Cowards Die a Thousand Times

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To all the people out there who realize the lock-down must end (and end sooner rather than later) but are worried that so many more people will die (I highly doubt that), I wrote this:

I don't know if this will help, but you are overlooking a few things: 1) a VAST majority of people under 60 (and a majority of those 60-70) are not dying from this. Most of the people who died from this are residents of nursing home that were ordered (by the governor) to take in live corona patients.
2) The virus only infects someone if it is looking for a new host. People who have gone through it and come out the other end unscathed are not appropriate hosts. (Neither are those who died, BTW) That then means there are fewer and fewer people who can still get the virus. Most people who have the infection have such mild symptoms that they don't even know they had it. Immunity for these people comes the natural way -- through the immune system doing its job -- developing antibodies, destroying or weakening pathogens. The more pathogens there are antibodies for, the less likely one is to get an infection.
3) The "lock-down" would only make sense if more people were dying from the infection than from the "lock-down". If you take into account all the extra people dying of hunger (maybe not in the US, but in the world) more are dying from the effects of the "lock-down" and the economic issues it's causing. We don't know even if the "lock-down" ended today and immediately if the food supply chain will survive (it's already quite damaged). For the most part, I doubt people would rather die of starvation.

There's more, but I hope I've made my point. This is not even counting the damage this has done to faith in the government, damage to our civil rights and liberty, and the fact that anyone can voluntarily buckle down at home (most of the people ok with this still have jobs whether they are going out for them or doing them on line -- they are still getting a paycheck) etc.

So don't worry. It's only the people who don't trust the judgment of the American people, who are lying about the death "toll", who are trying to see how far they can push us (I think we've, for the most part, reached that point) by taking away their G-d given liberties and constitution supported rights. Don't fall for it. Too many people are falling for fear. We can't go through life afraid of our shadows. You can't totally escape death. It'll find you.

Keep in mind what Shakespeare says in Julius Caesar: “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.”(copied and pasted from Wikipedia).

Benjamin Franklin is Whirling Dervishly in his Grave

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Once upon a time, back in the days of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, the grand old man of the Continental Congress, a self-made man in business, science and even philosophy said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Apparently, most people in the US either don't know this statement. I don't know exactly what the wise Mr. Franklin had in mind when he said this (assuming he was the one who originally said it), but I'm looking at it now and I'm connecting it, in my mine, to the Corona Virus. I find it amazing how quickly and completely the American people decided they could give up everything, all our civil rights, all our freedom, because people were dying (unnecessarily) of a virus.

I'm sorry to break this to you all, but people die every day. People die from auto accidents and no one has yet suggested that we all leave our cars home, stop bus and train lines and walk everywhere. People die from the flu and people go about their usual day to day routines. Strangely enough, people die of diabetes, but no on suggests that sugar be pulled from grocery stores.

But with the corona virus, instead of checking out the statistics, instead of finding out what's really happening, most people are very content and more than ready to give up their rights (and other people's). They won't listen to people who have interpreted the data differently from the "chicken littles" of the world.

So far during this crisis (government created crisis, I might add), I've read (and heard) several pieces (articles and videos) from medical experts and doctors to data experts and (medical) reporters, all of them questioning the deadliness of the corona virus. Italy, for example, with their high percentage of fatalities, is the second "oldest" (as in the second highest population of "aged" citizens, second to Japan) and they smoke a lot. This is one reason Italy has a high fatality rate. Another reason is they had a direct connection to Wuhan.

I also read/heard (in more than one place) that the death statistics are being skewed in two major ways -- 1) They are only counting people who were tested with corona virus. With the supposed shortage of testing kits, only people who are hospitalized and in "bad shape" are being tested (a friend of mine and her sons most likely had the virus -- and pneumonia -- but the doctor wouldn't test them because they weren't sure if they were exposed to anyone with the corona virus). 2) Doctors were told to put "cause of death" for people who died with the corona virus even if they probably died from something else (like cancer, heart attack, stroke, etc.).

In any case, even this year, there are a lot more people dying of the flu.

Any time I say I think people are over reacting, I get attacked verbally. I'm irresponsible, I'm self-centered (mind you, I'm in two "vulnerable" categories -- my age and I'm diabetic). I live by myself (now that my Mom passed away and my Dad just died from the corona virus -- this is another story), I've never been married so I have no husband, no kids, not even a roommate. I'm also a keto vegan -- most of my diet is organic "above-ground" vegetables and nuts. So I have to do my own shopping. Other people won't know what they can and can't substitute so that I can eat it and not waste from the little bit of money I have for food right now.

I'm not concerned with the virus, quite honestly. I"m most concerned about people's attitudes, how people are reacting to my statements that I think people are overreacting, that people are not getting the real statistics, they're getting the skewed statistics. But instead of saying something like agree to disagree or maybe it helps to stay home anyway or whatever doesn't make it feel like they think I don't care about people they just say nasty things about me.

I'm not the only person who thinks there is over reaction here. I truly believe that this has to do with the whole Vaccine industry, so to speak. We are raising a generation of young people who think getting "sick" (with an infectious "disease") it going to kill them. The pharmaceutical industry has people so convinced that vaccines are the saviors of the world (trust me, they're not) and that people die from measles, mumps and even chicken pox (I had all of these) that they are worried about any little infectious disease. Don't they understand that a majority of their parents, grandparents, etc. survived these infectious diseases for a long time, particularly since sanitation? Probably not since not even doctors in this generation know these things.

I have to thank Dennis Prager. Though he doesn't know me (and I've never met him, even on line, though I would love to) he has helped make going from a life-long Democrat and Liberal to a "card-carrying" conservative Republican in the last 2-3 years bearable (I lost a lot of my friends, particularly on-line friends, though I have a whole new group of friends).

One of the things Dennis Prager just said is that freedom is something we have to want and we have to earn. Most people would prefer to be taken care of. I can understand that. I a relatively intelligent person but I can't figure out how to earn a living. Even being very computer literate, I can't seem to make a living with my writing, 

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I am currently watching an episode of "Cold Case". This episode is about a woman who was killed the night of the "War of the Worlds" broadcast on the radio. Orson Welles was reading the HG Wells book over the radio and dramatizing it. But people believed it was the end of the world. 
It's funny (ironic) that this episode should come up while I'm writing this blog entry. This is what I feel is going on right now.

Right now, a large percentage of the people have been convinced, whether by friends or by news reports etc., that we are in the midst of a pandemic that is on the level of the black plague (a disease that killed an estimated 75-200 million people in Europe during the 14th Century). So far, this "plague" is quite a bit short of this figure.

During the "War of the Worlds" broadcast, people created the fear in their heads. They believed that there really were martians coming to New Jersey to conquer and destroy the earth. Many people today believe that staying in their homes hiding from the world is essential to their survival. But not only is it not good for you, particularly for the quantity of time we have been allowing the government to rule our lives (about 2 months so far), but it isn't even neutral, it is bad. It is bad because NOT being exposed to bacteria and viruses doesn't allow our immune system to strengthen from exposure. Not strengthening our immune system makes us weaker. Not getting out in the sun makes us weaker because it leads to Vitamin D deficiency (nota bene: I read an article that stated it appears that what is separating the people who are living from the people who are dying is those who are dying are more likely to have a vitamin D deficiency.

It's ironic that so many of the "safety protocols", those being mandated by the government or those being encouraged by TV commercials are actually making things worse. I hate to keep mentioning Dennis Prager (OK, no I don't) but his recent "fireside chats" have been saying the same things about this "crisis" and lockdown situation pretty much what I've been saying from the beginning. This is a link to the most recent Fireside Chat. What Mr. Prager has been saying is what I'm hearing in the not-so-mainstream media.
I hope people start to realize what is really happening and keep it from happening ever again,