You know its over when folks like "Dr. Wen" are now advocating for the end. They suddenly became aware of the poll numbers and their desire to flip before elections is based on lots of sciencey stuff.
Well if you don't count the Covid numbers then I guess you won't have worse results. Just another Florida wannabe. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds ending COVID disaster declaration, shutting down vaccination and case count websites https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...vaccination-case-websites-omicron/6653655001/ Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Thursday that she will soon end public health disaster proclamations that Iowa has operated under since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly two years ago. The shift will include pulling the plug on a state website focusing on COVID data, such as the number of Iowans testing positive for the disease, being hospitalized with it or dying from it. However, many of those statistics will continue to be available on other state and federal websites, Kelly Garcia, interim director of the Iowa Department of Public Health, said Thursday. Reynolds, a Republican, first invoked a disaster proclamation on March 17, 2020. In the early days of the pandemic, she used such proclamations to close businesses, limit large gatherings and encourage other pandemic responses, such as limiting nonessential surgeries and — briefly — requiring masks to be worn in certain indoor settings. Reynolds said in her statement Thursday that she will allow the current proclamation to expire on Feb. 15 at 11:59 p.m. She said it's time to reallocate state resources. "We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely," Reynolds said in a statement. "After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are part of our everyday lives, and coronavirus can be managed similarly." Omicron spike easing but nearly 800 still hospitalized Her move comes as Iowa's spike in cases and hospitalizations from the omicron variant has begun to ease. Still, 794 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Iowa as of Wednesday, while 109 patients required intensive care and 51 required ventilators. Iowa recorded more than 150 additional COVID-19 deaths in its weekly update Wednesday, representing people who had died with the disease in previous weeks and months. The health department recorded just three additional flu deaths in its weekly flu report Jan. 28, bringing the total since last fall to 13. Also, there were no nursing-home outbreaks reported of flu, compared to 109 reported of COVID-19. Going forward, the state health department website will not include regular reports on COVID-19 hospitalizations or nursing-home outbreaks, as the current site does. Garcia said Iowa will no longer require hospitals and nursing homes to report such data to the state, since they already report it to federal officials. Iowans wanting updates on those numbers will be referred to federal websites, she said. But the state report will include weekly updates on such things as positive tests, deaths and cases by county. More: Exhaustion, anger, courage and sorrow in an Iowa ICU fighting another COVID wave "More than half of the states have ratcheted this down," she said of COVID reporting. Lina Tucker Reinders, executive director of the Iowa Public Health Association, called the shift "premature." She said in an interview Thursday that the move could give Iowans the false impression the pandemic is over. Tucker Reinders said COVID-19 hospitalization numbers are the most concrete way for the public to see how serious the situation remains. Although hospitalization numbers will remain available on federal websites, those sites are harder to navigate than the state's current site is, she said. "It will be something you have to search and dig for," she said. The Iowa Democratic Party also criticized the governor's decision. "Just because Kim Reynolds wants the pandemic to be over, doesn't mean it's over for Iowans," the party said in a statement. "Our doctors, nurses and caregivers are already stretched thin, and this irresponsible decision will make a bad situation much worse."
Iowa case counts and other data are regularly available everywhere I look. Starting here: https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/ And even if they were shut down (they aren't) the point from the data since a year back (in the tweet) is still accurate. But Narratives gonna Narrate, right, NPC?
One of the funniest clips of Dr. Wen. If you don't see what a narrative based, NPC hack this is, then you don't want to.
Why don't we compare the per-capita Covid case rate to countries that don't generally use masking when Omicron came around.
Go right ahead. Do so, don't just post anecdotal bullshit. I've got no issues if you want to show data.