WesternJournal:
A glimmer of hope in the midst of a pandemic that has ground the world to a halt: A new study from Harvard University and University of Hong Kong finds that COVID-19 might have a lower fatality rate than originally suggested.
According to the study published in Nature Medicine last week, only 1.4 percent of people who contracted the novel coronavirus in the epicenter of the disease, Wuhan, died from it.
CNS News reported that the paper was still awaiting peer review.
However, the fatality rate presented by the study was dramatically lower than the World Health Organization’s prediction of a 3.4 percent death rate earlier this month, as well as early predictors of death in Wuhan. more
Gee, does this mean that teh powers that be overreacted to the flu?
Try to convince me fellow travelers weren’t trying to tank the economy.
Shocking isn’t it? That the world health organization lied?
They were already caught lying the other day when they claimed the death rate was way higher than the seasonal flu and they used CONFIRMED cases of the virus buth they used both confirmed +estimated cases of the seasonal flu. If you compared apples to apples and just CONFIRMED cases of the seasonal flu, the seasonal flu death rate would be much higher than this virus.
The whole thing is a scam. They couldn’t impeach him, so theyre trying to shut down the country and ruin the economy hoping that will do trump in at election time. The proof is how they didn’t give two shits about passing a stimulus bill after they demanded the economy be shut down.
Republican voters don’t want everything to be shut down. Democrat voters do.
We won the election. SO JUST WHY IN THE FUCK ARE WE IN A SHUTDOWN?
The head of WHO should be sacked immediately. It’s fair to say he at least started part of this rush to panic by declaring a death rate of 3.4%. If the WHO fails to act then the US should halve it’s contribution.
As for whether this was released to crash the western economies they’ll be time to investigate that later as well as time to determine what punishments China will be slapped with.
Now let’s be fair. The WHO would have wanted a much higher death rate so they’re probably very disappointed by this.
Kick all those lying are soles out of the US along with their Dimwit allies!
So what else would you expect from a corrupt world organization one of whose charter and founding members and signers and a proven communist was Alger Hiss. The UN and WHO have zero credibility and should be expulsed from the United States. They don’t give a damn about anything but themselves and their ungodly agenda to destroy Western civilization at any cost including the tanking of the US economy.
Death rate in China 0.0404 The numbers were always very strange.US 0.01231
The UN is an anti-US/anti-Israel/Pro-China club. This is an attempt at a Cloward-Piven strategy at a global level. We’d all be fucking suckers to fall for it. It’s a nasty virus, but there is no way its body count will match a global depression, which will be far far worse.
WHO Covidiots.
There’s a article in the WSJ today — IS THE CORONAVIRUS AS DEADLY AS THEY SAY? — that goes into even further depth about the probable actual numbers. Their conclusion is we are being misled by orders of magnitude.
Love The Who. Quadrophenia FTW
Hate the WHO. China pandering, lying sacks of bat droppings.
This virus has more names than any virus in history; 2019-nCoV, Wuhan Flu, novel corona virus, China virus, COVID-19, etc.
I can join the fun name game:
“Wuhan Flu-We Finally Got Trump Too”.
“Wuhan Flu-For Toppling Trump Too”.
Or, maybe not.
@scr_north
As long as the sack they put him in has lot’s of weights tied to it I agre!
Something’s been niggling at the back of my mind since this all started and you probably heard it early on, too. It was this claim made very early and it was stated in such a way as to lead us to believe it should be otherwise, or that it was unattainable: “There’s no known vaccine to combat the novel corona virus.”
I did a (very) little digging on the subject of recent ‘flu outbreaks, including the ’09/’10 N1H1 global pandemic, and guess what? Most influenza viruses do not have a vaccine that targets them in advance of their existence. The best the CDC can do is create a couple of vaccines a year they think will be effective. And the truth is, even the N1H1 vaccine that was finally approved well into the ‘flu season for ’09/’10 (at least nine months on), there were so many variables affecting its effectiveness that I’m not sure, even after reading the material, that anyone should have been reassured by the numbers.
Maybe I missed the CDC’s explanation among all the hours of WH press conferences — and I certainly missed any questions from the Freakazoids in the press pool — about how vaccines are produced and their general effectiveness rates in the general population. For some mysterious reason these points were never raised to counter the implicit claim that we *should* have had a vaccine or that concocting one is impossible, or, and this is the crux of my point, that having one (or finding a “cure”) guarantees a 100% immunity from the virus or 100% recovery from it.
When N1H1 made itself known it, too, was a “novel” influenza virus: “In the spring of 2009, a novel influenza A (H1N1) virus emerged. It was detected first in the United States and spread quickly across the United States and the world. This new H1N1 virus contained a unique combination of influenza genes not previously identified in animals or people. This virus was designated as influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 virus. Ten years later work continues to better understand influenza, prevent disease, and prepare for the next pandemic.” ~ from the CDC’s website (N1H1 Pandemic)
All to say (and to keep this comment from becoming an essay): The WHO and the CDC (and the media) have talked about this virus as though it is something completely outside the realm of what we have known as influenza viruses, and yet it has all the same common symptoms of the ‘flu. I’m no scientist (as the media keeps pointing out about POTUS Trump), but I think this has more to do with the CDC not cracking the vaccine code on N1H1 earlier in its spread, and being caught with their pants completely down in the face of Covid19. For this and many other reasons, I think Covid19 was treated as some netherworld, exotic (man-made?) “thing” because all those smaht guys who have been burning through billions of dollars and decades of time at the CDC have failed to progress in their understanding of influenza viruses because they and their university research labs have been too distracted and too concerned about other things, like making sure there were enough social justice grievance people represented among their ranks, and conducting studies of how certain disease rates among certain world populations are the result of systemic white imperialism and racism, as well as giving each other prizes for other ground-breaking studies along the same lines.
Just a thought.
Further reading: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm “Vaccine Effectiveness: How Well Do the Flu Vaccines Work?” (from the CDC website)
Mule
What was the name of the liberal President who back stabbed free China and put Red China on the Security Council
?
Hint: both the poorest man to be President and the smartest (academic scholarship fo his college – back when merit was the basis for such an award!). All progressives are not dumb!
Would that be failed haberdasher and World War 1 Army Captain Harry S Truman. Just think how much worse off we would’ve been had they not removed Comrade Henry Wallace at the last moment as Vice President and nominated “Give em Hell” Harry for VP instead before FDR died in April 1945. I don’t think that Henry Wallace would’ve nuked Japan to end World War 2. and would’ve willfully all or Manhattan Project nuclear secrets to his commie buddy Joe Stalin.
And he would’ve willfully given away all our Manhattan project nuclear secrets to his commie buddie Joe Stalin. Henry Wallace was a commie POS.