[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Wuhan CCP Virus should be renamed the NYC, Blue/Sanctuary State, Illegal Alien, Nursing Home Virus.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The time has come to ask what did Dr. Fauci know, and when did he know it?

His agency was funding research at the Wuhan lab.

Did he become the nation’s #1 lockdown czar because he KNEW that lab was working on something extremely deadly?

Since it appears we did this all based on precious little data that seems like a logical question. Fauci had no answers and assumed the worst.

[madison10]

The only “good” thing about this mess is pulling back the curtains on all the blue governors, mayors and on down. Plus some nasty Democrat Congresscritters. What eye openers.

[null and void]

I started out in “Team Pandemic” when I saw how China reacted when the virus they developed was detected outside their lab. They had horrific responses, and most honest sources agree they had unreported death rates to match.

I'm now inclined towards “Team Reality” based on the lower death rates as the virus mutates to less virulent strains and more people are developing antibodies in the wild due to sub-clinical infections.

That being said, with my nonagenarian mom living with us we'll be staying hunkered down for awhile.

That's my general risk assessment for society as a whole, minimal, acceptable risk, and my personal family risk, low, but err on the side of caution.

Make your own assessments and act accordingly...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[The Great RJ]

When this mess is over and there is a sober look at the real data without media whipped hysteria, these doctors will be proven totally correct. Thanks to media hysteria people are walking around wearing masks and glove that are of dubious value in public settings. What value is a mask when walking down an uncrowded street, sitting in a park, driving in your car or playing with your kids? Even in places like grocery stores where customers use a social isolation reminiscent of that once given to lepers, a mask is questionable particularly if it is not changed or sanitized. Ditto for gloves. Media fear mongering and state governors enjoying a tyrannical control over their state with the sheeple conned into believing its the end of the world needs to stop.

[aquila48]

How long before “shutdown skeptics” will become “shutdown deniers”?

[Sicon]

“Certainly, a full complete lockdown reduces the spread of the virus,” said the study. “However, as the above data shows, there is an apparent similar decline in the rate of infection even in countries that did not enforce a full shutdown.”

Seems like a roundabout way of saying “lockdowns” are ineffective/pointless...

[N. Theknow]

It has become apparent that a 16 year old from some Scandinavian country should step up and tell the world how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Sergio]

bkmk

[TXnMA]

"It is now clear that the lockdowns were a major mistake everywhere except the New York City metro area, and possibly even there...”

 
Total COVID-19 Cases per 1000 People

Yes, it certainly looks that way...

TXnMA