Posted on 11/29/2021 5:27:31 PM PST by Rummyfan
“There’s no reason to panic,” NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told CNN on Sunday morning, “but it’s a great reason to get boosted.” President Joe Biden did his best to relieve the stress that overtook opinion-makers on Monday. “We’re going to fight and beat this new variant today,” he said. But “not with shutdowns or lockdowns.” Biden stressed that “this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic.”
But there was a panic. And if you have investments in the market or need crucial elective surgeries in the state of New York, it was a damaging one. Why was panic the default response of so much of the news-consuming world over the weekend? And why have sobriety and circumspection now returned to both media and markets? In part because panic has become a lifestyle choice among an influential few.
The revivification of COVID as an acute emergency led some particularly active communicators to retreat into the comfort of existential dread. Of this, one instructive Twitter thread produced by Boston University School of Public Health Associate Professor Dr. Ellie Murray was indicative. Yes, she wrote, we must continue to promote vaccines, disseminate rapid tests, and approve promising therapeutics. But we must also restore masking mandates, prepare for business closures, provide paid pandemic furloughs, legislate a constitutionally viable moratorium on evictions, force airlines to absorb the cost associated with socially distanced flights, take all winter social gatherings outside, and develop “clear triggers to switch to hybrid or remote” learning in schools.
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If TPTB have their way this will never end. Enough!
The governmental overreach would be slightly less pernicious were it for a truly fearful disease.
But for a virus with 99.5% survival rate, it is transparently vile.
“force airlines to absorb the cost associated with socially distanced flights”
Well, as a retired Airline employee, I will have to get in your face, Dr. Collins. Be ready!
I am usually a calm, cool and collected individual.
However, when riled to the point you have placed me, I am a very nasty man. Be more than ready!
Ahem.
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The only way that the Pandemic-con ends is when the American public refuses to put up with it anymore.
Heard today “be not afraid” is stated I think it was 64 times in the Bible.
In a sermon earlier this month I heard “When we are told in the Bible be not afraid it makes us think, uh, oh, this means something really big and bad lies ahead of me and I should be afraid.”
Yes. Good catch.
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