Pollak: Coronavirus Panic Partly Driven by Anti-Trump Hysteria

It is perhaps no accident that the coronavirus panic only began roiling world markets after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president after the Nevada caucuses last weekend.

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So the rise of Sanders is the result of one kind of panic, and the coronavirus panic is another: the reaction of those who believe the “fake news” and have convinced themselves that President Trump really is incompetent in a crisis.

You do not need the majority of people to panic to create a panic. You just need a significant proportion of people, reacting at the same time. And the signal to panic was sent last Tuesday by CDC official Dr. Nancy Messonnier.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

@EdJames here's Rosenstein's sister.

That’s pretty much what she did.....

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Varney has an alarmist infectious control doctor on now saying that we should have been testing for coronavirus a month ago. It's a scandal and a cover-up says Dr. Matt McCarthy. He says there will be thousands of cases in the next week. What a jackass!

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The Sensible Person’s Guide To Staying Safe From Coronavirus
By the conventional definition of a pandemic, we are not there yet. Tens of millions of people around the world are infected with these viruses with relatively mild and self-limiting symptoms.

By Ford Brewer and David Vigerust, March 3, 2020

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/03/the-sensible-persons-guide-to-staying-safe-from-coronavirus/

Coronavirus is the latest in a long line of infectious disease threats that have garnered the attention of the public and health officials around the world. As of this weekend, more than 85,400 people have been confirmed with the SARS CoV2 (Covid-19), and nearly 3,000 deaths have resulted.

Of those numbers, nearly 80,000 occurred in China. Wuhan, where the threat began, is the ninth most populated city in China, with nearly 19 million citizens in the metro area. The numbers in China may reflect the dynamics of this infection in a densely populated city.

Outside of China, the Covid-19 virus has been identified in more than 50 countries and the World Health Organization has designated the threat as very high within China and the world. However, by the conventional definition of a pandemic (“occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population”) we are not there yet.

What Is a Coronavirus?


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Hand-washing or hand sanitizer: What’s more effective against coronavirus?
By Melissa Malamut, March 2, 2020

https://nypost.com/2020/03/02/hand-washing-or-hand-sanitizer-whats-more-effective-against-coronavirus/

Stocking up on Softsoap and Purell? Join the scrub.

Coronavirus panic has anxious New Yorkers swarming drugstores and supermarkets for germ-killers. And with public-health specialists stressing the importance of keeping your hands clean during a viral outbreak, hand soaps and sanitizers are flying off the shelves.

But are these products really effective against COVID-19 — and are some better than others?

“From what we know about this coronavirus, it’s similar to [previous epidemics of] SARS [severe acute respiratory syndrome] and MERS [Middle East respiratory syndrome], so it should not be that difficult of a microorganism to kill,” Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the special pathogens unit at Boston Medical Center, tells The Post. “Soap and water, and alcohol-based hand sanitizers, can kill it.”

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Sure looks like it, @Skeeter!

ZUBY:@ZubyMusic

People should be far more concerned about the obesity, suicide, and opioid epidemics, than they are by the coronavirus.

But that doesn't fit the narrative...

So I'll be the bad guy and state the obvious. People worry about whatever the media tells them to.

Let’s Help Contain the Coronavirus, Not Weaponize It

Jason D. Meister
March 3, 2020 Updated: March 3, 2020

Biased reporting, political posturing, and fear-mongering won’t help contain the spread of the coronavirus within the United States.

Sadly, that is exactly how the Democrats and the liberal media are reacting to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic.

The President’s political opponents have chosen to politicize the virus, accusing the Trump administration of mishandling the deadly outbreak. “Let’s call it Trumpvirus,” “Trump Makes Us Ill,” and “Trump is ignoring the lessons of 1918 flu pandemic that killed millions” are just some of the irresponsible headlines that have recently appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Numerous liberal commentators and Democrat politicians, including former Vice Pres-- excerpt, rest at link above --