Posted on 03/22/2020 5:16:45 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
With the anti-virals showing great effectiveness in both quickening the recovery of even the most dire cases and preventing infection, this is over in a month.
Then Trump has 0% interest rates, a de-facto tax cut, ammo for repeal of the payroll tax, the end of sanctuary cities, wall funding, a mandate to bring manufacturing back to the US, and political capital like nobody else.
The economy will be roaring by October. This is what they fear.
Why wouldn’t they? They make money on perpetuating the panic plus help the left to regain power.
TheConservativeBanker wrote:
“I have no ill will to anyone who is seriously ill. I hope Lat gets the very best treatment available and recovers to live a full life. My reason to post is that the media publicizes these case and buries crucial clarifying information deep in the article to make us think that we are all equally at risk. There are obvious critical risk factors (some of them deriving from lifestyle choices) and they are important to avoid unnecessary public hysteria.
Contrary to Vermont Lt.’s assertion, my comment was not mean spirited, rather I was simply pointing out that the impression that an otherwise healthy, vibrant young man being on his death bed due solely to Coronavirus could be mistaken. A subsequent poster also mentioned that he also is asthmatic - an obvious critical risk factor.”
The media’s propensity to leave vital info out and sensationalize things —is— a huge problem.
I guess ventilators shouldn’t be used to treat Covid19 patients either because doubling the recommended oxygen amount would be fatal.
Mas media is in the business of selling fear. It’s money in the bank for them.
And they do not care about the aftermath.
Drive by enemies of the people.
Heck, drinking too much water can kill you.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/
Tylenol can kill you if you take too much.
Plus, don’t take one gram or more?
It killed Mary Jo Kopechne.
That’s because ‘the plan’ involved killing the economy over the next 12-18 months in every way possible while we wait for a vaccine.
This antiviral might disrupt ‘the plan’.
“ It killed Mary Jo Kopechne.”
Very true.
Moral of the story: Some things, such as B12, you can take a lot of and not risk adverse effects. Others things, such as potassium supplements, you take just one too many and you are in a lot of trouble.
If you had the WuVirus and your choices were a round of hydroxychloroquine or the ventilator...which would you choose?
Because if you’re over 65...you might not be getting that ventilator...
Journalism is negativity to the point of cynicism.
it’s not journalism. it’s propaganda. period.
True.it’s not journalism.
It is journalism. Monopoly journalism.In the founding era and up to the Civil War, newspapers were mostly weeklies, and some had no deadline at all. Prior to the 1844 demo of the Baltimore-Washington telegraph and the 1848 founding of the “New York Associated Press,” newspaper printers got any outside news from sources to which the general public could easily have been privy by the time of the weekly paper’s deadline.
So newspapers were about the opinions of their printers - and thus, newspapers notoriously didn’t agree about much of anything. You bought your newspaper, if you had a choice where you lived, according to your interest in the particular perspective of its printer. The AP changed that. Membership in the AP was expensive, but it gave the printer a cornucopia of news stories from all over. It was magic!
It was also, Adam Smith would have said, a recipe for a journalism cartel. For what the AP is - and the other wire services are - is a virtual meeting of all its members - a continual, ongoing meeting which started before the Civil War and is ongoing even unto this day.
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Thus, cartel behavior - a conspiracy against the public - is only to be expected of journalists working for members of the AP or any other wire service. Hence, “the media.”The problem is exacerbated by the unanimous 1964 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan SCOTUS verdict, which pretty much suppressed libel suits by prominent Republicans (and Democrats, not that it matters - Democrats assiduously go along and get along with the journalism cartel, and thus Democrats don’t get libeled).
But Sullivan, unanimously held or no, is bad law. Scalia pointed out that Sullivan justified itself with the claim that
". . . libel can claim no talismanic immunity from constitutional limitations. It must be measured by standards that satisfy the First Amendment”but prior to 1964 no court had ever held that 1A modified libel (or pornography, for that matter) law.Why? For the same reason that nobody in their right mind ever suggested that the Second Amendment changed laws against armed assault. 2A protects “the” right of the people to keep and bear arms. “The” is called a (the?) definite article It is specific, if not fully articulated. “The” RTKBA is no different now than it was in 1778 because the intent of 2A - the intent of the entire Bill of Rights - was to reassure the country that no rights were being changed by the Constitution. That is the specific intent of 9A:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.The fact that the Bill of Rights exists as amendments to the Constitution reflects the fact that the Federalists thought that the unamended Constitution implied all of the Bill of Rights. They might have tried to satisfy the (political) requirement for a bill of rights with 9A alone - but instead they “enumerated” in 1A thru 8A only those rights which tyrants had historically denied. 9A covers the rest - including the right to sue for libel (because “the” freedom of the press as it existed in 1788 did not include the right to libel anyone without penalty.The output of the journalism cartel is socialist propaganda for the simple reason that it is a cartel, and that the journalism business is the bad news business. The cartel’s claim that journalists are objective is poppycock since all journalists know that in fact journalism is negative. The conceit that “negativity is objectivity” is cynicism.
Journalism is cynical about society, thus naive about society’s opposite, which is government. And you show me a socialist and I’ll show you someone who fits that description.
Well looking at side effects listed the drug is not a good choice for me.
As my dying Canadian friend says We are Screwed, he’s days away from dying, and Canada won’t treat him. He’s only 50. Won’t even provide soups, or medications, only offer Euthanasia.
I’m already a nearly homebound patient now. Most all of THE side effects, with exception of hair loss I’ve already had. which my poor husband has to go pick up the #3 Type 2 Diabetes med. #1 bad case of hives, #2 lots of GI issues an digestive disturbances I don’t have us
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