OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

It's a rather long read, but a poignant view of the current situation...

https://regiehammblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/birth-of-a-virus/

As I watched my neighbor put her dog’s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China.

When my wife and I got off the plane, 18 years ago, to adopt our first daughter, we were taken aback by the split pants. Split pants are (or at least were, back then) pants the children wear that are open in the crotch area. That allows them to urinate or defecate unobstructed, onto the street or wherever they may be. The theory is that eventually they will learn to “aim it at the toilet” or something to that effect.

Either way, I distinctly remember my brand new Nike slip-ons (probably made not far from where I was standing) sloshing into a mix of urine and who knows what else, and continuing to do so for the next three weeks.

As I started feeling the cough coming on, I remember one of the women in our group saying, at one of the airports (as she too, stepped into urine) “The people in this country probably have built up antibodies inside them our bodies have never even thought about.”

I replayed that line in my head for the next three weeks, as I descended into night sweats, fevers and a cough like I’ve never experienced.

Over the next several days and weeks, we would experience the amazing culture of China, in several different cities. And some things stood out to this germophobic American. I watched a man hock up something from his chest and spit it on the floor, right next to us, in a restaurant. No oysters for me, thanks. I’ve suddenly lost my appetite............(Continued)

 

Speaking of Oysters years ago at my wedding dinner At the famous Anchorage restaurant on the Willamette in Sellwood, a gal next to our table spit up 1 Oyster at least 5 times before it stayed down.

 

.........China is back in the news with yet another deadly virus we are all wringing (and washing) our hands over. And I’m certain we’re more freaked out about it in the United States than they are in the epicenter of it. Trust me on this one. I’ve lived it.

If ONE American were to die of this virus, the marches will begin and the public outcry will be never-ending. Why? Because we are oriented to the individual, in this country. We believe – whether we practice it in our politics or want to admit it to ourselves – that one person makes a difference. And our government answers to us. We don’t answer to them.

As this virus is doing whatever it’s doing, we are also having a heated debate over our own politics as a nation. We are literally discussing the merits of “democratic socialism” in the context of a Presidential election, in the United States, in 2020. I don’t think this is an accident.

I’m watching people (even good friends) on the left, basically throw their backs out, trying to contort and explain away why “some’ socialism is a good thing and how public services are all really “socialist” constructs anyway and how it really isn’t as bad as all that and how ‘this isn’t Communism – relax” and basically try to shoe-horn themselves into possibly having to take a deep breath and vote for a guy who sees the bright side of Fidel Castro but at least is not Donald Trump.

And he has ignited the debate over “single payer” healthcare. And that notion always seems to be reasonable on the surface. Why not just streamline the whole thing? Why not get the bloated insurance companies out of it? Why not eliminate the greed and corporate bureaucracy from our health?

That all sounds very reasonable.

But here’s the thing …

Single payer also means single buyer. That means the dynamics of the market get eliminated.........

 

Some of the comments/debate following the blog post is kind of interesting.

At any rate, I believe this coronavirus epidemic, and healthcare as a whole, will eventually be (and, to a degree, already is) the #1 topic/debate/issue in the Democratic race, as well as the Presidential race as a whole.

 

And according to trump it's just a hoax and will just miraculously end. Don't buy into the trump spin as this is nothing to fuck with.

 

My comments had nothing to do with Trump spin, I listen to a doctor on MSNBC talk about it. I could care less what his party affiliation is or isnt. He shared facts.

 

Political spin aside, I believe that most corona viruses are seasonal and, therefore, the new one may recede at least temporarily as summer comes. Let’s hope so.

 

I went to Home Depot yesterday to get some dust masks for a project that I’m working on. Every single mask and respirator had been sold off the shelves. Also went to Freddie’s and had hand sanitizer on my list. Cleaned out entirely. Not that anyone is panicked or anything.

 

Lanny I live in LO too. All sports and extra curricular activities have been cancelled. So my 8th grader baseball tryouts are off. However, my 5th grader plays CYO, and the games are still on at OLL - because Gods got this!!!!

 

I was at the state wrestling championship last night and didn’t see one mask being worn.
Kids galore and Lake Oswego Hillsboro had teams there. They are having a kids expo today at the expo building you think if there were huge concerns the Mayor would shut it down.
The media drives everything thus days some good some bad.
I’m at the gym now with a high percentage of Asians and nobody is wearing a mask. I’m even going for some great Chinese food this evening.

 

Not their HS wrestling team at state. There in big numbers.

 

That’s what I have heard from doctors too.

 

Activities IN town.

 

One of the events was scheduled at Mikwaukie a nd it was cancelled too.
I understand disinfecting they school the person worked at and investigating how and where it may have been contacted.

 

So far most if not all of the recent cases on the West Coast appear to be deliberate exposures, with no known connection or proximity to anyone who was infected or traveling internationally, other than the constant smuggling in of unscreened illegal aliens.. They are all occurring in Sanctuary states, and add enormous credibility to the evidence that the Deep State created this WMD in their lab in WUHAN and are using it to prevent Trump's re-election and crash the markets so they can swoop in and reap huge profits buying up the crashing stocks (as Soros did after his puppet Obama nearly destroyed the coal industry).

Forget about buying face masks, stock up on food, water and ammo.

 

Total lie.

 

This will be another fail by the Deep State, as it gives Trump all the reason/justification to stop not only international traffic but immigration both legal and illegal for as long as the threat exists. He has the power to divert basically any and all tax revenues, military forces, whatever he needs to protect Americans from what the left is calling a pandemic.

Every day the left tries to keep the borders open and infect Americans costs them votes in November.

On a great note for average American homeowners/buyers, this will likely cause the Fed to slash interest rates so it's a great time to buy or re-fi.