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media on their smartphones, it only took hours for
this coronavirus story to grow dangerously viral.
Quickly, people began to hoard toilet paper and
essential food items in preparation for the “worst
case scenarios” presented by Neil Ferguson. Why was
toilet paper hoarded? Does the coronavirus cause
diarrhea? No. But as a general rule, fear and panic
kills humanity’s ability to think critically. Try having

a rational phone conversation with somebody while
they are sprinting for their life in Spain’s Running of
the Bulls; it won’t go well. Try teaching somebody
about the merits of abstinence while they are currently
engaged in having sex; it won’t go well.
Without really knowing how the coronavirus
would impact the amount of deaths in our country,

our elected officials decided to let the fear of the
unknown dictate their actions, beginning with Dr.
Deborah Birx. Dr. Birx is the Coronavirus Response
Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task
Force; she is the one who called for the President to
“shut it down.”
The Governor or New York, Andrew Cuomo
then stated during a press conference, “What we did
was . . . we closed everything down. That was our

public health strategy. Just close everything down.
If you rethought that or had time to analyze that
public health strategy, I don’t know that you would

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