By K E Stone (Keystone)
Article 87 was hassled on social media subject to banning
and censorship so hopefully Article 88 will fare better. Someone got their
feathers ruffled and worse, their panties in a bunch, over a chart or something
written in the chronology. Perhaps it was the prior article highlighting the
pathetic collapse in the United States vaccination rate now the lowest since
the mRNA shots started in December 2020.
The Whitehouse and CDC begins the Fall booster shot roll-out
so they likely did not appreciate the truth getting in the way of people receiving
the booster-booster-booster so the social media henchmen cut good ole Keystone
off at the knees. They can’t handle the truth. Social media does not explain
why any article or message is banned or censored; they simply deny access to
the content.
The US vaccination story is a mess. Anyone that has had the
two-shot initial mRNA vaccination and/or booster shots is eligible for the new Fall
booster which partially protects against the omicron strains, including BA5,
based on mice data. Thus, the unvaccinated folks, and people that received one
jab, but then decided for a multitude of reasons not to go back for the second
shot, are not eligible to receive the new fancy Fall booster shot (about
one-fourth of America).
The new Fall booster shot will be the booster for the folks
that only received the initial 2-shot series. For the people that received 2
shots and a third which was their booster, the new booster shot will be their
booster-booster 4th shot. For the folks that have 4 shots, the initial 2, then
a booster, then a second booster, they will be on their 5th shot, the
booster-booster-booster.
The Biden’s and Lord Fauci are in this vaccination camp so
Joe, Jill and Tony will be receiving their booster-booster-booster 5th shots
and they’ve all had COVID-19 twice. That’s funny. You have to laugh at the
mess. It is American mediocrity on full display daily. Good luck all.
The Coronavirus Chronology is winding down in conjunction
with the end of US wave 7 and the likely end of the pandemic phase. There isn’t
any need to ban further articles since there are likely only one or two more in
the hopper.
US wave 7 which is retreating signaling the end of the
pandemic phase and start of the endemic phase so the Coronavirus Chronology has
run its course. There is no need to kick Keystone in the butt on the way out
the door. The chronology will soon no longer be a thorn in the politician’s
sides.
The Coronavirus Chronology series has succeeded in recording
the daily pandemic news and zeitgeist over the last 2-1/2 years for all seven
US infection waves as well as the outbreaks around the world. Keystone has
written the equivalent of a dozen novels during the pandemic, about 1.2 million
words, a prolific pace that rivals Stephen King’s ability to lay down lead (too
bad the writing is not in the same league).
COVID-19 is in retreat around the world (sans China, Hong
Kong and Russia) and US wave 7 is dropping faster than a prom dress sometimearound midnight so perhaps the Coronavirus Chronology will be put to rest over
the next one or two articles. No one will be happier than Keystone since
writing far over one million words on a single subject is getting old
especially when the threat of China Virus is finally waning.
After nearly 3 years, with the world on the mend, the
COVID-19 Frankenstein monster returns to communist China from which it was
spawned perhaps seeking retribution for its existence.
Many of you may have missed the last Article 87 and it is
linked below. The smoke is clearing on social media. Once the social media sites
screw the chronology out of the momentum that occurs when a new article is
released, and a couple weeks go by, the links begin working again but people
are not as interested in yesterday’s news.
Hopefully, this Article 88 will not be banned or censored.
The chronology is backed-up so deleting and banning articles is a fruitless
endeavor. The chronology has recorded all the mistakes, missteps,
misinformation, disinformation and covid foibles during the entire pandemic. Politicians
and medical officials will want to rewrite the history of the pandemic but the
Coronavirus Chronology is the history.
The world’s daily new cases chart is shown above. Fantastic
news. Worldwide daily new cases drop to 491K per day below 5 hundo taking out
both prior lows and comparing back to last November. It is a beautiful sight. Rejoice.
The world is on the mend from COVID-19.
The world’s daily new deaths chart is shown above. The world
is averaging 1.6K COVID-19 deaths per day trending lower for the last month. It
is great news but there will be no happiness until the global death rate drops
below 1.3K souls per day which is the low from June. That will take the death
rate back to the lows when the pandemic started in early 2020. The 1.3K deaths
per day and lower will appear in the days ahead as the deaths in Japan and the
US subside.
The world’s active cases chart is shown above. The bell
shape is forming verifying that the world’s wave 9, and the pandemic phase of
the COVID-19 nightmare, is in its last throes. There are 15.5 million active
covid cases worldwide teasing the low at 15.2 million active cases in June.
Once the 15.2 million is lost, the active cases will compare back to November,
and the bell of happiness will ring.
The world’s wave 9 demise is in progress and in sync with
daily new cases peaking 6 weeks ago followed by the active cases peaking 5
weeks ago and deaths peaking about 4 weeks ago.
Japan’s active cases chart is shown above. The bell shape is
forming verifying that Japan’s infection wave is ending. It is great news but
the elderly Japanese folks continue to drop like flies from COVID-19.
Japan’s daily new deaths chart is shown above. It is a sad
chart reflecting lots of pain and misery. The majority of deaths are elderly
Japanese in nursing homes. The older population is culled by covid. The
deadliest day of the pandemic for Japan is last Saturday, 9/3/22, at 347 dead
bodies, so it is important that today’s deaths remain below 347, and they
should; the farther below the better to maintain the downtrend and send the
world’s deaths lower faster.
South Korea’s active cases chart is shown above. The active
cases are dropping forming the bell shape signaling an end to the infection
wave.
Hong Kong’s daily new cases chart is shown above. Hong Kong
is controlled by the dirtbag CCP so it is just another communist city nowadays
like Beijing or Shanghai and losing its status as Asia’s financial hub. World
financiers and investment bankers are moving on to Singapore and Tokyo instead
since the CCP will spy on any business occurring in Hong Kong. The region is
relaxing covid restrictions to lure travelers and business people back to Hong
Kong but the world is moving on elsewhere.
Hong Kong reports 11K daily new cases for Thursday another
high for the current infection wave that worsens at 10.3K cases per day. Come
one, come all. Visit the covid-infected nest of Hong Kong where the CCP will
listen and record ever word you utter. That’s
a tough sell.
Russia’s daily new cases chart is shown above. Russia and
China (including Hong Kong) are the three major covid hotspots remaining around
the world. The 7-day MA trend line for Russia’s daily cases continues higher at
47K cases per day.
Over 90 Ruskies are dying each day from COVID-19 with the
numbers heading higher. The death numbers remain low compared to prior waves
but the current deaths are the highest since May. Dirtbag Dictator Putin’s
attention remains fixated on killing Ukrainians instead of on the pandemic.
The US daily new cases chart is shown above a beautiful
sight that becomes prettier each day. The 7-day MA trendline for US daily new
cases drops to 54K cases per day the lowest infection rate since April. Thatcan make you happy. US daily new cases peaked 6 weeks ago and the downtrend is
finally picking up speed.
In March, one-half year ago, US cases were down to 27K per
day. The tragic wave 6 was over and everyone was looking forward to the daily
cases falling below Lord Fauci’s magic number of 10K cases per day. That did
not happen. Instead, America was slapped in the face with the BA2 Omicron
Subvariant wave 7 that then morphs into a double-wave with BA1 dominant during wave
7a and BA5 dominant during wave 7b. The positive takeaway is that the lingering
stink of wave 7 is finally dissipating.
The Labor Day holiday weekend was 5 to 8 days ago coming
into the sweet spot incubation period (8 days). If there is any bump in daily
cases due to the holiday parties and fun, it will appear today through Thursday
specifically Tuesday would be the key day that is exactly 8 days after Labor
Day.
The Memorial Day and Independence Day holiday weekends created
small bumps in daily cases but no biggie overall and nothing that could be
called a superspreader so Labor Day is expected to be the same; a small bump in
daily cases for a few days or no bump at all.
The US active cases chart is shown above another wonderful
sight as the bell shape comes into view. US active cases are down to 2.899
million a 2.8-handle! The peak was at over 4.1 million active cases in late
July only 5 weeks ago. The prior low is down at 1.2 million active cases in
April five months ago so there remains much work to do. The US daily new cases
are dropping at a faster rate and that will ripple into the active cases that
should begin dropping at a sharper pace. The future’s so bright, I gotta wearshades.
The US daily deaths chart is shown above. Sleepy Joe Biden is
in charge watching 300 to 500 Americans dying from COVID-19 per day this year as
he spends his time and efforts on the misguided climate change agenda.
King Donnie Trump mismanaged the pandemic because he was
worried about his reelection campaign. Sleepy Joe Biden mismanages the virus,
clearly not caring about the Americans croaking from China Virus all year long,
instead telling people to buy an expensive glorified golf cart (EV) because the
government controls the fuel (electricity). Sickening, isn’t it?
The American death rate is down to 248 souls per day
remaining jumpy. Will it stay below 3 hundo covid deaths per day? Time will
tell. The 7-day MA trendline takes out the May 2022 and July 2021 lows, barely,
to compare back to the start of the pandemic but this is if the downtrend continues.
The death rate should continue dropping since daily and active cases are lower
for several weeks.
The US death rate is running its course claiming as many
bodies as it can while Sleepy Joey sleeps. He does not care since it is the
poor that are dying from COVID-19 not the rich. Welcome to America, land of the
have’s and have-not’s.
America is in great shape defeating wave 7. It will still
take a few weeks for wave 7 to work lower hopefully getting below 10K cases per
day. Is that possible? Maybe that would be a great place to end the 2-1/2 years
of the Coronavirus Chronology; when US daily new cases go sub 10K per day?
As mentioned, all 50 states display active cases curves that
are dropping so the entire bad list for the United States, typically shown
towards the bottom of the articles, is eliminated. This is a big deal. Wave 7
is in the bag. Big improvements in numbers are expected in the days ahead.
America is on the mend. Wave 7 and the pandemic phase is on its last legs.
The CDC Community Transmission map is displaying lots of
green which jives with the chronology’s assessment. There remains far too much
orange (high infection risk) on the map. The CDC says that 17% of the country
is under high-risk of covid infection and 40% are under medium-risk (yellow).
With all due respect to the eggheads, you’re wrong. Your data is as stale as
the bread on the kitchen table.
The CDC’s map will be a valuable tool for future pandemics
but not if the data remains consistently behind by a few days or even a week or
more. It is pitiful. Hire a couple Wall Street guys that can streamline your
data feeds and get you on track. The footnotes say the map is based on data
from 3 to 9 days ago. Who can remember anything from a week ago?
If you follow the chronology’s assessment based on daily new
and active cases, which is the best metric to use for forecasting infection
waves, the CDC map should be all green. Since the data is slow, and 9 states
were still on the US bad list from the prior Article 87, that would display a
map that has no orange, only 18% yellow and 82% green.
A current map based on today’s Article 88 and the up-to-date
data and charts available to anyone including the CDC, would show the US map as
completely green. It will be interesting to see how fast the CDC CommunityTransmission map goes green over the coming days and couple weeks. The
Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia region is the remaining covid hotspot area
in the country right now but it should be green and yellow not yellow and
orange.
The US vaccination rate is pitifully low at levels not seen
since the jabs started in December 2020. It will be interesting to see if the
new Fall booster shots will boost the vax rate. President Biden and First Lady
Jill are due for a photo-op while receiving the booster shot. They will be on shot
number five the booster-booster-booster, like Fauci. The Biden administration likely
does not want to talk about the vaccination rate especially with the Fall
booster shot campaign off and stumbling.
US hospital admissions are a beautiful picture the various
curves for all age groups rolling over and trending lower for 6 weeks;
fantastic news. Dropping hospital admissions is the whole ball game.
US hospitalizations are also a portrait of joy with COVID-19
patients dropping to 30K and this data ends on 9/4/22 six days ago! Patients
have to be below 30K and dropping further by now. Wave 7 is in the bag; a body
bag. It is always a better feeling to be on the downside of an infection wave
than the upside.
Healthcare workers will not be as stressed with each day and
week forward. That is good since there is still time to squeeze in a summer
trip. Nurse Goodbody wants to run to the beach and Keystone is agreeable to that
since his summer wardrobe consists of only four items; sandals, red Speedo’s, a
shorty robe and sunglasses.
The USA has the greatest number of total coronavirus cases
in the world at 97 million. India is next with 44.5 million total virus cases. France,
Brazil, Germany, South Korea, UK, Italy, Russia, Japan, Turkey, Spain, Vietnam,
Australia, Argentina, Netherlands, Iran, Mexico, Indonesia and Colombia round out
the top 20 worst nations for total COVID-19 cases. Over the last 10 days, South
Korea leapfrogs UK.
COVID-19 has infected 613 million people worldwide. China
(the CCP) owes reparations to the world for its sick heinous crime against
humanity. 6.5 million people on Earth are dead from the China Flu a grim
statistic. 592 million global citizens have recovered from the virus.
96.6% (592/613) of the people that become infected with COVID-19
recover in a reasonable time frame. This number was 96% for many weeks, but
then slipped to 95% for a few weeks, now back to 96% for the last month and
nudging higher so the BA5 bug is nasty but perhaps dying off.
Worldwide, 1.1% (6.5/613) of the people that are infected
with covid die; 1 in 94 (hit the 1/x button on your calculator). This number
was 1.2% for over a year so slippage to 1.1% in the last few months is great
news (less people are dying after they become infected compared to prior
waves).
8.0% (613/7670) of the world’s population of 7.67 billion
people have been infected with coronavirus; 1 in every 13 people on earth (12.5
to be exact). 0.08% of the world’s population (6.5/7670) died from the
pandemic; 1 in every 1,180 people on earth died from China Virus over the last
couple years.
In the United States, 97 million people have been infected
with covid. 1.075 million Americans are dead. 93 million Americans have
recovered from coronavirus. This equates to 96% (93/97) of US citizens recovering
after becoming infected with COVID-19. Those are good odds.
In the US, 1.1% (1.075/97) of the people infected with COVID-19
die. 1 in every 90 US citizens that are infected with coronavirus die. 0.3% (1/330)
of Americans have died from COVID-19 which is 1 in every 307 Americans over the
last 2-1/2 years.
29% (97/330) of the American population of 330 million
people have been infected with covid; 1 in every 4 Americans (3.4 to be exact
so call it 2 in 7). It is likely 60%, or even 80% or more, of the US population
has been infected with the omicron and prior bugs and have some level of
natural immunity.
The United States has 16% (97/613) of the COVID-19 cases in
the world. 1 in 6 people that become infected with covid on the planet are
Americans. The US vaccination program made an impact month’s ago, but not so much
in recent months.
The US accounts for 16.5% (1.075/6.5) of the China Flu
deaths in the world. 1 in 6 people that die from COVID-19 around the world are
Americans. Over a year ago, it was 1 in 5 so vaccinations helped.
The Keystone Speculator Coronavirus Infection Rate Model,
the Keystone Model for short, is a simple model that predicts when the active
cases (bell-curve) chart will flatten-out and roll-over lower. The active cases
chart is the ‘flatten the curve’ chart that represents the maximum stress and
strain on the medical system and healthcare workers. Once the active cases
chart rolls over forming the bell shape, the virus is being defeated and
healthcare workers can breathe easier. The charts above show several examples.
The worldwide pandemic phase is ending as evidenced by the
daily cases. China, Hong Kong and Russia are the remaining major covid hotspots
that will hopefully subside in the coming days. Since the bad country list
dwindles to only a few entries and the US bad state list disappears all
together, there is no need to explain the Keystone Model further. It is very
effective and reliable in predicting the peaks in active cases for countries
and US states.
Another 10-day period passes and more data and information become
available to push the China Virus story forward. The Coronavirus Chronology identifies
the real-time hotspots occurring around the world and within the United States.
The chronology serves as a historical document that will be referenced for
decades to come by those that want to experience the entire pandemic as it
unfolds in real-time.
The Coronavirus Chronology compilation of articles will be
published in the future by Amazon and others and distributed internationally. This
is Article 88 in the Coronavirus Chronology that provides real-time information
for historians, teachers, students, journalists, economists, market
participants, corporate executives, financial managers, Wall Street, doctors,
nurses, medical personnel, first responders, psychologists, psychiatrists,
counselors, neurologists, researchers, public officials, news organizations,
traders, investors and politicians studying the COVID-19 pandemic both
domestically (USA) and internationally.
This eighty-eighth article is published on Saturday, 9/10/22.
The Coronavirus Chronology series of articles are the only real-time source of
information available continuously chronicling the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic from
early 2020 into and through 2022; it is the China Virus Bible.
Readers live and breathe the pandemic, the worst in a century,
as it occurs in real-time, experiencing the daily virus zeitgeist, good or bad,
devoid of political correctness. This is not revisionist history-telling. It is
the raw pandemic truth and human emotion occurring, recorded and chronicled in
real time, without any allegiance to political parties or media sources. The
information is direct and unapologetic. A chronology can be written no other
way.
All 88 Coronavirus Chronology articles are archived on The
Keystone Speculator blog. The last couple articles are linked below if you want
to remain up to speed with the never-ending COVID-19 saga that may actually be
ending.
The Worldometer web site tracks coronavirus (COVID-19) around
the world and its link is provided. Many charts in the coronavirus series of
articles are provided courtesy of Worldometer and annotated by Keystone. The
CDC COVID Data Tracker is another excellent source of information. The
Worldometer, Johns-Hopkins and CDC data track each other well.
There are only four countries remaining on the bad list
below.
Poland (Seventh Wave)
8/17/22 New Case Peak Date
8/28/22 Projected Active Case Peak
Date (based on 11 days) (curve continues higher)
9/8/22 New Case Peak Date
9/19/22 Projected Active Case Peak
Date (based on 11 days)
9/8/22 New Case Peak Date
9/19/22 Projected Active Case Peak
Date (based on 11 days)
The bad country list above has dwindled itself into almost non-existence. Azerbaijan, South Korea and Japan are taken off the bad list since their active cases are dropping proving they are defeating their infection waves. It is great news for the world that Mother Earth finally has the upper hand against COVID-19.
As mentioned above, the US list bad state list that
typically appears here is gone and hopefully no longer needed. All 50 states
show active cases curves that are dropping so America is on the mend from wave
7. It is the best news in months.
United States wave 7 is toast. We need a drum roll. And a
ta-da. It’s over. Stick a fork in wave 7 because it is cooked. The last nine
states on the bad list in the prior article are removed since their active
cases curves are dropping including Michigan, Indiana, West Virginia, Alabama,
Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, South Dakota and even flood-stricken Kentucky.
Michigan, Indiana and West Virginia are shaky but heading in
the right direction. The Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia trio match the
covid hotspot region shown on the CDC’s Community Transmission map. The CDC
data lags so they are playing catch-up to the chronology information.
All 50 states in the US display active cases charts that are
dropping. Feel free to throw confetti, sing happy songs with Shiny Happy People, and have a beverage of
your choice. You are witnessing the COVID-19 pandemic ending in real-time. It
is time for sweet celebration on the beaches of Margaritaville as summer draws
to a close. “Covid’s over” has a nice ring to it.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/11/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The world's daily new cases continue lower down to 475K cases per day. Global deaths fall to 1.5K souls per day. Japan improves but the deaths remain high at 252 souls per day. South Korea is on the mend as it crosses the 24 million total COVID-19 cases milestone. There are 52 million South Koreans so one-half of the nation has been stricken with COVID-19. China, including Hong Kong, continues battling the widespread outbreak. 16 Hong Kong citizens die from China Virus on Wednesday the most since April. Hong Kong's infection wave is averaging over 10K cases per day heading higher. Folks living in western China are in lockdown for a few weeks and complaining about the lack of food and medicine. Noodles and bread are their sustenance during lockdown as they plead for produce, meat and vegetables. Chinese people cannot complain because they would be plucked from society and thrown in jail by the CCP. All 1.4 billion Chinese have to pretend that dirtbag Dictator Xi's zero-covid policy is the best thing since sliced bread. Nearly 500 college students in Beijing are tossed into quarantine after a few COVID-19 cases appear in a dormitory. Scumbag Xi is worried about his upcoming coronation as dictator for life in China when the 20th National Congress meets on 10/16/22 only 35 days away. The last thing Xi wants is a covid outbreak in Beijing with the party congress meetings on tap. Beijing citizens are subject to endless mass covid testing and restrictions ahead of Xi's coronation. CNBC journalist Eunice Yoon reports that mass testing locations in Beijing are vandalized. One covid testing kiosk has a message spray-painted on the walls, "Stupid F*%$ing Prevention Control" and a symbol for the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. On the other side of the shanty the graffiti reads, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death." Other China Flu mass testing stations in Beijing were vandalized. This activity is unheard of in communist China's surveillance society where everything and everyone is on camera. The CCP tracks Chinese folks that purchase cough or sore throat medicine at pharmacies requiring them to perform additional China Virus testing. Children as young as 5 years old are separated from parents and sent to a covid hospital if an infection occurs. China's communism system is on full display as COVID-19 engulfs the mainland.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/11/22, at 6:00 AM EST: Today is Patriot Day honoring the victims of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. The US reports 58K daily new cases for Friday maintaining the downtrend. The prior Friday was 90K cases so a drop to 58K week on week is great news. The 7-day MA for US daily cases drops to 51K cases per day with the 4 handle on deck. US active cases drop to 2.85 million continuing to form the bell shape to ring in the end of wave 7 and the COVID-19 pandemic phase. 250 Americans continue dying from COVID-19 day after day. Japan and the US are 500 of the daily 1.5K COVID-19 deaths worldwide, or 33%. Wow. These two Western nations account for one-third of the current covid deaths in the world. Florida is concerned that wastewater analysis is showing increased incidence of the BA275 subvariant, nicknamed "Centaurus," and the BA46 subvariant. Wastewater analysis is hyped by the medical folks since it serves as a slush fund for receiving government money. The wastewater is great at identifying various pathogens in a timely fashion but completely useless in forecasting infection waves. Daily new cases is the best metric for predicting infection wave behavior as Keystone and the Coronavirus Chronology proved many times during the last couple years. The chronology routinely told US states and countries that new infection waves started when many of their officials were clueless.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/11/22, at 6:30 AM EST: The CDC and others continue providing clarity on the new Fall booster shot program. To get away from the booster-booster-booster ridiculous nomenclature, the CDC now considers vaccinated folks to be up to date with their COVID-19 shots if they received the initial 2-shot series from Moderna or Pfizer/BiooNTech, or the single Johnson & Johnson shot (that was a failure), and the new booster shot. The new edict simplifies the vaccine program. Thus, if you received the 2 initial mRNA shots in early 2021 and did nothing ever since, you can get the new booster and would be considered to be up to date on your COVID-19 vaccine. The J&J shot was garbage so it is odd that it is accepted as a baseline requirement. Why not give the booster to anyone? Of course, there are fancy medical reasons that will be postulated but J&J was a junk vaccine, non-mRNA, that was not effective and pulled from use. Isn't it the same as receiving no vaccine at all? Inquiring minds want to know. And if the COVID-19 vaccines are to morph into one shot per year like a flu shot anyway, won't the requirements about having the initial 2-shot series fall by the wayside? The chaotic and confusing pandemic continues. The people in charge likely do not know what direction they are headed. Cutting the medical folks a break, the hepatitis and tetanus vaccines are multi-shot offerings instead of a single-shot so they simply do not know right now where the COVID-19 vaccine will line-out in the future. No wonder why most Americans pay little attention to the complicated and ever-changing COVID-19 news. Covid's over.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/11/22, at 7:00 AM EST: New York Broadway "Funny Girl" actress Lea Michele is not laughing after testing positive for COVID-19. She will miss a few performances. Her understudy Julie Benko will play Fanny Brice for the next week. The show must go on!
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/12/22, at 4:00 AM EST: 1,472 earthlings are dying from COVID-19 each day; it is positive news that the global death rate drops to a 1.4-handle continuing the one-month trend lower. New Zealand defeats its infection wave that peaked 2 months ago so worries about COVID-19 are easing. New Zealand drops the mask and vaccine mandates. Prime Minister Ardern proclaims, "We now move on to a simple two-requirements system of masks in healthcare settings and seven days isolation for positive cases only." The world is moving on from the pandemic sans China (including Hong Kong) and Russia. Hong Kong's daily new cases continue averaging 10K per day but the rate higher is slowing a positive development. Perhaps Hong Kong's infection wave will flatten as the date to reopen the region to foreign business travelers is only 49 days away (11/1/22). Hong Kong reports 9.8K total China Virus deaths a grim milestone. Beijing citizens are concerned that stricter lockdown and testing measures will be implemented ahead of the filthy CCP's party congress meetings on 10/16/22 when Xi will be named dictator for life over the Chinese people. Japan's infection wave improves. Daily deaths drop to an average of 240 bodies per day. It is great that the death rate is dropping but that is way too many people, mainly the elderly, dying each day. Japan and the US have the same daily covid body count but Japan is one-third of the population. Japan has a serious demographics problem with its aging population so COVID-19 comes along and conveniently culls the old folks out of existence. Perhaps the Japanese government turns a blind eye as they funnel money to the urn makers (most Japanese are cremated). Japan's demographics are improving daily. Japan grants approval to the new Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech booster shots and is expanding access to foreigners wanting to visit the island nation. It is a race to reopen and accommodate visitors especially CEO's and business people. Tokyo and Singapore want to become the major financial hubs for Asia now that Hong Kong is full-blown communist under complete control of the CCP. South Korea is on the mend as the total COVID-19 cases surpass the 24 million milestone. Boom. Russia reports 53.5K cases for Saturday the most for the current infection wave and not seen since March. 91 Ruskies are dying per day from covid the highest death rate since May. Dirtbag Dictator Putin focuses his attention on killing Ukrainians as the China Virus outbreak spreads in Russia.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/12/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US reports only 19K daily new cases for Saturday. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases is down to 45K cases per day a 4-handle and beautiful sight. Next stop is a 3-handle. Dividing the 45K by 50 states, spreading the cases out uniformly, would be only 900 COVID-19 cases occurring in each state on Saturday. That is happy stuff that improves daily. US active cases drop to 2.78 million a 2.7-handle on the way to a 2.6-handle as the coveted bell shape comes into view verifying that the virus is being defeated. 232 Americans continue dying from covid each day. Sleepy Joe Biden sleeps during the funerals while dreaming of a fantasy world of solar cells and windmills. Hey pal, do you realize that Americans are continuing to drop like flies from China Virus? No, he actually does not. The Wall Street Journal publishes an inciteful piece about the elevated COVID-19 deaths in America. 85% of the covid deaths this summer in the US are folks that are 65 years and older. Further, the Americans dying are suffering from other illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, heart and lung issues and compromised immune systems. COVID-19, spawned in Wuhan, China, from a likely lab leak, will probably remain the third leading cause of death in America for 3 years running. The elevated US death rate is a glaring failure of the Trump and Biden administrations, the CDC and the NIH. Infections spreading in nursing homes and senior care centers continue killing hundreds of people each day in the United States and Japan 33 months into the pandemic. It is failed leadership on many levels. Politicians and medical officials are wearing dark political glasses unable to see the people they profess to help.
Note Added Monday Afternoon, 9/12/22: The Epoch (pronounced eee-pawk) Times publishes an article by Dr Marty Makary and others explaining the serious adverse effects of the covid vaccinations. Colleges are pushing young people to take booster shots which is likely an unwise path forward considering the medical trials and data. The article shows that there is an 18 to 98 times greater chance that your kid will be hospitalized after being vaccinated. In other words, another booster is likely more harmful than not having it. The colleges are putting young people at risk forcing them to kneel and receive endless covid injections. The data show that if 30K young folks are vaccinated, that would prevent one person from going into the hospital with covid. Considering the side effects, it is obvious that the risk appears greater for young people to take the shot rather than not. If an entire large college campus was vaccinated (tens of thousands of kids) for COVID-19, it may prevent one or two of them from ending up in the hospital. The analysis indicates that the net expected harm to young people (myocarditis and other side effects) exceeds the benefit of the boosters. Of course, covid vaccine proponents will not read the article or discuss it calmly. Instead, they will scream, "Blasphemy!" and then yell the common refrain, "The shots prevent serious illness and death!" If you check the data, nearly one-half the COVID-19 patients in the hospital right now are vaccinated (44%).
Note Added Tuesday Morning, 9/13/22, at 5:00 AM EST: Global COVID-19 cases are down to 455K per day comparing back to early November over 11 months ago. Japan reports 197 China Virus deaths for Sunday a sub 200 number the lowest in nearly one month. The culling of the elderly Japanese is slowing. Russia's COVID-19 infection wave is at nearly 50K cases per day and rising but the rate of ascent may be slowing.
Note Added Tuesday Morning, 9/13/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The US is averaging 47K daily new covid cases per day and dropping. The United States crosses the 1.076 million deaths grim milestone. After 33 months of a once in a century pandemic, people yawn. 246 Americans continue dying daily. President Biden announces a plan to cut cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years. The bozo turns a blind eye to hundreds of Americans dying from COVID-19 day after day, unable to decrease the covid carnage, but now proclaims that he can cure cancer. It is laughable. It is foolishness. Focus on what you can do now to make a difference and what you were hired for bozo which is managing the pandemic. 440K Americans died from China Virus under Trump's watch and 636K are dead under Biden's watch. Trump was a failure at handling the pandemic and, using deaths as the gauge, Biden is 1-1/2 times the failure that Trump was. America drifts aimlessly in the covid sea of despair having no choice but to follow two of the most incompetent leaders in modern times; King Donnie Trump, the orange-headed bloviating carnival clown and Sleepy Joe Biden, the frail, confused Alzheimer's patient. The COVID-19 pandemic phase is running its course ending after nearly 3 years despite the Trump and Biden incompetence and mismanagement. It is shameful that clueless Joe watches hundreds of Americans die from COVID-19 each day for months on end and he has no plan to stop the carnage. It is American mediocrity on full display daily as the corrupt crony capitalism system gasps its final breaths.
Note Added Tuesday Morning, 9/13/22, at 9:00 AM EST: Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines is having success at copying the Moderna sequencing to produce mRNA vaccines for the sub-African continent. The WHO is helping Afrigen under its program that brings vaccinations and technology to the developing world. The vaccine exhibits a strong immune response in initial studies and larger trials are planned. Moderna said it would not enforce patents on developing nations during the pandemic but time will tell if they turn into No More Mr Nice Guy. The Afrigen name sounds a little like, and brings back memories of, Afro Sheen in the 70's. As Americans return to work and learn to live with COVID-19, a study shows that 40% are not concerned that they may get covid at work. 33% of Americans, however, remain concerned about contracting covid at work and not surprisingly, the majority are women. For the most part, men have moved on from the pandemic. 33 months is enough.
Note Added Tuesday Afternoon, 9/13/22: As reported by NDTV, the UK is sounding the warning bells about the BA46 subvariant that is accounting for 9% of the current COVID-19 cases. In the States, the CDC says BA46 also accounts for about 9% of the current cases as the BA5 threat diminishes. Scientists are concerned that BA46 is better at evading the immune system than BA5. UK scientists think that the vaccines are not as effective against BA46. UK daily new covid cases drop to the 3K to 4K per day range in August but are bumping higher to 4.6K cases as of the latest numbers that are one week old. The cases are tiny numbers but the nudge higher as the BA46 subvariant discussion grows requires close monitoring. The CDC and FDA tell Americans that the new Fall booster vaccine protects against BA4 and BA5 but does it protect against BA46?
Note Added Tuesday Evening, 9/13/22: The US stock market crashes -4% and more. Black Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrials Average drops nearly 1,300 points. Hotter than expected inflation data creates the panic on Wall Street. The monkeypox outbreak is diminishing in the US good news for the gay community.
Note Added Wednesday Morning, 9/14/22, at 6:00 AM EST: The world reports over 615 million total COVID-19 cases. The Wuhan Laboratories in China, the likely epicenter and origin of the China Virus, that doubles as bioweapons research facilities for the CCP, has inflected heinous pain on every country on the planet. China owes reparations to every nation on earth. The world's daily new cases drop to 453K per day continuing the downward trek. 1.5K earthlings continue dying from COVID-19 each day. 130 Japanese die of covid, about 100 Ruskies, and 250 Americans, for a total of nearly 500 bodies. Japan, Russia and the US account for one-third of the China Virus deaths occurring in the world each day currently. Russia's infection wave continues higher at 50K cases per day. The Russian people are breaking through the state-run media messaging and realizing that the Ukraine War is going horribly bad. Add covid on top of that. Hong Kong's daily cases are averaging 9.3K per day off the peak of 10K per day for the last week so the infection wave is likely peaking. About a dozen Hong Kong folks are dying from China Virus per day but the filthy CCP is likely fine with that and wishes the death count was higher. In communism, you are a burden to society when you become old. COVID-19 culls the elderly populations of many Asian nations as leaders realize the deaths will improve their economies in the long run. Humans in power do not think the same as common folks. The world is not a pretty place, Sonny and Girly.
Note Added Wednesday Morning, 9/14/22, at 7:00 AM EST: The US crosses the 1.076 million covid deaths grim milestone. People yawn. Only 26K daily new cases are reported for Monday in the US and the 7-day MA trendline is down to 44K cases per day. The great news continues. The case numbers remain low over the last week so the 7-day MA will continue the trek lower. US active covid cases drop to 2.6 million with the bell shape in full view verifying the end of wave 7. About 250 Americans continue dying from COVID-19 each day but Sleepy Joe Biden professes that he will cut cancer deaths in half. The guy is delusional. How about cutting the COVID-19 deaths in half? Hey Jack, focus on the folks dying now from China Virus not an esoteric future goal that is only offered for public consumption as a distraction from the upcoming mid-term elections in 55 days. The right track/wrong track polls are the best predictor of elections and about 70% of the country says the US is on the wrong path the kiss of death for democrats. The republicans, however, stupidly put forth radical right Trumpian candidates that are having trouble sealing the deal. People are sick of the daily Trump clown show (when will the orange head shut up and go away?) and the democrats are exploiting and expanding this negativity to help their candidates. Looking at the daily new cases data, the BA46 subvariant is not an issue in the United States but of course it will have to be watched closely going forward. America and the world are recovering from the latest COVID-19 outbreaks that are likely marking an end to the near 3-year pandemic phase.
Note Added Wednesday Morning, 9/14/22, at 8:00 AM EST: The long-covid cases are a concern of doctors and scientists. People that recover from COVID-19 but then continue experiencing symptoms 4 weeks after the illness are deemed long-haulers. The long-covid problem goes by several different names that all mean the same thing including long-haul covid, post COVID-19 syndrome and post acute COVID-19 syndrome. Most folks get through a covid illness fine only suffering cold-type symptoms for a day or few. But for others, including patients sickened with COVID-19 in 2020 and 2021, symptoms are returning weeks or months later. Some patients report the same symptoms but others report different symptoms than when they were sick. It sounds like the doctors and scientists will remain baffled by COVID-19. The people most impacted with long-covid (long-term symptoms) are the folks that were hospitalized especially those on oxygen and ventilators. This is not a surprise. However, there are a large portion of long-haulers that tested positive for COVID-19 at home, rode it out and recovered, but are now showing up at hospitals and clinics a few months later complaining that they do not feel as well as they did before the covid illness. If you are experiencing never-ending flu-like symptoms, brain-fog and/or fatigue, especially after a China Virus illness, talk to your healthcare providers for guidance.
Note Added Wednesday Afternoon, 9/14/22: Senator Dr Rand Paul and Dr Tony Fauci go head to head on Capitol Hill again. The verbal boxing match is a guaranteed show-stopper within the Washington, DC, beltway. Paul provides Fauci's comments from 2004 that praises natural immunity. Fauci said, "The most potent vaccination is getting infected yourself." Paul asks Fauci why isn't protection from infection given credence during the pandemic. The COVID-19 vaccines are getting approved without considering natural immunity. Fauci claims his words are "taken out of context" a go-to rebuttal. Paul proclaims, "Words don't lie!" Lord Fauci stands on a soapbox proclaiming, "I have never denied fundamental immunology!" Paul then hammers Fauci about the royalty payments that he and other scientists receive that are shrouded in secrecy. Paul tells Fauci that the royalty payments and conflicts of interest at the NIH, CDC, FDA and other institutions will be investigated if/when the republicans take the House in the mid-term elections. Neither man is on the other's Christmas card list. When Fauci sees Paul it is like Seinfeld seeing Newman.
Note Added Thursday Morning, 9/15/22, at 3:00 AM EST: Japan reports only 65K daily new cases for Tuesday far better than the peak high at 261K cases on 8/19/22 four weeks ago and the 7-day MA is down to 95K cases per day dropping fast. Japan's active cases chart clearly displays the bell shape verifying that the infection wave is ending. 157 Japanese die on Tuesday but at least it is better than the deadliest day of the pandemic at 347 deaths on 9/3/22 that was less than 2 weeks ago. It is all good, however, since deaths lag cases and everything is trending sharply lower. Hong Kong is hinting at a roll-over in daily new cases at 9K per day so its active cases should level-out and reverse in the coming days. The sole remaining COVID-19 hotspot in the world is communist China. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (try to fit that on a business card) decrees, "We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic. We are not there yet, but the end is in sight." China takes offense to the remark due to their ongoing outbreak across the mainland but he is correct. The only place that COVID-19 remains a serious problem and threat is the communist nation from which it was born; China. Like all the medical officials, Tedros hedges his bets proclaiming that the world must continue the testing, vaccination and treatment efforts to combat COVID-19 otherwise countries may experience "more variants, more deaths, more disruption and more uncertainty." Dr Tedros decrees, "We can see the finish line." China says the lockdowns are easing in Chengdu. Liars. During the Shanghai lockdown, the CCP said the same garbage but that was messaging and nothing else. The lockdowns went on for another 3 to 4 weeks after the happy talk so the same fate is likely in store for Chengdu. Russia's China Virus infections continue higher to over 50K cases per day but the rate of increase is slowing.
Note Added Thursday Morning, 9/15/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The US reports 51K cases for Tuesday and 37K for Monday great numbers to continue the downtrend. Interestingly, the window for a bump higher in infections after the Labor Day holiday is now, say Friday through today. If the Labor Day parties and festivities were a superspreader event, the daily new cases for Monday and Tuesday should be far higher. The Labor Day holiday is not a superspreader and neither was Memorial Day or Independence Day. The prior two holidays did show subtle bumps higher in cases but that is not occurring after Labor Day another sign that COVID-19 is being defeated. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases is down to 54K cases per day. US covid deaths remain elevated with 307 Americans dying per day and the death rate moves back above 3 hundo. It is sickening displaying Biden's incompetence at handling the pandemic. Sleepy Joe cannot reduce COVID-19 deaths for the last year but he wants to cure cancer. It is ridiculous. Where is the leadership? Is America that stupid for months on end that they cannot figure out who is dying from COVID-19 and save those folks? Yes, it is.
Note Added Thursday Afternoon, 9/15/22: The Lancet Commission releases a report on the global response to COVID-19 calling it a "massive failure." The paper highlights several major failures including countries failing to notify the public of developing infection waves and lack of coordination between nations. The report calls for an investigation into the origin of COVID-19 as the lab leak theory gains credence. Government failures are high on the list but the report also lays blame on the public. The reports spares no one from criticism in handling the once in a century pandemic. Disinformation is listed as a problem but authorities must realize it is not so much the disinformation or misinformation from social internet as it is from the medical folks and politicians weaving narratives during the pandemic that support their political agendas. Trump was more worried about his reelection campaign than the pandemic and Biden is more focused on glorified golf carts (EV's), windmills and solar cells that handling the virus especially when it comes to the daily American body count. Two incompetent leaders. The WHO tries to distance itself from the Lancet criticism but everyone watched Tedros and the gang lay in bed with the CCP locking down China in late 2019 and early 2020 while they placed infected people on planes sending them all around the world. The WHO should be at the forefront of criticism and the troubled organization continues to try and steer people away from finding out the truth about the origin of COVID-19 which is likely from the Wuhan Laboratories. China does not want to own up to the virus escaping their labs because the communists do not want to pay reparations to every country on earth so they lie, and lie is what the CCP and dirtbag Dictator Xi, do best.
Note Added Friday Morning, 9/16/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The world reports an average of 464K cases per day the downtrend in tact but painfully gradual. Same with global deaths at 1.6K per day. As Japan improves, Russia's infection wave continues higher at 51K cases per day. 98 Ruskies die yesterday the deadliest day since May but numbers remain small compared to prior waves. Hong Kong's daily new cases drop to 8.5K and likely peaked about 1-1/2 weeks ago. China and Russia are the remaining major COVID-19 hotspots in the world.
Note Added Friday Morning, 9/16/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US is averaging 56K cases per day and dropping. Chilly Fall weather is hitting many northern states so folks will begin congregating indoors which may extend the slow-motion drop in daily cases (rather than a sharp fall-off in cases desired). The CDC calls out the state of Indiana for a bump in cases but they are behind in their analysis as usual. Keystone and the chronology highlighted the increased cases in Indiana 2 weeks ago but the infections are way down since then and Indiana is in a downtrend with wave 7 like all the other states. The lack of near real-time data updates at the CDC makes the officials look like fools. The CDC drives the pandemic bus while looking in the rearview mirror (CDC data is consistently from 3 days to a week or more old). The American death rate remains shameful at 310 bodies per day as Biden turns a blind eye to the carnage instead taking photo-ops in fancy electric vehicles that common people cannot afford. CDC Director Walensky acknowledges the high COVID-19 death rate saying, "The seven-day average of daily deaths are still too high, about 375 per day, well above the around 200 deaths a day we saw earlier this spring and, in my mind, far too high for a vaccine-preventable disease." She needs to realize that if the vaccine-only strategy is not working to save lives, than other covid treatments and therapies should require greater attention, research and application. Walensky is in charge of applying the CDC resources to the correct areas so placing all the covid eggs in the vaccination basket does not help the over 300 Americans dying every day from China Flu. Instead, the Whitehouse, FDA, CDC and NIH continue cheerleading the vaccine only strategy blaming the ongoing deaths on folks not up to date with their shots. Millions of Americans are not buying what the medical people are selling anymore. A few days ago, Dr Jha, the Whitehouse COVID-19 coordinator, decrees, "We're calling on all Americans. Roll up your sleeve to get your COVID-19 vaccine shot. If you're 12 and above and previously vaccinated, it's time to go get an updated COVID-19 shot." The Whitehouse wants to focus on nursing homes and the over 65 years old crowd that continue dropping like flies from China Virus. Wanting and doing are two different things. The Whitehouse has done nothing this year to tamp down the ongoing elevated covid death rate in America. A new "At Risk" video ad from the HHS is trying to convince people over 50 years old to take the new booster vaccine (which would be the fifth shot for many; the booster-booster-booster). Sentimental acoustic music plays in the background as the video scrolls through a bunch of ugly people's faces. The ad says 9 out of 10 Americans dying from COVID-19 right now are over 50 years old and the Biden solution is to take more vaccines. Biden, First Lady Jill, and Fauci, have four mRNA shots in their bodies, took Paxlovid, and had COVID-19 twice, and the president tells Americans to hurry-up and get more vaccine shots. Big Pharma loves Sleepy Joe.
Note Added Friday Morning, 9/16/22, at 8:00 AM EST: The WHO says the GlaxoSmithKline and Regeneron antibody treatments are not effective against the omicron variants based on laboratory studies. This is old news. The Regeneron cocktail (that likely saved former President Trump's life as an experimental treatment in September/October 2020) has not been effective against COVID-19 for many months. Ditto GSK's sotrovimab. The WHO study promotes remdesivir, however, for use in patients with severe, but not critical, COVID-19. This is a surprising finding since the standing joke among some nurses is that when the drug is prescribed for a very ill covid patient, they call it "rem-death-is-near" (not very effective against COVID-19). The Eli Lilly bebtelovimab monoclonal antibody treatment and Pfizer's Paxlovid anti-viral oral pills are the two key treatments for anyone testing positive for COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Therapeutics Locator calls out the locations of these and other potential therapies.
Note Added Friday Afternoon, 9/16/22: The US stock market collapses -5% this week on inflation concerns and major corporations warning of a worldwide recession on the come. China's lockdowns due to COVID-19 are hurting the global economy complicating the situation. President Biden's stupid premature push into alternative energy has created an inflation mess in the United States sending the economy and markets south. Dr Jha is cheerleading the Fall vaccines asking Americans to get their booster shot before Halloween (during the next 6 weeks). Jha says a shot by Halloween will provide the "maximum protection" before the holidays. Jha says if you had COVID-19 it is best to wait 90 days before taking the shot. This is why President Biden and First Lady Jill are not exposing their frail arms to take the new booster shots in a photo-op. They are likely counting the days. Jill Biden recovered from her second bout of covid at the end of August a couple weeks ago so she should not take the new booster until after December 1. Will the Biden's follow the CDC guidelines or take the boosters before Halloween in a photo-op? Doctors and scientists are suggesting that waiting from 4 to 6 months after a covid infection will provide a better immune response with the new booster but Jha disagrees declaring that waiting to take the jab increases the chance for reinfection. Jha proclaims, "It's very hard to time the market." No it isn't; he needs to read The Keystone Speculator's blog if he wants to learn how to time the market via divergences. Jha got his new booster shot this morning. Second Gentlemen Doug Emhoff (Vice President Kamala Harris's husband) joined Jha in receiving his new booster jab. Neither gentlemen discloses how many mRNA shots they have received to date.
Note Added Saturday Morning, 9/17/22, at 3:00 AM EST: The world is down to 462K COVID-19 cases per day trending lower but the rate of descent is slowing over the last few days; not good. Russia accounts for over 12% of the current covid cases in the world and may be creating the slight slowing in the world's daily cases rate. As the pandemic phase is likely ending, a valid question is what baseline of daily new cases will occur for COVID-19 going forward? Will world cases level out at 400K per day, 300K per day or some other level instead of continuously heading lower? Time will tell. The prior lows in the 7-day MA trendline for the world's daily new cases are 360K to 400K cases per day from last year. If the world's daily new cases can continue lower and go sub 350K cases per day and even below 300K per day, that would be victory since it would compare back to the cases in September 2020 and sooner. For the US, Dr Fauci always mentioned the 10K cases per day level as a general number where it can be confidently stated that the pandemic is moving into the endemic phase like the seasonal flu. It will be a beautiful sight when/if it occurs. The global death rate is at 1.6K bodies per day and like the daily cases is heading lower, but the rate of descent is decreasing slightly.
Note Added Saturday Morning, 9/17/22, at 3:30 AM EST: France reports a spike in daily new cases on Wednesday and Thursday over 33K cases each day. What is that all about? France's 7-day MA is heading higher at 25K cases per day as if a new infection wave is beginning. French authorities are concerned that a new resurgence in COVID-19 is occurring so they are encouraging people to take the booster shots. Daily cases have also stopped decreasing in Germany and now reversing to the up side. The decrease in Italy's daily cases may be stalling as well. No wonder the world's daily cases downward trend is softening a touch. It is lousy news. Spain, Portugal, Netherlands and Denmark are not showing any signs of trouble as yet. Ditto Luxembourg, Switzerland and UK. Cases bump higher in Belgium and Poland. The potential new outbreak in Europe has France at the epicenter with new infections bleeding into Belgium, Germany and Italy. Hopefully, the increase in cases is only temporary, otherwise, Europe will experience a new COVID-19 infection wave. No one wants that. European regulators approve AstraZeneca's Evusheld for use in preventing and treating COVID-19. Boom. Russia reports 56K daily new cases on Thursday the most for the current infection wave no doubt contributing to the softening of the descent in the world's cases along with Europe. This is lousy news when the pandemic was finally heading towards a potential endpoint. China is receiving criticism from medical experts saying the zero-covid policy may have been a good strategy when vaccines were not available but 3 years into the pandemic, mass testing and lockdowns are not the way to go. The Chinese people are becoming more vocal and resistant to the never-ending mass testing and lockdowns. Dirtbag Dictator's Xi and Putin meet but Xi skips a dinner with Vlad citing covid concerns as the reason. Putin's war against Ukraine is going horribly for Russia (and deathly tragic for Ukraine) and Xi wants to maintain some distance from his friend and ally.
Note Added Saturday Morning, 9/17/22, at 4:00 AM EST: The US reports 50K daily new cases for Thursday down from 65K on hump day great numbers moving lower and keeping America on the right track. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases is down to 51K cases per day continuing to tease a 4-handle. Do you think we can get down to 10K cases per day? We will on the same path but the cool Fall winds are blowing in the northern states and people will begin congregating inside again breathing each other's air. On the positive side, most Americans are either vaccinated or had China Virus, or both, so time will tell if herd immunity stands up to the omicron variants. The US descent in daily new cases is steady pointing to happier times ahead. 300 Americans continue dying day after day from COVID-19 and clueless Biden does not know how to reduce the body count. Worse, the Whitehouse and CDC are incompetent at decreasing the US death rate during the entire year thus far. All they have to do is focus on the death data and directly address the people and communities that need help (such as nursing homes). Biden's approach is generic and uninspiring running television ads that promote the vaccine-only strategy especially for folks over 50 years old. This is not getting the job done. The COVID-19 death rate in America is shameful and Sleepy Joe's strategy is that the body count will decrease on its own over time.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/18/22, at 3:00 AM EST: The world exceeds 617 million total COVID-19 cases and 6.53 million deaths. The human devastation from China's virus is massive impacting all nations and people on earth. The world's daily new cases are averaging 420K cases per day continuing lower. China, Russia, France and Germany need to reverse their rising cases. Japan is improving and on the backside of the infection wave. Japanese deaths are dropping sharply at 175 bodies per day. Hong Kong exceeds 1.7 million total COVID-19 cases. Hong Kong daily cases continue hinting at a retreat and peak in the infection wave but active cases continue higher. 16 die in Hong Kong matching the 16 dead covid bodies on 9/7/22 and not seen since April (moving higher). Hong Kong wants to reopen its region to foreign business travelers and tourists in only 43 days. A first case of monkeypox appears in communist China with authorities telling people to 'not touch foreigners'. China remains a covid mess with many cities and regions in lockdown hurting the domestic and global economies. Oh no. Russia reports 59K cases for Friday the most for the current infection wave expanding higher. 110 Ruskies fall face-down in their borscht on Friday, succumbing to China Virus, the most deaths in over 4 months.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/18/22, at 4:00 AM EST: In Europe, France reports 29K daily new cases for Friday a hopeful sign. France reports a big spike in cases to 42K on Tuesday, then 33K cases for Wednesday and Thursday, and now 29K for Friday. Fingers are crossed that the current trouble popping-up in France is just a minor inconvenience and cases will continue retreating off that nasty 42K number. Ditto Germany that reported a pop of 55K cases days ago and Friday's number is 36K cases. Germany's pop in cases may be due to the beer festivals during the first week of the month. The week ahead will dictate if Europe has a new COVID-19 infection wave problem, with France and Germany at the center, or not. The pop in cases may be due to the French and Germans attending events and festivals in late August (the vacation month) and early September.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/18/22, at 5:00 AM EST: The US reports 41K daily new cases for Friday and the 7-day MA drops to 45K cases per day. The 3-handle should be coming next week. US active cases are down to 2.5 million with the chart displaying the bell shape verifying that wave 7 is ending. 276 Americans die from COVID-19 on Friday.
Note Added Sunday Morning, 9/18/22, at 5:30 AM EST: Walgreens Pharmacy is running a television ad promoting vaccines for children. A little girl says she got the shot so her sister does not get sick. Ridiculous. Children under 18 years old are not at risk with COVID-19. The low number of childhood deaths from COVID-19 are in kids that had coexisting conditions and serious medical issues and/or were suffering from childhood obesity. As a society, do you enjoy seeing new COVID-19 vaccines marketed to children only 3 years old and older? The toy companies increased sales by running television ads during the Saturday morning cartoon shows. Kids would bug their parents for the toys. Big Pharma and their drug-pushing pharmacies now target youngsters brainwashing them into thinking they cannot survive or be well as a human being unless they take the COVID-19 shots. Society is sick ruled by corporate greed. America's drug and surgery medical model is spinning out of control.
Note Added Sunday Afternoon, 9/18/22: Pfizer is running a television ad promoting its anti-viral oral pill (Paxlovid). The government funding for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments is waning. With the mid-term elections on tap, the corrupt Washington, DC, politicians are in a holding pattern on providing new COVID-19 funding. Big Pharma is starting to directly target the mRNA shots and drugs to the American people with television and internet ads and will rely more on insurance payments going forward.
Note Added Sunday Evening, 9/18/22: President Biden is interviewed by Scott Pelley of CBS News for the 60 Minutes television show. BOMBSHELL NEWS! BIDEN DECLARES THE PANDEMIC IS OVER!! What?! Whozzit? Whatzzit? As they stroll around the Detroit Auto Show main floor, Pelley asks Biden, "Is the pandemic over?" Biden decrees, "The pandemic is nnn.. (mumble), is over (was he about to say 'not over' rather than the pandemic is over?)." Biden continues, "We still have a problem with covid. We are still doing a lot of work on it, aaa...., it's, what, the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one is wearing masks, everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think its changing and I think this is a perfect example of it." Biden also says the United States will become involved militarily if China attacks Taiwan. S&P 500 futures turn from positive to negative and dump over 40 points on the Taiwan news but the announcement that the PANDEMIC IS OVER creates a media firestorm. Everyone is surprised the president said the pandemic is over but in his usual confused double-speak, the dementia-ridden Biden says the 'pandemic is over' but there is 'still a problem with covid'. Figure that one out? Covid is the pandemic. My back is okay but my lower spine is killing me. My cancer is in remission but it is still metastasinzing. The dude is senile. His statement is nonsensical. In a broad text, he likely considers the American economy recovering with people out and about again and maskless so that is the end of the pandemic even though 3 hundo Americans continue dying each day from his Trump-like incompetence at managing the pandemic. The reason people, especially inside the Washington, DC, corrupt beltway, are worked-up about Biden saying the pandemic is over is that the comment will have serious ramifications on current and future legislation. Three headaches come to mind off the bat. First, Biden forgave student debt using the pandemic as the basis and excuse for his society-destroying decree. If the pandemic is over the student loan forgiveness should be nixed. Second, the executive privilege status of many state governors remains in effect. If the pandemic is over, these extraordinary powers should be immediately stripped from all governors. Third, the military and corporate vaccine mandate garbage should be halted and everyone brought back to work regardless of vax status. After all, the president says the pandemic is over. Also, Sleepy Joe torpedoes his new booster shot campaign before it even gets rolling. Humorously, the Biden administration still wants billions in funding for COVID-19 and the head guy is telling everyone the thereat is over. That's funny. In the interview, Biden acknowledges 1 million American deaths from COVID-19. A Whitehouse spokesperson steps in for damage control saying Biden meant to say the "worst of it (the pandemic) is over." No wonder Americans stopped listening to COVID-19 news. It is time for a discussion on what criteria should constitute the end of the pandemic. All infection waves must be finished. Wave 7 is ending. Fauci always mentioned the 10K cases per day number and we did almost get there after wave 4 so a 10K to 15K cases per day or lower infection rate is a metric that can declare an end to the pandemic phase. Biden should have said the pandemic is in the process of moving into the endemic phase but cases are at 41K per day and need to get down towards 10K per day and deaths remain far too high at 300 bodies per day. But to say that you would have to actually understand what is going on.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/19/22, at 3:00 AM EST: Moderna is helping the WHO as they work towards providing a COVID-19 vaccine for the poor nations. Pfizer is not as cooperative with the WHO's goal since it does not see the need as urgent (as per a Bloomberg article citing Marie-Paule Kieny, chair of the Medicines Patent Pool, an UN-backed organization). Interest in COVID-19 vaccines is waning around the world since earthlings realize that the virus is a less severe illness than 2-1/2 years ago.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/19/22, at 3:30 AM EST: The world's daily new cases are at 443K per day continuing the slow-motion move lower. The key word is lower. China, Russia, lingering cases in Japan and South Korea, and the pop in cases over the last week in Europe, contribute to the slowing rate of descent of the world's daily cases. Japan reports 77K daily new cases for Saturday the lowest in 2 months. The covid culling of the elderly Japanese is slowing to 166 bodies per day. Hong Kong cases are averaging 8K per day as it struggles to create a downtrend. Hong Kong crosses the 1.7 million total China Virus cases milestone. 23%, or 1 in 4 Hong Kong folks, have been stricken with COVID-19 (1.7/7.5) over the last 2 years. Boom. A coach bus carrying quarantined people in Guizhou, China, crashes killing 27 and leaving 20 others injured causing more tragedy than the virus would have. The only sound those poor Chinese folks heard was the screaming tires and busting glass as Eddie sings. People are angry about the bus tragedy and Dictator Xi's stupid zero-covid strategy. Some complain on social internet but in China you cannot say much since the CCP will knock on your door and take you away. Such is communism. A BBC article cites a Chinese woman that lost her mother in the bus crash. She said Mom stayed at home after testing positive for China Virus and was no threat to anyone so there was no reason to take her to a concentration camp, er quarantine facility, and now she is dead. Other details are emerging about the accident. The bus was operating at an undesignated time and the windows were sealed shut with infected passengers jammed into the vehicle for many hours. Dictator Xi does not want any negative news ahead of his coronation as dictator for life in communist China on 10/16/22 only 27 days away. China (the CCP) says the lockdown is lifted in Chengdu. Yeah, sure. That is what was said during the Shanghai lockdown but it lingered for a few more weeks. The streets of Chengdu will remain empty for a while. Mass testing continues and a negative test is required within 72 hours of visiting any public venue. The CCP's strict control of the Chinese people continues under the commie system and zero-covid strategy.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/19/22, at 4:00 AM EST: Russia crosses the 386K COVID-19 deaths grim milestone. Russia's new infection wave worsens at over 53K cases per day. 100 Ruskies are dying per day from COVID-19. Europe is an area of concern over the last week with cases popping higher in France, Germany and a few other countries. It is hoped that it is a temporary bump in cases perhaps due to increased human interactions during the August vacation period in Europe and events and festivals early this month. France reports 33K cases for Saturday maintaining the bump higher in cases that started last Tuesday at 42K cases. The 7-day MA for France's daily new cases is up to 28K cases per day and sadly, it will have to be added to the bad country list again since a new infection wave is starting. Hopefully, it will quickly dissipate but the jury remains out. Right when France was in great shape with the pandemic in the rearview mirror this new bump higher in cases occurs. It is like the monster coming back one last time at the end of a B-horror flick. The week ahead will dictate whether the bump in cases in France is more serious, or not. Germany's cases are at 32K per day with an upward bias but like France, the hope is that the bump in cases is short-lived. Italy's daily new cases are flatlining at about 16K per day the downtrend is stalled but it is no biggie as yet. Keep your fingers crossed that cases in France drop away this week since they are the bellwether for what lies ahead for Europe in late September and October.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/19/22, at 4:30 AM EST: The US reports only 20K cases for Saturday and Sunday should be lower. Good stuff. The 7-day MA for US daily new cases is down to 41K cases per day teasing a 3-handle. If 10K cases per day is the goal, which may be difficult to achieve but let's put it on the table since it is a Fauci favorite number, it is important that the weekend numbers begin to go sub 10K. The US dipped below 28K cases per day in March of this year and down to 12K cases per day in June 2021 when everyone thought the pandemic phase was over (but then delta wave 5 hit, then the horrendous BA1 omicron wave 6 to begin this year, and now the lingering BA2 and BA5 wave 7). It will be great seeing US daily new cases drop into the 30K's per day this week but as the threat of COVID-19 wanes, people may not be as interested in the new booster shots. The new booster campaign has just begun so it needs to be given a chance. The US vaccination rate curls up a tiny amount so the Biden administration can view that as a win but the actual numbers remain pitiful. The US vax rate is back above 100K jabs per day after falling below 75K shots per day a few days ago. For perspective, at the vaccination peak in May 2021, there were 3.4 million Americans getting vaccinated per day. At about 100K shots per day, that averages to only a couple thousand COVID-19 vaccination jabs per day per state. Tumbleweeds are rolling by vaccination sites and crickets can be heard in the background. A nurse is falling asleep from boredom and there are cobwebs at her feet.
Note Added Monday Morning, 9/19/22, at 11:00 AM EST: Biden's proclamation that the pandemic is over is getting a lot of press today with opinions all over the map. Medical folks say Biden is defeating his own vaccines strategy by declaring an end to the pandemic. Why would people want to be vaccinated if the pandemic is over? Lord Fauci is attracted to the lights and cameras of the media firestorm like a moth to a flame. Fauci jumps onto the gloom bandwagon telling Americans to not let their guard down and the "virus may not be fully eliminated." He is worried about the "combination of the evolution" of the variants and he mentions BA275 as a potential problem for this Fall and Winter. Fauci decrees that it is "highly likely a new variant will occur." Thank you, Mr Brightside. Fauci is fear-mongering to boost the vaccination rate. It will be interesting to see if his fear over BA275 materializes, or not. The impact of BA275 on America in future months can serve as a test of Fauci's credibility as a scientist.
Note Added Monday Afternoon, 9/19/22: Chinese scientists claim they developed a mask that is fitted with a sensor that can detect both the covid and flu viruses (COVID-19, H5N1, N1N1). Yeah, sure they did (is it sensitive enough to be of any use?). The so-called new development may be a ploy by the CCP to simply force citizens to wear masks if zero-covid policies are pursued in the future. Put your mask on with the phony sensor. It is easier to control a population if they are all wearing masks since they cannot verbalize or communicate by facial expressions. Also, if everyone complies, they show that they are little submissive bitches willingly handing over control of their lives to the CCP (similar to what shamefully happened in the US with Americans handing over control of their lives to unelected bureaucrats like Fauci during the pandemic). Modern-society is getting too cute by half with technology.
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