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 medias cumulative statistics and created a more accurate chart. According to Evans 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 its an outbreak, or a pandemic on the precipice. Both situations would suggest exponential growth. The actual data doesnt suggest exponential growth of fatalities at all. The data suggests decline. In fact, the crude death rate is statistically 0.
Also, its 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.
30,000,000 million cases of the flu THIS YEAR, 20,000 deaths THIS YEAR young and elderly AND where is the hysteria OH there isnt any!!! The ONLY people being severely affected by this virus ARE the elderly with underlying illnesses and compromised immune systems!! It is NOT affecting the young OR people that are healthy!! Those people are having symptoms very similar to a bad cold!!! The hysteria over this has been CREATED by the media AND unfortunately it is working to tank the economy, SO when Trump is NOT POTUS next term it will be the fault of all of the people accepting this hysterical BS from the media, they are THRILLED because something is FINALLY working for them to get Trump!!!
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I have “adjusted my reality”. I reject panic and fake news. You should try that. Did you survive MERS? SARS? Hmmmmm?
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Facts matter, thank you for spreading calm in the face of unrelenting fake news and panic.
I really hope Im wrong but until I see some serious reduction in the infection rates here and abroad Im going to keep crying wolf.
Last weekend I was told “just wait a week” and we would be hit hard in the US. Well, here a week later and nothing much has changed. So much for the prognostications of the virus pumpers.
Math is hard.
Who is the main force behind continued globalization? China
Who stands to lose the most by President Trumps 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?
Occams razor anyone?
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Exactly. Also youtube is larded with staged videos from China. Why would that be...
“...ES is down...”
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What is ES?
IF China's numbers are accurate do you realize that they've achieved in only SLOWING the GROWTH by essentially forcing people to stay at home for the last 2 months? In other words, the virus is STILL spreading even though they've shut down the country.
Why on God's green earth would ANY country go through what EVERY country is doing to slow down or stop this IF it's effects are simply like that of the flu?
Gold up $27
\ Do you believe that ALL governments and all media in every country are lying to you about this?
I read it as an appeal for help.
I though Christians were allowed to call out His name under such circumstances.
I also thought they tended to capitalize His...
The point is what good is panicking? Do you think Biden or Bernie would make you safer? Think about it. If the media was really interested in public health wouldn’t they be trying to calm people while passing on useful information to prepare and protect oneself? Looks like they are more concerned with “selling newspapers” and defeating Trump. Isn’t that obvious? Panic or heightened awareness will not protect you. If panic brings down this economy it will only make things much worse.
He was using it as a swear word.
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.
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The % needing ICU can only be known when large numbers of people are tested. WHen that is done, such as in South Korea, turns out that many more people have it than was thought, often with no or very mild symptoms. So your assertions of % neeing ICU is way, way off. Facts are what is important, not high emotional freakouts.
Another old person! All this panic, yet we clearly know which groups are at risk. We are shutting down the world economy, when we should be concentrating mostly on mitigation for the elderly.
Yup. And we have a handful of FReepers who are obsessed reporting every known incident of infection and/or fatality. Feeding panic.
Read the data in the links I posted.
Not panicking...preparing...including your financials.
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