And don’t forget the videos of people keeling over in the streets!
Hell, I had neighbors who ACTUALLY BELIEVED that there were COVIDs lurking in the grass to jump them as soon as they opened their front door.
You get a public panicked that bad and you’ll be able to sell them bullS#!+ and convince them that its a new form of chocolate.
And that’s just what the SOBs did
When Georgia opened its beaches last spring one moron told me “spittle could fly in the ocean wind and land on another person thereby infecting them.”
She said, and I quote, “The virus is a death sentence.”
Unfortunatrly, he's not being terribly truthful here. On March 14, 2020, he wrote "I'm Betting on America. Are You?" where he said:
Let's start with the bad. This is the worst mess of our lifetime. The economy is hanging by a thread. Stocks rebounded Friday but have been savaged. Small business is wrecked. Millions of Americans are about to lose their jobs. My beloved Vegas is -- for the moment -- down for the count. And I haven't even gotten to the health crisis yet.
I have many great friends and guests on my national TV and radio shows who are medical experts. Half believe this is the pandemic to end all pandemics. They quote Centers for Disease Control and Prevention models that report as many as 1.7 million Americans could die. So people are rightfully scared out of their minds. American business is shutting down. But the other half of my medical friends and expert guests say this is an overreaction. They predict fewer Americans will die than during the flu season of 2017-18 that killed about 80,000 people. They don't believe we need to close down American business and lock ourselves in our homes.
The problem is we won't know who's right until it's over.
So I have preached for President Donald Trump to attack this with everything he's got, not just the looming health care crisis but also the financial crisis. When all is said and done, we will need a 21st-century version of the Marshall Plan to save America's economy. We'll need a trillion-dollar plan to rescue small businesses and their employees, those sick with coronavirus, the tourism industry, the airlines, Las Vegas and all the rest.
I'm not playing Monday Morning QB. As much as many people like to be revisitonist, Mr Root is right - there WAS a lot of uncertainty in early/mid March. Indeed, I often quote this article to reiterate that reasonable folks could disagree.
Only by April was it very apparent that the virus, while fatal, killed the elderly and infirm while infecting the young without the same case fatality rate. A prudent plan of keeping schools and business open and shielding the elderly would have been MUCH better.
Again, people learn...so I'm not willing to bash people who through April were concerned but then saw the light and the attendant leftist grab for domination.
But please Mr Root, don't go all American Thinker on us.
In a Sam’s I saw a woman in an oversized (for her)rain coat with two masks and a full motorcycle helmet on with oversized gloves going through the store.
Folks can sure be bamboozled.