Needlessly prolonging the Covid pandemic

October 2020. Today Wisconsin recorded its 1,000,000th Covid test. There have been 57,000 positive tests (over 94% of the tests have been negative) and 979 deaths with -- not clearly 'from' -- Covid. Over three hundred people remain hospitalized, about a third in intensive care. Those deaths are less than one very bad day in New York, where they recorded over 1,000 deaths in a day. As to the 57,000 positive tests, there is no way to be sure -- but the 'experts' have made some estimates -- that the number of untested people with Covid could be five to ten times the number of confirmed positive tests. So instead of calculating morbidity as 973 deaths among 57,000 confirmed cases (1.7%), the actual mortality rate may be one-fifth to one-tenth that rate, i.e., 0.34% to as little as 0.17%.

Remember this? From a Fauci New England Journal of Medicine article, in March 2020:

You don't have to look very far to see that the mainstream media, progressive, socialist Covid narrative is collapsing. Consider the following pieces of news -- facts, statistics, evidence -- behind the progressive media narrative.

• Look closely at nursing home deaths (e.g., 42% of deaths, or 65,000 over four months; 52% of new nursing home residents die within six months of entering; 1.4 million US nursing home residents).

• Pity the elderly. Over 80% of 'Covid' deaths have been among people over the age of 65, i.e., 120,000 deaths in past four months.

• There are over 2 million annual deaths in US among those over age 65, or 171,000 a month, or 700,000 over four months.

• There are half a million hypertension deaths each year in the United States, even without Covid.

• Obesity is one of the primary co-morbidities. Apparently, the virus is drawn to body fat.

• India has had 35,000 Covid deaths, with a population four times that of the United States. The image below shows cases among the rich (top half) and the poor (bottom half); clearly social distancing works and is more viable among the well to do. In the slums of Mumbai, five million have the antibodies showing that they have had the virus...and lived.

• Downstate New York led the way in Covid deaths. As usual, New York leads the way. Only this time, it is in a way that should be a source of embarrassment and anguish, not pride, and certainly now kudos from a fawning New York-centric national media. See the following table of cases around thew world.

Governor Cuomo and Mayor DiBlasio and their very deadly decisions. There is evidence that New York was not just the epicenter for Covid deaths (four times as many deaths with Covid in New York than in all of China's 1.5 billion population), New York also was the feeder -- a sort of super spreader -- for the rest of the country, as the New York population dispersed as the virus surged through the city. States taking in New York ex-pats suffered from the migration, just as Italy and the United States (and, especially, New York City), suffered from migration of the virus from China.

Explaining the virus in terms worth explaining. If you want to see how a tiny portion of the United States can create such a high national death rate for Covid, consider the following:

I take no joy in pointing out just how badly our intellectual institutions, 'experts,' 'journalists' and politicians have failed us in this pandemic. This has truly been a pandemic of fear, field by selfish and deadly political interests, not by concern for the public, nor for the health of the public -- medical, economic, social, emotional or physical.