Posted on 05/22/2020 9:09:32 PM PDT by conservative98
Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.
The CDC just came out with a report that should be earth-shattering to the narrative of the political class, yet it will go into the thick pile of vital data and information about the virus that is not getting out to the public. For the first time, the CDC has attempted to offer a real estimate of the overall death rate for COVID-19, and under its most likely scenario, the number is 0.26%. Officials estimate a 0.4% fatality rate among those who are symptomatic and project a 35% rate of asymptomatic cases among those infected, which drops the overall infection fatality rate (IFR) to just 0.26% — almost exactly where Stanford researchers pegged it a month ago.
Until now, we have been ridiculed for thinking the death rate was that low, as opposed to the 3.4% estimate of the World Health Organization, which helped drive the panic and the lockdowns. Now the CDC is agreeing to the lower rate in plain ink.
Plus, ultimately we might find out that the IFR is even lower because numerous studies and hard counts of confined populations have shown a much higher percentage of asymptomatic cases. Simply adjusting for a 50% asymptomatic rate would drop their fatality rate to 0.2% – exactly the rate of fatality Dr. John Ionnidis of Stanford University projected.
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WHERE is the “mainstream media”?? - I can answer that one easily/accurately & in just 4 short words: LYING THEIR @SS OFF.
There is nothing so consistent than that the press LIES like a roomful of rugs.
Yours, TMN78247
With all due respect, you are a nitwit. Define elderly. Should grandparents be put in boxcars and shipped off to relocation camps? SMH.
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Chicago has a higher death rate from homicide on a weekend than the US does from the coronavirus over the weekend. Hyperbole but closer to the truth than most “modelers” and media mouthpieces.
It’s probably not worth the electrons to say it, because this problem ceased to be a rational question some time ago:
That 1.6% of the population over 85 years of age accounts for just over 30% of the deaths, according to CDC publications. A good percentage of those are a result of poor public policy.
Of course this virus has created a spike in deaths. But who, in reality, do those deaths represent? There certainly has been no spike deaths of the population less than 20 years of age, and it’s probably not significant for the population less than 40 years.
The problem here is that our experts have allowed people to believe that all of us are under equal threat. And they have wasted their energy designing policies on that basis, rather than policies to protect the most vulnerable.
Too busy with Orange man stories.
After all, what’s more important? /s
Just noticed your successive posts in this thread and that you both have the same, early Freeper membership dates of 26 March 1998 ... ‘the good old days’!!
Lawyering up.
The point you’re making has been made for some other diseases. You are somewhat trying to quantify years of life lost. At first glance that makes pretty good sense. If only the very old at the ones dying then we’re not losing that many years of society life.
But that will never fly in the context of legality. If you started to walk down that path you would then have to declare degrees of murder to vary by the age of the victim. A criminal that shoots an elderly person versus a criminal who shoots a younger person . . . we would have to vary their sentence on conviction because the crimes would not be equivalent.
Society is not going to go down that path. Murder is murder.
L8r
Where is the media? In full rectal defilade, as usual.
Well said!
And we cancelled Easter! Memorial Day is a bit harder this year. If you have had a family member KIA you always thank God they had the opportunity to stand for freedom. This year we learned, under a Republican Prez no less, that we were never free. That America is no longer land of the free and home of the brave.
It was a good run though. We lost every freedom guaranteed by the constitution and didn’t even put up a fight. Over a virus that was created to test us. /not a party weekend.
The Fearpers will be very upset we didn’t turn into Italy. And that 2.2 million Americans didn’t die.
Let them stay safe at home.
The rest of us choose to live.
btt
Owen where did you get the data about global deaths per period, by age?
I am an empirical kinda guy and would love to look through it.
While murder is murder criminally, since you bring up legality, malpractice against an elderly person is significantly less expensive than against a young person becuase the economic damages are far less. It is rare tk ever see a malpractice tort for someone over 80 cause as Biden would say you ain’t worth all that much
Using the law as a cudgel is kind of dangerous here
Far more than 25% of people using HCL die.. . Terrible drug.
Perhaps you meant to say HCQ
Drudge has imploded with conspiracy garbage, Trump attacks, and wild speculation
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