Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in USA 12/16/2020: 3,486 with 246,996 new cases
Worldometer ^ | December 16, 2020

Posted on 12/16/2020 7:15:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Places with highest daily reported cases per capita

Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: covid19

1 posted on 12/16/2020 7:15:50 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

And Biden said he was going to “Shut Down The Virus”
“If we just wear a mask we can save 100,000 lives”
Way To Go Joe!
It’s so Easy!
Just Follow the Science!


2 posted on 12/16/2020 7:20:09 PM PST by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

“1 in 80 people have COVID-19 in L.A. County”

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-officials-provide-coronavirus-update-as-regional-hospitals-are-on-brink-of-icu-capacity/


3 posted on 12/16/2020 7:21:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican

Half the “cases” are false positives.


4 posted on 12/16/2020 7:27:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MinorityRepublican
All other disease and illness have been cured by the China Virus.

There is only the China Virus left that kills people.

5 posted on 12/16/2020 7:31:29 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m amazed you’ve found the time to examine each case individually to determine this. I’m curious what methodology you used and how you’ve managed to examine 17 million Americans and apply your methodology already. Tell us more!


6 posted on 12/16/2020 10:22:43 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Deaf Smith

All other diseases and illnesses have been killing the expected number of people or slightly higher than the expected number of people. Still around 354,000 excess deaths this year. Doctors around the country and around the world all seem to agree it’s COVID-19.


7 posted on 12/16/2020 10:24:30 PM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: 2aProtectsTheRest

I had read the total death count in the US this year was the same or lower than it was in 2018. Where are all the billions and billions (like McDonald’s hamburgers) that died from COVID?


8 posted on 12/17/2020 3:02:50 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: BiglyCommentary
I'm not sure what you mean by "where are they". They're dead. Roughly 345,000 across the US in total. In some cases they've been piling the body bags in freezer trucks:

New York, California, and the Pentagon have confirmed massive orders for body bags for COVID-19 victims. The Pentagon alone was trying to get 100,000 body bags for COVID-19 victims back in April in preparation. Source

The deaths are real. The focus should be on the state and local officials like Cuomo and Newsom who failed to do their jobs, failed to protect people, failed to keep the economy moving, and directly contributed to pumping up the body counts with their abysmal policies. Living in a fantasy world where these deaths aren't happening doesn't help get to the bottom of WHY they're happening.

All it does is let people like Cuomo and Newsom off the hook when they should be facing indictments.

9 posted on 12/17/2020 3:12:46 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: 2aProtectsTheRest
I'm amazed you seem to think these numbers are anything other than TOTAL AND COMPLETE GARBAGE. Very knowledgeable scientist/researchers have documented that.

https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/Pfizer-Chief-Science-Officer-Second-Wave-Based-on-Fake-Data-of-False-Positives-for-New-Cases-Pandemic-is-Over

more than half of the positives are likely to be false, potentially all of them....a true positive does not necessarily indicate the presence of viable virus. In limited studies to date, many researchers have shown that some subjects remain PCR-positive long after the ability to culture virus from swabs has disappeared. We term this a ‘cold positive’ (to distinguish it from a ‘hot positive’, someone actually infected with intact virus). The key point about ‘cold positives’ is that they are not ill, not symptomatic, not going to become symptomatic and, furthermore, are unable to infect others.""

The authors explain that what the PCR test actually measures is "simply the presence of partial RNA sequences present in the intact virus," which could be a piece of dead virus which cannot make the subject sick, and cannot be transmitted, and cannot make anyone else sick.

10 posted on 12/17/2020 3:19:20 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: BiglyCommentary

The case numbers are actually low due to a large number of missed asymptomatic cases. Based on current death totals, I estimate between 48 and 55 million Americans have been or currently are infected with SARS-CoV-2. 40% will develop no symptoms. 40% will develop very mild symptoms easily mistaken for something else and requiring no medical assistance to recover. 20% will require medical assistance. 5% will require hospitalization. 3% will go to the ICU. And as of the last published studies I’ve seen, 0.65% will die.

That last number may need an update as newer therapies (such as monoclonal antibodies, REGN-COV2, Ivermectin, etc.) seem to be improving survival rates for ICU patients.


11 posted on 12/17/2020 3:26:07 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: 2aProtectsTheRest
New York, California, and the Pentagon have confirmed massive orders for body bags for COVID-19 victims.

"ordered" - Wow that's such a RELIABLE number to use... NOT! Remember when New York was hysterically screeching how they needed 40,000 ventilators and tens of thousands of extra hospital beds? They overestimated what they needed by a factor of 10. I think you could count the number of COVID patients in the Javits Center and on the US Comfort hospital ship on both hands.

12 posted on 12/17/2020 3:33:19 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: 2aProtectsTheRest
Remains are collecting at the morgue due to not being claimed.

People are dying alone in hospitals, nursing and retirement homes due to lockdown restrictions.

I now takes longer to contact next of kin and for them to make travel arrangements to claim the remains to turn over to the funeral home.

.

.

People Are Dying Alone

13 posted on 12/17/2020 5:31:09 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson