T. Belman. Suzann Kossian has been informing from day one about the magnitude of this crises. I advised her “I have been very cautious is publishing your stuff as I wanted to see it take the test of time. I am now ready to disclose more.”
Yesterday I sent her this video by Rush Limbaugh “The Truth about Coronavirus.” He said that it is beng blown out of proportion to tank the US economy and thus to hurt Trump’s reelection.
Suzann Kossian. Feb 24/20
Hi Ted, thanks for sharing. Well, what can I say? I love Rush. He has done more to fight the Left and explain Conservatism than probably any one person with the possible exception of Reagan . I think he is very funny and he drives the left nuts. I am deeply saddened he has stage 4 lung cancer. All though cigars.
He may be partially right on this.
Importantly Rush I think is wrong on the %2 death rate not being a big deal. That is a death rate 10 x as high as seasonal flu which so far this winter has killed 12,000 in USA which is pretty normal (1oK – 25K and on a bad year, 65K dead) China and complicit political hacks at WHO report only a few hundred cases a year despite 4 x the number of people and far worse medical care. LOL) The point is Rush is buying China numbers. We don’t know what the real numbers are until we see the transparency of them in Western countries. That is true of the RO (how many new cases result from each infected person.) the Flu is about 1 to 1. This is at least 3 from what I have seen from credible sources and could be as high as 6. Anything over 2 is very difficult to stop. Especially true since the infector may have no symptoms until 14 days, meanwhile infecting others. And eve after symptoms stop, China now quarantining another 14 days as still can be infecting! So when you have huge numbers getting it, even a 2% death rate mean a very large number of serious cases (as is evidenced by what is happening on the ground in China – I think I sent you today (from my work email Eric@insurepro.info) teh CCP propaganda video of the military nurses in hospital. …if not please let me know. certainly not the flu: here is case of emergency room nurse infected (and talks of other medical personnel infected too – all young and healthy. https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=HMMP84S7lGc In anohter video today of the same couple, she is improving and he says top medical teams are coming to Wuhan now from all over China (so this is hardly over)
Excellent: Bannon says it is getting out of control (he has a lot of solid contacts in China 5000 medical personnel ill https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=QlF0LcQO9Tg Time is Running out to prepare: https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=fLYnomkC1fA I do not think this virus was let out on purpose. Previously, I did think about that possibility though and rejected it. Why I thought it could have been possible: 1. Just a few months back there were massive demonstrations in Hong Kong against the ChiComs. It looked like nothing was going to stop it and the regime was getting scared. The regime does not care about people or freedom they only care about control (and money). Notice this virus due to the need to quarantine has pretty much totally silenced the protests.
So for that it is a win by ChiComs. But it did not start in HK and certainly appears to have been an error from the lab such as carelessness or more likely, some lab worker taking an infected animal he was supposed to kill and selling it for a few extra bucks. But certainly in regards to the protests being stopped Chinese Gov. got lucky, at least for now. It may very well just turn to more anger both in HK and throughout China against the Gov for their total mismanagement of this and their total disregard for human life and dignity. 2. Soros at the recent Davos meeting in Jan said essentially Trump must be stopped as he is a climate denier and hinted that the only thing that would stop him is a stock market crash soon.
“an overheated economy can’t be kept boiling for too long. If all this had happened closer to the elections, it would have assured his reelection. His problem (Left opportunity) is that the elections are still 10 months away and in a revolutionary situation, that is a lifetime.
From an open society point of view, the situation is quite grim. It would be easy to give in to despair, but that would be a mistake. The public is beginning to be aware of the dangers of climate change. It has certainly become the top priority of the European Union – but we can’t count on the United States while Trump is in power because he is a climate denier.” Almost sounds like marching orders. And what better to crash the market than a good ol’ fashioned pandemic? But, I rejected that line of thinking too as ChiComs not willing to lose that much money and risk the loss of markets for decades as West now see over reliance on China for medicine, masks, and manufacturing etc as an Achilles heel and I don’t think even Soros has that much clout..
I do think the Left will try to use it to their advantage.
Suzann Kossian, Feb 11/20
Ted, one of the biggest problems with this is the limitations of people’s psychology.Per some famous philosopher (name of whom I dont remember) When confronted with a hard to fathom truth, we at first seek to reject it, then are violent against it then we accept is as a matter of fact. As long as rate of infections continue to double every 6.5 days the exponential realities are staggering. I am hopeful if anyone understands the simple math it will be Jews.
The other aspect is people in USA have great difficulty fathoming that Chinese Communists don’t actually care about their people, only maintaining power at any cost and are therefore lying to their people and to the world. Even org. like WHO are complicit. Example, in the USA annually we lose 10K – 25 K in an average flu season with a very bad season taking lives of several multiples more. China has 3 times the pop. but less than 100 cases a year! Glorious health is provided by Fearless Leaders! There are many reports of suppressing the truth and arresting citizen journalists (like you).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3yZliBftSaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=p6fe5iGWeD0 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=P32yPkr1eGM “operational difficulties” from one man. “only a spark”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns2VJNJWuHg very disturbing new numbers coming from CHina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P32yPkr1eGM
“operational difficulties” from one man. “only a spark”
very disturbing new numbers coming from CHina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbJ6P0UB0io
Suzann and Eric Kossian Feb 24/20
Haunting Chinese Communist propaganda video about the fight against Chinese Wuhan virus (Let’s not bow to the WHO political correctness bull**** about not naming it something Chinese; rather let’s name it for what it is..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMj3UAclTu4
Preview YouTube video On the Scene | Wuhan Vlog: One day with military nurses in the ICU at Huoshenshan Hospital
On the Scene | Wuhan Vlog: One day with military nurses in the ICU at Huoshenshan HospitalSubject: Haunting Chinese Communist propaganda video about the fight against “Chinese Wuhan virus”
Haunting Chinese Communist propaganda video about the fight against Coronavirus COVID -2019. They are trying to put a positive spin on it.
Note: they let it slip that these are military nurses who have been there for a whole month (since about Jan 21). They were only brought in to help because the normal medical system was overwhelmed and a number of normal medical personnel had gotten ill themselves; many of these healthy young medical works have died despite every precaution. Yet at that point they only said about 100 dead. The director of the Wuhan hospital is dead. God bless these people who are risking lives to save others while their leaders only care about maintaining political control over the people. Their President Xi said today “security and stability are paramount” while he cancelled their annual meeting of 170,000 communist party leaders.
Prepare accordingly. There is as yet no cure. CDC says likely 18 mo. or more before a vaccine. There are already over 80 clinical trials going on trying every solution. So far this year there are 12000 deaths from the flu in USA which is about average. China with 4 times as many people says they only have a few hundred deaths per year from the flu (and the WHO parrots those ridiculus numbers too just like they do the Chinese numbers for COVID 19!) Please ask yourself how long are you ready to quarantine yourself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMj3UAclTu4
@ Michael S:
PS. I shouldn’t have said, “Who the hell..” I know Who will take care of the children, and have been praying to Him.
@ Reader:
Hi, Reader
It’s not election year in China, nor in Europe, nor in Iran; but disaster is the order of the day in all three. Also, in the US, this pandemic probably won’t help either party. Before the virus struck, Donald Trump could confidently be predicted to win, probably by a landslide; and I don’t foresee any change in that. The Democrats were also on course to take a drubbing at the state level; and if they get hit harder than they otherwise would, it’s due to their own incompetence.
In Oregon, the state hasn’t reserved hospital beds, stocked masks and test kits, nor prepared in any meaningful way, and our governement is thoroughly Democrat. The same can be said for Washington and California. Besides, our Dem. Governor, Kate Brown, “remedied” the crisis by closing the schools. Who the hell is going to take care of all those kids? Many of them have both parents working. At this point, I’m glad I’m not a mom, with little ones dependent on me: all the virus can do is kill me; and unless God has other plans, it will.
@ adamdalgliesh:
“I don’t think this degree of risk justifies the extreme measures being adopted by our government and the governments of the other economically developed countries”
I was told something interesting today by a stranger.
This person told me that someone made a timeline of the recent new virus scares and the panics coincided with the election years.
There seems to be a reason for the promoting the hysteria that goes beyond the protection of public health. All of a sudden, China is painted as an evil, communist country. There are shortages of disinfectants at the stores which will probably be blamed on the fact that most of them (and other things) are actually made in China – guess what (and whose) idea this is going to support?
@ Reader: All very true, reader. It is indeed a very nasty bug. Everyone in the risk groups ( mainly those with serious pre-existing conditions) should use every precaution. In fact, probably everyone should be careful to live in as cleanly and hygienic environment as possible. And observe every reasonable precaution to avoid contracting or transmitting the disease.
However, some perspective is also needed. Every year, tens of thousands of people in the United States, and millions worldwide, die of infectious diseases other than the COVID-19. This has always been the case. Last year, approximately 50,000 people in the United States died of pneumonia before the first case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States. Somewhere between 20,000 and 50,000 died of the flu. Exact numbers are unavailable because the Centers for Disease Control doesn’t even try to keep exact statistics. So far, there have been 33 reported deaths from coronavirus in the United States.
I don’t think this degree of risk justifies the extreme measures being adopted by our government and the governments of the other economically developed countries, such as closing down international travel, banning large meetings. I don’t think it justifies closing down synogogues, which many Jewish communities are doing. Travel is vital to our economy. And social contacts, especially for elderly people, are necessary for health as well. Isolation is not a healthy condition.
@ Reader:
Reader,
You have one-upped me in describing the pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2 (namely, coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19). I didn’t know about the irreversible scarring, etc. Besides causing pneumonia, multiple organ failures can occur. We are dealing with one nasty bug.
I could discuss death rates later. Adam wanted to know how the current thousands of cases could suddenly erupt into millions. The answer is that the increase in COVID-19 deaths is growing exponentially, and is practically a straight upward line. Death occurs several weeks after being infected, the time depending on the patient’s original general health. Here are the latest increase rates in cases:
Countries with largest increase in cases
Italy ???15113 +2651 (21.3%)
Spain ???3146 +869 (38.2%)
Germany ???2745 +718 (35.4%)
France ???2876 +595 (26.1%)
United States ???1762 +426 (31.9%)
Switzerland ???868 +216 (33.1%)
These rates represent a doubling every two days — and increase of 2 exp 15 every month (?2,000,000,000,000,000? x, if the rate could be sustained).
@ adamdalgliesh:
It appears that coronavirus is a pretty nasty bug (I didn’t know this when I first posted about it).
It is actually viral (as opposed to bacterial) pneumonia affecting both lungs at the same time and causing irreversible scarring of the lungs (to a greater or lesser extent, I guess).
Now, as with every disease, it affects the most susceptible ones first and most but how do we know who is who in this respect, so to speak?
So it pays to take precautions, yes, even those “funny” ones like garlic.
@ Michael S: Thanks for explaining this to me, Michael.