It All Began With Covid
We have the unusual opportunity to directly compare two successive administrations - their results and their leaders, all one needs to do is to remember.
I feel the need to point out that people who have not decided for whom to cast their vote in the November presidential election at this point or are basing it on the results of Tuesday’s debate, probably should not vote.
I don’t mean that in a derogatory or dismissive way, it is just that such a lack of discernment, of decision-making ability, at less than eight weeks from the election is nothing short of staggering.
Everybody is aware of the differences. The Democrats want to start the clock at the end of Trump’s term and measure their performance, a performance that included recovery from the impact on the economy caused by actions taken largely by Democrat governors during 2020, so they can inflate their numbers – using the effect of people returning to jobs they already had and others having to take multiple part time jobs to recover from the full time jobs that went away, to puff up their economic and employment numbers.
As to Covid, about 400,000 people died under Trump – from March of 2020 to inauguration day of 2021. Comparatively, under Biden, as of his first year in office (January 2022), the U.S. CDC reported around 850,000 deaths, meaning about 450,000 occurred during Biden’s first year alone. To date, Biden wins the death race with over 700,000 (so far) out of the total U.S. death toll of over 1.1 million since the pandemic started – and that is with several vaccines (which statistics prove did not work – and yet, the government agencies are still pushing multiple boosters and vaccines).
While not officially banned, the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine is no longer widely available in the U.S. It was effectively taken off the market due to concerns over rare but serious side effects, particularly blood clotting disorders (thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, or TTS), which were more common in younger women.
We are all familiar with the academic and psychological damage done to kids by shuttered schools and remote learning - even though the under-eighteen group was exposed to nearly zero risk. Now, a kid turning eighteen in 2024 who was vaccinated has a greater risk of dying from complications of the vaccine – primarily myocarditis – than they did of dying from any of the variants of the Covid virus.
We are also aware of the damage to our individual rights and the Constitution done by Biden’s “public health” agencies, mandating vaccines for people who neither wanted nor needed them.
We don’t need a debate to remember how Democrats found a weakness in our constitutional form of government, a way around those archaic, old, dusty provisions of the Bill of Rights that hamper the exercise of governmental control over individuals.
They discovered that a combination of a disease, fear, the Tenth Amendment, and public health laws gave them plenary “emergency” powers via the various the state constitutions. They found how little anyone can do to break these powers – the federal government cannot act due to the Tenth Amendment; the state legislatures have been either complicit or generally powerless (a few have enlisted the judiciary after the fact to a varying degree of success) and most of the people in the blue states are just afraid enough to simply turn their lives over to the state to tell them what they can and cannot do.
Remember what Democrat governors like Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsom, Murphy, Wolf and others used those powers to do, for the first time in history, quarantining healthy people rather than the sick and stole an entire year of life from the people living in their states, a year that according to studies of mandatory business closures and stay-at-home orders - “NPIs” (nonpharmaceutical interventions for short) published in Nature and the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, showed that lockdowns were no more effective than other, less restrictive methods.
The studies stated:
“…we do not find significant benefits on case growth of more restrictive NPIs. Similar reductions in case growth may be achievable with less‐restrictive interventions.”
The reason I spent so many words on Covid is because it was the crisis that was “too good to waste.” It is the root of every challenge we face today - the 2020 election concerns, the change of leadership in America that led to the drastic increase in government power, the open border, rampant inflation, the usurpation of our Constitution, two foreign wars (in Israel and Ukraine), and more than anything, the rise of the first Marxist ticket representing the Democrat party in a presidential election.
No, it doesn’t take a debate to know this. All it takes is a memory longer than that of a goldfish.
And if you don’t know that by this point in time, please don’t vote.
I still give Trump credit for Warp Speed which I think was effective in stemming deaths. The boosters were not nearly as effective (under Biden's. watch). You are correct--they used Covid fear to change election rules and used Covid to malign Trump. It was a novel virus. Fauci pretended he knew what to do. He knew NADA. Trump was caught in a politicized event that should not have been exploited by the Dems. Republicans and some Blacks mistrusted the vax vehemently--and Dems ignored his substantial efforts and only publicized "drink bleach". Sadly now they use 2020 and the Covid time when Trump was forced to halt the economy he so successfully achieved--and use the stats as if it were the same as 2017-2019! Dem politicians are a despicable lot! And American voters are often fear filled and gullible.
Never forget! The disgrace of the entire Western World.