Protests

People are beginning to realize that the Coronavirus crisis is, essentially, overblown.

Yes, it is a serious disease for some.
Yes, it kills people
They realize that.

They also realize that it isn’t the deadly pandemic that will kill one in 20 people as promised.
It isn’t spreading like wildfire.
The Hospitals are not overwhelmed.

also:

Despite the claims of running out of equipment, masks, and gowns, the hospitals are still equipped.
Despite they media hype, this isn’t worth destroying our economy.

And they are getting restless because, while they were willing to wait and see, they are realizing that it isn’t as forecast.
And they won’t stay home forever.

They also realize that everywhere isn’t like NYC. And that outside of dense urban enclaves, the rate of infection and death just isn’t there as forecast….even the rtes in large cities are not anywhere near the forecast. 
And that cities really, despite they hype, are not deathtrap hellholes.

And we are beginning to see the social manipulation taking place in the Media. And while we can be manipulated, it can only last for so long. After a wile, they begin to smell the bullshit for what it is.

Bet on it, the protest in Lansing and other places are just the beginning. May first–May 15th. People will say “enough”. Demand that things change. Take the chance to go back to work and to be productive and live their lives.

May 15th at the outside.
Bet on it.

Can’t see the downside

For the US, at least, of Trump defunding the US contribution to the World Health Organization.

Sadly, like the United Nations, they have become so political, so trend-following, that they have become effectively useless, at least on a macro scale. LInstitutions run by liberals and politicians generally go down that path, and the current WHO is a perfect example. The organization has fallen so far from where is was 50 years ago.

I am sure there is a downside for the US, I just can’t see it. 

Running out

So the story is that health care facilities are “running out” of masks…(And other PPE and they have been for weeks)

Yet the media always seems to have some.

While urging the rest of us to donate any we have to the health care systems.
But the media (TV, especially) seems to have  a large supply of masks.
Odd, innit?

They are keeping theirs while urging us to donate to the health care system that has been “in imminent danger of running out” for over 30 days.

I am beginning to wonder if this is like some of the “shared sacrifice” manipulation that the Federal Government did during WWII to keep up support for the war among the civilian population….

Either way, again, something doesn’t make sense, both the mask issue and the rest of the panic. 

Strange:

Oddly, for the past two weeks the New York hospitals are within 24 hours of running out of PPE and Ventilators…..just as they have been “on the verge” of running out for the past 2 weeks or more.

Strange how that works, innit. Just about to run out….for two weeks.

I dunno if they were lying then, or are lying now. 

Say a prayer for the folks in Louisiana and Mississippi and Kentucky and Tennessee who lost their homes in the tornadoes last night . How would you like to lose everything and then have to take shelter with folks what with the coronavirus as an additional danger….

Like a cat in a child’s sandbox

Covering up it’s turd after the deed is done.

Seems that China is doing what it can to obfuscate the origins of the Covid 19 virus.

Suppressing research and editing out any studies which are not “approved”.

It’s almost as if they are aware and are trying to hide the origin of the disease that has disrupted the economy of the WORLD and will likely ultimately kill about 800,000 people.

Bats sold in a market my ass

Still the wrong curve

Everyone is using the wrong growth rate curve.

Bet on it.

The disease has been here since before Christmas.
And yet, everyone is using the start date as sometime in February.

Bad data results in bad predictions.
Which is why the prediction numbers keep changing.

Oddly other countries, Ferinstance, Sweden…, are not on “Lockdown”….they haven’t damaged their economy, and their infection rate is similar to that of the US. Yes, they are “Social Distancing” somewhat, but they are not on “lockdown” the bars and restaurants are open, etc. “Herd Immunity” appears to work as well and the measures taken in the rest of the world.
Similar results in Brazil

As for the rates here in the US, the curves are probably as wrong as they can be, so the predictions are too. Different rate of infection, different growth rate of the disease in the population, and a much higher rate of “Little to No Symptoms”…..Oddly, 30-50% of people tested in Chicago ALREADY HAVE HAD THE VIRUS.

Something the media seems to be ignoring.

And as I asked in a previous post….why?

Unclear on the concept:

Just saw a dude with full mask and gloves, after wandering around in a convenience store for 10 minutes (touching a bunch of stuff) then try to dial his smartphone…..and was unable to get the phone to recognize his finger touch….So he pulled up his mask and USED HIS TEETH to pull the glove off of his hand so he could dial his smartphone.

Methinks he is missing the idea of how the gloves are spozed to protect him.

Jesus Christ on rollerskates. 

Lockdown day 489

Parents all over the United States are realizing that the issues are NOT with the school and the Teachers:

Their child is difficult to teach and is, really, a poorly behaved little monster.