Why do we have a hysterical governor trying to shut down our economy again, which he’s not allowed to do in the first place? Look at the current death rate statistics by state of COVID-19: West Virginia is way down at the bottom, along with Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Of course diagnoses will rise with the exponential increase in testing going on. But show me the death rate. Look at the restrictions in New York, New Jersey, or Michigan, who have required masks and every other restriction you can think of, and their death rates are sky-high. I thought we had a vulnerable population? That’s what the Governor said before he issued his unconstitutional “Stay at Home Order.” So if we’ve gotten so many cases, and we’re so vulnerable, why are we at the bottom of the list (along with the other low population rural states) for death rate per 100,000 people?

Read for yourself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covid19-death-rates-us-by-state/

Our Dear Leader appointed a doctor from WVU as our COVID Czar during this so-called State of Emergency. You’ve seen the same types on the cable news. We didn’t elect doctors from WVU, or anywhere else, to authorize them to control our lives, or take our property without due process. Who do you think stands to gain from all this, in research grants, employment opportunities, profit, and so on? What’s in it for them? Can they just cause the governor to go all hysterical and tyrannical with no questions being asked? With no representation on our behalf? Where are all of our legislators? We are now living in a perpetual “State of Emergency.” Just how many months does a State of Emergency last before the legislature does its job?

Our legislators should be asking questions. The medical industry is going to make a fortune off of COVID-19. This is the same bunch, coupled with their benefactors in government, who charge us astronomical prices for common drugs. They require diabetics, who need insulin to live, to keep having to pay to see a doctor avery few months in order keep renewing their prescriptions. Why? Why in the hell should a diabetic need to renew their prescription for insulin just so some doctor can get their cut every few months? You think the lawyers are bad? The medical system is way worse than the legal system, as far as corruption and conflicts of interest go. Remember our very own Sen. Manchin’s daughter increasing the price of the epipen so high that most people could no longer afford it?

The governor is relying on WVU doctors to tell us what rights we get to have? This is the same WVU that prescribed my wife physical therapy for her shoulder, instead of a necessary surgery which could have saved her shoulder function. When we decided to leave the State medical system and go to UVA, they were flabbergasted at the incompetence of the purported best shoulder surgeon at WVU. The shoulder specialist at UVA took an MRI and was astounded. Immediately, being a teaching hospital, he gathered all the students to look at the MRI film. They’d never seen such a bad tear of anyone’s shoulder. Even the specialist had to bring in a sub-specialist to do the surgery. The shoulder was torn in three places. Her bicep was practically hanging by a thread. That was a Thursday, and she was in surgery on Monday. Yet at WVU, the snotty orthopedic surgeon basically told her to toughen up and quit complaining. He spent maybe 5 minutes with her in total, as opposed to the UVA surgeons, who spent probably hours with her.

We didn’t elect them. Maybe they’re right; maybe they’re not. But we didn’t elect them. And even if we did, the executive branch doesn’t enact laws. Our representatives do. Who need to either do their job, or resign. How many more months are we going to allow one governor to rule our state under a State of Emergency? Our State Constitution specifically provides that it will never been suspended – even in a time of war. So why is it suspended?

I know, I know, I’m not allowed to have an opinion because I’m not an epidemiologist, virologist, or other profession which is about to increase in funding levels…. If medical professionals are never wrong, then why are medical mistakes, made by medical professionals, the third leading cause of death in the U.S., causing at least a quarter million deaths per year?

“People don’t just die from heart attacks and bacteria, they die from system-wide failings and poorly coordinated care,” says the study’s lead author, Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery and health policy at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “It’s medical care gone awry.”

The magnitude of the death toll – roughly 10 percent of U.S. deaths annually – is striking coming, as it does, in an era dominated by efforts to reform the health system to ensure safe, high quality, high-value medical care. Patient safety efforts have failed to gain much traction, Makary says, because there’s no systematic effort to study medical errors or to put effective safeguards in place.

“Throughout the world, medical error leading to patient death is an under-recognized epidemic,” Makary and his co-author, Dr. Michael Daniel, also of Johns Hopkins, write in Tuesday’s British Medical Journal. They define medical errors as lapses in judgment, skill or coordination of care; mistaken diagnoses; system failures that lead to patient deaths or the failure to rescue dying patients; and preventable complications of care.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-03/medical-errors-are-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us

See Medical Errors Are Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S., US News Magazine, May 3, 2016. Are doctors infallible? Do doctors even know what the hell they’re talking about yet, based on actual empirical evidence about the COVID-19? No. For all we know, they could be guessing, or playing politics.

I’m not trying to knock doctors. I don’t do medical malpractice. My own father is an orthopedic surgeon, who has spent his life wearing masks, and also bathing in people’s blood (figuratively speaking, lol). But those were always new masks every time. He wasn’t walking around with one constantly, or driving around with one on. Nor organizing his life around it. Tell him about the new cases daily, and he’ll say: show me the death rate. The more you test, the more cases you’ll have.

If it’s really an epidemic, we’ll all get it at some point. Who among us has never had the flu? The most important part of the entire ordeal is, but yeah, did we die? Some will. But I also heard a story while in court this morning, about a guy who got his penis disintegrated in an electrical accident. Shit happens. We move on with our life. None of this is a reason (nor could there ever be a sufficient reason) to end the great experiment in freedom that is America. People have never been safer from death, nor more prosperous, in the entire history of the Earth.

In an obese, unhealthy state, as West Virginia is, why isn’t the Governor concerned with the almost 5,000 deaths per year in our state alone due to heart disease? I’m sure he could think of all sorts of executive orders which actually could help that problem, assuming it were legal for him to do so. He could be like Michael Bloomberg: No 32 ounce sodas (or “pop” as West Virginians generally call it); No more Mountain Dew (the pop, not the sweet nectar of mountain life) because it rots your teeth worse than the meth. Pepperoni rolls could have a mandatory minimum jail sentence. Would these restrictions save lives? Yes. We could have all Michelle Obama school lunches and Michael Bloomberg dinners, and it would no doubt save lives, in the context of heart disease prevention and treatment.

At some point, we’re going to have to say that enough is enough. I’m told that people are about to start getting fired, as well as getting arrested, based on the choice to not wear a mask. All based on the decision of the Governor. We’ll see what happens . . . .