Whether or not you agree this is correct, the "experts" put it out there. Though the Flu IFR they use in this article is a bit high. WHO (Accidentally) Confirms Covid is No More Dangerous Than Flu Head of Health Emergencies Program “best estimates” put IFR at 0.14% The World Health Organization has finally confirmed what we (and many experts and studies) have been saying for months – the coronavirus is no more deadly or dangerous than seasonal flu. The WHO’s top brass made this announcement during a special session of the WHO’s 34-member executive board on Monday October 5th, it’s just nobody seemed to really understand it. In fact, they didn’t seem to completely understand it themselves. At the session, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s Head of Emergencies revealed that they believe roughly 10% of the world has been infected with Sars-Cov-2. This is their “best estimate”, and a huge increase over the number of officially recognised cases (around 35 million). Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, later confirmed the figure, stating it was based on the average results of all the broad seroprevalence studies done around the world. As much as the WHO were attempting to spin this as a bad thing – Dr Ryan even said it means “the vast majority of the world remains at risk.” – it’s actually good news. And confirms, once more, that the virus is nothing like as deadly as everyone predicted. The global population is roughly 7.8 billion people, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections is 1,061,539. That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%. Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world. 0.14% is over 24 times LOWER than the WHO’s “provisional figure” of 3.4% back in March. This figure was used in the models which were used to justify lockdowns and other draconian policies. In fact, given the over-reporting of alleged Covid deaths, the IFR is likely even lower than 0.14%, and could show Covid to be much less dangerous than flu. None of the mainstream press picked up on this. Though many outlets reported Dr Ryan’s words, they all attempted to make it a scary headline and spread more panic. Apparently neither they, nor the WHO, were capable of doing the simple maths that shows us this is good news. And that the Covid sceptics have been right all along. UPDATE 9/10/20: In the interest of thoroughness, a desire to rely on primary sources, and not depending purely on mainstream sources (which may remove or amend articles), I decided to find the actual video of Dr Ryan’s remarks. For some reason, although this was an important WHO meeting during an allegedly hyper-serious pandemic, the video is hard to find. The only place you are able to see it is the WHO’s own website, and even then you have to scrub through almost 6 hours of footage. Well, I did that, and you are welcome. You can’t embed the WHO’s stream, but I can tell you to go to this page, click “Session 1” and skip to 1:01:33 to hear the exact quote: "Our current best estimates tell us that about ten percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus. This varies depending on country, it varies from urban to rural, it varies between different groups.” I will work on getting an audio clip, for ease of sharing and to make sure it does not get memory holed.
As noted many times before the IFR (Infection Fatality Rate) of the flu is 0.025%. The CFR (Case Fatality Rate) of the flu is 0.1% Please stop confusing IFR and CFR -- they are two very different items. The CFR of COVID-19 is approx 3.0% globally. The IFR of COVID is between 0.3% to 0.8% globally. I will note that you do not show the actual url with the domain for the website -- it is https://off-guardian.org Off Guardian is a purveyor of fake news - started by someone identifying herself as Catte Black. All the names of posts on the site are pseudo names. https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Off-Guardian.pdf "Coverage on the site is skeptical of establishment political and media figures, and articles frequently attribute events to various conspiracies."
This is a critical point and perhaps the most important of all. Death statistics are basically being falsified for monetary and political gain.
Are you sure you are in IT? Because you have an incredibly difficult time with generic computer/internet concepts. For example, the concept of the "hyperlink". In my original post, I include the link in the title of the post, which should highlight in red on your computer. If you hover over this, you can see the source in the bottom left hand of your screen. Nothing is hidden, nothing is attempted to hide. The link is so freaking long that posting it would take up half the screen so I shorten it by putting it in the hyperlink. Your attempt to imply that I do not "show the URL" as an indication that I am trying to hide something is just another example of a long history of your blatant jackassery. Get with the program. Now, on to the content. You have a valid point on the IFR. I actually stated this in the beginning of the post. first line. Go read. Next, I am not confusing anything. I posted the article. Lastly, your attempt to discredit anyone and anything that goes against the generally accepted COVID narrative is so expected at this point that it is laughable. The "source" you use to discredit Off Guardian provides as examples a bunch of posts taken out of context. Whether or not the entirety of these posts are false or not does not having anything to do with the fact that the WHO specifically said that quote that the article is referencing, and that the math works out.
Unless you put the url in clear text then you are being less than transparent about the source. This is one of the basic tenets of posting on the internet. You should know this by now. Your source is a blogging site with a history of pushing fake news.
You're a complete idiot. Anyone can see the source. Anyone with an IQ over 100, though I am beginning to wonder if you fall into this category.
On ET this would show up as: https://off-guardian.org/2020/10/08...WRhtyiAH_oyHZYS7OTNrRfoK1sthn6tR3Jjz8X0xnTgww clearing demonstrating the front part of the domain name while shortening the rest in a url format. This is the proper way to be transparent about your source.