The most dangerous thing about Covid19 is that extreme misinformation about it may lead the U.S. to elect a Liberal Left Socialist anti-gunner named Joe Biden.
I take this virus seriously, but I still do not personally know one single person who contracted it, let alone died from it. I have worked all through it and was not subject to the lock-down. Yet look at this hysterical response to Geo Newbern's question below...
Chuck, I'm sorry to see that due to neighborhood occurrence of the contagion you have decided to re-isolate and give up shooting. I respect your careful response to the perceived danger, but wonder how curtailing your shooting serves to further protect yourself or the other club members. It is your business and I am not preaching anything, but I just do not understand the extreme reaction???...Geo
If Chuck is asymptomatic and then kills half his gunclub, Well...
Better to wait a little while.
So according to ClapperZapper, an asymptomatic Chuck H could kill half his gun club if he infects them. Wow, that would mean Covid19 is nearly as deadly as Ebola! I just spent a couple hours trying to learn the actual CFR (Confirmed Fatality Ratio) or IFR (Infection Fatality Ratio). But because of Fake News, misinformation, and politics, it appears likely that we will just never know how bad Covid19 really is. However, even with very apparent extreme over-reporting of fatalities, it looks like the IFR in the U.S. is less than 0.6%... probably much less.
If that is true, that would mean Covid19 is still more deadly than the seasonal flu. But it is a very long way from a situation where Chuck H could spread it and "kill half of his gun club."
In stark contrast, the 1918 Spanish Flu killed over 195,000 people in the U.S. in just the month of October 1918 alone, at a time when the U.S. population was less than 1/3 of what it is today. In 1918, we didn't have near as much travel and near as much social contact as we do today in huge WalMart Super Centers and chain grocery stores filled with people improperly wearing masks and cashiers touching their mask frequently as they touch your groceries. Bodies piled up in big cities because they couldn't produce coffins fast enough, and survivors were too sick to bury them. Many who died then were quite young, unlike the 90 year old nursing home patient in Shotgunjones obituary link.
Earlier this year, we were led to believe that Covid19 could be nearly as bad, or even worse. It really could be. But only if misinformation and political propaganda leads this country to elect an extreme Liberal Left anti-gun Socialist like Joe Biden. Altzheimer Joe Biden has spent over 45 years working very hard to bring us closer to the day when Chuck H cannot infect anyone at his gun club, because law abiding citizens no longer have the right to own and shoot them. Joe Biden has a 100% anti-gun voting record, and would nominate Supreme Court Justices who do not believe that the 2nd Amendment says we have an Individual Right to own firearms.
rocky mtn bill notes here that his political beliefs differ from KYJon. Thank God for that! In another thread in the gunsmithing forum, rocky mtn bill asks how to make holes in gun barrels disappear. By voting for Joe Biden, he could make the whole gun disappear, because Joe Biden thinks that Australian Gun Control is what we need here:
