Posted on 03/11/2021 4:01:19 AM PST by Kaslin
It was one year ago today that President Donald Trump imposed that travel ban on most of Europe over the Wuhan Coronavirus, the official kickoff of the dominoes falling that bring us to the point we are at now. There were a few actions that happened before the European travel ban – the China travel ban, the formation of the Coronavirus Task Force, travel warnings, etc., but today is the anniversary of when those dominoes started to fall in quick succession. In the week that followed, the world was basically shut down. Emergencies were declared, borders were closed, economies halted, lives put on hold. Ultimately, it culminated in “15 days to flatten the curve.” Through all of it, over the past year, we’ve learned next to nothing.
How many things have the “experts” gotten wrong? It’d be easier to ask what they’d gotten right – a new virus started infecting humans. That’s about it. Everything else has been contradicted at some point by the very people who made the original declarative statements.
No one has been more “all over the map” in the last year than Dr. Anthony Fauci. “To mask or not to mask” is a question the highest paid person in our federal government hasn’t bothered to ask himself, he's declared both this past year. No person has done more to damage the concept of experts than a doctor who likely hasn’t treated an actual patient since finishing his residency in the late 1960s. He’s a paper-pusher, a bureaucrat who reads about the work of others and decides if it’s something others should do. And all of us are his lab rats.
Under his leadership, or lack thereof, we’ve collected a pile of data during this pandemic that future generations will…find almost useless.
The collection of data is wildly important in matters like a pandemic because they do happen with some regularity. Few feature viruses as transmissible as COVID-19, but they do pop up all the time. Collecting accurate information about the size and scope of a pandemic like this, as well as who was impacted, how and how severely, and what worked and didn’t is invaluable information for future generations. We don’t have that, at least in any reliable form.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention set out guidelines that made it almost impossible to die of COVID at the start of the pandemic. If someone exhibited any symptoms that could be associated with the virus, hospitals were instructed to simply declare it to be so. How many terminally ill people who had the sniffles were declared COVID deaths?
We will never know because people like Dr. Fauci didn’t make it a priority to know.
Testing was awful at the start, which is understandable since it was a new virus. But testing the dead should’ve been a priority, multiple times to make sure, and gathering samples to test later. Figuring out what made COVID so deadly to some, whether or not that are definitely shared characteristics rather than possible patterns, would make a huge difference to the future and would’ve made a huge difference over the last year.
Imagine if we had learned there were certain characteristics that made someone’s risk significantly higher. Not just weight or other co-morbidities, but something in the DNA or as simple as blood type. We didn’t gather that comprehensive data, so we don’t know if it would’ve made a difference over the past year and it won’t make a difference the next time.
It was a complete and total failure by the bureaucratic state.
Maybe enough data will have been gathered that some sense can be made of it, but it’s doubtful. Given how lockdowns didn’t work, yet persist, and masks haven’t worked, but mandates persist, no one in any position to take responsibility seems to have any interest in doing so. They’re just committed to what hasn’t worked until they’re not, then they act like it never happened as they move on to the next thing.
I hope somewhere out there useful, usable data exists in spite of the bureaucratic incompetence that has been captaining this ship for the last 12 months. Otherwise, we really would have gone through all of this and learned nothing.
Case in point...
The past year has been a disaster. From the start, our elected officials put fear in our hearts. They announced that there would be two million deaths in the USA. Everything was shut down. We were ordered to stay home. Insane measures were taken, such as blocking hospital admissions for anything but covid. de blasio in New York ordered EMTs to let the elderly die.
Why they did this was to:
1. destroy the economy that Trump had built. They couldn’t stand to see the numbers so high. They had to destroy it. They did.
2. blame Trump for it all. They blamed him for doing too little, too much, for stopping flights and for not stopping flights.
3. give the folks some practice in cowering in fear and submission.
They don’t know what they are doing. They overreacted. Their inner fascist came out.
They have learned plenty, just not what they claimed they were studying. They learned that most people herd without question. They learned that the word “science” can make otherwise educated people ignore reality. They learned that entire economic systems can be shut down by a governor, travel can be restricted, access to public placed denied and schools closed. They learned that when the word “covid” is put on a bill, it releases unfathomable amounts of money not actually for covid. They have learned plenty.
Yup. March 11.
The NBA cancelled the Thunder-Jazz game because one of the players got COVID.
Hours later, the NCAA cancelled March Madness.
Then all Hell broke loose.
yes
they learned they can control people with fear
We learned medical “professionals” who extol the virtues of science will easily upend years worth of guidance and manipulate data for no other reason than making a candidate look bad so he will not win a Presidential election.
I have learned that doctors/’health care’ officials are NOT your friends. I have learned that women are busybody control freaks.
man made, slow motion, chinese water torture disaster.
Why they did this was to:
1. destroy the economy that Trump had built. They couldn’t stand to see the numbers so high. They had to destroy it. They did.
2. blame Trump for it all. They blamed him for doing too little, too much, for stopping flights and for not stopping flights.
3. give the folks some practice in cowering in fear and submission.>>> And these things only worked because our idiot population allowed it.
No problems...
It was March 11, 2020. I was going to fill out my March Madness brackets for the NCAA Basketball championship.
Right here, on Free Republic, someone posted that the NBA was cancelling that night’s game between Utah and New Orleans because one of the players had—shock, bing, dang!—Covid.
Then later that night, they canceled the WHOLE season and the NCAA canceled the entire tournament.
If you remember, at that time we had a whole bunch of fear porn posters here who were saying Covid would wipe us all out.
They frightened me, and the heavy-handed way the NBA and NCAA canceled EVERYTHING shocked me.
I made a note of the date. March 11.
That was the date of the nationwide terror campaign that would ultimately ruin Donald Trump and propel Antifa, BLM and Joe Biden.
Burned into my mind, like John F’n Kerry in Cambodia (that he didn’t actually go to because he was already out of the Navy).
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