…Which doesn’t mean the CDC and Governor Whitmer (America’s Third Worst Governor!) aren’t pushing for one… and gratuitously moving the goalposts in order to do it.
Here are the facts… y’all know what facts are right? Facts are what make up the science that Covid Karens are always screeching we need to follow. By the way, I got all the facts I’m going to use in this piece from the IHME COVID data site.
Let me take you back to March 2020 and how this all started. Remember what they told us? “Two weeks to flatten the curve”, right? What did that mean? Well, they told us exactly what it meant. Too many infections were resulting in too many hsopitalizations and deaths, and there was a real danger of America’s Healthcare facilities being completely overrun by a runaway pandemic.
And what has happened since then? Well the Government, along with their handmaidens in the corporate Media, have worked extremely hard to conflate the idea of “cases” with “hospitalizations” and “deaths.” Why did they do that? Because they knew that we would eventually arrive here in April of 2021 and they wanted to make sure that we stayed scared, regardless of the facts on the ground. Because our fear is what gives them their power and they are running out of COVID-related things with which to scare us, especially as herd immunity looms larger and larger.
See, unlike in March of 2020, a “COVID case” here in April of 2021 is much MUCH less likely to lead to hospitalization or death because the most vulnerable Americans have either been vaccinated or have already died. Those getting sick now are younger and healthier and they are not winding up in the hospital in the same numbers as patients were last Spring.
So yes, Michigan’s “case” numbers are spiking… but so what!?
Again, let’s look at the numbers… that pesky science we’re supposed to be following. According to the IHME, the largest daily case number Michigan ever recorded was 10,000, back on November 20th, 2020. Three weeks later, Michigan recorded 130 deaths in a single day.
So… it’s fair to ask what’s happeneing here in April of 2021. On April 1st, Michigan recorded 7,000 cases (70% of the November number) while two weeks later, the State recorded only 30 deaths (a mere 23% of the November total). In other words, virtually the same number of cases is resulting in a MUCH smaller number of deaths. That should be case closed, but since we are dealing with agents of Government here, as opposed to regular humans, we have to take it a step further.
Going back, again, to the entire rationale for the original lockdowns, “two weeks to flatten the curve”, we also have to look at the IHME’s numbers on hospital bed usage. Because, by their own rationale, if we aren’t in danger of overloading the system, then there is no reason to lock down, quod erat demonstrandum.
IHME predicts that this new Michigan spike will peak on April 25, 2021 and that on that date, Michgan will need 5,000 hospital beds in a state where there are more than 10,000 beds available. I don’t know about you, but 50% of total capacity is pretty damned far from a crisis in my opinion.
And remember, these are IHME numbers, an agency whose predictions have been famously wrong in an absolutely bananas over-the-top kind of way. For example, last Fall the IHME was predicting between 450K and 500K COVID deaths in the US by January 1, 2021… the actual number was 350K. Based on the IHME’s track record, it’s safe to assume that Michigan will never need anything like 5,000 hospital beds.
So there is no real crisis in Michigan, but Governor Whitmer and other budding Totalitarians just like her are in love with the power and control they’ve been able to achieve by using our fear of COVID against us, and now they will do just about anything to avoid giving it up.
That’s really what that this latest panic porn moment is all about.
(See also: Variants; fear of)
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