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Top of Bill’s book list: How to Lie With StatisticsAs best I was and am able, I have lived my life as normally as possible, though ignoring the COVID-19 virus drama is impossible when venturing out in public. Who can live in an altered reality without noticing? And more importantly, no matter the inflated numbers, who can forget all of the people who have died because of the scourge?I am first and foremost blessed to be healthy, and second, to live in a small rural area populated by no nonsense people who payed conscientious attention from the onset of the crises, then adjusted, accordingly, to facts as they unfolded over time. Our ability to observe a small microcosm, enabled those in my little town to realize early on that something was rotten in Denmark. (Unlike Sweden, by the way, who got it right when they never shut down).I live in a state with a liberal governor, whose legal election for two terms is highly questionable. In alliance with his cronies, he seems now to be attempting to regress across the state with the draconian restraints mandated initially; phasing backwards towards the extreme measures of isolation and shutdown that foolish progressives, given the opportunity, have demanded from the beginning and all along. In spite of, and with no honest response to statistical facts; and in some instances having unleashed unrelenting oppression since last spring on citizens, religious organizations and small businesses. The people who’ve suffered the most are from states, of course, governed by power-crazed, leftist pawns and/or globalists on board with the ‘neo-pogram’ (one of them being actively considered for impeachment by state legislators in Michigan; another a Republican RINO from Ohio revealing his alliances); all of them, regardless of affiliation, eaten up with egotism to the point of psychopathy. And who are remarkably ignorant to have received, supposed, elite educations.Personally, once I’d followed and deciphered enough research (based on my professional knowledge base as an advanced practice RN who worked for years with extremely immunocompromised children) and determined what was and wasn’t congruent information regarding the virus in terms of virology, epidemiology and aesthetic technique best practices, I dispensed with the measures I had followed before I was certain of the implications of the disease.I have since felt it my responsibility to be honest. The people being lulled into a false sense of security when led to believe a mask will save them are being insidiously terrorized as well. And, in fact, for those with cancer and other acute and chronic diseases, masks may increase the likelihood of morbidity secondary to bacterial pneumonia. This winter, across the board, there will also likely be an increase in Strep infections, exacerbated asthma and increased numbers of people who suffer colds and all viruses, and the complications associated with them.On a personal level, I’ve no longer bothered with the gloves and excessive hand washing/sanitizing I originally did; which are the only interventions shown to even remotely help in cases of viruses, with the exception of isolation or life in a hazmat suit.I, very infrequently, have worn a mask anymore, unless required by businesses, never outside and only in the company of people extremely immunocompromised or hysterically frightened (by the media) as a compassionate courtesy to them in homage of their fear. Even though I know that they don’t provide a barrier to viruses of any kind. Note: unlike bacteria, viruses are so minuscule that they can’t be seen under a normal microscope. An electron scanning variety must be used. Consider, that unlike a community flu that runs through large populations or countries, Strep (a bacterial infection) is much more localized and doesn’t evolve into full blown epidemics or pandemics. The size makes quite a difference in transmission…Think of bacteria as rocks you can see and might or might not touch or pick up; viruses are more like air, all around us all of the time.Because I understood, I’ve traveled by plane throughout the COVID-19 ‘pandemic,’ to California early on, Western NC and more recently to Texas and New Mexico. I’ve spent weeks at a time throughout NC from East to West, and in Virginia and Maryland. I’ve lodged in at least eight different hotels. I’ve eaten take out food often and dined out and supported restaurants all over the map as soon as they were opened; attended two gyms where I swim and worked out, as soon as equipment was made available, and in accordance with prescribed measures I must take for pain management and the potential for immobility complications resulting from a very serious injury I sustained two and a half years ago.I shop at grocery stores and the large chains that we are led to believe magically pose much less of a threat than small businesses with much less potential for cross contamination by smaller, very limited numbers of people allowed to patronize such businesses when compared to megastores; many of those small businesses temporarily closed again now and or permanently destroyed since.I’ve had my hair done, spent time on the beach and used public bathrooms. I’ve attended physical therapy weekly and worn a mask as required and handled exercise equipment as instructed; but honestly, without an over abundance of hand sanitizer afterwards, once recognizing actual risks.I have spent time with friends and family respecting the given dynamic of the group. Ninety-nine percent of the time that meant living as normal with no masks and no social distancing unless my party was in restaurants or shopping/sight seeing. I’ve had one massage by a woman who wore a mask religiously but touches scores of people daily and according to her, did so throughout the entire course of the ‘pandemic,’ from the start when I’d not have considered such services much less supplying them, because no one was sure how contagious or deadly the virus might be. Go figure. Whatever. I’ve since found a much smarter masseuse who also has common sense.If I felt badly I stayed home and might have tested positive at some point if I had ever been tested. But then, at any point of viral contact, which is frequent for everyone, when given a test close in time to a very recent exposure, swabs are guaranteed to detect whatever virus is encountered; including COVID and ALL other RNA viruses found living in people’s nasal mucosa, transiently, between the time they come in contact with the organism until their immune system fights it off. And we all have repeated exposures on a regular basis.Repeated, limited exposures propel herd immunity across time in the least painful way for all involved. Individually, people contact an organism, with exposure only to a very small viral load. The body fights small doses repeatedly until antibodies are adequate to maintain immunity in the event of coming in contact with a large viral load.In the case of COVID, someone with a fever and symptoms would need to cough all over you for about ten minutes or you’d need to have close contact with an extremely infected carrier: sex, drink after or touch a surface right after the infected person coughed or touched their mouth or eyes during their incubation stage (the time between contact with a microorganism until symptoms present; when the organism is multiplying). 99.9 % of the time, when anyone succumbs to the point of manifesting symptoms, they were immunosuppressed by some other chronic and/or accute disease before they contacted then came down with symptomatic COVID-19.I’ve admittedly used up considerable time struggling with living in the twilight zone. Simply thinking about the injustice of such horrific misinformation drives me to distraction. The various tests for COVID-19 are no help, as they don’t differentiate between specific RNA viruses (common colds are RNA viruses and no vaccination for any RNA virus has EVER existed). The testing formality in and of itself, therefore, for all practical, layman’s purposes, is invalid unless ‘cases’ are classified specifically to include only individuals manifesting symptoms indicative, exclusively, of COVID-19; rendering conjecture and skepticism equally or more valid than COVID tests or stats or research generated by worthless lab results.Thus far, again in laymen’s terms, among those diagnosed by a positive test and/or whose symptoms SELF RESOLVED with no intervention (99.9 percent of all cases) the loss of taste would appear the most compellingly unique indicator of an exclusively, definitive case of COVID; very often, the only presenting symptom. In other ‘cases’ classified as COVID, GI upset with minimal upper respiratory involvement have presented; and in still other cases, GI issues have been the only symptom. Often those people with odd, atypical presentations, were diagnosed because someone close to them had the typical COVID repertoire of respiratory issues, a fever and tested positive. The anomalous others were implicated due to their proximity to the ground zero patient, thus, required or compelled to take the test, which, as one would expect, turned up positive too. In many such cases individuals had no symptoms at all but were classified as a COVID ‘case,’ further skewing statistics, and generating hysteria, then spewed by mainstream activists.Meanwhile, in addition to very sketchy, inconsistent symptomology, some people diagnosed with COVID have reported very miserable flu-like symptoms that self resolved anywhere from 24 hours to two weeks from onset. Considering the very predictable nature of viruses (even in terms of the period of duration for each specific bug-some 48 hours, some 72 hours for instance) and this years terrible influenza season, it’s very questionable whether Influenzas A and B were ever ruled out at the time a swab test yielded a positive for COVID-19 in more acutely ill patients, who might as easily have had a terrible cold (an RNA virus), Infuenza A and or B with COVID-19 in the mix). No doubt a recipe for respiratory disaster.To compound confusion, there were huge financial incentives for categorizing patients identified with any respiratory or RNA virus that registered positive, as COVID-19 exclusively; thus, biased diagnostics became common practice. Since other viruses and underlying disease states were never ruled out concurrently, statistics presented to the public, were and are, therefore, in most instances, even more so, largely without merit.The very classification of the disease as a pandemic has been erratic and disingenuous. COVID has not come close to meeting the morbidity statistics associated with once, clearly defined measures that were required when classifying a disease as worthy of pandemic status. (Definitions that are now denied by the WHO as ever having existed).Is the Coronavirus an Epidemic or a Pandemic? It Depends on Who’s TalkingState-by-state breakdown of federal aid per COVID-19 case: HHS recently began distributing the first $30 billion of emergency funding designated for hospitals in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Some of the states hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive less funding than states touched relatively lightly, according to an analysis by Kaiser Health News.I realize that I have been very fortunate. I feel great sadness for those immunosuppressed and elderly people who died from complications of COVID-19, and compassion for the loved ones who lost them. But I feel, likewise, equal concern for the billions of others worldwide whose lives have been destroyed by this manipulated, over-blown novel virus that should never have been introduced into any country; and may well have been released intentionally.Great suffering has been forced on the entire world because of the manipulation and mishandling of interventions related to the plague. And everyone involved, including the media, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for their part in disinformation-inspired gas lighting, and the psychological distress their misconduct has incited; for the destruction of the economy; for misrepresenting masks as an effective preventive measure that has instead frightened children while compromising their educations, simultaneously giving rise to fractures in relationships across populations, internationally and at home.Most importantly, those guilty of exploiting the virus for political manipulation and gain should be prosecuted for the assault on billions of lives resulting in untold damages that will, in many cases, never be undone. The least of these not the thousands of people who have lost their homes and businesses, thus, everything; and the rest-home residents who died because Andrew Cuomo intentionally sent persons who were sick with symptoms; who were tested and found positive for COVID, into the only environment we all knew with certainty at the time he did it, were morbidly susceptible. Second degree murder by the way.*To see the above video Quora won’t imbed; search YouTube -‘Medical Doctors and Lawyers allied against global malfeasance.’Anyone foolish enough to claim the Trump administration did nothing during the virus, or to believe that claim, given the facts of the matter, might consider taking a statistics course; a pursuit that may facilitate more accurate critical thinking as regards the recent election as well.*Old news and ridiculous to have to engage in new studies that were long since done and have generated best practice standards for years… but:YouTube: Dr. Shiva Live: Masks and Oral Health.Trevor Loudon: China Tied to Election Push; the Global Socialist AgendaCDC: COVID-19 Quarantines Can Be as Short as Seven Days