COVID didn’t crush the economy. Government did.
The CFR continued to decline from the 3.5% level on July 20, 2020 until January 20, 2021 when the CFR reached 1.66%.
Since January 20, 2021 the CFR has increased and as of yesterday the CFR was 1.82%.
It is my assumption that the number of covid cases were not scaring people enough, so the Biden administration immediately went to work on new methods to increase the number of covid deaths.
The deaths from this ‘flu’ in Wisconsin have been 0.011% of confirmed cases.
Wisconsin: 635,000 cases and 7,180 deaths, or 0.011%.
In my County (Iowa), 2,000 cases, 11 deaths, or 0.005%. Five Thousandths of ONE percent!
WHY are we still all locked up? Why HAVE we been locked up for a YEAR, now?
Oh, that’s right! Socialist Democrats! *SPIT*
What a sham.
Thank you for the very good article.
It highlights one of the major problems with this pandemic, the lack of good information. Lacking that information, our health care professionals went worse case panicking our politicians and the public.
the really interesting reads will be the after action reports published in three/four years.
Actual CV19 fatalities or “reported” CV19 fatalities. THAT makes a difference. But that will probably never see the light of day.
What a bunch of useless crap. Even the CDC admits the numbers are BS, yet pearl-clutching morons eat this stuff up.
Take a hospital that's operating at 50% of its operational capacity and then flood it with 100 acutely ill patients suffering from a highly contagious, potentially deadly and not well understood virus. That's a bad scenario. Let's say 25 of those people die. That's a 25% CFR.
Take that same hospital a week later when it's operating at 105% of its operational capacity. It's still more than filled with these acutely ill patients. Staff is getting sick and so everyone is having to carry extra water. Now hit that hospital with another wave of 100 patients suffering from this highly contagious, confirmed to be deadly and still not well understood virus.
Do you think the CFR will still be 25%? No way. You'll end up with a 50% CFR this time and by that time, the entire hospital will be on the verge of anarchy and collapse like we saw in NYC.
I mention this because this is why we stressed the need to "flatten the curve" early on, to prevent this kind of a scenario from developing. The logic seemed to be lost to many.
It shows the problem in getting good information on new diseases. Getting reliable information in medicine takes time. The flue has been around for over 100 years old. Covid-19 is 15 to 18 months old. That is a huge difference. We simply do not have the information on Covid-19 like other diseases.
What would the fatality rate be if the CDC did not do everything it could to withhold treatment?
Patients weren’t even allowed a “right to try” HCQ. All treatments were denied until the patient was hospitalized and put on excessively aggressive ventilator therapy, which injured infected lung tissue.
What would the fatality rate be if doctors were simply allowed to prescribe medicines they deemed fit for their patients? What would it be if the CDC didn’t recommend such aggressive respiratory therapy.
And then - what if 5 governors didn’t force Covid-19 patients into nursing homes. Early in the planned-demic, nursing home deaths accounted for 40% of fatalities?
What if the CDC didn’t require deaths to be counted as Covid-19 based on stupid, statistic distorting rules? If you died within 60 days of having a positive Covid test then it counts as a Covid death! Keep in mind the inventor of the Covid-19 test they use (PCR) said it was NOT appropriate for use for the planned-demic because it would result in MANY false positives.
So people with false postives, and people with actual positive covid test die a month later in a car accident and it’s a Covid death. At that press conference, the example was a ‘motor cycle accident’ and the speaker said, yes it would be counted as covid but advised the public to remember that such accidents would be statistically low and have little effect on overall fatality rates.
Coroners and physicians reported struggling with the instructions that when their patients died with multiple co-morbidities, they were to record the death as Covid. So someone dying of cancer with a positive Covid test, even without symptoms, would be recorded as Covid. The example I watched in a video was a doctor frustrated with ‘new rules’ for Covid which meant his patient with failing health, COPD, Diabetes, Kidney failure etc. would ‘have’ to be recorded as Covid death.
The planned-demic is all lies. All of it.
The only metrics that matter are - # hospitalizations and # morbidities. The rest are coffee table fodder.
"But remember, whatever that true rate is, the total deaths will be lower if we can keep more people from being infected."