every winter in my neck of the woods flu's and cold's claim a few, usually by pneumonia or such other mechanism. as of this date the corona virus appears not particularly different, attacking the aged and infirm, death being caused by fluid on the lungs, in other words pneumonia, as the immune system kicks out excess fluids trying to combat the disease.
i am not dead certain about this (please excuse the pun), but this flu season the corona virus appears no more lethal than other flu's, certainly not yet arising to the level of contagion. and, not being particularly different than other's. it is, most certainly, not any more virulent in the mechanisms of its spread.
in washington state, for instance, the greatest incideof the disease seems to be among nursing homes in king county, a fertile ground, for victims of any disease. again, as numbers go, so far so good.
this has not prevented governor's, all young leftist aspirants for greater federal office, all along the west coast from invoking "emergency" powers, closing down restaurants and large public gatherings, all in the name of curtailing the spread of the corona virus, and preventing contagion. which has yet to happen.
this is not to say i have not prepared for epidemic. just this morning i bought four cans of chili and hash, and a 16 ounce bottle of coca cola, to stave off death if quarantine is imposed. and, i have a coleman camp stove and some bottles of propane, in case things get ugly, and staples cannot be bought at the local safeway store.
in my view, i am more at risk of succumbing to cardiac arrest via diet that falling victim to virus.
and, i fear the overreaching of leftist radical lesbian politicians in the state of oregon as a far more realistic danger than the wuhan flu. (i am given to understand that the wuhan district is the home of china's biological warfare apparatus, but, thus far, this appear unsubstantiated rumor. i prefer to regard it as verity, as this is "too good" not to be true. in this regard, i am simply a run of the mill human.)
watching very briefly a film of oregon's governor, kate brown, a certified leftist lesbian radical, illustrates my points. two female state officials of health, got up nd announced that the state of oregon would need thousands more hospital beds and breathing aids to contend with the corona virus, these figures being unsubstantiated and probably substantiatable, but nonetheless certain to bolster & serve the governor's further request for expanded state powers.
and, so it goes.
i hope that my views stand correct, and i hope we are not subject to horrible contagion. but, so far, out of the blocks, the corona virus does not appear to have the legs to be a plague. at least, not as a contagious disease.
as a political disaster, i fear we have just begun to suffer its outrages.
john jay @ 03.16.2020
p.s. i have been "gone" for a bit. it's pretty simple. i am well pleased with "the donald" and view him to have things well in hand. i will start to write a little bit more as the election looms, and as this silliness with "the plague that isn't" continues to take on a life of its own, as any "virus" does.