[Critique Group 1] Leonard's comments on cleora's work

[tuchyner5 at aol.com]

I apologize for sending this. It was still in muy records so I expect  I never sent it before.


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by C. S. Boyd



This pieceshould be called an ode to toilet paper. 



It is humorousin parts, although a little overdone.  



Where you getinto the statistics, you have so much of it, that the reader is lost in thenumbers. 



If you did nothave so much, the point would be better absorbed. 



It is politicized.



That’s okay. Ijust want to say that it is.  



The part Ilike the most is when  you are talkingabout toilet paper. 



I don’t getthe part about the siren song of the liberals.



I don’t getthe thing about the y-fi panick 



and the profitmotive of the  spreaders of the rumors. 



What profitwas there in that.




 



 


The recent eventssurrounding the pandemic have provided a clue to why the millennial generationis so receptive to the siren song of the liberals. 




 


I didn't see itfor myself, but the news and everyone I've talked to over the past few days hasdescribed fights in stores over toilet paper, and aisle after aisle of emptyshelves in the paper goods section of stores.




 


"What's thedeal with paper?" I asked everyone. Finally, I ran across one broadcastthat explained that one of the bits of information about the corona virus wasthat if you got it you would have diarrhea for several weeks. So, people weregrabbing paper goods of any kind off the shelves like their lives depended onit. Fights broke out in some stores between people trying to snatch up the lastfew packages available. One lady in the checkout had 50 rolls in her basket.Someone asked her if she would be willing to give a couple of rolls to a poorperson who couldn't afford to buy some. The news feed reported that she flatlyrefused. Fifty rolls. I started calculating. That would be one twenty rollthree eight roll, and 1 six roll package; or, seven 6 roll, and two four roll;or, seven 6 roll and 1 eight roll package. One store was reported to becharging $30 for a package that normally would cost around $18. At the price Ilast paid for toilet paper, the fifty rolls the lady was getting probably costher around $45.  That’s if she bought the 1000 sheet per roll Scotttissue. If she bought the other stuff, it would cost her closer to $80 or $90.At the current minimum wage of $7.25 that would be 6 to 12 hours pay. Frankly,I have better things to spend a day’s pay on than toilet paper. Now comes thefun part. Where is she going to store this paper?




 


The 20-, 8-, and4-roll option wouldn't be too bad, but how about the seven 6-roll and two4-roll option? I’m envisioning packages lined up along the bathroom wall,periodically falling over and maybe falling in the tub and getting soaked.Maybe she has a closet to store this in. Or an attic? At a rate of one roll aday (If she got the Scott like I buy, one roll lasts me a week.) Anyway, at oneroll a day under normal use, this should last her 50 days or about five toseven weeks. If she has severe diarrhea for even half that time, she is likelygoing to be dead or in the hospital, so she doesn't need all that toilet paper.If she doesn't get sick, or if the report she heard was wrong and it doesn'tcause diarrhea, she is going to be navigating around toilet paper for the nexttwo months or more.




 


A more reliablesource reported that someone posted that masks are made out of paper. Sincethere are going to be shortages of everything, the toilet paper will be thefirst to go, so a lot of people rushed to the store to buy toilet paper and anyother type of paper good when that was gone. I went to the store yesterday, Ifound some rolls at a hardware store. They were keeping it up by the checkoutcounter because people were stealing it.




 


this reminds meof the Y2K myths of 2 decades ago. People were advised to stock up 6 monthsfood and water to survive the coming disaster. If you consider that 1 personneeds approximately two gallons a day for drinking, cooking, and bathing, thatwould be 260 gallons of water for six months. That doesn’t count food and otherneeds such as toilet paper. I wonder if this Rumer was started by people withsome warehouses to sell. To my knowledge, the year 2000 came and went with onlya few if any hiccups. This is all scare propaganda to manipulate people'sbehavior at the profit, no doubt, of the people spreading the rumor.




 


Back in the 70'swhen gas prices sky rocketed, was the first time I saw empty shelves at thegrocery store. That's when I started keeping a two to four week supply ofeverything so I'm good for the next few weeks.




 


Of course, theTrump critics couldn't pass up the opportunity to politicize this fear. Nomatter what he does or says, it is the wrong thing. He said to much, he didn'tsay enough, the government needs to tell people what to do, we need leadershipduring this crisis. And, it goes on and on. What? People don't have brains touse common sense and take reasonable precautions? They have to be told by thegovernment (i.e. president) what to do and how to keep themselves safe?Frankly, I'm thankful we had Trump at the helm when this happened. He had theforesight to close traffic between the USand China.




 


Not to in any wayminimize this crisis, my doctor in Californiathat hosts a conference call every Wednesday evening, says that the coronavirus is the same virus that causes the common cold. As I understand it, it isvariations of this same virus that the different kinds of flue come from. Theserious thing about this COVID-19 version is that it is new and highlycontagious. Note, though, that it is serious among older people and those withrespiratory and compromised immune systems. Unlike the previous flue thatseemed to target the very young and those in their 30's and 40's. He says thatif we could quarantine everyone for 3 to 4 weeks, the virus would not be ableto spread to a new host and it would simply go away. The idea of limitinggatherings to 50 people or less doesn’t prevent the spread of the virus, itjust makes it easier for health officials to track it. Masks are fine if youuse them properly. Be sure to put in on so there are no gaps on the sides. Theonly air you get should come through the mask. My doctor also shared with ussome research testing vitamin D. According to the study, people with a highblood level of vitamin D do not get the flue (any flu). People with low vitaminD levels get the flu. I checked my nutrition journal. The last time I had theflu, January, 2014, I was taking 5,000 I.U. of vitamin D3 per day. Herecommends 10,000. I started taking 75,000 I.U. a week back in November, 2015.Some doctors will discourage taking these levels of vitamin D. D3 is totallysafe. It is water soluble so the body just gets rid of what it can't use.




 


When I startedwriting this, the number of confirmed cases and deaths was 1,629 casesresulting in 41 deaths (2.517%). One news source considered 1% significant.There is a lot of information out there. My research also uncovered that theblack plague started in Chinaand then spread across the middle east and Europe.There was talk about the effect. perhaps this crisis would bring us together.History shows the opposite. Instead, it pulls us apart. People that were in thepandemic of 1913 were so ashamed of their behavior that they wouldn't even talkabout it later. Several years ago, I did some research on church history. I ranacross some information about the black plague. People turned on each other andwouldn't help those who were sick even if they were family. The brief paragraphreported that Christians did help others. Some of them did get sick and die.Most did not. The important thing is that they were willing to help otherswhile other members of the population were not. Some have suggested that thisis not a  serious as it is being built up to be. It is simply being usedas a 



political vehicleto try to scare people and get them to vote a certain way. In years past, flagburning was used to distract people's attention to whatever politicians didn'twant people to notice. 




 


from October 1,2019 thru march 7 2020 there have been an estimated 36 to 51 million flueillnesses, 17 to 24 million flue medical visits, 370 to 670 thousand fluehospitalizations, and 22 to 55 thousand flue related deaths (0.0108%). This isabout half the percentage for the normal flu. So, what is the big deal withCOVID-19. There have been far more cases and deaths from other kinds of flu.Take a look at the percentage of deaths. .8% for regular flu and 2.5% forCOVID-19. The percentage is small, but if not brought under control, it willspread rapidly, overwhelming our health care system. There are those thatcontinue to feel it is no big deal, but those people at least need to respectothers and take the proper precautions for themselves and especially forothers. So, be careful. Follow the health suggestions. And above all, let'skeep this thing in perspective, 




 


As I finish up,the last report had the confirmed cases at 7,000 and death toll at 100. We haveexperienced our first death in Texas, and West Virginia is nowincluded. The good news. The percentage of deaths is at 1.428%. It looks likethe measures being taken are working. I can't help wondering what those peopleare going to do with all that toilet paper.




 


It is believedthat COVID-19 originated at a wet market where farmed and exotic animals aretied up or stabbed in cages. many are killed on site to insure freshness. Themarkets are considered breeding grounds for dangerous infections because of theclose connection between humans and live exotic animals. This virus is closelyrelated to known bat viruses. That's why it is believed to have originated froma bat, said Dr. Jeff Kwong. Bats were not sold at the market, but it isbelieved that an animal at the market may have been infected by a bat. Do yousuppose that is why so many people have gone batty?




 

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