"It all seems like a ruse for socialism" The Ceres Courier

"I know there are a lot of under 30’s who still live with their parents and play video games all day – products of the entitled generation – but many men find their worth and value in working and providing for their wives and children. I fear this pandemic shutdown – which has gone on too long, governor – is damaging the psyche of the average person. The government has some people in fears that if they pick up a gas nozzle or touch the door to a Circle K that COVID-19 will have them dead by evening.

Get past the fear and look at the statistics.

The death rate in Stanislaus County so far is 0.000025 percent. You get that by taking the 15 who have died divided by the population of 550,660.

As of Monday, 2,172 have been listed as COVID-19 deaths in California. Divide that number by 39,780,000 and you have a death rate of 0.0000546 percent. So Stanislaus County’s death rate is about half of the state’s. And so far all who have died have had compromised health or were elderly. If you took LA County out of the picture, California would have a death rate of 0.00002371 percent!

California is the most populous state yet our COVID-19 deaths account for 3.1 percent of all U.S. COVID-19 deaths. New York, by contrast, was at 27.5 percent. Is our death rate relatively low because of herd immunity or social distancing? I don’t know but I suspect it’s been traveling back and forth between California and China for some many months now.

So as you can see, the problem is in the highly densely populated areas, not in rural areas like Stanislaus County. So why are we still in lockdown?"  The Ceres Courier

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Ceres is a little town out in the central valley of California.  To say that it is in America's agricultural heartland would not be an exaggeration.  Victor Davis Hanson (the philosopher historian) and Gavin Nunes (the congressman) are from places like that in the same valley.  The town is about 40% Hispanic  and the rest is White with a smattering of "others?"

Yes!  Why is Ceres still locked down?  pl 

https://www.cerescourier.com/opinion/editorial/it-all-seems-ruse-socialism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres,_California

Comments

[LondonBob]

Of course much is motivated, in the US, by the desire to crush the economy and thus win the election but there is a similar phenomenon in Britain. People who obsessed about Brexit, and sought to reverse it, have become similarly obsessed by this nasty flu, perhaps there is a deep need being expressed.

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”

[JJackson]

Walrus
In Australia's case you should be fine as you have a good level of testing and very few new cases. In the UK and US we have lots of circulating virus and fewer tests per head so any increase in contacts will increase the rate of spread, also in both cases the numbers of currently infected is still continuing to increase. While the distribution of cases in changing the total numbers are still on the rise.

[Cesco]

More than 90% of the population is still immunologically naive. As a mutation is usually a disadvantage for the pathogen in this situation (Hint: a wildtype is a wildtype for a reasone :-)), why would one expect a new more virulent strain?
Posted by: Ulenspiegel | 17 May 2020 at 02:32 PM

Not sure, but why not. The pathogen wants to spread and find more nurishment to survive, while doing nothing really roductive. Like Eric's musician friends?

Can we compare it to a meme that gets stronger the more well established it becomes. Let's say vs a new meme?

[BillWade]

In my area of South W Florida restaurants go to 50% capacity today. Restaurant owners have two big complaints:

employees that won't come back to work as they are now making
more money by being unemployed

food delivery companies are price gouging them - a really low
blow for owners right now

It almost feels normal here now.

[Fred]

Bill,

"employees that won't come back to work as they are now making more money by being unemployed"
Really, do you have some actual data to back that up as the Florida UI website is still half a million applications behind, many have been denied coverage, and if a business reopens and employees refuse to return to work it is a voluntary quit, which negates eligability for unemployement payments.

"food delivery companies are price gouging them" Which ones are doing that?

[Deap]

Origins of this "social distancing" craze and mandate traced back to a teen-ager's hypothetical science project in 2006 and a boost from the movie "Contagion". https://www.aier.org/article/the-2006-origins-of-the-lockdown-idea/

This is the "science" supporting this total breakdown of our economy and our country - which exposed a far more dangerous disease - a wholesale willingness to obey "experts", and reject the critical maxim: Trust, but verify.

Tell me Dr Fauci, have you ever tested this teenager's science project speculation about "social distancing" as an effective disease control measure, before you inflicted in on 300 million people in the US?

If there is any hope for America, looks like we will need to get another high school student to win a science far project debunking social distancing. Was not that one of Alexandra Ocasio Cortez's stellar accomplishments - a high school science fair winner.

But what do I know. I only got a third place ribbon for my forestry class leaf collection at my high school science fair. Though my biology class project finding "A leopard frog's spots are its fingerprints" did get recognition by our local university. I guess I am now well on my way to setting national policy.

[Terence Gore]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igx86PoU7v8

Surprising to me is that Bill Gates feels by improving the health of the developing 3rd world will decrease population growth in the countries as their will be less need for the parents to have extra children.

Video goes into plan for world mass vaccinations and biometric digital id that will go with it.

anti gates tone but good explanation of what is developing

[Steve]

deaths/population X 100 = % deaths in population.

[turcopolier]

Steve

That is a different statistic. On that basis you would have .02% death rate from COVID-19 in Alexandria Virginia as of yestiddy.