BeyondFedUp
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Media is hyperventilating as the "reported" deaths in the US from this pathogen approaches 100,000. I personally think that the numbers are grossly overreported. The average age of death for this worst plague in the history of man is around 80. If a fellow has a heart attack and dies, yet tests positive for COVID-19 it gets chalked up as a coronavirus death. Much of this is simply follow the money, reimbursements to health institutions from the government for COVID-19 deaths is substantial. Plus the political aspect is glaringly obvious.
A much better metric would to compare the total US deaths from this year to previous years to guage the impact of the virus. I've had difficulty finding any total-death statistics for this year to date (besides the breathless COVID-19 ones). Data from 2018 and back is easy to find.
Also the buried data on death from suicides, drug overdoses, alcohol is tough to find. California is reporting that their suicide rate/attempts/hotline calls over the last four weeks been equal to a typical year. But hey, it's all about coronavirus, wear your mask or you hate people. Don't advocate reopening or you'll be shamed into submission because you want to kill grandma. I understand, it's all necessary because ORANGE MAN BAD!!!!
11 Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=x6U2Un5kEdI&feature=emb_logo
BTW, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, on pace to become a trillionaire, also owns the fake news Washington Post.
If a lot of them don’t contract it or we don’t see a spike in these rioting cities, we’ll know the whole lockdown was fake.
Oh no i will be so sad if they all got sick and died!!!
I always thought race was a social construct... All jokes aside because of health reasons even liberals will admit different races/ethnic groups will get diseases/ailments at higher rates than other groups.
People who get all their news from CNN must be wondering if deaths from coronavirus have magically stopped. Just a few days ago, COVID-19 was THE crisis of our time, the most important news story ever, with (according to the official figures) approximately a thousand people a day in America dying of the virus. But apparently, the death of one black career criminal in Minnesota is more important than all the thousands who have died from COVID-19, combined.
On a lighter note, it looks like @CovidCrisis already has an obsolete screen name. Luckily, those names are changeable.
On a lighter note, it looks like @CovidCrisis already has an obsolete screen name. Luckily, those names are changeable.
It seems like the virus strength is trailing off. I’m no biologist but I thought that’s what is supposed to happen. As I understand it from a layman’s point of view the virus mutates as it moves from person to person. Some mutations are advantageous and you get virulent strains (like in NY) that are strong but on average each mutation usually weakens over time because the virus is already at optimum so any change is, by odds, less effective.
The strains then all die out until a strong one is left and starts the cycle over again (maybe).
That’s why you have flu “season” and it comes and goes. The idea that it would keep getting stronger and keep infecting people Doesn’t seem to be the norm.