With apologies to Lorde -:)
Posted on 07/16/2021 8:31:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last night, the 11 PM CBS local newscast interviewed an apparently healthy, fit-looking man. He seemed to be in his mid-30s, and the thrust of the interview was that he’d gotten the COVID Delta variant, so we all better hurry and get vaccinated if we haven’t already. I must admit, I was half asleep when it came on, but I couldn’t help wondering if he’d actually been sick. Nobody asked, nor did the guy mention symptoms. It was all about the inconvenience of having to isolate himself from his kids, plus he had to miss a family reunion.
Earlier, at the gym, where 30 or so big TV screens near the ceiling entertain exercisers, I happened to be on the rowing machine in front of CNN. It’s a station I rarely watch, but I paid a bit of attention when they had a doctor on, in his scrubs, talking about the “alarming number of new cases” of the Delta variant. The case rate is indeed up and, while what I read about it varies, at least one source claims that Delta accounts for 50% of all US COVID cases at this point. So, when I got home, I looked up a few things. For one, the case and death statistics.
I was not at all surprised to find that in the USA, the 7-day average of deaths “from COVID” was 266 per day. Note that there is no separation between Alpha (the original) and Delta within this set of stats. Ever since the two local counties, Alameda and Santa Clara, audited their own statistics and found a respective 25% and 22% exaggeration of the numbers, I assume that kind of exaggeration applies across the board to all COVID death stats.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
There are over 340 million people in the USA (maybe a million more recent “immigrants”) and deaths are down from the 13,000-plus a day average at the height of the pandemic to around 200. As a comparison, over 13,000 people die each week from heart disease and 11,500 or so from cancer.
Here’s another question brought up by the author:
If the symptoms of Delta are like the common cold, would getting it provide antibodies that might prevent our getting a worse variant, say, the original, Alpha one? Seems like an important question to me. Maybe an honest medical professional can answer it for all of us.
How stupid are people anyway?
This all goes back to the question of just how lethal this virus really is.
We have destroyed our economy and with the associated spending, likely our futures, and I am not even certain this virus is as deadly as some want to make it.
I think it is shameful what has been done.
We should be organizing Delta Variant parties. A hell of a lot safer than those auto-immune disease delivery systems they call vaccines.
We all have the choice whether to believe lies or not.
Remember this every time you hear the words “delta variant.”
One thing I’ve noticed in this New World Order, is that “experts” and “authorities” will freely admit, some time later, that they “exaggerated” the severity of a problem to motivate the benighted public into action. In other words, they lied, but their cause was just. I’ve seen it with claims about Obamacare, Global Warming, and now Covid.
But if they admitted that they were lying then, why should we trust them now? Because we know they’re wiser than us, care about us more than we care about ourselves, and know our best interests better than we do? I don’t know any of those things. I suspect the contrary.
Epsilon, lambda, Orion, zeta, yellow squash, green tambourine, honeysuckle rose....... Anyone got a guess the number of variants we’re gonna be subjected to? 💉🐴💨💩
Anyone who knowingly uses the mass media to lie about public policy is a dangerous sociopath. One lie tells you all you need to know about them.
It does NOT exist.
Once you understand what a “Variant” is, you will see just how bogus it really is.
RE: Epsilon, lambda, Orion, zeta, yellow squash, green tambourine, honeysuckle rose....... Anyone got a guess the number of variants we’re gonna be subjected to?
If the Coronavirus shares the same characteristics as the Flu viruses, you can expect ( like the Flu ) VARIANTS to appear all the time and we will soon run out of Greek letters to name them and have to resort to numbers instead.
The question is this — Does the Coronavirus grow more LETHAL as they mutate or do they become less lethal?
Believing that they will grow more LETHAL seems to go against the biological principle called Muller’s Ratchet, the hypothesis that in asexual reproduction, the irreversible accumulation of harmful mutations causes a species to die out gradually.
Muller’s ratchet predicts that when mutation rates are high and a significant proportion of mutations are deleterious, a kind of irreversible ratchet mechanism will gradually decrease the mean fitness of small populations of asexual organisms.
See here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7283725/
Yeah, you would think but the ‘royals’ are still around. :-)
I believe the term is “Muller’s Ratchet”
The lifecycle of a virus is to become more contagious, but less lethal. It’s how things evolve for maximum survivability. A dead host does not spread a virus. So, all virus’s (as in there are no known exceptions) mutate to become more contagious and less of a threat.
Coronavirus, whether one of known that are endemic, or the Bioweapon that is made by China - are no exception. Yes, there will be mutations, and they will all follow the same path - more contagious and less of a health threat.
Errors in attribution . . . over or undercounting Covid deaths, can be erased by the gold standard of measurement — Excess Deaths.
This is a comparison of deaths from all causes now to deaths from all causes in the same month averaged over 4 yrs prior to 2020. Adjustment is made for population growth.
Many more people died last year than typical years in the 65+ category. 25% more. This was 5% more than the official Covid death count for those age groups, implying either undercount . . . or more likely, the explosion in fentanyl deaths last year. Regardless, only 5% beyond the Covid count.
If you go look at the relevant page now, you won’t see much. The data is always 4 weeks behind while death counts arrive at the tabulation center. As of now, 85+ looks better, 75-84 looks about same as last year. As does 65-74. The younger ages are worse this year, for some reason.
Excellent explanation. That’s exactly what I was trying to say in a previous post above. But you explained it better than me. Thanks. Most helpful.
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You have a fundamental error.
“how things evolve for maximum survivability”
Viruses are not alive. They don’t die. They don’t survive.
They don’t eat. They don’t excrete.
They don’t “mutate”. There is no action on their part. Their genetic material inside an infected cell causes that cell to create more of that genetic material, and that creation is not perfect. It has variance in structure. Largely random. Then it bursts through that cell membrane and floats around in the lung until it bumps into another cell, or is exhaled.
It doesn’t care if the host survives or dies. It doesn’t care about anything. It’s not alive and is not trying to survive.
Delta delta delta.
Whiskey tango foxtrot.
Sierra november, alpha foxtrot uniform.
While the Delta variant devastated India, other factors may have been responsible for that: very low vitamin D levels in Indians who are brown folks and need more sunlight, but were locked indoors during the previous year. Just a hunch.
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