Huge outbreak? Iceland is seeing about 100 cases per day, and has seen exactly 1 death in all of 2021.
Does Iceland have a citizen-friendly media culture, i.e., no overwhelming addiction to gaslighting and crafting and peddling a preferred narrative?
Sherlock Holmes......resurfaces in Iceland.
No (kidding).......
You have to learn to put things in perspective.
Arizona has over 7 Million people. Iceland has ~350 Thousand people.
The Arizona population is roughly 20 times that of Iceland. Arizona saw 2,100 new cases yesterday. Iceland is seeing about the same number per person at 100 new cases in a day.
The 2,100 cases seen in Arizona is a large uptick in what we saw early last month. Arizona cases are up about 4X in the last 30 days. I suspect that Iceland has also had an upward movement which they wish to watch.
On the other hand, I suspect that Iceland has vaccinated at a higher rate than Arizona, which is at 53%. I did not see the vaccination rate for Iceland in the article.
As of this moment, Iceland has a population of 343,717.
The sleight-of-hand they are using is: ...Facing a huge new #Covid outbreak that translates into ~100,000 US cases a day...
Most people read that as 100,000 case a day, which is what the fear-mongers want.
Since few people know the actual population of Iceland, the sleazy trick works.
“Huge outbreak? Iceland is seeing about 100 cases per day, and has seen exactly 1 death in all of 2021.”
Alex Berenson spent the last 18 months telling us Covid was just the flu. Here’s a twitter post from Alex Berenson, saying we use a “hyper-aggressive count of Covid deaths” and “the flu is likely less dangerous”
10/6/2020
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1313537375549751296
“@AlexBerenson
The fact is that more people under 18 have died of the flu than #Sarscov2 this year, despite our hyper-aggressive count of #COVID deaths.
@AlexBerenson
Oct 6, 2020
Here’s the actual estimates of #sarscov2 IFR (infection fatality rate, the death rate for all infections) from @cdcgov
. I know, it’s hard to find, it’s on the CDC Website.
0-19 years: 0.00003 (0.003%)
20-49 years: 0.0002 (0.02%)
50-69 years: 0.005 (0.5%)
70+ years: 0.054 (5.4%).
@AlexBerenson
As you can see, the under 50 estimates are almost exactly the same for the flu and the ro (again, we know this includes many WITH rather than FROM ro deaths because of our counting rules). Thus the flu is likely less dangerous.
@AlexBerenson
The reverse is true over 50, and certainly over 60.
1:51 PM · Oct 6, 2020·Twitter Web App”
But now, to make sure he gets enough re-tweets and likes and subscriptions to his substack blog, he has to whip up the opposite theory - now Covid in Iceland is a HUGE PROBLEM!
Huge outbreak? Iceland is seeing about 100 cases per day, and has seen exactly 1 death in all of 2021.
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Total population of Iceland is 356,000.