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CELEBRATING15 YEARSIN THE RANCHOS

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hrough Dec. 23, the state Depart-ment of Water Resources is accept-ing public comments on

Groundwater Sustainability Plans thathave been proposed for the Madera waterbasin. With a target date of 2040, theplans are intended to better managegroundwater for all users, including res-idents as well as agriculture.

At present, of the four plans beingprojected for the Madera water basin, theplans for the largest area is a “do noth-ing” plan that projects continuing declin-ing water levels by maintaining the samelevel of pumping of groundwater by agri-culture. Although protecting agricultureand thousands of ag-related jobs, thisplan will virtually assure the failure ofmany domestic wells as the water leveldrops below pump levels. Of course,dropping water levels also tend to impactwater quality.

Madera County, anticipating apossible problem, has come up withsome plans to potentially help. Basedon fees from water users, a fund couldbe created to drill new wells. Addition-ally, the County is looking at potentiallyputting a limit on the amount of waterthat can be pumped annually from thosecommercial wells. Added to that are

suggestions of groundwater recharge,all while trying to limit groundwaterpumping. Reducing evaporation is alsoon the table and purchasing water fromother areas of California is also beingconsidered.

You can comment on any or all of theproposed plans, but be warned: TheMadera plan is in excess of 3,000 pages.There is an executive summary that’s prob-ably the best place to start. The MaderaRanchos is part of Groundwater Basin 5-

022.06. With that information, next go tosgma.water.ca.gov/portal/gsp/all you canaccess all four plans proposed for ourarea. After you click on any of the plans,there will be an “Action” column whereyou can “Add Comment.” You can alsotake a look at the Madera Subbasin JointGSP in the same place and view the plancontents by selecting “Groundwater Sus-tainability Plan.”

The Sustainable Groundwater Man-agement Act, or SGMA, was passed in2014 in response to disappearing ground-water levels in California resulting fromthe drought coupled with ongoing overpumping and cuts to surface water deliv-eries. The law requires local officials tocreate groundwater sustainability plansby 2040 and then maintain “balanced”groundwater use through 2090.

The County and the State are givingeveryday citizens a chance to weigh in onthese decisions that will impact us all, butthat window of opportunity is quicklydrawing to a close. Dec. 23 is the last dayto register a comment.For further information, Stephanie

Anagnoson is the director of the MaderaCounty Water and Natural ResourcesDepartment. Her phone number is 559-662-8015.

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The MaderaCounty Sheriff's De-partment opened abrand new Sheriff’ssubstation in the Ran-chos on Saturday,Nov. 7.

"This will be a sub-station where thedeputies are workingand the community cancome in and file reports,pull permits and doother business that theyneed to do at the sher-iff's office without hav-ing to drive all the wayinto Madera city," saidMadera County Sheriff,Tyson Pogue.

The substation,which had been in theplans for more than adecade, is located in thebuilding in front of theMadera Ranchos Li-brary on the corner ofBerkshire and Fern-wood.

Ranchos Finally Gets Substation A Sensible Anti-COVID Strategy

The grand opening was celebrated with a ribbon cutting byGolden Valley Chamber of Commerce President Verlain Elinburg,center. Also in attendance were Madera County District 1 Super-visor Brett Frazier, left, with Sheriff Tyson Pogue next to him.Madera County’s Chief Administrative Officer, former Sheriff JayVarney, far right, was also present.

By Jay BhattacharyaStanford University

My goal today is, first, to present thefacts about how deadly COVID-19 actuallyis; second, to present the facts about who isat risk from COVID; third, to present somefacts about how deadly the widespreadlockdowns have been; and fourth, to rec-ommend a shift in public policy.

1. The COVID-19 Fatality RateIn discussing the deadliness of

COVID, we need to distinguish COVIDcases from COVID infections. A lot of fearand confusion has resulted from failing tounderstand the difference.

We have heard much this year aboutthe “case fatality rate” of COVID. In earlyMarch, the case fatality rate in the U.S. wasroughly three percent — nearly three out ofevery 100 people who were identified as“cases” of COVID in early March diedfrom it. Compare that to today, when the fa-tality rate of COVID is known to be lessthan one half of one percent.

In other words, when theWorld HealthOrganization said back in early March thatthree percent of people who get COVID diefrom it, they were wrong by at least oneorder of magnitude. The COVID fatality

rate is much closer to 0.2 or 0.3 percent.The reason for the highly inaccurate earlyestimates is simple: In early March, wewere not identifying most of the peoplewho had been infected by COVID.

“Case fatality rate” is computed by di-viding the number of deaths by the totalnumber of confirmed cases. But to obtainan accurate COVID fatality rate, the num-ber in the denominator should be the num-ber of people who have been infected— thenumber of people who have actually hadthe disease — rather than the number ofconfirmed cases.

In March, only the small fraction of in-fected people who got sick and went to thehospital were identified as cases. But themajority of people who are infected byCOVID have very mild symptoms or nosymptoms at all. These people weren’tidentified in the early days, which resultedin a highly misleading fatality rate. And thatis what drove public policy. Even worse, itcontinues to sow fear and panic, becausethe perception of too many people aboutCOVID is frozen in the misleading datafrom March.

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rate? To use a technical term, we test for“seroprevalence”— in other words, we testto find out how many people have evidencein their bloodstream of having had COVID.

This is easy with some viruses. Any-one who has had chickenpox, for instance,still has that virus living in them— it staysin the body forever. COVID, on the otherhand, like other coronaviruses, doesn’t stayin the body. Someone who is infected withCOVID and then clears it will be immunefrom it, but it won’t still be living in them.

What we need to test for, then, are an-tibodies or other evidence that someone hashad COVID. And even antibodies fade overtime, so testing for them still results in anunderestimate of total infections.

Seroprevalence is what I worked on inthe early days of the epidemic. In April, Iran a series of studies, using antibody tests,to see how many people in California’sSanta Clara County, where I live, had beeninfected. At the time, there were about1,000 COVID cases that had been identi-fied in the county, but our antibody testsfound that 50,000 people had been infected— i.e., there were 50 times more infectionsthan identified cases. This was enormouslyimportant, because it meant that the fatalityrate was not three percent, but closer to 0.2percent; not three in 100, but two in 1,000.

When it came out, this Santa Clarastudy was controversial. But science is likethat, and the way science tests controversialstudies is to see if they can be replicated.And indeed, there are now 82 similar sero-prevalence studies from around the world,and the median result of these 82 studies isa fatality rate of about 0.2 percent — ex-actly what we found in Santa Clara County.

In some places, of course, the fatalityrate was higher: In New York City it wasmore like 0.5 percent. In other places it waslower: The rate in Idaho was 0.13 percent.What this variation shows is that the fatal-ity rate is not simply a function of howdeadly a virus is. It is also a function of whogets infected and of the quality of the healthcare system. In the early days of the virus,our health care systems managed COVIDpoorly. Part of this was due to ignorance:We pursued very aggressive treatments, forinstance, such as the use of ventilators, thatin retrospect might have been counterpro-ductive. And part of it was due to negli-gence: In some places, we needlesslyallowed a lot of people in nursing homes toget infected.

But the bottom line is that the COVIDfatality rate is in the neighborhood of 0.2percent.

2. Who Is at Risk?The single most important fact about

the COVID pandemic— in terms of decid-

ing how to respond to it on both an individ-ual and a governmental basis — is that it isnot equally dangerous for everybody. Thisbecame clear very early on, but for somereason our public health messaging failedto get this fact out to the public.

It still seems to be a common percep-tion that COVID is equally dangerous toeverybody, but this couldn’t be further fromthe truth. There is a thousand-fold differ-ence between the mortality rate in olderpeople, 70 and up, and the mortality rate inchildren. In some sense, this is a great bless-ing. If it was a disease that killed childrenpreferentially, I for one would react verydifferently. But the fact is that for youngchildren, this disease is less dangerous thanthe seasonal flu. This year, in the UnitedStates, more children have died from theseasonal flu than from COVID by a factorof two or three.

Whereas COVID is not deadly for chil-dren, for older people it is much moredeadly than the seasonal flu. If you look atstudies worldwide, the COVID fatality ratefor people 70 and up is about four percent— four in 100 among those 70 and older,as opposed to two in 1,000 in the overallpopulation.

Again, this huge difference betweenthe danger of COVID to the young and thedanger of COVID to the old is the most im-portant fact about the virus. Yet it has notbeen sufficiently emphasized in publichealth messaging or taken into account bymost policymakers.

3. Deadliness of the LockdownsThe widespread lockdowns that have

been adopted in response to COVID are un-precedented — lockdowns have never be-fore been tried as a method of diseasecontrol. Nor were these lockdowns part ofthe original plan. The initial rationale forlockdowns was that slowing the spread ofthe disease would prevent hospitals frombeing overwhelmed. It became clear beforelong that this was not a worry: In the U.S.and in most of the world, hospitals werenever at risk of being overwhelmed. Yet thelockdowns were kept in place, and this isturning out to have deadly effects.

Those who dare to talk about thetremendous economic harms that have fol-lowed from the lockdowns are accused ofheartlessness. Economic considerations arenothing compared to saving lives, they aretold. So I’m not going to talk about the eco-nomic effects — I’m going to talk about thedeadly effects on health, beginning with thefact that the U.N. has estimated that 130million additional people will starve thisyear as a result of the economic damage re-sulting from the lockdowns.

In the last 20 years, we’ve lifted one

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Trump’s Staying Power

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Pending the outcome in a few keystates, Donald Trump may be leaving theWhite House, but he's not exiting theroom.

The fiercest Never Trump criticshoped for -- and wishfully predicted -- acleansing landslide that would wipe outevery trace of Trump and his enablersfrom the GOP.

That's not happening. Trump's poll-and pundit-defying surge toward the cuspof a second term vindicates Trump's ap-proach enough to give him and his poten-tial successors continued traction, if not adominant voice, in the party.

Trump's possible loss is nothing likethe shellacking the GOP experienced in2008, when Barack Obama won in a land-slide together with a 60-seat Senate ma-jority.

Trump's party has a chance to retainits Senate majority and will pick up Houseseats, while the margin of his own defeatmay be a whisker in the Blue Wall states,just as his margin of victory in 2016 was awhisker.

He did his own side the inadvertentfavor of perhaps buffering it from theworst consequences of his own possibleloss -- first, by filling the Ruth Bader Gins-burg seat on the Supreme Court that oth-erwise would have fallen to Joe Biden, andby performing well enough to aid thecause of Republican Senate candidates,

who will check a Biden presidency fromthe outset if they do indeed manage to holdthe majority.

Trump's voters were still there for him-- in fact, more so than ever. His tack ofdoubling down on his base wasn't quite asinsane as we were always told by com-mentators. His strong close proved hispower as a campaigner, with his signaturemadcap rallies serving as effective organ-izing and messaging vehicles.

This is not to deny that Trump's ownfailings helped sink him. There are a thou-sand pitfalls he could have avoided if heweren't so self-involved and undisciplined.No single one of them made the differ-ence, but cumulatively they blighted hispresidency and made him radioactive inthe suburbs.

No one should want to repeat them,and the party should never again get be-hind such a flawed personal figure.

Nevertheless, Trump points to a vi-able GOP future. He posted startling gainsamong Latino voters. This shows it's pos-sible to imagine a working-class-oriented Republican Party that isn't ademographic dead end, but genuinelycrosses racial lines, even if this potential isstill inchoate.

Given how Trump's base showed upmassively in the past two presidential elec-tions, it's also unlikely that these voters aregoing to be jettisoned anytime soon bysome other Republican presidential candi-date. Indeed, the education- and class-based re-sorting of the GOP -- affluentsuburbs peeling off and working-class vot-ers coming on board -- predated Trump.

The concerns of these voters have tofigure prominently in the agenda of theGOP going forward. That doesn't requireembracing any particular Trump policy.but it does mean the party will inevitablyhave a populist coloration.

Trump will remain an outsize pres-ence. His supporters will still consider hima legendary warrior, a totem of resistanceto the media and the cultural elite. His en-dorsements will continue to be valuable,and ambitious 2024 candidates will seekto inherit his mantle.

Trump might not win the biggest,most important prize of a second term in2020, but there's no doubt he has stavedoff political irrelevance.

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I believe that one of the most

important times to express grati-

tude is when you struggle to find

things for which to be thankful. To

put it another way, the best time to

count your blessings is when you

don’t think you have any. With

state and local governments impos-

ing Lockdown: The Sequel on their

citizenry and going so far as to tell

us how many people can visit us in

our own homes, this is definitely

one of those times when finding

things to be thankful for seems out

of reach. Nevertheless, that’s what

I am going to do.

First and foremost, I am thank-

ful for our Lord and Savior. I am

thankful for His redeeming sacri-

fice. I am thankful that He made us

in His image and filled our minds

with the desire to seek knowledge

and truth. I’m thankful that He

blessed me with intelligence and

critical thought which has allowed

me to have a full understanding of

what is happening in the world

today and not be bamboozled by

lies, leftist rhet-

oric and social

engineering.

I am thank-

ful for my par-

ents and how I

was raised. I

was lucky

enough to have a

childhood filled

with not only

love, affection

and support, but

also structure,

discipline and

the strictest of

e x p e c t a t i o n s .

My youth was

filled with spectacular memories of

a mom and dad who were wholly

present and fully participated in my

upbringing. There were one-of-a-

kind birthday parties and incompa-

rable vacations. On the other side

of that coin, though, there were

high standards of excellence and an

unyielding dedication to ensuring I

wasn’t a screeching bonehead in-

tent on tearing apart a nation in the

name of expecting other people to

blindly agree with me and give me

free stuff.

I’m grateful to have known all

of my grandparents. Many people

Giving Thanks in 2020

lost their parents’ parents at a

young age and I was blessed to

have all four of them well into

adulthood. It’s a precious thing to

get to know the elders of your fam-

ily. They can share information

with you that, believe or not,

Google doesn’t know. They tell you

funny little stories about how your

mom chipped her front tooth when

she was a little girl by chasing a lit-

tle boy over a fence with a broom-

stick because he called her a bad

name. They talk about growing up

in a tiny little town in central Cali-

fornia during WWII. I’m also com-

pletely convinced that a

g r a n d p a r e n t

makes the ab-

solute best fan

and cheerleader.

We often take

for granted all

our grandpar-

ents can teach

us, but I know

that I have a re-

spect for past

g e n e r a t i o n s ,

family history

and the wisdom

of those who

have lived more

years than I, all

because of the

grandparents with which I was

blessed.

I am thankful for my very first

boss. Way back when I was in high

school, I started working at a Taco

Bell for a general manager who was

– I’ll say affectionately – referred

to as “the beastie.” I think the only

person who demanded a higher

level of perfection than she was,

perhaps, my own father. He at least

gave me a place to live and told me

he loved me. The beastie was

tough, unyielding and demanding,

I’m grateful to have knownall of my grandparents. Manypeople lost their parents’ par-ents at a young age and I wasblessed to have all four ofthem well into adulthood. It’sa precious thing to get to knowthe elders of your family. Theycan share information withyou that, believe or not,Google doesn’t know.

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but you know what? She was consis-

tent. There was absolutely no am-

biguousness where she was

concerned. You knew her expecta-

tions and you most assuredly knew

when you were not meeting them.

This served to strengthen the work

ethic that my parents instilled in me.

I don’t expect employers to coddle

me and cater to unreasonable de-

mands. I do expect employers to

treat me well, pay me fairly and cre-

ate a safe and healthy work environ-

ment and in exchange I am a

dedicated and hard worker, and all

of that because I had a boss that de-

manded nothing less from me.

Finally, I am grateful to live in

a country where I have the right –

although some have tried to take it

away from me – to speak my mind. I

am grateful that I have a consti tu-

tion that secures these rights for me.

I am grateful for a strong and faith-

ful military that defends these rights

for me. I have the right to review the

numbers, read the available infor-

mation and form my own opinion for

how to conduct myself . I have the

right to agree with experts who say

that lockdowns, other than to reset

healthcare and first responder sup-

plies and staff , do nothing except

strip some people of their l iveli-

hoods and rob everyone of their

freedom. I have a right to think that

the health of our economy far out-

weighs the possibility that someone

might contract – and yes, even die –

from a virus, and I am including my-

self in that. And I have the right to

invite my entire family into my

home for Thanksgiving, and you

know what, they have the right to

decline.

Despite our current crisis, de-

spite the ineptitude of our leaders

and despite the media’s relentless

narrative of fear and misdirection,

there is still plenty to be thankful for

this year. From my family to yours,

however you choose to celebrate and

whomever you choose to celebrate

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Kiwanis would like to wish you all a

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w i t h s o m e s a l t a n d p e p p e r .

W e ’ d b r e a k u p t h e b r e a d a n d

p o u r t h e v e g e t a b l e s i n o n t o p

a n d a d d e n o u g h s a l t a n d p e p p e r

a n d t h e o n l y o t h e r s e a s o n i n g

s h e w o u l d u s e w a s d r y s a g e .

S h e p r e f e r r e d r u b b e d s a g e i n -

s t e a d o f c h o p p e d ( i t i s v e r y

h a r d t o f i n d r u b b e d s a g e

t o d a y ) , t h e n a d d c h i c k e n b r o t h

a n d w a t e r a n d m i x i t u p w i t h

o u r h a n d s u n t i l i t w a s j u s t

r i g h t .

W h e n t h e t u r k e y i s d e -

f r o s t e d , I p u t i t i n t h e r o a s t i n g

p a n a n d p u t i t o n t h e b o t t o m

s h e l f o f t h e r e f r i g e r a t o r a w a i t -

i n g T h u r s d a y m o r n i n g . W i t h

t h e p e r f e c t i o n

o f t h e t u r k e y s

o v e r t h e l a s t

5 0 y e a r s y o u

d o n ’ t h a v e t o

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i t i n t h e o v e n .

W e w o u l d f i g -

u r e a b o u t 2 2

m i n u t e s p e r

p o u n d o f

s t u f f e d t u r k e y ,

t a k i n g a b o u t

s e v e n a n d a h a l f t o e i g h t h o u r s .

I t o n l y t a k e s f o u r t o f i v e h o u r s

t o c o o k a s t u f f e d 1 8 - t o 2 0 -

p o u n d b i r d t o d a y a s o p p o s e d t o

a l l m o r n i n g 5 0 y e a r s a g o .

A s f o r t h e s t u f f i n g , I d o i t

t h e s a m e w a y m a m a d i d 5 0

y e a r s a g o , e x c e p t I d o n ’ t t o a s t

t h e b r e a d . I c h e a t a n d b u y

t h r e e b o x e s o f M r s . C u b b i s o n ’ s

– t w o b o x e s o f b r e a d a n d o n e

o f t h e c o r n b r e a d . A d d t h e

s a u t é e d v e g e t a b l e s , s a l t , p e p -

p e r a n d e v e n t h o u g h t h e b r e a d

i s s o m e w h a t s e a s o n e d , I u s u -

a l l y a d d s o m e m o r e s a g e . T h e n

s t a r t m i x i n g i n c h i c k e n b r o t h

a n d w a t e r u n t i l i t t a s t e s j u s t

r i g h t . I d o n ’ t u s e t h e g i b l e t s

b u t s o m e t i m e s I d o c o o k t h e

n e c k a n d t a k e o f f t h e m e a t a n d

a d d t o t h e s t u f f i n g . T a k e t h e

b i r d o u t o f t h e r e f r i g e r a t o r ,

r i n s e i t o u t a n d p a t d r y , c o v e r

i n s i d e a n d o u t w i t h b u t t e r ( o r

m a r g a r i n e ) , s a l t i n s i d e a n d o u t

by Jean Briner

Thanks for Thanksgiving

E d i t o r ’s N o t e : W i t h t h ep a s s i n g o f A u n t J e a n , Ih a v e d e c i d e d t o b r i n g y o u a“ B e s t O f ” o f h e r r e c i p e so v e r t h e p a s t 1 0 y e a r s .G o o d r e c i p e s a r e t i m e l e s sa n d I h o p e y o u e n j o y t h e ma l l o v e r a g a i n .

(November 2010)

For t hose o f you t ha tread th i s be fore Thanksg iv -ing , I hope you have a veryHappy Thanksg i v ing . Andfo r t hose o f you t ha t readth i s a f t e r Thanksg i v ing , Ihope you had a g lor ious dayand you have l o t s o f l e f t -overs .

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and you ’ r e r e a dy t o s t u f f . A l o to f p e o p l e d o n ’ t s t u f f t h e b i r dbu t we t h i n k t h e s t u f f i n g i s b e t -t e r t h a t i s c o o k e d i n t h e b i r dt h an i n a b ak i ng pan . Bu t , wha t -eve r you o r you r f am i l y p r e f e r s .

Some peop l e c a l l i t s t u f f i n ga n d s ome d r e s s i n g b u t d o y o uk n ow t h e d i f f e r e n c e ? I r e a ds omewhe r e t h a t i f y o u p u t t h em i x t u r e i n t h e b i r d i t i s c a l l e ds t u f f i n g and i f y ou cook i t i n ap an i t i s c a l l e d d r e s s i n g . A s f a ra s I ’m conce rn ed , wha t eve r i t i sc a l l e d I l o v e i t .

A s I ’ v e t o l d you i n a p r e v i -o u s a r t i c l e , my mom l o v e d t og e t r e c i p e s whe r e v e r s h e wen t .Z u c c h i n i C a s s e r o l e s h e g o t

f r om a c o u s i n f r om Tenn e s s e e .Mama p a s s e d away i n Oc t o b e r1 9 8 8 a n d wh e n we we r e c l e a n -i n g o u t h e r d e e p f r e e z e wef o u n d o n e s h e h a d mad e s o wecooked i t f o r Thank sg i v i n g t h a ty e a r . My s i s t e r Max i n e h a st a k en ove r t h e du t y o f b r i n g i ngo n e ( s ome t ime s s h e b r i n g s twoso t h a t t h e r e c an b e s ome t a k enhome ) t o a l l ou r f am i l y d i nne r s .I n f a c t , e v e r y o n e l i k e s i t s omu c h t h a t y o u wou l d t h i n ks ome t ime s s h e wou l d n ’ t b e a l -l owed i n t o d i n n e r u n l e s s s h eb r o u g h t t h e c a s s e r o l e . H e r e ’ st h e r e c i p e , h o p e y o u l i k e i t a swe l l a s we do .

Z u c c h i n i C a s s e r o l e6 C t h i n l y s l i c e d zu c ch i n i½ l a r g e on i on chopped

1 C g r a t e d c a r r o t1 c an c r e am o f ch i c k en s oup1 C sou r c r e am2 boxe s S t ov e Top s t u f f i n g(Ch i c k en o r Tu r k ey )2 cub e s o f bu t t e r o rma r g a r i n eCook t h e zu c ch i n i a nd on i on

f o r a b o u t f i v e m i n u t e s o r u n t i la l d e n t e , a nd d r a i n a s much l i q -u i d o f f a s p o s s i b l e b e f o r ea d d i n g t h e c a r r o t s , c r e am soupand sou r c r e am . Se t a s i d e .

I n a s e p a r a t e bow l , m i x onebox o f S t ov e Top w i t h on e cub eo f me l t e d b u t t e r . L a y t h i se v en l y i n t h e bo t t om o f a 9 x 12b a k i n g p a n . P o u r i n t h e z u c -c h i n i m i x . M i x t h e s e c o n d b o xo f S t o v e Top w i t h t h e o t h e rc ub e o f me l t e d bu t t e r a nd cove r

t h e z u c c h i n i m i x . B a k e i n p r e -h e a t e d 3 5 0 o v e n u n t i l l i g h t l yb r own and bubb l y .

Do NOT mix the Stove Top asd i r ec t ed on the package – on lypu t t he me l t ed bu t t e r i n the d rymix . Peop l e wou ld compla in tomy mom tha t when they made thecassero le , i t d idn’ t tas te l ike hersand the f i r s t th ing she would askthem was, “Did you use the StoveTop dry wi th only the mel ted but -t e r , o r d id you cook i t l i ke thepackage d i rec t s?”

Fo r those o f you tha t r eadth i s before Thanksg iv ing , I hopeyou have a ve ry Happy Thanks -g iv ing . And for those of you tha tr ead th i s a f t e r Thanksg iv ing , Ihope you had a g lor ious day andyou have lo t s of le f tovers .

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How to Have a“Happy” Thanksgiving

A section of the registers wereclosed due to COVID-19. The womanin line behind me began to complain."They should have more registersopen. It's hot in here ..." If 2020 hasgiven us anything, it's plenty to com-plain about. Complaining in negativecircumstances is normal, but how doesit serve us?

Dennis Prager, author of Happi-ness is a Serious Problem offers someinsight. “We tend to think that it isbeing unhappy that leads people tocomplain,” says Prager. “But it is truerto say that it is complaining that leadsto people becoming unhappy. Becomegrateful and you will become a muchhappier person."

Joshua Brown and Joel Wong’s re-search affirms this notion. The resultsof their study are found in How Grati-tude Changes You and Your Brain(www.greatergood.berkeley.edu). Outof 300 individuals receiving counsel-ing services for anxiety and depres-sion, one third of them were given thetask of writing a letter of gratitude tosomeone every week for three weeks.Not only did those given this assign-ment have significant improvements totheir mental health, the activity lastedfour to 12 weeks beyond the writingassignment.

The benefits of gratefulness don’tend with our emotional health. In thearticle, A Serving of Gratitude MaySave the Day (nytimes.com), JohnTierney says that cultivating an "atti-tude of gratitude" has been linked tobetter health, sounder sleep and kinderbehavior toward others. With all thesegreat benefits, what’s holding us backfrom cashing in?

Our brains create pathways forthings we do repeatedly, which makesthem easier to do. For many, the path-way for complaining is etched in thebrain, making that the default. Fre-

quent complaining releases more of thestress hormone cortisol which impairsthe immune system. Our brains, how-ever, have the remarkable ability tochange. Creating new pathways re-quires intentionality. If you’re seekingthe benefits of gratitude, here are someways to do that.

Transform complaints into thank-fulness: Search for things to be grate-ful for tucked inside the very thingsyou're tempted to complain about. Wecan be grateful that the store linesaren't as long as they appear, due to thefact we're spread six feet apart. Maybeturkey isn't your favorite, nor the peo-ple with whom you spend Thanksgiv-ing. You can be grateful it's just once ayear.

Schedule gratitude: Set aside timeeach day to ponder things for whichyou are grateful. Link it to somethingyou do regularly. While showering orbrushing your teeth, focus on that forwhich you are grateful. The first thingI do each day is sit down with myGratitude Prayer Journal and recordthings for which I’m thankful.

Verbalize gratitude: Last weekCostco welcomed back the samplingstations. Yay! As I picked up the pre-packaged samples, I thanked them notonly for the sample, but for returningto work. Many people perform acts ofservice all around us. Choose to beaware and verbalize your gratitude fortheir services, especially to those athome.

Put your gratitude into writing:Let others know in a card, letter, emailor even text, how much you valuethem. Tell them specifically how theyhave impacted your life. It’s awin/win. You will both experience joy.

Like many in our nation today,those celebrating the first Thanksgiv-ing had much to complain about. Theysuffered a great deal through that year,and yet, in the fall of 1621 they fo-cused on their blessings and gavethanks. Without Prager’s book or theuniversity study results to guide thischoice, what motivated them to begrateful? The words of King David inPsalm 92: “It is good to give thanks tothe Lord.” Indeed, it is.

Contact Organized by Choice (be-cause things don’t always fall intoplace) at P.O. Box 26152, Fresno, CA93729, call 559-871-3314 or emailinfo@organized bychoice.com. Youcan visit www.organizedbychoice.comwhen you go online.

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Staying Together While ApartBy Margaret Tynan

With the colder weather, thank-fully, the air is much improved. TheRanchos/Hills Seniors took advan-tage of the nicer days with an out-door, physically distanced, maskedget-together. The small group ofmembers engaged in lively discus-sion of how they are spending theirtime. Rosemary Janis and I sharedhow much the Writing Group appre-ciates the bi-weekly Zoom meetings.The group is hopingto have their work ina publication some-time next year. Wegot to see samples ofcute, bearded gnomesand other craft itemsthat Carol Wood andmembers have beenworking on for theupcoming ChristmasBoutique. Commu-nity service is fillingtime for some of themembers. Joliene Mason broughttickets and information on the open-ing of the Madera Sheriff substationin the Ranchos. Lou Janis is volun-teering some of his time tutoringMadera Community College studentsin Intermediate Algebra, as well asstudents at Fresno City College inDigital Logic. It was so good to seeeveryone.

Vicki Dougherty, a relativelynew member of the Center, also at-tended the gathering. Later, I wasable to interview her by phone.

Originally from the Fresno area,Vicki spent 34 years in Lodi beforeshe and her husband, Greg, moved tothe new Riverstone developmentabout a year ago. She retired, after along career in the medical field, firstas a licensed x-ray technician andthen as a medical assistant. The mo-tivation to move back to the area wasto be closer to their two daughtersand three grandchildren.

I asked Vicki how she heardabout the Senior Center and whatprompted her to join. She read aboutthe Center in the Ranchos Indepen-dent’s Senior Report. Having likedher experience in a Lodi senior cen-ter, she was excited to join here. Shebecame a regular participant in ourexercise program and had fun at the

Thursday night potlucks and games.Currently, she helps Jo Chase andothers getting the Treasure Houseready for the monthly sales. Shelooks forward to the day the Centeropens again. As other members havesaid, the Center activities and socialinteractions are very much missed.

Vicki has many interests. Shesews, does needlework and beading.She especially likes wood-burningcraft, making decorative woodenboxes and cutting boards for exam-

ple. She is a womanafter my own heart.Like me, she also en-joys doing difficultjigsaw puzzles. Gregkeeps occupied withhis hobby, which isdoing precisionmetal work. Bothmanage to stay busy,making the days flyby. Vicki says thatduring these unusualtimes, she and Greg

miss traveling and seeing their Cali-fornia friends. But the hugs of lovedones are what they miss most.

With the holidays close at hand,the Ranchos/Hills Seniors Centerwill hold two outdoor sales on con-secutive Saturdays in December,Dec. 5 and 12 from 8 a.m. to noon.The Christmas Boutique featureslovely holiday decorations and hand-made items, and great gifts for familyand friends. Find plants for your yardat the Garden Sale. Of course, theTreasure House is full of interesting,unique finds. Please wear a mask andmaintain physical distancing whileshopping.

Donations are always welcomedand appreciated. Make your checkout to Ranchos/Hills Seniors andmail to 37330 Berkshire Dr., Madera,CA 93636. Please note: At this time,we are only able to accept donationsof physical items by appointment.Call 559-645-4864.

The Ranchos/Hills Seniors mem-bers wish you and yours a happy,healthy, and safe Holiday Season.

Thought for December: “Mayyou have the gladness of Christmaswhich is hope; The spirit of Christ-mas which is peace; The heart ofChristmas which is love.” -- Ada V.Hendricks

New Senior Center member,Vicki Dougherty.

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and cur-rent decrees from Sacramento, the followingannual events have been cancelled. TheGolden Valley Chamber of Commerce hopesto be able to sponser these events again in thefuture.

Thank you for your understanding.

• ANNOUNCEMENTS •

The Golden Valley Chamber ofCommerce would love to see you at ournext meeting, Wednesday, December 9 at6:30 p.m., 37167 Ave. 12 Suite 5C in theMaywood Center. Come join us and seewhat’s going on in your community. Call usat 645-4001.

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• Annual Community Christmas Tree Lighting

• CASA gift collection for foster children

• Supplies for VETERANS at Fresno V.A. Hospital

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Shirley Viaral -- Marketing Rep

billion people worldwide out of poverty.This year we are reversing that progress tothe extent — it bears repeating — that anestimated 130 million more people willstarve.

Another result of the lockdowns is thatpeople stopped bringing their children infor immunizations against diseases likediphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) andpolio, because they had been led to fearCOVID more than they feared these moredeadly diseases. This wasn’t only true in theU.S. Eighty million children worldwide arenow at risk of these diseases. We had madesubstantial progress in slowing them down,but now they are going to come back.

Large numbers of Americans, eventhough they had cancer and neededchemotherapy, didn’t come in for treatmentbecause they were more afraid of COVIDthan cancer. Others have skipped recom-mended cancer screenings. We’re going tosee a rise in cancer and cancer death rates asa consequence. Indeed, this is already start-ing to show up in the data. We’re also goingto see a higher number of deaths from dia-betes due to people missing their diabeticmonitoring.

Mental health problems are in a waythe most shocking thing. In June of thisyear, a CDC survey found that one in four

young adults between 18 and 24 had seri-ously considered suicide. Human beings arenot, after all, designed to live alone. We’remeant to be in company with one another. Itis unsurprising that the lockdowns have hadthe psychological effects that they’ve had,especially among young adults and chil-dren, who have been denied much-neededsocialization.

In effect, what we’ve been doing is re-quiring young people to bear the burden ofcontrolling a disease from which they facelittle to no risk. This is entirely backwardfrom the right approach.

4. Where to Go from HereLast week I met with two other epi-

demiologists — Dr. Sunetra Gupta of Ox-ford University and Dr. Martin Kulldorff ofHarvard University — in Great Barrington,Mass. The three of us come from very dif-ferent disciplinary backgrounds and fromvery different parts of the political spec-trum. Yet we had arrived at the same view— the view that the widespread lockdownpolicy has been a devastating public healthmistake. In response, we wrote and issuedthe Great Barrington Declaration, whichcan be viewed — along with explanatoryvideos, answers to frequently asked ques-tions, a list of co-signers, etc. — online atwww.gbdeclaration.org.



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caused challenges across the agri-food supply chain. At the sametime though, it has also created new opportunities to innovateand teach people about farming and the food system. It’s criticalthat California school children continue to receive education incore areas such as math, science and English. But they shouldalso be learning in areas that provide important enrichment and

life skills, such as nutrition and agricultural literacy. Below aresome available and useful resources for schools, students, andfamilies:

• www.ed.gov/coronavirus • www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/index.html • deal-hack.com/blog/free-resources-during-the-covid-19-pandemic •

www.healthyeating.org/As part of the social dis-

tancing and contending withCOVID-19, our monthly boardmeetings on the third Monday ofeach month will be held via tele-phone conferencing. The publicis invited and encouraged to lis-ten in and offer ideas of projectsthat can help improve our com-munity. To join in at 6 p.m. dial312-757-3221. When prompted,dial the access code 715657949#. To call SEMCU for more in-formation, call 559-363-9095.Or reach the organization atwww.semcu.org or by email [email protected].

SEMCU is“By the Community,For the Community”

By Matt Maringer

We understand this is a troublingtime for students and families while try-ing to balance education and work, re-spectively. What is appropriate for eachdistrict will vary owing to Covid-19 in-fection rates, local resources, and staterecommendations. Ultimately though,school this year has not resembled whathas been normal in previous years. Nearly93 percent of people in households withschool-age children reported their chil-dren engaged in some form of “distancelearning” from home. Data from theHousehold Pulse Survey show the per-centage of households with childrenusing online resources at different incomelevels.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also

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Hello 93636,

When the Ranchos Independent ed-

itor asked me to write this monthly col-

umn, he envisioned readers writing in for

automotive advice. In the absence of

community inquiries, I try to write about

related and interesting automotive topics.

It is not my intention to write an au-

tomotive “political opinion” column, but

sometimes I feel compelled to defend

my industry. If California wants to drive

Electric Vehicles (EV's), I'm fine with

that. I'm prepared. I'm one of 1,540 ASE

Certified Hybrid/EV technicians in the

United States.

EV's have some very distinct ad-

vantages such as no transmissions, dif-

ferentials, starters or alternators. They

don't use fuel pumps, fuel injectors or

spark plugs. I wish I owned an EV but

they are way outside my financial com-

fort zone.

I knew Gov. Newsom would blame

fossil fuel vehicles for the 3.6 million

acres burned from California's wildfires.

Quote: "Our cars shouldn't make wild-

fires worse — and create more days

filled with smoky air." I guess Gov.

Newsom didn't read the Science & En-

vironment article dated Nov. 15, 2018

which states some estimates suggest the

northern California wildfires of 2018

emitted as much CO2 into the atmos-

phere in one week as all the cars and

Ready or Not, ONLYElectric Vehicles?

trucks in California emit in one year.

Pacific Gas and Electric now turns off

power to homes across California during the

wildfire season to prevent additional wild-

fires. Why? Over the previous decades, Cali-

fornia’s leaders have diverted billions of

dollars from electrical grid maintenance to

solar and wind power projects. California's

wildfires have nothing in common with

global warming and everything to do with

California's forest mismanagement.

California's poor management, costly

regulation and high taxes are so intrusive

many companies are now exiting the state.

One of those companies is Tesla Inc.

Following a heated exchange with the

Alameda County

and California reg-

ulatory authorities

who were prevent-

ing Elon Musk

from reopening his

Fremont Tesla fac-

tory due to Covid-

19, Musk

announced he's

leaving California

for Texas. Musk is

relocating the

Tesla company

headquarters and

manufacturing to a

4 million square foot facility on a 2,100 acre

site in Travis County about 15 minutes from

downtown Austin.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Elon Musk

chose to build in Texas partly because the

state offers more “freedom” than places such

as California. “Musk wanted to get into a state

where he could expand the way he wanted to

expand." In the previous 12 months, Texas

has gained 123,700 new jobs.

"In MY opinion" Gov. Newsom's re-

cently signed executive order banning the sale

of new fossil fuel cars and trucks in Califor-

nia by 2035 is a gift to appease California's

34 EV manufacturers. Newsom said his order

would be an EV economic boom. The ban

will create an all-EV new car sales market

five years earlier than the previous order.

Where is California going to get the additional

electricity needed to power the state’s new

electric fleet? Last summer the state’s electri-

cal grid operator asked customers to volun-

tarily reduce electricity use. After power

reserves fell to dangerous levels, “Stage 3

emergencies” were declared cutting off power

across the state at 6:30 p.m. The immediate

reasons for the power black-outs were the

failure of a 500-megawatt power plant and an

out-of-service 750-megawatt facility.

The direct re-

sult was Califor-

nia's climate policy

banning natural gas

and nuclear electri-

cal generation.

Last Decem-

ber, a PG&E report

concluded the util-

ity’s customers

could see black-

outs double over

the next 15 years

and quadruple over

the next 30.

Even though

solar panel costs have declined, their down-

fall is they are weather-dependent. Summer's

peak power demand, primarily from air con-

ditioning use, is the several hours before and

after sunset. Solar generation ends when the

highest demand begins. Let's now add mil-

lions of new EV's coming home from work

and plugging into the grid. EV Lithium Ion

high voltage batteries are massive. The Nissan

Leaf EV battery I removed was under the car,

from frame rail to frame rail, from front axe to

rear axle, and nearly 500 volts. It takes a LOT

of electricity to fill an EV battery. In order to

have solar electricity available at peak de-

mand and around the clock, large new stor-

age facilities and transmissions infrastructure

will need to be constructed.

Without new massive and costly infra-

structure, I'm imagining every California EV

home will need their own home solar storage

system to avoid the black-outs. With installa-

tion and additional costs, a home system is

roughly $11,000 to $18,000.

The statewide move to solar electricity

also comes with the additional high cost of

transmission from inland industrial solar

farms to coastal populations. What's the so-

lution to the Valley's short, foggy and rainy

winter days? More massive storage facilities

I assume. A 1,000-megawatt nuclear power

facility needs about 1 sq. mile of land mass.

In comparison, a solar farm needs 75 sq.

miles to produce the same 1,000-megawatts

of power.

California's lone standing nuclear power

plant, Diablo Canyon, is scheduled to go of-

fline in 2025. The Diablo Canyon plant can

generate about 2,240 megawatts of electric-

ity. If I do my math correctly, it will take

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cover the loss from Diablo Canyon's closure.

The city of Madera has a total land mass

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times larger. How much of our Central Valley

will be re-imagined into solar farms? I believe

our Valley agriculture, our homes and our

way of life is under great threat if we continue

on our current path.

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The Declaration reads: As infectious

disease epidemiologists and public health

scientists we have grave concerns about the

damaging physical and mental health im-

pacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies

and recommend an approach we call Fo-

cused Protection.

Coming from both the left and right,

and around the world, we have devoted our

careers to protecting people. Current lock-

down policies are producing devastating ef-

fects on short and long-term public health.

The results (to name a few) include lower

childhood vaccination rates, worsening car-

diovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer

screenings, and deteriorating mental health

— leading to greater excess mortality in

years to come, with the working class and

younger members of society carrying the

heaviest burden. Keeping students out of

school is a grave injustice.

Keeping these measures in place until

a vaccine is available will cause irreparable

damage, with the underprivileged dispro-

portionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the

virus is growing. We know that vulnerabil-

ity to death from COVID-19 is more than a

thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm

than the young. Indeed, for children,

COVID-19 is less dangerous than many

other harms, including influenza.

As immunity builds in the population,

the risk of infection to all — including the

vulnerable — falls. We know that all pop-

ulations will eventually reach herd immu-

nity — i.e., the point at which the rate of

new infections is stable — and that this can

be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a

vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to

minimize mortality and social harm until

we reach herd immunity.

The most compassionate approach that

balances the risks and benefits of reaching

herd immunity, is to allow those who are at

minimal risk of death to live their lives nor-

mally to build up immunity to the virus

through natural infection, while better pro-

tecting those who are at highest risk. We

call this Focused Protection.

Adopting measures to protect the vul-

nerable should be the central aim of public

health responses to COVID-19. By way of

example, nursing homes should use staff

with acquired immunity and perform fre-

quent PCR testing of other staff and all vis-

itors. Staff rotation should be minimized.

Retired people living at home should have

groceries and other essentials delivered to

their home. When possible, they should

meet family members outside rather than

inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of

measures, including approaches to multi-

generational households, can be imple-

mented, and is well within the scope and

capability of public health professionals.

Those who are not vulnerable should

immediately be allowed to resume life as

normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as

hand washing and staying home when sick,

should be practiced by everyone to reduce

the herd immunity threshold. Schools and

universities should be open for in-person

teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as

sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk

adults should work normally, rather than

from home. Restaurants and other busi-

nesses should open. Arts, music, sports and

other cultural activities should resume. Peo-

ple who are more at risk may participate if

they wish, while society as a whole enjoys

the protection conferred upon the vulnera-

ble by those who have built up herd immu-

nity.

I should say something in conclusion

about the idea of herd immunity, which

some people mischaracterize as a strategy

of letting people die. First, herd immunity is

not a strategy — it is a biological fact that

applies to most infectious diseases. Even

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point for this epidemic. The vaccine willhelp, but herd immunity is what will bringit to an end. And second, our strategy is notto let people die, but to protect the vulnera-ble. We know the people who are vulnera-ble, and we know the people who are notvulnerable. To continue to act as if we donot know these things makes no sense.

My final point is about science. Whenscientists have spoken up against the lock-down policy, there has been enormouspushback: “You’re endangering lives.” Sci-ence cannot operate in an environment likethat. I don’t know all the answers toCOVID; no one does. Science ought to beable to clarify the answers. But sciencecan’t do its job in an environment whereanyone who challenges the status quo getsshut down or “cancelled.”

To date, the Great Barrington Declara-tion has been signed by over 43,000 med-ical and public health scientists and medicalpractitioners. The Declaration thus does notrepresent a fringe view within the scientificcommunity. This is a central part of the sci-entific debate, and it belongs in the debate.Members of the general public can also signthe Declaration.

Together, I think we can get on theother side of this pandemic. But we have tofight back. We’re at a place where our civ-ilization is at risk, where the bonds thatunite us are at risk of being torn. Weshouldn’t be afraid. We should respond tothe COVID virus rationally: Protect the vul-nerable, treat the people who get infectedcompassionately, develop a vaccine. Andwhile doing these things we should bringback the civilization that we had so that thecure does not end up being worse than thedisease.

Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor ofMedicine at Stanford University, where hereceived both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in eco-nomics. He is also a research associate atthe National Bureau of Economics Re-search, a senior fellow at the Stanford In-stitute for Economic Policy Research andat the Freeman Spogli Institute for Interna-tional Studies and director of the StanfordCenter on the Demography and Economicsof Health and Aging. A co-author of theGreat Barrington Declaration, his researchhas been published in economics, statistics,legal, medical, public health and healthpolicy journals.

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Sarcasm aside, our nation’s situation isserious on two fronts. While a virus is in-fecting and killing Americans on the onehand, power-hungrypoliticians are bludg-eoning our Republicto death on the other,crushing our rightsand using the coron-avirus as an excuse.And if schemingpoliticians manage tokill the Republic thatprotects our God-given rights, it will be 100 percent fatal to theliberty of every American.

If there is good news, it is that the virusis deadly to a relatively small percentage ofthe population, with most who are infectednot knowing it unless they are tested. CDCestimates survival rates of those who are in-fected as 99.92 percent for people under 49and 94.6 percent for those over 70. And weshould have a vaccine at some point. It maybe small comfort, but the numbers of re-ported cases and deaths are actually lowerthan reported, perhaps significantly.

COVID-19 cases are over-reported aspositive. The U. S. Food and Drug Admin-istration warned on Nov. 3 that false posi-tive results “can occur with antigen tests…” A New York Times article reviewed areport stating that PCR nasal swab testsdon’t indicate the degree of viral load orcontagiousness, so positive results can bemisleading. According to ICD10Monitor.com, false positives occur in PCR tests forCOVID-19 (Covid) often enough to be asignificant problem. The tests are obviouslyunreliablewhen somepeople test positive oneday and negative the next, including even acandidate for the U. S. Senate in Georgia.

COVID-19 deaths are over-reported.Death certificates can listmore thanoneprob-able causeof death, oneofwhichmight be thevirus. Some poor soulwhomight haveCovid(or not) could die of a completely differentcause such as a heart attack and the death

could be reported as “with” Covid. Whenreadingnews reports, takenote ofwhether theperson diedwith or ofCOVID-19.

And some deaths were reported ascaused by Covid before tests were avail-able. Consider this timeline: The first U. S.case was reported on January 19. The firstU. S. death was reported on February 29.Widespread testing wasn’t approved untilMarch 3. Fresno ordered a shutdown onMarch 12. California was shut down onMarch 19.

Meanwhile, politicians are using thevirus as an excuse to take away our free-doms of assembly, religion, speech and pur-suit of happiness. Are freedom of speechand the right to bear arms next? They areshutting down our livelihoods, schools, en-tertainment choices, travel, sports and

restaurants. Theyhave kept us frombeauty shops, nailsalons and gyms.They have bannedfuneral services aswell as visitingloved ones in hos-pitals and care fa-cilities, andmothers from

holding their newborn babies. Holidaygatherings are now to be regulated. And thesame hypocritical politicians who have de-manded the onerous regulations for all ofus are the first ones to break the rules.

We know the problems. We’re all liv-ing through this. We know the politicians’lockdowns make no sense and have nobasis in “science.”We know they are over-reaching.We know the heartache and harmthat the lockdowns are causing.What is notknown is how to stop themadness. Perhapsthe best thing we can do is to personally tellthe culprits who are locking us down whatwe want, in no uncertain terms. Call them,visit them, email and text them – often.Vote them all out of office (assuming thatour vote will be counted). And recall Gov-ernor Newsom.

Whew! Right now, a good laughmightbe in order. I just heard this: “Six people areallowed at Thanksgiving but 25 are allowedat a funeral. So, I’ll be holding a funeral formy pet turkey who will pass away onThursday, Nov. 26 A meal and refresh-ments will be served.”

And for an entertaining treat, youmight watch Congressman Tom McClin-tock’s “In defense of Gavin Newsom”video at McClintock.house.gov.

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