How does a virus with 99.9% survival rate cause so much fear? It’s a real virus of course but the Dems/media used the hysteria to perfection. Now I do feel that Trumps personality turned some people off but I am honestly in shock how this constant reporting of cases not deaths but cases scared so many people.
They also presented it as if Trump could stop the virus by snapping his fingers.
Sorry for the rant but I hope small businesses and regular folks ignore any future lockdown mandates.
He should have jumped on COVID hysteria, and exploited it to the fullest.
They were impeaching him during an international pandemic. They were telling people to go to Chinatown three months in. They were encouraging violent, murderous riots during an international pandemic. They called his China travel ban 'xenophobic'.
And yet a great number of idiots think that it's Trump who mishandled COVID. Why, I never got answered.
Because they're just following the media signal cues. They don't need to know why something is, just as long as the media and "experts" give them the "correct info".
No matter what Trump did he would be an enemy of the media. If he leaned into the lockdowns and hysteria they would still pivot in a way to try and make him look bad. You cannot compromise with your enemy.
Then they'd have attacked him for wrecking the economy over a virus that (they would claim) is barely more deadly than the flu.
If you look at how Cuomo is popular, despite killing the elderly, it seems pretty obvious what the correct action was, politically speaking. Nightmares are powerful.
Como is "popular" because he's a Democrat, end of story
There was no correct action, no matter what you do it can be spun as a deadly mistake. The only way to win is to be popular with the media, or have control over it. Neither of which were options Trump had. He was doomed to lose from the start. That was the entire point of this political pandemic.
There's a reason Twitter banned the NPC meme. It was entirely too accurate.
Sorry sweetie, that's been debunked
Oh God, I think I'm gonna... I'm gonna... DEBOOOOOOOONK!
Amazing with all the celebrations going on today I didn't see any social distancing or masks being worn.
Just like it will be amazing how pretty soon we won’t get 24/7 news on someone testing positive for Covid in a small town in North Dakota.
But how else will we get St. Greta and AOC's dream world? Great Reset will cure Covid.
Sweden did what had to be done this Spring.
While pinky-swearing to the WHO they were "like, totally not banking on herd immunity" because the WHO keeps saying it's a "dangerous catastrophic strategy that won't work" and nagging Sweden for their strategy...
Sweden told its old people to stay isolated at home and kept schools and buisness open for low-risk demographics to get the WuFlu and develop their immune system to its contact. Soldiered-through a pretty bad hit of excess mortality among old people.
And time prove them right. This Fall most of Europe lost the circumstancial epidemiological control Summer grants against respiratory infections, and get a new swarm of sick old people needing hospitalization. Deaths rose steadily too and they are crippled by ineffective across-the-board lockdowns again.
But not in Sweden. Deaths haven't got up over there this Fall. No lockdown, no mask, just significant barriers along transmission chains in the form many immune people.
Alternatively there is also the Taiwan strategy that worked with basically no causalty : shut borders, masks everywhere, agressive tracking and decontamination and forceful isolation of every infected for mandatory quarantine.
They largely relaxed everything by now, except forceful quarantine of people comming from abroad. ( no local transmission )
Of course Taiwan has to deal with China's epidemics spilling onto them on a periodic basis, so they were ready to turn on a dime and implement mesures other nations couldn't or wouldn't do.
not 1 in 1000. it could certainly be worse, but it's more like 1 in 100 for our elderly pop. pretty good for ssi or sdi, but still quite unfortunate.
True. I totally understand telling elderly and high risk people to stay home or wearing masks around them but overall it has been overblown.
Thing is, the flu can be deadly to these groups, too.
But, many people simply don't know the difference between a flu, colds, and "the sniffles", or just don't bother distinguishing beyond how lousy they feel, and headlines don't scream about old-age-home inmates dying of seasonal flu visitors bring in as a matter of course every year.
yeah, but this was really a contain or spread event. local government decided this was a spread event. not my first choice, but we are where we are. the president has next to no input on it. if there's a federal lockdown, it going to be unconstitutional on its face.
True but being unconstitutional hasn’t stopped politicians in a very long time. I live in Texas so I doubt they would do crazy local lockdowns.
You're right. Most of the current federal government is built on overextension of the commerce clause. from drug laws to the Civil Rights Act. Being in TX is a good buffer, but the framing of COVID should still be rejected.
Because a) it was actually killing people initially (mostly due to China's fucked response and Italy's fucked response), b) it was killing and sickening people who were the elites, c) it was part of a massive attack on the global economic and political order to initiate The Great Reset.
I've heard that phrase in various places recently; The Great Reset. Is it like a policy that was discovered? Do you know where I can find out more about it?
I have a thread, feel free to share.
https://archive.vn/th1l6
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11PW7tkO0p/
Another reason why this will fail: Communist Tyrants don't really like or want to share power. This is the reason why USSR and Chicoms really don't like each other, and why Communist Vietnam and Khmer Rouge went to war.
It's more like a call for revolutionary coup everywhere.
Would only fail after the commies already siezed power in your nation.
It is the World Economic Forum's major agenda initiative in co-ordination with the International Monetary Fund to cause "The 4th Industrial Revolution" which will effectively create highly corporatized and socialized economies whose labor forces will be directed towards IT based industries, "Green Energy" industries, and a litany of highly corporatized cartel & subsidy based industries. It will focus heavily on the eradication of property rights, privacy rights, and to promote mass unemployment in unsupported industries (whom are to be replaced by some kind of automation). Society will be intentionally atomized with populations made highly interchangeable and highly dependent on socialist policies.
As evil as that sounds, I assure you that the people pushing this believe that it is purely good. Here's a list of people who've been talking about it.
I encourage you to look at it from the IMF's & WEF's own sources because they are well and truly terrifying enough.
Thanks, I'll check it out.
I noticed at the start of this that some people starting suddenly acting scared in an unnatural way.. as if they were feigning being scared for political purposes. Along with deploying the usual left-wng tactic of "dont you dare question scientific fact of the virus, its settled!" And also "dont you dare call it the flu!".
So it was obvious that something was up and the virus was actively being politicized
The media is the virus.
cheating caused so much damage, not china virus