Governments tend to be much better at destroying than creating.
11 thoughts on “Covid Didn’t Destroy Businesses And Lives”
Every single thing the Government does, including just the things it is Constitutionally required to do (defense, post office, etc) it does incredibly inefficiently.
I’m willing to tolerate an inefficient defense, so long as it’s a good defense. But nothing else can be called ‘good’…..
COVID was a real coronavirus. It really did kill people in large numbers. Local ICUs were built out. Unlike previous influenza outbreaks, people that I knew died of COVID.
Or do you mean the people who died with it? Some of those died of cancer others of heart attack others of vehicle accidents and so on. Maybe where I live was special as our overall death rates did not go up in a metro of 2 million people.
Death certificates. If COVID wasn’t killing people during outbreaks then why were people dying in increased numbers during the outbreaks? If COVID was just a mild cold then why the excess death peaks and valleys strongly correlating with COVID peaks and valleys?
Agreed. But genetically optimized viruses made to infect humans tend to do that. The mortality rates among the chimeric mice at the Wuhan lab were frightening and should have given any experimenter pause. Should have.
Of course viruses do what viruses do and COVID mutated into a highly infectious but relatively non-lethal sickness because without living hosts a virus cannot reproduce enough to make the next favorable mutation.
We have enough serial passage through the human population of the planet to have optimized COVID to its present form which makes it largely indistinguishable from the common cold.
I suspect nothing has changed but our memory of the events.
I agree that there were unintended consequences to the governments response and so blame there is appropriate. But you have to have very large excess deaths from unintended consequences to make up for the excess deaths from the COVID virus itself.
Around 3.4 million globally for those that were attributed to COVID according to the WHO.
Regrettably, like much Internet based information, my go-to resource for global COVID information from John Hopkins is now behind some kind of subscription paywall it appears.
Using the Internet as a resource for data operates much in the same fashion as Dr. Franklin is quoted about the result in Philadelphia.
To paraphrase: “We have an Internet. An on-line computer database of instantly accessible information and data. If you can keep access to it.”
Every single thing the Government does, including just the things it is Constitutionally required to do (defense, post office, etc) it does incredibly inefficiently.
I’m willing to tolerate an inefficient defense, so long as it’s a good defense. But nothing else can be called ‘good’…..
COVID didn’t destroy lives? Tell that to the families of the 1.2 M +/- Americans who died of it.
How many of those died “with” COVID instead of “from” COVID?
When reported COVID deaths increased or decreased with outbreaks of COVID variants, excess deaths occurred at the same time.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/figure-1-deaths.jpg
COVID was a real coronavirus. It really did kill people in large numbers. Local ICUs were built out. Unlike previous influenza outbreaks, people that I knew died of COVID.
This number comes from where?
Did our population fall by that many?
Or do you mean the people who died with it? Some of those died of cancer others of heart attack others of vehicle accidents and so on. Maybe where I live was special as our overall death rates did not go up in a metro of 2 million people.
Death certificates. If COVID wasn’t killing people during outbreaks then why were people dying in increased numbers during the outbreaks? If COVID was just a mild cold then why the excess death peaks and valleys strongly correlating with COVID peaks and valleys?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/figure-1-deaths.jpg
Agreed. But genetically optimized viruses made to infect humans tend to do that. The mortality rates among the chimeric mice at the Wuhan lab were frightening and should have given any experimenter pause. Should have.
Of course viruses do what viruses do and COVID mutated into a highly infectious but relatively non-lethal sickness because without living hosts a virus cannot reproduce enough to make the next favorable mutation.
We have enough serial passage through the human population of the planet to have optimized COVID to its present form which makes it largely indistinguishable from the common cold.
I suspect nothing has changed but our memory of the events.
Sure, the government had a lot to do with it, but the media – looking for a way to take out Trump – helped a whole lot…..
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1661386847530909698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1661386847530909698%7Ctwgr%5Ead798f5c701f0cdedd9b91980fcd75d0e20381ad%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F587155%2F
I agree that there were unintended consequences to the governments response and so blame there is appropriate. But you have to have very large excess deaths from unintended consequences to make up for the excess deaths from the COVID virus itself.
Around 3.4 million globally for those that were attributed to COVID according to the WHO.
Regrettably, like much Internet based information, my go-to resource for global COVID information from John Hopkins is now behind some kind of subscription paywall it appears.
Using the Internet as a resource for data operates much in the same fashion as Dr. Franklin is quoted about the result in Philadelphia.
To paraphrase: “We have an Internet. An on-line computer database of instantly accessible information and data. If you can keep access to it.”
Somethings, like the disappearing web-based viral genomic sequences at the WIV in 2019, never change….