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Trump’s multiple “emergency” orders in place on March 13, 2020–based on nothing but unverified UK computer models–gave dictatorial powers to 50 governors, countless city mayors, and others. Trump’s action “indefinitely revoked both the United States Constitution as well as the constitutions of the individual states that are based upon it.”
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Added: Six days later on March 19, 2020, in consideration of its low mortality rates, UK downgraded Covid to a less serious classification than that which had been in place since Jan. 2020: “In particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall).” Not to say that it wasn’t still serious, but that it was less serious than first believed:
June 17, 2020, “Status of COVID-19," uk.gov
The 4 nations public health HCID group made an interim recommendation in January 2020 to classify COVID-19 as an HCID. This was based on consideration of the UK HCID criteria about the virus and the disease with information available during the early stages of the outbreak. Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up to date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.”…
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Added: It wasn’t a virus that ended the US. It was a person named Donald Trump:
April 26, 2020, “Not Some Virus,” Jack Kerwick, Townhall
“It is Big Government and Big Media actors that are responsible for having inflicted incalculable damage, of all conceivable sorts, upon hundreds of millions of human beings within the United States.
To be clear, it is not “The Pandemic,” COVID-19, i.e. “The Virus,” that has forced tens of millions of American workers, as great as any number since the Great Depression, to join the ranks of the unemployed.
It is politicians, thanks to no small measure of assistance from their apologists and fellow fear-mongers in Big Media, who are responsible for this.
It is the agents of Big Government and Big Media and not some virus that have forced countless thousands of small business owners to shutter their doors, hence forgoing their American Dream and the thousands upon thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and tears that they invested in pursuit of realizing that Dream.
It is Big Government and Big Media actors and not some virus that have systematically undercut what Edmund Burke referred to as “the little platoons,” all of those institutions in the absence of which civilization would be inconceivable. These are the institutions of family, friendships, and all of those local communities, religious and otherwise, that constitute the identities of their members, invest their lives with value, meaning, and purpose, and, insofar as they are intermediate between the individual and the State, serve as a “check and balance” on the power of government over the citizen.
Through the decrees of states’ governors, supported by a propaganda campaign that is as incessant as it is ubiquitous—Flatten the Curve! Stop the Spread! Stay at Home! Social Distancing! Save Lives!—Big Government and Big Media actors have eroded away at these life-saving, life-enriching, associations, these “little platoons.”
It is the agents of Big Government and Big Media and not some virus that have relegated the Bill of Rights to something that is “above the paygrade” of the very people, those like New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who swore an oath to defend it.
It is the agents of Big Government and Big Media and not some virus that have indefinitely revoked both the United States Constitution as well as the constitutions of the individual states that are based upon it.
It is the actors of Big Government and Big Media and not some virus that have recently spent trillions of dollars in “relief” aid to American citizens who they never should have forced into unemployment in the first place.
It is the men and women in Big Government and Big Media and not some virus who, in arranging for the closure of parks, commerce, schools, and all recreational events, have shuttered civil society.
It is the agents of Big Government and Big Media and not some virus who, despite assurances that our hospitals could be overwhelmed, have left hospitals across the country, including New York City’s largest emergency room, largely empty, and possibly “soon closed for good.””…
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Added: Few expect NJ Governor Phil Murphy to give up his absolute powers. Every 30 days Murphy simply decrees a renewal of his dictatorship by claiming that a public health emergency still exists.…After leaving Goldman Sachs in 2003 after 23 years, Murphy from 2006-2009 was National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee. In 2009 Obama appointed Murphy Ambassador to Germany. In October 2017, Obama campaigned for Murphy in his run for NJ governor.
Image: Obama campaigns for Murphy, Oct. 2017, getty
April 15, 2020, “‘Above my pay grade’: New Jersey governor claims Bill of Rights did not factor into his coronavirus executive orders,” Washington Examiner, by Anthony Leonardi
“Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phillip Murphy said the Bill of Rights was not on his mind when he issued his executive orders mandating his state’s response to the coronavirus.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson pressed Murphy on the constitutionality of his recent executive orders that deem liquor stores essential and business and churches nonessential, which Murphy said he did not consider.
“As I noted before, 15 congregants at a synagogue in New Jersey were arrested and charged for being in a synagogue together. Now, the Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans’ right, enshrines their right, to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together, to assemble peacefully. By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order? How do you have the power to do that?” Carlson asked.
“Well, I can tell,” Tucker interjected….
“We know we need to stay away from each other, number one. Number two, we do have broad authority within the state. And number three, we would never do that without coordinating, discussing, and hashing it out with the leaders, the variety of the leaders of the faith of New Jersey,” Murphy later said.
Authorities in other states have faced blowback for strict executive orders that limit outdoor social activities and gatherings. The Raleigh Police Department faced massive online opposition after categorizing protesting as a “nonessential activity.”
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been chided by police officers within her own state for using her executive authority during the coronavirus pandemic to ban the sale of nonessential goods, including paint, car seats, and gardening equipment. Whitmer’s social distancing executive orders also include a ban on travel between residences.”
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March 25, 2020, “President Trump Declares State of Emergency for COVID-19,” National Conference of State Legislatures, ncsl.org
“To date, President Donald Trump has activated emergency powers under four separate statutes for the COVID-19 response. Trump declared a public health emergency under the Public Health Service Act on Jan. 31, issued two national emergency declarations under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act (NEA) on March 13, and invoked emergency powers via Executive Order under the Defense Production Act on March 18. On March 19, Trump named the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as the lead agency in the COVID-19 emergency response efforts, a designation previously held by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These actions have varying implications but collectively allow the federal government to deliver virus response funds and other assistance to state and local governments in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus and protect the economy against its mounting impact.
The declaration comes as part of a broader effort to bolster the economy and contain the virus as it continues to quarantine workers and consumers, ground flights, close factories and schools, ban public events, disrupt supply chains, impact the stock market and cause other fallout. These developments will bolster efforts already underway by governors, mayors, county officials, state legislatures and others in state and local government nationwide who have stepped up to mitigate the spread.”…
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