Even though new coronavirus infections are rising in America and around the world, new coronavirus deaths are largely flat, a trend largely missing from most mainstream media coverage.
Experts say the fact that new coronavirus deaths appear to remain flat is driven by more younger patients getting infected and recovering amid [economic] reopenings as the worst of the pandemic passes.
On Wednesday evening, the Washington Post issued a breaking news email alert headlined "New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total."
"Across the United States," reported the Post, "more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments on Wednesday — surpassing the previous single-day record of 34,203 set on April 25."
Yet the article failed to mention that even while new infections are on the rise, new COVID-19 deaths are not.
Just curious...
If declining deaths are not the 'end all', what the heck do you hope to use as a metric of perceived risk to the population? It has to be eradicated like smallpox?
Before you answer, remember that this is a flu. Lots of flues floating around. In fact the good old flu we used to shrug off every winter killed many thousands every year. Statistics are now indicating that COVID has similar morbidity to our older flu(es).
So tell us more about your favored risk management techniques? How much longer should we choke off our economy, limit civil liberties, and subject ourselves to the dictates of 'experts' and politicians who have at best been fooled by poor science or worse, become drunk with power?