Well, as for what Gates said, which is what I was addressing, he didn't say anything all that controversial. It's really not very different from how we currently handle things. There are already guidelines on vaccinations you should have for travel international travel, both into and out of the US. Obviously the COVID-19 will be an addition to that. You'd be crazy not to. And massive groups, like sporting events, concerts, etc, just aren't going to happen until after a vaccine has been widely distributed. Those are the facts.
You've probably seen how I've been very keen not to assign any conspiracy theory to this whole situation. The moment they parade out Bill Gates, it gets really hard not to take his own statements to heart. Gates has openly stated (at TED) that vaccines will help reduce the world population by 15%. It is also fact that Bill Gates has been an angel of death in 3rd world countries, using the population (including underage children) as Guinea pigs, often ending in deaths. Any time Gates gets brought up, it raises my back hairs.
Then you get into the talk of shutting down entire segments of the economy, and individual freedoms indefinitely? No. There is no guarantee there will ever be a vaccine. Then there is efficacy. I doubt one will ever be made that will work. How long have they been making Flu vaccines? What is their published effective rate? 40% on good years? Like 20% on bad years? Covid19 is far, far, far more communicable than the common flu. It will also most certainly mutate over time like the flu.
As for the video... I'm guessing that was a Michigan one. Our fine Gov. Whitmer decided to ratchet up the rules since the last time I posted here. We were under some pretty sensible restrictions. Now we're under some pretty absurd ones. We have stuff taped off like that. I fail to see how that is helping stop the spread. Why can't you buy seeds that are already sitting on the shelves? That doesn't make a lick of sense. Personally, I'm even more pissed off that they went and banned powerboating, now. I get why they had to close some of the public boat ramps. They were too busy and too many people could congest there. My local ramp was already the nuttiest I've seen it in since I was a teenager in the high-flying 80's. You knew that couldn't (and shouldn't) last. But all powerboating in the state? Man, if I had a private slip, I'd be spitting venom right now.
Yes, it was indeed Michigan. I see deep blue states like that as a canary in the coal mine. Yes I know Trump won the state in 2016, but the Governor is a Dem and she is calling the shots here. We are seeing similar nonsense in deep blue areas.
President Trump's statement about the cure vs the disease was an unfortunate one. The disease is killing a shit-ton of people, and it is foolish to try to ignore or brush that off. He may well have lost Michigan with that statement. Trust me. I live in Wayne County. Most of the Michigan cases are in Wayne/Oakland/Macomb counties. Outside of those three Metro Detroit counties, the rest of Michigan is pretty low concentration, though. And what we need, rather than absurd statements, are sensible guidelines and some nuance. Unfortunately, like usual, neither side is much interested in that.
I'm not sure which statement on the curve you are referencing. His teams early comments on "flattening the curve" were correct. Our hospitals were not prepared for a Wuhan level breakout. I'm talking real numbers, not the Commie laughable propaganda numbers. Our hospitals weren't even ready for Italy level numbers. Later statement(s) that infuriated you, I may have missed.
I have always taken this serious. I was preaching doom and gloom early on, and I'm still preaching doom and gloom. Skeletor (Pelosi) FINALLY recognized that we may be heading towards a Depression. I knew that months ago, and Trump mentioned it ~3-4 weeks ago as "The cure cannot be worse than the disease". There are no simple answers here. EVERYONE is eventually going to be exposed. It does not look like there is any other scenario. Sink the world into a Great Depression that dwarfs the last one, and we will never come out the other side. The Feds cannot helicopter drop our way out of this. The 08 recession and subsequent money printing press did irreversible damage to the standard of living in the US. We can't fool ourselves either. The real world inflation was staggering. We've already printed over $2B out of thin air, and that is just the first step. Last month 1/3 of all renters defaulted.This has all just started. If we don't figure something out, there will a complete and total societal breakdown across large swaths of the US, if not eventually all of it. It won't be limited to the US either.
Unfortunately the House Speaker and so many others are asleep at the wheels. I don't see this ending well whatsoever.
