Commentary

(NOTE: I am not a doctor.  I only played one in a made-for-TV movie.  But I do possess a degree of common sense.)

Weeks ago, I decided I didn’t want to read one more story about Covid or the variants and stopped covering it in my blog.  

I had it with the “experts,” – Fauci and all of the talking head doctors – featured on the networks and in newspapers.  I think it was the mask mandate that triggered it, although I was already tiring of this analysis and that analysis.

At last, I truly hope that Wednesday’s announcement by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise of its in-depth study on lockdowns will open the eyes of those who wish to control our daily activities.

It was interesting to learn that the 2020 lockdown reduced Covid-19 mortality by just 0.2 percent in the U.S. and Europe.

After Johns Hopkins systematic screening of 18,590 studies, the abstract of its report states: “While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted.  In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”

While we were fed unending statistics about crowded hospitals, and deaths, most of which were the result of various maladies, they were chalked-up as Covid deaths.  Americans suffering from other medical issues, some serious, chose not to seek medical attention.

Between May 2020 and April 2021, there were more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths, a 28.5 percent increase over the previous 12 months. Domestic violence incidents increased 8.1 percent during the lockdown.  Depression mounted.

The Big Tech monsters of social media censored those who mocked the “experts,” squelching free discourse and debate, while CDC and Fauci gave mixed messages.

And now, as we learn that the government is planning to send everyone a free Covid test kit, we hear about testing firms involved in fraud.

As the president and other officials speaking to you muffled by masks, and unionized teachers force children to wear masks, while their value and mandates are still discussed, you should be angry as hell with those who have been feeding you misinformation for months.

Can you believe it?  The president, who has failed to control Covid as he promised, now thinks he has the answer to cut in half the number of cancer deaths over a 25-year government initiative.  “We can do this,” Biden said.

While Biden said, “It’s bold, it’s ambitious, and its doable,” it’s a retread plan designed to take the spotlight off his Covid failure.  In Obama’s last year, he called upon Biden to lead an action with the goal of curing Cancer, and authorized $1.8 billion in funding for the program over seven years to accelerate progress in Cancer prevention and screening, as well as research to improved the care of Cancer patients.

Biden apparently continued the crusade after he left the vice presidency and started the non-profit Biden Cancer Foundation in 2017 to speed up research on the disease.  The program ceased operations two years later after Biden declared his run for the presidency. Why?

After a March meeting focused on Cancer research, Biden said, “We’re on the cusp of some real breakthroughs,” but no significant results have been revealed since Biden’s selection to fight Cancer by Obama seven years ago.

Is it any wonder that most voters think President Biden is one of the worst (54 percent) ever to hold office and rank him below Obama (33 percent) and Trump (43 percent)?  Interestingly, Rasmussen Reports survey revealed Trump best ever (43 percent), Obama (34 percent) and Biden (15 percent).

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.