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Millions of Americans are already out of work due to COVID panic shutdowns, and COVID alarmists want that number to increase sharply.

There have been 68 COVID-19 deaths in the US, and almost half of them were at one nursing home in Washington.

Cases in U.S. | CDC

Compare this to the 12,000 to 30,000 flu deaths which had already occurred in the US by February 1.

Flu season is hitting its stride right now in the US. So far, the CDC has estimated (based on weekly influenza surveillance data) that at least 12,000 people have died from influenza between Oct. 1, 2019 through Feb. 1, 2020, and the number of deaths may be as high as 30,000.

This Is How Many People Die From the Flu Each Year, According to the CDC | Health.com

There have been 7,000 COVID-19 deaths globally, compared to far more flu deaths.

 Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year.

This Is How Many People Die From the Flu Each Year, According to the CDC | Health.com

COVID alarmists make these claims :

1. COVID-19 is much more transmissible than flu
2. Death rates are much higher than flu
3. COVID-19 will overwhelm medical services
4. Most COVID carriers are asymptomatic

The total number of deaths should be proportional to the transmissibility and death rates, yet the total number of global deaths from flu is 40-100X higher.  You can’t have higher transmissibility and death rates, and come up with a much lower total number of deaths. The mathematics don’t work.

Every single one of the 12,000-30,000  flu deaths in the US this year has involved a person becoming critically ill before they died.  Why didn’t that large number of critically ill flu patients, or the comparable number of automobile accident deaths overwhelm the system?

Crashing the economy would put millions of people on the street with no shelter and no health care. How many people would die from that? How many tens of millions of people would be killed by a worldwide depression?

Something very seriously wrong is going on here.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

• Ben Franklin

Over the course of just a few days, the American people have ceded control of their schools, their sports, their freedom to travel, their concerts, their meetings, their ability to purchase essential goods at the store, and every other aspect of their lives – all the while imagining that this somehow makes them safer. And even worse, a precedent has been set for every future virus.

It was so easy for the powers that be to get Americans to voluntarily give up their rights – permanently.

The government is stopping the spread of COVID by packing thousands of international travelers into small spaces for hours at airport immigration, thus guaranteeing the spread of the disease.

Large numbers of people die from the flu every year.  It would easy to create a panic every year with these frightening statistics. Compare these numbers with ~4,000 COVID deaths in China and 61 in Korea.

Stats of the States – Influenza/Pneumonia Mortality

Obviously people need to use caution to prevent infecting themselves and others, from COVID and other infectious diseases. But we can’t shut everything down every time a virus comes around.

The press has taken a brief respite from their COVID panic, to focus on the normal climate fake news.

Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating – BBC News

NASA says Antarctica is gaining ice.

NASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses | NASA

Greenland gained ice in 2017 and 2018.

Greenland Ice Sheet’s 2017 weigh-in suggests a small increase in ice mass | NOAA Climate.gov

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Greenland’s largest glaciers are growing.

Jakobshavn Glacier Grows for Third Straight Year – Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet

This is quite a change from 80 years ago, when the glaciers of Greenland were nearing “catastrophic collapse.”

17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier

Ten years ago, experts said Greenland was doomed by the year 2020.

Greenland ice sheet faces ‘tipping point in 10 years’ | Environment | The Guardian

Greenland is having one of their coldest years on record, and scientists there are getting buried in snow.

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Greenland set their coldest temperature on record earlier this year.

Belski’s Blog – Some records set in the past couple of weeks

Sea ice extent is growing and normal at both poles.

Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis

Arctic sea ice extent is higher than eleven of the past fifteen years.

Arctic sea ice extent is right at the the 1981-2010 median edge.

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There is more ice around Svalbard than there has been in many years.

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Svalbard was ice-free in 1922.

Strange Things Happening In The Frozen Arctic

Is the North Pole going to melt?

Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers who sail the seas about Spitzbergen and the eastern Arctic all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, with hitherto unheard-of high temperatures on that part of the earth’s surface.

Formerly the waters about Spitzbergen have held an even Summer temperature in the neighborhood of 5 degrees shove freezing. This year it rose as high as 28 degrees. Last Winter the ocean did not freeze over even on the north coast of Spitzbergen. This is on the authority of Dr. Noel.

03 Dec 1922, Page 63 – The Washington Times at Newspapers.com

Last week, temperatures near the North Pole dropped to their coldest level in seven years.

Temperatures near the North Pole have been averaging about 5C cooler than four years ago.

Ocean and Ice Services | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

In 2013, experts said the Arctic would be ice-free by 2015, and there would be a “methane catastrophe.”

Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe – scientist | Environment | The Guardian

Around the time Stonehenge was built, trees grew almost to the edge of the Arctic Ocean. There was little or no permafrost, and the Arctic was ice-free.

Holocene Treeline History and Climate Change Across Northern Eurasia – ScienceDirect

Less Ice In Arctic Ocean 6000-7000 Years Ago — ScienceDaily

CO2 levels were very low at the time. There was little permafrost and the Polar Bears survived just fine. But like during the present period, toilet paper was difficult to find.

Oyster flatulence worries climate scientists – EURACTIV.com