Jack of Harts

This week has been an interesting one. We finally crossed into the lead when it comes to reporting deaths related to the Wuhan Virus. We are the third most populous nation in the world, so I was waiting for that. We are also far more transparent than the Chinese Communist Party, so I was waiting for that.

A promising old drug has been found to be useful against the Wuhan Virus in testing by doctors from all over the world, and the President has of course suggested that people try it. What do they have to lose? So of course the media has accused him of some nefarious reason for suggesting people use it. Maybe he will get some grand economic profit from his 99 dollars worth of stock in some company that makes something related to it. Who knows? I’ve heard crazier conspiracy theories from the media in the last three years.

Reports that Taiwan reported this strange illness to the World Health Organization back in December have finally hit the major news media. Along with reports that people in America and around the world have been hit with “some strange flu” since as early as November according to some reports, and January and February according to countless reports. I myself got hit with something in February that had my body on the edge of collapse. I kept it from fully breaking through my body’s immune system via lots of vitamin C and other immune system boosts that kept my system operating as good as possible, but there was a day or two here and there where I was worried it was going to break through and take me down hard. There were lots of people in this timeframe that got hit a lot harder than me. Did they have this? Or something else?

So who believes China has only had 3,000 deaths in the five or six months this pandemic has been raging in their territory? I personally wouldn’t trust their word it their tongue came branded with a notary public’s seal. Especially when they admit that something like twenty million cell phone plans have been cancelled in the last three months? Considering how integrated cell phones are to the art of…well…LIVING in China today, that is a lot of people deciding they no longer need to…ahem…live like normal Chinese citizens all of a sudden.

And what is the actual death rate of the Wuhan Virus? We don’t know. We know how many people come to the hospital with symptoms and get tested and are shown to have it. And we know how many of THEM end up dying. But what about all of those who never go to the hospital? Because…like me…it never got serious. We took our vitamins and got better. We know the normal flu’s general lethality because the government takes the reported cases and then adds on those they ASSUME had it as well based on known factors like how much the flu generally travels. But we don’t know enough about the Wuhan Virus yet to make that projection. So we can’t compare its death rate to the flu’s death rate. It’s like apples and oranges at ten paces, with people screaming at each other over which one is better or worse.

Now what about those police forces and governors arresting or citing people for daring to social distance in public parks with their own families? Or in parking lots, in their cars, at church where they can hear their pastor over the radio but not get close to anybody else? November is coming, and unless the bigwigs find a way to postpone the election, the people will remember what was done to them when they were practicing all the recommended social distancing guidelines.

I have a feeling, even if this ends tomorrow, we will be a long time getting through all the ramifications of what was done to us this year. Social Distancing for instance? A form of that could be here to stay. And as an introvert, I’m really fine with that. 🙂