Posted on 08/22/2020 12:49:05 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
COVID-19 is a highly targeted illness, posing progressively larger threats by age. Weekly American deaths in the 0-24 age group, including those with preexisting conditions, reached a high point of 27 … four months ago.
Yet a new survey shows that college students have a groundless fear of the disease, best explained by “relentless propaganda” from elite American institutions, as termed by Catholic University of America Business Prof. Jay Richards.
Inside Higher Ed reports on the pending results from higher education research firm SimpsonScarborough, which found that three in four “incoming freshmen who aspired to attend a four-year residential college” are “very or somewhat worried” that they’ll get infected with the novel coronavirus...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
I wonder what they would think if presented the statistics on getting herpes versus getting coronavirus and suffering any sort of effect of coronavirus other than feeling like crap for a couple of days and having an annoying lingering cough for a couple weeks, which beats a lifetime of never knowing when you are going to break out in sores.
A fearful populace is easily controlled.
They are actually worried about taking it home to family. But their beliefs are unscientific. They believe wearing the mask publicly will make up for not wearing it privately. They install an app on their phone so the school can track where they are at all times.
I drove through campus today to go to the recycling center and more than half the students walking around campus were wearing a mask.
Students already getting suspended for large parties and gatherings.
Corona and Floyd were the miracle for the left v Trump. I know some who generally are pretty conservative who are all in on the Corona fear. I can’t even reason with them with facts and common sense conjecture.The left has pretty much cornered the millions of new voters of the class of 2020 and millions of Karens and Chads. Be very worried.
We’ve suspended 7 already. I taunted them on Twitter with my “#SaveABoomer” hashtag. I thanked them for surrendering their 1st Amendment rights to protect me. But I added “Granted, we wouldn’t have put up with that sh*t”.
Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,you’re dead.
The chances a college student with no pre-existing conditions will die of COVID is extremely small. That said, it’s not just the death rate, but the blood clots, the permanent lung damage, and the four- or five-figure hospital bills that are a disincentive to party on like it’s 2019. It’s not a choice between dying from it and just having the sniffles.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/coronavirus-and-bloodclots
What doesn’t kill you doesn’t always make you stronger.
Be very worried.
About what? I wear a mask whenever I'm in public, I take COVID seriously, and I plan to vote for Trump in November. Sure, Trump will lose the West Coast and New York, but do you really think the folks in the swing states are going to go for Sleepy Joe, who can't even formulate a coherent sentence? I don't believe the pollsters who say Biden's ahead. Look how wrong they were in 2016.
”Corona and Floyd were the miracle for the left v Trump. “
Almost kinda like a plan...
The phobia about COVID-19 Wuhan virus is very much like the fear that once surrounded AIDS-HIV hysteria. Only instead of abstinence and condoms, it is masks and social(ist) distancing. The only thing that will save people is to have a vaccine.
Yeah, right. We still do not have a vaccine for HIV. And it has been how long? In 1984 the vaccine was promised within two years.
AIDS-HIV CAN be treated, if not cured, to the point where no virus is detected in any of the body fluids. The same can be said of the Wuhan virus, which can and has been successfully treated, with the HCQ-zinc-azithromycin cocktail of drugs, if the treatment is started quickly enough. But political considerations have intervened, and this is not available to outpatients in any setting, and only as a last resort, when the combination cannot overcome the ravages of the last stages of the infection.
Apparently no amount of calm reason is going to work, short term OR long term.
I love going down memory lane. The summer before my freshman year of college, soooo many moons ago, I was only concerned about getting as many hours at work to pay for school, chasing girls, swimming, golfing and tennis. I was going to a school where I knew zero people, so I was also a bit concerned about making friends. (That turned out to be nothing to worry over.) I suppose in retrospect I was concerned about being able to compete in college. That was one two levels, academics and sports (I had a partial sports scholarship, so it was important for paying the tuition.). I was more concerned about the academic side of things. I suppose these are good things to be concerned about. It keeps you from being complacent. The major scare of the day was the threat of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It certainly didn't affect how I lived. President Reagan was in office, the economy was still in the tank from Carter (eff'n pissant POS peanut farmer that knew zero about economics or anything else for that matter.)
I had nothing standing in my way of having endless opportunity that summer. You know, I wake up every day thinking the same thing before I go to work, till and including this day. The ChiCom flu doesn't slow me down. It's a shame these kids are so worried over something so statistically insignificant. I guess they don't teach mathematics at government indoctrination centers these days.
And yet, we’re hearing of so many getting into parties, then in trouble or getting sick because of that.
Which view of the college kids is more accurate? Afraid, or careless?
How do they know about permanent lung damage, if the virus is only active here for 5 months?
We need to be serious and acknowledge that the indoctrination starts LONG before college. It’s part of compulsory school. Never mind half the parents go in for the hate-America garbage. Ever since hippies ruled the waves.
Groundless Fear ->>
On My Mind: They Blinded Us From Science
https://www.franklintempleton.com/investor/article?contentPath=html/ftthinks/en-us-retail/cio-views/on-my-mind-they-blinded-us-from-science.html
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This whole COVID debacle is pure mind control! I flew on a trip this week and saw this 60 something Karen in a damn hazmat suit on the same flight. What an absolute nut case! Too much CNN.
The children (Millennials/Gen Y) at my workplace are terrified.
Uneducated kids. Sad.
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