Thank you...again. My friends and family do not thank you. When I get taken in by Covid Panic Porn, I sound normal to them. Then, I get a dose of reality from one of your articles, and I withdraw from the panic. To my friends and family, I once again become this strange creature who looks skeptically upon SCIENCE and the TRUTH as presented by the CDC and the media. Apart from an appalling absence of capitalization, your articles help keep me sane.
The gullibility of the average citizen is the real horror show. Even after explaining to people close to me that all of the establishment media is in the pockets of pharmaceutical companies, they default to believing the BS because it’s so well-orchestrated for the uninitiated in MSM skepticism. The tool provided will certainly help, if they choose to check. Thank you for pointing it out.
Thank you so much. I had a friend put up and article yesterday about Texas ICU Pediatric "no beds" panic article. Decided to do a little research for myself and found out that those counties are fine (most of them) and the ones with 0 available beds are probably very small emergency facilities yesterday. She couldn't find anything going on in OUR state (Az) so she had to jump to Texas. I refrained from mentioning anything about the border situation.... Love the "bullying bluebird" name. So true!
Thank you so much for this article. I'm going to bookmark it so I can share it to every Chicken Little I come across on the "bullying bluebird's" website.
Beyond that, I learned early to check the stories. I live in the largest city in my state with the headquarters of the two main hospital systems. As much as I pay attention to the local news, we were hearing apocalyptic warnings about how the hospitals were overflowing and we were going to see patients on the sidewalks if we didn't mask up and hide in our houses. And then I checked the state website. What did I find? Yes, the local hospitals were close to capacity (close but not over, and never over), but you want to know what hospitals weren't? All the outlying hospitals, the feeder hospitals in this malignant spider's web of medical big business. So what was happening was rather than take care of patients locally, they were bringing in patients from elsewhere, and we were expected to shut down to spare those two greedy little institutions who would rather cut costs than prepare their branch outfits. The problem is not COVID. The problem was never COVID. The problem is a for-profit system that cuts costs to improve net income and leaves itself unable to cope with any overload, no matter how minor.
I stopped watching the national news, but still watch the local news and have kept the local newspaper just stay somewhat connected and to know what's being said. It's devolved into garage. It's amazing how much you can mislead and manipulate without technically lying. Anyone else notice they've stepped up reporting on every heat wave or extreme weather event, using the same tactics. It's disturbing to watch, and I suspect they're also shooting themselves in the foot by destroying the trust of half of the population. The other half doesn't mind because their "truth" is defined by what the collectivist elites have decided.
Another important factor is that the average person doesn't understand what gets qualified as an ICU stay. They only have references from teevee, so they think every ICU inhabitant is hanging onto life by the slimmest of threads with all the medical staff running around damaging things be done "STAT!" or shouting "CLEAR!" every five minutes.
Hell, the ER isn't even like that most of the time. I've been in ambulance rides when my mother had to be taken in and sure, the sirens are blaring on our way to the hospital but everyone in the vehicle was having a nice, relaxing conversation while basic stats were being taken. Of course most people on the street figure someone is in there coding. Nope, but still, get out of the way so they can drop us off and possibly have to leave for someone who IS coding somewhere.
And of course as you and others have pointed out, hospital budgets. Now, those are delicate things that can quickly end up on life support with no defib that can revive it. The hospital where I was born here in Chicago closed a few years ago and I've heard of others that, well, are being put on vents.
For my mental health (ANXIETY IS A COMORBIDITY!!), I have stopped consuming any news from sources other than you and a small number of other substackers.
I happened to see a very scary headline on my husband's phone when I was using it to find some yard sales this morning (yard sales are a summer staple in Cincinnati, where I live).
It stole my contentment and I felt sick and worried. Then I checked my email and got your latest message. I just want to thank you for reminding me of the reality. You helped this stranger get back on track and reject the fear.
Please always keep it real for us. You are making a difference.
I've been sharing the HHS hospital data w/family, friends, and online combatants for quite a while, & made up this link for the chart version (even though it seems a week behind the bad cat's main HHS data page): http://tinyurl.com/USHOSPDATA. Good to know that Park City is alive and awakened. I spent quite a few years going to the Sundance Film Festival, and am curious how they'll handle the next session. Since it's mostly run by Hollywood, I'm not too optimistic.
Anyone who STILL believes this crap is a real idiot, or so drunk on the Kool-aid that they can't see straight. As you point out the data is right there for anyone to see. Now let's look at the Rt's for some select "super blue highly vaxed states" vs "irredeemably evil anti vax red states shall we? Blue vaxers: Oregon: 1.46. New York: 1.22. Mass 1.21. Michigan 1.63. Illinois 1.32. DC 1.54. WA 1.88 - many still climbing. Red deplorables: FL 0.97 AR 0.89 MS 1.11 MO 0.91 UT 0.87 TX 1.23 - all heading quickly lower. But it's those damn red antivaxers that are causing all of this!! TBF of course this is all triggering and timing. Virus doesn't give a crap what your politics, mask or vax status are. (Rt data courtesy covidestim.org
The HHS site has been wonderful for proving people wrong. I also have screenshots of what it looked like last year, and what do you know? The same states that had an issue last summer have an issue this summer.
What comes next: A small lull in fall, followed by a winter wave across the country.
I remember last year when the newspaper headline shrieked that the hospitals were 70% full!!!!!! (Can't remember if it was hospital in general or ICU.) Anyway, nowhere in the article did it say what the percent of beds filled had been the year before or the year before that. And if the hospital were fuller, nowhere did it consider any other factors (like fewer employees) that could have affected capacity. And nowhere, of course, did it say what level hospitals are meant to be at in order to stay afloat. But let's all panic because 70%!!!!
I've read...but not yet investigated...that many of the so-called haironfire hospital bed shortages are actually due to short staffing. People have burnt out. People have been laid off. People have quit or been fired for refusing the jab. I suspect this problem will get worse as time goes on.
I've said this before, but...greed, avarice, stupidity, cya, clicks...none of it seems sufficient to explain the bizarro world we're living in. As the vaxx failures become more apparent, the media and public health and the zombies have doubled down (btw, I really hate that expression).
This feels coordinated. Who's behind it? What's their endgame?
yeah well so you say, but my cousins wife's brother works in a hospital in houston and they have lines coming out the door and no one can get in until someone goes out like at the parking lots sometimes
And last but not least hospitals don't PLAN beds to be empty they can't make any money with empty beds or personnel standing around not doing anything!!! Yes sad but true!!
Maybe I am wrong (as I so often am) but I still feel like something is driving what looks to me like rising urgency of the operation to nail down objectives right quick. I would guess there is some ticking time bomb underneath the vacs. I expect a year or two from now to see numbers of live births down by more than 25% from what they were in 2019 in the US, but I feel like there must be something else, some emerging phenomenon of the vacsed that will not be possible to paper over with the sort of fabricated fear porn highlighted above. Along with organized revolt of the Spartacus or Joker variety, they fear losing control of the narrative, so I am guessing there must be something in the next 6 to 12 months that will require police-state repression to squash.
Thank you...again. My friends and family do not thank you. When I get taken in by Covid Panic Porn, I sound normal to them. Then, I get a dose of reality from one of your articles, and I withdraw from the panic. To my friends and family, I once again become this strange creature who looks skeptically upon SCIENCE and the TRUTH as presented by the CDC and the media. Apart from an appalling absence of capitalization, your articles help keep me sane.
The gullibility of the average citizen is the real horror show. Even after explaining to people close to me that all of the establishment media is in the pockets of pharmaceutical companies, they default to believing the BS because it’s so well-orchestrated for the uninitiated in MSM skepticism. The tool provided will certainly help, if they choose to check. Thank you for pointing it out.
While doing a quick check of the fearmomether level, this gem popped up https://coloradonewsline.com/2021/08/11/should-the-unvaccinated-be-denied-health-care/
I’m afraid my head will come loose from shaking it for so many months with no end in sight.
Thank you so much. I had a friend put up and article yesterday about Texas ICU Pediatric "no beds" panic article. Decided to do a little research for myself and found out that those counties are fine (most of them) and the ones with 0 available beds are probably very small emergency facilities yesterday. She couldn't find anything going on in OUR state (Az) so she had to jump to Texas. I refrained from mentioning anything about the border situation.... Love the "bullying bluebird" name. So true!
Thank you so much for this article. I'm going to bookmark it so I can share it to every Chicken Little I come across on the "bullying bluebird's" website.
Beyond that, I learned early to check the stories. I live in the largest city in my state with the headquarters of the two main hospital systems. As much as I pay attention to the local news, we were hearing apocalyptic warnings about how the hospitals were overflowing and we were going to see patients on the sidewalks if we didn't mask up and hide in our houses. And then I checked the state website. What did I find? Yes, the local hospitals were close to capacity (close but not over, and never over), but you want to know what hospitals weren't? All the outlying hospitals, the feeder hospitals in this malignant spider's web of medical big business. So what was happening was rather than take care of patients locally, they were bringing in patients from elsewhere, and we were expected to shut down to spare those two greedy little institutions who would rather cut costs than prepare their branch outfits. The problem is not COVID. The problem was never COVID. The problem is a for-profit system that cuts costs to improve net income and leaves itself unable to cope with any overload, no matter how minor.
I stopped watching the national news, but still watch the local news and have kept the local newspaper just stay somewhat connected and to know what's being said. It's devolved into garage. It's amazing how much you can mislead and manipulate without technically lying. Anyone else notice they've stepped up reporting on every heat wave or extreme weather event, using the same tactics. It's disturbing to watch, and I suspect they're also shooting themselves in the foot by destroying the trust of half of the population. The other half doesn't mind because their "truth" is defined by what the collectivist elites have decided.
Another important factor is that the average person doesn't understand what gets qualified as an ICU stay. They only have references from teevee, so they think every ICU inhabitant is hanging onto life by the slimmest of threads with all the medical staff running around damaging things be done "STAT!" or shouting "CLEAR!" every five minutes.
Hell, the ER isn't even like that most of the time. I've been in ambulance rides when my mother had to be taken in and sure, the sirens are blaring on our way to the hospital but everyone in the vehicle was having a nice, relaxing conversation while basic stats were being taken. Of course most people on the street figure someone is in there coding. Nope, but still, get out of the way so they can drop us off and possibly have to leave for someone who IS coding somewhere.
And of course as you and others have pointed out, hospital budgets. Now, those are delicate things that can quickly end up on life support with no defib that can revive it. The hospital where I was born here in Chicago closed a few years ago and I've heard of others that, well, are being put on vents.
For my mental health (ANXIETY IS A COMORBIDITY!!), I have stopped consuming any news from sources other than you and a small number of other substackers.
I happened to see a very scary headline on my husband's phone when I was using it to find some yard sales this morning (yard sales are a summer staple in Cincinnati, where I live).
It stole my contentment and I felt sick and worried. Then I checked my email and got your latest message. I just want to thank you for reminding me of the reality. You helped this stranger get back on track and reject the fear.
Please always keep it real for us. You are making a difference.
I've been sharing the HHS hospital data w/family, friends, and online combatants for quite a while, & made up this link for the chart version (even though it seems a week behind the bad cat's main HHS data page): http://tinyurl.com/USHOSPDATA. Good to know that Park City is alive and awakened. I spent quite a few years going to the Sundance Film Festival, and am curious how they'll handle the next session. Since it's mostly run by Hollywood, I'm not too optimistic.
Anyone who STILL believes this crap is a real idiot, or so drunk on the Kool-aid that they can't see straight. As you point out the data is right there for anyone to see. Now let's look at the Rt's for some select "super blue highly vaxed states" vs "irredeemably evil anti vax red states shall we? Blue vaxers: Oregon: 1.46. New York: 1.22. Mass 1.21. Michigan 1.63. Illinois 1.32. DC 1.54. WA 1.88 - many still climbing. Red deplorables: FL 0.97 AR 0.89 MS 1.11 MO 0.91 UT 0.87 TX 1.23 - all heading quickly lower. But it's those damn red antivaxers that are causing all of this!! TBF of course this is all triggering and timing. Virus doesn't give a crap what your politics, mask or vax status are. (Rt data courtesy covidestim.org
The HHS site has been wonderful for proving people wrong. I also have screenshots of what it looked like last year, and what do you know? The same states that had an issue last summer have an issue this summer.
What comes next: A small lull in fall, followed by a winter wave across the country.
I remember last year when the newspaper headline shrieked that the hospitals were 70% full!!!!!! (Can't remember if it was hospital in general or ICU.) Anyway, nowhere in the article did it say what the percent of beds filled had been the year before or the year before that. And if the hospital were fuller, nowhere did it consider any other factors (like fewer employees) that could have affected capacity. And nowhere, of course, did it say what level hospitals are meant to be at in order to stay afloat. But let's all panic because 70%!!!!
I've read...but not yet investigated...that many of the so-called haironfire hospital bed shortages are actually due to short staffing. People have burnt out. People have been laid off. People have quit or been fired for refusing the jab. I suspect this problem will get worse as time goes on.
I've said this before, but...greed, avarice, stupidity, cya, clicks...none of it seems sufficient to explain the bizarro world we're living in. As the vaxx failures become more apparent, the media and public health and the zombies have doubled down (btw, I really hate that expression).
This feels coordinated. Who's behind it? What's their endgame?
yeah well so you say, but my cousins wife's brother works in a hospital in houston and they have lines coming out the door and no one can get in until someone goes out like at the parking lots sometimes
And last but not least hospitals don't PLAN beds to be empty they can't make any money with empty beds or personnel standing around not doing anything!!! Yes sad but true!!
Maybe I am wrong (as I so often am) but I still feel like something is driving what looks to me like rising urgency of the operation to nail down objectives right quick. I would guess there is some ticking time bomb underneath the vacs. I expect a year or two from now to see numbers of live births down by more than 25% from what they were in 2019 in the US, but I feel like there must be something else, some emerging phenomenon of the vacsed that will not be possible to paper over with the sort of fabricated fear porn highlighted above. Along with organized revolt of the Spartacus or Joker variety, they fear losing control of the narrative, so I am guessing there must be something in the next 6 to 12 months that will require police-state repression to squash.
I'm trying to prove this one is clickbait (a friend's husband works at Vandy as a doc), but have been unable to so far. Any ideas?
https://whnt.com/news/vanderbilt-adult-hospital-emergency-department-full-due-to-covid-19/