The Ultimate Distraction

With the influx of devastating video coming out of cities all across America it maybe difficult to believe that this is the most horrifying image out there for some. How, you may ask, could this innocent graph evoke such emotions? Who would be scared witless at this data?

Well Georgia lifted lockdown on April 24th, so shouldn't their hospitalization curve be zooming into the sky? Blue-State Governors all over the country bet the farm that the little dotted line would fly into the heavens and now that we know it's not going to happen it's a massive scandal!

Or it should be, at least. Instead we are transfixed by racial violence, with mobs in the streets of every major city and some minor ones. These "protesters" are disregarding any "social distancing" rules (or other laws) and must be spreading the Corona far and wide. Surely Governor Cuomo is aghast at the gross violations of his sagacious dictates, the directives that are crushing the life out of hard-working New Yorkers and their families, driving many to suicide and ruin. If he really believed that ignoring his virus protocols would result in massive loss of life he would be crushing these outbreaks with an iron fist. When desperate citizens (or subjects) of his State came out earlier this month to demand release from the lockdown he said, "You don't have the right to jeopardize my health."  Talking down to his constituency as if they were petulant children whining for new toys he said he would not "put dollar signs over human lives." Maybe he forgot, in his ivory tower, that dollars buy food, rent, gas, college, clothing, in fact everything our families need are exchanged for dollars in this economy. But rather think he knows that, I think he fully understood the devastation he was wreaking on human beings, though he tried to downplay it as much as possible. After all, what can be worse than the Corona?  It's for your own good, little children, Daddy Cuomo is only trying to protect you!

But Cuomo didn't downplay the horrific death of George Floyd when confronted with other protester last week, oh no their concerns are more than legitimate! Actually, it wasn't enough to commiserate the loss of one man's life, Cuomo hearkened back to "a continuum of cases and situations that have been going on for decades and decades and decades." Of course he "figuratively" stood with the protesters, who must have holy armor protecting them from the very-scary-and-deadly-virus that we have been hiding in our houses from for months.

Where is his outrage now? What changed?

The graph I posted above is the only possible explanation. Not only has Cuomo realized that he is wearing no clothes, he also realizes that thousands of people are finding images like the one above and sharing them. These people have lost their jobs or their marriages. Their kid just committed suicide or ODed. They are at the brink of developing permanent mental-health problems and have picked-up new substance dependencies trying to get by in the chaos he has made of our lives. They are months late in diagnosing a tumor in their breast, now malignant. They are scraping funds together to bury a parent or grandparent, killed by the devastating COVID scourge Cuomo unleashed on the nursing homes to free up hospital beds no one was ever going to need. 

Cuomo has blood on his hands, lots of blood, and the only way to cover it up is to keep applying more. So the truth about Coronavirus must be ignored at all costs, or we will start to question the wisdom of our leaders, or even their intentions. The cost is our cities burning, more death, more insanity, more chaos, but that's fine as long as we are so distracted we don't even remember that a week ago the CDC casually released a new best-estimate Corona death-rate of 0.24%. You read that right, the doom-and-gloom CDC themselves are now admitting that the virus that stopped the world is no worse than a nasty seasonal flu. Antibody tests continue to confirm what those of us willing to do some digging already knew: of a thousand COVID cases only a few people will die, just like the flu. Combine that with the now-available data from Georgia and Florida and you get the picture. Not only is Corona less dangerous than the "cure," it is also easily preventable with the much maligned HCQ.

The truth is out, it has become impossible to deny that Cuomo and other Blue-State Governors perpetrated the largest and most destructive scam on their own citizens in all of human history. Well, so far anyway. 2020 is far from over! Now we get to witness the next atrocity: the destruction of the cities themselves. In a last-ditch effort to keep the public's mind elsewhere they are assisting rioters in burning their cities to the ground by refusing to issue the order to call-up the National Guard even after repeated nights of violence and destruction. Maybe he doesn't want to put a "dollar sign" on a looter's right to some free Nike gear?  Whatever the case may be, Cuomo has embraced the race-war cause and is quite willing to sacrifice the lives of uniformed police, who say they are getting "zero support" from the man who called them front-line heroes when they were arresting barbers. 

Instead of protecting his citizens Cuomo is using us as pawns in a cynical ploy to force Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, sending in the military solely on Presidential authority. It's looking like this is going to be necessary, though it is a move that would assuredly inflame tensions more and result in massive casualties. That's OK though, just so long as none of the blame lands in Cuomo's lap! Strangely, no MSM outlets are calling him out on this homicidal gambit, probably because they are just as invested in the next Great Distraction as he is. Almost everyone except for Trump and some Red-State leaders put their reputations on the line to pump up the fear of Corona to levels that are more appropriate to Ebola, or maybe the asteroid that wiped-out the dinosaurs. 

The new crisis itself is indeed a lot more dangerous than the virus. Peaceful protest is fine, but uncontrolled rioting has a way of spiraling. The effects a prolonged period of racial strife can have on society can be practically permanent: just look at the changes that the riots of the 60s caused in dozens of cities. Most of them never fully recovered, the crime-ridden landscapes left behind by economic flight are constantly threatening to erupt into violence once more. The violence is all the more tricky because it's main focus is on the police, who of course are the ones who have to go out there and keep it under control. The more the police apply pressure, the more fuel they toss  onto the fire. But if they are ordered to stand-down, like they did in Minneapolis, then rioters destroy police assets that will be needed the next night. I personally cannot recall ever in my life seeing a police force anywhere in the world as docile as the MPD, who allowed people to swarm into their parking-lots and wreck their vehicles the day before abandoning an entire precinct. I cannot help but conclude that the leadership is intentionally trying to destroy their own city, especially now that the National Guard were finally called-in and cleaned-up the rioting in no time flat. This destruction is preventable.

The destruction of the lockdowns was preventable too, why haven't Governors learned from their mistakes? If Trump is forced to authorize military force and gets the job done, aren't they just guaranteeing another four years of their worst nightmare? I'm sure many people would be angry, lives would probably be lost. But the National Guard are professionals trained for precisely the task at hand, after quickly snuffing-out the violence wouldn't most citizens consider them (and Trump) to be heroes? Then, in two weeks, they would start to look at the Corona numbers again, which should be through the roof. When I look at the crowds jammed into the streets I see a ticking bomb, because in two or three weeks the entire Corona farce is going to be exploded.

That is the most intensely disturbing aspect of the situation in New York right-now. Cuomo is not in a position to behave rationally in the best interest of the State. He is in deep trouble and has to cover his ass. The entire media establishment are in that corner, they too are facing imminent loss of all their remaining credibility. If Trump sends the military in, it has to be a total disaster or the pinwheel of chaos will slow to a stop and the ride will be over. I think that it's quite likely we will see a Maidan-like scenario involving hired sniper shooting at both sides, or something equally pleasant. 

In the meantime, have fun arguing over whether this cop was too mean, or that protester was too violent. When you have a riot over police brutality being met with police brutality, it's just endless fun to debate. It's really the ultimate distraction if you need one!