Posted on 04/07/2020 11:38:17 AM PDT by Swordmaker
It struck me today that what is completely different about what we are currently doing with the COVOD19 Virus is completely different from all other diseases of the past.
In the past when a pandemic occurred in history, health authorities in the past quarantined the SICK who threatened the healthy population.
That is not what we are doing today. Turning aside from what worked in the past, sequestering the ill and sick in their homes, providing the needs in a safe manner, our authorities, or at least the progressive versions of authorities that masquerade as our Health Authorities and experts, are forcing the quarantine of the HEALTHY people in our societies!!! The progressive media and politicians pile on people who dare to suggest anything less than what is being done that imposes less than the most severe shut down of normal commerce. People are threatened with fines and arrest for daring to stray from their cells, er, homes.
They are insisting that those who are HEALTHY must sequester themselves from anyone who may potentially be infected rather than the other way around. It is the majority who must cater to the minority, the actually ill, the ones who are the actually sick. The MOST we should be doing is protecting those most at risk.
The stage was set with political correct speech. The majority was required to kowtow to the sensibilities of a minuscule minority lest their feelings may get hurt by the majority using majority accepted pronouns be used in addressing them instead of their self-selected, but in-obvious choices of gender optional desires.
Now, it is the vast majority of healthy persons who are being required to sacrifice their freedom and economic well being by being forced into quarantine due to our politically correct unwillingness to temporarily sequester those who may be coming from area where there is a potential viral infestation. What makes that sensible?
At the extreme, we are requiring “essential” workers to remain at their jobs, receiving no more than what they normally would receive in recompense, while the rest of us benefit from extended vacations and receive a government stipend, while they “slave” to support us. In worst cases, some government “masters” are speaking of the “enforced” enlistment of medical workers to staff hospitals for those who are sick. . . and are sending out the National Guard to seize medical equipment from one part of their state’s population to benefit another.
The world has been turned topsy-turvy!
Because they can.
The ACLU fought a nurse’s quarantine, because she was only exposed to ebola. They said it was a violation of her rights to force her to spend weeks at home. The settlement was that she’d self-monitor and withdraw if symptomatic.
If it was unfair to limit ONE person who was not outwardly ill, it is unfair to quarantine MILLIONS who are not ill and unlikely to become so.
They don’t want to catch it.
Thank Christ people are finally cominground to how i viewed this weeks ago.
The corruptocrats seek money and power
Because the communists in the populace and even here at Free Republic demand it.
And let us be honest.
Nobody else ever has and nobody else is right now.
A lot of office workers I know who live in other boroughs and work in Manhattan Are Not Crying about working from home and rolling right out of bed and to work :)
Between that and free money and the promise of more free money I fear too many in the country will be rooting for it to last longer.
It gives 'em more time to write vanities and blogs.
This will facilitate the more rapid downfall of society.
It's a plot, probably by David Lee Rothschildren.
So they don’t pass their health on to the sick.
Spanish Flu, bro. Look it up.
One problem with this virus is that it’s believed that about 25% of those infected don’t display symptoms (or their symptoms are so mild they’re barely noticed), and think they’re healthy. That’s the reason for the new suggestion that everyone needs to wear a mask. Until there’s an at home test that everyone can use daily, there’s no way to tell who is truly ‘healthy’ and who isn’t.
Not exactly. Thy're insisting that everyone sequester themselves because they can't easily tell who's healthy and who isn't. Asymptomatic people can and have spread the disease.
If, and hopefully when, we can test and clear people your point will be appropriate.
The other problem is since we can't yet identify the carriers, if you, as a healthy person, go out and mingle you're likely to encounter one of them.
There’s a lot of hate being sprayed out there as well.
Because there are asymptomatic carriers of the virus and so kill the virus off be lessening the number of hosts for the virus? I’m in the early geriatric population, although a healthy one with no comorbidities, and I sure as hell don’t want to contract it from an asymptomatic carrier in the push button self-checkout line.
In fact, those who recover from the virus can wander around with immunity knowing they’ve already had the virus. Watch for when that phase gets going.
The problem is: we largely don’t know who’s “sick”.
People can contract & spread the disease long before symptoms emerge (if at all). Quarantining only the “sick” would require frequent & pervasive testing of pretty much everyone, identifying & isolating asymptomatic carriers; that’s great if you can, but practically we can’t (not enough sufficiently reliable tests available early enough in this mess). The risk was it would very rapidly spread thru society unnoticed, THEN see 1-3% casualties in its wake.
If we did only quarantine the sick, you’re relying on people getting symptomatic enough to get tested, which is long after they’ve spread it to many people close to them.
no emergency was declared. Once they declare an emergency, it changes everything.
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