Posted on 05/14/2020 9:33:44 AM PDT by upchuck
Around the world, both state and local governments looked at wildly exaggerated computer model projections of millions of virus deaths, declared a “State Of Emergency”, and foolishly pulled the wheels off of their own economies. This has caused pain, suffering, and loss that far exceeds anything that the virus might do.
The virus hardly affects anyone—it has killed a maximum of 0.1% of the population in the very worst-hit locations. One-tenth of one measly percent.
Ah, I hear you saying, but that’s just deaths. What about hospitalizations? Glad you asked. Hospitalizations in the worst-hit areas have been about three times that, about a third of one percent of the population. Still not even one percent.
But on the other hand, more than thirty million workers in the US are unemployed. That’s about twenty percent of the number of full and part-time employees. And that job loss affects the entire household, not just the workers.
And that doesn’t count the loss of life from increased suicides and from delayed medical diagnosis and procedures. Nor does it count the fact that some 20% of the lost jobs are not expected to return. And we have calls to mental-health hotlines skyrocketing, and domestic violence through the roof. In a most ironic outcome, we have hospitals and doctors going bankrupt, and thousands of nurses being furloughed, because “non-essential” medical procedures are forbidden. Then there are the huge financial losses, both to the economy and to the government.
And in a beautifully circular process, we have trillions and trillions of dollars borrowed by the government to try to offset some of the damages that the government just caused … these lockdowns are far, far more destructive than the virus. The virus damage is short-lived, but we and our children will be paying for decades for our stupidity in killing the economy.
It’s like … it’s like … well, about the only example I can think of which has equivalent idiocy is if a mosquito were to land on your head and you grabbed a sledgehammer to get rid of it …
So the first lesson of the emergency is, don’t kill your economy to try to delay or avoid a few deaths. It is possible to slow the spread of the virus without pulling the wheels off of the economy.
The next lesson of the emergency is, don’t put much trust in computer models.
The next lesson of the emergency is, don’t put doctors in charge of economic decisions. Especially Dr. Fauci. He’s been wrong about most aspects of this whole process. If you want someone to run a hospital, as a general rule you shouldn’t hire a doctor …
The next lesson of the emergency is the extreme importance of the ancient medical maxim of Hippocrates, a maxim that our dear Dr. Fauci apparently never heard of—“Primum non nocere”, which means “First, do no harm”.
The next lesson of the emergency is, quarantine the sick, protect the vulnerable, but do NOT quarantine the healthy. That’s madness.
Let me set aside what we’ve learned to return to the COVID19 emergency. The emergency everyone feared was exemplified by the reality that in some countries, the medical system was overwhelmed by the number of COVID-19 cases. The cause of this was that the cases came on too fast—the peak hospitalizations and deaths were packed into a week or two. Early on in the pandemic, this peak in the load on the medical system in Italy caused parts of the system to collapse under the weight of cases.
To prevent that peak load from crushing the medical system, it was decided in many countries to try to “flatten the curve” by slowing the spread of the virus. Note that the stated intention of flattening the curve was not to stop the virus. The declared goal was to decrease the number of new cases per day, not to decrease the total number of new cases.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Next hobgoblin, please. This one has gotten old.
Hear, hear!
The most threatening virus we have to contend with now is the virus of Leftist tyranny and abuse.
Even at ground zero..NYC..(I live on Staten Island) I STILL don’t know one person that has shown signs of being sick or even KNOWS someone who’s shown signs of being sick.
I word it that way because likely some of us have had it.
I’m talking hundreds of people.
It’s just no one has had so much as a sniffle or small cough in that entire group.
Not exactly the black death.
There is a comet approaching. All hope is lost.
The object of all this mayhem was to crash the economy and get rid of Trump so we could have a new FDR to save us.
Does this mean we can stop changing our underwear every half hour?
Alaska had zero new cases yesterday. We are at 10 deaths total, two of which are dubious. One was an Alaska resident that was in WA when he caught it and died. Another was a 90 year old man riddled with cancer that was going to die no matter what. The other eight all had underlying issues.
Murder hornets sure didn’t last long, did they?
Number one:
Be able to test for it, and don’t quarantine people who aren’t sick.
This is the first pandemic in history where they quarantined everyone.
Half an hour? I just started to go commando as I was wearing out the washing machine.
I am still waiting for a cure for fire ants.
also from website- All deaths attributed to my town were Nursing home related. This information is not detailed or reported in any regional or local paper. Governor Murphy is enjoying media reports of high approval numbers.
Five LTC facilities in Moorestown: 303 cases and 46 deaths.
To the Barricades!
(Make sure to bring your masks. )
No it ain’t! they haven’t finished toppling Trump yet!
Time to decide if we are citizens or subjects. Citizens will demand their rights be respected, subjects will meekly go along with whatever they are told.
The bio-weapon did it’s part. The way to defeat it is to expose it to sunlight, actually and metaphorically.
Import pangolins. Then eat them.
The “Virus” was FEAR
Masks = Muzzles
The Economic Warfare has been cloaked in a Suspicious novel “virus” that has yet to be adequately quantified.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.