This is their new scam. They don't want us to focus on the number of cases, particularly the ones that show that the vaccines do not prevent infection like they told us they would. One particular subreddit even changed the order in which they report COVID by presenting the number of cases last instead of first. They'll likely stop reporting them altogether in time. Also watch the propagandists swarm like vultures to come and tell us (in that cucked condescending tone) why cases are no longer a good metric to focus on, and so on.
Their experiment has failed, and it's out there for everyone to see.
Right, thanks
So there shouldn't be much difficulty in counting cases, since they're just counting positive tests.
I think the issue is counting infections, which they could never accurately do.
That's why IFR has always been so much lower than CFR.
According to Wikipedia my age category IFR is 0.068%. Risk for me would be vastly lower however since i don't have underlying conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
oOoOoOooohhhh soo scary.
Good thing the vaccines protect grandma from me. Oh wait..
"The highly infectious Omicron variant has completely overwhelmed testing capacity across Canada"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/omicron-testing-canada-cases-hospitalizations-po-1.6304195
"Due to the widespread transmission of COVID-19 in Toronto, there are not enough tests available for everyone who has symptoms."
https://www.toronto.ca/home/covid-19/covid-19-what-you-should-do/covid-19-assessment-centres/
No idea what that means to you.
You still don't know the difference between a case and an infection, after two years.
Explains why you can't seem to comprehend the difference between IFR and CFR.
There's a jargon problem here, I think. Some people like to compare the number of cases to the whole population. For example Canada has had 30,862 deaths attributed to covid as of Jan 11 2022, so these people would calculate the percentage of deaths by dividing 30,862 by the population of Canada (38,246,472) and multiplying by 100. This gives 0.081%. The CDC calls this the cause-specific mortality rate - although they would present it as 80.7 per 100,000.
I have never understood why anyone would want to calculate the effect of covid by looking at people who don't have the virus. It makes more sense to me to ask "how many die out of the people who get sick?". In Canada today that's (30,862/2,595,960)x100 = 1.2%. The CDC calls this the case fatality ratio.
Omicron has invalidated both of these rates because our case counts are no longer valid.
So now with Omicron the best indicator of our success in dealing with these days is the vaccination status of the people entering hospitals. In terms of occupancy per 1 million as of today there are 762.7 unvaccinated people in hospitals compared to 171.7 vaccinated people, and 191 unvaccinated people in ICUs compared to 18.8 vaccinated people.
Putting it another way: vaccinated people are 77.5% less likely than unvaccinated people to wind up in the hospital and 90.1% less likely to wind up in the ICU.
Proportionally way more unvaccinated people wind up in hospitals and ICUs. https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/ontario-dashboard/
The guy is still pretending they caught all of the infections prior to Omicron, still has no idea what the difference between IFR and CFR. He’s totally out of his league.
Interesting