What if this whole thing is just a clever Chinese PsyOp, in which they pretended to need to use draconian measures, to fight an illness which was average and which would have swept through the population anyway, and which still WILL sweep through the population (with no reporting), soon?
Remember, most Western reporters have been booted from China. If this thing comes back, nobody who CAN report on it will know. If it kills an average number of people–the benchmark is 250,000 dying from the flu in China each year–then no real net harm will have been done by it.
China only shut down part of the country. We are shutting nearly all of it down, including California, which is our most productive State. We are inducing a Depression, in order to stop a variant on the fucking FLU.
What if this is all just some horrific joke, played by monsters at the expense of fools? If so, we fell right into the trap.
And to be sure, most of the American Left was looking, DESPERATELY, for something like this. They want rack and ruin, if it means they get more power.
And assuming Trump wins reelection, we will get a chance to see, one hopes, an actually INTELLIGENT response to a massive downturn. Harding turned his economy right around. So did Reagan. Hoover muffed it and so did Obama.
But NEVER, in American history, has a Depression been created more or less directly as a matter of policy whose effect in this regard was obvious at the front end.
I wake up every damn morning, remember, then go WTF?
Statistically, I’m likely to be the smartest guy in any average cohort of about 2,500 people. To simply the math, figure 250 million people in the US who are grown and contributing in some way. That means there should be about 100,000 people out there as smart or smarter than me. One would assume, based on odds alone, that some would have made their way into politics.
Where are they? I continue to have faith in Trump, but he is surrounded on all sides by “experts” DEMANDING he do this, not do that, focus on this, not focus on that.
My take is we would all be best served if he took a day off, went golfing, consulted his gut, then did what it said.
Remember, most Western reporters have been booted from China. If this thing comes back, nobody who CAN report on it will know. If it kills an average number of people–the benchmark is 250,000 dying from the flu in China each year–then no real net harm will have been done by it.
China only shut down part of the country. We are shutting nearly all of it down, including California, which is our most productive State. We are inducing a Depression, in order to stop a variant on the fucking FLU.
What if this is all just some horrific joke, played by monsters at the expense of fools? If so, we fell right into the trap.
And to be sure, most of the American Left was looking, DESPERATELY, for something like this. They want rack and ruin, if it means they get more power.
And assuming Trump wins reelection, we will get a chance to see, one hopes, an actually INTELLIGENT response to a massive downturn. Harding turned his economy right around. So did Reagan. Hoover muffed it and so did Obama.
But NEVER, in American history, has a Depression been created more or less directly as a matter of policy whose effect in this regard was obvious at the front end.
I wake up every damn morning, remember, then go WTF?
Statistically, I’m likely to be the smartest guy in any average cohort of about 2,500 people. To simply the math, figure 250 million people in the US who are grown and contributing in some way. That means there should be about 100,000 people out there as smart or smarter than me. One would assume, based on odds alone, that some would have made their way into politics.
Where are they? I continue to have faith in Trump, but he is surrounded on all sides by “experts” DEMANDING he do this, not do that, focus on this, not focus on that.
My take is we would all be best served if he took a day off, went golfing, consulted his gut, then did what it said.