Day 351 of 15 Days to “Flatten the Curve”

Today marks 351 days since the institution of the infamous “Flatten the Curve,” AKA The Deep State’s Plot to Drive Us Crazy, Make Us Stupid, and Take Over the World.

15 days, they told us, for 15 days/roughly two weeks we need to work from home, close non-essential business, cancel concerts, baby showers, cat shows, etc., yada, yada, you know “the thing” (to show my solidarity with a certain awe-inspiring president) in order to give hospitals a chance to gear up for huge, terrible, overwhelming waves of ‘rona patients.

Instead, 15 days has now become 351 days. We can argue as to the exact start date of the implementation of Operation Curve Flattening. I am punctuating it from the first day I began working from home. __________________________________________

So, let’s see, where do things stand in the world of the dread virus ‘rona heading into the final stretch toward the one-year anniversary of Operation Curve Flattening. Here are the headlines from yesterday’s postings by fellow Freepers:

While You Wait For a $1,400 Stimulus Check, House COVID Relief Bill Will Pay Federal Workers to Stay Home And Get Paid $1,400 Per Week

HUGE EXCLUSIVE: US Dr. Ralph Baric Was Reviewing Moderna’s and Dr. Fauci’s Coronavirus Vaccine in December 2019! — What’s Going On?

Alberta Church Defies COVID Rules to Hold Sunday Service in Solidarity with Jailed Pastor

I don’t know what, if any, conclusions to draw from these. I am just weary from all of this and my brain is utterly fried from it.

In my neck of the woods, several churches are making plans to go back to in-person services after having suspended them a few months ago when cases were on the uptick. I heard tell that the Catholic churches would no longer be giving dispensations to people who do not attend their masses (many Catholic churches remained open—perhaps because they tend to have more room to spread people out), especially to people who have been going to stores and restaurants and such.

I read yesterday that nearly 10 million PCR Covid-19 tests have been done in Ohio, as have about 1.7 million antigen tests. That’s almost 12 million tests! That’s about the size of our entire population!

I realize this number includes people in certain jobs who are tested every two weeks or so, but still...That’s quite the money-maker for testing companies! Conveniently, the number of individual people who were ever tested is not given. Hmm.

Also not provided in the handy dandy little Covid tracker linked above, at least not on the main page, is any break-down on the ages at death from Covid, clear mention of how many deaths occurred in nursing homes AND of nursing home patients transferred to hospitals, and number of deaths in Ohio overall this year and each of the past four. But race and ethnicity data are provided.

(You can find your state by clinking on the link and finding the box of states to click on.)

Sorry.

Here are the links to what is mentioned above, in order of mention:

While You Wait For a $1,400 Stimulus Check, House COVID Relief Bill Will Pay Federal Workers to Stay Home And Get Paid $1,400 Per Week

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3938254/posts

HUGE EXCLUSIVE: US Dr. Ralph Baric Was Reviewing Moderna’s and Dr. Fauci’s Coronavirus Vaccine in December 2019! — What’s Going On?

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3938247/posts

No Singing in Performances (Mass.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3938242/posts

COVID-19: Police officers injured at Dublin anti-lockdown protest [Ireland]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3938214/posts

COVID: Germany in lockdown lethargy

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3938209/posts

Alberta Church Defies COVID Rules to Hold Sunday Service in Solidarity with Jailed Pastor

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3938268/posts

Covid Tracker

https://covidtracking.com/data/state/ohio

Two significant reason why this irrational behavior has consumed America for so long is directly related to creating and maintaining a high level of fear.

1- Maintaining an elevated level of fear, depression, distrust and anger among American citizens - Part 1. Mandated masking and compelled isolation of healthy people throughout much of the country continues to be a powerful visual reminder that our country is sick; that we're all just one sneeze, one cough or one spit droplet away from certain death!

2-Maintaining an elevated level of fear, depression, distrust and anger among American citizens - Part 2. Conflating a "positive" test result -- as questionable and unreliable as such testing has been demonstrated to be -- with being actually being sick. Combined with creative manipulation of the virus cases/deaths statistics -- "if you torture the numbers enough they will confess -- has driven many Americans literally out of their rational minds and into a fearful state of abject cowardice.

You are so correct. It is a crime against humanity what this has done to people.

I know a lady, several years older than me, who is technically “elderly” but doesn’t seems so. She goes out to eat by herself, meets with those friends who aren’t afraid to meet, won’t get the vax etc.

She helps out a woman several years older than she is, a woman who hasn’t gone out since this whole thing started.

I’ve met this other woman. I went to the store with them a couple years ago. I had to chase her down to tell her I had spotted something she was looking for. I had to hoof it because she was moving through the aisles so fast.

Now she can hardly walk at all because her arthritis has gotten so bad since she hasn’t been getting out for exercise.

Good suggestion. I will ask my bride, where she would like to have lunch, probably still outdoors in California on 13 March.

Why 13 March, that is the 1 year anniversary of my wife’s outpatient cervical neck injection at our PPO’s big outpatient procedure facility and hello to Covid 19 as it took over our lives.

When we pulled into the normally full hospital parking lot, I was prepared to drop my wife off at the traffic circle, then park our car and hoof it back to get her and go inside.

There were basically no vehicles in their parking lot, so I was able to park close to the entrance.

Inside the entrance, we were met by temp takers with their non touch sensors and then told to “wash” our hands with hand sanitizer squirts provided by management trainees.

They confirmed that we had a procedure and escorted us to an elevator, opened the door, let us in and punched the 2nd floor button. We were met at the door of the elevator and escorted the waiting room. My wife was checked in by the people we met in the entry way.

Remember, we knew basically nothing about Covid.

The huge waiting room was usually packed. Only my wife, two other patients with only 1 family member/patient were in this huge waiting room.

After about 30 minutes, they told us to head to the or/procedure room. There was one other patient there. My wife’s MD was scrubbing up. They had my wife out of her outer wear and into a gown as they were asking her and I, the standard questions.

In a few minutes, her doctor came up asked us some a few more questions and told her Rns to take her to his procedure area. Then, he told me not to wander off, as it wouldn’t take long. An Rn escorted me to a draw curtain waiting room with one chair.

Soon, my wife’s procedure was done and she was rolled back into the recovery room. 2 RN’s were with her and after about 10 minutes. They stripped her of her OR gown and started dressing her in her civilian clothes.

Her doctor came in the room asked a few questions, did the stethoscope thing and asked me to have my wife call him a week if everything went right. Previously, he wanted her to call and talk to him on our way home.

The RN, we knew the best started wheeling my wife and down private passage ways to a private elevator and outside. She gave us a hug at the traffic circle and passed my wife to another RN while I went for our car.

A couple of minutes later as I was helping to get my wife into our vehicle, I asked that RN what was happening. She said that our country was basically going into a lock down due to a serious virus. She gave us a hug and said, “Pray for all of us!”

Later as we drove by a shopping center on the way home, my wife asked, “What the heck was going on?” There were lines at Home Depot, Raylies and Target to get into the stores.

That was our introduction to Covid 19.

Later that afternoon/evening, I got phone calls from across the country from relatives/friends wanting to know how my wife was and trying to explain what was happening.

My wife had turned on the tv and was watching Fox news.

She semi jokingly said, “Tell my Doctor, I need more Versed!”

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