NC Renegades

THE UNITED STATES’ victory over the British Empire in the Revolutionary War is our country’s quintessential tale of David overcoming Goliath. Birthed as an underdog, we embrace that mindset still.

Winning independence was not an easy task. It was a success that hinged on pivotal moments. The Continental Army’s narrow escape across the Delaware River, the British surrender at Saratoga, and foreign intervention from Spain and France are a few of those moments. But lesser known is George Washington’s bold decision to vaccinate the entire Continental Army against smallpox. It was the first mass inoculation in military history, and was vital to ensuring an American victory in the War of Independence.

GEORGE WASHINGTON’S first brush with smallpox came long before he was a military commander. At the age of nineteen, he was infected with the disease while traveling in Barbados with his brother. For twenty-six days, Washington battled headache, chills, backache, high fever, and vomiting. He developed the horrific rash and pungent pustules that are the hallmarks of smallpox. At times, his brother wasn’t sure he’d make it. In those days, smallpox mortality rates ranged from 15 to 50 percent.

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George Washington realized that merely evading smallpox would no longer suffice; he wanted to prevent it altogether. Inoculation was already available, although the procedure — called variolation — was not without risks. The vaccines we’re accustomed to today were not invented yet, so doctors would simply make a small incision in the patient’s arm then introduce pus from the pustules of an infected victim into the wound. Variolation often resulted in a minor smallpox infection with a speedier recovery and vastly lower fatality rates, around two percent. Survivors were granted lifelong immunity.

At first, Washington simply required new recruits to be inoculated. Then, in February 1777, he bit the bullet entirely.

“Finding the smallpox to be spreading much and fearing that no precaution can prevent it from running thro’ the whole of our Army, I have determined that the Troops shall be inoculated. This Expedient may be attended with some inconveniences and some disadvantages, but yet I trust, in its consequences will have the most happy effects.”

This was a bold move. At the time, variolation was technically outlawed by the Continental Congress, so Washington was openly flouting the law. Whole divisions were inoculated and quarantined en masse, a process that would continue for months. Strict secrecy was maintained to prevent the British from uncovering the program, lest they launch an attack upon the recovering troops. By year’s end, 40,000 soldiers were immunized.

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Strange how people know so little about history and the impact of disease on the success or failure in war. George Washington made polio inoculations mandatory for his soldiers which was an illegal act. Today, vaccines have become another method for the pharmaceutical companies to make a profit. Even to the point of creating the disease if necessary. I remember one of my microbiology professors telling the class that he would never get another vaccine and his reasoning in 1977.

How did we get from a position of do no harm as a medical foundation to making biological weapons in order to make a “cure”? How did the United States close down the coronavirus research at UNC-CH but then fund its continuation in Wuhan which caused a worldwide pandemic? I do not see any calls for an international treaty to outlaw such research or even its funding.

This is not an article concerning a SARS-COV-2 vaccine. The dangers behind an S protein vaccination would preclude me from any consideration. I would consider a monoclonal antibody or RNA approach but our best hope is to get infected with a small inoculum and build immunity. This still leaves a risk of the secondary infection against our immune system which our “leaders” are being very careful not to disclose. The redundant infection mechanisms designed into this virus preclude any “natural” evolution.

How can you ensure a limited infection to give your body more time to build antibodies? Wear a mask in public. Think about this next time Dr. Fauci explains why wearing a mask will not protect you. Also think about who will be benefiting financially by a vaccine.

A point could be made that George Washington’s (and Dan Morgan’s) actions were a major factor in winning the Revolutionary war. A point could also be made that our impending war here will be won or lost by the equipment that we have available. And this includes masks. For now, become educated on natural remedies, use common sense and have faith in God’s plan. And next time someone disagrees about the use of masks, explain that masks are not mandatory, that this is a tactic used to divide us and that we can agree to disagree as we unite for a higher cause.

David DeGerolamo

Defiance is poetry.

Covidly I gaze into your eyes.
Once again I fantasize.
Would you, love, remove your mask?
Alas, a question I cannot ask.

They know what we say, do, think, and write.
It doesn’t stop when we turn out the light.
Six feet between us, masks must remain on,
Which presents a problem: how will we spawn?

The moonlit gazebo where I proposed,
No more fond visits, the park is closed.
The quaint little shop that made your gown,
By mayor’s order, forever shut down.

These many years we’ve kept apart.
When does it end? How did it start?
The love we said would ever inspire us
Held hostage to a coronavirus.

In our house we’re inmates now.
The crossword puzzles we vow:
We’ll not employ a thesaurus.
Truth be told, crosswords bore us.

Yet every day it’s down and across,
Confession that we’re at a loss
To fill the endless time and tedium.
Everything’s an unhappy medium.

Endure perpetual house arrest.
All the best people will attest:
There’s happiness in shelter-in-place,
Discover joy in your tiny space.

It matters not you can’t pay the rent,
Fresh from the printer, scrip is sent.
Madly they print, madly they borrow.
Why worry about posterity’s sorrow?

You liked your job? You liked your work?
Don’t you know such sentiments irk
Our potentates and their retinue,
Those who talk but cannot do?

You want independence, to pay your own way?
What a radical, dangerous thing to say.
We’re all in this together, that is why,
Universal basic income is nigh.

Media rot fills heads, hour after hour.
Risk exclusion if you question power.
From Youtube, Facebook and Twitter banned,
Online exile, virtual no-man’s land.

There’s offline whispers of an Eden,
A distant land known as Sweden.
Who set their own course in 2020.
Censured then, now they know plenty.

Once I had fond hopes and dreams.
My head’s now filled with silent screams,
Imaginary plots I have hatched.
Armed men from the state dispatched

To punish any noncompliance,
To sunder any rebel alliance.
In padded rooms go the rebellious,
Nanny’s nurses gently compel us.

Use the toilet, wipe your ass,
Or we’ll revoke your TV pass.
Open wide, eat your gruel.
Sit up straight, please don’t drool.

Lo! I have raged against our fate,
House arrest til 2038.
Our rulers care about you and me,
But not enough to set us free.

Cures have been rumored for many a year,
All of which spark their deepest fear.
The cures are cheap, so they await a vaccine,
From Pharma partners, the profits obscene.

Sunlight and fresh air build immunity
But you can’t go outdoors with impunity.
Exercise, play with kids, or labor,
You might get snitched on by a neighbor.

For safety’s sake, what they have wrought,
Protects public health, so we are taught.
If this is it, this sterile hive,
I’d rather not remain alive.

Copyright, Robert Gore, 2020

Feel free to distribute far and wide
To all those pondering Coronacide.
But if you share my contribution,
Please include a link and attribution.

As we begin to get a better handle on what happens inside the body when covid-19 infects, it’s clear that early treatment makes a big positive difference.

And we’re learning of effective measures you can take at home *before* exposure to the virus that can limit your chances of getting it. A cocktail of Vitamin C + Quercetin, Vitamin D3, zinc and melatonin is being increasingly recommended by doctors (specific dosage available in this video).

OK..now on the bad news. THE GREATEST WEALTH TRANSFER IN HISTORY IS HAPPENING BEFORE OUR EYES AND WE’RE JUST WATCHING IT HAPPEN!!

Oh…did I shout that? Sorry. All that the $trillions in rescue bailouts/stimulus are doing is making the wealthy elites and the large corporations whole on their bad bets, while simultaneously making them richer by deforming stock prices higher.

And what do the rest of us get? Lost jobs. A promise of a measly $1,200 check that few have yet to receive. Shattered prospects. Those who have pillaged our system are filling their pockets before it collapses.

Why the heck are we not fighting back at this more forcefully?