by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

So Universal thinks you’ll pay $100+ to “visit” their “fine park” and have the people working there outfitted like they’re in an ICU.

Oh, and you’re expected to as well – including with a mask.  Which you must wear except when eating and, it appears, when actually riding certain attractions.

Nope.

You can come to places that are not stupid and ignore such insanity.  Oh, people in those places talk about “pledges” on billboards, but nobody pays a bit of attention any of that crap around here.  Guess what: The Roma hasn’t exploded here either.  If it was going to, it would have by now.  Spend your money in places where you’re appreciated, and you’ll enjoy whatever you’re doing more at the same time.

That’s called value and it’s what you’re supposed to get when you spend money.

The premise of “safe” is a lie. If you’re not confident in your staff not being sick then you’re doing it wrong.  If you’re scared of your customers then you’re doomed.  Tell me, if you run a restaurant, why haven’t you all masked and gloved up for the last “X” years while preparing and serving food?  Ditto for the doctor or dentist — or hairdresser.  You’re telling me that suddenly your sanitation protocols are now acceptable but they weren’t before?

The litany of falsehoods we’ve been fed and sold on this entire virus thing is too long to list.  The evidence is that a huge percentage of the population, perhaps as many as half, have some amount of already-present cross-immunity.  We closed schools yet there are zero confirmed instances of school-age kids actually spreading the bug elsewhere.  Oh, they get it, but they’re not the “super-spreading” monsters everyone feared — and most of them when they do get it don’t even sneeze.

If half of the population has inherent immunity at some level then that’s the base level from which herd immunity occurs, not 0% as everyone claimed.  And at that point you’re already well into suppression of transmission, which explains exactly what we’ve seen occur.

By April 1st we knew this had to be true because the infection rate had already bent downward which is impossible if only a fraction of 1% of the population has contracted the bug and the “distancing” measures hadn’t taken effect yet — remember, it takes one to two weeks before you show up in the hospital after being exposed.  Because that bend downward also pre-dated all the “social distancing” and “lockdown” measures, said measures could not have been the cause.

In short we knew on April 1st that there were other factors involved and the bug was nowhere near as lethal as being projected, yet on or about April 1st every governor either issued or expanded “lockdown” orders of some sort.  I reported on this at the time, and that based on the facts either (1) the bug wasn’t as transmissible as claimed (e.g. ****-eating was a big vector, airborne not-so-much), (2) there was a very large amount of immunity in the population, either through silent infection or cross-immunity, and thus we were already getting repression of the transmission of the virus and there was no reason to do anything to stop it, or (3) some combination of the two.

Both the Governors and Trump bear 100% joint responsibility for intentionally ignoring this data and issuing said orders anyway.  They acted on his demand but he had zero means to force them to do so, and he knew it despite the bull**** and bluster.

Every one of these orders was a fraud; this was known at the time on the strength of the evidence, as I documented clearly in both video and text postings right here, and it has now been proved.

There are plenty of people using their manpleaser on Trump claiming that he “had” to go along with what ended up being wrong or he would have been “savaged” by the left.  Think about how stupid you sound when you consider the job of President and the ultimate responsibility and decisions, many of which have to be made in minutes or less that reside in that position.  Think about what you’re excusing rather than holding Trump accountable for.

It is that very position that will eventually get tens of millions of Americans killed, likely including you and every one of your family members when that very same lack of evidence and falsehood winds up leading us into a shooting war that goes nuclear.

Now we have states “opening” — but are they really?  Well, in some cases businesses and most people are telling the governors to go blow goats.  This is engendering literal panic among many in the media and “medical field”; you see, they all predicted imminent doom and death if the restrictions were lifted “too soon”, never mind that originally they did tell the truth: “Slowing the spread” does not prevent you from getting the virus because it can’t; it can only change when, not what.  If the issue is an overload of the medical system then all these “measures”, no matter how extreme, don’t prevent you from dying if The Roma is destined to get you — all the measures can do is prevent Joe with a heart attack from having nowhere to go.

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