re: Thanks again Republicans for Edwards

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On June 21, LA had 589 Covid 19 patients in hospitals. On July 11, we have 1182 Covid 19 patients in hospitals. We have had 302 more deaths from Covid 19 during that same time period.

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All cause mortality in the United States has been below expected numbers since June 13th and declining. Even taking into account fewer traffic fatalities (things have been much more open, so how much impact that is remains questionable), seems like the recent national numbers are puffery, double counting, just cooking the books (even I concede they're only doing this for the money, the books are cooked nonetheless, are they not), so I'm just concerned about the agenda of those pushing panic here.

Hospital utilization is an issue, of course, but a State of 4 million can handle 1000 "more" folks in hospitals than are norm. This isn't even a net number because people are putting off medical treatment (yet ANOTHER cost and risk by Covid panic). And, we've had plenty of time to prepare over the 4 months. I almost laughed out loud when JBE mentioned "ventilators", using talking points almost 90 days out of date.

We have so many excess ventilators, as a nation, we can fill an Olympic sized pool with them.

And masks, as they are currently being mandated and worn are not only no protection from the disease, at all, they're counterproductive.

Silly virtue signalling would be bad enough if useless. When it is counterproductive, it is much worse.