JOHNS HOPKINS University as of today is reporting a total of 73,095 U.S. deaths, and climbing, from the coronavirus, statistics that are in shocking contrast to those provided by the Centers for Disease Control.
According to the CDC, as of May 2, 2020, 44,016 people had died of the virus, and the death rate was rapidly tumbling, consistent with the familiar pattern of contagious respiratory disease. Last week, there were only 631 Covid deaths in the entire country, according to the CDC.
Now it may be that the CDC will revise its statistics, but it is inconceivable that they will reach the level of those by Johns Hopkins. We also know all these figures are inflated because of testimony from relatives, public officials and funeral homes, and we will never know the real death toll. But Johns Hopkins appears to be engaging in flagrant disinformation by presenting a death rate so sharply different from the official toll.
Look at the CDC chart carefully, and see how it fits the pattern described by epidemiologists presented in various posts here. We see a sharp peak for two weeks and then a precipitous fall. Only 631 deaths recorded for last week and yet much of the country remains shutdown.
Also, the total number of deaths from February 1, 2020 to May 2, 2020 is three percent less than the average total number of deaths for the same time period during the years 2017-19. Do you ever hear that on the news?
There’s a decent chance that while a large chunk of America is clearly wrapped up in their “#StayHome! #MaskUp! #TogetherWeWin!” platitudes, the ads coming out of corporate America that exploit those sentiments will be what awaken us from our media-induced COVID-19 slumber.
I mean at some point even the most preachy and sanctimonious among us are bound to say, “Oh FFS enough already.”
Even the coveted and gainfully employed “frontline” workers, at least the ones who aren’t crying into Facebook videos all day to prove to us just how rough they have it and how tremendously heroic they are, even many of them are already sick of this whole thing.
And corporate America doing what it does — exploiting that which they think is “cool” while packaging it as some value that their company really, truly, honestly believes in — might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Every single commercial out there now is some huge corporation trying to tug at our heart strings or stroke our egos with persistently holier-than-thou messages about what they’re doing for COVID-19, and what you’re doing for COVID-19, and what everyone under the sun is doing for or because of COVID-19. And while I’ll be the first to admit that I’m often the first to be annoyed by things in general, I’ve been annoyed for like 6 weeks now and I gotta think a good chunk of the country is catching up.
You can’t turn anywhere in America be it television, internet, radio or just going about your daily business without running into endless masks of sanctimony and ginned up moral servitude over how tragic it all it is but how wonderful we all are and how mindful we must remain because of how strong we all clearly are.
WHAT happens when a judge follows the unconstitutional orders of the Covid Crook in the governor’s office and sends someone to jail for trying to make a living during the Covid shutdown?
State officials, realizing the potential backlash, lie and say, “Oh, that wasn’t what we really meant.”
As I have made clear through prior pronouncements, jailing Texans for non-compliance with executive orders should always be the last available option. Compliance with executive orders during this pandemic is important to ensure public safety; however, surely there are less restrictive means to achieving that goal than jailing a Texas mother.”
What chutzpah! Judge Eric Moyé was resorting to the “last available option,” since Luther refused to comply with the shutdown. Now Moyé will get the blame for taking the governor’s order, unlawful though it was, seriously.
The shutdowns require voluntary compliance by the public. If the public refused, the whole thing would collapse.
WE MAY never know how many patients in nursing homes died not from the coronavirus but from neglect. The case of one nursing home in Montreal is illustrative of what happens when a worldwide panic is set off and the staff in a nursing home flees, leaving the bedridden to fend for themselves. The New York Times reported last week:
The deaths in Canada were discovered late last week at Résidence Herron, a private home for seniors in Montreal, after the local health authority, alarmed by staff shortages and the spread of coronavirus at the home, took control of the residence.
They found dehydrated residents lying listless in bed, unfed for days, with excrement seeping out of their diapers.
“I’d never seen anything like it in my 32-year nursing career,” said Loredana Mule, a nurse on the team. “It was horrific — there wasn’t enough food to feed people, the stench could’ve killed a horse.”
After she left the home, she said, she collapsed in her car and wept.
A skeleton staff of two nurses had been left to care for a private residence with nearly 150 beds, she said. The remaining staff had fled amid the outbreak of the coronavirus, leaving patients, some paralyzed or with other chronic illnesses, to fend for themselves.
In nursing homes throughout North America and Europe, residents have been confined to their rooms and prevented from seeing the family members who might otherwise supervise their care. In some places, one would not, definitely not, want to be incarcerated with the staff. At a nursing home in New Jersey, where 17 people died, the staff and conditions had gotten very negative ratings before the pandemic.
YESTERDAY, I posted an excerpt from a blog post by James Perloff that looked at the possibility that Covid-19 is a bioweapon. There’s a lot on the Internet about this possibility.
After giving it some more thought, I have removed the post. I just don’t think there is enough evidence at this point to prove this is not a naturally occurring coronavirus similar to other nasty influenza viruses.
I don’t want to encourage you to think or worry about something that is a very slim possibility. It’s going to take a lot more evidence to convince me that the bioweapon theory is credible.
CANADIAN SCIENTIST D.G. Goncourt reviews the medical literature on the effectiveness of face masks to control respiratory disease. A summary of his findings:
Masks and respirators do not work.
There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.
Furthermore, the relevant known physics and biology, which I review, are such that masks and respirators should not work. It would be a paradox if masks and respirators worked, given what we know about viral respiratory diseases: The main transmission path is long-residence-time aerosol particles (< 2.5 μm), which are too fine to be blocked, and the minimum-infective-dose is smaller than oneaerosol particle.
The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum, or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.
Common sense told us this was true many weeks ago. If face masks were effective, doctors and other health practitioners certainly would have adopted them a long time ago.
JAMES O’KEEFE with Project Veritas reports on the staging of a news story by CBS, which allegedly created a fake patient line outside a Covid-testing site in Michigan. “This is an explosive story,” says O’Keefe. It was exposed by an insider at the testing site who recorded conversations with employees.
The whistleblower appears on this report, and though he says people shouldn’t be afraid to come forward, he speaks with an annoying and creepy electronic voiceover. Otherwise, it is a good report.
The alleged staging by CBS is not surprising at all except to those who are living in a dream world. Television networks have been producing news for decades, which is not at all to say that everything they do is staged.
Malcolm Muggeridge, (1903-1990), the famous journalist who worked for major English newspapers and the BBC, reported on this phenomenon in his book “Christ and the Media,” published in 1977. He warned that television would be used — and was already being used — for mass deception:
I remember once returning to my hotel in New York and noticing on the way that a crowd had assembled outside what was obviously an embassy or consulate of some sort — I found out afterwards that it belonged to one of the Arab countries. There were the usual students assembled — bra-less girls, bearded men, holding slogans with placards on them; also a police van in attendance, and a number of cops standing by with their truncheons — everything set for a demo. ‘What’s going on?’ I asked, and was told, as though it should have been obvious, that the cameras hadn’t yet turned up. I lingered on, until they came, and watched them set up and start rolling. Then, ‘Action!’ whereupon, placards were lifted, slogans shouted, fists clenched; a few demonstrators were arrested and pitched into the police van, and a few cops kicked, until, ‘Cut!’ Soon the cameras, the cops, and the demonstrators had all departed, leaving the street silent and deserted. Later, in the evening, in my hotel room, I watched the demo on the screen in one of the news programmes. It looked very impressive.
He also wrote:
I don’t myself in any way equate the invention of printing with the invention of television. There are enormous differences between the two, and one of the most obvious ones is that the printed word — which I hold in veneration — is not subject to the same centralised control as television.
This is not quite true. We know the printed word too can be under centralized control, as it is today. TV news is more powerful though because it looks so darn real. Americans are living in a dream world and are literally hypnotized by imagery on the screen and the presumed authority of televisions news reports. The real problem is not the technology but the human impulse to surrender judgement and escape from reality.
“Future historians,” wrote Muggeridge, “will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster which no one knows how to control or direct, and marvel that we should have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
Project Veritas has produced another good story, following up on its report on funeral directors who say death certificates are being falsely labeled as Covid deaths. Just a word of warning: Project Veritas has a slick feel that concerns me. Obviously, it has major funding, but I’m not sure where that is coming from. Stay alert, stay safe! Anything well-funded, anything that gets by the Youtube censors must be approached with caution, though I am not at all suggesting that this report is inaccurate.
There are people in China and America, some with connections to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who are upset with reports that the coronavirus is linked to the lab. They want to blame President Trump for a plague unleashed by China. But it turns out there are many controversial labs in Wuhan. Some “study” viruses. Some produce fentanyl.
A fascinating article in the Los Angeles Times reveals that before Wuhan became known for a virus killing tens of thousands of people, it was the main source of fentanyl, described as the deadliest drug to ever hit U.S. streets, which is also killing tens of thousands of people. Datelined Mexico City, the Los Angeles Times article began, “For drug traffickers interested in getting in on the fentanyl business, all roads once led to Wuhan.” It reported, “Vendors there shipped huge quantities around the world. The biggest customers were Mexican drug cartels, which have embraced fentanyl in recent years because it is cheaper and easier to produce than heroin.”
“The Chinese government is the world’s largest drug dealer,” says Senator Tom Cotton. “China has allowed fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to pour into the United States for years, killing tens of thousands of Americans.” Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer agrees, saying, “We must hold China, currently the world’s largest producer of illicit fentanyl, accountable for its role in the trade of this deadly drug.” Their Fentanyl Sanctions Act was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020.
But now we find our nation engulfed in another made-in-China health crisis.
AN ONGOINGseries of articles at Coronacircus examines the possibility that the respiratory illness called Covid-19 is not caused by a new coronavirus, but occurs in people who test positive for the virus.
The author offers several hypotheses. For instance, could tuberculosis be a factor? He has not addressed the popular theory that the illness is caused by 5G wireless technology but I assume he will. These theories are just that: theories.
Salon À la Mode owner Shelley Luther was sentenced to seven days in jail for criminal and civil contempt and a $7,000 fine today for defying Governor Greg Abbott’s stay-at-home rules.
Dallas Judge Eric Moyé found Luther continued to operate her hair salon in violation of the governor’s order and in violation of a restraining order from the court.
She and her business are also each being fined $500 for every day… seven in all so far… that it was open in violation of the governor’s order. Judge Moye said the salon would continue to rack up a $500 fine for every day it remains open between now and Friday – when Abbott has said all salons can open.
Last week, Luther received a cease-and-desist letter from Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins ordering her to close the salon — and she publicly ripped it up. In defying the order, Luther has gained many supporters, among them the Open Texas movement. Several of her supporters were at court, and weren’t visibly displeased by her arrest.
Moye told Luther he would consider not giving her jail time, if she admitted that she was wrong, that she was selfish, and that she should apologize to the elected officials whose orders she violated.
You can view the video above in which Luther defends herself here.
Judge Eric Moyé is yet another Covid Bully, with no legal justification for barring people who pose no serious public health risk from engaging in commercial transactions. The only thing that keeps this bullying going is the complicity of the public.
Other officials, such as the Oregon sheriff John Gautney, recognize that the emperor has no clothes and are refusing to enforce the economic shutdown. Gautney pointed out the hypocrisy of the orders in a statement:
“If a business decides to open, that is a decision the business owner makes. If customers choose to shop with that business that is that person’s choice,” he said. “We are a free society and able to make decisions based on common sense. I see large businesses open every day with lots of customers and they are using safety precautions if they choose. The point is they have the right to choose. If the large stores can accommodate the large number of customers and operate effectively, why are we not letting the small business operate under the same guidelines?”
Plastic barriers are going up everywhere. Arrows on the floor show you which way to walk. Boxes show you where to stand. Paranoid Blockwarts are putting up signs threatening anyone not wearing a mask.
Hysterical little fascist creeps are reporting their neighbors to the police for letting their children play with other children. Millions of people are voluntarily downloading “contact tracing applications” so that governments and global corporations can monitor their every movement.
In Spain, they bleached an entire beach, killing everything, down to the insects, in order to protect the public from “infection.”
The Internet has become an Orwellian chorus of shrieking, sanctimonious voices bullying everyone into conformity with charts, graphs, and desperate guilt-trips, few of which have much connection to reality. Corporations and governments are censoring dissent. We’re approaching a level of manufactured mass hysteria and herd mentality that not even Goebbels could have imagined.
Meanwhile, they’re striking the mostly empty “field hospitals,” and the theatrical “hospital ship” is now gone, and despite their attempts to inflate the Covid-19 death count as much as humanly possible, the projected hundreds of millions of deaths have not materialized (not even close), and Sweden is fine, as is most of humanity, and … just like there were no WMDs, there is no Virus of Mass Destruction.
What there is, is a new official narrative, the brave new, paranoid, pathologized “normal.” Like the War on Terror, it’s a global narrative. A global, post-ideological narrative.
THE California doctors who created a sensation by reporting on their experience with Covid and condemning the economic shutdowns are interviewed here by John Kirby with OffGuardian. Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Antin Massihi are emergency medicine physicians who run seven clinics in Bakersfield.
Their original press conference before ditzy, disbelieving reporters with an NBC affiliate received more than five million views on Youtube, which then deleted it. Massihi says they have encountered a lot of “anger and hatred” in response to their statements. “It doesn’t make much sense to us.”
Both these doctors remain calm, composed and unwavering in the face of intense opposition. They are rarities in a world where everyone seems fearful of taking an independent stand. They seem to have genuine compassion for the people suffering crippling anxiety because of the shutdown and with those who are not receiving medical care because they are too afraid to get treatment. I assume one of the reasons they have been able to go public is that they run their clinics themselves and are not afraid of getting fired.
“Is the collateral damage of Covid worse than the virus itself,” Erickson asks. He believes it is.
Erickson and Massihi make some statements that they don’t back up with data or that they contradict. For instance, they say the shutdown made sense at the beginning and then say the Swedish model, with no shutdown, seemed best.
IN THE previous post, we heard from a respiratory therapist in Harrisburg, where there are relatively few Covid patients and seems to be good care.
Gateway Pundit features a video made by a nurse from Nevada who has traveled to New York City to help Covid patients and is upset by the level of care in the city’s hospitals. She says that patients are being “medically mismanaged” and “murdered.” (Language warning!! I wouldn’t normally post someone who talks this way.)
“Am I the only one who is not a sociopath?” she says. The other nurses know the care is substandard.
In related news, less than one percent of corona fatalities in New York City were people with no other serious health problems.
PENNSYLVANIA continues in an almost total economic shutdown. Meanwhile, a respiratory therapist from Harrisburg says her workload is very low. She has worked with Covid patients and did not observe anything significantly different from other respiratory viruses. (Correction: She said they had lower than normal blood oxygen levels.) “I don’t personally watch the news because I don’t identify with what is being said,” she said. She worked an emergency room shift the other night and saw not a single patient in respiratory distress.
