ACCORDING to the New York City Department of Health, as of May 6, 2020, only 86 of the nearly 11,000 people in the city reported to have died of the coronavirus had no underlying disease other than the virus. Read More »

THIS Youtuber goes too far. I’m not convinced all the people he says are transgender really are. But hidden trannies among politicians and celebrities? Surely, there are.

The Shelley Luther story is looking more and more like agit prop

A COMMENTER AT Youtube offers some perceptive observations about the case of Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who made national news last week after she defied a judge’s order to keep her salon closed:

So I have to say that my gut tells me that this whole drama is orchestrated …. Ok so here is my assessment of the Tucker Carlson report on the jailing of Shelley Luther in Dallas County, TX. Read More »

THIS IS an outstanding presentation by Dr. David Martin, a financial investment advisor. He argues that the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Anthony Fauci and governors who ordered lockdowns are guilty of domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act, as well as violations of the Constitution and anti-trust laws. These are criminal and civil offenses. There is no basis in U.S. law for emergency restrictions on civil liberties because of health threats (as opposed to actual health catastrophes.)

America can never recover from the Covid Conspiracy unless criminal and civil charges are filed against its perpetrators.

“Public sector officials are promoting a conspiracy which is … a violation of five provisions of the United States’ laws,” Martin says.”And it is not acceptable [for citizens] to sit quietly and allow a criminal conspiracy to go on and let the sheep be sent to the abattoir.”

“THE RIGHT of the strongest was exercised among the ancients in a horrible manner; and this is one of the causes to which must be attributed the state of annihilation, so to speak, in which we see the individual with respect to society. Society was strong, the individual was weak; society absorbed the individual, and arrogated to itself all imaginable rights over him, and if ever he made opposition to society, he was sure to be crushed by it with an iron hand. When we read the explanation which M. Guizot gives us of this peculiarity of ancient civilizations, we might suppose that there existed among them a patriotism unknown to us; a patriotism which, carried to exaggeration, and stripped of the feeling of personal independence, produced a kind of annihilation of the individual in the presence of society. If he had reflected deeply on the matter, M. Gruizot would have seen that the difference is not in the feelings of antiquity, but in the immense fundamental revolution which has taken place in ideas; hence he would easily have concluded, that the difference observed in their feelings must have been owing to the differences in the ideas themselves. Indeed, it is not strange that the individual, seeing the little esteem in which he was held, and the unlimited power which society arrogated to itself over his independence and his life, (for it went so far as to grind him to powder, when he opposed it) on his side formed an exaggerated idea of society and the public authority, so as to annihilate himself in his own heart before this fearful colossus. Far from considering himself as a member of an association the object of which was the safety and happiness of every individual, the benefits of which required from him some sacrifices in return, he regarded himself as a thing devoted to this association, and compelled, without hesitation, to offer himself as a holocaust on its altars.

…. Let the Christian ideas disappear, let old ones regain their force, and you will see that the modern world will resemble the ancient one.”

— The Rev. Jaime Luciano Balmes (1810-1848)

(From Protestantism and Catholicity, Compared in their Effects on the Civilization of Europe; John Murphy Co., 1851; p. 128.)

Robert McCloskey, Make Way for Ducklings

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the maternal cultural warriors who read this site. I hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.

May you receive plenty of support and encouragement for your important work today and every day and may you find meaning and cause for hope in both your successes and your failings. May the Mother of God — the only perfect mother who ever lived  — enfold you in her protective love and intercessions. You are her child too.

A bouquet for you:

Giovanna Garzoni

A CHILLING scene on a chilly spring day in New York City:

Robotic cops and arrested protestors who were not hurting anyone.

A READER from Maryland writes:

A man I knew died recently under sad, but now common, circumstances. His large, senior-living facility closed its doors to all visitors, depriving him of the personal touch of his loved ones. Not only did the lockdowns prevent his relatives from traveling out-of-state to see him, his daughter and grandchildren who lived only a few miles away could not visit him daily, as they had been doing. Instead, they spoke with him every day on the telephone, and the only people he saw during his final weeks wore masks and gloves. Although the nurses and assistants might have been very kind to him, nonetheless, I would venture to say he died of loneliness.

I don’t believe that doctors foresaw the inhumanity of forbidding all visitors to patients in nursing homes and hospitals. An old woman from my church was not permitted to be in the hospital with her Corona-infected husband; he pined for her company, but the hospital forbade her to enter. Missing his wife and attended only by masked medical personnel, his illness was exacerbated, and eventually he was placed on a ventilator, dying shortly thereafter, alone. Similarly, my neighbor’s cousin died yesterday in a large, luxurious nursing home. Her sisters, cousins, and children, all of whom lived in the area, no longer came to visit and she could not understand why. She contracted the Coronavirus despite all the precautions. She stopped eating and eventually died, having not had a hug from a loved one in more than a month. Surely, the doctors and politicians could not have imagined that the social-distancing policies that were meant to be saving lives would also be hastening death.

In many plagues in history, at least one out of three people died in the plague year in many localities. [Editor: That would be about 100 million deaths in America today.] Nevertheless, people were permitted to gather together with fewer restrictions on work and worship than we have, and allowed and expected to care for their sick loved ones as we are not.

As C.S. Lewis pointed out, “you and all of whom you love were already sentenced to death before the [Coronavirus came along], and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in very unpleasant ways …. If we are going to be destroyed [by a virus or recession] let that [disaster] find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts …”

So we struggle on in this beautiful world of ours. Eating less when food is scarce. Praying at home. Bringing cheer to our neighbors who are afraid or lonely or hysterical. Paying attention to the birds and trees and giving glory to God for all his gifts. Read More »

FLUELLA de Vil writes:

Thank you so much for your indefatigable coverage of the Covid crisis.  Here for your enjoyment is a compilation of commercials which exemplify these uncertain times (which we are all in together).

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A DOCTOR in Riverside County, California delivers a nice speech at a rally.

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JOHNS HOPKINS University as of today is reporting a total of 73,095 U.S. deaths, and climbing, from the coronavirus, statistics that are in shocking contrast to those provided by the Centers for Disease Control.

According to the CDC, as of May 2, 2020, 44,016 people had died of the virus, and the death rate was rapidly tumbling, consistent with the familiar pattern of contagious respiratory disease. Last week, there were only 631 Covid deaths in the entire country, according to the CDC.

Now it may be that the CDC will revise its statistics, but it is inconceivable that they will reach the level of those by Johns Hopkins. We also know all these figures are inflated because of testimony from relatives, public officials and funeral homes, and we will never know the real death toll. But Johns Hopkins appears to be engaging in flagrant disinformation by presenting a death rate so sharply different from the official toll.

Look at the CDC chart carefully, and see how it fits the pattern described by epidemiologists presented in various posts here. We see a sharp peak for two weeks and then a precipitous fall. Only 631 deaths recorded for last week and yet much of the country remains shutdown.

Also, the total number of deaths from February 1, 2020 to May 2, 2020 is three percent less than the average total number of deaths for the same time period during the years 2017-19. Do you ever hear that on the news?

FROM LoveBreedsAccountability:

There’s a decent chance that while a large chunk of America is clearly wrapped up in their “#StayHome! #MaskUp! #TogetherWeWin!” platitudes, the ads coming out of corporate America that exploit those sentiments will be what awaken us from our media-induced COVID-19 slumber.

I mean at some point even the most preachy and sanctimonious among us are bound to say, “Oh FFS enough already.”

Even the coveted and gainfully employed “frontline” workers, at least the ones who aren’t crying into Facebook videos all day to prove to us just how rough they have it and how tremendously heroic they are, even many of them are already sick of this whole thing.

And corporate America doing what it does — exploiting that which they think is “cool” while packaging it as some value that their company really, truly, honestly believes in — might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Every single commercial out there now is some huge corporation trying to tug at our heart strings or stroke our egos with persistently holier-than-thou messages about what they’re doing for COVID-19, and what you’re doing for COVID-19, and what everyone under the sun is doing for or because of COVID-19. And while I’ll be the first to admit that I’m often the first to be annoyed by things in general, I’ve been annoyed for like 6 weeks now and I gotta think a good chunk of the country is catching up.

You can’t turn anywhere in America be it television, internet, radio or just going about your daily business without running into endless masks of sanctimony and ginned up moral servitude over how tragic it all it is but how wonderful we all are and how mindful we must remain because of how strong we all clearly are.

Hashtag Together. Read More »