"As of March 31, Murray predicted the U.S. would need 98,000 hospital beds..."

"...for COVID-19 patients but only 22,000 were hospitalized that day."

Amici,

I know most of you are sick to death of my going on about the virus, etc. but I keep finding the most incredible news. The above quote sums up my absolute frustration with is what is going on. There's a lot of news like this, if you know where to look.

For example, the above tidbit is found here. : 

The paragraph it is excerpted from reads (highlights mine):

And just as happened with the climate change agenda, farfetched models with incomplete, untested data drive public policy decisions. Anyone who disputes the experts or challenges the assumptions must hate the environment or the children or the future. (In the case of COVID-19, you must hate grandma.) Anyone who laments the destruction of the economy is a heartless, greedy money-grubber. “Profits over people!” the detractors are taunted. The goalposts keep moving, doomsday is extended, but harsher and harsher actions are nonetheless demanded from above.

So, what if, as Trump accurately said just a week ago, the cure is worse than the disease? What if Murray’s models are woefully off by a factor of five or even 10 but it’s too late to salvage jobs or small businesses? His data is already way off: As of March 31, Murray predicted the U.S. would need 98,000 hospital beds for COVID-19 patients but only 22,000 were hospitalized that day.

Will the White House, much like Glacier National Park, just change the message while the agitators escape any accountability?

The author of this piece covers Global Warming, usually. I myself have noted many parallels between Global Warming and this virus mess. The main difference seems to be the time scale: the virus will kill us within weeks or months; Global Warming will take decades to finish us off. (In fact, the state authorities in New York were preparing for catastrophe for the past decade or so, just not for a viral contagion, but for Global Warming! Incredible!) We just screamingly need honest, large-scale and accurate information about both global temperatures and the virus, but we cannot remotely get that on the former, and the latter is only slowly coming forward.

Apparently, park authorities used to have signs up at Glacier National Park in Montana asserting that the glaciers would melt away in 2020, or begin seriously melting away in 2020. They quietly took them down last year, and altered other Global Warming propaganda (pamphlets, etc.). The author of the above piece points out that never do these "bad predictors"? (or "False Prophets"?) of Doom ever get punished, or even have to publicly recant, their bad predictions. But their bad predictions affect the lives of millions.

Neill Ferguson at the Imperial College in London is such a one. His predictions of doom he has now changed to peeps of doom, (I guess I can say peeps). A Democrat operative group in the U.S., "Covid Act Now", spread Ferguson's (and other) false predictions far and wide, profoundly affecting out economic situation.

So, friends, beware. Very much so. The virus is real. China clearly dumped it on us, only beginning to restrict traffic from Wuhan two months after they new they had a problem (and notice they blame the American military for the disease, not the CIA; this might mean they're planning a military strike on us "in retribution".) The virus is contagious and can easily be deadly to older folks (not by any means all of them. And people like me who have "prior conditions". But we can't let it crash the civilization.

There is good news out there, though of course it doesn't get MSM reportage. For example, this news is extremely significant, in which a Dr. Stephen Smith, an infectious disease specialist in Roseland, New Jersey, affiliated with multiple hospitals, has announced test results from 50 patients receiving H-C that mirrors the French study. (Zsofi has a friend whose husband has come down with the virus, so it is around these parts, it seems.) Smith's study is great news in itself, of course: it fits in with a pattern of such research. There has yet to be a proper clinical test for this hypothesis, but such take time to set up and (in normal times) months to carefully evaluate.

Therefore, we must rely on what info we're getting. The Wall Street Journal had an article a while ago (now behind one of their infamous paywalls) about where this facility of H-C via COVID was first noticed: apparently someone reported that at a hospital in Wuhan, doctors noticed that a group of lupus sufferers (lupus killed Flannery O'Connor, btw) were seemingly immune from the virus and its disease. Apparently the French doctor, Didier Raoult, picked the idea up from that report (the Chinese later issued a report on another study -- one called into question for its very small size, and other issues -- that said H-C didn't work, but the cat was out of the bat guano bag).

So, it goes. Bit by bit.

Good news, ominous signs from Communist China, a growing death count that thankfully is not growing as fast as the "prophets" predicted, and the worst unemployment numbers ever recorded: 6.6 million, in fact.  That, my friends, is "not sustainable". 

An Préachán