I would like to assert, though, that it is likely they will be wasted in the ER too. They were slow. The parking lot of the medical center was largely empty. This whole thing is putting huge stress on medical centers too, since they are not seeing the flood of COVID-19 people, but they have cancelled most wellness checks, elective surgeries, and pretty everything else that is not a direct support to the ER.
If the goal was to preserve respirators, we have overachieved it. We are actually wasting time right now. The goal is to get through this as fast as possible. The only way which is plausible to me is herd immunity, which means we need 60% of us to get it, then get over it, as fast as possible.
The only speed bump is respirator beds, and the goal there would be to, ideally, keep them exactly at capacity until the epidemic breaks. I would suggest, though, that given the enormous damage this thing is doing to our economy–which will ALSO kill people–we should err, if we err, on the side of being a little short of beds. The harsh reality is that most of the people who will need them were sickly and had one foot in the grave anyway.
As I said elsewhere, sometimes you have to shoot the puppy. You don’t have to like it–if you are morally normal it will be genuinely traumatizing–but the reality remains. Nobody lives forever.
But if our ER’s are empty, as I suspected they were, then we can say now WITH CERTAINTY that a partial shutdown would have served our purposes better than the full shut down most States actually did. ALL OF THEM overdid it, some of the dramatically, like California.
And this whole thing is bringing out the stupid. I watched a cop in the park today tell a couple they couldn’t play tennis. Think about that. They are 20-40′ from each other most of the time, and when they are done, they will get in a car together, go eat dinner together, then sleep next to each other. Fucking Brilliant. The two guys sitting at a picnic table leaning in and whispering conspiratorially? He had nothing to say to them. His mandate was to stop sportsing in public parks.
Here is an important point: this feels like 9/11 to me. It feels staged, planned, orchestrated. There are hidden movers playing out scripts written six to nine months ago, to be executed if Trump was acquitted. I am going to say that I think this whole thing is an operation coordinated by the CIA at least, in tandem with elements in the State and other departments, designed to derail the US economy, and weaken Trump politically.
I remember 9/11 . We had just balanced the budget, and were enjoying the peace dividend. We weren’t fighting any wars, really, anywhere. Saddam Hussein was on the radar, but he was mostly being kept under wraps. The economy was starting to hum, after a recession in the late 90’s. Then 9/11, with all that came with it.
Would you not agree that what is being done now is several orders of magnitude PAST the Patriot Act? It is literally training for fascistic central control. In California, they have already in effect declared martial law, OVER THE FLU.
Here is the kicker: the report proving that Tower 7 was brought down by explosives was RELEASED THIS WEEK. Here is the link: https://www.ae911truth.org/wtc7
What are facts and necessary conclusions with regard to this?
1) There must have been well funded and extremely organized planning and operational execution to rig that building with the charges needed to bring it down while it was functioning, and without anyone noticing. The people involved would have needed extra security clearance, in all likelihood, and almost certainly would have been disguised as construction workers, or perhaps as security guards working there.
2) NIST at a minimum demonstrated incompetence. This is however an unlikely scenario, since they are NOT incompetent. They had to have been operating either out of fear, if they failed to let sleeping dogs lie, or out of explicit instructions to more or less cover the whole fucking thing up. Either way, they behaved, in my view, ignobly.
I say this, of course, not being personally familiar with the sort of threats people capable of something like 9/11 would be able to credibly make.
3) There is every reason to suspect Towers 1 and 2 were brought down the same way. Tower 7 presents a simpler case since it was not hit with a jet airliner (I will continue to argue it was the actual target of United 93 until I see a reason to stop), but based on all the reading I’ve done, the collapses of Towers 1 and 2 make no sense either, outside of the shaped charge and nanothermite hypothesis.
4) An organized conspiracy got away with the direct murders of something in the neighborhood of 2,000 people that day, and created the political framework–the support and sense of urgency–which sparked wars on the other side of the planet which are still getting Americans killed nearly 20 years later.
5) This operation also enabled the implementation of a continuous surveillance state which if anything is going to get worse in the current crisis, which in my view is the goal.
What are the positives? The main one is that Donald Trump is President, and it is POSSIBLE that not all our spy agencies are fucking Communist traitors. Not certain, but possible. I’ve pointed to the Defense Intelligence Agency as one possibly honest intelligence agency.
And the State of Emergency cuts both ways. As I understand it, Trump may have created a road map to bring the Fed back in-house. That would be huge. He could, possibly, develop a plan for sound money, which would generate a howling like you cannot imagine from the world’s banks.
He may also have more latitude in surveilling, interrogating, arresting, and imprisoning traitors to America, which is what most Deep State operatives are.
I don’t envy him his job. It’s almost impossible to know who to trust. He’s being lied to at every turn and from every angle. Not all the time by every one, but it has to be damn hard figuring out who the straight shooters are. Everybody has a plan. What the plan behind the plan is, though, is really, really hard to know.
His gut that we need to go back to work, though, is spot on.
Here is one last observation: the energy of Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to have gone FULLY into the fetishization of quarantine. If you are a Trump hater, then you want this thing as long and as hard and as frustrating as possible, because you can virtue signal through the whole damn thing, and the longer it lasts, the more it fucks with Trump.
And regular people: well fuck them. Lots of them voted for Trump, and the rest of them are probably dumb anyway.
My two quarters and a dime for today. If I sucked information out of your head, then I guess you owe me money.