Not too long back, maybe a few days, President Trump came out recommending a strategy to combat the spread of coronavirus. Don’t take me wrong, I’m a Trump supporter, not hater, but garbage in yields garbage out. That’s an old computer phrase and even Trump has idiots for advisors.
The advise is good, but he doesn’t own it.
John M. Barry wrote in his excellent book, The Great Influenza, that sometime in September of 1918 (9 months and many deaths into the epidemic) the press posted the following.
“Surgeon General’s Advice to Avoid Influenza
Avoid needless crowding…
Smother your coughs and sneezes…
Your nose not your mouth was made to breathe through…
Remember the 3 Cs, clean mouth, clean skin, clean clothes…
Food will win the war…
Wash your hands before eating…”
There was some other advice from the Surgeon General about constipation, but in today’s terms I take it to mean that too many of our so called experts are full of shit!
Recognize any of that well founded advice? Yeah, but it was given about 100 years ago and not by President Trump or any of his constipated advisors.
Mortality world wide is 4%, mortality in the US is 1.3%. Do you believe Micheal Moore now, that the US has one of the worst health care systems in the world?
I’ve mentioned the asinine Missouri required quarantine law, but guess what? Missouri residents are now not required to get a fishing permit from the Missouri Department of Conservation to fish in Missouri state waters (because of the coronavirus “epidemic”) if you choose to ignore the quarantine orders the state has imposed. Go figure? One state department contradicting another state department’s rule.*
I can’t keep up with this, there is so much rich ignorance out there to post about. Sincerely, your grumpy Uncle Dave.
- On 3/26/20 Washington State has banned fishing, and all use of public parks.