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Amy Acton gets The Spirit of Columbus Award: She should be prosecuted for terrorism

On the same day lawsuits were announced against Amy Acton the Columbus Foundation gave her The Spirit of Columbus Award for essentially being an economic terrorist. Gotta’ watch why people give you awards. Often it is a pat on the head like a dog well behaved. That the Columbus Foundation would reward her in such a way says a lot about the Columbus Foundation and what kind of society they support. And to give Acton the kind of award that had previously went to great aviators like Jerrie Mock and author Michelle Alexander is that ultimate pat on the head for a job well done by a girl who went from homeless squatter to tyrant of Ohio’s economy to serve the needs of an ill defined greater good only now obvious when awards like this are given out as 22 million people across the nation collect unemployment largely because they followed her actions over a cliff to their doom. While Amy Acton could only take a back seat to the President of the United States and his defunct Health Department advisors who started this mess to begin with, it was Ohio who started the stay at home orders by first closing down restaurants early in the process, which governors across the country followed willingly. Acton led Governor DeWine down a path of utter nonsense exhibiting the ultimate fears of an out of control nanny state and for that she gets rewarded, even as lives everywhere are utterly destroyed and businesses eliminated from economic recovery all in making mistake after mistake with global models that showed Covid-19 being much more deadly than it truly was.

Each day since Amy Acton has preached like a bunch of religious fanatics at 2 PM from the capital hosted by the Governor demeaning messages of compliance, social distancing, and staying home to save lives and keep the capacity of our hospitals down to a bare minimum by wrecking our economy in the process it is astonishing that organizations like the Columbus Foundation aren’t furious with her, instead of giving her prestigious awards. The gesture is out of touch at best, but troubling once analyzed, because its obvious that the activism Acton displayed are those that the Foundation supported, a socialist takeover of our economy in Ohio and the state controlling the means of production. Karl Marx would be very proud; this was his dream after all, and it was Amy Acton who whispered in the Governor’s ear the entire time. It was Acton who attached Ohio to the mistakes the world was making with Covid-19 with its medical approach instead of allowing the innovation of America’s healthcare system to flex its muscle, it was artificially constrained with bureaucrats which has harmed the lives of many more people than that Covid-19 outbreak would have taken. As history looks backward at the actions of Acton and Dr. Doom from the CDC it will see a nation that had largely had Covid-19 as early as November and December of 2019 and had developed herd immunity, and that the surge that Amy Acton and many other health professionals were predicting was completely wrong. We know that now by the models, which always had social distancing as part of the calculous. The decision to follow the rest of the stupid world into staying home to slow the spread was an intentional act of terrorism to support liberal causes such as climate change and universal healthcare by placing administrative constraints on hospitals by federal and state government tampering that ended up destroying huge sectors of our national economy, and for that she gets a prestigious award?

As any good manager knows, capacity is limited not so much in machinery, but in willingness. Labor always talks about constraints when they just aren’t willing in manufacturing to work 24 hours a day 7 days a week. A decision to only work 4 hours, or 8 hours total, or like a lot of nurses do, work three 12 hour days and then tell the public that a hospital is constrained by healthcare workers unwilling to work more, or to hire more new labor because the rest of the staff wants the job security of a lack of competition is what I call an artificial constraint. At no time during the Covid-19 outbreak were Ohio hospitals overloaded with need. And the effort to take over convention centers in the three largest cities never needed based on the bad forecasts provided by Amy Acton. The entire time when Acton spoke of hospital capacity, she wasn’t talking about hospital beds, she was talking about the willingness of the workers to embrace the challenges of a surge in activity. It was essentially just another marketing tactic similar to a school levy plan to promote teachers as the heroes that save our children from ignorance by allowing labor unions and their socialist philosophy to destroy their minds with money stolen from our property values. I know a lot of nurses. I wouldn’t want to wipe the ass of sick patients and some of the other duties they perform, but they aren’t exactly the smartest people in the world. Even the best educated doctors from those hospital cultures aren’t the kind of people you want deciding what capacity is and how a state or federal government should address it. Heck, they are people who have difficult times figuring out what they are going to have for lunch. They certainly aren’t good at budgets, except to always ask for more. When someone like Amy Acton comes along to put a unique issue like Covid-19 on the table, its not for the actual danger it poses to society, but how much funding can flow into that ill defined capacity that the labor of healthcare workers are espousing is a limiting condition, limited by their own complacent efforts.

It is an insult to call healthcare workers heroes for being on the front lines of an artificially propped up labor crises exhibited by Amy Acton when the real heroes of society are headed for the unemployment lines based on bad advice from doctors who had a taste of power given to them by weak-kneed politicians. Amy Acton was there to promote the efforts of the healthcare worker with an ultimate goal of bringing more money in their direction. Labor unions in general have their many lobbyists in Columbus and for the healthcare profession, that is essentially what Amy Acton was—using a medical concern in Covid-19 to lobby on behalf of artificial capacity need by the medical community for funds not yet allocated, but are now certainly on the front burner. Teachers have their teacher’s union for similar concerns and funding need. But who is standing up for the real heroes who make society tic, the businesspeople who now have their lives destroyed by an out-of-control government who sat on them with a fat ass nanny state and crushed them into begging for help from that same government just to live. Who is giving them awards for trying to keep people employed and fighting to keep people from being just another unemployment statistic? Amy Acton knows what she has done, and she and DeWine have to play along with the danger of the Covid virus prevention with continued social distancing and steps to get our economy back together not because of any real threat, but so that people don’t see how stupid it all was from the beginning. And obviously many organizations don’t want to have such a thought of reality stamped on their forehead. So rather than prosecute Amy Acton for negligence, they are giving her awards so that nobody has to face the real music that Covid-19 was never really a threat. The most dangerous threat was the mistakes made by a tyrannical, unchecked government throwing due process out the window all because the decision makers were terrified losers—led by Amy Acton. That is a truth they can never face because if people start feeling that way, there will be even worse justice to come for those thus complicit. And nobody in power presently wants that fate.

Rich Hoffman

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Mark Welch Questions Covid-19 in West Chester: The aftermath

You can hear the pain in Mark Welch’s voice at a recent meeting of the trustees in West Chester, Ohio where they discussed the Covid-19 nightmare that has shut down the economy of the region for reasons that made little sense to anybody. Mark is running for the 52nd congressional seat in Ohio that will take place by mail-in ballot by April 27th, and after watching this very sincere video where the topic of this discussion starts at the 1 hour and 15 minute mark, it is clear why I support him in the election. Mark also is a small business owner and he’s not happy, like many people aren’t. They don’t understand why their livelihoods have been robbed by shutting down the American economy, and more specifically, why Governor DeWine of Ohio has gone several steps further than the Presidential guidelines to lead the nation into a travesty of economic doom that we now know will be somewhat alleviated on May 1st when Ohio will re-open for business once President Trump laid down the federal guidelines for such an activity. Even political insiders like Mark are perplexed as to what just happened, and why. It has rocked the world this whole reaction to the global pandemic called Covid-19 out of Wuhan, China, but as Americans we expected better, and what we got was a fresh taste of harsh communism by tyrants we thought where our friendly neighbors and we have had the sharp, and sinister breath of death down our backs by a new generation of brownshirts, most of them working in our media.

Of the governors who dealt with the Covid-19 situation best, it was South Dakota’s Kristi Noem. She was heavily criticized by that new generation of brownshirts who were obvious Chinese communist sympathizers in the media because Kristi defended the Constitution to the very last moment and as a result, people respected her and the coronavirus cases were greatly minimized in that state which is more rural than most. But the results overall were very effective. Obviously the brownshirts in the media wanted her head on a plate for not following the national shutdown through peer pressure that ironically started with a Republican governor in DeWine who wanted to be the first to race to the bottom of everything you shouldn’t do as a governor. Kristi resisted it and certainly came out on top as one of the best Republican governors as a result. The governors of South Carolina and Texas also did well. But the worst was Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan who essentially became a modern version of history’s most vicious tyrants using the threat of the coronavirus to enact very rigid climate change proposals straight off the pages of the New Green Deal. It was communism here in America bypassing any legislature considerations through emergency order to rule by force, and it was disgusting. Kentucky was a close second behind Whitmer.

The truth of the matter was that the virus was never that scary. I said so much very early in the process and if I could see it, everyone else could too. DeWine should have known better as the political leader in Ohio. Its one thing to listen to a liberal climate change activist like Amy Acton, the Ohio Health Director, it’s quite another to give her a blank check to set policy under a state of emergency stress and to let her ruin the lives of millions to save a few hundred people. The rationale for the whole endeavor never made logical sense because the premise was rooted in emotion over one political topic marketed by the World Health Organization for big international objectives that were never really about the virus itself. It was about changing human behavior from the outset by using fear to control that behavior. So being right about the origins of the virus and who was to blame, I’ll also say that the continued methods outlined to return to normal is just Dumbo’s feather again. “You can fly if only you hold this feather, you can return to work if only you social distance, and wash your hands.” Its been a scam from the beginning to spread communism into the free markets of the West and now that everyone can see it, the governors have to walk back out of the mess they have put themselves in to have some success at saving face.

But its too late for that, the governors who most ruined their economy by shutting down everything and ruling with an iron fist the people of their state have Hell to pay. They have not been collecting sales tax. In Florida, which runs off tourism, the Disney Company has lost tens of millions per day due to the shutting down of the economy which surely delighted the climate activists which that company had been a part of, especially with its ownership of ABC News. Now they have felt the sting of liberal activism during an attempted takeover by communism to rule in America. Once there were a few protestors in Ohio that started on April 9th going to Columbus by a handful to let DeWine know they were sick of the shutdowns and destruction of the jobs there, Michigan became even bolder and emerged on Lansing in large numbers to protest the very progressive Whitmir. It didn’t take long for the pitchforks to come out which alarmed even the most staunch communist advocate at the World Health Organization—and their “save the world by staying home together” campaign. Americans will do just about anything to save a life in the short run, but once they smell the fish in the water, they will be looking for someone’s ass to sling from a flagpole and that is where we find ourselves and the governors know it, especially the ones who screwed up the most. They must continue to pretend that all these measures to avoid the Covid-19 virus are still valid because if people find out that they were scammed all along, things will get even worse, far worse. You can’t take people’s jobs and stuff them in their homes hiding like a bunch of cowards for over a month and expect everything to work out well. The reckoning is coming for them and they are hoping that they can keep the boogie man alive just long enough to save themselves.

I think of this whole thing as beneficial. Most people doubt that the things I say about the push for communism was real in America, because they don’t see the effort in their lives. They know the Channel 12 reporters and might go have a drink with them under normal conditions and think of them as friends. But the moment the governors put down lockdowns, unconstitutional lockdowns at that, the local media went around and attempted to shame businesses into compliance and even beat on their chests about terrorizing children at playgrounds. The police wouldn’t come to a home out of fear of coronavirus to conduct law enforcement in the city of Cincinnati, but they sure would show up to put police tape around a playground in a public park so kids out of school couldn’t play on it. And if a company had a Covid case, they were quick to place the information on the front page of the news attempting to make a minor viral outbreak into a death sentence to shame the employer into closing to join the rest of the economy in stopping completely. But it was never real, it was all pure emotion and now people can see that for themselves, and the real fear now is not of the virus, but of the people’s lives ruined by trusting public officials who abused their power and now must face the music reluctantly after playing their part in destroying America for foreign enemies who made the effort all too enticing through stupidity, greed, and a hunger for being little dictators in the long lineage of such people that have evolved out of communism. It wasn’t the virus that ended up being so dangerous coming out of China, it was their ideas of communism that came from the World Health Organization to promote the idea as a reaction to the virus and split America in two literally, and in many ways, violently.

Rich Hoffman

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Parental Government Didn’t Know Best: And now we must rebel against such fools and losers

Not sure where Governor DeWine gets off thinking he needs to tell us what we need to do to be safe going out into public, but I moved out of my parent’s house like 35 years ago. I do not need a daddy to care for me. And I certainly don’t need a bunch of health freaks to tell me that my going out of my house is a risk to the lives of everyone else. This nonsense has gone on for far too long, and let me remind everyone reading, I was one of the first in the country to point out what many are just figuring out about the coronavirus out of China, that it was a false flag of nonsense. Sure, the virus was real, but it certainly wasn’t the killer they made it out to be, it has been well within the statistical zone of regular illnesses, and it certainly wasn’t justified to shut down the world as a reaction to it. The cost to the economy was a self imposed decision and many governors like DeWine fell for it completely and believed with their Christian upbringings that they were all that stood in between life and death of the people they were governing, which turned them into nightmarish tyrants all in the name of safety. And now that the pressure is very intense to re-open new considerations are emerging, which I have also been saying for a long time, well before anybody else was saying it, the cost is upon us and no governor wants to deal with the impact of that.

I must remind readers here what an overman is, which is indicated by the title. On occasions in the past I have covered it, but it’s been a while. It’s necessary now to articulate due to the flamboyant nature of my early predictions on Covid-19 and how I was able to see what many were not so soon in the process. The truth is that my goal, and the intention of this site of communication was never to be an “everyman” or an “average man” or a person stuck in the sauce of humanity. I’m the guy who grew up going to Bible school every Sunday and would skip the section of the “Jesus Loves Me” song when it came to “we are weak but he is strong, Yes, Jesus loves me.” I was 4 and 5 years old when I started realizing that even religions in life were conditioning people’s minds to be weak, complacent, and to shape them into sheep to be led to slaughter. An “overmanwarrior” is someone who can see the big picture, perhaps not even from just the vantagepoint of a Godlike view of life on earth but within the universe, or even perhaps the multiverse—on the grandest scale possible—and fights for a sense of justice within that big view concept.

I see plenty of flaws in our constitutional republic as America was formed, but it is by far the best thing to come from the mind of mankind since its inception and its worth fighting for so that is my perspective on these kinds of problems. And with that in mind it was not hard to see the origins of this Covid-19 scam for what it was in the beginning, a communist push to change behavior all over the world with an intention to crush the American economy and thus our way of life and I have found it quite insulting to live through. It’s precisely why some governors in the United States like the Michigan lunatic Gretchen Whitmer took the good intentions of the Covid-19 outbreak recommendations and turned them into environmental, Green New Deal objectives preventing people from even visiting each other’s homes during the stay at home orders, and put a ban on using motorized vehicles for recreation while allowing sailboat use and canoes. The obvious insanity was an attack on our American way of life and people have a very good reason to be angry.

So I am quite comfortable taking the big view on everything I do and to frame a problem in that way for solutions, and as I also said in the beginning of this Covid mess, the worst aspect of it would not be the lives destroyed through the economy, the misery of being stuck in our homes by overzealous, panicky governors or even the fear of death by a little virus hyped up by a media hungry for ratings and a political objective—the worst to come would be the budget breaking tax revenue that states run off of which were clearly part of the plan when Bill Gates was working with the World Health Organization to create a change state scenario around the world that would unleash Agenda 21 from the United Nations into literally every home and property owner that existed and to control them for the benefit of bringing all cultures to an environmental target of zero emissions. The six foot, or even three-foot social distancing was never to save lives you must understand dear reader, not in the context they presented the strategy. Its not our lives they ever wanted to save, it’s the earth from their warped science perspective that they wanted to preserve, they wanted to keep you from “it” by staying in our homes, not driving around in cars creating emissions, and showing that centralized authority could manage the world unified under a crises for the intentions of communism as defined by China, who made a power move to remain a world power, and perhaps to be the only one.

Dumb, gullible people like Ohio’s governor Mike DeWine bought the add and was used as a tool to implement this psycho nonsense off the global advice of Amy Acton and now he has led us in Ohio to a terrible place. He’s worried about a few people getting sick as we get the economy going again—which we never should have shut down at all to save a single life, when the real problem is the crushing weight of the budget deficits that will go on for many years to come. Amy Acton will return to her bedside to read her unfinished Joseph Campbell books—which I have read every one of them many, many times over, while Governor DeWine, the good “moderate” Republican will go down in history as a tax and spend liberal much worse than John Kasich who crushed Ohio’s economy needlessly for many years to come. He got played by hostile global powers and his desire to “father knows best” us into safety for our own goods literally destroyed far more lives than he ever could have saved filled with good intentions, but as the saying goes, he drove us straight into Hell.

The Michigan protests against the tyrant Whitmer was more than justified, and I expect we’ll see a lot more of it. Ohio has started to have some little rallies to protest DeWine, which were kind of ridiculous with everyone observing the social distancing guidelines that have now become a legal parameter even though the concept has never seen a debate in congress or any real elected body for that matter. The World Health Organization you can bet spent many long nights trying to figure out how to spread a viral panic that would bypass all local governments and unite the world with a crises that looked to them for a new governmental leadership and DeWine let Amy Acton take him straight to their doorstep placing us all under a spell of doom that we’ve never seen in our lives.

And it was sold to us as a parental premise that was more insulting than dying of the virus itself should anybody succumb to the effects. Never again should the United States listen to any global playbook as Amy Acton did in Ohio, or any governor’s staff might recommend to them from anything coming out of the United Nations. If we didn’t come up with the strategy in America, we shouldn’t be doing it. And that is the end of the story for all future interactions. If these governors don’t adhere to our state and federal constitutions, then we are not legally bound to support their efforts of leadership, and we do have an obligation to go much further than the people of Michigan did. If the rules don’t come from the people of the United States, then to hell with the rules and the people trying to push them off on us. Any governor who looks to some global power for guidance is one that has made themselves a domestic enemy as defined by our Constitution and that’s how we must treat them.

Rich Hoffman

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The Good Thing about Covid-19: Kids didn’t have to go to public schools

There have been some good things to come out of this international shutdown of our economy. People have learned how non-essential they really are, especially public-school teachers. Think of the next time one of their teacher unions demand a strike and shut down their school and parents must scramble how to find a babysitter to watch their kids during the day, the solution has presented itself. Parents can just stay home and work from there and can solve both problems rather easily. When government shut down our economy a new precedent has been established, and that will also be the case for the next time there are budget battles where anything in government shuts down. We have learned not to care because we have had to face the fact of not having those services for several months now, and can now adapt rather easily to labor shortages coming out of government, one of the most non-essential employer bases anywhere in the world. So, the next time teachers strike and walk off the job over pay to “save the children” with their education, we can just home school them as the nation has been doing, and we’ll have a plan because we’ve had to do it for a sustained period of time and it won’t be hard.

The best thing to come out of the whole shutdown is that we’ve broken a kind of spell on children stuck in public schools for a significant part of their life typically must endure painfully. I can imagine how wonderful it has been for many of them to have essentially the entire spring and summer off. As we all know, the things that make a public-school experience even somewhat useful are the dances, sports and other social programs that come with them. When my wife and I were raising our kids and we homeschooled for a significant amount of time we had just about every family member in an outrage because they felt we were denying our kids access to these public social events. In the post-world of social distancing where many so quickly accepted that such things were actually a deadly encounter, the denial of not having access to school dances will never have the same kind of value. Kids were always far better off not going to those kinds of things and the poison going into their minds from public education has now been broken and going back to how things were will be difficult for everyone, especially now that we have all witnessed how useless many of those jobs really are. It was already bad enough that schoolteachers were paid to be off all summer long, now adding an entire spring to the mix shows just how useless many of those positions really were. Parents have had to spend that extra time with their kids and learned that its not so bad, and if they find they can’t leave them home by themselves, then they can just work from home with their employers like most everyone is doing presently. Even employers have learned how to solve these kinds of problems and who they really need physically present, and who they don’t.

I remember how great it was to get one snow day and be able to stay home from school, to break the spell of public education and be able to choose anything you wanted to do with your day in the middle of the week. It was wonderful. I can’t imagine how great it was for kids to learn that they were going to be free of the public education menace for weeks, if not months—perhaps for the rest of the year. I’m sure there are kids who are paying attention to the coronavirus drama just so they can make sure they won’t have to attend school until the fall of 2020. We have all had to deal with the unimaginable with this virus shutdown and have learned that none of these things were nearly as bad as we used to think of them, like not having the school as a free babysitter, and teaching kids from home instead of the government programming that typically goes on. We have learned that much of what government does for us isn’t essential at all and the next time they try to have parades justifying their labor strikes we can just blow them off as a waste of our time, because they are. The employees in those fields may be just as excited as the kids in being out of school and on vacation for much of the rest of the year, and still getting paid but think of the next school levies where teacher pay is the prime issue. People have learned to live without them, and I don’t see them voting for many tax increases when parents have now learned they can do the job themselves and likely get permission from their employer to stay home to do it.

It will be difficult, if not impossible to erase this experience from the minds of the young people who have experienced it. For most of us our public educations were a consistent drum beat of liberalized programming that we experienced from our early childhoods to our early adulthoods. A break like what we have seen over Covid-19 was never an option so it will be interesting to see how minds not so corrupted for such a long time behave in a post Covid-19 world. For most people their paralysis over the government stupidity in shutting down the world and so blindly adhering to the United Nations Agenda 21 strategies started with those public educations that taught us to take orders, stand in line and behave and to not question authority started in those classrooms and have not been good for us. Too many people were way too quick to just accept that the government knew what it was doing, and as each state’s governors were in competition to become the next tyrant people treated them as they would a bad teacher in school, by just sitting quietly and hoping to get through the class without being punished. They held their breath and just took every draconian measure when what was required is a good ass kicking by the public toward their elected representatives. There were some real tyrannical problems coming out of Michigan, Kentucky, California and Illinois by liberal Democrats who let the power of the nationwide shutdown go to their heads. And we learned to accept those abuses in public school. It will be interesting to see how this break has boosted up the minds of the kids now attending their school age endurance with much more self-empowering options.

I’ve been saying for a very long time that staying home was a much better way to teach kids, and that the entire public education experience was a waste of time. Well, now people can see that for themselves, their kids didn’t melt, they certainly haven’t lost opportunities to learn new things. And spending more time with their families has been the best thing to come out of Covid-19, because kids need to be raised by their parents, not the state. Certainly not a lot of lazy minded schoolteachers being paid by the state to make products of the state who will then serve the state as adults blindly and without any rebellious thoughts. What we get out of public education is entirely non-essential and that will certainly play a part in future funding debates. Why pay those idiots fortunes to do a job we can do better ourselves from home? And the answer to that question will change the world for the better for sure.

Rich Hoffman

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Covid-19 is a Massive Failure of Government: What to do when you can’t trust them

At a bare minimum what we have learned not just in the United States, but around the world, is not just the various conspiracies surrounding the implementation of the Covid-19 virus for all kinds of reasons, but in the failure of government and why at best we can’t trust a word that comes out of their mouths. Obviously, we need government to manage things, but by default, the people it attracts are not very good at their jobs and we should keep them only focused on really dumb and silly things, because that’s all they can handle. We should never turn over complex issues to government because they have proven many times, they can’t handle the stress of real problems. And what was exposed under the Covid-19 outbreak was the blind leading the blind into Hell by overreaction and a quick surrender of constitutional liberties by thoughtless, unimaginative bureaucrats exposed of their weaknesses wanting to hide in public sector jobs because the private was too scary for them. And we should take this lesson and build our lives with the least amount of government in it for the rest of the time that humans occupy the earth and migrate out into space where those same lessons must be held very close to private liberty. Because it is within private liberty that all culture and aspects of goodness spring forth and that is what all of us as human beings must protect.

I woke up on the morning of April 9th to a world paralyzed by government hiding in their homes due to a social distancing rule that the governors of the United States had taken way too far. A series of storms had swept through southern Ohio creating a lot of damage and making matters worse on those people stuck in their homes with power outages and you could feel the strain of people suffering under this lunacy. On my street alone there have been three families who have spun out of control and moved into divorces. There are many others who have had to have the police come to break up domestic violence issues where the police have had to manage hot tempers ready to snap. It was on that same day that I had an appointment at the Butler County Sheriff’s office to do some CCW management which I was looking forward to more than ever. Unlike my feelings in the past maintaining my CCW license seemed like a last line of defense to help the police more than it ever had because the mismanagement of the Covid-19 crises had shown some ugly aspects of human behavior that makes a complete meltdown all too possible. Government had let down people who trusted it leaving people broken and without jobs and pushed up against each other needlessly causing damage to people and their families that will last decades. And the very fine line that keeps us all functioning in a civil society had revealed itself to be much thinner than anybody really thought.

Then to think what it would be like if the villains behind this Covid-19 outbreak had done such a thing when President Trump wasn’t in office? Such as a Barack Obama or a future version of that socialist leaning progressive activist. We would have witnessed a very fast decline of American culture and a complete suspension of our constitutional liberties all in the name of safety. That is in fact what the governors have done and they would have went much further if Trump had not been the president. Trump himself was rocked by the radicalism that surrounded him. The CDC doctors pulled him in and used him for a platform to advocate for their desired destruction of the American economy, consistent with the plans Bill Gates has advocated for years—openly. No conspiracy needed, the guy has not been shy about what he was up to and he had the CDC doctors wrapped around his finger and all Trump could do was play along until he could figure out where it has all been coming from. As it turns out, Trump is correct to go after the World Health Organization. For anybody who read Glenn Beck’s book Agenda 21 many years ago, which was a dystopian warning of what Agenda 21 coming out of the United Nations was intending for us all, we were witnessing that takeover in live time. Only it was coming from the WHO instead of the UN. And without question this Covid-19 was done when it was hoping to stress out the Trump administration and pull away his base during an election year. For the activists, their chance was 2020 or perhaps never, so they took their shot and now we are all paying for it.

The thing we all need to be concerned with is that government has these powers and these forces always at play. We can speculate on the validity of a two party system and what political beliefs are, but when that debate crosses over into our everyday lives and looks to alter our happiness, then we have some decisions to make about protecting ourselves from those diabolical schemes. For instance, Dr. Fauci, an unelected bureaucrat who advises President Trump on behalf of the CDC decided that he didn’t want to let natural herd immunity take place on the virus, he wanted to push the countries of the world toward a government managed vaccine approach which is a decision made by the CDC without legislation and to get the president to go along with it, and to destroy our economy they terrified him with huge, inflated “scientific” models that they said would equate to millions of body bags of dead Americans. Sounds like terrorism to me.

We will debate the whos, whats and wheres for years to come, but what we do know is that government failed us in a massive way and we must respond to it. For me I felt an enormous satisfaction in dealing with my CCW business on my birthday by visiting the Sheriff’s station and interacting with the police there. You might think they would think, “oh great, here’s another danger to society carrying around a gun.” But the officer working with me had the opposite reaction and we had a nice talk about being one of the few things open left in the world. Sheriff Jones has his office working well, and they are happy to get help from first responders with CCWs who can help maintain that very thin line in a crises when the world does fall apart as it was on the morning of April 9th 2020 which 1 out of every 10 jobs were being lost, the economy turning even further south moment by moment, divorces escalating, domestic violence erupting and no end in sight to the home lockdowns.

Then to make matters worse, many people in the Cincinnati area had lost power and couldn’t even turn on the television or cook their food. They were essentially tossed back to the days of the scavenger pioneer and for modern suburban dwellers, it was a death sentence. Government had failed no matter who was to blame for the start of the virus and that failure was destroying lives every hour by the hour 24 hours a day for as long as this whole thing went on. And the fault we can all agree on is the government response to it, the artificial restrictions that were created that we will see again. And its at that point that we must draw a line and tell them, “No.”

Rich Hoffman

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“Social Distancing” was always a Scam: The new kind of terrorists in the world

My job in life is a problem solver and what I do on this site for free is because I enjoy helping people who can’t help themselves. I would not limit myself to an overly specialized field of understanding, such as to be a doctor. I would be bored out of my mind for one, and two, I wouldn’t be able to solve very many problems because often to do so, you must understand a great many things to create solutions and that is not the life of a doctor. What is sad is that this ability, the problem solver ability used to be common in America, but after listening to opinions from “experts” about the six foot distancing rule that has spawned from the coronavirus outbreak its quite obvious that the problem of dealing with Covid-19 was too far out of the scope of most people and anything that did not follow the dialogue has been considered a conspiracy theory by both Republicans and Democrats. Thankfully, Rush Limbaugh gets it and I was happy that he beat me to the punch on talking about the ridiculous nature of the “social distancing” policy that was created to give politicians more time to paint the Covid-19 virus to be more of a threat for their objectives than it really was. And they did that by tricking us to “flatten the curve” by artificially making the curve look worse with bad numbers from the World Health Organization, then prolonging the effects of the virus to justify the shutting down of the world economy. It was a massive hoax that goes well beyond the most audacious conspiracy theory except for those who can see the really big picture. Rush Limbaugh says pretty much what I have been saying about this whole matter in hour three of his April 9th show which can be viewed below.

It should be obvious to everyone that the resistance to the drug Hydroxycloroquine and azithroymycin is because to the eye of any problem solver, not a specialized doctor with political agendas, it was a quick solution from a fast acting President of the United States who wanted to put an end to the virus outbreak that was shutting down the economy, where a solution was not wanted by people like Dr. Fauci from the CDC. What he and big activist donors wanted was a means to shut down the world with a power that had never been tried before from the academic class that was heavily radicalized toward leftist causes. They were essentially Antifa but in suits and ties instead of the gear of anarchy. Most people have been trained in our society to trust what these people say, so that was the cause of the paralysis psychologically, and its why the attackers are very happy with the results of Covid-19, only that it appears to be much less deadly than they had hoped, because it’s tough to make a story out of a subpar virus and to convince people that it’s deadly when it wasn’t. The global numbers will be well under a typical virus and the only reason we are still talking about coronavirus is because we interfered with the herd immunity that naturally occurs with these things. The natural way to deal with these matters is for humans to get it, and get over it. The spread would stop by immune systems developing a resistance and if we had not interfered, Covid-19 would have died in March all on its own. Instead, we introduced social distancing to slow the spread not to save lives, but to make the story last longer for the advocates of changes to world economics through pandemic emergencies.

Once they “the experts” got our attention and froze our actions by associating everything we do on the potential for fake deaths, they had us. Now that we’ve given them this power over us not even the smartest people in the world can figure out how to reopen the American economy without being blamed by a left leaning socialist media for every death that might happen. The theme of the day is that humans interfered with the natural process of getting over viruses and stopping their outbreak by inserting medical professionals in the middle of the action to slow the spread because they wanted to do two things, highlight needs in the healthcare profession from their point of view, and to reduce the carbon imprint on the world to reduce man-made climate change. The social distancing concept was a scam from the start, sure they wanted to slow the spread, but not for the reasons they told us. They wanted to scare us into believing whatever it took to give them the stage and now that they have it, they aren’t giving it back. Trump is literally going to have to rip Dr. Fauci off the stage with his friends and to deal with the consequences. They don’t want a solution other than more laws and to make vaccines that can track us everywhere we go and everything we do mandatory by the same stupid government that over-reacted to this virus. And the longer it goes on, the more able they are to see success of their original objectives.

Now that so many have tasted the power of panic, they won’t give it back easily which is evident by the amount of time even people like Larry Kudlow are saying it will take to get back to normal. Of course, the governors and the doctors at the CDC never want to go back to normal where the world couldn’t care less what they thought about much of anything. Suddenly they are kings of the world and they like it. William Barr, the Attorney General has noticed the draconian violations to state and federal constitutions and is outraged by it. There has been so much wrong with all this activity that it has spun many minds into chaos. They can’t see the big picture because this virus has been smashing them in the face so that they can see nothing else. But I’ll be happy to report that the social distancing was never anything more than a trick to get us to look at one thing while the other hands moved the rabbit into the hat to pull out for a show to a terrified audience.

Just think of all the things we haven’t been talking about, like the FISA abuses, the many perils of the FBI activism in favor of the DNC. We haven’t even been talking about the attempts at freedom in Hong Kong and Iran by populations sick and tired of totalitarian regimes. This virus outbreak has distracted us all to the point we’d agree to almost any draconian measure just to be able to go to a restaurant again. That is exactly what these environmental wackos at the CDC and WHO wanted with this coronavirus outbreak. And their phony social distancing served only their own purposes by keeping us from talking to each other and putting our minds on this virus and nothing else so they could work Agenda 21 objectives through the World Health Organization. And to make the virus appear more dangerous and to keep the economy closed longer, they did want to slow the spread. Not to save lives but to save their movement, and we played right into it. It was a ploy any problem solver should see easily. But unfortunately, we have trusted the experts too much, because they have turned out to be terrorists of a different kind, one we weren’t prepared to see and we are now paying the price.

Rich Hoffman

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Bill Gates and his plot to take over the World: He almost got away with it

While politicians all over the world are wiping the egg off their faces after these radical World Health Organization officials pulled off one of the biggest scams in the history of the world that literally robbed trillions of dollars from all of us, we must learn what we can from it so that it doesn’t happen again. As I have said from the beginning, long before The Drudge Report, Sean Hannity, and even Alex Jones, the coronavirus outbreak pandemic scare was all about manmade climate change, and little else. Except that Bill Gates and his friends at the WHO, they wanted something more which they thought would help control populations in the future and ultimately help the earth, which to their way of thinking, humans were the real virus. Of course, from their point of view, they think they are right about their thoughts of a mandatory vaccine, which has been a dream of Gates for a very long time. I’ve probably watched all the Ted Talks Gates has done over the last half of a decade and I saw his fingerprints on this coronavirus thing from the very first hour of the very first day. He has put a lot of money into the World Health Organization, but more than that, has built powerful relationships, largely with the communist Chinese and he has very specific needs for a global government that could pull all the nations of the world under a common threat, which would force them to cooperate together all to get mandatory vaccines in place to ultimately control the way humans interact with the earth.

Dr. Fauci from the CDC is one of those people who walked into President Trump’s office and told him that up to 2 million people were going to die if we didn’t shut down the economy, and the media ran away with the story from a fresh $100 million the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation had just committed to the World Health Organization to fight the Covid-19 outbreak that had just spawned in Wuhan, China. And a few weeks before that the top show on Netflix wasn’t Tiger King, it was Pandemic—which was about the next big viral outbreak that “might” strike an unprepared America. Shortly thereafter the World Health Organization designated Covid-19 a dangerous and deadly “pandemic” which the media ran with, fresh off the new Netflix series which many of them had watched and suddenly the world was on its heels so fast that nobody saw it coming. Well, I did. But nobody else. Rush Limbaugh was off for his cancer treatment and I am inclined to think he would have figured it out as fast as I did, but he wasn’t on the radio during this time and the virus hit everyone flat footed and before we knew it the governors of the United States were in a competition to the bottom shutting down more and more economic activity until there were fines issued for people leaving their homes. Every day was a new regulation and order from a police state that was spinning out of control and had frozen the Trump administration into action because of the fear of that death toll that Dr. Fauci had placed on Trump’s feet. Trump had to listen to them, once.

You might have noticed the little smile Bill Gates let out when Chris Wallace asked about the work Dr. Fauci had been doing as a member of the President’s Covid-19 Task Force. Gates was very happy; they have known each other for a long time, and they knew what the goals were. Dr. Amy Acton in Ohio was having the same kind of success with Governor Mike DeWine who was tricked into thinking that he was saving lives with his actions with a lot of phony math meant to make Covid-19 seem much scarier and more deadly than it turned out to be, which is why I have labeled the actions of the World Health Organization terrorism. It could easily be said that what Bill Gates did during the entire Covid-19 outbreak was terrorism. So was what Dr. Fauci did the day he walked into President Trump’s office and declared that millions of people were going to die of Covid-19. He had to know that the models wouldn’t be correct, he had bad data and he couldn’t be that stupid. Now from their point of view, specifically of Bill Gates and his desire to make vaccines for all people all over the world mandatory, everything done during this massive global shutdown was urgent. Only his goal was to attack the real virus as he sees it, mankind so to inoculate them from creating further harm from mother earth. A lot of people think Bill Gates is a genius, and he may be. I admire the work he did to create Microsoft. I personally love Microsoft; I use the products of that company probably more than most people do daily in the world. But Gates isn’t smarter than I am, I would gladly play chess with that guy any day of the week. His movements are not a mystery to me, as they apparently were to many very stupid politicians and media types who swallowed his hook not just to the sinker, but the pole and the fisherman itself.

Bill Gates is closer to a James Bond villain than he is a greasy haired geek who started one of the greatest companies in the world from his garage. Who he is today is a terrorist, a person who uses fear to invoke policy changes on a group of people, in this case, the entire world. His scheme was every bit as maniacal as any plot to take over the world from those James Bond movies ever were. Except people aren’t trained to think of evil as a doctor or the weapons of terrorism coming from fear of a lack of vaccinations instead of a nuclear bomb but its all the same game in this story. And this won’t be the last time. Bill Gates may not be the guy the next time they try this, it will likely come from a different direction by a whole new villain as Gates pouts in his corner of the world about how evil people are who don’t accept his crazy notions about man-made climate change, brought to us by the same losers at the World Health Organization that projected millions of people dead over a tiny virus that has turned out to be no deadlier than a common illness. It wasn’t social distancing that saved us all from doom. The Covid-19 virus just was never that threatening. The whole “flattening the curve” that the CDC was trying to sell us all on, which has destroyed our way of life in America and across the world did nothing but slow down the rate the virus spread to protect a healthcare system that was never in jeopardy. By now most people know somebody who had Covid-19 and they’ve watched them recover from it, and they are having their “what the hell” moments of questioning the government’s reaction to the whole thing, and that is the lesson for next time. We cannot surrender our constitution to villains like Bill Gates who are working against the intentions of mankind. They are not allowed to manipulate our elected representatives with false models that scare them with thousands of potential deaths to push them into suspending constitutional liberties so that people will accept that level of state control to pave the way for mandatory vaccinations all in the name of “safety.” There will be a lot of clean-up after this mess that will go on for a long time, but at least we’ve seen this game and we know the players. The next time won’t be so easy for them.

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Covid-19 was predicted in the great novel, ‘Atlas Shrugged’: George Lang is placed on the OHIO 2020 Task Force

With the election put off, and the only method to vote is by way of mail-in ballot which was a disaster perpetrated by our government’s panic over the coronavirus induced by scientists who read all the wrong data for models that never came to be, it is good to see that George Lang who is currently running for the senate has been appointed to the OHIO 2020 Task Force to lay a foundation back to economic recovery in Ohio. George is a good guy to have on that 24-member task force which is bipartisan and geographically diverse representing urban, suburban and rural communities across Ohio. It drives home the importance of having good representation on these kinds of boards because when government gets in the way of people and their business, if the wrong kind of people are on these task forces, a lot more can get screwed up. What we have seen in Ohio as a result of scientists putting up the alarm of inaccurate modeling is absolute economic devastation completely self-imposed. So the danger to us all has already happened, but without someone like George on this task force who understands the necessity of economic activity, the pain would otherwise just be starting.

As much as I hate to say it to those who don’t like Ayn Rand, the author, but this entire Covid-19 virus was predicted nearly page for page in the great American novel, Atlas Shrugged. The book was written over half a century ago, and some of the scenarios were changed in reality from the fictional concepts spelled out in the book, but the day by day happenings and rather rapid decline of our society globally happened in precisely the way Ayn Rand predicted. And it wasn’t by some luck, she had seen it before in the Soviet Union as her father and family were tossed out of their life into becoming fugitives from the mob of communism. When Ayn Rand started writing in America her novels were faced with sharp criticism as the trend toward socialism was just trickling in during the 30s from the progressive movement and the conservatives were too wrapped up in Bible studies to see what was coming. So, Ayn Rand was thought of as a bit of a kook, and a wild mind seeing boogiemen everywhere. There was a desire to trust centralized government and she was saying the opposite.

We could point back in history, particularly during World War II, but also the other wars, the Korean and Vietnamese conflict to study the need of governments to enforce compulsion for a greater good coming into conflict with a free society, such as nationalizing industry at times and invoking the draft—compelling private people to join and possibly die for the state and the reckless mandates of inferior government minds who deem our lives expendable if only the banner of nationalism might survive. It was just that kind of outrage that communists infiltrated American society in the 50s and 60s to take advantage of the terrified people who didn’t want to be drafted into a war with communism in Southeast Asia. Instead, communism was in our universities, and seeping into our labor unions at an alarming pace and offered all those terrified people afraid of the draft an umbrella of safety in the herd. Either way, communism was entering America with either the bullets and bombs of Vietnam or the pot smoke of the hippie movement.

Ayn Rand had the problem figured out as the news of the day was taking place over the subsequent decades. Again, it’s because she saw the fast fuse of communism in Russia where she had to flee to avoid its destructive force. Her great book We the Living should be required reading for every human being on planet earth because it serves as a warning about how these things arise in cultures. The plan for communism in America was a much slower boil and to this day there are many radicals who join into government and have very communist and socialist ideas about things, and they are so ingrained in their thinking that they don’t even realize where those thoughts came from. And every time there is a government task force like the one George Lang is on anywhere in the country, those minds come forward and start setting policy that even more changes the way we do things in America from a capitalist state to more of a socialist one. So, its not always an emergency which destroys constitutional liberties like what we have experienced with Covid-19 and then government’s reaction to it, it’s what happens during the reconstruction period. Because destroying and rebuilding is always part of the way communists work their way into any economic system.

Even in the book Atlas Shrugged, the villains thought they were doing the right thing. They thought what they were doing was for the “greater good,” and to them it was selfish for the “engines of the world” the business leaders and other entrepreneurs to insist to keep the profits of their work and not share with the rest of the world, so the intention of the villains was to compel them to do so against their will. We clearly saw this happening in truly alarming ways during the Covid-19 outbreak, government was very quick to take away liberties for their version of the greater good, because they thought they knew better what the greater good was. To make that compulsion less violent the villains of Atlas Shrugged and of this updated government induced crises used fear to unify people toward a common goal which eventually led to tying every person in the world to the safety and security of everyone else, which essentially froze private action through thought. It was a paralysis of action that the world had never seen before all at one time and was astonishing to witness on such a scale. Except that Ayn Rand had predicted it in her great novel, Atlas Shrugged.

I’ve known George Lang for a very long time. He is a very balanced thinker, he can speak to a guy like me whose always ready for a fight over Constitutional grounds and five minutes later speak with Governor DeWine without getting wrapped up in the emotions of the moment, and that is one of his most valuable traits. People wonder why I trust him so much because he’s not calling for impeachment every five seconds or is willing to sit on task forces like this Covid-19 one peacefully. Well, its because every year for Christmas George gives out free copies of Atlas Shrugged to people as presents, and he’s done this for a very long time, longer than he’s know me. George understands what makes markets tick and why business is the tock of a state’s lifeblood. Without business, there is no state, only pent up angry people looking for a job. At the center of all civilization is the notion of producing something of value and then developing a means to get that value to people who need it, which is what we term a “job.” Now that so much has been destroyed of our jobs, I can’t think of a better person to help fight to get them created again, and in helping to shape the economic development of Ohio. Without him the villains of Atlas Shrugged would have no challenge to their collectivist intentions. But with George, we have a fighting chance, and most of the time, that’s all we need.

Rich Hoffman

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The Phony Math of Covid-19: How scientists tried to take over the world with a few percentage points

I called the Covid-19 viral outbreak a scam from the beginning not because it wasn’t a real virus, it has been. But the way that the World Health Organization and the CDC organized their math to communicate their concerns sent alarm bells out from the beginning. For a virus that nobody seemed to have ever seen before, scientists seemed to know a lot about it to construct models which of course manipulated the world into a global shutdown of their economies. A little reading will show that many of these same scientists behind the Covid-19 models are also supporters of the highly political climate change activism that is so prevalent, so there was a reason that they devised their math to tell such a story on something they couldn’t have known enough to do, they manipulated the math to tell a political story about climate change rather than any real danger about dying from a new virus coming out of China. And they figured that by the time people realized how wrong they were that they could point to social distancing to say that they saved the world from a pandemic and that people would then listen to them on other topics once the viral outbreak was over, and behavioral changes across the world had been introduced and accepted as new aspects of culture. What they didn’t want anybody to figure out was that they were powerless to do anything about Covid-19 because there was no vaccine and that the best way to tackle it was to get it and get over it. Once people got sick from it then they’d have some level of immunity and the danger would be averted. However, they wanted to slow the spread of the virus for a whole host of political reasons so they came up with social distancing and conned politicians around the world into following them with unusually high death toll numbers that got everyone’s attention, but ultimately had a goal of changing social behavior by an unelected mass of academics.

The common flu has a fatality rate of around .1% and routinely produces about 60,000 deaths a year through the whole year. Many people have some level of immunity to most flu outbreaks so the R-naught number of 1.3 doesn’t spread so fast, which is why only 60,000 deaths happen. Currently Covid-19 has an R-naught number of 2, which means for every one coronavirus carrier, they give it typically to 2 people. With a normal virus, its 1.3 people. So Covid-19, because it’s a new strain of virus spreads almost twice as rapidly and has a longer incubation period where the carrier is contagious—that is until human immune systems adapt and overcome as they typically are expected to do. The problem starts when scientists built their models to project the total number of the outbreak on stats that were known in January and February of 2020 where there wasn’t much testing around the world for Covid-19 so nobody knew what the actual fatality rate would be. With that in mind scientists used the number 1-3% mortality which is what we knew of cases and those who needed to go to the hospital for assistance with the virus and died—which is how they built their mortality rate number.

However, by the time scientists were building their models many people had already gotten over Covid-19 and were no longer susceptible to the virus. As of this writing there are over a million cases of coronavirus and we know of more than 233,000 who have recovered. Most of those million will recover fully with no real issues, as they would a common virus. A percentage of them will need some help at a hospital due to some statistical anomaly, yet the panic was that our healthcare system wouldn’t be able to deal with the surge because scientists used the unusually high fatality number to calculate their assumptions. I would propose this was done on purpose because the virus was so new they thought nobody would call them out on having the wrong initial fatality number and that everyone would forgive them for an error on the side of caution. But what they were really after was policy changes that helped them with their real passion, saving the planet from man-made climate change. The actual fatality number should have been in the flu range of around .1%, not up there around 1.-2%. That’s why scientists were talking about 1-2 million people dying of the Covid-19 virus instead of what it will likely be globally which is around 100,000—a big difference.

Of course, every life matters and we should try to help everyone, but the method here was to prolong the misery for political gains, not to actually save lives. It could easily be argued that immune system builders like happiness, and good food would have helped more people get coronavirus and get over it faster which would have stopped the outbreak, not prolonged it locking everyone in their homes miserable so that they got sick much easier. They did not have such a panicky governor in South Carolina and their Covid-19 cases were much more under control during the outbreak compared to other states with similar demographics. So this notion of flattening the curve was invented supposedly to accommodate that ridiculously high fatality rate that was used to build the death toll numbers. But to keep the story alive, scientists needed people to test positive for coronavirus so that they could keep building that curve with stats they could show to not have egg on their face from their original projections. That left states desperate to get people tested so they could use those numbers to justify their concern and show a buildup of daily increases of cases on their scoreboard that has been displayed on almost every news station and reported with updates around the world every 15 minutes. If we treated other viral outbreaks in the same way, we would have seen similar growth, but we focused on this one to run cover for the original recommendations of the scientists and their misstated fatality number in the beginning.

Of course with more cases reported, the fatality rate was going down, so hospitals in on the game stopped reporting deaths by pneumonia and other ailments and begin attributing them to the coronavirus hoping nobody would notice and it would give a higher death toll. After all, it would make scientists look stupid to say that a million people were going to die when only 50 or 60,000 actually did. So the need for a daily death count to justify all the bad math became an industry standard and by the time of this so-called “surge week” coronavirus was being blamed on every death that was occurring. It would not surprise me that a person dying from getting hit on the head by a shooting meteor streaming in from outer space would have that death blamed on the coronavirus to help that scoreboard look not so bad.

That is how this scam was portrayed and how scientist used that original fatality number to scare politicians into a massive global policy change when in actuality, they should have left coronavirus to the natural immune system of the human being and left the surge need to the hospitals that would normally handle such viral outbreaks in the way they do every year. It was their interference in that process that brought so much misery with the assumption of a high fatality number that threw off all the models—on purpose—to bring attention to leftist causes such as healthcare reform, climate change, and universal wages along with an expanded police state. And they managed it all with a simple number that was off by a few percentage points. They knew they could always ask for forgiveness by playing things safe. But their intentions were much more malicious than that, and for their activism, we have all suffered. How does that make you feel dear reader?

Rich Hoffman

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DON’T LISTEN TO THE EXPERTS: Covid-19 in a world of elephants and long tusks

I have been hard on Mike DeWine through the entire Covid-19 outbreak not because he’s a bad person. He’s actually a good person, but he screwed up as a leader and listened to the experts without providing the kind of executive filtration needed in his position. So I say he should be impeached for abusing his emergency powers, costing the state of Ohio billions, and putting unnecessary hardship on each and every person trusting him and his decisions. Good people do dumb things and when they do, they get fired like everyone else. And his mistake was in turning over practically all decision making in response to the coronavirus outbreak to Amy Acton, a professional academic, and letting her set a liberal policy in how to react to a crisis as an unelected bureaucrat. Now, I’m a Republican, an old fashioned one and am used to the people around me not being as solid of a Republican as I am. If the elephant is the symbol of our party, I am that elephant off by himself grazing in the hot sun with tusks dragging on the ground. DeWine is that beat up soul huddled in the group that has been through a lot, he’s had his tusks cut off for poaching, he’s been mulled by lions and he’s certainly been weakened over the years so he is what we call a RINO Republican, he seeks the safety of the herd for his own reasons. I get it, but when he makes himself easy prey for attackers, then he is a threat to my party and philosophy, and he doesn’t have a right to do that, and that is precisely what he has done by bringing in professionals to run the state where he lacked the courage to do so himself.

When we look back on this Covid-19 crises it will be our trust in the “professionals” that got us into all the trouble and caused the trillions of dollars in damages. We’ve set our society up across the world to turn people into overly specialized experts in their fields of endeavor when in all actuality we have been doing it all wrong for well over a century. Experts are good for specificity, but often leadership requires many ways of looking at the same information and picking the best path, and over-specialization blinds even the best experts to the totality of needed leadership. In the case of the world-wide shut down the source of the problem was terrorist intentions to take advantage of the specialized class of doctors in the WHO, the attention starved CDC and all the state health directors and contaminate their trust in modeling with bad assumptions which then triggered a global panic. Once that happened and the experts were crippled and looking to cover their asses with more bad numbers to try to get out of the corners they painted themselves into, the terrorists were looking to inflict massive social change while the world was focused on what the experts would say next.

For many years, and I still have that toolbox in my shop at my house, I had a saying I held very true from the 9 ways of the samurai printed on the lid of my toolbox so I could see it every day. I worked at Cincinnati Milacron for a while when I was younger and got to know a lot of machinists and precision manufacturers where I learned a lot, but I always leaned on those 9 ways of the samurai to think above and beyond the problems that company went through as they gradually died before our very eyes. I would say the cause of death was over-specialization. As the industry changed, Cincinnati Milacron couldn’t make the switch because they were too specialized to adapt. But one of those 9 ways of the samurai is to know the way of all things. That means that a person should not be specialized in only one thing then fit themselves into the cogs of society to only do that one thing, whether it’s a lawyer, an accountant, a manager, a mother or father, a teacher—whatever. What is required, especially among anybody offering themselves as a leader is a person hungry for knowledge in all fields and to understand their ways and how they connect. You don’t have to be a master of all the topics, but to understand their flow and relationships. Most companies, or governments die because they are overly specialized and too in love with processes that create a world of specialization. When needed, they can’t think on their feet and are easy to defeat when challenged.

And that is where we find ourselves with this coronavirus nonsense. We have allowed specialized doctors to create policy instead of the debate our republic demands and now we have all kinds of trouble. The powers behind this virus outbreak put the pressure on President Trump who has a history of doing exactly as I have said, not trusting experts and making decisions based on a wide range of understanding that most CEOs can do. When the experts threatened to paint Trump with every death that came out of essentially an aggressive pneumonia outbreak, Trump took a step back and said OK, we’ll listen to the experts. Its an election year. He’s not going to let them hang this on his head when it was the experts who said that millions of people would be dead if we didn’t social distance. And then they backed that figure down to 200,000. Now that number as of this writing is going down further and Dr Doom himself is trying to blame the modeling that he built his whole case around. If I were Trump, I wouldn’t play that game, but he is after all a New York liberal. He’s new to the field of elephants. His tusks aren’t as big as mine, but he hasn’t had his cut off like DeWine has, so there is at least enough fight and logic in Trump to make something good of all this. But it was all so unnecessary, and all the pain was caused by “experts” who leveraged themselves onto the world stage, and now they are drowning by the attention.

Leadership, real leadership is where you listen to what experts say, but you consider all types of other information as well. Americans are not a society that will be ruled by some academic class, which is exactly what this Covid-19 outbreak is about. To watch Doctor Doom from the CDC contemplate the 10th Amendment and wonder why the federal government hasn’t shut down the entire country, he clearly doesn’t know enough about law to grapple with the scope of his desire. He may know something about colds and viruses as a professional doctor, but he clearly doesn’t understand constitutional law, or much of what drives human behavior. He has built his models around his academic view of the world and nothing else, and that has put us all in a perilous place because the rest of the medical community has followed him state to state blindly accepting his mistakes as our new reality. To know the art of all things, to fight a virus we must consider that it is the human immune system that we must bolster to fight off viruses and to do that vitamin D is important (sunshine). Happiness in general. Good food, optimism, there are lots of factors to consider. We could easily say that following these doctor’s orders has likely spread the virus by lowering everyone’s immune systems in such a passive state. Specialists who are only thinking about lives saved and can only think in the means of a process struggle when the true answer is outside of those questions such as what factors make a life—a life? Someone pent up scared in their homes waiting on a government led by doctors to save them or a self-empowered person acting cautiously and doing all the right things to build themselves up to combat the virus with their own immune systems, which way is the best path? The push for a centralized solution ultimately is what caused all the deaths if we want to blame them on anything. The “slow the spread” tactic came up by these experts has only delayed the inevitable, which was their push to highlight socialized desires in the healthcare system, at the expense of all our happiness and good living.

If we listen to the doctors they would have us all wearing helmets each time we go outside, putting on masks so that ugly people feel more equal to pretty people, and they’d have us all having sex in hazmat suits. They are not leaders, only considerations. They become problems when we make leaders out of them and when they are, they destroy everything in sight every single time. There is no instance on earth or in world history where an overly specialized society ever thrived, and it never will in the future. Leadership remains an elusive science, but when a politician like DeWine accepts a leadership role then turns it over to a process driven specialist like Amy Acton, and she screws everything up, its his fault. You don’t surrender leadership over to experts who are too specialized to see the big picture. And that is precisely why every single American, and many around the world are suffering right now, because leadership was left to those least able to conduct it.

Rich Hoffman

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