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Just The Facts, man  

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Author: Capt. Joe Friday (I got promoted!)   Date: 7/24/2021 11:14:32 AM  +5/-1   Show Orig. Msg (this window) Or  In New Window

A while back, Dr. Fauci opined that as many as 40% more people actually have had COVID19 than have tested positive, but they don't know it because they had no symptoms and never got tested.  40% more?  Okay.  Right now the CDC says that there have been 34.3 million cases of COVID here in the U.S.  Add 40% to that and we get 48 million.  Our U.S. population is 330 million.  That means that in about a year and a half, the percentage of Americans that contracted COVID is 14.5%.  Really?  I thought this was such a contagious and deadly virus!  Only 14.5%?  


Well, maybe it's *really* deadly!  To date, we've had 610,000 COVID deaths here in the U.S.  If we divide 610,000 deaths by 48 million cases, we get a "case-fatality rate" (CFR) of 1.3%.  Soooooo, if you *get* COVID, you have a 98.7% chance of survival.  These numbers have been fairly consistent since the start of this pandemic.  610,000 deaths may seem like a lot to you.  But if you spread them out over 1.5 years... is it?


This is why people (especially young people) are CHOOSING to not get vaccinated with a (so far) experimental drug: They simply don't see COVID as a huge threat.  Because it's not.  Do some people die from it?  Yep.  Do some people suffer long-term effects?  Yep.  Will more people die as time goes on?  Yep again.  All the more reaosn to stay young, stay healthy, and don't live in uber-crowded cities like New York, San Francisco and L.A. where viruses can easily be transmitted.


The fearmongers within the government and the media (but I repeat myself) have always wanted us to believe that the coronavirus would spread through our population like uncontained wildfire.  That didn't happen.  Was it due to the great and diligent social-distancing that we've done here in the U.S.?  Hmm.  Let's look at Sweden.  They had hardly any social restrictions, and their CFR is...(drumroll)...1.3%  Same as ours.


I rest my case.  

 
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