Nobody in their right mind can accuse me of "irrational emotionalism". But you can certainly accuse me of "Anti-Leftist-Baloney".
The Leftist media have been constantly pushing the narrative of huge numbers of deaths due to Wuhan virus. But what is the truth? So let me present you with the truth.
There have been all kinds of catastrophic death rates projected for Wuhan virus to create fear and panic in the populations affected. And because of this the lockdowns went into effect and destroyed lives and countries.
According to the CDC’s principles of epidemiology, “cause-specific death rate” equals number of deaths assigned to a specific cause during a given time interval per 100,000 of the population. Which means that the total population of the USA must first be taken into account, then the deaths /100, 000 calculated.
Provided that the cause of death is honestly assigned to the death. Once you have bogus causes being assigned deliberately, the whole thing falls apart.
1. According to the latest John’s Hopkins count there have been101,002 deaths.
2. According to WorldOMeter that number is 102,736.
3. According to the NY Times that number is 100,426.
The reasonable expectation would be that all of these numbers would be the same. Since they vary by at least a couple of thousand, they are unreliable. The average of these three numbers is 101,388.So if we took 101,000 as the round number we would be within reason. But that is not the end of the story.
OVERCOUNTING OF COVID-19 DEATHS
Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD is both a medical doctor and a lawyer. He has recently said: “Our metrics include deaths that have nothing to do with the virus. The problem is even worse as the Centers for Disease Control over counts even some of these cases and the government has created financial incentives for this misreporting. Relying on these flawed numbers is destroying businesses and jobs and costing lives.”
On May 11, 2020, the Conservative Review published an article which presented Dr. Deborah Birx as saying that overcounting was as much as 25%: “Horowirz: Bombshell Report: Dr. Birx believes the CDC is inflating death numbers by as much as 25%”.
So now, if we reduce 101,000 by 25%, we get only 75,750 total US deaths. That is a lot less than 100,000. Yet all the panic was caused by projecting 1,000,000 to 2,200,000 in the USA!
CORRECT DEATH RATE
According to the US government census “The nation’s population was 328,239,523 in 2019”. [Note: such precision is unwarranted for many reasons]
Since it continues grow, we could round that number up to328,300,000 or even 328,500,000, and it would still be reasonable.
So if you divide 75,750 by 328,300,000 you get 0.00023 of the total population dying from this infection. Nothing to worry about.
And if you multiply that by 100,000, you get 23 deaths per 100,000 people. That is slightly more than deaths from flu/pneumonia every year, but a lot less than deaths from heart disease. And if you factor in the fact that at least 48% of these deaths were in nursing homes for the elderly, that changes the whole picture and probably makes it the same as flu.
If you have 23 deaths for every 100,000, how many do you have per 100 people? As a percentage you get 0.023% NOT 0.26% (as claimed by CDC). And not 3.4% as claimed by the World Health Organization (which should be re-labeled as the World Hoax Organization).
So the actual death rate from COVID-19 is a very small fraction of 1%. Much less than 0.1%.
In view of this there was no need for (1) lockdowns of businesses and other activities, (2) social distancing, (3) masks, and (4) limits on numbers of people in any public gathering. Life could have gone on as usual, and people would not have suffered mentally, emotionally, and financially.