Let’s say that I can prove with reams of unassailable science that if I am allowed to control everything you eat and force you to exercise two hours a day, I can make your life unambiguously better.
You’ll be healthier, happier, more productive, and smell like fresh raspberries. You’ll also live longer and have 70% lower medical expenses which is a vast benefit to society as a whole and will save the medicare system.
Does that give me the right to force you do do it?
When I demand this of you against your will, how will you say no? Will you accept that it’s your “social duty” to flatten the medicare cost curve? Are you OK never eating another french fry or dessert or Krab Kingz dish? Are you OK with jail time for missing your Cross Fit class?
Or might you suddenly want your rights and the liberty of self-determination? And if you are not willing to submit to my grand scale social plan, then by what right do you presume to force others to submit to yours?
Perhaps give that some thought before cheerleading for the next mandate you happen to agree with. No power granted to government is ever only used once or by only one faction. Pushing others onto a slippery slope will put you on it with them.
THIS is how you get a ‘surge’ and a panic. Many hospitals are backfilling deaths: taking deaths from months ago and reporting them NOW. This chart breaks it down just for Houston. It would be nice to see this breakdown for OTHER cities, but that might crush the narrative….and cut off the free billions of dollars.
Somebody show Bruce Haywood:
The City of Houston has reported 71 COVID-19 deaths so far in July. Of these, ONLY SEVEN ACTUALLY OCCURRED IN JULY! Some of these recorded deaths even happened in April and May.
The YELLOW portions of the bar are July, Bruce. The GRAY was last month. They even managed to throw in 10 deaths from May! In other words, MORE deaths from May are represented here than in July – even though they are reporting them NOW.
A reporter asked Orange Co FL health official if the two COVID deaths listed as in their 20s had any underlying conditions. Reply: “The first one didn’t have any. He died in a motorcycle accident.”
There is obviously a huge difference between dying OF Wuhan Flu and dying WITH Wuhan Flu. The maskholes don’t seem to understand the difference and government officials don’t seem to care – since it only increases their power and their access to the hundreds of billions being handed out.
Here’s a thought experiment: Before granting any power to government, imagine it wielded by the politician you hate the most, because one day, it will be.
There are NINE MILLION kids in California under the age of 18. There have been ZERO Covid deaths.
Not one.
But that is not stopping the LA and San Diego school districts from deciding they will NOT HAVE in-person learning for the start of the year.
That is an outrage. Will those in charge of the Lampasas school system be just as insane? Will the misinformed and ignorant crowd of screaming baboons like Bruce Haywood, Melissa Johnson and Karen Spivey-Cummings get their way? I sure as hell hope not. But I suspect the worst will come to pass.
I’m SHOCKED, I tells ya! How did she and her daughter ever survive this terrible cold? I mean, to face 300,000-1 odds in your favor and somehow come out on top! Amazing. It’s as likely as losing the lottery, fer chrissakes!
To recap:
July 12th: Tearful (sorta) video dramatically announcing the Wuhan Flu has hit the Talbert household. Community outpouring of prayer emojis immediately goes to work combating their sore throat and sniffles.
July 15th: Radiogram quotes Finley as stating Talbert family is in good spirits and has “turned the corner”, lol. The corner of what?? I think I changed my underwear once since the illness was announced. They barely took three steps down the street, let alone ‘turned’ any corners. I guess I can assume there was no hospitalization involved?
Here’s what else happened in those three days:
OVER THREE THOUSAND TEXANS DIED of random causes.
OVER TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND Americans dropped dead of random causes.
Somebody, somewhere found out they have pancreatic cancer and will die very soon – thus shattering their entire world.
Somewhere, a parent knew REAL pain as they watched their young child suffer from leukemia and chemotherapy and hoped they beat REAL odds to live.
So let’s screw our heads back on and get some perspective, mmkay?
It would be nice if some of people who had this thing would get on Facebook and make hundreds of posts to talk about how it was no big deal – and thus combat the hysterical lunatics out there who haven’t even had it yet and think it’s the Bubonic plague or something.
Melissa Johnson is starting to emerge as one of the loudest and prolific Facebook dunces to challenge Bruce Haywood and Karen Spivey-Cummings as “Covid Clown Prince of Lampasas”. She is vehemently AGAINST in-person school learning, pro-mask at all times and must barely work, since she posts 27 times a day on Facebook.
Sweet hairdo…hides your lobotomy scars quite well
She claims to be “self-employed” yet also speaks of hitting people with her cane if they come near her without a mask(nice!). So maybe is she is a fake disability sponge? Or just a crazy lady with a cane? Who knows – I don’t know her.
Point being, if she’s ‘self-employed’ yet sits home all day posting pro-mask, climb-back-into-the-womb garbage on Facebook, shutting down the economy probably won’t hurt her a bit. She seems like a donkey who sits IN the cart rather than help pull it. Just like Bruce Haywood.
She’s also a massive hypocrite. Unsurprising for a locust from Oregon. Some examples of her hypocrisy:
Melissa is gung-ho to ruin your kid’s life by wrecking the school system. But this doesn’t affect her either, of course! Her kid is 24 years old and thus already fully grown! THAT is bad enough. Anybody with no kids in the school system should close their pie hole about the ‘danger’ kids face since it doesn’t affect their kids (*cough* Karen Spivey-Cummings*cough*)
But the hypocrisy goes further and exposes her more. While she is quick to believe every utterance of bullshit from the government when it DOESN’T affect her, she will ignore it completely if in inconveniences her in the least!
Now, turning off your AC is an infinitesimally small sacrifice when compared to destroying an entire $20 trillion economy or a $35 million local school system or wrecking your kid’s education experience and setting them back two years. Right? Frankly, I think this AC suggestion is just more bullshit. But if you are going to swallow some CDC bullshit (like Melissa Johnson and Haywood clearly do) then you swallow it ALL, capice?
Nope. Melissa thinks that’s stupid. She doesn’t want to PERSONALLY sacrifice anything at all!
She’s right, of course…..wait a minute! This remark sounds A LOT like cost/benefit analysis! She accidentally used her brain a tiny bit here and compared one thing to another and weighed the costs and benefits! Holy crap. Congratulations! Now apply that kind of thinking to re-opening the schools!
Like, oh I don’t know….comparing the MASSIVE BENEFITS of keeping kids in school to the INFINITESIMALLY SMALL CHANCE of a Covid death.
US age-adjusted** death rate from 1900 through 2020.
The 1916-18 pandemic is very visible.
The 1957 pandemic: US deaths adjusted for population growth would have been roughly 200,000.
The 1968 pandemic: US deaths adjusted for population growth equates to roughly 165,000.
No economic shutdown, no school closures, life went on.
[** Age adjustment is done to compensate for changing demographics. An older population (think of Baby Boomers moving through the age curve) will naturally have more deaths than a prior year in which the population was younger. This masks true change in underlying risk.]
To paraphrase an innumeric meme, let’s explain it for the dumb ones over at Wool & Vine.
STUPID PEOPLE: don’t understand the difference between 2% and .02%. The first one is a made-up, bullshit number. The other is very close to the IFR for ALL who catch Wuhan flu under age 70. They differ by a factor of ONE HUNDRED. So the analogy is already dead. That is simple math.
SMART PEOPLE: know that jellybeans are a luxury and not a necessity. If someone offered me a jar with 17,000 jelly beans and only ONE was a fatal bean (which is more in line with my chances of dying from Wuhan flu), I would STILL refuse it, because that is an idiotic risk to take for the extremely small joy a jellybean brings me.
This is known as cost/benefit (or risk/reward) analysis…and it clearly escapes morons like Julie Landrum, Bruce Haywood and Karen Spivey-Cummings. It makes them say asinine things like “if it saves just ONE LIFE, we should do it…no matter what we give up in return”.
So the choice offered by this dummy is a false one. The REAL choice is not “do we want the tiny LUXURY of a jellybean in exchange for the small risk of death” but rather “do we want the huge benefit of living our normal lives free and unfettered in exchange for that same small risk”.
To put it accurately in meme form for dummies:
You are offered a choice. You can pick ONE bean from a jar of 17,000. If you survive this 17,000-1 risk, you can go about your life and enjoy it to the fullest completely unfettered. Travel, go to the movies, eat at your favorite restaurants, gather in crowded bars with pals, run your business, make a living, take your kids to the beach and generally live the kick-ass life you had for the last 50 years.
OR, you can be a pussy and pick no beans at all – thus ensuring you have a 100% chance of living (not really though, since 20 OTHER things could kill you, like cancer, strokes and heart attacks) instead of 99.98% chance. BUT if you choose the pussy route, you have to wear a mask, helmet, gloves and hazmat suit every time you leave the house. You must stay cooped in your house 22 hours a day. No traveling. No eating out. No going to the hospital for minor stuff like kidney stones either – that is NON-ESSENTIAL now. No fun of any kind…and dependent on government welfare since your job is destroyed.
Which one would you choose? Lunatics like Julie Cain Landrum and Bruce Haywood choose to climb back into the womb like a baby. Which is sad enough on its face….unfortunately, these idiots want to make that choice FOR YOU TOO!
THAT’S what selfish hypocrites do. Always.
Is Julie Landrum the liberal loon you trust with important life decisions? Or do you think you can handle those decisions best for yourself? I know my answer.
Just look at this nut job pictured above! Unbelievable. Lady, you need to meet up with Bruce “The Manatee” Haywood and Karen Spivey-Cummings and lock yourselves in a plastic bubble while gargling Lysol. It’s the only way to be sure.
Before 2020, if I forced my child to wear a mask every day because I was irrationally terrified of an illness that is 99.999% survivable by children, I would have been rightfully accused of child abuse in the form of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
Bruce doesn’t care HOW many facts and statistics show he is being completely irrational: he’s keeping his teenaged daughter home this school year, and that’s that, by golly!
Somebody tell Bruce and KAREN KIDS ARE NOT AT RISK!!!!
I’m not sure what clown factory produced Bruce Haywood, but I commend them on their thoroughness. I used to feel sympathy for Bruce’s wife. Now I see it is the daughter who deserves all the pity. The Haywoods are like the Feegans from South Park: that family who wears life jackets 24/7 even when they are nowhere NEAR the water:
Now if Bruce wants to be an irrational wing nut and ruin his daughter’s life, that’s really no skin off my teeth. Go to it Bruce. Keep her home and let her stare at the walls turning her head to mush.
The problem is, that’s not all Bruce wants. He wants SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS to be made for his daughter! The problem is that WE TAXPAYERS are going to get shafted by all the extra costs of this “remote learning” and “personal protection” garbage Bruce insists on. You see, we all need to bend over backwards to accommodate Bruce and his army of fellow nitwits. Bruce doesn’t care if HIS silly incorrect notions cost US a fortune to implement – he doesn’t even pay taxes!! Which makes him a typical liberal: selfish AND hypocritical.
What an asshole. He’s like the guy who is always broke but when it’s time to order pizza for the group, he insists on putting anchovies on it – even though he is contributing nothing from his own wallet.
Perhaps Bruce isn’t worried about his daughter getting sick, but rather he is worried about his daughter bringing it home and killing HIM! That is maybe a rational concern, considering Bruce is morbidly obese. But that is a Bruce Haywood problem that HE created. It is not the fault of the rest of us taxpayers…or his daughter. Besides, that life jacket dirty pacifier mask you wear 24/7 will save you anyways, right Bruce Feegan?
These rabbits who are scared of their own shadows are going to cost the taxpayers a FORTUNE before this is all said and done. ALL FOR NOTHING. They already wrecked the economy. Not satisfied with that, they are now gunning to wreck the school system.
How did it happen that the burden is on me to prove I shouldn’t be placed on house arrest, lose my business, and be forced to wear a mask for a cold virus? It happened because of simpletons like Bruce Haywood.
Misti Talbert! For her subdued yet poignant “why can’t we all just get along” pleading video message on Facebook during her announcement that she has caught the lethal plague flu. I haven’t seen forced half-crying like that since she dedicated the Jack Calvert $1.5 Million Dollar Municipal Fishbowl back in December 2019.
The virus she now has is SO deadly in fact, that the people suffering from it regularly post on Facebook to tell you how they felt like they have been “hit by a train”. The horror!
Just to recap:
Misti claims she wore a mask AND social distanced and she thinks you should too…even though it didn’t help her one bit!
Besides wearing masks and socially distancing, she CLAIMS she “practices healthy habits”. I’m sorry, but I take issue with that, because it is simply not true. It’s clear you have NOT made healthy choices going back a while. I’ll just leave it at that. I don’t want to be blunt or cruel, but if we are going to have a RATIONAL and HONEST discussion about how much of a threat Wuhan Flu REALLY is, we need to be honest with ourselves. That includes all the unhealthy choices made by (and pre-existing conditions of) those stricken with Wuhan Flu.
MY hope here is that after our high-profile mayor and her daughter easily recover from this, people MIGHT use their heads and think “hey! This isn’t the lethal plague that the media and certain morons in town (*cough* Bruce Haywood *cough*) are making it out to be!”.
I know that is wishful thinking but let’s keep our fingers crossed. If this Wuhan Flu had happened in the world BEFORE Facebook and Twitter and other social media, the irrational fears generated by this would be about 100x less prevalent. The moral of Wuhan Flu in 2020 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion
P.S. Misti, I would “send you prayers” like everyone else but there is no proof that actually works. Actually, quite the contrary. So I offer no prayers but I offer the firm mathematical knowledge that STATISTICALLY, you have nothing to worry about. You’re more likely to be killed in a car wreck next year.
