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District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. This started CENTURIES BEFORE 1871 however. CENTURIES.

It was February 21, 1871 that the 41st US Congress sold out the Republic. On this date, Congress passed an Act titled: “An Act To Provide A Government for the District of Columbia.” Also known as the “Act of 1871.” Congress, illegally acting on it’s own behalf, created a separate form of government for the District of Columbia. Congress realizing that our country was in severe financial difficulty, cut a deal with the international bankers, in the process incurring a debt to those bankers. The international bankers were not about to lend our floundering nation any money without some serious stipulations. So, they devised a brilliant way of getting their foot in the door of the United States and thus, the Act of 1871 was passed.

Behind The Shadow

When President Kennedy was assassinated, the guy arrested for the crime didn’t live long.

That’s because Lee Harvey Oswald was almost immediately murdered by Jack Ruby, who walked up in front of press, police, and witnesses and just shot Oswald dead.

Ruby then ‘conveniently’ died of lung problems and cancer while in prison…

…and we’ll most likely NEVER know the truth of what really happened.

If that sounds eerily familiar to you, that’s because you’ve been watching, listening and reading the news… and I need to talk about this disturbing reality!

By now, you’ve seen the memes about Jeffrey Epstein.

This wealthy socialite is rumored to have been running an underage sex ring for the rich and powerful.

Politicians, entertainers, other rich people… there are COUNTLESS people who could be in trouble if it comes out who used Epstein’s services.

So of course, Epstein too, ‘conveniently’ committed ‘suicide’ in his cell after he was caught… and, just by coincidence, the guards were asleep and the cameras weren’t working.

Riiiight.

A judge who had just signed on to take an Epstein-related case, Esther Salas, had her family targeted by an assassin.

That guy, dressed as a FedEx driver, walked up to her door and shot her son and her husband.

THEN he as well ‘conveniently’ committed suicide!

Sound familiar?

The fact is, powerful people are right now pulling the strings of our government, and they’re the ones who make these ‘accidents’ and ‘coincidences’ happen.

PERIOD!

There are very powerful books that explain how these things work, like Behind The Shadow, and what these authors have written will just absolutely flat-out blow your mind, but because the public so incessantly blows off conspiracy conversation, the truths never will out.

If you want to know who’s pulling the strings, you’ll want to read these books and especially the one mentioned.

They’re deeply disturbing.

And it wouldn’t surprise me if ‘they’ found a way to ban them in order to keep people from reading what’s inside because there’s a LOT of stuff that those secretly in power do NOT want you to know.

Defend, Protect —> Survive!

Endemic: Nashville Uprising Incoming?

Nashville’s mayor is avoiding this scandal like it’s the most underwhelming plague in history… but the people of Nashville? No way. Many Nashvillians smell an uprising in their Tennessean midst. But the scandal you’ll come to see isn’t limited to Nashville alone. It’s likely, in some fashion, happening in your state, city, and/or county. Buckle up, Nancy.

“Not For Public Consumption” According to an email chain from June, leaked to the media this week…The coronavirus cases in Nashville’s restaurants and bars were so low that the mayor’s office and the metro health department decided to keep it secret. The email discussion among Nashville’s finest snollygosters pertained to the ridiculously low number of “confirmed cases” emerging from Nashville’s bars and restaurants. Total as of June 30? Allegedly only 22. Contact tracers found that construction and nursing homes were responsible for more than a thousand cases…But from the Broadway strip? Of the thousands of “confirmed cases” in the area, less than 100 could be traced back to the bars and restaurants. You would think this would be good news to our public officials. Nay! Quite the opposite in fact. Upon discovery, Leslie Waller from the health department asked via email, “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office? “Correct, not for public consumption,” senior advisor Benjamin Eagles shot back. Hmmm…One health official, whose name was redacted, said: “My two cents. We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are too low per site. “Gist? For months, the mayor and his (comfortably employed) team have been sitting on this information while local business owners and their employees have struggled, worried themselves to sleep, cried, argued with their spouses over money, and watched as their livelihoods crumbled and withered away. Most bars and restaurants are still operating at 25% capacity while construction crews, strangely, are working at full capacity with a much higher case count. Meanwhile, instead of letting people go back to work, or finding a way to cut public costs in a smart way, Cooper instead raised property taxes by 34% to offset the lost revenue. But it gets worse. Stacy Case of WZTV Nashville released this little bombshell yesterday: “I’ve found some serious flaws with the hospital bed capacity metric though which is keeping many businesses closed six months now.” In short, the metric requires Nashville hospitals to collectively have 20% of beds open before the economy can fully reopen. Nashville resident Matt Malkus, a statistician, was so disturbed by this metric, he and other statisticians formed ‘Nashville for Rational Covid Policy.’ “I’m a life insurance actuary,” Malkus said, “so I crunch numbers all day.” Here’s the rub, a la Case…“If you click on this link and look at the dark blue line at the peak of the light blue section, you’ll notice that’s Covid hospitalizations. The light blue is all other hospitalizations. The yellow is available beds. To fully reopen, Metro government is requiring both blues to dip below the red dotted line.  As you see, that probably wouldn’t happen with or without Covid.” “You take all of the Covid patients away,” said Malkus, “you’re still not going to meet that metric. So, to us, it’s like that’s a bad metric.” “In other words,” says Case, “normal hospitalization rates are keeping huge sectors shut down and thousands out of work like bartender Crystal Eisermann: ‘I’ve dipped into my savings so far. I have probably another month under my belt.’” To recap…Instead of allowing the local economy to (safely and intelligently) open up…Cooper raised property taxes by 34%. He put thousands of people out of work, who are now on the brink — or already there — of being unable to meet rent or pay their mortgages. And NOW to pile on top of all that, he raised property taxes a whopping 34%. These people are evil. These people are satanistic. These people are unholy. And he did so with B.S. data. The BIG problem is this isn’t just isolated to Nashville. It’s all over America, and “we the people” are allowing it to happen. We know a lot about this virus now. We’ve been playing defense for far too long. It’s time to push back and push back freakin’ hard as hell dammit.

The Gloomiest Oracles of America

“The next one will get attention this time,” Bill Gates said with a sly smirk. Melinda just looked at the camera and grinned.

During an interview conducted with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Gates was talking about the next inevitable pandemic.

It was a pretty cryptic statement which, strangely, the interviewer left unquestioned.

What did he mean? Hard to say.

He didn’t take the time to explain this strange… and harrowing… prediction.

He’s not the only one.

Dr. Fauci says we need to hunker down this fall and winter, and it’s not going to be easy. Things won’t go back to normal until at least mid-2021, when we get a vaccine.

Again, he doesn’t really explain why. Does he know something incredible about the virus that we don’t?

Don’t know.

He didn’t say.

Meanwhile, many American cities have been under siege by protests — some of which have turned violent.

Kamala Harris says of the protests, “They’re not going to stop. Everyone beware. They’re not going to stop before election day in November, and they’re not going to stop after election day.”

What is she basing this on?

She didn’t say.

One might think however it would be prudent then — at that point — to differentiate between the peaceful protests, which are entirely Constitutional, and those that have devolved into violence, riots, and wanton destruction.

(Which are not.)

Though underplayed in the media, the riots were no small deal and incredibly devastating for already-hurting local businesses. For a boots-on-the-ground perspective, someone just compiled all of the videos of the riots around the U.S. into one place.

In total, to date, there are 6,111 videos of the mayhem.

Click here to check out the full archive of riot videos.

There are other examples.

From all corners of the establishment — from Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg — we have been getting the same message.

“Election night” is a thing of the past. Welcome to election month.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media has been telling us that a Trump landslide will be a mirage. In the weeks after election night, we will come to find that it’s actually a Biden landslide.

There have been of course, other election predictions.

(Nothing’s changed on that front.)

But there’s a big difference between merely pushing a narrative and pressing repeat….

And predicting an event, then backing it up

Today, along that vein, I turn to another prophecy by futurist George Gilder.

Throughout this pandemic, Gilder’s been taking cues from statistician William Briggs.

Briggs, as you’ll see, is no empty propheteer.

But, alas, though he sees the pandemic has been overblown… even so… his predictions are not always rosy.

Keep calm and read on.

Prophecy: Coronadoom Will Always Be with Us

Today I offer a prophecy that shows an excerpt from Briggs, who answers the latest Fauci panic with knowledge and reason.

Wanna know what caused the wave of the past decade’s “unprecedented pandemic explosions,” of which the coronadoom is one?

Truckers and truck stop prostitution.

Yes. Or so says our very own Anthony “Never Shake Hands Again” Fauci, a fellow you might have seen on television striking various poses.

It’s his (and David Moren’s) scientific idea, stated scientifically in a new scientific paper, that the science says that truck stop prostitution, road-building, and disharmony with nature is causing “unprecedented pandemic explosions”.

Now this disharmony with Mother Earth.

What’s that? You haven’t heard of these “unprecedented pandemic explosions”? Well, they’re diseases like the coronadoom. But before we get to our sins against Mother Earth, we need to understand what Fauci means by “unprecedented.”

Fauci’s contention is that pandemics are on the upswing, which means that, given the intense insane hyper-overreaction to coronadoom, we could soon be in some deep kimchi.

Is it true that communicable diseases are increasing?

Fauci has a chart listing sixteen past pandemics throughout human history, half of which were since 1918. His implication is that these were the only ones worth noting, and that the frequency of mass deadly outbreaks is increasing.

This is not so. NOT FREAKIN’ SO AT ALL DAMMIT!

Wikipedia has a different list with over 250 outbreaks going all the way back to 1200 BC. The most notable of which was the Black Death, which between 1346 and 1353 slaughtered 75 to 200 million … that’s with-an-m people. 

Fauci lowballed his memory of this horror, saying it was only 50 million. Maybe because he wanted to claim an event closer to our time — 1918 ’s Spanish Flu — was “the deadliest event in recorded human history”.

My sons and I used to play “Slug Bug”. When you were the first to spot an old Volkswagen Beetle, you got to whack somebody saying the color. “Slug Bug green!” Chances are you can’t recall the last time you saw one of these cars on the road. But go out now and look for one — actively search. You’ll be surprised at how many “suddenly” appear.

Your surprise is caused by measurement bias. The same is true with disease bugs. If you never looked for them, you never saw them. It is only in the last few decades that active measurements have been taken on the various infectious agents we live with. These searches naively make it seem mass-casualty outbreaks are increasing.

Yet it just isn’t so. Scan that list. In 735, Japan saw an outbreak of smallpox that killed 2 million. The Antonine Plague of 165 sunk 5-10 million into early graves. On and on the bell has rung.

We come now to COVID-19, the coronadoom. It cannot be considered unusual. It will not even join the Disease Hall Of Fame. Asian flu in 1957, which beat coronadoom, killed 1 to 4 million, and the same with 1968’s Hong Kong flu. (Fauci includes neither of these.)

Flu and its complications (like pneumonia) regularly and routinely kills hundreds of thousands to millions worldwide. Each and every year. Even in the presence of vaccines. This has been so throughout history, and there is no reason to suppose it will change in the future.

One thing that has changed has been our perception of disease. We have grown exponentially more fearful, and we now must have somebody to blame.

Fauci thinks “disease emergences reflect our increasing inability to live in harmony with nature.” He says “we now live in a human-dominated world in which our increasingly extreme alterations of the environment induce increasingly extreme backlashes from nature.”

Build one too many truck stops and you “provoke” Mother Nature into an extreme backlash. Like the coronadoom — and the “deadly barrage” of other diseases they found but which didn’t turn out to be so deadly.

Only way out of this, says Fauci, is to placate our great goddess. We need to live “in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature”. Funny he doesn’t say how we achieve this state of harmoniousness. Except that we need to “begin to think in earnest and collectively”.

My earnest thought, which I’ll add to the collective, is that we must NEVER, EVER AGAIN panic over not-at-all unusual wholly expected common disease outbreaks. 

Panic kills. Panic makes us stupid.

Panic has so benumbed governments that many have taken a zero-tolerance policy on coronadoom. Things will never be the same again, they promise us, until the virus is eradicated! Yet even according to fabulous Fauci himself, this is nuts and may never be.

“That viral genetic descendants of the 1918 influenza pandemic virus are still causing seasonal outbreaks throughout the world, and still killing cumulatively millions of people a century late.”

This is true!

Coronadoom will also, in one form or another, always be with us. If we are going to lockdown and restrict liberties until it “goes away,” we shall do so forever.

So good luck to us all as long as we have governments and stupid socialists to keep pushing this agenda along while those on the right sit wringing their hands, refuse to act and vote and keep refusing to assert themselves that enough is g’damned enough already.

We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this anymore!

How To “Decolonize” Your Life And Be Free Of White Colonialism

YOUR RIGHTS ARE NOT ‘ALLOWED’

This year, American adults have been subjected to the word “allowed” at levels most haven’t experienced since elementary school. America’s gun owners have had this word thrown at them for decades and many have, unfortunately, gotten used to it. Some of us have always bristled at the cavalier way this word has been bandied about, especially in reference to our fundamental rights. Now more Americans are discovering that it’s unnerving and maybe a little ominous to hear politicians, bureaucrats, and “reporters” explaining what we are and are not “allowed” to do.

When a reporter talks about whether the Governor will “allow businesses to reopen,” that statement suggests as fact that the governor has the authority to decide whether businesses can be in business. When bureaucrats say that lawful carry of firearms has been “allowed” in the Michigan State Capitol for decades, the use of that word implies a privilege that was bestowed upon the people by a higher authority, and which can be revoked by that authority at any time.

The word “allow” rightly belongs almost exclusively to parents, teachers, and property owners. Parents might not allow certain words to be used by their children. Teachers might allow a designated amount of free time for students to work on personal projects, and property owners might not allow smoking on their premises. Those are all valid and acceptable uses of the word “allow.” What is not valid or acceptable, is the use of the word “allow” in relation to what a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, may decree regarding the rights of the people.

Whenever the media and government operatives use the word “allow,” they are reinforcing the idea that “the state” is the authority, and “the state” may mandate or proscribe virtually any action or behavior of we the people.

That’s not how it works. Not under our Constitution and the philosophy of liberty upon which our system of government is founded. Under our system, government doesn’t “allow” us to do anything.

We allow the government to establish laws and regulations, such as speed limits. But we wouldn’t —or shouldn’t — say that the government “allows” us to drive 65 MPH on the freeway. Instead, we should say that driving faster that 65 MPH is prohibited. It is semantics, but semantics are often important. The word “allow” assumes wide authority and implies that anything falling under that broad authority, is a privilege granted by the “allowing” entity.

I’ve raised this issue in the past, with only a few people, mostly within the gun rights community, grasping the significance of this argument. But since the seemingly endless Chi-Comm virus mess, more people are seeing the word “allow” used against them, and they’re beginning to resent it.

For many, it’s just a feeling. They’re not sure why, but when they see or hear a report that uses the word “allow,” they feel somehow insulted.

Well, they should feel insulted. We should all feel insulted when any reporter, politician, or bureaucrat suggests that our rights are actually privileges bestowed upon us by a benevolent state, and which the state can revoke for any reason, or no reason at all, at any time. The suggestion is an outrage, and we should all be livid every time we hear or see it.

Just a few months ago, it would have been outrageous for any reporter or politician to use the word “allow” in reference to churches meeting, but now it’s become common for governors, mayors, and the media to talk about “allowing” church services. A major metropolitan police force declared that “Protest is not essential,” and only essential activities are “allowed.” Gun shops and ranges had to sue politicians who declared they weren’t allowed to be open and operating.

Under the cloud of the Chi-Comm Virus, the word “allow” is being applied to virtually everything we say or do. That must not be allowed to continue. Every time you see the word “allow” in a news story, unless it is talking about what “we the people” allow government to properly do, you should be outraged and should leave a comment or write a letter to the editor calling out the writer’s use of that word. If the reporter is quoting a politician or bureaucrat, challenge the reporter to question the use of that word, and then send a letter or email to the politician or bureaucrat — and their boss — demanding that they stop using language that suggests subjugation of the American people.

Be outraged. Be angry. Be indignant, and let the reporters, bureaucrats, and politicians know that you’re outraged, and that you demand that they stop undermining rights and misinforming the public with their sloppy, lazy, or intentionally subversive choice of words. Demand better. Don’t allow them to get away with this reprogramming effort. Spread this message far and wide, and demand that our rights be respected – both in deeds and in words.

Prepare For A Bloody November

Liberal politicians, in concert with the liberal media, are trying to blackmail America to win the presidential election in November.

And they’re openly using the threat of continued violence to do it.

Just look at this…

Kamala Harris did a recent interview with Stephen Colbert and promised that the protests, riots and looting would not stop with the election…

“They’re not gonna stop before election day in November, and they’re not gonna stop after election day… They’re not gonna let up. And they should not. And we should not,” Harris said.

Translation: unless and until you fall in line with our agenda, the violence will continue.

And there’s more…

A September 3rd article by Rosa Brooks in the Washington Post stated it flatly:

“A landslide for Joe Biden resulted in a relatively orderly transfer of power. Every other scenario we looked at involved street-level violence and political crisis.”

And who were these “experts” who studied the scenarios?

Why, none other than the Transition Integrity Project.

The liberal funded Transition Integrity Project is stuffed to the gills with high ranking Democrats and Trump Haters…

Folks like former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta… former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile… former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-Mich.)…

You know. A completely and totally impartial group.

And they just happen to be warning that only a Biden landslide victory will result in any kind of peaceful transition of power.

So let’s get this straight…

Kamala Harris is warning that the violence isn’t going to stop…

And The Washington Post is warning that only a Biden landslide has any chance of peace?

Considering this could be one of the most hotly contested elections we’ve seen, a landslide seems unlikely…

And if the “silent majority” is as big as some are estimating, it could be a landslide for Trump. (I would be shocked if Biden somehow won.)

Which means this could be a bloody November.

Because we’ve seen that it’s not just hyperbole.

Every day the violence on the streets is ratcheting up and places like Portland have over 100 days of continued violence.

And if things continue at the current pace, a Trump victory, or even a narrow race, could devolve into unimaginable chaos.

So here’s the deal…

It’s time to ensure you’ve got your self-defense and survival planning and prep shored up.

Both at your home, and for bugging out.

And even if you think you’re prepared, use this time to double-check every detail.

Make certain that things are as prepped as they’re supposed to be.

Live by Ronald Reagan’s advice: “Trust but verify.”

If you’re missing anything, now’s the time to get it.

Just don’t shrug this off…

Because if things go the way I think they will…

You could wake up November 4th to absolute horror in the streets.

And by that time it will be too late.

Of course, I truly hope this doesn’t happen.

I have zero desire to watch violence or have to engage in violence.

But, I also know not everyone is reasonable and not everyone is God-fearing, so be prepared.

Pick One: The Economy or Granny

A sacrificial lamb, to paraphrase Wikipedia, is a metaphorical reference to a person, animal or thing sacrificed for the betterment of all else. The term “sacrificial lamb” is derived from the traditions of Abrahamic religions where a lamb is a highly valued possession. In short, it’s the ancient idea that one must sacrifice something of high value for the greater good. And yet, as history has already outlined this paradigm many times, it always rears its ugly head again and again. The “sacrificial lamb,” the “scapegoat” and the “greater good” myth — though certainly all well-worn ancient impulses — almost always invoke a purely hypothetical world, most often perpetuated solely for political purposes. For thousands of years, our ancestors ritually sacrificed all manners of things to the gods — mostly livestock and enemies, but not always — in exchange for better weather, fatter crops, a fairer shake, and always (of course) for the greater good. Unfortunately, old superstitions die hard. The mainstream discussion surrounding COVID-19 is almost entirely based on this myth of the sacrificial lamb. We’ve basically been told all year we must either sacrifice the economy or we must sacrifice lives. We MUST choose one. (Adaptation, creativity, innovation, and ingenuity be damned!)In this way, we’ve been thrust into a Hollyweirdized hypothetical scenario where we’re chained to a dirty radiator in some dingy basement…and the clock is ticking and we’re forced to decide what lives and what dies… downtown or Granny?… but, wait, oh no, the plot thickens and there’s only 60 seconds left on the dynamite sticks and a helicopter crashes and knocks the button out of your hand and all you can hear is your own breath and everything gets blurry and you hear Gran call out but you don’t know what to do and your life flashes before your eyes and… and tick tock tick… boom. All of that is to say…The way the argument has been framed is a false dilemma. Worse, the framing of the argument fundamentally gets in the way of actually solving the problem. The economy can’t legitimately be sacrifice without sacrificing lives, and vice versa. And those who don’t understand this have a warped idea of what the economy actually is — which is a highly interdependent, incredibly complex system. Furthermore, a strong economy is far better at combating crises and infectious diseases than a weakened one. (Which is obviously something to seriously consider if we are, indeed, headed for a much-hyped “second wave.”)So why has it been “either/or”?That’s a great question. Today, there’s a new face in the digital leaves. Nate DePalm. “When we talk about ‘the economy’,” says DePalm, “we aren’t just talking about the rich. We are talking about you and your means of providing for yourself, your family, and your community.”

The Economy or Public Health? We Are Asking the Wrong Question says Mr. Nate DePalm It is not necessary or beneficial to sacrifice human lives to save the economy. Nor, is it necessary or beneficial to sacrifice the economy to save lives. The Misunderstanding Many in the media have painted any attempt to improve economic conditions during the pandemic as a deplorable act of making thousands of Americans the subject of human sacrifice to the almighty dollar. “Should Older Americans Die to Save The Economy? …” – The Washington Post “Letting People Die to “Save” The Economy Is A Losing Idea” – Forbes “If it’s public health versus the economy, the only choice is public health. You cannot put a value on human life. You do the right thing. That’s what Pop taught us.” – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo With #NotDying4WallStreet trending on Twitter, it seems like these ideas have spread from the media to public opinion. The notion that America must choose between saving the economy or saving lives is a gross misinterpretation of the events at hand. And, acting on this misunderstanding has a high potential to make public health worse, not better. This faulty context reveals that many Americans may not understand what the economy is or its relationship to combating infectious disease. What The Economy Is Many Americans in the debate seem to view “the economy” as synonymous with Wall Street, CEO’s, and Corporate Profit. Maintaining economic activity is viewed as prioritizing purely economic ends rather than societal needs for public safety. This couldn’t be further from the truth. This notion confuses the means for the ends. Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Friedrich Hayek points out in his classic book “The Road To Serfdom” that there are no purely economic ends, only economic means of pursuing all other ends. For example, a person’s paycheck is often mistaken as the purely economic ends for his work. But his paycheck is not the end, it is the means of pursuing his values, such as providing shelter, food, PPE’s, and medical care for himself and his family. Therefore, if you reduce or eliminate his income, you reduce or eliminate his ability to pursue those elements of combating infectious disease for himself and his family. On the business side of the equation, revenue is also often mistaken as a purely economic end of business activity. But again, revenue is just the economic means of pursuing other ends, such as income for its workers, continuing production, and innovation. Just as with the individual, if you force a reduction or elimination of revenue, the company can no longer pursue those ends. When we talk about “the economy,” we aren’t talking about dollars or Wall Street executives. We are talking about the level of real opportunity available to every person to pursue quality of life. The Economy & Public Health Some level of losses for businesses occur naturally as a result of fear and uncertainty during the pandemic. These losses may be painful to a company, but they can be beneficial to society as they act as an incentive for companies to adapt to shifting societal needs to reduce further losses. For example, during the coronavirus pandemic, society’s need for new cars drastically declined. This resulted in painful losses for companies like General Motors. GM responds by shifting its focus from producing automobiles to producing what society needs more: namely respirators and face masks, in an effort to reduce losses. This is not just a theoretical possibility, it has already happened. Many companies have already shifted to producing respirators, face masks, hospital gowns, and hand sanitizer, including Apple, General Motors, Ventec Life Systems, Ford, Tesla, Dyson, 3M, Prudential, Unilever, Hanes, Gap, Jameson Irish Whiskey & Absolut Vodka, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Virgin Orbit, Brooks Brothers, American Giant, Snap Inc, and countless small companies and entrepreneurs. Many have even distributed them at production cost or at no cost at all. It makes no difference if these individual companies or entrepreneurs are producing these public health supplies in pursuit of revenue, public relations, or simply out of the kindness of their hearts to help reduce shortages of equipment in dire need for public safety. The end result is the same either way: massive increases in supplies and equipment that communities desperately need for public safety. After all, the only way for a company to make money in a free market economy is by producing what the people need. Apple alone has already produced and donated 20 million masks. Hanes has produced and distributed 60 million masks and General Motors is producing 50,000 face masks per day. As these companies produce more and more of these products, the increase in supply will inevitably drive prices down making them even more accessible to everyone. Remember a month ago, when America was experiencing dire shortages of lifesaving PPE’s like masks, respirators, and hand sanitizer? Have you noticed that we are hearing less about these shortages? That’s thanks to these companies and their employees. If these companies had been ordered to close or their employees ordered to stay home in the name of public safety, not only would the workers be without income, reducing their ability to provide safety and security for their families, but these shortages would have been exacerbated instead of eased, thus making the public and our medical workers less safe. Now imagine if all of the other companies and employees deemed unessential were allowed the option to participate in this process. The Health of a Nation When we talk about “the economy”, we aren’t just talking about the rich. We are talking about you and your means of providing for yourself, your family, and your community. The state of the economy reflects the level of opportunity for individuals like yourself to attain standard of living and quality of life as well as the level of opportunity for society to produce what it needs. Once this is understood, it doesn’t stretch the imagination to see how necessary economic health is to combating infectious disease. A country with more medical facilities, functioning medical equipment, and active medical staff is more prepared to fight COVID-19 than a country with less. Families are more capable of avoiding COVID-19 when they are more capable of keeping their homes than families in an economy where they are not. Individuals in an economy with less unemployment and higher average income are better off protecting their health than individuals in an economy with high unemployment and low incomes. All of these factors are determined by the economic health of a nation. It’s time to reshape the debate. It is not a question of sacrificing lives to save the economy or sacrificing the economy to save lives. We don’t need to choose one over the other. Economic health is the strongest asset for public health because economic activity is the only means of bringing all the necessary components of fighting infectious disease into abundance. Therefore, it is in the best interest of public health to keep our economic health strong to slow the spread of COVID-19 and prevent unnecessary loss of life. Regards