No one in his or her sane mind wants to get sick. We all do at some time, of course, but if you can avoid it you do – especially sickness that leads to death.
Except for Covid-19, most of us habitually ignore data and news stories about death, save for an isolated report here and there. We ignore a great deal of what our physicians tell us about good health. We’re overweight, sleep too little, have too much stress, drink too much, practice risky behavior, and so forth. We do all this, despite the risk, because we want to enjoy life while we live it and as we interpret it for ourselves.
Enjoying life requires risk taking. Not with Covid-19. We’ve been told how to and where to live in order to protect ourselves from ourselves and neighbors – and everyone else in the world. Fear of death is the motivator.
“Deaths in Minnesota from COVID-19 have reached 5,107, with an additional 57 reported on Saturday, according to the Minnesota Department of Health,” reported the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Saturday, December 26. Imagine, more than 5,000 Covid-19 deaths despite Governor’s ordering our lives shut down, making us hide away at home.
The “New York Times” reported on December 26 that more than 330,000 individuals have died from Covid-19 in the United States, and some 1.75 million worldwide.
It sounds as if Covid-19 threatens human existence, without all of us radically changing how we exist, and existing is purposefully contrasted with “living.” Living requires interacting with family, friends, in communities, at work and play – in malls, gardens, parks and at sporting events. Living is what we did before February 2020.
We are driven to fear Covid-19 by “science” reported to us by a small army of trained disease sociologists who are rightfully worried about millions of Americans and tens of millions of people dying around the world from Covid-19. So they give us the daily death count and it sends a shiver down our spine. Rational people fear death, including people of faith.
But what if that count isn’t true? What if that count does not accurately reflect those who die “from Covid-19?”
What if the death counts you have been hearing are inflated? What if a large portion of the 5,000 or more folks who the state of Minnesota say died from Covid-19 died from something else? What if 50 percent or more of those 1.75 million worldwide actually died from a variety of naturally occurring causes? What if the numbers you have been hearing are wrong?
Minnesota State Representative Mary Franson, GOP-Alexandria, is doing the hard work of finding out. Coming alongside Rep. Franson is State Senator Dr. Scott Jensen, MD, GOP-Chaska. Sen. Jensen has been sounding a warning about corrupted data for months, and reaping a mountain of disdain from “experts” across the country for doing it.
Recently Rep. Franson retrieved 2,800 death certificates from the State of Minnesota Department of Health that indicate Covid-19 as cause of death. What she has already discovered could change the way the world looks at Covid-19 deaths, data and public policy.
With help from others, and guided by Sen. Jensen’s learned hand and medically-trained mind, Rep. Franson’s research and analysis shows that perhaps 40 percent of deaths attributed to Covid-19 are wrongly reported. Some of those deaths shown as Covid-19-caused on the death certificates, she explained, are only presumed by officials to be Covid-19 caused.
Franson and Jensen have gone public with their report. Use the link after you finish this blog and take 17 minutes to view and evaluate their report.
Rep. Franson is determined to dig through the death certificate data for all those with a report cause of death by Covid-19. Her preliminary report suggests that instead of 5,000 deaths of people from Covid-19, the inflated numbers reveal at least 40 percent who died from other causes, though with some evidence of Covid-19 (or those whom officials assumed to have had Covid- 19).
The inflated numbers, Franson and Jensen both suggested, serve to distort public perception and create unnecessary fear. Fear has driven Minnesota Governor Walz and other governors to take draconian actions that restrict individual liberty, actions that have gravely damaged our economy. The two suggest that this has negatively affected mental health, delayed much-needed medical screening and procedures, and will accrue to greater future medical and mental health suffering.
Sen. Jensen is returning to private life at the end of December, which means returning to his medical practice as a primary care and emergency physician. But he’s not done serving people. Watch for him to surface again in a way to affect public policy.
During the 2021 legislative session, Rep. Franson plans to report on a fuller investigation and analysis of the Covid-19 related data, then to report it to us, and to work with legislators to bring the questionable data collection and reporting to light. Then she plans to work to modify Minnesota law to protect residents from further assaults on their liberty – on their jobs, education, worship, recreation and relaxation, pocketbooks – and try to restore our economic vitality.
No one should resist the truth about Covid-19 statistics. If Jensen and Franson are right, we can face a cheerier 2021. If they are wrong, the voters will judge them for it. Let’s get the truth and then let’s have the courage to throw fear aside to once again build a better life for our families and communities.
