IN PENNSYLVANIA, Gov. Tom Wolfe this week ordered stores to deny service to customers not wearing a face mask. So after writing for weeks about how wrong and unnecessary it is to make the whole world resemble a hospital ward, I have no choice but to wear a mask. In protest, I wear one that is too big and looks especially ridiculous. I refuse to wear anything remotely fashionable. I would have no problem wearing a mask if I were sick and might infect others. But I am not sick. This dictatorial order is contrary to longstanding medical science and to recent recommendations of the Surgeon General and the World Health Organization. Studies show that masks are only effective in preventing the spread of coronaviruses (and other respiratory infections) if worn by people who are already symptomatic with coughs. Those who are asymptomatic do not spread the viruses through droplets in the air (but can spread them --- under certain specific conditions --- through contact with surfaces.) In March, the World Health Organization reported the results of a study of Covid-infected people in China: In an analysis of 75,465 COVID-19 cases in China, airborne transmission was not reported.8 Droplet transmission occurs when a person is in in close contact (within 1 m) with someone who has respiratory symptoms (e.g., coughing or sneezing) and is therefore at risk of having his/her mucosae (mouth and nose) or conjunctiva (eyes) exposed to potentially infective…

  DR. David Katz, a public health expert, discusses "total harm minimization", "a plan that seeks to protect people both from Covid-19 and the host of ills that result from social isolation and economic shut-down." See his credentials here.  

    DR. Knut Wittkowski states once again that social distancing lengthens the life span of a contagious virus in a community. His credentials: PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany; ScD (Habilitation) in Medical Biometry from the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuüingen, Germany; 15 years working with Klaus Dietz, a leading epidemiologist who coined the term “reproduction number”, on the Epidemiology of HIV.; Head of The Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University, New York. and CEO of ASDERA LLC, a company discovering novel treatments for complex diseases from data of genome-wide association studies.  

THEY told you to clap. Clap, dog, clap. Applaud as your lives are stolen from you. O happy prisoner, you can still clap while under house arrest.

Say, I will never clap for you.

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ZENO writes:

The strange thing about this pandemic is that usually panic or fear will precede any containment measures. I mean in a medieval plague people would see their friends, neighbors, families getting ill at home, or even strangers dying in the streets, and then panic would start, and then perhaps laws or containment measures by the authorities, right or wrong, would be created to address it.

Now in this pandemic it was the reverse. (more…)

INGEMAR writes:

I’m finding that increasingly, a bright line is being drawn between believers in the Truth and believers of the Lie; and the latter outnumber the former by a staggering margin.

As if the imposed lockdowns are not terrible enough, I am finding myself increasingly isolated from the ones I love. I used to work in a laboratory, and in fact in an infectious pathogen lab for a Mainland China-based company (which in a way I view in retrospect as a prophecy of things to come). This gives me, I think, more competence than the man on the street (and certainly more than my Democratic governor) to comment on the (un)reality of the testing regime.

SARS-CoV-2 is supposedly a novel infectious pathogen. The media, in the early phase of the scare, spoke of testing kits that “should have been” available if the USA had prepared more adequately for it. There is a major problem here:

Validated testing kits do not grow on trees, nor do they spring into existence by governmental fiat. Approved testing kits require several months to years of regulatory work to be able to be marketed. If an infection is a less than a year old, there would not be a validated test for it; else, the pathogen is not novel at all.

As of this week, the NYC hospitals have dispensed with any pretense of any kind of testing, as 3700 presumed, UNTESTED fatalities were attributed to COVID-19. Additionally, China has been distributing testing kits that have been pre-spiked with the virus, which has the double effect of 1.) instantly providing a positive result and 2.) infecting the patient.

Despite my insider knowledge, and despite the open deceptions, no one I try to reason with accept what I have to say. (more…)

THIS morning, I wrote to the manager of a network of local farmers markets in my area after he informed customers in a long, long letter that the markets would not be reopening for normal business until a vaccine for the coronavirus is available. It was unclear whether he intends to require proof of vaccination for future customers, but I would not be surprised if we reach that point, so deep, so thorough is the mass ignorance of what we are facing. In any event, he justified his decision by saying that “herd immunity” had not yet been achieved.

I offer this letter in the hopes that it will inspire you to speak out as much as possible against the totalitarian shutdowns of commercial activity. Unless you are at risk and have poor health, please act with your wallet and as much as possible boycott those businesses imposing draconian controls, even if you have to drive out of your way or spend a little more. You have some power as a consumer. Use it. Even if it does not change the world, use it. Ethical shopping is a civic duty.

I have not included a copy of his letter here. It read distinctly like a political manifesto and I could not help but think as I was reading it that it was influenced by powerful business people and politicians, not small farmers.

Dear Mr. P__,

Thank you for sharing your update on the farmers markets. I sincerely request that you share this response from one consumer with your vendors.

We enjoyed very much our experiences shopping at ____. We visited the market almost every week for about two years and spent an average of $100 at each visit. We often recommended the market to friends.

It was nice while it lasted. We will never shop there again because of your decision regarding the virus. We will miss the incredible goat cheese, the mushrooms, the raw milk, the arugula, the delicious meat, the outstanding fish, the doughnuts and many other outstanding products. We will miss the smiling, down-to-earth faces of the vendors.

You have revealed your political agenda and regardless of what you do in the future, we will offer no support to these businesses, except to travel possibly to their farms and purchase from them there. We already have a network of other small vendors in the area and we will continue to use them in the future. (more…)

ZENO writes:

In Germany, it was just announced that all religious services will remain banned by government order until August 31st. Also cafes, bars, restaurants, cinemas and music venues, all closed. But large department stores will reopen in May. I guess churches are considered “non-essential”, or less essential than big brand clothes stores.

It’s uncanny. People will be unable to go to mass for months (the rule also applies to mosques and synagogues), or even to have a beer at the pub, in Germany of all places. All that for a disease that killed relatively very few people in the country (about 3,800 at last count – usually between 15,000 and 20,000 people die in Germany every year of regular pneumonia according to the data below). It’s all very strange. (more…)

TAKEN with the author’s permission from the forthcoming book, PLANNEDemic – The Great Pandemic Farce of 2020, by Hugh Akins [Check www.ca-rc.com for availability]:

Catholics, Christians and patriots are well advised to contemplate the heroic and effective action taken by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who in the Year of Our Lord 591, faced a pestilence that took many lives, even the life of his predecessor on the Chair of Peter a year earlier.

Saint Gregory certainly did not tell his large flock to cease attending public Masses, to stop exercising the virtues of faith, hope and charity, to quarantine themselves in their homes, to avoid all contact with those stricken with the plague, to practice social distancing, to comply with every despotic mandate to come down from godless authorities bent on the destruction of Christianity.  No! The Saint and Vicar of Christ called for the entire city of Rome to assemble for a large public procession to beg God’s protection and healing.    

President Trump, the CDC, Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo of New York, and practically every other governor today would have had the Saint arrested for violating their sinister Police State lockdown orders!

Pope Saint Gregory the Great would still not have budged, as today’s popes and bishops have done, and even many traditional pastors, closing the doors of their churches like so many cowards and traitors. [Editor: St. Gregory also did not reject the Catholic faith.]

 No, not he, the true man of God that he was.  

“On that day the faithful…walked through the streets of the city praying and singing… The plague was so potent at that time that 80 people collapsed and died as they walked…

“Pope Saint Gregory met them upon their arrival [at the church of Saint Mary Major], joining them in prayer as he took his place with them holding aloft the miraculous image of Our Lady painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist.  As the procession neared the Vatican the participants all saw Saint Michael the Archangel standing upon the cupola of Hadrian’s mausoleum as he sheathed his flaming sword.  It was a sign that the chastisement had come to an end, and at once the heaviness in the air abated and the air itself seemed to freshen and clear.

“Indeed, at that moment the plague ended as the faithful rejoiced and lifted up their voices to thank the Mother of God.”

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   AFTER being told for weeks that our hospitals could not handle the coronavirus epidemic, the country now faces thousands of hospital and other healthcare workers being laid off. Another side to this story is that millions of people are not receiving preventative or routine care; many of them will suffer from undiagnosed or untreated conditions.