Epoch Times is the newspaper of the Falun Gong spiritual practice.
Based on the numbers at the CDC, the two leading causes of death in the US in 2017 were heart disease at about 650,000, and cancer at about 600,000. Just dividing by 365 gives us about 1800 and 1700 deaths per day from each. The next leading cause, accidents, is at only about 170,000, so say 470/day. (I know the death rates aren’t always distributed evenly over the year, and this year has 366 days, but this is all just estimates.)
According to the worldometers site the number of new deaths yesterday (4/16/2020) for Covid-19 was 2155. So, as estimated daily estimate of causes of death, yes Covid-19 is the leading cause of death in the US. If you want to argue that some of these people got run over by steam rollers, but the driver was coughing, so Covid-19 was listed as the cause of death (or whatever that meme was supposed to mean), then feel free to run off into conspiracy theory territory. If you can convince yourself that actually only a fraction of those people who supposedly died from Covid-19 actually were killed due to complications from the virus, but many more died from complications of their underlying condition (diabetes, obesity, hypertension, etc.) then no data will convince you.
Or radio talk show hosts demanding we all go back to work, from the safety of their home studio behind a glass barrier.
Whew! Thank God Dollar Shave Club is there for me!
I’m tired of the way TPTB is lying to all of us, and that they can’t seem to figure out that we know they are doing this.
I’m tired of hearing “self isolate if you are symptomatic” and recently tired of hearing people just now discovering it’s asymptomatically transmissible. We knew it was passing person-to-person without symptoms in January. We are all of us Typhoid Mary.
Well, I WAS really tired of hearing everybody claiming there was no point in wearing a mask/face covering unless you were symptomatic or a health care worker. It just seemed so stupid and wrongheaded. Guess I was right, eh?
I don’t want to piss people off, but I live in a country where the epidemic never really got a hold. I’m so over being told “numbers were doubling every 4 days” and meaningless crap like that. Numbers were doubling because people were coming in from Italy, and the USA, and cruise ships. We would have had an epidemic if we didn’t react, but we did react, and we didn’t have an epidemic.
Immigrants claiming how the British should be so grateful to them have come from over the seas to toil for the NHS & rescue everyone from the covid virus, they’ve actually had the effrontery to make a video claiming how virtuous they are & how beholden the Brits should be to them.
I wonder if in the end it will mean that you always have to live in fear that it will come eventually, as it already did most everywhere else. If there’s one thing I know about Australia, it’s that it loves to live in fear.
Yes. Australia depends on trade and travel. If we’re pure, and the rest of you are infected, what will we do? There has always been a strong tradition of parochialism, chauvinism, and xenophobia in Aus, and right now the government is calling for all foreigners to go home, even those who have lived here 5~10 years, and have a home and family. And there’s the fear that the asymptomatic rate may be 90% instead of 10% (see other threads for that discussion). If the asymptomatic rate is 90%, then the call is coming from inside the house! Lock your doors folks!
Wow! That is such a cool graphic. Here’s another one that is static and not as cool, but it does show how Covid is close to overtaking heart attacks as the leading cause of death. The steep incline of the curve is stunning. It would overtake heart attacks if the graph went on a bit longer. Chris Hayes shows some of these graphs at about min. 2:30.
My pet peeve thankfully didn’t last too long. Back in March (that seems so long ago now), people started saying, ‘stay safe out there’. There was no way to stay safe if you’re out anywhere. They were demanding an impossible task. Now that there are shelter in place regulations, that saying thankfully died out.