Posted on 04/27/2020 5:50:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
The new White House standard for reopening the economy in various states is rigged to severely prolong the economic strangulation under the current lockdowns. The criterion has been defined as a 14-day period of declining volume in new cases or a 14-day period of declining rates of positivity of those tested.
Testing is ramping up in every state, which if the epidemiologists are right, will produce a lower percentage rate of positivity on the tests since the curve has been bent. But there is a new factor which throws all of these calculations off so far off that the 14-day standard should be abandoned.
That factor is the likelihood that there are an enormous number of asymptomatic cases out there that have never been counted (nor tested so far). Early estimates based on sampling in Iceland suggested maybe half of all those infected were asymptomatic. Dr. Fauci estimated 25% of cases might be asymptomatic. Now we have much higher estimates. The Stanford sampling study in Santa Clara County testing for antibodies, a similar study in Los Angeles County, a study in a town in Germany, a study just done in New York State, and testing in an Ohio prison and a Boston homeless shelter, suggest the number of asymptomatic cases are in fact many multiples of the number of cases already tested positive so far.
This is good news and bad news. The good news is it means many more people have already had the virus or are experiencing it in very mild or totally asymptomatic fashion. This means the real death rate for the virus has a much larger denominator when you divide total deaths by total infected, and hence a lower death rate.
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This means the real death rate for the virus has a much larger denominator when you divide total deaths by total infected, and hence a lower death rate.
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But...wait...the ‘experts’ told us...
You can bet the rats states will drag this out until the 2nd wave hysteria raises in September, the hysteria begins in the media everyone dying of natural causes are now virus related and there is a call to shut down right before the elections
No worries, President Birx has things under control. She’s promised to give Trump a strong tertiary role in reopening the nation.
Spot on. Chicken Freepers scared everyone with a bogus “ case fatality rate”. Once that number was throttled by the less scary “infection fatality rate” they pivoted to rate of spread and number of infections.
‘Expert’ — an unelected official having a disproportionate influence over public policy.
Spot on. Chicken Freepers scared everyone with a bogus “ case fatality rate”. Once that number was throttled by the less scary “infection fatality rate” they pivoted to rate of spread and number of infections.
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It scared Trump too! He’s been effectively neutered here. Birx is calling the shots, not Trump. I would’ve never believed this could happen.
As I’ve stated elsewhere, I’ve been tracking coronavirus stats worldwide since mid-December. The fact is that 93-96% of people who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus have mild symptoms or none at all. Anecdotally, a number of emergency room doctors in the US have stated that, statistically, the coronavirus is no more severe than the height of the flu season. What throws our numbers off is the fact that, since the outbreak of the coronavirus, we’ve been testing people with symptoms, which greatly skews the numbers in favor of a higher infection rate.
President Birx will gladly yield the throne to President Biden at which time COVID-19- whatever will recede and the Earth will begin to heal the wounds of the afflicted.
Everyday she and Fauci are allowed to reinforce the Prog agenda is another day Trump earns his fate of losing the election.
This delay is all about racism. The Democrats only have hate and racism left to control their minority base. They need to get everyone back on the plantation fast. The MSM is going to focus on race division at all levels. They have tried to leak the topic into the virus discussion and it is going to be full throttle in the coming months. Because if things are getting better, It helps Trump.
The delay is all about keeping the virus scare alive so the Dems can push through absentee voting and get rid of Trump.
I turned on the local news only to catch the weather. I was slammed by story after story about the many dangers involved in opening Ohio. That it was too soon, that there was huge risk, that it likely would be rolled back.
It infuriates me.
Get elected President and let us know how it feels
President Birx will gladly yield the throne to President Biden at which time COVID-19- whatever will recede and the Earth will begin to heal the wounds of the afflicted.
Everyday she and Fauci are allowed to reinforce the Prog agenda is another day Trump earns his fate of losing the election.
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I cannot believe this is happening! This has turned Trump into a hot mess. The only person he’s chosen to chastise during this hoax isn’t the two doctors who’ve been wrong about everything, nope, Trump decides to attack the Georgia Governor for trying to ease the suffering of his people!
President Trump, where are you?
Company where I work is going way overboard. 95% of us are working from home. Everyone will have to certify they’ve read the new FIFTY page training “guide” to demonstrate they understand the new rules. No sharing work stations, fill out forms certifying you’ve disinfected the station when leaving. We’ll be required to “self-screen” and take our own temperatures before coming to work, then get checked upon arrival. There will only be one egress from each area. There is more...
Get elected President and let us know how it feels
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Birx wasn’t elected and she’s running the show. Maybe I have a shot!
We've been had. We took our eye off the ball as it were and let the left infringe upon our rights. We should not ask for our freedoms back. We should not accept terms and conditions on their "letting" us exercise them again. Hack off would-be dictators. We are not listening to you any more. Keep pushing, thinking you've got all this new-found power and you'll soon find out just how little power you actually have.
Yup. Trump needs to man-up and do something other than put out cryptic tweets.
Last night he retweeted a comment about Dems padding body counts. Undeniably true, and that indicates Trump knows it.
So he has to make the logical connection that the Fauci-Birx three-stage plan is a set-up. Yet we bash Brian Kemp and stick to the narrative.
Is that now the American standard for criticism, that one has to be elected president or keep his opinions to himself? We’re all capable and, for now at least, permitted to offer our opinions. Unlike the president, we’re not all germophobes and I happen to think the president’s decision making is biased by his germophobia.
Remember what William F. Buckley said, “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.”
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