Panicdemic
By Patrick Van Roy On December 4th, 2020Facts — not fear — will stop the pandemic https://t.co/ixnXW2XOzv
— The Troll (@TheCityTroll) December 4, 2020
The case fatality rate from the virus has dropped sharply since March. The infection survival rate is 99.95 percent for people under 70 and 95 percent for people over 70. Hospitals are much better equipped to handle patients, with improved ventilator protocols, improved management of outpatients and new therapeutic strategies to provide relief and recoveries. Moreover, thanks to multiple ongoing clinical trials around the world, there may soon be a safe and effective vaccine.
By contrast with their focus on COVID deaths, the media have paid scant attention to the enormous medical and psychological harms from the lockdowns in use to slow the pandemic. Despite the enormous collateral damage lockdowns have caused, England, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries are all intensifying their lockdowns once again.
By lockdowns, we mean the all-too-familiar shuttered schools and universities, closed playgrounds and parks, silent churches and bankrupt stores and businesses that have become emblematic of American civic life these past months. The relative dearth of reporting on the harms caused by lockdowns is odd, since lives lost from lockdown are no less important than lives lost from COVID infection. But they’ve received much less media attention.
The harms from lockdown have been catastrophic. Consider the psychological harm. Reader, since you’re reading this in lockdown, you can undoubtedly relate to the isolation and loneliness that these policies can cause by shutting down typical channels for social interaction. In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that one in four young adults had seriously considered suicide. Opioid and other drug related deaths are on a sharp and unsurprising upswing.
The burden of these policies falls disproportionately on some of the most vulnerable. For example, isolation led to a 20 percent increase in dementia-related deaths among our elderly population. Moreover, retrospective analysis of the lockdown in the United States shows that patients skipped cancer screenings, childhood immunizations, diabetes management visits and even treatment for heart attacks.
Internationally, the lockdowns have placed 130 million people on the brink of starvation, 80 million children at risk for diphtheria, measles and polio, and 1.8 million patients at risk of death from tuberculosis. The lockdowns in developed countries have devastated the poor in poor countries. The World Economic Forum estimates that the lockdowns will cause an additional 150 million people to fall into extreme poverty, 125 times as many people as have died from COVID.
Your anti science anti government fanatic Truther movement is the cause of the lockdowns
So why are you complaining about your lockdowns. Makes no sense at all.
These endless complaints from the three amigos make no sense at all.
Your triumvirate are like careless people who fall asleep smoking in bed who then complain that the firemen flood the living room when they put the fire out
Perpetual critics, perpetual complainers.
No the lockdowns are power grabs by tinpot politicians nothing more.
This doctor in Oregon is totally in denial about how deadly Coronavirus is:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-doctor-staff-refuse-wear-masks-during-pandemic-calling-covid-n1249737
As for huge numbers of people dying from CoronaV, only 6% of ‘Covid victims’ die of Covid alone – the other 94% predominantly over-80, have comorbidities such as heart disease, cancer etc
https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/covid-19/covid-19-myth-busters/is-it-true-only-6-percent-of-those-listed-as-coronavirus-deaths-in-the-u-s-actually-died-from-the-virus/
Seasonal flu – correct.
Even the ‘fact-checkers’ give the hoax away
Phantom – should the lockdowns continue until all diseases and deaths are eliminated? This is an opportunity 🙂
No you should be locked up, now there’s an idea
Phantom – do you agree with the inventor of the PCR test that it absolutely should not be used for diagnosis?
NY Post
It’s just the flu!
It is just the Flu….. the Flu has overwhelmed hospitals every year, but oh my it isn’t a headline because they don’t have an election to steel.
The hospital in Lancaster is at less than 15% capacity, Delaware, Bucks, and Chester counties are being hit the hardest right now. Call your sister Phantom. Her area is being hit very hard. Ask her if the death Wagons are roaming her streets…… and how overwhelmed her hospitals are….
The machine your talking about is a Heart bypass machine… is this a new form of treatment? Instead of a respirator that we have an over abundance of because of the panic we forced the car companies to make what their putting you in a coma to shutdown and bypass your heart and lungs because that’s what that machine does?
5000 overwhelms 42,800…… what is this global warming Math?
Well said Phantom.
My brother’s had loads of colds, and the flu three times. But none of those times put him in hospital for four days, struggling to breathe, like coronavirus did.
I also know nearly a dozen people now who have died of coronavirus. I’ve never known that many who died of flu. And I don’t know anyone who’s died of a cold.
I’m not claiming that this virus is deadly, but it’s certainly worse than the flu.
As I said all News must be taken with a grain of salt no matter the publication. You have to research FACTS and take NOTHING at face value, and absolutely nothing from Levine should be believed period…. she/he is Wolfs puppet.
https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-second-wave-threatens-to-overwhelm-hospitals-pennsylvania-20201120.html
Hospitals in Pennsylvania are close to being overwhelmed. Doctors and nurses are suffering from burn out
This is not a normal situation; and conditions are getting much worse
This problem of burnout and overload exists in many states, As the virus continues out of control. In the absence. Of any semblance of proper national leadership
Dave
A friend of a friend, 60 years of age, seemingly in the fullness of health, Developed symptoms And was diagnosed with it; he died suddenly three days later
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Note in the above Philadelphia news article, that 1/3 of Pennsylvania residents say that they’re not complying with the mask mandate
Masks have never been consistently used in the US and UK. There have been too many imbeciles who have refused to wear them all along
Anyone who dares to say that masks have been tried, and that they have failed deserves a very hard slap
5000 beds out of 43,000 beds is far from overwhelmed…… it’s no worse than a Flu.
“5000 beds out of 43,000 beds is far from overwhelmed”
Neither the total nor the proportion matter, fool.
Those beds aren’t all lying empty. So if you’ve planned for 43,000 and 5,000 extra show up, that’s not going to work for you.
And even if they can cope with 5,000 extra, just wait a few weeks. It won’t stay at just 5,000 for long. But nobody needs to wait until it happens (just so you can figure it out months later, if at all) when pretty much anyone with half a clue can see it coming in advance.
“it’s no worse than a Flu”
It’s 5-10x worse than the flu … and even if it was “just as bad as the flu” and merely 5,000 extra cases on top of normal seasonal flu, that wouldn’t help the hospitals cope better either.
If you are one of the 5,000 people with something “worse than the flu”, and you then show up looking for a bed that is now occupied by one of the 5,000, no bed for you.
Phantom
I’m sorry to hear that mate.
I found out yesterday guy who lives just around the corner from me and used to drink in the local pub has died of Coronavirus. He was 68.
I hate to say this, but I think were going to lose a few more locals before this winter is out.
I can’t understand the objections to masks. For fucks sake, how selfish does a person have to be to object to the minor inconvenience of wearing one.
Johnathan Pie nails in in this video mate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQkBHysrig
The evidence on masks and the coronavirus was lacking at the earlier in the year, but many studies have been done since then, (which I’ve posted on here, although the anti-mask morons chose to ignore them), which show masks DO reduce the transmission of this virus.
Those who are mask deniers and who don’t adhere to the rules at this point are willfully ignorant. They will never read anything with an open mind.
They put twisted politics above the health and rights of their families and neighbors.
I could care less if these poor dumb bastards kill themselves, but they’re killing others and destroying the economy – and then they have the brass neck to say that it’s others who are at fault
Phantom
Plus, claiming that it’s no worse than flu is clearly wrong.
In the UK on average 17,000 people die from flu every year. I believe our worst flu deaths in a year was 37,000.
We’re now at 61,000 Coronavirus deaths.
Remember when you stated that the lockdowns were a strategy used by the Dems to blame on Trump so he would lose the election?
That was funny.
Trump lost the election IMO largely due to his complete botch of the virus
He did much worse than Republican congressmen or senators did at the polls ( a fact which largely demolishes the “ rigged election “ lie )
This is a people’s rejection of a president who simply refused to lead, who refused to try to lead
just the facts as they speak for themselves
US confirms record number of cases for third day running
The US has now seen a record number of coronavirus cases for the third day running.
A tally by Johns Hopkins University showed the world’s worst-hit country – which has seen a dramatic virus resurgence in recent weeks – reached nearly 230,000 new infections and 2,527 Covid-related deaths on Saturday alone.
For two weeks, the US has regularly topped 2,000 deaths per day, as it had in the spring at the height of the first wave of the country’s outbreak.
US health officials warned of a surge after millions of Americans traveled to celebrate last week’s Thanksgiving holiday, despite pleas from authorities to stay home.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/pandemic-pushing-americas-911-system-to-breaking-point-ambulance-operators-say/
Heckuva job,
BrownieTrump