written by Ron Paul<\/p>\n
Just a week or so ago the mainstream media and thousands representing the \u201cmedical community\u201d told us we must throw out the \u201cstay-at-home\u201d orders and go to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police. The Covid-19 virus will not bother people who are protesting this injustice, they said. The virus only attacks people leaving their homes to protest the stay-at-home orders.<\/p>\n
Now, after thousands of businesses \u2013 many of them black-owned \u2013 have been reduced to rubble and innocent people in the inner cities no longer have anywhere to shop for the basic necessities of life, the mainstream media has backed off of its non-stop coverage of the protests. Suddenly last week they all simultaneously embraced a new fear story to terrify the masses: a \u201csecond wave\u201d of coronavirus was among us. It was targeting those states that dared to \u201copen up\u201d their economies and begin a return to relatively normal lives.<\/p>\n
Texas, Florida, and California were singled out to scare the rest of the country into thinking that if you dare leave your homes you will catch coronavirus and die. There was a \u201cspike\u201d in coronavirus \u201ccases\u201d they claimed. Funny, just a month or so ago they were demanding that we massively increase testing, which would produce just that \u201cspike\u201d in coronavirus cases they are now using to scare authorities into reinstating the incredibly destructive stay-at-home orders.<\/p>\n
In the county here in Texas that includes Houston, the young judge who somehow seized the power to shut down the third largest city in the United States warns us that she may again shut down Harris County to fight this \u201csecond wave\u201d of cases. She even threatened to again pour millions of dollars into a \u201cfield hospital\u201d at a Houston football stadium that did not see a single patient in the \u201cfirst wave\u201d of coronavirus. It\u2019s hard not to wonder which politically-connected companies are reaping millions in contracts for an obviously un-needed hospital. Thousands of hospital beds in Houston are vacant, while cancer patients have been refused their screenings and desperately needed treatments.<\/p>\n
As former Congressman David Stockman points out, the actual coronavirus numbers do not in any way support the media assertion that a \u201csecond wave\u201d of infection is cresting over Texas. Stockman informs us that in Texas the \u201creported infected case rate of 256 per 100,000 is just 10 percent \u00a0of the real \u2018hot spot\u2019 rate of 2,477 per 100,000 in the five boroughs of New York City; and its mortality rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population is just 3 percent of New York City\u2019s 196 per 100,000 rate.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are no \u201chot spots\u201d in Texas. It\u2019s just more media hype.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s funny that they don\u2019t dare mention Georgia, which has also opened its economy and has seen no \u201cspike\u201d at all.<\/p>\n
The same people who were demanding more testing are now screaming that we must shut the economy down again because these tests \u2013 which are notoriously unreliable \u2013 are showing more coronavirus cases. This is a disease that 99.9 percent of the people who are infected with survive! But 40 million people out of work and the thousands of lives that will end due to the shutdown are never mentioned.<\/p>\n
There is something else going on here and it is in no way related to public health.<\/p>\n
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