Posted on 04/26/2020 6:46:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Wednesday Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi, who own seven Accelerated Urgent Care facilities in Kern County, Calif., gave a press conference to local media. They extrapolated from their own COVID-19 data, along with data sets nationwide and globally. Using this data, their own medical knowledge and information gathered from conversations with their colleagues around the country, they presented a compelling case, which included unreported health risks related to sheltering in place, for ending the severe shutdowns.
Both doctors understand and support the initial reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak by the federal, state and local governments. It was a novel virus and there was very limited information. However, now they assert that the data is telling them that the disease pattern of COVID-19 is more like the flu. Dr. Erickson phrased it this way, Millions of cases, a small number of deaths. He specifically noted that the difference in the number of deaths between Sweden, with limited restrictions, and Norway, which locked down, is not statistically significant.
"Lockdown versus non-lockdown did not produce a statistically different number of deaths. That is the bottom line," said Erickson.
Throughout the briefing he emphasized that decision making going forward needs to be based on data, not predictive models. This echoes comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci during press briefings. And we have all watched the predictive models be radically adjusted as actual data has been loaded into them.
Their data extrapolations, using a method similar to the one the CDC uses for influenza, suggest that death rates for COVID-19 are similar to those for the flu. According to their analysis, both Kern County and the state of California have likely experienced a widespread viral infection.
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Lockdown versus non-lockdown did not produce a statistically different number of deaths.
And how did they come to that deduction crystal ball
California Docs are like California judges
And now the odious Fauci is out there saying its too early to open anything yet, we need twice as much testing (to determine what, exactly?). Why does Trump give this man a platform?
Now the fascist governors and mayors who said they were opening soon will say, sorry, all a misunderstanding, Fauci said we need a few more weeks. How does Trump plan to ever get the country working again?
“There is NO WAY POSSIBLE that reducing the ability of this virus to spread did NOT reduce the number of deaths caused by it.”
What if your sill;y measures didn’t stop the spread in any way?? That’s makes you the gullible fool.
If the measures stopped one virus, COVID-19, why didn’t those same measures stop the flu or the common cold, also viruses? Go ahead, Sunshine, we’ll wait your intelligent analysis to this fool.
While you think about hat, tell us how wearing a useless mask stops a virus. Tell us how taking off that mask and sticking it in your purse or pocket or center console of your car then putting it back on later stops the virus. Tell us how not taking off that mask properly and disposing of said mask in a biowaste receptacle stops a virus. Go ahead, tell us how wearing that mask stopped a virus.
While you’re at it, tell us how a 6 foot recommendation became a religious superstition and stopped a virus when a virus can linger for a long time and 6 feet means nothing.
Tell us how a fart can penetrate underwear and a pair of jeans but your silly improperly worn cloth mask stops a virus.
Tell us how doing anything in March 2020 stopped a virus that was in the US since at least October 2019 and most likely long before that.
The anti-malarials work early in the disease but do not work late in the disease.
That is why there has been mass confusion on the issue.
If everyone wears masks then most economic activity could resume without major negative consequences.
The politicians have been behind the curve from day one, and they are still behind the curve.
They will figure it out—just late as usual.
How did all those predictions become fact? I mean, people treat the "millions are going to die!" predictions as fact when they weren't. They were meant to scare people into submission and it worked. They willingly destroyed their country.
Pull the tin-foil on tighter! The black helicopters are coming!
You work for China, don’t you?
Medicine is beyond you. Admit it.
That’s all you got, simply repeating silly tripe?
You’re not very intelligent.
“Pull the tin-foil on tighter! The black helicopters are coming!”
You’re the one that believed the nonsense about the virus was going to kill us all. I’d say you’re the black helicopter type.
They compared data from Sweden and Norway. Statistically, no significant difference in locked down Norway.
Id say youre the black helicopter type.
There’s intelligent response to this, and its NOT what you’re advocating.
I think you’re a China plant.
America will come back. And without ONE RED CENT going to the people you work for.
“These guys are gonna get kicked out of Cali if they keep talking like this”
They’re more than welcome to relocate to Texas.
The more intelligence and common sense the better.
Sweden 8 million people not a good data source.
They were meant to scare people into submission
Option 1 stay home and live
Option 2 rove about risk death
You have an option
I chose option 2.... have literally been out and about every single day since this BS started.
Why would you think that?
My fear is the success of the lock-down misleads people to think it was all unnecessary and we should recklessly just go back to 100% normal activities.
You can see the exponential growth that was happening before the lock-down - then it went immediately flat because we all stayed home.
NYC was not a hoax. Wuhan was not a hoax. You only need to see the measures the CCP continues to take to know how fearful they are of it.
I’m all for getting back to work and opening businesses - WITH CAUTION: masks, distancing, making sure you wash hands excessively, etc.. Otherwise all this pain could easily go to waste and it blows back up in our faces.
I’d prefer a study about transmission rates between people being in crowded areas outside vs. inside. I believe this is one aspect we really got wrong. People out in the sun, at parks, fresh air, might have a very low transmission risk....vs clubs, bars, restaurants, etc. In the 1917 pandemic, it’s my understanding that this was supposed to be a “lesson learned” - people seemed to recover better outside. Sunlight? Humidity? I don’t know but we should pay closer attention to this.
Sticks and stones and all that.... water off a ducks back.
Sheesh.... they’re just words.
Logic
And you don’t even know if your a carrier with no symptom’s ?.
Sounds like a case of me me
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