By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 11, 2021 It must look bad to the public when the DashBoard of Doom from Public Health prattles on about 140 cases of Covid-19, but let's get real. It amounts to less than a half percent of Del Norte County's total population. It is laughable that the local hospital is talking tents in the parking lot. Seems it comes from operating on such a small scale, or is it just hyping the numbers. It becomes impossible to estimate the true impact of the Covid virus in Del Norte County when no one gives the facts. Not many people actually know someone who has had the virus, and in a small community that is saying something. When you have irresponsible people in positions of authority, Valerie Starkey comes to mind, constantly stoking the fear over "The Virus" it is hard for people to appreciate just how small the actual virus event truly is. In the US, the numbers of infected people by the "new" Delta Variant has been relatively small and does not appear to be spreading much faster than previously experienced viruses. Hospitalizations tend to show only a small number of increases, and effective treatments are keeping the death numbers low. Yet, how much value can be placed on reported death totals and hospitalizations when testing is suspect? How can we be certain those that have died reportedly by Covid if the circumstances of those that have died remain concealed by HIPAA regulations? Can we trust the medical community to be honest after so much deceit has been uncovered over the months of the Pandemic? In the first place, testing is probably the least effective way to get any idea of what the situation has become after nineteen months of constant spin over a virus that failed to measure up to the initial hype of being the "plague of the century". When you factor in the information available about testing, the enormity of the problems with mass testing should give anyone pause and a chance to think a bit before reacting to the huge number of "reported" positive results. How many people found their way into the reported numbers multiple times due to being tested more than once? How many tests were found to be false positives? Why is the current "gold standard" of testing the RT-PCR test being removed from the CDC's recommended testing protocol on December 31,2021? The answers to all of these questions might surprise you. In simple terms, the FDA has found the RT-PCR test to be unreliable. It is also the test used in a majority of mass testing administered in the past nineteen months. In addition, the history of the development of Covid testing during the Pandemic should give anyone paying attention a great deal of concern. Much of the ground covered by reporting on the problems with numbers spewed by government and media sources about Covid-19 has appeared in previous articles and is fertile ground for separating fact from the fiction currently being employed particularly in the United States. Topics such as the futility of wearing masks, social distancing, hand washing and lockdowns have been covered extensively. As to the medical use of such drugs as Hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, Ritonavir, Lopinavir and Ivermectin having been proven to be inexpensive alternatives to combat Covid infections, little attention has been given thus far in the US and Europe. Recent reports from India showing the use of Ivermectin in place of vaccines developed in the United States has shown to be a much better preventative and treatment for those infected than the Pfizer, Moderna or the Johnson and Johnson vaccines. All of the information available that disputes the current narrative offered by local public health officials, most media sources, and government bureaucracy is difficult to come by and widely disputed as quackery by those same sources, but too much has been revealed over the past year and a half to dismiss it quite so easily. Observations by thinking people have begun to reveal all is not right with the Pandemic narrative and resistance to vaccines, and other previous mandates of masking and distancing have begun to surface in growing numbers. Damage to the education of our youth, to the economy, and people lives have spawned a growing reaction as the curtain is drawn back on the evidence that the virus is no more than what human populations have experienced countless times before. Will government and its medical minions relinquish their thirst for power or be forced to, losing all credibility for future generations?