We’ll be putting together the timeline of this disaster for many years to come. It all comes down to those fatal days between January and March 2020, from the news out of China, to the lockdowns in Northern Italy, to the lockdowns in the US.
The documented and admitted record is clear and this is the source of scandal, in my view. Top public health officials in the US, UK, and Australia spent the good part of six weeks obsessing over whether the virus was a lab leak, accidental or deliberate, and therefore what the political spin should be if it turned out to be true.
Something certainly happened to change the script in the last week of February. On February 25, 2020, Anthony Fauci wisely told CBS News the following: “You cannot avoid having infections since you cannot shut off the country from the rest of the world… Do not let the fear of the unknown…distort your evaluation of the risk of the pandemic to you relative to the risks that you face every day…do not yield to unreasonable fear.”
The next day, something shifted. Fauci wrote an email to the actress Morgan Fairchild that read as follows:
“Thanks for the note and the offer to help. It would be great if you could tweet to your many Twitter followers that although the current risk of coronavirus to the American public is low, the fact that there is community spread of virus in a number of countries besides China…poses a risk that we may progress to a global pandemic of COVID-19… And so for that reason, the American public should not be frightened, but should be prepared to mitigate an outbreak in this country by measures that include social distancing, teleworking, temporary closure of schools, etc. There is nothing to be done right now since there are so few cases in this country [NB: no way he could know this] and these cases are being properly isolated, and so go about your daily business. However, be aware that behavioral adjustments may need to be made if a pandemic occurs.”
Suddenly, lockdowns were on the table. And we know what happened next. Fauci and Dr. Birx worked over the coming weeks to warm Trump up to the idea, culminating in the March 16, 2020, press conference that announced lockdowns to the nation.
Two weeks earlier, from March 3, 2020, at least, we had very good reports of the evidence out of China concerning the risk profiles of people who were vulnerable to the virus.
The new coronavirus is not an equal-opportunity killer: Being elderly and having other illnesses, for instance, greatly increases the risk of dying from the disease the virus causes, Covid-19. It’s also possible being male could put you at increased risk.
For both medical and public health reasons, researchers want to figure out who’s most at risk of being infected and who’s most at risk of developing severe or even lethal illness. With that kind of information, clinicians would know whom to treat more aggressively, government officials would have a better idea of steps to take, and everyone would know whether they need to take special, additional precautions….
Elderly patients “were more likely to develop ARDS,” the researchers wrote, suggesting how age can make Covid-19 more severe and even fatal: age increases the risk that the respiratory system will basically shut down under viral assault.
Youth, in contrast, seems to be protective. The WHO mission reported a relatively low incidence in people under 18, who made up only 2.4% of all reported cases. In fact, through mid-January, zero children in Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, had contracted Covid-19. It’s not clear whether that’s because children do not show signs of illness even if infected.
Even cases among children and teens aged 10 to 19 are rare. As of Feb. 11 there were 549 cases in that age group, 1.2% of the total, China CDC found. Only one had died….
Co-morbidities also raise the risk of dying from Covid-19. China CDC’s analysis of 44,672 patients found that the fatality rate in patients who reported no other health conditions was 0.9%. It was 10.5% for those with cardiovascular disease, 7.3% for those with diabetes, 6.3% for people with chronic respiratory diseases such as COPD, 6.0% for people with hypertension, and 5.6% for those with cancer.
Again, this article ran on March 3, 2020. Everyone on planet Earth knew this two weeks before the lockdowns. So far as I know, the data has not changed that much since then. We knew that elderly people with health problems were the vulnerable population. We knew for sure that young people were not. We also knew that adults would struggle with this virus and would need care.
It’s not too much of a stretch, and nor does it take a great deal of topical specialization, to imagine the outlines of a good public health response. Inform the public of what is coming or what is already here. Alert vulnerable populations to stay away from environments where infection is likely to occur. Calm down young people and keep their lives functioning as normal. Get to work examining the best possible therapeutics for dealing with the sick, among which would surely include repurposed drugs that have had success in the past in dealing with such infections.
Otherwise, we could have done exactly what Fauci said we should do on February 25: “Do not let the fear of the unknown…distort your evaluation of the risk of the pandemic to you relative to the risks that you face every day…do not yield to unreasonable fear.”
Protect the old. Let the young live their lives. Research on the best means of treatment. Minimizing fatalities on the road to endemicity. In other words, the Great Barrington Declaration.
It’s not rocket science. Nor is it the clarity that only hindsight provides. This kind of response is precisely what prevailing information would have dictated to anyone.
Instead, all hell broke loose with wild and experimental lockdowns that seemed designed for the whole population to avoid the virus – well, not the whole population but the professional Zoom class in particular while “essential workers” exposed themselves to the disease. Other outrages included especially exposing elderly people rather than protecting them. Schools were closed. The medical system locked down. In other words, the policy response was the opposite of what public health would have recommended.
As a result, the public was at a loss as to the real risks. Elderly people underestimated their risk while younger people overestimated it, and by huge amounts. Young people even today are surprised by their mild symptoms while people in their 50s are older are stunned to find themselves under the weather for weeks at a time. After two years when finally the Zoom class is meeting the virus, they are rather amazed to discover its symptoms and treatments. That’s just remarkable, and a reflection of how the policy response never accounted for the disparity of risk but rather pursued a population-wide strategy that protected no one except the professional class for as long as possible.
Why did this happen? Why did Farrar, Fauci, Collins, Birx, and the whole rest of the gang that had been living on burner phones and holding secret meetings for a full month not openly explain to the public the risks and what to do about them? Why did they choose instead a policy of lockdowns, panic, and disorientation that resulted in astonishing economic, social, cultural, and political carnage?
We’ll be asking these questions for a very long time. But it is impossible not to imagine the counterfactuals. Early on, I got to work researching the responses to previous pandemics: 1968-69 and 1957-58, for example. The response was very clear. Keep calm. See your doctor if you are sick. Avoid the pathogen if you are vulnerable. And keep society functioning while we meet the virus as we always have: upgraded immune systems to take account of the newest threat. Yes, vaccines can be part of that if the pathogen is stable enough to be so treated.
For reasons we do not yet understand, this old wisdom and clarity that worked time after time in the past was tossed out and replaced with a new fangled scheme to lock down everything and shatter social functioning. We knew with certainty now that none of this was necessary because we had access to very clear and accurate reports on the demographics of risk. Nor did it work, by whatever metric you want to measure what it means to work. Nearly two years later, we have record cases, massive social division and anger, plus vast amounts of death, much of which might never have occurred had we taken a different approach.
Figuring out why sound public-health practice was rejected in favor of lockdowns is the job of writers and researchers for many years to come. But this much we know already. We had the information we needed to rationally address this threat. We had the experience and knowledge we needed to approach this responsibly and scientifically. A very small group of people on both sides of the Atlantic chose a different path.
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Always good to document the information that was available with dates, so that it is harder to memory hole.
British PM Boris Johnson blew up the entire narrative today.
No vaccine passports, no mask mandates, no work restrictions anymore in Britain.
Banker fucking scum are scared of normal people figuring out about the Banker fucking scum.
Too late.
Just Boris trying to save his ass from being rousted out of office due to partying while the peasants were locked down.
But still a good thing.
Boris also realizes that the economy and the country are circling the drain as a result of all the draconian Covid mandates and I daresay he doesn’t want to be the one holding the bag as it all falls to shit. He helped create it and now, like the good little obsequious turncoat that he is, he’s suddenly on the side of ‘freedom.’ Meh.
As to the article, seems there’s a huge elephant in the room that the author has managed to miss and that is the absolute refusal to allow, countenance or even mention any treatment other than vaccines for the virus. How many have died because they were denied life saving treatment, told to go home and only come to the hospital when they were cyanotic and ready to be put on a ventilator to have their lungs blown out so the hospital could pocket 39K for the effort? .
The relevant writer and researcher has already told us why sound public health practices were discarded:
“The Pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, re-imagine and reset our world.”
Klaus Schwab
Take a look at which countries have ‘leaders’ with close ties to Schwab.
Not only the countries – here are the some of the people – you may recognise the names:
https://www.informedchoiceaustralia.com/post/wef-and-their-young-global-leaders-program
If you check at the end you will discover why Australia has been taken over by the fascists.
They are communists, and decades of their propaganda is why you believe otherwise.
In many cases, they’re literally the descendants of Soviet Bolsheviks.
One could compress that six weeks into the 5 seconds when shining a light on a kitchen floor full of cockroaches and watching them scatter. The honchos knew more than enough at that early stage to run for cover, make excuses, and plot a path forward for increasing their prestige and wealth. Few if any in the know gave a diddly about the remaining 99.99% of humanity.
I’m a very reluctant to believe extraordinary claims,
but this German guy (living in Russia) has, together with an unnamed data mining expert, puzzled together something pretty astounding.
Only in German, sorry:
but you can turn on auto-translation, as long as it hasn’t been scrubbed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_NS2s5sO4
I will be reading his book (in German) when I receive it within the next days.
m: He’s essentially reinforcing Dr. Martin’s statements about how the entire Covid ‘pandemic’ was created and planned many years ago and the planners got filthy rich and managed to turn western countries into totalitarian states rivaling Communist China. Martin states that the plan really started in 2000.
mygirl: Sorry I’m confused, who is Dr. Martin?
(What you describe reminds me a bit of Martin Armstrong, although I’m not aware he made claims on back to 2000.)
Had nothing been done it would have run it’s course by May 202. But idiots and morons decided to use this as weapon to coerce and control populations. It was nothing more than a damn flu virus with an IFR of .26%. Now we have allowed governments to poison millions and the people are so fucking stupid they are for the most part willing to take the death shots. Idiots, each and every one.
Amen, VOWG.
Well, the question has already been answered: it is now conspiracy fact that a-not-so tiny elite working under the auspices of Klaus Schwab and his WEF took complete control of the narrative for their own evil ends. The WEF Young Global Leaders groups, and others, coordinated all significant arenas: Big Media, Big Finance, Big Pharma, Big Government, Big Science, Big Medical etc. Everyone on the planet in a position of influence had been bought and paid for.
AND: Some of the people: https://www.informedchoiceaustralia.com/post/wef-and-their-young-global-leaders-program
Their plan had been in the incubator for many decades and is encapsulated in UN2020, UN Agenda 2030 and ID2020 – it’s all easily accessible on the web. But this is only the social/political part and actors like Gates, Buffet, Schwab et al are merely the front guys – the storm troops – the pawns on the global chessboard. The real powers behind the curtain are the Banksters. Yes, it’s all about the money.
Larry Fink confirmed in his report Q4 2021 that the global financial system is imploding and there is no way the ‘Masters of the Financial Universe’ will hold it together much longer. This followed the carefully hidden events around September 16 2019 – the Repo crisis and 2008 GFC before that. Here is Larry talking:
“We wrote in August 2019 about the nearly exhausted monetary policy toolbox and the challenges it poses for dealing with the next downturn. This has now come to the fore – and that’s why it is time to go direct with policy support. Simply using up the limited monetary policy space remaining – interest rates, forward guidance or even quantitative easing – could quickly put the macro focus on the lack of tools left and thus backfire. The only way to address this is to add further lines of defense and make fiscal policy an explicit part of the crisis response toolkit.”
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/insights/blackrock-investment-institute/publications/coronavirus-policy-response
Embedded in his report above is: “……and make fiscal policy an explicit part of the crisis response toolkit.” Do you know what this means? It means that the Banksters are planning to take over government in toto during the next crisis which is due very soon. This is all the subject of my eBook which is available at: https://www.theburningplatform.com/author/austrian-peter/
This is a highly complex subject and one book doesn’t go anywhere near enough to explain what has happened, is happening and what will happen in the near future. There really are lots of books to read in order to prepare a plan to not only survive the coming crisis but even prosper in the aftermath.
Some References:
https://repowatch.org/ – learn about the Repo market
Video: What’s behind the Fed’s bailout of the Repo market:
https://gnseconomics.com/2020/02/10/the-stages-of-the-collapse/
And after the crisis: https://theconversation.com/urban-farming-four-reasons-it-should-flourish-post-pandemic-144133?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Weekend%20Conversation%20-%201716716582&utm_content=The%20Weekend%20Conversation%20-%201716716582+CID_3fc470a8e0c27c2fb4e8b3206bc1d110&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=Urban%20farming%20four%20reasons%20it%20should%20flourish%20post-pandemic
There is much, much more to know and I am learning new things every day. The scamdemic is just a small part of what we will be experiencing in this decade. It might even come to a WW3. But don’t despair – their plan has a massive great hole in it. It requires the 99% to cooperate, to bow down and become subservient slaves and they plan to do this by using CBDCs giving them total control over money in the same way that China is developing its social controls systems.
The answer is DO NOT COMPLY. This strategy is beginning to work now as the Covid narrative collapses:
https://mises.org/wire/why-they-want-keep-health-emergency-going-forever
Peter: Catherine Austin Fitts has been saying this as well. She calls the players ‘Mr. Global’ and she also lays out how the financial collapse will be engineered just like the Covid ‘pandemic’ has been engineered. Follow the money, follow the agenda. Alex Jones had several videos about the Bilderbergs and who the various movers were and are. The author of UN Agenda 21 was a norwegian socialist and Agenda 21, in its many permutations, is what is being spewed by the ‘progressives’ pushing diversity, green everything and Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset.’ The ‘Covid Pandemic’ was created by evil men and its purpose is many fold, primacy being given to fulfilling Agenda 21.
Here is a question for you: Have you ever heard of UN Agenda 21? No? How about ICLEI? Most assuredly not! I’ll bet you have heard some of the following buzzwords: “sustainable development,” “redistribution of wealth,” “social justice,” “population change” (meaning population reduction); “centralized control,” “climate change” (formerly “global warming”), “smart growth,” “green jobs, energy, building codes,” etc., “consensus building,” “biodiversity,” “local visioning,” “community input,” “communitarianism” (meaning the community is more important than the individuals) or “resilient cities?” Surely you know this one: “Think globally; act locally.” These are phrases that have been tossed around for the past twenty years. Why twenty years?
and…
The idea for Agenda 21 was born in the mind of Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a Norwegian socialist who headed the United Nations World Health Organization and is Vice President of the World Socialist Party. As an interesting aside, the Norwegian shooter who killed ninety-three people in his assault on the youth camp in Norway last summer claims that she was his primary target because of her party’s policy of allowing so many Muslims to emigrate to Norway. He claims that his timing was not right. That is why she was not among the victims.
https://catholicism.org/stealth-globalism-un-agenda-21.html
Brilliant Mygirl, you have added to my knowledge bank, this Agenda 21 I knew about but haven’t studied it in depth but not ICLEI – this is gold dust – more reading and thank you so much; it’s good to have a fellow traveller! And to meet a new proponent as the plot thickens.
You have confirmed my assessmant thus far. I feel like a guide navigating an unknown, dark, dense forest counting the dots to put together a path through it – and I can always be wrong. As one reader fedback that perhaps it’s all just one big global FUBAR.
There are first random chances, then coincidences, but a third time it’s a bloody miracle. So much fits together like a jigsaw which is what I called my book because it felt like it. Now we are at about half way I guess, with all the edge pieces in and 50% of the rest maybe.
I am getting really good guidance from Dr Peter Breggin – worth reading, I’ve nearly finished.