****This is from my Uncle, a member of the Greatest Generation and a health professional who has volunteered widely here and abroad.
He has seen it all, including life in the old USSR.
Here is his take on 2020.
I have seen Communism and Socialism at work. The USSR shortly before it went down in the fall of 1991 before Gorbachev dissolved it and the look of desperation of the Soviet people and the carnage toll that Communism took on the country. The 3 things they had to show us were the 3 things they actually were against. Their churches, religion, their Czars and hierarchy and their palaces and their museums which housed these treasures. I told my wife this about 4 days after we arrived on that pharmacy/medical trip to the USSR I had a MD from New Jersey tell me , "and this is supposed to be a superpower" They were by my estimate at least 12 years behind us medically.
I got shingles on the trip and knew what I needed acyclovir. They had never heard of it and we had been using it for 5 years to treat shingles. 37 orphans in an orphanage in the Ukraine got aids about 2 months before we got there because they had never heard of disposable syringes and the 37 orphans were given a measles vaccine shot with the same syringe and needle. In those days, aids was pretty much a death sentence. When we arrived at the Cosmos hotel in Moscow I was impressed by the facility. It was built by a Finnish firm for a prior Olympics. It was gorgeous from the outside.
Our US guide and I had immediately become fast friends and he told me after we checked in to meet him in the lobby which I did. He took me to the 4th floor. It was a total disaster. Doors, carpets, furniture, sinks, toilets were all gone. He said every other floor had been cleaned out. One, three, five, seven and etc. were fine but the even floors had been cleaned out At a dinner that evening our guide and I were talking with a Soviet guide and the Soviet guide in a hushed voice said, "we are the generation that has been deceived". How true! A ruble at the bank at that time exchanged for 1.5 dollars. On the black market you could get 300 rubles for $20.00. It was quite a difference. If our guide could break me away from a medical function he would. He took me to Soviet people's side of the Moscow Airport area which was out of bounds for tourists. It was dirty and trash everywhere. We were coming back and there was a huge line, over a block long and he asked the guy at the end of line what was up there. The guy said I don't know but it must be something good. Their medical facilities were antiquated and completely outdated. No computers, believing in a foamy water that was from an artesian well as a cure all. I could go on and on.
Do we want this? On our trip to Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Montenegro we stayed 2 days extra on our own as we wanted to see Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Our guide, van and driver were going to Zagreb so he asked us to go with him instead of taking the train. We talked all the way to Zagreb. He brought up socialism and communism. I will never forget this. Obama was our president at that time and he said," you are going in one direction and we are going 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Bosnia on that trip was a wake up call as it is socialist and Croatia and Slovenia are capitalistic. Bosnia was similar to what we had seen in the USSR years before and Croatia and Slovenia looked like Austria.
Closer to home the only cancer patient I brought to our home while volunteering for a Cancer Care was a black lady from nearby. She would during the week stay at the cancer house where I volunteered taking care of the sprinkler system and weed spraying and sending out our bulletins and donation requests. I also drove cancer patients to and from their chemotherapy and radiation. I brought her to the house twice and tried once a week to take her to the Park and walk with her in town. I don't think she had very many friends. She also smoked a lot and I would drive her to a quick stop so she could buy her cigarettes. I know it was wrong but she was terminal.
I don't think I am racial prejudiced but what the media did with George Floyd and the Democratic party was totally wrong and sends the wrong message to our country and our young people. The people responsible for George Floyd's murder should be and will be held responsible for his killing. George Floyd however was an addict and at the time of his death was high on fentanyl and methamphetamine both very addicting and also had traces of marijuana in his system. At the time of his death he was selling these highly addictive drugs to teenagers in Minneapolis. He had been in prison at least 3 times. Once for holding a pistol to the stomach of a pregnant woman while 5 others robbed her home.
For Joe Biden to eulogize him at his funeral is the wrong message to send to our youth. Would you want your child to follow in the footsteps of George Floyd?? Black lives matter is a Marxist organization whose 2 organizers are atheist and avid Marxists women. Who are our 3 most famous Marxists? Lenin, Stalin and Mao who together purged at least 110,000,000 people or basically everyone living West of the Mississippi river.
A good friend and our attorney went back to Russia looking for his roots in Frank, Russia. Joe Stalin obliterated and completely removed Frank, Russia and the people living there. It is now an open field and the people are gone.
We have 70% of the attorneys in the world in the USA and 5% of the population. How does that work? There are more attorneys in Los Angeles than in all of France and it is worse in Washington DC. We continue through Universities to keep the mill going turning out attorneys. We have friends and relatives who are attorneys and they pretty well agree with me. These people eat and eat very well. The swamp needs to be cleaned out and that is why all of these people will do anything to prevent Trump from winning a second term.
Until Covid-19 I had no idea how biased the media was and probably wouldn't have discovered it even then but I became very interested in Plaquenil, Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and it's predecessor Atabrine, Chloroquine (CQ). President Trump touted way back in March for treatment of Covid-19 and the media immediately because they hate Trump so much started making disparaging remarks and that Trump was killing people by telling them to use HCQ. I had checked out HCQ. We gave it to our troops in the South Pacific during WW II routinely to treat and prevent malaria with very few problems. Sandoz Lab Switzerland gave us 30,000,000 doses of HCQ and Bayer Germany gave us another 1,000,000 doses to treat Covid-19. So. Korea used it with Zinc and maybe still is and had probably the lowest mortality rate of any country in the world. Turkey, Spain, France, Germany and Switzerland all used it with great results. The medical journal, Lancet wrote an article condemning it I think in June and 2 weeks later quickly retracted it as the data was false. In that time period of time most of these countries quit using it. In Switzerland the mortality rate went back up to previous levels before HCQ 2 1/2 times and then when Switzerland reinstated the use of HCQ it went down to its mortality level which was 2 1/2 times lower than ours.
I had always said it needed to be given in the early stages of Covid-19 with Zinc. The US media after the Lancet article really got on Trump and never retracted anything after Lancet retracted their article. A virologist from Washington U In St. Louis wrote a scathing article to the media and backed it up with data supporting HCQ. The Ford Foundation in Dearborn, MI plus Mt. Sinai Hospital in Queens plus the head of health and welfare in CT put out scientific data supporting HCQ. The media still today will not recognize the benefit of HCQ . Fauci won't either. Fauci is so afraid of the press.
In Australia a YouTube named the "Jury is In on HCQ" was scathing to our media and cited a number of scientific reports supporting HCQ. The media is trash CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS. Never will I believe our media plus the Washington Post and NY Times. I even emailed a writer for the Washington Post about a article they printed on HCQ and he claimed he didn't write it and added when he was in the Peace Corp in Cambodia he took HCQ routinely to treat/prevent malaria. For a refreshing change of news you should try Tucker Carlson, Hannity and the lady that comes on after Hannity on Fox. That is 3 hours starting at 5 PM and I think would really be worth your time. I think it would blow your mind and give you facts and not the here say that the fake press distributes. I almost forgot. India is giving HCQ to all of it's medical doctors who are on the front line treating Covid-19 and all of their Covid-19 patients. Their mortality rate is half what ours is. It must however be given early and not in late infections.
We now have Hunter Biden's computer note book and witnesses backing it up of Hunter's and Joe Biden's financial dealings with Russia, Ukraine and China and Joe claims he knew nothing about financial dealings with these countries involving the Bidens.
There is a video of Joe Biden bragging about getting a prosecutor fired that was investigating Hunter in the Ukraine. Joe bragged that the Ukraine wouldn't get the 1 and 1/2 billion dollars we, the United States, were giving the Ukraine if that prosecutor investigating Hunter wasn't fired and the Ukraine fired the prosecutor 5 hours before Biden gave the Ukraine the money. China is worse. The Biden family got over 5 million in one lump sum and probably a lot more. A 100,000 shopping spree in China and much more. In Russia they got 2 1/2 million from the Mayor of Moscow. Joe Biden is compromised if he becomes president of the United States. China and Russia can and will blackmail the United States. Look at the evidence.
You can hate Donald Trump but there is a lot more at stake here than hating Donald Trump.