Deaths in the US follow a very predictable pattern – they are lowest in the summer and higher in the winter months. Pneumonia and influenza strike the old, weak and infirm the hardest….because as you get older and older you are more susceptible to everything as your body gradually breaks down. It’s called “entropy” in scientific circles…and we all face the same fate eventually.
This has been going on for thousands of years and even as recently as 2018 we had a VERY BAD flu year.
You probably didn’t know this because we didn’t have “health authorities” posting every single hospitalization and death on social media back in 2018. You went about your life as usual.
Looking at the above chart, you could have stirred up some SERIOUS panic in 2018 by comparing deaths to the 2016 season. An unscrupulous muppet like Fauci could have had a FIELD DAY by playing with those stats.
In fact, after several “mild” flu seasons, we often have harsh ones as there is a lot of “dry tinder” (not to sound callous) in the form of a higher-than-normal number of elderly and infirm who made it through those years and are literally at death’s door waiting for a slight wind to blow them over.
We learned yesterday that we had our 13th (*maybe – some of the data is suspect and the “timelines not clear”*) ‘Covid’ death in Lampasas County. Not surprisingly, it was a male close to his average life expectancy for males.
[We are always told “in his 70s” which could mean 71 or 79. I don’t know why it’s so hard to give an exact age and shit like that makes me suspicious when they can’t be bothered to post it – so I’ll just go ahead and assume 78 since that is an average life expectancy.]
Certain mayors who already caught this “deadly plague” (and recovered easily) like to intimate that I have no compassion when somebody dies at the average life expectancy. In a sense, she is partially correct. About 7,400 people die EVERY SINGLE DAY in the US and I don’t know any of them. If I spent my day weeping over every single one, I would get nothing accomplished and I’d probably be committed to an insane asylum.
Yes, it sucks to lose a loved one and it will happen to ALL of us – Covid or no Covid. My cousin’s wife was struck down at the age of 35 by an aggressive brain tumor back in 2002. She left behind three kids all under the age of 10. THAT was tragic and heartbreaking. Unfortunately, it happens every day. You just don’t hear about it when it isn’t in your small circle of family and friends.
I think it is FAR MORE TRAGIC when young people die in preventable ways like car accidents. A teen aged kid causing a car wreck while texting and killing a young child in another car (this actually happened near here recently) is 1000 times more heartbreaking than a person passing away at or above average life expectancy from an upper respiratory disease.
Sorry if that sticks going down, but I think 99% of Americans would agree. While some people are busy wringing their hands over the elderly passing away in a manner that has statistically been happening for centuries, look what happened JUST in the last week or so:
Funny I didn’t hear anything about all THESE heartbreaking deaths from our mayor. Nor did I hear any calls to pray for their families. These are FAR more tragic and heartbreaking. I feel for these people having their loved ones’ lives snuffed out in their youth.
What people should REALLY ask for is a little perspective. For every ONE elderly ‘covid’ death that may or may not actually be influenza or pneumonia, there are literally dozens of tragic deaths of teenagers and young people in their prime.
As for our ludicrous “active case” count that jumps around all over the place, I could not care less if it’s 25 or 125 because the PCR test is complete and utter nonsense, as has been covered here repeatedly. The ONLY impact that number has is that it is foolishly used as gospel by “authorities” to keep us under their thumb with more and more draconian “virus abatement” measures like closing schools.