Posted on 08/20/2020 7:31:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Franklin Templeton, an investment company, commissioned a Gallup research study to learn about Americans’ perceptions about the Wuhan virus, with an eye to better understanding the recovery. What the project revealed is that Americans grossly overestimate the risk that the Wuhan virus presents, especially to younger people. That they’re so worried isn’t surprising considering how the mainstream media has reported on the virus. For Democrats, hysteria helps.
What struck me was that this deliberate effort to stoke ignorance is a replay of what the media did back in the mid-1980s with AIDS. Then, the press insisted that AIDS was an illness that could attack anyone, no matter their sex, race, or sexual orientation. This was a lie. In America, AIDS was always a disease primarily limited to gay men, hemophiliacs, and intravenous drug users.
Franklin Templeton summed up the findings as follows (emphasis mine):
Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai unveils the first insights from the new Franklin Templeton–Gallup research project on the behavioral response to the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for the recovery: we find a gross misperception of COVID-19 risk, driven by partisanship and misinformation, and a willingness to pay a significant “safety premium” that could affect future inflation.
Although Franklin Templeton was surprised by the details, it’s doubtful any Republican is:
The first round of our Franklin Templeton–Gallup Economics of Recovery Study has already yielded three powerful and surprising insights:
- Americans still misperceive the risks of death from COVID-19 for different age cohorts—to a shocking extent;
- The misperception is greater for those who identify as Democrats, and for those who rely more on social media for information; partisanship and misinformation, to misquote Thomas Dolby, are blinding us from science; and
(Excerpt) Read more at admin.americanthinker.com ...
To illustrate.
The covid survival odds (85% survive) of older people are similar to survival odds of many cancers (except for the extremely vicious kind), if caught early.
There were at least several vaccines, not of which worked alone in preventing the progression from HIV infection into full blown AIDS. Although trying to not incite a climate of paranoia is the big mystery,
I’ve known from the Gates, covid19 was massively overblown.
In Washington state, we have ZERO deaths under age 20.
99% of our deaths are age 40 or above.
51% of our deaths are age 80 or above.
That makes a great deal more sense. Thank you.
Bttt.
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I read that the median age of Covid deats is 80 years. For the Rio Linda folks, it means that half of the covid deaths are folks older than 80.
Thanks for the clarification from an all most 82 year old.
Click this link and give it about 30 seconds to download the latest CDC data.
More people are probably dying from aliens attacking them in the past month/week than from Covid 19:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex
There was one more class of people with the AIDS problem not mentioned in the article and that is Hatian men.
Im a bit confused though. Heterosexual people DID get AIDS and women were the most vulnarable of all when exposed. And heterosexuals do get AIDS.
That’s true, but when 2 percent of the population of the United States and most of the developed world is accounting for more than half of the new cases annually, that’s very disproportionate, even with some heterosexual cases.
RE: There was one more class of people with the AIDS problem not mentioned in the article and that is Hatian men.
Which begs the question... on average, how sexually promiscuous are this class of people?
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