Coronavirus antibody testing shows LA County outbreak is up to 55 times bigger than reported cases
We may find that the infection rate is much higher than previously reported or anticipated. The disease may have been freely circulating in certain states since late November or early December 2019. The death rate may be much lower than thought, more in line with a bad flu.
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- The Covid-19 outbreak in Los Angeles County could be up to 55 times bigger than the number of confirmed cases, according to new research from the University of Southern California and the LA Department of Public Health.
- The data, if correct, would mean that the county’s fatality rate is lower than originally thought.
- With just 4% of the population infected with the disease, LA County is still very early in the epidemic, said USC professor Neeraj Sood, who led the study.
A good decision
Nancy Antoinette
This is CNN

Soviet Union, China, or Facebook?
Lockdown protests organized on Facebook will be taken down as “harmful misinformation.”
Unapproved thoughts or actions will not be tolerated from the masses.
Trump on DOJ/FBI/CIA malfeasance
I agree with this 100%
On China
China is not a friend of the United States. They are a competitor intent on surpassing us.
H. R. MCMASTER:
“…Leaving China, I was even more convinced than I had been before that a dramatic shift in U.S. policy was overdue. The Forbidden City was supposed to convey confidence in China’s national rejuvenation and its return to the world stage as the proud Middle Kingdom. But for me it exposed the fears as well as the ambitions that drive the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to extend China’s influence along its frontiers and beyond, and to regain the honor lost during the century of humiliation. The fears and ambitions are inseparable. They explain why the Chinese Communist Party is obsessed with control—both internally and externally.
The party’s leaders believe they have a narrow window of strategic opportunity to strengthen their rule and revise the international order in their favor—before China’s economy sours, before the population grows old, before other countries realize that the party is pursuing national rejuvenation at their expense, and before unanticipated events such as the coronavirus pandemic expose the vulnerabilities the party created in the race to surpass the United States and realize the China dream. The party has no intention of playing by the rules associated with international law, trade, or commerce. China’s overall strategy relies on co-option and coercion at home and abroad, as well as on concealing the nature of China’s true intentions. What makes this strategy potent and dangerous is the integrated nature of the party’s efforts across government, industry, academia, and the military…”
My favorite headline today
Media personalities expose themselves
I crawled in bed and cried for our pre-pandemic lives. Tears that had been waiting a month to escape.
I wanted to share because it feels freeing to do so. Now is not a time for faux-invincibility. Journos are living this, hating this, like everyone else. https://t.co/dIDujZZvQZ
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 18, 2020
What a colossal, self-important jackass. He is a high school girl and his feelings got the better of him. Stuff your feelings up your ass, you jerk.
If you had any question about who the media is, now you know.
#MeToo
Joe Biden Exposes #MeToo Movement as Total BS
If you were paying attention at the time of the Kavanaugh kerfuffle you knew this was BS long ago. You may not have recognized just how disgraceful and low the media and Democrats would go.
Now you know.
Democrat dishonesty on virus response

Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds
Condoleezza Rice on China’s responsibility for the virus
Condoleezza Rice: China Wants To Shift The Narrative On COVID-19, Don’t Let Them
“…Hoover Institution Fellow Condoleezza Rice speaks with Hoover’s Tom Gilligan about the “reckoning” the Chinese Communist Party is likely to face over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak and both the public and private conversations U.S. officials should have with them.
Rice primarily accuses China of a coverup of the early outbreak of the virus, which cost the world time that could have been used to prepare. It is “very hard to get answers from China,” she said.
“The Chinese did what authoritarians do,” she said. “They silenced those who were trying to sound the alarm, they wanted time to create the narrative that would be blessed by the Communist Party of China, which means it probably had to go to Beijing before you could say anything. It is just the nature of the system. It is a real problem.”
“Can you imagine those people being silenced in the United States or Germany or Brazil?” she asked. “No… it would have been known that there was a problem.”
“The Chinese and trying to create a counter-narrative… to shift the narrative from their initial responsibility for not fessing up to what was happening, to ‘We got on top of it and this is how we helped the world.’ That’s how they’re going to shift the narrative. Don’t let it happen.”
She concluded: “If you keep the focus on how this started, and China’s role in that, they will be embarrassed by that. If you let them shift the narrative to all they’ve done sending out PPE, you’re probably not going to make progress.”…”
Ironic headline of the day, Democrat edition
Music teacher writes song about virus shutdown
https://twitter.com/MommaUnfiltered/status/1251855748876898306
On the fallibility of computer models and the foolishness of relying on them
Thomas Lifson:
“…We have learned the hard way that the scientists who produce mathematical models predicting disaster are not to be granted the presumption of infallibility. Nor are their demands that we impoverish ourselves in order to aver a disaster a matter of “settled science.” The Coronavirus doom that the Cassandras of prestigious scientific organs predicted is nowhere to be found, and it turns out that models are based on assumptions, and can be spectacularly wrong.
Americans have sacrificed trillions of dollars and turned our lives upside down based on predictions of millions of deaths if we didn’t follow radically change our way of life, based on the pandemic predictions of modelers in the UK and USA.
How embarrassing for the modelers that tell us we have to make even deeper sacrifices for a global warming disaster that is decades away, if it ever develops. You can smell their panic in this planned propaganda blitz from the Olympian heights of the media establishment. Chris White of the Daily Caller News Foundation writes:
A project co-founded by the Columbia Journalism Review is asking hundreds of news outlets to focus their reporting on climate change on Earth Day as journalists focus primarily on coronavirus coverage.
The journalist heading the effort believes the media should be devoting the same level of attention to global warming as they do to a virus that has killed more than 100,000 people worldwide. (snip)
The founders behind Covering Climate Now are asking their network of more than 400 media outlets to blanket the airwaves with stories about climate change during the week of Earth Day. Reuters, Bloomberg News, and The Daily Beast are among the biggest names listed as partners of the project.
The project’s co-founder, Mark Hertsgaard, has said news outlets should be devoting the same amount of time to climate change as they do COVID-19.
Paraphrasing the Wizard of Oz, “Pay no attention to the modeler behind that curtain!”
But that’s not going to happen, no matter how much propaganda is put out predicting doom. People are righteously angry over paying a huge price because some boffins with computer models overemphasized risks. They understand that models are just guesses, and that the modelers who predict the biggest disaster also get the most attention.
To the 60,000 or more American fatalities that have fallen to the Wuhan Virus, we can add the demise of the credibility of global warming models. The thin veneer of scientific infallibility has crumbled and cannot be restored…”
Dan Crenshaw obliterates Bill Maher
Our government scientists at work
Lead NIH coronavirus researcher suggested pandemic could be ‘genocide’, said doctors would let blacks die
I was going to say this story is too crazy to believe. No, I believe it. Will they fire her? If they do CNN and MSNBC will have a bidding war to get her as a commentator. Remember that Democrats and media are the science based party.
Democrats

Perspective on media driven hysteria


