Let me get this out of the way...again. Yes...it's a real virus. No...I don't think the virus is a hoax. Yes...it can be bad.
But they are hyping the numbers! Two things can be true at the same time. It is real, and they are hyping the numbers. And it is not just some guy on the Internet saying so. It is also a lot of medical experts who are just being ignored by the mainstream, corporate media, if you care to find them. It is also their own numbers, if you look at them as a whole.
We were originally told that we needed to temporarily (2 weeks or so) lock down to "Flatten the Curve" and avoid over-running the healthcare system. We did that. No hospitals are, or maybe ever were, overrun. Now, it seems, the goal is to eliminate all new cases. This was never an expectation in the beginning, and it likely isn't possible. But, I believe that because the general populace was so compliant due to fear, they continue to exert their control.
Now the press is constantly telling us that there are record levels of new cases. Because some of us have not been compliant, they say, we are all now paying the price with new outbreaks that threaten to doom us all.
A quick look at the trends, though, shows the truth. Yes there are more confirmed cases, but not more serious cases or deaths. This is due to what many have been trying to say, we have record numbers of tests being conducted.
I have been tracking the numbers since late March. What they show is that while the number of confirmed cases continue to rise, the VAST majority are still mild.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
This graph shows the cases of Serious/Critical vs. Mild cases as percentages. Notice, the percentages have been almost flat over this whole period.
ALMOST flat...If you zoom in on the Serious/Critical, cases, you can see that this percentage has dropped from a high of 2.85% to less that 1% (0.92%).
Now, some people will say, "Yes, but that number is just a percentage of the total. What about the real numbers of Serious/Critical?" And, this would be a very good point. The fact is that this number has leveled out quite a bit as you can see in the next chart.
But, remember, Serious and Critical are really two different categories. Serious means hospitalization. Critical means ICU-type care. We do not know the breakdown between these two categories, but we do know how the number of new deaths from COVID are progressing, as can be seen in the next chart.
Keep in mind that these numbers represent the over-reporting of COVID deaths. They have admitted over and over that they count dying WITH a positive COVID test as dying FROM COVID, even if the true cause of death is something else entirely.
