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One thing I haven't noticed others talking about are 'incidental covid hospitalizations' as it pertains to regular hospital activity. We know that 30% of covid hospitalizations are pregnant women, who MUST be in the hospital. But many other things were delayed last year. This kept people out of the hospital and out of the 'incidental covid hospitalization' bucket.

This year, more hospitals are back to 'regular' activity. Therefore you'd EXPECT 'incidental covid hospitalizations' to increase because now it's not just the pregnant women coming to the hospital for other reasons, it's EVERYBODY who 'normally' goes to the hospital.

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How about this for a hypothesis: Deaths caused by the vaccines are being counted as Covid deaths. People are being rushed to the hospital as a result of an adverse event—say, a stroke or heart attack—where they “test positive” (perhaps from some residual virus in the nasal passage) and the COD goes down as Covid. Is that plausible, given the data? It might explain the fewer hospitalizations/more deaths conundrum.

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Just wanted to give you the heads up here in WA state they have been putting out a weekly breakthrough case report the last 4 weeks. It has gone from 21,757 on Sept 1st report to 41,721 on September 29th's report. They collected( buried) data from Jan 17th to Aug 21st and never released it until now and nobody I ask, clients, including a local urgent care doc on twitter has heard of these reports from news and/or hosp. admin. That is 20K! in a month. Oregon had also started a weekly breakthrough report. https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/data-tables/420-339-VaccineBreakthroughReport.pdf

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Early on in this descent into collective madness, a now former friend texted that any questioning of the official c19 narrative bloviating out of the frontal facing blow holes of elected officials, television news readers, and public health bureaucrats was “murderous.” Following their every nonsensical diktat was the only way to “stay safe” and “save lives”. Now as we close in on two years of this unbelievable crime against humanity, we are looking square in the face of the biggest government induced industrial f-up in history. Time to start saving all the receipts, the trials for those involved in these crimes are going to be epic. Let's just hope we don't have to descend into a third world war before we get to the court house. 'Cause that's what happened the last time officialdom screwed the pooch to this degree.

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This tells me one thing: the vaccines don't work. Convince me otherwise.

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"....this would seem consistent with the idea that the vaccines are now the big driver of viral evolution and perhaps spread."

Indeed. Really good article el gato malo. Ty

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I'm in NYC. Just yesterday I remarked to a neighbor that the sound of sirens has increased in the last week. She said that's just because we live close to a hospital but I said no, this sounds like the first week of March 2020 lockdowns.

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One more personal observation. I think the deaths increasing is also related to their continued use of remdesivir in hospitals..... it doesn't end well for ALOT of patients when put on that stuff. And they're bent on this drug being almost the ONLY option for protocols in the hospital...

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It's a combination of a form of ADE and the vaccine suppressing the innate immune system. The substitution of urine nucleoside for psedourinde in the spike vaccine code shuts off the toll like receptors 4,3,7,8 thus making people more susceptible to their dormant cancer and viruses.

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1) Thanks for terrific analysis. I love that you are willing to analyze emerging data and hypothesize, then wait to see how the data turns out to see if it invalidates or not. So much of what we see from the CDC is garbage where they cherrypick and manipulate to get predetermined results.

2) How do you get median CHRs down 17%? You show hospitalizations up dramatically - is it that cases are up even more, so CHR means the # of hospitalizations normalized for cases? I'm not clear on the terminology.

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In Vermont, 99.9% of the 65+ are vaccinated. It is maybe the most vaccinated US state. https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker/

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Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much for this clear analysis (haha even though we don't know WHY it's happening). I did have to go slowly, but I was able to understand (I think) each table and graph. A truly pleasurable data discussion. Well. Except for Bad News. My intellectual curiosity was satisfied, and my hypothesis-generating wheels are turning, but now I am going to go pack my bug-out bag and move to North Dakota. ;-)

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It could be antibody dependent enhancement, which plagued experimental vaccines for SARS1 and MERS. After 6 months neutralizing antibodies wane, but non-neutralizing antibodies carry SARS2 into the immune system, resulting in more severe covid. ADE might only affect a subset of those who receive the vaccine.

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Another hypothesis: the official reported statistics are fabricated

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An implication here is that vaccination must also be interfering with acquisition of post-infection broader immunity (and possibly with prior post-infection immunity)? Otherwise, any enhancement from vacc should be washing out.

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If you look at case rates on their own, it appears that the waves have largely been reversed in the northeast over the last two weeks by boosters (consistent with the view that boosting is not, in fact, introducing a window of vulnerability after all; as well as with the supposition that basically everyone is going for them regardless of age or job). So it would appear that the northeast is not going to repeat the Israel and UK summer patterns. Or at least, they will land at a more diminished plateau than the UK (Israel's wave finally seems to be heading for the bottom again, we'll see if it actually gets there this time).

Of course, the booster infection efficacy in the northeast could fade at exactly the worst part of winter.

The northwest is making an interesting contrast.

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