The results are in: young, healthy people rarely die from Covid-19, whether they wash their hands or wear a mask regularly or not.
According to data from three months of experience with this coronavirus, nearly all healthy Americans under 65 years old who contract Covid-19 will recover having had only minor symptoms, without denying that some also become very sick and even die, too.
However, Covid-19’s impact on mortality is incredibly overstated and is causing ordinarily balanced Americans to lose their minds in irrational fear.
For every person under age 65 in the United States that has died of Covid-19 so far, the website worldometers.com estimates that 89 percent had an underlying medical condition. People under 44 without underlying medical conditions have almost a 100 percent survival rate from catching Covid-19. Children under 17 dying of this coronavirus are exceedingly rare as to be practically non-existent.
Young, healthy people rarely die of Covid-19. That this fact is not obviously recognized at this point is more disturbing than the disease itself. On a personal note to test my theory and conviction on this matter, I exposed myself to a Covid-19 worker in early May, I believe I was sick with Covid-19 for five days without hospitalization, and then was fine.
Agreed, Covid-19 is highly contagious, but otherwise healthy people need not be so afraid of a virus that is simply unlikely to kill them.
It is highly irrelevant and scaremongering for the media to report on the new number of “cases,” or which celebrity has “tested positive,” or where are the new “outbreaks,” or is “the second wave” coming, because survivability is so much higher than originally suspected.
Since May 24, when the Fake News New York Times ran its “Incalculable loss” front page of the United States nearing 100,000 deaths from Covid-19, the number of fatalities has practically flatlined, perhaps revealing a seasonable nature to the virus, comparable to the flu. The number of Covid-19 deaths in June has dropped in the United States to about 700 per day, often reaching to fewer than 400. In 2017, there were 2.8 million recorded deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, which translates into about 7,700 lives lost each day. There is no perceptible increase in the number of deaths in the United States because of Covid-19, with the most likely scenario is that people who have died from coronavirus would have died from something else, if not now then in some time in the near future.
According to the CDC, there would have had to have been an additional 34,000 Covid-19 deaths in March to equal the average number of deaths in the United States over the last four years. In other words, there is no statistical increased mortality in the United States due to Covid-19. People dying of Covid-19 almost always have one of the following underlying medical conditions: diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, brain/blood diseases, heart disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease, Gastrointestinal/liver disease, or obesity.
There is no reason that healthy children ought to have to wear face masks and made to feel that life is so inherently dangerous.
But because they had coronavirus in their system, they are listed as having died of Covid-19. Statistically, people dying of Covid-19 exclusively appears to be exceedingly non-normative.
The average age of death from Covid-19 is 75 years old. There is no reason that healthy children ought to have to wear face masks and made to feel that life is so inherently dangerous. This is sure to be psychologically traumatic for these children.
This “Empire of Fear” revolves around containing the virus at all costs. We have gone full bore on “keeping people safe and if we can save one life, it will all be worth it,” despite those millions of Americans and their children have been prevented from earning their livelihoods and attending school, respectively.
The more effective strategy has and will continue to be to allow people to survive Covid-19, develop herd immunity, harvest the antibodies, develop vaccines, and isolate the vulnerable until we have medical solutions. If we had isolated older Americans sooner, so many more would be alive today.
This is finally being recognized by the Trump Administration. United States Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin recently said that the country cannot shut down the economy again if a second wave of the coronavirus occurs. “I think we have learned that if you shut down the economy, you’re going to create more damage and not just economic damage,” Mnuchin said during an appearance on CNBC. “There are other areas…of medical problems and everything else that gets put on hold.”
