Dakota Beacon

Americans are laboring under the delusion that we are in danger of losing our country.  By now it should be clear that we have, indeed, already lost our country.  The challenge for those who love America at this point is not to avoid losing  it but to fight to reclaim it.  If this sounds overly dramatic, you are either not paying attention, you lack any kind of perspective or you are just in denial and under your own bed, perhaps hiding from coronavirus.

If you doubt me, step back, get a perspective and try to be objective.  The danger is that if we don’t even know that we have lost America there is diminishing likelihood that we can win this war.  It is a war.  America and Americans have been laid low by a vicious one-two punch, from two sources, which - if you trace them both all the way back to their source you will find they are the same.  Right now it is America that is lying unconscious on the pavement.  Can we revive it?

Step One, of course, if we wish to resuscitate America, is to defeat the unholy “Biden”/Harris ticket.  This will not be enough, of course.  If the Republican ticket prevails we will have only got so far as to load America into the ambulance.  It won’t be enough to save the country, but it will start life support measures.  The biggest obstacle in view at this moment is the inevitable corruption of the election.  Mail-in ballots have ensured that this will be a much larger threat than usual (one desperately needed for a Democrat victory under the circumstances).  Will they be enough to undermine the vote?  It is highly likely, so everyone who cares must be urged to get out and vote in person.  Since we have stupidly allowed voting to go on for weeks in our last several elections, we should take what we can from this and get our vote in as early as possible.  Who knows?  There could be a mysterious “uptick” in COVID cases and a massive lockdown/quarantine imposed suddenly the day before election day.  We dare not be disenfranchised.  Go ahead this time, risk the jury pool.  It’s worth it.  Do you really want to hear President Kamala Harris for four years?   More importantly we need to act fast to save our economy under collateral attack by the nebulous Chinese virus and by Marxist rioters. 

PART ONE: THE  “PANDEMIC”

I say we have already lost the country and must bring it back to life.  If you doubt it, look around.  People no longer care why they are doing things - they just do as they are told, like programmed robots.  We know, for example, all of us know, that these paper face diapers do nothing to stop a coronavirus.  They do create at a minimum extreme discomfort in many, skin disease in many and inconvenience.  At their worst they create conditions that are severely unhealthy for the wearer - hypercapnia and hypoxia and the serious threat to health that these impose.  All this while we all know they don’t work.  It is purely psychological.  And what other psychology is involved?  Well, we can’t see the people we are trying to communicate with and their words are muffled.  No one looks normal.  It could be argued that people wearing these masks also believe that they can do things anonomously.  Perhaps they are right.  Someone wearing purple latex gloves and a mask is no longer an accountable person.  Mask wearing/not wearing is now becoming a vicious team sport with no holds barred.  People in some places are assaulting each other.  I’ve seen toddlers in parents’ arms wearing masks.  These kids are unaware of anything normal.  The other psychological effect is that we are infusing the cultural fabric with a perception of illness, a miasmic kind of atmosphere.  You can’t go around seeing everyone wearing a face diaper while pushing a shopping cart and not begin to feel yourself very ill and dying in some intense, foreign clinic, or worse, held hostage by some team of mad scientists in their basement lab.  It might be subconscious, but think about it - in those restaurants that are still open and hanging on there isn't even a condiment on the bare table you are led to by the masked, gloved host.  Remember how life used to be?    No?  The masks are useless for our physical condition but very powerful when it comes to our psychological condition.  We are much the worse for “wear”.

One thing this softens us up for is mandatory vaccines.  This is a serious issue.  There are many very strong scientific/medical/physical reasons not to take a vaccine - legal ones (there is no legal accountability for damages from the development, administering or mandating of vaccines, a fact since 1989), they have been “fast-tracked”, side-stepping normal testing in a rush to market, they carry the potential to deliver far more than some hoped-for degree of immunity to this virus - the ones under development would change our DNA.  What the result of this would be most of us can only guess.  The people most deeply involved in the development of vaccines, and their characters and stated goals should be kept in mind.  I’m referring not only to Bill Gates (whose over-riding ambition is to depopulate the planet) but others who are invested in the product they wish to force upon us, either at public or private expense.  People like Anthony Fauci, people who have a stake in the development not only of vaccines, but the virus which they would say mandates their use.  We already know what works - Sweden works.  No shutdowns.  No masks.  Look to Sweden on this one.

We know this “pandemic” is largely a hoax because of the way the establishment medical community and politicians are handling it.  Think about it.  If this were a real “pandemic” every doctor and every man on the street would be anxiously seeking treatments which would cure it, right?  But this is not the case.  No one, save perhaps the President and a number of independent front-line doctors treating patients in the field, are following up much on anything but the vaccine.  Does this seem a little weird to you?  I remember my mother telling me about how someone in our family nearly died of pneumonia “because back then they didn’t have penicillin”.  My mother told me often about her cousin, then a child, dying in a hospital.  The doctors said there was only one possibility to try to save his life - a new, untried drug, penicillin.  There was no guarantee except that this was the only thing left to try.  It couldn’t hurt at this point but it might possibly help.  His distraught parents said to do whatever they could, even if it was “experimental”.  They tried it and in a few days the boy had recovered.  He lived a full and normal life.  Had they not used the new untried drug he would have died that same day or the next.  Penicillin was a new "wonder drug".  Hard to imagine that now, in the year 2020, isn’t it?  But that is true.  Infections of all kinds went unchecked before we had antibiotics.  Calvin Coolidge lost a son - his teenage son developed a blister playing tennis.  It became infected and he died miserably of blood poisoning.  Even the son of a president of the United States died of an infection we would not even consider serious now.  So why is no one excited to learn about treatments which work against this virus?  We need to ask ourselves this.  When we honestly ask ourselves we will stumble upon the answer.

In the meantime, anyone who wants to discuss possible cures or effective treatments is booed off the stage.  We have seen safe and effective drugs show impressive results in actual cases of COVID 19, drugs like hydroxychloroquine.  Now, people would be right to feel skittish about some obscure, drug with unknown side-effects and hazards, but this drug has been in use for many decades, proven effective in a number of varied illnesses, from lupus to malaria.  It is by all measures a very safe drug with known properties.  Yet it is banned!  In many parts of America it is withheld from doctors and patients, even as patients are dying of COVID or illnesses made lethal by the presence of the virus.  Think of the dying boy in the hospital, only this time he has COVID 19.  Why would anyone withhold a drug that is known, that has been shown to be effective in actual cases, that is available?  Isn’t this evil?  Unethical?  Is it really reason enough to deny people this treatment simjply because Donald Trump thought it was worthwhile?  Governor Cuomo instead forced elderly sick patients into nursing homes, an act certain to result in many, many unnecessary deaths.  

More recently, a therapy called “convalescent plasma” was brought up by Trump in a press conference.  It is showing some impressive positive results in cases of extreme illness.  Not good enough.  This, too, is down-played by media and critics of Trump, despite a reported 35% recovery rate.  Still, this needs “more study”.  (Unlike the “Project Warp Speed” process for vaccines.).  No one in a position of influence is interested in cures or effective treatments.  We are going to stand still and wait for the vaccine.  Meantime, elderly people are dying of it and of aggravated causes related to it, and our entire economy has crashed.  Does any of this sound unnatural to you?

Meanwhile we are in a vise economically.  This is no joke.  While at first everyone more or less coasted, assuming that the bad times were just a temporary “oh, damn!” moment, now it is becoming - to use the terminology of the left - systemic.  I phoned the manager of the local Canad Inn this week.  For those unfamiliar, the Grand Forks Canad Inn boasts five different restaurants within their complex - Tavern United, a British-themed pub, Aalto’s, a buffet/brunch restaurant, Garbanzo’s, a pizza shop, Playmakers, a casino and restaurant and ‘l Bistro, a Mediterranean style restaurant, sort of the flagship.  I had played at ‘l Bistro every Sunday all summer for bruch a few years ago.  It was a busy place - while I was packing up my gear a band was setting up in the Tavern United patio.  Guess what?  ‘L Bistro closed as of last St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, and will be closed until maybe sometime next year.  Aalto’s is closed indefinitely, as is Playmaker’s. Garbanzo’s makes pizzas Thursday-Sunday, limited hours.  Tavern United is on life-support.  I was there - there wasn’t a soul in sight - the bustling concourses were empty, the restaurants all dark.  Light beaming in through the windows couldn’t even find material for a shadow inside.  When I phoned I was told by the manager that staff had largely been given notice and laid off - all of the porters, for example, were gone, and even some salaried staff were laid off.  

If you think this is just a dusty North Dakota backwater, remember this - New York is in the same boat.  Broadway is boarded up.  Think about this for a minute.  If Broadway is closed, what else is affected?  I mean, aside from the tech people, the advertising industry, the musicians, the cleaning crew, the ticket sellers, the ushers, the printers, set designers, backdrop painters makeup artists, hairdressers, costume designers and stage hands, sound people, directors, actors, dancers and singers.  I mean the deli people, the fashion industry (I mean, even if your Givenchy gown looks fabulous, it won’t go with your mask . . . and where would you even wear it?), the newspaper reviewers, hell, even the panhandlers.  It must be really hard times for them.  Concerts and art shows and even sports are ancient history now.  But de Blasio blythely issues his orders and the plywood goes up and the lobby cards go down.  Why should he care?  After all, there’s always Netflix.  Who cares about all those other people anyway?

So, across our country from coast to coast we are seeing businesses close - some new, optimistic start-ups, some venerable businesses generations in the making.  Weddings are postponed, or if they go on, are telescoped down to the couple, a witness, perhaps, no out-of-town or extended family or friends, no need for photographers or musicians or caterers or printing or venues.  No one traveling to weddings (or even funerals) means one more hit on the staggering transportation business, one more blow to the reeling hotel industry.  Those optimistic enough to even contemplate a future together are opting for a justice of the peace in a dusty chamber, or, worse, a virtual wedding.  The same goes for festivals of all kinds - Renaissance Festivals, music festivals, Celtic festivals, Comic-Cons, Oktoberfest, for God’s sake.  After 53 glorious years, Winnipeg’s unique two-week ‘round-the-world festival of ethnic cultures - Folklorama - was cancelled.  Do you have any idea how many thousands of people lost work in these alone?  What have we come to? 

The bottom line is this:  if we don’t stop pretending to be physically sick we will be truly sick psychologically.  It needs to stop.  Governors who mandate these silly masks and threaten to close our businesses and deprive us of our livelihoods must be defied.  We must leave the masks at home, we must open our businesses - and support those who do unequivocally.  We must then remove these governors (or mayors, as the case may be).  We are reaching the point of no return - if we don’t do this soon there will be absolutely nothing to return to.  There are just enough pampered executives in our city councils and state governments who have the option - the pleasure - of working from home.  Their paychecks are automatically deposited, they go on as if the world is still turning.  It isn’t.  Depression and suicidal thoughts are at an all-time high.  And the foreclosures and evictions haven’t even started yet (please read my March 21 post in the Dakota Beacon).  Right now there is a petition about to be circulated to recall Minnesota’s failed Governor Tim Walz.  Long past time, apparently.  Minnesota is convulsing at this writing from the double whammy - an economy decked first by the flawed response to the threat of a virus and then knocked unconscious and kicked in its head, lying bleeding on the pavement from unrestricted rioting.  Part II coming up tomorrow. 

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