Posted on 12/05/2020 5:18:01 AM PST by Kaslin
As the “second wave” of the coronavirus continues and infections increase, too many politicians are knee-jerking to reimpose harsh restrictions like business shutdowns, curfews, and home confinements. These types of sweeping and overly restrictive measures cause needless harm, especially for the majority of generally healthy Americans who will experience moderate to no symptoms if they catch the virus.
More effective approaches include doing more to protect vulnerable populations, like the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions; getting newly approved rapid at-home tests into the hands of more Americans so those who are infected can be immediately identified and quarantined; and preparing for a potential vaccine by developing a plan for quick distribution and prioritizing who gets it first.
Shutting down entire states only worsens the economic devastation as well as the health and welfare of otherwise healthy people. The answer to defeating the coronavirus can’t be choosing between our health and our economy. The answer isn’t either-or, rather it’s both-and. Our economic health has an incredible effect on our physical and mental health, and vice versa. The longer that healthier, lower risk people are out of work, deprived of contact with family and friends, and sheltered at home, the more public health suffers, both physically and mentally.
Governors and local officials need to make shutdown decisions on a targeted, county-by-county basis, based on virus case numbers and infection rates. And such actions must be very temporary.
Research shows that areas where state and local officials have allowed places to safely reopen are well on their way to economic recovery. Meanwhile, in areas with excessive restrictions, including business and school closures, families and children are struggling.
We’ve also seen that strict lockdown orders in many European countries haven’t prevented a second wave of the virus.
A more effective approach to stopping the spread is widespread testing — figuring out who has the virus and temporarily quarantining them from others as they ride out the illness.
The Food and Drug Administration has just approved COVID-19 self-tests that can be easily conducted at home or work and don’t need to be sent off to a lab. Rapid manufacture and distribution of these kits is now key. Quickly determining who is infected and who isn’t can go a long way toward mitigating the spread of the virus and makes going into businesses, schools, churches, and other facilities much safer.
Especially for nursing home and hospital staff who work around vulnerable people, being able to rapid test each day before going into work will help prevent more breakouts and deaths.
States also must prepare an effective distribution strategy for a potentially soon-to-be-released vaccine. State public health agencies must prioritize who should receive the vaccine first. Those at the top of the list should include people with the highest degree of transmission risk and people who may experience the severest consequences of an infection. That means starting with front-line health care workers, the elderly, and those with underlying medical conditions.
States should also immediately allow pharmacists to administer the vaccine, just as many already allow them to administer flu and pneumonia vaccines. Pharmacists are positioned to ensure fast and efficient mass immunization, and that kind of rapid response could prevent millions of additional infections and tens of thousands of additional deaths.
A complete roadmap to recovery (found at www.CoronavirusCommission.com) has already been created by the National Coronavirus Recovery Commission and contains 265 specific, actionable recommendations, including those mentioned above. The roadmap was developed for governments, businesses, churches, educational institutions, and community organizations to navigate as safely as possible through the pandemic.
Instead of indiscriminate and ineffective statewide shutdowns, public health measures should be focused on continuing to inform people how to reduce their chances of catching and spreading COVID-19, doing more to protect the elderly and those with underlying conditions, distributing rapid at-home tests to determine who may be contagious, and preparing a strategy for rapid public vaccination once a vaccine is released.
Lockdowns and prohibiting families from visiting one another in their own homes this holiday season aren’t the answers, and there’s no reason they should be the go-to tool for our leaders. It’s time that the same politicians who regularly lecture us about “following the science” actually look in the mirror and take their own advice.
Following the science and assessing everything that we’ve learned in the months since the pandemic first struck will help us to more quickly defeat this deadly disease; recover our jobs and our economy; and get us reunited with family and community and back to some sense of normalcy again.
Just release HCQ/Zinc/Azithromycin and Ivermectin,,,,Pandemic over and death rate will be reduced to nothing,
This lockdown stuff is to control while they steal the election. The ones doing the lockdowns aren’t doing it. And they only wear masks in public for show.
Its not about covid its about controlling people controlling the economy and in the end making EVERYONE dependent on the government for everything. IOW socialism/communism.
These are just the 1st phases.
Worked in Australia.
Of course, if you want to use isolation of infected people, you do have to make the unwilling ones do it. This we have never done, and the results are visible to the whole world.
These so-called lockdown are the answer to a different question.
Lockdowns are a Globalist strategy. This is a grand scheme to break up the United States into more manageable parts so that it can never stand in the way of a Global agenda. That is why Trump and Conservative Patriots must be destroyed (in the Globalist view), their children must be aborted, and any freedom must be stripped away. Trump was merely a stumbling block to them.
That’s the problem, most people don’t seem willing to fight with the really sick people to make them isolate.
And what question is that?
Exactly.
Most under 60yo have no symptoms at all, and the majority of those that do it is mild.
To the truly sick there is proven treatment (HCQ+Z) as you point out, if administered relatively early.
Yet the government and public at large still clamors for an expensive, unproven, unsafe, vaccine.
For those who claim the CDC debunked the efficacy of HCQ, their trials were faulty. First, they did not combine it with zinc (HCQ alone isn’t enough). Second they gave too large and numerous doses when it was too late anyway.
The President cheered hydroxychloriquine in the beginning, then clammed up. He should never have relented.
As long as it is administered early enough in the illness.
You can't wait until the patient is on death's door and then claim the meds don't work.
They work on the virus to prevent serious illness.
They are never purported to heal organ damage once the damage is done.
When President Trump first mentioned HCQ, I actually had a relative laugh and accuse me of thinking that it worked simply because Trump said so.
TDS is a serious condition of liberals and is very real.
They could have stopped this long ago like Taiwan did. No new cases there in over 200 days except on incoming flights. Anyone landing in Taiwan these days is quarantines for 2 weeks on landing.
Quarantine = uninfected but exposed person stays apart until it’s clear they won’t develop infection.
Isolate = Infected person stays apart so as not to infect others.
The problem with what you said is that most highly contagious people either feel well or have mild symptoms. It’s not just “really sick people” who need to be isolated, in fact, by the time your immune system is destroying your lungs, there’s very little virus left around.
What we did was to isolate (or ask politely to isolate) tens of millions of uninfected people incapable of transmitting the virus while we failed to deploy testing which would have allowed us to isolate contagious people.
Now it’s too late.
So, the question is - how best to achieve that? And as always - who benefits?
stop masks, stop shutdown, stop testing, stop vacinations, stop trying to do extra for the old and weak. Treat the symptoms and medicate all early. It is the common cold.
Every year we have experienced the losses; now it is just publized.
This is not a health crisis but it is a control/political effort. That is partially why I doubt those in control will follow this advice.
Before we focus on the treatment, we need to focus on the symptoms and diagnosis.
From the experience of this last year, we know the CDC and other government medical "experts" have manipulated their reporting numbers and flip-flopped on the treatment.
We need to backup and focus on the veracity of what the authorities are telling us that there are huge increases in new cases and more deaths. If those numbers are manipulated and fake, then every decision to fight those increases is moot.
They code every malady and ailment nowadays as covid because there are financial incentives to do so and political agendas to adhere to.
I spoke to a old friend from school last week. Her husband was 78, had Alzheimers and emphysema and as his condition worsened, he was expected to die at anytime. Well, unfortunately, he did die a few weeks ago. But what disturbed her was that even though her husband had tested negative for the virus a week before he died, his death certificate said he died from Covid-19. This is a problem.
Testing kits for the corona virus are highly unreliable and can also be calibrated for their tolerance levels. If the tolerance level is set wrong, you could test positive for the virus when you may only have had a cold in the past. This type of shoddy and loose testing can make for very unreliable "new cases" statistics.
So people who test "positive" may have recorded a false positive, or they may not exhibit any symptoms or be sick at all and haven't gone into the hospital for treatment, are these really "new cases"?
And if our response to these phantom spikes in new cases and resulting fake deaths is to double down on the same process that got us here in the first place, then we are chasing a fool's folly.
If wearing useless masks, social distancing and agreeing to be semi-permanently quarantined or locked down in your homes didn't work before, why will these draconian measures work now?
In past pandemics, nobody wore masks or social distanced or stayed locked down in their homes. Vulnerable people died and life moved on. In 1968-69, the Hong Kong flu killed over 150,000 people in this country and yet most people didn't even know the pandemic existed.
The irrational and draconian measures taken in response to this corona virus, which has a 99.8% survivability rate, is the biggest mistake this country has made in decades.
Stop all of this madness and let people out of their homes, go back to work, open their businesses, build new businesses, and live their lives with the inevitable risks that we take living in a free country. People don't want to be coddled and told what to do. Let them decided for themselves how they want to respond to life's risks. Get the government out of the business of controlling the population.
Most people didn’t bat an eye to 600,000 to 700,000 deaths each year for the past decade from Heart Disease.
Bingo.
What has happened to common sense?
Me AT GROCERY STORE:
Why is there plastic on the payment keypad?
Cashier: to protect people from Covid.
Me : but isn’t everyone touching the plastic keypad the same way they would the regular keypad?🤦♀️🤷♀️
Cashier: no words. Confused look. 👀
Me : Why Dont you pack the grocery bags anymore?
Cashier : Because of covid 19 to reduce the spread of catching or spreading the virus.
Me : But a shelf packer took it out of a box and put on the shelf, a few customers might of picked it up and put back deciding they Dont want it, I put it in my cart then on the conveyer belt, YOU pick it up to scan it.. But putting it in a bag after you scan is risky??
Cashier : no words, confused look 👀
Me AT DRIVE-THRU
Server: (holds a tray out the window with a bag of food for logical friend to grab)
Me: why is my bag of food on a tray?
Server: so I don’t touch your food because of Covid.
Me: didn’t the cook touch my food? Didn’t the person wrapping my food touch it and then touch it again when placing it in my bag? Didn’t you touch the bag and put it on the tray? Didn’t you touch the tray? 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Server: no words. Confused look. 👀
Me in SOCIETY
Society ; If you cough or sneeze do it in your elbow or sleeve,
Also society : Dont shake hands or hug anyone or you will spread the virus..
To greet people do an elbow tap instead.
Me : Elbow tap 🤷♀️? Isn’t that where you tell people to sneeze or cough? into their elbow? Now you want people to tap each other with that elbow 🤦♀️
wouldn’t it be safer to sneeze into elbow and shake hands like we did before Covid 🤷♀️
Me AT RESTAURANT:
Hostess: ok, I can seat you at this table right here (4 feet away), but I will need you to wear a mask to the table.
Me: what happens when I get to the table?
Hostess: you can take off the mask.
Me: then it is safe over there?
Hostess: yes.
Me: are those fans blowing above the table? Is that the air-conditioning I feel? Is the air circulating in here?🤦♀️🤷♀️ Hostess: no words. Confused look.👀
SOCIETY : You are not allowed to stand and drink at the pub you have to sit down.
But at the shopping centre you are not allowed to sit down, all the chairs are roped off.
Who thinks this shit up?
Life is hard for logical people right now. We are being raised without the ability to process and execute logic 💯
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