TRUST AND OBEY

For the last two months we have been ordered to trust and obey. However, along with these warning came a stern reminder to never trust President Trump. He said hydroxychloroquine might work. Immediately Democrats did everything possible to prevent this from being tried. Then the AP ran a very misleading report and the media immediately announced the drug is a killer. Interesting conclusion because it has been prescribed in the U.S. for over 50 years. It turns out that the VA study was conducted on veterans extremely ill with COVID 19 as a last-minute act of desperation. It concluded that 28% of these vets died after being given hydroxychloroquine. Just add one word and this is easy to understand. “it concluded that 28% of these vets died EVEN after being given hydroxychloroquine.” Now add another sentence. “72% of the seriously ill vets who were given hydroxychloroquine did not die.” Same facts, just a different perspective. The classic is the glass half full or half empty view of the world. The perspective of someone who is not trying to falsely paint this drug as a death sentence.

Did you realize that in most of the world, 40% of COVID 19 deaths are directly connected with nursing homes? As far as I can tell, the same thing is happening here. Did you know that in New York if a nursing home patient is in the hospital and has tested positive for COVID 19 state laws requires that person to be returned to the nursing home when they start to feel better, EVEN IF THEY STILL HAVE COVID 19 SYMPTOMS? Under these circumstances would it surprise you to know that some states report more than 50% of COVID 19 deaths are directly connected with nursing homes and about 10% of deaths take place in nursing homes? Would it matter to you if you knew this? If you knew this in March, would you have chosen to shut down our entire economy, or would you have kept the economy open and restricted access to nursing homes?

There are now over 22 million people out of work. This is being reported as one out of every six workers. The economic storm this is about to unleash on us will be beyond horrific. What will happen when people realize the facts stated above. That at the same time government ordered you to stay home, they increased the risk for nursing home patients with what is, at best, incredibly stupid policy. But it is beyond stupid, it is a deliberate policy designed to save hospitals the expense of treating nursing home patients.

The question for all of us is whether we are going to continue to trust and obey or are we going to start demanding some serious non-political fact checking. Trust starts with people who are trustworthy. For months, the liberal left published insulting cartoons demanding that that Trump shut up and let all information come from people like Dr. Fauci. In Fauci we trust. But Fauci was wrong. He was wrong in February when he said this was not a threat to us. He was wrong in March when he told Trump this would kill 2.6 million people. He was wrong about a week later when he said this would only kill about 200,000 people. It is not sure he is even right now in predicting 60,000 deaths if there is honest reporting about deaths caused by COVID 19. What if a significant number of deaths being reported as COVID 19 deaths were flu deaths? Testing positive for COVID 19 and dying does not mean COVID 19 killed someone. One could have a heart attack and stub their toe on the way down. Would that mean that stubbing one’s toe causes heart attacks?

Finally, the standard for using hydroxychloroquine, which thousands of doctors are using successfully, is to stop all use until there are lengthy clinical trials. But, with no clinical studies at all we are to take at face value the assumption that COVID 19 is the greatest threat to mankind ever.

In my opinion, the greatest threat to mankind, ever, is not COVID 19 but rather those who demand we trust and obey people who have proven themselves unworthy of our trust. We have now reached the point where we are being arrogantly lectured by people who can work remotely and still earn big bucks warning the basket of deplorables to stay home and starve, because that is the best way to beat a virus.

TDM