Fortunately, We Can Ignore Inconvenient Facts about the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19)

By Jerry PDX
Friday, March 13, 2020 at 12:36:00 P.M. EDT

I had an argument with my brother, who is a Trump hater, about coronavirus. He dictatorially told me that Europe was the most dangerous source of coronavirus because Trump had suspended travel from there. I had told him that third world mass migration will soon be the most dangerous source of the infection, so he flashed to the headlines about Trump suspending air travel from Europe, but didn’t really understand what he was talking about.

Unfortunately, my brother is like most people in the US; he believes what the news tells him and rejects everything that contradicts what he has been programmed into believing.

I tried to explain to him that the more stringent policies along our Southern border have turned out to be one of the best things Trump could have done to protect against something like this, because the third world doesn’t have the health or media infrastructure we have so we can’t even be sure how widespread it is in the third world.

Air travel to EU countries (thanks EU) from China and to other first-world countries was the initial source but we are now instituting measures to control the situation. That’s not going to happen with nearly the efficiency or effectiveness in the massive slums of Asia, South America, and Africa. When the virus begins to expand in those places, it’s going to dwarf what is going on in the First World. THAT’S why we need extreme border controls and if Bernie (or Hillary, any others of that ilk) get elected, I guarantee that their open borders ideology will trump (no pun intended) the rights of American citizens to not be exposed to mass numbers of disease-bringing, alien invaders. Here is a map of the virus spread, so far:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/13/what-coronavirus-start-grow-covid-19-peak/

Of course, China has by far has the largest number of cases, Iran is in there which, is likely due to their business with China, Africa “appears” to have little infection but the countries that do report having cases are countries like South Africa, Libya or Egypt, countries that are more likely to have a health infrastructure and media to report on it. Plus, China has been doing a lot of business with countries in Africa, so I don’t believe for a moment that all those other countries are untouched and even if they aren’t, they will be and it will spread more quietly and inexorably than in more developed countries.

So yeah, those African, Asian, and Mex migrants (invading men mostly) bellying up at the border need to be stopped and politicians who want to simply open borders and let them in need to be stopped also. As if the crime and other diseases they bring is bad enough, we don’t need this also.
Also, coronavirus has a low fatality rate among young healthy people, almost zero, but has a high fatality rate with older people. My parents are in their eighties and in a high-risk category. Those invaders are mostly young healthy men and could be carrying the virus for a couple weeks without showing symptoms. They won't die, but the virus they bring can easily kill your parents or other at-risk groups.

After I explained all this to my brother, and I’m sure people reading this experience the same with family members and friends, he stared at me with that “I can't accept those facts” expression and then shook his head, trying to expel the unholy thoughts I had placed in there. He stopped arguing with me, but it was clear he wasn’t going to change his mind. BTW, it’s still unknown if people who recover become lifelong carriers or are immune to reinfection, so it’s possible that any of those young men at our borders could be potential Typhoid Marys, whether symptomatic or not.