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America the Wuss – From Rugged Pioneers to Cowering Sheep<\/a> On the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, the paramount question becomes: What happened to the American people?<\/p>\n Is this the nation whose soldiers braved withering fire wading ashore on Omaha Beach, that produced the Battling Bastards of Bastogne — whose Marines raised the flag over Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima after a month of brutal fighting?<\/p>\n What happened to the American spirit? We\u2019ve gone from the nation of rugged individualism and the pioneer spirit to shutdowns, social distancing, and face masks. Citizens who are treated like children meekly obey.<\/p>\n The battle cry of America the Wuss (\u201cPeople are dying\u201d) has drowned out \u201cGive me liberty or give me death!\u201d<\/p>\n Where totalitarians have failed, a triumvirate of the political left, fake news and medical bureaucrats have succeeded in subjugating the American people and ruining the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n Many Americans want to live in a bubble, avoiding contact with anything that might threaten their comfortable existence. Their fear makes them easy to stampede.<\/p>\n In reality, safety is an illusion. Step out your front door and you risk your life. As of May 3, 67,595 had died from the coronavirus in the United States.<\/p>\n In 2018, 647,457 Americans died of heart disease, 599,108 of cancer, 169,936 from accidents of all kinds (including roughly 40,000 highway fatalities), 55,672 from influenza and pneumonia and 47,173 from suicide.<\/p>\n To stay safe, don\u2019t smoke or drink, don\u2019t get too excited, get in a car or climb a ladder, stay indoors, lose weight, avoid human contact during flu season and don\u2019t get depressed. Try not to think about Fingers Biden as president.<\/p>\n Despite the initial hype (first one million would die, then 500,000, then less then 100,000), the coronavirus turns out not to be more contagious or lethal than a really bad flu. The probability of dying from COVID-19 in the United States is 1.5 out of 10,000. Not bad odds.<\/p>\n In Sweden without a draconian shutdown regime, the probability of death from the coronavirus rises slightly to 2.0 out of 10,000. In the United States, the risk for healthy individuals under 55 is probably 1.5 in 100,000.<\/p>\n COVID-19 isn\u2019t the first time a flock of squawking Chicken Littles, feathers flying in all directions, has tried to terrify us with dire warnings of impending doom, just the most successful…..<\/p>\n Overpopulation<\/strong> \u2013 In \u201cThe Population Bomb\u201d (1969) Paul Ehrlich predicted worldwide starvation in the 1970s, due to population growth outstripping food production and the depletion of natural resources.<\/p>\n Nuclear War<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock, which was supposed to show how close we were to planetary annihilation, due to stockpiles of nuclear weapons among other factors.<\/p>\n Man-Made Climate Change<\/strong> \u2013 Due to burning fossil fuels, the ozone layer is shrinking. Soon, sea-levels will rise to unimagined heights, polar bears on surfboards wearing Hawaiian shirts will glide by the island of Manhattan (if it isn\u2019t under water) and they\u2019ll be growing tropical fruit in Antarctica.<\/p>\n And now we have a lockdown going into its sixth week, so Dr. Fauci can do nightly briefings and Democratic governors can be little Caesars. And when it\u2019s all over, they\u2019ll present themselves as saviors. If It weren\u2019t for social distancing and the lockdown, you\u2019d all be dead, the Michigan Dominatrix and New York\u2019s Il Duce will tell voters. If you object, they\u2019ll label you anti-science.<\/p>\n Add to the current death toll civil liberties, representative government and all of the economic gains since the end of the last recession.<\/p>\n Earlier generations of Americans wouldn\u2019t have stood for it. 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\nWhat happened to the American spirit?<\/em><\/p>\n