Dr Fauci authored article in NEJM today supports contention below that COVID fatality rate may be much closer to very bad flu. H/t @mizdonna @Barnes_Law @ITGuy1959 @ScottAdamsSays @theconservador https://t.co/4hQZR8DvZb https://t.co/d4wvZzgctS pic.twitter.com/9x59TsVEKk— BlackJack (@BlackJackBoGre1) March 26, 2020
On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.4 In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.5 report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity.
If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%.
This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.70,000 people died in the United States in the 1968 "Hong Kong Flu". (By the way, obviously the Democratic President LBJ was a racist for calling it that, right?)
So, how bad is a flu that is two times worse than the regular flu?
Well, here are the numbers on the CDC website:
Perhaps 30K TO 100K deaths.
SHUTTING DOWN THE FUCKING ECONOMY!
How many people die in car crashes every year? 1.25 million
How many people die of suicide every year? 48,344
How many people die of Alcoholism every year? 88,000
We could go on all day.
So, what is my theory again?
THE CORONAVIRUS PROPHECIES: Battle of the Billionaires
One way the Coronavirus Prophecies*** can be understood is as a war between competing world visions - Globalism vs Nationalism - with Billionaires facing off in a kind of Mutual Assured Destruction.
The Globalists decided to wage Economic Warfare against the Nationalists by inventing a worldwide Virus hysteria that requires us all to stay in our houses.
This puts a huge crushing weight on the marketplace. The marketplace is probably functioning at about 70% right now. People need food and essentials, but we don't need to go to movies, amusement parks, Casinos, vacations, Massage businesses, etc.
When you look at that list, you realize Trump and the Nationalists actually have the upper hand. Those businesses are the purview of the Ultra Left. Most of the people in those businesses have a Globalist mindset dominated by the worship of Gaia, and airy-fairy New Age bullshit.
The people in the essential industries, banking, packaging, Construction (New medical offices, hospitals, etc), home repair, AC and Heating, are more likely to be salt of the Earth types, and, yes, Nationalists.
So, how long can the Billionaires train their weapons at each other before one blinks?
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*** I've decided to call the current virus hysteria "The Coronavirus Prophecies" because it requires a religious faith; a deep belief in apocalypse, and a lack of Hope.
Another Big Picture Takeaway From The Coronavirus Message
Previously, I have stated that there are three big picture takeaways - or, things we learn - from the Coronavirus panic of 2020.
1) Stay in your home
2) Get all information from the internet
3) The Government will take care of you
I realized there is a fourth:
4) The Government is more important than the people - government employees are not losing their paychecks.Government offices may shut down, but the government workers are continuing to get paid.
Meanwhile, small businesses who are being forced to shut down, or curtail hours, are likely to end up going out of business.
People are being told not to report to work. Many are not going to receive paychecks.
Families will lose their life savings. Families will lose their homes.
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4) The Government is more important than the people - government employees are not losing their paychecks.
Yep.
Time will tell if all this has been a hoax perpetrated by the Deep State. And, really, it shouldn't take much time.
One thing that I firmly believe: DJT believes that there IS indeed a deadly and debilitating plague stalking our land, a plague which can only be curbed by, in effect, quarantine.
Why is it that the powers that be don't want us to study the 1918 Flu Epidemic?
I've been doing a great deal of study on that time period and believe that there are lessons to be learned from that outbreak.
TOM TRENTO SHOW - COVID19 - Explained by Special Guest: Dr. Andrew Bostom, Academic Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University, internist MD & author of The Legacy of Jihad, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Sharia Versus Freedom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvAd5jO6lSg&t=12m46s
AOW,
IMO, that comment is so busy treading a line that I can't figure out what you are trying to say.
IMO, it's either one of two things:
1) Trump has so many people around him preaching hysteria that he feels he is basically forced to act because he can't be sure,
or
2) he is as bad as Obama with this Stimulus nonsense.
I am not saying the Stimulus is not needed. It is. They fucked up the economy that bad.
But most of that stimulus will likely get carved up and handed out to cronies, not go to "shovel ready jobs".
We have seen this before.
I'm not intentionally treading a line.
I am saying that I don't know the truth of all this. Yet.
I'll go with your Choice One in this comments thread.
DJT didn't really act at first, but then he did act -- likely because of the information he was, and is, receiving.
It's easy for me to say that I object to the "stimulus." After all, I'm still receiving my paychecks: Social Security monthly check and online tutoring the same number of hours I did weekly face-to-face.
I am irked, however, about how this has screwed up my moving plans.
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