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Pandemics Are Over When the Public Decides They're Over

In Colorado, reported cases and hospitalizations of Covid-19 patients are at higher levels than ever before. And yet politicians are worried that if they issue new stay-at-home orders, the public won’t obey them. For instance the Denver Post last week reported Colorado Democrats admitted the public isn’t listening very closely anymore:

[State Senator Steve] Fenberg and many other state leaders are worried … about whether a stay-at-home order would even work this time around. People have grown accustomed to certain freedoms since the spring, and already there are some in the population resistant even to the least oppressive rules, such as wearing masks.

“They don’t want to have restrictive orders that people just entirely ignore,” Fenberg said. “Once you cross that line, that seriously, then it really starts to unravel, when people completely check out from following the orders.”

We’ll ignore the creepy framing of the issue around how citizens have lamentably “grown accustomed to certain freedoms” like being able to leave one’s home. But Fenberg is right to think the public is unlikely to be nearly as compliant this time around.

And what happens if Americans start acting as if there is no pandemic? Then, the pandemic is at a de facto end, even if “experts” insist that it is still a de jure reality.

Medical Pandemics vs. Social Pandemics

In other words, government agencies may issue declarations of when Pandemics end, but as noted in The New York Times last May,

pandemics typically have two types of endings: the medical, which occurs when the incidence and death rates plummet, and the social, when the epidemic of fear about the disease wanes.

“When people ask, ‘When will this end?,’ they are asking about the social ending,” said Dr Jeremy Greene, a historian of medicine at Johns Hopkins. In other words, an end can occur not because a disease has been vanquished but because people grow tired of panic mode and learn to live with a disease

This has happened before. During the 1957-1958 Asian flu pandemic, for example, the public took little notice of the fact the flu was especially virulent that year. It is now estimated that more than 100,000 died from the flu in the period, which would be the equivalent of 220,000 Americans today. Indeed, American continued to die from the Asian flu into the 1960 flu season and beyond. But as far as the public was concerned, there had been no pandemic that required staying home or closing schools.

https://mises.org/wire/pandemics-are-over-when-public-decides-theyre-over

GOP Governor To Trump: ‘Stop Golfing And Concede’

Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan advised President Donald Trump on Sunday to “stop golfing and concede” the presidential election to Joe Biden.

Hogan was responding to a tweet in which Trump called him a “RINO,” a pejorative term that stands for Republican In Name Only.

Trump had cited a report that Hogan purchased nearly $10 million in flawed coronavirus tests for the state of Maryland from South Korea.

“This RINO will never make the grade. Hogan is just as bad as the flawed tests he paid big money for!” Trump wrote.

Hogan, a moderate Republican, shot back, writing: “If you had done your job, America’s governors wouldn’t have been forced to fend for themselves to find tests in the middle of a pandemic, as we successfully did in Maryland.”

Hogan has long criticized Trump, and openly considered challenging him in the 2020 Republican presidential primary.

A growing number of Republicans have called on Trump to concede the presidential election to Biden. On Saturday, a federal judge dismissed the Trump campaign’s lawsuit to block the certification of election results in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, issued a statement after the ruling urging Trump to “accept the outcome of the election and facilitate the presidential transition process.”

Trump has given no indication that he plans to concede to Biden, despite having few options left to overturn votes in enough states to win the electoral college. The Trump campaign appealed the ruling in Pennsylvania on Sunday.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/11/22/larry-hogan-trump-concede/

German FM lashes out at coronavirus protesters ‘making a mockery’ of WWII resistance with Nazi comparisons

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has hit out at protesters who compared their struggle against restrictions to the struggle of the anti-Nazi resistance, accusing them of “trivializing” the Holocaust.

“Anyone who compares themselves to Sophie Scholl or Anne Frank today is mocking the courage it took to take a stand against Nazis,” Maas tweeted on Sunday.

It trivialises the Holocaust and shows an unbearable ignorance of history. Nothing connects the corona protests with the resistance fighters. Nothing!

Maas’ outburst came a day after a woman in Hanover spoke at a protest against coronavirus restrictions, telling the crowd that she felt “just like Sophie Scholl,” a student sent to the guillotine by the Nazi regime in 1943 for distributing anti-war leaflets in Munich.

At a demonstration in the city of Karlsruhe last weekend, an 11-year-old caused uproar when she compared her lockdown-defying birthday party to Anne Frank’s life of hiding from Hitler’s forces in occupied Amsterdam.

Germany has so far recorded almost 928,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and over 14,000 deaths, and went into a new partial lockdown on November 2. Restaurants, bars, theaters, cinemas, and gyms have been forced to close for a month, with private gatherings limited to 10 people from no more than two households. Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed for a tightening of these rules, but admitted last week that she does not have the necessary backing from state leaders to do so.

https://www.rt.com/news/507492-germany-nazi-coronavirus-protests-condemned/

Washington war hawk John Bolton urges top Republicans to call out Trump’s ‘INEXCUSABLE’ behavior in challenging election result

Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, who agitated for wars with Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela, finds it “inexcusable” that President Donald Trump is refusing to accept Joe Biden’s presumed election victory.

“I think he’s just playing for time in hopes that something will emerge that allows him either to have a good reason why he’s lost or, in his mind, maybe still to win,” Bolton said on Sunday in a CNN interview. “I think that simply emphasizes the need for senior Republican leaders to join those who have begun to come out and say Trump’s behavior is inexcusable.”

Trump has mounted legal challenges alleging fraud in the November 3 election, saying corrupt officials in such cities as Philadelphia, Detroit, and Atlanta swung the outcome in Biden’s favor.

Bolton, whom Trump fired as national security advisor in September 2019, has been a frequent anti-Trump media guest since he published a book on his 17-month stint at the White House in June. The long-time Washington bureaucrat has advocated disastrous wars from Vietnam to Iraq – although he avoided being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War.

https://www.rt.com/usa/507505-bolton-calls-trump-inexcusable/

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