WEATHER53
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Incredibly correct yet we still labor under the unwarranted freedom robbing hypeThe title of this thread isn't correct.
Kansas and gop haven't beaten anything.
What they are doing is making the situation worse.
Kansas now has over 1 thousand verified cases of the virus with nearly 40 dead.
Now you people want to bring hundreds of people together in a small space.
That's not very smart.
The deaths will be more blood on the hands of the republicans who voted to overturn the governor's order. Which shows they have no respect for life. They have no problem with showing they are the party of death.
Wrong....this virus is no deadlier than the regular flu.....as the updated models are showing.....
Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter who worked for âthe paper of recordâ from 1999 to 2010, has been doing his own analysis of the ever-changing models and offered some thoughts in a Fox News interview.
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Berenson recently focused his attention on the IMHE model.
âAside from New York, nationally thereâs been no health system crisis. In fact, to be truly correct, there has been a health system crisis, but the crisis is that the hospitals are empty,â he said on Fox. âThis is true in Florida where the lockdown was late, this is true in southern California where the lockdown was early, itâs true in Oklahoma where there is no statewide lockdown. There doesnât seem to be any correlation between the lockdown and whether or not the epidemic has spread wide and fast.â
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But Berenson said the precipitous drop in cases has occurred before lockdowns would have had a chance to have an impact, saying it would take several weeks for social distancing measures to take effect.
And he said the mainstream media are, in part, to blame.
âLook, I get why people were so scared three or four weeks ago. I was too. But now â for the media to ignore the real demographics and scare people with outlier cases â to ignore the mostly empty hospitals all over the country â to pretend that the models werenât wrong ⌠and to refuse to ask really hard questions about what that means about them and the efficacy or lack thereof of the lockdowns â to refuse to ask for hard metrics we will use to reopen the country ⌠it doesnât feel like panic is driving this anymore. It feels like people just wonât admit whatâs happening,â he wrote on Twitter.
Berenson also pointed out that COVID-19 deaths are on pace to come in even with the deaths attributed to influenza in 2017.
âNobody says COVID-19 is not real, that it canât tax hospitals or kill people, esp. if they are over 75 or have comorbidities. But right now the best CURRENT projection is for 61,000 US deaths. That was the 2017 flu season. Why have we shut the country?â he wrote.
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The Pandemic: Where We Stand Now
The Wuhan virus appears to be peaking, both globally and in the U.S. The much-maligned University of Washington IHME model says that U.S. deaths should have peaked today, and are expected to declinâŚwww.powerlineblog.com
Crudely speaking, if we assume that the U.S. is around 50% of the way through the COVID-19 epidemic, we might expect something like 33,000 fatalities, equal to an average seasonal flu year. An inevitable second round of infections after our governments finally let people go back to work, and out in public, may raise that number, but no one I know of has tried to guess to what extent. Still, any way you look at it, it is hard to see how COVID-19 deaths will exceed the flu fatalities we experienced two years ago. And that was barely a news story.