‘Trump’s Chernobyl’: Media Wuhan Virus
Hysteria Stokes Public Panic
The Federalist,
by
Joy Pullman
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/11/2020 2:06:23 PM
Since the coronavirus came on the horizon, media figures have been stoking panic, leading to mass shortages of basic health supplies, business travel cancellations, and market drops, all while the confirmed disease number hiked yesterday to around 0.000002 percent of the U.S. population.
So far, U.S. cases of the basic seasonal flu outnumber coronavirus cases by a factor of 45,000 (using federal stats for this year’s flu and real-time tracking of coronavirus confirmations). The flu season has even been especially bad this year, with between 20,000 and 52,000 deaths, compared to 29 so far from coronavirus.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
2assume 3/11/2020 2:24:20 PM (No. 343165)
I can’t imagine what the left has in store for us the next 10 months.
They are now shutting down ways he can get his message out.
No matter what happens I swear I will vote for Trump. The other side scares me to death 💀
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Catfur27 3/11/2020 2:28:42 PM (No. 343171)
I despise our corrupt/partisan media.
It's been several weeks of non-stop reporting about "the Virus!" Well, ironically, I AM getting sick - of hearing about it - ...and watching the panic spread...from super markets...to sporting events...to cruise ships...to the stock market. Let's step back for a moment and look at things from a non-media-scare perspective. .
Certainly I am not a health care professional. Or a mathematician. I just did some math on my own. I'm not trying to be tricky...or pull some math-stunt...I wanted to see what really are the odds of someone in the U.S. actually getting - and dying from - Corona Virus 19. (The numbers I'm using are taken from the latest Google data ...and I'm being very conservative...so as not to "taint" the results ) .
According to Google, the 2018 population of the U.S. was 327 million. So, being conservative for this exercise, I will not inflate the count by adding in millions of illegals ...and will even "round down" the count to 320 million people.
Again, checking Google stories, the number of cases of Corona Virus in the U.S. as of March 7 was 750 . ( a guesstimate ?? ) ...Tell you what - I said I am being conservative with the number - so let's make this a " FULL Blown epidemic " !! .... Let's say the number of cases of Corona Virus in the U.S. goes to 3 million !! ( WOW ... that's about 4000 times more people than have it right now in the U.S. !! ... Isn't that scary !!??)
Guess what ? ...IF it did that ...it means that LESS THAN 1% ( 3,000,000/320,000,000 = 0.0093 ) of the people in the US would get it. In this full blown CV-19 Plague you would have a greater than 99% chance of NOT getting it.
Let's take this another step. According to Google stories, as of March 7, there were "over 100,000 cases of CV -19 " reported worldwide...so far... ( most were in China - where medical resources are not the greatest ...?? ) ...and there were "roughly 4000 deaths "... So far .... That's about a 4% Death Rate . This number is consistent with what's been propagated by the media ....BTW... This 4% Death Rate is in the same ballpark as "the flu" .... Which kills tens of thousands of people every year in the U.S. ...without the fanfare and mass panic.
Also worth noting when looking at the 4% Death Rate -- those who DO catch C-19 and die...are generally people who are more susceptible... the elderly...and those with underlying health conditions. ...and many of those who have contributed to the 4% Death Rate are in countries without medical care that meets U.S. standards.
So... In summary ....IF there was a Full Blown Plague that hit the U.S. ...with 3,000,000 people in the U.S. "catching CV -19 "...the chances of any one person here ( you) getting C-19 are .0093...and the chances of someone with C-19 dying is .04...then, mathematically, you have a chance of getting C-19 and dying of 0.000372 ( .0093 x.04) ....that's less than 4/100 of one percent. ...???...IOW : ...in the event of a massive plague, there is a 99.96 % chance that you are NOT going to die from Corona Virus 19 .
...Now reduce those odds even further...because we are NOT likely to hit anywhere near 3,000,000 cases of CV-19 in the U.S.
That's not nearly as scary as the media would have you believe , is it?
Now...will you stop hoarding toilet paper?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
snapper451 3/11/2020 2:45:02 PM (No. 343187)
Went to Walmart today for a few minor items. Walked by the paper goods, no toilet paper. No Clorox wipe, no Lysol of any type. Oddly the candy aisle was almost empty too, so the snowflakes must be chowing down on candy.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/11/2020 3:06:03 PM (No. 343215)
#2, all good information, but you should not trust Google, or enrich them by using their service. There are other search engines readily available who are not working every day all day to destroy America. Like Bing, which provides a beautiful photo each day.
https://www.bing.com/
But ---- I totally agree with your point - our chances of dying from this are extremely low. So far, more people die from lightning strikes in the USA than have died from Chinese flu. Likely to increase, but probably not as high as car accidents.
Some points of discussion:
*** death rate from Chinese flu is not 4% in any realistic sense. The reports are 3% or less and that is admittedly erroneously high because there are large numbers of uncounted cases which are mild, go unreported. It is likely that the actual death rate among all who get it, even in China with poor health care, is more like 1%.
*** very difficult to guesstimate how many Americans will ultimately get the Chinese flu. Without any significant effort to control the common flu, the number of Americans who get the common flu range from 9 million to an unusual high in 2017-18 at 45 million. More typically in 20-30 million range, about 8%, plus or minus a couple of percent. And deaths from common flu range from 12,000 in 2012-13, to a high of 61,000 in 2017-18, mostly reflecting that year's unusually high number of people who got the flu. Common flu is rated at about 0.1% fatal (one tenth of one percent, multiplier of 0.001), one person out of
a thousand who get it will die may be a better way to say it.
LOTS of good info here, CDC site.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/11/2020 3:30:35 PM (No. 343251)
Obama imported people with ebola and deposited them in our communities. Now with Trump, we are supposed to shut the country down so the Democrats have a chance to beat Trump. Democrats are realizing millions of votes cheating will not be enough to defeat Trump, so now they are piling on the virus hoax.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 3/11/2020 3:30:55 PM (No. 343252)
Where was all this panic when H1N1 was killing 12K people here in the US? Oh yeah, OBAMA was President then..this is all political fear-mongering in an attempt to slow down the economy so the MSM can paint Trump in a bad light come November. This is nothing but a manufactured crisis, nothing more.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Delilah 3/11/2020 4:22:24 PM (No. 343305)
I'm elderly and I've had four friends my age ask if I didn't think that the whole coronavirus scare wasn't being overdone. Of course all of us have been through measles, mumps, etc. as children and don't get scared easily when contagious diseases are mentioned like the media would have people today do.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/11/2020 4:35:16 PM (No. 343319)
Everyone, enough with the virus postings. Its the same crap over and over.
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