Day: March 20, 2020

20200320: Dear CoronaVirus/ COVID-19/ China Virus/ WuFlu, Daily Thread

For the time being, given our national emergency, we are switching to DAILY COVID-19 threads instead of weekly threads. Your comments and updates are most welcome. PLEASE continue to include your valuable information, hard source links, and local observations on these COVID Daily Threads. Additionally, within these Daily Threads, we will try to include links to government and official pressers, so those who no longer have cable can remain informed.

We’ll get through this crisis, together. As a group, there is probably no one better prepared than we are.

For our newcomers: The Q Tree community has been diligent in covering the threat of Coronavirus, COVID19, Wuhan FLU. We started accumulating information about this virus in mid-late January, in what became almost weekly threads. We’ve been weeks, if not months, ahead of MSM outlets to vet rumors and other medical papers, etc.

Primary Update Links:

In our past weekly threads, we assembled information on the following:

  • Primary update links. The dashboard from Johns Hopkins which counts “official” cases all over the world, the CDC, and WHO, and includes the links for our past threads.
  • Hard Data Medical Information- Explanation about testing, reliance on China for drugs, analysis of NE Journal of Medicine results and other published papers.
  • Vaccine and theraputics (new/old drugs to alleviate symptoms) news and updates 
  • Trump Administration response (the timeline and links to various agencies)
  • China Responses, timelines, research, attempt to cover actions, or secrecy in results discovered.
  • An aggregate of info/responses from other countries, listed by country.
  • Economic impact from around the world. A change in economic activity will indicate a “return to normal”.
  • Speculation/debunking on how the virus started
  • Media Bias, political response, and debunking section, like the article from AP News, overt bias from Politico, inflammatory headlines, etc.  
  • Other medical info to boost immune system, herbal remedies, ways to keep your house clean and NOT spread the virus to others. Excellent information to incorporate into daily lifestyle.
  • Hard links for OTHER valuable sources/blogs and a brief sentence or two about what they provide
  • Other news items

Our weekly updates. timelines, collection of valuable information, can be found here:

Please try to keep your sense of humor during this National Emergency, and remember, patience is a virtue.

Love to all!

20200320: Dear KMAG Open Thread.

Welcome to Friday’s OPEN THREAD at the QTree! It’s the weekend and time to crack open a beer and put some steaks on the grill, if and only if you can get to a grocery store! Thank you for the Thursday hand-off TrumpIsMine. Thank you to Wolfie for keeping us all organized, up and running. What would we do without FLEP’s News Roundup to keep up? Thank you, Flep. Hat tip and a hearty thank you to Wheatie, Dep, BakoCarl, Michael, Steve in Colorado, all contributors and the lurkers!

We don’t believe in political correctness at QTree. Free Speech is practiced here. ENJOY IT. Use it or lose it. This board will remain a REFUGE for those who need civility, either some or all of the time. Important Guidelines are outlined here in the January 1st open thread, with an addendum on 20191110. In other words, please keep it SOMEWHAT civil. We have a new board – actually a new SITE – called The U Tree – where people can take each other to the woodshed without fear of censorship or moderation.

What a week this has been. It’s one to tell your grandchildren. It’s amazing how clear everything has become. Past betrayal by Wall St., political leaders and their lobbyists led to the hollowing of America. Then, …….. came the opioids. We were down on the mat, beaten and abused, almost dead, ….. when this guy decided to run for President of the United States. Our ears perked up, and with what could have been America’s last breath………. we arose and decided to fight once more.

And we won. Everyone else was shocked, gobsmacked, that we won. We weren’t surprised at all. We knew what was happening in China, at the southern border, the “new normal” which made no sense, and the complete repudiation of “blind justice”. It was time to right the ship. The press was very upset. We challenged their authority. The agencies were mad, they thought they were “elite”, while we saw them as fat and overpaid bureaucrats. The establishment of both parties was furious, they assumed we would listen and blindly follow.

Do you remember the Obama years? When you thought you were the ONLY one who felt like something was wrong? Then suddenly, there were millions of Americans who felt the same way?

Our spirit wasn’t dead and gone. We just forgot who we were for a little while. We’re Americans. If something is broken, we fix it. But wow, we had no idea how much was broken in the USA.

We had to fight our own agencies who worked against the American people.
We had to fight against our own press.
We had to fight bad guys.
And the really bad guys, the kind who stab you in the back but smile to your face.
Members of Congress and farmers from across the country rally for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on the National Mall in Washington on Sept. 12, 2019. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times) We had to protect our own.
And speak up for our police and military members.

The more we fixed, the more problems we found, but we grew stronger.

And we grew bigger.

America kept winning with this guy.

And then, the real spirit of America, with Trump’s strong leadership, spread all over the world. He inspired BILLIONS of people to take back their countries, question their leaders, and demand more.

To Hong Kong
To the UK and citizens sick and tired of the EU.
To the election of Bolsonaro in Brazil.
We still have to fix Canada
But Scott Morrison in Australia is a good guy.
And we’re working on Argentina!
Washington : Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs President Donald Trump as Modi departs the White House, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Washington. AP/PTI(AP6_27_2017_000035B) To India……..

Trumpzilla, more precisely, the spirit of people who long to live free, with competent leadership, was growing all over the world.

The Italians love President Trump and Salvini. Time to help out Italy with better leadership.

Our economy, our oil dominance, our unemployment numbers, trade policy, more opportunity for minorities, the return to manufacturing,…… America was firing on all cylinders…….even as the left ran an Impeachment sham, and the media+DOJ/FBI lied to the world about Russia . Every day was Christmas with our guy.

Until a little virus from China showed up, and threatened to bring darkness to the world.

Our stock market lost 1/3 of value in about 3 weeks. At Q Tree, we knew it was coming. We were miles ahead of the MSM….. cuz they were occupied with SHAMMPEACHMENT. Millions of people will be laid off, businesses destroyed, and now, an attack from Saudi and the Russians on our oil sector. We’re told to stay at home to save our very lives. Okay, fine. We’re going to do what is necessary………. but so help me GOD, the other side of this looks very different for the politicians who put us here. Trump was right about China. Politicians and Wall St took a cheap price from China, but the COST was too much.

Can you imagine America staying at home, locked away for 3 months? Not sure if we would make it three weeks. People are starting to question their leaders about an over-reaction and keeping a “shelter-in-place” order will get dicey, especially when tyrannical leftist mayors and governors use the Virus as an excuse to release prisoners or establish a ban on guns.

But……… does anyone think we won’t come out of this? And seek retribution for our temporary imprisonment? Nah, I’m a believer.

And if EVER there was a guy to lead the world out of darkness, death, grave threats, and give the power back to the people, it’s this guy………

No doubts, not even a smidgen. Understand, if the governments of the world are able to portray themselves as the saviors of the people, we lose it all. We go back, to the idiots in power. We cannot waiver at this time. Our storm is here.

We’re holding fast. We’ll never give up. Too late to put the genie back in the bottle. So, say a little prayer, we’re going to need all the help we can get.

Remember Wheatie’s Rules:

  1. No food fights.
  2. No running with scissors.
  3. If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone 

Set your jaw, be determined. We have a fight on our hands. We’ll meet at Wheatie’s treehouse in the morning.