The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality

[sparky]

"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." Ronald Reagan

Sitting here in gub'mit lockdown makes it mighty hard to disagree with RR

~S~

 

[Weatherman2020]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

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By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

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Buddy, you need to check your talking points. We are well past "The Virus is a Hoax" and have moved on to, "It's someone else's fault but not Trump's" Which is why Trump is trying to blame the CDC, NIH, FDA and of course China for his failure to prepare for this crisis.

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

 

[wamose]

Back in the 60s, the 'responsible people' said drugs are for people who can't handle reality. The hippies, in return, said "reality is for people who can't handle drugs". So nobody has a monopoly on the true meaning of reality.

 

[sparky]

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

Methinks i'd have a better chance surviving the virus......

~S~

 

[sparky]

The hippies, in return, said "reality is for people who can't handle drugs"

yeah i remember them , don't they all work for Goldman Sachs now?

~S~

 

[iamwhatiseem]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

You are behind, they broke the 1000 mark. And that has been only in the past 3 weeks really.

 

[jc456]

And notice it is the democrat governors going insane. Jesus Christ, thank God, President Trump is tempering the fucktarded governors. And the thing is look at all the grotesque, unqualified "diverse" POS that emerge having been appointed over the years, mayors, police chiefs, etc. Very scary. We are almost 3rd world.

Yes, both sides of the aisle are doing it, but the hard lefties are leading the charge.

well it is MSM that is the leader. No one else, controlled by the left. any other version doesn't exist. Until MSM is squelched, I highly doubt much will ever change. One has to hold the journalists or whatever they're called now, since they aren't really that with their orangemanbad complex.

 

[jc456]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

you seen that? I want to see that. Call me suspicious, but I haven't seen one thing that matches any of this frenzy that was initiated. Not around my town, look at the numbers by counties. look at the other deaths. no one and I mean no one but folks in here putting this into perspective. again, the flu deaths have been more than this virus. just have. and silence. SILENCE

I hear Cuomo complaining about no ventilators, only to learn a week later he's hoarding them in a warehouse somewhere and actually had them. Frenzy for nothing, fk, even he agreed with starting people back to work. And he's the governor of the state with the supposed most cases. Still isn't clear how the fk that even happened. nothing. what to avoid to keep that scenario from repeating. Why? no information. not one fking piece of data that supports this. numbers, someone posting numbers. We quaratine and the count doubles? how? isn't logical, not at all. I run on logic. so far, none of this maintains any presence of logical.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

This is the new talking points they are all getting in their emails....i have seen this same BS on multiple sites.

The plan for these pieces of shit is to use the fact that the measures taken decreased the damage and go "see, it was not that bad so we did not need to do these things".

 

[jc456]

Anyone notice the pivot from MILLIONS WILL DIE to HOSPITALS WILL BE OVERRUN?

“Some numbers: According to the CDC, during the 2018-2019 flu season, there were some 810,000 hospitalizations in the United States for flu and 61,000 deaths. As of March 26, we have seen more than 490,000 hospitalizations and 34,000 flu deaths. Add in the COVID-19 numbers and you get 565,000 hospitalizations and 35,264 deaths. In other words, seen in context, COVID-19 cases are a barely discernible blip.”

Jebus!

Can you not comprehend that the world is just 3 months in to this virus, and the flu figures you are giving is FOR A WHOLE YEAR?

And that this virus does NOT replace the Flu hospitalizations and death toll, but the virus deaths and hospitalizations are in ADDITION to the Flu patients, and this is why our Hospitals are not capable of handling it, with hospital capacity and all the things that go with it such as masks and ventilators, once said and done?

that's relevant how?

you're saying fk you you don't count if you are hospitalized with the flu? you are so compassionate. not.

 

[jc456]

My son is a respiratory care specialist, and my daughter is a respiratory therapist.
Both in major hospitals in major metro areas.
They would vehemently disagree.
Methodist hospital moved all of their pediatric patients to a childrens hospital to make room for more Covid patients. This has never happened in the history of the hospital.
At my daughters hospital, 2 nurses are now on ventilators after caring for Covid patients.
They are over-run.
If this nation went on about their days, no "social distancing", continued to go to restaurants, theatre etc. etc. - those numbers would be at least 10 fold.
We are really only 30 days or so into a period of infections. The numbers would be staggering if restrictions etc. never happened.

there is no evidence that would have ever happened. in fact, the amount of mild cases is over 98%. stop with misrepresenting this.

 

[jc456]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality › American Greatness

By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

www.amgreatness.com

Buddy, you need to check your talking points. We are well past "The Virus is a Hoax" and have moved on to, "It's someone else's fault but not Trump's" Which is why Trump is trying to blame the CDC, NIH, FDA and of course China for his failure to prepare for this crisis.

not here. it's hoax, the numbers aren't there dude. just aren't just aren't. it's a hoax. There's a virus, but it ain't the killer it was sold.

 

[Marion Morrison]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

More people die from traffic accidents.

 

[jc456]

It’s sad and disgusting how easily so many surrendered their basic human rights with so little facts provided.


While the experts claim that little is known about the Wuhan virus, enough is known to suggest that the response has been excessive. While there is a worrying possibility that the Wuhan virus will make a sizable impact on public health (along with the possibility that it probably won’t), the hype surrounding it has already created a huge imposition on daily life and cost the global economy trillions of dollars. Everyone must “do their part” to confront the pandemic or face the wrath of their conscientious peers.

This kind of hype and the subsequent reaction to it seems to grow worse with each year. Right before the Wuhan virus, there was President Trump’s “historic” impeachment. And before that, there was the death of General Qasem Soleimani and the possibility of World War III. And before that, in no particular order, there was the imminent climate catastrophe, Russian collusion and the Mueller report, the Amazon rainforest burning down, and periodic nuclear threats from North Korea.


People should know better by now, yet they seem to fall for the hype every time—including many conservatives. The promise of the tech age and the ubiquity of smartphones and the internet was that it would arm people with relevant information and rational courses of action. Rather, it has done the opposite—magnifying doubts and fears about everything and everyone.

In most cases, the only thing that information technology has done is cause people to become less tethered to reality. Screens now replace people’s senses, and the algorithms embedded in social media do people’s thinking for them.

As such, most people spend more time in the virtual world and less time in the real one, making them ever more vulnerable to exaggerated doomsday narratives. In particular, this retreat from reality takes a toll on a person’s memory, imagination, and common sense.

Remember swine flu? Or bird flu? Or Ebola? Or Zika? Or SARS? Each of these diseases from the past two decades was arguably worse than the Wuhan virus. In the case of swine flu, more than 1,000 people died from it before Obama declared a state of emergency. Big Tech and the mainstream news will never report this. And yet, for all their distrust of the media, people still seem inclined to believe the pundits and clueless scientists over their own experience.

This then leads to a lack of context. Everything seems new and unprecedented, and therefore unknown and scary—except that this isn’t true. Pandemics have alwaysexisted, and there are proven ways to deal with them that don’t involve shutting down the economy and putting everyone under house arrest.

The Wuhan Virus Has Exposed Modern Americans’ Disconnect from Reality › American Greatness

By now, the Wuhan virus has hit home for everyone. Stores ransacked; schools closed; all large gatherings and events canceled; long-distance travel prohibited; pork-filled stimulus bills written and…

www.amgreatness.com

Buddy, you need to check your talking points. We are well past "The Virus is a Hoax" and have moved on to, "It's someone else's fault but not Trump's" Which is why Trump is trying to blame the CDC, NIH, FDA and of course China for his failure to prepare for this crisis.

Stop your hyperbole. Nobody said it was a hoax. Like the flu every year, tens of thousands will die from a virus.

But we don’t send the world into a Great Depression over it.

weather, that's the hoax. that 2 million will die. that's the hoax. sorry, but it is a hoax. one that like minded people folded for. Not me. I never will. I will continue my fight in here that this is a hoax story, it's a virus that will run its course just like everyone before it.

 

[Marion Morrison]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

You are behind, they broke the 1000 mark. And that has been only in the past 3 weeks really.

And how many deaths/injuries from traffic accidents in same period of time?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

you seen that? I want to see that. Call me suspicious, but I haven't seen one thing that matches any of this frenzy that was initiated. Not around my town, look at the numbers by counties. look at the other deaths. no one and I mean no one but folks in here putting this into perspective. again, the flu deaths have been more than this virus. just have. and silence. SILENCE

I hear Cuomo complaining about no ventilators, only to learn a week later he's hoarding them in a warehouse somewhere and actually had them. Frenzy for nothing, fk, even he agreed with starting people back to work. And he's the governor of the state with the supposed most cases. Still isn't clear how the fk that even happened. nothing. what to avoid to keep that scenario from repeating. Why? no information. not one fking piece of data that supports this. numbers, someone posting numbers. We quaratine and the count doubles? how? isn't logical, not at all. I run on logic. so far, none of this maintains any presence of logical.

Cuomo is an idiot.

 

[jc456]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

You are behind, they broke the 1000 mark. And that has been only in the past 3 weeks really.

cool how fast did they break 1000 with h1n1? got that data?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

Drama Queens to feed you sheeples. More die from the flu in NYC. 965 deaths for the entire State.

You are behind, they broke the 1000 mark. And that has been only in the past 3 weeks really.

And how many deaths/injuries from traffic accidents in same period of time?

Yeah... cause the two are related.

 

[jc456]

And BTW - they are now storing bodies in refrigerated semi trailers in NYC.
Ask them if they think the virus is serious

you seen that? I want to see that. Call me suspicious, but I haven't seen one thing that matches any of this frenzy that was initiated. Not around my town, look at the numbers by counties. look at the other deaths. no one and I mean no one but folks in here putting this into perspective. again, the flu deaths have been more than this virus. just have. and silence. SILENCE

I hear Cuomo complaining about no ventilators, only to learn a week later he's hoarding them in a warehouse somewhere and actually had them. Frenzy for nothing, fk, even he agreed with starting people back to work. And he's the governor of the state with the supposed most cases. Still isn't clear how the fk that even happened. nothing. what to avoid to keep that scenario from repeating. Why? no information. not one fking piece of data that supports this. numbers, someone posting numbers. We quaratine and the count doubles? how? isn't logical, not at all. I run on logic. so far, none of this maintains any presence of logical.

Cuomo is an idiot.

that the left have now put on a pedestal.

 

[Fang]

My job has me do work for local hospitals in my area. This virus is every bit as advertised. Not sure what the OP's point is. Hospitals are working overtime even in the non-hot spots. If not for shutting everything down and social distancing many more would die than did with H1N1 and SARs.