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2020-07-07 Home Front: Politix

Ron Paul: Is The Texas COVID "Spike" Fake News?

[ZeroHedge] On July 2nd, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order mandating the wearing of face masks across the state, whether indoors or outdoors, when six feet cannot be maintained between people. In the governor’s decree, he cited a rise in Covid cases, a rise in test positivity, and a rise in hospitalizations as justification to force people to cover their faces in public.

The move is not only a violation of the civil liberties of all Texans. Abbott may have based his executive order on inaccurate information about a "rise" in Covid cases due to the Texas State Department of Health Services changing the definition of what constitutes a "Covid case."

Thanks goes to Collin County Judge Chris Hill for blowing the whistle on what appears to be a move in mid-May to redefine what was a "Covid" case to open the door to a massive increase – all to match the mainstream media line that a "second wave" was on the way.

In a Commissioners Court hearing for Collin County on May 18th, it was revealed that while previously the determination of a Covid "case" was a confirmed test result, the definition was suddenly changed to count "probable" cases as "cases." At the same time, the threshold for determining "probable" was lowered to a ridiculous level.

As Judge Hill said at that May 18th meeting, "If you have a subjective fever and you have a headache and you live in Collin County, you now meet the qualifications to be a probable COVID patient. It is remarkable how low the standard is now."

Even worse, once a "probable" case was determined based on possibly unrelated subjective criteria, up to 15 people in possible contact with that "probable" case were also listed as "probable cases." And "probable cases" were considered cases.

Repeat that farce across Texas and is it any wonder there was a "spike" in "cases"?

Also, Governor Abbott's claim that hospitals were being over-run by Covid patients was refuted by the Houston hospital directors themselves, who said they were nowhere near actual capacity and in fact were about the same level as they were last year.

Posted by Iblis 2020-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Leftard, rightard. They're all the same.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-07 01:39|| 2020-07-07 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The move is not only a violation of the civil liberties of all Texans.

Just like requiring people not to appear naked in public?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-07 03:19|| 2020-07-07 03:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Spike in testing spike in finding.

Always the same...

Y2K flu hysteria led to an enormous mistake called lockdown.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-07 03:51|| 2020-07-07 03:51|| Front Page Top

#4 How many people actually died from COVID-19? that would tell us a lot more than "oh i got the flue last week"!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-07 08:10|| 2020-07-07 08:10|| Front Page Top

#5 @ #2 - And the harm in appearing naked in public is what?

Posted by Clem 2020-07-07 08:20|| 2020-07-07 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 ...not been in a Walmart with clothed denizens? Eye Brillo pads in aisle 12. Retched clean up in aisle 7.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-07 08:29|| 2020-07-07 08:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Texas is full of sensible people

The share of Texans who reported being "extremely" or "very" concerned about the spread of the coronavirus in their community decreased from 54% in April to 47% in June. Those who reported being "not very" or "not at all" concerned about its spread in their community increased from 17% to 26%.
The share reporting being "extremely" or "very" concerned about either themselves or family members contracting the virus decreased from 54% to 48%, while those who reported being "not very" or "not at all" concerned increased from 17% to 27%.
The share who reported that they were only leaving their residence when they "absolutely" had to decreased dramatically from 63% to 37%. Those who reported that they were "living normally, coming and going as usual" more than doubled from 9% to 19%.

Acting like it's only as dangerous as the flu, because it is.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-07 10:00|| 2020-07-07 10:00|| Front Page Top

#8 CDC Website confirmed the change:

What is a COVID-19 Case?
A COVID-19 case includes confirmed and probable cases and deaths. This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement issued by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists on April 5, 2020.

The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease.

What is a COVID-19 Probable Case?
A probable case or death is defined as:
1. A person meeting clinical criteria AND epidemiologic evidence with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19;
2. A person meeting presumptive laboratory evidence AND either clinical criteria OR epidemiologic evidence;
3. A person meeting vital records criteria with no confirmatory laboratory testing performed for COVID-19.

I'm sure it was reported in the news. Somewhere.

Posted by Bobby 2020-07-07 12:29|| 2020-07-07 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Full definitions at Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
2020 Interim Case Definition, Approved April 5, 2020 from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), an arm/tentacle of the CDC. All right out there in the public domain.

Posted by Bobby 2020-07-07 12:34|| 2020-07-07 12:34|| Front Page Top

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