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Wuhan Coronavirus, How it Affects Us
There is much hysteria in the counter-claims and political posturing this election year, and the Wuhan coronavirus has been a major excuse. We need to get back to some basic facts about it, and the effect it has on America.
First, approx. 2.8 million Americans die every year. The number of patients dying of Wuhan virus is high, even shocking during peak transmission, but the fact is most of the deaths are the elderly and those with ‘serious co-morbidities’ – conditions likely to cause death, in any age group. It may be “mean-spirited” to say, but many, perhaps even most, of the victims of this virus were likely to die anyway within the foreseeable future. It is an “Immune Deficiency disease” though “pneumonia” is the primary cause of death. We will see how it really effects the annual death rate. And there is a financial input, because Medicaid will pay for any Coronavirus Death, it is very beneficial for a hospital to list the death of an uninsured patient as Coronavirus, even if the major cause was something else.
The Wuhan virus is highly contagious, and little understood because it is new. And most of the info we got from China, the UN, and WHO was false. In the last few weeks we are learning there are many infected who have NO symptoms, as well as many healthy people that have few mild symptoms, and simply “tough it out” like a cold or “Seasonal Flues”. Some folks have a higher resistance, others dose with vitamins, Commercial “cures”, and home-remedies; and sometimes these work. We are discovering tens of thousands of people that had it, because the testing is getting better. The US leads the world in Corona Testing now.
America must get back to work. Basic Logistics, like food-supply depend on it. Conditions vary widely, it is stupid to compare New Jersey – densely populated with less than 9 million people, with Texas and 30.5 million in a huge and varied state. No, “It’s not fair!”, it is a VIRUS! NJ has 4 times the cases and 9 times the deaths for less than a third of the number of people. Different type country and different people, different climate, and different attitudes. Warm weather, sunlight, and high humidity are known to kill the virus, quickly. Minutes compared to hours inside. Salt air and water are known to be natural “disinfectants”. We need to get outdoors more. Vitamin D, from sunlight, is known to strengthen the immune system. That is a factor in the “Herd Immunity”, we don’t have an artificial, commercial vaccine, so we better use what we have. The bottom line is America MUST get back to work! So the places that can, should. And it is not “Statewide” either – Houston is a mess, so is the Dallas area and the Austin-San Antonio corridor, but Refugio has 1 case(s), Aransas County has 2, We have 36 total cases with 11 active on 5/8. Statewide- 35,390 total cases, but only 15,997 active. One size does not fit all! Improved Testing is pushing the Total Case numbers higher by including people that had it but no serious symptoms. Hospitals are using Corona as Cause of Death to collect from Medicaid. The Average Age of Corona deaths is 75, usually with co-morbitity conditions.
The most important lesson from this Wuhan Chicom Virus is we must rethink our “trading” with China. Whether this is a Bioweapon and released intentionally is open to debate. The “release” was most probably accidental, since the Chicoms have no vaccine or “cure” either; but the mere research, development, and possession is proof of nefarious intent! The Cover-up and lying to WHO and the UN is absolutely inexcusable! The refusal of allowing our Virologists to study it and the lying about actual data and the effects has made a minor outbreak into a ‘Pandemic’ world-wide. While the ChiComs forbade travel from Wuhan to other parts of China, they allowed people to go to other parts of the world, especially Europe, Canada, and the USA. Many went to Canada to get to the USA after Trump’s Travel Ban from China. Also the Chinese were a major exporter of medical supplies and Personal Protection Equipment before this happened, but became a hoarder and net-importer from unsuspecting countries, than raised the prices, also selling inferior, even worthless goods and test kits. They threatened to stop deliveries of contracted sales of drugs and PPE to the US, unless we did things they wanted. They even tried to blame the US, and even Italy, for the Wuhan Virus in some of their Propaganda “News”. But, one fact was released, the Obama Admin had given $2.7 Million to the Wuhan labs, and some of the samples. Reports say that is where the HIV/AIDs cultures came from, that “some-how got mixed in” the Bat Virus.
We must bring all our Medical Supply manufacturing back to the USA! All the Drugs, Vitamins, & food supplements. We simply can not trust the Chinese, They have proven they will use their supply as a ‘Bargaining chip’ when we have the greatest need. It is stupid to trust any computer or radio circuitry from China. These are used even in our weapons-systems and radars, and may have “back-doors” for “Fail-on-command” by radio or micro-wave. China needs our markets to continue their military expansion, we must cut that off. We need to re-industrialize for National Security as well as economic sense. Money has velocity where it circulates to build growth, we need it here, not sending it to our Sworn Enemy, the Chinese Communists. They have just demonstrated another front in their development of “Unconventional Warfare”. We must stop accepting ChiCom students in our universities, giving them internships and jobs in our technology and defense industries for them to learn and steal all our industrial “secrets”. Basically we must start treating the ChiComs the same way we did the Soviet Union! It is not “Racist” or “xenophobic”, it is simply common sense; they have declared themselves for years to be our sworn enemy and their intent to take over Asia and eventually the world. It is Marxist Totalitarianism we are supporting with our trade, and they are pushing it around the world, even supporting it in our colleges and universities. It is economic, cultural, and national suicide to ignore the reality of this any longer!
