I want to get this off my chest. Please STOP telling me to wear a mask to show you respect. I do not go around calling you fearful and stupid for wearing a mask. If that is what makes you feel safe, then wear the mask.. If my choice for not wearing one makes you uncomfortable, then stay away from me, and I will stay away from you. I respect your right to wear a mask without calling you names or trying to place guilt on you for supporting those who are taking away our freedom. I refuse to allow the tyranny of elected leaders to tell me, "You can't choose how to live your life because what you do affects other people. If you carry the virus and live out in the open, you'll infect those around you. Therefore, you must obey the commands we lay down…" This is the rationale used by those who would close churches, schools, and businesses. They would lock us in our homes and destroy our lives.
Our government is based on the consent of the governed. WE decide. We aren't the property of the State. We aren't products shaped by the State. We weren't born to be medical patients all our lives.
No one said this would be easy. We aren't living in easy times. It does no good complaining about what should be and spin our wheels.
If these restrictions were about protecting my health, why does the government allow tobacco and alcohol use?
Did you know? Smoking leads to disease and disability and harms nearly every organ of the body. More than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking. For every person who dies because of smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness. Smoking causes cancer, heart disease, stroke, lung diseases, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking also increases the risk for tuberculosis, certain eye diseases, and the immune system's problems, including rheumatoid arthritis.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 million deaths per year.2 If the pattern of smoking all over the globe doesn't change, more than 8 million people a year will die from diseases related to tobacco use by 2030. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. On average, smokers die ten years earlier than nonsmokers.
If smoking continues at the current rate among U.S. youth, 5.6 million of today's Americans younger than 18 years of age are expected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. This represents about one in every 13 Americans aged 17 years or younger who are alive today.
Did you know? Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day. These deaths shorten the lives of those who die by an average of almost 29 years, for a total of 2.8 million years of potential life lost. It is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States.
More than half of alcohol-attributable deaths are due to health effects from drinking too much over time, such as various types of cancer, liver disease, and heart disease. However, short-term health effects from consuming a large amount of alcohol in a short period accounted for most of the years of potential life lost, such as deaths due to poisonings that involved another substance in addition to alcohol (e.g., drug overdoses), suicide, and motor vehicle crashes.
If the government were concerned about protecting my health, they would put a total ban on both smoking and drinking. They are not concerned with my health; they are concerned with my control. If you do not understand this, you are blind to what is happening in our country!
NO state of an emergency that justifies sweeping away Americans' fundamental freedoms. No war, natural or manmade disaster. NO crisis can override the meaning and spirit of the Constitution. There is a line that can't be crossed for any reason by our elected officials, yet it is happening every day.
The same people who tell me to wear a mask to show respect are the same people who can blow smoke in my face or drink and drive without regard for my safety. Don't use protecting my health and safety to wear a mask that is a lie. Tell me the real reason I am to wear a mask.
What bothers me is the number of people who seem to want the COVID restrictions. They want to obey political dictates. They are willing to submit to governors' edicts. They bow down and believe and accept public health officials' statements as if they were written in stone. Why?
Here is something to think about. The CDC is not a government organization. It is a private company. You might not be concerned with the agenda of the CDC, but I am. Both the CDC and John Hopkins University are a private organization that receives private funding and government. Even though the CDC is under the Department of Health and Human Services, it has funding sources from private groups like Bloomberg, who gave $1.8 billion to the CDC and John Hopkins. Ever wonder why private companies would be interested in having input into the CDC's decision-making process? Would there be some financial gain to be made by Bloomberg? The recommendations coming from the CDC seem like they are trying to create an economic depression with their policies for COVID-19. They are trying to force us to stay home, don't work, and live off the government. Why is this? Every wonder what connection the CDC has with Big Pharma?
The CDC gets millions of dollars annually from Big Pharma and then turns around and recommends testing and drugs created and marketed by those same companies. This is often done upon the contributing company's demand.
Congress authorized the CDC to accept "external gifts" from industry and private parties in 1983, and in 1992 passed legislation for the creation of a nonprofit foundation to encourage relationships between industry and the agency. In the fiscal year 2014, the CDC Foundation raised $52 million, $12 million from Big Pharma. In 2014, the CDC received $16 million in direct funding from corporations, individuals, and foundations, including the CDC Foundation, which makes the foundation nothing more than a pass-through organization.
Much of the funding from Big Pharma was conditional and earmarked for specific projects that turned out to be the promotion of the contributing company's products.
The CDC has accepted millions of dollars through the CDC Foundation. During fiscal years 2014 through 2018, the CDC Foundation received $79.6 million from companies like Pfizer, Biogen, and Merck. Since Congress created it in 1995, the nonprofit organization has accepted $161 million from corporations. Why would a government organization need to be a 501c3?
Now let me ask do you think governors are getting money from Big Pharma? While people's lives and jobs are being devastated by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), and there have been no FDA-approved treatment, governors or state pharmacy boards in Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Texas are issuing emergency orders to restrict which medications doctors can use to save lives. WHY would they do this if this was about my health and safety? These politicians have no background in infectious disease, medicine, research design, or epidemiology, yet they presume to dictate to front-line physicians reading the emerging research and caring for patients. Why would they do this?
In January, the Democratic Governors Association, headed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, accepted $50,000 from Purdue Pharma, as did the Republican Governors Association, directed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Those donations come as states, including New Jersey, California, Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Tennessee, and Vermont, are considering excise taxes on prescription opioids — which would be approved and implemented by governors.
Do you think it is about keeping you safe from the virus now? It is time to start pushing back and regain your life.
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