Posted on 04/23/2020 10:46:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is not a representative sample, if the only people tested were those who were away from their homes. It is as accurate as a political poll that only measures people that are home on a weekend when the poll is fielded.
Not enough coffee, I confess.
Still with population immunity desired at 80%+ that’s another 3 waves of 20% each before it’s reached.
Wheee, rollercoaster.
Personally, I don’t neccessarily agree with that naming convention. I make a distinction between the CCP-Virus and the CCP-Coronavirus. In the first instance, I consider the CCP and their ideology, in fact ALL communist ideologies, to be viruses, viruses that affect adherents’ brains. In the second instance, CCP-Coronavirus, THAT is the disease unleashed on the world, either on purpose by the CCP, or through their negligence in not reporting it to the world on a timely basis.
I agree President Trump enjoys that they are hanging by the ropes in public.
Keep those subways open! Kill more
Agree. They are under lockdown orders. So they are sampling people who are OUTSIDE? And that is supposed to be a representative random sample? That’s as methodologically flawed as the Stanford study recruiting via a Facebook advertisement, if not more so.
Wouldn’t call it wonderful but it shows how damn contagious the ChiCom Virus is as it hit over 21% of people in NYC based on this initial test sample.
That means its very likely going to find its way around the country unless its zapped by sunlight or taken out by herd immunity.
They should stay in "their" apartments, because money grows on trees.
So that means we allowed them to destroy US and it’s people over a virus with a .006% death rate!!!
No wonder the PRCs are laughing all the way to the bank at US!
Nope, clearly herd immunity is needed.
Only 3 more waves of infection like the last one to get to 80% herd immunity.
Get working peasants!
I believe they took the samples at supermarkets.
Both Shut-ins and Outsiders got to the supermarket.
“Both Shut-ins and Outsiders got to the supermarket.”
Obviously lots of people are going to supermarkets, but a large segment of the population prepped for something like this or has their groceries delivered.
I meant in respect to the death rate
“If valid, the test still shows 5 times worse than the flu.”
Actually it’s 20 times worse than the flu. The estimated mortality rate for seasonal flu is .1% of SYMPTOMATIC CASES.
https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/three-quarters-of-people-with-flu-have-no-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
But just like Covid19, the regular flu has non-symptomatic cases, estimated to be 75% of infections. So the infection mortality rate for seasonal flu is one quarter of .1% if you take into account everyone infected, not just those with symptoms. With Covid19 serology tests we are finding many people who are positive but don’t have symptoms. But for an apples to apples comparison with the seasonal flu you have to do the same thing, calculate based on all infections not just symptomatic infections. So, if NYC Covid infection mortality rate is .5% (actually they didn’t include probable deaths in this, which gives you an IFR of .8%), it is 20 times deadlier than regular flu.
.5% / .025% = 20 times deadlier than flu
.8% / .025% = 32 times deadlier than flu
Take your pick, its not the flu “bro” it is a monster.
Good point.
The Stanford study says we are between 55-80% immune. LA County large percentage immunity per LA county health. Like over 2M cases there likely. If these numbers are true, the death rate is at or below common flu.
Open the country up for business!
Turns out that the CDC are the ones who are distorting the numbers.
They are ordering Coroners nationwide to list Corona as the cause of death even if people are killed in car accidents, along with a whole list of other causes, IF they had the Corona virus when they were killed. Car accident victims.
Blows your half-assed emotional FearBros arguments out of the water.
The CDC is most likely doing this because they know this pandemic isn’t but a shadow of what they have made it out to be.
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