Virus:
First of all, I want to address my lack of posts the past 3 weeks.
Shortly after my last post, my wife and I came down with the virus.
Four of our children are in Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. In late August, two of them caught the virus. Given their ages, they were considered low risk and after a few bad days they recovered and are now back at work and in class. My daughter, who had it pretty bad, is now playing soccer along with her twin sister who did not catch it even though they were all in the same room and, later, in the same apartment with utmost proximity. My other son did not catch it either.
Shortly thereafter, I flew to Texas and met my wife there, where it became our turn to deal with it. In my and my wife’s cases we both felt pretty bad including nausea and fever. Our son, daughter, and granddaughter were in the same house with us but they had natural immunity, having recovered from the virus previously. Actually, my daughter has not officially confirmed that she has had it, but believes she did, given the symptoms she suffered over a year ago.
Our eldest son, his wife, and our other daughter in Texas caught it separately and have recovered.
My wife and I were blessed to be in touch with doctors who are willing to treat this virus, which treatment we underwent. In addition, another son made an appointment for us to get a monoclonal infusion (antibodies). For what it’s worth, there were four of us in the room for infusion. The two others had been vaccinated, yet also caught the virus and their doctors had recommended the infusion. Given their ages, I was glad they had doctors who were willing to treat their patients.
Lillie and I are recovering well. We have been working in the farm and although we are more easily fatigued than before, each day our strength, endurance, and focus improve. At this rate, we should be back at 100% in the next week or two.
We thank all those who have prayed for our recovery.
Conclusions (strictly layman observations!):
If young (under 45), you will most likely be fine, unless you have comorbidities. This observation is repeated in many publications and even the CDC morbidity data reflects it (although I trust the CDC about as far as I can throw it). However, there is over the counter treatment for you as well, which will help you in your recovery.
If older (over 45), you are blessed if you are in touch with doctors who will treat you. Many doctors have rejected the CDC and other bureaucrats’ directives and have treated their patients with effective protocols. Several have testified their consternation as to why the medical profession in general blindly follows the CDC or Mayo or Hopkins, who have not issued their own protocols for treatment. Instead, they will instruct sick folks to rest and hydrate and if breathing becomes belabored, to go to a hospital (where the majority of the virus-related deaths have occurred). No treatment.
I have since learned that I am not the only one who thinks this is crazy.
The CDC’s own data tell us that survival rates for 0-19 age group is 99.9973%. For ages 60-69 it is 99.41%. The fact that our media refuses to report this doesn’t make it any less true.
This virus is a challenge but treatment is available and we urge you not to ignore that, should you get sick. Especially if older you are.
We wish the very best of health to you and yours.
Yuri Bezmenov
It is time to repost a 6-minute excerpt of an interview with Yuri Bezmenov (1939 – 1993), a KGB defector who after years of work with the Communist regime in the Soviet Union during which he grew to love the liberty of the West, defected in 1970, disguising himself as a hippie. His comments address the strategy of our enemies to demoralize us by creating chaos in our thinking and questioning our moral foundations.
The interview took place in 1984 and speaks to us today.
For those who are interested, I have also posted, further below, the full interview, which is well worth the time.
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
The next and final link is an interview of Aldous Huxley by Mike Wallace in 1958. Although I do not at all agree with Mr. Huxley’s fear of “overpopulation”, this disagreement does not blind me to his other observations, which are very prescient, as any reader of Brave New World will attest.
Major takeaway: Bureaucracy, state and/or corporate, will propagandize people to voluntarily give up their liberties.
Huxley believed that the “brave new world” that he wrote about can and will “come to these shores.” Even in 1958, considering the technological advances of that era, he is asked by a seemingly incredulous Wallace, “Why is it that you think that the wrong people” will use these instruments for evil ends? Although an atheist, Huxley’s reply comes close to the Calvinist understanding.
There is much more in the interview and it is healthy to challenge yourself to listen to a man and go through the exercise of refuting his errors while agreeing with some of his insights. Somewhat like the Apostle Paul when he quoted a pagan poet in Acts 17.
It is also bracing to hear Mike Wallace speak of the Soviet Union in 1958 as a “successful society” despite its lack of freedom. There was plenty of alternative reporting back then which, had Wallace been a bit more curious, would have disabused him of the deception of Soviet “success”.
In his letter to George Orwell in 1949 congratulating him for his book, 1984, Huxley wrote:
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s leaders will discover that … conditioning [is] more efficient … than prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”