Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Every disaster contains a lesson or a message that needs to be examined. Every tragedy, no matter how terrible, should be absorbed into the public consciousness and adopted as a cautionary tale; a part of our mythos. These events should not be cast into the memory hole to make life less stressful, they need to be taken seriously. Otherwise, the damage done and the lives lost are all for nothing.
Refusing to examine the dark side of life and its dangers has become a staple of our society, to the point that it has given birth to a kind of religious cult. Naive optimism has become a virtue, a misplaced form of faith that encourages people to remain oblivious in the face of adversity. And the more precarious our system becomes, the more these people see unicorns and rainbows. It is truly bizarre.
Some of us understand the mechanics of our economic, political and social machine and recognize that they are broken. The system cannot be fixed because it has been corrupted by people with evil intent (globalists); it is designed to fail. The agenda? To crash almost everything and then replace it with a centralized behemoth, a global empire. The intent is to force the masses to accept this “new world order” using a false choice – We can have chaos and death, or “order” through total Orwellian control. Peace, sovereignty and freedom are not offered as choices.
As Richard N. Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, wrote in the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation’s (CFR) journal Foreign Affairs (pg. 558) in an article titled ‘Hard Road To World Order’:
“In short, the ‘house of world order’ will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great ‘booming, buzzing confusion,’ to use William James’ famous description of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault.”
The answer offered to every disaster is always more centralization, even if centralization was part of the problem from the beginning. The coronavirus pandemic event will be no different.
As was hinted at during Event 201, a coronavirus pandemic exercise run by Johns Hopkins, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum only three months before a REAL coronavirus outbreak took place in China, the goal will be to use the event to create a central economic authority to distribute resources to “counter the virus”. You see, the elites never let a good crisis go to waste.
But this plan requires complicity and apathy among the public. It requires our consent in order to work. For if we continue to undermine and resist it the globalists will never feel safe and secure. Like a cancer, they will eventually have to be cut out and removed if the system is to ever be truly fixed.
The pandemic might be an opportunity for the elites, but it is also a learning experience for the rest of us, and it might even bring some clarity to issues that have been hotly debated for several years. But what are some of these lessons?
Lesson #1: The Prepper Movement Was Right All Along
Over the past decade I have seen some extremely odd responses to the prepper movement, including a lot of aggression and hostility not to mention numerous hit pieces and hatchet jobs in the media. What is it about individuals being prepared for a potential crisis that sends so many snowflakes into a meltdown? Why do they care?
If you think that survivalism is all “conspiracy” and “doom and gloom” then why not ignore it like you ignore everything else? If preppers were wrong, then nothing happens, and all we did is spend some of our money on supplies that we will use anyway over time. No harm no foul. Yet, the mainstream acts as if the preparedness mindset is a criminal action that damages the rest of society.
Of course, as we can see from the coronavirus event in China, preppers were right all along. Almost every single potential problem we have warned about and written about over the years is now plaguing the Chinese citizenry, and most of these problems could have been solved by prepared citizenry.
Over 600 million people in China are now under lockdown; essentially martial law. Supply lines are dwindling in some areas, food is limited, medical treatment is nonexistent for many. The people in quarantine are completely dependent on the government for their survival and that same government has been systematically dragging people out of their homes and forcing them into makeshift “hospitals” (prisons) where they are almost certain to become infected. If ever there was a scenario where prepping was called for, this is it.
I can’t recall how many times I’ve heard people argue that prepping is “pointless” and that all our concerns over a crisis event are “overblown”, but we are now facing a pandemic in modern times, not to mention possible economic collapse. The only argument these people can make now is that the virus “won’t spread to the West”, but that is an assumption based on blind faith rather than science or logic. And even if it ends up being correct, what does it hurt to prepare anyway?
Lesson #2: Supply Lines Will Be Damaged Or Restricted
As noted above, preparedness is the first step to solving most problems, because most crisis events tend to result in similar consequences. In China, food and other goods are being rationed and supply lines in some areas are shut down completely. The only option is to have what you need BEFORE a breakdown occurs.
In the US, retailers are dependent on highly coordinated “just in time” freight networks that supply only what a store needs for normal shopping traffic for the week. In the wake of a calamity, stores will empty in a matter of a couple days. If freight lines are slowed down or cut off because travel is restricted due to viral outbreak, then what you have in your home is basically all you will have until the restrictions are lifted. After studying the history of plagues and pandemics, I would conclude that the average viral event will last at least 1 year, sometimes longer. The Spanish Flu of 1918 did not burn out in the US for two years.
Anyone who claims the coronavirus will be gone in a matter of a couple of months is probably lying, or is making ignorant assumptions. Prepare for the long haul if the pandemic hits US shores hard.
Lesson #3: Never Trust Government
All governments lie. They will claim they do this to “protect us from ourselves” and to “avoid panic”, but politicians and elites do not care about this. They do not lie to protect society, they lie to maintain power and control, and sometimes, they lie because they want to keep the public docile and vulnerable. For, the more inactive and vulnerable we are, the more dependent we will all be on them when disaster strikes.
The viral outbreak in China has thoroughly illustrated why governments cannot be trusted. China has consistently lied about the infection and death rate surrounding the coronavirus. Numerous health officials in China have leaked information indicating the threat is FAR larger than the government admits. Some of these brave people been punished or have died in the process of trying to warn the rest of the world.
Currently, China is claiming a minimal and slowing infection rate, but on the Japanese cruise ship Diamond Princess, we have a large scale example of the coronavirus in action. The 3700 passengers of the Diamond Princess are being slowly tested for the virus, and authorities have found at least 175 people infected out of 490 tested so far. That’s an infection rate of at least 35%! Some people may argue that a cruise ship is close quarters and so the infection rate would be higher, but your average Chinese city is also very close quarters. The data coming from the Diamond Princess suggests that the Chinese are lying extensively about the scale of the outbreak.
With hospitals completely overwhelmed by a 30% to 35% infection rate, the quality of care would collapse and many people would die.
The Chinese government has resorted to censorship and threats in order to keep the citizenry quiet. This includes punishing people who are accused of “posting rumors” about the true extent of the damage caused by the virus and the threats have been specifically directed at medical staff that are the closest witnesses to the outbreak. The overall purpose of the lockdown appears to be an attempt to suppress the real infection rate and death rate. The mass quarantine itself allows the government to streamline the cover-up; they can more easily imprison the sick and then dispose of their bodies with less public observation, and they never have to report the real death statistics.
If the government has nothing to hide, then why try to restrict all information coming from professionals on the ground? They claim they want “transparency” after the debacle that was their response to the SARS outbreak in 2003, but obviously this is not true.
Do not think for one second that this would not happen here in the US or in Europe either. We have already heard Donald Trump dismiss the virus threat on multiple occasions, and if it does strike here, do not be surprised if Trump’s response is as draconian as China’s. To understand why, read my article ‘Trump Cannot Be Anti-Globalist While Working With Global Elites’.
Lesson #4: Expect The Virus To Eventually Arrive In Your Country
In the US, the argument from the apathetic crowd is that we only have 12 cases, so what is there to worry about? I would remind those folks that the ONLY people that have actually been tested for coronavirus in the US are people that have arrived specifically from China in the past few weeks, who are showing symptoms and who voluntarily bring up this fact to health officials.
This means that people who come from Singapore, Thailand or any other nation in Asia that has also been exposed to the virus have likely not been tested at all. With a dormancy period of two weeks (and according to some studies up to 24 DAYS), the coronavirus has no symptoms yet it can still be highly contagious.
I would also point out that hospitals nationwide have been given a very limited supply of coronavirus tests (only 200 tests nationwide), some of which have been proven faulty, so, if the outbreak becomes prominent, they won’t be able to give an accurate number of infection cases anyway.
We are in the early stages of this pandemic. I definitely would not give the all clear yet. Unless the US government plans to shut down ALL flights into the US right now, there is no way to prevent the outbreak from coming here in the long run.
Lesson #5: Enforced Quarantine Is Not Necessarily For Your Benefit
As I noted in my article ‘How Viral Pandemic Benefits The Globalist Agenda’, there are many times in which the establishment creates crisis events deliberately, or, they exploit natural crisis events to further their agenda. In the midst of a viral outbreak, most people given the proper information and warning would prepare. They would stock supplies and self isolate (or group isolate if they are organized) until the infection burns out. But this is not what the establishment wants. They do not want people who are independent and self reliant during a disaster; they want people that are completely unprepared and dependent.
This is why they will continue to lie about the extent of the danger until it is too late. This is why it took the UN’s World Health Organization at least two months of the coronavirus spreading through China before they finally admitted there might be a crisis in the making. And, this why forced quarantine will be used to push people out of their homes and into centralized areas where they will be more susceptible to infection, not less.
Take the example in China to heart, because it may be exactly what we face in the near future. The point being – If you and your neighborhood or community already have a plan in place to survive an outbreak, do not allow government to interfere with it, because your chances of getting sick or dead grow with every moment of government involvement. Remember, these are the same people that tried to keep you in the dark about the danger; they are not to be relied upon or cooperated with.
Lesson #6: Expect Martial Law
If a viral outbreak spreads through the west, do not be surprised if martial law measures are implemented. If you live in a major city and you see or hear about checkpoints being set up, get out immediately. As we’ve seen in China, once the walls are put up you will not be able to get out.
Rural areas are less likely to be effectively locked down by authorities because it would require too many personnel to achieve this. Major population centers on the other hand will be easily cut off.
There is a question here of how to respond. Should Americans go along with martial law? Would it be for the “greater good”? I am highly skeptical. Like I said, all governments lie and they lie to control, not to help. If martial law measures are interfering with an effective quarantine that individuals or communities have already put in place, and if the government is putting you at risk, then you might have to fight back.
At least in the US we have the means to do this if necessary. You will not be seeing many people dragged from their homes as easily as they are in China right now. Frankly, if I was a CDC or FEMA employee trying to force people into centralized quarantine I would fear for my life as last I checked those hazmat suits are not bullet proof.
Hopefully, we will get lucky, this will not be the case and the coronavirus stays primarily overseas. If it doesn’t, though, then expect that everything that is happening in China today will happen here tomorrow.
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To choose to live in an urban environment is a calculated risk. The rewards of city living in terms of income, opportunity, cosmopolitan entertainment, anonymity, hedonistic pleasures, etc. often outweigh the associated risks of crime, loneliness, poverty, disease, surveillance, etc.
You can luck out and never have a single incident or bad experience or you can face a plethora of challenges simultaneously.
Everyone has to choose how they would prefer to make their way through life and accept the risks that are associated with those choices.
The story of the ants and the grasshopper isn’t really about insects.
There you go getting another down vote HF. Don’t feel bad, I got one yesterday for saying I would pop a man in the butt with 12 gauge rock salt for pulling down his pants in public. Kind of scratched my head on that one.
For awhile I had a little downvoter who seemed to follow me around and regardless of what I typed, the little anus would downvote my comment. Regard them with pity and realize that they are very, very immature and sad little people.
TS calls them the phantom shitters.
It was me. JK. Happy V day.
See! There are three little assholes who made their presence know on that comment….lol.
What about Sodom and Gomorrah, is that about cities?
A Lot of it is, but some you have to take with a grain or pillar of salt.
That was pretty good… ?
“What is it about individuals being prepared for a potential crisis that sends so many snowflakes into a meltdown? Why do they care?”
Part normalcy bias, afraid of a reality that doesn’t fit their perceptions, and partly because they think they are smarter than everyone else and the government will take care of them.
Hans, what is so troubling to me, is we never thought about it as being prepared. We were poor back in the day (still are) and if you didn’t can and put food in the cellar, how would you eat come winter? Now I hear people talk about food hoarding and such? I don’t guess I understand. Living hand to mouth is a good way to land your rear in trouble, everyone should know that. And obviously, a person don’t have to have much money to grow a garden, just elbow grease.
Public education tends to go beyond the time it is applicable. How many of us remember not to trust anybody over thirty? Or that communism is evil?
In the thirties, nobody had to be encouraged to eat all the food in theor plate because there was hunger across the land. In the time of Hitler’s war against the world, food hoarding was actively discouraged in cartoons. Then in the 50’s we heard that kids should eat all the food on their plate, there was abundance across the land. Back in the 70’s we learned that a boycott on grapes can backfire because people keep boycotting long after the labor issue is resolved.
Today, we still have those kinds of lessons in our mind when we eat the thousands of calories served in restaurants because we learned long ago to finish all our food. Even the damn waitresses ask if you are still working on your plate. My buddy said he had come up with a solution, he said he would tell the waiter to cut his steak in half and take that back to the kitchen.
Pay to take it back to the kitchen? I go out to eat rarely because I can cook better with better ingredients that most restaurants, but, shit, if I pay for a meal I am taking a doggie bag home, not giving it back.
Best I have seen from Brandon in a while. Here is a thought….why the fuck are you shopping at Walmart or buying Chinese goods?
We slit our own throats over multiple decades by allowing (through our willingness to purchase) much of US manufacturing capacity to go elsewhere. You did it, my mom did it, I didn’t do it but enough others did that Walmart is massive.
You wanted cheap…..you were willing to tolerate low quality, the loss of jobs, the debased culture to save a few pennies.
Now……look in your home, your pantry, you’re vehicle, where does all of that stuff come from? Nowhere close and most of it from places outside of the US that when a pandemic hits will just keep the stuff for themselves or we will have to prevent it from coming into the US. Either way re-supply is problematic.
Where does the food on your plate come from? What’s that you don’t even have a plate just a fast food wrapper? Does your food come from Mexico, LatAm, CA? How is it going to get here in a pandemic? It isn’t……do you have a greenhouse? Of course you don’t because you like the cheapest easiest crap available.
If you live in a city, well you did it to yourself…..you assumed that “it could never happen here”…..tell that to your dead kids, your dead parents, friends and neighbors…..Disasters always happen.
Continue living the unsustainable life if you want but at least give a few moments of reflection on the risks you are actually taking.
Remember by being vulnerable you are also empowering the State………the greatest risk of all.
I’ve never liked crowds, city life was something I did because job. Once I could earn a living without being in a city I left and never looked back. I am a country girl who loves wide open spaces and listening to the coyotes sing their songs and being left alone. I also like being able to burn trash, and do repairs without having to get a permit from some bureaucrat and not having to listen to idiot neighbors doing the noisy and annoying crap that idiot neighbors do.
(I also like pina coladas and rain and a man with a sense of humor….sorry, got carried away, for a minute there I thought I was writing a tale about myself for a dating website….I actually hate pina coladas)
“city life was something I did because [of my] job.”
If you had added that you liked long walks on the beach, I would certainly think it was your dating site ad. (You had me at Big Red).
Once in a blue moon I get a craving for a Big Red. Ditto for Dr. Pepper. Generally I don’t drink soda pops. You had me at hello.
That also explains the popularity of comic book movies and Democratic Party presidential candidates.
Or testing ideas and challenging the status quo. Because Coronavirus has all the makings of a media event; a post-impeachment just-in-time delivery to the people. We are hamsters in a cage and electronic media is the wheel.
It could be a psyop. Or another test-run. And by summer we’ll be asking each other to remember the name of that last virus. “What was that? Guinness virus? No! It was Heineken, flu. Remember?”
But the itemized observations in and overall premise of the article are correct.
If it’s in error in any way, it would only be the timing. Because, as a global plague, Coronavirus seems … quite…. inadequate; in spite of all the electronic efforts to the contrary as reported from a tightly-controlled communist nation.
In any event, we’ll know soon for sure.
Well it is like earthquakes, hurricanes or shark attacks….low risk on any given day but over a longer time horizon a guarantee the event will occur. So the risk is there and the question is not whether this is a pysop or not but are you managing your own risk. All government communication is lies and misdirection, I never get concerned until they start going Baghdad Bob…….”Iraq has won the mother of all battles” as an M1A1 tanks goes rumbling by in the background….then you should panic but of course way too late then.
And that goes with heart disease tioo. It kills a million people every month.
A million people.
Every month.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero….
unless you are banned from twitter or whatever
Banned from Twitter means they get too close to the truth…can’t have that.
In a hundred years it won’t matter. (I’m responding to BR’s pearl of wisdom).
If this turned out to be true , and it’s entirely plausible given the ongoing trade war with China, what form would retaliation by China possibly take ?
“Taking all of this into account, the scenario that seems most plausible to me was that this virus was genetically engineered in one of the Pentagon’s biological weapons laboratories and introduced into China via infected wild bats, having picked the technology and manufacturing mecca of Wuhan as a target. The ultimate goal, one might surmise, is to induce US corporations to repatriate production to the US mainland in order to “make America great again.”
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-most-convenient-virus.html
You guys way overthink this stuff and give the elites far too much credit. Sure they have evil intent but are too stupid and to inept to be able to implement half the shit they think up…..eg. Gladio et al…were pathetic failures…..
How about just looking at the path of least resistance, short termism risk avoidance (can kicking) etc…….
Government has an incredible bias to ass covering can kicking……thus government always rationalizes and “misplaces” the tail risk……we don’t need to shut down entry into the US…..WE CAN HANDLE THE BEER FLU……idiotic but in a government swamp rat bureaucrats mind the known cost of a move like shutting the border far outweighs the uncertain impact of a pandemic…….so government always goes with the path of least resistance, the shortest time, the least disruptive and least subject to questioning in the short term.
Usually that works out…….tail risks don’t happen all that often but when they do…..then government obviously missed the opportunity to make a difference.
But even then, when the worst case happens…..government then just plays the “nobody could have known, nobody could have stopped this” card……see how that works?
All the incentives are pointed at can kicking…….
Here is a little unpriced tail risk….. 75% of all anti-biotics in the USA are made in China…….
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/02/13/coronavirus-outbreak-exposes-chinas-monopoly-on-u-s-drug-medical-supplies/
What you call ” overthinking” some might call ” seeing the whole picture “.
Evil people with power do powerfully evil shit.
The incompetence mostly lies with the mass of morons that refuse to see it.
Flash.
Amen.
Those evil people also have demonic entities helping them with high IQ’s.
I acknowledge that the top level folks are truly evil in character and in intent….they enjoying hurting people and wielding power…..but don’t you think it is just a little bit odd……that can’t really ever pull it off……Government is too stupid…..and simply can’t get out of its own way to do good things or bad things. It is mostly an engorged leech sucking the blood of the population.
Can’t even pull off what?
To kill anything, whatever it may be , one does not proceed by first making it stronger.
well one lesson learned is that some folks want “the end of the world!” so bad that they’ll ignore reality and proportion in favor of speculation and fantasy. almost certain, likely, merely possible, unlikely, or downright remote, they don’t care, they embrace the latest doom with eager arms.
it’s not prepping, it’s a religion.
G-man (short for “government man”, plural G-men) is an American slang term for agents of the United States Government.It is especially used as a term for an agent of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI)..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-man
and we’re watching everything you do, dude. check your car for tracking devices ….
Gman
They’re drawn to it like moths to a porch light.
I think it’s a longing for a world where they finally have become the important people.
Bah humbug, Gman!
The Boy Scout motto was / is(?) “Be Prepared”. If you live on the US Gulf Coast and don’t have plywood (to board up the windows), clean water, extra food and batteries stockpiled BEFORE the hurricane hits you’re screwed until after it’s gone. Katrina was less vicious than it could have been because the Mormons had a warehouse full of stuff, knew what it was, where it was and could distribute it efficiently.
If you want to be a leaf in a storm, blown about in painful ways by every gust of wind, be my guest. But it’s not a religion, it’s common sense – or used to be, before the fools and idiots took a veto-proof majority in this land.
All the unprepared normies are going to turn into unpredictable dangerous whacko’s, or suicide themselves.
yes. they will.
if and when.
“The only argument these people can make now is that the virus ‘won’t spread to the West’”
well, given the hysterical emoting about how transmissible and fatal it is, it should be rampaging through our streets already. but there’s almost nothing, considerably less than what happens every year.
“but that is an assumption based on blind faith rather than science or logic”
sounds like projection by those who have invested in doom for over ten years now and are starting to become irritated at how their investment has not panned out.
Over the years I’ve paid tens of thousands of dollars for insurance. I’m not going to regret a few hundred dollars for masks, gloves, rice and beans. And the Spam will get eaten eventually anyway. 4 gallons of powdered eggs supposed to arrive in a few days.
of course you should prep for events before they happen. I’m just pointing out that this corona virus thing is turning out to be nothing but hype, put out by people who seem to be desperate for it to be real. that’s all.
That’s what they want you to believe.