(06-10-2020 10:01 AM)StrikeGold1 Wrote: Hmmm... Anthony Fauci just said yesterday this disease was his worst nightmare because of how quickly it spread across the globe with more than 7 million infections in six months. They still don't know the long-term effects of the disease on a person and are just at the beginning of learning about how it works. He also added that it's far from over. Despite this, he said we will beat the disease and get back to normal.
It's odd that people on this message board seem to know more than about infectious diseases than somebody that's the top medical doctor in that field for more than 30 years. I expect I will be called a fear-mongerer or even somebody might say Fauci has no idea what he's talking about! I guess that's just what happens on message boards.
Unfortunately, Dr Fauci, who seems like a good guy, and I am sure is doing his best, has been all over the board from the beginning, and did join in the doomsday predictions; which everyone now agrees were way off. He is a career government policy doctor, who spends most of his time meeting with other "Drs" discussing statistics, and comparing models based on those statistics, to come up with "projections", almost all of which have (no so surprisingly for some) been hilariously inaccurate. At the same time physicians in the field have refuted what Fauci and his intellectual colleagues were saying, and those conclusions, made early in the lock-downs, have proved to be quite accurate. I would tell you to look up the videos on YouTube, except that they were removed right away after too many conservatives shared them on social media, causing CNN and MSNBC to spend a lot of time discrediting those practicing MD's.
So much manipulation of the truth, right from the beginning, and refusal to objectively put the numbers into perspective, by both politicians and mainstream media. They insist we "follow the science" until the science doesn't paint the narrative they like. Even the CDC numbers, which actually still leave much to be desired, as they are based on subjective reporting, provide the conclusion that the probability of dying from covid-19 is about double what it is for seasonal flu, and the seasonal flue death numbers are only barely significant. Never in "normal" times would the United States or any other country close its economy for months for a seasonal flu, or even something much worse than that. But this is an election year, isn't it, and our economy was a little too prosperous to let a good opportunity pass.
I understand being concerned about covid-19. I had a little myself. But when I looked around and didn't see all the people around me on ventilators and dying like the "preferred experts" said we would, and indeed didn't even see or hear about people I knew, or knew about, even contracting this highly contagious disease, I started asking others around me, how many people do you know who have suffered from this "pandemic-worthy" virus? And their experience was much the same as my own. Obviously people have gotten covid-19, but for the most part people haven't "suffered" from covid-19, with the exception of the very old and weak, people who already had significant health issues, along with a very low percentage of people who appeared otherwise healthy.
More recently, this week the World Health Organization announced that those who have covid-19 but who are asymptomatic cant really pass it to anyone (or the chance is so minimal it isn't relevant), then the next day, after the media refused to accept that announcement, because the number of asymptomatic people has always been such a high percentage of the total, and that would further substantiate the ridiculousness of these government lock-downs, WHO modified its conclusions on that. (BTW, I predicted that would happen as soon as I heard the "good news"). So, am I skeptical at this point? Nope, I am way past skeptical. If the media and the rest of the left says its true, it usually AINT!
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