Past and Present History Demonstrate Abuse of National Emergency

National emergency is an interesting and useful government tool. History in general demonstrates the point.

The national lockdown to “flatten the curve for two weeks” has turned into three mandatory shots, that may or may not work, to keep your job and feed your family. Many nursing homes in Fairfax, Virginia, have been under lockdown again, with staff wearing not just masks but shields as well and patients wearing masks even when alone in their rooms.

The corporate owners of the nursing home where my mom is a resident admitted that there were zero positive Covid-19 tests among the patients and zero positive Covid-19 tests among the staff. Have they lifted the lockdown? No, they are waiting for further instructions from the health department of Virginia, they claim. Even prisoners in jail get more free time outside for fresh air, sunshine, and recreation than the nursing home patients.

Are we really free in America anymore or is it just an illusion of the masses who are dumbed down to levels not even the most staunch Soviet or fascist totalitarians would have ever dreamed of?

Lockdowns were presented to the American public as a national emergency due to a pandemic. Billions of dollars have been made in profits at the expense of the American public while pharma “saved” their lives with Covid-19 vaccine, rushed to the market under emergency use authorization.

Cheap drug cures were denied to people and still are in many states and countries. The globalist propaganda vilified useful drugs and fired any doctors and nurses who were actually preserving their Hippocratic Oath to do no harm. They kept most of their patients alive without vaccines.

Four weeks after Hitler took office, a national emergency was proclaimed.  It was not a medical one but it violated the rights of men just the same. None of the ordinary German citizens thought the emergency extraordinary or that it violated or even mildly inhibited their rights as human beings. None of the “little Hitlers,” as Milton Mayer called them, local or provincial officials, ascribed any moral evil to Hitler or to his constant edicts and mandates.

According to Mayer and the ten ordinary Germans he interviewed after WWII, Hitler was a man, who had his fellow Germans’ interest in mind, and, by doing what he did, became a testament to democracy, to the “ability of us little men to become great and to rule the whole world. Such a man is the modern pattern of the demagogical tyrant, ‘the people’s friend’ of Plato’s mob democracy.” He was a “charismatic leader,” not unlike some modern leaders.

While writing the introduction to his book, They Thought They Were Free, Milton Mayer stated: “As an American, I was repelled by the rise of National Socialism in Germany. As an American of German descent, I was ashamed. As a Jew, I was stricken. As a newspaperman, I was fascinated.”

As a newspaperman Mayer analyzed Nazism and the Nazi doctrine based on racial superiority by interviewing ten ordinary Germans. Mayer even tried to get a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1935ing  but failed.

Mayer wrote that Nazism was the mass movement of the average German and “not the tyranny of a diabolical few over helpless millions.” While he did not find the average German, he claimed, he found instead “ten Germans sufficiently different from one another in background, character, intellect, and temperament to represent, among them, tens of millions of Germans and sufficiently like unto one another to have been Nazis.”

Mayer concluded that “Nazism overcame Germany  not by attack from without or by subversion from within,” but it was what most Germans wanted, under pressure of combined reality and illusion.” And Mayer realized that citizens from any country, who would succumb to that kind of pressure, “no Constitution, no laws, no police, and certainly no army would be able to protect us from harm.”

Not unlike our large cities today, the radicalism of the German cities bred howling Communists, then howling Nazis, and “nobody knows just how they will howl tomorrow.”

Uneducated men, young and old, who knew nothing about politics, history, wars, and the world, claimed to be Nazis, national socialists. The massive newspapers, fliers, and posters everywhere spewing non-stop propaganda convinced them that they knew what they were talking about. Many had a copy of Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, but never opened it.

How did they “feel” about the regime? The regime promised the uneducated bread and a “thousand year Reich.” It did not matter to the masses how long this empire would last. The uneducated masses were only concerned about the pebble in their shoes as the Roman soldiers used to say. In this case the pebble in their shoes was bread and a people’s car (Volkswagen) in every driveway.

History does repeat itself. American masses want free education, free food, free housing, free health care, free child care, free guaranteed income, equity of outcomes, and free travel. That they are going to get it at the expense of someone else’s freedom and violation of their human rights, they don’t care.

Most educated Germans were offended by the Nazi book burnings and even by the Nazi burnings of synagogues, and by Kristallnacht. Then there was the Reichstag fire, the burning in 1933 of the Parliament building, four weeks after Hitler took power. It was blamed on the communists. Then synagogues were blown up as a “safety measure” and Jews were locked up for their own “protection.”

The “little men” in Germany had no substantial status in the community - “if everybody is little, nobody is little.” And such men can be easily manipulated, controlled, and ruled. The “little men” were sixty-nine million plus in a nation of seventy million. “They were the Nazis, the little men to whom, if ever they voiced their own views outside their own circles, bigger men politely pretended to listen without ever asking them to elaborate.” (Milton Mayer, p. 45)

These little men believed in the Nazi program and practice, “the democratic part.” They did not know that Nazism [national socialism] was total tyranny which degraded its adherents and enslaved its opponents and adherents alike; terrorism and terror in daily life, private and public; brute personal and mob injustice at every level of association; a flank attack upon God and a frontal attack upon the worth of the human person and the rights which that worth implies.” (Milton Mayer, p. 47)

One German, when asked why he believed in National Socialism [Nazism], he replied, “Because it promised to solve the unemployment problem. And it did. But I never imagined what it would lead to. Nobody did.” (Milton Mayer, p. 47)

But with it they enjoyed ten-dollar holiday trips for the family in the ‘Strength Through Joy’ Nazi program, trips to Norway in summer and Spain in winter, trips to people who had never before dreamed of such trips. Nobody went hungry, nobody was cold, nobody was sick and uncared for. What is there not to like about Nazism from the standpoint of the ordinary German? The horrors of the Nazi regime were never advertised anywhere nor did they reach any ordinary German. (p. 49)

The National Socialist regime promised bread and butter and delivered housing, cars, health, and hope, a New Order the average German liked. They were enthralled during Nazi festivals by everyone’s enthusiasm after so many years of galloping inflation and disillusion. They explained the looting in this euphoria of predatory behavior with euphemisms such as “little men gone wild.”

As long as the “little men” were left alone in their mundane lives, the compulsory military service, the secret police, the rationing, the constant propaganda on street posters, in newspapers, on radio, on fliers, the Friday evenings and Sunday mornings compulsory public volunteer work, and the propaganda on public address systems were not meant for them. “Service to the tyranny” was necessary and non-compliance was highly frowned upon.

When on November 10, 1938, Mayer wrote, a mob of children were carrying sacks of candy out of a Jewish candy store whose windows had been smashed, parents and bystanders were watching and did nothing and said nothing. Only one witness is alleged to have said, “You are teaching your children to steal.”

In 2020 America, we all watched in horror as mobs of American young people looted and set fire to store after store and none were punished and sent to jail and good Americans did nothing, just watched.

Mayer believed that the ordinary Germans were guilty of tyranny and Nazism because “nothing was done, or attempted, that they would not stand for.” Nobody rose to protest the sacrilege, the lawless destruction of valuable property, statues, books, synagogues, stores, etc., and nobody clamored for authorities to uphold the law.

And history repeats itself in another place and in another time. The citizens go along with the program and remain silent.

More About Nursing Homes

Caring for our elderly in nursing homes has become a profitable and very expensive industry that few dare to talk about. It speaks to the resilience of some elderly who remain alive despite the abuse and neglect they experience in nursing homes.

Some nurses and assistants start out and remain caring despite the long hours, the low pay, the back-breaking work, and the unrewarding environment. Other staff members do not care and abuse or neglect patients in front of their loved ones.

Perhaps Americans don’t want to work as CNAs because the pay is low and the hours are long. Many immigrants, legal or illegal, are more than happy to fill the vacuum.  One thing is certain, as I’ve experienced for the last four years in a nursing home in Fairfax, the work ethic in this new wave of immigrants leaves a lot to be desired. There are always a few remarkable exceptions.

Recently one nurse’s aide dropped a patient she attempted to hoist with a broken device, the patient fell and was injured, but she never filed an incident report. She was hoping nobody would find out as the patient spoke only Spanish. The next day the patient was covered in bruises but without broken bones.

I arrived one day to pick up my mom for her doctor’s appointment. She was in wet socks, no shoes, her shirt was on backwards and food-stained, she needed a diaper change, and the male nurse handled her roughly causing her unnecessary pain and suffering radiating from the hip which had been recently operated on. And the nurse helping her did all of this right in front of me. Can you imagine what they do to patients in the absence of relatives?

There is an ombudsman in the nursing home to represent the patients but patients and relatives are afraid to report anything wrong for fear of staff retaliation. I learned the hard way that, every time I would report a bad incident, the nursing staff would treat mother much worse.

Many elderly are so sick, they never say ‘thank you’ or smile even though they may be grateful that they are being taken care of – they are in so much pain to remember to be polite. Other patients no longer know who they are.

Some elderly patients don’t have any relatives; others do but nobody comes to visit, life keeps them busy. Yet many have relatives who do come to visit but never bring as much as a warm blanket which they desperately need because the nursing home blankets are never warm enough in winter. A few only visit at Christmas time to make sure they are still in the will.

The elderly, who have their mental faculties but are immobile, are often depressed despite the bingo, occasional music, ice cream social, and other activities organized by the nursing home. Television becomes the only mental stimulation some may have. A few read Bibles and others wheel themselves in the hallway watching the world go by.

They cannot leave the floor without an elevator code and they have heavy alarm bracelets. Those with their mental faculties who are semi-mobile have hospital armbands with information which tells the outside world that they are patients in the nursing home. It is a loss of freedom that is not unlike being an inmate in a prison. On the other hand, a few patients do not have a clear legal status so they need these bracelets.

Depending on the time of day, there is always a permeating smell of urine and feces mixed in with the smells of food and disinfectant. Diapers, trips to the bathroom, and showers are never done timely because there are too many patients assigned per CNA. And if the CNAs do not take their jobs seriously, they compound existing problems in the quest of earning a paycheck.

Many elderly refuse showers for various reasons, the major one being that the water is really cold most of the time, making it a frigid and painful experience, particularly in wintertime. The elderly are usually cold and should be showered with much warmer water.  I had to shower my mom in the nursing home and the water was lukewarm even though I let it run for quite some time.

The lack of timely diaper changes and showers cause a lot of UTIs in the elderly female population. Cross-contamination occurs because not all of the staff understands bacterial transmission through contaminated gloves not changed between patients.

Other staff members are really hard-working but the job gets to them eventually after seeing so much pain and misery.  The last chapters of our human lives are not pretty and are made worse by chronic disease and pain.

The indignity of incontinence is very hard to deal with in a fully grown adult. It is difficult sometimes to change the diaper of a small baby, can you imagine changing the diapers of adults who cannot be placed on a changing table and are often combative?

Five star facilities can be abusive and neglectful too. Many reject people who do not speak English under the pretense that they cannot meet their needs. It is a subtle form of discrimination. 

Most people cannot afford the $7,000 per month assisted living fees or the $12,000 per month in-home care. Insurance does not even begin to cover such outrageous costs. Medicaid pays nursing homes a little over $6,500 a month for their patients that require specialized nursing care which is just about everybody already there.

The Alzheimer patients are separated in a locked area unfortunately called Arcadia. Many are ambulatory and would disappear without a trace if left to their own devices.

Western societies are supposed to deal with their elderly in a more humane way but, in the process of insuring that they are taken care of, the family may suffer terrible financial burden even with two income-earners. And they cannot possibly care for the really sick loved ones who need shots, blood drawn, emergency trips to the nearest ER, and other measures to save that patient’s life.

Because they do not want to be a burden on their loved ones, many choose to have a do not resuscitate (DNR) order in their wills and others move to countries that allow euthanasia. They prefer those measures as opposed to lingering in a nursing home and be forgotten, neglected, and abused while in pain.

Rhonda, not her real name, was blind, unable to talk, and on dialysis for several years before she passed in her sleep. She wailed from the top of her lungs all day long.  She was transported twice a week to have her blood cleaned. Her tiny bony frame was covered in large, purple bruises from the dialysis needles.  

Some societies use the entire tribe to care for the elderly in the last part of their lives. They treat them with love, dignity, and the respect they deserve.

A Nordic country allows students to live in a wing of the nursing home, rent free, as long as they adopt an elderly person and interact with them on a daily basis.

But many patients who still have their faculties prefer visits from and time spent with their loved ones. They don’t want much as they near the end of the lives, just their children’s, grandchildren’s, or siblings’ time.