Am I crazy in thinking it's weird that America, India, and U.K. are the only countries who don't have any sort of report of how many people recovered from Covid? India makes some sense because who knows about their data keeping abilities. But the US and UK have more than enough resourse potential to have that number tracked in comparison to all the testing reports.
Why aren't those numbers reported when most other countries are?
To me is feels like the media painting a narrative of trying to make this pandemic scarier than it is. Wanting people in lockdowns, wanting people indebted to the government (which let's face it, isn't doing a fucking thing to actually help).
I think the risk and danger of this virus is overblown. I also think the numbers are bullshit, especially in the U.S. I live in Los Angeles and there are five Covid testing facilities near me which I drive pass everyday on the way to work. I've never seen people there. My county is reporting nearly 2,000 cases per day still, where the hell is everyone getting testing? Surely 2000 per day means you have to be testing 5 times that at least right? 10 times? Thousands and thousands of people every single day to make that number make sense, but I've never seen a line or even a handful of people at any of these stations.
Then they say all the hopitizations are crazy high. Hospitals are nearly overburdened with Covid patients. Well I took my Grandfather to emergency last thursday and not only did the hospital have a shitload of empty rooms, there was only two other people in emergency, with a grand total of 7 people coming into the waiting room during my 4 hour wait (because once they took him in nobody can visit him because they are taking c-19 precautions). But it just seemed weird to see a hospital so slow when the news says hospitals are over burdened.
The CDC says 9.3 million to 43 million people in the U.S Alone get the flu every year. It still kills 60k+ people every year and we have a vaccine for it. There are no lockdowns for the flu.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm#:~:text=CDC estimates that flu has,Disease Burden of Influenza page.
"Oh but the flu doesn't do perminant damage to the body when you get it." Someone says.
Well no, not usually. But Covid has only been around for 8 months so how do we know any of the lingering effects are permanent? We don't is the answer, despite what articles think because there hasn't been a long enough period of time to determine.
To me Covid-19 is like car accidents. There are over 9 million auto accidents every year.
The vast majority of accidents see no injuries, you walk away.
But some you get hurt.
Some you ever can get permanently hurt (lose a leg, paralyzed, brain trauma, etc)
And sometimes, rarely, you die.
But we don't have shutdowns of cars why? Because people have a responsibility to protect themselves. Seatbelts (aka masks), being careful (distance), not driving drunk (Stay home if you sick). By just protecting yourself, everyone else can go on with their lives. No need for shutdowns or all these special restrictions and shit.
And now it's even better because in three months or so, we'll have a vaccine if you want it. (Note only about 45% of people get a flu shot every year and still the cases of the flu are in the tens of millions)
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-americans-get-flu-shots-vaccine-cdc/
Now think about that. The flu kills 40-63K people every year
https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year and let's say 50% of people are immunized to it. So double those numbers. And basically the flu is pretty damn comparable to Covid, killing 120K and infecting 70+million every year. And these stats are only the US. The combined stats for a normal flu, not even a bad flu year, would be crazy numbers.
Finally I want to talk about the actual numbers. The covid test, in my opinion, came onto the scene in the pandemic really fucking fast. Like, how can this be even close to 100% correct, fast. And because of that you get all these numbers of people and some people texting positive never got sick.
"Oh well they're asymptomatic."
Are they? How do we know? Maybe the fucking test just gave some healthy people false positives. Elon Musk got sick last week and took covid tests. He took four tests, same day, same testing site. Got two positives and two negatives.
https://abc7news.com/elon-musk-covid-tests-test-rapid-antigen-4/7938369/ Which is a small sampling, but I find it strange when you think about just how soon we got tests.
Then there are allegations that hospitals are getting paid more money when a patient has covid
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/ I know someone personally who got covid, self isolated for 14 days, then a week later died in a motorcycle crash and his family is pissed because they had covid labeled on his death certificate.
Nothing about the information the news is pushing about this makes any sense. And the politicians love the power, they love being able to issue orders and mandates on people. California's Governor has my state tied up like a BSDM enthusiast, this fucker is telling people to not have Thanksgiving with family. But last week he went to a party with 12 people he doesn't live with.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politic...d-French-Laundry-party-with-more-15725393.php Doing the exact shit he is begging people NOT to do. Oh good to see the covid rules that HE WANTS for us, don't actually apply to him.
Even the great doctor Anthony Fauci can't hang out for long without a mask.
https://img.particlenews.com/img/id/2AhFu4_0PhT6ISB00?type=thumbnail_512x288 WE aren't supposed to be going to restaurants and sporting events and anything cool like that remember? Oh but it's fine because clearly he is with people he knows/lives with. Special treatment then for him, he can go to games and events because he is special.
Either the mandates apply to everyone, or they are just bullshit. Which is it? If it's that serious of a risk to go places, why is old ass Fauci going places?
Look if they really wanted this to be over. They would shut everyone and everything down for two weeks. No going out, close every none essential business including restaurants, leaving only grocery stores, and hospitals open. Nothing else. For two weeks. Give everyone a stimulus package to make up for it. And enforce it. Then two weeks later the virus would be cleared up in any possible people that have it, and it'd be gone.
Problem is. You can't do that, because you'd never be able to sort out the people traveling to and from essential workplaces, doing essential shopping (for food), versus the people who are out to fuck around.
What we have now is this fucky inbetween status that isn't working. If people are ignoring it anyway, then remove the lockdowns and limitations, so that businesses can reopen themselves freely. Because right now there are a shitload of people struggling with a business that can only partly open, or the main part of the business has to be closed which hurts the majority of the staff. It's too flimsy and messy and people aren't following it anyway, so instead of ruining everyone's financial life, let's try to salvage what we can.
People who know they are at risk should protect themselves. Wear a mask if you want, don't if you dont. And individual stores can still enforce wearing a mask or whatever they want.
Do this I think would calm people down. And calmer people act more reasonably.
Anyway, that's my two cents on this whole covid shit. Hate me if you want.
