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?
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Where did you hear that?
Are you Christians like Lewis? Hopefully yes and if so proceed to the more appropriate Lewis quote below. If not I would proceed to the New testament and find Christ who I am sure gave Lewis the courage and wisdom to write it. ( fwiw, I am very confident that we are going to come out of this with bells on. Trump is amazing me.)
‘If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.’
As an aside, I think this virus is exactly what we think it is...a virus.
And as yet, we have no idea whether this ordeal will end quickly or morph into something bigger and deadlier...something of Biblical proportions. All we can do is hunker down and hang on.
Keep your chins up, guys. We are made of tough stuff. No matter what happens, we can handle it.
Respectfully, you don’t realize it but he is correct. On March 12 I made a post about martial law in PA and the price of liberty without justification and was slammed. It would be viewed as mild today.
Respectfully, you don’t realize it but he is correct. On March 12 I made a post about martial law in PA and the price of liberty without justification and was slammed. It would be viewed as mild today.
What bizarre handling??? If you mean local authorities then start paying more attention to local politics.
As for the federal govt Trump has been magnificent
In an electronic age, it may no longer be wise to have just one financial, cultural, and media center for the entire country. It’s too vulnerable.
Businessmen should continue to escape that high-tax Hades of a city-state, until the Rats are overthrown.
We had a roaring economy. Trump was declared victor in the Impeachment Hoax debacle.
The Deep State (New World Order), in coordination with the Liberal Mainstream Media, and Democratic Party, initiated the COVID-19 HOAX (aka, the flu) to destroy Trump.
Initially, it was working.
Eventually, Trump was clued-in and decided to go "All-In" and outsmart the Establishment, and become the CHINA VIRUS COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
Trump will ride it out and be elected to a 2nd term where he will, once again, Make America Great Again (MAGA).
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thanks........... it's just such a difficult thing, because I'm not used to being powerless in defending myself from threats.
It should be simple and straight forward. If you have masks, use them. If you don't, improvise.
We should not be getting mixed messages here and now.
Maybe not all, but perhaps the younger ones with no heart issues.
Your solid, reasonable words and sense of humor helped!
Watching Laura Ingraham and she is playing clips where Dr Doom is basically setting up the extension into May and June. depressing as hell. We will no longer have a country at that point. If some areas are not opening in May l see no way around a full on depression.
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I’ll make a prediction:
If President Trump allows an extension of this into May, thus energizing Governors and Mayors into even more punitive quarantines of their citizens, his support will start to drop! People are not going to accept this loss of liberty for a fu*king virus!
There are currently 42K Coronavirus deaths worldwide. The US has 3,889 deaths from COVID-19. According to Dr. Fauci (going off our current deaths), we “could” see 96,111 to 196,111 deaths from this in the next 3-5 weeks! Seriously? The US is going to lose that many people to Coronavirus, when the Global death rate is only 42K?
I cannot believe people are falling for this steaming pile of bull sh*t!
Your math is wise!
I don’t think you should put anyone on any drug, until you have some idea that their symptoms and test results suggest whatever is most likely to be their disease,
I’m not a medical professional or scientist. But if a drug is used routinely for other problems, with rare serious side effects - AND if some studies, even limited ones, suggest that it appears to be of benefit against thus current virus - it may be a good thing at some point in the progression of the disease, for the people actually suffering from Covid-19.
From what I’ve read, I’d be willing to try it, if I had tested positive for the current coronavirus and were going downhill.
But things have to be STUDIED, before they are prescribed willy-nilly. Otherwise, we may do much more harm than good.
This entire thing has been too politicized. We’re in a waiting game; and need to exercise a little faith, and patience.
I have faith in President Trump, Vice President Pence, and the team that they have put together. I also have enormous faith in the brilliance and ingenuity of our many American scientists, researchers and companies who are working on this.
If it doesn’t fit correctly, you’re going to keep touching your face to adjust it.
If you’re sick, don’t wear a mask. Stay home.
You clearly don’t have a clue.
I’m in the suburbs north of Detroit, and “in the thick of it” right now. Been at home (& working from home) for a week and a half now, only going out when necessary.
First day working out of the basement, my 17 year old daughter gets up in the morning not feeling well, half passes out trying to get off the toilet. Finally manages to get up an starts calling for my wife and I in tears because she can’t see.
I half carry her to a nearby recliner and check her out, get her some water then lemonade hoping it is just low blood sugar or blood pressure. After about 15 minutes of rest, she’s getting her sight back. Check her blood pressure, seems fine. Check her sugar, that seems okay. No apparent fever. She had a loose BM on the toilet, maybe something she ate.
So do you take her to the ER and risk exposing her to this crap? Talk about a bad parent day.
After about 45 minutes she seems fine, two hours later we check her temp and it’s good at 98.3. WTH happened? Who knows. She seems okay, not going to risk taking her to an ER with COVID-19 cases in our area shooting up like an F-16 in a zoom climb.
Take a look at comment 22 on this thread, and tell me this wasn’t a possible bio weapon that got loose:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3829601/posts?page=15
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'COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS'.
I learned that as a little boy around 60 years ago.
I suggest you think about it.
(Comparisons are of little value. They reveal little or no truth.)
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