Corona Freak-Out Number 2.0 May be Resisted This Time By Chris Knight (Florida)
Depending upon the source, we are entering round 2 of the Wuhan flu, thought by those who do some thinking still, as generated by the massive Black Lives Matter protests antifa riots. As I typed those words, a news item popped up to the right of the Word document, proclaiming Victoria having 75 new coronavirus cases, and who knows what tomorrow. Indeed, the item has just disappeared before I could even read it, I was in such a typing frenzy. Anyway, there is also no doubt that the fury seen in the BLM antifa rioting was influenced by lock-down, creating lots of manic energy that was simply waiting to be released. Any event involving a Black would have done, but the Floyd case was magic, having a white cop display brutality. Never mind about record numbers of Blacks in Chicago and Baltimore killing each other; those Black lives don’t seem to matter. With BLM in the US really getting into the 1960s revival of protests, Covid-19 cases will increase.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/covid-19-cases-spike-nationally-black-lives-matter-plans-more-rallies-marches
“Though coronavirus cases are surging in some parts of the United States, many Black Lives Matter activists are nonetheless planning sizable rallies in the near future, defying public health concerns in favor of continuing what has become a month-long streak of aggressive public activism. The surge in coronavirus cases in some parts of the country — especially Texas, Arizona and Florida — has brought with it renewed fears that any form of reopening states after months of lockdowns will bring a new wave of COVID-19 infections. The governors of Texas and Florida imposed fresh restrictions on residents this week in response to rising cases in their states, while other governors such as Washington's Jay Inslee mandated that all state residents must wear face masks while out in public.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/second-round-lockdowns-wont-be-easy-first
“The pressure is already mounting for state and local governments to move again toward coerced stay at home orders and mandatory business closures. The constant drumbeat of headlines designed to convince people to adopt new draconian government controls is more of less exactly the same as what it was back in March. Arizona "lost control of the epidemic" one headline proclaims, while another insists "ICU beds full." A government bureaucrat in Texas says the situation is "apocalyptic" and Bloomberg dutifully features the word in its headline. The governor of California is threatening another stay-at-home order. The Texas governor has re-imposed some restrictions. Florida has "paused" its scaling back of lockdown edicts. Americans should expect more of this as the year proceeds. Once we arrive at September, hospitalizations due to the usual winter diseases like flu will begin to mount. At that point, the daily headlines about "full" or nearly-full hospitals will be a daily or even hourly occurrence. There is no doubt politicians and government "experts" like Anthony Fauci will briefly emerge from their luxury homes and gated communities to demand that middle class and working class Americans be once again forced to abandon their jobs, take pay cuts, and sit at home. (The politicians decreeing lockdowns, of course, will keep collecting their six-figure salaries.) But there's a problem with the politicos' plans. They assume Americans will comply with the stay-at-home orders to the same degree they did back in March and April. This may not be a very prudent assumption. This will be due to at least two reasons. First, more Americans now doubt the official narrative on the disease. Second, Americans are now in a worse economic position compared to the time of the first lockdown. Both of these factors will contribute to more resistance to lockdowns. In other words, a second lockdown will be more difficult - both economically and politically - than the first. Economic pain will mount as political doubts grow.
The Economic Threat
A second round of lockdowns also poses a very large economic risk to families. Advocates of coercive lockdowns have long tried to portray opponents of lockdowns as just "people who want a haircut." The reality is a lot more grim than that, however, and the threat to the economic well-being of many families is going to make a second round of lockdowns far worse than the first. Many Americans voluntarily complied the first time around because they were starting from a relatively good economic position. The politicians kept assuring them it was all just for "two weeks" or maybe even a month. After all, when the lockdowns began, the economy was at very high levels of employment. The US was in the waning days of the boom phase of a boom-bust cycle. But it was nonetheless still in the boom phase. Since the spring lockdowns began, 40 million Americans have become unemployed. Twenty million of them are still unemployed, and more than 1.3 million Americans became newly unemployed over the past week. Tax revenue has also plummeted reflecting the downward spiral in Americans' income. The bankruptcies are now mounting. In recent weeks, just some of the companies that have declared bankruptcy are J.Crew, Gold's Gym, Neiman Marcus, Hertz, GNC, and Chuck E. Cheese. Thousands of retail locations for these companies will be closed. Their staffs will be laid off.
The idea that everyone can just "work from home," of course, has always been a fantasy of the well-off. The work-from-home myth is especially damaging for lower-income workers and for blacks and Hispanics. Moreover, if school closures remain, many parents who rely on government schools as a type of "free" day care will find themselves without schools as a resource. So far, all of this has been cushioned by outlandish fiscal and monetary "stimulus" designed to bailout bankrupted industries, small businesses and households. Households have received stimulus checks as incomes dried up or were reduced. The federal budget is likely to top ten trillion this year (well more than double last-year's budget) as a result of literally trillions of new dollars being created out of thin air to finance the stimulus checks and bailouts. If lockdowns are imposed again, expect even more "stimulus," bringing the federal budget to 12 trillion, or maybe 14 trillion. There will be no end in sight. But apparently-endless money printing can't continue indefinitely. At some point the upward pressure on interest rates, and concerns over the value of the dollar, become so great that even Congress and the Fed fear another round of stimulus. If that comes this year, household finances will immediately collapse. More businesses will go under. Jobs will dry up. 30 percent of Americans already missed their house payments in June. Expect that to get a lot worse if lockdown mandates are tightened again. And as economic turmoil becomes worse expect more of what resulted during the lockdowns of March and April: more child abuse, more suicide, more drug overdoses. Expect more death from non-COVID causes as "elective" medical care is banned by executive order.
The New Lockdowns Will Be Longer
Also complicating the situation is the fact that if lockdowns are tightened now, the duration of the lockdowns will likely last well beyond the month or two of lockdowns initially promised. Hospitalizations for a wide variety of diseases (not just COVID-19) will only get worse as the northern hemisphere approaches flu season three months from now. At that point, the end of the 2020-21 flu season will still be a long way away. If the current plan for the "experts" and the politicians is to impose a six- or eight-month lockdown until next summer, get ready for an economic depression of unprecedented proportions. The lockdown advocates have always claimed the economy would survive relatively unscathed because the job losses and closures were just "temporary." Their narrative claimed workers would only be furloughed for a couple of months and then the recovery would begin. But what if they get their wish for an open-ended lockdown that continues from mid-summer through May of next year? After all, that is the reality we're looking at if rising hospitalizations justify lockdowns. We'll be looking at month after month of mounting unemployment.”
We are seeing inconsistent reports even at the same websites, indicating the continuous controversial nature of Covid-19. Thus, here is one report that the bug is getting less deadly, which makes evolutionary sense, since if it knocks off its host, it too will disappear. Over time most diseases get less deadly, not more:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-28-coronavirus-less-deadly-adapts-human-hosts-no-vaccine-necessary.html
“A professor and infectious disease expert from Italy says that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is already fizzling out, and that a vaccine for it will probably already be obsolete by the time it arrives. Matteo Bassetti, head of the infectious disease unit at the Policlinico San Martino Hospital in Italy told the British media that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus, as it is also called, is rapidly losing virulence and could disappear completely without any further intervention. Since the novel virus is already showing signs of decline in terms of infection severity, it is only a matter of time before it becomes a non-issue entirely, with no vaccine necessary. “The clinical impression I have is that the virus is changing in severity,” he told The Telegraph (UK). As it turns out, the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) was much more serious back in March and early April than it is now, with current patterns suggesting it to be far less serious than other common illnesses. “Now, in the past four weeks, the picture has completely changed in terms of patterns. There could be a lower viral load in the respiratory tract, probably due to a genetic mutation in the virus which has not yet been demonstrated scientifically. Also, we are now more aware of the disease and able to manage it.””
But then there is this:
https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-28-mutated-virus-more-infectious.html
“More than 10 million people are now infected by COVID-19. Researchers are still trying to learn more about the Wuhan virus, and with each published study, they get one step closer to developing a treatment that can put an end to the current pandemic.
SARS-CoV-2 mutation possibly linked to massive outbreaks
A new study by scientists at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida suggests that a genetic mutation in SARS-CoV-2, the viral pathogen responsible for COVID-19, significantly increases its ability to infect cells. The report, pre-published in bioRxiv, explains why outbreaks in Italy and New York spread faster than those seen earlier in the pandemic. The mutation, named D614G, increased the number of “spikes” on the coronavirus. These spikes, which comprise the virus’s crown or “corona,” interact with molecules on the surface of cells and enable the virus to invade its host. Having more spikes, noted the researchers, made the mutated virus more efficient at binding to and infecting cells. In fact, they found that it was nine times more infectious in vitro. “The number – or density – of functional spikes on the virus is 4 or 5 times greater due to this mutation,” said Hyeryun Choe, an immunology professor at Scripps Research and a co-author of the study. How the mutated coronavirus affects the severity of COVID-19 is still a subject for further exploration. But as co-author Michael Farzan explains, it’s not hard to believe that a connection exists. He noted that it’s too early to say at this point, but quickly added that the coronavirus changes slowly, so he doesn’t expect anything as dramatic as D614G to occur for a while. Farzan also believes that the mutated virus isn’t likely to become more deadly; rather, “just more efficient at propagating itself.” In their report, the team said the antibodies from the blood of recovered patients showed promise in treating the mutated coronavirus.
People with preexisting lung conditions more likely to be infected
In another study, scientists from the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil looked into why people with respiratory conditions are more likely to be infected with COVID-19. The study, published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, revealed that people with respiratory conditions, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pulmonary hypertension, and smokers have more ACE2 receptors in their lung cells than healthy people. ACE2 is a protein found in many cell types, including the lungs, heart, blood vessels and kidneys. In a healthy body, ACE2 modulates the activities of angiotensin II, a protein linked to high blood pressure and inflammation. Aside from regulating blood pressure and inflammation, ACE2 is also important in the wound healing process. SARS-CoV-2 “hijacks” these ACE2 receptors, binding to the receptors to gain entry into cells. The team reviewed lung cell genes from over 700 patients with respiratory conditions that have severe COVID-19 symptoms. In addition to having increased expression of ACE2 in the lungs, they found that these patients showed a higher viral load during the early stages of the disease than those with mild symptoms.”
Once again it is hard to predict where round two of the Wuhan freak-out will go, but it is possible that we will see more of the same, and an intensification of the draconian tactics being used against ordinary people, which never were put in place against the race protesters. I mean to say, we are told to stay in our kennels but those from the Left and antifa are free to gather in mass and burn down everything, maybe even our kennels. I suppose that lock-down means burning to death inside said kennel when antifa comes to commit murder and arson. But, do they think that toxic smoke protects against infection?
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