Posted on 03/18/2020 10:55:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
We depend on experts for advice. We always have. This is understandable given our inability to effectively process and disseminate all the information that bombards us. Our minds are not supercomputers with software that sift and rank information in nanoseconds. We cannot psychically communicate our discoveries with the rest of the hive. Instead, we develop a system of experts that focus their efforts on different topics and tell us what they learn through various institutions, such as the media, the church, or the office water cooler.
But what happens when our experts fail? The public health community’s response to COVID-19, aka the “Boomer Flu,” provides a cautionary example. Many have noted COVID’s terrible effectiveness in killing the elderly and infirm. However, what are the responses of our public policy experts? Quarantines, testing, and other proscriptions of minimal effectiveness and mass inconvenience
For example, the focus on testing is farcical. Granted, testing information is useful, particularly in developing programs for the next pandemic. However, what’s the benefit from testing for treatment of the pandemic? If I have a cold, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. If I have the flu, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. If I have any contagious disease, my doctor tells me to self-quarantine. Whether I have a confirmed or suspected case of the Boomer Flu, my doctor will tell me to self-quarantine. Healthcare professionals can still record information about suspected COVID-19 cases. When tests become available, the suspected cases can return for testing or someone could visit the suspect and conduct the tests. The focus on testing is a waste of time, and wasted time is something we can’t afford.
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Was walking by some teens in the grocery store yesterday and overheard them referring to it as “Boomer Remover”.
Rude, but teens being teens.
“aka the “Boomer Flu”
First time I have heard that. Low intelligent individuals like this writer must take that “boomer” thing seriously.
I thought it was the Chines flue.
Testing, and generating real analysis of the infectivity and recovery rates, is integral to calming the panic being fomented by the media. The misinformation in play can only be countered by real information.
Morons
Remove the Boomer generation now and the rest of you will be living in caves, eating worms in less than 25 yrs.
"KUNG FLU."
Is the headline asking whether a whole lot of public health bureaucrats heads will roll after this?
Tell them it might affect their balls. That will change their tune.
No swimmers, lower T.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1182389.shtml
Boomers might hoard TP but at least we know which bathroom to use.
Even though they are morons they have enuf sense to see the HUGH DEBT being strapped to them while Boomers live out their September years in compartive Opulence.
Its gonna suck to be them in 25 years I guess.
“Boomer Flu” ?
REALLY??
This is the Left/socialist/progressive latest attempt to deflect, redirect actual source WUHAN virus.
Boomers also know about chromosomes, and they dont lie.
NETHERLANDS
In the Netherlands, more than half of the people in intensive care with Covid-19 are aged under 50, IC association chairman tells
@ADnl
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The family of a 16-year-old boy in intensive care has asked the Netherlands to “Wake up and take this virus seriously.”
https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-coronapatienten-op-intensive-cares-meer-dan-de-helft-is-onder-de-vijftig~a058aad2/?referrer=https://t.co/1joc6basR8?amp=1
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FRANCE
Jérôme Salomon, Director of Health:
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Young people are also affected
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According to Jérôme Salomon, “we often have young people, half of the people in ICU are under 65. Just over 10% of deaths are under the age of 65. But there are few cases among minors. From the age of 25, 30 year old, there are increasingly severe forms and no underlying pathology.”
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Belgian doctor says young coronavirus patients also getting ‘severely ill’
An emergency doctor treating patients of the coronavirus epidemic said several young people who had been hospitalised were getting “severely ill” despite having no underlying conditions.
Doctor Ignace Demeyer, who works at a hospital in Aalst said that that lung scans from young people admitted into the emergency ward were “nothing short of terrifying.”
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/100824/belgian-doctor-says-young-coronavirus-patients-are-also-getting-severely-ill/
News is starting to come out about an “L” strain that is hitting the teen to 40’s groups. Indeed, that might be one of the things no one’s mentioning, the big secret we think governments haven’t wanted to let out....that it is hitting younger folks harder than expected. The teens may end up eating “covid” crow.
Thanks for that anecdote.
There’s something seriously wrong with today’s youth. I made my share of dumb mistakes when I was in my teens and 20s, but I never was so stuck on myself that I automatically tuned out the older generation. In fact, I would say I got along better with my elders then I did with my own generation — and I don’t regret that one bit.
Thank God I never had any kids of my own. I’m a lifelong bachelor of 62 years, not entirely by choice, just incredibly bad luck with women exacerbated no doubt by my rather reserved and scholarly personality.
But when you witness all the craziness of today’s feminists and the young “woke” SJWs — well, being alone doesn’t seem like such a bad thing after all.
When people whose job it is to see patients every day, day in and day out, tell us that we need to be concerned about what they are seeing maybe we should listen.
I looked up the difference, and here’s what an article said:
“The fact that the L-type is more prevalent suggests that it is “more aggressive” than the S-type, the team say.”
The more aggressive one is affecting the younger group??
These 'teens' and millenials cheering boomer removal had to live withou their grandparents money gifts and remove the one generation they bum money from, then they will feel the pinch.
Plus for the ones banking on getting a free house when grandma and pa get the 'kung flu'. Can you say 'probate' ?
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