

So far, 979 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in India, with 25 dead, according to WHO, 03/29/2020. 

SIMILAR LOW NUMBERS FOR VERY CROWDED BANGLADESH AND SINGAPORE.

HOW WELL ARE THEY TESTING THERE?

"120 Million Migrant Workers in India Are Starving and Broke - Walking Hundreds of Miles to Get to Their Homes"  

Social distancing is not possible for the poor.
Millions are at risk of starvation, suffering and death due to the lock-down policies.


The poor around the world are the worst hit as jobs are lost and food is scarce.

 The panic created by the coronavirus is now injuring and soon will be killing the innocents as third world economies fail.

The poor are being singled out to suffer.






SWINE FLU IS ONGOING IN AMERICA 
"Swine flu killed 17,000 people in the US from mid-2009 to mid-2010, including 1,800 children, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported,.according to REUTERS on FEBRUARY 12, 2010.

"CDC estimates that between 41 million and 84 million cases of 2009 H1N1 occurred between April 2009 and January 16, 2010,” the agency said in a statement. Usually the CDC goes with a middle number, which it puts at about 57 million people infected.
Between 8,330 and 17,160 people died during that time from H1N1, with a middle range of about 12,000, the CDC said.

But between 880 and 1,800 children died, up to 13,000 adults under the age of 65 and only 1,000 to 2,000 elderly.

In a normal flu season, the CDC estimates that 36,000 Americans die of flu, but 90 percent are over the age of 65.

The CDC estimates that 200,000 go into the hospital EVERY YEAR, again mostly frail elderly people with other health conditions.

Do you recall market meltdowns and "OMG, WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" coverage of pandemic 2009 every single day in fear-mongering headlines like we see daily now?
I don’t.

WERE HOSPITALS SCREAMING THAT THEY COULDN'T HANDLE 200,00 PATIENTS WITHIN A FEW MONTHS TIME FRAME?
NO.

THE FOLLOWING PERTAINS TO H1N1 PATIENTS AND IS FROM W.H.O.:

"Deterioration is rapid, with MANY patients progressing to respiratory failure within 24 hours, requiring immediate admission to an intensive care unit.
Upon admission, most patients need immediate respiratory support with mechanical ventilation."

"MANY PATIENTS."
 MANY.

WASHINGTON POST REPORTED THAT IN COVID-19 PATIENTS, 82% HAVE MILD SYMPTOMS.

A study published in February stated that the "death rate" for COVID-19 was 2.3%.

By comparison, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that health experts have likened coronavirus to affected fewer people in 2002–2003, but the death rate was 14–15%, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).


NOT ALL SCHOOLS CLOSED IN 2009-2010

"Schools closed in many states in response to local flu outbreaks.
 By April 30, 2009, 300 U.S. schools and school districts had announced closures in response to the outbreak, giving 169,000 students time off.

 On May 4, 2009, about 533 schools in just 24 states in the U.S. were closed, affecting about 330,000 students total nationwide.

 On September 25, 2009, only 42 schools were closed in eight states as the second wave of the pandemic began.

 On May 5, Kathleen Sebelius stated in a CDC news conference that school closures for single confirmed cases of H1N1 influenza were unnecessary, but that parents keep their child home if he or she displays an influenza-like illness.

THE H1N1 FLU WAS ATTACKING THE VERY YOUNG, UNLIKE COVID-19, AND WAS CAUSING A NEW, DEADLY INFECTION OF CHILDRENS' HEARTS THAT WAS QUICKLY FATAL.

BUT NO MANDATORY SCHOOL CLOSINGS IN 2009-2010.
THAT'S CRAZY!
WE LOST ALMOST 2,000 CHILDREN TO H1N1 BACK THEN.

On 7 May 2009, the WHO stated that containment was not feasible and that countries should focus on mitigating the effect of the virus.

They did not recommend closing borders or restricting travel.


WHY ARE THINGS SO DIFFERENT NOW?

THAT SAME SWINE FLU JUST KILLED 34,000 AMERICANS SINCE OCTOBER, 2019  AND IS STILL KILLING AMERICANS!

WHY DIDN'T CDC CLOSE SCHOOLS; WHY WASN'T THE NATION SHUT DOWN AND SENT HOME FOR THAT; AND WHY WEREN'T THE STORE SHELVES BARE , AIRLINES GROUNDED, CRUISES BANNED; WHY WASN'T THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED IN 2009-2010 SWINE FLU/H1N1?

WHY? 
2009-2010 PANDEMIC 
60.8 million U.S.H1N1 cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million),
274,304 hospitalizations (range 195,086-402,719),
17,000 deaths. 

THOSE NUMBERS ARE ALL MUCH LOWER THAN CURRENT NUMBERS FOR 2019-2020 INFLUENZA SEASON, THAT SAME H1N1 THAT WAS DECLARED A PANDEMIC IN 2009 BUT SWEPT ACROSS AMERICA AGAIN THIS SEASON AND IS STILL RAGING RIGHT NOW.

Globally, by 2012, research showed that as many as 579,000 people may have been killed by the disease, as only those fatalities confirmed by laboratory testing were included in the original number, and that many without access to health facilities went uncounted.

The U.S. Public Health Emergency for 2009 H1N1 Influenza expired on June 23, 2010.
On August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee declared an end to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic globally.

It is likely that the 2009 H1N1 virus will continue to spread for years to come.

0.7–1.4 BILLION WERE INFECTED WORLDWIDE.

THINK LONG ABOUT THOSE STATS. 

During our still-widespread 'regular' 2019-2020 flu season, the majority of Americans were again infected by H1N1-09, "Swine Flu", 60.8 MILLION, SO FAR, INFECTED, 274,304  HOSPITALIZED, about 34,000 including 168 children have DIED, so far, AND SOME STILL DYING EACH WEEK.

AND YET BARELY A MAINSTREAM MEDIA WHISPER THAT OUR HOSPITALS WERE SO OVERBURDENED BY SO MANY PATIENTS THAT THEY'D HAVE TO CHOOSE WHICH PATIENTS WOULD DIE, OR THAT WE WOULD RUN OUT OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES, OR THAT MILLIONS MAY STILL HAVE AND BE SPREADING THE H1N1 INFLUENZA AND SHOULD SELF-QUARANTINE, OR THAT WE SHOULD DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY TO STOP H1N1.

NOW, BYALLTHEGODS, TELL ME WHY.
ANYONE? 

WHERE IS THE MEDIA HYSTERIA, OR EVEN MEDIA REPORTS ON THE CURRENT WORSE KILLER, H1N1? 
WHY, when in 2009 during THAT pandemic, did we see the start of an economic recovery, but now we are having an economic collapse?


Washington Post, Mach 10, 2020:  
"The Strategic National Stockpile, which is the federal government's cache of drugs and medical supplies, distributed 85 million N95 face masks in response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009, and has not significantly refilled them since that time industry and health experts say."

WHY NOT?
DIDN'T THEY LEARN ANYTHING FROM THE BIG SWINE FLU SCARE?

THEY WERE WARNED SINCE 2009 TO RESTOCK. 
"There have been warnings about the potential shortages for years. In mid-2009, the International Safety Equipment Association, a trade group for makers of protective equipment, urged that the N95 masks be restocked, warning of "significant shortages" if there was another pandemic.

The next year, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, a nonprofit representing public health agencies also called for the masks to be replenished.

NPR (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO), ARTICLE ON VENTILATORS, March 14, 2020:

The latest study available estimates there are about 62,000 ventilators in hospitals nationwide. That figure is seven years old — so the actual number could be higher.

There are also some machines in federally stockpiled emergency supplies, though the exact number isn't public.

"There is a strategic national stockpile of ventilators, but the numbers are classified," says Toner. It's been "publicly stated," he says, that there are about 10,000 ventilators in the national stockpile. "That number might be a bit outdated, but it's probably about right," he says.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! 

WE HAVE OVER 162,000 VENTILATORS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW. 

NEW YORK TIMES, 4 DAYS AFTER NPR's LOW GUESS:
March 18, 2020
Hospitals in the United States have roughly 160,000 ventilators. There are a further 12,700 in the National Strategic Stockpile, a cache of medical supplies maintained by the federal government.


MEDIA BIAS AND MEDIA SPIN 

Friday, Jan 31, 2020, a few weeks before Coronavirus had officially spread to other countries (which led to the bad stock market week Feb 24-Feb 28), the Trump Administration announced travel restrictions on China.

Politico and others blasted and condemned Trump for his order.

Politico on 2/4/20: "The Trump admin's quarantine and travel ban in response to the Wuhan coronavirus could UNDERCUT international efforts to fight the outbreak by antagonizing Chinese leaders, as well as stigmatizing people of Asian descent, according to public health experts and lawmakers."

DO NOTE THAT BACK THEN POLITICO AND ALL MSM WERE CALLING IT THE 'WUHAN VIRUS', YET THEY'D SOON DAMN TRUMP FOR SAYING THAT.


MAINSTREAM MEDIA HEADLINES RECENTLY ABOUT NEW YORK's GOVERNOR CUOMO'S REQUEST FOR MORE VENTILATORS

HERE'S THE TRUTH:In an interview with NBC's Lester Holt, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he hopes the state doesn’t need 30,000 ventilators, but that he determined the need based “on the numbers and on the science.”


Gov. Andrew Cuomo Admits Stockpile of Thousands of Unused VentilatorsCuomo responded to a comment from President Donald Trump on Twitter that there were thousands of ventilators in New York not being used. 

“Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where they are supposed to be, because we don’t need them yet,” Cuomo said. “We need them for the apex, the apex isn’t here, so we’re gathering them in a stockpile.”

Cuomo’s comments demonstrate there is not an immediate shortage in ventilators in the city, despite alarming reports.

“We don’t need them today, because we’re not at capacity today, that’s why they’re not deployed because they’re not needed,” Cuomo said.

In an interview on Fox News on Thursday night, Trump appeared skeptical that New York would need 40,000 ventilators.

“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” he said.

THE W.H.O. HAS STATED THAT 80% OF THOSE INFECTED BY COVID-19 WILL HAVE MILD CASES.   
"According to W.H.O the virus will cause a mild respiratory infection in about 80% of those infected, about half will have pneumonia and another 15% will develop severe illness with at least 5% needing critical care.  
W.H.O stresses that fundamental public health interventions can still help to limit the spread and drive down cases of transmission even in areas where it is spreading rapidly as the work from authorities in China, Singapore, and South Korea are showing." 

WHAT IS THE POPULATION OF NEW YORK STATE?  19.44 million

IF THE ENTIRE STATE, EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD, CONTRACTED COVID-19, IF 15% OF THEM WERE SEVERE, 2,916,000‬, AND IF 5% OF THOSE, 145,800, REQUIRED INTENSIVE CARE AND NEEDED A VENTILATOR, THEN, YES, CUOMO MIGHT NEED OVER 140,000 VENTILATORS.

AND, SURPRISE! WE HAVE CURRENTLY ABOUT 170,000 VENTILATORS AVAILABLE TODAY, WITH MORE BEING MADE RIGHT NOW.
The U.S. currently has an estimated 160,000 ventilators.

These incredibly complex machines cost upward of $50,000 apiece, and involve international supply chains.   

FROM A PDF TITLED "VENTILATOR STOCKPILING AND AVAILABILITY IN THE US AND INTERNATIONALLY": 
US acute care hospitals own approximately 62,000 full-feature mechanical ventilators.

Calculations suggest that around 28,883 of these ventilators (46.4%) can be used to ventilate pediatric and neonatal patients.
The study also reported an additional 98,000 ventilators that are not full-featured but can still provide basic function.

• Based on these numbers, the maximum number that can be potentially ventilated is around 160,000.

• US: 20.5 ICU beds with mechanical ventilation capability per 100,000 population

• Canada: 8.7 ICU beds with mechanical ventilation capability per 100,000 population

• Australia & New Zealand: 5.4 ICU beds with mechanical ventilation capability per 100,000 population

These numbers suggest that the capacity of other countries to provide ventilation therapy might be significantly lower than our own.
In addition, the CDC Strategic National Stockpile has an estimated 8,900 ventilators as of 2010.(OVER 12,000 as of this year). 

[SEE ALSO: Ajao A, Nystrom SV, Koonin LM, et al. Assessing the capacity of the US health care system to use additional mechanical ventilators during a large-scale public health emergency. Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2015;9(6):634-641]

DOING THE MATH,
62,000 FULL-FEATURED IN HOSPITALS NOW.
98,000 ADDITIONAL NON-FULL-FEATURED
12,000 IN NATIONAL STOCKPILE 

170,000.  

Ventilators are stored and kept as managed inventory.
Malatino et al report that shipments from managed inventory “could arrive within 24-36 hours of the federal decision to deploy them.”

The authors go on to describe the multi step process for requesting additional ventilators from the CDC Strategic National Stockpile.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates that 865,000 US residents would be hospitalized during a moderate pandemic (as in 1957 and 1968) and 9.9 million during a severe pandemic (as in 1918). 

Moderate (1958/68-like) = 64,875 would need mechanical ventilation  
Severe (1918-like) = 742,500 would need mechanical ventilation 


FACE MASKS ARE BEING MADE DAILY.

Mar. 25, 2020
"Another major company is stepping up to help the fight against COVID-19.

MyPillow, the Minnesota manufacturer of specialty pillows, linens, and other household products, says that it is answering the call for more face masks as the country continues to deal with the global coronavirus pandemic.

The company Tweeted that it is making face masks for hospitals across the country. MyPillow joins a growing list of private companies pitching in to address the shortage of face masks.

Companies including 3M and Honeywell are set to manufacture millions of additional N95 respirator masks to protect doctors, nurses and other health care workers who are treating patients with coronavirus."


WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN, PEOPLE RALLY TO DELIVER WHAT'S NEEDED.

OUR GOVERNMENTS COULD TAKE LESSONS FROM 'COMMON FOLKS'.


AND THEN THERE'S THE HOARDERS... Labor Union SEIU Found Hoarding 39 Million Face Masks


March 27, 2020

SEIU miraculously “found” 39 million medical face masks in its warehouses three days after U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the feds were going to start going after hoarders.

“If you have a big supply of toilet paper in your house, this is not something you have to worry about. But if you are sitting on a warehouse with masks, surgical masks, you will be hearing a knock on your door,” Barr added.

On Monday, March 23, Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Justice the task of prosecuting hoarders.

Per NBC San Francisco:
"Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West announced Thursday that it located 39 million N95 masks and will make them available to state and local governments and health care systems that are fighting the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The union found a distributor with the masks, which are cleared for surgical use, after pleas from health care workers as new coronavirus cases surge across the state and the country as a whole.

Union officials said they also found a supplier that can produce some 20 million protective masks per week and another that can supply millions of protective face shields." 

INNOVATION IN TIME OF CRISIS
March 29, 2020
Brussels (AFP) - As hospitals face an overload of COVID-19 patients struggling to breathe, innovative medical staff are turning to snorkeling masks from sports stores to stop their lungs collapsing.

Endo Tools Therapeutics, whose know-how in 3D printing for medical use has proved invaluable.

"They are to be used for patients with severe respiratory problems. The aim is to avoid having to intubate the trachea of the patient and put them on a respirator," said Frederic Bonnier, a respiratory physiotherapist at the hospital who also teaches at the university.

He spearheaded the design of a custom-made valve that fits to the top of full-face masks, where the snorkel is meant to go, allowing them to connect to standard BiPAP machines that feed pressurised air into masks.

This helps prevent the collapse of alveoli, lung air sacs needed for the intake of oxygen into our bodies and the exhalation of carbon dioxide. Pneumonia brought on by COVID-19 inflames the lung membrane and fills those sacs with liquid.

The snorkeling mask solution could be a stop-gap measure for patients on the brink of intensive-care treatment but for whom no beds nor respirators are available. Hospital masks for the less-intensive BiPAP (bi-level positive airway pressure) machines are also lacking.

Bonnier said that from Monday he will testing 50 of the masks on patients.

They are the same brand as those used by Italian doctors, donated by the French sportswear retailer Decathlon that has stores worldwide. The masks themselves are made in Italy."


CREATING CHAOS?
2009 SWINE FLU PANDEMIC.

"In January 2010, Wolfgang Wodarg, a German deputy who trained as a physician and now chairs the health committee at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms had organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a "false pandemic" to sell vaccines.

Wodarg said the WHO's "false pandemic" flu campaign is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century." He said that the "false pandemic" campaign began in May 2009 in Mexico City, when a hundred or so "normal" reported influenza cases were declared to be the beginning of a threatening new pandemic, although he said there was little scientific evidence for it.

Nevertheless, he argued that the WHO, "in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their scientists, re-defined pandemics," removing the statement that "an enormous amount of people have contracted the illness or died" from its existing definition and replacing it by stating simply that there has to be a virus, spreading beyond borders and to which people have no immunity.

The WHO responded by stating that they take their duty to provide independent advice seriously and guarded against interference from outside interests. Announcing a review of the WHO's actions, spokeswoman Fadela Chaib stated: "Criticism is part of an outbreak cycle. We expect and indeed welcome criticism and the chance to discuss it".

 In March 2010, the Council of Europe launched an inquiry into "the influence of the pharmaceutical companies on the global swine flu campaign", and a preliminary report is in preparation. 

On 12 April 2010, Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's top influenza expert, stated that the system leading to the declaration of a pandemic led to confusion about H1N1 circulating around the world and he expressed concern that there was a failure to communicate in regard to uncertainties about the new virus, which turned out to be not as deadly as feared.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan appointed 29 flu experts from outside the organization to conduct a review of WHO's handling of the H1N1 flu pandemic. She told them, "We want a frank, critical, transparent, credible and independent review of our performance."

In June 2010, Fiona Godlee, editor-in-chief of the BMJ (British Medical Journal), published an editorial which criticized the WHO, saying that an investigation had disclosed that some of the experts advising WHO on the pandemic had financial ties with drug companies which were producing antivirals and vaccines.

 Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, replied stating, "Without question, the BMJ feature and editorial will leave many readers with the impression that WHO's decision to declare a pandemic was at least partially influenced by a desire to boost the profits of the pharmaceutical industry."


AND NOW?
WELL, WE NEED MORE WHISTLEBLOWERS.
AND TRUTH.
AND COMMON SENSE.

BUT NO FEAR.














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FEMA BUYS BODY BAGS FOR THE COVID-19 'PANDEMIC'

Above, a worker moves food onto the floor of the United Center in Chicago, which is being used as a storage facility. Photograph: AP.




"A perfect storm': US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars"

An unprecedented number of Americans have resorted to food banks for emergency supplies since the coronavirus pandemic triggered widespread layoffs.

The demand for food aid has increased as much as eightfold in some areas, according to an investigation by the Guardian, which gives a nationwide snapshot of the hunger crisis facing the US as millions become unemployed.

About one in three people seeking groceries at not-for-profit pantries last month have never previously needed emergency food aid, according to interviews with a dozen providers across the country.

The national guard has been deployed to help food banks cope with rising demand in cities including Cleveland, Phoenix and St Louis amid growing concerns that supplies may run low as the crisis evolves.
Overstretched food pantries are switching to drive-thrus and home deliveries to minimize the spread of Covid-19 as almost 300 million Americans are urged to stay at home.

Last year, 4.3 billion meals were distributed to more than 40 million Americans through a network of 200 food banks and 60,000 pantries, schools, soup kitchens and shelters, according to Feeding America, the national food bank network.


The Greater Cleveland f(Ohio) food bank received 800 calls to its helpline during one day last week – eight times the usual number. “I’ve never seen anything like it in over 20 years of service. We’re seeing people from every socio-economic level because the majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck,” said the food bank’s CEO, Kristin Warzocha.

Half of American adults have either no emergency savings or not enough to cover three months of living expenses, according to Bankrate’s 2019 Financial Security Index.
Bloomberg first reported the FEMA request for body bags on April 1, 2020.

In total, St Mary’s – the oldest known food bank in the world – supplies 700 pantries, shelters, churches and social service centers in seven counties where one in five children struggle with hunger.

“First we saw people who lived paycheck to paycheck, got laid off and didn’t know where the next meal was coming from, followed by those who had a couple of weeks of savings. Now, people who knew about us because they donated or volunteered are coming in for food,” said Jerry Brown, media spokesman for St Mary’s. “The 2008 recession doesn’t touch this. It’s a different ballgame.”

“Philanthropy and not-for-profits are not going to be able to meet food demands. The government needs to step in,” said Kellie O’Connell, chief executive of the Lakeview pantry in Chicago.

Caitlin Welsh, director of global food security at the Washington based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said: “The supply chain is strong but as the number of food insecure people increases continuously, we’ll perhaps need a new wave of federal legislation directed specifically at household food security.

“These numbers show that the pandemic is causing economic shocks never experienced in our lifetime.”

SO WHAT DOES FEMA DO, FEMA WHOM TRUMP PUT IN CHARGE OF THIS COVID-19 MESS?

FEMA HASN'T BOTHERED TO UPDATE THEIR "Emergency Operations Center Assessment Checklist" SINCE 2015, SO IT'S HARD TO TELL. 
FEMA IS UPDATING ITS  "Industry Liaison Program" SO BIG BUSINESS CAN SEND THEM ESTIMATES AND BIDS.Federal Business Opportunities Website – www.fbo.gov (also known as FedBizOpps or FBO). FedBizOpps was the single point-of-entry to search, monitor, and retrieve Federal procurement opportunities.
That's been moved to  beta.SAM.gov and is now known as Contract Opportunities.
You will also find subcontractor, award notifications, supplier and "teaming opportunities" there.


IS FEMA LOOKING FOR MREs (Meals Ready To Eat)?

NO, ONLY THE DEPT. OF DEFENSE IS, FOR THEIR TROOPS IN EUROPE AND AFRICA. 
FEMA IS LOOKING TO BUY SURGICAL MASKS. 
OTHER MEDICAL SUPPLIES. 

THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION IS LOOKING FOR MORTUARY TRAILERS FOR BODIES. 

AND V.A. IS ALSO LOOKING FOR VENTILATORS.

BTW, DID YOU SEE THIS ARTICLE? 
March 17, 2020: "VA's mission to see civilian patients in times of crisis vanished from its website". -- Washington Post.
NO TREATING COVID-19 CIVILIANS.


MEANWHILE, FEMA IS CURRENTLY ACQUIRING BODY BAGS FROM THE PENTAGON.  

Bloomberg was first to report the request:

Pentagon Confirms It’s Seeking 100,000 Body Bags in Virus Crisis

The Pentagon confirmed that it’s seeking to provide FEMA with as many as 100,000 military-style body bags for potential civilian use as the U.S. warns that deaths could soar in the coming weeks from the coronavirus pandemic.

The Defense Logistics Agency doesn’t yet have a specific delivery date request from FEMA but the agency wants them as soon as they are ready, and the Pentagon is close to agreement with its current contractor on the numbers and time lines.

As many as 200,000 Americans are projected to die in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, a top White House official said Tuesday, even with another 30 days of the most stringent public health restrictions in place. Reviewing the projections, President Donald Trump warned Americans of a difficult period ahead.

“This is going to be a painful two weeks,” Trump said at the White House on Tuesday. “Our strength will be tested, our endurance will be tried.” 

Hospitals in places including New York and New Jersey have been securing refrigerated trucks to help hold bodies in areas where capacity for storing them has run out.

The U.S. now has the most cases officially recorded globally with more than 234,000, according to Johns Hopkins University, which draws on a combination of data sources -- from governments to the World Health Organization and local media -- to feed its tallies. Next is Italy, with 115,000, the JHU data show. Italy has the highest death toll with almost 14,000 virus fatalities, followed by Spain.


FEMA seeks 100,000 body bags from Pentagon as coronavirus pandemic worsens.
USA TODAY, April 2,2020

Known as mortuary pouches, the heavy-duty zippered bags are typically used in the military to contain the remains of troops killed in combat. Wednesday, more than 1,000 people died of the coronavirus in the USA, raising the death toll over 5,000. A week ago, the total was less than 1,300.

"The Department of Defense and the Defense Logistics Agency have a long-standing arrangement with FEMA to procure key commodities from DLA's industrial partners during crisis response operations,” Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Andrews, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement Thursday. “DLA is currently responding to FEMA's prudent planning efforts for 100,000 pouches to address mortuary contingencies on behalf of state health agencies."


HOW DID FEMA BECOME SO POWERFUL? 

Created by President Carter in 1979, elevated to Cabinet level in 1993 under Clinton, and incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 under Bush #2, FEMA is charged with guiding the federal response to the nation’s disasters — both natural and man-made.

The agency manages the National Flood Insurance Program and the U.S. Fire Administration as well as helps prepare state and local emergency managers by providing first responder and emergency preparedness training. The Department of Homeland Security channels funding to federal operations and provides grants to state and local agencies.

FEMA defers to state and local emergency teams to handle disasters at their level.

If a city cannot respond, the county or the state provides help.
If the state lacks the resources, the federal government responds, but only at the request of the governor and on the recommendation of the region’s FEMA director.

In order to tap into FEMA resources, the state’s governor must submit a letter to the president requesting to formally invoke the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act. In the letter, the governor estimates what resources would be necessary to assist state and local crews responding to the situation.

The governor’s request doesn’t go directly to the president; instead, the regional FEMA director makes recommendations to the undersecretary of emergency preparedness and response, also known as the director of FEMA. The undersecretary then makes recommendations to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, who then briefs the president on the situation.

“It’s always the state’s call. The state tells what kind of help they need. We don’t come in and take over,” said Philip Clark, spokesman for FEMA’s Region III which includes Washington, D.C., Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
“The Congress assumes responsibility begins at the local level and moves up. Congress didn’t mean for FEMA to come in to every disaster.”

If the president approves a federal response, he has the power to provide the resources requested from the state but the federal government is not meant to completely take over the situation.

The president can, however, authorize executive orders that allow the federal government to assume control of transportation, communication, food resources, and all airports and aircraft.

And Trump did just that last month...handed the pandemic' over to FEMA.

So, America, based on a current actual death rate here of 1.74% for this new virus thing, actual name, SARS-CoV2, FEMA, in its uncanny 'wisdom' (??) ordered up these 100,000 body bags that the Pentagon will now provide.

WHY?
BECAUSE DRs. DOOM AND GLOOM, BIRX AND FAUCI OF THE FAILURE AGENCY, U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, SAID 200,000 OR MORE AMERICANS WILL DIE OF COVID-19?

"By April 15, when the death count is expected to peak, more than 2,200 Americans will die of the disease per day, according to their 'model'."  

WHO IN AMERICA IS THINKING ABOUT AID FOR THE SURVIVORS? 

As PBS wrote Sept. 9, 2005, 
"The delayed federal response to Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf Coast has led many officials, including President Bush, who called the initial response “not acceptable,” to question FEMA’s preparedness for a natural disaster.

From the local level, officials complained of communication breakdowns and the lack of leadership from the federal government, particularly from FEMA Director Michael Brown. Reports of FEMA turning down personnel and supplies offered by police forces and emergency crews further drew fire from Congress and others who said the agency failed to respond adequately.

On Sept. 9, 2005, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff pulled Brown from the role of managing Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

 Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s office blamed bureaucracy and layers of red tape for blocking an effective emergency effort.

“We wanted helicopters, food and water. They wanted to negotiate an organizational chart,” Blanco’s press secretary Denise Bottcher told the New York Times.

The delayed federal response prompted politicians to question FEMA’s organization and leadership.


DO NOT COUNT ON FEMA, OR ANY OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY TO HELP SAVE YOU. 
REMEMBER HURRICANE KATRINA AND HOW BADLY THAT PLAYED OUT. 


MAKE YOUR FAMILY'S PLANS NOW AND PREPARE FOR MONTHS, AT LEAST, OF 100% SELF-RELIANCE, COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. 

WITH AN EXTRA-HEAVY BURDEN ON THE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN SINCE SCHOOLS CLOSED AND WORKERS WERE SENT HOME OR PERMANENTLY LAID OFF, NOTHING IS SHIPPING AS QUICKLY AS IT DID AND MANY ITEMS ARE JUST NOT SHIPPING, PRECEDENCE GOING INSTEAD TO THE MOST USED, MOST NEEDED SUPPLIES. 

WITH CONTINUED PANIC BUYING, RESTOCKING HAS BECOME AN ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TASK IN THE MORE POPULATED AREAS AND THOSE AREAS SEEM TO RECEIVE GOODS MORE QUICKLY WHILE MORE RURAL AREAS ARE LEFT TO LANGUISH. 

THE POWER GRID IS BECOMING OVERBURDENED AS WELL, SO PREPARE FOR THAT ANY WAY YOU CAN. IF ELECTRIC COMPANIES CAN'T KEEP UP WITH DEMAND, BE AWARE THAT SOME WATER-PUMPING STATIONS WILL CEASE DELIVERING WATER THROUGH THOSE PIPES.
LOCATE ALTERNATIVE WATER SUPPLIES AND WATER STORAGE METHODS NOW.

ATTEND TO PRESCRIPTION DRUG NEEDS QUICKLY AND GATHER ANY OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDS, HOME MEDICAL SUPPLIES, EMERGENCY ITEMS AND SUPPLEMENTS, ETC, THAT YOU MAY NEED NOW.


WALL STREET GOT ITS WISH TODAY WHEN RUSSIA AND SAUDI ARABIA AGREED TO SLOW OIL PRODUCTION TO RAISE PRICES. 
GASOLINE, HOME HEATING FUEL, DIESEL FOR TRUCKERS ALL SKYROCKETED IMMEDIATELY.
HOW CAN SHELTER-IN-PLACE HOUSEHOLDS, ALREADY FINANCIALLY STRAPPED, AFFORD SUCH A RAPID RISE IN GAS AND HEATING FUELS, IN FOOD? 
BUT THE STOCK MARKET BRIEFLY RALLIED.

WALL STREET HATES LOW PRICES FOR AMERICANS AND ALWAYS CELEBRATES WHEN HIGH OIL PRICES ARRIVE. 

WE'RE ON OUR OWN, AMERICA. PREPARE AS BEST AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN

PANDEMIC SUPPLIES LIST FOR FAMILIES 
Not an ideal or totally doable list, but it gives us a clue where to start, if we haven't done so already.

Panic stricken people, desperate for food, supplies of all kinds, even water, are arguably even more dangerous than this virus.

The more people surrounding you who are prepared for this pandemic to last for months, even a year or more, the safer YOU will be.

You’ll be more secure if neighbors won’t be eyeing your resources.
Encourage everyone to make rational choices to lay in whatever they can without becoming panicked hoarders. 

PREPARE YOURSELVES AND LOVED ONES TO RIDE OUT THIS STORM.
FEMA WILL BE NO HELP...UNLESS WE NEED BODY BAGS. 
MAY YOU ALL BE SAFE AND WELL.

AND SANE.














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END NOTES: 


-- A 'FAIR' EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WEBSITE, BUT THEY PUSH A LOT OF PRODUCTS. I DON'T ADVISE "SIGNING UP" FOR ANYTHING. 
-- FARMING NATIVE AMERICAN STYLE  
BUY SEED NOW. 
--  6 Ways to Cook Outdoors (without charcoal or propane) 
LEARN ABOUT 'ROCKET STOVES'  IF NOTHING ELSE.


-- How to Make a 'Storm Glass' to Predict the Weather


-- EAT THE WEEDS AND OTHER WILD PLANTS



-- HOW MANY OTHERS ARE OUT THERE?

Testing kits which were headed to the UK have been found to be contaminated with coronavirus.

A production firm, Luxembourg-based manufacturer Eurofins, told UK labs on Monday that deliveries would be delayed as core parts had been contaminated with coronavirus, the Telegraph reported.






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