We have not talked about Wuhan V or ‘Rona for a while now. I have the feeling most people are now sick with the restrictions whether they are registered Dem or Rep. And the problem is you can only push lies to people before they eventually catch up. Let me give you an example.
Certain workplace I know about, had to set up ‘Rona protocols like every company around when this shit started. At the first indication of somebody catching the bug, it had to be reported so social distancing and masks and a boatload of other strict measurements would come into play. In the meantime, they just followed some basic hygiene rules and everybody was fine and dandy.
Now, the trigger was somebody catching the bug which meant somebody got tested and resulted a positive. Yes, you already know what happened: Nobody got voluntarily went out and got tested. This went on for months and amazingly, nobody died, nobody was spitting blood and the liver in the hallway, nobody was found dead in the parking lot surrounded by blood and slime.
Then came the day one of the employees had a small event that required attending to a hospital where testing for ‘Rona was automatic. She showed positive and she dutifully transmitted this info to HR and the “ZOMG! ZOMBIE VIRUS!” protocol was activated. Understand that the person had no symptoms, nobody else at work had symptoms and everybody felt great and the tests tells you if you are positive, not when you became positive. This person had to waste 2 weeks of personal time at home in a quarantine that solved nothing. And nobody at work freaked out and ran to see if they contracted the Wuhan V either, they were not that stupid, specially if they were short or had not personal time accrued. Fast forward 3 weeks and people are back to behaving just like they were before without any complications. Big surprise? Nobody is sick, nobody is dying. No bleeding zombies are hanging around the break room.
Maybe is why we are suddenly seeing less emphasis by the Democrats laying all the Chinese Virus on Trump. Once every other week, Miami Dade County government reminds people there is a midnight curfew still in effect because simply it is being ignored by all. We still do the Masked Theater, but that is starting to wear thin. Companies that deal with the public still demand you do the ‘Rona Kabuki but probably more because they are afraid of a Karen suing them for medical expenses, pain and suffering because she said she got sick in their store.
Expiration date for the Wuhan V is but about a week away.
Enjoy.
I think even the true believers are realizing it’s overblown, but many are afraid of looking foolish for doubling down all this time.
Our dear governor declared our rural county a “red zone”, with renewed extra restrictions. Even though “the ‘Rona” death rate, though slightly up lately, is still only slightly over the local murder rate.
Fortunately, gun stores around here don’t seem to care. Not that there’s much left in the way of product.
My lady is still full on “Covid-19 is going to kill us or cause serious long term issues!” To the point that Covid-19 discussions are forbidden topics.
I have stated it here and elsewhere multiple times, for the Left the fear of what MIGHT happen is much scarier than what IS happening.
We MIGHT catch Covid-19 and we MIGHT die and if we don’t die we MIGHT have some long term issues, therefore everybody MUST use masks and everybody MUST use social distancing and everybody MUST use proper hand sanitizing protocols, OR ELSE!
At this point I’ve seen so much crap about wearing or not wearing masks that I’ve given up on trying to follow “the science”. It looks more and more to me like it is the climate change BS writ large and fast. “All the *REAL* scientists say: don’t wear a mask/wear a mask/sunshine stops it/you’ll die if you don’t do X outside.” And anybody that has an alternative position is shut down.
So I’ll wait till I catch it. I won’t panic when “Larges average number of weekly cases” or “Covid deaths in the use to reach X this week”. The flu has been around for a very very long time. We’ll get through this. Yes we’ll lose some people, no civilization wont end if you wear/don’t wear a mask.
At this point, I would feel better if the coronavirus gave a press conference telling us how it will keep us safe from the government….
Seriously, you are correct on all. We are counting positive tests, not sick people. If you test positive for the virus, but do not require anything more extensive than a doctor office visit, you are not a case. (IANAD warning) Contact tracing is perhaps the worst thing the government ever put in place. One person tests positive and everyone they have had contact with over the last two weeks is told to go out and get tested. It is nothing more than a way to artificially inflate the “case” numbers, and keep the petty tyrants in power.
Some friends signed up for a test, the line was too long so they left with no test, got a letter that both are positive
That happened to 10 people that I know. All 10 got letters saying that they were positive even though they never got tested. But wait, there’s more. 5 of them got a SECOND letter saying that they were positive. So the tyrants got 15 positives to add to their numbers out of 10 people that never got tested.