26 August 2020

Parallax View - part the twentieth dot five

Another week's up, so here are today's numbers:
  >= 1,000 - 286
100 to 999 - 1,264

Insanity reigns supreme, thus an intra-week update.

(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,084. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.

[Tuesday Morning, in the event that deadline addicted Real Media find it before next Monday (they sure ought to)]
If FDA can fudge data so blatantly, why are we to believe that the 'decrease' in Covid is anything but manipulation by Batshit J. Moron's ringer Thiel doing the data collection and reporting?
The publicly released data from the Mayo Clinic shows that, among the larger group of more than 35,000 patients, when plasma was given within three day of diagnosis, the death rate was about 22 percent, compared with 27 percent when it was given four or more days after diagnosis.

Of course, we've no idea what the death rate was for a comparable (that word again) sample who got either SoC or placebo. This recent report puts a similar (best I'll assert) rate at 20.3%.
All-cause death rates were 20.3% overall, 34.7% among ICU patients, and 38.1% among those receiving mechanical ventilation. The death rate among white patients was 23.1%, while it was 19.2% among black patients.

So, plasma is what ex-President AuH2O 2020 said: "This is a powerful therapy... a very historic breakthrough." Yeah, right. Plasma has been used with many diseases for more than a century.
The first valid trial was done in 1892 with diphtheria using blood serum initially.

Or, to be blunt:
"For the first time ever, I feel like official people in communications and people at the F.D.A. grossly misrepresented data about a therapy," said Dr. Walid Gellad, who leads the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh.

So, tell me: why should anyone believe the Miracles (made from ginned up, and even corrupted, data) coming from Dear Leader Yo! Semite of Thigh Land and his minions? I'll take malice over incompetence with this bunch every time.

[Wednesday morning, aka I Told You So]
So not only does Hahn suck Batshit J. Moron's dick, but so does Azar. Which latter is less of a surprise than Hahn. Azar was known to be an acolyte from the get go.
The CDC changed the site on Monday. Here's what it says now: "If you have been in close contact (within 6 feet) of a person with a COVID-19 infection for at least 15 minutes but do not have symptoms, you do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or State or local public health officials recommend you take one."

Or, as Dear Leader Yo! Semite of Thigh Land put it:
If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.
-- ex-President AuH2O 2020/2020

Ya got shit data, ya make shit decisions. But that's the point, is it not? A Feature, not a Bug. Not a subtle sort of guy, now is he?

[Wednesday afternoon, aka That Didn't Take Long]
A sudden change in federal guidelines on coronavirus testing came this week as a result of pressure from the upper ranks of the Trump administration, a federal health official close to the process tells CNN.

"It's coming from the top down," the official said of the new directive from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I suppose Batshit J. Moron will set the Stasi out to find the 'leaker'.
After we got off the phone, Whipple texted a final thought: "A good chief of staff knows that the best way to prevent damaging leaks is to stop doing illegal, stupid stuff. You don't have to be James Baker to figure that out."

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