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originally posted by: Mandroid7
a reply to: loam
None of it's really worth your time to discuss.
It's all heresay.
Paid douches like Fauci, Gates, bad medical leadership and intentions, trillions in funding,
Profits, political motivations, rogue(or presented as such) politicians like aoc.
Entrenched politics in alphabet agencies.
96% of the media and 100% of the banking industry owned by one entity.
Techno-gatekeepers filtering the internet larping as companies.
A spying, anxiety promoting government.
A leader who sides on further division while wagging a flag for slow people.
A virus that is shown as a drawing.
Lung damage and death was caused by ventilation when not needed.
(Videos being scrubbed from internet asap)
There are no trustworthy sources left.
You can't even begin to make an assessment of the situation.
originally posted by: loam
No one is talking about this now, but the focus on new cases and deaths completely misses the boat on the life-long consequences for a sizable portion of the population who get COVID-19. The lung and other organ damage can be profound.
We'll be dealing with those consequences for years, if not decades.
originally posted by: kiro8lak
a reply to: Habs2133
HOW is it a deception that relatives of 3 of my colleagues have died of the virus? I know 3 doctors who have it, too . . . one says she feels fine; the other 2 say they have never felt so ill in their lives.
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: hombero
Effect: Coronavirus wasn't as bad as feared
Cause: quarantine protocols.
And some people have no understanding of logic. Show me exactly how the protocols decreased the severity of the outbreak, or even prevented ONE SINGLE PERSON from getting it.
You can't because there's no way to prove a negative. The protocols were put in place, but there's no way to prove that it would have been any different without it.
"Well, common sense. And the estimates!". No. Proof. Because that's what you have. No proof.
originally posted by: JAGStorm
a reply to: RazorV66
I know a lot of people don't follow psychics or such, but this is weird.
Right before Covid started I read a passage from a psychic regarding world events.
I will never forget what it said (I'll try to look for the exact link when I have time)
She said a virus will spread worldwide, kill a lot of people, by summer it will disappear as if by magic (When Trump said something similar I gasped, as if he read the exact same thing I did) and then the virus will come back in fall and do the same thing, and then disappear as if it never existed.
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: RazorV66
The figures are the best we've got. It's that simple.
Pretending it is just the flu is nonsense. The flu is ALSO killing people, as well as the complications of COVID-19.
So far, the death count in the US and the mortality rate say that COVID-19 warrants attention.
So far, there isn't a 'ready' immunization.
So far, there are few effective treatments.
Hanging all your hopes on some medtech miracle is just a bad idea because it isn't real yet and the problem is happening right now.
originally posted by: midnightstar
True but I am Long past need spinning numbers to know the virus is real and people will die and millions or even a Billion could all get sick between December and February .
Enough sick at one time it wont matter if every last one gets over it in a week it will make this lock down look like a test to get a idea of the real thing .
Numbers now its 8 million only 322 MILLION to go .
Hey want to go for 20 million spin away 310 million more to go .
How about saying 30 % wont get it yea that the ticket 215 million left o my number spin spin again .
OK lets add 80 % get mild flue like ( a week sick but easy sick get over it fast ) why my o my all the way down to 40 million .
Great number we are saved 40 million are sick for weeks and weeks . And we know the virus will hit poor ares harder who is running the registers ? Who is collecting the trash ? who is running the power plants ?
Numbers spin spin again problem is there is NO winning combination other then the virus just dies off on its own . But you like numbers a Billion to 1 .
Next fall winter we will see what numbers fate spins .
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: chr0naut
You make good points.
The absolute truth is, that the lock downs, masks, gloves and all the other were never meant to save a single life. The entire reason for it was too slow it down and not overwhelm the hospitals. The same number of people are going to die.
It was a choice between letting it run its course quickly, or the destruction of the worlds economies to slow it down. The destruction of the economies may actually kill more people than Covid over the next year. It could actually result in more deaths, not less.
I don't even know how a person can apply morality to it all or know what was right or wrong. In the end I think our leaders chose to go with what presented the best optics.
originally posted by: ConfusedBrit
originally posted by: hombero
It sounds like you may be having some trouble understanding cause and effect.
Effect: Coronavirus wasn't as bad as feared
Cause: quarantine protocols.
What you mean is that hospital overcrowding wasn't as bad as feared due to quarantine protocols. Everyone's gonna catch this virus eventually, most of us without realising; it's simply the RATE at which we all catch it that was an issue (or a non-issue, according to taste) from the start. Naturally it was/is vital to shield the more elderly and vulnerable, because they can die from potential pneumonia.
In the UK, hospitals have been almost embarrassingly half-empty, with NEW hospitals built in response to Civid-19 ultimately unused and eventually shut down.
Now what? The UK economy is f#d for the foreseeable future.
Question: Was it worth it?
Answer: No.
A f#d economy during a massive Depression (with unimaginable levels of unemployment and abject poverty) will be a cause in itself for hospital overcrowding, the likes of which we haven't seen for a century - the final cruel and ironic joke.
It seems ATS will die simultaneously with our economies. A sort of poetic finality to it all.
originally posted by: research100
well. look at the states that opened up early...they are NOW getting hit with more cases
originally posted by: Blue Shift
originally posted by: hombero
Effect: Coronavirus wasn't as bad as feared
Cause: quarantine protocols.
And some people have no understanding of logic. Show me exactly how the protocols decreased the severity of the outbreak, or even prevented ONE SINGLE PERSON from getting it.
You can't because there's no way to prove a negative. The protocols were put in place, but there's no way to prove that it would have been any different without it.
"Well, common sense. And the estimates!". No. Proof. Because that's what you have. No proof.
originally posted by: RazorV66
Here are some astonishing numbers that seem to put the whole Covid-19 thing in a different light.
If true, then destroying the economy and putting 40 million people out of work was basically all for almost nothing.
I was sick as a dog the first week of March and didn’t really feel any better for about a month.
I don’t feel like crunching numbers because I am in the middle of some things here at home but maybe someone can compare these estimates to actual influenza case numbers to determine if the Covid is really more deadly than the flu, which everyone still seems to be spouting.
Again, I know these are estimates but they must have some basis in fact for them to put a study like this out.
A new study suggests that as many as 8.7 million Americans came down with coronavirus in March, but more than 80% of them were never diagnosed.
A team of researchers looked at the number of people who went to doctors or clinics with influenza-like illnesses that were never diagnosed as coronavirus, influenza or any of the other viruses that usually circulate in winter.
The team used data collected from each state by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for influenza-like illness.
The CDC uses this data to track the annual seasonal flu epidemic.
It asks doctors to report all cases of people coming in for treatment for fever, cough and other symptoms caused by influenza. "We found a clear, anomalous surge in influenza-like illness (ILI) outpatients during the COVID-19 epidemic that correlated with the progression of the epidemic in multiple states across the US," Silverman and colleagues wrote.
"The surge of non-influenza ILI outpatients was much larger than the number of confirmed cases in each state, providing evidence of large numbers of probable symptomatic COVID-19 cases that remained undetected."
"If 1/3 of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the US sought care, this ILI surge would have corresponded to more than 8.7 million new SARS-CoV-2 infections across the US during the three-week period from March 8 to March 28, 2020," the researchers wrote.
CNN story link
www.cnn.com...
Science Translational Medicine link
stm.sciencemag.org...
Cash4Covid – How hospitals are making money off the coronavirus We’ve known for weeks that hospitals get payments for diagnosing Covid19, and even using ventilators. That should worry everyone.
Early on in the launch of the Sars-Cov-2/Covid19 “pandemic”, it was revealed by Dr Scott Jensen that hospitals in the US were getting paid bonuses for diagnosing Covid19 in their patients, and then larger bonuses again if those patients were put on ventilators.
We don’t know if they operate a similar “money for diagnosis” system, and when we contacted the NHS to clarify this we were passed around various NHS offices before eventually being totally ignored. We received no answer to the question at all.
We do know that the NHS has received over £14 billion in extra funds since the crisis erupted. Which doesn’t include all the money saved from running the NHS at well under capacity for over three months.
originally posted by: midnightstar
True but I am Long past need spinning numbers to know the virus is real and people will die and millions or even a Billion could all get sick between December and February .
Enough sick at one time it wont matter if every last one gets over it in a week it will make this lock down look like a test to get a idea of the real thing .
Numbers now its 8 million only 322 MILLION to go .
Hey want to go for 20 million spin away 310 million more to go .
How about saying 30 % wont get it yea that the ticket 215 million left o my number spin spin again .
OK lets add 80 % get mild flue like ( a week sick but easy sick get over it fast ) why my o my all the way down to 40 million .
Great number we are saved 40 million are sick for weeks and weeks . And we know the virus will hit poor ares harder who is running the registers ? Who is collecting the trash ? who is running the power plants ?
Numbers spin spin again problem is there is NO winning combination other then the virus just dies off on its own . But you like numbers a Billion to 1 .
Next fall winter we will see what numbers fate spins .
originally posted by: worldstarcountry
a reply to: jtma508
What is there to explain?? Florida has done more testing that probably another state in the union. It's all been v err y transparent and we have also had some of the lowest deaths in the nation. Let my governor explain it to you actually, because we are all back to normal and nobody is dropping dead like flies from your regular severe cold which you yourself have likely had several times in your life and recovered fine.
Tell me what's scary about being infected with a. virus with an over 99% survival rate where nearly half all infected do not even feel unwell??? A virus most humans have had several times in their life with pretty much the same results.