WSJ :therapeutics not being used

We discussed this here earlier. The problem is that Health Depts  have discouraged Primary Care Physicians from treating COVID patients, instead telling them to send their patients home and to call the hospital only if they become severely ill. By the time they call the hospital, they are past the effective window for the monoclonal preparations.

PCPs need to be empowered to order these treatments without further consultation for their high risk patients. As a general rule, your PCP should always be your point of contact and specialists should report to the PCP.

Texas and Florida to prioritize high risk citizens

At least 2 states prioritize saving lives over wokeness.

Will Virginia follow?

COVID Deaths in Europe

A question for those seeking to blame President Trump for all 300K+ deaths in the US.

Europe has roughly the same population as the US, with a lower proportion of more vulnerable minorities, yet they have seen 500K deaths.

So, how is Trump responsible for those deaths in Europe?

FEE: The FDA kills

Moderna’s vaccine, which we are just starting to deploy, was designed and ready for manufacture before the first US death.

Challenge testing of volunteers could have had it ready for release by March.

But the FDA said that was too dangerous.

Gabbard rips CDC Bureaucrats

Why couldn’t you Democrats have nominated this one.

CEI send Paris Accord to Senate

President Obama set out to implement the Paris Accord without sending it to the Senate for ratification by declaring it to be a legal fiction, a binding agreement that was not a treaty.

Trump left the accord, but Biden has promised to rejoin it on his first day. But if President Trump were to rejoin the accord, and accept it as a treaty, he could then send it to the Senate where it stands zero change of being ratified, permanently killing it no matter what Biden does.

He has every bit as much power to do that as Obama had to pretend it was not a treaty.

the Great Barrington Resolution update WSJ

The theory is that for most people under 65, the measures we are taking to suppress COVID are worse than the disease. So, scarce resources, like vaccines, should be used to protect the small part of the population that is likely to die. Don’t waste doses on those who have laready had the virus and recovered, or on people under 65 without complications conditions until the vulnerable population is safe.

Once they are protected, open the economy, let people take the precautions they choose, and let herd immunity happen through the combination of continued vaccination and the recovery of healthy, young people who aren’t at much risk.

COVID is only an emergency, justifying closing down the economy, because people die. Stop the dying and the emergency is over.

WTF?

Those vaccine doses are not Northam’s to give. They belong to the citizens of Virginia. Absent a vote from the legislature authorizing diverting Virginia’ allocation to another state, or DC, is gross malfeasance, and Northam should be removed from office and prosecuted.

Virginians will die waiting for that shortfall to be made up.

The Hill: Biden’s Looming Disaster

Sometimes, when a dog chases a bus, the worst thing for him is that he catches it.

President Obama benefited from boarding the ship at low tide and getting credit for it rising. Biden will enjoy no such benefit.

The economy is rebounding from what nearly everyone has come to see as a Black Swan.

Operation Warp Speed is handing off a victory over the virus as a fait accompli.

The world is at relative peace, middle east peace appears to be finally at hand.

From any objective measure, there is no where to go but down, and the policies his radical wing of his party are pushing on him will guarantee the fall will be precipitous.

This is going to be fun to watch.

Perdue seeks priority for poultry workers and families

The list of “essential workers” continues to grow.

It is pretty much impossible to determine how many “essential workers” Virginia has as the Dept of Health posts no numbers or definitions, but now meat and poultry workers AND THEIR FAMILIES are elbowing their way to the front of the line.

Nationally, with 210million Americans eligible for vaccination(18 and older) we have 30 million health care and long term facility residents at the front of the line, followed by 90 million “Essential Workers” so over half the US population will be vaccinated before we even start on the elderly.

And the list continues to grow. Those who most need the vaccine to survive are on their way to being last to get it.