Caused by Trump's press conferences and the compliant media there is a lot of hysteria going on. Time for some facts.
On Friday in New York the wind was blowing, and it was cold and rainy, the perfect breeding ground for the common cold. N.Y. had a cold wet winter lasting four months. It's downtown area is dominated by the elderly and the homeless, and public conveyances are the most popular means of transport. The N.Y. area is infested with Covid-19. Is anyone surprised?
Yesterday, there was a total of 9,602 deaths in the U.S. attributed to the coronavirus. 6,170 deaths have occurred in New York (N.Y. metro area extends to New Jersey), Michigan (Detroit metro area), and Louisiana (New Orleans metro area). That means in the other 46 states 3,432 deaths have occurred among the elderly, sick, homeless, and poor. That means a normal death rate. That means the epidemic has been localized and Covid-19 is not pandemic within the United States.
Those figures are cumulative total of a three month period.
Are the elderly in nursing homes and hospitals and the homeless, who were already sick before becoming infected by Covid-19, dying of lung disease, pneumonia, heart disease, influenza, etc. or are they dying because of Covid-19?
The evidence points to the former.
UChicago Medicine reports, for those who contract the disease "
80% get what feels like a bad cold and recover at home." The publication goes on to report many did not even know they had the virus.
Also, there is this from Business Insider, "
80% of deaths associated with COVID-19 were among adults aged ≥65 years with the highest percentage of severe outcomes among persons aged ≥85 years."
The media reported that a 39-year old health worker died of the coronavirus.
Reports now show she did not have the virus. That was not reported in the media. There have countless examples of this fear mongering, and the truth was hidden from the public.
Coronavirus test comes back NEGATIVE for New Orleans social worker found dead | Daily Mail Online
At a recent press conference, Dr. Deborah Birx presented a rather startling graph. It showed that New York state and New Jersey, which is connected to the N.Y. city metro area, are anomalies.
The rest of the states, all 48 of them, appear to have Covid-19 under control, although Detroit and New Orleans may be the exception.
Dr. Birx also told us that,
while the young do get infected, they recover. She said that the mortality rate "increases with age and preexisting medical conditions."
Conclusion:
Take away New York City, Detroit, and New Orleans and the media wouldn't have much to talk about.
