Posted on 05/05/2020 7:56:13 AM PDT by betty boop
The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts. Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, rather than keep emphasizing hypothetical projections; combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology established for decades; and then thoughtfully restore the country to function.
Five key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I get the eerie feeling that the "expert" coronavirus response (self-isolation, social distancing, etc.) is, among other things, an exercise in social reengineering.
I agree. Wear masks and wash hands, but you can leave the house, and more.
Atlas shrugs on the lockdown.
I ain’t wearing no mask.
They have found out that if you scare Americans, you can get them to obey.
Many of those who have been scared don’t want to go back to moving around freely.
great, another one that thinks we should just give up all these newly created dictatorial powers over our subjects, a power we Public Masters have been yearning for since the Republicans freed our Slaves.
Thanks but you can provide more than a sentence or two in posting articles:
Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19.
Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.
Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.
Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.
Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.
The only thing the EXPERTS got right so far....
1...People will die
2. Old people and people with certain health problems are more at risk...
They have not proved that the lockdown worked or social distancing works..they just tell us it does...
The WHO and CDC now recommend everyone wear a blindfold to protect from seeing what’s really going on
LOL, worth a bump
You’re exactly right. These morons write these articles as if every business establishment in the country can open and be operating at full capacity as quickly as they were shut down. As I’ve said here on FR many times in the last few weeks: IT’S TOO LATE, FOLKS.
Immuh keep posting it too.
Unbelievable that Manhattan found another 1,700 CCP-19 deaths over night
How did the Hill let a “voice of reason” slip through onto their site?
I’m not going to look, but I’s bet the commenters there are absolutely losing it over this one
I quit going there when the rejects from Democrat Underground took over the comment section
What, they located a previously hidden cemetery?
One of Trump’s major deficiencies in handling this is the complete omission of medical professionals on the Task Force who have ideas similar to Dr. Atlas. He has by my count, 5 doctors on the Task Force including the execrable Drs. Fauci and Birx, SG Adams, Dr. Redfield and Dr. Carson in his role as HUD Secretary. Sadly, he is letting Birx and Fauci control the narrative on this.
The poorly educated are easily manipulated, and they are experts at poorly educating the masses.
Once again, Rush was right.
We are going to have a debate on whether any of this was necessary.
Already stated. And in lamestream places like The Hill too.
“Wear masks”
Mo. Those masks do NOTHING but spread disease. They are nasty and contaminated. Even if people had sterile N95 masks, they do little to stop the spread of disease because the virus is not contained to your mouth.
People need to stop acting superstitious and believing having a mask saves them like this is Hogwartz.
Dear Betty_Boop
Thanks for the news flash! This article is from 2 weeks ago and is filled with bullcrap about the mortality rate based on the Stanford ass-covering study from Bhattacharya and Benavid.
Are you Chinese or Russian?
NYC has 18,231 Covid deaths already which is .22% of the population of 8,400,000. This is the lowest possible infection mortality rate assuming every single person in NYC is infected.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
The recently completed study (May 1) of 150,000 New Yorkers found an infection rate of 20% in New York City. Therefore the total infected population of New York City is .20 * 8,400,000 = 1,680,000. This includes those infected but who show no symptoms.
Therefore the infection fatality rate for Covid19, based on over 18,231 fatalities, is 18,231 / 1,680,000 = 1.09%
The Santa Clara study was based on testing a population which had only a 1.5% infection rate, so false positives from the test could have made 15 times larger effect on the estimate of those infected.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-antibody-study-shows-1-in-5-have-been-infected-with-covid-19
The quoted death rate of .1% for seasonal flu is the number of deaths over the number of SYMPTOMATIC flu cases. Those without symptoms are not part of the denominator in that calculation (see CDC link below). It is estimated (see nhs.uk link below) that 75% of regular flu cases show no symptoms. This brings the infection fatality rate for regular flu from .1% to .025% if you count infected people instead of just symptomatic people. Covid19 therefore 44 times deadlier than the flu, you can distort the numbers however you want, you can believe whatever you want, but no one can make a plausible argument that Covid19 isn’t at least 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu, no matter how hard they try.
https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/three-quarters-of-people-with-flu-have-no-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
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