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The Coronavirus Will Save America
American Thinker.com ^ | March 16, 2020 | Gordon Wysong

Posted on 03/16/2020 8:11:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

The analysis of engineering or business problems often includes a list of positive and negative aspects of implementing changes. So too should the analysis of the effects of the coronavirus. What has been seen so far has been a panoply of negatives, many exaggerated for political fodder or as clickbait in the press's cry for attention. A sober look at this, however, can lead to a different conclusion. Will America be stronger, and will other nations take a cue from our success? The answer is a surprising yes.

Imagine what the world will be like when 2022 arrives. The coronavirus's effects will become so small that they will be lost in the noise of the day, but what will remain of its lessons? First and foremost is that many lives will have been saved.

The hand-washing and sanitation precautions that will be permanently incorporated into American culture will diminish flu deaths in 2020, in 2021, in 2022, and perpetually. Rather than 25,000–70,000 flu deaths annually, the numbers may drop by tens of thousands, even in 2020. The spreading of America's sanitation obsession will impact not only its own population, but that of many nations, in a way that educators and health professional could never accomplish.

This saves lives — lots of lives. Stubborn resistance to the onerous habits of sanitation will be broken down by this one virus's actions on the psyche of people. These changes will pass to future generations, lasting not just a few years, but lifetimes and longer, and each year, more lives will be saved.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus
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1 posted on 03/16/2020 8:11:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If you are a stock market investor then get ready to BUY BUY BUY!!! Share price down 30-50% and more and balance sheets no where close to that when this all shakes out. Buy Buy Buy


2 posted on 03/16/2020 8:13:29 AM PDT by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: Kaslin
The Coronavirus Will Save America

Sure emphasizes the importance of secure borders!

3 posted on 03/16/2020 8:14:08 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Takedown My Duly Elected President and You're Attacking The Constitution! IT WILL BE DEFENDED!)
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I've built a wooden hoop with a six-foot radius that I wear around my waist. This guarantees that everyone will be a safe "social distance" away from me at all times. It makes it difficult to get through doorways, but I manage.

I'm shocked that no one else has thought of this.

4 posted on 03/16/2020 8:15:01 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: The Sons of Liberty

My take? It’s finally our turn to “never let a crisis go to waste”.


5 posted on 03/16/2020 8:17:54 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Not to mention the absolute necessity of moving supply chains back to within our own shores, just like we did with the energy sector under the current administration.


6 posted on 03/16/2020 8:18:14 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept)
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To: Kaslin

I hope it radically alters our fake, printed money, centrally issued money and Federal reserve system.

Massive debt has been the basis of progressivism and the nanny-state since 1913.


7 posted on 03/16/2020 8:19:14 AM PDT by PGR88
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...if Wall St. loses all the gains made in the Dow Jones average since Election Day 2016.

Roughly, thats S&P 2100 - If the level falls below the 2018 lows that could be the next target.


8 posted on 03/16/2020 8:19:16 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: Kaslin

This is right put of the Alinski rules for the radical democrats. It is called use what ever means available to collapse the economy and then take over everything for the people.


9 posted on 03/16/2020 8:19:55 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Secure borders; lots of people will chose to live outside of cities; and industries will be cease relying on China.

These are all good things.


10 posted on 03/16/2020 8:21:51 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

SSShhh! do you want them to all start hoarding Hulu Hoop next?


11 posted on 03/16/2020 8:22:06 AM PDT by Gasshog
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To: Kaslin
Seems like a lot of wishful thinking. A more realistic scenario:
“Imagine what the world will be like when 2022 arrives”...and President Biden, with his rapidly worsening dementia which was hidden from the public during his 2020 campaign, resigns so Vice President Clinton can take ascend to the presidency. On her first day in office, the Democrat-led Senate selects Bernie Sanders as the new Majority Leader.

12 posted on 03/16/2020 8:23:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Jewbacca

Precisely Jewbacca.

Folks won’t live and work in cubicles, in congested urban environments.

They’ll flee the cities, where their spirits, and their finances, will soar.


13 posted on 03/16/2020 8:25:52 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: wastoute

If there is no vaccine or cure why go get tested? Get essentials and stay home. Why risk being in public.


14 posted on 03/16/2020 8:26:29 AM PDT by freebird5850 (Trust Republicans Under My Presindency)
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To: freebird5850

Exactly.


15 posted on 03/16/2020 8:27:06 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
I'm shocked that no one else has thought of this.

Yer a few days late ...

However, perhaps you can patent the idea before this guy does .... /grin

16 posted on 03/16/2020 8:27:51 AM PDT by Mr_Moonlight (Ich bin ein Irredeemable Deplorable)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Hoop skirts will soon become all the rage.


17 posted on 03/16/2020 8:30:11 AM PDT by Tellurian (DeMullahkRats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: Kaslin

Well, we may just go cashless after all. Those bills will have to be cleaned.


18 posted on 03/16/2020 8:33:10 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Kaslin

“Swamp Witch magic was useful and good
And they’re gonna bring Hattie back”


19 posted on 03/16/2020 8:33:37 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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If it does away with income / payroll taxes, interest rates on college & other loans, the FED & the other large world cartel bankers, and the return to a Gold standard, well I’m all for it too...oh yea on the Christmas list....trashing the debt to to FEB for print our worthless play money all these years...


20 posted on 03/16/2020 8:33:45 AM PDT by ldish (Have had enough...you??????)
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