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Three blind men and an elephant.Just curious what you think the Drs from the front lines that are saying how bad it is have to gain from this for lying or not being truthful?
1957 flu strain killed a million Americans, mostly elderly but not all. Barely a blip on the evening news. People still died at home more often back then, these were depression era adults dying at 65, so I am not negating the coming strain on medical resources. Interesting and sad of course to watch a new virus strain run around in this day and age of unprecedented social and media and global connection. No way Covid kills a million Americans or close this year. And I support the current precautions as we learn more about this new thing. Maybe it kills a million over several years unless of course treatment/vaccine/SARS - like disappearance occurs .Where is your evidence that this is the biggest public health crisis in the last 100 years? Where is your proof that deaths from this will even exceed those from 2017/2018 flu season? (61,000 in the US alone)
Are you going to answer my questions or be a brick wall?
Of course not.Uh, yes?
Are you asking if credentials are relevant to the biggest public health crisis in the last 100 years?
But wait, it gets even better than that. In Missouri, prosecutors have charged an idiot who licked some items at Walmart as a “terrorist.” I kid you not, a Coronavirus Terrorist. I could go on, but I think you get the picture (if you need more examples, check this Twitter thread).Counter-terrorism troops have been redeployed across Italy to beef up police forces throughout Italian cities. Patrol cars are now circulating in every major city in Italy with a monotone male voice warning citizens over a loudspeaker not to leave their residences or risk a ticket. ‘GO BACK INTO YOUR HOMES,’ the voice warns.”
See? Everything is perfectly fine. No one is preparing for martial law. Those tanks just returned from the Middle East and are “being sent back home to Texas.” This kind of thing happens all the time. It has nothing to do with the global lockdown.“If and when National Guard or military units are deployed to the streets of L.A., trust me, I’ll let you know.”
Interesting that the Country was not shut down back then.1957 flu strain killed a million Americans, mostly elderly but not all. Barely a blip on the evening news. People still died at home more often back then, these were depression era adults dying at 65, so I am not negating the coming strain on medical resources. Interesting and sad of course to watch a new virus strain run around in this day and age of unprecedented social and media and global connection. No way Covid kills a million Americans or close this year. And I support the current precautions as we learn more about this new thing. Maybe it kills a million over several years unless of course treatment/vaccine/SARS - like disappearance occurs .
Sorry did some more digging. 1-4 million worldwide, it was an swine or avian flu strain they say. 120k known deaths in the us, with numbers likely higher as people just lay down at home with family sweating it out and perhaps not making it. Life spans and “palliative care” were thought of a bit differently back then, and considering we already as a nation had far great boogey men to fear, like the soviets with their bombs to match ours.Interesting that the Country was not shut down back then.
You would think, with only 172 million Americans livng here then,
well losing a million folks would have been a huuge deal...
That's what sober experts were predicting here for COVID: a death rate of about the 1957 flu with no mitigation.Sorry did some more digging. 1-4 million worldwide, it was an swine or avian flu strain they say. 120k known deaths in the us, with numbers likely higher as people just lay down at home with family sweating it out and perhaps not making it. Life spans and “palliative care” were thought of a bit differently back then, and considering we already as a nation had far great boogey men to fear, like the soviets with their bombs to match ours.
The real danger of crying wolf, he says, is:Exaggerated case fatality rate (CFR): Early reported CFR figures also seem exaggerated. The most widely quoted CFR has been 3.4%, reported by WHO dividing the number of deaths by documented cases in early March.7 This ignores undetected infections and the strong age-dependence of CFR. The most complete data come from Diamond Princess passengers, with CFR=1% observed in an elderly cohort; thus, CFR may be much lower than 1% in the general population; probably higher than seasonal flu (CFR=0.1%), but not much so. Observed crude CFR in South Korea and in Germany8 , the countries with most extensive testing, is 0.9% and 0.2%, respectively as of March 14 and crude CFR in Scandinavian countries is about 0.1%. Some deaths of infected, seriously ill people will occur later, and these deaths have not been counted yet. However even in these countries many infections probably remain undiagnosed. Therefore, CFR may be even lower rather than higher than these crude estimates
If COVID-19 is not as grave as it is depicted, high evidence standards are equally relevant. Exaggeration and over-reaction may seriously damage the reputation of science, public health, media, and policy makers. It may foster disbelief that will jeopardize the prospects of an appropriately strong response if and when a more major pandemic strikes in the future.
Umm, maybe because Bill Gates does a lot of humanitarian and public health work around the world? And personally works with some of the worlds smartest people, including those in the health care ?Why is Bill Gates so prominent these days? Listen to his msg on CNN recently......country wide shutdown?
Hey Bill....my PC has a virus!