Will anyone EVER listen to REALITY?
Over and over and over and over.

Public health practices for the last 100 years have worked. Doctors and writers 100 years ago had everything right. They told us over and over and over that cramming people into apartments was the worst thing you can do in an epidemic. You need sunshine, fresh air, sleep, work, good food, confidence.

100 years ago NYC led the way in reform, clearing out airless tenements. This time NYC led the way in DE-reform, in return to primitivism. After it locked people into their hermetically sealed EPA approved apartment buildings, the epidemic got worse.

Russia is seeing the same return to primitivism. Before Putin surrendered to Satan, the virus was spreading normally, allowing people to encounter it and gain immunity. Russia had few deaths. After he surrendered to Satan and locked down, the virus is running rampant.

Over and over and over and over.

Science is NOT innovation. Science is slow learning by experience. There's a GOOD FUCKING REASON why the siege has always been a weapon of DEATH, not a weapon of HEALTH. Armies and doctors understood the difference. Armies used sieges because sieges are efficient ways to kill an entire city. Doctors in previous eras didn't want to kill entire cities, so they used the OPPOSITE of a siege.

Most modern doctors seem to have forgotten the difference.

A few doctors in positions of authority have been trying to make this point from the start of the current holocaust, but nobody listened.

Here's another doctor trying to be a doctor instead of a killer. Steven Shapiro is in a position of real authority: Head of the Univ of PA medical center, a large network of hospitals and nursing homes. He gives the facts, which were clear to scientifically literate people from the start:

We indeed saw a steady stream of patients but never “surged.” At peak in mid-April, COVID-19 patients occupied 2% of our 5,500 hospital beds and 48 of our 750 ventilators. Subsequently, admissions have been decreasing with very few patients now coming from the community, almost all now being from nursing homes. Of note, in the 36 UPMC-owned senior facilities we have had zero positive cases.

Our outcomes are similar to the state of Pennsylvania, where the median age of death from COVID-19 is 84 years old. The few younger patients who died all had significant preexisting conditions. Very few children were infected and none died. Minorities in our communities fared equally as well as others, but we know that this is not the case nationally. In sum, this is a disease of the elderly, sick and poor.

In other words, this Branded Flu is no different from generic flu, and no different from LIFE. The death curves for flu are the death curves for LIFE. When people are ready to die, the next insult will take them over the line. If generic flu isn't available, Branded Flu will do the job. If Branded Flu isn't available, a common cold will do the job.

Most importantly, Shapiro makes a DEMAND:

What we cannot do, is extended social isolation. Humans are social beings, and we are already seeing the adverse mental health consequences of loneliness, and that is before the much greater effects of economic devastation take hold on the human condition.

Will anyone listen? No.

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