JUST SOME POSTS

The mantra now on handling the pandemic is "TESTS"! The cries of "We need testing!" or "Tests are the way to restart the economy!" are everywhere. I have a couple of thoughts on that. (I will pause now while you recover from the shock of that statement) First - How do we test more than 300 million people?  If we set up 250,000 testing centers (and that is a HUGE "if" - to give you a comparison, there are less than 6,500 hospitals in the entire USA and "only" around 14,000 McDonalds!) that still means that each testing center would have to test @1,200 people. So, that means even at 100 people a day that would take @12 days - remember that. A much more reasonable number would be a couple of hundred in each State, so 5,000 to 10,000. If you take the 10,000 number that means the testing would take @10 months - remember this number as well. Second - What good are the tests for a disease that shows no symptoms in a majority of patien...

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt I am writing as we are seeing the individual liberties of the majority of the citizenry being suppressed as much or more than any time in my memories. And, it is being justified as a "necessity".  I know, I know, "but...but...we have to sit at home or we will all DIE!!"  The end of the world narrative that is being pushed on us endlessly by almost everyone is making it seem that if we leave our homes and try to resume any sort of "normality" it will kill untold millions. With every prediction of this disease having been proven wrong, destroying our economy is idiotic. If your home is being eaten by termites, you can make sure it does not happen by burning down your house. You prevent the termites from destroying your house but you prevent you and your family from having a house. That is a similar situation to wh...