The Turning of the Tide

At an unnecessary cost.

Above you see the castle at Ferrara in Italy.

In the plague of 1576, the town experienced zero deaths.

How? When the plague ravaged their neighbours, they shut their borders. They did not ban inward travel completely, but stationed guards and doctors at all entry points.

And they managed to continue all trade.

This was exactly what I proposed when I heard about the Wuhan flu. We should have shut the borders immediately. Tracked and quarantined those exposed. And continued our lives with basic precautions. Washing hands and avoiding mass gatherings.

Instead we kept borders open and shut down trade. People herded into hospitals and got terribly sick. Many have died around the world. We ignored, then panicked. And the planes are still flying!

Paul Joseph Watson @PrisonPlanet

While we're all under de facto house arrest, flights continue to land at Heathrow every minute, including ones from China. Who is even on these planes?

Now look at this, after we have possibly destroyed our economy:

Dr Zweli Mkhize @DrZweliMkhize

The total number of positive cases are 1380, an Increase of 27 cases from yesterday’s announcement

Some would say the lockdown has worked! It hasn’t. We are not into the second week. The incubation period should have caused a huge spike by now. The lockdown has had no time to work yet. Yet the numbers are way lower than anybody predicted. Flattening the curve is turning out to be meaningless.

Let’s see what else our health minister has to say:

Dr Zweli Mkhize @DrZweliMkhize

Right now we don’t have a crisis. So we are preparing and focusing on what might go wrong. Whilst looking into the future we must not confuse you into thinking that the worst is actually going to happen. We need to have a balance

Dr Zweli Mkhize @DrZweliMkhize

The reality is we have not admitted many patients. We have admitted 55 so far. But we must be ready.

Whilst this ‘crisis’ has been underway, we’ve gone to junk status and cops are joking about shooting people. And then there is this horrific story:

Richard Spoor @Richard_Spoor

One of my employees has a 20 year old son Thabo. Thabo is under curatorship due to a severe brain injury that left him substantially impaired. Today the police beat him up and arrested him at his older brothers spare shop for allegedly breaking the lock down regulations.

People are predicting the US economy is set to shrink by over 10%, yet we are already seeing reporting that the modelling of deaths is set to be wrong.

The New York Times has reported that massive medical centre in Los Angeles has seen an increase of five Covid-19 ICU patients a day from 50 two weeks ago to 116 today.

What about stats from a major New York hospital, Maimonides, in Brooklyn, New York. Let’s go to the New York Post for this one:

You read the above correctly. This hospital has 14 more ICU patients than normal.

Here are the total figures from New York - but note the pre-existing conditions!

Yes, there are people dying. Yes, this is an awful medical emergency. But our reaction from our political leaders has not been rational. Read this commentary on the insane statements coming from the UN:

Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson

Is this an April Fool’s joke? The worst crisis since WW2? Worse than the threat of US/USSR nuclear war (Cuban Missile Crisis, anyone?)? Or HIV, which has killed ~40MM people, mostly young, and was untreatable for 15+ years? Does anyone have a memory more than 5 minutes anymore?

We have a world of useless information now. Nobody can put anything into any kind of historical perspective anymore. Maybe we should shut our failing schools down and just give our kids some books!

Long-term tracking of our lockdown, its unemployment ramifications, and the deaths caused thereby, is sure to shock generations to come.