thelibertybeacon--2020-07-08--KEN’S CORNER: Abortion, The “Progressive” Devaluation of Life

According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions .
This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day .
In the USA , where nearly half of pregnancies are unintended and four in ten of these are terminated by abortion , there are over 3,000 abortions per day .
It might surprise some , but The Jesuits taught me that it is ludicrous to argue weather abortion is a life or not a life .
The fact is that none of us know for certain where to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ loving person would not take action if this line wasn ’ t clearly defined , so this idea makes abortion , for selfish concerns , absolutely morally wrong .
I speak to you here of death , innocent death… I write not only of what is being done now , right this moment , but of the wasted potential in its twisted process called abortion .
I speak to you of the unspeakable , the intentional murder of children , and the potential for life , by the hands of butchers .
Most @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Godless , myopic and self serving , and reading on will show fully its profound horror… First , lets look at the tools… There are many forms of abortions performed here in America , and though it is the most discussed and morally debated act of the century , it is still being carried out .
I can ’ t deny the possibility that in some cases an abortion may be needed , but the greatest part is not for saving the life of the mother , but done on demand , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To me , of all of the disgusting and unjust happenings of our world , this takes the cake hands down .
So let us walk down this road together… There is what is called The Menstrual extraction , where a hollow tube with a sharp tip is connected to a powerful pump , said to be 29 times more powerful than a conventional vacuum cleaner .
With a small opening and a strong suction it actually tears the body to pieces .
The placenta is cut up and sucked out too , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ operation .
A D & C , also known as Dilation and Curettage , can be used in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy .
It is used in most cases in place of the saline and chemical solutions that have mistakenly led to the horror of live births , where children were blinded , chemically burned , with irreversible trauma .
An instrument that looks like a pair of pliers is used to crush the “ baby ’ s ” bones , skull , and backbone .
Inserted , the doctor will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s body , and twist off an arm , or leg , over and over until the entire body is extracted .
There is a nurse present whose job it is to reassemble this tiny body , to insure that no parts were left inside .
( Note* I use the word baby in this paragraph to emphasize that the definition of a baby is one dependent on a mother , before and after birth . )
The Hysterectomy Abortion is a procedure where the mother ’ s abdomen is surgically opened and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ babies are still alive , and will be smothered in a variety of ways , from being covered with the placenta , to being immersed in a bucket of water .
One procedure is to cut the cord while the baby is still inside , and doing the operation after the heart stops .
Salt Poisoning , ( candy apple babies ) , is most used in the first trimester of pregnancy .
An abortionist will inject a strong saline solution into the anomic sac .
After this injection , the fetus can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and swallowing this saline poisons the baby .
It can be seen struggling , and convulsing before death .
Why the term “ Candy Apple ” ?
Well , after delivery , in a day or two , the baby ’ s head sometimes looks like a Candy Apple .
The salt is so corrosive that it actually burns the skin off , displaying the subcutaneous layer underneath .
This method was originally perfected in Nazi concentration camps .
Some babies have survived this procedure , look them up , …Gianna Jesson and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of abortion to look up , the Prostaglandin , and RU-486 , that I don ’ t have room for here , but they show the many ways we find to kill as most imaginative .
The most horrendous of all is the procedure called D & X or The Partial Birth abortion .
It makes all the others look somewhat mild in comparison .
It is used from early to advanced pregnancies , and so , on babies who could most probably have otherwise survived on their own .
Here is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by “ Abortion TV , …tune in the truth.
” : Partial birth abortion is not found in medical textbooks .
Here we have a doctor who has taken the oath to heal , and yet killing in a manor not accepted in medical practice !
It is a procedure that no ethical doctor would perform , and no civilized society should tolerate .
In no way is it considered an emergency procedure , but premeditated .
It can take up to three days for the woman to dilate , and there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scarring , and the possibility of complicating future pregnancy too .
I ask you , what mother would let her child die so that she might live ?
Information above was secured from the Kansas City Star .
The Washington Times is stated below , January 14 , 2003 : The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 ( Pub.L .
108–105 , 117 Stat .
1201 , enacted November 5 , 2003 , 18 U.S.C .
§ 1531 , PBA Ban ) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” referred to in medical literature by as intact dilation and extraction .
If you have the stomach for it … here are some images of post abortion procedure babies .
Question this : Is there money to be made from these little bodies ?
40 to 50 million abortions are performed on our beautiful Earth , every year .
Can this loss be calculated ?
There are many religions I have personally tried to understand , from the Old Testament of wrath , fear , and vengeance , the New Testament of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Koran of the Desert Warrior , The Rig Vita , and the remnants of Zoroastrianism , but one thing they all had in common , was the sanctity of innocent life… Though men have used them all to justify death , statistics show that no person of any faith would have an abortion , no matter what they called themselves .
I have seen grown Muslim men cry at the thought of it , as we discussed morality and ethics deep into the night… It is shown that this procedure comes from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do it , here in America , are black .
Years ago I wrote a piece about abortion published in the BI Moody papers , and a very distraught white woman told me at a party that she had had two when she was in her early twenties , and regretted it .
I remember her using the F word in front of my grandson , drove legally drunk , and blew her cigarette smoke across the pool without regard .
I know a lawyer who talked his young daughter into having one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeming feels no remorse .
To me , he is responsible for that life , and I wonder if he sees it in his mind ’ s eye playing with his three other grand kids .
If there is an after life… an accountability for what we have done on this amazing gift called earth… what would the maker of all things say ?
I ask you , what is an hour of life worth ?
One hour breathing a fresh morning breeze , having the sun or even rain on your face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of children , or to hug someone you love… everything you own in the world .
What is eighty years worth ?
It is a loss beyond comprehension… Life , is so precious , that if you are wrong in a wreck and a fetus dies , you are brought up for manslaughter… and yet , it is also legal to end it with one of any various tools found above , and our Progressive , Satanic Government , wants loving people to pay for it .
Sure , there are circumstances where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cancer and radiation , but even there a loving woman will choose the life of her child over her own .
As a man of sixty nine , I was taught to defend any woman and child with my life , and the Progressive left is trying to destroy that sentiment , and make right wrong .
My God , the horror of it all… what have we become ?
Three thousand abortions here in America , every single day… Indeed , it is hard to fathom .
I write this with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ one life .
There was some talk of a recent essay of mine describing a beheading in Saudi Arabia of a convicted murderer .
Some said it was a barbarous act of a barbarous Muslim society .
We throw stones , but are we any better ?
We electrocute our murderers , and give them lethal injections…We are so “ holier than thou.
” So egotistical , so judgmental .
A culture should be considered civilized by the empathy , love , the compassion we have for our fellow man , and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other hand , a culture who takes a strong hand against evil is for the common good .
and so we must ask ourselves : Who the hell are we ?
…I wonder , as we ask for God ’ s mercy .
From the Author , Ken LaRive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation and the cause for Liberty .
And so , as we are pulled by forces we can not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future , unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt , we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or the shackles of voluntary servitude ?
Will it be a war for corporate profit , or a war to regain our ability to self govern , as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us , their children , as a gift ?
I fear that decision is emanate .
I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: Abortion, The “Progressive” Devaluation of Life
By TLB Contributing Author: Ken LaRive
How much is a moment of life worth? It is priceless!
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day. In the USA, where nearly half of pregnancies are unintended and four in ten of these are terminated by abortion, there are over 3,000 abortions per day.
It might surprise some, but The Jesuits taught me that it is ludicrous to argue weather abortion is a life or not a life. The fact is that none of us know for certain where to draw the line. A responsible and loving person would not take action if this line wasn’t clearly defined, so this idea makes abortion, for selfish concerns, absolutely morally wrong.
I speak to you here of death, innocent death… I write not only of what is being done now, right this moment, but of the wasted potential in its twisted process called abortion. I speak to you of the unspeakable, the intentional murder of children, and the potential for life, by the hands of butchers. Most Abortionists exist because our society is weak and Godless, myopic and self serving, and reading on will show fully its profound horror…
First, lets look at the tools…
There are many forms of abortions performed here in America, and though it is the most discussed and morally debated act of the century, it is still being carried out. I can’t deny the possibility that in some cases an abortion may be needed, but the greatest part is not for saving the life of the mother, but done on demand, as a form of birth control. To me, of all of the disgusting and unjust happenings of our world, this takes the cake hands down. So let us walk down this road together…
There is what is called The Menstrual extraction, where a hollow tube with a sharp tip is connected to a powerful pump, said to be 29 times more powerful than a conventional vacuum cleaner. With a small opening and a strong suction it actually tears the body to pieces. The placenta is cut up and sucked out too, filling a special receptacle designed for this operation.
A D&C, also known as Dilation and Curettage, can be used in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. It is used in most cases in place of the saline and chemical solutions that have mistakenly led to the horror of live births, where children were blinded, chemically burned, with irreversible trauma. An instrument that looks like a pair of pliers is used to crush the “baby’s” bones, skull, and backbone. Inserted, the doctor will seize a part of the baby’s body, and twist off an arm, or leg, over and over until the entire body is extracted. There is a nurse present whose job it is to reassemble this tiny body, to insure that no parts were left inside. (Note* I use the word baby in this paragraph to emphasize that the definition of a baby is one dependent on a mother, before and after birth.)
The Hysterectomy Abortion is a procedure where the mother’s abdomen is surgically opened and the baby lifted out. Sometimes these babies are still alive, and will be smothered in a variety of ways, from being covered with the placenta, to being immersed in a bucket of water. One procedure is to cut the cord while the baby is still inside, and doing the operation after the heart stops.
Salt Poisoning, (candy apple babies), is most used in the first trimester of pregnancy. An abortionist will inject a strong saline solution into the anomic sac. After this injection, the fetus can be viewed on a monitor. Breathing and swallowing this saline poisons the baby. It can be seen struggling, and convulsing before death. Why the term “Candy Apple”? Well, after delivery, in a day or two, the baby’s head sometimes looks like a Candy Apple. The salt is so corrosive that it actually burns the skin off, displaying the subcutaneous layer underneath. This method was originally perfected in Nazi concentration camps. Some babies have survived this procedure, look them up, …Gianna Jesson and Becca.
There are two other forms of abortion to look up, the Prostaglandin, and RU-486, that I don’t have room for here, but they show the many ways we find to kill as most imaginative.
The most horrendous of all is the procedure called D&X or The Partial Birth abortion. It makes all the others look somewhat mild in comparison. It is used from early to advanced pregnancies, and so, on babies who could most probably have otherwise survived on their own. Here is a verbatim account of the procedure as given by “Abortion TV, …tune in the truth.”:
“The cervix is dilated to allow passage of a ring forceps. A foot or lower leg is located and pulled into the vagina. The baby is extracted in breech fashion until the head is just inside the cervix. The baby’s legs hang outside of the woman’s body. With the baby face-down, scissors are plunged into the baby’s head at the nape of the neck and spread open to enlarge the wound. A suction tip is inserted and the baby’s brain is removed. The skull collapses and the baby is delivered.”
Partial birth abortion is not found in medical textbooks. Here we have a doctor who has taken the oath to heal, and yet killing in a manor not accepted in medical practice! It is a procedure that no ethical doctor would perform, and no civilized society should tolerate.
In no way is it considered an emergency procedure, but premeditated. It can take up to three days for the woman to dilate, and there is serious danger for infection, hemorrhaging, scarring, and the possibility of complicating future pregnancy too.
I ask you, what mother would let her child die so that she might live?
Information above was secured from the Kansas City Star. The Washington Times is stated below, January 14, 2003:
“An estimated 2,200 dilation and extraction, or partial-birth abortions were conducted in 2000, said researches with the pro-abortion Alen Guttmacher Institute, who surveyed all known U.S. abortion facilities during the last few years. In 1996, institute researchers estimated that there had been 650 partial-birth abortions, which are performed on unborn children older than 20 weeks. The 2,200 partial-birth abortions account for 0.17 percent of abortions, said institute researchers Lawrence Finer and Stanley Henshaw. Moreover, the 2,200 figure “should be interpreted cautiously because projections based on such small numbers are subject to error.” They wrote.”
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Pub.L. 108–105, 117 Stat. 1201, enacted November 5, 2003, 18 U.S.C. § 1531, PBA Ban) is a United States law prohibiting a form of late termination of pregnancy called “partial-birth abortion,” referred to in medical literature by as intact dilation and extraction.
If you have the stomach for it … here are some images of post abortion procedure babies.
Question this: Is there money to be made from these little bodies?
40 to 50 million abortions are performed on our beautiful Earth, every year. Can this loss be calculated?
Author’s Note: There are many religions I have personally tried to understand, from the Old Testament of wrath, fear, and vengeance, the New Testament of Love and Jesus the Christ, The Koran of the Desert Warrior, The Rig Vita, and the remnants of Zoroastrianism, but one thing they all had in common, was the sanctity of innocent life… Though men have used them all to justify death, statistics show that no person of any faith would have an abortion, no matter what they called themselves. I have seen grown Muslim men cry at the thought of it, as we discussed morality and ethics deep into the night… It is shown that this procedure comes from the left, and that most all who do it, here in America, are black. Years ago I wrote a piece about abortion published in the BI Moody papers, and a very distraught white woman told me at a party that she had had two when she was in her early twenties, and regretted it. I remember her using the F word in front of my grandson, drove legally drunk, and blew her cigarette smoke across the pool without regard. I know a lawyer who talked his young daughter into having one, and he, to this day seeming feels no remorse. To me, he is responsible for that life, and I wonder if he sees it in his mind’s eye playing with his three other grand kids. If there is an after life… an accountability for what we have done on this amazing gift called earth… what would the maker of all things say? I ask you, what is an hour of life worth? One hour breathing a fresh morning breeze, having the sun or even rain on your face, hearing a bird or the laughter of children, or to hug someone you love… everything you own in the world. What is eighty years worth? It is a loss beyond comprehension… Life, is so precious, that if you are wrong in a wreck and a fetus dies, you are brought up for manslaughter… and yet, it is also legal to end it with one of any various tools found above, and our Progressive, Satanic Government, wants loving people to pay for it. Sure, there are circumstances where it may be justified, rape, cancer and radiation, but even there a loving woman will choose the life of her child over her own. As a man of sixty nine, I was taught to defend any woman and child with my life, and the Progressive left is trying to destroy that sentiment, and make right wrong. My God, the horror of it all… what have we become? Three thousand abortions here in America, every single day… Indeed, it is hard to fathom. I write this with the hope of changing one mind, saving one life. There was some talk of a recent essay of mine describing a beheading in Saudi Arabia of a convicted murderer. Some said it was a barbarous act of a barbarous Muslim society. We throw stones, but are we any better? We electrocute our murderers, and give them lethal injections…We are so “holier than thou.” So egotistical, so judgmental. A culture should be considered civilized by the empathy, love, the compassion we have for our fellow man, and the protection we have for innocence. On the other hand, a culture who takes a strong hand against evil is for the common good. and so we must ask ourselves: Who the hell are we? …I wonder, as we ask for God’s mercy.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-09--Second Wave? Not Even Close.

Second Wave? Not Even Close.

Second wave ?
Not even close .
Why did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place ?
Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to “ flatten the curve ” so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care ?
At that point , at least , back in early March , people were behaving rationally .
They accepted that you can ’ t eradicate a virus , so let ’ s postpone things enough to handle it .
The fact is , we have done that , and so much more .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a “ second wave ” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases .
But , is any of it actually true and should we all be worried ?
No , it ’ s not a second wave .
The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs , and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said , this is really the only graph you need to see , it ’ s the CDC ’ s data , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here in the U.S. , and the trend line is unmistakable : If virologists were driving policy about COVID-19 rather than public health officials , we ’ d all be Sweden right now , which means life would effectively be back to normal .
The only thing our lockdowns have done at this point is prolong the agony a little bit , and encouraged Governors to make up more useless rules .
Sweden ’ s health minister understood that the only chance to beat COVID-19 was to get the Swedish population to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s exactly what they have done , so let me start there .
THE HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD ( “ HIT ” ) FOR COVID-19 IS BETWEEN 10-20 % This fact gets less press than any other .
Most people understand the basic concept of herd immunity and the math behind it .
In the early days , some public health officials speculated that COVID-19 ’ s HIT was 70 % .
Obviously , the difference between a HIT of 70 % and a HIT of 10-20 % is dramatic , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a virus will burn out as it loses the ability to infect more people , which is exactly what COVID-19 is doing everywhere , including the U.S , which is why the death curve above looks the way it looks .
Scientists from Oxford , Virginia Tech , and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine , all recently explained the HIT of COVID-19 in this paper : Calculations from this study of data in Stockholm showed a HIT of 17 % , and if you really love data , check out this great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ titled , COVID-19 ‘ herd immunity ’ without vaccination ?
Teaching modern vaccine dogma old tricks .
I ’ m going to share his summary with you , because it ’ s so good : One of the most vocal members of the scientific community discussing COVID-19 ’ s HIT is Stanford ’ s Nobel-laureate Dr. Michael Levitt .
Back on May 4 , he gave this great interview to the Stanford Daily where he advocated for Sweden ’ s approach of letting COVID-19 spread naturally through the community until you arrive at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
That ’ s exactly what happened .
As of today , 7 weeks after his prediction , Sweden has 5,280 deaths .
In this graph , you can see that deaths in Sweden PEAKED when the HIT was halfway to its peak ( roughly 7.3 % ) , and by the time the virus hit 14 % , it was nearly extinguished .
( Shoutout to Gummi Bear on Twitter , a scientist who makes great graphs . )
How could Dr. Levitt have predicted the death range for Sweden so perfectly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pretty solid idea of what the HIT would be .
( If you ’ d like to further geek-out on HIT , check out : Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought . )
I absolutely LOVE Dr. Levitt ( and as a Stanford alum , so proud he is a Stanford professor ) , watch this incredible video from just yesterday , go to 10:59 and just listen to this remarkable man !
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Thrilled with his brand-new paper , released today , Predicting the Trajectory of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Line .
By the way , as a quick aside , and something else the press won ’ t touch : COVID-19 is a coronavirus , and we have ALL been exposed to MANY coronaviruses during our lives on earth ( like the common cold ) .
Guess what ?
Scientists are now showing evidence that up to 81 % of us can mount a strong response to COVID-19 without ever having been exposed to it before : This alone could explain WHY the HIT is so much lower for COVID-19 than some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being talked about was closer to 70 % .
Many of us have always been immune !
If that ’ s not enough for you , a similar study from Sweden was just released and shows that “ roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared with those who we can detect antibodies in.
” Quick Update : This article came out one day after I wrote mine , and validated everything I just said , except the author is wrong about COVID-19 ’ s HIT : it ’ s 10-20 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is even better news : Back to death rates over time .
We actually have our own Sweden here in the U.S.
It ’ s called New York City .
In our case , we accidentally created a Sweden scenario , in that we took our medicine quickly , because : • New York locked down so late that they didn ’ t flatten anything • they have the highest population density in the U.S. in NYC • the public health officials and Governors there made the bone-headed decision to send COVID-positive nursing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , accelerating deaths of the most vulnerable .
What ’ s their death curve look like today ?
In this case , I borrowed the graph from the NYC public health website : Hmm…notice anything about the chart or its slope ?
The reason deaths from COVID-19 are dwindling down to nothing isn ’ t because Governor Cuomo is a policy genius ( in fact , he likely created more unnecessary deaths than any other Governor with the nursing home decision ) .
It ’ s because the virus—like every virus in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to infect .
The virus has a HIT of 10-20 % and 70 % of people are likely naturally immune .
Hosts are in short supply !
That ’ s what viruses do , and wait until you see what New York ’ s likely HIT is today .
We can get a crude but helpful proxy for whether or not a state ( or region ) has achieved their own Herd Immunity Threshold if we know the following things : the size of the population , the number of deaths from COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or Infection Fatality Rate .
In my first blog post late last month , LOCKDOWN LUNACY : the thinking person ’ s guide , I discussed Infection Fatality Rate in detail , so I am just going to give a very quick summary here .
Stanford ’ s Dr. John Ioannidis published a meta-analysis ( because so many IFR studies have been done around the world in April and early May ) where he analyzed TWELVE separate IFR studies and his conclusion lays out the likely IFR for COVID-19 : The data on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times that our own Centers for Disease Control announced that their ‘ best estimate ’ showed an IFR below 0.3 % .
In this article on the CDC ’ s new data , they also highlighted how the cascading declines in IFR has removed all the fears of doomsday : In order to be as bullet-proof as possible , and because the IFR is an important part of the math I will do right now , I ’ ve decided to pick a simple and defensible number , the final number pegged by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : 0.26 % Now that you understand COVID ’ s IFR and the likely HIT , it ’ s much easier to talk about the second wave , the data , and the implications .
Here ’ s the deal : TAKE POPULATION , COVID DEATHS , AND IFR TO FIND HIT C ’ mon stay with me !
This math is basic , junior high level stuff .
And , it ’ s going to give us the most important , but very crude , number we need to understand all this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already attained by state and by the United States .
If you know how many people have died from COVID-19 in any one region , you can quickly calculate how many people have had COVID-19 in that same region .
All you do is divide deaths by the IFR .
Let ’ s use NY as the example .
As of today , there have been 31,137 deaths from COVID-19 .
Take 31,137/.0026 , you get 11,975,969 people infected with COVID-19 .
Take those 11 million people divided by New York ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a HIT of…65 % .
Huge disclaimer : This math is crude , but it ’ s also directionally accurate , and the comparisons BETWEEN states helps explain what ’ s going on .
Importantly , the HIT required to snuff out the virus in any one region could be lower than Sweden ’ s number of 17 % , for a million reasons , most notably better medical knowledge today than a few months ago about how to keep a vulnerable person alive .
Still , just look at this table I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything ?
New York is WELL PAST Herd Immunity Threshold ( as is New Jersey ) , the southern states in the news are BELOW the implied HIT , while the U.S. overall is nearly there with 15 % .
This is why the death curve from the CDC ( and NYC ! )
that I opened this blog post with looks the way it looks : we are basically done with the virus .
Just like Sweden .
Oh , and Italy : Quick update : Mount Sinai doctors just released a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ random sample of 5,000 New Yorkers .
It states that “ by the week ending April 19 , the seroprevalence in the screening group reached 19.3 % .
” If you take that 19.3 % number , and consider what we just learned from Sweden — that half of people with immunity won ’ t show it with this test — and then consider how many more people have been exposed since April 28 , it ’ s entirely plausible that NY is well past 40 % or more people , which starts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number my math shows .
Either way , let ’ s just keep it simple : New York , and especially NYC , are WELL PAST HIT of 10-20 % , which explains why their death curve looks the way it looks .
While HIT matters more than anything else in explaining the trajectory of the virus , and tells us that the U.S. is very close to being done with COVID-19 , I wanted to take a closer look at one state , Florida , the current whipping boy of the press @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No one seems to be listening to the Governor , the health department , or the hospitals in Florida , who all seem to be saying the same thing , which is basically that everything is fine .
On June 20 , Florida ’ s department of health produced a presentation that explained how their testing had changed over time .
Check out this slide : So , as the state re-opened , they began to test everyone , “ regardless of age and symptoms.
” What do you think would happen when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positives .
So , here ’ s my first fact : Fact # 1 : All of the “ second wave ” states have dramatically increased their testing .
This alone causes cases to rise , and is the single biggest reason they have .
Still not convinced ?
Check out this eye-opener of a chart that shows per-capita testing in the U.S. versus other countries .
Notice anything about June ?
Not only do we do MORE testing than any other country , but our testing spiked in June , right as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out .
Hmmm… It ’ s not quite that simple .
Yes , cases are up because more testing is being done .
Cases have never , ever been a reliable indicator of ANYTHING .
But , hospitalizations have been a reliable indicator .
And , unexpectedly , there was an uptick in hospitalizations for COVID-19 beginning around June 6th in Florida , as you can see here : The most obvious reason COVID-19 hospitalizations are going up is because of what ’ s happening in the hospital system .
Patients are returning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were all delayed during the lockdown .
EVERY patient is screened for COVID-19 .
A patient who is undergoing elective knee surgery and tests positive for COVID-19 even though they are asymptomatic will be classified as “ hospitalized with COVID-19.
” This was explained in a recent NY Times article : Fact # 2 : Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are up slightly because of how COVID-19 positive patients are tracked .
They will be in the number even if they didn ’ t go to the hospital BECAUSE of COVID-19 .
Still , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s not just more tests and the way hospitalizations are happening .
Many states re-opened on May 1 and their trend lines were flat to down for weeks .
It ’ s as if some super-spreader event happened in certain states towards late May/Early June .
It ’ s really clear that something unique is going on if you look at data from Minnesota , the state where George Floyd was tragically murdered , where positive cased are stratified by age : As you can see , in Minnesota , the percentage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really spiked in mid to late June , which means infections likely happened in early June or late May .
Yes , obviously , the densely-packed protests for racial equality and social justice—which I personally applaud—appear to have caused a REAL uptick in cases and hospitalizations .
See this article , Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd .
Just look at the median age of NEW cases in Florida for mid-June ( used to be in the mid-60s ) : Fact # 3 : A REAL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matches the timing of the nationwide protests , which included many densely-packed crowds together for many hours and even days .
Not convinced ?
Check out this great graph that overlays the timing of the protests , lockdowns , social mobility , and hospitalizations using data for the entire US .
Note there is a time delay between exposure and hospitalizations ( between 8 and 15 days ) , and look at when the yellow hospitalization line goes up .
However , the good news about all of this is that there has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 patients in ICUs , which is consistent with the fact that we know younger patients are less impacted by COVID-19 .
Check out this chart : Fact # 4 : Despite a small uptick in hospitalizations , the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU continues to decline .
You ’ ve been hearing about a handful of states with rising cases .
Here they are on a chart .
Cases are clearly rising : But for those states , what about deaths ?
They appear to be going the other way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most important slide , using Florida as the example , there is NO correlation between more tests – more positive tests , and DEATHS ( red line in the graph ) .
The fact that these three measures are not linear means Florida has a low and stable death rate , and the recent uptick in positive cases—which happens to be perfectly timed to the nationwide protests—means nothing : Fact # 5 : There is NO correlation in Florida —the state taking the most heat in the press about a second wave — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , anyone who has been paying attention to the data could have told you that , because the national data on COVID-19 deaths is looking more and more like Sweden ’ s , as we already discussed .
Today , our national HIT is roughly 15 % , which means we are almost done , no matter what any Governor does .
I ’ ve seen discussion about how the protests caused an uptick in infections amongst younger people .
Some in opposition to that fairly obvious reality point to New York @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has NOT seen an uptick in hospitalizations—how do you explain that ?
By now , you know the answer : New York ’ s HIT is already 65 % !
Notably , in the math I used , Florida only had a Herd Immunity Threshold number of 6 % , well below the target of 17 % .
So , yes , they MAY WELL have to endure a few more deaths before they achieve HIT .
But , it ’ s highly likely that : 1 ) it won ’ t need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the people being infected are much younger ( where death rate is much lower ) , and that 2 ) it will happen in the next few weeks , and policy will have nothing to do with whether it happens or not .
Either way , because we know the national number is 15 % , the virus is almost gone , no matter what anyone says or does , and all you need to do to verify that is look at the CDC ’ s death curve .
John Thomas Littell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Florida .
I was going to publish an excerpt from his Letter to the Editor of the Orlando Medical News , but it ’ s so good and so wide-ranging , I want you to read the whole thing , and then we can wrap this up : Several times a day , on every possible news outlet , we are bombarded with updates as to the new number of “ cases ” of COVID-19 in the U.S. and elsewhere .
News analysts then use these numbers to justify criticisms of those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recommendations with regards to mask wearing and social distancing .
It is imperative that all Americans – and especially those in the medical profession – understand the actual definition of a “ case ” of COVID -19 so as to make informed decisions as to how to live our lives .
Older Americans remember all too well the dread they experienced when a family member was diagnosed with a “ case ” of scarlet fever , diphtheria , whooping cough ( pertussis ) , or polio .
During my career in family medicine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physician , I have cared for patients with chickenpox , shingles , Lyme disease as well as measles , tuberculosis , malaria , and AIDS .
The “ case definition ” established for all of these diseases by the CDC requires the presence of signs and symptoms of that disease .
In other words , each case involved a SICK patient .
Laboratory studies may be performed to “ confirm ” a diagnosis , but are not sufficient in the absence of clinical symptoms .
Having now been privileged to care for sick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out of the hospital setting , I am happy to see the number of these sick patients dwindle almost to zero in my community – while the “ case numbers ” for COVID-19 continue to go up .
Why is that ?
In marked contrast to measles , shingles , and other infectious disease , “ cases ” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever .
Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing , and each positive test is reported as yet another “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ April 5 , 2020 , a small number of state epidemiologists ( Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists ( CSTE ) Technical Supplement : Interim-20-ID-01 ) came up with a “ surveillance ” case definition for COVID-19 .
At the time , there was uncertainty as to whether or not completely asymptomatic persons could transmit COVID-19 sufficiently enough to infect and cause disease in others .
( This notion has never been proven and , in fact , has recently been discounted – cfr “ A Study on the Infectivity of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Respir Med , 2020 Aug – available online through PubMed 2020 May 13 , as well as recent reports from the WHO itself ) .
The CSTE thereby justified the unconventional case definition for COVID-19 , adding “ CSTE realizes that field investigations will involve evaluations of persons with no symptoms and these individuals will need to be counted as cases.
” Hence , anyone who has a positive PCR test ( the nasal swab , PCR test for COVID Antigen or Nucleic Acid ) or serological test ( blood test for antibodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a “ case ” – even in the absence of symptoms .
In our hospitals at this time , there are hundreds of former nursing home residents sitting in “ COVID ” units who are in their usual state of good health , banned from returning to their former nursing home residences simply because they have TESTED Positive for COVID-19 during mass testing programs in the nursing homes .
The presence of a positive lab test for COVID-19 in a person who has never been sick is actually GOOD news for that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The positive test indicates that this person has likely mounted an adequate immune response to a small dose of COVID-19 to whom he or she was exposed – naturally ( hence , no need for a vaccine vs. COVID-19 ) .
( ER : we ’ re not sure where PCR tests producing a false positive rate of 80 % fits in with this . )
It is important as well to understand that the presence of lab testing is not the ONLY criterion that the CDC used to established a diagnosis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 or 2 flu-like symptoms ( fever , chills , cough , sore throat , shortness of breath ) – in the absence of another proven cause ( e.g.
, influenza , bacterial pneumonia ) is SUFFICIENT to give a diagnosis of COVID-19 – as long as the patient also meets certain “ epidemiological linkage ” criteria as follows : “ In a person with clinically compatible symptoms , [ a “ case ” will be reported if that person had ] one or more of the following exposures in the 14 days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or residence in an area with sustained , ongoing community transmission of SARS-CoV-2 ; close contact ( 10 minutes or longer , within a 6 foot distance ) with a person diagnosed with COVID-19 ; or member of a risk cohort as defined by public health authorities during an outbreak.
” Note that the definition of a “ risk cohort ” includes age > 70 or living in a nursing home or similar facility .
So , in essence , any person with an influenza-like illness ( ILI ) could be considered a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ WITHOUT confirmatory lab testing .
The CDC has even advised to consider any deaths from pneumonia or ILI as “ Covid-related ” deaths – unless the physician or medical examiner establishes another infectious agent as the cause of illness .
Now perhaps you see why the increasing number of cases , and even deaths , due to COVID-19 is fraught with misinterpretation and is NOT in any way a measure of the ACTUAL morbidity and mortality FROM COVID-19 .
My patients who insist upon wearing masks , gloves and social distancing are citing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decisions ( and , of course , that they are following the “ CDC guidelines ” ) .
I simply advise them , “ COVID-19 is NOT in the atmosphere around us ; it resides in the respiratory tracts of infected individuals and can only be transmitted to others by sick , infected persons after prolonged contact with others ” .
So you may ask – why are we continuing to report increasing numbers of cases of COVID as though it were BAD news for America ?
Rather than as GOOD news , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans testing positive ( also known as “ asymptomatic ” ) are indicative of the presence of herd immunity – protecting themselves and many of us from potential future assaults by variants of COVID ?
Why did we as a society stop sending our children to schools and camps and sports activities ?
Why did we stop going to work and church and public parks and beaches ?
Why did we insist that healthy persons “ stay at home ” – rather than observing the evidence-based , medically prudent method of identifying those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rest of the population – advising the sick to “ stay at home ” and allowing the rest of society to function normally ?
And , while we witnessed the gatherings of protestors in recent days with little concerns for COVID-19 spread among these asymptomatic persons , most certainly many are hoping that the increasing “ case ” numbers for COVID-19 will discourage folks from coming to any more rallies for certain candidates for political office .
Fear is a powerful weapon .
FDR famously broadcast to Americans in 1933 that “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fear itself ” .
I would argue that we have to fear those who would have us remain fearful and servile and willing to surrender basic freedoms without justification .
John Thomas Littell , MD , is a board-certified family physician .
After earning his MD from George Washington University , he served in the US Army , receiving the Meritorious Service Medal for his work in quality improvement , and also served with the National Health Service Corps in Montana .
During his eighteen years in Kissimmee , FL , Dr Littell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ UCF School of Medicine , President of the County Medical Society , and Chief of Staff at the Florida Hospital .
He currently resides with his wife , Kathleen , and family in Ocala , Florida , where he remains very active as a family physician with practices both in Kissimmee and Ocala .
Dr. Littell brings up many more issues than I have chosen to address in this post , because I already wrote about them in my previous blog post on May 30 .
WASN ’ T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ given for locking down in the first place was space availability in hospitals .
Here ’ s what Florida said about their hospitals last week : And here ’ s what doctors in Houston , Texas said last week : Sigh .
So why is the press making such a big deal out of the “ second wave ” ?
I don ’ t do politics , but if I did I would probably mention that here .
WHAT ARE GOVERNORS DOING ?
In a quick word : nothing helpful .
I think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seriously , though , the rollbacks of openings are simply ridiculous , and simply compounding a terrible idea , and delaying the inevitable process within each region of achieving a proper Herd Immunity Threshold .
If you want to get angry about lockdowns all over again , like I did in my article in May , just read this : The lockdown is causing so many deaths .
Here ’ s an excerpt : Dr. Michael Levitt and Sweden have been right all along .
The only way through COVID-19 is by achieving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Immunity Threshold required to have the virus snuff itself out .
The sooner politicians—and the press—start talking about HIT and stop talking about new confirmed cases , the better off we will all be .
Either way , it ’ s likely weeks , not months , before the data of new daily deaths will be so low that the press will have to find something new to scare everyone .
It ’ s over .
Haters of this article will post articles about Sweden saying their approach has been a failure .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sweden having higher rates of COVID-19 positive tests lately — Sweden has pushed back strongly — so here ’ a chart for the haters , it shows positive cases in Sweden , tracked against deaths .
There ’ s no correlation .
For my truly committed readers who made it this far : William Farr , creator of Farr ’ s law , knew this over 100 years ago .
Viruses rise and fall at roughly the same slopes .
It ’ s predictable , and COVID-19 is no different , which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death curves , it ’ s not very hard to declare that the pandemic is over .
Oxford ’ s center for Evidence Based Medicine has a wonderful explanation of Farr ’ s law , and it ’ s well worth a read .
Some of my favorite quotes : A reader just sent me this chart from the CDC .
If you don ’ t think the COVID-19 virus has run its course according to Farr ’ s Law , I can ’ t help you !
JB Handley is the best-selling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Epidemic .
He graduated with honors from Stanford University , and currently serves as a Managing member of Bochi Investments , a private investment firm .
He can be reached at jbhandleyblog @ gmail.com

Second wave? Not even close.
J.B. HANDLEY
Why did politicians ever lockdown society in the first place?
Can we all agree that the stated purpose was to “flatten the curve” so our hospital system could handle the inevitable COVID-19 patients who needed care? At that point, at least, back in early March, people were behaving rationally. They accepted that you can’t eradicate a virus, so let’s postpone things enough to handle it.
The fact is, we have done that, and so much more.
The headlines are filled with dire warnings of a “second wave” and trigger-happy Governors are rolling back regulations to try to stem the tide of new cases.
But, is any of it actually true and should we all be worried? No, it’s not a second wave.
The COVID-19 virus is on its final legs, and while I have filled this post with graphs to prove everything I just said, this is really the only graph you need to see, it’s the CDC’s data, over time, of deaths from COVID-19 here in the U.S., and the trend line is unmistakable:
If virologists were driving policy about COVID-19 rather than public health officials, we’d all be Sweden right now, which means life would effectively be back to normal.
The only thing our lockdowns have done at this point is prolong the agony a little bit, and encouraged Governors to make up more useless rules.
Sweden’s health minister understood that the only chance to beat COVID-19 was to get the Swedish population to a Herd Immunity Threshold against COVID-19, and that’s exactly what they have done, so let me start there.
THE HERD IMMUNITY THRESHOLD (“HIT”) FOR COVID-19 IS BETWEEN 10-20%
This fact gets less press than any other. Most people understand the basic concept of herd immunity and the math behind it. In the early days, some public health officials speculated that COVID-19’s HIT was 70%. Obviously, the difference between a HIT of 70% and a HIT of 10-20% is dramatic, and the lower the HIT, the quicker a virus will burn out as it loses the ability to infect more people, which is exactly what COVID-19 is doing everywhere, including the U.S, which is why the death curve above looks the way it looks.
Scientists from Oxford, Virginia Tech, and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, all recently explained the HIT of COVID-19 in this paper:
We searched the literature for estimates of individual variation in propensity to acquire or transmit COVID-19 or other infectious diseases and overlaid the findings as vertical lines in Figure 3. Most CV estimates are comprised between 2 and 4, a range where naturally acquired immunity to SARS-CoV-2 may place populations over the herd immunity threshold once as few as 10-20% of its individuals are immune.
Calculations from this study of data in Stockholm showed a HIT of 17%, and if you really love data, check out this great essay by Brown Professor Dr. Andrew Bostom titled, COVID-19 ‘herd immunity’ without vaccination? Teaching modern vaccine dogma old tricks. I’m going to share his summary with you, because it’s so good:
Naturally acquired herd immunity to COVID-19 combined with earnest protection of the vulnerable elderly – especially nursing home and assisted living facility residents — is an eminently reasonable and practical alternative to the dubiouspanacea of mass compulsory vaccination against the virus. This strategy was successfully implemented in Malmo, Sweden, which had few COVID-19 deaths by assiduously protecting its elder care homes, while “schools remained open, residents carried on drinking in bars and cafes, and the doors of hairdressers and gyms were open throughout.
One of the most vocal members of the scientific community discussing COVID-19’s HIT is Stanford’s Nobel-laureate Dr. Michael Levitt.
Back on May 4, he gave this great interview to the Stanford Daily where he advocated for Sweden’s approach of letting COVID-19 spread naturally through the community until you arrive at HIT. He stated:
If Sweden stops at about 5,000 or 6,000 deaths, we will know that they’ve reached herd immunity, and we didn’t need to do any kind of lockdown. My own feeling is that it will probably stop because of herd immunity. COVID is serious, it’s at least a serious flu. But it’s not going to destroy humanity as people thought.
Guess what? That’s exactly what happened. As of today, 7 weeks after his prediction, Sweden has 5,280 deaths. In this graph, you can see that deaths in Sweden PEAKED when the HIT was halfway to its peak (roughly 7.3%), and by the time the virus hit 14%, it was nearly extinguished. (Shoutout to Gummi Bear on Twitter, a scientist who makes great graphs.)
How could Dr. Levitt have predicted the death range for Sweden so perfectly 7 weeks ago? Because he had a pretty solid idea of what the HIT would be. (If you’d like to further geek-out on HIT, check out: Why herd immunity to COVID-19 is reached much earlier than thought.)
I absolutely LOVE Dr. Levitt (and as a Stanford alum, so proud he is a Stanford professor), watch this incredible video from just yesterday, go to 10:59 and just listen to this remarkable man!! Thrilled with his brand-new paper, released today, Predicting the Trajectory of Any COVID19 Epidemic From the Best Straight Line.
By the way, as a quick aside, and something else the press won’t touch: COVID-19 is a coronavirus, and we have ALL been exposed to MANY coronaviruses during our lives on earth (like the common cold).
Guess what? Scientists are now showing evidence that up to 81% of us can mount a strong response to COVID-19 without ever having been exposed to it before:
Cross-reactive SARS-CoV-2 T-cell epitopes revealed preexisting T-cell responses in 81% of unexposed individuals, and validation of similarity to common cold human coronaviruses provided a functional basis for postulated heterologous immunity
This alone could explain WHY the HIT is so much lower for COVID-19 than some scientists thought originally, when the number being talked about was closer to 70%.
Many of us have always been immune!
If that’s not enough for you, a similar study from Sweden was just released and shows that “roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared with those who we can detect antibodies in.”
(We kind of knew this from the data on the Diamond Princess when only 17% of the people on board tested positive, despite an ideal environment for mass spread, implying 83% of the people were somehow protected from the new virus.)
Quick Update: This article came out one day after I wrote mine, and validated everything I just said, except the author is wrong about COVID-19’s HIT: it’s 10-20%, not 60%, which is even better news:
However, it does provide a possible explanation for why the Covid-19 epidemic seems to have died away in many places once it had infected around 20 per cent of the local population (as judged by the presence of antibodies). If people are developing some kind of immunity to Covid-19 via their T cells, then it could mean that a far higher percentage of the population has been exposed to Covid-19 than previously thought. Antibodies and T cells combined, it is conceivable that some places such as London or New York are already at or near the 60 per cent infection level required to achieve herd immunity.
Back to death rates over time. We actually have our own Sweden here in the U.S. It’s called New York City. In our case, we accidentally created a Sweden scenario, in that we took our medicine quickly, because:
New York locked down so late that they didn’t flatten anything they have the highest population density in the U.S. in NYC the public health officials and Governors there made the bone-headed decision to send COVID-positive nursing home residents back to their nursing home, accelerating deaths of the most vulnerable.
What’s their death curve look like today? In this case, I borrowed the graph from the NYC public health website:
Hmm…notice anything about the chart or its slope? The reason deaths from COVID-19 are dwindling down to nothing isn’t because Governor Cuomo is a policy genius (in fact, he likely created more unnecessary deaths than any other Governor with the nursing home decision). It’s because the virus—like every virus in the history of mankind—is running out of people to infect.
The virus has a HIT of 10-20% and 70% of people are likely naturally immune. Hosts are in short supply! That’s what viruses do, and wait until you see what New York’s likely HIT is today.
We can get a crude but helpful proxy for whether or not a state (or region) has achieved their own Herd Immunity Threshold if we know the following things: the size of the population, the number of deaths from COVID-19, and COVID-19’s IFR, or Infection Fatality Rate.
In my first blog post late last month, LOCKDOWN LUNACY: the thinking person’s guide, I discussed Infection Fatality Rate in detail, so I am just going to give a very quick summary here.
Stanford’s Dr. John Ioannidis published a meta-analysis (because so many IFR studies have been done around the world in April and early May) where he analyzed TWELVE separate IFR studies and his conclusion lays out the likely IFR for COVID-19:
The infection fatality rate (IFR), the probability of dying for a person who is infected, is one of the most critical and most contested features of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The expected total mortality burden of COVID-19 is directly related to the IFR. Moreover, justification for various non-pharmacological public health interventions depends crucially on the IFR. Some aggressive interventions that potentially induce also more pronounced collateral harms1 may be considered appropriate, if IFR is high. Conversely, the same measures may fall short of acceptable risk-benefit thresholds, if the IFR is low…Interestingly, despite their differences in design, execution, and analysis, most studies provide IFR point estimates that are within a relatively narrow range. Seven of the 12 inferred IFRs are in the range 0.07 to 0.20 (corrected IFR of 0.06 to 0.16) which are similar to IFR values of seasonal influenza. Three values are modestly higher (corrected IFR of 0.25-0.40 in Gangelt, Geneva, and Wuhan) and two are modestly lower than this range (corrected IFR of 0.02-0.03 in Kobe and Oise).
The data on IFR has now been replicated so many times that our own Centers for Disease Control announced that their ‘best estimate’ showed an IFR below 0.3%.
In this article on the CDC’s new data, they also highlighted how the cascading declines in IFR has removed all the fears of doomsday:
That “best estimate” scenario also assumes that 35 percent of infections are asymptomatic, meaning the total number of infections is more than 50 percent larger than the number of symptomatic cases. It therefore implies that the IFR is between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent. By contrast, the projections that the CDC made in March, which predicted that as many as 1.7 million Americans could die from COVID-19 without intervention, assumed an IFR of 0.8 percent. Around the same time, researchers at Imperial College produced a worst-case scenario in which 2.2 million Americans died, based on an IFR of 0.9 percent.
In order to be as bullet-proof as possible, and because the IFR is an important part of the math I will do right now, I’ve decided to pick a simple and defensible number, the final number pegged by the CDC for COVID-19’s IFR: 0.26%
(As an aside, if we’d known this 3 months ago, no one in the public health world would have panicked. It’s a bad flu, and the rates for younger people are dramatically below 0.26% and approaching zero for children.)
Now that you understand COVID’s IFR and the likely HIT, it’s much easier to talk about the second wave, the data, and the implications. Here’s the deal:
Yes, certain states are having an uptick in three measurements: COVID-19 tests administered, positive COVID-19 tests, and hospitalizations. All three of these measurements are dubious. Hopefully, some of the rise in cases is REAL, because then the U.S. will arrive at Herd Immunity Threshold (“HIT”), which has been slightly delayed by lockdowns, sooner. Based on the “death curve” in the US, we are very close to being done.
TAKE POPULATION, COVID DEATHS, AND IFR TO FIND HIT
C’mon stay with me! This math is basic, junior high level stuff. And, it’s going to give us the most important, but very crude, number we need to understand all this second wave nonsense: the approximate HIT already attained by state and by the United States.
If you know how many people have died from COVID-19 in any one region, you can quickly calculate how many people have had COVID-19 in that same region. All you do is divide deaths by the IFR. Let’s use NY as the example.
As of today, there have been 31,137 deaths from COVID-19. Take 31,137/.0026, you get 11,975,969 people infected with COVID-19. Take those 11 million people divided by New York’s population of 19.45 million, you get a HIT of…65%.
(Data geek comment: New York’s HIT is clearly OVER-stated, because total deaths drives HIT, and NY has a much higher rate of nursing home deaths due to bad policy.)
Huge disclaimer: This math is crude, but it’s also directionally accurate, and the comparisons BETWEEN states helps explain what’s going on. Importantly, the HIT required to snuff out the virus in any one region could be lower than Sweden’s number of 17%, for a million reasons, most notably better medical knowledge today than a few months ago about how to keep a vulnerable person alive.
Still, just look at this table I created using the math above:
Notice anything? New York is WELL PAST Herd Immunity Threshold (as is New Jersey), the southern states in the news are BELOW the implied HIT, while the U.S. overall is nearly there with 15%. This is why the death curve from the CDC (and NYC!) that I opened this blog post with looks the way it looks: we are basically done with the virus. Just like Sweden. Oh, and Italy:
Quick update: Mount Sinai doctors just released a study showing a seroprevalence study of a random sample of 5,000 New Yorkers. It states that “by the week ending April 19, the seroprevalence in the screening group reached 19.3%.”
If you take that 19.3% number, and consider what we just learned from Sweden — that half of people with immunity won’t show it with this test — and then consider how many more people have been exposed since April 28, it’s entirely plausible that NY is well past 40% or more people, which starts to look closer to the 65% number my math shows. Either way, let’s just keep it simple: New York, and especially NYC, are WELL PAST HIT of 10-20%, which explains why their death curve looks the way it looks.
FLORIDA DETAILS
While HIT matters more than anything else in explaining the trajectory of the virus, and tells us that the U.S. is very close to being done with COVID-19, I wanted to take a closer look at one state, Florida, the current whipping boy of the press. They also have great data.
No one seems to be listening to the Governor, the health department, or the hospitals in Florida, who all seem to be saying the same thing, which is basically that everything is fine. On June 20, Florida’s department of health produced a presentation that explained how their testing had changed over time. Check out this slide:
So, as the state re-opened, they began to test everyone, “regardless of age and symptoms.” What do you think would happen when they did that? Obviously, more positives. So, here’s my first fact:
Fact #1: All of the “second wave” states have dramatically increased their testing. This alone causes cases to rise, and is the single biggest reason they have.
Still not convinced? Check out this eye-opener of a chart that shows per-capita testing in the U.S. versus other countries. Notice anything about June? Not only do we do MORE testing than any other country, but our testing spiked in June, right as all the headlines about more cases came out. Hmmm…
It’s not quite that simple. Yes, cases are up because more testing is being done. Cases have never, ever been a reliable indicator of ANYTHING. But, hospitalizations have been a reliable indicator. And, unexpectedly, there was an uptick in hospitalizations for COVID-19 beginning around June 6th in Florida, as you can see here:
The most obvious reason COVID-19 hospitalizations are going up is because of what’s happening in the hospital system. Patients are returning to the hospitals for elective surgery that were all delayed during the lockdown.
EVERY patient is screened for COVID-19. A patient who is undergoing elective knee surgery and tests positive for COVID-19 even though they are asymptomatic will be classified as “hospitalized with COVID-19.” This was explained in a recent NY Times article:
One-third of all patients admitted to the city’s [Miami] main public hospital over the past two weeks after going to the emergency room for car-crash injuries and other urgent problems have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Fact #2: Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are up slightly because of how COVID-19 positive patients are tracked. They will be in the number even if they didn’t go to the hospital BECAUSE of COVID-19.
Still, there is something else going on. It’s not just more tests and the way hospitalizations are happening. Many states re-opened on May 1 and their trend lines were flat to down for weeks. It’s as if some super-spreader event happened in certain states towards late May/Early June.
It’s really clear that something unique is going on if you look at data from Minnesota, the state where George Floyd was tragically murdered, where positive cased are stratified by age:
As you can see, in Minnesota, the percentage of positive cases by people age 20-29 really spiked in mid to late June, which means infections likely happened in early June or late May. Yes, obviously, the densely-packed protests for racial equality and social justice—which I personally applaud—appear to have caused a REAL uptick in cases and hospitalizations.
See this article, Houston Protesters Begin to Fall Ill With Coronavirus After Marching for George Floyd. Just look at the median age of NEW cases in Florida for mid-June (used to be in the mid-60s):
Fact #3: A REAL rise in both cases and hospitalizations perfectly matches the timing of the nationwide protests, which included many densely-packed crowds together for many hours and even days.
Not convinced? Check out this great graph that overlays the timing of the protests, lockdowns, social mobility, and hospitalizations using data for the entire US. Note there is a time delay between exposure and hospitalizations (between 8 and 15 days), and look at when the yellow hospitalization line goes up.
However, the good news about all of this is that there has been no impact on the number of COVID-19 patients in ICUs, which is consistent with the fact that we know younger patients are less impacted by COVID-19. Check out this chart:
Fact #4: Despite a small uptick in hospitalizations, the number of COVID-19 patients in the ICU continues to decline.
IT’S DEATHS, NOT CASES
You’ve been hearing about a handful of states with rising cases. Here they are on a chart. Cases are clearly rising:
But for those states, what about deaths? They appear to be going the other way:
And, finally, perhaps the most important slide, using Florida as the example, there is NO correlation between more tests – more positive tests, and DEATHS (red line in the graph).
The fact that these three measures are not linear means Florida has a low and stable death rate, and the recent uptick in positive cases—which happens to be perfectly timed to the nationwide protests—means nothing:
Fact #5: There is NO correlation in Florida —the state taking the most heat in the press about a second wave — between positive tests and deaths.
Of course, anyone who has been paying attention to the data could have told you that, because the national data on COVID-19 deaths is looking more and more like Sweden’s, as we already discussed. Today, our national HIT is roughly 15%, which means we are almost done, no matter what any Governor does.
I’ve seen discussion about how the protests caused an uptick in infections amongst younger people. Some in opposition to that fairly obvious reality point to New York, which also had densely-packed protests but has NOT seen an uptick in hospitalizations—how do you explain that? By now, you know the answer: New York’s HIT is already 65%!
Notably, in the math I used, Florida only had a Herd Immunity Threshold number of 6%, well below the target of 17%. So, yes, they MAY WELL have to endure a few more deaths before they achieve HIT. But, it’s highly likely that: 1) it won’t need to be as high as 17% because the people being infected are much younger (where death rate is much lower), and that 2) it will happen in the next few weeks, and policy will have nothing to do with whether it happens or not. Either way, because we know the national number is 15%, the virus is almost gone, no matter what anyone says or does, and all you need to do to verify that is look at the CDC’s death curve.
A FINAL THOUGHT ABOUT FLORIDA
John Thomas Littell, MD is a family physician in Florida. I was going to publish an excerpt from his Letter to the Editor of the Orlando Medical News, but it’s so good and so wide-ranging, I want you to read the whole thing, and then we can wrap this up:
Several times a day, on every possible news outlet, we are bombarded with updates as to the new number of “cases” of COVID-19 in the U.S. and elsewhere. News analysts then use these numbers to justify criticisms of those who dare to reject the CDC’s recommendations with regards to mask wearing and social distancing. It is imperative that all Americans – and especially those in the medical profession – understand the actual definition of a “case” of COVID -19 so as to make informed decisions as to how to live our lives. Older Americans remember all too well the dread they experienced when a family member was diagnosed with a “case” of scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough (pertussis), or polio. During my career in family medicine, including several years as an Army physician, I have cared for patients with chickenpox, shingles, Lyme disease as well as measles, tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. The “case definition” established for all of these diseases by the CDC requires the presence of signs and symptoms of that disease. In other words, each case involved a SICK patient. Laboratory studies may be performed to “confirm” a diagnosis, but are not sufficient in the absence of clinical symptoms. Having now been privileged to care for sick patients with COVID-19, both in and out of the hospital setting, I am happy to see the number of these sick patients dwindle almost to zero in my community – while the “case numbers” for COVID-19 continue to go up. Why is that? In marked contrast to measles, shingles, and other infectious disease, “cases” of COVID-19 do NOT require the presence of ANY symptoms whatsoever. Health departments are encouraging everyone and anyone to come in for testing, and each positive test is reported as yet another “new” case of COVID-19! On April 5, 2020, a small number of state epidemiologists (Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) Technical Supplement: Interim-20-ID-01) came up with a “surveillance” case definition for COVID-19. At the time, there was uncertainty as to whether or not completely asymptomatic persons could transmit COVID-19 sufficiently enough to infect and cause disease in others. (This notion has never been proven and, in fact, has recently been discounted – cfr “ A Study on the Infectivity of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Carriers, Ming Fao et al, Respir Med, 2020 Aug – available online through PubMed 2020 May 13, as well as recent reports from the WHO itself). The CSTE thereby justified the unconventional case definition for COVID-19, adding “CSTE realizes that field investigations will involve evaluations of persons with no symptoms and these individuals will need to be counted as cases.” Hence, anyone who has a positive PCR test (the nasal swab, PCR test for COVID Antigen or Nucleic Acid) or serological test (blood test for antibodies –IgG and/or IgM) would be classified as a “case” – even in the absence of symptoms. In our hospitals at this time, there are hundreds of former nursing home residents sitting in “COVID” units who are in their usual state of good health, banned from returning to their former nursing home residences simply because they have TESTED Positive for COVID-19 during mass testing programs in the nursing homes. The presence of a positive lab test for COVID-19 in a person who has never been sick is actually GOOD news for that person and for the rest of us. The positive test indicates that this person has likely mounted an adequate immune response to a small dose of COVID-19 to whom he or she was exposed – naturally (hence, no need for a vaccine vs. COVID-19). (ER: we’re not sure where PCR tests producing a false positive rate of 80% fits in with this.) It is important as well to understand that the presence of lab testing is not the ONLY criterion that the CDC used to established a diagnosis of COVID-19. The presence of only 1 or 2 flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath) – in the absence of another proven cause (e.g., influenza, bacterial pneumonia) is SUFFICIENT to give a diagnosis of COVID-19 – as long as the patient also meets certain “epidemiological linkage” criteria as follows: “In a person with clinically compatible symptoms, [a “case” will be reported if that person had] one or more of the following exposures in the 14 days before onset of symptoms: travel to or residence in an area with sustained, ongoing community transmission of SARS-CoV-2; close contact (10 minutes or longer, within a 6 foot distance) with a person diagnosed with COVID-19; or member of a risk cohort as defined by public health authorities during an outbreak.” Note that the definition of a “risk cohort” includes age > 70 or living in a nursing home or similar facility. So, in essence, any person with an influenza-like illness (ILI) could be considered a “case” of COVID-19, even WITHOUT confirmatory lab testing. The CDC has even advised to consider any deaths from pneumonia or ILI as “Covid-related” deaths – unless the physician or medical examiner establishes another infectious agent as the cause of illness. Now perhaps you see why the increasing number of cases, and even deaths, due to COVID-19 is fraught with misinterpretation and is NOT in any way a measure of the ACTUAL morbidity and mortality FROM COVID-19. My patients who insist upon wearing masks, gloves and social distancing are citing these misleading statistics as justification for their decisions (and, of course, that they are following the “CDC guidelines”). I simply advise them, “COVID-19 is NOT in the atmosphere around us; it resides in the respiratory tracts of infected individuals and can only be transmitted to others by sick, infected persons after prolonged contact with others”. So you may ask – why are we continuing to report increasing numbers of cases of COVID as though it were BAD news for America? Rather than as GOOD news, i.e, that the thousands of healthy Americans testing positive (also known as “asymptomatic”) are indicative of the presence of herd immunity – protecting themselves and many of us from potential future assaults by variants of COVID? Why did we as a society stop sending our children to schools and camps and sports activities? Why did we stop going to work and church and public parks and beaches? Why did we insist that healthy persons “stay at home” – rather than observing the evidence-based, medically prudent method of identifying those who were sick and isolating them from the rest of the population – advising the sick to “stay at home” and allowing the rest of society to function normally? And, while we witnessed the gatherings of protestors in recent days with little concerns for COVID-19 spread among these asymptomatic persons, most certainly many are hoping that the increasing “case” numbers for COVID-19 will discourage folks from coming to any more rallies for certain candidates for political office. Fear is a powerful weapon. FDR famously broadcast to Americans in 1933 that “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself”. I would argue that we have to fear those who would have us remain fearful and servile and willing to surrender basic freedoms without justification. John Thomas Littell, MD, is a board-certified family physician. After earning his MD from George Washington University, he served in the US Army, receiving the Meritorious Service Medal for his work in quality improvement, and also served with the National Health Service Corps in Montana. During his eighteen years in Kissimmee, FL, Dr Littell has served on the faculty of the UCF School of Medicine, President of the County Medical Society, and Chief of Staff at the Florida Hospital. He currently resides with his wife, Kathleen, and family in Ocala, Florida, where he remains very active as a family physician with practices both in Kissimmee and Ocala.
Dr. Littell brings up many more issues than I have chosen to address in this post, because I already wrote about them in my previous blog post on May 30.
WASN’T THIS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT HOSPITALS?
The only reason ever given for locking down in the first place was space availability in hospitals. Here’s what Florida said about their hospitals last week:
And here’s what doctors in Houston, Texas said last week:
Hospital CEO’s including, Dr. Marc Boom with Houston Methodist, Dr. David L. Callender with Memorial Hermann Health System, Dr. Doug Lawson with St. Luke’s Health, and Mark A. Wallace with Texas Children’s Hospital, held a zoom conference, June 25, out of concern, “that recent news coverage has unnecessarily alarmed the Houston community about hospital capacity during this COVID-19 surge.” The two key major takeaways from today’s discussion: The Houston health care system has the resources and capacity necessary to treat patients with COVID-19 and otherwise…
Sigh. So why is the press making such a big deal out of the “second wave”? I don’t do politics, but if I did I would probably mention that here.
WHAT ARE GOVERNORS DOING?
In a quick word: nothing helpful. I think this guy summarizes how I feel:
Seriously, though, the rollbacks of openings are simply ridiculous, and simply compounding a terrible idea, and delaying the inevitable process within each region of achieving a proper Herd Immunity Threshold. If you want to get angry about lockdowns all over again, like I did in my article in May, just read this: The lockdown is causing so many deaths. Here’s an excerpt:
How many people aged 15 or under have died of Covid-19? Four. The chance of dying from a lightning strike is one in 700,000. The chance of dying of Covid-19 in that age group is one in 3.5 million. And we locked them all down. Even among the 15- to 44-year-olds, the death rate is very low and the vast majority of deaths have been people who had significant underlying health conditions. We locked them down as well. We locked down the population that had virtually zero risk of getting any serious problems from the disease, and then spread it wildly among the highly vulnerable age group. If you had written a plan for making a complete bollocks of things you would have come up with this one.
IN CONCLUSION
Dr. Michael Levitt and Sweden have been right all along. The only way through COVID-19 is by achieving the modest (10-20%) Herd Immunity Threshold required to have the virus snuff itself out. The sooner politicians—and the press—start talking about HIT and stop talking about new confirmed cases, the better off we will all be. Either way, it’s likely weeks, not months, before the data of new daily deaths will be so low that the press will have to find something new to scare everyone. It’s over.
A quick note:
Haters of this article will post articles about Sweden saying their approach has been a failure. They will point to recent press about Sweden having higher rates of COVID-19 positive tests lately — Sweden has pushed back strongly — so here’a chart for the haters, it shows positive cases in Sweden, tracked against deaths. There’s no correlation.
For my truly committed readers who made it this far:
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.”
William Farr (1807 – 1883)
William Farr, creator of Farr’s law, knew this over 100 years ago. Viruses rise and fall at roughly the same slopes. It’s predictable, and COVID-19 is no different, which is why, after looking at all these death curves, it’s not very hard to declare that the pandemic is over.
Oxford’s center for Evidence Based Medicine has a wonderful explanation of Farr’s law, and it’s well worth a read. Some of my favorite quotes:
Farr shows us that once peak infection has been reached then it will roughly follow the same symmetrical pattern on the downward slope […] In the midst of a pandemic, it is easy to forget Farr’s Law, and think the number infected will just keep rising, it will not. Just as quick as measures were introduced to prevent the spread of infection, we need to recognise the point at which to open up society and also the special measures due to ‘density’ that require special considerations.”
Once peak deaths have been reached we should be working on the assumption that the infection has already started falling in the same progressive steps. Using deaths as the proxy for falling infections facilitates the planning of the next steps for reopening those societies that are in lockdown.”
A reader just sent me this chart from the CDC. If you don’t think the COVID-19 virus has run its course according to Farr’s Law, I can’t help you!
JB Handley is the best-selling author of How to End the Autism Epidemic. He graduated with honors from Stanford University, and currently serves as a Managing member of Bochi Investments, a private investment firm. He can be reached at [email protected]
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-09--Psychopharmaceutical prescription epidemic causing violent crime

Attention has recently diverted onto psychotic , irrational acts of senseless violence which have no motive and which can not be understood .
The recent sad incident in Reading has raised a host of questions .
While there is never one simple explanation for what drives a person to commit such an unspeakable act , one common denominator all too often surfaces in many of these cases – prescribed psychiatric drugs which are documented to cause mania , psychosis , violence , suicide and in some cases , homicidal ideation .
Reports have surfaced that Khairi Saadallah , the suspect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ labelled with various psychiatric conditions including depression .
The reports claim he also had other mental health issues .
There ’ s no doubt that people experiencing mental difficulties need help , but in view of the damaging effects of so-called psychiatric ‘ treatments , ’ mental health services appear to be fighting a losing battle .
When diagnosed with depression , it can be expected the prescriber will turn to antidepressants .
This should be where the penny drops .
Antidepressants have been linked with and are known for inducing violence and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 11 countries warning that antidepressants cause harmful side effects .
Psychiatrists try to blame the person ’ s mental troubles , pointing to a manufactured mental illness or psychiatric label as the reason for the senseless violence or aggression .
It is an attempt to avoid responsibility for having authorised the use of a mind-altering drug known to have potentially serious consequences .
It is also a travesty of justice that they have been able to get away with this operating basis for so long .
Considering the prescribed harm caused by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s not surprising that a stigma hangs over mental health services .
It ’ s therefore vital to make this information known to the general public so they are aware of the damaging effects of psychiatric prescribing .
Informed consent is defined as , “ permission granted in full knowledge of the possible consequences , typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.
” It would be a very different story if this was a reality and if the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was known .
It could even provide an answer that would prevent this kind of senseless violence from continuing to occur in the future .
Knife terror suspect links to psychiatry Yet another knife attack linked to psychiatry British Medical Journal : antidepressants are dangerous and can cause suicide and homicide at any age UKR columnist Brian Daniels is the executive director of the psychiatric watchdog , The Citizens Commission on Human Rights ( CCHR ) in the United Kingdom .
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by Brian Daniels
Attention has recently diverted onto psychotic, irrational acts of senseless violence which have no motive and which cannot be understood. The recent sad incident in Reading has raised a host of questions.
While there is never one simple explanation for what drives a person to commit such an unspeakable act, one common denominator all too often surfaces in many of these cases – prescribed psychiatric drugs which are documented to cause mania, psychosis, violence, suicide and in some cases, homicidal ideation.
Reports have surfaced that Khairi Saadallah, the suspect in the Reading attack, had been labelled with various psychiatric conditions including depression. The reports claim he also had other mental health issues.
There’s no doubt that people experiencing mental difficulties need help, but in view of the damaging effects of so-called psychiatric ‘treatments,’ mental health services appear to be fighting a losing battle.
When diagnosed with depression, it can be expected the prescriber will turn to antidepressants. This should be where the penny drops. Antidepressants have been linked with and are known for inducing violence and aggression. There have been 151 warnings from 11 countries warning that antidepressants cause harmful side effects.
Psychiatrists try to blame the person’s mental troubles, pointing to a manufactured mental illness or psychiatric label as the reason for the senseless violence or aggression. It is an attempt to avoid responsibility for having authorised the use of a mind-altering drug known to have potentially serious consequences. It is also a travesty of justice that they have been able to get away with this operating basis for so long.
Considering the prescribed harm caused by psychiatric drugs and the fatalities, it’s not surprising that a stigma hangs over mental health services. It’s therefore vital to make this information known to the general public so they are aware of the damaging effects of psychiatric prescribing.
Informed consent is defined as, “permission granted in full knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.”
It would be a very different story if this was a reality and if the truth about the effects of these drugs was known. It could even provide an answer that would prevent this kind of senseless violence from continuing to occur in the future.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-09--Dr. Scott Jensen Accused by MN State of Spreading Misinformation [VIDEOS]

Dr. Scott Jensen , a Minnesota state senator and a practicing physician , says he ’ s being investigated by the State ’ s Medical Practice Board for ‘ spreading misinformation ’ about the completion of death certificates and for ‘ providing reckless advice ’ on a news program by comparing COVID-19 to the ordinary flu .
[ Dr. Jensen is correct , of course , and If this goes to court , there is a good chance he will prove his case .
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ER Editor: Practicing physician and Minnesota senator Dr. Scott Jensen had previously come out on local TV in an interview with Chris Berg in April querying new instructions on how to fill out covid death certificates (video is reissued below) on patients who had never even been tested for the virus. Now he’s facing accusations of spreading misinformation on the basis of that interview by the state’s health board.
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Follow Dr. Jensen on Twitter here. Check out his latest informative and thoughtful tweet as he continues to raise legitimate questions on school closures, treatment of the elderly in hospitals, and government-pumped out statistical measures: Three patients this morning…three topics reviewed …
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We remind readers of the article we published featuring Dr. Jensen and Dr. Annie Bukacek of Montana: More Expert Feedback on Those Virus ‘Death’ Stats, Certificates [VIDEOS]. Here is the video interview with Chris Berg referenced in the state’s accusations against Dr. Jensen:
******** Dr. Scott Jensen Accused by the State of Spreading Misinformation
Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota state senator and a practicing physician, says he’s being investigated by the State’s Medical Practice Board for ‘spreading misinformation’ about the completion of death certificates and for ‘providing reckless advice’ on a news program by comparing COVID-19 to the ordinary flu. [Dr. Jensen is correct, of course, and If this goes to court, there is a good chance he will prove his case. Our guess, therefore, is that it will never go to court.] -GEG . ER: See a 2-part version of this video on twitter: here and here ************ Original article
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