You're off to a bad start, newbie.
b) 99% of those who did die had pre-existing conditions, infirmed, or well-aged.
b) 99% of those who did die had pre-existing conditions, infirmed, or well-aged.
100% agree. over the top reaction to take our freedoms and money away
Oy vey
Back to shutting down the economy, which is essentially what the world is doing. They’ve gone mad.
OTOH, they are not yet executing people who violate quarantine.
Well, I am a gentile, but I hope the Jewish FReepers here won’t hold it against me.
In time, you will learn to blame such things on auto-correct.
Welcome and I trust you take that rant into the public eye and never back down when you are eventually threatened or even attacked by a statist leftist.
JoMa
I remember when the media hushed up public concerns about ebola in America as people were coming here with the disease
I agree with the majority of your post.
Well done!
The Virus won’t kill us, but our reaction to it will.
All I can think of is that great Ozzy Song: Crazy Train! The world, especially the West has gone mad.
And it also opens the door for a new FReeper handle for someone: Gentile Ben!
On the other hand, you may have just achieved FR immortality by adding a new entry into the FR dictionary. See also: hugh; series; stuned; beeber; pwned; loose and Jim Robertson.
Why doesn’t anyone in the federal government care about influenza deaths and hospitalizations?
Why did they not shut down the entire country when flu season started last October?
Here is the catastrophe that goes unreported...
USA Influenza - October 2019 to March 2020
All numbers are CDC estimates:
USA Influenza Hospitalizations: 390,000 to 710,000
USA Influenza Deaths: 23,000 to 59,000
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Yes, shutting down our economy and subjecting the populace to spending more time watching more rotting media TV is a hysterical reaction. It is madness. And it won't work unless we become prisoners in our own homes. For how long? I'll come back to that.
CDC drove this reaction, with the help of a complicit press.
As you say, we don’t know the real facts, and my experience tells me that if th ereaction was overblown, we will NEVER learn the real facts. Governments never admit error, and everything they do is for the purpose of increasing control.
The press, like the government, is in the pocket of the globalists. Do not look to the press or the government for honest information.
"Flatten the curve, has now morphed into "save every life". No exit strategy, no plan. Who would dare call and end to the madness, and cause all the deaths? Actually, it may not be that many deaths, but which politician would want to go out on a limb to end this. Even if just a few deaths, no one would want to face the hysterical and sensational media, who would flood that decision with sob stories.
Sorry to be a pessimist, but I don't see any politicians ending this mess without doing colossal damage to the economy.
This is the story of the little boy who rang a bell in the city center. When asked why, he said to keep away the elephants. When told there are no elephants, he said, “See? It works!”
This is the communist using this “crisis” to implement communism, to keep the elephant virus away by ringing the communist bell of handing everything over to the government.
Phase 1 was gaslighting the sheeple into thinking they will die without government intervention.
Phase 2 is control the people and shutdown of their businesses.
Phase 3 is government providing payment for business rents and payroll.
Phase 4 is the government simply stating that since the government already pays for everything that the government now owns the businesses.
Communism complete: Total control of the sheeple and a complete takeover of commerce.
The liberal States of Washington, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New Jersey have implemented martial law, selecting which businesses must close and that the people must stay indoors. This isn’t a quarantine; this is martial law. Just because the communists are using the virus as an excuse doesn’t mean it is not martial law. When the government can tell you to stay home, implement curfews, and shut down businesses, it is martial law. Trump is in on this communist takeover. He is encouraging States to go into martial law and shut down businesses and lock everyone into their homes.
To get the people’s cooperation, the government is buying their cooperation. Each adult gets $1,000; $2,000 per couple but only if they make under $150k. Great, huh? Get taxed to give other people free money. Colorado is giving people a pass on parking tickets as though people can no longer seem to properly park.
Just as we were moving manufacturing back to America, the communists are closing those businesses making us rely on foreign imports again. Since Trump has surrounded himself with the communist healthcare workers, he is pushing the narrative and supporting “free” money which means both conservatives and liberals, alike, support him and this effort to take over the country by the communists.
We are past the tipping point. Americans are fully endorsing any and all measures. They actually want more closures. The drama queens are begging to have all their liberties taken away in the name of safety. They are begging for their businesses to close, thinking somehow Uncle Sugar will hand them money to live on instead of having to work.
For those of us not so stupid as to fall for this communism propaganda, we have the right to take on jobs and visit businesses of our own free will. This is the liberals taking away our right to choose.
The WHO estimates between 250,000 and 500,000 die worldwide from the flu. China had 81,000 infected of a population of 1.4 billion and have now lifted their quarantines and claim to have no new cases. South Korea with 8,600 cases likewise has seen a tremendous drop in new cases.
This virus so far is the typical flu level symptoms and treatment. Nothing to be taken lightly, but nothing to go and shut down the country for either.
Hillary only needs to wait until the July democrap convention to show up and say, “See? I told you Trump would screw things up! I’m here to save you from that idiot!” She has been preparing to enter the race (notice new face lift, makeup, hair, clothing), and she can win when 30+% of the country is unemployed, a million small businesses have been closed by government dictators, the people are living under martial law and cannot travel, and basic necessities are no longer found and people are wiping their butts with anything they can find.
Anyone feel stupid yet?
I've gotten dinged for my own 2 cents worth over the last month:
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” ― William Pitt the Younger
Kind of ironic - we know that the Deep State and others use fear as a way to steer and control the people - we had the commie/nuke war threat until the Berlin Wall came down then it wasn’t viable anymore and up pops Globull Warming, which has many in fear that we’re gonna destroy the Earth even as we do less harm than past generations and none of the data actually supports anything but the earth’s climate and Mother Nature do not now, and never did have a “balance” and even if they did, we have no idea of how to maintain one or ‘fix’ things...all our efforts end up causing more harm....the coronavirus scare is no different - the panic-induced knee-jerking will cause more harm than the virus.
Folks who would be up in arms if the government decided to tell them they could not move freely are now begging that same government to lock them, and everyone else, down....I’d wager if, after doing that, the story ‘evolved” they would also go meekly to barb-wire surrounded camps/tent cities because the “latest info” said that’s the only way to stop it. Even though we know that they use fear to guide and control us, so many can’t see it through the red haze of insane panic....they not only welcome the government controls, they beg for them...
And the fear mongers will try to leverage it...
Reminds me of a saying that many FReepers, who are now acting insane, used to showcase:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Ben Franklin