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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Prof. Karl Friston: ‘80% Not Even Susceptible to CV-19 - genetics suspected

2020-06-05

[21st Century Wire] As the threat of COVID-19 quickly fades from foreground and the damage from governments’ experimental panic-driven ’lockdown’ measures, some experts are now asking an important question: why do different countries achieved such vastly different results in terms of fatalities due to Coronavirus?

The answers to this question will undoubtedly destroy official claims that the COVID lockdown was somehow science-based, let alone justified.

As it turns out, a large percentage of the population were never susceptible to this virus.

In other words, something unknown that was discovered as a result of the research done because nobody outside China knew anything about the new virus that was suddenly killing large numbers of people in China...and China was lying about what they did know.

In other words: the threat was completely overblown, and lockdown and social distancing policies have never been based in reality.

Posted by:Besoeker

#10 COVID peak in the US was the week ending April 18 -

CDC W/E ..... C-19 % exp*
..................... Deaths
4/11/2020..... 15,505.....137
4/18/2020..... 16,042.....135
4/25/2020..... 13,685......127
5/2/2020...... 10,969.....117
5/9/2020....... 9,779......112
*percent of expected deaths from all causes CDC

Posted by: Bobby 2020-06-05 13:13

#9 Cheaderhead - only 16% of the Diamond Princess passengers & crew were infected. Absent gross incompetence - such as we saw in NYC - and with sensible precautions but not a complete lockdown, there was no way that this was ever going to infect and kill more than a typical nasty flu strain would.

Posted by: Lex 2020-06-05 13:11

#8 First of all, we don't know if the finding is true, or another a$$hole jumping the gun. Given the worldwide statistics of infection & mortality, I bet on an a$$hole.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2020-06-05 12:12

#7 Lex, even at .3% you could still be looking at 990K dead if the whole country was infected. In a normal 90 day period the US should see 716K deaths. This is based on the estimated population of 330 as per the US Census Bureau and the mortality rate of 8.8 per 1000 per year.
330M/365 x (8.8/1000) x 90. We should see 7,916 deaths nation wide from all causes any an average day. What I want to know have the C-19 attributed deaths been in addition to this amount, supplemental or part of the noral amount. And that I have not found a good answer for. Also given the way C-19 kills its host via blood clots it's still not something to take lightly. As to masks. A mask is not going to do a complete job of protecting you. But if you are infected even if you are asymptomatic it should reduce your chance of infecting others. Not 100% but if it helps reduce the chance of infecting others. Personally I think ig an individual knows they are infected and goes out in public unasked knowing they will infect others that at a minimum is reckless endangerment. If you do it knowing it will cause deaths from I faction then its Manslaughter or worse. Our rights, my rights, everybody's rights extend as far as our noses. Our rights to life, liberty, speech, religious freedom, self protection etc also come with unstated but implied responsibilities

Posted by: Cheaderhead 2020-06-05 11:46

#6 Isn't the virus said to effect blacks at 4 times the rate of whites? Somebody thinking of real-estate in the Congo...

Posted by: Charles 2020-06-05 09:52

#5 Genetic angle: Anglo Saxon Guinness drinkers.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-05 09:48

#4 Neanderthals' low genetic diversity may have caused their extinction by hampering their ability to adapt to environmental changes, study suggests

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-06-05 09:35

#3 Not so, tw: in early March we already had the Diamond Princess data which both the WHO and CDC reviewed (and tested) and which told us the Case Fatality Rate was never going to be higher than 0.3%.

Posted by: Lex 2020-06-05 09:17

#2 It isn’t fair to use the latest learnings to castigate decisions made before anything was known. The news coming out of China and then Italy at the beginning made it look like we had another Black Plague or Spanish Flu on our hands. Only a concentrated research and testing effort around the world revealed that the situation was actually as good as our best hopes, not as bad as our worst fears. But until the research started coming in we could not know.

Just as with the Ebola epidemic, we are learning all sorts of things about this specific disease and disease processes in general that contradict common medical wisdom accepted for a century or more. Not to mention that we were able to move quickly to try treatments like hydroxychloroquine because of research done during the SARS and MERS scares, and current research results will be applicable to many more diseases that cause similar inflammatory responses. How many lives will be saved in the future just by turning deep-lung pneumonia patients onto their stomachs, for instance, instead of leaving them on their backs?

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-05 08:56

#1 "Genetics suspected." Could anyone possibly identify the targeted population group(s).

I recommend equal burden sharing and sacrifice, it's the only 'fair' thing to do. Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and privileged, wellness plagued hamlets everywhere, please 'take a knee' and get on board.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-06-05 07:28

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