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These Times they are enragin

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 So there is a lot going on right now. From the end of Covid restrictions to the "freedom" convoy to the muscle flexing of Russia to the rapid erosion of the value of your dollar. Let's start with the "freedom" movement.  The cry went out early in the pandemic that the numbers were not right! It was Donald telling the press that the numbers of his own staff can't be right and that meme has been stuck in the gut of the internet to this day. Truthfully I even wondered about the numbers but rather than relying on cable TV or the Donald I went to sites on the web, mixed in some off shore news coverage and came away with  this: Deaths were not the really important number it was the number of cases that was the issue. It was preventing the death of tens of thousands who caught this virus but were alive only because they had a ventilator.   In year two the train was coming off the rails. It seemed as though the public was being sold a new and improved virus every c