We Destroyed The Economy Over A Virus That The CDC Now Says Is Only This Deadly
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The global economy is in shambles, all because a select few pushed for draconian lockdown measures to stop the spread of a supposedly deadly virus.
We were told that the death rate of this virus was as high as 3.4 percent.
Now, however, it has become abundantly clear that this is hardly the case.
These estimates were virtually meaningless because researchers had no idea how many people were actually infected with the disease, Infowars notes.
Tests had mostly been conducted on those with symptoms serious enough to land them in the hospital, so any statistics on the full extent of the virus’ danger were skewed, at best.
By late April, researchers published new studies which indicated that the number of those who contracted coronavirus was likely much, much higher than originally thought, making the death rate much, much lower.
Now, the US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new set of estimates which suggests the real death rate of the novel virus is dramatically lower than they originally told us.
Just 0.26%.
The report concludes that the “symptomatic case fatality ratio” is 0.4 percent.
And that’s only symptomatic cases! In the same report, the CDC also claimed that 35 percent of all cases were asymptomatic.
As the Washington Post reported this week:
The agency offered a “current best estimate” of 0.4 percent. The agency also gave a best estimate that 35 percent of people infected never develop symptoms. Those numbers when put together would produce an infection fatality rate of 0.26, which is lower than many of the estimates produced by scientists and modelers to date.”
While the mainstream media and many Democrat leaders only listened to the most hysterical of predictions, however, there were scientists who warned way back in the beginning of the outbreak that it likely wasn’t so deadly.
In April, the Wall Street Journal noted:
In a March article for Stat News, Dr. Ioannidis argued that Covid-19 is far less deadly than modelers were assuming. He considered the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined Feb. 4 in Japan. Nine of 700 infected passengers and crew died. Based on the demographics of the ship’s population, Dr. Ioannidis estimated that the U.S. fatality rate could be as low as 0.025% to 0.625% and put the upper bound at 0.05% to 1%—comparable to that of seasonal flu.
Infowars opines:
Proponents of destroying human rights and the rule of law in order to carry out lockdowns will continue to insist that “we didn’t know” what the fatality rate was back in March. The lack of evidence, however, didn’t stop proponents of lockdowns from implementing policies that destroyed the ability of families to earn a living, and which also created social conditions that caused child abuse and suicides to spike.
But for more sane people, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Those who have claimed that lockdowns are “the only option” had virtually no evidence at all to support their position. Indeed, such extreme over-the-top measures such as the general lockdowns required an extreme level of high-quality, nearly irrefutable evidence that lockdowns would work and were necessary in the face of a disease with an extremely high fatality rate. But the only “data” the prolockdown people could offer was speculation and hyperbolic predictions of bodies piling up in the streets.
But that became politically unimportant.
The people who wanted lockdowns had gained the obeisance of powerful people in government institutions and in the media. So actual data, science, or respect for human rights suddenly became meaningless. All that mattered was getting those lockdowns. So the lockdown crowd destroyed the lives of millions in the developed world—and more than a hundred million in the developing world—to satisfy the hunches of a tiny handful of politicians and technocrats.
https://www.rightcountry.com/we-destroyed-the...is-deadly/
The global economy is in shambles, all because a select few pushed for draconian lockdown measures to stop the spread of a supposedly deadly virus.
We were told that the death rate of this virus was as high as 3.4 percent.
Now, however, it has become abundantly clear that this is hardly the case.
These estimates were virtually meaningless because researchers had no idea how many people were actually infected with the disease, Infowars notes.
Tests had mostly been conducted on those with symptoms serious enough to land them in the hospital, so any statistics on the full extent of the virus’ danger were skewed, at best.
By late April, researchers published new studies which indicated that the number of those who contracted coronavirus was likely much, much higher than originally thought, making the death rate much, much lower.
Now, the US’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a new set of estimates which suggests the real death rate of the novel virus is dramatically lower than they originally told us.
Just 0.26%.
The report concludes that the “symptomatic case fatality ratio” is 0.4 percent.
And that’s only symptomatic cases! In the same report, the CDC also claimed that 35 percent of all cases were asymptomatic.
As the Washington Post reported this week:
The agency offered a “current best estimate” of 0.4 percent. The agency also gave a best estimate that 35 percent of people infected never develop symptoms. Those numbers when put together would produce an infection fatality rate of 0.26, which is lower than many of the estimates produced by scientists and modelers to date.”
While the mainstream media and many Democrat leaders only listened to the most hysterical of predictions, however, there were scientists who warned way back in the beginning of the outbreak that it likely wasn’t so deadly.
In April, the Wall Street Journal noted:
In a March article for Stat News, Dr. Ioannidis argued that Covid-19 is far less deadly than modelers were assuming. He considered the experience of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which was quarantined Feb. 4 in Japan. Nine of 700 infected passengers and crew died. Based on the demographics of the ship’s population, Dr. Ioannidis estimated that the U.S. fatality rate could be as low as 0.025% to 0.625% and put the upper bound at 0.05% to 1%—comparable to that of seasonal flu.
Infowars opines:
Proponents of destroying human rights and the rule of law in order to carry out lockdowns will continue to insist that “we didn’t know” what the fatality rate was back in March. The lack of evidence, however, didn’t stop proponents of lockdowns from implementing policies that destroyed the ability of families to earn a living, and which also created social conditions that caused child abuse and suicides to spike.
But for more sane people, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Those who have claimed that lockdowns are “the only option” had virtually no evidence at all to support their position. Indeed, such extreme over-the-top measures such as the general lockdowns required an extreme level of high-quality, nearly irrefutable evidence that lockdowns would work and were necessary in the face of a disease with an extremely high fatality rate. But the only “data” the prolockdown people could offer was speculation and hyperbolic predictions of bodies piling up in the streets.
But that became politically unimportant.
The people who wanted lockdowns had gained the obeisance of powerful people in government institutions and in the media. So actual data, science, or respect for human rights suddenly became meaningless. All that mattered was getting those lockdowns. So the lockdown crowd destroyed the lives of millions in the developed world—and more than a hundred million in the developing world—to satisfy the hunches of a tiny handful of politicians and technocrats.
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