The Usefulness of COVID-19 Fear
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
12/10/2020 3:14:50 PM
There is a COVID-19 virus; however, COVID is not more dangerous than all other flu-like viruses that impact the respiratory system. COVID-19 is very manageable and doesn’t carry a higher fatality rate. [Usefulness As A Narrative]
Why is COVID-19 being disproportionately hyped as such a dangerous threat, when the reality of the statistical danger is much less than the intense level of hype?… (Snip)The answer is… social changes under the guise of COVID-19 mitigation, are the entry point for the goals and aspirations of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon, and we are about
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/10/2020 4:08:41 PM (No. 628269)
Bingo!
My wife received a pushed alert that only had 2 options, accept, or decline, and it was for a health tracing app. She was sure I must have received it too, as she asked me about it first-thing this morning. Funny thing, I didn't receive one though.
They have been using this whole year as one huge experiment on human behavior, and they're updating their algorithms accordingly, has been my presumption since around May.
They just keep presenting new reasons, and looking for who is more compliant than others.
Fundamentally transforming the United States of America into something other than a Representative Republic.
Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you (Henry David Thoreau).
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/10/2020 4:12:36 PM (No. 628273)
Re #1, that’s too easy. I probably use Decline as much as I use anything else!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Boliver 12/10/2020 4:53:35 PM (No. 628305)
This grim look into our future is terrifying. What the he** is happening to the USA? I stay very informed, send letters and donate as I can, and I'm horrified practically every day.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/10/2020 5:14:47 PM (No. 628330)
As we've predicted for some time. It's past time for a nationwide we-will-not-comply campaign, backed up by resistance through force.
Or we can continue to live like sheep, continually being sheared.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/10/2020 5:16:09 PM (No. 628332)
I've gotten a few of those things where you have to pick a response. Most of the time I don't want either so I just turn the TV or computer off for a while. Now if I could just figure out how to stop Microsoft from constantly demanding to update my computer then messing everything up, I'd be happy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 12/10/2020 5:16:59 PM (No. 628333)
No way did I think The People would stand for this for 9 months. I'm sick to my stomach at what's happened to my country since last March.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
vetposter 12/10/2020 5:55:38 PM (No. 628359)
Sundance’s contention that COVID is no more dangerous than the flu is just plain wrong. The death figures clearly prove it. But Sundunce never lets facts get in the way of his political narrative. That is why most intelligent people give him the weight to which he is entitled.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 12/10/2020 6:21:28 PM (No. 628376)
Not news to anyone here but a good portion of the country can't even imagine that, via the covid scare, their government is conducting a cosmic political and social change.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/10/2020 6:32:07 PM (No. 628389)
It would not surprise me a bit if the Deep State paid China to develop it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/10/2020 6:41:31 PM (No. 628401)
It's curious how a lot of those "Covid deaths" turn out to be gunshot wounds, heart attacks, dementia, cancer and auto accidents.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Tanker76 12/10/2020 8:32:26 PM (No. 628484)
I'm sick to death of hearing that over a quarter million people have died of china flu - dying with it is NOT the same as dying of it. The true number is a fraction of that - per the CDC's own report. The whole damn thing is a farce, despite some poster's beliefs. And if face diapers are so effective, why are cases "surging", despite most sheeple wearing them ? Massive overeaction to a minor virus.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Harlowe 12/10/2020 11:55:20 PM (No. 628598)
#7- Sundance’s death figures may not be wrong. Hospitals get paid more for patients listed as COVID-19 and get three times more money from Medicare if those patients are on ventilators according to an article in USA Today (“Fact check: Hospitals get paid more if patients listed as COVID-19, on ventilators” – April 27, 2020)
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FTA: "... Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for – if they're Medicare – typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000."
Physicians are not suspected of “gaming the system” but, possibly, “other players” may be such as hospital administrators. According to the article, an add-on for COVID-19 Medicare patients was the result of the “coronavirus relief legislation” that “created a 20% premium.”
Another fact to consider is that this is the flu season so an increase hospitalizations and deaths is not unusual; the question is, are patients with seasonal flu being defined as having COVID-19 to take advantage of Medicare payments for such patients.
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