Posted on 08/01/2020 1:30:39 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
It is a fact that with H1N1 it was the young people who got sick and died. I was there treating them. Those over 45-50 had protection from having the Hong Kong flu/swine flu in the 70s. Period.
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How does it feel to be a sheep, manipulated by the mass media?
Right now, I wear a mask if I go into a store that is posted ‘masked required’. Our county health department has ordered such, although there is no real enforcement.
Many seem to think this outbreak is another effort to ‘take out’ President Trump. I have no illusions that our media will do whatever it can to achieve that end, including making this disease appear worse than it really is for most people. That said, real people are really dying from this thing, who would otherwise still be around.
However, this disease has struck much harder in Britain, France, and Italy and those three nations experienced lockdowns much tighter than any U.S. state that I’m aware of. One difference that I see in their press is that they are supportive of what their nation’s leaders are trying to do to curb the disease, instead of criticizing everything they do or don’t do.
Like your screen name suggests—I too live in the boonies. Lots of space between people and frankly I don’t ‘get to town’ all that much. Our schools are set to open in a few weeks, but with very altered schedules and procedures. Lunches in the rooms on paper plates, no gym or recess and only 15 kids per bus.
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Interesting range of responses. Obviously nobody thinks the whole thing is made up, but many feel that components of the overall situation are either substantially or even vastly exaggerated. Very similar to one of the airliner panics where a few people really were ill, another 20-30 per cent of the passengers then thought they were also ill, but were not.
On the flip side of this question, perhaps COVID-19 is capable of morphing into a worse disease over time.
I don’t rule anything out, the truth of this complicated matter seems to be that we have seen a considerable over-reaction, but whether that’s human nature, a co-ordinated plot in somebody’s interests, or a sign of a developing helicopter government syndrome where nobody may get sick or die, remains to be seen.
The duty of the conservative movement in all of this is to seek out the best balance between health care interests, economic survival, and liberty-retaining reality checks that reduce the interventionist impulse of the nanny state.
Up to the present time, no political movement has ever existed to demand absolute universal freedom from risk or illness in human life. If one did exist, it would be hopelessly utopian. That is how I see the response to COVID-19 overall, hopelessly utopian and mindless to economic and social realities. A price will be paid for this somewhere. Perhaps it will be in November.
On what?
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