Ron Paul, a bit nutty

For months, the Washington Post and the rest of the mainstream media kept a morbid Covid-19 “death count” on their front pages and at the top of their news broadcasts. The coronavirus outbreak was all about the number of dead. The narrative was intended to boost governors like Cuomo in New York and Whitmer in Michigan, who turned their states authoritarian under the false notion that destroying people’s jobs, freedom, and lives would somehow keep a virus from doing what viruses always do: spread through a population until eventually losing strength and dying out.
The “death count” was always the headline.

But then all of a sudden early in June the mainstream media did a George Orwell and lectured us that it is all about “cases” and has always been all about “cases.” Death, and especially infection fatality rate, were irrelevant. Why? Because from the peak in April, deaths had decreased by 90 percent and were continuing to crash. That was not terrifying enough so the media pretended this good news did not exist.

With massive increases in testing, the “case” numbers climbed. This is not rocket science: the more people you test the more “cases” you discover.

This was a Black Swan, the media was conspiring just as badly as Ron Paul does, ignorance prevailed. 

The idea of relating testing to incidence is not rocket science and there are simple controls to break out most of the various effects. Ron Paul can stick to babies, his son can stick to eye balls, and the immunologists and mathematicians can handle the covid.

PJ Media is a bit of horse manure:

Why not [any higher death rates]?

According to Justin Hart, an information architect and data analyst from San Diego, “who” gets the virus is just as important as “how many” get the virus. “Right now the average age of infected cases has dropped nearly 20 years,” Hart told PJ Media.

White House Coronavirus Task Force Member Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged this fact last week: “The overwhelming majority of people who are now getting infected are young people, like the people that you see in the clips in the paper or out in the crowds enjoying themselves.”

Why would we listen to an incompetent think this is about death rates? This is about how fouled up the immuno system gets over the long run, the long term effects are not trivial., nor are they well known.  But the more we learn the more we are concerned.

\Nor does PJ Media understand this is a peculiar virus, a sphere protecting the RNA enzyme process inside.  We have never cracked these cases, yet.   But young people do foolish things, including smoking, so on a relative basis there may be some substance, just give me another month of discovery before I make claims like that.