Not that the mortality rate is dropping; the cases aren’t rising. The rise is sue in large part to the increased testing.
We “flattened the curve” but it wasn’t good enough for them. Now it’s all about “cases” and “positivity rates” from tests that are run at higher than normal cycles, in their quest to create more false positives. All this for something with a 99% recovery rate.
as far as I can tell the red states (with rational leadership) are basing the lockdowns based upon ICU availability and not raising rates. This seems to be at least true in my state.
Blue states on the other hand are just locking down pursuant to the will of Soros.
THEY ARE SPREADING COMPLETE LIES!!!
There are several things going on. The testing is expanding so we are getting more of the cases that previously slipped through the cracks, while fatalities have almost always been recorded, thus the apparent fatality rate has dropped. Next, we are actually making some progress at treating the disease, so the real fatality rate is dropping. And finally, this disease takes a long time to play out, at least in some of the cases. Some people are still sick, neither cured nor dead, after months. That tends to force a lag in the statistics.
And according to CDC data, the total deaths for all reasons is level compared to last year.
In Orange County, Calif. where I live, about 1,500 new “positive cases” and three deaths were reported yesterday. Today, it was 1,666 “positive cases” and 0 deaths. Orange County, with a population of three million, has had about 1,600 deaths since the epidemic began. I’d bet a sawbuck to a doughnut that the effects of the lockdowns have killed many, many more than that.
Bump for tomorrow...
Reference bump - thanks.
The governors have never had so much power and they won’t give it up that easily. Power is no good unless you can use it for something. Media love it because the people stuck in lockdown are watching way more television. The number one advertisers on television are pharmaceutical companies. I watched Hogans Heroes and most of the commercials were for drugs and medicines. They were advertising cold medicine but nobody gets colds or flu because covid cured them.
The most misunderstood concept is that people ALWAYS die, and not as the political correctness is trying to convince us, that even one person dying, is one too many.
The problem is that the mass communication majors never require their students to take a wide range of disciplines anymore (STEM) for a broad perspective and understanding, and so these journalists think that all they have to do is “fake it til you make it.” Of course, that would require being able to “discriminate” the legitimate from the marketing — which they are now prohibited from doing.
So the better off, are those who eliminate these marketing messages as much as they can — rather than being the “useful idiots’ propagating this misinformation — for the mass media — and suppressing all the information that would actually solve these problems.
What the thoughtful citizen can do is to continue canceling these subscriptions — even if free, because it is damaging to their own well-being and peace of mind. Live as healthily as possible even though the health care special interests would like you to follow their advice and become their “patients for life.”
It doesn’t have to be that way — but only if you have everything to say about it.