{"id":19140,"date":"2020-07-05T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19140"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:34:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:34:58","slug":"really-covid-19-is-now-10-times-more-infectious-than-at-the-beginning-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19140","title":{"rendered":"Really, COVID-19 is now &#8217;10 times more infectious&#8217; than at the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Now They Are Trying To Tell Us That COVID-19 Is \u201c10 Times More Infectious\u201d Than It Was At The Beginning Of The Pandemic<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19143\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Michael-Snyder-10-times-more-featured-image-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Michael-Snyder-10-times-more-featured-image-.jpg 500w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Michael-Snyder-10-times-more-featured-image--300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Snyder<\/p>\n<p>If the elite really do intend to use COVID-19 to fundamentally transform our society, they are going to need to continue to find ways to make it sound a lot more scary than it really is.\u00a0 Over the past couple of weeks, we have been endlessly barraged with news stories that boldly declare that \u201cthe second wave\u201d is here, and now we are being told that this coronavirus is \u201c10 times more infectious\u201d than it was when it first started spreading in China.<\/p>\n<p>And we are also being told that COVID-19\u00a0<a title=\"\u201ccauses infected human cells to sprout tentacles loaded with viral venom to help it spread around the body\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8466195\/Pictured-Covid-19-hijacks-human-cells-causes-sprout-TENTACLES.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201ccauses infected human cells to sprout tentacles loaded with viral venom to help it spread around the body\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 All of that definitely sounds quite frightening, and over the past couple of weeks a lot of people have really been freaking out as the number of confirmed cases has surged.<\/p>\n<p>But it has become clear that this virus is not going to kill more than 50 million people like the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920 did.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the death toll from this virus has surpassed half a million, and more will keep dying every day.\u00a0 However, we need to keep in mind that millions of people die from various diseases every single year.\u00a0 According to the WHO, the flu kills between 290,000 and 650,000 people each year, but we don\u2019t shut down everything because of that.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, COVID-19 is more serious than the flu.\u00a0 But there is absolutely no reason that it should be paralyzing our society at this point.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/wRBrSWIjRug<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><em>Real Deal Reports (1 July 2020) with Dean Ryan in Austin and Mike Bara in Seattle.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>If millions upon millions of people were suddenly dropping dead all over the globe, avoiding this virus would be a matter of survival.\u00a0 That is not the scenario that we are currently facing, and we need people to understand that.<\/p>\n<p>Someday a pandemic will come along which will be that serious, but as far as COVID-19 is concerned, fear of the virus has been even worse than the virus itself.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the mainstream media continues to drum up more fear every chance they get.\u00a0 For example, the following is from a\u00a0<a title=\"Washington Post article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/technology\/this-coronavirus-mutation-has-taken-over-the-world-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why\/ar-BB166pjJ?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Washington Post article<\/a>\u00a0that discussed how a mutant form of COVID-19 has now become the dominant strain here in the U.S. and around the rest of the globe\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before.<\/p>\n<p>But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examined the genetic structure of virus samples from local patients, he noticed something different.<\/p>\n<p>A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, eventually took over the city. By May, it was found in 95 percent of all the genomes Ozer sequenced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a title=\"the Daily Mail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/medical\/worlds-dominant-strain-of-coronavirus-is-10-times-more-infectious-than-the-one-that-jumped-to-humans-in-china-because-it-mutated-so-its-vital-spike-protein-doesnt-snap-as-often-in-the-body-scientists-say\/ar-BB167e7l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the Daily Mail<\/a>, scientists are telling us that as a result of this mutation COVID-19 \u201cappears to be approximately 10 times more infectious\u201d than when it originally appeared\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A genetic mutation which scientists around the world have been picking up on for months appears to have caused this spike to be less likely to snap, and also to force the coronaviruses to produce more of them to make itself more infectious.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the virus appears to be approximately 10 times more infectious than it was when it first jumped to humans in China at the end of the year, scientists say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I didn\u2019t know better, I would definitely be deeply alarmed to read something like that.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/-7Xoh-W6TuY<\/p>\n<h4><em>Real Deal Reports (2 July 2020) with Dean Ryan in Austin and Mike Bara in Seattle.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>And the World Health Organization is now saying that\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cthe worst is yet to come\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/who-coronavirus-pandemic-is-actually-speeding-up-due-to-inaction-2020-6?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u201cthe worst is yet to come\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for this pandemic\u2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been six months since the World Health Organization\u00a0<a title=\"declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/who-wuhan-coronavirus-2019-ncov-global-health-emergency-2020-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"20\">declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency<\/a>, but on Monday it told the world to prepare for the \u201clong haul\u201d ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe worst is yet to come,\u201d WHO\u2019s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on a call with reporters from Geneva. \u201cI\u2019m sorry to say that. But with this kind of environment and condition, we fear the worst.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should all be able to agree that more people are going to get sick and more people are going to die.<\/p>\n<p>Now that this virus has spread all over the planet, there is zero chance of containing it.\u00a0 Eventually, almost everyone will be exposed to this virus, and a lot of people will not be able to fight it off successfully.<\/p>\n<p>But of course the same thing could be said about the flu.\u00a0 One of more strains of the flu will sweep across the world this year, and hundreds of thousands of people will die.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we will be facing a truly catastrophic pandemic at some point, but this is not it.<\/p>\n<p>In a newly released article, Ron Paul does a great job\u00a0<a title=\"of summarizing the hysteria that we are currently witnessing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newswars.com\/ron-paul-the-media-is-lying-about-the-second-wave\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">of summarizing the hysteria that we are currently witnessing<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately our mainstream media is only interested in pushing the \u201cparty line.\u201d So the good news that millions more have been exposed while the fatality rate continues to decline \u2013 meaning the virus is getting weaker \u2013 is buried under hysterical false reporting of \u201cnew cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately many governors, including our own here in Texas, are incapable of resisting the endless lies of the mainstream media. They are putting Americans again through the nightmare of forced business closures, mandated face masks, and restrictions of Constitutional liberties based on false propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>In Texas the \u201csecond wave\u201d propaganda has gotten so bad that the leaders of the four major hospitals in Houston took the extraordinary step late last week of holding a joint press conference to clarify that the scare stories of Houston hospitals being overwhelmed with Covid cases are simply untrue. Dr. Marc Boom of Houston Methodist said the reporting on hospital capacity is misleading. He said, \u201cquite frankly, we\u2019re concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more the mainstream media keeps spreading unwarranted fear, the more people will be afraid of resuming their normal activities.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ADbn6NHlfOM<\/p>\n<h4><em>Real Deal Reports (3 July 2020) with Mike Bara in Seattle and Blake Walley in Austin.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>For example, one recent survey found that\u00a0<a title=\"64 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/most-us-christians-uncomfortable-with-returning-to-church-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">64 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Americans are \u201cuncomfortable\u201d returning to church because of this pandemic\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Enterprise Institute conducted a poll of 3,504 Americans from late May to early June, asking them about their comfort levels on returning to church.<\/p>\n<p>Among respondents, 64% said they were either \u201csomewhat uncomfortable\u201d or \u201cvery uncomfortable\u201d with returning to in-person church services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, this pandemic also continues to paralyze economic activity, and we continue to see more than a million Americans file new claims for unemployment benefits every single week.<\/p>\n<p>If our society cannot handle a pandemic that kills hundreds of thousands of people, what in the world is going to happen when a pandemic comes along that kills tens of millions?<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that COVID-19 didn\u2019t turn out to be as bad as some of the experts were originally projecting, but don\u2019t allow that to lull you into a false sense of security.<\/p>\n<p>This pandemic turned out to be mostly fear, but it is just a matter of time before a much more deadly bug hits us.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesfetzer.org\/2020\/07\/michael-snyder-now-they-are-trying-to-tell-us-that-covid-19-is-10-times-more-infectious-than-it-was-at-the-beginning-of-the-pandemic\/\">https:\/\/jamesfetzer.org\/2020\/07\/michael-snyder-now-they-are-trying-to-tell-us-that-covid-19-is-10-times-more-infectious-than-it-was-at-the-beginning-of-the-pandemic\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now They Are Trying To Tell Us That COVID-19 Is \u201c10 Times More Infectious\u201d Than It Was At The Beginning Of The Pandemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}