"What to Do" Based on Statistics and Caution

Here are a few thoughts worth chewing on as they pertain to the new subtype of virus (Coronavirus) that humans have little to no immunity to and “what to do” about personal safety. 

The first of several thoughts that comes to mind is obvious. Will plenty of people die in the United States as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19)? I suppose it all depends on what one defines as "plenty of people." So far, more than 10,000 people have died worldwide of COVID-19, including 22 and counting in the U.S. The standard-issue flu has killed around 16,000+ people in the U.S. so far this season. Almost 39,000 people lost their lives in auto accidents on American motorways last year. Additionally, approximately 70,000 died of a drug overdose. Approximately 84,000 Americans died of diabetes last year. Broadening the scope, around the world, 594,000 people died of malaria. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates that as many as 25,000 people lose their lives every day from hunger. That adds up to roughly 9.1 million people who die of starvation annually. What I’m trying to convey is that it’s all statistics, until it's you or someone you care about or someone of high profile. In the meantime, I am packing my 4X4 SUV with my guns, fishing gear, Bible and my dog, going to Costco and stock up on food, wine, and Charmin Ultra Soft Toilet Paper and driving to a sparsely inhabited but climate-friendly area. I am open to suggestions as to the idyllic destination. Do you have any recommendations? I'm all ears.
 
On a serious note, wherever you live you should be taking standard precautions right now. Do not hoard, but stock up on food, vitamins, get whatever medicines you require, and be prepared should you need to be locked down for a yet to be determined duration of time. The chance of that happening in the area you live in may yet be small, but it’s not nil. So, don’t screw around with this one. It’s best to “err on the side of caution.” This may well be the most serious pandemic-worthy risk since the1918 Spanish influenza that killed between 50 million and possibly as many as 100 million people worldwide. Word to the wise; everyone is at risk.

Tides of Tyranny: The Left's Threat to America

Tides of Tyranny: The Left's Threat to America: The facts are the GOP and today’s Democrats have coalesced around divergent visions of America that cannot be reconciled. To think otherwise...

The Left's Threat to America

The facts are the GOP and today’s Democrats have coalesced around divergent perceptiveness of America that cannot be reconciled. To think otherwise is folly. Thus, the impeachment was not about Trump himself or his alleged “high crimes” and “misdemeanors.” It was not even about his flaws. It was about the perception of America that he represents.

This perception is far from ideal since it includes many elements of the debauchery that has brought America to its present crisis. It will not solve the moral crisis that is now far advanced. Nevertheless, this vision of a prosperous, materialistic American way of life still resonates in vast regions of the country. However, this vision does not resonate among today’s Democrat Left who desires a different America. Those who are fixated with abortion and infanticide hate this first vision. Those who follow the religion of climate alarmism lament this prosperous, carbon-friendly America. This vaguely moral vision of America does not reverberate with Drag Queen Story Hour activists calling for the destruction of all virtuous and righteous moral impediments that restrain the anarchic emotive appetites of society's social deviants.

This clash between these two Americas goes beyond normal politics and has long existed. What makes the present episode different is that it has now reached a cracking point with conservatives perilously in power. Today’s Democrat party sees that the triumph of President Trump’s vision of America must be overcome by any means possible. Its mere existence cannot be borne. The progressive ‘s presidential candidates contemptuousness for all things Trump and capitalism know no limits. Morality aside, today’s progressive left champions has promised citizens and illegals alike “free stuff.”  

Tides of Tyranny: The Enemy of The People Now and Then

Tides of Tyranny: The Enemy of The People Now and Then: Bernie Sanders, Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) ... today's Democrats are the enemy of the people. The fight between patriots...

The Enemy of The People Now and Then

Bernie Sanders, Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)... today's Democrats are the enemy of the people. The fight between patriots who love America, the constitution, smaller government, and free-market practice visa-a-vis the Left’s ideology of socialism. Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Marx, like Sanders, Warren, AOC and many within the ranks of the progressive Left have perverted the true vision of the collectivist ideal. Am I alone in assuming that most leftists have never read Marx or studied what Lenin or Trotsky really did or failed to do? Truth is Trotsky, Marx, Stalin... had little to no respect for the individual.  I contend, like many others that Sanders, Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, et all are attempting to merely redefine the Leninist practice of “breaking eggs to make omelets.” 

My views or better yet, conclusions should come as no shock to informed conservatives, old school Democrats and free-market libertarians. There is little doubt there will be a hue and cry by the uninformed and ideologically blind progressive Left, to include some within academia, and some distinct religious bodies within Christianity where progressive orthodoxy is taught/preached and dissenting perspectives are labeled as intolerable.

Tides of Tyranny: Michael Moore the Doyen of Presumptuous Expression...

Tides of Tyranny: Michael Moore the Doyen of Presumptuous Expression...: Here's one for the Tinseltown moralizing category and subgroups within. Filmmaker and activist  Michael Moore, the doyen of presumptuous...

Michael Moore the Doyen of Presumptuous Expression

Here's one for the Tinseltown moralizing category and subgroups within. Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore, the doyen of presumptuous expression before thinking, recently bemoaned the state of America’s political landscape. It seems that Moore believes that sociopolitical and economic disparity is a much bigger problem than Trump and political leadership, in general, is letting on. And he knows this because he speaks for Bernie, therefore he is one of them. What is perplexing about Moore’s sanctimonious empty talk and often foul comments is how completely hypocritical they are. His girth and bulging jowls notwithstanding, Moore is not your average Hollywood do nothing, who has nothing. But when he tries to tell media representatives, and Bernie supporters and all who would listen that he knows how Americans really feel about inequality and economics, it is mind-bending-half-witted. What should be more alarming is that Michael Moore, by his words and association links himself with the sociopolitical and economically deprived. For Moore to include himself with them is more than a bit arrogant, don’t you think? I would suggest Moore spend more time analyzing Trumponomics than looking to left-wing politicians to solve the people’s problems. Finally, to Moore and his leftist politico besties I suggest he and they who label Trump a racist, xenophobe, traitor, tyrant, an enemy of the state, you must be factually correct to be morally correct.

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