The American Public's "Knowledge" of COVID-19 Deaths is Wrong by More Than 22,000%!
August 6, 2020 11:19pm
According to a poll conducted by Kekst CNC between July 10th and July 15th, which was published on July 27th, the typical American is so uninformed or misinformed that they believed 20% of the U.S. population had been infected with COVID-19 and that 9% of the population had died!
The reality is that nowhere near 20% of the U.S. population has been infected and nowhere near 9% has died. When the survey was taken, the actual infection percentage was 1.05%, which means the people thought there were nineteen times more infections than there actually were!
And the perceived death count was so far off that it would be laughable if that ignorance didn't actually affect policy decisions. Nowhere near 9% of the U.S. population has died. Nowhere near 9% of the U.S. population has even gotten sick with the Coronavirus. When the survey was taken, the actual percentage of Americans who had died with COVID-19 was 0.04%. People's beliefs were off from reality by more than 22,000%!
To put it another way, on July 15th, the typical American thought we had 66.4 million Coronavirus cases in the U.S. We really had 3.4 million. And they thought we had 29.8 million deaths. We really had 137,357. The American public's perception is not just inaccurate, it's delusional. It's not even close to what the truth is.
Despite Americans being so ignorant of the facts, the poll showed that Americans weren't the only people who thought this illness is far worse than it really is. People in other countries surveyed also thought their infection rates and death rates were far higher than what was really happening. But the people in the United States believed we had the highest death rate as a percentage of our population than any other country. Why is that? Because in the United States, the activists posing as journalists in the so-called "news" media have spewed so much misinformation, dishonest propaganda, and fake news that most Americans don't have a clue what the truth is.
Ronald Reagan described it nicely when he said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." And long before that, Mark Twain said, "If you do not read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed."
Contrary to what the dumb masses (read those two words together quickly) believe, the COVID-19 situation in America is NOT a crisis that justifies shutting down our economy and closing our schools in a futile effort to combat it. And it never was.
The Coronavirus is a real virus. But the reaction to it has been politicized since the very beginning. It has been weaponized as a club with which to attack President Trump, and it will remain so until election day despite the truth being that the facts don't justify it.
As the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts." And there is a saying in computer science; "Garbage In, Garbage Out." Well, that applies to politics as well. When people believe garbage, they vote for garbage. The problem is the entire country has to live with the results of what the majority votes for even when the majority doesn't have a clue what they're basing their votes upon. It's disgraceful. And dangerous. It is also deliberate. The Democrats and the media - but I repeat myself - are intentionally deceiving the public in an effort to take down the President of the United States. Don’t believe their lies.
Read those Kekst CNC poll results yourself. They are viewable online at https://www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/kekstcnc_research_covid-19_opinion_tracker_wave-4.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3HgPih2KPCdE8RUWogxBrn_yEMrNqDXdG16GYQPTj73Vkh23Jtb-tLH8U