Frickin’ Florida Department of Health

Florida used to have an ArcGIS COVID-19 tracking page. It started out useful; then their data entry specialist decided she was a professional epidemiologist, and pumped it full of BS. You’ve probably heard the story: convicted criminal, crazy person, all fake whistleblowy and whiny, had a warrant served on her after she allegedly hacked state systems… At one point, I heard she’d locked out everyone else from the ArcGIS page, assumed sole control, and changed the data. I think that was after they’d canned her ass.

Fun stuff. Never heard if the state ever got its ArcGIS page back. Maybe that’s what caused my next bit of trouble.

At the end of it all, I can no longer find Florida’s COVID daily case numbers, by date of onset/diagnosis/test administered. I’m persistent, so I scoured the Florida COVID page. Not there, so I found their email address for more specific data requests and … requested.

They replied by telling me to check the same damned page again, and if that didn’t work to use the contact at yet another page.

That page showed zilch about COVID reporting, but it had a search bar. That pulled up links to the same pages I’d already gone over, plus a report even less informative. But there’s another email address to request more specific data.

Wait, I’ve seen this before…

I emailed them. And got a reply telling me to check the same goddamned useless pages. And if that doesn’t work to make a public records request to an email address in yet another DPH office.

No response yet, but I have a sneaking suspicion I know what it will be. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Funny thing. You know what it took to get the equivalent data from Georgia?

Click here, scroll down to the “COVID-19 Over Time” graph, click “date of onset. Done.

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There’s always someone who misses the memo.

Frickin’ visionaries.


Great Reset: World Economic Forum Declares the ‘Age of Human Robots Is Over’
“Take a walk into the future,” the World Economic Forum (WEF) implored users on social media on Monday, as they presented the Great Reset technological wonders which will free humanity from manual labour in favour of work which requires “understanding what it means to be human.”

Stuart Russell of the University of California, Berkeley said in the video: “We’re getting past the last 10,000 years where we’ve used humans, by and large, engaging only a tiny fraction of human abilities and forcing people into repetitive, tedious dead-end work for the most part.”

“So the age of human robots is over and we have to figure out a new age. That means dramatic changes to the structure of our economy and society,” he declared.


Like 1984, Brave New World was a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.

Are there large segments of the world’s population stuck in slave-like (if not outright slavery) rote, better-left-to-machines jobs like piecework in third world garment factories? Sure. But you’d better educate, train, and employ them at something before you cut them loose to live lives of pointless “creativity.” Idle hands… workshops…

I think Mack Reynolds wrote a novel — title forgotten — that touched on the revolutionary aspects of permanently unemployed, and very bored, people on universal basic income. That would give some hints.

But for most working Americans, I think this Great Reset BS is repugnantly dystopian. These guys are so disconnected from regular people that they can’t grasp that we might prefer doing things over being house pets. That we might prefer to choose our own lifestyles over being told that we’ll love being penniless, propertyless drones.

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Milestone

By the way, I reached a new milestone the other day:

After 19 months of the ChinCOVID pandemic, I now personally know two people who got it. Since that person had been attending family gatherings, I might know more in days to come. Or not; a person who shares a home with the case person, and has been providing care, still hasn’t come down with it.

The recent case was a fully vaxxed person; three weeks after their second mRNA dose (I don’t know if it was Pfizer or Moderna).

In other news, several fully vaxxed workers at a local long-term care facility have come down with ChinCOVID. One person who refused the vax hasn’t never gotten COVID; which fact apparently drives management nuts.

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2020-21 U.S. COVID-19 Deaths By Age

Looks like that did wonders for reducing Social Security and Medicare costs, in the long run.

(Click to enlarge; that’s a big image, so they could fit in 85+.)
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First Coast “News” …”debunks” another claim.

So someone claimed the feds dumped some illegals off in a Florida town over the weekend.

On Saturday morning, July 1, 2021 at 6:30am two federal government busses stopped in front of a Mexican restaurant in the very small town of Green Cove Springs Florida, where I live. Once stopped, the drivers had everyone … $100 bill and left. The passengers were illegal immigrants, straight from the southern border. Sheriff’s Deputies on the scene said 12 of the illegals had to be immediately transported to the hospital because they had obvious signs of COVID-19.

Sounds bad, eh. But FCN’s “VERIFY” propaganda team jumped in to set the record straight.


VERIFY: No, buses full of undocumented immigrants were not dropped off in Green Cove Springs
According to GCPD, the Mexican Consulate was in the city assisting local Mexicans in obtaining proper identification, documents, COVID testing/vaccines and other social services.


Legal Mexican nationals in the US would have “proper identification.” What the Mexican Consulates issue to illegals in the US is the matrícula consular.

What FCN VERIFY did was clarify that this was a Mexican federal government operation, not US federal.

That’s two straight days of utter bullshit from FCN (and that previous fake story still hasn’t been corrected, nor even acknowledged). Like the stupidly and lethally bad News4Jax, these frauds are exiting my news bookmarks.

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What makes her think that was “unintentional”?

How many criminal protection laws do they have to inflict before people understand that criminal protection is the intent? Victim disarmament, and now this:


Washington state police reform goes into effect, violent crime ensues
“While apprehending him was crucial, and obviously incredibly important to the victims, the new law prevented our officers from doing so,” Lt. Claudia Murphy told The Bellingham Herald. “This is one of the unintended consequences stemming from the passage of the law.”


All this was quite predictable, evidenced by the fact that a boatload of people did predict it. The legislators knew this, as did the gov, and they passed and signed it respectively, in full knowledge of what they were doing.

When you are a member of the criminal class, it only makes sense to protect yourself from the law and your victims.

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Wait… what?

I have fans?

Just got an email:

Are you still at [XYZ XXXXXC ABCDE]?

Don’t worry, I’m not a bounty hunter, just a fan.

I sort of had a few fans just after Net Assets was first published; someone even nominated me for a Prometheus Award (and to this day I do not know who that was, but thank you). But that was quite a few years ago.

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About the COVID-19 PCR Test

A few days ago, I noted some ambiguous language in the CDC’s notice that the Emergency Use Authorization for the ChinCOVID PCR test was going to be withdrawn. It could be interpreted as meaning that the test was nonspecific for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.

However, it could be something as simple as wanting to replace a one-condition test with a new two-condition test for either or ChinCOVID and flu. That turns out to be the case.

According to Kaiser Health the reason for the change in PCR testing to “differentiate” between ChinCOVID and influenza is not because the test went positive for either.

“The CDC is pulling their test ‘off the market’ as a gesture to encourage labs to use tests that include reagents (primers and probes) for both SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza so providers, labs, states, and CDC will have better data this fall and winter to estimate how much of clinical influenza-like illness is due to SARS-CoV-2 and how much is due to seasonal influenza,” Polage said in an email.

Basically, my first guess was correct. In the past flu season, so few flu tests were ordered that they really have no idea how many flu cases there were. Since symptoms overlap so much, it was more lucrative for hospitals to just call everything COVID-19, and get the CMS bonus. Nationally, flu testing was almost nonexistent. In a rare flash of competence, someone at the CDC decided to encourage combination tests so someone could still track next flu season.

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Dear Bog…

Deja effin’ vu.


CDC Director Rochelle Walensky Says We Just Need Two Weeks to Stop the Delta Variant SARS-CoV-3*
Perhaps CDC Director Rochelle Walensky has no sense of irony. We recently passed the 500th day to slow the spread, which, as we all know, started with 15 days to slow the spread in March of 2020. Now, Walensky is saying that if we all put on a face diaper and get the jab, we can defeat the Delta Variant SARS-CoV-3* in a few weeks:


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