Posted on 08/11/2020 8:47:47 AM PDT by bitt
The disease may recede, but the stigma lingers. I have experienced it first hand as earlier this summer; my twenty-one-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. Placing this data bit in the atmosphere receives hushed condolences as if revealing the contraction of an incurable venereal disease. Exile to a leper’s colony purged her Mark of Cain. She remained asymptomatic throughout her convalescence.
Paradoxically, neither my wife nor I tested positive, despite close contact with her in the days preceding. Over a month later, I cheerfully introduce her as a recent COVID survivor. The mood changes, the unease is palpable, and all confirm face coverings are hermetically sealed.
Humanity has fallen into dystopian existence. Incessant media bombardment convince COVID to be the Armageddon that will forever redefine the human race. Permanent radical behavioral shifts, masks, social distancing, no restaurants, bars or theaters, social seclusion, become the new future. Methodically, through all the redundancy, a tectonic reposition of thought patterns occur.
Bike riders secure their face coverings, yet no humans stray within a hundred feet-Ditto to the shrouded fools riding alone in their cars or solitary women with strollers. Masked hikers on the mountain trails of Colorado assiduously avoid my uncovered appearance. My advance reeks panic of approaching death. They move aside, bow heads in prayer-like posture, and for extra protection, place their hands over already camouflaged faces.
Such demeanor presupposes COVID disperses from the trees, the rivers, and mischievously lurks in crisp mountain air. People transform to vapid souls listlessly wandering the landscapes now devoid of internal electrical impulses remotely prompting they might question, much less rebel against, directives mandated by public officials. Shunning or worse for the pariah who dares resist the new orthodoxy. A complete indoctrination.
DEATH BY AGE
What if it’s all orchestrated misinformation? CDC statistics show through August 1, there were nationwide, a total of 45 deaths of children 14 years old and younger. With 60.7 million children in this population demographic, the odds of dying from COVID calculate to about 1 in 1.35 million, well outside the top ten causes of death for this age group. I hypothesize most of these unfortunate 45 suffered from previous underlying medical issues.
Conversely, during the past four years, over 100 children younger than five years old annually died of seasonal flu. In the 2017–18 season, influenza deaths for this age group were as high as 600; yet no schools closed. More than halfway through 2019–2020, officially 186 have succumbed. Yet COVID has claimed only 25 lives of those less than five years old, or 14 percent of seasonal flu numbers. The fifteen to twenty-four-year-old group remains nearly as bulletproof with a loss of around 225 people on a 42 million population base.
California, breaking through 10,000 COVID deaths, recently reported its first death of a “young person” with the passing of a 17-year-old male. Like most, he suffered from a preexisting health condition. Approaching six hundred thousand cases, yet only one confirmed school-age death, disingenuous teacher’s union’s and politicians miraculously deflect “safety of children” as one justification to keep schools shuttered.
The CDC discloses in only six percent of all coronavirus deaths, “COVID was the only cause” mentioned. For the other ninety-four percent, “there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.” There were 115,495 fatalities where patients got admitted to the hospital with “influenza and/or pneumonia.” Another 93,393 checked in with respiratory failure, while 35,167 arrived amid cardiac arrest. Yet hospital administrators sign COVID on death certificates one hundred percent of the time. Early on, Dr. Deborah Birx publicized the probability that medical facilities overstate numbers of actual coronavirus fatalities
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It does make one wonder, at what point does all of this fear of the virus, and actions against the virus, become overkill?
We are talking about a virus which the vast majority of infected persons survive. We are talking about a virus for which we have identified certain people who are at higher risk, and who should take greater precautions than the rest of us. We are talking about taking drastic actions such as shutdowns which we have not done for other viruses or health conditions.
At what point is the cure worse than the disease, pardon the pun. Why is the collateral damage to the economy and society and education considered ok, so we can make Dr. Fauci and radical talking heads on MSNBC happy?
That makes the death toll 10,000 or so as a floor. Astonishing. Any number higher than that necessarily features COVID as a mere contributing factor, at best.
America seems to be committing suicide, only I do not believe lady liberty is holding the gun. Which means it is not suicide, it is murder.
A good friend of mine’s wife is the head nurse in a maternity department at a hospital.
Typically when some dies in her department, she has to fill out a whole report and have a deposition with the hospitals attorneys going over every detail of what happened in case of a lawsuit.
When the first COVID death in her department happened, she went to fill out the report and talked to her supervisor about the deposition - her supervisor said “just put down COVID 19 as the cause of death on the report, no other details and you don’t have to speak to the hospital’s attorneys.
How many times have hospitals just listed COVID 19 as the reason for a death to avoid any potential lawsuits ?
I thought the ones driving alone in their cars were just wearing a mask to control the urge to lick the windows...
Great article.
Could be an at risk person who just had a curb side pick up of groceries. What does it matter what anyone decides to wear inside their cars. Be thankful they aren’t naked.
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