As the Virus Spreads...

One of my predictions in my last blog has come true already.  Note:
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Yep, Iran is blaming Israel for creating the virus -- maybe with help from the US.  You heard it here first, folks!  No doubt the other Arab countries will fall in line with the same story.  Once those Israeli scientists at the Migal lab are turning out vaccines in job lots, we'll see if those same countries are willing to take the vaccine or if they refuse to be "contaminated" by "Jewish" medicine.  Nobody is mentioning the fact that Iran, even with its spotty history of medical testing, has an unusually large number of Covid-19 infected people -- and this is because the country has had a very poor record of public health ever since the ayatollahs took over.  The Iranian government really has nobody but itself to blame -- not that it ever will.  Other countries, including Italy, Israel and now the US, have taken measures -- like banning travel and large public gatherings -- to slow down the spread of the virus and increase testing for it, but you won't see the Arab countries following suit.

Since Covid-19 is an airborne (more specifically an "aerosol") virus, there's really no way to stop its spread.  The best we can do is slow down its progress while the medical companies scramble to produce tests, vaccines, and treatments.  Yes, avoiding crowds can do that.  So can other tactics already used to avoid other virus infections;  treat this like a dangerous flu: keep away from other people as much as possible, keep warm, keep your nose and mouth covered, wash your hands often, take lots of Vitamin C, and also eat lots of fresh raw onions, fresh raw garlic, fresh raw cabbage, fresh lime juice and fresh lemon juice.  All of those foods are virus-fighters and immune-system boosters, and until the medical researchers can come up with a real cure, boosting your immune system is really the best thing you can do.  Everything else is politics.

As further examples of the politics, note how the major US news media have been fanning panic and of course blaming Trump for the spread of the virus.  Italy has banned all travel into the country, which helps with its no-more-immigration policy.  Other countries are likewise using the "global pandemic" excuse to cut off unwanted immigration.  China has used the outbreak as an excuse to lock down the entire country, which has effectively stopped the public protests that were becoming a serious annoyance before the outbreak.  And of course Iran and other Arab countries are using the epidemic as an excuse to blame and attack Israel.

Essential to these political maneuverings is the fear that Covid-19 is especially lethal.  Chris O'Connell on MSNBC actually said: "More Americans are dead and dying tonight because Donald Trump is president."  A dutiful Health Department official said, likewise on MSNBC, that: "Covid-19 is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu."  Never mind that the common or seasonal flu has a death-rate of one-tenth of 1% of everyone who catches it.  This gives Covid-19 a lethality rate of 1% -- and remember that this includes all known cases in the world, and the world includes some places with very poor health care.

One thing this manufactured panic has done is to damage everybody's economy.  Particularly, the US stock market has dropped, then bounced, then dropped again.  Who benefits from this?  I can think of nobody except the Democratic Party, which previously had no answer to the fact that the US economy has grown considerably under Trump's administration.  Perhaps the DNC is hoping that the economy will stay depressed until November, so they'll have a better chance of winning.  I suspect it won't.  The problem with convenient panics is that they don't last very long.  Once the US has enough testing-kits to cover the whole population, once enough people have gotten Covid-19 and recovered, once people see that the danger isn't nearly as great as they've been told, the shut-downs will end, people will go back to work, and the economy will get back up again.  That should happen by summer, let alone by election day.

It will be interesting to see how assorted politicians, political committees and their media-flacks try to keep fanning the panic, and whom they keep blaming for the virus.

Meanwhile, treat Covid-19 like a particularly nasty flu, and get your information from real medical websites.

--Leslie <;)))><