Posted on 05/17/2020 7:17:12 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...Our country is suffering now both with illness and with economic woes. Our economic woes are self-imposed even if well-intentioned. The illness did not wipe out our workforce and make it impossible to continue to buy and sell goods and services. We closed our businesses and idled the workforce. We can choose to change that.
People fear that the virus will make even more people ill if we do that. And I agree that it is likely that the number of infected persons will go up. But what is our choice? A recent study in NY indicates that 66% of the people who eventually needed hospitalization were “sheltering in place”. So staying home did not keep them from getting ill.
Yes we need to manage the illness. Older people like me need to take reasonable steps to avoid being infected. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities need to have good infection control protocols. People undergoing chemotherapy or otherwise have compromised immune systems need to also take special measures. The rest of the country has to get on with their lives and return the economy to one that can provide reasonable for everyone. Poverty is not a health plan...
(Excerpt) Read more at ricochet.com ...
The first part to his essay is not bad either.
17 May: UK Sun: ‘IT’S A MESS’ Professor Pantsdown’s ‘Stay At Home’ lockdown advice based on badly written and unreliable computer code, experts say
by Thomas Burrows
THE coronavirus modelling credited with forcing the government to abandon its plans for “herd immunity” and put Britain into lockdown has been slammed as “totally unreliable” by a series of experts.
Leading figures claimed Professor Neil Ferguson’s computer coding was something “you wouldn’t stake your life on”...
David Richards, co-founder of tech firm WANdisco, told the Sunday Telegraph: “It’s a buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming.
“In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.”
Many have said is almost impossible to reproduce the same results from the same data, using the same code.
It is likely to reignite the debate as to whether the government should have taken into account a greater number of models before putting the UK in lockdown on March 23.
Michael Bonsall, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Oxford University, added: “We’d be up in arms if weather forecasting was based on a single set of results from a single model and missed taking that umbrella when it rained.”...
Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption has claimed the government put the country in lockdown in “blind panic” following Professor Ferguson’s findings...
“The government terrified people into submission by giving the impression that Covid-19 was dangerous for everyone. It is not. It attacks people with serious vulnerabilities. The death rate for those under 50 is tiny.”...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11642959/neil-ferguson-stay-at-home-lockdown-advice-unreliable-code/
16 May: American Thinker: The Coronavirus Fifth Column
by Eileen F. Toplansky
As left-wing Democrat-controlled states continue to keep people in lockdown, it is becoming apparent that they are using the pandemic as a means to gain ultimate control of people’s lives...
At the Jacobin, an American socialist, Marxist quarterly based in New York, Ben Burgis emphasizes that
“Progressives and democratic socialists need to make the case that there’s a third alternative to business-as-usual centrists running the states Trump wants to ‘liberate’ and the cynical demagogues who want to feed low-income workers to the capitalist death machine by prematurely ending the lockouts.”...
The Washington Post reported the group Pacronym is planning to spend $5 million on ads attacking Trump’s response to the pandemic. Pacronym, whose board of directors includes former Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe, said its ads will target key 2020 swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Arizona.
Money is distributed to progressive causes by a number of Democratic PACs, e.g., Sixteen Thirty Fund. In fact, “in 2018, Politico reported that the Sixteen Thirty Fund ‘funneled millions of dollars to progressive causes’ by setting up a secret-money network of other groups, which were the ‘most prolific political advertisers of 2018’ when combined.”...
Freedom-loving Americans need to understand the existence of this fifth column and then assiduously fight the penetration of enemies to the state.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/05/the_coronavirus_fifth_column.html
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