Freedom
Freedom is really difficult, if not impossible, to get back after it is taken away.
As CV-19 passes will all our Freedoms return as fast as they were taken away.?
Some are now saying that CV-19 might be seasonal, like the flu. If so, what will happen next year?
Dale Winters, Kapaa
Thank you for finding my phone
On Tuesday April 8, I was exercising by biking around the Poipu area when my phone which I use for tracking bike rides, fell of my bike. When I realized my phone was missing, I turned around retracing my route hoping I would see my phone laying on the side of the road. I was ready to give up finding it when a black pickup truck pulled up next to me. The man driving asked me if I was looking for a phone. He found it next to Kukuiula shopping center and then tracked me down. I never got your name but wanted to thank you for tracking me down and returning it. Aloha is still alive.
Gary Heinen, Koloa
She hasn’t seen road rage here
I was recently reminiscing about rush hour back when I commuted from Arlington, Texas, to North Dakota. I chose to arrive an hour early each day just to avoid the mental and emotional stress of rush hour. The advantage to my not riding with the herd was beginning each work day in a state of calm. I’d be on my second cup of coffee and finished checking my personal email at one minute to eight, when the herd would come roaring in through the doors, stressed out from jockeying for positions on the highway and bursts of road rage.
In my seven years of blessed retirement on Kaua‘i, even when I’ve traveled with the herd during rush hour, I have not seen road rage, and no one even plays race-car driver, zipping in and out of traffic to make time — mostly because it’s impossible to make time on a one-lane highway.
That’s why people live longer on Kaua‘i. Mahalo ke Akua.
Dorthy Kulik, Lihu‘e
Safeway, Petco keep pet-food shelves stocked
A big mahalo nui loa to the manager and staff at Safeway for keeping the dog food and cat food shelves very well-stocked.
To some of us older people, our pets are like our kids.
It is very stressful not to be able to provide enough food for our pets.
It was very reassuring to find it at Safeway.
Our pets depend upon us for food.
The manager at Petco has just over-stocked his shelves and has lots of dog food and cat food.
This was a wonderful surprise.
Another big mahalo nui loa to Petco.
Another store “who shall not be named” needs to follow their example.
Most on-line suppliers are out-of-stock or the food is not available.
We are so grateful to have Safeway and Petco.
Don’t forget your veterinarian also carries pet food.
Joyce Ogmundson, Lihu‘e
You say, “some are saying this flu virus will become seasonal like the flu, what will happen to us then?”
Well Dale, since we are ignorantly practicing social distancing and most of our businesses are shut, and you can’t even lay on the beach for getting essential Vitamin D from sun bathing, and Tutu is to be put in the shed without water, electric, or a toilet…and our economy may collapse nationwide or island wide.
…and since 90% who get exposure, that is, contract the virus, that is, become infected and have no symptoms, or mild symptoms, or need only bedrest, and…
…since those who are infected and become severely ill, or die, are over 65 and have preconditions of chronic degenerative disease and are what should be called High Risk…
…and those at High Risk, are those who probably would have avoided High Risk had they avoided alcohol, tobacco, and drugs, senseless eating of a lifetime, or at least decades, of non nutrient food such as fast food, junk food, sugar foods, snacks, sodas, and even excessive daily eating of dairy and animal meat…the latter 2 at least contributing to the 2 main killers in America of Heart and Vascular (stroke) Disease followed by #2 Cancer, and what you’d never think…#3 Is cause of death is Medical Care…wherein they have convinced 80% of the American population that you need to take 1 or more Prescription Drugs per day, and 55% of Americans to take 4 or more prescription drugs per day, and some even taking 10 and 15 and more prescription drugs per day along with self medication of over the counter drugs from the Pharmacy shelves…wherein many of the prescription drugs are for countering the side effects of the other prior drugs one is being prescribed by their doctor…
…and since the Health of our nation is being dictated by doctors and Pharmaceutical companies and their laboratories, in order sell drugs to manage, but NOT to get well from, the diseases that are allowed to go on for a lifetime, and are what people at High Risk of death from what otherwise would be, as it is, just another bout with the flu, that the majority have no symptoms (don’t feel ill), or have only mild symptoms, or need only bed rest…
…we are foolishly allowing those who make their money from people who are sick, to tell us what to do when there is what is just another flu going around…
…we are foolishly letting those who get rich on the sick…stop us from staying well and getting immunity to Internally defend ourselves against this and other upcoming new flu’s whether made by nature or man made.
…doctors and drug companies make $ Trillions of dollars treating millions of Americans every year with the flu, and they, year after year, watch up to 35,000 people a year die, and this year the count is said to be at 50,000 dead and this is besides the CoVid19 Corona virus…and 650,000 die worldwide from seasonal flu.
…as well another 260,000 Americans die from medical errors per year…
…are these the people we want managing the unnecessary and avoidable diseases in our nation Including this flu virus…We are a sick and weak nation susceptible to the flu, based on the trillions of chemical drug prescriptions Issued each year…?
…we allow politicians who take advice from doctors who can only make money when people are sick…their medical business motive is to keep you sick, the “We have Drugs for you” is a patent “Spin Doctor” scam…no is sick because they do not have enough drugs.
So you ask what will happen to us…?
Well, since flu has been a worldwide yearly, and really all year round Continuing sickness in both northern and Southern Hemispheres, with domestic and international travel constantly ongoing year round, and this flu pandemic is not as severe as the regular seasonal flu…First off what the heck are we in livid FEAR about…this is just a repeat of all the years before just with media hype to drive the timid into FEAR OBSESSION and shmooze us with crowd control And loss of Civil Liberties on the majority of us…the very majority who have proven this flu virus has only caused NO SYMPTOMS, MILD SYMPTOMS, or only BEDREST.
…and since people flow in and out of America and especially Hawaii for both business and tourism with no greater ill effect than what we are experiencing today…and whose to say that the numbers told to us are accurate…we haven’t seen numbers like this on TV sInce the Vietnam War Dead on both sides, the 58,000 US Soldiers and the Vietnamese 2,000,000 mostly civilians.
…well what we can expect with social distancing, quarantine, and isolation from world travelers as tourists and business people, as a state of islands 5,000 miles from Asia and the South Pacific populations, and 2,500 miles from the Mainland and North America, and further to Europe and South America…They’ve all been coming for a 100 years as tourists with and without the flu, so why now are we freaking out…
…what we Can expect is that we will have immune system NON-Experience, no exposure to this CoVid19 flu virus…and when it comes back next year, perhaps even stronger, and due to no exposure this year, we will have ZERO IMMUNITY next year and this whole thing will start all over again next year with the same High Risk seniors dying again, with the same foolish quarantine and isolation and this ridiculous social distancing, no can even lie in the sun…too receive Vitamin D from the sun’s interaction with our skin, and the same people will make money off the sick…as intended.
…our loss of civil liberties and freedom, just for the wealthy medical industry to make even more money, and spread more fear (of the unknown)…
…for you see, in order to have NO symptoms, or only MILD symptoms, or need ONLY bed rest, YOU NEED EXPOSURE TO THE VIRUS THIS YEAR, because exposure, which is infection, causes an automatic internal immune system response wherein our own immune defensive cells attack the virus, disable it, excrete it, and then replicate and multiply Our own defensive cells by the billions if not trillions, Our own immune cells that already have proven effective this year against the virus…by virtue of the over 90+% who got No Symptoms, or. Mild Symptoms, or needed only bedrest. Even the majority of those hospitalized went home after hospital bed rest…
…and that is your IMMUNITY, for now, and for next year, and on and on which often is lifetime immunity…just like the Lifetime Immunity you got from having the Measles, the Mumps, and the Chicken Pox.
…Remember when Mother Nature makes a flu virus, it is a natural flu virus, proven to be defended against by the 90+% who get none to mild symptoms or need only bed rest…but the man made virus, whether made in Wuhan, China, or the USA laboratories…are synthetic man made virus, they are actually a VACCINE, made to mimic a natural virus.
…if this is a Wuhan or USA virus…it is just another VACCINE GONE WILD…so be aware, stay away from VACCINES, they can be dangerous and deadly and are made by people and prescribed by people who make money and wealth only if they can arrange for you to be sick.
…America needs a Health Care System…not a Disease Care System…like the Disease Care System we have now, wherein there is a profit motive to make and keep people sick with lifetime drug prescriptions, such as blood pressure and diabetes and depression drugs, etc., and so on.
…what else we can expect is that 1 of the over 200 laboratories trying to make a synthetic virus right now will be first to make the money, and when you GET the VACCINE, you will get the card saying FREE TO TRAVEL, whether to Polihale or Haena, or Vegas or Europe, Japan, or China, and shake another person’s hand, while the rest of us and the businesses will remain on lockdown, while wise but Un-Vaccinated GrandMa will remain in the shed with no toilet…and the Gestspo will be “manning” the Roadblocks asking for your VACCINE CARD to leave the house. Let’s hope we won’t need a Vaccine Card to buy groceries.
Health is not found nor taught at hospitals or doctor offices…that’s why you always leave with a drug prescription instead of a RECIPE for food that provides you more Health.
It’s OK to rely on Mother Nature, who is God’s personal representative on Earth, she has been here keeping things in balance since the first day, only till manKine cam along, the only species, that began to mess things up.
Stay with Nature…be sure to SWARE everyday:
Sun Water Air Rest Exercise
Eat Live Natural Food…avoid dead things…!
Rid your life of added sugar, chemicals in and on your food whether on the table, the shelf, or from the farm.
Get off of the foolish, childness, immature fake need for Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs…!
Live Alive, don’t accept a sick slow death.
Physician means Teacher, of Life and Health…we all need to find one…!
Take the Natural Path.
Well said, Charlie. Couldn’t agree more with everything you said…
God help us if anyone mistakes quantity for quality and believes any of the ton of misinformation contained in this rant produced by a quack without so much as a Community College physiology course. These are serious times. A bored twelve year old who yells fire in a theater would quickly be escorted out and this piece of writing should be escorted off this page!
Charlie…no symptoms, eh? Well, it is that person who passes it on to our kapuna! As long as you are well, who cares, right?
Here’s the good news!
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/far-worse-come-covid-19-collapse-state-local-governments
So all that economic destruction in the face of this:
“According to the CDC’s website, in March 2020 there were a total of 193,000 deaths in the US. The average number of deaths in the US for March over the four years prior to 2020 (2016 – 2019) is 227,000. The difference between this year and the average for the past four years is 34,000. 2020 deaths are 85% of the average of the prior four years.” And that includes all 4000 covid deaths.
Just doesn’t seem right.
RG DeSoto
Did you break those deaths down by cause? You think maybe fewer car accidents and other diseases that transfer via contact might also go down due to the efforts in place?
Freedom means absolutely nothing if your lungs are full of fluid, there are no ventilators to help you breathe, and there are no nurses or doctors to assist you because they all died trying to contain an outbreak while nimrods refused to stay home.
Perhaps some PERSPECTIVE and PRIORITY ADJUSTMENT is in order if all you can think about is whether all of your freedoms will be returned to you ASSUMING you don’t die from the deadly disease!
Honestly…I really don’t understand the pathological “thinking” at work with some people.