Posted on 08/13/2020 6:57:15 PM PDT by EdnaMode
I’m increasingly convinced that #SARSCoV2 is a creation of the media/technology complex. (NO - I do not mean it’s not real or was bioengineered.) What I mean is: aside from a couple of weeks in a handful of cities worldwide - including, sigh, the world’s media capital...
The overall effects of this epidemic have essentially been impossible for the average person to see without a microscope. Hospitals are not overflowing. Bodies are not piling up in the streets. Most of us will never know anyone under 55 (65? 70?) who has died of #Covid.
But instead many people feel like the world is ending? Why? More than anything else, it’s the obsessive - almost sordid - fascination with death counts, updated in real time and presented without context (average age of victims, how many people generally die in a year, etc)...
Why are we counting deaths this way? We’ve never done this for any other illness. Never. And there are lots of reasons, but maybe the most important is that we’re doing this largely because we can - because the technology now exists to aggregate these counts almost instantly.
And then both conventional and social media are blasting out these figures not just every day but every second - from the @cnn deathmeter to @nytimes heatmaps to everyone screaming on Twitter. True story: at this point #SARSCoV2 worldwide is slightly worse than a bad flu year...
And the 700,000 people it has killed worldwide are less than half the number who have died or traffic accidents OR diarrhea OR tuberculosis this year, less than 2% of all deaths.
There has never been anything like this before, but not because of the virus.
I declined their voluntary services so this is their punishment. I’m livid.
For how long?
Live in the new U.S.S A., I guess.
That’s partly what made me so irate. There was no criteria given for it ending, nor was there any invitation to contact them to discuss how and when it would end. As of this morning they have rescinded the order, but they admitted that they weren’t going to notify me. This was by their admission, them punishing me for not cooperating with something that is supposedly voluntary in my state.
I see you are in TX.
I would expect this kind of behavior out of NYS, not TX.
I have moved away from TX. But Austin and Dallas and Houston would do this in a heartbeat.
At one time, I would estimate that 30-40% of the freepers posting were Karens, fearmongers, and pro-lockdown.
At one time, we didn’t know what we were dealing with and the FIFTEEN DAY to flatten the curve was supported out of caution.
Well, the curve is flattened, we’ve learned a lot about the virus and how to treat it and how contagious it is, and we’ve seen that it’s become a political tool of oppression.
You can’t fairly condemn people for decisions they made with the working knowledge they had.
Nobody objected to reasonable caution.
Those days are long past.
So so what if at *one time* people were pro-lockdown? For the fifteen days we were asked for, it was not a problem.
And that doesn’t make them Karen’s as nobody was snitching on their neighbors and going full throttle nazi on those who weren’t wearing facemasks, to that accusation is not valid. And nobody was fear mongering when this hit so hard. There is wisdom in caution until you know what you’re dealing with.
Judging people for past behavior and decisions based on current knowledge is disingenuous.
Those numbers are manufactured
Any support of any lock down was foolish. Those who fell for that BS, who do not admit they are wrong are Karens.
It was obvious from the start that lock downs were NOT needed. Now we have made dictators of every governor and mayor in the country and they will never give up those powers willingly.
Bat virus + influenza virus = ???
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