(stolen from FReeper knarf)
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!”
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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).
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.
In general I enjoyed the piece and I believe that some good points were made. But that statement and a few others illustrate that its author has no historical perspective. It would seem that Margot Cleveland despite being a “senior contributor”, a lawyer, and a CPA was failed by the school system. It has become a generational issue these days; our youth believe that every challenge we face is unprecedented.
(stolen from FReeper knarf)
Since people want to cling to the panic, I will do the math for you
Currently in the USA there are 85,000 cases of which 2122 are critical requiring hospital care. The daily rate of new cases is about 5000 which means critical cases expand, NATION WIDE by 250 a day.
250 x 100 days = 25,000 critical cases. That a total number, not counting the cases that recover and are released.
Time to stop the lying and panic mongering and deal in facts