COVID Outbreak at the Humboldt County Jail
![Two protestors at the Courthouse yesterday. [Screenshot from a video by Ryan Hutson]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Two-protestors-at-the-Courthouse-yesterday..png)
In October, protestors stood in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse and jail protesting vaccine mandates. [Screenshot from a video by Ryan Hutson]
According to Karges, “The inmates were all from the same housing unit and that unit has also been placed under quarantine. Inmates inside the housing unit are being tested daily. Inmates in all other housing units of the facility have been tested and it appears the spread has been isolated to just the one housing unit at this time.”
Karges added, “Additionally, we have multiple staff members who are currently out on COVID leave undergoing a mandatory quarantine. All other staff are also undergoing daily testing for COVID to ensure any additional positive cases are detected early.”
She assured the public, “The Humboldt County Correctional Facility has a set of pre-established COVID protocols for this very situation and the facility is taking all necessary precautions. Correctional staff continue to work with Public Health to identify COVID-19 exposure risk and mitigate any potential spread related to these most recent positive cases.”
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The modern government dilemma- damned if they do, damned if they don’t and the public gets presented with the failure either way.
I am shocked.
Curious, who spread to who, wasn’t staff vaccinated …
Sure does not look like it to me! All the staff, Sheriff Deputies, Jailers, etc., should have been forced to get the vaccine. They keep dragging people in off the streets and I am surer most are not vaccinated.
As I understand being vaccinated doesn’t really keep you from getting COVID. It just means that when you do get it you are reported as one of the vaccinated people who got COVID. Am I missing something?
You’re missing the part where they probs caught it from another ‘vaccinated’ person.
it’s an on going controversy
Shame on you!
Informed consent is a huge part of our creed.
No Insert, no mandate.
You haven’t keep up on the revelations that this whole thing was wargamed by
https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/11/06/event-201-health-security/
great link! straight from the horse’s mouth!
Oh yeah,
ConspiracyCoincidence theory!Nov 6, 2019
Event 201 is the fourth such exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins center, which works to prepare communities for biological threats, pandemics, and other disasters. The simulations started with 2001’s Dark Winter, which gathered national security experts for its simulated smallpox outbreak.
The CAPS virus—which Toner describes as a cousin of SARS, “but slightly more transmissible, like the flu, and slightly more lethal”—was presented as resistant to any existing vaccine, as scientists scrambled to come up with one. Citizens, meanwhile, were rioting over scarce access to the next best thing: a fictional antiviral known to treat some CAPS symptoms.
That scenario, Toner says, is utterly realistic. “We don’t have a vaccine for SARS, or MERS, or various avian flu viruses that have come up in the past decade,” he notes. “That’s because vaccine development is slow and difficult if there isn’t an immediate market for it.”
In the simulation, CAPS resulted in a death toll of 65 million people within 18 months—surpassing the deadliest pandemic in history, the 1918 Spanish flu.
For Event 201, hosted in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the experts added a new layer of realism by reaching beyond government and NGOs to leaders in the private sector and business community.
It is a mad world for sure. I have a right to voice my opinion on the subject, just like you do. Because we don’t see eye to eye is no reason for the “shame on you”! That goes both ways friend.
This ‘vaccine’ doesn’t work the way you and Biden* think it does.
The vaccine works just fine, and I am all for it. For the record I could care less what President Biden says or does!
if the vaccine was effective, then maybe that would work 🙂 I say let out the non violents, sans thieves.
It’s abundantly clear that vaccination does not prevent people from contracting or spreading it. Almost certainly a vaccinated staff member caught it from a vaccinated friend or family member and spread it to vaccinated jail inmates.
What?
It’s abundantly clear that vaccination does not prevent people from contracting or spreading it
That’s like saying that wearing seatbelts doesn’t prevent people from dying in car accidents.
Or even that eating healthy doesn’t prevent people from dying of cancer.
The vaccine greatly reduces getting and spreading COVID.
The studies, multiple ones, say that the vaccinated who get COVID (already by having the vaccine, they are less likely to get COVID so those who are vaccinated are less likely to spread it just from a sheer odds perspective) but the vaccinated also are less likely to spread it.
“COVID 19-vaccines are effective and can reduce the risk of getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.” https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits.html
The Mayo Clinic says, “[The COVID vaccine will] Prevent you from spreading the virus that causes COVID-19 to others [and] Add to the number of people in the community who are protected from getting COVID-19 — making it harder for the disease to spread and contributing to herd immunity.” https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-vaccine/art-20484859
Kym, denial much?
Kym, our government has lied to us continuously stating that any vaccination stops you from spreading the genetically spliced virus. They knew from the beginning that they can’t stop ANYONE from spreading the flu – see KYM you can spread the flu (any flu) without contacting it yourself. Next time you use a publish credit card machine, try smearing your card across your lips a few times after swiping it through the machine people use all day. The virus can and lives on surfaces that people spread all over each other. Whether you have 100 vaccine shots in you or not doesn’t matter. IN FACT KYM, if the covid shots worked so increadible as they do, then people who are faxed will walk around with the virus and they won’t even know it and spread it all around because their wonderful shot made them more asymptomatic. Face it Kym, shooting a mach-up genetically spliced virus into us all is NOT the BEST solution. Protection is. And that starts with not cross-contaminating one another. If your shots workied as you say, they wouldn’t be gearing up to give people their FIFTH shot. Four has already been damanded and its only been 1 year !
I don’t care Kym what you read. You need to always apply common sense into every analysis you make. You have to anchor it into your psyche, you are will continue to be a ship wandering in the big, mis-informed ocean.
I like your work here Kym, that’s why I bothered here.
https://youtu.be/HeSJWGSnN8A
There are MULTIPLE current studies showing ZERO discernable difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated ability to spread covid. That, and the fact that the MAYO clinic doesn’t bother to list myocarditis AND DEATH as a possible side effect (but then goes on later to address myocarditis and pericarditis as possibilities) should only serve to discredit them.
It takes special kind of hubris to believe that you are so evolved, enlightened and superior that you have the ability to discern which links are truth and which need moderated, especially in light of all of the information that is now available, that you (and the CDC you wrongly extol) incessantly label as misinformation.
Kym, these are respected researchers presenting facts and results studies with clear logical conclusions that require common sense to understand. That might be asking a little too much from people who say you are in denial.
Seatbelts don’t prevent people from dying in car accidents. They reduce the likelihood you’ll die, in aggregate, and in any particular car crash may reduce the severity of your injuries.
If someone tells you that a seatbelt will prevent you from dying in a car crash they are not telling you the truth
Wow! You really think, even though the CDC stated,” vaccinations don’t stop the transmission of covid,” that the vaccinations stop the transmission of covid?
The CDC says and I link the quote above: “COVID 19-vaccines are effective and can reduce the risk of getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19.” Vaccines don’t STOP the transmission they reduce it.
Fair enough, Kym. The question is how much do the vaccines reduce transmission, if they reduce it at all. From my understanding, vaccines reduce the severity of symptoms, measurably, for a period of time. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker were in the news this week as they both contracted covid. I’m fairly certain they both are vaccinated and boosted. Out of the 100 senators who are vaccinated and boosted, dozens have contracted covid. That’s only cou ting the ones who had symptoms and were tested. Most of us know of many friends, family and acquaintances who while fully vaccinated, have caught covid.
staff are masked and tested daily
They were vaccinated, just like you are, so they are safe. Now shut up and wear your mask.
Just because somebody is vaccinated does not mean they cannot get covid and spread it
Correct. The word governments have been lying about this mis-information from the beginning.
wonderful reporting, thank you Kim and Samantha
No place to run to, no place to hide.
the cover image is great <3
hope the folks locked up can be provided with masks, at the very least.
There are laws about how and when you can cover the mouth of a prisoner.
Are there? Perhaps, who knows. But there is also a legal and ethical responsibility to protect those you’ve placed in custody. The jail and similar institutions are perfect environments for a contagious disease to spread; the Sheriff should be held criminally responsible if any prisoners die from covid acquired from his staff.
It’s worth adding that an explosion of cases in the jail is not simply a disaster for those held there and their loved ones, but for everyone in the surrounding community. More cases = more mutations; more mutations = more risk.
The cover image is completely unrelated to the current outbreak in any way shape or form.
Kym, why would you allow this?
Absolutely shameful.
This photo is from a protest MONTHS ago.
It’s the first photo that came up when I looked for courthouse in photos I had previously posted…But I don’t see the issue. It’s a photo of the courthouse and the photo clearly states that it came from a different time. Actually to be truthful, it is the second photo that came up. This is the first one but it seemed problematic.
I often use stock photos because I’m a small news site and can’t afford to pay someone to take a bunch of photos all the time.
I find it incredibly difficult to believe that you don’t have a single image of the Humboldt County Courthouse.
Really disappointing to see you continuing to contribute to the division in our community regarding this topic.
Kym, I think you are commenting to a bunch of people that like being on camera and have the brains of an ant. Don’t waste your valuable time with their garbage.
Its unbelievable what someone these people expect from Kym. There are better sites for them to troll with their theories and conspiracies.
Very true!!!
It’s not problematic, it’s representative and indicates the nature of the “Humboldt Freedom Coalition” and the hooded young vandals in training at “Mendocino Patriots”.
So? Do you report when a bunch of people get a cold at the jail, too? By all accounts there is no substantial difference between these two things right now.
That wasn’t true least year and it’s not true this year. It’s a recycled anti vaxxer, anti public heath, anti mask idea that people who die or get really sick are of no consequence.
With all the tests and quarantine time for new inmates. It seems like Covid gets in just like the drugs do. From the staff
Please try to not apply logic here. This is supposed to be an overly emotional issue.
Vaccine refusal is weighted towards the political right. That is the party leader that, on Feb. 29th 2020 call covid-19 , “a Democratic hoax” Recent studies have shown, covid infections and deaths are directly proportional to support for Trump. The GOP is busy killing the chumps that support them. Included are many jail personnel. For some the second amendment and ‘personal freedom’ have both Trump public safety. MAGA Again!
Surprised Biden’s open borders fentanyl isn’t getting in and killing more.
Fentanyl deaths have surpassed 100,000 within a 12-month time frame, a first for the country. Advocates for change are urging lawmakers to act fast and make some changes.
https://news.yahoo.com/fentanyl-deaths-045400057.html
Self-inflicted bioterrorism!
Vaccine mandates don’t apply to welfare recipients or our imported servant underclass, the two demographics most likely to vote for conservatives.
“Vaccine refusal is weighted towards the political right.”
mRNA shots yes. That’s because they have brains and don’t want to die.
Survival of the fittest. I think a paring down of Trump republicans by their own negativity and refusal to think for themselves is karmacally appropriate. I just wish the health care staff at the jail didn’t have to cope with it…
Hoping for death of others. Like clockwork
It is clearly anti vaxxers and anti maskers who are fine with others getting getting sick and/or dying since they pointedly refuse to take any action to help keep it from happening. That they get their shorts in a knot when someone else includes themselves in the category of “others” is telling in that they think themselves invulnerable to the results of that choice. It is not “hoping for deaths of others” to be glad that they also suffer the consequences of their choice the same as anyone. It’s justice.
I encourage you to go back over the comments in these threads over the last year. The overwhelming majority of comments (and there seems to be at least one in every covid related thread) expressing the belief that a large portion of the population is going to die and that will solve some problem are from advocates of vaccination. They sometimes express the desire that these people die sooner than later.
The irony is that, looking at segments of society where vaccine uptake is low, the remaining unvaccinated population is likely to survive infection at a rate north of 99.9%. So not only are you polluting your soul by wishing death on others, your also failing to grasp the basics of this virus and of statistics.
Appreciate you dragging out the old straw man though. Always nice to see that scoundrel out getting some sun.
Wrong again. In every way. Every anti vaxxer who spreads innuendo to frighten people away from vaccination is doing more than wishing death. They are providing it.
Wow. I appreciate how willing you are to take the vaccine cult logic to its extreme and put it on display. I think it does more then I ever could to inspire skepticism in the forces that push mandatory medical interventions.
Wrong opinions are violence eh? By the way, you’ve never answered who gets to define which opinions are right and which ones are violence
“they pointedly refuse to take any action to help keep it from happening.”
NEWSFLASH: more deaths since vaccines have been implemented. So the “action” you want taken isn’t working. Wrong again! You must be into masochism since you enjoy the pain of repeatedly being wrong, then coming back for more.
That is theft in a nutshell
wow, just wow.
Thank you for sharing your truth.
Thank you for sharing your disease. Which you could keep to yourself with wearing a mask in public.
Clearly that’s not the case, or you wouldn’t be all in a bundle about ‘my disease’ two years later. Perhaps you don’t realize we and 6 states Back East are the only ones masking anymore. I don’t doubt for a second, though, that the entire population of Indiana could die and you wouldn’t notice or care.
And what are the karma repercussions of wishing harm to others?
Speaking of negativity….jeez.
What? You think people should not have repercussions for their choices just be cause it is nicer to say that? Of course someone who thinks vaccination and masking reduces sickness is not likely to be nice to those who refuse to do those things. Just like anti vaxxers happily announce that those who do those things are going to get sick and/or die anyway, get cancer or whatever mysterious mechanism of misery they see as a result of vaccination. Are you not equally wishing for death of others?
Nope, I’m wishing for people to freely see all the information they choose to look at uncensored, and then freely make the decision they believe fits their health status, circumstances, lifestyle, geography, while being kind to others, especially to the service sector that’s caught between a rock and a hard place.
Fearmongers and drama queens are not my style.
Pictures or it didn’t happen…
Multiple jail staff out on COVID quarantine because they didn’t get vaccinated. They committed bioterrorism against themselves.
Yes, let’s not give them cheap, proven therapeutics, but instead, cross our fingers, hope they don’t get deathly ill, and mask and quarantine them because that has worked so well. Liberalism is a mental disorder.
The wrong people are dying. That’s the entire issue for them.
Jail was never supposed to be a pretty place. Get back to work. If you can’t keep them from the flu, then 24-hour Lock-Down for all inmates; quantine. Also, use the prisoners for your flu shot testing stop using good citizens as Guina pigs use the inmates, they have lost their rights. Seems like its the good people that have lost their rights and the prisons have more say then the good, free people. And stop letting people out of jail due to covid. That’s why there are all the smash and grabs now – people know they will get out of jail for free or not be arrested in the first place.
Jails are big on incentives for being “good” so Fine every prisoner an extra month of jail if they get the flu. In the military, if you did something negligent to yourself, you were charged. As an example I knew someone that got a Summarized Article 15 hearing because he got a sunburn. They warned us to wear protection and they didn’t, therefore they damaged government property. Treat the inmates the same; they are our property and in our care.
Wellllll my question is how are their victims? Most of the inmate population share needles, sleep around do drugs meth etc if they have an STD or not, eat out of garbage cans and live unhealthy. now that they are in jail all of a sudden their health is a concern? Naa don’t comit a crime and you don’t go to jail.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/school-district-new-york-sends-email-warning-parents-sudden-cardiac-arrest-students-grades-k-12/
This is what mandating the shots for kids looks like!!!
That’s just from “covid stress syndrome”.
Even more astounding is the gap one has to leap over to make it from the title of this article to the picture used for it. Peaceful protest two months ago leads to covid outbreak in Humboldt county corrections this week?