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We are ever so tired of the chatter, discussion, and dull broad-brushing of topics captured into the American discourse…into the American parlance. El Gringo Viejo is an old man…and he has wasted much time braying at the moon and lecturing people who had better things to do than listen to me.
One of my fortes' has been to learn and understand the past, to the best of my ability. Lamentably, my academics are actually the trek of a dilletante who frequently gave cursory study and/or review of a matter. But there are times when this writer is knowledgable and can comment correctly about certain matters.
There are those significant times that my work and study has been work that was deep, wide, and high. There will be no great divulgence here in the body of my studies and conclusions over the years. The facts and data that will be revealed in the following paragraphs will be solidly accurate facts and figures.
However, in the matter of the great Pandemic of Coronavirus of 2019 - 2020 we shall vigorously and emphatically declare my case and then turn my back upon the many experts who have fogged and clouded the issue, and who have performed as insipid dolts as purposeful misinterpreters of our current "greatest plague in history". I shall point the reader to the previous century, and interestingly a time almost precisely one hundred years before these hours in which we now live.
My paternal grandfather and grandmother, neither of whom I ever had the pleasure of hearing or seeing in that they passed on long before my birth, went through the flu epidemic associated with the end of World War I. People were amazed when it tallied up a peculiar total in terms of casualties. They were living near McAllen / Weslaco area of deepest South Texas at that time.
My other grandparents and uncles were still in Winchester, Tennessee at that time, and that grandfather could recount the number of people who were lost during the Flu Epidemic in Eastern Tennessee…literally hundreds in one county, for instance just before 1920.
In those times, the population had crossed over the massive number of humanity of 107,000,000 in the United States of America. This would include all native born as well as those who had legally entered the United States with the intention to become permanent residents and citizens.
When World War I was over, and the carnage was totalled up, it was truly a horrible tally. The American military suffered 115,000 dead in that war. Oddly enough, almost one-half of those who died while at war, died of the Asian Flu, or let us say…slightly fewer than 48,000 soldiers.
But waiting back at home and shortly after the return of the American Soldiers, the numbers in terms of killed and/or died in action or disease was dwarfed by the number of Americans who had died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 while remaining in the USA .
During the time of the end of the War, there was a movement throughout Europe and it included the United States, with its pitifully physically spent and intellectually exhausted President Woodrow Wilson, to establish a League of Nations to resolve arguments and disagreements between nations. Like most everything that Thomas Woodrow Wilson did, he flubbed up that effort, and returned back to Washington, D.C. and the White House. It is said that
Wilson had been in a mental decline, and that a bout with the Flu epidemic had truly reduced his mental acumen and physical stamina.
It was said that Mrs. Wilson would meet visitors calling on Mr. Wilson at the White House and deflect them from the private quarters. She would also write announcements and press releases and sign the President's name to such transmissions. There were those who snickered that she had become the first woman President of the United States.
In any regard, with all the analysis, all the hullaballoo, all the opining and debating, we come before the reader to state clearly and unequivocally that the Pandemic of 2020, while serious, to be sure, is not the once in a millennium, Angels' Trumpets announcing Blood in the River Nile, and the Earthquakes that Destroy the Moon and whose pieces will shred the Planet Earth. The near, to at times total, hysteria about this flu business is truly disheartening.
The strutting and bluster of mainly liberal political leaders, and certainly the leadership of the Democrat Party during these moments is another "climb down to a deeper cellar" in terms of hysterical posturing and outright mendacity concerning this particular epidemic. It has been made immensely worse by having nincompoop political leaders who hold high offices in large cities, and major States, demanding to send flu-afflicted older people to nursing homes…among the many terrible decisions.
The nearly forced imprisonment-by-homestay and the ordering of closure of almost anything that has a door was the stroke of stupidity that will live for the ages. The willingness to position conjecture and pontification for an understated, steady realistic yet positive posture would have been so much better than what the leftist gurus and pompous authoritative bilge-bearers puked out into the public's attention. To think that the governor of New York State and the Mayor of the City of New York would clog the lines of communication with dimwitted orders, pointless admonitions, incoherent demands, and cascades of blame on the President is stunning.
New York State and New York City…so very advanced…ordered up a congestion and set of threats against the population that they finally won the first prize in having the greatest avalanche of dead people during this entire event. The two entities can lay claim to almost 40 per cent of all deaths associated with the flu in the United States since it began last January. And the more they bossed people around and pontificated with great surety and authority, the worse it became.
Their solution, of course was to tell the media to announce to the public that it was all Donald John Trump's fault. In my opinion, Trump's biggest failing in the whole matter was his trying to work amicably with the various political leaders and medical authorities. Many of these personalities bore a personal animus against Trump and regarded him as something superfluous.
In my opinion, the political leaders of the Democrat order, and the medical people who had so much swagger and distaste for Trump's presence, performed very poorly…something like the police officers' pursuit of Charlie Chaplain in the old movies.
Finally:
At this juncture, it being the afternoon of the 18th of May, 2020 here in deep South Texas we are noticing that in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 over 670,000 people died when the total population of the United States of America was lightly less than 107,000,000. At this point, with the number of new deaths still not over 100,000 and when the total population of the United States of America is 330,000,000.
We can make a fairly quick comparison then by using these two comparatives:
1918 -1919 Flu Mortality 675,000 Total USA Population 107,000,000
RATIO: 6.8 / 1,100
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2020 Flu Mortality 96,000 Total USA Population 330,000,000
RATIO: 1 / 3,300
Now…I retire from the field of battle, leaving to the OROGs to guard the precincts and keep the horses saddled and readied with rifle and shell.
The hysteria, blather, speculation, and useless recriminations against Donald Trump are offensive and pointless actions and I feel that the man should be supported. He and his cadre have done an A- job in my opinion…and while we are not cheerleaders for the President…we are reasonable in judging the man. And an A- during these times is pretty darn good.
We do now retire from the field of battle to return to-morrow or shortly thereafter.
EL GRINGO VIEJO
However, in the matter of the great Pandemic of Coronavirus of 2019 - 2020 we shall vigorously and emphatically declare my case and then turn my back upon the many experts who have fogged and clouded the issue, and who have performed as insipid dolts as purposeful misinterpreters of our current "greatest plague in history". I shall point the reader to the previous century, and interestingly a time almost precisely one hundred years before these hours in which we now live.
My paternal grandfather and grandmother, neither of whom I ever had the pleasure of hearing or seeing in that they passed on long before my birth, went through the flu epidemic associated with the end of World War I. People were amazed when it tallied up a peculiar total in terms of casualties. They were living near McAllen / Weslaco area of deepest South Texas at that time.
My other grandparents and uncles were still in Winchester, Tennessee at that time, and that grandfather could recount the number of people who were lost during the Flu Epidemic in Eastern Tennessee…literally hundreds in one county, for instance just before 1920.
In those times, the population had crossed over the massive number of humanity of 107,000,000 in the United States of America. This would include all native born as well as those who had legally entered the United States with the intention to become permanent residents and citizens.
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| The flu was no joke. It was as dangerous as any bomb, grenade, or bullet, constituting well over 40% of all American casualties who died in World War I. _________________________ |
When World War I was over, and the carnage was totalled up, it was truly a horrible tally. The American military suffered 115,000 dead in that war. Oddly enough, almost one-half of those who died while at war, died of the Asian Flu, or let us say…slightly fewer than 48,000 soldiers.
But waiting back at home and shortly after the return of the American Soldiers, the numbers in terms of killed and/or died in action or disease was dwarfed by the number of Americans who had died in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 while remaining in the USA .
During the time of the end of the War, there was a movement throughout Europe and it included the United States, with its pitifully physically spent and intellectually exhausted President Woodrow Wilson, to establish a League of Nations to resolve arguments and disagreements between nations. Like most everything that Thomas Woodrow Wilson did, he flubbed up that effort, and returned back to Washington, D.C. and the White House. It is said that
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| President Wilson with wife Edith. She became known during the last year of Wilson's term as "the first First Lady lady President". According to some, she had mastered Wilson's style of writing. ________________________ |
It was said that Mrs. Wilson would meet visitors calling on Mr. Wilson at the White House and deflect them from the private quarters. She would also write announcements and press releases and sign the President's name to such transmissions. There were those who snickered that she had become the first woman President of the United States.
In any regard, with all the analysis, all the hullaballoo, all the opining and debating, we come before the reader to state clearly and unequivocally that the Pandemic of 2020, while serious, to be sure, is not the once in a millennium, Angels' Trumpets announcing Blood in the River Nile, and the Earthquakes that Destroy the Moon and whose pieces will shred the Planet Earth. The near, to at times total, hysteria about this flu business is truly disheartening.
The strutting and bluster of mainly liberal political leaders, and certainly the leadership of the Democrat Party during these moments is another "climb down to a deeper cellar" in terms of hysterical posturing and outright mendacity concerning this particular epidemic. It has been made immensely worse by having nincompoop political leaders who hold high offices in large cities, and major States, demanding to send flu-afflicted older people to nursing homes…among the many terrible decisions.
The nearly forced imprisonment-by-homestay and the ordering of closure of almost anything that has a door was the stroke of stupidity that will live for the ages. The willingness to position conjecture and pontification for an understated, steady realistic yet positive posture would have been so much better than what the leftist gurus and pompous authoritative bilge-bearers puked out into the public's attention. To think that the governor of New York State and the Mayor of the City of New York would clog the lines of communication with dimwitted orders, pointless admonitions, incoherent demands, and cascades of blame on the President is stunning.
New York State and New York City…so very advanced…ordered up a congestion and set of threats against the population that they finally won the first prize in having the greatest avalanche of dead people during this entire event. The two entities can lay claim to almost 40 per cent of all deaths associated with the flu in the United States since it began last January. And the more they bossed people around and pontificated with great surety and authority, the worse it became.
Their solution, of course was to tell the media to announce to the public that it was all Donald John Trump's fault. In my opinion, Trump's biggest failing in the whole matter was his trying to work amicably with the various political leaders and medical authorities. Many of these personalities bore a personal animus against Trump and regarded him as something superfluous.
In my opinion, the political leaders of the Democrat order, and the medical people who had so much swagger and distaste for Trump's presence, performed very poorly…something like the police officers' pursuit of Charlie Chaplain in the old movies.
Finally:
At this juncture, it being the afternoon of the 18th of May, 2020 here in deep South Texas we are noticing that in the Flu Epidemic of 1918 - 1919 over 670,000 people died when the total population of the United States of America was lightly less than 107,000,000. At this point, with the number of new deaths still not over 100,000 and when the total population of the United States of America is 330,000,000.
We can make a fairly quick comparison then by using these two comparatives:
1918 -1919 Flu Mortality 675,000 Total USA Population 107,000,000
RATIO: 6.8 / 1,100
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2020 Flu Mortality 96,000 Total USA Population 330,000,000
RATIO: 1 / 3,300
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The hysteria, blather, speculation, and useless recriminations against Donald Trump are offensive and pointless actions and I feel that the man should be supported. He and his cadre have done an A- job in my opinion…and while we are not cheerleaders for the President…we are reasonable in judging the man. And an A- during these times is pretty darn good.
We do now retire from the field of battle to return to-morrow or shortly thereafter.
EL GRINGO VIEJO
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