Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is the deal with shut downs, authorities, and the Chinese made Pandemic? Links 2, April 11, 2020

1. Army’s Seattle Field Hospital Closes After 3 Days, Without Treating a Single Patient

The hastily built field hospital set up by the Army in Seattle’s pro football stadium is shutting down without ever seeing a patient, so the service can shift resources where they’re more urgently needed, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee said.

 

Medical equipment at the CenturyLink Field Event Center is being returned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for use elsewhere, but the governor cautioned against reading too much into the move.

 

“Don’t let this decision give you the impression that we are out of the woods,” Inslee said in a statement Wednesday. “We have to keep our guard up and continue to stay home unless conducting essential activities to keep everyone healthy.” Washington state saw the first coronavirus death in the U.S. on Feb. 29.

Also at Military.com

2. More big brother for Corona

(Going out? Leave your phone at home while its still legal to do so)

3. Now this is odd.

4. Ottawa Civic Hospital

5. Chinese virus propagandists

6. Singapore lockdown

7. And yet USA records over 2K deaths in a day attributed to Wuhan Flu

8. Bosonaro’s Brazil is defiant of the shut-down of all civilization. (That is the Brazilian PM at the drug store)

9. About those Chinese made face-masks

10. US Authorities become increasingly Soviet over social distancing guidelines.

Best not to thank anyone for this post. GG though, sent in the Civic Hospital footage.

In the 1970s it was fashionable to go to midnight showings of Reefer Madness at theatres where all who smoked dope would indulge in it, while watching anti-Marijuana propaganda. In those days you could still smoke in theatres and while dope was illegal, it was seldom prosecuted or cause for arrest.

The movie shows a fellow who never smoked before being talked into trying it for the first time. He has one puff, if memory serves, and goes on a raping and killing spree which ends in permanent madness.

This was a great laugh for all the teens in the audience puffing away knowing this was stunningly bad 1950s “right wing” propaganda.

Human nature being what it is, people would watch the movie, know it wasn’t true, and assume therefore, there is no danger in smoking THC products at all, and many went on to ruin their lives with marijuana, destroying their ambition, ability to really focus or concentrate hard, and sometimes getting late onset schizophrenia now believed to be connected to long term THC use. It also doesn’t seem like any of them are smarter than they were when they started smoking either.

Humans often think in binary extremes. We are told X. X isn’t true. So Y must be true but for sure not X.

Showing these videos in this post that suggest that we are over-reacting to the Wuhan Flu does not mean there is no danger. It means it wasn’t what we thought it was exactly, or the measures we are taking are actually working extremely well.

Here is another hypothesis about the state we are in now:

Geneticists, virologists, and experts could have told leaders like President Trump something like:

‘This appears to be an artifact. A man made virus, very likely a weapon. We don’t know what it does exactly. But what we do know is, its profoundly contagious. It is lethal but we don’t know exactly how lethal. It can be spread by people who are not symptomatic, or are pre-symptomatic, making it much more dangerous than Ebola or SARS which is so visible in its contagious stage, that its easy to isolate the sick for the benefit of the rest of the population.

Which means that it could kill more people overall, even if less by percentage.’

We had a sticky post for several days that showed this was exactly the case by a Ph.D. in biology, with a follow up post to come showing more evidence of same.

Leaders, like President Trump, might find themselves in a position where they had to respond as they did, given that information, if this is anywhere close to the truth.

In essence, we got hit by a Chinese WMD with serious and important unknowns and the value of explaining this to a general public where the media is hostile to the president and the US in general in some ways, is questionable.

If this is the case, we should know enough about it by now to swap strategies.

Continue the sequestration of the elderly, the Type 1 diabetics or uncontrolled type II, heart patients and immune-compromised for their own sake and get everyone else back to work.

The cost of a prolonged shut-down of the supply chain of everything is not predictable entirely. But no projection of it is good. At least not for humanity.

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13 Replies to “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is the deal with shut downs, authorities, and the Chinese made Pandemic? Links 2, April 11, 2020”

    • Canadians, at least the majority of us, have had this coming for decades: please, Mr Big Government, enslave me. It is a very natural end of the road that socialism and bloated uncontrolled government leads to.

      Actually, things could (and I fear, might) get a lot worse (lots of super spots for Canada’s own Gulag to be set up).

    • Humor is a necessity, in these times we live.
      I laugh so much, almost most of the time.
      Most stuff, I find funny.
      Am I normal?

  1. Or operant conditioning? Will freedom be doled out in dribs and drabs according to how well we are “team players”?

    Please, no one should be offended by my suggestions. Just ideas for healthy sceptisicm.

    And how does the conditioning concept, when viewed through our current context, have relevance, if any, to what Bezmenov taught us?

    https://youtu.be/H6LEcM0E0io

    https://youtu.be/QfvXwuZ-bok

    • It has to be in dribs and drabs. We don’t want to kill our urban wildlife – birds of all stripe, hares, raccoons, squirrels…- through shock. For now, they’re getting used to roaming our boulevards, unimpeded.

  2. This is another front in the war of shadows that we are fighting with the left, when the lock downs started all we really knew about the Wuhan Flu was that it was probably a Chinese WMD that the Chinese lost control of. We knew that the Chinese had covered up the problem until after Lunar New Year so they could make money and then locked down the center of the infection and shortly thereafter locked down the entire nation. During this time we were subjected to a propaganda campaign (that hasn’t ended) about how the pandemic started and how dangerous it is.

    Without knowing the true numbers from China is is hard to say if China panicked? Or if they realized that they had made a big mistake that required them to destroy their economy and decided to push a propaganda campaign to get the West to destroy our economy. We know that the videos and news stories China is putting out are BS, even bigger BS then the 1936 anti drug movie Reefer Madness but we also know that the videos smuggled out of China say that the Wuhan Flu is a major danger if left unchecked.

    We also know that the left in the West is as much in the dark as we are but that they are going to do everything they can to use this pandemic to gather more power and to limit our freedom. As we get more information we are seeing that not all of he heavy handed actions are necessary and that some are actually counter productive. How much of the actions are necessary? I would say that the answer to that question depends on where you are living, living in a small town where they are 8 cases, all in one family, it is highly unlikely that we need to shut down all of the businesses like we have done. Not being in a large city it is hard for me to say what is necessary in them and I think that each one will have it own special requirements that we will jhave to meet.

    We don’t live in a one size fits all world no matter how the left tries to force us into a one size fits all world. As more information comes in Trump is talking about slowly opening up the nation starting with the locations with few if any infections and then using the information gathered to open up larger portions of the US. We all know that no matter what Trump does the propaganda media will do everything they can to make him look bad and make the big government small freedom Dems look good.

    As I have said before I think that the Chicoms realizing that if they were going to have any chance of remaining in power they would have to shut down China and destroy their economy. They started spreading lies and seizing medical supplies to force the west into shutting down our economy and are working to see that we keep it shut long enough to do as much damage to ourselves as they are doing to China. They don’t want the west to survive as a strong opposition to the Marxist nations. While this is happening the left in the Western Nations will be trying to ensure that they either take over the governments or remain in power in their nations. This is a new phase/campaign in the civil war the left is waging. The Sheriff knows this and is saying that the left has no idea what type of explosive they are playing with. Despite what the article JohnnyU posted about the myth of the Cowboy large numbers of the people in fly over country are descended from the people who moved to the west when it was dangerous and thought they were tough enough to withstand all that could be thrown at them. A fair chunk of them were, they fought their own fights and didn’t look to the government for help. That spirit of the Frontier is still alive in the Fly Over Country in the US and I am willing to bet in a large portion of the population of the Fly Over Provence’s in Canada. The free people of North America are awake and fighting back, when the left finally moves the civil war into the kinetic stage they will learn why you don’t want to piss off a frontiersman. You can kill them but if they are awake and fighting they will be the most expensiove meat you have ever bought.

    • Thanks Richard. That cowboy article I found a bit over the top. But the reason I wanted to post something is because I do know that for myself and many others the cowboy mythology is alive and real. It’s a mentality.

      • The Cowboy myth was formed from the stories of the people who lived the taming of the west. If you want the stories of the west don’t read the old papers, find and read the old diaries. It is amazing the number of people who kept them and a lot are still setting in old trunks waiting to be found. I forget the year it happened but the diary of Big Nosed Kate Elder was found in a trunk when it was read she claimed that until the gunfight at the OK corral he hadn’t killed anyone. He didn’t want to die from TB so he was handicapping himself trying to find someone who could kill him. When you take into consideration that he was a believing Catholic it makes sense.

        Remember the great authors in the western genre all knew people that lived through the taming of the west. The “experts” don’t want to take that into consideration because doing this would force them to rethink their entire political philosophy. With luck after the Civil War the western books and movies will make a comeback.

        The Men and Women who tamed the west (in the US and Canada) were really larger then life and to steal a quote from a General during Nam, Uncommon Valor was a common virtue. They were victorians (to one degree or another) who grew up on the stories of the Revolutionary War which was fought by men who were themselves larger the life in their actions. Their descendants are in fly over country on both sides of the border and if WWI, WWI, Korea and Nam are examples when called on will step up and prove that they are true heirs of the North American tradition of rugged individualism.

        Remember we walk in the footprints of giants of history and if called on we are expected to fill those foot prints. The man who fired “The Shot Heard Round the World” was Issac Davis, in WWII General I.D. White a descendant of his a General in the American Army and after WWII when Truman was forced to fire MacArthur he was chosen to replace Mac. A descendent of I.D. was one of the General’s Obama purged from the US military and in his farewell speech said that his ancestors helped form this nation and that he would be damned if it was going to be torn down on his watch.

  3. 3. First video is Jason Goodman. Where is everybody?

    Jason Goodman has a “NYC Covid-19 Pandemic” playlist. He also walks with Charles Ortel in NYC. He recently did an interview with Diana West.

    He just posted a video: “Dr. Tedros Adhanom & the WHO…” which I have not seen yet.
    Jason Goodman – YT Page
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Cl9QaRtuW9CNjP7pP4BBQ/featured

    Related: “Man Calls Out CNN, Claims They Used Footage of Him During Hurricane For Coronavirus Segment”
    by Patrick Howley – April 10, 2020
    https://nationalfile.com/man-calls-out-cnn-claims-they-used-footage-of-him-during-hurricane-for-coronavirus-segment/