What are the what ifs scenarios of what could have been avoided if everyone had a N95 mask availability.
The Chicago Tribune articles today reported worries and results of what will occur in the restaurant industry, schools, parents’ deli mina to having to quit jobs in order to stay home with young children and the sad economic effects that have resulted for the Coved pandemic.
The Purpose of This Post
To relate an ancient wisdom proverb and an idiom why it is necessary to analyze the pros and cons of the game analyzing the what ifs of what could have been other than to foster the folly of worry and anxiety in our lives…
King Solomon
Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is not wise to ask such questions. (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
Excerpt
This is a common opinion, that in all ages prevails among men, that former times were better than present one
or thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this: this is owing to ignorance of former times;
Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (Proverb 6:6-8)
What’s My Point?
There is a difference in the wisdom of looking back in time for the above explained reasons vs. the near future election need to look back and analyze the folly of not emulating ants.
For example.
There are no sluggard ants who do not work in the summer so as to be prepared in the winters of their lives.
Ants that work do so to prepare.
Those who now worry about the what ifs of the pandemic did not occur are most likely those who were not prepared or in our contemporary times put their trust in government to take care of them.
Problem is the USA and world were not prepared and the sad fact is the what if thought that if the N95 masks were available, that there would be only a 5 percent risk of people who would contract Covid and pass on the highly communicable virus to others.
If the virus had only a 5 percent chance of being spread, the statistics incurred would have be significantly lower than what occurred.
In other words, the ancient wisdom and advice written 3000 years ago has been ignored. The result is what is now occurring in the USA and around the world both physically and economically as explained in the Chicaog Tribune articles.
In My Opinion,
I wrote two previous posts explaining why the advice of past leaders was ignored and how the pandemic could have been avoided.
Hopefully, we will survive the consequences explained in an old idiom.
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
If Interested
Read the Source Links below
You Decide
If after reading the source links below, should you consider the “what if” of Joe Biden who was party in the past administration folly of relying on having source 8000 miles away to supply 90 percent of PPE equipment to the USA including the N94 mask? Or the policies of President Trump to balance trade>
Is the reason Joe Biden supporters want him elected perhaps because they want to return to the reasons explained in the above Ecclesiastes 7:10 verse and commentary in the Source Link below?
Regards and goodwill blogging
Source Links
Previous Posts
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/04/22/nail-mask-folly-king-solomon-blog/
https://rudymartinka.com/2020/08/06/machinery-lack-folly-king-solomon-blog/
Bible hub – John Gil Excerpt Commentary of Ecclesiastes 7:10
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/ecclesiastes/7.htm
Psychology Today What Ifhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201809/the-psychology-what-if
Rudy u Martinka 
Seems to me, sir, is that YOU are constantly looking back and lamenting your perception of globalism as the reason the country was ill-prepared with masks, and unable to produce more by the President simply making a phone call to a domestic manufacturer to step up production. Not only are you constantly presenting the “what if” of that.. but also assigning blame. Now.. some of that is election bias, I know. There is no going back of the “good old days” of post WW2 (white) America. We are part of a greater collection of nations that because of increasing population and technological demands of progress we have to come to grips that we all occupy the same planet.. and the politics that separate us does not occur in an individualistic vacuum. Our current pandemic problems as a nation are not entirely because N95 masks are made in China and not here. Our greater problem regarding the masks is that here it’s a Conservative/Trumpian political statement of not surrendering personal rights (being imposed by “Leftist” governors who want power), so a large segment of the population simply refuses to wear them. That would still exist even if we had copious amounts of masks at the beginning.
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Doug,
Thanks for your comment. I wonder if my post should have pointed out more clearly the points I wanted to make. Namely, the facts on the lack of preparedness and analysis by past government folly..
The what if about N95 masks part of the post is based on facts.
There can be no doubt that the previous administrations folly to rely on globalism, especially for 90 percent of the PPE and N95 masks was folly because of what our Nation has experienced.
As for manufacturing, most people unfamiliar with what is entailed and the constraints of time, materials and skills cannot camphene that even if Trump did as you suggested, the facts are that it would not have been possible.to prevent the damage to the economy or would save the lives lost..
As for the facts that the USA was not prepared and the result was disastrous to our economy and resulted in deaths, trillions more in National Debt, there is no way to deny the fact, government failed to analyses and prepare for the pandemic..
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As for the fact that if you analyze what the two Presidential candidates accomplished during the terms in government, in my opinion, the question of what ifs are meaningless.
Instead we voters can only analyses which one you trust more based on the facts of their accomplishments while in office in order to ascertain the credibility of their plans and promises for the next four years.
In my opinion, we know Trump is not a polished politician and his styles of communication is not the likening of his political detractors.
If we analyze Joe Biden plans on his internet site, he knows how to make political promises and suggestions based on his opinions and plans but never states how to fund his promises.
Also, we know from his experience as Vice President, in the Ukraine, his son profited. And in his role in China, there are alto of disparaging reports of how he and his son’s recommendations may have helped China interests over USA both interests and security.
So, in my opinion, if you vote for Biden, the what if to consider is how does he propose to fund and accomplish all his promises?
Or his political savvy how to make promises people like to hear same as Obama was liked for his promises of change that did not materialize according to his motto of “WE can do it.”
If I were you, perhaps you should do the same thing as Bolton has stated, He is not going to voter for either candidate.
Remember when we vote for one candidate it is an endorsement for the other candidate policies.
And in my opinion, the what if Joe wins might be a repeat of uncontrolled immigration, globalism, and return to outsourcings more jobs again instead of balancing trade.
In other words, in my opinion, if you analyses the what ifs vs. the facts of the coming election, you should prepare yourself for the warning of King Solomon about the past good old days, in Washington in my opinion.
Regards and goodwill blogging.
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Keep in mind that Trump 2016 didn’t say where his money for his projects would come from.. just that Mexico would pay for the wall.. which they haven’t.. and there’ very little NEW wall been built anyway as most went to existing replacement structuring.
Americans paid for the trade tariffs in the end… not China.
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Doug,
At least Trump tried to get Mexico to pay for the wall vs Obama who asked taxpayers to pay for benefits to subsidize them once they entered under his catch and release which would take years before they saw a judge or disappeared when there time in years arrived
Regards and goodwill blogging
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