Posted on 03/27/2020 5:00:58 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
All of the posts hyping this thing are being posted by those criticizing the hype of this thing.
If you don’t like the hype, panic, hysteria....stop posting the articles. This story does nothing but regurgitate information already out there.
In times when Americans had better judgment, one would not have been able to steal their very livelihood by a campaign of media lies. Financial panics happened among those with money to worry about, but the bedrock of common sense always stood firm.
This sorry Fake Virus panic revealed a serious failure of that bedrock. We are weak. We are driven by emotions, not common sense. The next generation is not grounded enough to defend the freedom of the individual.
The test: Every mayor and governor who has acted as a despot in taking away our guaranteed freedoms should be thrown out of office. There is no excuse for their rescinding their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
They desperately don't want to cover Trump, but if they do many will go under. It's a Catch-22 for the Dem Media.
It's all about money to stay alive.
You can do your part by not clicking on any Dem Media Ad or Website. If you are watching TV and see a company Ad supporting the Dem Media (CNN, ABC, CBS, etc.)- call and tell them you won't be buying from them as long as they do (especially automobile advertisements).
After November, the Dem Media is in real trouble as he won't need them any more. Many will go belly up and deservedly so! So do your part through this election and starve the Rabid Beast Dem Media.
The PANdemIC of 2020.
The left isn’t letting a good crisis go to waste. In fact, they’re helping to foment the crisis and over-reaction to the basic situation.
Except there were very few caveats with the original hysterical model guided estimation. The media and these so called experts need to be held accountable for their actions. They use fictitious numbers for political purposes (ie anthropogenic climate change), it massively affects peoples lives, and they have zero accountability. It’s social terrorism plain and simple.
I seriously do not see anything encouraging about the numbers at all.
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Nor do I. See my Post #16 above. People should look at the data and draw their own conclusions about what that data is telling us.
I’ll go one step further and say we should admit we overreacted, and go back to our jobs and our normal activities, with a few changes:
Working or attending classes remotely from home, is great if possible.
Stop traditional physical greetings - handshakes, embraces, etc..
Avoid touching things unnecessarily - doorknobs, handrails, fixtures, etc..
Wash hands frequently.
Stay home when you are sick! Keep your kids home when they are sick!
Most important of all:
As we learn more about this virus - how contagious it is, how many people get seriously sick, the true mortality rate - take care to distinguish between what is known and what is unknown - between what is true and not true. What is fact and what is conjecture.
If this virus turns out to be far less deadly than the seasonal flu, then we will have needlessly destroyed tens of millions of jobs and families. Many people argued this point and were mocked and dismissed as “flubros”. That was wrong - we should have been able to have that conversation. The “flubros” may well turn out to have been right.
The bottom line is that sober risk assessment is every bit as important as a robust medical response. Yes, we can destroy lives by under-reacting, but we can also destroy lives by overreacting. We shouldn’t make one mistake to avoid another mistake.
Or as President Trump has been saying, we can’t let the cure be worse than the disease.
Isn’t COVID-19 the Chinese Virus?
Isn’t COVID-19 the Chinese Virus?
The mortality rate so far is 24,863 deaths out of 549,604 cases, or 4.52% (data current as of 8:28 AM EDT). This is higher than even the 1917-1919 H1N1 pandemic that killed 50 million people. With 397,210 active cases and a time to death of 2-8 weeks after infection, there is a lot of room for the death rate to increase. Additionally, there is reason to believe that this virus is comparable to the common cold in transmissibility, since it is, in fact, a killer cold virus. Since, in general, the more deadly a virus is, the less communicable it is, the Covid-19 occupies what I call a "sweet spot" for viruses, in that its mortality rate is low enough to not significantly affect its transmission, but high enough to cause millions of deaths.
There are a lot of hallmarks about this virus that have government public health officials alarmed. The purpose of public health is to prevent the worst case scenario; this is why the measures are in place to limit social interaction. If we become complacent now, millions of lives are at risk.
I should add that the suppositions about high numbers of asymptomatic cases are not based on any scientific measure. They are pure conjecture, models based on assumptions that themselves have no scientific evidentiary basis.
“I should add that the suppositions about high numbers of asymptomatic cases are not based on any scientific measure. They are pure conjecture, models based on assumptions that themselves have no scientific evidentiary basis.”
Duh. Of course there is no scientific measure to support the unreported cases. They are unreported. It is amazing that I even have to say that.
No matter how often you repeat it, your 4.52% mortality rate is complete bullshit - the denominator is grossly understated.
And if you believe the denominator is NOT understated - then show me your scientific evidentiary basis for arriving at that conclusion.
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