I didn't ask you to spoon feed me, as I said this essay agrees with my understanding of things. I have used my brain and knew a majority of what was said there-in before I read it. I asked very specific questions and you dodged them completely and then proceeded to blather on with a series of straw men & insults, so yea, answer seems to have been given by your refusal to answer and Fuck You very much!
And NO, I do not blame Covid for my father's death. I thought I was clear about that, HE NEVER HAD IT! I blame the stupid reactions, fear mongering, and economic shutdown imposed upon us by brainless diptwats like yourself who blindly scream trust the science to support destructive societal changes that have absolutely NOTHING to do with Science! So I guess it would be much more sensible to say I Blame You for my father's death rather than C19. And NO I am NOT an "Antivaxxer" I am up to date on my mumps, measles & rubella as well as tetanus and a couple others. I never had to get the chicken pox vaccine because I had already gotten chicken pox as a kid... Just Like I have Already Gotten & FULLY RECOVERED from Covid. So why subject myself to additional risk (as small as it may be) when I already have immunity that has proven to be far more effective than the vaccine? And NO my wife does NOT have an autoimmune disease, and as I said she has already had and recovered from Covid as well so she "most probably" WON'T die from Covid you dumb fuck! (Reading comprehension troubles eh? Explains a lot!) Yes I made my decision as to what gave me the best odds of staying alive. Granted part of my decision was determined by the fact that everyone recommending the vaccine was using provable lies for support and refusing to account for my particular circumstances, having already achieved immunity and genetic factors. By the way, my Dr. completely agrees with my decision but warns that it may end up coming down to a matter of convenience as opposed to best personal health practices.
So I don't know where you got your straw man about a cow breeder as a health advisor. But since I do all my own auto repair, and also do far more daily to maintain my oral heigene than anyone else and since I also do my own plumbing work... Why don't you just Fuck Right Off if you're not going to answer the questions I posed?
What percentage of Covid-19 infections do YOU believe lead to hospitalization? What percentage by your understanding leads to death? How many have died since March 2020 due to increased addiction, mental illness, and suicide brought on by isolation, fear, and economic catastrophe? How many have died due to abject failure in the medical industry to maintain sensible treatment plans for NON-COVID based healthcare treatment? Specifically, what in this essay can you factually disagree with?
So far the person arguing with you is using straw men and personal attacks, and I predict this will continue. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling you are casting pearls, so to speak.
In the last year and a half covid dashboards for one of the US largest hospital systems have been my direct responsibility, so I know the answers to your questions
very well. Particularly for a non-clinical person. I am not going to go to the trouble of digging up real data right now because, first of all, it is not actually my property to share, and secondly you will most likely believe me since the ACTUAL DATA *STRONGLY* supports your conclusions. (Not saying you are biased, but you know what i mean).
But when you filter down the covid mortality funnel you see very clear facts.
+The OVERWHELMING majority of covid cases do NOT go to the hospital. This is the only data I do not have access to actual numbers for because that is not really possible in my data. Our data starts at the hospital encounter. But we DO know that most people fall into the category in which includes people who get Covid, and do not even know it, know it but are not tested, get a test but do not get further medical care. Or go to their PCP or urgent care and are sent home to isolate and get through it. I have to guess here, but it is an educated guess that this number is north of 90% of cases.
+Of the cases who present to the ED or Covid units, the OVERWHELMING majority of THEM are sent home to isolate and recover. This I happen to KNOW is more than 90% of these people. So we are ALREADY somewhere in the vicinity of 99% if my first guess is correct, and even if I am off by a HUGE amount we are still at worst around 93% It is very unusual for those patients to be admitted later, but it can happen.
+Of the cases that are ADMITTED to the Covid unit the OVERWHELMING majority of those are kept for between 2 days and 3 weeks and are sent home after their recovery. Most of the time they would probably have been OK at home... but some really need assistance keeping their O2 up and better safe than sorry.
+Only a very small percentage of THOSE cases ever make it to the ICU. At the worst this was around 20% (Remember, this is 20% of 10% or 10% at the very most. so ~.2%?)
+In the early days of covid the next thing you DO NOT want to have happen is to be intubated. Unfortunately the numbers stop being so cheery at this point. i do not want to be morbid, but if you find yourself in an ICU with a tube down your airway, you need to whatever housekeeping of the soul you think is important. But even then it was not ALL ICU patients and some did recover... but in this group many died. However, as therapies, and treatments get better we are no longer intubating nearly as many... But that is a point you do NOT want to get to as it has bad outcomes.
So, yeah... LOTS of people have died. It is tragic. And it has been a SERIOUS public health problem because it has been a big load on the medical system. Sadly more cases like your father exist than did before covid. By a wide margin. And the 3rd order effects we cannot account for are not anywhere close to over. We may end up seeing a war because of it. People who act like it's all a big "fake news" conspiracy are very very wrong. Not that it may neot actually BE a conspiracy. But it is most CERTAINLY killing folks.
I also share what I read as your general position on the vaccine. I have a serious allergy that can kill me (anaphylaxis), and you better believe I asked my doc before I got the vaccine, which I did do. Because I think at my age the risk of the vaccine is lower than that of the disease.
But I can't stand the "trust the science" people who think folks thinking critically about the virus and vaccine are stupid. They are just as bad as those who believe the virus is not even real.