EPISODE · Jul 2, 2020 · 44 MIN
Managing a Pandemic: with hindsight, how would the agenda of fear been with statistical probabilities, and without politics and the economy?
from The American Enterprise Manifesto: My America's Vision of Peace and Nonviolence for Humanism · host Jerry Rhoads
How does the human brain work when it is controlled by fear? Is it objective and open to new problems and solutions? Or is it closed by what is causing the fear. Well let’s look at the real worldwide fear of the pandemic for example. Objectives should be, number one ... all lives are equal and matter, number two focus on the ones that are at the highest risk, number three using probabilities (AI software for forecasting risk ... actuarial, weather, stock market, etc.) for determining individual and mass risk, number four save as many lives as probable, number five save as much of the economy as predictable, number six save jobs for the maximum number attainable. in fact, just the opposite was used by the so-called experts on managing a pandemic. Of course their overriding premise was that all lives are equally at risk and failed to triage their thinking to prevent mass hysteria by using quack science to control the masses with predictions based on unclassified cases and undefined hospital capacities using bending the curve rather than analyzing the confirmed data of those at the greatest risk. Their approach, using fear as the agenda, was to implement an arbitrary social distancing edict (masks optional) for all without regard to risk until the esoteric curve began to bend downward. And until that happens enforce stay at home shelter in place rules to avoid spreading this unknown virus, as mitigation, until we have a therapy and vaccine to cure the threat of death to everyone on earth (which hasn't happened in 100 years since the Spanish Flu). This empowered the quack scientists to recommend a shutdown of 90% of the economy except for essential businesses. Forcing unemployment of 30 million workers and closing 90% of the businesses as non-essential (except 22 million government workers who are essential) forcing the Federal government to carry a $9 trillion obligation to keep America afloat. The alarming result of this mismanagement of the pandemic caused loss of life in nursing homes (thousands died due to ignorance), inter-cities and those with chronic illnesses. Why because panic was used rather than common sense predictions and focus of current resources. All the while, governors and mayors were left to guess how this would affect their voters causing a panic (that's what a pandemic does) so most, particularly NY, where Governor Cuomo ordered the President to give him 30,000 ventilators, an additional 1,000 hospital beds, which were never needed or used, immediately along with millions of masks, PPE's and special compensation for stretched first responders and medical workers. Plus save the once booming economy while the scientists lorded over the impending collapse of our safety net, continually predicting, without relative data, that there will be spikes and hot spots caused by opening up the economy. Then, why are there empty hospital beds developing due to the lowering of the mortality rate that was predicted by the same scientists (3 million in America alone), unless we followed their expert guess work. The last question is do we win a war with fear of death or courage of our individual convictions and risk taking to overcome the threat, as this pandemic proves to be true ... not everybody gets it, not everyone can be saved and to win the war on fear we have to fight it one by one not in mass waiting for the next cold water thrown on us by the quack experts. This time it has to be about saving jobs not lives that aren't at risk ... or the victim will be the great American dream. With china the perp owning our collapsing economy.
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