During its peak here in the United States there were
approximately 74,354 confirmed cases COVID19 in the United States on 19 July 2020. In less than two months on 16 August 2020 the
United States reported only 55,319; a drop in confirmed cases of 19035 cases;
nearly a 26% drop. [1]
This stat alone goes a long way to dispel claims that
American hospitals and their staff are overwhelmed by COVID 19. And, with reduced confirmed cases this should
soon mean that Americans can get back to work and back to school and back to collegian
sports and back to going about our business as Americans and somewhat back to
as normal of life style as possible .
From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, our Communicable Disease
Center (CDC) estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations
(range: 195,086-402,719),
and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306)
in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.[2] If you recall, other than business as normal
there was merely mention of this H1N1 as we went about our daily routines and
normal ways of life. There was minimal
restriction of travel and no businesses and no schools were closed due to H1N1.
New
word in America – demand. Democratic
congressional leaders make demands on capitalist conservatives. BLM demands reparations be paid to blacks,
store owners demand you wear masks in their store or you do not receive service. Cortez and the so called team and Sanders
demand we do not allow American citizens to return to the United States if they
are abroad and test positive for COVID19 while at the same time they demand
that illegals that enter America ILLEGALLY be allowed to stay in
America and receive free COVID19 treatment.
Sanctuary communities demand that law enforcement be impeded in their
attempts to arrest illegals for being in this country illegally. Those same people demand we get rid of
farting cows to keep our green planet green.
The global cattle population
amounted to about 989.03 million head in 2019, down from over one
billion cattle in 2014. When I
was looking at the world population clock this morning at about 1025 (17 August
2020) the world’s population was at about 7,805,564,800 people. So, I guess you could guestimate that
flatulent cattle are outnumbered by flatulent people by about 7 to 1. Why are we scared?
I will tell you what scares me; it is the unknown. And, what I do not know nor do I understand
is how the greatest nation in the world, one that was once mightily revered as
the most powerful nation in the world, fall from its grace in this world?
It seems to me that we are too eager to embrace a nation
wherein so many want to deprive our American citizens what we worked so very
hard for, and for so many years, to build a rich and mighty nation, a new
generation has come along and cannot seem to spend our plenty quick enough. We
swallow hook line and sinker anything
we are told without challenge.
As a nation, we accept at face value just about anything
that is said on mainstream media. I
suppose that is partially because we trust so many people during our life that
we really do not want to believe that someone would be untruthful to us. The opposite is indeed what you have to worry
about and it is because people will tell us with so much enthusiasm really wild
and exotic untruths as if they are from the gospel. Well, facts check! If you are uncertain of how-to facts check –
ask me and I will be happy to assist you in your facts checking. We have been facts checking for over 300
years. Do you know what we did before we
knew about facts checking? This is for
my Marine Brethren and Sisters; before facts check was “tell it to the
Marines”. The written origin of this is
attributed to published use of the phrase in 1804 in John Davis's novel The Post Captain[3]. Although the phrase may not be so true as it
once was, it still holds true that you just cannot believe everything that you
hear.
Believing just about everything you hear might also be
attributed to a fact that we are all so very busy, we really do not have time
to research each and every bit of news we are exposed to so we consider the
source and if the news source seems
like a trusted source, we tend to believe it.
It was in the news; it must be true; right!?
Sources for facts checking include FactCheck.org,
PolitiFact, Snopes.com, and Hoax Slayer.
Although I have never used Hoax Slayer, I have used all the others and I
will say that recently I became jaded about snopes because of the divorce of its
married owners and the eventual sale of half the company-the jury is still out with
me on just how unbiased some of Snopes.com can be.
One way to facts check is just ask the person what their
source is, you can always check their source for accurate reporting. Who knows, maybe they just did interpret
correctly what they thought they had read.
Be wary of previous sources that you always knew to be
trusted source. Some of those trusted
sources may have changed. I will caution
you about George Soros and his Open Society Foundation (OSF) and how the OSF
has purchased much of the media in the free world. OSF is a liberal foundation and as such might
put a politically left spin on their version of what the news is.
In closing, do not be too eager to take at face value
everything you hear. Get the truth and
allow the truth to help you vote for the right person this November 3rd. Semper Fi.
[1] https://covid19.who.int/?gclid=CjwKCAjw1ej5BRBhEiwAfHyh1CTUXtjpLGy5YMnqnqhij_5IZEO4v8CjJvKYGY1anwBJ6OMR6ZkkBRoC1YQQAvD_BwE
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html#:~:text=From%20April%2012%2C%202009%20to,the%20(H1N1)pdm09%20virus
[3] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/tell-it-to-the-marines.html
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