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The recent tests from Stanford and USC are beginning to prove the skeptics right and the Corona virus stats false. It is time to release Americans from house arrest and go back to normal. Unless there are new tests showing the country has not already been exposed or this disease has a mortality rate above 1% then it is time to put the boots back on and stop the charade.
It is understandable why the gummit took extreme measures when they saw pictures of Wuhan and Italy with the overrun hospitals and massive deaths occurring. Add to that the pictures of Iran filling mass graves being attributed to the virus. These events became the basis of the virus modeling and the numbers for America and the world resulted in massive deaths predicting 200,000 to 2 million and higher for the US. Now we find those were all exaggerations by biblical proportions.
The current morality rate is officially at 5.24% which they had to use some serious deep state cooking to get to. They are only using the official tested results of 920,000 recorded cases with 52,850 deaths attributed to the virus. Of the deaths they include 4,226 probable deaths according to the NEW CDC guidelines. How many of these deaths have truly little to do with the virus is unknown but rumors have the number as high as 90% with high risk underlying causes.
The newly released Stanford/USC tests are actual tests randomly taken in the general population to predict the actual number of people who have had or have the disease in California. What they found is the number of cases across the US rather than being 920,000 is likely between 20 and 100 million. If that is the case, then the mortality rate of the disease plummets to between .25 and .05%. If you take NY and NJ out of the mix drop those numbers in half.
Within a week there are going to be hard results coming out which will destroy the storyline the CDC is selling America. The actual numbers are already devastating the storyline but what the hard numbers are showing is that Drs Boris and Natasha have been fabricating the numbers and scaring the people unnecessarily. Right now, the only real results are the ones coming out from antibody tests.
Even using the CDC stats there are some interesting results. Why is it NY has a death rate of nearly 10% while NJ is at 5%. States like TX and SDakota have numbers down in the 3% range and of course evil SD is below 1%. How can these death rates be so extreme where Cuomos state is as much as 10 times higher than other states and on average over double the national average 7.9% vs 4.7% for the rest of the country? Perhaps the CDC and the rest of the states should pay more attention to TX and SD than Cuomos disaster.
Rather than telling everyone they will not get sick if they wear a mask while driving down the freeway the scare mongers in the Dinosaur Media could report what is really happening with the virus. The most important numbers are the real numbers which are going to be coming out as people are tested. The biggest game changer will be the antibody tests which will say how many people had the disease. If the Stanford/USC results are correct throughout the country, then even with the fabricated death numbers it will show mortality rates at less than 1% or the average death rate for the annual flu.
Never let a good crisis go to waste and boy did they. The deep state was able to shut down the entire economy and destroy vast foundations of it using Gestapo tactics not seen since resettlement camps in WWII. This was an orchestrated attack on the American economy by several groups for a variety of reasons. There is no question the original goals were genuine and needed to be done, but as the real results are being discovered the real beneficiaries are revealing themselves daily. Why are we not broadcasting these contrary findings in the same ferocity Old Media attacks the President? Why is Boris and Natasha not talking about these studies and giving hope to America the virus may not be what they feared it would be?
The shroud is coming off these statistics and moving from model to facts which will reveal the truth. The numbers are at their worst since they must justify as a gummit agency their existence or be choked off next budget cycle. Everyone who is in any way related to a Corona death is counted for a variety of reasons of which all have to do with money and avoiding blame for overestimating.
From here on out as there is a national understanding the Corona virus has already gone through most of the country from October to January when everyone had pneumonia as well as finding it already has nearly reached herd immunity there will be some splainin to do. Of course, Trump will be Peached by Nancy Antoinette again and only a big election will stop her egomania, but he needs to focus his energies on the economy, the pandemic is dead.
The daily briefing needs to focus on saving the economy.
Even Socialist Democrats should understand without an economy there will be no freebies to buy votes. They should know you need corporations to charge confiscatory taxes and hit up for fundraising to keep them in power. You would think even Bernie understands you need businesses to employ young naïve idealists who think illegal immigrants are what makes the economy work so they can give money from their parents trust funds?
Unfortunately, there are going to be numerous groups with numerous goals to the detriment of the country. The Dems are going to try to do as much damage to the economy as possible to bring down the President.
The deep state is going to be pushing the virus to maintain their power in DC and throughout the country. Finally, you will have Governors who have become dictators of their states with ultimate control. Many of these Govs have political ambitions and motives to hold the economy back as long as possible. Fortunately, many of them like Cuomo and their economy is wagged by the dog rather than the other way around.
The key states to get going first are Texas and Louisiana to get the oil industries moving again. Then he needs to get the breadbasket released to repair the damages done by the shutdown. The other big industries such as retail can then come on with cheap gas and diesel rates which will be an immediate shot in the arm. Finally, NY and NJ can begin working and find a way to use the subway in a safer method than before the city can recover. It should be over this virus fairly soon although their other virus Cuomoitis is just matastasizing as he is pushed on the political landscape.
President Trump is going to have two powers fighting each other and they are being revealed daily. One is pushing to open the economy back up and the real stats are validating this movement. The other is the public sector and NeverTrumpers who want this crisis to last as long as possible to create maximum damage to the president. This is going to be the greatest battle since the Civil War and will be a cold CW through the election.
President Trump will win this election in a landslide if he focuses on reality rather than fantasy. Reality can only be manipulated minimally while as has been shown models can be exaggerated to say whatever the modeler wants it to say. His strength is business and now he has the ultimate business recovery and bankruptcy the world has ever known. The economy has never been stopped before and now he has an opportunity to be the true CEO of America and now he can see if he is up to the task. He must focus on one thing and put the virus behind and restarting the economy as quickly as possible. He does and a landslide awaits him.
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Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.
I am thinking of writing a book of the great pandemic of 2020 by what is known as Corona-19.
The book would be written from an average citizen's point of view, that would me. After all, it is the average citizens who suffered the most from this event and our future descendants should be able to read how it all came down and why they must never let this happen again.
But hey, like I said, I'm just thinking about it.
For now I shall write a weekly Blog post covering the events of the prior week. I shall add the humorous political cartoons, the funny thoughts and conclusions other average citizens have posted in our weariness with it all.
I shall also include political events because even with everyone in America ready to kill their kids and loved ones, political things still go on.
Below, since I am from Maryland, a funny insert of just how folks from the land of blue crabs should measure social distance.
I begin this endeavor well in to six months since this virus showed up in China and that wonderful and lovely country allowed, indeed even directed it, out into the rest of the world. If I write the book all of the data like this will be documented because what else do we have to do but watch what's going on from inside our lonely, solitary jails?
For now, as I ponder and live through the situation, I will just compile the events in as short, sweet and interesting way as I can.
Allow me to tell the Nancy Pelosi ice cream story and include my own anecdote regarding Ms. Nancy.
My father was a carpenter in Baltimore, local 101. Nancy's father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., was mayor of Baltimore. The Mayor would hire local union members to work on his house and even, insert smile here, use electricians to zap the Baltimore voting machines that they end up with the vote count he wanted. At any rate, my father would take us to Baltimore's Little Italy to help him with remodeling the mayor's house. Nancy Pelosi D'Alesandro lived there though I or my little brother hardly ever saw her. I was only about eight years old, but old enough to sweep sawdust floors and retrieve needed tools.
I remember how Nancy would come home from school and ask her mother for something. If her mother would say no, Nancy would go in and sweet talk her father for whatever she wanted. Nancy did, and still does, look EXACTLY like her father. For I remember him well and my most happy memory of him was how he would reach into his pockets and get out quarters whenever he heard the ice cream truck jangling as it rode the streets of Little Italy. Mayor D'Alesandro would give me and my brother quarters so we could buy an ice cream cone and once or twice Nancy would join us and she too would buy an ice cream.
So folks, know that you read it here first...NANCY PELOSI DOES LOVE ICE CREAM AND I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO SHARE IT WITH HER!!!
Ha. Here's hoping yon reader knows the story of Nancy Pelosi and her expensive refrigerator and her expensive ice cream.
Below is a picture of Nancy Pelosi when she was very young. She had been named Miss Jiffy Lube of Baltimore, or some such. Nancy's brother, who died during during the recent impeachment silliness, was also a mayor of Baltimore: Thomas D'Alesandro III.
Nancy D'Alsandro is the female in the picture below.
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So now a couple of personal notes for what they may be worth. I have been unable to get to a hairdresser and I look like I have a mop on my head and dear Lord though I am female, I am growing a beard to rival Abe Lincoln!
One of my more interesting tales of life locked up so unfairly is a recent anecdote shared with me by a friend.
It was early evening, she told me, and all of a sudden sirens....sirens, sirens everywhere, all around her home. Now she does live somewhat close to a hospital and alongside Route 1, which is a busy tourist route. She said her neighbors all came running outside, all of them as hysterical and terrified as she was.
My thought as she told her tale of the sirens was that it had been recently advertised on Facebook that upcoming would be a series of sirens from all of our county's emergency vehicles would simultaneously let out the wails of their sirens as a thank you to all the people working in the medical and other jobs considered essential during this pandemic.
Now while this was a noble and well-meant endeavor, it was stupid as shit.
I only vaguely remembered this note and my friend doesn't even use a computer so all she knew is that the world was blowing up without her. I live too far away to have heard this siren cacophony but believe me, I do live close to a major highway and had my ears been subjected to even just five minutes of this noise I might well have had a heart attack.
As of this writing it's time to open up our economy and stop with the insipid thank yous.
It is the very definition of dumb who came up with this idea.
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Below is a culture story that happened during this week and I must wonder what it's all about.
For I have used land 'o lakes butter my entire life and now I am to understand they are getting rid of their icon, the Indian maiden.
Wow. All around me America is changing.
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Time for a Smile
Inquiring minds DEMAND to know:
WHEN did Fauxi and Comey (his protector) and Soros learn
of SARS_CoV-2, and who knew of/or Ordered it release
to WRECK the world's Best Economy for the following:
Their summation of the entire fiasco covid19:
"lots of cases few deaths",lots of people surveyed:
"death rate keeps dropping to the level of the average flu."
The average flu has in the US has 36,000-60,000 deaths every year no matter what. The covid-19 is far less.What we are dealing with is highly capable of being handled by doctors who know what they are doing and the economy should never have been shut down. Phonies like fauci and Birx had an agenda and fed Pres.Trump with lots of bad data and he was forced to do what he did.He has since opened things up and is urging the Governors to do what needs to be done in each individual state.
Here's the key paragraph for your post bud:
The newly released Stanford/USC tests are actual tests randomly taken in the general population to predict the actual number of people who have had or have the disease in California. What they found is the number of cases across the US rather than being 920,000 is likely between 20 and 100 million. If that is the case, then the mortality rate of the disease plummets to between .25 and .05%. If you take NY and NJ out of the mix drop those numbers in half.
Thanks fish lots of good stuff there.
That’s really interesting about Fauci’s revelation, back in 2017, that there would be a surprise outbreak.
Now mine own gubnor, Carney, a serious nothing-burger, demands we all wear masks and joins the Democratic sobs as the country begins to open up.
There will be time enough but I swear this whole thing was orchestrated.
Need people to seriously investigate.
Y’all!
Because the murdering faggot weaponized it, by encouraging people to ride the subways and buses, putting CV patients (complete with body bags) in a nursing home with otherwise uninfected residents.
For that, I have retagged the weaponized ChiCom bioweapon as:
CUOMOVIRUS!
I must say I am rather disappointed this week.
What concerns me the most is how so many people just accept the government degrees in the name of public safety.
Public safety is not just about health. Economics is also part of it.
Businesses going out of business means less pay for individuals, less taxes for government, less products for consumers, higher prices for those fewer resources, and the reduction in wealth for the overall community and larger society we all live in.
I don’t believe most polls, as I think they’re pushing the outcome of whatever they’re polling, but too many people agree with the continued lock down.
I don’t even think it needs to be part of an overall conspiracy.
Basically, too many Americans are ignorant about things in their own sphere and freak out about anything scary.
They used to call television the “great American wasteland” and it is. 70 years of over-dramatization, thin or no logic plots, horror shows and continued stereotypes of the average American man as a befuddled dufus has done us in culturally.
Television and social media has done this and perpetuates it.
I don’t think people have ever been this afraid before. It’s just not sustainable. If and when enough people wake up and face the truth (you cannot live forever—there’s something out there that WILL kill you), they’re going to be, “What the Hell happened??? Why is everything ruined and all of us poor? What happened to our vibrant society?”
Dr. Rashid Buttar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2837&v=WGbYHJcMbz8&feature=emb_title
This will be one of several posts to cover what I have been doing this week.
During the past week numerous doctors have come out of hiding all over the world and are beginning to show what a fraud Fauci, Birx and the WHO have been and just how much damage they have done not only to the US but to the world. Much of the economy of the world has been shut down and now we have the evidence that in most areas that this should never have happened.It was always about control,control of us especially in time of need.
I will begin with Dr. Rashid Buttar who is a brilliant guy and has studied virus and the like for not years but decades.He's an excellent source as you will see.
Dr. Rashid Buttar board certified doctor over 20 years is ranked high in the medical field in immune diseases and toxicity,this is the go-to man who knows about exotic diseases.
Hes one of the top 50 doctors in the US,his video calls out the fraud in WHO, CDC. He says its a conspiracy based on false data. The Trump adm. agrees with him and has dropped funding for WHO and is demanding accountability from WHO. How he got here.
He has patients from all over the world had 700-800 responses to his video.
Covid conspiracy?
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OVERALL SUMMARY OF DOCTORS
1.Dr.Rashid Buttar board certified doctor over 20 years is ranked high in the medical field in immune diseases and toxicity,this is the go to man who knows about exotic diseases.Dr. Buttar claims the covid 19 is a conspiracy based on false data.Trump agrees with Pres.Trump and has suspended funding for WHO world health org.
2.Buttar: covid 19 is little more that another virus that he encounters all the time.When he encounters them he goes 10X on the meds and forgets about it.
3.The disease is a bio-weapon chimeric created in a lab with research done at UNC and elsewhere.
Fauci approved budgets,broke the law created the entire thing by sending it to China. He used tax payer money in the process. In 2017 somehow he knew there would be a pandemic from this virus,he was in on the con all along.Who was he in with,cia,cabal,who?
There is no way he could predict this but he predicted a pandemic after he broke the law by sending this stuff China and approving funding.It had a gain of function meaning things were added to it and it mutated.Even so it still wound up being statistically little more that just another flu with very similar stats.
4.A key thing here accd. to Buttar:
no virus leaps 12-13 feet, they dont leap at all! Whether its 3 feet or 6 feet it's all a con/lie.
5.Fauci predicted pandemic long before it happened, how did he do it?
6.Not one death is due "solely" to covid 19 accd. to Buttar!!
Each and every death had underlying problems. Diabetes, over-weight,smoking,heart problems almost all deaths happen to patients over 60 yrs. old.
7.Lots of doctors know this is all bogus but few are speaking out,thats beginning to change.
8.**The mere fact that we have shut down the economy creates stress,fear, does bad things to the human body:
INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF CATCHING A VIRUS WE ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO CATCHING ANY VIRUS!!(it lowers our immune system)
9.Hydroxychloroquine and arithromycin have been around forever they are established and safe.These drugs are 99% efficacy with "many symptoms resolved in one hour to a day and a half in most cases" accd. to Buttar.(Why are these drugs not being used to fight covid19!!)
10.Buttar credits one person, Fauci, for shutting down the entire world economy and his BS needs to be outed all over the world.
11.Buttar claims that youtube and facebook are shutting down any opposition to Fauci or telling the truth about covid.
12.He equates covid 19 with some type of altitude sickness.
13.Putting people on respirators is usually the wrong treatment and 88% of those in NYC died while on respirators.
14.Evidently 5G can cause a whole load of problems from cancer on down.Anytime Buttar says 5G it is beeped out of the video,lawsuit fears evidently from the big players. Our systems,bodies have been polluted with all kinds of toxicities.
The Dr. goes on to list Hunan air quality terrible,5G makes a healthy person "not healthy" it adds to the stress on the body and if there are any inherent problems 5G will add to it. 5G is a lot like covid since if anything is wrong with you both make it worse.
15.Nat. vaccination initiative is creating numerous problems like autism. Historically,we had one in 10k children who got autism now its 1 out of 32.Likely caused from the vaccine.They introduce the vaccine and ignore the chloroquine and zithromax they are criminals.
Nothing to fear but fear itself!!
16.Bill Gates claiming that 700k people will be effected by his vaccine and the govt. needs to be protected,what is going on.How does he know this?
The vaccine is where all the damage will be done.
17.Nickel, aluminum, formaldehyde, all kinds of crap in the vaccines no justifications for babies to have vaccinations since their immune systems are not developed enough to handle them.
Buttar:Vaccines are a good idea but currently are a terrible product.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/must-see-video-california-doctors-immunology-say-sick-elderly-quarantined-businesses-open-state-pressuring-drs-add-covid-19-numbers/
Two California doctors of immunology and owners of a Bakersfield Urgent Care facility(they own seven clinics) say only the sick and immuno-compromised individuals must be quarantined, not healthy people.
Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi said their facilities have tested over 5,200 patients for the coronavirus throughout the county, making up for over half of all testing in Kern. According to their data, the death rate of the coronavirus is similar in prevalence to the flu.
Two Calif. doctors,Ericksson and Massihi
Begin with Calif. doctors here:
18.Calif. Doctors,Dr.Dan Erickson an ER doctor and Dr. Artin Massihi have done exhaustive studies showing the following: We are seeing millions of cases small amounts of death.
19.Fauci/Birx model is all falling apart.
Its all a con.to get vaccinations as the norm when they are little more than a take down of our immune system.
20.numbers on a worldwide scale show that the covid19 numbers are almost the same as a typical flu.
21. 37-60k people die in the US just from the flu its been the same with covid,chances are 92% you will recover from covid and only .02 or .03 of 1% that you will die.Almost same as the flu.
22.Initial models of covid were waaay off way over estimated deaths.
23.0.03% chance of dying in Calif.!Does this necessitate sheltering in place? Shutting down the economy,creating all the stress, alcoholism,child abuse, spousal abuse,you name it? It's crazy.
24.massive disruptions with "empty ER rooms in Calif." People being sent home.ICU are empty, floors being shut down.
25. Standford studies and UC studies are all now verified. That covid 19 is not as deadly as originally thought and we need to respond accordingly. The more you test the lower the death rate goes.Millions of cases small amount of death.
26.Focus on covid is so strong that people with other diseases are not coming in to hospitals for treatment and they are getting worse. Heart disease,cancer,diabetes, you name it. Especially elective surgery.
27.The sick should be quarantined not the healthy! It's all backwards. 28. Hide in your home and you develop a weak immune system.A strong immune system is decreased by sheltering in place. You build the immune system by letting people interact with other people.It's called herd immunity. When people who have been sheltering in place go out they will be more susceptible to getting sick,sheltering in place is the exact wrong on thing to do.
29. Calif. doctors Masstri and Erickson are in the trenches and know what is actually going on Fauci is theoretical and uses models he has not seen a patient in 20 years.
30. no one is dying from covid alone. They die from another disease, cancer,smoking, weak lungs, diabetes,doctors are being pressured to report cause of death as covid. All covid does is accelerate whatever disease people already had.
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Another one of the brave doctors speaking out is molecular biologist Dr. Judy Mikovits. She is a brilliant researcher with impeccable credentials who has been savaged by Dr. Fauci for telling the truth and not towing the company line. She was blackballed by Fauci and unable to access many needs she had as a researcher even jailed for a time all for telling the truth.
Below are just a few things about this brave researcher.
31.Dr.Judy Mikovits was in charge of Ebola studies of giving it gain (increasing the potency of a virus)making it stronger than it was. When she realized that it was being used for "nefarious purposes" she became a whistle blower was thrown in jail and her life was threatened.
Dr Judy Mikovits has a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry with over 30 years of experience. She has directed programs on HIV, cancer, epigenetics and neuroimmune disease with a focus on the development of novel drug and diagnostic technologies.
In 2011 when she made a horrifying discovery that was contaminating all vaccinations, she presented her data to government officials and was threatened and told to destroy all her data. When she did not, she was jailed, her career systematically destroyed, and a gag order put in place for four years threatening that if she spoke out she would be thrown back in jail.
The discovery and consequences of retroviruses in vaccines and their effects on current health issues. She also has a new book, Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science Dr. Judy Mikovits was instrumental in our fight against HIV. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from George Washington University in 1992.
At National Cancer Institute she developed purification methods for Interferon alpha used in the first immune therapy treatment for hairy cell leukemia in 1986. In 1986-7 she developed production methods to insure biological materials manufactured using human blood products were free of contamination from HIV-1. Her Ph.D. thesis changed the paradigm for the therapeutic treatment of HIV.
Her pioneering work during a twenty-year career at the National Cancer Institute includes the discovery of the modulation of DNA Methylation machinery by human retroviral infection and the development of the concept of inflammatory cytokines and chemokine signatures of infection and disease. Therapies that are still standard of care twenty five years later and credited with saving millions of deaths from HIV/AIDS. In 2001, she moved back to the industry where she directed the Cancer Biology program of EpiGenX Pharmaceuticals.,p> In 2009, Drs. Ruscetti and Mikovits labs isolated for the first time a new family of human retroviruses then identified as XMRV. In 2012 it was learned XMRV was a contaminant of the Silverman lab and the XMRVs isolated were a new human exogenous and transmissible retrovirus family, which are strongly associated with neuroimmune disease and cancer. Dr. Mikovits has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters of the book Plague.
https://www.thekarlfeldtcenter.com/corona-virus-what-you-need-to-know/
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Thanks for thread A.B. Could someone stop Karl Rove from sending me solicitation e-mails from the Republicans saying if I don’t give him $ then the Rs will lose the Senate? I wouldn’t give Rove the sweat off my ... (well).
Meanwhile in deep space:
Even so, no one can say what the actual death rate is.
How can you know when you cannot say who has had it or not?
Every time somebody tries to find out and collects such data, it shows far, far more people have actually had it. Asymptomatic or just a few coughs and sniffles and it has gone through the population.
New York APPEARS to have a 10% death rate but they’re only testing sick people, and most of them are from a huge, many millions strong, densely-packed city. Give EVERY New Yorker the test, including people living in Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Binghamton, and every other village and town and I’ll bet you that percentage goes down to less than 1 percent.
The real answer is nobody yet knows, except when they start checking more than the declared sick, the percentage goes DOWN.
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