Mainstream media continues to drone on about how many people are infected with that common cold virus known as corona. “New cases” in Germany and Georgia, but infections are down in Nunavut and New Zealand. Why have we become so obsessed with tracking a virus no more deadly than the common flu?

Is not the death rate, rather than infection, the number that we need to be looking at?

According to the CDC, death rates in April in the United States were (supposedly) around 16,000 per week. Now they are below 200. And that’s with counting corona cases who died in motorcycle accidents.

So more people are becoming infected (supposedly), but less people are dying. Just like we see every flu season once we get over the winter blues.

A study by Wake Forest Baptist Health has found that between 12-14% of people tested in North Carolina already have antibodies for the coronavirus. When compared to the number of COVID deaths in North Carolina that would bring the death rate down to a low 0.1%.

In other words, 1 out of a 1000 who get the virus, will die from it. Very sad for that one person and their family. But hardly the return of the 1918 Spanish Flu.

And 0.1% is far less than the WHO’s estimate of 3.4%.

It’s even 0.18% less than the 0.28% death rate the Stanford study arrived at in April. As Dr. John Ioannidis (who published the study) told Journeyman Pictures: 0.28% puts the danger of COVID-19 “in the ballpark of seasonal influenza.” So where does that put a 0.1% death rate? A very mild flu season?

John Sanders, the chief of infectious diseases at Wake Forest Baptist Health, would seem to agree. Here’s what he told a local radio station about their study’s 0.1% conclusion: “…the death rate is lower than we have estimated. The severity of symptoms is lower than we estimated and the vast majority of people who were infected are going to do fine.”

Stay-at-home-and-binge-on-Netflix orders. Psychologically disturbing masking. Bankrupting family businesses. Isolating children. Rising suicide rates. 28 million cancelled surgeries….

All to flatten a curve that did not need to be flattened.

All to fatten pockets that did not need to be fattened.

Whether through protests in the streets, emails clogging inboxes or information in the hands of key influencers, we need to make a ruckus. Let’s follow the example of “The Second Wave” of German protestors at Saturday’s demonstration in Berlin.