"As I write, the best estimate of ultimate deaths from Covid-19 in the US is about 60,000, the same as the 61,000 people who died from influenza during the winter of 2017-2018. Yet we continue to suffer from a shutdown whose imposition was justified by a fallacious model prediction."The KungFlu fatality rate is comparable to the H1N1 virus pandemic of 2009 which had none of the current media hysteria.
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I can help with that. I have just finished rereading Gina Kolata's amazing book on the search for the genome of the 1918 Spanish Flu virus. If history does repeat itself, we can expect this virus to mutate and rebound in the fall.
Unfortunately, by sequestering people in their homes, the politicians have ensured that by avoiding the mostly benign effects of this virus on healthy young and middle-aged people... we will not have acquired the "herd immunity" that could prevent the next iteration from ripping through the field of folk.
You trusted the guy who has a thing for colourful socks, blackface and young ladies? Good luck with that.
