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23-fourty-second-street.w700 empty due tocoronavirus scareForty Second Street in the time of coronavirus. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Will COVID-19 Be The Excuse Used For The Final Days of America As We Once Knew It?

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Due to COVID-19 or the U.S Government?

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Forty Second Street in the time of coronavirus. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Abraham Lincoln prophetically said, “If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”  A very good argument can be made that we have long crossed the Rubicon many years past on this measure.  But these past week’s actions by the United States government and the naked acquiescence of it’s actions by the populace may be the final conclusive evidence that we as a nation have been willing, though maybe ignorantly so, instruments on our own economic and social demise, via the policies of the U.S government under the guise of combating  SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19, commonly known as CoronaVirus.

What just happened here?!

In December of last year in Wuhan, Central China COVID-19 was identified as the latest Coronavirus place of origin. As of today approx. 3265 people out of approx. 1.428 BILLION people have died from it in China. The percentage of 3265 of 1,400,000,000 equates to approx. 2.286% of China’s population.  On January 19 of this year a 35-year-old Chinese man at an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington was diagnosed as having COVID-19 after returning from visiting his family in Wuhan.  A March 10th report in usnews.com that top companies such as Carnival Cruise Lines, United Airlines, and Wynn resorts had taken a severe economic hit of some 50%-near 90% due to virus fears.  On March 12th a Utah Jazz NBA player Rudy Gobert was diagnosed as having COVID-19 just before the team was to play the Oklahoma City Thunder.  This immediately led to the “suspension” of not just the entire remainder of the NBA season, but the cession of ALL American pro sports.  And after just 1600 reported case infections and 38 deaths nationwide washingtonpost.com reported that the entire NCAA Basketball Tournament, that Walt Disney had closed all of its theme parks, that several States had closed schools nationwide, and that The White House, U.S. Capitol, and Pentagon had ended tours.  The next day president Trump declared a national emergency over the now official pandemic of COVID-19. On March 19th the eater.com reported that dining in spots in 15 States had been ordered closed by their governors. And many cities followed suit. On the 21st edweek.org reported at least 118,000 U.S. public and private schools are closed, are scheduled to close, or were closed and later reopened, affecting at least 53.8 million school students. Marketwatch.com on March 22 reported, “The Dow has shed a staggering 6,235 points, or 24.54%, in March so far, which has dragged the stock index down to its lowest level since December of 2016. The percentage drop so far ranks as its second-worst in history after the 30.7% monthly skid in September of 1931, when the unemployment rate was at a lofty 15.9%.”  The Fed is looking to make the Quantitative Easing Program of the 2007 financial crisis look like your child’s weekly allowance by pumping TRILLIONS of Dollars unlimited into the markets. At the same time, the Congress is looking to pass an additional Trillion plus Dollar “stimulus” bill.  But yet as the entire sports world has literally shut down, many industries have either closed, suspended, or greatly reduced business due to social panic and or governmental edict, the U.S Congress is opened, no matter how many of it’s members are diagnosed with the virus, making laws that increases its control over the nation and the American people and citizens of the United States.  All of this unprecedented economic calamity is due to a grand total of 417, out of approx. 328 million, people dying from COVID-19 nationwide – that comes to approx. 1.271% of the country’s population.  This coupled with the continuous bombardment by the nation’s News Media Complex without any context that we are all going to die if we simply walk near another person has I fear caused irreparable harm to the societal psyche of the American people.  Though no one wants another to die and any number of life lost needlessly is too high,  but the lack of applying a high degree of person responsibility, objective viewing of the situation by the National Media, and the governmental officials politicization the situation in an election year is nothing more than stunning and intellectually repugnant.

Never let a serious crisis go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff for president Barrack Obama, once said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”  Throughout the history of this great nation during times of crisis and heightened levels of emotional fear and anxiety has been when of the personal freedoms and liberties have been surrendered by the people of America to the government of the United States that allowed it to greatly expands its power and size more than would have occurred during times of calm and peace such as President Lincoln suspending Habeus Corpus during the War Between the States, Americans allowing for the Graduated Income Tax during World War 2 under President F.D.R, and more recently the imposition of the PATRIOT Act under president G.W Bush after the demolition of the World Trade Towers on 9/11.

How many PSA’s [Public Service Announcements] have you seen or heard by the government on how we should all remain calm?  How we should practice high degrees of personal responsibility?  Discouraging frivolous lawsuits by people who may become infected due to ordinary contact?  Illustrated how we as a nation have gotten through this type of virus pandemic before? or How to improve our health and improve our immune system to better combat the virus? or How this will all be over soon?  How about the national Media? … I’ll wait….

The fact is that coronaviruses are not anything new.  This particular one may be new at this time.  But coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960’s.   And all of them have faded away in a relatively short time and quickly forgotten.  What is making this case so extraordinary is the mass hysteria by the 24 hour national Media dragging the government to present this as though it is the plague causing the people to react in blind irrational fear, like stocking up on months worth of toilet paper.  The fact is that the Spanish Flu of 1918, that’s long before 24 hr News Media and before Americans become hooked on the government immediately rescuing them, is the deadliest to date.  It took out approx. 50 MILLION people worldwide and 675,000 nationally.  It lasted a little over a year.  It had no vaccine nor treatments available.  In 2009 we had the H1N1 flu [the Swine Flu] pandemic hit.  It claimed approx. 284,000 lives worldwide, 12,469 nationally.  Within 8 months we had a vaccine.  And 8 months later it had passed.  And then there is the seasonal flu.  Do you remember any of these?  It has become so common that we barely pause to think about it, less than stop national commerce.  It takes out anywhere between approx. 291,000 – 646,000 annually worldwide and 12,000 – 61,000 nationally. And we have treatments for it.  Whereas COVID-19 to date has claimed approx. just 15,374 lives worldwide and 471 nationally and we are severely crippling this nation socially and economically to an unknown degree. These numbers and facts and reaction just do not add up for me.   Someone has to explain it better for me.  Do they make sense for you?

The right questions are not being asked.

  • Why is the government, along with the national Media, encouraging more quarantining of the healthy people more than the elderly and immune challenged?
  • Why is there seemingly no open reflection nor any rational content connecting COVID-19 with past viruses or epidemics to better comfort and educate us that this crisis too shall soon past?
  • Why isn’t the government seeking to allow the American people access to their Trillions of dollars in pensions and 401-K savings or actions that allows us to keep more of our money that goes to the government, i.e., eliminating the federal Payroll Tax, rather than printing more money that will eventually have to be paid back or send taxpayer money to the banks and lending institutions to then be loaned out with conditions and interest?
  • Why are States and areas of the country that are not being seriously affected being treated as though they are the worst areas?
  • Why isn’t the number of those who have recovered from the virus being highlighted?
  • With the alarmist contagion spreading untethered, why isn’t anyone saying when will this “emergency” ended Or what is the end game plan?

Uncertainty for the future is not good for Wall Street nor Main Street. The measures that have and are being imposed by the government in a “proactive” measure and that are largely based on theory are wreaking havoc on the American economy more than the actual virus itself.  Even the most passive observer must ask the question, if this was not an election year and the political climate was more like the ’90s would this be happening so aggressively with such abandonment of reason?  Actions seemingly are being put into motion largely by the government, locally and at the federal level, without any public debate, questioning, or thought of the reaction or consequences – short-term or long-term – to the national economy and psyche growing on an expanding and growing wave of fear and conformity to not question the actions or motives of the collective or popular notion.  Could we had taken another path that didn’t heighten public fears of infinite isolation?  could we have taken this time to encourage greater self-responsibility over personal health choices? and Could we have not encouraged a feeding opportunity for government expanding power and size that will end up costing future generations in personal freedoms and liberties and economic treasure?

The American people’s spirit will and can achieve some amazing things if given honest information and support from the federal government, i.e., it gets out of the way.  The question is, has the 60 plus years of the Progressive Left’s creation of the “Nanny State” succeeded in neutering or suppressing the desire to do so?  Future historians may look back at this event as the final one that took out this great nation, with all of its promise of even more greatness as free people, and fundamentally change it into a nation that it was never intended to become.

America Has Morally Gone Astray. The Founders Warned Us.

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Recently CNN reported that in a Gallop Poll that an astonishing 77% of Americans believe that religion in the country is losing influence. But yet at the same time 75% say that the country would be better if we were more religious. Confused? Reviewing the 2012 Presidential election results though the Southern Baptist are the second largest religious denomination in America bolstering over 16 million members, according to the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, it’s political influences were inefficacious at best with an estimated more than 3 million Republican voters staying home. In a Pew Research article on religion and public life reported that amongst Christian evangelicals, “82% say evangelicals are losing influence in the United States today”. Interestingly though 71% of evangelicals in South America believe things are to be stronger there in 5 years.

There is something not quite right in America when so many recognize that we are lacking moral guidance, desire more moral guidance, our nation was founded on Christian moral principles, we have prospered immensely due to adherence to those principles for over 200 years, but yet by many of our actions and nearly 100% of Christian evangelicals believe that those very principles are no longer desired and are on their death beds in this nation, yet are flourishing in nations just to the south of us.

The issue goes far beyond political affiliation, but to the very foundation of our nation’s view of morality and our attachment to our founding religious principles and identity that has served and guided us to be the most free, prosperous, and influential nation for over 200 years. And questions whether we can seriously remain so for another 200 years. In a December 2012 New York Times report, The Decline of Evangelical America, as in all of the reports and articles that I have read on the subject, it all goes back to the societal conversion away from our nation’s traditional moral values and principles. And it all starts with the influence of the youngest amongst us. And who or what most influences them, whether it is the church, their parents, or the government..

Our nation’s moral decadence is startlingly visible in many ways, such as the explosion in unwed child births, the fact that we have more citizens incarcerated then Communist China, the fractionalization and marginalization of the traditional American family, the repeated election of so many severely morally and ethically challenged politicians, the increasing social vulgarity and incivility, and the blazing denigration of the value of self-subsistence and self-responsibility as more Americans are existing off of the federal government and the unprecedented growth in the entitlement mentality culture or me-ism. With so many societal transformations occurring in the nation such as, the redefining of marriage by the government to include those of the same sex, the redefining of what religion actually is, redefining of the U.S government and the American citizen relationship, and the literal banishment of the Bible and Christendom from government schools and significant public interface, to even include today the military, traditional religious values seem to be on the expedient decline. And so too the decline of America as a whole. But, these tragic consequences can come as a surprise to only those who are absent the knowledge of our Founder’s prophetic warnings and the history of the fight to keep the nation’s Christian heritage and principles as the pillars of our society as they were intended.

Lets review what the nation’s first President, George Washington, warned if we strayed from our moral principles, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness – these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

As for the ridiculous notion that we are not a Christian nation, as Mr. Obama so vociferously alluded to while he stood in Turkey after he first got anointed,the 1892 supreme court settled that question in the case of the Holy Trinity Church vs the United States stated, “these and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a christian nation.”Not to mention the shear girth of other historical supportive evidence such as, 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had degrees from Bible schools, wrote religious books, and some went on to open Bible organizations. Ben Franklin once said, “that he believe in ‘one God, Creator of the Universe,.’ God governed this universe by his Providence. As such he ought to be worshiped and the worship most acceptable to Him was in doing good to others.”

Regarding the relevance of Christianity to our nation, in the New York State Supreme Court case of 1811, People vs. Ruggles, stated, “That whatever strikes at the root of Christianity, tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government.”Founder John Adams said, “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”

The Founders clearly viewed the connection between the survival of the republic and Biblical principles as indispensable. They believed that though the federal government should not be a theocracy, or as the First Amendment clearly forbids in stating that, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”, they clearly believed that for this nation to be great and to remain great the principles of the Bible had to be the nation’s foundation. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story believed the Bible’s moral principles should be the foundation of education in the nation, “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament, without note or comment, be read and taught as a Divine Revelation in the [school] – its general precepts expounded, its evidences explained and its glorious principles of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?” In fact, the nation’s first and most successful text book of the 18thcentury The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in the 18th century and was used up until the 1930’s. It had in it the alphabet, vowels, consonants, alphabetical assistants, acronyms, catechisms, and 90 pages of Christian religious maxims and moral lessons that included the Lord’s Prayer.

Despite today’s popular notion that the Founders believed in a separation of church, particularly Christian, and the government, such advancement is simply without evidence and groundless-until recently generations at least. In fact as early as 1853 a petition was sent to Congress demanding separation of Christian principles and the government. After a year of investigation by the Congress it said, “Had the people (Founding Fathers) during the Revolution, had a suspicion of any attempts to war against Christianity, that Revolution would have been strangled in its cradle.  At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the Amendments, the universal sentiment was that Christianity should be encouraged, but not any one (denomination)…In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity…That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.”

Here are a couple of notes that may have you go huummmm: the two most social transforming Supreme Court decisions regarding religion, 1947 ENGEL v VITALE and marriage, 2013 HOLLINGSWORTH v PERRY, neither used precedence for the decisions to completely redefine the long-standing meanings of words in the public.  But instead chose to set precedence out of thin air; and in the 1980 Supreme Court case STONE v. GRAHAM, the court’s decision to outlaw the posting of the Ten Commandments in government schools stated, “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, it will be to induce the schoolchildren to read, meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments.”

The Founders clearly knew the dangers to the republic’s posterity if we failed to apply a high Christian and moral test to the young and maybe even more importantly to our chosen leaders for the nation’s continued prosperity. Founder Benjamin Rush said. “Contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”;Founder John Jay, author of the Federalist Papers and first Justice of the Supreme Court, stated that, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”;and again George Washington warned in his famous 1789 Inaugural address, “The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”

There are 3 pillars of influences that were to make up our prosperous and free society – the family, the church, and the government. As we may bicker over the order of the first two, the role of government was meant to be the very least of them.  We  can attempt consciously to dismiss the prophetic words of the Founders as just ramblings of old gray-haired White guys of years far gone by.  But history has taught us lessons of the consequences of a grossly politically inattentive and ignorant populous, a morally vacant societal culture, and an ever imposing government. As too it has shown evidence of how prosperous a nation can be over 200 years when guided by Divine Providence. But at last, it is up for us to choose which future it is that we wish to have.

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