So if our friend thinks its a hoax
I don't believe he thinks the virus itself is a hoax, since it is a virus.
However, this viral pandemic is being used as a hoax to put fear and panic into the hearts and minds of the Western nations (primarily).
The death rate for coronavirus is turning out to be no different than that of flu. And while the flu death rate was generally ignored (year after year), this death rate was manipulated to TAKE CONTROL and to INFRINGE ON LIBERTIES while destroying economies. And the attacks on Christians and churches has even come to the attention of the Justice Department.
1. The so-called experts (hacks) started out with predicting millions of deaths, which have turned out to be thousands, and in realty even less, because
the numbers are being deliberately fudged at the behest of CDC hacks. Many called for the firing of Fauci and Birx, but Trump failed to follow through (which is very surprising).
2. The death rates should rightly be related to the corresponding populations, so for the USA for example, the death rate is miniscule.
Even as a percentage related to confirmed cases, it is comparable to flu.
3. The field hospital in Seattle was dismantled without any patients ever going there, and the Navy hospital ships sent to New York and Los Angeles sat virtually idle. So much for mass hospitalizations.
4. Governor Cuomo of New York state made a hue and cry about lack of ventilators and then proclaimed that he did not need any more of those *creatures*. Other governors politicized the pandemic and tried to manipulate the narrative to blame Trump and mock at the anti-malarial/antibiotic treatments, instead of blaming the evil Democrats who forced America to watch their kangaroo courts and sham Impeachment Hoax at the very moment when the virus started coming out of China.
5. Furthermore, the ventilators themselves were found to be exacerbating health issues for patients, instead of relieving them, while it became evident that masks could not prevent infections.
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There were no deaths in a huge number of states for a very long time (if you discount California, New York, Texas, and Florida). Had interstate travel been totally banned from the get-go, chances are those states would have had minimal or no infections and zero deaths.