Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anybody else wonder how they pulled it off?

How much of an answer do want? There are several layers to this onion.

1.) Medical/Scientific/Epidemiological

Doctors and researchers identified the now named COVID 19 as being in the same family of virus as MERS and SARS. While MERS is not highly contagious between humans, so far 35% of some 2500 cases worldwide resulted in death. SARS is similarly not high contagious between humans, (no cases reported since 2004) but has an 11% death rate. Researchers saw that this COVID thing was highly contagious and had similar symptoms to MERS and SARS and feared the worse. A highly contagious form of MERS would be a repeat of the Black Death from the Middle Ages. Truly a bad scenario

2.) Early reports from Wuhan were restricted and information was kept from the international community. All attempts to send outside scientists and doctors to Wuhan early were rebuffed, so the West was blocked from the early data. Once it got to Italy, it quickly overwhelmed the health care system in Milan and the mortality amongst the older population was serious. Therefor, there was the fear and assumption that COVID could be a contagious MERS or SARS-like pathogen.

3.) Once testing became available, it was discovered that by the timeline they knew, this virus had spread to virtually every country on earth in 2 months. Now, that may or may not be accurate in time, but it circled the globe very quickly no matter how you looked at it. Hospitals were filling up with stricken patients in North America and Western Europe, as well as Iran at a rapid rate.

4.) The cry went out to epidemiologists for a solution. Without a vaccine, there is no real protection, and with it in every country of the world, now, you can't isolate and let it burn itself out locally. That is the strategy for many disease in which we have no specific treatment. Isolate it and let it burn out. So when the US hospitals stated to fill up, "experts" worried that we would have a "Milan" type situation where healthcare would collapse and people would go without treatment and suffer/die neglected. Hence, the only solution without a vaccine was to isolate the population and slow the spread. That's the lock down. This strategy is at play every year during flu season. Ever notice that flu season peters out in April almost every year? Hot weather is not the reason, because it's not hot in most of the country at Easter. When is school Spring Break? All over the country, we send kids home from the germ factories we call schools, people take a week off of work, and the chain of transmission is broken. Same sometimes happens at Christmas time. The 1968-69 Hong Kong flu pandemic was significantly slowed by Christmas Break.


Now, on to the dirty side of this

1.) It is an election year, and the Left is desperate. We do not need to review how if the President says up, the Democrats say down. The Democrats started this "Resist! and Obstruct!" (R & O) Trump before he even to office. ANYTHING they can do to damage him, they'll try.

First it was that his respond on limiting overseas flights was "Xenophobic". Now they claim it was too little too late. (See R & O above)

Next, you had Dems like Andrew Cuomo in the media everyday saying that Trump did't provide enough PPE and ventilators and that 2 million would die and insinuated that was blood on Trump's hands. Trump revved up American manufacturing and within weeks, Cuomo and everyone else got the stuff they needed.

Then you have the dire in the about the 2 million dead. It never happened. We all have seen evidence that the numbers are over exaggerated about the TRUE number of people that have died directly from COVID in the US. Any death that comes about on a person that has a positive test is automatically a COVID casualty, even if the exaggerated cause of death is a heart attack. That doesn't mean that COVID hasn't been serious, it means that it is being politically manipulated.

Next, the Dems strategy was to keep the economy shut down to damage Trump. All part of R & O under the pretense that they wanted to "save lives". The Dem governors and mayors were told by Congress that they'd keep the unemployment money flowing, so shut the economy down in your states and kill Trump's crowning achievements s jobs and a boom stock market. The market tanked briefly and recovered. Dems and Leftists continue the past two months to miss forecasts on jobs badly trying to damage Trump.

With these strategies failing to separate Trump from his base, the Left and the Dems got a Christmas come early present. After 3 months of constant, and I mean constant COVID talk and no other topic for discussion, we witnessed another Ferguson opportunity. The Left has been sitting on an extensive plan to trot out multiple protests at the next opportunity, and they got one in Minneapolis. Since Ferguson and Baltimore, these BLM/ANTIFA groups have learned lessons and refined their attack, their mobility, their recruitment, and their response times. It was simple for them to show up in Minneapolis with preprinted signs and demonstrate while they sent groups to other cities to whip protests.

It's not difficult to get Black Urban dwellers age 15-30 to get drunk and tear stuff up. It is absolutely no coincidence that here in Atlanta the demonstration was right outside of CNN world headquarters. I mean on their sidewalk. What better way to get on TV?

Democrat mayors and governors were passed the word to allow these "peaceful demonstrations" and to allow Americans to vent their fruitions. By no means did they want these to stop anytime soon. The reason? One of the prime revolutionary tactics is make the cities ungovernable. The pacifist masses will cling to anything that promises to restore order. Ask Russia 1917, Germany 1933, China 1945, Cuba 1959 etc. etc. This is current Dem plan, but they sense that CHAZ thing and the other totally out of control actions are turning public opinion.

So now they are back on the rising number of COVID cases and how we need another shutdown.


Long answer, but you asked....!

Hanging should result from those decisions. Who does that? Who transfers people with contagious diseases to nursing homes? Sick fucques, evil bastards, not decent people. They need to pay for that with their own lives.

Simple, they aren't letting any crisis go to waste.

Pre-Smart Phone/24hr news world, I don't think anyone left or right had the ability to shut things down like they did this spring. Radio was the closest thing to "live" news. TV news lagged 1/2 day, print media lagged 1 day minimum. People had (and took) the time to think critically about what they were being told. Now a 150 character max tweet will dominate a news cycle for 2-3 days and volumes of arguments/opinions are created by it.

I'd like to think that in the past there was more journalistic integrity, but maybe there wasn't. I grew up watching Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw. All 3 of them having since been IMO disgraced as leftist ideologues. Did it all change when Cronkite started injecting his opinions regarding the Viet Nam conflict? Did it happen before then? Has the media always been the way to control the masses?

Hanging should result from those decisions. Who does that? Who transfers people with contagious diseases to nursing homes? Sick fucques, evil bastards, not decent people. They need to pay for that with their own lives.

The difference between the Rather, Jennings, and Brokaw era of journalism versus today's version of journalism is that the old style at least made an effort to conceal their bias and maintain some level of professionalism.

That is all out the window today. Watch and White House press briefing and it will affirm my point. They are full on left wing commies and wear it on their sleeve.

They use the 1st Amendment to subvert America. Not inform it.

Well, TBH, it was really a rhetorical question cause I’m frustrated with the whole thing, but you really nailed it in the second half. Good answer...

That brings a couple of things to mind. One is that the people now running the MSM outlets are using them as podium for there own political views. No longer is there a hidden bias, but it is platform for their agenda. Take Jeff Zucker at CNN. He most certainly isn't about the ratings.

Next is that with social media, the traditional MSM lives in fear of being scooped By HuffPo or Drudge etc. so they will run any story that suits them without the benefit of proper vetting. The figure it will be old news and forgotten in 24-48 hours it would take to vet the story.

Note that changes the Left leaning bias from those classic Northeastern Liberals that work for NYT and WaPo and worshipped the Kennedys to Google/Microsoft/Yahoo Left Coast progressives. I looked at 43 headlines on Yahoo homepage one day last week. 33 were political, 11 had neutral headlines neither for or against the Trump Admin or GOP. Zero were right leaning. That left 22 on the homepage with blatant Left bias.

Headline writers are all about sensationalism for click bait. The headlines will have the most outrageous claims that story has trouble supporting. the National Enquirer would be embarrassed.

The main issue, is people have forgotten what the shutdown was intended for. It was NOT to stop the virus, but stall it. Without a vaccine, it will spread. So....

Mission accomplished, success!

It slowed, we got ready, we learned about it, hospitals got ready. Turn it loose.

Schools should open, if needed/wanted, isolate the pockets that are most susceptible, older people etc. Media keeps comparing USA to other small countries which aren't acting like we are. Let's be honest: It IS an issue, it IS contagious, it IS a higher than normal death rate.

As for USA getting hit hard? We just this morning approached 1% infection. People miss that, there are 300,000,000+ people in USA, 3,000,000 now confirmed cases is about 1%. That is not a pandemic, that is not being overrun, that's fine!

Second, USA is so big and diverse, geographically as well as population, that shutting down the country is dumb. Shut down/restrict where it actually is/was an issue: NYC. The outbreaks now bear watching, but nothing more.

People WILL get this thing, they said right upfront EVERYONE will probably get it, we need to spared that out.