Posted: 01 April 2020 at 7:57am | IP Logged | 3
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I did a little rough research and came up with these stats*. These are American deaths in US military actions (wars, police actions, Jets vs Sharks...)
Civil War: 499,000 WWI: 117,000 WWII: 406,000 Korea: 57,000 Vietnam: 90,000 Iraq/Afghanistan/"Terror" Wars: 500,000
These are deaths in notable pandemics:
Spanish influenza: 675,000 Corona virus: 100,000+ Projected deaths due to corona virus: 240,000
Consider that. This has already surpassed Korea and Vietnam** and looks to surpass WWI. That's from round one of this disease. There's no way to tell if the second round will hit harder - we'll have to watch China and South Korea (at first) and see if this is a bell curve or a yeast knee curve. And there's really no way to verify if their statistics are accurate or not. Why would they lie? Why does a shark swim? It's what they do.
But even if a war is predictable (the first Iraq war seemed to have a high profile coming over the horizon), it's a challenge to confront an army, directed by humans. A pandemic effectively acts mindlessly (even if somewhat predictable over a statistical universe) and doesn't vary its tactics. With early enough warning, development of a vaccine and manufacturing of supplies and/or their release if they already exist should be effective and efficient. After all, in a world wide crisis, it's humanity vs. the germs, right? Look around out your window - we ARE all acting together to fight this.
Except for one man. The most important man in the United States, and arguably the world - or so he should be - isn't a leader, isn't a free thinker, isn't supportive of every action and announcement from health organizations. President Murder is a traitor, AGAIN, in another conflict.
Worried about his ratings. Worried about his election. Worried about keeping a high profile. Worried about the appearance of being wise. Worried about looking as if he's in control. Worried about finding someone to blame.***
If an objective observer - if there were one - were to listen to his pronouncements and observe is actions, I doubt it would take a half hour to conclude that this man is ready for the 25th amendment as few presidents have been.
No chance. His sycophants worship the very bullshit he walks on. His administration toadies await his every misstatement and lie he utters. And worst of all, he's quid pro quo'ing the governors for desperately needed medical equipment.
The only thing that makes me question if he's a Soviet puppet is that the Soviets are suffering as well... this doesn't seem likely to be a plot.
It's hard to find an appropriate adjective anymore. We may need to add Trumpian in the 2021 dictionary to describe someone of this incompetence and treason.
* If you want to take me to task for inexactitude, go right ahead. These are just general estimates - close enough to make my point.
** No, those weren't wars - but as others have said, you can get just as dead in a police action as you can in a war.
*** And really, after three years of presidency, isn't getting a little ridiculous to blame President Obama?
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