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| 2020-04-24 | |
| [The American Spectator] A message to the disaster brokers who think they are our superiors. To our betters in the American ruling class: Just a note to say thanks for giving us a much-needed lesson in the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, who were not shy at all in admonishing us to be wary of surrendering the kind of government power you people have wielded, supposedly for our benefit, since the Chinese Communist virus hit our shores at some indeterminate point in the recent, or maybe not-so-recent, past. You told us that Patient Zero in America for the Wuhan ChiCom virus came to Seattle and first landed in a hospital on January 19. You built an entire response to the virus based on that, and three months later more than 26 million Americans are out of work, and the projections are that some 24 percent of our economy will have evaporated in the second quarter of this year thanks to that response.
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| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 Coronavirus: Are we underestimating how many people have had it? Sweden thinks so |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-04-24 10:08 |
| #8 I've just seen cyto-government storm killing the country. The reaction will devastate far more lives than it saves. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-04-24 08:54 |
| #7 ^Hear, hear. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 06:56 |
| #6 I really, really hate the idiot turn the right has taken during this. It's destructive and intellectually corrupt -- there's no allowance for caution, no allowance for imperfect knowledge, and nothing but brainless contrarianism. We've gone from objecting to restrictions that had no connection with public health to apparently rejecting the idea of public health, in the space of two weeks. I've seen the most bizarre conspiracy theories grow up in minutes, based on nothing more than the dislike of a statement a person said. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-24 06:52 |
| #5 IBTC to the rescue! |
| Posted by: Thrinetch Bluetooth4509 2020-04-24 06:31 |
| #4 Israel 8 million, Sweden 10 million. Israel 193 deaths and daily infections rate goes down. Sweden 2000 death and and daily infections rate goes up. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 02:25 |
| #3 Yes but first you have to kill their patients by shutting down ORs and eliminating urgent care. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-24 00:50 |
| #2 The shutdown of virtually all non-COVID-19 medical practice is putting great numbers of doctors and facilities around the country in danger of going out of business. Can the call to 'save' them by nationalization of the health care system be far behind? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-04-24 00:47 |
| #1 Truly a righteous rant that covers the territory well. Nothing in this to disagree with. Nicely put. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-24 00:43 |