Three Great Pieces of COVID News … So Why Aren’t We All Talking About It?
By: Peter Heck
The whole issue of the China virus has devolved into a tool of the political left to attack the right and to try to use it as a political tool in order to control the choices and actions of their opposition. They want to drag this out as long as possible and slow down and stall out the economy as much as possible. They minimize or try to delegitimize any good news that might come out and maximize into a huge crisis every little setback.
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Surge Summary: Some genuinely good news is emerging about the coronavirus crisis. So why isn’t EVERYONE talking about it? Are Americans really going to allow politics and ideological tribalism to interfere with spreading positive and encouraging information? Are we really “all in this together” … or not?
It would be nice if we were all in this COVID thing together. I keep hearing a lot of people say that, but surely they don’t actually believe it. They can’t actually believe it. We’ve politicized schools. We’ve politicized mask-wearing. We’ve politicized church attendance. We’ve politicized college football. We’ve politicized malaria drugs. We’ve politicized data. We’ve politicized everything from the start.
I know it’s an election year but I don’t think it would matter. It’s where we are now; it’s who we are now. The media may not be the cause of it, but they sure do seem to love exacerbating it.
Here’s a perfect example. In recent days, three spectacularly encouraging developments have occurred in our fight against this novel coronavirus. First, the case surge in the sunbelt has apparently peaked and begun its descent. Reasonably we can conclude that Florida, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and other southern states have seen the worst of it. And even as cases skyrocketed, we now know that the death rate did not track up significantly with it. That’s great news!
Again, I’m not saying that’s great news if you’re a supporter of the Republican governors in those states. I’m saying it’s great news because we’re obviously fighting and beating this virus far better than we were five months ago. Humanity is beating it. That’s all of us, Republican and Democrat. Maybe this is a mutated or slightly different virus than it was five months ago, maybe we’ve figured out better treatments, maybe we know how to isolate and protect the truly vulnerable people – whatever it is, this is great news that we’re seeing in the south.
Secondly, scientists and researchers are reporting that “T-cell memory” is a real thing. I don’t fully understand the whole concept but here’s the gist: a massive portion of our population can effectively fight off even the most severe cases of COVID. Again, that’s excellent news worth celebrating. If your concerns are actually about the well-being of your fellow citizens, this is news to praise God for. Additionally, doctors have discovered that plasma from recovered coronavirus patients transfused into ailing coronavirus patients is reducing the death rate up to 50%. Amazingly good news.
Thirdly, studies of lockdowns and their effectiveness here and around the world are in, and they are showing that lockdowns don’t really work. The virus is going to do what the virus is going to do, whether we shelter in place, re-open the economy, go to school, play sports, or not. Now obviously, mitigating strategies are still very wise as they prevent epidemic spread that spikes hospitalization rates – something we need to be very careful to avoid. But the truth coming out of Europe and our own experiment here in America with lockdown vs. non-lockdown states is teaching us one clear lesson: we don’t need to lockdown our economy again.
That isn’t cause for “I told you so” choruses to rain down from those who didn’t have any idea at the time they made that prediction. None of us knew, and we did the best we could. But we do know now, and that’s what should matter. And it’s also very good news for all of us. Economic shutdowns are deadly, as we’re now experiencing. But knowing that we don’t need to consider doing it again is a huge blessing.
These three pieces of great news need to be told and re-told by the media. They need to be trumpeted in social media, lead every newscast, and headline every paper. Not because it’s good for Donald Trump or his Democrat opponents. Because it’s true and it’s really good news for us .
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yeah....... too bad we didn't have a competent national leader from the beginning of the pandemic.
Like the Democrat mayors and governors are any damn better. Look at the total # of deaths from Covid 19- the Democratic east coast morons are in the lead by a wide margin. Of course no one on the left cares to look into why?
Remember the Democrats and media blasting Trump for his partial travel ban from China at the start of Covid 19?
Remember those loony leftist leaders downplaying the severity of Covid 19 at the outset?
So what would demented Joe and the Democrats have done differently? Judging by their responses at the state and local levels made things a hell of a lot worse for everyone.
There is some reason for hope, but it's too early to say they have seen the worst. That kind of talk tends to make people let down their guard. New cases are trending down in these locations, but are still very high and can bounce back up quickly. See: California.
That is good news. I don't know if the news helps anybody, but it may explain why so many infected people just don't get sick.
I wish the author had linked to these studies because I have a hard time believing the lockdowns don't work. I can't think of a more effective way to avoid catching a contagious disease than staying the hell away from other people. It works the same way abstinence works to avoid pregnancy.