An Advantaged Disease, Indeed
COMMENTARY
By William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/06/an_advantaged_disease_indeed_142867.html?fbclid=IwAR3NESuRuhc2af48JecQjCIj5spxaqR2-pSEWJ0TgQVna8DetgsrYyfGjnE
One would think that number is easily known or available. It’s not.
A lot of digging into various municipal data portals reveals,
based on the population tested, that rates can vary from, at most, eight-tenths of a percent in New York City to two-one-hundredths of a percent in Phoenix.
Did you know the chances of recovery from the coronavirus are about 98%—if you catch it?
Did you know there are models showing 50% of the population may have already had it, never knew they had it, and recovered?
Our officials and media have warned us of 2 million deaths in the United States. Then 200,000 deaths. Then 100,000 to 240,000. This needs to stop. There have been a total of 68,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide. And we are told we will see, just in America, three to four times that number. Does that even pass the plausibility test?
In any given month in America, we lose about 54,000 Americans to heart disease;
50,000 to cancer;
14,000 to asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema; 12,000 to stroke;
10,000 to Alzheimer’s;
7,000 to diabetes;
5,600 to drug overdoses;
and 4,700 to influenza and pneumonia.
Since February, in America, coronavirus: 9,500.
Our best analysis shows in New York City 70% of the deaths are of those over age 65.
And almost all deaths across all age groups come with underlying conditions.
States with even greater populations, like California and Texas, are showing death rates 90% lower than New York.
States like Iowa and Minnesota have low numbers, too—but Iowa is not in lockdown and Minnesota is.