Thread – Some Virus-related Common Sense, Texas-Style

1. Americans are problem-solvers. We’re not used to cowering in our homes in fear of what MIGHT happen simply because the government and media are incessantly fear-mongering.

2. We are perfectly capable of performing our own personal risk assessments and taking whatever precautions make sense as we go about our lives. Hunkering down at home and hoping for “government deliverance” (an oxymoron if there ever was one!) isn’t much of a life.

3. A pal of mine from the great state of Texas weighs in about the shutdown with a heavy dose of common sense as he relates some personal anecdotes.

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4. I professionally wear two hats – certified construction manager and Indian Law consultant. The commercial construction management hat was never hung on the hook during this pandemic folly.

5. Our structural steel fabrication group never closed one minute. Those employees were very thankful that we did not shutter the fab shop as they needed an income to feed their families and make payments on houses and cars.

6. Our projects kept right on building. Men and women outside in the sunlight and fresh air, not hiding inside their homes scared what is coming next.

7. The Wuhan flu has not infected anyone in our construction family that I am aware of, not even family members of our employees.

8. The president of our company serves as a mayor of a medium sized Texas town. He is a conscientious man and thinks logically through problems the city faces. If he had concerns about the pandemic folly, he did not show them outwardly.

9. I certainly cannot say the same for the mayor of Dallas and that infamous Dallas County judge, both in lock step with the Pelosi ideology of pressing down on the citizens and leading them to believe the sky is falling unless they follow the draconian rules issued.

10. I look back to my youth, before television became the center of family evening life styles. My maternal grandparents raised me. Neither had more than an eighth-grade education and weren’t intelligent by today’s snowflake libtard definition.

11. However, they were smart in the ways of the world and Nature.

12. After supper and prior to bedtime, we took positions in old fashioned rockers or the front porch swing. Grandpa would take the lead to provide orally the events of the day and the history of the world as he learned it.

13. You see, he had served his Nation when WWI called upon men to come forward for enlistment and overseas duty. He had traveled by troop transport to England, then on to France where he served proudly “under General ‘Black Jack’ Pershing.”

14. Grandpa was part of the AEF on the Western Front. He was gassed and eventually recovered at a hospital in England before returning to the United States. He witnessed the suffering and deaths of American troops who were sickened by the Spanish Flu.

15. By the way, if you haven’t researched the epidemiological history of the Spanish Flu, it appears to have originated in China. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/1/140123-spanish-flu-1918-china-origins-pandemic-science-health/

16. He escaped the Spanish Flu as did my grandmother awaiting him to return to Arkansas. He told us that heat destroyed the flu germ. Frequent washing of bedding and clothes reduced the chances of getting a germ.

17. Also, he said that staying away from large crowds, especially people outside the region helped to slow down an epidemic. He spoke of the benefits of living a clean life where fresh air and sunshine were beneficial to maintaining a good health.

18. Note: I am writing like he spoke since I remember that well. I listened to his words with much enthusiasm and learned much toward a good common sense as well as practical way of life.

19. Had I never left our hilltop and stayed there my entire life, I believe the lessons he preached and the life style he lived would have served me with a tremendously great education.

20. Today, what do we have for the younger generations to base their knowledge on? CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC? Heaven forbid they dare listen/watch a conservative source of news information!!

21. Common sense wins every time over hate flamed rhetoric flowing from the mouths of the Pelosians of the world.

22. Stay healthy my friends and eat plenty of dark green leafed vegetables drenched in bacon fat. Live to be a hundred.

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23. This is a great testimonial that will resonate with many clear-thinking Americans. We don’t need the government directing every single personal decision and action. That’s 1984-style tyranny. We can make own personal risk assessments just as we have done during past pandemics

24. What we need to do is to “flatten the curve” of government-instigated stupidity during this crisis and get people back to work and some semblance of normality.

25. For example, if it is okay for people to stand in line in a supermarket wearing masks while committing to social distancing practices of 6-ft separation, then how come they can’t do the very same thing in any other business situation?

26. As more is learned about this virus, people will factor that knowledge into their personal risk assessments, as well as the actions they deem necessary in living their lives.

27. Based on what we know now, we can continue social distancing as appropriate, take Vitamin D and Zinc, get some sun daily, and administer hydroxychloroquine and Z-pac early under the supervision of a physician if the virus is contracted.

28. And we will be smarter as more treatments and preventatives are discovered. The doomsayers and authoritarians among us can pound sand.

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