By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
This is the third Coronavirus article I’ve written in the past month. The previous piece has become one of my most viewed, perhaps because it took a skeptical view regarding how Coronavirus® had “been reported, coupled with how it’s been handled, its dubious origins, the alleged number of infected and deceased, as well as the age and general health of those who are reported to have died”.
The article, at the same time, allowed for the dangerous reality generated by COVID-19 and, especially, in regards to the reactions the virus has generated. Here are a few examples of those modifiers:
In any event, healthy skepticism is not close-mindedness, per se, because we may one day have a genuine pandemic on our hands.
….However, it could be that everything we’re seeing regarding COVID-19 is real…
… So is COVID-19 real or is it a marketing gimmick?
….Once again, it could be this latest incarnation of coronavirus is a real killer and the mortality rates now being reported are completely bogus.
… to be sure, the public reactions, including within the financial markets, are real.
Although that last article slanted towards my suspicions, it also left some wiggle room if only because COVID-19 is not a hill I’d risk my credibility to die upon. There’s no need and I have nothing personally at stake. Honestly, I’m just an American Nobody playing it like Popeye umpiring a baseball game;
I y’am what y’am and I calls ’em as I sees ’em.
And be assured that one thing is absolutely certain at this point in time: COVID-19 has obtained near 100% global psychological saturation. Admittedly, it has become a very big deal.
As of now, the state where I am currently located has less than a dozen patients quarantined with COVID-19. Last week, we had zero cases. And that was when I read an article on “how to make your own hand sanitizer”:
In the past week, demand for hand sanitizer has soared 1,400% with some stores limiting the amount of a customer can purchase at one time and others jacking up prices looking to make a profit off the global panic.
Amazon has banned 10,000 users for price gouging as the panic buying intensifies.
I have a few jugs of the stuff back home because I realize sanitation can be a big issue in societal breakdowns. So, just out of curiosity, I visited three big box stores to see if I could find any; including at Walmart. The shelves were completely cleaned out at every location.
Although I didn’t check the first two stores for rubbing alcohol, the last place had some so I also went to see if they had any aloe gel. In that aisle, I asked an employee who was stocking the shelves and she showed me four bottles and said that was all they were going to get for some time. When I asked her about the hand sanitizer she said they received some in on the truck the previous night but it was gone by noon.
Certainly, COVID-19 had the entire nation taking precaution last week; and if shelves were cleaned out in states with zero cases at the time, then that was a pretty telling sign of what we are now experiencing:
Panic.
All over the nation, colleges are closing their campuses and migrating classes online. The state of Washington has banned gatherings more than 250 people in the Seattle area and airlines are currently running “ghost flights” amid a “coronavirus crisis sales slump”.
Undoubtedly, COVID-19 has gone viral (pun intended) – and especially as an economic Black Swan.
Personally, I had reason and opportunity to fly to the Pacific Northwest this week, spur of the moment, but I chose not to, in part, because of the hysteria. Why take the chance? Even if I survived after getting infected, I still could get caught away from home via canceled flights and other potential societal reverberations.
Therefore, if this skeptical blogger has made decisions like that on the basis of COVID-19, then there is no doubt it COULD become the proverbial pin in the economic, and even civilizational, balloon.
Or, it could all blow over by June.
Either way, I won’t gamble with what I can’t afford to lose.
What amazes me about the Kung Flu, however, is how much panic has been generated on the Alternative Internet. There seems to be a sort of “reverse lottery effect” in effect – like the way people buy tickets because they can’t win if they don’t play and, in so doing, they place their hope in a minuscule percentage of ever winning. Except now with COVID-19, it’s become like: “A 3% mortality rate? That’s still a chance it could happen to me!”
Indeed. The Alternative Internet has generated morbid concern, even especially among the remnant and this should come as no surprise because the Fifth Estate has proven more trustworthy than the corporations comprising the Mainstream Media. Moreover, it seems we want to believe COVID-19 is an indestructible man-made virus because Wuhan contains biolabs. And if COVID-19 proves to be the plague of this millennium, then all reporting and the ensuing prohibitive measures will have been justified. However, if Coronavirus® is shown to have been a propagandic psyop, we’ll know it worked because we wanted to believe.
But one thing we do know for sure is this: Of those who have died so far from COVID-19…, 100% have been quarantined. Think about that. Because that’s one heck of a stat.
As these words were being typed, the following article had top billing at The Drudge Report:
Coronavirus is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu, Trump’s task force immunologist says
But if one clicked the link, they’d have read the following:
At the same time, he [Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] did clarify that 10 times figure actually brings the new coronavirus’ fatality rate lower than official estimates, which hover around 3 percent. The flu has a mortality rate of about 0.1 percent, so, when considering the likelihood that there are many asymptomatic or very mild cases that have gone undiagnosed, Fauci places the new coronavirus’ lethality rate at somewhere around 1 percent.
A “lethality rate at somewhere around 1 percent”? But, still, 10 times more lethal than flu!
That’s like they didn’t shoot the sheriff but they shot the deputy.
To be sure, citing statistics is like looking out your window through a straw. You see what you see and miss the rest.
Of those who have ever died from the flu, did 100% of those deceased have the flu? What percentage of the dead were hospitalized, 80%, 90%, 100%? And was it really the flu that killed them or other underlying factors? Was it flu or pneumonia? Because many of the stats (and articles that we read) conflate these. And how many of those hospitalized with pneumonia, survived?
In the same 100,000 population, anyone can pull stats to tell different stories promote various narratives.
But who do we believe and why? Occam’s Razor? Or is nothing as it seems? These are the questions we should constantly be asking ourselves. Now more than ever. Because if I ruled the world I could set it ablaze tomorrow with this headline (and not be lying; it’s new because the name is new):
New FLUMONIA Kills 20%+ of Those Quarantined or Hospitalized
Even award-winning reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, a former Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS News, has tweeted regarding the frail condition of those who have died from COVID-19 in the United States:
As of this writing, there have been 39 deaths in the U.S.; and with most of the fatalities occurring at a nursing home in Washington State.
And, yet, the entire nation has been closed for business.
The NBA has suspended their season and the NCAA has canceled March Madness. Broadway has shut down all productions and Madison Square Garden could be closed for months. Presidential primary debate venues have been shuffled, campaign rallies have been canceled, and schools are now closed.
Of course, the stated reason for all of these precautions is to “flatten the curve”:
…by taking certain steps — canceling large public gatherings, for instance, and encouraging some people to restrict their contact with others — governments have a shot at stamping out new chains of transmission, while also trying to mitigate the damage of the spread that isn’t under control.
The epidemic curve, a statistical chart used to visualize when and at what speed new cases are reported, could be flattened, rather than being allowed to rise exponentially.
This also helps prevent the health-care system from being overrun like Atlanta, Georgia in the first season of the Walking Dead.
Do you remember the H1N1 “Swine Flu” pandemic that took place in 2009-2010? By March 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated “that about 59 million Americans contracted the H1N1 virus, 265,000 were hospitalized as a result, and 12,000 died.”
But there was no hysteria back then, was there? At least not like we are seeing in today’s headlines.
So why the panic now? Perhaps because much of COVID-19 reeks of sheer politicization.
In my last article, I pointed out how the rise of COVID-19 corresponded exactly with the demise of Trump’s failed impeachment debacle. I also discussed how the virus could insulate Trump from an economic crisis and, yet, not without potential political fallout. Near the end of the article, I questioned whether Coronavirus would be the best thing that happened to Trump or the worst.
Now there have been articles of U.S. congressmen and senators being quarantined and concerns at the White House over the “unique challenge of protecting Trump from coronavirus exposure”. More recently it’s been revealed that a Brazilian official who met with Trump has tested positive for COVID-19.
What if the virus took out the 74-year-old POTUS? What if it killed Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders after winning the Democratic Party nomination? Can you imagine the ramifications?
At the very least, what if Trump loses the election in November due to his perceived incompetence in containing COVID-19? So much for making America great again, right?
There have been claims Coronavirus® is a lab-engineered bioweapon and many other speculations by citizen journalists throughout the interwebic blogosphere. And, I might add, it’s some pretty damn impressive speculations by those citizen journalists.
A doctor and infectious diseases specialist has warned of the “consequences of needless coronavirus panic”:
I’ve been at this for more than 20 years seeing sick patients on a daily basis. I have worked in inner city hospitals and in the poorest slums of Africa. HIV-AIDS, Hepatitis,TB, SARS, Measles, Shingles, Whooping cough, Diphtheria…there is little I haven’t been exposed to in my profession. And with notable exception of SARS, very little has left me feeling vulnerable, overwhelmed or downright scared.
I am not scared of Covid-19. I am concerned about the implications of a novel infectious agent that has spread the world over and continues to find new footholds in different soil. I am rightly concerned for the welfare of those who are elderly, in frail health or disenfranchised who stand to suffer mostly, and disproportionately, at the hands of this new scourge. But I am not scared of Covid-19.
What I am scared about is the loss of reason and wave of fear that has induced the masses of society into a spellbinding spiral of panic…
There have been other speculations as to exactly how COVID-19 was manufactured:
“Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein.”
The above article also referenced the nutrient selenium as a means to ward off COVID-19:
“[t]he only people that can be infected by the 2019-n Coronavirus have less than 98.7 µg/L of Selenium in plasma or serum. Those who have enough Selenium are immune to this and all other enveloped viruses. Selenium can be obtained from Brazil nuts, Selenium pills or Astragalus tea.”
I would strongly suggest you go read this for yourself (and all the linked documentation), and go further to perform a Google search for “coronavirus” and “selenium.” You’ll be amazed at the amount of documentation that comes up… all confirming the original point.
Interestingly enough, the linked attribution even compares the early beginnings of the spread of COVID-19 in China (January, 2020) geographically to areas where there are alleged selenium deficiencies in the soil:
Map of (early) coronavirus deaths in China:
Map of (claimed) selenium deficient soil in China:
True? I don’t know… but I’d be curious to know the average annual per-person selenium intake in Italy. I’ve also, personally, stocked up on Brazil Nuts just in case. And, for those who are interested, here is a ranking of the “200 Foods Highest in Selenium”.
Whether true or false, we’ll likely find out soon.
In the meantime, I’m predicting a parabolic spike of COVID-19 cases is coming in the very near future; potentially even among those showing no symptoms. This is because “top coronavirus expert” Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the infectious diseases unit at the National Institutes of Health, stated on March 8, 2020, that four million tests should be available by end of the week. Furthermore, a Bill Gates-funded program “will soon offer home-testing kits for new coronavirus”:
Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering home-testing kits that will allow people who fear they may be infected to swab their noses and send the samples back for analysis.
What could go wrong?
In any event, the earlier-referenced article predicted a full global saturation of COVID-19 by “May 17 or May 18, 2020” and advised people to “prepare food supplies for a three-month ‘indoor stay-cation’.
But here is something to consider about that: Have you ever been caught in the rain and drenched to the extent it was no use trying to keep your clothes dry any longer? Because at that point, what difference did it make? Or stated more clearly: if everyone has the virus, then why quarantine? And if things actually progress that far, I suspect that will be the exact attitude of many, if not most, Americans.
This means if COVID-19 is as contagious as they say, and preventative precautions fail, then we will all get the virus; sooner or later. Perhaps that is why some have estimated 245 million global deaths, or 3% of the global population. Which would make sense with 100% global virus saturation and a reported average mortality rate of around 3% worldwide.
Other major considerations would be how quickly those 245 million people infected with COVID-19 would die along with any other proportionate accelerating / corresponding mortality factors. Because the global grid won’t collapse gracefully.
The question remains whether or not the dire predictions hold true – even unto a potential Mad Max outcome.
So what can we do?
Well, for those so concerned, they may want to review this blogger’s “practical steps” article entitled “BABY STEPS: You’ve Been Woke. Now Exit the Matrix.”. In summary, these were the considerations of that article in order: Air, shelter, water, food, energy, medicine, networking, precious metals, bartering, and defense. Some of the extraneous political referencing may be outdated now, but at least the survival perspectives remain valid.
What else might we do? Here are some ideas:
If the sun is shining in your area, get out under it and take a bicycle ride, or a walk, or a run. Vitamin D is activated in sunlight and, in turn, allows all other nutrition to facilitate the immune system. Eat your fruits and vegetables and set aside your bad habits for a while.
Healthy nutrition, fresh air, and sunshine should be the plan. Drink lots of water (I prefer distilled, myself). Relax. Manage your stress by finding gratitude in the moment. And if you really want to become indestructible, allow your body to harness the circadian rhythm by getting to bed by 9-9:30 PM. The body heals most effectively between the hours of 10PM and 2 AM. Try it and you’ll be amazed – especially in combination with the other suggestions above.
Don’t expect to be saved by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO). Or the government for that matter. Or even the medical system, when it comes to non-bacterial bugs.
If you get sick, don’t panic. The odds are that you’ll get better.
If COVID-19 is as highly contagious as claimed, and given that it started in China and has a huge head-start there, and given that China is the most populous nation on earth – why has the mortality rate outside China now surpassed the very nation where the virus first started?
How could that be?
Is it because the Chinese have quarantined better? Because the Chinese have a superior health system? Because the virus is not as contagious, or deadly, as claimed? Or is the testing and reporting all erroneous?
And, at this point in time, do these questions even matter? Evidently not.
So, with that in mind, here are some concluding thoughts:
Over the weekend I was driving back from a meeting on a two-lane paved country road. While bypassing a rural town, I looked upwards to my left and saw a cemetery nestled on a hill. There was an ancient dark-colored sedan parked inside the fence and standing there was an old woman with white hair. She was a solitary figure staring down at a gravestone and was just far enough away that her face was blurred. Her snow-white hair was bright in the sun and contrasted with the black and gray stones around her. Standing there so still, it looked as if she was praying or like someone had placed her there, miniaturized in the distance, as a figurine cake topper with a cotton ball for hair.
I wondered if it was her husband who lay there. Perhaps it was her son or daughter. Or maybe a sibling, or a friend.
Death is personal. It brings fear and suffering and emotional pain to the living. Death comes for us all. But, until then, at any given time, what matters most is what we do next; as long as it’s right. Some might call it faith. Others will say it’s hope. And still others will say it’s love. Regardless of what it’s called, it’s worth holding onto.
Someone far wiser than me once asked: “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Peace comes when the mind and body are in the same moment at the same time. There’s awareness there. And answers. In each moment we can only do our best. That’s where we end and the universe begins. The outcomes are beyond our control.
So if you’re not having fun, you better be learning something.
Godspeed.
[[[If COVID-19 is as highly contagious as claimed, and given that it started in China and has a huge head-start there, and given that China is the most populous nation on earth – why has the mortality rate outside China now surpassed the very nation where the virus first started?
How could that be?]]]
Here’s why…Read the first quote from the linked article and realize china is way ahead of the ballgame, tadpole.
Russia quit using computers for military and classified correspondence a few years ago.
Is me but I don’t want to ruin your popularity.
“The states or nonstates that control the 5G network will dictate or control all digital transactions including the ability to share and receive information.”
On these points, the EDTF heavily implies that the US’s biggest threat in a post-EMP/GMD scenario is China. The report highlights China’s heavy commitment — to the tune of a $500-billion investment liability — to rapidly deploying a global 5G network as a “Digital Silk Road” to “compete with Western interests” — and that China is well on its way to realizing this goal. The report notes:
US Air Force: 5G Dominance Critical to National Security
https://www.securitynow.com/author.asp?section_id=706&doc_id=748435
What has me worried is not the virus, but that this virus is the vector for a program of cyclical fear and mass panic that gets reactivated every year and gets 24/7 saturation coverage by MSM at behest of TPTB. Bat Soup Virus is the new terrorism folks – invisible, lurking around every corner, ready to strike unannounced at any time which demands constant vigilance and even more .gov totalitarianism – and it will be used to extract every last bit of personal liberty and enjoyment of life we have, all in the name of protecting the weakest, non-productive members of society (the old and / or already sick, as that is pretty much who dies from this bad flu strain). So, basically society grinds to a halt so to ensure 80 year olds can watch another 6 months of television.
The fit and healthy should just laugh this off, and if you are not fit this should be a wake-up call to start getting fit. Those who are youngish, fat, lazy, and in bad health because of your life choices, and you get the virus and die – well, that’s Mother Nature telling you you made bad life choices. I would rather see this virus sweep through and do its business in one fail swoop than live the rest of my life in a 9/11-squared society.
Bring it on.
Might be time to break out this old classic that describes the breakdown of Civil Society during a bubonic plague quarantine of the French Algerian city of Oran. It occurred in pre-social media days but I surmise the progression of events are the same, but now occur much faster due to “improvements” in communication.
Daniel Defoe recounts the following specifics against infection in ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’; (the ‘he’, was ‘under-Sexton’ of his parish, “understood at that Time [to be] Gravedigger and Bearer of the Dead”; and ‘his wife’ was employed by the City of London as a plague nurse): “He never used any Preservative against the Infection, other than holding Garlick and Rue in his Mouth, and smoaking Tobacco; this I also had from his own Mouth; and his Wife’s Remedy was washing her Head in Vinegar, and sprinkling her Head-Cloths so with Vinegar, as to keep them always Moist; and if the smell of any of those she waitd on was more than ordinary Offensive, she snuft Vinegar up her Nose, and sprinkled Vinegar upon her Head-Cloths, and held a Handkerchief wetted with Vinegar to her Mouth.” Both survived.
Supporting documentation that this is no big deal in the Big Picture.
And, he who controls 5g will control SWIFT. I wrote earlier that when the China-Russia workaround to SWIFT goes full live that is when the shit will hit the fan. Bat Soup Virus was a warning in the Nativist release scenario.
Tadpole? Try zygote.
Article titled U.S. Air Force Finally Ditches 8-Inch Floppy Disks
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a29539578/air-force-floppy-disks/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIL2FVlaZu4
https://klinghardtinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Dr-Klinghardt-Corona-2020-slides-9-march-2020.pdf
(MGM, You know a lot about this already, but I hope this helps…Dr K, does mention some add’l treatments, not mentioned by others elsewhere.)
Those people who are health compromised and older should isolate and remain isolated until a better understanding of where things stand is known. Those feckless folk who don’t wish to curtail any of their fun and become infected will, in turn, infect others and in those others are grandparents, parents and other vulnerable people.
There are always cure-alls and advice pertaining to essentially medically (pharmacologically) untreatable diseases. Vitamins and supplements can’t hurt, anything that bolsters the immune system is a good thing, just don’t expect them to be a cure.
I am of the opinion that this virus is man-made, I also believe that any information coming from the Chinese government is suspect. No country destroys it’s economy, quarantines millions and builds thousand plus hospital beds to contain the infected does so to combat a mere flu. The relatively low numbers of dead and infected that were and are claimed by the Chicoms doesn’t reflect the draconian actions taken by said government.
The only way to successfully contain a disease is via quarantine and isolation. Common sense says if you aren’t in contact with an infective agent, you won’t be infected. During the Black Plague those cities and villages who closed their borders tended to remain free of contagion. Common sense.
There may be no choice in the matter. Trump speaks today at 3p. (and WhoTF downvotes…this stuff…sic fcks.)
The Demofuques are loading this like a Christmas tree with shit like government paid abortion, union giveaways and basically all the things that they can never pass on a stand alone basis.
Yet we continue to ignore the disease that kills more people every year than all other diseases combined. That disease is called Old Age.
No one here gets out alive.
That is true. Thus shouldn’t Life’s quest be a search for quality rather than quantity?
Old age is contagious? Like the flu?
Kind of. Everyone eventually gets it – if they are lucky enough to get to that point.
Just pay your taxes GOYIM and shut the fuck up!!!
Hey, anyone remember a guy named Ezekiel Emmanuel?
The ending of the article put me in a meditative and contemplative mood. As nutty as the world is, it’s a wonderful place to be and we should appreciate each and every day.
While it’s a minor thing, we have a birdbath that gets a lot of use. Yesterday evening we had at least 5 different bird types lined up to take their turn at having a bath. It was so simple yet incredibly beautiful and calming watching the little boogers. Lately, wife aside, they have been my best friends.
Thanks Uncola.
I concur, this was a contemplative article, and I am grateful we have such great authors on TBP.
slightly OT, but, that Alt-Market guy Brandon Smith seems to have closed his site to random readers, I tried clearing all the cookies, no joy, keeps asking for log in credentials.
I’m done with that site, either he’s gone batty or someone told him to stop making noises.
You’re right – I tried it. I always thought Brandon had good ideas. But it’s Firefox asking for login which is odd. Google comes up with nothing. Duckduckgo comes up with this:
“Brandon Smith: Alt-Market Says Trump is a Pied Piper, We …
[Search domain phibetaiota.net/2019/01/brandon-smith-alt-market-says-trump-is-a-pied-piper-were-being-set-up-for-a-market-crash-trump-implosion/] https://phibetaiota.net/2019/01/brandon-smith-alt-market-says-trump-is-a-pied-piper-were-being-set-up-for-a-market-crash-trump-implosion/
Brandon Smith. Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda. Trump is part of a grand con game. The con game is to get liberty advocates to invest themselves fully in Trump, to the point that we end up owning every mistake he makes, and every disaster that is pinned on him.”
I guess they have turned him off – can’t think of anything else. Here’s another recent find:
“Alt-Market’s Pandemic Survival Guide – Purchase It Here
[Search domain alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4083-alt-markets-pandemic-survival-guide-purchase-it-here] https://alt-market.com/index.php/articles/4083-alt-markets-pandemic-survival-guide-purchase-it-here
Brandon Smith, Founder of Alt-Market.com. Bookmark . Hits: 3122. … Hi Brandon, I tried to purchase the $3 pandemic survival guide but it didn’t ask what I was purchasing or for my email address. It just went straight to Paypal. Are there any instructions for purchase? Thanks! … written by Brandon Smith , February 01, 2020″
Look out below!
Actually, some of Brandon’s articles are still up on ZH:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brandon-smith-trump-cannot-be-anti-globalist-while-working-global-elites
AND some red hot stuff:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-04/brandon-smith-trump-pied-piper-new-world-order-agenda
I think they silenced him?
It’s almost like the ‘chaos’ has been engineered
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-== and some folks still think Emperor Trump is not in on the game
If it walks like a duck… (~2 mins)
Quacks like a duck… (< 1 min)
Poops like a duck… (1st 10 mins recommended + skimming thru):
..then it's a duck! Or in this case, an engineered PsyOp of an event, as the comparison to the Participant-Media™ Propa-tainment Piece demonstrates
Good stuff, 4T……..
The boob tube is saying that the Emperor will declare a national emergency at 3 E…….and I see there are at least 2 that still think Trump is on their side..
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—–== Trump was S-elected to be the closer on the American public….it was my suspicions as we pulled the lever to vote for him, and on election night I was convinced as he went from "lock her up" to "they're good people…we owe her a debt of gratitude"…and Hilarion is still waiting in the wings if the Emperor succumbs to the disease…
In scanning the Contagion video earlier, I believe one of the commenters said the movie was released prior to the CDC receiving huge influxes of taxpayer funds.
Most people don’t consider entertainment as propaganda, but films really can psychologically reprogram the people. I am very careful anymore as to what I allow into my brain. At the very least, electronic media massages the minds of Bubbleheads via bad science and historical revisionism.
The movie was released on Sept. 9, 2011, and just below, they list several other related content movies. I saw one titled “Pandemic”, released on April 1, 2016…..talk about an April fool’s joke.
https://www.cdc.gov/funding/about-cdc-funding/index.html
At the above link I saw this:
https://www.cdc.gov/museum/history/shapona.html
So I clicked on it to read a bit:
“It is a unique carved wooden figure upon which are layered meaningful objects such as monkey skulls, cowrie shells, and fur.”
And at the end of the short article it says:
“…an authentic Soponna [sic] fetish of the Babaligbo cult of Aebokuta, Western Nigeria. Rafe’s comment which accompanied the fetish, ‘In hopes this will soon be a relic of the past’.” Eleven years later, in 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated.”
I thought smallpox was back?
I searched “is the cdc a private organization that contracts with the government”…at the top of the page:
“Although the CDC Foundation was chartered by Congress, it is not a government agency nor is it a division of CDC. It is a private, nonprofit organization classified as a 501(c)(3) public charity. To connect with CDC Foundation, click here external icon. external icon CDC Foundation”
https://www.cdc.gov/partners/partnering.html
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——===
I haven't yet found any info on when they started receiving the big bucks, but they were founded back "On July 1, 1946 the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) opened its doors and occupied one floor of a small building in Atlanta"
I had 5 windows open, clicking back and forth, so I probably screwed up the links somewhere………the most interesting thing I came across was the recent release of 'Pandemic' on the fool's joke day…
Right about what we allow in the head.
It’s like the Mark, I have to take it in the mind before I can take it in the hand.
Check this out, Uncola…
https://jobs.cdc.gov/job/dallas/public-health-advisor-quarantine-program/250/14136286
Location:
Dallas, Texas, El Paso, Texas, Houston, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Anchorage, Alaska, Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Francisco, California, Miami, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, Honolulu, Hawaii, Chicago, Illinois, Boston, Massachusetts, Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Newark, New Jersey, New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, San Juan
Agency Marketing Statement:
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the agency Americans trust with their lives. As a global leader in public health, CDC is the nation’s premier health promotion, prevention, and preparedness agency. Whether we are protecting the American people from public health threats, researching emerging diseases, or mobilizing public health programs with our domestic and international partners,”
Duties:
“Assist in planning and implementing a program for preventing the importation of communicable diseases from abroad and spread of these diseases domestically.”, “Monitor disease trends and consults with senior leaders to ensure that appropriate measures are taken to prevent the introduction/spread of communicable diseases by travelers, etiologic agents or vectors,”
Requirements:
“US Citizenship is required. Background Investigation is required. E-Verify: If you are selected for this position, the documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS “E-Verify” System. Federal law requires DHS to use the E-Verify System to verify employment eligibility of all new hires,”
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——-==
signed, Coinky Dink
Ordo,
I saw that Hardscrabble had posted that link on another thread and I responded thusly”
(Doug / Uncola) – posting Unonymously to avoid being spammed
Great Article, Doug. We’ve been untaught and unlearned. Why are we relying on the President to save the day anyway? This is how far we’ve fallen from being a confident, knowledgeable, healthy, wise population. This is why the panic. It’s been the learned helplessness we’ve been taught and schooled in throughout the years. It’s infuriating. I am going to enjoy this Panic phase….cause it the phase of Violence to follow that’s got me a little concerned. In the meantime, it’s going to be another beautiful day.
This hyped up pandemic is being used for the largest sheep shearing in history. It is shameful and soon even the lowest intel sheep will understand that they are going to lose it all and there is nothing they can do to prevent it from happening, not just here but globally.
Rest assured the elites wealth is safe as a baby in his mothers arms and life will be scarcely inconvenienced for them. I’m doubting Tom Hanks or Trudeau’s wife will succumb to this dreaded disease (cough). Agree Doug that one day we could have a genuine pandemic but for now, we will ride out a farce to crash global currencies and markets and that will be the real killer of humanity……it’s just shameful.
Life in Martha’s Vineyard is safe , no worries busing the elite’s children to school. Keep up the good work, you have job security unlike the rest of us.
BL, Damned glad to see another TBPer with common sense. The Coronavirus® Hoax is as real as it gets, and maybe fatal to our way of life. The Coronavirus®?? Not so much.
Do you and BL really believe, that without nCoV our way of life would be just peachy for the next three decades and longer?
All this is a symptom, not the cause.
I doubt if any of the shills (like Hanks) actually have caught anything of the sort. They are just doing their part in this sham to cause more panic.
I don’t know. You’d have to be a pretty good actor to pull that off ?
But, seriously, given the inclination towards drama, Hollywood could turn the common cold into a global pandemic.
I hit your link ‘exactly how the Covd-19 was manufactured’ because I wondered if you had purposely omitted the ‘Blunt Truth’ article after having vetted it. Then, when I saw your link took the reader to that article, I wonder why the following wasn’t included:
“From 2014, Shi Zhengli was the recipient of a number of US Government grants as well as grants from the National Basic Research program of China, the Chinese Academy of Science, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and from the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences, to assist in funding research into coronaviruses.”
Dr. Shi Zhengli (the photo of her did not copy/paste)
So this lady was paid well by the US government AND the Chinese government to fund “research into coronaviruses.”
What did we (and China) get for our money spent? In the original paper published in 2015, they stated
“Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein.”
Seems fairly important info, to me….
I don’t disagree with you on much of anything, but unless I misunderstand your meaning, I certainly disagree with:
“Moreover, it seems we want to believe COVID-19 is an indestructible man-made virus because Wuhan contains biolabs.”
Speaking for myself, what I WANTED TO BELIEVE is that some amount of justice would be brought to the treasonous pricks that have sold us out to foreign powers….
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——==
Edit to add:
Re, Selenium…I guess the guy from Brazil that visited Trump is an exception? IDK
Maybe he doesn’t like Brazil nuts, Ordo. I know I don’t but I do take selenium because it helps with my Hashimoto’s disease.
Ordo,
Assigning motives to (as you say) “the US government AND the Chinese government to fund research into coronaviruses” was not the goal of this particular post. I linked-embedded the “Blunt Truth” article (more than once) into this piece to show the detailed speculation that COVID-19 was man-made and to reveal it’s considerations regarding selenium as a potential means of warding off various viruses, including COVID-19.
In other words, I wanted to focus more on solutions for this one, as opposed to causes.
Nevertheless, I’m very glad you brought it up in the commentary. Thanks for that.
Uncola……
Haha……”Assigning motives to (as you say)”….did I say that? I reread my post, and didn’t find it. If you meant that I inferred it, perhaps.
I understand what you’re telling me, and only meant to express my idea that the info is important. I disagree with some who say the origin is of little importance, to me, it is THE single answer to root out…..
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—–==
Solution: run em out on a rail
Ordo,
You said what I italicized and placed into “quotes” as follows:
“the US government AND the Chinese government to fund research into coronaviruses”
And, as asked at the end of my first Coronovirus article:
Uncola….
Egg on my face, boss. The way I copied, the placement of the quotations, no wonder. I don’t know why I didn’t catch it the first time. Both of the following were part of the article:
So this lady was paid well by the US government AND the Chinese government to fund “research into coronaviruses.”
What did we (and China) get for our money spent? In the original paper published in 2015, they stated
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<——==
mea culpa !
i was also going to object a bit to that assertion because….
the powerless hands
Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein;
One kick would be enough to break the chain,
But the beast fears, and what the child demands
It does; nor its own terror understands,
Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain.
No more 2A/political protests, marches/rides on DC or state capitals, militia drills ,or attending any public events where opposition to government machinations might occur. ‘Voluntary’ self-quarantine is the best weapon Deep State could ever devise to divide and conquer any opposition to the current year in WE WOKE WEST . Checkmate.
I’ll bet things have calmed down in Hong Kong, as well.
@ Flash & TNP,
If I heard the radio correctly today, it sounds as if Trump has canceled his upcoming political rallies.
So perhaps this cartoon (below) that was posted to TBP this morning, really nails it.
From the propaganda playbook: If a lie is big enough and repeated enough, it becomes accepted as truth.
Whether real or Reality TV®, it could be COVID-19 is an election hacking scheme so big (and successful)…. it makes the bumbling Russkies look like pikers:
‘Murica don’t need no stinkin’ elections. Long live the king!
King of Atlantis.
Voters elect a king. It’s what they want. Because things like a Congress and Federalism are too complicated.
He’s the King of Atlantis bccause it’s a mythical place that no longer exists … if it ever did.
Doug.
Hopefully this will help quell the Alt-Right virtue signalling panic purveyors.
You and another half dozen here have been mauled by the Big Red Cement Truck for calling for calm and reasoned actions and words.
I’m shocked to see my own prediction actually happening. I said on Alt-Market over 3 years ago that it would be the Faux-Right that would round us up and condemn the Alt-Right. I was shocked because I really just said it as a warning to check our motives. When it actually happened right here on TBP I was shocked.
Even if calm is restored (S&P futures went limit up this morning) the evil entity managing all this is taking notes of what worked and how well.
To President Trump. If you actually are the real deal the “Don’t just do something, stand there”!!!
This is a strange time for me.
Watching this happen, this slow unwind of individual action and autonomous behavior subsume itself into a collective madness is something I understand- theoretically- and something I dealt with professionally-as a comic- for a very long time. It’s real, the way people dissolve into a Borg-type hive mind that prompts them to react not in their own best self interest but rather to comply with a set of instructions given to them by an ethereal voice offstage-
Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together and give a warm welcome to your headliner tonight…
And they applaud.
Stock up on toilet paper, sneeze into your elbow, self-quarantine, all of these instructions are delivered from the same mic’ed up offstage voice that prompts otherwise rational and productive members of society into behaving like lab rats in a maze.
I think I first began to comment on this virus right after Christmas or around New Year with the belief that it was not the pathogens we needed to be concerned about, but rather the madness of crowds.
Whatever the source of the virus, however it was deployed, it is no longer the infection that is the threat to us, but the advantage the elites use to manipulate the masses to do their bidding.
For over 10 years I questioned whether I made the best decision for my family by going Galt, mostly because I didn’t want to handicap them if they were to live in a world so out of step with our own values that it left them vulnerable, but I don’t think that’s the case anymore.
We’re 14 days into a self imposed quarantine more to see how we’d fare than our of any concern for health- we work with pathogens every day and have pretty solid immune systems- but more to avoid the crazies and their odd Black Friday mob mentality.
So far, so good.
Another good piece Doug, don’t know that it will be well received what with battle lines already being drawn, but it’s good that you’ve made a record of it. The worst part is that everyone who turns out being right about this will immediately be forgotten and whatever new solution put in place to fix whatever was allegedly broken will disadvantage all of us.
Lose/lose
I think you are fortunate to be away from the nuttiness regardless. Whether this is exaggerated or if it is serious as a heart attack, the dirty bastards are out doing what dirty bastards do.
As a prime example I saw a clip from Bird Flu or SARS, whatever the “plagues” were during the Indonesian Exchange Student’s regime. Smiley assed Lester Holt, all upbeat and cheery, nay, triumphantly reporting that only X number had it and that probably only a few thousand “with underlying conditions” would die here. So, Obama was a hero although he did nothing. We all know how Trump has been maliciously and dishonestly treated. Everything is wrong. He banned travel too early and was sued. He banned travel too late and is excoriated. He banned travel and is an obvious filthy RACIST! along with his science hating base which is busily stepping on baby chicks and kittens when not out terrorizing innocent tubercular “migrants.” A Zipperhead bitch congress critter(Chu of CA) has introduced a bill to take away the President’s authority to ban travel, close borders in emergencies yada yada. These people are behaving like the ghetto rats who shoot at ambulances.
“this slow unwind of individual action and autonomous behavior subsume itself into a collective madness is something I understand- theoretically” and “the way people dissolve into a Borg-type hive mind”
Such a cumbersome explanation, and from a farmer. I don’t think you understand. Why would human beings identify as sheep in the flock of unseen Jesus? Dissolve? No, my friend: it’s evolve or devolve not dissolve. The obvious explanation is that the complaining masses want this government and this system. Female honesty is the new normal.
Not all farmers are pithy sages.
I’m also not smart enough to untangle your last paragraph.
What I mean is that you are a farmer. Or at least you play one online. Maybe you only farm plants, but consider farming domesticated livestock. One day the cattle gets on the train to go to the slaughterhouse and pay back the farmer for all that safety and security. The final stage of the journey requires the loving sodomy of a broomstick handle to get the desired compliance. Before that, there is voluntary compliance. Why? A farmer would know. Domestication. The innate nature of people who want things this way, whether or not they narrate otherwise, is what?
Supposing that the panicked humans ‘dissolve’ from some implied natural state of humanity into some less human mental state is a fair hypothesis. But consider a simpler explanation: that they are innately less and pretend to have more ‘humanity’. Which hypothesis explains what we see: decline and clown world. Occum’s razor applies. Supposing that something lower overcomes the higher within the same person assumes personal corruption of the soul or whatnot. The presumption of Christianity is a universal salvage operation, even though some will burn forever in hell. The Great Commission implies universal salvage and reclamation, for all alive on day, but still truly universal salvage. What if there is nothing to salvage in panicked masses? One can dress up the 200-lb Travis the Chimp, one can have tea with Travis the Chimp, but a Chimp is a Chimp. Does not the scorpion sting the frog because of it’s nature? Too bad Charla Nash had an anthropomorphic fetish. Her prize was a fate worse than death. How is it that a 55-year-old white woman would not know better? Let Charla Nash represent inclusive white ‘Murica. Let Travis represent the unofficial orc army of the domestic Left and the NWO globalists.
I am not asking you to be a pithy sage but a sagacious farmer, a salt-of-the-earth man. Better rednecks have wisdom. I’ve heard it! And wished I had heard it decades earlier.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!
The terms ‘husbandry’ and ‘husband’ derive, as near as I can tell, from the same Old English stem ‘husbond-‘, which denotes master of the house. Master stars opposite slave, and slave is a word in the Bible. The distinction between slave and servant was not much in ancient times. Affluence was much less. Obtaining food to eat was a difficult challenge where one could not simply live off the land. All roads lead to Rome, do they not? The truth is there for the taking if it doesn’t scare you away. What does the evidence say normies are?
Really.
Why is then everybody proposing revolutions (which declares all historical knowledge and traditions to be worthless or worse),
instead of reforms and evolution?
I don’t understand what you mean. Everybody is authoritative on right and wrong? Revolutions are not natural selection and part of evolution? Sound principles make traditions worthy and not the other way around. What I mean is given by a long-winded comment above.
You clearly don’t.
Values create traditions, and not the other way around.
Revolutions, in their very essence, declare all traditions null and void. Now what do you think happens to the values, in a revolution?
If there is political dissent, there are different sets of values. A revolution may kill people, and even a way of life, but ideas are forgotten or discovered. Values are ideas. I think behavior creates social norms and that creates tradition. There is a feedback loop and social norms gradually appear and change and dissappear, with some interruptions.
Few will ever think through their ‘values’. Who has a grasp of his values and believes it? I think the challenger that wins sovereignty faces the same fundamentals as the vanquished establishment. I don’t see values as black and white across the masses or a strict binary in a war. I don’t think evolution bars extinction, but neither do I believe there is merely wholesale replacement. Every change happens in little steps, even a nuclear blast. A revolution is the result of innumerable little changes to create the eventual macroscopic structural change, a collapse. I can’t tell if you are trolling or not. There is no reason an old tradition can’t be dusted off, as with the Renaissance. Greek tradition is reworked in the West into various forms. So many Western nations claim a heritage in ancient Greece and Rome. But as I said, HSF and i are contemplating the individual’s nature in isolation.
You seem to be contradicting yourself.
A revolution exactly doesn’t dust off any ancient tradition. It destroys everything as it believes only on a blank slate the utopia (the “new man”) can be created/built.
Furthermore, only revolutionaries (tend to) deny the universality of reason, i.e. that two people with different opinions can use reasoning to identify the colliding ideas and then -if both are truly open to critical thought- either pinpoint which standpoint is wrong, or that both standpoints have merit and each does not completely negate the other one.
Because of the universality of reason, every truly thoughtful person will arrive at very similar values, compared to the next person.
That’s basically the foundation on which Christianity -with its identified values- was built, even though the universality of reason was an earlier Greek concept.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.”
I think what Mr. Reality means is there is a time when society and its overlords becomes so corrupt that its traditions become mere pantomime. So “revolution” is actually the reaffirmation of those original ideals and traditions that served the people well during the time when it wasn’t quite so corrupt and its ideals had some practical meaning other than a few flag waving parades every year.
Are you guys even aware that true revolutionaries would call such goals reactionary?
I mean at some point we have to get our syntax straight, otherwise discussions as well as taking a stand become entirely useless.
I think, my friend, this is one of those times to avoid getting sucked in. I think he’s a troll. He’s not with us,but sucking the standing we give him out of us.
I know for a fact from experience that high IQ people disagree far more than low IQ people. I had believed that high IQ people would converge on the truth, as our troll asserts. I had greatly underestimated emotion and perhaps instinct as hidden directors. High IQ people are often sophists who don’t know it. Wisdom does not require I high IQ, though it is enhanced by it.
Great quote. And correct pithy commentary. There is no center of the universe. Why should there be an objective center to the social universe. Centers of power, sure. But a canonical center as the referential origin to measure all things, a universal morality, that is the stuff of convenient narrative and herd power. Herd animals will shift allegiance to the new center of power rather quickly if they can be accepted by it. This is not perceived by most because too-big-to-fail fails very rarely. We are talking about men who style themselves sheep of a divine shepherd and call themselves strong for following the unseen and unheard. We are talking about parasites that have it too good and complain about patriarchy, racism, cis-gender privilege, and yet more extreme shit yet to be invented. Tax money pays for our invaders. The merits of sex change operations are explored as a progressive adventure. These are humans? Who needs them? A man not filled with some righteous hate is no man at all. I believe I retire for the night and for this debate. Perhaps is will be useful to some lurkers. Good nite.
Gee thanks, you aren’t even willing to point out where exactly you disagree, much less why, but call me -repeatedly- a likely troll.
I think you are totally wrong on that. ?
What about a revolution which has as its goal a return to tradition.? For example people somewhere like Venezuela saying “this shit doesn’t work! Let’s go back to what we did before.”
As I tried to explain above, a revolution by definition cannot go back. Just like the progressive BS.
If it goes back, it’s something else than a revolution.
Wait a minute. Maybe you mean ‘dissolve the Political Bands’? That is interpersonal dissolution to free the host individual from the parasite individual. I think HSF meant momentary personal suspension of wits. I am exploring the innate nature of individuals and comparing two hypotheses to show that one is cumbersome and the other simple and true. The Christian value is togetherness not separation. I am arguing for separation of the low for salvage of the high, but the animals would loose their highs. I can live with that.
Nietzsche was insane and died in nut house, yet morons still hang on his every word.
Nietzsche was human enough to be dehumanized. Are you above or below that?
Human enough to be dehumanized . WOW … so profound. I’m verklempt.
Human enough to be dehumanized….ha ha ha. What does that nonsense even mean? Sane enough to be insane?
When the vermin define virtue, which way is true north? If we invert the measure of all things, the consummate herd animal is king. Is decline not a race to the bottom? And is not the bottom the top? A sports team gets back to the fundamentals, the low, the foundation, but they are building up. The termites are methodically tearing down and calling it progress. This was profound and you missed it: Sane enough to be insane. Let’s put it this way: socially well-adjusted to clown world means what? You folks do not study intrinsic value of humans. If you are socially well-adjusted, no need to think differently. Some of us have no choice but to try the unconventional.
WTF does that nonsense even mean? Human enough to be dehumanized. Sane enough to be insane ? Tard enough to be retarded?
Did you not get the memo ? The brown acid was bad.
Can Travis the Chimp be dehumanized. Can a vermin be belittled? Put on your They Live glasses. This is not a hard intellectual exercise. It’s a hard emotional exercise. Most men in the West aren’t man enough. Western men would kill readily once upon a time. The dual was its vestige.
Okay, Agent …what was the name again?
That doesn’t lessen the greatness of his work one bit. Like they say, “Better to burn out than fade away…”
The raving lunatic spent his entire life spinning what ifs in his head and never even lived , but so wise…ha ha ha
Nietzsche, Ayn Rand, Keynes, Marx and may others all had the same central issue:
Their analysis and criticisms were mostly correct, but their proposed “solutions” were just half-assed BS.
Now I know you are a troll. You mix dissimilar things and expect me to attack myself. lol
There no mix.
Nietzsche/Marx:
both decried alienation/loss of meaning; both proposed things (create our own values i.e. become Superman/dependence on nothing including transcendent thoughts or beliefs) which made the alienation from a shared set of foundational values worse.
Ayn Rand:
detailed and almost prophetically describes the outcome of socialism, but as the solution proposes to hide and let it blow by – ridiculous as the psychopaths are smart enough to find you and come after you with the brainwashed (but meaningless) hordes, plus has a feeling of boyish “I build my treehouse and retreat into it, for years or forever” dreams
Keynes:
is the expert from who you can find any explanation (left or right, up or down, deficit spending or non-manipulation of the currency, …) somewhere in his works & over the course of his life – but in the end Keynes was always fine to be the excuse (a/k/a convenient “reasoning”) for politicians to use the “let’s do the easy thing first” approach.
Ah! Now we are talking!
Good ol’ Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and The Anti-Christ – three greatest red pills ever written. Basically explains the way of the coming Philosopher Kings. Add to that Max Stirner’s The Ego and His own and you are forever the outcast.
I have given a rare thumbs up here.
Then please summarize for us what feasible path forward those red-pills have shown you!
History is replete with these feasible paths forward. Revolutions. The only question is who goes forward and which way.
If you are (still) dreaming of some kind of revolution, you already lost.
Because even if one occurs, the outcome will be worse than before it.
Summary –
1) Everything I was taught was a lie.
2) I was living a pre-packaged existence.
3) A life of safety, comfort, and petty amusement is unfulfilling.
4) To find Truth I would have to unlearn everything I was ever taught.
5) The path to truth is very difficult, both physically and mentally, and is its own reward.
6) No one will ever understand you afterwards and you are thus permanently separated from 95% of your “fellow man”.
25 years ago I quit a high paying job, sold everything, and began my real unlearning process where I spent about 12 continuous years in mostly shitty, 3rd world countries. The sum of what I learned was a fulfilling life was entirely what we make of it, not what others make of it for us.
The path forward finds us. However, we must have our eyes open to see it.
It sounds like you’ve got it figured out.
It’s a work in progress. Do we ever really have “It” figured out?
Chunks, here and there.
Fully agree, on your ‘sum of what I learned’.
Other people have described that as: “to Be” instead of “to Have”.
I would add a point
7) All you need to know/learn is available in books (as TPTB don’t even bother to suppress those, i.e. “hidden in plain sight.”)
And many of those are so old that every copyright has expired and you can get them as eBooks for free (Dostoevsky would be a good start.)
Nietzsche never developed a philosophical system, so he really never gave a way forward other than the future coming of the Overman. However, he is a crucial and necessary part of the unlearning process. I never trust those who claim to have all the (theoretical) answers as one size never fits all.
In my strong opinion, a philosophical system without a feasible way forward isn’t a philosophical system.
It’s sophistry.
Fantastic post. I didn’t understand this until a year or two ago.
“The path forward finds us. However, we must have our eyes open to see it.”
@ Hardscrabble,
I didn’t have time this morning to respond to your comment, plus the two I made (to Ordo & TBPers in general) went to spam and I had to e-mail Admin to dig them out of the abyss – but I do have some time now…
Your comment above contained these experiential diamonds:
(and everything else you wrote as well)
Damn, you man! The last three consecutive Coronavirus articles I wrote consisted of the following word counts, respectively: 1,850, 4,067, and 3,289. So what took me 9,286 words, you just summed up in less than a 400-word comment.
Truly, it is a strange time indeed; and I really did want to (as you say above) “make a record of it”. I don’t know if I’m right or not, but I do know (as long as I’m kickin’) I’ll do my best not to let it be forgotten.
Until then, the words of the commenter “Mr. Anderson” on my last COVID-19 article’s thread, flicker like neon in the abandoned 5 AM back-alleys at the corner of Cognizance Street and Observation Boulevard:
I don’t know about the hive mind, but I sure ain’t gonna cut off the barrel and stock of my scatter gun like that pic of Mad Max.
the madness of TPTB/.gov is what we’ve always needed to be concerned about, and we still do.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/08/21/i-am-chosen-one-trump-again-plays-messianic-claims-he-embraces-king-israel-title/
YOWZA!
Fantastic early comments on this one. Great perspectives providing so much to consider. As always, thank you to all
Good read Doug. What I see coming is a world wide economic depression and this pandemic is being used as a distraction.
Look at some of the events going on around the world. Locust swarms in Africa and the mid east headed toward China, Turkey invading Syria and pushing war migrants from Syria into Europe, attacks on US troops in Iraq, and the big issue of so many citizens turning on their governments around the world.
The status quo is breaking down. Order is falling into disorder.
Our government officials at all levels of government are the ones who are panicking. They are making unwise decisions that is destroying the economy. Who or what gives them the authority to disrupt our lives and economy because of their fears? They think they have power that was not given them and as a result they are producing the disorder in our society. What they don’t realize because of their insane thinking is that the blowback from their actions will end their little kingdoms of control as the lack of income from taxes and income from public businesses they stole from their monopoly over private enterprise.
People created government to serve them and protect them from criminal gangs created by criminal minded people. Over the years these criminal minded people took over the reins of government and using administrative law have stolen the wealth of the people. The criminal justice system is exactly what it states: The justice of criminals imposed on the common man.
The shake out now going on in the financial markets along with the criminal actions of our corrupt government officials in their unlawful use of power to disrupt our social order due to their insane thinking is bringing down their entire house of cards.
This virus may actually be a God send to the populations of the earth to break this criminal power structure that has suppressed the purpose God has created man for.
Man was created with a thinking mind to be a caretaker of the earth as a servant of God and His will. The criminal structure we call government that is now run by criminal minded people; the fallen angels, is coming to an end.
I look at the current occasion we are going through as the beginning of the fall of the modern Babylon. The Tower of Babel has been struck and is falling along with it’s inhabitants.
A new world order is coming without the participation of the criminal gangs that now run the world.
Get ready for the ride. No doubt many more will suffer from economic dislocation than who will die from the virus. But be sure of this… Many billionaires and 99% will become paupers. This coming economic depression is no respecter of materially rich persons.
The status quo has been broken. We are not going back to what was. I feel this.
Thanks for the great article. It confirms what I feel.
T-bird, your right, this is cover for the normal bubble popping activities that used to be called the business cycle. The Russian/Opec oil feud is probably the underlying pin that pooped the Derivatives market, and Duetche Bank (major player in Derivatives) has probably gone belly up. This could explain why the Fed just shot a 1Trillion $ toilet paper bazooka into the market yesterday, an attempt to paper over the underlying issues of a corrupt and bankrupt financial global economy.
J – T – I heard a talking head say the Saud’s and Putin are using the price of oil to destroy the US shale business. It was shaky at best with $50 oil, but will collapse with $30 oil. Our domestic production has hurt their bottom lines and they see a this as a crisis to exploit.
Don’t fear the virus. Fear the agenda.
Wrong. Fear the fear!
FDR, is that you?
You only seem to be concerned about the survival rate being high.
Have you not seen the damage the virus does to those that survive?
There’s a good reason to be concerned.
Scars are souvenirs you never lose.
When they’re own your lungs and you have difficulty breathing, nobody is impressed.
You know, there are many unfortuante souls out there, with many tragic problems, and it disturbs me to see the seemily un-caring way these people are looked down on. This attitude of so many that since they are alright its just tough titty for those that just might die from this, stress alone will cause suicides.
No matter what, this will wreck the economy and cause great social changes, just watch.
@ P.T.,
I agree there is good reason to be concerned. But, any damage aside, what I find peculiar is the focus that has generated the reactions.
Sort of like the Weather Channel telling us for a week to stay glued to the reports of the biggest f’ing blizzard with ten feet of snow barreling down on us. The day comes and nothing. People fill their tanks, the propane guys get refilled, you load up on three days of groceries, make sure you have two cycle oil and gas for the snowblower and when nothing happens we say “oh, hmmph.”
Will the reaction to no big deal here be “oh” or mass outrage? Unless it’s real and then we have an endless, largely meaningless blame game.
The economic consequences of the engineered panic will be far worse than the Kung Flu. PTB will and are gaining control of real wealth using the Corona Distraction.
Gaining? or Losing? control. I think they have lost their shit and need to pull out all the stops.
Its all BS until your lying in a bed dying from it.
Spot on Doug. The disease is here. Some will succumb, especially the aged and infirmed. However, I feel the panic response, triggered by an MSM Psyop, is far worse than the disease. When this all blows over, likely late spring or early summer there’s going to be a lot of folks with enough TP to last them the rest of their lives. Short the TP companies long term.
Cow Doc. Most of the idiots who bought enough TP to last into eternity will die from starvation surrounded by their mountains of butt wipe because they failed to stock up on the most essential items – food.
Good point
Tend to agree. Some concern is obviously warranted, but things were looking more dire a month ago. Now with some more data, we can see this thing isn’t going to wipe out the human race, is equivalent to a bad flu which will mean the death of some, but many, many more will recover, almost unnoticed.
What we are seeing is a case study in how dumb the average person is, coupled with systematic information overload. It was interesting the learn that the swine flu of 2009 infected 70 million people and killed 150,000-300,000 worldwide. I remember seeing one news conference on CNN, and then it went away in the eyes of the masses. Smartphone adoption was much lower in 2009. Every boomer didn’t have Facebook. The TeeVee was still the dominant source of official news, and they simply decided to drop the story.
The mass cancelling is an epidemic in and of itself. These local “leaders” and politicians get dumber and dumber by the year. They are not elected based on intellect or leadership ability, but by their ability to create and maintain connections. The local ones are especially a bunch of doofuses, functionally retarded. They are cancelling everything because everyone is terrified of going against the grain, a sad side-effect of cancel culture which means if you are the only one not condemning or this case cancelling all of your events your career is going to disappear overnight. Public health is really not on anybody’s mind as these decisions are made. It’s mass hysteria.
“ Now with some more data, we can see this thing isn’t going to wipe out the human race, is equivalent to a bad flu which will mean the death of some, but many, many more will recover, almost unnoticed.”
The data is highly and grossly manipulated to keep the sheeple calm and not panic. The panic is real and once they cannot deny the panic they will come out with more real data and even more truth which will be much more frightening. If you think think this is just a flu with over reaction what other epidemic or issue has caused govts worldwide to take the measures you see today? Do people believe this is all about trump? That every country drank the woke left juice and are hellbent on destroying trump. This is so much bigger than that. This is about the bilderbergs nwo. Agenda 2030, revised from agenda 21. Also population control. Get rid of old people who can teach what the world looked like. Teach what freedoms were there in the old days etc. The young are fully brainwashed. Get rid of old conservative voters.
This is sooo much bigger than people can imagine. Even if its a dry run they are watching with keen interest how humans react and if they will fight back. They are mistaken because the usa is the only country with guns and they will lock down some libtard cities with no guns and think thats how it will go when they really tune in a plague next. But they will have gotten their data wrong. Because not every city is libtarded left with few guns and no backbone. Martial law will not be accepted Easily here like china or italy. Stopping people from driving/traveling in a car is suspect. They are not infecting anyone. Just driving. People will not take kindly to checkpoints and papers please, for simply driving….
“People will not take kindly to checkpoints and papers please”
Sorry anonymous you are living in the past. Look around you at the people if you are not in a rest home bloging this. People in fear will do anything. Look at all the migrants that came to america and did not accept the american mentality of no checkpoints and no papers. They came from the mentality of checkpoints and papers.
You are right Tumbleweed – It’s mass hysteria. I have heard of the phenomena but never experienced seeing it until now. Sane minded people can do nothing about it. I look at President Trump and wonder what he is really thinking as he has to conform to the wishes of the mob and those around him that pander to the mob.
What people don’t realize is that after all this virus hysteria has passed they will be facing an economic depression that will be far worse than they can even imagine.
Listening to President Trump talk about some of the remedies his administration is proposing for this virus pandemic it seems to me that some of these same remedies are being prepared for the coming financial & business breakdown we will have to face after this virus passes.
This is a time to be awake and really pay attention. Many around us are going to be in a state massive cognitive dissonance after this period of stand down with the virus. The economic realities we are going to face are I think going to try our soul.
Thanks Doug. From my heart, a deep thanks.
National quarantine today?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAbA4R-d3yw&t=88s
Reluctant preppers this morning.
Well, perhaps there’s a bit too much true revelation in both alt-market.com & in the GooTube video you listed above Flea — GooTube says “video unavailable” and alt-market requires people to sign in to see the site
4Th
I can’t figure out why that keeps happening when I post a you tube video here.
It’s this mornings 4 minute video on reluctan preppers on y-tube or ZOG-Tube
drudge headline: (read it as if someone is screaming) “trump to declare national emergency”
dow still sinking…. wow sure can’t buy much w/ $1.5T anymore!
aaannnnnnddd, it’s gone
Repeat after me: “I am not a prophet and neither is anyone else”. Common sense is the best guide. Nothing is guaranteed even in the short term, never mind the long. Quietly go about your business with prudence and compassion for those who don’t. No man is an island even if one must be an islet for an indeterminate quarantine period. When the smoke clears, so to speak, best to be a well-thought-of part of your local community.
The key community communication resources in my small (2500) village are the moms network and the local general stores. By sundown, everyone knows what’s going on in the wider world and here at home. No runs on grocery stores. I went to the nearby town to get gasoline and was told that they’ve been quite busy but not overwhelmed. Filled the tank and went home. We don’t have any warehouse-type stores, so I’ve done some stealth stock-ups, no more than four of any single item at a time, purchases spread out among the three general stores. I have pretty much all I foresee needing for maybe a month or so. Beyond that, well, time will tell.
I wonder indeed if this hysteria doesn’t reflect our unthinkable real wishes. An end finally. An end to the incessant stress and increasing totalitarianism everywhere. I’m sixty-four and made the decision not to breed when I was fifteen. We mock at the ‘snowflakes’, but it’s so much worse now than when we were all fifteen.
I’m 64 and I recall we had a really fuqueing bad virus going on that killed 60,000 when we were 15. The Vietnam War. I think life has been great and having my kids and grandkids for my own little tribe is icing on the cake. I almost never feel as bad as when my classmates came in crying because their brother had just gotten greased or when my cousin got nailed by a Chinese claymore and laid in a bush for three days with the rest of his platoon splattered all over him. Man up people. We’ve still got a lot to do.
Harry.
Here Here.
You’ve got a lot to do. Some of us are not blessed with family. Not our perspective or cause or burden. How do we claim the prerequisite resources and get started breeding? Rhetorical. If anyone has an answer designed to enlighten me, trust me, I don’t want to hear it. Answers are obvious. Some of us avoided slavery and don’t need to care your responsibility or the infinite weight of universal morality.
You are definitely too cool for school.
The true “reality” is Doug’s non-existent progeny will never have the burden of promoting nihilism as a useful cultural value to their own children.
Thanks for NOT playing the procreative game. The rest of us don’t need your pitiful legacy.
Ruby says:
That’s a very astute insight and could possibly apply to the remnant. The waiting to die was killing me until I found awareness and gratitude in the moment.
How I look at the whole thing: a stampede of cattle is coming your way. They stampeded because one cow thought she saw a wolf. Are you afraid of the wolf, whether or not it really ever was a threat, or the cattle?
They see an unknown danger. The unknown is terrifying. You would think Westerns would be smart enough to imagine some comical music to accompany Chinese workers in hazmat suits sterilizing the great outdoors. Ya. It should work.
How are these nutrient tests done that supposedly tell us how much of what nutrient is in a food?
Well, the lab takes a “random” sample and tests it with whatever means they have.
The amount of Selenium measured depends on at least two factors:
The soil in which the tested food has been grown (and the other growing conditions like weather, pesticides, fertilier, …)
The accuracy of the lab test.
If a supposedly selenium rich food has grown in soil with no selenium you still have no selenium in your food.
If the lab test results were skewed due to a flawed testing method, maybe even unknown at the time, the results can be very inaccurate.
Just an example:
Some years ago I had my well water tested at home. I sent in two samples, one taken directly from the well, a second sample taken after the water had gone through the reverse osmosis.
When the results came back they showed more Nitrate in the reverse osmosis water than in the raw well water. I purposely did not tell the lab that they were testing RO water until after the results were in. Then I called them and question them about their testing and they did not give me any explanation.
Trying to remain healthy and keeping the immune system up has become most difficult in this age.
Many are trying to use hand sanitizers etc. to ward off viruses.
But how do the chemicals in the hand sanitizer affect our immune system?
We have to keep in mind that everything we place on our skin eventually enters the blood stream. Or how else does a salve work that eases muscle and joint pain?
Just try rubbing some fresh, raw garlic intensely on the soles of your feet and soon afterwards you will be able to taste it in your mouth.
And we have hundreds of such chemicals we use daily:
Soap, shampoo, make up, air fresheners we breath, lotions, tooth paste, mouth wash, deodorant, and the list goes on.
Then come the pollutants we are exposed to daily (exhaust fumes, cleaner fumes, paint fumes, city water), which includes tooth fillings (like amalgam) and implants (like artificial knees), plus vaccines and pharmaceuticals (sometimes called medicine)
The list is endless.
The reason why the elderly are so much more vulnerable is their weak immune system. And the number one reason this immune system is so week is because of the toxin, which have accumulated in their bodies over the decades from being exposed to all this stuff.
My father is 92, hale and hearty. His diet is execrable, he loves sweets. He has used whatever shampoo/soaps/food was commercially available, ditto for drinking tap water, taking drugs for blood pressure etc. He is slowing down and that is because he is old and old means worn out over time. His immune system is incredible, he has most of his teeth, his mind is sharp but he is getting old. Hell, he IS old. Toxins are certainly a factor, good genetics is a far better indicator of longevity.
Attitude also counts towards well being.
Did you think and grow rich?
Infinitely so.
What profit does a man achieve to lose his soul in gaining the World?
Details. Too many details! Just tell me what to think in a narrative already!
Brought mom to the hospital this morning. At 2PM today they are going to shove some wire through her arteries until it reaches the back of her leg, and then they’ll expand the balloon … in hopes of opening the severe arterial blockage there … and thus hoping the increased blood flow will heal that ulcerous calf.
Should be routine. Then again, the nurse cautioned that no surgery on an 89 year old frail woman is routine. Opening the artery could cause the blockage to break off and travel to the heart causing a heart attack. Opening the artery could burst it if the artery walls are excessively thin. How will she handle the anesthesia? Hell … maybe there’s a Corona thingy floating around the operating room. He mentioned a few other risks. Wonderful. I’m running out of loved ones ….
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A decade ago or so SARS killed thousands in the US and infected millions. Why didn’t America shut down back then??
That’s why I consider the reaction to the current virus complete and total bullshit. We are being used and manipulated by the powers that be for their own nefarious purposes. It is no more complicated than that, imho.
We are reacting, or we SHOULD be reacting to what was and is going on in China primarily and Iran, Italy and SKorea. China being shut down has had MAJOR repercussions economically and financially. Take a look at the markets and then wonder how that will affect you going forward.
That decade ago SARS affliction did not cause China to shut down the way it did nor did it keep China shut down as it remains today. Pay attention to more than what happens in your immediate environment, your own little microcosmic bubble.
From Italy:
“Hawkins, who live in the Lombardy region’s Lake Como, warns that the reason the country ended up in this situation is because it didn’t take the virus seriously.
“It isn’t like this is some third world country that doesn’t have proper health care,” she said. “Look around, most every other country isn’t either,” she said.
Hawkins says the escalation of the virus in Italy has been so rapid that hospitals have struggled to keep up. “There were so many people who needed to be hospitalized that we have simply run out of beds. … They’re taking any building that they find that’s empty, to use it as an emergency facility to house people who need to be put on these ventilators.”
Hawkins says the worst part has been the doctors making “those gut-wrenching decisions, to decide who they’re just going to let die in favor of who they think they may save.”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/firstperson-report-from-italy-the-rest-of-the-world-needs-to-look-at-whats-happening-here-224355439.html
For goodness sake girl will you knock of the clubbing baby seals baloney. Trump heard you and you’re getting your stinkin lockdown. If not today then soon because screaming ninnies like you are begging for martial law.
Grow up Flea, enough with your bullshit. I never called for a lock down I merely stated that ignoring this virus and calling it a hoax was and is dangerous. Even our brave and intrepid author of this article, a man who initially stated that he thought the virus was propaganda pushing an agenda and is straddling the fence re said virus, wrote that he was going to err on the side of caution by NOT flying.
In the land of misconceptions, twisting words and general all around thicker than a brick you are King, bar none.
Now, go accuse me of being a lesbian or something else equally stupid because your ass is permanently chapped but before you do? Please, go fuck yourself.
dykster
You’re constantly calling for action and more action to stop this thing. Read you own bullshit bitch. Constantly accusing those of us calling for reason of wishing death on the weak because we won’t panic. Scew you.
I have a vagina. Now muh monologue: “In the beginning…”
remind me mygirl, who is the broken record?
somebody slap her, she is skipping again.
Oh brave little anonymous can go fuck itself and join Fleabaggs in the process….
Pointing out harsh reality here seems to cause massive cog dis….
What part of the entire country of Italy being shut down due to a virus escaped your and the collective’s simpleminded attention?
Brandon called it: shoe shine boys…
ya, we got it. normalcy bias, china, italy, cog dis, entire countries shut down, old people, draconian measures are necessary, iran, hear me roar.
you are beyond tedious.
Still hiding little asshole? At least Flea is out in the open, you are chickenshit.
Good to hear from ya, Stuck. Even under the difficult circumstances. Thanks for checking in.
You wrote:
Impossible, Man. Impossible…
TheBurningPlatform.com
3/13 12:45pm. Went to a bank stand alone atm in a walgreens parking lot. Line was 5 deep. Mexican girl had 4 cards and was there 10 minutes cashing out each card emptying the accounts. Others ahead of me did at least 2 transactions due to amount limitations. I had to do two as well. Will there be a run on the banks? Dunno just reporting what i witnessed….
Cash is King. PM’s are the financial deity.
Lawyer daughter just told me the court houses in the four surrounding counties have been ordered closed for 60 days. You can still visit clients in the jails. LOL! Oh boy.
Glad I went all in on bitcoin. It is proving itself to be a great store of value, a virtual digital gold (snicker)
I see that they ask if you sold any digital currency on the tax forms now. I am not well informed on digital, is there a tracking mechanism that the IRS would know of such things?
If they have to ask there likely isn’t. While each coin has a unique identifier there is no indication of who “owns” it. It is quite easy to steal or hack with no or little recourse. Lawyer daughter took a continuing legal education course on digital currencies. Her take is they were developed as a means for criminals doing business on the dark web and the risks like what happens if the power goes out are very real. Unlike PM’s in your hand, Bitcoin can actually go pfffft.
I think I recall seeing something on TV about the good-guy spooks tracking down some freelance hacker and not having and then having a way to trace bitcoin. I might be thinking of something else. There is a block chain, which is a record of each party that held the bit coin. Muh quick online search says they would be able to find out. The question is motivation. If you are a black Somolia trying to start a business in American, you’ve got nothing to worry about.
I just drove by the Bible Guy in the wealthiest city in America. He stands there every Friday waving a bible.
Winnetka or Kennilworth Illinois?
Today’s Corbett Report on Medical Martial Law is well worth the 30 minutes
Corbett always seems to have his finger on the pulse of what’s going on. TY. I have enough video content to catch up on to keep me occupied during this entire quarantine.
Pretty much what us humans thought. We don’t need any more facts that merely reinforce the facts pressing upon us. We know the situation. Now what? Get past the validation. We are valid; therefore, are domestic other is not. Now what? No need to answer out loud. Just get to thinking about what counts instead of looking back.
Good Point.
We’re all together gonna laugh over this statement, 3 weeks from now!
Who slipped this guy a roofie?
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/11/dr-anthony-fauci-estimates-coronavirus-mortality-rate-at-one-percent/
And then he snorted another fat line of fentanyl and slipped back into a deep, coma-like slumber.
Two very good articles right here. These were posted on LR last night at the same time I was posting this one and I just now had a chance to read them:
Virus Fearmongerers Prevail
and
The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”
This imbecile needs to stop spreading his uninformed opinion.
All my comments have been going to spam and now they’re shotgunning.
Strange times.
223 and 9mm will be more important that TP, hand sanitzer and soap over the coming months. Prepare accordingly.
You’ll never see .223/5.56 and 9mm at these prices again so it’s a great time to as my old internet buddy Black Blade used to say “Buy it cheap and stack it deep!”
I bought a case of .357 mag 158 fmj fp for the Winchester 92’s in honor of Wuhan flu. This stuff is supposed to clock something like 1,800 fps+. Almost afraid to try it out in my Smith L-frame, but I will. Hehehe.
It is times like these when you can really appreciate how it is our inability to grasp reality that incubates much of our difficulties.
Detach from that which obscures understanding of the impermanent nature of our existence, and leave trepidation behind, as it is the fear [of our transient nature] that lies at the heart of much that motivates human [in]action.
Regardless of what happens, all is well.
Keep letting go, impermanence.
“It is times like these when
youa human being can really appreciate how it isourthe subhuman’s inability to grasp reality that incubates much of our difficulties.”Organisms do NOT share a universal morality. Resources are limited. Spiritual credit is endless fiat money. The borrower is slave to the lender. What then is the purchaser of credit for redemption by an unknown God? You sophistic gyrations will not square that circle. There is no lie big enough without the victim’s faith. Of course, if you are living and dying what you preach, my respect. If the eternal loves you, all is indeed well. I’m sure it’s true.
I do realize that my intellectual ramblings are just that.
The best any of us can do is to see things as close to what they truly are which allows the most productive [re]action.
Cue the theme song from the movie “Jaws”…
White House starts temperature checks for people around Trump – POLITICO
(Doug / Uncola) – posting Unonymously to avoid being spammed
Somebody ought to follow that wormy little coquesuquere Acosta around with a heat lamp so we could hear him whine and squeal for days about being thrown out. LOL!
We should call it by its real name Wuhan Flu.
Placing Paul’s prose onto this post for posterity purposes:
The Coronavirus Hoax – by Ron Paul, March 16, 2020
Coronavirus® really is the new Terrorism®. Even so, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. It is real because it’s happening.
(Doug / Uncola) – posting Unonymously to avoid being spammed
It depends on what you consider a problem.
Let’s take the Diamond Princess cruise ship data as an example.
That cruise ship had 3500 people trapped on it for nearly a month. About half are under (the crew), the other half are over 60.
17% got infected with nCOV. Is this good or bad? A “typical” flu infects about 15% of the population every year.
It is more clear now that while you *can* get it via aerosol, the transmission is still primarily droplet – i.e. fluids from infected people getting onto, then into healthy people.
About 16% of the Diamond Princess infected had serious respiratory problems – more of the old people but not exclusively – i.e. they needed ventilators/ICU care.
The US has 3 hospital beds per 1000 people – that’s 0.3% coverage. Note this includes cancer patients, surgery, major accidents whatever.
17% infection rate with 16% needing ICU care = 2.72% of the population needing a hospital bed.
This isn’t a problem? If these people don’t get it – the death rate goes up a lot.
As for actual death rate: 7 people actually died from Diamond Princess; 700 are still infected and it is estimated another 7 or 8 will die.
Translated into overall US numbers, again using the 17% infected rate – this yields 250K dead of which 90% are over 70. But of course, this is if everyone who needs it, gets an ICU bed.
However, death rates in China were more like 2.3%. Again using 17% infection rate, this yield 1.29 million dead.
Is 1 million additional dead worth the effort? Yes, 90% will be over 70, but that’s still 100K working age deaths. Double the US losses in Vietnam.
As for the “freedom” bits: a bit under half of the Diamond Princess infected showed no symptoms. Interestingly, it was the under 20 and over 60 that didn’t; the 20-59 showed symptoms more but died less than the over 60. This means the draconian measures China is taking make sense – there is an enormous number of symptomless carriers for nCOV.
On Valentines Day (Feb 14, 2020) China’s death count from COVID-19 was claimed to be 1,380
Now, 32 days later the death count in China is claimed to be 3,237 (at the time of this post)
That is approximately 60 deaths a day (over the past 32 days) brought about by the (so claimed) most contagious disease ever in the most populous nation on earth.
As I asked in my 3rd COVID-19 article:
(Doug / Uncola) – posting Unonymously to avoid being spammed
You forgot to note that China instituted a draconian nationwide lockdown on January 23.
This includes stopping all rail, air and car transport in/out of Wuhan; people in front of every apartment building issuing permits to enter or leave; stopping all car traffic incoming and requiring passengers and drivers to install a tracking app; spraying of sidewalks and other public areas and roving groups of people checking why anyone is out and about.
60 deaths a day *even with* this measures – what would have happened without?
Note that China new cases has dropped to zero now – but they still haven’t ended the lockdown, last I looked.
Italy: police have stopped 700K people in the 2 weeks up to now – more than 1 in 100 of the entire population – and issued 43K tickets for people without legit reasons. Their lockdown just started – we won’t see a plateau for their cases for at least another week.
California Orders Lockdown for State’s 40 Million Residents
California ordered its 40 million residents to stay at home except for essential activities beginning Thursday night in the largest such lockdown in the U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-reports-no-new-domestic-coronavirus-infections-for-the-first-time-since-outbreak-started-11584611233
California ordered its 40 million residents to stay at home except for essential activities beginning Thursday night in the largest such lockdown in the U.S.
https://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/world-death-clock.asp
How many have died EXCLUSIVELY due to coronavirus?
This does not hit hardest the elderly OR those with other health conditions. It hits almost exclusively those over 80 years old who ALSO have other SERIOUS health conditions … usually respiratory. This isn’t going to go exponential in terms of death but will in terms of the number of cases.
The deaths so far attributed to coronavirus may not have died FROM the virus, but merely WITH the virus. They may either have died from complications in addition to existing serious health problems, or from other causes exclusively … but WHILE infected with this virus. That is, deaths which were either nearly imminent anyway, or were totally unrelated to this virus, may be simply being ATTRIBUTED to the virus.
Who, specifically, has died? A list of names.
No, it’s NOT the flu, bro. It’s a lot less serious than that.
How many deaths attributed to this pandemic will be fully investigated, and by whom?
Nevertheless, we have MARTIAL LAW imposed in some states, and Trump “the WARTIME PRESIDENT” has activated the Defense Production Act.
By the way, how are the U.S. Marine Reserves doing in support of Border Patrol? Are they still activated for an “Emergency Within The United States”? Given the hubbub about our southern border since 2017, why weren’t they activated until six months ago? Hey. Why WERE they activated two months BEFORE the coronavirus outbreak?
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How long have you expected the everything bubble to pop?
Is this a good pin?
Does it give plausible deniability to the Federal Reserve? To Trump? (who called it a bubble when running in 2016) To Congress?
Does anyone remember Hank Paulson telling then President Bush that unless he bailed out the big banks, the U.S. economy would COLLAPSE? He didn’t say that the market would tank, it just had … that’s why he said it.
In 2008, the biggest can in the world was kicked down the road. Everyone, including Trump (just as Obama before him) and The Federal Reserve KNEW this “everything bubble” would pop. The Fed KNEW last year when they had raised rates to 2.5% and then very abruptly reversed course, that the bubble would pop SOON.
The Repo funding (QE4) was a last ditch DELAYING TACTIC to allow time for the CREATION of a “pin” with which the bubble could be popped while affording TPTB plausible deniability.
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TPTB (in the U.S.) are The Fed, Trump, Congress, the Intelligence Community (who gave a briefing to some congress-critters who quickly sold stock), someone(s) among the Joint Chiefs, the United Nations and subsidiaries, and – pretty obviously – the six companies that own the entire Mainstream Media. Oh, and — in this particular case — the WHO and CDC.
[[Also, by the way — for a certain set of conspiracy theorists — Q anon. Whoever he, she, or they may be, Q anon knew back in late 2018 that martial law would come under Trump. Sorry, no arrests will be forthcoming. There is no (as far as I know) cabal of Satanic pedophiles behind things. Just real people with real jobs, real authority, and real power and wealth, who knew they’d catch the blame for the collapse of the entire global economy and its aftermath.]]
No doubt, therefore, that the CFR (who have multiple members advising Trump) was instrumental in the orchestration of this whole thing for years. Whether other groups familiar, seemingly, only to “conspiracy theorists” such as the TLC, Bilderbergers, Davos attendees, etc., were aware is up to interpretation.
This was bound to impact the global economy, including China whose economy would crumble without their best customer. So, Xi, Trump, and (I assume) the EU, the U.N., and various other world leaders … knew.
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“It’s not our fault. There was a plague.”
When the “curve” “flattens” — as it inevitably will because there are a limited number of people whose deaths can (falsely or truly) be attributed to the Coronavirus — our illustrious leaders will tell the MSM, and the MSM will dutifully report, that the “Lockdowns” and “Social Distancing” and the shuttering of businesses and the dust masks and the hand-washing (and hand-wringing) …..
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WORKED!!!!
See! All is well! The world is saved!
The hardship was all worth it, and you endured it all bravely.
And all thanks to the quick-thinking of authorities in Government!
ok mags here you go
200… i got the box… thanks