The Pluses and Minuses of Perceived Slyness, Stuffed Sinuses, and Coronaviruses

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

First of all, I am no doctor. Nor have I played one on TV. But, let’s be honest, we’ve all seen movies like Contagion, World War Z, Outbreak, 12 Monkeys, I Am Legend, and 28 Days Later.  They all contain certain similarities. It starts slowly with Patient Zero, either man or animal, and then momentum builds until realization rolls over the globe like a wave. People drop like flies in a fumigated room, as chaos delivers anarchy until only a small remnant survives – usually scientists or sometimes the most attractive members of a U.N. contingency team or, at the very least, average Joes and Janes are left to repopulate the earth.

Occasionally in the stories, the global pandemic occurs in real-time.  But, in other instances, the destruction, decimation and depopulation are set to fast-forward during the opening credits and exclaimed by increasingly horrified news reporters terrified at their particular plague’s acceleration – or –  the tale is sometimes told via flashbacks in the narrative to explain what happened.

One of my personal favorites of the contagiously post-apocalyptical genre is a book written by horror author, Stephen King, called “The Stand”.  The now-classic novel of good versus evil was also made into a television and comic book series.  The narrative depicted the breakdown of American society following the inadvertent airborne dispensation of a mutant flu virus from a military laboratory in Texas.  In a short time, the virus killed 99.4% of the global population.

Although the near mass-extinction event in King’s book was told in flashbacks through the main characters, the main action occurred in its aftermath: a tribulation period prior to a new age that would manifest as tyranny, or polite society, depending upon who survived in the end.

Seems familiar, no?

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

– Revelation 6:8

I once read an article by a Biblical scholar who claimed the usage of the Greek word “beast” in the above Bible scripture was “therion” and that word could be interpreted as “tiny, uncontrolled, poisonous beasts” – like bacteria. Or a virus.

Strong’s Greek: 2342. θηρίον (thérion) — a wild beast

…Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
venomous, wild beast.

…Diminutive from the same as thera; a dangerous animal — (venomous, wild) beast.

So what about Coronavirus®? Is it the plague for the end of an age or a marketing gimmick?

At the close of my last article, I wrote the following:

….. all current global trends, including especially Coronavirus®, are about establishing control prior to the advent of a new order.  Although the immediate future will be anarchy, out of that chaos will come order administered by technological switches and gates. And the future will be cashless because slavery is rooted in economics.

Accordingly, a commenter by the name of “One Eyed Jack” posed the following question“…how long before that filthy cash has to be discarded to protect society?”

I responded by saying it was an excellent point because recent articles had claimed Coronavirus® survived on surfaces for two weeks.

The next thing ya know…, new headlines appeared out of the ether and, seemingly, right on schedule:

“China disinfects BANK NOTES and quarantines them for 14 days..”

“Chinese Banks Are Quarantining Cash, Destroying ‘Dirty’ Money”

“China, desperate to stop coronavirus spread, turns neighbor against neighbor”

“To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China”

What if Americans, through various media, have been pre-programmed to embrace the deception and, furthermore, into forfeiting their freedoms in the name of safety?

What if Coronavirus® was the new Terrorism®?

Queue the U.N. special contingency team.

Coronaviruses are actually common and cause lots of conditions like pneumonia, respiratory infections, colds, and the flu. They are ordinary viruses and many people who test positive for coronavirus have no symptoms at all.

Of course, with the recent advent of Coronavirus®, there have been comparisons to the SARS scare several years ago:

The media are correct in saying the closest comparison here is SARS. It also was first reported in China and was what’s called a coronavirus. But while they want you to remember SARS as akin to the Black Death with cries of “Bring out your dead!,” fact is, there was a grand total of only 8,098 cases, of whom 774 died. Then the disease simply disappeared. More than 7,000 of those cases and about 650 of the deaths occurred just in mainland China and Hong Kong. The United States had just 75 cases and zero deaths.

By contrast, the CDC estimates about 80,000 Americans died of flu two seasons ago.

And what is SARS exactly? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.  Add up those words up and they mean…. pneumonia.

Therefore, if pneumonia could be compared to Acetaminophen, then it appears SARS and Coronavirus® been rebranded into the Tylenol® of respiratory illnesses.

Why?

It’s a good question. Especially since commonplace pneumonia and other generic respiratory illnesses are killing more people every day in China and around the world.

Consider the following statements about Coronavirus® in an article posted on Valentines Day by a “Board-Certified family physician” who is said to be “one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine”:

As of 2.14.20, the data indicates that 1,400 have died and over 64,000 are infected. Although those numbers are grim, I would like to put them in perspective. These numbers correlate to a 2% death rate (1,400/64,000). In other words, 98% of those infected survive. Keep in mind, those are the reported numbers. I am certain there are many more infected people who are staying home convalescing on their own.  Factoring those individuals in the total numbers would lower the death rate.

Don’t believe it?  Okay. The following link connects to a real-time map with stats:

Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE

And, as of this writing, the reported death rate remains under 3%.

Moreover, late last month, the New York Times reported that “Coronavirus Deaths Are So Far Mostly Older Men, Many With Previous Health Issues”

Many had underlying conditions like cirrhosis of the liver, hypertension, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. Most spent more than a week in hospitals, with some undergoing treatment for a month or longer. But two died just four days after they were admitted.

Has anything changed?  Are the reported death rates accurate? Are younger people with healthy immune systems dying?

Maybe.  Maybe not.  And, as stated previously, I’m not a doctor; nor have I played one on TV.

Even so, let us, at this time, consider heart disease:  It kills 1.4 million people every month.

Over a million people.

Every month.

What about plain-old regular pneumonia?

Pneumonia affects approximately 450 million people globally (7% of the population) and results in about four million deaths per year…

Factors that predispose to pneumonia include smoking, immunodeficiency, alcoholism, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic kidney disease, liver disease, and old age.

And what is the death rate from pneumonia?

Most people do eventually recover from pneumonia. However, the 30-day mortality rate is 5 to 10 percent of hospitalized patients. It can be up to 30 percent in those admitted to intensive care.

Scary. Even more frightening than Coronavirus®, right?

Evidently not.

It appears Coronavirus® has all the makings of a media event; a post-impeachment just-in-time delivery to the people. Because, Dear Reader, we are hamsters in a cage and electronic media is the wheel.

Coronavirus® is about establishing control.

In the opinion of this blogger, propagandized pandemics are meant to prompt quarantine and vaccinations. And healthy immune systems have a better chance at fighting off any virus than perhaps people do surviving the likely depopulating measures of quarantines and vaccinations.

Fear engenders control and it seems hysteria has a higher transmission rate and longer sustainability in brain tissue, than coronaviruses.

Maybe some of you disagree and that’s fine.  What’s still great about America is how we get to choose our own conspiracy theories.

It could be Coronavirus® is as bad as it’s billed in the news.  At worst, it escaped from a Wuhan laboratory affiliated with China’s secret biological weapons program.  At the very least, it could be that many people are too eagerly anticipating the global end-game and have misplaced their enthusiasm.  And then there are those desiring to capitalize on the hype – ranging from media outlets seeking clickbait and ad revenue, to governments seeking control, to even Big Pharma seeking profit.

In all instances, understand this:  Advertising works.

Aids and Ebola are the real depopulators.  But Coronavirus®?  It’s likely a psyop, a test-run, or both; and by this summer,  we’ll be asking each other to remember the name of that last flash outbreak. “What was that? Guinness virus? No! It was Heineken, flu. Remember?

Because, as a global plague, Coronavirus® seems … quite…. inadequate;  in spite of all the electronic claims to the contrary – and as reported from a tightly-controlled communist nation.

For the sake of argument, however, let’s say Coronavirus® really was mutating into a bona fide global pandemic:  Cui bono?  Because, as the panic exponentially expands, individual rights will, of course, greatly contract; and, seemingly, just in time.  It’s happening now.

Everything about the Coronavirus® outbreak smells rotten; even as the stench penetrates the stuffed sinuses of the newly infected.

Here’s a question:  Why would any rational person trust government officials, “experts” and the Orwellian Media? Especially, when past history has proven their predisposition towards subversive slyness.  Or maybe this blogger has witnessed too many of their misdiagnoses before.  And, at least for now, the death rate from healthy skepticism remains low.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.  We’ll know soon enough. In the meantime, the Wall Street Journal has reported the following:

There are signs that Chinese authorities are still trying to conceal the true scale of the problem, but at this point the virus appears to be more contagious but considerably less deadly than the pathogens behind diseases such as Ebola or SARS—though some experts say SARS and coronavirus are about equally contagious.

That is some masterful equivocation right there – even as the Chinese actively engage in said “cover-up” by expelling three Wall Street Journal Reporters for “racism”.

The headlines! Oh, the headlines! They’ll keep on a comin’…

US Firms In China Suffering “Severe Shortages Of Workers,” Warn Virus Impact Hitting Supply Chains

Chip stocks dive after Apple’s coronavirus warning, led by iPhone suppliers

Senior Wuhan doctor dies from coronavirus as authorities start to ’round up’ patients

Chinese villager is tied to a post and scolded by a hazmat-clad inspector for refusing to wear a face mask during coronavirus outbreak

China puts 58million people in lockdown indefinitely as towns and villages ‘sealed shut’ to stop epidemic

Russia Becomes First Country To Ban All Chinese From Entering

Is Coronavirus® the real deal? A made-for-TV psyop?  A marketing gimmick? A man-made bioweapon or a Biblical plague?

At this point, what difference does it make?

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Author: Uncola

I am one who has found the road less traveled while remaining a whiskered, whispering witness to the world. I hope what you just considered was worth the price and time spent. www.TheTollOnline.com

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Almost half of zerohedge’s stories for the past month have been unconscionable corona-virus fear porn, including blatant misinformation (lies) and credulous panic-mongering.

Maybe this will get as bad as zerohedge has been trying to convince people it is; but, today, … it ain’t.

Two if by sea. Three,if from within thee
Two if by sea. Three,if from within thee

I couldn’t agree more. I go out on a ledge over at that site and then shimmy back to center.
My initial take on this outbreak was all about a market correction…but I saw numerous more sorties flying about today than I’d seen in the last three years. It appears we could be readying ourselves for anything?
Criss-crossing the Florida peninsula at approx 40K ft. Two, side by side and hauling ass. Hmmmm

Anonymous
Anonymous

“but I saw numerous more sorties flying about today than I’d seen in the last three years.”

in Colorado too.

Preps for Iran? or something else?

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

Over on gizadeathstar.com I read about a boxcar of counterfeit dollar bills from China which was busted by customs. Wonder if they were infected?

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

CDC numbers are highly suspect because they’re only “estimates” and if you take more than a half-assed glance at those “estimates” you find they are highly suspect. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

Dee
Dee

This virus is the most interesting thing I have seen.
From asymptomatic super spreaders , to person to person airborne transmissions , this is an unprecedented outbreak.
No one is really performing medical due diligence on this. When the first wave of survivors went into quaranine , here in the U.S. , they were asking authorities , “Why aren’t we being tested?”
In the U.K. , a traveler was removed from an incoming flight from the U.S. , in serious condition. All other passengers were released!!
After a flight from San Francisco to
London , one would assume that all passengers on board this flight would be considered at risk , and should have been separated, and quarantined.
There are many more incidents worldwide, but this sample indicates to me that we are not screening potential threats to the u.s….

Mercy Fuque
Mercy Fuque

I felt this deserved a sympathy nudge.

Paulita
Paulita

299…good morning tbp

Mercy Fuque
Mercy Fuque

Trescientos MOFO

AC
AC

I was pondering how a virus from a BSL-4 lab might find itself in an exotic Chinese meat market. Then I remembered this was in China, and China is full of Chinese people.

Hung Lo did not like his job. The pay was poor, and the doctors treated him with contempt, but the secret fringe benefit made it worthwhile. Lo had found a way to increase his income, one which made his job endurable.

Lo worked as an animal technician in the National Biosafety Laboratory, which is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Rather than destroying the retired laboratory animals, Lo sold them to ad hoc meat markets throughout Hubei. No one had ever complained, or even asked about the source, as the animals were seemingly healthy and well cared for – they sold for a premium price. Then things went horribly wrong in early October, 2019 – though nobody noticed for a few months.

By late October, Hung Lo had died of pneumonia. He would be the first of many.

M G
M G

Plausible

Anonymous
Anonymous

According to our Military and Attorney General, the important thing is that the omni-surveillance, super 6G digital panopticon, big-tech/big-data/big-brother system be run by ‘Murikans dammit, not Chinee.

We want our permanent overlords in the new global fuedalism to have round eyes, by golly; and none o’ them thar slanty-eyed overlords.

Anonymous
Anonymous

What if it is just a Flu masquerading as a possible catastrophe in an effort to bring down the economy and ruin Trump’s chances for a second term? The Left is hoping for the same kind of financial meltdown that happened weeks before the 2008 election. Would the Red Chinese be on board?

John Galt
John Galt

Been here a long time and love the comments the most. However, we all seem to stray off topic most of the time, get petty with each other, and ramble too often (I concur).

I propose we take this as it is based on govt action vs words. They “tell” us don’t be concerned. Yet, they quarantined millions. Any village idiot from Mississippi can see this is a problem. I propose we have more discussion on important articles such as this one as to what me, you, and each here should be doing.

Like discussing what products will soon be in short supply? How to get a spouse or family to take this serious or prepping in general? How to deal with work fears or work travel fears? If Stuck out of town due to travel restrictions? Where to find supplies (like sold out masks). Etc etc.

I love the comments but they seem to drone on in one direction of friendly banter with little to no useful info related to the subject at hand. The main thing I get from the comments is great insight of how not to trust tptb and opens my mind to much more than I realized how they are /could be screwing us. But we never move beyond that, as to how to protect ourselves, prep for it, or fight against it. It is always opinions of what and how they are doing or why and then a comment fight ensues about a comment, drowning out the opportunity for constructive discussion of protection from such important things.

Just my $.02
Upvote to agree. Downvote to refund my $.02

ASIG
ASIG

+100

(EC)
(EC)

You must be new here. Or an oldtimer who just came back. If you’ll recall, this is more of a bar or club. People come here for support, involvement or to take it out on the world. Of course there are those who want to share more about the article but generally they get the idea or they miss it entirely.

When the article is fresh or provokes competing opinions and ideas, there will be much discussion regarding the issues, after a hundred or more comments the thread devolves into meaningless banter among people trying to escape their sense of doom and despair.

Mary Christine

I would not say I’m despairing. I just dropped in to fix the comment count. Once the comment count gets this high, it won’t load on my phone at all and takes a couple minutes to load on my laptop.

Paula
Paula

I like john

Apologies to John Galt (EC)
Apologies to John Galt (EC)

My name’s john too, do you like me?

John Galt
John Galt

EC i get it believe me. It is the petty drunken brawls that often take place between two people that have a constant bone to pick that ruins it for the other 12,000 viewers here. They dominate useless space In the comments like immature entitled snowflakes. It just gets old and eventually the owner of the bar is gonna ban the ones that always want to get drunk and brawl with the same ones for off topic reasons every time.

Been here since about a year after this started but kept this moniker from my original the longest. Like to be a ghost and remain anon vs never comment. First comment was after 5 years of silence. I figure tptb know everything anyways why not contribute….to make their life hell. Yes I get my daily fix like most here.

Uncola

Great point, John. You and EC are both right.

At some point, I may consider reprising and updating my last “practical steps” article entitled BABY STEPS: You’ve Been Woke. Now Exit the Matrix. – TheTollOnline.com.

In summary, these were the considerations of that article in order: Air, shelter, water, food, energy, medicine, networking, precious metals, bartering, and defense.

Mary Christine

I just can’t leave this at 333. That is half satanic.

Carry on.

RiNS
(EC)
(EC)

Great, if you have a fever, you go straight to the school gym to sleep with total strangers who will be coughing and sneezing in your coffee and donuts.

Paulita
Paulita

i will order mine “pre-sneezed”

Uncola

Picked the wrong year to become a school bus driver! Just my luck. Fingers crossed and pass the vitamin D

taskmaster2021
taskmaster2021

Make no mistake, the virus is a paradigm changer. Just as Sept. 2008 and Sept. 2001 both abruptly ended the era that preceded them. Many here are focusing on the “low” mortality rate. First of all, we have no reliable numbers yet, as China will never release the real numbers. Second, any proper analysis of the virus must be inexorably the economy. Trump’s economy has been stable, but it’s stable as is a house built on sand. Americans are leveraged to the hilt, most working multiple part-time jobs with zero benefits, driving gig jobs to break even at the end of the month, and burdened with car payments. The wealthier American still have no savings, and their wealth is tied up in their mortgage and the heroin-fueled stock market. The system in place requires infinite exponential growth to maintain solvency. Not even out of February, that’s already a lost cause for the year. A strong breeze will topple the economic house built on sand.

The fear of the virus, and the disruptions it will cause alone, are enough to usher in a new era of daily life. Never let a crisis go to waste is the mantra of government, and this is indeed a major crisis. Panic, fear, hoarding, paranoia, bankruptcy, and malaise will suck the last the remaining fun out of life in 2020, as the government clamps down through travel restrictions, financial controls, locking down of the internet, and probably many other creative things that up until now have only existed in think tank white papers. Change is here; this is probably the death knell for retail, in-person socialization, the last sliver of decorum that existed in American society, at least for the foreseeable future.

Ignore the bogus facts and figures for now, as they are just noise until a mass of reliable data can be obtained. Watch the news media. They love to hype hurricanes that don’t hit the U.S., polar vortices that dump only an inch of snow, manufactured crises of all kinds. Worry about what they aren’t covering. The more they talk about Kobe Bryant’s funeral, Bernie’s hairdo, and Harry & Megan’s career plans the more you should be worrying about the virus. Watch the government. The more they say everything’s fine, it probably isn’t. Watch the financial markets. The more the stock market climbs and the more gold is capped the more you should worry.

I’ve followed this stuff long enough to develop a reliable working model of the complete system the average American lives in. Once you do this, it’s pretty easy to see the gatherine storm clouds, while the average Joe is still glued to his phone, waiting for instructions from a bloated, inept government that is only concerned with maintaining the economic house of cards for another day. Change isn’t coming, it’s here. Make your arrangements but don’t hold on too tight, as nothing lasts forever. Good luck in the new paradigm.

Uncola

Coronavirus: China to boost mass surveillance machine, experts say

KEY POINTS

The Chinese government has enlisted the help of technology companies to create products to help contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Technologies from drones to facial recognition are being used to track people.

Experts told CNBC that the ramp up in surveillance could continue even after the virus is contained.

Ghost

I know that you grasp how significant this is in relationship to the new invasive technology available.

While people poo poo the idea that data collection is non-invasive and doesn’t matter as long as you are not “guilty” of anything?

We know better but, like everyone, we assume we can extract ourselves from the quagmire before we get stuck.

I really think it might be a lost cause for some.

RiNS

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Brook
Brook

So, this Rx company has suddenly cranked out a vaccine in 6 weeks, and they’re going straight to human trials. How much more BS do they think we can stand? We don’t even have an HIV vaccine after 3 decades, but these geniuses come up with one in 6 weeks? You can’t even get through all the protocols in 6 weeks.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/drugmaker-moderna-delivers-first-coronavirus-vaccine-for-human-testing-11582579099

Uncola

How soon to a vaccine?

This article says 8- 10 months

This article says 12-18 months

This article says three years

This article says 10 years

This article speculates regarding the potential extraterrestrial origin of Coronavirus

Uncola

End of the world: Book of Revelation ‘prophesied coronavirus stopping Christian Sabbath’

-Scriptures foretell that, due to religious oppression, such a day will indeed come (Revelation 13:15).”

– Revelation 13:15 predicts a “beast” will prevent Christians from carrying out worship.

23 Vamoose (EC)
23 Vamoose (EC)

Bah, if it was any threat, President Tweet would already be out in front of this.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/25/politics/coronavirus-us-donald-trump-washington-politics/index.html

Anonymous
Anonymous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtfqUtW_8AA&feature=youtu.be

find time to listen if you can find it tadpole… this is the BIG one, I think. I worked with frequencies centered around 60G and grasp what it can do… this creeps me out.

If nothing else, jump to 27:50 and see the tie-in of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. 5G was planned back then and the law says NOTHING CAN STOP IT.

I’ve been in this rabbit hole a while… the abortion industry leads to some really ugly science.

Go to 45 minute point and find out what you are NOT allowed to mention.

47 minute point for discussion of the World Health Organization and UN to have MANDATORY INTERVENTION to combat negative discussion of vaccination or health policy.

They are literally talking about lockdowns of communication networks and re-education of people for their beliefs.

Uncola

That video was posted three days after my article and now has over 148,000 views. It is A VERY thought-provoking 57-minutes that pretty much connects most of the dots I flirted around with this piece and via my comments on this thread.

As always, buyers beware…

Anonymous
Anonymous

I didn’t see it earlier, but it has some food for thought. I am interested in other 5G followers comments regarding the cabability of the transmitters they see.

I am fascinated with these independent broadcasters. Some are kooks. Maybe all. But they are fascinating.

Hope
Hope

I watched part of the Senate briefing on the COVID-19 today and was struck by the complete lack of anybody going through the numbers about this virus. The acting head of DHS could not answer how many ventilators were available in the US, for example.

Here’s the math – admittedly back of the envelope and rounded off for simplicity’s sake.

I have listed my references and am open to any double checking.

There are 931,000 hospital beds in the US, this includes adult and pediatric units. An available bed must be 1) actually empty, 2) staffed with nurses and physicians, 3) clean/disinfected. (It is amazing how difficult that is to actually tally over a given shift in a given hospital.)

There are 93,955 ICU beds in the US, divided among surgical, medical and neurological units. These beds are ventilator capable but there might not be an actual ventilator in the room.

The national ventilator survey in 2010 showed a total of 62,274 full feature ventilators with 22,485 pediatric capable. (I could not find a more current number outside of financial reports behind a paywall.)

A study in 2013 indicated that ICUs had a bed occupancy of 57-82% with 20-38% of the patients on ventilators. My experience in the Houston metroplex for the last 25 years is 100% occupancy (with patients waiting in the ER) with 50% containing ventilated patients. This is pre-COVID-19.

There are approximately 20,000 of these intensivists – these doctors are trained in internal medicine, pulmonology or anesthesia and have received further training in ICU care.

Recall that there are currently 1,700 infected doctors/nurses in Wuhan alone, so there will be less available healthcare workers.

While the true natural history of COVID-19 are not clear, the CDC is estimating that 60% of the world will be infected if the outbreak is not stopped.

In the US, that is 198,000,000 infected in the US alone. 80% will have a mild illness and not need medical care. 20% may be sick enough to seek care in an ER, that works out to 39.6 million ER visits in a very short time. For a sense of scale, there are 13 – 19 million ER visits in a given flu season out of a background of approximately 40 million ER visits annually for everything else.

That 39.6 million ER visits may be a low number as people panic and come to the ER without COVID19 but have flu like symptoms.

Hospitals, prisons and cruise ships have shown very high transmission rates, as high as 40%. This means that uninfected people in the hospital, that are already sick and frail, are going to be infected and likely end up in an ICU.

If only 10% of the ER visits are sick enough to need a hospital bed, that works out to 19.8 million patients needing admission for 7-10 days. Remember we have 931K hospital beds TOTAL in the USA.

Assuming 3-5% are sick enough to need the ICU, from the total number of infected sick enough to seek care, that is 118,800 to 198,000 patients that will need to be ventilated. Remember that we only have 93,955 ICU beds and 62,274 ventilators in the entire US and they are currently full of other patients.

Also factor in the problems of ICU/ventilator care with everybody in hazmat suits, the cost and medical waste generated that must be disposed of.

Of these ventilated patients, 60% die, so that is 71,280 to 118,800 dead of COVID-19 alone.

I am not factoring in the 2nd and 3rd order effects on morbidity/mortality as medical resources are diverted to care for the COVID-19 patients, the disruptions in medical supplies, loss of healthcare workers to infection, economic impact and so it goes.

So, I think this might be a very big deal indeed if the current numbers hold up.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185860/number-of-all-hospital-beds-in-the-us-since-2001/
https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4351597/
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.201501-0079LE
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840149/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2233269-how-bad-is-the-covid-19-coronavirus-outbreak-likely-to-get/
https://www.reportlinker.com/p05561805/Global-Mechanical-Ventilators-Industry.html
https://c.aarc.org/headlines/10/02/nvs.cfm
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/14/805289669/how-covid-19-kills-the-new-coronavirus-disease-can-take-a-deadly-turn
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

We are about to hit 3 months out from the first reports of the Chinese breakout of this epidemic, underway as far back as late November and not a single death yet in the USA, target for perhaps half a million Chinese visitors in that time period?

Nothing about this suggest pandemic except the hype.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable

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