Panic will harm millions of people and destroy our economy with negligible health benefits.
Our most serious problem isn’t a pandemic; its blind human stupidity generated by it.
Geez.
Almost as if it were planned that way.
The Orange County commissioner is putting the county on lockdown starting tomorrow and it will run LONGER than President Trump’s Easter time frame for reevaluating the situation. Of course he is a democrat.
It’s why I have been telling people to expect what was coming. Now it’s here. Every bit of it was to be expected. Up to next Monday (roughly) when we can see what we have accomplished with isolation the impact of which is going to be several orders of magnitude greater than any drugs no matter how effective. Isolation is the key.
Here in Ohio Dr.Acton is our state health director on all of this. She is the one who does the news conferences with DeWine and has his ear. What she tells him goes.
Everytime she talks it’s with great drama in her voice. She sounds as though she’s ready to collapse in agony and depression. She sounds as though we are not heeding her warnings and we all just don’t understand the gravity of the situation. As a result she has the usual fan base on social media pearl clenchers as being the greatest heroine the state has ever seen.
Yesterday she talked about dorms and hotels being readied to act as ICU units. She has been spewing this kind of hype for weeks.
As of yesterday hospitals are at 60% capacity across the state, we have yet to reach 10 deaths, and are still well under 1000 cases. Meanwhile our economy is in a death spiral.
Einstein agrees: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein
and the motivation: The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken
Dr. John Campbell has morphed into a right fear merchant too. Why they aren’t flooding the space with HCQ and then letting the results come in is telling.
This is an OP.
Down the road, if we can think that far, no business owner or concern wants to be sued for ignoring or overlooking their duty to employees or the public in general.
They're stuck in that lawyers trap, so they can't afford to be casual about reports of a ‘pandemic.
If Obama was still President ( God forbid ) NOTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN.