The Coronavirus vs The Constitution, Part I

The Coronavirus Vs. The Constitution
The View from the Middle

As I try to honestly evaluate what we, as a country, have done in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic, I must question much of our government’s actions and most of the public’s reaction. We have all been driven by faulty models that originally predicted one to two million deaths in the US as a result of the virus. Then the models predicted between 100,000 to 240,000 deaths, and now the latest projection is for about 60,000 Americans to die by August of this year. That’s a lot of deaths, but let’s try to put that into perspective.

In 1918, the Spanish Flu killed 700,000 people in the US and about 50 million around the world. That was when the US population was just over 100 million so that would be the equivalent of 2.2 million deaths in the US alone today, and Woodrow Wilson didn’t enact one stay-at-home order. In fact, he sent boatloads of our troops to Europe to fight in the WWI and probably spread that virus to Europe. In 1957 and 1968 the Asian Flu and then the Hong Kong Flu each killed 100,000 people in America when we had half the population we have today. I was a junior in high school in 1968 and I don’t remember any lockdowns or business closings or any of the draconian governmental responses that we have had today.

Let’s get a little closer to today. Just two years ago, the seasonal flu killed 80,000 Americans according to the CDC, and do you remember any massive governmental restrictions? Do you remember the death count clocks on all the news shows? Do you remember any nationwide business closures or the need for any trillion-dollar rescue spending bills?

Let’s also put some balance in our reporting. According the Dr. Fauci, from the President’s Coronavirus task force, the mortality rate for Covid-19 is 1.0%, which means that 99% of the people who are infected with this virus will survive. Also, using Dr. Fauci’s projected mortality rate and the latest death toll model we can calculate that about six million people in the United States will be infected with this virus. That sounds like a big number, but it means that only 2% of Americans will even be infected with this virus, and only .02% (that’s two hundredths of one percent) of Americans will die. In other words, 99.8% of Americans will NOT die from this virus. Those are pretty good odds. Is there anyone covering that aspect of this story?