Transitioning (Opinion)

Federalism mandates governors have the authority to design a reopening plan that reflects their state’s COVID-19 data and meets the needs of their state’s citizenry.

A recent review of the national response to COVID-19, including distilling the real data, produced the following takeaways:

  1. The all-of-America federal response led by President Trump and the Task Force was the correct approach
  2. The public-private partnership produced sufficient ventilators and PPE. Antibiotics, and ICU beds have been sufficient to meet demand.
  3. Doctors are using protocols that work with viral pneumonia successfully and are innovating to save lives
  4. 99.996% of all mortality has been in adults over the age of 18 – children have no risk and need to resume the entirety of their lives
  5. If you are under 60 years old and do not have diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, cancer, or an auto-immune system disorder. your risk is no greater than with the seasonal influenza
  6. 38% of all mortality nationally has been nursing home patients. This cohort is the most vulnerable group among us
  7. Several governors implemented policies that resulted in the death of thousands of nursing home residents. (67% of all deaths in one state have been nursing home patients)
  8. The virus binds with a patient’s hemoglobin like malaria; diabetics are the most at-risk because they already have diminished blood oxygen levels since glucose binds with their hemoglobin
  9. 69% of patients with heart disease who were given a blood thinner while on a ventilator survived versus only 18% without a blood thinner
  10. As much as 20% of the general population is asymptomatic … they already had the virus, did not know it, and now have antibodies. 70% of these people have strong enough antibodies to give themselves future immunity and donate their blood plasma to save lives
  11. Blood plasma therapy that was used successfully 100 years ago with the Spanish Flu and is again successful in defeating the virus in initial studies
  12. The AHCE virus model that projected from 1.5 to 2.2 million deaths if President Trump did not shut-down the economy was badly flawed
  13. The real data confirms the mortality rate nationally will be .1% which is consistent with data on the seasonal flu (Dr. Scott Atlas, Hoover Institute of Stanford University and a former Stanford epidemiologist)
  14. The data shows that we need to reopen our economies and return to our way of life now. Many governors are doing this while others are slow-walking the eventual normalization
  15. If a Walmart and Target can be open because they use smart social distancing and limit in-store customer traffic to 25% of total capacity, large retailers and all small businesses should be open now
  16. All businesses need to reopen now using smart strategies to protect the most vulnerable in a transition period
  17. School needs to reopen in the fall and all youth activities should resume immediately
  18. 48% of patients who were undergoing treatment stopped their treatment because of fear of contracting the virus. Some of these patients will die as a result
  19. Suicides and substance abuse have spiked more than 4-fold during this shutdown.
  20. Continued Shelter-in-Place Orders by governors will cause more deaths than they will save
  21. A significant percentage of prisoners released during this pandemic have committed another crime (this is another example of bad policy)
  22. The national media continues to push a false narrative about the federal government response and now is hyping fear of a Second and Third wave despite the facts
  23. Some governors seem to be all-in for nonsensical restrictions that confirm a totalitarian bent
  24. COVID-19 is not a naturally occurring virus – it has been manipulated and thus is an RNA virus. There has never been a viable vaccine for an RNA virus. Early returns on the Moderna vaccine are not promising
  25. Some existing therapeutics (anti-viral drugs) have lessened the severity of the virus; several promising new therapeutics are in the developmental pipeline

Some want to fundamentally change America and are using COVID-19 as the vehicle to accomplish their goals. Keeping Americans closeted will ensure our way of life vanishes as millions of America businesses will never return and millions of Americans will remain unemployed.

Now is the time to reopen America!!

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