THE owner of an independent auto dealership in Pennsylvania discusses the financial and emotional effects of the shutdown. It's a crime that this man is forced to grovel and beg to reopen his business.
THE California doctors who created a sensation by reporting on their experience with Covid and condemning the economic shutdowns are interviewed here by John Kirby with OffGuardian. Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Antin Massihi are emergency medicine physicians who run seven clinics in Bakersfield. Their original press conference before ditzy, disbelieving reporters with an NBC affiliate received more than five million views on Youtube, which then deleted it. Massihi says they have encountered a lot of "anger and hatred" in response to their statements. "It doesn't make much sense to us." Both these doctors remain calm, composed and unwavering in the face of intense opposition. They are rarities in a world where everyone seems fearful of taking an independent stand. They seem to have genuine compassion for the people suffering crippling anxiety because of the shutdown and with those who are not receiving medical care because they are too afraid to get treatment. I assume one of the reasons they have been able to go public is that they run their clinics themselves and are not afraid of getting fired. "Is the collateral damage of Covid worse than the virus itself," Erickson asks. He believes it is. Erickson and Massihi make some statements that they don't back up with data or that they contradict. For instance, they say the shutdown made sense at the beginning and then say the Swedish model, with no shutdown, seemed best.
IN THE previous post, we heard from a respiratory therapist in Harrisburg, where there are relatively few Covid patients and seems to be good care. Gateway Pundit features a video made by a nurse from Nevada who has traveled to New York City to help Covid patients and is upset by the level of care in the city's hospitals. She says that patients are being "medically mismanaged" and "murdered." (Language warning!! I wouldn't normally post someone who talks this way.) "Am I the only one who is not a sociopath?" she says. The other nurses know the care is substandard. In related news, less than one percent of corona fatalities in New York City were people with no other serious health problems.
PENNSYLVANIA continues in an almost total economic shutdown. Meanwhile, a respiratory therapist from Harrisburg says her workload is very low. She has worked with Covid patients and did not observe anything significantly different from other respiratory viruses. (Correction: She said they had lower than normal blood oxygen levels.) "I don't personally watch the news because I don't identify with what is being said," she said. She worked an emergency room shift the other night and saw not a single patient in respiratory distress.
OFF Guardian does a second interview with Knut Wittkowski, who was head of The Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design for 20 years and currently is CEO of a biostatistics company. (The first interview is here.) He talks about the criticism of him since he spoke publicly on Covid-19 and he examines the course of the virus. This elderly scientist tears up a couple of times, upset at the consequences of the lockdowns and the harm he believes was done by not protecting the elderly in nursing homes adequately. The interview includes some scenes in a restaurant. (I'm not sure where they found an open restaurant.) But the scenes are not the best and make him look a little tipsy.
HERE is official confirmation that the Covid Crisis is a stunningly bold manufactured crisis not based in reality. According to the Centers for Disease Control, total U.S. deaths this year as of April 25 were three percent lower than the average number of deaths up until that point in 2017-2019. Total deaths from Covid-19 were 37,308 as of April 25th, significantly lower than what was being reported in the news and by the Worldometer. Flu deaths were less than 6,000 for this year, much lower than previous years. In the 2017-2018 flu season, total flu deaths were over 60,000. While weekly deaths were significantly higher from March 18 to April 18th, they plummeted to less than 50 percent of total deaths in previous years for the week ending April 25th. That was the week that many state governments and corporations continued to ratchet up security measures. Am I missing something here? I invite readers to examine these figures and tell me if I have drawn wrong conclusions.
FROM C.S. Lewis, in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology Making of Modern Theology: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
PROTESTORS faced off with police blocking entry to the legislative chamber in the Michigan State House in Lansing yesterday. The Republican-led legislature voted to deny extension of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order, which was scheduled to expire today. They also authorized legal action against Whitmer. In response, Whitmer, who plays a leading role in the gubernatorial cast of Covid Crooks, extended the shutdown until May 15 by emergency decree with continued restrictions until May 28th. The continued shutdown, as many doctors have said, will almost certainly make the virus worse in Michigan, as people suffer from weakened immunities from staying inside and avoiding contact with germs. The chillingly plastic-looking Whitmer seems unmoved by the ruin her policies have caused.
THIS video can be viewed here. A nurse alleges that patients in New York City are receiving extremely poor care. How many of the people who have died in New York and elsewhere would have survived if their family members were allowed to visit them? We will never know.
TONY S. writes:
In the comments to your recent post, Air Force and Navy Fly “Operation Desperate”, Zeno mentions that “dancing doctors” and the need of doctors and nurses for “applause” as being unprofessional.
As a physician, I can tell you that this is extremely upsetting to witness. Zeno is exactly on the mark; this is over-the-top unprofessional. When I attended medical school 25 years ago at a prestigious Ivy League medical college (meaning left-wing) one of the required seminars for all 1st year students was how one is to conduct oneself professionally. Ostentatious dress, abundant jewelry, the use of slang in speech or discussing one’s lifestyle (this meant one’s socio-economic status, not what the word implies today, i.e. sexual orientation) around patients was strictly off limits. I would guess this seminar has been removed from the curriculum.
My take is that this is another manifestation of the push of moving our culture downward, to the lowest common denominator. Doctors and nurses were always held to a higher standard with regards to behavior. If they are successful in having people give up restraint in how they conduct themselves, even in the workplace, they have achieved another level in the psychological warfare being conducted for the last 50 years to demoralize the descendants of those who built Western civilization.
And I would also predict that this Covid-19 panic-demic will lead to a hard push in the next 1-2 years to unionize all hospital nurses (and maybe even physicians). (more…)
AN unnamed Irish man is arrested in front of his distraught daughter after he cursed at police who stopped him for violating shutdown rules while fishing.
IF you are having trouble viewing these videos, go here and here. In the first video by Project Veritas, funeral directors in New York City say many deaths are being falsely labeled as Covid-related. We already knew that of course, but this is important corroboration. "They're padding the numbers," said one director. He also said deaths were definitely higher than normal. Another funeral director says a family who believed a family member died of neglect in a nursing home demanded an autopsy after she was diagnosed with Covid and it showed she did not have it. The researchers at Project Veritas were at the top of their game with this video. Funeral directors are not getting kickbacks from the government and unlike hospital officials, who are getting kickbacks, and politically-appointed medical examiners, they have no personal stake in the numbers so they are a good source of information. I predict this video will go viral and be banned by Youtube, just as the video interviews of two California doctors who say the same thing about the deaths has been banned. In the second video made earlier this month and posted here before, the head of a trauma center in King's County is interviewed on the street and says the same thing about the false labeling of deaths. Regarding all deaths at this time, people in nursing homes and hospitals are being denied all visits from family. So we can assume…
A READER from Northern Ireland writes:
I am sending this Youtube link to you for your interest. I would like to know what you make of it.
It features an old soldier called Capt. Tom Moore and a singer called Michael Ball plus a “choir” of NHS (National Health Service) voices. Capt. Moore speaks the words of a song called “You’ll never walk alone” and Michael Ball sings the words and the crowd of NHS staff make their voices heard also.
I find the entire video sinister and chilling. I wonder if the powers-that-be are using the old man, although it is also possible that he loves the lime light and the attention he is receiving. (more…)
IF you have trouble viewing this video, go here.
IF YOU are having trouble viewing this video by a cattle rancher, you can view it here. This is must-viewing.
