RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Coronavirus outbreak in China, and global pandemic

As I said before,

1) the number of new cases does not equal or exceed, percentage-wise, the massive amount of new testing nationwide. As Liz Wheeler cited on her nightly OAN show last night, testing since the last week of May has increased 2,200%, and the number of new cases is up about 1,100%. Up from about a cumulative 4 million tests by May 25th, to over 28 million now, in just over 30 days.

2) There is also manipulation of the "increased hospitalizations" statistics. The fact is, more people have been returning to hospitals for elective procedures (such as knee or hip replacement, heart surgery, cancer removal, and other advance-scheduled surgeries that are serious but arranged in advance, and therefore technically non-emergency). Four months of people with delayed medical treatment, now coming to the hospital for treatment.
There is also a surge in emergency treatments, because they delayed examination in fear of going to a doctor, so that their conditions have now become emergency conditions they cannot delay.

3) In addition, there are people being tested as a prerequisite for entering the hospital for other illnesses, where their screening test comes up Covid-19 positive, where they either
A) had a mild case and never knew they had it and as a result show Covid-19 antibodies,
or
B) are infected and non-symptomatic but not the slightest bit ill.
In neither case are these patients being hospitalized for Covid-19, or seriously ill with Covid-19, they are being treated for other things, **NOT** Covid-19. And yet for Democrat manipulation purposes, are used to statistically inflate the number of cases into an "alarming surge".

4) The "alarming surge" of ICU beds taken in the last few weeks is by patients being treated for other things, that are now being called by hospitaals to come in now for delayed procedures,or otherwise seeking treatment they should have come in for months ago. When liberal media and Democrat leaders say with alarm that "hospitals are reaching full capacity", they deceitfully hide that hospitals previous to Covid-19 are filled to over 90% capacity. That is how they keep their resources cost-effective and profitable!

5) We are not seeing a surge in deaths. Deaths from Covid-19 in the U.S. are down 90% from what they were 2 months ago. The new infections are on average people under 35, who have less than a 1 in 1,000 chance of developing serious complications resulting in hospitalization or death.
Young people are being infected at a higher rate because they perceive themselves to be at minimal risk, and are not wearing a mask or social distancing.

And actually, many medical experts I've seen interviewed say that is good, because they are at very low risk, but are bringing the U.S. population as a whole to herd immunity, where a majority of the population who are at the lowest risk have been exposed, and therefore once developing immunity, insure there are far less people left who could infect the vulnerable, the elderly and immune-compromised part of the population.

6) The U.S. is second only to Germany in having the lowest ratio of deaths from Covid-19, and that ratio continues to go lower.

7) European nations, and nations worldwide, have gone through the exact same problems of clusters of new cases and resurgent outbreaks where they have had to shut down regions or portions of their economy and society. Even nations with the best initial containment of Covid-19, such as China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Australia.
Despite the lying rhetoric of Democrats, the situation of periodic surges in new cases is not unique in the U.S., and it's not Trump's fault, despite Dems' best efforts to push that narrative for their political gain.

8) And of nations that never did a lockdown, or did a minimal lockdown, fared virtually the same and no worse than the nations or states that did a complete and punishing lockdown. Sweden, for example.
In the U.S., the states that did not lock down have lower rates of infection, and yet also have resurged economically much faster and have far lower unemployment rates now (See [url=]the Laura Ingraham video above, where she shows the 10 best and 10 worst states, both for unemployment, and for the lowest ratios of Covid-19 cases[/url]). Because when you have shelter-at-home- over 70% are found to be infected by family members in close quarters, not by being outside in the part or on beaches, or at a job. Shelter-at-home has been found to actually increase the number of cases.

The initial goal in the U.S. was to slow down the infection rate, or "bend the curve", to prevent a surge in new cases that could potentially overwhelm hospitals so hospitals could not treat all who were seriously ill from covid-19, and basically have to let people die in a "triage" military field hospital type situation, as occurred in Italy, as occurred in Spain, as occurred in Wuhan, China.

We are beyond that, we bent the curve, and built up the stocks of medical supplies and medical staff needed to be prepared. Now Democrats (and their lying ideological brethren in the media) are pretending that was not the initial goal, that the goal was not in fact achieved, and generating a politically-driven false narrative, stoking panic for their own vicious political gain.