All the Powers-That-Be (TM) are telling us we have a pandemic on our hands. Entire countries have effectively been shut down in response. They are keeping a count of deaths they attribute to this new illness. Their estimates of deaths have steadily been adjusted down from early numbers that were in the millions. While these deaths attributed to this virus have been going up, deaths from the seasonal flu and pneumonia have gone to near zero. Something fishy is going on.

The county I live in is effectively shut down. Everyone is ordered to stay home unless they need to get or do something essential. All this while the total infected is less than one tenth of a percent of the population and the total attributed deaths is just 2% of total infected. So the rest of us 99.9% of the county are inconvenienced beyond belief. There are businesses shuttered completely and other businesses have been forced to allow only 4 or 5 people at a time inside and forcing them to be 6 feet apart at all times.

I understand that we must do as much as we can to keep those who have other conditions safe from catching the virus, but that goes without saying. The nursing home in Kirkland Washington where the first deaths in the US occurred is a good example of the need for these safeguards. What I am getting at is that this has been way overblown and many of the deaths attributed are not necessarily actual deaths from this new virus. The medical community, for some reason, and the media, along with several governments seem to have the urge to inflate the numbers to support the WHO’s claim of a serious pandemic.

With only 1.6 million confirmed cases and just over 100.000 deaths worldwide this pandemic is started to look more and more like the usual annual new virus scare that has been happening for the last 20 to 30 years – all scare and no substance. With 7.2 billion people on the earth and most of us crowded in large population areas you would think such a serious pandemic would have much higher death numbers.

My urge is to not trust all you have been told.