Can we trust hospitals in the age of Covid 19?

By Floyd Bayne

As I often do I was lying in bed last night, trying to get to sleep, and all sorts of thoughts were running through my mind. One of them was something that I have thought long and hard about in recent weeks.

 
I have been to hospitals in the past. Sports injuries, a kidney stone, needed an x-ray,you know the drill. I have never before found myself in a position where I would not go, because I would not trust the hospital staff to care for me objectively. Well, I do now. Susan and I have talked about this. She has made it clear that if she were to go that she wants me to make it clear to the hospital that she will not accept being on a ventilator. I feel that way, as well. But I have even stronger feelings about this.

 
If I were to become ill now, ill enough to feel the need to go to a hospital, even if I do not suspect Covid-19, I would not go. I would stay home and do the best I can and take my chances. I simply do not trust any hospital right now. You see, the government, with your tax dollars, has INCENTIVIZED them to be less than objective or truthful in their diagnoses and treatments. $13K for each patient listed as a "Covid-19" patient, another $39K if you're put on a ventilator. You should remember that hospitals are BUSINESSES. They have overhead and salaries to pay, just like any other business, so yes, there are hospital administrators and doctors who will take advantage of that situation, with our lives.

They will allow no one in with you, so you have no one to advocate for you or your treatment. If you get "unruly" and make too many demands they can "sedate" you to keep you quiet. And if you die, well, they will say, "We did our best, but things just didn't work out." But they will still get their money. We are seeing it right now. We all have seen the data by now, if you haven't then shame on you. People are being listed as Covid-10 patients when no one is really sure, but who is going to argue with them? Who is going to say they are wrong?

 
This whole situation has become so insidious, it is like being in a Stephen King movie. You think you are living in the real world, a place where you can trust doctors and hospitals, but when no one is looking they behave in an entirely inhuman manner. No, Sir/Ma'am, this guy will not being going to a hospital any time soon. Think I am overreacting?

 
Change my mind.

Do They Even Understand Economics?

I know, I know, we should be more civil. We should be nice to one another. Well, I tried that for many years. I tried having civil discourse, using reason and logic, trying to reach a consensus, but it just doesn't work when you are dealing with stupid people. When they have nothing to offer, when they can't debate on the merits or facts, they just call you names and try to shout you down. My patience with that bullshit ran out a long time ago.

There is no excuse for the stupidity I see out there. I used to accept that people can be ignorant of something, because they just haven't learned it yet, but times have changed. We live in an information age, where anything you want to know is at your fingertips. A few clicks on a computer and education is right there on the screen and through your speakers. Ahh, but why learn something that will disturb, maybe even destroy your worldview? You believe something to be true, you do not want to have that belief proven wrong, so you choose not to learn anything that might refute it. This is the case with liberals and economics today.

Listen, I am going to break this down for you and try to make it as simple as possible. Once again we see idiots like Schumer catering to his base, by promising to "stick it" to the big corporations. he wants to "punish" them for making too much money and not paying enough taxes. I have even seen liberals who have or have had their own business buy into this insanity and they should know better.
OK, here goes; The ABC Company makes widgets. They sell so many widgets in a year that they make a very good profit. They pay the prescribed current tax rate on their income. Ah, but some politicians and the useful idiots who support them don't think the company pays enough, so the politicians dutifully seek to increase the tax rate on companies like The ABC Company. Let us say that this time the liberals get their way and the corporation has to pay a higher tax. Great, say the liberals, that will show them. But, the ABC Company did not get to be where they are by being poor businessmen...or stupid. They know that they can still sell widgets because lots of people and other businesses need widgets. What to do?

Cut back on production? That may ultimately have to be done if sales drop. Lower the price on widgets? No, that is not going to bring more money into the company's coffers. What else could they possibly do? I know - RAISE PRICES! Of course! There are still people who need the widgets and they will buy them. There will be others who will not be able to afford them and they won't buy them. By not buying them their own business, which needs the widgets, will suffer. People will have to be let go, the business may even go under. Those individuals who buy widgets may or may not continue to buy them, but if they do they will pay a higher price so that The ABC Company protects its own profits and business model.

In the end who is actually suffering because of the liberal desire to "punish" the mean old corporation? That's right, boys and girls, you and I, the consumer, suffers. We suffer by paying higher prices and we suffer when businesses that can no longer afford the cost of the widgets have to close, thus putting people out of work. Ah, but that is the insidious plan, isn't it? If they no longer have a job they will seek help from the government and the government, especially liberals, wants that dependence. If you depend on the government to take care of you then you are more likely to vote for liberals, right?

This is economics broken down to its most basic parts. It is so simple that even middle and high school students can understand it when it is presented to them. Thus, we are to draw only two possible conclusions from this continued willful ignorance by liberal adults; 1) They really are that stupid and not capable of grasping the concept of economics or 2) They know exactly what they are doing and it serves their agenda.

Which do you think it is?

Government: Worship What You Hate?

By Floyd Bayne

It's embarrassing that I have to explain this.

When you complain about the government taking more of your money, complain about the government taking away more of your rights, complain about the government growing larger and taking over more of your life, when you go to Washington, D.C. or your state capital and stand with thousands of others to complain about something the government has done or hasn't done, when you demand that your government stop getting us into endless wars for no reason, other than to benefit an elite few, when you complain about and go to meetings and shout at your government representatives for not doing something they told you they would do, when you go to a school board meeting and demand that they stop kow-towing to the Department of Education in Washington, D.C. by shouting at them and threatening them, when you complain about and go to protests against the government, because it threatens to take away your 2nd Amendment rights, when you demand that your government afford you the right to pray in a public place OR NOT to pray in a public place, when you do any number of things to show your displeasure with the government because it is stepping outside the bounds placed upon it by our Constitution YOU ARE PROTESTING.

Yet this is the same government, that you don't trust, the same government that you want out of your life, the same government that makes the laws that you scream about as unconstitutional and that should be repealed, the same laws that are enforced by the police departments that work for the government that seeks to restrict your liberty.

AND YET, YOU THEN DEMAND FEALTY, BLIND OBEDIENCE, AND UNQUESTIONING LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO THAT SAME GOVERNMENT AND ITS SYMBOLS AND ICONS?!

But rather than actually listen to yourself and hear and think about what you are demanding, you get angry with anyone who questions that government and its actions by expressing dissent? Think about that the next time you want to march on Washington, D.C. or Richmond, VA for some slight at the hands of the government.

Maybe I'm missing something here. Perhaps one of you can bring me up to speed.

The Founders Rebelled with Arms for far Less Grievances than we face, so should we follow their lead or not?

Floyd Bayne | January 5, 2016

  

So, a group of Americans, calling themselves patriots, have armed themselves and have taken over a U.S. government building somewhere in Oregon.

   

Just a brief aside, does anyone else find it ironic that this is happening in one of the most left-leaning states in the country?

   

Anyway, there are those who are lamenting this as a poor decision and telling anyone who will listen how this is no way to make a point or achieve one's goals. You've seen/heard them. What I find fascinating is that this is yet another example of the inability to remain intellectually consistent and think things through.

    

These same people tell stories of how our Founders rebelled against a tyrannical government to create the very nation that they so proudly claim is the land of the free. They speak proudly of how the Founders had sought redress on numerous occasions in numerous ways and were rebuffed, so they resorted to the only means left to them.Those Founders they are so fond of, whose praises they sing to the masses, rebelled because of.............taxes (and other abuses of power). Taxes that were levied without proper representation of the citizens who were being taxed. Abuses that showed a lack of respect for human rights by a tyrant. Think it through.

    

Now we find ourselves in 2016 and we are oh so much smarter than our predecessors. We don't need to resort to such brutish measures to effect change, we simply need to talk, use the system, seek redress, vote for better candidates, blah, blah, blah. Overlooking the decades of abuse heaped upon us by federal, state, and local government, the continued efforts to strip us of ever more rights and liberties, the ignoring of our efforts to seek redress through "civilized" means, the ridiculously high taxes that pay for myriad items not enumerated in the Constitution, the ignoring of that same Constitution by all levels of government, the police state, the never-ending wars, the abuses of the Bill of Rights, and on and on and on......

     

I ask you, How much is too much? How do we know when the "time is right?" At what point do we take the same stand that our Founders did and send an unmistakable message to tyrants of every stripe? When will we live up to the standard set by our Founding Fathers?

     

A Rebel is Someone Who Says No

Maybe I think things through too much. I know that when we see memes like this that we are supposed to simply get a visceral, immediate reaction (anger, laugh, cry, etc.) and leave it at that, but I tend to look deeper and see other messages that are in there. Is it just me?

I want you to look at this picture. Remember when this happened? I do. I remember the coverage it got on ALL the news channels and newspapers and magazines, etc. I remember how proud we, as Americans, were of those Chinese who knowingly took their lives into their own hands by daring to stand up to the communist government of China. The cheering, the "atta boys," the hope we had for their success. All this they did in an effort to achieve the kind of freedom/liberty that we used to have here in the United States. These men and women were "breaking the law." The government told them how they were to behave, but the people wished to send a message and therefore they had to "break the law" to hopefully move their government in the direction of freedom. Remember?

Now then, compare the American attitude toward the Chinese people at that time to the attitude of far too many of the American people today toward their fellow Americans. If you "break" unjust laws you are a criminal deserving of a beat-down and prison. If you question the need for tanks for police departments or question the need for heavily armed SWAT teams to raid a farm selling unpasteurized milk you are labeled a cop-hater. If you challenge any of the government's "explanations" for recent and not too far past events you are called a crazy conspiracy nut. If you demand that your country stop getting involved in other nations affairs or starting new wars you are labeled unpatriotic and told to "get the hell out of this country." You've seen it, you've heard it.

I long for the day when ALL my fellow Americans understand what true freedom/liberty is and work toward that goal with the same zeal and passion that they showed for the Chinese people at Tienanmen Square. I hope for the day when skepticism and asking questions and not swallowing the government's "stories" whole are considered part and parcel of what being a good American is supposed to be. Hey, a guy can dream can't he?

What would that look like?

What I mean by "freedom/liberty" includes, but is not limited to:

Individual liberty/rights - Each person, regardless of who they are or what they look like or how they worship, is entitled to the same rights as any other human. No group/collective rights, but INDIVIDUAL rights, as the individual is sovereign.

I would like to see us return to a time when the police were not a source of revenue, but actually protected and served.

I would like to see kids once again be able to set up a lemonade stand without a government permit and without fearing arrest.

I would like to see people be able to put whatever they want in their bodies, as long as they harm no others, without fear of being caged like an animal.

I would like for farmers to be able to sell and people to be able to buy unpasteurized milk without worrying about a fully armed SWAT team raiding the farm and destroying property.

I would like to see the U.S. government adhere to the Constitution, as our Founders envisioned and wrote it and mind its own damn business. Stop meddling in other nation's affairs and looking for reasons to get us involved in never-ending wars.

I realize that much of what was supposed to happen, because of our Constitution, has been ignored from very early on, but that is not because the Constitution is faulty, it is because the men who run for office and serve seek power and influence that is not theirs to take. And this is due to the fact that far too many Americans keep voting for such men/women, because they hope to "get something out of it." I wish to see an American public that understands that with individual liberty comes individual responsibility.

Some of these things I hope for we once enjoyed, while others, if they happened at all, did so early on in the growth of our nation, until people learned how to "game the system." I want John Doe to be able to do whatever makes John happy, as long as he harms no one and violates no one else's rights in doing so.

I want people to be able to feed the hungry without having to get permission from the government and without having to worry about going to jail for it.

I want people to be able to protect themselves from those who would do them harm, even if the people doing the harm are wearing badges and uniforms, when their rights and safety are being violated. I want people to know that anyone, ANYONE, who violates their human/civil rights will be held accountable under the same laws that we are all expected to obey.

These are just a few of the things that I would like to see happen. As I said, some of them we used to enjoy, some may never have happened in our lifetime, but were envisioned by our Founders, who expected the people to be good moral people and respect individual rights and understand the consequences of violating them.

 

Do you know what a false flag event is? Real or False?

Before you decide that you know exactly what I am talking about, please allow me to make it clear, I am not addressing a specific incident, I am merely asking questions about history in general and reported incidences, both nationally and globally, some recent, some not so recent, and your perceptions/reactions to them.

Do you know what a false flag event is? No, seriously, have you ever bothered to look into it?

False flag (or black flag) describes covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them.

Now then, that is a strict, textbook definition. Having read that, do you believe that there are/were governments throughout the course of history that have used false flag events to push an agenda or as a means to an end? Can you name any such incidences (Use scholarly/respected resources, not "Joe's Blog)? Can you think of any reasons that a government, or factions within a government, might use a false flag event? Do you believe that YOUR government, or factions within your government, are capable of creating a false flag event? Does your government, or factions within your government, have an agenda(s) that it wishes to push for which a false flag event might prove useful?

Continuing with the questions: Do you always or ever believe/trust your government and its appointed spokesmen? At any level? Do you always or ever believe/trust the mainstream media (MSM) when it reports on various incidences nationally or around the world? Do you think that a government and a media that knows all too well a people's propensity for believing anything they see on TV would use that medium to deceive those people?

Just a few more: Have you ever heard someone say something or try to make a point about something, only to call them crazy and deny that any such thing could/would/did happen, only to find out later that you were the one who was wrong? Did you apologize and acknowledge that you were mistaken? Are you willing to accept that as there are evil people around the globe, yes, even here in the good ol' U.S. of A., and that those evil people may even occupy positions of authority and power, and that those people care only for themselves and acquiring more wealth and power, and that those people have access to the means to deceive, that they may, in fact, use those means and, in fact, deceive?

Look, folks, I can handle the name-calling and being told I'm crazy, hell, people said I was crazy when I told them Eric Cantor was not a "conservative," but we know how that turned out. What I cannot abide is a stubborn, willful ignorance/unwillingness to even entertain the possibility that false flags can and have occurred. History is replete with them. You do yourself and others a grave disservice when you prefer to dismiss any and all information that you think is "too far out there," and meekly accept what the MSM and government, the same MSM and government that you don't trust on any other subject, say happened, just because they tell you it is so.

Have I been wrong about some of my assertions? As I am human I have been wrong more than a couple of times, but I was not wrong because of a lack of skepticism or a willingness to ask questions, even questions that might get me called names. I want the truth and I would hope that you do as well. That is why I am not afraid to be skeptical, ask questions, demand proof, and recognize the lessons that history teaches us.

Thanks, I had to get that off my chest.