the no-nonsense, nothing-but-the-facts-m'am C19 thread

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please re-read the title of this thread

[scottmitchell74]

Learned how to suture? Why and what for?

I bought a kit...and there are tons of YT videos showing the different techniques.

I've entered a phase where I hike, hunt, and do some ranch stuff in remote places...and you just never know. I want to be able to at least to be a stop-gap. Animals get injured too so...
just in case?

The kits fit nicely in my hiking backpack.

[bambam1729]

I've watched T&F on YouTube

Listen to Classics (and non) on Youtube

I've watched MLB live games on YouTube

I've learned how to suture, lay tile, put on a trailer hitch receiver, skin and quarter a deer, and a whole bunch of other useful things on YouTube.

I listen to the Bible on Youtube.

I've watched recitals, weddings, funerals, sermons, graduations, State playoffs on Youtube.

Yes, Youtube hosts all manner of nonsense and they are well known for censorship but it is also an insanely vast library of endless good, useful and important things.

No-nonsense facts are presented in that video. Check it out.

Learned how to suture? Why and what for?

[bad hammy]

Of course I get all of my facts on YouTube, who doesn't??

[scottmitchell74]

Getting your 'facts' from YouTube is the road to disaster.

I've watched T&F on YouTube

Listen to Classics (and non) on Youtube

I've watched MLB live games on YouTube

I've learned how to suture, lay tile, put on a trailer hitch receiver, skin and quarter a deer, and a whole bunch of other useful things on YouTube.

I listen to the Bible on Youtube.

I've watched recitals, weddings, funerals, sermons, graduations, State playoffs on Youtube.

Yes, Youtube hosts all manner of nonsense and they are well known for censorship but it is also an insanely vast library of endless good, useful and important things.

No-nonsense facts are presented in that video. Check it out.

[Conor Dary]

Getting your 'facts' from YouTube is the road to disaster.

[scottmitchell74]

https://youtu.be/BPbCA5hiEfM

Facts

[Halfmiler2]

Here are close to 2021 year-end numbers That include probable deaths for NY, NJ, and Bergen County.

The New Year’s (1/1/22) afternoon numbers:

Cumulative Numbers:
Globally: 286.440 million cases & 5,425K deaths
The USA: 54.686 million cases & 824.3K deaths
NY State: 3.555 million cases & 61,159 deaths
NJ State: 1.373 million cases & 29,053 deaths
Bergen Co.: 124,344 cases & 3,048 deaths

NJ & NY detail:

NJ has 4,005 & NY has 7,373 hospitalizations
The RT for NJ rose to 1.92.
The NJ had 33.85% & NY had 16.2% positivity %.

Here are close to 2022 year-end numbers as of 1/1/23:

Globally: 659.467 million cases & 6.687 million deaths
The USA: 100.707 million cases & 1.100 million deaths
NY State: 6.439 million cases & 76,728 deaths
NJ State: 2.927 million cases & 35,510 deaths
Bergen Co.: 312,655 cases & 3,675 deaths

NY & NJ Details:
NJ Replacement Rate: 1.08
NJ has 1,533 and NY has 3,565 hospitalizations.
NJ has 80.8% & NY 84.6% vaccination rate.
USA has 80.8% vaccinations rate.

[Halfmiler2]

The NJ replacement rate is at 1.07. Over 1.0 means COVID pandemic is growing. Under 1.0 means COVID pandemic is contracting.

It has been on a seesaw course the late month: first shooting up to 1.71 after Thanksgiving, then dropping under 1.0, and now going back over 1.0.

[jeremyp]

"Some 250 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to leaked figures from Beijing’s senior health officials reported by US media.
According to the information published by Bloomberg and the Financial Times, 37 million people were estimated to have caught the virus on Tuesday alone, in contrast to official data counting 3,049 cases on that day, and 62,592 symptomatic infections during the first 20 days of this month.
Citing two sources involved in the matter, the Financial Times reported that Sun Yang, a deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, presented the shocking figures to a meeting of China’s National Health Commission (NHC) on Wednesday."

If true and 1% is a possible death rate then 2-3 million people may die.Stay tuned.


https://www.timesofisrael.com/report...-covid-policy/

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile...

A New Zealand couple is refusing to allow their infant son to undergo lifesaving heart surgery using blood from people vaccinated against Covid-19, showing how vaccine misinformation continues to manifest in unexpected ways two years into global inoculation campaigns.

The 4-month-old is critically ill with a severe case of pulmonary valve stenosis, a heart valve disorder. The boy’s mother says she wants her son’s operation to take place without delay, but she has demanded that “safe blood” be used, with her lawyer saying that the family was concerned about blood containing traces of vaccines using new mRNA technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/world/australia/new-zealand-baby-vaccine.html?smid=tw-share

[Halfmiler2]

I regret that we do not have time to do a monthly COVID numbers update this week. We are busy at the USATF Annual Meeting which takes priority. We hope to be back with an update on January 1st. We can tell you that the NJ replacement rate has dropped was below the neutral 1.0 to 0.88.

[Halfmiler2]

In NJ, the Replacement rate had been under 1.0 (neutral) most of October but gone over 1.0 the past couple weeks peaking at 1.11. But it has now trended down to 1.01. We will have to see whether there is a spike for the holidays.

The good news is that the NJ Replacement rate in the past week had dropped under 1.0 again to 0.91 which means that COVID is contracting again.

[TN1965]

As of November 15, the seven-day moving average of global death is 988. The first time it is under 1000 since March 2020.

[Halfmiler2]

In NJ, the Replacement rate had been under 1.0 (neutral) most of October but gone over 1.0 the past couple weeks peaking at 1.11. But it has now trended down to 1.01. We will have to see whether there is a spike for the holidays.