Hillary Kaufman | July 24, 2020
Full
disclosure: I buy organic fruits & veggies. I also buy conventional
fruits & veggies. For me, it depends on the time of year, the way
the produce looks, which grocer or market I’m visiting, and price (those
two-for-one berry deals are no joke!). At D2D, we also believe that
feeding a growing population requires all kinds of safe, sustainable
growing methods. We should have a choice and not be unnecessarily fearful of the food at the grocery store.
What's at Stake?
I
f I told you that I only buy organic produce, you’d probably assume that I had the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) list of contaminated produce memorized for when I go shopping, right? And probably expound on the “horrors” of conventional farming, too. Some of you may not know what EWG is, but you’re probably familiar with their annual “Dirty Dozen” list showing which conventionally-farmed fruits and veggies have the most pesticide residue based on data from the USDA Pesticide Data Program. But should you really be afraid of these “Dirty Dozen” items?
EWG would give a big ‘yes’ to that one. But wouldn’t you do this, too, if your corporate donations came
from Organic Valley, Earthbound Farms, Applegate Farms, and Stonyfield
Farms? Hey, I kinda get it – they’d infuriate their stakeholders if they
published information discouraging their products. But their report
hurts our health and frankly, our sanity. And at a time when we need it
most with COVID-19.............To Read More......
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Food Security in a Post-Covid World
European Conservatives and Reformists Party hosts another ‘Europe Debates’ webinar
Paul Driessen
US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doesn’t just double down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations. It promises to use access to European markets to compel the United States and other countries to adopt EU-style organic farming, precautionary and other regulations if they want to remain trading partners with Europe.
“Farm to Fork” (or F2F) is being billed as “the heart of the European Green Deal.” Like recent energy, climate and other initiatives, it is largely an environmentalist wish (or demand) list – with little basis in science, practical experience or real world impacts. It sets out three primary objectives, which the EU intends to implement fully by 2030, barely nine years from now:
* Bring “at least 25% of EU agricultural land under organic farming” – from its current 7.5%
* Reduce “overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% – forcing greater use of “natural” chemicals
* Reduce the use of manmade chemical fertilizers “by at least 20%” – again forcing “natural” substitutes
F2F is being billed as a continental and global agricultural transformation that will ensure a “just transition” to a “more robust and resilient food system,” guarantee “affordable food for citizens,” and simultaneously improve human health, protect biodiversity, and promote environmental sustainability.
It will almost certainly end up doing just the opposite. Which is why the European Conservatives and Reformists Party is hosting a ‘Europe Debates’ webinar on the topic this Wednesday, July 29.
The problems with “organic” farming are well documented, though largely ignored by environmentalists, policy makers, regulators, journalists and academics.
Organic agriculture requires far more land and much more human labor than modern mechanized farming with manmade fertilizers and crop-protecting chemicals, to get the same crop yields. Many of the “natural” fertilizers and other chemicals that organic farmers employ are equally or more dangerous to bees, other insects, birds, fish and terrestrial animals than modern manmade alternatives.
Low-yield organic agriculture raises food prices for consumers, particularly harming poor families and countries, many of which have been especially hard hit by the Covid pandemic. It makes EU farmers increasingly uncompetitive in world markets. It creates a less resilient food system that is increasingly vulnerable to plant diseases, invasive species, floods, droughts and insects. As a result, it inevitably undermines the climate, “sustainability,” biodiversity and nutrition goals it promises to achieve.
Finally, Farm to Fork will also likely exacerbate the EU’s growing trade frictions with other nations. Even before F2F, agriculture issues were already imperiling US-EU bilateral trade agreements. Meanwhile the US and some 35 other nations had formally complained to the World Trade Organization that current EU regulations on agricultural imports clearly violate internationally accepted norms, because they are not based in science. And now F2F promises to impose similar productivity-destroying regulations on even its poorest trading partners: African countries. In fact, the European Commission (EC) itself has admitted:
“It is also clear that we cannot make a change unless we take the rest of the world with us.… Efforts to tighten sustainability requirements in the EU food system should be accompanied by policies that help raise standards globally, in order to avoid the externalisation and export of unsustainable practices.”
Now the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECRP) is offering an opportunity to learn more.
This Wednesday, July 29, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and new European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski will appear together in a webinar hosted by the ECRP.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be the first high-level discussion of these agriculture and trade issues between the US and EU since Farm to Fork was released. Other debate participants include:
* Anna Fotyga, Member of European Parliament, Poland & Acting President of the ECR Party
* Hermann Tertsch, Member of European Parliament, Spain
* Jon Entine, Founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project
* Richard Milsom, Executive Director, ECR Party
Please tune in: Wednesday * July 29 * 10 am ET / 4pm CET
Go here for more information and here to register.
(The European Conservatives and Reformists Party https://www.ecrparty.eu/ is a conservative Eurosceptic European political party primarily focused on reforming the European Union on the basis of “Eurorealism,” as opposed to totally rejecting the EU. Its more than 40 political parties are united by center-right values, under the Reykjavik Declaration, and dedicated to individual liberty, national sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, private property, limited government, free trade, family values and the devolution of power away from a centralized EU and EC) .
Quite clearly, humanity’s brief encounter with food uncertainty in the early days of COVID was a stark reminder that even the most advanced, technologically capable nations on Earth cannot take the safety and security of their food supply for granted. Poor countries are still dealing with Covid-related food uncertainty. Among the other topics the panelists will be discussing are the following.
What lessons have we or should we have learned from the Covid crisis? From past experience with organic agriculture, pesticide and fertilizer policies and practices?
What policies could give our vast and complex food supply system the strength and resilience it needs to withstand whatever shocks and dislocations may hit us in the future?
How will the US respond to these EU demands and threats under the Farm to Fork initiative?
Inside the EU, who will bear the costs involved and how can the EU and EU nations assure equity, given the vast regional disparities across the EU?
How will F2F impact the global competitiveness of European farmers?
Does growing political opposition to the EU’s agreements with Latin America and Canada signal a reassessment of its broader trade strategy?
Will the EU take an evidence-based scientific approach to the climate, sustainability, biodiversity and safety shortcomings of organic agriculture?
How does the EU demand that impoverished African countries adopt European ideas – on organic farming, agro-ecology, the precautionary principle, pesticides, fertilizers and sufficient affordable energy, for instance – reflect EU ideals on justice, human rights and self-determination?
This week’s debate promises to be an invigorating and informative program.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.
Paul Driessen
US-EU trade talks are already stalled over agriculture issues. And yet the European Union’s new “Farm to Fork” strategy doesn’t just double down on the EU’s contentious agricultural regulations. It promises to use access to European markets to compel the United States and other countries to adopt EU-style organic farming, precautionary and other regulations if they want to remain trading partners with Europe.
“Farm to Fork” (or F2F) is being billed as “the heart of the European Green Deal.” Like recent energy, climate and other initiatives, it is largely an environmentalist wish (or demand) list – with little basis in science, practical experience or real world impacts. It sets out three primary objectives, which the EU intends to implement fully by 2030, barely nine years from now:
* Bring “at least 25% of EU agricultural land under organic farming” – from its current 7.5%
* Reduce “overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% – forcing greater use of “natural” chemicals
* Reduce the use of manmade chemical fertilizers “by at least 20%” – again forcing “natural” substitutes
F2F is being billed as a continental and global agricultural transformation that will ensure a “just transition” to a “more robust and resilient food system,” guarantee “affordable food for citizens,” and simultaneously improve human health, protect biodiversity, and promote environmental sustainability.
It will almost certainly end up doing just the opposite. Which is why the European Conservatives and Reformists Party is hosting a ‘Europe Debates’ webinar on the topic this Wednesday, July 29.
The problems with “organic” farming are well documented, though largely ignored by environmentalists, policy makers, regulators, journalists and academics.
Organic agriculture requires far more land and much more human labor than modern mechanized farming with manmade fertilizers and crop-protecting chemicals, to get the same crop yields. Many of the “natural” fertilizers and other chemicals that organic farmers employ are equally or more dangerous to bees, other insects, birds, fish and terrestrial animals than modern manmade alternatives.
Low-yield organic agriculture raises food prices for consumers, particularly harming poor families and countries, many of which have been especially hard hit by the Covid pandemic. It makes EU farmers increasingly uncompetitive in world markets. It creates a less resilient food system that is increasingly vulnerable to plant diseases, invasive species, floods, droughts and insects. As a result, it inevitably undermines the climate, “sustainability,” biodiversity and nutrition goals it promises to achieve.
Finally, Farm to Fork will also likely exacerbate the EU’s growing trade frictions with other nations. Even before F2F, agriculture issues were already imperiling US-EU bilateral trade agreements. Meanwhile the US and some 35 other nations had formally complained to the World Trade Organization that current EU regulations on agricultural imports clearly violate internationally accepted norms, because they are not based in science. And now F2F promises to impose similar productivity-destroying regulations on even its poorest trading partners: African countries. In fact, the European Commission (EC) itself has admitted:
“It is also clear that we cannot make a change unless we take the rest of the world with us.… Efforts to tighten sustainability requirements in the EU food system should be accompanied by policies that help raise standards globally, in order to avoid the externalisation and export of unsustainable practices.”
Now the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECRP) is offering an opportunity to learn more.
This Wednesday, July 29, US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and new European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski will appear together in a webinar hosted by the ECRP.
The event is free and open to the public. It will be the first high-level discussion of these agriculture and trade issues between the US and EU since Farm to Fork was released. Other debate participants include:
* Anna Fotyga, Member of European Parliament, Poland & Acting President of the ECR Party
* Hermann Tertsch, Member of European Parliament, Spain
* Jon Entine, Founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project
* Richard Milsom, Executive Director, ECR Party
Please tune in: Wednesday * July 29 * 10 am ET / 4pm CET
Go here for more information and here to register.
(The European Conservatives and Reformists Party https://www.ecrparty.eu/ is a conservative Eurosceptic European political party primarily focused on reforming the European Union on the basis of “Eurorealism,” as opposed to totally rejecting the EU. Its more than 40 political parties are united by center-right values, under the Reykjavik Declaration, and dedicated to individual liberty, national sovereignty, parliamentary democracy, private property, limited government, free trade, family values and the devolution of power away from a centralized EU and EC) .
Quite clearly, humanity’s brief encounter with food uncertainty in the early days of COVID was a stark reminder that even the most advanced, technologically capable nations on Earth cannot take the safety and security of their food supply for granted. Poor countries are still dealing with Covid-related food uncertainty. Among the other topics the panelists will be discussing are the following.
What lessons have we or should we have learned from the Covid crisis? From past experience with organic agriculture, pesticide and fertilizer policies and practices?
What policies could give our vast and complex food supply system the strength and resilience it needs to withstand whatever shocks and dislocations may hit us in the future?
How will the US respond to these EU demands and threats under the Farm to Fork initiative?
Inside the EU, who will bear the costs involved and how can the EU and EU nations assure equity, given the vast regional disparities across the EU?
How will F2F impact the global competitiveness of European farmers?
Does growing political opposition to the EU’s agreements with Latin America and Canada signal a reassessment of its broader trade strategy?
Will the EU take an evidence-based scientific approach to the climate, sustainability, biodiversity and safety shortcomings of organic agriculture?
How does the EU demand that impoverished African countries adopt European ideas – on organic farming, agro-ecology, the precautionary principle, pesticides, fertilizers and sufficient affordable energy, for instance – reflect EU ideals on justice, human rights and self-determination?
This week’s debate promises to be an invigorating and informative program.
Paul Driessen is senior policy analyst for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (www.CFACT.org) and author of books and articles on energy, environment, climate and human rights issues.
Monday, July 13, 2020
Here's What I Don't Believe
Editor's Note: I published this on December 31 2018. But it's being hit again, and as I read it I thought it was insightful on my part, as so much of what I stated is coming into being, and worth re-publishing. This is the world as I see it! RK
By Rich Kozlovich
By Rich Kozlovich
Saturday, July 11, 2020
If Diversity is the Answer, What's the Question? Part I
"If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, “diversity”
should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don’t need a
speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about
the supposed benefits of diversity. The very idea of testing this wonderful, magical word against something as ugly as reality seems almost sordid." Thomas Sowell
By Rich Kozlovich
One of the major problems with understanding what activists are up to is how they've high jacked language. They take words that are easily understood, twist them and misapply them. Words such as diversity. For most Americans of my generation we understood that American diversity meant we had a large variety of people living in America from all over the world. All contributing to the American culture, the American identity and the American economy. All working to have the American dream and become a united people with the added benefits of what different cultures contributed.
That's not what leftists mean when they use the word diversity. Their goal is to destroy any concept of an American culture, an American identity, the American economy, overturn the Constitution, and destroy any idea of American unity unless it's being unified under a socialist dictatorial regime. Once that happens....Oh there will be unity all right, but as in all the failed leftist regimes of history that have infested the world, they will insist in unity of thought, and those thoughts will be disastrous.
That's history and that history is incontestable, and now government, society, corporations and trade associations are falling into their trap. Embracing unending failure is insanity!
By Rich Kozlovich
One of the major problems with understanding what activists are up to is how they've high jacked language. They take words that are easily understood, twist them and misapply them. Words such as diversity. For most Americans of my generation we understood that American diversity meant we had a large variety of people living in America from all over the world. All contributing to the American culture, the American identity and the American economy. All working to have the American dream and become a united people with the added benefits of what different cultures contributed.
That's not what leftists mean when they use the word diversity. Their goal is to destroy any concept of an American culture, an American identity, the American economy, overturn the Constitution, and destroy any idea of American unity unless it's being unified under a socialist dictatorial regime. Once that happens....Oh there will be unity all right, but as in all the failed leftist regimes of history that have infested the world, they will insist in unity of thought, and those thoughts will be disastrous.
That's history and that history is incontestable, and now government, society, corporations and trade associations are falling into their trap. Embracing unending failure is insanity!
I've been outraged ever since I received this e-mail from NPMA saying:
We’ve all been struck silent for the past ten days struggling with the scenes playing out over television and computer screens everywhere. But, it’s clear that now is not the time for silence. It’s the time to find our voices and join them together to honor those who have been wronged and to forge a better, united future standing against racism and injustice.
To our Black members, the Black community, your families and those of you who have experienced inherent racism, NPMA stands with you. We recognize that your experiences are unique and we all have much to learn. Please know that we are committed to doing just that. We are here to listen, to learn, to improve and to contribute where it makes sense.
Given the critical need to focus on this important issue, we will be diligent in our commitment to shine a renewed spotlight on diversity, inclusion and equality during our upcoming meetings as part of every agenda. In addition, we are planning for a Diversity Forum at Pestworld, and we hope you will join us in the discussion there. Every voice must be heard.
We all need to be committed to learning more about how we can end racism.
What exactly does that mean? What exactly does all this entail? Why exactly is this so critical, and if this is so critical, why didn't NPMA notice it before insane misfits started destroying the nation?
And as for "every voice must be heard": Really? I guess we'll see about that!
As I read this I wondered who is the leftist ideologue at NPMA who wrote this? A writer who gives the impression they never read a history book, only watch TV news, and only read the New York Times and other corrupt rags of similar ilk.
And as for "every voice must be heard": Really? I guess we'll see about that!
As I read this I wondered who is the leftist ideologue at NPMA who wrote this? A writer who gives the impression they never read a history book, only watch TV news, and only read the New York Times and other corrupt rags of similar ilk.
Also I wonder if they ever read a dictionary. "Inherent" racism. Really? Did anyone look up the word inherent before sending out this piece of clabber, especially to an industry that has been the most exemplary and accepting industry in the world. Our industry has accepted all people's regardless of race, gender or sexual preference, which I will be covering in this continuing series of articles dealing with the cancer of leftism and their definition of diversity and it's goals.
Well, at 74, I'm soon to be gone, but in the meanwhile, I'm not going quietly into the night. I love this industry and I will not allow anyone, including bureaucrats, activists, or fellow travelers within the industry to degrade who and what we are, and what we have been.
It would appear the NPMA has decided to descend into the labyrinth world of leftist social engineering, which is really rich, since once upon a time there was an attempt to restrict me from posting on the Open Forum because of my views, which only involved issues of business, economics, pesticide issues, regulations, and our needs as an industry. I did not involve social engineering issues. Well, it would appear the NPMA is now shredding their own rules - I will follow that lead.
It would appear the NPMA has decided to descend into the labyrinth world of leftist social engineering, which is really rich, since once upon a time there was an attempt to restrict me from posting on the Open Forum because of my views, which only involved issues of business, economics, pesticide issues, regulations, and our needs as an industry. I did not involve social engineering issues. Well, it would appear the NPMA is now shredding their own rules - I will follow that lead.
If we're going to do social issues, domestic and international, I have massive files, and between 700 and 800 of my own commentaries on social issues, domestic politics, history and geopolitics. Articles that explain things like why N. Korea won't start WWIII, Why China is a paper tiger socially, economically, demographically and militarily. Why the EU will be gone before the end of this decade. Why Trump's Tariffs are a good move for America economically and geopolitically at this point in time because we've come to the end of the Bretton Woods Era.
I have files on every social issue humanity has faced for thousands of years. I have files on false racism, racism, the civil war, Johnson's Great Society programs, FDR's new deal, the Great Depression, and the infiltration of communist spies in his administration, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt's progressive view that the Constitution is an impediment to human progress, and in my computer I have saved massive files on Global Warming, along with GMO's, and I will happily share all of that on a daily basis with our membership on the Open Forum.
If there are no rules, then there are no rules!
Friends don't always see reality the same light, as an example, at Legislative Day one year a friend once said to me, (with a more than small hint of accusatory disdain I might add), "you thrive on confrontation". Snarkily, I said, "Yes I do!" What I didn't explain, because I felt I didn't have to is, I don't do confrontation for confrontation's sake. I believe in confrontation when there's something worth confronting. I believe there are times that someone needs to stand up and say what needs to be said, and then be prepared to take the heat. I am prepared!
I have files on every social issue humanity has faced for thousands of years. I have files on false racism, racism, the civil war, Johnson's Great Society programs, FDR's new deal, the Great Depression, and the infiltration of communist spies in his administration, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt's progressive view that the Constitution is an impediment to human progress, and in my computer I have saved massive files on Global Warming, along with GMO's, and I will happily share all of that on a daily basis with our membership on the Open Forum.
If there are no rules, then there are no rules!
Friends don't always see reality the same light, as an example, at Legislative Day one year a friend once said to me, (with a more than small hint of accusatory disdain I might add), "you thrive on confrontation". Snarkily, I said, "Yes I do!" What I didn't explain, because I felt I didn't have to is, I don't do confrontation for confrontation's sake. I believe in confrontation when there's something worth confronting. I believe there are times that someone needs to stand up and say what needs to be said, and then be prepared to take the heat. I am prepared!
I've stored source articles for my commentaries on this issue, and here they are to share with you:
- The 'Diversity' Fraud
- Diversity and Inclusion Insanity
- Cult Programming in Seattle
- The American Soviet Mentality - Collective demonization invades our culture
- How a Twitter Mob Derailed an Immigrant Female Author’s Budding Career
- What ‘Systemic Liberalism’ Has Wrought
- The Problem with Abstract Concepts
- Jews fight back against de Blasio's continued persecution
- Whom are you going to call?
- The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation
- Anti-police madness metastasizes as SF mayor plans to send in social workers in their place
- Seattle’s cowardly capitulation contrasts with 4 other cities putting down attempts to establish ’autonomous zones’
- Business departs the inner cities
- Serial kneeling of America
- The plight of blacks who believe in America’s promise -
- We Didn’t Fight for a Marxist America
- There was a dumpster fire in the autonomous zone so citizens of the CHAZ called the Seattle fire department What a perfect metaphor
- CHAZ offers useful insights into the practical realities of revolutionary communes -
- Nashville autonomous zone 'will not be tolerated,' Tennessee governor warns amid threat
- Entire Florida city's SWAT team resigns after police chief kneels with protesters
- Scott Adams has had a brilliant insight about the demand for reparations
- The futility of reparations
- It's not just policing that Black Lives Matter wants to change
- The irony of kneeling during the National Anthem
- Defund the police: Wrong target, right idea
- Three Species of Protesters
- Devolution to Revolution: An Already Demoralized U.S. is Now Being Destabilized
- The Problem with George Will
- America’s New Caste System?
- Where Black Lives Don't Matter
- Race Isn’t Going Away
- What If Police Officers Go on Strike?
- Why Don’t These #BlackLivesMatter?
- The Wound to Our Social Order Is Deep and Pervasive
- Democrat Cities: Fourth-World Scourges
- White America's Alleged Inner Racist
- Glenn Loury: 'We're Being Swept Along by Hysteria' About Racism in America
- TheMob’s Support For Rayshard Brooks Exposes Them For The Race-Baiting Hypocrites They Are
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Headlines From the Media, and Other Foolishness, June 21, 2020
By Rich Kozlovich
Do you wonder how this country, and a lot of the world, got taken in by all this coronavirus madness? Of course we now know the data has been fudged, especially involving the computer models, but there's another reason. People are really gullible, and therefore easily manipulated, and that includes many well educated people. Especially if it means holding views different than their group, or a better description would be, "their herd".
At any rate, this was sent to me from one of the members of the eclectic e-mail group to which I belong, which in light of the media's corruption over this matter I thought you might find it amusing.
It's clear that prediction is really hard, especially about the future. While it's clear January and February are fact based, March is hysteria, and with the possible exception of May....and that's a bit of dicey also....it really gets dicey after April, and is totally made up, especially about our Browns winning the Super Bowl in 2021. Think about this: How much do you wanna bet there would be those who would believe it?
If you doubt it, then perhaps, if your old enough , you'll remember all the supermarket tabloids like the Sun, National Examiner, Globe, and the Weekly World News, which touted itself as the "World's Only Reliable News Source", with stories about the Bat Boy:
In the Meanwhile - Enjoy!
De Omnibus Dubitandum - Everything is to be questioned!!!!! My personal motto!
Do you wonder how this country, and a lot of the world, got taken in by all this coronavirus madness? Of course we now know the data has been fudged, especially involving the computer models, but there's another reason. People are really gullible, and therefore easily manipulated, and that includes many well educated people. Especially if it means holding views different than their group, or a better description would be, "their herd".
At any rate, this was sent to me from one of the members of the eclectic e-mail group to which I belong, which in light of the media's corruption over this matter I thought you might find it amusing.
Headlines from the media, and other foolishness
It's clear that prediction is really hard, especially about the future. While it's clear January and February are fact based, March is hysteria, and with the possible exception of May....and that's a bit of dicey also....it really gets dicey after April, and is totally made up, especially about our Browns winning the Super Bowl in 2021. Think about this: How much do you wanna bet there would be those who would believe it?
If you doubt it, then perhaps, if your old enough , you'll remember all the supermarket tabloids like the Sun, National Examiner, Globe, and the Weekly World News, which touted itself as the "World's Only Reliable News Source", with stories about the Bat Boy:
-"Bat Boy was first featured in a 1992 issue after being found in a cave in West Virginia (Lost World Caverns). He has since led police on a high-speed chase, fought in the war on terror, led the troops to capture Saddam Hussein, bitten Santa Claus, and traveled into outer space. In 2000, he gave his endorsement to Al Gore. It was foretold that Bat Boy would become president in 2028. The story of Bat Boy was the basis for an acclaimed off-Broadway musical, Bat Boy: The Musical, in which Bat Boy meets a tragic end. In addition to articles, Bat Boy has been featured in a comic strip since 2004, though it is said that only the articles are the "true" story of Bat Boy."That, and other really crazy stuff appeared in all these "papers". Stuff that apparently some, or maybe even most of their readers believed. How do I know they believed it? Why else would they kept buying it? Some must have just enjoyed the silliness, but I have to wonder just how much of this stuff they were buying into.
In the Meanwhile - Enjoy!
De Omnibus Dubitandum - Everything is to be questioned!!!!! My personal motto!
Why Aren't We Outraged? June 29, 2020
By Rich Kozlovich
This article will be another expansion on my regular coronavirus updates, which I've posted regularly in recent weeks. I would think there would be, at very least, a modicum of outrage over the truth versus the hyperbole being promoted by a corrupt media. Shockingly, there isn't! In spite of the fact the vast majority of people I talk to, many of them wearing masks because they have to for their jobs, who believe this is all nonsense. Oh, there are those who are panicked, make no mistake about that, but almost every one of the people I talked to agreed infectious diseases are a part of life, that people get sick, and people die, and it happens every year, and will happen every year hereafter. But no one shut down the economy over it.
So that bodes well these two questions:
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 5:30 AM on June 29, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
In his article, "When you want to scare the public into submission just assign deaths to a disease without proof", Jack Hellner notes:
Taking something seriously is one thing. Panicking over it is another.
The nation is suffering from what Anthony J. DeBlasi calls the Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome saying:
Kevin Agorastos notes in his article, How the man who eradicated smallpox would have handled coronavirus:
It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science. Of course social distancing is totally unimportant if you were violently protesting! In fact, in New York protesters were in effect given "preferential treatment". You couldn't go to church, but it was okay to be inches apart if you were protesting in an effort to "reform" the nation. But a judge disagreed, finding Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio were acting like monarchs.
Cuomo's judgement, and that of a lot of states governors, all of whom complain about Trump, are guilty of crimes against the elderly. Let's try and get this right. These leftist politicians are not concerned about public health. This is just another media created crisis they're not going to let go to waste.
Cuomo is now complaining he's taking political heat for the fact that almost half of all the coronovirus deaths in New York linked to nursing homes. Nursing homes he forced to take in coronavirus patients. (and Here). Furthermore, this post claims that some states had 77% of all their coronaviurs death were connected to nursing homes. But they say they just follow the science. Hogwash!
Let's try and get this right once and for all. Epidemiology isn't science! It's statistics, speculation, guess work. All of which are components of science, but in themselves, none of them are science. Science must be observable and repeatable. Epidemiological projections are incapable of demonstrating either. Only time, observation and the actual documentation of events represent science.
There are seven reasons why epidemiology isn't science listed in Steve Bigler's article, " A retired physician's take on epidemiologists." And what it all comes down to is this: Epidemiologists are academically anointed well paid crystal ball gazers, only their crystal balls are computer models, and just as unreliable. But they're always going to make it worse than it is because if they make the numbers large, and they turn out small, no one blames them. If they make them small, and the reverse occurs, everyone blames them. Their goal is to be well paid while having "no personal accountability for the outcome. Nice work if you can get it!"
What will be the long term negative consequences to society and small businesses? None of this bodes well for small businesses, the economy as a whole, and for the continued stability of society, and it shouldn't take a degree in economics to understand that.
This article will be another expansion on my regular coronavirus updates, which I've posted regularly in recent weeks. I would think there would be, at very least, a modicum of outrage over the truth versus the hyperbole being promoted by a corrupt media. Shockingly, there isn't! In spite of the fact the vast majority of people I talk to, many of them wearing masks because they have to for their jobs, who believe this is all nonsense. Oh, there are those who are panicked, make no mistake about that, but almost every one of the people I talked to agreed infectious diseases are a part of life, that people get sick, and people die, and it happens every year, and will happen every year hereafter. But no one shut down the economy over it.
So that bodes well these two questions:
- Are we to shut down the economy and destroy people's lives every year from now on for every new infectious disease that strikes?
- Are the rantings of a corrupt and hysterical media to be the criteria for deciding public health issues from now on?
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 5:30 AM on June 29, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
- Worldwide infections, 10,154, 984. Infection rate, 0.1%.
- Worldwide deaths, 501,955 Mortality rate, 0.006%.
- Confirmed infections in the United States, 2,549,069. Infection rate, 0.7%
- United States deaths, 125,803. Mortality rate, 0.03%.
In his article, "When you want to scare the public into submission just assign deaths to a disease without proof", Jack Hellner notes:
The scare campaign around Covid 19 keeps chugging along, making things look as bad as possible, and probably worse than it really is.Make no mistake. This isn't about public health. It's about control. David Horowitz, a former communist activist, and son of communist activists parents, but now the noted conservative publisher of Front Page Magazine, knows well for which he speaks when he says:
"Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out"Please note the substantial difference between the infection and mortality rates of coronavirus and past virus attacks.
- In 1968 the Hong Kong flu killed over 1,000,000 people worldwide. Worldwide population in 1968 was 3,534,000,000. The mortality rate was 0.3%! America lost 100,000 that year, and morality rate was 0.05%.
- In 1957/58 the Asian flu, which originated in Guizhou, China killed up to 2,000,000 people in a worldwide population of 2,900,000,000 had a mortality rate 0.068%. America lost 116,000 people. The mortality rate was 0.07%.
"I have seen similar viruses simply worked through. Nineteen fifty-eight's, for instance, and even the H1N1 virus in 2009.Yes, people got sick, and yes, some died. But both were accepted as part of human life, thus human life continued."I've seen these events in my life also, and everyone understood this: Whether or not you got sick was a crap shoot, but that was no reason to destroy the nation's economy. But until recently the nation wasn't filled with snowflakes and foolish young radicals being manipulated by old radicals with the goal of destroying the American identity, the American culture, the American economy and overturning the Constitution in order to impose a socialist state on a society of lemmings.
Taking something seriously is one thing. Panicking over it is another.
The nation is suffering from what Anthony J. DeBlasi calls the Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome saying:
Again, coronavirus has been killing people forever, via aggravated colds and other serious respiratory infections. That it is suddenly necessary in some states for everyone to be told daily how many coronavirus deaths have occurred, without reporting deaths from other viruses – as though the comparison is not newsworthy – smells too strongly of deception.
In support of the oppressive restrictions damaging lives and livelihoods beyond calculation we are enjoined by experts like Anthony Fauci to respect the science and heed the authorities on the matter. Where have we heard such advice before? Well, from the “climate change” experts who peddle their doomsday scenarios. Could it be that “authorities” who draw their conclusions from “settled science” are actually clueless or, heaven forbid, lying?Now we're finding out that these claims about asymptomatic coronavirus people, aren't really very infectious after all. So, if that's true, and it seems that it is, why were we told they were in the past? It's a lie that has been used to justify all this ridiculous masking and social distancing, and control of society.
Kevin Agorastos notes in his article, How the man who eradicated smallpox would have handled coronavirus:
Whether we realize it or not, we have all been part of a grand experiment. Never before have we had a national lockdown and mass quarantines of healthy people in response to a pandemic. Not during the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957 Asian flu, or the 1968/69 Hong Kong flu. Even the concept of social distancing is a modern one. We have implemented many of those things before to varying degrees, but never on a national scale. The end result has had huge economic and social consequences.........He goes on to state Henderson's views saying:
Masks should be worn primarily by those who work in hospitals. Studies have shown that surgical masks do little because the pores in the mask become blocked by moisture from breathing, and the airstream simply diverts around the mask.
There are few data available for N95 or surgical masks outside a healthcare setting, and N95 masks need to be fit-tested to be effective.
In short, Henderson’s strategy was to tough it out. Let the pandemic burn itself out, treat the sick, and work on developing a vaccine as quickly as possible.
Henderson believed the best response to a pandemic is to let society function as normal.
Strong political and public health reassurance is also necessary to ensure the needed medical care services are provided when needed. If either is seen to be less than optimal then a manageable epidemic could move toward catastrophe.No one thinks reasonable methods shouldn't be implemented, but we're past reasonable and into twilight zone thinking, and is there a reason why? The answer is historical.
It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science. Of course social distancing is totally unimportant if you were violently protesting! In fact, in New York protesters were in effect given "preferential treatment". You couldn't go to church, but it was okay to be inches apart if you were protesting in an effort to "reform" the nation. But a judge disagreed, finding Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio were acting like monarchs.
Cuomo's judgement, and that of a lot of states governors, all of whom complain about Trump, are guilty of crimes against the elderly. Let's try and get this right. These leftist politicians are not concerned about public health. This is just another media created crisis they're not going to let go to waste.
Cuomo is now complaining he's taking political heat for the fact that almost half of all the coronovirus deaths in New York linked to nursing homes. Nursing homes he forced to take in coronavirus patients. (and Here). Furthermore, this post claims that some states had 77% of all their coronaviurs death were connected to nursing homes. But they say they just follow the science. Hogwash!
Let's try and get this right once and for all. Epidemiology isn't science! It's statistics, speculation, guess work. All of which are components of science, but in themselves, none of them are science. Science must be observable and repeatable. Epidemiological projections are incapable of demonstrating either. Only time, observation and the actual documentation of events represent science.
There are seven reasons why epidemiology isn't science listed in Steve Bigler's article, " A retired physician's take on epidemiologists." And what it all comes down to is this: Epidemiologists are academically anointed well paid crystal ball gazers, only their crystal balls are computer models, and just as unreliable. But they're always going to make it worse than it is because if they make the numbers large, and they turn out small, no one blames them. If they make them small, and the reverse occurs, everyone blames them. Their goal is to be well paid while having "no personal accountability for the outcome. Nice work if you can get it!"
What will be the long term negative consequences to society and small businesses? None of this bodes well for small businesses, the economy as a whole, and for the continued stability of society, and it shouldn't take a degree in economics to understand that.
Enough is Enough! Open Ohio Now! June 24, 2020
By Rich Kozlovich
This article will be an expansion on my regular coronavirus updates, which I've posted regularly in recent weeks. I think you will find this expansion profound, and hopefully thought provoking. I would also hope it would also generate, at the very least, a modicum of outrage.
I've posted much to show this "pandemic" is mostly media driven hysteria, and in spite
of all the evidence to the contrary, society has gone insane with this
stuff. Therefore, I've decided to post the mortality rates regularly.
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 5:21 AM on June 24, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
Let's face it, in the past Americans understood these infections are a part of life, and also understood this is a crap shoot. As Don Sucher , in his article, Epidemics and mass panics, then and now, notes:
The nation is suffering from what Anthony J. DeBlasi calls the Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome saying:
Confirmed cases 42,767. Percentage of infections. 0.3%. "Probable cases" 46,127. Percentage of "probable" infections. 0.39%. Confirmed deaths, 2,497. Mortality rate, 0.02%. Expanded number, 2,735. Mortality rate. 0.02%
Now we're finding out that these claims about asymptomatic coronavirus people, aren't really very infectious after all. So, if that's true, and it seems that it is, why were we told they were in the past? It's a lie that has been used to justify all this ridiculous masking and social distancing, and control of society. The answer is historical. It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science. Of course social distancing is totally unimportant if you were violently protesting! Then it was okay to be inches apart.
Let's try and get this right once and for all. Epidemiology isn't science! It's statistics, speculation, guess work. All of which are components of science, but in themselves, none of them are science. Science must be observable and repeatable. Epidemiological projections are incapable of demonstrating either. Only time, observation and the actual documentation of events represent science. Below are seven reasons why epidemiology isn't science!
On June 23, 2020 Steve Bigler published the article, A retired physician's take on epidemiologists, saying:
"I am a retired physician. Over my career, I've had some contact with epidemiology. I'll be blunt here: I came away unimpressed with that field. Here's why:
As for Ohio and DeWine's continued and blatantly unconstitutional restrictions on Ohio's citizens and businesses: Suggestion - Impeach DeWine! I've also been advocating the dismissal of Dr. Amy Acton, but since she's resigned, that's now moot.
Peter Skurkiss posted the article, Dr. Amy Acton, architect of Ohio's shutdown, resigns, outlining this part of the coronavirus story, and "Operation Rescue call for her resignation after publishing an expose of her troubled past......" He then goes on to question DeWine's choice of her for this job in the first place, and his continued support. Well, she's gone now, and that part has been fixed, except by the last report I'm aware of she's still being paid her $185,000 salary. And here I thought Ohio had a budget problem. However, DeWine has a fix for that.
It's been reported that due to Coronavirus in Ohio: State wants vendors to take voluntary 15% cut on contracts, services. Their "request" carries a veiled threat as Roger Geiger, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses for Ohio notes:
Let's remember, this unnecessary financial crisis was created by this administration, and will be felt in Ohio for years to come. Shopping malls, that were having difficulties already, charge a very high rent and service fees has a lot of renters with no customers, and the malls are still demanding their money.
He calls himself a conservative, but apparently he, like Kasich, feels he can define conservatism as he pleases, and like Kasich his definition includes more taxes, more regulations, and a more abusive and intrusive government than Ohio has ever seen. Strange, that definition seems to be the same definition for left wing progressives.
David Horowitz, a former communist activist, and son of communist activists parents, but now the noted conservative publisher of Front Page Magazine, knows well for which he speaks when he says:
This article will be an expansion on my regular coronavirus updates, which I've posted regularly in recent weeks. I think you will find this expansion profound, and hopefully thought provoking. I would also hope it would also generate, at the very least, a modicum of outrage.
 |
| Maybe it's time for Ohio Republicans to start looking for a Maggie Thatcher. |
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 5:21 AM on June 24, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
- Worldwide infections, 9,273,773. Infection rate, 0.1%
- Worldwide deaths, 477, 807 Mortality rate, 0.006%
- Confirmed infections in the United States, 2,374,102. Infection rate, 0.7%
- United States deaths, 121,225. Mortality rate, 0.03% (Editor's note. That number may have been inflated by fraudulent reporting by as much as 25%. Cooking the books here, and misrepresentation here. RK
- In 1968 the Hong Kong flu killed over 1,000,000 people worldwide. Worldwide population in 1968 was 3,534,000,000. The mortality rate was 0.3%! America lost 100,000 that year, and morality rate was 0.05%.
- In 1957/58 the Asian flu, which originated in Guizhou, China killed up to 2,000,000 people in a worldwide population of 2,900,000,000 had a mortality rate 0.068%. America lost 116,000 people. The mortality rate was 0.07%.
Let's face it, in the past Americans understood these infections are a part of life, and also understood this is a crap shoot. As Don Sucher , in his article, Epidemics and mass panics, then and now, notes:
"I have seen similar viruses simply worked through. Nineteen fifty-eight's, for instance, and even the H1N1 virus in 2009.Yes, people got sick, and yes, some died. But both were accepted as part of human life, thus human life continued."I'll be 74 in three weeks, and I've seen these events in my life also, and everyone understood, whether or not you got sick was a crap shoot, but that was no reason to destroy the nation's economy. But the nation wasn't filled with snowflakes then. Taking something seriously is one thing. Panicking over it is another.
The nation is suffering from what Anthony J. DeBlasi calls the Coronavirus Derangement Syndrome saying:
Again, coronavirus has been killing people forever, via aggravated colds and other serious respiratory infections. That it is suddenly necessary in some states for everyone to be told daily how many coronavirus deaths have occurred, without reporting deaths from other viruses – as though the comparison is not newsworthy – smells too strongly of deception.
In support of the oppressive restrictions damaging lives and livelihoods beyond calculation we are enjoined by experts like Anthony Fauci to respect the science and heed the authorities on the matter. Where have we heard such advice before? Well, from the “climate change” experts who peddle their doomsday scenarios. Could it be that “authorities” who draw their conclusions from “settled science” are actually clueless or, heaven forbid, lying?As for Ohio. Ohio and the CDC keep playing games with the numbers. There are two numbers representing how many coronavirus infections that have been in Ohio, and how many died. I will cover both, based on a population of 11,700,000.
Confirmed cases 42,767. Percentage of infections. 0.3%. "Probable cases" 46,127. Percentage of "probable" infections. 0.39%. Confirmed deaths, 2,497. Mortality rate, 0.02%. Expanded number, 2,735. Mortality rate. 0.02%
Now we're finding out that these claims about asymptomatic coronavirus people, aren't really very infectious after all. So, if that's true, and it seems that it is, why were we told they were in the past? It's a lie that has been used to justify all this ridiculous masking and social distancing, and control of society. The answer is historical. It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science. Of course social distancing is totally unimportant if you were violently protesting! Then it was okay to be inches apart.
Let's try and get this right once and for all. Epidemiology isn't science! It's statistics, speculation, guess work. All of which are components of science, but in themselves, none of them are science. Science must be observable and repeatable. Epidemiological projections are incapable of demonstrating either. Only time, observation and the actual documentation of events represent science. Below are seven reasons why epidemiology isn't science!
On June 23, 2020 Steve Bigler published the article, A retired physician's take on epidemiologists, saying:
"I am a retired physician. Over my career, I've had some contact with epidemiology. I'll be blunt here: I came away unimpressed with that field. Here's why:
- When a pandemic strikes, I've never once witnessed an epidemiologist get his hands dirty in providing actual patient care. So where the rubber meets the road during a pandemic, they're useless.
- Their models, and therefore their advice and counsel, are based upon best guesses from previous pandemics. It's been pretty clear during COVID-19 that in any number of cases, their accuracy has been less than impressive.
- Typically, the confidence ranges of their models are wide enough that you could drive a Mack truck through them. Then, when actual outcomes fall somewhere within those massive ranges, they pat themselves on the back as though they've really accomplished something. I honestly think you or I could come up with equally accurate models by throwing darts at a dartboard!
- They get to have tunnel vision. The concern of the epidemiologist is to focus on the disease and the disease only. It is not their job to concern themselves with the economic, social, political, marital, and psychological devastation resulting from strict quarantines and lockdowns.
- In fact, they have no personal economic skin in the game. During any pandemic lockdown, the epidemiologists still receive their full salary and benefits. I've always thought it would be interesting to suspend their pay and benefits during a lockdown and see how enthusiastic they'd be about continuing! It's easy to make dire and sweeping pronouncements when you have no skin in the game.
- They typically work in packs. They're often employed by an academic or consulting center. This gives them the comfort of never having to take personal and individual responsibility for their projections. It's rare to have an individual epidemiologist step forward and say, "Yes, this is my model, and I'll accept responsibility for its accuracy." And when's the last time you heard of an epidemiologist being sued for malpractice? Answer: never.
- They seem to think they're in charge of everything — that they've suddenly become the chief executive officer of a state or the entire nation. They seem to forget that their job is simply to advise a governor or a president, not take over the executive role.
As for Ohio and DeWine's continued and blatantly unconstitutional restrictions on Ohio's citizens and businesses: Suggestion - Impeach DeWine! I've also been advocating the dismissal of Dr. Amy Acton, but since she's resigned, that's now moot.
Peter Skurkiss posted the article, Dr. Amy Acton, architect of Ohio's shutdown, resigns, outlining this part of the coronavirus story, and "Operation Rescue call for her resignation after publishing an expose of her troubled past......" He then goes on to question DeWine's choice of her for this job in the first place, and his continued support. Well, she's gone now, and that part has been fixed, except by the last report I'm aware of she's still being paid her $185,000 salary. And here I thought Ohio had a budget problem. However, DeWine has a fix for that.
It's been reported that due to Coronavirus in Ohio: State wants vendors to take voluntary 15% cut on contracts, services. Their "request" carries a veiled threat as Roger Geiger, executive director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses for Ohio notes:
“If any small businesses want to preserve their status as a state contracted vendor they will likely have to take this very seriously.”What arrogance! This administration is wanting companies who had to present the lowest bid for those contracts, creating a narrow margin of profitability, to now make that narrow margin of profitability even less profitable! While at the same time, as Ohio's Future Foundation reports, they've decided to spend "An estimated $425,000 in new spending on two newly created positions after a state spending freeze was announced. Ohio taxpayers should be outraged. Watch the Video HERE"
Let's remember, this unnecessary financial crisis was created by this administration, and will be felt in Ohio for years to come. Shopping malls, that were having difficulties already, charge a very high rent and service fees has a lot of renters with no customers, and the malls are still demanding their money.
- Where's that rent to come from since they've been forcibly shut down?
- Will there be lawsuits as a result?
- Will there be bankruptcies?
- Will malls go out of business?
He calls himself a conservative, but apparently he, like Kasich, feels he can define conservatism as he pleases, and like Kasich his definition includes more taxes, more regulations, and a more abusive and intrusive government than Ohio has ever seen. Strange, that definition seems to be the same definition for left wing progressives.
David Horowitz, a former communist activist, and son of communist activists parents, but now the noted conservative publisher of Front Page Magazine, knows well for which he speaks when he says:
"Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out"We know the walk like duck quack like a duck adage, right? Well, I'm going to paraphrase and expand on that old saying:
If DeWine walks like a progressive and it talks like a progressive. DeWine's a totalitarian screaming to get out.Here are some more important questions conservatives and Ohio Republicans should be asking themselves:
- What's wrong with the Ohio Republican party?
- It's clear in spite of all his blatantly unconstitutional actions, the Ohio Legislature has no backbone for impeaching DeWine, and if they did, I'm not sure the Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted would be any better.
- But why can't they muster enough backbone to pass legislation stopping this insanity?
- Finally, why is it the Ohio Republican party has so much difficulty in finding a Ronald Reagan in their midst?
Be Careful What You Wish For! June 23, 2020
By Rich Kozlovich
Well, the left, AKA, the Democrat party got what it wanted. Destroy the economy to get Trump.
They came after the President with every lunatic claim they could muster to smear and destroy him, but his personal life was an open book, and a not so pretty one at that. Since everyone who voted for him knew it, that didn't work! Then their impeachment claims fell like a ton of manure, and it fell right back on them, and as more information comes out, the manure is falling on a lot more people with the stench reaching very high levels of the Obama administration.
That left the economy. Unfortunately for them, it was humming along so nicely they couldn't attack Trump on the economy without looking even more insane than before. But, now we're facing one of the biggest political and scientific scams to hit the nation ever. The coronavirus scam! With this scientific fraud they managed to crush the economy and destroy a lot of lives, and waste trillions on their pet schemes.
But as the old saying goes - "be careful what you wish for!" This is going to come back to haunt them.
Machiavelli's book "The Prince" made some amazingly simple, yet brilliant observations. He showed the only thing the common people really want. Security! People want to be fed, housed, and furthermore, they want to feel secure in their ability to continue to be able to house and feed their families. Democrats are obviously working to take that away from them, They’re not feeling that security now! This won’t be forgotten at election time.
When the invertebrates in the Republican party ran McCain and Romney for the presidency, and conservatives stayed home in droves, my friends were aghast. I explained to them why.
It was clear these faux conservatives were taking the nation to exactly where the Democrat left was wanting to go, just a bit slower. They were all undercover Rockefeller Republicans, just like Richard Nixon.
Conservatives had finally come to two conclusions. They were no longer going to support the Republicans who were not truly conservative, and they felt the only way they could change the system was to allow the lunatic left to take over completely. That way the nation could see just how insane and corrupt they really are.
Now that’s happened.
There are some areas that will always have large segments of the population that will embrace leftist insanity. But as for right now, there are states that are totally dominated by the left, and now these states are going to face the consequences of their own leftist dystopian policies. Except, with these wasteful spending schemes to the tune of trillions of dollars to offset this coronavirus fraud, they expect the federal government to bail them out of the unsustainable spending practices that have gone of for decades. But the federal government isn’t going to bail them out.
They had the right to do whatever they wanted to regarding spending and taxation. The rest of the states have the right to expect them to face the consequences of their actions.
It's Schadenfreude time!
Do I feel sorry for those people? No. Year after year they looked down their noses at conservatives, constantly claiming conservatives were greedy, uncaring, selfish, racists and stupid. But they, the leftist, were pure of heart, righteous and brilliant. In short, they were better people with all their virtue signaling.
Now they can virtue signal themselves out of this mess, except for one thing. Those who've been in the forefront of all these leftist schemes are well off, and people with skills. They can afford to move to a state with conservative values in order to avoid facing the consequences of their stupidity, leaving the least able to fend for themselves.
Do I feel sorry for those left in these states who are unable to leave for various reasons? For the most part, No! When you talk to them about these issues they spout out the same level of weirdness and low information ignorance as the rest, and they're just as arrogant in their ignorance as the rest.
Being ignorant is the norm, it just means we just don't know, and since there's just so much information about everything in the world, we're all in some state of ignorance. But that's fixable with learning. Stupid on the other hand is different. The stupid are the ignorant who refuse to learn.
Life is hard, but it’s really hard when your stupid, and stupid can’t be fixed. It can only be crushed.
Well, the left, AKA, the Democrat party got what it wanted. Destroy the economy to get Trump.
They came after the President with every lunatic claim they could muster to smear and destroy him, but his personal life was an open book, and a not so pretty one at that. Since everyone who voted for him knew it, that didn't work! Then their impeachment claims fell like a ton of manure, and it fell right back on them, and as more information comes out, the manure is falling on a lot more people with the stench reaching very high levels of the Obama administration.
That left the economy. Unfortunately for them, it was humming along so nicely they couldn't attack Trump on the economy without looking even more insane than before. But, now we're facing one of the biggest political and scientific scams to hit the nation ever. The coronavirus scam! With this scientific fraud they managed to crush the economy and destroy a lot of lives, and waste trillions on their pet schemes.
But as the old saying goes - "be careful what you wish for!" This is going to come back to haunt them.
A Machiavellian principle.
When the invertebrates in the Republican party ran McCain and Romney for the presidency, and conservatives stayed home in droves, my friends were aghast. I explained to them why.
It was clear these faux conservatives were taking the nation to exactly where the Democrat left was wanting to go, just a bit slower. They were all undercover Rockefeller Republicans, just like Richard Nixon.
Conservatives had finally come to two conclusions. They were no longer going to support the Republicans who were not truly conservative, and they felt the only way they could change the system was to allow the lunatic left to take over completely. That way the nation could see just how insane and corrupt they really are.
Now that’s happened.
There are some areas that will always have large segments of the population that will embrace leftist insanity. But as for right now, there are states that are totally dominated by the left, and now these states are going to face the consequences of their own leftist dystopian policies. Except, with these wasteful spending schemes to the tune of trillions of dollars to offset this coronavirus fraud, they expect the federal government to bail them out of the unsustainable spending practices that have gone of for decades. But the federal government isn’t going to bail them out.
They had the right to do whatever they wanted to regarding spending and taxation. The rest of the states have the right to expect them to face the consequences of their actions.
It's Schadenfreude time!
Do I feel sorry for those people? No. Year after year they looked down their noses at conservatives, constantly claiming conservatives were greedy, uncaring, selfish, racists and stupid. But they, the leftist, were pure of heart, righteous and brilliant. In short, they were better people with all their virtue signaling.
Now they can virtue signal themselves out of this mess, except for one thing. Those who've been in the forefront of all these leftist schemes are well off, and people with skills. They can afford to move to a state with conservative values in order to avoid facing the consequences of their stupidity, leaving the least able to fend for themselves.
Do I feel sorry for those left in these states who are unable to leave for various reasons? For the most part, No! When you talk to them about these issues they spout out the same level of weirdness and low information ignorance as the rest, and they're just as arrogant in their ignorance as the rest.
Being ignorant is the norm, it just means we just don't know, and since there's just so much information about everything in the world, we're all in some state of ignorance. But that's fixable with learning. Stupid on the other hand is different. The stupid are the ignorant who refuse to learn.
Life is hard, but it’s really hard when your stupid, and stupid can’t be fixed. It can only be crushed.
Coronavirus Update For June 19, 2020
By Rich Kozlovich
I've posted much to show this "pandemic" is mostly media driven hysteria, and in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, society has gone insane with this stuff. Therefore, I've decided to post the mortality rates regularly.
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 6:56 AM on June 19, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
As for Ohio. Ohio and the CDC keep playing games with the numbers. There are two numbers representing how many coronavirus infections that have been in Ohio, and how many died. I will cover both, based on a population of 11,700,000.
Confirmed cases 39,973. Percentage of infections. 0.3% "Probable cases" 43,122. Percentage of "probable" infections. 0.3%. Confirmed deaths, 2,401. Mortality rate, 0.02%. Expanded number, 2,633. Mortality rate. 0.02%
Now we're finding out that these claims about asymptomatic coronavirus people, aren't really very infectious after all. So, if that's true, and it seems it is, why were we told they were in the past, justifying all this social distancing, as long of course you were violently protesting, then it was okay to be inches apart. The answer is historical. It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science.
As for Ohio and DeWine's continued and blatantly illegal restrictions on Ohio's citizens and businesses: Impeach DeWine and I've been advocating the dismissal of Dr. Amy Acton. Well, that's been fixed except for she's still being paid her $185,000 salary, in a state with a budget problem.
Peter Skurkiss posted the article, Dr. Amy Acton, architect of Ohio's shutdown, resigns, outlining this part of the coronavirus story, and "Operation Rescue call for her resignation after publishing an expose of her troubled past......"
He then goes on to question DeWine's choice of her for this job in the first place, and his continued support. You're left to wonder what's wrong with DeWine, and more importantly, what's wrong with the Ohio Republican party and it's inability to find a Ronald Reagan in their midst?
Maybe it's time someone in that party should start looking for a Maggie Thatcher.
I've posted much to show this "pandemic" is mostly media driven hysteria, and in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, society has gone insane with this stuff. Therefore, I've decided to post the mortality rates regularly.
The COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) keeps a running total of deaths and proven infections. As of 6:56 AM on June 19, 2020 here are the coronavirus rates of infection and the rates of mortality based on a worldwide population of 7,800,000,000 and an American population of 330,000,000 using this internet calculator.
Here are the results:
- Worldwide infections, 8,509, 373. Infection rate, 0.1%
- Worldwide deaths, 454,380 Mortality rate, 0.005%
- Confirmed infections in the United States, 2,191,200. Infection rate, 0.6%
- United States deaths, 118,435. Mortality rate, 0.03% (Editor's note. That number may have been inflated by fraudulent reporting by as much as 25%. Cooking the books here, and misrepresentation here. RK
- In 1968 the Hong Kong flu killed over 1,000,000 people worldwide. Worldwide population in 1968 was 3,534,000,000. The mortality rate was 0.3%! America lost 100,000 that year, and morality rate was 0.05%.
- In 1957/58 the Asian flu, which originated in Guizhou, China killed up to 2,000,000 people in a worldwide population of 2,900,000,000 had a mortality rate 0.068%. America lost 116,000 people. The mortality rate was 0.07%.
As for Ohio. Ohio and the CDC keep playing games with the numbers. There are two numbers representing how many coronavirus infections that have been in Ohio, and how many died. I will cover both, based on a population of 11,700,000.
Confirmed cases 39,973. Percentage of infections. 0.3% "Probable cases" 43,122. Percentage of "probable" infections. 0.3%. Confirmed deaths, 2,401. Mortality rate, 0.02%. Expanded number, 2,633. Mortality rate. 0.02%
Now we're finding out that these claims about asymptomatic coronavirus people, aren't really very infectious after all. So, if that's true, and it seems it is, why were we told they were in the past, justifying all this social distancing, as long of course you were violently protesting, then it was okay to be inches apart. The answer is historical. It's the same of speculatory scare mongering tactics these people have always used, and it's based on leftist philosophy, not science.
As for Ohio and DeWine's continued and blatantly illegal restrictions on Ohio's citizens and businesses: Impeach DeWine and I've been advocating the dismissal of Dr. Amy Acton. Well, that's been fixed except for she's still being paid her $185,000 salary, in a state with a budget problem.
Peter Skurkiss posted the article, Dr. Amy Acton, architect of Ohio's shutdown, resigns, outlining this part of the coronavirus story, and "Operation Rescue call for her resignation after publishing an expose of her troubled past......"
He then goes on to question DeWine's choice of her for this job in the first place, and his continued support. You're left to wonder what's wrong with DeWine, and more importantly, what's wrong with the Ohio Republican party and it's inability to find a Ronald Reagan in their midst?Maybe it's time someone in that party should start looking for a Maggie Thatcher.
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