Here's an alternate analysis of what is actually going on with the pandemic situation.
The only sure thing about the virus is that only a small fraction of the people infected die.
The biggest problem appears to be to find out who is infected and who is not.
It is possible that over the years, some variant of the corona virus has infected all of us as the flu virus. It has mutated into Covid 19 in some people. The defensive microbes in some of us have suppressed it to the point of it being undetectable, while being lethal in others.
The Covid 19 variant is picking off the vulnerable among us.
Efforts to develop a vaccine are commendable, but too late for some.
President Trump is probably right in questioning the efforts of the UN's World Health Organization.
Monday, 1 June 2020
Sunday, 31 May 2020
That's Riot!
Those riots just had to happen because of the lock-downs. It took longer than it might have.
The hooligans might be asked, "How would you react if the policeman with his knee on the prisoner's neck had been black?".
How about if the victim had been white?
Ridiculous situation, but it is obvious that the hooligans do not see themselves as Americans. They see themselves as underprivileged blacks living in an oppressive white society..
The rest of the mob with multicolored skin are just hooligans looking for an opportunity to gang up and break things. And with all the restrictions in place, the ganging up was inevitable.
The hooligans might be asked, "How would you react if the policeman with his knee on the prisoner's neck had been black?".
How about if the victim had been white?
Ridiculous situation, but it is obvious that the hooligans do not see themselves as Americans. They see themselves as underprivileged blacks living in an oppressive white society..
The rest of the mob with multicolored skin are just hooligans looking for an opportunity to gang up and break things. And with all the restrictions in place, the ganging up was inevitable.
Saturday, 16 May 2020
Blame China?
People looking around for someone to blame for the pandemic seem to zero in on the Chinese.
Hey, it's a pandemic. It requires nothing more than a heavily-populated area to assert its presence. China is heavily populated. May be that the next wipeout will begin in India, or Africa.
The job of a pandemic is to cull the human herd, and it is doing that efficiently by reducing the marginally functional fringe.
Hey, it's a pandemic. It requires nothing more than a heavily-populated area to assert its presence. China is heavily populated. May be that the next wipeout will begin in India, or Africa.
The job of a pandemic is to cull the human herd, and it is doing that efficiently by reducing the marginally functional fringe.
Monday, 11 May 2020
Climate Change?
We're definitely undergoing sweeping climate change. Certainly, it's not Global Warming.
We are all waiting for that spring-like weather. The trees are waiting to leaf out. The daffodils, which were encouraged to blossom during a cool, sunny day last week, are facing the sun, looking cold and unhappy. There's no enthusiasm in their little faces.
Our Bing cherry, tired of waiting, has bloomed reluctantly. But the chances of producing cherries are slim with no insects around to carry pollen back and forth.
It's as though everything is on hold, waiting for Nature to announce that we are again open for business..
We are all waiting for that spring-like weather. The trees are waiting to leaf out. The daffodils, which were encouraged to blossom during a cool, sunny day last week, are facing the sun, looking cold and unhappy. There's no enthusiasm in their little faces.
Our Bing cherry, tired of waiting, has bloomed reluctantly. But the chances of producing cherries are slim with no insects around to carry pollen back and forth.
It's as though everything is on hold, waiting for Nature to announce that we are again open for business..
Thursday, 7 May 2020
Media Hype?
So recent figures of the world toll from the Covid 19 pandemic estimate it to be a relatively insignificant 205,000 as of Saturday nite.
205,000 out of a world population of an estimated 8 billion? That's hardly scary for a global panic of the proportions we have been drummed into enduring by the authorities.
World population was considerably smaller at the end of WWI when the Spanish Flu was claimed to have cost an estimated 20-50 million lives.
Did the presence of cell phones and electronic media hype in our current world stampede the human herd into an unwarranted level of panic?
205,000 out of a world population of an estimated 8 billion? That's hardly scary for a global panic of the proportions we have been drummed into enduring by the authorities.
World population was considerably smaller at the end of WWI when the Spanish Flu was claimed to have cost an estimated 20-50 million lives.
Did the presence of cell phones and electronic media hype in our current world stampede the human herd into an unwarranted level of panic?
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
Unsatisfactory Cure:
The US Prez warned that the cure for Covid 19 may be worse than the disease.
He's probably right. Someone at the UN warned that eventual fallout from the pandemic may be a famine of Biblical Proportions.
That, too, can happen, but not likely. Media reports plans growing in many administrations to get the economy moving. With great care, of course, but moving.
Greatest danger today is the negative mindset promoted so efficiently by politicians trying to look responsible and health authorities trying to look as though they know what they are doing.
Covid 19 sneaked up on everyone in the guise of the corona virus. And that is exactly what an efficient plague microbe is supposed to do. It is doing its job efficiently.
He's probably right. Someone at the UN warned that eventual fallout from the pandemic may be a famine of Biblical Proportions.
That, too, can happen, but not likely. Media reports plans growing in many administrations to get the economy moving. With great care, of course, but moving.
Greatest danger today is the negative mindset promoted so efficiently by politicians trying to look responsible and health authorities trying to look as though they know what they are doing.
Covid 19 sneaked up on everyone in the guise of the corona virus. And that is exactly what an efficient plague microbe is supposed to do. It is doing its job efficiently.
Thursday, 9 April 2020
Mobile Microbes:
There's a good chance the corona virus had infiltrated the human herd effectively long before we became aware of its presence. It is a modern microbe, taking full advantage of modern technology.
Its ancestors in no way would have been able to launch such an assault on a global scale. Like everybody else, they had to operate locally. There were no high-powered passenger jets moving globe-trotting human carriers to the far corners of the planet.
Think of the poor microbes of ages past, including bacteria, assigned to thin the human herd in densely populated areas. These included cities, large parishes, or just places with too many people.
Those microbes at first had no means of transit other than ox cart or footsmobile. Horses came later when people discovered they were more useful for transit than for food. Microbes carrying cholera, the Black Death, and the Bubonic Plague were unlikely to cross oceans and reduce human surpluses in other cultures..
As human technology grew, there came a time when microbes were able to hitch rides on trains and ships. That was during the steam era.
The microbes that introduced the Spanish flu took advantage of the sharp rise in technology that appeared in the course of the first World War 100 years ago.
There's little doubt that hydrocarbon-fuelled transportation and early aerial transit contributed something to the Spanish Flu's mobility. Those microbes took more lives around the planet than the war that facilitated it.
Curiously, the elders were not targeted. It was the youth who had not yet developed enough natural immunity who were decimated.
Of course, 100 years ago the elders were not as old nor in such a vulnerable condition as the elders are today.
The human species did not have such sophisticated medicine a hundred years ago. No doubt there were very few if any long-term care facilities full of ailing elders.
The Covid 19 microbes are not missing many opportunities. While the politicians posture heroically for the cameras and the medical authorities offer endless advice on how to avoid infection, it's all rather futile.
The rules and regulations launched almost daily to flatten the infection curve result only in extending the time it takes for the plague to do its job and disappear..
There's a real possibility they are slamming the gates shut long after the horses have run off..
Its ancestors in no way would have been able to launch such an assault on a global scale. Like everybody else, they had to operate locally. There were no high-powered passenger jets moving globe-trotting human carriers to the far corners of the planet.
Think of the poor microbes of ages past, including bacteria, assigned to thin the human herd in densely populated areas. These included cities, large parishes, or just places with too many people.
Those microbes at first had no means of transit other than ox cart or footsmobile. Horses came later when people discovered they were more useful for transit than for food. Microbes carrying cholera, the Black Death, and the Bubonic Plague were unlikely to cross oceans and reduce human surpluses in other cultures..
As human technology grew, there came a time when microbes were able to hitch rides on trains and ships. That was during the steam era.
The microbes that introduced the Spanish flu took advantage of the sharp rise in technology that appeared in the course of the first World War 100 years ago.
There's little doubt that hydrocarbon-fuelled transportation and early aerial transit contributed something to the Spanish Flu's mobility. Those microbes took more lives around the planet than the war that facilitated it.
Curiously, the elders were not targeted. It was the youth who had not yet developed enough natural immunity who were decimated.
Of course, 100 years ago the elders were not as old nor in such a vulnerable condition as the elders are today.
The human species did not have such sophisticated medicine a hundred years ago. No doubt there were very few if any long-term care facilities full of ailing elders.
The Covid 19 microbes are not missing many opportunities. While the politicians posture heroically for the cameras and the medical authorities offer endless advice on how to avoid infection, it's all rather futile.
The rules and regulations launched almost daily to flatten the infection curve result only in extending the time it takes for the plague to do its job and disappear..
There's a real possibility they are slamming the gates shut long after the horses have run off..
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