Pandemic isn't hype, but it's being hyped

 Vincent J. Curtis

29 Dec 20

RE: Pandemic not hype, people are dying. A report by the Canadian Press of this date.

After ten months of hyping the pandemic story, it’s getting harder to take these reports seriously any more.  Of course people are dying.  In a typical ten month period, Canada experiences 217,000 deaths from all causes.  Being the cause of death for 15,000 places CHICOM-19 about fifth down the list of all causes.

What also is being neglected in the report is that 82 percent of the deaths are among people aged 80 or older.  This is important because it goes to the heart of the shutdown logic: young people have to be put out of work and we all have to wear useless masks because somebody’s grandma will die otherwise.

These 15,000 didn’t all happen in a rush.  The first 5,000 came in the first two months of the first wave.  It took another five months for the next 5,000 to die, and two months more saw another 5,000.  Why are we letting so-called medical experts rule the economy when they have so incompetently managed health care?  Weren’t they supposed to have perfected the methods of slowing the spread?  They had plenty of time to work out the techniques!

Perhaps we should admit that the experts are floundering and lost, and that the problem is not nearly as bad as made out.  The pandemic isn’t nothing, but it isn’t as earth-shattering as is being hyped.

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