The Delta Wave is deadlier in Trump country

And he doubled down on that despite even more hospitalizations.

hard to believe he was defending his actions .    its almost as bad as chump saying he did a GREAT job with covid

Almost 1 in every 400 Floridians Has Died of COVID-19
as DeSantis' Florida now Surpasses 51,000 Deaths

NEWSWEEK -

Covid death rate more than 4 times higher
in least vaccinated states

(CNN)
The average rate of Covid-19 deaths in the 10 least vaccinated states
was more than 4 times higher over the past week than the rate
in the 10 most vaccinated states, according to a CNN analysis.

In the least vaccinated states, roughly 8 people out of every 100,000
died of Covid-19 over the past week, compared with only about
2 out of every 100,000 people in the 10 most vaccinated states.

Data from Johns Hopkins University and the US CDC for the analysis.

Politicized a nature pandemic appears silly and incomprehensible, but it exists in certain part of this country. How did we ban public indoor smoking decades ago, where is the "pro choice" hold out? 

Very good point.  My body (smoking) therefore MY CHOICE,  right ?!

Wrong.

Same applies to freedom to spread a deadly contagion.

In a democratic but safe society:

"YOUR right to swing your fists ENDS where MY nose begins."
                                               - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

From quoteinvestigator.com:

“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.”

Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are sociopaths who literally do not care whether people they encounter live or die.

good question      

and similar  is  how do we put up with mandatory vaccinations for kids in schools ?

While the city of Anchorage had previously declared "Crisis Care" condition in all their hospitals due to the UNvaccinated, on Wednesday the entire state has now declared the same "Crisis Care" mode.  This means the hospitals' EUs and ICUs are so overcrowded by covid patients that there are no beds available for anyone else.

They are forced to ration care like wartime triage.

As a result of those choosing "personal freedom" to wear a mask/social-distance  or not, and/or choosing personal freedom to get vaccinated or not, it is reported that 4 critical care dialysis patients (unrelated to covid) were unable to get the emergency interventions they required -- which WOULD HAVE SAVED THEIR LIVES.

Two of them died.

The other two are in palative care receiving comfort before their completely unnecessary death.

All because of the overcrowding from covid...

Idaho also declared "Crisis Care" a few days ago, and both Montana and Kentucky are on the brink

more to come

Nicole Sperry's 10-year-old healthy daughter
died 5 days after showing symptoms of Covid

'My message for you and all that are listening is that Covid is not over,' she says
'Covid is real and our wish is that people take it more seriously'

(CNN)On Sunday, Nicole Sperry said her final goodbyes to her 10-year-old
daughter, who died from Covid-19.
Less than 24 hours later, she was behind a podium combating misinformation
from STUPID parents at a Virginia school board meeting.
At a Chesapeake Public School District meeting, parents and community members
denied the EXISTENCE of the deadly virus and advocated for the removal of
the district's mask mandate, insisting the pandemic is over!

@fubah2

 So you and kelly should probably stay away from your Halloween parties. You have 3 and kelly has 2, right? Stay inside.

Question to dr fauci- With cases going down, is the Delta surge behind us, Blitzer asked. "I hope so," said Dr. Fauci. "It's certainly going in the right direction. All of the parameters cases, hospitalizations and deaths are down.."

Nearly 99% survival rate...

ignorance causing unnecessary  deaths

https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2021/10/11/florida-reports-fewer-than-2000-new-covid-cases-as-decline-continues/

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Florida reported 1,899 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the fewest attributed to a single day since early July.

The state has reached 3,609,643 cases and 56,413 deaths tied to COVID since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest CDC data posted Monday.

Three deaths have been added since Friday.

Florida has gone six straight weeks with fewer new infections than the week prior.

The state’s health department reported 25,792 new cases from Oct. 1-7, the lowest since the week that began July 2.

Florida’s statewide new-case positivity rate last week was 4.8%, lowest since mid-June. 

illustrates there r a lot of dumbass parents in va when they say the pandemic is over

Right.  

And then the rightwingnuts will resort to violence upon school board officials who are desperately trying to protect the children.

All ya had to do was wait a month or two.

VERMONT, THE MOST VACCINATED STATE HAS A CURRENT COVID 7-DAY AVG. DEATH RATE 6 TIMES HIGHER PER CAPITA THAN FLORIDA'S CURRENT 7-DAY AVG DEATH RATE. 

VERMONT COVID 7-DAY AVG. CASES NOW 3 TIMES HIGHER PER CAPITA THAN FLORIDA'S. 

shameful

shameful

shameful

7 day average isn't as statistically significant as all data.  According to Statista, Vermont has 56 covid deaths per 100,000 people which is lowest overall rate in the US.  Whereas Florida has 285 covid deaths per 100,000 which is 8th highest.  Harvard study found no correlation between vaccination rates and covid case rates in over 60 countries.  But author says this doesn't mean vaccines don't work.  Instead big picture is revealed by looking at everything.

thx for being  thorough with more RELEVENT stats  thirdperson 

thx for being  thorough with more RELEVENT stats  thirdperson 

You know, in my heart and my mind I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. It is a big picture, sooooo many things to look at. But when folks cherry pick to make it political, well, I can play that game too. So easy to do.

New York and New Jersey for instance; Hit hard by COVID when it first hit the U.S., some very bad nursing home responses partly to blame, but they were hit hard. Some states like Vermont not hit hard at all early and then last Jan. they got it but not hard. They have their highest case loads now. States like Oregon and Washington missed a lot of it early. And everybody has reason why and always it was human intervention. I don't believe so. Oh yeah, locking down certainly slowed the spread. Social distancing?? A little maybe. Cloth masks, again a little maybe. 

When I look at the BIG PICTURE, like how are 33% of the wild whitetail deer tested in Penn, NY, and Michigan showing they were exposed to COVID??? These animals in the woods not in a shopping mall or restaurant. They're in the woods!! Makes you say hmmmmm, maybe we really don't understand viral spread. 

The vaccine helps no doubt. It does NOT prevent infection in MANY MANY people. In some cases vaccinated still die. In a very few documented cases people have died from the vaccine itself. 

With that knowledge I cannot understand mandating this vaccine. If Delta never showed up, vaccines 90-95% effective at preventing infection, than I would be very much more inclined to say YES, but not now. Makes no sense. 

Fella on the CFB forum said he was vaccinated in May, got COVID in August, was very sick, almost went to hospital but got over it. Three months after the shot.

The story on Portugal saying how vaccinated they are and how great their doing, best in 18 months. NO, look it up. They have more COVID issues now than last spring. 

IMO, total vaccination IS NOT THE ANSWER. It spreads to animals, mink farm workers in Michigan contracted COVID with mink mutations. COVID will never be eradicated. Herd immunity, IMO, will never really happen. 

Florida's numbers dropping like a rock is a lesson learned for those with open minds. No mandates, stadiums full of people, people living normal, yet the numbers crash. WHY?? IMO, it's seasonal, it has it's window and attacks, something shuts that window and it's NOT man's intervention.