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47   Patrick   2022 Aug 11, 1:15pm  

Al_Sharpton_for_President says


However, once infected and hospitalized in intensive care, case-fatality ratios were high for all adults, especially in those over 60 years.


A cynical person might think the tens of thousands of dollars in federal funding per patient to administer lethal treatments like ventilators and Remdesivir had something to do with this.
48   Ceffer   2022 Aug 11, 2:51pm  

All we know is that when Remdesivir doesn't do the trick in the ICU units, they have huge supplies of "The Pillow Man" pillows to finish the job.
49   Onvacation   2022 Aug 11, 6:41pm  

It sure would be interesting to get a simple database with every victim of Covid-19.

NAME | BIRTHDATE | DEATHDATE | ADDRESS | TREATMENTS | COMORBIDITIES

Looked for it but couldn't find it. There were only a million US victims. It would not be hard to do and a lot of questions could be answered.
50   HeadSet   2022 Aug 12, 2:59pm  

Onvacation says

Looked for it but couldn't find it.

Now you will be audited.
51   Onvacation   2022 Aug 12, 5:46pm  

HeadSet says

Now you will be audited.

We're all on the list now. Process crimes are now worse than robbery.
52   Patrick   2024 Aug 17, 11:33am  

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/impactful-saturday-august-17-2024


In a way, the science mags are running into the same problem media had back during covid, when every new, more terrifying variant, arriving like clockwork every eight-point-three minutes, stretched the journalistic thesaurus to the breaking point. Alarming, dire, dangerous, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, horrifying, and so on until they reached the end of the alphabet: worrisome.

Then they went back to the beginning and started over, patiently and methodically working their way back through the letters, but Newsweek prematurely jumped the queue and ejected the “Doomsday variant.” It was all downhill from there, and reporters limply accepted they’d shot their wad and became a spent force.

This phenomenon is only ‘new’ in the sense that, as we’ve become increasingly mentally vaccinated to media alarmism through a long-term desensitization process, they’ve steadily increased the frightfulness-volume setting to a deafening ’11.’

I fondly recall how, back in the halcyon 90’s, enjoying the post-Soviet peace dividend, media would run much simpler doomsday stories like “Formica: The Silent Killer.” Or my personal, all-time favorite, even beyond covid (to which I’ve now devoted a substantial chunk of my career), the Venn-diagram convergence of about six attention-grabbing media gambits: “Is Your Bra Killing You?”

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