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FACTCHECKING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR'S COMMENTS FROM VACCINE MANDATE HEARINGS

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s inflated claim that there are 100,000 pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations is incorrect, reports Politifact.
Sotomayor made the claim during oral arguments in a case involving the Biden administration's vaccine mandate for private businesses with at least 100 employees.
"We have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators" due to the coronavirus, Sotomayor incorrectly stated on Friday at the court session.

According to federal data, there are only 3,342 children currently hospitalized for confirmed COVID-19, a number that goes up to 4,652 if suspected coronavirus cases are included, with both figures being less than 5% of the total the justice stated.
Even if all pediatric hospitalization cases since August 1, 2020 are added up, the number is 82,842, according to the CDC.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Sunday said Sotomayor’s numbers are way off.

"Yeah," Walensky said during an interview with Fox News when asked whether there were fewer than 3,500 cases.
"But, you know, here’s what I can tell you about our pediatric hospitalizations now," continued the head of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"First of all, the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated, and for those children who are not eligible for vaccination, we do know they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren’t vaccinated," she said, pushing the Biden administration’s mantra that the unvaxxed are fueling the continued pandemic.

Politifact pointed out that the 100,000 figure Sotomayor cited may be referring to an American Academy of Pediatrics report that as of the end of December, "child COVID-19 cases are above 100,000."
However, that same report also stressed that "it appears that severe illness due to COVID-19 is uncommon among children."

Politifact acknowledged that the number of child coronavirus-positive admissions has gone up significantly since the omicron variant became dominant last month, but nowhere near the rate Sotomayor mentioned.

Walensky pointed out to Fox News that the numbers of COVID hospitalizations generally include those who go to hospitals for other reasons and then test positive while they are there, stating that "in some hospitals that we've talked to, up to 40% of the patients who are coming in with COVID are coming in not because they're sick with COVID but because they're coming in with something else and have had COVID or the omicron variant detected."

Walensky stressed that even though Sotomayor’s figures were incorrect, getting vaccinated is a still a good way to reduce the chances of hospitalization, stating that "the vast majority of children who are in the hospital are unvaccinated, and for those children who are not eligible for vaccination we do know they are most likely to get sick with COVID if their family members aren't vaccinated."

I love how "Politifact" bends over backwards to provide explanations for how Sotomayor's numbers explained by the media as having just possibly misread numbers, that could be explained away as halfway accurate. You can bet they wouldn't provide a similar explanation or alternate possibly-just-misremembered numbers for President Trump or any other Republican. Instead it would be "Trump is a LIAR, Trump is evil, Trump is ignorant, Trump is just making stuff up to justify his hate" or somesuch.
But in Sotomayor's case, they try to rationalize her numbers, despite hers being a blatant fabrication of facts, driven by her partisan ideology, spun by her comrades at Politifact as somehow plausibly truthful. A "wise latina woman with the richness of her experience " reaching a difference conclusion, to be sure.

All three leftist/liberal justices voiced similar inaccuracies (Sotomayor, Breyer and Kagan), that are terrifying in their zealous agenda-pushing, misinformed understanding of the facts, and their complete subservience to Leftist ideology, the law be damned. They are completely committed to a Democrat/Leftist Bolshevik agenda, rather than the Constitutional rule of law, no regard for how these mandates violate the rights of citizens. These Democrat-appointed justices are parroting Democrat talking points, rather than detachedly sorting out the scientific evidence and the true facts, and upholding Constitutional law and rights of millions of private citizens and military soldiers who are being fired from their jobs, fired for no logical reason.
A Supreme Court justice interested in the truth would acknowledge massive Covid spread is occurring even among the vaccinated, DESPITE the vaccine and boosters, rather than repeating the Democrat/Left's false talking points, false evidence fronted in US Supreme Court hearings no less, without any vetting of the accuracy of that Democrat narrative. A narrative that Politifact even had to acknowledge as blatantly untrue, although they attempted to spin it in the best possible light for Sotomayor.

The vaccines are proven to offer no protection, the logic of mandating the vaccines (or be fired from their jobs, in the millions) based on that proof no longer has any scientific basis. The vaccines were designed for the "Alpha" version of Covid-19, and now we're up to "Delta" and "Omicron" and several other variant strains, on which the vaccines are not effective. Even the updated boosters are proven to be minimally effective, if effective at all. CDC director Walensky fronts the narrative that "Well, those who got Covid even though vaccinated , still got a less severe case because they were vaccinated." I've yet to see the evidence that fallback argument is scientifically accurate. The scientists all say that even against the original strain, the vaccine's effectiveness diminishes after 6 months, and provides no protection against newer Covid variant strains. In some regions, such as ultra-blue ultra vaccinated California, the majority of new infections ARE AMONG THE VACCINATED.

There are about 30 Senators and Congress members, mostly Democrats, and mostly triple-vaccinated, who have come down with Covid in the last 2 weeks since Christmas and New Years. The most recent being Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Who by the way, postured about the need for citizens to obey lockdowns and mask mandates, and yet AOC was first observed in a crowded public event without a mask in New York, and then escaped New York's punitive lockdowns to attend crowded party events in Florida, the red state she publicly condemns for its lack of covid restrictions, but chooses to flee to. Hypocrisy all over the place.
Likewise similar hypocrisy from just about every other lying piece of excrement Democrat leader, from Gov Gavin Newsom to Gov Gretchen Whitmer to Gov Andrew Cuomo, to Nancy Pelosi, Lori Lightfoot, , Muriel Bowser, Sen. Elizabeth "Pocahantis" Warren, Bill Deblasio, Chris Cuomo, on down, virtually every last one.

Democrats' Covid restrictions and mandates and orchestrated panic are not about any attempt to contain or prevent Covid-19 spread, it's only about whatever will allow them to purge their Republican political opposition and consolidate Democrat power, and ultimately continue to further circumnavigate election laws to rig more elections, for them hopefully forever. For the rest of us, it's a clear power grab for authoritarian Soviet-style one-party rule.
And it appears 3 zealous Democrat-appointed U S Supreme Court justices are all on board the bullet-train to Crazytown.