As Leftists Double Down on Lockdowns, Are We Being Played?
American Thinker | December 14, 2020 | Andrea WidburgI’m a pandemic skeptic. I know that the Wuhan virus is real and dangerous for some people. Still, I cannot get excited about a disease with an average 99% survival rate. I believe that the Democrats weaponized the virus to defeat President Trump, and I think Democrats are still working the virus to weaken working- and middle-class Americans (i.e., Trump-supporters) while enriching the Democrats’ corporate cronies. I’m cynical, paranoid, or a realist — or all three. This weekend, information emerged supporting my viewpoint.
We keep being told that Americans are dying like flies, far in excess of their normal numbers. I accept that there are excess deaths. I’m sure that the virus increased our annual death rate in spring, when many elderly people died in the first wave after Democrat governors trapped them in retirement homes and then sent in infected people. I’m also sure that more Americans are dying from cancer, heart disease, depression, suicide, murder, and spousal abuse thanks to the cruelty of the lockdowns.
What offsets all this is that fewer Americans are dying from the flu. That’s either because masks help prevent the flu (although we’re told our mask use is all wrong for stopping the virus) or because a lot of the deaths marked as Wuhan virus deaths are in fact flu deaths. No matter — take a gander at these data:
Deaths in the USA over the years…
2010: 2.5M
2011: 2.5M
2012: 2.5M
2013 :2.6M
2014: 2.6M
2015: 2.7M
2016: 2.7M
2017: 2.8M
2018: 2.8M
2019: 2.9M
2020: 2.5M (as of November)
Where is the massive spike?(h/t @MillerStream)
— Dr. David Samadi, MD (@drdavidsamadi) December 13, 2020
Conclusion: By now, it’s well known that Covid tests give false positives. How many of these false positives are actually “the flu”? How many are just “the common cold”? Why does the CDC report daily case numbers & deaths for Covid and not for the flu?
— Harvey Staub (@HarveyStaub1) December 13, 2020
These assertions are contested. Argue among yourselves, humans.
– Emu
The figure given for 2020 is way too low. And it’s not from the CDC.
Deaths from all causes so far this year have already reached 3 million, compared with about 2.85 million for the whole of last year. And that’s with two weeks left in the year, plus the weeks-long lag in data being reported to the CDC. Total deaths this year will likely reach about 3.2 million. Roughly a 12% increase on last year.
Source: CDC
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6
See for yourself: Download (export) the CSV spreadsheet and check out ‘All Cause’ deaths for the United States.
Note also the large increase in weekly deaths compared to 2019, beginning in week 13. For example, in week 15 (w/e 11th April), 78,998 Americans died this year vs. 55,636 last year.
If Hollywood makes a movie about this do you suppose it’ll be called…One Flu Over The Covid Nest??
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