Guest Post by Angelo Codevilla
Riding fear of COVID-19, our oligarchs persuaded millions of Americans to join in masked pantomime, to deliver themselves to something like house arrest, and to blame Donald Trump for their troubles. But as much as the oligarchs enjoyed COVID powers and dreamt of segueing them into a “new normal,” they knew that America could not be locked down forever.
They especially knew, were they to unseat Trump and become responsible for the country, their charges that he had failed to stop the pandemic would come back to haunt them. “Why can’t you stop it?” would be the natural question they would have to face as the virus did what airborne viruses do: spread. Hence, after January 20, dismounting the COVID tiger, albeit gingerly, became the order of the day.
And so it happened, on January 22, Joe Biden spoke the truth: nothing that anyone could do can alter the trajectory of the virus’ spread.
A few grumbles notwithstanding, there was silence from very same media and “experts” who had accused Trump of responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths because he had not implemented a nationwide test-trace-and-quarantine system. The futility of such measures in preventing an infectious disease from running its course once it has entered a population was as obvious in 2020 as in 2021. But then, denying it served the oligarchy’s prosecution. Affirming it now serves its defense.
Already on January 16, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that his state could not wait to reopen until herd immunity had been reached naturally or through a vaccine, because “If we wait, there will be nothing left to open.”
Across the country, some of the Democratic mayors and governors who had most vigorously imposed COVID-19 restrictions hastened to remove them, even though the number of “cases” is higher than it was in April. By the third week of January, California Governor Gavin Newsom revoked his December stay-at-home order along with a 10 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew he had imposed in the face of rising case numbers. One reason for Newsom’s move may be the fact that just over 1 million Californians have signed a petition to force a recall election.
But there is a larger reason why the ruling class seems intent on distancing itself from responsibility for the COVID restrictions. The oligarchs and their press agents had argued the COVID troubles were 100 percent Trump’s fault, and defeating him would alleviate them. Preserving the lockdowns is unsustainable politically. But lifting the restrictions in the apparent face of rising cases risks uncovering the fact that COVID was less a plague than a political ploy. To repeat President Biden’s true statement of how little government can do with regard to COVID is an indictment of the entire oligarchy’s conduct since March. It exposes that conduct as political predation with deadly consequences for millions. Hence, dismounting the COVID tiger in a way that preserves the powers it gained for the oligarchy requires some prestidigitation.
Fortunately for the oligarchy, there is a way of making sure that each lightening of restrictions dovetails nicely with a drop in the number of “cases.” How is that? Because vaccines notwithstanding, the “softness,” the very plasticity of the number by which the oligarchy scared the hell out of America in 2020, makes it possible, presto magico, gradually to ease the fear.
In April, I explained in these pages how changing definitions of the term “case” made it possible to substitute the oligarchy’s agenda for COVID’s reality in the minds of Americans. The same dishonest process can be used in reverse.
The reality is that we do not know how many people have been infected with COVID-19, and the standard PRC test only muddies the waters. On Inauguration Day, the World Health Organization, after consultation with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, issued a two-part directive intended to reduce the number of what it calls “false positive” COVID cases that clarifies only the corrupt political nature of everything surrounding the pandemic.
Throughout 2020, doctors and hospitals had been encouraged—if not pressured—to label as COVID any set of symptoms that looked remotely like it (explaining why cases of influenza almost disappeared from the United States last year). Now the WHO asked them to make sure that in order for a case to be labeled COVID, symptoms must also match positive results of the standard PCR test.
Simultaneously, the WHO strongly suggested that those who administer the PCR test reduce the number of cycles through which samples are processed. Through 2020, most jurisdictions in America had run samples through 40 cycles. Running that many cycles radically increases the chances of a positive result. This not only inflated the number of “cases,” but it also attributed hospitalizations to COVID-19 rather than to other causes. It led to patients being treated as if they had COVID rather than for what really ailed them, and attributing deaths to COVID that in fact were not.
The new guidance guarantees that, in the coming months, the number of “cases” will drop. The oligarchy will credit the reduction to its wise management. Loosening its grip gradually, it will claim benevolence and prudence. By thus dismounting the COVID tiger, it will try to validate the harm it did over the previous year.
There being nothing especially artful about this stratagem, and most Americans not being utterly stupid, its success depends exclusively on the media’s near-unanimous complicity in it. That unanimity, however, may be getting harder to maintain. Not only is the binding objective—getting rid of Trump—no longer there, documents are surfacing that show the material complicity between Anthony Fauci, the oligarchy’s fountain of authority in all matters COVID-19, and the development of the virus itself. Covering for that level of professional incompetence and corruption may be a bridge too far, even for today’s media.
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I first wrote on the CV hoax as a possibility, tho unproveable at the time, based on the lies about Italy. Italy as you may recall pushed WHO to call CV a Pandemic of biblical proportions. Turns out even today and with BS numbers Italy has the same annual flu deaths as they have had in recent years with good ole flu. Remember flu?
After many months it has become more clear that CV is the hoax come true. Its more devious than even I thought.
Covid is a fake, hoax disease designed by Central Bankers, with help from the Fauci Gates Wuhan syndicate to wreck world economies to slow the inevitable inflation from worldwide money printing and zero int. rates that will eventually bankrupt everyone ……and esp Big Govts, all over. Slow it all down so we can deflate the bubble rather than watching it go boom in catastophe of unimaginable catastrophe. Amazingly, so far its working but we need more time so now we have faked a more virulent strain. And so on and so on until the dumbasses realize there are no bodies piled up on streetcorners and we bring economies back, and hyperinflation sprouts like wildflowers.
Evil incarnate and all predicated by the easily brainwashed masses who “follow the (CB) science”.
Of course this may be all wrong but smells right to me.
Winner! First time I have seen the explicit linkage between COVID and reducing the inflation of money printing…..well done! Damn that makes perfect sense!
The Evil Fuckers have a much larger agenda i.e. population reduction; techno-totalitarian control; and redrawing the world map among them, and intend to execute their plan using the scamdemic to obtain the objectives.
Money just happens to be the universally accepted device/treat/symbol/sensation to facilitate the machinery of reward and punishment: the ultimate conditioning.
Not saying that you are incorrect about the Evil Fuckers’ agenda, Auntie, but…. huge swaths of the world geopolitical map lie deep outside the West. These swaths of humanity show no inclination to play ball with the NWO.
I do not understand how Russia, China and the broad “nation” of fundamentalist, militant Islam fit into the Evil Fuckers’ agenda. The first two are powerful, nuclear armed sovereign nation states, Great Powers at least and in the case of China, the once and future Super Power. They are bent on American-style hegemony. China is liable to attain it.
And militant Islam may well end up being be the last stand of Jehova / God / Allah in this world. I mean, since the Jews are (still) international pariahs and the Christian West is in the process of committing liberal, self-loathing civic suicide…
I have posed this riddle to everyone who will listen and no one has an answer. IF the Evil Fuckers truly are the Masters of the Universe, just how do they expect to defeat nationalist China, nationalist Russia, and the true believers and followers of Mohammed? The answer, I expect, is that they cannot. Which means their agenda is dead on arrival. The West seems to be doomed, but I am not convinced that God is dead.
PS- I gave you a thumbs up and immediatey your post got both an up and a down. I’m not your down voter. We seem to have a phantom shitter on this boat.
AGREE!
Think of central banks and how many countries DON’T have one!
N. Korea, Vietnam and Iran are about the only significant countries. I’d want to check to be sure but that’s real dam close.
To gain the understanding you lack one must go back in time – quite a bit. Almost 20 years ago, 173 nations agreed to what we see happened the past almost a year now as part of some “preparedness” build-up in case of a future pandemic. That agreement whose name escapes me at the moment (sorry), included terms that this all needed to be completed by Oct 2020.
Thus, what is REALLY going on in somewhat simplified terms is that the agreement from way back then is now being used to consolidate and expand the powers of the United Nations as the highest form of govt on the planet.
I have covered all this in a free newsletter i issue strictly by email since April last year. Anyone can get it by sending request to TheLudditeHippie @ ProtonMail . com if interested. It is commercial free, BTW, and covers the coronahoax, world event likely to affect us all, and the issues of mass-immigration as main focus.
Over 1500 hours of research has gone into the coronahoax alone so far, and that is why I permit myself to reply to you as I have – no offense intended.
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Huh?
Point us to just a part of economy (or whatever), where they have successfully deflated the bubble over the past 9 months!
“there are no bodies piling up in the streets”. correct and if anyone spends some time researching funeral homes in the country you will see that they are not overwhelmed, as they should be, according to the so called number of cases and reported deaths. The death rate would appear to be the same as it usually is based on population.
We have a development here in Teton County where cases are high.
Laramie County will stop all Kosack stands that test. On Friday. You will have to go to a medical center.
Your going to have a County with 5 times the population having 2l0 times less cases!
WELL DONE 3 THUMBS UP
Since the Fraud that is biden* has dictated that NO ONE is allowed to say “CHINA VIRUS” –
I Found a neat site to post “CHINA VIRUS”…
It is the White House FaceBook page…
https://www.facebook.com/Wh…
And every time they post a speech/news brief/statement about the CHINA VIRUS, Racial Equity or anything else actually…I post the following statement:
“What will the consequences be for the Chinese Communist Party that knowingly
released the China Virus and murdered Millions of people around the world?”
Have FUN
MSG Grumpy
“Preserving the lockdowns is unsustainable politically. But lifting the restrictions in the apparent face of rising cases risks uncovering the fact that COVID was less a plague than a political ploy.”
Clearly the first point is false. They’ve been imposing their insane policies for almost a year and they now control the entire government. That happened. They will use diktats forevernow that they’ve demonstrated that they can. And as to the second point, the so-called surge is just the annual flu season- remember those? The ones that always came around in the middle of Winter every single year since human beings first began noticing things? So they open everything up at the peak and guarantee a new pretext for the next time they feel like throttling the hoi polloi for shits and giggles.
This is open warfare on every front. Game Stop anyone? We’re talking Sheriff of Nottingham on a global scale.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You’ll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day. – Dead Kennedys