Posted on 12/29/2021 10:00:20 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
"... I’m not going to sugarcoat this and say that a doubling of the number of children hospitalized with COVID isn’t disturbing (and the “with” is important, as we’ll discuss in a moment). But we’re talking about 1,933 children here. That’s not 1,933 children in one city or one county or even one state. That’s in the entire country of 330 million people. And more than 73 million of those Americans are under the age of 18. That works out to a hospitalization rate of .00000026. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
More kids fall out of trees daily. [Source: I was a kid once.] And again, these are not deaths, these are Cases and the tests only work half the time. Close your eyes and imagine a world where people give up their freedom to a coin toss. Now open your eyes because you are living there.
.00000026 is not a rate. And your math is wrong.
Yeah, sure. Get your kids vaccinated for a virus with close to a 99.98 percent recovery rate.
Because a demented old geezer that nobody likes told you to.
“.00000026 is not a rate. And your math is wrong.”
It’s a rate per one and yes the math is wrong.
It’s actually 100 times higher.
...the articles math...
the story was picked up worldwide, usually with percentages only. others wrote of “four-fold” increase; Fox5NY went with “FIVE-FOLD”. article is full of it; credits AP as well at bottom:
27 Dec: Fox5NY:Children hospitalized with COVID increases five-fold in New York City
***While some have presented very mild symptoms of COVID-19, ***others have come in with high fevers and stomach pain...
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/children-with-covid-increases-five-fold-in-new-york-city
You can’t fool me, that’s Balki Bartokomous.
Fake news
Everything about covid is fake.
That was the point.
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