German Professor of Medicine Sucharit Bhakdi lays out Coronavirus hysteria in simple terms

You wipe keesters for a living. Say no more

Giles Corey wrote:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death: Heart disease: 647,457. Cancer: 599,108. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936. Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383. Alzheimer's disease: 121,404. Diabetes: 83,564. Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672.

Hi Giles. Do you notice anything missing from that list, which I presume is for the USA? I do. According to the article below, a "total of 623,471 abortions for 2016 were reported to CDC from 48 reporting areas." That would put it second on the list above. And I suspect that abortion stat is a significant underestimate.

Giles Corey wrote:

But she did go to the hospital and they tested her for the flu (negative) but not the coronavirus and just let her leave? She must have been quite sick to have been at the hospital.

If you don't need urgent care there's no need for the hospital to keep you, it's a waste of space. They'll just tell you to go home and quarantine.

He states that the worst case scenario has 30 Germans per day dying from Coronavirus. Yesterday, 52 Germans died from it, and 403 total have died. The numbers are rising steeply as the disease progresses in those with a serious case. Next week, the # of Germans dead from it is highly likely to be over 1,000. It rose yesterday at a rate of 20% in a day. I put the dead in 7 days in Germany at 1,444, an increase of over 1,000 in a week, where I start with 403 dead and assume that 20% rise in deaths per day. It may still be greater as the # of cases has risen dramatically , more of those cases will be in the critical stage, and Germany in some places may well see a scarcity of ventilators.

The thing is he is wrong. He said it won’t kill young people with no history of illness. I have seen, with my own two eyes, it kill young people with no comorbidies. And like someone else point out, the virus has already well surpassed their worst estimations. Over 5k infection and over 50 dead today.

ECMO wrote:

The thing is he is wrong. He said it won’t kill young people with no history of illness.

He probably said it as a general statement. I doubt he claimed "It will kill 0 people below a certain age." Such a claim would be ridiculous because every disease in existence kills people in every age group.

Stop with the Trumpanzee crap. I am a lifelong Dem. Worked on the Obama campaign. I hate Trump more than anyone. By politisizing the issue we lose sight of the big picture. People turn off their brains and jump to party lines instead of asking big picture questions. Please, just stop Jesee. You are doing your fellow Dems a disservice

jesseriley wrote:

You’d think Giles was unfamiliar with medicine in USA? How would they do it in Russia, comrade?

I can usually come up with an on point retort but sometimes you encounter somebody so plain dumb you are left speechless.

Israeli puppet clinging to the long since demolished The Russians Did It narrative crafted by the Israel First crowd.

We added an editors note to the first post. HERE IT IS:

LRC note: The video is from March 19 and the professor said the worst case scenario for Germany was 30 deaths per day. They are now approaching 100 deaths per day as shown here

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

But wait, he says worst case scenario of 30 deaths per day (scroll to 4:55 in video). That would make his whole discussion wrong. At times like these, we really should be careful about spreading misinformation. Correct me if i am wrong, please.

Thank you wholeheartedly for posting the update, rojo.

jesseriley wrote:

Trumpanzees call it hysteria

No, you fu-king insane idiot, the leading Dr's in this are calling it hysteria...

rojo wrote:

LRC note: The video is from March 19 and the professor said the worst case scenario for Germany was 30 deaths per day.

He said 30/day over a period of 100 days.

rojo wrote:

We added an editors note to the first post. HERE IT IS:

LRC note: The video is from March 19 and the professor said the worst case scenario for Germany was 30 deaths per day. They are now approaching 100 deaths per day as shown here

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

Serious question: Is it better to just delete this whole thread given that it's major premise has not been borne out?

And as an added note, I would hope that some caution would be adopted going forward in some posters propensity to jump upon articles that minimize the importance of accurate information and messaging.

FINE, LETS JUST SHUT DOWN THE PLANET. HAVE A NATIONAL LOCKDOWN SO MILLIONS PANIC AND THERE IS NO FOOD, AND THEY START SHOOTING RUNNERS. Its going to happen. You worthless cowardly cuccks. make me sick.

You morons were predicting 2.5 million dead by end of April last week. None of those posts were deleted.

seattle prattle wrote:

rojo wrote:

We added an editors note to the first post. HERE IT IS:

LRC note: The video is from March 19 and the professor said the worst case scenario for Germany was 30 deaths per day. They are now approaching 100 deaths per day as shown here

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/

Serious question: Is it better to just delete this whole thread given that it's major premise has not been borne out?

And as an added note, I would hope that some caution would be adopted going forward in some posters propensity to jump upon articles that minimize the importance of accurate information and messaging.

Agreed!!

Thanks for sharing! Great post. Nice to have something calming.

Doesn't he say first of all that it's wrong to classify the death of somebody already dying of another illness as a 'coronavirus death'?

He also points out that over 2,000 elderly Germans die every day.

One paper yesterday in the UK claimed that deaths might only be 7,000. It's looking more likely that it will be 20,000 or more, but likely not many tens of thousands.

8,000 people die every year in the UK from seasonal flu.

I wonder how many of the 160,000 or more people who have died in the UK from the flu in the last two decades would have been saved if we had introduced something simple like introducing fines (or banning from public transport) individuals who sneeze or cough without covering their faces on crowded trains or buses?

Are people with serious health problems (ie. dying) even normally counted when an ordinary seasonal flu finishes them off?

I'm not of the position that this is all an overreaction necessarily, but it seems pretty obvious there is a degree of irrationality involved. Of course we can't have old people dying in hospital corridors because there's no more intensive care beds for them. But the fact is in the long run, more elderly people are going to have their lives shortened by quarantine measures most likely than be killed by the virus. And that's before we consider the long term effects of an economic depression or collapse.

You seem to forget that you and your kind are not nearly as well-armed as those you disrespect. In a real panic-stricken disaster, if it really leads to people doing anything they have to to survive, you will lose. I'm not saying, much less hoping, that complete chaos ensues, just pointing out you and the less-than-half of the population that you align with, vote for, and respect won't make it out. Hopefully nothing like that happens, but just saying.....