Thanks Man! Yeah my brother is on the mend...but this Corona thing is a whack bug... was notified on FB New years Eve that a high school chum had passed on Christmas day...Damn! 2nd one from the school days...was totally recovering from it and then had a massive stroke...conspiracy theory time...and of course they are not sure if it was the Covid or just a stroke but he's gone.... 3 cousins have it now... Me I started to get a sore throat two days ago...so far feeling like a typical winter type flu / cold ...hoping it is "just a cold"...sucks not knowing...started gulping down zinc, vit c and d3 immediately to cover my ass..That's what the OC county health department told my friend to do when he, his wife and his two 80 year old in laws all got it about 3 months ago...they all lived to tell the tale..no one went to the hospital...Told my brother to get on it when he got it...His doctor finally prescribed Ivermectin which appears to be a good drug to help kick the Corona's ass...Fingers crossed he gets out of the woods and I don't go into them...it's scary in there...big bad wolf, witches n shit!...
That's great your brother is on the mend, good to hear. Traffic is pretty low here, so I won't worry about getting too long winded...
I'm still on the fence about this whole thing. To be honest, I don't know what to think or believe. I read that hospitals are being overwhelmed, then I read (anecdotal experiences) that hospital personnel in many places are sitting around twiddling their thumbs. We hear stories and personally promoted sob stories from "hero" frontline medical personnel how overworked and distraught they are while still finding the time and joviality to line dance by the dozens in hospital lobbies. Other medical needs have been put on hold because it's potentially just too dangerous and putting undue pressure on hospitals that are otherwise overwhelmed already. There have been reports and statistical surveys that indicate that a fair number of these medical personnel are on the "no" side of submitting to the vaccine themselves. Follow the science, indeed. Am I going to pursue getting the vaccine? Fuck no. But, we see politicians getting the vaccine "as an example" of how safe it is? Who knows what they are getting, could be saline for all we know. It does appear that those
of some importance are getting kickass medical treatment from the get go to knock out the virus while most of the general public are getting the ->let's see where this leads and worst case scenario give us a call and we'll
try to put you on a ventilator where you might live, you might die. I've bookmarked something published from a medical expert that lists treatments and what you should request should you get covid. Do I have any confidence I would be able to convince my doctor to prescribe those things should I get covid? Hell no. I think the biggie is suppressing the auto immune response...perhaps vocab is off, but you get the point. I'm not a medical expert, but I suppose it is similar to the notion that "the cure is worse than the disease" with this covid thing when it comes to lockdowns and such. Your body's response to fight the virus is often what kills you, filling your lungs such that you cannot breath, absorb needed oxygen levels.
Would things be worse if we had done less of these devastating lockdowns? Would it have been that we would have been hammered pretty hard at first, with a tapering off as time went by? We'll never know. There was a Johns Hopkins piece(which apparently has now been "canceled") that certainly seems to show, compared to previous years. there was no huge spike in the overall death count associated with the covid. It will be interesting to see the official numbers as time goes by and they are finally tallied. Then again, can
any official numbers really be trusted.
There was a nurse, what county in what state I can remember. She posted her own experiences with this covid thing. How hard it was to continue. The
many people she had observed begging for their lives and eventually succumbing to the virus. According to her,
many of the dying still hanging on to the belief that covid was all fake news, because Trump. How can it be so that they are dying of a fake virus, they pleaded. It would appear that only Republicans or more precisely Trump supporters in her area were dying of the corona virus, placing such a burden on this brave frontline hero, by their own doing. Death was all around her, but she must continue because, you know, that's what heroes do. She was praised online, the MSM interviewed her on the teevee. She was praised as a hero for not only doing her job, but also for having the bravery to share her story. Her story. There was a time when that was a polite way of describing a lie told by a child, or an exaggeration at best. Her admirers or the MSM for that matter did not at all question the truthfulness of her story. Online sleuths and accused "covid deniers" did, however. The county where she worked had a total number of covid deaths that could be counted on one hand. Some nurses in hospitals in that same county were contacted and interviewed. While none that I know of straight out called her a liar, all stated that they did not share her same experience. She never retracted, the MSM never retracted (or even investigated this new information as far as can be determined). A perusal of her twitter feed, she was still sticking to her guns, and still being hailed by her admirers as a "hero". If all I have just stated is true, and I believe it to be, it is not hard to those with eyes to see that her initial "story" was nothing more than a politically motivated hit piece on President Trump, Is it such a stretch to now come to the conclusion the reaction to this covid thing is politically motivated, and now that the powers that be have you by the balls they are unwilling to surrender that power in this liminal moment in history back to the people?
I might not know exactly what to believe about this covid thing. But I do know one thing. When those in power gain more power by whatever means necessary to acquire it, they will not voluntarily surrender that power back to the people, and will exploit the apparatus by which they have obtained that power to the fullest extent to not only maintain that power, but to also increase it.