A LIFE LESSON

Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your
God will be with you wherever you go ~ Joshua 1:9

Take a moment & read this. it’s good.
Sami Roberts

Our Global Nations are hurting. Lord, we need You!
Please sweep through the world and heal this land.
Restore our strength, renew our minds, and cast out anything that’s not of You.
In Your Son, Jesus’ name, WE pray. Amen.

You cannot move on ~ until we accept: • you will not receive closure in every situation
• you cannot change people, no matter how much you think they need change.
• some people won’t apologize because they can’t • some things cannot be explained
• people can only change themselves
• So you can’t change everybody!!!

The world needs more love and less opinions,
Today and every day, God’s got you.

Courage – Motivational Video – Bing video

Let go of what’s holding you back. God has better things ahead.
When life doesn’t go as planned, remember that God knows best.

Thank you Jesus for putting the best people in my life.
A life that feels good on the inside is so much more important than a life that just looks good on the outside, The sooner you realize that some people aren’t meant to be in your life forever the better. Just tell yourself to be thankful for the season you had and let go. No hard feelings. The sooner you realize that some people aren’t meant to be in your life forever the better. Just tell yourself to be thankful for the season you had and let go. No hard feelings. I’m a firm believer in “be the kind of person who makes everybody feel like somebody.” LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR!!!

If you’re having one of those days where it feels like you’re completely on your own,
please know that God is with you.

My best friend said, “at some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening” and that’s good advice for everyone. No matter the truth, people see what they want to see, but God knows everything and that’s all that matters.
Racism is a heart problem. It hurts me that there are people too full of hate and too full prejudice to see that we are all God’s children.

Today I saw something that said, “don’t be afraid to lose people; be afraid of losing yourself trying to please everyone around you” and that’s so important.
I saw a quote that said, “Speak to people in a way that if they died the next day you’d be satisfied with the last thing you said to them,” and I can’t emphasize this enough.
I don’t know what you’re going through right now, but I want to say this: Don’t hurry through it & don’t hide in pain. Talk to God about your hurt & let Him be your strength to
keep living one day at a time.

My pastor said, “Jesus has so much more for you than what you’re holding onto” and that’s something everyone should hear. “when it feels like your back’s against the wall and you can’t keep going, God is fighting for you” and that’s so important to remember during the hard days. even on the bad days, remember God has a plan for your future.

Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”
– John 13:7

“If you have the chance to make people happy, just do it. Sometimes people are struggling silently. Maybe, your act of kindness can make their day.” Today I heard a pastor say,
“God isn’t comparing you like you’re comparing you” and that’s so important to remember.
Do you ever think about how your life would be if you would’ve made just one decision differently or is it just me???
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Jesus has my heart. Shining for Him. Always smiling. Stop trying to prove yourself to others when what God knows about you matters most. God made you for a purpose. Don’t doubt it. This year has taught me to appreciate everything and take nothing for granted.
When looking back doesn’t interest you anymore, you’re doing something right. keep moving forward. Friendly reminder that Jesus is greater than whatever you are facing right now. Maybe you’d do parts of your life differently if you could, but don’t discount what you’ve been through and the person you’ve become. everything happens for a reason.
Through absolutely everything, I know Jesus is with me. Kindness matters because life is hard and people have feelings. Jesus said to love one another and that includes everyone. Read that again.

“Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this but please remember that no matter how alone you feel…
God is always with you. I’m that person who will go shopping with you and tell you
to buy everything you like. Sorry, not sorry.

I don’t make the rules. Praying for your friends is so important. you never know what they could be going through that they don’t talk about. Shoutout to the people who haven’t felt okay lately, but get up everyday and refuse to quit. Stay Strong.

First impressions are important, but so are second chances. read that again.
If this year has taught me anything, it’s that you never know what the future holds.
I’m such a believer in “it’s so important to love someone a little extra on their bad days.”
Whatever you’re worried about, God is taking care of it for you.

The pain that you’ve been feeling, can’t compare to the joy that’s coming. Romans 8:18.
Friendly reminder that God’s not comparing you to others, so you shouldn’t be comparing yourself to others either. just focus on being who He made you to be. Maybe everything you’re going through is God preparing you for something great. I’m such a believer in “you’re only as pretty as you treat people.” How would I describe 2020?? Well, when Michael Scott said, “I’m going through a little bit of a rough patch, the whole year actually” that pretty much sums it up.

Be Strong and Courageous – Bing video

People may let you down, but God never will. He’s always by your side.
Just because someone seems okay on the outside doesn’t mean they’re okay on the inside. don’t forget to check on your friends. When everything seems like it’s falling apart, that’s when God is putting things together in just the right way. I think part of trusting God is looking to the future with excitement and not worry or dread.

Be the reason someone feels welcomed, loved, heard, seen, and supported today.
Don’t ever let someone make you feel bad for doing what’s best for you.
Respect yourself enough to walk away from what you want when you know it’s not what you deserve. Just because some people don’t like you, doesn’t mean you need to change.
You should never change to please others. Be who God made you to be and you’ll be okay. Don’t ever assume you know what someone else is going through or what their life is like because you don’t. Everyone is going through something. Be kind.

There is always a purpose for your pain with God. keep going. Nothing is too big for God to handle. Whatever you’re going through, you’re not going through it alone. God’s got you. Even in uncertain times, I’m certain that God still has a plan. you never know whose life may be impacted because of you. be kind. build others up. go out of your way to show love. 0ne of my biggest goals is to make my parents proud. You won’t have to chase what God sent and that’s how you’ll know it’s right.
Whatever it is you’ve prayed about today, God is saying,
“I got you.”

Do you ever just wish you could go back in time and do a few things differently??
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the world would be so different without you in it. “Don’t be afraid to lose people, be afraid of losing yourself trying to please everyone around you” YES. always keep in mind that God knows what’s best for you. If people don’t respect or appreciate you …you shouldn’t be in their life. Don’t ignore the signs you asked God to show you. Pay attention to the people who make you feel your best when you’re around them.. friendly reminder that nothing good comes from tearing down other people so don’t be that person. be kind. I’m a strong believer that a little bit of kindness goes a long way.

“At some point you just have to let go of what you thought should happen and live in what is happening” and that’s good advice for everyone. Actions speak louder than words. Loving God changes how you love others and how others see you. Today I’m praying for peace and rest in all the hearts of people who are fighting unseen battles that others know nothing about. If there’s one thing I’m absolutely sure about it’s that God is good.

If you wouldn’t like it done to you, don’t do it to others. read that again.

In the words of Michael Scott, “Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike three.”

Be the person that will help others find their way back to God.

When God closes a door, don’t keep pulling on the handle. let it go.

MAY His presence go before you and behind you, and beside you all around you,
and within you He is with you, He is with you.

When God tells you no He is simply protecting you from less than His best.
It’s such a good feeling just driving around on a sunny day with the windows down and music up. “Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so you will discover that He is the rock at the bottom. ”WOW. Whatever you’re holding on to, pray and give it to God.
Don’t try and manipulate or force the outcome. Be strong, have faith, and trust Him to open the right door at the right time.

If you have the opportunity to make someone happy, do it. Sometimes people are struggling silently and your kindness could mean everything. Today I read, “God didn’t remove the Red Sea, He opened it. Just because God hasn’t removed your problem, doesn’t mean He won’t provide a way through it” and that’s a good reminder for everyone. pay close attention to the people you feel your best around and the people you feel your worst around. The Same God that created mountains, oceans and galaxies looked at you and thought the world needed one of you too.
The Sound of Footsteps – Motivational Video
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Free Thoughts Live

Overcoming Racism is about behaving and dressing respectfully and
then being treated respectfully. 

Proper Behavior (present participle)
act or conduct oneself in a specified way, especially toward others.
“he always behaved like a gentleman” · “you should behave affectionately toward the patient”
synonyms: conduct oneself · act · acquit oneself · bear oneself · carry oneself · comport oneself · deport oneself (of a machine or natural phenomenon)
work or function in a specified way.
“each car behaves differently”
synonyms:
function · go · run · operate · perform · be in working order
conduct oneself in accordance with the accepted norms of a society or group.
“they were expected to behave themselves” · “you can go as long as you behave”
synonyms: act correctly · act properly · conduct oneself well · act in a polite way · show good manners · mind one’s manners · mind one’s Ps and Qs · be good · be polite · be well behaved
antonyms: misbehave

Against Cultural Protectionism
written by Leo Nicolletto

Like most of my generation, I was introduced to Leonard Cohen’s hymn to heartbreak, ‘Hallelujah,’ via its perfected version by Jeff Buckley. Buckley’s incredible voice echoed and shone through the haunting atmospherics of his sparse guitar, like a lonely angel fallen from the heavenly choir. It was the kind of song that would stop a conversation, stop your train of thought—something sacred. Its meditation on the beautiful melancholy of human life was only accentuated by Buckley’s untimely death, and passing into legend, soon after its release.
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Official Video) – YouTube

Like Buckley, the song sat in the subcultural collective consciousness, something those of us at the tail end of Generation X would add to mix-tapes for our crushes, or learn to sing around the fire. Perhaps it was one of us who, having grown up and gone into film, suggested Rufus Wainwright’s version of the song for the soundtrack to Shrek. But however it happened, the song soon exploded into mainstream millennial consciousness. It became a fixture of talent shows and reality TV—not to mention the buskers. Oh, the buskers. Even today (or at least, before the lockdowns), it seems as though every second busker has a version, to the point where even the most talented singer’s first notes are enough to raise groans of contemptuous familiarity. But for those of us who remember Jeff, the sin isn’t merely that it’s overplayed. It feels more like something akin to blasphemy. Buckley’s version was so beautiful, and the soundtrack to so many key moments in our coming-of-age,
that the populist’s pale, earnest attempts are like crossing uninvited into sacred space.

I started thinking about Buckley and ‘Hallelujah’ in an attempt to empathize with people who get upset about cultural appropriation. Of course, I recognize the imperfectness of this comparison, not to mention the irony—that Buckley’s version was itself a cover. And—to the extent that a Canadian Jew, a grungy New Yorker, and an international assortment of buskers can—everyone in this story shares the same general culture. Can there be such a thing as sub-cultural appropriation? And in that case, were any die-hard Cohen fans upset when they heard Buckley’s version? (I suspect not.) But reflecting on these questions has brought out some greater nuances in the debates over cultural appropriation that continue to arise with regularity. The mutation of ‘Hallelujah’ from Cohen through Buckley to the X-Factor offers a microcosm of the way that cultures shift, and an important distinction between two types of cultural appropriation—an organic, artistic kind, and a more commercialized kind. This distinction raises important questions over the nature of what a culture actually is, and how meaningful practices get packaged into something that can be bought and sold. By focusing on their discomforts with the second kind, opponents of cultural appropriation risk falling into a narrative of exclusivity and rigid divisions that close us off from creative and cultural development—the very essence of the diversity they claim to protect.

Owning symbols, owning styles
The problem begins when we take a cultural trait or signifier—like a hairstyle or a style of music—and try to restrict it to an abstract group. Because while cultures are continuous, the elements that comprise them are extremely fluid. Cultures are always evolving. Like human individuals, they are processes in constant flux, in dynamic dialogue and interchange with others. Except for the tiniest pockets, there have never been isolated cultures. The history of humanity is the history of the transmission of designs, art, technologies, and especially of ideas and stories. Chaucer’s poetry ultimately owes its structure to the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata. The modern song, like ‘Hallelujah’—together with its subject of romantic love—was developed in the Middle Ages by Provençal troubadours, who took inspiration from Sufi poets, who themselves combined Semitic concepts of God with ancient Persian aesthetics. Stairway to Heaven-Heart – YouTube

A common example in contemporary debates is dreadlocks, with the assertion that white Westerners are unfairly appropriating a black or African hairstyle. Yet dreads aren’t a pan-African hairstyle, even if many of that continent’s diverse communities do sport versions of braids or matted hair. But even within the black Jamaican communities most associated with them—and from which they derive their name—their adoption is a recent event, arising with the birth of Rastafarianism in the 1930s. And of course, Rastafarianism—including the dreadlocks—is an appropriation and reinterpretation of ancient Hebrew scripture to fit the needs of an impoverished and long-exploited community. Finding solace in the stories of the ancient Judean ruling caste’s exile from Zion to Babylon, Rastafarians built a spiritual black liberation movement, taking the Ethiopian emperor as its symbolic messiah. Ras Tafari—or Haile Selassie, as he became—represented a self-ruling black community who had never been enslaved, although ironically, he thereby represented perhaps the only black African culture with no connection to the New World (an irony enriched by the fact that Selassie’s half-hearted attempts to abolish Ethiopia’s own ancient institution of slavery were only completed after his overthrow by the colonizing Italian fascists).

Nevertheless, Rastafarian ideas and images resonated with many black people around the world, particularly those in touch with the Jamaican diaspora in Britain and the United States, and many adopted dreadlocks along with the religion. But many others adopted them more as an aesthetic, at first associated with the Rasta and reggae-music subculture, but soon spreading beyond. A few white people also came to adopt the style. Some, no doubt, were attracted simply by the look, but many had a sympathy with Rastafarian ideals. Although the Rasta religion was devised by and for black people, in Britain the punk community in particular shared its distrust of the establishment, and there was a lot of overlap in reggae and punk venues, sounds, and aesthetics. As members of different communities came to associate, they naturally adopted elements of each other’s styles.

Similar cultural and aesthetic overlaps marked other cross-pollinations, such as the evolution of sound system into rave culture, both examples of a do-it-yourself attitude that defied the corporatised mainstream of the ’70s and ’80s. One strong current of rave culture was the Goa scene, which in the ’90s began to recreate (often illegally) the outdoor psychedelic dance parties that had developed in the hippy communities of Goa, in India. Dreadlocks also became common in the mostly-white Goa scene, though it’s debatable whether these were imitated from their black compatriots, or from the Shaivite sadhus of India, who had been wearing dreadlocks (and ceremonially using hashish) for thousands of years (indeed, dreadlocks and matted hair have long been symbols of asceticism—and by extension, purity—in many cultures).

It’s a rather blinkered position, then, to say—as many activists do—that people of African descent have a monopoly on dreadlocks, regardless of whether they are practicing Rastafarians or not. The example of dreadlocks, therefore, already throws some uneasy questions in the way of who owns a cultural signifier. But it also shows the short-sightedness of a restrictive attitude. Reggae and punk, jungle and Goa, are just a few of the progressive cultural movements that emerged in the late 20th century, and which flourished through the coming-together of different peoples in a cultural melting pot. Not only were whites who adopted dreadlocks, for example, signaling an appreciation and admiration of black culture, they were also showing their own communities that the new styles were worthy of respect and embrace. Far from exploitation, they marked the beginnings of a cultural fusion—one that established inclusiveness as a core value. Since such inclusiveness was—and is—resisted by a vocal proportion of the mainstream, it seems odd that those most ostensibly committed to challenging that mainstream ask their allies to keep their distance. But asking people to stay strictly within their inherited cultural bounds doesn’t just threaten creative diversity, it’s socially and politically dangerous: that way lies apartheid. And like apartheid, it grows out of a very simplistic view of what race or culture is.

Beyond black and white
Apartheid—“separateness”—between blacks and whites has only ever been a codified, national policy in one country—South Africa—although many, perhaps most, states have practised some form of ethnic segregation over their history. South Africa was and is an incredibly diverse country, comprising dozens of indigenously African tribes alongside immigrants from different parts of Europe, as well as the Indian subcontinent, who have been settling there for over 500 years. But the Apartheid laws brushed over such diversity, creating two broad categories of Black and White, based on whether one’s ancestors were African or European respectively (with smaller categories for people from Asian backgrounds, as well “Coloureds,” which included anyone who didn’t fit into a specific group, such as people of mixed heritage).

A similar simplification of race and culture underwrote the American South’s Jim Crow laws, which also segregated the population into black and white (using the “one-drop” rule to dispense with the need for any third category). Race was viewed as something essential, something physical that (almost always) was obvious from one’s appearance. While there were some cultural differences—such as in dialect, dress, and cuisine—both within and across racial categories, these didn’t form the same basis for discrimination, and in any case were somewhat mutable; both blacks and whites code-switched from context to context, and differences in fashion tended to reflect social class rather than race per se.

This binary division between black and white permeates American consciousness even today. For years, I’ve noted a subtle racism in even the most liberal Americans, a simplistic racism cast in literally black-and-white terms. Americans who consider themselves actively anti-racist throw about phrases like “she dresses like she’s black”—implying that there’s a way for blacks, and only blacks, to dress. While the overt argument is against appropriation by whites, the judgmental tone also seems to imply not only that blacks should only act in their “own” way, but that they couldn’t possibly accept a white person into their scene. HOLD ON MY HEART – PHIL COLLINS (TRADUÇÃO) – YouTube

I often encountered this type of white liberal American when I lived in the UK, where, on visiting my little town, they would announce just how open and cosmopolitan they were by asking (loudly): “where are all the brown people?” As well as ignoring the prominent Indian and Pakistani communities, they also overlooked the less obvious but equally real cultural and linguistic diversity. Walking down my street on any given day, I might hear Spanish and Italian, Polish and Lithuanian, Urdu and Punjabi, Greek and Turkish, not to mention several English dialects. And although the outward differences of some of these groups often blur, the cultural differences between them nevertheless result in very different everyday lived experiences, including both positive and negative discrimination.

I sometimes wonder if the American tendency to oversimplify comes not only from its history of segregation, but also from its having an exceptionally uniform dominant linguistic culture. Although the US hosts hundreds of languages, American public life is extremely monolingual for a country of its size, and—with the possible exception of Southern and African-American Vernacular English—even its dialects and accents are in decline. Aside from Spanish, most speakers of a second-language restrict its use to home life or Chinatown-like ghettoes, since there is little expectation or incentive for English-speakers to broaden their linguistic horizons.

But strangely, some woke activists seem to imply it should stay that way. In one of Conor Friedersdorf’s columns, he notes a case where a Hispanic woman accused a white man of cultural appropriation for using the word fútbol in casual conversation. But in true multilingual communities, interspersing one’s speech with foreign words is the way that—in the short term—one learns a new tongue, and—in the longer term—how new languages are born. Meanwhile, languages themselves are undergoing a constant evolution that is nearly impossible to arrest (just ask the Académie Française). The primary driver of such evolution is the naturalization of loanwords; for example, “football” becomes fútbol.

Much of the fight against cultural appropriation, it seems to me, is an attempt to arrest the absorption or assimilation of a minority culture into a larger one. There are legitimate reasons for this, including the very survival of beliefs and practices that a group deems valuable. Jewish and Sikh communities are two prime examples, combining internal discipline and a focus on tradition to maintain vibrant enclaves in the midst of more populous cultures. Carried to an extreme, this same tendency amounts to an Amish or Hasidic attempt to pause time. These may be no less legitimate forms of life for all that—we must ask—is this what critics of cultural appropriation are calling for?

Culture, ownership, and profit
However, the really pressing issue for most critics is when a minority has its culture borrowed—even sympathetically—but its members find they remain segregated, unable to integrate even while their cultural signifiers are mainstreamed. Most enraging, of course, is when the appropriators use those styles or signifiers to make profits that are unachievable by their originators. Some activists have therefore asked whites who “consume black culture” by dancing to blues or R’n’B music to make a donation to funds for “reparations.” And this probably relates to why Buckley and all those X-Factories would never be accused of appropriating Leonard Cohen—because Cohen got royalties.

So the question becomes, who owns the music?
But there’s a crucial difference between ownership of a song and ownership of a style of music. It already becomes problematic if we try to assert that, for example, a proto-hip-hop artist like Gil Scott-Heron has a claim to everything that came after—because what about the funk and blues that influenced him? Someone might counter that all of these styles arose out of black communities, but that takes us back to an essentialist concept of race. Does hip-hop belong to all—and only—black Americans, even those who don’t enact that heritage? What of an artist like Eminem, who came of age in the Detroit hip-hop scene, and was then mentored by Dr. Dre? Does he have less claim to hip-hop than a 60-something black jazz purist in Harlem who detests rap? By falling onto an essentialist understanding of race, we not only erect unnecessary barriers, but overlook how culture is actually lived and created.

Until fairly recently, folks didn’t consume culture so much as make it. People would gather to play the “standards,” adapting them as they went along. Imitation was flattery, and no one owned the songs. To the extent that one had to be initiated into a community in order to learn and therefore perform the music, then to that extent particular tunes and styles were inseparable from linguistic/social/racial groups. But the development of jazz and samba, to name just two, show the positive side of what happens when different groups combine, share, and grow together.

The current mindset, on the other hand, has developed alongside the idea of intellectual property, which brought about the possibility of profit, and therefore, of exploitation. In essence, critics of cultural appropriation are trying to rectify such exploitation by claiming collective ownership of the “intellectual property” associated with a particular community. But if that sounds like a quixotic task in its own right, it makes even less sense in the 21st century, where new technologies of creation and distribution are changing the very way we think about intellectual property, and how creators can collaborate in the arts, as much as in software, business, and more.

Rather than being progressive, critics of cultural appropriation are trapped in a regressive essentialism that commodifies the activities and products of human culture. This is symptomatic of what the German philosopher Martin Heidegger called modernity’s “levelling down” of the world’s richness into a homogeneity of objects. In previous eras, he believed, the world consisted of lived relationships. A song was not a “thing” that could be bought or sold, but something we did, and that in so doing, not only invoked its history, but created it—and thereby created ourselves. All culture—all arts, crafts, technologies—is like this. By making and sharing it in a specific time and place, we form ourselves and the world around us. But in the present age, we have become mere consumers. Everything—music, hairstyles, clothing patterns—is for sale. Nothing requires an initiation; an Amazon account will do the trick. And as we change our fashions like we change our clothes, we become disconnected from our connection to our time, our place, our community—ourselves.

This much could be an argument against cultural appropriation, and it is—that is, against an unthinking, commodified form. It’s a punch to the gut to see something you grew with and through—be that your dreadlocks, hip-hop, or even ‘Hallelujah’—packaged up and sold back to you. To see something that you came to through a process of initiation or (self-)discovery adopted as a fad and discarded just as quickly. To see people motivated solely by money profiting off something that you freely shared with those you love the most.

But we can’t let this close us off to authentic sharing and cross-pollination. For those upset by the commodification of culture, the answer is not to retreat into rigid categories. We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever. The demands of so-called progressives for protectionism and segregation misunderstand how culture actually works. To insist on who can and who can’t find a symbol meaningful, or connect to an idea or an aesthetic, is both ignorant and arrogant—and builds dams across the streams that nourish diversity.

The Tenors – Who Wants To Live Forever ft. Lindsey Stirling – YouTube

Leo Nicolletto is a poet and philosopher, based in the Italian Alps.
Photo by Ashley Byrd on Unsplash
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Canada Crushed the Covid Curve

A pedestrian wearing a mask walks past a holiday display in downtown Toronto
on Monday, November 23.

Canada crushed the Covid-19 curve but complacency is fueling a deadly second wave
By Paula Newton.

Canada crushed the Covid curve but complacency is fueling a deadly second wave (msn.com)
Canada’s largest province is under a lockdown to slow a second wave of coronavirus cases.
“At least we’re not as bad as the States.”
With the United States population in 2020  of 333,546,000  and 
The current population of Canada being 37,858,890. Canada is doing an admiral job of   preventing  Covid-19 cases than we are. There numbers being 435,330 cases (active 72,336 – recovered  350,011 and Fatal at 12,983 deaths) versus The United States at 15.511,403 cases (active 8,037,936 – recovered 7,180,627 and Fatal at 292,480 deaths). 
But at what cost to their economy?

Seven percent of U.S. counties have seen more per-population coronavirus deaths than Manhattan – The Washington Post

Those were the words uttered by so many Canadians during the first wave of coronavirus, perhaps without malice although with a good dose of smugness.
But that complacency may have helped fuel a deadly second wave in Canada that is now straining hospital capacity in nearly every region of the country as health officials impose more restrictions and lockdowns.
“What you’re saying is we’re better than the worst country in the world,” says Amir Attaran, an American-raised Canadian professor of law and public health at the University of Ottawa during an interview with CNN.
For months, Attaran has been an unsparing critic, warning that by measuring itself against an American yardstick, Canada’s Covid-19 response was bound to falter. And falter it has.
“Over the last few days, we’ve seen new records of Covid-19 cases in a number of provinces. Hospitalizations are rising, families are losing people and our most vulnerable are at risk. Just because we’re getting closer to vaccines doesn’t mean we can afford to become complacent,” warned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a press conference.

So, what went wrong?
“You need to drive community transmission to almost nothing or near nothing and then do the aggressive testing contact tracing and isolation which we never did,” says Attaran.
During the first wave of Covid-19 Canadians were mostly compliant, cautious and serious about staying home, masking up and following orders issued by earnest public health officials. And the pandemic was rarely politicized.
But in early fall, Canadian public health officials warned that private,
household gatherings were fueling a surge in cases and community transmission.
Then, Canadian Thanksgiving in early October seemed to seal the country’s fate as infection rates surged for weeks afterwards.

Canada’s numbers are heading in the wrong direction.
Canada has logged record new cases and deaths from the coronavirus in the past month, according to Covid-19 tracking data from Johns Hopkins University.
The country has reported more than 425,000 cases of Covid-19 and nearly 12,800 deaths to date, according to Johns Hopkins.
New daily cases are now 10 times higher than they were in late summer with deaths averaging about 88 per day now, according to Canada’s Public Health Agency.
For a few days in summer, Canadian government data reported no deaths from Covid-19.
By nearly every measure of Covid-19 tracking, Canada is still faring better than the US but Canadian officials have warned that hospital capacity is reaching its breaking point and community transmission must be reduced.

According to government data, Canada now has about 2,400 people with the virus being treated in hospitals. That’s a few hundred less than Los Angeles County reported Monday even though Canada has nearly 4 times the population.
More than 14.9 million coronavirus cases have been reported in the US so far and more than 284,000 people have died. The US also is dealing with a surge in cases that health experts expect to worsen, anticipating new waves from December holiday gatherings on top of a potential surge from Thanksgiving week. But again, public health experts warn
American comparisons should offer little comfort to Canadians.

Lack of adequate testing.
For weeks now Canada’s public health agency has reported that, on average, about 75,000 Canadians are being tested daily. That means Canada is testing at about half the rate,
per capita, than the US.
Public health experts say Canada must be more aggressive with testing in order to bring down community transmission and detect asymptomatic spread.
According to a report released Monday by one of Canada’s largest long-term care operators, that lack of testing has tragically allowed the virus to stalk and kill residents of nursing and retirement homes in Canada.

Canadian government data show that as of August 2020, nearly 80% of all Canadian coronavirus deaths were among residents of long-term care facilities. During a press conference in late October, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam confirmed that figure did not change much in the fall although the national public health agency is awaiting data.
And yet lack of adequate testing in these facilities continues.
In a report released Monday by a government-owned long-term care operator,
an expert advisory panel noted not just the testing failures of the first wave, but that inadequate testing continues.
“…although it was widely understood that long term care residents faced an extremely high risk of serious complications and death from Covid-19, and so had much to gain from testing, they and the staff who look after them, were not prioritized for testing within the system,” according to the report titled “A Perfect Storm.”

‘Perfect storm’: Growing calls to address domestic violence during coronavirus (msn.com)
The pandemic of viral infection with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Virus‐2
(SARS‐CoV‐2) that causes COVID‐19 disease has put the nursing home industry in crisis.
The combination of a vulnerable population that manifests nonspecific and atypical presentations of COVID‐19, staffing shortages due to viral infection, inadequate resources for and availability of rapid, accurate testing and personal protective equipment, and lack of effective treatments for COVID‐19 among nursing home residents have created
a “perfect storm” in our country’s nursing homes. 

This perfect storm will continue as society begins to reopen, resulting in more infections among nursing home staff and clinicians who acquire the virus outside of work, remain asymptomatic, and unknowingly perpetuate the spread of the virus in their workplaces. Because of the elements of the perfect storm, nursing homes are like a tinderbox, and it only takes one person to start a fire that could cause many deaths in a single facility.
Several public health interventions and health policy strategies, adequate resources, and focused clinical quality improvement initiatives can help calm the storm. The saddest part of this perfect storm is that many years of inaction on the part of policymakers contributed to its impact. We now have an opportunity to improve nursing homes to protect residents and their caregivers ahead of the next storm. It is time to reimagine how we pay for and regulate nursing home care in order to achieve this goal. This article is protected by copyright.
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Vaccines are coming but timeline is an issue
Trudeau has said for weeks that Canada has secured “one of the most diverse” vaccine portfolios in the world and a CNN analysis of government purchase agreements shows Canada could easily have 4 to 5 times the vaccines needed to vaccinate its entire population of about 38 million people.

It’s the timeline that’s the problem.
“Vaccines are coming,” announced Trudeau during a press conference in Ottawa Monday, saying Canada has an agreement with Pfizer to begin early delivery of up to 249,000 doses of its vaccine candidate.

But Canada’s 2020 rollout of vaccines is largely symbolic as it represents just a fraction of
the 20 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that Canada says it has pre-purchased.
Trudeau himself said late last month that because Canada had very little capacity to manufacture vaccines, other counties like the US, UK and Germany would be able to vaccinate more their citizens on a faster timeline than Canada.
Addressing those prior comments, Trudeau said “we wanted not to get people’s hopes up.”
Health Canada is expected to approve the Pfizer vaccine candidate within days and is currently reviewing data for three other candidates, including those from Moderna,
Astra-Zeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

The concern is that despite aggressive procurement, Canadians will still be vaccinated later than citizens in the US and Europe.
“It’s a shock, I really did not expect that when I warned Canada would be late on this that I would be proved right. It’s heartbreaking, it really is. It will be heartbreaking because it will cost lives,” Attaran said.
Multi-week lockdowns don’t seem to be working.
In recent weeks the tone from public health officials around the country has been the same: They are pleading with Canadians to stay home, stay away from each other and wear masks.
That has been backed by various degrees of lockdowns and new restrictions in cities and towns throughout the country, including larger urban centers like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. But there is little evidence the lockdowns and restrictions are having a significant impact on the infection rate.

In Toronto, now in its third week of a second lockdown, cases continue to surge with
 daily records broken in the last few days.
“The case counts are so high, that I can only call this a very, very serious situation,” said
Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health during a press conference Monday.
She thought that the virus was spreading so aggressively in the city that she did not want to think about what the case load would be if Toronto had not entered a lockdown.
There is a similar story in the province of Alberta where restrictions that fall well short of a full lockdown have failed to stem the surge of community transmission.
Alberta now has one of the highest per capita rates of infection anywhere in Canada.
“I will be blunt, so far we are not bending the curve back down, we are still witnessing very high transmission of the virus which is putting enormous pressure on our hospitals, intensive care units and health care workers,” said Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s chief medical officer of health, at a press conference Monday.
Attaran says Alberta and other Canadian regions failed to lock down early enough with strict enforcement believing they were sparing the economy.
“What Canada did wrong is what very many places in the world have done wrong and it’s that their politicians have chosen to treat the virus like stakeholder that you can cut deals with,” Attaran said, adding that the current half-measures will take much longer to bring the infection rate under control.

Government steps in to help out financially.
From the very beginning of the pandemic Trudeau has tried to reassure Canadians that
he “had their back.” And he has made good on that promise with piles of cash handed out
to tens of millions of Canadians.
A CNN review of nearly a dozen programs reveals a payout to residents and Canadian business during this pandemic of nearly $200 billion and counting.
The programs range from a direct payment to individuals, through unemployment benefits and the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) with about a third of all Canadian adults receiving $1,500 a month for several months.
Add to that a wage and rent subsidy program for business owners, payments to students and those with disabilities and special programs for fishers and farmers.

Trudeau says the programs and the money will keep coming until the pandemic subsides.
In fact the Canadian stimulus was so effective that Statistics Canada reported an increase of disposable household income of more than 7% in the last nine months, with government payouts bulking up personal savings. It’s unclear, however, what the long-term impact of the spending will have on the Canadian economy. Across the border, political leaders in the United States are struggling to come to an agreement on another stimulus package
as several key pandemic relief programs are set to expire at the end of the year.

Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada – Wikipedia

OTTAWA — Canada’s deficit is growing at the fastest rate among developed nations as it seeks to prop up its economy during the Covid-19 pandemic.   
Canadian officials are betting the aggressive approach will pay off, pointing to the number of jobs already recovered, and argue that the country can afford to pour money into the economy while borrowing costs are historically low. But some economists warn the heavy spending could lead to a fiscal crisis, and one major ratings firm has already stripped
the country of its triple-A rating.
Canada isn’t alone in its spending spree: The International Monetary Fund estimates governments around the world have doled out $12 trillion to minimize the economic damage from restrictions in place to halt transmission of Covid-19. Canada’s virus-related spending, the bulk of which originates with the federal government, has totaled about 382 billion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of $294 billion, and accounts for roughly 19% of Canada’s total economic output.
Yet data from the IMF indicate Canada’s fiscal position during the pandemic — incorporating all levels of government — has deteriorated at the fastest pace among the major economies in the Group of 20 industrialized countries as it seeks to keep the economy pumping.
“Canada could come off as heroic if this spending is done right,” said Jimmy Jean, a strategist at Desjardins Securities in Montreal. “If Canada fails, all the emergency spending might have been done in vain because we won’t have the capacity to power the post-vaccine recovery.”
The Canadian government said Monday that it projected a budget deficit in the current fiscal year, ending March 30, to jump to at least C$381.6 billion or 17.5% of gross domestic product, versus a deficit of C$39.39 billion, or 1.7% of GDP, in the previous 12-month period.
The U.S. budget deficit tripled during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, to reach $3.1 trillion, or the equivalent of 14.9% of economic output.
The deficit could swell to near C$400 billion because of deteriorating economic conditions related to a second wave of Covid-19 infections. Canada anticipates the deficit to narrow next fiscal year to between C$121 billion and C$166 billion, depending on how much new spending is deployed.
So far, Canada has recovered about 80% of the jobs lost in March and April because of the virus, whereas the U.S. has regained just over half of employees shed. Canada’s economy grew by a record 40.5% annual rate in the third quarter, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. However, growth is expected to grind to a halt in the final three months of 2020 as restrictions re-emerged to deal with a rise in Covid-19 infections.
The federal government’s debt is also set to surpass C$1 trillion for the first time this year, or 50% of GDP, and debt from all levels of Canadian government will surge to roughly 115% of GDP this year from 89% in 2019, the IMF said. The debt-to-GDP ratio this year in the U.S. is forecast to reach 131%; 108% in the U.K.; and 73% in Germany, according to the IMF.
When downgrading the country’s rating from triple-A to double-A-plus in late June, Fitch Ratings cited a steep rise in the country’s total government debt, and skepticism about the ability among political leaders to stabilize debt growth after the pandemic passes.
Carolyn Wilkins, the second-highest-ranking official at the Bank of Canada, said fiscal policy is a powerful tool with interest rates already near zero and business activity constrained. Without massive fiscal outlays, “you wouldn’t be seeing the recovery we’re seeing now,”
Ms. Wilkins said in an interview.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Monday that the fiscal taps will remain wide open for the foreseeable future. She said in an annual fall economic update that the government is set to spend up to C$100 billion over a three-year period starting in 2021 to help fortify the recovery from the pandemic. Stimulus spending would cease only when benchmarks related to employment data were met, she said.
“Canadians understand that this crisis demands targeted, time-limited support to keep people and businesses afloat and to build our way out of the Covid-19 recession,” she said.
Ms. Freeland said the government would eventually introduce rules to stabilize
debt growth but only after the recovery is complete.
She said Canada can afford this wave of spending because of historically low borrowing costs, and that the government is adjusting its debt-management strategy to lock in the low rates by issuing more long-term debt. Even with the rapid growth in debt, Canada said debt-financing charges are projected to fall below 1% of GDP this year and rise to 1.2% by 2025-26.
While Fitch downgraded Canada, S&P Global Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service are maintaining their triple-A rating.
Ryan Goulding, fixed-income analyst at Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel, a Vancouver-based asset manager, said there are relatively few downsides to Canada’s current borrowing — so long as it is focused on rebuilding capacity wiped out by the pandemic.
He said credit-rating downgrades shouldn’t be a concern.
“There’s a lot of more capital in the world than there was 10 years ago. It is trying desperately to find a home, and the safe ports for capital are getting fewer and fewer,” he said.
Mr. Jean, of Desjardins Securities, said the government is betting the massive fiscal outlays will prevent a catastrophe in household and corporate bankruptcies.
Yet David Rosenberg, economist and head of Toronto-based consulting firm Rosenberg Research, pointed out that combining mounting government debt and what households and nonfinancial corporations owe puts Canada’s total debt-to-GDP ratio at more than 400% — ahead of the Americans and Chinese, but on par with Italy and Greece.
The latter two countries dealt with fiscal crises last decade.

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Seven Covid-19 ICU Nurses

What seven ICU nurses want you to know about the battle against covid-19.
By Jenny Rogers

In Columbus, Ohio
Kahlia Anderson, 32
ICU, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

I graduated from nursing school in May 2019. I started here at the Wexner in August. Our orientation is
a 20-week program, and so I came out on my own Jan. 12, 2020. The pandemic hit us at the end of February. COVID-19 (coronavirus): Long-term effects – Mayo Clinic
In nursing school, I think your biggest fears are making med errors, or harming your patient in some way,
or just not knowing how to do everything. Did I check my patient’s blood pressure before I gave this blood pressure medication, or did I give the correct dose of a specific medication? I had heard stories about that on the unit, like make sure you’re careful with the needle stick, or make sure you’re careful with this medication. And I don’t even think about those kinds of things anymore.

Now it’s the fear of the unknown. It’s the fear that anything could happen because of this virus and my patient could die regardless of what I do.
When I got my first Covid-19 positive patient, I remember thinking: Somebody did the assignment wrong because there’s no way that they believe that I should be taking care of this patient. I can remember the feeling. I can remember the day. It was a weekend. I was on a day shift. And I was thinking to myself: Who trusted me, the new nurse to take care of a covid-positive patient? How am I going to do this? How am I going to keep this patient safe? How am I going to keep myself safe? Am I safe? Wait, who cares about me?
Let’s get back to the patient. What do they need?
At the time, I didn’t even understand some of the ventilator settings because I was still that new, and it was
still that fresh to me. And I thought: This machine is doing that much work for them, and I don’t know enough about it, but I’m going to make sure that I get it done and I’m going to figure it out today to make sure that this patient gets everything that they need. And I’m going to call their family and double check with them and check in with them and call them. That patient is alive. That patient is no longer in the hospital.
As far as I know, that patient is home and safe with family.

I would feel like: There’s someone more experienced. There’s someone more adequate to deal with this.
And I was like — oh, it’s me. This is me, I’m doing this, and I’ve been doing it ever since. I saw new nurses come out of orientation, and I saw the type of assignments that they would get. So my mind fixated on like: I’m going to get patients that are ready to transfer out. They can talk, they can eat. They’re just waiting for a bed on another unit. Or maybe it’s a patient who needs long-term care. So they’re waiting to go to a facility to be discharged.
And so I was thinking to myself: I’m going to get my feet wet. It’s going to be great. I’m going to build up this experience, and then I’m going to start getting sicker patients, and I’m going to be ready. Once Covid-19 hit, there was no room for those types of patients anymore. Everyone had Covid-19, everyone was sick, everyone was intubated or approaching intubation.

And for me, I just wanted my first experience.
I wanted to have the simple experience of building and getting better. But that’s not what was in store.
And I can’t say that I’m upset about it today. I’m grateful for this experience. I don’t wish this pandemic on anyone. I wish it was not here. I wish that it was different. But as a nurse, as a new nurse, these experiences are unique to me. It’s making me a better nurse. It’s made me a better person, and I can only continue to just be.
We did cry in the beginning, and now not so much. I think we all struggled when we had a young death. Someone in their 20s was very difficult for us. Because you think: That was a young life.
What a young life that was, and they’re not here anymore.
Because of a virus. That’s hard. It’s very hard.
But now it’s just — it’s almost everyone’s story.
— As told to Jasmine Hilton

Boise, Idaho
Kori Albi, 31
Covid-19 unit intensive care nurse and unit supervisor, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Our staff are getting sick. Our physicians are getting sick. And they’re not getting it from the hospital. They’re getting it from the community. We are almost lucky to care for the Covid-19 patients because we know who they are. Anytime we go into these rooms, we know exactly what we need to do. We have all the PPE we need. And as long as we are diligent and follow all the processes that are in place, we can keep ourselves safe. That’s not what worries me at all. Going out into the community is scarier than coming into work every day.
Because you don’t know who has it.
This virus has caused this feeling, this sense of isolation. The Covid-19 unit is an isolated desert. Every door is shut. Every room has negative airflow. By the time you put your N95 mask on and then your surgical mask over the top of that, then you put your isolation gown on and your face shield on top of that, you can’t tell who is who. So much of health care is about that personal touch — now, our patients can’t even see our name badges because they are on under our gowns. All they see are our eyes through our face mask.
A lot of families are hesitant to have Zoom calls with patients because it can be uncomfortable and awkward. Especially if these patients are sedated and intubated.
There’s always that awkwardness of: Can they hear you? Can they not hear you? Even as nurses, we feel like we’re talking to the wall. But we talk to them just as if they were awake. Allowing families to play their music that they like or pray with them or just talk to them can absolutely help. You see vital signs change.

One patient, all she wanted to do was have her son sing her a song. I think I spent over an hour in the room listening to him play the guitar and sing her a song. He sang her mostly hymns. Death is a very intimate event that normally involves a lot of family members that help bring closure and that helps everyone process. In normal circumstances, health care providers form these relationships with the family at the bedside. All of that has been removed. And we now have to try to form those relationships over the telephone.
It’s a traumatic experience. And it’s a long drawn-out process. A lot of people don’t make it out of here. It’s a slow, lonely death.
The amount of death with Covid-19 is profound. As nurses, we have learned to process death, but the amount of death has happened in such a short span of time — that’s what’s been overwhelming. I had a patient that we did a Zoom call with. His four-year-old granddaughter lived with him. And she brought tears to the room. The naivete of a four-year-old.
Her grandfather was intubated so he couldn’t talk. But he could kind of look around the room. But the innocence of her, saying, “Come home, Pa. I miss you, Pa. I love you Pa,” all through a video screen. The 14-year-old that also lived with them couldn’t formulate words to say anything, and he didn’t know what to do or say in that video. But the four-year-old was telling Pa to come home.
— As told to Carissa Wolf

Jackson, Miss.
Catie Carrigan, 28
ICU, University of Mississippi Medical Center
There are some patients who have been in their younger 20s and their younger 30s, and I think maybe those are the hardest cases. They have families and they have kids just like I do, and it’s hard coming into work and taking care of them. Knowing they’re supposed to be going to college, they’re supposed to be getting married, they’re supposed to be having kids and, instead, they’re laying in a hospital bed on a ventilator fighting for their life.

They have their whole entire lives ahead of them, and then they get hit with this disease that everybody thinks is a hoax and then they die. I worked in the ER a month ago, so I know exactly what’s going on down there, and now I work in the ICU, so I know exactly what’s going on on both sides of it. There are no ICU beds in the hospital. None. When there are no ICU beds, we hold them in the ER, or we hold them in the PACU (post-anesthesia care unit). The ER still has to treat our trauma patients, our car accidents, our gunshot victims. So when we have those ICU holds in the ER, it obviously makes the jobs of nurses and doctors in the ER way more difficult than it needs to be. We are treating patients in the hallway.
They’re just trying to do the best they can with the resources that we have.
There is no room left, essentially, and I think that’s really what people don’t seem to understand. And I get it, when you’re not in health care you don’t really see our side of it, but we’re seeing the worst of it. It’s hard for us to convey that to the public because they don’t seem to want to take our word for it — but take our word for it. Take our word for it.
— As told to Sarah Fowler

Iowa City
Allison Wynes, 39
Medical intensive care unit, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
I cry every day when I walk in to work, and I cry every day when I walk to my car after work.
Staffing isn’t the only issue healthcare workers are facing. Allison Wynes, an ICU nurse at the University of Iowa Hospital, told NBC’s Hallie Jackson that misinformation has been another hurdle she continually is facing with patients.

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You get it out of your system before you show up and you do your job and you’re fine.
Then, you go home and you cry before you get home. And then you go home and be mom.
My 9-year-old daughter asks frequently, “Mommy, how many patients were there today? Mommy, how many sick ones were there today? Were you safe? Was everything okay?
Do you have to go to work again? How many patients?” She gets it.
I think one thing that people do not appreciate is it’s not only the number or volume of patients that comes through — it’s the level of care that they require, which is so much greater than a standard patient in the ICU or a standard patient in the floor,
because they can get very, very sick very quickly.
We were walking a patient who was on ECMO, which is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and it took five people to walk her. That’s not normal.
I work in the MICU, so it’s never like a party up in here, but it used to at least be, nine times out of ten, calm and controlled and tidy and clean. Occasionally stuff would go bad and we would all run and help, and then we would all go about our days. Now it just feels like, especially of late, there is equipment everywhere. There are gowns everywhere. There are gloves everywhere, there are people everywhere, and there are fires everywhere.
I’m actually scared, and I’ve never been scared at work before.
I am scared that we will lose control.
It’s the human resources we are running low on. We can make a bed, we can find a ventilator, we have PPE. But it’s the human cost of caring for these patients that has been keeping me up at night the past couple of weeks and really making me nauseous every day.
I didn’t think it would be over by now, but I didn’t think we’d be getting hit this hard this late. I thought we’d still just be smoldering. I didn’t know that we would just be a raging fire at this point in time. We’re not prepared for that, but here we are.
After this, I’m going to take my kids to a beach or somewhere.
— As told to Lyz Lenz

Glenview, Ill.
Luisa Alog Penepacker, 51
ICU, Glenbrook Hospital
I’ve taken care of a lot of husband-wife patients, unfortunately. One of the cases was one in which the husband had tested positive for Covid-19 first, but he was a mild case.
She was a little bit more serious. She ended up on our unit.
The husband ended up in the hospital the next day, but he was on the step-down unit. When I admitted her, she was terrified, especially knowing that her husband was upstairs in another unit. She was having a hard time breathing, and she grabbed onto my hand and looked at me. She goes, “Am I gonna die?” I mean, I didn’t know what to say. And I just told her, “Not on my watch.” So we just kept on going. But unfortunately, she got intubated the next day.
Then I was sent to work upstairs on the step-down unit. I had her husband that next day,
and he was actually quite happy that I saw her. He goes, “You took care of my wife, how is she? I heard that she’s not doing well.” I didn’t know what to say to him, either. I just said, “You know, she’s in the best of care. We’ll take really good care of her.” And he looked really relieved. He goes, “I’m just so glad that someone who had seen her is here now to talk to me.” And my heart broke with that.

She ended up passing. A few days after, he went home, and I didn’t see him, so I don’t know how he took it. He wasn’t able to see her before she passed. We wear personal air purification respirators on our heads — these big white domes over our heads with a respirator hose going to a machine strapped around our waist, and we look like astronauts walking through the unit, going in and out of patients’ rooms with our plastic gowns and gloves.
It can be frightening to family members if they’re allowed to come to visit and definitely for patients because we’re kind of scary-looking. It can be frantic at times. You walk through the hall, and you see a lot of patients on ventilators. You hear a lot of beeping.
People are rounding constantly to check on patients. It’s a busy place.
You don’t know what to tell family members when you see them. What can you say?
You just say, “I’m sorry.” You can’t even hug them. I used to be able to hug family members, but you can’t with all the gear.
When patients are scared, I will hold their hand even though I’m wearing gloves. I look them in the eyes as much as I can because really, that’s all you can see. You can’t see our faces. You can barely even hear past the mask. So I’ll make sure to look at them. I try to make an effort to smile with my eyes and to just hold their hand if they need it.
— As told to Erin Chan Ding

Murray, Utah
Tammy Kocherhans, 41
Respiratory ICU, Intermountain Healthcare
Tammy Kocherhans is a Registered Nurse. In speaking to ABC4, she tells us she feels like she’s running a “marathon” without the ability to rest.  “We didn’t ask to work a pandemic,” Kocherhans said. “We’re doing it and we care for our people.” “These patients are very complicated and very needy as far as some of the work we do with them.” 
 A day in the ICU, frontline workers are ‘tired’ | ABC4 Utah
These patients are different from the typical patient. They’re very complex. They can change in the blink of an eye. And it’s very hard as a nurse when you wrap your heart and soul into taking care of these patients. I started noticing that I was emotionally tired. I was physically completely exhausted. And I was beginning to question whether or not I could continue forward being a nurse at all. I was past my physical capacity.
I happened to be working a day where another health care worker who was a veteran said that this was like a combat zone, and for some reason in my head, that validated the way that I was feeling. So I reached out to one of my best friends who is a veteran, a flight medic, and he said, “I meditate and do yoga.”

Once I started doing that, I was able to handle the emotional crises, the physical pain of working so, so many long, hard hours. We do something called proning,
proning flip patients – Bing where you take patients and flip them over onto their bellies. And that sounds really easy, but it takes a team of a minimum of five people. It is extremely taxing on your body. It hurts.
And I lift weights! The meditation and yoga really has saved my life, my mental capacity, my spiritual capacity, my physical capacity, everything that is required to give to these patients.
Hopefully by 8 p.m., I’m out in the parking lot and spend a minute in my car to unload from my day. It’s all about taking a moment to breathe for myself and then going through whatever came up that day that I need to let go of. It depends on how complicated my patient was that day, whether I can let my whole day go or if I have to spend time to go through each piece and work it down to: What did I do right? Did I miss something? Sometimes I just can’t let some details go quickly, and I have to work them down to allow myself to say I did everything that I possibly could for this individual this day, in this time, in this situation. And whatever the outcome was or is, I followed protocol. I did everything that I knew how to do. And it’s going to be OK.
I find it very frustrating when I go out and about on my days off and I see people very blatantly not wearing masks or trying to tell me how come they don’t work or telling me that this pandemic isn’t real. I find it completely disrespectful to the work we do to save people’s lives, to have people think that this pandemic isn’t real, to show utter disregard for people around them, not trying to do their part.
And I really wish that I could take people on a day with me so that they can see what I see.
So that they can feel your feet ache so bad that you wish they’d just fall off, because you’re on that concrete for so many hours. Your back aches because you’re wearing equipment to save your life — so that you can save somebody else’s life. And your head hurts. I’ve never had so many headaches in my life because part of the equipment sits on your head, and after 12 hours, it starts to exert so much pressure that you start to have a headache, and you’re dehydrated.
Early in the pandemic, I remember walking into this room, and this young patient was crying and asked me if they were going to die. And I’m a mom of teenagers. For me, that was awful because this patient was all alone, and we as staff were minimizing contact because we didn’t want to get the virus.
This patient started physically trembling in the bed. I couldn’t take it anymore, and I went over and just held this patient because that’s what I’d want somebody to do for my children. That was my first patient that I held like that. And there have been many since.
— As told to Andrew Becker

Murray, Utah
Nate Smithson, 28
Respiratory ICU, Intermountain Healthcare
“We’re tired. Mentally, physically, emotionally exhausted,” said nurse Nate Smithson,
who works at Intermountain Medical Center — Utah’s largest hospital.
For some patients there, the cold COVID-19 reality still isn’t real.  
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A few weeks ago, my wife and I were on a date at a restaurant. And in the middle of nowhere, I had this panic attack and went and hid in the bathroom stall for half an hour. I have no idea what brought it on. I just couldn’t handle being there right then, which was weird for me. That’s the first time anything like that has happened. But since then, it’s happened multiple times, where the anxiety and stress is overwhelming,
and I can’t handle it. So I have to go and excuse myself for a little bit.

Balancing work and life is something that used to seem possible. Now it doesn’t seem like there is any difference between the two. I fall asleep and I dream about my patients.
When we got our first Covid-19 patient in February in the hospital, in the ICU, we all kind of thought it was a little bit of a joke, to be honest. I had this patient, and he was sitting there with minimal amounts of oxygen in the room just watching TV. He’s like, “I’m fine.
I don’t know why everyone’s freaking out about this.” And I thought the same thing. And then a few hours later, he stands to go pee, and I’m looking at his monitor. And it drops down to the low 90s. Ninety-two is about as low as you want to go. And then it starts dropping down lower, to about the 70s.
Then it gets down into the 60s and 50s. And that’s dangerous territory.
That’s where brain cells start dying and you start having some serious problems.
I ran into the room. We get him back into bed and throw all the oxygen that we have in the room on him, crank everything up, and he’s not recovering from it. We had to intubate right then and there. And about an hour later, he finally starts recovering a little bit. But at this point, he’s sedated, he’s on the ventilator. Everything is worse. And that’s the first time where it’s like: Oh, crap, this is serious. This is something else.

I’ve never seen anything like that before.
If a patient’s heart stops or if they stop breathing, we call a code blue, and that’s when the doctor, respiratory therapist, nurses, everybody comes into the room. We start chest compressions for CPR or that kind of stuff. This one patient’s heart is not working. So I call the code blue. We all get in there. We start doing the chest compressions. Five minutes later, we get the patient back. We all go back about our work. Twenty minutes later, the same thing happens again. We start doing the chest compressions. We start pushing medications as fast as we can to get the patient back again.
The spouse comes into the hospital. I explain: “Just so you know, this is what happened before. It could possibly happen again. If it does, I’m going to need you to step outside of the room.” And as I’m explaining this, sure enough, it happens again. We lose the pulse. We lose the heartbeat. So I ask her to leave the room. Everyone gets in there, and we start going for it. We went for almost two hours: chest compressions,
pushing medications, shocking the patient’s heart.
The doctor is ultimately the one who makes the decision about when we stop, and they call time of death.
But typically in situations like that, where it’s unexpected and sudden, they want to make sure that everybody can go home that night feeling OK about what they did, knowing that they did everything. And after an hour, he stops, turns to the room and asks: Does anyone have a problem with us stopping?

I didn’t have a problem, but then as he’s saying that, I look out the window, and the patient’s wife is just watching us. She’s been sitting out there watching us for an hour, and no one’s saying anything. And I ask them to keep going. So we did. We went almost for another hour after that, and we didn’t get the patient back.
He ended up dying. But I think for me, that was important — to keep going. Not because we thought we would get them back, but so his wife would know that we did everything we could. I still go to bed with her face kind of burned into my mind, of just seeing her sitting out there watching us, and that’s what kills me.
— As told to Andrew Becker

CDC: 85% of Virus Patients Reported Wearing Masks ‘Always’ or ‘Often’ (breitbart.com)
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Perception is Reality

“A 𝒲𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓇”
is always aware of what is worth fighting for. Focus on yourself and your family.

Democrats want to control your life: Sen. Rick Scott (msn.com)
At this point all the information floating around online/and in the news it’s no longer about President Trump
or Biden. This is about TRUST we have in our own government. NO TRANSITION SHOULD TAKE PLACE UNTIL ALL IS INVESTIGATED ! There seems to be a little problem to think like this, I understand you live under a rock at ABC, CBS. NBC. CNN and FoxNews, but there is a nationwide voter fraud investigation. This ordeal reminds me of another historical event in United States History in which who shot John F. Kennedy. And the Left Wing Media is trying An Unlawful Trump Political assassination before our very eyes.

On June 4, 1963, a virtually unknown Presidential decree,  
Executive Order 11110, was signed with the authority to basically strip the Rothschild Bank of its power to loan money to the United States Federal Government at interest. With the stroke of a pen, President Kennedy declared that the privately owned Rothschild Federal Reserve Bank would soon be out of business.
The Christian Law Fellowship has exhaustively researched this matter through the Federal Register and
Library of Congress.
“As President, John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking. He understood why Andrew fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy wrote and signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note.
Kennedy was working with President Soekarno of Indonesia who was at that time the signatory for the Global Collateral Accounts which were intended to be used for humanitarian purposes but which were subverted at
the time of the Bretton-Woods agreement at the end of WWII.
The intention of Kennedy and Soekarno was to end the reign of the globalist privately owned central banking system – which is the main reason that Kennedy was killed, and for his part Soekarno remained under house arrest for the rest of his life.” From: All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars  Indeed, all wars are bankers’ wars.
War Makes Banks Rich. Wars are the fastest way for banks to create more debt and therefore to make more profit. No wonder they love war. After all, the banking system is founded upon the counter-intuitive but indisputable fact that banks create loans first, and then create deposits later.

There was a rumor that John-John had obtained the proof he needed and an expose was in the works, until his untimely, and mostly “suspicious,” death. Of course, the media campaigned that he was an irresponsible thrill seeker; but then they would, wouldn’t they? Although many people knew JFK, Jr. was murdered; and they were right about who was responsible…they were just wrong about the reason.
John Jr. was warned by family members about the risks involved in his pursuit. But, he was determined to get justice for his father and bring truth to light, exposing the darkness that shrouds our planet. So ask yourself…what would you do, if you were a mere babe when your father, who just happened to be the most important man in the country, was murdered in such a gruesome manner, and you never had the opportunity to know him… would you just let it go?
Although he was from one of the main Illuminati family bloodlines, JFK was in fact trying to undo some of the mess – and to bring an end to the Reserve Banking System. For his efforts he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. One of the main Illuminati family bloodlines.
The Bush Connections – Many researchers and historians have come to the conclusion that it was the elite power structure running the US Government that were responsible for the assassination of JFK, and that there was more than one reason for them doing so.

There are photographs claiming to show that George Bush was at Dealey Plaza on the day of the killing,
and while they might be inconclusive there are multiple other sources that George Bush was one of those responsible for the assassination of JFK and that he was indeed there that day.
The Dark Legacy takes an in-depth look into the evidence supporting this.

Related: The History And Mission Of The Nazi-Illuminati Bush (Scher(f)f) Crime Family.
George Herbert Walker Bush, said “The only way you’ll leave Dallas is in a coffin.”
And set up the assassination.

https://jfkfacts.org/absolved-george-h-w-bush/
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until 
his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his
work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
The Zapruder Film was altered to disguise the real assassin who was so close to JFK he couldn’t miss. The shot from the knoll was just a distraction. It was Connally who fired the fatal head shot. He’s the one who Jackie stares at because of what he must have said before he shot JFK. The angle of the shot fits perfectly with what the doctors at Parkland described. In the z film Connally’s head is altered so he’s looking away from JFK at the time of the head shot. When in reality he’s looking straight at him. If you look close between him and JFK at the time of the headshot, you can see the muzzle flash. His wounds were faked to give him the perfect cover.

Another theory is William Robert Greer (September 22, 1909 – February 23, 1985) who was an agent of the U.S. Secret Service, best known as being the driver of President John F. Kennedy’s presidential limousine in the motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas on November 22, 1963 was assassinated.  “I was in the front seat,
I was driving him when he was shot,” former Secret Service Agent Bill Greer told WBTV in 1983.
The conversation was the only television interview he ever granted. Greer said he heard the first shot and thought it was a motorcycle next to the motorcade. It wasn’t until the second shot that he knew something was wrong. Greer never shot Kennedy. His driving actions, though, did enhance the ease of the assassins to hit their target. By coming to a near stop during the shooting spree, JFK was a much easier target. One just has to consider that Secret Service Agent Clint Hill was also able to run from the follow up car and board the presidential limousine. Here’s 100% Proof Driver Bill Greer Shot JFK @ J. Edgar Hoover & LBJ 

Figure out who you are. What do you want out of life? Reflect. Don’t rush into anything.
Really take this time to figure out what you need to be happy. You have your whole life for relationships.
Presently discover who you are. Work hard, chase your dreams, love furiously, everything will fall into place. Time heals old wounds. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.”-PC
Focus on yourself and your family. Figure out who you are. I suggest for @JoeBiden to concede before this becomes very embarrassing. Witnesses, Affidavits, and proof of software used to sway millions of votes and it was successful.  We must fight for our country. 85% of our country cannot kowtow to the mob and the communists. If you toss a coin 133,000 times and get heads every time,
that’s what the Dems are asking us to believe.
  https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1328745737497305094 
UPDATE from Sidney Powell: “Trump votes were programmed to switch to Biden ahead of time, but Trump’s votes were so high, it didn’t work right because they didn’t set their algorithms high enough.” This is why they stopped counting. Elizabeth Warren removed from her website a letter of Democratic Senators warning of potential ‘vote switching’ by Dominion voting machines prior to 2020 election.
If you click on the link to the document in the article, it gives an error message.
Four congressional Democrats sent a letter to the owners of Dominion Voting Systems and cited several problems that “threaten the integrity of our elections,” including “vote switching.”  In a December 2019 letter to Dominion Voting Systems, which has been mired in controversy after a human error involving its machines in Antrim County, Michigan, resulted in incorrect counts, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Amy Klobuchar and congressman Mark Pocan warned about reports of machines “switching votes,” “undisclosed vulnerabilities,” and “improbable” results that “threaten the integrity of our elections.”
Read the full story ›

Why do so many people try to resolve a problem by attacking it in the middle,
without ever trying to find the root cause of that problem?
The swamp never dies—it just temporarily recedes. Whomever told you to keep an open mind and to listen to all points of view at all times was probably trying to gaslight you – or sell you something. I have many emotions that I am experiencing. This is more than just an election. This is the fate of America.
Remember when democrats forced @EricTrump  to stop raising millions for St. Jude’s & 100% of the charity went to cancer research?
Democrats are ok with Biden using cancer to get rich. In 2017, Joe Biden founded cancer charity, the Biden Cancer Initiative. In two years, took in $4,809,619 in contributions. Spent $3,070,301 on salaries, $956,196 on travel and conferences. $0 on grants for research, treatment. Wanting a therapist & medication to help cure your depression is not “unbiblical” — you’d never say to a cancer patient, “just pray your cancer away.”
Telling someone w/ depression to “just pray it away” comes off as quite insensitive.
Is where I was in 2006 And a Biden Charity that steals from people in honor of his son Beau is quite shameful. That’s the main reason I started my Free Access blog because when you know someone going through cancer. You always have that inner feeling …. they’re not so willing to share with you ALL the information they know. Granted there really is knowledge level differences between doctors as well.

selfish:   [ˈselfiSH]

ADJECTIVE
selfish (adjective)
(of a person, action, or motive) lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.
“I joined them for selfish reasons”
synonyms: egocentric ·  egotistical · 
egomaniacal · self-centered · 
self-regarding · self-
absorbed · self-obsessed · self-seeking · self-serving · 
antonyms: unselfish · selfless · 
altruistic · considerate · 
generous · wrapped up in oneself · inward-looking · 
introverted · self-loving · 
inconsiderate · thoughtless · 
unthinking · uncaring · 
heedless · unmindful · 
regardless · insensitive · 
tactless · uncharitable · unkind · miserly · 
grasping · greedy · mercenary 
· money-grubbing · 
inquisitive · opportunistic ·  mean · looking out after number one · on the make.
In today’s Corporate World Employers don’t know the difference between good and bad employees. And don’t really care if you live, starve or die as long as they have an enabled body on the payroll. As they meet their quarterly profits and get the work out the door. They will work you to death on 35 hour weeks with no Benefits, Their attitude toward their workers is that people cost money. 

Democrat Partisan Activist stated-We ALL know that Biden doesn’t need to know anything. His team will be the acting president – this is a sham in America. Biden is too senile to make any decisions or think a grocery list through, much less matters of national security. Trump won!! You do realize that America does not believe that Biden won, and everything that you continue to push just makes you look like a pack of Wolves, just a bit of advice for you. Impatient is the word, Mindless sheep.
Nervous would be the frantic Democratic party as all their lawsuits keep appearing.
I’ve never understood this lame duck period. Trump’s allegations might genuinely be serious. They need to be investigated, for the benefit of all concerned.” It’s already crystal clear that Democrats couldn’t care less about the deaths and sickness of the American people. They’re responsible for nearly 65% of the 285,564 deaths due to their inaction. History will never forget.

Is there fraud in this election? I’ve talked to a lot of friends saying that voting for a president is
a huge joke anymore and they will not be voting on president’s any longer. : ( that’s a sad day in America!!!
Thank you for the empathy. If it is a socialist leader that’s behaving like this, what would Americans say?
This is how SADISTS behave.
Since when do news journalists dictate the outcome of any Presidential election in the United States.
By doing so is an example of what’s wrong with the media in today’s America.
STOP BLAMING TRUMP FOR YOUR FAILURE. @GovWhitmer
. I think you have the facts twisted in your Marxist Mind. When I look around at our government today.
I see too many people acting like foolish young kids running the show that don’t know anything.
While pointing fingers at each other.
Michigan 2020 population is 10.05 million Active Covid-19 cases 416,255 | Fatal cases 10,321 versus
Ohio 2020 Population 11,747,694. Active cases 468,064 | Fatal cases 6,960.
Are you a JOURNALIST or a spokesman for the Democrat party. 
No President ever under the Constitution has taken the President Office under Voter Fraud dictated by a party towards the other Party. Under those words of the Constitution. Very Clear .. Democrats are trying to push illegal votes which is an act of treason in and of itself. When the media conspires to back up that lie.
ARREST Biden. Pelosi & The Media.
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I Had Covid-19

Coronavirus Bell Curve | Daily COVID-19 Statistics for the United States

World Covid-19 tracker: Latest cases and deaths by country (cnn.com)
A LIFE RESET: What Do I mean by You Are The Answer”?
I mean you have to help yourself, no one can do it for you. God will help you but you have to do your part.
God helps those who help themselves.

A couple weeks ago I came down with Corvid 19 and my life hasn’t been much fun since.
 In just a few miles of driving I went from feeling myself to having a really warm body and being disoriented. We were having heavy rain as I slid through a rural intersection and glanced off a road sign as the road name sign came down but neither damaged the sign or my car. Thank GoD. Luckily a young man of 22 was following me and told me you look really sick and told me to go back home and he would report to the local
cops what happened.
When I returned home, which was about a 5 mile drive. I parked my car in the driveway and hurried into the house. It was diaherra. After All that I scuffled back out to my car for the next two weeks. As I went into the house I passed out for the next few days only getting up to go to the bathroom. As I noticed my first trip back
I noticed my legs were knotted and could barely walk without the usage of my cane from a prior year knee injury. 
The next three days I found myself drinking Schweppes Tonic Water began in 1783 as the world’s original
soft drink. Its founder, Jacob Schweppe, was drawn to the new art of carbonating beverages, so he refined and patented his own process of creating mineral water. Customers referred to Schweppes as
LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE because it was the first bottle of its kind to retain carbonation.
 How Much Tonic Water Must You Drink to Ease Leg Cramps? – YouTube
While in combination Nature’s Sunshine Zinc provides 166 percent, or 25 mg, of the daily value of this important trace mineral. Found in large amounts in the bone and muscle, zinc is one of the body’s most abundant minerals. Zinc supports a healthy immune system, helps metabolize sugar, assists in forming DNA, and encourages energy production as well as helping metabolize protein. Nature’s Sunshine Zinc is blended with an herbal base of kelp plant, alfalfa herb, and thyme herb.
Throughout my ordeal from day one. I have been using mouthwash to get that unhealthy metal taste out of my mouth. Figuring it may cause an unhealthy buildup in my belly. All the while not hungry I ate Oikos Greek Yogurt has 87 Calories and 8.00 g of Protein per 100 gram serving according to the nutrition facts provided by the USDA Food Composition Database. Calories, Carbs and Protein.
One serving of nonfat Oikos Greek Yogurt …
I was eating Oikos Organic Triple Zero Mixed Berry Nonfat Greek Yogurt, 5.3 Ounce — 12 per case. 
And eating Chicken Noodle Soup or Frosted Mini Wheats to keep my bowels moving.
I  ate a lot of Sherbet ice cream which helped coat my dry throat and further reduce my fever from  Prairie Farms Dairy. Which is a dairy cooperative founded in Carlinville, Illinois, and headquartered 35 miles to the south in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb within Greater St. Louis. As a dairy cooperative, Prairie Farms receives milk from producers and converts it into many different products, including cheese, butter, ice cream, sour cream, cottage cheese, various dips, yogurt, and fluid milk. Prairie Farms Old Fashioned Rainbow Sherbet Orange, Raspberry, Lime; Prairie Farms Old Fashioned Rainbow Sherbet Orange, Raspberry, Lime 4 quart.
Drinking Alka65 Purified #Water test – pH and TDS – YouTube was key to keep my throat wet and urine flowing as well. It was important because the more dehydrated I became the harder it was for me to breathe (Traditional  Medicinal  Breathe Easy Tea was a big key and Seagate Olive Leaf Mint Tea.)  While Chamomile is a very soothing, slightly sedative herb and helps calm the stress that comes with this kind of cough and difficulty breathing. Safety Factor: Chamomile is considered a very safe herb. However, like Echinacea, some people may experience an allergic reaction to Chamomile.
Today I struggle back with SHORTNESS OF BREATH,  swollen feet and legs because of the   
Acetaminophen PM Caplets – and NyQuil™ which helped. But for me it may have been an allergic reaction.  Unkers Therapeutic Rub for Joint Pain, Sore Muscles, Burn Cream, or Calm Your Cough 13.5 ounces. Unkers medicated SALVE is very effective pain relief cream. HIGH QUALITY pure essentials oils (camphor oil, eucalyptus, menthol crystals and more) are used to formulate this Unkers salve. Unkers deep penetrating pain relief is PETROLEUM BASED. First aid salves for pain relief are made in the USA.
MULTI-PURPOSE salve for pain can be used for joint & muscle soreness, skin irritation, cough, minor burns, muscle sprains, sore throat, etc. rubbing it on the soles of your feet may be most effective.

BUT I AM GETTING BACK TO NORMAL Eating ELDERBERRIES.
Spinach, Asparagus, Sauerkraut and eating baked potatoes.
My feet getting back to normal size with a cup of vingar and
a pack of Johnson Foot Soap in a foot basin for 20 minutes!


After the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the United States on January 20, it took almost 100 days to reach 1 million infections. Now, the country has added more than 1 million cases to its grim total in just five days. From Tuesday to Saturday, 1,000,882 new coronavirus cases were reported in the US, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, bringing the totals to more than 14.5 million confirmed cases and 281,199 deaths from the virus. November registered frightening peaks in the daily number of coronavirus cases — reaching 100,000 for the first time, as well as spikes in hospitalizations and deaths. On the second day of December, more than 200,000 new cases were reported for the previous 24 hours. As the impacts of Thanksgiving travel and gatherings begin to reveal themselves, and hospitals fill to capacity,
experts say it is likely going to get only worse.

“Every single day, thousands more people are getting this virus, and we know that means that in a few days,
in a week, hundreds of people are going to be coming to the hospital and hundreds of people are going to die,” Dr. Shirlee Xie, associate director of hospital medicine for Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, told CNN,
her voice breaking with emotion.
“I think that sometimes when you hear statistics like that, you become numb to what those numbers mean,”
she said. “But for us, the people that are taking care of these patients, every single number is somebody we have to look at and say, ‘I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do for you.'” More than 100,000 Covid-19 patients have been hospitalized nationwide for the past four days, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

Millions of Californians face stay-at-home orders.
In the last week, hospitalizations in Los Angeles County have tripled, and the number of available hospital beds in the area could dwindle to none in two to four weeks if cases continue to climb, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday. In response to the growing threat, the Southern California region will be under a new stay-at-home order beginning at 11:59 p.m. Sunday. The order will apply to Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The San Joaquin Valley also will be under stay-at-home orders at that time, local officials announced Saturday, after the region’s intensive-care-unit capacity fell below 15%. More than 4 million people live in the region. On Friday, officials in the San Francisco Bay Area issued a stay-at-home order, restricting the activities of more than 5.8 million people. It affects the counties of Alameda,
Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara and San Francisco, as well as the city of Berkeley.
While the Bay Area has not met the threshold of less than 15% capacity, officials warn they’re seeing evidence of transmission over Thanksgiving weekend that could fuel a surge. “I don’t think we can wait for the state’s new restrictions to go into effect later this month,” Contra Costa Health Director Chris Farnitano said Friday.
“We must act swiftly to save as many lives as we can. This is an emergency.”

“It really is time for us to pull back on the activity and see if we can turn this thing around before hospitals get overwhelmed,” said Dr. Robert Wachter, chairman of the department of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, pointing out that California has had a “better than average performance” throughout the pandemic.
“I see other parts of the country that are still open, even though the case rates and hospitalization rates are far worse than here,” he said. “So, I think we’re acting correctly.”
Adults must get vaccinated for students to return to school.
It will likely be months before all adults in the US can be vaccinated against the virus, and the wait will be even longer for children — but they can still be protected by vaccine distribution, Wachter said. “I think it’s reasonable to expect that the kids will be back in school in the fall, not so much because all of them have been vaccinated — although I hope they will — but everybody around them has been vaccinated, and the rate of virus in their communities has fallen to a point that is perfectly safe for them to be in school,” Wachter said.

Earlier this week, vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 to recommend that both health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities be first in line for any vaccines that get the green light from the US Food and Drug Administration. Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser for the public-private vaccine program known as Operation Warp Speed, said he hopes to see a “quite significant” drop in coronavirus illness and death among the elderly population by January’s end.
Noting that 40% to 50% of US deaths are coming from elderly Americans residing in nursing homes or long term care facilities, Slaoui told CNN, “We should be able to have immunized that full population, and the healthcare workers that take care of them by the end of the month of December or by the middle of the month of January.”
By the middle of March, he added, the United States should have vaccinated its highly susceptible population, which is about 100 million people, while the rest of the country “will not all have the vaccine in our arms before May or June.” The vaccine, which will come in two doses — a challenge to produce and distribute in the necessary quantities — will likely reach healthy, non-elderly Americans with no known underlying health conditions in late March to early April, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Kids are likely to be vaccinated relatively late in the game because Covid-19 vaccines are largely untested on children. The National Vaccine Advisory Committee voted Friday not to recommend emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine in children, noting that children generally experience a milder version of the disease. Wachter says that if adults get vaccinated, children could reap the benefits. “If we can get everybody else vaccinated — we can get all the adults vaccinated and get the virus to die out because we get somewhere near herd immunity — the kids may be less important.”
People can catch COVID-19 twice. That’s the emerging consensus among health experts who are learning more about the possibility that those who’ve recovered from the coronavirus can get it again. So far, the phenomenon doesn’t appear to be widespread—with a few hundred reinfection cases reported worldwide—yet those numbers are likely to expand as the pandemic continues.

Fact Check: Do You Need a COVID-19 Vaccine If You Already Have Had the Virus? (msn.com)
Not only does it take a while for subsequent bouts to show up, health departments must make sure that alleged cases really are reinfections because coronavirus residue can linger for weeks. For example, University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban made headlines
just before Thanksgiving when he tested positive for a second time. But it is unclear if he was truly re-infected because of a blind spot in how officials screened for cases during his first episode back in October.
Because COVID-19 reinfections are still relatively rare,
they can’t be blamed for the ongoing surges. Still, these incidents could be unwelcome news for coronavirus veterans who have been hoping their experience might have given them a so-called immunity passport. Such accounts show that recovering from the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus isn’t an excuse to shed masks and flout social-distancing rules while the pandemic is in full swing. In October, an 89-year-old Dutch woman was the first documented death of someone who had contracted the coronavirus a second time.
Immunity may wane over time—just like it does with other kinds of coronaviruses—and getting sick may even prime some people to suffer worse symptoms if they catch the virus a second time. Take this case study, published in October in The Lancet: In early April, a 25-year-old Nevada man showed up to a community testing center complaining of a sore throat, cough, headache, and nausea. Sure enough, he tested positive for COVID-19, and he went home to isolate. In the weeks that followed, two more tests confirmed he had fully recovered.
Yet by the end of May, the coronavirus had struck again. This time, he came down with an even worse case that was marked by shortness of breath and required him to go to the emergency room for oxygen.. Other countries have also reported reinfection rates that suggest the true global toll is unknown but potentially dangerous.
Last month, Sweden launched an investigation into 150 cases. In Brazil, scientists are tracking 95 cases. And Mexico claimed to have 258 reinfection cases as of mid-October—nearly 15 percent
of which were severe, and 4 percent were fatal. The nation’s datasets show that people who suffered from serious first cases were more likely to be hospitalized with subsequent infections. “The takeaway is that reinfection is certainly possible,” says Richard Tillett, a biostatistician at the Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and lead author of the case study.
“It seems uncommon and maybe even rare.
But it’s real and can happen.” ”Why spotting reinfection is harder Reinfections are hard to document because researchers can’t simply rely  on patients’ accounts of return symptoms or on routine COVID-19 tests involving polymerase chain reaction (PCR). They need stronger genetic proof, which calls for different technologies.
A new mutation appears in SARS-CoV-2 every 15 days, on average.
So far, those natural changes are not so extensive that they alter the nature or potency of the coronavirus,
a.k.a. it isn’t a new strain. But they can provide evidence that the patient’s second bout wasn’t the same as the original infection.

“It’s not that patients get re-infected from a new strain,” says Nathan Grubaugh, assistant professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut. Such sequencing data, he says, simply offers a “genetic signature” to show if the recurrence of the disease stems from a new infection. That’s how the Nevada team was convinced that their patient didn’t simply suffer from a persistent, clandestine infection that suddenly had grown worse. “Our argument is that he caught it from a second source because we observed six different mutations,” says Tillett. Using the combination of patient histories and genetic sequencing is the bona fide way to track reinfections; they can’t be gleaned by surges measured with standard testing. To do this going forward, health labs will need to unify their practices and store specimens for the long term.
recent survey in Qatar identified 243 potential reinfections based on case history, but only four had enough genetic material to be confirmed.

This need prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in late October to establish new “gold standard” guidelines. (Saban’s first case happened before this guidance arrived.) Local health officials who learn of alleged repeat cases are now encouraged to send specimens to a testing lab that is equipped with genetic sequencing capacity, as well as to carefully document symptoms and the interval between initial infection and a suspected re-infection.
That time interval is particularly critical because it could help answer the question:
How long will our immunity last against SARS-CoV-2?A kinder COVID-19 the second time around?
Much of society’s return to normalcy hinges on the duration and strength of our COVID-19 immunity. Along with determining how people recover from the disease, it will dictate how often a vaccine needs to be taken to control the pandemic, and even whether social distancing will endure.
But it takes time to prove if immunity to any disease is durable. For early clues to how
COVID-19 might behave, health experts tried to divine the risk of reinfection by looking at other human coronaviruses. For example, one study of four seasonal coronaviruses published in September in Nature Medicine found that reinfections could occur as soon as six or nine months later, but were more likely to be observed at 12 months. But a body’s response to SARS-CoV-2 is unlike that of seasonal viruses because humans and those latter germs have had time to adapt to each other.
Grubaugh generally attributes the phenomenon of waning immunity to patients’ lack of antibodies for a particular virus. These proteins are produced in the immune system in response to an infection. They help stifle the germ as it invades and are widely believed to ward off future attacks. Evidence suggests that 95 percent of people produce antibodies two weeks after the COVID-19’s onset. Grubaugh says it’s possible SARS-CoV-2 antibodies could fade over time and you could become susceptible again, but he doesn’t expect that to happen for years or decades. More likely is that some people don’t develop a foolproof antibody response
in the first place, he says.

The latter appears to be what happened to a 33-year-old Hong Kong man who was first sick in March and then developed an asymptomatic case in August. Even though he didn’t exhibit the classic cough, fever, or headache the second time, he still became a potential spreader. Grubaugh suspects most reinfections at the moment are due to a person’s immune system being compromised. What makes the reinfection story even more mystifying is that such accounts come at a time when emerging research suggests immunity to COVID-19 might actually be robust. Some preliminary studies do show that antibody levels drop within a couple months after SARS-CoV-2 infections, but others argue that these waning numbers don’t mean a loss of protection.

The immunity symphony
In fact, fading antibodies may be a sign of a normal and healthy immune response. In November,
British study published as a preprint (meaning that it was not peer reviewed) reported that an initial flood of antibodies soon after infection corresponded with protection for six months—even if the antibody levels faded over time. The study documented only three asymptomatic reinfections among 1,246 health-care workers who had detectable antibodies early on.

That’s because antibody levels don’t reveal the full story of a person’s ability to fight off future infections,
says S. Vincent Rajkumar, an oncologist and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who studies immunity.
Think of the human immune system as an orchestra, and among its versatile players are 
B cells and T cells. When SARS-CoV-2 invades, the body’s opening movement is frantic.
Some B cells rev up swiftly, producing that first burst of antibodies within a week or two. Simultaneously, a group of T cells—known as killers—hunts down any other cell infected by the coronavirus and gets it to self-destruct. A separate type of T cell—known as helpers—guides both of these crisis responses. If any part loses the harmony, it can throw off the entire production and actually cause more damage rather than less.

While all of this is happening, the immune system is also learning.
A fraction of these B cells and T cells get stored away as so-called memory cells.
After recovery, the memory cells continue to work behind the scenes to prevent reinfections.
“The cells that made those antibodies will still be around. It will be difficult for a new infection to cause the same amount of harm as the first one. The body already knows how to respond,” Rajkumar says.
This is why scientists were excited in July when a research paper showed that memory T cells were still detectable years after people recovered from the 2002-2003 SARS coronavirus,
a close cousin of this year’s plague.
Now, the latest evidence suggests that both B cells and T cells generated from COVID-19 infections are
also likely to stick around for the long run. One preprint, published November 16, began to sketch out the lifespans for these critical components of the immune system among 185 coronavirus patients. It showed that memory B cells remained widely abundant after six months, while memory T cells had been reduced, but only by half. Another study from November found that a hundred health-care workers who contracted the coronavirus in the spring and showed mild or few symptoms—and didn’t produce many antibodies to begin with—still had robust T cells six months later.

What’s unknown is how these B cells and T cells will act if the body is re-exposed to the coronavirus.
Will they produce an inflammatory response that somehow leads to a worse case later with more severe symptoms? Or will they blunt the outcome and yield the mild reinfections witnessed in some early reports?
If the trajectories of cold-causing coronaviruses are any reassurance, getting COVID-19 again won’t be nearly as miserable the second time for most people, says Rajkumar. That means the Hong Kong case would be the norm, while the Nevada man who developed a more severe case after being re-infected might not be typical. For now, there isn’t enough long-term research to know if B cells and T cells activated by the cutting-edge mRNA vaccines on the verge of approval will offer lasting protection, though a recent, two-month study in mice suggests that the answer could be “yes.” In the meantime, even if recovered COVID-19 patients are counting on a less painful second episode, they shouldn’t toss aside their masks. They could still catch the virus and pass it to others, who might then become sick. “You might get re-infected, and your symptoms might be so mild that you don’t know about it,” says Rajkumar, adding that mask-wearing should continue until the world has reached herd immunity. “It’s wise to wear a mask even if you’ve had COVID-19 out of concern for others.” Israeli-made mask eliminates over 99% of coronavirus, lab tests suggest – The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)
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꧁ Turbulent Times WE Are Living ꧂

“The statistics on death have not changed. One out of one person dies.” 
Stop living in fear ~ George Bernard Shaw.

“My story started back in October 1991 when my father was first diagnosed with bladder cancer and had it scoped and they took out a tumor which they told him at the time they had to leave just a stem, because they didn’t want to cut into the bladder wall for obvious reasons. After this surgery they gave him radium treatments which always made him feel bloated. So long story short he never really felt it necessary to change his lifestyle or diet. But was fortunate to survive cancer two more times and the third being a tumor up by the breast bone which they decided to fry it with radiation. 

Then it was only a year later it came back. I remember to this day being February 24 2005,
My mom and sister took him to Ohio State and found out it was terminal. They told him a year it was Leiomyosarcoma; rare type only 4 in a million get this type. So it was nearly the end of the dx when I went to the Shrine in Carey Ohio. When I myself was going through severe depression and went there to pray for a peace of mind. Because it seemed about every time I was about to dig myself out of the dark hole I fell deeper back into it. So on the way from mass that day I was handed a vision for my blog. 

I thought how brilliant but at the time I didn’t know how to type let alone computers or the internet
but it didn’t stop me. And boy after that date I learned that when the student is ready the teachers would appear. From Mant Prowg in Kettering at half price books. That Chinamen owning a business that came here and went through his own form of culture shock because of the American Diet provided me the basis. 
 For Cancer Survivor Stories and The Science of Cannabis Oil and Lyme Disease so much more. 
 
The Associated Press ran an article in May with a disturbing title: “‘We’re sick of it’: Anger over police killings shatters US.” Which turned my focus positive when I saw how many arrests they have been making.
Then I quickly realized that these times are running parallel to the 60’s & 70’s with this liberal movement being more radical caused by the transformation of America by our media and schools and colleges. 
Liberal Democrats: Law professor Neal Katyal, the Obama-era acting solicitor general has said the
 Trump White House is “engaged in unprecedented obstruction, in many ways even worse than President Nixon during Watergate.” Whether or not Trump is guilty of anything (let’s not get into that here), we can’t deny that there is a crisis of leadership in the United States right now, the likes of which we haven’t seen since the mass disillusionment with the government during the Vietnam War and Watergate.
Riots: The Kent State shooting was but one example of protest-police clashing and violence during
the Vietnam Era. There have been similar examples since, notably the Rodney King riots in the 1990s.
What separates the protests of the past few years from those in the years after the Vietnam War is,
1) their scope, and 2) the backlash against police brutality. Unlike any time since Vietnam, the past years have seen a rise in nationwide protests, mostly against Trump. What’s worse, we’re seeing a rise in police brutality against protestors and a massive public backlash against such authoritarian measures.
How many police officers are there in the U.S.? In 2019, there were 697,195 full-time law enforcement officers employed in the United States. The number of full-time law enforcement officers reached a peak in 2008 with 708,569 officers, and hit a low in 2013 with 626,942 officers. Employment in law enforcement.  According to statistics reported to the FBI, 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty in 2019. 

Of these, 48 officers died as a result of felonious acts, and 41 officers died in accidents. 
In 2019, 55 unarmed people were shot and killed by police, with white people accounting for 25 of them,
14 of them were black. Conservative radio show host Larry Elder voiced support for law enforcement after police officers came under fire following the death of George Floyd while he was in custody. How many unarmed blacks were killed by cops last year? 9. How many unarmed whites were killed by cops last year? 19.
More officers are killed every year than are unarmed blacks. When do the #BlueLivesMatter protests begin?
These are not separate points. They’re interconnected, they create a feedback loop contributing to a crisis of authority. I don’t think we can look to the post-Vietnam Era to predict what will come next, unfortunately, but whatever happens it will be big.  Our country аѕ wе knоw іt іѕ іn а ѕеrіоuѕ рrеdісаmеnt. Wе fіnd оurѕеlvеѕ іn а рrесаrіоuѕ аnd fluіd ѕіtuаtіоn thаt mіrrоrѕ thе dаngеrѕ оf а сrіѕіѕ. Оffісіаllу, оur Nаtіоnаl Аѕѕеmblу hаѕ bееn dіѕѕоlvеd аnd wе аrе mеrеlу іnсhіng fоrwаrd dау bу dау after the November 3rd Steal of our Lifetime. 

Сlеаrlу wе аrе іn а hеаlth аnd есоnоmіс сrіѕіѕ! 
Тhеrе’ѕ nо еаѕу wау tо ѕау іt, but truth muѕt bе tоld. Аѕ оur ѕрасе іѕ еlесtrіfіеd wіth
doubt and fear, оur соllесtіvе hоре аnd роѕѕіblе dеtrіmеnt dіеd іn our past gеnеrаl еlесtіоnѕ. Whіlе wе еndеаvоr tо bundlе uр someone’s аudасіtу to swing the election in their favor through a vote casting machine. A lоt was rіdіng оn a fair еlесtіоn: оur соllесtіvе hеаlth аnd wеll-bеіng, оur fіnаnсіаl ѕесurіtу аnd ѕtаbіlіtу,
аnd whеthеr wе rеbоund аnd thrіvе оr іѕ tоѕѕеd tо thе tеmреѕt. 
Вut mоrе thаn thе еlесtіоn іtѕеlf, thе nехt lеаdеr thаt wе сhооѕе wіll hаvе а tаѕk оf mаmmоth рrороrtіоn! Тhаt реrѕоn wіll bе а lеаdеr lеаdіng іn turbulеnt tіmеѕ. Сlеаrlу іt іѕ nоt thе mоѕt dеѕіrаblе ѕіtuаtіоn оr thе рrеfеrrеd tіmе tо tаkе оvеr thе rеіnѕ. Nо сарtаіn wоuld lіkе tо еmbаrk оn hіѕ оr hеr mаіdеn vоуаgе іn ѕtоrmу аnd turbulеnt wаtеrѕ. Іdеаllу, оnе wоuld lіkе tо lеаd undеr ѕtеаdу rеаѕѕurаnсе аnd саlm,
but thаt’ѕ nоt thе саѕе!

Ѕо, how dоеѕ оnе lеаd in turbulent tіmеѕ? 
Whіlе thеrе іѕ nо сlеаr mаnuаl іn ѕо dоіng, іt rеquіrеѕ а strong lеаdеr with a vision and not one with dementia. Іt rеquіrеѕ а сlеаr undеrѕtаndіng оf whеrе wе аrе аnd hоw wе gоt hеrе. Іt rеquіrеѕ а lеаdеr whо wіll bе соgnіzаnt оf thе сhаllеngеѕ wе fасе аnd bе ореn аnd соmmіttеd tо working соnѕсіоuѕlу – wіth the gооd wіll аnd іntеgrіtу tо ѕtееr uѕ thrоugh. Іt wіll rеquіrе а lеаdеr whо wіll соmе hоnеѕtlу tо hіѕ реорlе. Tо аѕk fоr hеlр аnd ассерt ѕоlutіоnѕ whіlе ѕееkіng еаrnеѕtlу tо mееt thе nееdѕ оf thе реорlе whіlе соnѕсіеntіоuѕlу ѕtrіvіng tо mоvе thе соuntrу fоrwаrd.
Тhеrеfоrе, аѕ wе аrе nоw know, іt іѕ wіthоut а dоubt thаt.
Thаt nеw lеаdеr wіll bе fоrсеd tо lеаd іn turbulеnt tіmеѕ. Gіvеn thе grаvе сіrсumѕtаnсеѕ wе fіnd оurѕеlvеѕ іn аnd thе ѕhееr dіѕсоnѕоlаtіоn оf а реорlе соuрlеd wіth а wіdеnіng dіѕunіtу аmоng thе рорulасе аnd а соllесtіvе dіѕguѕt tоwаrdѕ оur lеаdеrѕ, It іѕ mоrе арраrеnt thаn еvеr thаt thе nеw lеаdеr wіll bе tаѕkеd wіth bіndіng uр thе wоundѕ thаt аіlѕ оur реорlе аnd unіfуіng а nаtіоn thаt hаѕ bееn grірреd bу thе саllоuѕnеѕѕ оf thе tіmеѕ.

SOCIALISM VERSUS FREEDOM
GOP Rep.-Elect Who Grew Up in Ukraine Warns About Socialism
BY JACK PHILLIPS
 November 16, 2020 Updated: November 16, 2020

A Republican representative-elect from Indiana, who grew up in Ukraine, is warning about efforts by the Democratic Party to steer the United States toward socialism or communism. Rep.-elect Victoria Spartz
(R-Ind.) defeated Christiana Hale, a Democrat and a former state legislator, in the Nov. 3 election for Indiana’s 5th Congressional District seat, according to projections from numerous outlets. Spartz will succeed Republican Rep. Susan Brooks, who retired. Spartz is 1 of 17 newly elected women who will bolster Republicans’ ranks in the next Congress. Appearing on “Fox and Friends” on Nov. 16,
Spartz was asked about the success of GOP women in House races. “If you think about it, my district is really
a snapshot of America,” she said. “We have urban, suburban voters, rural voters. We have a lot of women.
I’m a mother of two daughters, suburban woman and I think if you look at that. I’m really hopeful to see that the majority of people in our country don’t believe in socialist utopian ideas the Democrat Party is now promoting.” She said that “women believe in the future of their children,” adding that they also “care about a good economy, jobs, education, public safety, having good health care and they trust that Republicans can deliver it (So I’m very honored to see that).
That is a testament to that.” Spartz, 42, grew up in the Socialist Republic of Ukraine, which was controlled
by the Soviet Union. She left Ukraine for the United States about 20 years ago, and married an American.
 “I grew up in a socialistic country. It actually was the Socialist Republic of Ukraine.
I was saying, in my 42 years [of age], I grew up in socialism,” she said.
Spartz then issued a stark warning to those who have embraced socialism.
 “I saw what happens when it runs out of money,” she said. “And it’s not pretty.
I came to America 20 years ago with a suitcase, after meeting my husband on a train in Europe.
He’s a raised and born Hoosier. And now, we’re building socialism, I’m kind of going full circles. “I can tell you what is going to be next,” she said. “It’s very sad for me to see that. And that made me, as the mother of two daughters, it made me get involved and do something about it because that’s not very good for our country.”
Spartz noted that under socialist or communist systems, the government “forces us to be equal” and will use “suppression” to do it. “We have to value our freedoms because we’re the greatest republic that ever existed,” she said.

USA! USA! Stand up and Rise up, America!
Сlеаrlу, іt wоn’t bе аn еаѕу tаѕk, but сеrtаіnlу а dоаblе оnе. Іt іѕ wіth thе tіmеѕ іn mіnd аnd thе dаuntіng
tаѕk аhеаd. Thаt І сhаllеngе thе nеw аnd uрсоmіng lеаdеrѕ tо аdарt thе wоrdѕ оf Аbrаhаm Lіnсоln thаt hаvе bесоmе mоrе tіmеlу аnd арt thаn еvеr. Іf іt іѕ thаt wе wіll оnсе аgаіn thrіvе аnd ѕuссееd аnd buіld а ѕtrоngеr, mоrе bеttеr аnd unіfіеd country, thеn іn thе wоrdѕ оf Lіnсоln аt hіѕ Ѕесоnd Іnаugurаl аddrеѕѕ;
thе nехt lеаdеr оf оur соuntrу muѕt: 
“Wіth mаlісе tоwаrd nоnе;  wіth сhаrіtу fоr аll; wіth fіrmnеѕѕ іn thе rіght, аѕ Gоd gіvеѕ uѕ
tо ѕее thе rіght, lеt uѕ ѕtrіvе оn tо fіnіѕh thе wоrk wе аrе іn; tо bіnd uр thе nаtіоn’ѕ wоundѕ;
tо саrе fоr hіm whо ѕhаll hаvе bоrnе thе bаttlе, аnd fоr hіѕ wіdоw, аnd hіѕ оrрhаn —
tо dо аll whісh mау асhіеvе аnd сhеrіѕh а јuѕt, аnd а lаѕtіng реасе, аmоng оurѕеlvеѕ,
аnd wіth аll nаtіоnѕ”. 
Іf wе еlесt а lеаdеr whо саn trulу lеаd іn turbulеnt tіmеѕ,
wе саn bіnd uр оur nаtіоn’ѕ wоund, rеbоund аnd сhаrt а раth tо рrоѕреrіtу аnd асhіеvе а lаѕtіng реасе аnd ѕtаbіlіtу fоr thе bеttеrmеnt оf оur реорlе аnd соuntrу. Nоnеthеlеѕѕ, thе bаll іѕ іn уоur соurt. Іt іѕ уоur ѕоvеrеіgn rіght, уоur dеmосrаtіс dutу tо ехеrсіѕе уоur frаnсhіѕе аnd ultіmаtеlу dесіdе whо іѕ mоѕt fіt аnd еquірреd tо lеаd uѕ thrоugh thеѕе turbulent tіmеѕ. 

These are indeed turbulent times — a worldwide pandemic, protests and riots, widespread unemployment,
a surge in crime, and election concerns.  Is it possible to be optimistic under such circumstances,
or to the contrary, is it a time to yield to negativism and pessimism? In other words, can someone be realistic and optimistic at the same time? 
It was the last week of the Savior’s life. He knew that Judas would betray Him. Peter, His chief Apostle,
would deny knowing Him on three occasions, and some of those He had come to save would mock Him, spit upon Him and smite Him. There would be a false arrest and trial. But even more trying than this would be His moments in the garden and on the cross where He would descend below all things (see Doctrine and Covenants 88:6). He described this experience in His own words as that suffering which “cause[d] myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain” (Doctrine and Covenants 19:18).  
Nonetheless, knowing that all this would befall Him in the week ahead, He both warned and comforted us:
“In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). In other words, “I am realistic enough to know that you will have trials and tribulations in life, but I can promise you that underlying it all you can be of good cheer. Why? Because once I complete the Atonement, there is no external force — no loss of life, or sickness, or economic disaster, or divorce, or other outside trial that can prevent you from being exalted, provided you are obedient and endure to the end.”  
Optimism may not be the equivalent of faith, but it is certainly a stepping stone in the right direction.
In fact, it is both a necessary component of faith and a fruit of faith. It is powerful evidence of our faith in
Jesus Christ and His power to heal us and save us, even when our trials seem momentarily unbearable.
Optimism adds fuel to the fire of faith; on the other hand, negativism throws water on its flames.
Negativism and pessimism are Satan’s turf; positivism and optimism are God’s.
Optimism is a ray of light in what might otherwise be a dark world.  
 It is a reflection of the Savior’s pronouncement, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12).

My father never knew a bad day and was a shining light. He always had a smile and positive outlook on life.
He used to say: “I just do the best I can and leave the worrying to the Lord.” I loved that saying. It reminded me that the Savior has taken upon Him the heavy lifting. He has left us with a load, but a manageable one.
Knowing that the Lord is in charge and that exaltation is literally guaranteed to all who keep
The Ten commandments.
Is what makes it possible for us to smile and be of good cheer, day after day, trial after trial. 
It was this knowledge that prompted the apostle Paul to say: “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content” (Philippians 4:11). How grateful we can be for the Savior’s Atonement and the hope and eternal possibilities it provides.
Because of this we can be optimistic, even in turbulent times, knowing that our trials,
in and of themselves, can never deprive us of our eternal destiny. 
The path is clear if Trump isn’t reinstated as President. I see an unclear future for our country
with the Plan that The Communist Democrats have in store for the United States.
When I was young: my father always told me when I had a bad day, “you don’t know what a bad day is.” 
Try turning a part and going onto the European Theatre then start praying you jeep speedometer back those days registered with the other with only coordinates and fixing a jeep or tank during WWII. With a gunman on either side for protection because in those days the government didn’t send you new equipment.
Then sleeping in a train car with bombs going off all around you because you ran out of daylight.
He always felt the rosary he kept in his shirt pocket. Which he grabbed on the spare moment he left the house was the only reason he came home alive from WWII.

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Klaus Schwab’s Transhumanism.

God will do miraculous things. “If God be for us, who can be against us.” – Romans 8

Religion throughout history has always been used by Global Elite as a mechanism
to control society. They have known how to do this for millennia and have repeated the same formula
over and over again at different times and locations. Virtually all religions over the past 5,000 years
have been allegories based on earlier forms of pagan sun worship. 
The Secret Religion of the Cabal / Illuminati Elizabet Wilcock, trained in shamanism, martial artsqigong, and a healer, describes the different ways that the dark elite or Cabal, as David Wilcock 
calls them, enslaves humanity worldwide, including lifelong debt, fiat money, murdering those who
created free energy, and poison our food.

What I learned about these bird brains is they don’t believe in God so they play him.
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, as György Schwartz, in Budapest, Hungary), is one of the wealthiest people in the world (rated number 35 in 2010) and is a leading funder and organizer for progressive organizations and progressive causes.
He is a proclaimed atheist. David Rockefeller, an Illuminati Satan and member of new world order
2 years ago, Many researchers have provided us with proofs that Rockefeller bloodline is the bloodline of
the satanic Illuminati, a group of the global elite controlling and shaping the world into a new world order.
Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, revealed in a recent interview that his family
goes to a Catholic church and that religious morality inspires a lot of his charity work.
He also shared his personal thoughts on God and the biggest issues facing the world today.
“The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important. We’ve raised our kids in a religious way; they’ve gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes to and I participate in. Bill himself states he was born into a Protestant Christian church, but is now conclusively an agnostic. Who is a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena;
a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God.

Ted Turner, founder of Cable News Network, “tells it like it is” and is regularly called on the
 Christian carpet for his candor. The TV mogul, who is also a notable philanthropist who pledged $1 billion to the United Nations in 1997, has described Christianity as “a religion for losers.”  Also Another great role model who isn’t Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has eschewed his atheist beliefs and now asserts that “religion is very important.”

Then you have Obama’s father who was a leftist anti-colonialist subversive in Kenya,
and his mother was a Marxist. His step father in Indonesia was also a Marxist.
He pushed Marxism for 8 years in office and his minions are still pushing it today.
It’s time we shut Cultural Marxism down in the U. S.
HAVE you see what ANTIFA and BLM are doing to Trump supporters out there?
It’s absolutely disgusting! Send in the military and disband
MS-13. Originally from El Salvador, and all these domestic terrorists!
They are lucky MAGA has so much restraint! We need to reclaim our culture, and I’m weary.
Lord, please heal our land!
I want every one of these ANTIFA and BLM maniacs attacking people to be arrested and to serve long sentences. No more catch and release. Lock them up & pipe in Hymns & Patriotic songs all day.
Sidney Powell has all the proof that Trump won by a landslide.
She knows how they manipulated the Dominion Voting machines to flip votes.
It’s not gonna be fun if the crazy dictator governors shut down states. Somebody needs to stop them.
Anyone reading Juan O Savin’s new book? Can’t put it down, PEOPLE!
This is the week that will determine the fate of our nation.
They RAN on CHARACTER then lied, cheated, and undermined our election (again)
in an act of TREASON. The political ELITES cheated us all. Free Ride to Gitmo!!
Will the Supreme Court be the one to overturn the results or are they comped? Probably not the Supreme Court yet. Cases go circuit court then district court then SCOTUS normally. They could expedite!!! Nothing is going to happen. I’ve completely given up faith that any of these evil people will be brought down. This country is gone.

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
A disturbing movement to reform capitalism is gaining traction by those using the coronavirus tragedy
to call for “The Great Reset”. These are not the ramblings of a few disgruntled teenagers or a wacky sociology professor from inner-city Sydney. The body pushing The Great Reset happens to be the World Economic Forum and its charismatic German leader Klaus Schwab who is calling for a return to Marxist principles,
claiming that capitalism has empirically failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
Professor Schwab has just released a book titled The Great Reset and has dedicated a large portion of the official WEF website to such articles as “Does capitalism need some Marxism to survive the Fourth Industrial Revolution?”. It is truly a terrifying notion that a man as educated and powerful as Schwab would use his supposedly independent economic organization to push for a return of
the deadliest social experiments of the 20th century.
And how does he justify putting an end to capitalism?
 “There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis,” Schwab says, “To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative. “Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honors the dignity of every human being.” A new social contract. Decided by who?
Well Schwab himself, of course. 

Schwab promises a new world. A better world. A fairer world.
 You see Mao and Stalin, they were not true Marxists. They didn’t have the best intentions.
A Utopia is indeed possible. And what evidence does Schwab present to support his new world order?
Well, let’s quote Schwab’s organization in full so that we can fully understand his point of view.
“Capitalism as we know it needs to be reformed,” the WEF writes.
“The growing discontent at the ideology that has created so much wealth and progress on the one hand,
and yet so much inequality and instability on the other hand, is causing increasingly
frequent social disruptions across the world.”
 “The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare most of these dysfunctions, ranging from uneven access
to healthcare, education, economic opportunities, and social progress, to growing inequality among and within nations and racial and ethnic groups. At the Centre of these multiple crises lies the tension between privilege and meritocracy.” There’s a lot to unpack in the above but the general theme relates to the existence of inequality being evidence capitalism has failed.
It is of course true to an extent that not all systems create inequality.
But this is actually a case for capitalism.

 Even the most junior economist will study the four primary economic systems and even the most ideologically possessed of those students will come across the system favored by the USSR, North Korea and Maoist’s China. (I disagree because they steal off others.) The Command Economic System. A system which eliminates inequality because citizens all live equally in tragedy. Those living in Ukraine discovered this in the early 1930s when the Holodomor – or    The great Famine – struck. Somewhere between 3 million and 12 million people starved to death after the Soviets convinced people to turn on their village’s farmers.
 Marxist logic dictates that if someone profits from a sale, they have robbed you.
If there is inequality, a crime has been committed. That notion has prompted much horror over the years and left many people equal in poverty. Capitalism indeed creates inequality, but it is also the only system known to man which also creates equality. This is because wealth creation is not a zero-sum game. There is not a finite amount of money or wealth. Money can be created, jobs can be created and people can be pulled out of tragedy and despair by capitalism itself.
 In the last few decades, according to our friends at the World Economic Forum, more than 1.1 billion people have been pulled out of extreme poverty. The world was on track to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030 – a timeline which will undoubtedly be side-tracked by COVID-19 but that is hardly the fault of our economic system. The evidence for capitalism in the form of humanity’s rapidly improving way of life is enormous.
But the Marxist principles Klaus Schwab endorses are stained with blood. Or as Karl Marx would say:
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9rkxUK8zU

Born in Ravensburg in 1938, Klaus Schwab is a child of Adolf Hitler’s Germany,
a police-state regime built on fear and violence, on brainwashing and control, on propaganda and lies,
on industrialism and eugenics, on dehumanization and “disinfection”, on a chilling and grandiose vision
of a “new order” that would last a thousand years. Schwab seems to have dedicated his life to reinventing that nightmare and to trying to turn it into a reality not just for Germany but for the whole world.
Worse still, as his own words confirm time and time again, his technocratic fascist vision is also a twisted transhumanist one, which will merge humans with machines in “curious mixes of digital-and-analog life”, which will infect our bodies with “Smart Dust” and in which the police will apparently be able to read our brains. And, as we will see, he and his accomplices are using the Covid-19 crisis to bypass democratic accountability, to override opposition, to accelerate their agenda and to impose it on the rest of
humankind against our will in what he terms a “Great Reset“. Read the whole article here.

Global Communism Disguised As The Great Reset!
“COVID-19” was long pre-planned in documents and simulation exercises emanating from
the eugenicist Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation. A platform with 200 detailed levels is provided
by the World Economic Forum led by Klaus Schwab, a technocrat and promoter of transhumanism, in order to provide detailed instructions on how the “COVID-19” pandemic is to be used to implement a global monetary reset and digital currency, technocracy and totalitarian government worldwide under the guise of socialism and environmentalism, with China as the model, and enslave humanity through a sinister vaccine conspiracy.
Earlier attempts were made to engineer pandemics but none succeeded. This time, the World Health Organization changed its pandemic criteria in advance so that it could declare a pandemic on spurious grounds. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a terrorist and accused genocidist was appointed head of the World Health Organization in order to orchestrate the pandemic and facilitate the totalitarian takeover. Read More …
God will do miraculous things. “If God be for us, who can be against us.” – Romans 8

Barnard Nathanson was one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.’ After putting thousands of unborn children to death, he became one of the great leaders of the pro-life movement. For more than a decade after he became pro-life, Nathanson described himself as a Jewish atheist, but in December of 1996 he was baptized a Catholic by Cardinal John O’Connor in a private Mass with a group of friends in New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral. He also received confirmation and first Communion from the cardinal. About his baptism, he said, “I was in a real whirlpool of emotion, and then there was this healing, cooling water on me, and soft voices, and an inexpressible sense of peace. I had found a safe place.” For more than a decade after he became pro-life, Nathanson described himself as a Jewish atheist, but in December of 1996 he was baptized a Catholic by Cardinal John O’Connor in a private Mass with a group of friends in New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
He also received confirmation and first Communion from the cardinal.
About his baptism, he said, “I was in a real whirlpool of emotion, and then there was this healing, cooling water on me, and soft voices, and an inexpressible sense of peace. I had found a safe place.” In his 1996 autobiography The Hand of God, he told the story of his journey from pro-abortion to pro-life, saying that viewing images from the new ultrasound technology in the 1970s convinced him of the humanity of the unborn baby. Outlining the enormous challenge of restoring a pro-life ethic, he wrote, “Abortion is now a monster so unimaginably gargantuan that even to think of stuffing it back into its cage … is ludicrous beyond words.
Yet that is our charge — a herculean endeavor.” He noted, regretfully, “I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age.” His pro-life witness could not easily be dismissed as one-sided propaganda since Nathanson had enjoyed such a high standing among abortion supporters as a co-founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (now called NARAL Pro Choice America), and as operator of what he called
the nation’s busiest abortion business.
The facility was opened in New York City after the state’s abortion laws were loosened in 1970.
Abortion promoters realized the high number of women seeking abortion could not all be admitted to a hospital for the procedure. A freestanding ambulatory clinic, in which abortion and recovery took about three hours, was an innovation devised by Nathanson and his colleagues. Overall, Nathanson estimated, he presided over 60,000 abortions as director of the facility, instructed fellow practitioners in the performance of 15,000 other abortions, and personally performed about 5,000 abortions, including one on his own child
that was conceived with a girlfriend in the 1960s.

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★彡 Hold The Line 彡★

Never has a man delivered so much good and been met with so much unvarnished hate.

Established cronies, puppet media, self-serving elites, bent cops and the rancid opposition loathe his sole purpose–your freedoms. He does NOT care. God bless him and the fight of his life. All of our liberties are in danger right now…. with the totalitarians/communist democratic party!  Best selling author of “DEEP STATE TARGET: the plot to bring down President Trump” available now on amazon

‘Religious & Civil Liberty Endangered of Becoming a Second-Class Right‘
Karl Marx believed that abolishing the family was necessary in order to abolish capitalism so, yes…I believe communists are bad people. Of course no one is going to enforce a Lockdown Thanksgiving. Coumo does not have the manpower or the funds. And no police officer or sheriff is going to bust in on someone’s Thanksgiving dinner. It’s ludicrous that this is even a conversation at the politicians mouth. Trump will not roll over…
In The Art Of The Deal, he says: “Much as it pays to emphasize the positive,
there are times when the only choice is confrontation.
When people treat me badly or try to take advantage of me, my gen attitude all my life has been to fight back very hard.” So sad how @BarackObama  could have been an inspirational, historic figure.. Instead, he’s been a tragic, regrettable ingrate, beset by malicious hatred for the country that elevated him.. Thus he sat at the pinnacle of greatness, yet remained a small man! Socialism will NEVER Work.
Even in a game of Monopoly everyone starts out with the same amount of money.
At the end of the Game there is one person left with all the Money.
There will always be people who work hard & gain Success.

The UN needs to respect the People and what they want.
They don’t want the UN telling anyone what to do.
Locking down our country is not the answer. 

Not only will people never recover financially, but the emotional toll is tremendous.
It has caused anxiety, depression & isolation. Have you noticed countries who have the most draconian laws in regards to the coronavirus crisis & who are pushing the NWO most are those part of the NSA-The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance; United States, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand?
That is how you can tell who is on board with NWO.
Also most of the European Union now especially Germany, Italy and others.
Socialism is like: Jim Jones led his brainwashed sociopaths to Brazil where he brainwashed them into committing mass suicide. On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of a religious group led by
the Reverend Jim Jones were killed in an apparent mass suicide.
The megalomaniac Jones convinced most of his followers to drink a cyanide mixture.
Officials implement new coronavirus restrictions as cases skyrocket. Coincidence?

Once you reach Poverty there is little way out.
And example of Living Within Socialism: In Canada where they have been in lockdown a good part of the year. Many now are about to break and Afraid of becoming homeless with winter approaching.
 Our waitress just broke down in tears stating “if the state closes restaurants again, I am in trouble.
I have an 11 year old son and I am a single mom”.
We gave her a hug and tipped her really well. This is getting out of control.

The Smart One Doesn’t Waste Time On Nonsense Issues. 
Remember when Trump sent all those supplies and Cuomo said he never sent anything?
Trump sent a Navy Ship hospital that was used? Now Emperor Cuomo said he didn’t want the vaccine for his state that comes from The Trump Administration. Because Cuomo indicated he wouldn’t give it to his people.

LIKE HIS PEOPLE WE’RE HIS SLAVES!
So my Guess he has some more elderly to kill off.
Makes me wonder where his head is in all this. Cuomo‘s decision is on the path to endanger more people…
just like his nursing home decision that killed greater than 6,000 seniors.
Andrew Cuomo Winey Baby ASS that wants everything handed to him and still will never be not happy!
I wouldn’t either! TRUMP stated, the vaccine should not be sent if the Governor will not authorize it’s usage!! WHY WASTE IT!! TRUMP is correct in this point!!! Cuomo said he won’t accept the vaccine or distribute it. Hey New York Democrats: Cuomo is your real enemy but you’re too dumb to see it.
Cuomo said he didn’t want it. So It was his call.

Hey New York Your Governor is an idiot.
His dislike of the President is apparently worth the lives of Americans.
Cuomo didn’t just complain he flat out made some asinine comment that he would decide which
vaccine NY got as if Trump was in his basement making the vaccine. Being He said that.
My guess #killercuomo
wants to add to his body count #CuomoKilledGrandma
So he can blame that death count on the Trump Administration once again.
I heard Cuomo say this with my own ears. He doesn’t care who gets sick and dies in NY State unless he approves of the vaccine himself. It’s time to wake up NY and vote these arrogant maniacs out of office at all levels!!! It’s a True Fact, it is him hating his own constituency,
Actually because governor Cuomo selfish thoughts he wouldn’t accept any stinkin vaccine created by the
Trump administration, and because he wants NY residents to suffer and die. Thereby, Great move by POTUS…
let the NY people attack Cuomo & DeBlasio.

Cuomo’s concern for the people of New York It’s 100% political. He is in a pissing match with the President and as usual he loses and looks like a fool. I wonder how the people there who want a vaccine will react to their governor not allowing it. What’s the point of sending the vaccine to New York when they’ve said they won’t allow it to be used? Seems like it would be wasteful! Trump is right. It was President @realDonaldTrump’s vision that we could harness the ingenuity and creativity of America’s greatest pharmaceutical and research companies to develop a vaccine in record time. Promises Made ~ Promises Kept!!
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The Great Reset is underway.
I will keep saying the same thing! Dumbasses who call themselves
Socialist or Communist are just being ignorant!!!
Covid-19 is not a lie but definitely blown out of proportion to so undermine
President Trump | USA elections! Covid-19 is real their terrorism that’s in the news
and is just part of the plan to affect us all. It’s a weapon against us and that’s why
President Trump calls it the China Virus.
I had it when no one knew it was in the US.

I didn’t know at the beginning what I had.
But I described it at the moment as being fumigated like a roach.
Then when I realized Covid-19 hit our church I was already describing it as some type of biological thing.
It was different for sure. My experience: after I recovered I was left with asthma attacks at night, inflammation on chest. When going out the first days passing through certain spots on the road I’d run out of breath and experienced chest pain.
That made me believe some of the 5G theory. But can’t prove it.
CV19 is a real virus, CV19 can be absolutely devastating in folks with compromised immune systems,
CV19 has been used as a political weapon this year. I believe it is man-made/man-modified to do the most damage to the vulnerable. Having said that, we have to learn to live with it like Ebola and others.
It’s not quite a lie, as the Wuhan Flu is quite real.
But it’s no more lethal than the regular flu.
Inflated deaths and inflated number of infections (mostly asymptomatic)
make it seem like it’s as deadly as Ebola or the Bubonic Plague…. Totally made up BS!
Governments no longer represent its citizens.
There has been a coup leftist\globalist total power grab for the new world order.
The politicians now serve other interests. Everything we’ve seen this year points in that direction!
The lie is Covid-19 is an “infectious” virus that is transmitted from person to person. This is false.
Covid-19 is a bioweapon that we basically already have in our bodies— we have been inhaling chemtrails and
GMOs for years—and it is activated remotely by 5G frequencies.

With that being said, the numbers are still a massive lie.
Everything up to this point has been greatly exaggerated due to falsely labeling non-covid-19 deaths as covid-19, etc. But they can always crank up the disease in the future since they have the control switch, i.e., 5G. Covid-19 is nothing new. Ppl get the flu or cold for many decades. Let’s get this straight COVID is no lie. It’s real.
What is not real is the figures simple really & how exactly do we know that Covid-19 is real? Ppl are dying but do we have access to their medical records? Are we alongside scientists when they make these discoveries? Honestly, the same can be said about many other viruses.
Just because it sounds crazy doesn’t mean it’s entirely wrong.
Just sayin! Absolutely! It’s time to END THIS Infringement on our FREEDOM,
IN JESUS MIGHTY NAME! #HoldTheLinePatriots
I said something about it two weeks ago on Twitter & was banned for a week.
There is a coronavirus going around which is like a bad flu. It is being used to shut down & destroy the World’s economy. A worse virus will follow along with enforced vaccinations. under the internationally recognized Nuremberg code part 1 clearly states that ‘Voluntary consent of the Human subject
is required before any vaccine can be carried out,
therefore any forced vaccination breaks that code & goes against our Human rights.
What level of Trudeau corruption does it take for “ALL CANADIANS” to say enough is enough?
This level of “blindfold politics” crosses all political party spectrums!
We all pay taxes, isn’t it our right to know what it’s spent on? Show your work Justin #openthebooks
I have given up! As long as CBC is around no one is going to get the hard questions and truth just stays dormant. He will get away with it forever! Not enough people care to call to action.

The world and attitude has changed.
We demonstrate names of sports teams who are considered offending but not the Government, Justice or our rights being trampled and tax money squandered. There are too many “ME” Canadians that want welfare and are willing to overlook corruption as long as they get their handouts. The days of us taking what the government throws our way, and feeling the government has our best interest at heart are long over.
The Trudeau govt has proven that govt cannot be trusted at all. Our system of government needs a total revamp, with many, many checks and balances added. One wouldn’t let a 9 yr. old drive a car but, we are willing let someone with an emotional IQ of a 9 yr. old to run our country! Why?
The 49% of Canadians paid with public money disagree! The people don’t care.
They will think what the press tells them and they will follow him blindly off a cliff.
Sad reality is most Canadians are like American and live in a bubble void of politics, and the information they get is filtered by the left leaning media. If they choose to stay in that bubble nothing will change. When the “Free money” runs out Once they’re actually starving or in real shackles…they will turn on him like rabid wolves. You are challenging people-kind.
Where the hell is the RCMP? I see a lot of ‘ex’ RCMP making these statements Where the hell are the current folks. They are given extraordinary powers by the people to police this country for the people. They’re just blindly following along for the pensions. Nothing changes. My 85 year old Aunt who is living in her own home, still drives, does all her own banking shopping etc, thinks Trudeau is perfect. As do all her friends.
They all watch CBC and believe everything. Scary stuff Sheeples.
The utterly sad thing is, even if all voting age Canadians had issues with #TrudeauCorruption, there is no legal or legislated means for citizens to seek his removal, besides angry letter writing, which of course he will ignore. One question that needs to be answered is why certain spending links on government websites deny access to the taxpayers of Canada. #transparency

When 75% of the media rather report on Trump than Trudeau’s corruption in Canada.
He will never be held to account.
Trudeau is the most unaccountable Prime Minister in history, the media is to blame.
Maybe when he starts filling trains to go to the “quarantine camps”.
If there was a Conservative politician that did half the stuff Trudeau did thy would be kicked them to the curb. In fact I can’t stand the CPC and I’m a conservative.
What I think about Trudeau cannot be put into words, he is so bad.
Those sentiments ring true for more people than you know.
What a sad state of affairs. If Trump is right and the election is being stolen in the US by the left and they get away with it, then we are in for global socialism. Trudeau already has Canada in that camp. It’s the end of the free world!! After what is being exposed in the USA with election fraud I have zero confidence
Canadians could even vote this traitor out.
I’ve been saying that since they put the man child in.
Even Gerald Butts left after he found out what a complete idiot Trudeau is. But not too far.
He needs his bestie to send billions his way for his Green Projects.
“And for this reason God will send them strong delusions, that they should believe the lie,”  
2 Thessalonians 2:11

This is the only possible reason, that I can comprehend,
how the left believes what they believe. As long as he gives freebies to his voter base, Canadians will ignore any type of corruption/non-transparency. Look at the USA. They elected a corrupt VP Biden who w son took bribes from Chinese, Moscow, etc. & the media, Big Tech didn’t care to question & actually covered it up.
It’s frustrating but apparently many still support him. I’m shocked at how ignorant people are.
It’s like those who support Biden. They support tyranny and criminals! Just makes no sense!
Is it not within the powers of the RCMP to arrest a sitting member of parliament for crimes under the criminal code like obstruction of Justice, spoliation of evidence, political corruption, fraud…or traitorous action to implement a kleptocratic oligarchy? He’s filled with cities with low/no skill immigrants who all adore the idiot. There is nothing right of centre in Canada to save us true Conservatives. The race to the left is full steam ahead, unfortunately.. Ask that question all the time. I think Cdns have a high threshold for political incompetence. Our media has very little interest in holding his feet to the fire and journos pussyfoot around his actions. We’re all still waiting for a budget. Zero urgency. #TrudeauWorstPMEver
The corrupt media are to blame. They fill peoples’ heads with nonsense about Trump 24/7
to deflect from the fascistic liberal cabal that are currently hard at work bankrupting us all.
The problem is that Canadians have no clue how to have a revolution, they have never had
to fight for their nation so instead Canada has 35 million people with
“deer in the headlight” syndrome.

They will stand still and watch death come barreling at them.
The average Canadian knows very little about their crooked leadership. Like some walking around in some sort of strange coma! Denial perhaps? Are they that brainwashed or fear ridden when it comes to the truth Unfortunately most Canadians are uninformed or just don’t care. That’s been my experience anyhow..
I really want you to think about the fact that we have normalized big government to the point that bureaucrats actually feel comfortable trying to cancel your family Thanksgiving.
So far with all of this uncertainty, I am only getting good info from b @ n n 0 n s Show.
He actually has people that are working around the country.
This is a crucial video for this time on how the Illuminati is affecting what is happening right now in our country with these elections. Amir is a great teacher! 
I highly recommend everybody listen to this video.
Amir Tsarfati: Illuminati and the One World Government!

Way worse is that the sheeple accepts it. The dopey sheeple don’t understand that the NWO will give them all of the abuse they can bear. Then, when the sheeple are exhausted, they will be taken to the slaughter. The NWO has stated they want a world population of 500 million. We pray & declare 4 Pre Trump: his Admin, fam, def Team supporters that “No weapon formed against u shall prosper, & every tongue which rises against u in judgment U shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, & their vindication is from Me,” Says the LORD.” Then shaming you when you do not listen to their demands.

The democrats have forgotten that we pay their salaries,
so if anyone should be issuing orders it should be American citizens!
The fact exists where people controlling the media are willing to tell families not to come together for Thanksgiving. Completely Unacceptable.
Next it will be Baby Jesus’ birthday. They speak a language very offensive to this American.
When you put it that way (which is excellent insight), it really is scary.
That we would allow our government to dictate private, personal activities to us is
truly giving up our freedom and liberty.
They really don’t want to see the day that the “right wing” comes out in force to fight for what they believe in. The last time that happened our precious Constitution was created. This time it will be in defense of it against all enemies foreign and domestic!! Patriots be ready…
The Covid-19 scare is being ramped up to prevent the possibility of an in-person
run-off in contested states.
This Over the River and Through the Woods grandmother, will be making ZERO changes to Thanksgiving.. including reading Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation. They already cancelled LAST Easter.. we ALLOWED that, without question.. surely the National day of Thanks and Christ’s birthday were on the list.
We have normalized big government so much that some fellow citizens are also comfortable telling us what to do and what not to do. The response of tyrannical citizens has been more surprising, and disappointing,
to me than the response of the government.

The original lockdown to “flatten the curve” was to last 3 weeks…
Do you REALLY believe the Joe Biden’s possible 4-6 week lockdown will only be that long?
If so, are you interested in some ocean front property I’m selling?
It’s in Arizona… A STATE HE STOLE VOTES FROM!!!
Truly think about that for a second.

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Darkest Winter: Marxist Empire Emerging

Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—
because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything!!!
BY: The Anonymous Writer

Modern Irish are like the Modern Scots: in love with socialism and blame the English for everything, 
Including their own laziness and failings. Perhaps we should change the laws to require all wrongdoing on
the part of elected officials be punishable by public hanging. (You know, hold them to a higher standard.)
We don’t need to hang John Brennan, just ensure him a chance to have free room – board
in Leavenworth for the rest of his life. 
As an Irishman who has lived in the US for a good few years, I was always astounded at the amount of Irish traitors in the US Democrat rats nest, like Brennan and not giving them a second chance to do it again.
There are obviously lots of good Irish descended traitors in the Republican/Trump camp, and his nanny was an Irish woman of course…..but still, it bothers me. If they try to prop up that dead guy and Kamala the cunt in the White House, we need to go and hang Brennan and others ourselves – since we can’t rely on the justice system. 
Along with Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Lerner, both Ohrs, Strozk, Weissman, Mueller, Yananvovich, Vindmann, and all the other lying traitors and 5th amendment takers. If you can follow this, maybe your answer is in here.
Seems when great nations are great, they deploy executions; when they back off the executions, then they lose their greatness. The execution by injection is somewhat like no execution at all … in contrast, the public square at high noon for executing villains correlates with the greatness of nations. And Barr fiddles, Durham still “investigates”, and Wray sees no vote fraud, allowing this criminal to continue to try to overthrow Trump.
John Brennan; a globalist, America-last remnant of the Iran Contra ~ Big Daddy Bush Deep State Cabal.

I think it goes back to the Tammany hall corruption you saw in Gangs of New York. Lots of Irish were used
by corrupt elements at the time, and now many of them have taken over the rathole. The irony is most of the Democrats values are totally against traditional Irish values (But very much with current Irish political values here, as woke leftism sweeps the country via brainwashing from the media, and Soros funded NGOs). 
It’s a shit state of affairs that’s given the absolute integral part that the Irish played in the Civil war in the US, and how they’re generally decent people.
So many last Irish names in the corruption of recent years in the Democrat party. 
I was surprised that only 30% of the Jews in Florida Voted for Trump,
One would think that Jerusalem has an embassy and how good Trump has been to Israel in his first term.
Well Brenan is a cornered house cat – and certainly not a cornered tiger. Yes and think for a second about that cornered tiger. Why do they call it a cornered tiger? Because that tiger is not going down without a fight, and it’s going to do it’s very best to take the enemy down with it even when it loses – so it’s a dangerous thing to have a cornered tiger. But now let’s look deeper, I believe the term comes from the hunting and killing of a tiger for sport, by people who have no intention of eating it – not for survival, they just want a rug or a trophy. 
Many people have in fact been killed by the tiger while they are hunting it. In my opinion they deserve to die. The tiger is just a tiger living it’s life and these conniving bastards try to kill it for no good reason (rare cases where a tiger has killed a person and needs to be hunted – I agree with those cases). Dems are evil and are on a cat hunt. They might think twice if they knew they had a tiger on their hands. I say we open up every tiger cage at the zoo and let the dem’s become the hunted and the losers all at the same time. The more tigers the better.

John, you’re so damn dumb that you don’t realize it’s you that is the cornered cat…dumbass.  
Cornered RAT… A cat that is hunting down another Deep State SEWER DemocRAT. 
They’re Masters at projection. Like all communists, they believe if they repeat a lie loudly enough and long enough, it suddenly becomes true.  I’d ask this communist how that’s worked out for him so far?
These traitors realize if they lose, they have nowhere to hide. 
I have encountered these “classify” zealots.
They seek to get and keep classified much that has no impact on national security. I think it’s in their DNA. They like to think they know something that everyone else should not know. It’s ridiculous. 
Declassify the lot. Well, National Security belongs to us, and officers are appointed to safeguard that.
Clearly it is in need of rigorous auditing.  I can’t decide, how about a gallows that drops 8 or more at times.
Hildahag and Obung come to mind. 
Buddy….would you please settle for the simultaneous hangings…to include, but not limited to, Hussein Obama,
Sloppy Joe, Hunter, Clapper, Lynch, Hillary, Bill, Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Rosenstein, Holder and
(you get the picture…what a great day in America this would be if they all hung at once)…But I was gonna say: over-classification is specifically discouraged and major infractions are prohibited. …and revoke the security clearances of those no longer holding office.  It’s clear the designation, “Classified” is being used as a tactic to avoid investigations and public hearings. No telling what they’re getting away with. Our Founding Fathers would be mortified. A free and informed citizenry is impossible when government agencies, the Pentagon, government/military/private partnerships (Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, DARPA etc.)
are cloaked in layers upon layers of secrecy. 

The freedom most citizens believe we have is a well constructed propagated illusion.
We aren’t the America we used to be. When is this piece of shit Brennan gonna get his just desserts???
“John Brennan is an EVIL, VILE person. He always has a demonic look on his face.
I always thought that look meant he was just constipated. YOU know. Just full of schittt.
The Democrat his taking up Islam is all of the proof we need to see to know that he’s mentally incompetent at the least, and maybe should be locked up because he’s crazy as a loon! 
I’m so sick of deep state commies like him running their arrogant yaps and doing nothing but sell us out to foreign countries… Joe Project as a cornered rat, who has nowhere to go. May the trap, snap, and squish this seditious squid like ruptured grape. He’s just the POTUS of Operations for the coup, the coup itself is run by the Board of Directors, and I think we all know who’s on that; Obama, Clinton, Kerry, Piglosi, among others.
Disgusting excuse of  Americans.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

John Brennan is the consummate low life dirt bag and will flip on a dime if and when he gets prosecuted when Trump gets certified for another four years.  If we do have a “dark winter” we’ll have plenty of books to burn.
 I see a lot of these traitorous books in the thrift stores for 25 cents. Wouldn’t buy them except to use them for toilet paper in “The Dark Winter”. Please god, let President Trump lash out at the forces of evil attempting to destroy America, and bring these evil, perverted beasts to justice. 

I’d spend more time worrying about our own problems, frankly, than focusing on evil CIA types with severe personality dysfunctions. If the Republicans cannot gather their resources and full-on purge fraud in a timely fashion from the states everyone with a brain fully understands it prospers wildly within, posting video clips of retired spy despots will be the last thing on our minds as vast swathes of this country tries to effing scavenge food in a mass prison lock-down. Which Biden and the sociopath team have planned for Maga country.
Darker times have never been nearer my friends. And don’t ever think Trump will escape and ‘comes back stronger’. They’ll destroy him and destroy his family. He won’t be able to sell a bar of soap let alone a book.
If the integrity of elections cannot be given time to be investigated by the media that called the election, we have lost our Republic. Our democracy is in deep, deep peril if a significant number of Americans are only prepared to see election results as legitimate ( if their preferred candidate wins. )

Dr. Zeke Emmanuel… Biden’s head of COVID task force… Poor countries should get vaccines first… Americans second… #AmericaLast . Zeke thinks that people 14-40 should get the best care because they are vital to state…all others (75) older had enough time to live (That’s Obamacare Death Panels.) WHO MADE THE CALL TO
MI, WI, PA, NC, GA, & NV on election night?? Subpoena phone records from Pelosi & her husband & Feinstein & her husband! Were there videos recording the dropping off of BIDEN BALLOTS in the middle of the night? Where were they from?
Remember the adage “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
They knew that. That was their intention to usher in Novus Ordo Seclorum. Lockdowns aren’t leadership at all. Good leadership would inspire people to act in the safest way possible while still getting done what they need to do in their day-to-day lives. We had our issues a few decades ago as kids, but nothing even close to what has been going on in the past few years. School shootings, suicides, mass depression and isolation, and many other things, simply didn’t really exist when I finished school in the late 80’s.
What happened!!!
Leaders know this – Lockdowns are having the exact effect they want them to. To destroy the will & spirit of Americans especially the middle class. Lockdowns are open warfare on the hard working middle class American Family – The far Left will not stop until we are destroyed! Expect a lot more of this under a Biden Harris regime. Libs love the power of telling people that they see as inferior and what to do. Just like they planned. They are also stirring resentment between two halves of the population by rigging the voting system and announcing one candidate won then the other.
This should start a civil war and then China will be king.
Allie, it’s so so bad. I’m a public school teacher and I’m just so worried for this generation.
This is not school. Jill Biden can keep trying to tell me it’s all fine, but she isn’t working with students everyday. This is a nightmare. My 3 teens have been home since March. They don’t care about school or their grades, teachers offer way too much flexibility, no accountability, no tests being administered, no due dates for assignments. It’s really frustrating and sad.
I’m having a kid a week email me and apologize for missing class or turning in homework late because
they had a mental breakdown. Enough of this crap. Open the schools. They have a 99.9997% chance of survival.

Crimes against humanity.

First let’s get them for election rigging then let’s get them for politically motivated lockdowns.
My son is really suffering with feelings of sadness and anxiety and he is only 8! He doesn’t do well in this distance learning environment. It is terrible for him! It will be interesting to watch SAT/ACT test scores over the next 5-10 years as elementary and middle school kids age. Very possible that school closures will contribute to lower scores. So glad to see school busses again in my county this week. And I’m a commuter who hates school busses! It’s very sad. Some children seem to have gotten no education yet this year.
Where are the concerns?
I would say now would be a good time to start phasing out government run schools.
The garbage that passes for education is a travesty. Everything is geared to the lowest common denominator and it is simply pathetic. I bet children who have been homeschooled from the start have no negative transitions during this time. We need to stop this and fight against these orders that are unlawful!!!
Your immune system can combat the virus better than the vaccine.

Our children are suffering!!
My son, who is doing his freshman year from home because his college didn’t open,
is very depressed and angry, Don’t forget that the disparity between the haves and the have nots is growing significantly. Hey Allie, just check out the Georgia GuideStones, you’ll see that this is all part of a plan by the ruling class. They want them ignorant, depressed and hopeless. Easier to lead that way.
Mask Mandates are nothing more than “cult-like” mental conditioning. To see exactly how far you
can be pushed before fighting back. Sadly, we failed this test. But it’s not too late to get out of them if we act now. If not, they will be permanent. *As They do nothing for virus protection. You can blame the media the people y’all are associated with. Instead of protecting us they sent us to the ovens.
The US is Being Invaded Right Now and the Media is Cheering | Armstrong Economics…

Do you ever feel like the whole world is against us?
That’s how the patriots felt in the American Revolutionary War.
But they stood their ground and won with all odds against them. It’s a shame our whole country does not want to continue what those brave men started. AOC in TROUBLE: New York Dem Leader RIPS Ocasio-Cortez After ‘Rough Election Night. “I really believe we need to come together and not allow Republican narratives to tear us apart,”  AOC deflected on CNN. Read the full report at the New York Post.

This is Biblical Times We Are Living

Esther 4:14 14 For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for
the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish.
And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
I am in the middle of listening to Kim Clement “The Esther Prophecy.”
There are no coincidences. I’ve said all along, this is a spiritual war, between good (God) and evil (Devil).
It was on this day that Kim saw the Esther who would arise, and so much more for America, the Middle East, Africa and the world. He saw that the struggles we are now facing are the labor pains of something that is about to be born. And Oh yes!!!!! I wanna see that boomerang effect, HARD!!!!
The trap they set for others, they themselves will fall into.
Who is Esther in this scenario?
Esther = Blessed Virgin Mary. This is about Satan’s war with the Mother of Christ
described in Genesis & Revelation. The Lord has me going through Psalms in my devotions.
Ps. 9:15 yesterday and Ps. 10:2 today both speak of the wicked caught in their own trap.  
#Godwins #GodisGood
In this manner The Holy Spirit has confirmed to my spirit your statement.
I’m thinking when Adonijah declared himself to be king
when Solomon was rightly king is also coming into play!
Intimacy opened the door, the whisper of impending deceit changed the world!
Circles are small: trust must be the fire in the center of the room that heats the banquet!
I hope more like Korah’s rebellion against Moses.

The Earth Swallowed Korah …
31 As soon as Moses had finished saying all this, the ground beneath them split open,
32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households all Korah’s men and
all their possessions. So funny that you would say this! I was praying for guidance the other day and
I opened my Bible randomly and it landed on the book of Esther
which I read and it resonated with me in the same way. Esther 4:14 
This is a great site that compiles a lot of fraud evidence gathered so far & includes the status of various lawsuits. Please send a link to anyone who tells you there is no evidence of fraud. https://www.joecheated.com/

“For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.
The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do wrong; you destroy those who tell lies.” Psalms 5:4-6 #KeepTheFaith #TrumpWillPrevail
More like Moses delivering the Israelites: From Egypt after 400 years … this is the 400th birthday
of the signing of the Mayflower Compact coincidence? I think not. I’m a believer,
but it will most definitely take a miracle for Trump to win. I’m accepting that it’s God’s will
to make a change. The main theme in the book of Esther is that God is working behind the scenes.
There was a divine purpose for all the decisions and details documented in this story,
yet none of that becomes apparent until the end.

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Also 1 Kings, Chapter 1, where Adonijah tried to steal the kingdom from Solomon but King David stopped that in its tracks! God’s chosen ones will sit in the leadership seats!! My sister told me last week she had been dreaming of Esther for the last few weeks. She proclaimed the very words you just spoke.
God’s specialty seems to be: Turning the plans and devices of the adversaries back upon their own heads. Causing them to fall into the Pits they have dug to entrap others.
Causing them to be hung upon the Gallows they build for The Innocent.

Finish this sentence: “The best way for Democrats to deal with the likes of AOC, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren is ___________.” Now, explain.
However This question has it backward. The real question is how they will deal with the rest of the Democratic Party. Will they work smoothly with our new leader,  When it comes to Sloppy Joe Biden? Will they acknowledge that moderates flipped the seats that gave Democrats their majority in the House? 
Will they recognize and accept these political realities?
If not, they will fairly be viewed as obstructionists. 
One thing to note is that 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is in a somewhat different place than the others you name.
She has enthusiastically campaigned with Democratic moderates, and she’s made clear they belong in
the Party and are essential to building majorities.
Elections, the useful cliché, have consequences. 
Biden decisively beat Sen. Bernie Sanders and won the nomination running supposedly as a moderate.
He did the same against Trump in the general election. He ran on an ambitious, modern and moderate agenda from start to finish. So while those folks certainly have earned their seats at the table, they must recognize that Joe Biden is sitting at the head. 
Democrats want America to shut down AGAIN over Covid but open up to 20 million illegals.
Or an instant 20 million Marxist/DemocRAT votes. End of the USA. Exactly.
We’re gonna be hard pressed when it comes to social distancing with an influx of new immigrants.
That’s the leftist socialist PLANLECTION math. They’re really bad at math or just want to be in power forever!
It’s just plain stupid of them.

The American people will revolt if he keeps this shit up.
 Those who voted for him are realizing what an idiot he is and the puppet of the shadow govt.
We must win Georgia Senate races in January, if not you won’t recognize this country in a year. Biden’s plan to legalize 12 million illegals will permanently destroy the republican chances to win another national election.

Biden reportedly plans sweeping change of Trump’s immigration agenda https://trib.al/Ad7azC7
Only way they can get the Demonicrat party off life support.
Biden is eyeing several immediate changes, including dismantling Trump’s ban on immigration from
13 predominantly Muslim and African nations. Shortly after taking office, Trump signed an executive order
that banned foreign nationals from seven countries —
Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — from visiting the United States.
In January, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria and Tanzania were added to that list.
Leftists always do the most perverse things – it’s in their charter and
its blatantly stupid treachery. SnowDEN to bust BiDEN… 
Edward Snowden Reveals Nasty Truth About Joe Biden’s Past!!! 
However, The Dems GOAL is to IMPOVERISH THE CITIZENRY.
In four years of office they can: Pack the Supreme Court, perpetuate election fraud, reconstruct the Legislature and tell you you still have a “free” Country. Every policy on their 110 page “communist manifesto” is to steal your civil liberties and impoverish the American people. Biden will ‘burn the Declaration of Independence and Constitution’:  Levin warns voters of what’s in Biden’s INSANE 110-page policy plan
which you can read for yourself  
here.
The only way Trump doesn’t overcome this is if Trump he concedes. Thereby if this election goes to the House for a vote, each state gets a vote. Not the majority, each state. Republicans control 31 states. https://www.atr.org/map This is why Hillary told Buyden …. not to give up no matter what. after showing people that you’re below being crooks…. Once carried into the Legislative Branch.
Kim Clement and President Trump Prophecies – 2020 & The Wall YouTube ·  2/6/2019 ·

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akx74VIiQ70
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