Ignore... then panic

We have chosen death AND disaster

This is a New York politician above.

When Trump shut down Chinese travel, we were told it was fear-mongering. “It’s not who we are,” said Joe Biden, his opponent in the coming election.

Now the media and American politicians are saying we didn’t do enough early on.

Experts knew this was coming over a decade ago. China’s wet markets have been a time-bomb. Just as nobody really called them out on poaching abalone or rhino horn, we just assumed it was okay to sell and eat live rats.

Now, after burying our heads in the sand, the powers that be are shutting down whole countries and cities.

We didn’t need to be here.

When the WHO was busy covering for China, and everybody was being told closing borders doesn’t work, we could have all shut down travel, quarantined travelers, tested for medicines and vaccines. Instead anybody saying this was accused of being a conspiracy theorist.

We ignored it earlier. This meant we would inevitably have deaths.

We are panicking now, when the virus is already here, and our original models of deaths are wrong. And so the inevitable deaths will now be accompanied by economic and social disaster.

We ignored, then we panicked - without even having accurate data.

Spain’s tests hastily bought from China are not even working. The chief expert in the UK can’t make up his mind whether millions or a few thousand will die. Other experts from Oxford say he has been wrong the whole time.

Look what is happening in the US. The graph represents jobless claims.

This is coming for us.

And last night the coordinator of the US response, Dr Deborah Birx, who was Ambassador-at-Large and United States Global AIDS Coordinator under Obama, has undercut everything we have been seeing and hearing on social media about the situation in the US:

Washington Examiner @dcexaminer

"The predictions of the models don't match the reality on the ground in either China, South Korea, or Italy. We're about 5x the size of Italy. If we were Italy, and you did those divisions, Italy should have close to 400k deaths. They're not close to achieving that." – Dr. Birx

And again:

CSPAN @cspan

Dr. Birx on ventilators in New York: "To wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating DNR situations, Do-Not-Resuscitate situations for patients -- there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion."

We can still hope for a massive scientific breakthrough. Tests have already offered hydroxychloroquine as having massive potential:

Gregory Rigano @RiganoESQ

@elonmusk @DiderRaoult @realDonaldTrump @NYGovCuomo @SigmundFriedri1 @IHU_Marseille @laprovence UPDATE Sir @raoult_didier MD PhD patient mortality rate: .4% (5/1300) World: 4.4% France: 4.9% USA: 1.4% S. Korea: 1.3% Disseminate to scientific community immediately 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=nb-O8O…

youtube.comCoronavirus Toxicity of Treatments, Mortality rateProfessor Didier Raoult describes the toxicity of hydroxychloroquine treatment and covid-19 mortality rate.

(Turn subtitles on for video above.)

India has banned exporting this drug now so they can use their own supply for their population. Novartis is donating masses of it to the world.

But a man died after drinking fish tank cleaner because he saw a version of quinine was an ingredient, and now it is being declared unsafe.

Politicians are even banning it, and citing the CHINESE study mentioned below:

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays

Don't believe any news out of China saying the cheap malaria drugs are ineffective but coincidentally some China-made shit will fix you up right away. Assume disinformation until confirmed by outside scientists (and they might be bought off too).

www3.nhk.or.jpChina: Avigan effective in tackling coronavirus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN NewsChina’s government researchers say they have found the Japanese-developed anti-flu drug Avigan effective in treating patients infected with the new coronavirus and will promote its use.

Yet there are plenty of reports of it working. See here.

Another source of hope: The UK could soon produce an antibody drug that can be taken at home. If it shows you have already had Covid-19, you could return to normal life.

I feel I have taken this story as far as I can for a while. Taking a break while I head into lockdown.

If you’re looking for some reading, watching, listening recommendations, here you go.

God be with us all - especially our leaders.