I'm amazed there's still people out there, like
@phlegethon, still support the heavy handed and unconstitutional measures, such as the lockdowns, to defeat this virus which has been orders of magnitudes less deadly then originally forecasted. I guess the constitution and BoR doesn't mean shit when you have a virus that has a fatality rate of ~0.26% per the CDC (and likely much lower)
This was so mishandled from the get go, that I hope lots of people resign and are held accountable. The head of the CDC and WHO, Dr. Fauci, Cuomo, Witmer (or whatever her name is), etc. So many abuses to human rights, the constitution and BoR that it's frightening.
The numbers are all jacked, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fatality rate ends up being much less then the 0.26% the CDC is carrying now. Between hopsitals being hit big time financially (wife's hopsital is losing ~$3 million per day) and the financial incentives for labelling people as COVID positive and COVID deaths, along with organizations such as the WHO saying you don't even need to test a patient to determine if they have COVID, it's no wonder that the deaths are being artifically inflated. I know someone that was diagnosed over the phone with COVID for fucksakes...
Pretty much every single healthcare professional I know thinks how we handled this COVID crisis is a fucking joke. Completely heavy handed and unnecessary. I know healthcare professionals in California that want to protest how ridiculous this was handled.
As far as the excess deaths in the US, the numbers attributed to COVID are really murky. The only thing I know is between how it's being handled, how people are being diagnosed, the financial incentives to have COVID positive patients and deaths, the high error rates in the tests and the lack of training for swab samples for the tests across the nation makes it painfully obvious that the numbers aren't accurate.
For every 1% increase in unemployment in the US, there's ~30,000 deaths as a result. With the economic lockdown and unemployment rising to ~18% (and perhaps higher), that's at least ~450,000 deaths if that statistical rate holds accurate. Yes, there may be excessive deaths in 2020 versus other years, but how many can be contributed to simply COVID? I don't think it's fair to say it's all COVID, a majority of it may not even be COVID. But I bet a lot of people are dying due to the lockdowns, which isn't really being talked about.