GOING VIRAL – AND IN A SERIOUS MANNER (POSTED 3/05/20)

   I come from the state with the worst outbreak (in fatalities), Washington State. There will certainly be no humor or satire today. The blurb will still be quick but I will attempt as much analysis value as possible in a short time. To begin:

   The Washington State outbreak highlights the most basic – and least talked about – aspect of fighting a national epidemic. It is that there are 3,142 primary government agencies that will have to lead the fight (and none of them have anything to do with Donald Trump). I refer to the fact that America has 3,142 counties in it – and each county is tasked its own crack team for public health issues. 

   This is the spot where the fight will be won or lost. Referring back to Washington State to illustrate the point: The disease epicenter of our state, at the present time, is one county. Thus, there is one county in America that is currently taking the main brunt of the disease (in fatalities) for the whole country. And all from a very tragic but localized situation.

   Since these blurbs are meant to be short, I will just throw out one shortcoming in our current crisis infrastructure. We have around 687 federal courthouses, spread around the country, that could serve as staging areas against a national epidemic or crisis. Their main purpose would, actually, be small but necessary.

   They would be there as a way to deal with the fact that we would need to have all 3,142 counties working at full capacity – and that the worst starting problem (in any crisis) will always be logistics. Hopefully, the 687 staging areas (spread all throughout the country) will help with the logistics of dealing with the 3,142 county governments – also spread all throughout the country. May the Lord watch over us.

WITH ENOUGH MREs … (POSTED 3/19/20)

A quick note: MREs stands for Meals Ready to Eat and are designed (primarily) for our military.

   Our situation (with the coronavirus) seems complicated but first a background story. In my last managers job: I wound up butting heads over a basic philosophical difference. The company had a new high level management that was utterly stuck on themselves – and on how much smarter they were than every other person on the planet.

   (Yes, elitist snobbery is alive and well in the corporate world too. Sadly, this is also what they were basing their new direction on to a, presumably, more superior way. Spoiler alert: it didn’t happen like that).

   My position was diametrically the opposite: do things in such a dumbed down, mega-simplified format that it would NOT be possible for it to NOT work. And … once you have something that is not possible for it to not work – then what are the odds that it WILL work? Pretty good, I would think.

   This is also the right approach, for not just the current epidemic, but for every other possible one as well. For what is the one and only airtight way to beat every possible epidemic? Starting with the simple (and the theoretical) for now: keep everyone isolated from each other until the disease runs its’ course. In this way, no current sufferer will ever be able to pass it on to another person. Thus, once it has run its’ course, the epidemic expires with it.

   There are nuances here but, for now, I present the central building block of the air tight epidemic defense: 21 billion MREs at the expense of only 63 billion dollars. This would create enough MREs, to shelter-in-place, the entire U.S. population for the full run of the current disease (and most other diseases also). Now the nuances:

  You would not have to do the entire country all at once. And, in all probability, you might never need to do the whole country at all. There would need to be rolling isolation campaigns.

   They would be preceded by the national guard getting the MREs distributed first, then the isolation/shutdown next. Also, for the next epidemic, we could set up staging areas to help the distribution process. (In another news blurb, posted on 3/05/20, I pointed out that there are 687 federal courthouses spread throughout the country.)

   Now, yes, you would also have to be aware that once you lift the local shutdown – and then reopen the area – there is the threat of people from other areas coming in. And these people may not have had their own areas isolated yet. But competent epidemiologists can walk one through the nuances – while these Current News! items are only meant to be short blurbs.

   The central point is that you can readily defeat any and all possible epidemics if you have a sufficient amount of MREs. And that this is a much cheaper tactic and a much thorougher one also – though there are some economic nuances. Example: a local (but universalized) isolation campaign does not have to damage the economy that much. For, while there will be no income coming in, there will also be fewer outlays as well.

  Are you a worker? You have no income for the 3 weeks but you can also have no outlays as well. If the epidemics’ economics plan just focuses on rent/mortagages and utilities – for a temporary cover period – then you won’t need to make any money during those three weeks. And the MREs will keep you fed for your food.

   Are you a business owner? You also have no income during the 3 weeks but you also have fewer outlays – you don’t have to pay wages. Like the workers, if the epidemics’ economics plan just focuses on rent/mortgages and utilities – for a temporary cover period – then you won’t need to make any money during those three weeks.

   Again, we can talk nuances. But the general economic concept is that you have the local economy simply become dormant for the short interlude.  Thus, I feel it can all be simplified by just going back to the title of this blurb. If you will just give me enough MREs then I can save the world! 

WHILE WE ARE STILL MINUS ENOUGH MREs … (POSTED 3/29/20)

   So … for the moment (at least) we are minus our MRE stockpile. And, unfortunately, the Prez is being pressured to do a lot of the wrong things and … is not getting the type of advice he needs to do the right ones. Look back, for example, at my 3/05/20 post on the coronavirus.

  It mentioned the 3,142 most important government agencies that would have to be at the center of the fight. It was my first serious blurb on the virus and is, still, the most relevant. For now we know that 50% of all the virus transmission has come out of just 10 counties in America.

   If the CDC had made the Countrys’ County Health Departments their main focus we might well have stopped the problems. Now, granted, we can’t turn back the clock. So, I will introduce Going-Forward-Solution #1: a strategic quarantine of these 10 counties.

   Going-Forward-Solution #1): The first of the new ways forward (to reopen the country): you can not cross any county line (in either direction) EXCEPT under the following circumstances:

    a) You are hauling commercial cargo AND you do not roll down your window or get out of your vehicle – except at truck stops along the way if you are a long haul trucker.

    b) Now that we have a more enhanced testing ability: you may go back to using public transportation systems to go past county lines. IF you are tested first before getting on a plane, train or sailing vessel. AND you are tested after exiting a plane, train or sailing vessel on your return to your point of origin.

   These two sets of restrictions will do little economic damages and should have been instituted at the County levels from the earliest times of the outbreak. It may well be a good idea to make this a national set of restrictions. At a minimum, they must be a part of a strategic quarantine for the Top Ten – the counties that have done 1/2 of all the transmissions of the disease for the whole country.

   Going-Forward-Solution #2) STOP even trying to protect the entire country: it is not possible because we did not (and still do not) have the necessary preparations in place. We are doing the #1 No-No of all times: THE DIFFUSION OF LIMITED RESOURCES or to use a medical term: we are in a triage situation while still trying to help everyone. MEDICAL RULE NUMBER ONE: YOU DO NOT DO THAT!

  There are two categories of people to deal with: those with a high probability of death from the virus vs. those who have only a high probability of getting sick (but not dying). We must overhaul the entire strategy: double down hard on only those most vulnerable to death. In short, we must shift our approach so that we will allow a lot more people to get sick while insuring that a lot less people will actually die.

   And, in a sort of grim way, getting sick is good if you are not susceptible to actually dying. The more the population becomes this way the faster the virus will burn itself out. But, what about category two: those less vulnerable to dying? Aren’t there some possible protections available?

   a) We look at the facts as laid out above: we rely on their own natural protection to save them from actually dying.

   b) Re-opening does not necessarily have to re-open a mass infection anyway. By strategic quarantines of certain areas, most of the country may not suffer at all. Plus, people are much smarter now about how not to get sick. Those of us in Category #2 can add to our natural protection, even after going back to a relative ‘normal’, just by relying on forewarned is forearmed.

   c) The ‘smarter’ classes need to allow us to both walk and chew bubble gum at the same time. It is possible to do both controlled studies on hopeful therapies and cures – while still allowing their mass use so long as they don’t violate the Do No Harm rule. None of the following items has any significant chance of doing harm while still, maybe, doing good:

       i) Hydroxyl Choroquine (and other similar antiviral/anti-inflammatory medicines) that are still proven safe while MAYBE also being effective for an off label use.

      ii) Plasma therapies using existing antibodies from people who have recovered and, possibly controversial,

     iii) Immunotherapy. People may well flinch at getting oneself deliberately infected but that is what a large number of successful vaccines ultimately do: a weakened strain is used to ‘infect’ you. But because of it’s weakened nature you get the best of both possible worlds. You get to have your antibodies get produced without having to actually get sick. Also, with our modern scientific abilities to open up microscopic entities and manipulate them it might not be that difficult to produce this situation: using a less harmless strain of a virus to get antibodies produced against a more harmful one.

   The main point though: there are some things that are a medical judgment. However, there are other things that are, ultimately, a value judgment – and even if it might have medical ramifications. The philosophy of “What the hell do you have to lose?” is a value judgment. And there is nothing about a doctor that gives him a superiority at value judgments.

   They have superior medical judgments but they do not have superior value judgments. Whipping an epidemic involves both types of judgments. So don’t assume that every doctor is smarter than you are, and at every single thing so that you must do only what they tell you to do – rather than to think for yourself also.

   Going-Forward-Solution #3) We can still start the mobilizations needed for the recommendations of the next blurb below, “With Enough MREs” that was posted on 3/19/2020. Eventually, we would start with the #1 worst of the worst 10 counties for a campaign of rolling isolations. After the first of the 10 is set up well enough (and you have enough mobilization in place) you might then start on numbers 2 thru 10 – without, necessarily,  having to wait for the full three weeks for #1 to finish its’ full course.

   Sorry if  this ‘quickie’ blurb has, actually, been rather lengthy. So … if you have not read the 3/19/20 blurb below read it now so you will understand what an MRE-based isolation campaign refers to. Also, I will try to do more regular (and shorter?) blurbs on this subject as events develop. Stay safe and good bye for now!

THE FIASCO WIDENS … (POSTED 3/31/20)

   What makes this all a fiasco is that various governors and mayors keep calling for more and more “stay at home” or “shelter in place” orders – when there are no such things available. If a prepared national shut down had been set up you would have the following:

   1) A situation where the only people not in shutdown would be:   

      a) the national guardsman who would mobilize the lockdown

      b) law enforcement personnel and

     c) a skeleton crew of utilities workers to make sure that the utilities would stay up and running – for the locked down population.

   2) From the above: only about 5% of the people in the area would remain in a somewhat exposed state (the people mentioned above) while

   3) The other 95% of the people in the area would remain under full lockdown and have no meaningful exposure until the virus could be starved out and die accordingly

  But … because they keep insisting on ordering more people to, somehow, lock themselves down – and to be left to their own devices on how to somehow accomplish such a feat – you have the following:

   1) There have to be “essential businesses” so they can fend for themselves at getting their own provisions. Thus, about 30 to 40 percent of the population still has to show up for the daily shifts, interact with strangers and etc. and still be subjected to a full exposure to the virus. And this includes some of the high risk pool of people who might work at one of these ‘essential’ businesses. Has anyone thought to check if these businesses might employ 65 and older people – exactly the ones you don’t want exposed?

   2) The other 60 to 70 percent of the population still has to keep bobbing in and out of social contacts (at the essential businesses to maintain their provisions). And, thus, they will still retain at least some exposure to the virus rather than having none and

   3) It is out of this half baked arrangement that we are supposed to shut down an entire society well enough to kill off a virus with the level of contagiousness that this one has.

   Thus, I will stick with the points made from my previous virus updates. The entire focus should have been a triage operation where the limited resources were used to shelter the vulnerable more thoroughly – and let there be a short surge in people getting sick – but with a lesser amount of people actually dying.

   And once, as has been noted before, you got more effective measures mobilized, you could do the isolation campaign effectively – under the conditions that would prevail at the beginning of this blurb. Thus, you might even wind up, over the long term, with even less illnesses as well as deaths.

   But, at the present, all we are getting is more and more declarations of half-baked measures at a more and more astronomical cost. The President has been taken advantage of:

      1) he received lousy advice

      2) he received enormous emotional pressures to attempt to save everyone all at once (in a way that would have to prove utterly chaotic) and

      3) he is now on the hook for an endless number of multi-trillion dollar bailouts – to relieve the problems that other people are free to keep causing (with more and more of these half-baked measures.)

   I got it wrong in my previous statement; the President has not been taken advantage of. He has been totally suckered.

AN UTTER LACK OF LEADERSHIP – BUT NOT BY THE PRESIDENT (POSTED 4/05/20)

   I have listed a number of problems about the current Corona Virus strategy. But I have not actually gotten to that most central problem. It is not the Prez – but the fact that no one else is showing any leadership. And, thereby, making it so that everything revolves around one human being in a country with 330 million people at risk.

   And the two items of this that I will focus on are the two items at the bottom of the totem pole – not the ones at the top. I am referring to the medical professionals out in the country (not the ones in DC that get the TV coverage) – and to us common folk as the second item of consideration.

   So … what am I the most annoyed about with the medical profession out in the country? It is that the national microphone has been hijacked by the panic mongers. Thus, the medical professionals need to get off of their butts, retake the microphone and get an appropriate ‘bedside’ manner prevailing again in the country.

  It is not possible, and will never be possible, when there is a sudden mass medical emergency situation, to have an airtight set of supply lines. And to also have flawless logistics to all situations and in all places for all of a countrys’ 330 million people. I am sick of listening to all of this c_ _ _ that unless 1) a Donald John Trump gets every supply line working continuously airtight and 2) gets every logistics operation to go like clockwork then we will all freaking die. These are the type of words that can kill and I will use an example to demonstrate this.

   A first aid instructor once told me the following example: You see an unconscious injury victim and say “Well, hell, it looks bad and like he ain’t going to make her.” His criticism? It was that hearing is the last thing to go out before someone dies. Thus, your saying “it looks bad and like he ain’t going to make her” may be just the thing that causes the accident victim to not make her.

   Now, with this in mind, how does the following talk sound (as far as being good bedside manners): “AAAAAAAA!!! Unless a Donald John Trump makes everything come together perfectly we’re all going to freaking die!!! AAAAAAAA!!!”  I realize that the medical profession has enough on its’ plate already. Still, one of the first things you always have to do is start out with a “Stay Calm!” – and to get the microphone away from idiots like the ones that are currently wielding it. Before, that is, they get even more people killed than are getting killed already.

   But how can the medical profession be more involved in doing this? The medical profession can do a lot (that they are currently not doing). They can remind people that the first thing that is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS done, in a sudden mass medical emergency, is to setup a triage station.

   This involves field medicine, improvising, thinking out of the box – and doing so without any ironclad guarantee that you will always have the best of equipment, and all fully stocked and at all times. Doctors are right to keep pressing for all of the equipment and supplies that they can get. But they do still know how to soldier on and keeping doing the medical care that the people need.

   Also, we have some plausible Hail Mary types of medications (until something better comes along). It is possible to improvise with PPE equipment while you are stretched out betwixt and between. Further, there is such a thing as hand ventilating if one is minus a mechanical ventilator (I even looked that up. It is, in fact, true).

   Thus, what the medical professionals need to do – forcefully and on a regular basis – is to state that, while they will keep pressing for more and better equipment, that they can and will still be able to provide you with your medical care come what may. And though doctors work on physical bodies as their main lane, they are all also aware of the intangible elements also. Specifically, that hope keeps people alive while fear kills.

   The other main grievance I have with the medical profession at large is their cursory way of getting people to do self protection. Sure, social distancing, wash your hands and don’t touch your face are all good but there is much more that can be done for self protection. And where, possibly, a person can decisively save themselves rather waiting for someone else to save them.

   And here is where I will transition the discussion to us the common people. There are leadership issues involved here also. So … how good has your leadership been over your own life? At the end of the day we are all in a position of leadership even if it just involves your own leadership over your own life. So how would you rate yourself?

   To use the last paragraph about the medical profession: what about yourself as your own protector? I realize there is plenty of blame to go around but, at the end of the day, don’t we all ultimately wind up as the final line in our own defense system?

   So, here are the basics of an (almost) airtight self protection system against viruses. It revolves around a well known but rarely discussed fact. Specifically, there that there is one way in which you will always be stronger than any virus. And it revolves around bleach.

   Just a combination of 4 tsps of bleach per 4 cups of water is enough to kill any virus while not harming you. There is your one edge that you can use to protect yourself the best. So… what is the full kit then for a self protection regimen? It is:

    1) Hand sanitizer

      2) A basin of bleach blend – a 1 tsp per one cup of water mixture

     3) a self made face mask and

     4) cotton balls

  Before leaving your house you do the following:

   1) use the hand sanitizer to clean off your hands 

   2) you take the immersed mask and ring it out to get rid of the bleach. The bleach simply sanitizes the mask. You can use the dip to rinse your face (eyes closed). And be sure to dry off well afterwards. This will kill all of the viruses on your facial area.

   3) You keep one end of the two cotton balls dry and then dip the other ends into the bleach blend. You put the cotton balls into your nasal cavity – bleached side out to block the pathogens. Also, so that you don’t bleach fume yourself.

   4) Place the face mask over your face and you should be good to go.

   If, during your outside activities, you can stop virus contact with your mouth and nose you will almost certainly keep yourself safe. Provided, you follow your Returning Home procedures.

   After you return home, use the hand sanitizer to clean your hands. Re-immerse your protective gear back into the bleach blend,  rinse and dry your face. You have now cleaned yourself off and set up your protective gear for its’ next usage.

   But here, in my opinion, are the most important leadership issues vis-a-vis yourself. Who do you ultimately pray to to give you this day your daily bread? To God or to the government? Do you pray to the Lord to be your ultimate deliverer from evil or to Barrack Obama or Donald Trump?

   Yes, we do what ever we sanely can to limit risks. But for those of us in the low risk pool, we have the obligation to self protect so that the limited resources go mostly to those in the high risk end. Also, we still have an obligation to keep the country going so that these resources are not depleted. Finally, at some point, aren’t all of our lives still ultimately in God’s hands? Where do you stand on these types of leadership issues in regards to your own life?

A TWO-FER: AN AMY UPDATE AND A VIRUS UPDATE TOGETHER (POSTED 4/09/20)

   A Senator Amy Klobuchar and family have, fortunately, made a full recovery from the coronavirus. It is everyone’s duty to be thankful for this. However, it is also everyone’s duty to ignore the image making that was involved (in the televised news segment) that puts out the Amiable Amy/Nice Everyday Girl From Next Door persona.

   If you have not read it, read “Komrade Klobuchar” from the Rogues Gallery section in the “Welcome to the Library” page. There is nothing Amiable about this particular Senator (nor the other Senators from the Senate Judiciary Committee). For those who have not read it, the issue involved is “Is it morally acceptable to do a frame-up (for rape) against someone – if it will stop them from opposing Roe vs. Wade?” We take the position that it is not.

AN OBSERVATION THAT COMES WITH PREDICTIONS (POSTED 4/09/20)

THE OBSERVATION PART OF THIS BLURB

   My immediate observation is one that I have predicted all along. It is about the failure to triage, i.e., use all of our resources to do a hard lock down on the vulnerable – while the rest of us come up with better ways to protect ourselves. What is occurring is the continuing rise in the death rate per number of confirmed cases. It was, once, at only 1%.

   It rose to 2% as of a couple of weeks ago, jumped to 3% as of a few days ago and is picking up speed as it goes rapidly towards 4%. All of this jump comes from the coronavirus penetrating deeper and deeper into the older and more vulnerable categories of the general population.

   So what was the reason the death rate started at only 1%? It is due to natural circumstances: the vulnerable are not, normally, as active as the younger population. Thus, the initial rounds of the infection start out much more likely to hit the younger – and not the more vulnerable – first.

   Thus, if extra layers of protection had been set up hard enough, and early enough, we might well have had the overall death rate go down from the 1% to maybe no higher than a 1/2%. But it is instead climbing and will continue to do so until it may well hit the Italy levels of around 10%. Again, my ‘blame game’ (such as it is) has been spelled out before:

   1) The medical advice Trump has received. I have no idea how he can have the expertise level available to him that he has – and they have, apparently, no concept of what a triage is and when it is needed as your initial approach.

   2) The astronomical emotional pressures that were exerted against him. This being done to sucker him into trying to save everyone all at once, and from all things all at once. Rather than concentrating on the most vulnerable first (and about death first) rather than getting that Diffusion of Limited Resources that I have alluded to in other writings.

   3) The third blame area is a benign one. And it is that everyone is a flawed human being and, at the same time, just a human being. Now, according to the New American Left and their flunky media allies, Donald Trump is the only person on the entire planet who is an exception to this. He is ahuman and totally in a caricature mode as walking evil. He, by there statements, does not give an s, an h, an i or a t about any other human being except for himself.

   The problem with this analysis? How does such a person get emotionally blackmailed into a quixotic effort to save everyone all at once? And to let himself get put on the hook to be running around like a chicken with his head cut off with the responsibility to save everybody? In short, the third ‘blame’ area (if you want to call it that) is that he is not remotely like what his critics say he is as a person.

   SO DOWN TO THE PREDICTIONS:

      1) I repeat the one prediction I have already made: the death rate will continue to keep climbing until it gets closer and closer to the Italy rates of 10% (unless there is a radical change in policy to shift priorities).

      2) The death rates among strictly young and healthy people will be less than 1/2% once all of the Monday morning quarterbacking is done.

      3) With aggressive self protection, the low risk pool of people could have kept the economy open and still kept the infection rate down to around 1% of their part of the population. (If everyone had started earlier with the appropriate use of masks, maintaining as much distance as their work situations allowed, using whatever forewarned is forearmed knowledge they might have as smartly as possible, etc.) This will be found to be true after all of the Monday morning quarterbacking is done.

   4) Thus, if the triage approach had been executed properly – and from the beginning – the number of deaths could have been held to around 10,000 out of the low risk pool. And, since there is no such thing as a totally perfect defense strategy, we might also have still lost, maybe, another 10,000 people from the high risk pool. But this is only 20,000 people while not shutting down the economy. This position will be seen as being justified once there is the post game time for analysis.

   5) This set of predictions also makes the assumption that no one will pursue the “With enough MREs” strategy laid out in some of my earlier writings. Even minus this, however, a properly done triage approach would have still resulted in less death and destruction to the economy than what the President allowed himself to get manipulated into.

   WHAT I WILL DO FROM HERE

   Going forward, I will have a new Gallery set up on the Welcome To The Library Page. It will be called the Potpourri Gallery – and will be exactly that. It will deal with a wide variety of different issues and the first one will be “The Coronavirus – The Compilation.” This will simply take all of my Current News! blurbs on the virus and compile them into one set of posts – with my earliest writings starting first.

   Secondly, while I am a full Trump supporter, I have a duty to keep an accurate record of this virus as it plays itself out. Done, in the hope that the right lessons can be learned later on. Therefore, I will post a new article as the virus reaches its’ coming percent of deaths marks: i.e. when it reaches 4%, I will post a short article reminding the reader of why the current strategy is wrong. I will similarly do this as it reaches the upcoming marks of 5%, 6%, 7% and etc. Done, again, just to maintain an accurate record for the future.

   Pardon my bit of downbeat drama here but I will also post the occasional article for helpful suggestions too. With, of course, a desire to hear from you. Make some comments, post some articles, get involved!

BACKING UP (AND REFINING) MY MOST RECENT OBSERVATIONS (POSTED 4/12/20)

   I have, finally, come up with the most definitive materials that I can find. The actual death rate, in real time, is even worse than the 3-4% mark. This number came from having the total number of cases, going back to Day 1, and then comparing it against the total number of deaths – and going back to Day 1.

   As stated earlier, this number has been increasing – and in the way my last article stated. But the best measure is a real-time measure of what is happening right now. The link below will give you the two numbers you need: the daily (real-time) increase in cases and the daily (real-time) increase in deaths. Thus, you can now get the daily, real-time death rates from this below link:

Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

   I also have an updated link for what the real-time death rates are according to a person’s age. It is below:

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2

   The upshot is that the most pessimistic estimate of death rates (among lower risked people below age 65) is 3/4% – when you weigh in all the age groups and make the appropriate adjustments. Since the real-time death rate is running at 6% then we have at least an 8 fold increase in the death rates that may be totally unnecessary.

   On the plus side, the cases (nationally) most likely are levelling off like we are being told. But at what type of an excessive price? In more deaths and economic devastation equally alike.

WHAT WE THINK ABOUT THE RE-OPENING (Posted 4/14/20)

   (Obviously) there comes a point where a matter is talked to death so … as to the virus: after today, we will just do a weekly update on the progress of the fight against the virus. We have already expressed our views on how we think it could have been done better. So … to our last opinion blurb on the coronavirus efforts:

PHASE ONE OF THE RE-OPENING

   The reopening should be in two phases: the first phase should be to make things the way it should have been all along (by our opinion) without doing any of the closings at all. Namely, that all businesses should be opened. But with limitations:

   All employees are to practice aggressive self protection – masks dampened in a slight protective solution, on-the-hour clean up breaks with hand sanitizers and a slight protective solution blend to re-dip the masks and/or rinse the facial areas. The employers are to configure their shops so that there is either a 6 foot social distance separation between employees and customers OR there is to be a partition of some kind as an alternative.

   (This is another reason why I don’t like medical professionals actually running the show. If you haven’t noticed, virtually all cashiers have now put up physical barriers between themselves and the customer. It has always been obvious that the 6 foot rule could not apply but … guess what? They figured out the physical barrier scheme as an alternative – and did it all by themselves!)

   A final self-protection is to simply be aware of who is working for you. (From our other writings: someone who is in the high risk pool should not be working for you – or shopping from you. They should be in the harder levels of protection we have talked about elsewhere.) But what the employer can do (minus we called a ‘triage’ concept being used by the government) is to observe which employees are having to do the most hazardously close-in work with others. If they are wearing a face mask, are under 40 years of age and have no underlying health problems the odds of them still winding up dead are virtually nil.

   As to the customers: I again criticize the arrogance of the medical professionals. Most employers (who have been allowed to stay open) are already doing everything right:

     1) Most of them limit the amount of people that are inside at any time (so that social distancing can be maintained) and

     2) Most of them have all lines (on the outside) have space bars to keep the people in line from getting too close to each other. Also, they usually have the line to the cashier be similarly marked and for the same reasons. And this was all done without anyone ordering them to do it. But there should be one last change that has not been totally put into gear yet.

     3) All  customers should have to wear a face mask before being allowed in. Even this is something that the medical professionals bear the most blame for. Since Day One, they have insisted that masks are critical to their survival while, simultaneously, discouraging the average citizen from using one. This is one of the prime reasons that masks haven’t been getting used more frequently. 

   4) But then you have the air tight reason why there is probably not even one restaurant – anywhere in America –  that should have ever been closed. It is because virtually every business in America already has the capability to act as a drive-in establishment as well as drive-through ones. In today’s world, virtually every person who will park in a parking lot will also have access to a cell phone and the phone number of any establishment that they might want to do business with. And, conversely, in today’s world virtually every business you might want to park in front of has the ability to take phone orders and payments. Finally, since the food can be delivered to the hood of a car (with the all of the windows rolled up) wouldn’t this act as an airtight social separation technique? Between this, drive-throughs, home delivery and inside social separation OR partitioning (either can work) there has never been the need to shut down a single business. At least not without allowing them to submit a Safe-but-Open plan.

    So why has a single restaurant ever been ordered closed – without them at least being given a chance to submit a Safe-but-Open Plan? This must never happen again. There must be a new federal law giving every business owner the right to submit a Safe-but-Open Plan before they can ever be closed. And the new federal law must place the County Health Departments as the approving authorities for them – to prevent the types of political fowl ups that we keep seeing involved here.

   This would be Phase One of the re-opening. (Which, again, is what we have advocated all along but without doing the shutdown in the first place.) But before we go to Phase 2, just a couple of questions:

      1) ‘Essential’ businesses appear to be operating safely with the extra safeguards that most of them have adopted. So why would opening a ‘nonessential’ business – to operate the same way – risk reigniting the virus?

     2) Finally, where are the random testings – to know exactly how the breakdown of the virus is actually occurring. Gallup polls do this type of an exercise all of the time. They use just a small amount of sampling to get an accurate breakdown of opinions – and across a massively large area. All the random testing program would be is the same selection process – you just then do a virus test rather than an interview. Maybe we should put them in charge of the testing program rather than the medical ‘professionals’? We could have known weeks ago exactly how the virus is distributed amongst the population – and how the impact actually works out to with precision.

PHASE TWO OF THE RE-OPENING

   Our views on Phase Two are simple: necessity will always be the best mother of invention. Allow each business enterprise to be able to reopen itself fully if they can meet just one condition:

   They set up a regimen where they can vouch for everyone, who comes inside their business, that they are negative for the virus. This may not sound like much but it is enough just to put an economic incentive out there – for the business world itself to get involved in testing. And their are many ways they could do it. I will only list one for-instance scenario.

   My one possible example: why couldn’t businesses pool some of their money for their own testing centers, i.e., a sign says “Do you want to go shopping? Get tested here.” or “Do you want to eat inside the lobby? Get tested here.” They then have their own arrangement so that if a person tests negative they get a certificate saying “Good to go” – followed by the date of the test on the slip of paper. This person is then free to shop anywhere and at any time with no restrictions  – for at least the next 24 hours (or maybe more – depending on the science involved). Now that there are quick tests available why not quick testing centers that can enable you to be good to go? And especially if you give the business world itself a powerful economic incentive to start setting such centers up?

   This, again, is just one for-instance. The details don’t really matter – nor do we have to keep being dictated to by politicians or by the medical bureaucrats. Once you put an economic incentive out there for the business world to get into the testing business then it will just somehow happen. There are the laws of physics, there is the law of gravity and there are the laws of human nature that necessity will always become the mother of invention. It needed even be worried about.

   Just these two items (a business’ right to submit a Safe-but-Open Plan and an incentive to become a part of the testing industry) should totally do the trick until the national emergency is over. Less lives would have been lost (not more), it would end the emergency quicker and, in all probability, it should have been done without ever shutting down a single business for even one single second.

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BENCHMARK UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 4/15/20)

   Per a previous blurb, I will maintain a record when the virus hits certain benchmarks. As of today, the rate of cases is stabilizing but not the death rates. The real time death rate has made another 1-percentile uptick: from running at 6% to 7%.

BENCHMARK UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 4/19/20)

Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

   The link above had a significant update yesterday. Check the new format for survival rates. (Under 40, no underlying health problems results makes for only a 1 in 2500 chance of a fatality from the virus). You can see again how there has been no epidemic but simply a failure to protect the vulnerable parts of the population. But for this, there would be no significant amount of deaths.

   On a plus note, policy makers are at least making mention of the over 65/under 65 factor in their latest considerations. We will have to await the results to see if it is with a sufficient seriousness. That is, do we finally start getting these people out of the equation so that the overall death rates will start becoming lower and lower. At this moment, the benchmark rate (of the real time death rate for the populous as a whole) is running at 7.4%.

BENCHMARK UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 4/26/20)

   We are on top of the ‘flattened curve’. The active number of cases (when using a 5-day rolling average) goes a slight up, slight down, slight up, slight down … at slightly over 500,000 active cases. The daily death totals do the same slight up, slight down, etc. (when using a 5-day rolling average) of about 2150 daily deaths and a 7.5% death rate in real time numbers.

   The problem with (finally) being ‘flattened’? ‘Science’ keeps flashing these two different curves at us. One is a steep, sharp but short curve that depicts the natural course of an epidemic. The second is the much bally-hooed ‘flattened’ curve. But, if you actually look at the two different curves geometrically, it is possible that they are still roughly equivalent in total deaths.

   The natural steep curve (of an epidemic) is horrible but much shorter in length – while the ‘flattened’ curve (potentially) goes on and on and on … Thus far, we have been in this ‘flattened’ state for more than 2 weeks with no guarantee of it ending soon. Thus, we may wind up having just as many total deaths as the natural curve would have produced without all of the ‘flattening’ measures.

BENCHMARK UPDATES ON THE VIRUS (Posted 5/04/20)

   The number of active cases seems to be stabilizing at a slightly lower level (480,000 vs. 500,000). We only hope it will stop doing the up and down jerkiness of being in a ‘flattened’ curve – but stuck at the top part of it.

   The number of deaths seems to be stabilizing below the 2000 a day mark, with the real time death rate having some individually better days – and is currently stabilizing at around 6 1/2% rather than a 7 1/2% rolling average.

   A special announcement for those of you who do want to stay fixed in to virus news. You can go to www.quora.com and put my name, Mark Christie, into the search engine. I have been fielding questions from people on the matter at this forum and have over 100 question and answers on file there.

   Also, from previous announcements, there is my compilation of virus news blurbs in the Potpourri Gallery at the Welcome to the Library! page.

VIRUS UPDATES (Posted 5/18/20)

I will continue reducing how much coverage we give to “All about the virus, all the time” – in lieu of other issues still being important. Thus, I will continue to keep the updates short – but I still need to keep the process transparent when issues do occur. So, today, I will give slightly more than just an update.

The virus, as best I can tell, is still down about 40% from its peak – but it could be more(?). There are reports of people inflating the counts which I can not offer any first hand confirmation of.  I can give some first hand info, however, on the reporting of cases becoming more erratic and atypical of how the reporting was going before.

I do a 5-day rolling average because the day-to-day numbers can swing wildly. However, the numbers are starting to have such a massive swing and seesaw (compared to how it used to be before recent dates) that I am (somewhat) concerned. I don’t have the time to go into massive investigations of possible misbehavior (if there is any). Thus, I will keep you updated both on the numbers and any thing (noticeable) about how the reporting of cases is being done.

Thus, the epidemic seems to be down about 40%. But the main benchmark that I am the most concerned about (the real-time death rates) is still stuck at the totally unacceptable level of between 6 and 7 percent. Again, in a virus that is only significantly dangerous to the elderly and the infirm. Who, apparently, still continue to remain ineffectively protected against the spread of infectious diseases.

ARE WE ON THE MOVE!? VIRUS UPDATE (Posted 5/21/20)

Possible good news on the virus: maybe we are finally getting listened to. A nationally televised talk show host has finally started catching up – to where we have been at all along. One of the President’s Reopening point men went on air and was starting to talk – in the way that we have been talking all along. So … maybe if we just keep doing like we are doing: reading and talking about our virus materials and getting others to read them and talk about them then – we might continue to see the debate changing our way. With this in mind, I will now release the shortest possible version of our position on why the shutdowns are irrelevant to helping people.

Split the country into three groups:

1) the 65 and overs who have underlying conditions and are in residential care

2) the 65 and overs who have underlying conditions and are not in residential care and

3) all of the rest of us.

We can make this division because of what we now know about the virus. And, because of what we now know about the virus, we know the behavior of group 3) (all of the rest of us) is irrelevant to whether people in the other two groups get sick.

The first reason: as soon the epidemic became known group 1) – the 65+ in elder care facilities – was put into an immediate official lock down. Since the earliest stages of the virus, no visitors have been allowed into these facilities and the residents have not been allowed to go out. Thus, whatever is going on with the general population (outside these facilities) has nothing to do with them getting sick – and hasn’t had anything to do with it since the earliest stages of the epidemic.

The second reason: as soon the epidemic became known group 2) – the 65+ w/ underlying conditions and who are not in elder care facilities – has been in something of an unofficial lock down. Nobody in group 3) – the rest of us – has been getting sick and then thoughtlessly dropping in on these people to get them sick too. The only reason people in this category – group 2 – are still getting sick is to the extent that they are not staying locked down. They have to come and go to get their supplies (or they may choose to come and go for other reasons). As to others dropping in on them (if you are still worried about this) – then just make that a part of the public campaign effort. Remind people (frequently) not to do this and it should be no problem. (And without shutting down the general population).

The third reason: the group 3) – the rest of us – are in no substantial danger from the virus in the first place and, thus, we are also irrelevant to the question of halting the epidemic. There are your three main groups and why each of the three are not helped by simply trying to shut down the general population.

The solutions to the three groups also show why shutting down the general population is irrelevant.

Group 1’s solution: is for the state and local agencies to simply stop being so ineffective at protecting the elderly (in elder care) from infectious diseases – none of which relates to any need to shut down the general population.

Group 2’s solution: is for them to be better enabled and better encouraged not to have to come out. Like, say, the National Guard being used – none of which relates to any need to shut down the general population.

Group 3’s solution: is that we have never been in danger in the first place – none of which relates to any need to shut down the general population. Therefore, there is both no utility from, and no need to, shut down the general population.

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE (Posted 5/25/20)

Great Numbers!

1) The erratic bouncing around in the numbers (talked about earlier) appears to have stopped. The numbers are back to a more normal day-to-day difference.

2) The 5-day rolling average of deaths is down around 60% from the peak levels. Today’s death rate is only 495 people – down 80% from the peak numbers. But the best news yet:

3) The case load is only down by a 1/3 – most of the decrease in deaths is from the death rates finally dropping back down. After going past 7% (and persistently staying there) the death rate dropped to 6% on 5/19, went down to 5% as of yesterday and, on individual good days (like today), the death rate was only 2 1/2%.

So … are the powers that be finally getting there blank together at what we have said all along? That it is primarily an elderly and infirm person’s disease? The only way the death rate can start going back down again is by getting better at protecting the elderly and the infirm. As of now, it is indeed going back down again so … hopefully it is not just a temporary fluke. Hopefully, it is a case of us, and other people like us, having our arguments finally starting to get traction in policy.

Also, our arguments – and other people like us – are becoming more and more a part of the national discussion. More prominent talk show hosts (including a Sanders supporter) are finally starting to catch on to the basic facts about the virus – and how we have all been suckered by a stampede to close everything down.

So … let us keep it up. Keep talking about our stances on the virus, keep getting others involved in the discussions with us, keep getting more traction at changing things.

And we will close like we did with the last update: in the last update we put out our shortest possible arguments on why trying to shut down the general population was just as ludicrous an idea as it first sounds like – ‘science’ and ‘data-driven’ notwithstanding. This update will give our shortest possible arguments for why mobilizing the National Guard (rather than trying to demobilize an entire civilian population) is clearly a more obvious way to control a virus.

A short and quick example: You first mobilize the Guard and declare just a 5-days/24-hour curfew the next time we are fighting an epidemic. This is done to a hot spot for 100% of its residents for 100% of that full time – and what would happen?

First, your testing regime would work perfectly – even minus testing kits. This is a tried and true millennia old method of testing and isolating. You would have at least some amount of the people (who were infected) start to show signs during this five-day interlude. The Guard would provide them with provisions to stay quarantined for the next 3 weeks and everyone else could go back to normal.

First Possible Effect: Say that this next one turns out to be a non-sneaky virus (like the most lethal ones almost invariably are). Then the 5 day “flushing out the virus” period – followed  by the flushed out cases being quarantined by the National Guard – would – at least mostly – beat the virus. If it is another sneaky type of virus – still no problem.

Second Possible Effect: the flushed-out cases would still be enough to do the following things:

   1) Be able to provide an accurate statistical analysis about its lethality issues per all ages and groups

   2) Shielding the elderly and infirm is always Project Number 1 in any type of a virus anyways. Since we would already have the Guard mobilized, this would become easier to do.

   3) It would still reduce a significant amount of cases – even if not all of them. The sneakier the virus, the smaller percent of the total cases it would prevent – but it would still do a considerable reduction. Conversely, since most people will be fine on a 5-day shut in, it would do little damage and be easily achievable. Possibly, depending on how the number crunching works out, there might be other 5-day step downs as a part of a gradual strategy.

(Special note: This is a short form argument. Thus, there will be no prolonged argumentation on why a virus (that is both very sneaky and very lethal) is very unlikely to exist. I will still state a possibility Number 3 anyway.)

Third Possible Effect: Finally, if – and may the Lord forbid it – such an exercise reveals that there is such a thing as a virus that has both high sneakiness and high lethality. Then this type of a non-shutdown shutdown won’t work anyway. It still involves leaving 60% of the population just as exposed as before. It still leaves the other 40% without the resources to stay ducked and covered (completely). And it still leaves the most vulnerable communities still being the least protected.

In short, you cannot handle any type of shelter orders (effectively) without deploying the National Guard anyway. And all this current article is intended for is a limited purpose. I am showing that even a 5-day order – if it is coordinated through the National Guard – will still do more than the current ill proposed effort. It is not to endorse such an effort per se.

Concluding, to repeat the same takeaway that I have said before: this is what happens when you let other people do your thinking for you and – especially – if they regard themselves as ‘scientific’. There is nothing about ‘science’ or ‘data driven’ that gives a person basic common sense. The only reason no one has thought to at least try deploying the National Guard first – before trying to un-deploy an entire society – is because we are now micro-managed (and dictated to) by people who simply don’t have any common sense.

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE (Posted 6/03/20)

I recently got the needed messages out (about the inept handling of the epidemic) to a fairly friendly conservative policy forum. But I need you to push back hard on this issue also – protect the elderly and then get out of the rest of our faces!

As to the virus progress: the virus has stabilized since the last update but has yet to do its steep drop off that we are praying for. The latest numbers are a rolling average of under 1,000 deaths per day (still a 60% drop from the peak) – and less of an erratic up/down bounce in the numbers. The rolling average of the cases is close to 20,000 per day (or down 1/3 from the peak).

Best news is that the real time death rate is down to slightly over 4% – and the numbers are getting more stable; less really bad days and an occasional much better day. As to the rest of the current news, I am requesting you reroute yourself to the Floyd Matter if you have not already. I want this to stay at front and center for a while longer.

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE (Posted 6/16/20)

   We can only hope that the ‘scientific’ crowd is continuing to smarten up. As of 6/06/2020 the real time death rate fell to 4%. Though still unacceptable it is a continued improvement showing that either:

   1) They are finally getting a little smarter and are finally concentrating on just doing a better job of watching out for the elderly and the infirm or

   2) That at least Mother Nature is able to get smarter. And the elderly and the infirm have finally gotten the drill down a little better and are doing a better job of protecting themselves

   THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE (Posted 6/19/20)

   In spite of the ‘scientific’ crowd, the real time death rate continues to fall. As of 6/15/2020, it is now down to 3% so maybe our efforts are helping. However, they still keep running the commercials of the idiot (and now proven liar) Dr. Fauci. His commercial still talks about how a low risk group person can infect a high risk group person therefore … you have to try to force BOTH groups to shut down themselves down from normal life. And that you do nothing to enable this process – a governor just makes an order for an entire world of people to shut themselves down and it then just happens.

   As to the liar matter: he has now admitted that he downplayed the effectiveness of masks for average people. He felt there was some over riding issue involved that justified doing that (because of their scarcity at the time). But his idiot side is still kicking in also: as of now, the most important people to have the best masks are the 65+ w/ underlying conditions. Now that there are ample masks to go around, when do we make this happen – so that the only vulnerable group in America finally gets protected? And we can get the moron crowd to stop ‘protecting’ the rest of us when we don’t need it? Get every vulnerable person access to the best N95 masks and we can finally get the real time death rate to where it should have been all along: virtually nil.

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 6/25/2020)

  There is another good benchmark for the virus. The real time death rate has dropped below 2% – due to only the young being a part of the new uptick.  But you are also being given confusing news. It is true, for example, that the case rate is back up at it’s peak levels. So, here is where we stand: We are having just 1/4 of the peak level death rates because the real time death rate is down to 1/4 of it’s previous levels (due to only the young being infected).

   It is the same thing we have said all along: all that it takes to solve the virus issue is just one competent governor who can do the basic things. That is, the things it takes to protect a small subgroup of the population (65+ w/ underlying conditions). Up to this point, however, no such competent governor has emerged yet.

   Thus, we hope the real time death rate will continue to remain low but it is not guaranteed. As to the spike in cases, there are no major national issues involved there either. The entire uptick of cases is happening in just a few warm weather states where young people are acting as expected – when they are no longer being forced into a lockdown.

   They are out with a frenzy, they are the only new people getting sick and there needs to be no problem anywhere since the virus will not kill them. Also, since this is a localized problem, there is no national crisis involved in any event. From the beginning: it should have been a County to County matter with County people leading the way – that is still the way it should be now.

   And if there are any new ‘hot’ counties? No problem: get to work with the 65+ w/underlying problems group of people in those counties. If they choose to be a part of a secure program, then give them one: start mobilizing Guardsmen to give them their provisions so they can remain at home and not expose themselves. Don’t resume half-baked programs that try to de-mobilize entire civilian populations.

   Get N95 masks out to all the people in this subgroup – so that any trips they do make out into the general population are way less risky. In short, hopefully, we will finally find that one competent governor – at some point during the current epidemic – that will do the most basic and obvious actions. We will see.

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 7/02/2020)

   Let me point out the problems with both ‘science’ and scientists. It is that ‘science’ does nothing but collect your data for you. It does not do your thinking for you or tell you how you should think. You still have to use the correct logical reasoning processes to get to the correct conclusions. Thus science, per se, proves nothing and tells you nothing – you still have to be able to think correctly as a person to get the correct answers.

   A second point about scientists: suppose a scientist told you that you could destroy all of the enemy submarines by raising the temperature of the ocean to boil them out. This is, arguably, a true statement – but still an irrelevant one since the idea is, inherently, unworkable. Similarly, it is true that, if you can hide the entire world under a rock long enough then you could stop everyone from getting sick. But it is just as irrelevant as the anti-submarine warfare suggestion.

   This is why Fauci and Co. will always be impractical failures: it has always been an inherently unworkable idea. Thus, all the dire warnings about not adhering to an inherently impossible game plan are, therefore, worthless. And also threatening to democracy: because they can not accept that they are simply trying to force society to follow a dumb plan- and thus will keep blaming society for it’s ‘selfishness’ at not following it. This is what you get when you have ‘scientific’ dictators.

   More problems with ‘scientific’ dictators: they are also the stereotypical eggheads. They can’t think of simple concepts or change course when new data shows them to be wrong. They are ignoring data from Norway that shows 3 feet to be a sufficient social distance (even though it is a total game changer). They are ignoring the data that a triaged approach (where you can concentrate on just a small part of the population) can stop most deaths since most people are in no danger. They can’t understand simple concepts like using plexiglass (and other tools) besides social distancing to block the disease, etc.

   Nor are they able to take advantage of new positive data. The real time death rate has dropped near the 1% mark – due to only the young being a part of the new uptick – thereby debunking another ‘scientific’ truism: that it is not physically possible to just shield the elderly from the rest of us. Then why are we successfully doing it?

   What’s more, how did we regain the ability to do it after having previously lost it – if it is really an impossible task? The rate did spike all the way up to 10% but is now trending down. So how could we have regained the low rates again if it is a physically impossible event? But, per the last update,  “you are also being given confusing news.”

   It is true, for example, that the case rate is running at peak levels but this has to happen if we are ever going to allow people to resume their lives. It cannot be avoided but we are avoiding deaths which, at the end of the day, is all that matters. Again, a simple concept that Fauci and Co. can’t put a simple grip on.

   But we also have to repeat something else from our last update: “It is the same thing we have said all along: all that it takes to solve the virus issue is just one competent governor who can do the basic things. That is, the things it takes to protect a small subgroup of the population (65+ w/ underlying conditions). Up to this point, however, no such competent governor has emerged yet.”

  So here is where Trump must, reluctantly, step in. He can no longer be a slave to federalism and to the governors. The governors are still totally incompetent; they are still trying to control the virus by shutting down the general population rather than triaging. That is, you just focus on the small part of the population that actually needs the help.

   Thus, it is time for Trump to federalize the National Guard and get them mobilized himself. We are not going to get the basic competence that we need out of any of the 50 State governors. There are just three measures needed: 1) give the vulnerable access to a  ‘hotline’ to call if they need someone to get them provisions without exposing themselves 2) another item from the last update: “Get N95 masks out to all the people in this subgroup – so that any trips they do make out into the general population are way less risky” and 3) make frequent public announcements advising the elderly to make use of these resources to stay out of harms way. And, also, to use the high quality masks made available to them if they must go out for any reason.

   These three measures will eliminate virtually all deaths from the virus irrespective of the number of cases. And, in the end, the uptick is just another case of the ‘smartest’ of people not being able to understand the simplest of concepts. For, ultimately, it is good rather than bad – it is the only way to get rid of a virus: let it burn itself out among the low risk part of the population. This causes the virus to leave us more quickly (returning us to safety), it still (ultimately) kills less people rather than more people – and the low risk people can still support the economy while this is all happening.

   In short – in line with what we are talking about here – we are still not finding that one competent governor that we had hoped for. Trump will have to act for them. And that is why I call these updates the Keep it up! updates. We must keep it up – everyone reading these words must talk these ideas up to anyone and everyone you may know who can get through to Trump and Co. with the right advice. He, too, is still captive to the incompetence of the ‘science’ crowd and, therefore, needs us to try to do a ‘breakthrough’ – with some competent ideas. Again, per the last update: we will see.

If you have not read the following article, do so after you read today’s virus update. Click below to read the article:

THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 7/09/2020)

   Three themes today: First I am going to start with a shame on the Governor of New Jersey for an obviously immoral act. Next, I will do a complement to the average citizen in dealing with the virus. However, I will have to finish – in a somewhat roundabout way – by shaming my fellow Christian believers. So …

I. SHAME ON YOU, GOVERNOR!

   We begin with the governor of New Jersey: he is using fake numbers to deliberately inflate his state’s death toll. And, thereby, keep his justification in place for keeping everyone shut down. (To research this for yourself: look at the sudden, massive increase in his death rates – and compared with everywhere else in the country). But, as both a Christian believer and a long time follower of politics, there is nothing surprising here. Power corrupts absolutely and I wouldn’t be surprised if there is more such fakery to be found by other people in power. But to some good news:

2. GOOD ON YOU, JOHN Q. CITIZEN!

   While we have gotten little help from those in power (and plenty of corruption), the people have the matter pretty much figured out for themselves. From the beginning, all that was needed was mobilizing more people to take care of the elderly and the infirm – not the insane notion of trying to demobilize an entire civilian population. However – at least up to this point – none of the 50 Governors, Republican or Democrat, has seen the obviousness of this. And, as I have stated from the start, the President is so poorly advised by the ‘professional’ medical types, it is unlikely that he will come around to the obvious either. Trump still has my support; his medical advisers do not.

   But, at the John Q. Citizen level, much has been done that is good. The elderly, themselves, are getting better and wiser at staying out of harm’s way. The younger and fitter population has also gotten wiser and is being very careful at how much they mingle with the elderly or the infirm. And, hopefully, the elder care workers seem to have gotten their act together better at protecting the elderly from becoming infected. Thus, the death rate has declined from nearly a 10% rate at its height to around a 1% rate now. 

   Also, the free enterprise system is helping too. There has been an enormous ramp up in the number and types of delivery services available to the elderly and the infirm. And done to help them in their efforts to stay out of harm’s way. But nothing of any real effect has come from out of the government or the medical ‘professionals’. However, I now have to come to the third, and the most unpleasant, theme in this narration of events.

3. AND WHAT, OF ANY REAL EFFECT, HAS COME OUT OF THE CHURCHES EITHER?

   My fellow Christian believers: I have written before about the need for just one competent governor to do the basic items it takes to protect the elderly and the infirm – and none of them has done so. In some of my writings, I also considered the thought of Trump stepping in with these necessary measures. But what if neither Trump (nor any of the 50 State governors) ever figures out the obvious: that is, the simple measures that they can do to cordon off the elderly and the infirm from exposure to the virus? And that this is all that has ever been needed to control the epidemic?

   If we could have just gotten the elderly and infirm out of harm’s way, we would have still lost way less people to the virus. And even if everyone else in the entire country got infected. But now: why do I pick on my fellow Christian believers? It should be obvious – in spite of the failure of the various government bodies involved have they made it illegal for others to do a mass mobilization on behalf of the elderly?

   So, why can’t we mobilize our Church people to do exactly what I have been talking about? Sure, it annoys the H___ out of me that no one is smart enough to mobilize a hotline for the elderly – that would enable them to get the help they need at staying out of the way of the virus. But why can’t we mobilize ourselves – as churches – to do these types of things? Make our own volunteers available to get things like food provisions (and high quality masks) out to the vulnerable so that they can stay out of harms way? Sure, I wish either Trump (or any of the 50 State governors) would be smart enough to do something like that with the National Guard – but how does that stop us from volunteering to do it ourselves?

   We are at a pivotal moment with the virus. All it will take to break the virus is just one massive mobilization effort – additional to what the market place and the John Q. Citizens have already done – to finally get the elderly secured. And – with that – eliminate virtually all deaths from the virus since it is (primarily) an elderly person’s disease.

   Now do you want a final reason for the churches being the ones to mobilize this type of an effort? Well look at the type of PR we are getting by acting like hapless bystanders rather than mobilizing our own people. I don’t like Democrat Governors with their keeping pot shops essential and churches not. They are, effectively, saying that people smoking some really great dope is more essential than going to church – but what have we done, however, to prove ourselves to be essential? Like, say, helping the elderly and infirm during this crisis?

   Perhaps there is even a “It serves us right” aspect to this? If you don’t like some one taking a pot shot at you for being non-essential then there is a simple solution. Why not prove them wrong by engaging in some essential behavior? Seems logical to me but, as I have been closing out a lot of these most recent updates with: we will see.

CORRUPTION AND MANIPULATION? THE KEEP IT UP! UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (Posted 7/30/2020)

   We are right to keep pushing back against those who have hijacked the Coronavirus issue. And to be on the lookout for corruption and political maneuvering. I have warned about inflated death totals vis-a-vis New Jersey before. In a more comprehensive study, there are several states with a questionable history of reporting deaths. They are Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island and some other possible bad actors to lesser degrees.

   But, possibly worse, it is also possible for a small amount of bad actors to sabotage those states that have BEEN doing it correctly. Over the last several days Texas and Florida have had some questionable entries. I will focus strictly on 7/29 for some worst case examples. In Texas there has a 4:55 am entry that purported to show 5,883 cases already being registered to their state with 82 deaths suddenly popping in before anyone else was reporting anything. But … as the day wore on the death total rose to 302 while the case total never changed – and all day!!! It remained, from 4:55 am to 8:29 pm at exactly 5,883 reports.

   How do you get nearly 6,000 people reporting themselves sick before 5 o’clock in the morning? And then no one further – in an entire state – reports themselves sick for the rest of the day? The answer is that you don’t – and not in Florida either. On this same day in Florida: it had passed its’ previous days total of cases by 10:40 am at 9,446 cases with 216 deaths. Then … it also went into the Texas Pause. At 4:12 pm neither total had moved any. At the end of the reporting day at 8:29 pm their gauges had still not budged an inch. It closed out with 9,446 cases and 216 deaths – the same numbers from the beginning of the day!

   So … what giveth? All I can say is beware: everything is so political now that people in the medical establishment will even fabricate death totals and cases. This is not the first time for this type of behavior either: We have had other cases of good numbers coming in – to suddenly become reversed under questionable circumstances. Take this warning seriously: medical doctors in the field are almost totally above reproach – but the medical establishment are two bit shysters and political hacks down to every pore of their being. They are not above lying in regards to either data or policy. What follows is an example of a lying fest in regards to policy.

THE LATEST LIE FEST IN REGARDS TO POLICY (Posted 7/30/20)

   And you have probably guessed the subject matter: hydroxychloroquine. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a medical doctor. Instead, I know how to be a good logician – and therefore can usually decipher the ‘scientific’ types. Here are the 3 items that must be a part of any properly done hydroxy study:

   1) It must involve a dosage of 600 mg on a first day application, followed by a 400 mg dosage on the next five days. This is what was put forward as the regimen that helps the virus sufferer. So how does a continuous run of studies, that only use 200mg, disprove this? 

   2) It must involve only people who are 65+ years of age (with underlying conditions). It is a physical impossibility, and will always be a physical impossibility, to prove a statistically significant decline in deaths in the 65- population. And that is because there are not a statistically significant number of deaths that even occur in the 65- population. Thus, proving a statistically significant decline in this group will never be possible. Example:

   Even in the 45-65 aged group there is only a 1 in 400 chance of a fatality – based on records keeping. It is now known that there are probably 10 times more cases than reported. Thus, the chance of death, even among people 45-65 is probably only one chance in several thousands rather than just 1 in several hundreds. The upshot is that most of them will recover no matter what. Thus, proving a statistically significant reduction in non-recoveries clearly can’t happen – with this group.

   3) It must involve use at the earliest possible moment of intervention – which should be self evident. Nothing works better as conditions worsen – hydroxychloroquine or anything else.

   Also, all of this inane blather about cardiac arrhythmia is easy to disprove: when you combine both science and your own logical reasoning. This, however, is something that most journalists are incapable of. On the one side of the argument: not a single user of hydroxy has ever died from cardiac problems. On the other side: but it is a possible side effect. So, how does logical reasoning resolve such a matter?

   Easy: both things are true – it is a possible side effect but it is not a dangerous possible side effect. Or how has no one ever actually wound up in danger from it? Because it is such a standard side effect, and of such a predictable nature, all doctors already know how to deal with this side effect. Thus, this side effect never kills anyone – and it is very unlikely that it ever will.

  All medications have possible side effects; this does not render them unsafe. It merely renders them to be of a prescription nature. The side effect does prove that it needs to be a prescription medication; but it proves exactly the opposite about the side effect being dangerous. If the side effect was also a dangerous side effect then why are there zero cardiac deaths from the 65 year use of this medication?

   But back to my posting above this one: doctors will lie their a-s-s es off for politics and other corrupt reasons. I have statistical proof from my tracking their abuses at death reports. And I have a logical proof in what you have read above. Every doctor knows that hydroxy is a safe drug and that the side effect that they often refer to is not a dangerous side effect because all doctors know how to deal with it and have always successfully done so. Thus, the zero actual deaths.

REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR (POSTED 8/17/2020)

   By analogy: You have Teddy Wheeler and the Chaos Theory. He is the Mayor of Portland who knows precisely when there is going to be a riot every night; but he has still let there be one every night for 80 nights. It is called the Chaos Theory – you just let there be enough random chaos long enough and the existing social order eventually has to fall. This has always been a well documented tactic of Marxist guerilla movements but is now being used by Democrat party politicians for an election year.

  But what this article is is a virus update – and how the States of Texas, Florida and Arizona are under a partisan attack with a form of the Chaos Theory as it relates to an epidemic. There are people that are massively inflating the death tolls in these states as a partisan gambit for the current election; a little like Teddy Wheeler. In the virus case, what is being done is being done on paper so it does not seem quite as bad as abetting rioters.

   But it is. It is just another way to keep up as much fear, chaos and confusion as one can do just to see how the dust will settle once it all dies down. Grotesquely amoral  – and I will let you judge for yourself whether I am right about it happening. Below is a hyperlink to the Report we filed with the Governor of Texas. Decide for yourself.

Dear Governor

THE COURAGE OF MY CONVICTIONS: I HAVE MADE AN ACCUSATION AND I AM PUTTING IT TO THE TEST! (POSTED 8/19/2020)

    I have made the accusation that we are getting punked by someone in the reporting of the coronavirus death tolls. I do not have the resources to run this to ground so I will do a ‘Hail Mary’ play instead. There is an outside chance of the following events happening:

      1) On Augusts 19, 20, 21 and 22 the coronavirus deaths will keep breaking the 1000 mark for these next 4 days – keeping us in a “Oh, my God” state of mind.

      2) On just the two days of Augusts 23 and 24 it will have another significant drop of several hundred deaths and go well below the 1000 mark – putting us in a temporary “Oh, thank God” state of mind.

     3) On the 25th of August it will revert back to the 1000+ zone sending us through more (and more and more) “Oh God”, “Thank God”, “Oh God” , “Thank God” cycles.

   Before I say anything more, we should first wait to see what happens over the next several days. If you want to keep tabs on this for yourself, here is the link:

      Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

   I am putting something to the test; let’s see what happens.

THE COURAGE OF MY CONVICTIONS: I HAVE MADE AN ACCUSATION AND I AM PUTTING IT TO THE TEST! (UPDATED POST ON 8/23/2020)

   Update on the test’s progress: In the posting below this one, I made several predictions about the coronavirus over the next few days. Here is the progress on how my predictions are holding up so far:

      Prediction 1: On Augusts 19, 20, 21 and 22 the coronavirus deaths will keep breaking the 1000 mark for these next 4 days – keeping us in a “Oh, my God” state of mind. What happened: the death toll for the virus was listed as 1247, 1056, 1743 and 955 respectively for these 4 days.

   However, the 1743 number of 8/21 comes from the State of Texas being assessed a death toll of 833 people in one single day – an erroneous number event that has occurred before in Texas. Several weeks ago, it was assessed a death toll of 633 people in a single day – which was later walked back and reduced to a much lower level when the numbers were double checked. Look for this to happen again with the 833 since it is even more inflated than the earlier number.

   Starting tonight, the second phase of my predictions will kick in and I will write back on the progress of the predictions when they occur. And, again, you can check this progress yourself – as it goes along – at the link below:

      Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

THE COURAGE OF MY CONVICTIONS: I HAVE MADE AN ACCUSATION AND I AM PUTTING IT TO THE TEST! (UPDATED POST ON 8/25/2020)

   Update on the test’s progress: In the two posting below this one – On a 8/19/2020 posting I made several predictions about the coronavirus and how the death numbers would go over the next several days. This was done to prove that the coronavirus death numbers are massively faked by people operating for partisan political purposes. Otherwise: how could someone predict in advance what would be happening with them?

   The predictions had three phases to them and here is the progress on how my predictions are holding up so far:

      Prediction 1:  I made an advanced prediction on 8/19 that “On Augusts 19, 20, 21 and 22 the coronavirus deaths will keep breaking the 1000 mark for these next 4 days – keeping us in a “Oh, my God” state of mind.” What happened: the death toll for the virus was listed as 1247, 1056, 1743 and 955 respectively for these 4 days.

   In the 8/23/2020 posting (the one immediately below this one) I gave the update on how Phase 1 of my predictions had checked out. And the paragraph above is what I wrote. I then wrote the following “Starting tonight, the second phase of my predictions will kick in and I will write back on the progress of the predictions when they occur.” I am now doing that and here is the update. 

   Prediction 2. On 8/19/2020, I gave an advanced prediction that on Augusts 23 and 24 that the death numbers would do a dramatic reversal – and drop by several hundred deaths on each of those two days. Just as my Prediction 1 had the deaths be over 1000 for several precisely predicted days, Prediction 2 occurred precisely the way that I stated also.

   On August 23, the coronavirus death toll only came in at only 416 deaths – the predicted drop of several hundred deaths between that day and the one before it. The prediction was that this about face will last exactly two days and the second day involved, August 24, occurred as predicted. It came in with only 489 deaths. So we are down to the Phase 3 of my predictions.

   My third prediction is that tonight, after all of the tallying is done, that the death tolls will revert back to the same bad numbers as before. That we will go back to a 1000+ death count for the next few days again. And, again, you can check this progress yourself – as it goes along – at the link below:

      Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

   At no later than 10 pm tonight, you should be able to go to this link and read for yourself what today’s numbers will be. And whether my third and final prediction will have occurred as stated. Or you can wait for tomorrow’s update where I will do another write up on the totally faked up k _ _ p that is going on with the coronavirus.

THE COURAGE OF MY CONVICTIONS: I HAVE MADE AN ACCUSATION AND I HAVE (SUCCESSFULLY) PUT IT TO THE TEST! (UPDATED POST ON 8/26/2020)

   So, what happened last night? My seven day coronavirus prediction (made on August 19) was for Augusts 19, 20, 21 and 22 to stay at 1000+ deaths per day. (The death tallies for these dates was 1247, 1056, 1124 and 955). Next, that on exactly the next two days, Augusts 23 and 24, the deaths would drop down by several hundred deaths. (The death tallies for these two dates were 416 and 489). Lastly, that the very next day after that, August 25 (last night), that the death rate would spike back up again to 1000+. (The death tally came in at 1225).

   So … how did I do what I just did? You are (presumably) talking about totally random events, on a national scale and in regards to things that have yet to be tallied. But I still successfully gave the precise dates when the tallies would take a sharp turn downwards. And I then  gave the precise date when the tallies would take a sharp turn in yet another direction. If there is nothing amiss here, then how did I do that? I will be compiling the data over the next several days and will then demonstrate – precisely – that there is, indeed, something amiss here, what it is and, therefore, how I was able to do what I just did. 

   This will be the subject of a future write up.

BE UPBEAT AND HERE IS ANOTHER UPDATE ON THE VIRUS (POSTED 8/28/2020)

   For those who have an interest, it is time to refer back to my 8/17/2020 posting. It had a link in it attached to a Report to the Governor of Texas. The report stated that there were massive irregularities in the death counts for Texas, Arizona, Florida and elsewhere. However, this is also why we should not give up – Laura Ingraham (and the State of Texas) have caught up to us on this matter. It was just reported tonight (on the Ingraham Angle) that Texas is now aware of massive irregularities – and that they are said to be of very large proportions.

   Also, I have forwarded another report: I have made another round of my ‘psychic’ predictions on what will happen to the coronavirus between September 1 and September 8. Again, one should never give up – and here is the logic that I hope someone will finally pick up on. Let’s say you see two people with a deck of cards. Normally, a deck of cards is a random matter where you can not pre-guess what will happen.

   But suppose the deck has been rigged and I am in the know on how it has happened? Then I can know every card that will turn up as each one is turned up. Conversely, if you see these two people with one of them doing a guess of each new card as it is turned up then you know – and to a mathematical certainty – that it is a rigged deck combined with someone in the know about how it is rigged. There is no other logical conclusion. So, while I will do it with less fanfare, here are my latest ‘psychic’ predictions:

   Why was this so easy? It is because of the days of the week involved. The dates from August 18 to August 22 were the days Tuesday thru Saturday. And in all 21 weeks since the virus peaked (on 4/07/2020) these five days of the week are always the high yield days for virus fatalities. All I was predicting is that a 21 week old pattern would happen for the 22nd time.

   But then I predicted that on the precise next day – and for precisely that day and the next one afterwards – that there would be a dramatic fall off of the virus deaths. But it is, again, very easy. For the dates of August 23 and 24 were the days of Sunday and Monday. And in all 21 of the last weeks these two days of the week have always had a dramatic fall off. So, again, I was merely predicting that a 21 week pattern would still continue for a 22nd time.

   Similarly, it happened this same way with my prediction that the precise next day – after these two days – would then go back up again in a dramatic upsurge. And it was because this precise next day would be a Tuesday again. I was back to ‘predicting’ about a 21 week old pattern continuing for a 22nd week.

  But here is where you will need your moment of clarity. How can the death tallies follow a predictable pattern – of precise days of the week – where the deaths are (presumably) happening in radically different manners according to what day of the week that it is? The answer is that this can only happen if the tallies are totally erroneous – since a virus can never actually kill this way. A virus is never going to be, say, twice as likely to kill you on a Tuesday as it is on a Monday. Thus, if the tallies are being reported that way it is because they are being reported erroneously. But I had a second set of predictions.

   Below is the reprint of my latest prediction set:

WHAT MORE DOES IT TAKE FOR THE PRESIDENT TO PROVE HIMSELF? (POSTED 10/06/2020)

   Talk about walking the walk. Trump has said, and correctly so, that we must still face our lives and keep going. That we can not let a virus destroy America as America. And, contrary to what his critics say, he is not an idiot or a total self-server: he has had numerous prior brushes with the corona virus to know that he is as much at risk as any other person. But he stuck to his guns – and now he continues to stick to his guns.

   Secondly, he has always maintained that we are getting better all the time at treating the virus. And, contrary to what his critics say, he does not say things as a strictly one-dimensional office seeker trying to get re-elected: when he became ill what did he do? Did he suddenly start wetting himself or did he remain as unafraid as he had previously talked his talk? He has certainly appeared to maintain his composure and certainly seems assured that what he has been saying is true.

   This will still give him no credibility with those who hate him. But it gives him credibility by me. And he is a living example of the correctness of what he has consistently said: quit living in fear of the virus. We must be willing to live with reasonable risks and keep living. And we are, in fact, getting better all the time at treating the disease: he seemed totally unafraid and his confidence has proved to be justified. So, has he finally made his case or what?

   The people involved with the John Hopkins database irregularities are doing it in such a way that it obscures who is, in fact, doing it. It also (clearly) is trying to obscure the accurate death tallies. But the person (or persons) who are responsible for the WHO database irregularities are doing it in such a way that it puts a bulls-eye on their backs – and get them identified with these types of goings-ons. Also, were it not for their bizarre maneuver, it would have remained impossible to get to the correct death tallies. So their motives are a mystery for now. 

      Saturday, 10/17/2020  514 vs. 623 (John Hopkins) vs. 874 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 10/18/2020  432 vs. 432 (John Hopkins) vs. 998 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 10/19/2020  479 vs. 479 (John Hopkins) vs. 588 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 10/20/2020  472 vs. 899 (John Hopkins) vs. 472 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 10/21/2020  510 vs. 1228 (John Hopkins) vs. 510 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 10/22/2020  429 vs. 946 (John Hopkins) vs. 856 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 10/23/2020  348 vs. 881 (John Hopkins) vs. 1066 (World Health Organization)

   And, as one famed broadcaster used to put it, that was the week that was. The totals? According to the 
John Hopkins database, 5488 people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the 
World Health Organization database, 5364 people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. 
Whereas the true number was actually just 3184 people during this 7 day period. But that is the lesser 
important issue involved here about Biden's running mate - Covid 19.

      Saturday, 10/24/2020  460 vs. 762 (John Hopkins) vs. 1001 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 10/25/2020  427 vs. 427 (John Hopkins) vs. 943 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 10/26/2020  519 vs. 519 (John Hopkins) vs. 821 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 10/27/2020  371 vs. 963 (John Hopkins) vs. 371 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 10/28/2020  479 vs. 1024 (John Hopkins) vs. 479 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 10/29/2020  303 vs. 1023 (John Hopkins) vs. 895 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 10/30/2020  514 vs. 944 (John Hopkins) vs. 1059 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we did seven days ago, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 5662 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 5569 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 3073 
people during this 7 day period. And we will restate: this is the lesser important issue involved here about Biden's running 
mate - Covid 19.

      Saturday, 10/31/2020  573 vs. 889 (John Hopkins) vs. 1046 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 11/01/2020  370 vs. 370 (John Hopkins) vs. 1007 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 11/02/2020  497 vs. 497 (John Hopkins) vs. 813 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 11/03/2020  444 vs. 1146 (John Hopkins) vs. 444 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 11/04/2020  506 vs. 1141 (John Hopkins) vs. 506 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 11/05/2020  384 vs. 1109 (John Hopkins) vs. 1086 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 11/06/2020  497 vs. 1232 (John Hopkins) vs. 1132 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we do every seven days ago, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 6384 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 6034 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 3271 
people during this 7 day period. 

   Also, as we do each week, there are some important additional issues involved that we will discuss. This week my investigation opened up 
a new set of problems with the corona virus databases. What follows is a letter that I wrote to the Director of the Washington Policy Center.

"Dear Director:

      Saturday, 11/07/2020  562 vs. 1003 (John Hopkins) vs. 1126 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 11/08/2020  485 vs. 485 (John Hopkins) vs. 1208 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 11/09/2020  621 vs. 621 (John Hopkins) vs. 1062 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 11/10/2020  480 vs. 1399 (John Hopkins) vs. 480 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 11/11/2020  685 vs. 1456 (John Hopkins) vs. 685 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 11/12/2020  384 vs. 1170 (John Hopkins) vs. 1414 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 11/13/2020  700 vs. 1346 (John Hopkins) vs. 1471 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we do every seven days ago, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 7480 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 7446 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 3917 
people during this 7 day period. 

      Saturday, 11/14/2020  827 vs. 1255 (John Hopkins) vs. 1142 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 11/15/2020  541 vs. 541 (John Hopkins) vs. 1356 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 11/16/2020  788 vs. 788 (John Hopkins) vs. 1216 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 11/17/2020  653 vs. 1523 (John Hopkins) vs. 653 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 18/11/2020  753 vs. 1955 (John Hopkins) vs. 753 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 11/19/2020  712 vs. 2011 (John Hopkins) vs. 1582 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 11/20/2020  623 vs. 1876 (John Hopkins) vs. 1825 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we do every seven days ago, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 9949 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 8527 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 4897 
people during this 7 day period. 

      Saturday, 11/21/2020  919 vs. 1452 (John Hopkins) vs. 2036 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 11/22/2020  885 vs. 885 (John Hopkins) vs. 1853 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 11/23/2020  938 vs. 938 (John Hopkins) vs. 1471 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 11/24/2020  867 vs. 2098 (John Hopkins) vs. 867 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 11/25/2020 1052 vs. 2261 (John Hopkins) vs. 1052 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 11/26/2020  744 vs. 1221 (John Hopkins) vs. 1975 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 11/27/2020  598 vs. 1430 (John Hopkins) vs. 2248 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we do every seven days ago, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 10285 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 11502 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 6444 
people during this 7 day period. 

   And we are finally caught up at exact cumulative totals for the entire epidemic:

      According to the John Hopkins the total fatalities are: 260,369
      According to the WHO the total fatalities are: 253,327
      Whereas the maximum total fatalities actually are: 150,077

   This is it: THE BIG PUSH. Unfortunately, I had assumed the corona virus scare was to get rid of Trump. I honestly believed
that the hype would go down after the election. However, it apparently turns out that the idea was to get rid of Trump so that they could 
accelerate the virus scare even more without his resistance.

      Saturday, 11/28/2020  1197 vs. 1181 (John Hopkins) vs. 1387 (World Health Organization)
      Sunday, 11/29/2020  791 vs. 791 (John Hopkins) vs. 1276 (World Health Organization)
      Monday, 11/30/2020  1226 vs. 1226 (John Hopkins) vs. 1210 (World Health Organization)
      Tuesday, 12/01/2020  862 vs. 2518 (John Hopkins) vs. 862 (World Health Organization)
      Wednesday, 12/02/2020 1235 vs. 2821 (John Hopkins) vs. 1235 (World Health Organization)
      Thursday, 12/03/2020  783 vs. 2966 (John Hopkins) vs. 2439 (World Health Organization)
      Friday, 12/04/2020  1165 vs. 2603 (John Hopkins) vs. 2751 (World Health Organization)

   So, as we do every seven days, what are the totals? According to the John Hopkins database, 14106 people died 
from the corona virus during this 7 day period. According to the World Health Organization database, 11160 
people died from the corona virus during this 7 day period. Whereas the true number was actually just 7259 
people during this 7 day period. The running 7-day average for daily death tallies was 1,o37 deaths per day. It was 
no where near the 3,000 per day media hype. 

   And now the cumulative totals for the entire epidemic:

      According to the John Hopkins the total fatalities are: 274,475
      According to the WHO the total fatalities are: 264,487
      Whereas the maximum total fatalities actually are: 166,336