Candace Owens. “George Floyd is Not my Martyr. He May be Yours”

“What I'm saying is not any defense for Derek Chauvin, I hope Derek Chauvin gets the justice that he deserves” and his family also for the way that he died. But, “George Floyd is not my martyr. He may be yours.” So said Candace Owens a black defender of liberty in a recent YouTube video.

As noted by honest observers, Bid Tech has turned radically left blocking and removing anything outside the Democrat Party narrative. As private corporations they have a legal right to do this but as a monopoly of information in the public square they do not. Before YouTube censors this Candace Owen’s video, from which the following originates, (as they have some of her others), LibertyUnderFire defends Candace Owen’s right to the public square.

Owens continues, “But I also am not going to accept the narrative that this is the best the black community has to offer. For whatever reason, it has become fashionable and despicable, for us, the last few years, to turn criminals into hero’s overnight.” And “I'm not going to play a part in it no matter how much pressure comes from black liberals and black conservatives.”

Officer Derek Chauvin is portrayed by the media “as the devil that he is” and is not uplifted or defended by white Americans “but George Floyd is being uplifted as an amazing human being,” which he is not. At the time of his arrest he was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine, according to both autopsy reports. The 911 police call transcript calling for help “described somebody who was out of their mind high,” and that they were fearful of his behavior both during his attempt to use “a fake bill to purchase something” and thereafter until police arrived.

A clip of him placed in handcuffs and against the wall showed a white baggie falling from his body. “The media is refusing to circulate it,” Owens said. “You can find it on Twitter if you use DuckDuckGo and look up, George Floyd baggie. You can watch the clip yourself with your own eyes. He had drugs on him at the time of his arrest.”

So what else has the media not shared about Mr Floyd. Apparently he has been a convicted felon for some time—at least five times, beginning in 1998 with “theft with a firearm.” For that he served 10 months. And again, eight months in 2004, “for a cocaine offense.” And again for cocaine another ten months in 2005. Another ten months for cocaine in 2007.

But the event that convinced Candace Owens most that Floyd was not a good person, most certainly not the outstanding citizen to have T-shirts made and distributed in his name as a pillar of society representing the black community, was when he and five others forced entry into a black pregnant woman’s home to rob her. “George Floyd took out a gun and pressed it to her stomach. She was screaming, begging for her life and he put her inside of her living room and instructed one of his criminal friends that was with him to watch her, and to make sure she didn't leave the living room…while they ransacked your [her] home looking for drugs and money.” Finding neither, they ended up taking her wallet and cell phone. A neighbor, viewing some of the above, called in the license plate of the vehicle driven by Floyd and he served a five year sentence, his sixth, being released in 2014.

Owen’s was quick to note that even with a record you may deserve another chance. People make mistakes. “But I do draw the line when it comes to second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth chances.” But Floyd was still breaking laws dealing with counterfeiting, using fentanyl and methamphetamine when arrested in May 25, 2020.

None of this justifies a police officer placing his knee on the prostrated victim’s neck causing his death. Nothing!!

Still “he was an example of a violent criminal his entire life. This does not mean that he deserves to die at the hands of police but,” Candace explains, “it does mean that I am not going to play a part of the broken black culture that always wants to martyr criminals. Who wants to pretend they were these upstanding human beings.”

Owens was noticeably disturbed with Americas rush to judgement. Few were willing to wait for other information before taking to the streets to burn, loot and riot each other. “I did just basic searches,” she said, implying that anyone could know the same by doing a little homework.

George Floyd is a martyr for a fake narrative. “Racially motivated police brutality is a myth.” She cites 2018 figures showing that violent white criminals have a 25% higher chance of dying from police than black violent criminals. Moreover, that nine unarmed blacks verses 19 unarmed whites were killed in 2018. “Unfortunately, the black community…commit a disproportionate amount of crimes compared to the white community…black men, 6%, of the population, count for 44% of all murders in this country according to 2018 statistics.” Respecting the myth that cops hunt blacks disproportionately because they are black, she added, that this is, “complete smoke and mirrors! It's all made up! It's just election fodder! It's white versus black, because it's an election year.”

Not only are we allowing this myth “to inspire riots, riots in which black people are dying, in which actual upstanding black citizens are dying.” She references, 77 year-old David Dorn, a black retired police officer just defending a black friend’s pawn shop, openly murdered by a black assailant.

With respect to black on black crime which is the major problem in black communities, never addressed by Democrat media or politicians. “We blame white people. Right!! We only point a camera to white people when they do something, even though we do it at a higher rate to ourselves, right!!.” She might have added, “And it works so well for keeping my people enslaved to the Democrat Party.”

So “if you want to hang up posters of criminals on your wall and talk about them as your martyrs, do it, do it, you can do it!” But “you're not going to catch me outside, trying to grab a TV pretending it's because a martyr named George Floyd got killed.”

 

 

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Dr. Harold W. Pease

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Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

What the Coronavirus did to the National Debt, Your Bill Exceeds $37,726

By Harold Pease Ph.D.

In March Congress added $2.3 trillion to the national debt with the stimulus package. Most were jubilant to receive a stimulus check. But what does this mean? Just to pay this back today would cost each taxpayer $18,863 (compare U.S. Debt Clocks Nov. 2019 with April 2020).

In May the Treasury Department announced that it will borrow another $3 trillion this quarter making our total coronavirus indebtedness $5.3 trillion and thus what we owed for the smaller loan more than doubles (Matt Egan, The US is becoming the king of debt. It's a necessary risk, CNN Business). To pay both loans in August would be more than $37,726 per U.S. taxpayer.

Those who pay no federal taxes, which is about 50% of American adults, are not assessed. “The latest spending packages are estimated to be worth about 14% of the country's economy…the national debt soared above 100% of GDP” (“Coronavirus: US to borrow record $3tn as spending soars,” BBC News, May 4, 2020).

So what is a trillion dollars? To begin with a trillion is the number one followed by twelve zeros. A trillion dollars is a thousand billion and a billion is a thousand million. These numbers mean very little to the average person. who count their money in tens, twenties and hundreds .

One mathematician gave us a very practical way of evaluating our outstanding debt. One trillion one-dollar bills stacked atop each other (not end to end but flat) would reach nearly 68,000 miles into space—a third of the way to the moon (See CNN News Cast, Feb. 4, 2009). If so, the debt thus far incurred by the coronavirus alone, $5.3 trillion, would reach to the moon and two-thirds back to earth.

Senator Mitch McConnell gave another illustration just as awe striking. He calculated that if we spent a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, we still would not have spent a trillion dollars—only three-fourths of a trillion dollars (Ibid).

Who will pay these two coronavirus loans? Since we never liquidate our debt—only increase and pass it on to posterity—our grandchildren yet unborn, will be saddled with this debt plus the interest on it. How can I prophesy with such certainty? The United States has not been free of debt since Warren G. Harding 98 years ago (US Debt by President by Dollar and Percentage Who Increased the U.S. Debt the Most? Depends on How You Measure It. By Kimberly Amadeo Updated November 04, 2019)?

Yes the coronavirus is a massive rogue wave that has sunk many businesses in its path but following closely behind it is a tsunami almost six times its size—the national debt—that is and will bring down this country because our children cannot pay it either. Our national debt has soared to $25.5 trillion, and with the newly announce $3 trillion loan to $28.5 trillion. Our debt in one dollar bills laid flat atop each other will now go to the moon and back almost five times.

I ask students, “Who gets to go without so that this debt can be paid?” “Go without!!!?” That is a concept foreign to this generation!! They do not know, and neither do their parents and grandparents who laid it on their backs. When they are told that their share to liquidate this debt is not just $37,726 for a coronavirus, but $205,440 per taxpayer—due immediately, they get angry (see USDebtClock.org). Someone should have told them that government handouts are not free.

The 13th Amendment ending slavery has been rescinded, they are America’s new slaves. Bondage was given them before their birth, or while they were in the womb, or before they were old enough to know what it meant to be sold into slavery. The past generation wanted nice costly programs for free and were willing to sell their children to have them. Worse, the older generation is still anxious to incur even more debt on our defenseless children and grandchildren. Are we not the most debt addicted, insensitive generation in U.S. History?

Yes these are hard times and in such adding to a national debt is said to be justified. What isn’t justified is that in prosperous times, of which most of the last 70 years have been, we should, and could have, liquidated that debt. Then a $5.3 trillion debt to handle a virus could have been repaid in the next prosperous time or perhaps by the children, but not now. We have squandered our wealth in foreign endless wars, foreign aid and domestic welfare.

I had hoped with the robust Trump economy (the best in several decades) that we could get to paying back the debt. I previously published that we could survive and turn things around if we did three things: made significant cuts in our top 6 major expenditures, did not elect a big spending congress, and did not incur a big funding event. Unfortunately we made no major cuts in spending, maintained a big spending congress, and did incur a big funding event—the coronavirus.

Trump remains our only hope for rebuilding the economy because he already did it once, but chances of removing even the coronavirus portion of the national debt enslaving us is slim.

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Coronavirus Big Tech Censorship Could Spell End of Liberty

Is it possible Americans are watching the death of free speech and therefore liberty? The defiance of the 1st and 4th Amendments of the Bill of Rights from March-May by Democrat governors and mayors has been beyond mind boggling and demonstrates that the Constitution, at least in these states, is on a ventilator.

But the growing collusion between Big Tech and government has been even more threatening as the former seems hell-bent on political censorship in favor of the left. At a time when the world is threatened by an unknown virus dissenting speech from physicians who work with the virus would be most valued, but it was stifled.

The examples of big tech censorship are many, we identify only two. Dr Knuit M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, argued that massive lockdowns, mass quarantines, were a mistake, “We will see more cases among the elderly, because we have prevented the schoolchildren from creating herd immunity.” A dissenting view that conflicted with that of the government. “Google decided that disagreeing with the government is forbidden” (Tucker Carlson Tonight, May 19, 2020).

In mid April two Bakersfield, California physicians, Dan Erickson and Arten Massihi reported similarly, “Our immune system is used to touching. We share bacteria, staphylococcus, streptococcal bacteria, viruses. We develop an immune response, dealing to this stuff…. When you take that away from me,” Erickson continues, “My immune system drops as I shelter in place…. You keep me there for months, it drops more. Sheltering in place decreases your immune system and then as we all come out of shelter in place with a lower immune system, and start trading viruses, bacteria, what do you think's going to happen? Disease is going to spike” (https://youtu.be/xfLVxx_lBLU). YouTube, decided to back lockdown state governors and removed both videos because they conflicted with the government’s position.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, in an interview with CNN, admitted that, “Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations, would be a violation of our policy.” It would be classed as unsubstantiated or harmful misinformation and therefore removed (Tim Hinchliffe, “Big tech COVID-19 surveillance data & censorship threaten privacy & free speech: op-ed,” The Sociable, April 22, 2020).

In effect Big Tech has created an unholy alliance with Big Government and Big International agencies against the people to control the parameters of acceptable opinion and speech world wide. Harmeet Dillon, civil rights attorney, acknowledged that these companies, although private, have exceeded the rights of being just private. “But where the government is actually instructing and conspiring, which is happening with some of these states, contacting and working with Google, Facebook, Twitter and others to say take down the misinformation. That is the government using these tech companies as their tools and all of a sudden, it's a whole different scenario in terms of legal liability, as well as in terms of the terrible impact on America.” (Tucker Carlson Tonight, May 19, 2020).

Facebook, defining political speech it disagreed with as hate speech, in 2018 banned Infowars’ Alex Jones from his Internet audience of millions. More recently, using the virus as an excuse, it began removing what it called misinformation speech, basically blocking anything out of harmony with the WHO. Now it is removing “event posts for anti-lockdown protests in various US states, in tandem with state officials”—specifically in California, New Jersey and Nebraska. “Facebook ‘reached out to state officials to understand the scope of their orders’ and resolved to ‘remove the posts when gatherings do not follow the health parameters established by the government and are therefore unlawful’, such as when protests intend to flout social-distancing rules.” They have made themselves “arbiters of truth” (Tom Slater, “We need to stop the spread of Big Tech censorship,” Spiked, May 8, 2020).

Facebook and YouTube both “monopolize huge arenas of public discussion. Writers and thinkers unable to promote their work on Facebook, or video makers unable to upload their work to YouTube, are effectively denied access to a significant portion of what now constitutes the public square. At a time when billions of people are under house arrest, and the literal public square is largely off-limits, this is an even more sinister development. As is the fact that governments and powerful organizations seem to be working hand in glove with tech firms to enforce conformity” (Ibid.).

Emboldened by their new power they will only accelerate it. “Facebook has stressed that state governments did not ask them to remove specific posts. But what seems to have happened is almost worse. Facebook moderators appear to be banning events posts on the basis of what they reckon the laws of a particular state constitute” (Ibid.).

How serious is this? Social platforms were already important theaters for democratic participation and deliberation; now they’re the only game in town (Sam Adler-Bell, “Facebook Is Removing Protest Pages. That’s a Terrible Precedent,” Harvard Law Today, April 24, 2020).

Tucker Carlson assessed the damage to liberty, “The right to have your own opinions, to think for yourself, to disagree with your elected leaders, politicians, was the most basic right that every American enjoyed for 240 years, it was the signature right of this country.” He warned, “They’re going to try and censor Fox News next, you watch” (Tonight, May 19, 2020).

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Author

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Is This About the Election or the Virus?

So many things are hitting us fast, hard and from all directions. It is increasingly difficult to sift through the messages to find truth as everything—even a virus—has been weaponized. So honest people have to ask, “Is this about the election or the virus?” Who benefits most?

I was a boy when the Asian Flu Pandemic, originating in Singapore, attacked America leaving 116,000 dead in 1957. I was in college when more than 100,000 people in the U.S. died of the highly contagious Hong Kong Flu in the 1968 Pandemic (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). I contracted both. Both exceeded the death rate of COVID-19.

No one spoke of shutting down the economy, businesses, schools and churches. The media did not frighten us with nightly death tallies and Congress did not rush forward with grants and loans valued at 4 trillion dollars to help ease difficult times. People were not quarantined to their homes for weeks—even months. No-one wore face masks or social distanced six feet from others. No one was arrested for going to work or being on public beaches. No governors openly violated the 1st and 4th Amendments of the Constitution. We did not stop shaking hands or attending public dances. NOBODY WAS PARANOID OF NORMAL CONTACT.

Nor did we do any of these things just two years ago when 61,000 people died of influenza in the 2017-18 flu season or last year when 34,000 died of the same. It was life. The media in modern history had never focused on the body count of flu that takes thousands each year—until now. Nobody thought to benefit politically.

Until now no country self destructed their economy over a pandemic. They came and went and the economies thereafter remained good because we let them alone. Even the Twenties were prosperous times following the Spanish Flu of 1918 that took approximately 675,000 in the United States of a much smaller population. As bad as that was, at least six times worse in death, we did not shut down the economy by governmental decree, make it unlawful to go to work and church, or violate the Bill of Rights.

So why now? Because we have been made to be afraid and stay afraid.

Death in America with the present Wuhan Coronavirus is, as of May 20, 2020, at 90,340. “Now we know that it’s likely to be closer to maybe a really aggressive flu season” (Ingram Angle, April 23, 2020). This is the number who died WITH COVID-19. The number who died FROM COVID 19 is at least 25% less—probably far less.

What we know now of the Wuhan Coronavirus is that children are only minimally affected and unlikely to pass it on and that it overwhelmingly takes those over 65 with preexisting conditions. The Journal of American Medical Association, April 22, 2020, concluded that 94% of coronavirus patients in New York City hospitals suffered from preexisting conditions.

The odds of you dying from this virus from those contracting it “can vary from, at most, eight-tenths of a percent in New York City to two-one-hundredths of a percent in Phoenix.” (“An Advantaged Disease, Indeed.” By William J. Bennett & Seth Leibsohn, April 06, 2020).

What we know now is that states like South Dakota and Georgia, without lockdowns damaged their economies least. States like Florida and Texas that protected the aged had minimal death rates next to states like New York City and New Jersey.

So again, is this about the election or the virus? In the questions below which political party benefits most from making a “somewhat normal” pandemic into the most fearful event in a century so close to an election?

How do you kill the greatest economy, the greatest unemployment records, and Trump’s gigantic rallies attended by 20% Democrats, just prior to the election? Why are blue state governors so slow to open their economies before November 3, if possible? Which party is most advantaged by an economy unable to get back to normal?

How would fear of human contact and normalcy cause the people to want mail-in voting, which is said to advantage one political party—especially in swing states?

Which is advantaged by keeping the people in fear? Why is the CDC so adamant about counting deaths WITH COVID-19 rather than only deaths FROM COVID-19? Why did Democrat governors send COVID patients to nursing homes in Washington, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey especially when, in the latter two the hospital ship Comfort was available but mostly unused? Was it to inflate the death numbers? Why is the proven and vastly effective drug hydroxychloroquine opposed by Democrat media outlets and governors?

How more easily could the Democrat media shift the narrative from the alleged Biden-Burisma-Ukraine and China Scandals and divert investigations on FBI and DOJ and alleged FISA corruption to COVID-19? Finally, how better could the media shelter Biden from past corruption, obvious cognitive problems, and coming devastating debate performance?

So, is this about the election or the virus? Given the fact that Trump has been the target of constant Coup d’etat attempts to remove him by the same media who hyped the fear on this virus, I think it fair to pose this question.

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Author

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Avalanche of Indictments Coming. Q Says, “Enjoy the Show!”

There was no Trump collusion or obstruction of justice. The real Russian collusion story is, and will, take center stage the remainder of the year. Investigative reporter Sara Carter told Fox News, “Avalanche of indictments are coming. People are already turning on each other. Throwing colleagues under the bus in order to save themselves.” These coming indictments are on those who fabricated the Russian Collusion Hoax—the coup to overthrow an elected president.

As much as Robert Mueller wanted collusion and obstruction of justice to be so, so that he could assist in the removal of his hated president, he had to admit in his report that neither existed. In fact, those still purporting what has now been shown to be a hoax cannot even identify an actual crime committed by candidate or President Trump, so deceived were they by the now discredited New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS—the primary globalist news mediums. Democrats have to accept the fact that these mediums deceived them twice in three years; first with the deception that Clinton could not lose the election of 2016 and second with the Trump Russian conspiracy.

But none of this information is new to Q Anon followers who were told 18 months ago, October 2017, that Mueller knew then that he had nothing. So why was his report delayed? Q posts before the midterms made it clear that the Mueller Report would be delayed by Trump enemies until after the 2018 elections so as: to allow Democrats to retake the House, end numerous House Intelligence Committee investigations into Obama Administration FBI and DOJ efforts to deliver Hillary the presidency, and allow plenty of time to manufacture evidence to impeach Trump. All went just as Q said.

Delaying the report would make it difficult for Trump to unmask and release documents that incriminated them. It would also safeguard their base and provide fake news to keep the country divided and “riot ready” should they be exposed. The Mueller Repost was a great diversion from their coup to change an election and remove a seated president. It would also put on notice foreign governments that the “OLD GUARD,” the globalists, “still pull strings” as Q put it. The globalists won this round.

The delay of the Mueller Report findings allowed Trump enemies to feel safe, confident they could avoid detection, and in control which accentuated the possibility of their making more mistakes enabling authorities to gather evidence needed to expose the Deep State more fully. Again, this is total war and if readers do not know this they will be duped.

For those yet unfamiliar with Q posts The Washington Post, a critic, fairly accurately described the movement August 1, 2018. Q is “an anonymous user claiming to be a government agent with top security clearance, waging war against the so-called deep state in service to the 45th president. ‘Q’ feeds disciples, or ‘bakers,’ scraps of intelligence, or ‘bread crumbs,’ that they scramble to bake into an understanding of the ‘storm’ — the community’s term…— for the president’s final conquest over elites, globalists and deep-state saboteurs.” Q Anons are those attempting to decode the vague messages found on the 4chan and 8chan message boards.

Q posts are designed to provide hints or thought suggestions that lead discussions. These may include lesser known published articles or news clips that come close to the “truth.” Followers come to their own conclusions. Q is fast gaining followers because it allows those who know there exists a real war between freedom and globalist advocates (the establishment) to have hope that we can possibly overcome the grip the globalists have on the U.S. and the world society. It effectively allows the masses inclusion in what is happening to them.

Last October we introduced Q to our readers in an article, “A Ray of Hope in the present civil war on information” this followed last December in “‘Q’s Big Drop Landed, indictments to follow.” We reported that most of the corrupt members of the DOJ and FBI had by then been fired. Some of these people will now face indictments. Those who follow Q get information sometimes months before it is common to news sources. Those who include Q Anons as a news source, such as Lori Colley and Prayingmedic, find Q predictions reliable but his timing sometimes months late as in the release, for merely political purposes, of the Mueller Report.

So what does Q tell us is coming now? Q posted in early April that Rod Rosenstein will be gone soon [such was announced publicly April 29, to be May 11], that “attempts to prevent public release of the TRUTH” will continue, that OIG will release its findings, and that House intel will launch “more fake investigations in attempt to retain FALSE NARRATIVE and claim POLITICAL ATTACKS if investigated/prosecuted themselves.”

What will happen thereafter? The Mueller blockade/shield will fade followed by more “Declas[sification], Uranium One prosecution, treason/sedition prosecutions.” Remember this is total war and justice obstructionists can delay an outcome but Q tells us that coup exposure can no longer be stopped. Now that the Mueller blockade has been removed “DECLAS-DECLAS-DECLAS,” which Trump promises to do, will reveal all. Indictments and prosecutions will follow, some very big.

[I published this column last May 3, 2019. Q readers knew then, one year ago, what is now new news to America in mid May 2020. This validates Q posts. And, as Q NOW says, “Enjoy the Show!”]

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Author

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

No Scientific Evidence that Mass Lockdowns Work

Two Bakersfield California physicians, Dan Erickson and Arten Massihi, recently reported, “We've seen 1227 deaths in the state of California. That means you have a 0.03 chance of dying from COVID-19 in the state of California,” and for the state of New York,” the highest in the land, “19,410 out of 19 million people, which is a 0.1% chance of dying from COVID….” This is, of course, of those infected. But this remains less than the seasonal flu of 2017-18 when “about 62,000 deaths, or 0.13 chance of death from flu in the United States. So the lethality of COVID-19 is much less”—even in New York City. The seasonal flu even had a vaccine to limit contagion, COVID-19 did not.

The doctors explained how the immune system works and how it naturally adapts to the environment. “When you're a little child crawling on the ground, putting stuff in your mouth, viruses and bacteria come in, you form an antigen antibody complex, you form IgG, IgM, this is how your immune system is built.” Dr. Dan Erickson continued, “When you take human beings and you say go into your house, clean all your counters, wipe all of them down, you’re going to kill 99% of viruses and bacteria. Wear a mask, don't go outside. What does that do to our immune system? Our immune system is used to touching. We share bacteria, staphylococcus, streptococcal bacteria, viruses, we develop an immune response, dealing to this stuff.”

So why is sheltering in place not always good? “When you take that away from me,” Erickson continues, “My immune system drops as I shelter in place…. You keep me there for months, it drops more. Sheltering in place decreases your immune system and then as we all come out of shelter in place with a lower immune system, and start trading viruses, bacteria, what do you think's going to happen. Disease is going to spike. And then you've got disease spike amongst the hospital system.…” His answer, we “should lift this ban because the data is showing us it’s time to lift” (Physician video at https://youtu.be/xfLVxx_lBLU).

YouTube just removed the physician’s video with the message [This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines]. This is not the view that the Democratic news outlets are likely to allow their people to see. YouTube only censors political content they consider to be on the right side of the political spectrum. However a five minute portion of the physician’s video can be found at https://www.banned.video/watch?id=5ea5cbfb028f5600167acf89. under the title “We Are Being Set Up For The Biggest October Surprise In American History” but it too may vanish soon by YouTube censors.

Nor will we know from the doctors that the epidemic is descending at a very rapid pace. The doctors reported, “The hospitals their ICU’s are empty, essentially, and they're shutting down floors, they're furloughing patients, they're furloughing doctors because we just don't have the volume. We are busy with paperwork for COVID.” They spoke of the pressure upon them to list COVID as the cause of death when other factors could have been the cause. None of this fits the panic narrative the censors wish us to continue.

Recent studies on both coasts confirm that even under the most restrictive measures possible in New York and California, the virus slipped through. In Los Angeles where Mayor Eric Garcetti bragged about controlling 99.9% of the population through drones, licenses plate readings and cellphones and that he would “hunt down that last 1 %,” presumably for punishment, it got through.

“A new study by researcher’s at the University of SouthernCalifornia, tested large groups of people in Los Angeles County for coronavirus antibodies. They found that as of early April, up to 5.6 % of the entire county had contracted the illness. That means up to 320,000 adults in Los Angeles apparently had already had it. At the time the official number of infected people was about 8,000…. The virus had spread throughout a huge population right in the middle of the most restricted quarantine in American History” (Tucker Carlson Tonight, April 23, 2020). The lockdown did not and could not stop it.

Nor had herculean closedown measures slowed the virus in hardest hit New York. It came right through. Governor Andrew Cuomo cited a study showing antibodies to be 13.9 % of New Yorkers. He said, “That means 2.7 million people [were] infected statewide. That means with approx. 15,500 total fatalities, the death is approx. O.5% of people infected.” Again, it came right through. The immune systems of most everyone handled it fine, pretty much as it does the common flu—only 81 out of a 100,000 died. By comparison Florida’s death per 100,000 was 4. And South Dakota’s death per 100,000 was only 1 person (The Ingram Angle April 23, 2020).

Coronavirus deaths are serious, of course, even more so if you, or someone you love, was one of the fatalities. But science has not shown that shutdowns, or stay in place measures, worked and no area forced lockdown measures more than New York City and Los Angeles. It may be the worst thing we did. We should lift the ban immediately lest we spike other worse diseases as the doctors warned.

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Dr. Harold W. Pease

Author

Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.