On this episode of the podcast, we have a special guest on the show, Laura! She's a great host and she's here with us to give us a little bit about her and we talk about some of our favorite things.
00:11:06.000So you should be at 190, we'll do 190, because that's... And then, uh, then you can open up the iris more, if you think it looks, it looks better.
00:26:52.000Both lawmakers brought up the horrifying abuse of well-being safe haven problems in Detroit, where 20-year-old Jaden Hayden brutally beat his elderly roommate, a resident of Westwood Nursing Home.
00:27:04.000Hayden was living there temporarily after being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
00:29:18.000Lord, we pray for President Trump, his family, for a swift recovery, that he'd be one of those people with lighter symptoms, he'd come through this.
00:30:20.000My grandparents were born and raised in Michigan, and my wife's grandparents were born and raised in Michigan.
00:30:25.000As a matter of fact, my grandfather-in-law, Fred, he not only was a bombardier in World War II, he was a professor at a Michigan college, and he was a mayor, city supervisor of Bloomfield Township.
00:30:41.000And we lost him not that long ago, but he is survived by his Wonderful wife, my grandma Ruth.
00:30:52.000That is, a week ago, two days before her 97th birthday.
00:31:01.000And as you can see, she's out and about telling COVID to go forticate itself with a wire brush.
00:31:08.000Unfortunately for my grandma, she is spry.
00:31:10.000She's with it, but was recently a victim of attempted murder by this woman, Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
00:31:21.000All right, okay, I figured that one would go over well.
00:31:23.000So, something that I want to be clear about as we move through today, this is not really in my wheelhouse, it's not what I do, this isn't really a show.
00:31:31.000Hopefully it arms all of you with information, and we can demand information from your elected officials, and hopefully the rest of the country will pay attention.
00:31:40.000Let me say in no uncertain terms, Governor Whitmer, her policies have directly led to untold deaths of Michigan seniors, thousands, and you have been at worst Deliberately misled, and at best, deliberately misled about those numbers.
00:31:58.000And that's why we're going to be calling upon the governor of Michigan here, regardless of where you line up, to release the Whitmer death toll.
00:32:05.000That's what we're hearing out there tonight.
00:32:11.000And you know, I know there's some people here in protest, and here's something, I know, okay, we're telling a few jokes, we're having fun at the governor's expense, which isn't that hard.
00:32:36.000And so I do hope that even if you may not agree with some of the conclusions today, whether you think that this state should be locked down in perpetuity, or the country should be locked down in perpetuity, or you think that people should be free to make their own decisions and to continue making their livelihoods, it all starts with having the truth available.
00:33:08.000I wish I could pull a Joe Biden and just have him in front of me, going by rope.
00:33:13.000Something else, too, I think is really important for people who are paying attention.
00:33:16.000There's been a narrative set out there that if you think that the perpetual lockdown, which have led to deaths, which have led to increased mental illness, which have led to countless businesses being shut down, that you don't care about protecting our citizens.
00:33:31.000I will give the benefit to those I disagree with that they haven't given to us.
00:33:36.000I do believe that everybody wants to protect our most vulnerable.
00:33:41.000And I think it's time that people understand that those on the right, that those in agreement with our president, have been trying for months, systemically, to protect our most vulnerable.
00:35:58.000Michigan not only sent sick COVID patients into nursing homes, and you would think they were re-admitting people who were living in these senior living homes, Michigan sent young sick patients into senior living homes, like a buzzsaw.
00:36:16.000Knowing what we know about the virus, knowing what we know about who is most vulnerable, you tell me how that's a scientific approach to send a 20-year-old with COVID.
00:36:27.000Now, this happened when nursing homes told Governor Whitmer that they were not ready, but she refused to listen to the advice of the known medical professionals.
00:36:36.000And when I say medical professionals, I don't mean scientists just sitting on a board, I mean people actually treating and seeing patients and the consequences of this government's actions.
00:36:45.000So Melissa Samuel is the president and CEO of the Healthcare Association of Michigan, and she made it clear that they were not equipped to deal with this.
00:36:53.000Which brings me to the next point here.
00:37:58.000Don't send the mentally ill into nursing homes.
00:38:01.000And if you're going to send people into nursing homes who've had COVID, make sure they are quarantined in a separate facility.
00:38:07.000Bipartisan bill, Democrat-Republican support, made it through your state legislature, vetoed from your government.
00:38:17.000Now, this is where it gets a little tricky because as we were traveling to the wonderful state of Michigan, we found out that Governor Whitmer changed the policy a little bit in private.
00:38:27.000But what's interesting is the change isn't really a change.
00:38:31.000If you look at her reasoning for having vetoed that bill, It's the exact same reasoning as to the official chamber of policy.
00:38:38.000When she vetoed the bill, she said the bill was based on the false premise that isolation units created with existing facilities are somehow insufficient to protect seniors.
00:38:49.000The new order says the new care and recovery centers must designate a distinct area for COVID-19 isolation They must have a designated wing or separate unit.
00:39:10.000Vetoing the bill was brought forward because medical professionals, science, you know, the folks we all deny apparently said, hey, hey, hey, hey, we need to protect seniors.
00:39:20.000He's instituting a new order only after we have been behind the scenes sending requests for information that have either been denied or not responded to, to the exact same effect.
00:39:30.000Which brings me to the next point here, the numbers.
00:40:33.000This is where we started digging for numbers and I tell you what, I thought I had it wrong.
00:40:37.000I had to have it confirmed by two, three, four doctors and people who worked In running numbers.
00:40:43.000So, we can look at states with similar population densities and states that either neighbor or touch Michigan.
00:40:50.000We can look at Wisconsin, we can look at Ohio, we can look at Illinois, we can look at Indiana, we can look... I think I already said Ohio, but I guess we say them twice.
00:41:00.000John Kasich's not going to show up running through the crowd.
00:41:06.000Now these states, although they have similar geographic locations and very similar population densities, do not have anywhere near the death rates.
00:41:15.000Even more, the states that have the directly comparable population densities, states like North Carolina, states like Tennessee, not even close.
00:41:40.000So, this is where it gets really scary.
00:41:44.000To the point where you have to either assume incompetence to the level that someone is unfit for office, or the kind of misleading, I hate to use the word evil, but covering up these numbers when people are suffering and dying.
00:42:13.000And no one else has been able to dig into this as we have before, and we're still waiting on some information from the governor, which you'll be filing to when we're done with this.
00:42:24.000Well, you know what, that seems to track with other states.
00:42:26.000Let's look at the other states nearby.
00:42:27.000Again, those states that were mentioned, Ohio, Wisconsin.
00:42:29.000Yeah, those states all have, give or take, a fatality rate of the total deaths coming from senior living homes between 28 to 36%, depending on the numbers you use.
00:42:42.000Until you take one thing into consideration.
00:42:44.000This was fine print that I don't believe I read at MLive.
00:42:48.000Michigan's tracking, and it's the only state with these comparable states, doesn't include assisted living facilities, adult foster care facilities, or homes for the aged.
00:43:02.000So let me be clear, all of these other states here, their total deaths are 34% when you include assisted living facilities, nursing homes, adult foster facilities, and homes for the aged.
00:43:14.000In Michigan, it's 34% coming exclusively from some nursing homes.
00:43:31.000Assisted living facilities are not licensed in Michigan, okay?
00:43:35.000And I don't want to get nerdy here, but these numbers really matter and they scared me when I read them.
00:43:39.000Assisted living facilities are not licensed in Michigan, but they are used in those total numbers from other states, so we would need them for an apples-to-apples comparison.
00:43:46.000However, there is a website where you can go right now to verify which nursing homes, adult foster homes, and homes for the aged are licensed by the state.
00:43:56.000So the total number, 34% of all deaths in Michigan come from 440-something nursing homes.
00:44:03.000How many currently active licensed facilities are there in Michigan?
00:44:40.000And that brings us to another slide here, the results.
00:44:44.000So we've had to do some digging and some extrapolating, right?
00:44:46.000When you don't have a governor who's transparent enough to give you the numbers, you have to try and guess.
00:44:51.000The average age of death for someone in Michigan with COVID is 77 years old, 75 on the low end.
00:44:59.000Over 70% of all deaths from COVID in Michigan come from 70 years old or older.
00:45:08.000That tracks with the average age of people in nursing homes when they start going in, folks.
00:45:13.000This makes it clear why we need these numbers.
00:45:16.000Now, like I said, we can't assume anything at this point, but we also can't make an educated decision, can we, as to how we need to move forward as a state and a country.
00:45:26.000If we don't have the numbers from these other three, four thousand facilities, how can we know if a lockdown, which has decimated Michigan businesses, is good for this state and this country?
00:45:57.000Now, Governor Whitmer, when she vetoed the bill before and then secretly changed it more recently, said, well, hold on a second.
00:46:03.000We don't need any of these rules that would prevent sending young COVID-infected patients into nursing homes because these nursing homes can handle it.
00:46:10.000All of these assisted living facility homes, these senior homes.
00:46:13.000I don't want to say just nursing homes.
00:46:18.000Science doesn't matter in this instance.
00:46:20.000She said, no, no, they have the oversight to handle it.
00:46:23.000Well, how can you make that claim when, if you have children here, I would ask that they maybe don't watch this next portion because it is disturbing.
00:46:29.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:46:35.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:46:39.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:46:42.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:46:45.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:46:49.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:46:52.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:46:56.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:46:59.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:47:03.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:47:06.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:47:10.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:47:13.000How can you claim that we have systems in place to protect the most vulnerable when you don't have the kind of
00:47:17.000oversight necessary to stop this from happening?
00:49:50.000She said, people talk about how it's, live your day like it's its last, right?
00:49:54.000Live this every day as though you're dying.
00:49:56.000Live it as though you don't have another day, right?
00:49:59.000And by the way, that's usually horrible advice, because you should plan for tomorrow, especially if you're young.
00:50:03.000You should make sure that you're taking care of those folks that you love.
00:50:06.000But when you are at that age, 97, think about this, four, five, six months, Four, five, six months where she can't spend time with the people she loves most.
00:50:51.000Right now, folks, we've made it very easy.
00:50:52.000If you go to louderwithcrowder.com, that's our website, one click, you can submit your very own request of information under the Freedom of Information Act, because she can't deny us all, okay?
00:51:06.000And just because if I have to see one more yard sign in this wonderful state that thanks the governor for keeping them safe, we have distributed today thousands of signs that you can put up in your own yard to let everyone know where you line up.
00:51:24.000And if you weren't able to get one today, again, on the website, we have made those files available as PDFs so you can print your own, give them out to friends, pass it on, pay it forward.
00:51:33.000Let's make sure that folks know what we're talking about.
00:51:35.000Now, one other thing that you can do... Everyone, please, show me your phone.
00:51:51.000What I want you to do is tweet at Governor Whitmer.
00:51:55.000Tweet at Governor Whitmer and use the hashtag WhitmerDeathToll.
00:51:58.000Every single one of you, if you can right now on Facebook, on Twitter, on YouTube, forward it to everyone you can so that we get an answer from this governor.
00:52:30.000I wish that I could be here 100% of the time.
00:52:32.000It hasn't been the most business friendly, and your governor gives me the willies.
00:52:36.000So, I spent a portion of my time here, but I look at a state that at one point was the epicenter, not only of the United States, but the world.
00:52:44.000And I look at a state that surprised the hell out of me in the last election when I saw it get called red.
00:52:50.000And I saw the media collectively soil themselves in fear.
00:53:02.000Because they understood, as goes Michigan, so goes the rest of the country.
00:53:06.000And Michigan, at one point, was the heartland of America.
00:53:10.000I know that you folks are the heartland and the backbone of America.
00:53:13.000You made your voices heard in the last election.
00:53:16.000Right now we need to make our voices heard to protect the most vulnerable among us, because they have been systematically and proactively eradicated in this state and it has to stop and it starts with the