{"id":26968,"date":"2020-03-27T19:30:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26968"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:30:50","slug":"corona-the-case-number-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26968","title":{"rendered":"Corona: the case number game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-MERS-CoV.jpg\" alt=\"Coronavirus\" class=\"wp-image-26969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-MERS-CoV.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-MERS-CoV-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-MERS-CoV-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest episode of public health officials go crazy and wreck economies and lives in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, let\u2019s look at figures for ordinary flu, for the whole planet. A study published in the journal, Pharmacy and Therapeutics [5], states, \u201cInfluenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Approximately 9% of the world\u2019s population is affected annually, with up to 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths each year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A BILLION cases EVERY YEAR. Is this called a pandemic? Is the whole world locked down every year? No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/jon-rappoport\/corona-the-case-number-game\/\">https:\/\/www.nexusnewsfeed.com\/article\/jon-rappoport\/corona-the-case-number-game\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest episode of public health officials go crazy and wreck economies and lives in the process. Finally, let\u2019s look at figures for ordinary flu, for the whole planet. A study published in the journal, Pharmacy and Therapeutics [5], states, \u201cInfluenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corona: the case number game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26970,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions\/26970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}