Data is the sine qua non of Public Health. To date we have had some albeit shabby. The CDC is unreliable, late, incomplete, and sometimes just plain nonsense. I have been following the NJ data which we have noted is often noisy at best.
Now comes the "team" in DC and their next step is to totally eliminate data. As the NY Times notes:
Private insurers will have to cover the cost of eight at-home coronavirus tests per member per month starting on Saturday, the Biden administration said Monday. People who provide their insurance information will be able to get the tests with no out-of-pocket costs at certain pharmacies; in other cases, they will have to file claims to their insurers for reimbursement, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, just as they often do for medical services. The plan “incentivizes insurers to cover these costs up front and ensures individuals do not need an order from their health care provider to access these tests for free,” the agency said in a statement. Roughly 150 million Americans, or about 45 percent of the population, are privately insured. Insurers that do not require people to pay the upfront cost for tests at certain retailers will be charged no more than $12 per test, if the test was purchased at an out-of-network site. Otherwise, insurers will be charged the full price of a test. “Today’s action further removes financial barriers and expands access to Covid-19 tests for millions of people,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the Biden administration’s Medicare and Medicaid chief, said in a statement.
This is a Trojan Horse to get what little numbers we have to go to zero. No data, no pandemic! Get all those unreportable at home tests and then at best the only thing one may have is deaths. If that. We have Supreme Court Justices shingling the legal roof in the fog, well off the edge, making statements for which they are neither qualified or correct. Now we have Public Health folks trying to navigate in the blind!
It does eliminate the Pandemic. No data, no infections, no Pandemic.
We seem to going from the absurd to the insane!
The one who controls the data, controls the "facts", in fact, they create the facts or "truth". At home tests do not get reported, only PCR tests do. Thus abandoning PCR for at home means we no longer have any means to count, and if we report nothing then perhaps the problem goes away. This is not a complicated obfuscation. On the other-hand we do not have very bright folks doing this in DC. Also death certificates may have a multiplicity of causes, often pneumonia. Many cancer deaths were pneumonia, so we should try to track these aberrant causes of death.
"Sharp Practice" indeed!
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