Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
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John Barrasso Asks HHS Sec. Becerra Point Blank Why Americans Should Pay For Migrants' Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWEayzsh70
Major Measles Outbreak Reported Throughout US Cities as Migrant Shelters Overflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsPrgQ5SF4
Over 1,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 each week since August 26
According to national wastewater data on SARS-CoV-2 levels updated Monday by Biobot Analytics, COVID levels have continued to decline across the country coming off the massive winter surge of cases.
Although the 8th wave of infections—the second largest in the over four years of the ongoing pandemic—is concluding, evidence indicates that the trough of infections is settling at higher levels than in previous pandemic years. According to Dr. Michael Hoerger and colleagues from Tulane University, the spring wave may begin as soon as mid- to late-April. This is not surprising given the recent guidance set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is safe to return to work while being infected and contagious.
Presently, JN.1, JN.1.13, and JN.1.18 account for 97.8 percent of all sequenced variants reported to the CDC. Approximately 10,700 people were admitted to hospitals due to COVID-19 between March 10 and March 16, 2024.
The latest provisional data from the CDC indicates that at least 1,036 people died of COVID-19 during the week ending March 2, which would mean that for 28 consecutive weeks since August 26, more than 1,000 people died from a preventable infection. In total, the CDC estimates there have been roughly 1,185,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US, but reliable estimates of excess deaths attributable to the pandemic place the real figure at over 1.4 million.
The complete silence on the present state of the pandemic and the ongoing dangers facing the global population is not surprising. It has been the coordinated response between governments and public health agencies from the beginning of the pandemic to, in stepwise fashion, normalize illnesses and deaths from COVID-19 and to drive out all public discussions on the catastrophic impacts that the prioritization of profits over lives has had worldwide.
The last four years have seen an unprecedented transfer of wealth into the pockets of the richest, while laying waste to nearly 30 million people. Indeed, while well over 1 million Americans have died of COVID-19, the number of billionaires rose from 614 to 737 with an 87.6 percent increase in their combined wealth, reaching an unprecedented $5.529 trillion.
As epidemiologist Dr. Ellie Murray of Boston University aptly stated on Twitter/X in response to the anti-public health guidance by the CDC on March 5, 2024, “With nearly as many hospitalizations in January 2024 as in January 2023, it’s clear that COVID is not growing milder and it’s not fading away. The real question, then, is not whether COVID is still a pandemic, but how much COVID illness and death are we willing to accept?”
For the financial oligarchs, the sky is the limit given their massive financial windfall. Since most of those who suffer fatal consequences from their COVID-19 infections are the elderly or those with significant co-morbidities, the “Forever COVID” policy functions as a form of passive eugenics and is in line with the fascistic mentality that is becoming all too common among the ruling elites.
According to Mike Hoerger’s recent estimates based on current wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, there are approximately 444,000 daily COVID-19 infections, or a rate of one in 108 people who are actively infectious. Of these, Hoerger estimates that between 22,000 to 89,000 people will go on to develop Long COVID each day, based on prevalence estimates ranging from 5-20 percent. Studies that emphasize the lower ranges are usually indicative of people who are experiencing severe and “enduring” Long COVID symptoms, while those suggesting a higher prevalence after acute COVID-19 may experience many disruptive symptoms that last several months before making a partial or complete recovery.
Clearly, there is much that remains to be elucidated about Long COVID, a complex disease that now afflicts an estimated hundreds of millions of people worldwide. However, the policy of “Forever COVID” also implies minimizing the impact this chronic debilitating condition has on the population. One cannot compare COVID-19 to the flu and at the same time speak about the harrowing impact the disease has on the human body.
Hoerger and colleagues, however, caution that their estimates cannot predict the long-term harms that may come with COVID, and strongly urge the population to take all precautions against infections despite the attempts by Biden and CDC to put the pandemic in their rearview mirrors. They write,
If infections increase the risk of cancer or cardiovascular disease substantially and with increasing risk over 10 to 30 years, that is not captured well by these metrics. The metrics also do not encompass the 1.2 to 1.8 million Americans who have died of COVID-19. Future models may incorporate estimates of mortality.
This point was made all too real. In an article published in Bloomberg last month, the authors found that between 2020 and 2022, using CDC data, approximately a quarter-million more Americans over the age of 35 died from cardiovascular disease than historical trends would have predicted. They also found that “in 2023, age-adjusted stroke mortality was almost five percent above pre-pandemic levels … while rates from deaths related to hypertensive heart disease, rhythm abnormalities, blood clots, diabetes and kidney failure were 15 to 28 percent higher.” The American Heart Association has predicted the cost of heart disease to exceed $1.1 trillion by 2035.
In such objective context, one must ask what is the aim of the policy of “Forever COVID” if the result is the mass debilitation of the population? This begs a follow-on question: given the abandonment of all mitigation efforts, what levels of COVID-19 infections can the world face over the next several years?
According to Hoerger and colleagues, who have looked into historic annual trends (page 9 of linked document), they have discerned three waves per year. As the report clarifies, “It is not really a forecast, but merely a summary of historical data [using Biobot data]. To the extent the median provides a reasonable approximation of the future, it is a useful starting point for a gift-level forecast.” Hoerger’s four-week forecast suggests that by April 22, 2024, wastewater levels will be up 6 percent and daily COVID-19 cases will rise to 470,000.
After each massive winter wave, trends note a small spring peak by the beginning of May followed by the summer/fall wave that will crest in late August. The massive winter wave will begin in mid-October and peak during the New Year.
Due to the complete abrogation of all basic public health principles to prevent the spread of disease and the lackluster uptake of the vaccines, the rates and incidence of infections will solely be dependent on the population’s waning immunity after an infection. Given the recent persistence of high levels of transmission during February, the historical data may be a conservative roadmap for what can be expected. What is clear is that the widespread nature of infections will give the definition of “endemic disease” an unprecedented quality in which society can expect perpetual rates of mass infection and debilitation, with persistently high rates of death.
In a recent publication in the journal Annual Review of Public Health on the state of US public health, the authors noted that between the 2009 recession and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US public health workforce had lost 40,000 jobs (16 percent decline) and for the most part has not recovered even during the pandemic.
However, the contraction in the workforce had been well underway since the 1970s. The correlation between the rightward shift in the political establishment over the last several decades with the increased financialization of every aspect of life has meant the piecemeal ending of all social programs that had provided the working class a modicum of upward mobility.
The pandemic, rather than igniting a mass mobilization of resources to protect life and well-being, has inured the financial aristocracy to mass death and disease and transformed public health as a mechanism to buttress the diktats of the state. In conjunction with COVID-19, the recent spike in national cases of measles and syphilis are just additional objective verification of the demise of public health under capitalism. In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic itself, predicted by many in the years before, was a byproduct of the capitalist subordination of public health to private profit.
With the despised presidential campaigns of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who are chiefly responsible for the deaths of more than 1 million Americans under their tenures, more than just the virus in the air. Mass consciousness has been deeply affected by the social crime of the ongoing pandemic. The working class must assimilate these lessons and fashion a cogent response through the building of a revolutionary movement that centers the fight for a socialist public health program.
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John Barrasso Asks HHS Sec. Becerra Point Blank Why Americans Should Pay For Migrants' Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsWEayzsh70
Major Measles Outbreak Reported Throughout US Cities as Migrant Shelters Overflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUsPrgQ5SF4
OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN DOESN'T GIVE A FUK ABOUT THE DRUGS POURING IN THROUGH HIS OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS
CA IS A NO BORDERS STATE AND PARTNER WITH NARCOMEX
Dozens arrested in takedown of cartel-linked drug trafficking ring in Central California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6IwEfzHF80
Two Tons of Meth Seized in Radish Shipment at California Border Crossing
Analysis: Migrants Costing U.S. Taxpayers Billions for Free, Uninsured Healthcare
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Illegal immigrants are costing American taxpayers billions of dollars just to cover their medical care, with politicians and healthcare workers from around the U.S. sounding the alarm on the overwhelming debt.
As millions of migrants pour through the U.S.-Mexico border, they’re taking up space in emergency rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), and racking up exorbitant amounts of debt while being uninsured and taking advantage of Medicaid.
RELATED VIDEO — Chicago Health Commissioner: Measles Outbreak Isn’t Under Control Yet, We’re “Trying” and It’ll Take Time:
A November 2023 report from the House Committee on Homeland Security revealed that out of an estimated $451 billion in yearly costs connected to the Biden administration’s immigration crisis, a significant chunk is going to healthcare for illegal aliens.
While the vast majority of illegals don’t have insurance, they’re free to rack up debt with long hospital stays. Many are also able to get government welfare, including Medicaid. All an illegal migrant would have to do is cross the southern border into California to receive taxpayer-funded insurance.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ushered in the first state program to offer free subsidized healthcare to illegal migrants under the Medi-Cal system in the beginning of 2024, Breitbart News reported.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters on September 27, 2023 in Simi Valley, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
An employee of a Southern California hospital who recently spoke with the Epoch Times on conditions of public anonymity said, “The entire health care system is just being bombarded” by the stream of migrants.
“Our healthcare system is so overwhelmed, and then add on top of that tuberculosis, COVID-19, and other diseases from all over the world,” she added.
Just in the first five months of the current fiscal year, Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 902,000 migrants who illegally crossed into the U.S. between ports of entry, Breitbart News reported.
“Last year broke a new record high for illegal border crossings, surpassing more than 3.2 million apprehensions,” the Epoch Times noted.
California’s new program will cost taxpayers more than $4.8 billion, according to a fiscal burden analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), citing California Health and Human Services data.
RELATED VIDEO — Dem Chicago Alderman: Sanctuary Cities See Migrant Surge as “Cash Cow” to Get Money from Feds:
Meanwhile, in the sanctuary city of Denver, Colorado, recent migrants left the local healthcare system to deal with more than $10 million in uncompensated costs in 2023, according to Denver Health representative Dane Roper.
This enormous figure came from 8,000 illegal immigrants who made about 20,000 health visits in 2023, CEO Donna Lynne told reporters in January.
“The perspective we’ve been trying to emphasize all along is that providing healthcare services for an influx of new immigrants who are unable to pay for their care is adding additional strain to an already significant uncompensated care burden,” Roper told the Epoch Times.
Migrants take part in a caravan towards the border with the United States in Arriaga community, Chiapas State, Mexico, on January 8, 2024. (STRINGER/AFP)
More medical professionals from around the country also voiced their complaints to the publication about the increased uncompensated workload.
Dr. Robert Trenschel, CEO of the Yuma Regional Medical Center in an Arizona border town, said these migrants are costing up to triple the amount of human resources on average.
“Some [illegal] migrants come with minor ailments, but many of them come in with significant disease,” Trenschel said during a 2023 congressional hearing. “We’ve had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization, and in need of heart surgery. Many are very sick.”
According to the doctor, many migrants are staying in the ICU wards for more than 60 days, and a large portion of patients are pregnant women who have had subpar or no prenatal care. This results in an increase of newborns needing intensive care as well.
A pregnant immigrant from Haiti is assisted while having contractions by her partner (L) and another migrant, after she crossed from Mexico, with the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in the background, on May 21, 2022, in San Luis, Arizona. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
“Our reality is this — we have delivered over $26 million in uncompensated care to these individuals in the 12-month period of time from December 2021 – November 2022,” Trenschel said to congressional representatives.
“That is an auditable figure. Let me assure you — it is not an approximation. That number comes from a detailed review of unpaid patient bills directly attributed to migrant patients,” he asserted. “$26 million in uncompensated care is not a sustainable business model.”
While progressive leaders of sanctuary jurisdictions continue to ignore the burden on citizens, some House Republicans are attempting to halt migrants from utilizing Medicaid.
On January 17, Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) introduced the Protect Medicaid Act in order to “prevent federal taxpayer dollars from being used to administer or provide Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants.”
“We must stop rewarding those who break our laws at the expense of our most vulnerable citizens,” Hudson wrote on X at the time.
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Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration
Just yesterday, Breitbart News reported on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state isn’t such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.
Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an editorial titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:
The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.
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Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.
After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:
I had … seriously underthought my ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.
I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so [emphasis added].
Maybe the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.
Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?
Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:
Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does not benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.
That’s it, class dismissed.
Image: Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, unaltered.
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