Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
Are we going to allow fear of COVID-19 to fundamentally reshape social behavior for many years to come?
It is hard to imagine a world where we are all afraid to shake hands with one another and where getting close enough to someone to actually have a conversation is deemed a “major risk”.
Yes, this virus spreads incredibly easily, but eventually this pandemic will fade and hopefully a lot of the measures that were instituted to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 will fade away too. For example, I really don’t want Walmart telling me which direction I have to go down the aisle. If I am in serious shopping mode, I want to be able to go up and down a particular aisle as much as I please.
If I get kicked out of a store someday for “going against the arrows” I am going to be really upset.
And I really, really don’t want to have my temperature checked when I go to eat at a restaurant, but that is apparently starting to happen all over the nation…
With staff wearing masks, checking customers’ temperatures and using disposable paper place mats, some of the nation’s restaurants reopened for dine-in service Monday as states loosened more coronavirus restrictions. But many eateries remained closed amid safety concerns and community backlash.
Checking temperatures is not going to stop the spread of this virus, because people can spread it long before they are showing any symptoms at all.
So that needs to stop right now. If you try to check my temperature when I enter your establishment, I will promptly turn around and go get a burger somewhere else.
And it isn’t just businesses that are giving in to the hysteria.
For example, a North Carolina woman named Erin Strine burst into tears when she realized that people would be sitting next to her on a flight that she was taking…
Strine said she was alarmed by how little social distancing was taking place on the packed flight. She expressed concern for her health when she realized she was placed in a middle seat.
‘I really felt like my life and the life of everyone around me was at risk,’ she said. ‘I just sat there silently crying into my mask because I was really overwhelmed by how unsafe I felt.’
I have a really easy solution for her.
If you feel your life is at risk, don’t get on the plane.
This isn’t rocket science.
Her story caused me to recall one particular horrid flight that I once had to endure. Like her, I was in the middle seat, and two extremely overweight individuals were stationed on either side of me. And just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, the person directly in front of me decided to recline their seat all the way.
But instead of whining like a baby, I took my ordeal like a man.
Look, I am not trying to minimize the threat of COVID-19 one bit.
In fact, I was warning about the danger that this virus posed all the way back when the very first reports were coming out of China. Anyone that follows my work on a regular basis can easily verify this.
At this point, there are more than a million confirmed cases in the United States and more than 56,000 people have died.
That is serious.
And things have been particularly nightmarish in New York…
Nearly half of all New Yorkers say they know somebody who has died of coronavirus, a new poll finds, shedding a stunning light on just how deeply the pandemic has hit the Big Apple.
The state-wide survey, carried out by Siena College, discovered that 46 percent of New York City residents personally knew someone killed by COVID-19, as do 36 percent of respondents living in the suburbs, and 13 percent of those living upstate.
Other areas of the country have been hit very hard as well. In fact, the Boston Globe published 21 pages of obituaries on Sunday…
As the total confirmed COVID-19 cases approach one million this week, including over 55,000 deaths — the vast majority of these concentrated in American east coast cities, especially in the tri-state area — newspaper obituaries in the same cities are expanding to unheard of numbers of pages.
As a stunning case in point, The Boston Globe on Sunday included an unprecedented 21 total pages of death notices due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The newspaper said its archives showed on the same day last year, the obit section was at its usual seven pages.
This is the biggest public health crisis that our generation has experienced so far, and anyone that is not taking it seriously is just being stupid.
But it isn’t the end of the world. Much, much worse things are coming, and it is important to understand that.
If we are not able to handle this pandemic, how are we possibly going to deal with all of the stuff that we are going to have to face in the future?
On Monday, I was absolutely horrified to learn that a top emergency room doctor in New York City had committed suicide…
The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, her family said Monday.
“She tried to do her job, and it killed her,’’ Dr. Philip Breen told the New York Times of his physician daughter, Dr. Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital amid the pandemic.
I can’t even imagine the horrors that she witnessed on a daily basis, but suicide is never, ever, ever the answer to anything.
And nothing is ever so bad that it should make you want to kill yourself.
No matter how difficult it was to deal with dying patients, her story never should have ended this way…
In the days leading up to her death, the 48-year-old reportedly recounted to family members a series of traumatic scenes she’d witnessed working in the Manhattan hospital, including an onslaught of patients dying in front of her before they could even be removed from ambulances.
Breen had recently contracted COVID-19 but had returned to work at Allen after a week-and-a-half of rest. After the hospital sent her home, she re-located to Charlottesville to recuperate under the instructions of her father, Dr. Philip C. Breen.
There is always hope. And in her case, she could have certainly walked away from being a doctor and done something else.
Life is such a precious gift, and to see it thrown away so needlessly is absolutely heartbreaking.
Yes, this pandemic is going to be with us for a while.
And yes, a lot more Americans are going to get sick and a lot more Americans are going to die.
But at this point nothing that we can do will be able to prevent the virus from spreading, and an increasing number of Americans are simply not going to follow restrictions anyway…
Data shows that Americans are suffering from ‘quarantine fatigue’ and are venturing out of the house more often as the coronavirus pandemic continues – as researchers say that 44 states are actually going backwards when it comes to social distancing.
A COVID‑19 mobility trends tool created by Apple shows that an increasing number of people in various major cities are now leaving the house more compared to the beginning of the month.
If you are elderly, have a compromised immune system or are in some other high risk group, you will need to quarantine yourself for the foreseeable future. But the rest of us are going to have to try to start resuming normal activities.
Unfortunately, the “new normal” is likely to look a whole lot different from the “old normal”, and many people are not going to like that at all.
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The ignorance and cowardice of the average person has now been well established. This entire three ring circus is the result of a manufactured fear, a fear of a death that is most unlikely to occur from cov2. 80,000 Americans died from complications of the seasonal flu in 2018. So far the fatality rate world wide is still under 1%. I find it both amazing and discouraging that people are now so stupid they are willing to throw away their freedom. “We wanted security so they gave us chains and we were secure”. Paul Harvey.
Paul Harvey BYU commencement 1970
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“Look, I am not trying to minimize the threat of COVID-19 one bit.”
But I AM Michael…
BULLSHIT…
In the counterfactual, without COVID-19, we would expect…
60 million global deaths in 2020, with 18 million people dying from heart disease, 10 million from cancer, 6.5 million from respiratory diseases, 1.6 million from diarrhea, 1.5 million in road incidents, and 1 million deaths from HIV/AIDS. Suicides could number 800,000.
SOURCE: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2020/03/23/a-mortality-perspective-on-covid-19-time-location-and-age/
That data was as of the end of March. As of today the number of COVID deaths is 234,000 world wide. That is roughly ONE-QUARTER of the number of SUICIDES that are expected in 2020.
Chip
These scumbag politicians who love to get on TV everyday, and tell us how well they are handling a clearly manufactured crisis, is a clear sign that they have no respect for the constitution or the rule of law.
you know damn well they all go back to their gated community homes, and have secret parties where they snort cocaine and ream each other, while laughing hysterically at all the people they have humiliated.
“Did you get your Gates vaccine? so did I, lets make up some new rules to really fuck with those cattle,
we’ll tell them to wear masks, but we won’t provide the real ones, we’ll let them make there own, which will be totally useless, ha ha ha, and then we’ll get Karen to enforce these stupid rules, ha ha ha ha,
and then we’ll get google and microsoft to track everyone of those idiots who follows our fake rules, ha ha ha ha, hey, cut me some more lines”
We are definitely experiencing a lot of death and illness that must be reported by the MSM to demonstrate how terrible the situation really is; mental illness that manifests publicly as a response to people dying.
Terrible, terrible – people are doing this every day. It’s a condition of life – just like birth.
If a person can’t live with that…
The amazing and multi-talented Ivanaka Goldbricker speaking at Trumpet’s press conference yesterday was going on about the “new normal” and the Atlantic has an article out today declaring after the total collapse of Mom and Pop retail, the “new normal” is nothing outside the corporatocracy, nothing against the coporatocracy .
I think this is called “conditioning”.
New Normal: Pandemic Police State
They look remarkably life-like.
“You’re so afraid of dying you’ve forgotten how to live.”
The county I live in has something a little over 100,000 people living in it. So far there are 43 cases for the COVID. 32 of those people have already recovered, 9 are isolating and 2 died.
The response is not in proportion to the risk. 0.04% of the population gets the virus and 0.0020% die? (Of the people who were confirmed having it, 4.65% died, but around here I’m guessing they were elderly and/or had pre-existing health issues.) [EDIT: Both deaths were over 65 and had underlying health issues according to county health department COVID page.]
Sure, maybe things will get worse here before they get better and sure, more people have the virus and just haven’t been tested, but even if we double the numbers, that is s really small percentage.
Explain to me again why I can’t buy toilet paper or some basic groceries or why I couldn’t go walk on the beach for weeks.
Agreed. This whole article starts out with “freedom!” and then ends up being a shill article to reverse-psychology us into the continued lock down. Sorry folks, but 55K deaths does not make this a crisis.
I have been quoting statistics for weeks, but it seems the use of brain matter is at an all-time low.
Approximately 7452 people die every day in the US. On average.
Life is fatal. There is no escaping it. No one gets out alive.
Docs are coming out talking about the death certificates. The money paid for putting people on ventilators.
If the death certs are being ginned up to show higher numbers than the numbers are BS.
People like to be part of a crisis and prove that they “know” something about it.
People lied about being directly affected by 9/11:
https://nypost.com/2015/09/20/a-psychiatrist-on-why-people-lie-about-911/
Why? Easy. Sympathy lies. People want to feel important and this is an easy, no brainer way to do it.
That’s why we have all the virtue signaling on all the social media platforms.
This is actively being encouraged too, to shame others into compliance.
Get a grip.
my theory is that the mask wearing… reduces oxygen supply to the brain when you are not already physically conditioned …. so many people’s brains probably ARE impaired by this rule.
New Normal: Pandemic Police State
New Normal:Lock And Load
It’s about power and controlling people. I just had a talk with the kids about how many people die from the flu each year and we don’t shut the country down.
“But instead of whining like a baby, I took my ordeal like a man.”
Guess again, chump. Last time something like that happened, I insisted on leaving the seat and standing in the galley. I’m six-three, was mistakenly put in a window seat, had a 36o lb guy next to me and a runt in the aisle seat. The steward asked him to change seats with me and he refused. Instead of sucking it up like a wimp, I protested like a man. Worked like a charm. Grin and bear it has its moments, but that wasn’t one of them.
I’m elderly, have a somewhat compromised immune system (hyperglycemia) and will not quarantine myself in spite of the importuning of relatives and friends. Not because I’m a rebel (although I’ve always been), but because I don’t see the logic in it, given where I live and the stats: not one confirmed case in the entire valley, cut off from the rest of the country since day one or thereabouts. Okay, I don’t live in the USA, but I used to and don’t think I’d be behaving much differently now were I there.
My two cents: the faster USA reopens, shrugging with chagrin that they’d been had, the better. The USA won’t be exceptional in that department.
people always try to use New York City as an example when they don’t actually have a fleshed out opinion to share…
from the article–
“And things have been particularly nightmarish in New York…
Nearly half of all New Yorkers say they know somebody who has died of coronavirus, a new poll finds, shedding a stunning light on just how deeply the pandemic has hit the Big Apple.”
riiight… now look at the actual poll in question. and you’ll discover that the grand total of people they asked was…. 800. https://scri.siena.edu/2020/04/27/coronavirus-pandemic-pushes-cuomo-to-record-high-ratings-voters-trust-cuomo-over-trump-on-ny-reopening-78-16/
and the poll actually states that one THIRD of respondents know a DEATH. one HALF know someone who tested POSITIVE.
what a crock of crap.
New Yorkers are probably the greatest singular collection of pathological liars on the planet. So if half of New Yorkers say they know someone who died of coronavirus, that’s almost certainly a lie.
There are dead people in NYC and there are honest people in NYC, but both numbers are exceedingly small to the point of being a statistical anomaly.
actually morgue activity IS up in NY. but as usual, it’s more complicated than the media plays it. watch this very revealing encounter that happens in the first 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/-FKUI4iyTfc?t=781