Posted on 05/12/2020 8:29:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Something doesn’t smell right. The number of newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. each day has been declining, as has the number of deaths. This is great news, and we should be hoping that the falling numbers are a sign that the pandemic is beginning to subside. But the mainstream media has been relentlessly pumping out stories that warn of “disaster” if the lockdowns are lifted “too soon”. According to the mainstream media, by “ignoring science” we are inviting a “second wave” which will be even deadlier than the first one. And it is certainly true that as we end the lockdowns more people will get exposed to COVID-19, but right now I do not know of a single hospital in the entire country that is currently being overwhelmed by this pandemic. As long as our hospitals can handle it, there is no reason to continue the lockdowns.
But the mainstream media seems desperate to keep the lockdowns going, and so they keep telling us that we are “inviting disaster” by ending them. For example, the following comes from a New York Times article that was just published entitled “As States Rush to Reopen, Scientists Fear a Coronavirus Comeback”…
Millions of working people and small-business owners who cannot earn money while sheltering at home are facing economic ruin. So dozens of states, seeking to ease the pain, are coming out of lockdown.
Most have not met even minimal criteria for doing so safely, and some are reopening even as coronavirus cases rise, inviting disaster. The much-feared “second wave” of infection may not wait until fall, many scientists say, and instead may become a storm of wavelets breaking unpredictably across the country.
And this is how that article ended…
Having 50 states and more territories do competing and uncoordinated experiments in reopening is “daring Mother Nature to kill you or someone you love,” Dr. Frieden said. “Mother Nature bats last, and she bats a thousand.”
That sounds quite ominous.
Without a doubt, most Americans certainly do not want to see a loved one die after catching COVID-19.
But of course the truth is that a lot more people are going to get sick and a lot more people are going to die whether we have the lockdowns or not. The lockdowns can help to “flatten the curve”, but they won’t alter the final numbers from this pandemic by that much.
Initially, we were told that the goal of the lockdowns was to keep our healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, and we should stick to that.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media just won’t turn the hype machine off, and they seem willing to twist facts if that is what is necessary.
Just look at what NBC News is reporting. According to an article that they just posted, “infection rates are spiking to new highs” in many areas of the nation…
Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.
The data contained in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with the president’s declaration Monday, May 11, 2020, that “all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly.”
No, infection rates are not spiking. Just go to worldometers.info and check for yourself.
Yes, the numbers are still high, but they are a lot lower than they were. So it appears that President Trump is correct in this case and NBC News is wrong.
So why is the mainstream media doing this?
Could it be possible that they are trying to hurt President Trump politically? Without a doubt, Trump’s poll numbers have suffered during the lockdowns, and if the U.S. economy does not bounce back by November it is certainly going to be tough for him to win.
And at this point the mainstream media is not even trying to hide how much they hate Trump. For many of them, getting rid of Trump is priority number one, and they will exploit any angle that they can to try to make that happen.
But political considerations should not be governing how we approach this crisis.
Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize that if we would have just used basic common sense that we would have never needed lockdowns in the first place.
According to a new study that was just released, none of the lockdowns would have been necessary if at least 80 percent of Americans were willing to wear masks…
For nearly three months, we’ve been urging people to wear masks to help stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a new study and online simulation tool shows that America could end the lockdowns and beat the coronavirus in a matter of weeks if just 80% of people wore masks in public.
Yes, it’s that simple: Wear a mask and you beat the virus.
Of course at the beginning of this crisis the CDC specifically instructed the American people not to wear masks, and it took them weeks to finally reverse course.
But other nations that used basic common sense have fared so much better than us. The following comes from Vanity Fair…
The day before yesterday, 21 people died of COVID-19 in Japan. In the United States, 2,129 died. Comparing overall death rates for the two countries offers an even starker point of comparison with total U.S. deaths now at a staggering 76,032 and Japan’s fatalities at 577. Japan’s population is about 38% of the U.S., but even adjusting for population, the Japanese death rate is a mere 2% of America’s.
This comes despite Japan having no lockdown, still-active subways, and many businesses that have remained open—reportedly including karaoke bars, although Japanese citizens and industries are practicing social distancing where they can. Nor have the Japanese broadly embraced contact tracing, a practice by which health authorities identify someone who has been infected and then attempt to identify everyone that person might have interacted with—and potentially infected. So how does Japan do it?
It is actually very simple how the Japanese were able to accomplish this.
Virtually everyone in the entire country is wearing a mask when they go out in public.
Yes, it is just that simple.
In addition, a number of studies have found that mortality rates are much, much lower for those that have a sufficient level of Vitamin D in their systems. Natural News just posted an article about one of these studies…
It was when the researchers closely looked at data from patients hailing from countries with high COVID-19 mortality rates, namely Italy, Spain and the UK, that they observed a common denominator: they had generally lower levels of vitamin D compared to patients from countries that had significantly lower mortality rates.
In addition, after further examination of the patients’ data, the researchers found a link between low vitamin D levels and “cytokine storms,” a hyper-inflammatory condition caused by an overactive immune system.
Ultimately, we could have avoided so much pain and suffering if everyone had just been willing to wear masks and if everyone had been taking plenty of Vitamin D.
But instead of focusing on these basic common sense solutions, the mainstream media continues to push the fear button, and now Congress is considering a bill which would spend 100 billion dollars “to create an army of contact tracers”…
Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush has introduced the H.R. 6666 TRACE Act, which includes a $100 billion grant program which would authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create an army of contact tracers operating through healthcare, schools and nonprofit entities, who would perform COVID-19 diagnostic testing “through mobile health units and, as necessary, at individuals’ residences, and for other purposes.”
Things like this make you want to tear your hair out.
We don’t need an army of “contract tracers”.
All we need is a little bit of common sense.
Sadly, those in positions of power always seem quite eager to take advantage of any crisis that comes along.
We have seen so many examples of tyranny during this pandemic, and this has especially been true in California. The following comes from an article by Ron Paul…
A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two hours for the “privilege” of willingly spending their money in a business happy to serve them breakfast on Mother’s Day. This freedom of voluntary transaction is the core of what we used to call our free society. But in an America paralyzed by fear – ramped up by a mainstream media that churns out propaganda at a level unparalleled in history – no one is allowed to enjoy themselves.
Thankfully everyone carries a smartphone these days and can record and upload the frequent violations of our Constitutional liberties. In the case of the waffle restaurant, thanks to a cell phone video we saw the police show up in force and try to push through the crowd waiting outside. An elderly man who was next in line to enter was indignant, complaining that he had been waiting two hours to eat at the restaurant and was not about to step aside while the police shut down the place. The police proceeded to violently handcuff and arrest the man, dragging him off while his wife followed sadly behind him to the police car.
We cannot allow them to use this crisis to take away our essential freedoms and liberties.
Yes, more people are going to get sick and more people are going to die before this pandemic is over.
But if we allow our freedoms and liberties to be stripped away in the process, we may find that it will be exceedingly difficult to ever get them back.
Unfortunately, the mainstream media is likely to continue to needlessly exaggerate the threat of COVID-19 for the foreseeable future, and that will almost certainly result in more bad decisions from our policy makers.
Liz Peek explained that in an article I posted...was it yesterday?
“Wild guess.” To harm President Trump’s re-election prospects.
I’ll take Election Year Politics for $100, Alex.
Easy explanation.
One word.
Orangemanbad.
Good! You see it too! The media and the left, but I repeat myself, want the misery to continue. Whatever it takes to get rid of Trump! Plus, they love it when the government exerts unreasonable power over the public. The face mask is a symbol of submission to authority, much as the Islamic face covering is a symbol of submission to the male.
Not so wild!
The very last thing the DEMOCRATS want is to see the country’s economy recover as strong as it was BEFORE the virus panic erupted and shut it down.
A TRUMP economy is the nightmare that keeps his haters up at night.
Recording violations of our Constitutional liberties is not enough. The tin pot dictators and their jackbooted enforcers don’t care. The tyrants need to start taking casualties and the people need to rise up and throw them off or they will soon have no freedoms at all.
six months until the election
if we reach herd immunity in say three months - we will be talking about the bounce-back economy come election day
Dems want us to still be talking about what we are talking about today
The lockdowns are going to produce more mail-in paper ballots. This is what the CDs (Communist Democrats) want. Easier to control the vote count.
Is this article necessary? really what do you think the overwhelming answer is?
Because they act as proxies for those powerful forces who are working hard to overthrow Western Civilization. Nigel Farage has been defying the lockdown to film boat loads of migrants being brought into England every night. Trump was right when he said this is an invasion.
The answer is simple. People have elevated these idiots to the top of the food chain. Now the idiots think that they have the right to tell those same people how to live their lives. Meanwhile, the idiots continue to live large.
IMO the mail in vote thing will never get off the ground..at least in this election cycle. Just not enough time to set it up. Wouldn’t surprise me at all though if certain liberal states go rogue and try it anyway.
We all know why - saving lives has NOTHING to do with it. It’s all about (1) destroying Trump and (2) using the virus as an excuse for radical social change, radical infringement of rights, and massive social monitoring of behavior and ideas.
In a true natural disaster (or even a man-made one), you would think that people would set aside politics and want what's best for the country. from Day One, Democrats and those on the Left have been too concerted in their blame of President Trump.
It's simply too convenient that this pandemic could've happened on its own, while at the same time, a wave of criticism and smear be launched at the President...all at the beginning of an Election Year. The Left sure loves its Hollywood scripts.
Because they’re getting paychecks (and you’re not).
Bump
Silly question. As long as Trump cannot have his fabulous well-attended rallies, and as long as the economy is in the dump, the demorats can fill out their mail-in ballots and try to throw him out of office.
Just yesterday, they had to admit they deceptively and with bias, altered a transcript of an interview with AG Barr to make it appear something that it wasn't. They had to publicly apologize for Meet the Press Chuck Fraud's lies.
Second, it's been obvious since the beginning that they oppose Trump's handling of the virus pandemic and want him out and his economy to be ruined before the election in November. They're doing what they always do and that is be proactive in getting rid of Trump and helping the democRATS to look good when they don't.
And third, the shit is about to hit the fan on the Obama crimes after Barr has dropped the charges against Flynn. The democRATS know they are being unmasked, their secrets declassified and that there are a whole lot of people that are going to be in trouble.
The media is only doing their perceived jobs and that is to protect the democRATS when they can. Just over the weekend, Brian Stetler of CNN was lambasting the right-wing media (whatever that is) for covering the Flynn case instead of focusing on the corona virus crisis, which he compared to Katrina's deaths in New Orleans and the 9-11 World Trade Center deaths. Not much hyperbole there.
So the media is pushing this virus thingie as far as they can because then they don't have to talk about the Flynn case being dismissed by the DOJ or that some of the players on the Left they are trying to protect are about to get their you know whats caught in the wringer.
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