Posted on 03/31/2020 7:04:47 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
The bizarre handling of Coronavirus and the obvious destruction of the United States of America......
I find myself seventy three years old here in Pittsburgh and deeply worried about the present and future of our country.
As the days go by the problems ahead for the nation seem bleaker.
My wife and I are Trump people yet this entire ugly event seems bigger and more evil than even he and his administration can solve.
The quote below sums up the feeling I have about how the American people are being treated. I really cannot see a way out of this. The evil plan to destroy our country seems too big and well planned. I hope I am wrong.
Any thoughts?
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”
”This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
-- C.S. Lewis
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As an aside, one question we might want to ask is, “Are people dying WITH coronavirus, or are people dying FROM coronavirus?
Best to get that lump out of your throat now, bend your knees more cause Gods going to want us all to be able to say we stood the test over these next weeks, which are going to be a “rough and painful” ride. He never allows something without giving us a heads up first.
Yes.
I don’t know. I’ve never been in a movie.
Amen
this is more than medical
Ding Ding, we have a winner! :-)
This season of discomfort and uncertainty is temporary....death is a done deal...... Perspective check.
I’m not panicked but we are wondering where he’d been to pick it up.
A lot of the lower-level ‘drones’ (as you call them) are just people doing jobs and trying to take care of their families.
You’ve just desribed exactly how fast and serious this virus can hit a person...then they’re gone.
It’s a virus straight from hell!......Listening to physcians working in hospitals treating people here and overseas they all say the same thing....it’s nasty and a killer.
Corona has taught me a lot about this forum....some I already knew
Majority over 50 female .....already knew that
Most people here don’t work.
Either on disability or retired
Amazing
The left wants to throw the world into a great depression to achieve political control and kill our constitution once and for all.
In order to maintain the charade, the left will attempt to attribute every death to corona virus to cause more panic.
About 8000 people die every day on average in the United States from all causes.
CDC Statistics:
In 2018, a total of 2,839,205 resident deaths were registered in the United States. 7,779 per day.
In 2017, a total of 2,813,503 resident deaths were registered in the United States. 7,708 per day.
In 2016, a total of 2,744,248 resident deaths were registered in the United States. 7,497 per day.
News Flash: The elderly and immunocompromised are vulnerable to disease!
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e2.htm
[Oh, please.]
My g grandfather died in 1919 when that flu was supposed to be about over. His wife said he was a healthy 245 lb farmer one day and gone the next. with that flu, they died choking to death.. fluid in the lungs .. full and no breath left.
this sounds similar today. there was no penicillin then yet..and it was said it took the healthy ones first.
“Italy caused people over 60 to not get respirators.”
Because they had so many sick they had to ration. They had their own FluBros.
“Italy said over 50% of everyone who died from COVID were elderly AND had three serious, pre-existing, life threatening illnesses.”
Over 50%. What about the other 50%? Do you happen to know how old “elderly” is in Italy? Sounds like it’s 60. How many of those “serious, pre-existing, life threatening illnesses” does your average 60-year-old American have? Diabetes, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, cirrhosis, bad teeth, jaundice, cancer, blah, blah, blah. We’re all sick and many don’t even know it.
“The flu kills 300,000 - 600,000 a normal season. COVID will go no where near that.”
If you FluBros keep up your nonsense, the US death toll will hit that range, never mind the world death toll.
“The US won’t have even 15,000 die of it.”
We’ll hit 15,000 just from the cases we have confirmed *now* unless they deploy HCQ+AZT immediately, and that won’t save many of the people in critical shape right now, because if you are too far gone it doesn’t help you.
“Not only that, but COVID is causing a NEGATIVE DEATH RATE.”
So what are you complaining about?
Except that’s not true. Fewer people are dying from other causes due to the social restrictions you are so freaked out over. But people are still dying. It is not clear how many deaths are being averted, and I would not be surprised if it were on the same order as those deaths from CCP-19. But the deaths due to most issues are still happening. Fewer car wrecks, and fewer communicable disease deaths. But you have to avert 20 flu cases for every CCP-19 case you allow just to break even.
No doubt. As I said, it's not personal. Great jobs, good security, all justified somehow. Same would be true if 50% of the jobs were government jobs. As it is, I think only 20% of the jobs are government jobs. Every one of them a good person.
Sorry about that.....thank God we have better medications today.
They’re learning more and more about this new virus every day but it sure is a bugger confounding the best working at it.
Here’s what I think.
One, it was necessary for the United States to bring everything to a stop to assess this previously unknown virus and put resources onto place to handle the pandemic.
Two, we will reopen the economy. I think Trump sees this as vital.
Three, things will get worse once things get moving again but there should be medical resources in place when that happens.
Four, this is a likely a bioweapon, certainly engineered. I believe that it wasn’t knowingly deployed. There would be no reason to kill so many of your own people who you can control anyway and possibly infect your own country’s leadership.
4. An Italian study claimed the virus mutates slowly. This is very good news because once a vaccine is developed, it should work for multiple years.
Thumbs up!
What was that tweet Trump sent ... Covfefe? I wonder what he has up his sleeve?
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