Wrecking our economies was all for nothing:
The World Health Organisation has backflipped on its original COVID-19 stance after calling for world leaders to stop locking down their countries and economies.
Dr. David Nabarro from the WHO appealed to world leaders yesterday, telling them to stop “using lockdowns as your primary control method” of the coronavirus.
He also claimed that the only thing lockdowns achieved was poverty – with no mention of the potential lives saved.
“Lockdowns just have one consequence that you must never ever belittle, and that is making poor people an awful lot poorer,” he said.
Go here to read the rest. The next time that some idiot bleats follow the science please recall:
- Science is a method for gathering facts.
- That much which is claimed to be science in the contemporary world is politicized junk.
- Elected officials will often claim because science in order to defend indefensible actions.
- That scientists are no more immune to having their judgment swayed by political beliefs than any of the rest of us.
- Science is useful; Scientism is a malign superstition.
Agree, of course. Lockdowns, masks, and social distancing were all wrong from day one. Lockdowns cause poverty, masks don’t work, masks alienate. Flu kills, accept it. Let us have a life till it runs its course. Flu deaths are collateral damage to keeping civilization alive.
Hey, Gretchen, please tell your allies over at the Dept of Public Health to rescind their (your) lockdown orders. Cuz Science.
Credit to WHO for conceding what the emerging data have been showing pretty clearly for months now. But I predict this will be ignored in the US, just as CDC’s admission of grossly inflated positive test results and death counts have been. Maybe it will get some coverage after Nov. 3, but I doubt it.
The Dallas County Judge has announced increased restrictions, because “cases.” SMH. 🤦🏻♂️
Science and Scientists there’s a difference.
The first is a method of investigation of world God Created.
The latter are human beings, suffering from the effects original sin like the rest of us.
We’ve known for months that the people under threat were the old and those in late middle age with a weight problem. The right policy was to work with private business to keep these people at home: telecommuting, grocery delivery services, special unemployment compensation, the use of idled hotel rooms for quarantines, &c. It was also imperative to keep the nursing homes and hospitals as disease free as you possibly could. For the rest of the population, six feet away and PPE. For retail eating and drinking establishments, a special indemnity coincident on loss of customers. Otherwise normal life. You couldn’t get such a system up and running right away, because we didn’t have the supplies or the information base, of course. Gov. A**hole in Michigan was instituting worthless measures like banning people from visiting rural vacation homes. (And is now in defiance of court orders; it’s time for local sheriff’s to tell her if she wants her illegal orders enforced, she’ll have to hire a karenwaffe out of pocket.
We’ve also known for several months that it’s unusual to unknown for this virus to be spread in the open air.
We’ve a shirt-tail who just visited us. She chuffered about not wanting to die of COVID and yours truly had to point out to her that she was in no particular danger, that her mother and father were in no particular danger, and that the people in danger were her hosts and her grandmother (who lives next door to her family). Her father, who is one of those schoolteachers whinging on Fakebook about the outrage of having to return to work, has miseducated her terribly. He hasn’t mentioned his mother-in-law at all. His mother-in-law, who is in serious danger from this virus (old, overweight), continues posting pictures of her baking and posting her usual inspirational messages and has hardly mentioned the epidemic at all. (She’s also on the school district payroll, but I’m not sure she’s working this semester). These people aren’t stupid, btw. It wouldn’t surprise me if the father, mother, and all the children in that family could top 125 on an IQ test. The mother-in-law is a woman of average intelligence, and she’s the sensible one.
What gets you is that liberals bitc* and moan about DJT but don’t have practical solutions to anything, have done what they usually do and turned adherence to certain shticks into a social marker delineating in-groups and out-groups, have been transparently asinine in the partial and sectarian enforcement of public health measures (demonstrations against Gov. Whitmer’s rubbish baaad, buts-to-nuts demonstrations in favor of Burn Loot and Murder totes OK). And, of course, they hope to use the disruption for electoral gain. Our vile media assist with that. (They couldn’t even manage straight reporting of a story as simple as the president’s recent hospital stay).
And God only knows how the international bond market is going to process all this borrowing.
One of the few honest-to-God NeverTrumpers in America not employed by a news organization, policy shop, or establishmentarian political organization is a dear cousin of mine. She was whinging on Fakebook yesterday about how ‘reckless’ the President has been. I know better than to put the question to her as to why the president should be in the hospital eating up the man-hours of the staff when he’s not sick enough to require that kind of attention, or how she fancies the Secret Service is supposed to protect him if they cannot (encased as they were in PPE) ride in the same car with him.
Trump 2020!
It worked. Today’s Church Bulletin reported the Dioceses [not individual parishes] is filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy b/c of the abuse scandal. They’ve [with a big assist from fifth columnists inside] seriously damaged one of the few institutions standing in their way.
Not Science. Never was.
It was politics [Get Trump!] from day-one. Started in Wuhan, China when somehow a weaponized virus escaped a lab, er, someone sipped infectious wild bat soup, and China had a problem.
China Joe’s bosses in the CCP immediately quarantined Wuhan from the rest of China BUT not from the rest of the World. The CCP ordered China Joe and Crazy Nancy to crow that Trump’s flight bans were xeno/sinophobia.
And so, approximately 50,000,000 (millions still ruined in blue state hell holes) Americans were locked out of their livelihoods to ‘flatten the curve.’ Since day-one, approxinmately 13,000 or 14,000 hale, healthy, and under-80-years- old Americans died of the China virus.
Two factoids:
One, for the first time in recorded history sick people were not quarantined [based on some guy’s daughter’s science fair project] but millions healthy people were financially ruined: miraculously most did not suffer mass starvation or other pestilences.
Two, every thing about the China virus you hear/see from the WHO/CDC/deep state, US media, and Democrat lying liars is a lie set forth to make Trump look bad.
All China Joe, Knee Pads Kamala, the Dems, et al have are lies and hoaxes.
Here is an interesting podcast from Taylor Marshall with his guest discusses the global effect of the Corona Virus shutdowns upon food security and famine for the worlds most vulnerable people.
Are international organizations just now realizing the long term consequences or their profoundly myopic, or were there a more subtle nefarious goals.
https://taylormarshall.com/2020/05/405-coronavirus-used-global-re-engineering-jason-jones-podcast.html
I don’t think that the WHO is conceding to the data that the rest of us used to reach our conclusions. Rather, I think that the WHO’s Chinese masters decided that economic lockdowns have hurt the global economy badly enough that China will get hit too (and not just China’s enemies.)