https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/12/the-real-reason-youtube-silenced-rand-paul/

Most recently, the cat video website YouTube silenced Sen. Rand Paul — a medical doctor — for posting a video in which he stated his studied medical opinion about a vitally important medical issue. Dr. Paul stands at the very intersection of politics and medicine — precisely where the issue of masks and the effectiveness of government mandates come together.
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n his video that has since been vanished by YouTube, Dr. Paul warned against the false sense of security that cloth, store-bought masks provide people who are concerned about COVID-19. Lobbying for mask mandates, Dr. Paul warned, could be “potentially deadly misinformation.”

Given the partisan track record of social media giants such as YouTube, the decision to disappear Dr. Paul is hardly a surprise. But just for the fun of it, let’s take them seriously for a second.

Consider these statements:

“In the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.”

“The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material.”

“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”

“If you look at the masks that you buy in a drugstore, the leakage around that doesn’t really do much to protect you.”

On their face, these all sound like pretty reasonable statements in a debate over whether we as a country should force millions of school children to mask up in order to learn how to read and do math. But in these crazy times, such statements have been deemed dangerous and anyone expressing them is immediately deprived of his first amendment rights.

Only it was not Sen. Rand Paul who uttered those statements. Every single one of them was a direct quotation from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the lionized director of the federal government’s National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Of course, Dr. Fauci no longer spouts such statements today, even though a year and a half of mask-wearing has conclusively proven that the statements are entirely true. Instead, Dr. Fauci now claims the exact opposite.

So either he is a liar now or he was a liar then. If it is the former, then he is a dangerous liar — for he issued those deadly warnings against masks at the very height of the pandemic. And if that is the case, then Dr. Fauci is the most reckless, murderous public medical official in the land and should have been fired the instant politicians determined he was a liar and ordered up the first mask mandates.

But this is the federal government, where useless bureaucrats come to die.

The truth is, Dr. Paul’s real crime is not that he shares Dr. Fauci’s former opinion on masks. The real problem with Dr. Paul is that he openly calls on American citizens to stand up for their constitutional liberties at a time when they are under unprecedented assault by unelected bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci.

“Resist the new world order,” he recently implored. “They can’t arrest all of us.”

It’s the truth — but you won’t see it on YouTube!

It’s come to a pretty pass when we’re all looking for a trustworthy Horse Doctor. For ourselves.

Houyhnhnms FTW!

We might be living in the —redacted— Movie.. but they hired that talented Dean Swift to polish the script.

Wait until you get to the Modest Proposal bit.

Most hospitals “right size” the ICU (and all the other care units) such that the units are at around capacity at any given time. I worked in a hospital for five years and I’m not sure I saw much more than one or two empty beds in the ICU’s. They also are NOT THAT BIG to begin with. No wasted space!

So it doesn’t take much for ICU’s to seem overwhelmed.

It’s pretty similar for ED’s: “right sized” so they is no “wasted” space.

The whole focus on vaccination as opposed to effective early treatment is rearing its ugly head.

You can get veterinarian grade ivermectin at any place that caters to horse supplies: Tractor supply, a feed store. Simple math can tell you what a human would need. (Plus, it’s apple flavored!)

Any hospital that is not prepared for this with massive amounts of surge capacity after 18 months of this crap needs to seriously look at hiring more competent administrators.

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1422243808536715265

There is also this twitter thread. Spoiler it’s from 2018 flu season.

As a fellow CT resident (who hopefully will not be such in the near future as we head to DeSantis land) I feel your pain. What is amazing about CT’s data is like other states, cases up, but deaths way down compared to January with the same case load. Even more amazing for the state is that CT’s 2 week average death is even lower than the other states now standing at 0.5/day.

As for Hartford, we all know from the 2020 election map, that the vast majority of rural CT went for Trump, but as usual it’s the very blue Hartford, New Haven, New London, Norwich, Bridgeport, and Fairfield county which control the state.

https://spinstrangenesscharm.wordpress.com/2021/08/11/covid19-mini-update-perseid-meteor-shower-day-edition-israeli-pm-nixes-4th-lockdown-sitrep-from-japan/