It was also bad stats. America was constantly being compared to nations with fractions of its population yet the deaths were always in raw numbers instead of relative.
It was also the spotlight nation for "BADDIE BAD" so its deaths were being incredibly fluffed up to make it look worse than it was, while most of the comparison nations were likely doing the opposite to make it look like their method was working.
I mean, obviously you're going to compare by capita. 1 million dead in the US sounds like a lot, but per capita it's also more than in a country like Germany.
Interestingly, unless you are Sweden or the US, no one cares about your death rate. There are huge differences in death rates between other countries, and no one who cares to explain why.
Not only that, there was also the practice that Whitmer and Cumo engaged in of deliberately putting Covid patients into nursing homes. New York's death rate was astronomical compared to everyone, and no one could figure out why. Cuomo said that the hospitals were completely overwhelmed and over-flooded. That's when people began video-taping trips to hospitals. Empty hospitals and empty parking lots, all while the governor was saying that they were completely flooded and we needed whole additional field hospitals to house patients (hospitals that were never used).
Turns out that when he sent Covid patients into the nursing homes, the extremely old, low mobility, dementia ridden, heavily medicated, patients got sick from Covid and died. This is because, of course they would, they already have badly weakened immune systems. And even if they didn't and something else killed them, as Adamrises pointed out, fuck you we counted it as a Covid death anyway because obviously every single person in that nursing home has Covid due to there being no capacity for nursing homes to contain the most aggressively infectious disease on record.
Any idiot could have told Cuomo and his staff that putting vulnerable nursing home patients in with Covid patients would likely kill the nursing home residents because of their weakened state, and the nursing homes had literally no capacity to control an outbreak with a virus that infectious. Instead they rolled right on through and didn't think for one second about the consequences until it became obvious and they had to start covering it up.
Cuomo seems to be guilty of 50,000 counts of negligent homicide.
With OG COVID, the infections were clustered in hot-spots.
For a long while the great majority of infections and deaths were clustered in a few cities, with most of those coming from New York city.
I have a friend who was doing primary research on COVID 19, specifically transmission by surfaces, who was in contact with medical professionals in New York at the time.
He said that they were absolutely freaking out. There was a brief period (I recall less than a week) where the spike in deaths was apocalyptic. He told me that the medical professionals he had been talking with were predicting that they would be stacking bodies in the streets before the month was out.
At this time the FEMA pop up hospital was available, and the army hospital ship was on hand to take patients.
I distinctly remember pointing out to my scientist friend that the hospitals were seeing selection bias. Only the worst cases were arriving at hospital. I also pointed out that the survivors would be gaining immunity, and as soon as that reached 30% it would have an impact on transmission rates.
I recall us agreeing to disagree; with me stating that if I was right we would see a sharp drop in infections and deaths. If he was right it would be in the news soon enough.
It turns out that I was more correct; but it bears remembering that all the hospitals in New York were freaking out to the point of panic.
This the period when Cuomo was sending infected to nursing homes. He was determined not to use any of the help sent by Trump and the federal government.
This is what rattles me. The hospitals were wrong like this well into 2021.
I had a conversation with a co-worker who told me that she had family that was working at a hospital. They were literally giving briefings to the staff and telling them that they would be flooded with patients, particularly due to the unvaccinated, likely resulting in a daily death toll spike for the state that would reach over 7,000 by the end of the week. The daily death toll at the time was less than 1,000, and the end of the week was in 3 days. Again, this was in 2021.
I told her that this would be utterly improbable given that this would be several times higher than the highest daily death toll recorded for the state on record. The end of the week came and went with effectively no change.
This same co-worker also told me that the hospital staff had been informed that the Omicron variant of Covid was particularly lethal for children. As in, it was more likely to kill children than the elderly.
Don't forget that many hospital administrators banned the use of Ivermectin in treating Covid patients explicitly, and that they were briefing local governments and businesses how to push injections, encourage lockdowns, and mask mandates. They were also the people who collapsed their staff of doctors and nurses with the injection mandate, and blamed the whole thing on "stress".
My question is: why are the hospital administrators lying directly to doctors and nurses, and passing explicitly fictional information. Then, my next question is why is there no criminal culpability for the misconduct, malfeasance, and malpractice they've incited.
Here in Australia, in my state the only treatment protocol for the vulnerable (eg, anything more than just IV fluids and rest) is the Pfizer anti-virials. One course only.
Doctors were prescribing the fourth jab, which was effectively meaningless against Omicron. Because they feared the consequences if they DID NOT prescribe Clot Shot #4 for the elderly.
They medical establishment had absolutely no fear of consequences of any kind for death as an injury from the Pfizer therapeutic. There is an explicit agreement from the bottom to the top of the (state run) hospital to minimize the cause of death and to shield the doctors responsible.
The politicians, at the top, are getting all of their information from Lobbyists. They are absolutely, completely convinced that they can hush-up any malpractice. They are desperately afraid of being seen to do nothing. Medical companies, specifically Pfizer in this case, have turned up to offer a turn-key solution. "Hey! Here is a complete set of treatment protocols that we know works. Put it in place, and you can be seen taking immediate, effective action!"
Computing Forever had an excellent series of videos on YouTube, before his channel was canceled, which showed that both the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation had been waiting since H1N1 Swine Flu (COVID19 - 10 years) to seize the opportunity of the next pandemic.
The immediate projections (computer modeling) that came out immediately on the discovery of COVID19 (then the Wuhan Virus) overestimated fatalities by more than two orders of magnitude. They were later shown to be produced by a Democrat CPAC funded think tank. The initial figures were beyond trash; they deliberately, willfully misleading.
All of the policy has been set at the political level; with the political leadership (at the state level) dictating to the media and then to the medical apparatus.
Any doctor who spoke out was ruthlessly canceled. Doctors were canceled for trying to publicize inexpensive, effective prevention and treatment protocols.
The Media establishment has been complicit at every step.
If you want the most excellent, most relevant modern example of fascism, here you are. Truth is a function of politics. Science is a function of politics. Actions leading to literal deaths of tens thousands are irrelevant. There is no boundary that can be drawn between political parties and the media apparatus, nor the medical institutions. They have effectively been a single, monolithic unit; all working together to deliver political outcomes.
i like how they completely ignore that trump was the only one that wanted to do anything about the virus initially and they just called him a waaaaaaycissss until they suddenly decided that the virus was actually a really big deal u guise
What the other user said, but also the fact that many people who died within a certain time frame of a positive COVID test were lumped into the numbers despite dying of other causes.
I've had people ask me why there were so many Covid deaths in the US. That was my hypothesis as well. Not "BAD REPUBLICANS".
It was also bad stats. America was constantly being compared to nations with fractions of its population yet the deaths were always in raw numbers instead of relative.
It was also the spotlight nation for "BADDIE BAD" so its deaths were being incredibly fluffed up to make it look worse than it was, while most of the comparison nations were likely doing the opposite to make it look like their method was working.
I mean, obviously you're going to compare by capita. 1 million dead in the US sounds like a lot, but per capita it's also more than in a country like Germany.
Interestingly, unless you are Sweden or the US, no one cares about your death rate. There are huge differences in death rates between other countries, and no one who cares to explain why.
Not only that, there was also the practice that Whitmer and Cumo engaged in of deliberately putting Covid patients into nursing homes. New York's death rate was astronomical compared to everyone, and no one could figure out why. Cuomo said that the hospitals were completely overwhelmed and over-flooded. That's when people began video-taping trips to hospitals. Empty hospitals and empty parking lots, all while the governor was saying that they were completely flooded and we needed whole additional field hospitals to house patients (hospitals that were never used).
Turns out that when he sent Covid patients into the nursing homes, the extremely old, low mobility, dementia ridden, heavily medicated, patients got sick from Covid and died. This is because, of course they would, they already have badly weakened immune systems. And even if they didn't and something else killed them, as Adamrises pointed out, fuck you we counted it as a Covid death anyway because obviously every single person in that nursing home has Covid due to there being no capacity for nursing homes to contain the most aggressively infectious disease on record.
Any idiot could have told Cuomo and his staff that putting vulnerable nursing home patients in with Covid patients would likely kill the nursing home residents because of their weakened state, and the nursing homes had literally no capacity to control an outbreak with a virus that infectious. Instead they rolled right on through and didn't think for one second about the consequences until it became obvious and they had to start covering it up.
Cuomo seems to be guilty of 50,000 counts of negligent homicide.
Whitmer seems to be guilty of around 15,000.
With OG COVID, the infections were clustered in hot-spots.
For a long while the great majority of infections and deaths were clustered in a few cities, with most of those coming from New York city.
I have a friend who was doing primary research on COVID 19, specifically transmission by surfaces, who was in contact with medical professionals in New York at the time.
He said that they were absolutely freaking out. There was a brief period (I recall less than a week) where the spike in deaths was apocalyptic. He told me that the medical professionals he had been talking with were predicting that they would be stacking bodies in the streets before the month was out.
At this time the FEMA pop up hospital was available, and the army hospital ship was on hand to take patients.
I distinctly remember pointing out to my scientist friend that the hospitals were seeing selection bias. Only the worst cases were arriving at hospital. I also pointed out that the survivors would be gaining immunity, and as soon as that reached 30% it would have an impact on transmission rates.
I recall us agreeing to disagree; with me stating that if I was right we would see a sharp drop in infections and deaths. If he was right it would be in the news soon enough.
It turns out that I was more correct; but it bears remembering that all the hospitals in New York were freaking out to the point of panic.
This the period when Cuomo was sending infected to nursing homes. He was determined not to use any of the help sent by Trump and the federal government.
This is what rattles me. The hospitals were wrong like this well into 2021.
I had a conversation with a co-worker who told me that she had family that was working at a hospital. They were literally giving briefings to the staff and telling them that they would be flooded with patients, particularly due to the unvaccinated, likely resulting in a daily death toll spike for the state that would reach over 7,000 by the end of the week. The daily death toll at the time was less than 1,000, and the end of the week was in 3 days. Again, this was in 2021.
I told her that this would be utterly improbable given that this would be several times higher than the highest daily death toll recorded for the state on record. The end of the week came and went with effectively no change.
This same co-worker also told me that the hospital staff had been informed that the Omicron variant of Covid was particularly lethal for children. As in, it was more likely to kill children than the elderly.
Don't forget that many hospital administrators banned the use of Ivermectin in treating Covid patients explicitly, and that they were briefing local governments and businesses how to push injections, encourage lockdowns, and mask mandates. They were also the people who collapsed their staff of doctors and nurses with the injection mandate, and blamed the whole thing on "stress".
My question is: why are the hospital administrators lying directly to doctors and nurses, and passing explicitly fictional information. Then, my next question is why is there no criminal culpability for the misconduct, malfeasance, and malpractice they've incited.
Here in Australia, in my state the only treatment protocol for the vulnerable (eg, anything more than just IV fluids and rest) is the Pfizer anti-virials. One course only.
Doctors were prescribing the fourth jab, which was effectively meaningless against Omicron. Because they feared the consequences if they DID NOT prescribe Clot Shot #4 for the elderly.
They medical establishment had absolutely no fear of consequences of any kind for death as an injury from the Pfizer therapeutic. There is an explicit agreement from the bottom to the top of the (state run) hospital to minimize the cause of death and to shield the doctors responsible.
The politicians, at the top, are getting all of their information from Lobbyists. They are absolutely, completely convinced that they can hush-up any malpractice. They are desperately afraid of being seen to do nothing. Medical companies, specifically Pfizer in this case, have turned up to offer a turn-key solution. "Hey! Here is a complete set of treatment protocols that we know works. Put it in place, and you can be seen taking immediate, effective action!"
Computing Forever had an excellent series of videos on YouTube, before his channel was canceled, which showed that both the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation had been waiting since H1N1 Swine Flu (COVID19 - 10 years) to seize the opportunity of the next pandemic.
The immediate projections (computer modeling) that came out immediately on the discovery of COVID19 (then the Wuhan Virus) overestimated fatalities by more than two orders of magnitude. They were later shown to be produced by a Democrat CPAC funded think tank. The initial figures were beyond trash; they deliberately, willfully misleading.
All of the policy has been set at the political level; with the political leadership (at the state level) dictating to the media and then to the medical apparatus.
Any doctor who spoke out was ruthlessly canceled. Doctors were canceled for trying to publicize inexpensive, effective prevention and treatment protocols.
The Media establishment has been complicit at every step.
If you want the most excellent, most relevant modern example of fascism, here you are. Truth is a function of politics. Science is a function of politics. Actions leading to literal deaths of tens thousands are irrelevant. There is no boundary that can be drawn between political parties and the media apparatus, nor the medical institutions. They have effectively been a single, monolithic unit; all working together to deliver political outcomes.
i like how they completely ignore that trump was the only one that wanted to do anything about the virus initially and they just called him a waaaaaaycissss until they suddenly decided that the virus was actually a really big deal u guise
What the other user said, but also the fact that many people who died within a certain time frame of a positive COVID test were lumped into the numbers despite dying of other causes.
COVID killed George Floyd.