The success that the powers of darkness have had in creating acrimony in the U.S. is troubling on several points to a plain old country boy like your’s truly.

It appears to us that leftist globalists are attempting to create division in our society as a means of destroying the constitutional government, including citizens’ rights, which has made the U.S. a beacon of hope in the world for some 240 years.

The closer U.S. society matches that in the Middle East where mortal battling occurs on an almost daily basis the happier the originators of the conflict will be. Besides the turmoil in political life, the constant bicker

Besides the turmoil in political life, the constant bickering as played out in the major media naturally flows downhill to personal lives, making them uncomfortable as well.

Dress Rehearsal For More Control

There seems to us little doubt that the attack on civil liberties by some government entities, using the coronavirus outbreak as an excuse to enact them, is a dress rehearsal for a changed (more strictly controlled) social and economic life for Americans in the future.

We have to accept that some change in lifestyle was probably needed to prevent the coronavirus outbreak from becoming a national disaster.

Quick action in closing borders and shutting down immigrants from other nations was required since the disease was already well established thanks to Chinese malfeasance in alerting the world to the seriousness of the virus which originated in China.

The source is still under scrutiny – possibly too many bat-kebabs from Wuhan wet markets or loose practices at a Wuhan virology laboratory.

One thing is sure: China won’t admit blame.

That secretive, dictatorial government is working 24-7 attempting to blame others for the disease and its spread.

After the disease was in their midst, Americans accepted the changes in their lives to protect the most susceptible – the seriously ill and the elderly.

To their vast credit, they accepted the restrictions in order to help others.

They maintained social distancing, practiced good hygiene, and stayed at home, as recommended by the president, governors and state and local officials.

As a result, they “flattened the curve,” preventing the disease from overwhelming our health care system. It was reported that not a life was lost in the U.S. due to unavailability of a ventilator.

Daniel H. Johnson, a diagnostic radiologist in Metairie, La., and a former visiting fellow in health policy at the Heritage Foundation, published a report in The Daily Signal saying it’s time to make more choices to come out of the pandemic lockdown.

New Choices Required

He points out that officials on all levels have concluded that the current lockdown is unsustainable so citizens have to make new choices.

He writes the following:

“In the midst of a peak influx of very sick patients, there’s always the threat of a limitation of resources that can put physicians in a very difficult ethical position in delivering care.

“That occurred in Italy. Happily, it did not generally happen in this country. Physicians in some facilities, however, came very close to having to make uncomfortable choices.

“Employers also have to make crucial choices. They have to decide who, among their employees, they should bring back on board as the recovery gets under way. Are there new models that will allow restaurants to recover? Is there enough demand to bring hotels back online or to bring airplanes back into service?

Personal Decisions to Make

“Finally, and most importantly, we as individuals and families are going to have to make some big decisions for ourselves. Is it safe to send your children back to school or should you continue to homeschool them?

“If you are in one of the more vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, how much should you venture out? If you have comorbidities, such as cardiac or respiratory conditions, that decision becomes easier. If, however, you are elderly but active and in excellent health, do you stay locked down? Do you venture out timidly? Or do you return to full activity in your community?”

He seems to be making the reported Casey Stengel observation, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”

He concludes:

“In the final analysis, our personal and public choices are equally crucial. But our choices also depend on our knowledge. We are dependent on robust, reliable, and understandable data.

“We have much to learn about this coronavirus. Certain facts, however, are clear: a large and growing database tells us that the overwhelming majority of people who contract the disease have mild forms of it and many may not even know it.

“Some become uncomfortably ill. Some become terribly ill. A very small number become critically ill. Almost all in that last category have one or more other known serious conditions that help precipitate their very bad situation.

Making Right Choices

“In making the right choice, it’s incumbent on each one of us—whether in public or private life—to examine the data and evaluate the risk to others and to ourselves.

“Taking the opportunities available to us and taking responsibility for our decisions, we must choose what makes sense. If we do so, we can defeat this insidious enemy.”

Left Agenda At Work

The left is using the crisis to push for changes in our system to help them kill our system: vote by mail, using snitches to report violators of unnecessarily restrictive measures, passing previously unattainable (and likely unconstitutional) gun control legislation, and preventing public assembly – to name a few.

Make no mistake, the controllers will be studying the closure statistics closely to determine what they can use to their best advantage the next time.

Benjamin Franklin advised his age that the constitutional convention had bequeathed a republic to the nation, “if you can keep it.”

That is the charge to current-day freedom loving Americans, returning America to a free republic.

Jon’s Ramblin’s

I’m doing this writing about the justice system, for the prosecution of politicians that commit acts of treason. We all say things on the spur of the moment about hanging or shooting a politician that commits an act of treason. Everyone is a little crazy, meaning kinda ornery. A very small percentage are stupid. And will follow through with attempts of death against those individuals.

A grand jury indictment should be issued, followed by a trial by a military tribunal, the punishment to fit the crimes.

God bless America.

Jon Cochran Sr.