I Don't Care How Many Covid "Cases" There Are. I Never Did.

Do you care how many people die?

There has never been any question that as a coronavirus, this new pathogen would be highly contagious.

It wasn't particularly contagious. R was about 2 for the first variant. Delta is much more contagious.

This is one of the defining features of coronaviruses.

Not really. As a zoonotic virus, it's going to be not that great at spreading between humans initially, since it's adapted for spreading in bats.

Give it time though. Viruses adapt pretty fast, if there's a lot of them out there.

Using the words "mutant" or "variant" thus are also equally unimportant information. This was a given from day one. Again, we already knew this.

It makes it important for everyone who can to get vaccinated though. Once we drop the number of these little buggers out there, the number of new variants that will show up will also reduce, reducing the chance of one of them being really nasty.

The difference with this particular pathogen is that thanks to Fauci, Daszak, Xi and company, this coronavirus carries a greater punch of morbidity (illness) and mortality. Thanks guys for that! We really appreciate it.

Long covid is pretty nasty, and it's deadlier than most flus. But it's not at all deadly compared to deadly viruses. Such as ebola. The published research on bat coronaviruses that was funded by the CDC didn't make it deadly. It made it possible to infect human cells. The modification was to the spike protein.

helping people who have Covid to not become seriously ill with it. In the end, THAT is what matters.

Wiping out the virus matters too.

In other worlds, in the normal pre-Covid world, doctors who figured out how to save patients from the devastating effects of hospitalization (with or without death) from a new disease would be celebrated. This is what medicine IS.

Treating the disease is also medicine. Avoiding the disease is also medicine. Not just alleviating the serious symptoms. In Infectious diseases, finding and killing the infection is primarily what it is.

The establishment does not want doctors to treat covid patients before they enter the hospital.

By far the best treatment that we have for that, it to avoid getting infected. Vaccinations (and masks) are the best tools for this, and are being pushed by this "the establishment" person you're talking about. Certainly by most governments anyway.

Combine it with the absolute ban on discussion of the harm being done by the vaccines, and there is no way I see a benevolent explanation for the full-court press mandate of 100% vaccination.

There's plenty of discussion about the harm of vaccines. AZ is not even being used in a lot of first world countries for younger people because of a 1 in a million death risk from blood clots in the brain.

The ways in which the top of the medical governing bodies (NIAID, CDC, WHO, etc) have perverted established guidelines for dealing with respiratory pandemics (prior to 2019) tells us something is very centrally wrong here.

So as the human population increases, we know that pandemics will arise more than in the past. Some of them will be deadly. A serious response has been prepared because of the growing awareness of a serious problem. CoVID, with it's couple of weeks of infectiousness prior to the expression of symptoms is the problem. But it's not even bad in terms of deadliness and infectiousness. There's a much worse one coming sooner or later. We need to have a plan.