All the (alarmist) news that's fit to print: COVID-19 death rates are declining, though you wouldn't know it from the New York Times et al.

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Mark Crispin Miller

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Jun 12, 2020, 5:50:16 PM6/12/20
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From Bob Klein:
 
From the alarmist coverage by the New York Times and other major media, all screaming that
   "CORONAVIRUS CASES ARE INCREASING," you'd never know that COVID-19 death rates—the 
  only meaningful statistic—are falling steeply, or gradually declining, everywhere in the US, even 
  in states that reopened five weeks ago. Likewise, the death rate in Brazil—where, according to
  the Times, the coronavirus has been "surging"—has not increased, but has held steady at a 
  level far below the officially reported death rate in the USA.  

The lurid coverage has obscured this crucial point: While COVID-19 cases are increasing due to 
   increased testing, the death rate has been going down. Moreover,  the number of those killed by
  COVID-19 constitutes a very small percentage—0.16%—of the cases overall; most of those who 
  have succumbed are elderly, with comorbidities; and, in the worst-hit states, those deaths have
  occurred mainly in hospitals and nursing homes. 
  
The death rate is increasing in Mexico and India, but the actual rate is one-sixth or -seventh what it 
ever was in the US (2,000 per day, at least according to official figures), and it will never reach the 
level that the “exceptional” US has suffered for several reasons, such as the homicidal protocol,
    approved by (Democratic) governors like New York's Andrew Cuomo, Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer
   and California's Gavin Newsom, whereby COVID patients have been moved to nursing homes, and
   ventilators have been used in hospitals, with often fatal consequences. Such lethal measures, in
   conjunction with insurance regulations that encourage diagnosing patients with COVID-19, whether
   they have it or not, and noting COVID-19 as the cause of death, even when it isn't, have artificially
   inflated the COVID-19 death rate in America. 
 
     Check out the New York Times' own statistics, which contradict the doom-saying in the Times'
    headlines and ledes. COVID-19 is on its way out, having largely run its natural course, as such
    pandemics always do (unless they're artificially revived). As the virus weakens, those managing
    this crisis are intensifying their efforts to rush out a new vaccine to "fight" it, and then force it on
    us all; and, even as the virus keeps on weakening, and even though it doesn't threaten children,
    the masters of this crisis want to keep the panic going, either by closing schools this fall, or by
    so tightly regulating every move by every single student that our schools will be like mental
         hospitals, or prisons.  
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