Why Are So Few Americans Dying From SARS-COV-2?
How the most important question remains un-asked amid our self-indulgent mass hysteria
Forget all the sensationalist media nonsense that forms the 7/24 diet of most Americans and which is designed purely to grab eyeballs in order to boost ad revenues. Forget the context-free infection and death numbers which paint a completely misleading picture of the impact of SARS-COV-2. Forget about the mindless political posturing of blustering Trump supporters and on the other side terrified liberals who think facemasks will save the world from a viral apocalypse.
The really important question is actually quite a surprising one: why are so few US citizens dying from covid-19?
In case you haven’t looked at the data, here are the key facts:
As of 24th July 2020, 146,000 deaths have been attributed to covid-19 across all 50 States. While this sounds like a big scary number and it’s something the media loves to use to hold onto terrified eyeballs, it’s actually a mere 0.044% of the population. Yes, that’s right: less than one-half of one-tenth of a percent of US citizens have succumbed to this supposedly terrifying disease. That’s fewer than die in the course of a bad flu season, and it’s less than half the number of US citizens who die each…
