For starters, I’m not a virus denier, but rather a type 1 diabetic who’s just as apprehensive as anyone concerning COVID 19. But I’m also a common sense numbers guy, re-assured by a very capable and notable physician who tells me nearly all who are infected will recover, and that therapeutics coming on line as you read this are driving the actual mortality rate from the virus into the basement.

Nevertheless, I’m compelled to write today because this “pandemic” is also being exploited by politicians and so-called “experts” across the country and around the world, and it’s having an extremely negative impact in ways folks may not be focused on.

Now we can talk all day about how lockdowns were a mistake from the get-go and have caused billions if not trillions of dollars in unnecessary economic damage, some of which will be irrecoverable for those affected. And we can argue about the manipulation of those same lockdowns under the false flags of flawed models and rising COVID numbers, for which detailed information is often impossible to drag out of the loathsome daily briefing. Like here in my home state of Rhode Island, where Governor Gina Raimondo and her administration play fast and loose with what “facts” they choose to release. For instance, they won’t tell you that more than 75% of 1188 “COVID” deaths to date in the Ocean State have been in nursing homes and congregate care facilities, leaving just 275 deaths statewide over the last nine months attributed to the virus. Now while every single life matters, and a family is affected to be sure, how many have passed from other illnesses or issues in that same time period, say from heart failure or cancer? For some context via the last available data year of 2017, there were 320 drug overdoses, over 2300 heart related deaths and 203 flu related deaths. You do the math. Moreover, why does the state rarely report the initial health of those who supposedly contracted and then died from the virus, and only occasionally give their ages and/or living status when pressed? Better yet, how many of the unborn have died by way of abortion in the state since March?

And so now our condescending, potential Biden appointee (God help us), very wealthy and thankfully term-limited Governor is considering rolling back re-opening the state just ahead of what is likely the most pivotal Presidential Election in American history. To be clear, this is not just bad governance my friends, but more a calculated, cruel and vindictive scare tactic to keep voters away from the polls, and which will likely destroy what’s left of our states already crippled economy. But I digress.

To my earlier point, there’s an almost hidden symptom beginning to show itself during these truly unprecedented times. My wife told me of a conversation she had with a friend recently concerning her middle son of around 11 years old. The friend explained that her boy was sent home from school as he had symptoms (the sniffles), which under the school’s “guidelines” required he be tested for COVID. On their way out to the testing facility, the boy began to cry. Naturally, his mother reassured him with the truth, that being he was so young and in excellent health, he would certainly fully recover, even if he did test positive. Now the boy began to cry even harder to the point of sobbing. The friend told my wife that when she was finally able to calm him enough so he could speak, he told her that he was scared to infect his parents or anyone else, and that he didn’t want to kill anyone. Dear God, where would this young boy get such a foolish notion? And what kind idiot would suggest something like that to an 11-year-old? I submit to you today, this governor, her administration, and crackpot teachers and their union handlers are scaring our children right out of their minds! Of all that is wrong with this COVID chaos, in RI and across the nation, this type of reckless and irresponsible fear mongering is taking its toll on our posterity, and it will affect them for the rest for their lives. (By the way, the boy tested negative for COVID 19). He had a damn cold.

So, I suppose my message to my governor, and governors across this country who seem bent on disseminating only fear, and the politics of mask wearing as their answers to the Coronavirus is, “We the People” are wise to your intent.

Now there may be nothing we can do to cure you of your ignorance or Trump Derangement Syndrome,(TDS), but for God’s sake, consider the consequences of your politics. You are hurting our children! Stick to the facts, ALL of them, and “Knock it off”!