Posted on 05/04/2020 11:23:36 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
Good one from Laura, looking back at some of the most outrageous predictions from the “experts”:
Cuomo with his “We are going to need 120,000 ICU beds and 40,000 ventilators”(reality was less than 25% of that),
Birx stoking up panic with her “We could have 2.2 million deaths” nonsense.
What is amusing is Cuomo with his smug “This is what the data and the science tells us folks” when he was demanding the 40,000 ventilators.
Then there is the new study which says there is zero evidence that social distancing or lockdowns had any effect whatsoever on the number of deaths in Western Europe.
Plus the Nobel laureate from Stanford who is adamant that the lockdowns have done vastly more damage than any damage coronavirus could have done.
Worth watching if you have 9 minutes.
Thanks
Imagine a world where “experts” are not actually experts but educated charlatans.
This over used term is the same in the stupid "As seen on TV" crap they push, "Military grade" with the exception of some high end specific equipment, your "military grade" is made by the lowest bidder, and shows it.
These “EXPERTS” are COUP PLOTTERS!
“Imagine a world where “experts” are not actually experts but educated charlatans.”
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I prefer the term: indoctrinated charlatans.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
A Time for Choosing, aka The Speech, 1964
I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this.
It’s time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, “We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government.”
This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man’s age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, “The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”
The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, “What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.” But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we’re denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals. It seems impossible to legitimately debate their solutions with the assumption that all of us share the desire to help the less fortunate. They tell us we’re always “against,” never “for” anything...
Excellent program (Monday) last night.
I read up on the dr after seeing it. The Dr made a fantastic choice. It was good to hear he used zinc as well.
As for the other msm stations/websites, makes me wonder if they ever feel an ounce of shame. They have surrendered their own mind to be a mouth piece for political propaganda .
Perhaps ‘they’ the left needs to examine themselves because they are currently ‘against’ using a treatment and the consequence has been suffering snd death.
Re: the Experts
Eisenhower in his farewell address also expressed his concern for corruption of the scientific process as part of the centralization of funding in the Federal government, and vice-versa:
“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central, it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
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The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocation, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet in holding scientific discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
Global Warming and now handling of this pandemic serve as good examples of what Eisenhower warned us about.
For later
After all this, you can take the word ‘expert’ out of the dictionary....
I quit watching or reading anything by Ingraham when she started repeating the lie that “Biden has a Hefty lead over Trump.”
Her source?
Always some leftist hack site like ... Politico!
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