The Fact-Free Lockdown Hysteria | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Posted on 08/13/2020 1:42:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If you’re 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 you’re 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 I’m not sure you’re the one thinking clearly, given some of the things I’ve 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, I’m guessing the people who actually take the time to read my blog posts are the few remaining who haven’t 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 ...
unless man made global warming gets us first.
‘If Trump wins, it goes on and intensifies.’
disagree; if Trump wins, then the panic attacks will have failed in their mission, and thus of no further value, plus even our feminized general populace only has so much patience for panic when it cannot be backed by numbers, fictitious or otherwise...the attacks on Trump and all Republicans will take on a more strident tone, a more vicious reality will become apparent, as violence becomes the go to behavior...
‘If Biden/Harris wins, COVID fades away quickly...’
again, I think not; however, what will pivot on a dime is the media coverage, with headlines praising the new era of hope and change and the fresh approach to the disease, and numbers will no longer be necessary to prove any points...but we will still be wearing masks until Christmas, at the very earliest...
‘The second killer wave is just starting.’
do you and the other clown on this thread that said the same thing go out on double dates...? is that where you plan your strategies for snitching on the miscreants who ‘violate the RULES...?
Good analysis - Much more clearly presented in the entire article - not here in this tiny summary.
Hence the deep state coined phrase ‘The new normal’
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