"Lockdown Science: we have no idea what we're doing, but if something brings people pleasure, we should probably discontinue that."

"Don’t ever be intimidated by public health officials.  These were the kids who by and large weren’t bright enough to get into medical school.”

A must-listen presentation by Dr. Thomas Woods.  One of Tom's best; perhaps his very best.  Here are his show notes. 

130 million people are at risk of dying of starvation from the lockdown alone.  How many babies born this year or last year have never seen a human face?  

Driving people to despair--is that saving lives?  

Lockdowns science: we have no idea what we're doing, but if something brings people pleasure, we should probably discontinue that.  and if something causes great inconvenience or even pain, we should probably do that.   

Don’t ever be intimidated by public health officials.  These were the kids who by and large weren’t bright enough to get into medical school.”

from Lord Sumption, former Supreme Court Judge:

Money is not just for plutocrats.  You and I and the editor of the Guardian and the driver of the Number 9 bus and the archbishop of Canterbury and the cashier at the supermarket all value and depend on money.  Not just in the sense that it pays our wages and pensions, hundreds of thousands of businesses are going under.  Millions are moving from jobs to universal credit.  A thriving economy that we are now throwing away, is the source of our security and the foundation of our children’s future.  We would do well not to sneer at it.  Poverty kills too.  And when it does not kill, it maims physically and mentally and socially.  Do we really want to be, he continues, “the kind of society where basic freedoms are conditional on the decisions of politicians enthralled to scientists and statisticians, where human beings are just tools of public policy?  A society in which government can confine most of the population without controversy is not one in which civilized people would want to live.  Regardless of their answers to these questions, is it worth it?  My own answer is no.  Guidance is fine.  Voluntary self-isolation is fine and strongly advisable for the more vulnerable; most of them will do it by choice.  But coercion is not fine.  There is no moral or principled justification for it.  What sort of life do we think we are protecting?  There is more life than the avoidance of death.  Life is a drink with friends.  Life is a crowded football match or a live concert.  Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren.  Life is companionship, an arm around one’s back.  Laughter or tears shared in less than 2 meters.  These things are not just optional extras; they’re life itself.  They’re fundamental to our humanity, to our existence as social beings. 

from Tom Woods:

People living in an irrational field already have their representatives—the entire entertainment world, the media, all the political class.  The rest of us have almost no one.  People whose family members died because their procedures were indefinitely postponed or who lost a loved one to suicide or who’ve had everything they’ve poured their hearts into, crushed and destroyed, they have no one.  Elderly people dying of social isolation, who are told: “they can see their grandkids through a window” or over Zoom.  But who think they themselves can best judge what life they want to live likewise have no one to speak for them.  You may have heard the case in Colorado at FairAcres Manor [in Greely, Colorado].  People in wheelchairs holding signs saying, “Would rather die of COVID than of loneliness.  We’re prisoners in our own home.  Or give us freedom.” One of the administrators at that nursing home said they want to be able to hug their grandchildren, they want to be able to hold the hands of their loved ones. And one of the residents said we did this because one of the things we look forward to is a simple hug.  It gives us meaning.  The physical and mental health toll is staggering, and no one is allowed to mention for fear they’re being told they want grandmothers to die.  No one will speak for them except you.  People will hate you for this.  Automatons who can do nothing but repeat CBS news talking points will think you’re terrible.  The rest of us will consider you a hero.  With every speech you give, every article you write, every social media post, every attempt to resist, you’ll be a hero.  There’s nobody is coming to the rescue.  You must be the voice of the voiceless because if it isn’t you, it will be no one.   

Here are the resources Tom provides via email:  

Resources for COVID Rationality

Here is the list of resources I gave a room of 100 state legislators from around the country to help them get the full picture of the virus and the government response.

Twitter accounts to follow:

@ThomasEWoods (naturally!)

@AlexBerenson

@PhilMagness.

@jhaskinscabrera

@kerpen

@MartinKulldorff

@yinonw

@Hold2LLC

@OBusybody

@AJKayWriter

@boriquagato

@covid_clarity

@covidtweets

There are many, many more. I have found these to be excellent aggregators of information, however.

RESOURCES:

RationalGround.com

ThePriceOfPanic.com

Pandata19.com

CollateralGlobal.org (on collateral damage from lockdowns)

gbdeclaration.org (The Great Barrington Declaration)

LockdownSceptics.org (UK, but still helpful for a US audience)

MASK CHARTS:

https://rationalground.com/mask-charts/

https://rationalground.com/more-mask-charts/

https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/29/these-12-graphs-show-mask-mandates-do-nothing-to-stop-covid/

Follow @ianmSC [or Ian Miller] on Twitter for ongoing charts

My podcast, the Tom Woods Show, has featured a lot of important guests on the topic:

TomsPodcast.com

Bring the letter with you and have the quote within the letter. 

Cite HIPPA.  Cite ADA.  Here is the letter to CostCo that Peggy cites: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ec33703d876e52434d8b91c/t/5ed3364ee080e33f63a33bda/1590900424028/costco+no+mask+letter.png.

8:30.  When somebody breaks a contract, you don’t want to walk away.  You have a cause of action.  So use it.  Make them perform under the contract.  I’ll show you how to do that.  There’s a couple of things you do.  Yeah, you can sue them and obtain an injunction; that’s entirely likely.  An injunction is an order from a court to do or to stop doing something.  so what happens then is the store has a policy, for whatever reason, is violating the law, and then you go to the court and say, “Judge, they’re violating the law and it's affecting me in this way, and it may affect the public, therefore, I want an injunction restraining this organization from engaging in this conduct.” 

Now if they continue doing it, now they’re under a court order, and they could be in violation, in contempt, whereas if you don’t do that, you could be charged with trespass.  We all know that’s bogus.  But if you do this first, now you have the power because now you have a court order.  They don’t.  That’s the civil aspect of it. 

There’s the criminal aspect of it, and if you guys like this idea—what we’re talking about before about, you know, make him sign something, you know, or hand him a notice, right?  Imagine writing a citation.  Imagine writing a traffic ticket: A Notice to Appear.  So the way you do it is—this is what I recommend.  You’ve got the civil aspect, we’ll get into that, but on the criminal side when you have someone wearing a mask—and I believe you can see this in every state—when someone’s wearing a mask, and harassing you when he’s concealing his identity and threatening you or harassing or intimidating you, or even assaulting you [where the threat of harm is iminent], whatever you know in something that creates a cause of action that you can make against that individual or his employer, like a civil cause of action.  If you have a civil cause of action, because of his conduct, that’s also a crime by the fact that you can sue for a civil violation.  It also is a crime in that individual was a suspect in the crime.  Normally wearing a mask and intimidating people or harassing them is a second-degree misdemeanor.  It’s going to vary like that by state.  Some states are really specific.  I mean California I did these for California and Florida, so you guys can start there. 

Alright, so the way you do this is now . . .  11:00.

Peggy interrupts.  12:25.  A civil violation is someone stepping over your civil rights.  They didn't let you in the store

13:27.  John Jay Singleton.  This morning I went to Costco, doing the things I like, shopping for my friend, and I was assaulted.  I walked in there and the guy at the door had a box of masks, my wife and I went in there together, and he walked over to me and touched my shoulder, and I said "Don't touch me!"  That's assault right there, but I didn't want to do anything because there are other issues there, and if I'm going to say that this guy assaulted me, you know, what am I?  It's not worth it, but that technically was assault.  He touched me.  You've got to use some judgment there.  I'm not trying to wreck everybody's day.  And we have a good time over there, so we like that place.  You have to have a cause of action—you have to have a right [or justification] to sue somebody.  So we have the civil aspect, but here’s the criminal aspect.  The criminal law, with few exceptions, okay, there are criminal statutes, like RICO.  RICO was used against the mafia or organized crime.  There is a private right of action in a RICO claim.  

I’m not talking about that we should do this.  The other private right of action, something you identified earlier, a couple of months ago, Peggy, was Title XVIII of the Criminal Code.  Title XVIII to the United States Code, there’s a section, Number 1038, and in that there’s a private right of action dealing with public funds.  You actually can sue where normally the police or the Dept. of Justice or the U.S. Attorney’s Office or the Attorney General ONLY have the right to prosecute somebody.  In that particular statute, you’re allowed to some somebody for a crime.  When it comes to things like with the mask-wearing, you don’t have a private right of action.  It’s only public, so good luck getting the AG’s Office to prosecute against a guard or security officer, a store employee, they’re not going to do it.  You have to do it.  YOU HAVE A CLAIM TO MAKE—you would seek an injunction.  The injunction is because someone committed a crime, you don’t have the private right of action to prosecute the crime, but you do have a personal interest in the violation because it affected you.  And you can’t state a cause of action.  You have the right to sue, but you also have to allege certain facts.  I’m not going to get into all of those details; it’s in my document.  You have to say certain things in the complaint.  If you don’t, the judge will throw it out. 

They had a police officer there, and he was unarmed, he was a sheriff’s deputy at the door.  And he literally stood in front of my wife to block her with his body.  Now that’s a crime, and he was wearing a mask, you know, covering his whole face, and went off to give her whatever . . . . she doesn’t stop.  She’s only 5’1” and she just said, “You know, I’m gonna go shopping.  You do your thing,” and she walked around him, so, but in that case what you can do is file a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office.  So now there’s a lawsuit, and the court issues a case number.  This is civil case 

 

"Sleep the night before the test didn’t matter, the week & month before did"

Why sleep is so important for students (and everyone else), as found in this study of an MIT chemistry class:
🛌The quality of sleep accounted for 25% of the variance in grades!
💤 Sleep the night before the test didn’t matter, the week & month before did https://t.co/Qitv0zon2Q pic.twitter.com/96054PNFLl

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) November 12, 2020

Not only does melatonin improve the quality of sleep as well as duration, it's also been recognized as the only agent to normalize blood pressure if that's a concern for you.  

Bill Sardi writes, "Melatonin is the only agent that Dr. Houston has found to work to normalize blood pressure among patients whose blood pressure does not dip at night."

"Social distancing may be inhibiting the proper development of children’s immune systems."

Robert Wenzel at TargetLiberty reviews an NYT article on how mitigation measures are wreaking havoc on our children's' immune systems to handle disease.  Titled "Quarantine May Negatively Affects Kids' Immune Systems" delivers a devastating blow to the paranoia that some exhibit in their rationale for wearing masks to locking down to quarantining themselves and to deny the warm joy of a holiday dinner with friends and family. 

He writes,

I often see parents in San Francisco with children who are wearing masks.

Talk about low information sheep. 

I love that. 

I wish they all would read the following which appeared, in of all places, The New York Times.

The authors are Donna L. Farber, a professor of immunology and surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Thomas Connors who is an assistant professor of pediatrics there.

Here is an excerpt from the NYTimes article:

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is unwittingly conducting what amounts to the largest immunological experiment in history on our own children. We have been keeping children inside, relentlessly sanitizing their living spaces and their hands and largely isolating them. In doing so, we have prevented large numbers of them from becoming infected or transmitting the virus. But in the course of social distancing to mitigate the spread, we may also be unintentionally inhibiting the proper development of children’s immune systems.

Most children are born with a functioning immune system with the capacity to respond to diverse types of foreign substances, called antigens, encountered through exposure to microorganisms, food and the environment. The eradication of harmful pathogens, establishment of protective immunity and proper immune regulation depends on the immune cells known as T lymphocytes. With each new infection, pathogen-specific T cells multiply and orchestrate the clearance of the infectious organism from the body, after which some persist as memory T cells with enhanced immune functions.

Over time, children develop increasing numbers and types of memory T cells, which remain throughout the body as a record of past exposures and stand ready to provide lifelong protection. For other antigen exposures that are not infectious or dangerous, a type of healthy stalemate can result, called immune tolerance. Immunological memory and tolerance learned during childhood serves as the basis for immunity and health throughout adulthood.

Memory T cells begin to form during the first years of life and accumulate during childhood. However, for memory T cells to become functionally mature, multiple exposures may be necessary, particularly for cells residing in tissues such as the lung and intestines, where we encounter numerous pathogens. These exposures typically and naturally occur during the everyday experiences of childhood — such as interactions with friends, teachers, trips to the playground, sports — all of which have been curtailed or shut down entirely during efforts to mitigate viral spread. As a result, we are altering the frequency, breadth and degree of exposures that are crucial for immune memory development.

While the immune system is influenced by multiple factors, including genetics and everyday exposures to family members and pets, the long term effects of removing the social system that brings children in contact with other people, places and things remains uncharted territory. However, there is now substantial evidence that antigen exposure during the formative period of childhood is important not only for protection but also for reducing the incidence of allergies, asthma and inflammatory diseases. A well-known theory, called the “hygiene hypothesis,” proposes that the increased incidence of allergies and other immune disorders involving inappropriate immune reactions across industrialized societies is a result of the move away from agrarian society toward a highly sanitized urban setting.

Failing to train our immune systems properly can have serious consequences. When laboratory mice raised in nearly sterile conditions were housed together in the same cage with pet mice raised in standard conditions, some of the laboratory mice succumbed to pathogens that the pet mice were able to fight off. Additional studies of the microbiome — the bacteria that normally inhabit our intestines and other sites — have shown that mice raised in germ-free conditions or in the presence of antibiotics had reduced and altered immune responses to many types of pathogens. These studies suggest that for establishing a healthy immune system, the more diverse and frequent the encounters with antigens, the better.

Robert Wenzel is Editor & publisher of EconomicPolicyJournal.com and of Target Liberty, where he discusses issues relating to free markets, liberty, and Private Property Society theory.

A frequent guest on radio talk shows, he has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, ZeroHedge, LewRockwell.com, CNBC, and many other media outlets.

Wenzel is an Amazon Bestselling author and has written: 

The Fed Flunks: My Speech at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, 2014. 

"Foundations of Private Property Society Theory: Anarchism for the Civilized Person," 2018.

Problems With Modern Monetary Theory: A Comment on Stephanie Kelton’s "The Deficit Myth," 2020.

Dear Fellow Health Club Member, Please Leave Me the Hell Alone: An economic analysis of the water "shortage," 2017.

Nathan Crabbe of the Gainesville Sun says wearing masks help protect the economy." LOL

This is an excellent interview.  Find the time to watch it.  Check out Jennifer Cabrera's sites linked at Tom Woods' Show notes.  death certificates have a part I and a part II, anything the doctor things was a co-morbidity that didn't lead to the death.  If covid is in part 2, that death is now a covid death.  doctors giving guidance to a covid death. Doctors 

Gainesville Sun or Miami Herald, the latter wanted to smear her to influence the governor to lock down Florida even further as some states are doing with a slight rise in cases.  

The Herald and the Sun both speak about economics all the time but don't have a single economist on the staff.  

Columnist of the Gainesville Sun said, "If we'd all wear masks it would help the economy."

People will definitely freak when they read this.  I freaked.  My Adam's Apple literally gulped.  But Kyle Lamb is a respected Data Analyst and comes highly recommended by one of the few reporters who is covering so much data on COVID.  Though this chart is not directly related to Cabrera's conflict with the Miami Herald or the Gainesville Sun, it is compelling and absolutely has disturbing implications (meaning that it contradicts and exposes lies regarding the COVID narrative) about the COVID narrative across the country and worldwide.  

98%.

What if I told you that confirmed flu surveillance across the world has dropped year over year by 98% since April?

This is the deep dive story with data, graphs and charts showing how the world's most consistent nemesis has (almost) completely vanished.

-1- pic.twitter.com/JZ97f9K0hC

— Kyle Lamb (@kylamb8) October 16, 2020

Check out the kind of nonsense in reporting on COVID that goes on in Florida.  I am sure that it is just as bad in other states.  And remember that it was Governor DeSantis of Florida who opened up his state, so these stats, particularly that high number for November, is designed to put pressure on him to lockdown again.  This is war.

Florida Deaths - 11/25/20

Florida reported a net of 97 COVID deaths today. Changes were reported on 39 different days, going back to July 3.

Changes by month: July (-1), August (+4), September (+15), October (+8), November (+71) #RationalGround

1/8 pic.twitter.com/anAJl7uPAt— Jennifer Cabrera (@jhaskinscabrera) November 25, 2020