I have no answers. I don’t even have good sources to send you to in order to get reliable answers. I just have a lot of questions like you do. 

It doesn’t appear the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or governors have any answers either. They keep changing course, and the media is no help because it seems there are pros and cons and differing views on every topic, whether it has to do with wearing masks, how the virus spreads, or anything else. 

Hypocrite governors try to force us to wear masks and do social distancing—then a video comes out showing them neither wearing a mask nor social distancing. We’re supposed to trust these “leaders”? 

The politicians harp about data and science but when data and science come in to show that things are going well, like in Michigan, the governor totally ignores the data and locks down Michigan again—until June 12th. Why not December 12th, governor? 

The media is absolutely no help during this pandemic because they frame their information in an anti-Trump manner. They disgustingly put their politics ahead of our health and safety because they will do anything to get rid of Trump. Anything!

The media doesn’t want anyone to believe the information coming from the president or the people he works with. We are supposed to turn to CNN and the self-important celebrities to get our health news. So we’ve been in this coronavirus limbo for almost three months now, although anecdotal evidence suggests that the virus has been in the United States since December. 

We don’t know much more now than we did in March because of fake news, horrible modeling, lies, partisanship and a lack of believable data and experimentation. 

Here’s what we should know by now but we don’t… 

  • Do masks really work? And who do they protect: the wearer or the person we are standing in front of? 
  • Is the coronavirus being spread through ventilation systems? And why isn’t anyone talking about this or testing for it? 
  • Are pets getting the same virus as humans or is it different? Can pets spread it between other pets or to humans? Can humans spread the virus to pets? 
  • Can we get infected more than once? Will we have the virus in our system forever? 
  • Are there long-term permanent health affects from getting the virus? 
  • Why aren’t there real-time published results about which COVID-19 drugs/therapies are producing the best results in patients so that doctors can make informed decisions? 
  • Does social distancing really work? 
  • How easily is the virus spread from touching objects? 

It looks to me like it’s up to individuals and the private sector to figure out what’s going on and get us out of this mess, because the government knows little to nothing after three months…and the media is constantly lying. 

As conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh once said, “Self-reliance—that’s a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don’t do anything with anybody. They don’t want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one’s life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.” That is how we prevail. 

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This piece was written by Liberty Paige on May 26, 2020. It originally appeared in SteveGruber.com and is used by permission.

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