Posted on 03/08/2020 6:00:55 PM PDT by narses
With coronavirus death toll in the U.S. rising to 19, people are becoming increasing afraid of contracting the disease. To date, there are 3,803 reported deaths with 109,835 confirmed cases worldwide. Also a total of 60,694 people have recovered from the virus. As the fear of coronavirus continues to spread, there are a growing number of reports of empty shop shelves as people rush to stock up on basic products such as hand soap, sanitizers, tissue papers, and many more. It got so bad that some stores are now limiting purchases of these products, more due to coronavirus fears.
The fears stem from the misleading information coming from mainstream media about the trend of the virus. The media shows the number of fatalities continuously increasing, on a time-based graph. The problem with this is that, the media only uses a cumulative graph to illustrate coronavirus deaths. However, if you look deeper at the raw data provided by John Hopkins on GITHUB, the number of global deaths per day are decreasing worldwide.
Hats off to Evan at TradeGuru, who first noticed the discrepancy in media’s cumulative statistics and created a more accurate chart. According to Evan’s analysis using the raw data provided by John Hopkins University, “the virus is decreasing in hotspots such as South Korea, China and Hong Kong (the first to deal with the novel virus). The press tells us it’s an outbreak, or a pandemic on the precipice. Both situations would suggest exponential growth. The actual data doesn’t suggest exponential growth of fatalities at all. The data suggests decline. In fact, the crude death rate is statistically 0.”
Also, it’s now being estimated that 80% of individuals that contract the coronavirus are asymptomatic or midly-symptomatic. And in this viral video, Rebecca Fraiser says she “never really felt unwell” after contracting the virus, and it “sounds like it is the case for the majority of people.”
Who is the main force behind continued globalization? China
Who stands to lose the most by President Trump’s policies? China
Who essentially controls the major media outlets now? China
Whose mass surveillance and public control systems just underwent a major test in what was declared as a war internally? China
What nation has a history of sacrificing their own people for the good of the Party? China
What nation strives to rule the world to defeat American “hegemony@. Yup, China
Where did this start? China
Anyone seen major protests in Hong Kong lately?
Occam’s razor anyone?
I’m thinking Amazon could drop off some TP at your door.
Great article, in agreement with a lot of other factual data I’ve read. I have no fear of cv whatsoever.
LOL!
China shut down the nation. Europe is on the same track. when someone in your dept, church or other social group gets the positive you’ll be sent home for 2 weeks+. But, that will be just fake news. ROTFLMAO!!
You’re in denial of your situation and believing communist statistics. Can’t fix stupid.
Have a good spring snowflake!
That is EXACTLY my outlook on this whole damn thing WHO would benefit overwhelmingly if Trump were not POTUS .......China AND Iran!!!!
The market is getting crushed tonight
ES is down 145 points. Astonishing
These are black Monday kind of numbers
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I did searches to find out how many Chinee smoke; the percetage of men smokers is said to be about 60% to 74%, women 10-20%. Many more Chinee men died than women. And the Chinee are generally heavy smokers, and smoke everywhere.
The drop in oil prices is not related to the virus. It is the result of Saudi Arabia slashing prices and the lack of an OPEC deal.
Up here in NH, we lost a good chunk of health professionals in 60 minutes cuz a positive a$$hole spread it. Now those professionals are on mandatory 2 week corona vacations in their house. Many were not prepared with little, if any food.
A Queens hospital just went thru the same thing. Lost 40-50 health professional for 2 weeks plus in 1/2 a day.
We are just at the beginning. If you think stuff like that is sustainable at your local hospital, water plant, power plant, then by all means - don't prepare.
Cleansing of the gene pool ain't a bad thing sometimes.
Th fatality rate for common influenza (the "flu") in the US is around 0.2%. It kills around 26,000 people per year. The fatality rate for the coronavirus is somewhere around 1 to 3 percent in China and Italy. However, this is calculated based on those known to have it - that is, those that are "seriously ill". If the rate were to include the mild cases, those that aren't reported to a doctor, the fatality rate in China and Italy would be 80% lower. This would be virtually no different than the fatality rate for the flu. Since there has been no "healthcare collapse" in the past century from the flu, why would there be one now, for a similar disease with a similar fatality rate?
Watch your mouth, don’t take his name in vain on this site.
It is interesting, but we will recover, eventually. The market will continue to go down until the threat, perceived or not, is addressed adequately.
Pretending it doesn’t exist and believing communist data isn’t something to build a solution foundation upon.
Just wait until the margin calls.
This is circuit breaker type stuff.
It was NOT opinion. This is and has happened in every single place where this has taken hold. Every single country in the world is and has taken unprecedented, extreme actions to try and slow or contain this virus. In EVERY country this thing has hit about 10% NEED ICU. 15% to 20% NEED hospitalization.
This is exactly WHY every government on the face of the earth is worried sick about this. They know that it will overwhelm our healthcare systems IF left unchecked.
Have you noticed the mass quarantines in every singly country? Prez Trump EARLY on instituted mass quarantines on American soil of the cruise ship passengers and people coming to the US from Wuhan.
It's coming. It's here. The sooner you adjust your reality to deal with the it the sooner you will be able to deal with it.
If China can get rid of Trump and install Bernie, viola! Instant world communism.
Start a crisis, show the world that “only China knows how to fix it.” Crap, people on this thread are saying that!
Is anyone stupid enough to say that they wouldn’t give up Wuhan for that goal, and no nuclear war?
Did you read the article?
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You use the entire population of the planet as the denominator, DUH!!!
I do look at the South Korean, Japanese, Italian, French, German and US numbers daily. The best numbers I see in terms infraction growth rate are in Japan and South Korea.
Those two countries have slowed things way down, proving that it can be done. But I see no such progress in most of the western countries including the U.S. What I’m afraid of is that that we are not likely to implement the necessary restriction to match those two countries’ performance.
I really hope I’m wrong but until I see some serious reduction in the infection rates here and abroad I’m going to keep crying wolf.
My advice: Watch the data, ignore anything the Chinese tell us and pretty much anything you hear in the news reports. It is going to be mostly propaganda for one side or the other. The infection rate data will tell you all you need to know. Watch the trends, they will tell the tale.
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