Posted on 04/29/2020 10:14:28 AM PDT by Missouri gal
...[I]t seems quite noteworthy that as of Sunday, coronavirus had killed zero school-aged people in all of Massachusetts and just 31 people under age of 50. Total. Out of close to 3,000 deaths in the state... Meanwhile, in New York, a top doctor who's been working on the frontlines...says he now believes re-opening is in order-for health reasons, in addition to economic ones.
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But...two million deaths. As bad as the Spanish flu.
The Fearpers promise us a charnel house.
No dead children? No weeping parents?
Are school teachers/administrators still being paid.
They must be worried some kids may start thinking for themselves if away from indoctrination and peer pressure too long.
You have to ask?
How dare kids think and learn for themselves?
Signed
Typical Educrat.
So basically it’s a flu.
Yes, and with schools closed with no staff, maintenance, lower energy costs, etc, I'd like a school tax rebate.
I'll bet if you dug deep into it, the salaries for the union teachers and staff plus the adminstration are the vast majority of the school budgets. And they are all still getting paid. It's nice having fat union contracts and / or cushy government jobs.
Without a doubt, something like 80% or so.
In the manner that a lion is basically a cat.
Last Year the Flu killed an estimated 30-60 thousand people in a six month period.
This thing has killed 60,000 in a little over a month.
So far in New Jersey we've had 6,770 deaths attributed to china virus. So far. That certainly is somewhat overstated as it seems everything is being attributed to the virus but that's the number. How does that look compared to the flu in NJ? Well here are some stats from a 2018 news article I dug up on NJ.com:
"The flu doesn't always get the respect it deserves as a deadly disease. But from 2005 to 2015, the most recent years available, 14,533 New Jersey residents died of influenza and pneumonia, according to state health department data. (The health department does not distinguish flu deaths from pneumonia deaths.) In 2015 alone, 1,402 New Jersey residents died due to flu and pneumonia."
So a typical year would see on average about 1,400 flu deaths. So this has hit NJ worse than a typical flu season. But then again, the governor doesn't typically force flu patients to be moved to nursing homes typically either but he has for china virus. so there's that. On the other hand we don't lock down the state every flu season either. Or don't say everyone who dies of a stroke and also has flu died from the flu. So who really knows?
Actually that's not completely true. They all died but the media was silent.
In virginia, nobody under the age of 20 has died; 3 under-30s died, and another 8 under-40s. 99% of our deaths are 50 and up.
And, like in maryland, I think half our deaths are from assisted living centers, which we failed to protect.
This thing really does a number on old people, if they are already dying of something.
But the symptomatic infection and death rate for people under 40 appears to be similar to the flu, and the symptomatic and death rate for the under-20 set is actually MUCH LESS for COVID than the flu — because the flu DOES get kids really sick, and kills the very young.
So, while it clearly is a lot worse than a typical flu, for the discussion here, it is pretty spot-on to compare to the flu.
We eventually will realize that, if we had just let everybody 40 and under run wild for a month while everybody else locked down, we’d be done with this thing, having near-herd-immunity with no more deaths than we have now.
ANd yes, some young people MIGHT infect old people, but we locked everybody in nursing homes away from all contact with their loved ones, and we are still killing them in droves, half of all deaths being nursing home victims mostly infected by either medical workers, or stupid governors sending infected people into the homes.
HK flu killed a 100k Americans some say 200k.
The 60k number is suspicious because we know its been inflated by questionable attributions of death to COIV-19. There’s even a case to be made that there’s financial incentive to inflate the mortality numbers. What we don’t know about past numbers is ‘Were they inflated by similar loose (or dishonest) standards of data collection?’. Garbage in garbage out! We live in a way too dishonest age to blindly trust anyone’s figures.
Assuming an honest count. Based on Birx’s own public statements, that is likely not the case.
Wow! So a good lead story might be to ask whether nursing home patients are getting adequate care?
I believe that I read that the raw numbers (not per million or whatever) show that worldwide, nor people over 100 have died of COVID19 than people under 20.
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