Things are not going well, if not as bad as too many people are saying.
However, too many people are still panicking about owning or having their neighbors owning guns for self-defense. Here are thirteen reasons to be armed (that is, keep AND bear arms) during this crisis:
- Hundreds, even thousands of convicts and accused criminals awaiting trial are being released from jails and prisons around the Fifty States. They often have but one way of making a living: preying on the week. Often violently.
- Police forces have either publicly or actually reduced policing efforts, including making arrests, out of fear of exposure and because the accused will just be released. Fear of getting caught or shot by police for committing a crime is reduced.
- As police forces are threatened by the virus, their manning levels will drop. Even while demand for protection of medical centers, emergency supply distribution points, and those businesses that remain open increases. Response times will grow longer and longer.
- Store shelves have emptied and may remain empty. Desperate for food and other supplies, even “honest” but despairing people may resort to crime.
- As fewer and fewer stores are open, the potential for flash mobs and robbery of stores increases. Both from the permanent criminal element and from panicked “law-abiding” people. It may be far easier to get caught in a bad situation as a bystander.
- Many criminals will see opportunities to rob people in store parking lots and other areas when people are trying to buy supplies – not of their money but of the supplies. Other bystanders will be reluctant to help for fear of contamination.
- Businesses are closing, people are getting laid off and have no income. Again, many are and will be desperate and resort to criminal acts. You may become a target.
- In some communities, official or self-appointed “inspectors” and “emergency response” personnel may attempt home invasions to seize your food, supplies, weapons, and more. Anyone who seems to be better off may be a target.
- Panicked people respond and act irrationally. An armed society is a polite society. In a time of crisis, people are more likely to erupt into emotional and often violent behavior.
- Efforts by authorities to crack down and lock down some areas, together with areas with high flu rates, will cause a migration, often of very undesirable people, into other areas. As we saw with Houston during and after Katrina, this creates major problems and raises the potential need for armed defense.
- As hoarding and supply chain interruptions continue, and with the government printing money more and more for “economic support” prices will inevitably rise, and your home, your business, and your car becomes a more lucrative source of wealth to steal for fencing and trade.
- With growing chaos in society, extremist groups will see and take advantage of opportunities to further their own agendas. This may include violence and “fundraising.” In turn, this brings the potential backlash.
- In many urban areas, homeless shelters and breadlines are being closed, and homeless people seek shelter and food in more places as their usual locations are denied. This can result in invasions of businesses and homes.
Some of these thirteen reasons may seem far-fetched and even paranoid, but history shows how serious conditions can quickly become. And these are not the only problems. Consider that if food deliveries become more problematic, people will abandon pets, which will quickly become feral and willing to attack other animals, and even children, in hunger and fear.
All of these are reasons to make sure that we can defend ourselves, our families, our homes, and out businesses. There is virtually no substitute for a person trained and ready with a firearm on your person.
And if the balloon really goes up, all bets are off. Not just during the pandemic, but for a long time after.
COVID-19 treatment found?
Important news about treatment for COVID-19 – Please share
By Roger McCaffrey, shared by Tom Woods
Hydroxychloroquine, used in combination with Zithromax (and without), is being tested in several key medical centers right now for COVID-19. That is virtually an overnight development, and that means one thing: there are many successes.
While the New York Times and the major networks, in their unrelenting quest to destroy President Trump, dissed him for daring to mention an “unproven” drug a few days ago, he mentioned it with forethought. And yesterday, Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote another WSJ piece—which are memos to the President, among other things—in which he made the obvious urgent recommendation: “For the most promising drugs, we should scale up manufacturing before we know for sure if they work.”
Beneath his op-ed piece was this one by two prominent private sector doctors:
“THESE DRUGS ARE HELPING OUR COVID-19 PATIENTS”
The fact is that Hydroxychloroquine has proved successful, turning the lives around of many COVID-19 patients already. (Does it not count to CNN if they are French?) One was featured on Tucker Carlson’s show last night, Monday—it’s a must see, though, not because of the patient’s story, which was notable enough. Carlson interviewed the key government medical figure in this drama, the FDA chairman, who flatly declared that Hydroxychloroquine is available for COVID patients—the FDA is not in any doctor’s way.
This is absolutely vital for drug companies, hospitals and doctors, and their lawyers, scared ever [more] by the Times and the networks.
Carlson then interviewed Dr. Mark Siegel, who is a paid consultant but is also in clinical practice in New York. He said he would not hesitate to prescribe this drug for a COVID-19 patient.
Of crucial importance, Siegel notes, is the distinction between chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine—they are not the same, and it’s the latter that you want, a souped up version of the former, which is used for malaria.
Of equal importance but not stated on the show is that the patient who was dying was administered the drug by IV drip. Because it’s also available in pill form, you need to be aware that it’s not the same when time is of the essence.
Folks, I can’t stress enough, having dealt with timid and evasive pharmaceutical executives and medical specialists with my son’s life urgently on the line—with a brilliant new drug briefly withheld by Novartis because it was “unproven in children”—how important Carlson’s Monday program is going to be. He will never get the credit for what he’s done. But Carlson’s quick left-right combination of the FDA commissioner and Dr. Mark Siegel will embolden doctors and drug manufacturers alike…thereby saving many lives. Ditto the WSJ op-ed pieces mentioned above.
What the WSJ articles this past month are signaling, is that an intense political battle, over drugs that will save lives right now, is going on in the relevant agencies and the White House. You need to be aware of it. Trump watches Carlson, talks to both him and Gottlieb, and will also be encouraged. Remember, medical robots like Dr. Tony Fauci are not showing the president treatments that are working. They are instead lecturing him, as doctors do, and demonstrating their superiority to him, because they want to influence him (which he is inviting), and we all understand why.
And yet: appearances to the contrary, they don’t really give a darn whether you, your Dad, your daughter, live or die because they’ve held up a promising drug for an extra couple months. Friends: they do not give a darn about you. Some people do care about you. Unfortunately, just not the average medical bureaucrat in Washington or your state capitol.
You also need to line up a plan if you or a family member contracts the virus. Please do not automatically accept the protocol of your local hospital or doctor. These protocols were drawn up for the last virus, the last war—with zero reference to what is today saving patient lives.
You should also be aware of the near-100% success of blood serum antibody use by Johns Hopkins—and I’m certain now other scattered institutions—for COVID-19 patients who were likely dying. Do not meekly allow your local medical zeitgeist to kill you. It does not matter if you really like your doctor. That’s not relevant. Does he or she have courage and resolve? You might need that. You don’t need a protocol more suited to the SARS virus.
Nor should you assume that if somebody young in your family has the virus, it won’t be serious. Find out with bloodwork if the patient has decent IgG [An IgG deficiency is a health problem in which your body doesn’t make enough Immunoglobulin G (IgG) or antibodies] levels and chemistries. If you have baseline bloodwork on file, print it, get it out, have it handy, for any and all family members. On the margin, it could save a life. For example, if you have a tendency to lowish IgG levels, your COVID-19 doctor needs to made aware of it.
End of article by Roger McCaffrey
Nathan’s notes: In addition, see the following:
https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/old-malaria-drug-hydroxychloroquine-may-help-cure-coronavirus-study/
https://russia-insider.com/en/covid-test-results-30-minutes-russia-and-japan-have-invented-better-test-mass-testing-begin-april
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-malaria-treatment/2020/03/17/id/958693/
Nathan’s comments: Keep in mind that the media and many government officials have stated that this is all baloney – and in fact the governor of Nevada has BANNED any use of anti-malaria drugs for COVID-19 patients. Some have claimed this is nothing more than a Trump hoax. If death is imminent and doctors are refusing to treat someone because they are too old (as has been happening in northern Italy and is being threatened in the United Kingdom), and the drug is well-known and approved for other uses, I see absolutely no reason that treatment should be denied.
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