An Inconvenient Truth

An inconvenient truth, this one real, has been, alas, let out of the bag by another Tennessean.

After the bombshell news report out of Nashville yesterday, I wrote Tennessee Governor Bill Lee another letter, as seen below:

Governor Lee,
    I would like to know how long Tennesseans are going to be held hostage by your Executive Orders? I had hopes that you would exhibit a little more common sense than some governors in other states who only seem to want to see how much control they can exert over their citizens. Which, in states such as New York, New Jersey, Michigan, via their orders to send Covid patients into nursing homes, sentenced many others in those nursing homes with 2-3 and more serious underlying conditions to death.
     IF this Covid virus was as deadly as some would have us believe, WHY is it necessary, as I asked you before, to pad the numbers and hide them when they go lower than SOMEONE wants? Most recent case in point here in Tennessee is the Nashville Health Department in collusion with the Mayor's aide doing some of this hiding.
     To illustrate the point I also pointed out of padding numbers, I give you this. I grew up when children routinely contracted childhood diseases and developed immunity. Yes, some died, and some ALSO die from vaccines. So if a blood test on me showed antibodies to say, mumps or measles, with absolutely no other symptoms of those diseases, would I then be classified as a 'case' of mumps or measles? This is the ludicrous position health departments across the country have been taking in regard to Covid.
      Most people who can read with a modicum of understanding can see that is what is happening. Thus the resistance to taking a test, not EVEN mentioning the staggering number of false positives.
      My very strong opinion is that you should not wait until September 30 to lift these restrictions on the freedom of your constituents.

Sylvia Nickels

In case you missed the story, which if you only watch the mainstream (so called, they are far from mainstream) media's oh-so-smart anchors and reporters, you very well could have missed it. Here it is: 

And, in case you can't read it, these are emails between the Nashville/Davidson Co Health Department and one of Nashville Mayor Cooper's advisors. Apparently the numbers of 'cases' were not high enough to suit these two gentlemen so the advisor asked the question in larger type. So now we know the truth in one place. WHAT about all the others?

(Excuse the mistaken attribution in original post, please)

 

 

Questions - and No Answers

Today's post, though not the title, is courtesy of someone who calls himself E. P. Unum. Apparently a bona fide patriot and I thank him because in searching for him I came across another conservative online news service to which he seems to contribute, along with other writers of interesting, thoughtful articles.

http://arranewsservice.com/

I'm quoting only a small portion of the Unum text. You can read the entire article at the link above. It's  been reprinted elsewhere so  you can probably find it on other sites if you care to do a search. 

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5.  With so many Americans unemployed during this pandemic, why is it that our elected representatives in Congress and the Senate, as well as State Governors and City Mayors continue to receive full salaries and benefits? These people, our elected officials, made the decision to close down our economy and the jobs of millions of Americans. Why are they not held to the same standards as we the people? Why don’t they willingly forego their salaries until we defeat this assault on our nation? Maybe if they were in the same boat with the rest of us, they might be more inclined to work together developing and implementing solutions to our problems instead of continuing to have these schoolyard arguments and get nothing done?
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12.  Here are a few more questions I have:
 
    Are we being quarantined until there are no more germs left in the world or just until after the election?
    Why is it OK to stand in line at Home Depot, Wal-Mart, and Costco, but it suddenly is not safe to vote in person?
    Can someone explain to me the rationale for the teachers union objecting to teachers returning to work unless (1) police are defunded; (2)There is Medicare for all; (3) all charter and private schools are abolished and (4) 54% of all schools have their ventilation systems improved. How does any of this justify having teachers not report to work?
    When I think of Martin Luther King I try to reflect on the times he led riots in our city streets; burned down businesses; looted stores and tore down statues. Then it dawned on me…MLK never did any of those things. Yet, he changed the world! There must be a lesson in this, don’t you agree?
 
13.   If the U.S. Flag is racist, why did it drape the coffin of Congressman John Lewis? Equally, why did Nancy Pelosi deliver a folded flag to the widow of George Floyd, a convicted criminal?

16.   Under Obama the H1N1 Virus resulted in 60.8 million infections; there was zero panic level and China was blamed. Fast forward to today, there are 4.6 million cases of coronavirus reported; the panic level is one of mass hysteria covered 24/7 by the news cycle and Trump is blamed! Wonder why that is?

19.  One last remark, just in case you are wondering. I am a firm, dedicated believer in the LGBT Movement:

L iberty
G uns
B ible
T rump 

 

 

Say What? Not About My Health?

 Excerpt from

It’s Not About Your Health
By Rob Pue|May 3rd, 2020

The paragraphs below were sent to Mr. Pue and he shared them in his online newspaper, Wisconsin Christian News, and other places, reprinted by permission here. I recommend the entire article and others by him highly:

http://www.wisconsinchristiannews.com/viewall.php?cat_id=3
...Other stores that have been allowed to remain open are now requiring customers wear face masks, or they’re not allowed in at all.

Let me share something with you here that came across my desk recently…  It reads, “When the State tells you it’s safe to go to Home Depot to buy a sponge but dangerous to go and buy a flower, it’s not about your health.  When the State shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health.  When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it’s dangerous, but allows in-person lottery ticket sales, it’s not about your health.

“When the State tells you it’s dangerous to go golf alone, fish alone or be in a motor boat alone, and it’s ILLEGAL for YOU to get a haircut — but the Governor can get his stage makeup done, and hair done for five TV appearances a week, it’s not about your health.  When the State puts you IN a jail cell for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous, but lets criminals OUT of jail cells for their health — It’s not about your health!

“When the State tells you it’s too dangerous to get treated by a doctor of chiropractic or physical therapy treatments, yet deems a liquor store essential, it’s not about your health!  When the State lets you go to the grocery store or hardware store but is demanding mail-in voting, ITS NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH.  WAKE UP PEOPLE!  If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken!  Please open your eyes!  Stop being led like blind sheep.”

No it’s not about your health.  And the part about letting criminals out of jail is absolutely true — and happening nation-wide.  Inmates are being released to protect them from catching the coronavirus.  But… I thought we were all supposed to be “sheltering in place.”  I don’t know of any better way to make sure people are “sheltering in place” than by being in prison.  And yet hard-core convicts, including rapists, pedophiles and killers are being released from prisons and jails around the country, including places like Riker’s Island in New York and Cook County Jail in Chicago.  In Tampa, Florida a man was accused of shooting and killing someone the day after he was released from Hillsborough County Jail there.  This is going on all over the country.  Meanwhile, mothers of small children are hauled off to jail for the “crime” of letting their kids use the public playground.

Does ANY of this make sense to you?  A dear friend of mine asked the following questions:  “Why can you go to Walmart but not Penny’s?  Why the Dollar Store and not a mom and pop shop?  Why can’t you have an elective surgery but you can have an abortion — which is “elective?”  Why should you stay inside but yet it’s a known fact that heat and sunlight kills the virus?  What makes one person ‘essential’ and another not?  Why have most other death rates dropped during the virus?  Why did world leaders meet in New York in October 2019 for a “simulation” of a coronavirus pandemic — just a couple months before the coronavirus pandemic began?  Why are the common people being controlled by the governments and no one is controlling the government?

“Why are hospitals paid more for COVID 19 deaths?  Why does Sweden have some of the lowest cases but yet never locked down anyone at all?  Why did Anthony Fauci and Obama give the Wuhan lab $337 million dollars? What does a computer geek have to do with a pandemic? What about the “vaccine” he wants to make mandatory — and include a microchip tracking device with it for everyone on earth — BEFORE  we can “reopen America?

“Why did the CDC have a job posting for pandemic relief workers in November 2019? Why did Dr. Fauci say in 2017 that the Trump administration would be faced with a ‘SURPRISE pandemic’ and then how is it that HE is the one in charge now of the pandemic team in America?  Why are they infringing on Christians’ religious freedoms but yet Minneapolis, Minnesota is allowing muslims to install speakers in neighborhoods to do their hideous Islamic call to prayer?”

We should all be asking these questions.  As for me, I have HAD IT with this nonsense.  I’ll sooner die of “lead poisoning” than take their “mandatory” vaccine!  I also refuse to wear a mask and participate in their charade.  We’ve all been played for fools, folks.  And yes, it makes me ANGRY.  We gave the “powers that be” the benefit of a doubt for two months now, but clearly, the “virus” is nowhere near as contagious or deadly as they have claimed and yet the restrictions imposed upon us seem to get tighter and tougher with each passing day, even as fewer and fewer people are getting sick.  And the numbers NEVER DID warrant the shutdown of the entire GLOBE in the first place.  Now, hospitals from coast to coast are empty, laying off doctors, nurses and support staff.  Some facilities are closing altogether because there ARE NO patients, of any kind.
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Some Tell It Like It Is

Truncated article from Dr. Mercola website:

Dr. Mercola

(I have emphasized statements I believe are very important.)

Story at-a-glance

    In April 2020, Minnesota state senator and family physician Scott Jensen came out with a strong critique against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance for how doctors were to certify COVID-19 fatalities on the death certificate
    In July, Jensen came under investigation by the state medical board and faced disciplinary action and loss of his medical license after an anonymous complaint was filed against him, alleging he had been spreading misinformation about how death certificates are categorized during the pandemic
    July 28, 2020, Jensen announced the Minnesota Medical Board had dismissed the allegations against him
    CDC director Robert Redfield recently admitted that financial policies likely have resulted in artificially elevated hospitalization rates and death toll statistics. Brett Giroir with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department also told lawmakers the COVID-19 death statistics the HHS has been receiving from states “are over-inflated”
    Perhaps the most egregious misrepresentation of reality is the media’s conflating a positive test result with the actual disease, COVID-19. “COVID-19” refers to a clinical diagnosis of someone who exhibits severe respiratory illness characterized by fever, coughing and shortness of breath. If you test positive but are asymptomatic, you do not “have COVID-19” and should not be counted as a “COVID-19 case”

Four months ago, in early April 2020, Minnesota state senator and family physician Scott Jensen came out with a strong critique against the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance for how doctors were to certify COVID-19 fatalities on the death certificate.1

Jensen called the guidelines “ridiculous,” saying they could easily lead to unwarranted fear as it would make the disease appear deadlier than it actually is. According to the CDC guidelines:

    "In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as 'probable' or 'presumed.'"

Indeed, reporting deaths as COVID-19 deaths, without factual proof that the patient was in fact infected and actually died of the illness, is a clear manipulation of the statistics that drive up the perceived death rate.

Death Statistics Are Clearly Unreliable

In his April interview with Laura Ingraham, Jensen said:
    "The idea that we are going to allow people to massage and sort of game the numbers is a real issue because we are going to undermine the [public] trust. And right now, as we see politicians doing things that aren’t necessarily motivated on fact and science, their trust in politicians is already wearing thin."

In that interview, Jensen pointed out that according to CDC guidelines, a patient dying after being hit by a bus, who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 after death, would be reported as a COVID-19 death, regardless of the injuries sustained in the accident, and regardless of whether symptoms of COVID-19 had even been present to begin with.

“That doesn’t make any sense,” he said. We recently saw a near-identical example of this nonsensical practice in Florida, where a motorcycle accident claimed the life of a 20-something man who was subsequently listed as a COVID-19 death.
Ditto for a Florida man who died of a gunshot wound to the head, and a 77-year-old who died of Parkinson’s disease.4 According to a July 24, 2020, Washington Examiner report,5 only 169 of 581 COVID-19 deaths in Florida have COVID-19 listed as the sole contributing factor on the death certificate.

That same week, it was reported6 that the CDC website listed more than 3,700 COVID-19 deaths that also involved “intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events,” and in Texas, the death toll was reduced by more than 3,000, as they were never actually tested.

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Behind the Mask

 Hey, anybody out there know what carbon dioxide is? No? It's CO². You know, that stuff little Greta got so upset about because it  supposedly is the cause of 'global warming' that she jumped in her trusty little boat, all alone, right, and sailed to the new world to chastise people to stop causing so much of it. Why? Because so much CO² mixed with the oxygen in the atmosphere is hurting the planet? And presumably, the people on the planet?

Guess what? Our lungs breathe in that atmosphere, and hard-working organs as they are, they send the CO² back out and keep the oxygen, which feeds all the cells in our bodies. Neat, huh? Wonder Who thought of that? Never mind.

Came this dread disease, which has claimed many lives, MANY unnecessarily because an effective treatment, long on the market and allowed to be used by doctors, was denied. First the 'expert' everyone listened to said, 'masks might make you feel better, but not effective as a preventative.' Then wait, for some reason, (numbers were falling fast) the 'expert' switched, 'all must wear masks to prevent the spread.' And leaders fell into line and some 'mandated' and some 'recommended,' but people were quick to obey and 'Karens' try to shame those who refuse to comply. But the refusers have good and sufficient reasons for doing so.

Remember, oxygen in, CO² out? Well, any object, anything that covers the mouth and nose interferes with the CO² escaping and oxygen entering, slow suffocation. With masks, as we breathe, some of the CO² is sucked right back into our lungs, which displaces the life-giving oxygen. Get the picture? Yes, there are masks, PPE, personal protective equipment, that allow a slower process, but those are not the ones most people are wearing. Medical personnel wear that type to prevent contamination by droplets or other exchange between themselves and patients. Presumably, too, so they can stay alert while treating said patients.

 So what happens when you rebreathe CO²? Answer-partial hypoxia, worse for some health conditions. The first definition for hypoxia in the The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved,  is:

1. Deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues.

This deficiency can result in:

Signs and symptoms vary according to the cause. Generally they include dyspnea, rapid pulse, syncope, and mental disturbances such as delirium or euphoria. Cyanosis (blue tint to skin) is not always present and in some cases is not evident until the hypoxia is far advanced. The localized pain of angina pectoris occurs because of impaired oxygenation of the myocardium.

 (Hmmm, that's why individuals with this condition, as well as asthma, etc., are given a pass from wearing a mask? The rest of us must just deal with it?)

Discoloration of the skin and eventual ulceration that sometimes accompany varicose veins are a result of hypoxia of the involved tissues.

 dyspnea

breathlessness or shortness of breath; labored or difficult breathing. It is a sign of a variety of disorders and is primarily an indication of inadequate ventilation or of insufficient amounts of oxygen in the circulating blood.  Adj: dyspne´ic.

 syncope

fainting, passing out

A last observation. Odd that the most used supposed preventative (mask) for a disease, one of whose main symptoms is shortness of breath, can also cause the very same thing. If a person is in hospital they may be put on a ventilator, and patients on ventilators have brought millions of dollars to hospitals from the federal government.

Monday Musings-Thank You

The column below is one I'll probably pull out periodically, or rewrite, maybe. We so seldom give thanks to those who make our lives better. Beginning with those closest to us, family, friends. Too often familiarity breeds a lack of thoughtfulness. We know, at least us fortunate ones, they'll always have our back. It might not always be in the way we want. Sometimes hard truths must be shared. To support someone indiscrimiately, whether what they do is in their own best interest, let alone anyone else's good, is rightly called enabling. And sometimes it's hard to resist when we love someone. That's probably material for another time.

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   Two little words. But they pack a punch. I regret that I am often remiss in speaking them in a timely manner. I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions, but I am resolved to do better in this area.
   Many years ago in high school, three of my classes were general business, typing, and bookkeeping, taught by the same teacher, Miss Gwen Gatewood. As an adult, in work and home life (balancing checkbook, price comparisons), I realized that those three classes had been priceless. I wrote Miss Gatewood to thank her. She replied thanking me. I only saw her a few times after high school, a couple of class reunions and my mother’s funeral, but I will always remember her. Without guilt, because I thanked her. 
   I had to drive  to Johnson City several times daily some years ago. Each Christmas a business along the highway which made and sold custom plastic awnings displayed an enclosure made of translucent awning fabric lit from within. Printed on the fabric was a manger scene in silhouette and the words, God with us. Each time I drove past the business, the sight cheered me even though I was working long hours with few days off and having trouble finding the ‘Merry’ in Christmas. I wanted to thank the owner and mailed a Christmas card to the business.
   Thanking God for life and health goes without saying, and often does, unfortunately. On a human level we all owe thanks to major groups of people for their contributions to a mostly peaceful, safe and comfortable existence in this United States. Our volunteer military forces are not compensated enough nor thanked enough. Nor our civilian police forces who also stand ready to put lives on the line to protect us. We may gripe about a speeding ticket but is anarchy preferable? That’s what we would have without that ‘thin blue line’ to enforce civil laws. 
   Other civilian groups we don’t thank enough are our utility workers - electric, water, both essentials to modern life. When nature runs amok, winter and summer, most are urged to stay home, but these men and women are called out to restore electricity and keep the water running.
So hats off to our many unsung heroes, you are appreciated, though we don’t say it enough.

   Winter is coming on and with it possible times of weather emergencies, after several periods of such this past summer, with summer storms and hurricanes. So it probably behooves us to thank those who stand ready to help all year round.