lewrockwell--2020-06-29--The Decline of the Third World

The Decline of the Third World

The only region in the world that has proactively tried to incorporate western culture in its societies is East Asia — Singapore , Japan , Hong Kong , South Korea , and Taiwan .
China , which was a grotesquely oppressed , poor , Third World country not too far in the past , notwithstanding its many struggles today , has furiously tried to copy the West .
Famous Greek philosophers : their thoughts are a cornerstone of Western culture .
[ PT ] Western culture , which developed organically over at least the two and half millennia , starting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to duplicate .
This culture requires thrift , honesty , hard work , liberty , individuality , dispassionate reason , objective justice , loyalty , honor , stoicism , a desire to rise above oneself , and many other factors that perhaps can not be seen or isolated but must be absorbed subliminally in all their complex interactions .
These are reflected in social , religious , and political structures of the West — the three independent branches of government , the rule of law , compassion for others , charity , family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : A ... Prashad , Vijay Best Price : $ 8.66 Buy New $ 12.89 “ The Rest , ” the Third World , comprises 5 billion out of 7.5 billion people on the planet .
The cultural factors underpinning the West sound like clichés until one who gives up political correctness for the truth starts to see that the Third World , despite its several centuries of interactions with the West , simply fails to understand them .
The Third World is blind to what makes the West a civilization .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not rise above animal instincts — craving for food , power over others , sex , and for the material .
Over several centuries of western colonization and missionary activities , an attempt was made to infuse Western cultural factors into the Third World .
It was only a marginal success .
Since the third world countries achieved political independence , without constant Western involvement , all has been lost .
Christianity became voodoo , and the political system became a tool for tribalism and tyranny .
The Third World is tempted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They are pleasure-centric .
When they look at the West , all they see is entertainment , an easy-going lifestyle , freedom from responsibility , liberal governments , free health-care , consumerism , social welfare , and good salaries .
They either want to be economic migrants to the West or copy the Western lifestyle , without an iota of an understanding that they must have wealth-generating capabilities first and that there is something at the foundations of Western culture .
There is a virtual absence of reading habits in the Third @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ayn Rand , all they see in it is a drama .
They fail to see a non-collectivist philosophy embedded in it .
If they watch movies like the Matrix , all they see is a sci-fi movie .
They fail to see any suggestion that they might be getting indoctrinated by their leaders .
What they see as the culture of the West from their narrow worldview is primarily the culture of its lower-class and the entertainment industry .
Decolonization : A Very ... Kennedy , Dane Best Price : $ 7.78 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology were a massive relief for the Third World , but merely temporary , for they never learned or even saw the principles that made such prosperity possible .
All the advantages , given the mindset of expediency , have been frittered away , through wars , excessive consumption , malinvestment , an increase in population , etc .
The Third World ’ s craving for the material , unconnected with morality or reason , means that it forever wallows in poverty , oppression , and at the edge of a Malthusian crisis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neither capital nor institutions .
All surplus gets consumed or frittered away — it takes a higher calling to invest and preserve the surplus .
Everything has a pull towards decay , disintegration , and degradation .
European colonization provided a rational system for the Third World to operate in .
Christian Missionaries tried to infuse reason among the inhabitants .
In desperation , they sometimes even removed children from their families .
All these attempts made only a marginal difference .
Departing European colonizers transferred Western tools — technology , institutions , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bodies of the Third World .
The tools were subverted and used for tribalistic purposes .
And democracy enabled the most irrational , base elements to rise to power .
Ease of travel made the situation worse by enabling the emigration of the best people from the Third World .
Since the departure of European colonizers , the Third World has been culturally and institutionally regressing to its pre-European dark ages .
None of these societies are sane , stable , or sustainable by themselves .
It is the fear of America that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ otherwise would and their nations from falling into forever wars between their tribal units .
Despite this cultural and institutional regression , the free-gift of Western technology and the green revolution , and peace imparted by America still enabled economic growth , which alas has allowed more cultural problems to accumulate before Malthusian equilibrium kicks in again .
Thomas Malthus : his concerns over unsustainable population growth were misguided when applied to a Western capitalist market economy – he failed to take human ingenuity , problem-solving capabilities and capital accumulation into account .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a stagnating or regressing economy .
[ PT ] Marxist and Keynesian economics has a toehold in the Third World not because those works corrupted them , but because these pseudo-economics match their expectations for free stuff .
Every single major leader of the Third World who studied in the UK during the British colonization became a socialist — socialism is all that they saw during their life in the UK .
The contribution the West has made to Africa — which for all practical purposes did not have a written language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before the arrival of Europeans — is immense .
Unfortunately , these gifts have mostly gone unused .
In the Third World , girls in school-uniforms carry water buckets on their heads .
Despite the concept of the wheel having been offered on a platter , they haven ’ t figured out its use .
They have been taught English for centuries by now , but what they have is pidgin , a simple , non-nuanced , lacking-in-grammar language .
This predicament had to happen for complex language can only be retained if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , planning , and issues outside immediate needs .
For most in the Third World , “ tomorrow ” is too far in the future .
Their communication needs are limited to teasing each other , consumption needs , activism , and discussing celebrities .
The Forgotten Exodus : ... Fenton , Bruce R. Best Price : $ 7.78 Buy New $ 9.95 Christianity was spread in the Third World , but it ended up becoming voodoo , heavily mixed with superstitions .
Formal education , seen as a magic wand that enables @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at best rote-learning , and its purpose is only to get a certificate at the end .
Education without core western values sits unassimilated in superstitious minds .
It merely increases stress levels , leading to the spread of ritualistic , superstitious , and materialistic religion .
The tools of Western technology have been corrupted for tribal purposes — steel instead of being used for constructing bridges and factories has been more commonly used for making machetes in Africa .
The internet was expected to rapidly spread truth , knowledge , and awakening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead , if they are not watching pornography , they circulate superstitions , rumors and political activism .
Tools for development and growth in the West have failed in the Third World , and often had the opposite effects .
The question is , why is it that the Third World has failed to absorb and even notice the cultural qualities of the West ?
What went wrong ?
Why did the Third World fail to maintain the benefits offered ?
The fundamental problem of the Third World is that the concept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Without “ reason , ” intellectual and financial capital is not accumulated .
The operating system in their minds is tribalism , superstition , magical thinking , and irrationality .
This operating system makes them impervious to absorbing Western intellectual capital .
Without the rationality , civilization is not possible .
Irrational societies must vacillate between dogma , hedonism , and savagery , never stumbling on another dimension , rationality .
A society of irrational people , particularly in a democratic system , where the most tribal , least-competent 50 % people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to disintegrate into tribal units , who will then enter into never-ending wars .
This is what will happen to 5 billion people living in the Third World , a humanitarian catastrophe never seen before .
100s of millions , perhaps billions will perish , once their problems have become too large for the West to contain .

A Failure to Integrate Values
The only region in the world that has proactively tried to incorporate western culture in its societies is East Asia — Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. China, which was a grotesquely oppressed, poor, Third World country not too far in the past, notwithstanding its many struggles today, has furiously tried to copy the West.
Famous Greek philosophers: their thoughts are a cornerstone of Western culture. [PT]
Western culture, which developed organically over at least the two and half millennia, starting from Greco-Roman philosophers, is not easy to duplicate. This culture requires thrift, honesty, hard work, liberty, individuality, dispassionate reason, objective justice, loyalty, honor, stoicism, a desire to rise above oneself, and many other factors that perhaps cannot be seen or isolated but must be absorbed subliminally in all their complex interactions. These are reflected in social, religious, and political structures of the West — the three independent branches of government, the rule of law, compassion for others, charity, family system, etc. The Darker Nations: A ... Prashad, Vijay Best Price: $8.66 Buy New $12.89 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
The West and East Asia, including China, comprise a mere 2.5 billion people.
“The Rest,” the Third World, comprises 5 billion out of 7.5 billion people on the planet. The cultural factors underpinning the West sound like clichés until one who gives up political correctness for the truth starts to see that the Third World, despite its several centuries of interactions with the West, simply fails to understand them.
The Third World is blind to what makes the West a civilization. It is as if the Third World cannot rise above animal instincts — craving for food, power over others, sex, and for the material.
Over several centuries of western colonization and missionary activities, an attempt was made to infuse Western cultural factors into the Third World. It was only a marginal success. Since the third world countries achieved political independence, without constant Western involvement, all has been lost. Christianity became voodoo, and the political system became a tool for tribalism and tyranny.
Focus on Materialism
The Third World is tempted by only the physical products of Western society. They are pleasure-centric. When they look at the West, all they see is entertainment, an easy-going lifestyle, freedom from responsibility, liberal governments, free health-care, consumerism, social welfare, and good salaries. They either want to be economic migrants to the West or copy the Western lifestyle, without an iota of an understanding that they must have wealth-generating capabilities first and that there is something at the foundations of Western culture.
The lure of materialism [PT]
There is a virtual absence of reading habits in the Third World. If they end up reading Ayn Rand, all they see in it is a drama. They fail to see a non-collectivist philosophy embedded in it. If they watch movies like the Matrix, all they see is a sci-fi movie. They fail to see any suggestion that they might be getting indoctrinated by their leaders.
What they see as the culture of the West from their narrow worldview is primarily the culture of its lower-class and the entertainment industry. Decolonization: A Very... Kennedy, Dane Best Price: $7.78 Buy New $5.79 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
European colonization and technology were a massive relief for the Third World, but merely temporary, for they never learned or even saw the principles that made such prosperity possible. All the advantages, given the mindset of expediency, have been frittered away, through wars, excessive consumption, malinvestment, an increase in population, etc. The Third World’s craving for the material, unconnected with morality or reason, means that it forever wallows in poverty, oppression, and at the edge of a Malthusian crisis.
Nothing it has is sustainable, neither capital nor institutions. All surplus gets consumed or frittered away — it takes a higher calling to invest and preserve the surplus. Everything has a pull towards decay, disintegration, and degradation.
European colonization provided a rational system for the Third World to operate in. Christian Missionaries tried to infuse reason among the inhabitants. In desperation, they sometimes even removed children from their families. All these attempts made only a marginal difference.
Departing European colonizers transferred Western tools — technology, institutions, etc. — to the democratically elected bodies of the Third World. The tools were subverted and used for tribalistic purposes. And democracy enabled the most irrational, base elements to rise to power.
Ease of travel made the situation worse by enabling the emigration of the best people from the Third World.
Post-Colonial Regression
Since the departure of European colonizers, the Third World has been culturally and institutionally regressing to its pre-European dark ages. None of these societies are sane, stable, or sustainable by themselves. It is the fear of America that keeps their tyrants behaving better than they otherwise would and their nations from falling into forever wars between their tribal units.
Despite this cultural and institutional regression, the free-gift of Western technology and the green revolution, and peace imparted by America still enabled economic growth, which alas has allowed more cultural problems to accumulate before Malthusian equilibrium kicks in again.
Thomas Malthus: his concerns over unsustainable population growth were misguided when applied to a Western capitalist market economy – he failed to take human ingenuity, problem-solving capabilities and capital accumulation into account. However, his concerns will become valid in a stagnating or regressing economy. [PT]
Marxist and Keynesian economics has a toehold in the Third World not because those works corrupted them, but because these pseudo-economics match their expectations for free stuff. Every single major leader of the Third World who studied in the UK during the British colonization became a socialist — socialism is all that they saw during their life in the UK.
The contribution the West has made to Africa — which for all practical purposes did not have a written language, technology of farming, or tools before the arrival of Europeans — is immense. Unfortunately, these gifts have mostly gone unused.
In the Third World, girls in school-uniforms carry water buckets on their heads. Despite the concept of the wheel having been offered on a platter, they haven’t figured out its use. They have been taught English for centuries by now, but what they have is pidgin, a simple, non-nuanced, lacking-in-grammar language. This predicament had to happen for complex language can only be retained if the society has an interest in ideas, planning, and issues outside immediate needs.
For most in the Third World, “tomorrow” is too far in the future. Their communication needs are limited to teasing each other, consumption needs, activism, and discussing celebrities. The Forgotten Exodus: ... Fenton, Bruce R. Best Price: $7.78 Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
Christianity was spread in the Third World, but it ended up becoming voodoo, heavily mixed with superstitions. Formal education, seen as a magic wand that enables a good life, has turned into at best rote-learning, and its purpose is only to get a certificate at the end. Education without core western values sits unassimilated in superstitious minds. It merely increases stress levels, leading to the spread of ritualistic, superstitious, and materialistic religion.
The tools of Western technology have been corrupted for tribal purposes — steel instead of being used for constructing bridges and factories has been more commonly used for making machetes in Africa. The internet was expected to rapidly spread truth, knowledge, and awakening to the poorest in the Third World. Instead, if they are not watching pornography, they circulate superstitions, rumors and political activism.
Absence of Rationality
Tools for development and growth in the West have failed in the Third World, and often had the opposite effects. The question is, why is it that the Third World has failed to absorb and even notice the cultural qualities of the West? What went wrong? Why did the Third World fail to maintain the benefits offered?
The fundamental problem of the Third World is that the concept of reason is conspicuous by its absence. Without “reason,” intellectual and financial capital is not accumulated. The operating system in their minds is tribalism, superstition, magical thinking, and irrationality. This operating system makes them impervious to absorbing Western intellectual capital.
Without the rationality, civilization is not possible. Irrational societies must vacillate between dogma, hedonism, and savagery, never stumbling on another dimension, rationality.
A society of irrational people, particularly in a democratic system, where the most tribal, least-competent 50% people decide on who rules, eventually has to disintegrate into tribal units, who will then enter into never-ending wars. This is what will happen to 5 billion people living in the Third World, a humanitarian catastrophe never seen before. 100s of millions, perhaps billions will perish, once their problems have become too large for the West to contain.
Reprinted with permission from Acting Man.


lewrockwell--2020-06-29--Don’t Relinquish Civil Liberties for a False Sense of Security

Barbara Loe Fisher is the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center ( NVIC ) , which is the oldest and largest consumer-led nonprofit organization in the U.S. providing accurate and objective information to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and help people make informed health choices .
As noted by Fisher , the rapid movement by governments and the pharmaceutical industry toward mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 and the proposed tracking and tracing of all individuals under the guise of public health is a culmination of everything we have been talking about for decades .
False @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Theodore Best Price : $ 10.82 Buy New $ 15.65 Legal proponents such as Alan Dershowitz , who has represented the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and other prominent individuals , is now using a 1905 Supreme Court ruling to justify government officials literally detaining Americans and forcibly vaccinating them if they do not agree to get vaccinated voluntarily .
Fisher explains : If the worst-case scenario occurs and your state decides to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine , or any other vaccine , the practical question will be how they ’ re going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most probably rely on local police and/or the county sheriff .
Thankfully , county sheriffs are elected by the people and are directly accountable to the citizens in their county , the state Constitution , and the U.S. Constitution , and have the legal authority to deny what they consider to be an unlawful governmental order .
For this reason , I believe it is important to know who your county sheriff is .
Get to know and develop a relationship with them .
Educate them about why it is important to defend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voluntary decisions about medical risk taking , including vaccine risk-taking .
History of the Deep St ... Stone , Jeremy Buy New $ 14.99 It is important to remember that , although the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts affirmed the constitutional authority of elected representatives in state legislatures to pass public health laws requiring vaccination , state legislators also have the constitutional authority to choose NOT to mandate vaccines and/or to include flexible medical , religious and conscientious belief exemptions in state public health laws .
This is why , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Center created the NVIC Advocacy Portal , an online communications tool that monitors vaccine-related state legislation and alerts residents when proposed bills are moving in their state .
They also provide fact-based talking points you can share when contacting your legislators .
The bottom line is that we need , as a nation , to start developing personal relationships with the elected legislators and officials , including our county sheriff .
They need to know we will not accept tyranny in America .
For example , H.R.6666 , the COVID-19 Testing , Reaching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , introduced in the House of Representatives May 1 , 2020 , has 64 co-sponsors1 ( all Democrats ; one Republican has withdrawn his name ) and that bill would give $ 100 billion to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire people to go door-to-door to test the population for COVID-19 for fiscal year 2020 , with more funds to follow , as needed , in subsequent fiscal years .
If you test positive , they ’ ll trace all your contacts and demand that you quarantine in your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Children could be taken into child services if parents are quarantined .
The CIA as Organized C ... Valentine , Douglas Best Price : $ 21.35 Buy New $ 23.74 The fast-tracking of a COVID-19 vaccine to licensure and subsequent widespread use has been termed Operation Warp Speed .
What we must remember here is that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any damage their vaccines do .
Since 2011 , drug companies making and selling vaccines are even shielded from design defect lawsuits , which means they have absolutely no incentive for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act also indemnifies all drug companies making vaccines used during a public health emergency or a pandemic .
So , vaccine companies , as well as any person who administers , mandates or enforces vaccine mandates , does not face any liability whatsoever if a new coronavirus vaccine turns out to be a catastrophe .
What ’ s more , when a COVID-19 vaccine does come out , there likely will be little or no information about its side effects , particularly long-term side effects .
Moderna , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be the first to get a licensed COVID-19 vaccine on the market , began human trials of its experimental mRNA vaccine in March 2020 .
According to a May 18 , 2020 , press release,2 “ After two doses , all participants evaluated to date across the 25 microgram and 100 mcg dose cohorts seroconverted with binding antibody levels at or above levels seen in convalescent sera.
” The vaccine also “ elicited neutralizing antibody titer levels in all eight initial participants … ” The words are important here , as high-binding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
As explained in “ Fast-Tracked COVID-19 Vaccine — What Could Go Wrong ?
” previous attempts to create coronavirus vaccines have failed due to coronaviruses triggering production of two different types of antibodies : one that fights disease , and one that triggers paradoxical immune enhancement that often results in very serious disease and/or death when the vaccinated person is exposed to the wild coronavirus .
Based on the historical coronavirus vaccine failures , this could become one of the biggest public health disasters in history .
And , no one involved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead , they will all profit .
It ’ s also important to realize that only healthy people are enrolled in these human trials , yet only 4 in 10 Americans are actually free of chronic disease.3 What ’ s more , according to recent NHANES data,4 87.8 % of Americans are metabolically inflexible , which impairs their immune function .
The NHANES data is over 4 years old and our metabolic health has only declined since 2016 , so the number is likely higher than 90 % , or 9 in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
On top of that , vitamin D deficiency is rampant , yet public health authorities are not stressing the importance of optimizing your vitamin D levels to reduce your risk of infection .
If you do nothing else , make sure you raise your vitamin D level above 40 nanograms per milliliter , at bare minimum , and ideally 60 ng/mL , before this fall , when another predicted “ second ” wave of COVID-19 may hit .
Now , aside from using entirely novel manufacturing methods like messenger RNA ( mRNA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology , some of the COVID-19 vaccines being fast tracked to licensure also will be using novel vaccine delivery methods .
The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price : $ 14.55 Buy New $ 11.00 One new type of vaccine delivery , which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded and promoted , uses a microneedle array rather than conventional injection .
The microneedles are equipped with fluorescent quantum dot tags .
The resulting invisible mark can then be read by a smartphone equipped with a special sensor .
COVID-19 Vaccine Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by Fisher , the mRNA vaccines being developed against COVID-19 will alter your RNA and DNA , which is of tremendous concern .
The idea behind them is to turn your body into a protein manufacturing plant , and if your immune system is hypersensitive , it could overreact , causing severe problems .
Considering how many people have autoimmune diseases and allergies , these vaccines could have devastating effects for many .
NATO ’ s Secret Ar ... Daniele , Ganser Best Price : $ 70.25 Buy New $ 53.31 Fisher is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Virginia in 2019 , when the state legislature , which is now dominated by one political party , decided to eliminate the ability of duly elected legislators to decide which vaccines are mandated for children to attend school .
The legislature voted to immediately codify into Virginia law the CDC ’ s recommended childhood vaccine schedule .
In the future , every new vaccine the CDC recommends for children ( such as a COVID-19 vaccine ) will be automatically mandated in Virginia for school attendance without public hearings and input from citizens and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best of Joseph Mercola

Barbara Loe Fisher is the co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which is the oldest and largest consumer-led nonprofit organization in the U.S. providing accurate and objective information to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and help people make informed health choices.
As noted by Fisher, the rapid movement by governments and the pharmaceutical industry toward mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 and the proposed tracking and tracing of all individuals under the guise of public health is a culmination of everything we have been talking about for decades.
“Back in 1993, I started to predict that the day would come when Americans would not be able to participate in society without showing proof they’ve been vaccinated with whatever the government says they have to be vaccinated with,” Fisher says.
Utilitarianism Demands Sacrifice ‘for the Greater Good’
False Positive: A Year... Dalrymple, Theodore Best Price: $10.82 Buy New $15.65 (as of 04:35 UTC - Details) Legal proponents such as Alan Dershowitz, who has represented the notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and other prominent individuals, is now using a 1905 Supreme Court ruling to justify government officials literally detaining Americans and forcibly vaccinating them if they do not agree to get vaccinated voluntarily. Fisher explains:
“Dershowitz … was quite reckless in the language he used. He basically said that the Supreme Court in 1905 (Jacobson v. Massachusetts), [gives] the right of state governments to come in and forcibly inject you with a vaccine. That’s not really what Jacobson v. Massachusetts said …
In that case, it was smallpox, because that was the only vaccine they had in 1905, but you have to read the Supreme Court decision very carefully to understand everything that the justices said.
They basically concluded — and I think wrongly so, because utilitarianism … is based on a mathematical equation that some can be inconvenienced or sacrificed for the greater good of a majority of people — that people [who] opposed smallpox vaccination could be required to be vaccinated during epidemics.
Even religious objections could be overridden. But there’s also language in that decision that says that the court is not to be interpreted as meaning that if an individual was at risk for being harmed by the vaccination, they were not meant to [have concluded] that “cruel and inhuman to the last degree” would be the standard that would be used.
I think Dershowitz overstated the opinion, although it is a utilitarian opinion. It gives authority to the states to mandate vaccines because anything that is not defined in the Constitution as a federal activity is reserved for the states.
Public health laws, by and large in this country, are written by the states, and the federal authority is requiring vaccination for people crossing territorial borders of the United States [and the federal government] could mandate vaccines for interstate travel, crossing state borders. But most public health laws that legislatures make are for the residents of the states, which is why we have a patchwork of [vaccine] laws in this country …
I’m very worried that some attorney is going to try to challenge the Jacobson [ruling] in the 21st century. I think that, probably, in any court right now, you’re going to get that ruling upheld and you’re going to get it strengthened. I would advise against [challenging] that one in the Supreme Court.”
Enforcement Will Become a Hot Issue
If the worst-case scenario occurs and your state decides to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, or any other vaccine, the practical question will be how they’re going to enforce it. They’ll most probably rely on local police and/or the county sheriff.
Thankfully, county sheriffs are elected by the people and are directly accountable to the citizens in their county, the state Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution, and have the legal authority to deny what they consider to be an unlawful governmental order.

For this reason, I believe it is important to know who your county sheriff is. Get to know and develop a relationship with them. Educate them about why it is important to defend the human right to make informed, voluntary decisions about medical risk taking, including vaccine risk-taking. History of the Deep St... Stone, Jeremy Buy New $14.99 (as of 06:14 UTC - Details)
It is important to remember that, although the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Jacobson v. Massachusetts affirmed the constitutional authority of elected representatives in state legislatures to pass public health laws requiring vaccination, state legislators also have the constitutional authority to choose NOT to mandate vaccines and/or to include flexible medical, religious and conscientious belief exemptions in state public health laws.
This is why, in 2010, the National Vaccine Information Center created the NVIC Advocacy Portal, an online communications tool that monitors vaccine-related state legislation and alerts residents when proposed bills are moving in their state. They also provide fact-based talking points you can share when contacting your legislators.
The bottom line is that we need, as a nation, to start developing personal relationships with the elected legislators and officials, including our county sheriff. They need to know we will not accept tyranny in America.
“Let’s hope that what has happened this year is a lesson to the people that [they must] elect legislators who are going to reflect their values and beliefs — traditional values and beliefs that have been respected in this country for 245 years. If we don’t elect good people, we’re not going to have good laws,” Fisher says.
“The millennials and the Gen Xers have got to start running for office if they want to have a future where they’re going to be able to enjoy freedom of speech and conscience, freedom of religion and the right to assembly.
All of these things [are] protected in the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We have to elect people at the state and federal level who are not going to sell out, who are not going to sacrifice their integrity for money.
We know the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest lobby on Capitol Hill … we’ve got to build a firewall between government and industry that has been completely broken down in the last 40 years.”
H.R. 6666 Violates Several Constitutional Amendments
For example, H.R.6666, the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act, introduced in the House of Representatives May 1, 2020, has 64 co-sponsors1 (all Democrats; one Republican has withdrawn his name) and that bill would give $100 billion to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire people to go door-to-door to test the population for COVID-19 for fiscal year 2020, with more funds to follow, as needed, in subsequent fiscal years.
If you test positive, they’ll trace all your contacts and demand that you quarantine in your home or in a mobile unit. Children could be taken into child services if parents are quarantined.
“This is a violation of a number of amendments in the Constitution that protect our right to life and liberty, that protect our right to be free in our homes, and not be taken out of our homes and put somewhere the government wants to put us,” Fisher says.
“If we do not start to become aware of these laws that are being passed by legislators on Capitol Hill and [in] our state legislatures, we are going to be a captive people who don’t have civil liberties anymore …
We’re seeing this erosion of civil liberties because, unless you take liberty from the people — and they’re doing it in the name of safety — you cannot do the kinds of things that we’ve been talking about [such as restricting work, education, travel and social engagement unless you are vaccinated and implementing biometric tracking of the population] …
Having sat here for almost 40 years watching this vaccine empire unfold, I know that Bill Gates … has changed everything. He was a big proponent of public-private partnerships because he’s a businessman … He is a big believer in vaccinating the world and Gavi [the Gates-funded Vaccine Alliance] … is all about pharma.
All these companies are involved in vaccinating the world, and COVID-19 vaccines are being fast-tracked to licensure with additional funding from governments like the U.S. government — half a billion dollars to one company and half a billion dollars to another.
Moderna is an NIAID-supported vaccine. A lot of money has been given to these companies to fast-track these COVID-19 vaccines using technology that’s never been licensed before — DNA, messenger RNA [and] nanoparticle [vaccines].”
Operation Warp Speed
The CIA as Organized C... Valentine, Douglas Best Price: $21.35 Buy New $23.74 (as of 11:36 UTC - Details) The fast-tracking of a COVID-19 vaccine to licensure and subsequent widespread use has been termed Operation Warp Speed. What we must remember here is that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for any damage their vaccines do. Since 2011, drug companies making and selling vaccines are even shielded from design defect lawsuits, which means they have absolutely no incentive for making vaccines less harmful.
The 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act also indemnifies all drug companies making vaccines used during a public health emergency or a pandemic. So, vaccine companies, as well as any person who administers, mandates or enforces vaccine mandates, does not face any liability whatsoever if a new coronavirus vaccine turns out to be a catastrophe.
What’s more, when a COVID-19 vaccine does come out, there likely will be little or no information about its side effects, particularly long-term side effects. Moderna, which is a top contender in the race to be the first to get a licensed COVID-19 vaccine on the market, began human trials of its experimental mRNA vaccine in March 2020.
According to a May 18, 2020, press release,2 “After two doses, all participants evaluated to date across the 25 microgram and 100 mcg dose cohorts seroconverted with binding antibody levels at or above levels seen in convalescent sera.” The vaccine also “elicited neutralizing antibody titer levels in all eight initial participants …”
The words are important here, as high-binding antibodies are associated with paradoxical immune enhancement.
As explained in “Fast-Tracked COVID-19 Vaccine — What Could Go Wrong?” previous attempts to create coronavirus vaccines have failed due to coronaviruses triggering production of two different types of antibodies: one that fights disease, and one that triggers paradoxical immune enhancement that often results in very serious disease and/or death when the vaccinated person is exposed to the wild coronavirus.
Based on the historical coronavirus vaccine failures, this could become one of the biggest public health disasters in history. And, no one involved will be accountable or face any repercussions. Instead, they will all profit.
It’s also important to realize that only healthy people are enrolled in these human trials, yet only 4 in 10 Americans are actually free of chronic disease.3 What’s more, according to recent NHANES data,4 87.8% of Americans are metabolically inflexible, which impairs their immune function.
The NHANES data is over 4 years old and our metabolic health has only declined since 2016, so the number is likely higher than 90%, or 9 in 10 Americans are unhealthy to some degree.
On top of that, vitamin D deficiency is rampant, yet public health authorities are not stressing the importance of optimizing your vitamin D levels to reduce your risk of infection. If you do nothing else, make sure you raise your vitamin D level above 40 nanograms per milliliter, at bare minimum, and ideally 60 ng/mL, before this fall, when another predicted “second” wave of COVID-19 may hit.
They’re determined to somehow implant, or in some way have our bodies carry our vaccination records … They’re going for it all right now … American people are going to have to really take a look and figure out, do they want to give up their civil liberties for an illusion of safety?
COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery
Now, aside from using entirely novel manufacturing methods like messenger RNA (mRNA), DNA and nanoparticle genetic engineering technology, some of the COVID-19 vaccines being fast tracked to licensure also will be using novel vaccine delivery methods.
The Phoenix Program Douglas Valentine Best Price: $14.55 Buy New $11.00 (as of 04:30 UTC - Details) One new type of vaccine delivery, which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded and promoted, uses a microneedle array rather than conventional injection. The microneedles are equipped with fluorescent quantum dot tags. The resulting invisible mark can then be read by a smartphone equipped with a special sensor.
“This is definitely something that Bill Gates has been pushing,” Fisher says. “He has been pushing not only that everybody in the world has to get all these vaccines, but also that governments need to be able to track [people’s vaccination status].
Certainly, this type of administration of a vaccine is a double bubble because not only do you get the vaccine in the person, but you also are able to track them … They’re determined to somehow implant, or in some way have our bodies carry our vaccination records …
They’re going for it all right now … the American people are going to have to really take a look and figure out, do they want to give up their civil liberties for an illusion of safety? It’s really an illusion of safety.”
COVID-19 Vaccine Will Alter Your RNA and DNA
As noted by Fisher, the mRNA vaccines being developed against COVID-19 will alter your RNA and DNA, which is of tremendous concern. The idea behind them is to turn your body into a protein manufacturing plant, and if your immune system is hypersensitive, it could overreact, causing severe problems. Considering how many people have autoimmune diseases and allergies, these vaccines could have devastating effects for many.
“When you try to stimulate strong inflammatory responses in the body through the use of genetic manipulation, squalene oil-based adjuvants and nanoparticle technology — one vaccine is even using electricity to try to hyperstimulate an immune response — what is this going to do to people who don’t resolve inflammation in the body and become chronically inflamed and chronically ill and disabled?
This is what vaccines do. They stimulate inflammation in the body. They have to in order to provoke an antibody response, but this is atypical. When you’re trying to do this in the body, this is not a normal way that the body mounts an inflammatory response to a microbe.
They’ve turned everything upside down and we are just accepting it. Why are we not thinking critically? Why do people think that they shouldn’t really do the research and look at the science and look at what’s being done before they take a pharmaceutical product or a vaccine? This is what I don’t understand. We’ve totally given up our critical thinking ability and said the experts are going to do it for us …
I think that what people need to do — and I’ve been advocating this for 40 years — is you need to get educated, you need to get the accurate facts. Mercola.com and NVIC.org, we do our research.
We reference all of our information because we want you to have accurate information, and you need to share that information with your family, friends, community leaders and legislators because the only way that we’re going to be able to change government is by electing people who are going to reflect our values and beliefs — people who understand that we have a right, a human right, to make voluntary decisions about medical interventions — any medical procedure that can injure or kill us or our children.
It’s basic. It’s not hard. We’re governed by the laws that are made by the people we elect, and those people also appoint judges at the state and federal level. It all depends upon who we elect. At the end of the day, if … people are going to tyrannize us [and] violate our human rights, then we have to make a decision.
Everyone has to make a decision. The police, the sheriffs, every American is going to have to decide: Am I going to be somebody who is going to violate the civil rights and the human rights of my fellow citizens, or am I going to be somebody who follows my conscience and who understands the cultural values and beliefs that have guided this country for more than two centuries? …
I am praying that most Americans understand that we have got to fight for our freedom and for our civil liberties. It’s what has kept this country free for two centuries.”
Be Prepared to Protect State Authority
NATO’s Secret Ar... Daniele, Ganser Best Price: $70.25 Buy New $53.31 (as of 03:43 UTC - Details) Fisher is particularly concerned about the precedent set in Virginia in 2019, when the state legislature, which is now dominated by one political party, decided to eliminate the ability of duly elected legislators to decide which vaccines are mandated for children to attend school.
The legislature voted to immediately codify into Virginia law the CDC’s recommended childhood vaccine schedule. In the future, every new vaccine the CDC recommends for children (such as a COVID-19 vaccine) will be automatically mandated in Virginia for school attendance without public hearings and input from citizens and without a vote by legislators.
“This is very dangerous,” she says. “Why? Because Jacobson v. Massachusetts affirmed the authority of the state legislatures to make vaccine laws. What Virginia has done is they’ve handed over that power. They’ve given away that power to the CDC and made the CDC a de facto law-making body for the state of Virginia.
Now they are going to try to do this in every state, so that basically there will be no more hearings on proposed vaccine additions … This is extremely dangerous. I urge everyone to sign up for our free [NVIC Advocacy] Portal because it’s a public service we provide, and we want you to be informed.
We give fact-based talking points you can use with your legislators. This issue is going to become more and more important because of the power grab that has occurred in the last few months over this pandemic. Please be prepared. Please stand up for your right to make voluntary vaccine decisions.”
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lewrockwell--2020-07-01--Old Lives don’t Matter in This Coronavirus Era of Indifference

We now live in a time of government-imposed genocide of the old .
While this may sound far-fetched , it is exactly what is happening before our eyes in this hoax called the coronavirus pandemic .
This fabricated virus scam is being used as the excuse to commit mass extermination of the aged and weak in this country , and few are paying attention to this killing in plain sight .
This is first-degree murder by the state , and is being carefully structured in order to achieve as many deaths as possible of the old .
It is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and federal levels , and continues to be prosecuted without much outrage .
With the false second wave that is being heavily marketed , these unnecessary deaths will escalate once again , and the slaughter of the elderly will continue unabated .
Hitler ’ s Aktion T4 eugenics program , which was simply ‘ involuntary ’ euthanasia , was used to kill people whose existence was deemed “ unworthy of life.
” Hitler could learn a thing or two about killing the innocent from the ruling monsters in today ’ s world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ of innocents was that his murders were not hidden , whereas the government and medical murderers of the old and weak today in this country and others around the world are hiding their murders under a guise of protecting them from a fake virus .
That is a lie that is so obvious that only the most ignorant among us would be fooled by this deception .
Unfortunately , that now would include over ninety percent of this population .
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Apparently , the Black Lives Matter crowd doesn ’ t think much of the old either , as they do not protest the murder of black people if they are among the elderly in care homes .
The killing is indiscriminate , so none are given favored treatment whether black , white brown , male , or female .
They are simply locked up , not given proper care , starved to death , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or become sick , and not allowed to be taken to any hospital when it is vital to saving their lives .
Dr. Vernon Coleman suggests in his video “ Your Government Wants You Dead , ” conservatively of course , that up to 150,000 old people have been killed globally during this ‘ pandemic ’ so far .
This is very understated in my opinion , and there will be many more unnecessary deaths of our older generation to come due to this virus fraud .
One key measure that has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elderly lies in the fact that for the very first time , age is being used as a factor to determine triage needs .
In other words , no old person will be treated .
This was planned in advance .
Age has nothing to do with triage , at least not in any moral , sane , or compassionate society .
But when this phony virus scare was forced on the public , the government and the ‘ healthcare ’ providers disallowed medical treatment for most all the elderly , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or nursing homes .
So is this the practice of eugenics , euthanasia , population control , or genocide ?
It is most likely all these things , and it is being done for the economic reason of saving money , and simply to eliminate those deemed unimportant and in need of care .
As I stated in my recent article , “ Rationing Life : A Major Objective of the Coronavirus Scam : Wall Street and the Bo ... Sutton , Antony C. Best Price : $ 13.40 Buy New $ 14.32 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and long-term care facilities have become the hotbed of murder by the state , and many forced to be in those types of institutions have been purposely targeted for extermination , albeit under the guise of protecting them by forcible isolation , which led to little or no medical care .
Depending on state or country , once a single symptom or two of so-called Covid-19 was said to exist in one patient , the entire establishment was considered infected .
Because of this mandate , few , if any , would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and none for Covid .
This was in essence a death sentence for any that were sick from any ailment in these care homes .
In these circumstances , the death rates at nursing homes and senior centers have escalated dramatically , and with any planned second phase , even a higher level of orchestrated death in these types of places will occur .
This is a travesty.
” What is happening to the elderly in this country , and around the world as well , is not only premeditated murder by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by torture .
Many are dying of starvation , of lack of water , and of lack of basic care .
Some have been left to die in total solitude , and after such a horrible and painful death , have been left to rot in their rooms .
This has happened in many countries , including the U.S .
The notion that all hospitals are full , and that all the morgues are overflowing is a lie .
That is media propaganda meant to scare the general population , and has nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ globally , as well as in this country , are in the normal range , as are flu ( including ‘ covid ’ ) deaths .
The mandated non-treatment of the old suffering from cancer , heart disease , diabetes , respiratory ailments , and other sicknesses , including viruses , is causing deadly havoc amongst the elderly population .
Many if not most of these deaths are deliberate , and that has to be stopped .
The Fourth Reich : The ... Rosenfeld , Gavriel D. Best Price : $ 16.78 Buy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fictitious pandemic has been nothing more than a manufactured plot meant to allow the government to claim a position of power falsely blamed on a virus .
Once this narrative was established by the ruling elites and their media whores , the response needed to shut down the country was relatively easy to accomplish , especially considering the dumbed down state of the proletariat class .
This problem is not going away without resistance , and can not be stopped without some sort of mass uprising .
So long as the bulk of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the utterly extreme government response to this fraud will only deepen in scope , and will be all-consuming by next year or sooner .
The atrocities committed against the old and weak will not stay isolated to that group .
As this pandemic push continues to expand , and this bogus second phase is advanced , more and more lives will be at risk , and it will not be due to any fake virus , but due only to the rulers and their government pawn ’ s desires to control all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if all lives do not matter in the minds of the people of this country , then none will be safe from the torture and tyranny that is state totalitarianism .
None will be free , and none will ever again see a normal life of joy , happiness , love , and passion .
What future will you choose ?
“ If there is to be peace in the world , There must be peace in the nations .
If there is to be peace in the nations , There must be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is to be peace in the cities , There must be peace between neighbors .
If there is to be peace between neighbors , There must be peace in the home .
If there is to be peace in the home , There must be peace in the heart.
” The Best of Gary D. Barnett

We now live in a time of government-imposed genocide of the old. While this may sound far-fetched, it is exactly what is happening before our eyes in this hoax called the coronavirus pandemic. This fabricated virus scam is being used as the excuse to commit mass extermination of the aged and weak in this country, and few are paying attention to this killing in plain sight. This is first-degree murder by the state, and is being carefully structured in order to achieve as many deaths as possible of the old. It is being done at the local, state, and federal levels, and continues to be prosecuted without much outrage. With the false second wave that is being heavily marketed, these unnecessary deaths will escalate once again, and the slaughter of the elderly will continue unabated.
Hitler’s Aktion T4 eugenics program, which was simply ‘involuntary’ euthanasia, was used to kill people whose existence was deemed “unworthy of life.” Hitler could learn a thing or two about killing the innocent from the ruling monsters in today’s world. The difference in Hitler’s killing of innocents was that his murders were not hidden, whereas the government and medical murderers of the old and weak today in this country and others around the world are hiding their murders under a guise of protecting them from a fake virus. That is a lie that is so obvious that only the most ignorant among us would be fooled by this deception. Unfortunately, that now would include over ninety percent of this population. A VOYAGE IN IMAGINATIO... Holmes, Dr Joel S Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:21 UTC - Details)
There is nothing racist about the U.S. murderers of our older population, as they are killing the aged regardless of color or ethnicity. Apparently, the Black Lives Matter crowd doesn’t think much of the old either, as they do not protest the murder of black people if they are among the elderly in care homes. The killing is indiscriminate, so none are given favored treatment whether black, white brown, male, or female. They are simply locked up, not given proper care, starved to death, isolated with others that either are sick or become sick, and not allowed to be taken to any hospital when it is vital to saving their lives. Dr. Vernon Coleman suggests in his video “Your Government Wants You Dead,” conservatively of course, that up to 150,000 old people have been killed globally during this ‘pandemic’ so far. This is very understated in my opinion, and there will be many more unnecessary deaths of our older generation to come due to this virus fraud.
One key measure that has been implemented to purposely cause the deaths of the elderly lies in the fact that for the very first time, age is being used as a factor to determine triage needs. In other words, no old person will be treated. This was planned in advance. Age has nothing to do with triage, at least not in any moral, sane, or compassionate society. But when this phony virus scare was forced on the public, the government and the ‘healthcare’ providers disallowed medical treatment for most all the elderly, especially any that were in assisted living centers or nursing homes. So is this the practice of eugenics, euthanasia, population control, or genocide? It is most likely all these things, and it is being done for the economic reason of saving money, and simply to eliminate those deemed unimportant and in need of care.
As I stated in my recent article, “Rationing Life: A Major Objective of the Coronavirus Scam: Wall Street and the Bo... Sutton, Antony C. Best Price: $13.40 Buy New $14.32 (as of 04:32 UTC - Details)
“In my opinion, nursing homes and long-term care facilities have become the hotbed of murder by the state, and many forced to be in those types of institutions have been purposely targeted for extermination, albeit under the guise of protecting them by forcible isolation, which led to little or no medical care. Depending on state or country, once a single symptom or two of so-called Covid-19 was said to exist in one patient, the entire establishment was considered infected. Because of this mandate, few, if any, would be allowed admittance to hospitals for general care, and none for Covid. This was in essence a death sentence for any that were sick from any ailment in these care homes. In these circumstances, the death rates at nursing homes and senior centers have escalated dramatically, and with any planned second phase, even a higher level of orchestrated death in these types of places will occur. This is a travesty.”
What is happening to the elderly in this country, and around the world as well, is not only premeditated murder by the state, but is murder preceded by torture. Many are dying of starvation, of lack of water, and of lack of basic care. Some have been left to die in total solitude, and after such a horrible and painful death, have been left to rot in their rooms. This has happened in many countries, including the U.S. The notion that all hospitals are full, and that all the morgues are overflowing is a lie. That is media propaganda meant to scare the general population, and has nothing to do with reality. Total deaths globally, as well as in this country, are in the normal range, as are flu (including ‘covid’) deaths. The mandated non-treatment of the old suffering from cancer, heart disease, diabetes, respiratory ailments, and other sicknesses, including viruses, is causing deadly havoc amongst the elderly population. Many if not most of these deaths are deliberate, and that has to be stopped. The Fourth Reich: The ... Rosenfeld, Gavriel D. Best Price: $16.78 Buy New $21.49 (as of 04:06 UTC - Details)
The entirety of this fictitious pandemic has been nothing more than a manufactured plot meant to allow the government to claim a position of power falsely blamed on a virus. Once this narrative was established by the ruling elites and their media whores, the response needed to shut down the country was relatively easy to accomplish, especially considering the dumbed down state of the proletariat class. This problem is not going away without resistance, and cannot be stopped without some sort of mass uprising. So long as the bulk of the population continues to follow orders, the utterly extreme government response to this fraud will only deepen in scope, and will be all-consuming by next year or sooner.
The atrocities committed against the old and weak will not stay isolated to that group. As this pandemic push continues to expand, and this bogus second phase is advanced, more and more lives will be at risk, and it will not be due to any fake virus, but due only to the rulers and their government pawn’s desires to control all of society.
All lives matter, and if all lives do not matter in the minds of the people of this country, then none will be safe from the torture and tyranny that is state totalitarianism. None will be free, and none will ever again see a normal life of joy, happiness, love, and passion. What future will you choose?
“If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.”
~ Laozi (Unsourced, 6th to 4th century BC)
The Best of Gary D. Barnett


Orange Man Bad

As the Impeachment Farce neared its pathetic denouement , an optimist might have expected that the virulent Trump Derangement Syndrome infecting the MSM , the Dems and the Washington ruling class would finally die out .
Not at all .
It ’ s back with a vengeance , lurking in the subtext and sotto voce of virtually every headline and utterance from the above precincts with respect to the Covid-19 .
Indeed , the entire Covid narrative is so hideously distorted , exaggerated , mendacious and risible as to finally confirm what ’ s actually been at bottom of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Impeachment Farce , the Covid-Hysteria and now the Summer of Race Huckstering , too .
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It ’ s as simple and primitive as that .
In the present instance , only the filter of Orange Man Bad can possibly explain each new twist and turn of the MSM ’ s Covid narrative , which has essentially degenerated into a running show trial-like prosecution .
But finally they have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are just flat-out fabricating , censoring and falsifying the evidence with respect to the so-called second wave allegedly hitting the Sun Belt states .
Their true purpose however , is nakedly evident .
They are so infuriated about the Donald ’ s claims that the virus is abating ( it is ) and that it ’ s time to reopen America and get back to business ( it really is ! )
that they are literally attempting to tag him with de facto genocide .
Needless to say , whatever is going on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it isn ’ t an eruption of the Black Plague , even if you extrapolate the current elevated level of “ positives ” for several months into the future .
So let us go back to the basics .
Even in the worst hit precincts of New York City , there never was a random sample Grim Reaper marauding through the general population .
The very bad numbers of cases and deaths coming from the five boroughs were overwhelmingly the product of a catastrophic mismanagement of nursing and other long-term care homes and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ morbidities .
But even then , when you compare the case and death rates per 100,000 for NYC ’ s three most rotten boroughs – the Bronx , Queens and Brooklyn – with what is happening in the major Texas cities , for instance , it ’ s not the same zip code or even the same planet .
Covid Cases/Deaths Per 100,000 Persons as of June 27 : The media drumbeat in recent days has especially focused on the alleged surge of new cases in Houston/Harris County , featuring the same old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that turned out not to be true even in NYC – except for a few hospitals at the epicenter of the pandemic in the Bronx for a few peak weeks in March/April .
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And they also underscore the everlasting laziness and servility of the MSM .
After all , if you start with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Houston that is currently only 17 % of that recorded for the Bronx and a death rate that is only 3 % of what occurred in the Bronx , why in the world would you even think that Houston is teetering on the edge of a medical calamity ?
That ’ s especially the case if you happen to have the basic knowledge that Houston sports one of the great medical complexes of the entire world .
That is , it ’ s a health care rich community experiencing only a tiny fraction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in NYC .
Beyond that , we are no longer in the horse and buggy age , obviously .
Given that patients can be reallocated to other communities if need be , the relevant hospital capacity is not just Houston ’ s , but capacity in other places around the state that are not experiencing the same level of Covid case increases now occurring in Houston .
So here are the statewide facts : As of June 25 , Texas had 54,700 staffed acute care hospital beds , but only 41,950 were being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just 76.7 % and 12,750 empty beds still available .
Moreover , only about 5,000 beds representing 12 % of the current census were occupied by confirmed or suspected Covid patients .
So as of June 25 the state had nearly 2.5X more empty hospital beds than it had Covid patients , notwithstanding the surge of new cases and hospitalizations during the month of June .
In fact , that ’ s not the half of it .
Owing to seasonal factors , the number of empty hospital beds has actually been rising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face of the soaring Covid caseload .
That ’ s right .
On March 18 , Texas had 46,550 occupied hospital beds , reflecting an occupancy rate of 85 % or well above the 76.7 % level as of June 25 .
But back in March virtually none of these occupied beds were attributable to Covid patients .
That ’ s because at that point there had been only be 83 confirmed Covid cases and 2 deaths reported for the entire state !
By then what happened over the next three months , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zero to the present 5,000 , is that even more beds emptied out due to : • aggressive reclassification of patients admitted for other reasons as Covid patients .
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As to the latter point , it seems that Texas health officials started logging every single COVID-19-positive patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization , even if the patients themselves were admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus .
As Lindsey Rosales , a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ independent investigator : “ The number of hospitalized patients includes patients with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 even if the person is admitted to the hospital for a different reason , ” Rosales said .
Moreover , nearly everyone admitted for some other medical condition – and presumably asymptomatic for Covid – gets tested for Covid-19 before other treatments or surgeries are permitted : Texas Health Resources , one of the state ’ s largest hospital systems , says on its website that its “ patients [ are ] tested before most procedures.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Texas have gone up in recent weeks as the state has gradually re-opened following its lockdown .
In other words , the first wave of Lockdowns created a huge backlog of demand for elective surgeries and other discretionary treatments , which were banned by state authorities .
But once those bans were lifted and people got in the hospital for deferred treatments , they were tested for Covid and became the statistical gruel for the so-called second wave .
But even then , the Texas hospital statistics over the last three months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s weekend narrative that Texas hospitals will soon be overflowing into the hallways .
To wit , here is the trend of unused acute care beds in the Texas hospital system : In short , Texas had gone from virtually no Covid cases or deaths on March 18 to 131,917 cases and 2,296 deaths by June 25 , but it actually had 56 % more empty hospital beds on the latter date !
You can ’ t make this stuff up .
The MSM is so intoxicated by Orange Man Bad that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kangaroo court of juvenile imprecations .
Nor are we attempting to deceptively drown the case in statewide averages .
As of last week , the Houston area alone had 12,458 staffed acute care beds ( 23 % of the statewide total ) , but 2,675 or 21 % of these were empty ; and on top of that they had an additional surge capacity of another 925 beds .
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So the fact is , as of last week the Houston area hospitals had just 795 lab confirmed Covid patients , representing just 8 % of their 9,785 daily census .
That also means that given Houston ’ s 3,600 beds of remaining surge capacity , they could actually accommodate a 4X increase in their current Covid caseload .
As it happened , even the leadership of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enough from CNN , NBC , and the rest of the Covid Calamity Howlers , and struck back this weekend with a resounding denial of this spurious crisis narrative .
For instance , the CEO of one Houston ’ s leading hospitals , Memorial Hermann , pulled no punches : We actually still think we have plenty of capacity to meet the demand for Covid , as well as non-Covid patients .
We ’ re always busy in the summertime , and what we ’ re seeing now is a typical summer for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system has 17 hospitals in the Houston area , stressed that the medical network ’ s capacity is “ constantly in flux ” and needing to be managed .
“ But right now , we ’ re able to do that very well , ” he said .
“ Across our system , we have about 4,000 beds that we can bring into play ” for intensive care , he said .
“ Right now , only about 30 % are being utilized for Covid care , so we still have plenty of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients who need hospitalization for other illnesses.
” Doctors and nurses also have learned how to better treat Covid-19 patients after three months of its presence , said Callender , who joined Memorial Hermann in 2019 .
“ We ’ re seeing a slightly lower rate in terms of the number of typical hospital bed patients who convert to a need for ICU hospitalization .
We ’ re also using ventilators less frequently , ” he said .
“ We have more drugs at our disposable that we know help limit the severity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overall we ’ re faring better than we did just a couple months ago.
” Authentic $ 100 Preside ... Buy New $ 1.99 Likewise , chimed in Dr. Marc Boom , President and CEO of another leading institution , Houston Methodist : The number of hospitalizations are “ being misinterpreted , ” said Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom , “ and , quite frankly , we ’ re concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now.
” “ We do have the capacity to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have lots of fluidity and ability to manage , ” Boom said .
Boom pointed out that his hospital one year ago was also at 95 % ICU capacity – long before Covid was a thing !
That ’ s right .
Apparently , 95 % utilization of the ICU is a typical June condition , not the sign of the Covid Apocalypse .
And contrary to the heated headlines on the MSM , only about 25 % of Houston ’ s fully occupied ICU ’ s are accounted for by Covid patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s , ” he said .
“ That ’ s how all hospitals operate.
” …..the hospital “ [ has ] many levers in our ability to adjust our ICU , ” he said , claiming that the hospital capacity regularly reported by the media is “ base ” capacity rather than surge capacity .
Boom also alluded to hospitals ’ ability to turn regular beds into ICU beds as well as to turn recovery , and pre- and post surgical areas into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of coronavirus “ flex area.
” Specifically , there are about 2,200 ICU beds in the Houston service area , but another 500 beds could be added to this after such planned for conversions and re-purposings .
And Boom also pointed out an even more salient point : Boom said overall , hospitals are seeing younger COVID-19 patients , who stay for a shorter period of time , and fewer deaths .
Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday that the demographics of the outbreak have “ flipped ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state ’ s hospitals often don ’ t require ICU beds , even though many do get very sick .
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Not at all , according to Mark Wallace , Texas Children ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this was just part of the systems ’ surge plan : Texas Children ’ s started accepting adult COVID-19 positive patients this week and is currently operating at a 74 percent ICU occupancy , Wallace said .
“ We have the ability to take care of all of the Houstonians that need a critical care environment , that need to be operated on , or acute care , ” Wallace said .
As we said , the MSM , the Dems and the Washington ruling class are literally rabid with Orange Mad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hospital capacity crisis in Texas is just one more case in point .
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As the Impeachment Farce neared its pathetic denouement, an optimist might have expected that the virulent Trump Derangement Syndrome infecting the MSM, the Dems and the Washington ruling class would finally die out.
Not at all. It’s back with a vengeance, lurking in the subtext and sotto voce of virtually every headline and utterance from the above precincts with respect to the Covid-19.
Indeed, the entire Covid narrative is so hideously distorted, exaggerated, mendacious and risible as to finally confirm what’s actually been at bottom of the successive waves of RussiaGate, UkraineGate, the Impeachment Farce, the Covid-Hysteria and now the Summer of Race Huckstering, too.
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It’s as simple and primitive as that. In the present instance, only the filter of Orange Man Bad can possibly explain each new twist and turn of the MSM’s Covid narrative, which has essentially degenerated into a running show trial-like prosecution.
But finally they have gotten so desperate and hysterical that they are just flat-out fabricating, censoring and falsifying the evidence with respect to the so-called second wave allegedly hitting the Sun Belt states.
Their true purpose however, is nakedly evident. They are so infuriated about the Donald’s claims that the virus is abating (it is) and that it’s time to reopen America and get back to business (it really is!) that they are literally attempting to tag him with de facto genocide.
Needless to say, whatever is going on in Texas, Florida and Arizona, it isn’t an eruption of the Black Plague, even if you extrapolate the current elevated level of “positives” for several months into the future.
So let us go back to the basics. Even in the worst hit precincts of New York City, there never was a random sample Grim Reaper marauding through the general population. The very bad numbers of cases and deaths coming from the five boroughs were overwhelmingly the product of a catastrophic mismanagement of nursing and other long-term care homes and other abandoned elderly already afflicted with life-threatening morbidities.
But even then, when you compare the case and death rates per 100,000 for NYC’s three most rotten boroughs – the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn – with what is happening in the major Texas cities, for instance, it’s not the same zip code or even the same planet.
Covid Cases/Deaths Per 100,000 Persons as of June 27:
Bronx: 3,346/234;
Queens: 2,867/222;
Brooklyn: 2,345/198;
Houston: 567/7.;
Dallas: 696/13;
Fort Worth: 500/10;
San Antonio: 423/5;
Austin: 549/9;
The media drumbeat in recent days has especially focused on the alleged surge of new cases in Houston/Harris County, featuring the same old hoary prediction of overflowing hospitals and ICUs that turned out not to be true even in NYC – except for a few hospitals at the epicenter of the pandemic in the Bronx for a few peak weeks in March/April. Commemorative Medal Se... Buy New $69.95 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
Yet just like in the case of the flooded NYC hospitals myth, the readily accessible facts with respect to Texas and Houston refute this weekend’s media blitz entirely.
And they also underscore the everlasting laziness and servility of the MSM. After all, if you start with a positive case rate per 100,000 in Houston that is currently only 17% of that recorded for the Bronx and a death rate that is only 3% of what occurred in the Bronx, why in the world would you even think that Houston is teetering on the edge of a medical calamity?
That’s especially the case if you happen to have the basic knowledge that Houston sports one of the great medical complexes of the entire world. That is, it’s a health care rich community experiencing only a tiny fraction of the Covid case load that happened in NYC.
Beyond that, we are no longer in the horse and buggy age, obviously. Given that patients can be reallocated to other communities if need be, the relevant hospital capacity is not just Houston’s, but capacity in other places around the state that are not experiencing the same level of Covid case increases now occurring in Houston.
So here are the statewide facts: As of June 25, Texas had 54,700 staffed acute care hospital beds, but only 41,950 were being used, implying a occupancy rate of just 76.7% and 12,750 empty beds still available.
Moreover, only about 5,000 beds representing 12% of the current census were occupied by confirmed or suspected Covid patients. So as of June 25 the state had nearly 2.5X more empty hospital beds than it had Covid patients, notwithstanding the surge of new cases and hospitalizations during the month of June.
In fact, that’s not the half of it. Owing to seasonal factors, the number of empty hospital beds has actually been rising during the spring months even in the face of the soaring Covid caseload.
That’s right. On March 18, Texas had 46,550 occupied hospital beds, reflecting an occupancy rate of 85% or well above the 76.7% level as of June 25.
But back in March virtually none of these occupied beds were attributable to Covid patients. That’s because at that point there had been only be 83 confirmed Covid cases and 2 deaths reported for the entire state!
By then what happened over the next three months, as the Covid caseload built up from zero to the present 5,000, is that even more beds emptied out due to:
state orders prohibiting elective surgeries and other treatments;
normal seasonal declines in occupancy; and
aggressive reclassification of patients admitted for other reasons as Covid patients.
2020 Silver American E... Check Amazon for Pricing. As to the latter point, it seems that Texas health officials started logging every single COVID-19-positive patient in the state as a COVID-19 hospitalization, even if the patients themselves were admitted seeking treatment for something other than the coronavirus.
As Lindsey Rosales, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Health Services, confirmed recently to an independent investigator:
“The number of hospitalized patients includes patients with a lab-confirmed case of COVID-19 even if the person is admitted to the hospital for a different reason,” Rosales said.
Moreover, nearly everyone admitted for some other medical condition – and presumably asymptomatic for Covid – gets tested for Covid-19 before other treatments or surgeries are permitted:
Texas Health Resources, one of the state’s largest hospital systems, says on its website that its “patients [are] tested before most procedures.” Elective surgeries and other medical procedures in Texas have gone up in recent weeks as the state has gradually re-opened following its lockdown.
In other words, the first wave of Lockdowns created a huge backlog of demand for elective surgeries and other discretionary treatments, which were banned by state authorities. But once those bans were lifted and people got in the hospital for deferred treatments, they were tested for Covid and became the statistical gruel for the so-called second wave.
But even then, the Texas hospital statistics over the last three months make mincemeat out of the national media’s weekend narrative that Texas hospitals will soon be overflowing into the hallways. To wit, here is the trend of unused acute care beds in the Texas hospital system:
3/18: 8,155;
4/1: 18,411;
4/15: 21,489;
4/29: 19,432;
5/20: 16,035;
5/27: 15,315;
6/3: 15,219;
6/10: 13,271;
6/17: 14,993;
6/25: 12,571
In short, Texas had gone from virtually no Covid cases or deaths on March 18 to 131,917 cases and 2,296 deaths by June 25, but it actually had 56% more empty hospital beds on the latter date!
You can’t make this stuff up. The MSM is so intoxicated by Orange Man Bad that it has essentially turned journalism into a kangaroo court of juvenile imprecations.
Nor are we attempting to deceptively drown the case in statewide averages. As of last week, the Houston area alone had 12,458 staffed acute care beds (23% of the statewide total), but 2,675 or 21% of these were empty; and on top of that they had an additional surge capacity of another 925 beds. Magnasonic Professiona... Best Price: $21.36 Buy New $33.96 (as of 04:34 UTC - Details)
That’s especially salient because the rise in cases in Texas and Houston has generally been among a much younger population than earlier in the pandemic, and the need has been for exactly these kinds of general beds, not ICU beds.
So the fact is, as of last week the Houston area hospitals had just 795 lab confirmed Covid patients, representing just 8% of their 9,785 daily census. That also means that given Houston’s 3,600 beds of remaining surge capacity, they could actually accommodate a 4X increase in their current Covid caseload.
As it happened, even the leadership of the Houston health care community finally had enough from CNN, NBC, and the rest of the Covid Calamity Howlers, and struck back this weekend with a resounding denial of this spurious crisis narrative.
For instance, the CEO of one Houston’s leading hospitals, Memorial Hermann, pulled no punches:
We actually still think we have plenty of capacity to meet the demand for Covid, as well as non-Covid patients. We’re always busy in the summertime, and what we’re seeing now is a typical summer for us.
Callender, whose not-for-profit health system has 17 hospitals in the Houston area, stressed that the medical network’s capacity is “constantly in flux” and needing to be managed. “But right now, we’re able to do that very well,” he said.
“Across our system, we have about 4,000 beds that we can bring into play” for intensive care, he said. “Right now, only about 30% are being utilized for Covid care, so we still have plenty of capacity for Covid patients as well as patients who need hospitalization for other illnesses.”
Doctors and nurses also have learned how to better treat Covid-19 patients after three months of its presence, said Callender, who joined Memorial Hermann in 2019.
“We’re seeing a slightly lower rate in terms of the number of typical hospital bed patients who convert to a need for ICU hospitalization. We’re also using ventilators less frequently,” he said. “We have more drugs at our disposable that we know help limit the severity and duration of the illness. So overall we’re faring better than we did just a couple months ago.”
Authentic $100 Preside... Buy New $1.99 (as of 06:23 UTC - Details) Likewise, chimed in Dr. Marc Boom, President and CEO of another leading institution, Houston Methodist:
The number of hospitalizations are “being misinterpreted,” said Houston Methodist CEO Marc Boom, “and, quite frankly, we’re concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now.”
“We do have the capacity to care for many more patients, and have lots of fluidity and ability to manage,” Boom said.
Boom pointed out that his hospital one year ago was also at 95% ICU capacity – long before Covid was a thing!
That’s right. Apparently, 95% utilization of the ICU is a typical June condition, not the sign of the Covid Apocalypse. And contrary to the heated headlines on the MSM, only about 25% of Houston’s fully occupied ICU’s are accounted for by Covid patients.
Again from Boom:
It is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s,” he said. “That’s how all hospitals operate.”
…..the hospital “[has] many levers in our ability to adjust our ICU,” he said, claiming that the hospital capacity regularly reported by the media is “base” capacity rather than surge capacity.
Boom also alluded to hospitals’ ability to turn regular beds into ICU beds as well as to turn recovery, and pre- and post surgical areas into ICU areas if needed as a kind of coronavirus “flex area.”
Specifically, there are about 2,200 ICU beds in the Houston service area, but another 500 beds could be added to this after such planned for conversions and re-purposings. And Boom also pointed out an even more salient point:
Boom said overall, hospitals are seeing younger COVID-19 patients, who stay for a shorter period of time, and fewer deaths. Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday that the demographics of the outbreak have “flipped” and that the mostly-younger people arriving in the state’s hospitals often don’t require ICU beds, even though many do get very sick.
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Not at all, according to Mark Wallace, Texas Children’s Hospital president and CEO. Actually, this was just part of the systems’ surge plan:
Texas Children’s started accepting adult COVID-19 positive patients this week and is currently operating at a 74 percent ICU occupancy, Wallace said.
“We have the ability to take care of all of the Houstonians that need a critical care environment, that need to be operated on, or acute care,” Wallace said.
As we said, the MSM, the Dems and the Washington ruling class are literally rabid with Orange Mad Bad.
The recent ballyhooed Covid surge and hospital capacity crisis in Texas is just one more case in point.
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