What If I Were to Tell You COVID Cases Would Be Declining Nationally If Not For One State
By: Matt Vespa
So if not for California covid cases would be declining nationally. California and New York are the hardest hit places. Total cases in California and total deaths in New York top those lists. The irony is that the places with the most demanding of mask mandates and the harshest lockdowns are the hardest hit by the China Virus . In California the rural areas got hit by our first wave of the virus and just as we were going to go to purple and have the state come down upon us for our anti mask anti lockdown attitude but the big urban areas got hit by the 2nd wave and are far worse off than we are so they have to take care of the big cities and we escaped their control.
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We had a spike in COVID cases over the Thanksgiving holiday. No shock due to the millions who traveled to see their families, which is not an act of evil, a narrative the liberal media peddled for days. People were going to travel, folks. We’re pandemic-fatigued. And it’s Thanksgiving. This was bound to happen. So, now that the holiday season is drawing to a close—are we still in the midst of a COVID spike? If you watch CNN and MSNBC, well, you’d think half the population contracted it over Christmas. Not the case, in fact, COVID cases nationally would be declining if it weren’t for one state: California.
Both New York and California have become the Mecca and Medina for this virus. New York, by far, has a higher death rate and the number of infections than the red state outbreaks that the media tries to pass off as similar in size and scope. It’s not. For starters, in most red states, their COVID outbreaks are part of a first wave that never touched them back in the spring. At the same time, that doesn’t mean as a governor you don’t force facilities housing those who are most susceptible to die from COVID to accept such patients, which led to the deaths of thousands of people. Almost half of all COVID deaths in the US come from nursing homes.
And this isn’t conservative media or Fox News making this point about California. It’s the Mercury News :
As other regions of the country finally see some relief from the insidious coronavirus, California’s surge has grown so large it now claims a dark distinction in the nation’s outbreak: Without the Golden State, U.S. numbers would be dropping.
That’s according to The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic, which analyzes data from across the country.
Politico has more on the spike:
America's most populous state has become one of the nation's worst epicenters for the disease, setting new records for cases, hospitalizations and deaths almost every day. Things are so bad in Southern California that some patients are being treated in hospital tents, while doctors have begun discussing whether they need to ration care.
The turnabout has confounded leaders and health experts. They can point to any number of reasons that contributed to California's surge over the past several weeks. But it is hard to pinpoint one single factor — and equally hard to find a silver bullet.
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“If we have a surge on top of a surge," she added, "we will definitely break."
At more than 100 new daily cases per 100,000 residents, California’s case rate is second only to that in Tennessee, according to the nonprofit tracking site Covid Act Now — though it's a state that does not mandate mask wearing and allows indoor gatherings of up to 10 people. The website Covid Exit Strategy shows a 97 percent rise in Covid throughout California, which has gone in the opposite direction from its West Coast counterparts, Oregon and Washington.
In Los Angeles, officials have said all along that people were gathering too often. They blamed celebrations and postseason viewing parties when the Dodgers and Lakers won championships this fall.
Some have blamed the strict rules themselves, saying that cooped-up Californians couldn't take it any longer and decided they need to live their lives. Others have said congregant settings remain a severe concern in a housing-constrained state, especially in low-income communities where residents live in tight quarters and must continue to work in-person to survive.
Again, it’s an airborne virus. It will spread. But we’re missing positives here. Besides California, cases are dropping. It’s still a virus where the vast majority, 90+ percent, will recover—and that’s across all age groups .
I contracted COVID in late November. It was no picnic, but I got better. Some people only have a runny nose. Some go to the hospital, unfortunately.
Myles Garrett, defensive end for the Cleveland Browns and the number one overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, had a horrible bout with the virus. Chris Collingsworth noted that he was working with a respiratory therapist to get his lung capacity back to pre-COVID levels for good reason; the Browns season isn’t done. They have a shot to make the postseason.
And then, there’s Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, who rushed for 94 yards against the Dallas Cowboys in his first game back on December 8. He accounted for nearly one-third of the rushing yards the Ravens had against the Cowboys. They ran all over them. Jackson did say in the post-game interview that he still couldn’t taste or smell. It impacts everyone differently, but the good news is most will recover.
Also, and I don’t mean to marginalize the tragedy that has befallen the families of the 300,000+ Americans who have died from COVID, but a huge chunk of the fatalities would have died from something else in the very near future. Now, a new study suggests that’s not the case. I’ll let you all debate that, but the prolonged lockdown measures and their impacts have killed more people than COVID. The liberal media hysteria has been more damaging than the virus as well.
Go down the line. Every bit of advice, or warming, has been wrong. The mask advice was botched from the start. Contracting it through surfaces has vanished from the news cycle. Schools will become mini mortuaries as reopening schools is akin to the Death March to Bataan. All wrong.
Bars and restaurants account for only 1.4 percent of COVID spread in New York. We have two vaccines now. They’ve been approved and are being distributed. Light is at the end of the tunnel and we can thank President Donald Trump for that.
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It impacts everyone differently, but the good news is most will recover.
Also, and I don’t mean to marginalize the tragedy that has befallen the families of the 300,000+ Americans who have died from COVID, but a huge chunk of the fatalities would have died from something else in the very near future. Now, a new study suggests that’s not the case. I’ll let you all debate that, but the prolonged lockdown measures and their impacts have killed more people than COVID. The liberal media hysteria has been more damaging than the virus as well.
Go down the line. Every bit of advice, or warming, has been wrong. The mask advice was botched from the start. Contracting it through surfaces has vanished from the news cycle. Schools will become mini mortuaries as reopening schools is akin to the Death March to Bataan. All wrong.
Bars and restaurants account for only 1.4 percent of COVID spread in New York. We have two vaccines now. They’ve been approved and are being distributed. Light is at the end of the tunnel and we can thank President Donald Trump for that.
Sad but true...
Yesterday in the US we had 201,555 new COVID cases, 3725 deaths, and 125,000 hospitalized with COVID.
Congressman-elect (R) Luke Letlow died from COVID, he was 41 years old with no known underlying conditions.
Florida had 12,075 new COVID cases and 105 deaths.
Yes it’s still bad. But this time we have more methods of treatment and the vaccines are already here.
Approximately 3,000 people per day are dying from COVID. Treating the virus is not enough.
Vaccine rollout by Operation Warp Speed is an abject failure. They, themselves, said 20 million vaccines by the end of December, in reality we are looking at 2.1 million.
It's very bad and it will probably get worse. Vaccines are here but the distribution is lacking. (that is being kind)
If you have the virus you cannot get the vaccine, so with all the asymptomatic people out there that are positive cannot get the vaccine. How many does that leave that can be vaccinated? What about the side effects from the vaccine? They are worse than the side effects from the flu vaccine, but we still have so many people complaining about the flu vaccine. What about the anti-vaxxers? Should they be forced to get the vaccine?
What is in the vaccine? Can you list all the side effects? How much will it cost? How long will the vaccine stay in effect? Is it bi-annual or annual? We know nothing about it, but because it came to fruition when Trump was President you are all for it - if it had come out when Biden was president you would be against it. Maybe Biden should say masks are evil & social distancing is evil so all the Trump followers will jump on the social distancing & mask wearing bandwagon.
It is the states that are doing the distribution with in each one, according to their priorities and rules. Maybe in three weeks Biden can try to federalize the distribution process and really screw it all up.
Too late for that deception.
You haven't looked into it, have you? Your statement is the height of ignorance.
Actually I have, thus what I wrote above.
... Part of the explanation for the significant difference between the number of vaccine doses distributed and administrated is due to reporting delays. Obviously, federal authorities do not administer the shots. Local health bureaucracies do it. And they are not always reporting in a timely fashion.
But given everything that we’ve seen this year, is it possible that Democrat states like California, Illinois and Michigan are slow walking the administration of the vaccine to promote the left’s narrative of Trump’s incompetence? Will they miraculously speed up vaccinations after the inauguration so that Biden gets the credit?
I hate to be so cynical, but that seems like a plausible explanation to me.
Yesterday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to the criticism, saying:
“President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed has developed safe and effective vaccines 5 times faster than any similar effort in history, and he has already made the vaccines free for all Americans. Nearly 20 million first doses have been allocated to states for immediate delivery and administration at their direction. . .
“The President has used the Defense Production Act 18 times in connection with Operation Warp Speed and will continue to employ it wherever possible to accelerate vaccine manufacturing and save lives.”
Every year since 1946, Gallup has asked Americans to name the man they most admire. For the past 12 years, it has been Barack Obama. This year, America’s most admired man is President Donald Trump .....
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1st lie. “President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed has developed safe and effective vaccines". Trump administration did not do anything to develop a vaccine, and in fact Pfizer did not even accept any "Operation Warp Speed" money.
Just another instance of Trump trying to steal credit.
2nd lie: "he has already made the vaccines free for all Americans", you already said that this was up to the states, make up your mind.
Is that why he is imagining himself as Time's "Man of the Year" and proclaiming that he has won 1 (maybe 2) Nobel Peace Prizes?
The problem with the vaccines is that Trump is more than willing to throw billions of dollars to the pharmaceutical companies, but refuses to assist the states, who with their limited budgets, have already been shouldering most of the costs since the federal government has refused to take any steps in this pandemic. In case you have forgotten, this pandemic has been declared a national emergency, that means the federal government is supposed to step in and assist the states. The closest Trump has gotten is paying Florida millions of dollars for his frequent golfing trips.
More parroting from a biased site I see. I wonder if you're capable of producing anything objective or original?
One fuck up after another by this administration.
All the screw ups came from China, not from our President.
The President's dismal response and attitude towards Covid is his screw up, not China's!
Wrong...
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My Administration will stop at nothing to save lives and shield the vulnerable.
President Donald J. Trump
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yep. It's sad that the left cannot acknowledge any of the good that the Trump administration has done for the pandemic. But unfortunately that's the way this country has split, if you are not 100% for my side then you are 100% wrong. There's no acknowledgement of grey.
For all the right things that the Trump administration and President Trump has done, there are a few things IMO he could have done better.
Those are just my thoughts. I still feel that President Trump did a lot of right things in the fight against this pandemic and I feel it's a shame that partisan politics has gotten so large that we can no longer talk about things. Too many people want to just sound important I guess.
Took early action to cut off travel from China
Only Chinese nationals were cut off. US citizens were allowed to return home, bringing the virus with them.
Considering our Bill of Rights I think any administration would have a very tough time (and eventually lose in court) if trying to prevent citizens from returning back into this country. I mean, hell, if he had tried to prevent citizens from coming back into the country then he would have been that dictator that some have accused him of trying to be.
Ah yes, the dictator that set up federal guidelines and let each state respond as they saw fit and even now distributed the vaccine to the states where they decide priorities as to how to distribute it. Such a federalism dictator!
So if not for stupid California, covid cases would be declining nationally. That’s a hopeful sign. California and New York are by far the hardest hit places. Total cases in California and total deaths in New York top those lists. The sad irony is that the places with the most demanding of mask mandates and the harshest lockdowns are the hardest hit by the China Virus . In California the rural areas got hit by our first wave of the virus and just as we were going to go to purple and have the state come down upon us for our righteous anti mask anti lockdown attitude, but the big urban areas got hit by the 2nd wave and are far worse off than we are, so they have to take care of the big cities and we escaped their iron grip Orwellian control.
That is not irony. Use your brain ... the places with the highest concentration of people (and thus the greater likelihood of infection) will naturally have the strongest push for precautions.
And the majority of cases occur at home which is where the pro lockdown fanatics want to force us to stay.
What kind of bizarre logic is this ... are you trying to argue that it is safer if people interact with others in public and spend less time at home? Think about what point you are trying to make and let's see if you can articulate something sensible.
It's non-logic. It's just downright stupid.
Are you both in denial that over half of all covid cases are initiated at peoples own homes?
Evidence?
Big surprise that you missed the point again. The point is that you seem to be arguing that it would be healthier for society if people steered clear of their homes:
Now that is some screwed up reasoning.
No, I would call that just plain paranoid delusion.
It’s called the truth! Indoor dining and church attendance are far safer places to not get the disease transmitted than our own home is.
So we should all live in restaurants and churches, eh? Absolutely brilliant MAGA! I wonder why Trump (the biggest brain) has not suggested this.
Florida recorded 17,192 new COVID cases and 132 death yesterday. The cases and deaths have been climbing every fricking day for the last three weeks. We are now back to where we were this summer.
Another ignorant article and comments from the author and seeder.
You can't or won't reply to my stats, typical of you MAGA.
Here is what is happening in Florida. I live here MAGA so don't try to bs me what is happening in Fl.
BTW, DeSantis put seniors (over 65) before essential workers of course that is against CDC guidelines. Over 75 years old was supposed to be the first seniors to get it since they are by far the most vulnerable but DeSantis moved it back to 65 so over 75 will be mixed in the those that are not as vulnerable.
Florida's first-come, first-serve Covid-19 vaccination plan for the elderly leads to scramble
They had five areas open for vaccines and each only had 300 doses.
The rollout in some parts of Florida has been a fiasco.
There are some front-line health care workers that have not received their vaccines.
In my county as of Tuesday afternoon at 2pm 25,000 seniors have signed up. There are only 3,000 doses available. I don't know how many had signed up as of today. Hopefully the roll out fiasco from the feds will improve.
Once again you have no idea what the hell you're talking about.
I wish that applied here in SoCal. They don't tell the Seniors where or how to get the vaccine. Not even the Doctors nor clinics know. Thus, it is useless info.
Hospital and medical workers are first along with skilled care nursing home residents and staff. I support Florida and Texas and others doing so in giving all over age 65 the vaccine ahead of younger other essential workers.
My mom is over 80 and a diabetic and over weight, non self ambulatory. She’d be in a nursing home if not for a relative and in home services. I can’t get her the vaccine. If she were already placed in a convalescent hospital, she’d have already been vaccinated.
I gave you a link that states that not all healthcare workers have received the vaccine.
You can support that the hell you want you don't live in Florida and you are not over 75.
Fricking idiotic comments by someone that has no idea of what is happening in Florida and trying to pretend that they do. Classic.
I am in CA and am sick to death of the selfish assholes who are infecting the state just to party. We deserve every adverse comment we get on this one. At least now we are making arrests and cutting off the utilities at known party houses.
All hail the big brother police state!
At least in the part of California where I live we are mostly free. Our law enforcement provides educational services to citizens and businesses. There is no mask enforcement, no business closure enforcement, no curfew enforcement. God bless the Shasta County Sheriffs Department and Redding Police Department. We back the Blue!
Same here Paula. I live in SoCal, east of Los Angeles out Riverside way. and the a-holes who are trying to recall Gov. Newsome for issuing rules and restrictions that will help keep the virus from spreading and hopefully saving lives.
I’m about 600 freeway miles away from you in this state and I signed the recall Newsom petition back in August during a local We Back the Blue rally that also served as a keep the economy open and pro Trump event. Yes, a Pro Trump region of California!
You supporting a loser is perfect and fitting.
I live in an area that strongly supports keeping the economy open, strongly supports our law enforcement, and voted 2-1 for Trump over Biden. In this part of California Teump is the most popular political leader since Reagan.
He may be popular in your area but he is a loser to the majority of the country.
So you keep right on supporting a loser, it puts you in poor company.
I saw the by county maps of 2020 red vs blue and most of the country is red. We even took back four congressional districts we lost in 2018 in California.