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2021-03-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Public vastly overestimates risk of hospitalization from COVID-19

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Posted by Bobby 2021-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 US MSM continue to suppress the extremely low death count from COVID among those <= 18 years of age. They basically never mention it. The CDC has the data deeply buried in their web site, good luck finding it.

Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-03-23 01:08|| 2021-03-23 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 To bring the public’s perception of the virus risks in line with reality, the authors stress the need for a more "well-informed public."

Yes we need that, don't we?

But to achieve that outcome requires a totally different political class and a new set of media companies to replace our current political and media elites. They're congenital liars, with an agenda focused on a retarded Woke ideology and one-party domination.

Nothing good will happen wrt truth and better information until and unless we get rid of our foolish and power-mad political/media elites.

Posted by Dopey Ghibelline5830 2021-03-23 01:22|| 2021-03-23 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 We should not be surprised. Not everything Prometheus gave us was used for good. The gift of 'fire' is a valid example.

Walter Isaacson 'The Code Breakers' Part Four CRISPER in Action, Page 243

If ever man fell ill, there was no defense
- no healing food, no ointment, nor any drink
but for the lack of medicine they wasted away
until I showed them how to mix soothing remebies.

~ Prometheus, in Aeschylus's Prometheous Bound

Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-23 01:36|| 2021-03-23 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 The MSM was also silent the day 6,968 deaths occurred on Feb. 13, three weeks into Biden's watch.

Can you imagine the howls if Trump had been in office?

The good news is that most numbers have trended down since then. We may be coming out of the woods. No doubt, Uncle Joe will receive the credit.

Posted by Bobby 2021-03-23 07:59|| 2021-03-23 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 A friend of ours, age 39, no co-morbidities, got covid six months or so ago and is still on supplemental oxygen, though less than at first. Congressman, newly elected from adjacent district, died before even taking office - he was also just 40 (not sure of co-morbidities.) Anecdotes like these drive public perception, especially when actual data are well-hidden.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-03-23 10:37|| 2021-03-23 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Media deliberate disinformation and lying by commission AND omission has paid off. The elites and their sockpuppets in media have spread fear to buffalo a sufficient number of people into herd obedience of the "elites" like Soros. All based on bad information and emotional appeals and a credulity progressives and liberals display that beggars the imagination.

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-03-23 20:07|| 2021-03-23 20:07|| Front Page Top

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