Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

So ... you think 580,000 people in this country died by complete accident?

 

Go look at the CDC figures for flu over the last winter. Compare that figure to the last five years, without masking, hand washing/disinfection, and social distancing. Flu was next to nonexistent this year. Those simple public health measures *work*. That's why they're Public Health 101.

I submit that the Covid death numbers without those efforts would have been well over six million. Run the percentage of death by Covid against 70% of the population for yourself.

 

Many researchers now say the COVID 19 virus originated in a Wuhan laboratory. So technically speaking, my friend, this has all been a terrible accident.

 

One must credit “Drumpf,” to some degree.

 

I'll credit Trump for pushing for vaccine manufacture and cutting red tape. As in most parts of his governing, it was poorly executed, but he did it. I have not forgotten that Trump's version of a successful vaccine program was "The first trucks of vaccine have left the loading dock!".

I also submit that Big Pharma 1. Saw an urgent need and 2. Knew they'd make a shitpot full of money. It would have happened anyway, faster or slower, under any President.

 

Am I disappointed that I didn't get to be one of the first 10 people to break the Nuge news here? Yes, but I'm proud of all you.

We divorced freedom and patriotism fully during the second Iraq war if not well before. At that point "freedom" came to mean the ability to do what you want without significant interference from regulation and authorities and, after Trump, decorum.

 

Oh, bullshit.

 

The Viral ‘Breaking911’ Twitter Account Is Not a Trustworthy Source, Experts Say

“Breaking911” is being impersonated on Twitter, but don’t trust the original either

 

A year ago many thought we could just hide, distance, shutter and mask our way out of it. They interpreted "flatten" the curve as "quash" the curve. "Flatten" the curve ALWAYS insisted that the SAME number of people eventually would be infected . . . just over a longer period (to save hospitals). Yet we treated every new case as a moral failing, which is why we see so many "I did everything right! I don't know how I contracted it!" messages.

Sweden didn't impose many efforts on its citizens. Your "six million" estimate for the US would translate to 191,000 Swedish deaths. They have 13,788. Why?

 

The absence of flu juxtaposed with the rampant nature of this coronavirus should be enough for people to understand for how contagious it is. But instead they've decided that drs are saying every illness is Covid. It's infuriating.

 

My friend, vaccinated people are gettin’ busy gettin’ busy!