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| DATE | 2020-04-15 |
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Off the Hook: Wuhan(covid-19) virus and your
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Who was this addrssed to originally?
On 4/15/20 4:55 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> You have the analysis COMPLETELY wrong with regards to this virus.
>
> None of the nations that thus far got this under control, which is
> nobody actually if you understand epidemiology, did so with nationwide
> lock downs. They did it the hard way, buy tracking the disease, and
> isolating infectious pockets and sources, just as they did in the old
> days, but with more technology. And your over playing the deadliness of
> this virus. As a fact, if you go by the science, this is a moderately
> deadly virus, on the scale of pre-vacination measles, and purtusis.
> Look it up on Wikipedia if your uncertain of this. This virus, while
> deadly, is not the kind of disease that should shutdown western
> civilization. That is just hysterical propaganda. Saying that it will
> kill millions of 'souls', that is just not that unusual for diseases,
> not historically, or even currently. Medical people deal with death
> from disease all the time, every day.
>
> The universal lock up is very unhealthy for people. It results in
> deaths and suffering. The economic disaster we currently are suffering
> from will also kill people and make them suffer. The most important
> facet in protecting ourselves from a virus like this is a rapid response
> with a strong economy. Without that, we are just fodder for the virus.
>
> It also doesn't take a genius to understand that if the virus is exposed
> to lockdown, it will just return. NOBODY argues this fact. In fact, it
> will mutate and return worst than currently, because the only virus
> mutations that survive will last longer in the open air, and have other
> means to transmission that overcomes our method. Also, versions of the
> virus that are most deadly propage themselves in hospitals. So, what we
> are doing is a time bomb. Not only is our strategy not going to work,
> but it will perpetuate itself as the "New Normal", and it will become
> increasingly easier to transmit and increasingly virulent. And then
> there are animal reservoirs, which is never discussed in the media. And
> then there is the NEXT virus. Accepting this as the "new Normal" is a
> dangerous precedent, and I will not accept it.
>
> You need to ask yourself how long we are going to be willing to undergo
> isolation because of a virus, that at worst has a mortality rate of
> 0.67% of the total population? 6 months? A year? What about the young
> children who are going through vital social development at this time?
> There are a generation of 6 month olds and year old children that need
> to have vital social interaction in order to properly and healthy
> develop? How much longer can our mothers and families suffer under this
> duress?
>
> I was surprised to hear your broadcast in support for this hysteria and
> blaming the President. Whether in favor of Trump, or against him, no
> other administration would have, up until now, handled this much
> differently. You may not be focused on this currently, but both
> Presidents and hospital morbidity and mortality boards constantly get
> memos about catastrophic scenarios. We are increasingly looking at a
> political situation much like Ah Pook the Destroyer[1]. The only means
> of protecting ourselves is not to isolate ourselves, but increase
> spending on healthcare, hospital beds, vaccination technology, and good
> old fashion nursing. That, and shutting down trade with Communist China
> which continues to perpetuate conditions that encourage the exposure to
> the world of these kind of diseases, which stamps on human rights, rapes
> the environment, and represses their own people, and are directly
> culpable for this pandemic, are what we should do to to prevent this
> from happening again. But no one was willing to close down trade with
> China. Are you proposing that?
>
> We do need more science. We do not need more hysteria. And we don't
> need our myopically focused 'experts' making broad decisions and to be
> in charge of the messaging. It is terrible that millions of people will
> die of this disease, but it is not particularly unusual, and it is not
> cause to shut down all of civilization.
>
> We do need to take reasonable precautions not to aggravate the damage
> from this disease. We can't, however, be shutting down everyone forever
> in the desperate hope that this virus will then just 'go away'. This is
> a dangerous fantasy fed by misunderstanding the data. Quarantines have
> diminishing returns. Vaccinations, Sanitation, and anti-microbial drug
> are the tools used to fight infectious disease. People need to
> understand this virus is NEVER going away and the best tools we have to
> fight this virus is a healthy social structure, sound economics, and
> support for the working class, who is taking this on the chin the worst.
> We can't accomplish that by staying holed up in our homes. In
> addition, human beings can't do this anyway.
>
> You Do, I hope, understand that people can not remain locked up in their
> houses for long periods of time, especially in highly urbanized
> societies that function through human interdependence. This is not a
> Jeffersonian utopia of yeoman farmers living independently off the land,
> caucusing only on occasion when bartering our milk and cheese.
>
> All the social messaging in the world can't change that. The idea of
> using social messaging as a tool for repressing peoples freedoms is a
> tool of the left, one which China is well acquainted with. I openly
> oppose it. Human beings need their freedom more for then just for
> political needs and Democracy, but they also must have freedom for there
> mental health, and their fundamental humanity.
>
> This lockout needs to end... now. Government needs to get serious about
> getting vaccinations up and going as if people are going to die, because
> they are. They need to ramp up the hospital beds, as they are needed.
> They need to normalize the mortuaries, and the medical work shifts, to
> handle this up tick in Wuhan(covid-19) virus cases. And then we must
> reevaluate our economic relationship with China, and travel regulations
> with the far east, especially when it has to do with healthcare
> products, like drugs, masks and ventilators.
>
> For further comment on this please see http://www.brooklyn-liivng.com/
>
> Ruben Safir
>
> [1] Ah Pook is here - William S. Burroughs:
>
> We have a new type of rule now. Not one man rule, or rule of
> aristocracy, or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of
> absolute power by random pressures and subject to political and economic
> factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of
> abstract forces who’ve reached power through surrender of self. The
> iron-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more
> Stalins, no more Hitlers. The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds
> are rulers by accident inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a
> vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them
> which buttons to push.
>
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