More ‘proof’ for the Branch Covidian mask cult that you are wasting your time with your mask nonsense. Somebody forward this to “Doctor” Chane Rascoe, our $158,000 superintendent.
In today’s “masks don’t work” segment…LA, Orange & San Diego Counties all had different mask timing.
Orange county even tried to follow science & rescinded the mandate briefly…and yet, the curve was the same.
Also: the 7-day average peaked on almost the exact same day!!
How can that be?! Gee…it’s almost as if masks don’t work at all!
Imagine the following two Covid death reports about the same person. The first is how I imagine Misti Talbert would post it on Facebook:
“We lost another precious soul over the weekend. A woman in her 50s”
Sounds scary, right? I mean, hell…I’m in my 50s! I could be next! This virus is killing everyone! Better cancel school and climb back into my mother’s womb to be safe.
Burnet County Judge James Oakley said the county’s first death was a 57-year-old woman who was a resident of Bertram Nursing Home. Judge Oakley said the death happened on the afternoon of May 26.
The woman had been bedridden with cardiovascular disease for an extended time and was paralyzed from a stroke, according to the judge. She was also a cigarette smoker.The woman died from rapid onset pneumonia and posthumously tested positive for COVID-19.
Wow. Paints quite a different picture, doesn’t it? After reading this article, you realize this poor woman already had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, to quote my dear 83-year-old Dad. And while I sympathize with the family and realize this was somebody’s beloved sister or mother, you cannot ignore the fact that the death of a very sickly person from Covid is worlds away from, say, a healthy 12-year-old boy.
Hardly the ‘deadly plague’ that has caused people to absolutely lose their minds and throw hot coffee or mace into the faces of those who refuse to buy into this ridiculous mask crap.
If OUR county was as honest as this in their reporting, who knows….Bruce Haywood might even let his teen aged daughter (who has a higher risk of being hit by lightning than dying of Covid) attend school in person. Parents of an 8-year-old might rethink the wisdom of strapping a diaper on their kid’s face for 8 hours a day at school.
How about it Misti? Ready to actually LEAD instead of playing secretary and hitting COPY/PASTE on crappy Covid reporting? The information is out there. It’s YOUR job to get it to the people so they can act rationally with FULL INFORMATION.
I’m sure we’re all used to seeing these ‘updates’ from the Mayor every couple of days:
Sorry to disappoint, but I’m going to sling my big, fat, meaty opinion around like a weapon here and say that Lampasas Covid reporting SUCKS!
That’s right…..SUCKS!
Oh, I know Misti: you’re “just passing this all along from Dr Hay”. Yes, I know. You can take credit for the ‘leadership’ of ‘keeping us informed’ but also deflect blame for the poor quality of reporting and mountains of details left out.
In the early days, we at least got a LITTLE BIT of detail.
Yes – it took over SEVEN MONTHS for our county of 22,000 people to log our first fatality. A man roughly 14 years past the average male life expectancy and already infirm. A deadly plague indeed!
We got a rough age, gender and ‘nursing home’ indication. Not a bad start!
Naturally, I kept a record of all this. Here is what we gleaned about fatalities – the absolute MOST important data point when it comes to weighing the cost/benefit of destroying the economy to fight this ‘deadly plague’:
Male in 90s – nursing home (7/21/20)
Female in 70s (7/28/20)
Male in 80s (7/30/20)
Female in 80s (8/3/20)
Fatality #5 – no age/gender reported. No way to know since the actual report by Mist was “we lost another precious soul over the weekend” – (8/10/20) – and that was it.
In the August 17 report, the “active cases” cratered from 30 down to 17….which is UNDER the magic number of “20” needed to treat us all like prisoners.
Then….WEEKS passed with our “fatality count” stuck at 5 and our “active cases” stuck at 17. We can’t have that! It’s doesn’t reinforce the “deadly plague” narrative that keeps Bruce Haywood huddled under his bed and poor little 10-year-old kids breathing their own CO2 and bacteria in a mask. SO, on August 24th, we got TWO random fatalities added:
Somebody was in another county when they got sick and died there? Seems to me that should count in the other county, but such is the bizarre and crappy system we have. Mind you, that ‘out-of-county’ death is 12.5% of our total fatality count now. ZERO information on age – which is AGAIN very shoddy, in my opinion.
Fatality #8 – no age or gender given (8/26/20). Misti THEN reported that “5 of the 8 fatalities were residents of our nursing homes” – which could not possibly have been deduced from the previous public ‘updates’ so who knows how SHE found out but WE didn’t. More evidence of shoddy and incomplete reporting.
Bottom line, 62% of the fatalities are nursing home patients. Nursing home patients who VERY LIKELY had several other significant issues going on (comorbidities). At LEAST 3 of the fatalities were people OVER 80 years of age. Due to Lampasas County crappy reporting procedures and lack of information on fatalities #5,6,7 and 8, I guess we’ll never know more than that.
In a nutshell: attention to detail in reporting went straight into the toilet after fatality #4.
We remained stuck comfortably under the “magic” number of 20 active cases for a while again. Once again, we can’t have that! Suddenly, EVERYONE was advertising FREE testing of the easy oral type (not the deep, painful nasal penetration type).
So what now? What kind of Covid reporting SHOULD we expect – nay, demand?
We have Governors acting like kings making decrees and weak local government going along without question. We have libtard morons snitching on any businesses not bowing down and following the idiotic mask “mandates”. We have little kids (who are more likely to get hit by lightning than die of Wuhan Flu) wearing unhealthy, bacteria-laden masks…or WORSE – not going to school at all and instead “remote” learning!
When we have allowed ALL those terrible losses of freedom due to irrational fear, that tells me The Powers That Be have done a very SHITTY job of convincing the citizens with FACTS and STATISTICS that this is an issue ONLY for the very elderly and infirm at best – and NOT a reason for the draconian ‘mandates’ we currently suffer under.
Reporting the REAL numbers and facts tells us that at MOST we maybe have had ONE death in our county of TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND that could truly be considered “out of the blue” and happened to someone tragically too young (if you consider 60 years old young) The others were so elderly and/or infirm that SOMETHING was going to cause their death soon anyways. I don’t mean to sound callous or flippant, but those are the FACTS.
Part II coming soon – where you can see what EXCELLENT Covid reporting looks like from right next door: Burnet County.
An Austin imbecile asked a question of our mayor the last week:
Gee…don’t ask me. I’m just the mayor!
Michael Duvall is a Bernie-Sanders-loving clown horn, but he raises a good point: all of the stupid mask rules and sports rules are a mish-mash of shit that contradict each other. What’s stopping this “deadly plague” (LOL!) from slipping into our town via those possibly plague-carrying bastards from Brownwood?? Hmmm? Hmmmm??
Here is the current situation, as I understand it:
Football players are on the field for hours in very close contact with a lot of other guys. Sweating, breathing hard, tackling, etc. But no mask needed! They get a pass….even though those SAME high school students were forced to wear a mask in the classroom a few hours earlier. The classroom where they are NOT rolling around on each other in very close proximity. Makes ZERO SENSE.
Hmmm…maybe because it’s absolutely retarded to make an extremely low-risk group (in-shape and under 75 years old) wear a device that will restrict air flow and reduce performance. Fair enough – so then why am I forced to wear a mask at my gym???
[You’re not supposed to ask common-sense stuff like that. Just shut up and obey, you sheep]
Well, they might say, the gym is INSIDE and the football field is OUTSIDE.
OK, then why are you making all the poor bastards in the stands WEAR MASKS?? They are outside, after all! Makes ZERO SENSE.
Anybody have an answer for that? Anyone? Bueller?
Of course, the only reason Michael Duvall is a mask-loving dummy is the same reason evident in 98% of other mask-loving dummies: he is a Trump-hating lefty. That’s all it takes these days. No science. No facts. No evidence. Just be a Trump-hating commie pinko lefty and it’s almost 100% guaranteed you are also going to be a pro-mask dummy as well.
When I was learning about communist Cuba and the Soviet Union back in grade school and high school, I wondered how in the HELL it could be that these totalitarian regimes could rely on neighbors snitching on neighbors. I mean, what kind of a PIECE OF GARBAGE would rat out their neighbors to Big Brother? It makes more sense to stick together and try and defeat the evil, right?
“Our restaurant”….lol. Good one. You mean the lemonade stand smaller than my garage?
In my book, that makes you a giant piece of garbage. If you’re too scared to walk outside, then go ahead and stay home in your plastic bubble. Stop screwing it up for the rest of us and demanding everyone else suffer for YOUR stupidity.
Now, somebody is at it again. Wouldn’t surprise me a bit if it was still her crying and whining and snitching. From the latest City council meeting (go to the 40 minute mark). I believe it is Kathy Kuehne asking this question:
“I had some business owners ask me how we are helping enforce the governor’s orders…..because there are some businesses that are following the orders and there are some that are blatantly not…and so they were asking me to find out what the City is doing about that…IF they are doing anything.“
[“Teacher! Teacher! Look at ME! I’M following your rules and being good…but look at Timmy over there! You should maybe go look in his desk for contraband!”]
Gee…some are “blatantly not”? Says who? Some anonymous, hidden piece of shit? Why don’t you name names, Kathy? Which business owners are the nosy scumbags who like to tattle? Why is the scummy business owner making a slimy end move and going through you to ask City council? Why doesn’t the slimy scum bag business owner appear in front of City council themselves? Or call the police and go on the record? Maybe because they know, deep down, they are a tattling piece of scum?
It’s amazing how the tattletale mindset can spread like a fire. We’ve seen it before. We know where this leads. Think of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692 but on a much larger and even more horrifying scale. Think of the Stanford Prison Experiment, and look it up if you’ve never heard of it.
When you snitch, you become a hand of the government, and make no mistakes about it – the government has too many hands already. They’ve got one in your pocketbook and about 10 others rifling through your most private affairs.
You need to ask them permission to fish or hunt, even on your own land. You have to get permission to get married, to build a garage on your own property, to leave the country or come back to it.
If you want to start your own business, you’ll need to get permission from the government. And even if you get that permission, then you’ll need to get this permit and that license and keep everything up the standards set by — you guessed it — government.
No matter who you are or what you do in this life, the government has its claws sunk deep into you and your family.
Name an individual right, and I guarantee the government — local, state or federal — has found a way to trample all over it, and a lot of lib morons like Julie Cain Landrum and Stephanie Fitzharris thank them for it. Big Bro has a million different ways to spy on us already, they don’t need you inching back the curtain drapes and phoning in what you see happening at the house next door.
Police Chief Bailey told City council that when they receive a complaint, they go to the location and ask them to comply – and that they have not had to cite anyone yet.
Maybe I need to make an Open Records Request to the police and ask for all complaints and calls made by mask snitches? I would think that would be recorded somewhere, right? Then EVERYBODY can know who the busybody snitch is for something as ridiculous as wearing a useless mask due to an ILLEGAL “mandate” by a Governor who has lost his mind and is drunk on power.
I can tell you this…any business that insists I wear a completely ineffective mask because of a legally questionable ‘mandate’ for a virus that has killed only a handful of citizens who were old and infirm, I’ll tell them where to stick it…and NEVER patronize that business again. EVER. Even after all of you lunatics have regained your senses and the Wuhan panic is an embarrassing memory. I will STILL not set foot in there.
We should also NEVER forget who the snitches are who tattled on their neighbors. Never.
The NEXT week, City Manager Finley deGraffenreid (salary + benefits of roughly $180,000) has the balls to stand up and tell City council he recommends they use the “budget surplus” (his exact words at the 30:25 mark) to give everyone in City government a 3% raise. Which would “be a burden to the City of about $195,000“, according to him. [*** see below***]
He also says that we need some other “market adjustments” (Finley-speak for more raises) of around $50,000 for other employees. Bringing the total to very close to a quarter of a million dollars ($245,000).
Remember – that $250,000 is forever. They don’t take it back next year. It is a brand new, forever-more burden on the taxpayers.
Here’s a thought for City council to ponder:
If the ‘business’ park project is SO awesome and SO important and will result in many new high-paying jobs and so much ‘economic development’, wouldn’t it make FAR more sense to take that $250,000 raise and instead funnel it towards your precious ‘business’ park project? In a short four years, you have your million dollars!
Why are you INSTEAD giving raises to City employees who are ALREADY well-paid? City employees who HAD ABSOLUTE and COMPLETE job security during a ‘pandemic’ that has thrown tens of millions of private sector workers onto the unemployment rolls!
Oh – and who ALSO have top-notch health care plans (those pesky benefits!) in case they DO catch the Wuhan Flu!
Wouldn’t that make a LOT more sense? Yes. Yes it would.
*** Some super hard math for the likes of TJ Monroe ***
*** This implies a current City payroll of $6,500,000.00 since 195,000/0.03 = $6.5 million.
*** Finley has also stated in the past that benefits [retirement + health insurance + other] run roughly FORTY PERCENT of salaries. So the NEW total burden to the taxpayer just for City employee salaries and benefits would be roughly $9.443 million dollars every year
$6.5 million x 1.03 for the new 3% increase PLUS $50,000 = $6,745,000
$6,745,000 x 1.40 = $9,443,000 total salary + benefits burden for new budget
If I am very generous and assume the current number of City employees is 110, that gives us a salary + benefits burden to the taxpayer of $85,845 PER EMPLOYEE.
Yes – you are reading that correctly. Each and every City employee is costing YOU the taxpayer (on average) approximately $85,845 in salary and benefits. I’m guessing that over 90% of people in this town make far LESS than that in their private sector job.
I see that American Airlines fired 19 THOUSAND people today, a few months after their $6 billion taxpayer-funded bailout.
Did you know that CEO Doug Parker cashed in $200 million in stock-based comp over the past 7 years?
From 2014 – 2019, the same years that CEO Doug Parker pocketed $200 million in stock-based comp, American Airlines had *negative* free cash flow of $3.2 billion.
No more bailouts. The airlines can EASILY issue equity and/or debt into this booming market and let STOCK HOLDERS take the risk. THAT is how capitalism is supposed to work.
Here is the problem in a nutshell: you have maybe 30% of the population (I’ll call them the Haywoods) who won’t get on a plane no matter what, because they are petrified of Wuhan Flu as well as their own shadows. You can bail out the airlines until the cows come home – those idiots won’t be flying for a LONG TIME. They are essentially gone forever, no matter WHAT you do.
You ALSO have maybe another 40% of the people (I’ll call them Lampassholes since I’m in this group) who have cut their flying down to the absolute bare minimum because we refuse to comply with their retarded mask policy. No way I will sit on a plane for 3 hours breathing into a hot, damp diaper. No way.
So, the airlines better figure out pretty damn quick who butters their bread (hint: it ain’t the Haywoods). If you insist on enforcing moronic and retarded mask rules, then don’t be surprised when your revenue drops off a cliff and you go bankrupt. Suck it – you made your bed, now lie in it.
Christ, I’m old enough to remember when airlines went bankrupt about every other month back in the 1970s and 80s. It’s not the end of the world. The planes don’t disappear. The pilots don’t forget how to fly. What happens is the morons who invested in said airline lose their shirts and the business is re-organized and run by a group of people who know what the hell they are doing.
There was none of this bailout horseshit back then. John Cornyn and Doug Parker can kiss my beanbag.
BLM scumbags demand that diners at restaurant raise their fists for black power. A brave young couple retains their dignity, and refuses. Be that couple. Don’t be the embarrassing mustachioed coward to the right who has forfeited his dignity for all time.
Bruises heal. Lack of courage does not.
This is what the mob offers. This is the same path followed by the Bolsheviks, the Nazis, and the Maoists. There is no fight for justice and equality here. There is only a desire to see all others bow to the leftist narrative, and to attack, harass, and censor any who do not.
If your idea of “justice” is surrounding a defenseless woman with a braying mob and demanding she join, you are not one of the good guys. You’re a cowardly crybully who is both intellectually and ethically bankrupt.
