Panic Never Helped Any
Pandemic And Won’t Start Now
Issues & Insights,
by
Michael Fumento
Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
3/16/2020 3:47:11 PM
CNN Business calls it “a pandemic unprecedented in modern times.” That would probably include the so-called “Spanish Flu” pandemic of 1918-19 that killed more than 500,000 Americans, and perhaps 20 million to 50 million worldwide. Coronavirus so far has killed fewer than 75 Americans, fewer than 7,000 people worldwide, and its growth internationally already is clearly slowing. But economic growth is another matter: We’re now in a bear market, with worldwide recession a serious possibility. For hysteria has now become the “conventional wisdom.”
Invoking the “Black Death,” which probably wiped out a third of Europe, both CNN and the Washington Post have reported that Iran is digging
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gallo3 3/16/2020 3:59:19 PM (No. 348233)
You know what you get when you add 'DEM' to 'PANIC' ? PanDEMic.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
pinger 3/16/2020 4:06:29 PM (No. 348244)
After watching several incidents--in person and on-line--of people with an abhorrent "screw my fellow citizens mentality" in hoarding for profit items of limited quantities...I'm far more fearful of these people than I am of Covid-19.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Wendybird 3/16/2020 4:19:12 PM (No. 348251)
The 1918 flu epidemic occurred before antibacterial antibiotics were available-invented.
Influenza kills mainly through secondary bacterial infection, so pneumonia from influenza with secondary bacterial infection and perhaps coronavirus, as well as ventilatory support, would hopefully greatly improve the survival rate. Apparently the virus does make a mess of some victims lungs. Apparently a few healthy younger people have died recently. Much of the present regulation I suspect is probably over reaction but with proper intent, as well as political protection.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/16/2020 4:19:59 PM (No. 348252)
fta: Regarding those dire predictions of future cases, as with all those aforementioned panics it’s sheer nonsense. Far from an exponential explosion, COVID-19 cases are following the normal pattern of “Farr’s Law.” First promulgated back in 1840 and taught in Epidemiology 101, it states that all epidemics tend to rise and fall in a roughly symmetrical pattern or bell-shaped curve. AIDS, SARS, Ebola, Zika – all followed that pattern. So does seasonal flu each year. In America, it usually appears in September-October, and is completely gone by April-May.
Importantly, Farr’s Law has nothing to do with human interventions and predates public health organizations. It occurs because communicable diseases nab the “low-hanging fruit” first (in this case the elderly with comorbid conditions) but then find the fruit harder and harder to reach.
If you take nothing else away from this article, read the above.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/16/2020 4:23:25 PM (No. 348253)
Enemedia, pushing hysteria as hard as they can. All sorts of fake news out there.
Example: Google cannot read your license plate from orbit. It is physically impossible to get that resolution with the largest aperture lens/mirror which it is possible to orbit with current technology. Hard physics limits resolving power by aperture (lens/morror diameter).
The article he links to says "1 foot resolution" that mean each PIXEL. You need about 1/2" pixel size, not one foot to read 3 inch letters. A one foot pixel size can barely show that there is a different color spot where the license plate is.
But, see a burial pit....no doubt, if it is any significant number of feet in size. Bulidings, vehicles, aircraft, etc. easily seen....but not read letters/numbers smaller than about 5 or 6 ft tall.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 3/16/2020 4:56:08 PM (No. 348279)
I’ve not seen any data that international cases are slowing. Anyone?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/16/2020 4:59:46 PM (No. 348284)
I went to my primary care provider this morning and saw a P.A. to get a couple of prescriptions filled. She was telling me about people with no symptoms wanting to "get tested", and another guy who'd had symptoms for 10 days but was feeling better: they told him they weren't going to waste a test on him because they were sure he had the Wuhan virus but was mostly recovered. Then, I had to get some blood drawn. I was discussing all the craziness with the phlebotomist and how people were hoarding toilet paper. I then mentioned that people who'd never owned or used a gun before were out buying guns and ammunition. She said "I've got plenty of ammo already - that's why I'll ALWAYS be able to get toilet paper!" She brightened my day.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Doc1 3/16/2020 5:11:36 PM (No. 348292)
The best way to avoid panicking is to stop watching the news. That's what I have done. Works great.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MMC 3/16/2020 5:18:46 PM (No. 348297)
Getting my flu shot now- because my health care professional daughter insisted.:
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
dbdiva 3/16/2020 5:22:03 PM (No. 348302)
I have been following #8's prescription and it works great! I think I'll follow it for the duration. I'm even careful about how often I logon here.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 3/16/2020 5:30:56 PM (No. 348310)
#6 Google South Korea. They have been doing good things and their news is encouraging.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/south-korea-covid-19-reports-107-new-coronavirus-cases-12538008
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 3/16/2020 5:41:51 PM (No. 348317)
You can talk reason all you want, but those people you can see in the supermarkets are not listening. Even Amazon has run out of toilet paper and Bounty towels. Then there are the idiots wearing masks, but haven't got the message that they won't protect you. Don't waste your time trying to convince people that the world is not about to end. As they say on Wall Street, "Don't fight the tape!"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Pete Stone 3/16/2020 5:47:53 PM (No. 348330)
Even an industrial-type dust mask is pretty good protection. No, it won't stop a virus, but it will stop droplets of saliva, snot, sputum, and other virus-bearing fluids. Viruses (virii?) don't live in isolation. They get spread by coughs, sneezes, etc.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 3/16/2020 6:09:20 PM (No. 348350)
Another excellent point in the article:
"But as kits become more available more people get tested and ipso facto more will be found positive. That is, they will have antibodies to the virus. Many will have already shrugged off the disease without even knowing it. But they will be labeled “new cases” nonetheless."
Yes, many will have gotten it, and gotten over it without any real drama, maybe without even particularly noticing it, may be a mild "cold" for a couple of days.
I am praying that the death toll will be very low.
Unfortunately, the media created panic has caused quite a bit of damage. I hope that people remember that these lunatics were screaming "fire" in a crowded theater, day after day.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
privateer 3/16/2020 7:04:00 PM (No. 348387)
1's brilliant bon mot needs to go VIRAL!! If circulated widely enough, the dhimms will be afraid to use it for fear of ridicule. Of course they could still call it the Black Death.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/16/2020 7:57:05 PM (No. 348411)
Where I work it is ablosutely insane. I have never seen this much hysteria since Trump was elected. Common sense is an uncommon charateristic through all this.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/16/2020 8:19:55 PM (No. 348437)
Are the politicians going to curtail their travel? No more live audiences for those late night liberal propaganda shows? Will Hollywood experts on all things political, stop flitting about in their private jets and limos? Will the restaurants of choice for the elites be closed or considered essential? This BS is just screw the little man, the 'deplorable' that voted for PDT, period.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/16/2020 8:26:42 PM (No. 348440)
If this were not an election year, COVID-19 would have been treated like the flu and mentioned in a few news cycles and a few warnings given (like the flu every year) then forgotten. This virus has been weaponized as a political weapon and is being used to instill fear everywhere. From the sounds of it, people are dropping dead in the streets by the millions everywhere and turning into flesh eating zombies. I understand that we do not want to spread the virus, but stopping the world seems to be a bit of overkill.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/16/2020 9:28:37 PM (No. 348476)
Went to the grocery store, plenty of food, beer and Jack Daniels.
Went to the gun store, plenty of ammo.
My Bible is by my easy chair.
I and my family will weather this storm.
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