At the April 20 White House Press Conference, Fox News correspondent John Roberts asked Dr. Birx about the lower death rates as a result of antibody studies concluding a much larger percentage of the population was infected with COVID-19.
"...that the penetration of the virus is as much as 40 times as what it was believed to be, as many as 442,000 people in LA country may have been infected. Which suggests two things. It suggests that you have a lot more people out there who could be spreading the virus, but it also suggests the case fatality rate is more in line with the 2017/208 flu. I'm wondering if you've seen that? What your thought were?"
She just didn't address the lower death rates at all. Either to confirm that it's possible, or to deny it outright. That's the best way to have something fade away and not be talked about, by not talking about it yourself and not responding to questions about it.
Note though, that her focus was asymptomatic spread, on continuing the existing recommendations, i.e. isolation, distancing, lockdown, to "protect others".
"Then when we have the luxury,w e can go out to broader and broader community [for testing]."
It's "highly contagious", and in order to "protect" others, we "need" to test everyone. We "need" cell phone apps, tracing programs, snitching programs, drones, infrared tracking, face recognition, certificates, etc. We need to CONTROL people!
It's now about testing more and increasing surveillance. That's where the mindset is. it's already spreading over the world, with cell phone an drones tracking already going on.
When are we going to open up the countries? Meh... they don't want to say. They don't want to talk about realistic death rates which are 50x lower than what they want the news to keep parroting. A realistic death rate of 0.1-0.3% is not what they want. Then it's just liek the noraml flu, or more severe, and their agenda starts to crumble.
What agenda? Vaccinate everyone. Bringing in the precedent for mandatory vaccines to "protect" everyone. They don't want to admit they made a mistake. Or let people realize this was overblown and the whole lockdown was for nothing, and the distancing was ridiculous, and the isolation was forced when it was only needed for the vulnerable if they chose to do so.
This has never been done: locking down whole countries, large parts of the planet, for something akin to the seasonal flu. A virus that does almost nothing to healthy people. You don't even notice it, or only have minor symptoms.
The government wants to teak everyone, track all the asymptomatic people, test them, keep them away from everyone else. It's "very serious", the government needs to get on top of this, lest another "deadly" outbreak of a flu-like virus threaten the health of only a minor portion of the population who can survive by boosting their immune system. The horror!
Our bodies are so good at dealing with this, that most people don't even feel it.
The reality is that the death rate being like the seasonal flu, means we should be free to go about our lives, but they just want to keep moving goalposts in order to justify a lockdown, or to keep testing and tracking people.
A great post from Off-Guardian talks about 7 steps to totalitarianism. We are on step 5 apparently:
Step 5
About two or three weeks later, the dramatic increase in testing for viral DNA produces the desired goal of a significant upsurge in the number of people found positive for the virus.
Public-health officials add jet fuel to the surge by adding to their case and death tallies the large number of people who are only suspected – and not lab-test-confirmed – to have had an infection. Politicians and public-health officials tell the populace this means they cannot return to their jobs or other activities outside the home for the time being.
Governments work with public-health agencies, academics, industry, the WHO and other organizations to start to design and implement immunity-passport systems for using the results of the widespread antibody testing to determine who can be released from the lock-downs. This is one of many goals of the seven steps.
Meanwhile, government leaders continue to highlight the importance of vaccines for besting the virus.
Since the testing is being stressed as important, how are they gong to keep track of them all? How are others going to know who is "safe". Previously proposed immunity-passports will solve that "problem". Keep watching the unfolding of this agenda. I hope it gets stopped in its tracks, but it looks like it will keep moving forward as most people are still buying the fear-hype panic.
Check out Del Bigtree get into analyzing her response and the implications to test and surveil the whole population:
