Posted on 08/13/2020 1:42:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If youre hoping the COVID-19 pandemic will go on forever, this post may disappoint you. And, I get it. We have gone frothing-at-the-mouth nuts over a slightly above-normal virulence virus, with a unique and obvious age-distribution pattern that should have made containment easy and panic completely unnecessary. And, if youre living in the United States, like I am, you probably think my declaration that this pandemic is over to be somewhere between wishful thinking and incredibly premature, and I hear you, too, although forgive me if Im not sure youre the one thinking clearly, given some of the things Ive recently read. I promise to support my assertion with data, and the wisdom of people far more expert than me who are having a harder time being heard in the present climate of bats#@t crazy.
Have we lost our collective minds? Yes.
You may not be one of them. In fact, Im guessing the people who actually take the time to read my blog posts are the few remaining who havent been subsumed by the panic, but can we agree that most have? Jeffrey A. Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research put it best in his excellent essay on July 10 titled, When will the Madness End?:
(Excerpt) Read more at jbhandleyblog.com ...
A 2 week lockdown has evolved into 6 months and possibly 12 if we let these assholes continue the ruse. It’s time to tell them IT’S OVER! Whether they like it or not!
How convenient. Now people will be dying from this thing 5 years from now who haven’t even been infected yet. Even more goalpost movement for the lockdown criteria.
People need to take their vitamins and eat healthy, they’ll be fine. The odds of dying under 80 with this are extremely low. Globally it has a 0.008% fatality rate. Let’s keep getting all fired up shall we?
It looks like doing that mask thing hasn’t worked out very well in your state.
People should march down to their respective leader’s homes and burn all those face nappies.
I liked the article, hope he’s right, but he’s already wrong about the death number. We crossed 170k today.
Once it spreads it spreads like wildfire.
And it spreads no matter what you do.
Karen. Masked up for safety?
Move Zig for great justice.
You believe everything your told related to these deaths?
Youre
At least most of the fearbros have STFU after consistently embarrasing themselves with their panic stupidity.
The writer made his estimate based on them. He missed.
The real count is irrelevant to that and unknown anyway.
Well, that was certainly worded odd.
Nope.
The virus has been contracting for three weeks.
It's a sine wave or an epidemiological curve.
Heh, heh. School is about to start. Get the popcorn.
Good Job,
I was starting to
WORRY!
So elaborate,,,
They HAD IT?
They just came Down
With it,
Age,
Other illnesses?
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