Here's Yet Another Graph That Shreds the COVID Lockdown Hysteria

townhall.com ^ | 8/20/2020 | Matt Vespa

[rktman]

Look, folks—I admit that I overreacted to the coronavirus with the lockdown stuff. Mid-March the Dow Jones lost close to 10,000 points in a week. The daily 1,800-2,000-point drops were brutal and unsustainable. Maybe a 15-20-day stay-at-home order was agreeable, but then these Democratic governors from King Murphy in New Jersey to Adolf Whitmer in Michigan kept tacking on arbitrary extensions. No one knew anything. We still don’t, given that the so-called experts are too busy sewing panic and anti-Trump vitriol than studying the virus. Then, a new backdrop that totally wrecked the lockdown hysteria: the officer-involved fatality of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May.

Now, it was okay to go outside. The virus was non-transmissible if you were protesting in support of liberal causes, you see.

'Stay and home and save lives' morphed into 'get outside or you’re racist' in rapid time. The same timeframe as to when Democrats thought the travel ban from China was racist, and how it was fine to be outside and celebrate Chinese New Year all because Trump voiced his concern about this pathogen which originated in Wuhan. The Democratic Party went from ‘party time’ to ‘get inside.’ The hypocrisy is stunning.

[rktman]

Uh, Matt. It's only hysteria if you're not already crazy. And, according to some byeDUHn/hVrris ads, the plague is cranking back up and only they can stop it because PDJT just doesn't want to (per obxxx) "Put in the work!" Hey joe and blow----phu cough!

Jobs or mobs. Your choice 11/3/2020

[griswold3]

When Dewine was presented with Scientific Data, he just flatly rejected it.
We went from 15 days to Slow the Spread, Flatten the Curve to 150days to STOP the Spread? The virus is gonna virus, you cannot stop it!

[rktman]

Well the masked bandits are doing their part to help. Me, I’m thinkin’ it’s going to be one of those things we deal with season to season.

[glennaro]

Widespread fear, no matter how irrational it becomes, is about all the Democrat/Left Party has right now to attempt to stop Trump’s re-election ... and they’re not about to stop it ... in fact, I expect them to double-down on their deliberately-imposed misery until the first Tuesday in November.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Unless they are making a patchwork panic quilt the so-called experts would be sowing panic, not sewing it.

[S.O.S121.500]

Hydroxychloroquine is why Uganda, with a population of 43M, has only 15 COVID-19 deaths

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/hydroxychloroquine-is-why-uganda-with-a-population-of-43m-has-only-15-covid-19-deaths

Worth the read and so far the info is accurate....still reading.

[T-Bird45]

Thank you - poor command of the language by those being paid to do so is a pet peeve that gets on my last nerve.

[palmer]

The graph:

They had zero to two cases for months. They got nine cases on August 12th and reinstated the lockdown. Placing an errow in a chart is a poor way of specifying the sequence of events. They had nine cases pop up, much more than they had had on any one day since April. Then they instituted a lockdown. Then more cases popped up in subsequent days, between 7 and 13 a day.

The insinuation that lockdown caused the cases is silly.

[rktman]

So? 😂👏

[Impala64ssa]

Fauchi was asked if the protests contributed to any COVID spikes and he couldn't, or wouldn't give a straight answer.
Last June while the looting and shooting went on in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and elsewhere Gov Wolfie fought tooth and nail to prevent the big car show and swap meet in Carlisle from happening. It did go on, at least 500k people were there, yet no COVID spikes can be attributed to that event. Remarkable considering many of us hot rodders are old farts with medical conditions.
Then there was that town in Oregon (Salem?) that issued a mask mandate that EXEMPTED Black people. I can think of 3 possibilities, either this was one of the most pathetic acts of pandering ever, or the pandemic is a big crock of bull💩, OR that town council is made up of White supremacists surreptitiously acting "woke" who came up with some sinister plot to expose Blacks to the COVID and let the virus kill them off.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Ha, I sew what you did there!

[IronJack]

Nobody is “sewing panic.” Unless they’re stitching together a lot of hysterical fear. They might be “SOWING” panic ...

[Texan5]

“Sewing panic”? What fabric is best to sew panic with-denim? Wool? Synthetic fabric? It is “sowing panic”-as in planting the seeds of panic-doesn’t anyone proofread an article before they just put it out there...

[plain talk]

“Mid-March the Dow Jones lost close to 10,000 points in a week. The daily 1,800-2,000-point drops were brutal and unsustainable.”

... and look where it is now. For a long term investor it was a blip in the market and a buying opportunity.

[Paleo Pete]

I didn’t catch that one. But let’s be fair, and not blame it on rktman, he didn’t write the article, he just copied & pasted it.

I understand the frustration, I see it almost daily in articles posted here and on Breitbart, and others too. even outlets like ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN who should know better. I’ve seen it on their chirons on tv too. Illiteracy in journalism is really astounding. And if I point it out i’m usually attacked by some idiopt who types like he barely made it through 6th grade himself...

I have to watch pretty close right now myself, I’m trying to get the feel of a bluetooth keyboard, a lot smaller than the one I’ve been using for several years, it’s like trying to type with fingers suddenly swollen to 3 times their normal size. But it beats trying to use a smart phone with a stylus by a mile. I can actually type now...but it does take quite a bit of proofreading.

Anyway, I’ve been noticing the same thing for 3 or 4 years now and it’s getting worse. Journalists, who make their living using the printed word, seem to have no clue how to use it.

I’m pretty sure this is because for the past 20 years, 80% of high school graduates cannot read and write beyond a 4th grade level. Think about that - they cannot read well enough to understand the diploma they were just handed...and they seem to be very sensitive about it, if you point out their illiteracy, instead of doing something about it and improving their sorry education, they just want to insult me...and you I’m sure...

Strange...my favorite thing to do has always been learn something new. These dolts have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to a bit of new knowledge...and insult you if you point out their errors...I always said ok cool, now I know better...I do not understand it...