By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 6, 2021 Numbers, numbers, who has the correct numbers? I say this because I saw a recent announcement by the Biden administration that 200,000,000 doses of the Covid vaccine were ordered along with the 400,000,000 doses already on order. The thinking by the president is that with 300,000,000 people vaccinated, that would put an end to the threat of Covid-19. Of course, this would all take place by early this summer. Fantasy or reality, that becomes the question. Clearly it is an impossible task for Phizer and Moderna alone to be able to manufacture that many doses that quickly. So what is the alternative? Other pharmaceutical companies have the potential to aid in that possibility if either Moderna or Phizer were willing to allow generic manufacture of their proprietary vaccines, a move that could potentially cost those two companies trillions of dollars. While the two may not be willing can the Biden administration force them to allow this to happen? Probably, the answer is "Yes," but will that happen? Unfortunately, that is not the end of the story. Neither vaccine has had it's roll out go as planned. As more people have subjected themselves to the vaccines, stories have begun to crop up of dire consequences to the recipient following inoculation, which has made an already jittery population hesitant to become vaccinated. At this point fully 40% of the US population are less than thrilled about becoming vaccinated guinea pigs, many will absolutely refuse. Before we start talking about forced vaccinations and open rebellion, let's take a look at the numbers through fresh eyes. In a recent televised announcement by the illustrious governor of California, Gavin Newsom, we learned that California would under certain conditions be allowed to reopen. He further stated that it may be temporary, as he resorted to his standard appeal to the "science." In this announcement he gave us some clue as to what that "science" might entail. It turns out that Newsom's "science" is not science at all, but statistics denoting occupation of IC beds in local hospitals. There is a reason Newsom has called this "science", because there is NO science to support any of his mandates. If they worked in the slightest, one would think we would be seeing some sort of success at controlling the spread of the virus. Not the Case. Now to the numbers. In October the nation's CDC published an account that stated very clearly that only six percent of the hundreds of thousands of deaths being reported were directly from Covid-19. In a later announcement it was reported as 9100 total deaths from Covid-19 in nearly a year. The mortality rate, often bandied about between 3 to 5% is actually less than one tenth of one percent, well below that of the seasonal common flu. In between the two statements by the CDC an economist at John Hopkins, Dr. Genevieve Briand, examined the raw date from the CDC and discovered several important bits of information regarding Covid-19 which was quickly erased from the John Hopkins newsletter. What Dr. Briand discovered was that there was no significant increase in the percentage of death to the over sixty five population in the United States during a week by week examination from 2017 through September of 2020. She further learned that of the eleven primary causes of death among the elderly, they declined in numbers at the same rate as the numbers increased for deaths reported to be caused by Covid-19. In conclusion, she suggested that there was the possibility that deaths normally attributed to the leading causes of death for elderly patients, were being mislabeled as Covid-19 deaths. The final bit of data also comes from the CDC. In the past ten years there has been as the population grows and ages, an increase in the total number of deaths in this country. In 2017 it was 2.8 million, 2.8 million in 2018, 2.9 million in 2019. Taking into account all of the grim news of 2020, most would assume that the number would go up dramatically. That was not the case, as the death rate shrank by almost 300,000 in 2020. Just something to think about while the media, public health, and our public servants continue to prattle on about the national crisis of the pandemic. I think it is about time people realized that when public officials such as Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newson, Diane Feinstein, and Maxine Waters are caught prancing around without masks, not attending to social distance, and feel comfortable breaking stay at home orders to travel for family /lobbyists gatherings, to get beauty treatments at closed shops, or any other non essential activities, there has to be something that we are not being told. It should be clear by now that vaccines have not been the answer in the past to eradicate viruses, nor are the methods currently being employed. It appears that as raw data has been exposed to review, there is much to be learned going forward about what the real story regarding the pandemic of Covid-19 and whether the response to it was absolutely necessary.