Interesting how the media is really pushing the hysterical “Corona case counts are skyrocketing”. You would think we are living in a zombie apocalypse or as if this was a virus like the one in The Stand. I do feel sorry for the families of those who died but I honestly feel if a democrat was in office we would’ve barely heard about Covid. I am not an Obama fan but I never blamed him when people died of Ebola, but then again the media wasn’t hysterical about it.
I honestly feel that if Trump would’ve been full of panic then the media wouldve totally downplayed this.
It's because it's really easy to show big numbers and scream that new hot spots are appearing when you only give it a minute or two on CNN before switching back to bashing the President. When you actually look at the overall death rate it's a fucking joke, and that's not even accounting for over classification.
EDIT: To add, the harshest lockdowns occurred under Dem. governors. Now they claim this is for public safety, but if they released lockdowns like South Dakota or Florida, and case numbers barely go up, then they'll be blamed for everything. Guess in their mind it's better to just let everything burn down around them and be right than ever admit to being wrong.
Everyday is a new record of dead because death counts don't go backwards. The numbers are entirely meaningless. Anyone with a lab coat can tell CNN to add more numbers.
Let's not get into the tests being overly sensitive, or the actual false positive rate, or ifr, or any facts.
It's unfair according to the left to use facts against them.
Tests results are largely meaningless for statistical comparaison, yet the media keeps pretending it is. ( It's used as a screening to tell people to isolate themselves to lower transmission. )
The only remotely coherent way to compare situation in different states is to track excess mortality and controling for other factors.
For example, Québec has more detected daily cases than this Spring, but less than half ICU patients than this Spring, and 10%-20% of the Spring daily deaths. Because this Spring, they didn't do large-scale testing. ( The vast majority of cases are asymptomatic anyway. )
Yet listening to the media it's the apocalypse with "record breaking cases" and we must lockdown and not see our family and friends. Reminder that although this Spring there was indeed a significant excess mortality, there is not this Fall even at peak of the second wave.
God I wish our public health agency had a brain like, how extremely ironic, Sweden's, of all places. Their institute is not dictated by politicians, and thus the presstitutes trying to whip a mass hysteria to up their ratings cannot drill them daily, making them implement retarded policies, such as large-scale quarantine and hygene protocols in SCHOLS, for a demographic that would be 4 times more oikely to die of the seasonal flu.
Oh and no masks for the general public in Sweden.
Sweden never shut down they schools. Not even this Spring. No kid died. Zero.
And the tests just detecting any Corona virus, which is about 1/8 of cold viruses.
Well, that, and they don't even test for the flu this much. It's just a matter of everyone going to get tested more than before.
It's such a serious problem that you need a test to tell you that you are infected with it.
The political climate certainly plays a role in the US.
However, it's similar in other countries. In the EU we have a feedback loop of journos, social media virtue signalers and politicians whipping each other into a frenzy. In Germany they're currently talking about more restrictions than during the height of the epidemic, e.g. mandatory masks OUTSIDE. Panic buying started again to a lesser degree.
The media and certain politicians get off on telling people what to do and forbidding them from doing things they like. That's why I'm not sure the Dems would loosen restrictions if they should win. They NEED to control people "for their own good".
It's fine. BLM's rioting for 4 months and nobody's bitching.
Around here you can tell what a protest is about by the distance between participants.
Full social distancing and masks? That's a protest the government doesn't like, e.g. anti-lockdown. If there's any violation of their arbitrary rules these protests get dissolved by police immediately.
No social distancing among protesters? That's a left-wing protest. Police and politicians allow them to do whatever they want regardless of whether they adhere to official rules or not.
The media has been pushing it, and I've been hearing it from people in my life who have bought into this that the second wave is coming! Oh no!! Aren't those people in the southern states inbred hicks!? Look! There's people in the football stands not wearing masks! ITS ALL THEIR FAULT! OMG!!
I'm so fucking tired of it. For me, among the things that frustrates me the most is when covid fear-porn is used to justify total derision for people they don't like. I know it keeps getting brought up, but it's hard not to see it as a cult-like mindset. It's one thing to talk about it, its another to see it in person, and it's awful. I am really worried for the damage that is being done to our society.
It's also very cute they're hyping up the fear as we get closer to the election. I just hope sooner rather than later some of these folks realize they're getting played, but I'm also concerned too many of them like the excuse to be dramatic and horrible to others.
I was vocally protesting this as far back as March. This whole thing is just crazy.
This crying wolf is going to cost a lot of lives when the next Chinese bioweapon appears after people have already burned all their restriction tolerance.
I wouldn't put it past that being the Plan all along.
Trump tried to put travel restrictions and made a lot of headlines when covid started in China. Biden called him a xenophobic racist. Pelosi and Sanders said basically same thing. Coumo and others were telling people to get out and enjoy movies and to come down to china town and stop being racist. They also pushed for impeachment based on literally nothing for a month straight at that time. The media ignored all but Trump = racist and impeachment drum beating. They ignore this when they talk about Trump's covid reaction and try to blame him for this bullshit. Even the 200,000 dead nonsense is complete lies. Multiple doctors at start of pandemic claimed the best case scenario was if only 200,000 died. So what these assholes are really saying is Trump is handling the pandemic perfectly,b ut they dont tell you that part.
I'm very much sick of it. I no longer care about the virus at all. None. I wish everything about it would just go away.
I'd have been fine taking precautions if I ever felt the government and media was being honest about it all. I was doing quite well in May and June after all the dumb lockdowns passed. I'd found a lot of ways to have fun and limit social engagement. Then everything changed to be all about whether or not you're wearing a little rectangle of cloth on your face. Wear it and do literally anything in any size group--you are doing everything you can to defend from virus. Don't wear it and go out by yourself with limited social interaction--you are a selfish person that wants us all dead.
Once I realized logic was totally dead, I just quit giving a shit about any of it.
Same.
I don't like people too close to me, the social distancing has been a boon for that (what is it about Denisovans and loving crowding? Even the Natives want to get up in your face when they talk, it's disgusting.) And I try to keep things at least reasonably clean and sanitary as a matter of simple civilized living and being hyperaware of the monkey-house smell masses of humans can generate.
But this is starting to stink of the burkha-pushers.
One of my best friends just told me I wouldn't see her again until she thinks the pandemic is over since she doesn't think I'm taking the rona seriously enough. She's naturally a worrier and somewhat germaphobic. The fear porn has made her lose all reason.
So yeah, I'm sick of it.
If anybody has any links to studies about the death hospitalization being down, or any good numbers/news please share with me.
That's exactly what they did. People sounded the alarm in January and they were called conspiracy theorists. Trump eventually recognized the threat, but it was wildly overstated. Everyone who complained in January that the Coronavirus was a threat was saying that preparation was necessary, not because of the virus being deadly, but just because of the threat to the medical sector and logistical chain.
However, Trump was given insane information. Everybody who was watching this come up knew that large numbers of people could die, and that it seemed like the initial strain was considerably lethal if people didn't get proper treatment quickly. The biggest threat, was always logistical to us, but Trump was being told by literal fraudulent studies that millions of people were going to die, and that elites themselves were starting to get sick and die too.
That's when the media went 180^0. Over the course of a few days they flipped from "Coronovirus isn't even worse than the flu" not because they knew better, but because they didn't like Trump; straight to: "Everyone's gonna die"
They've been jammed on "Everyone's gonna die" for the past, what, 6 months now? Long after the main danger has passed.
It really seems like alt-tech is 3 months ahead of the MSM and normies are 3 months behind even them. The MSM have basically gone from one incredible extreme to another. Full dismissal, then they turned it into full panic.
It's really disturbing to hear so many talking heads in MSM just constantly harp on how everyone needs to let this disease literally dominate them, and how they should be perpetually afraid.
I remember the exact moment the Beijing bug went from nothingburger to apocalypse for the twitteratti. It was when
Elizabeth WarrenBernie used Xi's disease as an attack on Trump at her last debate.Spez: It was Bernie, not Warren.
Do you remember when that was on the debate?
I mixed up my commies. It was Bernie. The hysterically massive switch to war with Eastasia was incredible to watch in real time.
They downplayed it because chinese and their "racism" bullshit.
Definitely don't talk about how they had a big public feast for wuhanites last december after they KNEW something was going around, and then gave people several days' notice before locking it down, letting millions of the little ratfinks spread their filth all over the world. And let's not talk about the possibility of corrupt little fucks with no internal dialogue thinking they can get away with selliing "sacrificed" lab subjects to wet markets for some quick side bucks, because that's the sort of corruption that goes on in places like that ... they don't enforce any other fucking law that was forced onto them by western optics, so why should they give a fuck about lab safety?
The media in Québec is constantly parroting Democrat talking points about the "disastrous" Trump management of the epidemic.
Forgetting to mention hardest hit state is Democrat run. That it was Democrat governors forcing infected people into elderly care facilities.
That Québec has higher per-capita WuFlu deaths than the USA. chef kiss
Well I am and have always been a nutter...so when this first happened my very first reaction was 'here we go NWO is here'...and nothing that has happened since has convinced me that I was wrong, the whole world is in a dire situation, we just don't know it yet.
The US election is only part of the story. WEF Great Reset is a full go in almost every country.
how can cases surge by the thousands in a single day? were a thousand people tested and results obtained that day, or is it cumulative?
Yep, lots of cases, next to no deaths, and they overblow what deaths do happen. I don't believe for a second that the ONE OR TWO deaths so pushed really had no underlying conditions or complicating factors at all. Even if so, it was one or two .. OUT OF 8 FUCKING BILLION for fuck's sake.
We were sold people dropping dead in the streets and convulsing? Oh, turns out that's what happens when you ignore environmental laws and just let factories throw their pollution everywhere.
The spread just underscores the need for better sanitation overall, because that's the same sort of spread you get with colds and flus, and everyone wonders why everyone gets sick when someone shows up for work/school sick, but taking some miracle medication advertised more or less this way: "Take this, they'll never know you're sick! So you can breathe on all of 'em!"
The death rate in my state now stands at 2.4% and is FALLING (from 3.5% earlier this summer when several nursing homes got swarmed) in spite of several weeks of large infection increases.
If the trend continues it'll be well within the statistical error rate of the normal seasonal flu death rate and this doesn't even include the errors in the testing or those who got it and were never tested to begin with.