Maybe You Didn’t Have the Flu in December

In spite of the update on my friend’s continuing difficulties in recovering from a gunshot wound, I am continuing with life as I pray. I feel like going over the coronavirus news.

Here’s a nice development: a lot of people are settling on the term “covid” to describe the disease. I like it. “Coronavirus” isn’t a disease. It’s a general term describing a type of virus. There are coronaviruses that cause other illnesses. “COVID-19” is a pain to type. It has five capitals followed by a hyphen and a number. Tiresome. I’ve been calling it “C19,” which is about like “C-19,” a term that has appeared elsewhere on the web. I think “covid” will do very well, and it’s probably what people will call the disease next year.

It appears that the authorities are finally allowing themselves to believe covid was here earlier than originally thought. It’s surprising that they resist. The disease started in Hubei Province (which I have mistakenly called “Wuhan Province” many times), and while it was spreading there, among millions of people, many individuals from the area flew to the US. It would have taken a series of miracles to prevent covid from infecting people here last fall.

A lady named Patricia Dowd died on February 6. The official conclusion is that she was infected in early January, but the nature of her physical problems suggests that it was earlier than that. Her family says she was ill in early January, meaning she was probably infected in December.

An article about Dowd, who worked in an area with ties to Wuhan, suggests covid could well have been here in November.

It seems undeniable that covid was here much earlier than we have been told. Why, then, didn’t we see a major epidemic during the winter?

It certainly looks like covid spreads much more slowly than the flu. People say the opposite, but the numbers are what they are: 650,000,000 cases of flu, most of which occurred during a short period in the case of a widespread vaccination campaign, compared to 1/200 as many covid cases since last year. How can you reconcile those figures without admitting that covid is less contagious? The best explanation would be that it hit a great number of people, but it’s generally too mild to be noticed.

The Chinese did everything wrong, and they didn’t have a flu-sized epidemic.

Or maybe they did, and it wasn’t noticed because the illness isn’t that bad. Maybe we have had a big epidemic, too.

It’s confusing. If we had a big epidemic, where are the pre-March deaths? Why did deaths ramp up in March? Were these people who got sick much earlier? Were many of them really flu victims?

I am told that reporting deaths as covid-related brings big money into hospitals. Are care providers above fudging their data? Of course not. People are people, and hospitals are always hungry for money. Also, and perhaps this is most important, biased people do dishonest things without realizing it.

Doctors screw up very, very often, and they lie a great deal. Don’t bother contradicting me. I have a sister who is an opioid addict. People like her don’t have to go to illegal pushers. They walk into doctors’ offices and say something hurts, and they get what they want. They just have to know the right doctors, and drug addicts tell each other which doctors are easiest. They network. I’ve seen it personally.

Right now, doctors in America are prescribing marijuana, in a smokable form that damages lungs and gives off secondhand smoke, for people who show up and say they’re nervous or have headaches. They know they’re enabling addicts and abusers. They know what they do is dishonest.

If you want proof that drug users network and keep track of crooked doctors, just watch Drugstore Cowboy, a movie about a group of users who travel around in search of drugs. It was based on the actual experiences of a drug user. The phenomenon is nothing new. Many decades ago, celebrated addict William Burroughs wrote of compliant doctors, whom he referred to as “croakers.” Burroughs, an exceedingly evil and depraved individual, actually appeared in the film.

In addition to dishonesty motivated by financial concerns, doctors are also susceptible to political bias, and they overwhelmingly lean left. There is a longstanding leftist campaign to hype the epidemic in order to hurt Donald Trump. It’s a bad idea, because it appears to be driving people to him, but the campaign unquestionably exists. No honest person could deny it.

It seems like the conclusion best supported by the facts is that covid deaths are grossly overreported, and it may also be that they were underreported early in the year. If you put these things together, and you add increased testing in March, you end up with a graph that humps up suddenly during that month, and that’s what we got.

All I can do is guess. You have to take the known facts and make the theory fit them. You can’t make up your own reality to fit your theory. Unless you’re WHO or the CDC.

In my county, there were 193 known cases as of last night. Oddly, a bunch of local artists took the time to create sidewalk art nearly deifying medical workers. That’s delusional, given the extremely low risk these people face, not to mention the special benefits they and their families enjoy. They still have high-paying jobs, they got things like masks, alcohol, and hand sanitizer when the rest of us were barred, and very few of them have even seen a known covid case. This isn’t New York.

Weird. It seems consistent with the delusion that has overtaken the country as a whole.

Medical workers here have it great. They are extremely privileged. Still “heroes,” however.

I am now eligible for testing, and I’m thinking of doing it. They’re testing anyone who shows up. I would love to know whether the mystery disease I had in late January was covid. I don’t have a lot of faith in the tests, though, and as I have said before, if there is one good way to get covid in this county, it’s by going to a hospital unnecessarily.

Imagine getting tested, feeling great about a positive result and the attendant immunity, and then getting covid for real.

It is simply amazing how wrong and useless our medical and political establishments have been. Is this just my impression? On the one hand, Satan is definitely using this disease to train us to obey the Beast and worship our keepers, but on the other, look how incompetent they are.

Reuters says covid is helping Trump. It says people don’t think Biden will handle covid and the economy as well. I think Biden is hindered by two other facts: he is holed up in his mansion like the Omega Man, and he’s sinking into dementia.

No matter how you slice it, hiding in a bunker is not the way to make people believe in you. Trump’s approach is completely different. He still won’t wear a mask. He projects confidence and power. He’s on television all the time, taking punches and giving back better than he gets. Biden is only seen as a lonely, distant face, in basement-based TV interviews and depressing Youtubes no one watches, denying he’s a rapist.

Why are people saying “assault” instead of “rape”? What he’s accused of is rape. The fact that he is accused of using his hand doesn’t matter.

His Youtube channel is so unpopular, it comes up 8th in a Youtube search for “Biden.”

His latest video, uploaded yesterday, has 10,000 views. At the top of the Youtube “Biden” search list, there is a video from The Today Show. The title: “Michigan Governor Talks Reopening, Joe Biden Sexual Assault Allegations.” You have to see that headline before you can scroll down to Biden’s video. The video about Whitmer and rape has 44,000 views. You also have to pass this headline from The Hill: “Krystal and Saagar: Obama team SOUNDS ALARM on Biden’s failing basement campaign.”

“Basement campaign.”

That one has 419,000 views, and it was released within 24 hours of Biden’s video. The people in the video are liberals who think Biden can’t win.

I subscribe to a lot of Youtube channels. One of them put up a video today. It’s not as old as Biden’s video. The title? It’s “1000cc Trophy Kart Build Pt. 3 | Mounting the Rear Axle.” It has 1.5 times as many views as Biden’s video.

Go-karts. No kidding.

I don’t even remember why I subscribed to that channel.

A channel called SeekingWisdom Ministries [sic] has a video newer than Biden’s. “Final Countdown! True Disciples Rising!” This…I am not making this up…is a kid who makes Christian videos in his bedroom. It’s literally like Wayne’s World for Christians. I’m not knocking him. I subscribed. But what I say is true. He has 11,000 views. Biden is eating his dust.

Take a look.

Here’s something interesting I learned from a professional Youtuber. Subscribers mean absolutely nothing. You can have 10 million subscribers and still have an unsuccessful channel. Views are everything. Even if subscribers mattered, this kid still beats Biden handily. He has over 62,000 subscribers. Biden has 49,000.

Am I crazy, or is this news? It seems like a big deal to me.

Biden’s comments are turned off.

If you don’t know what that means, I’ll tell you. Turning off comments is something Youtubers do when they’re in big trouble. If comments are good for your channel, you leave them on.

Case in point: a few weeks back, a very angry young man with a gun channel attacked Paul Harrell, who is one of Youtube’s top gun gurus. This young man was on a firearms reality show, and he has won some prizes shooting revolvers. Harrell has won more prizes than he can carry, and he has great credentials unrelated to competition. The young man disagreed with Harrell’s ideas about defensive revolver shooting, which is something professional speed shooters don’t necessarily know anything about. In his attack, he said a lot of things that were very clearly wrong, and he did it in a very nasty way, calling Harrell at least one profane name.

Harrell put up a calm rebuttal video which was the equivalent of nuking the other guy from orbit. Harrell has 10 times as many subscribers, and a whole bunch of them went to the other channel to post vicious, yet often accurate, comments. Suddenly, the comments disappeared, as did the little graphics showing how many people liked and disliked the video.

It was, and still is, a sorry spectacle. Anyway, it helps to show why a channel would disable comments. It’s not a sign of confidence.

In that respect, it’s like hiding in your basement when you should be making campaign speeches.

Can’t he leave? Isn’t campaigning an essential business?

The White House has a channel which, effectively, belongs to Donald Trump. Comments are enabled. Donald Trump has a personal channel. Comments are enabled.

It looks like these two channels get relatively little traffic for famous channels, but they feature pretty boring content. Footage of rallies and so on. Trump’s channel gets considerably more traffic than Biden’s, however.

Biden should bail out and get treatment. Maybe doctors can do something for him. In a world that made sense, I would expect him to be removed from consideration, but this is not that world. Maybe he’ll make it to election day. What a mess that would be.

The election is 6 months off. Biden will probably be considerably and obviously worse than he is now. His dementia is not one of the slow kinds.

Maybe the DNC can’t get rid of him. After all, he is protected by the Constitution and the election laws. I suppose they don’t have the power to force someone to step down. If they did, they would have done it to Bernie instead of killing his campaign through sabotage.

So we have a demented, arrogant, extremely driven candidate who is the only person who can end his own campaign. That’s really something.

He backed down in 2016 because of pressure from Democrat bigwigs. Maybe he won’t do it twice. I think he lives in a Biden-centric universe, and he will probably insist on having his turn.

Obama came out and backed him. That would be hard to retract.

Interesting.

If he were elected, he would be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the presidency, except he would have a lot more power, and he would be much harder to control. How would we address the problem? Many dementia patients become combative and paranoid, and Biden is already showing signs of both problems. They also exhibit profound denial. He might have to be forced from office.

It’s an engrossing puzzle, but the bottom line is that whatever America’s problems are, we need to repent and pray. Our disease and leadership problems are the result of sin, period. If we want things to get better, we have to go out the same way we came in: via the supernatural route.