Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

preliminary numbers suggest that the United States is on track to see more than 3.2 million deaths this year, or at least 400,000 more than in 2019. U.S. deaths increase most years, so some annual rise in fatalities is expected. But the 2020 numbers amount to a jump of about 15%, and could go higher once all the deaths from this month are counted.

That would mark the largest single-year percentage leap since 1918, when tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers died in World War I and hundreds of thousands of Americans died in a flu pandemic. Deaths rose 46% that year, compared with 1917.

But remember, it's all a hoax, and no worse than the flu anyways.

US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far the most ever counted. See the statistics so far.

 

like and share coronavirus if you agree

 

Makes sense.

 

Won't somebody think of the poor defense contractors?

 

Let's not confuse the issue.

Congress combined the Omnibus to keep the government open with the Covid relief bill and passed it together.


That's not a defense of any particular line of spending, but you'll have to show me the portions of the Covid relief bill which allocate money to missiles.

 

What’s the count on the guests who have gotten the virus they all disclaimed just from that klan meeting?

 

My friend, try to stop defending “Drumpf” and his “turtle” friend.

The “relief” package is truly shameful.

 

It’s been more than a week, which means there is now some amount of vaccine-induced immunity in the US population. That amount will continue to grow daily.

not to go all pop culture, but we are in the endgame now

 

Reminds me (if somewhat incorrectly) of this speech:

 

Experts are saying we're not going to have a significant immunity to effectively quash Covid until about 75 precent (preferably higher) are vaccinated (here's a link). It's going to take longer than you might think for us to get there. Especially if right now only between 60 and 65 precent of people are willing to get the vaccine. That will go higher, obviously, as dipshits stop spreading their dipshittery.

I don't think we'll be out of this by April, but we might be close. But, in this case, I'll be more than happy to be wrong and have you tell me I told you so.

 

I’m very possibly wrong too on my April estimate.

My thing is, herd immunity isn’t a light switch. It doesn’t wait until you get to 70% or whatever to start working. Every 1% of people who becomes immune lowers the transmission rate by 1% (actually a little more because the uninfected pool shrinks with time so adding immunity takes up a bigger chunk of the pool, but I wanna keep the math simple).

And given the extremely targeted demographics of who the virus commonly kills and maims, targeted vaccines have a way bigger effect on lowering casualties than natural infection would

But my April prediction isn’t necessarily about that. Herd immunity is when there’s enough resistance that it becomes impossible to have anything other than small, localized outbreaks.

But most countries in general aren’t, and America definitely isn’t, going to wait that long to return to normal. We’re not going to be looking at weekly death totals and thinking “well, it’s down to 50 for the whole country this week, but that’s not quite herd immunity so we better keep everything restricted for another month.”

By early spring we’ll have ~30% of the population infected naturally (although I might revise that down to 25%, things have really leveled off when I thought they would be growing) and the 25% most vulnerable vaccinated (that doesn’t mean 55% immune because there’s overlap between the two groups).

That’s not enough to eradicate it, but it’s enough to reduce it to a nuisance rather than a crisis. It actually will be less deadly than the flu at that point. You’ll still get the occasional story of a random 30 year old who gets wrecked by it, but that’s always been a thing that happens with various viruses.