I had a “case” of headache this morning – probably from
reading (again) about all the new “cases” of WuFlu. What is it with this “cases”
thing? Does the media really not understand the difference between “cases” of
something and whether people die from
it?
Lot of “cases” of headache in this
country.
Also indigestion, menopause and
acne. If the media reported the daily tally of these, you’d think there was
a . . . crisis. Of course, the media does not do this. And didn’t do it,
previously, with the common cold or the seasonal flu. If it had done so we’d
have been “locked down” and wearing
face diapers years ago. There are millions of “cases” of these things every year – in
part because there are hundreds of millions of people in the country and it’s
inevitable a percentage of them will get sick each year.
This never used to be considered
a “crisis.” It was normal because it was life. Including, sometimes, death.
In 1799, George Washington
caught a cold while riding the fence line during a snowstorm in December at his
Mount Vernon home; being an older guy at this time, the cold worsened and – we
don’t know for sure, but the evidence suggests – developed into pneumonia,
which is hard to shake when you’re older, especially when the quack doctors
attending you decide to bleed you as the “cure.”
Washington died – but the
country wasn’t locked down. Because in those days, Americans understood that
getting sick was part of life, especially when most people didn’t die because
they caught a cold.
But then, in 1799 there was also no
saturation media – able to speak with one very loud voice – drum-rolling a
horrific-sounding “case”
count on the hour, accompanied by lurid graphics and ominous implications.
The latter italicized to make
the point which they always
do – without actually saying it.
The daily “case” count is
intended to make the viewer believe that mass death will follow. They
practically lead the poor horse’s muzzle to the water trough. It is
a deliberate attempt
to pump up the numbers when the relevant
number – the percentage of “cases” who end up dead – continues
to decrease.
Not just in numbers but also percentages – which is a function
of the number of “cases.”
An excellent example of this
deliberate (it has to be – stupidity and journalistic negligence can no longer
account for what is going on; it is too blatant at this point) shell game of
death is the reportage of what is going on in South Dakota.
Or
rather, what hasn’t.
This state is one of the only
ones not “locked down” – because it has a governor, Kristi Noem, who does not
believe in practicing what she calls “herd leadership,” by which she means
imposing on South Dakotans what has been imposed on New Yorkers, Californians
and Virginians, oh my!
Meaning, she left it up to South
Dakotans to lead
themselves. To weigh the risk of getting sick vs. the risk of
getting dead and weigh those things against the certainty of going broke or out
of business and leading a sad, neurotic, Face-Diapered life as the “new
normal.”
Dutifully – you might even say
gleefully – the media jumped as one on the chance to report “skyrocketing”
cases of Corona in the
not-locked-down/not-treat-everyone-as-a-Face-Diapered-leper state. “The number
of confirmed cases has risen from 129 to 988 since April” – exclamation-pointed
the New York Post a couple of months ago. Which went on to tantalize its
readers with the schadenfreude
news that “the state is now home to one of the largest single
clusters of coronavirus outbreaks” – i.e., “cases” – in the entire country!
The New York Times piled on – “5,898 cases,”
it reported the
other day.
Oh, the humanity!
But what about the dead
humanity?
In all of South Dakota – about 885,000 people – all of 75 people have
supposedly died from – or with –
the Corona virus in their system as of last week. The with is important
because it credits WuFlu/Corona with a lethality it lacks. “Cases” of the very
elderly who die of other things – such as being very elderly – are claimed as
Corona victims if Corona is found in their bodies at autopsy. Which is like
attributing the condemning of a house eaten up by termites to the bad storm
that finally pushed it over last night. It is rotten – just the right word – in both
instances.
A deliberate, malicious effort to deceive. To use
fear for a political purpose, which – to her immense credit – Governor Noem did
not do. She is a relic of a time when American leaders were not always rotten.
Which explains why she has been
targeted. Vilified as “uncaring,” irresponsible.”
Granny will die! 
Also why the number of deaths
attributed to the WuFlu in her state – in most states – is rarely mentioned and
never parsed.
A fractional mortality rate that decreases with each
uptick in “cases” doesn’t a “crisis” make.
An innumerate population is easily driven batshit crazy
with fear when it is presented with thousands and thousands of new “cases” –
exclamation pointed and frantically, breathlessly touted by Face-Diapered media
personalities (just the right word) who long ago ceased being reporters, if
they ever were.
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