For me it is hard to take anything that is said by experts, the CDC, completely inexpert condescending hypocritical politicians, or the media serious about anything Covid any more. They have been so completely wrong every time and overlook any positive developments. I think somebody mentioned a political football being kicked around and to me that sums it up it pretty well.
I have followed the stats from the CDC on their web site both nationally and for my state. While I look at them, I do not trust them. For example just last week, after further review, New Jersey added almost 2,000 more Covid "probable" deaths to their total that somehow they had overlooked. The real issue was that as the cases were spiking the deaths were not. There is nothing to be trusted from politicians or the media. Neither of them have our good interests in mind. You have to admit that to the left political machine, this is the best thing that could have happened to them since Reagan was shot. 100% if they could choose between not having Covid 19 and facing Trump in the fall without it, and maybe losing again, or having Covid and kicking our own economy in the sack and more than likely winning the election, that they would throw old folks in care homes faster than Cuomo did in NY. (Any of you English majors please fix that sentence for me)
For me looking at the stats helps me put it into perspective. Once again I feel that the stats are skewed further left than my daughter's pink Red Rider BB gun. (If you aim for the can in the middle, you will hit the can to the left which ironically is how the news works.) But that is all we have to go on so I will use them. Just four days ago the CDC announced that they figure that nearly 23 million Americans have been infected. Some simple math. Divide the total deaths of 128,647 by the infected number of 23 million and you get the death rate of .0055. Remember back early in Covid ,when if you mentioned the F word (The flu) you were the equivalent of a flat earther? You would be fact checked by your open minded liberal social media platform that is completely invested in fairness and facts as long as they support their narrative. Well plug your snowflake ears because I am dropping the F-bomb all over this post. I just did a search, as recently as 7 days ago there is an article in google news about how Covid has a death rate that is 50 TIMES the flu. Well the flu death rate is around .001. According to the CCD's latest numbers, and they have yet to real them back in, that makes Covid 5 times more deadly than the flu. If you take into account that over HALF of our deaths are from care homes, then that statistic for the rest of us is only about twice as deadly as the flu. (Apparently elderly lives do not matter to us as much as black lives matter because no one is protesting the 60-70 THOUSAND deaths in care homes.) Those stats are still highly slanted towards the older population. Last week as per the CDC web site, there had been 137 C-19 deaths since the C-19 party started for the ages 0-24. For that same demographic, there had been 149 flu deaths.
In my state, if we double or triple our C-19 deaths before the end of the year we will still not see as many Covid deaths as we do to every day accidents in the average year. To me, all of these stats put Covid in perspective. Is it a tragedy? Yes. Every death is. However, it has been blown way out of proportion. To me a bigger tragedy is the lack of fair coverage, the lack of common sense by all of us sheeple, over 40 million people out of work, and the hateful, hard turn left that our country is now making and that will continue until we will be lucky to eat meat let alone hunt for it. Cracks me up when the media labels Trump as divisive and hateful. If you want to see some hate go on Twitter and announce that you are a white person who is not voting for Biden or that you feel that all lives matter.
I wish that the election was in July. If Biden wins, which it looks like he will, then Covid would be over next month. If Trump somehow pulls of a win, then we would have four more years of Covid to look forward to. But hey, we would at least know what to plan for on our hunts this fall. C-19 is nothing more than the flu on steroids and it is that political tool that the media and the left will use to improve their odds of winning the presidency.