Peruvians Predicted to Encounter Hard Times
Global lowest expression of virum-management genes....let's see what happens.
EDIT January 13, 2022: Added this chart of data about confirmed Peruvian cases since OP October 01, 2021. It is unclear whether the death rates will be similarly mild as seen throughout the rest of the world. Their genetics do not support a robust viral immunity. I feel bad for the Peruvians. They didn’t ask for this, China. Fauci and Daszak and Baric ought to be ashamed.
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Over the course of the global infectious sweep, Peru saw a quite high CFR (case fatality rate) of 9.15%. It remains to be shown whether aggregate deficiency of Peruvian virum management gene expression is foremost to blame. Discussing such genetic predispositions invariably leads to thoughts of genetic determinism. This leads to feelings of dread, and the entire human race seems very uncomfortable with the notion that in some situations, one must take their natural lumps without recourse. Sometimes those lumps include death. We wish the best for the defenseless Peruvians who were attacked, unprovoked, by the Chinese.
If 1-in-11 Americans (~30 million, 9.15%) had died upon infection, I think we would be looking at an entirely different level of action by the citizenry and government. And I am not just considering the lockdown posture of 50 totalitarians-in-waiting that Americans call “Governors” but rather, what a pre-COVID America would have done to the birthplace of such a virum. At that CFR, it would not be a stretch to call the virum a “bioweapon” instead of just a “prototype-bioweapon.” It would not be a stretch to imagine responding strongly to such a first strike, provided that the military would act on legal orders, something which now seems not perfectly assured.
Instead we now see limp headlines like “‘Covid Killed 47 Out Of Every 100,000 People’ in ‘Counties Where Trump Got over 70 Percent of the Vote’” and this is supposed to induce awe or shock or disgust….or something. But why did that factoid make you yawn, Markov? Answer: I know the basic annual pre-COVID H1N1 figures. I know what drunk driving does. We were promised “over 2 million dead” by end of 2020 by a notoriously wrong prognosticator of MANY sciencey things. But alas as of this writing at the 2 year anniversary of the “industrial accident” in Wuhan, only 710,000 dead Americans may be chalked up to the Rona, even as overstated as these numbers are. I cannot help but feel that the Chinese leadership had perhaps hoped for something different.
UPDATE October 21, 2021: Maybe Peruvians are out of the woods as Rona seasonality ends for them and the deeply susceptible are retired.