Posted on 05/15/2020 9:11:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Are you ready for “the new normal” to become permanent? Originally, most of us assumed that “shelter-in-place orders” and “social distancing restrictions” would just be temporary, but now top health officials are warning us that some of these temporary measures may have to remain in place for the foreseeable future. That means that our lives could be severely disrupted for a long time to come. In fact, Dr. Anthony Fauci just told a Senate Committee that it may not be safe for schools all over America to reopen when the next school year begins in the fall. Apparently Fauci and other medical “experts” believe that it will not be possible for us to fully go back to our normal lives as long as this virus keeps spreading.
But how long are we really supposed to wait?
The truth is that this pandemic could still potentially be in the early chapters. The Spanish Flu pandemic lasted for three full years, and we could possibly be facing a similar scenario.
And this week WHO official Mike Ryan warned that this virus could even become “endemic”, and if that happens it “may never go away”…
“It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away,” WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan told an online briefing.
“I think it is important we are realistic and I don’t think anyone can predict when this disease will disappear,” he added. “I think there are no promises in this and there are no dates. This disease may settle into a long problem, or it may not be.”
In other words, Ryan is saying that this virus could become like a flu that keeps reappearing year after year.
So what are we going to do if that happens?
Are we supposed to have shutdowns every year whenever a new wave of COVID-19 infections starts happening?
Of course the lockdowns haven’t really been that effective anyway. They may have temporarily slowed down the spread of the virus, but eventually most of the U.S. population is going to get exposed to it anyway no matter what we do.
But instead of facing the reality of this pandemic, Fauci continues to stick to his guns. And many Americans were completely outraged when he suggested that schools should continue to remain closed when the next school year is scheduled to begin. The following bit of commentary comes from Tucker Carlson…
So just to be clear, Fauci was not simply talking about certain workers or even all workers staying at home for the foreseeable future. He implied that schools and colleges will be able to reopen only if there is a cure for this virus or a vaccine. He said that prospect was a bridge too far.
In other words, no school until the coronavirus has been cured — stopped.
The problem is there is currently no approved vaccine for any of the several coronaviruses out there. We still don’t have one for SARS. So, that may never happen. Once again, it has never happened.
A lot of people out there didn’t seem to believe me when I first started talking about how difficult it will be for researchers to create a vaccine for COVID-19.
Just like Tucker Carlson has said, there has never been a successful vaccine for any coronavirus in all of human history.
Despite all of our efforts, there is no vaccine for SARS.
And despite all of our efforts, there is no vaccine for MERS.
Needless to say, there isn’t such a thing as a “common cold vaccine” either, because such a thing does not exist.
Perhaps our scientists will beat the odds this time, and they will certainly do their best to do so.
But meanwhile many local officials all over the nation seem convinced that the best strategy for now is to continue keeping people at home.
For example, the “stay-at-home order” in Washington D.C. was just extended through June 8th…
Washington, D.C., is extending its stay-at-home order through June 8, Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) announced on Wednesday.
The mayor said that the city has not yet met all the required benchmarks to reopen.
And Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer just extended the “stay-at-home order” in Los Angeles County indefinitely…
Meanwhile, Ferrer extended the countys stay-at-home order, which was implemented to slow the spread of the coronavirus and has barred gatherings and mandated physical distancing requirements. She said there is no end date to the revised health order and stressed that people should stay home as much as possible to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1,600 people in the county.
As Ive said from the beginning, this will be a slow journey, Ferrer said.
Following that announcement, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti told Good Morning America that his city will “never be completely open until we have a cure.”
Good luck with all that.
I am so glad that I don’t live in Los Angeles, because residents of that city could be waiting for a “vaccine” or a “cure” for a very, very long time.
Are residents of L.A. just supposed to put their lives on hold indefinitely? On Wednesday, we learned that the Hollywood Bowl has completely canceled their entire summer concert season…
The Hollywood Bowl scrapped its entire summer concert season Wednesday due to the coronavirus crisis, in a “devastating” move that leaves the Los Angeles Philharmonic with an $80 million shortfall.
The famous open-air California venue has hosted acts from the Beatles to Yo-Yo Ma over nearly a century, and its concerts from June through September are a staple of Los Angeles cultural life.
I was really saddened when I first read about that.
Social gatherings are so central to the human experience, and now we are being told that most of our major social gatherings will need to be delayed, postponed or canceled for the foreseeable future.
And what makes all of this even more tragic is that we are now learning that these lockdowns were never necessary in the first place. If we all had worn masks from the very beginning, kept our Vitamin D levels up and used basic common sense, we could have continued our normal lives all this time just like they have been doing in Japan and Sweden.
Unfortunately, common sense is in short supply in America today, and it looks like this pandemic will continue to greatly disrupt our lives for a long time to come.
SARS, MERS, H1N1, etc. Have not heard of any second waves of death. Dr Didier Roualt, the great French physician who has cured thousands of COVI-19 patients, says most flus just go away.
Seriously folks, do I need to go to a foreign country to get good medicine?
That’s fine we SILL to this day have the two original Spanish Flu variants around-— as H1N1 and Avian Spanish that devastated the world. Their remnant strain elements are all over, and each generation since has continually developing herd immunity.
Should be noted—that if there had been a lockdown in Spanish Flu— large numbers of people would have never exposed, and been wiped out within a year with the return of Avian.
It could be (should be )observed that keeping people
‘virgin” to this virus creates the “need” for a vaccine and exposes those closed in to total vulnerability-— completely irresponsible and evil.
I/Grampa Dave have been pushing this zero cost prevention and possible cure for this disease since March. Vitamin D!
Scott Adams: Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise?
Go for a walk in the sunlight for 30 minutes a day. Got a dog, take the dog on the walk for its excercise and yours. Besides getting your zero cost Vitamin D, you will get a load of free Dopamine which will make you feel better. Your dog will thank you.
Scott Adams: Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise?
Scott Adams: Just brought up this really great point at Twitter. This is what he said:
Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise? Google it: old, overweight, black, diabetic, smog dwellers, nursing homes, prisons, shaded NYC streets, Chinese urban dwellers, covered body parts (Iran). All would have vitamin D issues.
Maybe we only think the heat and sunlight and humidity are what makes most viruses fade in summer. I believe science is not entirely sure why summer helps. All four variables seem promising, including Vitamin D. But the latter explains more observations.
Does the Vitamin D correlation work In reverse too? Who is doing unexpectedly well at keeping COVID19 at bay? Texas, Florida, other outdoorsy states. How about kids. Do your kids wear sunscreen every time they go in the backyard or street? Probably not.
Prisons are showing high infection rates but low deaths. Just learned that prison meals are engineered with vitamin D supplements. Makes sense.
I think each and every one of those points is excellent.
Is every risk factor for #COVID19 a Vitamin D deficiency in disguise? Google it: old, overweight, black, diabetic, smog dwellers, nursing homes, prisons, shaded NYC streets, Chinese urban dwellers, covered body parts (Iran). All would have vitamin D issues.
Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020
Maybe we only think the heat and sunlight and humidity are what makes most viruses fade in summer. I believe science is not entirely sure why summer helps. All four variables seem promising, including Vitamin D. But the latter explains more observations.
Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 8, 2020
Does the Vitamin D correlation work In reverse too? Who is doing unexpectedly well at keeping COVID19 at bay? Texas, Florida, other outdoorsy states. How about kids. Do your kids wear sunscreen every time they go in the backyard or street? Probably not.
A couple (or maybe it was just the husband) somewhere in Mongolia I believe it was, contracted the black plague recently.
They ate the raw kidney of a marmot and picked it up from that. Apparently raw marmot kidney is a folk remedy in those parts.
A person who believes anything anything at all that comes from the WHO or is reported by China is a fool ... a complete-in-every-respect fool. (This goes as well to anything anything at all that comes from The Experts.)
My tagline for over a month agrees with you!
Great for the bureaucrats who get perpetual paychecks for those with limited credentials. The head of WHO has no medical background but was a known terrorist, chosen by the Chinese Communists to head an agency financed by U S taxpayers.
Why have we been so stupid?
You are right on all accounts and yes it’s a bio-weapon.
The WHO speaks for Chinese Communist Thugs... WHO’s tainted with filth...
Maybe there’s a reason the Wuhan kills off:
the old (Chinese tend to feel older people have wisdom)... AND we are more conservative and will support President Trump rather than China’s favorite son: Biden
and men (Chinese men need women for the overabundance of single men in China)...
and minorities... (Chinese are racist)...
and the virus doesn’t damage the land... (Chinese feel they need more land to expand to...
and the virus destroys the American economy if they can’t kill off enough of us to ‘move in’...
Not saying it’s a designer bio-weapon, but it fits the Chinese culture totalitarian wish list... and it IS odd how quickly China tied up the market on PPE - making it easier for the virus to kill off health care workers..
Just Repeating...
Has influenza gone away? Not as important now, we have the “COVID” to strike fear in the sheeple.
Fine. President Trump should run on the promise that he will make sure all schools are open, and if a state refuses, they will forfeit all federal education funding. Lets see who gets the votes of mothers and teachers.
Bingo, we are now at DEFCON 1 ....
In other words, we are waiting for the Mark of the Beast!
We wont get fooled again
KEEP SAYING it!! We're in a war for the hearts and minds of Americans
God bless.
..."And to end the refrain..."
The Who says to the Who, "Who the Freak are you????"
Plan for the worst (intentional bio-weapon attack.) Hope for the best (current plan)...
Thanks GrampaDave...
Plan for the worst (intentional bio-weapon attack.) Hope for the best (current plan)...
Thanks Darth.
The possibility of walking in front of a speeding truck will “never go away”. So...the strategy is to look both ways before crossing. Problem solved. The answer isn’t to stay in your closet, quivering and whimpering.
This country can’t survive a permanent lockdown. This lockdown was instituted in order to give our medical system time to prepare. That already happened.
We are going to “social distance” those responsible! Revenge is called for here!
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