Remember when I said that I'm a rather contrary loadie?
24 hours per day of yadda yadda from the news geniuses, but here's what I'd actually like to know ...
1. Exactly HOW much more does the hospital get paid when the patient died "from" Wuhan vs not?
2. Roughly, what percentage of people died WITH the virus vs OF the virus?
3. Does the typical hospitalization consist of more than a nebulizer treatment and a day or two of observation?
4. What percentage of "hospitalized" people are in ICU?
5. How much less lethal is the virus now vs 3 months ago?
6. What percentage of the virus gets through a mask on every inhale/exhale? The N95 mask only lets 5% through each breath for instance.
7. Does it matter anymore if we touch our faces any time we feel like it?
8. When I touch my mask, do I have to wash my hands again?
9. Roughly, what percentage of the population has been exposed already but kicked it before they got sick enough to form antibodies?
10. How many excess deaths from other causes have happened during the past few months?
11. If you get 3-4% positive every time you test people ... um ... how can that be? One week, 3-4%, next day or week, the same. A month later, still the same? 3-4% of the population is always positive? Every day or week?
I already know that 140,000 people have died, of/with/around the virus. And I know that "cases", whatever they are, have "spiked" lately.
I just don't know any of the other stuff.
Actually I do know, because I looked for the information and found a lot of it, but the "experts" apparently don't think any of that stuff is important to the rest of us. We're too simple to understand it anyway - it'd just confuse everything.
I live in a small city of 200,000 people, and nobody is sick, actually sick. Out of 32,000 tests, we've had 2600 positives and 70 deaths, 50+ of them from nursing homes. I finally found a bank teller in his 20's who'd had it, and it was like a bad flu, he said.
This is a new virus and it's running through the population and killing far more people than other viruses. The real numbers to look at for the future are the deaths per million. Europe had the first outbreaks and they've totaled over 600/M so far. Our 4 early States - NY, NJ, MA and CT - are all over 1000/M. That's where it will all end up unless we get an effective vaccine very soon. Eventually, more than 1000 per million will die.
But I'd sure like some answers instead of being forced to play more Simon Says, y'know? "Never mind, just do what I tell you" has never been a good way to keep my attention. It's a matter of personal judgement to me and I intend to keep exercising it. If the experts can't explain themselves, and if they're the same experts who fugged up the last time they told me what to do, sheesh, c'mon, really?
I keep asking myself - why aren't the experts and the news clowns talking about anything important? Yes I know there's a deadly virus going around. I knew that yesterday.
Again, I have a different perspective than many other people. I'm out there 4 days a week with 20-30 doors opening in my face every day, just like normal, and I'm not sick. I don't produce virus for anyone to catch, and I'd have gotten it by now if I was going to.
So I have questions that don't get answered.
I know people do, and the stats say that tens of thousand die each year. I know that I've read about it. But ask yourselves ... if someone told you that somebody died of the flu, would you nod your head sadly or would you say "WTF, he/she died of the FLU????" It would be a remarkable thing, no? More than just unusual, right? Seriously? The flu? Was it cancer, too? How'd the flu do it? 
