this sounds like the Michael Jackson approach, I mean, that made him white and delightsome, didn’t it?
Of the 16,966 deaths in New York since the first mortality on March 14:
60% were men, 40% were women
84% of the deaths were age 60 and older
No matter the age, COVID-19 is a serous illness for many people with underlying chronic disease.
15,114 (89%) of those who died had at least one chronic disease, with the top three identified being:
Hypertension - 65% (was 64%)
Diabetes - 42%
Hyperlipidemia - 24%
Source Data - see https://covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVID19-Tracker/NYSDOHCOVID-19Tracker-Fatalities?%3Aembed=yes&%3Atoolbar=no&%3Atabs=n
n.b. - see this post regarding COVID-19 and chronic disease - http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3832668/posts?page=655#655
serious post alert.
I believe it was altered in a lab.
I believe it got out but not on purpose.
I believe the response in China showed even they did not know what it would do if widespread.
I believe they knew that they didnt have a cure or a good method to stop it, so they allowed it to go world wide so that the combined efforts of all doctors would treat it and make the best efforts to fight it together.
I believe they soon saw that it was not the killer we feared, but continued the response as a test of the system, like a war game, to see what response times would be in all walks of society if a real bad virus ever got loose.
I believe leftists saw a Star Trek level event taking place where they could Cloward/Piven the death out of this thing by not letting a good crisis go to waste and use this to create a greater panic to push socialism on countries and yes, the United States.
I believe Trump and his advisors are seeing this, yet, in order to have accurate data on the war game side of this; ie, the response times of manufacturing and health care and societal interaction, he is allowing it to go on until an agreed up date is reached. This accumulated data will be used in planning for when China or any other bad actor releases something that is a real killer. This cannot be revealed to the public as such because of backlash for it would reveal us as guinea pigs despite the need for such data in strategic planning.
The democrats see such an opening to ruin the economy, force everyone to be reliant upon government handouts that they can barely contain themselves to have this handed to them, knowing that Trump cannot just come out and reveal this is just a test at this point.
The destruction of small businesses is catastrophic at this point with maybe as many as 75% of them unable to recover from this. The reduced profits of larger businesses is going to be catastrophic, also, yet they sell so many products made in China and we have no ready to replace domestic manufacturing that is “shovel ready” to replace foreign manufacturing. We will be stuck buying from China and India for a decade until domestic manufacturing can pick up the slack.
The reliance upon government is unavoidable now, for if there are fewer jobs needed because of fewer orders from downstream clients, there will not be orders to keep companies operating at previous levels. Everyone wants a bail out, and a second one and a third and also...health insurance.
Single Payer health insurance, using existing doctors and hospitals, who will be forced to accept the amount the government will insist their work is worth despite last year’s worth of their service. Their worth of service will only be what the government says it is. If they dont like it, they wont get to perform service, they will be forced to do service at the government rate or have no services to do at all.
I do not think I am way of of line here, the logical progression of the evil left knows no bounds, and has no limits.