{"id":433240,"date":"2022-04-18T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T22:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/covid-case-counts-total-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T01:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T22:41:13","slug":"covid-case-counts-total-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covid-case-counts-total-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"#COVID case counts? Total nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28cda758ebd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28cda758ebd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covid-case-counts-total-nonsense\/#%E2%80%9CCOVID_case_counts_Total_nonsense%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;COVID case counts? Total nonsense&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCOVID_case_counts_Total_nonsense%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;COVID case counts? Total nonsense&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Congratulations to our public health masterminds for finally catching up with the reality that raw COVID case numbers are worse than useless as a metric.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new survey of adults in New York City suggests that our testing regime may have missed more than <em>1.3 million<\/em> cases between January and March of this year.<strong> <\/strong>The numbers also suggest that an astonishing <em>27%<\/em> of the city\u2019s adults may have been infected during that time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This massive statistical whiff also means that the official positivity rate \u2014 the number by which entire sectors of our economy lived and died for two years, the number that shut schools and sent paroxysms of terror through the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \u2014 was  near-meaningless as a measurement. <\/p>\n<p>And that, from the start, and particularly since the time vaccines were rolled out, we should have been paying more attention to actual bad outcomes from infection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is, hospitalizations and deaths. Those are what matter. <\/p>\n<p>If someone gets a mild flu and recovers in 24 hours, no one panics.\u00a0But a few asymptomatic COVID cases in a city school were enough, for months, to shut classrooms and trigger insane quarantine protocols.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/covid-testing-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Covid mobile testing sites are stationed across New York City. \" class=\"wp-image-21925341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/covid-testing-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/covid-testing-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/covid-testing-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Covid mobile testing sites are stationed across New York City. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steve Sanchez\/Pacific Press\/Shut<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even though no evidence <em>ever<\/em> indicated that schools were prime transmission vectors, and it\u2019s been plain for well over a year that the <em>reverse<\/em> is true.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Had we paid attention to the <em>accurate<\/em> measures of COVID\u2019s severity, it would have become clearer far sooner that the disease is a big risk mainly to the elderly and immunocompromised, with about 980 US deaths of under 18s (out of around 988,000 total deaths) since January 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That our public health officials, electeds and others relied on anything else after the first, crazy months of the pandemic is clear malpractice. That they used these meaningless numbers to browbeat skeptics of their policies is beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>alling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect any apologies, though. The Centers for Disease Control bureaucrats could only tiptoe up to admitting what this new data seems to suggest when the CDC introduced its long-overdue new metric \u2014 so-called \u201ccommunity levels\u201d \u2014 on masking rules, a metric that relies largely on hospitalizations to indicate trouble spots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while these survey results<em> should<\/em> put the nail in the coffin as far as case counts and the positivity rate are concerned, they won\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our mayor still insists on masking under-5 kids due to rising case numbers. He still won\u2019t kill the private-sector vax mandate (though he will make exceptions for the rich and famous).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s plain to see that rules based on these figures have not ever \u201cfollowed the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They followed politics instead. And did immense, likely irrecoverable social damage along the way.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Total nonsense&#8221; Congratulations to our public health masterminds for finally catching up with the reality that raw COVID case numbers are worse than useless as a metric.\u00a0 A new survey of adults in New York City suggests that our testing regime may have missed more than 1.3 million cases between January and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":433241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/newspress-collage-21916870-1650068788202.png?w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[128119,71464,1545,82862,43,116860,4953,69286],"class_list":["post-433240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-17-22","tag-cdc","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-editorial","tag-mask-mandates","tag-new-york-city","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}