Saturday, January 25, 2020
A shutdown and a shakedown
The latest Swine Flu panic is highly suspicious.
CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010.The estimates are ranges, not guesses. Some years have much higher flu rates than others. Taking the middle, let's say 20M cases, 400k hospitalizations and 40k deaths is typical in USA. China's population is about 4 times USA population, so the expected figures there would be 80M cases, 1.6M hospitalizations and 160k deaths. This particular "epidemic" has been going for about a month, so divide those by 12 to get 6M cases, 130k hospitalizations and 13k deaths. So far this "epidemic" has 2k cases and 56 deaths. Not very impressive. Not even noticeable against the typical pattern. The CDC (Centers for Dissident Control) and WHO have a long record of overstating "epidemics" for Parkinson reasons. Bigger panic = bigger budget. If I had to make a hypothesis, I'd say Wuhan was brewing some kind of rebellion, and China's government decided it was time to shut the province down. Note this headline. USA found the panic convenient as another way to sanction China. We should have been sanctioning US CORPORATIONS who chose to send their jobs to China. Instead, we let the corporations steal our jobs and skills, and then the corporations let China steal their factories. Pretty good deal for China. Sanctions now are just a shakedown, Trump's way of getting concessions for his favorite corporations. ¶ 11:40 PM
