The whole stock selling thing is bad enough but from the article:
“According to the NPR report, Burr told attendees of the luncheon held at the Capitol Hill Club: “There’s one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history ... It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.â€
He’s on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Wasn’t there some sort of closed door “secret level Senate security briefing†in early February regarding COVID-19?
If this is the “one†thing that he thought, the thing he could tell the luncheon attendees that “It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history ... It is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.†(and that pandemic was damn bad) what else does he know?
And no, I’m not at all a conspiracy mined person as from all I’ve read and researched, it seems more likely to me to be less a manmade bioweapon than a nature born one and no, I do not believe it is a “deep state†plot.
But the reactions and drastic measures of governments pretty much all over the world tells me that us peons aren’t privy to some level of information on this.
Is it mutating into a deadlier form that will kill more than just the old and the “infirmed� Is the R0 a lot higher so that even if it only kills 1 to 2 % of those infected, the sheer number expected to be infected would be catastrophic. One of the other unknowns is if once infected, do you get immunity and is it lifetime or just for a while and for how long or can you be infected again and how soon, are they really expecting multiple waves?
I’m a bit of a history and medical science geek and one of the things I became very fascinated about while taking an advanced placement European history course in HS was the Black Death, and many years later about the “Spanish†flu.
I’ve read lots of books and papers and watched lots of documentaries over the years on both and the social, political and economic impacts.
While I’ve been aware that many virologists have warned for quite some time that another “Spanish†flu pandemic (or another viral disease) wasn’t a matter of if but when.
But I really didn’t think I’d be living it.
