Posted on 03/03/2020 10:17:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
What unusual things are you observing caused by the Coronavirus / COVID-19 scare?
Last night I was walking in downtown Menlo Park, California from 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM. It was a beautiful, warm evening. But the town was almost deserted and the restaurants were maybe 1/3 to 1/2 full. There were a few bums on the streets pushing their shopping carts full of treasures, but they didn't seem concerned about catching an illness. One Asian woman walked past me on the almost-deserted sidewalk wearing a facemark.
This afternoon (about 3 PM) I took our dog walking on the Charleston Slough levee in Mountain View. It was about 75 degrees and a glorious blue sky. This is very close to Google world headquarters and usually the levees are packed with walkers, joggers, bicyclists and runners. Today I passed maybe a total of ten people in the 2.5 miles we walked. At one point, I could look a half mile ahead of me and a half mile behind me and see no one. That is really weird. The funny thing is that, with no people on the levee and with the clean fresh air on the bay, you probably have lower risk of contracting the disease than anywhere else on the Peninsula. Go figure!
Driving out of that part of Mountain View on a normal day is really hard because of all of the Google traffic and commuting busses. Today there was very light traffic headed away from the bay back toward Mountain View.
Interesting thought. But here’s the thing... China already has the power to ‘disappear’ anybody they want. Sure there are limits. But if they felt they were ‘limited’ in their power anywhere and they needed to use the virus as ‘cover’ that place would be Hong Kong.
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I am suggesting they plan to exceed “limits” while accomplishing other goals (e.g., impact on US economy)at the same time. I’m suggesting that they are basically culling their population because the “one child” policy is not sufficient for their goals and at the time of the outbreak, there was an increasing protest movement rising that looked significant given it was growing despite years of oppressive “lessons”.
We don’t even have one.
I even gave up my SAM’S membership.
I shop at a local supermarket and they have everything in stock.
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