It seems that the Wuhan virus’s risks have been grossly exaggerated

Without the Wuhan virus, the Democrats have no meaningful opposition to Trump. Not only have the Democrats weaponized the Wuhan virus to destroy the economies under their aegis, but they’ve also repeatedly claimed that Trump killed 161,000 Americans. However, new CDC data shows that, of those Americans who died in the past seven months, only 6% died from the virus alone. The other 94% had serious comorbidities that (sadly) put them at a higher risk of death from anything that came along – and certainly from having sick people funneled into their nursing homes.

Bronson Stocking has broken down the CDC’s data:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website disclosed the shockingly small number of people who died from only the Wuhan coronavirus, with no other cause of death mentioned. Hold on to your hat because here it is: out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC data, just six percent, about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone. According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis.

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Instead of protecting the vulnerable – the elderly in nursing homes and those with comorbidities – health "experts" recommended locking everyone up and prescribing for Americans a wide range of ailments such as depression, suicide, missed early cancer screenings, unemployment, substance abuse, and poverty.

BKnight makes the important point, as well, that the above analysis doesn’t even take into account the way that medical reporters threw into the Wuhan virus column deaths that had nothing to do with the virus:

Yes, but what is most precious is the last moments and days of life, when people should be surrounded by their loved ones and their priests, and this is precisely what they were robbed of by these stupid restrictions that we put in place supposedly for their benefit. And those who died of other causes were robbed of the same thing. And their loved ones were robbed of the chance to say good bye. And their friends and loved ones were robbed of the chance to have a proper funeral.

And I would bet that most of your friends who died, and I am speaking statistically, but most of them probably died in nursing care facilities where they were, rather predictably, infected by their professional caregivers, the ones who know better than all of us and tell us what we can and can’t do, but who refused to follow their own protocols and who themselves refused to bear the entire social burden of isolation that duty would impose upon them.

So let me call all of the world’s society’s Covid response what it is, a diabolical conspiracy to lead souls to eternal damnation, with no redeeming value whatsoever. Yes, some people are changing their behavior with the intent, at least, of “saving lives”, but for thousands of years people have gone to temples dedicated to demons begging for someone or another’s life to be saved, and have used all sorts of amulets, potions, and incantations, and, yes, sacrifices to demons for this purpose, and we do not consider their pagan idolatry to be salvific.

Sorry for your losses.
I pray God provides you comfort.

Now, speaking in general, how many of those that died [generality] with suppressed immune systems and other co-morbidities would have likely died if they contracted the flu this season?
My thought is that a significant number (of the sub-group in my sentence above) would have died of the common flu also.
Did these folks have a flu shot or, did they avoid it because of their conditions?
Would the flu vaccine have helped ANY of these folks?
I keep checking Milloy’s /junkscience.com/ to see if he is/has done a comparative epidemiological work-up on the flu v. COVID.
Unfortunately, the best and most accurate epidemiology is done AFTER the epidemic with reliable data.

“Having seen friends ( plural ) die because of co-morbidities AND catching Covid-19, I cannot help but say to myself — well, yes, they will eventually die of their condition, but I cannot help but wonder HOW MANY MORE YEARS they would have lived had there been no Coronavirus ... Even a year or two is precious.”

You are spot on with this statement. Unfornaturely a lot of the people who believe the virus only effects 6% do not care about 94% of people with comorbidities.

How many Americans that are overweight/obesses, on high blood pressure medicine, have heart disease(they do not know about) or diabetes? We all get old and develop comorbidities with age.

We don’t need to lock down, but we do need to have good prevention practices in place.

The virus is not going away and I believe there is no herd immunity for a cold (Covid-19 is a coronovirus like a cold).

However, let us NOT UNDERESTIMATE the dangers of this disease to those HUGE number of people in the USA who have serious pre-existing conditions and/or are elderly.

I take your point, but this report tells us that we have been targeting the wrong population and we have done it for political reasons. We have shut down our economy, throwing millions out of their jobs, we have shutdown almost every sector of our society, including our health care system where the shutdown scared off most of the patients. We shut down our education system causing very serious consequences to young people who are the least persons at risk. The travel and restaurant industries may never recover. Had we focused on the elderly population cohort (my cohort), all of these would have been affected, but they would not have been destroyed.

We did it because those in charge of our disease industry hate Trump and were willing to lie and deceive in order to blame the entire thing on him. It worked. Lying always works in the short term. Are we doing to tolerate the continuance of the lies, now that we know the truth? Many will because they want to believe the lies. For the rest of us, we need to resist and loudly.

I posted this (on another site) Mar. 19

“Well in in Minnesota Gov Tim Walz has taken care of that little problem...by shutting down All Bars & Restaurants. The question is, 1. How long will this ban be in place 2. how many bars and restaurants will go under? All because of 14 cases (out of a population of 5.6 Million)

Let me see if I understand this (not being all that bright I..Could..Be..Wrong) The media pushes the Panic Button in order to get Ratings/Clicks. A certain number of people go (for lack of a better word) Insane. Politicians in response to the Media and the Insane, react by shutting down large parts of society/the economy...(249 people in a group, you’re safe, 251 Everyone dies. If you want a drink or dinner out...You’re gonna die.). Then to (try) a solve the problem they created by panicking and reacting to the insanity they say they are going to Give me $1,000. Where we might reasonably ask will they get this money? Why from the magical money tree of course!”

NOTHING since then caused me to (Really) question this post. If anything its gotten worse.

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