California governor sends back 500 ventilators, yet the state remains on lock-down
ABC. Wasn’t there supposed to be a coronavirus crisis in California, the first state to declare a shelter-in-place?
ABC. Wasn’t there supposed to be a coronavirus crisis in California, the first state to declare a shelter-in-place?
Medical professionals may have made an horrible, tragic mistake in assuming coronavirus patients needed ventilation. Now they’re backing off the treatment, as AP reports.
The fuse has been lit on this social/political powder keg. There is no question that it is going to detonate. The only question now is what particular form the ensuing chaos will take. Anger and despair will boil over among those most effected by lockdown-induced Depression, and it will be exploited by a populist political movement to gain power. What will be the response by the federal government to such a movement? The coming political upheaval will be like nothing the U.S. has ever seen. It will get ugly.
Minnesota senator, and doctor, Scott Jensen during an appearance on Laura Ingraham’s show:
“Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.”
Reason’s Jacob Sullum has an informative piece up today regarding a mass COVID-19 antibody test occurring in San Miguel County, Colorado. The findings indicate that the number of infected for the entire country, particularly densely populated areas such as NYC are dramatically underestimated. Between 2.6 million and 10 million are likely to have already been infected with COVID-19 in the U.S., meaning the high mortality rate being used to justify locking down the country and inducing 32% unemployment is way off base.
The baseless fearmongering served it’s purpose, though. It scared everyone into accepting a police state almost overnight. And now all that surveillance state infrastructure built during the War on Terror will be aimed at us.
A living nightmare that won’t be covered by the corporate news:
“Heartbreaking individual stories are emerging by the day. A 33-year-old man whose long-awaited liver transplant was canceled told NBC News it was a “death sentence.” After a 7-year-old boy’s urgently needed kidney transplant surgery was put on hold, his mother told the network’s Washington, D.C., affiliate it was a “nightmare” scenario, “but it’s not even the worst one you could find.””
Is from page 14 of the 1994 edition of Albert Jay Nock’s 1935 masterpiece, Our Enemy, the State:
“My purpose in writing is to raise the question whether the enormous depletion of social power which we are witnessing everywhere does not suggest the importance of knowing more than we do about the essential nature of the institution that is so rapidly absorbing this volume of power. One of my friends said to me lately that if the public-utility corporations did not mend their ways, the State would take over their business and operate it. He spoke with a curiously reverent air of finality. Just so, I thought, might a Church-citizen, at the end of the fifteenth century, have spoken of some impending intervention of the Church; and I wondered then whether he had any better-informed and closer-reasoned theory of the State than his prototype had of the Church. Frankly, I am sure he had not. His pseudo-conception was merely an unreasoned acceptance of the State on its own terms and at its own valuation; and in this acceptance he showed himself no more intelligent, and no less, than the whole mass of State-citizenry at large.”
From NY Post:
“On a random basis, the trial participants will receive either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo pill — vitamin C — every day for two weeks.”
A true placebo is inert. Vitamin C, which has already been used to treat COVID-19 patients, is not inert. A true placebo would be a sugar pill, something that has no effect on the body. This seems like an implicit admission of the effectiveness of both chloroquine AND vitamin C in treating coronavirus victims. Is the purpose to discredit chloroquine, which has been used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients, and therefore keep the road clear for the Gates/Fauci miracle vaccine? It certainly appears so.