Coronavirus wave this fall and winter could potentially infect 100 million, White House warns

CNN ^ | 5/6/22 | Kaitlan Collins

[EQAndyBuzz]

Why don’t Republicans just call it what it is and be done with it?

“IT’S THE FREAKING FLU!!!!”

[Irish Eyes]

Sounds like misinformation to me. Where is the new tzar?

[fireman15]

I know an entire family that got Covid recently over the course of a couple weeks.

My brother and sister-in-law were visiting Hawaii a couple of weeks ago. They have been vaxxed to the max as well and it has caused problems with his heart which have him grounded from his job as an airline captain. He has a history of allergies to pollen and started experiencing a runny nose. My sister-in-law insisted that he get tested and it came back positive. Of course nothing was done for him medically speaking, but he was required to stay isolated in their hotel room for the rest of their vacation. He had a view of the back of another hotel and limited views of the sky. She of course didn't get herself tested so she could run around town.

[JonPreston]

Why don’t Republicans just call it what it is and be done with it?

They are part of the problem. The media is going to push a Fall lock down, so will Biden, and The Rs will do absolutely nothing.

[rktman]

Lucky for us we managed to survive the dearth of pain and suffering this past winter that branDUHn* warned us about so pretty sure next fall and winter will be survivable. Well, as long as we remain “NON GMO” anyway. Just sayin’...............

*Should we change that from branDUHn to braindead?

[DoodleBob]

While 100MM is fearporn, there IS likely a SEASONAL DIMENSION to cases and fatalities. The majority of deaths in most countries can be attributed to causes that feature a distinct seasonal pattern. The figure depicts the relative monthly frequencies of nine selected causes of death in the United States for women and men combined for the years 1959–2014. The reported number of counts in parentheses in the title of each panel is the actual number of deaths.

Viruses gonna virus. Based on this chart, even non-viruses gonna non-virus.

A very likely reality, is that this bug will be with us forever. While the case fatality rate started out high, it'll continue trending down to approach the 0.2% CFR for influenza. It'll simply become a seasonal annoyance...

....an annoyance that destroyed the economy, flipped the Presidency, and weaponized the CDC and OSHA, and made Anthony Fauci infamous. Hundreds of thousands of elderly people died in isolation (because loved ones were barred from surrounding them as they drowned in their own fluids "based on safety protocols"), children and GenZers are depressed and young ones suffering from speech delays, and families have fractured because "you can't see your grandchildren because you're an antivaxxer who doesn't follow the (political) science." It required a SCOTUS ruling to declare that OSHA hadn't the power to force people to get experimental treatments against their will.

All this means, is that every fall and winter, disgust for leftists (and statist collaborators on the right) will rise. They will go onto the next episode of Bread and Circuses- we will Never Forget.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

[Dusty Road]

Don’t forget the drop boxes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

While 100MM is fearporn, there IS likely a SEASONAL DIMENSION to cases and fatalities.

Just like the regular seasonal flu with the same case and fatality rate.

We could have destroyed the world economy decades ago if only we had known!

[Spok]

Whatever the Wuhan virus brings, it won’t be as damaging as what Brandon and Fauci want to do to us.

[Spok]

Whatever the Wuhan virus brings, it won’t be as damaging as what Brandon and Fauci want to do to us.

[Bob434]

[[Is it a cold, or is it covid. That is the question.]]

If over 99% overall survive, it’s a cold... or covid

[skimbell]

and then maybe not...

[seowulf]

Dramatic new variants??? What the &#*@ is a ‘Dramatic’ variant??

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes.

[simpson96]

“...could potentially infect 100 million...”

And pigs could fly.

Potentially.

[sheana]

I’ve had a cold the last week. Found out someone I know had Covid so out of curiosity did a Covid test. Positive. I’ve had much worse ‘just colds’.

[DoodleBob]

There is a popular theoretical question - "would you have killed Hitler in the 30s if you knew what was to come?" Many people answer "yes."

I believe most radicalized (and unfortunate many few remaining normal) liberals feel the same way about Trump. Lacking a time machine, the 2020-equivalent question was "would you steal the election by whatever means, to remove Trump from office?" Because, ya know, he's Hitler.

This is the unspoken but likely truth about 2020...I bet most Bidet supporters KNOW that the election was fraudulent, and it is very likely that Trump won by a mile. But, because Orange Man Bad, they grip onto whatever half-baked rationale for the results to keep the opposition stopped, and feel morally justified in stealing the election.

Thus, they never destroyed the economy etc over the flu in the past, because there wasn't a "moral imperative" to do so.

Next up: "sunrise causes cancer" to steal 2024.

[StAntKnee]

Note: Anonymous official. 100 million is a disaster, but nobody has the courage to come right out and say it. Because it is a totally made up figure.

Couple weeks from now it will be 600 million Americans with no shame or shade of irony.

These people are sixth-graders. To paraphrase Biden: SIXTH GRADERS!!!!!

[Organic Panic]

WE ARE DOOOOOOOOOOOMED.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Anyone that gets a cold is going to go apes***!