1 Death, 2 New Hospitalizations, 55 New Cases Reported Since Friday
Press release from Humboldt County Public Health:
Humboldt County Public Health reported today the death of a resident aged 80 or older from COVID-19. Staff in the Department Operations Center extend their condolences to the families, friends and caregivers of those who have died and all who have lost a loved one to the virus.
Fifty-five new cases of COVID-19 have been reported since Friday, bringing to 10,624 the total number of residents who have tested positive for the virus. Two new hospitalizations, a resident in their 60s and another in their 70s, were also reported.
Over the weekend, 375 individuals were vaccinated at Public Health clinics held in Blue Lake, Arcata and McKinleyville that included pediatric, first and second doses and additional doses and boosters.
State health officials are encouraging Californians to enjoy the holidays this season but are urging residents to get vaccinated and boosted to protect themselves from COVID-19 and the Omicron variant. Residents aged 5 and older are eligible to get vaccinated and anyone aged 16 and older is encouraged to get a booster if it’s been at least six months since the completion of their initial vaccine series.
Although the Omicron variant is highly transmissible, health officials cite new data that suggests primary vaccination and booster shots can lessen impacts, including hospitalizations and deaths. No known cases have been detected locally, but the Omicron variant has been confirmed in California and nearly all U.S. states. Incidence of the variant is anticipated to rise over the next several weeks following holiday gatherings.
The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention recommends anyone who is sick or unvaccinated and has been exposed to someone with COVID-19 to forego travel. All travelers are recommended to self-monitor for COVID-19 symptoms and to isolate and get tested if they develop symptoms after travel.
Public Health testing is available through OptumServe at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka through Wednesday, Dec. 23. The Wharfinger site will be closed Friday and Saturday and will be back open for regular business starting at 7 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 26. Walk-ins will be accommodated, but appointments are recommended and can be made at lhi.care/covidtesting or by calling 888-634-1123. Turnaround times for test results through OptumServe average two to three days.
Humboldt County’s vaccination and testing services are available free of charge. Although walk-ins are allowed at most regular Public Health clinics and many pharmacy vaccination sites, a sharp increase in demand for boosters has caused delays at some locations. As a result, appointments are required for pediatric clinics and for clinics at Public Health’s main office. Appointments are strongly recommended for all other clinics and are the best way to ensure a shot is available during your visit. Appointments can be made at MyTurn.ca.gov.
Vaccines, including boosters, are available at local pharmacies. To check the availability of a specific vaccine, visit the vaccines.gov page, or text a ZIP code to 438829 to locate a nearby pharmacy offering vaccines.
See the schedule below for specific Public Health vaccination and testing clinic dates, times, locations and available services:
Eureka — Tuesday, Dec. 21, 9 to 11:30 a.m.
Public Health Main Office (529 I St.)
Ages 16 and older
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna
No testing available
Appointments required.Eureka Pediatric Clinic — Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1:15 to 3:30 p.m.
Public Health Main Office (529 I St.)
Ages 5 to 11. Pfizer only
No testing available
Appointments required.Willow Creek — Tuesday, Dec. 21, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Closed from noon to 1 p.m.
Public Health Office (77 Walnut Way)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna
PCR and rapid testing available
$25 gift card for adults receiving a first or second dose
Appointments strongly recommended.Eureka — Monday, Dec. 27, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Closed from noon to 1 p.m.
Public Health Main Office (529 I St.)
Pfizer/Johnson & Johnson/Moderna
No testing available
$25 gift card for adults receiving a first or second dose
Appointments required.View the Data Dashboard online at humboldtgov.org/dashboard, or go to humboldtgov.org/DashboardArchives to download data from a previous time.
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Sounds like omicron is coming our way so I hope you all been living healthy. Biden says the unvaccinated better prepare for severe illness and death in the coming dark winter (a little overly dramatic in my mind) . I don’t wish ill will on anyone but everyone’s made their choice at this point so here’s hoping it works out as each of us hoped.
The positivity rate is 10.805501%
“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”
-Mark Twain-
Omicron Becomes Dominant Strain in US, Health Officials Say
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/omicron-could-become-dominant-strain-in-us-in-next-few-weeks-health-experts-say/2712039/
And how is it more Americans have died of covid under Biden than Trump when Joe was given vaccine mass production capacity on day 1?
Gee, I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with people not getting vaccinated and the mutation of the virus into multiple different strains which are more contagious?
Or 15 days to slow the spread???
Then why didn’t President Trump get your pass before the vaccines were developed?
Those people weren’t vaccinated either.
The question was about the current situation. Don’t get me started on Trump.
The question was which president has done a better job confronting covid. The evidence seems to suggest neither’s efforts did much to affect spread and lethality. Massive debt and societal damage for naught.
Or maybe it’s adverse reactions to the jab? Just wondering.
You should not wonder. Educate yourself. GIYF
🎅🎅Common sense doesn’t do well with some of these people. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
For instance:
Restaurants/bars/dentist’s offices requiring a mask to enter but not when you sit down is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool.
Maybe, but I suspect that’s one of the reasons for onsite chlorination of public pools. Private pools have just enough to keep the algae down.
You mean like when someone tells a joke and you’re the only one that doesn’t get it?
Seems common sense doesn’t apply to almost anything regarding the pandemic. Like the imaginary protective bubble when you sit down at a restaurant or when the vaccinated were told it’s okay to skip the masks. Numerous other examples from all sides.
Some can’t add 2 + 2 instead just repeat the dogma they’ve been fed by the elite.
🎅🎅That works a couple different ways there my friend. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
My Karma ran over your Dogma.
I always loved that bumper sticker.
But the current not my POTUS promised to rid the country of the COVID virus. He said he had a plan guaranteed to work. Was it a lie? Is it total incompetence that made him fail? Maybe he was asleep when he was running for, was that senator, or could it be governor, maybe mayor? Oh yeah, it was president whenever he could remember. Maybe he can remember his failed promises, realize he can’t do the job and resign, but I am not holding my breath!
But the FORMER POTUS said it was nothing to worry about. It would go away when the weather got warmer. Maybe both of them, like everyone is trying to figure out as we go.
How many more would have died if we just let covid run its course until we achieved herd immunity? The retiring NIH Director said a few hundred thousand. Was the cure worse than the disease for the US, the world?
🎅🎅You need to catch up with the group my friend there is no herd immunity with this virus. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
But Fauci said 70% vaccinated will achieve herd immunity.
I know he’s full of shit and that was a lie.
That being said, it appears that South Africa, with the overwhelming majority having already caught covid, has achieved herd immunity. Less than 30% vaccinated and way lower hospitalizations and deaths than the highly vaccinated countries.
Japan has embraced using ivermectin as a cheap prophylactic and has all but eliminated hospitalizations and deaths.
I don’t have time to look everything else up but hopefully you will believe one of the leading Japan coverage newspapers in the world. Ivermectin is not used to treat COVID or as a prophylactic in Japan. The article in Japan Times, published today says, “The drug, used globally to treat parasitic worms and skin conditions, has not been officially approved for use to treat COVID-19 in Japan, the U.S. or most countries in Europe.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/21/national/ivermectin-japan-covid19-little-evidence/
You can have opinions all you want about whether Ivermectin works. And hopefully you just are mistaken but this particular bit of misinformation has been so thoroughly debunked it is one of only two bits of misinformation that will automatically delete once you’ve been warned. You’ve been warned and any comment that contains it again will be deleted. See here for more info https://kymkemp.com/2021/09/15/covid-19-takes-the-lives-of-a-70th-and-71st-mendocino-county-resident/#comment-1424024
🎅🎅I don’t even argue it anymore. Oh and by the way your doing a great job Kym. Love your coverage of the earthquake. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
“Conclusions:
Meta-analyses based on 18 randomized controlled treatment trials of ivermectin in COVID-19 have found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality, time to clinical recovery, and time to viral clearance. Furthermore, results from numerous controlled prophylaxis trials report significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of ivermectin. Finally, the many examples of ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality indicate that an oral agent effective in all phases of COVID-19 has been identified.”
This from The American Journal of Therapeutics
Not my opinion.
Censor it if you want. In my opinion that would make you just another tool of big pharma. Blocking information about treatments for Covid is lame and has led to many unnecessary deaths.
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCE
Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19
Kory, Pierre MD1,*; Meduri, Gianfranco Umberto MD2; Varon, Joseph MD3; Iglesias, Jose DO4; Marik, Paul E. MD5
Author Information
American Journal of Therapeutics: May/June 2021 – Volume 28 – Issue 3 – p e299-e318
doi: 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001377
Kym, I am not a trumper. My vaccination status has nothing to do with politics. I take issue with your decision to censor any mention of Ivermectin being used to treat Covid. There are at least a few legit doctors using it (amongst other drugs/therapies) to treat Covid. It has been shown to be a relatively effective antiviral drug with minimal side effects or toxicity if administered by a doctor who has experience with it. There has been a serious campaign by the Pharmaceutical industry to demonize it because I think at this point it is no longer under patent coverage (I could be wrong on this point but not on the next) and that it is cheap. Here are a couple videos that are well worth checking out. Note that both of these are presented by pro-vaccination medical professionals. No one is saying this drug is a miracle cure in itself but it certainly has it’s place in the arsenal of tools to treat Covid, amongst others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcQ2SdwEmI
This next video is simply a press conference with another legit doctor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVwm-KJvGzk&t=892s
Did either of you–Local Farmer and black market man read what I said? …I can’t think you did. I admit that lack of sleep has made me cranky but I clearly said, “You can have opinions all you want about whether Ivermectin works.”
That means post all the pro Ivermectin stuff you want on this website.
But then I said, ” And hopefully you just are mistaken but this particular bit of misinformation [the one I’ve just been talking about that Japan is using Ivermectin to deal with COVID] has been so thoroughly debunked it is one of only two bits of misinformation that will automatically delete once you’ve been warned. You’ve been warned and any comment that contains it again will be deleted.”
Once again as can clearly be seen multiple times on this website. Post pro Ivermectin all you want.
But never again repeat the thoroughly debunked piece that Japan is using Ivermectin for COVID.
Kym, I don’t know if my previous reply was deleted because it mentioned the now banned word (IVM). There are at least a few doctors that use it (amongst other things) as a cheap, often effective, and low toxicity drug. It sure looks like there has been a concerted effort by big Pharma to demonize it. Here are two videos that are highly informative and are presented by legit high caliber doctors, all pro-vaccination.
The first video deals with long haul covid but talks about many different treatments. I highly recommend the whole video but it is long. I think the two doctors may start to address IVM around the 58:30 point and after. Give it a chance. This doctor’s channel is awesome for learning the cell biology mechanisms underlying Covid and vaccination, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcQ2SdwEmI
There are several other high quality Youtube videos from other legitimate sources I can provide.
I believe the estimate was 2 million dead in the US if we did nothing to reduce the spread of the virus.
Whose estimate was that and what’s their track record? Retiring NIH Director recently said few hundred thousand saved
It was an early projection from the Imperial College lab (Great Britain)run by an epidemiologist named Ferguson who based it on the assumption of no vaccine, no masks, no lockdowns or distancing, and no improvement in treatment for COVID.
It was taken widely out of context during the early months of the pandemic. I just brought it up as a counterpoint to the idea that it wouldn’t have been so bad if we hadn’t done anything.
Besides, wouldn’t saving even a few hundred thousand lives have been worth it?
No, saving a few hundred thousand lives wouldn’t be worth the $6 trillion of extra deficit spending, physical and mental harm to kids, and general social dysfunction. We’d have needed to save millions to justify the price paid.
If we are trying to figure it out as we go, which everyone is, good point, then embracing draconian ideas like mandating dangerous and ineffective vaccines is a bit shortsighted and foolish.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has much in common with anti vaxxerism- no amount of facts can sway their hatreds. They know, just know, they are right. And no amount of pointing out the taking stuff out of context will make them reasonable. It only makes them switch to personal attacks.
No, he said it might go away. Not that it would. Because at that point everything was unknown. And of course he did not say it was nothing to worry about. In fact he declared a national emergency over it on 1/31/12019. Notice the part of this article about “U.S. officials also tried to explain their reasoning for an intense focus on this outbreak, which so far has not led to any deaths in the U.S., though it has led to more than 250 in China.” That was at the time when it was required of press to accuse Trump of xenophobia because he had put in some restrictions on flights from China. It wasn’t until later that anti Trumpers generally added claiming he over reacted because of jingoism to claiming he didn’t react at all. Mind you not one or the other but both at once no matter how contradictory the allegations.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/31/801686524/trump-declares-coronavirus-a-public-health-emergency-and-restricts-travel-from-c
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Trump Derangement Syndrome
I have known about Trump for decades, going back to the 80s. If knowing what he was/is and loudly proclaiming it makes me deranged, then well…I’ll own it. The list of crap that guy has said and pulled from decades ago to now would take too long for this comment section.
The term “short fingered vulgarian” for Trump goes back at least 3 decades. I confess I used to enjoy reading about his antics and massive failures in the 80s and 90s, because he was such a choad. Even when I quit caring, he was inescapable at the dentists office with his affairs (the dust-up with his then wife and mistress in Aspen or Vail was hilarious.)
It’s kind of sadly funny that people who basically only knew Trump from The Apprentice, a highly scripted “reality show”, think he was even remotely qualified to be POTUS.
Even you must admit that his response (or actually lack of response and flat out denial***) to the Covid crisis of 18 plus months ago was abysmal.
I guess my “favorite” time Trump said the virus would just disappear was from Feb. 2020:
“You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,”
You realize that it was Trump administration action that declared the public emergency and invoked invoked PREP Act and then authorized tens of millions of dollars to directly aid Moderna in their vaccine development and authorized the FDA to fast track review of other vaccines and therapeutics, right?
I don’t agree with his administration’s approach either, but it’s not because he didn’t do anything.
Ivermectin fights 21 viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the cause of Covid-19. A single dose reduced the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in cells by 99.8% in 24 hours and 99.98% in 48 hours, according to a June 2020 study published in the journal Antiviral Research.
That study was conducted on cells in a petri dish. There is no evidence that it works in vitro in humans.
Ivermectin works by blocking a viruses ability to duplicate. Viruses need to be able to cut protein strands into sizes that fit into their cells and it is the viruses ability to cut protein strands that is blocked by Ivermectin. There are numerous studies with tons of evidentiary data that shows its effectiveness in humans ie studies involving humans. Look to the links I posted above.
You can deny it but saying that there is no evidence is either ignorant, dishonest or both.
Please provide a link to your source of Biden saying he had a plan “guaranteed” to work. Was it the thing about having everyone wear masks for 100 days? Everyone getting vaccinated? ?
We’ve never had a less competent VP so let’s pray for Biden’s health through 2024
You’re not allowed to say that! It could be construed as racist!
You are kidding right? I have 2 words for you:
Dan Quayle
So, in other words, Biden has no cohesive plan to fight covid as he claimed but instead has just let covid have its way with America.
Yeah, sure. Whatever. Since you apparently do not bother to keep up on what is actually happening with the measures Biden has attempted to take – being shot down by conservative judges, etc., it would be impossible to intelligently discuss this with you. Have you gotten your booster – LOL?
The things shot down by judges are illegal ffs.
Gee, maybe it has something to do with attempting to vaccinate an entire population with a leaky vaccine in the middle of a pandamic, contrary to the advice of prominent vaccinologists who forewarned us this would happen.
The most heavily vaccinated countries are having the worst outbreaks and your conclusion is it’s the unvaccinated’s fault. Let me guess, you’re a liberal?
Please tell us who these “prominent vaccinologists” are. People are dying to know!
You have to admit the measures Biden’s imposed haven’t had the outcomes he’s promised.
Luc Montigier- Nobel laureate with a vaccine research and admin resume longer than your arm – and Geert Vanden Bossche, Ph.D whose expertise is NK (natural killer cells,) are two such men.
I would include informative links, but only at the risk of my expire post getting flushed by Dr Kym.
Because to protect vested interests of the powers that be, any Google search and neighborhood news blog is now clearly been “fact checker” scrubbed of most direct links, and is obviously slanted AGAINST their theories. In spite of their forewarning happening now in real time!
The gist:
“How Vaccines are creating Variants
Prof. Montagnier referred to the vaccine program for the coronavirus as an “unacceptable mistake”. Mass vaccinations are a “scientific error as well as a medical error,” he said. “It is an unacceptable mistake. The history books will show that, because it is the vaccination that is creating the variants,” Prof. Luc Montagnier continued.
The prominent virologist explained that “there are antibodies, created by the vaccine,” forcing the virus to “find another solution” or die. This is where the variants are created. It is the variants that “are a production and result from the vaccination.”
“Mass vaccination in the middle of a pandemic is prone to promoting selection and adaptation of immune escape variants that are featured by increasing infectiousness and resistance to spike protein (S)-directed antibodies (Abs), thereby diminishing protection in vaccinees and threatening the unvaccinated.”
***This already explains why the WHO’s mass vaccination program is not only unable to generate herd immunity (HI) but even leads to substantial erosion of the population’s immune protective capacity,” he continues. “As the ongoing universal mass vaccination program will soon promote dominant propagation of highly infectious, neutralization escape mutants (i.e., so-called ‘S Ab-resistant variants’), naturally acquired, or vaccinal neutralizing Abs, will, indeed, no longer offer any protection to immunized individuals whereas high infectious pressure will continue to suppress the innate immune defense system of the nonvaccinated.”
“This is to say that every further increase in vaccine coverage rates will further contribute to forcing the virus into resistance to neutralizing, S-specific Abs. Increased viral infectivity, combined with evasion from antiviral immunity, will inevitably result in an additional toll taken on human health and human lives.”
Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize winner, discovered the HIV virus, Sucharit Bhakdi, another Nobel laureate, Robert Malone, another prominent doctor smeared by the left wing vaccine cult.
I guess I should ignore them and listen to the CDC, Fausti, nooo and a random person called penguin who still extols the shots WHILE large numbers of 3rd shotters contract the virus. Derrrrp!
Probably the most prominent raising that alarm is Geert Vanden Bosche.
Here’s his website if you want to hear it straight from the horses mouth.
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/
Well, the creator of MRNA vaccines for one. Please research it yourself.
Coming, for da Nationalist extremists beloved’s:
18 U.S. Code § 1512, keynote: “whoever corruptly … obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be … imprisoned not more than 20 years.”
AND
18 U.S. Code § 1505, keynote: outlaws the “obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees,” a five-year felony.
2022. Wait for it, wait for it …
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Today, at the end of the year, less than 70% of 300,000,000 Americans have been vaccinated. That’s 90 million unvaccinated people. The anti vaxxers also don’t want any masks, any shut downs, or even to take a nap when they are tired.
Ergo, it took most of 2020 for the thing to get to the rural parts of the country where the majority of the risk taking anti science folks live, and they still refused good sense when it got there, and then came the much more deadly delta variant. Exponential math means every person who gets it, gives it to 2 others. Now, with omicron, it spreads to 4 people. Hopefully they are right and omicron will kill fewer people per thousand who test positive.
A scary thought has occurred to me. I’m just wondering if fox news told you it wasn’t worth wearing a mask so more people would die and the Republicans could say, ‘look Biden didn’t manage this well.’
God, that would be diabolical, and it would make you a pawn.
India has only a 40% vaccination rate yet 1/8th the covid death rate of the US. Why is that?
Because India has seriously undercounted COVID deaths by at least a factor of 10.
You have a reliable link to back your claim India doctors can’t distinguish covid from death by other causes?
No, he completely pulled that number from his imagination. It’s complete fake bullshit.
So, I’m assuming by the article that the person in their 80’s died of delta?
“ No known cases have been detected locally, but the Omicron variant has been confirmed in California and nearly all U.S. states.”
This would mean that humboldt is still 100% delta strain, not 73% omicron like the article states. Doesn’t really make sense to me
Humboldt is always slow on catching up on things. Delta didn’t appear here until May 2021.. Give us time, we will get there. Damn, that’s some dark humor there
I admire your optimism 😉
I really hope that works out for him.
New poll finds Biden support from Latinos at 33%, down more than 20 points from when Dems tried calling them “Latinx”
Have you seen this? 😂😅
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blumenthal-speaks-communist-award-show-touts-build-back-better
“We invite you to join the Communist Party in this epic time as we make good trouble to uproot systemic racism, retool the war economy, tax the rich, address climate change, secure voting rights and create a new socialist system that puts people, peace and planet before profits,” emcee Ben McManus told the audience during the event.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., spoke at a communist event.
Blumenthal was introduced as a “special surprise guest.”
“I’m here to honor the great tradition of activism and standing up for individual workers that is represented by the three honorees here,” Blumenthal said.
The senator also touted President Biden’s Build Back Better plan in his brief remarks.
“There’s a lot to be working for in economic justice, in racial equity, in establishing a $15 minimum wage and holding corporations accountable for the basic treatment of the American people. We need to look at our entire tax system, beginning with Build Back Better,” he said.
Blumenthal also railed against the filibuster, which he said “has been misused by Republicans again and again and again.”
In concluding his remarks, the senator thanked the audience for “your help and support over many, many years.”
Blumenthal is one of the wealthiest senators in the United States, speculated to have a personal fortune approaching $100 million. “
He made his fortune from a retail company in China
The reason I linked Fox News, is because they have a link to the video from the award ceremony so that you can see for yourself. It’s all over the news that he apologized, and apparently didn’t know he was speaking at a communist ceremony. But if you watch the video, you will see the truth for yourself…
Did someone say “build back better?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkcaeaD45MY
this compilation of world leaders using that phrase was all from 2020……..
seems like the world is marching in LOCKSTEP to the same tune.
Did someone say “lockstep”?
The only people who don’t know that the left are communists are the useful idiots on the left who call themselves democrats/democrat socialist.
I always thought that was just a spelling error!
Dems think their dusky brethren are too naive and unspoiled to realize their language has sexist nouns.
“dusky brethren” …I am pretty sure I read that in a missionary tract somewhere.
I read lots of unpopular ideas.
HA! 🙂
When you get sick after everything it just means the jab’s working.
LOL! Weird, no rebuttals. If the jab works, how come it doesn’t work?
Brandon can’t find his ass unless Jill is wiping it for him. Who gives a damn what that doddering old fool has to say?
I don’t like Biden but lol if you think fucking Trump of all people was better
I can’t stand Trump. Yes he was better.
This logic is so puzzling . How do you know it is more mild with the jab vs. without the jab? It is not like you get to do a do-over and compare the two experiences.
Data are your friends. Compare hospitalization rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
You can’t. No one can, because the data is skewed.
“UNVACCINATED” can mean fully vaxxed with one shot AND a follow up shot AND 13 days elapsed after that. That’s data manipulation.
The cdc wants us to believe that running out and getting vaxxed ASAP is the best choice , and they even brag that just your first injection offers “significant” protection , “…the Moderna vaccine has been shown to have an efficacy of approximately 94.1 per cent in protecting against COVID-19, starting 14 days after the first dose…”
But hypothetically, ANY time after getting that first significantly “effective” 1st dose, up to 13 days after a second dose, that Covid positive patient is tallied as “unvaccinated.”
If you can’t see the problem with that I can’t help you.
U.S. records first death believed related to Omicron variant.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-health-officials-record-first-death-related-omicron-variant-abc-news-2021-12-21/
Yay! I didn’t have to wait long at all for that to work out for you!
COVID DEATH!!! Oh I guess fear sells.
Would you prefer that I just pretend that there are no COVID fatalities? Should I also quit reporting on deadly traffic crashes? Maybe pretend no one drowns?
Fear sells? I wish you would consider that you fricking don’t have to pay a cent to read something that I work on sometimes as much as twenty hours a day.
…On second thought, Look I’m tired after four hours sleep turning into a day that didn’t let me eat or drink water because I was working too hard until somewhere around 5 p.m. so I’m just going to shut up and walk away before I say something you don’t deserve.
Please, take a moment with some Ogre Berry x Strawberry OG or similar, and let it all slide.
One of the happiest people I know always says, “never do today, what you can put off till tomorrow”..
Thanks for your dedication and hard work Kym.
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Kym, I sincerely appreciate your blog. It’s the best news site in our area. I did donate a couple months ago. My sell comment was directed at the clicks it drives and the (although minimal) ad revenue generate from those clicks. I’m just some hillbilly stuck up in the mountains of trinity so I apologize if I misunderstand the business model.
My point really is that the over hyping of the fatalities is across the board of all media driving this situation to hysterical levels. Unfortunately most of deaths are not singularly attributable to covid and is almost always a result of comorbidities. These are never included in the statistics except for the assumptions that can be drawn from the persons age.
You are the editor and I completely respect that. The best part about your website is the allowed spectrum of speech. There is no echo chamber (unlike most other blogs) and it’s the only reason why I comment. Please keep up the hard and mostly unrecognized work. Merry Christmas!
If someone with diabetes is hit by a car and killed, what was the cause of death?
Covid-19. The cause of death is always Covid-19.
That’s not the definition of comorbidity as the diabetes is not a factor in their death. Cause of death would be car accident.
Note: opinion of a hillbilly and not a license coroner.
diabetes for the win!
What he said
Why let one upset you. Those that know you know you do good work. Your quick reporting on the earthquake good example. The lost kitten. Keep the good things in mind. You know your worth that’s all that matters. No one takes these kind of people seriously.Here today, gone tomorrow
Hayforker deserves anything you are willing to give IMHO. It is your site, after all.
Sorry about the octogenarian that died, but let’s be honest…
Ahhh fuck it. Fuck all this shit. Unleash the hounds. I’m done standing down…
Alert the others.
Not sure if you’re trolling or just rude, but this is only adding to the already unnecessary levels of hysteria. Please rein the dogs back in.
🎅🎅South Africa says there’s a decline in cases and hospitalizations of both Delta and Omicron. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
That’s very interesting, especially due to the fact that they are only 26% fully vaccinated.
https://covidvax.live/location/zaf
🎅🎅That was my thoughts as well. 🦸♂️🦸♂️
Well, we can agree that’s some real data there. No conspiracies, just data. I wish the science would take a look at that and explain why to us… when they avoid it, that’s when the conspiracy thinking starts. Could it be the Memory-B cell and T-cell natural immunity derived from infection? Or is it because they have a younger population, which would support not vaccinating people under 50? Who knows, I am not a doctor… maybe Dr Hoffman can explain this to us. 😕
It’s confusing as to what you think it means. Cases come in waves. Each location having their own time frame throughout the pandemic. Never meant it was the end. “But this is not a phenomenon peculiar to Omicron. At earlier stages of the pandemic, in sometimes less dramatic ways, other waves have crested and declined much before crude models might’ve suggested the vulnerable population had been exhausted. Sometimes, this has led to premature predictions of early herd immunity” This article discusses the possible explanations- from testing limitations to personal interactions only allowing spread so far at one time.
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/the-south-africa-omicron-wave-is-already-peaking-why.html
In early in 2020 I read an article (and actually posted a link here) by an infectious disease specialist who was explaining why the modeling that was predicting a continuous increase in cases in NYC was wrong. You remember those models that lead to so many bad decisions? That the assumptions that the rate of infection could keep its trajectory without limits were wrong. People spread disease among contacts but those contacts were limited to same people they saw regularly. Once all those people were infected, the disease died back until an extraordinary contact was made outside of this usual circle and this would start a new wave. He said there was usually a four month ( or was it six month?) cycle to it. Basically taking a cautious wait-and-see attitude rather than grand pronouncements is better.
Yes, like the people cautiously waiting to see if the vaccines are safe and effective, spoiler alert, they’re not.
Unless you are elderly or unhealthy the vaccines can cause more harm than good.
Don’t trigger the covid cult; you may get moderated
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Might be because its high summer in South Africa. Meanwhile places like the Netherlands are experiencing serious surge.
🎅🎅This might be true. 👁👁
Excellent point! Does this mean that Covid is seasonal? Like the flu?
But 80% post infection, you know, because they were so infrequently vaccinated… the natural immunity so often mentioned by anti vaxxers. The real surprise is that the “natural immunity” did not actually work any better than vaccination. I guess omicron is good at both breakthrough AND reinfection.
Hmm… so that would mean that the vaccine is useless at this point, right?
Saying that natural immunity doesn’t give better immunity than the vaccine is patently false, as exemplified by South Africa. Studies show 14 times stronger immunity from natural immunity when compared to the immunity provided by the vaccines.
To say otherwise is spreading misinformation.
Herd immunity…
I wonder if it could get so bad that the hospitals turn the unvaxed away. It would be fitting
You say wonder but you mean hope. Very gross. Merry Christmas
They can join the legions if drug addled , chemically dependent, and the obese in the parking lot. After all, what’s good and just for one self inflicted group, is good for the other.
That’s how it looks anyway.
Strange as it may be, go fast people seem to do well against covid, fat people not so much
So…you’re saying we should all take some meth?
alt.vacc
For those in the know.
Enough of this BS about overweight/obese people dying of covid as if it is some profound discovery. The MAJORITY of Americans over 20 are overweight or obese and the number gets greater with age. Why would they not represent the majority of people affected by covid? Is some magic going to protect them?
Try to function in the real world and not this fantasy where facts don’t matter.
Isn’t the correlation between adverse covid symptoms and obesity more widespread than the US alone? India, for example, has weathered covid better than western countries
No it didn’t. It just had a bureaucracy incapable of recording every death.
Yes, it has.
Overweight brings with it a whole host of heath issues. It’s a fact, but I don’t expect you to believe me. Comorbidty is the missing part of the covid death statistics. I don’t believe they attribute covid to the death of someone in a car accident (see you prior comment to me).
Says the person who just claimed, contrary to facts, that obesity and covid mortality are only correlated because most Americans are fat.
I see now how you can watch all the 3rd jabbers coming down with covid and conclude: the jab works! Turn off Joy Reid. It’s not helping.
“The MAJORITY of Americans over 20 are overweight or obese and the number gets greater with age. Why would they not represent the majority of people affected by covid?”
The answer is, they do represent the majority of people affected by covid severely enough to be hospitalized and die.
Now you were saying something about functioning in the real world of facts?
The unvaxed have as much right to use the hospitals they pay for as our imported servant underclass (also largely unvaccinated, because their governments don’t care if they all die) does.
It could get so bad that they turn the vaxxed away. How would you like that?
That unfortunately has already happened when people needing other care couldn’t find a bed because the hospital was filled with mostly unvaxxed.
Canceled elective procedures may well have resulted in earlier death for tens of thousands of Americans.
You could replace “unvaxxed” with elderly or overweight and still be correct.
Our for profit corporate welfare system is the real culprit. With any type of surge for need of care will max out our ridiculous hospital system. Who hasn’t waited for hours in the emergency room for care, before covid.
Sad, impacts of the virus. Wishing everyone the best.
PS y’all Trumpers- your boy got his shots AND his booster. Big boy pants. You can, too.
I support his CHOICE.. after all, it is HIS vaccine that YOU’RE pushing. I also support a woman’s CHOICE to MURDER her fetus. On her own dime, not mine. I also support your CHOICE. Let’s see, oh yeah I want some choices TOO. It is America after all, right?
“a woman’s CHOICE to MURDER her fetus”?
Disturbing, isn’t it?
The left doesn’t believe in choice (well, in this particular instance).
mRNA technology was being developed before Trump ever dreamed of being POTUS.
Do you have a point (rhetorical)? Is this Auntie under the new pseudonym?
Yes as therapy for cancer….
But Trump got it into your arm, through operation warp speed…
Trump also ramped massive covid vaccine production capacity then released it to supply the world, albeit at lower prices in underdeveloped countries.
It’s not “choice” that’s the problem. It’s the constant distortions anti vaxxers promulgate that makes so many unable to judge what is good and what is not in order to choose wisely.
And he got ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies, which you’re not allowed to have.
Why would anyone emulate that doofus’s choices?
Got to be kidding. Strike while the iron is hot. A lot of Trumpers follow and emulate every day. Y’know, the “stop the steal” mindset, “unite the right” mindset, the “grab them by the pussy” mindset, and so on. So on the rare occasion he chooses rationally, well – jab and boost. 🤗
So you really meant that people should do what you want, and you thought that he would help you achieve that aim? I sre a lot of potential for backfire in that strategy. I really hope that more people don’t start emulating Donald trump
Here we go again. Sigh. The most egregiously cherry-picked misquote in all of history, it seems. For the hundredth time, his actual words: “They let you grab them by the pussy”. Emphasis on LET YOU. In other words, there was consent already. Look it up. I’m not crazy about the man’s personality, he said a lot of silly and ego-driven things. But he did some good things for the American people, and was light years better than the puppet-root vegetable-pedophile we have now. And I just hate all the lies and slanders that have become gospel truth by way of the lying MSM scum.
As of 7:45 PM there has been 63 aftershocks. This was a strike-slip earthquake.
Here’s a good video
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3969921
Have you ever thought of shoving your propaganda up where the sun don’t shine kym?
Oh my, is there any coming back from this absurdity.
See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya
Although I find the entire debate across the whole nation to be over the top, and I even don’t like the sensational headline, this is Kym’s site and we are all damn lucky this isn’t just some echo chamber.
So I respectfully ask you apologize or take it back. To me this seems like a personal attack and the fact she allows it to be posted says more about her character than what I can gather from your comment.
Somethings are not as news worthy as other things. People are righteously disgusted with the health of this community, the state of affairs in this country , and the real problems of ordinary people all over the world who are dealing with government institutions and leaders who are acting with literal immunity for their actions which are strip mining the human resource for profit.
deep down the conflict is so much worse than we are willing to acknowledge, that many are comfortable in the shallow echo chambers of my team is better than your team.
these untouchables are a different breed, born and raised to do the bidding of the 1%, regardless of how many bodies are left buried along the way.
Biden lies, trump lies, Obama lied, bush lied, Clinton lied, etc. Police can and will lie to you during an investigation, but it’s a crime to lie to them. If you know people lie and you expect it, then things won’t be so upsetting. It makes for a skeptical personality and perhaps that’s one of my own flaws.
Hindsight is 20/20
Dude! You should apologize to Kym. She has the most varied comments section I’ve seen anywhere. And she has to wade daily through this puddle of crazies that we are…She gets to have her own opinion too! She allows comments that directly oppose her opinion and she allows them to provide their links. I have disagreed w/ her many times but she has earned my respect. And I have posted some comments angrily and have come back to apologize because…she is just a human trying to do an honest job of running a local news blog. She’s not your enemy. She’s your neighbor. And get this- you can apologize for your insult and then post reasons why you are upset, your view of the issue. Pretty cool! Take it easy, peace and love on the solstice…
Well said Farce 👍🏻 It is fun to debate here and I appreciate Kym giving us a place to do that.
Simple rules:
1) Kym is boss
2) attack the issue, not the person
3) don’t hate the player, hate the game
4) we can agree to disagree
5) we are all friends and neighbors, and at the end of the day we continue to love and respect one another
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No. Just no. It is not required to respect what lacks respectability. Nor love what is damaging. It is necessary to be civil about it. As in not only hurling simple minded personal insults and nothing else.
Are you a catholic nun? Just wondering, cause I’ve heard they’re always smacking kids knuckles with rulers.
Just to set them straight of course.
Even better, she works for the government.
We’re diverse. Tolerate it.
Im not going to apologize for my civilized insult.
& Happy solstice, may the coming light let everyone see the Belligerent propaganda that is making you turn on all your friends and family.
& Thanks for all the news kym, at least for the stuff that has nothing to do with your new fear porn style of journalism.
Infections caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus do not appear to be less severe than infections from Delta, according to early data from the UK.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/omicron-infections-appear-no-less-severe-than-delta-covid-19-lowers-sperm-count-2021-12-20/
Maybe, maybe not. As you said, it’s early days yet.
https://americandigest.org/meanwhile/ The resistance to govt forced policies…
Omni is basically a flu of the vaccinated. About 80% of the cases are in people who altered their DNA with the mRNA vaccinations.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/omicron-cases-in-maha-over-80-breakthrough-infections-101640008227543.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/most-reported-us-omicron-cases-have-hit-fully-vaccinated-cdc-2021-12-10/
https://www.westernjournal.com/cdc-announces-79-us-omicron-cases-occurred-vaccinated-individuals/
The Omni appears to be a mild flu…. more on the order of the common cold.
And there we are. Back to the “it’s only the flu” that anti government elements have been wrong about for two years. Even the links you supply- at least the non conspiracy ones- mention that it is too early to know. And as for being vaccinated, South Africa has reported that 90% of the hospitalized with omicron have been unvaccinated.
‘Grey fox’, “It appears no less severe”.
Ms. Nooo,
“Maybe, maybe not”.
“It’s early days yet”
‘Mark’,
“Omni is basically a flu of the unvaccinated… The Omni appears to be a mild flu… more on the order of the common cold.”
Ms. Nooo,
“And there we are. Back to “it’s only the flu” that anti-government elements have been wrong about for two years.”
Then Ms. Nooo,
“…it’s too early to know…”
Maybe we should make up our mind?
Your “just another window” (remember that line of yours, the other week) is black.
WSJ is reporting today of women experiencing long covid symptoms sensation of internal vibrations like an electric toothbrush or cell phone on vibrate “My body is moving inside”. Long covid symptoms afflict 10-30% of peeps that catch covid so be aware the risk of spontaneous and neverending vibrator sensations.
Spontaneous orgasmic vibrations? Sounds good… I imagine there are lots of people that could benefit from organisms.. Its healthy and fun. Go try it out if it’s been awhile.. even funner with a partner!! I always imagine that crochety people haven’t had a good one in a while, especially one that someone else helped them achieved, and most especially if they Are I. A relationship that doesn’t involve them.. get out there and explore your biology
. It’s science.
How Long Does Omicron Take to Make You Sick?The new variant seems to be our quickest one yet. That makes it harder to catch with the tests we have.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/12/omicron-incubation-period-testing/621066/
Yale researchers have determined only 10-20% of the population is susceptible to severe covid symptoms, potentially leading to death. This is due to their over reactive immune system literally targeting themselves with an overly strong immune response. Monoclonal antibodies administered early is their best treatment. The other 80-90% of us experience mild to no symptoms. Why can’t these 10-20% stay home while the rest of us go on with our lives normally?
Here’s something for the doubters. The last line should say dying from COVID.
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More like “who have died of Covid19”.
And I’m not sure that would be true for 99.2%
It would be interesting to know exactly what is happening, “currently”.
Secret Service: Nearly $100B stolen in pandemic relief fundsThe U.S. Secret Service says nearly $100 billion has been stolen from COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people who lost their jobs due to the pandemic
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/secret-service-100b-stolen-pandemic-relief-funds-81884690
Damning Emails Prove Fauci And Collins Colluded To Nuke Herd Immunity Strategies
https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/20/damning-emails-prove-fauci-and-collins-colluded-to-nuke-herd-immunity-strategies/
https://shermanclay.blogspot.com/2021/10/covid-treasonous-acts-dr-david-martin.html?m=1
https://yournews.com/2021/12/21/2270483/new-york-lawmaker-pulls-public-health-detainment-bill-blames-conspiracy/