When it really happens: SHTF...

[Aragorn243]

How our media reports the news in order of importance:

Covid cases continue to rise at record levels with most states seeing a resurgent 2nd wave

Hospitals are being overwhelmed in many locations

Deaths continue to rise

New unemployment claims over 1 million again this week continuing this record streak.

Every one of those headlines is true. They are also designed to create panic and they are succeeding. Because this is all they report. They go into great depth detailing how these headlines came about. But through deceptive editing and omission, they don't tell the real story.

The real story:

Covid cases are rising at dramatic levels because our testing is now 6 to 10 times what it was during the peak of the pandemic. The rate of positives per test has gone down, the rate of new positives for all these tests has declined significantly and is proportionally, no where indicative of any surge or increase in the rate of infection. If anything, it's showing the rate of infection is in decline. And there is no 2nd surge, it's simply a continuation of the first as it moves to the more rural areas.

Hospitals are being overwhelmed because all those patients who needed care but were denied care as they wanted to keep the hospitals free for the covid crisis that never occurred are now allowed to be treated. There is a 2 and a half month backlog on all these patients. Covid patients in these hospitals make up only 30% of all patents so THEY are not the ones overwhelming the system and the system isn't overwhelmed at all. If one hospital is full, they transport the patients to a nearby one that isn't

Deaths continue to rise because a few people are still dying. The rate is a fraction of what it was at the peak, in fact it is well within the normal daily death rate in this country. In fact with the exception of about 2-3 weeks at the peak, the average daily death rate in the US has been BELOW average for this year.

While new unemployment claims remain high, the number of individuals going back to work is even higher. Unemployment is going down and has been for a month and at a rate which is much higher than predicted. There is ALWAYS turnaround in jobs. Even during the best of times there are new unemployment claims but reporting that, and not reporting new employment is simply irresponsible.

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[painter777]

Hospitals are being overwhelmed because all those patients who needed care but were denied care as they wanted to keep the hospitals free for the covid crisis that never occurred are now allowed to be treated. There is a 2 and a half month backlog on all these patients.

This was what I was trying to pass along from the Nurse we know:

" a Nurse at our biggest local hospital. They've had a big increase in hospitalizations in the last 3-4 weeks or so. She said most were patients with existing conditions that required near constant Monitoring and Evaluation but weren't treated during our long lock down time."

Any of these cases that passed away were more likely listed on the Covid death list. Gov pays more $$.

Anyone see the 21 year old that crashed his motorcycle and died, he ended up on the Covid death list........... ??