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This day in Naval History April 28

1930 Secretary of the Navy appoints the first Curator for the Department of the Navy, Dudley Knox.

1942 The U.S. Navy's Task Force 99, which consists of USS Wasp, USS Tuscaloosa and USS Wichita, plus four destroyers, sail from the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, as part of the mixed U.S.-British force Distaff, to provide cover for Russian convoy at Iceland.



1944 German torpedo boats attack U.S. Navy LST convoy in Lyme Bay during Operation Tiger training for the Normandy Invasion. USS LST 507 and USS LST 531 are sunk at Portland Bill, England, and USS LST 289 is damaged, with 198 Sailors dead or missing and 551 Army dead or missing from later reports.



1944 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox dies. He expanded the Navy into a force capable of fighting in both the Atlantic and the Pacific during the early years of World War II.



1945 USS Sennet (SS 408) sinks the Japanese cable layer Hatsushima off Kii Strait, south southeast of Miki Saki; USS Springer (SS 414) sinks the Japanese submarine chaser CH 17 west of Kyushu as she is escorting landing ship T.146, and USS Trepang (SS 412) sinks T.146 off Ose Saki, Japan.



Thanks to CHINFO



Executive Summary:

• Multiple outlets report that USS Nimitz left port on Monday after the Navy took steps to ensure the crew is healthy and ready to conduct operations at sea.

• The number of COVID-19 cases aboard USS Kidd has risen to 47, multiple outlets report.

• Navy Times reports that the Navy canceled all E-4 advancement exams for active duty and full-time support Sailors.





.What Happened This Day In History

April 28 .



0357 Constantius II visits Rome for the first time.

1282 Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily.

1635 Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office.

1760 French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second Battle on the Plains of Abraham.

1788 Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution.

1789 The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh.

1818 President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.

1856 Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California.

1902 Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic.

1910 The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.

1916 British declare martial law throughout Ireland.

1919 Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.

1920 Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.

1930 The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas.

1932 A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.

1945 Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.

1946 The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes

1947 Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.

1953 French troops evacuate northern Laos.

1965 The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.

1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of his boxing title.

1969 Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.



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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS

FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR APRIL 28

THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY



1919: Leslie Irving made the first jump from an airplane with a free-type backpack parachute at

McCook Field. He jumped from a DH-9 flown at 1,500 feet by James "Floyd" Smith, the parachute's

designer. (21)



1927: The Ryan NYP Spirit of St Louis first flew.



1937: The Pan American Clipper arrived at Hong Kong to complete the first transpacific commercial

flight. (24)



1952: KOREAN WAR. A 3d Air Rescue Squadron H-19 helicopter picked up a downed Hawker Sea

Fury exchange pilot for the second time. Exactly three weeks earlier a 3d Air Rescue Squadron

helicopter rescued the same pilot. (28)



1958: DISTINQUISHED FLYING CROSS. An inflight explosion on a 341 BW B-47 caused the

pilot and navigator to eject. While attempting to egress, the copilot, 1Lt James E. Obenauf,

found the remaining crewman unconscious and unable to escape, so he stayed on the crippled,

burning aircraft. From his backseat position, he flew the B-47 to a safe landing at Dyess AFB.

He later received the Distinquished Flying Cross for his actions. (21)



1960: The Army's first underground test firing of the Nike-Zeus proved successful. (24)



1961: In a test flight from the carrier USS Antietam, a Stratolab High balloon rose to 6,000 feet over

the Gulf of Mexico to become the first manned balloon to be launched from, and to be landed

back aboard, a naval vessel. (16) (24)



1963: The first successful Titan II launch from an underground silo occurred at Vandenberg AFB. (6)



1967: An Air Force Titan IIIC successfully launched five satellites (two Vela nuclear detection and

three scientific) into orbit. (16) (26)Operation CREEK PARTY. From Ramstein AB, ANG volunteer crews and KC-97L tankersstarted flying air refueling missions for USAFE fighters. The ANG's first sustained volunteeroperation to support active duty requirements lasted 10 years. (21)



1968: USAF Special Operations C-130s airlifted some 92,000 pounds of food to La Toma, Ecuador, a

drought-stricken area, over a 13-day period.



1970: The 603d Direct Air Support Squadron ferried the first six O-2A aircraft from Itazuke AB to

Osan AB to give PACAF a FAC capability in Korea. Before the O-2As arrived, all FAC personnel

were jeep mounted. The 603d eventually received 28 O-2As. (17)



1977: The ANG ended the rotation of KC-97 Stratofreighter aircraft to Europe. These air refueling

operations began on 1 May 1967. (16)



1986: Through 7 May, Air Weather Service WC-130s flew air-sampling missions to track radioactive

contamination from the Chernobyl reactor accident in the Soviet Union. (16)



1993: SECDEF Les Aspin announced that women would be allowed to serve in combat roles. This

policy change allowed female pilots to fly USAF combat aircraft. (16) (26)



1999: A B-52 successfully launched its first live AGM-86C Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile

(CALCM). The cruise missile scored a direct hit on the target at the Utah Test and Training

Range. (3) Operation Southern Watch. Under a Presidential Selective Reserve Call-Up, ACC mobilized

elements of the ANG's 106th and 129th Rescue Wings for deployment to the Persian Gulf region

to maintain the no-fly zone over southern Iraq. (32)



2001: NASA's X-43A hypersonic research vehicle made its first captive-carry flight on a B-52 over

the Pacific Test Range. At Edwards AFB, NASA mated the X-43 to a Pegasus booster rocket

and loaded it on the B-52's wing pylon for the flight. It was powered by a "scramjet," a supersonic

combustion ramjet, designed for speeds up to Mach 10. (3)



2003: END OF Operation SOUTHERN WATCH. The Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC)

at Prince Sultan AB, Saudi Arabia, with responsibility for air operations in Southwest Asia,

moved to Al Udeid AB, Qatar. The move coincided with the end of SOUTHERN WATCH, the

operation to enforce a no-fly zone in southern Iraq. On 29 April, at a joint news conference in

Riyadh, SECDEF Donald Rumsfeld and Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz announced the withdrawal

of all US combat forces from Saudi Arabia to end 12 years of a continuous US presence in

Saudi Arabia. The US military presence officially ended on 26 August. (22)



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Thanks to Carl



Navy Declassifies its Notorious 'UFO Sighting' Videos

27 Apr 2020





https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/27/navy-declassifies-its-notorious-ufo-sighting-videos.html?ESRC=eb_200428.nl



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This is SCARY

thanks to THE Bear

Dutch... All a guy needs to explain why we need to "build the wall."... coming to America!... Bear

El Salvador lines up semi-naked gang members for grim prison photos
Right groups condemned El Salvador's president on Monday for releasing startling photos of hundreds of jailed gang members stripped to underwear and pressed together in formation, part of a punishment for an outbreak of violence.

Read in Reuters: https://apple.news/AnjS3YpZIQSOS-Y24DdZt1A

Shared from Apple News

http://www.rollingthunderremembered.com/



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..This is great thanks to Clyde

: Lots of Things To Do while social distancing



LOTS OF THINGS TO DO

As a public service to help keeping peace at home, whether you're working from home or have turned your living room into a virtual home-school, here's a list of resources for keeping your cool by staying busy with entertainment and education, while social distancing…



Virtual Museum Tours

Many museums have closed their doors but they are open for business online. Here's a list of museums that have put their collections online for you to enjoy.

1. British Museum in London

2. Guggenheim Museum, New York

3. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

4. Musée d'Orsay, Paris

5. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

6. Pergamon Museum, Berlin

7. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

8. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

9. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

10. Uffizi Gallery, Italy

11. Museu de Arte, São Paulo

12. The Louvre, Paris

13. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York



Online Concerts and Shows

The music and cultural scenes are doing their best to keep going. You can stream nightly concerts and Broadway shows from the comfort of your living room... or perhaps you'd prefer to relax in a bubble bath with an iPad.

14. 15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch On Stage From Home

15. Stream the Met Opera nightly for free

16. Check out STAGEIT for access to "Shut in and Sing" events and online concerts

17. NPR is keeping a live list of Virtual Concerts which is updated daily.



Learn Something New

Learning something new doesn't need to cost money. You can keep your brain active and learn a new language in just five minutes a day. Perhaps you would prefer to learn how to draw or code?

18. Learn a new language in as little as five minutes every day. DuoLingo will even let you set up a "classroom" so you can have accounts for kids to study. Drops is another app that makes learning a new language fun.

19. Yale University is offering a free course online - The Science of Well-Being - that teaches you how to be happier.

20. Take a University Art Class - Artsy.net has a list of 10 classes you can take for free online.

21. Coursera offers free online courses from many of the world's top universities in a wide variety of subjects

22. Become an Artist with Art ala Carte on YouTube.

23. Code Academy offers a free online coding course.









Take a Virtual Field Trip

Field trips might be cancelled but just like the virtual museum tours we suggested, here are some ideas for creating an at-home field trip. If you've ever wanted to visit a national park or explore the surface of mars from the comfort of your home, there's never been a better time.

24. San Diego Zoo

25. Yellowstone National Park

26. Explore the Surface of Mars

27. Live Animal Cams at the San Diego Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta, Houston Zoo, Georgia Aquarium, Smithsonian National Zoo, Reid Park Zoo, Ouwehand Zoo

28. Live farm cams from Farm Food 360

29. The Great Wall of China

30. Boston Children's Museum

31. Pompei

32. Colonial Williamsburg

33. Ellis Island



Additional Programs

34. Disney Imagineering In A Box

35. LEGO Engineering Workshop

36. Skype A Scientist

37. LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems

38. #GADBookClub : Actor Josh Gad (Olaf from Frozen) is reading bedtime stories live on his Twitter every night.

39. National Geographic Kids

40. PBS Kids: Design Squad Global

41. Scholastic Learn At Home : Day by day projects to keep kids thinking, learning, and growing.



Binge Watch Something New

If you have the feeling that you've watched everything there is to see on Netflix, here are some other platforms you can download to your phone, tablet, or smart TV for a variety of shows and movies.

42. PlutoTV is always free and has 250+ of free channels to choose from. This has an App for Android or Apple devices, as well as working on your smart TV.

43. XUMO is a free (ad-supported) service with 200 channels of movies, TV shows and kids' entertainment.

44. Sundance Now has a 30-day free trial with the code SUNDANCENOW30. This service offers thrillers, True Crime, and Dramas.

45. Shudder has a 30-day free trial with the code SHUTIN. Shudder specializes in horror movies and thrillers.

46. UMC has a 30-day free trial with the code UMCFREE30. UMC has the best in Black film and TV.

47. Acorn TV has a 30-day free trial with the code FREE30 and is full of British and Australian TV shows

48. Crunchyroll has a 14-day free trial and access to Anime

49. Philo is a cable alternative that has a 7-day free trial then it's $20/month for 59+ channels.

50. Sling TV is another Cable alternative and has two packages available

51. IMDb TV is an ad-supported movie streaming services



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Thanks to Carl……Good history of the SAS current forces

22 SAS and the Benelli M4 Shotgun

by WILL DABBS on APRIL 26, 2020

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/22-sas-and-the-benelli-m4-shotgun/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=20200427_BlogDigest_375&utm_campaign=/digest/22-sas-and-the-benelli-m4-shotgun/



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Thanks to Dr. Rich….another great thing to watch besides most of the stuff on the TV

BBC Yellowstone Documentary ...

Started watching these on DirecTV - BBC Channel #264 a couple of nights ago …

You can watch these on your iPad or iPhone .. and I'd recommend using AirTime to send to an AppleTV and big screen if you have one … The photography is spectacular!!

Why we live here is clearly shown!! Enjoy!!

Rich

Yellowstone Episode 1 Winter BBC Documentary mp4



Yellowstone Episode 2 Summer BBC Documentary mp4



Yellowstone Episode 3 Autumn BBC Documentary mp4



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Thanks to Dutch

From The Washington Post

LETTERS TO THE E DITOR

Virus has forever changed U.S.

As I approach my ninth decade, I often reminisce and ponder the memorable moments and events in my life. I am happy and grateful to report that I participated in, benefitted from and lived through the most productive and prosperous years of America. As the coronavirus spreads its misery, I am witness to the slow transformation of America. The country I know and grew up in is no longer and will not return.

Not only has the virus changed the way we communicate and associate with one another, but our response to it has exposed corrupt, dishonest and deceitful behaviors by our elected officials, which threatens our country. Why weren't we told America is dependent on antibiotics and health care products made in China, and that we don't even produce aspirin? Why and how did this happen? Our politicians have lied about their nefarious connections and dealings with China for years.

The virus has disrupted our economy and when Congress was asked to provide aid to small businesses in order to maintain payrolls, some elected officials, so as not to let a crisis go to waste, included payouts to the Kennedy Center, multimillion-dollar conglomerates and their favorite donors. Our national debt is now more than $24 trillion, which equals $802,000 per taxpayer.

For the past few months, we have been subjected to countless sermons by politicians extolling the virtues and increasing the power of government. Perhaps we should take a moment and ponder who and what has exacerbated this calamity.

ED KONECNIK Flushing, N.Y.

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Thanks to Bill and not a 4 letter word insight

Been around once but still good...




When Insults Had Class...

These glorious insults are from an era " before" the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.



A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."

"That depends, Sir, " said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy ."

-Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

-Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

-Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

-Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."

-Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one."

-George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."

-Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

-Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."

-John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

-Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

-Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."

- Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."

-Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."

-Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"

-Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

-Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

-Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."

-Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."

-Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it."

-Groucho Marx




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Thanks to Carl

What We Give Up When We Compliantly Lockdown: A Treatise on Choosing To Be Free - Bill Sardi - LewRockwell

(Lengthy article but as usual, many good points by Sardi!)



"Get busy living or get busy dying." (Shawshank Redemption)





https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/no_author/what-we-give-up-when-we-compliantly-lockdown/



What We Give Up When We Compliantly Lockdown

A Treatise On Choosing To Be Free

By Bill Sardi

April 28, 2020



I had occasion to mind-wander with one of my friends.

We asked ourselves the question: "What have we lost so far?" The setting was the breakfast room. We were sitting at the opposite ends of the table, for distancing effect.

We thought together……

Imagine Orville & Wilbur Wright asking themselves, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could build something that could fly? Imagine Wilbur replies to Orville: "we can't do it. One of us might die. Imagine how mom would feel."

Let's consider the Pilgrims who got into flimsy sailing ships to have a life of freedom they never could have imagined. The Pilgrims were willing to risk their own children in order to find freedom — 49 of 102 on the Mayflower died at sea or soon after landing.The safety net is disappearing

They are laying off nurses because of your fear you might get the virus. Hospitals are being closed for the public's the fear of getting "coronavirused." Doctors are closing their offices for good too. Many may not reopen.

The very safety net which our society depends upon so we can exercise the freedom to drive cars and fly in airplanes in relative safety is vanishing. The very institutions and doctors that give us a sense of safety in our society are already gone, to produce a less-safe, not a more-safe country.

We may not have realized where this self-confinement was heading because, in the beginning, it was voluntary, then morphed into mandatory. We were compliant, to a fault. We were not alert enough to see our freedoms were being taken away because of some intentionally exaggerated statistics that are now revealed to be scare tactics.

FALSE
EVIDENCE
APPEARING
REAL

Fear in numbers

American news media is obsessed overstating the morality numbers to gain audience. Government authorities are tossing a lot of alarming numbers at us. Eighty-percent of the reported deaths are caused by other co-morbid diseases. Most of these people were headed for their deathbed within days regardless of the virus.

Authorities say 53,000 have succumbed to COVID-19 coronavirus infections (4/25/2020), yet 42,400 of them died of an age-related disease (cancer, heart disease, diabetes), not the coronavirus, and only 10,600 were actually verified by (flawed) lab testing, and even among these, there were a lot of false positives. The patients were sick, but succumbed to some other bacterium or virus. The coronavirus show has become a Las Vegas stage trick.

We are talking about no more than a handful of deaths among 100,000 people. According to these odds, there are 4115 cities under 100,000 in the U.S. and the odds are, nobody would succumb to COVID-19 in any of these individual cities and towns, that is how small the risk is. This is a smaller risk than the overstated death numbers issued by the CDC for a normal flu season.

When coronavirus deaths rose steeply, suddenly there was a sharp corresponding decline in pneumonia deaths. That wasn't a body count it was a paperwork adjustment. All that was being done was to shift some of the 50,000 pneumonia deaths that occur each year onto the column that read coronavirus-related deaths.

Emotions overrule decisions

This is not a thinking man's game. It is a life-and-death emotional decision. Our overseers know the three words that will strike fear in your soul: "Millions will die." That phrase is echoed on TV news.

If I attempt to reason with those who are now fearfully holed up in their homes, my arguments herein will fall flat. If I show the masses that health authorities are playing fast and loose with the numbers, that is more likely to cause people to feel they have been duped.

You will never be free of fear until you turn off the television. It is the devil's tool.

Friend or foe?

Fear makes strangers of people
who would be friends.
–Shirley Maclaine

Now we are afraid of visiting family.

We are afraid of shopping.

In some cases, we are afraid of even taking a walk.

They are cancelling your child's graduation because you are fearful.

You can't go to your mother's graveside to remember her.

You won't hear songbirds sing, see hawks encircle their prey.

Either choose to fear or choose to live.

The odds of dying in an airplane crash are 1 in 5,400,000 million. What if the plane never crashed? Then you really lived!

We are so afraid of dying, we stop living.

Is living in fear helping or hurting?

Is your compliance hurting others?

Are you hurting yourself? What are the chances of blood clots from inactivity?

In an interdependent world, your fear is causing people to lose their jobs, lose their homes, our cities and towns to go bankrupt. It is your inability to realize the full outcome of your unfailing agreeableness to lockdown that is causing the collapse of our society. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I will fear no evil…

The church is saying, "don't be afraid." Pastors are teaching that now. The Lord is going to be with you. The church shepherds contradict themselves because they are actually promoting the fear of what we don't want the people to face.

"Fear not, but stay home." That is what preachers are saying. Isn't the admonition "not to fear" an admonition to go, that despite your fear, you are going to take the risk?

Jesus says fear not. Whenever God said "fear not" He followed it with risk. Fear not, go in to battle. Fear not, walk on the water.

What we hear today is "fear not, but be safe." Take precautions. Follow CDC guidelines. We stopped listening to the voice of God and started listening to the voice of experts. The experts say, be safe, fear the imagined virus. Heed the words of the virologist. The church is going along with it.

In order to conquer life, you have to face death.

The only way to conquer the virus is to face it head on.

The day may come when you go to church and the priest is inside a glass case and, with a gloved hand, places your communion wafer in a slot and it will be dispensed like a gum ball machine.

A handshake will never be the same now. Some churches now have a hand sanitizer dispenser just outside the church door. It is our souls that need cleansed. We are sending the wrong message.

And if we face it head on together, like we have every other hidden virus, then biologically we will build the immunities to beat it. They call it herd immunity.

You have to hand wrestle with the virus to beat it.

Now that we have retreated into our homes, it appears to be a frightening thing just to cross a crosswalk.

How to get an out of jail card

There are so many viruses, there are so many bacteria, are we ever going out again? Unsuspectingly, we don't realize most of those bacteria live on our skin.

One mathematical analyst compared a dozen countries and found no matter what measures countries imposed to try to thwart it, coronavirus infections and deaths decline to near zero in about 70 days. If you read anything else, suspect manipulation of the numbers.

Selling the lockdown

Now we live on the verge of mass hysteria and the new norm is government mandated agoraphobia.

A major sales point for the lockdown was, if we didn't hibernate in our homes, we would spread this infection to others and they could die. Not so. That dire outcome is determined by the recipient's immunity, not by your infectivity.

Millions of high-risk Americans, in particular diabetics, the obese, the very young and very old, don't develop adequate antibodies to ANY pathogenic germ whether these microbes are transferred via vaccination needle or environmentally from others. By the way, these are also the individuals who experience side effects from vaccination. Will they be perpetually locked down?

Virologists like to say some people are super spreaders, having spread coronavirus particles to dozens of others, but it could also be said they helped others make natural antibodies and develop life-long immunity, without the need for problematic vaccines.

Vaccines, even multivalent ones, only protect against a handful of infectious disease. The human immune system develops antibodies against each and every disease without the need for vaccination. Vaccination is a dead-end street. There are more than 200 vaccines under development. Are we going to jab our kids hundreds of times with booster shot after booster shot?

If you recall nothing else in this report it is that you may transmit viral particles to others but they won't necessarily exhibit symptoms of illness unless their immune system isn't up to par. It is immunity, not transmission, that is paramount.

Everybody is a spreader of viral particles at one time or another. You may shed viral particles to others, but their vulnerability to infection is largely determined by sunshine vitamin D blood levels and zinc-dependent T-cell activity. T-cells make antibodies. The longer you stay indoors the less life-giving sunshine vitamin D your body makes. Notice the high death rates in nursing homes where elderly adults are shuttered from the sun. What is needed is required vitamin D testing prior to hospital admission, not coronavirus testing.

There is talk of required antibody tests before being allowed back into normal life. But do we need an antibody test for the flu, or any other infectious disease, before we can go to back to work? That is a false proposition.

Government control

Government finally has total control? Once achieved, what government ever gave it back?

Now government cannot fulfill one of its Constitutional obligations. There is less crime, but by virtue of the lockdown, in legal matters the right to timely due process in a court of law is placed on indefinite hold.

When government fears the people,
there is liberty.
When the people fear the government,
there is tyranny.
–Thomas Jefferson

Ridicule is their tactic

When the opposition resorts to ridicule, you know public health authorities and the news media are grasping onto their last straw. It is the most underhanded way of dismissing a truth that another person doesn't really want to investigate.

First they ignore you,
Then they ridicule you,
Then they claim they invented it,
And then they say they knew it all along.

All alternative remedies for COVID-19 coronavirus infections are ridiculed outright. Doctors say they are unproven. But they have not been disproven. And frankly, this time around, they are all we've got.

The pungent cure

Throughout history has there been a pathogen that garlic didn't stand up to? The Black Death, the Bubonic plague, anthrax, subdued by garlic. Garlic vanquishes influenza, herpes and coxsackie viruses, even coronavirus. You've heard of antibiotic resistance, but not garlic resistance. Selenium in garlic thwarts viral mutations.

The trick with garlic is to use fresh-crushed bulbs to yield allicin, its major active ingredient, or use alkalinized garlic that withstands stomach acid to yield allicin.

In the 1600-1700s plague doctors wore a protective outfit with a mask as a crude type of respirator that held garlic to filter the air. Now we find that wasn't an archaic idea – vaporized garlic kills lung pathogens! Yet the CDC would be insulted by even the mention of garlic, and you would, of course, be ridiculed.

We must solely rely upon the god of government to protect our health. Yet government had no plan in place, no ventilators, no medicines, no vaccine, not even masks. Government has left us to fend for ourselves, maybe intentionally. How can we turn to government to help spare us from the virus with this kind of track record?

Vitamins and minerals, considered by some to be the greatest discovery ever, go ignored. Before their discovery, vitamins were invisible food factors that mysteriously kept us healthy, just like viruses are invisible factors only scientists can tell us are there. Now we know vitamins are for real and without them, our immune system is compromised.

Is there a case of coronavirus infection that intravenous vitamin C hasn't quelled? Even the anti-vitamin National Institutes of Health has funded human clinical studies now. Vitamins are the elephant in the room.

Don't be absurd: you mean viruses aren't for real?

Meanwhile there is still great question whether there is even such a thing as a virus, and it's not coming from the Flat Earth Society.

To question the existence of viruses subjects one to ridicule. Yet a report funded by the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases calls the very existence of viruses into question. The Devil isn't real but the coronavirus is.

Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.
– Marie Skiodowska-Curie (1867-1934)

Cowardice or bravado?

Fear of a hot flame is good fear.

There is bravado, to walk over hot coals, to disregard the hot flame, but these are dares. Just jump off a roof. That would be recklessness, not overcoming fear.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
– Winston S. Churchill

The people who are telling us to stay home are cowards, and they want us to be cowards.

Our politicians are telling us to live in fear.
Andrew Cuomo: "I need you to stay home because the virus may kill ME."

Moral choice: the essence of man

Yes, there are some benefits to being quarantined in our homes. Yes, if we lock-down everybody there will be little crime, there will be few roadway accidents, less rape, robbery, etc. Even less pollution.

But with freedom also comes the choice to do wrong. Robots have no choice, they are amoral. Humans are moral beings who must makes choices, which is what this report is all about.

This is the price of freedom, that some will choose to do wrong. Prisons prove that point.

Ironically, if indoor lock-down was practiced by parents they would be up for child abuse for their children never having to be allowed to go outside. These are the contradictions we now live with.

Masked store robbers were always compliant. Give that a thought.

The dollars and sense of lockdown

Some university-based experts came up with a report showing the lockdown has saved $5.2 trillion so far. If I asked your grandmother if she would accept a million dollars for not going to see her granddaughter in the school Christmas play, what answer do you think you would get? There are some things that ARE priceless, at least according to MasterCard.

Barbers, who rely on cash payments to survive, are told paper money may carry the virus and are forced to accept credit cards and have, as a result, compliantly closed their shops and stayed at home. Just think how much disease they must have spread? Now your barber will be wearing a mask and wearing gloves, or get sued. Do you see where this kind of thinking is going?

Now, at the barber's house, there is no food in the refrigerator. What now? Public health authorities have given us the tacit choice of standing in foodbank lines or breaking lockdown and infecting others who may die. But then the foodbank line is a potential hazard, right?

The high price of complete safety

Safety comes at a high price. What if your sole purpose in life was safety? Look at the price of safety. Joblessness, poverty, crushed dreams, the evaporation of all our accumulated achievements.

Safety comes at the price of life having meaning.

Safety comes at the cost of adventure.

Safety would not have liberated us from Hitler.

"Everything you want is
on the other side of fear."
(George Addair)

Fear is a liar

The fear of the virus is an irrational fear.

In just one week, this became an indelible lifelong fear.

A sneeze in a crowded theatre will now send shivers down your spine. We are now afraid of a sneeze. And the sneezer feels guilty.

Gone is "God bless you" or "Gesundheit".

Social distancing

Here is what happened when a group of people didn't social distance:

On the USS Roosevelt, they tested the entire 4,600 crew. Only 710 tested positive, only 52 needed treatment, and only one died. 42 recovered and 9 are finishing recover-ing. So out of 4,600 tightly packed in birthing compart-ments, and eating and working tightly together 24/ 7, only 1.13% needed treat-ment of any kind, and only 1 out of 4,600 died.

Free market enterprise at the end of a freeway offramp

The people who were selling oranges at the freeway offramp are now selling masks they sewed together at home. Private enterprise crossed up the new regulations because, by selling masks in the open and without a permit, they were helping others comply with the new rules. Who would dare stop them? They and the homeless are the only ones exempt from social distancing.

The homeless are the only ones who are exempt from CDC guidelines.

Which says, either our overseers don't really care about the homeless or they really don't think the virus is a threat. And what does this say about how much they care about you?

The longer you stay home the longer you imperil the lives of others.

By collectively choosing to fear we have multiplied the harm.

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
(Shawshank Redemption)

When will you break ranks?

Most of us are waiting for someone else to make the first move. The population is gripped by paralysis. Only when everybody else is breaking out from the lockdown will we join the crowd.

We are afraid to ask others if they are interested in breaking ranks. At what point would you venture to inquire of your friends and loved ones, when will you chose to buck authority and opt for liberty?

There is such a day. Why wait and have others endure the agony any longer? When you consider what we lost in just one week, when this is over (if it ever is over), will you honestly be able to say it was worth it? When you consider what was at stake, was it worth it?

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Will you ever be able to recover the time you lost? The Apostle Paul says, "redeem the time for the days are evil." Ephesians 5:16



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