VIRAL: Mother's EPIC Speech Destroys Liberal Narrative

Masks didn't work because people did not know how to wear them, what masks were effective, how to take them off, etc.  They seem to be a bit more about control and not of health.

Top Causes of Death in 2020 (Results might surprise you)

It takes a long time for statistics to be sorted through and validated when something is so new.  This disease has been used as a weapon.  It is time to consider these stats and where we might have been in relationship to COVID-19 had we just used common sense.  

The 80/20 rule has proved as reliable as ever.  This is from High-Intensity Health.  

The Big Fat Lie of Omission.

And sensible statistics begin to roll out.  Panic has driven the world into a whirlpool of hopelessness and strange behaviours.  

Common sense will fall out of all of this and new habits will be recommended that are easy enough to manage.  

Click the World Health Organisation image above to read the Epoch Times article entitled:

'WHO Changes CCP Virus Test Criteria in Attempt to Reduce False Positives'

When I began this blog in February 2020, it was strange to me that there was more certainty than questions about this 'new virus'.  Yet even today, the mysteries of origin, transmission, how it spread, what it is, how it should be treated, etc., are still rattling around unanswered.  The number of deaths -- perhaps more than half -- may have mis-attributed to COVID-19.  

The global response was founded on confusion, the blame game and grasping for emergency resources and sure remedies.  Yet, there was no 'standard test for identification', no antibody test to know if someone had had the virus and no idea, yet, about immuninity after someone has recovered.

Thr unseen 'China CCP enemy' has been fought with various drugs (prescription and home remedies), treatment methods from induced coma-respirators, CPAP machines to sweating it out with lemon and honey.   The promise of various vaccines lurches toward the horizon as a new, more virulent mutation begins to raise its powerful head.

As it began to spread out of China to other nations -- in what is suspiciously like a purposeful 'seeding' of the virus -- unsuspecting nations were totally unprepared.  

Health experts couldn't decide whether it was more important to keep paperwork or treat those stricken.  And the nations that did keep statistics differed in their methods, how and what to count.  

A lack of standards in keeping statistics was apparent and understandable as every nation had unique policies and definitions.  It struck me as strange because there had been other pandemics that did not get so much attention.  

The fact is that in 2009, while on a business trip contracted the H1N1 virus.  I was so sick the doctor made a house call and felt I was too infectious to go to the hospital.  He quarantined at home for two weeks.  In 2009, while those who were infected, died or recovered, they got little attention in comparison.

Every nation that began to watch and count had their own ideas.  Should every death that occurred while the virus swirled around, be attributed to the virus?  

There were no conclusive tests initially.  No way to definitively substantiate the reality of the virus.  Some nations seemed to be in a perverted type of competition -- as if there was a badge of suffering for the nation with the most infections, recoveries and deaths.  

I began to imagine it was tied to the hope of receiving aid.  Untold numbers of those who died during this time were attributed COVID.  In time it was clear that many of those who died had seriously-compromised systems and were very near death regardless.  Where was the line to say when the virus may or may not have 'pushed someone over the line'?  It was an easy statistic, though as the WHO is now discovering.

Suddenly, there were duelling statistics, conclusions, treatment methods all over the place.  Every news source was refocused to only one issue - COVID-19.  This tempest in a teapot has turned out to be a bit more politicised than it should ever have been.  Infected individuals became political footballs to be tossed into every argument. 

And who would have imagined how easy it was to acclimate the globe to face mask mandadates!  And how so many enterprising entrepreneurs began to sell designer, fashion-statement masks that we happily bought.  

Before this the world collectively threw away thousands of millions of the disposable masks to clog up more of the landfills and oceans.  (If you haven't read the blog in this series about the efficacy of masks, it might help put some things in a new light.)

Where this debacle ends is anyone's guess, but at least we will know how to wash our hands and cover our mouths when we sneeze or cough.  

Hand sanitizer business has expanded.  Delivery services pop up new all the time.  We work from home and are learning to live in unrealistic isolation that is also increasing depression and fear.  Who knows how this will end ... maybe the WHO.

We're DONE With Masks!

It is really sad that people will attack one another over this.  But then what can we expect anymore as the nation is pulled apart by ignorance and panic.  

ANYONE ELSE CONFUSED LATELY?

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What We Should ALL Be Doing Right Now!

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Having followed, researched and written about this new health phenomena since the end of January, I am growing a bit weary of the information overload and confusion.  

I'm also quite weary that this serious situation has morphed more into politics, political bashing, political correctness and pure greed than using common sense.  It was time for us all to revisit our need for better personal hygiene and thoughtfulness of others.  

Businesses have been so focused on profit at any cost that employees, like the frog in the pan of cold water, have allowed themselves to be increasingly abused.  

And spending more than eight hours in an open-plan environment, where even musical desks is the rule, has hurt us all.  When did staying home from work become unwise and considerate of others?

It is a good thing for all of us to take time to reflect about what IS important in our lives.  Obviously, with more than 200,000 deaths around the globe, part of that reflection is forcing us to consider our own mortality and personal responsibilities.  

The virus is silent and invisible and, like some science fiction villain, no one is quite sure where it is lurking.

I've endeavoured to present information that matters from serious and reputable sources rather than fall into conspiracy theories or sourcing information from those who just want to sell their brand of modern 'snake oil' or bias.  

But I'm feeling a bit like this woman in the video.  What about you?

MILLIONS AND ONE

The last serious pandemic you might not have been aware of  was the H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009.  It is estimated the H1N1 flu pandemic affected 11 to 21 percent of the, then, global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700 million to 1.4 billion people —more in absolute terms than the Spanish flu pandemic.

Actual fatalities reported ranged between 12,000 and 18,000.  However, a 2012 study by the CDC estimated about 284,000 perished from H1N1 virus worldwide but could have been as many as 575,000 deaths.

We Will Never Know

As is happening now with COVID-19, we will never know the true numbers for several reasons: 

• There is no internationally shared standard of identifying the disease in progress.  There are many different ways the virus has been identified from anecdotal evidence to one of the different test kits
• There is no standard way to know how many people had the virus without symptoms or not who have recovered.  What would be needed for this is an internationally-standard antibody test would show the disease existed in someone
• There is no central, trusted global body collecting accurate statistics.
• There is no shared, standard definition of ‘what defines a death from COVID-19’.  For example: is a death where there were complications from existing conditions (such as heart disease) attributable to COVID-19?  If not, what circumstances define a ‘COVID-19 death’?  Should someone who had a heart attack and died -- who was also confirmed as having the virus (or from the treatment of the virus) be listed as a heart attack or a COVID-19 death?
• Healthcare workers are busy saving lives and can’t be expected to take time for too much paperwork.  

For me, contracting H1N1 virus was a miserable and surprisingly abrupt experience that I thankfully survived.  Not the best memory, but I learned what self-quarantine was about.  And during my convalescence I thought about my father.

The Spanish Flu

Of course, as of today, the number of deaths from COVID-19 pales in comparison to the Spanish flu of 1918-19 (A/H1N1).   Keeping that in mind with what's going on today helps keep this tragedy in some perspective.  

The Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu was an amazing disease that:

• Raged globally from January 1918 to December 1920. 
• Infected around 500 million people (about a quarter of the entire global population at the time). 
• Took a death toll -- like today -- will never be known, but estimates range from 17 to 50 million to as many as 100 million individuals who died (more than all those who died from WWI, WWII, the Korean and Viet Nam War).
• Statistics could not keep up with, were kept manually and some countries never bothered to keep them. 
• Spread despite long-distance transportation being limited to train and ocean liner
• Was constrained because there were no sophisticated communications beyond telegraph
• Arrived before there were computers to build accurate statistical models. 
• Like the proverbial ‘fighting the fire in front of you’ with whatever you have to fight with, decimated the health and spirit of many countries.  

Personal Experience

There would be few alive today with the memory of the Spanish Flu.  Few lived through this time where it was common to anticipate and adjust to the rapid, unexpected loss of sweet loved ones.

Historically, it was not the best of times to be fighting an invisible enemy.  World War I was in progress, people, even in ‘developed’ nations were malnourished and good hygiene was unrecognised. 

Healthcare was primitive enough to consider the flu 'just bad air'.  Medical (not natural) immunisation was barely known.  There were no antibiotics.  People were still being bled to rebalance the ‘humours’.  Most around the world lived in poor, crowded structures without indoor plumbing and vigorous vermin for neighbours.  

When my Dad was sent back early from serving in World War I (He had been mustard-gassed not long after he got to his overseas post.), he arrived at one of the many hot spots in the United States.  This one in Ohio.  He found a job working in what was called a 'Pest House' – sort of a pre-hospital -- for those who were ill with the symptoms of this unknown disease. 

Pest House

He described the endless number of people who arrived day and night at this long, narrow and rather simple building with timber walls, tin roof and cement floor.  

As individuals grew too ill to be cared for at home, they were brought to or dumped at the Pest House.  The names of these individuals were usually recorded in a logbook.  They were carefully laid on cots/ pallets in the front section. 

As the disease progressed, there were stages as they grew increasingly incapacitated.  When each stage was reached (meaning their symptoms were worsening), they were moved further back into the crowded, noisy structure.  Almost no one recovered. 

Each 'section of ‘increased seriousness' was separated from others by heavy, green wool army blankets or waxed tarpaulins hung from wire strung from one side of the building to the other.  

My Dad, being clever with his hands, was consigned to working outside the last section.  He carried water, ran errands to keep some food supplies for the other workers and nurses and he built coffins for the bodies. 

Yet the number of deaths grew too rapidly for him to keep up.  Eventually, the bodies were collected and unceremoniously buried as quickly as possible, in crudely marked or unmarked mass graves -- without coffins or mourners.

Thoughts in Conclusion

What dark times!  So many life-changing lessons he shared with me as I sat spellbound by his memories.  To the day he died -- at home -- he was never in a hospital but twice.  Both times he was unconscious and unable to protest.  He resisted doctors and medicines (but quinine, aspirin and whisky) all his life.    

From his one example, my brother and I grew up with the value of taking good care of our health and our belongings.  We learned to mend and patch items, save things.  We learned to buy a bit extra of something when there was abundance.  We were taught to can and dry foods.  

We watched how important it was to check regularly on our family, friends and neighbours.  We learned how to fish, search for safe mushrooms and wild foods in the forest and hunt and dress our catch. 

We were entrusted with special recipes that could keep someone well-fed on next to nothing and we learned about the value of good hygiene and lots of sunshine and … the value of family love.  

I wonder what the lessons will be for the world from this latest reminder of how fragile we are and how every moment is precious.