I disagree with your numbers. Nothing to do with Biden. Actually practicing I am seeing a tremendous shift in the virus, not nearly as deadly. I have elderly people with multiple medical issues who end up on the vent and coming off. It is no picnic by any means, but the government, is in fact, manipulating numbers and the testing is off the chain.
PCR set at too high of a cycle count is identifying clinically irrelevant viral particles
Testing is not excluding multiple repeat tests after the patient is no longer infectious but there are inactive viral particles coming from the LRI
While there are CoVID deaths no doubt, there are also growing numbers of cases where swabs are being done with no CoVID symptoms and people are dying of other causes but the mer presence of CoVID is erroneously counted
In clinical practice, as I forecast a long time ago, this is not worse than H1N1 in the early part of the 2010’s
All that being said, I am frontline and being vaccinated tomorrow. I cannot wait. What we must now guard against in science is the misinformation being spread about the vaccine...
At 95% effective the notion that immunity means that you can pass along the disease is preposterous. With the advent of the vaccine and successful cohort vaccination and by definition herd immunity — all this lock down, mask mandate, trampling of individual freedoms must stop forthwith.
After I am vaccinated and have developing immunity at 7 days, I will no longer wear a mask, and I will no longer participate in the scare tactics meant to control humans. As humans we are meant to interact with one another and facial cues and recognition is an important part of this — in my judgment divided we fall. Masks divide us.
I have it.
Doesn’t seem fake to me.
I am shocked to admit that I actually agree with all but you last and next to last paragraphs in this post.
Many of our lay concerns about this mRNA vaxx are well-founded. A friend who works at a large hospital here told me that most of her colleagues do NOT want the shot. These are truly frontline workers who are in ICU and covid floors.
For what it is worth, I do not wish you ill, and certainly hope that you are not harmed by the vaxx.
I’m thrilled for you that you can get the vaccine tomorrow, and that you won’t wear a mask after you get some immunity started. Fantastic! Thank you for being on the front lines and for your reports here. You are helping a lot of people, including FReepers.
My mother died in early 2010 of pneumonia. She supposedly tested negative for H1N1.
I’m curious: Were there problems back then with the test for it? Issues with recommended treatments? Did it cause strange manifestations of illness that in hindsight someone— government, AMA, etc. —should have been more on top of?