An Awful August in Review - Part 1
A month full of charts, rebuttals, predictions, pushback and insults.
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PART 1
We knew something was afoot when Andy Slavitt, the now retired special advisor on COVID to the White House, started hinting at something coming in August.
For some reason the ever-powerful unelected health expert has determined that they can thwart and stop the course of a viral pathogen.
They tried to aim all guns at Governor DeSantis but he was having none of it:
![Twitter avatar for @DailyCaller](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/DailyCaller.jpg)
All eyes were on Florida when things started to turn and you realize - everyone has to go through the gauntlet eventually.
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The main problem is we have completely messed up the way we evaluate risk. When it comes down to it the primary factor is “how old are you?”
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The other factor is: are you dying of something already. Consider:
Less than 1% of deaths had no chronic conditions.
96% of deaths had 2+ conditions.
Nearly 70% had 6 or MORE co-morbidities.
Then in August some serious concerns were raised about vaccine efficacy. Even as the mandates flowed it was very evident that this was very different from what they promised:
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From CDC data it was evident that many of the decisions around vaccine potency were made during a “trough” of cases:
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Of course, vaccines seem to have some good prowess especially for severe illnesses and hospitalizations. The finger-wagging started right away - “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated” which wasn’t the case at all. There is no correlation that I can see for "low vax" counties and "high hospitalizations"
But school was afoot and some of the bravest voices were seen in front of school and county boards:
![Twitter avatar for @sadie_luck](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/sadie_luck.jpg)
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Part II tomorrow!