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to the editor from this week's Chronicle
To the Editor, Two letters to the Editor last week got my attention. Both suggest that Idaho County residents are not taking COVID 19 seriously enough. “Mask up!” “The numbers are staggering!” and “I’m ashamed of this county for being so stubborn…”, are the sentiments expressed. Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand, the conflicting information regarding COVID 19 has left the American public wondering who and what to believe. We have another thing to be divided about, courtesy of the media and various health organizations. I am increasingly frustrated by the numbers that are put out that blur the truth about the virus. There seems to be an apparent effort to keep us in a state of fear, accomplished by putting out the largest COVID-19 numbers possible without any perspective attached. Recently, an outbreak at the Correctional Institute in Cottonwood, put Idaho County on the map as a ‘hot spot’. These infected inmates held at the North Idaho Correctional Institution at Cottonwood are not Idaho County residents or citizens counted in our census. However, their numbers are calculated into our total, posted on the state and public health websites. And I have to ask why? What is the benefit of suggesting that these folks are out in our communities? Why were there not more details released? Seems like data from this closed/ close proximity population would tell us a lot. The ways the numbers are misrepresented and distorted astound me. Why is there a need to put out the biggest number possible (including numbers from months ago)? Why not put a more important number up front that folks should really consider, such as how many infected people are out there right now (the number of folks that you might run across in the grocery store)? Why only report numbers of infected people — without listing how many are now being tested? Why cover up the fact that the positive test numbers are up because more are being tested? Why not report how many total infected people are asymptomatic? Is it because that number might be more than 90 percent plus? Why are we not told how many are currently being treated in our local rural hospitals? Maybe because there are NONE — and what kind of fear does that instill? Perhaps the most disturbing to me is the numbers reporting deaths that are “COVID-related.” With this virus, “confirmed COVID-related deaths include decedents with positive PCR (polymerase chain reaction) laboratory testing results.” Anyone who dies — no matter the real cause of death — and is tested positive for COVID-19 is reported as a COVID-19 death. “Probable deaths include decedents without a positive PCR lab test who either had: (1) COVID-like illness and evidence of exposure to the virus, or (2) the death certificate listed COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 as contributing to death.” Huh? Before COVID-19, people died of heart attacks or cancer, even if they’d had a recent bout of influenza. Their deaths were not listed as “flu” or “flu-related.” When hospitals are incentivized to report patients with even the slimmest connections to COVID-19 so they can get federal kickbacks, there’s a problem. This virus will be with us forever, like influenzas and the common cold. As Americans, citizens of Idaho and residents of Idaho County, we are free to consider the information in front of us, assess how that information impacts each of us (am I in a high-risk category?), and determine how we each will move forward. Some may feel they need to protect themselves by wearing a mask for the rest of their lives. The majority of Americans are not sheep. We are President Donald Trump supporters who recognize that there are some hoping to lead America to economic slaughter through the gross misrepresentation of COVID-19 numbers. Conspiracy? I’m not saying that. But bureaucracy at it’s finest? Absolutely. Skip Brandt Idaho County Commissioner Redneck Review! No. 284 - 10/5/2020 The day is late! And our future lies in the balance! This writer dares to ask what percentage of our fellow Americans really know the end result of the choices we will make in less than one month! No criticism is implied here, but expertise in any field requires so much time and energy that individuals must focus on a particular career to dedicate their lives and energy towards! I personally have been asked many times if it is not unfortunate that I am no longer a major share holder or even the manager of our three generation large family farm, PRAIRIE RANCHES. My answer has always been a resounding NO! Why? Because to be a modern farmer, one must dedicate his life and time to a successful operation! The simple days in the mid 1900's when my father operated that farm and I was raised a farm boy, are gone forever. The choices farmers make now involves the role of the federal government, which crops to grow, the methods for growing them, the chemicals used, the time to hold or to sell, and on and on, means only one thing! You have to be an EXPERT in knowing or researching the answers to the above questions! Wow! A full time job. just to compete, survive, and maybe even prosper! I for one am very happy and grateful that I am out of it, PERMANENTLY! Even though it is admitted here my growing up as a farm boy brings back only happy memories! So what is being said here is this! That most careers today demand full time concentration on the choice made! Even choices of continued education demand information about the future of the career chosen! Who could have dreamed 30 years ago that computer skills would give normal high school graduates huge fortunes worth millions of dollars! Books by the dozens document the owners of today's UBER, AMAZON, GOOGLE, and the list goes on and on, who started in their garages, and now own companies worth billions of dollars? How many readers know that just a few weeks ago, it was announced that Apple was the first TRILLION dollar company? How many know that recently deceased Steve Jobs was one of three individuals who started that company back in 1976, so that it took less than 50 years for that company to rise to the top of all wealthy corporations! Enough! The above is too long, but the reason for it is critical! My entire life has involved a study of history and economics! That point proved by the years spent in formal education, and the hundreds of documented books in my physical and Kindle libraries! So ask me no questions about how to farm, but below read what I know will happen next month! If Biden and his supporters win, we have taken a major step in allowing Communism to take over our country! History documents the way that new atheistic movement rises to power in every nation. It ALWAYS involves luring people into choosing free this or that, ALWAYS promised by a more powerful government, which rises to power by using carefully chosen methods, of HATE, DIVISION and CONFLICT! Once in power, a systematic attack on the nation's history results! Founders and leaders are discredited, their statues are removed or destroyed. History books are changed or burned. Then comes the elimination of all objectors, documented in the past by millions simply killed, "liquidated," using their own term! And the critical intermediate step needed to bring about the final condition? SOCIALISM! Called for by their own literature! Should both the Senate and the House fall at the same time to socialist supporters, history tells us it could be too late to avoid the fate of earlier Communist nations! But will a Trump win help save the day? Delay maybe, but far too few of us have responded to the remedy given us by the Fatima message given in 1917 and discussed in RNR 283! Jake Wren |
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