Laura Ingraham, April 17 2020, Friday



While Youtube leaves it up, Ingraham explores some of the paradoxes of what is officially reported in the first 25 minutes of the show.

A month ago: don't wear masks.
Now: it's absolutely necessary to wear a mask when you're in public. (The public was lied to, so that masks would be available for hospital medical workers treating Covid-19 patients. )

We were sheltered-at-home to flatten the curve. Now that the curve iss flattened to way less cases than was initially projected (from 1 to 2.5 million, down to 100,000-250,000, down now to a maximum 60,000 projected. )
But now many governors, mostly Democrat governors, want to shut down the country indefinitely. Tucker Carlson in his Thursday and Friday programs makes the point that it is logical to let those least at risk go back to work, and only shelter those most at risk, the elderly and immune-compromised. There are currently more unemployed now than in the worst years of the Great Depression (although as a percentage of population, it is currently lower, but unemployment and business closures are rising fast.)

I frankly think the strategy by Democrats is to stall the economy and hurt Trump politically for as long as possible. Likewise in the section 20 minutes in, with the Republican Texas governor, where Democrats are doing nothing (for the second time in two weeks!) stalling legislation that would give aid to about 23 million families who have been completely deprived of income and grocery money. Democrats are deliberately creating chaos, because they think it benefits them politically.

As detailed on Tucker Carlson Thursday night, he cited that in Sweden where they are not sheltering and closing businesses, they have proportionately the same ratio of hospitalizations as the U.S.
And likewise, the same as Norway right next door, that is sheltering and closing businesses.
And that Austria, Denmark and Germany are planning to re-open schools and other businesses. So while Dems resist any move in that direction, it has to be done (carefully, of course) at some point. Before the entire economic system, and interconnected global economic system, collapses.

As I cited above, half the nations on earth are begging for loans from the IMF, before their nations collapse. The U.S. likewise has the same vulnerability, and thus has to balance economic survival with virus containment.
South Korea has shown the way, never having shut down their economy, instead focusing vigorously on testing and locking down new reported cases and their contacts only, not their entire society.

To me the game-changer is when they discover effective treatment that stops the deaths, so the virus becomes inconvenient but not life-threatening. They are having effective results with new treatments such as
1) Hydroxychloroquine,
2) Remdesivir,
and
3) blood plasm from revovered patients, to inject blood plasm with antibodies into the sick, to teach their own blood how to make and mass-produce antibodies.

So hopefully in the next 4 weeks or less, the tide will turn, and a majority of those hospitalized will recover instead of dying, with therapies that didn't exist a month ago.

Tucker Carlson last night (Friday, April 17th) detailed the origins of the outbreak in China and cover-up, their propaganda campaign to attack Trump through their agents and friendly Democrat officials in the U.S., and inteviewing Dr. Marc Siegel, talks about some of the emerging effective therapies for treating Covid-19, including Remdesivir, blood plasma with antibodies from recovered patients, and Hydroxychloroquine.
And "non-essential surgeries" being cancelled such as hip replacement, knee replacement, cancer removal surgery, and dental work. Which left untreated, could become life-threatening. These are "non-essential". But abortions in states like Michigan are given priority and still being done, as "essential", by Governor Whitmer. Who by the way, also was blocking the use of Hydroxychloroquine to save the lives of Covid-19 patients in Michigan until recently.

Tucker Carlson, April 17, 2020, Friday



Over the last two years, my mother had 3 hospital visits and surgeries, a hip replacement and a knee replacement. Speaking to her on the phone last night, I discussed with her how lucky she is that she got all that out of the way, about 6 months before all this Covid-19 outbreak and "non-essential surgeries" cancellations began.