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Impending Doom, Indeed! (Part 2)

 

…… in these phony wars, what amounts to statistical noise is transposed into heavy duty warnings, such as CDC Director Walensky’s cry of doom Monday morning that we are facing an impending 4th wave breakout owing to some tiny squiggles in the in-coming case and mortality data. Of course, if you can spot this incipient breakout in the chart below, your eyes are surely better than ours.

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In fact, there is no uptick in the overwhelming majority of states, if such upticks of positive PCR tests results were meaningful, which they are not. Just six states, which are shown in color below, account for most of the national uptick, and these are the six most consistent and heavy duty Blue State Lockdown regimes!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExvB0hhXAAchMMi?format=jpg&name=large

Notwithstanding the meaningless statistical noise shown above, the establishment media has now been house-trained to replicate and amplify the false alarms issued by officialdom.

Here is the nonsense that the media megaphones at POLITICO were quick to issue this AM. Self-evidently, what is really transmissible is the mainstream party line, not the disease:

Covid strikes back — Pardon this interruption to the “everything is awesome” narrative. Because Covid-19 is surging again, leaving the CDC director with a sense of “impending doom” regarding a fourth wave in the pandemic.

Debbie Lai, chief operating officer of Covid Act Now, told POLITICO Nightly’s Renuka Rayasam that the country’s Covid trajectory is deteriorating: “There may be a fourth surge underway, with cases now growing in two-thirds of states versus half before the weekend.”

The numbers: New cases jumped by 11 percent over the past week to a seven-day average of about 60,000 daily cases, according to an inter-agency memo dated March 29 and obtained by POLITICO.

Likewise, a WSJ paint by the numbers story this AM obsessed on the same trivia.

The U.S. reported 507 deaths for Sunday, down from a day-earlier 741 but up from 447 a week earlier.

Well, here’s the fact of the matter. Every day about 8,200 American die on average, and more in the winter-early spring months. So the Sunday-to-Sunday difference cited by the WSJ amounts to 0.7% of the daily mortality average; it’s statistical fluctuation, not news or information.

Needless to say, these statistical noise emissions—even though they are heralded with bated breath in the MSM—are still just plain noise. And they are also a testament to the utter lack of context in which Sleepy Joe’s war on this ostensibly “deadly virus” is being waged.

As indicated earlier, here is the mortality rates for the same seven age cohorts shown above for all causes of death except WITH-Covid during the past fourteen months. What it shows is the obvious point that mortality rates are a function of age, but that compared to the all-causes curve depicted below, the Covid is in a class all by itself.

[I.e. If you are (properly) comparing risk (rate of deaths) of the 85 and older cohort to risk of the 0-17 cohort, you find that Covid is way more biased toward old people than young people than is the same measure for all other causes of death.     –FNC]

To wit,  the ratio of deaths from all causes other than Covid for the 85 and older population is 164X[i] higher than for the 0-17 years cohort. And that’s not even in the same ballpark as the 7,455X ratio for the incidence of Covid deaths between the oldest and youngest Americans.

Medical science and targeted help versus a blunderbuss non-science based political power grab and aggrandizement of the state is what the so-called Covid crisis has been about since the very beginning.

All Causes Mortality Except Covid: # of deaths/rate per 100k, February 2020-March 2021:

Nor are these data unique to the US. Covid is an elderly-assaulting bully the world over.

Covid cfr by age

 


[i] 15,819/96.6