Posted on 03/28/2020 8:23:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
While President Trump closed the U.S. border against entry from China at the end of January, his overall instinct was right. The CCP virus was nasty, but no worse than a supercharged flu.
Health professionals overwhelmed Trump and his inner circle with doomsday scenarios, bullied by panic-obsessed virologists and epidemiologists — begging for attention and copying the alarmist playbook from the climate/global warming extremists, allied with the MSM Trump-haters.
And now the government has completely suffocated economic demand, creating a depression, an unnecessary calamity that is destroying lives, livelihoods, families, and fortunes for a generation. It is becoming apparent that the end-of-the-world predictions, computer models warning of an apocalyptic black plague worldwide, are all wrong.
Those paying attention were warned that the worse-case scenarios were hysterical, by the likes of Stanford epidemiologist John P.A. Ioannidis.
In dramatic fashion, U.K. Imperial College scientist Neil Ferguson published a doomsday scenario on March 16. Now, just ten days later, he has reversed his outlook, essentially settling on a prediction no worse than a bad flu season.
Most telling, the two U.S. public health icons, Drs Fauci and Birx, are both saying the extreme models that provoked extreme measures bear little resemblance to the actual data on the ground. From the New England Journal of Medicine March 26 co-authored by Fauci:
This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is not what I’ve heard from people who’ve had the symptoms
Gasping to breathe is not like influenza
Playgued.
.....to which nobody has immunity.
And there is no vaccine.
And overwhelms both ERs and ICUs.
Please stop with the flu BS already.
I honestly cannot believe they haven’t retracted this fake news article. I made about ten comments and emailed them to correct their error.
“From the New England Journal of Medicine March 26 co-authored by Fauci: This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza...”
That is FALSE. Fauci’s article was published on Feb 28th. Two weeks AFTER that when people started dying, Fauci changed his tune and saidthat he believes it is ten times worse than the flu.
I don’t have much time for Fauci but the article is false. Fauci is not suddenly saying it’s no worse than the flu. That’s what he initially thought.
“Please stop with the flu BS already.”
Agreed. Not only that, the article gives a totally false date for Fauci’s comment. See my comment above.
I wish there were a “like” button !
“This is not what I’ve heard from people who’ve had the symptoms
Gasping to breathe is not like influenza“
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This article was NOT about symptoms individuals with the virus may feel, it was about the overall date rate of the virus compared to other relatively recent pandemics.
It is to the tens of thousands who die from the flu every year in the United States.
It is a bio-weapon.
I think the "recovered" number is low by virtue of the fact that the illness appears to have about a 2 week life span. So, all the people who didn't die since the outbreak began up until two weeks ago most likely have recovered by now.
How much more gentle is it for a person die of your run-of-mill seasonal flu?
Folks die from that, too.
Bkmk
Supercharged is way kool. I have a buncha turbocharged thingys.
They are WAY better than being normally aspirated.
Does the WuHuFlu feel the same way?
Is one of the above significantly different from the other?
Compare and contrast.
That’s great!
What happens if they are exposed to the pathogen again?
Because it’s not going away.
Is the flu a Chinese WMD?
Funny thing, the virus map looks like the T-Mobile 2014 coverage map. The virus would be scary at Verizon coverages.
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