Unlike previous viral and bacterial pandemics with much higher mortality rates, Covid-19 is relatively tame.
For example, Septicemic plague is one of three bacterial plagues that kill 100% of untreated cases - men, women and children. This is the bacteria that wiped out almost 50% of the European population in 1347. Fortunately, medical science has advanced exponentially over the past 7 centuries. Today, Septicemic plagues are nipped in the bud.
Covid-19 is currently fatal to around 4% of those infected, and those are people most vulnerable to respiratory infections or with health conditions that hinder oxygen assimilation. Healthy adults and especially healthy children with robust immune systems and no pre-existing respiratory ailments are naturally protected from the ravages of Covid-19.
Currently, Covid has infected 0.1% of the world population and has killed 0.007%. IOW, Covid is not as deadly as we are being told. So, if, in the past 6 months, Covid has thus far killed 500,000 people world wide (tragic, of course), who is telling us Covid-19 is an unprecedented health crisis and why?
The answer is obvious.
The mandates assume that everyone is susceptible and threaten everyone with penalties for non-compliance regardless of susceptibility therefore everyone must protect themselves and others by wearing a mask and maintaining an arbitrary "social distance" of 6 feet (airborne Covid can travel as far as 20 feet in a light breeze such as that from an A/C system.)
The mandates are politically motivated. Fear mongering and media hype are forcing everyone into believing they are victims - where have we heard that before - yet the mandates didn't end with just requiring masks and social distances. The damage politicization of Covid-19 has done to the American people extends far beyond reason and common sense and even beyond any scientific or medical solution to the problem. The economic consequences of masks, distancing, quarantines, lock downs and stay-at-home orders far exceed those of the Covid threat.
As always happens when a "crisis" like this is politicized, the door opens wide to unintended consequences.
. . . . the fashion industry has capitalised on the crisis by turning their factories into mask and PPE-making facilities. As previously seen during the bushfire crisis, designer brands are turning a profit from face-masks, with those from higher-end brands selling for just under $US200 and on ebay for upwards of $US250. These masks are manufactured under the same exploitative conditions as other products of the garment industry, with women and girls in developing societies often working under slave-like conditions. Only a few weeks ago, workers in factories making clothes for Zara and Primark in Myanmar were fired after forming unions — the reason management gave was related COVID-19 austerity measures.
At the other end of the market, many small businesses and newly unemployed workers have begun to sew facial masks in an attempt to survive the economic recession, while some community organisations are making masks to give away to those on low-incomes.Email scammers are bombarding low-income elderly with all kinds of "miracle" preventions and cures. For a price.
By no means is this the end of it. Face coverings afford the individual with public anonymity and criminals are capitalizing on it. Remember the Wild West bandidos? They weren't wearing masks to keep out dust or prevent viral infections, they wore them to make identification more difficult.
Coronavirus Masks a Boon for Crooks Who Hide Their Faces"There's a troubling new reality for law enforcement in the age of the coronavirus."
These days, they can keep the masks on and blend in easily with or without being “captured” in images.
“The video is much less useful if we are unable to see a face,” said Carlos Marquez, a detective division commander in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, in an email.
It's leaving law enforcement without a crucial crime-solving tool.One example.
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