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.
They probably think it is like eating spicy Thai food.
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“Does this mean we can stop changing our underwear every half hour?’
Smith, you change with Johnson; D’Angelo, you change with Schulz; Thompson, you change with McGonagle...
Not OUR stupidity. Few if any here had anything to do with the stupidity of our "leaders"...
NY's Cuomo had an order that REQUIRED nursing homes to accept COVID POSTIVE patients that were discharged from hospitals. Liberals might argue Cuomo was trying to keep the hospital population down so that younger people could be saved.
I've seen it posted that Penn and Mich also required that nursing homes take in COVID-19 positive person but I haven't seen documentation like in NY (form shown below). My question: Is there documentation that shows NJ also required nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients?
If NY, NJ, Penn and Mich, for example, all required sending COVID-19 to nursing homes,that would suggest that these Democrat governors conspired to increase COVID-19 deaths by seeding COVID-19 in nursing homes. I could see one state being idiotic and killing thousands of seniors BUT NOT SEVERAL SIMULTANEOUSLY. That kind of stupid requires coordination.
1. We need to lockdown for 2 weeks tops to 'Flatten the Curve.'
2. We need to keep this lockdown in place for 2 months, and you have to wear a slave mask, and we'll sic the police on you if you don't, and you can't buy garden seeds. And we have to have 'mail in voting' for the fall election. And bailouts of state pension funds.
3. We need to keep this lockdown in place indefinitely, and there will never be a return back to 'Normal' - not without a vaccine, and that could take years.
4. You will never be able to take your slave masks off, or work again, or travel freely until you accept ID2020.
No, let libs live in the Level of fear they want all us to.
I like Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that cancelled the governor’s tyranny, and now people are flooding the taverns.
The message, and choice is clear; live in fear like the left wants, or live your life with a little courage and self responsibility,,,, and join the party.
But Liberals should continue to hide under their beds like good little serfs.
BTTT.
The bad news: the left has discovered how easy it is to tyrannize the populace by simply declaring a state of emergency. If they ever regain full dominance, all their wet dreams of power will come true.
How much physical harm is being caused by these dumba$$es that wear masks continuously outside? You probably learned in a health class in elementary school that re-breathing your breath is harmful.
This idiot was driving with a mask on, and he passed out probably due to high CO2 while wearing an N95 mask:
In the future, I will take better precautions.
The next hobgoblin is that children are now getting a version of the corona.
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