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10 COVID Questions for Health Officials
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Illinois State Democrat Postmortem
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The "Stop the Shrieking Media" Vote
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Powerful Presidents Incompatible with Liberty
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Eleven COVID-19 Questions for Local Health Officials
WORDS FROM THE EDITOR
By Kathleen McCarthy
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WorldwideUnited StatesIowaScott CountyIllinoisRI County
Population: 7,824,677,511 331,002,651 3,155,070 172,943 12,671,821 143,233Coronavirus Cases: 51,239,330 10,421,956 157,902 6,760 498,560 5,636Deaths: 1,269,120 244,448 1,851 51 10,563 101Case Mortality Rate (deaths/cases): 2.48% 2.35% 1.17% 0.75% 2.12% 1.79%Mortality Rate (deaths/population): 0.016% 0.074% 0.059% 0.029% 0.083% 0.071%From: Worldometers.info
R
egarding the worldwide crisis brought about by governments’ response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus,
or nine months the
Reader
has kept to our
mission o providing news and inorma-
tion beyond what is delivered by both local
and national corporate media. Alternative inormation and viewpoints are what we
do, and COVID-19 is no exception. In act, because o its importance to our bio-uture
and personal reedoms, understanding COVID-related issues deserves as deep a
dive as we can muster.
By now, readers should be understand-ably concerned over the Herculean efforts by health authorities, so-called journalists, and social engineers (Facebook, witter, Google, and Youube) to censor any skepticism sur-rounding SARS2-CoV-2 (virus)/COVID-19 (disease) as a lethal pathogen threatening humans.Afer nine months o research, clinical observation, and accumulated data analysis o millions o people and outcomes world-wide, highly credentialed medical proes-sionals and scientists emphatically disagree. Rational disagreement is ofen what science requires, and in the case o COVID-19, potentially providing game-changing posi-tive discovery toward ending our collective misery enduring lockdowns, mask-wearing, and continued isolation.Rather than standing at odds with these growing numbers o legitimate skeptics, equally convicted health authorities need to participate by answering more prob-ing questions that persist. Tere may be undisclosed answers or why COVID-19 is considered to be a pandemic-level disease, even though its epidemiology suggests it is undeserving as it is not substantially differ-ent than common flus and/or cold strains (many o which are also coronaviruses) or most people.Again, tens o thousands o medical per-sonnel in practice, academia, and research have expressed grave concerns over incon-sistencies in diagnoses, data collection, and treatments; flawed diagnostic tools; contra-dictions in otherwise traditional protocols or peer review and scientific analysis; and a growing compendium o incoherent conclu-sions inevitably parroted by corporate media and social engineers to influence public acceptance o extreme mitigation policies.Yet the large body o science that under-pins growing skepticism, by the world’s medical community and public at large, is rarely addressed by any o the designated “trusted voices” such as Dr. Anthony Fauci or Dr. Deborah Birx. And therein lies the deeper problem. Tis lack o transparency and defiant unwillingness to conront legiti-mate and rational skepticism, even going so ar as to systematically censor it, is a neon red flag affirming skeptics are on to some-thing important.Tis same dynamic is bearing out here in Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois. On October 27, 2020, both counties’ Health Department officials held a presser to correct “misconceptions” in the commu-nity about COVID-19. Tere was genuine anticipation or questions and conusion to be cleared up relative to COVID-19, such as the PCR tests’ reliability in diagnosing a disease via detecting a partial target viral ragment; or why the fixation on increased cases are now the basis or threat assessment relative to COVID-19; or why the number o deaths are no longer the oremost measure o lethality or COVID-19, as it has been or every other inectious disease or centuries? Alas, much was lef unaddressed. o the health departments’ great credit, they are posting the recording o their pressers and you can watch the October 27 presser and read their effort to correct misconceptions at RCReader.com/y/covid1922. Tis effort is very appreciated.In the spirit o cooperation and collabora-tion, the
Reader
has prepared and delivered questions as a means o engagement with our local health authorities requesting them to kindly respond in writing. We will publish their responses or Quad Citizens, hopeully bringing clarity, inormed under-standing o the relative risks, and perhaps even alleviate dread, simultaneously re-energizing confidence in community health stewardship. Interest in topics and issues can be enriched by our public servants’ respon-siveness to questions and concerns, espe-cially as our local “trusted voices.”
COVID-19 Questions
A “case” o an inectious disease has tradi-tionally meant that a person is inected with enough virus (viral load) to cause symptoms o the disease, as well as to inect others at this time. Ninety percent o people testing positive or SARS-CoV-2 have no symptoms – are asymptomatic – so by definition do not have enough virus present to cause COVID-19 disease, and are thereore not contagious, either. One o the FDA’s parameters or
COVID-19 esting Guidelines
warns testing providers to veriy any viral detection with clinical confirmation o symptoms beore making an affirmative diagnosis a.k.a. “a case,” indicating that the PCR test alone cannot diagnose disease because it does not detect the amount o virus. 1) How are these guidelines being ol-lowed when testers and providers are diagnosing asymptomatic people that test positive as “cases”? Te newest COVID-19 controversy concerns the validity o the R-PCR est as a reliable diagnostic tool due to the cycle thresholds being set too high to accurately confirm the presence o the target viral ragment, and ofen resulting in alse posi-tives based on other material present, such as dead virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, in an interview with
Tis Week in Virology
(July 16, 2020), describes the PCR test’s weakness: “I you have a cycle threshold o 35 or more, the chances o it being replication competent are miniscule.” He urther explains that “you can almost never culture virus rom a 37, 38, even a 36 cycle threshold … you have to say it’s just dead nucleotides.” Te cycle threshold or most PCR tests range rom 37-45, with LabCorp averaging btw 38-40 cycle thresholds, according to the FDA. 2) By what criteria do you confidently diagnose asymptomatic people with COVID-19 who test positive at those higher 38-40 cycle thresholds, knowing the ampli-fication is too high to be definitive or the presence o SARS-CoV-2 virus, let alone enough to cause an actual case o COVID-19 disease?Even at a lower cycle threshold o 29-33, a positive test result indicating the presence o the target viral ragment does not indicate how much o the virus (viral load) is pres-ent in the body or a definitive diagnosis o COVID-19 disease without urther clinical observation.3) And i the disease cannot be confirmed as present due to no symptoms, how can these asymptomatic people be classified as cases, and/or contagious?4) Do you contact trace rom asymptomatic people who test positive with cycle thresholds higher than 35, and i so, what is your justification i the originat-ing viral detection was too low to replicate, meaning not contagious? 5) What percentage o reported “cases” are rom people who were contact traced and presumed to be positive, but not actually tested? For the remaining 10 percent o people who are symptomatic and confirmed with both positive testing and clinical obser- vation, the recovery rate is 99 percent or patients under 70, and 94 percent or patients 70 and older, according to the CDC. In the same report, most symptomatic patients experience a range o symptoms, most ofen mimicking a harsh flu or severe cold. COVID-19 hospitalizations were con-sistently due to underlying conditions, not COVID alone. 6) When reporting the number o hospi-talizations, how do you differentiate between patients suffering rom similar illnesses such as flu or respiratory conditions, causing COVID-19 to be subordinate to these ofen more serious conditions? Te CDC has confirmed in its recent report on mortality (using actual data versus predictive models) that the survival rate or those with COVID-19 is 99 percent or everyone under 70 years o age, and 94 percent or those 70 and older. It is well documented that COVID-19 impacts our elderly, almost always with two or more comorbidities. Yet health officials have chosen to concentrate resources or assess-ment and mitigations on 99 percent o the population to protect the vulnerable 1-per-cent demographic.7) What is the rationale or this strategy? Please be specific. Te CDC also recently reported that deaths “
from
” COVID-19 were substantially less than deaths “
with
” COVID-19. Te report underscored the majority o deaths with COVID-19 had comorbidities that were the primary causes o those deaths. Yet comorbidities are rarely mentioned by health authorities when reporting COVID-19 deaths. 8) Why is this significant comorbidity data omitted rom news releases/reporting on a patient dying rom COVID-19, when it would otherwise be most useul in assessing risk rom SARS-CoV-2?Number o deaths has been the primary measure o lethality o an inectious disease or centuries until COVID-19. oday, the constant crisis is perpetuated by the number o rising cases. Yet even though the number o cases is rising, the number o COVID-19-related corresponding deaths has not. Tis is consistently true worldwide. Accord-ing to the CDC, deaths due to COVID-19 are infinitesimal as a percentage o the global population, bringing into question, by definition, the status o SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 as a true pandemic. (See chart on page 2.) 9) Why are deaths no longer the leading indicator o lethality or COVID-19?In the October 27 presser, county health officials stated “Because we do not know exactly how someone’s body and immune system will respond to the coronavirus, 100 percent o people are at risk o dying rom COVID-19.” Volumes o evidence are to the contrary. 10) How can health officials lump all people into a risk category or contracting any disease and dying based solely on the vast “unknown” regarding immune systems? 11) I there are no excess deaths, or threats o death rom COVID-19 or 99 percent o the population, what precisely is the justifi-cation or the extreme mitigations? In other words: How does shuttering businesses, clos-ing schools, limiting access to health care (especially to provide care or patients with a single illness that has ar less risk o death than many other patients whose conditions include ar greater mortality rates), wearing masks or prolonged periods, and isolating people rom one another indefinitely, mea-surably prevent 1 percent o the population rom harm due to COVID-19? Please be specific. Tank you or your participation. We look orward to your responses. We hope this is a new path or active civic engagement and robust communication. Afer all, as you thoughtully remind us, we are in this together.
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I
llinois Democrats were hoping or some
big election-night wins last week, but
now everything has devolved into finger-
pointing chaos.
Governor JB Pritzker’s graduated-income
tax proposal was in some doubt or a while.
Te governor’s campaign chose not to advertise early because o the delicacies o
politics during a pandemic, so they passed up a chance at total dominance o the play-ing field during crucial months.
When billionaire Ken Griffin finally decided to weigh in against it, the propo-
nents had lost the crucial advantage o time
to drive their message home unettered. And the “anti” message was strong and relatable: Don’t trust Illinois politicians to do the right thing. Te proponents’ much-
less-ocused message simply had no chance.
Te ballot measure was losing as o November 6 by almost ten percentage
points and about 500,000 votes.
A narrow loss would’ve been one thing. But afer voters overwhelmingly rejected
taxing a relatively ew upper-income people,
it’s going to be hugely difficult to convince
Democratic state legislators to make up or
those billions in lost revenues by increasing
the state’s flat tax on everyone.
Without the money generated by a gradu-
ated income tax, Governor Pritzker’s all-back was the hope that Joe Biden would win the White House and the Democrats would take control o the US Senate and
give big bucks to the states. As I write this,
Democratic control o the Senate appears
in doubt.
So i Pritzker can’t raise taxes and he can’t get a ederal bailout, that leaves a $5 billion Federal Reserve loan, and the only
way to make room or those payments will be to slash an already-bare-bones budget to the marrow or consider shafing the public employee unions and “reorm” pensions.
Pritzker is most definitely not in a good
place. He put literally everything on this tax
vote and he came up way short.
A big loss like that can easily devastate
legislative confidence in a governor. As I’ve
said or years, this business is a protection racket. You earn support by proving you can protect your ellow politicians’ inter-
ests. Despite Pritzker’s billions, his big win two years ago over an incumbent governor
and broad public support or his handling
o the pandemic, he did not hold up his end on this one.Tat brings us to soon-to-be-ormer Illi-
nois Supreme Court Justice om Kilbride, who conceded deeat in his retention bid. Te opposition’s message, also mainly unded by Ken Griffin, was brisk and simple: A vote against Justice Kilbride is a
vote against Madigan.
We’re to the point where I don’t even have
to explain that “Madigan” means House Speaker Michael Madigan. Everybody knows who he is and most despise him, so the attack worked like a charm in that
downstate, blue-collar district.
Like Pritzker, Kilbride did not have an effective counter-argument. Kilbride ell way short o the votes he needed to be
retained.One o US Senator Dick Durbin’s avored
Democratic congressional candidates, Betsy
Dirksen Londrigan, was handily deeated last week afer narrowly losing to US Rep-
resentative Rodney Davis two years beore.
Te ads run by Representative Davis and his
allies constantly eatured “Madigan.”
And while the Griffin-unded effort to
deeat the Fair ax didn’t mention Speaker
Madigan in their V spots, they did use Madigan in direct mail, and people gener-
ally hate Madigan so much that it’s probably
not a huge leap to say he’s why the “Don’t
trust ‘em” approach worked so well.In disgust, the governor and US Senators
Durbin and ammy Duckworth all threw Madigan under the bus afer the election
ended, calling on him to quit the chairman-
ship o the state Democratic Party. Senator
Duckworth even suggested he should no
longer be House Speaker.But i you zoom out or a moment, you’ll
see that congressional Democrats ailed to
meet expectations all over the country last
week and a massive national push to elect more Democratic state legislators crashed
and burned.
On election night, Madigan appeared to have lost two House seats to the Republi-
cans when expectations were that he’d pick
up several, but that might change or the
better when all the votes are finally counted.Te bottom line is the “Madigan” message
appears to have worked and it’s probably only going to get worse or the Democrats
i he remains in power.But that doesn’t let the governor, Senator
Durbin, and Kilbride off the hook. And a much-better-than-expected perormance by President Donald rump in Illinois,
combined with a national trend that defied expectations, were also involved.In other words, simple explanations are usually neither.
Rich Miller also publishes
Capitol Fax
, a daily political newsletter, and CapitolFax.com.
New Column Published Weekly at RCReader.com
By Rich Miller
ILLINOIS POLITICS
State Democrat Postmortem: Bad Timing, Bad Decisions
GUEST COMMENTARY
By Caitlin Johnstone
T
herecordturnoutorBidenwasn’torBiden. It wasn’t even really to stop rump. Ulti-mately,mostvoterswereunconsciousotheir true motive. Tis vote was tostopthe mass media romshriekinghysterical bullshit intheiracesall thetimeandmakingthemeelcrazy.rump will leave office on January 20, a sound reutationo the widespreadnarrative that he was a totalitarian dictator who presented an unprec-edentedthreattodemocracy.Tehystericalexaggerationsothethreatrump posedweren’tdestructivebecausetheywereunair to rump. Tey were destructive because they created the alse impression that those who came beore himand those who will come afer are not equallydepraved.Tere’s zero chance o rump challenging the electionwithanyefficacyunless(a)hereallybadly wantstoremainpresidentand(b)sufficientlylarge powerstructureswant himtoremainpresident. It isalreadyclearthatneither(a)nor(b)arethecase. He’s out. Te people who spent our years being wrongabout rumpdraining the swampare now laboringunderthedelusionthathe’dbewillingand abletostoptheentireswampromstealinganelec-tionromhim.Heisn’t.“Ivotedagainstascism.”No, you voted against what you perceive as a more dangerous order o ascism. Tat’s fine, but don’tlietoyourselaboutit. opretendthatalie-longmurderousauthoritarianlikeBidenisascism-reeistodeceiveyourselintouturecomplacency.Tereis nolegitimatereasonwhyBidenshould not be grilled in every single press conerence or specificdetailsonhowheplanstoulfillhispromise toendthewarinYemen.ItheU.S.hadanhonest and responsible news media, that is exactly what wouldhappen.No,Bidenisnotgoingtoenslaveyoutocommu-nism.He’sgoingtoenslaveyoutoend-stageimpe-rialistneo-liberalismlikeeveryoneelse.Surelookingorwardtoacabinetulloneocons, spooks,andcoldwarriorsrollingoutlong-planned militaryagendaswhiletheliberalmediatalksabout Kamala’sshoesandtherightcallsBidenaChi-Com.Some deeply, deeply evil agendas are set to be rolledoutduringtheBidenadministration.It’snot goingtobepretty.Teempirehasn’tgottenlessdes-peratesincetheObamaadministration, it’sgotten moredesperate.Getready.Biden will be the first president in recent memorywhopromisedtobemoreinterventionist and attacked his opponent or being insufficiently hawkish.rumpranonreducinginterventionism, sodidObama,evenBush.Biden’sstartingoutrom amuchmorehawkishposition.Te U.S. ederal government is an entirely evil institution. All this cheering about an insatiable death monster now having competent leadership andgrown-upsinchargeispsychotic.At long last the competent grown-ups who murderpeoplehavereturnedtotheWhiteHouse. Wecanallsleepmuchbetteratnightknowingthere are once again adults in the room who murder people.U.S.politicalleadersaresoreveredbythemedia and so normalized on our screens that it’s easy to orgethowmanychildrenthey’vemurdered.New rule: You instantly lose any argument in whichyouuttertheword“rump”whentryingto deendJoeBiden.No legitimate deense against a criticism o Bidencontainsthewordrump.Tevotingisover; “RUMP!” is no longer an answer. rump being baddoesn’tmakeBidengoodanymorethanheart diseasebeingbadmakescancergood.Tat thewealthyexploit theworkingclass is an outrage. Tat they continually restructure all o societyaroundthatexploitationisacrime.Atthehighestlevelsit’salwaysultimatelyabout expandingandtighteninggeo-strategiccontrol. I youseeelitemaneuversasrevolvingaroundprofit oranti-communismorZionismetc. youwill miss things.Butiyouseethesemaneuversasmovement towardglobaldomination,everythingfits.Celebrities are the very last people whose opin-ions you should consult on howto think, what to value,andhowtolive.All our problems are undamentally due to things not happening the way we think they are happening. Powerstructures.Financial,economic,andpolit-icalsystems.Consciousnessitsel. Wemisunderstandwhat’sreallygoingon,andit impedesourabilitytounction.Investigatingthenatureoselandexperienceis themostimportantthinganyonecanpossiblydo. Youcandoithereandnow. Youdon’tneedany specialequipmentortraining.And,youdon’tneed toeveracceptanythingonaith. Andwhatyoufindcanwildlytransormyourlie.Meanwhile, U.S. Democrats have shocked the worldbymanagingtospectacularlyunder-perorm againstapresidentwhohasailedthenationbyvir-tuallyeverymetricaferyearsomass-mediastories claimingheisliterallyasecretagentorahostileor-eigngovernment.As o this writing, the election is still too close to call, and rump could still end up winning. Tis should never have been close, and it should prompt someserious soul-searchingor theparty. Obviously some drastic changes need to be made, becausewhattheyaredoingclearlyisnotworking.Sowiththatinmind,herearethekeylessonswecan expect Democrats totakeawayromtheir terrible 2020perormance:1)RUSSIA!!!!2)RUSSIA!!!!3)Shouldhaverunamorerightwingcandidate.4)RUSSIA!!!!5)ShouldhavegivenmoremoneytotheLincoln Project.6)TisisstillSusanSarandon’sault.7)GetPelositosay“Wakandaorever!”atthe nextStateotheUnionaddress.8) Bernie Sanders: secretly Russian?? Demand investigationbySpecialCounsel.9) DemandmoreInternet censorship. Treaten antitrustcasesinecessary.10)RUSSIA!!!!11)WasthereaGreenPartycandidatethisyear? Findout.Iyes,they’reRussian.12) Get the Krassenstein brothers their own MSNBCshow.13)Breasthats.14)Kenteclothsurrenderflag.15) Re-appoint Debbie Wasserman-Schultz to DNCchair.16)IRAN!!!!(plottwist!)17)Spendmoretimeonwitteryellingatlefists orbeingtooarlef.18)GetSteveBannontojointhe#Resistance.19)PromisevotersitheystartsupportingDem-ocratsthey’llberewardedwitheconomicsanctions on geo-strategically valuable nations on the other sideotheworld.20) ry doing literally nothing and see i that helps.21) ry giving rump everything he wants and seeithathelps.22)Getwealthycelebritiestoshamevoters.23)SeeiedCruzwillrunasaDemin2024.24)Findoutwhat“QAnon”is,thenseeimaybe wecandosomethingsimilar.25)RUSSIA!!!!
Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian (where Julian Assange is from) independent journalist whose further writings can be found at CaitlinJohnstone.com.
The "Stop the Shrieking Media" Vote
GUEST COMMENTARY
By Ron Paul
GUEST COMMENTARY
Powerful Presidents Are Incompatible With Liberty
T
he mainstream media has declared ormer Vice President Joe Biden the winner o the 2020 presidential elec-
tion. However, this does not mean the 2020
Presidential campaign has come to an end. President Donald rump is continuing his legal challenges to the vote counts in some
key states.
he emotional investment o many Americans into the race between rump and Biden would have shocked the draf-ers o the Constitution. Te Constitution’s authors intended the presidency to be an office o strictly limited powers that would not impact most Americans. Te Constitu-tion authorizes the president to administer
laws passed by Congress, not create laws via
executive orders. Te president serves as Commander-in-Chie o the military ol-lowing a Congressional declaration o war,
with no authority to unilaterally send troops
into oreign conflict.Te Founders did not intend or the presi-
dent to set the national agenda, and they would be horrified to see modern presidents assume the authority to order American
citizens indefinitely detained and even killed without due process.Te idea that the president should exercise
almost unlimited powers is a legacy o the
progressive movement. Progressives, who are responsible or the rise o the American wel-
are-warare state, have an affinity or a strong
presidency that is not surprising. A govern-ment that aspires to run our lives, run the
economy, and run the world requires a strong
executive branch unettered by the Consti-tution’s chains. Te Cold War also provided a boost to presidential power, as it justified
presidents assuming more unchecked author-
ity in the name o national security.
Te concentration o power in the execu-tive branch does not mean presidents are
all-powerul. For example, even though presi-
dents are judged by the state o the economy,
the unelected, unaccountable Federal Reserve
Board typically has greater influence over the economy then the president. Presidents ofen
must tailor their economic policies to deal with the consequences o the Fed’s actions. Tis is why presidents spend so much time
and energy trying to influence the non-polit-
ical Fed. Fed Chairs usually, but not always,
reciprocate by attempting to tailor polices to be useul to the incumbent president.
It has become cliché to say that “politics
stops at the water’s edge.” Tis means no one – not even members o Congress, should ever oppose or second-guess a president’s oreign-policy decisions. However, this rule does not
apply to those comprising what has become
popularly known as the “deep state,” the mili-tary-industrial complex, the national security
bureaucracy – including the CIA – congres-sional staffers, and members o the media. Tis deep state serves a permanent govern-
ment and has an agenda it pursues regardless
o the wishes o the president or the American
people.
Te deep state has derailed President rump’s (modest) efforts to ulfill his cam-
paign promise to pursue a less interventionist
oreign policy and end the wars in Aghani-
stan and Iraq. Members o the deep state were
instrumental in the Russiagate hoax and the impeachment o President rump. Many supported impeachment because President rump’s actions contradicted the DC “con-sensus” on U.S./Ukraine relations and the need or a new Cold War with Russia. Presi-dent rump is not the first president to be undermined by the deep state and he will
certainly not be the last.
Te 2020 election has awoken many Ameri-cans to the corruption o the modern welare-
warare state. Tese Americans are ripe or
the message o liberty. Tey can help with the
vital task o demystiying the U.S. Presidency,
destroying the deep state, restoring our con-
stitutional republic, and regaining our lost
liberties.
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