The only numbers that I mostly trust are “deaths from all causes”. They can still be manipulated but not to the same extent as the “Covid” numbers. Those numbers have steadily decreased since mid April to the point where they are now back to normal for this time of the year.
The “new cases” number is complete nonsense. Because most people are asymptomatic or do not experience serious symptoms, there have always been at least 10 times as many people infected as compared to those who seek medical attention and get tested. When the virus was running rampant tests were not yet widely available.
The positive to negative test ratio is bologna also. In our state (Washington) and most others, every new positive test result is affects the ratio and is counted as a new case even if the person tested positive previously. Our paranoid neighbor has been tested a dozen times... in his case they all have come back negative, but in most cases it is those who test positive that get tested over and over again... driving both the positive to negative test ration and the “new cases” number higher.
And do not even get me started on the Covid death count numbers. The medical community and the states have discovered that they get more money if they report people died of Covid with predictable results. People who have been shot in the head, smashed into solid objects with their motorcycle, were on hospice care for cancer, had heart attacks, strokes, flesh eating bacteria, and all manor of other conditions have all been counted as Covid Deaths.
This year we have been subjected to the worst manipulation of numbers imaginable to keep the panic going. The global warming fear mongers must be very proud but a little jealous of their leftist brothers in arms have accomplished.
The graphs tend to be misleading, but here are the actual numbers as reported by the CDC which has proved itself to be easily manipulated during this situation. Look at the numbers under deaths from all causes an see if you notice any trends. Please note that the number of deaths from all causes for the week ending February 8, the week when the first Covid case counted was 59,268. On the week ending May 30th deaths from all causes was back to 59,188 and it has never been above that number since.
One should also not that cancer, heart disease, and lung disease all kill more people than even our inflated Covid numbers show. This year people have been afraid to seek medical treatment and in many cases were not able to get “elective treatment” or screening for these more serious killers. This likely has had as much or greater an impact on the total death from all causes number as Covid itself.
I know 2 people who had family members die of COVID. Both were in nursing homes.
Just went to the funeral of my cousin last week. Victim of fentanyl. A bad batch was sold and in small town of 30,000 people, 7 died in one night from that batch. So the larger area I live there are 600,000 people. To date 5 dead by COVID. More died from drug overdose in ONE night than 4 months of COVID.