I continue to be amazed at how numbers which had people running around like Chicken Little a year ago (including many self declared “patriotic conservatives”) can barely merit even a yawn, except from the most extreme of the Covidians.
As of 23 February 2022 in the world of worldometers.info:
( 5,936,424 global deaths / 7,929,263,799 global population 0 x 100 = 0.075 % global mortality rate.
( 966,530 worldometers USA deaths / 331,002,651 Americans ) x 100 = 0.29 % mortality rate in USA over twenty-six months of tallying the confirmed and presumed and estimated....
"...the numbers may be a little bit off...."
Between the USA and the world, the US is about 3.9 times worse -- which must mean something is "off."
What could it possibly be?
Everything declining nicely.
I looked at some of the States that started the Omicron wave early (NE Corridor), to see how their curves were tailing out, as a possible indicator of how things might go Nationally. Looks good so far. No significant plateauing, like the UK experienced.
The billion home test kits that the Sleepy Joe Administration bought have started arriving in the mail, so fewer people will likely be going in for tests, and therefore its likely that fewer of the positive results will be reported.
New policies will also likely reduce the reported numbers hospitalized or died from COVID, over the coming weeks. In addition to the real drops that we are still seeing, these changes will likely accelerate the drop in reported numbers further.
I’m guessing the migration of the workforce back into the office will pick up steam in March, including FedGov employees.