[News with Views] The CDC is over inflating coronavirus death numbers. They freely admit this and many people in the United States still believe and act as if the U.S. coronavirus death count is legitimate, because this is what the CDC reports. If the CDC reports it, it therefore must be true, is the logic.
This mentality reminds me of a few scenes from the sci-fi satirical movie Idiocracy. Five hundred years in the future, human beings had become imbecilically stupid and were unable to critically think. Big businesses had taken over the U.S. government and economy, and had programmed and controlled people’s minds. Food giant Brawndo had bought and controlled the FDA and the FCC, just as Bill Gates and other globalists have bought and controlled the CDC and the WHO. Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson), the lead character in the movie, was tasked with saving U.S. crops, which had failed to grow, but he first had to convince the people that Brawndo was killing the crops and the plants needed water to grow. That proved to be a difficult task, because the people had been programmed to believe what they had always been told, "Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes."
At the onset on the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, President Trump voiced his concern that the lockdowns and the effect that it would have on the nation shouldn’t be worse than the disease itself. It has been. A devastated economy, closed businesses, and many lives ruined and put on hold was the result of the lockdown ’cure.’ Does any critical thinking person actually believe that the lockdowns have saved even one life in America?
"The cure can’t be worse than the disease" has in fact, turned out to be a double entendre. Many people who have gone to hospitals, either to be merely tested for COVID-19 or to seek treatment, have died or have become partially disabled. It is not coronavirus that is killing people, it’s the treatment for coronavirus that is killing people.
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It is not coronavirus that is killing people, it’s the treatment for coronavirus that is killing people.
I said something similar in regards to facemasks to a guy in the grocery store yesterday. I said I probably not going to die from CV-19 but more likely from wearing the mask. He said, yeah, a person doesn't get enough oxygen. It occurred to me that a person wearing a mask is breathing his/her own exhaled breath over and over, which is largely CO2 and not O2.
[AspenBeat] The studies I cited above suggest that a better way to preserve and enhance literally millions of black lives is for their fathers to be married to their mothers when they grow up, as my father was married to my mother. How about a culture among black men where not just their lives matter, but also their wives?
We once had a president who was uniquely qualified to speak to this issue. Although he was biracial, he identified as black which was the race of his absent father. But instead of leading his people out of the wilderness, he pandered to them. He wanted to be black more than he wanted to be a man.
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"My baby! Why isn't he breathing?
Can't be cuz young black men are teething
On bones of their brothers
While moaning at others...
Oh, whuffo my raisin was seething?"
Kurt at TownHall
I want to know the name of one single voter who cried out, "Take that, Columbus Day! And now that Fort Benning is known as Fort Diversity Rainbow Unicorn, I shall cast my ballot proudly for the generic GOP stooge who helped make that happen because when my country is burning and I am under attack, I want to be represented by people whose first inclination is to suck up to the Democrats!"
What’s this guy’s name, GOP geniuses? Who is this mystery voter you are courting at the expense of people otherwise inclined to support you? I’d like to meet him, and to sell him a bridge.
Here’s the thing you do when you want to win an election, and I can’t believe I have to tell the GOP’s pols this but apparently I do. You do things the people who might possibly vote for you want done. You don’t sit around in a circle of jerks trying to please the people who hate your guts.
...People keep telling you GOP-types to shape up. Tucker Carlson’s ratings are reaching low earth orbit thanks to his merciless pillorying of you empty suits. Maybe you should listen to the voters instead of the overpaid doofuses you are paying a ton of money to in order to lose your elections for you. It’s not hard to not fail. It’s not hard to help your voters instead of your opponents. The Democrats manage to do it, and they’re a pack of brother-marrying, pinko weirdos who think men get periods and that the Russians are to blame for everything, including their myriad sexual inadequacies.
...You want to be "reasonable" — stop that! Get woke! This is not about reason but about power, and you simps are staggering into the world’s most obvious ambush. ... But even if changing base names did not implicitly and falsely indict my three Fort Benning diplomas (Officer Candidate School, Airborne, and Infantry Advanced Course) as badges of oppression instead of symbols of freedom — as well as those of millions of other veterans — I would still be against changing any base names or holidays now because you never, ever negotiate with a gun to your head.
...Stop doing stupid things, Republicans!
We want you to protect us from the coordinated attack upon us, not tongue-bathe the attackers. Do you need some suggestions on how that involves protecting us instead of kissing liberal Lieu?
Strip all federal money from colleges that fail to actively protect free speech.
Tax college endowments. Let’s lance the boil that is academia!
Target Big Tech targeting of, and discrimination against, free speech. Strip Section 230 protection from any tech company that bans speech otherwise protected by the First Amendment, and pass an "Internet Bill of Rights" that allows consumers to sue tech companies for oppressing them (Want some help drafting it? Have your people call my people).
Ban corporate discrimination on the basis of politics so that our ability to function in society is not at the mercy of big corporations that have adopted the ideology of a mid-wit Goucher College collectivist phrenology major.
Remove all federal aid from cities that refuse to protect the rights of citizens by allowing Democrat catspaw radicals to run rampant and go unpunished.
Make attacks on cops for being cops a federal hate crime.
Make it a federal crime to block a federal interstate and to threaten or restrain drivers. Clarify that blocking a vehicle is a threat to the life and safety of the passengers and ensure that accelerating to escape this kind of attack is presumptively legitimate self-defense. And give those inconvenienced the right to sue for damages for being delayed.
Pass a "National Self-Defense Against Political Violence Act" to protect our ability to use force to defend ourselves against rioters, thugs, and other Democrats. Soros-bought local DAs released criminals but threaten patriots should we exercise our civil right not to be brutalized. Take that travesty off the table.
Hiding in the middle of the formation, hoping not to be seen or heard. Most are divorced from their former constituencies. They are beltway eunuchs who are insulated with vast sums of money and intricate E&E (escape and evasion) plans.
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Politicians in times of stress and conflict will always appease. It will be patriots who will save this country. Problem is that we are a year behind. Antifa and BLM have been busy organizing while Washington DC dithers.
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They don't call them the party of stupid for nothing.
Stupid? Hardly! The GOP is the Party of We Sold Out for money. And, or, We are so heavily compromised we have to do as we are told.
PJ via Instapundit
Last week, a new peer-reviewed study of hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness at treating the coronavirus was published*, and it found that the drug significantly reduced mortality rates. *Arshad, S., Kilgore, P., Chaudhry, Z. S., Jacobsen, G., Wang, D. D., Huitsing, K., ... & O’Neill, W. (2020). Treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Combination in Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19. International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
And by significantly, I mean it literally cut the mortality rate by more than half.
The study also determined that despite previous reports, there were no adverse effects on the heart.
President Trump has been touting hydroxychloroquine as a potential game-changer since mid-March after small studies showed it potentially served as an effective treatment for coronavirus patients. "I feel good about it. Just a feeling. I am a smart guy, we’ll see soon enough and we have certainly big samples of people," Trump said at the time. Since then, the media has desperately tried to undercut Trump’s positive message about hydroxychloroquine’s potential as a treatment for the coronavirus, calling it "unproven" and claiming there’s "no proof" that it works, and that certain at-risk people can die from the drug. They pounced when Dr. Anthony Fauci expressed reluctance to fully endorse the drug because there had not been clinical trials studying it’s effectiveness as a coronavirus treatment yet.
...Several studies came out linking hydroxychloroquine to a higher mortality rate. The media pounced on a U.S. Veterans Health Administration study supporting this claim, even though it wasn’t a clinical trial, but a small, non-peer-reviewed study of patients who were not representative of the entire population, and patients with severe cases of the coronavirus were also disproportionally administered the drug. A number of follow-up studies were also touted by the media as proof that the drug caused a higher rate of mortality, but then it was discovered those studies were based on bogus data, causing medical journals that published the studies to issue retractions.
...In March, Gretchen Whitmer banned the use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine to treat coronavirus patients, threatening doctors with "administrative action" if they prescribed it for that purpose. Eventually, she reversed course. Steve Sisolak, the Democrat governor of Nevada, also signed an emergency order restricting the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus.
...How many lives were lost because the Democrats and the media claimed that taking hydroxychloroquine would kill you? In May, Dr. John Giles of Columbia University told NPR that fears about hydroxychloroquine made it difficult to recruit volunteers for clinical studies. "Pretty much everybody said, ’well, that’s the drug that is dangerous to your heart,’ or ’I talked to friends and they said don’t take it,’ or ’I saw it on TV that it was dangerous,'" Giles explained. "It became almost impossible to get anyone interested."
But Giles knew these fears were unfounded. "It’s a very, very safe drug. It’s been used for over 75 years," he said.
Despite the drug being safe, Giles eventually gave up on doing his study.
He wasn’t alone. Dr. Christine Johnston at the University of Washington told NPR that volunteers felt "that the study and the drugs feel too political, and they just don’t want to participate at all."
And all this time, hydroxychloroquine has been shown to cut the death rate of the coronavirus in half.
...A Yale study published in May noted that "Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy" of hydroxychloroquine alone or hydroxychloroquine combined with azithromycin. "These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe."
...Think about this: Had Democrats cared more about saving lives than the November election, more people would have been comfortable taking hydroxychloroquine as treatment. More people would have participated in clinical trials. More people would have recovered from the coronavirus. Instead, immediately after Trump started touting the drug, he was criticized and mocked by Democrats, the media, and even government officials. They ignored studies that showed it worked, pretended not to hear anecdotal evidence from patients who were successfully treated by the drug, and told people that hydroxychloroquine could kill them.
Iblis also submitted this article, commenting, To be fair, for some the higher death rate is a feature, not a bug.
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So do the math. There are 324 million Americans. 43% get the standard flu shot. 30 to 60,000 die annually. The figure the morbidity rate off those that do not get the shot. Then go look at the morbidity rates for COVID. They look remarkedly the same. Remove the New York numbers of seniors forced to return to nursing homes and this virus is no more or less lethal than the flu.
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Flu doesn’t rip through a nursing home killing 30%.
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