Posted on 04/05/2020 5:58:09 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Yes, doctors and nurses deserve our gratitude and applause. – But not just the doctors and nurses who are fighting to save patients with coronavirus at what appears to be several dozen hospitals around the country that are actually somewhat overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases right now. We should also be concerned about the thousands of doctors and nurses who are seeing their salaries cut back, seeing their working hours docked or being outright laid off right now because thousands of hospitals, clinics and medical practices are basically vacant.
Your corrupt news media, in its ongoing zeal to keep the national panic it created going all the way through the November election, continues to focus pretty much all of its “reporting” on a few hospitals in New York City that happen to be operating at full or over-full capacity. But the reality is that, even in the other large cities around the country, there is only one or perhaps two hospital emergency rooms that are seeing real spikes in activity.
Many of our thousands of other medical facilities have seen their businesses destroyed by counterproductive orders for everyone in America to postpone regular doctor’s appointments and elective surgeries while this pandemic endures. The stay-at-home order has also had the effect of dramatically reducing traffic-related accidents, workplace accidents and the spreads of the flu, colds and other viral diseases that in most years keep medical facilities occupied and working with full staff.
Before the Wuhan Virus came along, our society had normalized these kinds of maladies and pathologies as just a part of life in a country with a thriving society and prosperous economy. Now that we have destroyed our nation’s economy to fight a virus that was never going to be as deadly as the seasonal flu, we see that hey, if we all just volunteer to lose or homes and livelihoods, we won’t have so many car wrecks! Isn’t that great?
What this has been is a lesson in risks, rewards and tradeoffs. Our national strategy in addressing every other communicable disease to come along in modern times has been to mitigate the risks as best we can and develop effective ways to treat the sick and help them recover. That was exactly the strategy we deployed in 2009/10 with the H1N1 virus, which infected more than 1.4 BILLION people around the globe. Yet, we have shut down the global economy over the last two months to fight the Wuhan Virus, which remains 1,398,700,000 infections short of that number.
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record on this, but let me remind you one more time that we have invoked this frankly insane strategy based on a statistical model used by Dr. Anthony Fauci that two weeks ago projected as many as 2 million U.S. deaths from Wuhan Virus by September, a week ago projected as many as 240,000, and as of Thursday projected 93,000. If they run that model today, that number will no doubt be dramatically lower still given that the actual observed results on the ground continue to run at less than 40% of what the model has predicted.
Fortunately, President Trump appears to be tiring of allowing Dr. Fauci and his model to destroy the American way of life. On Saturday, he endorsed the idea suggested by Dana Perino of creating a second coronavirus task force that would advise him how to put American back to work as quickly as possible:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Good idea Dana! https://twitter.com/danaperino/status/1246039780644851712 …
Dana Perino ✔ @DanaPerino I think we need a 2nd task force assembled at direction of POTUS to look ahead to reopening of the economy. Made up of a nonpartisan/bipartisan mix of experts across industry sectors, so that we have their recommendations & plan - let 1st taskforce focus on crisis at the moment.
72.8K 12:05 PM - Apr 4, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 22.4K people are talking about this The President also continued to tout the use of hydroxychloroquine to fight the Wuhan Virus, given its proven effectiveness all over the world. Despite Fauci’s ongoing efforts to downplay the use of this safe, effective, cheap and well-known drug that won’t make any of Dr. Fauci’s “Big Pharma” buddies rich, the President announced during yesterday’s Coronavirus Task Force update that the federal government was acquiring an initial 29 million doses of the malaria drug to distribute to the many states that are now requesting it.
All of this signals that the President will soon be making the move to start putting America back to work, and get our economy and society on the road to recovery from this media-induced episode of national panic and insanity. I continue to believe he will start the move in that direction after the end of this coming week.
When that time comes, he will need all of our support more than ever, because you can be sure that the outrage coming from the Democrat/Media Propaganda Complex will be the loudest it has ever been. The last month of national shutdown have been literal nirvana for them.
This is exactly the America envisioned by the Soviet-style “Green New Deal” that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrat Party rolled out last year: Less than zero economic growth; dramatically less car travel; dramatically less air travel; a dead tourism industry; the lights in Las Vegas turned off; Times Square a ghost town; Disney World dead and gone; beaches empty of everything but the seaweed that flows in with the tide; churches shut down on Palm Sunday; and the American people frightened and cowering in their homes as they wait for their tiny government checks to arrive.
If they can just find a way to shut down voices like yours and mine on the Internet, they would have exactly the America they have been working towards for their entire adult lives.
Donald Trump isn’t going to let them consolidate all of this on a permanent basis, and they will all scream like the stuck pigs they really are when he moves in the next couple of weeks to roll it all back.
Be ready.
That is all.
Liberals are using covid19 to get what they want. The CDC is leading the pack.
Economic uphevel has a tendency to cause people to listen to ideas they'd never listen to before. This is really the moment for Bernie or AOC. They'll play into the fear of people, and let's be honest, there is fear out there among those who've lost their jobs, maybe seen their retirement assets dwindle, etc.
What is needed is strong leadership and reason. Trump has both of those. He knows what needs to be done.
Our best moves are the following:
1) Pray. I really hope this nation turns its eyes to God in this crisis. We really need Him.
2) Vote this November. We need to retake the House and hold the Senate and White House.
It's really that simple right now.
The crazy communists HAVE found a way to dampen our voices on you toob, fakebook, google and every msm outlet.
Agreed. And I think within a couple weeks we either have or know when we'll have - which amounts to the same thing for planning to get back - available on a mass scale:
Absolutely.
No cars, no trucks, no travel, especially air travel between continents.
No shopping, no retail other than amazon and online.
No jobs, very basic universal income to keep people in poverty, but alive - for the time being.
A trapped and sequestered world living according to the vision of the UN’s Agenda 21.
Monitored and surveilled by force of law.
Oh...and abortion centers still open. Must reduce that population.
This shutdown is proving too effective in many places in slowing the burn through of the virus and will result in an even longer time to achieve burn through, widely geographically dispersed.
We can’t seem to decide if we want to snuff the virus out or let it burn through. We’re engaged in efforts to do both and will succeed at neither while killing the economy.
The Left has found a dramatically more effective way to advance their agenda. The Climate Change hoax wasn’t working all that well, so their media used a virus to create an environment of fear and hysteria to destroy the economy in just a few weeks and now they’re moving on all fronts to assert their power and control. The longer the economy remains shuttered, the better the odds for them.
“Donald Trump isn’t going to let them consolidate all of this on a permanent basis, and they will all scream like the stuck pigs they really are when he moves in the next couple of weeks to roll it all back.”
Thanks David - right on the money.
Pointedly, when asked why the Federal Government was not forcing all states to fall in line with the economic shut down, the President answered “... because we have a thing called the Constitution”.
We need to remember that ”freedom of the economy”, although perhaps not the typical embodiment of it, is a proxy for Liberty itself.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of self-defense, free enterprise - all freedoms are in jeopardy when any freedoms are in jeopardy.
Make no mistake - shutting down the economy is an attack on Individual Liberty itself. And the fact that it is supposedly being done “for our own safety” should not comfort us - it should sound the alarm!
Our freedoms are ALWAYS restricted ”for our own good”. Whenever our freedoms are threatened, there are always condescending bureaucrats posing as experts explaining why exercising individual freedom “in this case” would be selfish and reckless - a danger to the collective. Those who resist are always regarded as selfish, superstitious, undereducated, and a danger to society.
I suspect that as a society, we need to question some of our social habits - prolific embracing and shaking hands with everyone we meet. Unnecessary touching of knobs, handrails and fixtures. Insufficient hand washing or other hygienic behavior.
Most of all: going to school, work or social events when you know you are sick.
These changes to our social habits should be implemented voluntarily - certainly not by government edict.
I think I can try to suggest why there is the inconsistency which you correctly observe, but I hope no one thinks I am trying to defend any policy or practice.
During sars 1 in 2002-2004 Korea suffered greatly. It is their planning, except for the universal provision of facemasks, that has informed this semi quasi-quarantine.
Analysis revealed that the greatest suffering, and the overwhelming of the hospital system traced to super-spreader events, now called SSE’s. However, you cannot identify those super spreader individuals until it is too late. They are out there now. SSE’s have already been described with COVID-19, which is reasonable as the Virus SARS-CoV-2 itself is a close variant almost identical variant of SARS-CoV.
There is no thought of eradication this time as the primary difference with the new virus is that whereas SARS was not optimized to infect your cells, this new one is. I fear that I cannot suggest that we snuff the virus out, because of the nature of the germ.
Churches...Doctor’s office waiting rooms, and hospital waiting rooms....Large groups in closed spaces...But there were no cases proved of SSE’s in the open air. Here is a link to a COVID-19 SSE in a church:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51609840
My belief is that this virus will not do well in the warm weather. It will plague the southern hemisphere during their winter and it will be back among us, without ever having truly left us, next “flu season”.
Good luck with that! Leftists claim to be non or bi-partisan all the time, but the agenda rules. Regaining power is all that matters to them.
I think Trump wrestles with that too, part of the reason he's pushing as much as possible to the states in terms of decisions about how tight to lock down.
But yep - agreed.
ALL the crazy Dems want to eliminate fossil fuels.
Corect me if I am wrong-—but don’t all those PLASTIC gloves & plastic gowns get made with fossil fuels???
Also-— San Fran has banned the use of ‘reusable’ grocery bags. Cannot even bring them into the stores. Too much bacteria. Now, customers have to PAY for one use plastic bags.
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