Posted on 03/14/2020 3:19:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"World War C" can be taken in two ways: a war against coronavirus (COVID-19) or a world war against China, which is now being found out as the country responsible for unleashing a pandemic on the world.
In times of uncertainty and crisis, the American people look to the president of the United States. As President Roosevelt once said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself."
President Trump, in a White House Rose Garden event flanked by great captains of American private-sector companies, had his finest hour in instilled confidence that all will be well throughout America. Thoughtful, courageous citizens, comforted by President Trump, will stay the course, show courage, and band together as the nasty "C" for China's Wuhan Virus sweeps the globe. It will touch America, and, sadly, individuals will die.
To be fair to the hothouse breaking-news-every-hour mainstream media reporting on the spread of using "C" for coronavirus, they are fed constant perfect numerical data points of the spread of the virus and deaths for easy media panic stories. This is especially true as they subconsciously tap into a generation weaned on the virus fear of zombie moves and TV shows.
Not to trivialize a serious medical emergency, but, ironically, dozens of plotlines begins with one person getting infected, and then a perfect collection of victims will soon be in mortal danger as their world ends. But even in the movies, humanity prevails. As the president said, this too will pass.
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The President has been clever in the way he has put the country on a war footing against China’s economic and criminal (theft of IP) assault on the U.S. (and the world for that matter) but has at the same time sung the praises of his “good friend” Xi Jinping.
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He seems to always want peace in the end. Be tough but don’t insult the leader. Which he doesn’t do with his domestic adversaries. He is a counterpuncher. I’m sure if Xi got chesty with Trump,the President would let him have it. At this point our relationship with China is not exactly great so who cares how the public relations pan out.
Just for reference baseline
Corona roughly started 12/30/19
Flu deaths up in the new year: CDCFlu deaths are up more than 65% so far in 2020, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that 4,800 people had died and 87,000 people had been hospitalized.Feb 21, 2020
As an aside, Xi, by his prohibition of Winnie the Poo images in the press and elsewhere (he and Winnie being lookalikes), has shown that he is quite sensitive to the face saving issue and a bit thin-skinned.
Amen to that. I hope we have learned out lesson with COVID-19.
Frankly, we should make it a matter of patriotism, and when companies offshore critical goods to slave-wage nations, we should name, shame and shun them at every level, up to the POTUS.
This also goes for the globalists who put us at risk the other way, by importing slave-wage coolies, like the 300K Chinese working in North Italy fashion/textile sweat shops, so they can still put “made in Italy” labels on their products.
That’s why North Italy exploded first: all the Chinese sweat shop labor going back and forth in Dec and Jan.
The greedy Western traitors who offshore critical production, or import coolies to replace Americans, should become infamous, and shunned across society.
Only when they are kicked out of their country clubs etc. as shameless villains, they’ll change their behavior.
I agree, you can’t shame the boss.
Trump did it well yesterday about the false claims that American Army soldiers seeded CV in Wuhan.
“We all know where it came from.”
That leaves it to Xi to rein in his propaganda, or face an escalation.
Xi knows that at some point, China needs us more than the other way. We can eat our own food and produce and buy our own products. China can’t, not yet.
The the covid19 threat is extremely dangerous but the situation is far from critical at this point and the media has way over hyped the “world is coming to an end” false narrative.
President Trump is doing political ju jitsu on his opponents, who have badly overplayed their hands
Covid19 will be big enough to be a problem for the next several months but situation should quickly resolve itself given President Trumps decisive measures.
The US will come out looking much better at dealing with crisis than tye rest of the world and the Pres deserves the credit
President will have awesome emergency powers to direct corona virus health care emergency for at least the next year and fall out will change our health case system for the better on lasting basis
The politicization of the covid19 crisis to try to destroy President Trump is by far the biggest unforced political error they have done so far, and thats saying something.
They have teed up the ball for President Trumps success and now he will pull out a driver and hit a hole in one. They created a serious crisis and The Pres is going to drive it for all its worth
How many blue, breathless people can the ER at your local hospital manage before you have to wait all day to be seen while you are just having an MI? 6? 12? 36? But you have nothing to fear.
The next State of the Union is going to be a doozy.
I listened to the masterful press conference. Larry Bond wrote a techno-thriller entitled Lash Up. It was about a battle with China where American space agencies had to get a manned weaponized platform into space immediately. By a secret Presidential order, regulatory and procurement regulations were thrown out the window. This a 3-4 year process was complete in weeks.
It’s as if the Trump team is on the same page. These guys are incredible. Partnering, truly partnering with relevant industries is critical. Sure, we do it all the time but this is unprecedented in its speed and simplicity.
Buying up oil reserves also shows that they are fighting this battle on every single front. Medically, scientifically, economically and emotionally.
Yes. The Chinese people are very proud and the face saving is important in their culture. My Dad was a military intelligence officer in the China Burma theater and learned Mandarin. He had a lot of Chinese friends after the War. I took Chinese highschool. They respect strength but hate being shamed. Who does?
You’re old if you haven’t read The Romance of The Three Kingdoms and young if you have perused The Water Margin.
While I understand what you are saying, that is not actually the case.
The nuclear rector analogy is that you are "supercritcal" but not yet dead and have time to stop it. The virulent spread of a disease is like a nuclear chain reaction. To keep yourself safe, you have to terminate supercriticality before it blows you up.
When you start up a nuclear reactor [I was a submarine officer], you withdraw control rods until the rector is very slightly supercritical [each second very slightly more fissions than the second before] and you carefully control the rise in power from very very low levels - 1 fission per second to a few fissions per second to thousands to millions to the point where it starts to produce heat - the "power range."
In fact, the instrumentation you use at this point does not measure "power" but "start-up rate" and indicates "decades per minute" - i.e. how many time the power multiplies itself by 10 in a minute. First one fission per second, then 10 per second, then 100, then 1000 etc. You set the rods to a controllable level of increase and when you get to the "power range" - measurable heat, you bump the rods in to stop the "startup" and then control the reactor with slight bumps to adjust the power level. [For the experts, power reactors have a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity so the power is self-adjusting to power demand, the reactor is stable and it only needs watchful monitoring for the rest of us to be safe. - And if power exceeds safe design levels by even small margins it shuts itself down completely]
But an uncontrolled startup [e.g. Chernobyl] could be done if a reactor does not have a good protection system AND if you fail to follow proper procedures. You could take it to a higher level of criticality-called highly supercritical- at the beginning and leave it. At first all is fine, no problem, but by the time the reactor gets to the level of producing real power you are milliseconds later dead. If somewhere at a very low level you drive the rods back in and cut off the chain reaction (automatic controls would do this on real reactors and strict procedures keep you from doing this anyway) you are, however, safe.
This thing - CV - is multiplying out of control in the west. By taking stringent public health measures we can stop it - reduce the infection rate to below the recovery rate as many countries have done.
It is not under control and we are not out of danger until the Worldometer bar charts of new cases starts showing decreases in new cases rather than increases, and the measures cannot be removed until we have a vaccine or it has mutated to something safe or can monitor and control spread that it does not get out of control again.
So, we are way past criticality on this thing, and the measures we are NOW taking are to stop it before it all blows up. We have to get the case multiplication rate below one to stop this. E.g. new cases cannot go on to infect even newer cases.
As an aside one of the real problems they apparently discovered in China is that the disease propagates quit readily through family chains. Close circles of family and friends are still a danger here and even with the measures taken we will see some increase in rates of infection. While a lot of folks are panicking and overbuying supplies to lock themselves in, our elite thing they are above this and immune and spreading it world wide.
While I understand what you are saying, that is not actually the case.
The nuclear rector analogy is that you are "supercritcal" but not yet dead and have time to stop it. The virulent spread of a disease is like a nuclear chain reaction. To keep yourself safe, you have to terminate supercriticality before it blows you up.
When you start up a nuclear reactor [I was a submarine officer], you withdraw control rods until the rector is very slightly supercritical [each second very slightly more fissions than the second before] and you carefully control the rise in power from very very low levels - 1 fission per second to a few fissions per second to thousands to millions to the point where it starts to produce heat - the "power range."
In fact, the instrumentation you use at this point does not measure "power" but "start-up rate" and indicates "decades per minute" - i.e. how many time the power multiplies itself by 10 in a minute. First one fission per second, then 10 per second, then 100, then 1000 etc. You set the rods to a controllable level of increase and when you get to the "power range" - measurable heat, you bump the rods in to stop the "startup" and then control the reactor with slight bumps to adjust the power level. [For the experts, power reactors have a negative temperature coefficient of reactivity so the power is self-adjusting to power demand, the reactor is stable and it only needs watchful monitoring for the rest of us to be safe. - And if power exceeds safe design levels by even small margins it shuts itself down completely]
But an uncontrolled startup [e.g. Chernobyl] could be done if a reactor does not have a good protection system AND if you fail to follow proper procedures. You could take it to a higher level of criticality-called highly supercritical- at the beginning and leave it. At first all is fine, no problem, but by the time the reactor gets to the level of producing real power you are milliseconds later dead. If somewhere at a very low level you drive the rods back in and cut off the chain reaction (automatic controls would do this on real reactors and strict procedures keep you from doing this anyway) you are, however, safe.
This thing - CV - is multiplying out of control in the west. By taking stringent public health measures we can stop it - reduce the infection rate to below the recovery rate as many countries have done.
It is not under control and we are not out of danger until the Worldometer bar charts of new cases starts showing decreases in new cases rather than increases, and the measures cannot be removed until we have a vaccine or it has mutated to something safe or can monitor and control spread that it does not get out of control again.
So, we are way past criticality on this thing, and the measures we are NOW taking are to stop it before it all blows up. We have to get the case multiplication rate below one to stop this. E.g. new cases cannot go on to infect even newer cases.
As an aside one of the real problems they apparently discovered in China is that the disease propagates quit readily through family chains. Close circles of family and friends are still a danger here and even with the measures taken we will see some increase in rates of infection. While a lot of folks are panicking and overbuying supplies to lock themselves in, our elite thing they are above this and immune and spreading it world wide.
That's what you do with a rabid dog - coo at it and say "nice doggy" while you slowly grab a baseball bat with which to bash it's little chicom skull in.
I've read that on line, but there is so much opinion, and so few facts, I don't know what to believe about the origin of this virus.
Are there any real fact sources available?
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