Posted on 05/25/2020 4:15:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone
doesn’t feel like much of a hoax when your father dies in a nursing home without family at his side...
Wuhan labs will have to get to work on that paltry death rate for the next round they send our way.
The most recent CDC estimate is 0.27, less than three time.
No amount of cherry picked statistics are going to change that.
“That rate is much lower than the numbers used in the horrifying projections that shaped the government response to the epidemic.”
Thanks to Drs. Deborah “social distancing” Scarf and Anthony “models” Faust.
OK. So it's 2.7x instead of 3x.
How should that change our response?
The hoax is how this was politicized.
The politicization lead to the nursing home deaths.
See Florida VS NY
I’ve read that 75% of people who get flu show no symptoms, and are not contagious. This lowers the flu death rate from 0.1% to 0.025%. Accordingly, the COVID death rate at 0.3% would be 12x. Even a rate of 0.2% would be 8x.
True, and if you are speaking about your father, I am very sorry for your loss.
On the other hand, influenza and the common cold kill close to the same number of elderly and infirm as COVID does, but flu and common cold deaths are not counted the same way.
Is there any reason to believe that's not also true of Covid-19?
Washington state admitted to applying 5 gunshot deaths that apparently tested positive to the Covid-19 total.
The covid-19 first death in our county was a 56 yo female with leukemia who was under hospice care.
The flu stats already include those estimated presumed cases, so there’s no need to keep adding them in again and again.
We don’t know if the 100K is a real number, and we don’t know if the mitigation added or subtracted to the number. We do know we destroyed the economy.
Those of us with the power of reasoning do.
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If the people in nursing homes, who are likely to have comorbidities, were removed from the over 65’s and considered separately, the risk to the remaining healthier members of that age group would be even lower.
See post 53. Est. COVID-19 deaths in the USA will have to be round 200,000 in order to compare with the Asian flu, yet even that would not provide a precedent for the extreme long-term all-ages Covid captivity.
When you say ' Covid would have to reach 200K for Covid to compare' -> you mean based on population increase I assume?
More telling: Florida deaths per million: 105
NY: 1,507
What Internet? I linked to my sources:
1957-1958 Pandemic (H2N2 virus)... The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States. (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html)
When you say ' Covid would have to reach 200K for Covid to compare' -> you mean based on population increase I assume?
Yes, meaning as a percentage, which is what is more revealing, not simply totals.
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