Just to keep track of the nonsense that has wrecked our economy and generally made our politicians run around as if their fool heads were on fire, each day I publish the corona virus total death toll in the US based upon the latest data I can find. A single death is an immense tragedy if you love the person. However, we are not talking about love, but rather public policy, which should always involve a sober analysis of risk and cost. Please recall that in a bad normal flu year our death toll in the US can be as high as 90,000.
Note: this will be a total death toll since the beginning of this bad farce, and not a daily toll. As of the beginning of May 16 the death toll is 88,507. May the Perpetual Light shine upon them.
We had a significant drop yesterday in deaths, as we can see by looking at the death tolls on Fridays since the beginning of April, when the ramp up of deaths was beginning.
May 8: 1687
May 1: 1,897
April 24: 1,957
April 17: 2,543
April 10: 2,236
April 3: 1,263
The total deaths reported on May 15 was 1,595 .
Who can believe the numbers when we have nearly 25% of the Covid world-wide deaths but only 4% of the population. Nonsense is right.
What are the estimated flu deaths so far this year?
Something less than 6,000 according to a tweet I saw posted at Powerlineblog as part of the Wednesday midweek in pictures thing Steven Hayward’s been posting.
In NY a while back it was reported that 94% of Wuhan Flu hospitalizations had one critical medical problem and 88% (seven out of eight) had more than one dire health issue.
Who knows the magnitude of the inflation of the China Murder Virus (CMV) death numbers?
The Shadow do.
For example, San Diego County, CA with 3.3 million citizens reported 190 CMV deaths (0.0058%), but per the county supervisor only six were ‘pure, solely coronavirus deaths.’
That makes the actual percent of SD County population murdered by China at 0.00018%.
Seen at Zero Hedge blog: “. . . if enough people would wake up to the tricks being pulled on them, then the most dangerous and far-reaching coup against human liberty we have ever seen would essentially be stopped in its tracks.”
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Meanwhile, the World’s Dumbest Billionaire strikes again:
https://tinyurl.com/ycbxchdv
“Illinois business owners found guilty of violating the governor’s stay-at-home-orders could land in jail for up to a year under new emergency rules filed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker late Friday, two months into his executive response to slow the spread of COVID-19….
“The rules filed Friday add to the state’s public health laws and include a section called “Pandemic or Epidemic Respiratory Disease – Emergency Provisions.” It says restaurants can’t have dine-in, certain retail can only do curbside sales, gyms must stay closed, and salons and tattoo shops can’t operate during a pandemic.
“Businesses and establishments located in airports and hospitals are exempt from the requirements of this Section” for food and drink businesses, the rules state…
“Any person who violates the emergency rules, the latest rule filing says, could be charged with a Class A misdemeanor by local authorities, which could lead to up to a year in jail.”
Pritzker is working extra hard Elaine to make himself the most hated man in our State. I can imagine local law enforcement, in any county outside of Cook, being eager to arrest anyone for violating Pritzker’s edicts, local States Attorneys outside of Cook eager to destroy their political careers by charging local business people for attempting to earn a living, and, finally, local judges and juries outside of Cook being eager to convict pillars of their community, for the crime of putting bread on their tables and the tables of their employees, and becoming hated pariahs in their counties fir their verdicts. For Pritzker, any place outside of Cook in Illinois might as well be stamped Here be Corn Dragons for all of his knowledge of the State and its people he misrules.
Interestingly, I had experience watching the effete offspring of self-made billionaires act out their insanities. They were in a deal splitting one each $2 billion asset ($1 billion each, sweet! Right?) and if one realized $1 more than the other, they’d have killed each other. They wouldn’t let their law firms meet in person. True story.
Truth is stranger than fiction.