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RE: the end it will likely be found to be marginally or maybe no more serious than many typical flu variants and that the primary cause of more than normal deaths that we keep hearing about are because of the actions taken to “save us” all.

I’m not sure about the use of the word - Marginally.

My personal experience and observations tell me that it is several times more lethal and deadly than the flu, especially to the elderly and those with serious illnesses.

It is also many times more infectious than the flu.

It might not be as lethal as many nake it out to be, but it’s still a danger to the public.

Personally, I’ve seen numerous family and friends get infected by COVID, many mild but some serious. I also have friends who died after contracting it. Hence, I am not going to downplay its seriousness, but neither do I believe we have to destroy our economy because of it.

My wife and I actually spent a lot of time working and volunteering at the Life Care Center in Kirkland Washington up until about six months before it was the first nursing care cacility to be hit hard in the country. My wife is a retired nurse and department head. I was one of the first here to warn of Covid’s possible seriousness.

There were reasons why that facility was hit hard... almost none of them to do with the quality of care offered there or the fine people in charge or the employees. But over the next year my innitial fears turned out to be mostly unfounded. During bad flu years it is not uncommon for a large care facility to lose dozens of sick elderly patients. Changes were made in the way that the data was collected, and intentionally skewed this year. These changes were unprecedented.

“Several times more lethal and deadly than the flu” and “several times more infectious” is nothing but a joke at this point. It takes a hell of a lot of jiggering with the numbers to get there and I am just going to say it outright... if I said something like that with my personal and professional experience to my friends and associates they would call me a liar. And I would know that they were correct. They would see right through me and wonder what caused me to lie to their faces.

I know that you and others have been fear mongering for more than a year now and it is very difficult for you to now give it up. But sooner or later you are going to have to either give it up or adopt a new pathogen to fret about because this one has just about played itself out. In professional circles it is beginning to become a joke.