CURRENT EVENTS DATA POINTS, ETC.

CURRENT EVENTS DATA POINTS, ETC.

By Andy Weddington

Thursday, 05 August 2021

Death inevitable. Stupidity a condition. Cowardice a choice. So, stupid, is there anything worse than dying a coward?

Rolling county roads yesterday morning came radio news break; state and local. Included was report North Carolina has quadrupled the "incentive" to be vaccinated. 

The $25 now $100 to get first injection.

Enticing?

Preying on the desperate?

Bullying?

Who's funding the $100? 

Moments later the talk program interrupted aired segment about recent analysis of nearly half million covid fatalities that required hospital care. 

Underlying causes of death the focus. 

Thirty percent were obese. 

The next highest number - 28% - surprising: Anxiety/fear. Way to go media. 

The remaining (deaths) attributable to preexisting conditions e.g., compromised immune systems, lung diseases, diabetes, etc. 

The big takeaway: Just shy of 60% of deaths attributable to poor physical or mental health. 

So, some common sense. 

The first line of defense is to "self-vaccinate" - by means of physiological fitness: Disciplined healthy menu and regular exercise for fit and strong body and finding purpose in life for mental stability. 

Still I do not know anyone who has been hospitalized nor died from covid. To me, that seems odd (considering the reported high numbers). 

And I know only a handful of people who believe they had the virus and recovered, without medical intervention, at home. 

Furthermore, last week in North Carolina was report of some 7,700 or so new cases with some 370 requiring hospital care and 66 (the only exact number I remember) deaths. All "fully vaccinated." 

And a Navy Captain (doctor) at Camp Lejeune died with cause attributed to covid. The Department of Defense declined to comment on his vaccination status. [Most likely "fully vaccinated."]

"Fully vaccinated." What does that mean? It means injected. It does not mean absolute protection, vaccination, against anything. 

Pragmatists consider, fully, observed ground truths and scrutinize data. 

Conclusions reached being empirical and logical. Reasonable. The common man's acid test, if you will. 

There's big disconnect between what media is airing as to cases and vaccine effectiveness and reality. In truth, some government agencies announced weeks ago no longer tracking adverse reactions to vaccine.

Translation: Ignore the problems.   

Again last week came yet another forwarded email (for situational awareness) about someone, a veteran, who put their faith in government, took the vaccine, and now regrets it. Because now they're dealing with a handful of chronic problems never experienced before being injected.

They reached a common sense "if that then this" conclusion.   

That person represents growing legions.

I do have family who know folks who came close to death from the vaccine. 

So consider the logic, their new reality ... those people may not ever fully recover from an experimental "vaccine" taken to fend off a virus they'd most likely never contract. And that "vaccine" is proving day-by-day to not be effective. 

In summary ...

Odds favor, heavily actually, not contracting the virus.

And if contracting and healthy the odds heavily favor recovery.

Injecting a non-FDA approved serum into an otherwise healthy person is insanity. The work of madness, of evil. 

To point, does anyone believe government and business and media have partnered because of their overwhelming sense of duty to safeguard public health? [Were that the case all U. S. borders would be airtight.]

Or is it more likely big money and absolute control the motive and deaths the cost of doing business?

What you think and decide, as goes freedom, of no consequence to me.

My Constitutional right, my duty, is to raise the questions. 

But it seems to me covid is a far less threat to public health and freedom than stupidity and cowardice. 

Stupid, as Ron White concluded, cannot be fixed.

Not sure I agree with the sage Mr. White but he's entitled to his opinion. 

Cowardice?

A coward knows they're a coward.

And a coward knows others know they're a coward.

Cowardice, unlike stupidity, can be fixed.

The cost of freedom is not green but red.

There's language in the Constitution (an Amendment) that so translates.  

Truth and plainspeak never masked in this forum.

I harbor animus to none. Vaccinated? Fine. Not vaccinated? Fine. Choice is freedom. 

Social distance, and mask, if offended.   

Alas, 

Shout out to Jack! Most recent generous contributor keeping this forum in the (barely) black. Thank you! 

Now off to paint!