The Wuhan Virus is Turning into a Wimp

American Thinker.com ^ | March 29, 2020 | William Noel

[Kaslin]

Our medical care system itself is one of the biggest problems we face as we fight the coronavirus.

As we learn more about the COVID-19 Wuhan virus each day, it is becoming increasingly obvious that it isn’t the great threat to our health and survival we were initially led to believe. It is turning out to be more like the schoolyard bully I remember from grade school days who intimidated me with all sorts of name-calling and threats until the day arrived when I decided to fight back. He wasn’t expecting that and when he retreated, I realized he was just a loudmouthed wimp and he quit harassing me.

This isn’t to say the Wuhan virus cannot kill, because it is the nature of viruses to attack where they find weakness, multiply to overwhelm bodily defenses and ultimately kill the host. While that is happening in some cases, evidence is growing that it isn’t nearly as deadly as we were made to fear. Along with much lower death rates, there is growing anecdotal evidence that the people who tested positive and then died were victims of multiple conditions and it wasn’t the COVID-19 virus but a synergy of the multiple attackers that killed them.

In other words, compared to what we were told, the Wuhan virus is a wimp.

To understand this, consider the flu. Many patients suffering from the flu also develop pneumonia. The flu typically does not cause pneumonia. Rather, it creates the conditions in your lungs, allowing the bacteria or virus causing pneumonia to invade, multiply, and worsen until it becomes life-threatening. .

[AppyPappy]

“The flu typically does not cause pneumonia. Rather, it creates the conditions in your lungs”

Sex typically doesn’t cause pregnancy. It creates conditions that can lead to it”

[Travis McGee]

Comparing Flu and COVID-19 deaths. Today, 07:41 PM by Ronan Kelly, FluTrackers

For the past several years, I have been plotting and comparing week to week influenza mortality data gathered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance system. The number of coded flu deaths per year is only a part of the estimated flu deaths each week. I added US coronavirus deaths by week to the plot and got this:

I know it's not apples to apples, the estimated number of flu deaths is about 6 times higher than the numbers recorded by the NCHS, but there is every reason to believe that the actual number of coronavirus fatalities is also larger than the subset that gets confirmed. There has only been 4 weeks of data. Where is this going to end up?

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/-2019-ncov-new-coronavirus/united-states-2019-ncov/842586-comparing-flu-and-covid-19-deaths#post842586

[bramps]

It doesn’t seem to be a wimp as far as taking up hospital beds.

[Travis McGee]

Forget the politics and spin. Ignore projections, models and theories.

Just look at the hard cold death numbers, week over week.

[Travis McGee]

75% of CV patients placed on ventilators die after 2 to 3 weeks.

While more and more patients arrive.

[wastoute]

We knew Coronaviruses were wimps long ago. I remarked on it from the beginning. “This isn’t a virus a ‘weaponizer’ would choose.”

[wastoute]

For a “wimp” it’s doing pretty damn well.

[AppyPappy]

The %’s are going up. They really go up in places where they have instituted #BoomerRemover and refused treatment for the elderly.

[bramps]

And am I correct, as I think about it right now, that this is such an insidious way to die as loved one’s cannot visit you at the same time you feel that death is coming on?

[sonofagun]

US deaths to date: 2229

US recovered from virus to date: 3238

Do the math.

That’s a 41% fatality rate as of today in the US.

[Skywise]

So how come your top chart shows over 1800 deaths for the US but your bottom chart says 1250?

[ronnie raygun]

1246 DEATHS, SWINE FLU 12000 right now 10 percent, yes its highly contagious more so than the average flu,, on average in typically healthy people a regular flu, in the compromised and elderly deadly, just like a regular flu. Not downplaying the severity but we need to weight the hysteria brought on by the media, the politicians pushing their agenda and the solutions moving forward

[databoss]

Your math has bad gaps.

[no-s]

75% of CV patients placed on ventilators die after 2 to 3 weeks.

My wife is an RN and has experience in all kinds of monitored care and ER as well. She said having to be intubated for more than 24 hours does not bode well for survival, not only is it just bad for you per se, but needing it for a few days is a strong indicator of incipient mortality...

[Brian Griffin]

Many people are weaker than COVID-19.

[Brian Griffin]

About 100 apparently healthy people should be tested randomly in NYC every few days so we know its penetration rate and potential deadliness.

[sonofagun]

“Your math has bad gaps.”

Show me.

[Morpheus2009]

ping

[Liberal Anti Venom]

What a douchebag.