Tag: covid-19
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What is the real COVID-19 death count?
The news media gets their death count numbers from the uber scary Johns Hopkins COVID-19 death map (see below). It shows the deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the US at nearly 73,000. The CDC, on the other hand, reports that actual deaths from COVID-19 to be only a little over 44,000 (see below). This is…
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine
I wrote another letter to the editor of the Chicago Tribune. They didn’t print my last one but hopefully they’ll print this one. Did you know that there has never been a vaccine for ANY coronavirus? That’s right. SARS, MERS, or the illustrious Common Cold have never had a vaccine that worked in humans. Why…
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What’s the daily death count for businesses?
Every day governors get in front of the camera to report their daily death count. Governor J.B. Pritzker is one that seems to love to get up and tell us Illinoians what we need to do. He seems to think that he is the daddy of us all and we need his protection. He extended…
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Here’s why you shouldn’t use the same policies for different cities and states
The panic around COVID-19 caused the people and most governments of the United States to chuck common sense in order to listen to “the experts.” The experts that were crazy wrong about most things with this pandemic. The numbers below from an article on Bloomberg.com show how stupid it is to treat places like Kentucky,…
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About 97.5% of people recover from COVID-19
I just took a course on immunity and COVID-19 at nutrition-network.org. During the course there was an interesting graphic showing how COVID-19 affects the body and the percentages of severity that people experience when they get infected. I’ve seen these numbers before in other places but I thought this graphic puts it all in a…
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Hospitals and doctors get a spiff for COVID-19 patients
It’s always nice to get a pay bump. But in this case we’re the suckers paying the bill. Are the number of infections and deaths related to COVID-19 inflated in order for the hospital systems to cash in because they can’t perform elective procedures? Hmmmm… Hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients…