Don's Tuesday Column

               THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   12/21/2021

Ignore, resist; don’t comply or enforce

Merry Christmas to all of you; the birth of Jesus Christ remains the most significant event in mankind’s history, together with His resurrection and ascension, providing those who choose the path of faith with hope of salvation. And Happy 71^st Birthday to me.

We Californians get a state-wide “mask mandate.” It’s predicated on the much-hyped “47 percent increase in COVID cases.” What’s “the rest of the story”? The “47 percent” figure spread in America’s news, California being the nation’s elephant.

We’re to deny ourselves the luxury of not rebreathing our own exhalations, while potentially running afoul of businesses that fear fines and busybodies. What if infections had actually declined? That is, in fact, the case: Daily new cases (current wave, 7-day moving average, worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/california) peaked on Sept. 1 at 14,437. Over 3 months, the “daily new cases” declined to 4,250—a 70 percent drop.

So, where’s the 47 percent spike come from? “Where’s the beef?” you ask. Daily new cases then rose to 6,769 on December 8, or a nearly 60 percent increase, but still—pay attention—a decline of 53 percent from the Sept. 1 peak. Statistics are used and misused to sell mask mandates or other impositions on otherwise free citizens. We can’t be trusted to know the truth?

As of Dec. 19, that “Daily new cases” average has dropped to 5,899, down 13 percent from the Dec. 8 figure. Our local and chain businesses are unlikely to make demands of their customers. That’s a wise move given the fatigue over governmental, media and COVID-ocracy obsession with 1) cases (inflated by overly sensitive PCR testing); 2) hospital space (which is routinely filled to 90+ percent capacity for efficiency); and 3) ignoring any cause for not panicking.

Out of curiosity, I watched NBC Nightly News on Saturday. The anxiety-inducing narrative was shocking; it’s obvious they’re keeping viewers addicted to fear-mongering over a flu, little more than a cold at this point, for which (typically) older people and those in ill health suffer and die the most. We’re vaxxed and boosted; I encourage it; fully vaccinated still get it.

The CDC admitted that about 6 percent of the deaths are caused by COVID-19 alone—the other 94 percent had Coronavirus among the co-morbidities. How dire is California’s situation? The current wave of average daily deaths peaked at 132 on Sept. 15, declining to 56 as of Dec. 19, a 57 percent reduction. In a state with 700-800 daily deaths from all causes.

 Most importantly, we’ve witnessed the corrupting politicization—with thinly-veiled ulterior motives supporting governmental power—of science and medicine. They’ve been an reliable source for objective data, provable theses and “best practices” for our citizens’ and nation’s health. No longer.

How else to describe Dr. (treats-no-patients) Anthony Fauci’s bold assertions, echoed by sycophants, that “I am the science”? Questioning or criticizing him is “dangerous.”

“We have come to fetishize science in our culture…imbuing it with religious significance…Our culture has come to view science as revelatory. That sounds remarkably like a priest that has come to confuse himself with the church, or even God” (“The Covid Reformation,” by John Schroeder).

Glenn Reynolds, NYPost.com: “But science, and rationality in general, is about changing your opinions when you learn new facts. And what we’ve learned is that COVID is somewhat worse than the flu but not nearly bad enough to justify the enormous, expensive and disruptive changes we’ve endured.

“In fact, the damages wrought by lockdowns and social isolation—medical, in terms of reduced exercise, missed medical screenings and increased drug and alcohol consumption, as well as psychological, in loneliness and anxiety—may have been worse than those wrought by COVID itself.

“Also, most of the nostrums offered by the experts and ‘Karens’ are nonsensical and don’t work. Masks outdoors, where COVID doesn’t really spread anyway? Plexiglas screens everywhere? Shut-down public water fountains and a wide variety of service changes in hotels, restaurants and airplanes [over] COVID?”

Titles alone paint an unnerving picture: “Biden’s ‘Covid-19 Winter Plan’ Ignores Science—It is based on pseudoscientific myths about how the virus works and who is vulnerable" (David Catron)."Party of 'Science' Ignores Four Hundred Published Studies” (Victorygirlsblog.com).

"Ex-FDA officials, medical experts flog feds for politicizing COVID, misrepresenting evidence—If the last administration did this, all experts would be outraged," U.C.S.F. medical professor Vinay Prasad. "Something Shifting? Washington Post Admits Biden Administration Is Not Following the Science or Medical Community Advice Regarding Booster Mandates" and “New York State Assembly Advancing Legislation to Create Involuntary COVID Quarantine Camps” (both at theconservativetreehouse.com).

“Omicron Unleashes New Wave of Hysteria, With Rule by Decree in Force” by Michael Walsh; “CDC: Most reported U.S. Omicron cases have hit the fully vaccinated” by Mrinalika Roy; “Poll: Overwhelming majority of Americans oppose new mandates and restrictions to combat Omicron—Americans are moving away from the mandate-mentality of some politicians and health officials,” (Justthenews.com). Joe Biden lying: “unvaccinated are looking at a winter of severe illness and death.”

Other serious issues: 1) The fraudulent, illegitimate way Joe Biden got elected (I devoted 10 columns of evidence to it); election-rigging practices remain a high priority for Democrats. The “For the People Act,” (actually, “to heck with the people act”) institutionalizes mail-in voting shenanigans.

2) The ongoing January 6 commission (“kangaroo court and show trial”) allows Democrats to coordinate with the FBI/DOJ to criminalize their political enemies. 3) Blatant morphing of biased, slanted journalism into partisan, propagandistic advocacy by the “4^th Estate,” on behalf of racial division, political oppression and programming the masses.