There are three ways to stop any disease: Vaccine; prevention, which is not currently available for coronavirus. Cure; anecdotally, several are available but they are only in use in some places, by some doctors, which is a self infliction of sub-optimization. And finally establishing herd immunity.
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Op-Ed: Those at Risk Should Take Caution, As for The Other 98% of the Population…
Every day in the US 8,000 people die (on average) due to normal everyday life – having nothing to do with the Coronavirus. It’s just a fact of 300 million population and an 80-year life span. This means that during the past two months of economic shutdown nearly 500,000 people have died.
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Until We Have …. “More Testing”
This from yesterday: This is the latest excuse from Team-Lockdown to delay lifting the lockdown: “We need more testing!” “We’re flying bind without more testing!” “Until we ge more people tested, … ” BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. The truth is we know all we need to know to lift the lockdown. First, we already know that … Read more
The MYTH That New Hampshire Cannot Lift the Lockdown Because of Massachusetts
Here is his Majesty, Chris Sununu, First of His Name, Lord of NeverTrump and the RINOs, and Protector of the Realm in his fave local paper SeacoastOnline: “People in Massachusetts are crawling out of their skin, they want anything, any reason to get in their car and get out of that state because the epidemic … Read more
Govt: curing the disease but ignoring the cost of the cure?
I’m getting to the point that the next time a medical person says that we can’t open our economies until a cure is found because WE DIDN’T ELECT YOU MEDICAL TECHNOCRATS to govern; speak your opinion – that’s your right, but I REFUSE to be governed by your opinion and your opinion only. This is now a multi-dimensional problem and you’re only yammering about one aspect of it.
Democrat Depression Is a Partisan Political Tactic
The Donkey Party is actively seeking to plunge the country into an economic tailspin. They do wish to maintain some level of plausible deniability of the point. That is important to their credulous suckers. They believe your poverty and misery serves them well.
ReOpenNH Concord Rally – MicroIntervew with Keith Ammon
No, he’s not Jason Osborne….sigh…it was Keith. Yep, what a way to start an interview – just MANGLE the opening due to my inability to get peoples’ names straight.
New Hampshire is Hurting for Money
New Hampshire is a small state dependent on small business. The single largest employer in the state is the government of New Hampshire. Did you know that?
The Democrats are rejoicing in this misery
The loudest socialist mouthpiece in the House is AOC. She is cheering the news of plummeting oil futures. Monday oil futures went below zero. That means oil producers are paying processors to take the oil. Demand worldwide has plunged in response to the coronavirus.
So, What’s “The Plan” for Next Flu Season?
Globally as many as 500,000 people, mostly the sick and elderly, die every year from influenza. Every year. And I only bring it up because, as we report on the #ReopenNH Rally, and similar events around the nation, people are suggesting we want to make people sick, and die.
Notable Quote – George Will, Prof. Don Boudreaux
[Welfare] states presuppose economic dynamism sufficient to generate investments, job creation, corporate profits, and individuals’ incomes from which come tax revenues needed to fund entitlements. But welfare states produce in citizens an entitlement mentality and a low pain threshold. That mentality inflames appetites for more entitlements, broadly construed to include all government benefits and protections … Read more
“If I begin sacrificing my rights in order to save lives, then where does it end?”
The title is a quote from Brandon Morse at Red State. He is walking us through an incident where the Police in Raleigh, North Carolina broke up a lockdown protest. The point, of course, being that the first amendment protects that right and it was just infringed.
Italy: A Much Smaller Percentage of Deaths Were Actually Caused by the Coronavirus
This entire crisis is overblown. The political response borders on criminal. In New Hampshire, for example, the entire county of Coos has the same weeks-long lockdown protocol as everywhere else and only two recent cases of Coronavirus. Two, countywide! It’s Criminal.
Isn’t That Interesting
We may have sheltered in place a little too long… The Coronavirus started in Wuhan, isn’t that interesting. Did you know that the distance from Wuhan to Shanghai is 537 miles? The driving distance from Wuhan to Beijing is 720 miles. Did you know the driving distance from Wuhan to Milan is 6,724 miles? The … Read more
To defeat the flu we must get the government out of the way
To defeat the flu we must get the government out of the way. Americans don’t rely on the government to save the day. The government is there to defend us, facilitate trade and maintain an orderly society.
Coronavirus modeling – it isn’t just Ed complaining about how bad it is.
Grokster Ed has been doing yeoman’s work in applying the Charles Murray / IHME model that is being used to set governmental policy (yesterday’s, for example, is here). A number of people are noticing that, just like the climate models (including the favs of the UN’s IPCC), they are running “hot” in that they are … Read more
The State Economy is on Hold Because 0.04% of the Population Has Had a Confirmed Case of this Flu
The COVID response is nothing short the classic rhetorical Progressive State of War. The mobilization of society to do battle with some advertised evil. Always with the state exercising increased control over people and property. In New Hampshire, we are doing this for what, exactly?
What Do You Mean This Post Isn’t About the Chinese Flu?
It has become increasingly difficult to find subject matter outside the context of that thing we’re all experiencing as a planet. Yes, the Kardashians. No, the other thing. But I’ve been trying. Because all (that thing) and no play makes Blogger a dull boy.
Perspective on Government Imposed Shutdown
It is time for some perspective on government imposed shutdown. The President made an announcement. He is aiming toward Easter Sunday as the point at which to begin getting the economy going again. This is triggering heavy opposition. The debate is about how much destruction to the economy to inflict. That is simply a stupid … Read more
More Suicides in Tennessee Last Week than COVID-19 Virus Deaths
It is often said and not often enough repeated that the political response to the current pandemic (the cure) is worse than the disease. That keeping people home, out of work, quarantined, or confined will do more damage than letting the virus work its way and burn itself out.