who said hoax? Interesting that the pearl clutchers always have to claim us skeptics are calling it a hoax. No one is calling it a hoax, we are calling it an over-hyped event in which the ‘cure’ is going to be way more devastating then the event itself.
AGAIN.... 19000 folks died from H1N1 in the U.S. and it was a blip on the national news cycle.
Perspective.
Weeks ago the freeper snowflake pearl-clutchers were telling me just to wait a couple of weeks and I’d be eating my words. Sorry 2 weeks later and I’m still on my way to vindication.
It has been known for almost a millennia that quarantine is the most (and until recently only) effective thing you can do. In the past the reason to act quickly to an epidemic was because if you failed to your neighbor would swoop in and take everything while you were on your back. Quarantine has been a military maneuver more than anything else, historically. In a global world, when everybody is on their back you could make a case that we should just let everything go to hell and wait to pickup the pieces. I understand that is their strategy in Denmark. We probably could have absorbed the blow but it would certainly have been devastating. What we are doing, unfortunately, is the best of a bunch of poor alternatives.
Not a pearl clutcher, FRiend. I'm a realist trying to look at facts in all this noise.
My knee-jerk reaction to all this was to ignore it and go about my business (and yeah, I'm old and "vulnerable"). Not giving up my freedom for fear.
But I'm monitoring the situation. I hope you are correct! But we don't know enough yet. IMHO, President Trump is correct in waiting to make his calls (I hope we don't drop 2 trillion dollars on the problem).
Yes, it is nice that the two weeks is here and we are proven correct about the over-hype. Unfortunately, all they say now is...”wait until two more weeks”. You can’t win.