Genuine Christians are known for their love for people, all people; however, love is not revealed by songs, statements, and slogans but by acts of kindness, help, sacrifice, etc. The Bible often refers to love, and that love was finally put on display to the world when God became man in Bethlehem, lived and preached for about 33 years then willingly died on a cross for each person’s sin. His love and deity were demonstrated with a victorious resurrection.

The world was never the same after that.

Following Christ’s ascension, Christians were visual examples of God’s love demonstrated by how they lived, gave, served, and preached during good and difficult times. The world has experienced one disaster after another and each time, Christians have been there to help as is obvious today in African nations ravaged by famine, war, and natural disasters. And now we see  Ukraine where civilians are hungry, cold, and hurting. We have seen many Christian groups active in Florida and other southern states following catastrophic storms.

Weather-related and other natural disasters in recent years have supported the fact that Christians are very giving, loving people willing to serve, sacrifice, and suffer to help those in need, whatever the religious, political, or racial factors of the sufferers. Not having a bureaucracy to slow their responses, Christian groups are usually the first on the scene and the last to leave.

That’s the way it should be even though the main message of the groups is personal salvation, they also have a passion to help others. Disasters in far-flung cities and nations have seen numerous acts of kindness to help people get through disasters and improve their political, social, religious, and day-to-day lives.

The first world pandemic (thought to be smallpox) was the “Antonine Plague” of 165-180 which killed about five million people.  Soon after, in 249, the so-called “Plague of Cyprian” broke out during a very troubled time that lasted until well into 271. It killed 5,000 people per day in Rome.

Rodney Stark wrote in The Rise of Christianity, “Christians stayed in the afflicted cities when pagan leaders, including physicians, fled.” As the first symptom appeared, victims often were thrown into the streets, where the dead and dying lay in piles.

St. Dionysius of Alexandria witnessed the pagan reaction to the plague: “At the first onset of the disease, they pushed the sufferers away and fled from their dearest, throwing them into the roads before they were dead and treating unburied corpses as dirt, hoping thereby to avert the spread and contagion of the fatal disease; but do what they might, they found it difficult to escape.”

The early Christian leader continued, “Most of our brother Christians showed unbounded love and loyalty, never sparing themselves and thinking only of one another. Heedless of danger, they took charge of the sick, attending to their every need and ministering to them in Christ, and with them departed this life serenely happy; for they were infected by others with the disease, drawing on themselves the sickness of their neighbors and cheerfully accepting their pains. Many, in nursing and curing others, transferred their death to themselves and died in their stead.”

Dionysius added, “But with the heathen everything was quite otherwise. They deserted those who began to be sick, and fled from their dearest friends.”

The last pagan emperor, Julian the Apostate, scolded the pagan priests for not being the example as the Christians were during another plague in 362. He attributed the growth of Christianity to their compassion and sacrificial service during dangerous and deadly times.

In A.D. 540, the Plague of Justinian smacked the Greek Empire with 10,000 deaths per day! When the pestilence had passed, there was so much depravity and general licentiousness that it seemed, said Procopius, that “only the most wicked were left alive.”

There is no doubt that the plague of Justinian nudged Europe into the Dark Ages, so informed people are aware of the present danger posed by repeated terrorist attacks against our nation. Those attacks would affect our constitution, community, commerce, churches, and culture; they could affect your character as well. Christians with character will be a major ameliorating force in helping civic officials clean up the mess.

The incredible chaos from the COVID scandal with all the lockdowns, school closings, business bankruptcies, medical confusion like never before, unnecessary deaths, terminated workers, political controversy, etc., is a perfect example of an impact upon every person.

Along with other disasters, the plague of Justinian reduced the population of the Mediterranean world by 40% before 600.  Repeated subsequent waves of the plague continued to smash the area throughout the 6th, 7th, and 8th centuries.  Constantinople (now named Istanbul) was the most important political and cultural center of the Western world and the hub of Christian civilization. Constantinople came to a standstill as food started to run out, and law and order broke down turning into anarchy.

Millions of Europeans died of the plague, receiving little help from the medical establishment or the Roman Catholic Church. Consequently, the people lost respect for them and began to examine the old “truths” with an inquiring mind. They discovered that many of the old “truths” were without foundation, so the people decided to think for themselves. At this time, the Pope gave permission for the bodies of plague victims to be dissected in an attempt to garner knowledge about the plague. This inquiring and commendable spirit and challenge to past authorities was the beginning of modern science. I salute the pope for his salutary and courageous decision.

Others think the plague helped spark the Protestant Reformation. However, John Wycliffe had ignited a flame in England in the late 1300s when he exposed the nonbiblical doctrines of the Roman Church. He demanded that the Bible—not the church—was to guide all Christians. He supported his positions with his new translation of the Bible. Yes, the plague impacted the nation, but it was only a minor impetus for the Reformation. John Wycliffe (and his Bible) was the “Morning Star of the Reformation.”

In light of the foregoing horror stories, should we expect to see similar results from the crises we would face when terrorists strike again and again and again? As we face the possibilities of biological, chemical, or nuclear warfare, what impact would it have on your life, if you live through the events?

Major epidemics, famines, and natural disasters, not only have a profound effect on the political, business, and agricultural life of a nation, but they also change people. My purpose is to consider the possibility of horrific, adverse reactions to epidemics and disasters that face us. Human reactions in the past have wrought havoc upon society and if the next terrorist attack is biological or chemical, we could face the same experiences of people in the past when the pestilence was natural, not man-made.

The continuing atmosphere of death and constant terror drove men to look honestly at their lives and at their religious experience. This resulted in thousands becoming more sincere and placing more emphasis on their personal relationship with Christ. It also led them away from the established churches in various countries. Printing had been invented in 1450, and people were now reading the Bible and doing their own thinking for the first time in over a thousand years. They realized that church membership and church attendance did not produce personal satisfaction or personal salvation as they had been taught. Following personal conversion, those new converts (but old church members) lived and died as Christians.

Christians believed they had a responsibility to help others as a Christian duty, so during times of famine they shared their food; in times of sorrow, they wept with the bereaved; and in times of pestilence, they nursed the sick and dying. The non-Christians and the pagans took notice of such kindness–and at a time when other institutions were damaged, discredited, and often dissolved, the Christian churches were deployed and developed. William McNeill wrote: “Pagans fled from the sick and heartlessly abandoned them.” Christians stayed and served–and died.

That’s what real Christians have always done and are doing as I write. Love is always shown in the daily activities of selflessness, service, and sacrifice thanks to Bethlehem, Calvary, and an empty tomb.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”  John Bunyan, Baptist Preacher

Genesis 6:11-13 reveals, “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”

Will God “pull the trigger” again because of our sexual and political corruption and excessive violence?

Even famous historians tell us we are about to enter the Third Dark Age with a total societal collapse! Of course, none credit God, but fault economics, climate change, crime, broken treaties, failed diplomacy, etc. But global destruction is ahead.

We are at the strangest period of world history where we have experienced one crisis after another—wars in many parts of the world; famines in odd places; numerous earthquakes; volcanic eruptions; locusts infestations destroying national farmland; a massive plague of bats severely terrorizing parts of Australia; African Swine Fever wiping out millions of pigs worldwide; rampant violence and crime in major cities; run-away inflation; volatile stock markets; irrational behavior accepted as normal or acceptable; heatwaves; forest fires; food and water shortages; numerous healthy young adults falling dead; and a pandemic changing the world, killing over a million Americans and over 6 million worldwide according to NBC News.

Some will declare that the world has experienced most of the above for thousands of years, which is true; however, we have not seen as many upheavals as today, and many of these events are happening simultaneously. The massive increase of healthy, young people dropping dead has never been seen before—surprising, shocking, even startling life insurance actuaries.

Everyone should take notice when something happens that has never happened before.

Thoughtful people fear that these threats will collectively create a “perfect storm” and a dreadful nightmare that will soon continue to intensify to a disastrous climax.

The Guardian reported our world is “facing a series of interlinked emergencies that are threatening the existence of humans, because the sum of the effects of the crises is much greater than their individual impacts.” Experts tell us some nations could handle some of these threats, but as they accelerate from one to another and even happen simultaneously, they will overwhelmingly produce a “perfect storm.”

The Guardian reported on a survey of 222 leading scientists from 52 countries that found the responses to these emergencies by governments, civil society, businesses, and institutions “failed to recognise their interlinked nature.” The report reveals that the nations trying to solve their problems individually failed to consider “cascading” impacts, causing a failed response. More than a third of the scientists surveyed said these crises would exacerbate each other “in ways that might cascade to create global systemic collapse.” The suggestion is that it is a catastrophic mistake to attack each crisis in isolation rather than as a massive threat. All concerned emphasized a global collapse was in our future.

The report declared the world “is facing a series of interlinked emergencies that are threatening the existence of humans, because the sum of the effects of the crises is much greater than their individual impacts, according to a new global study.”

That means the world is in trouble, not simply here in River City.

It is reasonable to seek an understanding of ancient times to better comprehend the present and future. Biblical scholars are aware of events that brought down our world in the early days of man’s history. About 2348 B.C., or 1650 years after God’s astounding act of creation, man became so violent and sexually vile that God decided to change directions. He destroyed the world’s population with a global Flood, as seen in many landscapes unless one is wearing very dark glasses. He gave everyone a chance to escape the coming global Flood in the Ark, but only eight righteous people believed Him, and everyone else missed the boat.

In April of 2000, the Smithsonian magazine announced that scientists “have started to uncover evidence that Noah’s flood may have a basis in some rather astonishing events that took place around the Black Sea some 7,500 years ago.” Their date is off by a few years, but it’s close.

A recent Nature article asked, “Did a mega drought topple empires 4,200 years ago?” If so, what connection is there, if any, to biblical events? Their spurious modern dating does not align with the biblical timeline because of major problems with radiometric dating methods that I dealt with in Evolution: Fact, Fraud, or Faith?.

About a hundred years after the Flood, Noah’s posterity had gravitated south to Babel from modern eastern Turkey forming an unholy amalgamation of everyone. Josephus declared in his Antiquities that this was the first place the multiplying group of people lived after leaving the mountains of Ararat. At that time, there were no other civilizations on the planet. Mankind’s desire, as always, was to live without God’s approval, so they built a tower to “make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

Mankind has from the beginning tried to form a united nation in disobedience to God’s plan.

Evidently, God did not want a united race, speaking one language, living under one civil authority since that’s why He confused the tongues at Babel.  God confused their speech and scattered mankind to hinder their uniting and fostering rebellion against Him. Noah’s sons and grandsons scattered around the Mediterranean area. Javan, Noah’s grandson, founded Greece and Mizraim founded Egypt. These facts always cause Bible critics to squirm uneasily and sweat profusely.

I like to see Bible critics squirm, and especially sweat.

The Tower of Babel incident occurred around 4,200 years ago—about 100 years after the Flood but before Abraham was born. This was before ancient Egypt, Greece, Sumer and other early civilizations. These places couldn’t have begun until after people left Babel to establish the various cultures. So, what of China and others who (based on oral traditions) claim pre-Babel civilizations? No one has found a coin, written instrument, book, or pottery with such early dates. Archeologists and paleontologists hypothesize ancient dates after looking at evidence of bones, pottery, and tools—that are never stamped with a manufacturing date!

Furthermore, they always arrive at ancient dates. They have to if man has been evolving for “millions and millions or years.” An ancient Earth is the glue that holds their myth together.

Without millions of years, unbelievers are left with, yep, creation about 8,000 years ago.

The citizens of Babel scattered across the Fertile Crescent (Iraq) into the Greek islands, North Africa, and back into modern Turkey. Over the centuries, various civilizations rose and fell. Still, about 4,200 years ago, the Akkadian Empire located in modern Iraq and Syria experienced a massive drought about 2200 B.C., and by 2150, the Empire had disappeared!

In the 1990s, Harvey Weiss from Yale University found evidence of global drought, writing, “We’ve got Mesopotamia, the Nile, the Aegean, and the Mediterranean all the way to Spain.”

Additionally, he says there is evidence from around 4,200 years ago of a drying climate, central authorities’ collapse, and people moving to escape the newly parched zones.

Most historians, archeologists, paleontologists, etc., are humanists who interpret everything through a distorted lens. Above all, they must twist, distort, confuse, and defend their evolutionary timeline. Historians write about prehistoric times before writing was invented in Sumer and Egypt about 4,000 years ago. They divided history into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Of course, they admit that there is much overlapping and the starting and ending of each age varied in different locations.

The groups that settled near the sea or large lake became adept at fishing, boating, and navigation. Another group that settled inland excelled at farming, canning, etc. While another group deciding to live in wild areas with much game, became hunters and developed the bow, slings, etc. In other words, each group adapted to their environment as men always have.

In those early days, men worshipped one God, believed in the family unit, and had knowledge of decency since they used animal skins to cover their nakedness and to keep warm. That does not fit the evolutionary scenario but perfectly fits the biblical timeline.

Remember, Adam was a husbandman keeping orchards and farming at the beginning of civilization, while his son Cain was also a farmer, and brother Abel was a keeper of flocks. With those two occupations, the needs of the developing civilization could be met: meat, eggs, milk, wool, shoes, etc., and various vegetables and fruits.  Cain had administrative and organizing talents since he built the first city. The sons of Cain knew musical instruments and forged bronze and iron; therefore, mankind did not have to discover that knowledge.  Genesis two reveals that gold and bdellium, and onyx were known to Earth’s first people.

Christians, not tied to evolutionary myth, believe when the world population was scattered at Babel into language groups, they possessed various talents, abilities, and inclinations. One group knew smelting metals, another was adept at farming, etc. So, there were not different ages but different groups with specific knowledge not possessed by other groups. The Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages did not exist in succession but simultaneously. Millions of years are not necessary.

Unusual and deadly events began in the various empires, and no one seems to have seen the big picture. A 300-year drought started, and an earthquake storm continued for fifty years. The drought resulted in famine followed by social unrest, crime, and invasion by nomadic tribes of people seeking livable conditions.

In 1177 B.C., the obscure Sea Peoples (thought to be fleeing disaster at home) invaded Syria by boats, wagons, oxcarts, and chariots. They raided their way south through parts of Lebanon, Israel, and finally into the Nile delta of Egypt. The Egyptians defeated them but were a second-rate power thereafter. Although weakened, Egypt was the only major power to survive the collapse of 1172!

People soon struggled to stay alive as starving peasants scrabbled for roots, bark, and animal droppings (containing seeds and nuts) in the shadow of abandoned homes and elaborate estates. Even public buildings were abandoned, and officials and ordinary people fled the disasters looking for livable conditions elsewhere. Hence, the Hittite Empire and others disappeared only to arise again hundreds of years later.

Nations died in an area stretching from what is now Italy to Afghanistan and from Turkey down into Egypt. Egypt managed to escape a final collapse, unlike other civilizations.  Troy and Gaza and other ancient cities were destroyed or abandoned, trade routes were lost, and literacy declined throughout the region.

Each civilization was independent of others; however, they traded, fought, intermarried, and had other activities with each other and soon became dependent on each other. Cline writes that the kings requested the ser­vices of physicians, artisans, weavers, musicians, and singers from one another. Ancient fragments revealed one nation sent grain to starving nations only to arrive too late. When trading slowed then stopped, bronze-making halted, resulting in fewer weapons. Bronze was made from tin imported from Afghanistan and copper from Cyprus. Importing silver from Greece and gold from Egypt also stopped, affecting those economies as well. The dominoes were falling all over the Mediterranean area.

As conditions worsened, ­people started deserting the more significant cities since there was safety in less populated areas. Hopefully, they would find more fertile soil and start life anew. Another reason to leave was to escape roving gangs of bandits and invaders who always use the disaster of others for personal advantage.

This globe was shaking like a leaf in a violent storm. Historians believe the evidence suggests a “black swan” event (an unexpected and low-­probability event with catastrophic results) occurred with a domino effect as culture after culture fell, some never to rise again. The extent of the catastrophe was enormous; it was a loss that the world would not see again until the Roman Empire collapsed more than fifteen hundred years ­later.

Thinkers are asking if our planet is standing on a similar precipice at this time approaching a “Third Dark Age.” It seems the world is taking a new direction not seen in 3000 years!

Panic must be avoided while planning and preparation must be pursued with passion.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”  John Bunyan, Baptist Preacher

Be cautious, be wise, be slow, be skeptical, ask questions, check answers. Understand that an honest appearing person can be dishonest, incompetent, and nuttier than a Snicker’s bar. Moreover, a person can be honest and sincere and be nuttier than a Snicker’s bar. He may even have an impressive government job and still be nuttier than a Snicker’s bar.

He may be President of the United States and….

Some medical experts declare that the Red Chinese coronavirus does not even exist, and people are dying, as they always have, from several sundry sicknesses.

Therefore, the required vaccines are fake vaccines that actually cause death rather than protecting one from severe disease and death. If so, that is illegal, immoral, and irresponsible.

Dr. David Martin asserted, “Let’s make sure we are clear… This is not a vaccine. They are using the term ‘vaccine’ to sneak this thing under public health exemptions…It’s not a vaccine. It is made to make you sick… You are getting injected with a chemical substance to induce illness, not to induce an immuno-transmissive response… This is about getting you sick and having your own cells be the thing that get you sick… Our leadership who are actively participating in this malfeasance must be made aware that this participation will have consequences. This kind of complicity is no different than what the German doctors and scientists were accused of and went to trial for at Nuremberg.”

If the above accusation is true, then, of course, it is worse than the Nazis and an account far more thorough (and far fairer) than the Nuremberg trials must be made. If the charge is inaccurate, the doctor should answer to a court and account for such irresponsible remarks. Could a doctor with such a high profile be so stupid to make such a charge if he cannot substantiate his charge?

Note, Martin charged that COVID-19 vaccines were produced to “make you sick.” He is not charging a mistake made by federal health officials but a planned pandemic to reduce the population! A normal person recoils at such a suggestion, but he is not alone in his charge.

A coalition of 18 independent physicians and lawyers make up AmericasFrontlinedoctors.com who sued the state of Alabama, alleging “that they have proof that there never was a COVID public health emergency.” They further allege that the CDC rigged the PCR tests to inflate the numbers of COVID-19 deaths. The doctors tell us “testing for COVID-19 is based upon the PCR test which has been established to create approximately 80-90% false-positive results.”

It is a significant factor that the above doctors are not anti-vaccine, which removes the most damaging weapon from their critics. Unlike federal political physicians, private physicians risk everything to present what they consider life and death medical facts while federal health officials are charged with spinning myths, mistakes, and malice.

I’m not a physician, but if the highly qualified, independent physicians are correct, it sounds as if some elite city boys are selling a pandemic to some country bumkins. And if found guilty, the elites will end up in the pokey for a few years.

Additionally, the independent frontline doctors are concerned with the possibility “of exposure of unvaccinated, by the vaccinated, through inhalation or skin contact.” They declare this is not science fiction but a real possibility citing Pfizer’s EUA application 70 describing “the possibility of exposure of unvaccinated, by the vaccinated, through inhalation or skin contact.”

The independent doctors charge that 99% of all deaths attributed to vaccines in the first quarter of 2021 “are attributed to the COVID-19 Vaccines, and only 1% are attributed to all other vaccines.” Additionally, a whistleblower has provided government data documenting 48,465 deaths within 14 days of COVID-19 vaccination among Medicare patients alone, according to Lifesitenews.

So, we have a vaccine problem, in addition to or instead of a COVID problem.

The frontline doctors declare COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent diseases, so why get the shot since it is experimental and has not been proven safe or effective through years of arduous trials. Plus, no one on earth can give any assurances of long-term consequences. Even federal officials are not so stupid to provide such guarantees.

But stay tuned for Biden’s next news conference.

Americas’ Frontline Doctors made inflammatory charges about COVID and federal health officials, and one group will prove to the world to be failures, frauds, or fools. Will it be a group of independent, impressive, and intrepid physicians or political physicians at the CDC and the FDA?

I must emphasize that these independent physicians, critical of federal health officials’ handling of COVID-19, are not theoretical doctors but have been treating COVID patients for years with incredible success using common, safe, off-label drugs. The federal health officials have never sat across the desk from a COVID patient. Dr. Fauci worked for one year in a hospital.

Not being a physician, I can’t decide on the scientific merits of the issue; however, I know the CDC officials (with a history of fakery, fraud, and failures) have turf to defend that includes high salaries, perks, reputations, etc. Additionally, some CDC officials may have visions of a trip to Oslo dancing in their heads. And the Fauci COVID vaccine has a splendid ring, somewhat like the Salk polio vaccine. The frontline doctors have risked everything, especially their medical licenses, by taking a critical position and opposing, even criticizing, the whole medical establishment, including the prestigious medical journals.

Between the two groups, I believe the independent physicians who are risking everything, not the political physicians who are desperately fearful of losing what they have.

It should be remembered that these “safe and effective” vaccines that have been forced on the world were not thoroughly tested. The Oxford/AztraZeneca COVID inoculation was created in just 65 days at the cost of $3.00 per shot! It takes many years to test a vaccine, not a few months. The creation of a vaccine usually requires 10 to 15 years of research before the vaccine is made available to the general public. All the COVID vaccines were produced in a few months. They were designated as Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). That means temporary but also means slipshod, and we have we-were-in-a-hurry vaccines.

It is believed the vaccines are spreading the pandemic rather than inhibiting it, thereby causing patients to die. The CDC recently acknowledged that fully vaccinated people can still get COVID, die of a COVID infection, and infect others with COVID. A weekly German-language medical magazine Deutsches Ärzteblatt reported on the work done by Dr. Peter Schirmacher, director of the Pathological Institute of the University of Heidelberg. He revealed that toxicology reports indicate that 30%-40% of a sample of 40 people who died within two weeks of vaccination indeed died from the vaccine. That was supported by autopsies done by him. The Pathologist magazine considers Schirmacher one of the world’s 100 most influential professionals in the field.

So, to be clear, COVID vaccines appear to be more dangerous than the COVID-19 virus!

Other experts agree that the vaccines are not “safe and effective” and are killing people, maybe 50,000 Americans. Only George Orwell would consider that safe and effective.

Dr. Peter McCullough, epidemiologist, internist, cardiologist of medicine, takes that position. He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor at Texas A&M University, and editor of two medical journals. He has published chapters in 33 medical textbooks, lectured in 371 national and international medical forums, and published 857 medical abstracts and peer-reviewed manuscripts. Is McCullough so irresponsible to destroy his reputation (and career) with false accusations?

McCullough also declared, “the vaccines do not work, and the vaccines are unsafe.” But then, every thinker knows that truth: no one on the face of the earth can promise any drug or vaccine is safe. Moreover, if a trial results in deaths and disabilities, the trial is stopped. But not with COVID-19 vaccines. America’s Frontline Doctors assert the government’s own reporting website indicates the vaccines should have been pulled from the market almost immediately.

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, nominated for the Nobel Prize in his work on COVID, forcefully declared, “COVID-19 is a bioweapon designed and paid for by sociopaths in order to create global panic and manipulate humanity into sheepishly getting injected with a poisonous death shot.” If true, federal health officials should go to prison; if false, Zelenko should go to prison.

Zelenko’s charge is supported by former Pfizer chief scientist Dr. Michael Yeadon who says the COVID shots and their endless boosters are “depopulation weapons” designed to enslave and kill.

Wow, that is devastating coming from a former top Pfizer official.

Physicians who are experts in their various fields and who are dealing with COVID patients daily have everything to lose but declare: the COVID-19 virus does not exist, and people are dying of the Fauci Flu and other diseases; the vaccines were produced swiftly without the typically lengthy trials and are causing needless deaths; the PCR test for COVID cannot differentiate between COVID and the ordinary flu; the vaccines are not even vaccines but a medical treatment being forced on world citizens; and the adverse reactions from the vaccinations are not being reported which would result in the vaccines being removed from the shelves as with other vaccines.

Whatever the answer, we have major health problems right here in River City, and I look askance at federal functionaries who remind me of Hadacol (12% alcohol) pitchmen in 1951. When the inventor of Hadacol was asked why he called it Hadacol, he replied, “I hadda’ call it something.”

At least Hadacol salesmen did not continue flipflopping like a fish stranded on a beach.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

Or we are living in the most incredible time in history when unscrupulous federal health officials took advantage of an alleged pandemic to stuff billions of dollars in bags and to achieve power over others or to gain a place in medical history. This was done while ridiculing, resisting, and refusing available and safe drugs that could have saved more than 85% from death.

It is one or the other.

When that issue is resolved without any doubt, there will be a distinct delineation as to who are the good guys and the bad guys in the health field and in politics. More precisely, it will literally identify the dedicated health care workers and the criminals guilty of crimes against humanity.

Suppose taxpayers lose confidence in the honesty or competence of health officials. In that case, there will be severe consequences for the CDC, NIH, FDA et al. Americans will shift their confidence, even excessive confidence, from federal health officials to independent physicians who risked everything to challenge the official line.

When all the facts are known and accepted, there will be catastrophic consequences for those responsible for so many unnecessary disabilities, diseases, and deaths.

The angry reaction could even precipitate the fall of governments.

How would you react if your dead loved one could have survived COVID-19 by taking a common, inexpensive drug available in every pharmacy if not for government interference? How will citizens worldwide react when they discover their national government made medical decisions based on pressure from political physicians at the CDC and WHO rather than following the science and common sense?

For sure, one group will be heroes, and the counter group will be zeros. The victims will soon identify the virtuous and the villains. In a series of articles dealing with the COVID-19 threat, I will attempt to help untangle the issues that are changing our world as it faces a pandemic.

Is it pandemic or panic? For sure, it is no picnic.

A large group of independent, qualified physicians declares the COVID-19 virus is not killing people, but millions are instead dying of Fauci Flu. Each year, about 0.9% of Americans die of various causes, but many of these deaths are being designated as COVID-19 deaths during this pandemic. Some medical experts are saying, “yes, we have a bad epidemic of the flu, but there is no COVID epidemic.”

The PCR test is used to determine whether a person has COVID or not, but the test is very limited. The CDC admitted the PCR test may not be able to differentiate between COVID-19 and common influenza viruses. Additionally, the CDC will withdraw its emergency use application for the controversial PCR tests on December 31, 2021, because a better test must be used to distinguish between COVID and the flu. The numbers show that as COVID cases went up, the flu cases hit bottom: health officials admit that between 24,000 and 62,000 people died of “influenza-related illnesses” in 2019 but dropped 99% the following year to only 646 deaths!

No sane, honest person believes that is possible.

The WebMD website admitted the flu vaccine for the 2018–2019 season was only 29% effective and the vaccine for the 2014-15 flu season was only 19% effective. No wonder so many people die with the flu.

Wait until the current figures are compiled.

However, we have been assured the COVID vaccines are “safe and effective,” even though everyone admits they were all rushed to completion. Now, they must be sold.  Big Pharma, the biggest lobby in Washington, will throw a hissy fit if the vaccines sit on the shelves. And when Big Pharma throws a hissy fit, Congress takes notice. For over  20 years, “the pharmaceutical and health products industry has spent the most money of all industries in lobbying spending.”

Follow the money.

Many physicians say the problem was inferior diagnostic testing producing numerous false positives resulting in a false epidemic.

Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the PCR test, said Anthony Fauci “doesn’t know anything” and is willing to lie on television.  Mullis claims Fauci “thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there you’ll know it.” Mullis added, “He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine and he should not be in a position like he’s in. Most of those guys up there on the top are just total administrative people and they don’t know anything about what’s going on in the body… They’ve got a personal kind of agenda. They make up their own rules as they go. They change them when they want to.”

I don’t know why Mullis was so hesitant to express his opinion of Fauci but remember he developed the test that designates if a person has COVID. He is not a Fauci follower and has been an outspoken critic of Fauci and Big Pharma for decades. Mullis died, some say mysteriously, just before COVID hit.

Of course, many people are dying, but of what? There will be a major disruption in most cities if health officials play fast and loose with medical facts that affect every person on earth.

Everyone must understand that a person can die with COVID but not die of COVID-19. The CDC basically admitted that many of the COVID-19 cases this past year could not be distinguished from “flu cases.” That is why flu cases hit bottom and COVID cases went into the stratosphere. But then there is little money in ordinary flu but big bucks in the Chinese Communist coronavirus.

On July 24, 2020, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported, “Adults 65 and older account for 16% of the US population but 80% of COVID-19 deaths in the US.” Additionally, the AARP asserted on April 1, 2021, “95 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have occurred among people who were 50 or older.”

The above does not prove that COVID-19 kills people, but it does prove that old people die.

But we knew that, didn’t we?

Dr. Zeke Emanuel (born in 1957) believes that life is not worth living after age 75, and the pursuit of longevity is not a worthwhile goal for U.S. health care policy. Zeke is a member of Biden’s coronavirus task force. His message to the elderly, “Stop resisting; go gently into that good night.”

Maybe someone should remind him of Biden’s age.

I am almost 87, and I can testify that Zeke is dumb as a bag of hair. Maybe his M.D. means Mentally Deficient. I discovered after age 60 that everything seemed to improve. Our hummingbirds are more charming, our cardinals are redder, the sky is bluer, food is tastier, sleep is more satisfying, walks on the beach are more invigorating, the summer rain is more refreshing, each day is more exciting, work is more challenging, helping needy people is more rewarding, and it is a delight to retire at night and arise with vigor the next day.

I suggest that man was created to live as long as possible and to shorten one’s life by stupid habits, wild living, ingesting booze, drugs, tobacco, and gravy (grave 1350–1400 A.D., Middle English) is slow suicide. While death will come to everyone, it is senseless, stupid, and sinful to hasten death.

However, many will consider it outrageous that some claim COVID-19 does not exist. Future events will prove which health leaders will be recognized as liars or lunatics, or legendary leaders.

People are dying of flu, cancer, diabetes, heart, stroke, etc., but there is much more money if someone writes COVID-19 on death certificates.

If in a few months there is no doubt that corrupt federal health officials, for whatever reasons, have callously permitted millions of innocent people to die unnecessarily, our city streets will be full of angry citizens out for blood, or as some have said, “There will be Hell to pay.”

It could literally be bloodier and more society-transforming than the French and Russian Revolutions combined if it is proved that federal health officials and WHO are lying. After all, this is a world health problem. Governments will fall because of mishandling COVID, resulting in millions of unnecessary deaths, unhealthy masks, and unproductive lockdowns.

Knowing human nature, I’m convinced angry citizens will retaliate against their personal physicians and local politicians who bought into government pandemic propaganda and permitted their relatives to die needlessly.

I only hope I am writing from frustration or fear or failure to understand.

As of today, I believe the independent doctors (with minimal reservations) seem to be caring, committed, and competent as opposed to federal health officials, who often appear asinine, arrogant, and ambitious.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent,  Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog.  Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

America can’t be a democracy since I did not vote (nor did my representatives) vote to pull out of Afghanistan or to open our southern border to decent, hard-working people looking for a better life and for sure, not for terrorists, deadbeats, child molesters, thieves, muggers, and other lowlifes. I did not vote to pretend two men or two women living together can make up a family; nor that children have a right to decide their gender; nor that a man can pretend to be a woman by changing his plumbing; nor to permit males to compete with females in athletic events; nor to permit boys to declare themselves female and gain rightful entrance into female restrooms and locker rooms.

Nor did I vote to permit our Empire to be run by egotistical health officials who have never treated anyone for anything at any time. Nor did I vote to force toddlers to wear a face mask; nor for businesses to be closed and church services to be shut down.

No, the American Empire, like Rome, is crumbling as I write.

I’ve even heard that some big-city mayors, all Democrats, will give a guaranteed weekly wage, but that can’t be true. Even Democrats can’t be that stupid.

The world has been fighting the Communist Chinese coronavirus for many months, and with “new variants” appearing, we may be losing the battle. Businesses are closing, hospitals are full, people are angry, experts are vacillating, politicians are lying as they take control, the innocent are dying, and vaccine makers are crying all the way to the bank carrying buckets full of money.

However, it has happened before with more tragic results.

Bubonic Plague lashed the face of Europe in the Middle Ages, killing half the population in some cities, more in others. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that bubonic plague (Black Death) is spreading in many parts of Madagascar (island nation just east of southern Africa), and a “weak health care system means it may spread farther.” WHO reported that there have been 40 deaths from the plague, with 119 people infected. Plague is spread by fleas carried by rats.

WHO also ominously reported, “There is now a risk of a rapid spread of the disease due to the city’s high population density and the weakness of the healthcare system.”

Well, add one more threat to life from all the exotic diseases (pestilences) from Africa and China—earthquakes, famines, wars, and rumors of war to warn world citizens of the end of the world as we know it. No, I’m not a pessimist; that thought was Matthew, chapter 24. We have experienced all this before, but not with such frequency and intensity. Nations could be destroyed as in the past.

American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author Hans Zinsser, among others, believe that the Plague of Justinian was partly responsible for the demise of the Roman Empire. He declared the plague was “perhaps the most potent single influence” which gave the coup de grâce to the ancient Empire. Bugs, not bullets, knocked off an empire! This pandemic lasted about seventy years and caused havoc in the Roman Empire, already bruised, broken, and bleeding. Justinian was desperately trying to restore the ancient Empire to its former glory–like trying to breathe life into a corpse.

Seventy years of pandemic!

During Emperor Justinian’s reign, the worldwide plague began in A.D. 541 at Pelusium, Egypt (at the mouth of the Nile). He was known as “the emperor that never sleeps.” In sixty years, the plague spread to all parts of the known world. The dead lay unburied in the streets, and ten thousand persons died each day at Constantinople. The people of Constantinople became desperate with all the deaths as they placed bodies anywhere they could. Some bodies were left in houses to rot. It got worse as the black horse of famine galloped through the city because mills stopped grinding corn due to workers’ deaths.

They experienced a major food shortage because of many business failures. And those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

V. Seibel tells us that the plague was preceded by many earthquakes, volcanic eruptions—Vesuvius, in 513, was one—and famines that dropped a blanket of terror and death over Europe, the Near East, and Asia. The worst natural occurrence was the earthquake and fire that destroyed Antioch in A.D. 526, killing almost 300,000 people.

The Roman Empire was in a state of confusion because of the added pressure, problems, and panic produced by the plague. Gibbon wrote, “No facts have been preserved to sustain an account or even a conjecture of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find that, during three months, five and at length ten thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; and many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground.”

When the plague snuck into Constantinople in A.D. 542, it stayed for four months, killing so many people that it was impossible for the living to bury the dead. By A.D. 565, half of the citizens of the Byzantine Empire had died! Gibbon suggested that perhaps 100 million people in Europe alone died of this plague!

Well, we aren’t there yet.

Justinian’s armies were fighting with Persia, Africa, and the Goths in Italy, but those crude, unsophisticated barbarians had learned the art of making war from former warlords. Barbarians had learned how to organize, analyze, and cooperate. It was ever more difficult for the emperor to sustain armies on far-flung battlefields, especially when there were threats at home and treachery and thievery in his palace. Justinian needed, least of all, a major epidemic to compound his problems.

This Plague of Justinian emptied the cities, turned the country into a desert, and made the habitations of men the haunts of wild beasts. The snakes slithered and hissed, the hyenas crouched and laughed, and wild beasts pawed and growled where proud, pompous, and productive men once walked.

However, when men face the inscrutable, they tend to lose their arrogance, sinking into a hapless and helpless, and hopeless life.

Gibbon recorded: “The triple scourges of war, pestilence, and famine afflicted the subjects of Justinian, and his reign is disgraced by a visible decrease of the human species which has never been regained in some of the fairest countries of the globe.” Can anyone read that statement and doubt that disease has changed our world far more than wars? Furthermore, will irresponsible Muslim terrorists or the Communist Chinese coronavirus change our present world forever? Or maybe it will be the bubonic plague.

The plague of Justinian ended about 590, but most of Italy was controlled by the Lombards by that time. The barbarians were no longer at the gates of Rome but inside the gates. The mighty Empire had crumbled, and when the Muslim zealots swarmed out of Arabia in 634, the Roman and Persian forces gave only token resistance.

As uncultured, uncivilized, uneducated, and uncontrolled Muslim zealots swarm into America carrying hostile plans and harmful pestilences, will the once-great American Empire fall like Rome?

Even Emperor Justinian contracted the plague but survived; however, his Empire did not. The question: how will ancient plagues and other pestilences impact and change America?

Some of us will live long enough to see that answer.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 20 books, the most recent, Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles and click here to support his work with a donation.)

Historical plagues taught people of the affected areas much about the incompetency of experts in the realm of medicine, politics, theology, etc., but I’m not sure Americans have learned much.

When major plagues finally and mysteriously left a devastated country, interest in religious matters decreased because many clergymen died, and so many prayers were unanswered. Of course, God-haters have used unanswered prayer as an excuse for unbelief since the beginning of time. J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson wrote, “It is beyond the bounds of possibility for anyone to estimate the influence of epidemic disease on religion and philosophy. Nor can we clearly assess its influence on the material course of human history.”

The Greek historian Polybius (204-122 B.C.), known as the most reliable ancient historian, reported the whole of Greece had been visited in his time by childlessness and a general decline of the population resulting in the emptying of the cities and the failure of the land to render its produce. He said men refused to marry or, if they married, refused to have children. If they had children, they refused to rear them. He said that men went out of their way to be ostentatious, avaricious, and indolent.

Sounds rather contemporaneous.

Several historians believe the Greeks fell to the Romans because of malaria attacks, not marching armies. Malaria was rampant throughout the Greek world by 400 B.C. The malarial parasite killed infants, weakened unsuspecting children, forced the vacating of the best farmlands, and helped reduce Greeks into listless, lazy, and licentious people. As a result, the power and glory of ancient Greece became a mocking memory.

Some historians, in my opinion, give too much credit to the mosquito for the fall of Greece. It was a significant factor, but men must always be held accountable for their actions. Today, a man gets drunk, kills a carload of people, and pleads that he was not in control and should not be held responsible. Others tell us that sugar impaired their ability, and they lost control and should not be accountable for the results they produced. No doubt, there is some truth to those claims. The same was true in Greece. Malaria did make them listless, therefore, lazy, but they chose to be licentious.

In our time, duped, deceived, defiant, and destructive youth are dedicated to destroying our way of life. They are not innocent do-gooders but are devoted to changing our liberty-based government to a Socialist/Communist system. They are the enemy. Others are using the COVID threat to accomplish the same transformation: America should be dismantled or destroyed.

Significant change is happening in America with more changes ahead of us, and if we lose our freedom, the reasons won’t be that important.

The Greeks slowly lost their brilliance, which was thought to be the quintessence of original thought. This degeneration is evident in their art and literature and other areas of creativity. W.H.S. Jones wrote, “Their initiative vanished; they ceased to create and began to comment. Patriotism, with rare exceptions, became an empty name, for few had the high spirit and energy to translate into action man’s duty to the state. Vacillation, indecision, fitful outbursts of harmful activity followed by cowardly depression, selfish cruelty, and criminal weakness are characteristics of the public life of Greece from the struggle with Macedonia to the final conquest by the armies of Rome.”

Sounds familiar.

Francesco de Sanctis, Angelo Celli, and others taught that disease has altered the world’s condition more than wars. Ancient Greece probably would not have fallen into the hands of Rome if it had not been for malaria. Are we not fools if we don‘t consider the same or similar results from possible contagious diseases and biological terrorism we face today?

We can now add AIDS, flu, Ebola, and the Chinese Communist coronavirus to the scourges that have smitten mankind, taking their dreary toll. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reveals 36 million people have died of AIDS! The death toll from Ebola climbed to about 11,000 instead of the 1.4 million predicted by the CDC! Of course, the experts have been wrong numerous times during these COVID days. Even the notorious Bubonic Plague (the Black Death) that wiped out at least fifty million people in Europe during the 1300s has raised its vicious head, especially in Western states such as Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, and California.

Many medical experts tell us another COVID wave has hit us, but we should not worry if we have been vaccinated. However, other medical experts tell us 45,000 vaccinated Americans have died from the COVID vaccines, and that number has been hidden to cover the behinds of experts!

Has COVID taught us to be cautious about depending on the experts who can be weak, willful, whacky, and wrong? And in the case of Dr. Fauci—wearisome. Have we recognized the danger of repressing, ridiculing, and rejecting differing opinions? Are we willing to admit the media has become the enemy or at least is biased and self-serving?

About 85% of the COVID deaths could have been prevented if physicians had prescribed established inexpensive home treatment before the disease took control of patients. Wait until that truth reaches the bereaved relatives of the preventable dead!

The COVID fiasco should convince everybody of the dissension, danger, and deaths from politicizing medicine.

If we don’t learn from pandemic history, we are doomed to repeat it, and it is happening as I write and you read this warning.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for U.S.A. Today for 8 years. Boys authored 19 books, the most recent,  Reflections of a Lifetime Fundamentalist: No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets! The eBook is available at Amazon.com for $4.99. Other titles at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don  Boys, Ph.D., and visit his blog.  Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support  his work with a donation.)

In past plagues, officials, thinking they were doing good, passed laws that often did short-term good and long-term damage. They passed laws that fixed prices and wages (and always failed); forbade a man to change jobs; forced a son to follow in his father’s job; required people to do unpleasant and dangerous jobs; forced people to stay indoors; prohibited people from moving to a different town; and on and on.

With the Chinese coronavirus racing around the globe, people are panicking as they fight for food (and toilet paper); purposely trying to infect others; committing suicide, and insisting on close contact with friends and strangers.

Dummies are ever with us.

Almost daily, we see hazardous events to personal freedom as desperate politicians try to fight the Chinese coronavirus pestilence. Rhode Island used military personnel for hunting down New Yorkers and sent them back home; former British Prime Minister recommended temporary world government; Trump forced Ford and General Motors to build ventilators; NYC mayor told Jews to close down their synagogues, or he would close them permanently; DC mayor threatened 90 days in jail for leaving home; New York Governor sent thousands of coronavirus victims into nursing homes to infect others; a Tampa megachurch pastor was arrested after leading a packed service; and California pastors face jail time for having services as they have for 50 years.

It seems politicians act as they always have in times of major disasters–badly.

Governors closed all schools in their state forcing students into homeschooling—maybe that is where they should have been from the beginning. Since many students were fed by their schools, the government fed them during the shutdown. I am reminded that Rome, as it was in decline and soon fell, also fed the people and provided games and circuses to keep their minds off the strange barbarians beating on their city gates.

As I watch the “peaceful” protests each night, it seems the barbarians are already within our gates. Some are in the mayor’s office.

However, there is not an endless supply of food. Soon, it may be gone and who will feed the students who have become dependent on the system to feed them? Without food, there is anarchy—always. But not to worry since that is a few weeks away following weeks of rioting, looting, arson, and murders.

Americans have been warned not to assemble for any reason, well except for a few protests and a couple of spontaneously scheduled riots. Many people have attended church once or twice a week for a lifetime and are now told it is illegal. However, it seems to be legal for hundreds of protesters to gather and do their thing. Does the government have the power or the authority to forbid a church to meet? Or, if they meet, they cannot sing? Power yes, since they own the biggest guns, but in my opinion, they do not have that authority.

However, church leaders have a responsibility to act in the best interest of everyone. While they have a right to attend church and others may voluntarily join them, what about exposing innocent children? Do they have that right?

Will more oppressive laws be demanded as we see even more depravity, drunkenness, child abuse, robbery, and murder? Will honesty, loyalty, kindness, honor, and compassion become obsolete and even suspect? Will those of us who profess normalcy exhibit significant character flaws and not be true to our highest ideals? Will church members permit hatred, fear, and bigotry to take control instead of faith, hope, and love?

Will real Christians get weary in the battle and surrender their long-held Bible principles to accommodate the soft, sinister purring of unbelieving liberals who tell us the Bible is antiquated and unreliable in times of disaster? Probably so! In times of distress, disease, and death, even good people often capitulate to evil to gain safety, succor, and sustenance.

Will law and order break down with looting and vandalism common? How can the release of felons from prison help the innocent and helpless? We’ve already had felons kill and rape shortly after their release from prison. Will stores close for the safety of the owners? If so, where would you get the supplies you need? If most stores closed, what will that do to our economy? Will officials refuse to permit a store to close or go out of business?

The stock market is going up and down like a yoyo. Many older people have lost most of their retirement funds and won’t live long enough to recoup them. What if the market hits bottom and stays there for months? What would that do to your retirement?

We have seen the military take over some police duties contrary to the posse comitatus law. How will that impact your daily life? If you are a police officer or military, will you arrest or harm a citizen who refuses to be vaccinated or insists on attending church or visit grandchildren? Remember, “I was just following orders” has never been legitimate even in totalitarian times.

There is no doubt that new, intrusive laws will be passed (or implemented) that will restrict our freedom of movement. There will be mandatory vaccinations whenever one is developed, although billions of dollars have been spent seeking an AIDS vaccine without success. What if you think the shots would be far worse than the risk of getting the disease? What if you refused the shots?

Much of the world was under lockdown and forced to stay at home. Have you lost a constitutional right to travel? Does a dangerous disease override your rights? What about your traveling job? What about seeing your children in another city? Will you obey a law that restricts public meetings such as church services? If so, for how long?

Two of our major problems would be obtaining health care and eating. Where will we get the necessary nurses and physicians if the pestilence worsens? What about hospital beds? How could we exist if only 30% of the farmers were no longer producing food? If politicians react as they have in the past to major disasters, they will freeze prices and wages and even prohibit a person from changing jobs. Would you support a law that requires a man to stay in his present job? Well, what if he is a farmer, and if he doesn’t farm, you won’t eat? Would you support that law under that condition?

How firm are your convictions when it affects feeding your family? These questions must be faced now; however, our leaders do not indicate that they are being considered, and some will question my loyalty for asking the questions!

Patriotic Americans will ask some questions and demand answers from the people whose salaries they pay. Keep in mind that we are the masters, and the politicians and bureaucrats are the hired servants! Very well paid servants, I might add!

As the Chinese coronavirus gallops around the world, there will be further limitations on personal liberty, but hopefully, lawmakers will think these issues through, debate them, and implement only those most necessary. Reasonable people will argue that, in times of emergency, unusual measures must be taken for everyone’s good; however, there is always a problem. When oppressive laws are passed “for the present time,” some of them will persist after the danger is past. There are many examples of that in our history. So ask questions and expect answers from the authorities.

This pandemic will change our constitution, community, commerce, churches, and culture; and could affect our character as well.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent being Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! The eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

What is not known by most people is that China is the source of the three most deadly plagues that smacked the face of our planet in the last 2,000 years. Now, over vociferous denials and charges of xenophobia and racism must be added the Chinese coronavirus.

Running smack dab into the solid wall of facts, China is vehemently trying to distance itself from the Chinese coronavirus that is now smacking down people in over 200 nations and territories with about 600,000 deaths and counting.

China lied about the coronavirus originating in China; they have been lying about the number dead; now, China is charging that it did not start in China. USA Today reported that Chinese officials circulated a false claim that the coronavirus “originated in the United States and was passed along to China.”

The truth is if there were an Olympics for Deadly Pestilences, China dictator Xi would have gold medals draped all over him.

Correcting many historical reports, Galina Eroshenko and associates reveal in their scientific study that the Y. pestis triggered three world pandemics. Y. pestis, (the Black Death) lashed mankind starting with the sixth century Plague of Justinian (killed up to 100 million) to the Black Death in the fourteenth century to the third wave in the nineteenth century.

The study reveals, “Y. pestis has originated in China, and that the strains, which caused three historical plague pandemics also had their origin in China, from where they were regularly brought into Europe by Chinese merchants and military commands.”

The Plague of Justinian raised its ugly head in 541 and 542 A.D. and lasted until 750! It was named for the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, who ruled from 527 to 565 A.D. It affected about half the population of Europe, and was responsible for the highest number of deaths during any epidemic in history. Estimates believe “100 million people died during this time, which was half the world population.”

This plague spread so quickly because it was carried by lice-infected rats. Those rats “traveled all over the world on trading ships and helped spread the infection from China to Northern Africa and all over the Mediterranean.”

Even the emperor was infected but survived, although his empire disintegrated.

That was the first pandemic from China.

The Black Death that decimated Europe in the Middle Ages was used as a weapon by China, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. The Chinese were fighting the Genoese trading port of Kafa, now Feodosiya in Crimea. It was 1347. The Chinese catapulted plague-infested bodies into the town as a weapon against their enemies. It worked as Genoese ships returning home spread the plague to Sicily, North Africa, Italy, Spain, and France. From there, it raced into England, Scotland, and the Baltic countries. Four or five years after arriving in Europe in 1347, the pandemic surged through the continent in waves that killed millions.

That “second pandemic” raced across the globe, taking down millions of helpless people and was stamped, “Made in China.” It was an effective killer that caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1,000 European villages in the early 1400s.

Even the wealthy and royalty did not escape the pestilence by running and hiding. They ran but couldn’t hide.

The “third pandemic” of Black Death erupted in 1855 in the Chinese province of Yunnan. Over the next few decades, this plague prowled the planet taking it to all inhabited continents. Most of the devastation took place in China and India, but there were also scattered cases from South Africa to San Francisco. The worldwide outbreak eventually killed about 15 million people, and the World Health Organization considered it active until 1960.

By this time, the world was far more interconnected than it had ever been. People traveled more frequently; the world’s military was “on the go,” and trade had exploded with the invention of the steamship. The ships carried grain and other foodstuffs to all occupied continents, and grain means the presence of rats and rats mean fleas. Ships sitting at anchorage with vessels from other nations had a constant exchange of rats, thereby quickly spreading the rats and plague worldwide.

Media propaganda suggests that we may see a similar killing with the Chinese coronavirus. It is raging in over 200 nations of the earth with unknown prospects of slowing.

Wait until it really hits the 55 nations of Africa! A few days ago, after I wrote this, the virus jumped 47% that week!

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)

During the London plague in 1665, city officials took control of most aspects of the peoples’ lives. They did so based on previously passed laws that were still available to them. Daniel Defoe, wrote in A Journal of the Plague Year, “This shutting up of the houses was a method first taken, as I understand, in the plague which happened in 1603, at the coming of King James I to the crown; and the power of shutting people up in their own houses was granted by act of Parliament, entitled An Act for the Charitable Relief and Ordering of Persons Infected with Plague. On which act of Parliament the lord mayor and aldermen of the city of London founded the order they made at this time, and which took place the 1st of July, 1665, when the numbers of infected within the city were but few.”

Similarly, laws (many oppressive and intrusive) were passed all over the world to deal with the Chinese coronavirus, and some of those laws will stay on the books for many years. Concerned citizens must be vigilant that any oppressive laws be temporary—not permanent.

During the 1665 plague, all funerals had to be held before or after sunset, and no friends or other mourners could attend. There was to be no eating at taverns, and the unspent money was to be given to the poor. I have found no indication if or how that was enforced.

While the Black Death was raging, London officials appointed examiners, “to continue in that office for the space of two months at least: and if any fit person so appointed shall refuse to undertake the same, the said parties so refusing to be committed to prison until they shall conform themselves accordingly.” The examiners were to visit homes and to discover any sickness and to ascertain if possible what diseases were present.

Wait a minute! What if the appointed people had other responsibilities? What if they were afraid of being around dead people? What if they were terrified of being infected and putting their families in danger? Too bad, they would be imprisoned.

During this time, female “searchers” were appointed to make sure the dead had died of the plague and report the deaths to town officials. Also, chirurgeons (ancient for surgeons) were appointed whether they wanted to serve or not.

The home of every infected person was “marked with a red cross of a foot long, in the middle of the door, evident to be seen, and with these usual printed words, that is to say, ‘Lord have mercy upon us,’ to be set close over the same cross, there to continue until lawful opening of the same house.” All letters were required to be in upper case.

What if an atheist refused to pay tribute to the Lord with the painted petition on his door? Too bad, no exceptions. And the ACLU was not yet doing their thing.

The searchers, chirurgeons, keepers, and buriers were not to be on the streets “without holding a red rod or wand of three foot in length in their hands, open and evident to be seen.” What if a person did not want to be identified as such? No option.

It was ordered, “every householder do cause the street to be daily prepared before his door, and so to keep it clean swept all the week long.” It was the city’s responsibility to keep the streets clean; however, it was now a homeowner’s job.

Laws were passed that prohibited “hogs, dogs, or cats, or tame pigeons, or conies,” to be kept within any part of the city, “or any swine to be or stray in the streets or lanes, but that such swine be impounded by the beadle [a parish constable of the Anglican Church, often charged with duties of charity] or any other officer, and the owner punished according to the act of common council; and that the dogs be killed by the dog killers appointed for that purpose.” Sorry, but all creatures were forbidden.

An order was published by the lord mayor, and by the magistrates, according to the advice of the physicians, that “all the dogs and cats should be immediately killed, and an officer was appointed for the execution.”

Defoe reveals that 40,000 dogs were killed and “five times as many cats.”

Town officials declared, “all plays, bear baitings, games, singing of ballads, buckler play, or such like causes of assemblies of people, be utterly prohibited.” Anyone defying the order was to be “severely punished.”

Markets were closed, but the lord mayor permitted “the country people who brought provisions to be stopped in the streets leading into the town, and to sit down there with their goods, where they sold what they brought, and went immediately away.” But, no chit-chatting.

Denmark has passed an emergency law that allows the government to force people to get a vaccination, although one is not available for the coronavirus. Also, citizens who refuse to be tested for the coronavirus will face fines and potential prison time and will be prevented from entering shops, grocery stores, public institutions, and hospitals while also being restricted from using public transport.

Rahm Emanuel declared in 2008, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” When citizens are fearful, politicians get afraid of appearing not to be in control. Their first fear is the fear of losing the next election. So, be careful when congress is in session. They will usually solve any problem before us with welfare or warfare.

Both can be deadly to personal freedom.

(Dr. Don Boys is a former member of the Indiana House of Representatives who ran a large Christian school in Indianapolis and wrote columns for USA Today for 8 years. Boys authored 18 books, the most recent Muslim Invasion: The Fuse is Burning! eBook is available here with the printed edition (and other titles) at www.cstnews.com. Follow him on Facebook at Don Boys, Ph.D.; and visit his blog. Send a request to DBoysphd@aol.com for a free subscription to his articles, and click here to support his work with a donation.)