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The following are the specific misperceptions plaguing Americans, especially Democrats:

Six months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19:

On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.
Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).

By misleading Americans about the risks of the Wuhan virus, the Democrats are advancing several political goals: They destroyed the blazing Trump economy, they’ve forced people into government dependence, and they think they’ve given the teacher’s union a winning hand in forcing “social justice” on America’s public schools.

During the 1980s, when AIDS first appeared, the first people presenting with AIDS were gay men. Later, hemophiliacs and intravenous drug users joined that tragic group.

The problem for the left was that a disease that was almost entirely limited to people engaging in risky behaviors was not a way to get funding for the disease or sympathy for the sufferers. That’s how the myth was born that AIDS affected everyone equally. That’s also how AIDS became, after cancer, the best-funded disease in America despite its relative rarity.

Michael Fumento finally exposed the deception in 1988 with a famous article entitled “The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS”:

The main problem with using AIDS to terrify heterosexuals into chastity is that it requires gross exaggeration of the risk. AIDS is a bloodborne disease that, 10 years after the first heterosexual AIDS cases began showing up in New York City, remains confined almost exclusively to homosexuals, intravenous (IV) drug abusers, recipients of blood products prior to 1986, and their steady sexual partners.
Only about two percent of all diagnosed AIDS cases in this country have been attributed to heterosexual transmission in native-born Americans, a figure that has held steady for several years now. In New York City, the heterosexual AIDS capital of the United States, only eight males have been identified as having gotten AIDS from heterosexual intercourse.

Wuhan virus is a nasty disease. However, if we had we protected the vulnerable (the old and those with pre-existing conditions), and then gone along with business as usual, it would have passed through America like nothing more than a terrible flu season. Instead, though, just as Democrats weaponized AIDS, they also weaponized the Wuhan virus.

That’s their playbook. As Rahm Emanuel told his fellow Democrats, “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).

People think the risk of death for older people is 40%? And it's actually 80%?? Huh?

A friend's husband recently died. He was 82 and succumbed to bladder cancer. They live in Blueland Washington. How many suspect this man's cause of death is in some way listed as Covid related?