The Real Dry Run of Government

Many on the left have said deploying federal forces to protect federal buildings is President Trump exercising a “dry run” for some kind of military take-over. This is an obvious falsehood and those who make the assertion know it, but there are no bounds for what can be said about this president. The reality is that we are actually going through a different but real “dry run” by elected government officials. The over-reach of control in response to the Wuhan virus with the aid of the media and the blind acceptance from the general public under the guise of saving lives from the virus should be a wakeup call to everyone. Liberties and freedoms are being taken away by leaders who are making up the rules as they go, and basing it solely on scientists that support their actions, not a scientific consensus. There are plenty of scientists that completely reject the approach of a lockdown, but these leaders and the media ignore them and instead push the panic of death to establish total government authority.

We know the survival rate is very high (over 99%) for those below the age of 65 and those without co-morbidities. The number of deaths are only a little higher than the seasonal flu. The number is likely to come down when the various methods of counting in every state are reviewed. For some people this virus hits a little harder than the seasonal flu, but the length of time to recovery isn’t very long. No one wants to get sick, which is why during the regular cold and flu season, people stay home and tell others to avoid them so they won’t get infected. But there is no government lockdown of society since we realize as humans there is a risk of getting infected with various illnesses on occasion.  

There was supposed to be a two week shutdown as to not overload the hospitals. That was accomplished and we should have gone back to being cautious and taking care of the high risk pool. However, with the help of the hysteria loving media, government leaders discovered they can control their populations through the fear of death from a disease there is almost no chance they will die from. In the course of five months free citizens became subservient to leaders arbitrarily testing the power they can exert using fear as the tool. They are testing how much they can limit individual freedom and how much they can direct societal activity. Here’s some of the ways this dry run has begun.

The lockdown control allowed government leaders, at no personal cost, to subjectively decide which businesses could stay open and which would be closed. But small businesses took it on the chin while mostly large corporations like Home Depot flourished. Isn’t it curious that small business owners who tend to vote Republican were crushed and large corporations which shower the Democrats with money were spared? Evangelical Christian churches forcibly closed while pot shops stay open...again reflecting two different voting blocks. When pushed about why certain places could be open and others could not, no coherent explanation was given by governors and mayors and none was demanded by the media. The damage done to all aspects of life of those business owners is immeasurable. There was a scale with the risk of some people getting sick for a couple of weeks with essentially no chance of fatality on one side and the total destruction of millions of people’s entire lives on the other. They chose the latter and despite all the evidence now available about the fatality rate, we still continue to kill businesses and lives. We are going to reopen to nothing left.

The world has been deluged with the alarmist practices of social distancing and mask wearing. The six feet of distancing came from a high school girl’s project using unreliable computer models. Computer models predicted 2 million US deaths and panicked the world into its current state. They are only reliable as contributors to the fear factor. There is no scientific study saying that masks are helpful, but there is an extensive review on the CDC website from May 2020 that says that they aren’t effective against a virus and in some cases are harmful. Dr. Fauci is never confronted with his own organization’s posted information regarding the worthlessness of masks. We do know, however, from watching his MLB post-pitching debut, he doesn’t really believe they are as necessary as he now claims. We were months in to spread of the virus when masks suddenly became required everywhere. I heard Pawn Stars host Rick Harrison say that is like bringing a condom to a baby shower. Before scaring the public to wear the mask all the time, was there thought to the long term effects of people inhaling less oxygen than normal and recycling their own carbon dioxide? How about the bacteria on masks being worn over and over? Surely that can’t be healthy. But they declare obedience is patriotic.

The mandates for distancing and wearing masks are also creating civilian monsters- snitches and patrollers. These are people reporting on unwitting occupancy infractions by businesses (that bring fines they can’t afford) and attacking non-mask wearers verbally and physically. This is behavior used in communist countries so people can curry favor with the government. Mayor Eric Garcetti in Los Angeles proudly announced that “snitches get paid.” This further divides communities and a country in need of unification.

The unscientific distancing rules have also had the effect of canceling all gatherings. Religious services, sporting events, conferences and all other standard events are closed indefinitely to the detriment of all businesses and employees of those venues. Again, these are edicts from people with no financial loss at stake and are pushed through the media who also fare to lose nothing.  The proof it is fake, fear inflicted control is that the leaders who enforce them do not do so for protesters and rioters. If they were seriously concerned about “the spread” then the restrictions would apply to all public activity. Instead we get the jaw dropping BS that if you are protesting and rioting about racism or a social justice cause then it’s healthy. But if you want to meet with your AA group to stop from relapsing or meet with a support group to prevent committing suicide, you are putting people’s lives at risk and will be met with a fine or jail time. Complete and utter fraudulent leaders now rule the day.

The Hydroxycloroquine (HCQ) issue is one of the biggest examples of control as it brings big tech into the government and media forces. President Trump supported its use and the media went ballistic with accusations he wasn’t qualified to recommend it and was putting people’s lives at risk. The hysteria became enough to deny the public this treatment that many doctors said they were using for early stage patients quite successfully. Those doctors were/are treated as quacks no matter how many of them can point to proven success with real patients. Initially studies that said HCQ was ineffective were flawed and had to be retracted. All the doctors using HCQ successfully said it was used early on and needed to be paired with other substances like zinc, erythromycin, vitamin D, etc. The studies they cited were giving HCQ to late stage sufferers by itself. When people who have benefited talk about how it helped, it’s called anecdotal and is to be discounted. However, if you encourage school re-openings because kids don’t tend to contract or spread the virus, anecdotal cases of a few children who have contracted it quickly emerge and are used as scientific evidence so teachers unions can refuse to re-open classrooms.

Big tech social media have decided that nothing can be posted to show the effectiveness of HCQ citing it is not supported by the CDC and is called misinformation. The drug has been around for over 50 years and was safe enough to be sold over the counter in many European countries. Saying it is dangerous is nothing short of a lie. Questions: What if HCQ had the same amount of reported success treating people with HIV? That would be an off label use just as it is with this virus. Would it still be the pariah it is portrayed now and be shunned and silenced by big tech, the government and the media? Would the LGBT community allow the blacklist? Answer: The questions are rhetorical. We are witnessing how big tech has no problem controlling the flow of what information people can see just like a communist government would. It is alarming there is not more pushback.

What would any American have said in January if they were told government bureaucrats would be able to track them and everyone they came in contact with and quarantine them all for weeks? They would have laughed and said that this isn’t the Soviet Union. However that is exactly what is happening with contact tracing, and because the fear of contracting the virus super cedes everything, formerly free citizens are forced into accepting it.

In the past decade we have been witnessing the death by a thousand cuts to our liberties and freedoms. It has been slow but gradual. However, the power hungry in our government leadership are turning cuts into gashes based on fear from an essentially non-lethal virus for most. How hollow does the next “crisis” have to be before we re-live all of this and more?  Remember, those in government and the media robbing others of their livelihoods suffer nothing. This is their dry run to see how much power they can seize at the expense of others living in the fear they created. It needs to be fought back now before it becomes acceptable.