DAVID W. PONTON,

Massies Mill

Questions the pandemic brings

There is no way out other than the path of truth. A true pandemic needs no mainstream news telling us about it 24/7 via the television, the radio, and the newspapers. A true viral pandemic is witnessed in our cities, our towns, our communities, and within our families, by each and every one of us.

A true pandemic cannot be missed by the masses, on a daily basis, by its basic definition. So who among us has personally witnessed the death and destruction of this pandemic? I did not say anything about someone becoming sick, or even dying from a virus. I said 'pandemic.'

Regardless of what many of you are believing, millions of jobs have not been lost due to a virus. The entire transformation of our daily lives has not been caused by a virus. The economy, which is in fact, we the people doing business on a daily basis, that supports our individual lives and our families, has not been destroyed by a virus. Being concerned for the life of the economy is being concerned for the life and well-being of people!

All that is being blamed on a virus is actually the fault of 'we the people', who have let fear and doubt take over our very minds; caused us to doubt the very truth of our daily existence.

Again, I ask quite simply. Who among us has witnessed the devastation of a viral, deadly pandemic? If the majority of us have not, then there simply is no pandemic. That simple reality, if understood, and acted upon with courage, would transform this lie that we are living within.

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