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Coronavirus Perspective
Hoover.org ^ | March 16 ,2020 | by Richard A. Epstein

Posted on 03/17/2020 6:53:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk

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1 posted on 03/17/2020 6:53:58 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

This worth reading...


2 posted on 03/17/2020 6:54:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
Just came across this :


3 posted on 03/17/2020 6:57:11 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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This person doesn’t know about exponential growth?


4 posted on 03/17/2020 6:57:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: daniel1212

That’s going to bring out the vitreol, hope you are ready!!


5 posted on 03/17/2020 7:02:03 PM PDT by gbs
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Probably the best contrarian analysis produced thus far.


6 posted on 03/17/2020 7:08:09 PM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: nickcarraway

My wife is a nurse and has been for 35 years. Every time I ask a dr about the coronavirus, the first thing I get is a chuckle. Its 90% bs


7 posted on 03/17/2020 7:15:21 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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It’s all about the body count.
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90% of all deaths are from age 60 and older.
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30,000 Americans die every year from the flu that you can get a vaccine for. Where’s the outcry? Where’s the panic over that?
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Most of the COVID19 deaths are not actually from COVID19. COVID 19 causes lung tissue to fall to the bottom of the lungs where pneumonia kicks in and kills the patient.
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That’s the same pneumonia that everyone can go get an innoculation for.........right now.
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Folks, get your oars in the water. Why are you filling the garage with toilet paper instead of getting vaccinated????????


8 posted on 03/17/2020 7:16:57 PM PDT by gandalftb
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[[[My wife is a nurse and has been for 35 years.]]]

Thank God every morning you wake up next to her.


9 posted on 03/17/2020 7:24:54 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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Now ya got me on a rant.
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For all the inconsiderate hoarders buying up a lifetime supply of toilet paper and ........ dust masks.
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You morons.........many people such as dry wallers, welders, grinders, metal fabricators, and painters need those masks to do their jobs everyday.
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You’ve scooped up all the masks and those people that wear them for work can’t get them because of you. They either have to work illegally and breathe dust and paint in, or don’t work and feed their families.


10 posted on 03/17/2020 7:25:04 PM PDT by gandalftb
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bkmk


11 posted on 03/17/2020 7:25:45 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: nickcarraway
This person doesn’t know about exponential growth?

The fatality rate is fairly low. Exponential growth leads to more deaths more quickly, but exponential growth doesn't necessarily lead to more total deaths.

The downside of the controls they're putting in place is that they may slow the economy to the point where we get Great Depression levels of unemployment. Is that worth it to give somebody in their 80's another year of life? And to prevent somebody with a compromised immune system from dying from the Corona-virus this year, just so they can die from the flu or something else next year?

I've experienced enough deaths in people close to me to know that EVERY death is a sad occasion. The death of some homeless person with no family no less than any other. But we're ALL going to do it at some point. And when we die, people that know us will experience the sadness. And then life moves on.

The idea of only the people most at risk doing what they can to shield themselves from exposure to what might kill them makes sense to me. A lot more than the idea of shutting down half the economy to try to prevent the other 95% of the people from potentially being exposed to something that won't affect them any worse than a case of the flu.

12 posted on 03/17/2020 7:41:03 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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That’s like a buddy of mine. Every morning he wakes up by the crack of Dawn. ( that’s his wifes name


13 posted on 03/17/2020 7:41:28 PM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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“That’s the same pneumonia that everyone can go get an innoculation for.........right now.
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Folks, get your oars in the water. Why are you filling the garage with toilet paper instead of getting vaccinated????????”

No, it isn’t the same pneumonia.

The pneumonia vaccine currently available is in no way protective against this new virus.

Else no one in any senior care facility would have died. That’s a pre-req to get into any of them in my state and i’m sure it’s likely that way in all states. All seniors in there have to be vaxd against pneumonia, flu, shingles and IIRC one more thing to be admitted.

So no, the pneumonia vax doesn’t do squat against this thing.


14 posted on 03/17/2020 7:44:18 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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The pneumonia vax is for bacterial pneumonia. I know for a fact that my State (WA) doesn’t require any vaxes for retirement home or rehabilitation patients. That is kind of interesting since it’s Washington.


15 posted on 03/17/2020 7:48:08 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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That IS interesting.

It’s mandated for my state before you can be in a senior center.

but yeah, new pneumonia is the viral kind. the scary kind.


16 posted on 03/17/2020 7:49:58 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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The staff strongly advocates various vaccinations to patients but the state doesn’t require them.


17 posted on 03/17/2020 7:51:40 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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You’ve scooped up all the masks and those people that wear them for work can’t get them because of you. They either have to work illegally and breathe dust and paint in, or don’t work and feed their families.

Maybe next time they'll know enough to always have a six month supply on hand instead of only buying enough to get them through the next week. I certainly would if my livelihood or health depended on it.

18 posted on 03/17/2020 7:52:52 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Black Agnes

Read my post.
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COVID19 often causes common pneumonia to kick in and kill.
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We can all get vaccinated for the 8 most common pneumonias right now. That would reduce the COVID19 death rate (currently about 1%) about 80%.
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When COVID19 kills it does so by causing massive scar tissue in he lungs so they don’t work. Also by shock to the body that causes other organs to shut down. But that only occurs about 20% of the deaths.


19 posted on 03/17/2020 7:53:27 PM PDT by gandalftb
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Most of the workers that use dust masks are used to easy access in the stores.
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They were caught by surprise, agreed.
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That doesn’t begin to excuse the behaviour of the hoarders. They ought to be ashamed of themselves and return the masks. They don’t keep you from getting sick anyway.


20 posted on 03/17/2020 7:57:56 PM PDT by gandalftb
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