COVID-19 Deaths Are Now Rising in the U.S., but Case Fatality Rate Continues To Fall

1. Because 1) now the public would know masks DO actually help (otherwise China wouldn't have purchased all of ours), 2) they didn't want people to panic when they couldn't find any to purchase, or hoard what masks they could find and deprive health workers of them, and 3) they realized China had lied like rugs about the severity and transmissibility of the virus.
2. I call total bullshit on the idea that women would be interested in libertarianism if only it didn't involve a good old boys club. I don't believe you know any women who actually say that, but even if you do it means they subordinate the principles of freedom to getting their tits kissed.
3. I could understand that when talking about the overall death toll in a single locality, especially when all hell as breaking loose in New York back in April, but adding these old deaths to the total and then touting the difference as a daily change and expanded reason for panic is just plain dishonest.
4. Recently, there have been reports of various prominent BLM figures at state an d local levels withdrawing from the BLM organization, in some cases explicitly due to the trained marxist video and the if we don't get what we want, we'll burn the system downtake that figuratively or literally TV interview.
5. The news that the growth in COVID cases is in the younger population is good news indeed they're the ones that can get their antibodies with low risk of death, and that protects everyone, including those people who would not likely survive an infection.
6. The US was kind of like, uh we're trying to beef up the national strategic stockpile, but we can't find a single ventilator or mask for sale in the whole country. During that 6 week period, China (the world's largest manufacturer and exporter of masks) imported 2.02 billion of them.
7. But if the young and healthy people who seem to be driving the recent jump in cases pass the virus on to a lot of people who are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the case fatality rate could go up, as it did from late March to mid-May, when the patient mix was older and less healthy.
8. How many people came into the ER with q bullet hole in their head, tested positive for the virus, and are listed as a COVID death? Far too many.
9. In your mind, I'm a dishonest hypocrite who used the word libel to threaten lawsuits against people in a sneaky and underhanded way.
10. However, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services indicated that Friday's death tally of 15 was made up of older deaths identified by comparing death certificate data with the state's registry of laboratory-confirmed cases.

https://reason.com/2020/07/10/covid-19-deaths-are-now-rising-in-the-u-s-but-case-fatality-rate-continues-to-fall/