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1 posted on 03/26/2020 5:28:28 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
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The majority of Freepers are stupid enough to believe this Blue Plague.

Unreal how easy it was for all of America to surrender their freedoms. Not a peep, not a shot. Locked up, home detention, so Big Brother can keep us safe.

What a joke!


2 posted on 03/26/2020 5:30:19 PM PDT by Professional
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“Of course, all of the emphasis is false, everyone is getting treated, and so far the pandemic has created no more of a crisis than a high-flu season. However, the panic such fear-porn creates can deliver a self-fulfilling outcome. Immediately, the downstream media, specifically CNN, take the script and begin amplifying the panic story-line.”

“This unfortunate gross-media manipulation is exactly what caused task force member Dr. Birx to step to the microphones today and state the activity on the ground does not match the fear-porn models that media are hyping. WATCH:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUWZA43UblM&feature=youtu.be


3 posted on 03/26/2020 5:31:12 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it unusual...)
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You forgot to put the “FLU BROs” in the title.


4 posted on 03/26/2020 5:33:22 PM PDT by onona
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Fear and Panic for A Purpose – The Coronavirus Evolves Into “The Blue Plague”…

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The “Blue Plague” is an intentional effort by various interests to create fear-porn amid the American population by intentionally hyping a mass hysteria about the coronavirus.  In many ways the Blue Plague is exponentially more dangerous than COVID-19 itself.

Earlier today, The New York Times became the epicenter of the Blue Plague by stating people in hospitals throughout the city were dying, as desperately under-prepared and under-equipped doctors and nurses could not find ventilators for thousands of arriving patients in a state of panic.  This was/is incitement at its worst.

Blue doctors and Blue nurses, aligned with the political resistance efort, transmitted videos claiming desperate and dying patients, using the term “apocalyptic surge“…

[…]  hospitals are under siege. New York City’s hospitals run the gamut from prestigious teaching institutions catering to the elite to public hospitals providing care for some of the poorest communities in the nation. Regardless of whom they serve, few have been spared the impact of the pandemic: A flood of sick and fearful New Yorkers has besieged emergency rooms across the city.

[…] At least two city hospitals have filled up their morgues, and city officials anticipated the rest would reach capacity by the end of this week, according to the briefing. The state requested 85 refrigerated trailers from FEMA for mortuary services, along with staff, the briefing said.  (link)

Of course, all of the emphasis is false, everyone is getting treated, and so far the pandemic has created no more of a crisis than a high-flu season. However, the panic such fear-porn creates can deliver a self-fulfilling outcome. Immediately, the downstream media, specifically CNN, take the script and begin amplifying the panic story-line.

This unfortunate gross-media manipulation is exactly what caused task force member Dr. Birx to step to the microphones today and state the activity on the ground does not match the fear-porn models that media are hyping.  WATCH:

Dr. Birx Admits Initial Covid Predictions Were Extreme

 

6 posted on 03/26/2020 5:39:26 PM PDT by Bratch (“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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Perhaps we can distill our own list of Blue Freepers who were hyping this sludge of misinformation into the threads on this site. They were fairly amateurish and clumsy at it, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to smell them out.


31 posted on 03/26/2020 5:59:01 PM PDT by txrefugee
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The DNC crashed the entire planet to get one guy.


35 posted on 03/26/2020 6:06:00 PM PDT by NoLibZone (The Dems in conjunction with the MSM trashed the entire World economy to get at one guy.)
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[FReepers take this poll I made - go to link] Do you think the extended severe restrictions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are too extreme?

Straw Poll ^

36 posted on 03/26/2020 6:12:38 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 article and other comments today got Treehouse suspended on Twitter -- thus helping to prove his thesis.

Resistance will not be tolerated.

62 posted on 03/26/2020 7:42:09 PM PDT by montag813
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At least the Florida governor is trying to put his foot down


64 posted on 03/27/2020 1:16:17 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - mui issue voter)
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desperately under-prepared and under-equipped doctors and nurses THIS IS DEBLASIO’S AND CUOMO’S FAULT!!!! PERIOD!


73 posted on 03/27/2020 5:45:12 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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[…] hospitals are under siege. New York City’s hospitals run the gamut from prestigious teaching institutions catering to the elite to public hospitals providing care for some of the poorest communities in the nation. Regardless of whom they serve, few have been spared the impact of the pandemic: A flood of sick and fearful New Yorkers has besieged emergency rooms across the city.

[…] At least two city hospitals have filled up their morgues, and city officials anticipated the rest would reach capacity by the end of this week, according to the briefing. The state requested 85 refrigerated trailers from FEMA for mortuary services, along with staff, the briefing said.

 

It's no big shocker that The War of the Worlds—a book about a dang alien invasion—is big on fear.

But what Wells does with the theme of fear is interesting. He suggests that it's both an important reflex (if Martians are firing their Heat-Ray at you, maybe you shouldn't just stand there) and a reason people act stupidly and rashly (like, say, trampling each other while trying to get away from the aforementioned Heat-Ray). We see both of these sides in this novel: fear both saves lives and destroys them.

Questions About Fear

Did you feel fear when reading this book?
Many of the first reviews talked about how thrilling it was.
Why do you think they found this book thrilling?
Does Wells use any tricks to keep us afraid or thrilled?
Throughout the novel Wells shows that fear is contagious, but if fear is contagious, how does that idea square with what Wells shows us of community in The War of the Worlds?
Should we all just be hermits and avoid each other?
Are there any other emotions in this book that are "contagious"?
Wells shows us fear that is useless (running around without looking where you're going) and fear that is useful (realizing that you should get out of the way of the Heat-Ray). Is there any hint as to why fear might be useful sometimes and useless other times?
Do different characters react to fear differently?
For instance, what does the artilleryman fear?
How does he respond to fear when we first meet him versus how he responds when we meet him again on Putney Hill?

https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/war-of-the-worlds-hg-wells/themes

 


 

 

 

Chew on This

Wells uses The War of the Worlds to show that fear is an emotion that can only be successfully managed by individuals who have special training. By contrast, groups always react to fear in the worst way possible.

In The War of the Worlds, fear is closely related to the idea of folly, in that fear can help us overcome our folly.


74 posted on 03/27/2020 6:04:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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It is the Blue Plague. It is mainly killing people in the blue states.


86 posted on 03/27/2020 6:21:27 AM PDT by jetson (chiwowa)
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I miss Shark Week.


103 posted on 03/28/2020 9:25:22 PM PDT by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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