COVID19 - Hype, Hoax, or Honesty?

[Mustang Sally]

OK, so if this is all hype, what do you think will happen when people start to catch on?  Will the whole Coronavirus thing just fizzle out and go away, or do you think they'll speed up their agenda?

[J.J.Gibbs]

I saw this on FB; it makes more sense than anything else I've seen.


Wanted to share this from the perspective of a nurse and this is the general consensus that I’m getting from every healthcare worker that I have personally spoken to.



“I've stayed pretty silent on the whole "Coronavirus" thing but after reading the following post I felt like it needed to be shared:



OK people… Here is some real talk on the coronavirus from a nurse who is working in urgent care in Washington state. This mass hysteria has got to stop! The media needs to stop perpetuating this. Politicians need to stop using this to trash talk each other and try to convince the public that no one but that specific politician cares about them.



I am not afraid of getting the coronavirus. In the majority of people who have no pre-existing health conditions the coronavirus would give us cold symptoms. Without the media portrayal and perpetuation of this, most of us would probably not even know that we had it.



Yes, people have died from it which is a tragedy. But people die from the flu every year. Thousands of people! It’s spreads across the earth rapidly. And yet there’s no hysteria. There’s no panic. And there are people who choose to not get the flu shot, in spite of knowing that it can make you very ill for two weeks and that people, and children, are dying from it.



What is scaring me about the coronavirus is the mass hysteria. Our wait times at urgent care are around three hours or more. People with no exposure are screaming at our receptionists “how do I know I just have a cold and am not dying of coronavirus!? I shouldn’t be waiting this long!”



I have a friend who works in pediatrics who told me that she had a mother tell her she could not get Tylenol or Motrin for her child who has a fever because there was none available. People are stealing our facemasks by the handful. People are coming in with common cold symptoms, overloading the healthcare system, creating massive wait times, and delaying care for those who really need to be treated.



Yes, this specific strain of coronavirus is new, and new can be scary. But stop panicking about a virus that causes mild to moderate cold symptoms in the majority of people. Stay home when you are sick. Wash you hands often. Get your flu shot (the flu scares me more than the coronavirus).



Take your vitamins. Buy normal amounts of toilet paper, groceries, and medicines. Stop driving up the costs of common products due to unnecessary panic! And please... STOP STEALING OUR FACE MASKS! Healthcare professionals need those so we don’t get the flu!!”

[Julia]

Just a thought.  


What if the Rapture occurred in the next few days or weeks. (Very Possible. We are in that generation mentioned in Matthew 24.) Families are  home. Very few airplanes are in the air, there's very little traffic. Perhaps God in His mercy would be protecting those left behind from major, horrific accidents, showing grace, even in these last days, and giving them time to repent and be saved?  

[Honoria]

This is the kind of fear mongering that's causing all the unnecessary hysteria. Headline: "Coronavirus killing more than a person an hour in NYC."



Most people won't read the article, just the headline, and come to the conclusion that people are dropping dead in the streets of NYC every hour, all day, every day From the article:



"The coronavirus killed city residents at a rate of more than one per hour on Friday.



Between just 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., 14 people in New York City died from the virus, pushing the Big Apple’s total death toll to 43."



No, as it happened 14 people died IN A SINGLE PERIOD OF EIGHT HOURS.



It's all the hype that's causing panic, which is more dangerous than a sickness. What ever happened to responsible reporting that clearly states facts instead of all kinds of sensationalism and click bait?


The article is here.