America is moving closer to reopening. This welcome news comes with a dose of reality: we still need to be on our guard to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as much as possible. Churches across America will need to do a number of things as we transition to getting back to corporate worship. First, continue to meet the needs of our communities. Second, protect our vulnerable populations from the virus. Third, do our best to honor the directives of government authorities.
Throughout this season, Tony Perkins has hosted officials from the Trump administration, Congressional leaders, and pastors on conference calls in order to keep you — our partners in the faith community — updated on the latest legislative and policy developments. In addition to these calls, FRC has produced a variety of resources to help inform you and your network. Here are a few of our latest:
I also want to share with you this video message from Tony as he addresses your “essential” role in your community.
As Tony mentions, there are over-zealous local officials out there who have leveraged the coronavirus emergency to go after churches. If you are in such a locality or state we would encourage you to reach out to us at stories@frc.org.
We have received a number of questions about the Department of Homeland Security advisory designating clergy as “essential support” – please see our latest article, and the CISA guidance, for more.
Finally, be sure to check our website regularly for updates: www.frc.org/church
Coronavirus won’t have the final say. Let’s not forget Paul’s words in his letter to the early church in Rome: “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).
I continue to pray for you and believe the Lord will heal our land and bring us back better than ever.
Standing for Faith, Family, and Freedom,
Pastor JC Church
National Director of Ministry Engagement
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I had a friend who used to be very class conscious when it came to work. He wouldn’t socialize with other people he deemed below him and was very choosy when it came to where he lived. If the wrong class of workers were in the neighborhood, he wouldn’t visit the area (let alone move into it). It had nothing to do with race or religion, only the types of jobs people had. In his mind, there was a clear delineation between people based strictly on their livelihood; e.g., blue collar labor, technical people, middle management, professional people, and executives. I guess we are all a little class conscious about how people make a living, a kind of one-upmanship, but I never saw it quite this vividly before.
This bothered me because I believe in the dignity and honor of any job, regardless how mundane it may seem. This caused me to do some soul-searching as to why I felt this way and I suppose it is because I am acutely aware of my family’s history; e.g., how we came to this country from Scotland, which certainly wasn’t in a luxury liner, how we struggled to get a foothold here, how we survived the Great Depression, and how we prospered following World War II.
Like many of you, I can recall the menial jobs both my grandfather and father performed to help the family survive. Interestingly, they never complained about it but, rather, always spoke with pride of how well they did their jobs. For instance, my grandfather used to be employed by the Wickwire Steel Company in Buffalo, New York where he ran a machine to make the rebar mesh used in such things as concrete sidewalks. It was certainly not a glamorous job. In fact, it was rather difficult as the machines would frequently break down. Instead of waiting for the machine to be fixed by someone else, as his union wanted him to do, he learned how to fix the machine himself. He figured he couldn’t get paid if the machine was idle, so he devoted his own personal time to learn as much about it as he could. His knowledge of the machines grew to the point where he eventually became the head of maintenance. Whereas he could have done nothing, instead he elected to take a proactive approach.
To my grandfather’s way of thinking, his job was no better or worse than anyone else’s. He was just thankful he had one and did it to the best of his ability. This taught me you should not look down your nose at anyone for the job they have, but rather how well they perform it. I have much more respect for the common uneducated laborer who knows what he is doing as opposed to a well educated professional who is a derelict.
It is fundamental to the human spirit that we all believe we are leading a worthy and honorable life. Since work is an inherent part of our life, how meaningful our job is depends on what we make of it. If we take a defeatist attitude and treat it as a triviality, we will suffer from low self-esteem and become jealous of others. However, if we adopt a professional attitude towards our job, regardless of its magnitude, we will have a more positive sense of self worth.
With this said, I don’t understand the obsession a lot of High School Guidance Counselors have in pushing students towards a college education. Not everyone is predisposed to attending college, some are better served by going into a trade school or the military. Yet, many guidance counselors pooh-pooh such institutions thereby creating a snobbish attitude towards them. Believe me, there is nothing dishonorable about learning mechanics, auto repair, plumbing, carpentry, or serving in the military. Imagine where we would be without such professions.
One of the main reasons I have enjoyed my time in the Masons is that we are taught regardless of your station in life, everyone serves on the level. In other words, everyone has an equal say regardless of who they are, thereby taking ego out of the formula and creating a sense of cooperation.
I do not know how well we are passing this lesson of work dignity to our young people, but I fear we are creating a generation of people who are more class conscious than the last, and never satisfied with the job they have, regardless what it is. From a psychological point of view, this should have profound long term effects on our productivity and our culture.
Keep the Faith!
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Come Friday in Texas, the nation’s second-largest economy, businesses such as restaurants and retail stores will be open again, but at a 25% occupancy rate. After that, public health officials will reevaluate the data and decide whether to allow a 50% occupancy rate.
The Lone Star State is among nine states where governors’ stay-at-home orders expire at the end of Thursday, allowing for a gradual reopening of their economies, according to Pew Research Center’s Stateline, which monitors state governments.
“If we go back to work and there is no increase [in COVID-19 cases], people could become complacent about social distancing and think it’s not dangerous,” Amy Anderson, a registered nurse in Texas, told The Daily Signal. “It’s important to maintain our vigilance.”
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Anderson noted that business owners likely will continue to be responsible, since they face a fine of up to $1,000 and even jail time for not complying with government restrictions. Plus, most businesses are licensed by state and local governments.
Various states have different rules for reentry, but most are in line with the guidance by the White House coronavirus task force, said Anderson, co-founder of the Global Nurse Consultants Alliance and an assistant professor at the School of Nursing and School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
There’s no real economic alternative but to reopen soon, contends Alfredo Ortiz, president of the Job Creators Network, a business group.
“I don’t think we have a real choice but to open the doors up. My concern is demand won’t be high enough,” Ortiz told The Daily Signal in a phone interview. “If we wait for the unattainable goal of zero cases of COVID-19, the economy would be closed for months and you would see an increase in depressions and suicides.”
The other states besides Texas where stay-at-home orders were set to expire Thursday are Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Maine, Nevada, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Florida, where some beaches already have reopened.
On Friday, stay-at-home orders in Indiana, Ohio, and Utah are set to expire, meaning some businesses will reopen Saturday.
“In Florida, it hit the Miami-Dade County area worst,” Dr. Lee Gross, who practices family medicine in North Port, Florida, said of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
“In general, in population centers now, we are seeing a decline, while in rural areas, we are seeing a steady increase,” Gross, also president of the advocacy group Docs 4 Patient Care, said.
“Here in Charlotte County, the beaches are opened and people are still standing 6 feet apart, but they seem packed,” Gross added during a phone interview with The Daily Signal.
Meanwhile, in Georgia and Colorado, Govs. Brian Kemp and Jared Polis, respectively, moved last week to reopen their economies, including allowing hair salons and tattoo parlors to resume business, a controversial move.
“Salons could be safe if there is a determined amount of people allowed in and a way to be responsible,” Gross said. “Outdoor venues are generally safer than indoor venues. But, you don’t want kids climbing around on monkey bars.”
Colorado has had 122.6 deaths per million from COVID-19, while Georgia has had 93.6 deaths per million, according to the RealClearPolitics coronavirus tracker. In raw numbers, the larger Georgia had 994 deaths, while Colorado had 770.
President Donald Trump criticized Kemp, a fellow Republican, for his decision to reopen without following the White House guidelines. However, Trump did not criticize Polis, a Democrat.
“Government guidance is just that, guidance. It’s not a proclamation or law,” Gross said. “States should take guidance into consideration.”
Governors generally are leaving discretion to local communities, said Dr. Kevin Pham, a medical doctor and contributor to The Daily Signal.
“If states are less draconian and trust people, they will likely get better cooperation longer, rather than revolt in protest,” Pham said. “It is a risk to reopen, but if you don’t reopen, there are other risks. Life and livelihood are connected to one another.”
Pham also looked at the realistic outcomes from reopening, positive and negative.
“The worst-case scenario is a huge spike in [COVID-19] cases and hospitalizations and all the gains that were made from the mitigation efforts will be wiped out, the need for personal protective equipment will skyrocket again, and we’ll have crisis care that will require more ventilators,” Pham said.
“The best-case scenario is that we will have a gradual and deliberate reopening with continued social distancing, and we’ll see a lower spread rate,” Pham added.
Other states that are ready to drop their stay-at-home orders logged varying rates of death from COVID-19.
Alabama had 49.4 deaths per million; Arizona had 37.8 deaths per million; Florida, 54.5; Idaho, 42.4; Maine, 37.9; Tennessee, 26.9; and West Virginia, 20.7.
Of the states slated to begin reopening gradually after Friday, Indiana had 138.4 deaths per million; Ohio had 68.4; and Utah, 14, according to the RealClearPolitics tracker.
Next week, the states of Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island will begin to reopen, according to Pew’s Stateline.
The state with the largest number of deaths and highest death rate was New York, where 22,806 have died, a rate of 1,175.4 per million.
The Empire State’s stay-at-home order is set to expire May 15. That’s the same day as Delaware, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Vermont, and the District of Columbia are set to drop their stay-at-home orders.
In Connecticut, with the third-highest death rate in the nation at 564.3 per million, the stay-at-home order is set to expire May 20. Illinois and Hawaii are slated to open May 30 and 31, respectively.
As of now, Virginia will reopen June 10. In seven other states, according to Pew, no dates are set for stay-at-home orders to expire.
Another eight states had no stay-at-home orders: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. In most of these cases, the states issued guidance and local governments and businesses were free to take action.
This is a critical year in the history of our country. With the country polarized and divided on a number of issues and with roughly half of the country clamoring for increased government control—over health care, socialism, increased regulations, and open borders—we must turn to America’s founding for the answers on how best to proceed into the future.
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American prosperity always has relied on the fact that we are the most productive people in human history.
Unfortunately, some short-term Band-Aids for the widespread economic distress caused by the coronavirus lockdowns may have substantial negative effects that make it harder for Americans to get back on their feet.
While much of what is in the CARES Act passed by Congress will be important in mitigating the damage of the COVID-19 pandemic, some provisions already are creating bad, unintended consequences.
One problem has been the federal unemployment insurance that gives unemployed Americans $600 a week no matter what they were making before they lost their jobs.
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A coffee shop owner in Harlan, Kentucky, explained why it’s hard for small businesses to retain staff right now.
“The very people we hired have now asked us to be laid off,” wrote Sky Marietta, who owns the shop with her husband, Geoff, according to NPR. “Not because they did not like their jobs or because they did not want to work, but because it would cost them literally hundreds of dollars per week to be employed.”
The federal government is offering $600 a week on top of state unemployment benefits, which means that for many, being unemployed is more lucrative than staying at work.
“You also have to think [of] the benefit of not having to go to work, especially during a pandemic,” Marietta said in her interview with NPR. “It’s not that we don’t wish that we could pay our employees at that level all the time. You’re always wanting to pay your staff the best you possibly can. But to be put in a position where you can’t compete with them being at home, unemployed, it’s really tricky. It’s a really difficult situation to be in.”
Other issues have cropped up too.
For instance, when Jamie Black-Lewis, owner of the Oasis Medspa & Salon and Amai Day Spa in Washington state, received two forgivable loans through the new federal Paycheck Protection Program, she said she thought it was a godsend to help retain her 35 employees who had their pay halted.
However, she said, the loans actually made many of her employees angry. The reaction she got was a “firestorm of hatred about the situation,” Black-Lewis said, according to CNBC.
Why?
Because these employees figured out they can make more money from unemployment than employment.
“It’s a windfall they see coming,” Black-Lewis said of unemployment in the CNBC interview. “In their mind, I took it away.”
The problem is, again, the extra $600 that people receive per week through the federal program, set to continue through July, can exceed what they’d make otherwise.
In a paper for The Heritage Foundation published Tuesday, Drew Gonshorowski and Rachel Greszler laid out what this looks like nationally:
The median full-time worker in America (who earns $933 per week, or $48,500 per year) would earn about 15% more from unemployment insurance—an additional $2,300 over the course of four months of unemployment—than if he had remained employed. The lower that workers’ earnings are, the greater financial incentive they will have to collect unemployment insurance instead of staying employed.
A full-time minimum-wage worker would receive 157% more from unemployment—a total of $7,900 more over four months—than from employment. Part-time and low-wage workers would benefit the most. Someone working 10 hours per week at the minimum wage—perhaps a high school student with a part-time job—would receive 778% more, or a total of $9,800 extra, over four months of unemployment than she would [in] remaining employed.
While the temporary nature of this program—for now—may mitigate some of the long-term negative effects, consider this: What’s going to happen to businesses that stay open or try to reopen in coming months but can’t retain employees?
Some business owners may simply use the increased unemployment benefits as an excuse to lay off workers, but many simply won’t be in business much longer.
When the enlarged unemployment benefits run out, countless Americans will find no work to return to. In many cases, they potentially also will be severed from health care coverage, which in America is typically tied to employers.
So, back on the dole. Not good.
This unemployment provision, created in a time of unquestioned crisis, reveals the fundamental problem of making it more lucrative not to work than to work.
Yet, some have suggested that an expanded version of these payments become a permanent part of the American system. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently suggested that in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, America should consider a minimum income guarantee.
As Gonshorowski and Greszler recommend, changing the unemployment benefit so that it doesn’t exceed 100% of a worker’s previous wages could help prevent abuse of the system and ensure we aren’t encouraging people to abandon their jobs.
More than that, we must reject calls to make such a system a permanent feature of American life.
This is a critical year in the history of our country. With the country polarized and divided on a number of issues and with roughly half of the country clamoring for increased government control—over health care, socialism, increased regulations, and open borders—we must turn to America’s founding for the answers on how best to proceed into the future.
The Heritage Foundation has compiled input from more than 100 constitutional scholars and legal experts into the country’s most thorough and compelling review of the freedoms promised to us within the United States Constitution into a free digital guide called Heritage’s Guide to the Constitution.
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The ‘pro-life vigilante’ strikes again!He hits another Planned Parenthood in West Palm Beach and Presidential Women’s Center – the most prolific and busiest abortion mill in South Florida.
In just one week, we have been able to hit all four abortion mills in Palm Beach County and it was a terrific learning experience for both me and the abortion mill workers.
That makes a total of 4 Abortion Clinics in Palm Beach County that I have visited in one week’s time, covering the amount of these demonic dungeons that made up the 5,483 abortions performed in the entire county in 2019. That’s up 450 abortions from 2018, marking the first time in 7
years that I have served as President of the Palm Beach County Right to Life League that our abortion numbers have gone up! I am not a happy camper and seeing that these abortion clinics have been taking advantage of this Coronavirus pandemic and going after these pregnant and very vulnerable young women, it breaks my heart. Thursday’s visits were no exception, folks.
Please watch below to watch the latest video from my visits to Planned Parenthood in West Palm Beach, Florida and Presidential Women’s Center on the infamous 45th Street also in West Palm Beach:
My first stop today (Thursday, April 23rd), was at the small Planned Parenthood on Village Boulevard. in West Palm Beach where they do NOT perform Abortions! This office serves as an “appointment outlet” where women can go in for check-ups, pick up birth control and they claim to do testing, such as STD and mammograms. So, they say. But, at least they do NOT perform abortions there!
My visit there was a brief one as they were closed that day but there was a middle-aged, black woman who was working inside and she did open up the door for me and I spoke to her briefly. I chose not to use my i-Phone to video-tape but instead just recorded our conversation with my
iPhone in my pocket. After speaking to her for 50 seconds and asking her about the Governor’s Executive Order 20-72, she immediately read what it said on my polo shirt (Christian on a Mission), and she said: “We know who you are” as I handed her the 3-page E.O. 20-72, she told
me that she was calling the police and then closed the door with the E.O. 20-72 in her hands. Needless to say, I walked away to my car and within 3 minutes, the WPB Police cruiser was in front of the doors of Planned Parenthood. Boy, I wish the police would show up that quick
whenever we citizens call them in an Emergency manner! They always take forever! Go figure.
My 2nd stop Thursday was very interesting as I paid a visit to the notorious “Demonic Dungeon of 45th Street” – Presidential Women’s Center, the most prolific & popular abortion mill in all of PB County. An estimated 60% of the 5,483 abortions that were performed in this county in 2019
came from this abortion giant privately owned by Mona Reis. Devout prayer warriors have been praying across the street from this monstrosity for nearly “40” years that it has been open for killing, as I pray more than anything in the world that this abortion mill closes down some time
soon. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, abortions take place in this place of death as I had the opportunity to experience a bit of that dark and gloomy feeling on Thursday morning when I walked into this despicable and disgusting building, escorted by a friendly armed security guard.
Well, I am still wondering if I, indeed, should wear these Christian on a Mission shirts on my abortion clinic visits. Do they give up my identity – or do they serve to make an impression on all of those abortion clinic workers who see my popular logo and maybe have second thoughts
about what they are doing in a place that is filled with darkness, destruction and death.
Well, as fate would have it, what happened at the gas station after my visits was a “God Thing”. Yep, $1.55 for a gallon of gas in this area and when I was pumping my gas, there were two black ladies next to me in their car when the young lady (daughter), yelled out to me: “Sir, I like your
shirt – Christian on a Mission.” I said Thank you, and continued pumping the gas. Now, I had my back to them, and she then yells out: “And, I love your belt – Protect the Unborn” engraved on the back of my belt. Two for two. The mom asked me if I was a minister and I said “sort of, I just
came from two abortion clinics ministering to them to turn from their wicked ways”. You can hear these two black ladies yelling out “ALLELUIA”, Praise the Lord!” I went on to tell them what I have been doing with the 4 abortion clinics in PB County during the past week and they were so
happy. The mom was overwhelmed with joy as she took her protective mask off and belted out “Thank You for what you are doing for our babies. God bless you! We need more people like you.”
Now, I know exactly why I wear my Christian on a Mission shirt and Protect the Unborn belt to these abortion clinic visits. God works in mysterious ways, folks. One never knows who you are going to run into at a gas station after doing God’s work. It’s called Amazing grace.
In what may be the best indicator of the nature of this pandemic yet, a video with two prominent and experienced field doctors in California, that has been seen by many people and referred to by many authorities not locked into the Fauci paradigm, has been removed by YouTube. Not for any violation of any of their terms of service. Not hate speech, or any of the other excuses YouTube needs to secure the narrative at all.
YouTube in fact seems to be beyond the need for excuses. They just ban things that contradict what they need people to believe.
So this deserves extra attention. Even if they are wrong.
There is nothing so appealing about an opinion more than we are not allowed to hear it.
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Michael Heup not only got his job back at Bitty & Beau’s Coffee, which was temporarily closed because of the COVID-19 crisis, but he also had the chance to talk about it at the White House on Tuesday.
“I love my job, and I am excited about going back to work,” Heup, a disabled employee, said at the East Room event. “At Bitty & Beau’s, we like to use the phrase called ‘not broken.’ That means me and all my amazing co-workers are not broken, and we have lots to offer. I know the great country of the United States isn’t broken either.”
The Wilmington, North Carolina-based Bitty & Beau’s Coffee had to temporarily close and lay off 120 employees at the company, most with intellectual and developmental disabilities. But it was able to rehire all the employees after getting a federal loan through the Paycheck Protection Program.
The White House had representatives from eight companies at the event sharing their stories of staying afloat after governments’ COVID-19 mitigation efforts forced much of the economy to close.
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Under the program, if businesses with fewer than 500 employees do not lay off employees, the principal on the loan is forgivable. Employers still have to pay the interest.
Bitty & Beau’s Coffee has locations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland. For most of the employees, it’s their first paying job. The employees are now “working from home, writing handwritten notes that we include with each online order we ship,” said Amy Wright, CEO of Bitty & Beau’s, also speaking at the event.
“I know everyone is ready to return to normal,” Wright said. “I believe it’s time for a new normal, one where people with disabilities are valued, especially in the workplace. As a recipient of the [Paycheck Protection Program] loan, we will continue to take up the charge and help everyone, especially people with disabilities, pursue the American dream.”
The Paycheck Protection Program has disbursed $350 billion to small businesses across the United States, and more than 1.6 million forgivable loans have been approved by the Small Business Administration. Trump said the SBA has issued more loans in the past 14 days than it has in the past 14 years.
However, the program has come under scrutiny for doling out loans to large employers, such as Harvard University and Shake Shack. Several of the big businesses returned the loans after the rash of bad publicity.
“The press has commented on a lot of big companies that inappropriately took the money,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said at the event. “We’ve been very clear. We’ve announced today that any loan over $2 million will have a full review for forgiveness before they are repaid because this is the story of small business here.”
When taking questions from reporters, Trump was asked about Democrats in Congress calling for guaranteed incomes that could go on for months.
“I like payroll tax cuts. I’ve liked that from the beginning. That was a thing that I would really love to see happen. Most economists agree with me,” Trump said.
The president expressed skepticism of bailing out states, but he said aid could come with the precondition of changing sanctuary policies, in which local jurisdictions refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
“We are not looking to recover 25 years of bad management and to give them the money they lost. That’s unfair to other states. Now, if it’s COVID-related, I guess we could talk about it,” Trump said, adding:
But we’d want certain things also, including sanctuary city adjustments, because we have so many people in sanctuary cities, which I don’t even think are popular by radical left folks.
What’s happening is, people are being protected that shouldn’t be protected, and a lot of bad things are happening with sanctuary cities.
This is a critical year in the history of our country. With the country polarized and divided on a number of issues and with roughly half of the country clamoring for increased government control—over health care, socialism, increased regulations, and open borders—we must turn to America’s founding for the answers on how best to proceed into the future.
The Heritage Foundation has compiled input from more than 100 constitutional scholars and legal experts into the country’s most thorough and compelling review of the freedoms promised to us within the United States Constitution into a free digital guide called Heritage’s Guide to the Constitution.
They’re making this guide available to all readers of The Daily Signal for free today!
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The news came down just in time for Sunday service. For all of the congregations, it had been a frustrating few weeks. Pastors in New York, North Carolina, and Mississippi had been fighting their state for the freedom they should have had all along: the right to gather, in their own creative and CDC-compliant ways, at church. But fortunately, while every locality is responding differently, every court is not. Religious liberty, they agreed, doesn’t stop when a virus starts.In Wake County, North Carolina, the response was almost immediate. In a matter of hours, local officials went from banning drive-through communion and offerings to completely reversing course. What changed? Attorneys at Alliance Defending Freedom had sent a letter, explaining how “illogical” it is to say church giving is unsafe but exchanging money in a grocery or other business isn’t. “We support the efforts of public officials to prioritize health and safety,” ADF’s Ryan Tucker pointed out, “but it is… unconstitutional to apply government orders in a way that singles out churches for harsher treatment. We are asking the county to repeal its ban and avoid the need for any litigation over the matter.”
The county listened, responding that same day with an updated order. Praising the quick action of Wake officials, ADF said that locals looked forward to being able to host drive-in services “with the freedom to safely serve communion and receive donations this Sunday without fear of government punishment.”
Elsewhere in New York, another injustice toward churches was also fixed in record speed. Leaders in Chemung County had pulled a similar stunt, arguing that local congregations were putting the community at risk with their parking lot services. But they had a change of heart after First Liberty Institute got involved, reminding them what the law actually said about the matter. The next day, the targeting stopped.
Down in Mississippi, it took a little more prodding to get hostile officials in line. But, thanks to U.S. District Judge Michael Mills, Holly Springs — which had even shut down midweek Bible studies — was ordered to stop with the local tyranny. As far as Mills was concerned, they weren’t just violating the church’s religious freedom, but its free speech, its freedom to assemble, its rights of due process, and the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
For First Pentecostal Church, it had been an Easter like no other. Not only did the police interrupt the service, but it stopped to give Pastor Waldrop a citation. “These were outrageous violations of these parishioners’ rights,” Thomas More Society argued. “On both occasions, Holly Springs law enforcement personnel ignored the fact that all church members present were practicing social distancing and complying with all applicable health requirements.” From now on, Judge Mills ruled, neither Holly Springs, nor its police force, will interfere with drive-in services.
Even when the rest of the country is closed, one thing that America should never have to re-open is religious freedom. As more churches weigh their next steps in the virus fight, FRC is here to help. For more on how your congregation should think about the upcoming changes and challenges, check out our new publication, “Guidelines for Reopening Your Church.”
Tony Perkins’s Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.
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For well over a year, The Daily Signal has published a monthly series highlighting lawful gun owners who used their firearms to protect their liberties, lives, or livelihoods.
Although these articles recount just a dozen or so stories each month, the incidents are selected from hundreds of other, similar examples.
Those defensive gun uses are worth highlighting, too. That’s why The Heritage Foundation is introducing its Defensive Gun Use Database, an interactive map featuring all of the news accounts from police reports that we couldn’t fit into installments of the monthly series.
What’s the Defensive Gun Use Database?
The database features an interactive map that allows users to locate instances of defensive gun use in their own states and cities.
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Clicking on a specific dot on the map provides the user with an instant breakdown of important information about the incident of defensive gun use that the dot represents.
For example, users can see the date and location of the defensive gun use, what type of firearm was involved, and the context in which the gun was used—including to defend against a home invasion, armed robbery, or domestic violence).
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost all major studies on defensive gun use have found that Americans use their firearms defensively between 500,000 and 3 million times each year. Researchers have good reason to believe, however, that most defensive gun uses aren’t reported to law enforcement, much less picked up by local or national media outlets.
For this reason, the Defensive Gun Use Database isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list of all such incidents occurring in the United States. Such a database would be nearly impossible to compile.
Instead, this database features only cases that could be discovered and verified through public sources, and where the evidence indicates no wrongdoing on the part of the gun owner.
Why Is This Database Important?
Despite the limitations on data, the Defensive Gun Use Database is an incredibly important tool because these confirmed cases help prove that the “good guy with a gun” is not a myth. Rather, lawful gun owners clearly play an integral role in promoting public safety and protecting individual rights.
As the database proves, every single day lawful gun owners use their firearms to defend themselves and others against criminals when the government simply could not get there in time.
These gun owners are not vigilantes who went looking for trouble. They did not intentionally place themselves in dangerous situations. Many of them even fail to fit the caricature of “typical gun owner.”
They are young mothers defending their children from home invaders.
They are disabled individuals whose firepower enabled them to stand toe-to-toe with criminals who thought they had the advantage.
They are abused women who protected themselves from violent ex-lovers who came to exact revenge.
They are elderly men outnumbered by would-be thieves who believed they picked an easy target.
They’re our mothers, daughters, brothers, and sons. They’re our neighbors, friends, and co-workers. They’re working jobs and living lives in our neighborhoods.
In short, the Defensive Gun Use Database and map provide powerful answers to the common question: “Why would any rational, law-abiding American ever need to own a gun or carry it in public?”
What Can We Expect in the Future?
First, The Daily Signal will continue to publish our monthly series of articles on defensive gun uses. The database will not replace the series, but instead will provide an opportunity for readers to dive deeper into stories we don’t highlight.
Second, the database will keep growing as we update it to include new or newly verified instances of defensive gun use. We also hope to expand the database to include defensive gun uses that occurred in years predating our series.
Finally, our goal is to create a mechanism for readers to send us reports about instances we may have missed or that occurred to them and can be verified independently.
Amy Swearer is a senior legal policy analyst at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Twitter: @AmySwearer.
A Note for our Readers:
This is a critical year in the history of our country. With the country polarized and divided on a number of issues and with roughly half of the country clamoring for increased government control—over health care, socialism, increased regulations, and open borders—we must turn to America’s founding for the answers on how best to proceed into the future.
The Heritage Foundation has compiled input from more than 100 constitutional scholars and legal experts into the country’s most thorough and compelling review of the freedoms promised to us within the United States Constitution into a free digital guide called Heritage’s Guide to the Constitution.
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President Donald Trump seemed supportive of Attorney General William Barr’s directive to protect the individual rights of citizens against the potential encroachment by state or local governments.
Asked in the Rose Garden press briefing Monday if the administration would bring lawsuits against states, Trump left the door open.
“It would depend on the circumstances of the state. Some states are perhaps a little early. Some states are a little bit late,” Trump said when asked if the administration would sue states or cities.
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The Daily Signal first reported Monday that Barr directed federal prosecutors across the country to be on the lookout during the COVID-19 crisis to ensure that state and local governments do not overreach, stating in a memorandum, “the Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis.”
Trump said he read about the memorandum.
“Frankly, the attorney general doesn’t want to have rights taken away,” Trump said. “There are some people not allowed to open up a store. They are going to lose their livelihood. By the way, that causes death also. … The fact that people aren’t allowed to have their freedom causes tremendous amounts of problems, including death.”
Trump administration officials also announced they expected testing for the coronavirus to nearly double in the coming weeks. As of now, 5.4 million Americans have been tested for the disease.
Adm. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services, explained the eight phases blueprint to dramatically expand testing.
The first phase was to build the foundation for diagnostic testing, then mobilize the private sector to develop tests. Next, the Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorizations—relaxing regulations—for the private sector to develop tests.
The fourth phase was to galvanize commercial and research laboratories to ramp up testing capacity, followed by facilitating state efforts to utilize all available testing capabilities.
“The FDA has issued 67 emergency use authorizations, which is far outpacing anything that has been done or could have ever been imagined. Galvanizing the research communities in commercial labs—the reason why we are here with ACLA labs, having done about 3 million tests, is because of that day when it was galvanized by the president and the vice president,” Giroir said.
The sixth step was to identify and expand public- and private-sector testing, then strengthen the testing supply chain. The eighth phase was to coordinate with governors and to support testing plans and rapid response programs.
“It was enhancing the production capacity of a small company in Maine called Puritan that you’ll hear a whole lot more about that is sort of the swab provider for the country, but also because of the FDA actions and the actions of the scientific community, [is] being able to broaden the types to spin polyester so U.S. cotton can come in and start delivering within the next couple of weeks 3 million swabs per week of a different type,” the admiral said.
“Whereas we started small with commercial testing partners, you see now that we have 73 of these 2.0 sites, going to 110. Very importantly, this demonstrated the model,” the admiral continued. “And 68% of those sites are in communities of moderate or high social vulnerability and 22% are in the highest social vulnerability communities so that we can make sure the testing gets where it needs to be.”
This is a critical year in the history of our country. With the country polarized and divided on a number of issues and with roughly half of the country clamoring for increased government control—over health care, socialism, increased regulations, and open borders—we must turn to America’s founding for the answers on how best to proceed into the future.
The Heritage Foundation has compiled input from more than 100 constitutional scholars and legal experts into the country’s most thorough and compelling review of the freedoms promised to us within the United States Constitution into a free digital guide called Heritage’s Guide to the Constitution.
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We began hearing of problems with the media covering the presidential coronavirus briefings in late March when KUOW radio, the NPR affiliate in Seattle, said they would no longer carry the live briefings as they contended the president was either spreading misinformation or lying to the public. Instead, they would interpret and report the briefings as they see fit, not necessarily in line with the president.
This went much further as MSNBC and CNN followed suit by presenting their interpretation of the briefing as opposed to showing it live. If you watch the live briefing and listen to the network analysis, you would think they were two separate meetings altogether. In other words, the news media is spinning the briefings to their liking, and not necessarily in alignment with what was actually said. Back in 2016, when I attended the Trump campaign rallys in Tampa with the press corps, I saw a similar phenomenon whereby what the press reported was unlike anything I saw or heard at the rally. It was a deliberate misrepresentation of what had occurred.
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, “Stop Airing Trump’s Briefings!”, the writer contends, “Under no circumstance should these briefings be carried live,” and encouraged other media outlets to filter the briefing news a la CNN and MSNBC.
Likewise, Katie Couric tweeted, “Under no circumstance should these briefings be carried live. Doing so is a mistake bordering on journalistic malpractice. Everything a president does or says should be documented but airing all of it, unfiltered is irresponsible.” Couric later retracted her tweet, but her political leanings to the left are well known.
All of this is to be expected. Since the coronavirus became a major issue, President Trump has sucked all the political air out of the media, leaving the Democrats gasping for recognition. Knowing this to be a problem, particularly in a presidential election year, the news media is now working overtime to refute and demean the president, thereby compounding the problem. In other words, the main stream media’s coverage of the briefings have less to do with the coronavirus, and more to do with defusing the president’s political juggernaut. By spinning the news falsely, the press is stoking hate and division in the country and should be held accountable for their libelous actions.
The people understand this, and because they are frustrated with the fake news, they do not know who to believe and trust. Inevitably, a backlash occurs, such as the recent anti-shutdown demonstrations in Michigan, Minnesota, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, states all under Democrat control. Whether the demonstrations were justifiable or not is immaterial, but such a reaction is understandable as the people want their lives to return to normal and believe there are forces working overtime to stop them, including the press.
The people particularly do not trust the media’s spin on the news as they know the press openly opposes the president. It is no secret. Their interpretation may be eagerly received by the far Left, but everyone else dismisses it out of hand. People want the ability to access live coverage instead of depending on the press to interpret their news, often unreliably. This explains why people tend to trust news received by social media more than the press, which is also not the best, but considered more reliable than the news media.
The war with President Trump started during his campaign, and will continue unabated well into his retirement, whenever that may be. As the president represents the ultimate outsider to the nation’s capitol, the press considers it their duty to rein him in any way possible as he represents a threat to the Washington establishment, including Democrats, Republicans, lobbyists, the Deep State and, Yes, the news media.
Keep the Faith!
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are notorious for their volatility. Their value fluctuates from time to time. There is always an air of uncertainty surrounding their value and future. But what exactly makes BTC priceso volatile? Will BTC ever stabilize?
If BTC is to become a global currency, it must overcome its volatility. Despite its market capitalization growing to its current $60B mark, BTC is still struggling with uncertainty and volatility putting its potency as a global currency into question. So, let’s discuss what exactly makes cryptocurrencies that volatile and how can BTC become stable?
Why Cryptocurrencies Are Highly Volatile
1. Cryptos Considered Store of Value and Not Value Transfer Media
One barrier that stands on a way of cryptos’ growth is the opinion of millions worldwide that cryptos are just a store of value. People don’t see them as a currency but as assets that will be valuable in the future. As such, they don’t freely exchange them but rather hold them waiting for their values to skyrocket.
Most holders of BTC don’t use their coins for daily transactions but rather stack them waiting for prices to hike before they sell them. This creates a precarious scenario where events and news massively affect the price of BTC because of mass actions of panic. For instance, if there is news of a government planning to ban BTC in a given country, all those holding BTC in that country will try to sell which will flood the market and cause a drop in the price of BTC.
If BTC is to be considered a global currency, then people need to freely use it to pay for goods and services. Simply put, people need to use the coin in their daily transactions. How often and willing people are to use a currency for their transactions is the true sign of a global currency.
These losses are a big part of the volatility experienced in cryptocurrencies. The more significant are the losses in cryptos, the lower the confidence that people have in them.
Unless cryptocurrencies fix their systematic security vulnerabilities, they will always be subject to volatility. Any high profile scams or losses will always have a ripple effect and affect the price of a cryptocurrency.
3. Uncertainty
The lack of certainty regarding the future of cryptocurrencies leaves them open to season fluctuations. Not a single person is sure of what the future holds for cryptocurrencies, which leaves many people with a lot of questions concerning adopting the cryptocurrencies.
As it currently stands, too many factors affect the price of BTC. Government regulations, market factors, security breaches, ‘HODLing among many other factors. The lack of proper measures in place to ensure that the effects of all the aforementioned factors are mitigated leaves a cloud of uncertainty hanging over cryptocurrencies like BTC.
4. Fluctuating Demand
BTC’s demand is always bouncy. Therefore, there is always a fluctuation in its price. Since BTC’s supply is almost constant. Moreover, just like the real gold becomes harder to mine with time, bitcoin halving makes it harder to mine the digital gold as the reward will be two times smaller.
At the same time, huge fluctuations in the demand will always have a ripple effect on the price. This makes BTC a bad choice for a global currency. There is just too much uncertainty in its price for people to gladly accept and use BTC.
So, Will BTC Ever Stabilize?
Having seen why cryptos are so unstable, let’s discuss what does the future hold for BTC? Will Bitcoin ever stabilize?
As the leading cryptocurrency in the world, BTC is expected to be the first digital coin the price of which will stabilize. If BTC is to be considered a true global cryptocurrency, it has to overcome its volatility. But how can it achieve this?
Ways BTC Can Reduce Volatility
Increase Demand For BTC
Since there can only be 21 million BTC in existence, the community should work towards increasing the demand and usage of BTC to a global scale. Once the demand is on a global scale and its usage is frequent and ‘normal’, the fluctuation in the price will be lower and BTC will be deemed stable.
Address Security Breaches
Since BTC is open-source software, the community has the collective responsibility of ensuring that the platform is safe for public use. Loopholes in the network should be reported and any individuals engaging in unscrupulous deals should be permanently banned from using BTC. Once the whole ecosystem becomes safe for the use of all, the confidence levels will go up and more people will adopt BTC.
Mass Education
Although most people generally have an idea of what cryptocurrencies are, very few of them have proper knowledge of how to use BTC instead of fiat currencies. If the global usage of BTC is to increase, there is a need for proper mass education and sensitization programs. These programs will see an increased uptake of BTC and other cryptocurrencies.
Conclusion
BTC has a long way to go. Bitcoin is far from the point of long-lasting stability. Its volatility is too high for it to be used on a global scale. However, cryptocurrency is still a young technology that will show a massive potential once the stakeholders will start work towards making it stable.
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“The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.” – Mark Twain
“When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.” – Ron Paul
“The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.” – Bill O’Reilly
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison, Federalist 48, 1788
We’ve just been through the twilight zone with a taste of socialism, all based on lies sold to us by establishment globalist “experts” and their scientific models. A good friend said to me, “This is a political event, not a medical event.” How right he is! Healthy people should not have been quarantined despite what “experts” told us. Everything the country has done is backasswards. A lot of us are angry, others are sheeple who follow government orders implicitly without a thought of our freedoms, and buy exorbitant amounts of toilet paper for nothing.
Alexander Hamilton said, “Every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
Personally, I rebel against government orders that take my God given freedoms from me. So, do we really have those God-given freedoms or are they only on loan from the feds? I fear the latter because most Americans no longer know the Almighty, nor do they know or cherish our Constitution.
2020 Lockdown
Healthy Americans have been quarantined, but officially, the definition of “quarantine” is very specific: It’s the seclusion of a person potentially exposed to a disease for a period of time to see if they become infected. A person under quarantine typically stays in one place to avoid nearly all contact with the outside world. When such a quarantine is ordered by the government, it’s illegal to violate them…but in 2020, the state governments have quarantined healthy people.
During the 1918-1919 Spanish flu epidemic, homes had signs on them that they were quarantined, everyone wore masks, and everything was done outdoors, including haircuts, church services and holding court, (check these photos). In America alone, 675,000 died when our population was a third less than today…but little was shut down.
The congregation prays on the steps of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, where they gathered to attend mass and pray during the influenza epidemic, in San Francisco, California.
Today, synagogues and churches are closed to parishioner’s with “social distancing,” but in 1918, church services were held outside and people prayed to end the scourge.
The state of Tennessee is shut down until the end of April, despite only having had 178 deaths in a state of 6.829 million people, and was it really Covid-19 that caused their deaths or underlying health issues?
Experts Wrong Again
Two new studies have proven the experts wrong again. The truth about the actual number of Americans infected with coronavirus via a Stanford University study, tells a totally different story. There were 3,300 people tested for antibodies and the results showed that 50 – 80 times more people are infected than the actual numbers officially reported as infected by Fauci, Birx and Gates.
Another study out of the University of Southern California is confirming the Stanford study. They reported that when they tested 863 people in Los Angeles County, about 4.1 percent tested positive. The population of LA County is about 8 million, so 4.1 percent, that means about 320,000 adults have had a Covid-19 infection before April 9th. Comparing this to the confirmed cases of Covid-19, the study shows that LA County cases are actually 40 times larger than reported.
The implications are two-fold. One is that mortality rates based on confirmed cases are going to be much lower than based on the number of infections or the estimated number of infections in the study. The good news is that the mortality rate is far lower than what was prognosticated.
Fox reporter John Roberts was caught on a hot mic in the White House talking about it. He told an employee he could take off the mask as the case fatality rate was .01 to .03 or 1/10th of what was forecast. He said USC and Los Angeles County Health did the study and they reported 7,000 cases and they really believe there were 221,000 to 442,000 people who were infected. What I want to know is why the worker with the mask said he didn’t have to worry because they’d been vaccinated anyway. This means the case fatality rates are far less than forecast than the models presented by “experts” Fauci and Birx. In reality, the death rate/fatality rate is way down.
It’s not a hoax, there is a real infection and it can kill the elderly and those with compromised immune systems, but it seems to be no more lethal than the common flu and is being spread more widely by those who show no symptoms. They have only tested people with symptoms and not even all of them, so their figures vary widely from factual infection and death. This proves the information from Drs. Shiva and Buttar are correct. We need true accountability.
Obviously, the catastrophic numbers have been exaggerated to crash the economy and control the people with fear, resulting in 26 million people out of work and destroying over 30% of our small businesses. All of which was planned with great precision to destroy the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
If fear ruled Americans, we would never have fought the Revolutionary War or World War II. Normandy, the Battle of Crete, of Anzio, of Monte Cassino, of Sedan, of the Bulge, and many others would have been lost along with Iwo Jima.
Get America Back to Work
Two doctors have collected data in clinics in California and they have presented their conclusions in two videos. You can listen to the first video here, and the second here. This article gives you only short portions from their conclusions.
Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi recently completed a 51-minute press conference. They said their facilities have tested over 5,200 patients for the coronavirus throughout the county, making up for over half of all testing in Kern, California. According to their data, the death rate of the coronavirus is similar in prevalence to the flu. “Now that we have the facts,” said Dr. Erickson. “It’s time to get back to work.”
Emphatically no, we do not need to continue to shelter in place and we never should have done it to begin with. Do we need businesses to be shut down? Again, emphatically no! Do we need to test people and get them back to work? Yes, we do! Is the flu less dangerous than Covid? No! It’s not! They are similar in prevalence and death rate. It’s time to open society and get back to work! Bill Gates funded globalist NIH Doctor, Anthony Fauci, says Covid-19 is ten times more lethal than the flu. People, we’ve been had! Their projected numbers created policies that are destroying far more lives than the virus itself. Their model has collapsed.
Fauci and Birx were brought in by Coronavirus Task Force leader, VP Mike Pence. Had he brought in MIT’s Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai; we would undoubtedly not be in this economic nightmare.
Rates of Infection in California
In California there are a reported 33,865 Covid cases out of a total of 285,900 tested; that’s 12 percent of Californians were positive for Covid. The initial models were woefully inaccurate. They predicted millions of cases of death, not of prevalence or incidence, but of death. That has not materialized. In California, 12 percent are positives, but the population is 39.5 million. A basic calculation extrapolated out gives us 4.7 million cases throughout California which means this virus is widespread. They’ve seen 1,227 deaths in California with a possible incidence or prevalence of 4.7 million. That means you have a 0.03 chance of dying from Covid-19 in the state of California.
Drs. Erickson and Massihi ask if this necessitates sheltering in place, does that necessitate shutting down the medical systems, does that necessitate people being out of work? We certainly didn’t react the same way with the flu!
Dr. Erickson continues, “If this is a typical extrapolation, 328 million people times 19.6 is 64 million and that’s a significant amount of people with Covid. It’s similar to the flu if you study the numbers from 2017-2018, we had 50-60 million sick with the flu and a similar death rate. The death rate was 43,545 and we have a death rate of 30 to 60,000 every year from flu in the United States. And there is no pandemic talk, no sheltering in place, no shutting down businesses and no sending our doctors home.”
Emergency rooms in California are empty, hospital floors are shut down, and basically hospital ICUs are empty. They are furloughing patients and doctors. In New York, the health system is working at maximum capacity, although we’re seeing the rates of infection drop exponentially, whereas California is at a minimal capacity.
Everything Dr. Erickson has said verifies the Stanford and University of Southern Cal study that talks about how widespread this virus really is and how this data needs to be shared with all of America. This virus is not as deadly as Fauci, Birx and Bill Gates have made it out to be. Once again, massive fear was sold to us by the “experts” and the mainstream media. The prevalence with this virus goes up and up, but the death rate gets smaller and smaller, millions of cases, but a small amount of death. The response to this virus was completely and totally misguided. The unnecessary lockdown will end up being more destructive than Covid-19.
Rates of Infection in New York
New York State cases of Covid as of April 22, are 256,272. According to public data on line, a total of 649,325 tests and 39 percent of New Yorkers tested positive for Covid. Even with social distancing, the “experts” totals were far out of range. The extrapolated-out figures are far closer to reality than the predictive models that have been nowhere in the ballpark. The deaths in New York are 19,010 out of 19 million people which is a 0.1 percent chance of dying of Covid in the state of New York and they have a 92 percent recovery rate if indeed you are diagnosed with Covid. Again, millions of cases, and a small number of deaths.
Sweden v. Norway
Sweden did not lockdown, and they have 15,325 cases of Covid and they did 74,600 tests and 21 percent of all those tested came up positive for Covid. Sweden’s population is about 10.4 million. Extrapolating out the data, there are about two million cases of Covid in Sweden. They did a bit of social distancing and mask wearing, but schools and stores were open, businesses openly functioned, their daily lives continued with a small amount of social distancing. The death rate was 1,765 and California had 1,220 with isolation. There are more people in California, but it’s still millions of cases and very small death rate.
Norway, which is next door to Sweden, shut down their entire economy. They had 7,991 cases, total tested 149,279. They came up with 4.9 percent of all Covid tests were positive in Norway. The population is 5.4 million. Extrapolating data gives Norway about 1.3 million cases and their deaths were 182, which is fairly low and statistically insignificant and a .003 chance of death in Norway and a 97 percent recovery. Norway’s numbers are a small bit better than Sweden, but it doesn’t necessitate shutdown, loss of jobs, destruction of the oil industry and furloughing doctors.
Basically the numbers worldwide are the same, but what Fauci, Birx and Gates didn’t take into consideration were the deaths from the lockdown, alcoholism, suicides, drug addiction and overdoses, bankruptcies, loss of jobs and businesses…all of which will be more devastating than Covid-19 whose figures are very close to yearly flus.
Secondary Effects of Covid-19
Covid-19 is only one aspect of our health sector, but what has social isolation caused? Dr. Erickson has collected data from ERs across the country and talked to fellow physicians. Child molestation is increasing at a severe rate. Unemployed family members are home with no paychecks, they’re angry and intoxicated and doing damage that will last a lifetime. Spousal abuse is also massively on the rise. Alcoholism, anxiety, depression, drug addiction, suicides, education has dropped off, economic collapse, the medical industry is suffering because the staff is not there and there is no volume of patients. These are all things Dr. Erickson and Massihi see every day in their clinics from Fresno to San Diego, and the lockdown results are spiking in every community across America.
This is the ripple effect of listening to Fauci and Birx and their false models. Remember in January Fauci said this virus was nothing to worry about, but his tune changed, and so did our economy…all because of their false forecasts of the death rates of this virus.
Covid-19 v. Seasonal Flu
Is Covid-19 significantly different asks Dr. Erickson…well no, it isn’t. Deaths per the CDC are 24,000 to 60,000 each year. We had about 45 million cases of flu in 2017, with 62,000 deaths or a 0.13 chance of death from flu in America. Our other numbers were 0.02 for Covid, so the lethality of Covid-19 is much less. They followed the true science.
Sadly, what was presented to our president by Fauci and Birx at the onset of this pandemic was outrageously wrong, and now we have 26 million people out of work, a totally destroyed economy, humongous additional debt, and inflation on the near horizon. They told him to either sacrifice his economy or two million lives, what choice did the man have? But here’s the thing, who the hell vetted these two before putting them in power over America and our president’s decisions? Certainly not Pence.
Conclusion
The death counts from Covid-19 have been hugely amplified to include people who were not even tested and died from other ailments. I believe this entire virus was planned and executed by Fauci and Birx who are hardcore leftists tied to WHO, the UN the Clintons, and Obama. This eight-minute video is unverified and may be false, but it tells a lot of truth, albeit I do not believe anything negative will happen to Fauci. Decide for yourselves.
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