Authored by Thomas Harrington via Off-Guardian.org,
Ready for another rendition of the “no one could have known” routine made famous by all the self-proclaimed liberals who shamelessly went along with the Neo-Cons planned and lie-supported destruction of the Middle East nearly two decades ago?
As in “no one could have known” that by shutting down life as we know it to focus obsessively on a virus mostly affecting what is still a relatively small number of people at the end of their lives (yes, oh squeamish ones we must summon the courage to talk about Quality Adjusted Life Years when making public policy) we probably would:
1. Cause economic devastation and hence excess deaths, suicides, divorces depressions in much larger numbers than those killed by the virus.
2. Provide an already monopolistic and predatory online retailing establishment with competitive advantages in terms of capital reserves and market share that will make it virtually impossible at any time in the near or medium future for the country’s and the world’s small and even medium-sized businesses to ever catch up to them. And that this will plunge huge sectors of the world-wide economy into serf-like ruin, with all that this portends in terms of additional death and human suffering.
3. Cause greatly increased misery and countless additional deaths in the so-called Global South where many people, rightly or wrongly, depend on the consumption patterns of us relatively fortunate sit-at-homers to make it through the week.
4. Destroy much of what was attractive about urban life as we know it and lead to a real estate collapse of extraordinary proportions, turning even our few remaining showplace cities into crime-ridden reserves of ever more desperate people.
5. Force state and local governments, already struggling before the crisis, and unable to print at money at will like the Feds, to cut their already insufficient budgets at a time when their broke and stressed constituents need those services more than ever.
6. Push “smart” monitoring of our lives, already intolerable for anyone still clinging to memories of freedom in the pre-September 11th world, to the point where most people will no longer understand what people used to know as privacy, intimacy or the simple dignity of being left alone.
7. Train of a generation of children to be fearful and distrustful of others from day one, and to view bending to diktats “to keep them safe”, (no matter how empirically dubious the actual threat to them might be), rather than the courageous pursuit of joy and human fullness, as the key goal in life.
We will also no doubt be told that no one could have imagined or known at the time:
That governments often make policy on the basis of information they know to be largely unsubstantiated or flat-out false. Because they know (Karl Rove spilled the beans in his famous interview with Ron Susskind) that by the time the few conscientious researchers out there get around looking past the hype to debunk their initial storylines, the structures favorable to them put into place on the basis of the false narrative will have been normalized, and thus be in no danger of being dismantled.
That our educational institutions, already failing miserably in the essential democratic task of educating the young to engage in productive conflict with those whose ideas are different than their own, will only further promote dehumanization of “the other” through ever-greater reliance on the disembodied practices of remote learning. And that this, in turn, will only encourage the further growth of the “drive-by shooting” approach to “coping” with new and challenging ideas seen so often in our public “discussions” in recent years.
That further fomenting the alienated and alienating educational practices mentioned above will make than it easier than it already is for our oligarchs to enhance their already obscene levels control over our daily lives and long-term destinies through divide and rule tactics.
That according to the Institute for Democracy and Election Assistance (IDEA) fully twos thirds of elections scheduled to be held since February have been postponed due to COVID. And that this does much to accustom citizens and populations to the idea that one of their few remaining democratic rights can essentially be taken away on the basis of bureaucratic whims, creating a dangerous “new normal” that obviously favors the interests of established centers of power.
That Sweden and other countries developed much more proportionate, culture-saving and dignity-saving ways to live safely and much more fully with the virus.
That Anthony Fauci has a well-documented tendency to see every health problem as being amenable to expensive pharmaceutical solutions (some might even call it corruption), even when other less intrusive, less expensive, and equally effective therapies are available.
That the recent history of using vaccines to fight respiratory infections has been ineffective when not grotesquely counterproductive.
That during the first half of the 20th century the infectious disease of polio was a constant danger, culminating in 1952 with a devastating toll of 3,145 deaths and 21,269 cases of paralysis in a US population of 162,000,000, almost all of the victims being children and young adults. The danger then to the under-24 population (some 34 million) of being infected (.169%) paralyzed (.044%) or killed (.0092%) far outstripped in percentages and, obviously, severity anything COVID is doing to the same age group. And yet there was no talk of blanket school closures, cancelled high school, college and pro sports or, needless to say, lockdowns or masking for the entire society.
That the world lost some 1.1 million people in the 1957-58 Asian flu epidemic (more than the present COVID number of 760,000), with some 116,000 in the US (.064% of the population) and the world similarly did not stop.
That the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 killed between 1 and 4 million worldwide and some 100,000 in the US (.048% of population killed) and that life similarly was not stopped. Indeed, Woodstock took place in the middle of it.
That the decisions to get on with life in all of these cases were probably not the result, as some today might be tempted suggest, of a lack of scientific knowledge or lesser concern for the value of life, but rather a keener understanding in the more historically-minded heads of that time that risk is always part of life and that aggressive attempts to eliminate this most ubiquitous human reality can often lead to severe unwanted consequences.
That there were many prestigious scientists, including Nobel prize winners, who told us as early as March that this virus, while new, would in greater or lesser measure behave much like all viruses before it and fade away. And, therefore, the best way to deal with it was to let it run its course while protecting the most vulnerable people in society and letting everyone else live their lives.
That significant information platforms banned or sidelined the views of these high-prestige scientists, while aggressively circulating the words of jokers like Neil Ferguson at Imperial College, whose stupid and alarmist predictions of COVID mortality (the latest in a career full of stupid and alarmist, but not coincidentally, pharmaceutical-industry-friendly predictions), gave politicians the pretext for setting in motion perhaps the most aggressive experiment in social engineering in the history of the world.
That just as the levels of mortality from the virus were diminishing rapidly in the late spring and early summer of 2020, thus raising hope for a much-needed return to normality, there was seamless bait and switch in the major media from a discourse centering on the logical and laudable goal of “flattening the curve” to one centered on the absurdly utopian (and not coincidentally vaccine-oriented) goal of eliminating new “cases”.
That having the news media focus narrowly and obsessively on the growth of “cases” when 99%+ of them are completely non-life-threatening was journalistic malpractice of the highest order, comparable to, if not exceeding in its sinister effect that which was generated by the media’s wholly unsubstantiated talk of mushroom clouds and WMD two decades ago, talk that led (so sorry brown people) to the deaths of millions and the destruction of entire civilizations in the Middle East.
That government and corporate power holders, having successfully habituated people to engage in major solidarity-destroying social changes through the repetition of the largely meaningless term “case“, will surely come to rely on it and other breathlessly repeated, albeit largely empty, signifiers to paralyze society at will, especially at those times when the people appear to be waking up and coming together to demand a change In the existing balance of social power.
That as numerous existing and emerging studies seem to demonstrate, hydroxychloroquine is, when combined with other similarly affordable drugs, a safe and rather effective early-stage treatment for COVID 19.
That the negative studies on hydroxychloroquine effectiveness published at two of the most prestigious medical journals in the world The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, and which were adduced time and again at a key moment in the early debate of possible COVID treatments to debunk the drug’s effectiveness, were found to be based on forged data sets. (see earlier entry on how power centers play the game of perception lag with false information to achieve long-term structural changes)
That suggesting world-class professional athletes in their 20s and 30s, or even their less talented and less fit high school and college counterparts, were running a risk of mortal consequences in even minimal numbers by playing in the midst of the COVID spread was, in light of known age-related numbers on the disease’s lethality, at best ridiculous and, at worst, a very cynical fear-mongering ploy.
Repeat after me, “no one could have possibly known these things” and then check your screen to see, as citizens of Oceania, whether you are supposed to be worried this week about the threat from Eurasia or Eastasia.
And, of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t remind you to mask up real tight, especially in light of the CDC numbers — you’ll have to forgive here for breaking with the rich tradition of pure panic-driven narrative and moving to the realm of empirical figures — which tell us that up until this point in our “everything must change” crisis:
- 0.011% of the US population under 65 have died of COVID
- 0.005% of the US population under 55 have died of COVID
- 0.0009% of the US population under 35 have died of COVID
- 0.0002% of the US population under 25 have died of COVID
- 0.00008% of the US population under 15 have died of COVID
And as for the most “high risk” people?
- 0.23% of the US population over 65 have died of COVID
Though they’ve tried to sell it otherwise, this thing has very little, if anything, to do with great-grandma’s Spanish flu of 1918.
Indeed, it not even completely clear if it is cumulatively worse in terms of loss of life than the influenzas outbreaks of 1957-58 or 1968-69 that most everyone slept through. But, I guess that doesn’t matter when there’s a narrative to keep.
Might it be time to ask if there might be something else afoot with all this?
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This is the type of journalism that should be all over the mainstream but the author will probably end up being ridiculed and derided.
For me at this point the only debate is over the answer to his last question and it is a case (pun intended) of what not if.
Edit: I also find it notable that it is the Five Eyes Intelligence group countries and their closest allies that are making the dumbest decisions whilst at the same time finding ways to make the numbers as big as possible.
I’d probably clean up all the typos, syntax and other grammar errors before showing other people.
You know, because it’s borderline unreadable right now.
yeah, cleans them up uz guy.
It’s obvious that the “coronavirus” epidemic is a sham of the highest proportion. It is totally political in nature, with “blue state” governors perpetuating business-damaging “lockdowns” in their respective states.
Both professional and political arrogance is responsible for the present state of the world economy and world population as well.
A common annual “flu virus” was promoted as a “pandemic” by the “smartest” and “best and brightest” people in positions of power, both in the USA and in the rest of the world. It’s actually a “plandemic” foisted on the American public to bring down the Trump administration. It will fail…
These “best and brightest” convinced political “leaders” to impose mandatory business closures, “lockdowns” and “quarantines” on healthy populations, which is contrary to every common sense and scientific principle.
These “business closures” were not imposed “across the board”, but were picked by political hacks as “winners and losers”. Liquor stores, marijuana dispensaries, lottery retailers, and certain “big box” home improvement and sporting goods stores were permitted to remain in operation, while churches and just about all small businesses were forced to close.
In some states, the political arrogance was so great, plant nurseries, seed distributors, and other businesses were deemed “non-essential” and forced to close. Even “big box” stores were prohibited from selling lawn and garden supplies. Many restaurants were also put out of business by these clearly unconstitutional edicts.
Imposing “quarantines” and “lockdowns” on healthy people does nothing to insure public health, and in fact delays necessary herd immunity.
Public health is further damaged by business closures, especially small businesses whose owners rely on continuing business as a means of making a living, both for themselves and their employees.
A major problem is that these “best and brightest” and political “leaders” are so arrogant that they refuse to admit that “they screwed up, big time”. Instead, they “double down” and inflict further pain on the public by refusing to insist that “they were wrong”. None of them will pay personally for their arrogance, stupidity, and just outright dishonesty and criminality.
All one has to do is look at the “coronavirus hospitals” that were created to handle the “overflow” of coronavirus patients which never materialized. These “hospitals” were a waste of taxpayer dollars and did absolutely nothing to promote public health.
At the same time, local hospitals were required to cease admissions, even for those of an emergency nature.
Although not specifically stated, people with real health problems were covertly “encouraged” to avoid hospitals at all costs because of the phony “coronavirus” claims.
On another note, coronavirus, as is with any annual flu virus IS potentially dangerous to those who are “medically compromised”, such as elderly residents in nursing homes and extended care facilities.
Guess what?
Blue state governors purposely placed coronavirus positive patients in nursing homes, endangering the lives of present nursing home residents who were already in a compromised medical state.
Not only is that medically unethical but does constitute wanton criminal behavior-murder.
Why were nursing homes used as “dumping grounds” for coronavirus patients instead of the specially-built “coronavirus hospitals” which remained unused?
Health professionals are also responsible for the current state of affairs, also refusing to admit that “they screwed up, big time” as well, and continue to insist that this annual flue is a “pandemic”.
Then we have the “heavy hitters” with money, such as Bill Gates and Stephen Fauci who claim that they have “solutions” to our (artificially contrived) health problems. Gates is so arrogant the he feels that he can get away with genocide by using mandatory vaccinations to “cull” the world population.
Gates “vaccination” programs in third-world countries failed to adhere to good medical practices, and the Nuremberg principle that “informed consent” must reign supreme in the administration of all medical procedures.
Gates’ “vaccination” programs introduced polio into children in India for which he and his program were banned from the country. Gates’ African “vaccination” programs surreptitiously introduced sterilization and birth-control compounds as part of their vaccination program without gaining “informed consent” from the recipients.
According to these moneyed types and even so-called “health care” officials, we are to be branded, tagged, and treated like cattle with no means to make informed choices about our health or health care decisions.
The COVID vaccines being introduced are “game changers”. No longer are they weakened viruses designed to provoke a immunological response, but are DNA-altering substances that will require frequent “boosters” just to stay alive. DON’T TAKE THE VACCINES…especially if Bill Gates has anything to do with them. Besides, when did Bill Gates become a doctor?
Wearing masks and “social distancing” are no different than the “security theater” that we experience at airports with the TSA.
It’s “medical tyranny” at its best and scientific dishonesty at its worst.
There are no valid reasons for “mask-wearing” or “social distancing” for healthy people. In fact, in the coming months, look for an increase in respiratory illnesses affecting mask-wearers, especially those who are forced to wear masks for extended periods of time. In hospital settings, masks are supposed to be worn for only 10 minutes at a time before they are replaced.
“Lockdowns”, “business closures”, and “quarantining” of healthy people is being used for “control” and nothing more. The “powers that be” are desirous to see “how far they can go” to get the world population to accede to their demands.
Fortunately, there are a lot more of us than there are of them. We (still) have the power of the internet to bypass the “filters” that they put in place to keep us from seeing their “real” motives.
“Sham of the highest proportion”? You bet it is. Manufactured crisis is the bread-and-butter of the deep-state/black bag types, including the usual suspects on the Left (kept company by plenty of traitors from the GOP establishment). Here’s the skinny….
A critical subtext going on with the deep-blue states and their draconian lock-downs is that the governors of these places – Witmer in Michigan, Pritzker in Illinois, Cuomo in New York, Newsome in California, et al. – is that these states and many of the largest cities within them – have been operating under crushing debt obligations (of their own making) for quite some time.
These governors are basically holding their populations hostage in order to “shake down” or extort federal bail-out money from the federal government, ultimately meaning POTUS. They see it as their best play because unlike the Feds, the states and cities can’t monetize their debt by starting the printing presses, so to speak, and inflate the money supply.
Aided and abetted by their billionaire oligarch pals, the blue states are also in revolt against Middle America as punishment for the Deplorables daring to support DJT over their wishes. Wanna vote for Trump? Well, then you’ll pay for the privilege!
This dynamic also explains much about why some businesses have been deemed “essential” and allowed to remain open, whereas others have been ajudged to be inessential and have had to close. Political favoritism and partisanship contaminates many of these decisions as well. One would have to be dumb, deaf and blind not to notice the obvious inconsistencies and playing of favorites.
Not just political, cursed love of money is a large part also.
In other words:
I wonder what he would say if he were alive today.
He’s reached Terminal Velocity whilst Spinning in his grave……
I agree we have sat back and tolerated far to much government interference and crisis fabricated or over amplified using a partial truth or lie by omission . 9/11 hyped to infinity , Middle East military involvement loaded with unintended consequences .
Covid19 OMG… I was advised to stop working and limit exposure to others along with additional sanitary precautions by a medical team , first man in my family to live past 50 thanks to a kidney transplant . Of course I followed their instructions . Most people can decide what where and when additional precautions are necessary . To bad this is a perfect issue for the Nanny State to blast the bill Of Rights To oblivion . Once the founding document that all citizens used as an impenetrable shield against tyranny of government now looks like a slice of Swiss cheese !
Now in regards to Sweden , remember other than the onslaught of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (remember those unintended consequences ) the literacy rate for Swedish Citizens is near 100% so cooperation in a pandemic can be presented as a list to voluntarily adhere to with minimal misunderstanding or flagrant infractions .
This is impossible in major population centers in the US due to the shear numbers of illiterate citizens wandering about with a voters card and a diploma from a failing public school system generally controlled by liberal democrats with more than enough money to get the job done but it never gets to the class room or student but wow what an expensive administration that fails consistently and then retires at 50 .
Welcome to America today !
This mess reads like a planned-gimmick to me. The “deadly virus” is a pathway to the far deadlier vaccine. After all, many of the names behind the fiasco are all about eugenics. They need the vaccine because the virus has killed so many less than was hoped.
Well, I’m glad Sweden has done something right. They sure haven’t covered themselves with much glory for the last 80 years. Maybe their pandemic response was just a mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_I_HryCzq4
Reminds me of when I was teaching grade school at St. Agnes.
This is designed to be that ridiculous. The solutions for the fabricated problems will be rolled out soon. An engineered grass roots movement, controlled of course, is under way. Watch Berlin, August 29. This will be huge, all Europe has been invited. It’s the great “Come together”, the core agenda, as pushed by the Pope. 42 trucks, advertised by the first event on August 1, they gonna occupy the Tiergarten for weeks to come.
Let no one in any way deceive you!
Satan’s minions are on the march one last time. No deception here.
From Germany;
Happy 244th Birthday America (Book of Mormon, 1830 531 pages)
From 2) above: “…virtually impossible …..in the ….future for the country’s small and even medium-sized businesses to ever catch up……”-here is a story from the trenches of the small biz world:
Grand niece’s daughter owns an independent retail floral shop. To help her make ends meet-and to keep me out of trouble-I run the delivery vehicle for 4-5 hours a day plus take care of maintenance, some I do myself and the bigger jobs go to a real mechanic. Any tips come back to the shop and go into the jar for the girls. Shop was shut down for 8 weeks-landlord extended 2 months of forgiven rent, so that was not a drain; fixed costs for utilities/insurance/internet/bank charges accrued as normal and were paid on time even though the available cash was dwindling.
When the shop was able to re-open it was done so with an eye to caution and was accompanied by extra costs for things like masks, sanitizer, plus other things never used or done before; all of which add to the “cost of goods sold” column. Surprisingly, business is booming, largely thanks to a dedicated owner who puts out superior quality product. Apparently the clientele has been able to accumulate some extra discretionary income-maybe thanks to cutting back on things like eating out, vacations, or even having a night out-and chooses to send flowers instead of being there in person.
Because the floral business depends on a basic commodity-fresh grown flowers from different continents-the vagaries of supply and demand are always present, though usually manageable. Shortly after the start of the plandemic growers worldwide were immediately impacted suddenly by excessive inventory and rapidly declining demand. Product in the field suddenly was nearly worthless and plans for upcoming plantings had a Russian Roulette cloud overhanging the decision whether to plant or not to plant. Flow of warehouse inventory stopped, except for loads going to the dump.
As it stands now, the shop can get enough product to meet increased demand, though the product quality sucks-remember, flowers are perishable. The wholesalers says “sorry, that’s the best we can get-take it or leave it” and refuse to issue credit for moldy product that goes into the dumpster.
Bottom line for the shop: increased revenue, increased costs, lost productivity, and extra hours needed for chasing the point of diminishing returns. But-and as she says-“it beats sitting on my ass expecting a government handout”.
The author mentions “predatory online retailing”-a business model that has put many of the less efficient independent floral shops out of business; that is usually accomplished with low online prices and even lower quality product. “Satisfaction guaranteed” usually means the online seller will replace the crappy product with some more crappy product or give you a voucher for your next purchase. Want your money back? “Sorry, we can’t do that”.
It will be interesting to see which businesses are still standing a couple years from now.
Necessarily LONG video on DETAILS of Gates / WHO / Fauci vaccine scam mageddon.
Needs distribution to your entire list, STRONGLY recommended.
Covideo: PlandemicTwo, All Out Assault – Dr. Judy Mikovits
What kind of crap will people be willing to accept without question? I guess we will find out.
https://www.brighteon.com/d6412bff-0421-4190-a7bf-3e5e1f52559d
Thx for posting this, Rob.
Info worth spreading.
Hope all is well on your end.
~Cheers, bud.
Chromosome 8 has the same sequence that is being identified as controllavirus 1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y1KzCKrZ3A
And this is the link to the story that Catherine Austen-Fitts mentions in the video (cued to relevant time but FANTASTIC interview overall), but it is member-only (according to their in house search box) and I’m not a member so I can’t post the actual map:
And the interview with Greg Hunter (thanks to FLEABAGGS for posting this on Va mandatory vax thread) where she discusses that the fires in Minneapolis – burned out businesses, etc., line up with the locations of “opportunity zones” in Minneapolis, says something like, “These aren’t riots; they’re relocation prodgrams”.
https://youtu.be/HdfYJHglBLo?t=1334
Once they got a hold over American children with “free” education, we knew it was only a matter of time.
Utah would have been a state in the 1870s or 1880s if it were not for Mormon resistance to public schooling. Instead, statehood was held hostage until 1896. More non-Mormon voters moved in and K-8 “free education” was finally adopted in 1896.
No organization in America was resisted Communism and Compulsory education and Gov’t welfare since the beginning as the LDS.