The cure is worse than the disease

Pres. Trump tweeted:

“WE CANNOT LET THE CURE BE WORSE THAN THE PROBLEM ITSELF. AT THE END OF THE 15 DAY PERIOD, WE WILL MAKE A DECISION AS TO WHICH WAY WE WANT TO GO!”

My guess is that he will shift gears and save the economy by allowing the disease to spread while trying to save the truly at risk.

March 23, 2020 | 23 Comments »

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  1. @ Reader:
    I have been taking 2000 mg. of Vitamin D3 twice a day for years, as I can’t go out in the sun much in Texas because of pollen sensitivities. This keeps my D3 level at 60 ng/mL.

  2. @ adamdalgliesh:

    Hi, Adam. I am in the same situation in the Independent Living section of a continuing-care community. They are coming to our apartments to take our temperatures twice a day and delivering dinners or lunches to our apartments also. No visitors are allowed. And there are no communal activities while this crisis lasts. We are supposed to stay 6 feet away from each other–an impossibility in an elevator here. I am only on the 2nd floor and can do stairs. But this is a 4-story building. An ambulance came with a gurney to take one of our residents to a hospital. But they won’t tell us who this is or what the problem seems to be. We are not to go to any stores to shop. They will do that for us, but I am chemically sensitive so buy mostly organic food, and that is not what’s being supplied. I stay sane by working on a jigsaw puzzle my kids gave me and writing poetry.
    @ Reader:

  4. @ Bear Klein:
    “take D3 – 5000 units for 2 to 3 months”
    Please, doublecheck the advice of your physician (you don’t have to tell him about it) and search for vitamin D side effects on the Internet, they are not minor, and if something happens, they will never trace it back to his advice.
    A pharmacist is a lot more reliable source in this respect than a doctor.
    Physicians know far less than they pretend to. Now, yours maybe absolutely wonderful and truly knowledgeable but MY experience with them has been pretty bad overall with rare exceptions.

  5. @ Reader:
    I would advise researching on medical sites. I did. I also had physician suggest for me to take D3 – 5000 units for 2 to 3 months. Talk to your own doctor I am not a doctor and suggesting you do anything you have not researched. Talk to doctors not English teachers or business people like myself.

    By the way if you get outside in the sunshine with full skin exposure for 15 minutes that gets you a lot of vitamin D. I normally take about 1500 units per day, especially when I am not swimming outside daily.

    The article I referenced above was based on the words of, Former CDC Chief Dr. Tom Frieden: Coronavirus infection risk may be reduced by Vitamin D.

  6. Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD
    ) — Shares of the American biotech company were up 4.3% following news the Food & Drug Administration gave its coronavirus treatment special status Monday. The ruling could speed up the time it takes for the treatment to come to market.

  7. @ Bear Klein: There are a suprisingly large number of companies that are benefitting or likely to benefit from the medical advice they are being given by coronavirus “experts.” Vitamin manufacurers and producers of helthy “superfoods” are two such groups. Most of all, though, the stock prices of those companies that say they are working ona vaccine for coronavirus are soaring, even as most stocks have suffered a steep decline over the past month.

  9. @ Bear Klein:
    Thanks. I still have some D3 pills.
    You know what’s going to happen now, I think?
    There will be a run on vitamin D supplies and it will at least double in price, and people will start overdosing on it – it does have side effects (I sincerely hope I am wrong – about the price and overdosing, the side effects it will have anyways).
    The same thing (pricewise) happened with blueberries a few years ago. They were very reasonably priced until someone announced that they are SUPERFOOD and have ANTIOXIDANTS! And then the price on the jumped up – I think it at least doubled and stayed this way.

  11. The reason the authorities are putting these rules in place is to try and save lives and keep people from getting Covid-19.

    Covid-19 is a horrible disease that is killing people and spreading rapidly. A physician informed me that disease is even causing complete organ failure. Governments are trying to stop their countries from becoming Italy were mostly just people under 60 are given access to ventilators as there are not enough ventilators.

    Right now scientists and physicians are trying to figure the disease and how to treat patients with drugs that will arrest it.

    No-one wants the economies to collapse nor inconvenience people. It is a very bad situation, that none of us have been in before and people need to try and make the most of it.

  14. OK, I’ll have to confess that I alone bio-engineered the coronavirus in my top-secret laboratory as the only way possible to remove that noisome Swedish autistic anorexic pigtailed little climate change moron from the front pages.

  15. Oregon Gov.Brown has just lowered the boom — ordering EVERYONE to stay at home “if possible”, and ordered us to stay away from dangerous places like forests, mountains and seashores.

    Definitely Dempanic country, Adam — or put another way, martial law.

    Are we all ready for the Two Minute Hate?

  17. “The Fed’s new programs aim to keep small businesses afloat.

    It will lend against student loans, credit card loans and government-backed loans to small businesses. It will also buy bonds of larger employers and make loans to them in what amounts to four years of bridge financing.

    These programs will be of utmost importance, as King warns that “half of all small businesses only hold enough cash to cover one month of expenses.”

    Federal Reserve monetary policy Ian King small businesses

    “If these businesses are forced to close, they are forced to shut down and lay off employees,” King said.

    Layoffs are already happening, too, as Goldman Sachs estimates unemployment claims will jump by close to 2 million in the next week. Jobless claims jumped by 70,000 to 281,000 last week, according to the Department of Labor.” From the money and Markets website.

  18. @ adamdalgliesh:
    “all visitors except emergency personnel have been forbidden to enter the complex buildings.”
    Do you have Legal Aid there for the low income people?
    I think the residents should band together and themselves (or their children) have a Legal Aid attorney petition the management of the complex or whichever authority made that decision to reverse it or ease it to accommodate the residents’ survival needs. They cannot turn the building into a low-security jail to cover their a&^*s.
    The attorney needs to point out that this policy endangers the lives and well-being of the residents (especially in the case if and when they are prohibited from leaving the building – imagine not being able to get and take insulin or anti-seizure medication on time).
    Moreover, these quarantines and lock-downs of selected segments of the population cannot possibly be constitutional or even legal (I apologize if I am wrong) because they stigmatize all the members of the selected population.
    It’s like separating all the Jews into ghettos for the reasons of “social hygiene”. Actually, in Poland during WWII the Germans infected the ghettoized Jews with typhus and then said that no one should enter the ghettos so they won’t get infected.
    Shouldn’t protecting “high-risk” populations be about giving them the best possible care IF and WHEN they get the illness instead of isolating them from the world “for their own good” (shouldn’t they then be PERMANENTLY isolated “for their own good” upon reaching a certain age?!)
    This is a scandal, in MY opinion. Is your complex the only one like this or this decision has been made for all of them?
    I’ll leave this country as soon as I can. At least I will die in Israel.

  19. We’ve just received word in my senior apartment complex that all visitors except emergency personnel have been forbidden to enter the complex buildings. I can’t even say in words what a disaster this is for my fellow residents, who depend heavily on visits from relatives for deliveries of food, medicines, and money, not to mention keeping up their morale.Visits from their children and grandchildren are what enable most of our residents to have the will to keep living. All social events in our complex have been cancelled for weeks, and we are even discouraged from sitting in the lobby, where we elders have always gathered to talk, gossip and exchange information.

    I am waiting for the next shoe to drop when we will be forbidden to leave the building. I have avoided getting sick so far this flu season by taking regular walks and getting fresh air.If confined to “isolation” in my room, I will certainly get sick.

    Many of my neighbors will have real trouble getting food and medicine when the Governor declares a total shutdown. The added cost for deliveries of these necessities is prohibitive for many people hers, and the huge backlog of orders means there are very long wait times for deliveries. Many of us will not get our medicine quickly enough to survive.

  20. “Notice: as of February 28, the number of deceased will be confirmed by the Higher Institute of Health after establishing the cause of death from Coronavirus.” From Italian Ministry of Health’s website.Interesting that they find it necessary to add this disclaimer. So far, as far as I am able to find out, no such “confirmations” from the Higher Institute of Health have been issued. Access to this site with Google Translate is blocked.

  21. “MKs will enter six at a time for first votes of new Knesset amid coronavirus
    Blue and White expected to gain control of key committees as parliament takes up challenges of providing oversight while interim government tackles crisis

    By TOI staffToday, 5:47 am”

  22. “Minister Erdan: We will progress gradually to imposition of closure

    Interior Minister Gilad Erdan said in an interview with Reshet Bet that we will progress gradually to imposition of the closure.

    He said, “Hundreds of thousands of other people will be required not to go to work; Israel will be divided into riflemen and the police – along with IDF battalions – they will investigate people who are outside.” ” From this morning’s Arutz Sheva. In Israel, the “cure” of the disease may kill the patient.

  23. “While People are Panic-Selling Stocks, the World’s Richest Gobble Up Huge Sales
    Shaun CoxMar 20, 2020
    While people are freaking out over the coronavirus crash, far too many are also panic-selling stocks, leaving the world’s richest to gobble up what they see as big-time sales and “bargains of a lifetime.”

    With markets tumbling from record highs in record time, names like Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn, among others, have spent more than $1 billion combined to bump their holdings in good companies whose shares have been slashed to bargain-basement prices.

    Household names like Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) have seen their shares prices lose half or more of their value in a single month. On Feb. 19, when the S&P 500 closed at yet another all-time record high, shares of the American airline titan were trading at $58.41.

    Since then, Delta has tanked to about $22 a share as of 3 p.m EDT today, a decline of more than 62%.

    Cue Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), which has since swooped in to gobble up $45 million worth of Delta shares.

    Icahn upped his Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) and Newell Brands Inc. (NASDAQ: NWL) stakes with a $120 million purchase.

    According to Banyan Hill Publishing Chartered Market Technician Michael Carr, having a plan and sticking to it is how the best invest.

    “Investors like Icahn and Buffett had a plan. They knew they would buy when these stocks fell and they stuck to their plans.” From the Money@Markets site. Apparently the panic is good for some very large investors, although bad for nearly everyone else.