Re-Posted form the Canada Free Press By A. Dru Kristenev —— Bio and Archives—April 9, 2020

News agencies have been tripping over themselves to exaggerate the health crisis they helped create, the latest effort being an attempt to tie heightened numbers of cases to low income (and so, obviously, minority) populations. Not one of the mainstream network or cable news channels is proving to be immune from the liberal virus of identity politics. Dr. Fauci handing them fodder by tying COVID-19 to the Black community, like he did HIV-AIDS decades ago, is a disappointing commentary for the Trump administration allowing identity disease to seep into the COVID-19 narrative.

COVID-19 on a death certificate

In their desperation to build hysteria about a flu-like infection that has negatively affected hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of workers, news and state government agencies have also caused a pandemic of potential financial ruin.

By CDC statistics, there have been more than 14,000 people in the United States who have succumbed to COVID-19 since January 2020, underlying health issues contributing to (or actually causing?) the deaths in the majority of cases. CDC’s website has gone so far as to post a disclaimer regarding the proven cause of death among those classified as coronavirus. They are using Covid-19 as a catchall cause.

How? The Department of Health and Human Services is exacerbating the problem by distributing guidelines for death certificates that over-reports instances of COVID-19. Meaning that if indicators could be, possibly have the slightest lookalike symptom, and by some stretch of the imagination might be coronavirus, then list it as “cause of death” without confirmation. From the vsrg-03-508 form:

“Ideally, testing for Covid-19 should be conducted, but it is acceptable to report COVID-19 on a death certificate without this confirmation if the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty.” (emphasis, mine)

Still, the mortality rate of flu strains A and B have already taken more than 30,000 lives this season but that information was ignored as insignificant. Everyone has had some contact with the recurring flu viruses every year and despite the death it brings annually, government has never moved to inflict financial hardships through mandatory shelter-at-home orders, business closures and quarantines.

The best adage that fits this scenario that a tumbling economy gave us (engineered, it appears, of hedgefund leveraging and sell-offs) is “united we stand and divided we fall.”

All the public service announcements crying “we’re in this together” is a pretense for instituting the opposite by separating individuals and families to stew at home, work remotely and be left with distance-learning classes.

One of the best ways of creating a vulnerable society is to keep people from gathering together to freely worship, consort and share information. Take a look at Microsoft Billionaire Bill Gates’ claims that this is the beginning of doing away with crowds and large public meetings and venues. Why?  Isolation is the best way of tracking and controlling a large populace.

We’re already partway divided with people being present together in a room but occupied operating separately on their electronic devices, living a virtual life while in the company of others. Pretty pathetic when you think about it.

What’s to be done to clamp down on future government shutdowns and isolation orders after the quiet compliance that has occurred during this emergency that hasn’t been verified by real numbers? The answer begins with whether an individual has suffered damages – financial, health or other – due to the government’s (governors and state/county officials, in particular) unsupported edicts.

Fifth Amendment: “nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

‘Quick numbers review using Mississippi as an example: Governor Tate Reeves locked down the state with a “shelter-in-place” order where there were 67 deaths attributed to Covid-19 as of April 7, 2020, according to Mississippi Health Department statistics. Whereas, for Week 12 of 2020 alone there had been 37 deaths attributed to pneumonia/influenza but the state wasn’t thrown into a tizzy over the loss of lives within one week.

Across this nation in some 30 states, governors have ordered the general confinement of individuals to their homes under threat of legal action (fines or arrest) for venturing into public for purposes deemed “nonessential.” After starting with Mississippi, it’s sensible to base a test situation on that state.

These orders have led to numerous businesses suffering irreparable financial loss, many being forced to permanently close their doors leaving hundreds of thousands without jobs; millions if the expanding numbers of those applying for unemployment insurance are considered. As a consequence to shuttering nonessential (by Department of Homeland Security standards) businesses, the newly unemployed have also suffered injury and damage by their state.

The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States: “nor shall any person… be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” In effect, each person who has been forced to abandon their livelihood without due process of law – an executive order based on faulty models is not sufficient reason to deprive individuals of their property or ability to earn – may prove injury and damages inflicted by the state and/or executive officer. In this case, the governor who emplaced the executive order.

Just like the federal government, there is an administrative process that must be followed. For federal agencies, it’s the submission of the SF-95 claim form for injury, damage or death. Each state has a comparable process. Some have actual forms, others have the process laid out in the state code. In Mississippi it involves MS Code §11-46-11.

We are the only nation that has a constitution that limits government excess

For all those who deem they have suffered damage, note that it is the state rather than the administration where redress is to be found since President Trump only suggests what the states may do in respect to the 10^thAmendment. Governors, county and municipal executives are the ones who are liable for implementing practices that may have caused harm.

It takes more than deciding one has suffered at the hands of government overreach to file a lawsuit, and those who get up in arms, hire a lawyer and march off to court are likely to find the case dismissed. There is a process that must be exhausted before filing suit in court, or standing to bring legal action will likely not be acknowledged.

It takes chutzpah and determination to follow through with a claim for damages but if enough individuals who have truly suffered injury or financial ruin bring credible cases, elected government officials and liable bureaucrats should think twice before subjecting the nation to another round of socialism that deconstructs our constitutional foundation and destroys the economy.

We are the only nation that has a constitution that limits government excess and ascertains citizens’ recourse against agencies and individuals that misuse the power temporarily allotted them by the People. If we do not exercise our power but bend to the will of elected officers and appointed bureaucrats, this nation is lost and, with it, the rest of the “free” world.

Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Matthew Vadum — American Thinker—— Bio and Archives—April 9, 2020

It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us.

CDC openly admits that it is fudging the COVID-19 death figures

This revelation comes a few days after I wrote here at American Thinker that New York City was lying about COVID-19 deaths.  The normal rules about reporting deaths have been violated by that city in the rush to inflate the body count, presumably to steer more taxpayer money to the Big Apple.

That the CDC isn’t telling the truth to Americans is no conspiracy theory:  it’s right out there in the open for everyone to see.  The CDC openly admits that it is fudging the COVID-19 death figures.

We know this because, among other truth-tellers, a plainspoken small-town physician from Kalispell, Montana, has pulled back the curtain.

Dr. Annie Bukacek, MD, explained in a presentation how death certificates are made.  (See “Montana physician Dr. Annie Bukacek discusses how COVID-19 death certificates are being manipulated,” YouTube, April 6)

The system is deeply flawed

Why should anyone care how a certificate of death is made?

Everyone should care “today when governments are making massive changes that affect our constitutional rights and those changes are based on inaccurate statistics,” Bukacek says.

The system is deeply flawed, she argues.

Few people know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician, coroner, or medical examiner, signing the death certificate.  How do I know this?  I’ve been filling out death certificates for over 30 years.

More often than we want to admit, we don’t know with certainty the cause of death when we fill out death certificates.  That is just life.  We are doctors, not God.  Autopsies are rarely performed and even when an autopsy is done the actual cause of death is not always clear.  Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form.  Then that listed cause of death … is entered into a vital records data bank to use for statistical analysis, which then gives out inaccurate numbers, as you can imagine.  Those inaccurate numbers then become accepted as factual information even though much of it is false.

This has been the way it has been done for some time, Bukacek says.

They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission

So even before we heard of COVID-19, death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned.  When it comes to COVID-19 there is the additional data skewer, that is –get this— there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death.  The Centers for Disease Control, updated from yesterday, April 4th, still states that mortality, quote unquote, data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19.  That’s from their website.

Translation?  The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same.  They call it death by COVID-19.  They automatically overestimate the real death numbers, by their own admission.  Prior to COVID-19, people were more likely to get an accurate cause of death written on their death certificate if they died in the hospital.  Why more accurate when a patient dies in the hospital?  Because hospital staff has physical examination findings labs, radiologic studies, et cetera, to make a good educated guess.  It is estimated that 60 percent of people die in the hospital.  But even [with] those in-hospital deaths, the cause of death is not always clear, especially in someone with multiple health conditions, each of which could cause the death.

Bukacek refers to a March 24 CDC memo from Steven Schwartz, director of the Division of Vital Statistics for the National Center for Health Statistics, titled “COVID-19 Alert No. 2.”

“The assumption of COVID-19 death,” she says, “can be made even without testing.  Based on assumption alone the death can be reported to the public as another COVID-19 casualty.”

There is a question-and-answer section on the memo.

One question is, “Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause?”

The answer is:  “The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate.  However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”

Another question is, “Should ‘COVID-19’ be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?”

How many people have actually died from COVID-19 is anyone’s guess

The answer is:

“COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.”  [Boldfacing in original]

“You could see how these statistics have been made to look really scary when it is so easy to add false numbers to the official database,” Bukacek says.  “Those false numbers are sanctioned by the CDC.”

“The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think,” she says.

“How many people have actually died from COVID-19 is anyone’s guess … but based on how death certificates are being filled out, you can be certain the number is substantially lower than what we are being told.  Based on inaccurate, incomplete data people are being terrorized by fearmongers into relinquishing cherished freedoms.”

It’s hard to argue with what Dr. Bukacek says, but no doubt angry social media mobs will find a way as her chilling words enlighten the populace that has been bullied into submission.

Of course, the disease’s body count is not the sole concern we should have about the Chinese contagion, but it is undeniably the primary driver of the rampant mass hysteria that has allowed state and local governments across America to crush our cherished civil liberties.

Let the investigations begin

As they say in newsrooms:  if it bleeds, it leads.  Deaths are always going to be more “sexy” than confirmed cases.  It is the number that really, really counts, and Americans know this.

The fraudulent death statistics also give ammunition to the legions of snitches and scolds who try to shame their fellow Americans for attending church or playing catch in an empty park or taking a harmless drive in the countryside to prevent themselves from going stir-crazy.

The fake death data from the CDC, coupled with wild guesstimates from experts, and the relentless barrage of fear porn the mainstream media subjects Americans to around the clock, have been getting results, even with a plague that is, so far at least, underperforming.

First, experts told us 2.2 million Americans would die.  Then the number fell off a cliff, plunging down to around 200,000.

As of April 8, the number of those expected to die from the disease by August 4 was down to 60,000, or roughly a very nasty flu season.  The new figure comes from the influential model produced by the University of Washington that the White House regularly cites.

Has social-distancing, wearing face masks, hosing down packages with bleach, using hand sanitizer that is at least 60 percent alcohol, and washing hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds helped bring the grim worst-case-scenario body count down?

Probably, I’m guessing, but it’s hard to know for sure.

Maybe those epidemiological modelers can be forgiven for scaring the bejeezus out of Americans.  Epidemiology is not, after all, an exact science, as its practitioners sometimes acknowledge.

But those who have force-fed modelers skewed data that led to the terrifying death forecasts that stampeded governors into pushing the nation down the road to totalitarianism need to be held to account.

Let the investigations begin.

Read more at American Thinker