{"id":19934,"date":"2020-07-10T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19934"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:27:18","slug":"ron-paul-is-right-as-usual-the-spikes-all-fake-fake-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=19934","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul is right as usual—the coronavirus spikes are all FAKE, FAKE, FAKE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is the Texas Covid \u2018Spike\u2019 Fake News?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Written by Ron Paul<\/p>\n

On July 2nd, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order mandating the wearing of face masks across the state, whether indoors or outdoors, when six feet cannot be maintained between people. In the governor\u2019s decree, he cited a rise in Covid cases, a rise in test positivity, and a rise in hospitalizations as justification to force people to cover their faces in public.<\/p>\n

The move is not only a violation of the civil liberties of all Texans. Abbott may have based his executive order on inaccurate information about a \u201crise\u201d in Covid cases due to the Texas State Department of Health Services changing the definition of what constitutes a \u201cCovid case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thanks goes to Collin County Judge Chris Hill for blowing the whistle on what appears to be a move in mid-May to redefine what was a \u201cCovid\u201d case to open the door to a massive increase \u2013 all to match the mainstream media line that a \u201csecond wave\u201d was on the way.<\/p>\n

In a Commissioners Court hearing for Collin County on May 18th, it was revealed that while previously the determination of a Covid \u201ccase\u201d was a confirmed test result, the definition was suddenly changed to count \u201cprobable\u201d cases as \u201ccases.\u201d At the same time, the threshold for determining \u201cprobable\u201d was lowered to a ridiculous level.<\/p>\n

As Judge Hill said at that May 18th meeting, \u201cIf you have a subjective fever and you have a headache and you live in Collin County, you now meet the qualifications to be a probable COVID patient. It is remarkable how low the standard is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even worse, once a \u201cprobable\u201d case was determined based on possibly unrelated subjective criteria, up to 15 people in possible contact with that \u201cprobable\u201d case were also listed as \u201cprobable cases.\u201d And \u201cprobable cases\u201d were considered cases.<\/p>\n

Repeat that farce across Texas and is it any wonder there was a \u201cspike\u201d in \u201ccases\u201d?<\/p>\n

Also, Governor Abbott\u2019s claim that hospitals were being over-run by Covid patients was refuted by the Houston hospital directors themselves, who said they were nowhere near actual capacity and in fact were about the same level as they were last year.<\/p>\n

The basis for Abbott\u2019s unconstitutional \u201cexecutive order\u201d has been shown to be false. Will he admit his mistake?<\/p>\n

It is encouraging to see so many local and county officials across Texas announcing they will refuse to enforce Governor Abbott\u2019s unconstitutional face mask order. Thankfully the spirit of freedom and love of liberty is still alive in Texas.<\/p>\n

The \u201csecond wave\u201d is driven by propaganda. Across the country, Covid testing increased from about 150,000 to more than 700,000 per day. You can\u2019t drive through Houston without seeing a flurry of signs advertising \u201cFree Covid test! Results in 15 minutes!\u201d Last week Reuters reported that tests shipped around the country by the federal government were contaminated.<\/p>\n

Deaths from coronavirus \u2013 even the deaths \u201cwith\u201d coronavirus rather than deaths \u201cfrom\u201d coronavirus \u2013 are down more than 90 percent since the peak in April. The decline in deaths continues. That means we are closer to the \u201cherd immunity\u201d that will finally kill this virus. Yet Governor Abbott and others across the country see this as a reason to lock the country back down.<\/p>\n

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