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Just because you are scared doesn't mean the math shares your feelings.
My state has been fully open for almost a year. Still don't know anyone who has been hospitalized and/or died of COVID. Please explain. All may neighbors should be dead right now according to your fear-based "logic."
Don't get started on swine flu as that is a whole other situtation. Not comparable. CDC stopped counting cases when it realized it WASN'T a pandemic as the numbers didn't support the fear mongering. GO do your research to understand the full story.
Consider yourself very fortunate then. I’ve had several family and friends die from COVID in this past year… and a lot more than that actually get sick and be hospitalized for weeks.
Only 60,000? That is less than flu season, year before last. We certainly did not shut down the economy for that. And that number is down from Fauci's warning of "Millions" dead, just a few weeks ago.
Hmm, this post didn't age too well now that the number is approaching 10x that.
Only 60,000? That is less than flu season, year before last. We certainly did not shut down the economy for that. And that number is down from Fauci's warning of "Millions" dead, just a few weeks ago.
To be fair, President Trump was also in on the hyperbole, when he warned of a possible 240,000 dead. And Governor Cuomo has done his share of exaggerating as well, especially when it comes to demands for ventilators, which he is now walking back, suggesting that they will not be needed.
This is very possibly going to go down as one of the most extreme overreactions in the history of human government. The damage that the government's "solution" to this problem is causing is truly incalculable at this point.
Of course it is good news that the deaths estimate are so extremely far below what the models predicted and what the so-called "experts" estimated. At least if you are not a psychopath, it is.
You do realize there have already been 581 million deaths, right?
No, Trump just tried as hard as he could to cast doubt on the accuracy of the numbers because he knew that if they were correct it reflected poorly on his leadership and one thing he never does is take responsibility for anything.
No, Trump just tried as hard as he could to cast doubt on the accuracy of the numbers because he knew that if they were correct it reflected poorly on his leadership and one thing he never does is take responsibility for anything.
The idea that short of time travel accelerating the vaccine by a year that anyone could, through the exercise of "leadership" done anything to measurably lower the death toll is ridiculous. All that a lockdown accomplishes, at best, is to protect the hospital system and spread out the incidence of the disease. This is called "flattening the curve" and was and is defensible. The way it saves lives is to ensure there are hospital spaces, for car crash victims and persons in need of appendectomies as well as Covid. The virus would have have gone away by locking everyone into their places of living.
The idea that short of time travel accelerating the vaccine by a year that anyone could, through the exercise of "leadership" done anything to measurably lower the death toll is ridiculous. All that a lockdown accomplishes, at best, is to protect the hospital system and spread out the incidence of the disease. This is called "flattening the curve" and was and is defensible. The way it saves lives is to ensure there are hospital spaces, for car crash victims and persons in need of appendectomies as well as Covid. The virus would have have gone away by locking everyone into their places of living.
USA population = 328.2 million; 581K deaths
Japan population = 126.3 million; 11K deaths
I guess it pays to be a nation willing to wear masks.
Last August DJT retweeted a Twitter post about the CDC actual covid deaths at 6% of what's being reported, which ultimately resulted in many permanent suspensions from Twitter/Facebook & Youtube, for reposting it
So look at what just happened again...
The CDC quietly changed its statistics AGAIN of fatalities from covid only to 5% of total deaths they have counted so far as covid. And increased average amount of comorbidities to 4.
Sneaky! Sneaky!
No, the figure does not mean that only 5% of COVID-19 deaths had COVID-19. It means that of all COVID-19 deaths only 5% had no comorbid conditions. The total number of COVID-19 deaths was 561,594.
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Originally Posted by newtovenice
According to the W H O a pandemic is 20 cases.
So ... loony definitions aside ...
Just because you are scared doesn't mean the math shares your feelings.
My state has been fully open for almost a year. Still don't know anyone who has been hospitalized and/or died of COVID. Please explain. All may neighbors should be dead right now according to your fear-based "logic."
Don't get started on swine flu as that is a whole other situtation. Not comparable. CDC stopped counting cases when it realized it WASN'T a pandemic as the numbers didn't support the fear mongering. GO do your research to understand the full story.
Please link to where WHO defines a pandemic as 20 cases. Do not tell us to find it ourselves because it does not exist.
Flu cases are estimated, not counted, so your last statement is false.
I do not personally know anyone who has had a heart attack in the last year. I guess that means heart attacks do not happen.
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