Happy Mother’s Day.
While the world is busy today, with flowery Mother’s Day posts! For which I have no reservations! In fact, I fully support! And believe it’s absolutely wonderful!! I just want to share this ‘unrelated’ exchange, I personally experimented with, on our local fb community page in my area.
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– First: My initial ‘experiment Post’ the other day, to see how many in my community will weigh in, how many will run, and how many..will stop purchasing my coffee and French macarons, as they deem me unfit, to be their baker and their coffee supplier! All based on? Me daring to contradict the ‘group’, and disturb the holy chain of..fear, that has been uniting us all, with its insidious lulling and dark deafening quiet humming.
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My post:
“Finding this video (referencing 2 doctors in Bakersfield/California) this morning, is making me ‘personally’ wonder, ‘what on earth is going on’?!
My spouse warned me not to share. But why?
Why ‘shouldn’t I share?’!! I am among friends here! I am not posting this ‘publicly’, as I understand, I may get brutally attacked personally!
Thank Goodness I don’t have a thousand (we’ve never actually met) fb friends! Then I’d be in trouble 😜
The first question that popped into my mind honestly??! After watching this video, is this one:
‘What is the difference, between the way these doctors are being pressured to stop spreading ‘misinformation’_when in-fact they are spreading true data and logical arguments_and how these types of things are dealt with in….China??! Basically the way they are vastly known in China, to silence their own doctors and scientists?!’.
This is not to spread way out there conspiracy theories! Neither it is to spread more fear and anxiety!
It just simply begs the question ‘why are these two ‘very well respected and logically sound doctors, being silenced?!’
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Interestingly, the only ones who weighed in on my post, were a couple ‘courageous’ female acquaintances!
Below I share some of the comments and my responses.
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L – What’s the bottom line? We shouldn’t worry?
Me: The bottomline ‘according to these doctors’, is this:
– Protect the elderly and those with autoimmune medical issues. No visits to seniors homes. If you have an autoimmune health issue: wear a mask, gloves (properly) and avoid social contact with others.
– We did the lockdown and that was the right approach. Now however, is the time to figure out how to get around the collateral damage, of shutting down the entire economy.
– Basically, we need to start focusing on what to do ‘today’, moving forward. A ‘systematic’ opening up. Alberta is doing that. We need to support it. We cannot stay in complete lockdown any longer. No economy can survive. It’s not about ‘money is more important than ppl’s health’. It’s about the reality of:
-There ‘are’ lots of people whose lives are being drastically affected, due to loss of income, anxiety, and fear of not being able to put food on the table or pay their rent/mortgage.
These ppl may not get Covid, but they may lose hope in a dignified life. Suicide, domestic abuse and violence to mention a few.
– Yes, there maybe a spike, when the economy is reopened. As people are no longer in complete isolation and as they start going back to work and ‘slowly’ to their normal lives (slowly and systematically). There maybe a spike. However, we need to be informed, and ready, to not jump into ‘our own second wave of fear’. We need to expect there maybe a spike! It’s logical.
V: I watched an interview that one of the doctors did recently. He said, that all they knew was that they were being interviewed by local reporters to give them an idea of what was going on in a couple of their emergency rooms. They never agreed for the reporters to share it. One put it on FB and he said before they knew it, they had 10000 hits. Youtube was told by ‘someone’ to edit it or remove it. They have no idea why this is happening, when they simply were reading out all the data in their emergency rooms from specific dates, as requested by local reporters.
Me: V, how sad is that? Thank you for explaining how this happened!
These two doctors are doing a great job not backing off! Several scientists did! Not these two!!! Which I find, incredibly refreshing and admirable!
This is not for the sake of ‘foolish defiance’ and the ‘look at me I’m a rebel etc’! This is simply refreshing to share, for me personally, due to these very important reasons:
– These two doctors are not, fanatics. They are not out there promoting wacky agendas, for monetary gain, publicity or political manipulation!
– They are simply sharing data. They are simply concerned about ‘their community’. To me? That is honourable and even though they are in California and I’m in AB/Canada?! They’ve gotten my support.
They are an example of:
– Stand your ground, but stay truthful to the facts you are trying to educate the public about.
– Do your part. Remain clam. Don’t get dragged into fruitless media fights. And hope for the best. That’s all that one can do.
V: I totally agree with you and think it is awesome that you keep discussing it to try and figure this out. Exactly. They were discussing their community stats with local journalists and one put it on Facebook and the world went crazy. He said that everything they said, is the cold, hard facts….education for the community. They were SO surprised what the world did with this interview!
D: So confusing as to what we are and are not being told, and what is and is not true.
Me: D, very! Couldn’t agree more! And we all_understandably and expectantly_in the end, will come to our own conclusion. Do we believe all the fear we are being fed? Or do we dedicate one evening, just one, to researching numbers and data! In our area.
After we research the data:
-How many in hospitals?
– How many have perished (which is incredibly sad and I am by no means minimizing that, at all! Gosh it’s absolutely devastating!!)
– How many currently in ICU?
– How many were affected by the flue not just this year or last, but over the past 5 years?
– Study Sweden data. They are the only country who did not lock down their economy. Let’s look at the difference between our numbers ‘with the lock down’, and their numbers ‘without ’!
Then, make our very own conclusions.
Until we individually do this research (not impossible! Not fun, but definitely not impossible if we really want to stop wondering and speculating), and I believe we can, and I understand why it’s not something ‘we’ as citizens want to do, but I believe we have to. Until we do that, anyone could tell us anything. And depending on our, day, our mood and what we had for lunch, we may or may not believe it!
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I wanted to share this tonight, to say:
I am personally growing more and more tired, of all this fear. Of people attacking each other if they’re pro lockdown and their neighbours aren’t !
I hope, in the coming days, more and more of us, will choose, logic! And will let go of, fear! Logic is a beautiful thing, if we pay attention. Fear, is going to destroy our very own humanity.
"But the hours grew so empty” 