It seems that the Wuhan virus’s risks
have been grossly exaggerated
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
8/31/2020 9:20:57 AM
Without the Wuhan virus, the Democrats have no meaningful opposition to Trump. Not only have the Democrats weaponized the Wuhan virus to destroy the economies under their aegis, but they’ve also repeatedly claimed that Trump killed 161,000 Americans. However, new CDC data shows that, of those Americans who died in the past seven months, only 6% died from the virus alone. The other 94% had serious comorbidities that (sadly) put them at a higher risk of death from anything that came along – and certainly from having sick people funneled into their nursing homes.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bpl40 8/31/2020 10:17:40 AM (No. 526794)
When you see the original 'forecast' was 2.2 million dead. And the number turned out to be 9210. Grossly with a capital G.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Osprey21 8/31/2020 10:33:08 AM (No. 526821)
Believe nothing the MSM tells you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/31/2020 10:34:08 AM (No. 526822)
We have seen the danger of listening to scientists and doctors who are political. They can be bought, just like politicians.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seamusm 8/31/2020 10:35:18 AM (No. 526824)
Sorry folks, but the report that 'only' 9,000 were killed by Covid - a report which has been widely reported in conservative circles - is being grossly mis-interpreted. If I have heart disease or diabetes and get Covid and die, it is Covid which is responsible for my death even if I died of a heart attack from the stress. That number is from a CDC report which states that about 9,000 Americans dies from Covid WITHOUT any other recognized medical conditions. During the flu season we talk about 'excess mortality' related to circulating influenza even though most who die actually die from heart attack, strokes, or pneumonia as the immediate cause of death. This is NOT another example of our health officials lying to us. Sorry.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 8/31/2020 11:01:11 AM (No. 526873)
This is a bit disingenuous. Yes, the data shows that only 6% died of Chinese flu alone, I get that. But the other people were living and getting along, and are now dead. And no question that some of them, especially the 80+ people, were at risk from ordinary flu, pneumonia, or any number of other diseases, and some substantial number of them may well have died by now absent the Chinese flu.
But it does not mean "only 9210 people died of it".
Important information, but it does not mean that this bug is harmless. There are a heck of a lot of people with various "comorbidities" that were on a trajectory for years and years of life before the Chinese flu came along, even with their illnesses.
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Nobody is saying that the Wuhan flu is not dangerous for some people. And those people at risk and those close to them are completely justified in taking extensive precautionary measures.
What most of us are saying is that the risk to the small part of the population that needs to be protected did not justify the destruction of our economy and our civil liberties that has occurred.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/31/2020 11:33:13 AM (No. 526925)
Then there's the question of how many man-years are attributable to the virus. An 80-year-old who dies is one thing, a 20-yer-old is a whole other story.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/31/2020 11:45:08 AM (No. 526938)
#4, I get what you are saying but that applies to any influenza. Maybe people should have listened to the President on January 31 and started taking action. Like governors, mayors, hospitals, doctor offices etc. Nooooo, Joe Biden and the Democrats were too busy trying to put together a bill to stop the ban and nobody took the President of the USA seriously. And too busy impeaching him.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 8/31/2020 12:37:35 PM (No. 526997)
Now honestly, that never crossed my mind... /sarc
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/31/2020 1:11:54 PM (No. 527036)
NO SCHIFFT SHERLOCK!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greyseal 8/31/2020 1:25:06 PM (No. 527049)
As Andrea points out in her article, 6% (roughly 9700) of the population represents those who, while otherwise healthy (i.e. no co-morbidities) actually died of COVID alone. A substantial segment of the other 94% represents an older segment of the population (including me) with an average of 2.6 co-morbidities. It is this latter group that should have observed the lockdown (quarantine) and America should have stayed open for business as it has for any other outbreak over the last few decades.
A liberal fact-checking site that did leg work (e.g. CYA) for CNN on these numbers stated that the CDC expects that when 2020's numbers are all in, COVID will make its way into the top 10 of killers for the year. What they didn't point out is that there are still nine other sources of death for Americans that we see every year - and for which we never have shut down the economy. These include heart disease (648,000), cancer (599,000), and accidents (170,000) - all of which are largely preventable given our lifestyles but yet we don't shut down the country and strip people of their liberties in the face of over 2 million recurring deaths a year.
Someone in government needs to get some perspective...
greyseal
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 8/31/2020 4:03:11 PM (No. 527175)
And what it states seems to mean that the pols shut down the country, wrecked lives we shut, and caused this country trillions of dollars of damage for 9,000 lives. And they are going to continue the stupidity for the foreseeable future because it is shining a search light on their incompetency. This was a medical issue from day one. It was compounded by the pols making it political, and it was as destructive as it has been because of their TDS and their trying to shove socialism down our throats. They were reckless and dangerous and some of them ought to face prison for their actions - what did they know and when. In addition they opened the gates to thugs, communists, and pitted us against each other. No I don't think the posters are not understanding the numbers, I think they are right on target..
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