Posted on 07/27/2020 4:54:48 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
As the CV deaths climb more people are claiming it is not just the flu. Below is an older article but it is still less of an impact than previous several flush seasons in the past 70 years.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-does-covid-19-compare-past-pandemics
The Spanish flu is much worse than any subsequent pandemic because it actually killed young people and had a legitimate affect on the economy and demographics. The number of people functioning in the economy who have been killed by Corona is very low. The Coronavirus economic crisis is, unlike with the Spanish flu, a manufactured one.
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Medical authoritarianism seems to be the preferred method to dismantle the freedoms in the constitution. Look for the tyranny to grow as politicians decide their view of the common good is more important the principles of freedom laid out in the constitution.
I could actually tolerate some tyranny at the state level. I know, as did the founders, that federalism would drive states to adopt correct policies over time as people would vote with their feet and move. In a federalist system idiotic medical tyranny would have a much harder time surviving very long. But when the tyranny comes from the Federal government, instead of the state government, it is much more difficult to remove.
As the CV deaths climb more people are claiming it is not just the flu. Below is an older article but it is still less of an impact than previous several flush seasons in the past 70 years.
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/how-does-covid-19-compare-past-pandemics
The Spanish flu is much worse than any subsequent pandemic because it actually killed young people and had a legitimate affect on the economy and demographics. The number of people functioning in the economy who have been killed by Corona is very low. The Coronavirus economic crisis is, unlike with the Spanish flu, a manufactured one.
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Medical authoritarianism seems to be the preferred method to dismantle the freedoms in the constitution. Look for the tyranny to grow as politicians decide their view of the common good is more important the principles of freedom laid out in the constitution.
I could actually tolerate some tyranny at the state level. I know, as did the founders, that federalism would drive states to adopt correct policies over time as people would vote with their feet and move. In a federalist system idiotic medical tyranny would have a much harder time surviving very long. But when the tyranny comes from the Federal government, instead of the state government, it is much more difficult to remove.
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Regarding tyranny:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
That is exactly right. I think the key is not that the politician actually intends to be benevolent it is that he knowingly can make his tyranny appear benevolent.
I love that quote, so true.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
H. L. Mencken
This quote seems more applicable than the CS Lewis quote.
I think whatever this is has been greatly exaggerated for political reasons. Yet Trump keeps on winning, as Democrat cities burn to the ground.
Another Mencken quote from 1918:
“Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
“The hospitals are paid extra for COVID-19 patients, so naturally, some hospitals will fake 1000s of cases,”
And, according to “Jane Doe”, a caller to Rush who is a Medical Coder, they are INSTRUCTED to code non-Covid patients and/or deaths as Covid to bring in the money. She was in Texas, but said that this is industry-wide throughout the country. All hush-hush.
And look how much money will be gained in NYS by Cuomo killing off thousands of the elderly, which end their Medicaid payments.
WuFlu has been a real money maker for some organizations and people.
I like the hoist the black flag and slit throats one.
Definitely applies today.
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Mask mandates are NOT temporary...they intend for you to wear the masks 'until there is a vaccine'.
...not to mention Medicare AND Social Security at the Federal level...KA-CHING!
Enjoy your mask...it is part of your 'new normal wardrobe'.
“Enjoy your mask...it is part of your ‘new normal wardrobe’.”
Thanks (not!) for reminding me. I have to wear one for 50 minutes this afternoon. While exercising. Can’t breathe. Arrrrgh... I’m melting.
From the Silver Lining Department: temps will be drifting down to around 80 by the end of the week...some ‘short term’ relief.
I live in a county of 230,000 people. I only know of two friends of a friend who have had it and they were asymptomatic. The Spanish flu, this ain’t.
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