Guest Post by Bob Moriarity
If there was ever a time for real leaders to step forward and lead, the last four months would have been the time to do so. If there was an issue that demanded cooperation from all the nations of the world, we have seen it. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of disinformation and outright lies from almost every government at most levels. If these are the leaders, we ought to fire the whole lot and start anew. Instead of “women and children first,” we are seeing “every man for himself.”
I’ve been fairly quiet for the last ten days or so and a lot of people have been bugging me to write more. Certainly this is an important issue so I’ll give you my thoughts.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the Chinese government was lying about the number of deaths right from the first. And it continues. They are understating the size of the issue and have been all along.
On the other hand, the US government is also lying through their teeth but appear to be overstating the deaths from the coronavirus. All of a sudden every victim in the U.S. qualifies as a coronavirus death. In San Antonio the officials called a preemie born at 22 weeks a coronavirus victim.
Guys, don’t be stupid. Normal gestation in humans is 40 weeks. A 22-week preemie stands virtually no chance of survival. But it didn’t die of the virus.
Much is made of the number of Italians who have died. The Italians have the oldest average age in Europe. Of course they are dying. Old people die all the time. Yes, the old age homes in Washington had high rates of mortality.
But think about that for a moment. No one goes into an old folks home for a vacation. They all know they are going to die there or in a hospital. That’s why they went in the first place. Signing up for an old age home is eventually a bit of a death sentence, not necessarily from the coronavirus. Many people in old age homes in the US die every year just from the flu. But today they are all being written off as the coronavirus, not heart attacks or flu or just old age.
How can it possibly be that four months after it became obvious that the world has a big problem that so little real information has come out? Did you know that the number of deaths in Beijing and Shanghai is tiny? How come the country managed to export the virus to the entire world but skipped the two most important cities in China?
You have to love the Germans. They just love data and reports. They tested all 1,000 people in a tiny village and realized that a lot more people showed positive to the virus antibodies than they realized, some 15% of the total. According to the German numbers the death rate was more like 0.37 or four times as dangerous as the ordinary flu. That’s tiny compared to what has been quoted elsewhere.
Iceland tested 36,000 of their citizens, about 10% of the total for the tiny country. They found half the people tested showed positive for the virus, however there had only been seven deaths out of 1,600 cases of the virus. As a matter of interest, Iceland tested twenty times as many of their citizens as the UK on a percentage basis. The death rate shown by the UK is stated as 30 times higher than that of Iceland.
We should have a lot of good, tested and valid information about the virus and just how dangerous it is but because of this chronic “every man for himself” attitude, we pretty much have to guess. I’m not a doctor or any sort of expert but I have to go through dozens of articles a day about everything so I have a tiny bit of a feel for the issue.
Almost all people dying of the virus have other issues but here are the most important. The virus is most deadly when it invades the lungs and often causes double pneumonia. It’s an ugly death. The patient literally drowns.
The virus is most dangerous to those with asthma, hypertension or simply old age. Weight seems to be a factor and obesity could put you in the high-risk category. Blacks and minorities seem to have a higher chance of dying than whites. Few children develop serious cases but do on occasion.
Watching the daily briefing on the virus is like a free ticket to a circus run by the clowns. The official head of the federal government’s Corona Task Force is supposed to be Vice President Mike Pence but he stands near Trump looking like a cross between a wooden store clothing dummy and an organ grinder’s monkey holding a tin can out for donations.
President Trump immediately goes into his opera scales routine that he is so good at. In bass, “ME, ME, ME” and switching over to soprano, “ME, ME, ME” and down to tenor to finish, “ME, ME, ME.” His latest brilliance was to credit lovely Ivanka with the creation of the last fifteen million jobs created out of the six point seven million new jobs since he took office.
Not to be outdone, we have the media, all in makeup, eager to feast on every stupid comment out of the mouth of the president. If Trump came out in favor of peace in the universe, Santa Claus and free kittens for little girls, the media would immediately find fault with all three.
But where we begin to bring light to the real issues of the coronavirus is by looking at the positions taken by Dr. Anthony Fauci. At first he claimed two million Americans would die. That number dropped to two hundred and forty thousand and now it seems to be about sixty thousand. That’s lower than the deaths from ordinary flu in a typical winter. Is it possible that he has an agenda that is just now being exposed?
Dr. Fauci is presented as the Federal Government’s leading expert on immunology and infectious diseases. But is he really or should he be?
When President Trump learned of a small French trial by a doctor of an anti-malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine (Let’s call it HCQ) Dr. Fauci was the first but hardly the last to point out that the HCQ while in common use, hadn’t been through a vigorous double blind study for use with the coronavirus.
That is both true and utterly meaningless at the same time. What if the drug that some doctor believed would save lives of patients with the virus was simple aspirin? Certainly aspirin hasn’t been through any sort of professional and vigorous test against the virus. But who cares?
If it works, it works. If it doesn’t work, you don’t use it. We have a good idea of what dosage of aspirin is safe and when it becomes dangerous.
How long would it take to test? Well, not being a doctor but having some ability to think for myself, you have a bunch of doctors hand out a handful of aspirin and in a couple of days have a pretty good feel for success or failure. If everybody dies given aspirin, it might be a good idea to stop. If everyone lives that you gave aspirin to, go buy some stock in Bayer and do a professional write up of how great aspirin is to cure the virus.
In one of the most bizarre comments I have ever read from a government organization talking about testing HCQ, “NIH scientists said urgent clinical evidence is needed. Even so, the study is not estimated to be completed until July 2021.”
OK, Dr. Fauci and the NIH, we will do it the most professional way. Fifteen months from now we will know if it should be used or not. What a brilliant idea. Why didn’t I think of that? By the way Dr. Fauci, just how many people in the world will die of the Corona Virus between now and July 2021 because you wouldn’t recommend HCQ because it hadn’t been tested in the most professional way?
But it gets even worse. Now this really is anecdotal and we know how Dr. Fauci hates that. He seems to love the idea of a vaccine and some sort of social credit system similar to that of the Chinese. But we should ease into it by first generating a national database of those who test positive for antibodies and we can ease into total control of everyone by the government as time passes.
I’m going to point out something here that I learned from Quinton Hennigh. This coronavirus does not contain DNA. It contains RNA, which is different. It is entirely possible that you can catch the virus multiple times.
So put everyone on some sort of government database but it doesn’t matter to his or her health because it’s possible they can catch it again and again. We don’t know yet. The most important thing is to get them on that list so we can have total control of them the way China does over their people.
Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci agree on one thing. They want the national database. When someone comes up with a vaccine hopefully from Bill Gates, at that point we add credit to their entry in the database for having been vaccinated. They can then travel or buy food or work in certain industries. The idea of a massive government database is just wonderful. You can control every aspect of a person’s life once on the list.
I’m going to shock my readers now by telling you something no one has ever told you before. Sit down, make yourself comfortable and don’t collapse at the news.
There is no Santa Claus.
Take a deep breath and relax. I know it’s a shock.
There is no Santa Claus. Your mommy and daddy should have briefed you but the cookies and milk, it was all a waste of time. There isn’t a Santa.
There also isn’t a vaccine for HIV and HIV has killed 32 million people. There may never be a vaccine for HIV.
So why are so many people convinced we are going to have a vaccine for the coronavirus? HIV has been a problem for forty plus years and we have no vaccine.
MONEY!!!
It’s all about money no matter what Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci tell you. Scare hell out of people and then demand they prove they have been vaccinated.
You can make a bundle with a good vaccine. Or even a poor vaccine that really doesn’t do much of anything.
Why would you want a simple off the shelf drug to cure the virus when you can cash in big time by forcing people to be vaccinated? And by the way vaccines kill a lot of people and often don’t prevent the diseases they claim to.
In my opinion the coronavirus scare is more a function of government control than a real threat. That is not to say that it’s not dangerous. It is dangerous and it will kill tens of thousands of people in the US alone.
But you want to worry about people dying before their time and lives destroyed, you might want to consider the effects of the Greatest Depression that I have been warning about for years. In January I said it was here. In February I said it was here. Do you get it yet?
It is here.
The damage done from the coronavirus is tiny compared to the damage done by the economic depression, all brought to you thanks to Washington and Wall Street. The coronavirus did not cause the depression. Wall Street and Washington caused the depression and I was one of many predicting it well in advance.
The overreaction to the virus based on lies and little information out of China and an utterly dysfunctional group of clowns running the US have shattered supply chains around the world leaving tens of millions of Americans with no jobs, no money and no future.
In the movie “The Big Short,” one of the characters predicted that for every 1% increase in unemployment, some 40,000 people would die an early death. It could be suicide, drugs, alcohol, spousal abuse, heart attacks, but being out of work and poor kills a lot of people. So if we go to 32% unemployment as the Federal Reserve predicts, how many people must die?
The over reaction to the virus broke the supply chains but the depression will destroy demand. It wasn’t due to the virus but the disease put the negative effects of the depression into hyper drive.
Governments always want more and more control over their citizens. Never let a crisis go to waste. But at some point the divide between the 1% and the 99% gets so great that the great unwashed become the great armed and pissed. Am I the only person to hear the sound of pitchforks being sharpened?
Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates may need to be reminded of the old saying, “Be careful of what you wish for.””
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Quarantining 100% of the population in order to “save” the 1% who are compromised by their own poor health and medical issues is the epitome of insanity.
“Herd immunity” works because it exposes the maximum number of healthy individuals, conferring a certain amount of temporary “immunity” on most healthy individuals.
There is a larger agenda here. The (unelected) “powers that be” desire to see how much they can “get away with” by imposing “stay home” orders and closing viable businesses.
The agenda that the (unelected) “powers that be” have (for the rest of us) is “microchipping” like cattle and restrictions on travel, movement, the ability to live where you want, and even the ability to start up and establish businesses without their permission.
This is preaching to the choir here on TBP. Few here believe much of what the government says. Most of us know the government operates on the principle of not wasting a crisis. We realize that we aren’t sheep we are mushrooms to be kept in the dark and fed a load of shit. It’s the f…ing flu. They have an agenda and it is not to protect us from the flu.
Just in :China did have a hand in designing or altering the coronavirus and it was released by patient ZERO at the Wuhan market . Regardless of intent being deliberate or by accident the CHI-COMS did it !
Now our government is using it as cover to collapse the economy that has been on life support for over a decade from actions initiated 40 years ago .
These actions saw a run up in the stock market and a spiral down for every middle American . All this as the greatest transfer of wealth from the many to the few hollowed out middle America , now the cave in !
Thank god for the coronavirus the perfect scapegoat ! No as our elected reps from the Fed , State & local scurry about like cats covering up shit they exclaim we are all in this together !
BULL FUCKING SHIT
We were not together when pension plans were bankrupted in the private sector as hedge funds made off with the cash !
We were not together when those same greedy basturds crashed the economy in 2008 and got bailed out asee had our asses handed to us !
But now it’s different !
Fuck Off
I heard the depression virus spawned in one of two labs in Wuhan. A lab worker got infected and he infected his GF. The rest is history. We are all now fighting to keep from getting the depression virus. Trump thinks a $1400 injection for people once a month ought to do it. Bankers will need $billion dollar vaccinations just to make sure.
You used the word.
Why doesn’t he just say greed. Greed is a much bigger destructor than…
Ahhhhhh, the smell of doom in the morning. Charlie don’t do positive.
Somehow humanity has survived for eons in the face of grisly diseases. Even current diseases displace Covid in terms of morbidity and mortality. TB strains which are incurable, MRSA eating your flesh, many bacterial disease are no longer contained with antibiotics, hospital acquired disease deaths I’ll venture are associated with vastly more deaths than Covid, etc.
So yeah, it ain’t about the disease itself. It’s the wellspring of benefits from a governmental perspective that it provides. Power, control, profit….power, control, profit.
Remember, it was San Antonio where an infected Diamond Princess cruise ship passenger was allowed to spend two hours in a mall:
It basically means the more tests… the more positives… and the more panic. So, of course, Fauci released more test kits in early March. It was perfect timing, and right on schedule, to cancel April. This, even though Fauci was downplaying Coronavirus as late as the end of February. So did he lack 2020 vision? Or did he have it?
Or maybe it was all just a coincidence; a comedy of errors, if you will
But why keep repeating the same things when mygirlmaybe has heard it all before?
I think that the idea that random deaths are being categorized as COVID (“dying with CV, not from CV”) is overstated – and probably outweighed by people dying at home from CV. It’s the kind of hoped-for bullshit that people grasp onto. Like many of us did a couple months ago when we thought it might only kill East Asians.
This article is spreading some erroneous conclusions:
“According to the German numbers the death rate was more like 0.37 or four times as dangerous as the ordinary flu.” No – according to some people’s conclusions about the German numbers, the death rate was .37%. They arrived at that by dividing the number of dead by the imputed number of townspeople who’d been infected. It’s logical to impute the number of infected townspeople (assuming their sero-test didn’t have a 14% false positive ratio), but their numerator was probably too small because not all case had been resolved yet. This is the same faux-logic that was applied to the Diamond Princess passengers: ~ 740 got infected and “only 7 died – and they were all ancient”. Last I heard (two weeks ago), the deaths were up to 12 with 20 others still in ICU. It takes a long time for all cases to resolve and that keeps adding to the numerator.
In NYC they found 15% sero-positive (March 25-April 4) among 215 pregnant women about to deliver https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2009316?query=featured_home. On the one hand pregnant women might try hard to avoid the virus. On the other hand, late-pregnancy doctor visits might make them more exposed, on average. If you extrapolate 15% infected rate among NYC residents generally (as of 4/4/20) that would be about 1.25 mil people -and the deaths are from NYC are a good 1% of that – especially since there is a 2-3+ week lag from infection to death.
Iceland didn’t find that half of their population had been infected – for fuck’s sake! They found that half of those infected had been asymptomatic (or, in many cases pre-symptomatic). The percentage of their population that had been exposed was ~ 3%.
I’m not saying that we should all hide in caves or keep the economy shuttered, but the death rate still keeps looking like ~ 1% (mostly old folks plus some fatties). Let’s not clutter things up with innumerate wished-for conclusions about a ginormous denominator. The numerator keeps catching up.
What if the real reason for the plan-demic is to keep people distracted from an asteroid hit at the end of April?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWOAWlCGTk
Listen to the section by Shepard Ambellas
The sad thing is we had the ability to contain this thing had we just done what health care professionals asked us to do. But instead our hard hardheadedness and our propensity to believe the rules only apply to others drove us to ignore the recommendations and to continue with the behaviors that spread the virus nationwide.
Conspiracy theorists are now guilty of causing thousands of deaths by spreading rumors that the virus was a hoax or a government plot to suppress freedoms.
In the end, every culture either reaps the rewards or suffers the pain of their own decisions and morals.
We have seen the immoral people willing to sacrifice the lives of others if it makes their own lives more prosperous or convenient. Unfortunately, the decision of people to be irresponsible often has its greatest impact upon innocent people who become victims of the selfish people who refuse to accept responsibility for their actions.
As a result of these stupid decisions, the virus will now take a much bigger toll than if it were contained initially. It will return in waves doing much more damage to the economy and causing repeated cycles of unemployment, chronic disease and death.
In the end, the laws of nature dictate people get what they deserve.
It’s not contained in China or S Korea or Japan or Singapore or Thailand or Taiwan. I don’t believe it could have been contained. Not when an estimated 45% of those who catch it catch it from someone who was pre-symptomatic.