Playing catch-up – two submissions from Justin Smith.
The science behind wearing a mask to combat COVID has
changed so often; a forced mandate from a bureaucrats, local and State
governments must be withstood in civil disobedience and the Courts as unconstitutional.
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Reject the Mask Mandates -- Refuse to Comply
Americans: Fight for Your Liberty
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 7/22/2020
8:19 PM
"We are facing the
greatest assault on our civil liberties in our lifetimes. The virus is real,
but the government reaction is political and totalitarian. As it falls apart,
will more Americans start fighting for their liberty?" ~
Dr Ron Paul, former U.S. Congressman (Texas)
All across America, the people are being prevented from
living a normal quality life by the Governors of many states and the mayors of
counties and cities, who have looked to the Center for Disease Control, for
guidance in how they dictate acceptable behavior in society to the people,
regarding the re-opening of businesses and schools and just everyday life. Of
late, the most common diktat is compulsory mask wearing mandated in executive
orders and delivered by these ill-informed petty tyrants, through the
breathless media, thrilling over the prospects of an authoritarian utopian
socialist hell.
Many powerful people in the various corporations and
government offices have gained -- and are still gaining -- wealth and power
from this Covid-19 panic, while good and decent patriotic Americans everywhere
are asking what will it take to end this outrage, and that doesn't mean to
modify it with any "new normal" decided by who knows whom and what
connected authority. And since no one in authority is currently protecting and
defending Inalienable Rights and Individual Liberty during this push towards a
more authoritarian government ruling over society, a large percentage of
Americans are left wondering just who will.
Our history will record one of the most ignoble times we
have witnessed, as this massive COVID SCAM is based on a set of untruths and
baseless assertions -- often outright lies -- that are being used to maintain fear
through a virtual monopoly of communications to forestall challenges to the
U.S. ruling class, led by the Democratic Party. And it will note the manner in
which a failed opposition by the "majority" Republican Party
confirmed the GOP as the ruling class's junior partner, although no default has
been greater than that of America's Christian churches, supposedly the
guardians of truth. [Bold text Blog Editor Agreement]
[Blog Editor: Consider COVID concepts pooh-poohed by the
Left and Establishment:
o Can We Separate Science from Politics and Fear-Mongering?
By Jeffrey M. McCall; CNS
News; 5/29/20 12:05pm EDT
o The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda
ID2020”; By Peter Koenig;
Global Research; 6/6/20
Call it the plague of political agendas or the plague of
voodoo science. Either title fits, when observing the ignorant and asinine
orders, that emanate from the mania and psychotic neuroses or the Machiavellian
desire of power of the petty tyrants, who have found their way to elected
positions
However one sees it, when politics rule, science dies.
Even here in my home state of Tennessee, numerous mayors
have now mandated masks. Mayor Rogers Anderson of Williamson County attached a hefty fine and a possible 11 months 29 days prison term with
his mandate. And two days ago, on June 20th, the
Mayor of Rutherford County, my home county, Bill Ketron ordered masks to be worn in
an order that took effect today, July 22nd, and will end on August 3rd.
The Mayor of the City of Murfreesboro, TN., Shane McFarland recently told Jason
Reynolds (Murfreesboro Post): "The
majority of local health care officials ask the community to wear face
coverings when social distancing is not possible. It is important for us to do
all that we can to prevent the spread of the virus and avoid another shutdown.
So, please cover the nose and mouth whenever you cannot social distance."
I guess they want to be seen giving the appearance of doing
something.
Rutherford County Sheriff's Department is supposedly going
to take a position of trying to "educate" the people on the
importance of wearing masks.
And yet, if the data from the [JOS] Tennessee Department of Health can be believed, Rutherford
County has only had 43 die out of 4716 "confirmed
and probable cases". This is approximately 1.1 percent, and it doesn't
represent an emergency or a pandemic.
Let me educate all of the above who are participating in one
of the largest propaganda and misinformation campaigns in United States history,
because it appears they have not kept current on the science, or they are not
too bright, or they are actively manipulating the people for political purposes
that have little to do with any concern for my health or the health of anyone
else.
For all the smug self-assured politicians and healthcare
department "inspectors" who haven't cracked a book in the past
decade, if you say you are following the science, you are essentially
abrogating your own duties and obligations in favor of the technocrats' theories,
that aren't concerned with preserving anyone's liberty in the slightest. You
always call for the science of this Covid-19 event, that has Americans
everywhere making note of the regularly misleading and falsified data many of
You have relied upon or advanced as the truth. Well here is your very own
science.
The reference is "Nonpharmaceutical Measures for
Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings -- Personal Protective and
Environmental Measures' that was published in 'Emerging Infectious Diseases,
Volume 26, Number 5, May 2020. This journal is published by the Center for
Disease Control.
This is an [JOS] excerpt from the abstract:
"Here, we review the evidence base on the effectiveness of
nonpharmaceutical personal protective measures and environmental hygiene
measures in non-healthcare settings and discuss their potential in pandemic
plans. Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand
hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these
measures did not support a substantial effect on the effectiveness of improved
hygiene and environmental cleaning."
The following are excerpts from pages 970 through 972 of the
review:
"In our systematic review, we
identified 10 RCTs [randomized controlled trials] that reported estimates of
the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza
virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946 -- July
27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza
transmission with the use of face masks .... There is limited evidence for
their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn
by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to
reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face
masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. ... we did not find
evidence to support a protective effect of personal protective measures or
environmental measures in reducing influenza transmission ... [And] ... We did
not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing
laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected
persons [source control] or by persons in the general community to reduce their
susceptibility ...".
However, this is the same CDC that appears to be partners in
crime with Democrat and RINO led states, Big Pharma and the Leftstream Media
that cherry-picks data, omits real science, and positions mask-wearing as an
absolute necessary rule, in line with taking a mandated vaccine.
China's own example proves definitively that the COVID virus
is a whole lot less like the Plague, that it has been presented to the American
people to be, and not too unlike the ordinary influenza virus. All the chaos in
America surrounding this virus has been a direct result of the falsification of
this basic truth.
This same CDC toyed with reporting deaths by attributing
anything that looked similar to Covid, as a case of Covid, and so pneumonia,
influenza and Covid were all documented as PIC. This expanded the death figure
and caused it to exceed 100,000. However, if the same methods and criterion had
been used, as was used with the SARS virus, namely "severe acute
respiratory distress syndrome", by the end of June, the number would have
been a mere 16,000.
The "Best and Brightest" of our technocrats and
medical professionals, the bumbling fools such as Dr Anthony Fauci, head of the
NIH, and Dr Deborah Birx, predicted that two million Americans would die from
"the Virus". They were joined by the U.S. Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation that provided information justifying the lockdowns; this
is the same institution that predicted on May 3rd, Sweden would be suffering
2800 daily deaths by May 14th, and the actual 40 deaths proved them horribly
wrong, just like Fauci. Whether massive lies, reckless incompetence or willful
complicity with Socialists and globalists determined to bring America down,
just what justifies listening to -- or paying -- people who produce such flawed
and deceptive "science"?
In May, the CDC, a fairly well discredited institution by
now -- although the Leftist Media still aligns with it -- was forced to
conclude that the lethality rate wasn't their originally predicted five
percent, but rather, it was 0.26 percent, just double a typical flu. They were
only able to achieve such a high percentage by once again falsifying data and
factoring an unrealistically low figure for asymptomatic infections and
inflating the figures of death by Covid. But rather than amending its
recommendations in the face of reality, the U.S. federal government and many
state governments have attempted to hide reality by playing a shell game with
the definition and number of Covid "cases".
An infectious disease's true lethality is established in a
characteristically straightforward manner. One tests a large sample of the
population proportionately representative of location, age, sex, race and
socioeconomic categories, and a month later, follow up with the subjects, in
order to tally the rate of infections and learn the results. Period. America
today still lacks this definitive, direct knowledge of Covid's true lethality,
because bureaucrats have prevented widespread testing for the purpose of
establishing the one figure that matters most, and without the true figure,
they continue to get away with their despicable fearmongering.
Even the current rise in COVID-19 "cases" around
the country, including over 2000 active cases in Rutherford County (TN), is
misleading at best, and it is not a viable measure of a public health threat.
It is following the same path as the 2009 Swine Flu pandemic and runs parallel
to it in many regards.
Fear of a new illness, the Swine Flu -- led to a dramatic
spike in testing, making it seem like a significant threat existed, as many
tested positive. And yet, the death toll was fairly insignificant, once
compared to the positive tests. America is witnessing the same thing happening
with the Covid event; and the sudden availability of tests and the widespread
testing of asymptomatic people is now driving the numbers of Covid
"cases" skyward.
Anthony Fauci called masks "necessary" in July,
although he told 60 Minutes they did more harm than good in March, without the
slightest scientific proof for either assertions. But, in surreal fashion, we
hear L.A's Health Department specify that people should wash their hands after
placing a face mask on their face and refrain from touching their face, except
to don the face mask that contaminates their hands to begin with. Where's the
science, Folks? Fauci also advocated for governors to permit people to
congregate by the hundreds at places like Walmart and Krogers, but Heaven
Forbid they try to worship in their churches. This Disgrace to Science also
gave his imprimatur to sex among strangers but suggested Christians should not
take Communion, as it was too intimate. What level of partisan stupidity does
it require to believe any of this?
As noted by Dr. Ron
Paul, even some Republicans are now being influenced
and swayed by the mammoth amount of propaganda that inundates the media airways
today, as he recently wrote: "Faced with a
virus that has killed about one-third as many people as the normal, seasonal
flu virus in 2018, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has endorsed a partial shutdown
of the economy resulting in millions tossed into the despair of unemployment.
... he arbitrarily shut down bars because massively increased testing showed
more people have been exposed to the virus. And he mandated that people wear
face masks. Neither shutting down bars (instead of restaurants or Walmarts) nor
forcing people to wear masks will have any effect on the progression of the
virus through society. But at least he looks like he's doing 'something'."
No one can miss the manner in which those who would be King
have hyped the dangers of Covid-19 and integrated them into the agendas of
their constituency's manifold components to add force and momentum to the
longstanding demands of each. The activists of Black Lives Matter, Women's
Rights/ Feminism, Antifa and Global Warming have readily adopted and support
all manner of socioeconomic restrictions on the pretense of saving lives from
the Virus, as if it were their own cause. As the activists of Black Lives
Matter and Antifa burn down our cities, they also wear masks in solidarity for
their Red Brigade Communist Comrades, to show their commitment to the public's
health, while simultaneously screaming their support of the deviant LGBTQ
sexuality, abortion and ending the nuclear family. And it's all focused on
"the fundamental transformation of America" and ensuring President
Trump is unseated in November.
Going forward into the next decade, just as COVID-19 has
been weaponized and politicized by the Far Left and Democratic Party's
advocates of All That is Marx and Mao, as in abortion, global warming, open
borders and the censorship of anything they deem to be "hate speech",
every new virus, every sneeze and Gesundheit, every cough will be a new
justification to step up controls and force Americans to comply with some other
bit of tyranny. Their concern with the human condition has far less to do with
humane treatment or the human rights of anyone than with seizing ever more
power for themselves.
Today, it's "wear the mask or you can't buy
groceries". What will it be tomorrow? You can't buy food unless You give
up your firearms? You can't buy food unless you accept the mandated "Wonder
Vaccine"? You can't buy food unless you lick my boots? Maybe it
accelerates to "wear the mask or get on the train ... we have a nice camp
and hot showers waiting for you".
All America has been subjected to unbridled government
control through most of 2020, under the guise of a national emergency that has
been used to trample on our constitutional rights, by way of an onslaught of
executive orders that restricted every aspect of our personal lives, from work
to play to the education of our children and on to when and how we can worship.
They've dictated our medical treatment and forced us to follow
"guidelines" that are not evidenced based "for the greater
good". And although government plays a role in controlling the spread of
infectious diseases, every individual has the right to be responsible for their
own life and any perceived risks they may take; it is not the government's
place to supplant anyone's moral and intellectual capacity to make sound
decisions for themselves and their children, and it is dangerous to allow it to
ever take place, sacrificing one's personal right for the collective.
Mandatory medicine and mandated interventions, such as
social distancing and mask-wearing have no place in a free society. Every
American has the right to make responsible decisions for themselves and their
children based on their own unique medical needs and particular set of
circumstances.
Reject the mask mandates. Refuse to comply.
Never before in American history has there been so great a
need for all America's true patriots to stand up and defend their Inalienable
Rights.
By Justin O. Smith
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The Protest
This photo is courtesy
of
Audra Shelley Spence --- That's her, knelling and wearing the pink
shirt with the flag. Andy Olsen is the Big Guy wearing the dark blue shirt with
III 1776 on it to my left --- if You're looking at the pic, he's to the right
of the pic. That's Jay Hill to the far right in the light blue shirt. Mike
Johnson is to the left of me, looking at the pic. And that's Breanna King from
LaVergne, kneeling in the blue dress, who was highly displeased with the
answers she was receiving from Mayor Jason Cole of LaVergne. Sara in the Old
Navy shirt. Melissa in the red. Unfortunately, I can't recall the other two
ladies' names --- only that the lady wearing the striped shirt is a nurse, who
hit Ketron hard with some real science. And of course, that's me in the
"Born Ready" shirt, looking homely as all hell ..... HAhaHahaha.
By Justin O. Smith
Sent 7/23/2020 3:39 PM
I just returned from a meeting with Mayor Ketron that was
arranged by Andy Olsen, and it was also quite telling. Essentially, Ketron has
passed the buck to Gov. Bill Lee, explaining that the Gov had asked all the
state's mayors to support this mandate, in a meeting they held on Monday. So,
he's going along with this until August 3rd, in light of "the increase in
Covid cases" in Rutherford County. He also mentioned that he personally
had a good friend that was just placed on a ventilator.
I explained to him that the increase was only in
"positive results" from an increase in testing and not actual
confirmed cases of Covid. Further, I made note that masks are proven not to be
effective in stopping the infected from passing the virus or preventing the
uninfected from catching it.
Something else I addressed was the fact that he was
penalizing the greater majority of the population, since 99 percent of those
who catch the virus survive, noting that of some 4700 cases in Rutherford
County only 43 have died -- equal to 1.1 percent mortality rate from this
virus, with national figures actually even much lower at .05%, and as such, his
imprimatur on the masks has given added incentive for groceries to carry on
with their own private policy requiring masks.
Ketron initially responded that he mandated the mask because
so many people were ignoring his guidelines under "Rutherford Responsible", which
got an uproar from people in the group, such as Jay Hill. All of us were of the
same mind that we all, each and every single one of us have the moral and
intellectual capacity to decide what is right and proper for our own health
care and concerns. As one young lady noted, she doesn't wear a mask, but she
does respect other people's space and tries to "social distance" if
someone is nearby and wearing a mask, as she takes that as a sign, they have
greater concerns over the lethal nature of Covid than she does. The point
being, we just aren't going to wear the mask.
His answer was, "I won't be enforcing it. Officers will
only stop people to 'educate' them" to the dangers of the virus, which I
said was a violation of our civil rights too. If he isn't going to enforce the
mask mandate, then why even bother stopping anyone? It's all a great show and
it's like I wrote in the article. He must be seen as doing something.
He said his order came after groceries started this, to
which I told him that some groceries in Rutherford Co were not mandating masks,
like Jrs Foodland, until he issued his order. Along with all the other mayors'
illegitimate "orders", groceries now feel justified in following
suit.
Many in attendance also addressed the religious rights
aspect of this and the harmful effects that occur from catching the virus waste
inside a mask and constantly rebreathing it, along with the lowered levels of
oxygen. Several women with young children were in attendance and were actually
concerned over known damage to a human body from wearing masks over extended
period of times, and they didn't want their children wearing them.
Bill Ketron stated that children under 12 are not in the
order and do not have to wear a mask in school, as his own order countermands
the School Board's decision to require masks. So, we have competing government
entities mandating several different things.
As reported by WKRN: "The Rutherford
County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to require students to
wear masks in schools. The decision came after a nearly two-hour
discussion by school board members, who at first were divided
on the issue."
One woman, Melissa, thanked Bill Ketron for taking the time
to listen to everyone, and to his credit, he did stand there on the steps of
the Courthouse, in the heat, and actually gave everyone an opportunity to voice
their concerns and be heard. After I made mention of all the Left-wingers and
communists at MTSU who had probably burned his phone lines up, he gave a little
chuckle and said "yes .. last week this side got chewed (slapping his left
backside) and today this side is getting chewed (slapping his right backside).
At that point, Mrs. Audra Spence asked if he was aware that
many of the doctors and other proponents in the group advocating for the mask
mandate were leftist Democrats who had donated funds and raised money for the
Biden campaign.
In the end, he said he will be listening to all sides and
make a decision whether or not to extend the order past August 3rd, when that
day arrives, after someone in the crowd said that Governor Bill Lee was looking
at extending the mandate past that point.
One woman, Audra Shelley Spence, a business owner in
Shelbyville, drove to Murfreesboro to attend this, as did another young lady
from the Manchester area. It wasn't a large crowd, but it was a great crowd of
fine patriots who knew their minds and the issue at hand and made an
outstanding showing and a firm and strong stand for Liberty.
It's not over by a long shot, since Andy Olsen, the event
organizer, is filing a lawsuit to halt the mask mandate in Rutherford County.
All those who understand that this is about so much more than a fairly
survivable virus had better be standing up and being recognized, by throwing
all the support they can his way. This is about stopping an unconscionable,
reprehensible overreach of power by the state and county governments, that can
and will have severe detrimental repercussions and consequences in the future,
if left unanswered, as if it were "normal"
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
Text embraced brackets and
embedded links except where indicated by “JOS” are by the Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
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