Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

[TheRedneck]

Theres so much BS on this that its difficult to parse. The notion of "baffle them with bullshit" has never been seen on this scale.

First rule of Engineering: "If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit."

Look at what has happened so far: in December, we start hearing that China is having health issues with a SARS-like virus in Wuhan. But the WHO investigates and concludes that it is not human-human transmissible. Our experts agree that there is no danger. China meanwhile is shutting off all domestic air travel to and from Wuhan. In late January, Trump shuts off US travel from most of China to the dismay of quite a few deep staters. The media goes into 24 hour coverage mode, detailing every case worldwide despite the virus still pretty much isolated to China. Outbreaks start up in Iran and Italy. We get detailed reports about Italy's health care system being overwhelmed and the government having to choose who gets treatment and who doesn't.

Experts in the US are still saying it is contained here, and New York is arrogantly talking about how they are strong enough to withstand any viral attack. An outbreak occurs in Washington state at a nursing home and kills several residents, establishing nursing homes as high-risk areas. In New York, cases start to appear. Panic sets in and Cuomo starts giving daily briefings on the virus that air just before Trump's briefings. Suddenly New York is in danger being overwhelmed. Draconian lockdowns are quickly recommended, but no one should wear masks we are told. They don't do any good.

As the New York cases continue to spiral up, Cuomo starts begging for aid. The Federal government responds by sending PPE and ventilators, but says their stores are low. Several charities set up treatment centers in New York to help and are quickly attacked for things like not actively hiring more LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ people. Trump has his task force team concentrate on finding sources for PPE and ventilators to help New York. He orders a Navy hospital ship undergoing maintenance to speed things up and get to New York to help, setting a record for maintenance downtime.

Other outbreaks start to flare in areas like Louisiana. They get assistance as well, but for some reason the outbreaks never reach to level of hysteria gripping new York. Cuomo calls for more health professionals to please come help. The suggestions are laws now and the whole state goes into lockdown. Other states follow suit, with some placing restrictions on people coming from New York. Cuomo bashes these policies, calling them everything from unconstitutional to un-American and selfish.

New York claims to have hit "the peak" of the epidemic. The charity hospitals are barely used; the Navy ship is almost empty of patients. There has been no shortage of ventilators or PPE. The death toll is high, higher than was expected, but then it is revealed half of the deaths were from nursing homes that Cuomo forced into taking in virus-positive residents against their continued objections. Cuomo then abandons that policy, calling it a "mistake."

By now all states are in lockdown, some tighter than others. Michigan has literally determined what can and cannot be purchased in stores instead of just which stores can remain open. The economy is struggling to not collapse completely and the Federal government sends out relief packages... everything from grants to pay furloughed employees to increased income for unemployment recipients (sometimes in excess of what they made working) to checks issued for every American. The meat packing industry has several cases of virus and workers refuse to work, making more on unemployment than they did at work.

Paper products and hand sanitizer become impossible to find. There is no reason for this, but it affects the entire country. As soon as the supply chain starts to catch up, the meat packers' actions hit the stores and beef products start to soar in price as shelves empty. Some fast food restaurants even halt the sale of hamburgers.

Suddenly masks do indeed protect the public and are not just encouraged, but stores start implementing requirements for wearing masks and governments begin to try and legislate mask use... without the benefit of a legislature, of course. This is executive legislation.

People begin to realize they are on the brink of losing everything and start to protest. Their protests are met with legal action to shut them down and discourage protestors from engaging. Some stores defy orders and try to reopen using CDC recommended guidelines and are prompty shut down permanently. By now, Trump is calling for a reopening of the economy. Republican governors slowly begin to relax restrictions; Democrat governors do not.

Then George Floyd is killed. Protests over his killing explode across the nation, but these are encouraged instead of discouraged. Cities are finally overtaken and police are driven out of areas by force and threat... no one complains about the potential spread of the virus. The few who do are quickly told this is the protestors' right and how dare they try to take it away... often by the same people who just got through complaining about the protests against the lockdowns. The media switches from 24/7 coverage of the virus to 24/7 coverage of the protests.

Once the protests wind down and the shock factor of seeing police in full retreat from angry mobs in American cities wears off, the media switches back to 24/7 virus coverage. Now we are expecting a second wave. Several states pause or reverse their reopening plans as testing increases and reveal more cases. Meanwhile the death toll is actually dropping, indicating that the new cases are simply the result of more testing.

Now New York has joined with New Jersey and Connecticut in restricting travel into their states.

We were told we needed to "spread the curve" to avoid overtaxing the medical facilities; no medical facilities have been overtaxed. Many have struggled to remain open since medical care for non-virus conditions was curtailed. Then  we needed a treatment. Hydroxycholine showed promise on the majority of patients; then a report showed that it didn't work on the worst cases so it shouldn't be used on any cases. Other drugs have shown promise; all have been discredited in the media. Now medical experts are claiming that we cannot get back to normal until a vaccine is developed and tested, despite there having never been a successful vaccine developed for a coronavirus in recorded history.

Never in my life have I seen such a clusterfucked attempt to steer people away from science, while at the same time leaders are calling for people to "listen to the science." This to such an attempt that I have decided that the best way to deal with this virus is not through a vaccine or treatment, but by peace negotiations. It is apparently much more intelligent than we are, able to determine its location and act accordingly. It will not infect people in a crowded Walmart, but in a barber shop it turns deadly and kills not only the rogue patron but their entire family as well. In Michigan, it will attack anyone purchasing a garden hose, but in Alabama it will not. In California, it will seek out and destroy lone surfers, especially if they step on dry sand instead of wet sand. There is an agenda here and we need to understand what it is the virus wants. It apparently has some moral leanings, perhaps is even religious, since it originally was undeterred by face masks (which are a lot like shooting BBs through a tennis net anyway), but now have determined not to pass through them.

I suggest we talk to these virii and call for a cease fire. We can ask them to choose representatives and our representatives can sit across a table from them and have a discussion. Perhaps a compromise can be reached. They likely have knowledge that would be beneficial to our species, being so advanced.

TheRedneck