Featured image: Selkirk Shores state park, Pulaski NY. Selkirk is on the eastern end of lake Ontario.
It seems the Love Gov is more interested in bad art than he was of the lives of NYS nursing home residents. Andy Cuomo just released a god-awful poster commemorating the state’s coronavirus response.
Not for nothing, but if New York was an independent country, it would have the 5th highest infection rate and the 6th highest death toll in the world. Doesn’t seem like something one would want to commemorate.
Jeffery Epstein’s alleged procurer Ghislane Maxwell was denied bail at a hearing today. After her not guilty plea, Judge Alison Nathan said the British socialite posed too great of a flight risk to be allowed to leave. She will remain in jail until her July 2021 trial.
Rumor has it she’s singing like a bird. Hopefully she doesn’t kill herself like her partner in crime. I really want to see some people perp walked over this.
Great Britain announced today that Chinese tech giant Huawei would not be part of the country’s 5G networks. The US has been pressuring the UK to exclude the company on security issues.
There are a couple of notes on the WuFlu front. First, out of New York, a diverse group of medical professionals are calling into question the results of a study that purported to absolve the state of responsibility for the 6,000 plus nursing home deaths in that state.
“I think they got a lot of political pushback and so their response was, âThis isnât a problem. Donât worry about it,ââ said Rupak Shivakoti, an epidemiologist at Columbia Universityâs Mailman School of Public Health.
âIt seems like the Department of Health is trying to justify what was an untenable policy,â added Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of nursing and sociology at the University of California at San Francisco.
The governor and the health department need to sack up and admit the policy was an abject disaster.
Next up is a story out of Florida. A local news outlet found multiple instances of health clinics reporting a 100% positive test rate. From Fox35Orlando:
Countless labs have reported a 100 percent positivity rate, which means every single person tested was positive. Other labs had very high positivity rates. FOX 35 News found that testing sites like one local Centra Care reported that 83 people were tested and all tested positive. Then, NCF Diagnostics in Alachua reported 88 percent of tests were positive. . .
The report showed that Orlando Health had a 98 percent positivity rate. However, when FOX 35 News contacted the hospital, they confirmed errors in the report. Orlando Health’s positivity rate is only 9.4 percent, not 98 percent as in the report.
This isn’t just a Florida issue. There are anecdotal reports of widespread discrepancies in testing results. From people scheduled to test, and not actually testing but getting notified they were covid positive to tests being processed without actually swabbing someone coming back positive.
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Officer Cameron Maciejewski of the Sterling Heights Michigan PD is being hailed as a hero today. As Maciejewski pulled up to a home around 10:45 p.m. last Thursday as the panicked family rushed to him carrying the 3-week-old child, who was not breathing, according to the Sterling Heights Police Department. Dashcam footage released by the department shows Maciejewski taking the baby in his arms and, while remaining calm, performed back thrusts on the child and clearing her airway. “Yep, there you go … She’s got a pulse and she’s breathing, OK?” he said, assuring the distraught family members that the baby would make it.
In some site news, the team is proud to announce we have added Deplorable Patriot at a part of the Patriot Patrol. This old Paratrooper needed some backup with all the Squids running around here, and Deplorable Patriot is a fellow grad of the Jump School at Ft. Benning. Join me in a hearty welcome to our newest addition.
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