Posted on 05/04/2020 12:57:51 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Guest Piece by Karen Kataline Recently, a local talk show host asked a “get ‘em calling” question, “Who do you believe about the coronavirus?”
If the question was designed to be frustrating, it certainly was. Do people choose to believe someone and then stop asking questions? I hope not. As we’ve seen, the esteemed scientists we were supposed to believe were spectacularly wrong –again and again.
Unfortunately, the talk radio host’s question is moot since those who don’t believe the narrative are being forced along with everyone else to comply with orders from politicians they elected and bureaucrats they didn’t.
The coronavirus narrative, as if anyone needs a reminder, is being given as the reason why millions of Americans have been robbed of their jobs, their freedom, their rights to travel, and for many, their life savings and their life’s work.
For the sake of argument, let’s consider the question of who you believe as if it actually made a difference.
Why not listen to everyone rather than deciding who to believe in advance? Test their logic and look for holes in their credibility. At least then you’ll have a better idea of who not to believe. In times like these, that narrows it down considerably.
While it has been widely reported that sunshine kills the virus, many Democrat Governors still insist that you are “Safer at Home”. The usual suspects ignore any new information when it doesn’t fit their narrative. What’s more, they proceed as if no one ever heard the new information! How silly is it to keep believing them?
If Will Rodgers were alive, he’d be joking that government bureaucrats told everyone to stay indoors for their own good, even after it was discovered that sunshine was part of the cure. Sadly, it’s no joke.
The primary reason that was given for shutting down the country at all was so that we wouldn’t overwhelm our medical system. Medical personnel and health care workers have been laid off. Hospitals are near empty, yet power-hungry governors refuse to relinquish their “emergency” powers regardless of the facts. How is it not sensible to ask whether the response has fit the crisis?
Now, it is widely known that the projections on which an entire country was shut down were overblown and flat-out wrong, yet once again, the same Governors stubbornly hold fast to the old projections to justify their growing precepts. Why should they be believed about anything they say? It’s reasonable to question their motives.
The same governors have quietly admitted that 9 out of 10 people who test positive for the virus will need no medical treatment at all—not even an aspirin. A free-thinking adult would ask why in light of that fact, it was necessary to force healthy, law-abiding citizens to be forcibly shut in their homes, have their jobs taken away and make them dependent on the government for their sustenance. Asked and answered.
The lust for power and the desperate advance toward authoritarianism is the virus that has fueled the Democrat response. That is cause to be suspicious too, and it’s darned important to be concerned about how they would continue to abuse their power in the future if they aren’t definitively stopped.
The piece de resistance for the loss of all credibility is when you are told that it is too dangerous to doubt or question those with the power to destroy your life. Democrats and their loyal base told us this almost immediately. If you dare to question their prescribed narrative, you are a murderous, evil cad. Oh, and you’re a racist too.
Believing them and ignoring this ubiquitous tactic can be hazardous to your health. When you no longer have the option of saying “No” to their demands, they are.
Karen Kataline is a commentator, columnist & talk show host. She holds a Master’s Degree from Columbia University and is a frequent guest host on AM Talk Radio.
Only if it comes from the Babylon Bee.
That’s not a fair or relevant question, since we have not had a ‘real media’ for donkey’s years.
I know of no one personally who has contracted Wuhan flu. Nor do I know anyone personally who know of someone personally who has contracted it.
It’s always 2nd- and 3rd-hand information. That’s easily manipulated.
Which one? There must be 10,000.
I believe common sense, which so few are speaking these days. Wash your hands, cover your sneezes...if you are immune compromised or ill, stay inside and order out or get things delivered. The rest of us will keep working and help you out.
Do I believe it? No.
My cousin — around 65, I guess — also thinks this is a crock. She has two daughters, one a teacher and one a nurse, who literally are bullying her to keep her shut in and “safe”. So she calls my mom, who also thinks it’s a crock, and they commiserate together.
The big problem for my mom is that this situation has postponed the Senior Dinners at the fire hall until July. She can let most things go, but ... cancel senior dinners? ... oh, no; that can’t happen.
I know of a few people from reliable sources who have died of the Wuhan, and I personally know at least 5 people who have had the Wuhan and survived after being proscribed hydroxychloroquine. It is in fact killing people.
As for it’s lethality, I believe it is not as bad as is being reported. This is because the calculation is based on trumped up causality of death numbers. There are numerous accounts and actual cases where the cause of death is purposely being stated as Kung Flu when other causes were obvious. I personally know of a man who was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer that was moved into rehab and caught the Wuhan then died. Bat Flu sped his death up but was not the ultimate cause. He is a Chinese Virus statistic.
ROFL.
No.
Which coronavirus narrative?
The general idea that we’re all gonna die, unless maybe we lock up everyone except prisoners?
Or all the other tidbits that come out contradicting what you heard yesterday? Wear a mask, DON’T, wear it, DON’T, etc.
No, none of them.
I honestly believe it escaped a lab, the reaction from the media and China to that statement tells me vastly more than anything else.
I also believe it escaped earlier than October last year.
Yes, if it’s mine.
Yes, deadly, highly contagious SARS-CoV-2 is real.
But hypothetically speaking, if SARS-CoV-2 was only a harmless, placebo virus for the purpose of testing USA’s response to an actual virus epidemic, then the country failed the test imo.
After all, not only did “Orange Man Bad” election year politics wrongly play a part in USA’s response to this “test,” but we’ve got evidence of the consequences of most citizens not being taught the differences between federal and state powers, especially with respect to state power to quarantine.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
Send "Orange Man Bad" federal and state government Democrats and RINOs home in November!
Supporting PDJT with a new patriot Congress and state government leaders that will promise to fully support his already excellent work for MAGA and stopping SARS-CoV-2 will effectively give fast-working Trump a third term in office imo.
I'm pretty pissed off at the Republican Party too, and IMO President Trump should be demanding a full restart of the economy. The models were wrong and the entire country was misled.
Please President Trump: Call this bullshit for what it is and let's get back to work!
The original article asked “who do you believe”.
Chris Martenson is who I believe. He called this thing step by step from back in January.
His web site:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
He got me prepped back when most folks here never even heard of the virus.
The majority of folks here hate him, but I trust him totally.
I know of no one personally who has contracted Wuhan flu. Nor do I know anyone personally who know of someone personally who has contracted it.
It’s always 2nd- and 3rd-hand information. That’s easily manipulated.
My wife’s aunt died from COVID-19 on April 14 in New York City. Someone I knew personally. We got the death notice.
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