The Trough of Craziness Only Gets Deeper

[XLFD]

Things will only get more crazy until insanity is no longer sustainable.

This was a prediction I made this week due to the unprecedented hysteria fostered by governments and the media over the coronavirus scare.  The new round of hysterics has the governor shutting down bars and restaurants effective 3 PM today.  This followed her order to close all state schools, sporting events, and congregations of over 250 last week and various other 'social distancing' tactics in order to halt the spreading of the new pandemic.  

Yet, its more of a pandemic of fear, the virus itself is actually a lot less harmful than the Spanish flu in 1918 which killed 25 million worldwide in just 25 weeks.  If school-age children get this virus, which seems rare, it has very little effect on them.  The only relevant reason for shutting down schools is not to protect the children, but the adults who come in contact with the children.

For non-school age children, the deaths by the 2019-2020 strand of influenza has the highest hospitalization rates CDC has on record for these age groups, surpassing rates reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.  The death toll has been over 22,000, but our government and media has their focus only on the coronavirus with much smaller numbers all around.   

Such drastic actions taken by our governor and others without question by most of the media, who seem eager to egg them on to take even more action, has induced panic among the masses which has led to the rushes on stores and the panic buying of toilet paper, bottled water, etc.  This has led to the empty shelves in stores that are generally associated with communist and socialist countries, and this is precisely because the government's actions in this case (and their lapdog media minions) have been in line with strong-arm socialist dictatorships.

Governor Whitmer's latest executive order will close down restaurants, cafes, coffee houses, bars, taverns, brewpubs, distilleries, clubs, movie theaters, indoor and outdoor performance venues, gymnasiums, fitness centers, recreation centers, indoor sports facilities, indoor exercise facilities, exercise studios, spas, libraries, museums and casinos.  Drive-thru and take-out service is still allowed to some degree, for now. 

This is madness.  This is what socialism is.  What you see happening is a direct result of a government usurpation of the private sector under the guise of public health and safety.  These types of 'preventative' actions by our government should not be tolerated in a free society and free market system as ours purports to be.  They act against the public health and safety.

Freedom is befouled with a contagion that we must fight against to preserve the health of our national body.  Neither COVID-19, socialism, nor the inherent insanity that incubated our current state of affairs, will last very long with a host healthy enough to fight it off.

[Robert Howards]

Hi, hes from a socialist democratic party in Germany, you really trust him? Also, you're putting a lot of trust in the Chinese government to be honest about their infected/death rates.

[Willy]

Let's put it this way. I would trust him more than a U.S. Democrat or the U.S. media. The Chinese are a different story. No one is sure what really goes on over there. For all we know they created this virus and opened the window of the lab to give it some fresh air and whoops guess what left the lab. I remember my great grandmother's old saying, "When I opened the window influenza."

[Freedom Seeker]

Very interesting video. I love the calm manner and anology of the naked king. Time will really tell, but he has many good points about what is driving the "hysteria."

[Du Wright]

http://virological.org/t/the-proximal-origin-of-sars-cov-2/398

For those who like to study biochemistry and mutation of viruses, the attached link is a an interesting history of the SARS Co-V-2 virus which has been linked to the Corona virus causing the present distress.

And here is another:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/bit-chaotic-christening-new...

[Du Wright]

This article is a week old but is a little easier read on the new Corona virus with a twist of the media blaming Trump for not reacting soon enough, guessing  that SARS Co-V2 may have been circulating in the U.S. for six weeks before detection.  Is Trump a seer?  Did he react soon enough?  Is this "outbreak" going to cause more deaths than the influenza virus?

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/has-anything-changed-since-t...