Posted on 08/13/2020 6:57:15 PM PDT by EdnaMode
I’m increasingly convinced that #SARSCoV2 is a creation of the media/technology complex. (NO - I do not mean it’s not real or was bioengineered.) What I mean is: aside from a couple of weeks in a handful of cities worldwide - including, sigh, the world’s media capital...
The overall effects of this epidemic have essentially been impossible for the average person to see without a microscope. Hospitals are not overflowing. Bodies are not piling up in the streets. Most of us will never know anyone under 55 (65? 70?) who has died of #Covid.
But instead many people feel like the world is ending? Why? More than anything else, it’s the obsessive - almost sordid - fascination with death counts, updated in real time and presented without context (average age of victims, how many people generally die in a year, etc)...
Why are we counting deaths this way? We’ve never done this for any other illness. Never. And there are lots of reasons, but maybe the most important is that we’re doing this largely because we can - because the technology now exists to aggregate these counts almost instantly.
And then both conventional and social media are blasting out these figures not just every day but every second - from the @cnn deathmeter to @nytimes heatmaps to everyone screaming on Twitter. True story: at this point #SARSCoV2 worldwide is slightly worse than a bad flu year...
And the 700,000 people it has killed worldwide are less than half the number who have died or traffic accidents OR diarrhea OR tuberculosis this year, less than 2% of all deaths.
There has never been anything like this before, but not because of the virus.
Plenty of FR Karens will show up to ell you how wrong you are soon.
13 Aug: Head Topics: from UK Telegraph: We are massively overreacting to new Covid ‘outbreaks’
New research confirms that the Government’s reliance on case numbers is driving an unnecessarily draconian response
by Ross Clark
The Imperial College study published this morning claiming that 3.4 million people ( six per cent of the UK population) have antibodies indicating that they have been exposed to Covid-19 provides no great revelation. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has already published similar figures suggesting that 6.5 per cent of the population has been infected. Nevertheless, it is yet more confirmation of how irrelevant are the official statistics for Covid 19 cases – and what a nonsense it is to rely on them for policymaking.
According to the Government’s Covid “dashboard”, updated at 4pm on Wednesday, 313,798 people in Britain have had the disease. This is less than one tenth of the number suggested by the Imperial study. In other words, for all Matt Hancock’s efforts to ramp up testing, the vast majority of cases have not been detected...
The vast disparity between actual and recorded infections matters hugely because the Government keeps acting as if the recorded cases do reflect reality. A small percentage increase in recorded cases in Leicester and in Greater Manchester led quickly to a return to partial lockdown in those areas. Daily, the Foreign Office scans infection rates in other countries to decide whether or not to quarantine people returning from those places. People and businesses are being put to huge inconvenience on the back of a small uptick in a statistic which is pretty well meaningless.
What the official recorded statistics on Covid cases are really measuring is the extent and effectiveness of a country’s testing programme. The more tests you conduct, the more of those silent Covid infections – the 90 per cent which would previously have gone unrecorded – you will pick up...
Leicester’s “second wave” came after mobile testing vans were sent to the city. When you see graphs of new infections on Britain you need to read them in conjunction with the ever-increasing numbers of tests being conducted – 15,000 a day in mid-April rising to 164,061 on Tuesday.
There is a moral here. If you are a country whose economy relies on UK tourists, don’t test more people than you need to; let those very mild and asymptomatic cases go unrecorded.
If you are resident in Britain and value your freedom to meet relatives, go down the pub and so on, think twice about getting yourself tested – your reward may well be to have your whole town locked down.
https://headtopics.com/uk/we-are-massively-overreacting-to-new-covid-outbreaks-14963168
Yes. It’s real. Not good. Causes deaths.
But if yearly flu were covered in the same way it could also cause the same type of fear and paranoia.
“The media and politicians worldwide caused the panic. Without them, it would have just been seen as a bad flu season.”
Exactly right. Did we have this insane hysteria for the:
1. Asian flu (1957–1958)
2. Hong Kong flu (1968–1969)
2. H1N1/09 flu pandemic (2009–2010)
Nope. But Trump wasn’t running for re-election in this pandemics.
Side note: I just observed that many web sites are scrubbing their language to remove all references to Asia and Hong Kong for the 1957 and 1968 pandemics.
He was wrong in that it WAS CREATED IN A LAB.
Thousands of people are dying every day and it’s getting worse.
Agreed
Then the increasing curve flatlined in January of 2010 when case reporting was stopped by Hussien & Biden.
Well... That means you are only half correct...
Won't be reading beyond the title since IMHO the article must be "half-assed" work...
The main concern is about other lasting effects, not the number of deaths. For one, what will the cost burdens be for more disability cases and gimpy employees?
You must be real fun at parties.
Parties are banned here. Gatherings of more than 10 people are illegal.
I'm not on the forum much anymore, but I am really bummed to hear we have Karens here as well. I'm a contract data scientist and I've given up trying to show Karen's what the real numbers say.
“...except there is a lot of evidence that this Wuhan virus was bioengineered.....”
Exactly. With the assistance of U.S. taxpayer dollars provided by Fauxi. He assisted in this travesty in a major way.
Both Scarf and Fauxi should have already been arrested and sent to GITMO as domestic enemy combatants for what they foisted upon the economy and the country. Especially, that little, commie, PIAPS-loving Fauxi for giving millions of dollars to the CCP bioweapons lab over there.
Hanging the vile, commie POS is waaaay too good for the little bassturd.
Lucky them.
This ChiCom virus was another attempted coup to remove our President from office and to weaken him in the upcoming election.
The attempted coup members: the Mediots, the elites in Con- gress of both parties and the paid trolls pretending to be conservatives on the conservative sites.
Of course the Clintoons, Obama’s and the Deep staters in the FBI/CIA/????!
Last but not least the ChiComs at all levels of this biological and media attack on President Trump and his deplorable Americans.
The polio outbreak was scary.
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