Dr. Kenneth Davis, 72, the CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System who pulled down nearly $6 million in compensation in 2018, is ensconced in his waterfront mansion near Palm Beach.
Davis has been in the Sunshine State for weeks and is joined by Dr. Arthur Klein, 72, president of the Mount Sinai Health Network, who owns an oceanfront condo in Palm Beach.
So we have two New York hospital executives and a New York Instagram influencer family of seven have broken quarantine.
The first two are hiding out in Florida.
The latter seven are headed west to infect Middle America.
More wealthy New Yorkers who think their money can save them from the consequences of what has happened in New York by fleeing that giant concrete Petri dish.
They cannot be allowed to do this. I hope they are arrested and shipped back to New York.
For the most part, I’ve liked Tucker Carlson’s coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak. He’s been good about keeping the focus on China and criticizing other media sources that downplayed the outbreak because… racism.
But Tucker is a journalist and gets stuff wrong too. When he does, I’m going to call him out.
Sorry, but the CDC is right.
My buddy sent me this picture he took from Publix today.
You know what that guy’s respirator is protecting him from?
Fuck. All. Nothing.
I saw something similar at Kroger the other day. A woman was wearing a cartridge respirator, with a huge gap above her nose and under her chin. She bought one or found one that was the wrong size and didn’t know any better, so wore it.
I saw another guy in an N95 mask over a beard. He was wearing his N95 mask on top of a beard.
A respirator that doesn’t seal is useless. Trust me, I know. I’ve had to wear respirators for jobs in the oil and gas, chemical, and defense industries.
I’ve gone through periodic fit testing. Fit testing is a real thing. Here is a video on fit testing from the department of labor.
How many of these people wearing N95 masks or respirators have gone through fit testing? Almost none would be my guess
Now let’s talk about the Coronavirus. It’s a big virus at 120 nanometers in diameter. N95 masks are NIOSH rated to stop 95% of particles 0.3 Microns or 300 nanometers in diameter. So if there is virus just floating around in the air, even an N95 won’t do anything for you.
So who are masks good for?
Assuming that they are properly fitted, medical staff and people who are in close proximity to Coronavirus patients. Those people who are sneezing and coughing and expectorating an aerosolized mist of saliva and mucus filled with virus. Then masks will help block a health care worker from inhaling that virus mist.
The person I saw driving in their car with the windows up, wearing a mask wasn’t protecting himself from anything.
So what about all the Asian people wearing examination masks, the kind your dental hygenist wears?
This is why your dental hygenist wears a mask. Not to stop from catching something from you, but to stop her from coughing directly into your open mouth while you lie there getting your teeth cleaned.
The woman at the nail salon will wear one to stop from inhaling fingernail dust. Some people, especially in Japan, will wear them for seasonal allergies, and they are useful (when you can get them cheap) for when you using a sander because they will filter out big particles like coarse dust and pollen, but nothing in the micron or sub-micron size.
For a healthcare worker, they are better than nothing to stop the spray of spit from a patient to coughs into their face at point plant range during a swab, but that’s what they are effective against, chunky particles like sneeze spray. And only marginally at that.
Now let’s talk about gloves.
I cannot tell you how many people I’ve seen wearing gloves when they get out of their car, go through the grocery store, touch the credit card PIN pad, then back out to their car, and drive away in the same gloves.
Those gloves are contaminated. They are carrying everything everyone who touched that PIN pad and shopping cart before them on their gloves and transferred that to their steering wheel and groceries.
The gloves at that point are useless. Of course, these people do not practice proper glove removal procedures to avoid contamination.
This is also a problem with the masks. Even with a properly fitted and sealed mask, improper removal and disposal exposes the user to the virus.
So yes, people who are not properly trained and fitted, who do not practice proper mask and glove procedure might as well be wearing nothing. They get no benefit.
Here is where it gets worse.
People often engage in a behavior called risk compensation when it comes to safety gear. A famous case from automotive engineering was when airbags first became mandatory. People thought the airbag would protect them so they didn’t wear seatbelts, increasing the fatality rate of accidents. Airbags only work in conjunction with seatbelts.
You can see this phenomenon every winter when some idiot drives recklessly in the snow because he has 4WD and thinks that makes his car magic in the snow.
So there is a likelihood that people wearing masks and gloves improperly, will engage in risk compensation and avoid social distancing or visit an infected family member or do something else stupid that gets them infected because they think “I’m wearing all the right gear, I’m not going to get sick.”
The government wasn’t lying. It just wasn’t blunt enough to say:
“You dumb shits have no idea how to maintain safety and sterility with your equipment so it’s doing nothing to protect you. All you are doing is wasting a resource that could go to someone who really needs it. Just go to the grocery store only when necessary, stay out of sneeze distance from strangers, and wash your damn hands.”
Part of the problem here is that the media need us to panic to sell viewership.
They have a financial incentive to make you believe that this is the opening to The Omega Man instead of just a really bad case of the flu.
Pictured: not fucking reality.
For people with preexisting conditions, the elderly, and healthcare workers, every little bit helps.
But going to Kroger in a bad fitting drywall respirator and gloves and not practicing sterility procedures is a waste of money and will do precisely dick to keep you safe.
I had not been out of the house for maybe 10 day. Nothing unusual. Between my back and me being an ornery SOB working at home, I have no business out there.
I had to do a semi urgent visit so I finally got out. You can tell by the traffic that there is less people on the streets, but there are still too many screwing around. Lots of restaurants with the PICK UP ONLY signs out front which I like, but I am not clear about the bunch of people at the Best Buy.
Drive Thru testing site. C B Smith Park. Broward County. They were taking First Responders
After the chore, I went over Publix to buy powdered milk they said they had (Liars) and instead I got Parmalat’s Milk in a Box which lasts till March next year. It is not the best tasting milk out there, but it will do it in a pinch for the coffee.
I did get the stink out on a regular basis in the store. I was the only one without face mask or gloves. Mind you, I was also the only one observing the darned 6 feet and carrying disinfectant wipes for when I got back to my truck.
Here is the hilarious thing: A lot of the stink-eye people were doing a Michael Jackson:
One glove. Kid-You-Not.
They would pick up the item from the shelf and place it in the cart with the gloved hand. The bare hand would be pushing the (Disinfected? Yeah right) cart and maybe move items inside the car if they needed more space. HUH? That is not how it works!
There was only one person with both gloved that I saw but not wearing a mask. And nobody respected the 6 feet rule. I started using the shopping cart as distancing tool. I do believe we are going to do more Public Awareness on these things. And if you really do not need to go out, please don’t. Amazing how many stores deliver nowadays.
I will have to shave my beard at one point even though I don’t have a N95 mask or anything like that. My wife has one reusable with microbiological countermeasures plus gloves, but she is the one that goes out. I wish this future would not come, but I know better and Reality mainlines Karma if you are not prepared.
My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says God put Trump in the White House and tells people to read the Bible while standing behind a presidential seal on government property in a clear violation of the separation of church and state. pic.twitter.com/ND7onUwQZk
This is why you don’t take legal advice from a journalist.
The First Amendment says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
Some Dude standing at the podium in the White House Rose Garden saying “read the bible” isn’t a First Amendment violation.
Mike Lindell is an interesting guy. A serial failed entrepreneur, he was an addict, found Jesus, got clean, and turned My Pillow into a multi-million dollar company, with their products made in the USA, in his home state of Minnesota. He is now worth more than $300 million.
This is retconning. They are trying to retroactively make themselves in the right, no matter how wrong they once were. I do not doubt my sanity. I see that they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes and I refuse to let them get away with it.
We are about to start seeing the worse of the pandemic. If anybody paid attention to the President’s Sunday press conference and did not recoiled at the 100,000 possible deaths coming, you haven’t been paying attention.
Yes, it is better than the expected 2 million deaths by “doing nothing, let it ride” strategy proposed by some or “ignore it, it is just racism” politically applauded by Anti Trump politicians, but still means that 100,000 fellow Americans will not be alive to see Christmas this year because we were lied by the Chinese Government and the threat washed down by the Media.
We went on a decade-long war against those who killed 3,000 of our own in 9-11. What do you think the American People will demand 100,000 corpses because of Wuhan Virus? Nuking the Chinese Politburo is going to be one of the petitions and I cannot say I don’t understand it, but the responsible bastards will simply hide away. China will require a long term internal destabilizing operation till this government falls and they are executed in the most gruesome and public manner.
But then the targeting will be aimed inside our borders and we are going to look for those who strayed us wrong. Have you notice nobody even remembers we had a little thing called Impeachment Proceedings? From December 18, 2019 to February 5 and after, there was nothing more important in the world than getting Trump out while the Chinese virus was making its way across Wuhan and then the world. And of course, the use of the Race Card could not be forgotten.
Eric Carter, associate professor of geography and global health at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has previously cautioned against “targeting foreign nationals for increased scrutiny in the name of public health,” arguing in a 2016 article for the Migration Policy Institute that while public health concerns have historically been used to justify discriminatory immigration policies, evidence shows that travel restrictions “tend to have little impact on the spread of infectious disease.”
… Still, he warned that “it wouldn’t be surprising if the effect of this new policy was somewhat discriminatory.”
“We live in a time where there is rising xenophobia and nationalism, and governments might feel more comfortable taking extreme measures to exclude foreigners under the pretext of a public health emergency,” Carter said. (bold are mine)
So what we have is a bunch of members of the Opposition, Intelligentsa and Media who are scared shitless and fear there will be a humongous backslash because their partisanship may have helped cause 100,000 deaths so they need to do a full MinTruth and change the Narrative so they do not end up in front of a firing squad (virtual or otherwise) and Trump is defeated in November.
And let’s face it: When it comes to assign blame, it is easier to say “Trump” than “The treasonous fucks on the Left and the Media.”
Covering the truth about China’s Coronavirus outbreak and how the media have reported on it has been a theme of some of my recent posts.
Every day I am more and more disgusted how the media has tried to retcon the last few months in regards to Trump and China’s handling of the Coronacrisis.
People often call this gaslighting. I hate that term because true gaslighting is a form of mental abuse that makes someone doubt their own sanity.
This is retconning. They are trying to retroactively make themselves in the right, no matter how wrong they once were. I do not doubt my sanity. I see that they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes and I refuse to let them get away with it.
Previously I covered how the Chinese Government has stopped reporting new cases of Coronavirus, claiming that the outbreak is contained. Reality indicates that the Chinese have stopped testing people, which cuts down on the numbers of “confirmed cases,” and has taken to welding people into their apartments, making sick people disappear, and possibly even cremating the sick alive.
Then there was the fact that some 21 million Chinese cellphone accounts disappeared. I’m not suggesting that all these people died of the disease, but that China deleted their accounts to keep people from reporting on the real numbers of sick and dead, and the totalitarian methods China is using to contain the.
Then there is this news:
#Wuhan residents estimate, based on calculations of cremations and urns now being returned to families, that between 42k-46k (!!) died in city + surrounding areas in the 2.5 months of lockdown. Far more than official figure of 2535 deaths. #COVID19https://t.co/L1OsFv0VEf
This definitely adds to the mountain of evidence that the outbreak in China is much, much worse than the government is reporting. Which, as a matter of common sense, makes sense. How could a nation with huge, high population cities like Wuhan (11.3 million people) not have that many cases?
The media in the United States have absolutely ignored this to dump on Trump.
We are quite literally doing a worse job of containing the virus than any other country on earth.
America's response to the coronavirus is the worst in the world, which is shocking and has a lot to do with a leader who is completely unfit, temperamentally and intellectually, for the job 1/ pic.twitter.com/sGZuFUukgr
All of this has gotten Lefties on Twitter to push the infuriating hashtag #TrumpGenocidetrying to make this all and exclusively Trump’s fault.
It is grotesque and obscene.
CNN had on the mayor of New Orleans to explain why it was Trump’s fault that she did not cancel Marti Gras, which is the cause of the Louisiana hotspot.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell blames Trump for her not canceling Mardi Gras: "When it’s not taken seriously at the federal level. It’s very difficult to transcend down to the local level in making these decisions." pic.twitter.com/JF1VgNsJHB
Unhappy with trying to pin the Coronacrisis on Trump alone, they are trying to stick to Fox News, which they believe is his proxy. Going to the ridiculous extreme of saying that they are culpable for any Coronavirus deaths in the US.
"…I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled. " —@gabrielshermanhttps://t.co/KOsSEQvILl
This is the same media that told us for a solid month that any reference to the Coronavirus as “Chinese” was racist.
When Trump tried to take this seriously, the mocked him and called him a xenophobe.
When the outbreak happened, they attacked Trump for not doing enough and told you to forget what they had just said in the prior weeks.
Yes, we know that in their minds Trump can do no right, however in their pushing that narrative they have completely obscured the truth about what is going in in China and have broadcast the Chinese Government’s propaganda with alacrity.
I deeply believe in the First Amendment and the right to a free press, but this doing damage to our country and bolstering our geopolitical rival’s attempts to shirk responsibility for this pandemic.
