We should be keeping focus on developing treatments for other diseases - not cutting research funds for those or backing off on efforts to counter preventable health problems such as smoking. Be that as it may, there is no reason not to address a new deadly outbreak. COVID19 was an obvious threat from the earliest days. It is a deadly form of the common cold virus, which spreads just as quickly and has a greater mortality rate than influenza. Moreover, there is no proven cure for Corona viruses and no vaccine to stop or moderate its spread.
No reputable source or "expert" is claiming this thing will be over by November. What they are trying to do now is get a handle on it before the "cough and cold season" winds down in May-June. If anything, the potential is that it will explode again next November, just as other corona cold viruses normally do, unless an effective vaccine and/or treatment can be quickly developed over the summer.
The mainstream media has run stories about the dangers of bleeding and liver damage for NSAIDs and similar OTC remedies for decades. The FDA has also put out warnings (they require them right there on the boxes).
The US and some other countries could have reacted much faster, as did South Korea and others who have maintained their bio-hazard defenses, to avoid this type of widespread shut down (by immediately deploying out country-wide testing using the kits the WHO made available months ago and implementing targeted sanitation and isolation regamins). Backing off efforts to contain this is just wrong-headed. Hopefully, this will be coralled in time so the conspiracy theorist crowd can point to the successful efforts to make out that it was all a hoax.
No reputable expert would ever use statistics to claim a higher mortality rate since as everyone knows statistics are easily manipulated to prove whatever they wish to prove.
Let's look at what has been reported on the differences between influenza and coronavirus according to Johns Hopkins:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/coronavirus-disease-2019-vs-the-flu"Infections
COVID-19: Approximately 286,932 cases worldwide; 19,624 cases in the U.S. as of Mar. 21, 2020.*
Flu: Estimated 1 billion cases worldwide; 9.3 million to 45 million cases in the U.S. per year.
Deaths
COVID-19: Approximately 11,906 deaths reported worldwide; 260 deaths in the U.S., as of Mar. 21, 2020.*
Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year."
And the fact remains there are other deadlier common viruses that have been around for a while. Why all of a sudden panic over this virus but not other deadlier common viruses, or other things that kill more people annually all with government support?
As for vaccines or other treatments why are they only focusing on a vaccine especially with all the problems with vaccines including low effectiveness if any at all? Fact is that vaccines have never been proven safe nor effective. The best argument people can come up with when asked for evidence of efficacy is the unsubstantiated claim that vaccines got rid of smallpox. Deadly viruses have dies out on their own since no vaccines exist for them so who is to say that smallpox did not simply die out on its own accord?
Why don't focus on things with solid evidence of efficacy such as ozone therapy?
https://clinmedjournals.org/articles/jide/journal-of-infectious-diseases-and-epidemiology-jide-6-113.php?jid=jidehttps://www.thailandmedical.news/news/ozone-can-be-used-to-destroy-the-new-coronavirus-and-disinfect-areashttps://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_we_cure_corona_virus_Chinese_Novel_corona_virus_infection_using_ozone_therapyhttp://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2020-02/26/content_75747237_4.htmhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/ozones-effectiveness-killing-sars-coronavirus-000000776.htmlhttps://www.nanobble.com/possibility-of-using-ozone-micro-nano-bubbles-ozone-therapy-routine-daily-activities-to-cure-and-protect-against-corona-virus-infection/Another good article on ozone:
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/pdf/10.1289/ehp.95103s277Problem is economics again. Ozone therapy has also been shown to be highly effective against cancers without causing secondary cancers like so many allopathic therapies and cancer cells cannot build a tolerance to ozone, ozone boosts anticancer cytokines and superoxide dismutase, ozone increases white blood cell activity and oxidizes excess hormones that can promote cancer. Ozone has also been shown to be effective for herpes, various types of infectious hepatitis, burns, staph infections including antibiotic resistant staph, carbon monoxide poisoning, etc. Despite NUMEROUS studies proving the safety and efficacy of ozone therapy and the fact that under U.S. law ozone has a grandfathered approval status ozone therapy is not allowed to be used to cure diseases to protect pharmaceutical profits. Unlike unproven vaccines ozone therapy is not patentable and thus it cannot be controlled by big pharma nor the FDA who is in bed with big pharma as has been proven over and over. So why people are dying of diseases such as cancer, hepatitis and viruses such as coronaviruses the cures that already exist are not being allowed unless they they can be controlled and made profitable for big pharma.
So where are the warnings for heart attack, stroke and kidney damage even from single recommended doses of NSAIDs? Why are they promoting aspirin for heart attacks when studies and common sense tell us that this is one of the dumbest things a person can do during a heart attack? In fact if you understood NSAIDs and heart attacks you would also know why this is so stupid.
The FDA did not even admit that these drugs could cause heart attacks and strokes for decades despite this fact being well known. And the media did not even report on these side effects until the FDA finally admitted to what had been well known for decades.
What is funny is the FDA has banned or attempted to ban herbs with less damage or deaths but not only removes extremely deadly drugs such as most NSAIDs from the prescription only because they are deemed to dangerous without prescription to safe enough for over the counter status as soon as the patents expire. Why? Did the FDA waive their magic wand to make these drugs deemed too dangerous to be sold without a prescription to magically make them suddenly safe enough for people to buy and use over the counter? Of course not. Again it is all about protecting pharmaceutical profits.
As for your mentioning of testing do you have any clue how testing is done? They are using polymerase chain reaction (PCR, "viral load") to test for the virus. You may want to read up in the medical journals about the numerous problems with testing accuracy with the PCR.
While you are at it you may want to learn what the definition of a theory is. I always get such a kick out of these people who have no clue what a theory is so they try and insult people by calling them a "conspiracy theorist". If only they knew the definition and therefore why their insults are so ridiculously stupid.
