Is the negative
media coverage
of COVID-19
getting too
negative ?
Well, the 2017 / 2018
U.S. flu season,
worse than average,
had about 45,000,000
infections, and 61,000
deaths (CDC data).
Those 61,000 deaths
seemed to be Ignored
by the mass media
at the time.
Is a death from an
ordinary flu strain,
in 2017 / 2018,
less important
than a death
from COVID-19
in 2020 ?
The difference
between a climate
change panic and
a COVID-19 panic,
is the virus reality
versus
the computer game
climate predictions.
There is a
documented
history of past
viral epidemics,
plagues, and
pandemics.
The Plague of Justinian,
in Constantinople, in 541,
is estimated to have killed
at least 25 million people
across Asia, North Africa,
Arabia, and Europe.
The 14th century
Black Death
killed about
one third of the
population
of Eurasia.
The 1918 / 1919
Spanish flu
had up to
50 million
deaths --
more than
all the soldiers
and civilians killed
during the WW I.
My own mother
was only
two years old when
that "Spanish" flu
killed her mother
-- an event that
changed her life !
The horrors
of pandemics
have been
documented.
But climate alarmists
are NOT supported by
any documentation,
or past climate crises.
Laboratory experiments
suggest only a mild,
harmless warming effect
from CO2.
Actual global warming
since the 1690s has
been mild and pleasant.
Most of the warming
since then, of at least
+2 degree C., could not
have been caused by
CO2 emissions.
Rising CO2 levels,
from 1940 to 1975,
were accompanied
by mild global
COOLING, not
warming !
Rising CO2 levels,
from 2003 to mid-2015,
were accompanied
by a steady global
average temperature.
A small number
of scientists began
predicting a global
warming crisis in the
late 1950's.
Belief in a coming
climate change crisis
ramped up a lot
in the 1980s, and
some climate
alarmists morphed
to being hysterical,
starting in 2018.
The bottom line:
After 60+ years of
bad news climate
predictions, no bad
news ever shows up !
The coming
climate crisis
is based on
computer games,
and computer
games predict
whatever their
programmers
want predicted !
The COVID-19
viral epidemic
is real.
Social distancing
breaks the chain of
viral transmission,
“flattening the curve”
of the new hospital
admissions,
so that doctors
and nurses can
better handle
the case load.
Social distancing
is based on scientific
principles, not politics.
Contrast the
COVID-19
virus debate
with the climate
change debate.
The "coming
climate crisis"
is based mainly
on computer game
"climate models",
that have grossly
over predicted
the actual
global warming
for the past
40+ years.
COVID-19 also has
computer gamers.
In mid-March 2020,
the model that
President Trump often
quotes, predicted a lot of
hospital beds would be
filled two weeks later
(April 4) with COVID-19
patients, even WITH all
the stay at home orders.
Reality, after
two weeks:
The prediction
had been for
quadruple the
hospital beds
that were actually
used for all the
COVID-19 patients
on April 4, 2020 !
Questions about the
always wrong climate
change predictions
are defended
by leftists with
Saul Alinsky-style
ridicule, and many
character attacks.
Contrary opinions
are silenced.
Government bureaucrat
scientists are defended.
So far, the COVID-19
recommendations
and statements
coming from
the Centers for
Disease Control,
( but NOT from
the World Health
Organization ),
have been honest
about the great
uncertainties in
our predictions
about COVID-19.
... Unfortunately,
2020 is a U.S.
presidential election
year, so there will be
many political attacks
on President Trump's
response to COVID-19 !