Posted on 03/12/2020 10:32:15 AM PDT by Mariner
LT is out today.
Yesterday's thread is here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3823556/posts?page=1
So true.
Reminds me of that song from “Cabaret”—
Money Makes the World Go Around
“They’re just doing a better job of explaining.”
Johnson looked into the camera and told England: Many of you will lose close family members over the next few weeks and months. That is why we must flatten the curve.
Then he outlined the steps government will take as things progress to total lockdown.
We heard nothing like that from US leadership. Many are still calling it a hoax.
More like, Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste.
STDs will be the least of their worries...
Johnson went full Churchill.
someone asked about gold somewhere..here is the ansswer
Holden Braithwaite
@mishegas
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2h
Replying to
@S_Mikhailovich
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@JanGold_
A Swiss friend on his conversation with a trading desk of a major Swiss bank - “there are massive margin calls & the customers are selling gold en masse to fund these margin calls.”
Once again speculative ‘leverage’ punishes the long term investor with unbridled instability
But we’re moving to another phase in the battle with the virus where “keep calm and your chin up” will be the smart attitude.
“Prep for something bad” was a good attitude. Was glad to see it here. ‘Flu bros’ were stupid to make fun of it.
A prepping peak hurts retail supply just as a case peak hurts the healthcare system.
But the battle moves on, as I said.
I think the ‘misinformed’ Pence referred to was Limbaugh.
Limbaugh has done a GREAT disservice to conservatism and those who listen to him with his ‘it’s just a head cold’ crap.
Makes me wonder just who are the major investors in his network.
This is why ‘we’ were encouraging people to prep 4-6 weeks ago. I began to set aside stuff the last week of January. Was pretty much done with everything by the 20th of February.
If more had done prepping earlier...the stores would have had time to restock.
pretty much
you know war is coming...you prep the best you can...now you just carry on.
I decided to get gatorade ester c and emergen C to put in my area of my house to go to if i get sick.
I Have a big house so lots of room
Would hate to have to deal with it in a little nyc apartment that costs you $2k a month
All true.
But the key is keeping the healthcare system from collapsing as it did in Wuhan and Italy.
If people take seriously (and soon) the measures that help then, indeed, it will not be a disaster.
That’s an over-simplification of what Rush has been saying.
Do we know what the treatment is for someone infected with the coronavirus?
Because the US dollar index is rising. Inverse relationship between gold/silver and the dollar index
It isn’t ‘how many have it’. Or how many under 10’s have died.
It’s how many get it and need an ICU bed to recover.
Because when (not if) that number of patients exceeds the ICU capacity the death rate skyrockets.
See: Italy
Even Korea has had an issue with insufficient ICU/critical care facilities. They’ve had plenty of people die at home while waiting for an ICU/critical care bed to free up.
NYC has cancelled the St. Patrick’s Day Parade for the first time in 250 years!
Now that is serious!
Imagine you are asymptomatic. How many elderly people did you condemn to death today by not taking precautions? Do you even care?
Imagine how many babies and Americans in sanctuary cities will die if Trump loses in November due to being undermined by this fake news panic attack. Do you even care? Obviously not.
Bkmrk.
No.
It isn’t
I read his spiel yesterday.
Shockingly uninformed and outright dangerously wrong.
For example: He said that THIS virus was named covid19 because it was the 19th one we found. And the previous 18 ones were just common colds.
Both of which are provably false.
This one was named covid19 because it was initally seen in 2019. There aren’t 18 previous ones that are head colds.
The ARE other coronaviruses that are SARS and MERS. Most definitely NOT head colds.
Makes me wonder if someone has held his chemo hostage in lieu of misinforming the (older) conservatives who listen to him.
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