Your Facebook Friends are Wrong
The fact remains: more people over age 100 than under age 30 have died. According to Neil Ferguson, the principal architect of the major UK model of the virus, between one-half and two-thirds of all people dying from COVID-19 would have died within a matter of months even in the absence of the virus.
So how about, instead of fruitlessly trying to distribute millions of “tests” all over the place, we concentrate our energies on helping the most vulnerable, and giving everyone else back the one life we each get?
For that matter, how about we avoid the approach of certain Democratic governors and not send COVID-19 patients, still contagious, back into nursing homes?
Those would be good starts.
In the UK, Lord Sumption just wrote:
What sort of life do we think we are protecting? There is more to life than the avoidance of death. Life is a drink with friends. Life is a crowded football match or a live concert. Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren. Life is companionship, an arm around one’s back, laughter or tears shared at less than two meters. These things are not just optional extras. They are life itself. They are fundamental to our humanity, to our existence as social beings. Of course death is permanent, whereas joy may be temporarily suspended. But the force of that point depends on how temporary it really is.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/05/thomas-woods/your-facebook-friends-are-wrong-about-the-lockdown/
Good ideas here. Be open minded.
I do believe there is consensus that Florida is way under-counting cases and deaths. How do I know that — I watch a video on youTube!
I guess the more realistic questions are how and why did we get ourselves into this predicament? (talking about the USA).
If government agencies has listened to the warning signs in Dec/Jan, maybe we could have taken earlier action.
If we had accepted the 150,000 test the WHO offered us we could have contained the outbreak on the west coast. … and maybe the east coast (but that is open for debate since it came via Italy/Europe).
If the CDC hadn’t totally screwed up our first tests, maybe we would have been in better position
Maybe if we didn’t have budget sequestration during all of Obama’s second term, maybe more money would have been spent to make sure the PPE stockpile was in better shape.
Maybe if the pandemic board at the NSC wasn’t disbanded by Trump/Bolton quicker warning would have made it to the top.
Maybe if trump didn’t put his head in the sand and didn’t fire everyone who gives him news he doesn’t want to hear, maybe we could have gotten off to a roaring start in early January.
Maybe if in the first 40 months of Trump’s admin someone had taken action on the PPE stockpile, things would be better off.
Maybe if the Trump/Fox news echo chamber didn’t preach for 10 weeks or more that there was nothing to worry about, we could have taken action sooner.
Maybe if trump actually believed scientists and experts in their field instead of his “gut”, we would have had a more robust response in the beginning.
… and so on and so forth.
I don’t expect government to get it 100% right (they are made up of humans), but I couldn’t fathom that they would get it 100% wrong!
If anyone else had been president, I would bet at least even money, that the number of cases/deaths would have been a lot lower and maybe we wouldn’t have shut the whole economy down. Or at least our shutdown would have been painful, but shorter. We are still in the same predicament as the beginning where we are hoping that warmer weather will cut down the virus.
In short, this was an example of massive federal government incompetence, cronyism and corruption. We are turning into Russia where party (trump) loyalists are being put in all positions of authority and oversight and 100% loyalty to trump is the only thing that matters.
Another No-Trumper….. you have been tuning in to way too much Mainstream Media. Get real!
Maybe if society in the USA could find a way to mend its differences, and join together to fight a common enemy (the virus). That would lead to better outcomes. Instead “Divide and Conquer” seems to be whats going on. Follow the money to find the “Conqueror”.
Come on now — wasn’t it trump that issued the nationwide “stay at home” order? He says he shut the country down. The buck stops at the top, doesn’t it?
… and you have to admit, trump has perfected divide and conquer politics.
It seems that the only ones not really paying attention are those that are always too busy in search of conspiracy theory explanations for anything that is complicated.
Why is it so hard to agree that the incumbent president for almost 3 1/2 years should be held accountable for the federal government failings?
This says it all to me. What is Un-masking of your political opponents and what implications does that entail. So we are finding out and will find out that the Obama state has been using National resources to “spy” on their political opponents. And I would expect that these Obama cronies would never always install just a “flaming” liberal to any of the the important political positions including the courts. And Obama would never use the press in conjuntion with information that they uncovered from their illegal spying activities to prosecute and basically tar/feather a political adversary(not just Trump – NRA, etc). No No, that would never ever happen. And the fact that Trump was close to being removed from office because “illegal” surveillance occurred using a bogus Democratic paid for “paper” to obtain a something called a FISA that allowed their political opponents to be “spied” on using federal resources, that shouldn’t matter in your calculus. He had all of this happen to him the first 3.5 years while trying to be president.
This just tip of the iceberg:
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rand-paul-joe-biden-was-directly-involved-unmasking-flynn
What are the implications here for every American?
Me being a Trump imbecile wakes up every day and thanks the heavens that it was Trump that won in 2016 and not Hillary, omg.
Anybody associated with this unmaking should NEVER be allowed to hold any public office. And it has proven to be very difficult to remove these Obama cronies that believe that these kinds of activities are OK! Please don’t tell me that you want to hand the reigns back over to these clowns this Nov.
I finding it hard to figure out what all this “unmasking” fuss is all about. The FBI/NSC finds that someone had conversations with the Russian ambassador (top soviet spy in US) that were concerning to people in national security. They decide they want to find out who it is. It turns out to be Flynn.
Flynn then lies to the FBI about the topic of the phone call. You can call it a perjury trap if you want, but Flynn still lied to federal investigators. Obama/Yates warn trump about Flynn, trump hires him anyway. Flynn then lies to VP Pence about the conversation. Trump fires Flynn.
Do you really want someone who is having backdoor conversations with a Russian spy and then lies about it to the FBI and Pence to be the National Security Advisor to trump????????????
By the way, Obama is on tonight (5/16) at 8pm (eastern) to give one of the commencement speeches to high school graduates in the USA. Everyone is carrying it — ABC, CBS, NBCm CNN, FOX (not fox news). It is going to be great to actually hear a great leader for a change instead a wannabe “Great Leader”.
Maybe your mind will change when it has been uncovered that many others were unmasked prior to Flynn.
As far as unmasking! If it what you the government was pursuing and they threatened to “jail” your kids and they put you in the poor house covering “legal” costs my guess is that you would be singing a different tune. Because of precedent Trump now has that power, and he may have seen you posting your anti-trump political views on this forum. BTW Pence and Trump don’t agree om your CNN/MSNBC derived timelines, the coordination with foreign governments occurred after the election transition. As it is supposed to.
Anyways, enjoy listening to your prophet this evening. Me, I would rather listen to someone that I can trust.
Well said Hearst!
Well said.
Thank you!