A COVID-19 COMBAT KIT

This is for those who are obviously not reading my articles.

I am getting pretty tired of getting nonstop emails with incorrect statements that I have already answered in detail and provided proof about.

So, I decided to make a quick and easy list for those with a short attention span and a shorter memory.

Hopefully, this will make it simpler for those people to understand exactly what we are dealing with here.

Well, hopefully.

So here you have it…my Covid-19 Combat Kit For Dummies.

24 COOL COVID-19 COMBAT FACTS

When you want to get reliable statistics, please get data from scientific articles. Don’t rely on data from the media. Honestly, do yourself a favour.
Data accuracy is paramount. In other words, padded figures are crap. Not knowing the true amount of people who are infected is crap. Projections are crap. If you are going to draw any conclusion, please make sure your figures are rock solid.
Figures are being padded to inflate mortality rates, whether the patient died with Covid-19 or not. We know that because the CDC told doctors to do it. We know that because hospitals get paid money to do it. We know that because even Italy admitted its stated mortality rates were off by a whopping 88%.
Stop spouting off sanctimoniously on that one case where a supposedly young, healthy victim died of Covid-19. Unless there is conclusive proof, cause of death still conjecture. And we already know that conjecture is enough to label any death a Covid-19 death.
Here is some factually accurate Covid-19 data. As of 10^th April 2020, only 5 people under 20 have died in the UK. Almost 90% of admissions being people with co-morbidities and 99% of deaths being individuals with underlying conditions. The average age of death from the coronavirus is 80. This is no indiscriminate killer virus. It’s not Ebola. It’s not tuberculosis.
The reality is that for anyone under 60 who does not have a serious medical condition, Covid-19 is almost around the same as seasonal influenza.
Even with conclusive proof of death in a healthy individual, a handful of cases does not, and should never be used to, define global or even national policies.
Where medicine and money intersect, there will be corruption. Where medicine and big money intersect, there will be big corruption. If you doubt that for a second, you’re in the wrong room. The padded room is on the top floor.
If you are one of those lucky ones to still have a normal job and a regular wage during this enforced epidemic, and you are supporting the lockdown and/or advocating an extension to the lockdown, then you’re a massive piece of fresh elephant excrement. Period.
Which reminds me, if you are one of those lucky few to have access to a well-equipped gym at home or otherwise, stop bragging on Facebook about how you are still getting great workouts in would you? Why would you want to rub people’s faces in it? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Without herd immunity we are screwed. Period.
Even if you are one of those gagging for a vaccine, it’s 12-18 months away. If you are thinking of extending lockdowns or social distancing for another year, you’re seriously fucked up. As in, sociopathic levels of fucked up.
The fallout from the lockdown is going to be far worse than that of (accurate) Covid-19 deaths. Millions of people will be financially crippled, destitute, and out of work. Thousands of business will have collapsed, probably permanently. And hundreds of thousands of hospital procedures and treatments will have been postponed or cancelled, creating a literal tsunami of health issues. If you doubt that, you are either incredibly short-sighted or incredibly misinformed.
Let’s make it clear – lockdowns and social distancing don’t work. They reduce the immediate brunt of the health care system today while racking up a much, MUCH larger physical, social, mental, spiritual and socio-economic toll tomorrow.
Lockdowns and social distancing don’t kill off the virus. They simply delay the inevitable. See point #11 above.
If you still don’t get it, lockdowns and social distancing also ensure that a large number of people remain uninfected. That means that as soon as the restrictions are relaxed and people interact, you will get a spike in infections again.
The strategy of delay and mitigation, made pretty by the “flattening the curve” tagline is just making the pain last longer.
One more time -the only way out of this is responsible herd immunity. For this infection to be under control, around 60% of our population needs to become immune. That’s where the young and healthy come in.
An appreciable number of young and healthy people have already contracted Covid-19 and developed immunity. Those are our assets. These are the people that need to be used to relaunch the economy.
Stop trying to use the guilty stick against people that are questioning the status quo and asking for a return to normality. Trying to twist things around to imply that in some way, these people are callously uncaring is pathetic hypocrisy. So if these people don’t care about the vulnerable dying, does that mean the finger-pointers don’t care about people losing their livelihoods, families without money, and the ensuing mental health disaster that is happening?
Face it. Some people are going to inevitably die, regardless of how careful we are. That’s no one’s fault. That’s natural selection. It has happened for millennia.
So far, way more people die from other causes such as seasonal flu (650,000), obesity (3 million) and cancer (10 million) every year than with Covid-19. We didn’t panic hysterically about this at any point did we?
One last time for those that even dummies call dummies – controlled and responsible exposure while sheltering the vulnerable is the only way out of this mess.
Livelihoods are as important as lives. Save both.