Outbreak Not What News Sources Reported
Dear Summit County Decision Makers,
You’ve shut down most of our 7,014 businesses.1
You closed all 200 businesses in beautiful, historic Park City, and most of 7,014 companies registered in the county.
My friends who own a yoga studio, a medical clinic, a car wash, a ski shop, a mechanic shop, and a restaurant, are all sitting at home, terrified, wondering how they’ll buy food and pay the bills, in the next 5 weeks and beyond.
You, Summit County’s Health Officer Richard Bullough, PhD and council members, will always have the dubious distinction as the people accountable for making Park City a Depression-devastated ghost town.
Of course, you’re in good company. In fact, hundreds of other counties made foolish decisions that will affect the long-term legacy of their leaders, and the future of business in those counties, as well.
Governors Cuomo of New York2 and Newsom of California3 shut down most commerce and sentenced tens of millions to long-term unemployment and uncertainty, around the same time you did.
Cuomo is now admitting his 2-month shut down of New York was an overreaction, and a bad idea.4
On Tuesday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent 1.4 billion of the world’s most vulnerable people home for 21 days — their meager sources of income gone — telling them, “Forget what it feels like to leave your homes.”5
And that’s not all: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wins the prize on March 26 for sentencing 18.79 million people in the Los Angeles area for the longest quarantine of anyone, worldwide. Two full months of ordered isolation — all due to 650 cases of COVID19 (and no recorded deaths) on that date.6
A great deal of information has come out in the past week that shows that those leaders who destroyed our economy will find themselves on the wrong side of history.7
Your decision will not only be devastating to your political legacy; it is already devastating to thousands of Summit County businesses who have had to close their doors, and thousands of people jobless.
You were an “early adopter” of the quarantine approach to combating this virus; an early adopter in creating mass layoffs and now-defunct businesses.
Let me review some data points, each of which would have been easy to learn before your knee-jerk reaction destroyed many lives for the indefinite future.
1. I was in the Park City Hospital on March 25, the very hour that KSL reported our county had an outbreak the proportions of New York City (per capita) — and 20 times more infected, per capita, than Salt Lake City.8
Did you contact our two hospitals in the county, to learn that not only were they not full of COVID19 patients–they didn’t actually have any?
Despite the sensational headline, there wasn’t a single patient in the ER. Not in the ER waiting room, and not in the general hospital waiting room, either. Where was the pandemonium, the overcrowded E.R., the huge outbreak? We are a small county, and besides the tiny Heber hospital, there is no other hospital besides Park City.
The eight hospital employees I interacted with during the hour I spent trying to get my simple procedure done (all of them wearing elaborate helmets and face shields) passed me from the lab, to the E.R., to the lab again. With the Red Cross shut down nationwide, I just medically needed to remove some of my iron-rich blood.
I finally left the hospital without the simple treatment I needed (this was actually my second trip there in a week, with the same results, and the same completely empty waiting rooms). I headed to Heber, only to find the ER in Heber — Summit County’s other hospital — also completely empty.
The KSL story about the “outbreak” in Park City being the same, per capita, as New York City, released by KSL, was published, strangely, the same day that KSL also published a story that only 348 cases total have been diagnosed in the entire state of Utah, and that new diagnoses were now decreasing.9
If Summit County, with its completely empty ICU’s and ER’s, had the same per-capita infection rate as New York City — I have to wonder if media reporting in New York City is also inflated.
While it is clear that intensive medicine is not built and staffed for the high point of an outbreak in densely populated cities with a high number of elderly, the media COVID19 media blitz is unprecedented in history, and has taken on epidemic hysteria worse than the virus itself (which seems to be on the decline now, worldwide, with a kill rate of not even 1% of 1% of the estimated 2.2 million dead).10,11
For this, you destroyed our county’s economy, and likely put thousands of businesses into bankruptcy. You’ve put thousands of people out of work indefinitely.
2. China has released its statistics, dramatically downgrading the death rate from its COVID19 outbreak. This study (pending peer review) estimates the death rate of those contracting the virus — in a country where most people smoke, and the air quality is terrible — to be between 0.04 to 0.12.12 This is 33 times lower than the media headlines of up 4 percent that dominated panic-spreading headlines for weeks.
That means the highest death rate the COVID19 virus could have achieved (touted in over 1.5 billion media stories to be extremely deadly) is .12% — and most of that small number of fatalities were people who had already outlived China’s average age.
Here in the U.S., it is simple math that any epidemiologist should know, that the only people being tracked as the outbreak happens are the ones who were tested.13 But as with every pandemic since pandemics have been studied, there are 10 to 20 times more infected people who were never tested. And, every one of them is a survivor. They must be factored into the mortality statistics.
While China’s outbreak was contained, and data was readily available that the death rate was orders of magnitude lower than the media reported, you, Summit County, sentenced thousands of the businesses you ordered to close into extinction.14 (When you extended the existing 10-day order to May 1 — adding another 5 weeks of unemployment and shutdown.)
When those numbers are estimated and factored in, it is becoming clear that U.S. statistics will be likely two-tenths of one percent, at most. (No more deadly than this year’s flu, which is also 0.02%.)
3A. Emerging evidence shows that COVID19 may not be significantly more communicable than other infectious illnesses, either.15 Data is emerging that up to 80 percent false positives result in some test groups.16
Deborah Birx, MD, global health official, admitted 16 hours ago that the outbreak was orders of magnitude lower than predicted, and that the vast majority of ER’s and ventilators sit unused, all over the world.17
3B. A study from Iceland shows that about 50 percent of positive COVID19 cases have no symptoms, and 50 percent show moderate cold symptoms.18
3C. Washington State, in the week Summit County expanded our quarantine and extended it by 5 weeks, showed that of over 30,000 COVID19 tests, only 7% were positive!19 In fact, Washington State intel shows that the death rate, based on real data, is about 0.3. Again, orders of magnitude lower than news media reports.
4. Both South Korea and China have completed the typical “bell curve” of the outbreak.20 Most days in the last week, both countries have reported 0 new cases. (I work with a manufacturing company in the Wuhan, and they worked straight through the outbreak–so people saying that China shut its economy down, and that’s how they contained their outbreak, are wrong.) This is what the bell curve of the epidemic looks like for China and South Korea, neither of whom shut down their economies, but rather, employed reasonable and rational containment strategies:
Unlike Bullough and council members, who inflicted great harm on my business and many others, South Korea achieved total containment of this virus without destroying the livelihood of millions of people.21 Containment strategies are important, but decisions based on bad data are going to destroy Summit County.
5. In the same week you ordered a death sentence for thousands of Summit County small businesses, the epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, whose projection of 2.2 million dead worldwide from the virus, revised his estimate to less than one-tenth of the original estimate.22
Currently only slightly more than 1 percent of his newly revised 200,000 fatality prediction has taken place worldwide–with most, if not all, countries, on the downside of the bell curve that every virus outbreak follows. It appears that, again, the chaos in terms of human life created by the pandemic may be multiple orders of magnitude smaller than Ferguson predicted and the media and social media spread.
But the actions of short-sighted leaders have put many nations of the world into what looks to be a depression not seen since the 1930’s (again, with the help of the news media).
6. In Italy, over 99 percent of the fatalities were already ill with other pre-existing conditions. This virus has shown that it has serious consequences for very few people who are even reasonably healthy and below the age of 60. A more rational containment strategy, for this and any future outbreaks of other viruses, would be to quarantine those who are vulnerable and elderly, allowing the vast majority (the healthy) to continue to work, to avoid the economic catastrophe we now find ourselves in.
South Korea (and even China, mostly) did not see it as a viable option to send their people home, without work and a means to provide food, shelter, medications, and other necessities–like the officials in my county have. Neil Ferguson and others who made foolish false predictions, and created economic chaos with knee-jerk reactions, will inevitably give the economic shutdown credit for the small numbers in the death toll. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise.
There are dozens of excellent containment strategies that have been employed, or could have been employed, that did not destroy our livelihoods.
The information that the virus affects 99% or more elderly and immune-compromised was available in the very early stages of the outbreak.23
7. The Wall Street Journal, one day before Summit County shut down all “non-essential” businesses till May 1, explained the epidemiological evidence that our own Summit County Health Officer Richard C. Bullough, PhD seems to have missed.13 Again, the evidence is deeply flawed, because the fatality statistics are based on only those who have been tested–not the vastly higher number (of 100% survivors) who were not tested.
Stanford’s Dr. John Ioannidis, MD (professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, epidemiology and population health) said in the Daily Wire that “we are making seismic decisions” based on “utterly unreliable data.”24 The consequences will be profound. They already are, Summit County (and hundreds of others nationwide)–and the highly credentialed Dr. Ioannidis says it’s clear municipal, state, and country leaders are “severely overreacting.”
Unlike Bullough and council members in Summit County, who inflicted great harm on thousands of businesses, South Korea achieved total containment of this virus without destroying the livelihood of millions of people. Containment strategies are important, but knee-jerk reactions based on bad data are going to destroy Summit County.
Summit County Officials (and others all over North America): Please reverse your position and allow the people and businesses to return to work immediately. For every day that our businesses remain closed, many more will be unable to reopen. Many politicians and bureaucrats have made mistakes. But your mistakes have cost families and everyone who lives in Park City dearly, and every day your orders based on false information stand, the worse this gets for all of us in this community.
Utah’s Governor Herbert: Please get involved, be courageous, and please do not allow municipal economic shut-downs in our state based on deeply flawed data and unwarranted media and community hysteria.
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Robyn Openshaw is a 16-time author; Park City, Utah resident; and owner of two companies.
Special thanks to Caroline Lowman and Dr. Jerry Bailey II in data gathering, fact checking, and editing.
References
- Roberts, Alyssa. “Summit County Orders Residents to Stay at Home until May 1.” KJZZ, KJZZ News, 25 Mar. 2020, kjzz.com/news/local/summit-county-orders-residents-to-stay-at-home.
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sentences New Yorkers to Mass Unemployment
- Stracqualursi, Veronica. “Cuomo Orders All Nonessential New York Workers to Stay Home.” CNN, Cable News Network, 20 Mar. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workforce-stay-home/index.html.
- California Gov. Newsom Sentences Californians To Mass Unemployment
- Karimi, Faith. “California Orders Its Nearly 40 Million Residents to Stay Home to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus.” CNN, Cable News Network, 20 Mar. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/us/california-coronavirus-stay-home-order/index.html.
- Phillips, Morgan. “Cuomo: Not Sure If Closing All Businesses, Keeping Everyone Home Was ‘the Best Public Health Strategy’.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 26 Mar. 2020, www.foxnews.com/us/cuomo-closing-all-businesses-keeping-everyone-home-not-best-public-health-strategy.
- Independent UK reports Indian Prime Minister Sentences 1.4 Billion to 21 Day House Arrest
- Withnall, Adam. “India to Go into Nationwide Lockdown.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 24 Mar. 2020, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-coronavirus-lockdown-modi-speech-cases-update-news-a9421491.html.
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warns of mass death, condemns ‘false hope,’ and tells us his city will be on lockdown for another 2 months — and to ‘be prepared for longer’
- Davis, Charles. “Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Warns of Mass Death, Condemns ‘False Hope,’ and Tells Us His City Will Be on Lockdown for Another 2 Months – and to ‘Be Prepared for Longer’.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 25 Mar. 2020, www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-los-angeles-to-shelter-in-place-for-months-2020-3?fbclid=IwAR28DyMr-QixCziEYu-DOV8D24LsXnx9lpFVGmUrW9nE-5tmxLsbfx2noYI.
- Editorial Board. “Opinion | The Coronavirus Pandemic May Mark a Decline in U.S. Leadership.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 Mar. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-coronavirus-pandemic-may-mark-a-decline-in-us-leadership/2020/03/23/76d1fe8c-6d28-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html.
- Mar. 25 KSL Story Reporting 348
- Bennett, Lauren. “Summit County Issues Stay-at-Home Order amid COVID-19 Outbreak.” KSL.com, KSL News, 25 Mar. 2020, www.ksl.com/article/46734723/summit-county-issues-stay-at-home-order-amid-covid-19-outbreak.
- Summit County Closes Virtually All Businesses On The Same Day KSL Reports Only 348 Cases Statewide:
- Williams, Carter. “COVID-19 Cases Climb to 348 in Utah, but There’s a Slowdown in Percentage Growth.” KSL.com, KSL News, 25 Mar. 2020, www.ksl.com/article/46734584/covid-19-cases-climb-to-348-in-utah-but-theres-a-slowdown-in-percentage-growth.
- United Nations. “China Shows COVID-19 Coronavirus Can Be ‘Stopped in Its Tracks’ | UN News.” UN News, United Nations, 16 Mar. 2020, news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059502.
- Ellyatt, Holly. “Italy’s Death Toll Rises above 7,000 – but the Number of New Cases Declines for the 4th Day in a Row.” CNBC, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2020, www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/italys-new-coronavirus-cases-declines-for-4th-day-in-a-row.html.
- Not Yet Peer Reviewed Review of Wuhan COVID19 Outbreak Death Statistics
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2?fbclid=IwAR0wlqXD1b4-DXJ1w_FFolMPWUx4o3A_fBFpSfr5tqBTUbM80TJ9xqxtqXY.
- Wall Street Journal Explains Basic Pandemic Math — Don’t Count The Fatalities Until You Estimate The Infected Who Weren’t Tested!
- Bendavid, Eran, and Jay Bhattacharya. “Opinion | Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 24 Mar. 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
- Not Yet Peer Reviewed Review of Wuhan COVID19 Outbreak Death Statistics
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2?fbclid=IwAR0wlqXD1b4-DXJ1w_FFolMPWUx4o3A_fBFpSfr5tqBTUbM80TJ9xqxtqXY.
- COVID19 is also not significantly more communicable than other infectious illnesses
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2.
- 80% False Positive COVID19 Test Results for Test Subjects Living With COVID19 Patients
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2.
- BlazeTv. “Dr. Birx Admits Initial COVID Predictions Were Extreme.” YouTube, YouTube, 26 Mar. 2020, www.youtube.com/.
- Iceland Finds 50% of COVID19 Positive Cases Have No Symptoms; 50% Have Only Moderate Cold Symptoms
- Shahan, Zachary. “Iceland Is Doing Science – ~50% of People with COVID-19 Not Showing Symptoms, ~50% Have Very Moderate Cold Symptoms [UPDATED].” CleanTechnica, 25 Mar. 2020, cleantechnica.com/2020/03/21/iceland-is-doing-science-50-of-people-with-covid-19-not-showing-symptoms-50-have-very-moderate-cold-symptoms/amp/.
- Washington State’s 30,000 COVID19 Tests Are Only 7% Positive (and 0.03% Fatalities)
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- Neil Ferguson revised his estimate to less than one-tenth of the original estimate
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I agree with many that this is not your place. This very irresponsible of you to be sharing your opinion here. But I guess we are all allowed our opinions. You are creating fear as well. Your behind a lifestyle of creating peace and joy and not a scientist. Leave this to those who are equipped to decipher the vast information out there. Share with your following the ability to create an ease in this time of disease. That is what green smoothie girl is all about.
So disappointed in this. You have confused yourself that just because you publish something online, you somehow can pull together some quotes and un verified works and know what you are talking about. I will listen to scientists instead of someone that makes green smoothies. Have you ever heard the saying "keep in your lane?" The reason we have done so well is because of social distancing and shut-downs. New York has to use refrigerated trucks to store the dead. That’s true! And verified.
The news distorts information and extremely exaggerates for their own motives. Healthy immune systems are the best defense against illness. Taking precautions without fear is best. The economy is at risk because of the false reporting, (which is what the agenda is) How far do we let this go? Who do we let take us down?
Well said, Sonia!
Ditto Sonia!
No. This site green smoothies is questionable. I would not use this as your source of information to understand the COVID19 pandemic.
No, the refrigerated trucks is not a fact and you might want to check your sources before you take on someone else’s.
If you do not like what Robyn has written here, move along!
Agreed!
You should move over to the idiot lane.
Please see the logic here and dont be swayed by the media. The media and politicians are using this for a reason. I am a Dr on the front lines and this is accurate info. It’s been way too much of an over reaction and media political hype. I’m seeing more flu and strep and zero corona
ah yes, the truth! hype and hysteria is the crisis the Dems want! They don’t want to let this pandemic go to waste! Hurt everything you can while you can is there tactic…can you imagine where we’d be if they got in instead of Trump! He restored faith in our country in every area. The Dems won’t have it! Not while one is still standing! I hope they are held accountable at some point. It’s treason at the highest level! If not here on earth….then later!
Critical thinking, curiosity, and constant examination of the sources and quality of data will keep us moving forward to positive outcomes. Excellent compilation. Re the “stay in your lane” comment below … health is everybody’s lane. Curiosity and lifetime leaning are everybody’s lane. Here’s to our continued ability to share information and freedom to read opinions that we might or might not agree with. Freedom of expression, please. And freedom to agree or disagree.
This disease is not even as bad as a flu season. So many people die from so many things far worse than this, and nothing noteworthy is ever stated about them. COVID-19 is not worthy of business shut downs and quarantines. Social distancing cannot be proven to have "stemmed the tide of Corona Virus." At best what should have been suggested, which is suggested at all other times, is that people who have pre-existing conditions should take appropriate precautions for their own sake. It is simply false, and evil, to have done what the media and governments have done, but that’s typically what they do. But we will all see this in the days to come. Stay tuned.
TamiK – Young lady, you are a good follower of the herd. All you have to do is go outside the controlled main media to find the truth. I can name you 5 modalities that will cure most diseases, all natural. Can show you the necessary vitamins and minerals that you can take to protect you. How you say? Who are the ones dying. In every case those with a poor immune system an have other health issues. So research what vitamins you can take to protect you against most diseases even cancer. Watch The Vitamin Move to start. But you won’t, you’ll just keep stuffing your face with those items you call food and before you know it you will be in a Nursing Home wondering what happened to you.
Is anybody aware that 70,000 people died from prescribed drugs in 2017 from our medical field? Talk about a pandemic… who’s gonna address this $$ making scam and stop it? Robyn is educating people to take care of their own health and wake up to the lies being shoved down the sheep’s throats. You go girl!
The Vietnam war had less American military casualties than one year of prescribed drugs. Is anybody paying attention?
We have the internet… use it and get informed you headline readers and wake up
I’m a scientist and I have been saying for weeks what she has said here.
You should stay in your lane, and let us science-y people do the work then, M-kay?
My commentary was directed at Tami K, who thinks everything on TV is real.
Then why aren’t you verifying it? Freezer trucks of dead? Sound like BS to me. Show me.
TamiK, You are very misled. There are plenty of scientists who disagree with the shutdown of our economy, you just don’t hear about it on mainstream media. Also, believe it or not, scientists do have an agenda. The ones that are being quoted about "flattening the curve" etc., are the ones that work for big pharma and are all to eager to make sure we are shutdown until the miracle "COVID19 vaccine" can make an appearance. Big money, mandating the entire world to get this vaccine. I’m sure you will be first in line, sheep!
Please see the logic here and dont be swayed by the media. The media and politicians are using this for a reason.
Dr. Brown, where is cognitive dissonance, there is no logic. They were at the peak of their Ponzi scheme/house of cards ( financial bubble ) and they cannot play the same card like in 1914 and 1939…with nuclear weapons…They saw the torches and pitchforks straight ahead…who to blame…a pLandemic ! Scare da sh.t of the sheeple and do " not let this crisis to go to waste "!
Robyn please stick to what you know, and watch this video on pandemics TO THE END to educate yourself and your audience to the danger, severity and inevitable likelihood of worldwide pandemics in the future based on intense factory farming of chickens, cattle and pigs. These unnatural factory animal farms ultimately are the source of all these mutated viruses.
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/pandemics-history-prevention/?gsg_source=NutritionFacts.org&utm_campaign=71b00b9d14-RSS_VIDEO_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_40f9e497d1-71b00b9d14-24023217&mc_cid=71b00b9d14&mc_eid=1ff765c531
Robin I know there are more people out there like you who will uncover the truth. Keep it up!!! You are much needed it this pandemic.
Brilliant assement Robyn! Although we were thinking along these lines already, this ties it all up in a nice big bow and is backed by data and the references you provided. We can only pray that the powers that be in charge of this country wake up sooner rather than later. In the meantime, You can find us in our new sauna! We absolutely love it and we feel we got it just in time.
Agree with so much you have said. Makes one wonder if liberals are dancing in their sleep to see how they are orchestrated American citizens’ dependence on government to care for them. This is how we lose our freedom and independence. Too bad Common Sense is a dying character trait.
I agree with you that this is an over reaction. This whole thing smells bad. I think it is manufactured to hide the fact that our monetary system is crashing.
The Ponzi scheme of money created from nothing and creating monstrous debt is luciferian in my view. BTW, what happened to the credit side of the balance sheet? Where did it go??
Nutrition is the key to staying well!
Thank you Robyn for posting this statement of truth.
Love this comment..money created from nothing…definitely comes from the devil! We lose our freedoms from fear mongering government shutdowns.
Davis noted the refrigerated trucks are not specifically for coronavirus cases. They’re intended to help alleviate the morgue space at hospitals if needed. The trailers will be used if the hospital morgues reach capacity. The trucks are part of a city plan to prepare for the potential surge of bodies from the coronavirus pandemic, Worthy-Davis said.
This is from Fox 10 news …. notice it they are planning for a “potential” surge of bodies. Their morgues are not even close to capacity. My personal opinion is they don’t want to bring cases of corona into the hospital so they set up makeshift hospital rooms outside.
You are way off base on this! The numbers show that this is a death sentence for many older people it is a very very serious illness and it is spread so quickly and there is not enough equipment to treat sick people please don’t miss inform people like this they need to understand the seriousness of this
Yes-I totally agree that the response to the FEAR of the virus is the sickness; which has crippled us economically.
Let this be an awakening!!
Annagail, you are off base. The "death sentence" from COVID19 is less than that of the seasonal flu. We have never had such measures in place during flu season that puts people’s livelihoods on the line and plunges us into a depression.
You are wrong. The virus started in China on Dec 10. China was not on the verge of collapse, nor was America.
Had President Trump gone against WHO and CDC advice, he would have been impeached, again.
If I were you I would stick to smoothies and steer clear of politics.
John
My dear, I think you just cut off your nose to spite your face! If money is your chief concern, you just alienated a good number of your followers…and customers. Several people have used the term courageous to describe your publishing of this narrative. To my eye it is not courage but anger. Anger that you and business people that you know will have less green paper and unstable stocks. Never good practice to mix politics and business but you did just that by exposing yourself as a right wing conspiracy theorist, cherry picking right wing and financial sources that agree with your point on this subject. It is quite likely you will suffer some financial losses but when you look back on it you will see that it was not entirely due to shutdowns but instead, many of those losses came from alienation of customers due to this irresponsible conversation.
I assume you are not a business owner? What you say is nowhere near the truth. We are an honest, generous business in this community and we have many loyal customers doing their best to keep us open but it’s just simple math. The numbers aren’t there and we are most likely not going to have the funds to reopen. This has nothing to do with greed. Its basic economics. This means we are out of business, not just "less green paper" but NONE. My husband, 3 small children and I don’t know where our next grocery shopping fund will come from as of right now. He is busting his butt every day, gone 7 days a week, just to keep our business floating. No money in our pockets. Everything has to go to business rent, and paying those who love us who have showed up every day to help! Robyn is expressing the other side of this tragedy!!! She’s not wrong!!! None of this was conspiracy. Did you look at her sources?? Or just Fox and CNN?? Who have continually misconstrued information about this over and over again. Even many doctors are bashing the media for creating mass hysteria. Anyway, there’s another side of this and millions will be out of a job…this is a disaster any way you cut it.
Diana: Your assumption is wrong. It’s never wise and indeed presumptuous to assume something about someone you don’t even know. I am a senior with advanced CANCER working part time as a School Crossing Guard earning 13k a year (currently off duty until further notice due to the virus). Obviously 13k a year is not enough to survive on, so I also have 2 small online businesses/shops on Etsy. com, both of which are near dead due to the virus shutdown, I ASSUME. One is a handcrafted organic skincare shop for which I cannot now afford to order ingredients and supplies for. In addition, to try to make ends meet, I have a pet sitting and walking BUSINESS which is 100% dead due to people staying at home and caring for their own pets and not traveling. So I don’t need to be told about how financially difficult things are. I also do not know where the money is going to come from for my next grocery store trip. And yes, I DID look at her sources, a number of which are far right wing authors/publications and 1-2 of which are conspiracy theory publishers and authors (Google them). I for one, am just going to abide by the information issued by reputable scientists and doctors and practice social distancing due to my cancer and suppressed immunity issues. While some might think that I and others my age are expendable, my loved ones and family don’t think I am. The President of the United States today in his daily Covid-19 briefing said he is extending the suggested restrictions until April 30. Admittedly, I’m not a particular fan of his but many on this blog appear to be. He initially said he had a “hunch” this whole thing would blow over in a week or 2 and there were only 15 people in the US affected (that was in early February). His “hunch” proved to be wrong and he is now saying the worst is yet to come and it should peak in about 2 weeks around Easter, the very same time that he told us a week ago that he wanted to “see the churches packed for Easter”. This is a constantly moving target and no one, not Robyn, you, me OR the President knows how or when it will end and just have to do the best we can.
You do not have all the facts right.
Granted not all the facts are right on the news either but neither are some of your resources.
I have family in Hong Kong and China and many friends there. My neighbors son works for the US embassy there. I also have a cousin whose husband is still there. Your facts about China do not correspond with their experiences over there. Also economy there is affected as well.
I live in Oregon. I know what is happening here and in Washington. People flooded to the Oregon coast for spring break and now they have cases there in a small town of Tillamook with limited medical equipment. This could happen to Park city as well and it will probably happen to all the other small towns on the Oregon coast because everyone packed those small towns with people on spring break. The people who live there do not want to all get sick because some some people are not considerate.
I have a friend who has a family member that works as a medical worker in that small town.
If you want to know facts about things make sure you check with people who are there in the situation and reliable sources.
Yes some of the cases are mild but elderly people and those with certain health problems as well as newborn infants like my niece who was 6 weeks premature are at risk. Why risk getting it and passing it to someone you love who is in that categor? My mother in law is 88 years old and we want her to live to 90 at least. I have asthma and do not want it.
There was a nursing home in Eugene Oregon where it spread and a large number of the people there died.
As an 80 year old, I am astonished that you think my increased chances of a very terrifying potential death is nothing compared to a few weeks of money in your pocket.
I no longer want to get anything you write, produce or sell.
And to think I was planning to get a sauna from you.
Thanks for revealing you are a right wing nut job.
Robyn is not wrong. This could have been handled very sensibly with concern for small business’. So many have been drinking the Kool-aid for so long they can’t see beyond their feelings of what might really be happening. Use common sense…if you’re old stay inside…etc. It’s not rocket science. The u. s. is so full of lefties who hate anyone who disagrees with them, for each other (and anyone who dares to have their own opinion) and seemed bent on socialism that this crisis is exposing this hatred outright. Robyn is right to express the over reacting few who destroy so many lives. This will have much farther lasting devastation than the virus. We’ll lose more to prescribed drugs on any given year. Wake up people!
Diana’s right. You must not own a business. and if you, do you’re heartless. These are people. Real people who have worked hard. And this whole pandemic was fear mongering. And it COULD have been handled WITHOUT such an economic death to Almost the WHOLE nation.
I would wager that MOST of our politicians ARE actually GOOD people, like the rest of us, who were duped. It is unwise to throw out our best with the bathwater. But we DO need to make sure this doesn’t happen again – the FEAR mongering.
We NEED Government decisions to be LOCALLY DONE with the BEST case scenario being the ONE THAT WE DO, NOT the WORST. And advising of the worst so people can make their OWN choices in the OWN homes. THIS would have been the VERY best decision for America. If we take the risk, THEN it’s OUR risk, NOT anyone else’s decision MADE FOR US. FREEDOM. It’s a GOOD thing.
Sounds reasonable to me. There are links to references. You have to wonder about why most people in the medical field don’t know how many lives could be saved by the long proven methods against other corona virus strains using vitamin C as high-dose, intravenous for cure and smaller oral doses for saving dying patients in critical care. Results are now coming out from China and Korea of their successes with it in this pandemic. This article gives links to references that are peer reviewed. https://www.naturalhealth365.com/canadian-physician-covid-19-3341.html
PS I am a scientist 🙂 but what we need most is common sense under our thinking caps.
Prevention is the best medicine:
Overdose on nutrition
Rest and less stress
Count our blessings
I have said all along this smacks of lies !!!!!
5G being installed without law approval!!!!
DANGER to ALL HEALTH!
GOVERNMENT SHOULD *ALL* BE IMPEACHED . NOW
NOT ALLOWED TO EVER *NEVER * HOLD ANY OFFICE AGAIN!!!
Start Today WHITE HOUSE RIGHT ON DOWN!!!
WE THE PEOPLE UNITED
We the people have to stop them from putting 5G in our neighborhoods. We don’t need it if it’s going to be detrimental to our health. https://youtu.be/CtfqUtW_8AA
Robyn, so happy there are people out there with common sense! Yes, it is a problem for those with other underlying conditions as well as suppressed immune systems and for those my heart goes out to! But in reality the common flu also affects those people. So many people I know all believe the quarantine is an over reaction. The fact that you can not even go to a park for a walk is ridiculous! Keeping your body healthy is the BEST thing you can do to fight offANY infection and that has even been taken away! Our bodies need to be outside!
Karla,
You can’t go outside to a public park?
Where do you live?
I spent the first 28 years of my life in Southern California where we lived out doors…except when there was a smog alert.
The next 26 years we have lived in Houston where we are only outdoors seasonally.
Since the pandemic Houston looks like SoCal as everyone is outdoors walking, talking to neighbors (of course they are keeping 6 feet between them), coordinating all sorts of activities for kids during their walks and bike rides, caring for the elderly and more!
Feeling greatful for my community!
I live in Oregon and we have a stay at home order but that does not mean you cannot go outside. We go walking every day. The grocery stores are open and medical office. Massage is one thing not onen but it is to protect the therapist as much as the clients. I have a close friend who is a massage therapist. Restaurants are take out or drive through or delivery but some are just shutting down not from lack of business but from sick employees.
And I quote: "CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus." and another report:
"Flu season in the US, which runs from October through May, claims tens of thousands of lives every year. This season CDC estimates that, as of mid-March, between 29,000 and 59,000 have died due to influenza illnesses. Add to that the misery of hundreds of thousands of flu-related hospitalizations and millions of medical visits for flu symptoms this season." The quarantine is an overreaction. We are believing what the media is saying when we should stop and think on our own and inform ourselves. The media express their opinion and what they want you to believe not always the truth.
This post was totally irresponsible of you. There is a worldwide pandemic and you are showing more concern for economics than the health of people. Yes, we are ALL concerned about the financially devastating results that are in our future but we will recover from that as well. Health and life are more important and you have benefitted from promoting good health and then you post this? I am unsubscribing from all of your emails and I will be skeptical of any information coming from you in the future.
This article is in no way a scientific treatment of the subject.
The author is hurt and seems mostly motivated by the fact that businesses are tanking.
She’s cherry picking from studies and news articles to push her agenda.
In Bullet point 1 she says "that only 348 cases total have been diagnosed in the entire state of Utah, and that new diagnoses were now decreasing 9.", but if you look at cite 9 it actually says: "There’s a Slowdown in Percentage Growth". That means that the cases are increasing, but not as fast, NOT that new cases are decreasing. (and by the way that slowdown was ONLY due to a lot of people doing social distancing at the time)
Bullet point 2 cited a study, which if she actually read it states the R0 for the virus is inherently very high, 5.2. In fact the study uses that high R0 as the basis for it’s model and suggestion that the CFR is relatively low (in their opinion). (and this can be argued, as the paper is only theoretical and not peer reviewed.)
But then the author completely reverses her argument in 3A by saying "COVID19 may not be significantly more communicable than other infectious illnesses".
She really can’t have it both ways.
Listen to or watch some real epidemiologists and doctors from S. Korea or Italy if you want the truth, and yes, it is serious.