Senator Rand Paul Discusses His Experience With the Wuhan Virus…


Senator Rand Paul appears on Fox News to discuss what it was like for him to contract the Wuhan Virus.  Interestingly, as a doctor himself, Senator Paul shares that he had no symptoms for the virus despite testing positive.  Additionally, Senator Paul shares that his local healthcare providers are prescribing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and there appears to be anecdotal evidence the medication has positive effects.

My conversation with State Senator and doctor who exposes Medicare payouts for COVID-19 patients


As you’ll see by end of this article, the specific decisions about money mentioned here affect life and death outcomes for patients

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  — NoMoreFakeNews—— Bio and ArchivesApril 13, 2020

State Senator and doctor who exposes Medicare payouts for COVID-19 patientsA state senator has suddenly come out of nowhere and made big news.

My conversation with Minnesota State Senator, Dr. Scott Jensen, took place after I read the explosive statement he made to FOX News, on April 9th.  So let’s start with his earlier FOX statement:

Some hospitals have a pay-share plan with their staff doctors

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“Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [don’t] [have] impact on what we do…”

I reached out to Senator Jensen, and obtained clarification.  Jensen told me his remark pertained to patients with Medicare coverage.  And the 2 payouts he mentioned are standard insurance payments from Medicare which would go to the hospital.

Of course, he explained, some hospitals have a pay-share plan with their staff doctors.  Therefore, a windfall for the hospital is passed along to those doctors.

Jensen told me: Take a Medicare patient who is diagnosed with simple non-COVID pneumonia.  The hospital would receive a one-time Medicare lump-sum payout of $4600.

However, if that Medicare patient is diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia, the Medicare coverage is a one-time $13,000 payment.  And if the hospital puts that COVID-19 pneumonia patient on a ventilator, the one-time payment is $39,000.  NOTE: It doesn’t matter how long these patients stay in hospital—-there is only going to be one lump-sum insurance payment.

Financial incentives for hospitals

So, I infer, there are several types of financial incentives for hospitals—-

ONE: Diagnose as many people as possible with COVID-19.

TWO: Diagnose as many people as possible with COVID-19 who have light symptoms—-making it easy to move them out of the hospital quickly.

THREE: Put as many COVID patients as possible on ventilators for as short a time as possible.

Under the heading of “diagnose as many patients as possible with COVID-19,” there is also the key question of what constitutes “a COVID-19 patient”—-and how the use of that label can be multiplied and manipulated.  Senator Jensen made a few choice comments to FOX on this subject as well.

From FOX News: “Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician who is also a Republican state senator, told ‘The Ingraham Angle’ Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) guidelines for doctors to certify whether a patient has died of coronavirus are ‘ridiculous’ and could be misleading the public.”

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“Host Laura Ingraham read Jensen the [CDC] guidelines, which say: ‘In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID cannot be made but is suspected or likely (e.g. the circumstances are compelling with a reasonable degree of certainty) it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”

“In response, Jensen told Ingraham the CDC’s death certificate manual tells physicians to focus on ‘precision and specificity,’ but the coronavirus death certification guidance runs completely counter to that axiom.”

“‘The idea that we are going to allow people to massage and sort of game the numbers is a real issue because we are going to undermine the [public] trust,’ he said. ‘And right now as we see politicians doing things that aren’t necessarily motivated on fact and science, their trust in politicians is already wearing thin’.”

“…Jensen then told Ingraham that under the CDC guidelines, a patient who died after being hit by a bus and tested positive for coronavirus would be listed as having presumed to have died from the virus regardless of whatever damage was caused by the bus.”

“…Jensen also reacted to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s response to a question about the potential for the number of coronavirus deaths being ‘padded,’ in which the NIAID director described the prevalence of ‘conspiracy theories’ during ‘challenging’ times in public health.”

“‘I would remind him that anytime health care intersects with dollars it gets awkward,’ Jensen said.”

The hospitals wouldn’t get their huge $39,000 payout for each Medicare patient put on a ventilator

Here is where everything Scott Jensen is saying can turn very grim—-

As I’ve reported, New York ER doctor, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, has made public statements about the misuse of ventilators with supposed COVID-19 patients.  He’s stated that some of these patients actually have functioning lungs.  Their immediate and dire life-threatening situation is straight oxygen deficit, as if they have high-altitude sickness.  But pressure on the lungs, applied by the use of ventilators via standard rigid protocols, he says, can cause damage, and even death.

Imagine what would happen if another way—-NOT ventilators—-was found to usefully and safely deliver oxygen to these patients.

The hospitals wouldn’t get their huge $39,000 payout for each Medicare patient put on a ventilator.

What do you think a hospital would say…what decision would the hospital make…would the hospital allow a better and safer and necessary delivery system for oxygen?  For every labeled “COVID-19 patient” whose desperate emergency is a straight deficit of oxygen?

Would the hospital forego all those huge Medicare coverage payouts?

For links to references, see this article on Jon’s blog: click here.

Doctor From NY City Offers His Observations


Reports from Around the World


COMMENT #1:
Here in Finland the biggest bank Osuuspankki has begun to deny access to deposit boxes. — The customer must have a “valid reason” to visit the box.

KV

COMMENT #2: There is panic buying of food in China. This is after the virus. (see: Panic-Buying Erupts Across China, Prompting Food Shortage Concerns)

HA

QUESTION #3: Are the Democrats deliberately trying to destroy jobs just to win the election? Blocking small business loans seems to be all about just trying to hurt Trump.

CA

COMMENT #4: The relief offered by the Democrats will not pay people’s expenses for even one month. Trump wants to reduce the payroll tax and the democrats object. It is looking more to be a political crisis than a medical one.

COMMENT #5: The world economy is collapsing at breathtaking speed. I do not know how Socrates does it, but a decline of 20% of world GDP will lead to war. The Germans turned to Hitler. Your warning of a pending authoritarian era is in your face correct but the vast majority never see it.

COMMENT #6: When does Socrates foresee the final collapse of the Left? I hope that it will be soon, because our society and economy can’t handle much more of this Socialist nonsense and foolishness. Their lunatic policies in regards to Covid-19, the environment, taxation, the economy, gender issues etc. etc. have destroyed our society, our economy, our social structure, our morality, our creative spirits, and our entrepreneurial flair.
So, after all of this destruction at their hands, when should we expect to see the much-awaited demise of the Left (i.e. Socialism)?
MG

COMMENT #7: I just went to a Walgreens pharmacy and they will not let you in without a mask–no mask no entry. Society just broke down and like you said there is no going back

Everyone is brainwashed!

COMMENT #8: Marty,
I’ve been following you and your blog since late 90’s. It’s your fault that they have used the Coronavirus to advance their agenda instead of Climate change. They realized that you were correct about your writings on the relationship of the solar minimums, volcanic activity and climate change. Knowing that cooling was going to happen (not warming) they had to switch gears and use some other BS to advance their leftist totalitarian agenda. So it’s your fault. LOL.
Keep up the great work and thank you for helping us all understand how the world really works, seeing all the connections and helping to see the big picture.
You will someday (I already do) be regarded as our era’s “Adam Smith”.
I know you may not like that recognition, but your insatiable curiosity of what makes things tick has made you become not only a great economist but also a great scientist, philosopher, psychologist and historian; a true Renaissance person.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You saved me from the Goldbugs.

HF

QUESTION #9:  Marty, you mentioned a couple of times in the past that you could see yourself moving to Australia if things turn sour in the U.S. Living in Europe, that was always my medium-term plan, too. It’s a beautiful country with great people. However, in recent years, politics in the country has taken a turn for the worse. Are you still hoping for Australia as an escape route? If not, what are the countries to keep in mind? Beyond China, I mean.

FW

ANSWER: Australia and New Zealand have turned so far to the left, they no longer offer an alternative.

COMMENT #10: Well, they have transformed drive-by shootings into drive-by waves. They have separated families and the best you can do is drive-by to wish them a happy Easter from inside your car.

CD

COMMENT #11: They have used this to wipe out religion. You can’t even go to mass when gatherings are prohibited by a democratic governor.

FP

COMMENT #12: Marty,

Ok so we are at a funeral here in Pennsylvania for my wife’s aunt. What would “normally” be a traditional Christian viewing and burial, has been turned into a fearful, keep your distance event. There was no traditional Mass at the church or viewing at a funeral home. We had to pull up next to the burial site and remain in our vehicles. Only 3 at a time were allowed to go to see the dearly departed in the open casket for a brief moment before being rushed back to their vehicles. The priest then arrived and is giving the ceremony with only the children and grandchildren allowed out of their vehicles around the casket but at a distance, the rest have to remain in their vehicles and listen with windows open. Many that did have the guts to show up came wearing masks and gloves. Just unreal to see with my own eyes.

Now I know this isn’t the only part of civilization being attacked but it is fundamental to humanity. When people can’t pay their respects to their dearly departed and give their relatives condolences with hugs and kisses, cry and laugh together in a group for fear of being accused by others, there is a serious shift underway. The attack on the foundation of what was, is astounding. The traditions that made this civilization and nation great are under assault.

It doesn’t surprise me this is happening. It doesn’t surprise me the attacks that are going on and the power play that is underway. I knew this was coming and more. I have actually been awaiting it. What does disappoint me though, is the complete lack of common sense by all the people all over the world. The lack of a fight, no struggle. Obedience. Consent by ACQUIESCENCE. Thought maybe there were more alpha males with some balls left to fight. I guess we’ll see.

Best,
EM

How Journalists Are Destroying Their Own Jobs


 

This is clearly political. The numbers just do not support this panic they are less than the annual flu. Granted, they are rising now, but that is because of the massive fraud going on thanks to the American Medical Association. You would think the death rate is 50% like the Black Plague. Every news outlet that has been against Trump are preaching in unison we must stay locked down until we get a vaccine, that Gates controls and will not be available until AFTER the Elections. The same is happening in Germany. There it is the AFD. They gave Gates an unprecedented 9-minute interviewwithout a single challenge to what he is saying. Again, preaching his vaccine as the savior of the world.

Gates openly said that he wants to vaccinate all people in the entire world! The search for the vaccine will approximately take up to 18 months. How long would it be to vaccinate the entire world? Meanwhile, it is IMPOSSIBLE to return to any normalization of the previous condition of freedom. Gates is achieving world dominance and nobody is standing up. God help us! The man is a megalomaniac who wants to hold the world hostage to his vaccine! That makes no sense. This is not the only disease. So what about every other disease? We stay locked down for life?

Gates supported Climate Change and getting to ZERO CO2. He has accomplished that. He wanted to shut down air traffic – he did! He has been investing in vegetarian products because he wanted to shut down the beef industry? The goal of Climate Change was to shut down the manufacturing industry. He has succeeded! Everything Greta wanted has been accomplished. People cannot leave their homes so they are not driving cars. This is the life the Climate Change extremists have wanted for a long time.

Either Gates is completely insane or there MUST be a hidden agenda. You cannot imprison the world population until they accept Gates’ vaccine. That seems to be political – not medical! John Stuart Mill published On Liberty in 1859. There is NO justification for any government to exert such power over the people as to imprison them even under the pretense it is for their own benefit. This is tyranny!

Thomas Paine also consulted in his Common Sense which inspired the American Revolution, that governments confuse themselves as being the object of civilization when it is the people. This is the greatest danger of socialism, the survival of the state comes before the people. This is what Gates is doing; the king is dead, long live Bill Gates!

The numbers concerning this COVID-19 just do not support this action of shutting down the world economy. The damage is beyond repair. The number of small businesses filing for bankruptcy in the Netherlands, France, and Germany is at historic highs. The destruction inflicted that is permanently wiping out jobs will only come back as civil unrest. The youth in Southern Europe were already suffering from the loss of jobs with unemployment rates which hit as high as 60% in some areas.

The future is being systematically destroyed because governments cannot possibly meet their obligations with all the social programs they promised. The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank were trapped with negative interest rates. They cannot continue to buy government bonds. We are looking at the justification of ending the financial system as we knew it. What will that mean to bonds? Get out of ALL government bonds!

 

The number of jobs and pensions lost far outways everything they have done under the pretense of protecting our lives. This begs someone in the press to defend civilization. These journalists are helping to destroy their own livelihood. Perhaps that is the only way to get real news – when the advertising revenue comes to a halt and they will wake up and say – Oh Shit! I never thought of that!If journalists really think this is worth getting rid of Trump and it will all be back to normal, they are sublime fools. There is no coming back from this tragedy. They are destroying their own future and that of their children. Most journalists are no longer on our side. They care not about the people, all they see is a political agenda and even that they have no idea what they are cheering for by advocating the overthrow of Trump. They are stooges for a secret agenda of totalitarianism.

Our models are warning that if the economy is NOT reopened May 1st, the economic loss of jobs will be staggering and the economy will NOT be able to recover until after 2022 at the very least and then we may get just a and that will be a dead-cat-bounce into 2024. If the economy remains shut down beyond May, then the ultimate bottom in economic growth appears likely by 2032 – a full 13-year decline!

Where are the youth? This is your battle for I get to leave this corrupt world. It will be all yours.

At What Point Do we Break? 4-6 Weeks?



The Prague The Memorial to the victims of Communism

A friend of mine is in Spain. She is from Slovakia. She writes to let me know she has been locked down for 5 weeks “without even been allowed to go for a walk, and another 6 weeks or so to go (at least). People here support it and believe all the lies. In communism, nobody believed the regime.”

What is being done to the world population amounts to mental torture which will have the same impact as physical torture. Numerous studies have been done that show mental torture has long-term consequences and some argue may be worse than physical torture which ends quicker rather than prolonged breaking down the ability to resist.

“This period of anxiety and adjustment to the isolation routine lasts from 1 to 3 weeks. Further isolation of 4–6 weeks leads to a feeling of dejection and increasing dependency, loss of initiative and spontaneous activity, lack of interest in personal appearance, immobility and vacant gaze.”

US National Library of Medicine:

If these lockdowns extend beyond April, they are going to result in rising violence. In Thailand, they have already banned all alcohol because they fear that if the people get drunk, they will become violent and storm out into the streets.

The true danger here is that the failing governments are on the edge of a Monetary Crisis and thus this coronavirus lockdown is making martial law appear to be the norm around the world.

Comrade Adams: Good Citizens Volunteer For Big Tech Health Surveillance…


Comrade Adams is not happy with non-compliant citizens refusing to adjust their wrongful thinking to benefit the needs of our new state.  During these stressful times thought, without regard for collective need, is an indication a citizen may be a subversive.  Please report subversives to the Ministry of COVID Compliance, so they may be blocked from the benefits of the new union; and encouraged with enhanced support.

If wrong-thoughts continue to be expressed, it may become necessary for the Ministry to deduct 200 credits from your social compliance score.  Please do not put the Ministry in the position of having to make such decisions. Compliance is in your best interest.

State influence agent, Comrade Adams, helps to correct wrong-thinking.  The state will never force you to share your health records. Only if you wish to remove yourself from voluntary home confinement, access rights, and unlock your social privileges, will you be encouraged to join a health registry via your voluntary cell phone/transponder provider.

The Ministry would never force your compliance comrade.  You may choose to remain external to the Federated United State System (FUSS). You may also choose not to participate in the employment network, state services, access to civil transit, large entertainment gatherings, parks and restaurants.  Nothing is mandated.  Relax comrades, the Ministry is sensitive to your previous rights as we initiate our new, safer, society.

The COVID Compliance Ministry appreciates good citizens who voluntarily participate in the registry.  We reward good citizenship status with enhanced credits allowing access to a safe COVID Compliant Society.  A safer society; where the odds will always be in your favor.

Would it not be preferable in the new regime to have an alert on your phone warning you of your proximity to a non-compliant, possibly infected, citizen?

A rogue citizen could put a compliant society at risk of infection. They may not just carry biologics they could carry a more alarming virus of wrong-thought against the interests of the state.  Rogue citizens would be subversive to our new society.

Surely all good citizens would agree with Comrade Adams; there must be an emergency alert of some form identifying the larger audience to these subversive public enemies so we could respond accordingly.  The infrastructure is already established.  Society is familiar with “Amber Alerts”, this would be a slight modification to avoid viral spread.

Relax, it’s going to be lots of fun Comrades. Perhaps we just start with digital armbands, certifications within your portable transponder unit, to compliment our mandatory face masks. Each state could create their designated digital stamps for your COVID ID.

Traveling will be so much fun, we can collect the whole set. “Achtung Juden – New York”, “Juden Raus – California”, and the larger federal “Enemy of the People”, designation.

Social Distancing or House Arrest…. Details, comrades,… details.

Sunday Talks – Dr. Fauci Plays The Hindsight Game With Furrowed Brow Tapper…


This guy is sketchy.  Sometimes within a 24 hour period Fauci will make a statement, then contradict the initial assertion, then attempt to cloud his own conflict with obtuse and wordy explanations.  After watching for several weeks, we first called it out HERE.

In the latest example Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears on CNN to support the political assertions of narrative engineer Jake ‘furrowed-brow’ Tapper.  To wit Fauci now says if the country had been shut down in February lives could have been saved:

TAPPER: “The New York Times reported yesterday that you and other top officials wanted to recommend social and physical distancing guidelines to President Trump as far back as the third week of February, but the administration didn’t announce such guidelines to the American public until March 16th, almost a month later?”

FAUCI: “As I’ve said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Often the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it’s not. But it is what it is. we are where we are right now.”

There’s been a debate about possible political motives surrounding the panic he has created; the massive economic damage he has inflicted; and the conflicting assertions of National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.

CTH identifies the motives as sketchy. He appears to use his position to advance theories and yet position himself to avoid scrutiny.

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This is what Fauci was telling the public on February 29.

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Good News – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Released From Hospital….


Good news on Easter Sunday.  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been released from the hospital after a rather lengthy struggle fighting COVID-19.

Following a week at St Thomas’s Hospital with coronavirus – including three nights in intensive care – Prime Minister Boris Johnson stopped by his office at 10 Downing Street to record a message to the nation. [Media Report]

CORONAVIRUS LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS


COVID-19 DEATHS: Statistics can be manipulated to fit a certain agenda. In this case, the agenda seems very clear

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and ArchivesApril 11, 2020

CORONAVIRUS LIES, DAMNED LIES AND STATISTICS“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”—Origin unknown, popularized by Mark Twain

As the world begins a second month of lockdown in response to the nightmare known as the coronavirus, it is essential to examine how this mess developed and how we return to some semblance of normalcy.

As part of the quest for truth, the three types of lies must be identified: lies, damned lies and statistics.

It is a lie that COVID-19 assuredly originated at some wet market in Wuhan, China. The media and most of the scientific and medical communities are holding to that theory; however, we do not know definitively. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials were not allowed into China to investigate the virus in the early stages. The communist Chinese government is notorious for lying and mistreating both its citizens and outsiders, so their statements verifying the wet market origins of the virus cannot be trusted.

Obviously, the communist Chinese had an interest in creating world havoc. At the time the virus began to spread, there were pollution protests in Wuhan and anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Not coincidentally, both of those protests have ended with the coronavirus lockdown.

Under pressure from United States President Donald Trump, China was forced to accept tariffs on their goods and a new trade deal that was fair, but not unduly favorable to their country. Trump was the first U.S. President in decades to stand up to the Chinese communists and advocate for the American taxpayer.

Sadly, with the pandemic, the United States economy has been severely impacted. This result may very well please the communist Chinese government. During the last four weeks, only essential businesses have been able to operate. With a massive increase of 16.6 million unemployed workers, a gargantuan explosion of the national debt and a historic drop in the stock market, the once solid economy is very shaky.

Trump hating media and the Deep State

Some analysts believe either a recession or a depression will be arriving in our country. With a weakened economy, President Trump may very well lose his re-election bid in November. The beneficiaries will not just be the Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Trump hating media and the Deep State.

If Biden wins, China wins because it will lead to a resumption of business as usual and anti-American trade deals. Biden will drop the tariffs and the tough talk and China will once again take advantage of American consumerism. However, if Trump wins, the President will continue his push to bring more manufacturing back from China to the United States. In contrast, Biden has no interest in building American manufacturing and even less interest bringing our factories back home from China.

It is a damned lie that President Trump waited too long to act in response to the virus. In January, he created a coronavirus task force and imposed a travel ban from China at the end of the month. Since then, he has been issuing more travel bans, proposing economic recovery plans and meeting daily with the media to inform the American people. Also, his administration unveiled aggressive guidelines that have mitigated the spread of the disease.

While the President acted, Democrats in Congress were more interested in impeaching and convicting Donald Trump on ridiculous charges that did not generate any Republican support, except for U.S. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah. There was not a congressional hearing on the coronavirus until February. It is absurd that Democrats would claim the President did not act early enough when he was involved in this issue weeks before they did anything.

The statistical lies are easily apparent to identify as this crisis has continued. The first models predicted over 2 million deaths in the United States. Not surprisingly, this estimate created hysteria in the country. Fortunately, it was wildly inaccurate.

In recent weeks, the estimates have been revised downward. The latest figure indicates the country will suffer approximately 60,000 deaths. If this total is realized, as horrible as it may seem, it will be much lower than the death toll from the flu pandemics of 1918, 1957 or 1968.

Even the new mortality estimate is questionable for many deaths are being wrongly attributed to the coronavirus. If a person has the coronavirus, but dies from a heart attack or cancer, their death will be counted. At a recent news conference, Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Response Coordinator, crowed about the “very liberal approach to mortality.” Thus, the coronavirus death numbers will increase, and it may be done to generate more hysteria or more federal funding, or to continue the lockdown for a longer period.

In an April guideline, the CDC admitted that the coronavirus mortality numbers are being bolstered. If a “definitive diagnosis of COVID-19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely, it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed.’”

In the past few weeks, initial reports for deaths due to non-coronavirus causes show a dramatic decrease. It may be due to inaccurate accounting of these deaths as COVID-19. As we know, statistics can be manipulated to fit a certain agenda. In this case, the agenda seems very clear.