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Now THAT is a prediction, and I want to hear Mr. Koontz interviewed on the subject and its origins.

https://youtu.be/DU5Vu7XBpzg

Amazing how some will use things like this to bolster their own pockets and prestige.

This virus is very much like any flu virus and somewhat less deadly. Not so good for the elderly with other respiratory issues.

The type response to this is a result of the zero tolerance for anything. These folk would go into cardiac arrest if a real plague happened like smallpox. Our enemies have GMO smallpox according to all information.

Basically one door in and out and everyone getting their temperature checked.

My philosophy though is that everyone is pretty much already a carrier.
80% of the people just like with the flu are just carriers and don’t show anything more than a sniffle.
If one person infects 4 every week how long until everyone is infected?
And as for staying healthy and uninfected. Well good luck. This is similar to a flu with no available vaccine. You can kick it off this week and still get it again next week.
There are reports that people are getting reinfected. But it might just be that people are carriers far far longer than previously thought possible.

Personally– as someone who is older, smokes, and works with the public, -albeit part-time –I’m more paranoid of the Flu and various cold viruses that generally hit my lungs.
Anecdotally– sick as a dog for a week in February, with something unlike I have ever experienced.
Totally random thought– my gosh, the federal government is getting ready to drop cash money from helicopters, (that’ll save us for sure) and send ‘reparation checks’ to all effected parties…

pivoting….
the way-back machine to not-so-long-ago-

Unconditional Surrender: The Polio Vaccine
Eli Lilly Company [Detroit] 1956
–“sponsored short”–
https://youtu.be/G9z2uym00jE
14:33

https://t.co/yxr0K13tNm

on a lighter note…

R.E.M. –
“It’s The End Of The World”
1994
https://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY
4:03

“This means no fear cavalier,
Renegade steer clear!
A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies.
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline.”

A friend of mine who follows my political analysis said to me, as he does almost every time that I speak with him, “Do you see what they are doing to him now?”, meaning Trump. I ask him, “Have you ever read anything that I have ever sent to you related to Trump and the Democrats?”.

Nothing new here: “By any means necessary”, “Never let a crisis go to waste”.

This virus and tagging Trump with incompetence in some way shape or form for any reason is ALL the Democrat leadership has. Oh yeah, and Joe Biden.

(Really, the Democrat leadership has chosen Joe Biden to pull their fat out of the fire, and that is desperate. At this point its just a calculation about how badly you are going to lose and has nothing to do with actually winning. Better to live to fight again another day than to destroy your cause through self suicide as they would with a Communist admiring candidate. The 2020 presidential race is about 2024 for the Democrats.).

Jason Hillyer: So far, all new data continues to support the conclusion that COVID-19 is about as dangerous as the flu, except that it appears relatively more harmless for the young and relatively more dangerous for the old.

Overall, however, the data continues to show that the panic surrounding it is entirely unwarranted.

Data however rules. If new facts change this conclusion, I will not hesitate to post about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzalkonium_chloride

This is so (very) good it deserves its own link:

Jordan Peterson
2017 Personality 20:
“Biology & Traits: Orderliness/Disgust/Conscientiousness”
May 2017
https://youtu.be/MBWyBdUYPgk
1:32:34

We are watching some aspects of this, playing out in real-time— 8 months to the Presidential Election.

We agree on two things; 1. The choices you made for your children in getting them to a theoretically preferred environment, and 2. The thin veil in this case that exists related to the Corona Virus between the Pedestrian Realm assumed / imagined reality and the Political Realm S.O.M. spin. (Learn to take all the praise when its offered, if history is any indication it will not be happening too often)

PS: I reported yesterday that I had a bottle of alcohol mixed with a bit of alo vera on my counter for the public, which most everyone is happy to see and enthusiastically uses. I had one man the other night ask if he could bring the bottle out to his car for his wife, they were just at the grocery store and she was paranoid that she may have touched something with Corona on it and she wanted to cleanse her hands.

And I then realized that this has the potential to become much like the 9-11 days were I had a flag in front of my store and someone stole it because there were none to be found. Try to find hand sanitizer in a store today. There is none, its already been hoarded. Another customer told me last night that she buys a special organic sanitizer for $5.00 from one company, and she saw the same exact small little bottle of the same on Amazon for………..wait for it…………$70.00!

This morning I made a security device out of an empty white bean can and some wire that the bottle sits in that is screwed to the counter that will not allow the bottle to be removed any longer, I am certain that someone will swipe it for sure.

But the Chinese economy is a leading indicator and its influence will not be physically felt until the goods they send by slow boat to the rest of the world do not get here.
And that will take any place from 2 to 6 months after they started closing down the production plants in China.
80% to 90 % of those plants are back up and running full speed. So even if you do see a drop in imported goods from China you will also notice a replacement of those missing goods inside of a few weeks.
Normally cargo ships are operated at a slow speed to save fuel but the replacement boats can be ordered to go much faster to fill back orders. So even a noticed production dip could be filled in faster than expected.

Stop listening to the sensationalized news reports and start thinking like a greedy businessman. Are they really going to let some little virus stop them from filling orders and getting paid?

Do not rely on the stock markets of the world to influence any thing about your life.
The stock markets are made up of a billion normal under educated people from around the world. As soon as they see something on the news they react and not in a good way. They panic because of something in the sensationalized news and the market drops a single point and because of that drop more panic and more sell and that drives the market down even more.
The real smart investor is sitting waiting for this and buys it all up at a cheap price and the market goes back up.

The truly unscrupulous investor actually finds a way to make the news and turns that to his advantage. Bad news drives the market down. Now who in this world would have that kind of wealth and power, and owns a few news outlets to get the job done?

And I must say that I respect your decision in the qualitative interests of your children and them having a better life in Sweden rather that the socially out of control England. In the end its really all about the kids. One gold star for you.

And what you are experiencing in this viral virus event going on in many countries around the world is what I call, S.O.M. (Strategy Over Morality) as you may already know. The two conversations where your interpretation of what you think truth and morality is becomes optional. And this is just the mildest example.

You through your personal observations have come to understand that there are two conversations in progress and you are fearful when that is revealed, and with good reason. However, the government can and will massage and modify and delay what they have to say about the situation based on several parameters that include their interests and the interests of retaining control, power, blood, territory and treasure.

Its like the governmental cloaking devices that are firmly in place have malfunctioned because this event is a bit too shallow and can not easily be hidden and allows those that inhabit the Pedestrian Realm to see the real reality rather than the projected reality that they present. Sleep tight.

Lee S: The problem with the coronavirus panic is not that “there is something we are not being told.” The problem is that too many people seem totally uninterested in looking up some data, and are instead more interested in wallowing in their emotion and fear.

My company has a dozen factories in China and I have been getting emails about this virus since day one.

My company have also religiously been keeping hand sanitizer all over the place. All drinking fountains, restrooms, Doors, offices. all work stations. Everyplace.

I see sanitizer stations in half, if not all, the restaurants I visit and almost all the big box stores.

“The most important insight is that all six fatalities occurred in patients who are more than 70 years old. Not a single Diamond Princess patient under age 70 has died.”. That is an important point.

HOWEVER….the deaths from normal flu are 75% in people over 65 ALSO…so the comparison of Covid-19 to normal flu above may still be reasonable. Perhaps 4 times as lethal under 65, 8 times as lethal over 65???

Then, of those on the Diamond Princess who were ill 2% died (ie 6 out of 300). However, in a more normal younger population (cruise ships skew to an older clientele) we may speculate the fatality rate would be about 1%.

In the US about 30,00 people die annually of normal flu out of 25 million who become ill, therefore the fatality rate is about 30,000/25,000,000=.0012=.12%. Therefore it would not be unreasonable to deduce the covid-19 virus is about as infectious as normal flu, but about 8 times as deadly! (1%/.12%=8.33)

If this were true then we might expect 240,000 U.S. deaths from the Covid-19 virus within a year (ie =8*30,000) UNLESS extra-ordinary steps are takes to limit transmission, or unless new medicines and vaccines are produced quickly.

These alarming numbers seem logically reasonable to me unfortunately, given the Diamond Princess “controlled experiment”. I therefore think the real possibility of a quarter million US deaths is reason for alarm, and a call for extra-ordinary responses of some sort…especially the robust quarantining of infected individuals.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099517/japan-coronavirus-patients-diamond-princess/

I have a pump bottle with 80 percent alcohol and alo vera on my counter for the last couple of days and most everyone is happy to squirt some on their hands and rub it around as they are checking out. Man, Woman, Liberal, Conservative, does not matter, they are all using it.

And as Martha would say, that’s a good thing. If nothing else they feel like they are doing something proactive about this current situation where chaos and fear is being pumped.