Posted on 03/31/2020 4:15:44 AM PDT by impimp
It’s just the flu, bro.
Herd immunity building way faster than experts predict.
Cause of death being falsely attributed to Corona.
Civil liberties are being stripped away - especially in Dem states/cities.
Number dead will be way under the number dead from flu when this is over.
What my problem is with this lockdown when they let us all out of lockup the virus will still be here SO are we going to go through this all over again because so few have immunity REALLY!!!
Excellent explanation!!!
Of course they can get as much money by staying home there are PLENTY of people who would love to be able to work right now FIRE THEM!!!
I think many have immunity, but it is regional. NY state will NOT have any ongoing problems with this relative to other states in a few weeks time.
I’m thinking I can survive the Corona, but the mass stupidity is bringing me down fellow Bro.... Quick get me another drink!
Excellent analysis.
I read that about 250k Americans die every month. The ease of borrowing from that number is helping the America Destroyers.
Virus hoax deniers are worse than commies? Damn, the retard is strong in you!
You’ll be crying for a FedGuv check in a month if this keeps up retard!
3/20 we had 10,000 dead.
3/25 we crossed the 20,000 dead threshold.
3/31 we crossed the 40,000 dead threshold.
The death rate is doubling every 5 days (worldwide - figures based on Johns Hopkins statistics).
The pattern everywhere is that this thing spikes at a certain point and then levels off and drops. It’s already happening in Washington state as it has in many other countries who had it earlier.
Washington's Governor declared a State of Emergency in Feb, one month ago and has been tightening it up ever since. The "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" initiative was on March 25.
Seattle closed the public schools on March 12. They had been fighting to keep them open since March 1, every daily letter the school superintendent released explained why she hadn't done it yet. Parents were already keeping kids home, and eventually they quit hiding behind the Public Health Dept and closed them.
So, to say the exponential growth isn't happening and cite Seattle, the city and State that were the first to put all sorts of measures (including VERY harsh "close everything" rules) into effect before anyone else seems odd.
Maybe use numbers from Sweden, I think they are taking a less stringent approach. Or some big cities in Africa, once it gets established there. I think they will treat it like the common cold, so we'll see how that works.
I have no problem with stay home from school orders. Getting kids out of public school is a win-win situation. I’m referring to closing businesses. If Washington just closed everything 6 days ago, I don’t think that was responsible for lowering their numbers. We need to talk more about their testing and contact tracing. I read something about them doing it early on.
The main models I have in mind are the Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan. I think some of them definitely closed schools but there weren’t strict business closures from what I read. I don’t think they did anything that remotely required a big spending bill.
I have never argued for doing nothing. I’ve most often argued in favor of the South Korean response. But the numbers show that the outbreak subsides EVERYWHERE across the board, no matter what kind of response. That tells me that the most common denominator method, the old, tried-and-true quarantining of the sick and the incoming travelers is what’s doing the trick more than anything else.
This shutdown/social distancing model was trying to prevent the initial outbreak. That has SEVERAL problems. If you wait until you have initial cases like they did, you’re already too late. If you do start it early, you may never be able to stop, because as soon as you stop, you will then get your initial cases and have your outbreak. And lastly, it comes at an enormous economic cost that no one thought was justifiable unless these predictions of millions of deaths were actually going to happen. And now the argument becomes circular. The evidence shows that those mass deaths do NOT occur anywhere, most likely because of simple, old-fashioned, traditional methods of quarantine.
The governor shut things down much later than the businesses and churches did. Microsoft, google, etc. had people working from home much earlier.
Our large church (Bellevue) had our last service on March 1st, and three days later shut everything down. All of the stuff going on during the week, services, etc.
They are still allowed to use the church to livestream and record the services. A few band members, singers and a preacher - all spaced at least 6 feet apart.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/technology/microsoft-coronavirus-response.html
Article on Microsoft shut down. I see that our county requested on March 4th that people try to work from home if possible. Also was the same day that a Microsoft employee tested positive.
I absolutely support any individual or business voluntarily shutting down anything they want. Pennsylvania started out with those kinds of suggestions and voluntary things too. Then suddenly these giant shutdown orders came into place even though there were no dramatic spikes in the infection numbers to justify it. It was either some kind of nefarious plot to damage the economy or to extract bailout cash or it was panic over “mad” scientists pushing worst-case-scenario numbers that weren’t justified.
South Korea has, I think, a culture that is very attuned to biological threats. Their neighbor to the west (China) has abominable market habits where they slaughter and sell just about anything that moves, causing outbreak after outbreak of deadly diseases, like avian influenzas H5N1 and H7N9 and the coronavirus SARS. Their neighbor to the north has a madman leader who is always threatening nuclear, biological, or chemical doom to the south. Thus, Koreans are always aware of threats in a way that we are not. When I went to Korea, every single tour guide talked about the situation with North Korea. Really, they live with threats that most Americans can’t even understand.
It is within this context that South Korea was able to effect quarantines, social distancing, etc., without the government having to put much force into the recommendations. Because the Koreans were very dedicated to doing whatever they can to stop the spread of a dangerous disease. Contrast that to America, where a number of people dismiss Covid-19 as a government conspiracy and do not take the threat seriously at all.
But there were LOTS of people that were voluntarily doing things to lower risk. That meant, in fact, that the shutdown orders were almost exclusively affecting people who would be cut off at their knees economically by the time those orders came around. Normally, in an economic crisis we encourage people to go out and spend money. We know our society needs that to survive.
We heard lots of businesses were coming up with creative solutions, restaurants using only every other table, etc. But suddenly, governors just said, no, sorry, everything is just shut down.
Our country is one that thrives on creative solutions bubbling up from the bottom up. Not from government sitting in an ivory tower barking out orders. There should be a partnership here where government can provide health and safety advice and businesses can implement them in creative ways.
And, no, every individual does not have to comply with every recommendation 100% of the time for things to be a success. The viral spread hitting a lot of stopgaps along the way will slow it down enough. It doesn’t need every single person to be perfectly vigilant all of the time. The government needs to focus on locating and quarantining the sick. That is the long-accepted historical method and the cornerstone of South Korea’s highly successful, low-cost containment strategy.
You’re just mad that your virus hoax isn’t killing enough people...
No.please tell!
It’s posted at Ann Barnhardt website and at Project Veritas website...military guard admits ON CAMERA that “it’s just the flu”. Can’t do link without computer...vid will remind you of early scene from ‘The Stand’.
bump!
Believe what you want dude.
Nothing like a grasshopper feeling all blissful & ignorant in late August while the ants get ready for winter.
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