Posted on 04/08/2021 6:04:37 AM PDT by mylife
Ted Nugent has suggested the novel coronavirus is referred to as COVID-19 because there have been 18 other coronaviruses.
The outspoken conservative rocker's factual error was part of his Facebook Live stream earlier today (Wednesday, April 7) in which he lamented the cancelation of musical shows in 2020 and 2021 because the pandemic forced restrictions on large public gatherings.
COVID-19 is short for Coronavirus Disease 2019, which is the year it was identified. The World Health Organization announced the name in February 2020.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "CO" stands for "corona," "VI" stands for "virus," and "D" stands for "disease." Before the WHO formalized a name for the disease, it was referred to as the "2019 novel coronavirus" or "2019-nCoV."
"This year's tour is canceled again," Nugent said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "The production companies won't let us tour again this year. Dirty bastard, lying, scam, smoke-and-mirrors COVID-19 freaks.
"You know, I guess I would ask you, because I'm addicted to truth, logic and common sense, and my common sense meter would demand the answer to, why weren't we shut down for COVID-1 through -18?" he continued. "There was a COVID-1, and there was a COVID-2, -3, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8, -9, -10, -11, -12, -13, -14, -15, -16, -17, -18. COVID-1 through -18 didn't shut anything down, but woah, COVID-19 [did], even though it's 99.8 percent survivable. Why didn't we shut down for the AIDS epidemic or the flu or the Spanish Flu or the bird flu or the West Nile flu or influenza every year?"
Nugent also once again repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.
"They claim five hundred thousand people have died from COVID-19," he said. "Bullshit. I believe that medical examiners in all 50 states have gone, 'I put down on the death certificate that he died of asphyxiation, but they made me put COVID.' 'Well, this guy was stabbed to death, but they made me put down COVID.' 'This guy was run over by a tandem gravel truck doing a four-wheel drift and the crows be pecking at your flesh, but they made me put down COVID-19.'"
What we’ve witnessed the past year is NOT science in any way, shape, or form!
Nugent has as much credibility as all the “experts” we’ve heard from!
the man aint stupid
And what happened to Preparation A - G?
What areas of the country “shut down” and for how was the shut down communicated to rural areas and then enforced? A good share of the country didn’t even have electricity, a radio, or transportation other than horses in those days.
How many people were asked to “mask up” and for how long? I read that they continued the idiocy for six months until they realized it was doing no good, i.e.- the masked areas had about the same rate of infection as the unmasked areas, just like today.
How was the mask manufacturing and distribution infrastructure in those days? Highways, trucks, and manufacturing were far from what they are nowadays. So how did the tiny percentage of the population that actually wore masks obtain a reliable, ongoing supply of them?
Furthermore, guess what? The Spanish Flu from those days is still around; it’s one of the types the “flu shot” is geared toward. Should we all have been wearing masks for the past hundred years?
One additional item: Woodstock was held during the Hong Kong flu “pandemic”. Didn’t hear any yipping about masks back then.
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