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Untruth Comes in 2 Forms

I was reading FaceBook posts and I could not keep a thought out of my mind. There are a huge number of liars posting on FaceBook. I commented on a friends post that part of the post was possibly not correct or ‘wrong’. His reply was ‘Why does it matter?’ The evidence to make his point was wrong but it was an excuse for the remainder NOT a reason. There is a saying, ‘Let’s throw it on the wall and see what stick’. What you throw on a wall is not lies, or truths or facts, it is anything that may be believed.

Taken from On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt, Princeton University Press (2005). £6.50/$9.95 pp.67.ISBN: 0691122946. The distinction between lying and bullshitting is fairly clear. The liar asserts something which he himself believes to be false. He deliberately misrepresents what he takes to be the truth. The bullshitter, on the other hand, is not constrained by any consideration of what may or may not be true. In making his assertion, he is indifferent to whether what he is says is true or false. His goal is not to report facts. It is, rather, to shape the beliefs and attitudes of his listeners in a certain way.

The distinction is very clear but I see the problem in the personal (reverse) direction. The difference is the mind of the writer or speaker. It doesn’t even depend on whether the statement or idea is actually true! So does it actually make a difference. Only in OUR mind about the speaker’s motive. Is he not my friend (because he lied to me when I expected the truth) or is he still my friend ( because he was just kidding around and getting me to think about what he said just as I did)? My conclusion is: It only matters if it is from a friend! A friend should be the only one we give the Right of untruth!

Maybe it s Facebook thing that I FRIEND someone that I do not know. Certainly it is not in politics or business that I assume that a person is a friend without having proof or history as a base for this relationship. But we act that way. Don’t we?

In politics the candidate delivers speech after speech and we make decisions on what is said, truth, lie, or BS. After the election, no responsibility, We elect a businessman with a history of refusing to pay suppliers he used in business and wonder how/why he could/would to the very same thing in his first political office.

In the Facebook website there are ADs that promise a product that is too-good-to-be-true from companies that have no history or proof of being responsible except that they are allow to use Facebook and act surprised to find that is not true, that the company is not responsible, and is not really a company at all but just a person who disappeared as easily as it appeared.

The truth is that truth does not matter in our current, normal world. It is the appearance of truth that covers untruth that matters. It is the truth that NO ONE is or can be held responsible in our current normal world. A person is killed by police for trying to pass a bogus $20 bill (held responsible) and the police who overstepped his Right (to detain) must be made to be responsible. To me it seems that the New Normal is expecting the people that accept NO RESPONSIBILITY to require all the rest of us to accept ALL RESPONSIBILITY for the untruths in our world.

Oxygen Please

When I visit my Doctor for a regular visit the first thing done by a Nurse is to record my ‘vitals’. I cannot remember when it started but a regular reading is my saturated oxygen level, pulse rate and blood pressure. My general doctor is a cardio-pulmonary specialist which probably caused saturated oxygen level to be added quickly to the vitals group. I had occasional breathing congestion for so many years I cannot remember and at one point they, medical profession, gave it the name of COPD. Unfortunately there are many of us with widely varying problems grouped in this category because the first letter stands for Chronic. Whatever the history, oxygen is important and the standard it 95%-100%. For us with ‘conditions’, 90%-100% is good. This value has never indicated a problem for me.

Now I read that Covid-19 can cause a lower value, even to 50%, without showing respiratory distress. What this means for us is that Covid-19 will start by lowering the value before it goes real low and you feel it. I actually did not find any indication that the value drops as the disease worsen only that doctors find the value low!

In an article ‘Can a Pulse Oximeter Save Your Life if You Have COVID-19?’ Dr. Richard Levitan, who’s been an emergency room physician for some 30 years reports his experience with Covid-19 patients durning a stay in an ER of a large NYC hospital. excerpts follow.

A pulse oximeter works by passing beams of light through your finger and calculating blood-oxygen levels based on light absorption.

Dr. Levitan refers to this hard-to-detect type of oxygen deprivation (or hypoxia) as a silent killer. After observing patients during a 10-day volunteering stint in the ER at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, he wrote about this aspect of the virus in an opinion piece in The New York Times. I reviewed this article in my post in April. The question is the ‘hard-to-detect’seems to be done regularly by my general doctor every visit. The oxygen depletion may not be apparent immediately because the virus attacks the lungs in such a way that the patient gradually gets less and less oxygen over time, according Levitan. “These patients do not feel like they have breathing difficulty because they slowly adjust to the lower oxygen,” he says. The oximeter may provide a simple way to spot potential health trouble, but it’s not a substitute for a doctor’s consultation. “Why not have one?” he says. “A pulse oximeter is a very easy gadget to use. It’s not costly and it’s not invasive. Within 10 to 15 seconds, you’ll get an oxygen saturation reading. If it plummets below 90, you may need supplemental oxygen.”

Some people with the novel coronavirus have alarmingly low levels of blood oxygen, and they don’t even have a clue that their lives are in danger. They don’t appear to have any major trouble breathing, so they don’t realize how dire their situation may be. The phenomenon has been raising concern among doctors, because these individuals typically need emergency medical attention to survive. “The level of oxygen that these people are reaching can be so low that it’s amazing to me not only that they’re alive, but that they’re often not in distress,” says Richard Levitan, MD, an emergency physician in Littleton, New Hampshire, and the president of Airway Cam Technologies, a company that teaches courses in intubation and airway management. “They may be awake, alert, and even on their cell phones.” According to Levitan, he and other doctors are seeing many coronavirus patients who are breathing fairly well when they check in to the hospital, but upon examination it’s clear they have pneumonia and their lungs are failing to sufficiently oxygenate their blood. A normal blood oxygen reading would be between 95 and 100 percent, according to the Mayo Clinic. Anything under 90 is considered unhealthy. While at Bellevue in March, Levitan saw coronavirus patients with measurements as low as 50 percent. When oxygen levels sink this far, Levitan expects patients to have much more apparent trouble breathing. Instead, these patients were often coming into the ER only after recently noticing a shortness of breath and having been sick with symptoms like fever, cough, upset stomach, and fatigue for a week.

He was perplexed. “If you get this low with your oxygen, your brain doesn’t like it,” he says. “You have respiratory failure, you pass out, or you have a seizure.” But that wasn’t happening with the patients he was seeing. He explains that with COVID-19, the lungs initially remain “compliant,” meaning not yet stiff or heavy with fluid, so they’re able to get rid of carbon dioxide even as their ability to provide oxygen to the body becomes impaired. A buildup of carbon dioxide would cause patients to become lethargic or unconscious. To compensate, individuals breathe faster and deeper, and this change in respiration, Levitan says, increases inflammation in the lungs while also, for a while, masking some symptoms of pneumonia.

Identifying pneumonia early on before it advances can help a patient beat the disease and perhaps avoid more extreme measures like being put on a ventilator. “Through all of medicine, we know that earlier diagnosis and earlier treatment make a difference,” says Levitan. He adds that some of the most effective interventions can also be the least complicated. “For example, giving people oxygen and turning people onto their stomach — what we call proning — can reduce ventilator necessity,” he says. “People come in with oxygen levels in the 50s, and after we’ve turned them on their stomachs and given them oxygen their oxygen levels are in the 90s.” “Fixating on pulse oximeter readings may provide a false sense of security,” warns Albert Rizzo, MD, the chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. “In some cases, they do catch lung problems before you struggle with shortness of breath. However, it is also possible for the device to show healthy oxygen saturation levels even when experiencing trouble breathing, which may lead some individuals to delay seeking urgently needed care.” “Everybody I know has anxiety about this disease,” he says. “One way to give patients assurance that they’re okay is to empower them to self-monitor, and adding pulse oximetry does that.

PRESIDENTIAL PORTRAIT

But the above-displayed image does not show Obama’s official White House portrait. It is actually a painting by Dutch artist Edwin van den Dikkenberg and has no official connections to the White House or Obama.

Another portrait of Obama was also shared on social media as if it were the portrait scheduled to be unveiled at the White House in 2020

This painting of Obama was done by Kehinde Wiley and was unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in February 2018. While this an official portrait of Obama, it is not the official White House portrait that would have been unveiled at the White House ceremony in 2020.

The official White House portraits are commissioned by the White House Historical Association, and are distinct from the portraits hanging in the National Portrait Gallery. Official White House portraits are traditionally unveiled by the president’s predecessor near the end of their first term, and end up displayed (or stored) at the White House.

It’s been a White House tradition for decades: A first-term president hosts a ceremony in the East Room for the unveiling of the official portrait of his immediate predecessor that will hang in the halls of the White House for posterity.

Official White House portraits are separate from the presidential portraits that hang in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, where the Obamas’ were unveiled in February 2018.

The process for the White House portraits begins near the end of a president’s term or soon after, and it takes a few years to complete.

The 44th president looks elegant and confident in his official portrait—but nothing about his expression or appearance would make it, on its own, a particularly signature or memorable image.

What it Isn’t/Is

Covid-19 Isn’t

March 29,2020
A common cold- General aches, runny nose etc.
a type of fu – General aches, fever, feeling crapy, etc.
A type of flu – intestinal infection, nausea, diarrhea, etc.

Covid-19 Is

March 29,2020
What it is – ARDS, a respiratory disease and this YouTube video shows how it works.
It takes up to 2 weeks to show in most victims, sometimes never.
May 18,2020 We now have added MIS-C. The C in the name is for Children from age 9 to 18. It seems to take 6 to 8 weeks to show symptoms.
The Novel Virus seems to very patient

Future History

Yesterday I found an historical document about about the 20-21 revolution in the United States the Americas. It is an intriguing overview of decade that reformed a country into an even more power and desirable Organization. That which was a part of the former nation by default had been lost thru neglect, and exploited by the power structure in its absence. With the formal reintroduction into the founding documents of the former nation it was reformed and expanded.

During the FREEDOM era of the New Normal period of history it was realized that an assumption present in the forming constitution was based on the character of the leaders of that time that leaders would continue to have integrity as part of their makeup. This was pointed out in the preamble as “… and secure the Blessings of Liberty…” was never explicitly stated and in the statement, “Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members” . Without integrity as part of every person character these freedoms spell disaster.

And it came close in 2019 when something that had been written about for ages showed a little of how bad our imagination had made it. A pandemic, smaller than others to come, started to envelop the earth. It started in other countries but involved the Global Community in a matter of months and therefor included the United States.

This allowed the focus to eventually land on leadership in all countries because all were involved. China, where the pandemic first appeared, locked down the entire country in an effort to control the spread. No one thought about responsibility because it rested in the government as did the power.

ASIDE: The virus strain in this pandemic had one unusual characteristic, it was asynchronous; a person did not contract the virus and noticeable become ill. It took several weeks to be noticed in which time the victim had moved and spread the virus. If it was noticed earlier it was called just a common cold and the victim recovered with no noticeable effects for a very long time.

But in the United States the power and responsibility was a different structure. The power had been divided among several positions in the government. This was to insure balance in objectives of the various positions. This division was intended and stated in the forming document. Keep in mind the primary assumption that leaders would continue to have integrity. Some of the leaders had this character diminished to almost nothing. They followed their own agenda for their own good. Some thought out loud that their agenda was the agenda for the nation. Others new better but nothing because their agenda was totally personal and there integrity as next to nothing. This was also true in the individual business of the members of the states of the United States. Scams became a way-of-life in the area of what you were to believe to the area of what you purchased. One case documented a company that sold millions a product and never delivered more than a token amount. In another case the product never existed!

At one point the highest officer in the country stated that he had the total power… and later stated also that he accepted no responsibility at all. These exemplary statements started the thought process that eventually changed the nation and restored the fact that leaders would continue to have integrity, as part of the constitution of the United States.

The fact became widely know again that the president has no power over the people and never has had. His power is over the States who have power over the people. The example of the national speed limit, a concept that was aimed at safety and conservation of energy in the 20th century, pointed to the last state to accept and post the limit when the ‘stick’ of withholding federal aid for state projects was used to force compliance. It was also pointed out the the president indeed accepted no responsibility when a couple ingested bleach and the only responsible party was themselves.

Another “stick that broke the camel’s back” was a Mayor of a large City ordering businesses to close, which it turned out, he had no power to do. This costs individuals dearly and the city itself much. That area never recovered and the Mayor never accepted responsibility for the results of the order. It was, as I mentioned, cited as another ‘stick’ in the public eye.

Thus began the FREEDOM era of the New Normal period. The movement seems to have no beginning and no end. It did not begin on a date and has never ended. It just appeared in several regions unlike the Civil Rights movement that had a ‘beginning event’. It just grew to the point that the lawmakers knew what they must do to retain power, they needed to take responsibility.

I will continue to add to this as I read and understand.

Miranda rights for Criminals:
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. You have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions. You have the right to have a lawyer with you during questioning. If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present, you have the right to stop answering at any time.

Human Rights for Everyone:
You have the Right to remain silent and inert. You have the Responsibility for everything you say or do.

This is implied in the Constiution.

The Good-Bad List

Facebook.com/factcheck – Does respond to users

buyoshenwatch.com – No order sent out.

Americanism Responsibility

Like people — and most anything in life — there are brands that are responsible and ethical, and there are others that are not. Yes, without a doubt, Americanism is a force for good. Its intentions have been perverted, and the protection it offers has disappeared. We have got to do better and find a way to a responsible free market. Taken from this article. https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting-6a8ce3f0a0e0 And part 2 of the article https://forge.medium.com/the-gaslighting-has-begun-resist-aac3658813d4

Simply by staying in our homes, we have collectively lowered the death rate from a projected 2.2 million American deaths to 63,538 confirmed deaths as of this post. This lower death number is not evidence that this was “no big deal.” Quite the opposite. You and I made that lower number happen. It is confirmation of the power of scale and our own personal power to change the world. Plainly put, we can either honor those 63,538 people by getting our collective shit together and forging ahead anew, or we can go back to clearing the shelves of Walmart, drinking every sugary Coke, and “liking” every duck-lipped Insta post of our favorite Armenian makeup moguls. The choice is ours.

Manipulation Organization

Lyle Hoover, waiting outside for his first haircut since the lockdown, thought it was about time. “As this thing barrels on, I can’t help but think we’re being manipulated.”

“There’s no organization. There’s no real plan. Just open up and we’ll see what happens,” she said.(Tara Brendle) “We all know there’s going to be a resurgence in cases. But if they don’t know what to do, I sure as hell don’t.”

Confidence in the governor was not enhanced when Parson decided to mark the reopening by touring an electrical contractor and a hunting and fishing store without wearing a face mask, in a pointed rejection of federal health recommendations.
“I think it’s up to the individual,” Parson said in response to a question during his afternoon news conference. “I don’t think its government’s role to mandate who wears a mask and who doesn’t.” “I chose not to,” he said. “I don’t think that it is government’s role to mandate who wears one.”
Even as the state endured its largest increase in coronavirus cases on Monday, Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, decided to press ahead with his plan to allow businesses to reopen and to lift restrictions on social gatherings imposed as the pandemic crept closer six weeks ago.

Last week, Vice President Mike Pence chose not to wear a mask while touring the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in apparent violation of the medical center’s policy requiring them.

On-going content as it unfolds.

WE Must Due

Monday May 4, 2020. We are letting loose of the virus. It seems like time and it seems too early. For me it is too early. For all of us older seniors, too fat and ugly to run fast enough to stay ahead. And smart enough to realize that there is something hurting our nation more than the virus.

I thought it was apathy. People not caring about what happens. But I don’t that’s on the money either. Why do I feel there is not right? Is it because I personally don’t like what is happening? But I don’t dislike what is happening either?

Then IT hit me! I can’t do anything. Wait, I can’t do anything about IT. Oh I can do, just not do anything about IT. I feel used. Yes that is IT, I feel used! Everyone is using me. The should not be using me. And then I remembered a book I started about a witch hunt and I remembered feeling that I was the person using others. Who were they? OH! women, and men in power were using, taking advantage of, women! And Yep I was indeed a man. Can’t do anything about that either (although some men have tried. BUT another topic). I read it again. “and men in power were using, taking advantage of, women!” If there is anything that I do not have it is power! That was close.

In all the gin joints, in all the places, in all the World, . . . Wait Walter. Don’t go off on a Dream. We will use the same tool we as a country has used for years. Give THEM the Rights they are lacking. It is what we sent to war for. The right not to be English. Right? Right! Right. There was a concept that came before, FREEDOM. Now some try to say that that is the same thing. If you have rights you are FREE. and if you are FREE you have rights. Almost and true are the response to that. Can you see it? The war was for FREEDOM from England not . . . The thing that was added was RIGHTS. and the founding fathers figured that was good because they were good men and good men expect other men to be good. Notice I say men because back in those times men did and women . . .

Our founding father need us to replace what was assumed at the time our nation was conceived. The thing that they took, and took for granted, in founding our nation. They took responsibility by signing their names (and credit only because they did not fail).

In the above discussion we expect responsibility to be taken. And when IT is not IT becomes the IT that actually bothers us. Our entire court system, judicial system, corporate system, is in place to Make This Happen. (Well maybe not the corporate system that is in place now because it actually lets executives hide behind the corporate mask.) IT forces the few people convicted to take responsibility for IT. I asked a young girl what she did wrong in school. She said “get caught”. We teach them young. I told her no and explained but life teaches the opposite lesson. If the powerful men in the little story were forced to accept responsibility for taking advantage of women balance would be restored. If the people that first created a computer were forced to accept responsibility for taking advantage of our computer, balance would be restored. If every person using a Right were forced to accept responsibility for All The Actions caused by them balance would be restored. If FREEDOM were forced to balance rights with responsibility for actions caused I would feel better. IT is due!

“Excess deaths”

Excess deaths measure the difference between the number of deaths expected to occur without the pandemic and the number of actual deaths recorded. This accepts the state that “we don’t know” into the figures. This is what is needed at this time. It may have helped to focus on Covid-19 at first but now we need a bigger picture. April 28, 2020 Top Stories from Google Search for US

Google search for - excess deaths worldwide
Coronavirus Is Only Part of the 'Excess Fatality' Mystery
Deaths Spike in New York City and Around the World ...
40,000 Missing Deaths: Tracking the True Toll of the ...
Global coronavirus death toll could be 60% higher than reported
Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates - CEBM