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2020-05-29 Science & Technology
Why Does the CDC Think the COVID-19 Fatality Rate Is So Low, and Why Won't It Tell Anyone?
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 03:13|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 With the help of the media, destroy Trump's economy. Kill off his older voters. Make a crap load of money on a high priced vaccine.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-29 03:53||   2020-05-29 03:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Welcome to the new world order. The Devils delight. I would suggest Mad Max and Gates head up this CDC.
Posted by Dale 2020-05-29 06:20||   2020-05-29 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Purely my speculation: we are in the second wave of the infection. CDC either missed the first or approached it incorrectly. When they realized this they were forced to over react.

‘Why won’t they tell anyone?’ —— nobody in the GIVERnment likes to admit mistakes.
Posted by Airandee 2020-05-29 06:26||   2020-05-29 06:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Theory 3 bureaucrats love to exercise power over those they secretly wish to rule rather than serve.

They don't want to lose their sense of superiority, especially as people will be after their jobs when they find out just any more than COVID the over-reaction has killed.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-29 06:34||   2020-05-29 06:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Scientists (ones who have been banned from YouTube and the like) expected a second wave. I suppose no surprise when healthy people get quarantined and then start going back out and interacting...like normal.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-29 07:17||   2020-05-29 07:17|| Front Page Top

#6 So now we have yet another social divide: regular, normal people and deplorable "anti-lockers". Probably the same folks who are anti-vaxxers, anti-abortion, anti-science, etc.
Posted by Bobby 2020-05-29 08:37||   2020-05-29 08:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Third theory Grom, the whole thing was a colossal cock-up based on bad data from China and bad models from Niel Fergeson that created such a fear that everyone had to go along 'in case' but then nothing panned out as projected, not even close, and it really wasn't that bad (yes every death is a tragedy) except in places where the leadership (Cuomo) made monumentally bad calls regarding nursing homes and subways.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-29 09:40||   2020-05-29 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Meanwhile opportunists took the opportunity to reform capitalist economies and get the Feds to buy out their deficits.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-29 09:41||   2020-05-29 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ A valid theory at #7.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-29 09:41||   2020-05-29 09:41|| Front Page Top

#10 IMHO, the CDC has no credibility in the CV-19 issue. One example: the other day, they (again) attempted to explain how long the virus can live on various surfaces. With all these choices out there, for a minute I thought I was in a a Baskin-Robbins store.....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2020-05-29 09:46||   2020-05-29 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 The number of CV deaths divided by the number of reported cases should be getting close to the actual fatality rate by this time. I come up with something like 5% for the US, 2.5% for Texas. And at least in TX the case number includes numerous asymptomatic positives from mass testing at the local chicken plant.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-05-29 10:58||   2020-05-29 10:58|| Front Page Top

#12 #7 What I did notice, RJ, is that no place takes CV19 seriously - until it reaches them and morgues start overflowing.
Italians ignored Wuhan (because Chinese are dirty & primitive).
New York ignored Italy (because Americans are a vigorous, pioneer race - not effete Europeans).
Russia made fun of American degenerates who die like flies from flu.
Brazil felt totally safe because of their warm climate.

And, right now rural America is busy compounding statistics to convince itself that only big cities are in danger. Not sturdy country folk, who naturally maintain distance. (Except when they shop at malls, pray in churches, and shag their neighbors' wives)
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 11:18||   2020-05-29 11:18|| Front Page Top

#13 @g(r)omgoru

Unfortunately so. In early February, all of this could still have been easily prevented with some smart social distancing.

One idle month will cost us trillions.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 11:25||   2020-05-29 11:25|| Front Page Top

#14 ^IMO, it's just starting. See second wave in S. Korea.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 11:32||   2020-05-29 11:32|| Front Page Top

#15 We are somewhat better prepared to face a second wave. But restrictions will be with us for months if not years.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 11:34||   2020-05-29 11:34|| Front Page Top

#16 ^I begin to notice people in Israel, not just women, with individualized masks.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 11:38||   2020-05-29 11:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Here too. Some quite fashionable. People adapt.
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 11:40||   2020-05-29 11:40|| Front Page Top

#18 😎
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-29 11:52||   2020-05-29 11:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Young and mobile are moving away from areas of infection or fear thereof. I spoke to a FEMA worker about this and they are aware of this. They speak of check points to reduce the flow. Early stages of this thought.
Posted by Dale 2020-05-29 12:34||   2020-05-29 12:34|| Front Page Top

#20 I guess we will find out since there’s more testing.
Posted by Klem Kadiddlehopper 2020-05-29 12:49||   2020-05-29 12:49|| Front Page Top

#21 *sets down a demi-carafe of spritzer*

Boys, mask chic went out back in March, and am curious what your fashionistas have come up with.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-29 13:34||   2020-05-29 13:34|| Front Page Top

#22 Here you go
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 13:39||   2020-05-29 13:39|| Front Page Top

#23 Thank you, interesting.

I know I'm not the target audience, and in my limited fashion skill I have seen worse...they need to change up the intro - reminded me of that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark when the angel rises up and turns vengeful.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-29 14:17||   2020-05-29 14:17|| Front Page Top

#24 You're right about the intro
Posted by European Conservative 2020-05-29 15:00||   2020-05-29 15:00|| Front Page Top

#25 Just wear a "Trump 2020" mask, and piss the mask crowd off and shut them up at the same time.
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-29 18:20||   2020-05-29 18:20|| Front Page Top

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