Just to keep track of the nonsense that has wrecked our economy and generally made our politicians run around as if their fool heads were on fire, each day I publish the corona virus total death toll in the US based upon the latest data I can find. A single death is an immense tragedy if you love the person. However, we are not talking about love, but rather public policy, which should always involve a sober analysis of risk and cost. Please recall that in a bad normal flu year our death toll in the US can be as high as 90,000.
Note: this will be a total death toll since the beginning of this bad farce, and not a daily toll. As of the beginning of May 24 the claimed, as suspect as that claim is, death toll is 98,683. May the Perpetual Light shine upon them. The death toll yesterday was 1,036. That is down 182 deaths from last week at this time.
It’s easier to fool a man, than it is to convince a man he has been fooled.
Mark Twain
“There’s a sucker born every minute.” P. T. Barnum
From CDC Winter Flu Season Estimates: 2018 – 2019 Hospitalizations – 810,000; Deaths 61,000.
Who benefits from inflating the perceived impacts of the China Murder Virus?
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massechusetts all have deaths per million that are at least three times the national average.
But sure, we’ll trust their numbers.
For when this isn’t current events anymore– I’ve been skeptical about New York since before they suddenly “discovered” over ten percent of the total national deaths, and added them to their numbers, based off of how the virus acted so radically different in their area.
That was before it was known that they were refusing to treat normal 911 calls that couldn’t be revived on site, that they were putting known infected into the nursing homes, etc.
I suspect, now, that at least part of it is that the area had a relatively late onset of cases and thus the MedicAid increased funding for those hospitals treating a COVID-19 case was already in place, so anybody who doesn’t have existing insurance…the doctor would have to be stupid to not claim they’re a “possible COVID-19 case.” They have symptoms (anything respiratory related or a fever) and could have been exposed….
Foxfier – Why would you doubt the numbers? That’s how outbreaks work, one area gets hit harder than another. You’ve already explained how NY and NJ had policies in place that put the most vulnerable at risk. We know their medical system got overwhelmed. I just don’t find it hard to believe that the most crowded urban area in the US had the worst time, considering how badly they’re run.
Pinky-
Feel free to find an example of a virgin soil epidemic where it behaves this radically different, when it is known to be present, in similar environments. I’ve pointed it out, to you, until I’m blue in the face– and you always vanish as soon as your claims are rebutted only to pop back up again saying the same thing.
That this mysterious division hits only those places with governors and mayors on the hard left, and only with the late onset places (Washington state has less than a tenth of the fatality rate that New York state is claiming) and does not spread anything like the same in similar environments, is also just such a mystery.
Washington State, where we had the first diagnosed case– of a guy who flew in from China, with symptoms, in mid January.
Where the outbreak started in nursing homes a month and a half later.
King County, quite dense, had no protective measures in place– has one fifth the death rate of New York State.