Here is a conspiracy theory for you: COVID-19 was created in a US lab, and released in China, Iran, Italy and the United States by members of the Deep State. China, in blaming us, may have realized they didn’t create the virus. They have likely been assuming they did, and been working overtime to cover it up. But perhaps one of their researchers found a fingerprint pointing unmistakably to us, which is why one of their ministers publicly blamed us and Xi threatened to withhold needed medicines.
The end aim was a Hail Mary to stop Trump, in everything. They wanted to destroy the US economy, but felt first they needed to contain our remaining nation-state enemies, which for the most part are Iran and China. They weakened them, then brought the thing here. They consciously undermined Trump’s travel ban by bringing back the cruise ship carriers against Trump’s wishes and intent. Then the CDC accidentally-on-purpose fucked up the testing long enough for the virus to spread.
Here’s the thing about diseases: an agent can leave them on a counter in a bathroom, or a bar, or on a door handle, or in the back of a cab or Uber, and nobody will ever know. It is completely untraceable.
But the net effect is not just going to be a wrecked US economy, but all the powers that will be gained by a government in emergency. Governments in emergencies never behave well, and panicked people often submit to it. I think there is a good chance someone around him will try and infect Trump with COVID-19, in what can only be described as an effort at assassination. It would be a clean hit, if they can get away with it.
My view is that the panic is overwrought. Italy has the second oldest population in the world (after Japan), and most of them live with extended families. In the US, we are much younger, and our old live in rest homes, or at least in homes of their own, where they more or less self sequester naturally most of the time, just due to reduced mobility.
We also have much more space, in most of the US. Rural and suburban areas are not even remotely concentrated the way most of Europe is.
This thing will kill vastly less than the 30-80,000 people who will die from the flu this year. Our flu numbers, actually, will most likely be down, too, since meetings are being banned, and everyone is scrubbing continuously with soap and hand sanitizer.
But last year at this time there were 250-500,000 people, give or take, who were or had been hospitalized during the course of the annual flu epidemic which strikes most of the country each and every year.
The only thing possibly worse about this epidemic is a shortage of ICU ventilators for double pneumonias. But as I say, most of the people who would be filling those beds are half quarantined all the time, and fully quarantined now. The overflow will not happen, in my view.
What WILL happen is we go in three weeks from a record stock market to a recession. Thousands of businesses will close permanently with as little as two weeks lost revenue.
This panic has been sold to us by the media, in collaboration with people whose names we may never know, if Trump does not get reelected, and not get righteously ANGRY at all the people in our own government who want to see the American Experiment fail, in favor of gray, loveless, rotten and evil authoritarianism, into the murky mists of the foreseeable future.
This breaks my vow, I will call it, but I needed to say this, and Facebook was the wrong place.