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CHAPTER 2

FEAR UNCHECKED

BY FACTS

Because of the fear-mongering media, and the
grossly overestimated reports from our good friend
Neil Ferguson, we shut down our economy and
forced “non-essential” businesses to shut their doors.

This was a grave mistake (no pun intended) and the
numbers below show why our leaders should have kept
the world open for business. The only reason why our
leaders closed the world was because of sheer public
panic resulting from inflammatory, misleading,
and alarmist reports by news organizations, as well
as misinformation in the communications of our
country’s leadership with the public.
At the time President Trump issued the social

distancing and other guidelines (March 16, 2020),
the worst widely reported case for shutting the world
down was the fear that there would be an estimated