“all legally cast ballots”

 

So the stament has been made….”We have counted all Legitimately cast ballots three times and thre has been no significant change” 

But the question is…how do we know all those ballots that exist were legally cast? Were legitmate ballots? 

Once the ballots that were of doubtful provenance (Those Mail-In ballots that arrived late, those that were admitted with no postmark, those that had no signature or those where the signature was not legible or those where the state simply didn’t bother to verify the signatures at all)…once those ballots are placed in the mix…once they have been intermingled with the other ballots…the “legitimate” ones…how do you separate the suspect ballots back out? So far, as far as I can tell, those ballots are still counted as “Legitimate” even if they are of suspect origin…

Once you toss illegitimate (or at least unverified or suspect illegitimate) ballots in the pile, then all ballots become suspect….therefore there can be no way to determine which were “Legally Cast Ballots” and which were not..

Here’s an interesting Covid fact:

 Just now, what with the “surge” in cases and hospitalizations and suchlike….Just now, has Covid beaten Heart Disease as a cause of death…

Prior to this week, more folks were dying from COPD and Heart Attacks than from Covid. 

Infamy

 Take a moment and say a prayer for those brave men who lost their lives while serving their country on this day so many years ago….and all those other men (and not a few women) in the battles that followed in the war that the attack on Pearl Harbor led to. 

Back in 1941 it took HOURS for the populace to learn of the attack….Today we’d have that knowledge in tens of minutes if not faster. 

But I doubt the anger level would be more, no matter how the news was disseminated. 

By my calculations….

 Since the Media has been telling us that the Hospitals are Rapidly Running Out of Capacity” for over 5 months, they should all be operating at something like 437.8 % of  capacity….

Or else (and I find this hard to believe) that they have been lying to us for a while. 

Shitty weather

 Between the holiday, the low ceilings, the ice and snow, the icing conditions and scheduling issues, I have not had alesson in a Multi Engone aircraft in a week. 

And they scheduled my checkride for a week and ahalf from now….

Crunch time. 

AAANNDD….now the Chinese claim it was India that started this.

 First, of course, it was a “Wet Market” that served bats from a location 180+ MILES away from Wuhan that was the origin of the Sars-Covid-19 outbreak….Even though the epicenter of the first outbreak was mere tens of feet from the Wuhan center for weaponized diseases. 

THen, of course, they said it might have been Italy….

Now the Chinese are claiming that the outbreak was first found in India…..after the idea that it first originated in Italy failed to gain any traction….(because it was a lie). 

Despite the (multiple) claimed origins for the disease, it first surfaced in Wuhan,  likely not in the “Wet Market” (that didn’t serve bat carcases from mearly 200 miles away)…..but that is what they first claimed…..it came from a disease warfare lab that is located on the same block as the Wet Market they pointed to…..

I think that the Chinese are afraid of (and rightly so) repercussions from the rest of the world….so they are pointing to anyone but the Chinese as the source….

But I doubt that (all of)  the rest of the world will buy their lies…..It seems to be a cultural issue with eastern asians (not just the Chinese) to lie to Westerners….and for some reason, many Westernaers keep buying the lies over and over and over….

A legal question:

 So the State governments have (mostly) mandated a mask in all enclosed public spaces. Essentially, one cannot legally do business without a mask in todays society. 

On the horizon: a (relatively) untried set of vaccines for Covid-19…

Now, one is required to possess a drivers license to drive a car on roads,  In many states, one needs a permit to carry a firearm on one’s person (despite the protections of the Second Amendment of the Constitution). One cannot do banking nor other fiancial businesswithout proving ones identity with a Government issued Identification Card. Similarly, one must “identify” when asked by a policeman or other law enforcement official (The difinition of “Identify” might mean showing an Id or simply stating your name and DOB..it varies).  There is precedent for the following:

Would it be legal for the States or the Federal Government to require that the citizens of this country be vaccinated for Covid-19 in order to do business or to leave one’s home? To buy food or medicine or to mingle with others in public? 

It is, after all, a short step from mandated “Mask Up” in public to “Vaccinate”…..

I fully expect someone to try this…