Posted on 05/14/2020 12:57:56 PM PDT by grundle
The complete list can be read here: https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2020/05/05/reasons-why-im-against-the-covid-19-lockdowns/
Here are the 12 new entries:
45) LA Mayor Garcetti encourages residents to report violators of stay-at-home order: ‘Snitches get rewards’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/la-mayor-garcetti-residents-report-violators-stay-at-home-order
46) Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
The Atlantic wrote:
Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
Americans should carefully consider the potential costs of prolonged shutdowns lest they cause more deaths or harm to the vulnerable than they spare…
… minimizing the number of COVID-19 deaths today or a month from now or six months from now may or may not minimize the human costs of the pandemic when the full spectrum of human consequences is considered…
… the warnings of thoughtful shutdown skeptics warrant careful study…
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/take-shutdown-skeptics-seriously/611419/
47) Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns
https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_saved
Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns
By Andrew Glen, Ph.D. and James D. Agresti
Medical studies show that excessive stress and anxiety are among the most debilitating and deadly of all health hazards in the world. Beyond their obvious effects like suicide and substance abuse—these mental stressors are strongly related to and may trigger and inflame a host of ailments like high blood pressure, digestive disorders, heart conditions, infectious diseases, cancer, and pregnancy complications.
Based on a broad array of scientific data, Just Facts has computed that the anxiety created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease. This figure is a bare minimum, and the actual one is likely more than 90 times greater.
This study was reviewed by Joseph P. Damore, Jr., M.D., who concluded: “This research is engaging and thoroughly answers the question about the cure being worse than the disease.” Dr. Damore is a certified diplomate with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, an assistant attending psychiatrist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy.
48) Politicians Lied About the Lockdowns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsipYnIOJEM
49) Video Allegedly Shows That Once The Cameras Are Off Reporters Remove Their Masks And Don’t Follow Social Distancing Rules
50) Hypocrite Beaumont, Texas mayor Becky Ames thinks everyone except herself should be banned from going to nail salons
Becky Ames is the mayor of Beaumont, Texas.
She ordered all the nail salons in her city to lockdown.
However, she violated her own lockdown by allowing one specific nail salon to be open just so she herself could go there to get her nails done.
NBC News reported: (the bolding is mine)
The mayor of a southern Texas city apologized for violating her own stay-at-home order after a photo surfaced on social media of her at a nail salon.
The trip Tuesday by Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames to the closed salon has sparked an investigation by the district attorney.
In the image, the mayor is seen wearing a face mask as she’s seated at a table with her hands in a bowl of water. According to NBC affiliate KBMT in Beaumont, the photo was taken at The Nail Bar.
The NBC News article has a link to this picture of mayor Ames getting her nails done at the salon:
51) Small business used to define America’s economy. The pandemic could change that forever.
52) PA Health Secretary Moved Mother Out Of Personal Care Home After Ordering Nursing Homes To Accept COVID Patients
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pennsylvania-rachel-levine-mother-nursing-home/
53) Boy Scouts banned from planting American flags on veterans’ graves for Memorial Day due to coronavirus
https://www.foxnews.com/us/boy-scouts-banned-memorial-day-coronavirus-veterans
54) Sheriff rejects call by Virginia governor to enforce lockdown, cites Constitution
55) Totalitarian Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered a barber named Karl Manke to stop cutting hair. Then she rejected his claim for unemployment compensation. In order to pay for food, he continued cutting hair. Then she suspended his license, without so much as even a hearing or due process. And she won’t let him grow his own food. Apparently, she wants him to starve to death.
Karl Manke is a barber in Michigan. He’s been running his own barbershop since 1961.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered barbershops to close. Her alleged reason was that we had to flatten the curve, so hospitals would not be overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients.
The curve has been flatted. The hospitals have not been overwhelmed.
Despite this, governor Whitmer will still not allow barbershops to open.
Manke applied for unemployment compensation, but was rejected.
In order to pay for food, Manke continues to operate his barbershop.
Governor Whitmer suspended Manke’s professional license and his license for his barbershop, without so much as even a hearing or due process.
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is a totalitarian who wants to force Karl Manke to starve to death.
Governor Whitmer’s intent to force Manke to starve to death is so strong that she won’t even let him grow his own food. She has ordered big box stores to prevent customers from having access to certain sections of the store, including gardening supplies.
Hers are the exact words of Governor Whitmer’s order from her official government website. The bolding is mine: (Original, archive)
“For stores of more than 50,000 square feet… Close areas of the store – by cordoning them off, placing signs in aisles, posting prominent signs, removing goods from shelves, or other appropriate means—that are dedicated to the following classes of goods: Carpet or flooring. Furniture. Garden centers and plant nurseries. Paint.”
Only a totalitarian would be in favor of such a government policy.
56) Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down Stay-at-Home Order
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-wisconsin-supreme-court.html
I’m starting to believe that someone with the virus has it mutilating their insides but exhales the infection continuously with every breath....which would put these little buggers all over the place...on your clothes, furniture etc etc
The virus is indeed everywhere. We need to protect the old and vulnerable, and let the young and healthy build up herd immunity.
Blame the Chinese. Barbershops and Nail salons are conduits for CV19 propagation into communities ( there’s no common benefit to proceed in the face of uncertainty.) Lockdowns work and they have served to curtail this Virus attack from China.
Being from Michigan, I myself would be surprised to hear of people starving to death in that state. If your barber was rejected ? was it because he never paid into the normal deductions from income earnings?
I’m sorry , I’m not sold on killing people just so someone can continue with most likely …….” viewing the world from the bottom of a beer bottle every night.”
Churches, Relatives, Friends, stimulus checks, etc.., many options exist .
There’s something hidden or not being disclosed with all the boo-hoo, -stories I’m seeing. The politicians may not be right or there’s a chance ???? they could still be right.
>>49) Video Allegedly Shows That Once The Cameras Are Off Reporters Remove Their Masks And Don’t Follow Social Distancing Rules
What’s more I tried watching a press conference today and the speaker was wearing a mask whch md th ol thng mffld
Might as well just put out a press release on paper if you aren’t going to be clearly audible.
Has the curve flattened?
Were hospitals ever overrun?
Have the goal posts moved?
Will there ever be a vaccine?
Will we do this for the flu in the fall (shutdown until spring) since the deaths are the same?
Regarding #45-”Snitches get Rewards”-not out here they don’t-unless their idea of a reward is getting caught out alone where a couple of wranglers beat the sh** out of them and leave them under their truck...
I may be old, but I’m healthy and don’t have chronic conditions, take drugs, etc-I like my mostly outdoor work and have bills to pay-I need to be back to work-I’ve been building up my herd immunity on purpose from day 1 by going about my grocery shopping, etc just like normal-here in the rural county I live in, only leaving it once to go to a Home Depot for work stuff-4 days later I got what was likely a mild case of the Wuhan virus-bad for a few days, but shortened/knocked out with a favorite natural flu/virus remedy...
I stayed on my own property for 14 days after, trimming dead tree limbs, planting veggies etc getting plenty of sun, and I’ve been back to normal routine since-not all of us are fragile, beset with illnesses, etc-many of us own our own businesses and we need and want to get back to making money...
...and let the young and healthy build up herd immunity.
That didn't work out so well for these young people.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11309949/young-people-deaths-coronavirus-sign-symptoms/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8163367/How-young-people-perfectly-fit-healthy-killed-coronavirus.html
I am young and healthy but having had pneumonia at the age of 11 I'll take a hard pass on being used as a guinea pig in this herd immunity experiment.
Basic human rights protected by the Constitution should be reason enough.
The question then is, where was the response in 57-58 comparative to COVID-19 in proportion to its threat? Yes, the 116,000 deaths in America to the Asian flu was for the whole year, yet even if we reach about 200,000 deaths (we pray not) for COVID-19 then the extremely restrictive all-ages response to COVID-19 simply has no precedent in American history, except to a degree with the far more deadly (550,000 to 675,000 Americans, or 0.66% of the population) 1918 flu.
And yet we read ,
This is how the Pasadena Merchants and Standard-Murphys played a game in the Southern California Winter League on January 26, 1919. The influenza epidemic that had started the previous year was spreading, and California was concerned. Pasadena had started requiring residents to wear masks in public; on the first day that the rule went into effect, the city made 60 arrests to show that the new law was for real. So how does a baseball team operate under these regulations? Simple: Just make everyone wear a mask. Per the Los Angeles Times, “even when sliding for bases, the runners managed to keep the cloth over their noses and mouths.”
This was not how most baseball teams addressed the flu. While the MLB season was cut a few weeks short in 1918, that was due less to the outbreak and more to World War I, and it started back on schedule in 1919. But MLB went without any formal protocol about how to handle the outbreak, with no serious talk of canceled games or empty stadiums, and baseball went on, even as the illness came for some of its key figures...
And as for the 1919 Pasadena Merchants, they appear to be an outlier. While flu masks were common during the outbreak of 1918, there’s not much record of other baseball teams with them, and Pasadena received national press for the novelty of “the masked ballgame.” (Emma Baccellieri; https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/03/09/coronavirus-baseball-history)
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