Jan 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 1
Jan 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 1 FEATURE STORIES • New Year Resolutions for 2022 • Remembering Those We’ve Lost to COVID • Remembering Those We’ve Lost to LOD Deaths • Feature Story: They Didn’t Make it • Special Memorial Insert - Officers we Lost in 2021 DEPARTMENTS • Publisher’s Thoughts • Editor’s Thoughts • Your Thoughts • News Around the US • War Stories • Aftermath • Open Road - NYPD Orders Mustang E’s • Healing Our Heroes • Daryl’s Deliberations • HPOU - From the President, Douglas Griffith • Light Bulb Award • Running 4 Heroes • Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle • Off Duty with Rusty Barron • Ads Back in the Day • Parting Shots • Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas • Back Page - Meet the Commish
Jan 2022. Blues Vol 38 No. 1
FEATURE STORIES
• New Year Resolutions for 2022
• Remembering Those We’ve Lost to COVID
• Remembering Those We’ve Lost to LOD Deaths
• Feature Story: They Didn’t Make it
• Special Memorial Insert - Officers we Lost in 2021
DEPARTMENTS
• Publisher’s Thoughts
• Editor’s Thoughts
• Your Thoughts
• News Around the US
• War Stories
• Aftermath
• Open Road - NYPD Orders Mustang E’s
• Healing Our Heroes
• Daryl’s Deliberations
• HPOU - From the President, Douglas Griffith
• Light Bulb Award
• Running 4 Heroes
• Blue Mental Health with Tina Jaeckle
• Off Duty with Rusty Barron
• Ads Back in the Day
• Parting Shots
• Now Hiring - L.E.O. Positions Open in Texas
• Back Page - Meet the Commish
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NOT SO BRIGHT AWARD<br />
light bulb award<br />
Let’s Go Brandon - 2022<br />
By Michael Barron,<br />
BLUES Publisher<br />
Looking back on 2021, it was a<br />
shit-show in Washington. Whether<br />
you’re a democrat or a republican,<br />
voted for Joe or not, there’s<br />
no denying this man is totally incompetent<br />
and should not running<br />
our country.<br />
When they coined the phrase<br />
“the most powerful man in the<br />
world” they almost certainly did<br />
not ever imagine Joe Biden would<br />
be ‘that man.’<br />
Rather than go on and on detailing<br />
all Joe’s blundering acts in<br />
2021, I’ll just offer my insight and<br />
opinion on one aspect of his 12<br />
months in office – COVID.<br />
This whole pandemic has been<br />
a giant cluster in my opinion. It’s<br />
certainly divided us AGAIN. The<br />
Vaxers vs the non-Vaxers. The believers<br />
and non-believers. Maskers’<br />
vs non-Maskers.<br />
I firmly believe everyone is entitled<br />
to his or her choice when<br />
it comes to COVID. If you want<br />
to take a chance on not getting<br />
vaccinated, then that should be<br />
your right. <strong>No</strong> government agency,<br />
be it National, State or Local<br />
should have the right or the power<br />
to force you to decide on what<br />
medical procedure or preventative<br />
medicine to take. That decision<br />
should be yours and yours alone.<br />
But Uncle Joe, the left-wing<br />
nut jobs in Congress and a moron<br />
named Fauci, think they have the<br />
right to force you to ‘follow the<br />
science’ and do it their way. For<br />
the last two years, America has<br />
gone along with ‘their way’ and as<br />
a result we’ve lost 577 officers due<br />
to COVID. It’s obvious that ‘their<br />
way’ isn’t working.<br />
I’m no expert and I do not have<br />
all the answers. But having been in<br />
law enforcement all these years,<br />
I’m smart enough to gather the<br />
facts and determine what is real<br />
and what isn’t. This is what I believe<br />
to be the truth:<br />
1. This pandemic and the COVID<br />
virus are real. How it became<br />
about is certainly important and<br />
of course we as a nation need to<br />
get to the bottom of it and punish<br />
those involved in the event it was<br />
Yes Joe, we’re still here.<br />
intentional.<br />
2. Both parties of our government<br />
have handled the pandemic<br />
as if it were a political football<br />
rather than the crisis it is. Many<br />
good things were in fact done in<br />
2020 by then President Trump.<br />
He cut through all the BS and red<br />
tape and ordered Pharma to come<br />
up with a vaccine by the end of<br />
2020 and they did. The reason they<br />
did was money. The government<br />
paid trillions of dollars to the big<br />
Pharma companies to create a<br />
drug in months that would have<br />
taken years if it weren’t for the<br />
money.<br />
3. Some believe that the vaccines<br />
“What in the hell am I doing here? I need to go back to the basement!”<br />
are dangerous and it’s a world<br />
order to cleanse the world of its<br />
growing population. This growing<br />
group believes that in two years<br />
everyone who has been vaccinated<br />
(2/3s of the earths population)<br />
will die. Mass genocide. That’s<br />
why they won’t get vaccinated.<br />
4. These same individuals also<br />
believe that hundreds of thousands<br />
that have taken the vaccine<br />
have died as a result. In other<br />
words, the vaccine killed them<br />
not COVID. In our cover story this<br />
month, 577 officers died of COVID<br />
in 2020 and 2021. I’ve had people<br />
tell me they all died because they<br />
were vaccinated. NO! They died<br />
because they weren’t vaccinated<br />
and most had some underlying<br />
medical condition. NONE died as a<br />
result of being vaccinated.<br />
5. What I do believe is that there<br />
are members of congress including<br />
Uncle Joe, that are using this<br />
pandemic to further their own<br />
agenda. As long as they can continue<br />
to scare Americans, they can<br />
control them and manipulate their<br />
daily lives.<br />
6. I believe this pandemic may<br />
in fact last years. The Bird Flu of<br />
1918 lasted 2 years and killed 50<br />
million people worldwide before<br />
it finally dwindled to a few hundred<br />
cases a year. We can not let<br />
any pandemic control our lives or<br />
cause us to live in fear of simply<br />
going outside. Or going to the grocery<br />
store or church. You should<br />
be free to decide what your own<br />
destiny is. If you believe in getting<br />
vaccinated, then do it. If not, then<br />
that’s your decision. But if you get<br />
COVID or whatever the next damn<br />
disease will be, you owe it to your<br />
fellow human beings to stay away<br />
from them and protect them from<br />
you. That is YOUR responsibility.<br />
You don’t need any government<br />
agency ordering you to quarantine.<br />
You should have enough common<br />
sense and common decency to do<br />
that on your own.<br />
7. Finally, Uncle Joe needs to<br />
use the money he conned out<br />
of Congress to send a test kit to<br />
every man, woman and child in<br />
America. In fact, send them 2 or 3<br />
or as many as they require to test<br />
themselves as often as necessary<br />
to prevent them from unknowingly<br />
spreading COVID. Make all drugs<br />
FREE and readily available to anyone<br />
who tests positive. If preventive<br />
drugs become available, then<br />
they should be free as well.<br />
All of this is my opinion which<br />
I have a right to express. Each of<br />
you has a right to disagree and<br />
provide your own insight into<br />
what should or should not be<br />
done. That’s what is great about<br />
America. The right of free speech<br />
and expression. We also should<br />
have the right as Americans to<br />
choose our own fate and decide<br />
what’s best for us and our family.<br />
But that freedom doesn’t give you<br />
the right to infect other Americans.<br />
Be responsible & Be Safe.<br />
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