I’m pretty sure the collective group of liberals have lost their ever lovin’ minds. Don’t get me wrong, I have considered myself a liberal for years because I felt that liberals were educated, logical beings who considered their positions beyond the end of their nose. Maybe now I have to rethink that position. I always thought that liberals looked at a problem, did as much research as they could, and then through logical and unbiased non-emotional analysis reviewed that information and made a decision. In no way did I think they would fly off the handle, have knee jerk reactions to hyperbole, and basically put their hands over their eyes and ears before putting their head in the sand so they didn’t have to listen to anything that didn’t fit into their pre-determined political agenda. But here they are…killin it!
When COVID-19 first hit the U.S. shores it was pretty clear that the Republicans and the President weren’t too worried about it. Should they have been? Duh. It’s obvious to anyone with a second-grade education and a heartbeat that had things been done sooner, this wouldn’t be the cluster fuck it is today. But is it as big a cluster as the liberals want it to be? Not really.
Don’t get me wrong, no one wants to get sick and no one certainly wants to see grandma die a week earlier than she needs to but come on, it’s not like this disease is going to end all life as we know it. That’s reserved for this massively ridiculous reaction to it. Look below here for some simple facts from the CDC:
The following was a study of a cohort (look up the word) of 44,000 patients who had the disease. Given that someone from China currently has a .008% chance of getting sick, the chances of you dying from Covid if you live in China are statistically insignificant. So…if by chance you even get sick here’s how the condition plays out:
- Mild to moderate (mild symptoms up to mild pneumonia): 81%
- Severe (dyspnea, hypoxia, or >50% lung involvement on imaging): 14%
- Critical (respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan system dysfunction): 5%
So…if you happen to get exposed (very unlikely…even your chances in the US are actually less than .3%), and you happen to get sick (again, low percentage if you are healthy), you have a 5% chance of being critical. If you become critical…guess what…you still only have a 2.8% chance of dying and that’s only if you’ve been smoking all your life, have a constant diet of twinkies, or already have one foot in the grave. Still, the news likes to find that one person who has had the disease with no pre-existing conditions. They have to dig deep for those. It’s rare. However, I surmise that it is likely they have some underlying condition formerly undiagnosed. However, the news never seems to report any findings AFTER the autopsy.
Add all this to the fact that New York needed less than 6000 of the 30,000+ ventilators that they claimed they needed makes me think they doth protest too much. No matter though. Now they say they will need them because this will all come back with a vengeance unless they get more. For those not privy to politics “we need to keep this crisis going until Trump is out of office.”
Democrats hate Donald Trump and, ask them, they would even crash an economy to ensure he is not re-elected. The left has their base so afraid to leave the bathroom for fear of losing toilet paper that it’s likely none of them will vote in November anyway. However, I have a theory that ALL the Democratic governors will open the flood gates come November just to get their base out to vote. Then, if their guy loses, they will lock the gates back up and claim all over again that the world is ending and it’s Trump’s fault. So really, the only way we’re getting out of this is if Biden wins. If that’s not the case, we’ll be stuck inside until 2024.
In a CBS News report recently the Urban Institute found that because of this fiasco millions of Americans can’t afford food and rent. They quote that “More than 4 in 10 of Americans whose work was affected by the pandemic said they weren’t able to pay the rent, mortgage or utility bills; skipped medical care, or were at risk of going hungry.” It’s that last one that is the greatest risk to the country. Even Trump and is second grade mentality is capable of knowing that little gem. USA Today reports that Trump plans to order meat packing plants to stay open during this crisis. He knows for sure he has to at least keep the base in red meat.
To further stress how this cluster has impacted the community and how remarkably silly and unproductive the lockdowns are, here are two physicians who practice today making the argument that what we need to do is open up the economy before things get much, much worse and use this time for us to build up a tolerance to the threat. I mean really…having a partial lockdown is like having no lockdown at all. This isn’t communist Russia, no matter how much Mitch McConnel wants it to be so. Two independent physician groups the ACEP with the AAEM put out a joint statement refuting the claims by the two physicians, however their claims are based largely on CDC data so not sure who they are disputing.
We need to get everyone to calm the fuck down. Guess what, you might get sick. Then again, it’s more likely that you will not. However, if we keep up the current status it is guaranteed that more people will die from child abuse, spousal abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, or whatever other iction they might have long before they ever even get exposed to a virus that, while can be deadly to the weakest among us, is really not as much of a threat as they’d like it to be.
Rex