Levity and Gravity

A Little Levity

Ending the Pandemic. We desperately want covid to be behind us. Some of us are declaring that this is the case, facts be damned. Not an unusual attitude in the modern world. Here’s a college that has found that to end the covid-19 pandemic, all you have to do is stop reporting cases, eliminate all special risk-reduction practices, and put an end to the emergency paid leave policy.
Springfield News-Leader.com 5/18/2022

Predicting the Future. Oregon seems to have some super computers that can predict the future with precision: “The state is expected to peak at 321 covid-19 hospitalizations on June 10.” Share with the rest of us?
KEZI.com 5/18/2022

Trumpeting the Obvious. A big research computer study says being outside is safer than being inside, and that holding a gathering with everyone doing a PCR test ahead of time is better than requiring vaccinations. Seems I’ve heard that somewhere before.
KXAN.com 5/10/2022

And Now For Something Completely Different

The 100,000 new cases a day being reported and tracked are likely low by a factor of four or five, per multiple estimates. Dr. Eric Topol says: "The real number of cases is likely at least 500,000 per day, far greater than any of the US prior waves except Omicron.”

“We have a highly unfavorable picture of: (1) accelerated evolution of the virus; (2) increased immune escape of new variants; (2) progressively higher transmissibility and infectiousness; (4) substantially less protection from transmission by vaccines and boosters; (5) some reduction on vaccine/booster protection against hospitalization and death; (6) high vulnerability from infection-acquired immunity only; and (7) likelihood of more noxious new variants in the months ahead.”

And he reports that vaccinated individuals account for 42 percent of the deaths during the Omicron wave, which is an all-time high percentage.
Ground Truths 5/15/2022


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