Posted on 03/02/2020 7:08:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There is a meme that has been going viral on Facebook, saying, "Stay calm and wash your hands" with regard to the coronavirus scare. That is certainly good advice. It might be a good follow-up to caution those on social media to "Stay calm and avoid the hype" with regard to the blazing headlines and stories across all of the various media platforms. If one didn't know better, the coronavirus outbreak has been the second coming of the bubonic plague, more commonly referred to as Black Death, that wiped out a third of the European population in the mid-1300s.
Clearly, the coronavirus is something not to be ignored when thousands have lost their lives, mostly in China. But so far, the threat has been blown completely out of proportion. With the competition from the old media having lost so much of their power to the new media in the last ten to twenty years, they need events like the spread of the coronavirus to exaggerate in order to stay relevant. But staying relevant does not necessarily benefit the public when information is skewed to scare people into thinking and feeling a certain way.
First, Russian collusion dominated the headlines, then impeachment, and now the coronavirus outbreak. Democrats are trying to use it to their advantage once again to damage Trump politically now that they've tried everything else and failed.
Listening to Tim Cook during his recent interview with Susan Li on the Fox Business Network, the coronavirus has been just a blip on business operations: the workers in China involved in producing Apple products are on their way back to work. Some of the statements he made in the course of the interview included "I'm optimistic that the coronavirus is getting under control" and "Apple is fundamentally sound."
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They must do anything they can to crush the Trump economy before the election. Never let a good crisis go to waste they say.
PINSKY: We have in the United States 24 million cases of flu-like illness, 180,000 hospitalizations, 16,000 dead from influenza. We have zero deaths from coronavirus. [The number has since gone up a little. —ed] We have almost no cases. There are people walking around out there with the virus that don't even know they have it, it's so mild. So it's going to be much more widespread than we knew. It's going to be much milder than we knew. The 1.7% fatality rate is going to fall. Where was the press during the Mediterranean Corona outbreak, where the fatality rate was 41%? Why didn't they get crazed about MERS or SARS? This is an overblown press-created hysteria. This thing is well in hand. President Trump is absolutely correct.
Even an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine put the coronavirus outbreak into its proper perspective:
[T]he overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
What little respect I had for the MSM (and it was very little indeed) is not total, complete, and never to end loathing and disgust.
Journalism. Not the world’s oldest profession, but now the least trustworthy and composed of the least intelligent human-resembling entities in the multiverse.
If you see an MSM bottom-dweller, greet he/she/it/whatever with the recognition salute of the extended middle finger.
I am in my late 60s, and the sickest I've ever been was when I had bronchitis several years ago. That laid me out on my back for a few days. This has been much easier: no chills, no body aches. I breathe easily, and I don't have a stuffy nose. My chest feels tight, and I have coughing spells. If I were at home with similar symptoms, I probably would have gone to work as usual[.] ... [M]y treatment has consisted of what felt like gallons and gallons of Gatorade — and, when my fever rose just above 100 degrees, some ibuprofen.
Oops, should be “is now”, not “is not”.
I am surprised with the complete hate that those vermin inspire in me.
Yep, wear a mask so the crap can infect you though your eyes. Forget about worrying who is infected as they can walk around and appear healthy for 14 days spreading the virus. Start thinking of yourself as expendable and that will relieve your stress.
Stop bathing because if you smell bad enough people will avoid you and carry a shotgun. Drink heavy as alcohol will kill the germs before they can get started.
Tim Cook’s interview was a rejection of diversification of production, something that long has been a concern to those pushing the idea. Workers are on their way back...until when? There’s been no miracle cure or treatment plan, the same shutdown that affected Apple will affect them again.
Plus a trillion dollar hit to the Chinese economy, half a billion to the South Korean economy, a few billion to the Italian economy - oh and a crushing blow to the tourism industry (friend of mine was refused boarding on a Disney cruise ship as he had been in Japan on a military base there within the past 14 days. They eventually refunded the trip after first simply offering a subsidy if he wanted to go to Disney World instead.)
Panic? Nahh, but there are concerns. Especially when ‘abundance of caution’ is being thrown around so often by politicians around the world. Almost always when that’s said, you know something illegal is about to be said right after.
I am in agreement with most of what was expressed in this post.
My greatest concern is not so much the medical aspects of Coronavirus but instead the economic aspects - especially as it relates to the overall supply chain.
If some businesses have an employee or two sick, the mgmt may err on the side of caution and shut down completely. Turn that into a chain reaction of trucking companies, manufacturers, etc doing the same thing and this could be a real problem.
Also, most of the cases are with people who already have compromised pulmonary systems and/or suffering from asthma, emphysema, lung cancer and pneumonia already. China, with its population suffering from decades of bad air pollution and way too much cigarette smoking, was particularly vulnerable.
I remember the swine flu scare in the mid 1970s where everyone was getting vaccinated for a flu that never materialized and people were sickened and died from the vaccination which had a nasty side effect of triggering Gulianne-Barre syndrome leaving some permanently paralyzed. This time the media hype is political whipping up a panic over nothing and then blaming it on Trump.
I’m tired of seeing post after post after alarming post about the virus. People here should take the advice about staying calm.
“the workers in China involved in producing Apple products are on their way back to work.”
The important thing is to get all of the frogs back into the pot.
Why should they try to help the nation and its people..They have FOUND the MAGIC BULLET to take down orange man bad...they can’t have enough of it, their master Xi led the way ...their giddiness is absolutely evil!! They really are hallucinating this will take down President Trump and help sleepy senile joe Biden! I literally literally hate them!! their fakenews mediaVOMIT CEO’s must be held accountable for the loss of income for millions of Americans!! The NYSLIMES should be burned down to the ground...they should pay the price!!
FR’s doomer and gloomers, will be chanting “All of us will die!”, from this terrible Corona disease while ignoring the grim reality of this year’s flu.”Trump is killing all of us!”
We’re all gonna die! Either now or in ten years when the world ends.
Take a coin toss.
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