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It’s Time For Us All To Get A Little More Humility And Wonder About Coronavirus
The Federalist ^ | March 27, 2020 | Margot Cleveland

Posted on 03/27/2020 6:47:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/27/2020 6:47:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Lol the ironic nature of this article is funny. Arrogantly demanding everyone act with humility by supinely surrendering all critical thinking to Govt Authority out of blind exaggerated fear.

TLDNR: “Stop thinking sheep! Do as your are told by your betters!”


2 posted on 03/27/2020 6:51:35 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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Oh puhleeeeze

Let’s call this for what it is.... people with an agenda played this for all it was worth. They postulated ridiculous theories that the press ran with. They decided to tank the economy and make Trump look bad

Trump on the other hand knows how to solve problems. At the end of the day Trump will have more ammo for his policies


3 posted on 03/27/2020 6:54:01 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Kaslin

Where are the bodies which should be piling up?
Each day the lack of mass death is harder to deny.
This kills people, but certainly not as many people as a strong summer heatwave.


4 posted on 03/27/2020 6:56:39 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Exactly and now having been exposed as panic stricken chicken littles, the panic peddlers are now trotting out the defense “Well maybe we were wrong but that doesn’t mean your are right”

How about the humility of them finally admitting they recklessly exaggerated the problem just like the critics have been pointing out all along.


5 posted on 03/27/2020 6:58:12 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: Kaslin

We have had viruses as bad as this thing loose in this country and they did not panic.

So what makes this one so special?

It is a human manipulated virus, done in China, at a BIO WEAPONS LAB!


6 posted on 03/27/2020 7:00:49 AM PDT by crz
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“Arrogantly demanding everyone act with humility by supinely surrendering all critical thinking to Govt Authority out of blind exaggerated fear.”

You should hear NPR, ‘put your faith in the doctors and scientists’.


7 posted on 03/27/2020 7:01:22 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Kaslin

To the author of this:

NO. New tactic ha ha wow. Don’t pretend to be humble just to save your face with friends who think Trump is the devil and thereby strengthen your relationships with the new dictators in the new world order. When anyone starts suggesting my moral responses I suggest you look in the damn mirror. We don’t need the “can’t we just all get along” crap. What that means is yellow dog nonsense. We need to get off of our knees and TELL THE TRUTH about what’s really going on here.

God I am so cynical today. Please forgive me Lord I can’t see anything good today so far. Sorry folks. It’s hard to know who to trust these days.


8 posted on 03/27/2020 7:05:03 AM PDT by SaintDismas
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Re: Lol the ironic nature of this article is funny. Arrogantly demanding everyone act with humility by supinely surrendering all critical thinking to Govt Authority out of blind exaggerated fear.

TLDNR: “Stop thinking sheep! Do as your are told by your betters!”

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Applause


9 posted on 03/27/2020 7:05:43 AM PDT by khelus
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As I've posted here several times in the last 24 hours:

The unemployment claim data posted this week tells a pathetic story.

1. The total number of national new unemployment claims is 3.28 million.

2. Nearly 400,000 of them come from Pennsylvania alone -- more than twice as many as any other state.

3. Pennsylvania, up until this week’s unemployment claims report, wasn't even among the top ten states in the U.S. in terms of reported COVID-19 cases or fatalities.

4. The same goes for Ohio, which is #2 on the list with almost 200,000 claims. Ohio (population 11.7 million) has about the same number of unemployment claims as California (population 40 million).

5. In terms of the economic impact of this fiasco, this was really a disgraceful blunder on the part of the stupid governors of these two states -- who brought financial ruin upon their constituents for no damn good reason at all. Pennsylvania, for example, has 400,000 people who are now out of work ... and only 15 reported COVID-19 fatalities.

This is a national disgrace, in my humble opinion.

10 posted on 03/27/2020 7:10:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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Re:We have had viruses as bad as this thing loose in this country and they did not panic.

So what makes this one so special?

It is a human manipulated virus, done in China, at a BIO WEAPONS LAB!

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I also has one unique characteristics not generally seen in the flu, such a prolonged asymptomatic period in which one is contagious and a large number of those who get suffer no or moderate symptoms.


11 posted on 03/27/2020 7:10:29 AM PDT by khelus
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Something else worth considering ...

DO WE WANT PROFESSIONALS WITH SO MUCH INFLUENCE IN PUBLIC POLICY?

This fiasco shows the danger of -- believe it or not -- relying TOO MUCH on the advice of professionals who know more about a subject matter than anyone else in a situation where hysteria and unpredictable human behavior play such a huge role. The danger isn't in relying on the professionals; it's in relying on them when the expectations are completely unreasonable.

I work professionally as a civil engineer, and I specialize in the planning and design of transportation infrastructure. If you tell me there are 100 fatalities in motor vehicle crashes in this country every day and you ask me how to eliminate them (or at least reduce them by 95%), I'm going to give you a simple answer that will solve the problem entirely: OUTLAW MOTOR VEHICLES.

Now if you give me the same scenario and tell me that you want to reduce the current fatality rate by 5% every year for the next ten years, I'm going to give you a much more reasonable and practical set of recommendations that aren't preposterous on their face.

This is what is happening with all these medical professionals who are advising our political leaders. Are you noticing a pattern in the answers they give in these press briefings? Almost every answer is basically a variation of one of the following:

1. "We don't know for certain."

2. "Without any certainty we recommend extreme caution."

That's exactly what is happening here. They are medical professionals. They will never even declare an "end" to this viral outbreak until a vaccine is developed that is 100% effective.

12 posted on 03/27/2020 7:11:11 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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“”””””””””We have had viruses as bad as this thing loose in this country and they did not panic.

So what makes this one so special?

It is a human manipulated virus, done in China, at a BIO WEAPONS LAB!”””””””””””””””””””””””””””

If you knew that doctors don’t have cures for many of these infectious diseases it would help.


13 posted on 03/27/2020 7:17:40 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Americans accustomed to instant gratification have lost their sense of awe. Science is not infallible. And testing, treatments, and cures are not immediate.

No, we've become cynical and suspicious of those in power who manipulate findings, studies, dollars, etc., for their own agenda instead of the people. Granted, this may have come on fast and it's always the things you don't know you don't know that can bite you, but we shut down an entire booming economy ostensibly just because the elites/powers saw this as an opportunity...whether it was a manufactured virus, dry run for something later, or just taking advantage of the situation (never let a crisis go to waste).

14 posted on 03/27/2020 7:19:13 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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It is a human manipulated virus, done in China, at a BIO WEAPONS LAB!

While your use of all caps was great. You forgot the sarcasm tag. Here is an example of how it is used.

The Chinese designed a “bio weapon” that causes half of those infected to have no symptoms at all, another 30% to have symptoms so mild that they believe they just have a cold, and the people who get really sick and even die are the same groups that might die from a typical flu. Those Chinese bio weapon designers must be geniuses. /s

See that is the sarcasm tag. You use it when you write something stupid on purpose to make a point.

15 posted on 03/27/2020 7:23:30 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: khelus

I = It


16 posted on 03/27/2020 7:26:10 AM PDT by khelus
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Maybe all this was allowed to end the trade war and possibly to disrupt Brexit. How many calls would have to be made to guarantee it?


17 posted on 03/27/2020 7:29:36 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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Maybe all this was allowed to end the trade war and possibly to disrupt Brexit. How many calls would have to be made to guarantee it?


18 posted on 03/27/2020 7:29:42 AM PDT by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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It might be helpful to chart the democrat/deepstate/medias plots against Trump in the past three years. The ramped it up with this one. They’re running out of time, and they’re getting desperate. And increasingly dangerous. Once they start referring to the general public as “the herd”, it becomes easier for them to manipulate the herd.


19 posted on 03/27/2020 7:33:11 AM PDT by robel
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To: Alberta's Child
This is a national disgrace, in my humble opinion.

It ain't braggin ifn' it's true.

20 posted on 03/27/2020 7:38:21 AM PDT by Theophilus (Ich bin ein Hong Konger)
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