COVID-19 and risk

 

Guest post by PatD:

CDC recently updated estimated infection fatality rates for COVID. Here are the updated survival rates by age group:

0-19: 99.997%

20-49: 99.98%

50-69: 99.5% 

70+: 94.6%

Remember also that 94% of the fatalities had other morbidities, such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, according to the CDC. 

If you are old like me, or our overweight President, you face a greater risk, but, for most people the chances of dying from COVID-19 are minimal. Yet, we are destroying the lives of children by keeping schools shut down for most of the year. We are destroying countless small businesses for a virus that is less deadly than the flu. We have shut down live sports and entertainment for no good reason.

We all know of people who have died with COVID-19. But we know of far more people who have died from other causes, such as traffic accidents, drowning, murder, cancer, heart disease and so on. The problem is we not balancing out the risk factors.

For example, we lose 37,000 people a year in traffic accidents. From 1899 to 2013, it is estimated 3.6 million people died in traffic accidents. Unlike COVID-19, people will continue to die in traffic accidents for the foreseeable future. If we cut the speed limit to 15 mph and require vehicles to be limited to a top speed of 15 mph, we would just about eliminate those deaths. But society won't do that. The convenience and time savings from much higher speed limits outweigh the risk of dying in a traffic accident.

The treatment the President received was little different from that received by most hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The only difference was that he was given an experimental therapeutic that is not yet approved for general use. Our healthcare system has learned a lot since March and the death rates are dropping as better therapies are used to treat patients. 

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VP Debate tonight

 

Stephen Green, a/k/a Vodkapundit will drunkblog the Vice Presidential debate tonight, so you don’t have to watch. 

It should be lots of fun drunkblogging the three of them butting heads, and so I do hope you’ll tune in for it on the PJM homepage at about 8:45 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.

That’s PJ Media's homepage here.

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Trump sign in California

Overnight someone erected a massive Trump sign on the hills along the 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pas.  According to local media “the sign supporting President Trump faced northbound lanes near Getty Center Drive. The white lettering appears to be around 10 feet tall and mimics the style of the landmark Hollywood sign.”

Here's 27 seconds of fun via Conservative Treehouse:

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Democrat Projection

 

A.F. Branco cartoons at Legal Insurrection

I first came across Caroline Glick ‘s columns at The Jerusalem Post. Over the weekend, Instapundit linked to her post at her own website.  It’s an excellent essay, and it concludes:

And this brings us to Democrat projection. Since the impeachment hearings last January, Democrat lawmakers and aligned media have been pushing the claim that Trump will refuse to accept the election results if he loses. Just as Trump is repeatedly asked whether he condemns white supremacists, he and his campaign advisors have been asked repeatedly by reporters whether he intends to concede if the results of the election are not in his favor. At Tuesday’s debate, Wallace continued the practice. He asked the candidates to pledge to accept the election results.

Biden quickly agreed. Trump refused to play the sucker’s game.

The President noted that the Democrats still haven’t accepted the results of the 2016 elections and tried to oust him from power through false allegations of collusion with Russia that Clinton invented while working with Russia. He also pointed out the ease with which mail-in votes can be, and allegedly already are being falsified by Democrats.

It is impossible to know how the election will pan out or when, if ever, the true results will be known. What is clear however is that if you want to understand who the Democrats are and what they are doing, all you need to do is look at what they are accusing Trump and his colleagues of being and of doing.

Read the rest here.

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WalkAway March -- in DC !!!

 

Brandon Straka organized another WalkAway march in DC yesterday.  Impressive turnout – and in DC!  (video approx. 34 seconds)

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Mark your calendars

 

Important dates from our friends at Buckeye Firearms:

October 5: Voter Registration Deadline in Ohio

Click here to register. Hurry!

October 31: Absentee / Mail-In Voting Ballot Deadlines

November 3: Election Day

For what it is worth, our household plans to vote in person on Election Day. If you are concerned about safety, make plans to go with family, neighbors, and friends.

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Dr. Ronny Jackson on President & Mrs. Trump

Via PJ Media:

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