August, Part 10, Political Class In Insanity: Fudging The Coronavirus Numbers, Miscounting the Coroanvirus Numbers and Making Money Off Of Fake Coronavirus Numbers

It is the beginning of another month which means it is time again to review the latest political class insanity from the American political class. Each month it takes us multiple posts to cover the wasteful spending, incompetent government organizations and employees, government programs that usually make a problem worse than resolving it, inane and idiotic politician comments, etc.

To review past posts on this insanity and idiocy, just click on the first few posts in each month listed to the right of this page. After reviewing just a handful of these insanity posts we think you will agree that we are currently being served by the worst set of American politicians ever to hold office in our entire history.

1) It's no secret that Bill de Blasio, the mayor of NYC, and Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, handled the whole coronavirus crisis in the most inept and dangerous way possible. Their incompetence caused the city and state to be the worst locations from a virus perspective relative to the number of cases and number of deaths of anywhere else in the country.

One of the most fatal and dangerous decisions that Cuomo made was to force nursing homes and long term care facilities in the state to take in and house suspected or real elderly coronavirus patients. This mixing of virus patients with elderly healthy patients likely caused a significant increase in the number of confirmed virus cases and deaths.

The state led the country in nursing home deaths attributed to the virus but according to an Associated Press report, the situation is worse than Cuomo and his statistic show:

• Apparently, Cuomo and the state government health resources people fudged the number of nursing home deaths that occurred after he declared that long term care facilities and nursing homes had to take potential and real coronavirus patients.
• You see, he made sure that the number of nursing homes deaths that were caused by the virus only included those people who physically died in the nursing homes or long term care centers.
• If a nursing home patient came down with the virus when residing in a nursing home but died after being shipped out to a hospital when they became sick, the death was incorrectly not counted as a nursing home death.
• So if someone got infected because they were in a nursing home and that nursing home was forced to bring in sick patients, Cuomo’s counting method ignored them if they eventually died in a hospital regardless of where they got infected.
• New York apparently was the only state that counted this way.
• For example, New York’s official virus deaths for the Riverdale Nursing home is listed at 4 deaths of that facility’s residents.
• In reality 21 people died as a result of being in that nursing home, 4 on site and 17 who were transferred to a hospital after they became sick.
• Thus, there are about 6,600 New Yorkers who “officially” died in the state’s long term care and nursing homes, in reality the death toll, because of his idiocy of forcing sick people into nursing homes, is likely much higher, making his atrocious decisions even more despicable.
• As an add on, apparently his bogus counting method was also in violation of Federal law.

Another reason to not believe the virus numbers in any which way possible since politicians manipulated the numbers, either intentionally or because of incompetence. And another reason to not trust anything a politician ever says at first blush, they are always more interested in protecting their political careers than the truth and the safety of their citizens.

2) So, while Cuomo was fudging numbers to make his bad decisions not look as bad as they actually were, down in North Carolina, in another strike against the validity of the virus statistics accuracy, North Carolina had a different counting problem:

• North Carolina officials recently announced that they had been counting their coronavirus cases wrong.
• Apparently their inability to count accurately overstated the number of virus cases in the state by a whopping 200,000.
• They caused this mishap a “counting error” and blamed it on the lab that did the tests.
• The state blamed LabCorp Diagnostics for giving the state two different daily test count numbers.
• According to Mandy Cohen of the state's Department of Health: “The positive cases are reported electronically. Those continue to be accurate. The number that we are correcting today is just the total cumulative lab tests. Our team found this as we were doing process improvement. I certainly wish we would’ve done that process improvement earlier, right? And then we would’ve caught this earlier. I think we own that in not catching this as soon as we could. Certainly LabCorp owns some of this for sending us the wrong data, but we own some of it for not catching it on our end.”
• LabCorp acknowledged their screw up and confessed that the North Carolina numbers they gave the state included virus testing results that occurred in other states.

Just another reason not to believe anything or anyone in any form of government is telling us about the virus, these people do not know how to count and every day it seems we are faced with some state official confessing that numbers are wrong, too high, too low, purposely fudged (in the case of New York), etc. Such incompetence.

3) Looks like it is going to be a coronavirus day in total. Consider these finding regarding virus counting from the United Patriots News website:

• Michael Thau, writing for the Red State website has looked at and analyzed a lot of virus data from across the country.
• After looking at the counting processes that vary everywhere relative to the virus and the reports and stats these processes produce, he has concluded there are three reasons why the virus data is grossly overcounted.
• The first factor relative to over counting the virus’s effects is people who tested positive for the virus and who then passed away were classified as dying because they had the virus, not because they died of cancer, for example, and just happened to have the virus which had nothing to do with their cancer death.
• Somehow, this was the official Federal government way of counting as put forth by Dr. Deborah Brix in April.
• Dr. Brix was a critical member of Trump’s virus task force back at the beginning of all of this. 
• Thus, people who died for non-virus reasons were classified as virus deaths if they tested positive for the virus, i.e.they had the virus but the virus did not kill them.
• The second overcount factor was the reality that the CDC told doctors to issue death certificates that the virus was the cause of the death even if the cause of death is uncertain, i.e. the virus got credit in all cases where the cause of death was unknown.
• And the final factor, and this one should tick off every taxpayer, the government system for reimbursing hospitals for patient care relative to the virus gave more Medicare money to the hospital if the patient was classified as having the virus.
• Thus, the virus probably became an enhanced revenue source for hospitals once it was known that Medicare would pay more for treatment if the patient was classified as a coronavirus person even if they were not infected with the virus.
• Obviously, Medicare is funded with taxpayer money and Medicare was very generous with that money relative to reimbursing hospitals.

Thus, there is a very good case to be made that the number of deaths and the number of people who tested positive for the virus is highly inflated. Bad instructions from the Federal government on how and who to count, perverted financial incentives that made it attractive for hospitals to falsely classify non-virus patients as virus patients, bad lab testing and just plain bad, inept counting practices, the list goes on and on. 

All because of government and political incompetence and greed. There is a very good chance that we shut down the economy and threw millions of people onto the unemployment line because Washington, state houses, hospitals, and nursing homes did not know how to count or counted with other, personal motives and greed in mind. What a disaster for the country and those that suffered the brunt of possibly an unnecessary shutdown.

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