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    Default Cutting Through the Bullshit: Vital Facts About Covid-19

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    Essential reading for those that want the truth and not the politically motivated bullshit spouted by shysters on here very day!
    Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some crucial facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue.

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasizes that “this is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation,” and as such, this article will be updated as new data becomes available.

    On one hand, the facts show that:

    o if the number of people with active Covid-19 infections is actually 10 times the number of people who have been diagnosed with it, the average American would have to come in contact with 386 people to be exposed to one person who has it.
    o deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. are now 0.5% of the lives lost each year from some typical causes of untimely death, including the flu, overdoses, and accidents.
    o the death rate for people who contract Covid-19 is uncertain but probably closer to the seasonal flu than figures commonly reported by the press.

    On the other hand, Covid-19 is highly transmissible, which means it could spread like wildfire without extraordinary measures to contain it. This would greatly increase its death toll.

    However, such precautionary measures often have economic and other impacts that can cost lives, and overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.

    Reported and Active Cases

    Per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 85,356 people in the United States have been diagnosed with Covid-19 as of 4:00 PM EST on March 26, 2020. The U.S. population is 329 million people, which means that one out of every 3,858 people has been diagnosed with Covid-19. The disease is not equally dispersed throughout the nation, so this figure is higher in some areas and lower in others.

    Reported cases don’t include people who may be carrying the disease but have not yet been diagnosed. Because its incubation period is 2–14 days, the number of people who have been infected could substantially exceed the number who have been diagnosed.

    Also, the vast majority of people who contract Covid-19 experience only mild or no symptoms, and some of them may never be diagnosed. This means that the count of reported cases further understates the actual number of people who have been infected. A February 2020 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association based on data from China found that 81% of reported Covid-19 cases are “mild.” The true portion of such cases is even higher than this, for as the paper explains, there are “inherent difficulties in identifying and counting mild and asymptomatic cases.”

    A rare case in which asymptomatic cases can be counted is the Diamond Princess cruise ship, since all passengers were tested for Covid-19. Among those who tested positive, 51% didn’t have symptoms when they were tested. The number of these people who later developed symptoms is currently unavailable.

    Inversely, many people who were once infected are recovering. The upshot of this is that the number of people who are actively infected is lower than the total of reported and undiagnosed cases.

    All told, if the number of people with active Covid-19 infections is 10 times the number of people who have been diagnosed with it, the average American would have to come in contact with 386 people to be exposed to one person who has it.

    Deaths

    A total of 1,246 U.S. residents have died from Covid-19 as of 4:00 PM on March 26, 2020. Among these deaths, roughly 41% have occurred in the city of New York and the state of Washington.

    To put those figures in perspective:

    o roughly 12,469 people in the U.S. died from the swine flu from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010.
    o unlike Covid-19, which mainly kills older people with preexisting health problems, 87% of people killed by the swine flu were under the age of 65.
    o an average of 37,000 people in the U.S. have died from influenza (“the flu”) each year over the past nine years.
    o about 67,000 people per year in the U.S. die from drug overdoses.
    o around 170,000 people per year in the U.S. die from accidents.

    In summary, deaths from Covid-19 are now 0.5% of the annual fatalities from some typical causes of untimely death, including the flu, overdoses, and accidents.

    Death Rates

    Initial media reports of a 2–3% mortality rate for Covid-19 are inflated, and the actual figure may be closer to that of the flu, which has averaged about 0.15% over the past nine years in the United States. A large degree of uncertainty surrounds this issue due to the same factor that prevents accurate counts of infections: unreported cases.

    As explained by Dr. Brett Giroir—who has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and serves as the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—the Covid-19 death rate is “lower than you heard probably in many reports” because the bulk of people who contract coronavirus don’t get seriously ill, and thus, many of them never get tested.

    Giroir calls this a “denominator problem” because if you’re “not very ill, as most people are not, they do not get tested. They do not get counted in the denominator.” Giroir’s best estimate is that the mortality rate is probably “somewhere between 0.1% and 1%.” This “is likely more severe in its mortality rate than the typical flu” rate of 0.1% to 0.15%, “but it’s certainly within the range.”

    Giroir’s estimate accords with a February 2020 commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine by renowned immunologist Anthony Fauci and others:

    If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.

    A prime example of how journalists misreport on this issue is a March 12th article in Business Insider by Andy Kiersz. In this piece, he compares the “death rates” of Covid-19 from the South Korean CDC to that of the flu from the United States CDC. Based on these numbers, he reports that “South Korea—which has reported some of the lowest coronavirus death rates of any country—still has a COVID-19 death rate more than eight times higher than that of the flu.”

    What Kiersz and his editors fail to understand is that the denominator for the Korean rate is the number of “confirmed cases,” while the denominator for the U.S. rate is based on a “mathematical model.” The CDC clarifies how the model works by citing a study on swine flu, which multiplies “43,677 laboratory-confirmed cases” of the disease by 41 to 131 times to calculate the denominator for the death rate. In the authors’ words, they do this because confirmed cases are:

    Likely a substantial underestimate of the true number. Correcting for under-ascertainment using a multiplier model, we estimate that 1.8 million–5.7 million cases occurred, including 9,000–21,000 hospitalizations.

    Put simply, Covid-19 death rates that are based upon reported or confirmed infections grossly undercount the number of people with the disease. This, in turn, makes the death rate seem substantially higher than reality.

    Transmissibility

    Another important factor in weighing the risks posed by Covid-19 is its transmissibility, or how contagious it is. In this respect, Covid-19 appears to be much more dangerous than the seasonal flu, but once again, there is some ambiguity.

    Scientists measure the contagiousness of diseases with a basic reproduction number, which is the average number of people who tend to catch a disease from each person who has it. This measure is an innate characteristic of the disease because it doesn’t account for actions that people take to prevent it. A February 2020 paper published in the Journal of Travel Medicine explains that any disease with a basic reproduction number above 1.0 is likely to multiply over time.

    The same paper evaluates 12 studies of the basic reproduction number of Covid-19 in various nations and finds that they “ranged from 1.4 to 6.49,” with an average of 3.28 and a median of 2.79. Based on their analysis of these studies, the authors conclude that the basic reproduction number of Covid-19 will likely prove to be “around 2–3” after “more data are accumulated.”

    In contrast, a 2014 paper in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases analyzes 24 studies of the seasonal flu and finds that the median result for the basic reproduction number is 1.28. The authors stress that the seemingly small difference between 1.28 and higher figures like 1.80 “represent the difference between epidemics that are controllable and cause moderate illness and those causing a significant number of illnesses and requiring intensive mitigation strategies to control.”

    In other words, if the transmissibility of Covid-19 is as high as currently estimated, the aggressive measures that some governments, organizations, and individuals have taken to limit large gatherings and travel from areas with outbreaks will save many more lives than doing the same for common diseases like the flu.

    Overreactions

    There are, however, mortal dangers in overreacting because measures to limit the spread of Covid-19 often have economic impacts that can cost lives. As detailed in the textbook Macroeconomics for Today, countries with low economic growth “are less able to satisfy basic needs for food, shelter, clothing, education, and health.” These hazards can manifest quickly and over extended periods of time.

    If certain industries adopted the social distancing extremes that many people have embraced, this would shut down food production and distribution, health care, utilities, and other life-sustaining services. Even under far more moderate scenarios where people who are not in these industries shun work, all of those necessities and many more aspects of modern life depend on the general strength of the economy. Thus, overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.

    The same applies to people who are flooding supermarkets to stockpile food, toilet paper, and other supplies. In doing so, they have often stood in close proximity to each other and touched the same items, which opens avenues to spread the disease. Panic buying also creates shortages that deprive typical consumers of provisions.

    Likewise, panic can fuel suicides, which number 47,000 per year in the United States. That’s about 38 times the current death toll of Covid-19.

    The implications of overreacting to Covid-19 or any other potential hazard are aptly summarized in a teaching guide published by the American Society for Microbiology. This book explains why “the factors driving your concept of risk—emotion or fact—may or may not seem particularly important to you, yet they are” because “there are risks in misperceiving risks.”

    Summary

    During a March 14th press conference, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams asserted that “this situation will last longer, and more people will be hurt” if “we are complacent, selfish, uninformed,” and if “we spread fear, distrust, and misinformation.” Conversely, he said that “we will overcome this situation” if we “pitch in” and “share the facts.”

    The essential facts above confirm the wisdom of his words.
    https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital...bout-covid-19/
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    Why don't you bring your Findings and Calculations to the United Nations?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Why don't you bring your Findings and Calculations to the United Nations?
    I see Mr. Meoff is back!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Why don't you bring your Findings and Calculations to the United Nations?
    BECAUSE THE UN ARE LYING IDIOTS. WHO HELPED CHINA COVERUP IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANUARY...
    TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Why don't you bring your Findings and Calculations to the United Nations?
    I see that Cynical Bastard thanked you, says it all really!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    BECAUSE THE UN ARE LYING IDIOTS. WHO HELPED CHINA COVERUP IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANUARY...
    Aren't you a remarkably silly ass!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Penderyn View Post
    Aren't you a remarkably silly ass!
    You're such an uninformed blowhard!!

    There is no doubt that it was the Chinese government’s lethargy and callousness that has resulted in the global pandemic. While there are ample examples of the Chinese Communist Party’s mismanagement of virus be it SARS or the Wuhan virus, it is perhaps for the first time that a prestigious and a ‘neutral’ organisation like the World Health Organisation (WHO) has aided and abetted the Chinese propaganda. The Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus led WHO is equally culpable for the Wuhan virus pandemic.

    We at tfipost.com have been extensively covering the Wuhan virus since the first case was reported in Wuhan. The cases and the videos coming out of Wuhan were not only gut-wrenching but also an ominous sign of things to come. However, the Chinese Communist Party colluded with the WHO and blinded the world over the Wuhan virus.

    The first cases of the Wuhan virus were seen as early as November but the Chinese government silenced the whistleblowers and downplayed the threat. It was not until late January that China woke up to tackle the virus, thus giving two months to the Wuhan virus to spread unabated.

    The WHO shockingly refused to acknowledge the human to human transmission of the Wuhan virus despite several warnings and castigated countries like the USA and India who started restricting flights to and fro from China.

    Two months later in March, the WHO finally declared the Wuhan virus as a pandemic, four months after the virus originated in Wuhan’s wet market. By then it was too little, too late.

    In hindsight, had the WHO done its job and pulled up the Chinese government, the Wuhan virus would have been nipped in the bud. Let’s take a look at how the WHO aided the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda.

    Chinese doctor Wenliang was one of the first whistleblower to raise the alarm over Coronavirus but the Communist party true to its characteristics, muzzled his concerns. When Wenliang on December 30, sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them to wear protective clothing to avoid infection, four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter.

    In the letter, he was accused of “making false comments” that had “severely disturbed the social order”. He was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for “spreading rumours”. Local authorities later apologised to Dr Li. In his Weibo post he describes how on 10 January he started coughing, the next day he had a fever and two days later he was in the hospital. He was diagnosed with the Coronavirus on 30 January and succumbed to the virus in February. Recently, Dr Wenliang had been exonerated of all charges by the Chinese government.

    It was not only the Chinese whistleblowers, but also countries like Taiwan who warned the WHO. Taiwan was one of the countries to wake up to the threat of the Wuhan virus and it alerted WHO on Dec. 31 to human-to-human transmission by detailing how Wuhan medical staff were getting ill.
    https://tfipost.com/2020/03/ignored-...t-coronavirus/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Penderyn View Post
    This message is hidden because Havana Moon is on your ignore list, he too being a remarkably silly ass, who could have known better.
    Taffy, you're fooling no one!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    BECAUSE THE UN ARE LYING IDIOTS. WHO HELPED CHINA COVERUP IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER AND JANUARY...
    Havana could expose this to the WORLD!
    ... and probably win the Nobel Prize.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    Havana could expose this to the WORLD!
    ... and probably win the Nobel Prize.
    Can't help thinking you've already done that on Bourbon Street!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Essential reading for those that want the truth and not the politically motivated bullshit spouted by shysters on here very day!


    https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital...bout-covid-19/
    They won't read that, Tom. They don't want the truth instead of the politically motivated bullshit they spouted on here every day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Can't help thinking you've already done that on Bourbon Street already!
    I wonder what else Jackoff may have "exposed" while he was purportedly trolling in Chocolate Shitty.

    https://www.nola.com/news/crime_poli...d2776f4e1.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blitherin' View Post
    This message is hidden because Havana Moon is on your ignore list, he too being a remarkably silly ass, who could have known better.


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