Philly’s COVID mess

Posted: February 2, 2021 by chrisharper in Uncomfortable Truths
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By Christopher Harper

Amid charges of chaos and corruption, Philadelphia’s plan to provide vaccines for the Covid viruses has been an absolute disaster.

Less than a month ago, Mayor Jim Kenney announced a major initiative with Andrei Doroshin, the CEO of Philly Fighting Covid.

What was the first indication that there might be a problem? Doroshin is a 22-year-old graduate student without any background in health. His organization included various college friends who had experience in technology, so they used 3-D printing machines to make face shields.

On October 7, he presented a slideshow via Zoom in which he described how he and his colleagues planned to create vaccination sites throughout Philadelphia to provide vaccines.

That’s when the second indication of a problem appeared. In the live stream of his presentation, Doroshin planned to manage five mass vaccination sites and 20 smaller sites scattered throughout the city. He claimed his team could vaccinate between 500,000 and 1.5 million people.

“This is the juicy slide,” said Doroshin, explaining the financing plan. “How are we gonna get paid?” He explained that the vaccine doses were free, provided by the federal government. But Philly Fighting Covid could bill insurance companies $24 a dose for administering it.

“I just told you how many vaccines we want to do—you can do the math in your head,” he said.

A month later, Doroshin made a similar presentation, complete with colorful maps and a $2.7 million projected budget, to the Philadelphia City Council. He said his team at Philly Fighting Covid had begun submitting plans for building out five high-capacity sites that could each take up to 10,000 patients a day.

Within days, the organization faced a variety of scandals. A nurse accused Doroshin of spiriting away doses of the vaccine to give to his friends and family. A City Council member and his family also got preferential treatment.

Ultimately, it turned out that a top Department of Health official gave Doroshin key information about how to handle the accounts and get the job.

The city never signed a formal contract with Philly Fighting Covid nor gave the organization any money, but it did provide its unofficial sanction and publicity. Most important, the city turned over thousands of doses from its vaccine allotment to the group and helped it find recipients by sharing lists of residents who were newly eligible for the vaccine.

Last week, the City of Philadelphia finally cut ties with Doroshin and his group. Still, the organization served as a major clearinghouse to register for vaccines, and now everyone has to sign up again.

Unfortunately for Philadelphia Democrats, they can’t blame Donald Trump for this incredible mess.

A Quick Reminder for those who are Losing Hope…

Posted: February 2, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized
  1. The actions of the Biden Administration are not the actions of an administration that believes it won more votes than any other administration in history
  2. The actions of Big Tech to prop up the Biden Administration are not the actions of people who believe that the Biden Administration won more votes than any other administration in history
  3. The actions of the press to prop of the Biden Administration are not the actions of people who believe that the Biden Administration won more votes than any other administration in history

All of their action suggest a shaky regime who are insecure of their position and afraid of the people.

Don’t be afraid of them, keep them afraid of you instead by all methods short of sin.

Report from Louisiana: Our turn with Covid

Posted: February 1, 2021 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By: Pat Austin

Well, it was really just a matter of time, but here we are with Covid.

Last week my husband felt really fatigued and felt “sinusy.” It didn’t get any better so he went down for a Covid test; in twenty-four hours his negative results came back. Thinking he just had a cold, and that the incessant rain and damp weather might be part of the problem, he went on about his routine.

This past Tuesday, I was at school when I noticed a dry, non-productive cough come up. I was tired. No fever. I decided to take Wednesday off and rest; but then fever started. I went to Urgent Care and got a rapid test. 

Positive.

I’ve got to say, the fella at Oschner Urgent Care was wonderful; his enthusiasm for his job was great! He was so pleasant and he asked if it was my first Covid test. 

“Yes…” I said. He could sense my panic as he held this very long swab in his gloved hand.

He explained exactly what would happen; I said okay and he did the test. 

He sent me back out to my car and said he’d call in ten minutes.

In five he called.  “You are POSITIVE for Covid-19!” like I’d won the lottery. 

“You’re kidding…” I said.

“I would NOT kid about something like that!” He gave me the stay at home directions, told me Oschner would be reaching out to check on me, and that was it.

Once my positive results came back, my husband went to Urgent Care and did a rapid test; Positive.

My son is also positive. So, here we are.

I feel like he should be on the tail end of his Covid because we both feel like he was positive last week but just tested too soon. An article in the Washington Post explains:

Early in an infection, the virus may not have reproduced enough to be detectable. The false negative rate of PCR tests on the day of exposure is 100 percent, but falls to about 38 percent five days later as symptoms usually set in, according to an analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The rate decreases further, to about 20 percent, after three more days.


My husband’s PCR test last week may have been too soon.

Our symptoms have been manageable, if certainly uncomfortable. Initially, I felt like I had a mild cold although there is a tightness or light pressure in my chest, and behind my ribs in the back. It’s weird. We are both very fatigued. I have low fever in the evening, around 99. No cough right now. I have headache but that’s not all that uncommon for me. I have unbreakable chills every night.

This is not like any flu I ever had. It is weird in that there is some odd new symptom every day. You feel okay one day and the next like a bus hit you. We lost two more people we know to Covid this week. They were otherwise both perfectly healthy. Not. The. Flu.

Neither one of us knows where we got this. I assume I got it from my husband which is crazy because I was always so certain I would get it from my classroom. There is certainly Covid in the schools. My classes are full and we are only two feet apart. I am very grateful that my students were probably not exposed. Monday and Tuesday they were working on Chromebooks writing narratives and I was able to monitor and assist from my own computer through Google classroom. I was not within six feet of any of them and I stay masked all the time.


Going forward in our quarantine, I’m trying to take it easy and let my body fight the virus. It is so hard for me to sit still, so I have to make myself leave the laundry alone, not clean out a closet or drawer, not do yardwork. I’m trying to stay in touch with my students through Google Classroom.


If you’re a praying sort, we will certainly be grateful for your prayers for a mild bout and a quick return to good health! 

Stay safe and wash your hands!

The Sausage, The Tell, The Kid, The Blinders, The Act and the Numbers Under the Fedora

Posted: February 1, 2021 by datechguy in Uncategorized

The biggest take away from this piece is that the Trump Administration’s record of success is even more astounding than I previously thought.

The easiest way to determine if the left actually cares if Americans trust our electoral system will be the steps they take to make said system transparent enough so the legitimacy of ballots can be assured or the lack of said steps which will confirm that such trust is irrelevant if their current power and the privileges thereof is maintained.

Given the nature of Football until Patrick Mahomes actually manages to play 10 years in the league any talk of him being the equal of Tom Brady’s completely atypical success is absolutely insane.

American People particularly those born after 1970 have become like the children of French Aristocrats born in the 1750 or later, They have lived with the rights & privileges of a free America all their lives they do not understand how much extraordinary effort is was expended to secure them nor how fragile they are if said support system is removed.

They’ll learn fast.

The seven years, ten months and twenty one days between Glenn Reynolds initial suggestion that “someone” implement a “welcome wagon” program for blue state residents moving to red states and his decision after repeatedly suggesting it to actually begin doing it himself perfectly illustrates C.S. Lewis point concerning the difference between an idea conceived, understood & even acknowledged publicly by many as conducive to the public good and actually converting said idea into meaningful action..

A half empty type of person would note that my monthly traffic is half of what it once was and that my Alexa rank is over 400,000 spaces lower than it was at its peak nine year ago while a half full person would note that with 1.19 billion web sites in the world today my site’s traffic ranks me in the top .05% worldwide without a facebook account, an Instagram account to help boost it up.

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