Month: June 2020

On March 15th Dr. Fauci told ABC it was possible that 1.7 million Americans could die if we didn’t do what the government said. On March 31st the model put out by the IHME and used by the CDC predicted 240,000 deaths if we implemented social distancing and lockdown measures. On April 8th this was revised down 75% to 60,000 deaths. In the winter 2017-2018 the flu killed 80,000 and about 7,700 Americans die everyday according to the CDC.

Remember how the quarantine measures were said to be needed so the hospitals didn’t get overwhelmed? We had to flatten the curve?  On April 1st we were told 262,000 beds would be needed. Then 94,000. Now it’s 57,000 beds — and that was at the peak, which was on April 10th.

On March 10th, in a move that would make George III blush, the governor declared a state of emergency and locked down the state, outlawing an alarming array of American life. The penalty for violating this edict is a fine up to $1000. These measures were further strengthened in April. 

In the Land of the Free it is now illegal to go to church, have Easter dinner with your family, work without government permission, purchase ammunition, buy vegetable seeds, operate a boat with a motor whether alone or in a group, and many other things. Is this really necessary? Is anyone even following this?

Benjamin Franklin said those who give up liberty to purchase security deserve neither. Patrick Henry declared give me liberty or give me death. The Founders would be ashamed with what we’re putting up with.

Meanwhile the economy is tanking. The federal government has passed a $2.2 trillion bailout, which gives the Federal reserve the ability to print $4 trillion, on top of the $2 trillion they’ve printed since this all began. $8 trillion divided by 100 million American households is $80,000. Have you seen that money? The deficit this year is estimated to be a staggering $3.8 trillion.

It is time for the American people to stand up and demand that our leaders and their cadre of experts who have been wrong every step of the way, who ordered us to our homes, robbed us of our livelihoods, encouraged us to tell on our neighbors and stripped us of our liberty be held accountable for their complete incompetence in the handling of this deadly virus. It is time to try liberty.

Edited version printed in the Leelanau Enterprise April 16th, 2020

The strangest part of the events of the past week were not the riots and protests but the abrupt shift of the MSM and the Left concerning the coronavirus. We have been told for months that we must, by law, stay home to stay safe…or else. Governor Whitmer, by executive fiat, ordered all churches, businesses, and gatherings illegal putting the state on effective house arrest. All who disobeyed were unscientific misanthropes who were culpable in killing granny and probably racist to boot.

If you didn’t get the memo that’s all changed. Mass gatherings are completely legitimate and necessary if — and here’s the important part — they’re being done for the right reasons.

The CDC just came out with the infection mortality rate for the virus. It’s 0.26%. The seasonal flu is 0.12%. Not exactly ten times more deadly as Fauci claimed back on March 11th, scaring the American people into shredding the Constitution. But who cares, that’s all down the memory hole, we’re moving on.

We now know that roughly 42 percent of deaths around the country were in nursing homes. In Michigan, Whitmer ordered nursing homes to take in not only the elderly who tested positive but people of all ages; she used active nursing homes as quarantine facilities! But she won’t release the mortality data, probably because she has better things to do like violate her own order by marching shoulder to shoulder with protesters.

The hypocrisy is glaring and the consequences infuriating. What the hell is going on?

Printed in the Leelanau Enterprise June 18th, 2020