Posted on 03/13/2020 10:31:00 AM PDT by DouglasKC
Let's face it. No matter what the President does about the Corona virus the Democrats and their "news" lackeys are not going to be positive about it.
Something has been puzzling me though about this response. He seems to be schizophrenic about it. In his news conferences and whenever his corona team presents information they are straight forward with the danger and potential impact on the virus. For weeks President Trump has said that nothing is off the table when it comes to meeting the challenge. And yet for quite a while he seemed to be minimizing the threat via his tweets.
Strange. It's evident from what's happened in every other country that this virus is a direct threat not only to the health and safety of the citizens but also to our healthcare system. The virus is highly infectious and it causes severe to critical symptoms in about 20% of those who contract. That means they need medical care of some kind with probably at least 10% needing hospitalization and 5% needing icu. The corona team led by VP Pence has stated this repeatedly. President Trump himself apparnetly knew the danger long ago...remember his quarantines of Wuhan travelers and the first cruise ships? Government imposed quarantines had not been done in the modern age. It makes no sense that he would try to minimize the threat.
And now we come to Rush Limbaugh. I have been getting pissed at Rush because whenever I tune in he TOO seems to be minimizing the virus. He, like Trump, constantly compares it the flu. Rush HAS to know that this is not the flu. He had VP Pence IN HIS STUDIO less than a week ago. Pence HAD to give him the real story. He was also at the State of the Union as a guest of the President and sat right next to Melania. There is no way Rush could NOT know the truth.
So what gives? This must be a purposeful strategy.
Let's look at it this way. Every single country has essentially needed to shutdown their country to try and negate this virus. Nobody has been successful in stopping the virus from getting into their country. The President and his team have to know this. They're not in denial. They have all the resources of the federal government. Therefore they must have come to the conclusion months ago that a complete shutdown was their only option in the long run.
So how could they implement that? They could have called out the national guard, declared a national emergency and sent out the National guard to enforce. Or they could have asked people to voluntarily self quarantine. It's obvious that either one of these strategies was full of problems. Declaring martial law would have caused huge problems politically. Nobody would have recognized the threat. Same with voluntary. Nobody would have recognized the threat. There would have been mass panic. Or there would have been mass denial. Or there would have been mass non-compliance. More likely there would be a combination of it.
Here's the thing: Since it obviously can't be stopped and there's no vaccine and there's no acquired immunity then our best bet in the short term is for people to acquire the virus. We want people to get the virus. BUT we don't want a whole bunch of people to get the virus at the same time. That's a REALLY deadly scenario because not only would many corona victims die but so would those with other problems who wouldn't be able to get treatment.
So the challenge was to get to total shutdown without causing mass panic AND letting as many people get infected as fast as possible without letting too many people get infected. A huge challenge. So what do you do?
Ask Rush Limbaugh to minimize this even though he knows it's a threat. I don't care what you say Rush is a huge influence. If he keeps using terms like "hoax" and basically says it's a nothing burger political attack on President Trump there are many who will believe that.
And so what will happen? Exactly what has happened. People are coming to the reality of the situation in waves and avoiding panic and store runs. Those who have followed this closely prepared long ago. Those who came on board later then prepared. Those who believe it is a hoax will come on board very soon.
Within the last week we have seen virtually all public gatherings soft banned. Schools and colleges have closed. I think the fedgov has been coordinating it all. They've been working behind the scenes and telling states that they must do this...but to avoid panic do it so it looks voluntary by companies, sports leagues, states, etc. etc. This way the virus can spread BUT at a slower rate thus ensuring the preservation of our healthcare system.
This is "flattening the curve". Somebody has been posting a great graph on this and post it again. I believe that President Trump has been following this strategy. And he is doing the absolute best he can with the hand he's been dealt.
Here's my prediction: Starting Monday Rush and President Trump will change their tone completely. Rush especially will acknowledge the threat and shift toward optimism about getting through it and working together to defeat it.
Myself? I'm confident that there will be some short term pain. But thank God President Trump got the economy so strong before this hit. In the end we'll recover from this. In the meantime though we have to do all we can to NOT let it spread quickly. Self quarantine. Self isolate. Let it infect people slowly so we can handle the medical crush and save more lives.
When I was young, a teacher told our class a story.
The story was about two young men who came upon an elderly man who was pulling weeds in his garden. The young men thought to have fun with the elderly man.
“Sir! What would you be doing if you knew you were going to die tonight?”
“I would finish weeding the garden,” the elderly man said.
Our teacher asked the class what this meant.
I raised my hand.
“It means the elderly man was living his life exactly the way he wanted to. The most important thing to him at that time was weeding the garden. He had priorities in life. He thought about life.”
The Coronavirus can come or it can go.
I will finish weeding my garden.
Bravo! Me too.
The numbers are piddling. Piddly. Miniscule. There are 7 billion people in the world. 60 million people die every day. 3000 people have died in 3 and 1/2 months of a specific cause. The rate of doubling should be long for the first doubling and progressively shorter for each subsequent doubling to make an exponential growth that would be needed to become a serious danger. The number of dead in America is less than 50. It hasn’t gone up in a couple of weeks. All we see are panic buying and some randomly distributed positive tests. Tom Hanks got it but he is in Australia. The largest concentration of coronavirus fatalities was in a convalescent hospital in Washington state. That was weeks ago. The stock market has gone down but that can happen for any or even no reason.
We haven’t had a tsunami in North America in a century.
Yep we are taking silver and elderberry tincture daily as well as Vitamin C, D3,K2, zinc.
yep! My thoughts exactly!
Our local community college is closed until the end of the semester. All classes will be on-line.
“patriotic Americans are adults who can handle their lives and the country just fine.”
That’s what I’ve believed from the beginning. If America was started by fearful wussies, there wouldn’t be an America.
Yawn...
That took an enema for you to rid yourself of all the bullshit that you've been peddling for the past couple of days.
Got caught with your hand in the toilet paper, and now you post a reasonable piece to cleanse your soul.
You are hoping that no one remembers the crap that you've been posting about Rush and the whole chinavirus scam.
The sorry part should have been your first sentence in this self serving scam.
I will remember your two faced approach and whenever I see a post by KC, I will know to put on the hip boots.
Hypocrite.
The Wu Flu is a nothing burger for 99.5% of people that get it. A sore throat and cough for a couple of days. Less severe than the real flu.
Looks like Rush will be off today.
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