Covid19 is a real virus which affects a small portion of the population and is very dangerous, even deadly, to an even smaller part of our population. This can also be said of the seasonal flu, HIV and many other viruses in our world. Covid19 is not unique and is not the World Ending Plague that (T)hey would have you believe.
Do you remember those first few weeks in February and March? Videos and images "leaked" from Wuhan, showing crowded emergency rooms with people dying in the hallways? People dropping dead on the street and being swept up into vans by guys in hazmat suits? We know now, it was a croc. Judging by what has happened since, it's obvious that none of those horrific events happened.
But, we all believed it. Our President was presented with computer projections predicting millions of deaths in the United States alone. We were inundated with dire predictions of overflowing hospitals, people dying alone at home...basically, all the things that happened in the movie; "The Stand". Guess what. None of it happened, nor will it. Not from this virus, anyway.
President Trump immediately closed our borders and began working with private companies to produce ventilators, masks and a vaccine. He dispatched hospital ships to both coasts and the Army Corps of Engineers quickly built over 30 emergency field hospitals around the country, which saw little or no use. Our regular hospitals were never overwhelmed so the field hospitals were just taken down and the ships reassigned.
Governors around the country ordered their states locked down, businesses closed, events cancelled, travel restricted and masks mandated.
According to one nurse in Helena, MT: the first two week shutdown, back in March, was a good idea, the purpose of which was to slow things down while the medical system prepared for a possible inundation of Covid19 patients. When the overwhelming infection numbers that had been projected didn't materialize, then it was time to back off and go back to life as normal. But...we didn't.
Those lockdown orders remained in effect. Some of the businesses that were forced to close remained closed, forever. Some states were arresting people for being out in public in violation of "no travel" orders. People were arrested for not wearing masks, going to church or going kayaking, alone, on the ocean! Some Governors eased their restrictions a little while others became drunk with their new-found power and made things more and more intolerable for their citizens. Some of these actions are still in place today, in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is all unnecessary and mostly ineffective.
South Dakota never did any of this stuff. Florida and Texas have both opened up. Most states are easing things to various degrees. And the numbers for all of them are only slightly different. South Dakota Covid19 numbers are only slightly different from California or Washington; two states with egregious Covid19 mandates. Some state numbers are higher, some are lower and none of the statistics show any real positive difference between mandated states and free states.
Then, the total lack of common sense throughout this mess. The virus must only be really dangerous at night as bars and restaurants have to be closed by 10PM. I guess there is no virus before 10PM. Homeless populations don't seem to be an issue. Rioters are immune as are people who work at Big Box Stores. I mean, wouldn't we expect thousands of blue vested Walmart employees to be laying in the street, waiting for the vans with the guys in the hazmat suits?
The truth is easy to find if you want to look for it. Here's the basic truth and it applies to Covid19, the flu, the common cold, HIV and any other of the trillions of viruses in our world.
You might get the virus but the odds are you will not. Those who get the virus might be very sick but most will have minor and many will have no, symptoms. If you have serious underlying health conditions, the virus might be worse for you. You might even die.
None of this statement is changed by your avoiding groups, such as churches, restaurants, bars, weddings, funerals or motorcycle rallies. Nor does your religious use of some kind of face mask. You're either going to get it or you aren't. The CDC did a study confirming this.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf but, the results of this study have been clouded by Main Stream Media because it doesn't fit the narrative. Here's the takeaway from the CDC study. 75% of those positive Covid19 cases they studied either always or usually wore masks and took precautions.
Here's one the Main Stream Media REALLY doesn't want anyone to talk about. First, this article from USA Today; published September 17, 2020: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/17/fact-check-sturgis-rallys-covid-19-cases-misstated-online-post/3458606001/
This article really wants you to be angry with people for attending the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD. This was supposed to be a disastrous super-spreader event! The media tries not to talk about it much today because...get this...460,000 (not a typo) people attended this rally. It was a week long party with almost no mask wearing and certainly no "social distancing". Fewer than 500 infections resulting. I've tried to find articles that changed this and, no matter how hard They try, the numbers don't change. .09% of Sturgis attendees contracted the virus. Nationally, 5.7% of our population has or has had this virus so, apparently, Sturgis, a huge group, no masking and not distancing, had better numbers than the partially locked down country. Maybe it was the alcohol consumption.
The numbers speak for themselves. As of this writing, May 27, 2021, 2.2% of the world population officially has or has had, this virus. 2% of those who have had it have died "with" it. Thus, .04% of the world population has died, presumably with or because of this virus. (sources listed below)
Of more concern to us are the U.S. Numbers, which ARE different from the overall world numbers. 10.2% of the U.S. population has or has had the Covid19 virus, according to accepted "case" numbers, which are, in and of themselves, debatable. Of those infected, 1.7% are purported to have died of or with it. Overall Covid19 deaths, by population? .18%. This in about a 14 month period, so far.
35.5 million Americans had the seasonal flu in 2018-2019, from October to March. Divide 35.5 by
five months and you get an average of 7.1 million people per month reporting and testing positive for the flu. Thus, a very simple extrapolation shows us that, if the seasonal flu had remained active, in 14 months, 99.4 million Americans would have reported and been tested positive for the flu. Stay with me here. At present, after ten months of "pandemic", approximately 34 million Americans have reported or been positively tested for Covid19. So, as far as being more contagious, the flu wins, hands down, at around 30% of the U.S. population getting the seasonal flu.
But, flu death rates are lower. In a five month period, approximately 34,200 Americans died of the flu in 2018-19. Tripling that, in order to compare numbers with Covid again, and we have 102,600 flu deaths. So, approximately .10% of Americans who get the flu will die from it.
Do you remember those first few weeks in February and March? Videos and images "leaked" from Wuhan, showing crowded emergency rooms with people dying in the hallways? People dropping dead on the street and being swept up into vans by guys in hazmat suits? We know now, it was a croc. Judging by what has happened since, it's obvious that none of those horrific events happened.
But, we all believed it. Our President was presented with computer projections predicting millions of deaths in the United States alone. We were inundated with dire predictions of overflowing hospitals, people dying alone at home...basically, all the things that happened in the movie; "The Stand". Guess what. None of it happened, nor will it. Not from this virus, anyway.
President Trump immediately closed our borders and began working with private companies to produce ventilators, masks and a vaccine. He dispatched hospital ships to both coasts and the Army Corps of Engineers quickly built over 30 emergency field hospitals around the country, which saw little or no use. Our regular hospitals were never overwhelmed so the field hospitals were just taken down and the ships reassigned.
Governors around the country ordered their states locked down, businesses closed, events cancelled, travel restricted and masks mandated.
According to one nurse in Helena, MT: the first two week shutdown, back in March, was a good idea, the purpose of which was to slow things down while the medical system prepared for a possible inundation of Covid19 patients. When the overwhelming infection numbers that had been projected didn't materialize, then it was time to back off and go back to life as normal. But...we didn't.
Those lockdown orders remained in effect. Some of the businesses that were forced to close remained closed, forever. Some states were arresting people for being out in public in violation of "no travel" orders. People were arrested for not wearing masks, going to church or going kayaking, alone, on the ocean! Some Governors eased their restrictions a little while others became drunk with their new-found power and made things more and more intolerable for their citizens. Some of these actions are still in place today, in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is all unnecessary and mostly ineffective.
South Dakota never did any of this stuff. Florida and Texas have both opened up. Most states are easing things to various degrees. And the numbers for all of them are only slightly different. South Dakota Covid19 numbers are only slightly different from California or Washington; two states with egregious Covid19 mandates. Some state numbers are higher, some are lower and none of the statistics show any real positive difference between mandated states and free states.
Then, the total lack of common sense throughout this mess. The virus must only be really dangerous at night as bars and restaurants have to be closed by 10PM. I guess there is no virus before 10PM. Homeless populations don't seem to be an issue. Rioters are immune as are people who work at Big Box Stores. I mean, wouldn't we expect thousands of blue vested Walmart employees to be laying in the street, waiting for the vans with the guys in the hazmat suits?
The truth is easy to find if you want to look for it. Here's the basic truth and it applies to Covid19, the flu, the common cold, HIV and any other of the trillions of viruses in our world.
You might get the virus but the odds are you will not. Those who get the virus might be very sick but most will have minor and many will have no, symptoms. If you have serious underlying health conditions, the virus might be worse for you. You might even die.
None of this statement is changed by your avoiding groups, such as churches, restaurants, bars, weddings, funerals or motorcycle rallies. Nor does your religious use of some kind of face mask. You're either going to get it or you aren't. The CDC did a study confirming this.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf but, the results of this study have been clouded by Main Stream Media because it doesn't fit the narrative. Here's the takeaway from the CDC study. 75% of those positive Covid19 cases they studied either always or usually wore masks and took precautions.
Here's one the Main Stream Media REALLY doesn't want anyone to talk about. First, this article from USA Today; published September 17, 2020: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/17/fact-check-sturgis-rallys-covid-19-cases-misstated-online-post/3458606001/
This article really wants you to be angry with people for attending the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD. This was supposed to be a disastrous super-spreader event! The media tries not to talk about it much today because...get this...460,000 (not a typo) people attended this rally. It was a week long party with almost no mask wearing and certainly no "social distancing". Fewer than 500 infections resulting. I've tried to find articles that changed this and, no matter how hard They try, the numbers don't change. .09% of Sturgis attendees contracted the virus. Nationally, 5.7% of our population has or has had this virus so, apparently, Sturgis, a huge group, no masking and not distancing, had better numbers than the partially locked down country. Maybe it was the alcohol consumption.
The numbers speak for themselves. As of this writing, May 27, 2021, 2.2% of the world population officially has or has had, this virus. 2% of those who have had it have died "with" it. Thus, .04% of the world population has died, presumably with or because of this virus. (sources listed below)
Of more concern to us are the U.S. Numbers, which ARE different from the overall world numbers. 10.2% of the U.S. population has or has had the Covid19 virus, according to accepted "case" numbers, which are, in and of themselves, debatable. Of those infected, 1.7% are purported to have died of or with it. Overall Covid19 deaths, by population? .18%. This in about a 14 month period, so far.
35.5 million Americans had the seasonal flu in 2018-2019, from October to March. Divide 35.5 by
five months and you get an average of 7.1 million people per month reporting and testing positive for the flu. Thus, a very simple extrapolation shows us that, if the seasonal flu had remained active, in 14 months, 99.4 million Americans would have reported and been tested positive for the flu. Stay with me here. At present, after ten months of "pandemic", approximately 34 million Americans have reported or been positively tested for Covid19. So, as far as being more contagious, the flu wins, hands down, at around 30% of the U.S. population getting the seasonal flu.
But, flu death rates are lower. In a five month period, approximately 34,200 Americans died of the flu in 2018-19. Tripling that, in order to compare numbers with Covid again, and we have 102,600 flu deaths. So, approximately .10% of Americans who get the flu will die from it.
You are almost four times as likely to get the flu than to get Covid. If you get the flu, you are much less likely to die of it than you would be with Covid, using accepted numbers. There, however, is where we run into real
trouble. Are all reported Covid19 deaths actually deaths FROM Covid19? Almost certainly not. Co-morbidities have a lot to do with these numbers. According to Dr. Birx, if you die "with" Covid, then you are reported to have died "of" Covid. So, you have a heart attack but you test positive for Covid19? Covid19 death. That, of course, brings the national rate of heart attack deaths down and Covid19 deaths up so They can claim that Covid19 is now the leading cause of death in the U.S. See how They can manipulate us?
I've spoken with several medical professionals in the Helena, Montana area who all felt, as do I, that the response, both State and Nationwide, to this Covid19 "pandemic" is much more severe than necessary.
We are being played, folks. I'm not smart enough to see why but I'd bet that money and power are at the top of the list of reasons why They are not telling you what I have told you here.
Their complicit media doesn't mis-report as much as they just DON'T report. If They ignore Sturgis, ignore the real percentages, ignore the truth, then most Americans won't know the truth. Knowledge is power and the blind acceptance of propaganda is enslavement.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html#:~:text=CDC%20estimates%20that%20the%20burden,from%20influenza%20(Table%201).
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/17/fact-check-sturgis-rallys-covid-19-cases-misstated-online-post/3458606001/
Sources:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_unlike_some_countries_if_someone_dies_with_covid-19_we_are_counting_that_as_a_covid-19_death.html
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html#:~:text=CDC%20estimates%20that%20the%20burden,from%20influenza%20(Table%201).
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/07/851712311/u-s-field-hospitals-stand-down-most-without-treating-any-covid-19-patients
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/17/fact-check-sturgis-rallys-covid-19-cases-misstated-online-post/3458606001/