Tag: COVID-19
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Federal Action Should Clarify COVID-19 Racial Impact
by Carol J. Bova Discussion of the percentage of black COVID-19 hospitalized patients in Virginia is based on the known racial identification of all COVID-19 cases. The breakdown of all cases shows this is a false narrative. We don’t know what the true racial percentages are because currently 32% of all COVID-19 cases have no…
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Hijacking George Floyd: Mass Transit Edition
Here’s another example of how white liberals are hijacking the George Floyd tragedy to advance their special-interest agendas on the grounds of social justice. At the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission meeting last night, Chair Katie Cristol observed that “Systemic racism, and the opportunity to confront it, is present in every feature of our lives, including…
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Are Northam’s COVID-19 Policies Racist? By the Left’s Logic, Yes
by James A. Bacon Now that Governor Ralph Northam has declared his intention to take down the Lee Statue on Richmond’s Monument Avenue in the cause of racial equity and justice, perhaps he could take another step — one that would actually affect the lives of African-Americans in a tangible way. He could accelerate the…
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Phase Two. It’s About Time.
by Kerry Dougherty Yippee! Welcome to Phase Two, Virginia. Looks like we can once again dine indoors and go to the gym now that Gov. Ralph Northam is finally loosening his authoritarian grip on the commonwealth. Like dutiful subjects, we are supposed to be grateful. I’m not. I’m more annoyed about the lockdown now than…
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COVID-19 Update: All Trends Positive
Over the last few days I almost forgot we’re in the middle of a COVID-19 epidemic. Maybe that’s because thousands of people have been marching down the streets of Richmond and other Virginia cities in defiance of Governor Ralph Northam’s prohibition on gatherings of more than 10 people. But I will give the protesters credit.…
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Limits on Crowd Size Don’t Apply to Protests
by Kerry Dougherty “How is this fair?” Shannon Jones wants to know. How is it that her grandfather’s funeral was forced – by order of the governor – to be almost a non-event while demonstrators and protestors violate Virginia’s 10-person crowd-size rules with absolute impunity? I have no answer. Perhaps someone will show this to…
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Mask Shaming: Suburbia’s New Sport
by Kerry Dougherty That’s it. I’m done. I just deleted that good neighbor app from my phone. The one I used to peruse when I was bored to see photos of lost cats, dog droppings in inappropriate places or to find the occasional interjection: What was that noise? But in the past few weeks this…
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Government Goons Shut Down Hampton Restaurant
by Kerry Dougherty Like many Virginia restaurateurs, The Pepes were relieved when the governor finally allowed outdoor dining to resume earlier this month. The owners of several Peninsula eateries had been surviving on take-out orders since Gov. Ralph Northam’s executive order closed all Virginia restaurants in March. They reopened The Barking Dog at the Sunset…
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Dissecting the COVID-19 Death Statistics
by Carol J. Bova If you compare the COVID-19 hospitalization statistics published by the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association (VHHA), you’ll quickly see they don’t add up. On May 30, the VDH COVID-19 dashboard showed a total of 4,601 hospitalizations. The same day, the VHHA showed that 5,745…
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COVID-19 Update: Knowns and Unknowns
Highlights from today’s data dump of Virginia COVID-19 data: Total number of tests: 303,430 Total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases: 43,611 Percentage of tests that turned out positive: 14.3% Total hospitalizations: 4,601 Percentage of confirmed cases that require hospitalization: 10.5% Percentage of COVID-19 cases, known and unknown, requiring hospitalization: no one knows — but smaller…
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Snowflakes, Meet COVID-19
by James A. Bacon Nearly three in four Virginia college students are combating anxiety, worry or other mental health challenges, according to a survey of more than 1,000 college students by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). It’s hard to know what to make of this funding. Cynics might respond, “What else…
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Uh, Oh, COVID Hospitalization Numbers Creeping Back Up
Here’s the latest from the Excel spreadsheet of John Butcher, publisher of Cranky’s blog: Daily COVID-19 hospitalizations are creeping back up, as can be seen in the graph above. And the total number of COVID-19 patients is rebounding as well as shown in the graph below:
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One More Time: The COVID Crisis Is Largely a Nursing Home Crisis
by James A. Bacon The daily numbers reported about COVID-19 in Virginia are volatile, and it would be imprudent to read too much into a single day’s statistics. But two numbers published on public dashboards this morning are symbolic of the true nature of the epidemic. The first data point is the number of new…
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Virginia’s COVID Death Rate Is Remarkably Low
by Kerry Dougherty Beware of former English majors wielding calculators. Nevertheless, here goes. Every single day it seems we see newspapers publishing hysterical headlines about “sharp increases” in the number of Covid-19 cases in Virginia. Why is anyone surprised? After all, the governor wasted weeks wringing his hands and whining about how he couldn’t get any…
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Sorry, We Can’t Pay Your Insurance Claim. It Would Cost Us Too Much.
By Dick Hall-Sizemore For the past 17 years, my wife and I have rented a house at Sandbridge in Virginia Beach for a week in late May. My daughter and her family, including the three grandkids, come down for the week. It is the highlight of our year. This year was no exception. A year…