George Rebane
As we and others across the country have pointed out, phasing out the C19 lockdowns has become the latest political chasm in the Great Divide. You know that our country is now fundamentally transformed when it can no longer come together for a unified response to a national emergency. It’s not a reach to conclude that had we this kind of schism in our citizenry in 1940, then the US entry and participation in WW2 would have been very different with historical consequences of creating a world we would not recognize today.
Our leftwing wants the country to suffer enormously and enduringly – first, in order to defeat Trump in November, and then to remain in a devastated state during which main street mobs will rise to demand a bigger government to save them. Today the most reliable way for the Left to achieve this state of affairs is to maintain the economy destroying lockdown for as long as possible while buying votes wholesale with government checks drawn on newly printed money.
On the local scene we see this policy promoted daily in the pages of The Union by our county’s progressives. Most recently, columns by conservatives Terry McLaughlin (here) and the wife of my life, Jo Ann Rebane (here) have drawn extensive ire on the matter of loosening the local lockdown. It is particularly instructive to read the comment stream under Ms McLaughlin’s column, and the same can be said for Jo Ann’s column. A more measured response to the latter is in the 7may20 print edition of The Union from a Mr Paul Hauck. He claims Rebane’s call to prudently loosen the Nevada County lockdown is both unreasonable and factually incorrect.
Nowhere did Rebane promote a “precipitous” abandonment of social distancing, masks, etc. And whether through careless reading, promoting an agenda, or both, he disputes the cited university reports on the estimated levels of existing herd immunity in California, and goes on to doubt her understanding of “the causal connection” between stay-at-home and low C19 incidence (no active cases currently) in the county. I personally can attest to the lady’s deep and detailed understanding of such factors affecting pandemics, which appears to be a cut above Mr Hauck’s own understanding of regional herd immunity variances in the country. (My own analysis of the impact of herd immunity levels and the intensity of a ‘second wave’ was published here and in the 18apr20 Union.) He most certainly does not know what other countries have done and are doing to effectively loosen their lockdowns.
We know the story of Sweden (more here), and are learning daily how other EU countries have fared on their return paths to normalcy. The evidence, as I have presented before, shows little correlation of death rates between various lockdown levels implemented by countries. The latest good news comes from Germany (here), a country that never went into a draconian destruction derby with its economy, and is now rapidly reinstating pre-C19 norms in its commercial sector. Such reports are, of course, omitted or on page seven in the lamestream media.
The main point that is lost in such leftwing opposition to prudent paths to loosen the lockdowns is both gratuitous, and definitely politically motivated to retain public policies that will maximally stifle the healing of our economy and the return to normalcy.
[update] Are we in the middle of a ‘Plandemic’? Along the line of argument presented here and elsewhere in these pages, I received this video of an interview with renowned molecular biologist and medical researcher Dr Judy Mikovitz, PhD (here). She did seminal work on viruses in the development of vaccines and the eradication of HIV/AIDS. Her PhD dissertation and subsequent discoveries put big pharma at risk, and she was successfully attacked and silenced for 5 years by court order (while uncharged with any crime) and threat of fabricated prosecution. This interview is not only a pertinent revelation about the underside of what’s happening now in our nation’s C19 response, but also about how an entire industry controls the science and released public information about infectious diseases. The five years are up, and she has co-authored a book (here) about the massive subterfuge that is drawing legions of physicians equally concerned (outraged?) about how our power establishment is managing the business of infectious diseases. I personally am a bit astounded that in today’s environment of corporatist censorship, that this video is still available to us (YouTube took it down). It’s worth your time to view it and see what you will make of it.
And make no mistake, there is plenty of opposition to Mikovitz and her assertions of conspiracy at the highest levels that include recently canonized St Anthony of Fauci. Here and here are a couple of links to give balance to the above.
rebanesruminations.com 
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