NC Renegades

There are currently 1,006,511 confirmed cases of SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) in the United States.

And this is just another statistic. No one doubts that the number of actual cases is much higher. It also appears that a large portion of the population has mild or no symptoms associated with COVID-19.

As for today’s milestone, the response to the disease and the propaganda concerning all aspects (real and manufactured) have become the most divisive issue we have ever faced. Which is why it will continued to be used to divide and weaken us.

David DeGerolamo

Chinese Doctor Shi Zhengli was part of a team that working on a coronavirus project jointly with US doctors in 2014 in the United States before it was shut down by the DHS for being too risky. 

After the US research project was shut down, Dr. Shi, often referred to as the “Bat Lady,” continued her coronavirus research in Wuhan, China.

The HHS in 2014 sent a letter to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where they announced they were going to defund the program.

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And now we know that Dr. Tony Fauci and the NIH funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015.

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It would not be a leap of faith to see that our government exported this research to China for deniability. Will anyone pay for their crimes in this country except with a pitchfork?

David DeGerolamo

Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC) just extended North Carolina’s statewide stay-at-home-order to May 8 — and has done so for no valid reason I can think of.

As of the end of April, we will have been in total lockdown for a full month, and now we face another week of this, and nothing about it makes sense.

Throughout our entire state, there have been only 8,830 confirmed coronavirus cases, 305 deaths, and, as of now, our state’s hospitals must look awfully barren with only 451 people hospitalized for the coronavirus and all elective procedures and surgeries canceled.

Our worst hot spot is Mecklenberg County, home of Charlotte, but that urban area saw only 1,482 cases and 41 deaths.

So with these numbers, what is the point of continuing the lockdowns?

Isn’t the whole point of the lockdown to ensure our health care system doesn’t crash? So where in North Carolina is there any fear of the health system crashing — I mean, other than from bankruptcy, because the hospitals are all empty due to the outlawing of elective procedures?

Okay, maybe Charlotte and Raleigh and some other cities are a concern. Fine, extend their lockdowns… But why my county?

I live in Western North Carolina, and in my county and the four surrounding, we’ve had exactly 63 confirmed coronavirus cases — and not one death. Let me add that each one of those counties has a hospital, so what is the risk of opening us up right now? Nothing is going to crash here.

According to the models — and we’re supposed to be a slave to the data, correct? A slave to the experts, correct? — if we did not lockdown, things would be ten times worse. Okay, fine… Even if you double that to 20 times worse, that’s still fewer than 1,300 coronavirus cases spread over five counties and five weeks… Fewer than half of those cases would have required hospitalization, which means that even if we had not locked down, our system would not have crashed.

So maybe I’m asking the wrong question.

Instead of asking why our lockdown is being extended, maybe I should be asking why we were shut down in the first place?

Let me rephrase… We have five hospitals in my five-county area, I just doubled the worst-case scenario without a lockdown, and our health system did not crash, so why the hell was our lockdown extended?

What is it with this one-size-fits-all policy across a wide and diverse state?

So now you’re going to tell me lockdowns save lives. Well, of course they do! And if we locked down the whole country forever and ever, we’d save a ton of lives. No more car accidents! No more deaths from the seasonal flu!

But are we really saving lives..?

I mean, come on… This is an infectious virus with no cure, no vaccine; and by all accounts, it’s a very infectious virus, so how are we going to avoid catching it, unless, of course, we’re willing to quarantine for the 12 to 18 months until there’s a vaccine?

And what if there’s no vaccine? That’s a possibility, you know… What if after locking down for 12 to 18 months we come up with bupkis, no vaccine, which means it’s still not safe to emerge? Well, at least we’ve turned our once vibrant country into a ravaged moonscape for no reason.

We were told that the whole point of these lockdowns was to slow the spread (not stop the spread — which is impossible without a vaccine) so that our health system doesn’t crash. That makes perfect sense to me. We do not want people to die who can be saved. I get that. I also get that it was a good idea to lock down hotspots like New York and Detroit, etc. But the health system in my five counties was never in any danger of being overwhelmed, and now we’re extending the lockdown?

I’m sorry, but this is utter nonsense. If anything, as soon as it became clear our local health system would not be forced into triage, things should have started reopening. But instead, we’re extending this madness…

One more week for countless small businesses to die. One more week of people living with unbearable toothaches. One more week of my wife being half-blinded by cataracts. One more week of record unemployment… And for what?

If we’re not going to lockdown until there’s a vaccine, what is the point of locking down one more week?

If there’s no danger of the health system crashing, why aren’t we reopening?

Maybe there’s an answer, but up ’til now, no one’s given enough of a damn to explain it to me.

More… h/t FreeNorthCarolina

Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,

In my first week in the House of Representatives in 1976, I cast one of the two votes against legislation appropriating funds for a swine flu vaccination program. A swine flu outbreak was then dominating headlines, so most in DC were frantic to “do something” about the virus.

Unfortunately, the hastily developed and rushed-into-production swine flu vaccine was not only ineffective, it was dangerous. Approximately 50 people who received the vaccine subsequently contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome, a potentially fatal form of paralysis. According to an expert with the Centers for Disease Control, the incidence of Guillain-Barré was four times higher among those who received the swine flu vaccine than in the general population.

That sad history may soon repeat itself.

Right now, governments and private industries are working to rapidly develop and deploy a coronavirus vaccine. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who is a major funder of these efforts, has suggested everyone who receives a vaccine be issued a “digital certificate” proving he has been vaccinated. Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose record of wrong predictions makes him the Bill Kristol of epidemiology, also wants individuals to carry some proof they have been vaccinated.

Another authoritarian proposal floated to deal with coronavirus is to force everyone to download a phone app that will track their movements. This would allow government officials to identify those who may have been near anyone who may have had coronavirus. Such mandatory “contact tracing” is an assault on our privacy and liberty.

Vaccines can improve health. For example, vaccines helped reduce the incidence of diseases like polio. But not all vaccines are safe and effective for all people. Furthermore, certain modern practices, such as giving infants multiple vaccines at one time, may cause health problems. The fact that vaccines may benefit some people, or even most people, does not justify government forcing individuals to be vaccinated. It also does not justify vaccinating children against their parents’ wishes. And it certainly does not justify keeping individuals and families in involuntary quarantine because they do not have “digital certificates” proving they have had their shots.

If government can force individuals to receive medical treatment against their will, then there is no reason why government cannot force individuals to buy medical insurance, prohibit them from owning firearms, dictate their terms of employment, and prevent them from taking arguably harmful actions like smoking marijuana or drinking raw milk. Similarly, if government can override parents’ wishes regarding medical treatment for their children, then there is no reason why government cannot usurp parental authority in other areas, such as education.

Proponents of mandatory vaccines and enhanced surveillance are trying to blackmail the American people by arguing that the lockdown cannot end unless we create a healthcare surveillance state and make vaccination mandatory. The growing number of Americans who are tired of not being able to go to work, school, or church, or even to take their children to a park because of government mandates should reject this “deal.”

Instead, they should demand an immediate end to the lockdowns and the restoration of individual responsibility for deciding how best to protect their health.

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“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth is putting on its shoes”

The list of sensational headlines based on shoddy research just continues to grow. Whether by commission, omission or plain old ignorance, our media is failing us — it’s not probing as critically and deeply as it should to ensure the information it brings us is valid.

Among several examples in today’s video, Chris scorches recent reports that covid-19 could not have been developed in a lab — reports that rely heavily on an authority who just happens to have years of experience collaborating with Wuhan scientists working with coronaviruses (including bats), BUT THIS WASN’T DISCLOSED.

Our big frustration here is that the reports we’re having to devote time to debunking in our daily videos shouldn’t be getting the air time they are this far into the coronavirus crisis.

Why are there still so many inaccuracies in today’s news? Collectively, the media should have sharpened its game in its pandemic reporting by now. It should have seasoned vetting processes in place by this time.

Especially when the stakes of being wrong are remain so high. Just another reason to say: It didn’t have to be this way. Oh well, we’ll continue these daily critical thinking-based updates for as long as their needed. Looks likes that’s going to be for a while…