U.S. DEATHS FROM THE SEASONAL FLU: 12,000; U.S. DEATHS FROM COVID-19: 802.

Hopkins Medicine compares the number of deaths from the seasonal flu versus the COVID-19:

COVID-19: Approximately 19,625 deaths reported worldwide; 802 deaths in the U.S., as of Mar. 25, 2020.* 

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year. 

I don't want to say "Let that sink in," but at least think about this comparison and then tell me what is more dangerous to the U.S.: 802 or 12,000?  If you're reading this at all it does mean that you're not reacting to fear as much as the rest of the population is.  And when a large enough group of folks get scared and start reacting irrationally, like too many at the stores are doing, then we have a problem, and I don't like where it is leading to.  Hopefully, businesses will re-open and get back to business and all governments will get out of the way.  

Scientific American has an article out comparing the Coronavirus, COVID-19 with the seasonal flu.  Its headline reads

The flu has already caused about 12,000 deaths this season in the U.S. alone.

And yet you're not afraid of this.  Huh.  

But tell people that one novel virus, a respiratory flu virus, has killed a few hundred, and you're ready to lay down and hand to the government your complete individual sovereignty?  Huh.

As of today, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Statist.com shows that the number of deaths worldwide from the coronavirus, or deaths as a cofactor, is 18,906.  

Italy is the country with the most recorded deaths by country with 6,820.  There are a lot of factors as to why so many deaths are occurring in Italy.  Check this out for five of those factors. 

Thanks to Robert Wenzel for this video. 

China has 3,281 deaths.

Spain has 2,991.

Iran has 1,934. 

France has 1,100.

United States has 784. 

United Kingdom has 422. 

Jim Ostrowski breaks down the numbers as a percentage of a population segment:

DAILY REPORT ON US DEATH RATE

March 25

CASES--------DEATHS------DEATHS PER 1000

54,963---------784-------------14.26

March 25---DEATHS PER 1000-----14.26
March 24---DEATHS PER 1000-----12.60

This is a significant increase over yesterday.

The virus as we all know strikes people over 70 hardest--global death rate for over 80 is 14.8%.

For those under 40, it's 0.2% or double the flu (With incomplete data).

The illness hits men harder than women.

The number one problem essentially causing all the others is that the government has artificially reduced the supply of tests below what a free market would have supplied. This is why the government goes to plan B, imprisoning you in your home and wrecking the economy.

In other words, progressivism is murdering us and imprisoning us.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Over 70 or with health issues, wear a mask in public. It's cool, we get it.
2. Exercise
3. Get 30 minutes of sun per day.
4. Take vitamins--C and D and zinc.
5. Any symptoms, avoid contact with others.

It may be time for all Americans to wear masks in public. (I made sure that we had ONE for each member of the family back in January when the MSM and Democrats were busy impeaching Trump for exercising obvious Article II powers.)

I wore leather gloves outside yesterday. Will that help?

Back to being imprisoned for the crime of living under an incompetent big-government that is killing us.

Will these be my last words, "Where's my test kit?"

The JAMA Network provides us with some valuable numbers.  Whereas most people have been instructed by the government authorities to fear their own shadow--to shelter in place (limit activity and reduce your vitamin D absorption), to wash your hands incessantly, and self-quarantine all out of fear from a virus that has either directly or as a cofactor killed over a span of 6 months less than 20,000 worldwide, the JAMA Network provides us with numbers that puts the deaths, the virus and the panic in perspective, 

Lost in the discussion about COVID-19 is the fact that the US is experiencing a severe influenza season that has already resulted in more than 16 000 deaths. This JAMA Infographic compares prevalence and number of deaths for the 2 diseases.

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ISCHIAL TUBEROSITY PAIN IS THAT PAIN IN YOUR BUTT

One of the best descriptions as to why you get a pain in the butt.  And her anatomical prop made her points really clear.  Enjoy.  

VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION REDUCES THE RISK OF RESPIRATORY INFECTION [HINT: THAT'S THE COVID-19]

Secret weapon against coronavirus?https://t.co/WEQ7oxxvo7

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 23, 2020

Thanks to Steve Bartin.

This should not come as a secret or a surprise to any visitors to this site.  Unfortunately, Former CDC Director, Tom Frieden was interviewed by John Roberts, long-time CBS Anchor.  The problem is that Roberts leads the questioning and the answers that Frieden gives are standard: stay at home, quarantine a person infected, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum.  Is he talking to 6-year-olds?  Anyone old enough, from a 9-year-old child to an octogenarian, knows that if you're sick with anything that you stay home.  Now it is true that though high school kids may know this they don't heed this warning because they've got friends to attend to, they've got games and projects that need their hands on.  So it's true that some people need to have this message droned into their head, but if you're at all conscientious you're not going to want to get people sick and sabotage their productivity.  

So take your daily vitamin D for the reasons that Dr. Frieden states here,

Vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of respiratory infection, regulates cytokine production and can limit the risk of other viruses such as influenza. A respiratory infection can result in cytokine storms – a vicious cycle in which our inflammatory cells damage organs throughout the body – which increase mortality for those with COVID-19. Adequate Vitamin D may potentially provide some modest protection for vulnerable populations. 

Frieden is downplaying the effectiveness of vitamin D because as a former government agent, he has to stay on the plantation narrative of "shelter in place," "accept martial law," "self-quarantine," "wear a mask," "wash your hands," etc., etc., etc.  

Check out what Dr. John Cannell, owner of the Vitamin D Council site, has to say about what vitamin D does for you.  Then check out what Creighton University professor, Robert P. Heaney says about the protective effects of vitamin D, which go way beyond strengthening your immune system.  Need more evidence?  Scroll down this page about 2/3 to find other vitamin D experts to see what they say about what it does and how it can restore your health.  Like I said, I've covered the powerful effects of vitamin D several times.  It's too important a supplement not to have in your daily arsenal.  

I've had good results with this brand.  And the price is not bad either.

AUTHORITIES ARE UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH WHO DIED AS A RESULT OF [COVID-19] . . . OR OTHER SERIOUS DISEASES

In the commentary below, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee, discusses problems with the COVID-19 tests that are going on and the general panic surrounding the Coronavirus.  As of March 18, 2020, 1.2 million people have watched this presentation.

Thanks to Robert Wenzel and Karen DeCoster.  At TargetLiberty, Wenzel points out that 

that positive deceased patients have an average of over 80 years - 80.3 to be exact - and are essentially predominantly male (Women are just 25.8 percent).

And he noted:

The majority of the dead were carriers of chronic diseases.

At present, in fact, the authorities are unable to distinguish those who died as a result of the virus, from those who were mostly carriers of other serious diseases and who, therefore, would not have died from Covid-19," he said.

ISOLATING 70 YEAR OLDS IS FOR THEIR OWN GOOD, SAYS BRITISH HEALTH SECRETARY, MATT HANCOCK

Though I think that Jimmy Dore is terrific on exposing political hypocrisies, his explanation of how the Federal Reserve creates money seems confused.  Here he and his comedic staff cite MMT, Modern Monetary Theory as the process by which the Fed is creating money.  

Next, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci, sounds like a psychopath, someone who wants to use government fiat to halt human activity across a country 325 million in size.  He wants to mandate that everybody stay home.  First, if people are inside for hours and days they're not getting enough vitamin D that would protect them against viruses.  So off the bat, the head of the NIAI is offering extremely poor health advice, and Trump should fire him immediately.  Second, what right does the government have to tell property owners that they cannot operate their businesses, property that has previously been used in generating their livelihood?  Fauci is an absolute nut.  

Robert Wenzel reviews Fauci's comments on Meet the Press and other Sunday morning news programs.  

 Murray Rothbard regularly pointed out that wars enable governments to get more authoritarian.

He often quoted Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state."

But don't think for a minute that bloody wars overseas are the only way states can grow rapidly. We are learning this first hand with the panic over COVID-19.

I have no doubt that this fear will result in legislation that puts more control in the hands of the state. Shady legislation is already starting to move.

Almost any kind of legislation can be passed in this atmosphere of panic.

And if there is one thing that is clear about Trump, it is that he is terrible at picking advisers. The White House is filled with neocon warmongers but his worst adviser may be the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci.

Trump should have fired the bastard the day he took office. Instead, he has now made Fauci part of the coronavirus task force and praises Fauci publicly.

I can't think of anyone in the administration that is stoking more fear with the general public. Without any foundation, he has testified before congress that COVID-19 has a mortality rate of 10 times the flu. There is no factual basis for this, it is complete fearmongering. 

Fauci is, in effect, lying to Americans. 

He never ever puts things in perspective. He always heightens the panic. And he had plenty of opportunities this morning to do just that and he took full advantage. This morning he went on all the Sunday talk shows and cranked up the fear on each show.

He told "Face the Nation": 

      Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant. 

Only to get more sadistic on CNN:

             For a while, life is not going to be the way it used to be in the United States. We have to just accept that if we want to do what’s best for the American public.

 And then on CNN pretty close to an outright lie, outside of some extreme outlier:

             There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. 

Then more fearmongering on "Meet The Press":

             I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.

I mean take a look at what this guy said, he pretty much said he would be in favor of a 14 day shut down of the entire country. The "Meet The Press" transcript:

Notice he didn't push back against the 14-day national shutdown, he went as far as he could in spewing panic that he thought he could get away with.

I really think he is mentally ill.

SurgeonGeneral Jerome Adams almost sounds rational compared to Fauci. At least he said at yesterday's press conference that "Almost all people will recover---98%--99%." 

Though there is plenty of evil in the U.S. government, it isn't the only cesspool for crime.  Take the United Kingdom, for example.  What they're proposing to do with older people, 70 years and older, is absolute criminal.  Isn't this kidnapping?  Russian Times in the UK writes, 

UK’s Health Secretary confirmed plans to isolate people aged over 70 for up to four months amid a coronavirus pandemic. The goal is to protect them, but critics say it may be a really bad idea. 

That wording is absolutely sinister, "We absolutely appreciate that it is a very big ask of the elderly and the vulnerable, and it's for their own self-protection," Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge.  

Matt Hancock, Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Oh, I see, it's for their own good.  Well, if it were for their own good, why would they need a government action plan to enforce something that is so good?  Lock Matt up.  Call this what it is: tyranny.  Even 80-year-old Brit, John Pilger is lukewarm in his reaction to the plan to pen British citizens under some kind of wartime measure.  Governments around the world are inventing the seriousness of COVID-19 to usher in new forms of murder.

The Johnson govt is to launch a "wartime" attack on Britain's elderly by forcing people over 70 into isolation for four months. A 2012 study showed isolation killed the elderly. Having destroyed state social care, extremist UK governments are now culling the expendable. Fascism.

— John Pilger (@johnpilger) March 15, 2020

Then Tom DiLorenzo writes in a post, titled "A National Emergency Declaration Is the Health of the State."

“It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups of individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion.”

“There is . . . in the feeling toward the State a large element of pure filial mysticism. This sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends one’s desire back to the father and mother, with whom is associated the earliest feeling of protection . . . .  [I]n Uncle Sam we have a symbol of protecting, kindly authority, and in the many Mother-posts of the Red Cross, we see how easily . . . the ruling organization is conceived in family terms.  [People become] obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naïve faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and in whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties.  In this recrudescence of the child, there is great comfort.”

“On most people the strain of being an independent adult weights heavily.”  The State provides a way of eliminating “the psychic burden of adulthood.”

— Randolph Bourne, writing about the effects of the national emergency of war on the population in his famous 1918 essay, “War is the Health of the State.”

This is a must-read:  "COVID-19: Further Evidence That the Virus Originated in the U.S.," Larry Romanoff, March 14, 2020.