To understand the fibs and elisions Team Apocalypse is now using in its rearguard action to keep lockdowns alive, I want to run through this much retweeted thread from a (very liberal) physician who has aggressively fought against ending lockdowns... https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1264589288659922945
For example, on April 15, she tweeted that ending them would cause #SarsCov2 to spread “to an extent that will make our current infection & death rate laughable.” Obviously, what’s happened in Georgia and much of Europe make that statement ridiculous. So what’s her argument now?
While the hysterics on Team Apocalypse still scream "WAIT TWO WEEKS," the more sophisticated now have a different argument: "There's so much we don't know" (and thus, implicitly, we can't take any chances).

Except: four months into this epidemic, there's so much we do know...
Dr. Ranney writes we don't know the infection fatality rate, but @CDCgov pegged it this week at about 0.25% - about 1 in 400 people. (A reasonable range is 0.15% to 0.4%.)

Arguably even more importantly, we know exactly WHO dies from #sarscov2, a fact Dr. Ranney never mentions.
Deaths are stratified by age in a way the media and health authorities STILL won't make clear; people over 80 account for more than half the deaths worldwide and have a risk of death that is 100x or more as high as those under 50. People under 40 have almost no risk from #COVID.
To fail to discuss this reality is to elide the most basic truth about #SARSCoV2 - it is less dangerous than the flu for young people and probably no more dangerous for the middle-aged...
You can follow @AlexBerenson.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: