Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
What does the future hold? It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world’s great nations.
Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans — a third of the nation — could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.
Translation: Between 750,000 and 1.1 million Americans may die of this disease before it runs its course. The latter figure is equal to all the U.S. dead in World War II and on both sides in the Civil War.
Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that 70% of Germany’s population — 58 million people — could contract the coronavirus. If she is right, and Fauci’s mortality rate holds for her country, that could mean more than half a million dead Germans.
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis called Merkel’s remark “unhelpful” and said it could cause panic. But Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch seemed to support Merkel, saying between 40% and 70% of the world’s population could become infected.
Again, if Fauci’s 1% mortality rate and Lipsitch’s estimate prove on target, between 3 billion and 5 billion people on earth will be infected, and 30 million to 50 million will die, a death toll greater than that of the Spanish Flu of 1918.
There is, however, some contradictory news.
China, with 81,000 cases, has noted a deceleration in new cases and South Korea appears to be gradually containing the spread of the virus.
Yet, Italy, with its large elderly population, may be a harbinger of what is to come in the West.
As of Thursday, Italy had reported 12,000 cases and 827 deaths, a mortality rate of nearly 7%. This suggests that the unreported and undetected infections in shutdown Italy are far more numerous.
In the U.S., the death toll at this writing is 39, a tiny fraction of the annual toll of tens of thousands who die of the flu.
But the problem is this: COVID-19 has not nearly run its course in the USA, while the reaction in society and the economy approaches what we might expect from a boiling national disaster.
The stock market has plunged further and faster than it did in the Great Crash of 1929. Trillions of dollars in wealth have vanished. If Sen. Bernie Sanders does not like “millionaires and billionaires,” he should be pleased. There are far fewer of them today than there were when he won the New Hampshire primary.
What does the future hold?
It may one day be said that the coronavirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence of the world’s great nations.
Tourism, air travel, vacation cruises, international gatherings and festivals are already shutting down. Travel bans between countries and continents are being imposed. Conventions, concerts and sporting events are being canceled. Will the Tokyo Olympics go forward? If they do, will all the anticipated visitors from abroad come to Japan to enjoy the games?
Trump has issued a one-month travel ban on Europe.
As for the “open borders” crowd, do Democrats still believe that breaking into our country should no longer be a crime, and immigrants arriving illegally should be given free health care, a proposition to which all the Democratic debaters raised their hands?
The ideological roots of our free trade era can be traced to the mid-19th century when its great evangelist, Richard Cobden, rose at Free Trade Hall in Manchester on Jan. 15, 1846, and rhapsodized:
“I see in the Free Trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe — drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace.”
In the pre-Trump era, Republicans held hands with liberal Democrats in embracing NAFTA, GATT, the WTO and most-favored-nation trade privileges for China.
In retrospect, was it wise to have relied on China to produce essential parts for the supply chains of goods vital to our national security? Does it appear wise to have moved the production of pharmaceuticals and lifesaving drugs for heart disease, strokes and diabetes to China? Does it appear wise to have allowed China to develop a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals crucial to the development of weapons for our defense?
In this coronavirus pandemic, people now seem to be looking for authoritative leaders and nations seem to be looking out for their own peoples first. Would Merkel, today, invite a million Syrian refugees into Germany no matter the conditions under which they were living in Syria and Turkey?
Is not the case now conclusive that we made a historic mistake when we outsourced our economic independence to rely for vital necessities upon nations that have never had America’s best interests at heart?
Which rings truer today? We are all part of mankind, all citizens of the world. Or that it’s time to put America and Americans first!
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Things were outsourced because the cost structure in the US is too high. Things get done cheaper elsewhere.
Why is that? It’s because the US gov’t suck too much money out of the system raising the costs on everything.
Trillions spent on murdering people in foreign lands that have done nothing to us and reasonably can’t do anything to the US. The US military isn’t worth shit.
Billions spent keeping lazy bastards alive who don’t want to work. Cut them off.
Billions spent keeping baby factories alive who can’t identify the numerous fathers of their children. Force the whore to support her children and help locate the fathers to force them to support their children till they’re adults.
Billions spent trying to comply with bullshit regulations and reporting every fart to gov’t. Just get rid of stupid shit like the TSA, IRS, and all the nanny agencies.
Want to make America great again. Get rid the the Fed Gov and watch a renaissance in the US once we’re allowed to breathe freely once again.
Alas, New Americans can be psychotic and schizophrenic. We want the newest gadgets, SMART technology, cheap mass produced everything, free health care, subsidized everything, free education, No Fault guarantees and cannot determine the resulting long term consequences.. Until now. One can hope.
“You can’t fix stupid” – Ron White
I’m sorry to say that the majority of the country is too stupid to learn much of anything, so even what’s going on now isn’t going to teach them any lessons. Their overriding concern is to get more ‘free stuff’, some idiotic ball game and the plight of the Kardashian clan.
The super wealthy are, and have been, strip mining the country for decades with the full cooperation of the Fed Gov and the morons keep voting in their ‘representatives’ to continue to fleece them. The worst examples of the average USian are those that attend political conventions or spend their efforts on getting some hemorrhoid elected, as though elections actually mattered.
The economy has started to roll over, and just like an iceberg, that will take some time to flip completely. Only when hit over the head with an economic 2×4 will they wake up and demand gov’t to ‘do something’. Gov’t will comply and tighten the screws further while stealing more from the productive to give to the human trash – their voting constituents.
My hope is that the country is so polarized that secession talks turn to action and the US Fed Gov disintegrates without too much bloodshed.
This American just wants to finally buy a pack of zigzags where the glue isn’t all dried out.
Imagine the growth spurt that would come from eliminating the federal government-every last miserable vestige of it-and the 4 trillion dollars left in the economy, now flushed down the federal rathole. It would bring on a renaissance.
SAO,
Bingo. The cost structure has been too high for a long time now.
The NWO is just getting rid of it’s baby teeth.
Yeah Flea, wait til the NWO bites ya in the ass with those full sized choppers. NWO shill asks if a NWO theatrical event will actually kill the host……we couldn’t get that lucky.
Baby teeth yes, but also look at Turkey and the migrants, look at Saudi Vs Russia -Iran-US, look at China and her neighbors, UK v EU. The potential for regional wars is on the rise due to the NWO, these countries’ leaders are getting pissed. These guys act as its all about me.
Globalism is toxic to humans and other living things.
Amen HF. But what can we do about it? We iz hostages………..
Buchanan, as much as I think he is a great human being, never fails to disappoint when talking about capitalism and free trade. What, exactly, is free about the crony organizations and mercantilist treaties mentioned above? This is no different than the assholes who bitch about our Soviet health care and whine that capitalism has failed us. No wonder Sanders gets such traction.
If we had anything approaching capitalism and free trade, we and the rest of the world would be infinitely richer.
Dan.
Exactly.
We have Oligarchy or Crapitalism(Crony capitalism).
I believe careful reading indicates he passionately opposed all that stuff. His writing over the last thirty years surely indicates he opposes all of that.
I like Pat a lot and admire his intellect and honesty, but he is a mercantilist through and through. Essentially centrally planned trade backed up with military force.
Which is pretty much what we already have, but since it is called “free trade”, he gets to rail against the failures of the “free market” and push for government-managed trade. For such a smart guy, I don’t understand why doesn’t get this.
Or will the means of spreading mass fear EMBOLDEN THEM for something even worse in the future?
Short answer, Pat, is “no.”. Whole states are effectively being placed under martial law right now without a single shot fired. Gatherings of people in excess of 250 or 500 people are being banned by local tin god edicts. I think if these extraordinary restrictions on our rights are going to be imposed, we at least deserve some truthful answers to the following questions:
1. Is the virus aerosolized, or only suspended in water droplets from coughing? If the latter, why is the government appropriating most of the n95 mask supply?
2. Why did the FDA/CDC prohibit private testing for the virus until it was so established in the USA that containment became impossible without extraordinary limits on liberty?
3. Is the virus bioengineered? Is not, how did it come to have HIV genes? If so, who made it, when was it made, and how was it released into the civilian population?
4. CDC is telling all Americans that the should be prepared to shelter in place for a minimum of two weeks. Since at least half of us are living paycheck to paycheck & are one missed check from financial destruction, is there ANY planning for what half of the country is supposed to do when the food runs out?
5. I started looking for remote work jobs in January, and there isn’t that much out there despite IT. This is incredible, considering the time & money that had been put into development of groupware and videoconferencing tech over the past decade. What federal and state-level legislation is needed to allow as many of us as possible to earn a living from home offices during an extended quarantine situation?
6. Do anti-retroviral drugs treat the virus? If yes, why (see Q.3, above)? What steps are being taken to secure or manufacture sufficient supply for the general US population?
7. If prohibition on travel from continental Europe (but not UK!) was warranted, why didn’t we do the same with China, South Korea and Italy when it would have made a difference?
8. What is your projected cost to the economy in loss of GDP and investment value for a sustained quarantine of the entire US economy for a period of three months? Surely the number must be in excess of one Trillion dollars. Would you agree that anything up to that spent to avoid this situation would have been a net positive?
I could spend an hour writing these interrogatories, but you get the idea.
This makes as much sense to me as anything I’ve come across:
“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
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.”
There are two parts to the article, sure worth a read imo.
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <<—–== a new order for the ages is what the Emperor and clan are working to achieve..
Great info. Thank you, sir. The implications of it are pretty scary.
The short answer is no, this will not kill the NWO. The wealthy only use crisis to rob more power and more money from the working classes. The NWO will make the case that the problems of the crisis were not the fault of globalization, but of Nationalism. They will say the only way to protect everyone going forward is for the NWO to have authorization over all National Governments. You see there are 2 kinds of people in the world, the wolves and the sheep, and the NWO are the wolves. It is your place to say Bahhh.
Got GSD’s and Weims. I don’t give a crap what them fucks do. Bring it bitches. The dogs will have some fun.