Since governments are overreacting, small business owners can help employees in many states by firing them so they can collect unemployment. Perhaps we need businesses to respond to this insanity that will force all local governments to see the costs of their stupidity.

Yes, it is absolutely true if we all stay home, watch TV, we may not even get the flu no less this coronavirus. This may even be the cure for the common cold. That is NOT the question here. The real bewildering question is who came up with this master plan for they are killing the patient (world economy) to stop a flu-like infection that will never reach anything close to an epidemic.

A joke is coming in that this is a plot between Bernie, Greta, and the vegetarians. Bernie gets everyone so they do not have to work or pay taxes, Greta keeps everyone inside so they do not see that this has been the highest snowfall this year since the ’60s, and the vegetarians are running ads that say meat markets spread disease. The socialists yell, “Shut up and don’t ruin a good thing! For once we don’t have to work and can just watch TV.”

COMMENT FROM MEDICAL INDUSTRY

Let’s also keep in mind that our tests are not perfect, and extensive testing for a disease with a very low incidence will lead to many more false positive results, than true positive results.

If we carry out extensive screening for COVID-19, we are at even greater risk of our tests failing us. Assuming about 15,000 infections in a country of about 300,000,000 people, that gives an approximate incidence of 0.005%. The most accurate test has a specificity of about 95%.  This means that if we carried out population-wide screening, that  99.9% of the confirmed positive test results will be a false positive result, meaning that approximately 14,999,250 people tested will have a positive test result, but do not have the disease, meanwhile only 14,250 of the 15,000 who have the disease will have a positive test result.

This is why we only want to test those individuals who have a possibly significant history of exposure, and appropriate symptoms of the disease that we are testing for.

COMMENT:  Trying times.
The news just seems to keep getting worse. Not the actual news about the virus itself, but rather, the wake of destruction left behind the actions taken to “flatten the curve”. As a Californian, it seems like Newsom is spreading panic rather than mitigating it. My wife and I have been diligently saving for the future and are in a slightly better position to weather this crisis than many of our peers. But now the narrative seems to be we should expect 18 months of this state destruction of private enterprise. Im holding out hope that the slingshot is coming shortly. Which brings me to the question:
Would it be wise to go all in when the time is right?
By all in, I mean putting every penny we can find into the market (if we have anything left). I’m hopeful that we can weather this crisis but am also feeling that now more than ever we need to become self sufficient before the true crisis unfold. This seems like just a taste of what you have been warning about for many years now.
What is your suggestion for us lower middle class folk that still rely on paychecks to get by?
Thanks for keeping us informed. Just recently subscribed for pro level to stay up on when this slingshot will materialize.
You dont know how much you are appreciated as a voice of sanity and experience.
R

REPLY: The New York governor is locking down the state. You must be a critical business to be open. This really makes no sense. Even if 10% of the population got the virus and say 10% of them were to die, then we are at 1968 flu epidemic levels where 3 million people died. They did not shut down the world economy for that. There is another agenda here. There is no evidence that this would ever last for 18 months. All viruses peak out and it already has in Asia. So why 18 months? Something is just not right. It appears they are using this as a pretense to prevent civil unrest that they know is rising. Even if a journalist has doubts, the editors are blocking any contrary reporting. So much for the press doing any investigation here.

Those of you who keep pushing this disease into a panic, claiming the numbers are fake and it is much worse, are being used as pawns for the ID2020. The real concern is that there are other coronaviruses which typically amount to 14% of flu-like diseases each year. This has contributed tofalse-positive claims of the coronavirus. Even the American Dental Association has instructed dentists to shutdown for 2 weeks. With less than 15,000 reported cases in the USA, given that the 2018 population was 327.2 million, we are talking about 0.00004% of the population. If the number of flu-caused deaths exceeds 7.7 percent of the total, then the United States officially has an epidemic on its hands.

There is something much more sinister going on here and it has nothing to do with the coronavirus. You do not shut down the world economy for such a minor incident. An epidemic would require more than 4 million deaths in the United States – not less than 25