The estimates, made by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and analysts from several government departments, suggest there were 38,500 excess deaths in England connected to Covid-19 between March and 1 May. However, the report concludes 41% of those deaths were the result of missed medical care rather than the virus itself. Of the 16,000 deaths, the paper estimates 6,000 were as a result of a "significant reduction in A&E attendances and emergency admissions". .. Although the calculations found that 2,500 lives may have been saved by people adopting healthier lifestyles during lockdown, the modelling suggests there could be a further 26,000 excess deaths by March 2021 as a result of ongoing restrictions to medical care.
Politics and science, humor and hypocrisy. METANOODLE
Tuesday, 1 September 2020
Covid Policy Killed People, lots of them, says UK National Statistics Office.
Monday, 31 August 2020
Saturday, 29 August 2020
Friday, 28 August 2020
Biggest ever bomb test declassified by Russia with wonderful analog control panels and complex chairs to sit upon.
Posted by VICE, this declassified and polished footage shows the context in 1961 for the 50 megaton explosion of Tsar Bomba. The chairs and analog control panels are wondrous things.
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Sunday, 23 August 2020
Brennan in a Perjury Trap
Highlights from the Red State article: The Durham team's 8 hour interview by design was at CIA offices and that means in Virginia not Washington DC. Any false statements under oath can be addressed by Virginia courts. As to Brennan being "not a target", this is not something that investigators volunteer.
That brings you to the next point that the promoted statement from Brennan isn't a statement, it's all second hand. Brennan hasn't been shy in the past to tweet what he thinks but here he shelters behind indirection and a planted story that never quotes his actual words. Eight hours is a long time for an interview. As Brennan wasn't going to be a forthright source of new information, the conclusion is that facts had been verified beforehand through others and are being played back to Brennan to hear him speak the truth or to speak an actionable lie. There's quite a bit more at the link.
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Monday, 17 August 2020
Cracks appear in "All Good Blacks Vote Democrat" Narrative. Wonderfully done Baltimore Ad from Klacik for Congress.
After 53 years Democrat led ruination of Baltimore, cracks in the narrative appear. Beautiful Kimberly Klacik is running for congress and deserves to win by a landslide. A great ad follows her in red heels into the crumbling infrastructure of Baltimore, an area mostly home to Black Americans, and calls for an end of 53 years mismangement.
Sunday, 16 August 2020
Most of the world used Hydroxychloroquine early and saved lives. One chart.
Verify but don't forget this comparison of hydroxychlorquine use..
The chart has been fiddled since "limited early" and "widespread early" are fuzzy terms.
The 660 million in the LIMITED category had a death rate of 720/million population and the 2,000 million in the WIDESPREAD category had a death rate of 156/million population. Who is in the LIMITED category with the extra dead bodies? The wealthy and credentialed countries predominate including, sad to say, Canada, USA and the UK. The source site is here.
Vitamin D: The cheapest, easiest, safest armour against COVID-19
From a recent study in the Phillipines: The Vitamin D level was found to be lowest in critical cases and highest in mild cases (of Covid-19). Most of those infected had Vitamin D deficiency.
For each standard-deviation increase in serum 25-hydroxy-Vitamin D, the risk of a severe outcome was reduced eightfold, and the risk of a critical outcome was reduced 20-fold.
My noble friend Lord Ridley, reporting this result in The Times a couple of days ago, wrote: “Of 49 patients with mild symptoms … only two had low levels of vitamin D; of 104 patients with critical or severe symptoms, only four did not have low levels of vitamin D.”
It's appropriate to boost your defences. The hydroxchlorquine/quercetin option to improve zinc uptake by cells in another example. Avoiding a battle makes more sense than just relying on good medical aid in a war zone.
People are fleeing San Francisco. Houses for sale doubled lately.
The chart shows a half dozen cities with mild changes in houses for sale inventory. The numbers are split into a solid line (the city proper) and a shaded area (the suburban areas). The City of San Francisco is in a class by itself in this selection. Unlivable for many.
Doing good
If it be in thy power to do good
Hold not back thy hand.
My variation on Proverbs 3:27
This goes farther than but includes, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". The Bible includes the thought, "Do good to those to whom it is due".
Making Normal Illegal.
Mandated anti-social distancing and liquor prohibition had the same mother. The germ of a good idea, untested by its competitors, was given the levers of power. What follows is natural law, here quoting Wretchard the Cat:
To a great extent the bureaucratic empires performed as designed. They used the crises to capture budget increases and inflate their power while carefully avoiding anything politically incorrect.
People will gather and drink together, party and pray together, fall in love and play bridge together. If they are offside the law, then it is government that is on the wrong side.
"Blue-state politicians failed to learn the lessons of America’s failed experiment with liquor prohibition a century ago: Banning normal economic and social activity creates a black market."
Saturday, 15 August 2020
Washington Post Loving on Al Baghadi and Hating on Donald Trump's Brother.
"The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
New York City: Dead Man Walking UPDATE
Policy has destroyed the heart of New York City. Watch this two minute drive through Manhattan August 7th 2020. Apart from St Patrick's Cathedral which has no windows, almost every store great and small is boarded up. Dead Man Walking. The Governor can make dinner for a few billionaires and ask them to come home. Who in their right mind would do that until deep change has happens?
Don't know who recorded it but I downloaded this yesterday
— tadgermania (@tadgermania) August 7, 2020
He's single handedly wrecked Manhattan
Ghost town
"Beirut DeBlasio" without the explosion pic.twitter.com/5I48ZGcWTZ
UPDATE from James Altucher's blog:
NYC was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up.
Now it’s completely dead.
“But NYC always always bounces back.” No. Not this time
“But NYC is the center of the financial universe. Opportunities will flourish here again.” Not this time.
“NYC has experienced worse.” No it hasn’t.
A Facebook group formed a few weeks ago that was for people who were planning a move and wanted others to talk to and ask advice from. Within two or three days it had about 10,000 members.
His whole article is a must read. Bandwidth went from 3 megabits/second in 2008 to 20 megabits/second today meaning ZOOM and living elsewhere but working ghostly in New York city works well. "the longer offices remain empty, the longer they will remain empty. "
"My favorite restaurant is closed for good. OK, let’s go to my second favorite. Closed for good. Third favorite, closed for good." And this quote: "Another friend of mine works at a major investment bank as a managing director. Before the pandemic, he was at the office every day, sometimes working from 6 a.m.–10 p.m. Now he lives in Phoenix, Arizona. “As of June,” he told me, “I had never even been to Phoenix.” And then he moved there. He does all his meetings on Zoom. "
Big Deal: SOROS "Foreign Agent" support has to be declared by protest groups in America says Supreme Court.
$200 million to AntiFa. Support for the Standing Rock protest project against the North Dakota pipeline. Through Tides foundation, support for many similar "Environmental" activisms. BLM support. This guy is not your friend.
From Mike Doran of Doranimated on August 15, the following:
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