Turns out that masks
that cover the mouth and nose actually are effective at deterring airborne
respiratory diseases. The mask they recommend? The mask in question is the N95
Respirator Mask.
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.
Jim Ostrowskibreaks 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 16000 deaths. This JAMA Infographic compares prevalence and
number of deaths for the 2 diseases.
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,
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.
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.
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.
