by Doug “Uncola” Lynn, The Burning Platform:

As schools are being closed in my state for the next several weeks, an article published in a local paper this morning stated: “With testing options now expanding, [the state] expects the number of positive cases to increase.”

Even the Orwellian Media is now making the case for shuttering the economy while, at the same time, Orange Man bad:

Does President Trump have the guts? His initial response to the virus was to underplay it and insist it would be gone before long. He was wrong about that. He has a chance now to rectify that with bold action. Like all leaders who find themselves managing a crisis, Trump is going to infuriate somebody, whether it’s those who think he’s doing too little or those who insist he’s doing too much. He has a short window of time to act before the only possible answer is that he’s doing too little.

In many ways, the daily details are fast-becoming deck chairs on the Titanic. In the terminology of Strauss and Howe’s “Fourth Turning”:  If the 2008 financial crisis marked the Catalyst for this current Fourth Turning and Trump marked the Regeneracy phase, then it appears COVID-19 may be the Climax.  The authors Strauss and Howe defined the Climax as “the death of the old order and birth of the new“.

Indeed, the global reaction to Coronavirus® is shaping up to be a watershed societal sea change – similar to 911®. A TEOTWAWKI event whereby very little may ever be the same afterward.

The next five years are going to be like skiing down a mountain in a blizzard during an avalanche. Or, in other words, it will be hard to see what’s just ahead and tricky trying not to fall and get buried while navigating a slippery slope.

COVID-19 should have been named Controlavirus.  Seriously, isn’t it ironic that “corona” translates to “crown”?  Perhaps unsurprisingly, therefore, an Illinois mayor has granted herself  the power to ban gun sales and alcohol during the epidemic:

Among the sweeping powers she [Champaign, Illinois mayor Deborah Frank Feinen] gained after signing the executive order was the ability to ban the sale of guns, ammunition, alcohol and gasoline – as well as the power to cut off access to individuals’ gas, water or electricity, according to the Washington Examiner.

The city can also “take possession of private property” and order the temporary closing of all liquor stores and bars.

Paradoxically, the reaction to COVID-19® is about weaponizing the love and civility of the citizenry. In order to protect the most vulnerable, the public will self-regulate.

Coronavirus® really has become the new Terrorism®. Why? Because it’s time.

It’s surreal how stores are being cleaned out, even in states with very few cases. It was going to happen eventually… but over this? Who knew?

The virus has penetrated the space between folks, even if only in their imaginations – which, in many ways, is worse than the literal virus. Everyone is now suspect. Mission accomplished.

The  Trump Administration’s ever-ubiquitous Dr. Anthony Fauci seems to be everywhere in the news these days. He was also mentioned more than once in my most recent article.  Less than two weeks ago, Fauci expressed serious concerns regarding test kit shortages:

“There [were] certainly some missteps in the beginning regarding getting tests our — some technical issues that slowed down the process, but now the [Food and Drug Administration] and [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] are working together to get test kits out,” Fauci said when asked about concerns that the Trump administration will not reach its goal of sending 1 million COVID-19 tests as soon as possible.

Seriously, this from a guy who has been the Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation since 1980 and the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984.

And what about those tests anyway?  Because we may want to reconsider the government saving anyone:

 ….the two most prevalent US testing methods are: antibody, and PCR.

Antibody tests are notorious for cross-reactions. This means factors in no way relevant to a given virus can make the test read positive. In that case, the patient would be falsely told he “has the coronavirus.” But it gets worse. Traditionally, antibody tests reading positive were taken as a good sign for the patient: his immune system had contacted a germ and defeated it. Then, starting in 1984, the science was turned upside down: a positive test was, astoundingly, taken to mean the patient was ill or would soon become ill.

The PCR test (which requires excellent technicians who will not make any number of possible mistakes) takes a tissue sample from a patient which might contain a tiny virus particle(s) much too small to be observed—and blows it up many times, so it can be seen. However, the test says nothing reliable about HOW MUCH virus is in the patient’s body. Why is that important? Because millions and millions of replicating virus in the body are necessary to even begin talking about actual illness. A positive PCR test, nevertheless, will be taken to mean the patient “has the epidemic disease.” —An even deeper issue: where is the PRIOR PROOF that the PCR is testing for a virus that actually causes disease?

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