“Remember a month or so ago when people were complaining about being sick and couldn’t get rid of it for weeks?
Let’s do some critical thinking. COVID-19 started emerging in early December. Given the incubation period, that means infection started in November, and given international travel and tourism rates, it DID NOT TAKE 3+ months for it to come here. It’s been here.
I’ve had numerous friends across the country who’ve had crazy bad colds in the last few months, that I now believe were actually Coronavirus.
US authorities only just started testing for it, and even now the testing is severely limited, so in all likelihood, many have had or do have it, and it’s gotten passed off as just a typical cold – because (AHEM, NEWSFLASH) it IS just a bad cold for the vast majority of people who get it.
The normal colds and flu that we’ve already been dealing with kill thousands every season – it just doesn’t get talked about because it’s nothing new and the media can’t use it to panic us at this point. It’s sad but expected that elderly and immunocompromised people are prone to complications from those viruses. This is no different.
Wash your hands, eat your vegetables, don’t touch any old people (for their safety) and calm the heck down.
Panic is what’s going to crash the market. Panic is what’s going to empty stores. Panic is what’s going to lead to serious economic impacts from this – YOU are causing economic impacts – not the virus.”
President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will be invoking the Defense Production Act in an effort to help the private sector ramp-up manufacturing and distribution of emergency medical supplies and equipment amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The act, which was first enacted in 1950 as a response to the Korean War and has since been re-invoked more than 50 times since, will streamline production of medical supplies to help the country battle the coronavirus pandemic and require businesses to sign contracts or fulfill orders deemed necessary for national defense.
President Trump was not specific on the details of what the act would be used for – besides mentioning ventilators and masks. The act also provides the government with the authority to obtain information from businesses, authorizes establishment of the National Defense Executive Reserve, and a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – which works on the effects on national security of certain mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers related to foreign investment in the U.S.
Borders have been closed. Public gatherings of more than 10 persons are strongly discouraged. Many municipalities, counties and some states have made “social distancing” , (A/K/A quarantining), mandatory with legal sanctions for violation. Restaurants are closed. Places of amusement are closed. Churches are closed. The town of new Rochelle, New York is under mandatory quarantine enforced by the national guard.
Actual where the military has been deployed isn’t really locked down. The NY National Guard is helping with everything from cleaning to food delivery. They’re not armed and they’re not enforcing movements. For now. So that’s probably only going to be the first move.
The government has instituted Draconian measures FOR OUR OWN GOOD!
Once the government provides you with basic utilities…
the government can then decide when to turn them on and off!!
Once the government pays for all your education…
the government cab decide what education and what career you get to have!
Once the government provides you with food…
the government can then decide who much OR IF you get to eat!
Once the government pays for your housing…
the government gets to determine where you live!
Once the government controls your healthcare and medicine…
the government gets to decide whether or not you are valuable enough to live!
Once a government gets you to agree to gun control…
you have NO way to prevent that government from doing what is listed above!
Consider the parable of the boiling frog.
If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will un-resistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.
It is also used to reinforce that change needs to be gradual to be accepted.
Feeling a bit warm froggy?
My thoughts? Never take or do or believe anything the government says or offers. Never!
Thanks Patrick
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