The WHO on Friday reported the global death toll is now 139,115.
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, whose data is widely used and has been tracking higher than the official CDC and WHO numbers, said the total number of cases worldwide was 2,218,132 as of this afternoon, with 148,654 deaths. The center says 3.4 million people have recovered from COVID-19.
The U.S. has more total cases now than the combined cases in Spain, France, Germany and Italy, the countries with the most infections in Europe, per WHO data. Spain remains the most infected country outside the U.S. with 182,816 cases, while Italy has the most deaths at 22,172. On Friday, the UK became the fourth country in Europe to surpass 10,000 deaths.
The WHO on Friday reported the global death toll is now 139,115.
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, whose data is widely used and has been tracking higher than the official CDC and WHO numbers, said the total number of cases worldwide was 2,218,132 as of this afternoon, with 148,654 deaths. The center says 3.4 million people have recovered from COVID-19.
The U.S. has more total cases now than the combined cases in Spain, France, Germany and Italy, the countries with the most infections in Europe, per WHO data. Spain remains the most infected country outside the U.S. with 182,816 cases, while Italy has the most deaths at 22,172. On Friday, the UK became the fourth country in Europe to surpass 10,000 deaths.
So the U.S. will reopen it's economy, State by State depending on decisons made by the Governors of each State that supposedly will be based on certain criteria. that deeply concern me.There is a killer, predator virus pandemic named Covid-19 that is lurking everywhere. It sickens and kills innocent human beings who are elderly and also young people, many who are not sufferring from any underlying medical conditions,by infecting them silently, spreading like a wild fire in a dry forest.
There is NOTHING that any "expert" truly knows or understands about this virus and it's behavior now and in the future. No-one knows if it will create a 2nd, and 3rd wave like the Spanish flu pandemic did here in 1918.The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic. Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, it infected 500 million people about a third of the world's population at the time.[ The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.The reason for the imprecise infection and death toll figures is that govts.deliberately hid the true amounts because they "didn't want to affect the morale of the people", in other words they lied to hide the truth.
There is NO treatmment for the covid 19 virus, it basically does what it wants regardless of any medical intervention. Supposedly certain unreliable anti-body tests because none of have undergone rigorous criteria to determine if they are accurate re-false negatives/false positives. Some have said that if you test positive for these antibodies that you are now immune from the virus and not contagious, but no-one knows that , especially if the virus mutates. There is also NO understanding whether this virus mutates into another form, or reoccurs in those that have recovered from it. Yet it is being assumed that therefore it is supposedly safe for that person to stop social distancing, etc.
Then there are unrelaible tests that determine whether you are currently infected with the virus or not. These tests also have not undergone rigorous criteria to determine if they are accurate re-false negatives/false positives. Some have also said that if you test negative that you do not have the virus and are not contagious, therfore it is supposedly safe for that person to stop social distancing no more lockdown for them.
All of the above tests are manufactured by different company's, their results are NOT interchangeable to compare with other Company's tests, and the methods of processing these results are all different among these Co's. You also must buy all your lab testing machines, lab testing chemicals from that specific Co. as they will not work with materials from the other Co's .
There is data that is also being used to make determination about lifting the lockdowns. How many people have been infected currently, in the past, and how many people have died, plus watching the daily amount of new cases/deaths. The problem with using this data is that it grossly underestimates the number of people who have had the virus, those who have died from it, and those who currently have the virus. This has been done by incompetence, sometimes deliberately undercounting the people who have been sick/died and other factors, such as those who have died at home, died in nursing homes, or just died without an autopsy done.
There are also "silent killers, people who have no symptoms but are in fact contagious carriers of the virus, then infecting whoever they personally interact with. These people don't even know they have the Covid19 virus.
In the final analysis, I believe that most of the data is false and yet it is being used to make life/death decisions of when the virus is "under control"
There are clearly short term and potentially long term physical/mental affects of many who have had the virus and recovered. Their lungs have often been permanently damaged, kidney function has been compromised, heart and other organs may be affected. Cognitive processes of the brain have been noted in many who have survived, memory loss, post traumatic stress disorder, brain fog, lack of abilityto concentrate, depression, weakness, balance problems, etc.
My point is that taking into account all of the above how can any medical person, infectious disease "expert", or governor determine when it is safe to stop the lockdowns.It is the lockdowns that have demonstrated that it will translate into less virus infections/deaths. Lifting of it's restrictions prematurely can cause a huge increase in new cases and many more deaths.
What I see is that with all these unknowns, decisons have and will be made that it is OK for more people to die because money/the economy trumps the value of human lives. By doing this, it is the real creation of death panels that have now assumed priority of money over human lives. By minimizing the dangers of the Covid virus, lying trump, lying gop flunkeys and ignorant people who believe these lies, will march our country into an even worse disaster.
I hope I am wrong, but there is nothing so far that makes me feel confident that any of the politicians knows if what they are doing is in the best interest of keeping the public safe. Do you trust our gov't to get this right? I don't and want to see a safer, much better plan than human liives are disposable,expendable, and it doesn't matter who gets sick/dies. That is unacceptable to make decisions that equate a balance that favors the economy over the lives of you, me, our loved ones, and the rest of our population. No amount of deaths, sickness ,suffering that is preventable should be tolerated by us as human beings.
I will keep fighting for the sanctity of human lives. if you and I are still here to survive all of this.
