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2022-01-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
CDC Director Makes Stunning Admission About 'Comorbidities' and COVID Deaths
[PJ] As COVID cases have surged to unseen levels, despite Joe Biden’s promise to "shut down the virus," there’s been a noticeable shift in the narrative from the Biden administration.

After blaming Trump for the COVID deaths on his watch, the Biden administration is now downplaying the severity of COVID by pointing out the correlation between COVID deaths and comorbidities.

"Is it time to start rethinking how we’re living with this virus, that it’s potentially here to stay?" CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky was asked on Good Morning America.

"The overwhelming number of deaths, over 75 percent, occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities. So really these are people who were unwell to begin with," Walensky replied.

I don’t doubt that Walensky’s data is right, but why is the Biden administration suddenly admitting the link between COVID deaths and comorbidities? The liberal media has for nearly two years been presenting COVID as far more deadly than it really is to most people. In fact, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey from September, Americans who watch the liberal media are likely to overestimate the lethality of COVID by a factor of five. Americans who watch conservative media, however, are more likely to accurately estimate the lethality.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-10 11:41|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 Yes, "stunning" that she mentioned it.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-10 11:50||   2022-01-10 11:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Double Think means you must always believe what they tell you even when it conflicts with what they told you yesterday...even when it conflicts with what they told you less than a minute ago. You must completely forget whatever they in the past if it conflicts with what they're telling you now.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-01-10 12:09||   2022-01-10 12:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I realize that I am a math major and took a whole year of probability and statistics, hence am able to analyze the CDC data and come to this conclusion a long time ago.

But not everyone in the whole country can be this ignorant, can they?

And woe to the media who have made hysteria generation their whole business model. There is a reason I've watched nothing but the weather report for the last two years.
Posted by Tom 2022-01-10 14:53||   2022-01-10 14:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Similar to Tom, CDC data, about 16 months ago:

79% of deaths were over 65 (I am 73,but survived - probably - Omicron ten days ago)

Average number of commodities was 2.80, across all age groups.

The most common comorbidity was 'all other causes' - which included at least 23 different issues.

Next most common commodities were (2) influenza and pneumonia, (3) respiratory failure, and (4) obesity (except for those over 65, where hypertensive diseases replaced obesity).

I suspect a lot of those numbers are still good.
Posted by Bobby 2022-01-10 16:12||   2022-01-10 16:12|| Front Page Top

#5 They knew, Should have been a national call to get in shape, instead they demanded people stay inside.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-01-10 16:35||   2022-01-10 16:35|| Front Page Top

#6 A good friend of mine got vaccinated the first of January a year ago. She got both shots. she got Covid anyway a month later and that's when I knew the vaccines didn't work as advertised.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-10 16:53||   2022-01-10 16:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Say it with me: "Snake Oil." Of course, snake oil was somewhat more harmless, other than to your wallet...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-10 16:56||   2022-01-10 16:56|| Front Page Top

#8 
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-10 16:57||   2022-01-10 16:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Collapsing now. Jig's up. End is nigh.

Note how Biden moved the SOTU to March 1 - he's delaying so they can unwind their BS Narrative, revise all their data, change their definitions again -- and declare "mission accomplished."
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-10 18:02||   2022-01-10 18:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Little kids with branding irons swarming Fauxi for Super Bowl halftime show...
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-01-10 19:03||   2022-01-10 19:03|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ sign me up for PPV
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-10 21:32||   2022-01-10 21:32|| Front Page Top

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