Total COVID-19 Cases per 1000 People
Yes, it certainly looks that way...
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Posted on 04/29/2020 6:51:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When Stanford University School of Medicine professor John Ioannidis warned on March 17 that the rush to implement sweeping coronavirus lockdowns could be “a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco,” his was a lone voice amid the rising pandemic panic.
Not any longer. As the statistical models on deaths are revised downward and the economic and social costs of the stay-at-home strategy grow more dire, contrarians are diving into the data and asking whether the lockdown pain was worth the gain — or whether the COVID-19 reaction was overblown.
“It is now clear that the lockdowns were a major mistake everywhere except the New York City metro area, and possibly even there,” said author and former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson, a leading voice among the COVID-19 contrarians.
“The argument as to whether they were a mistake in NYC rests on a couple of complicated debates about whether they work at all in time to make a difference, but everywhere else, it is clear that the coronavirus is simply not dangerous enough to the general population to justify the measures we have taken,” Mr. Berenson said in an email.
Mr. Berenson, who characterizes the debate as one between “Team Pandemic” and “Team Reality,” has received plenty of pushback from shutdown supporters as the argument rages over whether the states should stay locked down or move more quickly to open up.
Dr. Ioannidis said the lockdowns initially were “the right thing to do,” based on the lack of reliable data, but widespread social isolation is no longer the appropriate response to what he described as a “very common, mild infection for the vast majority of the population.”
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“but the really shocking thing was all the hysterical freepers that were more than eager to give up all their rights let the govt lock them in their homes and close their businesses.”
Yeah, it’s almost unreal how desperately some are still clinging to that foolishness.
We’ve had two perfectly controlled tests, the Diamond Princess and the USNV Roosevelt aircraft carrier, same results! Except only one death because of younger age group on the carrier. Total infected percentage on both is eerily similar to society at large! It’s been staring people in the face for two months
Yes, it wouldn’t surprise me to see that the death rate is ultimately similar to a bad flu season (around 0.1 percent). Unfortunately, that still leaves the Wu Flu’s wildfire spread to deal with and the accompanying threat to health systems in hot spots.
Kay lovey is a wolf in sheep’s clothing
bkmk
Chicom bio-war from Wuhan.
This was a test run.
Yes, it certainly looks that way...
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AnotherUnixGeek ~ If only we could. Unfortunately, there's a horde of mayors and governors - mostly Democrats - who all think they know better than us. They don't.
dp0622 reports:
There was a billion people at the beaches and parks in Brooklyn today.It seems not so much 'if only we could', but We The People can, and are...Didn’t look any different than a normal day.
Restaurants are doing mad takeout
Need to open up everything.
There was NO social distancing and almost no one wearing masks.
Lots of cop cars but they didn’t bother anybody.
So might as well open
Even going to the grocery store is a dangerous action at the moment. Not because of the virus, but your risking your life if you walk down an aisle and somehow get 5 feet from somebody.
Normal people, not just old people, get incredibly rude in situations like this. Even if you are wearing a mask.
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