{"id":3291,"date":"2020-03-12T19:06:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/panicked-over-the-wuhan-flu-wu-flu\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T19:06:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T19:06:49","slug":"panicked-over-the-wuhan-flu-wu-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/12\/panicked-over-the-wuhan-flu-wu-flu\/","title":{"rendered":"Panicked over the Wuhan Flu (Wu-Flu)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For perspective, consider that in recent years 30,000 to 40,000 Americans each year have been killed in car crashes, and that thousands and thousands die each year of various strains of influenza the names of which are not bandied-about by the 24\/7\/366 media.  The Maverick advises: resist group-think and mass hysteria. While taking reasonable precautions, live your life and consider what really matters. This is not to say that the COVID-19 virus is not a serious threat. It is, and it is being dealt with by a serious president who gets called a 'racist' and a 'xenophobe' for his eminently sensible travel bans. People such as Joe Biden who hurl these epithets are moral scum and need to be denounced as such.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are<\/a> things about which people should be panicked [or at least seriously concerned].<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, the contempt for America and capitalism taught to a generation of young Americans from elementary school through college is worthy of panic. The extreme levels of economy-collapsing debt we are irresponsibly piling onto the backs of future generations to maintain \u201centitlements\u201d is worthy of panic.<\/span><\/p>\n

So is the premature sexualization of children\u2014encouraging them to choose their own gender and taking 5-year-olds to public libraries for \u201cDrag Queen Story Hour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But such things hardly register with most Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel awful for kids today. They are relentlessly told that global warming poses an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to life on earth. They are relentlessly told that President Donald Trump poses an \u201cexistential threat to America\u201d\u2014the words used, for example, a few weeks ago by Frank Rich in New York magazine, and used by the \u201cmoderate\u201d Michael Bloomberg repeatedly in his speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now they are told their families had better stock up on toilet paper because only God knows when they will be unable to leave their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was a Democratic president who told Americans, during World War II no less, that \u201cwe have nothing to fear but fear itself.\u201d He is a liberal idol, in part for saying that.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is more or less exactly what Trump has been saying. Yet he\u2019s an \u201cexistential threat\u201d to our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now chill out and have a beer. May I recommend a<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"Corona<\/a>The dude had a couple of Buds, but he was none the wiser.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For perspective, consider that in recent years 30,000 to 40,000 Americans each year have been killed in car crashes, and that thousands and thousands die each year of various strains of influenza the names of which are not bandied-about by the 24\/7\/366 media.  The Maverick advises: resist group-think and mass hysteria. While taking reasonable precautions, … Continue reading “Panicked over the Wuhan Flu (Wu-Flu)?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}