Posted on 09/01/2020 10:33:01 AM PDT by yoe
Testing, testing, testing -- that's how Pelosi and the Democrats say we'll defeat the coronavirus. Meanwhile, President Trump and his administration are conducting "operation warp speed" at breakneck pace to develop therapeutics, diagnostics, and a vaccine for the Wuhan flu. Unlike testing, treatments will actually do something for you when you come down sick with the disease. But now we're learning the overwhelming majority of those who have tested positive for the coronavirus should really have been found negative after all.
According to (The New York Times), potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing. Leading public health experts are now concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems.
[snip] It helps to understand The Times' religious devotion to testing if one understands that Democrats have long-since committed to taking the polar opposite position of whatever President Trump believes. It's a symptom of Trump Derangement Syndrome. If Trump is hopeful about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, then Democrats believe the drug will kill you. If Trump believes we should focus less on testing and more on treatments, Democrats and the media will insist we do nothing but testing and forget about treatments altogether.
2aProtectsTheRest wrote: “Median means half the people dying from it at younger than 79. Someone whos 70 can absolutely live to 80 or even 90 in todays society. They are not disposable.”
Who said those over 70 were disposable?
The CDD website reports 164,280 deaths involving COVID19.
20,655 were 55-64 (12.57%)
34,980 were 65-74 (21.29%)
43,392 were 75-84 (26.41%)
51,719 were 85+ (31.48%)
Very few over the age of 75 are going to live “DECADES”. 57.89% of deaths were over the age of 75.
BTW, these were all deaths associated with COVID19, not just deaths caused by the virus.
What does this show?
That the virus can still be detected weeks later? I think we know that.
The tests could be too sensitive. But they werent designed to tell the amount of virulent virus in the body, but rather any infection at all. Seems a little late to now want the tests to tell the AMOUNT of virus.
I had Shingles two years ago.
Record my death appropriately....
That is a curiously incorrect conclusion there nOOb...
It tells me that the positive numbers are being grossly exaggerated for political purposes.......Show me the numbers of people who initially tested positive then subsequent tests came up negative.
I have no confidence in that number either. If a person gets hit by lightning or a truck there is little doubt about the cause of death. But when a person dies of pneumonia, that person could be loaded up with a whole zoo of viruses, funguses and bacteria. Was there an autopsy in each case? Did anyone conduct a census of every potential pathogen in the victim? Does every doctor or coroner that assesses a death have the same levels of skill, dedication, resources, politics, interest, ethics etc?
And then there's the federal money motivation for a corona diagnoses in many cases. The numbers are as cooked as they can be.
And unlike the flu, no one really seems to anyone who got sick from this.
Every flu season you know who is most likely to get sick in your office or you can recall who was sick the past season.
Not so with this Fauxdemic...
The speculation is from The NY Times. I dont consider their study to be a credible scientific study, particularly in view of their history of fabricated stories, non existent sources and outright bias.
You’re the only person in the world who sees a global pandemic that doctors say is killing hundreds of thousands of people, and excess mortality figures showing hundreds of thousands of deaths above normal baseline, but somehow can’t connect the two.
“What caused all those excess deaths?” “Dunno.” “Maybe it was the pandemic that doctors say is killing people?” “Nah.” “Then what is it?” “It’s a mystery!”
So what you’re saying is that we can never know how anyone anywhere died, so we should just give up?
Don’t trust cooked statistics at all.
Read up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
All of those charts are from March/April. What do the ones from August look like, hmmm? I want to see a comparison of 2020 versus 2019 versus 2018.
The left naturally wants to count everyone who has any of the germs at all in their system, even if they are not contagious and have zero symptoms. The only point of that is political.
If you go back into the previous decades, the number of deaths was much higher. We survived.
We should resolve to die on the bad flu hill. There is no sense giving them an inch. 1918 was more than a bad flu year, because it killed people in their teens and twenties. This is just a bad flu year.
If someone misleads you 94% of the time, should you trust them on the other 6% ???
But, that's a different article than the ones discussed here.
If it were up to me, Id have a forensic financial audit performed on the little bastard. Trump wont do it because hes on a Fauci Kool Aid IV drip.
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