I like Candace Owens but she should stay in her lane. Math and medical projections are not her strong suit. Her tweet outlining her errors has been deleted. But this illustrates a good point: too many people are making false statements concerning this pandemic. Fear and ignorance do not seem to be in short supply as everyone has an opinion (most with no scientific background) concerning the facts as they see it.
Which brings me to the point of this post. I give great leniency to comments on this site and rarely censor or delete comments or people. As I have said before, I do have the background to understand this corona virus and make statements based on calculations, facts or projections based on current numbers of infected. I have also said that the overwhelming majority of people will survive. But fear and ignorance have consequences and I will no longer approve comments without scientific facts, supporting data for conclusions or personal attacks.
As I also have said before, if we had public virtue, we would have already self-quarantined the country and been on our way to the virus’s eventual burn out. It is strange that the government which states we have the best medical system in the world cannot even test people.
In order for us to become stronger, we must learn from our mistakes. Instead, we fight among ourselves. Imagine fighting a civil war to restore the honor of our country’s core principles based on our actions today?
David DeGerolamo
We have something to fear alright! While it will not be much fun if you get sick with covid 19 or anything else. What makes me more afraid is the way Americans can (still after everything they have witnessed in the past few years) be manipulated by the same people who they know despise them! ….media and government officials that is.
My brother just called me from Cherry Hill, NJ to thank me for warning him six weeks ago. He is at home and not leaving. All food stores are picked clean, people are fighting in the overflowing parking lots and the police have been called in to restore “order”. Last weekend, everything was fine.
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Albert Bartlett, emeritus professor of physics, University of Colorado, Boulder,
https://youtu.be/ijf7UxI7EFE
As I mentioned before, Thank you. My wife just finished 4 months of chemo. Consequently she does not have much of an immune system left. Because I took your advice seriously and prepared she might live through this.
You are welcome. You are not the only one who has thanked me.
RWMc is exactly right. Information sources we (most) despise and now being influential. Isn’t it ironic that those once called “Tin Foil Hatters” are now the smart ones…. and are despised for it?