Good news: COVID-19's grip is fading
Washington Examiner,
by
Bruce Thompson
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
5/17/2020 5:21:33 AM
The daily news about the novel coronavirus is bad. Every day, we are told that the pandemic is out of control and that there is no end in sight. We read that the number of new cases is rising, deaths are climbing, and the United States has by far the most deaths of any country in the world. The economy is collapsing, unemployment is spiking, and a depression is coming. But experts warn us that reopening the economy will just mean more suffering and death.
It is true that the pandemic's toll on our health and economic well-being has been devastating.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/17/2020 6:33:50 AM (No. 413339)
What really drives me crazy are the commercials showing us how wonderful it is to be trapped in your home. This is all to brainwash each and everyone of us. I have stopped listening to the media, they are in it with the democrats. Everyday, on the radio, I hear we had one more death in Pennsylvania that is related to COVID-19. What they don't tell you is that the death was because of the crazy, criminal guidelines of our crazy/criminal governor killing all those innocent elderly in nursing homes. Yes, a MAJORITY of the deaths are related to the elderly in nursing homes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/17/2020 7:19:43 AM (No. 413371)
We all know 99.9 % of the economic devastation to this country and the rest of the globe, is caused by panicky (and opportunistic) liberals. They should never be in positions of leadership at any level, but they keep voting themselves in while too many conservatives stand by and watch it happen!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/17/2020 8:52:04 AM (No. 413476)
Wouldn't you know it? I just bought a $5 4-pack of new masks yesterday - just my luck. I had hoped that the one that I've had would last long enough to ride out this charade. But it was getting dirty from rolling around in the car ,NOT from catching media dust .I only wore it so as not to be the only guy not wearing one in the store.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 5/17/2020 8:59:21 AM (No. 413488)
Is it, though? All of a sudden where I work, they want masks. People on other blogs lecturing me about how PPEs work. I know otherwise normal people doing just STUPID stuff out of fear. Or TDS, there's plenty of that.
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The grip is not fading, it is being assimilated into daily life...a normality. I have noticed an increase in the proportion of mask wearers on my forays into the public. I do not wear a mask; never had. I notice the looks I get that were not cast my way earlier in this "pandemic". The big con continues. There are TRILLIONS in play here, not to mention the overall effects on the public. Just a few small "re-opening" steps to pacify the resistance...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
poliposter 5/17/2020 9:25:52 AM (No. 413513)
#4 I work in a medical office where, before sterilzing instruments with heat, we clean them in an ultrasonic device filled with a cleaning agent. We are not required to wear eye covering. One day, a worker got pink eye out of the blue. So of course, it came from the liquid cleaner in ultrasonic machine. We all had to wear eye coverings, at her insistence. Lasted a week, maybe.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Phantomll 5/17/2020 9:38:50 AM (No. 413525)
We are becoming a nation of sheep. Suddenly everyone has jumped on the mask bandwagon. Me too, me too! I have refused to wear a mask unless absolutely necessary to get into the grocery store.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
walcb 5/17/2020 10:00:39 AM (No. 413550)
For the mathematically challenged, consider what percentage of people in this country live in a nursing home and then consider the number of deaths due to Chicom virus. A very small percent of the people (living in nursing homes) represent a very high percentage of deaths due to Chicom virus. If the nursing homes would have been protected most of this could have been avoided--that is hindsight. Let us take that knowledge and adjust our dealing with the virus--but that is too common sensicle.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/17/2020 10:22:49 AM (No. 413569)
The commercials are all propaganda meant to keep us locked up at home and like it. The soft music, the puppies, the kids laughing, are all straight from the works of Joseph Goebbels. I curse the people who get up there and predict a horrible end to 2020, the Second Wave and the careless attitude of free Americans. I totally disagree with the "Hero" designation of healthcare workers and first responders, all people suddenly suddenly called upon to simply do the jobs for which they are well paid, then I picture an 18-year-old kid slogging through the mountains of Afghanistan not knowing when that next bullet is going to come out of nowhere or when his vehicle will run over that rigged artillery shell. I curse them all but I know one thing, America will not fall for this again anytime soon.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/17/2020 10:56:58 AM (No. 413608)
Why hasn't the economy been re-opened? There is no reason for not fully re-opening this economy. It never should have been shut down. It was a mistake. Social distancing and masks are a fools errand. The covid-19 worshippers will lose, after trillions of dollars in damages. The policies are designed to fail and cause ruin. I hope the country dismisses them, re-opens, and returns to winning.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/17/2020 11:04:38 AM (No. 413618)
I had a client last week who came in after 12 weeks in lockdown (self-imposed). She was pale and looked unhealthy. She was full of apprehension that she was doing the right thing by coming back into the world. She has a number of underlying conditions, and she is a liberal (not a rabid one, though). But, she was tired of being locked down, and most notably told me that she was beginning to question what the media was telling her. She said used to believe everything the media said or wrote. “I thought it must be true, if they reported it,” she said. This was all the way up until now. She has decided that she doesn’t think they are telling her the whole story about the virus, and that makes her wonder what else they have been lying about. I found that to be very hopeful. Where there’s one, there are more.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 5/17/2020 11:08:52 AM (No. 413620)
Thanks #9! I couldn't agree more that the word has been applied all too often to people who should be lauded and appreciated for doing their jobs but have not really exceeded the threshold of courage and personal sacrifice sufficiently to be proclaimed "Heros"! The practice dilutes its special meaning. Eventually, no one will even associate true honor to one who is proclaimed a hero. In a similar way, you might notice that flags seem to be flown at half staff more often than not recently. One day I looked up the reason for half staff on that day and it was to honor a soldier killed in a training accident overseas. This was a tragedy and the soldier should be treated with proper respect and honor, but lowering the flag state-wide?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/17/2020 11:33:49 AM (No. 413643)
Thank you posters 9 and 12. Can someone please tell me where the term and practice of "social distance" started? How many decades have we faced a different flu, etc and not one word about "social distancing?"
All all the treacly commercials, news stories, etc about our "heroes", the first responders and medical people. Enough. This is your job unless you are one of those medical professionals whose work and skills are deemed elective and thus have no patients, etc. and you have been or are about to be laid off.
Call me heartless but I was going to sign up as a monthly contributor to the tunnels to towers charity but then I saw their ad when this lock down started that any healthcare professional who dies from COVID-19 and their family would be taken care of.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/17/2020 12:20:07 PM (No. 413720)
FTA: "Two, while the number of deaths we have had is appalling and continues to rise, the number of daily deaths is falling. From a seven-day moving average of more than 3,000 a day in April, the current seven-day average has dropped to 1,459 from May 8 to May 14."
Let me write the headline for this: "COVID DEATHS CONTINUE TO RISE!"
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 5/17/2020 1:04:36 PM (No. 413774)
In the most densely populated county in Kansas, with 600,000 residents. the New York flu has killed 14 people who were not in nursing homes And, sadly, it killed 43 in nursing homes. Only 13 who died were under the age of 80. All told, five younger than 70 died. Two died who were younger than 60.
This is clearly NOT a minor illness, even among the younger who get it and survive, many are only slightly ill, but a small percentage are VERY seriously sick. It is NOT a joke, and my recitation of the facts above is not intended to make light of the seriousness of the illness for some people, apparently those with obesity, high BP, diabetes, lung problems and immune system problems. I believe that our 'shelter at home' probably DID prevent a lot of people from getting it, but our county's hospitals have never had more than 47 Wuhan patients, far below capacity. We were never anywhere near overloading our health care systems.
It is a serious disease, but the correct action is to be ultra careful to protect the elderly from being infected, especially the obese, diabetic, high BP and lung damaged elderly
For the rest of us, it is time to go back to normal life. We have "flattened the curve", let's stop flattening our economy.
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