Darrell Castle talks about his observation that in this, our Plague Year, we seem to be divided into two alternate realities, and our government lacks the courage to do nothing.

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A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR—THE COURAGE TO DO NOTHING

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, May 1, 2020, and on this Report, I will be talking about the virus once again, the plague that threatens humanity in many ways. The invisible enemy upon which we wage war. This is Day 42 of House Arrest for the Castle family, so six full weeks we have been confined with only a little time each day for a walk in the sunshine. The family daughter is making do while confined to a small island unable to return until airlines are flying again. I have a friend who went to Argentina for a couple of weeks and is stuck there until at least September 1, since flights both out and in have been banned until then.

It is certainly a strange world that we live in today. In some ways it seems that we have different realities inside our heads, or perhaps we live in parallel universes. Fifty years ago, I boarded an airplane at Travis Air Force Base in California and got off in a different world, so just like that I was transported to a different reality.

 A simple definition of parallel would be two lines running the same direction, but which never intersect. That is a good definition of the two realities that people live in regarding our virus today. Everybody knows by now what the virus is, but we disagree completely on what the national response should be. Unfortunately, our lack of agreement seems to be running along political as well as parallel lines.

The two separate views are as follows:

1.  View number 1 is that the virus is very scary and extremely serious. It is so serious that if you leave your home you will get sick and possibly die. If you have your lawn mowed by a lawn service, you will get sick. If you get a haircut you will get sick. If you attend church, even six feet apart, you will get sick. Should you have any human contact at all, especially if you are over 65, you will get sick.

2.   View number 2 is that the virus, and our reaction to it, is a complete farce. The lockdown is a ridiculous over-reaction akin to mass suicide. We have been turned into lemmings by the government and are now being herded toward the cliff. This lockdown is not about health at all, but is instead, an exercise in mass compliance.

There are exceptions to this, but it seems to me that the two realities break down along political lines with the left view being more akin to number one and the right view being more akin to number two. Keep in mind that for most people, whichever view they hold it is their reality. I suppose it doesn’t occur to people that their view could be incorrect and simply held to reinforce a political viewpoint. Upon that political view could rest the national health and economy.

In any event, the longer the lockdown continues the more sense view number two makes. I know that hindsight is 20-20, and that it is easy to second guess people in crisis decision making, but let’s look at some of the evidence that we currently have. By its own admission, the CDC sent out faulty tests, including some already contaminated with the virus. Doctors, nurses, and anyone who expressed views opposed to the official narrative of where the virus came from and how serious it is. and would be., were sidelined, fired, marginalized, etc.

Many of those people were heroes on the front lines of battle. They were concerned with the welfare of their people rather than politics or money. A recent book, which I can recommend to you, now explains much of the problem. It was written by a doctor named Judy Mikovits, co-authored by a lawyer named Kent Heckenlively, with a forward by Robert Kennedy Jr. The title of the book is “Plague of Corruption”, and it is a very disturbing account.

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