Hacker News Reader

Comment by fatbird | Hacker News Reader

Apparently what got them kicked off was this:

There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate.

Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped.... The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. [0]

[0] https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/13/covid-19-is-...

View on HN

Important to note: this isn't from early 2020 where the death toll in the US was still in the thousands, this is from 2 days ago.

I don't know where my line is for supporting de-platforming but it's somewhere before actively spreading dangerous disinformation.

What's the latest IFR for Covid vs. flu? Last I read it was 1% vs. 0.1%.

Meta analysis shows an average of 0.68%[1], slowly decreasing as treatments get more effective.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

It’s about 0.6% COVID versus 0.1% seasonal influenza in the US. However, note that the latter figure is the IFR for the “typical” flu. The sentence quoted notes “all other flu-like viruses” - of which there are varieties that are less and more dangerous. Given that qualifier, the quoted sentence doesn’t seem obviously false to me.

I haven't seen anything credible (with supporting studies) saying as high as 1% since March.

It's probably below .4% Depends on the population age. But probably reasonably below .4%

"Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27%" https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf

I suspect it will continue to drop. It seems to hit those it harms the most first and spreads quickly with them. Plus medical is getting better.

Or all the posts saying the won't accept the results of the elections no matter what, and will do "whatever it takes"

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/president-tr...

Sounds like they got kicked off for piss-poor methodology, not ideology.

I feel like at this point you have to be actively ignoring the facts.

That statement is completely true as backed by many mortality numbers around the world. Just as an example, here's official mortality numbers for Germany: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Querschnitt/Corona/_Grafik...

The first sentence could be true. Probably not, but it's possible. It's certainly closer to the flu than most people realise.

> The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation

The Left is playing games. So is the Right of course. But this sentence is too strong.

The Left wants power, they are doing power moves. But there's no underlying plan. They are getting a strong footing. It will allow them to implement social change. But it's not that tied together.

"The left wants power" so they can give you healthcare and make the rich pay taxes. At least that's the US "left", which would not be called left anywhere else in the world.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com