I wish your hypothesis were true, it would be comforting. But...virtually every nation in the world reacted pretty much the same way when the news of the Wuhan virus started coming out. They shut down their economies and locked themselves down much tighter than most American states.
Remember when we flew out the Americans from Wuhan? The ‘flight attendants’ all were wearing moon suits with their own air supply. People with symptoms were isolated in separate self-contained units. They were all put on quarantine when they landed on U.S. soil.
All of this told me that the world leaders were told that something very dreadful was on its way to us. None has chosen disclose what he or she was told, but most took actions that pretty much crippled their economies.
I think the Wuhan is real, it is very dangerous, and it may, with time just sort of fade away as plagues have in the past. Also medicine today is much more capable of dealing with diseases than ever before thanks to ‘eurocentric’ science and technology.
I think the Chinese reaction to the disease triggered the shutdowns and much of the official hysteria The Chinese reacted as though they knew they had released a Bubonic level plague from their lab and their frantic and really heavy handed approach scared the pols and bureaucrats in this country causing them all to react in a panic. The other countries that reacted first did it the rational way and shut their borders as soon as they heard, Vietnam probably first. Vietnam apparently had no CCPV until the last ten days. Japan and South Korea got a handle on it early and the ROK probably would have stayed at a uniform low level of infection but for one crazy cultist. Sweden did not panic and had a relatively high death count in one episode of the disease and no is pretty much free of it because it affected many more early and the vaunted “herd immunity” set in. The countries that tried their hardest to keep the disease from spreading by shutting down their economies don’t get to HI for a long time so they have the virus around and welling up again here and there until sometime in another year or two we reach HI. We, by maintaining the life of the plague cycle, are forcing countries like Vietnam to stay closed to keep the carriers out. If everyone had acted like Vietnam or Sweden this thing would be nearing an end of its run and the world economy, and ours, would not have taken such a wallop.
It’s a virus. If you(anybody) choose to let a virus make you live in fear & panic that’s on you.
If you choose to believe the media that everyone knows is lying that’s on you.
If you choose to believe wearing a useless mask will save humanity & restore order you are lost to reality.
It’s a virus, calm down.
That is very true, in the first days. We did not know what we were dealing with. Precautions and quarantines may have been necessary, especially if as you suspect there were dire behind the scenes predictions.
But within weeks we sorta knew better. Yes it was a flu and yes it COULD kill but it was on a par with swine flu...and we did nothing close to shutting down societies over that.
No...something now is going on that is very akin to a coup under the color of law. Governors and mayors...the vast majority of whom are leftists, have discovered we can be kept cowed and subdued with health concerns.
As people start to chafe, they get tough, having the police arrest and fine people who won’t play along.
And NO ONE has the spine to stand up. Much of that is because there is nothing to fight with. They have their science that they believe over your science. We have no facts to counter them because we cannot get them because the internet and media shut out fairly successfully any opposing views. [look at those Dr’s whose video has been scrubbed].
If you choose to fight without any rationale on your side you are easily subdued as a selfish denier, a cretin putting everyone at risk.
Its all there in their rhetoric. “Masks show you CARE...” and the ever popular “Do it anyway”
The entire country has been under mask orders for a month now but some how cases are “skyrocketing”. So the magic masks ain’t working.
Not that they ever would.
So yes the virus is real but the reaction is unabashed hysteria.
Sick of it.