COVID

People are all upset that they can’t tell who is vaccinated and who isn’t, so they are broadcasting their vaccine status by having it tattooed on their arms. There is even a high school in New Hampshire that was writing vaccine confirmation in permanent marker on students’ hands.

But can’t those be faked? So a pair of Russian entrepreneurs has come up with QR code tattoos that can be used to identify your vaccine status. There is even talk of invisible tattoos to mark those who have been vaccinated.

Technology is offering an answer. IBM is using cell phone based digital wallets and block chains to verify vaccine status.

Bill Gates is proposing that our medical records and vaccine status be imbedded in our bodies.

Proving that today’s satire is tomorrow’s fact, the Babylon Bee is right on the spot with this. For Convenience, Vaccine Passport Can Now Be Tattooed On Your Hand Or Forehead

It started as mocking and satire.

Something like a tattoo on your forearm? I think that’s got some staying power. pic.twitter.com/J0zil3IIof

— Amanda (@_Mrs_Farnum) December 18, 2020

Now it is moving towards reality.

I had a chance to talk to one of the people in medical records while I was at work today. She tells me that two thirds of our COVID patients have been vaccinated, and with about the same percentage of Florida’s residents being vaccinated, I wonder if this vaccine isn’t really doing anything for COVID at all. I know that data isn’t the plural of anecdotes, but I wonder of we aren’t being lied to again.

In my last post on COVID, PapaSierra wants to know:

Why are patients being allowed to needlessly suffer, and perhaps die, when ivermectin is available? Are the doctors and administrator that afraid of the lefties?

Now I obviously haven’t talked to every doctor and patient involved, but after more than thirty years in the medical field, I have a couple of thoughts:

• Since Ivermectin isn’t approved for use on COVID, many insurance companies aren’t going to pay for it
• Ivermectin or not, some COVID patients will die. There are billboards all over Central Florida that look like this:

If a Doctor isn’t doing what everyone else is doing with regards to treating COVID, he or she can expect to hear from one of those ambulance chasers. The deposition will look like this:

Lawyer: “Has the Federal Government approved Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID? Please remember that you are under oath.”

Doctor: “No, it hasn’t, but…”

Lawyer: “And isn’t it also true that the US Food and Drug Administration recommends against the use of Ivermectin for the treatment of COVID?”

For that reason, no one wants to be the doctor who is the first or only one that is doing this. It’s the nail that sticks up that most often gets hammered down.

• Not only that, but there is a law in the State of Florida that says any doctor who is successfully sued three times for malpractice will have his or her license to practice medicine permanently revoked. For that reason, doctors don’t go to court. They settle. The Doctor’s malpractice insurer surely knows this, and they will drop any doctor who is following that course of treatment.

I have seen this time and again. Years ago, I went to the state EMS convention and asked the Board of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians why they weren’t recommending a particular procedure, especially in light of some very convincing studies supporting it. The above answers were the very same ones I was given then.

The hospital where I work has a large number of COVID cases. I had to call the head nurse this morning and tell them that there was no more room for new patients this morning. At that point, we began discharging any patients that we could, so that we could make room for the 57 COVID patients who were being held in the ED, waiting for a bed.

Today, we had six different patients who were COVID positive die. Three of them were directly related to COVID, one was indirectly related, and two died of other causes, but were COVID positive, meaning that they will likely be classified as COVID deaths. In all six cases, the patients were at least 70 years old. Four of the six patients were more than 80 years old, with two of them being more than 85 years old. I do not know their vaccination status.

The patients on the COVID floor are being treated with donor plasma, as well as vitamins C and D, and high flow oxygen. I do not know what else they are receiving, because I am not in the COVID unit.

That is what I know.

Disney has announced that all employees must be vaccinated within 60 days or be fired.

When I left work on Tuesday, the hospital where I work had more than 30 COVID patients admitted. I was off for two days and returned to find that the COVID totals had more than doubled to 84 patients. So an entire wing of one floor is now occupied by COVID patients, and they are putting them two in a room, which hospitals don’t like doing because of Obamacare and its reliance on Press-Ganey scores.

As far as I know, we have not had any fatalities due to COVID lately. The ICU is now full, with more than half of the patients in it being COVID patients.

That’s all I know for now.

Vox Populi posted a link to a story about the passing of the CEO of UF Health, along with an insinuation that his death was related to the COVID vaccine.

Time after time, we caution the left not to attempt to spin a story about mass shootings before all of the facts are in. It appears that the same should apply to the right. The CEO of UF Health died from injuries sustained in a jet ski accident.

The hospital where I work was once down to only two COVID patients. The specialized COVID floor was shut down and reduced to a single wing weeks ago. Then the wing was reduced to a single hallway. Two weeks ago, there was not even a hallway- there were only two rooms with COVID patients. The hospital relaxed many COVID protocols- where we were once testing every single patient for COVID no matter why they were being seen, patients were being tested for COVID only if they had symptoms. It seemed that COVID was over.

When I last left work yesterday evening, there were more than thirty COVID patients. What caused the big change? Well for starters, the hospital began testing every patient again. Many patients who are COVID positive are there for other reasons and have no COVID symptoms. Many, but not all.

In the ICU, more than half of the patients there are COVID patients. We had a COVID fatality on Saturday. Every ICU patient with COVID is unvaccinated, and most of the other COVID positive patients are as well.

So what?

If people choose to be unvaccinated, that is their choice. I have chosen to get the vaccine. If someone else reviews the facts and doesn’t want it, that is up to them. What they choose doesn’t affect you.

but liars figure, as the old adage goes. It seems that the number of COVID cases is WAY down. Why is that? The vaccine? Nope. The cycle threshold.

Just before the election, the Ct was 40.

An hour after the inauguration, the CDC changed the Ct to 30, which reduced the number of positive test results by 68%.

Then on May 4 it was reduced for any test of a vaccinated individual to 28. This will mean that positives will be lower for anyone vaccinated. Along with that, asymptomatic or mild infections will no longer be recorded as “COVID cases.”

One year ago, nearly to the day, I proposed that COVID was being used to influence the election. I also predicted that COVID would disappear right after the inauguration. I almost nailed it.

On a side note, my hospital has four COVID patients being cared for by a single nurse. The “COVID hall” has 28 rooms with a possible capacity of 56 patients at double occupancy. There are FOUR patients in there.