Posted on 09/19/2022 10:12:58 PM PDT by Libloather
“The pandemic is over” is surely what everyone wanted to hear. President Biden made the declaration in a Sunday “60 Minutes” broadcast. But before rushing out to the ticker-tape parade, sit down. The pandemic is still raging - in the sense that a dangerous virus is infecting, sickening and killing people, mutating to survive and haunting the globe. The pandemic has shifted - and normalcy has returned in many ways - but it is not over.
Why Mr. Biden said otherwise is obvious. The midterm elections are coming, and Americans feel an overwhelming sense of fatigue. “If you notice, no one’s wearing masks,” the president told journalist Scott Pelley. “Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape. And so I think it’s changing.”
No hard-and-fast rules mark the exact moment a pandemic ends. The nation and the world have come a long way since the early lockdowns and the devastating delta and omicron waves. Vaccines against the coronavirus are safe and highly effective, giving people confidence to resume many activities. Classrooms are back in person, air travel has revived, commuter traffic is picking up. A lot of the worst misery is in the rearview mirror.
But the pandemic is surely not over. The seven-day moving average of daily deaths in the United States is nearly 400 and has plateaued at this terrible level since April. The average of new daily cases is 60,000, way higher than in the spring. Weighed down by the virus, average life expectancy of Americans fell in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years. Covid-19 is the third-leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer. Long covid - those suffering a constellation of maladies after the immediate symptoms dissipate - threatens millions of people.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Any discussion of "Long COVID" needs to be balanced off by a discussion of vaccine injuries and pre-mature deaths alleged to be related to frequent "boosting".
Rotting garbage dies in the compost heap.
It was over in March of 2020 for me. Biggest scam ever.
There is no fraction. There is only counting. August 17 is one day. All the days increase as time passes until the last death for that day has been tabulated.
703 is likely the final count for Aug 17. Enough time has passed for the data to all be in. This is different from last year, when states made an effort to get all county tabulation that day. There is nothing wrong with this. Excess deaths have always been delayed for weeks on the ED page with the graphs.
Speaking of which, the article does have that right. Ed’s are how society loses Life Expectancy. The ED graph is proceeding just above pre 2020 death counts, and it has done this for months. No telling if we get another winter surge, but if not the current level of a400-500 ED’s per day will take more months off LE.
It was over in March of 2020 for me. Biggest scam ever.
Yep. Anyone who looked at the demographics from the first outbreak in Italy could see that.
“a dangerous virus is infecting, sickening and killing people, mutating to survive and haunting the globe.”
The Donkeypox.
We’ll have to wait for the winter surge and see how bad it’ll be this years. We have some immunity this time so it should help a little.
Fear.
Mass psychosis is strong with the masker jabbers.
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