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On the matter of the “Coronavirus”:
Why are we panicking?
Have you ever been stopped at red traffic light, then have it turn green only to notice the person stopped next to you didn’t go?
Sure you have.
And what did you do?
If you’re like literally everyone else, you didn’t go either.
You assumed that person has knowledge you do not.
Oddly enough, the first human assumption is neither “Maybe I know something they don’t” nor is it “Perhaps they’ve a motivation for their decision that I do not or doesn’t apply to me”.
Governments and societies are no different.
They are simply many people making the same mistakes individuals do – only on a much larger scale.
And, frankly, now that women run most of the world, it’s not really surprising that panic erupts over so small an issue. Small, I say. I’ll discuss why I believe that is below.
Although, that said, I’ll state now that much of this isn’t panic.
It’s hope.
This is the disease everyone wants.
The Left wants it to defeat “Drumph”.
The Right wants it to destroy open borders.
Big business wants it to destroy small business. It’s basically inverse predatory pricing. You force everyone to take massive losses knowing full well you’re the only one that can endure them. Afterwards, you’ll be even stronger by absorbing all the losers’ markets.
Women want it to destroy the workplace – because they realize they’ve been sold a bad bill of goods; that working outside the home is not empowering or liberating. It’s just shitty.
Men want it to destroy the workplace – because they have always known working outside the home is not empowering or liberating. It’s just shitty.
The few men and women that like their jobs want this to destroy their commute. So this let’s them add free time to their day by staying home to do it.
And preppers want it to destroy everything.
As I said:
It’s the disease everyone wants.
It’s intellectual “bug-chasing”.
In short, this is a scam.
And, like all scams, everyone is guilty.
The seller tells someone what they want to hear.
And the buyer agrees to ignore it’s too good to be true.
This began with:
Italy is a fate we must avoid.
OK.
We needn’t do much to achieve that result.
Why should we consider Italy an outlier?
They’re the 22nd most densely populated country in the world; the fourth most densely populated on the European continent.
Along with that, comes a few other reasons.
It’s the fifth most popular country for tourists to visit in the world.
According to its 2011 census it had a population of 59,433,744.
In 2018, it had 63.2 million tourists hit its shores.
That’s more visitors from across the globe than inhabitants.
That means more people visited in one year than they had living there.
Their entire country is merely 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi).
It’s fifth in the world for life expectancy which means it has the largest senior population in Europe at ~22%.
Also, they have a culture that very much relies on close, personal contact.
Frankly, it’s a miracle that such a thing didn’t happen sooner, and kill a much larger segment of the populace.
What about the numbers in the USA?
As of a 2007 study, there are ~535,000 illegal (“undocumented”) persons in New York City of which 23% are Asian.
Equating to ~134,550 potentially illegal (undocumented) persons that never underwent any type of health screen prior to crossing the US border whatsoever.
If we simply eliminate NY and NJ (whose hardest hit areas are effectively NYC suburbs) the US numbers immediately drop by ~52%.
Would this situation be even remotely concerning if this drop occurred?
I’ve been monitoring the situation for a week and that breakdown has yet to change in any way.
Also, in my monitoring, I notice that they’ve stopped giving details as to the conditions of the infected (especially those that supposedly died from this virus).
In brief, up to that point, everyone under the age of 70 (I spent hours reading them) had significant factors that compromised their health.
The top five compromising factors (in order of severity) are
Cardiovascular Disease
Diabetes
Chronic Respiratory Disease
Hypertension
Cancer
So did the virus kill them or not?
A cascade effect occurs.
If I have cancer yet get hit by a bus and fail to recover from my injuries, did the cancer kill me or did the bus?
The question of the matter is what’s called “disease-specific mortality”.
And we’ve no solid data as to that number.
Even if we discount that point, among 80+ year olds, six out of seven that get this virus survive.
80% of all infected persons suffer only minor symptoms.
The best guess at disease specific mortality then under the age of 60 is roughly .46% [not accounting for a lack of pre-existing conditions which will actually lower that number]
The claim is that it’s 3% across the board but we’ve nowhere near enough accurate data to assert that.
It’s a shot in the dark from numerous sources of (dubious) reliability.
Regardless, all this is to say:
We’re enduring the results of a conspiracy.
I assert it’s an unconscious one.
Also, a terrible, world-changing virus could very easily exist and do tremendous damage thus warranting the measures we’re suffering – and more!
But this isn’t it.
As an aside:
4,636 people died of the flu (not counting pneumonia) in the USA alone during first 10 weeks of 2020, more than 100 of whom were children/infants [COVID-19, as of this writing, has killed exactly 0 persons aged 0-9 in the USA].
And everyone continued as they always do.
Some sources:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/
“How Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg sees the current Corona pandemic” (youtube)
“Lungenfacharzt Wolfgang Wodarg spricht jetzt LIVE über die Auswirkungen des Corona Virus Frontal21” (youtube)
https://normanpilon.com/2020/03/17/rational-skepticism-or-quackery-dr-wolfgang-wodargs-take-on-the-pandemic/
Dr Joel Kettner, professor of Community Health Sciences and Surgery at Manitoba University, former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba province and Medical Director of the International Centre for Infectious Disease
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