Outbreak Not What News Sources Reported
Dear Summit County Decision Makers,
You’ve shut down most of our 7,014 businesses.1
You closed all 200 businesses in beautiful, historic Park City, and most of 7,014 companies registered in the county.
My friends who own a yoga studio, a medical clinic, a car wash, a ski shop, a mechanic shop, and a restaurant, are all sitting at home, terrified, wondering how they’ll buy food and pay the bills, in the next 5 weeks and beyond.
You, Summit County’s Health Officer Richard Bullough, PhD and council members, will always have the dubious distinction as the people accountable for making Park City a Depression-devastated ghost town.
Of course, you’re in good company. In fact, hundreds of other counties made foolish decisions that will affect the long-term legacy of their leaders, and the future of business in those counties, as well.
Governors Cuomo of New York2 and Newsom of California3 shut down most commerce and sentenced tens of millions to long-term unemployment and uncertainty, around the same time you did.
Cuomo is now admitting his 2-month shut down of New York was an overreaction, and a bad idea.4
On Tuesday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent 1.4 billion of the world’s most vulnerable people home for 21 days — their meager sources of income gone — telling them, “Forget what it feels like to leave your homes.”5
And that’s not all: Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti wins the prize on March 26 for sentencing 18.79 million people in the Los Angeles area for the longest quarantine of anyone, worldwide. Two full months of ordered isolation — all due to 650 cases of COVID19 (and no recorded deaths) on that date.6
A great deal of information has come out in the past week that shows that those leaders who destroyed our economy will find themselves on the wrong side of history.7
Your decision will not only be devastating to your political legacy; it is already devastating to thousands of Summit County businesses who have had to close their doors, and thousands of people jobless.
You were an “early adopter” of the quarantine approach to combating this virus; an early adopter in creating mass layoffs and now-defunct businesses.
Let me review some data points, each of which would have been easy to learn before your knee-jerk reaction destroyed many lives for the indefinite future.
1. I was in the Park City Hospital on March 25, the very hour that KSL reported our county had an outbreak the proportions of New York City (per capita) — and 20 times more infected, per capita, than Salt Lake City.8
Did you contact our two hospitals in the county, to learn that not only were they not full of COVID19 patients–they didn’t actually have any?
Despite the sensational headline, there wasn’t a single patient in the ER. Not in the ER waiting room, and not in the general hospital waiting room, either. Where was the pandemonium, the overcrowded E.R., the huge outbreak? We are a small county, and besides the tiny Heber hospital, there is no other hospital besides Park City.
The eight hospital employees I interacted with during the hour I spent trying to get my simple procedure done (all of them wearing elaborate helmets and face shields) passed me from the lab, to the E.R., to the lab again. With the Red Cross shut down nationwide, I just medically needed to remove some of my iron-rich blood.
I finally left the hospital without the simple treatment I needed (this was actually my second trip there in a week, with the same results, and the same completely empty waiting rooms). I headed to Heber, only to find the ER in Heber — Summit County’s other hospital — also completely empty.
The KSL story about the “outbreak” in Park City being the same, per capita, as New York City, released by KSL, was published, strangely, the same day that KSL also published a story that only 348 cases total have been diagnosed in the entire state of Utah, and that new diagnoses were now decreasing.9
If Summit County, with its completely empty ICU’s and ER’s, had the same per-capita infection rate as New York City — I have to wonder if media reporting in New York City is also inflated.
While it is clear that intensive medicine is not built and staffed for the high point of an outbreak in densely populated cities with a high number of elderly, the media COVID19 media blitz is unprecedented in history, and has taken on epidemic hysteria worse than the virus itself (which seems to be on the decline now, worldwide, with a kill rate of not even 1% of 1% of the estimated 2.2 million dead).10,11
For this, you destroyed our county’s economy, and likely put thousands of businesses into bankruptcy. You’ve put thousands of people out of work indefinitely.
2. China has released its statistics, dramatically downgrading the death rate from its COVID19 outbreak. This study (pending peer review) estimates the death rate of those contracting the virus — in a country where most people smoke, and the air quality is terrible — to be between 0.04 to 0.12.12 This is 33 times lower than the media headlines of up 4 percent that dominated panic-spreading headlines for weeks.
That means the highest death rate the COVID19 virus could have achieved (touted in over 1.5 billion media stories to be extremely deadly) is .12% — and most of that small number of fatalities were people who had already outlived China’s average age.
Here in the U.S., it is simple math that any epidemiologist should know, that the only people being tracked as the outbreak happens are the ones who were tested.13 But as with every pandemic since pandemics have been studied, there are 10 to 20 times more infected people who were never tested. And, every one of them is a survivor. They must be factored into the mortality statistics.
While China’s outbreak was contained, and data was readily available that the death rate was orders of magnitude lower than the media reported, you, Summit County, sentenced thousands of the businesses you ordered to close into extinction.14 (When you extended the existing 10-day order to May 1 — adding another 5 weeks of unemployment and shutdown.)
When those numbers are estimated and factored in, it is becoming clear that U.S. statistics will be likely two-tenths of one percent, at most. (No more deadly than this year’s flu, which is also 0.02%.)
3A. Emerging evidence shows that COVID19 may not be significantly more communicable than other infectious illnesses, either.15 Data is emerging that up to 80 percent false positives result in some test groups.16
Deborah Birx, MD, global health official, admitted 16 hours ago that the outbreak was orders of magnitude lower than predicted, and that the vast majority of ER’s and ventilators sit unused, all over the world.17
3B. A study from Iceland shows that about 50 percent of positive COVID19 cases have no symptoms, and 50 percent show moderate cold symptoms.18
3C. Washington State, in the week Summit County expanded our quarantine and extended it by 5 weeks, showed that of over 30,000 COVID19 tests, only 7% were positive!19 In fact, Washington State intel shows that the death rate, based on real data, is about 0.3. Again, orders of magnitude lower than news media reports.
4. Both South Korea and China have completed the typical “bell curve” of the outbreak.20 Most days in the last week, both countries have reported 0 new cases. (I work with a manufacturing company in the Wuhan, and they worked straight through the outbreak–so people saying that China shut its economy down, and that’s how they contained their outbreak, are wrong.) This is what the bell curve of the epidemic looks like for China and South Korea, neither of whom shut down their economies, but rather, employed reasonable and rational containment strategies:
Unlike Bullough and council members, who inflicted great harm on my business and many others, South Korea achieved total containment of this virus without destroying the livelihood of millions of people.21 Containment strategies are important, but decisions based on bad data are going to destroy Summit County.
5. In the same week you ordered a death sentence for thousands of Summit County small businesses, the epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, whose projection of 2.2 million dead worldwide from the virus, revised his estimate to less than one-tenth of the original estimate.22
Currently only slightly more than 1 percent of his newly revised 200,000 fatality prediction has taken place worldwide–with most, if not all, countries, on the downside of the bell curve that every virus outbreak follows. It appears that, again, the chaos in terms of human life created by the pandemic may be multiple orders of magnitude smaller than Ferguson predicted and the media and social media spread.
But the actions of short-sighted leaders have put many nations of the world into what looks to be a depression not seen since the 1930’s (again, with the help of the news media).
6. In Italy, over 99 percent of the fatalities were already ill with other pre-existing conditions. This virus has shown that it has serious consequences for very few people who are even reasonably healthy and below the age of 60. A more rational containment strategy, for this and any future outbreaks of other viruses, would be to quarantine those who are vulnerable and elderly, allowing the vast majority (the healthy) to continue to work, to avoid the economic catastrophe we now find ourselves in.
South Korea (and even China, mostly) did not see it as a viable option to send their people home, without work and a means to provide food, shelter, medications, and other necessities–like the officials in my county have. Neil Ferguson and others who made foolish false predictions, and created economic chaos with knee-jerk reactions, will inevitably give the economic shutdown credit for the small numbers in the death toll. The evidence, however, suggests otherwise.
There are dozens of excellent containment strategies that have been employed, or could have been employed, that did not destroy our livelihoods.
The information that the virus affects 99% or more elderly and immune-compromised was available in the very early stages of the outbreak.23
7. The Wall Street Journal, one day before Summit County shut down all “non-essential” businesses till May 1, explained the epidemiological evidence that our own Summit County Health Officer Richard C. Bullough, PhD seems to have missed.13 Again, the evidence is deeply flawed, because the fatality statistics are based on only those who have been tested–not the vastly higher number (of 100% survivors) who were not tested.
Stanford’s Dr. John Ioannidis, MD (professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, epidemiology and population health) said in the Daily Wire that “we are making seismic decisions” based on “utterly unreliable data.”24 The consequences will be profound. They already are, Summit County (and hundreds of others nationwide)–and the highly credentialed Dr. Ioannidis says it’s clear municipal, state, and country leaders are “severely overreacting.”
Unlike Bullough and council members in Summit County, who inflicted great harm on thousands of businesses, South Korea achieved total containment of this virus without destroying the livelihood of millions of people. Containment strategies are important, but knee-jerk reactions based on bad data are going to destroy Summit County.
Summit County Officials (and others all over North America): Please reverse your position and allow the people and businesses to return to work immediately. For every day that our businesses remain closed, many more will be unable to reopen. Many politicians and bureaucrats have made mistakes. But your mistakes have cost families and everyone who lives in Park City dearly, and every day your orders based on false information stand, the worse this gets for all of us in this community.
Utah’s Governor Herbert: Please get involved, be courageous, and please do not allow municipal economic shut-downs in our state based on deeply flawed data and unwarranted media and community hysteria.
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Robyn Openshaw is a 16-time author; Park City, Utah resident; and owner of two companies.
Special thanks to Caroline Lowman and Dr. Jerry Bailey II in data gathering, fact checking, and editing.
References
- Roberts, Alyssa. “Summit County Orders Residents to Stay at Home until May 1.” KJZZ, KJZZ News, 25 Mar. 2020, kjzz.com/news/local/summit-county-orders-residents-to-stay-at-home.
- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sentences New Yorkers to Mass Unemployment
- Stracqualursi, Veronica. “Cuomo Orders All Nonessential New York Workers to Stay Home.” CNN, Cable News Network, 20 Mar. 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workforce-stay-home/index.html.
- California Gov. Newsom Sentences Californians To Mass Unemployment
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- Independent UK reports Indian Prime Minister Sentences 1.4 Billion to 21 Day House Arrest
- Withnall, Adam. “India to Go into Nationwide Lockdown.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 24 Mar. 2020, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-coronavirus-lockdown-modi-speech-cases-update-news-a9421491.html.
- Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warns of mass death, condemns ‘false hope,’ and tells us his city will be on lockdown for another 2 months — and to ‘be prepared for longer’
- Davis, Charles. “Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti Warns of Mass Death, Condemns ‘False Hope,’ and Tells Us His City Will Be on Lockdown for Another 2 Months – and to ‘Be Prepared for Longer’.” Business Insider, Business Insider, 25 Mar. 2020, www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-los-angeles-to-shelter-in-place-for-months-2020-3?fbclid=IwAR28DyMr-QixCziEYu-DOV8D24LsXnx9lpFVGmUrW9nE-5tmxLsbfx2noYI.
- Editorial Board. “Opinion | The Coronavirus Pandemic May Mark a Decline in U.S. Leadership.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 23 Mar. 2020, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-coronavirus-pandemic-may-mark-a-decline-in-us-leadership/2020/03/23/76d1fe8c-6d28-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html.
- Mar. 25 KSL Story Reporting 348
- Bennett, Lauren. “Summit County Issues Stay-at-Home Order amid COVID-19 Outbreak.” KSL.com, KSL News, 25 Mar. 2020, www.ksl.com/article/46734723/summit-county-issues-stay-at-home-order-amid-covid-19-outbreak.
- Summit County Closes Virtually All Businesses On The Same Day KSL Reports Only 348 Cases Statewide:
- Williams, Carter. “COVID-19 Cases Climb to 348 in Utah, but There’s a Slowdown in Percentage Growth.” KSL.com, KSL News, 25 Mar. 2020, www.ksl.com/article/46734584/covid-19-cases-climb-to-348-in-utah-but-theres-a-slowdown-in-percentage-growth.
- United Nations. “China Shows COVID-19 Coronavirus Can Be ‘Stopped in Its Tracks’ | UN News.” UN News, United Nations, 16 Mar. 2020, news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059502.
- Ellyatt, Holly. “Italy’s Death Toll Rises above 7,000 – but the Number of New Cases Declines for the 4th Day in a Row.” CNBC, CNBC, 26 Mar. 2020, www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/italys-new-coronavirus-cases-declines-for-4th-day-in-a-row.html.
- Not Yet Peer Reviewed Review of Wuhan COVID19 Outbreak Death Statistics
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2?fbclid=IwAR0wlqXD1b4-DXJ1w_FFolMPWUx4o3A_fBFpSfr5tqBTUbM80TJ9xqxtqXY.
- Wall Street Journal Explains Basic Pandemic Math — Don’t Count The Fatalities Until You Estimate The Infected Who Weren’t Tested!
- Bendavid, Eran, and Jay Bhattacharya. “Opinion | Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 24 Mar. 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464
- Not Yet Peer Reviewed Review of Wuhan COVID19 Outbreak Death Statistics
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2?fbclid=IwAR0wlqXD1b4-DXJ1w_FFolMPWUx4o3A_fBFpSfr5tqBTUbM80TJ9xqxtqXY.
- COVID19 is also not significantly more communicable than other infectious illnesses
- Mizumoto, Kenji, et al. “Early Epidemiological Assessment of the Transmission Potential and Virulence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan City: China, January-February, 2020.” MedRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1 Jan. 2020, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022434v2.
- 80% False Positive COVID19 Test Results for Test Subjects Living With COVID19 Patients
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- Neil Ferguson revised his estimate to less than one-tenth of the original estimate
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Oh dear! Summit county in Utah is getting hit hard. The rates are continuing to climb in your county and it appears that your small hospital can’t keep up. Thankfully, your community will be shut down for a while to try to limit the FAST spread of the contagious virus. Instead of writing a blog demanding that the little yoga shops and quaint shops in Park City remain open, how about doing your part and shelter at home? Check in with neighbors and any seniors to see how they’re faring. Seeing the high spread of cases in a rural county, like yours, makes your blog post even more exceptionally self-centered.
Robyn, I know you have shared your experience in this area of studying pandemics in the past in other webinars etc…, it would have been helpful to have added your qualifications to why people should listen to you at the beginning of your article…in reading the responses a few people think you dont know what you are talking about because you are "just the green smoothie girl"… if they knew your background, maybe they’d take your excellent information more seriously… it is unfortunate that they are not, and that they are trapped in the fear they are being brainwashed with…
Thanks for what you are doing.
I don’t think so…it’s called ‘ cognitive dissonance ‘…If you expect a scared brainwashed people to wake up when the entire mass-media is bombing them 24/7 with ; fake-news/fear-porn, you expect what Thomas Jefferson well said : " If you expect to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, you expect something what never was and never will be ".
Unsubscribing immediately. Red flags went up with your sauna sales pitch last month for me anyway.
Glad more people are speaking up to this BS. This is a panic/demic made up for what….
In China etc. they are using intravenous Vitamin C to successfully treat the complications, that hardly anyone gets, from this coronavirus 19.
That should be the headline !
But wait, treating the complications is TOO simple and TOO cheap.
Prevent and treat simply, look at:
https://www.orthomolecular.org/
Peer reviewed studies to back it up:
https://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/
Stay healthy
One thing that Robyn’s post (annotated with politically far-right, quack sources) has made abundantly clear: her priorities lie with monetary wealth, NOT with people’s health. As a business owner myself, I find it especially ironic, therefore, that by publicly stating her "truth" in an already deeply divided political environment, she has managed to alienate a sizable portion – perhaps even half – of her customer base.
Hello Robyn,
I have very much enjoyed being a part of your Green Smoothie Girl emails. I have learned a lot and you have introduced me to lots of other people like Chris Wark. I usually look forward to what you are sending out next. I have to be honest with you about this email regarding the shut down of businesses due to the Covid19 virus. I understand that this is a great hardship on a lot of people, but I feel it is necessary. I also am sorry that you had to bring this into the wonderful health forum. I need places to read about being healthy and help give me ideas to stay strong and positive through this. I need positive political free spaces! I have to really consider leaving and unsubscribing from you if this is what you are going to spread. Please reconsider and continue with all the great health information and leave the politics somewhere else.
Shame on you, Robyn! Do you not care at all about the traumas unfolding in the hospitals of Italy and NYC? In addition to old sickly people dying, otherwise healthy people of all ages with asthma are also being killed by this disease, and countless doctors and nurses without pre-existing health conditions are also dying after extended exposure to those sick with Covid-19. But even if it were only the elderly with compromised immune systems dying, that would still be reason enough to act to protect them.
The U.S. is not handling social distancing especially well, because too many Americans are not willing to put the common good of society ahead of their own personal wants, but it’s the best thing we can do in the absence of sufficient protective gear and/or sufficient tests to determine asymptomatic carriers, and/or an effective vaccine.
Economies and businesses can be brought back and built up again, but death is not something one can recover from. This is not fake news, and the deaths are real, regardless of what mortality rate is or isn’t extrapolated/interpolated.
Your cherry-picking of data and commentary is transparent and self-serving, and several of your conclusions are flawed. You complain about orders of magnitude errors made by others, but you cannot even correctly write two-tenths of one percent (0.2% not 0.02%), and you conflate the rate of increase of new cases with incidence of new cases and with incidence of cases overall.
Staying home and having my life and economic situation upended this way is not pleasant, but I am willing to do so in order that the health of others be preserved. I’m being compassionate and prudent about it, not panicked, but then I don’t pay attention to fear-mongering editorializers, and neither should you.
I am very disappointed to learn you authored such a selfish and irresponsible blog, very grateful that you are not my neighbor, and am unsubscribing immediately.
Hi Robyn,
I too was surprised by this post. I look forward to articles that support health and wellbeing. I am licensed in the healing profession. I am in an area of shutdown for the 3rd week coming up. I miss being able to meet the needs of my clients, but have made a personal decision to lower the curve. As an acupuncturist I am "allowed" to practice, but I am not treating life or death situations, so I am closed so that I do not spread this virus to my wonderful people. My husband is currently unemployed. We have NO income coming in right now. But I feel it is our duty as Americans to follow the guidelines that the federal and local government has asked us to comply with. I have a friend who is AT HOME with a collapsed lung awaiting results of her tests. It’s too risky for her to be in the hospital at this point. She is being monitored daily. THIS IS REAL. It may not be AS real in Utah, but it could be if we don’t stand down. Believe me when I say I do not agree with everything I am hearing, but I am respecting the voices of those who do this for a living and are experts in their fields. And for the first time is YEARS, I am seeing our lawmakers working together night and day to help us through this.
The wonderful cooperative effort being put forth from individuals and companies around the country is admirable. There are MANY heroes. Being a back seat driver, so to speak, to judge the difficult decisions that are being made is not helpful. You don’t have all the information to make that judgement. You can’t. It’s being filtered with agendas all over the place! Know for every article you see written one way, you’ll find another saying just the opposite.
So this is not a judgment against you personally. You are expressing yourself where you are right now. But I think now is the time to focus on what we can do to help those that are in need. This is a time for selflessness. For compassion. For working together. The economy will be what it’s going to be. People are the priority. Thank you for allowing me to express where I am right now.
No offense, but I think you are ‘ wrong ‘ ( assuming that ‘ they ‘ – those behind, and the presstitutes ‘ working ‘ for them, don’t know what’s really going on )…It’s an agenda, in it’s huge: not only deflating the financial bubble ( controlled demolition of their house of cards ), but that ‘ Pearl Harbor ‘ ( casus belli ) invoked by ‘ neocons ‘ right before Sept. 11, 2001. I think that ‘ they ‘ are ‘ not going to let this crisis to waste ‘…and what’s for us, ahead, is forced vaccination/RFIC, gun confiscation, a cashless society, ‘ social card ‘…An Orwellian nightmare, in the name of democracy, human rights, tolerance, security and peace ! I pray to be wrong, but…based on my experience under Communism and here ( for 25 years )…we are on ‘ our own ‘ ( God/Nature/Universe had ENOUGH with us )…
One more thing, Robyn…Based of what I have read here, there is no hope for this Country ( maybe the rest of the World ). Born in Eastern-Europe, with a bachelor degree in one of the Eastern-European capitals ( related to biology and chemistry ), I saw many in my life, there in here. Part of those ‘ revolted ‘ are trolls/shills, many are sheeple brainwashed by the system. They really believe that we have fair election and honest politicians…man, oh, man…where are you, George ( Carlin )…?! We have two daughters born in early ’90s, they are clueless of what’s going on ( but very proud of their diplomas )…Yeah, for most of your scared to death brainwashed ‘ audience ‘, we have to destroy the village, in order to save it ?! " A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves " – Edward R. Murrow
Remove me from your email list immediately,
Mrs/Ms Valoire Daigle, based on your ‘ reaction ‘, I can imagine how ‘ competent ‘ were you as a Health director 🙂 As a legally immigrant from Eastern-Europe ( with 5 years bachelor degree in related science to biology.chemistry and couple thousand books read in my life, in two languages ) to Us ( past 25 years ), I can assure you, madame, that in this Country we have NOT a health care, but a sick/death care. No offense, but I understand now WHY we are here: incompetent/ignorant people in most of the ‘ fields ‘, psychopaths/liars/criminals at all the ‘ leading levels ‘ of government, Wall-Street, MIC, etc. No wonder that this country is bankrupt financial AND moral/spiritual !
I think you really have no right and it’s people like you that should get in a boat go to China and live there if you are so opposed to how things are done in this country. You don’t get to say it’s ok who dies and that it’s ok because they were a certain age or have an underlying condition. You are a narcissistic selfish fool and please when you get sick stay home and don’t show up and endanger our doctors and nurses that are putting their lives and their families lives on the line. You should be ashamed of yourself.
TJ, reading your non-sense, I remember Ron White’s line: " YOU CAN"T FIX STUPID "
We are burying my mother on Wednesday. She was alive in NYC and was 77 She contracted the virus and within a week was dead..In her final 36 hours my father drove to three hospital in Queens where she was refused admittance. She was unable to breathe. They went home and she died the next morning in my elderly fathers arms. I do not care if people can not do yoga or have a beer or late or watch a movie or have dinner outside. My parents worked their whole lives and paid taxes to only be treated as less then human and denied medical assistance when a once in a lifetime man made pandemic is sweeping the world. Its our governments who should be creating assistance for small business when this is over and in interim Not starving and bankrupting small business. ALL HUMAN LIVES ARE EQUAL and that includes old, immune compromised, young…Your viewpoint is WRONG and shame on you looking at the money..That is a toxic perception.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes. I am so, so, so sorry for the loss of your precious, irreplaceable Mother!!
May you be comforted as you bear this additional, heavy burden and grieve her parting at this tragic time in the worlds history.
I believe she is in a place of light and love and will be your angel.
There appears to be a problem with the "Health" Care in Queens who denied your elderly mother admittance. Who is treating the "old, immune compromised" as less than human?
Maybe there should be a CHANGE in the care that the 3 hospitals that denied an old, immune compromised woman who was unable to breathe, admittance.
I am not sure how you arrived at the conclusion that Robyn’s editorial somehow was advocating denial of treatment for your mother.
PJ,
That isn’t what Sophia said. She didn’t say that Robyn was advocating for the denial of treatment for her mother. Read it again. If that’s your conclusion after a second read, then bless your heart.
Yeah, Sophia, suuure…I believe you…I’m toooo old ( and young enough ) to smell a a rat from a mile. What the average brainwashed American sheeple ( opposite to the Eastern-European one, under Communism ) is that she is a ‘ victim ‘ of specials psyops like ‘ MKUltra ‘, ‘ Monarch ‘, or ‘ Mockingbird ‘…Based on your ‘ professional ‘ posting, I assume that the Establishment enrolled not only an army of ‘ crisis actors ‘, but ‘ crisis trolls/shills ‘…One question: nobody in this days is dying of regular flu/influenza/pneumonia and other respiratory disease ?! How come ?!
Sophia,
I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope that the procedures for screening and treatment have improved in your area.
There is way too much evidence that this whole pandemic thing was a hoax that has done more damage than the virus itself could ever have done.
My question is this: How do we tell the people (government, media, etc.) who are doing this to take a hike and get back to our normal lives?
The government and media IS in this PLANdemic and pLanic, don’t you get it ?! I understand that is much easy for me and others born under totalitarian regimes to see this ( deja-vu ), but come on, how long it takes to you to wake up ?! Watch George Carlin’s ‘ The American dream ‘ and ‘ The real owners of America ‘ and you gonna get it 🙂
I am very disappointed in this. I am shocked that you would prioritize business over peoples lives. I had assumed that you really cared about people’s health but apparently that was a bad assumption. There is far too much evidence that this is a real crisis for you to ignore it. All lives matter! Let’s save the people and the businesses will recover. I own my own business too and have shut it down for now.
Well, Jacque, if you are not a ( paid ) troll or a useful id…t, and you have a business ( and what kind of business you have ), as an ‘ outsider ‘ I can tell you that you can kiss your as…I mean business good bye ! How do I know ?! Because I took the ‘ pill ‘ long time ago ( back there, in Eastern-Europe ) and after I learned English, I understood that " The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. " – George Carlin
I wish to add some light:
Without a vaccine yet available, the best ways to bolster your immune system and AVOID infection would be:
1. Replenish all your deficient nutrients that support your immune system and cellular function: Vitamins C & D, a Methylated active B complex, zinc, selenium
2. Get Ultra violet light/ sun exposure.
3. Sit in an Infrared sauna.(Kills many pathogens so your immune system can fight other battles)
4. Bio-identical hormone supplementation at physiological levels to bring your thyroid, adrenal, testosterone (amazing for cardiovascular, LUNG, and circulation function for BOTH men and women) estrogen and progesterone levels – Need to bring them up to the top 1/3 of normal levels shared by healthy robust 30 year olds. (Amazing for anti-aging as well)
5. Fix your gut biome: a.). take plant sterols, b.) take digestive enzymes with all cooked meals, c.) take probiotics to help keep out bad bacteria, fungus, mold and allow your white blood cells to fight off virus pathogens so your body is not over run with candida, yeast, mold, fungus, bacteria, etc. e.) eat some raw food with live enzymes every day – like Robyn’s green smoothies. f.) Alkalize your body with greens, vegetables, fruit (1 green smoothie a day) reduce and/or stop intake of all added sugar, processed franken-foods, fast Franken-foods, all fried foods, toxic oils ( all of them except extra virgin olive oil) and move toward a paleo/vegan diet.
6.) learn to lower your stress and cortisol levels – stress kills your immune system. Do this with a simple DAILY breathing/meditation/Energy practice. Inhale Compassion + sunlight into your heart/lungs/chest and receive Divine compassion. Then exhale gratitude, anger, hatred and resentment. Start out slow and “grow your heart space” with daily practice until you can do this daily for 20-30 minutes or more. This is a 4500 year old time-tested practice that will change your energy to positive/neutral and equanimity. You must feed your heart daily, just as you must feed your stomach and body daily. What you practice, you become – so if you practice receiving compassion, you will fill up your own inner tank to overflowing and have abundance to share from within. Focus on your exhale as that activates your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digestion and immune function) whereas your inhale activated your sympathetic nervous system – fight/flight.
7.) stay connected with others. We are stronger together than isolated. Use FaceTime and video chat if you are stuck indoors.
8.) Give to others out of abundance, but remember to fill your heart each day first
9.) Look for things to create the feeling of gratitude Emotions are the “language“ of the body and will influence your thoughts. 10 % of your neurons are in your gut and your heart muscle – and directly influence your thoughts.
I agree with you, John S., EXCEPT your hope in that vaccine. ONLY an uninformed/brainwashed sheeple take a flu shot, or a Corona shot ( well, if it’s the beer, I’m in ). It takes couple hours to find what is in vaccines and understand the risk…but ‘ Americans don’t read ‘ ( like Alan Dulles said about the ‘ magic bullet ‘, after JFK’s assassination ). If ‘ knowledge is power ‘, " ignorance could be lethal "…
How throughly irresponsible of you! It might have been possible not to have a shut down if Trump and his administration had adequate testing available from the outset of this pandemic (which he says he knew was a pandemic before anyone called it that) then our country may have been able to track the virus and quarantine only those who were infected. But Trump chose to ignore scientists and chose to politicize and diminish the significance of the virus. So here we are in a health care crisis and an economic mess.
You could at least wait until numbers were coming down to put this ridiculous article online! One good thing for me though – you just saved me several thousand dollars on an infrared spa. Sounded good at first, but now I don’t trust your research or your judgment.
Gena…another leftist sheeple…What do you mean, that when Trump start his mandate, this Country was in a pristine condition ?! I’m an independent and I know that the President and the politicians were put there for you sheeple to believe that you have choices. You don’t. You have owners ( like George Carlin said ). Wasn’t Trump under non-stop prestitutess/fake news attack, with that Russian ‘ interference ‘ BS ?! What did your Nobel Prize for ‘ peace ‘ winner, Barak Obama ( if this is his real name ) did for us, beside bombing countries and killing people with drones ?! Unless you wake up, you deserve the slaughter house awaiting for you…
Your comment resonates at a high frequency and sits in tune with my beliefs. Thank you. I hope you didn’t buy that expensive ionizer she touts, either! The filter and citric acid cleaner cartridges costs are insane and unsustainable. Horribly run company imo.