How do we even know how truly significant this CoronaVirus is?
Scott Shellaby, otherwise known as “The Cow Guy” a trader The New York Stock
Exchange articulated it very succinctly this morning. “We have nothing to
compare it to,” he said. Where are the statistics on all the other pathogens
that infect Americans every year? Why are we not rigorously testing for
Influenza like this virus?
How do we know that this isn’t just a minor virus with a whole lot more attention being drawn to it in a presidential election year? Why was there not nearly the same attention given to H1-N1 or Swine Flu? The mortality rates for the Swine Flu were higher than this one to date according to the CDC. Also according to the CDC, “From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases, 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths in the United States due to the (H1N1) pdm09 virus.”
During
this 2009 pandemic did the main stream media report hysterically every minute
and drive people in fear to hoard food? Were we testing people for the virus?
Did people stop working and hide in their houses? NO!
The crazed media has The
President, and everyone else chasing ghosts with a fly swatter. This virus is
no different than any other pathogen. It comes and goes, predominantly in the
winter months.
The Federal Government or
local governments, for that matter can’t force people to “stay home for the
good of the rest of society” without being able to accurately target those who
pose a danger to society. What has the media driven us to, a society subservient
to the government like Russia?
Last I checked this is America, a free country, where The Government is supposed to be subservient to the will of the people. There is a process for this kind of thing; first the threat is identified, isolated, and then Marshall Law must be declared to keep those that are infected from contaminating others, while the threat is being neutralized.
None of these guidelines have been adhered to prior to The Federal
and local Government’s requesting people to “shelter in place”. They have the
whole thing backwards; keeping healthy people at home to keep the sick ones
from infecting them!