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Peak Psychosis: More on Kids and COVID

After two years of the media, government and pharma groupies yelling fire in a crowded theater, we've reached what I hope is peak psychosis. This week, a woman drove with her COVID-infected son in the trunk, a Supreme Court justice spewed COVID misinformation, and a researcher reports on hundreds of adverse events among babies who were injected with the clot shot.

Mom puts Son in Car Trunk

From Houston

...on Jan. 3, [Sarah] Beam pulled into the drive-thru testing site located at 11355 Falcon Road in northwest Harris County, when a witness reported hearing something in the trunk. The witness said when Beam unlatched the trunk, the boy  [Beam's 13-year-old son] was found lying down inside.

Court documents said the witnesses told Beam she would not receive a COVID test until the child was removed from the trunk and placed in the back seat of the vehicle. The witness then called police.

Beam allegedly told authorities her son had tested positive for COVID-19 and she was taking him to the site for additional testing. In order to protect herself from being exposed, Beam decided to put the boy in the trunk of the car....

According to Cy-Fair ISD, Beam most recently worked as a teacher at Cypress Falls High School and has been employed by the district since 2011. She is now on administrative leave.

Throughout the pandemic, I've been astonished that so many teachers are 1) unable to do a bit of research to find out that children aren't a significant vector of COVID transmission; 2) terrified of children's cooties yet chose a career working with children; and 3) lacking in common sense. If Sarah Beam was afraid of COVID, why didn't she just put her son in the back seat and roll down all the windows? Or put a mask on both of them, since the masks work, right? 

Supreme Court Justices Repeat COVID Misinformation

From the Supreme Court on the force vaccination mandates,

Kagan began by claiming “the best way” to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is “for people to get vaccinated,” and the “second best way” is to “wear masks.” Neither claim is true....

"Cloth masks aren't going to provide a lot of protection. That's the bottom line. This is an airborne illness. We now understand that, and a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission. It could protect better through droplet transmission, something like the flu, but not something like this coronavirus," the Food and Drug Administration’s former Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said last week....

Breyer continued to spread misinformation by falsely claiming that 750 million people — there are only 330 million people living in the United States — tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. That would mean every single one of us tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday twice.

But the worst falsehoods by far came from Sotomayor, who claimed the omicron variant is just as deadly as the delta variant and that more than 100,000 children have been hospitalized by COVID-19, with “many” on ventilators....

The current national pediatric COVID-19 census from the Department of Health and Human Services shows 3,342 children with COVID-19 in hospitals. And, as Anthony Fauci admitted last week, there is a huge difference between children hospitalized by COVID-19 and those hospitalized with COVID-19. The vast majority of pediatric cases are from children hospitalized with COVID-19, meaning they were hospitalized by something else first and happened to test positive at about that same time.

Fortunately, other justices were more skeptical of the defense that OSHA has the authority to implement a vaccine mandate--see this, this, this, and this

Adverse Eye, Ear Events among Babies & Toddlers

From researcher Jessica Rose,

There are 11,791 babies aged 0-5 injected in the U.S. as of the first week of January 2022. 49 of them suffered an eye problem that was filed to VAERS. So there are 415/100,000 babies who are reporting eye adverse events to VAERS in the context of the COVID-19 injectable products. I am going to double check this tomorrow morning.

More from Jessica Rose:

I give you Ears. 659,294 reports. No URF [under-reporting factor] considered.

341 babies [among them].

As mentioned above, HHS reports 3,342 children currently in the hospital with COVID (not necessarily because of COVID) in a country of 330 million people. COVID is overwhelmingly a disease of the old and diabetic, not babies and toddlers. But thanks to junk news like this--

"Right now, the children's hospital has four times as many children being admitted compared to any other previous surge, Cox said. Of those, more than half are spending time in the ICU, Cox said, and at least 40% of those patients are spending time on a ventilator.

"news" that doesn't mention how many kids are in the hospital, nor if they have other illnesses or comorbidities, people are panicking and giving experimental injections to their babies and toddlers. A Supreme Court justice is babbling nonsense about a hundred thousand kids in the hospital, many of them on ventilators. But we can see by looking at the Regenstrief dashboard (Indiana's hospital info), the [cumulative] number of 0-4 year olds hospitalized January 6 (831) vs. December 31 (820) means there were 11 kids that age hospitalized with COVID in the past week in the entire state of Indiana (population 6.8 million). We're talking about a handful of children at most on a ventilator in this news story, a fact they don't mention.  

Peak Psychosis?

There are signs that more and more people are over the panic, at least where I live. Everything from Indy's Bacon Fest to the Battle of the Bulge re-enactment is on. School is in session. More people are wearing masks, but nobody gives non-maskers the stink eye. Indiana's legislature is likely to soon make forced vaccinations difficult and expensive, while the Supreme Court will almost surely end the mandates. The milder Omicron variant made up half the cases in Indiana at December 20--a position it jumped to in two weeks! Hopefully, calm and reason will spread across the land as well. 

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