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Now you tell us.
I figured that out many weeks ago, as could have anyone else who has a lick of common sense. If the death rate was really 3% like the panic-mongering fools were wailing, we would absolutely have hundreds of thousands if not millions of deaths by new. Think about it. Who but a few hypochondriacs, bothers going to the doctor for a minor cold? Most people don’t want to waste the time, and the increasingly hefty copayment, to be told to buy some damn Ny-Quil at Walmart. And 99% of those getting the ChiCom Beer Cold just experience a minor cold. So they never make it to the medical system to become a “case”. This makes the “cases” count insanely biased to those who actually have severe symptons. Severe enough to deal with the hassle of waiting behind half of the third world in urgent care to pay $100 in copayment to probably be told to take an aspirin and go away. As in “this is really bad, I NEED to see a doctor”. It heavily skews the actual numbers.

On top of that, I’ve had at least one family friend (good friend of my Mom) come down with suspicious symptoms, including a fever. They told her to not bother getting tested! They’re obviously doing this with lots of people.

Really, the numbers the sheeple are being given about this bug are crap. They are heavily biased toward worst case panic mongering, ignoring people for whom it turns out to be a nothingburger. It’s not that there isn’t an actual danger for older people or some people with other health conditions, but this is NOT the Spanish Influenza or Ebola.

All we needed to do is what Sweden is doing. Some social distancing and emphasis on good old fashioned flu/cold season hygiene and manners. Just enough to keep the bad cases from overrunning the emergency medical system in the hot spots. All else is disastrous overkill.

The bottom line is that there is no containing this common cold variant any more than any other common cold. It WILL run its course, quickly or slowly. So any notion of “eradicating” or “curing” this is just as fruitless as “curing the common cold”. Because this “is” a version of the cold.