Good day all, A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post regarding some totalitarian moonbat who thinks Americans should not have any freedom.
Well, it seems that yet another ivory tower totalitarian thinks it’s a smashing good idea to continue saying Americans only care about their freedom. In this case, it is a Communist for the Washington Compost who has decided that Americans are to stupid to give up their rights and allow the government to rule over them. Here are the remarks of Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and is an affiliated faculty member at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. (In other words, an Ivory Tower Moonbat):
Public health professionals are focused on expanding coronavirus infection testing nationwide. “Testing is outbreak control 101, because what testing lets you do is figure out who’s infected and who’s not, and that lets you separate out the infected people from the noninfected people and bring the disease under control,” Harvard professor Ashish Jha says. As Tom Frieden, a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Washington Post, “Our ability to get to the new normal depends to a great extent on our ability to test, isolate, contact trace and quarantine.” Public health leaders are essentially unanimous: This is, they believe, America’s most viable escape route from the pandemic. It’s what has largely contained the virus in multiple countries, including Germany, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
We weren’t doing to badly ourselves until the Moonbats and criminally corrupt governors, (I’m looking at YOU Andrew Cuomo!) screwed up. As for the CDC? Yeah, they aren’t exactly covered in glory over this.
But what works there may not go over well here.
Even under the best circumstances, national testing programs pose enormous technical challenges — How many tests? Who makes the tests? Where should they be processed? — that experts are working to solve.
Are these the same “experts” who came up with the models that were used to destroy the global economy?
But even a technically sound program is useless without widespread consent.
Wait for it, here it comes!
And obtaining such consent “would require a major reduction in our liberties and a prolonged period of increased surveillance,” as journalist Stephen Bush points out.
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING! And there it is! In order to be safe, we must surrender our rights. I followed the link from this dumbass’s column and it leads to the Guardian. For those who aren’t aware, the Guardian is a British periodical that is somewhat to the left of Mao Tse Tung.
Will Americans accept those reductions willingly and quickly enough to implement an effective testing regimen? It’s hard to imagine.
No it isn’t. Here’s your answer.
In countries with successful testing programs, the relationship of citizens to the government differs from that of the United States in important respects.
According to a 2018 Gallup poll, Germans are almost twice as likely as Americans (59 percent vs. 31 percent) to have confidence in government.
Oh I so trust the Germans when it comes to choosing good Fuhrers leaders. Tell me again, how many world wars did their government’s start?
Consider, in contrast, that data from the Pew Research Center show that only 17 percent of Americans say they trust the federal government to do what is right “just about always” or “most of the time.”
We don’t trust our government for a very simple reason. There are to many moonbats like you who want to run our lives. Perhaps you should visit the most popular political party in the country. It isn’t the Republican Party or the Democrat party. It’s the “Leave me the fuck alone!” party. We’ve seen just how inept and incompetent the governments can be, at all levels.
Americans’ relative lack of deference to their government extends to matters of health. Of all wealthy democracies, only in the United States have legions of voters fought for decades to prevent a government guarantee of health care for all citizens.
Well, we have good reason to not want government run healthcare. We’ve seen just how good it is in all the other countries. You know, the ones where they decide if you should be allowed to get the medical treatments you need to actually survive and recover? Or how they have no problem murdering patients who they decide are of no use to anyone.
Americans and the politicians they elect are also highly protective of personal health information — often with good reason.
Yeah, we’ve seen what happens when the government gets hold of people’s information. It gets leaked all over the place and used against individuals that don’t toe the government line.
The app at the heart of Singapore’s coronavirus tracing system records people’s disease status in a fashion that clearly would be illegal under U.S. law. So would the South Korean app that alerts you to the identity of infected people nearby.
There would also be the problem that if the government you so love to run your affairs were to actually put something like this on people’s phones, those phones would never leave the house, or even be turned on. We do not like being spied on. We barely tolerate the fact that the phones can be tracked and we’re currently fighting the government’s getting that information without a warrant. (Especially the FISA warrants)
Clusters of gun-toting protesters opposing public health measures are a real — and uniquely American — problem,
That’s not a problem asswipe, it’s a feature.
but it’s the much more prevalent distrust in government’s role in public health that would curtail the success of any test, trace and isolate program.
Considering how your beloved government bureaucracies have royally screwed up this whole panicdemic crap, we know that anything you clowns come up with will fail…epically.
Public health experts should be thinking through what happens when they introduce the programs they’ve devised. What will we do when millions of Americans flatly refuse to be tested for the virus?
Oh I can see how they will respond. They’ll call in the federal goon squads to force people to comply, or else.
What should we do if those who test positive deny reality and refuse to change their behavior? (According to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, only 58 percent of Americans say they are very or somewhat worried about getting the infection and becoming seriously ill.)
I suspect that poll is about as accurate as the China Virus models that were used to justify locking down the country. In other words, not accurate at all. There is also the issue of the accuracy of those tests, and whether or not the people tested are asymptomatic or even infectious. We already have one example, and this was a nurse who should know better. (Exposed to Ebola and refused to self quarantine and sued successfully. Damn, there’s that pesky freedom thing again)
What if some governor in a state that refused Medicaid expansion, such as Kristi L. Noem (R) of South Dakota, decides that test, trace and isolate is the next frontier of opposition to big government?
Governor Noem is also one of the very few governors who did not destroy her state’s economy by locking everyone up in their homes. Funny thing. The number of people who caught the virus should have been massive, but it isn’t, unlike the states of New York and New Jersey. Interesting isn’t it?
The public health field is underestimating the extent of these challenges. That is probably because virtually everyone in the field thinks that emergencies of this sort should override concerns about individual privacy and autonomy.
And they will think that right up until they get a load of double ought buckshot in the face.
Public health schools conform to the broader academic pattern of leaning left, including in generally viewing expanded government as a means to a better society. It’s public health after all, not private health.
Leaning left? Like the Tower of Piza, they’re leaning so far that only cables are keeping them from falling over. The problem with far to many of them is they have been brought up in the collectivist environment. The individual doesn’t matter, only the collective. If the individual must be sacrificed for the good of the collective, so be it. (Unless they happen top be the individual in question of course)
You don’t have to venture far off campus to see that many Americans do not share this faith in government or willingness to limit individual freedom and privacy for population benefit.
No shit Sherlock. Most people these days consider college campuses to be nothing more then political reeducation camps, and if you won’t be reeducated, then you will be punished. They also tend to fold like used toilet paper when confronted by people willing to take them for plane rides and see if they can learn to fly.
Now you and the other collectivist might be perfectly happy to surrender your rights to an all powerful, benevolent, (Allegedly), central government. Most people aren’t. The founders of the country certainly were wary of an all powerful central government. (Ever hear of a guy called King George III by chance? No? How about you crack a history book numbnuts)
Most people aren’t opposed to being tested, either for the Wuhan Flu or the antibodies. What they object to is the government having that information. We’ve seen how they misuse and abuse any authority they have, usually with results that hurt individuals. You don’t like American Freedoms? There are planes leaving the United States all the time. Pick a country that better fits your ideas and move there. Of course, you won’t for a simple reason. You won’t be one of the “Ruling Elite, you will be just another slave.
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