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Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined
CNBC ^ | Jan 21, 2022

Posted on 01/21/2022 2:58:04 PM PST by BusterDog

In the two years since that first confirmed case, the virus has torn through the U.S. with a ferocity and duration few anticipated. The human toll is staggering, with more than 860,000 people dead and more than 69 million total infections. Hospitals around the nation have been pushed to the breaking point with more than 4 million admissions of confirmed Covid patients since August 2020, when the CDC started tracking hospitalizations. The hospital admissions are an undercount because they do not include the wave of cases that first hit the U.S. in the spring 2020 when hospitals were caught flat footed and testing was inadequate.

Though the U.S. now has effective vaccines and therapeutics to fight Covid, the future course of the pandemic remains uncertain as the virus mutates into new variants that are more transmissible and can evade vaccine protection. The highly contagious omicron variant has pushed infections and hospitalizations to record highs across the globe this month, a shock to a weary public that wants a return to normal life after two years of lockdowns, event cancellations, working from home and mask and vaccine mandates.

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Worse than what you were thinking it was it is.
1 posted on 01/21/2022 2:58:04 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

The Media inmates still running the asylum.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 3:00:02 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of<p Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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"Two years since Covid was first confirmed deliberately imported in U.S., the pandemic totalitarian government response is worse than anyone imagined"

Fixed that.

3 posted on 01/21/2022 3:01:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: BusterDog

Really, worse than any one imagined? Yeah, I guess if you are talking about governmental over reach, it is far worse. Where are 2.2 million deaths in the US in the first 6 months? Where the 100’s of million dead around the world? Those were the numbers being tossed about 2 years ago!


4 posted on 01/21/2022 3:01:59 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: BusterDog
Scamdemic


5 posted on 01/21/2022 3:02:09 PM PST by tomkat
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To: BusterDog

Take the media’s number and throw it back in their face.

The point is, the numbers indicate that not only have the vaccines not worked but they have made the situation worse.

More people have died and more people have become infected over the last year with the vaccines available than the first year of Covid when no vaccine existed.


6 posted on 01/21/2022 3:03:27 PM PST by srmanuel (`)
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To: BusterDog

The lies, the corruption, the tyranny, the child and elderly abuse, the medical malpractice, the economic destruction.... and most of all, the blind, foolish obedience, are all worse than anyone could have imagined.

The virus itself, not so much.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 3:05:41 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joacn Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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” more than 860,000 people dead”

BULL HOCKEY ON STEROIDS.

UK just revised it's Covid number deaths from 150,00 to less than 7,000.

Scamdemic compliments of Davos-19.

8 posted on 01/21/2022 3:05:51 PM PST by lizma2
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To: BusterDog

I’ve had it twice. First time in January 2021, then again a couple of weeks ago. It’s a nuisance. I’m 68.


9 posted on 01/21/2022 3:07:44 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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…. Though the U.S. now has effective vaccines and therapeutics…..


More fibs from CNBC.

Therapeutics, yes.

We’ve had those for nearly two years.


10 posted on 01/21/2022 3:11:08 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: BusterDog

Going to have to fast track those N-95 masks before the “pandemic” ends in a week or so.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 3:12:16 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (When Satan craps another demon possessed Progressive is born.)
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To: Fai Mao

Not even hit the Million Dead mark, that was screamed at us. If you ask just about any Covid cloth mask wearing Karen how many DEAD? They will likely answer, “Several million people “.

I know. I asked them. And when pointed out how effing wrong they are, “well, it could have been that many.”

Yeah, and pigs will fly.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 3:12:40 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. STILL)
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Riddle me this CNN - How is it that there are any “homeless” in any major city of the US?

Here you have a group of people living on the edge, many with pre-existing medical conditions, on drugs, poor diet, poor living condition and yet they seem to be thriving. If this virus was as deadly as we have been told there should not be a “homeless” person left on the streets of San Francisco.


13 posted on 01/21/2022 3:12:57 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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What happened to the FLU??? Pandemic my arse


14 posted on 01/21/2022 3:13:07 PM PST by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.)
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To: BusterDog

This thing will never end...


15 posted on 01/21/2022 3:13:34 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Fai Mao
"Really, worse than anyone imagined?"

Early on, I recall some federal health official say there could be 2 million deaths in the US the by the end of 2020. 18 months later, we're around 940,000, I think, even with numbers that have probably been inflated by 20-50% for various reasons, financial and political.
16 posted on 01/21/2022 3:14:24 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Totalitarianism is what it is. End of discussion.

These people (hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, government at all levels, and bed-wetters) don’t want it to end. They will never willingly relinquish the power and authority they have acquired from this scam. It’s dystopian.


17 posted on 01/21/2022 3:15:24 PM PST by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: goodnesswins

(What happened to the FLU???)

The flu and the common cold don’t exist anymore. It’s all COVID-19(84) all the time now.


18 posted on 01/21/2022 3:15:41 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BusterDog
Headline should read:

Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the government's response to the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined

19 posted on 01/21/2022 3:15:54 PM PST by Disambiguator
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--- "Worse than what you were thinking it was it is."

All the "official" sources tell that this "worse than what you were thinking" pandemic has resulted in "official" Covid deaths in the sourced amount of 0.070% of the global population.

The "official" narrative is NOT based on the "official" data, but the "official" posters of conclusions about the "official" data get contentious when the "official" numbers are cited from "official" sources.

20 posted on 01/21/2022 3:17:15 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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