Posted on 03/16/2020 8:41:41 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The Coronavirus because it is an Authoritarian dream.
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
That being said, I still get my annual flu shot. :-)
Isn’t Denmark one of those 7 extra states Bammy was president of?
A CLEAR sign of Government PANIC!
And this is where we arm, big-time. Crossing the line
of the Temple of the Spirit. Dr. Tenpenny research attempting to ostracized her scientific debate in the U S !!;
Gotta have a vaccine first.
Citizens who refuse to be tested for the coronavirus will face fines and potential prison time, and will be prevented from entering shops, grocery stores, public institutions and hospitals while also being restricted from using public transport.
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Maybe they can have those people wear a little yellow star on an armband.
Stop with the crappy comparisons. This virus is real and about to overwhelm our medical system.
Stop with the crappy comparisons. This virus is real and about to overwhelm our medical system.
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How many have died of the virus in Denmark? Two.
I, for one, will not be participating.
Bingo ! this is what this is all about to the statists
Anybody remember the giant scare over measles last year and how stupid liberal lab legislatures passed Forest vaccination laws in states like California New York?
It's not new in United States history.
Washington Inoculates an Army
"No other word conjured up more fear among 18th century Americans than the word “smallpox.” The communicable and dreaded disease was a scourge and for good reason.
While not everyone who was plagued with the malady died, those who contracted the disease suffered much, with symptoms ranging from fever, severe headaches, extreme muscular pain, profuse bleeding from bodily orifices, vomiting, and the appearance of an ugly rash with bumps filled with pustule across much of the body....
"Like most communicable diseases smallpox could be found concentrated in centers of large populations. Philadelphia, in particular, was susceptible to the disease. Several members of the Continental Congress contracted the disease during their tenure in the City of Brotherly Love.
Even though scientists and physicians of the age were unaware of the idea of pathogens, they suspected rightly that the disease was spread by human contact; from particles in the air, for instance, and that breathing dispersed these particles onto other humans by direct and indirect contact, such as through particles that lived on pieces of cloth or clothing....
"To counter both the fear and the actual disease itself George Washington ordered a bold move on January 6, 1777, to have the entire Continental Army inoculated.
At this juncture it became a matter of policy. This act alone may have saved the Revolution.
The process was simple. A physician lanced one of the infected patient’s pustules with a knife or scalpel and then inserted the infected blade under the skin of a healthy person. Generally the inoculated person contracted the disease, but in a much milder form.
At the same time Washington’s troops were inoculated he ordered the local civilian population to be inoculated as well...
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/washington-inoculates-army
The country we have today became official in 1787, and not 1777.
Plus that was the Army.... Not the people.
When you are in the military you are property of the government. So they can do what they want with you.
“Except the cases of polio were almost over when the vaccine was available...”
The cases for *that particular outbreak* were diminishing at the time of the introduction of the Salk vaccine. However, the Salk and Sabin vaccines provided protection against future outbreaks that might have occurred (and did occur elsewhere). Here is an interesting article (I know, its NPR) pointing out the tragic consequences of some early, failed attempt at making a successful polio vaccine:
*** “Is it too early for a drink yet?” ***
What Time Zone are you in?
Might as well test stuff on dopey danes. "Here, try injecting some bleach."
*** “I remember polio terror quite well” ***
Me too and we survived, This is Not Polio or even close
(too this day just thinking about eating a sugar cube makes me shudder)
Central, 2:40 pm, gimmie a drink!
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