There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining the ineffectiveness of lockdowns to prevent COVID deaths.

Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen’s Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby – analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths. “We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates,” the researchers wrote.

The researchers also examined shelter-in-place orders, finding that they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%.
— Fox News, 2/4/22

It took a little while but when the relevance-starved attention-seekers continue to get the face time they crave, they eventually say too much and spill the beans. So, what were the lockdowns REALLY all about…?

The next appropriate questions would be, just who gave Fauci and other so-called health officials the right to recommend and implement lockdowns that killed thousands of small businesses nationwide, put millions of Americans out of work, and stunted the academic growth of children when it was really all about those who may have financial interests in a vaccine that didn’t work, thus requiring subsequent ineffective boosters whose only real purpose is to line the pockets of pharmaceuticals?

These arrogant taxpayer-funded employees believed they could use force to make the “naive” take an experimental drug where no side effects were disclosed (because it’s physically too early to know what they are), and also employed a blackmail tactic making Americans have to choose between employment and risking their permanent health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health and their media are doing everything possible to ignore the numerous stories of the previously healthy dropping dead shortly after taking the vaccine or booster and now the majority of those in hospitals from COVID-19 being the fully vaccinated.

Fauci’s cavalier admission should be a meme used so often that he can’t show his face in public without answering some very pertinent questions.

What does Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, Lori Lightfoot, Barack Obama and the other busted unmasked Democrat elite know the public does not and just how pissed off would the American people be if all has never been as they’ve portrayed it as?

At a time of national pandemic angst, it was supposed to sound so nice.

“We are in this together.”

But as some of us came to realize, that was not the case.

In retrospect, had President Trump known what was to become of the United States as we knew it, he may had referred to the first tenant of the 1994 Contract with America before obliging the suggestions of bureaucrats.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government: First: Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress.
— U-S-History.com

The COVID-19 shutdown resulted in thousands of businesses and corporations around the nation being ordered shutdown for an undermined amount of time, thus resulting in millions of Americans losing their jobs. It became ironic that those who were in the position of locally determining who could reopen and how long were those whose personal paychecks were never in jeopardy: politicians, their staffs, federal and state employees, and unelected officials.

MARCH 30
More states issued stay-at-home directives.

Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., issued orders requiring their residents to stay home. Similar orders went into effect for Kansas and North Carolina. Other states had previously put strict measures in place. The new orders meant that least 265 million Americans were being urged to stay home.
— New York Times, Coronavirus timeline, 7/21/20

Had an Executive Order or Memo been issued by the president that required the suspension of all taxpayer-funded salaries on the federal and state level as long as private citizens were forced to stay home and not earn theirs, just how serious would the “advice” of  so-called health officials been taken given how all-over-the-map the models have been since the Coronavirus made landfall?

Would there have even been talk of a prolonged shutdown had the generous salaries of governors and mayors (some between $3000-4000 weekly!) been in the slightest way been threatened. How many on Capitol Hill would have told Dr. Fauci to go pound sand if their paychecks and that of their staff would have been cut off until some curve was flattened? How many of our federal and state employees would feel so cavalier to demand Americans on social media shut up and stay home if they weren’t receiving steady paychecks? We already know how quickly they squawk when there’s any kind of government shutdown that always results in their getting paid on the back end.

And given their specific First Amendment status, maybe the media could have been also included in a paycheck stoppage. The Freedom of the Press would not be halted; they just wouldn’t get paid for what they did and the professional media has enough rainy day cash lying around to last for a short duration.

How do you think their coverage of the “pandemic” would be if they weren’t receiving compensation for their time? Instead of telling us all to stay home and keep everyone else safe, do you think they might have introduced the term “herd immunity” into their daily action lines? Do you think this whole shutdown thing would be considered an policy that should be very, very temporary?

This has again turned out to be just another example of the “Do as I say, not as I do” two-tiered system of American government which calls into doubt the known seriousness of the pandemic when we’ve also seen the many examples of politicians and elites finding convenient justifications to go for a walk in the park, visit beauty salons, the gym, parties, fundraisers, and of course, #BlackLivesMatter protests… masks optional.

ObamaCare was good enough of us while federal politicians and their staffs wrote themselves a way around it, saving thousands of dollars we were mandated to pay. Now, the COVID-19 crisis has given us state and local politicians who play their constituents like an accordion, setting arbitrary phased reopening dates, just to yank them back in a manner that would make any garden variety sadist smile with envy.

The economy was the issue that would have seen President Trump sailing into a second term. Keeping it in the tank is a political no-brainer.

And until we’re really “in this together”, the political class will continue to inflict their political pain on all of us because it doesn’t hurt them at all.

It’s not hard to imagine how those in federal and state federal government can be so casual when it comes to their evolving time schedules as to when the nation will be fully open for business because it’s as simple as follow the money. They’re getting theirs thus there’s no sense of urgency, the “process” of politics can run it’s course because certain taxpayer-funded paychecks have been assured to come in uninterrupted.

United States Congressman and Senator weekly salary: $3,346 (assured through 9/21)
Average federal employee weekly salary: $1,730
Average state employee weekly salary varies: (highest) Washington, D.C $2,222,
….Maryland $2,086, Virginia $1,967
Former president lifelong pension benefit weekly: $4,051
Congressional lifelong pension benefit weekly: $2,676

Here’s how the elected have been financially weathering the shutdown while the American people have to live with their edicts….

Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R) weekly salary: $2,848
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) weekly salary: $3,878
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) weekly salary: $1,730
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont (D) forgoes his weekly $2,884 salary
Delaware Governor John Carney Jr. (D) weekly salary: $3,288
Hawaii Governor David Ige (D) weekly salary: $3,051
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) forgoes his $3,411 weekly salary
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear (D) weekly salary: N/A
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (D) weekly salary: $2,500
Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) Weekly salary: $1,346
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) weekly salary: $3,269
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker (R) weekly salary: $3,557
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) weekly salary: $3,063
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) weekly salary: $2,454
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak (D) pledged to donate his $2,876 weekly salary
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) weekly salary: $3,365
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) weekly salary: $3,846
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (D) weekly salary: $2,775
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine (R) weekly salary: $2,954
Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) weekly salary: $1,896
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf (D) weekly salary: $3,747
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo (D) weekly salary: $2,802
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) weekly salary: $2,956
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam (D) weekly salary: $3,365
Washington Governor Jay Inslee (D) weekly salary: $3,520
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D) weekly salary: $2,937

Everyday life gets even harder to endure at the mayoral level….

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) weekly salary: $4,975
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) weekly salary: $4,771
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) weekly salary: $4,157
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) weekly salary: $3,846
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) weekly salary: $3,365
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock (D) weekly salary: $3,292
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) weekly salary: $2,833

Remember this when the political class drags this process out to collect more COVID-19 “data”, fat-and-comfortable government employees go on social media and tell those who fund their incoming paychecks to shut up and stay home, humble yourself and visit a food bank, decline to pay your rent and bills, never leave home (and if you must risk killing us all, not without a mask), and succumb to your movements being tracked and stored.

It must be nice.

NOTE — We’re not including self-centered celebrities because they don’t have the power over us they believe they have.

Anyone who watches any news conference involving President Trump hears the punctuation between questions with what reminds us of angry teenage girls on the schoolyard. But now these drama queens are White House correspondents who have no respect for the office of the presidency. Calling them out on it is called sexist. Add “bigotry” to the equation and you have Weijia Jiang, CBS News White House correspondent.

Jiang can issue a #JuicySmallett style accusation of racism against a White House official she refuses to publicly name. She can insinuate President Trump is a racist for labeling a pandemic from it’s well-documented place of origin which happens to be, in this case, China. She can be rude and combative with the President during a news conference and when told to settle down, is defended as a victim of sexism.

The American people, as a whole, are not stupid enough to blame Chinese Americans for the Coronavirus and to say there are “dozens” of examples racist intolerance against them is irresponsible at best and as soon as Democrats decide to lift their unconstitutional #LockDown edicts, many of us will rush to frequent our favorite restaurants and shops.

It remains to be see if Jiang will ever acknowledge that the “damage” has been done to ALL businesses, not just Asian American, and if there was any bigotry it’s been from those in power to all of us that don’t.

This is the new age of so-called journalism where CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, PBS News Hour’s Yamiche Alcindor, CBS News’ Paula Reid, Fox News’ Kristin Fisher and Weijia Jiang are now the White House correspondent equivalent of “The Squad” where all sense of professional decorum has been replaced by the sights and sounds of a teenage girl’s tirade after being told she can’t stay out after 10pm on a school night.

Once theses wimmin decide to act in a professional manner, given their important positions, they will accordingly be treated in return.

Millions of Americans have lost jobs due to COVID-19 quarantines. Businesses, large and small, were ordered shut and the public was essentially told to stay home and shut up. Personal incomes are zeroing out and the public is now starting to resist the unconstitutional edicts of elected officials who are just as fat and happy as they were a day before the #Lockdown.

A testy Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered blunt advice Wednesday to protesters who reportedly said they hadn’t received their unemployment checks, were quickly running out of money and had to return to work.

“You want to go to work?” Cuomo said. “Go take a job as an essential worker. Do it tomorrow.”
— Yahoo News, 4/22/20

They are making sure anyone who receives a government paycheck is justified as “essential” and this appears to be happening from New York to Los Angeles.

Whoops. Looks like the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors didn’t want you to see that video, but that’s why you come here….

Thanks to KFI’s Steve Gregory for asking the question and following up after being soft-shoed.

State and federal employees, if not “reassigned”, are supposedly working from home and their paychecks have not seen any interruption. They are comfortable and can afford the luxury of telling the rest of the American people to stay home, unless they really need to frequent that local food bank.

But if some of these elected gluttons were facing the financial abyss they order their constituents to obey, we all know how quickly those “models” would’ve been doubted and that going back to a paying job would be Item #1 on their agenda. But as long as they can stuff their faces, they’ll continue to tell us all to stuff it, and they’ll all be demanding federal taxpayer monies to shore up their previous fiscal irresponsibility to keep their own checks coming in.

After all of the violence spawned by the 2016 election result by butthurt Democrats, the very people advocating abortion-on-demand despite the #lockdown are now concerned about people being killed.

Hollywood Lashes Out at Trump for Calls to ‘Liberate’ MI, MN, VA : ‘He Is Going to Get More People Killed’

The people have had enough of the imposed lockdowns since the only Constitutional rationale being offered by Democrat and RINO state politicians is “Because I say so.”

Trump Encourages Protest Against Governors Who Have Imposed Virus Restrictions
Protests are popping up across the US over stay-at-home restrictions
More protests planned against Gov. Whitmer’s stay at home order
Four Michigan Sheriffs Say They Won’t Enforce Governor’s Totalitarian Orders
Texas Opts for Liberty, While Washington State Makes Liberty Illegal
Organizer of New Jersey Anti-Lockdown Rally Charged With Violating Lockdown
Groups protesting Virginia’s lockdown say orders violate their rights
Protests reportedly planned in KC against Kansas, Missouri stay-at-home orders
“Let Us Work:” Texans Gather in Front of Governor’s Mansion to Protest Lockdown
State Rep. to Join Anti-Lockdown Protest In Front of Maine Governor Mansion
Protest planned Sunday in Olympia as pushback grows against stay-at-home orders
Some Orange County Residents Defy Stay-at-home Orders With Protests in Huntington Beach, San Clemente
Hoosiers against stay-at-home order to protest outside governor’s residence
Arizona’s stay-at-home order a target of planned protests
‘LIBERATE!’: San Diego protests planned against stay-at-home orders
US groups to protest Wisconsin’s extended home stay
More than 200 gather in Redmond to protest stay-at-home order
‘Operation Gridlock’ Arrives In Colorado To Challenge Polis’ Stay-At-Home Order
Hundreds rally at Idaho Capitol to protest Gov. Little’s stay-home order
‘An act of survival’? Calls to ‘reopen Pennsylvania’ from coronavirus lockdown are steadily getting louder
Casper Protesters Oppose Social Distancing Measures to Fight COVID-19
Wisconsin ‘Freedom Rally’ Planned After Gov. Tony Evers Extends Coronavirus Lockdown by Extra Month
Trump accused of ‘fomenting domestic rebellion’ by backing anti-lockdown protests

After Hillary Clinton lost the 2020 election, liberal Democrats and their media were perfectly okay with “fomenting domestic rebellion” against the new Republican administration. They affectionately called it “resist” and they do to this day.

The left never had a problem with “liberate” and “fomenting domestic rebellion” while sending their minions to loudly protest at the homes of people they disagreed with. They proudly boasted of running Trump Administration officials out of restaurants and some even applauded those who shot a congressman on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia and beat up a senator in Kentucky. They went out of their way to label those who were “fomenting domestic rebellion” when they took over statehouses for elongated, stinky sit-ins, but as the nation wants to go back to work despite unconstitutional edicts of Democrats, “resist” is now a very bad thing.

Swing-state Democratic governors under duress over stay-at-home orders

The Democrat doomsayers are now predicting (hoping for) “millions” of deaths in the United States should the economy open to early. The sheer nerve of the citizens to defy them…. This despite their previous predictions (based on consistently failed models) all being wrong, we’re now to do as THEY say because THEY say it. And again remember, politicians, federal and state government employees, entertainment and news elites have not had their paychecks and standards of living interrupted by one penny since the initial national #lockdown was implemented so it’s no real skin off their backs.

Texas Lt. Gov Patrick says it’s time for Congress to take a pay cut, show Americans ‘you’re with us’

Fat chance.

It’s all about keeping the Trump economy flattened and doing anything and everything (futility?) to help Joe Biden win in November. Screw the rest of the American people.

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties.
— Bill of Rights Institute

That was then.

How can anybody sane be anything less than scared and outraged and mortified that 22 million people have been thrown out of work over something that may end up killing fewer than 50,000 people? It is unprecedented. And yet there are people who want to maintain the circumstances we are in. And it boggles the mind.
— Rush Limbaugh, 4/16/20

Because of Coronavirus, politicians now use the rationale that they’ve locked down the economy to “save lives” and as of today the virus has claimed 26,708 lives in the United States.

In a nation as populated as ours, sadly people die every day. If governors were truly motivated by “public safety”, one would think the states should’ve been locked down many times before for a variety of reasons.

According to Medical News Today, here are the Top 10 “medical” causes of death in the United States in 2017….

1. HEART DISEASE — Deaths in 2017: 647,457, Percentage of total deaths: 23.5%
2. CANCER — Deaths in 2017: 599,108, Percentage of total deaths: 21.3%
3. UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES — Deaths in 2017: 169,936, Percentage of total deaths: 6%
4. CHRONIC LOWER RESPIRATORY DISEASE — Deaths in 2017: 160,201, Percentage of total deaths: 5.7%
5. STROKE, CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES — Deaths in 2017: 146,383, Percentage of total deaths: 5.2%
6. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE — Deaths in 2017: 121,404, Percentage of total deaths: 4.3%
7. DIABETES — Deaths in 2017: 83,564, Percentage of total deaths: 3%
8. INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA — Deaths in 2017: 55,672, Percentage of total deaths: 2%
9. KIDNEY DISEASE — Deaths in 2017: 50,633, Percentage of total deaths: 1.8%
10. SUICIDE — Deaths in 2017: 47,173

Also, 19,500 were homicide victims in 2017.

People take risks everyday and going out and about during a “pandemic” is no different. Over 40,000 people leave homes and jobs every day and never arrive at their destination because they are killed in a car accident. At no time did governors, mayors and/or city councils even consider a lockdown when close to 56,000 die from the annual flu contagion.

Protesters around the country have started gathering, some in groups that defy social-distancing recommendations, to register their disapproval for the ongoing economic shutdown tied to the coronavirus.
— New York Intelligencer, 4/15/20

The case could be made this is not about public safety but power-tripping partisans taking advantage of what may have been a very bad flu and using it to decimate an outstanding economy prior to a presidential election to help their very weak candidate. Had President Obama been presiding over a historic economy prior to an election, great care would be taken not to in any way damage it, but as we’re talking about all-time record wealth and prosperity unleashed by President Donald J. Trump, if livelihoods of the American people are damaged and their rights diminished into what many politicians and media pundits are advocating as the “new normal”, oh well.