Posted on 03/29/2020 7:12:52 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
You must also be aware that the potential for many of these uprisings will have been well planned, funded and orchestrated, with very few initially spontaneous
But, the timely question that must be asked is, how will all the liberal-governments, with their propaganda-driven-media, now gingerly back away from their self-generated hysteria, along with their de facto Martial Law—before it is too late?
In an earlier piece, I used the term ‘exploitation’ for when the liberal state and local governments thought they found a silver-lining in the COVID-19 crisis as another opportunity to take down their abhorred Orange Man. These same politicians are being courted by doctors who, for a by-line-of-importance, will say, “...this is now worse than 9/11…” or “...we have so many bodies that we have been forced to store them in refrigeration trailers.” They will swim along in unison with the mainstream just to be a part of it.
The economic shutdown and destruction, and the suppression of the cure, is deliberate on the part of Democrats.
And Republican leaders say nothing.
In a few months the young socialist occupy tent encampments will be setting up for their summer season. How are the Governors going to handle the annual encampments?
This bug has killed over 10,000 people in Italy this month. Add in Spain, France and the UK and you are over 20,000. Apparently this is the contribution these countries are making to the Left and the MSM’s attack on our liberties and their Orange Man Bad Narrative.
Or could it just be we have a really wicked bug on our hands that spreads fast with a yet to be determined fatality rate? A bug that has killed over 2000 people in about a month and is certain to kill a lot more than that in April.
Like I say, I don’t think today’s doctors have what it takes to defend the profession. It’s gonna change. Radically.
Well, if you would post the whole article, there is much more we could read.
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This bug has killed over 10,000 people in Italy this month.....
The US is 5.4 times larger than Italy in terms of population per Google.
If the US handles the situation better we should have less than 55,000 deaths at Italy’s point in the virus cycle.
In Washington State where the first cases were identified and the virus first devastated a place with a vulnerable group of people... the death rate and people needing serious medical intervention are now dropping. Hospital emergency rooms and 911 based EMS services are still clogged with frantic young people with no symptoms demanding that they be tested, but here this thing seems to be tapering off. This is defying the numbers originally provided by the doomsayers.
The rest of the country is behind us, but your dire predictions are far from certain.
I am sorry, I meant to say in Washimgton State, where the first cases in the US were identified.
If the US handles the situation better we should have less than 55,000 deaths at Italy’s point in the virus cycle.
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You could be right. I didn’t check your numbers,
But it doesn’t matter. Time moves on and the deaths keep mounting. Italy is going to have a lot more than 10,000 deaths. Until we can project where in time this plague slows down there is no way to predict the outcome.
Right now I believe:
1. We don’t know how long it will be until it peaks.
2. We don’t know what the total number of infections will be.
3. We don’t know the fatality rate.
If you don’t know those things your model of the future course of the virus is worthless. The experts are guessing. Just like you and me.
None of the projections from the doomsayers can be trusted. There are good reasons why this virus has been more deadly in certain countries and regions that it ever would or will be here. It has less to do with how it is “handled” than with demographics, population density, local customs, and a myriad of other factors that are yet to be fully understood. The way it is being handled in this country is stupid and in many cases counterproductive.
You are on to something when you say at this "point in the virus cycle". In Washington where the first victims were identified in the US it is already starting to taper off. The huge increase in testing may make it seem like it is still on the rise, but the decreasing death rates and intensive care units that are now back to normal tell a different tale.
The rest of the country is behind us, but your dire predictions are far from certain.
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Don’t get me wrong. I’m not really making predictions. I’m hoping like everyone else but Democrat politicians that the spread of the virus will peak and rapidly decline.
What I am doing is telling people is that it is the RATE at which deaths and infections change that matters.Those rates are very high - 20% to 40% PER DAY. Rates at these levels cannot continue for very long before every man, woman and child in the country are infected. A month or two would be all it would take.
But that won’t happen. The spread of the virus will peak at some point and the decline.
Anyone who knows when that peak will occur and how high it will be when it does should tell us all. But nobody knows. Nobody.
Watch the trends in infections and deaths. For infections at least the rates are down around 20% per day and have been declining for several days. I’m hoping that continues - but it has a long way to go before we end this thing.
“In Washington where the first victims were identified in the US it is already starting to taper off”, except they are preparing to triage patients with those over 60 or so left to die. So it cannot be tapering that much.
That's old news and false news to begin with my misinformed friend. The Intensive Care Units are back to normal here. Please don't spread fake news here that was meant to create further panic.
whatever it was, was new yesterday and no one had chimed in to claim different. So don’t come down on me, please.
“Republican leaders” == uniparty
I have many friends still on the fire department that I retired from and she is a retired nurse. We both actually volunteered and were paid for work we did at the Life Care Center in Kirkland.
I have been involved in dozens of news stories over the years and they hardly ever get it right. Surprisingly this one from a few days ago captured the gist of what is now going on.
but as an eye witness who has lived in this area all of my life... I am telling you that we are progressing past the crisis stage.
FWIW; they (the PI and NI) didn’t get news stories right or even close, back in the 70s-80s - even to the point of round filing important local news when they weren’t busy distorting it beyond all recognition or being blatantly one-sided; drive-by media in its pioneering days like many other things the left began there before going national.
We are getting out as soon as possible. We were planning on having one of our houses on the market in April... and then house shopping in another state, but this nonsense has put a kink in our plans.
We are getting tired of going to a Costco that looks more like the fish market in downtown Wuhan than some place in the United States. Thank God my wife’s dad who was a combat veteran who joined in 1938 and didn’t retire until 1966 isn’t around to see it. He was the opposite of politically correct and predicted what is going on today 50 years ago. We could take him anywhere these days.
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