Day: March 22, 2020

The elite impose their “fantasies of doom” upon the world, world governments perform apocalypse theater, and we all suffer for it

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The headlines being written for the COVID-19 spread are unbelievably reckless. But other writers do have cooler heads, and Spiked’s Brendan O’Neil calls out the elites for their “luxury of apocalypticism”, as well as the government response as more performative art or apocalypse theater than an actual measured response. COVID-19 is a health challenge, not the end of the world. But an economic collapse triggered by reckless government policy could very well feel like an apocalypse for many, and for a very long time. It isn’t worth it, especially now that we are discovering that coronavirus is about as dangerous as seasonal flu.

Israeli virologist is a voice of sanity during these insane times

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From Times of Israel:

“I’ve been in this business for 30 years,” Bishara said in a Channel 12 interview. “I’ve been through MERS, SARS, Ebola, the first Gulf war and the second, and I don’t recall anything like this. There’s unnecessary, exaggerated panic. We have to calm people down.

“People are thinking that there’s a kind of virus, it’s in the air, it’s going to attack every one of us, and whoever is attacked is going to die,” he said.

“That’s not the way it is at all. It’s not in the air. Not everyone [who is infected] dies; most of them will get better and won’t even know they were sick, or will have a bit of mucus.”

But in Israel and around the world, “everybody is whipping everybody else up into panic — the leaders, via the media, and the wider public — who then in turn start to stress out the leaders. We’ve entered some kind of vicious cycle.”