Don's Tuesday Column

        THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   7/20/2021

Ho-lee cow, “Bizarro World” is here

“Bizarro World” has come to mean “a situation or setting which is weirdly inverted or opposite to expectations” (Wikipedia). The accumulation and frequency of such “What the heck?” and “It must be a joke!” items strain the brain. (hat tip: PJMedia’s Stacey Lennox)

Residents of the world’s largest open-air prison, Cuba, wave American flags beside their Cuban banners, shouting their demands for freedom—from Communism—and our gov’t and media lie to our faces about it. They say it’s about COVID or mismanagement or America’s fault (we send hundreds of millions of dollars of food and medicine to Castro’s hell-hole).

His Fraudulency, Joe Biden, says everyone who wants secure, accessible and verifiably fraud-free elections is a racist. “Pay no attention to the audits finding more than enough fraud and errors to change results.”

Secretary of State Blinken (no relation to the “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” poem) invited that cesspool of corruption, anti-Semitism, and despotic regimes, aka the United Nations, to come pass judgement on America’s racial justice and human rights.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is either a politicized hack who makes stuff up, or is so reported (say anonymous know-nothings) by journalists, authors and publications that assured Americans for four years that Trump colluded with Putin to steal it from Hillary in 2016. Credibility issues, perhaps?

Biden’s mouthpiece informs America that social media, “Twit-books,” are now semi-official branches of the state for the purpose of enforcing bans on “disinformation.” Medically scientific science has switched, shuffled, contradicted and fudged (Fauci’d) every which way for 18 months. However, we commoners will henceforth be informed—after (well after?) our committing the thought crime of “disinformation”—that we’re cancelled, banned, chastised and humiliated—even if what we say turns out to be scientifically accurate.

Biden, Psaki and Fauci et al won’t get retroactive banning for their previous misinformation; Dems and their media castigated “Trump’s” vaccine endlessly last year but now complain about “vaccine hesitancy.”

The HHS Secretary says the “guv-mint” has the right to not only know if you are vaccinated, but also to propagandize, intimidate and browbeat you—er, knock on your door and ask polite questions—into getting poked. Pay no attention to scientific facts that young people/children don’t need shots because they have virtually no risk of dying from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus and don’t transmit it to adults. People who’ve had COVID (even asymptomatic) rarely get reinfected, particularly with serious symptoms. Me: vaccines good.

Having seen how obediently the “sheeple” stay home, close down, cancel gatherings and wear “face diapers,” our betters (and not-so-bright-ers) are pushing for a vaccine “apartheid” society: “segregated-by-passports” churches, entertainment, sports, schools and meetings. You think they don’t want to?

“Guv-nah” Gruesome Newsom has shown the despotic face of quasi-medical authoritarianism in his (non-legal) mandates over Los Angeles County’s millions, who will—"you vill”—wear masks where and when told. People—ignore the mad man behind the podium. Refuse. LA County Sheriff Villanueva said he won’t be enforcing it—“not backed by science.” The “emperor” has no moral authority.

No masks for children—ever. It makes no common sense and has no medical justification. Witness the power of teachers’ unions to manipulate schools into forcing masks on kids. Even the CDC advises against it.

New Jersey senators held a hearing on that very subject. Scientists testified, with medical authority, against the practice, saying it “does little to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and may harm children psychologically, emotionally, developmentally, and physically.”

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a biostatistician and epidemiologist: “During the first wave [of the COVID-19 pandemic] in the spring of 2020, most large Western countries closed their schools for longer or shorter time periods, including more states in the U.S. The one exception was Sweden, which kept schools and daycare open from ages 1 to 15, for which there are 1.8 million children.”

At that time, there was no mask-wearing, no social distancing, and no COVID-19 testing for children in Sweden, Kulldorf said at the hearing; however, there was more cleaning than normal in schools and daycare facilities, and children who got sick were sent home. Despite this lack of restrictions, “none of these 1.8 million children died [of COVID-19],” Kulldorf emphasized.

“COVID is primarily spread through adults. When children do get infected … they typically get it from an adult. And it’s very unusual to get transmission from children to adults.” While about 350 American children are reported to have died, the CDC hasn’t evaluated how many died “from” it, or simply had the virus present. Influenza kills between 200 and 1,000 children every year, depending on the severity of the outbreak.

Maria Crisler, a clinical scientist with specialty experience in microbiology, also spoke: “There was ample evidence for adverse effects of children wearing masks and they should not be forced to wear them.” According to a study conducted in April, 68 percent of more than 25,000 children participating in the study “had problems wearing face coverings” and the content of carbon dioxide inhaled by them was several times higher than the acceptable norm, Crisler testified.

“Due to the high intake of carbon dioxide, children sampled for the study experienced symptoms such as irritability, headache, difficulty concentrating, reluctance to go to school or kindergarten, malaise, impaired learning, drowsiness, or fatigue,” Crisler said.

“The issue of mask-wearing is even more critical for children,” who have more vulnerability to injury from oxygen deprivation and high intake of carbon dioxide. “There are physiological changes within 45 seconds of wearing a mask to the brain, from the heart, the lungs, the kidneys, and the immune system.”