American Greatness| Victor Davis Hanson
In all the gloom and doom, and media-driven nihilism, there is actually an array of good news. As many predicted, as testing spreads, and we get a better idea of the actual number and nature of cases, the death rate from coronavirus slowly but also seems to steadily decline.
Early estimates from the World Health Organization and the modeling of pessimists of a constant 4 percent death rate for those infected with the virus are for now proving exaggerated for the United States. More likely, as testing spreads, our fatality rates could descend to near 1 percent.
There is some evidence from Germany and to a lesser extent South Korea, that it may be possible to see the fatality rate dip below 1 percent. And with the breathing space from the lockdown, better hygiene (the degree of constant and near-obsessive cleaning at businesses that are still open is quite amazing), more knowledge and data, better medical protocols, the use of some efficacious drugs, warmer weather, and experience with the disease will, in perfect-storm fashion, begin to mitigate the effects of the virus.
Should we get the lethality rate down to German levels (currently two to three in 1,000), then we can cautiously assume that those who predicted that the coronavirus could eventually be contextualized as a bad, H1N1-like flu will no longer be demonized as nuts, and life can resume with reasonable precautions and focused quarantines and isolation.
In two or three weeks, if we can just allow most businesses to reopen, gear up to pandemic testing, track cases and contacts in the manner of past protocols that lessened polio, tuberculosis, AIDS, and measles outbreaks, and focus on the ill and elderly, then the economy will reboot. read more
VDH has been sneaking nips of the Kool-Aid.
Ease up on that bug juice, Vic.
didn’t we know all this before all this bullshit became a Chicken Little stormshit?
… or are we so stupid that we have to be re-educated every flu-season?
You mean that the world does not need Sommeliers at $50,000/year to tell you what wine goes with your dinner and I was right all along with, “Bud in a can, no glass”?
Kcir, better yet, insist on a wine glass to pour your Bud into.
bla, bla, bla.
a VERY long winded recap of everything already talked about.
If you are as tired as I am of all the HATE-NEWS that passes for information nowadays then forget about liberal, conservative, or republocrat websites because just about ALL article written today try to focus your anger.
Try these for a refreshing change of pace:
humans are free dot com
censored news dot com.
At the very least you will get read something different.
At some fancy places, you can bring your own wine.
I bring mine in a box.
*** I’m with you… My personal favorite is Carbordeaux…
Need an edit button… and coffee!
It wuz supposed to be:
^^^ I’m with you… My personal favorite is Cardbordeaux…
” More likely, as testing spreads, our fatality rates could descend to near 1 percent.”
Testing only indicates exposure to it, not being sick, or even contagious to others, from it.
If cause of death was reported honestly it would probably descend to less than 1 percent.
The covid death count—at least here in the USA—is inflated by about half. We are there already VDH.
And we have HCQ, if the Globalists would stop suppressing it and blowing up the factories which produce it:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/unexplained_explosion_and_fire_destroy_worlds_second_largest_pharmaceutical_factory_producing_precursors_for_hydroxychloroquine_.html