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Was COVID-19 Our Neutron Bomb?
American Greatness ^ | 2/28/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/01/2021 5:48:51 AM PST by Onthebrink

In the 1970s and 1980s, furor arose over our possible use of the “neutron bomb” that macabrely would “kill people, but not destroy property.” The logic of the perverse weapon was that on allied and friendly European ground, outnumbered defensive NATO troops might radiate and destroy invading masses of Soviet armored troops by periodic detonations of low-yield thermonuclear shells, rockets, and bombs.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: covid19; joebiden; neutronbomb; socialism; vdh
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1 posted on 03/01/2021 5:48:51 AM PST by Onthebrink
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To: Onthebrink

Dunno? Ask Trey Billygoat Gates of Hell and Anthony Pimple on his Shoulders Fauzi.


2 posted on 03/01/2021 5:53:44 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Onthebrink

No, the cure was!


3 posted on 03/01/2021 5:55:53 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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To: Onthebrink

willingly forced on innocents

it was untested

no actual virus was seen by SEM (only influenza A and B)

genetic code to be inserted into American DNA by
force was from the CCP/WHO designed BEFORE the infection.

fools. sheep. many will die and suffer. as planned.

and no one, but no one, in authority spoke up
on the way to cash their counterfeit money from China.


4 posted on 03/01/2021 5:56:00 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Onthebrink

Naw. it was our “amish virus”.

“You have just received the Amish virus. Because we don’t have any computers or programming experience, this virus works on the honour system. Please delete all files from your hard drive and manually forward this virus to everyone on your mailing list.

“Thanks for your cooperation - the Amish Computer Engineering department”

i.e. it only works if you cooperate. And it’s not as funny. :)

It’s also like a neutron bomb that only works if you believe it does. You can tell who doesn’t believe because their cars still work. :)


5 posted on 03/01/2021 5:56:30 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: Onthebrink
“The man responsible for lockdowns and the modelling used to justify them
has no qualifications.” NONE.

“Despite his epics failures, he still sits on the government’s venerated SAGE science conclave. “
As it turns out, Ferguson hold no formal qualifications at all in the biological sciences
– not as a microbiologist, a virologist, nor as an epidemiologist or biological statistician.
… As far as publicly available information is accurate, he appears to have no formal training
in computer modelling, medicine or epidemiology either.”

6 posted on 03/01/2021 6:00:34 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Dr. Ursus
"No, the cure was!"

The keyhole, where covid 20 fits...(?)

7 posted on 03/01/2021 6:03:15 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: Diogenesis

Well, his qualification was that he came up with a prediction that exactly matched what the Great Resetters wanted to hear.


8 posted on 03/01/2021 6:05:49 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Onthebrink

Democrats are far more dangerous.


9 posted on 03/01/2021 6:06:19 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: Onthebrink
From the linked article:

"Yet in moral terms of the preciousness of life, the virus was as bad as war, given the way thousands of unique people simply perished, many in silence and alone, many perhaps unnecessarily, as they were trapped in rest homes that admitted actively infected transfer patients, and others suffocated by a virus that for months no one knew much about.

That's because it was and is war.

We should have already sunk their navy and decapitated the PLA air force. We could have let our allies and other comparatively civilized countries in that part of the world help out some, especially the Japs would certainly enjoy lending a hand with the navy part.

Vlad would have had his price to be looking the other way, seeing how his country was a victim of the CCP virus war also.

Blowing the three gorges dam to smithereens would be optional, depending on the longevity of the CCP and the great leader.

Sorry if it offends anyone, not really.

10 posted on 03/01/2021 6:09:10 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: Onthebrink

I don’t think so. The response to Covid-19 wrecked businesses, the economy, and plunged the government deeper and deeper into debt. We’re coming up on a year and have only half the 1 million or so claimed by the 1970 Hong Kong Flu outbreak were lost due to Covid-19.


11 posted on 03/01/2021 6:16:19 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

...And that’s if you believe the numbers they tell you.


12 posted on 03/01/2021 6:19:54 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Onthebrink

Lockdowns have killed millions, by Sebastian Rushworth, M.D.

Over the course of this pandemic I have often wished that Hans Rosling was still alive. For those who are unaware, he was a medical doctor and a professor at Karolinska Institutet who had a particular interest in global health and development. In 2012, Time magazine declared him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

During the last few months of his life, in 2017, he wrote an excellent book called “Factfulness”, that summed up most of his thinking, and described how many of the things people “know” about the world are completely wrong. Hans Rosling is something of a hero of mine, and if he was still alive, I’m sure he would have contributed to bringing som sanity to the current situation. With his global influence, I think people would have listened.

Two of Hans Rosling’s former colleagues at Karolinska Instituet, professor Anna-Mia Ekström and professor Stefan Swartling Peterson, have gone through the data from UNICEF and UNAIDs, and come to the conclusion that least as many people have died as a result of the restrictions to fight covid as have died of covid directly.

And while almost all the people who have died of covid have died in rich countries and been old, the vast majority of people who have died of lockdown have died in poor countries and been young. This means that the number of years of life lost to lockdown is many times greater than the number of years of life lost to covid-19 (as I’ve written about on this blog previously).

The specific causes of death are malnutrition, caused by shutting down the global economy, lack of vaccination, caused by shutting down childhood vaccination programs, and treatable diseases like tuberculosis and HIV, that have been prioritized down as a result of efforts to fight covid-19.

These unintended consequences of the efforts to fight covid have caused the rate of childhood deaths to increase in 2020 for the first time in decades. The two professors also note that rates of childhood marriage and of teen pregnancy and abortion have increased significantly as a result of taking children out of school. They have been interviewed about their findings on SVT, the Swedish public broadcaster. If you speak Swedish, you can watch a documentary that discusses their conclusions here.

I have to say, I’m very impressed with SVT for producing this documentary, and daring to put a lot of the numbers in perspective. The documentary clearly shows that covid-19 is nowhere near as deadly as the 1918 Spanish flu, and is in fact very much in line with the flu pandemics of 1957 and 1968. And they note that more people died of smoking last year than of covid. But we haven’t made smoking illegal. And they also note that anti-democratic governments in many countries have taken advantage of the pandemic to move forward their positions, get rid of opposition, and limit human rights.

Lockdowns are inherently racist and elitist, with unclear benefits but proven harms. We all need to stand up and tell our governments that we don’t support what they are doing, and we will not vote for any politician or party promoting continued lockdowns and restrictions as a solution to covid-19, unless they can clearly show that that benefit to society as a whole is greater than the harm.

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13 posted on 03/01/2021 6:19:58 AM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not losers! Who is rewriting our history, now????)
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To: Onthebrink
"The virus devastated the aged. About eight in 10 Americans who perished from COVID-19 were over 65. Many were retired. Most suffered from comorbidities."

And this is precisely why Democrats need institutionalized election fraud going forward.

14 posted on 03/01/2021 6:25:26 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: BradyLS

This was not by any means the worst crisis the nation and the world have faced.

But it was probably much more poorly managed than most wartime encounters.

In war, at least, there is a visible enemy to mobilize against, and objectives to be achieved on the way to eventual victory.


15 posted on 03/01/2021 6:26:36 AM PST by alloysteel (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition.)
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To: Diogenesis

Sent to relatives in UK..thanks.


16 posted on 03/01/2021 6:33:44 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: Onthebrink

Reminds about the Stalin quote”

“The neutron bomb is the perfect Capitalist weapon. It destroys property and doesn’t kill people.”


17 posted on 03/01/2021 6:42:58 AM PST by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: Onthebrink

After listening to our POTUS speaking at CPAC yesterday, I am expecting that there will be another pandemic in about 3 years. Because, it was so effective for the last round.


18 posted on 03/01/2021 6:44:58 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: Onthebrink

Reminds about the Stalin quote”

“The neutron bomb is the perfect Capitalist weapon. It destroys property and doesn’t kill people.”


19 posted on 03/01/2021 6:45:49 AM PST by SMARTY ( "Force always attracts men of low morality. " Albert Einstein)
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To: StAnDeliver

“The virus devastated the aged. About eight in 10 Americans who perished from COVID-19 were over 65. Many were retired. Most suffered from commordities.”

The Above and Below are why so many of us over the age of 65 chose to be vaccinated.

Fifty-six percent of this county’s fatalities have been males. The average fatality age is 76, with 31% 85 years and older, 24% ages 75 to 84, 25% 65 to 74 and 19% under 65*, the county reported.

Broken down by race/ethnicity, 49% of deaths were non-Hispanic whites, 35% were Hispanic/Latinx, 6% Asian, 4% other and 6% unknown.

Because of tight vaccine supplies, the county has been reserving vaccines for people, who are 75 years and older, those due for their second shots and healthcare workers. As more vaccine becomes available, other populations of county residents will be included.

*81% of deaths have been ages: 65 and over.

Since we have been doing real math all of our lives, we opted for the vaccines.

My wife and I are over 80, our friends and many siblings are over 75+. So, we/our core group have gotten both shots or are scheduled this week or next week.

If you don’t want the shots, don’t get them!

Just leave us alone and stop being little Andy Cuomo’s telling us we really don’t want nor need the vaccination.


20 posted on 03/01/2021 6:49:40 AM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not losers! Who is rewriting our history, now????)
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