"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Days after coming to above realization vis-à-vis Star Wars as ahistoricized Usian WWII nostalgia—divorced by way of high fantasy from any culpability for the cultural exports that made the Nazis and their Stormtroopers possible…
Roommate greets me today with a fundraising letter—laden with words like "valiant" and "epic"—for the National WWII Museum, wherein folk are asked to generously join the "Honor Roll" .
An accompanying brochure includes quotes from media figures, incl. Steven Spielberg.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
When you look around and see fascism at every turn, and Usians doing nothing about it, this is part of why.
Yes, same disassociative apathy happened in Weimar Germany. For Usians, there's another factor.
We were raised on sanitized fairy tales where the only bad things that happen are epic struggles where good defeats evil, after which happily ever after.
We're waiting for the epic struggle. So we can be the good guys defeating the bad guys. The bad guys ain't yet epic enough for our tastes.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Top counties by site-level percentiles for week ending 5/25 (first map above):
Above Average:
⒈ Cook, IL—73rd percentile
⒉ Washington, OR—71st
⒊ Johnson, KS—71st
⒋ Linn, OR—70th
⒌ Dallas, TX (sewershed 1855)—65th
⒍ Jackson, OR—60th
Moderate:
⒎ Dallas, TX (ss 1866)—44th
⒏ Deschutes, OR—43rd
⒐ Adams, IL—43rd
⒑ Knox, IL—42nd
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Less purple on wastewater map, though still above-average to moderate at multiple sites in Illinois, Oregon & Kansas.
To clarify, above-average on the first chart is in comparison to this past winter's flu season.
Seeing moderate orange and orange-yellow outpatient respiratory illness in Florida, California & Arkansas.
CDC page for second map is decidedly sparse, providing no real guidance as to scale.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Still dealing with family emergencies this week, so analysis of changes to questionnaire format will still have to wait:
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey. Update due June 13.
Lower "Living with" figure aligns to change in question format—now asks about duration.
As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer have been staffing our hospitals.
#ThisIsOurPolio #CountLongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent
[This is first toot of weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing #pandemic.]
Last week: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112515295457548405
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
"Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…continues to struggle daily with unprecedented overcrowding – particularly in its Emergency Department (ED)."
Statistics, as always, are structural.
If MGH can be in 16-month unprecedented crisis w/out ever topping 100% reported capacity, imagine degree of crisis in hospitals ≥100%.
That said, HHS data didn't include ED patients awaiting inpatient beds—as of May, we don't even have HHS data.
Now a historical document.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
With hospital capacity going from mandatory to voluntary, control of public data was transferred from HHS to CDC:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420181964381951
CDC's expurgated public data file provides no information about capacity in pediatric wards and children's hospitals:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420512694255522
Thus, the below chart will receive no further updates. Being maintained for now as a historical document.
Let's hope we won't regret the loss of data:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420575972530938
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May 1, mandatory reporting of hospital capacity data ended. May 3, HHS released their final raw datasets through April 27:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112362054534487955
May 10, CDC released expurgated version of hospitals data. Despite some 95% of hospitals from prior week still voluntarily reporting, much data no longer available:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420096734681972
National trends should still be useable—will integrate once finished with variants chart updates:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112498161535953724
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Top core-based statistical areas (alphabetical, second map above):
Moderate (Level 7):
🟧 Cape Coral/Fort Myers, FL
🟧 Santa Cruz/Watsonville, CA
Moderate (Level 6):
🟨 Little Rock/North Little Rock/Conway, AR
🟨 Santa Rosa, CA
Low (Level 5):
🟨 Carlsbad/Artesia, NM
🟨 Houston/The Woodlands/Sugar Land, TX
🟨 Las Cruces, NM
🟨 Monroe, LA
🟨 Rapid City, SD
🟨 San Francisco/Oakland/Hayward, CA
Lvl 4: Another 11 entries.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Fifth week of SLip (S:F456L) wave, edge into first week of FLiRT wavelet.
Possibly short-lived, as leading FLiRT variant KP.2 already overshadowed by non-FLiRT (S:Q493E) KP.3.
CDC breaks out FLiRT variant LB.1 (notably, not of KP clan), SLip variant XDV.1, and non-SLiP (S:T572I) JN.1.4.3 / KQ.
KP.2.3, already significant in GISAID data, not yet broken out by CDC.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis
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Now that CDC has assumed control of hospital capacity data, we no longer have public access to facilities level data:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112505690372394194
This despite the fact that hospitals are still voluntarily reporting that data.
This means that we no longer have ability to roll up facility-level capacity data to county-level choropleth, CDC having determined public only has a right to state-level data.
Below chart thus only maintained as a historical document.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
CDC now withholds voluntarily reported hospital capacity data, previously available on a weekly basis from HHS:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112430074444014571
Excluding not only facilities level data, but also pediatric capacity data. Making below map impossible to maintain.
Only information CDC deigns divulge is pediatric covid-19 admissions, yet not pediatric influenza admissions—despite tracking such otherwise:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112420575972530938
This map retained as historical document.
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality's hardly surprising.
Final mortality data for 2020—released Sept '23—reveals spike in accidental deaths driven by poisonings & exposure to noxious substances.
2021 data remains long overdue: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/111978043518156275
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #MassDisablingEvent #liver #accident #Covid19 #SARS2 #DeathCult #LifeExpectancy
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Folk are dying at record numbers, of comorbidities of severe acute covid that are also implicated as post-acute sequelae of covid infection. ↺
Of course, ongoing hospital staffing attrition also contributes to elevated death tolls. Said attrition continues. ↺
[CDC ended excess death reporting Sep 27.]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #LongCovidKills #LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #MassDisablingEvent #HeartDisease #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Dementia #Sepsis #Cancer #Covid19 #DeathCult
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Great Lakes—sole reporting region eight weeks ago—fell off map six weeks ago.
CDC—public health authority for United States—has map on their website that shows they don't have variant estimates for any region of the United States.
State-level public health agencies have just stopped collecting sufficient data.
[For color key, see: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions]
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #CDC #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask #BetterMasks
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When public data not only moves servers, but changes hands from "U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services" to "CDC Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Surveillance Branch"…
Is it any wonder that same data would go from 135 daily columns of state data and 127 weekly columns of facilities data to an expurgated 64 columns of aggregate state level data?
Gives a very different connotation to the subsidiary identifier "Surveillance Branch"…
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
There seems to be common misapprehension that CDC was providing HHS data:
https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112505559050194206
There had been plans to transfer control of HHS hospital capacity data to CDC few years back—which many of us were quite worried about, as we anticipated how CDC would disappear that data.
Nonetheless, through April, data was still being reported to HHS; HHS was still providing data through HealthData.gov.
Now CDC publishes via CDC.data.gov.
Note Orwellian name of CDC division controlling it. 🧵
"You do you" is Eu-gen-ics.
Revising People's CDC suggested template letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid re: covid reporting.
In my version, focusing on:
a) restoration of hospital capacity data—as per HHS dataset up until April;
b) restoration of control of dataset to HHS;
c) restoration of public access to facilities level data;
d) proactively including breakdown of zoonotic flu separately from total flu cases;
e) tightening hospital-onset window for all respiratory illness.
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Why control disease…
When control of data "quality promotion" is there for the taking?
Maker & abolitionist; critic of pandemic apologism & the ableism of the Left.Muckraking dataviz & generativist #lumpentheory.Intricate words fulfill me:Anticipate jargon here.Ace enby aphant WP in #NYC.they/them/gonzo/whateverMasks are empathy fashion.Own it—make it yours.If you would throw me and mine to the wolves so to claim victory over those wolves, you can take your Democratic National Chamberlain 🤡 ass to someone else's mentions.#CovidCautious#Disability #CripTheory 🗡🥄
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