Ilondel sez:--"Covid appeared to be killing one in 500 of those it infected when it started,"---:, but based on what criteria?
At the onset of the plandemic, there was panic and inexperience and an incentive to guvvments to artificially inflate the fatality figures as part of the psy-ops against the population.
The survival figures for whichever 'flu variant was killing people is of the order of the high end of 99.9*% and has remained at that level apart from the elderly who were snuffed out by some immoral and murderous methods disguised as "treatment".
*insert your own decimal fraction as you see fit.
I don't know whence you got your 1/500 figure but I suspect it was from the heady days when we knew a lot less than we do now.
Have we all conveniently forgotten most of these fatality stats were based on the infamous "Gold Standard" PCR 'test' which never had a gold standard and I doubt if any here, including me, were told how many cycles their particular test had been run through?
Elsewhwere in O-N I have posted the magnification factors based on cycles and I thought that specific HARD data would be enough to bury that particular myth of PCR reliability.
Many months ago the CDC in the US dumped the current versions of PCR having finally admitted they were crap and unreliable, especially with the percentage of false positives rising with the Ct levels.
So please let's not wave such IFR figures as their basis has been totally discredited by now and always were under suspicion by those with a modicum of critical thinking and scepticism.
P C R = Probable Crap Result...
P S. The reward/bounty for the pure isolated analysed confirmed identified C19 specimen has still not been claimed by any public health laboratory but such is the success of the Project Fear Mk1 folks are still worrying about the 'killer virus' stalking the land and attacking unmasked victims...
Curiously these 2 efforts from this prestigious institution result in "failed to open page";
"10 Nov 2021When limited to first-time study of target patients, the virus could be isolated in 98 of the 299 specimens with a positive rate of 32.8%. Fig. 1 The rate of virus isolation and number of days since the collection date of the first PCR positivity. All the specimens of suspected COVID-19 were tested for virus isolation in VeroE6/TMPRSS2 cells."
and;
"Viral isolation analysis of SARS-CoV-2 from clinical specimens of COVID-19 patients J Infect Chemother. 2022 Feb;28 ... (Ct) value obtained from the rRT-PCR test and virus isolation in cultured cells, using 533 consecutive clinical specimens of COVID-19 patients. The virus was isolated from specimens with a Ct value of less than 30 cycles, and ..."
This is the institution which has pulled these attempts;
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov