04-18-2020
America is under attack. Heck, I believe the world is. Neither the world nor America has very much to fear from COVID-19 in my humble opinion. We have a lot to fear from those manipulating the masses through fear and disinformation though. A lot!
I think I have more to fear from sharks in tornadoes than from COVID-19. But my job and businesses and family have been upended. My friends and their lives messed up badly. I am helping people people who are scared to death of COVID-19 and giving themselves ulcers, selling their stocks, fearing the “man” and way over-indulging in booze, drugs and porn. They tell me I have to stay away from my friends. They say I can’t go to the beach. I can’t go to church. It may be a crime if I do.
I am struggling to find evidence to support this reaction and continued actions on the part of Local municipalities, States, Governors, the FEDGOV Congress and even the President. It is absolutely rediculous. I guess I have to write the standard disclaimer. Yes, people hurt and died and suffered from this Virus.
Rough numbers – forgive me if I am errant, and as always, correct me on the math.
3200 die every day in the US from car wrecks
1300 a day in the US from smoking
800 a day in the US from obesity
1600 a day in the US from cancer
140 a day in the US from suicide
Suicide is beating COVID-19 right now in number of deaths in the US.
Obesity deaths in the US are outpacing COVID-19 in the WORLD 2:1…
Smoking, Obesity, Car wrecks and suicide are all arguably avoidable. I don’t see people changing those behaviors in droves or the Country outlawing cars or tobacco. I don’t see the obese panicking to get on a treadmill and buying up all the veggies in the store. Sadly we do more to ourselves that either doesn’t help those with suicide or downright enables it. Don’t see any mass efforts to mitigate those behaviors with a sense of urgency.
Oh, and the regular flu kills about the same as COVID-19 year after year after year… after year. I do believe that it is roughly the same sort of thing, right? Didn’t see any masks last year… or the year before or the one before that…
Stop it. Just damn stop it. Quit running from something that you can’t see, you have already been exposed to and will be again. Forever more, I think COVID-19 will be around. Do we stop everything next year? Or do we shut down every time a new virus comes out? Reminds me of living in Florida during hurricane season. Some partied, some lived in fear and some ran for the hills. A few too many times we OVER reacted for minor storms. I remember driving 26 hours to get just a few dozen miles. no gas, no food, no bathrooms… When I got back to my home many days later, a potted plant on my balcony was turned over. That was the “damage” from the hurricane that necessitated a “mandatory evacuation.”
Conspiracy or not… let’s face it, none of us will ever be in a position to ever know what goes on and who made the decisions and for what reasons they made those decisions. No, but when you see smoke, there is a good chance of a fire being close to it. It doesn’t guarantee, but there is a fair chance. And that isn’t conspiracy.
Shutting the economy down benefits those who position themselves to short investments, gouge customers, sell ads and provide new areas of economy.
Shutting down the economy and sheltering in place, redirects the attention away from everything else. Damned near anything can be happening and no one is either there to see or really cares to look, because they are running away from the biggest damned red herring the planet has ever seen.
Shutting down the economy benefits a certain political group in America. The incumbent President had one thing that he could solidly lay claim to fame for in his term and that was the economy. Not so much now.
Immediately when this thing kicked off, certain companies were positioned LITERALLY with the FEDGOV to provide “critical merchandise and services.”
From Mayors to Governors to the President and everywhere in between; government was in a very strong position to ignore the Bill of Rights, as well as immediately choose winners and losers in businesses.
SO, if anyone cares or is smart enough or has an attention span long enough to see this thing through WITHOUT getting freaked out… If you will just sit still for a few months and watch who does what. Watch how the numbers and story and narratives change. Watch to see who benefits. Watch to see who loses. Then look for patterns of the winner manipulating the truth to hurt the losers. (BTW, don’t put yourself in that category, you don’t matter to them.) Once you find out that you got tricked into running away from a contrived crisis, then I hope you will help round up the bad guys and try them for treason and have them shot. All of them.
— R. A. Grier