March 18, 2020 Issue, Page 4 of 10

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Page 4 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma ‘Wednesday, March 18, 2020 It’s time to support youth who are Opinion Page “ElkCituNews doing good in our communities Serving Western Oklahoma since 1901 cause while joining the com- island to see how the money American By Jack Sampson ness to their communities. While the world can seem The Future of Good program munity of more than 40 past would be used. like it’s in turmoil, many of celebrates those that turn an The Future of Good winners. These youth are the next unexceptionalism us see the good things that injustice into a positive im- happen every day. This is pact for the community. The For example, last year, a student proactively raised humanitarians who are cur- rently finding their passions especially true of our youth, goal is to raise awareness for $200 to help her peers in and acting on them. They and COVID-19 who often are the most sin- youth causes by increasing cere and seek to right injus- their impact through finan- Puerto Rico who had been affected by Hurricane Maria. not only see injustice, but also find a way to fix it. They By Kary Love tices around them. cial contributions. The student, along with oth- see wrong and they make it During the SARS-1 epidemic scare in 2002-4, America From holding the door for But, in order to do this, ers she recruited, sold items right. The good they do in- invaded Iraq. If you followed science, you would know that SARS-1, was a coronavirus that caused an acute re- classmates to making meals we need your help finding during their lunch hour that spires those around them to spiratory disease that killed on average about 11 out of ev- for their neighbors in a time these youth. Through April were made by hand with all do more. It’s contagious. ery 100 infected (but sometimes more depending on health of need, there are simple 15, Oklahomans over the the proceeds benefiting at- I know there are sto- care infrastructure), and was a pandemic bullet the world things happening all around age of 18 are encouraged to risk Puerto Rican students. ries like this all throughout barely missed. Due to heroic work of doctors, nurses and scientists, it was contained. Had it not been contained.... us that should be recognized go to thefutureofgood.uscel- Due to their unselfish ef- Oklahoma. Let’s support the Next time you see a doctor or nurse or scientist, you should and championed. lular.com to nominate young forts, the group won $10,000 next generation of young hu- thank them for their service. That’s why I’m proud people ages six through 17, last year in The Future of manitarians who are creating SARS-CoV?, the coronavirus now raging and causing the to be a part of U.S. Cellu- who are making a positive Good program, which they a brighter future. I urge you disease called COVID-19, is not as deadly, killing about lar’s The Future of Good impact in U.S. Cellular com- then donated to help Puerto to nominate these youth at 2 or 3 out 100, but is much more infectious than SARS-1, so it is probable that a lot more people will die than died program. For the fifth con- munities. Ricans in need. Puerto Rican thefutureofgood.uscellular. from SARS-1, which was “only” 774 worldwide, because secutive year, The Future of The company will ulti- officials were surprised and com. SARS-2 will spread to a lot more people, and it’s already Good program champions mately announce six winners delighted at the donation, Jack Sampson is a retail killed more than 3,700. Scientists were close to a coronavirus vaccine years ago and invests in young people who will receive $10,000 and later invited the student area sales manager for U.S. but the money dried up. who are bringing back fair- each to put toward their and her family to visit the Cellular in Oklahoma. Rather than spend its money on health care, or science National Liberals Lead Redistricting or medicine, America decided to spend one trillion dollars on making more and “more useable” nuclear weapons, in- creasing already obscene war budgets and continuing mul- tiple wars far flung across the earth. Apparently, having Push in Oklahoma missed the bullet of SARS-1, politicians and “leaders” in their arrogance and ignorance, a deadly combination, de- cided what America needed, on top of its nuclear arsenal capable of killing every human being several times over, was more nuclear weapons. By Scott Walker of two ways: either through of the process. Our Constitu- more to do with reelecting In a magnificent show of bipartisanship, Obama’s $1 tril- Oklahoma has become lawsuits where they “sue tional rights should be iron- Oklahoma’s only Democrat lion new nukes program, morphed into Trump’s “more and the latest battleground in an clad, not subject to revision more useable nukes” program. Just last week it was an- ‘til it’s blue”, or through the in Congress, Rep. Kendra nounced America’s new mini nukes (if they are smaller, ongoing effort by liberal ac- creation of so-called “inde- by ballot measures funded Horn. you can possibly use them without destroying the world, tivists to gerrymander legis- pendent” and “non-partisan” by national pressure groups. As Oklahomans weigh in runs the argument, and what's the use of having them if lative districts to elect more commissions that are easily, Conservatives need to wake you can’t use them?) have been deployed into the world on this issue, they should Democrats. For them, this is and frequently, manipulated up before it’s too late. ready to use. all about power. by the left. Second, in Oklahoma and do so with their eyes wide Coronavirus vaccine? Sorry, no money for that. This is happening across That latter route is being elsewhere, the redistricting open. This is not a home- Decisions have consequences. Disease kills more people than any other single cause. the country in virtually ev- pursued in Oklahoma, where proposal has been written grown effort backed by civic “American Exceptionalism,” another manifestation of ar- ery state where Republicans specifically to rob power do-gooders; it is part of a a so-called “local” organi- rogance and ignorance, provides no immunity to disease. have found electoral suc- zation (funded largely by from rural, generally more national power play cooked While America has caused worldwide destruction at an cess. This national redistrict- national groups associated conservative areas, and re- up in Washington, DC’s pro- unprecedented pace with its “war on terror,” viruses, bacte- ing push is led by Former with this effort), is attempt- distribute it to urban areas. ria and fungal infectious agents have been mutating, ready- gressive war rooms. ing to strike humanity. It is almost as though these com- President Barack Obama ing to create a new redistrict- One way Oklahoma’s redis- Proponents of this ef- mon enemies of all humanity had a brilliant strategy: get and his Attorney General ing commission. tricting proposal does this is fort use words like fair- humans fighting and killing one and other, get them to take Eric Holder, who chairs the Like its counterparts by changing the way prison their eye off the ball, and then strike! A united human- National Democratic Redis- around the country, the Okla- inmates are accounted for ness, independence, and ac- ity, using their minds rationally for scientific and medical tricting Committee (NDRC). homa group “People Not when districts are drawn. countability. What they are advancement, could have been prepared, been ready and Despite their claims about Politics” preaches the need Today, the inmates at Okla- pushing is a deeply unfair defeated the infectious enemy—a divided, warring human- ity is ready for defeat. “fair maps,” the forms they to shift power away from homa State Penitentiary, for process, beholden to special It is somewhat curious to see that America, dropping tens file with the IRS certify that state legislators even though example, are counted as res- interests and liberal activ- of thousands of bombs on other humans, and sitting on a their mission is to “favor- they have that responsibility idents of McAlester. Under ists, accountable to no one. huge arsenal of nuclear weapons capable of killing all of ably position Democrats for under the Constitution. Un- the proposed system, they Oklahoma deserves better. humanity, is essentially defenseless against submicrosco- the redistricting process.” fortunately, “non-partisan” will be counted as residents pic killers. Of course, America could drop its nukes and Scott Walker is the former probably wipe out the SARS-2 virus by wiping out most Their strategy is simple. commissions often mean from their cities of origin — Pick a state, any state, and unelected activists drawing from places like Oklahoma Governor of Wisconsin and of humankind, including most of America. Some of the sicko psychos in America’s perpetual war complex prob- change the rules until the boundaries. Meanwhile, the City or Tulsa. This has far the Finance Chairman of the ably lust for doing so (they will scurry to safety to Raven state is controlled by Demo- people’s representatives — less to do with fairness or National Republican Redis- Rock so the government can continue while the people ex- crats. They do this in one state lawmakers — are cut out equal representation and far tricting Trust. pire—sorry, Trump, you would not be allowed in, having just met with a guy who tested positive). Arrogance and ignorance. That dangerous combination has infected American society. Our heroes are not doctors, Oklahomans deserve protection nurses and scientists that save lives, but killers and destroy- ers of lives. The “War on Terror” is really a fight against bombings and invasions, and who have grown up seeking from scam medical bills kids who have grown up on the receiving end of American revenge against those who destroyed their families, towns and countries. These kids could have been doctors or nurs- By Jonathan Small health care every day—even the dark. Even at medical Many of those bills fall into es had they not been blinded by hate and desire for revenge. Because hospitals operate though most health care pro- facilities listed as “in net- the “surprise” category, and We all knew it, in our hearts, because had we been on the receiving end of such an onslaught, we too would have in a system with little pric- cedures are neither new nor work” on an individual’s those being sued include lusted for revenge. ing transparency, many pa- emergencies. insurance policy, specific people from all parts of so- Well, having sown the wind, we are now reaping the tient bills are more fiction Oklahomans deserve pro- doctors at that same facil- ciety, including people with whirlwind. Disease and death are the common enemy of than fact, yet patients can tection from these exploitive ity can be considered “out insurance and those on gov- all humanity, including the terrorists, the communists, the left, the right or whatever other group of humans you have face financial devastation if practices, and it’s to their of network,” such as an an- ernment-funded Medicaid. been propagandized into thinking are your enemy. The an- they don’t pony up. credit that some lawmak- esthesiologist. That’s often Some hospital officials cient wisdom is right: we are all brothers and sisters. We At the same time, the cost ers have filed legislation done deliberately and allows suggest inflated bills are are all either one species united against our common en- of medical bills would have this year to protect consum- issuance of wildly inflated caused by “uncompensated emy, or we are united by infectious disease in our own de- been much, much lower if ers from “surprise” medical bills to patients given no care.” Yet that category it- mise, because, as bad as it will be here in America, in those “hell-holes” of war torn places around the world, bombed the market allowed for com- bills. forewarning. self is rife with bogus fig- near back to the Stone Age by America, there we have cre- petitive pricing through up- The proposed law would Hospitals respond by ures, as can be seen by hos- ated perfect incubators for infectious disease to grow and front information. prohibit medical providers quibbling over the definition pitals’ actual profit margin. spread, Thus ironically, America’s wars are poised to de- feat America. The next SARS—SARS-3—may already This happens nowhere from reporting a healthcare of “surprise medical bill.” Oklahoma Watch found the be out there, among those weakened and compromised by else in American society. debt to a credit bureau or But I have a news flash: Any Saint Francis Health System endless war, mutating and growing, preparing to break out. Can you imagine purchasing pursuing collection activi- bill where a consumer is not accounted for 22 percent of Is it too much to hope that America will turn its face from anything—from goods at ties unless the patient “was provided an advance cost es- all state hospital lawsuits war, learn from its present epidemic, salute its true heroes, doctors and nurses and scientists and ask them for guid- Walmart or Amazon to a car presented with and agreed timate is a surprise bill. against patients. But when ance? Ask them, what should we spend our tax dollars or home—without advance to the total cost of all health- Oklahoma Watch has re- the 1889 Institute reviewed on? Asking the power-hungry, arrogant, deluded psycho- knowledge of price while care services” prior to re- ported that dozens of Okla- hospitals’ publicly available paths and narcissists of the military-industrial complex is facing a legal obligation to ceiving services. homa hospitals filed at least reported financial data in revealed as a complete, though foreseeable, failure. pay whatever a provider de- Prior authorization is cru- 22,250 lawsuits against for- 2017, it found Saint Francis America’s greatness was to proclaim that all humanity were created equal and ought to be brothers and sisters, mands? Of course not, yet cial, because many hospitals mer patients over unpaid enjoyed a 17.5-percent profit using their God-given gifts of reason and intelligence, not that scenario plays out in do much to keep patients in medical bills in recent years. margin. for war, but for discovery and advancement. Sometimes it takes great loss for learning to occur. Pain is the greatest teacher. Kary Love, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a Michigan at- Have something to share? Send your editorial to [email protected] torney who has defended nuclear resisters, including some desperado nuns, in court for decades and will on occasion use blunt force satire or actual legal arguments to make a point.