That is MY opinion, and I support it as follows … An excerpt from an essay by Julian Rose and a re-post of Kent McManigal.
As President Trump said yesterday, we can do two things at the same time.
March 23, 2020
Pandemic: The Invention of a Disease Called Fear
by Julian Rose
Most of humanity has undergone a process of education which depends for its effectiveness on the perceived power of some ‘authority’ to exert an unquestioned controlling influence over the general direction of life. A source of influence that depends for its continuing effectiveness on never being subjected to rational scrutiny, or genuine examination of any kind. Such is the beguiling power of full-on indoctrination.
In the battle now raging for ‘who controls the world’, some of the largely hidden or disguised controlling agents of planetary life – are now appearing on the surface. And that’s why chaos and fear are very much ‘flavor of the month’. The Corona Contagion is chock full of idiosyncrasies; in fact, there are so many nonsensical factors associated with media attempts to report on what’s going on, that one can only feel dazed and confused should one try and follow the script in real-time.
However, what has become all too clear is the fact that large numbers of people are being herded – and are not resisting. The scare tactics being employed are more dangerous than the virus that is the excuse for deploying them. Under this induced state of psychosis, all manner of tricks can be perpetrated on mankind – and that is precisely what we are witnessing at this time.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Costs of government action on coronavirus
Some whiny statists are complaining that not everyone is
embracing the measures being imposed by government to “deal with” the
coronapocalypse. It is claimed that they are endangering lives by
“downplaying” the risk.
No, they are not endangering society, nor will they be the cause of
millions (or even dozens) of extra deaths. People who are “downplaying”
coronavirus are serving an important purpose. Besides disarming the
panic-bomb, I mean.
What they are doing is acting as a drag chute to slow down runaway government overreach.
This is essential.
Those who object to the “downplayers” aren’t adequately (or even minimally) considering the costs of government intervention. You’ve seen this happen in other topics as well, such as with AGCC/”climate change”.
Government-supremacists are pushing the narrative that not taking
the actions government promotes will cause deaths, but are ignoring the
deaths which will result from doing the wrong thing, or even too much
of the “right thing”. They are not considering the costs and benefits of
both courses.
Maybe doing nothing about COVID 19 would kill more people. Of course, you have the option of doing everything you ought to do without government mandating anything. Doing something doesn’t require anything being done by government.
That is a bad assumption to make. But, I will concede that ignoring the
problem would probably result in some unnecessary deaths.
However…
Damaging the economy– as government is actively doing– will also kill people. For certain.
It may, in the long run, kill more people than the coronavirus would
have even if no one had done anything about it– but we don’t know. We won’t know. There is no way to know because you can’t rewind history and change what was done.
Yes, some people caution against comparing how many deaths are resulting
now and comparing that to the total deaths in previous plagues after
they were over. That makes sense. However, you can compare death rates in
the midst of the event– which is something government-supremacists
don’t seem to like for anyone to do. It gets in the way of the narrative
they prefer.
This is why we need brakes on the speeding car of statism. Those
who “downplay” the danger are those brakes. They complete the costs vs.
benefits big picture for the situation. Without them you only get one
side, advocating only one path. Objecting to the balance they provide is
not productive or smart.
(I added a “coronavirus” tag to the blog so you can follow what I’ve said about this from the beginning, if you care.)
Another expert opinion from a non-expert?
If we had shut EVERYTHING down on 01 March, for one month, we would almost be through this thing, and the virus would have been stopped. Now it’s too late, and hundreds of thousands of Americans will perish as a result. Grim times due to failure to recognize what this is.