One of our Flubros had the idea for a retrospective to find out what event/news made you decide to become a Flubro/Flubra instead of a Fearper.
For me (don’t know the exact date), it was when scientists were claiming a 3% case fatality rate. The total cases had to be greatly underestimated because no viral disease specifically target seniors. Viruses don’t avoid young people - there had to be a massive untested population of young people who were infected and asymptomatic.
Deaths are plummeting in the USA according to worldometer. These restrictions have to go. We need one state to say there are absolutely no more restrictions. A few states have scaled back their restrictions but they are still there. And I am sick of these 3 phase plans and 5 phase plans and 10 phase plans. Someone somewhere please just say there are no phases and all restrictions are lifted.
prevention/cure news - I am a big fan of the anti-concussion nutritional supplement NAC which is cheap, available on the internet and has no patent. A Freeper posted this yesterday about NAC also helping with CV (and other issues):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3843892/posts
It has a link to a long video that involves too much biochemistry for my liking - but thought it was a good idea to throw it out there for those inclined to watch it.
Finally, a Flubro posted a link to a website that, as far as I can tell, hooks people up with activists around the country who are on Facebook trying end the lockdown.
openthestates.com
Ping. Freepmail Impimp to go on the ping list.
“Deaths are plummeting in the USA according to worldometer. These restrictions have to go. We need one state to say there are absolutely no more restrictions.”
Progress.
“Only” 1000 a day.
WE need to open up the economy. No doubt about it. Carefully.
But act like assholes and the number will skyrocket.
https://www.pscp.tv/Gingrich_of_PA/1djGXQpgZRXJZ
Slog back a few White Claws, piss yer pants, it's the Dixie Cup Urination Way!
#KAPUT #somethingcompelling #cantstopwhatiscoming #painintheforecast
For me, it was the coordination among the media outlets to pitch the same hysteria over and over very early on. Next was all of the tv ads for various products/services, all singing the same message "We're in this together" etc... Soon thereafter it was more tv ads with many "celebrities" pitching the same lines. That was all in a matter of a few days, IIRC.
Something about all of that media synchronization from the get go stunk like a Russian fishing trawler.
Day one. It had "climate change" written all over it.
I suspected from day 1 that this was political.
The left induced hysteria, the science, the lack of bodies stacked like cord wood, the economic collapse all served to further cement my suspicion that this was played because they could not impeach, russiagate, ukrainegate, stormygate....
Swine flu, bird flu, ebola, krockodile, and every other mass hysteria event on FR over the years made me a flubro from the get go.
I’m considered an essential employ so I’m out everyday M-F and I’m in a grocery store 3 times a week or so.
No mask, no gloves. Just wash the hands numerous times a day and hand sanitizer at the ready.
The shutdowns and social distancing was to flatten the curve. The areas under everything normal curve and social distancing curve is exactly the same. Nobody gets saved. It just takes longer to get infected while people cower in their hidey holes waiting for a vaccine or cure that may never come.
Meanwhile everyone who have lost their job have their lives ruined.
Here’s an email exchange with my wife on Jan 24th. She posted this link to an article on “the new China virus” - https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/dont-buy-the-media-hype-over-the-new-china-virus/?fbclid=IwAR1oo6uG3WNzaoc_HAJShAuTV4MX8wHIeii67CFLiwruFM06sWVe7h0yk38 - and asked my thoughts about it.
My response was:
“Haven’t read this.”
“But do you remember SARs? Or Swine Flu? Or Ebola? We were all going to die from each of those, and yet, here we are.”
“But also, remember the “Spanish Flu” from the 1910s which did kill enough people that they had to call off world war 1 because they ran out of people to fight. Eventually one of these pandemic scares will be true. But there is no reason to think this is the one.”
I guess I’ve been a flubro from the start.
By the way, the reason she was asking was because my daughter was on her third day of a low grade fever, dry cough, minor aches and pains. Things that make you go hmmm.
I was skeptical at first — just a hinky feeling with nothing really behind it.
When I KNEW it was a crock was the first CV briefing with Trump on stage with Fauci, and Fauci was speaking, bloviating, flailing his arms, and dictating what was what. The look on Trump’s face gave it away. Even HE knew it was a crock, and no worse than the flu.
I became a flubro when I first saw the numbers come from Europe that said most people were asymptomatic or had minor cold-like symptoms. Deaths were mostly people with pre-existing conditions over the age of 75. Then, in talking to several friends in China, no one knew of anyone who had the virus. Some plague. Once the “We are the World” commercials started and the toilet paper hoarding, I knew we would fold like a cheap suit.
Once the first cases were detected outside of China and bodies weren’t stacking up I knew this was largely bullshit. Simple math proved that the truth was not what was being sold by the media and government ’experts’. I had a post back in ~January where I said this virus either wasn’t very contagious or it had a low mortality rate. Simple math made it impossible to be both. It turned out to be #2....just like the flu.
For me, I knew it was a sham when it I realized there were a lot of things I could do to spend money in person (groceries, gas, big box stores, big hardware, etc.) and even visit others or walk around my neighborhood. But I couldn’t do anything to make a living.
So for tomorrow — there appears to be a CLEAR DOWNWARD trend. Today NJ played games by having 4000 new patients is unrealistic. It at best should have ben averaged — that would take the last two days down to 22000 then 20000 which is accurate.
I think there is a very obvious decrease and we are about half way down the the backside of the mountain.