Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #42
April 23, 2020
I feel like the outlier or outsider once again, as I look at the figures posted on MSNBC this morning. Supposedly 76 percent of the public think that these stay at home rules are the right way to go and need to stay in place for the foreseeable future. Of the remaining 24 percent, almost the entire percentage thinks the rules ought to be made tougher.
I just sit and look at the vapidity of those figures. A father and mother sitting at home, having run out of money, with no jobs or prospects for the future, with no stimulus and certainly no hope of an SBA bailout are voting to continue this? To make the rules tougher? That simply cannot be, and also that hypothetical couple, with sleeping children who haven’t gotten up yet because school is something of the recent and soon to be distant past, must be thinking about feeding the kids only a few days down the road. That couple has to be extended out to represent about forty percent of the population now.
So, who’s being polled to arrive at the ridiculous result MSNBC put up on the screen? They are lying to us. The very people, the supposedly liberal media, I thought would bring a new world order of compassion, understanding, and financial redistribution, is working lockstep with whoever is behind this whole nightmare and I now see that they are not going to quit. They are not going to bring us back until real violence sweeps across the nation. Why do they want this? Is it that important to reduce the nation to ashes so the ashes can be ruled by them, whoever ‘them’ is?
I can’t even go out among my friends and discuss this issue, as they have, almost one and all, bought into the story. Oh, we are going to beat the virus that barely was alright, but we are going to do it by reducing ourselves from the high flying fast-growing and technologically advanced society we were to a reduced social order of cave dwellers like I used to visit in the mountains of Afghanistan when the Russians were fighting them in the 80s. I felt so sorry for them, particularly the women and children, in those caves. I did not identify with them, however. I do identify with them now. I understand how they came to be in such circumstances and why they could not get out.
Humanity has chosen, or it has been chosen for it by the few, to go down into the basal animal foundations of its origin that might best be referred to as the Planet of the Apes.
How would you have answered the Polling Question:
“Stay at Home” Orders Needs to stay Enforced Everywhere
I just do not understand how usually intelligent people have abandoned all reason
You cannot tell a dumb person he or she is dumb. They will hurt you. Dumb people do not know they are dumb, and neither do most
mentally ill people. Be careful. I you have high intellect hopefully it is high enough to allow you to hide that fact.
Semper fi,
Jim
I do NOT believe the Intelligent people have abandoned reason. The problem might be there are enough around My state suffer in that department.
THE average IQ in California in 2020 is 95.5, whereas in Jim’s state of Wisconsin it is 102.9. And those Backward Fly Over states like Montana, Wyoming, Vermont, Iowa, South Dakota. etc. are average all OVER 101IQ
New Hampshire currently leads the competition at 104.2 average IQ
I say those 100 people they serveyed must still have income or are financially independent.
Shelter in place is not an option for the working force in America and we know how to protect or health in public.
The whole gun distribution issue throughout society is about to become the number one, and maybe only issue
facing this country if these shutdowns continue.
Semper fi,
Jim
It’s all BS. People need to get out and live their lives, come what may
There is definitely a case to be made for what you so simply stated.
Maybe the dire effects of what starving causes is all that will change things now.
Semper fi,
Jim
Grim. That sinking feeling. That feeling of helplessness.
A growing movement made up of many movements since the 60s has the goal of totally obliterating the culture and building it from scratch. Is it that movement’s time?
I stupidly post under MSNBC, CNN, NPR threads about both virus and economy factors in this destruction. A stranger posts back: you can rebuild a business not a life.
I post “They go together. The economy goes so does the food supply, the hospitals. More death follows.”
“All you care about is money then.” is the retort. Then silence.
Many more examples I won’t post.
I see what you see James.
Selfish fear feeds a vapidly attentive public and the mass media is shoveling the ‘food’ as fast as they can find or make it up.
We must all stand by now to see just how willing starving Americans are going to be to shut up and take it.
Semper fi,
Jim
Not no, hell no. Who will pay once the country becomes insolvent? Prison camps for sure as felons are released protestors and mask violators will take their place.
About time we got rid of the term and the act of punishing through life…called a felony.
The ‘felons’ are being released and crime is diving to record low levels. Go figure. Until they make
having the virus a felony or not wearing a mask, or whatever….
Semper fi,
Jim
We’re on the verge of civil unrest. What happened to common sense? Do the people of this country really believe CNN and MSNBC. We have turned into a police state. I for one will not go gently into the night.
No, Ken, there are a lot of us out there, and hence the go fund me site. Join. (https://www.gofundme.com/f/thirty-days-has-september)
Semper fi,
Jim
Open the country up county by county.
Yes, the closure of the country can only build the energy held inside for so long, and then it will not come hissing out. It will explode out.
Semper fi, and please consider got go fund me project, no matter what you put in, (https://www.gofundme.com/f/thirty-days-has-september)
Jim
Has it occurred to you at all that maybe you are wrong? The stay at home orders are why the Covid19 pandemic has so far been manageable. Do you really think that if those parents went out like you want and the children too, that no one would get Sars Cor 2? That no one would develop Covid19? How is death a better alternative to staying home for a little while? The virus is not a hoax, it’s real. A significant portion of humans who contract this virus will die. The portion of fatalities is much higher than the flu, also the rate of infection. Nearly everyone who is exposed will get infected. What do you not understand about this? You think it is fake? OK, that’s your right.
Statistically, you don’t die from the virus if you get it. Read, absorb and stop believing until you can make up your own mind. People writing about staying inside are primarily those who can afford to stay inside. Much of the public is not writing on here or anywhere else because they’ve already lost their internet and television and more….
Semper fi,
Jim
Lt Strauss, I’m beginning to think it’s being done to derail this economy, President, and how good things were going. I don’t think it’s a coincidence either that we’re being warned already, that this is gonna come back in the fall, just in time for the elections. In our state, our idiot governor won’t start opening things up until the cases decrease. How convenient. We’re testing more every day, so the case count is going to go up. Never in my worst nightmare did I think something like this would bring a country to a screeching halt. It blows my mind. He’s your idiot governor too. I vacation in northern Wisconsin every summer and this has to be really taking its toll up there. To start to open up the state AFTER Memorial Day weekend, will be another nail in the coffin.
There is certainly more and more serious trouble coming…
Semper fi,
Jim
I can’t even imagine who they polled either. Maybe it was CNN journalists like the self-famous loudmouth that made a big deal about coming out of his basement quarantine after being seen playing with his family in the Hampton’s
I think those numbers are BS. I know several people that are using food pantries that never used them before because they couldn’t get off work to go and didn’t need them. They are afraid how they are going to feed the kids and want to get back to work. Not everybody is eligible for Unemployment and the extra 600 money. I don’t know who is behind this whole thing. At first I thought it was to make Trump look bad and beat him this fall. I now believe it is bigger than that. New World Order? Something else? I don’t know.
Thanks for your input, William.
Interesting take on the NWO.
Semper fi,
Jim
Americans are not being given trustworthy information. Americans are being fed propaganda. There are conflicting opinions of “experts”. Which “experts” are correct? Why aren’t employees of “essential” businesses dying at an alarming rate? Are all deaths being reported as virus deaths regardless of causation? Some say, Yes! Has this “pandemic” become political rather than medical? HELL YES! And we are going broke because of it!
Appreciate your sharing that sentiment here, Steve
Based on comments found here, I do NOT think you are alone!
Semper fi, Jim
no open up but use social distances ..
I am also skeptical about published numbers regardless of source. I do feel like an outlier among those in my orbit, being told I’m sounding like a conspiracy theorist. I see rights I assumed were assured violated daily. I doubt life as I knew it will return, sad.
We can all Hope…
BUT more important do our part to assure a positive direction, Denis.
Semper fi,
Jim