This was a couple of days ago, but I’ve been busy with my accounts. Anyway, there are people who actually think that there is a disease X because they read it in the paper.
Disease X could lead to civil unrest and food shortages if it isn’t properly dealt with, experts have warned. Earlier this week, the UK announced it had started developing vaccines to treat Disease X.
Yadayadayada, Chicken Little, blah, blah, blah.
Disease X is the term used to describe a virus which has the potential to cause severe disruption such as a pandemic.
Be afraid. Stay home, wear a face nappy, take the latest jibby jabby.
Except… there is no disease X. It’s a figment of the imagination of the people who, for a while, had unprecedented power and misused it, but want to taste it again.
I repeat, there is no disease X. It’s a piece of febrile fiction from people who should be in a mental institution and the news media really should have dismissed it as such, but they rather liked the pandemic as well, didn’t they?
Dr Matutyte said that if Disease X struck now, the disruption would be severe and hit all areas of life.
She said: “If Disease X were to strike now, the initial impact would be a sense of uncertainty and panic.
The panic is entirely artifically created. The correct response to covid was to keep calm, encourage those most at risk to isolate if they felt that was appropriate, and carry on. The only reason we had panic, hysterical binge shopping, and finger pointing at people who dared to ignore the rules, was entirely man made by people who should know better. People who have now been proven comprehensively wrong. Yet, despite that, they carry on with the same bullshit and the media gives them a platform from which to spout it and the more gullible among us read it and believe that this new disease actually exists. I’ve news for you, so does Father Christmas.
Just more fear mongering by power hungry people. Sadly it might work considering how gullible many people are.
I’m really at a loss as to what the hell to make of this. There isn’t any kind of disease epidemic on the horizon, but just imagine if there was and it was a really bad one, then it would be really bad. Another imaginary problem to go with the imaginary climate crisis presumably.
And if aliens from the Andromeda galaxy land, “the disruption would be severe and hit all areas of life” and “the initial impact would be a sense of uncertainty and panic”.
But if you give me all your money and do as I say I can prevent this.
Yeah, right.
I’d say the shopping wasn’t hysterical.
People normally buy about a week’s food and supplies, with mini-top ups as needed.
If the government then says ‘you might be forced to stay at home for two weeks without warning by being near someone who isn’t displaying any warning signs.’ then the only logical response is to increase your purchases to have a two week supply…
Of course this leads to a collapse of the system as it’s set up for a certain demand level.
“I’d say the shopping wasn’t hysterical.”
Didn’t look very calm to me Chernyy. I give you the arsewipe shortage, then the fuel shortage (caused by a TV news report). I think its known as ‘panic buying’. I’m still laughing at the guy who tried to sell 15,000 bog rolls on fleabay, but they pulled the plug on his listing, leaving him stuck with them.
Dear Mr Longrider
I came across a link to a paper recently (c. 5th August) published in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (I98I) on an experiment conducted in 1980 comparing masked and maskless operations:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
This link ought to be shared whenever masking is under discussion.
If the Royal College of Surgeons were silent on the government’s mask mandate, they deserve censure; if they were gung ho for masking the public, they are no longer fit for purpose and should be disbanded.
DP