ABC/Disney News announced we have record numbers of CCP Plague 2019 cases in America.
I'm sure that's "true", although the term "cases" appears to mean "positive test results", which is logical. Sure, that under counts actual numbers infected, as some will point out.
But the MEANINGFUL number is percentage of tested that show positive. Since as you test more the numbers will naturally rise, more tests= more results. So the number of positive tests rising HAS to happen and has zero meaning, in isolation.
As an example, in Ohio, there were only 2 cars in crashes in 1902 ( iirc ) and thousands in 2002. So "obviously" things are worse! But in 1902 there were only 2 cars in the state. ( 100% crash rate ) vs. Many thousands in 2002.
There are 2 high probability reasons for the big lockdown in China.
It's economic and actual warfare to cut off industrial capacity in their Enemies as they prepare for Conquering first Taiwan, then the New Chinese Prosperity sphere.
There's a killer strain the CCP doesn't want anyone to know about, until it can spread worldwide, just like they lied & spread the 2019 plague to kill over a Million & ongoing.
I'd take this editorial with a grain of salt. ( don't accept all the premises unconditionally or blindly )
Maybe with a side of Vitamin D, and a healthy diet, if the 2022 strains soon to sweep the globe are more deadly than Delta and Alpha.
And a reminder to the hyper skeptical, sure, it's over hyped, yes, the plague is an excuse for Evil to screw you, but it's not fake. It has killed far too many.
It's zero consolation to the grieving that their loved ones were in a tiny percentage.
If I murdered that tiny percentage with an axe, just in Manhattan, the river around the Statue of Liberty, and the streets of the city would be visibly red from space.
Here's something that abso-tootly nobody thought of before!
"But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to or because of COVID. And what we mean by that—if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So, it’s overcounting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID, as opposed to because of COVID."
Record # of tests = record # of results = record # of positives... Unless the rate of infection is really, really down.
This is a classic case of lying with numbers. Selective half useful numbers deliberately without context, to Deceive.
We know the total number of cases isn't going down, Today, because of Omicron. ( everyone Will get it unless they have immunity, everyone will be exposed. )
Omicron is sweeping through Antarctica. 100% vaccinated, isolated as possible, without actually dying alone.
The numbers you NEED to make a judgment are "positive results per # of tests". Not just number of Positives.
That tells you a percentage who get infected in the tested group. THEN you need to define the tested group. Who are they and what percentage of the total population.
I've never been tested. Am I now or was I before, infectious? You don't and can't know.
These aren't antibody tests, a person with negative results could have had CCP-Bioweapon-2019 last year or month, and be fine.
Thus the Fear Porn Headline "record # of cases" is both a half truth, and a deception. It's maybe a Quarter truth, or less, since it doesn't distinguish between infected, and sick.
And as noted by Ducbsa above, # of hospitalization isn't the correct # for sick by the CCP-Coronavirus.
The wailing of deliberate false impressions may actually be good news! If you don't count how many people are lying sacks who can't be trusted near children.
My advice is to consider supplemental Vitamin D, now. It seems to be good at keeping you healthy and improve resistance to infections. And most people don't get enough sunlight in winter, which is possibly HALF the reason we have Seasonal increases in influenza, colds, CCP-plague, and historically, most plagues. The other half is staying inside with others in close proximity.
And School Year timing. Every Fall, in the U.S. ( and elsewhere ) we gather all these children, pack them into buses and into classrooms, and they trade germs from household to household, as well as fresh germs from New students from elsewhere. Then take them home.
In 2020, someone used a phone app to trace the mass infection spread from one beach on one day, in Ft. Lauderdale on Spring Break. All over the country. ( I admit to some jealousy because my parents never spent ostentatious money to send me unsupervised on Spring Break. I didn't know anyone took Spring Break until MTV made drunk wet t-shirt contests mainstream )
In 2021 Joe* ordered over a million potential plague carriers imported illegally and illegally shipped them all over America. No testing, no vaccines. Wish someone would do that phone app report again.
If you wonder why more people died of Covid this year, that's one reason.
The OTHER is the ongoing political war on treating the disease with useful medications as soon as possible. Really Stupid policies like ordering people to Just wait until they are critically ill before getting any treatment, and denying drugs for Political reasons like Invermectin & HCQ, pass into homicidal territory.
There will be lawsuits by the victim's families, and I expect the Media Propaganda Arm of the Party to ignore them.
So if you get sick, get help, and drugs, quickly. Good luck.
The good news is the Omicron variant of the biowar attack seems to be so far, a milder form and will kill far less of us. The bad news is it seems to hit children, so the spread will be Very rapid, and children will die in greater numbers. ( luckily they haven't had many children die with Alpha and Delta, so Hopefully the tragedies will still be few. Prayer wouldn't hurt. )
Hindsight shows we shouldn't have shut down schools the last 2 years, and might horribly show us that we SHOULD this Fall.
Omicron is, quite literally, the flu. See the sensationalist reports of "flurona" that are circulating now - gotta feed that fear porn!
I got walloped Friday night. Friday morning, I had a scratchy throat. Friday night, after dinner, massive fever (3 comforters and still freezing cold), tossing and turning, sore joints. Saturday, got up, multivitamins, OJ, vitamin C gummies, Airborne gummies. Normal dinner. Normal appetite. Today, even more normal (still some soreness but that's likely inactivity). Little phlegm, Barry White voice...the usual stuff.
Meh.
Let's move on already folks. Seriously.
What I think brought this on for me? Mask mandates again. We started having to wear the face diapers at work about 2 weeks ago. I told my boss that day "this is gonna make me sick - watch." I was right. Human beings are designed to breathe FRESH AIR, not our own waste air. We exhale for a REASON - because our bodies don't want that inside us anymore! Trap it against our mouth and nose, and force us to breathe it over and over again? You're GONNA get higher case counts, you morons!! If I'd been breathing FRESH AIR, instead of my own waste air...I'm sure this wouldn't have hit me.
20+ months ago I said to expect masks to be the fashion for Years. I say it again. No matter the science, and masks do help slow your transmission of bugs, the temptation to display virtue, fake or real, is too strong for them to fade quickly.
Many Great Lies have a kernel of truth that the Liars can point to go justify the rest of their manipulation untruths.
( porous face coverings do slow air flow & thus airborne disease transmission. Slow, not stop )
One analogy...
Wearing a veil does keep men from seeing a woman's beauty. It's a mark of Ownership. Only the Owner may see her naked face. ( ankles, breasts, etc. ) With Veil laws in Islam, the underlying premise is men are beasts without self control. Thus fundamentalist Islam excuses immature irresponsible behavior.
Feel free to draw your own analogy to Covid Veil Decrees.
"But the other important thing is that if you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to or because of COVID. And what we mean by that—if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID. And they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized individual. When in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So, it’s overcounting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID, as opposed to because of COVID."
They are still hospitalized because of COVID because of COVID (and especially the new variants of COVID) causes broken legs, appendicitis etc.
I just sent that link to several people. I've been telling them for nearly two years that masks are useless against an airborne pathogen, and they wouldn't believe me.
Keep an eye on Connecticut, it there's a spike in nursing home deaths, it's ANOTHER case of Governors Murder by Malpractice. And since the Governor is Klan Party, there will be no investigation or bad press for the negligent homicide wave.
If there is no big spike, then the 4th wave ( Omicron ) is as mild as can be hoped for.