33 New Cases Reported Today, December 31
Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center:
A total of 1,764 county residents have tested positive for COVID-19, after 33 additional cases of the virus were reported today.
The Humboldt County Joint Information Center will be closed Friday, Jan. 1, for New Year’s Day. Normal business hours will resume at 8 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 4.
All OptumServe COVID-19 testing sites will be closed Friday, Jan. 1. Testing is expected to resume on Saturday, Jan. 2.
Excluding holidays, testing currently is available seven days a week at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds in Eureka. OptumServe also offers testing at an additional location in the county each weekday. To find a nearby testing site and to schedule a no-cost appointment:
- Go to LHI.care/covidtesting, or
- Call 888-634-1123.
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Imagine seeing the flu stats and death stats for the year and not realizing by now that all that happened was the press and some international organizations decided to pretend flu season was a crisis and used that to completely dismantle the economy of much of the world.
Your name is a misnomer.
Way to kick the hornet’s nest reader. 😎
You would have to imagine it. Because that is not what has happened, by any stretch of the…well…imagination.
He’ll tell us that 344,000 Americans didn’t actually die but are in fact being held by Satan-worshipping Dems in underground bunkers to be trafficked to international elites.
Your right , this pandemic has wipped out all but 99.9 percent of Americans, this virus has got to be stopped, never mind. They have a vaccine, show is over. It could kill another 1/10 th of one percent of Americans though. The Great Panic of 2020 i call it .
You’re being willfully stupid.
Not nearly enough people have been vaccinated yet to be having a noticeable effect. The pandemic is not over.
The number of people dead so far is not the same as the number of people who would have been dead if we hadn’t taken measures to reduce spread.
– Only around 5% of people have been infected so far. If allowed to spread unchecked, 20 times more people would have died already, just by that measure alone.
– If we hadn’t slowed the infection rate, hospitals would have been instantly overloaded, and the majority of people would have been unable to receive any medical care, vastly increasing the death rate.
– The time bought by lowering the infection rate has allowed for testing drugs and studies of their effectiveness. We have drugs that substantially lower the death rate now, for example, steroids that prevent a third of deaths. Blood thinners help prevent organ damage and death. And so on. We’ve also had time to learn how to improve patient care, like when to use oxygen, changing patient positions to improve lung functioning, etc. Had we not done this, and allowed everyone to get infected quickly, the death rate would have been vastly higher, since we wouldn’t have these treatments available.
– Delaying infections created time for vaccines to be developed.
Panic implies unjustified fears. In this case, initial projections were well-justified and accurate. Several million Americans would already be dead if we hadn’t taken preventative measures.
Also, you toss around 0.1% like it’s some trivial number. That’s over 300,000 people. The deaths from covid are so high that it would be perfectly rational to entirely cut funding from preventing other deaths – for example, that’s 20 times more deaths than homicides in the entire US – to spend on preventing covid deaths.
And, you know all this. People have pointed these things out to you before. Every time you make an argument (if you can call it that) that ignores what people have told you in the past, you’re only showing your own inabilities.
Absolutely nothing you said can be held up in a court of law to prove your hypothesis, one way or another.
Just more fiction on top of fantasy.
People have been masking up for 9 months. It has shown to be absolutely worthless, and you can’t prove your conjecture as anything else but CONTROLLED NARRATIVE
Propaganda
Please show, with reliable evidence and logical arguments, where anything I said was fiction.
The cdc said last month that up to 100 million Americans have already been exposed to the virus, not a measly 5 percent. Start with that.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/11/26/939365087/government-model-suggests-u-s-covid-19-cases-could-be-approaching-100-million
The key is “up to”, however thanks for providing a reasonable source instead of a crazy site like people usually reply with. I went with the number of actual confirmed cases, as it’s the only number we know for sure.
Different studies with different models have shown widely differing results. I recently saw “at most” five times as many people have been infected than have been confirmed infected. Stanford did a study that estimated 9% of the population has had covid, a substantially smaller number than either of those. And so on.
The author of that article does bad science, by assuming the ratio the original researchers had reached would still apply even though the number of confirmed positives had doubled. This is clearly wrong, as pretty soon that math would say more people have been infected than exist – the ratio is obviously decreasing as confirmed infections increases.
If you assume 25% of the population has already had covid even though only 5% tested positive, a number on the high end of the estimates I’ve seen, it would still mean we’ll reach 1.5 million deaths assuming we don’t find further ways to reduce the death rate. Without lockdowns, even at the substantially lower death rate this figure gives, when you consider the lack of time to find treatments and overloaded health care system, we would have still reached several million deaths… And Lone Ranger’s claim of it being all just panic is still entirely false.
“Absolutely nothing you said can be held up in a court of law to prove your hypothesis, one way or another.”
Nothing in your comments here or below would hold up in a first-year undergraduate writing course. Let alone any other context of even greater importance where decisions about policy are made.
You aren’t in a position to be scrutinizing anyone else’s thinking, writing, or analysis: “criticality” “inacted” “deluge of non stop info war” (okay, I admit, that last one made me laugh).
I think what’s most *painful* to every educated and informed person who reads comments like yours is our knowledge that you’ll be doubling-down on these inane conspiracy theories for your entire life. No one will ever be able to reach that blindingly self-assured brain which sits mired in a fog of ignorance.
You simply don’t know what you don’t know.
Amen
250,000 Americans die every year from medical malpractice and there isn’t a vaccine for that, i don’t see you wanking about that statistic
There are those who want to be left alone, and others who make it their life’s mission to control yours.
Hyperbole and conjecture and a daily report of information that is absolutely nothing but government propaganda.
People Suck.
My animals show a higher degree of perception and I truly believe its because they focus on what’s going on in their sphere of influence.
Humans are highly suggestive and easily manipulated.
Good luck with getting your life back next year.
Not to mention the approx. 480,000 tobacco related deaths in the us annually.
We need to shut this country down until every last cigarette and cigar is found and eradicated!!!!
The key difference there is that tobacco deaths are voluntary choices individuals make. You are allowed to make stupid decisions and kill yourself. There are some other good parallels to tobacco, however. Tobacco was claimed to be harmless and science of its danger dismissed as a hoax by wealthy conservatives who stood to make money off you, just like how covid is being dismissed as a hoax by wealthy conservatives today so they can make money off you. And, of course, we have laws preventing your bad decisions from harming others, with smoking being illegal in just about all public spaces, just like how we have laws to prevent you from spreading covid to others.
I rest my case on the educational system producing critical thought.
Your comments are the greatest evidence of that education system.
— Malapropisms: “criticality!” “highly suggestive” “inacted”
–All caps: WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT
— Demonstrable falsehoods: “We are on track for close to the same amount of deaths as last year.”
–Hyperbole: “millions of people who will die…because of this SHUTDOWN.”
Bushytails is *Mark Twain* compared to you, buddy.
One could argue that since most covid deaths had co morbidity such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease that these people also made a choice to live rather unhealthy lifestyles although covid was the straw that broke the camels back
So when someone with high blood pressure dies in a car wreck, you would say the accident is what “broke the camel’s back”?
You could definitely *try* to make that argument, but people will laugh at you (like we’re now laughing at your comment).
You really think diabetes is a choice. Did you get it when you were a kid and had to struggle to stay healthy and alive all your life spending all your money on healthcare? Go work in a covid ward and then make some comments on here. Really
Third world:
Fyi,
There are two kinds of diabetes.
Insulin dependent or childhood onset type 1 .
And OBESITY DRIVEN type 2
More than 34 million Americans have diabetes (about 1 in 10), and approximately 90-95% of them have type 2 diabetes!!! 95%
Type 2 diabetes most often develops in people over age 45, but more and more children, teens, and young adults are also developing it. Epidemic in USA.
Why? Because we are fat and sedentary.
That seems to be a repeating theme, that most refuse to acknowledge. So much easier to play the
dumb victim.
Got logic?
While obesity seems to play a part in type two diabetes there are other reasons like age and genetics. Just remember no matter how hard you try diet and exercise eventually the body you were dealt falls apart sooner or later from one disease or another.
Willfully stupid? I don’t think he can help himself.
Man that was alot of assuming, please stick to the hard numbers and facts bush.
Florida has been open since July
99.8% didn’t die from heart disease last year. So should we just ignore that too? Same number for cancer, maybe we ought to stop all the cancer research since it isn’t even 1% of the population, heck it’s barely 2/10ths of a percent.
Heck did you realize that 1120 people died from drunk driving in California in 2017? That means only 99.9998% of Californians survived drunk drivers.
Throwing out spurious percentages to downplay the significance of mortality causes isn’t the point though, it’s just to highlight how ridiculous that particular argument is when used to downplay COVID-19 deaths and argue that we should’ve do anything about it.
We do ignore heart disease, what do mean what if we ignore it.
Seriously? Statins are probably the number one prescribed medicine in the country. My insurance plan even covers them for free. Every single doctor recommends eating well and exercising to reduce risk. Individuals might ignore it but the health profession and science certainly hasn’t. Apps continuously remind us to exercise, to stand up every hour, to move, in an attempt to reduce heart disease risk. That people still ignore it is a testament to the power of bacon and laziness.
The media has ignored heart disease, how many articles on RHBB about heart disease in the last 6 months? How many about COVID-19? Case closed. Any questions
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Those are not a new contagious virus, they are personal choices.
Kym, please stop protecting these people from polite truths.
I see way worse thrown at me and others. [Edit]
Not only that, but the 1.81 million (known and including the US deaths) who have died worldwide were in on the plot. Every nation shut down to one degree or another. Just to stick it to Trump.
Compounding numbers and recognizing the exponential growth rate, we should see 4 % of the population dead by 2040 from covid, as long as we don’t find a vaccine. On to the next hot topic, this one has run its course, 99.9 percent of America narrowly escaped. Thank you Pfizer and all you other pharmaceutical companies.
Reader and Lone Ranger: as of 8pm pacific time tonight: 354,215 Americans have died from Covid-19.
In 2017-2018 flu season, CDC estimated 61,000 Americans died from the flu.
Either you folks won’t do critical thinking or your compassion could use an increase.
No one gave 2 sheets about 2017 -2018 flu season deaths, why start now? Are covid deaths more important or just worth more in ratings? Talk about critical thinking, maybe try it. This is 2020 bud, money talks , if your not talking dollars no one is listening.
Details Z: Not “from” but “with”. And that is very debatable.
Sweden never shut down thier economy and they have fewer fatalities per capita than US. Panic is a problem.
The king of Sweden has publicly declared that their relaxed approach to Covid was a failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55347021
If you want to point to a successful approach, try New Zealand, where they listened to scientists and medical experts, and acted quickly to effectively shut the virus down. No panic, just appropriate action.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/working-stiff/89867
Here in the US, the Great Pumpkin in Washington (your hero?) intentionally lied about the threat of Covid 19 (caught on tape by Bob Woodward). Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
The references are included for others to read, since you seem impervious to facts.
Swedens numbers are better than ours with no shut down. Regardless of what their kings opinion is, they did better with no shut down.
Ummm.
Everyone’s numbers are better than ours.
If Sweden failed, which it did, and we are doing worse, which we are, than what’s your fucking point?
Panic?
That’s funny.
Trump undermined the reality of anything and everything creating quite the opposite of panic: smug ignorance.
If panic is the problem, Trump would not have been hospitalized, killed his black buddy Cain – and the White House and Secret Service staff would have lost no time to quarantines – and we might have a couple hundred thousand more US citizens living.
The only problem is lack of respect, ignorance and deliberate idiocy.
The qualities of Trump and too many others, to a t.
A truly free-dumb society.
Where freedom to be ignorant is highly valued, and working to think is a tyrannical suggestion compared to NAZIism.
The UK fatalities per capita is worse than ours and Sweden. Quit lying , do I need to find more countries that are worse than Sweden that did shut down. Quit focusing on Trump and grab a calculator. We are a year into covid and the numbers don’t lie .
Even Spain is worse than Sweden and the US. Do the numbers . You babble like Trump, alot of lies or maybe you just don’t know. Maybe instead of reading articles based on someone’s opinion, just do the numbers, they don’t lie.
When comparing numbers with other countries it’s important, though usually overlooked, to determine the method of “testing”.
Here in the u s, the PCR test is done at 40 cycles(over 35 is considered inaccurate). Maybe in Sweden it’s done at 35. Maybe Japan it’s done at 20. The higher the number the more false positives or “cases”.
Same situation happened in the 80’s and 90’s. You could test positive for HIV in the u s but go to France and test negative. (strangely enough, some of the same “experts” were involved)
It’s all about the “test”.
Are you quoting “that “HIV doesn’t cause AIDS” guy again? Maybe cite some sources?
Even if you think there are a ton of false-positives in the US, we’ve still had 7 times the normal number of pneumonia deaths in the US in 2020. Please try to explain that away.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113051/number-reported-deaths-from-covid-pneumonia-and-flu-us/
I wasn’t quoting anyone Geist. It’s pretty well documented as to how the rTPCR test works. Pretty easy to find that info..if you wanted.🙄
Same in the 80’s-90’s. When you get time, see if you can find out how many cycles Japan uses. Why aren’t their “numbers skyrocketing”?
No infowars involved buddy.👽
No citations of any kind. So where did our quarter-million extra pneumonia deaths cone from? The pneumonia fairy?
There are a million different factors involved. How much testing, who is getting tested, does that region believe in testing, does that region panic, does that region have access to the media etc,etc. The biggest question is , what if we tested like this for the regular flu season and the media covered it this well.
How did we wind up with a sevenfold increase in pneumonia deaths last year?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1113051/number-reported-deaths-from-covid-pneumonia-and-flu-us/
You are definitely pounding the pneumonia thing. Citations?
I was mentioning the flaws of the rTPCR test and you are talking about pneumonia……the correlation being? ?
Help me out here.
Another day with zero recoveries reported. How long can a case remain active?
How long can a case remain active? As long as there is nothing sensational about a recovery.
No ratings in recoveries? Probably not, no drama there.
🕯🌳 So your the new doctor death. 🖖🖖
Willie, did you find the sipping tequila again?
🕯🌳No but but your a walking deniers button. What’s been the number one topic in the last six months? And yes the deaths in Sweden have risen. And there economy is starting to suffer. 🖖🖖
You should be a politician Willie, you just sidestepped those two questions, you could be the next circus.
🕯🌳It wouldn’t be as good as the one your trying to feed these people. 🖖🖖
I do feed people, millions of people. You got that part right Willie.
🕯🌳For you someday never comes. 🖖🖖
Ps, Willie, I don’t use the phrase someday
The honest to God’s truth, is that all this publicity, propaganda, hype, information. …WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, is simply to reinforce the agenda for the management class of FOOLS.
If you can step back and look criticality at what this deluge of non stop info war has to do with your daily life, it’s probably not worth the debt our elected officials are putting on our children’s backs.
We are on track for close to the same amount of deaths as last year.
You can hypothesize all you want about the heavy duty measures inacted by government officials, yet not one single person is liable for the millions of people who will die, go hungry, lost their jobs, savings, families because of this SHUTDOWN.
NOT ONE PERSON LIABLE FOR DESTROYING THE US ECONOMY.
IMAGINE THAT.
Maybe because a virus is responsible for it, not a person? You know, the obvious answer?
Do you think the virus is entirely natural in origin?
If it is not, then there is a person (or persons) responsible for it and its escape (or release).
There is no evidence it’s not entirely natural in origin or initial spread. Also, keep in mind that pandemics have existed long before modern science, so its existence is not evidence of modern science being required.
Yeah, harmless coronavirus naturally mutated into deadly COVID-19 at a wet market 150 yards from a Chinese bioweapons lab that just happened to be studying coronavirus. What ARE the odds of such a damn coincidence? F***ing pangolins anyway, never trust a pangolin.
The wet market was likely not the origin.
It was most likely the first ‘super spreader’ event, however.
*And if the Chinese were smart enough to develop this Trump-taker-outer-virus, than why didn’t they drive it further down the road from the lab for release?
I mean, I’m sure they knew all of you poor spelling SUPER TRUTH SLEUTHERS would figure it out super quickly with your TRUTH DETECTORS supplied by infowars.
GENIUS DUDE, just like you say, a lab worker “accidently” caught the bioweapon and then superspread it at the market. I don’t see what that has to do with Trump.
Except you’re making shit up.
This has no lab prints, it’s a natural virus.
Luc Montagnier(discoverer of HIV) wouldn’t agree with you:
“According to Montagnier, the Franken-virus was made from a natural coronavirus, coming from a bat, but to this model was added sequences very similar to HIV-1 and the parasite Plasmodium falciparum, which is responsible for malaria.”
“To the question: “Wasn’t the coronavirus natural?” Montagnier replied: “No, it was not natural, it was the work of professionals, of molecular biologists, it’s a very precise work, we could call it a watchmaker’s work”. ”
And:
“Two other prominent virologists, namely Ruan Jishou of Nankai University and Li Huan from Huazhong University, came independently to the very same conclusion. In a paper published in the International Journal of Research sequences of HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV were identified in the genome of SARS-CoV-2, leading the author to state that the virus had “synthetic origins”. “
He’s also a homeopath quack and an anti-vaxxer. And he’s wrong about Covid, too.
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/luc-montagnier-coronavirus-wuhan-lab-pseudoscience/
So…..never mind his accomplishments, he’s a homeopath and anti-vaxxer?
Wow….me too. Dang.
Never mind then, just quacks. (what are quacks?)
Who do you really work for Geist? 😏
The virus doesn’t care about whether or not you got a mask on while you work, engage in commerce, or try to find a moment in nature. Its the humans that are manipulating the fear factor.
When our medical experts don’t address the 400 pound human in the room. We are not raising the bar on our expectations on our Health Experts, or any real Health Awareness and/or Action.
This isn’t about health, good friends, this is absolutely about blunt force trauma.
Critical thinking has left the chat .
Logic was abandoned when healthy people masked up, hid at home, clamoured to be tested in the absence of symptoms, and all the while ignored the stupidity in assuming “everyone is contagious. “
I had a developer friend who visited China a number of years ago. All he could say was he felt sorry for his kids generation here in the US because the Chinese children of school age had so much discipline and hunger for knowledge and education.
We’ve been given our pink slips.
California ranks 44th, and it’s been quite clear that our children, as a whole, have been given an educational system that has been left to whither on the vine.
Yes, critical thinking has left the room, and on demand binge programming has eclipsed what used to be a love for literature and the dialectic.
RIP USA: 1776 -2020
This is the one thing you’ve said that actually makes sense. Our educational system is _fucking awful_. Rather than trying to have every student do their best, we dumb everyone down to the level of the lowest-performing students. People graduate highschool who can’t read, write, or balance a checkbook. Nothing is done to install the hunger for knowledge and education.
However, I’m sure you’ll disagree with me on the cause of this… Yep, it’s conservatives, as always. Conservatives always object to spending money on education, unless it’s on mindless sports. Conservatives always support cutting funding to programs that encourage education, science, the arts, or the like. Conservatives are, in fact, currently up in arms over the recent funding package *gasp* giving money to schools and museums! The horror! Every time the issue of funding for science and education comes up, conservatives try to kill it as much as possible. And this is before you even get into the remarkable damage allowing religious “schools” as a replacement for a proper education causes…
Only 23% of people with a college education vote republican. They don’t want kids to start getting decent educations – they’ll put themselves out of existence if they allow it.
I agree with you that the people who control our systems are more interested in profiting than actually raising the bar on humanity, this is absolutely true on both sides of the ideological spectrum.
Stop feeding excessive government PORK.
Government needs to get trimmed down to lean status.
You with me on this?
For K-12, I think only around 10% of education money comes from the federal government. Most is state and local money. Likewise, standards (like California’s specific version of the Common Core standards) are adopted at the state level. California and Texas determine quite a bit about what goes into many textbooks. Surely you don’t think it’s conservatives dominating the process here (in Ca) do you?
The education system is a mess, but like most things it’s not really because of a difference between conservative and liberal politicians. Those people are just pretending to be opposed to each other to distract from their common gaming of the system.
Thank you stars. You are one of the few to comment on education that actually has a working understanding of it. IMO.
I just tried to see when I could get a test. Boy- what a fat waste of time! They want so much info from you so they can start you an account and register all your personal information and of course they will ” keep it private”. So really you must submit. Submit before they even tell you where or when you can get a test?! Again- if this is a serious health crisis- like one where we destroy our economy- then why not make it easy to get tested?! They make it difficult. I am confused. And it pushes me closer to believing that something doesn’t smell right here…Maybe the conspiracy guys are on to something? Why isn’t testing made easy and accessible?! They make it sound like it is. But it’s not, not really. Why?
I agree. Why can’t anyone who wants take a simple spit test in the privacy of their own home?
I had a test at Redwoods Rural. It was incredibly easy. Of course, I am already a patient there so they have the basics already so I was in and out (while staying in my car) in less than 10 minutes if my memory serves me right.
I’ve just been looking at a graph based on cdc data (since many seem to think they are honest and accurate).
It’s labeled “USA All-cause Mortality 2015-2020 Weeks 1-19”
The lowest number of all-cause deaths was in 2015 at 989,803. The highest was 2020 at 1,151,681. 2019 was 1,080,830. The 5-year average is 1,045,365. Sound ok so far?
From 2015 to 2020 the increase is about 16%. Total population has increased 3% and 65 and olders have increased 15%. Sound ok still?
Do these #’s justify the destruction of lives that is happening right now? Bushy, Angela, DQ, Muddy, Cy, do these numbers justify your obvious fear? Justify your anger and attacks towards those who don’t share your views/fear?
And these are based on cdc numbers which may be slightly biased.
Valid point. There are many different ways to look at this thing. I don’t think anyone has it figured out, but thats expected with a new disease. Maybe there is a third way but until someone comes up with it masking and vaccination seem to be it.
It’s sad to see how this thing has divided us
You must be tired, researcher.
All 4trinity did was call the most informed commentors “obvious[ly] fear[ful]”.
What does 19 weeks of 5 years of all deaths make a point of?
You’re right, I am tired. It’s just that this argument is never ending. I’d rather talk about the disease itself I guess. People are gonna believe what they believe. But you’re right. I didn’t really read the post clearly. My sickness has taken a turn for the worse, and as I said I’ve grown very tired. I probably shouldn’t have posted.
I really value your comments.
Don’t get down on yourself🤙.
https://youtu.be/mBpjOjD18mU
Hope you feel better Researcher. Wishing you (and everyone) a healthy, happy new year.
🕯🌳They know that the Covid virus is not man made. By studying the genome sequence data, the spike protein a receptor on the outer skin of the virus it’s binding domain (RBD) an enzyme is naturally occurring in bats. This also how they came up with the vaccine. 🖖🖖
Stop confusing the issue with facts~
🕯🌳Sorry. 🖖🖖
But is it factual?
https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-coronavirus-pandemic-china-only-on-ap-bats-24fbadc58cee3a40bca2ddf7a14d2955
An AP story from 2 days ago suggests the origin is still unknown.
“…Ruan Jishou of Nankai University and Li Huan from Huazhong University, came independently to the very same conclusion. In a paper published in the International Journal of Research sequences of HIV-1, HIV-2 and SIV were identified in the genome of SARS-CoV-2, leading the author to state that the virus had “synthetic origins”. ”
Disclaimer: From June.
This article is a real eye-opener. It’s from Business Insider (non-partisan?) 2017. Many hints here to be found.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nih-lifts-ban-on-flu-mers-sars-virus-gain-of-function-research-2017-12?IR=T
Fort Detrick?
“It is no measure of one’s health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – J. Krishnamurti