THE GOVERNMENT, if it were honest and not benefiting from engineered hysteria, would deploy an army of statisticians to go into communities and actually teach people how to interpret the deceptive numbers being thrown at them about coronavirus. That’s not to say there isn’t serious illness out there and we shouldn’t take reasonable sanitary measures, far short of closing everything down. But we don’t need the National Guard, we need mathematicians!

Here is William Briggs, “statistician to the stars,” giving free counseling to those who will listen:

How accurate are the numbers in reflecting Reality? It wouldn’t surprise anybody who has worked with medical data over a long period of time to say “not very”. Take Italian reports of deaths caused by coronavirus. It’s become clear that what they are reporting and the true caused numbers of dead bodies are at variance.

One professor said “The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.” (more…)

  DO YOU NEED further proof that this is psychological warfare at its finest?  

AN estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. --- The National Instititute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism  

  THE coronavirus is not nearly as deadly as the flu. The Centers for Disease Control, the government agency which monitors health events nationwide, estimates that between 23,000 and 59,000 people in the United States died of the flu between October 1, 2019 and March 14, 2020. Most flu deaths, as is the case with the coronavirus, involve people suffering from other serious health conditions or in advanced old age. It's not much of a consolation perhaps to look at this high number of flu deaths, but the flu is just one way that people who are weak die and we have lived with this reality for many years. The population of the United States is 327 million, so these numbers of flu deaths are relatively low. I mean, people do die. Beware of the figures in the media! They are not counting the undiagnosed people with coronavirus when comparing mortality rates of the flu and coronavirus.    

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RACIST extremist groups, including neo-Nazis and other white supremacists, are encouraging members who contract novel coronavirus disease to spread the contagion to cops and Jews, according to intelligence gathered by the FBI. In an alert obtained by ABC News, the FBI’s New York office reports that "members of extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the virus, if contracted, through bodily fluids and personal interactions." --- ABC News  

FROM Anthony Migchels: Meanwhile, they’re just shutting down the real economy. Just destroying the livelihoods of millions of people all over the West, locking down entire sectors, offering 1000 bucks (1500 Euro’s in Holland) to make ends meet in the months ahead in exchange. Aren’t they great? Is Big Brother not reaching out? Is it any wonder that the multitude are very grateful? Getting saved from The Bug, and next getting a hand out too? Sadly, reality landing won’t take long. A few thousand Fed bucks are not going to replace weeks and months of real production. The US Economy is projected to implode with 14% next quarter. Talk about torching the place. It is not going to seriously console millions of newly unemployed. Bankrupt small business. The main target, as always, is the West. America in particular.

PENNSYLVANIA Governor Tom Wolfe had no authority to shut businesses down. His mandate was a mandate despite his double talk. The same is true of other governors who have taken unlawful and authoritarian measures against the coronavirus. Marc Scaringi at The Western Journal comments.  

  IN THIS AGE of Counterfeit Catholicism, praying the ancient and unchangeable liturgy of the Catholic Church at home is what a small but growing number of Catholics do every Sunday. Now that your church is likely closed, consider joining them by praying the true Mass at home. It is not ideal, but Catholics have done it for many centuries when they did not have access to the sacraments. I highly recommend Gerry Matatics's CD lecture, "What Do Recusant Catholics Do on Sunday?;" his other talks are outstanding too. Matatics's personal story is fascinating. He was raised in an atheistic home and became obsessively interested in the Bible as a teenager. He became a full Presbyterian minister but then converted to Catholicism. The Bible, he said, converted him. For Protestant readers, and actually anyone, I highly recommend his great and entertaining lecture, "How the Bible Converted Me to Catholicism: One Protestant Minister's Surprising Journey of Faith." With everything closed by government fiat, this is a good time to learn more. This is a good time, the best of times, to pray. Come to Mass! Come, children, come to Mass, and bring your merry hearts with you. Come, you that are young and happy, and rejoice before the Lord. Come, you that are old and weary, and tell your loneliness to God. Come, you that are sorely tempted, and ask the help of heaven. Come, you that have sinned, and weep between…

FROM Heather Mac Donald: To ask about the costs and benefits of the spreading economic shutdowns guarantees an accusation of heartlessness. But the issue is not human compassion versus alleged greed. The issue is balancing one target of compassion against another. The millions of people whose lives depend on a functioning economy also deserve compassion. Many of the businesses that are now being shuttered by decree will never come back. They do not have the reserves to survive weeks or months without customers. In New York City, many streets were already blighted by rows of empty storefronts. The virus shutdown could knock out the remaining enterprises, as customers acclimate themselves further to ordering on-line. Lay-offs are piling up in restaurants, hotels, and malls; on Tuesday, unemployment claims in California were 40 times above the daily average, an increase greater than any coronavirus surge. It is low-wage employees who are most being hurt. The knowledge class can shelter in place and work from their home computers. Their employers are not shutting down. Not so people who physically provide goods and services. The employees who have been let off now may not be able to find work again if the economy continues to collapse. While governors and mayors declare some businesses essential and some not, to their employees, they are all essential. A prolonged depression will stunt lives as surely as any viral epidemic, and its toll will not be confined to the…

FROM The Common Nature of Epidemics and Their Relation to Climate and Civilization (Lippincott, 1866) by Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D.:

If indeed the emanations thrown off from the living body formed permanent and powerful poisons, like miasms connected with the products of decomposition, and if they were, like such products, capable of being conveyed unchanged to great distances, we should be able to live only in solitude; we could never meet in society, for we should poison each other; the first symptom of illness would be the signal for the abandonment of the sick, and we should be compelled by a due regard to self-preservation to withhold from persons afflicted with disease every kind and degree of assistance that required personal attendance.

Happily, we are not so constituted, and the evidence that has been adduced of the narrowness of the sphere even of the most virulent contagion, shows the groundlessness of the alarm sometimes entertained respecting this dreaded agent, while it points to the certain means of destroying it. The London Fever Hospital is separated from the Small-Pox Hospital only by the space of between thirty and forty feet, and the windows of the wards of both establishments are immediately opposite each other: yet there is no instance of the communication of small-pox to the typhus patients, nor of typhus to the small-pox patients; nor of either disease to the convalescent, or to the official inmates of the adjoining establishment. There does not appear to be a single instance on record, in any country, of the extension of infection beyond the walls of an hospital, or even of a lazar-house, so as to injure in any manner the nearest inhabitants. (more…)

"CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season. This burden was similar to estimated burden during the 2012–2013 influenza season1." --- Centers for Disease Control  

  Source: Centers for Disease Control