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. 

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. 

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….

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

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?

Seems the FBI had lots of reasons to doubt the veracity of most of the reports.

But they went ahead anyway.

Almost like they had an agenda or something. 

Remember why it is a holiday…no matter which religion that you celebrate today for. 

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. 

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.

The more I am beginning to feel as if myself and my countrymen are just the subjects of a giant Social Conditioning experiment.

Look: this is a deadly disease. I got that. Truly, it is.

But the “normal” flu kills 30-50 THOUSAND every year. Yet we don’t shut down our country for that.

Swine Flu (H1N1) killed over a quarter million (yes, 250,000) people in 2009. over a HUNDRED THOUSAND in the first 6 months. Yet we, as a country, essentially did nothing differently then. Nothing. If no one reminded you about that time, you would not even remember. 

The Media is hyping the deaths (Almost 14 THOUSAND!!!!) as of this evening….Yet it is reported that anyone who dies is coded as Corona, tested or not, whether that virus is the actual cause of death or not….

And while I DO think the “Social Distancing”  is a Good Thing, and having folks be more aware of handwashing and hygeine is a great idea, I also am beginning to wonder….

Why the hype this time, and not other times? Why, if we should distance ourselves, and if places like New York are supposedly in Dire straights, have we not cut off the mass transit system that is making it so easy for folks to press together in a small place? Or at least greatly reduced the number of people allowed to ride in one subway car at one time?

Why is the Media pushing so hard that this virus had to somehow spring to life in a “Wet Market” in Wuhan, when the nearest bat with similar virii is over 200 miles away from Wuhan?  Why do they discount so readily the very close proximity of laboratories to the outbreak source that were STUDYING and CULTURING similar virii…less than a mile away?

And why the hype over the death rate when, while it is greater than a “normal” flu, is not significantly greater than other outbreaks?

Don’t believe me, use Google or another search engine to check my statements….and then ask yourself…

WHY?