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This article is full of misinformation, which is really distressing, considering that the American Thinker is generally held to be a conservative publication and therefore should be more adherent to the truth and facts.

Lets take this example:

First, experts told us 2.2 million Americans would die. Then the number fell off a cliff, plunging down to around 200,000.

As of April 8, the number of those expected to die from the disease by August 4 was down to 60,000, or roughly a very nasty flu season. The new figure comes from the influential model produced by the University of Washington that the White House regularly cites.

Has social-distancing, wearing face masks, hosing down packages with bleach, using hand sanitizer that is at least 60 percent alcohol, and washing hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds helped bring the grim worst-case-scenario body count down?

Probably, I’m guessing, but it’s hard to know for sure.

This ranks right up there with liberals bemoaning the fact that the number of criminals locked up in prison is at an all time high, even though crime rates are down. Huh?

Of course taking measures to kill the virus results in lower numbers of infections. That is basic microbiology 101. Of course the CDC revises numbers downward to reflect the effectiveness of social distance policies. Do you really expect the numbers projected on the assumption that nothing will be done to stop the spread to be the same as the projections based on the assumption of high compliance with social distancing recommendations/orders?

And another thing: this artificial concept of "dying with Covid-19" needs to be ditched. Someone who has been managing diabetes for years and suddenly dies after contracting Covid-19 is dying because of Covid-19. Same for other chronic conditions: obesity, heart disease, asthma, immune problems, etc. The real take-home message is that if you suffer from a chronic condition, you need to be extra careful not to contract Covid-19.

Don't fall for propaganda designed to make you think that Covid-19 is not serious. I suspect that propaganda originates with the extinct humanity movement. Much like those behind the anti-vaxxer movement want more kids to get deadly childhood illnesses, they embrace anything that might increase the number of deaths. They are motivated by their belief that there are too many people.

CDC is propaganda.

And another thing: this artificial concept of "dying with Covid-19" needs to be ditched. Someone who has been managing diabetes for years and suddenly dies after contracting Covid-19 is dying because of Covid-19.

Concur, but this is what most countries are doing now.

The exception is Germany -- and this is why their numbers are so low.

If the US followed German way of figuring out the Covid deaths, the count would be 1/4-1/3 of the current.

From the onset of the model it was OVER STATED on purpose I believe to initiate the panic, hysteria via the media. The model was always intended to be inflated and they always have intended to have an excuse of why it was off this week, this month as they currently are doing. 1-2 MILLION, 100-200K now down to 60K?

So what happens next time, maybe in the fall when election starts, will this start back up and screams for absentee ballot voting become reality which is what the DEMS.LIBERALS WANTED with the first wave of COV19.

The directives with COV19 and coding deaths is way different then ever before with any other virus.

I said back in the fall and then again with the impeachment the DEMS ALWAYS have a plan A, B, C, D, E

Of course taking measures to kill the virus results in lower numbers of infections.

I don't know about that. Sweden's herd mentality option seems much better. Protect the most vulnerable and slow down the spread of the virus while building controlled group immunity. And without destroying the their economy.

Someone who has been managing diabetes for years and suddenly dies after contracting Covid-19 is dying because of Covid-19.

Your not telling the whole truth. A lot of deaths are being reported as Covid-19 for patients that haven't been tested for the virus. They go to hospital and die -- it's Covid-19. We really do not know the true death rate because of this. Also, besides likely a millions or people already have caught the virus and did not know it.

Yes, this thing is no joke for the elderly. But for 50 and under I doubt much worse than a bad flu which we tolerated for years and years. I like Sweden's approach once we get the onset treatment doses worked out for stuff that is working and test for antibodies.

Let's get America working instead of living in constant fear, which these sell isolation orders drag out.

Rush is discussing it being here last fall, and herd immunity possibly already established in CA, considering their unusually low numbers and Chinese shipping contacts.

LOL!

She writes, “And another thing: this artificial concept of “dying with Covid-19” needs to be ditched,” which is EXACTLY the point the article tries to make.