The mortality statistics were a major uncertainty early on in the epidemic. A lot of mistakes were made in calculation of the risks...and that drove policy errors... and sudden reversals in policy when they were disabused of those errors. That's probably not unusual... early on. Clearly worthy of closer study, and scrutiny of responsible parties, given how poorly they performed, initially. People who aren't supposed to make mistakes... made a lot of really obvious mistakes..
Later on, though... counting the bodies that have piled up is a lot less of a predictive or speculative exercise. Some "good enough" studies were done back in December/January that help define the comparative risks... others follow don't change too much... but add some resolution.
Those studies, too, though have to be considered in context. They're from developed countries with ample and adequate ICU care... focus on outcomes in the ICU... and tend to be late in the process... so dilute some of the larger earlier risks before treatment regimes were adapted and made more effective. But, they also necessarily include... that the numbers reported, while accurate, fail to account for what they "could have been" with better efforts in non-vaccine focused preventive care... with earlier treatment... and with better preventive, early and in hospital treatment that was clearly politically biased to deny use of things with proven efficacy... and greater use of a lot of things that DO work that were underused... that set of failures resulting in significantly greater mortality than should have been the result.
Your risks today... more if you take an more active role in directing your own care... are likely to be lower than these studies suggest... as there is continuing progress in doctors understanding, more over time, that the suppressed treatments are suppressed because they work, not because they don't...
Public health has become a battlefield that's more about influencing who makes money than it is about caring for people, or about a system of public health that delivers better outcomes, instead of profits... directed to particular paths... In the U.S., that's the natural progression of Obamacare's transformation of a once great free market system into a centrally controlled food fight over a division of spoils... that insists you accept what they've decided... whether it makes a lick of sense or not... and mostly it doesn't.
In the ICU and retrospective studies ... pretty clear that Covid is highly transmissible like the flu... and somehow is differently transmissible... and that has been under-studied... overly ignored. A lot more people will catch the flu in a typical season than Covid... but, that's understating risks a bit... as Covid engendered a far more dramatic preventive response... That response did help limit Covid's spread compared to (at least my own) calculations of its "intrinsic" risks... and, at the same time... the flu didn't completely disappear... but came very close to that in some places... so the impact of the Covid preventive measures can perhaps best be seen in the parallel reductions imposed in the number of flu cases during the year of Covidiocy...
Lots of lost opportunities... including... what might the impact have been if, instead of requiring "masks" they had required "masks that actually work" ? What else might have been (and still could be) done differently, and better ? And, in the analysis of the errors committed... why didn't they try to fix any of it ? And, why are they still ignoring "improvements" needed in the efforts still ongoing ?
Stuck on stupid over the issue of pushing the useless vaccines... the only obvious point of which appears it is intending to require everyone to get vaccinated more often... probably doubled the mortality rate in Covid relative to what it would have been with "science driven" policy versus "agenda driven" policy.
But, the numbers don't lie... Covid containment measures appear, for some reason, to have done far less to contain Covid than they did to contain the flu... more study required to find out how and why.
Covid clearly showed that the level of exposure to the bug altered the intensity of its course... exposed big time... get much more ill with far greater risk of mortality... get a small glancing blow... might not get sick at all... that you notice. Flu is fast... exposure to full on propagation a matter of hours. Covid is slower... can take days to more than a week... and more variable in the progression... depending on a wide range of health and demographic factors... from race and age, to known co-morbidities, and other still unknown factors that have it hit some apparently healthy young people hard, and impact others not at all. More study required... to find the genetic drivers targeted in some and not others.
Fewer people get Covid than get the flu in a normal year... but, those who do get it are more likely to end up in hospital, and those who do end up in hospital are likely to have worse outcomes...
The ICU studies understate that "intrinsic" risk... as the quality of care reduces risk... but a bad enough case of Covid to put you in hospital... is 3 to 7 times more likely to kill you than a similarly bad flu bug that puts you there.
The articles do note the differences in risk factors... and everyone knows being fat and having diabetes raises risks. I didn't know, as one of these studies claims... that Covid actually CAUSES diabetes in people who didn't have it before... which would explain why that is such a risk factor for those who do have it...
And, that might provide a motive for why someone might want to engineer a virus that does that ? Or, it might help unravel the mystery of "what causes diabetes"... and end that portion of the drug extortion industry ?
Why they have stopped trying to improve prevention efforts... when its not over ? Why they have done very little to correct errors committed in politicians obstructing early treatment and preventing use of drugs known to work... in favor of a dysfunctional vaccine approach that is known NOT to work... and is hurting people... while imposing unknowable future risks ?
Dec 2020: COVID Far More Lethal Than Flu, Data Shows
Dec 2020: Comparison of the characteristics, morbidity, and mortality of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza: a nationwide, population-based retrospective cohort study
Feb 2021: In-hospital mortality significantly higher with COVID-19 than flu
Mar 2021: COVID-19 Is Not the Flu: Four Graphs From Four Countries |
