I can't help it, folks.  I have to step into the coronavirus situation; it's been too long and I've been accumulating stuff from real people, not news organizations.  Many front line health workers come to the farm and I always engage them to find out their perspective.  Folks, it's universally opposite the daily news feed.  I haven't met a single one that trusts the numbers.

             Here are things that nurses, doctors, and their spouses have told me in the last few days:

 1.  If someone at a party gets covid-19, the health officials will identify everyone at the party and put them down as "positive" cases.

 2.  One ICU doctor in North Carolina, who has lost numerous patients (some both husband and wife) has not seen a single person with covid who wasn't either diabetic, very obese or suffering from some serious debilitating illness.

 3.  Most covid cases in North Carolina are agricultural workers, many undocumented and fearful of coming to the hospital when first feeling sick; they wait until death's door and then it's too late.  One group seriously affected was found to be living 28 in a double wide.  But to say this on the news is forbidden.

 4.  The Covid test cannot distinguish between Covid and the common cold.

 5.  No science supports wearing a mask, period.

 6.  Double- and triple-counting occurs routinely; none of the official numbers is trustworthy.

 7.  People who die of asthma, heart attacks, flue and other maladies are almost universally labeled "covid."

             Shaming is not new.  I remember well when we decided to home school our children; school officials shamed us by saying that refusing to participate in public schools denied them $10,000 which jeopardized the quality of education for every other child in the community.  Why don't we shame people for drinking Coke?  Why don't we shame people for eating at McDonald's?  For buying violent video games?

             I can think of lots of things I'd like to shame people for, but I don't.  It's shameful for officials to create a political football out of covid.  The public officials who told us to use hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of butter and lard should be ashamed.  Fake meat makers should be ashamed.  Looks to me like there's enough shame to go around.

             In light of all the shameful things going on, hugs and smiling faces should not be included.  Will some contract covid and die?  Yes.  But the above statements, unfiltered from the front lines, certainly cast things in a different light than the mainstream media.  Nothing in modern history has so completely and swiftly broken down trust in our society than this.  It's a shame.

            On a scale of 1-10, 1 being complete lies and 10 being absolute truth, where do you place the government's and media official data regarding Covid-19?