We're finding out that what we think we know -- or rather, what we have been told -- about this virus is not true. I was reading something a couple of days ago that said asymptomatic COVID positive patients may not necessarily be passing the virus onto others. I've also read that face masks and social distancing do not necessarily prevent the spread of the virus. And while the news reporters delight in putting on their frowny faces and telling us daily the number of new cases are increasing, they do not say how many of those new cases are people seriously ill or maybe they are asymptomatic. People are testing positive, but they don't get sick. And we don't know how many of the tests are producing false positives.
These days, I believe these so-called experts are full of bovine excrement. When it comes to this virus, they don't know jack. Yet they, along with the media, are determined to produce mass hysteria over this virus. This is leading to a lot of unnecessary fear of everything. I have a cousin with whom I email regularly. She and her husband were invited to a college graduation event for the husband's great-nephew in another state. My cousin and hubby declined because of COVID -- they are afraid there will be guests they don't know who might have the virus and could spread it to them. They are also not comfortable with staying at a hotel -- how clean they are and so forth. My cousin probably didn't appreciate it, but I told her she and her husband are nuts. We can't stay shut away from life forever. Time to get on with living our lives.
I had the mistake of having the Today show on the TV this morning. They were outright giddy about massive spikes in Texas! They might have to bring back the stay-at-home order! All while in their cushy work-from-home mansions (Savannah Guthrie doesn't look like she's living meagerly, let me tell you!). Oh, and the economic collapse is because we didn't deal with it.
Please. I can tell when a narrative is being pushed. Not a single mention in the entire breathless report tried to find out why or how the outbreak was happening. Guthrie pointed out that the main outbreak was in Houston but the talking-head "reporter" quickly blurted out "but it's going up statewide!"
We're finding now that a lot of the outbreaks in places like Utah and Arkansas were in fact localized outbreaks in places like prisons and meatpacking plants that would have never been shut down even in a lockdown. Much like South Dakota, the presence or absence of a stay-home order makes virtually no difference. And curiously, no mention was made anywhere of the continued disaster in California, home of one of the hardest lockdowns in the United States, but one that completely failed to reduce the rate of death or infection. Of course, California is the home to far-lefty darling Gavin Newsom, so we can't mention how the lockdown failed there.
So what is behind much of the southwest rising? Well, cases are spiking in Mexico, and which states share a notoriously porous land border with Mexico? ... plus, meatpacking plants are notorious for smuggling Mexican labor to run their infamously filthy facilities.
Build the wall.
