Posted on 05/01/2020 4:50:50 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
Latest from CNN website is that scientists think that CV will not stop until 60-70% of the population gets immunity, at which point herd immunity will develop. The threshold for herd immunity goes up as R0 goes up. Some say the range for herd immunity is as low as 29% and as high as 74%. But the notion that a virus won’t fizzle out until herd immunity develops isn’t controversial. The controversial part is that these scientists/activists say that we should use “mitigation” techniques for up to 2 years while herd immunity develops.
Isn’t that sneaky what the scientists did? - the expert/scientist talks intelligently about one thing (herd immunity) then he magically extends his expertise to public policy advocating for a certain position (extended lockdowns and restrictions on business). This is exactly what global warming scientists do. They will research something and say, for example, that the ppm of CO2 has gone up a certain percentage, therefore, everyone who drives an SUV should be castrated so that we have fewer people on the planet emitting CO2.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
The overall deaths can get revised up. So the truth is that all causes deaths aren’t really plummeting like the official sources say (due to reporting lag) and the CV deaths aren’t really adding a massive number of incremental deaths. My best guess is that when the year is over we might find out that upto 25% of the CV deaths are real. Which is a step up from the 10% real number I had in my head a week or two ago.
When I searched I got all sorts of hits on people who used to have that job whom I’d never heard of.
If you look through the footnotes, what is says is
“It’s just the flubro.”
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