Today's COVID-19 fear porn, quite an assortment today:
55% of coronavirus patients still have neurological problems three months later: study - MarketWatch
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Coronavirus linked to stroke in otherwise healthy young people | EurekAlert! Science News
A reminder:
COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics It's over, L&Gs. Done. All except the masks, the distrust, the ruined economy, and a more powerful government.
Dr. Osterholm: Americans will be living with the coronavirus for decades - MarketWatch
This guy wants Fauci's job so bad that if Tony shows up dead, this guy better damn well have an alibi.
Coronavirus update: Global case tally climbs above 19 million; U.S. death toll moves above 160,000 after 11 straight days with 1,000-plus fatalities - MarketWatch
Another reminder: the population of the earth is 7.8 billion. That's 7,800,000,000. So, 0.00916% of the population has died of the deadly COVID-19 Pandemic so far in 2020. In 2019, 58.4 million people died, which means that even if you assume that all COVID-19 deaths were excess deaths -- a silly assumption, but okay, and given what we know about COVID death coding, an even sillier assumption -- using 2019's deaths as a starting place we get a death count this year of at least 59.11 million. Lets call it 60 million just to be "safe," and lets say that the deadly COVID-19 pandemic will kill another 100,000 people, for a total of 815,000 -- a preposterous assumption since it's over, but what the hell. This means that the deadly COVID-19 Pandemic will have killed 0.01045% of the earth's population -- 1.35% of the total number of deaths on earth. But the general public is completely innumerate, and 815,000 is a big number, so the propaganda works pretty well, the masks stay on, small businesses die, the Crown Jewel of Civilization NYC is changed forever, society is damaged incalculably, and power devolves to the biggest fools in this entire fucked-up scenario.
Not one single thing in this entire response to this virus has been done correctly. Not one. But the momentum is overwhelming, and we are fucked.