Locking America Down Again Is Exactly What China Wants Because It Will Ruin Us

The Federalist ^ | 07/16/2020 | Joy Pullmann

[SeekAndFind]

The governors of Texas and California, the nation’s two most populous states, recently reimposed coronavirus lockdowns despite falling death rates and health-care capacity far beyond hospitalization rates. Numerous other governors have delayed reopenings or reversed them in similar situations.

Lockdowns are not necessary to prevent coronavirus deaths, since the current capacity for treating cases is far above what is needed and people are going to get this disease until there’s a cure. Further, lockdowns accelerate systemic weaknesses such as our national debt, poor education, large numbers of working-age men who do not work, failure to pay for decades of overspending at both the national and state levels, tendency to bail out corrupt institutions such as schools, big business, and hospitals, and bloated health care system.

The Chinese Communist Party knows of all this. That is why it has expertly manipulated American corporate media’s anti-American biases to undermine their biggest competitor for control of the world.

Lockdowns of Western nations, and chiefly of the United States, are China’s only hope for achieving this long-term plan in its coronavirus-weakened state. Thus, continuing to play into this mass-murdering regime’s hands through cuckolded American leadership will have far more deadly consequences than coronavirus. This is why the lockdowns need to end now, and never come back again.

Keeping a Knee on Our Economy Will Kill Our Country

A July 13 New York Times article says the re-shutdowns are killing the willpower of small business owners to keep their doors open, even after Congress threw $660 billion in deficit spending at them.

“We did everything we were supposed to do,” Texas karaoke club owner Mick Larkin told the Times. “When [Gov. Rick Abbott] shut us down again, and after I put out all that money to meet their rules, I just said, ‘I can’t keep doing this.’”

Estimates say between 66,000 and 110,000 small businesses may already have closed for good during the coronavirus panic.

“Small businesses account for 44 percent of all U.S. economic activity, according to the S.B.A., and closures on such an immense scale could devastate the country’s economic growth,” the Times observes. “…Many small businesses are also finding it onerous keep up with constantly changing local guidelines, while others are deciding that no matter what their local officials say, it just is not safe to keep going.”

There is a hard limit to how much fake economic activity current and future taxpayers can float. We had already reached it before coronavirus hit. A bailout economy will crash irrevocably at some point. No matter how much Congress thinks they can suspend the laws of nature, never-ending economic inflation through accelerating claims on future American earners’ incomes is utterly unsustainable.

Americans cannot afford a Potemkin economy. The first step toward getting to a real economy is to end lockdowns and never impose them again.

We Have No More Equity to Mortgage Our Kids’ Futures

Keeping schools shut down, or only partially opening them, also suffocates our economy by making it difficult for two-income families and single parents to support themselves. It is simply not possible to work full-time and teach children full-time, which is what online schooling requires of working parents.

School shutdowns also hobble American society long-term, as they and online schooling both significantly reduce how much children learn, especially in math. Math competence strongly predicts a nation’s economic future, to the point that one estimate finds if U.S. kids just learned as much math as Canadian kids do, our nation would increase its gross domestic product by $77 trillion over the next 80 years.

It’s therefore quite reasonable to assume that setting kids back in math by a year or two, as continued coronavirus schooling will do (it’s already set them back in math almost a year), will short our economy tens of trillions of dollars — right at the time trillions in unfunded entitlements for Baby Boomers will come due. We simply can’t afford that, and China knows it.

Besides harming our country, shutdowns harm children. There is next to zero risk to children’s health of going back to school, as evidence from myriad first-world countries show. There is a massive risk to kids’ futures of depriving them of a good education. One estimate found keeping U.S. kids’ math knowledge to pre-pandemic levels instead of raising it to Canada’s would deprive them of an estimated 20 percent in additional income for every year of their lives that they work.

Doing what China wants in continued lockdowns will not just hamstring American kids financially, it will bequeath them a far more dangerous world in which an aggressive, mass-murdering regime that deliberately sent a deadly virus abroad grows in power as their nation’s ability to deflect that power decays. In 20 years, America’s kids will not be impressed that we spared grownups some unsubstantiated unease in return for condemning the next generation to a much higher likelihood of poverty, a bankrupted social safety net, and a homeland at the mercy of a bloodthirsty global power.

Media Push U.S. Politicians to Fulfill Communist Plans

In urging lockdowns, therefore, U.S. media has amplified and helped implement Communist goals. The Chinese Communist Party endorsed, promulgated, and lobbied for strict lockdowns with the goal of kneecapping foreign competitors, including the United States. As Michael P. Senger pointed out on Twitter based on a June New York Times article, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “launched a massive social media campaign in Italy to advertise its coronavirus lockdown measures in early March.”

1/5 This @nytimes article by @paulmozur is a smoking gun on the genesis of the coronavirus lockdowns.

According to the article, the CCP launched a massive social media campaign in ITALY to advertise its coronavirus lockdown measures in early March.https://t.co/BEOkiFFPfm

— MPS (@MichaelPSenger) June 11, 2020

3/5 But CCP's campaign wasn't limited to Italy. The article states that this Tweet advertising China's lockdown policy to the world is fake. It has 142,000 likes.

Tweets like this prove CCP was actively selling the world on Wuhan-style lockdowns in early March. pic.twitter.com/eVHELKCCBj

— MPS (@MichaelPSenger) June 11, 2020

Democrats spent three years spinning a presidential impeachment out of a few Facebook memes from Russian trolls and bots in 2016. This NYT article and a long ProPublica report provide evidence that the CCP has been using a far bigger propaganda campaign to destroy the United States through economic suicide and destruction of social cohesion. And it’s working.

It is no exaggeration to say that the world’s future depends on the United States acting strategically to counter Chinese propaganda and aims rather than strangling ourselves on lies. Our economy and military sustain the world. China is the number one beneficiary if we choke, and it has been wanting to challenge the United States for dominant global power for decades. They needed another generation or two to be able to get there.

The CCP strategy for achieving that has been promising its citizens political competence and economic advancement in exchange for severe repression that allows for directing the nation’s entire economy into soft and hard global power. Coronavirus strikes at the heart of both these strategies. That’s the CCP’s main leverage over the Chinese (besides terrorizing people). So the only way Xi Jinping staves off losing his head over mismanaging this outbreak is by bringing the world down with him.

The CCP is fighting for its life and its 100-year plan to get us to stay locked down. Keeping freedom alive for the world requires that they don’t win. Key to fighting back is following Sweden and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s successful coronavirus management strategies: End government lockdowns, and allow American citizens to act on their own judgments about coronavirus risks.

[little jeremiah]

Apparently you are unaware of the lies about cases and deaths from the CDC. Cloth “face coverings” do absolutely nothing to stop the spread of viruses. People without symptoms but postive cannot spread it, either.

[little jeremiah]

The vast majority of deaths, something like 80%, are elderly.

[sport]

You are correct. But you are whistling into the wind. The media has put the fear of God into the sheep, a/k/a, idiots. They are unable to think and reason rationally and logically. Their bowels have turned to water.

[little jeremiah]

Why do people assume that everyone trusts the media? That’s one of their lies, making people think that only I and my friends don’t trust them, everyone else does. I saw an article the other day that the majority of people polled do NOT trust the media on covid news. And almost all polls, if not all, are biased towards demsheviks.

[walkingdead]

Must have tagged me on accident. I am and always will be a firm believer of the human immune system, and advocate constantly for no lockdowns or precautions of any kind. Flattening the curve only prolongs the virus, and I see no reason to let a virus run in humanity any longer than it has to.

The link I provided walks you through the numbers, how herd immunity threshold for this virus is between 10-20% and how it is basically already over. 80+% of people are set with T cells that whip covids butt. This is due to humanity being bombarded with other coronaviruses for enternity.

So, not sure why you tagged me on your lies of the cdc. Even using their inflated numbers, we still show it being over with. You cannot stop a virus in humanity with lockdowns or masks or anything of the sort.

There is only one way to stop a virus, and that is through immunity. Which we already have, now we wait to see how long these mini dictators will go before releasing their grip from power.

[walkingdead]

Nevermind, just figure out why you tagged me. It is in response to the awesome reply I received.

You and I are on the same page.

[walkingdead]

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/lockdown-lunacy-2-0-second-wave-not-even-close/?fbclid=IwAR36E1sM2JZZxzHQIzU3bPVMxAaQqGsBPeFPFYVQxa0W4eOVD6PQCt22-Xs

Read, if you dare. Warning, it is real science, using your precious numbers, and still shows this virus being basically done.

10-20% herd immunity threshold, not your doom and gloom 80%.

Ever wonder why the cruise ship, the perfect environment for a virus to spread, only had 17% contract it? T cells, which at present seem to be found in about 80% of those not having antibodies also. So you see, since we are blasted with coronaviruses through our entire existence, our immune system learned to fight it already. Surprise, surprise......

But by all means, keep it up with your doom and gloom. Make sure everyone is as scared as you. Make sure every hard working American feels the pain. Help the powers that be destroy select small business. Help the powers tighten their grip on power.

[little jeremiah]

I just added your name since the other guy responded to you, I was supporting your position in my feeble way. :-D

[little jeremiah]

The only question I have is how many fear bros are really dumb and believe propganda, and how many are on the other side.

[walkingdead]

Yea, sorry I lumped you in with those yahoo’s, I see that you were defending me, and I appreciate it.

You bring up a very valid point, is it ignorance, or are they on the other side? Good question.

I do know this, you and I do not have to worry about them being in a foxhole with us, cause if everything goes downhill, I am sure the likes of him will be on the other side of no man’s land from us.

[little jeremiah]

Notta problem. I wonder what has happend to FR over the years.

[MikeHu]

There’s nothing one can do about how old they are, but there is a world of difference between the healthiest people, and the unhealthiest people in a population cohort.

The US has the highest incidence of obesity, diabetes, and people kept alive in poor condition — who would surely be dead in many less affluent countries — so it is not surprising that with these poor underlying health conditions, there is high number of deaths. When you take the example of acute long-term care centers, and to a lesser extent, many nursing homes, the reason they are there is because they wouldn’t survive anywhere else, and under any other conditions — so when they do perish, it shouldn’t be a cause to lock down all the healthy people — because that is not going to save them.

However, these people being in better health, because of public health programs to make them so, are entirely absent from the conversation — and all the talk is about extraordinary measures as our only hope to get this problem under control.

No, there are cures for obesity and diabetes — which is diagnosed by high blood sugar, and sugar stored in the bodies of diabetics. You don’t put the sugar (carbohydrates) in in the first place, and you burn off the accumulated sugar by systematic intermittent fasting — instead of promoting their “heart healthy” diet of maximum carbohydrates as often as possible so that one’s sugar level never go down.

Responsible medical professionals and researchers should come to the realization that simply more — and more expensive health care, and unlimited funding as everybody gets worse and becomes more vulnerable to everything, is not better health outcomes, and a viable future for all.

[Bob Ireland]

***Locking America Down Again Is Exactly What China Wants Because It Will Ruin Us***

Absolutely!

[little jeremiah]

Emerald Robinson is with Newsmax

Real data (again) comparing seasonal flu deaths in Texas in 2017-2018, & 2018-2019, to C19 deaths in 2020 (data from Texas Dept of Health): 2019 flu data https://t.co/E5tTqF6cPw ; 2018 flu data https://t.co/ScfwvS5ZYF 2020 C19 data as of 7/14/20 https://t.co/ZpvVLR75An; pic.twitter.com/qztIQNPpX0— Andrew Bostom (@andrewbostom) July 15, 2020

BREAKING: Sources inside Trump Administration confirm to me that CDC has been misreporting the data for coronavirus to inflate the numbers.— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) July 17, 2020

[walkingdead]

yea, sure was different in the early 2000’s wasn’t it.

Of course, I guess that means you and I are old fogies..... sitting on our front porch, telling these darn kids to get off our lawn! hahaha

[little jeremiah]

My real date is 2002 but had to change screen name due to family unpleasantness.

Too many debbie downers and eeyores. I really suspect some are “professionals” if you get my drift.

[little jeremiah]

Btw here is info about Bostom:

@andrewbostom
Academic MD & author of The Legacy of Jihad, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Sharia Versus Freedom.

[little jeremiah]

So "positives" not just from people who had covid, but anyone who's had a corona family common cold. Along with all the other reasons why the "case" numbers are totally bogus.

BREAKING: Health officials from dozen states have mistakenly lumped (+) results from antibody tests in w viral tests for COVID-19 in reporting to CDC, inflating new cases. A (+) antibody test could mean you were infected w virus from same corona family that causes the common cold— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) July 17, 2020

[walkingdead]

Yea I had heard they were counting antibodies too. Talk about cooking the books!

[little jeremiah]

And now the “covid deaths” are up too. Yeah, right....

Run over by a car - covid
Heart attack - covid
OD - covid
Gunshot to heat - covid
90 yrs old on chemo died in sleep - covid

rinse and repeat.