according to these people, we need 300,000,000 hospital beds.
Not quite. Cocktail napkin numbers? If only 20% of 330 million get it that’s roughly 60 million people. 1 % of that is 60,000. Can this country come up with an additional 30,000 ventilators in the next month? When the entire world will need ventilators? Can we make medical students bag 30,000 people for the next month?
Quarantine the media for 2 weeks and this crisis is over.
Any conservatives who protest are portrayed as heartless and incompetent at best, and at worst, according to at least one MSNBC "analyst", murderers who should be prosecuted. Not kidding. As many on this forum know, that really happened yesterday.
Their agenda is to bring down the current administration and destroy a capitalist market based economy.
This is not saying that this is not a significant health issue, it is.
But when I see the strident, non-stop, 24x7, panic based broadcasting, and the calls from politicians for everything from $1000 checks for everyone to $1000 a month for everyone, you have to view this crisis and its hyping with a:
Cui Bono?
Who benefits?
Politicians like Nancy Pelosi trying to stick abortion legislation into a stimulus bill.
Politicians like Mitt Romney asking for a government handout.
Politicians like Mitch McConnell who is telling people, our people, to just hold their noses and sign the bill without reading it! Because, as one Senator said, they weren't even getting time to read the bill. When Nancy Pelosi was asked about the need for dialog on the bill, Pelosi said "There is no need for that". This is the same person who illegitimately pushed through Obamacare with that exact same logic. Just sign the damn paper.
In a world where responsible people look at budgets and outlays, we would have sober people doing their jobs. In this world, we have people being whipped into a panicked frenzy, and politicians trying to outdo each other in spending from both parties, spending money we don't have. We are already in the tank for spending a trillion dollars a year more than we have, and they simply want to spend a trillion dollars more. After all, the government has lots of money, and can just print more, right?
As I often state, I don't watch television and haven't for decades, but my wife does, and she has the television on constantly. My employer has been having anyone work from home for the next few weeks who has the capability and job description that will allow them to do so, and I fit that bill. At any random time, I can peek out at the television and see the word "coronavirus" with lots of red in the background, images of people in isolation beds, maps of areas with cases, and serious looking women in tight dresses and men with slicked back hair and pinstriped suits, brows furrowed in concern.
In the 24x7 news cycle where people just immerse themselves in this, it isn't hard to see how there is a concerted effort to make this far worse than it is.
And they are succeeding brilliantly.