Opus 2020-068: Headlines: Ignore Them

Each morning I do a quick run through of sites that report the data from the “pandemic” we are experiencing.  Yes, people are dying.  It is clear that to those people and their families this is a major tragedy.  I am still not seeing anything to justify all the panic and loss of liberty.  I do not get too excited about headlines.  I am not looking at cases.  Cases depend on testing and how many people are sick enough to seek help.  The entire country could be 100% infected and it would not change the cases being reported.  Death you can quantify and it doesn’t measure up.

Don’t take my word for it.  In a Powerline article from March 25 after showing a simple graphic, we see a good short summary.

“The Diamond Princess experience–virtually a laboratory experiment–suggests that around 80% of the population is naturally immune to COVID-19, that half the people who get the disease will experience no symptoms, and that in an elderly population, something like 1% of those who contract the disease will die. So far I don’t see anything in the reported U.S. or global fatality numbers to contradict the Diamond Princess experience.”

Wash your hands and watch out for unicorns.

homo unius libri