Project Fear
There was an outbreak of the Virus in a meat plant.
There was also an outbreak in a Direct Provision Centre [a fancy name they give to a place housing homeless immigrants] where some of the inmates worked in the meat plant.
Gubmint response? Shut down three fucking counties.
Naturally there are no details about the victims. Are they all at death’s door? I doubt it. Did a small number report having the sniffles and the rest just tested positive when they rounded up contacts? I would consider that the most likely. And what symptoms did the primary victims display? I would wager a little more than just a normal flu bug at worst.
But fuckit….
Lock down three whole counties anyway.
Repeat after me:
If it saves ONE life, it's worth it.
(They never, ever quantify what "it" is but it's worth it nonetheless.)
Abolish electricity.
Drain the oceans.
Make all mechanised transport illegal.
If it saves one life……
the rest just tested positive when they rounded up contacts
Exactly. So they’re not Covid cases as the government and the media would have you believe, because they’re not ill. You need to show the symptoms of a disease to be a case of it. How many people would test positive for flu in a normal year but have no symptoms? How many people have e-coli in their gut but their immune system either tolerated it or fights off the bacteria and they show no ill effects? We don’t call them e-coli cases. If you have no symptoms you’re not ill!
Test the entire population and I can guarantee a huge spike in positive results. But as you say – how many will actually be ill?