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philip964 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 10:38 pm Seems everyone is getting Covid at Christmas parties.

Most seem well in 5 days easier than the flu.

Due to the vaccine and boosters, or it’s mutated to something not as bad?

Then there is this:

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/why- ... any-of-the

Normal healthy people just dieing.

philip964 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:57 pm https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/r ... ing-there/

Deadly new variant has broken out at Waldorf Astoria in Beijing where Putin is staying.

Not confirmed. May be anti communist anti Chinese propaganda.

srothstein wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 10:56 pm

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 7:42 pm SNIP

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:11 pm Houston has dropped in half, but 13 people still die every day in the Houston area.

I am curious about one thing. How many people died on an average day in the Houston area pre-COVID? In other words, are those 13 per day proven to be excess mortality? And if not all of them are excess mortality, how many are?

Don't forget to subtract the increased murder rate when you make the comparison.

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 6:11 pm Houston has dropped in half, but 13 people still die every day in the Houston area.

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 5:54 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:02 pm New Botswana variant with 32 'horrific' mutations


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -EVER.html

So much for getting a vaccine to prevent mutations.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/forme ... -collapses

Five fold increase in sudden death of FIFA players this year.

Filipino baseball star dies on the mound of heart attack.

Heard it on the news this morning. They said the RNA vaccine can be changed to add new variants in a few weeks time and out for distribution in 6 weeks. My question is how many darned boosters are we going to have to get? One every six months forever?

Paladin wrote: ↑Sun Nov 07, 2021 1:26 pm Study Reveals 'Dramatic' Decline In All Three COVID-19 Vaccines' Efficacy Over Time

Between early March and Septemper, as the Delta variant rapidly became the dominant strain worldwide, the ability of Moderna's two-dose vaccine to prevent infections dropped from 89% - 58%, Pfizer's went from 87% - 45%, and J&J's single-dose vaccine went from 86% to just 13%.

The findings were published Thursday in peer-reviewed Science.

That said, the vaccines' ability to prevent death in older Americans remained somewhat robust over the same period, according to the report.

Among veterans 65 and older who were inoculated with the Moderna vaccine, those who developed a so-called breakthrough infection were 76% less likely to die of COVID-19 compared with unvaccinated veterans of the same age.

Older veterans who got the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and subsequently experienced a breakthrough infection were 70% less likely to die than were their unvaccinated peers.

And when older vets who got a single jab of the J&J vaccine suffered a breakthrough infection, they were 52% less likely to die than their peers who didn’t get any shots. -LA Times

For veterans younger than 65, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines prevented death 84% and 82% respectively, while J&J recipients were 73% less likely to die vs. their unvaccinated peers.

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:03 pm https://apple.news/AWem_EwwVTJSLHKaL2bSw-g

WHO thinks maybe indoor aerosol transmission is possible but more study is needed.

Really, you think so WHO.

carlson1 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:15 pm

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:00 pm

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:49 pm

Flightmare wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:33 pm Abbott issues statewide face covering requirement for Texans
https://www.fox4news.com/news/abbott-is ... for-texans

He'll never get my vote again. The legislature has to fix the ability for tyrants to use unlimited emergency powers.

I'll ask the same question of you that I asked of another individual in another post because it is applicable:

So, we should what, elect a Democrat to "send a message"? Vote for the Libertarian to "send a message", thereby enabling the lock-step Democrat voters to elect their candidate? Or sit this one out to "send a message", thereby enabling the lock-step Democrat voters to elect their candidate? Do you really WANT Texas to be California East? And please, don't tell me that Abbott is as bad as Governor Nuisance (Newsom) of California, either, no matter how this mask order might irritate many folks. Abbott isn't in the same realm of horrible as ol' Gavin, not by a long shot.

If you mean not voting for him next time there is a Republican primary, then that I can understand completely.

I am not in anyway suggesting you are wrong, but it this stuff that makes people like me angry because we are not allowed to vote for who we want and express that opinion. If we do we get your argument constantly and this pressure constantly. “A vote for “whoever” is a vote for the Democrats. “If you don’t got my way it is vote for the liberals.”

Grayling813 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 4:49 pm

Flightmare wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2020 3:33 pm Abbott issues statewide face covering requirement for Texans
https://www.fox4news.com/news/abbott-is ... for-texans

He'll never get my vote again. The legislature has to fix the ability for tyrants to use unlimited emergency powers.

crazy2medic wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:37 pm I find it interesting that the 2 States that Trump must win
Texas and Florida have a sudden increase in covid 19 cases

RoyGBiv wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 8:12 am

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:49 pm Just an FYI, Texas Department of Health and Human Services has recently added fatality statistics for cleared investigations on the COVID dashboard. I had emailed them a couple of times wondering why that info wasn't available, though I'm sure I wasn't the only one wondering. Anyway, they obliged, and that data is now up. It is raw info only, nothing that could identify any person. About 40% of the current known fatal cases have been investigated and cleared. Over half of those who didn't make it were 75 years and older; over 75 percent were 65 and over. There are no fatalities listed, at this time, for anyone 19 years and younger. There is also data showing overall sex and race, but not correlated with age groups. There is no data for comorbidities. As more cases are cleared in days to come, the data should become more accurate.

Link please!

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 20, 2020 11:05 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... ng-budget/

Self inflicted damage is done. City of Houston budget is blown by the Coronavirus.

First to go all the new police cadets.

Cause with all those people out of work, more police is the last thing Houston needs.

Did you know City of Houston has a paid poet laureate?

I’m not sure he speaks English, if I remember correctly.

seph wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 8:55 pm

K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:48 pm

Ruark wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:59 pm I'm beginning to see reports now of people getting $50,000 bills for their coronavirus treatments, particularly if it involved ICUs and/or ventilators. It can go as high as $80K in some cases.

Health care is insane; I don't know where this is going. Take an ordinary ECG of your heart. A Medical Assistant making $8/hr. sticks some electrodes on your chest. They come in boxes of 500, like half a cent each. The MA runs the ECG machine, which cost $399, for a few seconds. It prints out the ECG on some graph paper. The graph paper comes in 100-ft. rolls that cost a few dollars each (in cases of a dozen).

Then comes the bill: ECG - $820.
Then the beauty. The physican grabs the printout, glances at it and says, "yeah, looks OK" and tosses it on the table.
"ECG interpretation: $375"

This is just beyond comprehension.

Medical insurance is one of the reasons that it all costs so much. I have read before that doctors and hospitals do not expect to get the amount that they charge. Each provider decides how much they will cover for any given procedure, often some percentage. So, in essence, the docs and hospitals OVER-charge so they can get something close to what they really want to get for the procedure, whatever it may be. That's a big problem because no one is then sure how much something should really cost. Medical insurance has inflated all the prices for everything medical-related. I'm sure some of the insiders know, but not us "regular folks".

No exactly. Medical payments to providers are decided by a predetermined rate per procedure. So when a provider joins a medical insurance network, they are given a list of how much the insurance will pay for each procedure. It does not matter what the doctor tries to bill, the insurance will only pay the predetermined rate for the procedure. Providers like to bill a ridiculous amount all the while knowing they will only be paid a set amount in order to show that the patient received a discount of the difference. The procedure rates are set according to regional averages.

Medical insurance is only one of the reasons. Fraud, malpractice insurance, and lack of independent doctors (they are mainly all a part of large companies now) are the bigger reasons.