Coronavirus Update For July 9, 2020

By Rich Kozlovich

I've posted much to show this "pandemic" is mostly media driven hysteria, and in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, society has gone insane with this stuff. Therefore, I've decided to post the mortality rates regularly.

The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections.  As of 6:36 PM on July 9, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.

Here are the results:

• Worldwide infections,  12,164,502 Infection rate, 0.1%
• Worldwide deaths, 552,043 Mortality rate, 0.007%
• Confirmed infections in the United States, 3,105,315. Infection rate, 0.9%
• United States deaths, 133,086. Mortality rate, 0.04% 

(Editor's note. That number may have been inflated by fraudulent reporting by as much as 25%. Cooking the books here, and misrepresentation here.   By way of explaining and understanding testing for viruses, please review this excellent piece, COVID-19 Panic Porn, by my friend Michael D. Shaw, publisher of Shaw's Eco-Logic, and contributing columnist @ HealthNewsDigest.com.  Please review my entire coronavirus file.  RK)

Please note the difference between the infection and mortality rates of coronavirus and past virus attacks.

• In 1968 the Hong Kong flu killed over 1,000,000 people worldwide. The mortality rate was 0.3%! America lost 100,000 that year, and morality rate was 0.05%.
• In 1957-58 the Asian flu killed up to 2,000,000 people with a mortality rate 0.068%. America lost 116,000 people. The mortality rate was 0.07%. 

As for Ohio.  Ohio and the CDC keep playing games with the numbers.  There are two numbers representing how many coronavirus infections that have been in Ohio, and how many died.  I will cover both, based on a population of 11,700,000.

• Confirmed cases 57,506. Percentage of infections. 0.49%.  "Probable cases" 61,331. Percentage of "probable" infections. 0.5%.  
• Confirmed deaths, 2,749.  Mortality rate, 0.02%.  Expanded number, 3,006.  Mortality rate, 0.02%

No one sought to shut down the nation, or Ohio, in the past when the infection and mortality rates were higher. Why are we now?