Posted on 08/11/2020 7:35:39 AM PDT by Starman417
On June 6th, 1944 over 250,000 American and allied personnel left England and headed to the Normandy to face the Nazis who were entrenched along in giant fortified bunkers all along the French coast. The Nazis had control of virtually all of Europe and Operation Overlord was the Allied attempt to gain a beachhead in northern France from which they could open another front against Germany.
Once the smoke cleared on D-Day, the Allies had suffered approximately 10,000 casualties, 4,400 of which were fatalities. Those numbers are of course staggering for one day, but the truth is, relative to the anticipated casualties, those numbers are quite low. Prior to the invasion General Eisenhower and his staff estimated 13% of the invasion troops might die and 25% of those who landed on the beaches would end up casualties. Together those calculations suggested that during the first 24-hour period nearly 30,000 Allied soldiers and sailors would end up dead and another 24,000 would be wounded.
That’s not what happened… but it could have. And that’s the point. Despite the potential for over 50,000 dead and wounded in one day and for a failure which could have allowed Germany to make its hold on the continent permanent, Ike decided to launch Operation Overlord nonetheless… because it needed to be done. Life with a Europe ruled by Nazis was simply not feasible for the United States and her allies. And so D-Day was launched. And the rest is history.
Today while there it’s not a Nazi storm taking over Europe or America – although BLM and Antifa certainly demonstrate very similar tactics – it’s the neutron bomb of Covid 19 is. Neutron bombs of course are generally intended to leave structures standing while killing people via radiation poisoning. That is exactly what Covid-19 is doing to the American economy. Not the virus itself or course, but rather the shutdowns, quarantines, lockdowns, and other government interventions.
Not that the virus is not killing people. It is. Thus far about 165,000 people in the United States. That is not a small number by any stretch, but in a country of 330 million people in which 2.5 million people die annually, it is far from a catastrophe, although, for the victims and their families, it is no doubt catastrophic. On Friday the government announced that 1.8 new jobs had been created in July and that unemployment dropped to a 10.2% down from almost 14.7% in April – and up from a record low of 3.5% in December. This good news comes despite the fact that the media pillories Republican governors for opening their states while venerating Democrats who seek to keep the country locked up tighter than a drum. Despite what seems to be an economy on the mend, however, the reality is, the only reason the nation is still standing is that the federal government and the FED have pumped close to $10 billion into the economy since March… much of it ending up in the stock and debt markets.
Everywhere you look, hotels, restaurants, gyms, karate classes, airlines, sports teams, convention centers, the number of things that are closed or working at threadbare capacity are extraordinary. But these are only the faces we see. Behind all of these public-facing businesses are millions of small businesses that provide services like, pool maintenance, janitorial services, furniture repair, painting as well as goods like bread, eggs, chairs, exercise equipment, foam fingers, bobble heads and thousands of other things businesses use and need to survive. Those businesses employ millions of people who are today not working.
Sure, companies like Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Campbell’s Soup, Netflix, Amazon, and Clorox are doing fine, but they are a small fraction of the American economy. And there’s the rub. America can’t survive just buying Great Value tomato sauce and Behr paints or cleaning the kitchen with Windex when not arguing on Facebook or watching Netflix and eating Orville Redenbacher Popcorn. Small and medium-sized businesses drive the American economy, representing a majority of the job creation and sustaining tens of millions of employees. The true cost of this disaster – the government shutdowns rather than the virus itself – have yet to be felt, and are likely to be felt for years to come.
The Democrat’s and media’s willingness to use this virus to keep the country closed for the purpose of harming Donald Trump is simply despicable. Unlike the Nazis in 1944, Covid 19 is not an existential threat to the country or the world. Below is a chart from the CDC. It tracks the one-week average death total in the United States going back to July 2018. The funny thing about this chart is that it shows that the number of excess deaths relative to the number of expected deaths is quite small, averaging 14.4% more deaths each week than was expected. Since February 15th the number of excess weekly deaths has averaged 8,000 above the 63,000 average expected.
For a nation with a population of 330 million people, the 165,000 people who have died represent .00005% of the population. To give you an idea of how good a job of misleading the public on the dangers of Covid 19 the media and the Democrats have done, according to a July 15 poll by Publicis Groupe, (page 24) Americans on average think 9% of the population has died from Covid 19… that’s 30 million people! That’s 180 times more than the actual number who have died!
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
It’s funny how the hysterical people act like we don’t have a choice about keeping grandma and grandpa at home, when only 4 percent as per census data households have grandparents and children in the same house.
the other causes of death are experiencing low points as they are being labeled as corona deaths and not due to obesity or diabettis...
or the flu or pneumonia
Well, I was the only attended at a Biden rally, and I clearly heard him say “150 million” dead from the virus.
Credit (or blame) the enemedia for that misconception. What I'd really like to know is how many of the dead would have died anyway, virus or not. And by how much (I estimate a third to a half) they are inflating the statistics for political purposes.
Which tells you a ton about how nuts the nuclear family has become in the US. Grandparents are sent to live in concentration camps/nursing homes/assisted living to die.
The media and their Dimm masters are capitalizing on a tyranny of dunces (low info citizens) that we have been subjected to lately.
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The hysteria may be caused by FDA and NIH and the doctors who are on the take from Big Pharma.....
The entire nation would be far better off if people just quit talking about two things....Covid and Racism.
Biden slammed after wrongly saying ‘we have over 120 million dead from COVID’!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-wrongly-says-we-have-over-120-million-dead-from-covid
“.00005% death rate” ... sounds like a normal flu season to me.
No way.
Plus those who died were wrongly labeled as having died of the chinese virus.
Let me guess, you die from a fentanyl overdose in in hours, or even so little as minutes. Many people die from the overdose before they even reach their cell phones. COVID-19 normally takes days to cause death, so with those two bits of information, which of the two was a more immediate cause of death for George Floyd.
Here in Canada, I just lost a cousin aged 33 to fentanyl over dose. In a small town of 30,000, 7 people died using fentanyl from the same drug dealer in one night, 3 of them in the house where my cousin was found. For me to top causes of death I worry about with my extended family is; drug overdose, heart disease, and of course my children getting run over by a car. COVID is not even on my radar.
Math Police here. 165,000 divided by 330,000,000 is .05% not .00005%
That’s why we need to open the schools ASAP!
Being off by a factor of 1,000 GEEZ who writes this garbage?
Chuckle, Math Police ...Thanks for actually doing the math. The author of this article needs a refresher course in grade school arithmetic.
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