Flubros and Flubras! Day 179 (a place for Flubros and Flubras)

www.freerepublic.com ^ | 19 September 2020 | Impimp

[impimp]

It’s just the flu, bro.

I have no source handy but I am hearing that PCR Covid tests yield a false positive between 1% and 0.8% of the time. That sounds really low and that we should all be happy with that - wrong! Those areas like NYC and New Jersey that are well into herd immunity territory are getting positive tests less than 2% of the time. That means that about half of the positive tests in many regions are false. So now you see the playbook that left wing Dems have to keep the crisis going - use mandatory extensive CV testing to create large numbers of false cases to keep the panic up and to keep the lockdown going.

[impimp]

How do we know the NSA didn’t delete my ping list from my phone?

[daniel1212]

+43,533 NEW CASES

Meaning about half of positives are among those deficient in Vitamin D, and likely only about 10% are infectious, and those who are no longer are after 7-10 days after experiencing symptoms, while about 80% have no symptoms or recover without outside medical help, and only about 2% of cases are among those under 18.

203,824 TOTAL DEAD

Meaning the US finally has attained to the rough equivalent of the deaths attribute to the Asian flu of 57–59, but which did not see anything close to the response COVID-19 has, and which is primarily due to over 40% of Americans being obese, plus hypertension - both of which the shutdown increases.

And as a percentage, the overall lethality of Covid-19 is about 0.1% to 0.3% (IFR) and thus in the range of a severe influenza season, and while an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season only 75 children have died due to COVID-19 (reported July 22) and only 20 children under age five in the U.S. have died because of it, while the vast majority of children with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors

Meanwhile elder care facilities account for over 40% of US Covid-19 deaths which only 0.6% of the country resides in. And almost 90 percent of U.S. coronavirus patients who have been hospitalized had underlying health problems, or comorbidities. As of 8–22, for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. And people under 65 years old without underlying predisposing conditions accounted for only 0.7–3.6% of all COVID-19 deaths in France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Georgia, and New York City and 17.7% in Mexico.[49] Moreover, adults 65 and older account for 16% of the US population but 80% of COVID-19 deaths in the US, somewhat higher than their share of deaths from all causes (75%) over the same period.

See https://www.quora.com/Does-COVID-19-truly-warrant-a-nationwide-shutdown

[impimp]

I have been freeloading for over 15 years. I just donated 100 to freerepublic.

PS...can an admin please send me by freepmail yesterday’s ping list?

Thanks

[daniel1212]

“IF” the Wuhan Flu is more contagious than the “normal flu” (or a normal cold”), and IF the masks and IF “distancing” and IF “shutting down the economy” reduces the Wuhan Flu infection rates, then should not the death rates from normal infections, and normal flu have done down dramatically the past 6 months?

It is hard to get a simple comparison of Flu infections and deaths for this year versus past years, but i do find this: Instead, all I see is a stunning rise in “non-associated deaths” - as if the stress and worries and strain of isolation and worry and job loss and retirement loss (and isolation and continuous-death-in-the-air” TV news 24x7x180 days) have nothing to do with the democrat party’s endless flu fixations and predictions?

August 21, 2020 – CDC today reported one new seasonal flu-related death in a child that occurred during the 2019-2020 season, bringing the total number of flu deaths in children reported to CDC for last season to 188. This matches the highest recorded number for pediatric flu deaths reported during a regular flu season, which occurred during the 2017-2018 flu season.

While any death in a child from a vaccine preventable illness is a tragedy, the number of pediatric flu deaths reported to CDC each season is likely an undercount. For example, even though the reported number of deaths during the 2017-2018 flu season was 188, CDC estimates the actual number was closer to 600. It is likely the actual number of children who died from flu during the 2019-2020 season is higher as well. - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/spotlights/2019-2020/2019-20-pediatric-flu-deaths.htm

[daniel1212]

What about "The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the U.S."Science Advances 18 Sep 2020:

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds across the world, the scientific community has focused on understanding the transmission, biology, and treatment of the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). To date, empirical investigations of the mental health impact of this collective trauma represent less than 3% of the published literature, (1) even though the pandemic, including its associated social and economic fallout, represents a mental health crisis of unprecedented scope and scale. (2) Globally, COVID-19 has left hundreds of millions of people at risk for serious illness or death, (3) isolated in their homes, (4) and without jobs or income. These circumstances place people living with anxiety, depression or other mental health challenges at especially high risk for worsening symptoms and suicide. (2, 5–7) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/18/sciadv.abd5390

[Laslo Fripp]

God Bless You.

You haven’t been freeloading. You have contributed both your time and talent to Free Republic. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Robert A Cook PE]

So you are seeing the same improbable co-relation that I am seeing.

[daniel1212]

So you are seeing the same improbable co-relation that I am seeing.

I do not know. The CDC is not good at providing clear data, like how many total flu infections and deaths have there been so far, and where, though the season is yet to conclude. A substantial decrease in flu deaths in states with strong Covid restrictions would attest to their efficacy, and I am sure they do (the long term cost of such being another issue), but since Covid overwhelmingly is a danger to the aged and ppl with other issues while the flu is far more dangerous to the young, then the measures to combat such must be different.

With over 40% of Covid deaths being in elder care places, a better solution to their care is in order.

[Clay Moore]

We have run more suicides or attempted ones in the last few months than anytime in my career except perhaps during the State Run Media’s “this is the worst economy since the depression” lies they kept bleating in ‘92.

The blood of ever single on of them is on the media and Democrat party, but I repeat myself.

[impimp]

Attempted to recreate my ping list. I might have added some people accidentally because they freepmailed me to call me an idiot. I also may have added some people whose freepmail I overlooked. Feel free to let me know about errors.

[Yogafist]

I was off the grid for about four days last week camping and exploring in Joshua tree national Park. There was one hike where they had cables and posts to keep people off of the area they were trying to reestablish. The path was only about 5 feet wide and as my wife and I approached a couple, and we were not wearing masks, they climbed over the cable and walked through the new vegetation to avoid us. I was literally laughing when we passed, that they could still be that frightened. I don’t know if it was Kozak, but I was wishing there was a Ranger nearby so I could complain about them.

[lightman]

In my southcentral PA county opioid overdose deaths are up FIFTY percent over the same period of 2019.

[crusty old prospector]

Ha ha. We are going to Glacier NP tomorrow. I hope we don’t see the same.

[SisterK]

I might have added some people accidentally because they freepmailed me to call me an idiot. We learn to have thick skin.
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