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I will always, always value the right of children to go to school and the right of Americans to run a small business over the completely hypothetical notion tha

I will always, always value the right of children to go to school and the right of Americans to run a small business over the completely hypothetical notion that a novel corona virus has intense long term side effects. Schools are open in Florida and the kids are fine. There have been a billion, probably two billion, infections so far and near zero evidence of widespread long term effects. If one percent are “long haulers” there should be 10-20 million of them. Where are they? What there is indisputable evidence of is a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, suicides, stroke and heart attack deaths at home (which are callously and cravenly classified as excess mortality due to Covid). I am supposed to chant BLACK LIVES MATTER in the street when police kill 250 black people/year but am supposed to clap and cheer when the Teachers Unions demand that 40 million Children of Color are locked at home with no equipment for distance learning. Please stop pretending that a disease with 99.95% survival rate (99.999% under age 50) justifies ten trillion dollars of self imposed economic disaster. Please stop telling me I need to cover my face when walking my dog outside, Dr Biden. The threat of this virus has been drastically exaggerated to influence politics, undermine property rights, bail out failing corporations, and enrich a select few.

amluto 6y ago
> If one percent are “long haulers” there should be 10-20 million of them. Where are they? What there is indisputable evidence of is a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, suicides, stroke and heart attack deaths at home (which are callously and cravenly classified as excess mortality due to Covid). I would love for you to be right. Sadly, if you actually try to look up the incidence of long covid (or post covid syndrome, etc), you will find estimates ranging from 5-25% incidence. Optimistically divide by five (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here) if you want to estimate the incidence among total infections instead of symptomatic infections. Divide by 10 if you think that 90% of patients will recover fully and quickly enough that you should discount them. You’re left with 0.1% to 0.5%. You appear to be a couple of orders of magnitude off in your calculation.

amluto 6y ago

> If one percent are “long haulers” there should be 10-20 million of them. Where are they? What there is indisputable evidence of is a dramatic increase in drug overdoses, suicides, stroke and heart attack deaths at home (which are callously and cravenly classified as excess mortality due to Covid). I would love for you to be right. Sadly, if you actually try to look up the incidence of long covid (or post covid syndrome, etc), you will find estimates ranging from 5-25% incidence. Optimistically divide by five (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt here) if you want to estimate the incidence among total infections instead of symptomatic infections. Divide by 10 if you think that 90% of patients will recover fully and quickly enough that you should discount them. You’re left with 0.1% to 0.5%. You appear to be a couple of orders of magnitude off in your calculation.