Coronavirus: why are we still locked up? Where’s the “science”?

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Because it’s the election, baby!

I’ve said it for years, I’ll say it again (okay, I stole the phrase from my Civics teacher, Mr Helms, in the 1960s), and Tucker Carlson owes me 25¢ every time he says it:

“In an election year, everything is about the election.”

Everything.

I have the citations. I have the stories. I have the articles. I have the videos. I have the facts. This post – (show) exists as an archive, a repository of stories to show to those disbelievers who think everything was justified and, frankly, we’re all going to die.

I guarantee, to date, you have heard little if ANY of this. That is purposeful. And that is also why I ask you to reference those doubters who seek facts to read this post, to check the links, to navigate the resources, and think for yourselves.

You can soak yourself in all the American Media Maggot gurp you wish. Here is the other side of the coin. The one you won’t hear.

It’s all Fear Porn, aimed at President Trump, having little if anything to do with actual science.

And to date, only one Leftist has had the guts to admit it, Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.

Audio: LA County Health Director Says Schools Won’t Reopen Until After November Election

KTLA Staff, 9-10-20

During a reported conference call with local educators, school nurses and other groups while discussing the upcoming flu season, Ferrer said:

“We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving either to Tier 2 [of California’s reopening plan] or to reopening K-12 schools at least…until after the election, after, you know, in early November. If we just look at the timing of everything, it seems to us the most realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re gonna be where we are now…until…we are done with the elections.”

At least there’s one Leftist telling the truth, and that I can admire in my own demented way.

So let’s cut to the chase up front, and I’ll present supporting evidence along the way.

The chase is this: the “science” says OPEN UP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ELIMINATE THE LOCKDOWN, keep those at greatest risk separated and allow the economy, employers and employees to GET BACK TO WORK.

Let’s begin with this purposely-neglected article from July’s Washington Examiner:

Study: Coronavirus restrictions killing 10,000 children per month and ‘wasting’ and ‘stunting’ millions more

by Andrew Mark Miller, 7-29-20

A new study shows that coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns are leading to the deaths 10,000 children per month and stunting the growth of millions more.

“It’s been seven months since the first COVID-19 cases were reported, and it is increasingly clear that the repercussions of the pandemic are causing more harm to children than the disease itself,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. “Household poverty and food insecurity rates have increased.”

The study, conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and published in the Lancet medical journal, said that hunger stemming from coronavirus restrictions is causing the deaths of 10,000 children per month and stunting the growth of another 550,000 per month.

This is The Lancet, folks — and Johns Hopkins University, not some “right-wing organ.”

“By having schools closed, by having primary healthcare services disrupted, by having nutritional programs dysfunctional, we are also creating harm,” Victor Aguayo, the head of UNICEF’s nutrition program, said.

The warning of the dire repercussions of the pandemic as well as the efforts to combat it echo the findings of other studies that have suggested lockdowns are costing a significant amount of harm.

One study published in May suggested that coronavirus restrictions will destroy seven times more years of life than lockdowns will save.

Another study showed that drug overdoses are skyrocketing since lockdowns were imposed, and a doctor in California told a local news outlet he believes suicides are rising as well.

We’ll get to those aspects.

Dr David Samadi, at work, practicing every day, and hated, despised by Leftists and social media, who have consistently removed and blocked his information — unlike an individual with the initials of A.F. — recently wrote and asked, per CDC numbers:

According to the CDC, through the end of July the average number of total deaths in the United States per day was 7,434 this year. In 2017 there were an average of more than 7,700 deaths per day in the United States. Where is the major increase in COVID-19 related death?

Statistics and science. And why I’m proving that locking up American citizens is absolutely unscientific bullshit.

Also, Dr Richard Harbison, MD, wrote:

I’m an MD. I got Covid 19 on March 24. I took HCQ (and zinc). I went from the sickest I’ve ever been to afebrile and symptom free within 24 hrs.

His Tweets and social media have also been taken down. Because Leftists and Demorats cannot afford to have an easy or ready solution to Wuhan-19, and things certainly cannot be ameliorated before November 3rd — precisely as LA Director Ferrer stated.

An article from 2017 no one wants you to know about as well, which was eliminated from social media:

Malaria drugs could help to combat cancer

by Honor Whiteman, 11-24-17

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are drugs that are used to treat malaria, but a new review suggests that they may have another purpose: treating cancer.

The research — which reviewed more than 190 studies investigating how chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) affect cancer cells — describes how the malaria drugs may increase tumor sensitivity to existing cancer treatments.

Based on their findings, first study author Ciska Verbaanderd, from the University of Leuven in Belgium, and her colleagues say that the drugs “deserve further clinical investigations in several cancer types.”

Given that cancer is increasingly becoming resistant to existing therapies, there is a desperate need to uncover new ways to fight the disease.

Verbaanderd and colleagues believe that the drugs CQ and HCQ could help in this fight.

Then there was this, in late July, when Ohio pharmacists — not from any other state, just Ohio — decided they were going to refuse to fill scrips for hydroxychloroquine.

I drew serious crap from Leftists and pharmacists when I wrote something similar to “oh right, pharmacists clearly know better than doctors in terms of how to treat their individual patients.” A few blocked Twitter assholes later, I motored on.

The pharmacists (shocker) later withdrew their ban at the request of Ohio Governor Mike Dewine. But why ban it in the first place? I think you know why. OMB.

Dr Stephen Smith weighed in and, of course, was eliminated from YouTube wholesale.

Funny thing is, I’ve always had this question:

If hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc simply don’t work, then why are Leftist elements so terribly worried about Americans having access to it, if prescribed by a doctor?

Answers:

  • 1. Power and control.
  • 2. President Trump can’t be allowed any “win” whatsoever.
  • 3. Even if that “win” means saving American lives.
  • 4. Translated: Demorats and Leftists truly don’t give a shit about YOU.

Then there was this from CBN.com:

Yale Medical Expert: Hydroxychloroquine Saves Lives, ‘Propaganda War’ Is Killing People

by Andrea Morris, 7-25-20

As the number of deaths from COVID-19 rises, the debate over the effectiveness of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has also persisted.

In an op-ed published by Newsweek, Yale Epidemiology Professor Dr. Harvey Risch wrote that hydroxychloroquine is “highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.”

Risch said the drug works against the virus when taken early before it multiplies throughout the body. He said some physicians who prescribed hydroxychloroquine to patients are now being scrutinized for their actions.

And, as referenced, the Newsweek article (a source beloved by Leftists, I should care to point out) indicates:

The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It | Opinion

by Harvey A Risch, MD, PhD, 7-23-20

As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.

I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.

Of course, that article was buried, ignored and never repeated by anyone in the American Media Maggot regime. You can never afford to give even the slightest win to OMB, no matter how many Americans you happen to kill in the process.

There is this article from the WHO indicating Wuhan-19 doesn’t follow seasons.

WHO says COVID-19 pandemic is “one big wave”, not seasonal

7-28-20

GENEVA — A World Health Organization (WHO) official on Tuesday described the COVID-19 pandemic as “one big wave” and warned against complacency in the northern hemisphere summer since the infection does not share influenza’s tendency to follow seasons.

Then there is Dr Fauci saying that Wuhan-19 follows seasons, and we’d best be prepared to be on lockdown until, well — how does late 2021 sound?

Okay, well, hold that thought — because wait, there’s more!

We seem to have forgotten these doctors — which social media has done yeoman’s work in an attempt to remove from sight.

From TexasScoreCard.com:

Doctors With Coronavirus Treatment Face Orwellian Suppression

by Matt Stringer, 7-29-20

Several doctors across the country—who are apparently successfully treating the Chinese coronavirus—are experiencing an Orwellian-like oppression by the media and government regulators.

When reputable Texas doctors offered the world evidence of apparently successful treatment plans for the coronavirus, one might have expected medical researchers and leaders to rush to explore the feasibility of the treatment plan.

Instead, leaders have shunned the news, mainstream media has gone into hyperdrive to discredit the doctors, and medical elites have refused to explore the treatment plans. And now, tech giants have removed and suppressed viral social media posts containing information from those medical professionals regarding their treatments.

It is a terrifying act of suppression straight out of George Orwell’s “1984,” a book that describes a tyrannical future where truth is suppressed and lies are promoted.

The most well-known treatment plan receiving the most pushback is the use of hydroxychloroquine, a common drug used for treating malaria, combined with zinc tablets and an antibiotic.

Another video since de-rezzed from the bulk of social media, with praises for — zounds, no! — hydroxychloroquine! Here is Dr Simone Gold.

Watch the full video here, on BitChute.

A brief reminder, by the way. Remember the John Lewis funeral in Atlanta on July 30th?

All the folks attending the John Lewis funeral, from DC, were supposed to self-quarantine for TWO WEEKS according to DC law, when they returned. You think anyone did? Hell no. Not one. Not even one. Laws are for little people, proles, serfs, groundlings, servants, subjects. Not for the DC Elite.

Or as Amir Tsarfati wrote:

Can someone report this church to the authorities for holding an indoors service with more than 50 people? Oh wait. It’s a funeral of a politician where a failed former US president held an election campaign under the guise of a eulogy. The rules don’t apply here.

Another little-remembered event involving Dr Anthony Fauci.

AmericanGreatness.com wrote:

Money and Politics Behind Anti-Hydroxychloroquine Bias, New Report Suggests

by Debra Heine

Remdesivir, an antiviral medication that was developed by the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, has been widely touted as the most promising drug to treat COVID-19, even though—so far—the new and expensive drug does not seem to be terribly effective at fighting the disease.

The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, on the other hand, is cheap, has been used safely for decades, and has shown great promise as a weapon in the fight against the coronavirus—yet after President Trump mentioned it as a promising potential treatment for the disease, the media immediately blasted him for touting an “unproven” and potentially unsafe drug.

As Full Measure reported Sunday night, the two camps have divided along political lines, with conservatives siding with hydroxychloroquine and the left-leaning media backing remdesivir.

The FDA seems to have taken a side too, green-lighting emergency use of remdesivir for severely ill coronavirus patients, while warning that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine should only be taken in the hospital or as part of a formal study due to reports of “serious heart rhythm problems.”

Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson spoke with a doctor and several scientists who told her that the anti-hydroxychloroquine bias in the media has been “unwarranted,” “harmful,” and has even “cost lives.”

These are stories you haven’t heard, have you?

Attkisson also “followed the money” to find out why the two drugs are being treated so differently. Not surprisingly, she found that many of the people promoting remdesivir have major conflicts of interest.

She first spoke with cardiologist Dr. William O’Neill, a medical director at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, where both remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine are being studied.

O’Neill told Attkisson that the media’s attempts to “disprove and discredit” hydroxychloroquine has been “very harmful.”

“I think those of us that are actually involved in the scientific endeavor feel that there is some value to it and it has to be tested,” he said.

Joining many other doctors who have gone on the record to praise hydroxychloroquine as a promising treatment for coronavirus, O’Neill said that he’s seen improvement in every coronavirus patient to whom he has prescribed the drug.

Remdesivir, on the other hand, leaves him cold.

But aren’t the Demorats yelling from the highest towers that only Republicans are politicizing Wuhan-19 and its treatments?

Turns out BZ‘s Demorat Axiom is correct: “Whatever the Demorats accuse you of, they are doing themselves.”

Then there’s this, as we all pretty much suspected all along:

Dr. Hatfill told Attkisson that some of the decisions being made concerning the drugs “do not seem to be rational” and that when what seems like a clear path is not taken, “very often, money is somehow involved.”

The experts on a government panel that devised the coronavirus treatment guidelines talked up remdesivir but downplayed hydroxychloroquine. Full Measure checked into their financial ties to see if there were any conflicts of interest there.

“We found that of 11 members reporting links to a drug company, nine of them named relationships to remdesivir’s maker Gilead,” Attkisson said.

BZ speaks Leftist. Allow me to translate. Hydroxychloroquine is cheap, efficient, and doesn’t cost mega-dollars. But it is advocated by OMB and therefore cannot be embraced for any reason. Politics and money. Money and politics.

“In an election year, everything is about the election.”

Here’s something I’ve always wondered. Wouldn’t it be interesting to somehow get Dr Anthony Fauci to sit down and take a blood test? You know. Just to see if he’s been taking hydroxychloroquine and/or Azithromycin prophylactically.

And there’s this, which we’ve known for some time but continues to keep getting buried.

COVER UP: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; “Nobody Needed to Die”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose “expert” advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses.

How did he know this? Because of research done by the National Institutes of Health, of which he is the director. In connection with the SARS outbreak – caused by a coronavirus dubbed SARS- CoV – the NIH researched chloroquine and concluded that it was effective at stopping the SARS coronavirus in its tracks. The COVID-19 bug is likewise a coronavirus, labeled SARS-CoV-2. While not exactly the same virus as SARS-CoV-1, it is genetically related to it, and shares 79% of its genome, as the name SARS-CoV-2 implies. They both use the same host cell receptor, which is what viruses use to gain entry to the cell and infect the victim.

This is why I love the internet and its concomitant memory. If you just know how to research, you can find oh so many things.

The Virology Journal – the official publication of Dr. Fauci’s National Institutes of Health – published what is now a blockbuster article on August 22, 2005, under the heading – get ready for this – “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.”

Write the researchers, “We report…that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage.”

Why has Dr Fauci seemed to push back on hydroxychloroquine? Easy answer. Because he is aligned with an interest in Remdesivir, which is much more costly per dose. From the GatewayPundit.com:

STUNNING: Fauci’s Remdesivir Costs $9 Per Dose, Will Be Sold at $3,000 per Treatment — China Company Linked to Soros Will Also Mass Produce the Drug

by Jim Hoft, 6-29-20

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (https://aapsonline.org) filed a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA for “irrational interference” by the FDA with timely access to hydroxychloroquine.

Never in history have we seen such a determined effort by the scientific community and pharmaceutical industry to downplay and lie about the use of a successful drug to treat a deadly disease.

Clear thinking individuals — of course that excludes the American Media Maggots, Leftists and Demorats — would be asking a litany of questions. Which they aren’t.

Hydroxychloroquine is the first choice in a study of 6,000 doctors treating the coronavirus. In the field and in independent testing hydroxychloroquine displayed amazing results in treating the COVID-19 virus.

But there was great pushback against hydroxychloroquine for two reasons. The first reason was because it was safe and very inexpensive. The second reason is because Donald Trump promoted its use.

You’re going to be seeing the studies which prove that.

As we reported earlier, from the beginning Dr. Fauci was against the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. Fauci was thrilled about its use just a few years ago. (Hold that thought.)

Dr. Fauci did promote the use of Remdesivir. He was excited to share the news on its effectiveness in April.

The company Gilead produces Remdesivir. Gilead is partnered with Wuxi App Tec, a company that WND (World Net Daily) states is owned in part by George Soros. Connecting the dots. You’re welcome.

The one person behind the promotion of Gilead’s remdesivir is the doctor who has worked with Gilead for a long time, Dr. Fauci. He also has downplayed and criticized the use of the much cheaper drug hydroxychloroquine:

Can there be any uncertainty as to why Dr. Fauci, who worked closely with Gilead, is strongly promoting its more expensive and less effective medication, which has already failed against Ebola, over a readily available, markedly affordable medication with a 91% success rate?

But wait; there’s more.

Gilead said the drug will cost $520 per vial, or $3,120 for a six-vial treatment.

A previous report at Bloomberg noted the cost to manufacture remdesivir is only $9 per treatment. Hydroxychloroquine is only $1 per treatment!

Dr Anthony Fauci knew about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine back in 2005. He conveniently forgot in 2020. The 2005 report stating this is here.

An article published by the Virology Journal dated August 22, 2005, calls into question some of Dr. Fauci’s past statements on Chloroquine (HydroxyChoroquine is a less toxic derivative of Chloroquine). The title is “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.” 

The Virology Journal is officially published through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and is part of the United States National Library of Medicine, a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

But then:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist, has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. NIAID is one of 27 institutes that make up the NIH.

You think Dr Fauci is stupid? That the doesn’t read the Virology Journal? Me neither.

As far as Dr Anthony Fauci is concerned, hydroxychloroquine will damned near kill you.

But wait. What else do we know about our beloved Dr Anthony Fauci? How about this, from Newsweek.com:

Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research

by Fred Guterl, 4-28-20

Dr. Anthony Fauci is an adviser to President Donald Trump and something of an American folk hero for his steady, calm leadership during the pandemic crisis. At least one poll shows that Americans trust Fauci more than Trump on the coronavirus pandemic—and few scientists are portrayed on TV by Brad Pitt.

But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.

In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.

It gets better.

Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.

Actually, it gets much, much worse.

The work in question was a type of gain-of-function research that involved taking wild viruses and passing them through live animals until they mutate into a form that could pose a pandemic threat. Scientists used it to take a virus that was poorly transmitted among humans and make it into one that was highly transmissible—a hallmark of a pandemic virus. This work was done by infecting a series of ferrets, allowing the virus to mutate until a ferret that hadn’t been deliberately infected contracted the disease.

The work entailed risks that worried even seasoned researchers. More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.

Just wait until you hear what a Chinese virologist thinks happened with Wuhan-19. Was it some kind of “accident”?

And knowing what you know, what do you think of this bit of Dr Fauci, from 2017?

I’m all out of bubblegum, and in 2020 I’m all out of coincidences.

I always ask questions. Social media, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Google, they don’t want you asking any questions. None.

Other doctors’ opinions, medical professionals — nothing can be in contravention of their views. Because none of them are — drum roll please — medical professionals.

So what have they done? Rip and remove articles and videos out by active, practicing doctors and other medical scholars. Ignoring tests. Ignoring studies. Ignoring actual real-world results.

When, conversely, medicine and science are, literally, all about asking questions, acquiring additional opinions, testing, prodding, trials, assessments, more questions, more appraisals.

But what if? What if you were a certain doctor — and what if you were instrumental in, purposely or unwittingly, creating a plague, with a vaccine at your fingertips, a real cash cow — wouldn’t you want to minimize the cheapest solution in favor of something with some real monetary zing? I’m not saying that’s etched in stone. But I am doing something that the American Media Maggots won’t.

I’m asking questions.

Then, an actual cogent article from the WaPo, “Where Democracy Dies In DC.”

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental health crisis

by William Wan, 5-4-20

Anxiety and depression are rising. The U.S. is ill-prepared, with some clinics already on the brink of collapse.

Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, the country is on the verge of another health crisis, with daily doses of death, isolation and fear generating widespread psychological trauma.

Federal agencies and experts warn that a historic wave of mental-health problems is approaching: depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide.

Just as the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus caught hospitals unprepared, the United States’ mental-health system — vastly underfunded, fragmented and difficult to access before the pandemic — is even less prepared to handle this coming surge.

“That’s what is keeping me up at night,” said Susan Borja, who leads the traumatic stress research program at the National Institute of Mental Health. “I worry about the people the system just won’t absorb or won’t reach. I worry about the suffering that’s going to go untreated on such a large scale.”

But if you ask Leftists and Demorats, this is the least-addressed of their concerns. They don’t wish to bring this topic up. Move along. Nothing to see here. These are not the reasons to unlock America you’re looking for.

And while almost everyone is experiencing increased stress, the effect for many will be transient — trouble sleeping, shorter fuses.

The difficulty is identifying and treating those who develop deeper, worrisome mental problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.

So let’s gaze back in history for a moment and ask ourselves: what’s pushed this frenzy, this reaction that I call Fear Porn — because it wasn’t always like this in the United States.

Who remembers the Asian Flu of 1957? I was alive then. I was a kid. I don’t remember. I don’t remember my parents making any mention of it whatsoever.

Or the Hong Kong Flu of 1968 that killed over 100,000 people — the equivalent of 160,000 people today, in terms of percentile? I don’t. I remember the Summer of Love in 1967. I remember the movie Bullitt in 1968. I remember both Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in 1968. I don’t remember crap about any flu. I was a senior in high school.

David Horowitz wrote:

The 1957 Asian flu, a form of H2N2 influenza that is believed to have originated in China, is estimated to have killed 116,000 Americans, the equivalent of roughly 200,000 in today’s larger America. Given that an estimated 25 percent of the entire country contracted that flu and a much larger share suffered from strong symptoms, one has to wonder what the recorded death toll would have been had we tested everyone and counted those deaths as liberally as we do today.

For even greater context, keep in mind that there were only about 4.9 million people over the age of 75 back then, as compared to 23 million today. So, while the general population was slightly more than half of what it is today, the over-75 population was approximately one-fifth of what it is today. The over-90 population was 1/12 of today’s advanced senior population. Accordingly, the death toll in 1957 was even more severe than with COVID-19 when one considers how many more seniors we have today. After all, the median age of death from COVID-19 is 78, roughly around life expectancy, with roughly half of all deaths occurring among sicker seniors in nursing homes.

Oh, the anarchy we had in 1957 and 1968! It was off the charts! Shutdowns, testing, the economy tanked twice because of it!

Uh, no. It didn’t. Somehow we muscled through it all and soldiered on.

Another more dangerous aspect of the Asian flu as compared to COVID-19 is that it seemed to be more dangerous to pregnant women and to cause birth defects, similar to what was observed during the Spanish flu. A study published in Minnesota in 1959 found that nearly 20% of deaths that occurred during pregnancy were due to the 1957-58 epidemic, making it the leading cause of death for pregnant women during those months. One-half of all women of child-bearing age who died during the epidemic were pregnant.

If that were true today, we’d have lost our shit three times over. The panic would have people wearing full body Dupont Tyvek suits. No one would be driving trucks, delivering goods, providing services; grocery stores would be closed, there would be chaos, panic and riots. Here’s the kicker:

There was never a thought to shut down people’s lives, and nobody ever thought that humans could stop the spread of the actual virus. Hence, few remember living through it.

Compare that to today. Back then we didn’t shut down the economy. We didn’t kill small businesses in favor of mega businesses and chains. We didn’t quarantine people,

“Quarantine was not considered to be an effective mitigation strategy and was ‘obviously useless because of the large number of travelers and the frequency of mild or unapparent cases.’”

Sound familiar? Except today, we are doing the opposite.

In 2006, D.A. Henderson, the former dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, wrote:

“There are no historical observations or scientific studies that support the confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods in order to slow the spread of influenza.”

Horowitz concluded:

Thus, from 1957 until fairly recently – before the medical profession was politicized – they all understood that we lack the ability to stop the spread of a flu-like virus. The best we can do is treat it without sowing panic. As Henderson warned, “Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.”

What a shame that Henderson and the common sense that defined America until recently are no longer living.

Then this story from the Washington Examiner, which was absolutely buried by the American Media Maggots, burned, then the ashes buried.

CDC director acknowledges hospitals have a monetary incentive to overcount coronavirus deaths

by Andrew Mark Miller, 8-1-20

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield agreed that some hospitals have a monetary incentive to overcount coronavirus deaths as they do deaths for other diseases.

“I think you’re correct in that we’ve seen this in other disease processes, too. Really, in the HIV epidemic, somebody may have a heart attack but also have HIV — the hospital would prefer the [classification] for HIV because there’s greater reimbursement,” Redfield said during a House panel hearing Friday when asked by Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer about potential “perverse incentives.”

Redfield continued: “So, I do think there’s some reality to that. When it comes to death reporting, though, ultimately, it’s how the physician defines it in the death certificate, and … we review all of those death certificates. So I think, probably it is less operable in the cause of death, although I won’t say there are not some cases. I do think though [that] when it comes to hospital reimbursement issues or individuals that get discharged, there could be some play in that for sure.”

“Some play in that for sure.”

Listen to Glenn Beck interview Dr Simone Gold, who is a board certified emergency physician, attended Standford Law School, she’s a doctor, a lawyer, worked for the Surgeon General in DC, working as a physician on the front lines in the city, country and reservations — and founded American Frontline Doctors. I can’t embed her video because, you guessed it, Facebook won’t allow the video to be embedded. Why? She discusses the utilization of hydroxychloroquine.

Listen here.

The “rules” of Wuhan-19, the “science” of it all, is what BZ calls “Kabuki Theater of the Absurd.” From the NYPost.com:

All the COVID safety rules are little more than theater

by Karol Markowicz, 8-3-20

If you go to a restaurant in Gotham right now, you might be subjected to a temperature check. It’s no big deal, it takes a second — but it’s pointless; plenty of COVID-positive people don’t have a fever. So why do we do it? It’s part of a growing trend of COVID-19 security theater. We do things that have no bearing on our actual safety but that make us feel safe.

Take masks. It makes sense to wear masks inside businesses or for any close contact with strangers. But why are people wearing them outside, when they’re not near anybody? Neighborhood message boards across the country are filled with complaints like: “I saw a bicyclist without a mask today!”

The problem is messaging from the top. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention coronavirus guru, is the man we all look to for direction. In March, he said, “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Now he’s gung-ho, yet his mask instruction is very convoluted.

He wore a mask to throw out the first pitch at the Opening Day game at Nationals Park — while standing more than 60 feet away from the nearest person. Then he sat down in the stands with his wife and friend, and they all took turns wearing and removing their masks.

In restaurants in New York, you must wear a mask to your seat. But then you take it off to eat, drink and talk, which is clearly where all the danger lies.

I could go on. YOU could go on. I’ll wager you still see, after all this time, brain-dead zombies wearing masks in their own cars. With the windows up. Don’t you shake your head and say out loud, “you stupid fucking moron”? I do.

And just as Demorat Governor Andrew Cuomo should, in my opinion, be tried on 11,000+ counts of manslaughter for pushing hot, infected Wuhan-19 patients into nursing homes where the very weakest in society live in tight quarters with the least trained staff and the least equipped staff — Demorat Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, on August 3rd, vetoed a bill from the GOP-controlled Legislature that would have shifted elderly people with COVID-19 away from nursing homes and into entirely separate facilities.

So I have to continue to ask: just what is it about the nature of Demorats makes them so ignorant, so naive — or so dangerously evil? There’s a special kind of Hell that exists for people like that.

Here’s what we know about 2020 election politics in the time of Wuhan-19. OMB cannot be afforded any win whatsoever. The two states with the greatest ability to impede any effort of President Trump’s are in fact New York and Kalifornia. Thusly, this Kalifornia story should surprise no one.

L.A. Teachers Union Calls to Defund Police, Cap Charter Schools as Part of COVID Reopening Plan

by Zachary Evans, 7-16-20

The second-largest teachers union in the U.S. called to defund the police and place a moratorium on charter schools in a “research paper” recommending that Los Angeles city schools stay closed at the beginning of the fall semester.

United Teachers Los Angeles released its study on school reopenings on July 9, recommending that schools only open once a set of safety precautions and funding conditions are met. On Monday, the Los Angeles and San Diego school districts announced they would not reopen for the near future.

So it’s not about the Coronavirus. It’s about whatever amount of power, control and money the CTA and NEA can possibly acquire. It’s Cloward-Piven. It’s Alinsky. It’s the Perfect Storm. It’s “never let a good crisis go to waste.” And why shouldn’t it be a total power grab?

I know this is an aside but hell, it’s my blog and I get to wander as I wish. The State of Kalifornia wants your children. You parents don’t deserve them, you can’t be trusted, and you can’t be counted on.

You parents won’t do the right thing and prioritize sex, race and race and sex. You don’t get ahead in a Leftist society by prioritizing stupid things like history, mathematics, science and English. So parental control in Kalifornia has to go. We’ve got a Woke Child Mob agenda to further, so get out of the damned way, parents.

Which means that private schools have to go. Charter schools have to go. Home schooling has to go.

Which is really odd because, now, if you think about it, the Wuhan-19 thingie has proven that a lot of teachers are damned near superfluous because 100, 200, 300, 1000 students can be taught, over the internet, by one teacher and a good software program.

Simultaneously, home schooling is exploding. Charter schools are being created and enrolled. And the NEA and CTA are watching their power dribble away. Hence, well, you know. Teaching in Kalifornia isn’t about your kids. It’s about the teachers. Come on. Get with the program. Literally.

What about the children themselves?

Which brings me back to Kalifornia and Wuhan-19, from our capital’s Leftist organ, The Sacramento Bee, which never saw an article it couldn’t corrupt by inserting the Op-Ed page into every paragraph in every story.

California COVID-19 data glitch interferes with contact tracing, school reopening waivers

by Sophia Bollag and Tony Bizjak, 8-5-20

A major COVID-19 data glitch in California means counties don’t know how many residents have tested positive in recent days, suddenly making it hard to gauge their success in battling the coronavirus.

The computer problem, which is blocking case data from getting to the state and to counties, is inhibiting local officials from tracking infection spread and could stall Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to let some elementary schools reopen.

Cue the Church Lady.

This study emerged from the Henry Ford Health system — which the American Media Maggots kept quiet.

Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine Cut Death Rate Significantly in COVID-19 Patients, Henry Ford Health System Study Shows

7-2-20

DETROIT – Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System.

In a large-scale retrospective analysis of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4% not treated with hydroxychloroquine. None of the patients had documented serious heart abnormalities; however, patients were monitored for a heart condition routinely pointed to as a reason to avoid the drug as a treatment for COVID-19.

Would it surprise you to know that a YouTube video, once embedded in that story, is no longer available and has been removed?

Plus this good news:

Henry Ford Health System is currently also involved in a prophylactic hydroxychloroquine study: “Will Hydroxychloroquine Impede or Prevent COVID-19,” or WHIP COVID-19. The study is a 3,000-person, randomized, double-blinded look at whether hydroxychloroquine prevents healthcare and frontline workers from contracting the COVID-19 virus.

Please let me translate for the brain-addled Leftists amongst you. That means the study showed treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut death rates in half, in the sickest Wuhan-19 patients.

Let me also state, because I value clarity and honesty, that the entire Leftist/Demorat reason they are against hydroxychloroquine is because President Trump advocated for its use. Had he eschewed its utilization — and this is no joke — you can rest assured the rest of the Leftist sphere would be advocating hydroxychloroquine and, say, aspirin — if President Trump hated it.

How about some more stats? What did we discover about Florida in August?

Let’s take a closer look at Sarasota County over the last 30 days. According to the US Census, Sarasota County was inhabited by 433,742 souls as of July 1, 2019.  Here are the numbers according to the Florida Covid 19 “Dashboard.” Just follow this link and click on Sarasota County. Five thousand nine hundred seventy four Sarasotans tested positive since the first of July (July 7 to be precise). That is 1.3% of the total county population. Hospitalized? 360, which represents 0.08%. How about deaths? 160. That is roughly consistent with the number of deaths recorded state-wide – 0.036%.

What about neighboring Manatee County (seat of the city of Bradenton and winter home of the Pittsburgh Pirates)? Manatee has a slightly smaller population than Sarsota, weighing in with 413,655 happy inhabitants. 8,956 Manatee maniacs tested positive for Covid–i.e., 2.1%. More have been hospitalized – 589, which represents 0.14%. The death count is 189 or 0.045%.

And as the The Spectator indicates — here is why I call it Fear Porn. Here are the falsehoods that people in the UK and the United States believe:

In a recent Kekst CNC poll, British respondents estimated that nearly 7 percent of the UK population has died from the coronavirus. That would be 4.5 million people. Scots supposed that more than 10 percent of the UK population has died. That would be seven million people. Astonishingly, Americans believed that COVID has killed nine percent of their compatriots, or almost 30 million people!

You can’t believe the stats from Dr Fauci, you can’t believe the CDC, you can’t believe the stats from government — they have all at one time or another been caught fabricating data, covering up date, not mentioning salient data, or outright lying about data. From the NYPost.com:

Cuomo and his Health Dept. at odds over total New York COVID-19 deaths

by Carl Campanile, 8-5-20

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his own Health Department are at odds over how many New Yorkers have died from the coronavirus.

The governor on Wednesday reported 25,179 COVID-related fatalities in New York State.

But the state Health Department said in issuing an emergency directive on Wednesday that more than 32,000 Empire State residents have died from the killer bug.

The bulk of those — easily over a third — were killed when Governor Cuomo mandated that hot Wuhan-19 patients be placed in nursing facilities containing the elderly, a group of individuals least capable of fending off such a virus, in facilities poorly staffed, poorly equipped, and in many homes where ten or more weak, elderly patients may occupy one room.

We’ve worried about vaccinations. Would they be effective? What would be placed in them? Trackers — which, by the way, is technologically possible and is being considered for Africa? And would they be mandatory?

What if you said no?

From News10SanDiego.com:

States have authority to fine or jail people who refuse coronavirus vaccine, attorney says

by Derek Staahl, 8-7-20

Legal precedent dates back to 1905

As drugmakers race to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus, several legal questions are emerging: could the government require people to get it? Could people who refuse to roll up their sleeves get banned from stores or lose their jobs?

The short answer is yes, according to Dov Fox, a law professor and the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego.

“States can compel vaccinations in more or less intrusive ways,” he said in an interview. “They can limit access to schools or services or jobs if people don’t get vaccinated. They could force them to pay a fine or even lock them up in jail.”

What if technically it’s “not mandatory,” but you won’t be allowed into grocery stores until you’re “proven clean by way of vaccine”? You won’t be allowed into banks? You won’t be allowed into stores? Repair personnel can’t come to your home until you’re “proven clear by way of vaccine”?

Although states would have the authority to mandate vaccinations, there’s more doubt about whether Congress could enact a federal requirement.

The most likely federal vaccination requirement would come in the form of a tax penalty, but Fox said given the current composition of the Supreme Court, a federal vaccine requirement would likely be found unconstitutional.

ANOTHER reason that having reasonable jurists on SCOTUS is an imperative.

And:

A coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory, and tax penalties, higher insurance premiums, and denial of many government and private services ought to be considered for those refusing the shot, two doctors and an attorney argued in USA Today on Thursday.

What about masks? You’ve all heard the shrill Karen Army of Mask Nazis. Here’s an article from Fee.org:

Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19

by Jon Miltimore,, 8-6-20

The top medical experts in the world can’t decide if masks are helpful in reducing the spread of COVID-19 or just make things worse.

Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year.

Despite this success, Danish leaders recently found themselves on the defensive. The reason is that Danes aren’t wearing face masks, and local authorities for the most part aren’t even recommending them.

This prompted Berlingske, the country’s oldest newspaper, to complain that Danes had positioned themselves “to the right of Trump.”

“The whole world is wearing face masks, even Donald Trump,” Berlingske pointed out.

This apparently did not sit well with Danish health officials. They responded by noting there is little conclusive evidence that face masks are an effective way to limit the spread of respiratory viruses.

Ouch. That’s gotta hurt.

Dutch public health officials recently explained why they’re not recommending masks.

“From a medical point of view, there is no evidence of a medical effect of wearing face masks, so we decided not to impose a national obligation,” said Medical Care Minister Tamara van Ark.

I’m sure you heard of this story and the state of Denmark, right? No? What about Dr Fauci’s position in March?

In late February, early March, here’s what the CDC said:

Some more truth.

I’d like to take this point to illuminate some disparities. Despite having the strictest mask mandates in the United States, Hawaii has seen Wuhan-19 cases explode.

On the other hand, look at Africa. Look at South Africa. Everyone expected Wuhan-19 to have its way with the entire continent, to turn it into a massive quagmire of infections and death. No such thing. I believe there are a number of reasons why, not just one.

Hydroxychloroquine is still prescribed there against Malaria. There aren’t many old folks. People live together in many places, cheek-to-jowl in conditions are not the finest in terms of sanitation. Part of that creates an inherent immunity against much of what the rest of the world faces. People may already have various degrees of immunity against the Rona.

In America, we’ve dropped our immunities. We scrub and wash and sanitize with hundreds of different and available liquids and gels. Kids stay inside. They don’t interact with the outdoors like they used to. I submit that, as a culture, we’re not building up and reinforcing our immunities. Parents think they’re “doing good.” I submit they may not be.

As I wrote: “It’s called an IMMUNE SYSTEM. Try using it. You were issued one. You either killed it or you kept it warm.”

Then there was this bombshell from the CDC:

New CDC report says 94% of COVID deaths had underlying conditions, only 6% died from COVID alone

by Adam Ford, 8-30-20

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new report detailing how many COVID-19 deaths in America also involved other underlying health conditions.

According to the report, only 6% of the COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. list COVID-19 as the only cause of death. 94% of COVID-19 deaths involved at least one other underlying health condition, and on average involved “2.6 additional conditions or causes of death.”

That too was removed from sight by the American Media Maggots, who can be counted on, like cats, to cover up shit that doesn’t fulfill and enhance their anti-Trump agendas of “Trumpf über alles enterfernen.”

Leftists, Demorats and American Media Maggots all labeled that as twisted, skewed bullshit. Funny thing, though. Minnesota State Senator, Dr Scott Jensen, already spoke about the official CDC Wuhan-19 death guidelines back in April — and the financial incentives involved. Financial. Incentives.

Then there’s this from AIER.org. Guaranteed you haven’t heard of this article, because the first paragraph says it all and wouldn’t be tolerated.

The Virus Doesn’t Care about Your Policies

by Jeffrey Tucker, 8-25-20

Based on the data, there seems to be no relationship between lockdowns and lives saved. That’s remarkable, given that we know for sure that lockdowns have destroyed economies the world over.

Every epidemic model being flung around in March built in the assumption that lockdowns would control the virus. In the early days, it was about preserving hospital capacity. Later it became a general principle: slow the spread. The methods were the same in nearly every country. Ban large gatherings. Close schools. Shutter businesses. Enforce stay-home orders. Mandate human separation. Masks. Travel restrictions.

Nothing like this has been tried in the whole history of humanity, certainly not on this scale. You might suppose, then, there was absolute certainty that there would be a causal relationship between lockdowns and the trajectory of the virus. Just as the FDA doesn’t approve a drug unless it is proven to be safe and effective, one might suppose the same would be true for a policy that shattered every routine and trampled human rights in the name of disease mitigation.

Surely! It turns out that this is not the case. It was pure speculation that lockdowns would suppress this virus, and that speculation was based on a hubristic presumption of the awesome power and intelligence of government managers.

Who by their very nature, are not intelligent. They are, however, political. And remember:

“In an election year, everything is about the election.”

For five months, governments all over the world have been freaking out, ordering people around to do this and that, passing mandate after mandate, and yet there is no evidence that any of it matters to the virus.

Already in mid-April questions arose. Prof Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Security Studies program at Tel Aviv University and the chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, looked at the data around the world and concluded that the virus comes and goes after 70 days regardless of the policies deployed. He found no relationship at all between locking down and transmission and death.

Fast forward to mid-July. Data scientists investigated the experience from the spring. They too found no relationship between the virus and policy. Putting it very bluntly: “Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.”

That’s awesome to consider. Billions of lives fundamentally altered. Economies wrecked. Centuries-old traditions of liberty and law thrown out. Police states everywhere. And to what end? The data indicate it was all for naught. Apparently, you cannot control a virus with state policies. The virus just doesn’t seem to care.

Tucker concludes:

At some point, we are going to have to throw in the towel. Whether a country locks down or stays open has as much predictive power over deaths per million as whether it rains today is related to the color of my socks. Or whether hurricanes are controlled by literacy rates.

In other words, the claim that lockdowns control viruses is pseudoscience or magical thinking of a deeply dangerous sort; it wrecks economies and lives.

To be sure, there are plenty of studies claiming that lockdowns saved lives but the high-profile ones are model-based extrapolations that presume the existence of a relationship that the facts do not seem to back up. If there is a broad-based research study using real data that demonstrates something life-saving about destroying rights and liberties in the name of virus control, I’ve yet to see it. (A disagreeing reader sends me this paper, which you are free to read and consider.)

Meanwhile, we are overwhelmed with evidence that it was all pointlessly destructive. Liberty means the practice of health and wealth; lockdowns lead to exactly what D.A. Henderson predicted: catastrophe.

Australia, the land of freedom since 1996, says this about hydroxychloroquine.

Then this unique video from Australia.

Plus: what’s really being done in Australia. The government is creating a DNA database that is being shared to China.

And this notation.

Worldometers coronavirus page shows 99% of known cases worldwide (which are only a percentage of actual cases, btw) defined as “mild,” with 1% being “serious or critical.” After a rougher start, the death rate is now approaching that of the flu. Why is everyone still panicking?

From WSJ.com:

Covid-19 Cases, Death Rates Are Declining Six Months Into Pandemic

by Jon Kamp and Sarah Krouse, 9-9-20

Medical experts warn against complacency, with some forecasters saying the U.S. Covid-19 death toll could more than double by Jan. 1

The U.S. is catching its breath after a punishing six months of the coronavirus pandemic, with the daily death toll from Covid-19 declining in the wake of summertime outbreaks in Sunbelt states like Florida and Texas.

Still, public health authorities and researchers are warning Americans not to let their guard down. The confluence of students mixing once again in classrooms, colder weather in places like the Northeast and fatigue from long-running pandemic isolation threatens to trigger more cases while driving the deaths…

The WSJ can’t afford to let you feel too good — there has to be the Death Hammer in there, some place. But notice the current trend:

The American Media Maggots keep mentioning cases cases cases cases.

That’s just about immaterial. Tell me about the hospitalizations, the lack of beds, and the deaths. Oh wait. You’re predominantly not hearing about that. It’s because deaths are going down.

Nor, again, are you hearing about the related deaths from suicides, mental illness, the ruination of individuals, families, businesses. But not big corporations. Oh no. Walmart? Doing just fine. Amazon? Doing just fine. Media corporations? Doing just fine.

Politicians and bureaucrats? Doing just fine. Not one job lost. Not one meal missed.

OPEN. AMERICA. UP.

And as opposed to Joe Biden, who said 200 million Americans died from Coronavirus, Dr Fauci said President Trump saved lives.

According to presidential candidate Joe Biden, over half of America is now dead, from Wuhan-19.

Then the good doctor weighs in again. But is anyone listening? No. Anyone on the Republican side? No. Republicans gathering en masse to protest mail-in ballots, which are designed to clog the system and derail the presidential election? No.

Fauci says there is ‘no reason’ Americans can’t vote in person in November

by Brooke Singman, 8-14-20

Infectious disease expert says it’ll be safe to cast ballots in person if voters follow social distancing guidelines

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week there is “no reason” Americans can’t vote in person for the 2020 presidential election, so long as voters follow proper social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Biden just voted in person. Folks, if Joe Biden can vote in person, anyone can vote in person.

OPEN. AMERICA. UP.

Close to 1,000 German doctors are questioning the WHO. Everyone should.

“We will not, we cannot go back to the way things were. The Covid-19 pandemic has given new impetus to the need to accelerate efforts to respond to climate change.”

– WHO Director Tedros Adhanom

Wuhan-19 isn’t about a “vaccine.” It’s about WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION & FLEECING YOU.

The CDC also wrote:

“Because the general public has not received training on proper selection and use of respiratory PPE, it cannot be certain whether respiratory PPE worn during contact with an individual with COVID-19 infection protected them from exposure.”

They don’t know.

OPEN. AMERICA. UP.

I can’t embed, but listen to this concerning Bill Gates and Dr Anthony Fauci.

And here is a tale of two governors, Ron DeSantis of Florida, and Gavin Newsom of Kalifornia.

OPEN. AMERICA. UP.

From Revolver.news:

Revolver Exclusive Study: COVID-19 Lockdowns Over 10 Times More Deadly Than Pandemic Itself

8-31-20

A groundbreaking new study commissioned by Revolver News concludes that COVID-19 lockdowns are ten times more deadly than the actual COVID-19 virus in terms of years of life lost by American citizens.

Up until this point there had been no simple, rigorous analysis that accurately and definitively conveys the true costs of the COVID-19 lockdowns. Accordingly, Revolver News set out to commission a study to do precisely that: to finally quantify the net damage of the lockdowns in terms of a metric known as “life-years.” Simply put, we have drawn upon existing economic studies on the health effects of unemployment to calculate an estimate of how many years of life will have been lost due to the lockdowns in the United States, and have weighed this against an estimate of how many years of life will have been saved by the lockdowns. The results are nothing short of staggering, and suggest that the lockdowns will end up costing Americans over 10 times as many years of life as they will save from the virus itself.

Read the rest of the article for more.

But Joe Biden says:

I repeat: 99.5% of people will not be hospitalized or die from Wuhan-19. And yet we’re bankrupting people, ruining families, killing businesses and geometrically increasing suicides.

OPEN. AMERICA. UP.

Even the New York Times revealed:

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be.

by Apoorva Mandavilli, 8-29-20

The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.

Some of the nation’s leading public health experts are raising a new concern in the endless debate over coronavirus testing in the United States: The standard tests are diagnosing huge numbers of people who may be carrying relatively insignificant amounts of the virus.

But wait. I thought it was all about “cases,” why we’re doomed. What if the “cases” aren’t really bad cases after all? What if they’re pretty much negligible?

The New York Post gets into questioning things.

It’s now looking like the lockdowns may have been a huge mistake

by Michael Barrone, 9-6-20

Were lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.

Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I’ve noted, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans, between 0.04 percent and 0.07 percent of the nation’s population. The 1968-70 Hong Kong flu killed about 100,000, 0.05 percent of the population.

The US coronavirus death toll of 186,000 is 0.055 percent of the current population. It will go higher, but it’s about the same magnitude as those two flus, and it has been less deadly to those under 65 than the flus were. Yet there were no statewide lockdowns; no massive school closings; no closings of office buildings and factories, restaurants and museums. No one considered shutting down Woodstock.

So what changed? American Media Maggot-driven Fear Porn against President Trump.

The anti-lockdown blogger (and former New York Times reporter) Alex Berenson makes a powerful case that lockdowns delayed, rather than prevented, infections.

There are old lessons here. Governments can sometimes channel but never entirely control nature. There is no way to entirely eliminate risk. Attempts to reduce one risk may increase others. Amid uncertainty, people make mistakes. Like, maybe, the lockdowns.

Dr Mark McDonald continues to tell the truth about hydroxychloroquine.

From JustTheNews.com:

Stanford expert blasts COVID lockdown failures: ‘We quarantined the healthy … exposed the sick’

by Daniel Payne, 9-10-20

Stanford Professor Jay Bhattacharya talks “disastrous decision” of loading COVID patients into nursing homes, failing to follow pandemic playbook.

Citizens and public authorities fixated on society-wide lockdowns as a key measure to combat COVID-19 have failed to account for the devastating effects those measures can have on society as a whole, a Stanford professor of medicine says.

Jay Bhattacharya, the director of Stanford’s Program on Medical Outcomes as well as the director of the school’s Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging, said in an interview this week on the John Solomon Reports podcast that he found it “shocking” that, as countless countries earlier this year moved to shut down ahead of COVID-19, so many had forgotten to “think about both the cost and benefits” of such policies.

“Country after country made the same decision with a couple of exceptions,” Bhattacharya said. “And I think that was a major problem.”

The professor said the global community largely abandoned the playbooks followed during earlier pandemics, instead “jump[ing] to a global lockdown.”

Bhattacharya alluded to the policies in states such as New York and Pennsylvania that instructed nursing homes to accept COVID-19-positive patients, decisions which critics have claimed led to a significantly elevated death rate in nursing homes.

“We essentially, in effect, exposed people who were at high risk in nursing homes, in assisted care facilities, elderly populations,” Bhattacharya said. “We essentially, in the early days of the epidemic, did the inverse of the right policy.”

“We quarantined the healthy, and we exposed the sick,” he added.

Eventually, some good news unwittingly seeped out.

U.S. COVID-19 Cases Fall 15% in Past Week, Deaths Down for Four Weeks

by Reuters, 9-14-20

(REUTERS) – THE NUMBER of new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the United States fell 15% last week from the previous seven days, and deaths fell for a fourth week in a row, according to a Reuters analysis.

The United States reported on average about 35,000 new cases each day in the week ended Sept. 13, marking the eighth straight week of declines from a peak in July of about 70,000 new cases a day. On average, more than 735 people a day died from COVID-19 last week, with fatalities declining in California and Texas and holding steady in Florida.

THEN: what we suspected was confirmed. From someone who ought to know. CHINA IS OUR ENEMY.

Covid-19 “genetically engineered to target humans”

by Ana Mico, 9-16-20

Li-Meng Yan and her team of researchers published a 26-page document laying out how Covid-19 could have been developed artificially in Chinese labs.

Li-Meng Yan, the Chinese virologist who has been in hiding in the US after claiming that the Chinese authorities not only knew about the novel coronavirus long before the first cases were officially reported in Wuhan last December but who has also suggested Covid-19 was created in a Chinese military laboratory has published with her team of researchers a 26-page document laying out her theory that the pandemic sweeping the world is not of natural origin.

Yan and her team published their findings on Zenodo in a report entitled “Unusual Features of the SARS CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route.”

I could make a very good case for: this is war. On a planetary scale.

And the skewed statistics aren’t stopping.

Coronavirus testing at Boston lab suspended after nearly 400 false positives

by Minyvonne Burke, 9-9-20

An investigation by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found that there were at least 383 erroneous positive results.

A Boston lab suspended coronavirus testing after an investigation uncovered nearly 400 false positive COVID-19 results.

Orig3n, a biotechnology company which counts dozens of nursing homes as its clients, ceased testing on Aug. 8 at the request of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The suspension came days after state health officials became aware of an unusually high number of positive coronavirus tests.

An investigation found that there were at least 383 inaccurate positive results from the lab that, upon re-testing, came back as negative.

And just in case you didn’t think the CDC was incompetent — here’s more incompetence.

CDC Says Aerosol Guidance Was “Posted in Error” to Website

by Ryan Chatelain, 9-21-20

ATLANTA — On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their guidelines to say that the coronavirus can be spread through tiny respiratory droplets called aerosols that can linger in the indoor air.

But, according to reports from The Washington Post and CNBC, the CDC now says that it was posted on its website in error.

So. Either the CDC was lying then. Or they’re lying now. My. I’m confident.

Here are the facts we’d best get used to: we’ll never know. We’ll never know precisely how many people were hospitalized behind Wuhan-19. We’ll never know precisely how many people were killed strictly behind Wuhan-19.

And we’ll only be able to guesstimate how many people had their work lives destroyed, their businesses destroyed, and how many people committed suicide behind being locked up in their homes and all of the other associated physical and mental issues.

Because we’re so much smarter today. Or are we? The whole point of this post is to ask questions and, moreover, to LEARN SOMETHING from this massively-costly and unnecessarily-deadly experience itself.

To date, what have we learned?

This:

Wuhan-19 lockdowns have little if anything to do with actual science.

They, however, have everything to do with politics and impeding the re-election of President Donald John Trump, OMB, the guy with the dead orange cat on his head.

Period.

BZ

P.S.

Then there is this.

For my final illustration, I refer to the NYPost.com — a situation I can guarantee you heard nothing of because the job of the American Media Maggots is to protect the Demorat Party — the Club of Original Racism — and all of its aligned anarchist elements.

COVID-19 patient was black and paralyzed, so doctors decided his life wasn’t worth saving

by Charles Camosy, 7-10-20
Last month, a disabled, 46-year-old African American man was euthanized without his consent or that of his wife. But rather than exploding amid our racial-justice moment, the story hardly yielded a peep from those who control our national discourse.
In 2017, Michael Hickson suffered a brain injury that left him paralyzed. Still, he was able to enjoy many activities: having books read to him, listening to music, answering trivia questions. He had memory problems, but he recalled his birthday and Social Security number with ease. Michael was leading the kind of life many people with disabilities do: not without difficulties but intrinsically valuable and dignified.
Then Michael contracted COVID-19 and was admitted to St. David’s Medical Center of South Austin, Texas. A disagreement over his care led to medical decision-making being taken away from his wife and given to the state and his medical team.

Michael Hickson. This is a human being. Covid made him nothing.

And I include the photo because it makes the situation even more obvious, striking and despicable.

Michael didn’t do well and needed intensive care. His wife, Melissa, apparently did not trust his medical team and decided to (legally) record the exchange she had with her husband’s doctor.
As the recording shows, they agreed that Michael should not be intubated, but Melissa still wanted Michael to be treated aggressively. The doctor insisted aggressive treatment wouldn’t “help him improve” and “right now, his quality of life . . . he doesn’t have much of one.”
Melissa was taken aback: “What do you mean?” she asked. “Because he’s paralyzed with a brain injury, he doesn’t have quality of life?”
“Correct,” the doctor flatly replied.
Pressed further by Melissa, who admirably kept her cool, the doctor admitted he’d had three patients survive who were in Michael’s situation but claimed her husband’s case “doesn’t fit those three.”

I apologize to the author — please note: Charles Camosy — but the significance of his story is such that it deserves to be printed and read in its entirety.

Michael’s “quality of life is different from theirs,” she was told. The others “were walking and talking people.”
Melissa tried to respond, but the doctor had had enough. “I don’t mean to be frank or abrasive, but at this point, we are going to do what we feel is best for him along with the state, and this is what we decided.”
Melissa did get in one last shot by telling him that this was a decision to kill her husband. And she had good reason to think so: Giving her husband food, water, oxygen and medicine would have not been burdensome treatment. And Michael may have beaten the odds.
The hospital had plenty of space for him. The issue, the doctor made clear, was Michael’s disability. The state and the hospital decided that they shouldn’t try to save someone with his disabilities.

Read that again: The hospital had plenty of space for him. The issue, the doctor made clear, was Michael’s disability. The state and the hospital decided that they shouldn’t try to save someone with his disabilities.

After pro-life journalists broke the story on June 26, the National Council on Disability publicly called on the federal Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the hospital for violating Michael’s civil rights.
“When a medical facility makes a decision to deny medical care to a person with a disability that is based on, or influenced by, biased views about life with a disability, it runs afoul of federal civil rights laws,” the group said.
Yet when the Washington Post, a paper otherwise all in on outing structural racism, picked up the story, it framed Melissa’s claims skeptically and credulously accepted the hospital’s word that “it wasn’t possible to save” Michael and that none of its decisions was made on the basis of his disability.
Sorry, but the recording was clear: An ­institution with power over Michael’s very life had deemed it a life unworthy of life.

But wait; there’s always more.

Owing to structural health disparities, many African Americans have a justified fear of being treated like “throwaway people” in a clinical setting, particularly when it comes to so-called “end-of-life” decisions.
And because doctors are often ableist in their assumptions, the vulnerability of African American patients are magnified when they are disabled. Health providers consistently rate the quality of life of their disabled patients worse than the patients themselves.
When confronted with the fact that patients generally prefer length of life to quality of life, many physicians find themselves “surprised” and admit: “We think we know what is best for a patient, but this is often wrong.” It’s appalling.
If you care about racial justice, remember Michael Hickson. Say his name. Tell his story.

Due to an issue, not of his making, Michael Hickson was euthanized because he contracted Coronavirus while disabled. Recall:

In 2017, Michael Hickson suffered a brain injury that left him paralyzed. Still, he was able to enjoy many activities: having books read to him, listening to music, answering trivia questions. He had memory problems, but he recalled his birthday and Social Security number with ease.

And so here we go. Why should Michael Hickson live? How productive is he going to be? Shouldn’t we just let him die?

Great words, because it’s no longer a question. He’s no longer a “problem.” He’s just dead.

Aren’t you proud America? Isn’t this what you want, Demorats? Leftists? Winnowing the field? Culling the herd?

Introducing the most virulent disease of 2020 into nursing facilities, mandating by law that those persons infected with Wuhan-19 be placed into buildings containing, in small rooms, those Americans with the least possible physical ability to fight off the Wuhan-19 virus, America’s elderly — and being shocked when almost 50% of American deaths from the virus are in fact from nursing homes?

Where, oh, by the way, the staffs are the least trained — and possess the least amount of proper equipment?

Ezekiel Emanual: death boards. No one should live over the age of 75. And the unborn and just-born should be killed as well.

Michael Hickson was not a chunk of flesh. He was responsive and he was aware. He caught a virus. So he was euthanized. Like a dog, or a horse with a broken leg.

This is August of 2020.

But THIS is where we are as a nation?

In MEDICINE? In GOVERNMENT?

And still people lie to you, and me, day after day after day.

This is how we do things — in the United States of America — in September of 2020.

BZ

 

 

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