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It’s for your own good-part deux

She was so excited about starting college. She’s a good girl, very conservative, hard-working, top of her class on a full ride scholarship. Anyhooo…. Just started classes on Monday but she (her phone) apparently came within ‘6 of someone who tested positive. who? Who knows… anyway, she had the option of locking herself in her tiny room for 14 days without leaving at all (food would be delivered once per day) or go home for 14 days with 2 negative tests. Someone suggested that she should have turned off her phone’s ability to “bluetooth”. Unfortunately for the students, its a requirement of the college that they had to keep their “tracking devices” with them at all times. One of the students at the university was telling us that one of his professors said that the goal was to run students to six weeks and then shut the whole thing down declaring a covid crisis… six weeks means the university wouldn’t have to refund tuition.

Meanwhile a neighbor had a fever last week. She had a church event 12 days from the time of the fever, with many elderly, and wanting to do the right thing called the doctor to see if she needed to be tested. They told her a “Covid specialist” would call her. He did and told her she needed to be tested. She called back the Dr the next day to set up an appointment and they told her she had to wait 14 days after her last positive test… She said I have NOT had a positive test! Turns out the Covid Specialist had put down she was positive….

I no longer believe a word they say… it’s not about controlling a disease, it’s about controlling a population.

Young adults today need to take a lot more personal responsibility for their own futures because national institutions are FAILING across the board.

The answer might just be “do-it-yourself” university. Tomorrows’ post will show you how.

History repeats itself.

August in Chicago is hot and humid. The overnight low temperature on August 23, 1954 was 74 degrees and the humidity was somewhere in the range of 90%. The window fans, for those who had them did little but move the heavy moisture laden air around providing little or no cooling. The prediced high temperature for a muggy Monday was near 100 degrees. It would be an ideal day for a child to spend at the beach, or at one of the park district pools or perhaps in an infatable kiddie pool in the backyard with the hose playing cold water over you to cool you down.

The public was horribly and understandably frightened by polio. There was no prevention and no cure. Everyone was at risk, especially children.

There was nothing a parent could do to protect the family.

I grew up in this era.

Each summer, polio would come like The Plague. Beaches and pools would close — because of the fear that the poliovirus was waterborne.

Children had to say away from crowds, so they often were banned from movie theaters, bowling alleys, and the like.

My mother gave us a ‘polio test’ each day: Could we touch our toes and put our chins to our chest? Every stomach ache or stiffness caused a panic. Was it polio?

I remember the awful photos of children on crutches, in wheelchairs and iron lungs. And coming back to school in September to see the empty desks where the children hadn’t returned.”

Parents tried “social distancing”—ineffectively and out of fear. Fearful of the spread of the contagious virus, the city closed pools, swimming holes, movie theaters, schools and churches, forcing priests to reach out to their congregations on local radio. Some motorists who had to stop for gas would not fill up their deflated tires, afraid they’d bring home air containing the infectious virus.

The virus was poliomyelitis, a highly contagious disease with symptoms including common flu-like symptoms such as sore throat, fever, tiredness, headache, a stiff neck and stomach ache. For a few though, polio affected the brain and spinal cord, which could lead meningitis and, for one out of 200, paralysis. For two to 10 of those suffering paralysis, the end result was death.

After World War II, Americans doused their neighborhoods, homes and children with the highly toxic pesticide DDT in the hope of banishing polio, Elena Conis reports in the journal Environmental History. Yet, the number of cases grew larger each season.

Most people who got polio suffered much milder symptoms — usually headache, stiff neck, fever and muscle soreness — that subsided in a few days or weeks.

After an outbreak in San Angelo, Texas the city council voted to close all indoor meeting places for one week. But the local epidemic didn’t pass that quickly, and by June hospitals were filled with patients. Tourism stopped because people didn’t want to be there. Cleaning fanaticism was the rule of the day. Most indoor theaters and bowling alleys stayed closed simply because people were afraid (no evidence of any fines or prosecutions).

This experience repeated itself in most places in the country where there were outbreaks. City councils would encourage the following of the directives of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (later the March of Dimes), which circulated a list of “polio precautions” for parents to follow. Some towns and cities across the United States tried to prevent the spread of polio by closing swimming pools, libraries, and movie theaters (not restaurants or barber shops) on a temporary basis but mostly in a way consistent with the public mood stemming from fear and confusion.

What’s remarkable in light of the near-global coercive lockdown for COVID-19 is how the terrible and terrifying disease of polio was managed almost entirely by a private and voluntary system of health professionals, innovators, parental responsibility, localized caution, and individual volition and caution where needed. It was an imperfect system because the virus was so vicious, cruel, and random. But precisely because there were no national or state lockdowns – and only very limited local closures done mostly in a way consistent with citizen fear – the system remained adaptive to changing conditions.

This was a time when, even for this ghastly disease that maimed innocent young children, medical problems were widely seen to have medical solutions and not political ones.

Yes, there were clear policy responses to these past pandemics, but they targeted the most vulnerable populations to keep them safe, while leaving everyone else alone. Polio was especially bad for school children, but that meant they closed the schools temporarily, in cooperation with parents and the community.

The current pandemic is different because, instead of targeting the vulnerable populations, we’ve gone for society-wide one size fits all at nearly the national and global level, and certainly the state level. That’s never happened – not with polio, not with the Spanish flu, the 1957 flu, the 1968 flu, or anything else.

As the health officials said of the polio epidemic: “Nobody can shut down intercourse of people in communities.” Our rights survived. So did human liberty, free enterprise, the Bill of Rights, jobs, and the American way of life. And then polio was eventually eradicated.

The slogan for polio eradication – “Do everything you can within reason” – seems like a good rule of thumb for the management of future pandemics.

“Normalcy bias, or normality bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimize threat warnings. Consequently, individuals underestimate the likelihood of a disaster, when it might affect them, and its potential adverse effects. The normalcy bias causes many people to not adequately prepare for natural disasters, pandemics, and calamities caused by human error. About 70% of people reportedly display normalcy bias during a disaster.”

People simply can’t comprehend the “Horrific Hell” that is coming. If people would only study the horror of WW-II (The true horror) they would get a glimpse of “One hundred and Sixty-five MILLION” humans’ pain, their suffering, hopeless anguish, and ultimate death. Few of these were the Warriors. Nearly all were people like us, caught in a hellish existence, with their food stolen by their own country and their enemy’s country. Left to starve slowly while freezing to death. All of their earthly security taken from them.

As more COVID-19 tests, contact tracing, and antibody testing are done, the coronavirus positive numbers are on the rise, so they are using this to mandate masks, close up businesses again, and move for another lockdown to continue their fear games and wear people down.

This is psychological warfare, and if people don’t wake up soon, they will win this battle. They’ve already covered their bases, claiming that tight groups of hundreds of thousands protesting had absolutely no impact on the increase.

The problem is, the contact tracers are documenting everyone who came in contact with a COVID-positive person, as being positive without them taking tests. That will increase numbers astronomically.

On top of that, the CDC has already stated that the antibody tests can pick up other strains of coronavirus, meaning someone could have the common cold, and it is being recorded as COVID-19. The antibody tests are creating a major conflict in actual test results overall.

The media and politicians are also screaming about hospitals being overloaded in some areas but based on what people working within those hospitals are saying, that is not the case, and those that are testing positive have far fewer symptoms with a quick recovery. What no one wants to tell you is that the percentage of deaths are declining, and as of late May the death rate by COVID-related causes was only 0.05% – less than one percent.

Sadly, we are well on the way to Socialist/Oligarch hell. We became complacent and gave in to normalcy bias. Apparently Orwell wrote an operations manual and not a work of fiction.

Our sad fate, and our demise, is our attachment to being “Normalcy Biased”.

Digital Society = CONTROL Society. Efficient systems to monitor, control, evaluate, and manipulate.

The removal of all ‘old technology’ and ‘old ways of thinking/doing things.’

Centralizing and removing the ability of individuals to possess or operate/conduct their lives independent of “the system.”

Digitization:

 Cashless society.

 Bookless society.

 Cloud Entertainment only – all digitized, nothing ‘in hand’ that cannot be ‘controlled’ (changed/updated) by central authority.

 Mandatory devices: If you want to interact with society you will be  required to carry a device (similar to a cell phone) for all access to  all ‘services’ – including food, water, shelter, medical,  transportation, communication, commerce.

This is just the beginning, folks.

Social “Legacy Systems”

Books, Films, CD’s, DVD’s (Especially controversial or non ‘Politically  Correct’ items) that individuals can keep/hold and cannot easily be  “edited” by the system

History: History must be ‘sanitized’ and  periodically ‘updated’ to conform with societal standards. This requires  the digitization of information and the removal and destruction of  hard-copies. Things like books, films, DVD’s, removable drives, statues,  personal libraries, etc.

Public libraries and museums can be ‘updated’ for political correctness to meet social standards.

Private transportation: Push for public transportation and mandate that  “personal vehicles” be completely monitored and controlled by the  state. Look for the elimination of personal privately-owned  transportation as “shared” vehicles (park anywhere drive anywhere) are  introduced – major expansion when “auto-drive” features are perfected. 

 [Hey! no loan payments, no insurance or maintenance, no gas fill-ups,  no worries! Heck, you don’t even need to know how to drive! All you need  is your digital Wallet.]

Private home ownership: Only great  estates, farmland, and “public lands” (owned by the state) will be  allowed. “CITIZENS” (that’s you) will live in fully automated cubicles  as nice as you can afford that monitor and provide your every need. You  won’t have to go anywhere to shop – your home knows what you need. It  will be purchased and delivered for you. Want something special? Get on  the cloud! In time, it will be available to you almost instantaneously.

Religion? Well, the state has a sanitized version of that for you, too!  You can believe whatever you want to believe if you prefer being  provincial. Of course, you may be ostracized for your beliefs…  possibly even declared a criminal. Much safer to believe in the state.  Haven’t we provided everything for you?

Well, there’s more – but  I’m going to post this now. 

Welcome to the NEW WORLD ORDER. 

 The NEW NORMAL.

One of the primary responsibilities of government is to maintain an adequate supply of the medium of exchange symbols we use in our economy. A manufactured shortage in coin is intolerable. I don’t care what their excuse is. If they can’t do the job, then they shouldn’t be paid for the ‘service.’

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to “borrow money” and also power (and the responsibility) to “coin money and regulate the value” of both U.S. and foreign coins, and regulate interstate commerce, but does not explicitly and unambiguously grant Congress the power to print paper money or make it legal tender.

Paper notes fall under the power to BORROW money, because paper notes are bills of credit – an I.O.U. or promissory note. The various ‘Legal Tender’ acts do not change this – they simply make the acceptance of I.O.U.s mandatory, turning a money (stable hard-currency) society into a debt society.

It’s a workable solution as long as the debt never has to be paid (while passing that debt onto the people like an anchor about their necks) and you don’t mind an out-of-control government unconstrained in their actions. This, of course, was not what the founders designed or envisioned.

Part of the reason for hard currency in precious metals was to constrain government. It was also designed to ensure the people would have a durable, physical, valuable (due to scarcity) medium of exchange that they could hold in their hands and FREELY exchange without the requirement of any additional outside agency in any transaction.

Some folks say, “Paper and coin money is too much of a hassle. Going digital will make everything safer and easier. Besides, I never use the stuff anyway.”

So what happens if you lose your phone, card, or whatever payment device you use? What happens if the power goes out, if the signal is lost? What happens if you want to make a private exchange – off the books – for some reason? Whose business is it how you spend your money?

I can already hear the arguments in support of tech society… already have heard them. All I can do is shake my head. It isn’t easy being an anachronism. Best wishes for the future, folks.

You can’t stop progress, right? Sooner or later, though “progress” has a way of stopping itself. It’s usually quite painful.

We are being ‘guided’ into a cashless society. ‘Groomed’ may be a more appropriate term, given the modern implication of the word. The reasons they give for this are a lie.