The shutdown is an emotional reaction fueled by the media and ignores the following facts:
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• ​Virtually every model used for hospital and death projections has been proven to be false. Error has always been on the side that creates the most fear and panic.
  
  
• Social isolation ("mitigation") has not been proven to decrease the mortality rate. Some areas that have aggressively socially isolated, such as Italy, France, and Spain, have higher mortality than those that have not. Germany has joined China and Taiwan in concluding that COVID-19 rarely spreads through casual contact. It spreads through repeated large doses, such as while sheltering in place. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVc68uGWsAc7Wwx?format=jpg&name=900x900;​ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1
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• The total death count in a population compared to pre-Corona-19 years has not been increased.
  
  
• There is little risk for children. The risk for anyone under 65, even in global hot spots, is equivalent to the risk of a fatal car crash from a daily commute between 9 and 400 miles. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.20054361v1 The risk is actually less than that since COVID-19 mortality figures are inflated. https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/facts-that-contradict-the-prevailing-covid-19-narrative
  
  
• The primary risk is to the elderly and those with serious health conditions.
  
  
• The vast majority of people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or recover similarly to having the common flu.
  
  
• There is nothing about the virus that warrants the draconian shut down of societies and economies. The cost to health and economies from shutdown and isolation has not been proven to be less than the damage from the virus itself.
  
  
• The media sensationalizes COVID-19 stories and ignores the millions who are being devastated and injured by the shutdown.
  
  
• Other infectious diseases and causes of death we live with every day have higher mortalities. https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/will-the-government-be-the-solution-to-covid-19
  
  
• Tests for the virus are not definitive. They can produce false positives and negatives.
  
  
• Mortality percentages depend upon knowing how many have been infected, but this number is not known.
  
  
• Proven natural and safe preventatives and treatments are ignored. (e.g. vitamins C, A, oregano oil, licorice, Zinc, and others) Locking people in homes in front of computers and televisions shields them from fresh oxygen and vitamin D generated from sunlight, both of which are anti-viral and health and immune-stimulating. https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/will-coronavirus-be-defeated-by-a-vaccine-or-by-vitamins-sunshine-and-healthy-living
  
  
• Respirators and drugs used with them are invasive, potentially dangerous, and often unnecessary. There is three times the reimbursement to hospitals with their use. This incentivizes ignoring the dangers from their use. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVc68uGWsAc7Wwx?format=jpg&name=900x900
  
  
• The burden on hospitals from proven COVID-19 infections is not greater than that from the flu in previous years.
  
  
• Health providers are given financial incentives for diagnosing COVID-19, putting people on respirators for it, and attributing deaths to it even if there is no proof. This inflates mortality figures.
  
  
• The push for isolation prevents a population from developing herd immunity, the ultimate solution to all infectious diseases.
  
  
• A drug or a vaccine will not cure or prevent the disease any more than they have cured or prevented the common flu.
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Further documentation for the above: https://www.asifthinkingmatters.com/blog/facts-that-contradict-the-prevailing-covid-19-narrative
 
In spite of this evidence, the media and government continue with the simplistic and misleading narrative that a highly lethal virus has been unleashed and we are facing the end of the world. Mark Twain once said of them that it is hard to determine if they are smart people just putting us on or imbeciles who really mean it. Thomas Sowell observed: "It is usually futile to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
 
COVID-19 is not unique. Those driving this do so not because of the weight of reason and facts, but because of either ignorance or the opportunity to advance their personal objectives.
 
The media profits by creating and then feeding hysteria. Ratings increase, ad dollars increase, and their ideological objectives are given more audience. Government is using the opportunity to expand power and liberal paternalistic agendas. Pharmaceutical companies stand to reap enormous profits from drugs and vaccines holding the promise of cure and prevention.
 
The fear generated by a virus that was likely bioengineered by a communist regime has been used to do the unprecedented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXWGxhd7ic First, people are locked in their homes and their sources of income closed. Worked into a panic by daily media death tallies, people turn into obsessive-compulsive germaphobes reporting neighbors who don't garb up with masks and gloves or who violate six-foot distancing.
 
Hopeless, broken, depressed, and fearing for their lives, people surrender their freedoms to government promising them handouts of money created out of thin air. Little thought is given to the fact that dumping trillions of dollars of fiat money into "rescue" plans may ultimately destroy the economy and the value of money itself. A failed dollar is like holding the old maid card, nobody should want to get stuck with it. Using a virus to impose socialism on the economic lifeblood of society will kill the goose that laid our golden eggs.
 
The only hope given is a vaccine or drug. Some government officials are insisting that society remain locked down until a vaccine is available, even if it takes years. So, people remain compliant and wait for government and medicine to save them while the world collapses. Thinking that government will save us is just an excuse not to think.
 
Enthusiasm for and reliance on vaccines set the stage for forced vaccinations and redirecting attention away from the personal responsibility of building health and immunity. Vaccine dangers are ignored. During a declared medical emergency, they are potentially even more dangerous. Without near impossible proof, manufacturers cannot be held liable for death or maiming. https://www.hoganlovells.com/~/media/hogan-lovells/pdf/2020-pdfs/2020_03_23_liability_immunity_under_the_prep_act-for_covid_19_countermeasures.pdf
 
In the race to gain the multibillion-dollar market, sloppy safety testing could be expected. Even with normal vaccine safety standards and the difficulty of redress if injured, over 20,000 injury petitions (including 1301 deaths) have been filed and almost four billion dollars has been paid by the government (our taxes), not the vaccine manufacturers, for vaccine injuries. https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compensation/data/monthly-stats-may-2019.pdf
The dangers are real no matter what safety testing is done. https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/data/index.html
 
Even more alarming is legislation that would force implants permitting the government to track vaccine compliance and who knows what else. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-id2020-investigate-bill-gates-assets-stocks-and-companies?fbclid=IwAR22OGP4jQGVrnpiXFydu2K5K_hbRzKa8i44Jxx1qeF3UUpoc-mNcAF2FD4; https://tottnews.com/2020/04/09/gates-family-eugenics-covid-19/; https://vaxxter.com/

We have gotten used to freedom as a given, not something tenuous that must be safeguarded. Now we have a taste of what it's like to have freedoms stripped away for no justifiable reason. Getting them back requires being informed with facts and reason and holding public servants to what they are, servants, not masters.

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Relevant Words of Wisdom:
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." —William H. Borah

"America can still survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that ethics, intelligence, and rationality is really the world's last best hope." —Steyn

"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for . . . liberty." —Thomas Jefferson