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Unmasking the Covid-19 Hysteria in West Virginia and the United States.
COVID-19 is what I would call the first political disease. Decisions are not being made based on sound scientific principles, but rather on a mix of ignorance, political agendas and corporate greed and conflicts of interest.
In West Virginia, there have supposedly been 5480 cases and 102 deaths as of July 23rd, 2020. I say supposedly, because Covid-19 may be listed as the cause of death when, likely, there were two or more other serious underlying conditions. In the case of seasonal flu, that is not considered a reportable disease. But Covid-19 was made a reportable disease. In fact, Covid-19 had to be listed on the death certificate, even when it may not have been the actual cause of death.
Right now, according to the official West Virginia Department of Health website 78 people are hospitalized and 33 are in the ICU. Underlying conditions are not listed. Age is not listed.
The daily deaths in West Virginia are between 0 and 1 person. 78 people are hospitalized for COVID-19 (or with COVID-19, and other confounding illnesses?) and 33 are in the Intensive Care Unit.
Is this a state of emergency? First of all, we don’t know the age or other illnesses that those affected have. Secondly, let’s compare this to deaths from influenza and pneumonia, which are usually grouped together, in West Virginia. That number is about 450 deaths per year. If the death rate continued at about one person every two days, then some 200 people would (supposedly) die from COVID-19, although in the great majority of cases, well over 90 %, there is some other illness present as well.
So why all the hype. Why mask mandates which have no precedence, and no studies to show they are effective. Why social distancing, with no studies either to show effectiveness. These are political moves to make people fearful. And who would want to make people fearful. Could it be pharmaceutical companies, who will make billions if a vaccine, which is likely to do more harm than good, is released. Could it be politicians, both on the right and left, who don’t want to see the United States be prosperous under the leadership of President Trump? Could they have an agenda of not wanting President Trump to be reelected?
And why aren’t the media outlets focusing on the real suffering of many who have lost their businesses and are struggling to make ends meet. Could it be that they don’t want people to think about these things, but only about how it is necessary to follow the (random) dictates of governors or others who wish to exceed their authority?
What about going back to school. Data shows that COVID-19 has an almost zero fatality rate among children, and that children are not a significant vector for transmitting the SARS-CO-V2 virus to adults. So, again, is the refusal of teachers unions to go back to work based on what is best for society, or on another agenda? In fact, when children are infected, with no symptoms, they can develop immunity, which will help the whole society move toward herd immunity. So a greater number of cases is not bad. Respiratory viruses move through the community, and people develop immunity. Especially for those under 65 years of age, this virus is less lethal than influenza. So, again, a larger number of cases is part of the inevitable progression of the disease.
And since studies show that healthy asymptomatic people are not a primary transmission source of SARS CO-V2, why the mask mandates? Is it in the best interests of society, and respecting of personal rights and freedoms, or is there another agenda.
What about (un)social distancing. Why is six feet the magic number? Why not 3 ft. or 8 ft? What studies have shown that mask and (un)social distancing mandates are an effective strategy for preventing the spread of SARS-COv2? Answer: None. Masking and (un)social distancing are based on hypotheses and political agendas, not facts.
And why aren’t there studies being done emphasizing the huge damage to health of delayed treatment for cancer, or diabetes, or a host of other illnesses. How about depression, suicide and lost years of life?
Finally, the “protests” and riots following Memorial Day weekend lay to rest any thought that the COVID-19 “crisis” is not a political disease. Suddenly, lock downs in places like Washington DC and Chicago were shattered with nary an arrest of the marauding “protesters” for violating mask and/or social distancing mandates. Yet, before that, the mayors of these cities and many other jurisdictions had threatened that anyone who went out without a mask could face fines and arrests. Yet that was not enforced among protesters. In fact, Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington DC rebuffed and kicked out the National Guard, but was more than happy to let looters run rampant without being arrested.
Yes, COVID-19 is a political disease. Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia who has promoted a false narrative that has caused the loss of God-given personal freedoms while parroting the false narrative of an “emergency” needs to be removed from office in November. President Trump seems to be awakening more in recent days to this false narrative and the bad advice given by Anthony Fauci. I hope that he continues to awaken to the real nature of this political disease.
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Why are we only hearing about George Floyd and not those black lives killed during the looting and shooting. Are these protests godly, Is the Black Lives Matter movement honest, and do they promote fear and hatred?
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Tom Hansen Article
Welcome to this June 2 edition of the Richard Urban Show. We present news and views from God’s point of view. We’re very happy to have Tom Hansen on. He’s running as a Republican for sheriff here in Jefferson County. So please introduce yourself.
“I’m Tom Hansen. I am a Republican candidate for nominee for sheriff of Jefferson County, I’m the only candidate running for sheriff with 20 years of law enforcement experience, specifically in Jefferson County, specifically with the Jefferson County sheriff’s office,” Hansen said.
Richard: So what are the three main things you would like to accomplish? What made you decide to run for sheriff? What are you looking to bring to the department? You mentioned your experience but what would be your other plans?
“Well sir, one of the things I noticed is the moral of the department has gone down very badly. I want to re-instill this morale. I also want to re-instill the faith in the sheriff’s office for the citizens. I talked to some yesterday, they say, ‘we never see the police’. And I want to change that. I want them to be seen. I want them be heard and I want them be noticed and I want them to know that the sheriff’s office in Jefferson County, the largest police agency in the county, is there to protect them,” Hansen responded.
“I also want to try to get more manpower for the department, administrative and sworn. When I came on the department in 1995, I was unit 50, the sheriff was unit 40, they were nine other deputies because unit 40 wasn’t there that were on the streets and when I went to work on midnight shift, sometimes at 2 o’clock in the morning I was the only police around in the county. So I know what it’s like to be short of manpower, so I want to try to increase that and make sure that changes,” Hansen added.
“I want to make sure that the communications with the sheriff’s office is open to the public, that people can come talk to me and know that they can really share with us as and we’ll be responsive to their needs, their requirements or their wants,” Hansen said.
Richard: You mentioned having more presence of the department. Well, how do you see that? Do you feel there needs to be a lot more staffing or budget or I guess those kind of changes? Would it depend a lot on getting the budget or can you work with the budget that’s ready there? Do you want to comment on that?
“Right now because of the corona virus or pandemic, whatever you wanna call it, and I’m quite sure it’s going to be a shortage of fiscal availability because the county hasn’t gotten any casino money in 70 plus 80 days now, and they haven’t got it. They’re just now starting to get hotel occupancy taxes again, so it’s going to be tough for a while, but I’m quite sure that there are other ways obtain money,” Hansen said.
Richard: How much more staff do you think is needed?
AUDIO”The department of Justice says, there should be one man minimum for every 1500 residents. The Census Bureau says we have right now about 59,000 people. I think it’s a little over-60 because we do have transient population. People who work at the race track in the barns area. People at the University. They’re not residents here, but they live here, and so I’m quite sure it’s over 60,000 people in the county so that means we should have 45 deputies. Right now we have approximately 35. So at least another 10,” Hansen said.
Richard: Okay, do you know what percentage of the budget goes toward the tax department? -because that’s a major function of the sheriff’s office. Right? Collect property taxes.
“Yes sir. The budget itself, I can’t say exactly how much does go there. I used to be able to answer because I used to help write their budget. But the major amount of the county’s budget from the sheriff’s office goes to the law enforcement side. But the chief deputy [unclear audio] will have a great working relationship with that I’ve known for years, is able to keep everything on track, is able to keep everything on track. As far as exactly how much they get now I couldn’t tell you. I’ve been retired for five years. But, believe me The tax office is a very important part of the sheriff’s office and myself and the chief tax deputy will be working at hand-in-hand to make sure everything’s working fine there,” Hansen responded. H.
Richard: I know you mentioned you’re a strong supporter of second amendment rights. if there are so-called “Red Flag” laws, which I know we don’t anticipate here in West Virginia, or that kind of thing, but it’s come up obviously in Virginia, would you enforce those kind of edicts, or not enforce them if they’re not like constitutional?
“Well, let me explain something to you. Mr. Urban, I’m also retired military between my military career and my law enforcement career, I have taken my oath to uphold the Constitution probably about 15 times. The constitution is very important to me and anything that’s unconstitutional, or close to being unconstitutional, I would not have my men enforce. If there’s adjudication, if the individual has been deemed a threat and has been adjudicated in front of a court, not just a hearing in front of a judge that somebody swears he’s violent or whatever, we’ll enforce that. If it’s been adjudicated in front of the courts. ” Hansen said.
“To give you an example, a law enforcement officer was involved in an incident, and had to take deadly force on a subject. The mother went into court and lied, saying she was a member of his family, and felt as though he was a threat because he had guns and it wasn’t only because the sheriff of that county went, I know this man and this is wrong, and I don’t know who this person is, but the judge had already signed the paperwork. That’s unconstitutional to take his second amendment rights away for things like that,” Hansen added.
Richard: To change the topic a little bit related with the current COVID-19 situation, with many different executive orders from the governor and some of them we see come down to our county. I’ve noticed like even kind of crazy stuff, like I noticed the park’s closed and there’s no park benches, in Moulten Park. What I’m trying to say is, so those kind of orders, like theoretically, I suppose like I went to Molten Park on Memorial Day and there were many people there. I suppose, if the officers want to take it to extreme, they could arrest someone, you know. ‘Hey, why are you in the park? It’s closed’. What about orders like that, would you enforce those kind of things?
“Can I make observation? It’s the same thing with the mail in ballot. Okay, we can go to Walmart, we can go to Costco in Frederick or Winchester, or we can go to Sam’s Club in Hagerstown or Frederick. We can go to any story on the area with a mask on, but we can’t go to a park, we can’t go to the courts and have a ballot. Because they felt as though they’re afraid. But he’ll go to Walmart, right? Ridiculous”, Hansen said.
Richard: So I think you mentioned on your website, of course you’re concerned as well about the opioid situation – the whole situation. Do you have any specific ideas about that, like what you could do maybe that’s different or that’s not being done or in general?
“Jefferson County is not an island. We’re not an oasis. We are surrounded. And most of our opioids come from Maryland, Baltimore to be specific. What I want to do is I want to point and sit down with the sheriffs of Loudon and Clark in Washington and Frederick and Berkeley County, either all together or, separately, trying to get a meeting with all of them and set up in the liaison system, where if, say, Loudon County sheriff’s office is doing a checkpoint on the county state line on 340, then we’ll do one up on Route 9, coming into Route 9, so that we try to work with and also do the same thing.” Hansen said.
Richard: Training, I think, you mentioned about training a little earlier. So with the training officers, we see a lot of stuff happening around the country now with the unrest and rioting stuff and it seems like that officer in Minneapolis was known for not being a very good officer, the one who’s accused of murdering like George Floyd. My question simply is, training, do you have any comment about training – the importance. Do you have any comment on it?
“First of all, let me explain. So, unfortunately when we hire police we have to hire from the human race, Hiring police officers take sometimes up to two years. There is a written test, there’s a physical agility test, there is a polygraph test and there’s psychology valuation, the psychological test is a psychological interview. There’s a background investigation. There’s a medical evaluation. There’s academy training, and then there’s six months of field training officer training where they’re riding around with a seasoned officer. And during those times, we do our best to try to weed out bad ones. Something that pops up, ‘this isn’t good’, and let’s stop him right here. But sometimes they slip through the cracks.
Richard: So we are coming towards the close here, I know you’re running against Steve Harris on the Republican ticket. So why would the voters choose you versus Mr. Harris? How would you really differentiate yourself?
“Well, I know the Jefferson County sheriff’s office, I know the citizens of Jefferson County. I’ve been here for 25 years and I’ve been associated in law enforcement for 20 of those years, here in Jefferson County. And there are a lot of people here that know me. I was the school resource officer Jefferson high school from 99 to 2000…. And so I’m known in the county, but I know the workings of all the departments in the sheriff’s office. The animal control, the tax office and the sheriff’s Law Enforcement Division. I know them, I know how it works and I know West Virginia law. I know about chapter seven, which is the hiring, firing and disciplining of a deputy and I know how it works. And no one is better fitted for the sheriff’s office than me. So that’s pretty much what I want to say,” Hansen said.
Richard: Any other closing thoughts?
“Well, I’d like to say this. I have been endorsed by Patrick Morrisey. My campaign is endorsed by Patrick Morrisey, the chief law enforcement officer of this state. If that doesn’t tell you who’s the best candidate nothing does. And I’ve also been endorsed by the Tea Party and We the People of West Virginia. And that tells you that I’m conservative. So I think those two points, right there would tell you that I’m the best candidate,” Hansen concluded.