Sunday, February 23, 2020

If you trust government in a crisis, this is what you should expect

Recently passengers from the plague ship Diamond Princess were returned to the US by the government.  Instead of putting the clearly infected on their own plane so that it could be managed, government created a medical theater using plastic sheets on the charter plane and then outfitted its employees in full hazmat gear while passing out cheap theatrical masks to those who had little choice but to fly Corona Class with the sick.  These people would have done just as well with another kind of mask:


Worse still, 14 of those who were not showing symptoms at the time (and were thus seated in close proximity to other non-infected passengers) were in fact infected and contagious.  So the odds are high that all on that plane will have been exposed to this ridiculously virulent and easily transmissible virus which is contagious without symptoms.  And not just a little contagious, this is now being assigned an R0 ("R not") value of 6.7 by American scientists.  That means each person will transmit to 6.7 others.  It is why cases overseas are doubling overnight.

Pay attention to this and be prepared to look out for yourself because at the end of the day George Carlin was 1000% right: the government doesn't give a fuck about you.  AT ALL.  If it did then it certainly would have taken far better precautions with these people's lives than this childishly limp-wristed approach.  What you see below would be criminal negligence if done by anyone but government.

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