There's powerful evidence this Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy...

DailyMail.com ^ | 3/28/2020 | Peter Hitchens

[lowbuck]

Thanks for the report. Where I am, what you see, hear and know that is happening bears no relationship to the pure panic reaction by the government.

I have a friend who is a senior Colonel in the German Army. He tells me that they have canceled most gathering through the end of the summer. Really strange given that they are supposed to be capable of engaging even in NBC situations.

I've contended from the start that we should protect our old and sick but there is nothing to keep the rest of us from a normal life. . . including catching the flu and having a week getting over it.

What the hell do I know?

[GingisK]

The panic is so great that the leaders MUST go along with it lest they be perceived as fools. Trump knows that this is a not an event of note, but it was politically imperative for him to treat it disproportionately. All the world’s leaders had to do the same.

[BenLurkin]

“How much for one rib?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrpRenjEpo

[VanShuyten]

Hitchens really zeros in on the level of disfunction in the UK:

“... I did so out of an instinct that we were entering on the craziest period of our lives since the death of Princess Diana.”

[Elsie]

All the world’s leaders had to do the same.

Mom: If your friends were going to jump off a bridge...

[GingisK]

Mom was teaching good sense. Politicians don’t usually use what mom taught.

[JungleGoat77]

Dr Feguson is director of Saudi-funded J-IDEA group within Imperial College, UK? Who benefits if US economy tanks, and fracking stops?

[Admin Moderator]

Post full headlines...this ain’t your blog

[eartick]

There are all kinds of people that will benefit from the demise of America. I can even think of a few elected officials but when it comes down to the nut cutting, I see that we will be destroyed from within and the sheople will be none the aware

[Elsie]

Your brain is lazy.

It makes shortcuts to understand the deluge of information that bombards it daily.

If you’re presented with consistent information, consistently, your brain adjust its expectations of reality in turn.

This is the basis of Bayesian theories of how we perceive the world – that is,

the brain makes inferences about the world around us based on statistics and probabilities on what is likely to occur.

 

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3786093/posts

 

 

Could this be WHY we are bombarded, by the media, of how big the chunks are, that are now cascading from the sky?

[eartick]

That is why I stay away from the insistent shelling.

My nephew made comment to me that the world has changed now that we have CV19 in our midst. I told him no it has not, it is your false impression that you picked up from the 24/7 news cycle on it. Nothing more

[humblegunner]

My nephew made comment to me that the world has changed now that we have CV19 in our midst. I told him no it has not

It has indeed, many businesses are closed.

Ain't that a change?

[eartick]

They are closed but not shuttered. In the grand scheme of things this is just a bump in the road not a life changing event.