A Previous pandemic with no hype resulting in hysteria or draconian measures--why is covid-19 so different?

Comment: For those who are old enough to remember the Hong Kong Flu, the only comment ever heard was "There is a nasty flu bug going around".  Also, there were No Lockdowns: During The Terrifying Polio Pandemic of 1949-52 . There definitely was well-deserved fear of this wretched disease. However, there was no mass panic and no iron-fisted restrictions. Some common-sense measures were suggested and "social distancing" was voluntary. What a difference 60+  years makes.


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Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic

By Jeffrey A. Tucker

In my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States, arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.

Lifespan in the US in those days was 70, whereas it is 78 today. Population was 200 million, as compared with 328 million today. It was also a healthier population with low obesity. If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics, we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus. So in terms of lethality, it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so, though we shall have to wait to see. 

"Moderate" Biden takes off his mask and shows who he really is.

 
 Comment: Uncle Gropin' Joe is just another hypocritical elitist at heart.


Biden admits he’s willing to scrap ‘hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs’ for greener economy

December 20, 2019, | Vivek Saxena

Just like an authoritarian, former Vice President Joe Biden admitted point-blank during Thursday’s Democrat primary debate that he’s willing to throw the American people and their livelihoods under the bus economically if it means getting his way.

It is time for the elites to go!

Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits

by Charles Hugh-Smith

Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they’re not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%.

Let’s posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of The Fourth Turning, a 4-generational cycle of 80 years that correlates rather neatly with the Great Crises of the past: 1781 (Revolutionary War, constitutional crisis); 1861 (Civil War) and 1941 (World War II, global war).