CORONAVIRUS CORNBALLS ON A ROLL

    This is really shaping up to be one of those weeks. Try as one might, there's no escaping the mass-hysteria sweeping the English-speaking world right now. I'd rather hoped to go about regular business but it looks like I'll be under quarantine. This is not because I'm infected with COVID-19 or even know anybody who is. The problem out on the West Coast right now is that events are being cancelled, everything is closing, travel is being restricted, and even going to the grocery store is hit-or-miss as to what items are in stock. 

     Surgical masks in some places are selling on the Black Market for $100/box. They don't prevent anything, but that's beside the point. I thought if I was going to get a mask and spend that much money for it, I'd get one of those cool-looking ones like they had in World War I. 

   Bottled water is disappearing too: though why people imagine that water service will be disrupted, I can't figure out. At the same time, bath tissue supplies are running out. This doubly doesn't make any sense; since if the water's shut off, the sewer systems won't work either. But plenty of bottled water will help wash down the Prozac. 

    The panic is going to burn itself out along with the COVID-19 in about 10-20 days just like it has in China. The Media is going to fan this hysteria and aim it at President Trump (notice that the even deadlier H1N1 pandemic never got this kind of attention---oh wait Obama was president when that happened). Since there is going to be absolutely nothing else in the news until then, I might be writing on some different topics than the usual cult-busting and Deep-State exposing stuff---though I'll have that too. But otherwise, this COVID-19 subject is going to get about as much attention here as the Impeachment Hearings got. The only precaution that I'm going to take is to print out MSM articles on COVID-19 and keep them in the bathroom in case toilet paper becomes unavailable.

   But if anyone would like a few non-Tin Foil Hat articles on COVID-19, here's some recommended reading:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2020/03/10/panic-not-its-not-coronavirus-we-need-to-fear-its-ourselves/#69276964515d

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2020/02/29/five_reasons_you_dont_need_to_panic_about_the_covid-19_coronavirus.html

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200304-coronavirus-covid-19-update-why-people-are-stockpiling

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-10-covid-19-hysteria-highlights-lack-of-quality-science-journalism/

https://www.antiguaobserver.com/no-need-to-create-public-hysteria-re-covid-19-says-uwi-professor/
     
https://www.cochranetoday.ca/local-news/its-not-rocket-science-mass-hand-washing-not-hysteria-will-prevent-spread-of-covid-19-2151878