Posted on 03/13/2020 3:43:33 PM PDT by FlipWilson
There is no doubt that the Coronavirus/Wuhan Virus/Wutang Clan virus or whatever you want or allowed by our media betters to call it, poses a real threat. It will spread, people will manifest symptoms and some will die. As of now, by and large, those who are dying, as with most outbreaks, are the most vulnerable amongst us. That could change and this could be the equivalent of the zombie apocalypse.
It can be additionally stated with some certainty, that the Coronavirus has been an emerging issue since November of 2019. Many here and some in the media (named Tucker) noted it and reported upon it with increasing detail and raise an alarm. When it was raging in January, it was obvious THEN that it would be a problem to be dealt with here.
There are, however, two aspects to this story. First, the virus itself and its still, as of now, unknown mortality rate. Second, it is the use of this virus to drive various agendas. I have noticed that when someone notes the latter, they are met with a statement about the former and vice-a-versa It is possible to discuss one without necessarily dismissing or demeaning someone's option and thoughts about the other. Conflation is an enemy the media uses and must be overcome.
I believe that virus is a real threat but I believe with equal conviction that the threat is being misrepresented and manipulated for a sinister purpose to raise fear and panic that I have never seen in my lifetime.
Which brings me to this. The media and the democrats knew about this virus, they knew its potential effects and instead of informing the public responsibly, they simply placed a bookmark on it. They did so because they cared only about impeachment. They did so with a purposeful plan in mind. That plan was to use this as their nuclear option to destroy Trump and distract from the previous failures to do so (and the possible ramifications therefrom). All else did fail and they set about to nuke the economy, regardless of who got hurt. The next phase was to engage the amnesia button.
The plan was to sow only enough panic to destroy the economy and then immediately pivot to talking about the bad economy AS IF THE CORONAVIRUS NEVER HAPPENED. The second that bad economic data hit, the arrogant and dangerous fools at CNN et. al. would immediately ignore the Coronavirus, as if it never happened and pivot to blaming the economy on Trump's policies.
"Coronavirus, you mean the beer, corona of the sun, what is this virus of which you speak? We are here to discuss Trump's bad economic policies." I could see it now, F. Chuck Todd laughing condescendingly that foolish arrogant laugh at a guest who tried to point out the virus as the cause of the bad economy. "Lol, where did you get such fantasies."
It is no coincidence that all the closures and cancellations are timed to end early April when the economic data on March will be available, data likely showing a slowdown in the economy.
Such a great (and predictable) plan and one that has gone off of the tracks.
They sowed panic alright, but the democrats/media have sowed said panic to a fever pitch. If the Republican Party can be said to be the stupid party, then the democrat party can equally be said to be the party of hubris, a party that constantly overplays their hand. And in their hubris they lost control of the monsters known as panic and fear.
As a result, events and institutions vital to the American emotional psyche started being cancelled or delayed with little assurance of resumption. These are events and institutions that everyone cares about and has a deep emotional attachment to. March Madness, the NBA, your kids School and Activities, the local gym, the local parade, etc. (the list is becoming limitless).
Worse than the cancellations are the downstream effects, real and imagined. The possibility for damage is bohemeth, at least in the minds of a panicked public. There is even a belief that gravity will stop providing water to your tap. As if gravity can catch a virus. Stock up on the bottled water!!! The water will stop flowing or catch a virus. Get that year's supply of paper products cause, you know, when things go sideways, one tends to over defecate.
With this level of panic, however, the crisis sure better meet the measures being taken to curtail it. Moreover, with this level of panic and the historic level of interruption to American lives, the crisis had better not only be real, but of such a nature to have warranted this level of destruction to American life.
Hence the overreach and why the democrats are now, suddenly realizing that they are up a creek. It is hard to pivot to discussing the Trump economic policies or his handling of this crisis when you have placed it on the level of a World War. It is hard to pivot to taking about a ruined economy, while engaging in the usual 1984, Orwellian tactics that ask the American People to pretend that the economy just suddenly crashed and it always was going to. There was no virus. While I agree that amnesia is something that afflicts the electorate, a fact the media knows all too well, this time it is hard to use that when the interruptions to American life are this far reaching.
The American People look to their leaders for stability in times like this and Trump happens to be in the White House. Attacking the one guy who can fix this, like him or hate him, does not go down well with a panicked and fearful public.
You can bet that some who are slow on the uptake or just blinded by rage will sure try anyway. They are programmed and cannot be moved off of their derangement. The New York Times, the WaPo and the rest had their stories written a month ago. They were busy stockpiling them like a prepper stocks ammo and rations.
One can see the clues to their true intentions seeping out. Reuters: "Trump mishandled this when he called it the flu." The NYT: "Suddenly Trump's reelection changes are not so bright as the economy drastically slows." The Atlantic: "Trumps Presidency is Over." Nancy Pelosi going ahead with her plans to sneak her abortion wet dreams into a needed relief bill, the democrats favorite tactic in times of crisis.
Rest assured that these are not new stories or legislative wish lists. They had these in the can the second impeachment was winding down and they decided to push the "nuke the country" button.
Here we are and the question is this: When this is over and the real data on the virus is available, will the level of panic and fear induced by the media have been warranted? I am placing what I consider to be a safe bet on the answer to that question being "no." The next question is, what will we do about it? What will we do to the people who have set us up for a dress rehearsal for martial law and probably crushed our economy?
We know that the authorities won't do anything. The same villains who pimped Russian Collusion are behind this and they will all receive a nice "decline to prosecute" summer present. But, I wonder what some citizen will do who has lost their job, their house and more in the name of "getting Trump."
There does come a point when business as usual jumps the shark. That backlash, and not this virus, is what has been somewhat fearful.
The actual virus and its effects.
The misuse of it for a sinister agenda.
Everyone is using this to further their own agendas.
Gravity. You messed up at gravity. Very few Americans depend on gravity for potable water. Almost everybody is dependent on large pumps.
If this coronavirus peters out as warmer weather embraces the northern hemisphere, as I think it most likely will, then President Trump will be viewed as the awesome leader that he is, and the Democrats will once again be left with egg on their face.
Then if a vaccine is approved in a timely manner, calm will return to the home of the free and the brave. Well some of us are still brave, and some of us still cherish freedom. 8>)
AMEN!
From your keyboard, to God’s ear!
Good post.
Thanks for posting it.
That is, if you accept the Chinese account of their patient zero having it in Nov 2019.
I have some ideas.
“With this level of panic, however, the crisis sure better meet the measures being taken to curtail it. Moreover, with this level of panic and the historic level of interruption to American lives, the crisis had better not only be real, but of such a nature to have warranted this level of destruction to American life.“
This ^^^^^^^
Oh and what pandemic rises to the level you mention? Maybe polio? The black plague?
The level and rapidity of the panic is unbelievable, certainly beyond anything witnessed in my lifetime.
I have only one answer that makes sense. The chinese govt was weaponizing this and it got out. This is why all govts are acting so crazy, cause they know this is a human modified bioweapon.
Thank goodness the chinese are horrible at almost everything they do, or we might be in real trouble......
Call me crazy but didn’t this whole corona virus business start shortly after the signing of the US Chinese trade deal? Connection, I don’t know.
Apparently, so did our vaunted CDC.
Rush Limbaugh is the first person I have heard who explained that the reason this virus is called Covid-19 is because this is the 19th version of this virus. This is not something new under the sun. There was no reason for it to get to this stage unless someone wanted it to.
I don’t think the word brave has any association with America at all today. Home of the spineless cowards is much more fitting from this time forward. I would prefer to use a more vulgar term, but will not.
That is wrong. 19 is the year.
And do the large pumps get the virus either?
I see an order of magnitude more of talk about panic on Free Republic than actual panic where I live.
I agree. It saddens me.
Have you been to the grocery stores? It’s stupid out there.
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