Guest Post by Ron Paul
Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.
It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.” He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state.
State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas, water, or electricity to any citizen. The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state.
The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis.
On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating, “Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant.” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days.
Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?
If anything, what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers are demanding will likely make the disease worse. The martial law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity. The panic produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the disease, as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that last roll of toilet paper.
The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians and the medical community. The head of the neoconservative Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus! Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these microscopic enemies?
People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic” could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially or politically – from the ensuing panic.
That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is over, however, they never give us our freedoms back.
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I’m sure they are wanting to rescind the PATRIOT Act if they only could but – terrorists!
In this world of panic, Ron Paul gives an interesting perspective. While I’ve been doing my own share of hoarding, I mean stocking up, the 1% number keeps running through my mind. If only 1% die from this virus than those are pretty good odds. Plus we hear these horror stories about doctors in critical condition with the virus and 16-year olds getting the virus, etc., etc. If you wanted to stoke fear in the population, those are the types of stories you would put out there.
Maybe we can get Ron Paul and Chris Martenson to debate. I trust both those guys but they seem to be saying opposite things. I do know that when the dust settles we will be in another Great Depression and the federal government will control the entire economy. That’s not good for the dirt people but I expect it will be very, very good for the cloud people.
These are indeed strange times.
The federal government already controls the entire economy. What else would you call a central committee setting interest rates and printing endless amounts of currency.
The alternative to this would be a free market. So if things change, that’s what we’ll get. And we just might since “more of the same” doesn’t appear to be working this time.
This country and its people are in a deep pool of crap & they are to busy panicking to see it. These control measures are taking in a very bad direction in my opinion. I hope people slow down enough to pull together and push back before we get to the point of total chaos and rioting.
“The federal government already controls the entire economy.” 🙂 Wake up, Dan! The ‘FED’ is a totally private establishment, under NO government control whatsoever. And, the reality is given to you by Carlin in the following video clip:
“under NO government control whatsoever.”? Do you even know how the board members get the appointments? Of course it is under gov-ment control. It’s just done by proxy.
“Of course it is under gov-ment control. It’s just done by proxy.” 😀 https://www.facts-are-facts.com/news/the-federal-reserve-is-privately-owned
in a system run by religious coethnic nepotism for their benefit, the question of private/public ownership is largely irrevalent.
“Tell the sky people they cannot have what is ours.” Jake Sully
What is happening world wide is only possible because the average individual agrees that he is subordinate to some asshat politician and some paid stooge with a gun.
If people decide that they individually are sovereign and that no one had the right to tell them what to do, all gov’ts would fail. It’s the brain dead that vote and clamor for more tyranny that are the cause of this gov’t madness.
The same sort of thing is happening in South America: Argentina, Perú, Chile… borders are closing. I’m over 70, which makes me an official shut-in, except that I’m a wild, adventurous and daring old duffer, just a rebel and I’ll never ever be any good, so I go off the property and walk to the grocery store (Chinese, even here in the boons) to pick up some milk, pretty much all alone in the shop; no shortages as of this morning.
My take on this varies, but I’m coming to conclude that this “pandemic” and the measures taken to “contain” it are a dress rehearsal for a much more serious series of events in a not-too-distant future. Anyone able to leave residence in cities or suburbs won’t want to be in those for the main event.
Could be the paradigm shift is beginning and the era of unlimited “growth” is coming to an end. I act on that assumption. Long-term zen practice provides a solid base for me, although my daughter-in-law is a Christian believer. My son pays lip service to Christianity, as he should, but is a silent taoist. He and I are teaching her austerity and it’s working.
Assuming we all survive this pandemic, we believe that by the time the main event rolls around we’ll be as ready as possible for it by putting the finishing touches on a smallholding that will be quite productive of foodstuffs both animal and vegetable. Fruits too.
But one thing we all believe: something wicked this way comes if it hasn’t already arrived.
I believe the beastie is slouching away, Montefrio!
I volunteer to drive old people to their appointments. One lady said she was 93 and I told her she didn’t look a day over 65. She preened. Likewise, you type like a 35 year old.
“I’m coming to conclude that this “pandemic” and the measures taken to “contain” it are a dress rehearsal for a much more serious series of events in a not-too-distant future. ” You’re dead on there ‘Montefrio’! However, people are almost identical to ‘four-legged wool’ and allow themselves to be rounded up by the ‘owner’ to be shaved and / or slaughtered, again and again and again. The hope that sheep on two legs will understand what you so brilliantly are saying here, is therefore very marginal. 😉
As always, the voice of reason. Also, although he didn’t mention it, he’s a medical doctor and actually knows what the fuck he’s talking about.
The most beautiful Live Cam in Venice Italy
In the end, it might very well take a revolution simply to get a sense of normality back from the pieces of garbage poised to destroy it.
I appreciate Ron’s perspective, this does have a very weird and scripted pattern, we went from a free society last week to a panicked heard over the weekend.
Tell me something: How do local county executives all repeat the same words and deeds, within a 48 hour window? The county to the west of us, locked down on Friday, our county locked down on Saturday, the whole state locked down by this morning (I’m in Upstate NY). I think we might have 3 cases in our county, and western county has 10? I’m sure NYC has a lot of un-diagnosed cases, but NYC is like another country, 4 hours away.
It doesn’t add up.
Add this to the list:
Today Silver and gold tank, silver plunge to outrages $11 oz, (lets go buy some now!!!)
Last week, I could still get silver eagles for about $20 from most online coin sites,
this week, some are just “sold out” and others are only selling expensive rare birds.
“silver just went to $11, that’s less that what we paid for our stock, close the store and wait this one out”
And now they are mulling over shutting down the taverns and restaurants,
you know what is coming next:
Travel restrictions and check points.
It is going to get ugly, real quick, once you take away the ability to blow off steam, from modern society.
we are not used to huddling around the camp fires
What we’ve been seeing at the stores is more people like us, worrying about those that might be panicking and wiping things out. Not really a lot of real panic, just people knowing that they’re supposed to be. “Weird and scripted” is exactly how I feel.
Ah, but these are campfires with dazzling displays of light and lies. Pass the vodka. Oh wait, they shut down the liquor stores. Nevermind, let the looting and chaos continue.
Ron takes his libertarianism to far but he is dead right to say PTB are using Kung flu as a diversion from economic trouble. The flu is almost as good a distraction as war.
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’s always the same people. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the John Hopkin’s folks, et al. And now Billy Gates’ work is done. Right on schedule. Like clockwork.
Bill Gates withdraws from Microsoft board to become a full-time philanthropist
After 44 years of founding the company
March 14, 2020
And Ron Paul nails it above. This really takes the cake:
Complete with a cherry on top:
I know some kids in Florida for Spring Break. The bars are closed and now they are talking of closing the beaches too. The beaches… salt-water and sunlight… probably the most toxic environment for COVID-19 imaginable.
Oh well. And so it goes…
(Doug / Uncola) – posting Unonymously to avoid being spammed
Dammit, and so it goes is a Vonnegut coda after a death. At least you didn’t say, same as it ever was.
Downvote for claiming he takes things too far. In fact, he could and should have gone even farther, but he was running as a Republican. Otherwise, spot on.
Yeah. Functions, like say y=7.8^X for instance, are total bullshit. It’ll be fine. Go on a cruise in Asia.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/16/coronavirus-viktor-orban-closes-hungarys-borders-fight-invisible-enemy/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/16/eu-president-calls-for-borders-to-remain-open-during-coronavirus-outbreak/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/16/open-borders-germany-closes-borders-with-five-countries-as-coronavirus-cases-jump-1000-in-24-hours/
https://dcwhispers.com/how-the-eus-open-borders-created-a-coronavirus-nightmare-for-all-of-europe/
Close all borders. Diversity and multiculturalism will help kill us all, one way or the other. Close our Southern border while we at least have a small bit of culture.
nKit: the man in the photo has scabies, not smallpox. This pic below is small pox and the photo is of a British woman, a forensic photographer, who caught it during an autopsy she photographed in 1978. She is believed to be the last known victim of smallpox.
I get the point about closing the borders, Ellis Island was there for a reason. Today’s open borders liberals aka leftists aka democrats, are idiots. Dangerous idiots.
BTW: There is no cure for smallpox, only the vaccine and that isn’t for people with diabetes and other diseases.
The predominant thought in Ron Paul’s mind is that the evil government is out to send us all to the gulag. When all you’ve got is paranoia everything looks like a conspiracy.
That was cute, ducky. I take it you are quite satisfied with the PATRIOT act and look forward to more control.
Are you sure you’re on the right blog?
Ducky
The CNN casting studio is 3 blocks down on the left.
When you engage only with people who share your world view you are in in cult. This site isn’t a cult, is it? Shit. Maybe it is.
No, it is not a cult. We just don’t suffer dumbasses.
Your making my point. Jackass.
At least somebody is making a point, Rubber Ducky shore ain’t.
Only when you make a point that hits too close home, then you get cult-like group denial reactions here.
Agree, Mike. It’s a school-boy clique mentality.
Oh shit, they’re flocking, Ducky and Mikey the Camel are forming their own anti-cult.
Always nice to see how much truth is a concern for you! (or others here)
If we want the truth, we’ll beat it into you.
Hang around, Mikey. We have a lot of diversity here. We have deniers like Uncola, paranoid conspiracists like (EC), statists like Ducky (I think he’s into handcuffs) and apocalyptic futurists like Fleabo. We also have preppers, schleppers and general lepers.
And a guy who grows peppers.
Don’t bring your bucket full of tears here.
A scheme with over one person is a conspiracy.
I like Ron Paul, but he is off the mark on this one. When investigating any type of a “scheme” the first question any professional investigator wants answered is who would profit from this. The old adage, follow the money and you find the truth is almost always accurate. So lets look at this situation logically. Who is profiting from the fear of the Coronavirus? Outside of those selling toilet paper, and hand sanitizer, not anyone.
Major corporations run Washington DC with their lobbyists openly writing legislation and dictating to elected officials what positions they will take. They know if they want to continue getting the generous campaign contributions that keep their butts in their cushy jobs they must do what ever their handlers tell them.
So how is Corporate America doing in this crisis? In short they are getting monkeyhammered. Not only are their sales going south, their stock prices along with the CEO’s salaries and futures are vanishing before their eyes.
Some of the largest corporations in the world are running to max out their credit lines in fear they do not have enough cash to get them though this crisis.
When you add this all up the theory of this being a scheme does not really make any sense. The elected politicians are hired whores, who pander to Corporate America, if they dared to do something that damaged corporate profits it would be political suicide.
Next, you have to look at the effects this virus is having worldwide, among our friends and enemies alike we are seeing total devastation to business on all levels. Are they in on this “scheme” that benefits no one?
What kind of effect is this “scheme” going to have on Government itself? Is the loss of trillions of dollars of income going to increase tax receipts? Is it going to help governments with their struggling budgets? Is it going to put voters in the mood to pass new taxes or support new projects?
Perhaps there is something I am missing here, but I am just not seeing how this crisis is benefiting anyone. All I see is everyone getting screwed.
Oh and by the way, the total control Ron thinks they are after…. They already have.
Jdog: Thank you, I’ve been saying what you just wrote from the get-go and have caught hell for it. The conspiracy theorists can’t let go and will downplay the virus as a ‘cold’ and a hoax used to push the globalist agenda.
Nevermind what’s happening globally, nevermind the collapsing economies, the ongoing financial collapse, the shuttered businesses, and the sick and dead. Their own little bubble isn’t affected so it isn’t real or it’s a hoax. Just remember….yet is an acronym for you’re eligible too…..
Maybe Rubber Ducky is partially right, we may have a cult of deniers in our midst. The deniers claim there are only a few lives at stake, not much more than what flu kills in a single year. However, it’s plain to anybody here that the bigwigs are not philanthropists, they would sell your soul if they could make a profit. Yet, they are purportedly sacrificing 1/4 to a year’s business to save a few lives? No wonder Rubber Ducky smells a rat; fuck a duck, the deniers will have us walking blindly into a trap.
The “powers that be” are not philanthropists, and that is what should worry you. If they are willing to sacrifice this kind of money, then they are really worried. If they could let this thing run its course and it only killed a few million, they would do a cost benefit analysis, and come to the conclusion that it would be more profitable to downplay the danger and keep people out there spending money. For them to basically shut down the entire planet for months, they are scared shitless, they know something about this thing we don’t ……
Which is why they keep the planes full of potential vectors flying for months.
Because they know how bad it is but don’t want to be seen as racists?
Do you think the entire world is coordinated and being run from a central point?
Mygirl,
Where are you located? How many people do you know who’ve been Carona’d?
Don’t Carona me bro.
The Federal Reserve and its owners benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/user/GregVegas5909/videos
The Federal Reserve is owned by its member banks. The banks are going to lose big from this. While it is true they will be recapitalized, their default rate on loans will skyrocket. In addition loan activity going forward will suffer badly as the economy craters and people learn the downside of excessive debt.
It does not matter how much money they print to loan, if no one is borrowing.
Not to forget that printing so much new money while the supply side (of the stuff people want to buy) is collapsing, can now really become inflationary.
Makes you wonder if Amazon (and eBay) are not deleting offers to stop price-gouging, but by (federal?) nudge to manage inflation…
Jdog
I could explain it to you in detail how “They” are not losing anything and are in fact gaining but I won’t I fallen for that line too often and spent a great deal of energy on replies that are easily verified. I have taken Articles Of Confederation’s stance on not doing any more education when If you wanted the answers to your questions you could find them. As for the total control you claim they have. Not even close. Not even Red china is close to the kind of control they want and will get.
You won’t because you can’t. No one is profiting from this. You are letting your senseless paranoia run away with your ability to think critically.
Jdog
You are as blind and nearsighted as your girlfriend MGM if you think no one is profiting from this.
Who holds the largest horde of silver on the planet? Who is the world leader in cutting edge AI and IT.
FB
You are really a narrow-minded self-delusional moron.
“Not even Red China” –
tell us more how you cling to the traditional belief that China is communist and we are capitalist – when reality clearly shows it’s more the other way round, for many years. Would you even be willing to entertain such a possibility, or is that already too much to handle for your mindset or shall I write set mind?
“cutting edge AI” –
tell us more about your knowledge on “AI”! I’ve seen cutting-edge crap in action at a FinTech. They take 300 signals and throw them into standard scikit-learn, which by the way is dumb-as-a-rock ML. Takes 7 days or so in the Google cloud to come up with a result, which is a complete black box, which is then used for fraud detection. Nobody has any clue what that black box does, or can provide any explanation why a certain outcome happens or doesn’t happen.
There you go again twisting words. If you paid attention to anything but your keystrokes you would know I don’t consider the U.S. capitalist or free. Now fukk off troll.
So that’s why you write Red China.
Thanks for the non-clarification, asswipe.
It seems those reckless Banksters are getting some nice cash.
The total control Ron says they’re after still hasn’t happened yet. They want it all. Total.
Short sellers profit from this.
So short sellers are behind this? Really?
Banks did not say that you did. Robin just named one group in responce to you insincere question.
Thanks Flea!
Jdog, if it goes on long enough whatever will the Government (s) do for tax revenue?
Print more?
The Federal Government has not needed taxes for a long time…
There is no way the global elites are going to allow major companies and industries to take the hit on this. All major systems are rigged. They knew this was coming and that the market would crash, and surely planned accordingly.
Posted by Not Sure
Things we know. The virus is engineered as a bio weapon; the only question is was it an accidental or planned release. The timing suggests planned, as it was dispersed just prior to the Chinese New Year for maximum global distribution.
On the surface, it looks far less harmful than the 12,000 plus deaths during the swine flu twenty or so years ago, which at the time did not come close to the hysteria/lock downs we see today. But if you couple the timing with the latest attempts to keep the market afloat, the flu is looking a lot like a cover for an economic meltdown down that is now taking place. If this is the case, we are in a free fall and things will not be returning to normalcy for years or decades; if ever.
So take a deep breath, expect a few more surprises along the way that will seal our fate and use your discernment to take your stand when the straw that breaks the camels back of your loss of freedoms crosses that line in the sand that only you will be able to define. Work out your options within your community, as comms will be one of the many dominoes to fall as we drift into whatever direction this train wreck is going to take.
Yep, what he said. Dr. Paul giving us common sense.
The lesson will become increasingly harsh until people learn.
…or until the system collapses, before people have learnt.
When I see politicians dropping dead from the Kung Flu, then I might start to believe.
Jazzy, I can see no other reason for their concern. It’s either a convenient way to usher in totalitarianism, preclude a revolt or they are just trying to keep from getting infected by the hoi-polloi. I suspect the last because they are sacrificing a lot of businesses with this shut down.
I had suggested to Maggito back in January that losing China was like a plane losing one engine in mid flight. If I was implying a rough landing, she didn’t react so I thought I was being over-dramatic
The denial of reality in America today is unbelievable. I believe this is in large part due to the average persons inability to think critically. The “truthers” believe there is a giant conspiracy to rob them of their freedoms and impose totalitarian rule.
I have news for you. We already have totalitarian rule, you are simply in a state of denial. You are not free. The government can shut you down at any time for any reason. Just ask Assange. Freedom ended in the US in 1913. The world today is only concerned with money, and keeping the masses generating money. Every decision is based on profit and the way to maximize it.
What we see happening today is not a conspiracy, it is not possible to have a conspiracy on this scale and to get all the governments of the world to cooperate in it. This is a fuckup. This is a oh shit. This is an example of humans technical expertise getting way ahead of its ability to think rationally. This is government showing just how incompetent they really are, and why we really should not entrust them with our confidence. So please see this thing for what it is and try not to make it any worse than it already is.
I think so too. The problem is not the problem , but how people react to said problem. I myself was inclined to buy more of what I could yesterday at Costco, because I am responding to a ‘reality’ created by others.
How I wish I had become a Q-tard way back when so that I could understand or even know what is going on. AOC said the world is ending in 12. Then a Euro pipsqueak comes out of nowhere to shame us for global warming. Then the world shuts down just like that. That’s curious, isn’t it? Is she from that place where they have the world’s seed bank?
Do you recall when superman’s parents were getting ready to launch little Kal-El out into space? I love that scene. In the comics, not the movie.
I always look for conspiracy but how does everyone explain what is happening in Italy?
I read an article by a doctor who contributes Italy to their taking aspirin or Ibuprofen to reduce fever, which will make the patient worse.
You can always find a kernel of truth. The bottom line is this was created in a laboratory and turned loose intentionally.
According to this article from Italy, they have how many coronavirus cases? Maybe 2. Maybe. The article is dated March 13th.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agenzianova.com%2Fa%2F5e6bcf1da7fbe3.23491954%2F2851060%2F2020-03-13%2Fcoronavirus-iss-in-italia-i-decessi-accertati-finora-per-causa-del-covid-19-sono-solo-due
In this article, David Crowe, an expert in global diseases, analyzes the PCR coronavirus test and raises the question: “Does the 2019 coronavirus exist?”
https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/does-2019-coronavirus-exist?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%3A%20Coronavirus%20-%20Cowdan%20-%20Fixed%20%28Ji2mSU%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJwYXRncmlmQGhvdG1haWwuY29tIiwgImtsX2NvbXBhbnlfaWQiOiAiSzJ2WEF5In0%3D