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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a

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moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, I want to ask America, can we please move on from reacting to the China virus out of a herd

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instinct and graduate to striving to achieve the gold standard of safety, and that is herd immunity?

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It is too bad we have not heard more about herd immunity during this time. I think it is in part

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because the sooner we reach this blessed plateau of herd immunity, the sooner the political control

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of our herd drovers and big pharma profits, they will plateau as well. Now, the CDC defines herd

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immunity as a situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an

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infectious disease to make it spread from person to person unlikely, unquote. Now, when lots of people

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are immune, fewer people get sick and fewer germs and virus are able to spread from person to person.

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WebMD.com has a brief, accurate article on what herd immunity is and when we achieve it. And I quote

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now from that article. Herd immunity or community immunity, that has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

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Community immunity is when a large part of the population of an area is immune to a specific

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disease. If enough people are resistant to the cause of a disease, such as a virus or bacteria,

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it has nowhere to go. While not every single individual may be immune, the group as a whole

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has protection. This is because there are fewer high-risk people overall. The infection rates drop

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and the disease peters out. Herd immunity protects at-risk populations. And these include babies

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and those whose immune systems are weak and can't get resistance on their own, unquote. Nice, pithy

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definition on what herd immunity is. This is so much better than a stupid strategy. We have a

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adopted here in the United States, and that is isolation. Isolation is the strategy we have

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adopted, like China. We quarantine all the healthy rather than just the sick or the vulnerable, as it

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has been done throughout history. And by doing so, we destroy our economy in the process. And we see

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death rates from other diseases and health conditions skyrocket because they go untreated. For example,

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I cited this in another piece from City Journal, Mr. Joel Zinberg, who composed this article on July 9th of

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this year. He has the article, Death by Policy. And he says, and I quote, the five states with the most

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COVID-19 deaths from March through April, and those states were Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey,

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New York, and Pennsylvania. These states experienced large proportional increases in deaths from

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non-respiratory underlying causes. So it couldn't be COVID, right? And these include diabetes, in which

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there was a 96% increase, heart diseases, in which there were 89% increase, Alzheimer's disease, 64% increase,

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and cerebrovascular disease, a 35% increase in deaths, unquote. Dear listener, only now are we beginning

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to see the unintended consequences of such a stupid strategy on our land. All that isolation does,

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really, in effect, is delay the inevitable exposure of those isolated in quarantine to the

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virus. It will and must happen eventually, this exposure. Now, Dr. Jane Orient, who is the executive

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director of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, she says that reaching the threshold

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of herd immunity depends upon, and I quote her, whether we allow people to move around. If we lock

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everybody into solitary confinement, they won't get immune, unquote. If we put everybody in isolation,

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if we put everybody in solitary confinement, we won't get immune, dear listener. This cannot be

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overemphasized. All of the stupid measures that have been and are now being employed by our fascist

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governors to lock us down, to isolate us, and quarantine the healthy, all that does is delay the

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inevitable while destroying the avoidable. We can't avoid crippling the economy, spiking deaths from other

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causes like cancer and heart disease, suicides and diabetes, and we can avoid creating an ugly,

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cultic new normal, and we can do it by reopening America and leaving her open. Oh, I want to recommend

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to you the Great Barrington Declaration. This is getting around, and you'll see this more and more. The Great

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Barrington Declaration, which is signed by over 47 highly respected and competent physicians and

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epidemiologists and researchers and professors from around the world, in a conference on October 4th of

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this year, the Great Barrington Declaration says, and I quote, the most compassionate approach that

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balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity is to allow those who are at minimal risk

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of death to live their lives normally, to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection while

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better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this focused protection. The Great

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Barrington Declaration causes this strategy, calls this strategy, excuse me, focused protection. They go on to

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say, those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene

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measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick, should be practiced by everyone to reduce

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the herd immunity threshold. This is common sense. We do this all the time, don't we, parenthetically?

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They go on to say, schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular

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activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young, low-risk adults should work normally rather than from

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home. Restaurants and other activities should, and other businesses should open, excuse me. Arts, music,

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sport, and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they

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wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built

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up herd immunity. Unquote. Oh, dear listener, be warned. Be warned, because there is a focused,

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coordinated campaign by those with self-interest against the idea of herd immunity. Oh, this is

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anathema to the mainstream media, to big pharma, to government. It is the knee-jerk reaction. This

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campaign against the idea of herd immunity is the knee-jerk reaction of the mainstream media. Whenever

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it's brought up, it is witheringly attacked as an ineffective strategy versus isolation and the

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medical tyranny that's being imposed on us. But always remember, dear listener, herd immunity is not

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a strategy. It is a stasis. It's not a strategy. It's a stasis. Herd immunity means that an infection

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has reached a state of equilibrium. That's the idea of stasis, a state of equilibrium. Herd immunity means

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that an infection has reached this state of equilibrium. It is no longer infecting the general

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population significantly because sufficient antibodies have been created by our immune system

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such that few are getting infected or becoming sick. That's the idea. That's the goal. A true strategy

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towards this stasis, herd immunity, is one advocated by the Great Barrington Declaration, and that is

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focused protection. Focused protection is a strategy. Here, the vulnerable are protected. Those most likely

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to be adversely affected are isolated, not the whole general population. Those who are not vulnerable

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should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal, as the Declaration says. Dear listener,

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our God-given immune systems will create the stasis required that is herd immunity.

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Let our God-given immune systems work. So, while herd immunity is the ideal, a lesser condition

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has overwhelmed America. Rather than herd immunity, we are experiencing herd instinct, aren't we?

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Herd instinct. Ah, the definition of herd instinct is the obedience of the individual to the mass

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blindly and without reflection. Unquote. That is the Oxford English Dictionary definition of herd immunity.

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And it's what America is in the middle of, isn't it? The obedience of the individual to the mass

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blindly and without reflection. Most Americans just haven't done their homework. I see this on an

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anecdotal basis all the time. The people who wear masks all the time, who do hand washing and wear gloves

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and are just fastidious about the six-foot separation. All of these, when I inquire a little

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closer, have not done their homework to see if indeed what they're doing is a goal towards herd immunity

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or whether it's this blind herd instinct. It's usually the latter. Under the right circumstances,

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the herd instinct is a good survival instinct. When one wildebeest, for example, on the African

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savanna spots a lion on the hunt and uses its God-given adaptation at his speed to flee, the

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wildebeest herd follows and survives. That herd doesn't have to see the lion to verify its presence

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before fleeing. It follows the mask, blindly and without reflection. Only the weak and the old

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fall behind then and are thus culled from the herd by the lion. This phenomenon has occurred in human

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history too. For example, from the 3rd to the early 5th century, whole populations in Europe fled from

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the barbarian hordes that invaded in great sweeping waves, and they were raping, pillaging, and burning,

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killing as they went. No one had to see or meet a barbarian in order to get out of dodge with all

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due haste. The herd instinct caused many to survive who would have otherwise perished. During this period

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as well, the demographics of Europe changed significantly as whole new populations resettled

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in areas previously unknown. So the herd instinct has changed history. For better or worse, the herd

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instinct is changing American history today. It's changing our history. Just as fear drives the

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wildebeest on and on through the savannah, just as fear drove the 3rd century European on and on blindly

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without reflection into unknown territory, so today fear is driving the herd of Americans on and on

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blindly without reflection into unknown territory. And I submit to you that is tyranny. Because while the

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herd instinct can save lives, herd instinct can also destroy them. Lion prides work together to use the

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wildebeest's herd instinct to drive them in massed waves, fleeing in fear to waiting members of the

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pride. Over time, yes, and evolution has taught them that this is a successful strategy. And the Plains

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Indians as well used to drive buffalo herds in massed waves, fleeing in fear, over cliffs, using that

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herd instinct to harvest a winter's bounty of protein. And famously, the lemmings' herd instinct drives them

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blindly, without reflection, over the cliffs of Dover into the sea. Dear listener, like lemmings,

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the herd instinct is destroying us, not saving us. Like cattle, the herd instinct is driving us

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to follow unthinkingly, unthinkingly, excuse me, the rear end in front of us, wherever it might lead.

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Because we are afraid, dear listener, because we are afraid, we unthinkingly follow the rear end in

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front of us and strap on a face diaper, that stupid mask, which does nothing to protect you. See my

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recorded spot of three weeks ago. In that, I cite Dr. Dennis Rancourt, who has a PhD in physics at

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the University of Ottawa. He's also a seasoned professor of research and investigation. And he

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published in April of 2020, a paper entitled, Masks Don't Work. Masks Don't Work. It's a very good

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article. He cites seven different studies which demonstrate this. But masks also reduce our oxygen

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intake, and they create a virtual petri dish of infection in the mask itself. And they also end up

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warping human identity to tragic anonymity. And all of this, all of this to satisfy the ignorant

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superstitions of twisted authoritarian bureaucrats who love lording it over you. Have you noticed that?

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They aren't keeping you safe. Masks. Rather, masks are keeping you subdued. They're not keeping you

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safe. They're keeping you subdued. Face masks are an empty placebo that makes you feel like you're doing

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something to stay safe. But which, in reality, due to its debilitating side effects, that mask is

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making you prone to greater sickness. Eighty percent of those with the China virus in one study were

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faithful mask wearers. Oh, and then we also unthinkingly follow the rear end in front of us

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because we're afraid. Out of fear, we unthinkingly follow the rear end in front of us

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and huddle down in our apartments and homes and let our lives die and wither away in the vine

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in lockdown because we're told to by authority. We are deliberately alarmed by the mainstream media over

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cases which are steadily rising. And so we must huggle back under lockdown, hide under your bed.

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But, dear listener, what is a case of COVID? What are cases? Well, a case is anyone who has tested

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positive for the virus. But that, as we have seen in the past, is a term so ambiguous as to be utterly

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meaningless. For example, the PCR test, the polymerase chain reaction, that's the standard by

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which all are tested now. The PCR test was never designed for medical applications but strictly for

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research and forensic uses. This PCR test is so unreliable that close to 50 percent of the so-called

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positives are false positives. Remember, Elon Musk tested positive twice and negative twice, all in

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the same day. Dear listener, I urge you to check out Nick Delgado and his The Delgado Protocol, where he

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has an excellent article on the Wizard of Oz level sleight of hand that's being practiced on the American

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people with a misleading notion of cases. Now, what the PCR test does is very cleverly search for traces of

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coronavirus. Any coronavirus, however, not just COVID-19. And consequently, you may test positive for a

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simple cold virus and be identified with the China virus. It's a sham. Medical reporter Stacy Lennox

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calls using cases as an index of the number of people infected with COVID-19, she calls it, and I quote,

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ridiculous, misleading, and alarmist for many reasons. And you'll find her at PJ Media, an article from

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October 5th of this year. She says, the PCR test does not detect a live virus. For a virus to infect an

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individual or be transmitted to another person, it must be capable of replication. The PCR does not measure the

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ability of the material detected to make additional copies of itself. It is appropriate to use the word

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material because the PCR test looks for pieces of the virus's RNA. It does not require a complete RNA strand to

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return a positive result, unquote. Oh, additionally, dear listener, the PCR test is incapable of measuring quantity of the

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virus, which is a very important element. And whether you get sick or not, your immune system must be overwhelmed by a

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certain quantity of the virus before you begin to weaken and even show symptoms. Quantity is also crucial to communicating the

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virus to the virus to others. That is, with viral shed. Just because you test positive for a coronavirus, not even

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necessarily COVID-19, does not mean you are shedding communicable quantities of COVID-19 to others. Remember, I

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cited Dr. David Raznick, who is a biochemist and a protease developer. So this is right up his alley. He deals with these

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things every day. He says, I'm skeptical that a PCR test is ever true. It's a great scientific research

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tool. It is a horrible tool for clinical medicine, unquote. Oh, dear listener, in the light of these

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facts, the concept, the very concept of cases is so ambiguous as to be utterly meaningless. It amounts to

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a scare tactic to stampede the human herd, which the mainstream media and our political drovers have done

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very effectively. Oh, there's nothing that sells newspapers faster or drives people to their TVs every

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night to get their fix of COVID cult lies from Fox and CNN than reports on cases. Oh, the misleading

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concept of cases is enough, as Stacey Lennox puts it, to make people with a medical background want to

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tear their hair. But this makes little difference to the panicked human herd, doesn't it? Makes little

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difference to the panicked human herd, which has been stampeded into measures calculated to destroy

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the cattle's economy or our human relationships and, ironically, our very health. And that's owing to the

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consequences of fear and neglect of other conditions and diseases that go untreated because of COVID

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cold conditioning. In one of my favorite westerns of all time, dear listener, Red River, there is

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captured one of the greatest cattle stampedes ever caught on film. A vast, restless herd on its way

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from Texas to Kansas is on the edge as John Wayne, who is the owner and the trail boss, tries to keep the

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cattle calm as a violent lightning storm is brewing. But alas, a huge clap of thunder and a flash of

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lightning panics the herd, and one steer after another follows the rear end in front of them at

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full gallop until the camp is destroyed, the herd is scattered, and multiple cattle trampled to death,

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as well as one of the drovers. Oh, welcome to America 2020. Your trail bosses and drovers have

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engineered a huge clap of thunder and lightning flash, that is the fear of COVID-19, to stampede you

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into destroying your camp and yourselves beyond recognition. Yet we continue to follow the rear end

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in front of us in panicking fear. On and on we run, driven by the herd instinct, without thinking or

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stopping or bothering to think critically or even to do our homework. Has it dawned yet in the recesses

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of your fear-driven, panicked, adrenaline-saturated brain as you plot on and on behind the rear end in

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front of you, that you're being driven into the cattle pen of control by your drovers? Oh, dear

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listener, the new normal is turning out to be an old trap, and that is tyranny. The new normal is the

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old tyranny. Your drovers, when you consider this, when you look at what's been happening for the last

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six or eight months, your drovers could care less about your health and well-being. Else they would end

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this charade today, and they would stop the overwhelming death and destruction being caused

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by the stampede that they incited. Dear listener, we are being played. Oh, well, you might say,

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come on now, Mr. Conspiracy Theorist, you may condescendingly think to yourself, Joe Biden and

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St. Anthony Fauci and the gang over at Big Pharma, they love me. They have my best interest at heart.

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Yeah, right. Well, if I am a conspiracy theorist, then you are a naive, brainwashed Pollyanna. In a

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crisis such as this, as manufactured and as unnecessary as it is, it's imperative to ask

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cui bono, which is Latin for who benefits. Every lawyer in a trial, criminal trial, asks this question,

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cui bono, who benefits. And it certainly isn't us, is it, dear listener? In this stupid shutdown,

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I have lost several of my favorite restaurants, I've lost my favorite yoga studio, and more soberly,

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I've lost a friend to suicide. This is to say nothing of the human cost to all of my friends and neighbors

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who owned those businesses too. And the situation can be replicated around the country and around the

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world. In fact, in third world countries, where people are on the edge of survival, not just the

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edge of convenience, the cost has been far, far greater. The International Monetary Fund, for example,

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estimates that the response to COVID-19, not COVID-19, but our response to it, has experienced a

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$28 trillion hit to the world economy, hammering living standards, driving up global poverty for

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the first time in decades. The IMF asserts that this is the worst economic crisis since the Great

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Depression, and that many countries would experience severe setbacks in average living standards.

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One spokesperson says, and I quote, the poor are getting poorer with close to 90 million people

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expected to fall into extreme deprivation this year. Unquote. Oh, dear listener, but who has

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benefited? Huh? Kui Bono. Big pharma, big agriculture, and large corporate chains like Walmart. All of

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these have experienced record-breaking profits, and they're due to rake in even greater gains in the

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coming year. And your political bozos have also increased their control over you, where there's

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sweeping emergency powers, quote-unquote. Do you really think, dear listener, that they will relinquish

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these powers lightly, Mr. and Mrs. Pollyanna? Always remember, dear listener, those who seek power over

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others are not like others, are they? History demonstrates this time and time again. Do we have

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to be taught by experience this lesson again? There is often something very twisted to those who seek

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power. Do not project your goodwill and your good intentions onto the political bozos who are ruling

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over you lightly, right? Don't project this goodwill and intentions onto them lightly, because a medical

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tyranny is still, isn't it? It is still a tyranny, and we are the ones responsible for having it imposed

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upon us. We are the ones who accept it. We must reject it. Oh, and all I hear is time and time again,

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oh, but it's necessary, Pastor. It's necessary for our health and safety and well-being. Well, then you

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fit into William Pitt's category here. William Pitt says about necessity, he says, necessity is the plea

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for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves,

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unquote. Pitt was so right. Will you espouse the creed of slaves by saying, oh, this is happening to

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me. It's necessary. Then you indeed are a slave. The threat is not commensurate to the measures being

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taken, dear listener, and the measures being taken are destroying the herd. The herd instinct is operative

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in America now, and it's destroying us. It's one thing for a lion to threaten the wildebeest,

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a small cub or a hyena that feed on already dead carrying. It's not a threat. To ignite the herd

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instinct as our political bozos have done over a non-threat is far more destructive than the supposed

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threat. Give up your liberty. Give up your liberty now is what your political bozos are telling you

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in order to be safe. Oh, are you safe? Do you feel safe, dear listener? Benjamin Franklin had some wise

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words about that situation. He said, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little

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temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. And, dear listener, that is America's status right now.

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We neither deserve liberty nor safety on our present course. We must reject the political bozos who are

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tyrannizing us with a medical tyranny. Stop the herd instinct. Strive rather for herd immunity. This has been

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Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship. We are not driven

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by the herd instinct. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of

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4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for some feedback, perhaps, or for more information at area

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code 208-523-0196. We meet for holy worship 10 a.m. on Sunday at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and

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Boulevard, 208-523-0196.