In arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) yesterday in Murthy v. Missouri, COVID was represented as being a “once in a lifetime” pandemic, but that doesn’t square with the facts. While it is a provable misrepresentation, it is unclear if it was a “deliberate misrepresentation” (a fraud on the courts).
Back in the year 2000, 65,313 people (all races, both sexes, all ages) died from combined pneumonia & influenza (P&I):
The higher annualized attack rate for COVID in the placebo groups of original trials came from the original Moderna trial, and it was found to be 8% a year (79.8 per 1,000 person-years):
When applying that attack rate, along with the infection fatality rate (IFR) from UK Technical Briefing No. 5, then COVID was not as bad as the combined P&I deaths of the year 2000:
In cell B11 is the central estimate of the COVID IFR, at an annual 8% attack rate, resulting in a total of 37,000 COVID deaths in a year (just over half of the actual P&I deaths found back in 2000). Also showing is the 99.99% credible interval from a 150-million-round computer simulation of the UK death data to 19 Jan 2021.
The big question is, if COVID is expected to cause 37,000 deaths a year in nations with 282 million people (like the USA in 2000), which is on par with a bad flu season, then how did deaths get so high?
Hospital, care home protocols, no prescribing of antibiotics, or other normal treatments for respiritary illnesses.