Physician’s Petition to Iowa Board of Medicine re hydroxychloroquine

The following document download is sourced from David Hartsuch MD, former State Senator who is an Emergency Medicine Physician and who also holds an advanced degree in medical statistics.  He knows his way around numbers, but is also obviously concerned about individual patients.

Reading his petition and the Iowa Board of Medicine statement/policy that he objects to we find his case for the removal of restrictions for physicians on the use of hydroxychloroquine compelling as to its focus — treatment of a virus that can present a serious medical condition and aggravation.  Dr. Hartsuch accepts or at least does not argue the policies in place regarding transmissibility the virus.  We have read focused reports in that regard that challenge overwrought policies.   Again his focus is on treatment and the appropriateness of the Iowa Board edicts. We believe his efforts should be supported by citizens contacting the Iowa Board of Medicine as set forth below:

The Iowa Board of Medicine will be considering my petition to the Board concerning the use of Hydroxychloroquine in Iowa.  This is by phone meeting and the public will be allowed to comment.
Time: Friday 8/28/2020 9:00 am
Phone:  1-866-685-1580
User code :971-913-4151

The Board needs to know that the public demands full access to this life saving drug, and they need to fully rescind their “Joint Statement” regarding hydroxychloroquine of March 26th,2020.  Decisions about Iowans health should be based upon science not politics.  Physicians should be allowed to freely decide with their patients the best treatment for this deadly disease.  Iowans should not be allowed to die over the political ambitions of the Board.

If you would like to drop (a note) to Kent Nebel, director of the Iowa Board of medicine his email is:  kent.nebel@Iowa.gov

I have attached a copy of my petition.
Thank you,

Sen. David Hartsuch MD MS
Emergency Resources, PLC

 

 

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The most pro-abortion ticket and platform the Democrats have ever produced

To be sacrificed by prominent Catholics on their election altar devoted to Democrats

You can bet that many Bishops and other Catholic clergy and leadership will equivocate about abortion and the right to life as their true religion is big government socialism, however Godless it presents itself

At The Federalist

Americans React To Kamala Harris’s Call For Post-20 Week Abortions With Pictures Of Their 20-Week-Olds

People are sharing photos of their children at 20 weeks gestation after a tweet from Sen. Kamala Harris in 2018 resurfaced, in which she advocated against a ban on abortions past 20 weeks.

Many people tweeted photos and sonograms of their children at 2o weeks old gestation or earlier, denouncing Harris’s pro-abortion platform and call for a ban.

Others shared photos of babies prematurely born around 20 weeks, fully developed and alive.

Harris is a longtime pro-abortion activist with a long congressional record supporting the movement. She voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and was a co-sponsor of the Women’s Health Protection Act, which allows abortions without bans. Harris has also notably called for Congress to pass a law affirming the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973.

Harris even received an informal endorsement from Planned Parenthood Action on Twitter.

She also has a 100 percent rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-abortion activism group.

While Biden has not been as active as Harris in abortion activism, he said that his presidential platform includes ending the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding of abortions as well as ensuring “safe, legal access to abortion by establishing nationwide protections for abortion that would stand even if Roe v. Wade were overturned by the Supreme Court.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, at 20 weeks, babies in the womb have all of their body parts and become more active in the womb by “regularly sleeping and waking” and becoming “awakened by noises or your movements.” Scientific research also shows that babies can feel pain very early in the womb, suggesting that an abortion would cause immense physical harm and suffering to the baby before death if performed.

Related reading:

Planned Parenthood Leaders Admit Under Oath to Killing Babies in Illegal Partial-Birth Abortions

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Memeories

A few pulled from our friend’s postings on social media:

Ventriloquist comedian Jeff Dunham and Walter superimposed

You can get away with this when the media does not report Hunter and Joe crookedness

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Derecho meets wind farms

So there we were driving back from Des Moines along I-80 on Sunday afternoon and did a casual survey of wind damage after the recent (August 10) dericho the area experienced.  Granted the most intense winds were somewhat north of I80 but the suggestion of corn and soybean crop damage in the millions of acres and billions of dollars seemed a little extravagant. Satillite pictures of pre and post dericho seem unreliable as the pre-storm photos of a month earlier are of naturally greener crops as right now we are in a dry spell.

The beans (percentage-wise) looked largely unaffected to our non-expert eye and the corn visible (to the same eye) from I80 ranged from 95+% upright( stalks not broken or roots exposed) to some spots laid down and abnormally wilted). Even a fairly early report from the farm journal AgWeb indicated “the damage may not dent corn supply“.  To be sure there was a lot of damage from the “once-a-decade” event with winds equivalent to a EF3 tornado — to buildings, other structures and from power outages.

Stock photo from referenced article, not of Iowa but similar in scope

Speaking of which we could not help but notice the two (or is it one?) wind farms along the way visible from the interstate. The collection of dozens of individual wind generators,along roughly mile markers 205 to 217 (west of Morengo) were all still.  The group west of that were rotating slowly due to the minimal breeze on this 95 degree day when one would expect peak demand. We were impressed that they all were standing but not with the percentage of idleness.

The Marengo field appeared under development so maybe they were not all online as yet, but given the expansiveness of the field we would expect some to be connected and rotating and presumably online if needed as the more westerly field appeared to be.

Our conclusion is that in spite of the  electrical demand on a very hot day the wind generation was not needed. Power outages at this date were down to a small percentage of customers in the state and were located in counties north of the area so that demand would seem irrelevant to the discussion.

So where would Iowa power customers/taxpayers  be without wind farms? No worse better off as power needs seem to be met with idle windmills on a very hot day. Here is an article from 6 years ago in a publication The Conversation, that is championed by the likes of “strategic partner” The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and also the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Ford Foundation and other known liberal cause money sources:

Congress shouldn’t revive the failed policy of subsidizing wind farms

The ‘money” quote from the article in our observation:

why would an energy company bother investing in other technologies when it can collect a tax credit that equals one-third of the average cost of producing electricity to power homes and offices? Which then allows them to sell its power output at a loss of $35 per megawatt hour and still turn a profit?

The answer is they won’t, and the losers are many: taxpayers, other renewable energy developers and the environment. Keep in mind—the examples of potentially better uses of all those tax credits are not necessarily economically efficient solutions either (nor are they the only alternative options). But they are unlikely to be explored as long as power companies can game the wind subsidy system.

A riskless bet

The PTC turns a weak technology into a riskless bet, encouraging energy companies to spend their limited renewable budgets on subsidy farming rather than the best prospective solutions. The major players in the US wind industry will continue their efforts of subsidy-seeking


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Push for absentee voting is a first cousin of vote by mail

This Kurt Schlichter article at Townhall condenses many of the implications of the push for vote by mail. But read our supplemental comment as well (to be expanded in coming posts)

Of course, the whole idea behind vote by mail – the untargeted mass mailing of ballots out into the world that can be harvested by political operatives who all the best and smartest people tell us would never, ever cheat – is to make cheating easier. It’s to steal the election, and that’s why they are accusing Trump of cheating by trying to stop them from cheating. It’s an exercise in remarkable cynicism, but hey, they are, after all, our moral betters. We know because they never cease to tell us.

Also, underlying this bizarre and stupid conspiracy theory is more Democrat rent seeking for a beloved constituency. The postal workers’ union is a loyal Democrat adjunct and has naturally endorsed Grandpa Badfinger. Yeah, we’re supposed to trust the election to a bunch of partisan players for some reason – and the USPS is collapsing. It needs yet another bailout. Technology has changed how you correspond. You do it by email now. When was the last time you wrote a letter? You get paid electronically. Who gets a mailed Social Security check in 2020? The postal system, however, remains in many critical ways, essentially unchanged from a century ago. And that’s the way its participants and its Democrat patrons want it.

Associated purposes for the push, because of the known chaos it will produce in many areas, by delaying results, is to give plenty of time for found (Democrat) ballots and or to denigrate a Trump victory as illegitimate due to insufficient support for the USPS (a lie) and to engender riots as the further back-up plan. The Dems kind of figure they are not going to win the presidency outright but they have to do something to help the down-ticket communists and to preserve the rancor against Trump.

The Wuhan scare used to justify extensive absentee voting (by mail) is the next best thing to universal vote by mail and Republicans are helping with it.  More later.

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Follow-up to Republicans GOTV effort

Reader TN reports his deceased mother of ten years received the same voter registration request from the Republican Party of Iowa, the leadership also now being all in for emphasizing absentee voting through the mail.  Don’t let them tell you vote by mail is a whole lot different from their extravagant efforts to push absentee voting over the years. The security and fraud problems are still present. The apparat apparently has nothing better to say or do then zombie-on about voting absentee.

R Mall

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Moreon* mandatory masking

If you go to a gas station with the latest greatest in pumps you may be treated with a video screen to keep you occupied with local weather forecast, a public service announcement and ads of course.We took screen shots last night at one of our local stations of this public service missing persons notice.  You can imaging the utility of this ad with common or mandatory masking.  Just put a mask on the kids as you transport.  What would have been a trigger for a closer look (masking) is now obviated.

As we previously commented the idea of mandatory “covid-19” masking or even masking by shame, intimidation, corporate do-gooder or CYA policies for everyone including children inhibits the ability to have the public help find lost and missing children (or catch bad-guys).  We stand opposed to the endemic electronic surveillance society but we recognize and support the citizenry being on alert and reporting sightings leading to catching the good and the bad to help legitimate authority.   Besides lengthy wearing of bacteria laden cloth, re-ingesting same,  is not a healthy idea for kids or anyone.

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Republicans demonstrate voter list faults, invite fraud, waste money, push vote by mail anyway

  • A registered Republican voter in every election for decades gets a solicitation to register to vote from the state party (RPI)
  • One other issue might be the man has been dead over a year and a half
  • The waste and the logic if he were alive is one thing . . .
  • How good are the registered voter lists?
  • Who is churning the account?
  • The party get-out-the-vote apparat (GOTV), like the Democrat apparat,will lie to their people about how early “vote by mail”  will prevent “all those annoying reminder calls” 
  • A threat in and of itself — but by all history — a lie
  • For 95% of the voting public, the safest, best good government way to vote is in person at the booth on election day

Maybe others of you got the mailing below from The Republican Party of Iowa (RPI)

As implied above, one problem with this mailing is that they sort of got the wrong address.  It is addressed to my brother who passed away over a year and a half ago. They should have sent it to #1 Pearly Gates Way –  I am sure he is located there. The local auditor’s office for several years after her death sent a registered voter card to our mother. How many thousands of registered voters die in Iowa over say a two year stretch?  A bunch.  If the RPI got their “updated” mailing list from Iowa SOS Paul Pate’s office, a putative Republican, how dependable is the list for accuracy? Those thousands are just the tip of the iceberg for potential fraudulent use.

Republicans ought to question the utility of their donations going to a multi-fold, perfed, heavyweight enameled paper mailing to known registered Republican voters sent just for the hell of it on the off chance that it might land somewhere in the territory of the state of Iowa to a Republican home that does not know there is an election coming up and that you must be registered at some point to vote.  But add to that the utility of such a mailing when  Iowa offers election day registration, no preregistration actually necessary.

So why the drill-down to donor’s hard earned money?

Well one reason is to follow the money trail. Outside consultants and in-house employees want to show that they are doing something even if it is useless and costs gobs of money.   They apparently had no real imagination that day for at least combining any marginal utility of such a mailing with Republican argumentation.  In this expensive mailing there was none, no argumentation against Democrats with a perfunctory attachment of register to vote information.  Not even a message to vote Republican.

By the way, the particular mailing in question includes in the address information the usual “or current resident” (which always makes it personal). Which raises the question is the RPI trying to pre-register Democrats??  If they knew it was a Republican household why did they feel the expensive necessity to make such a mailing to a voting Republican asking if they were registered to vote, which is the lede to the communication?  Should not the list have told them what the registration was of the recipient?

It was a very poorly designed and purposed mailing not all that useful even to  the probable purpose of setting up more names to harangue to vote by mail instead of in person.

No it was pretty much a totally useless mailing because soon they will initiate the harangue to vote by mail RIGHT AWAY, the net effect of which is to contribute to the screwing up of a timely reporting of the results, inviting fraud vote harvesting and the like and generally thwarting good government arguments to fully evaluate all the candidates, some non-partisan and any issues on the ballot.

They will tell you to vote now and avoid the “reminder” calls as they will remove you from the list and you won’t receive anymore of the incessant content free calls. Bullshit. Not only have they long established that that does not reliably happen, as they use bad lists and parcel out duplicate lists that effectively stop none of the harassing calls, there is a plethora of other groups making the harassing calls as well.

More on vote by mail and the Republicans who help ot along in coming posts.

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Child molesters for mandatory masking?

Shame the pro-maskers

  • Who does the general masking of children help?
  • Not children, not herd immunity which will help save the vulnerable
  • Amber alerts made ineffectual
  • Joe and Kamala don’t care, Democrats don’t care
  • So far, ratio of  children going missing to death by Covid 19 in children is at least 1000 to 1

The sensational is what Democrat campaigns are all about,  so let them stew in the milieu they have facilitated for so long . . . “Not caring”

Many school districts are insisting that children wear masks during school, other regulators want everyone to wear them all the time, at least for “three months”.

From The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: 

In 2019 NCMEC assisted law enforcement and families with more than 29,000 cases of missing children.

 

91 percent endangered runaways.
4 percent family abductions.
4 percent critically missing young adults, ages 18 to 20.
Less than 1 percent nonfamily abductions.
1 percent lost, injured or otherwise missing children.

Of the nearly 26,300 runaways reported to NCMEC in 2019, 1 in 6 were likely victims of child sex trafficking.

From USA TODAY:

 

 

 

What is that ratio again?

NCMEC says 29,000 missing children reported to them, CDC reports 28 children under 15 years of age died from Covid-19 to end of June. That is about 1000 to 1.  Another ratio relates to comparing ratios.  If 29000 children under 15 reported missing that compares to about the 61, 000, 000 in that age group in the US  or 29000/61,000,000.  the ratio oif Covid-19 cases in that age group to date is 28 to 61,000,000.  So again about 1000 times more chance of going missing.  Number of children 15 or under extrapolated from figures published at Child Trends.

Finding missing and exploited children quickly relies on promoting  visual recognition of them by distributing pictures everywhere. So called “Amber alerts” rely on it. Masks interfere with that, preventing human and thwarting image recognition cameras as well.

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Biden Harris Will Mandate Mask Wearing OUTSIDE!

From Stilton Jarlsberg: We’re absolutely in favor of responsible mask-wearing during the pandemic. Still, we had to laugh when Joe Biden, following his stern statement that if he were president he’d make mask-wearing mandatory, managed to cover his entire face just before wandering offstage.
Forget the White House – someone get this guy a white cane!

The all but ordained Democrat presidential ticket in a joint appearance told America that they would mandate mask wearing.  Unmuffled, it sounds like a winning strategy (to help  Trump) but then that’s just us.

This writer supports mask wearing in proximity to known vulnerable people but for countervailing health and social reasons regarding their use that is about all. Pretty much other than that, for most, get back to work, cover your coughs and sneezes assiduously, dispose of the tissue, wash your hands and the world will be in a better place as far as colds and flu are concerned. So I oppose general mask wearing out of concern for your health and that of children and puppy dogs everywhere

Here’s the thing though, if Biden means it, wow, if he misspoke and meant inside, well wow again. The latter would also be draconian BUT ALSO evidence, by such a key slip of the tongue, of his mental acuity.

‘Politics Of Fear, Big Government Edition’: Dr. Marc Siegel Blasts Biden For Demanding Mandatory Masking Outside 

Fox News medical correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel called presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s demand for a national masking mandate — even outdoors — the “politics of fear, big government edition” during a Thursday night appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Biden said Thursday every American “should be wearing a mask when they are outside for the next three months at a minimum,” adding that such a mandate would “save lives.”

“It’s not about your rights, it’s about your responsibilities as an American,” Biden said.

“You don’t have any rights anymore,” Fox News host Tucker Carlson opined before introducing Siegel. “You have to wear a mask when you’re alone in the woods, walking with no one near you in the park while running, riding your bike. Is there any science behind this whatsoever? And if so, what is it?”

“It’s the politics of fear and the power of science, the politics of fear, big government edition,” Siegel told Carlson. “Now, what is the science behind this? Well, there’s some recent studies that show that masking, if you use them properly in proper conditions when you’re close together or when you’re indoors when the ventilation is poor, that they likely decrease the amount of viral spread.”     . . .

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