Posted on 07/26/2021 5:37:21 AM PDT by JonPreston
Six weeks is just enough time to force the vax on everybody and then claim victory with the decline.
At which time Biden and his incompetent cronies will claim victory and grab all the glory of defeating the virus....................mark my words.............
Delta seems to be a very contagious mostly non-fatal variant. That’s ideal if we want herd immunity. If this 6-week wave holds true for the US, then I would think that after we get to September, it would be very difficult for the US to see further significant COVID trouble.
The problem with India’s figures is that information gathering is problematic at best. Health care in rural areas is practically non-existent, testing is not being done so identifying and tallying cases and deaths is extremely difficult. I’ve read stories that say you should be multiplying the India figures by a factor of 10.
GMTA!....................
With 80% of Boomers vaxxed, the case #’s seem irrelevant. The real number is hospitalizations and deaths. Those numbers are hard to get a fix on because the data is delayed or just dumped into a period. That’s why 29 people died on the 18th and 789 on the 21st(July).
Benedict Biden: THAT’S HIS NAME!
Destroying America: THAT’S HIS GAME!!
That is true. At the same time, India normally has huge numbers of upper respiratory problems at this time of year due to the terrible air pollution, dust/dirt and heat. Throw the high numbers of TB into the mix and you have a potent recipe for lots of illness because so many people’s lungs are compromised.
That would filter out all the subjectivity.
For example, how many total deaths (regardless of cause) occurred during the January to June period of 2021? Then do a YOY comparison of January to June 2020 and so forth.
I'm thinking that as a total number, the increase YOY of total deaths will not look so alarming. This would also indicate that deaths attributable to "COVID" are largely offset by a decrease in deaths from other causes.
On an anectodal note, there is a funeral home in my town that I drive by often. It really doesn't look any busier than it ever did in the past. In fact, it's quiet much of the time with an empty parking lot.
I’ve read a story about an epidemiologist who says we should be multiplying US case counts by 3X-4X. This was as of January or February. Lots of people get the disease who have a really minor case/experience, and never show up in official case counts.
The problem has been that Covid is a culling disease. It kills the elderly and sick. So the death numbers probably aren’t radically different from the usual numbers. So far, the vaccine has kept Covid out of the lungs of people who got it but the 85+ crowd has lower vax numbers than the Boomers below them. That may be the current death numbers. Also, the death numbers are people WITH Covid whether it killed them or not.
The paramedic that took my family member to the hospital said he could hear Covid lungs in his sleep because he had heard it so much.
I don’t trust anything coming from Fauci’s CDC, MSM, or pharmaceutical companies.
Does Delta even exist? Do they really have an electron microscope at every clinic, or is there some easy way to know what variant a virus is everywhere?
If these numbers were arrived at using the totally discredited PCR test then this is a waste of time.
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While the variant spikes in India and the U.K. (if that's what they are...it could also reflect vaxxed people feeling invincible and returning to 3-second hand washing and licking doorknobs etc.) may abate soon, the autumnal equinox will undoubtedly be accompanied by a case/fatality etc uptick.
Why? Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus - even non-airborne killers have seasonality.
Anyone who promotes eradication of the "systematic risk" in a free society as a policy goal is either a fool or a statist (or both). It's like the war on drugs...liberty is destroyed, lives are lost, and Leviathan grows.
A very likely reality, is that this bug will be with us forever - like influenza, it'll be a highly contagious but more fatal (case fatality rate of about 1.8% vs 0.2% for influenza) and seasonal annoyance. When faced with this reality, we should follow the policy prescriptions of a wise FReeper: Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.
And I’ve read stories /s which correlate the drop in India deaths to use of Ivermectin, and that the drop in cases in urban areas corresponds to what is happening in poorly reported rural areas. Deaths may eventually be adjusted upwards, but the trend remains the same.
That's essentially what I've been saying since around April of last year. But, not nearly so elegantly. I LOVE it !
That is true. At the same time, India normally has huge numbers of upper respiratory problems at this time of year due to the terrible air pollution, dust/dirt and heat. Throw the high numbers of TB into the mix and you have a potent recipe for lots of illness because so many people’s lungs are compromised.
India has a very high incidence of diabetes.......also a significant complicating factor.
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