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 July 15, 2020 the claimed, as suspect as that claim is, death toll is 139,166.
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The lies are becoming harder for people to ignore. Fauci finally admitted (to a House committee) that he lied about the effectiveness of masks in an attempt to prevent people from N95’s and the like so that doctors could have enough of them. We knew that, but he admitted it.
It’s also more apparent than ever that the talk of “flattening the curve” was BS. They said at the start of these lockdowns that it would be impossible to stop people from getting infected to a large extent, but that we needed to “slow the spread” so that hospitals were not overrun. Well, they were not overrun, and hospitalizations are at several month lows in much of the country, but governments are extending or increasing their control. The rationale is that too many people are getting sick (but not dying or going to the hospital) and that we must stop all cases.
Couple this with the refusal of anyone in the mainstream to even suggest that the BLM riots might have spread the disease, and its impossible for people to ignore that they are being lied to.
The thing is, a lot of people simply don’t care.
In the next remake of Red Dawn, it will be Chinese and North Korean “aid workers” who air assault into Colorado and establish quarantine centers.
Those punk kids running around spreading disease whilst screaming “Wolverines!” instead of self isolating and social distancing will be the bad guys.