Posted on 09/11/2020 12:27:37 PM PDT by daniel1212
Thirteen cities and towns found themselves in the state’s COVID-19 red zone this week — the highest number to be labeled high-risk since the Baker administration rolled out its color-coded assessment system last month.
The state remains particularly focused on turning back the pandemic’s tide in six cities: Chelsea, Everett, Lawrence, Lynn, Revere and Framingham, a group of smaller, poorer cities where 10 people sometimes cram into a single apartment, where reliance on public transportation is high and where workers don’t have the luxury of staying home — all conditions ripe for transmitting the highly contagious virus.
“The odds are sort of naturally stacked against a dense city like Lawrence or Chelsea,” said Mike Armano, board of health and inspectional services director for Lawrence...
to actually exit the red zone, communities need their two-week average daily case rates to drop below eight per 100,000 residents. That’s easier said than done in cities such as Chelsea, where the incidence rate stands at 25.4, or Lawrence, which is at 20.5.
Meanwhile, an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season[1] but only 75 children have died due to COVID-19 (reported July 22)[2] and only 2 percent of domestic COVID-19 cases have occurred in children under 18, only 20 children under age five in the U.S. have died because of it, while the vast majority of children with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors.[3]
The NIH reports that people under 65 years old without underlying predisposing conditions accounted for only 0.7–3.6% of all COVID-19 deaths in France, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Georgia, and New York City and 17.7% in Mexico.[4] Moreover, adults 65 and older account for 16% of the US population but 80% of COVID-19 deaths in the US, somewhat higher than their share of deaths from all causes (75%) over the same period.[5]
Moreover, as regards the number of positive cases, testing data compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada showed that to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus using the PCR test, which is the most widely used diagnostic test for the coronavirus. And which which means they are not likely to be infectious and thus need not be quarantined (the greater the viral load, the more likely an infected person is to be contagious).[6]
In addition, the death toll for the 57-58 Asian flu would have been substantially great if Americans then were in the poor health of today, in which when over 40% of Americans are obese, [7]and this condition is the first or second a primary factor relative to serious and fatal COVID-19 infections[8]
And which poor overall health shelter-in-place, close parks and beaches restrictions exacerbates (during the 1918 flu pandemic placing patients outside in the sun and flesh air was reported to be beneficial, yet I never even hear regularly ventilating the rooms of the infirm being advised during this pandemic, while close to half of all COVID-19 deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, especially elder care facilities which account for over 40% of US deaths.[9]
Meanwhile over 2,000[10] of the most vulnerable souls a day in “quarantine” - their mother’s womb - are murdered, many by the same persons claim to be for protecting the vulnerable.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm [2] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200722/what-we-know-about-covid-19-and-kids [3] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/coronavirus-infection-spread-in-children-cvd/ [4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327471/ [5] https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/what-share-of-people-who-have-died-of-covid-19-are-65-and-older-and-how-does-it-vary-by-state/ [6] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html [7] https://anad.org/education-and-awareness/about-eating-disorders/eating-disorders-statistics/ [8] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-obesity-higher-risk.html [9] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html [10] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states
More: https://www.quora.com/Does-COVID-19-truly-warrant-a-nationwide-shutdown
“group of smaller, poorer cities where 10 people sometimes cram into a single apartment, where reliance on public transportation is high and where workers don’t have the luxury of staying home — all conditions ripe for transmitting the highly contagious virus.”
Kick all the illegals out and you won’t have that problem.
8 cases per 100,000 is an insane metric for “high risk”.
100 per 100,000 is the one I see mostly used.
charlie ‘parker’ is a full blown fascist along with his buddy maaaaahty the mayor walsh....shame on them, shame on all of them.
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