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Now, the Mask Wearing People had faces with masks.
The Open Face People refused and held fast.

Those masks did no good, ‘cause the virus is small.
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.

But, because they had masks, all the Mask Wearing People
Would brag, “We’re the kindest of all the Townsheeple!”

With their snoots in the air, they would sniff and they’d snort,
“We’ll have nothing to do with the Open Face sort!”

And, whenever they met some, when they were out walking,
They’d bitch and they’d moan, squealing and squawking.

When the Mask Wearing People went out to the mall,
Could an Open Face enter the store? Not at all.

You only could shop if your faces had masks.
Still the Open Face People refused and held fast.

The liberal despots demanded compliance.
“Cover your faces!” In the name of fake science.

They lied and they threatened, without hesitation.
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IF I WERE to slap myself in astonishment every time I met someone who actually believes the criminally deceptive Covid-19 numbers in the news — the surges, the new cases, the rising death toll — I would be dead of brain injury in a few weeks.

Many, many people, even otherwise intelligent people, swill these lying statistics like binge drinkers in Fort Lauderdale downing strawberry daiquiris during spring break.

“Gee, honey, they say deaths are up to 150,000. We’ll have to stay in for another five months. But, don’t worry, we can watch the news all day to pass the time.”

One friend is planning to have virtually no social contact until a vaccine is released. He probably has a greater chance of dying of the vaccine than Covid-19, but nothing can shake his conviction that we are living through the Black Plague.

I asked him if he knew anyone who had been sick or died of the illness. He knew one woman in her 30s who experienced a flu, and recovered.

“And I know a man who was perfectly healthy and working. Two weeks later, he was dead.”

I asked him how old the man was.

“Ninety-one,” he said, with a poker-straight face.

I kid you not.

People will believe what they will believe.

For the skeptics who have not succumbed to the scam or emotion, The Anti-New York Times today offers a brilliantly succinct and comprehensive summary of just how the statistics and, in many cases, the deaths themselves, are manipulated. Thank you, Mike King, for this great summary. (He unfortunately buys the wild idea that this is a conspiracy against Trump and Republicans. As I said, people will believe what they will believe.):

THE FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF FRAUD

1. Cases Diagnosed by “Symptoms” and “Presumption”

Hospitals and nursing homes are – as per CDC directives – allowed to diagnose cases “by symptoms” and still receive their per case Covid commission checks. How many cases of pneumonia, influenza, COPD etc. were diagnosed as “presumed” Stupid-19, “by symptoms” such as fever or difficulty breathing? Answer: Lots!

From the CDC’s own bloody website / Q&A: Read More »

DR. Richard Levine is the “Health Secretary” of Pennsylvania who goes by the name “Rachel Levine” and openly impersonates a woman. This might seem like a sick joke, but it’s true. Imagine someone who can’t read being the Education Secretary, and you get the absurdity of it. He doesn’t recognize basic and obvious facts of biology, but is a top ranking, state health official. That says much about our government and the willingness of Americans to swallow open lies.

This week, Dr. Levine, who has brought Pennsylvania under inane, unconstitutional and punishing restrictions, complained about the “transphobic” attacks against him during his Covid drag queen rule. The elderly languish under ongoing quarantine, Pennsylvanians continue to absorb the mass trauma they have experienced, the fearful barely see the light of day, businesses are folding because of his directives, but Levine is ticked off that others have noticed the most obvious thing about him:

Levine spent the first four minutes of a COVID-19 briefing addressing recent discrimination she said she has faced because she is a transgender woman.

A dunk tank at the Bloomsburg Fair, menu items and Facebook posts have mocked Levine’s gender identity.

“I want to emphasize that while these individuals may think they are only expressing their displeasure with me, they are in fact hurting the thousands of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians who suffer directly from these current demonstrations of harassment. Your actions perpetuate a spirit of intolerance and discrimination against LGBTQ individuals and specifically transgender individuals,” Levine said.

Fair officials and others have apologized for their actions.

Look, we all have things we’d like to change about ourselves, some have very big things. But most people somehow learn the art of resignation. Transphobia is another word for common sense. We should be compassionate towards suffering, but deeply afraid of lying, delusional behavior. Richard is not a Rachel and there is a case to be made that he belongs not just in a dunk tank at the state fair, but under permanent, lifelong quarantine in a locked facility with no visitors ever just like all those who died this year in near solitude because of his unconstitutional orders. He is a danger to public health. When faced with a psychopathic manipulator, we should put the things she, I mean he, says before a mirror. When he says he’s being hurt, he’s actually hurting others. When he says the mockery of him is hurting others, it is actually helping them.

Levine is guilty of mentally abusing the young and the vulnerable by promoting the transgender lie. When he says he is a victim of discrimination, we know the exact opposite is true. He has gotten to this position of power precisely because he is impersonating a woman. He is not a victim of discrimination; he is a beneficiary of it. The people who apologized should be ashamed of themselves not for ridiculing him, but for failing to ridicule this state of affairs enough.

“My heart is full with a burning desire to help people and my time is full with working towards protecting the public health of everyone in Pennsylvania from the impact of the global pandemic due to COVID-19. And I will stay laser focused on that goal,” she said.

Are you interested in this Health Secretary’s burning desires?

I’m not.

When Richard Levine says he is protecting public health, he is disastrously damaging it. He is a public health emergency.

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WHATEVER the science and politics of Covid, or what the World Economic Forum chillingly refers to as “The Great Reset,” whatever you believe and whatever is true, the tremendous good that can come in the aftermath of this worldwide series of events is undeniable and staring us right in the face.

Millions — no billions — of people have had their lives turned upside down. Some have faced almost no negative consequences, some have even benefited, but many more face, have faced, or will face in the near future, extreme hardship.

That means there is unprecedented opportunity to do good.

I know readers of this website are kind and compassionate. I’m sure most of this has already occurred to them, and they even have better ideas, but I’ll just mention a few things to remind anyone who has gotten to feeling helpless because relentlessly annoying bloggers are always pointing out the bad things and the overwhelming power of stealthy government at this moment in time.

We are not helpless. We have enormous power.

The first and most pressing thing we can do is pray, for those here because we owe them the most, but also for those around the world. We can pray for those affected by the illness itself, of course, but those hurt by the actions of government and by fear-mongering propaganda are far, far more numerous. In India and parts of Africa, people were beaten by police with clubs if they left their homes at wrong hours of the day. The word “draconian” is an understatement for the harshness of the restrictions there. Many people in poor countries are expected to starve to death in the months ahead. There is not one too many on the face of the earth, but the depopulation agenda is most definitely in effect. A virus is not the killer.

Please turn your hearts in sympathy and prayer to these victims. Please weep for them if you can — but not with despair or hopelessness.

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A FRIGHTENED MAN is much more dispiriting than a frightened woman.

Peggy Hall talks about men in masks. Read More »

FROM the Religion News Service on July 7, 2020 comes this report:

 Thousands of churches and other religious organizations received forgivable loans of up to $10 million to make up for pandemic losses, according to limited government data released this week by the U.S. Treasury.

The vast majority of religious organizations listed in the data received between $150,000 and $300,000 as part of the federal Paycheck Protection Program intended to help small businesses maintain payroll and other approved expenses during the pandemic. The data did not list businesses and organizations that received less than $150,000.

At least two dozen religious organizations received the highest tier of funds, between $5 million and $10 million. Among them were two megachurches — Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, and Life.Church in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Several Protestant denominations, such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), also received between $5 and $10 million, as did a dozen Roman Catholic entities, mostly dioceses, and at least two Jewish organizations, the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations.

The data released did not specify the exact amount each entity received. Instead, it broke down the data into five broad ranges or tiers: $150,000 to $300,000; $350,000 to $1 million; $1 million to $2 million; $2 million to $5 million; and $5 million to $10 million. A total of 661,218 small businesses and nonprofit organizations were listed in the database. That is less than 15% of the total number of loans granted.

Ryan Burge, an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University who examined the data, said 70% of the churches listed in the data received between $150,000 and $300,000.

L.R. writes:

Third world jails like in my country Panama are far more dirty than in America; each tiny cell is fully packed with several inmates and many times with members of rival gangs. Food most of the time is very bad; bathrooms are never in sanitary condition; guards are corrupt and collaborate with powerful, high-ranking gangs members, etc. For many years the media in Panama has been criticizing the bad conditions in jails and how the inmates live, but that has never changed.

Anyway, it makes sense, given these conditions, that these jails would be overwhelmed by the virus, right?

Well, I was taken by surprise last week when the media reported just two deaths and two people hospitalized so far.

Meanwhile, in the outside general population that is not trapped in those deplorable jails and have freedom to go outside to buy the necessary things in stores, the death toll and hospitalizations are much worse! Deaths are 1,000  and hospitalizations are 900+ so far!

It doesn’t make sense!

So there are two possible explanations of this strange virus statistic: Read More »

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The author looks across the boat lake in Carondelet Park to the place where Aunt Edith stood with him 65 years ago. [Photo by his friend, Jeff]

ALAN writes:

Carondelet Park is a large park in south St. Louis. It has two lakes, many hills, and winding paths for walking or bicycling. For me, it is also a park of many memories. I go there often to visit some of the higher animals (as Twain might have worded it): Ducks, geese, cranes, bluebirds, cardinals, red-winged blackbirds, butterflies, rabbits, squirrels, and woodchucks.  It is a temporary refuge from the preposterous idiocies of the lower animals in the city around it.  A bench in a quiet setting in the park is an excellent place to sit, think, and remember.

I am always alone when I go to the park, except for the ghosts who accompany me everywhere. One morning the melody and words of Duke Ellington’s 1934 “Solitude” occurred to me unexpectedly as I sat on a bench overlooking one of the lakes. That was fitting but odd, because I had not listened to the song since the mid-1980s when it was played on some St. Louis radio station featuring Big Band music.

In years long past, passenger trains came through the park. Many school picnics and band concerts were held there. A hundred years ago, boys liked to go fishing and swimming in one of the park’s lakes, until they were run off by “Big Bad Bill”, the park-keeper.

St. Louis newspaperman Jim Fox recalled how he and his wife and friends pulled their children in coaster wagons to the park in the 1950s, where they rode down the hills. Read More »

TOM was born into a large Italian, working-class family in Norristown, Pennsylvania in the 1950s. His mother used to have her hair done once a week on Fridays, escaping from housework and her six sons. The hair salon was a place of relaxation and renewal. She returned home redolent of hair spray and didn’t wash her hair herself before the next Friday.

I wonder now if his mother’s happiness after those visits inspired Tom to become a hairdresser himself, much to the dismay of his father, who was in construction. Tom went ahead because it was something he loved to do. He opened a salon with his wife, also a hairdresser, a little over 30 years ago, and I have been going there since not longer after it opened.

Tom is gregarious, likable, devoted to his clients and to his family, well known on the local baseball field and at church. His salon business has thrived over the years, which is not surprising because he is really good at hair. Many people in town have sat in his chair. It’s a middle class clientele, including children, women, and men, with plenty of old ladies, some like his mother who get into a weekly routine.

Today was the first day I saw Tom since February. His business was shut down for 14 weeks. On the day after Gov. Tom Wolf announced the state was closing “non-essential” businesses, the local police, as if to underscore the dictatorial nature of the decree and as if Tom, a middle class business owner, was a potential criminal, called him at home to make sure he was not opening.

When his wife phoned me yesterday to remind me of my appointment, she left a message, “Don’t forget to wear a mask!” she said.

Blasted! I thought about it and called back. I really can’t wear a mask, I said apologetically, and would have to cancel my appointment. I didn’t feel like causing any waves (no pun intended). His wife said, “Oh no, don’t worry about it. That’s fine. Come on in.”

So I went without a mask. “You’re going to look a lot better after this,” Tom said. It’s true, I badly needed a tune-up.

Tom, who was wearing a mask himself, sprayed the plastic robe with a bleach mixture. He only has one of his customers in the shop at a time, as ordered by the government, and so is working at 50 percent capacity. Tom is a very mainstream kind of guy, so I expected to avoid the outrageousness of what had happened to him and other small businesses. I was eager to catch up on his personal life though; we always spend the whole time gabbing. Read More »

ACCORDING TO the Centers for Disease Control, total deaths this year in California, as of July 14, are not significantly higher than in the previous three years. The total mortality from all causes this year is 101 percent of total deaths on average in the years 2017-2019.

And yet Gov. Gavin Newsom has reportedly ordered a return to a modified lockdown in the state.

And where does he get the authority to order closure or restrictions of businesses? There is no public health emergency in California. None. There is no basis for emergency closures of businesses. What a power trip it must be for a civil servant (that is all a governor is) who is making a nice living on the public dollar to order ordinary people to stop making a living.

“We’re continuing to see hospitalizations rise and we continue to see an increase in the rate of positivity in the state,” the governor said. (Source)

The state is continuing to see hospitalizations rise because elective surgeries were canceled for months and people have been flooding hospitals for delayed treatment. The rate of positivity increasing means, if you put faith in a highly unreliable test, that people are achieving immunity to the virus. Most of these positive cases aren’t even sick.

Maybe hospitalizations are also rising because people are sick of lies.

Newsom should be held personally responsible for damaging the livelihoods of millions of people. Here’s more from Peggy Hall, who says there is no law that businesses have to close (Part 2 is here):

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“WE know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection […] The chance of catching Covid-19 from a passing interaction in a public space is therefore minimal. In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.”

— New England Journal of Medicine, May 21, 2020

THE DEATH rate from CV-19 was far higher in New York City than anywhere else in the country. The “epicenter” was Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

In this lengthy interview, Erin Marie Olszewski, who was a nurse at Elmhurst during the virus season, says patients who came in without the virus but suffering from respiratory problems were sedated and put on ventilators, which eventually killed them. She provides video evidence. Many Covid patients were also sedated (making it impossible for them to clear their lungs by coughing) and put on ventilators, which is now believed to have been a death sentence for many. New York hospitals were receiving $29,000 from the federal government for each patient put on a ventilator. Gov. Cuomo publicly promoted the use of ventilators, and the state health department ordered hospitals and doctors not to use the drug, hydroxychloroquine. [Caution: Controversy rages about hydroxychloroquine. I am not qualified to assess this drug.] In neighboring Connecticut and Pennsylvania, the overall mortality this year is not higher than it was on average from 2017-2019. In New York City, it is 208 percent of what it was in those years.

Olszewksi is the third nurse who was working in New York City to speak out against what they contend was disastrous and deliberate medical mismanagement of mostly poor patients suspected of having the virus. Given that nowhere else in the country saw anything close to the New York death rate, this mismanagement for political and financial gain is one of the few plausible explanations for the anomalous conditions in New York. A full public investigation into treatment of patients in New York City should be launched. Read More »

SUSAN-ANNE WHITE writes from Northern Ireland:

Today one of our worst fears was realised, i.e that our refusal to wear face masks would result in deeply worrying consequences.

My husband and I both had a dental appointment today, and, upon arrival we were asked to wear a mask. Read More »

A READER writes:

I used the card provided by The Healthy American website and read aloud at the entrance of a store where one of their lackeys was forbidding unmasked people service. He motioned for me to go in the store. A very young couple found me in the store and said “Ma’am you are brave!” They said they didn’t believe in the virus. I gave them some of the cards. Read More »

SOME GOOD news for July Fourth week:

A southern Illinois judge ruled yesterday that Governor J.B. Pritzker exceeded his executive powers and violated the state constitution in repeatedly extending his initial 30-day Covid shutdown orders. In response to a lawsuit filed by state Representative Darren Bailey, Clay County Circuit Judge Michael McHaney rendered void the ongoing “mandatory” restrictions, including the wearing of masks, social distancing and limitations on crowd size or restaurant capacity. Illinois restaurants could not exceed 25 percent capacity under the latest restrictions.

What is true in Illinois applies to many other states: governors had no authority at all to shutdown or limit business and social activity for months.

What I want to know is, isn’t Pritzker’s violation of the state constitution a crime?

I guess not, if the people robbed actually support the crime. Read More »