BRAZILIAN President Jair Bolsonaro has defied the World Health Organization and refused to shut down the country’s economy. He called the coronavirus “a little flu.”

“The virus is here, we’re going to have to confront it. Confront it like a man, not a boy! We’re all going to die one day.”

Meanwhile, the international media tries to take the “far-right” president down. Bolsonaro has also said he doesn’t want “gay tourists” in his country. Read More »

DR. PABLO Goldschmidt is an Argentine-French virologist. He is Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, a graduate of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry of the University of Buenos Aires and Faculty of Medicine of the Hospital Center of Pitié-Salpetrière, Paris.

From an interview on Clarin.com, March 9, 2020 [Source: OffGuardian]:

“The ill-founded opinions expressed by international experts, replicated by the media and social networks repeat the unnecessary panic that we have previously experienced. The coronavirus identified in China in 2019 caused nothing less than a strong cold or flu, with no difference so far with cold or flu as we know… Read More »

B. Sardi writes:

Visited your website.

You are too logical.

The social control artists are exploiting fear-of-death-induced panic and control. The world is not a logical place and we limit the effectiveness of our messages by appealing to logic. They show pictures of a dead baby, many coffins, homeless being herded, patients lying on hospital floors, it is those images that provoke fear.  Our messages can’t compete. They make it appear they have all the weapons, ventilators, masks, chloroquine, etc.

If we can put something in their hands — vitamin C, etc., then just for placebo effect it works to allay panic. Read More »

THE New York Post is touting this obviously staged video of corpses in Brooklyn being loaded onto a refrigerated truck allegedly full of victims of the coronavirus:

The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video.

The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue outside Brooklyn Hospital Center in Fort Greene, according to a man shooting the clip who does not identify himself.

Anyone with any experience with modern hospitals knows that bodies are usually transported from hospitals by funeral homes and, in any event, are not left out in the open on sidewalks. The death count in New York, even if you accept all the cases being presented by officials as deaths actually caused by the virus rather than deaths of people who have tested positive for it and had other serious conditions, is not so great as to create this kind of body crisis or this sort of break with protocols, which probably violates the city’s sanitary laws. On an average day in New York City, someone dies every nine minutes. New York hospitals are used to processing dozens of bodies and the alleged deaths from coronavirus would be spread out over numerous hospitals. Notice in the official figures given, we are not told how many more people a day have died in the city in total over the past week, as deaths without a COVID diagnosis may have decreased.

New York City is currently the world headquarters of hysterical propaganda. This video is surely a fake. Sadly, Americans are naive and trusting enough to swallow this.

I am not suggesting that the virus does not exist or that it has not caused death and suffering. There’s a virus and a superstructure of fraud, exaggeration and lies about it, which dishonors anyone who has been sickened by it.

Do you get the feeling that we are participating in a live experiment and that even the exposure of videos like this is part of the drill and has been fully anticipated? I do. If a character in a play can review the performance of the playwright, I’d like to give a shout-out to the creator of this set piece. You get an A for effort. And a D for execution.

[Thanks to Steve.]

A READER from Michigan writes:

I have been following your posts about coronavirus with interest. It is clear that there is an unbelievable power grab and wealth transfer happening right before our eyes. About that you and I are in agreement.  Thank you for continuing to write about it and bring awareness to this issue.

However, you have been rightly questioning how it is that hospitals could be overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic when so many more people die annually of influenza. I had the same question, so I asked my husband, who is a nurse at University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan is one of the hardest hit states for COVID-19 infections at present. Read More »

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CHRIS PIRNAK at Know Your Adversary introduces his latest podcast:

It doesn’t matter whether this crisis is legitimate or not. This manufactured pandemic has the potential for formulating the largest transfer of wealth in human history. A discussion of how we can successfully navigate these waters. This isn’t a bailout, because that would imply moral hazard behavior at the top. This is a well orchestrated plan.

-I am observing that there has not been any let up in the media’s fear campaign. This tells me that the elites intend to maximize their asset grab. Perhaps we may see even more manufactured horror.

-There is a complete lockdown on the crisis narrative. Fox fires Trish Regan for minimizing the circumstances. There is a total blackout regarding the objective discussion of effective treatments and cures. The elites want to maximize this story line and political correctness rules.

-Many of the +30 million unemployed will never find gainful employment after the crisis concludes. [cont.]

“ACCORDING to statista.com [3], “Italy has the highest amount of confirmed [COV] cases in Europe with 59,138…” That’s as of March 23. If you multiply by six, to get the annual figure, you arrive at 360,000 cases. You want to blow that up, because of acceleration? Go ahead. How about a million cases for the year? Two million. Three million.

“Now let’s look at ordinary flu cases for Italy in a given year. According to sciencedirect.com [4], “In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI [influenza-like illness] cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%.” That’s 5 million plus each year. Not just once. Was a seasonal flu pandemic declared in Italy? Ever? Was the whole country ever locked down as a result? No.”

— Jon Rappaport, “Corona, The Case Number Game“

FROM “An Epidemic of Irrationality,” by C. Griffin Trotter MD, PhD :

Today (March 27, 2020) is kind of a landmark day. The front-page headline in the Seattle Times screams “U.S. has most virus cases: With 1,000-plus deaths, more grim milestones ahead.” But the real milestone is that the stark irrationality of our public response to COVID-19 has become manifest as never before. Today the Times has three front-page articles featuring three radically incompatible claims.

The first article makes the same old claim that has been featured on the front page every day for the last month. It is the claim that Coronavirus is a nearly unprecedented medical catastrophe, destined for “grim milestones” of almost unthinkable proportion.

The second article correctly claims that it is very difficult for patients to get tested for Coronavirus. The policy in Washington state is still to test only sick patients. In fact, even sick patients are still often turned away if they are not sick enough, as several examples cited in this article document.

The third article reports that the death toll from Coronavirus, according to a model from University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, could reach 1,430 by July (at which time the model estimates the seasonal epidemic will be over).

Do these three articles hold together logically? Not even close. Washington’s population of 7.5 million persons makes up about 2.5% of the population of the United States. Even in the extremely unlikely event that every other state eventually gets hit as hard as Washington, the death rate referenced in the third article would translate to 57,000 deaths nationwide. That is substantially less than the death toll from influenza in 2017-18, which the media almost entirely ignored. So if the third article is correct, then the first article is radically incorrect. If the third article is correct, then this is not an unprecedented catastrophe, and in fact it will not even be as bad, mortality wise, as a bad flu season. Read More »

IF one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.²

“Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted”
List of authors.Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.,  H. Clifford Lane, M.D., and Robert R. Redfield, M.D.
MARCH 26, 2020
New England Journal of Medicine

And yet in no previous flu season was the economy deliberately wrecked with millions of people thrown into joblessness. Dr. Fauci, you deserve nothing less than a jail sentence.

FROM Br. Alexis Bugnolo at From Rome (March 21, 2020):

In recent days the international press has run stories about this Italian City as ground zero for the Wuhan Virus pandemic. They want desperately that all panic and accept their narrative about the apocalyptic plague which is decimating this city.

First, we cannot dismiss or diminish the death of any person let alone of large numbers of them. But, second, we ought not manipulate statistics to make a flu seem like a plague.

Bergamo is a city of around 120,000 souls. It is also the chief city in the province of Brescia, which has 1.2 million souls. There are many hospitals in the province, but Bergamo has the principal ones. Not all who are patients at Bergamo are citizens from the city.

As being reported, the Mayor of Bergamo says the total deaths of citizens of the city since the outbreak of the Corona Virus is 108 more than normal. He is using 2019, in which the deaths were 56 in the same period, as the basis. But he admits that only 30 some, of all the dead were known victims of the Wuhan virus.

However, the press wants you to think that everyone is dying in the city, and that everyone is dying of coronavirus. The Ecco of Bergamo is sounding this kind of alarm.

Here is a photo of coffins from a migrant shipwreck in 2013. It has also been used deceptively in connection with Bergamo deaths.

IN A real pandemic, police would be busy helping people get medical treatment, clearing bodies away, and quarantining the sick.

When a virus that overwhelmingly affects the very old and those with compromised immunities is turned into a fake pandemic, they imprison the healthy in their homes, close down playgrounds and enforce draconian “social distancing,” an unproven measure for controlling contagion among those with no signs of sickness. America is a prison without bars. (And without bars.) Prisoners in maximum security facilities get to play basketball, but not the inmates of New York:

In New York City, they’ve started dismantling basketball hoops to prevent people from gathering in parks and playing. In Lakewood, New Jersey, police broke up a wedding being held in violation of a ban on large gatherings. And in Austin, Texas, officers are encouraging people to call a hotline to snitch on violators of the city’s orders for people to stay home.

Police departments are taking a lead role in enforcing social distancing guidelines that health officials say are critical to containing COVID-19. Along with park rangers, fire inspectors and other public servants, officers more accustomed to chasing suspects and solving crimes are spending these troubled days cajoling people to stay at least 6 feet apart.

Things are especially bad it seems in New York City, an example for propaganda purposes to the rest of the nation. The city is not an epicenter of disease at this moment; it’s an epicenter of authoritarianism and lies. You used to have to make 400K a year just to walk the streets of Manhattan. Now you can’t even do that.

By the way, I’d rather risk disease than treat everyone around me like a potential murderer. If George Orwell wrote the script for an episode of The Twilight Zone, it would be like this.

FROM The Guardian:

Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of the banks in 2008, said there was a need for a taskforce involving world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response.

A virtual meeting of the G20 group of developed and developing countries, chaired by Saudi Arabia, will be held on Thursday, but Brown said it would have been preferable to have also included the UN security council.

IT’S SHOCKING that bioweapons labs exist, but they do — in the United States, China, Israel, and Soviet Russia.**

The fact that Taiwan has had two deaths from the coronavirus, South Korea less than 150, Japan just 45, Israel only five, while Italy has had more than 7,000, Spain more than 4,000, and Iran more than 2,000, lends support to theories of a biological weapon. That evidence is more significant when combined with what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign to shut down the economies of these countries and create social unrest. South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore (two deaths) have not engaged in generalized shutdowns. They have quarantined those who are sick. Taiwan, only 81 miles off the coast of mainland China and densely urban, has had a staggeringly low total of only 252  cases of the illness. (See figures here.) Perhaps weather is a factor, as Taipei is warmer than northern Italy, but the temperature in Tokyo now (54° F) is close to recent conditions in Lombardy, Italy. And about 2,000 people have been diagnosed in Florida, which has temperatures close to those in Taiwan.

There are many mysteries here.

Interestingly, in 1998, Israel was accused of developing an “ethnic bio-weapon,” designed to target a specific ethnic group.

Whether coronavirus is a biological weapon is secondary to the issue of how the virus is being used to implement social and financial engineering.

** Of these three, Russia and Israel have the fewest cases of the virus.

FROM “Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?” By Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya , professors of medicine at Stanford University, in The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2020:

If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.

Fear of Covid-19 is based on its high estimated case fatality rate—2% to 4% of people with confirmed Covid-19 have died, according to the World Health Organization and others. So if 100 million Americans ultimately get the disease, two million to four million could die. We believe that estimate is deeply flawed. The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases.

The latter rate is misleading because of selection bias in testing. The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited. But it could make the difference between an epidemic that kills 20,000 and one that kills two million. If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.

Population samples from China, Italy, Iceland and the U.S. provide relevant evidence. Read More »

I DON’T agree with all of the political conclusions of Mike King of The Anti-New York Times. Among other things, he promotes the Q-Anon psy-op and has been ludicrously forecasting Trump’s take-down of the “deep state” for many months, against all evidence. But his observations are often spot-on and hilarious.

Here is a letter he wrote to his local bank yesterday:

To whom it may concern,

On Monday, March 23, after making a deposit at the teller window (timed 12:36 PM) — at the branch located at xxxxxxxxxxxx, NJ, I returned the pen which the rude and overly aggressive pen-policewoman/virus-fighter on the floor had given to me. This woman — an imported crisis manager of some sort and NOT a regular employee at that branch — barked back at me: “take it with you!” — as if the free pens she just handed out were suddenly infected with the Black Death.

As a long-time client and as a gentleman, I did not appreciate her rude and condescending tone; and the demeaning manner in which she loudly directed all customers to comply with the “social distancing” policy amidst this concocted crisis reminded me of one of those TSA beasts at the airport. For that reason, I politely and quietly  told her that she was over-reacting as I left the pen on her platform and calmly walked out. Read More »

DURING THE Communist Coup in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks released prisoners to create havoc and instability. Here we go: 

President Trump is considering issuing an executive order to release elderly, nonviolent offenders from federal prisons amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The president said he was considering the move on Sunday during a press conference on the fight to contain the coronavirus. The virus has proved to be particularly contagious in prisons and jails where large numbers of inmates live in close proximity to each other. Rikers Island in New York City has reported nearly 40 cases of the COVID-19 virus among guards and prisoners. Read More »

FROM Stanford Professor John Ioannidas, professor of medicine, biomedical data science, statistics, and epidemiology and population health, writing last Tuesday:

If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average. The media coverage would have been less than for an NBA game between the two most indifferent teams. Read More »