Time to Choose: Societal Collapse vs. Abandon Covid-19 Restrictions
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- Created: Monday, 11 May 2020 23:10
- Written by Ax D. WhiteMan
It's becoming increasingly clear. There are only two choices.
Abandon ALL mandatory restrictions concerning Covid-19
or
Face the collapse of civil society.
There is no middle ground.
We are on the road to starvation and chaos. We don't know exactly how long it will take to get there. But the direction we're taking is clear. For decades we've been told that we MUST transition to a "service based" economy. We've largely done that. Now, we're being told that most of the "services" on which we base huge portions of our economy - are non essential - and are prohibited until further notice. Millions of people are currently unemployed, millions more are idle with no income. Food resources are being destroyed at the source. Incomes are falling to zero. People have accepted the restrictions to "flatten the curve" on the belief that it would be brief, and effective.
Restrictions have been neither effective, or brief.
When most restrictions went into place on March 29th, there were 2,191 Covid-19 related deaths in the United States. In the 42 days that followed, there were more than 77,000 additional Covid-19 related deaths. Only a fool would call this a successful mitigation. In the State of New York, it was recently sited that 66% of the hospitalizations were from patients that were observing "stay at home" orders. Given the results of the mitigation, it is impossible to conclude that it has saved a single life. By contrast - it has forced economic ruin on millions.
The calls for "partial" re-openings are fools gold. It can't work. We have huge swaths of the economy based on tourism, recreation, and entertainment. None of those business models is viable at 25% or even 75% capacity restrictions. A restaurant operating at 25% capacity will lose money faster than if it remains closed. Same is true for a golf course, theatre, bowling alley, hotel, personal service, or amusement park. Ok, for all you doubters, yes we've all seen these businesses run at less than 25% capacity. That's because they will have a several days of full capacity revenue to justify the cost of operating on slow days. If you make the peak revenue only 25% of capacity - forget about it - you're done.
The Government can't print enough money to make everyone whole. If they try, it will cause hyper-inflation. That will cause the collapse of the currency. After a currency collapses, the balance of the civil society will follow. It will be only a matter of time until violence becomes the norm, and chaos will ensue until a "strong man" (usually a vicious thug) emerges to enforce order.
The only alternative is to accept this virus for what it is. A dangerous nasty disease that kills about 5 times more people than the flu, while causing no noticeable symptoms in up to 80% of the those who become infected. If the CDC needs a face saving act, go ahead and release a vaccine. Preferably a pure placebo that won't hurt anyone. Up to 80% of the people who get infected don't show symptoms anyway. An 80% effective vaccine would be considered a huge success.
Time to Choose.
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Yes, Trump did Suggest Internal Disinfectants to Combat Covid - 19
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- Created: Sunday, 26 April 2020 13:43
- Written by Ax D. WhiteMan
Yes, we believe President Trump did suggest that disinfectants be introduced inside the body to combat Covid-19 - and we believe we know the source of his information - and it's not as crazy as it sounds...
For some personal background, I've had an interest in health and nutrition for many years. Starting when I was 6 years old (long story) and continued through competitive power lifting and experimenting with diet and supplements to improve performance. For many years my passing interest in health and nutrition took a back seat to my interest in politics, public policy, and business; but never completely vanished. Then, about 3 years ago, I became aware of a group, or movement, that call themselves (I believe I can honestly say ourselves); Biohackers. Since that time, "Biohacker" podcasts and websites have become my most common outside listening and reading, surpassing politics, sports and business. I have to also add, that it's been WAY more beneficial!
Biohackers are generally ridiculed by mainstream medicine, mainstream media, and conservative media alike. And to be sure, there are examples of some extreme nonsense within the boundaries of what could be called the "Biohacker Community." However, if one were to review the work of prominent "Biohakers" such; Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield, Geoffrey Woo, David Sinclair, Dr. Paul Saladino, or Ivor Cummins; one would find that they're generally obsessed with research, data, and results. As a group, biohackers routinely discount current "standard of care" conventions; and seek genuine truth derived from an honest analysis of available data. During the past two months, a good deal of the attention of the "Biohacking Community" has been devoted to the study of the effects and possible treatments of Covid-19.
Among the many podcasts and web posts dealing with Covid-19 risks, possible treatments, and strategies for reducing the likelihood of a poor outcome if infected; was Dave Asprey's interview from last Thursday 4/23/2020 with Dr. Frank Shallenberger. Dr. Shallenberger is known for his pioneering in the area of "Ozone Therapy." Ozone Therapy is often dismissed by mainstream medical authorities. Dr. Shallenberger goes into great detail during the interview describing how he's routinely treated upper respiratory infections with hydrogen peroxide or ozone. And yes, hydrogen peroxide IS a common disinfectant, while ozone - may be a less common - it is definitely a disinfectant. During the interview, Shallenberger describes in great detail the exact concentrations and dilution solutions for directly inhaling hydrogen peroxide in a nebulizer for effective treatment of flu, and felt confident that the treatments would be beneficial in treating Covid-19. At about the 43 minute mark in the podcast, Dr. Shallenberger mentions that he's made some efforts in working with the President's Covid team. An excerpt of the transcript is below. Clicking the image will take you to the podcast.
In light of Dr. Shallenberger describing contact with the President's Covid team to get "some information into that team" about hydrogen peroxide and ozone therapy (both strong oxidative disinfectants), and the following day the President speak of looking into disinfectant possibilities - it seems entirely likely that the President's team might have briefed him on some of Dr. Shallenberger's treatment strategies. Of course, the President didn't have 50 minutes of podcast time to explain the details - but no one should be surprised if "Disinfectant Therapy" for Covid-19 becomes a "thing" in the future.
And no one should be surprised, if this supposed gaffe - wasn't just another way for Trump to troll the media - again.
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- Created: Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:48
- Written by Ax D. WhiteMan
It was difficult to watch the Multi Network Covid Pity Party called something like "One World at Home Waiting to Die", but at least it illustrated clearly why Democrats LOVE this over hyped "Pandemic".
It's a Perfect Storm of Democrat dreams.
The Party that thrives on exploiting perceived victimhood has created a world where EVERYONE is a victim. In the world of Covid all people are helpless. The people's only means of defense is to tie a flag of surrender and subservience around their face and wait in line six feet away from the closest human in hopes of scoring a roll of toilet paper.
In the world of Covid only the The Government can protect you - and only your fellow citizens can hurt you - for the citizens are the toxic carriers of the dreaded Covid that has infected almost 3 hundredths of 1 percent of the world. You must avoid fellow citizens at all costs - and embrace government. It's imperative that you never communicate with a real person who might agree that this is all bullshit.
Above all, HEALTHCARE is now your Master. In fact, HEALTHCARE is the new highest law of the land. The Constitution, Congress, Executive, and Judiciary are all subservient to HEALTHCARE. For now, we must all listen to Bill Gates, and the WHO because they have rid the world of Malaria, oh - no, wait; they've spent 10 years and billions of dollars while having a very minimal effect on Malaria - (and lying about that too) but the knows what's best. (Of course Malaria, once prevalent in the US, has been eradicated here - but Gates and the WHO wouldn't consider employing the methods used here.) We must stay at home and wait for a VACCINE to save us - and of course - only Government can provide a VACCINE.
In the new Covid reality, there's no need to win elections, or even prevail in Judicial proceedings in order to implement policy preferences. The unilateral proclamation from the the HEALTHCARE branch of Government is all that's needed.
Remember, You are a helpless victim, there's nothing you can do except hide; People are Bad, contact with people will kill you; Government is Good, it's the only thing that can save you; and HEALTHCARE will provide you a VACCINE and eventually allow you to leave your house (or shelter since your house was long since foreclosed); and all will be well.
Until the next Virus - then we'll start it all over again.
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The Real Covid Crisis Starts Tomorrow - And No One is Seeing It
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- Created: Sunday, 05 April 2020 17:18
- Written by Ax D. WhiteMan
On Friday, March 27th, President Trump signed into law the CARES (Caronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security) Act. During the ensuing week (that is, last week) millions of adversely affected businesses scrambled to find what was or wasn't available in terms of Federal relief. Our business, (that is our real business - not this blog writing pass time) did the same. By Friday, April 3rd we had not completed assembling all of the documentation required by our SBA Associated Bank to complete the application. We were assured by the our Banking Officer that their staff was going to be working on both Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th to be able to submit all of the applications in process to the SBA on Monday morning, April 6th.
In the course of preparing our documentation, we had a conversation with the President, CEO, of our small State Chartered Texas Bank. We inquired as to how many loans they expected to process. He responded that by Friday afternoon, they already had $300 Million in CARES loan applications to process. For what it's worth, the banking affiliate in question has total assets of slightly less than $1 Billion, making it a very small portion of the national banking system which currently approaches $20 Trillion in assets. For the math challenged out there (self included at times); our bank represents approximately .005% of the national banking system.
If our bank is proportionately representative of the ratio of CARES loans requests that are in the pipeline to be dumped on the SBA next week the amount would be equal to $6 Trillion. For a sense of context, that's about 150% of the entirety of the Federal Budget.
That is an economic tsunami likes of which has never been seen, and it is anyone's guess as to what the Congressional response will be. It's also likely that this is just the first wave. It's reasonable to suspect that the vast majority of business interests that are eligible for relief under this act haven't even heard of it yet.
It's clear to this humble blogger that those who've championed the wisdom of this self imposed economic suicide had no idea of the destruction they were imposing on the American economy. Starting tomorrow, that's all likely to change.
Don't be surprised if the "conventional wisdom" on how to best deal with the Covid Crisis starts to change - starting tomorrow - and if it doesn't - this crisis will be bigger than any of us previously feared.
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