It doesn't behave like the flu. The people I know who have had it say it is scary. I know one guy who has rotated through it several times, getting better and then relapsing. Relative healthy guy in his forties. Scared the hell out of him.
Have to wonder if this is a designer bug.
Wish Paul Harvey was still around because I sure would like to “Hear the Rest of the Story.”
But it’s not as hysterical as the media makes out the COVID to be.
So who don't know that?..........What the hell, it's a slow season so we need some panic to fuel the senses..........
It’s still worse than the flu.
But it would have been far worse without the lock down.
No thanks to Rand Paul who spread it around while he was waiting for his test results.
However, Paul’s COVID-19 death rate includes the effects of shutdown and social distancing which flattened the death curve.
I have made the same claim in several Comments on Free Republic.
In Washington state, for instance, 99% of our fatalities are for people age 40 and above.
91% of our fatalities are for people age 60 and above.
In addition, the COVID-19 fatality count in nursing homes and hospitals is highly suspect.
Every person who has tested positive for COVID-19 and dies is counted as a COVID fatality, regardless of any other diseases that might be present.
Even worse, the CDC and state health departments have encouraged nursing homes and hospitals to review earlier deaths that were NOT tested and to change the previous cause of death to COVID-19 if the victim had “flu-like” symptoms.
Trillions of dollars of economic destruction based on a severe common cold virus that only kills the elderly and the infirm.
Complete insanity!