imagine that.  More testing can result in more cases being detected.

Given the number of people who never show any symptoms...

They may never show symptoms, never know they had it, or may just have minor cold and flu symptoms they dismiss.  So, who knows how many people got it?  The stats will never capture that, nor the so called "EXPERTS" nor the MEDIA ever mention that.  This is a totally politicized, exaggerated, "Pandemic". 

Six Foot Fecal Spray terrorizes Phoenixville and Downingtown!!! 



The movie "The Blob" with then "Steven" McQueen, was filmed in my area in 1958.  That's the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville above, which still stands and shows movies.  They have a "Blob Fest" every July.  Many of the places the film was shot in Phoenixvllie, Downingtown and Chester Springs are still there and look the same.  You can do a self walking Blob Tour, but I think they also have group ones during Blob Fest. 

You don't have to eat out either.  That is a choice and you can decide you don't want to pay the surcharge and just not eat there. 

East side of the Black Hills area of South Dakota has probably the most tolerable winter climate in the state. Almost all of Wyoming has higher altitude so lengthens the winters, but if you lived in the higher terrain part of Colorado then you obviously are familiar with that climate. We visited Cody, Sheridan, Casper, and Cheyenne  in WY. All were a bit too isolated-feeling for my wife. But we agreed it had many beautiful places - check out the Cody area just south of the Buffalo Bill Reservoir. We drove around there and if you love mountains, there are beautiful ranges on three sides. The photos of for this lot kinda give an idea:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Callen-Dr-LOT-16-Cody-WY-82414/2080486664_zpid/

Thanks Jim, I'll check it out.  I lived in a suburb of Denver for over five years, but traveled a lot including flying up to Custer in the Tiger to see Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills.  Love that area so could definitely live there.  I know the Cheyenne area a bit also.   I don't mind the winters and I am a skier, so ok with all that.  Cheyenne is not too far from Fort Collins and even Denver and all that offers as well. 

THIS^^^^^

Here is what I believe happened:

1. From initial reports both the severe case rate and the death rate appeared higher than they actually turned out to be, and Fauci et al had already done a lot of planning for severe pandemics, coming up with new tools to fight a truly deadly pathogen. The ideas of social distancing had been conceptualized. And so this appeared to be the time to try them out.

2. Trump took their advice and might have believed the Dems would actually come together to address this crisis in a rational way, and a short shutdown to flatten the curve so as not to overwhelm hospitals seemed a good thing. Evidence: everything Trump’s team did to build extra facilities, bring ships in, and so on, to provide beds, ventilators, etc.

3. After 2 or 3 weeks of shutdown, and the stock market crash, it began to occur to the Democrats, including Fauci and all the Dem governors, that the shutdown could actually cause economic damage. It was no leap for them to see that this could hurt Trump’s chances at reelection.

4. Hence began the extensions and the moving of goal posts, despite all the new data coming in that this doesn’t look much more deadly than the flu, and that social distancing is only really needed in about 5% of the counties in the whole U.S., and that in fact, we are compromising our herd immunity by staying shut down which actually increases the risk for a second wave. But the appeal of destroying Trump wins.

5. The devastating effect of the stimulus packages on the Federal budget, providing a reason to “blame” Trump, and the bonus of prepping people for accepting universal income, universal healthcare, less pollution and a more austere lifestyle, gives the left incentive to promote socialist utopia goals, and to prolong the lockdown to maximize the pain, and the chance they can use it against Trump in November.

This has become a triggering event, bringing to life the simmering ideological divide we’ve been under for decades. It’s no longer about the virus and hasn’t been since the first two weeks of the shutdown.

Excellent analysis Rush.  All true as well.

We went from "Flattening the Curve" for a few weeks to now "waiting for a cure" which may NEVER come.  RISK ASSESSMENT?  It should have been downgraded right away.  Are we now a society that accepts NO RISK???  Seems to be.  Yet we drive, fly, ride motorcycles with no helmets (yet wear masks, yes I have seen that with motorcycle riders multiple times), etc.  We accept many, many other risks as a society, but not THIS ONE.  Why? 

If people don't see CNN for the Propaganda arm of the Democrats (along with NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NYT, Washpo, etc) there is no hope for them.  Wow. 

I bet Anderson Cooper is Steingar's favorite.     

That, and it's become California east.

Which has caused housing prices to go through the roof along the front range.  The Californians with their overly inflated real estate values come to Colorado and can plop down huge dollars.  The value of my home in CO went from $375K in 2013 to $675K now.