May 25, 2020, “It’s really up in the air whether two or four or whatever years of Biden is better or worse than four years of Jared." Scott McConnell twitter
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8/25/20, “What we’ve seen tonight: – Trump used pardon power to highlight record on criminal justice reform – Trump highlights his support of legal immigration – Tiffany Trump says America founded on idea, not identity This is not the @TuckerCarlson @AnnCoulter convention.” Jamie Weinstein twitter
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Above, Tues., 8/25/20, “This is not the @TuckerCarlson @AnnCoulter convention.” Jamie Weinstein twitter
Above, 8/25/20, “Not the message he won on either,” Jon 0002 twitter
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Above, 8/25/20, “It’s wild, Trump seems to have completely misunderstood how he got elected,” Trump image twitter [Or doesn’t care].
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Added: #JaredKushnerIsNotMyPresident
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Above Jan. 16, 2020, Jared Kushner on Time Magazine cover, “The Family Business: The Unusual Power of Jared Kushner”
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Added: 6/1/20, “No one has more contempt for Trump’s voters than Kushner does, and no one expresses it more frequently.”
June 1, 2020, “Tucker Carlson: “No One Has More Contempt
For Donald Trump’s Voters Than Jared Kushner",” RealClearPolitics.com, Ian Schwartz
“From the monologue on Monday night’s edition of Carlson’s FOX News show:
“What Americans want most is an end to this chaos. They want their cities to be saved. They want this to stop, immediately.
If the president doesn’t stop it, he will lose in November. The left
will blame him for the atrocities they encouraged. Many voters will
agree. Donald Trump is the president. Presidents save countries. That’s why we hire them.
Some key advisors around Trump don’t seem to understand the gravity of this. “No matter what happens, they’ll tell you, “our voters aren’t going anywhere. The trailer parks are rock solid. What choice do they have? They’ve got vote for us.”
Jared Kushner, for one, has made that point out loud. No one has more contempt for Trump’s voters than Kushner does, and no one expresses it more frequently.””…
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"National Endowment for Democracy," NED, US government grants for expenditure in Russia:
2019: $6,797,405
2018: $6,347,976
For example, in the first 2019 "grant," US kleptocrats say they will teach Russian people how “kleptocratic practices" undermine so-called western democratic principles. This is typical of many US “grants” totaling nearly $6.8 million spent on the ground in Russia in 2019, openly interfering and sowing discord.
First 2019 grant:
“Aiding Corruption Investigations
Accountability and Governance
$48,610
To aid the work of anti-corruption activists by making them more effective through new connections with an international network, which will facilitate transborder anti-corruption work and highlight the ways in which transborder kleptocratic practices undermine democratic principles in Western countries. Activists will be connected to media outlets that can expand the audience for their work, foreign experts who can assist with investigations, and legal experts familiar with relevant international legal anti-corruption mechanisms.”
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Added: The year before, 2018, the US “NED” spent $6,347,976 on the ground in Russia inciting divisiveness and sowing discord.
The first “grant” listed in 2018 is similar to the one above in 2019, except that in 2018 “kleptokratic” is referenced in the first sentence. Apparently Russia is fine with the US government coming into its country, spending millions scorning the Russian people and their government:
First 2018 grant:
“Aiding Corruption Investigations
Accountability and Governance
$47,880
To strengthen anti-corruption initiatives and raise awareness of the impact of kleptocratic behavior and its implication for democratic societies. The work of anti-corruption activists will be made more effective through connections with an international network, which will facilitate transborder anti-corruption work and highlight the ways in which kleptocratic practices undermine democratic principles. Activists will be connected to media outlets and experts who can assist with their work.”
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Comment: Perhaps Mr. Putin is just a figurehead in Russia with no actual power. How
else can one explain this vile US group being allowed to openly operate
in Russia--or anywhere--for the purpose of sowing division? Even
more embarrassing, everyone knows the deeply corrupt US is unqualified
to lecture anyone about the time of day much less corruption.
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"“You would have expected the cases to start growing very soon after interventions were lifted,” she said. “That’s what we were saying at the time: ‘It’s premature to lift interventions. Cases will start going up.‘ But they didn’t. And in most cases, they continued going down. It was quite unexpected.…Herd immunity could be lower than 20%…A paper published in Science in June…shaves the coronavirus herd immunity rate to 43%. Others say it might be lower.”
Aug. 25, 2020, “Virus’s retreat in Brazilian Amazon upends notions of herd immunity,” Washington Post, Terrence McCoy, Heloisa Traiano
“The hospital system was coming apart.
Coronavirus patients were being turned away. Basic necessities – beds,
stretchers, oxygen – had run out. Ambulances had nowhere to take
patients. People were dying at home. Gravediggers couldn’t keep up.
The human destruction in the Brazilian city of Manaus would be “catastrophic,” physician Geraldo Felipe Barbosa feared.
But then, unexpectedly, it started to let up – without the interventions seen elsewhere.
Hospitalizations of coronavirus patients plummeted in the state from a peak of more than 1,300 in May to fewer than 300 in August. Excess deaths in Manaus fell from around 120 per day to practically zero. The city closed its field hospital.
In a country devastated by the novel coronavirus, where more than 3.2 million people have been infected [often without knowing it] and over 105,000 killed, the reversal has stunned front-line doctors. Manaus never imposed a lockdown or other strict containment measures employed successfully in Asia and Europe. And what policies did exist, many people ignored.
In the spring, the Amazonian city became a global symbol of the devastation the disease can wreak in the developing world.
But now it has returned to near normalcy – far sooner than many expected – and scientists and public health officials are asking why. The question is part of a broader debate among scientists and public health officials over the mechanics of herd immunity and the level of transmission that must be crossed before the disease starts to recede.
European cities that were pummeled by the disease have begun to reopen without crippling second waves. In Guayaquil, the Ecuadoran metropolis where bodies were left on the streets, scientists have cautiously speculated that collective immunity has been reached. Some researchers are now suggesting the same about New York City.
[Chart: Long ago flattened curve in NY City, began March 11, peaked in mid April. Covid related deaths recorded in NY City five boroughs, NYC Dept. of Health website, as of 8/24/20]
The factors that are helping to keep the virus at bay
in Manaus and other cities remain unclear. Changed behaviors and
individual community characteristics surely play a role. Manaus is
testing [for antibodies or just for active virus?] far more than it once
did. But whatever the dynamic, scientists and health officials are starting to wonder whether early prognostications about herd immunity overshot the mark.
It was initially believed that between 60 and 70% of the population needed to develop antibodies to reach collective immunity. But Guayaquil never broke 33%. Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, never got past 20.
“Manaus is an interesting case, indeed,” said Jarbas Barbosa da Silva, assistant director of the Pan American Health Organization. “The hypothesis – and this is just a hypothesis – is that the peak we had in Manaus was very strong, and there was such widespread community transmission that it may have produced some kind of collective immunity.”
Draconian restrictive measures [may temporarily] reduce the disease sharply, Barbosa said. But in Manaus [where the virus was allowed to run its natural course], the reduction has been gradual, with a steady progression of new cases [which may or may not ever experience symptoms] still arriving every day. That curve suggests the disease followed a “natural dynamic,” Barbosa said. Manaus, he said, “paid a very large price” to get there. During the
spring, it suffered three times as many deaths as normal. In all, the
city of 2 million along the Amazon River buried some 3,300 people more
than usual….
The idea of herd immunity [by vaccine should one exist] has long been used to justify and explain the purpose of mass vaccination campaigns.
Scientists would plug the disease transmission rate – or how many
people one sick person infects – into a calculation to determine the percentage of people who should be inoculated [if a vaccine exists]. For particularly infectious diseases, such as measles, that’s as high as 95%. For others, it’s lower.
But researchers say collective immunity works differently in a live outbreak. The disease doesn’t simply vanish when a magic number is crossed. Instead, as the pool of potential victims shrinks, transmission decelerates until it’s gone….Once the pool of potential victims reaches a critical mass, an explosive resurgence is unlikely. Too many people would have already contracted the disease [though may never have known it, may have had few or no symptoms].
“In Italy, it struck the Milan region very badly,” said Tom Britton, a mathematician at Stockholm University. “But not Rome very much. If I had to bet money that there was a second wave, I would bet all of my money on Rome, rather than Milan.” Britton and other researchers have been studying what’s known as “heterogeneity in susceptibility.” Early herd immunity models – and vaccination campaigns – have operated from the assumption that everyone’s the same. But individuals vary: Some people are more socially active, others are more physically vulnerable.Heterogeneity, researchers say, reduces the percentage of infection at which herd immunity may be achieved. The people most likely to get the disease and pass it on – the most socially active, the most susceptible – catch it first. But once they’re out of the pool of potential victims, the risk is less for everyone else.
“The effect of their immunity will be bigger,” Britton said.
In a paper published in Science in June, he and other researchers estimated that population heterogeneity shaves the coronavirus herd immunity rate to 43%. Others say it might be lower. Gabriela Gomes, a mathematician at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, has scrutinized European cities overwhelmed by the disease. In a paper she wrote with nine other researchers, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, she arrived at a striking conclusion: Herd immunity could be lower than 20%.
......... “Without immunity, you would have expected the cases to start growing very soon after interventions were lifted,” she said. “That’s what we were saying at the time: ‘It’s premature to lift interventions. Cases will start going up.‘ But they didn’t. And in most cases, they continued going down. It was quite unexpected.”… Many researchers have been reluctant to say whether they believe the worst in some of the hardest-hit cities has already passed. No one knows how long immunity lasts. The virus could mutate. “In Manaus, maybe we’re done with it, and that’s it,” said Jeffrey Shaman, an environmental health scientist at Columbia University. “I would love that as well. But the reality is that it’s wishful thinking.
It’s confirmation bias. We can’t pick evidence we hope is true. We have
to be very careful about this because it could blow up in your face
very quickly.”… Despite its physical remoteness in the rainforest, Manaus is one of Brazil’s most international cities.
Drawn by a free-trade zone, companies from all over the world have put
down roots in the Amazon. As the coronavirus spread worldwide, strains
from China, Europe and the United States were soon circulating, unseen.
It didn’t take long for the patient surge to
overwhelm the hospital system. “People are dying in their houses,”
Pinheiro Alves [a physician in Manaus] wept into the phone in early May, when things were at their worst. “They can’t get any help in the hospitals.”…
People were still crowding the streets. Officials weren’t willing to impose a lockdown. In impoverished Manaus, where many already live on the brink, the mayor said it would lead to social chaos and violence. So Pinheiro Alves spent his off hours trying to jury-rig ventilators.
Manaus Mayor Arthur VirgÃlio Neto said he “fought for social isolation.”
“The attempt failed,” he said. “There wasn’t real social isolation. People still went out,
and it wasn’t understood why. In the most difficult hours, I’d go to
the field hospital, get stuck in a traffic jam and think, ‘Why aren’t
people home? What are they doing out?'”
Every day, there would be a line of ambulances outside her hospital in
central Manaus, each holding a patient in need of a bed. Sometimes they
sat for hours, waiting for someone to die and relinquish their bed.
At the height of the city’s outbreak, there would be three or four lined up. Then one day, it was two. Then one.
“It was the first sign that the number of emergency calls were dropping,” [Physician Uildéia] Galvão said.
Intensive care units started to clear. Emergency coronavirus calls slowed, dropping from 2,410 in April to fewer than 180 in July. The wail of ambulances quieted. Some scientists said victory was in sight.
“Why Manaus will be the first Brazilian city to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,” wrote a group of researchers from the Federal University of Amazonas.
Street activity returned to pre-pandemic levels. People flocked to the river to swim and party. Appeals to wear masks: widely ignored. Private schools opened up. Then public. Cases continued to number in the hundreds every day, but far fewer were serious enough to warrant hospitalizations.
“There isn’t a concrete explanation,” said Henrique dos Santos Pereira, a scientist at the Federal University of Amazonas. Maybe there’s an unseen biological immunity in the population. Or the city’s relative youth staved off the worst….
“We don’t know how many people are [may still be] susceptible,” dos
Santos Pereira said. “In the beginning, we were thinking it was
everywhere, but it doesn’t seem like the whole world is susceptible.…It is causing us to reconsider the theory of herd immunity.””…
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Added: Underlying causes aren't mentioned above, but in NY City vast majority of deaths, 80%-89%, had underlying causes, per NY City government website, as of 8/24/20:
80%-89% of Covid deaths had underlying conditions, per chart:
Age 18-44=80%
Age 45-64=89%
Age 65-74=89%
Age 75+=87%
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“Pre-coronavirus crisis, surveys showed the neighborhood’s biggest public safety concern was “bicycles,“ @e72na President Valerie Mason said. A more recent survey found the top 3 are: violent crime (19.7%), homelessness (17.9%), and bicycle infractions (8.8%).
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Above, 8/12/20, “Pre-coronavirus crisis, surveys showed the neighborhood’s biggest public safety concern was “bicycles,” @e72na President Valerie Mason said. A more recent survey found the top 3 are: violent crime (19.7%), homelessness (17.9%), and bicycle infractions (8.8%).” via Patch.com, Nick Garber twitter…Valerie Mason is President of East 72nd St. Neighborhood Assn. …
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7/11/2016, “Valerie Mason, the president of the East 72nd Street Neighborhood Association, said she saw drug deals happen in front of two kiosks in her neighborhood on the Fourth of July. The dealers were makings phone calls and handing over plastic baggies, she said.
“Why are we going back to the 1970s? That really wasn’t a great period in New York City,”
Mason said during a Community Board 8 meeting on July 6. “Why would you
want somebody to have unlimited access like that to create a crime
scene in the middle of Manhattan?”” “LinkNYC Kiosks Clogging Sidewalks With Encampments and Drug Deals: Locals,” 7/11/2016...image below, dnainfo
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Comment:
The late Mayor Ed Koch saved NY City from 1970s decay.
There’s no one like him on the horizon today. He had a tremendous
personality, loved the city, and could be seen everywhere. I was at the
Russian Tea Room with friends sometime in the 1980s, and Mr. Koch
happened to be at a nearby table. He turned around, smiling, and said to
us, “How are the blinchikis?” Great, we said. For some years after he
was out of office he hosted an excellent daily one hour radio show.
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August, 2020, “Covid Self-Defense Kit,” Swiss Policy Research
“Autumn is approaching in the northern hemisphere, coronavirus antibody prevalence is still low (less than 5%) in much of previously locked-down Europe and non-urban areas of the US, and authorities in most Western countries still aren’t providing any covid prophylaxis and early treatment guidance.
SPR encourages people at high risk or high exposure to discuss with their doctor a prophylactic or early treatment strategy based on zinc, quercetin and bromhexine. Zinc blocks coronavirus RNA replication while quercetin and bromhexine block coronavirus cell entry.
Already in May, US doctors reported a 45% reduction in mortality of hospitalized patients by adding zinc to standard treatment. In June, US doctors reported a rapid resolution of Covid symptoms, such as shortness of breath, due to early outpatient treatment with high-dose zinc.
Cloth masks have failed to stop the pandemic because they cannot prevent indoor aerosol transmission; “contact tracing” has failed to stop the pandemic because of undetected four day pre-symptomatic and indoor aerosol transmission.
Thus, to avoid a second round of chaos and devastating lockdowns, reducing hospitalizations and mortality by successful prophylactic or early treatment of covid is absolutely essential.”
EN: On the treatment of Covid-19 →
DE: Zur Behandlung von Covid-19 →
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8/18/20, “Antibody Tests Positive For 13 Percent On Upper East Side: Data," Patch.com, Nick Garber, Upper East Side, NY, NY
[Image: Positive for Covid antibodies in 5 boroughs of NY City, Bronx highest with 33%, Manhattan 19%. See map posted below]
“New data shows about 13 percent of Upper East Side residents who were tested for antibodies had previously been infected with COVID-19.”
“About 13 percent of residents on the Upper East Side tested for antibodies showed signs that they were previously infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to new city data.
Of the 57,828 residents tested in the five ZIP codes that make up the [Upper East Side] neighborhood, roughly 13.2 percent tested positive, according to data released by the [NYC] Department of Health on Tuesday.
The ZIP code with the highest rate of positive tests was 10075, which covers a narrow strip from East 76th to 80th streets and includes Lenox Hill Hospital. About 14.1 percent of antibody tests came back positive for residents in that area.
The lowest rate of positive tests was in 10065, the neighborhood’s southernmost ZIP code, where about 12.6 percent of residents’ tests came back positive.
Citywide, Manhattan had the lowest rate of positive tests out of all five boroughs, with about 19 percent of tests coming back positive. The Bronx had the highest rate, at about 33 percent.
Percent positive antibody tests by Upper East Side ZIP code:
- 10065: 12.6 percent (8,492 tested, 1,070 positive)
- 10021: 13.1 percent (13,189 tested, 1,732 positive)
- 10075: 14.1 percent (7,203 tested, 1,019 positive)
- 10028: 13.6 percent (12,728 tested, 1,733 positive)
- 10128: 12.7 percent (16,216 tested, 2,065 positive)
- Total: 13.2 percent (57,828 tested, 7,619 positive)
The antibody tests, or serology tests, indicate whether a person may have been exposed to the coronavirus by measuring their bloodstream for signs that their immune system produced proteins, called antibodies, to fight off the virus.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday that the city’s website for coronavirus data would start including the results of antibody tests, but experts warn that such data should be taken with a grain of salt.”…
[Ed. note: Re: “A grain of salt,” at least in the case of CDC antibody tests, CDC takes extra steps to ensure its antibody blood test data are as accurate as possible: “Our analysis adjusted the seroprevalence estimate to account for false positives and false negatives.”…CDC says random antibody blood tests shouldn’t be considered guaranteed proof
of anything such as permanent immunity. However, by no means does it
say to take its blood results “with a grain of salt.” Without knowing the particular details of the antibody tests discussed in this article,
hopefully the “experts” Patch references are aware that many Covid
diagnostic tests for active virus and the ways in which they’re reported
are at best counterproductive. More on recent antibody studies: Aug.
16, 2020, “Scientists See Signs of Lasting Virus Immunity, Even After Mild Infections,” NY Times…Finally, as to “experts,” some “experts” were way off on NYC metro numbers: “Official city figures had estimated just over 219,000 cases as of July 23.” As it happens, “more than 2.8 million people“ [ten times more than officials had estimated] in NYC metro had already had the virus. This is what happens when you live and die by numbers from thousands of unsupervised sources].
(continuing): “Positive tests results could mean the person has antibodies from an infection with a virus in the same family as the coronavirus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention….
The data also may not accurately reflect the prevalence of antibodies
among all neighborhood residents or New York City residents, because
people who have been ill with COVID-19 symptoms or were exposed to the
virus may be likelier to seek out antibody testing, the city wrote in a disclaimer about the dataset.
“We will be the first jurisdiction in the nation to present our antibody data this way,”
de Blasio told reporters. “While there is still much to learn about the
science of COVID-19 antibody testing, it is an important element to
consider when understanding the epidemiology of COVID.””
“Patch reporter Maya Kaufman contributed to this report.”
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Added: Charts from NY City Health Dept., retrieved Aug. 21, 2020. One, an extremely “flattened curve” in NY City. Two, we learn Covid is almost nothing without co-morbidities:
Above, NY City Covid deaths from March 11 to August 21, 2020
Above, Most NY City Covid deaths occurred with underlying conditions:
“Underlying conditions can include lung disease, asthma, heart disease,
a weakened immune system, obesity, diabetes, kidney disease, liver
disease and cancer.”
From chart, total who died in NY City without underlying conditions, March 11-August 21:
Age:
0-17: 1
18-44: 23
45-64: 85
65-74: 4
75+: 2
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Added: Gov. Cuomo hailed April 2020 NY State government antibody test results: 2.7 million total “cases” in NY State, as high as 21% in “hot spots” like NY City, suggesting at least a positive step toward immunity:
April 23, 2020, “Nearly 3 million New Yorkers have [already] had coronavirus, antibody study suggests," Fox News, Greg Norman
“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo revealed Thursday that preliminary results from a coronavirus antibody study show the statewide infection rate is 13.9 percent, which would mean around 2.7 million residents could have carried the disease.
The 3,000 samples were collected from 40 sites in 19 counties, according to Cuomo, and suggested the [antibody] infection rate [had virus at some time and experienced few if any consequences] is as high as 21.2 percent in places like New York City.
“These are people who were infected and who developed the antibodies to fight the infection,” Cuomo said. “They had the virus, they developed the antibodies and they are now ‘recovered’.”
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Added: NY Times: Positive results regarding antibodies and immunity: “Even mild Covid-19 cases confer ‘durable immunity,’ new studies find.”
Signs that Covid antibodies confer lasting immunity...“This calls for some optimism about herd immunity,” said Smita Iyer, an immunologist at the University of California, Davis.
Aug. 16, 2020, “Scientists See Signs of Lasting Virus Immunity, Even After Mild Infections,” NY Times
“Even mild Covid-19 cases confer ‘durable immunity,’ new studies find.”
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Added: Re: Reliability of antibody tests: CDC conducted two NY City metro tests for antibodies, one ended May 3, the other May 26. “The results reported by the CDC are adjusted for false positive and false negative results:” From website: “Our analysis adjusted the seroprevalence estimate to account for false positives and false negatives.”
July 26, 2020, “Quarter Of NYC Area Residents Have Had Coronavirus, CDC Finds,“ Patch.com, Adam Nichols
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested blood collected for routine screenings and sick visits for antibodies.”
“Almost a quarter of New York City, Long Island and Westchester residents who had blood surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were found to have had the coronavirus [in the past].
That equates to a little more than 2.8 million people [ten times more than officials had estimated]. Official city figures had estimated just over 219,000 cases as of July 23.
The CDC partnered with commercial testing labs to estimate infection levels for five states and a handful of large cities. It tested the blood of people who had come to doctors for routine screenings or sick visits, not just those whose care was related to the coronavirus.
Around 23 percent of residents in the New York City area who had blood drawn in late May had antibodies for the virus, according to the CDC. The collection area included Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties alongside the NYC boroughs.
The survey was the second of its kind from the CDC. The first, which ended May 3, found a city infection rate of 6.9 percent.
The second survey was conducted between May 21 and 26. A total of 1,116 samples were collected.
The figure was much higher than anywhere else in the nation [as of May 26].
Of areas that had a second survey, Washington State had a 2.1 percent
infection rate, Utah had 1.1 percent, Minnesota 2.2 percent, Missouri
2.8 percent, Philadelphia 3.6 percent and Connecticut 5.2 percent.
The CDC notes the survey comes with some caveats. It isn’t random and relies on people whose blood was taken for routine screening or sick visits, which may not reflect the population as a whole.
The results reported by the CDC are adjusted for false positive and false negative results.
The CDC notes that it is possible that antibody levels may decrease
over time and that people who previously tested positive for the
presence of antibodies may at some point test negative.
The CDC also warns that the survey shouldn’t be interpreted to mean people who tested positive for antibodies are immune to the virus. It is still unknown how long antibodies last and what level of protection they offer.”
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Added: At long last our 50 states, just like Communist nations, are free to rule by decree. It seems no US law exists requiring states to return our freedoms to us. For example, in NY State, a company waited patiently for NY State’s “phase 4,” to be able to re-open in Central Park, only to learn, no, you can’t re-open. This means they’ll likely have to close forever. For no reason except that Trump turned the US into a Communist nation with the excuse of UK computer models. NY City long ago “flattened the curve” as above chart shows. They can’t admit it’s over already, that the political class used something that mainly killed the elderly as an excuse to steal trillions of US taxpayer dollars and convert the US into a Communist nation, as it is today.
Aug. 17, 2020, “Victorian Gardens In Central Park May Close Permanently,“ Patch.com, Nick Garber, Central Park, NY
“The summertime amusement park at Central Park’s Wollman Rink said Monday it would not open this year and may need to permanently close.
“Victorian Gardens, the amusement park that has popped up in Central Park’s Wollman Rink each summer for more than a decade, will not open for the 2020 season and may need to permanently close, its owners said Monday.
In a news release, the Zaperla family, Italian theme park manufacturers who also own the company that runs Victorian Gardens, said the decision was based on the “limited guidance and uncertainty surrounding when amusement parks will be permitted to open in New York State.”
The park had been prepared to open with COVID-19 protocols in place when the state entered Phase 4 of its reopening plan, in which outdoor recreation areas were originally included, operators said. Once Phase 4 arrived, however, amusement parks across the state were told they could not yet reopen. The state’s business lookup tool still lists Amusement and Theme Parks as closed.
“Regretfully, since Victorian Gardens’ normal operating season is coming to a close and New York State has not provided a re-opening plan for amusement parks, we are not able to open this season,” Zamperla said.
Zamperla said it appears unlikely that the park could reopen for the summer of 2021, and may need to “cease its operations entirely.”
Victorian Gardens first opened in the summer of 2003, according
to the park’s website, after a group of private investors secured
permission from the city to use Wollman’s 50,000-square-foot space while
the rink was out of commission during the summer.
“We have been privileged to provide family fun in the heart of New York City for the past 18 years and we are proud of the beautiful memories we created together,” Zamperla said in the news release.”
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Comment: The “emergency” that converted 50 US states into 50 individual Communist nations also enabled Trump to steal trillions of dollars from us, throw tens of millions out of work, destroy towns and cities for generations if not permanently.
He could’ve taken steps through congress or agencies to limit state
decrees and ensure an end date, but he didn’t. And for what? Not a single life was saved by actions of governments. Now what? Two choices. Accept life as a slave or work to free ourselves by breaking up the US into a few parts.
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“From the monologue on Monday night’s edition of Carlson’s FOX News show: 
