High blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are so commonplace everyone likely knows somebody with at least one of these maladies.They are also the “underlying conditions” most associated with severe cases of COVID-19
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/03/these-underlying-conditions-make-coronavirus-more-severe-and-they-are-surprisingly-common/
Top underlying health conditions in COVID-19 deaths include diabetes, obesity
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across Louisiana and deaths jump by record numbers, many deaths are attributed to underlying health conditions.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/top-underlying-health-conditions-in-covid-19-deaths-include-diabetes-obesity/ar-BB11OhMe
Age is not the only risk for severe coronavirus disease
WASHINGTON — Older people remain most at risk of dying as the new coronavirus continues its rampage around the globe, but they’re far from the only ones vulnerable. One of many mysteries: Men seem to be faring worse than women. https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/age-is-not-the-only-risk-for-severe-coronavirus-disease/article_a95ca128-738f-11ea-b7f1-979100d2700f.html
Huh, a good article from the Guardian. Who’d thunk it?
Scientists must really be whores with the way they exaggerate for money on “climate change” and on Chinese coronavirus. Either that or our dumbest liars are becoming scientists.
There is a galaxy of data and history out there:
Of what complete economic collapse does to societies.
Revolution, bloodshed, disease, depravity, etc. Yes indeed, plenty of data and history there.
This virus? Not so much.
If you don’t predict it and millions do die, then you really screwed up, and everyone knows it.
If, on the other hand, you predict large numbers of deaths, and everyone gets scared and takes drastic precautions, you can say, see, the precautions worked! We really dodged a bullet there...
“Oxford University team led by Sunetra Gupta ... figures on the morbidity of Covid-19 ... virtually meaningless in the absence of testing”
“Stanford University John Ioannidis .... data collected ... on ... pandemic “utterly unreliable”
“NHS pathologist, John Lee ... deaths of elderly people ... differently recorded in different countries”
All such clinicians and health scientists as above are ‘controversial, ‘right-wing’, etc.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3831207/posts?page=16#16';.
These are always the worst-case scenarios, the result if nothing is done to mitigate the disease. In every case, measures were taken to mitigate which resulted in the actual numbers of deaths falling below the projected worst-case scenario numbers. For example, in 2009 during the H1N1 pandemic, vaccine companies immediately began work on developing a vaccine--which is straightforward with flu, since they only have to tweak existing flu vaccines. And people started taking other precautions, for example placing disinfectant wipes in gyms and hand sanitizer dispensers in public places. The 2009 pandemic influenza virus is still circulating, still causing higher than average flu deaths every year.
For BSE, entire herds of cows were culled and testing was implemented in slaughterhouses. Currently, if a single cow comes up positive in a slaughterhouse, the production line is halted for sterilization of all equipment, the entire meat production for that day is destroyed, and the origins of the infected cow are traced back so that the source of BSE can be identified and destroyed.
Never assume that because the actual number of cases/deaths came in lower than predicted that it happened spontaneously. It did not. It took a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make it happen.
“Herd disagreement”. LOL