THE in-your-face, unabated, pervasive repetition of dubious Covid death figures motivates me to show you some more amazing statistical anomalies.

According to the Center for Disease Control, the Covid death toll for the United States was 3,307 as of April 4 and the death toll for all of the lying city of New York was 1,712.

Now look at the figures provided by The New York Times, as of April 6: 10,936 for the entire country and 4,786 for New York City. That’s almost a threefold difference on the national level and more than twice as high for the lying city of New York, discrepancies too great to be attributed to the extra two days. The Times says the death rate as of today is 14,613, which is close to five times the death rate of the CDC as of four days ago.

The New York Times’ figures come from the “New York Times database of cases and deaths, based on data from state and local health agencies, hospitals and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; U.S. Census Bureau.” Does this mean the Times contacts all 50 state agencies and tens of thousands of local agencies and hospitals? It is safe to assume no, it does not. It would take weeks to do any such thing reliably and a staff much larger than that of the newspaper.  And anyway, why should we trust the Times’s calculations on an issue so critical? Its slick graphics, with lots of charts and interactive maps, give its data an aura of scientific precision that is not there.

As has been already said here, even the CDC figures are not reliable. By its own admission, the CDC encourages overestimating the Covid death rate. Montana physician Annie Bukacek elaborates in the video below. Dr. Bukacek does not mention the financial incentive hospitals have to arrive at Covid-19 (don’t you hate this creepy, sci-fi name?) as cause of death, given that the federal government reimburses them for any uninsured Covid treatment.

See “Covid-19 Death Figures: A Substantial Overestimate” at OffGuardian, which examines similar deceptive figures from health authorities in other countries.

The numbers coming out of New York are so outrageous they seem deliberately provocative. Americans, it seems, are being incited toward a total breakdown in their confidence of the government and media.

TERRY MORRIS writes:

Just wanted to drop you a quick note commending the excellent work you are doing at your site exposing the fraud this thing is and the untold damage it has done to the economic system, upending the lives and the futures of countless of our countrymen. Otherwise intelligent, reasonable people have abandoned all reason over this thing. And that’s because our vaunted “leaders” and “experts” have somehow, in this particular case, managed to convince them that they are not liars straight from the pits of the lowest Hell, and the fathers of it.

Here is something I wrote to one of these persons just yesterday evening at his website:
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IN ALL  the information about Covid on the Internet, I have found nothing so far that really explains why some countries are heavily hit and others have relatively few cases. Take, for instance, Spain and Portugal. This is from a new website, Coronacircus:

For example, let’s compare Spain and Portugal. The two countries are neighbors, juxtaposed on the Iberian Peninsula. Spain has 92 people per square kilometer, Portugal 114.5; the latter is therefore slightly more densely populated. They enjoy a similar level of development. They share a border of 1,214 km, the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union. One study says Portugal was quicker to take measures to combat Covid-19, but actually both national governments declared the highest level of alert at the same time (12th March for Portugal, 13-14th March for Spain). Spain’s restriction on international travel is to this day much more restrictive than Portugal. And yet, as of this writing, Portugal has 11.57 deaths per million inhabitants, versus 145.6 deaths per million inhabitants in Spain. In other words, Spain has suffered, so far, more than 12.5 times more deaths than its neighbor Portugal when adjusted for population.

What the heck is going on here?

DEL Bigtree explains clearly why the figures for the coronavirus death toll are highly unreliable, as discussed in a previous post. Talk about “flattening the curve” is meaningless if the curve is inaccurate in the first place.

Bigtree doesn’t mention that hospitals have a huge financial incentive to list COVID as the cause of death. The federal government is paying for treatment for all uninsured patients who have the virus.

By suggesting that the death figures are not reliable, I am not saying that people are not dying from a serious respiratory condition.

RON PAUL continues to be a voice of common sense on the coronavirus. I’m not a supporter of libertarianism, but when you have dictatorial government over-reach, it sure is nice to have a few libertarians around.

In this latest video, he looks at some of the resistance to the economic shutdown.

THE ANTI-VIRAL drug hydroxychloroquine, much-discussed by others, is now a proven remedy for the COVID-19 virus.

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THE Occidental Observer has a translation of an interview with Dr. Stefano Montanari, an Italian nano-pathologist. He has strong views about the current manufactured crisis. Here is a sample.

On gloves:

We have on our skin various bacteria, fungi and viruses that are there to contrast and counteract pathogenic bacteria and fungi, meaning carriers of illness. In fact when we wear gloves to combat the coronavirus, we are not helping because we do not allow our bacteria, fungi and viruses present on the skin to interact with the pathogenic ones. Then with gloves-covered hands we touch our clothes, we touch the money handed by the cashiers from the stores still open — the same gloves on which the viruses came to rest. Hence those gloves are distinctly worse than non-gloves. 

On masks:

Viruses exist in enormous quantities and can enter in enormous quantities inside the cells, which are a few thousandths of a millimeter wide. Wearing a mask compares with raising a gate to prevent mosquitoes from entering your house.

On vaccinating for COVID-19:

For only an incompetent can imagine a vaccine against a virus that does not give immunity and has no chance of being effective. We are talking about a virus that mutates at very fast speed and we cannot possibly run after it (i.e., its mutations).

You can’t vaccinate against the common cold because the common cold does not give immunity. In the course of a life, a person can have a cold 200 times, and at no time will that cold will give immunity (against the next). It is a colossal fraud. We are close to 8 billion people forced to be vaccinated and it will be an unimaginably enormous business.

AMERICANS have been fed many lies in the past 100 years. The official narrative of the COVID-19 lockdown, despite the reality of the virus, will surely rank high among them years from now. Some lies are too big to be disbelieved.

I cannot vouch for everything in this professionally-produced video and I know nothing about its creator, but it provides important statistics. Don’t miss the end with its brief look at the situation in Brazil and Mexico, which have defied the lockdown.

SEE the Center for Disease Control’s guidelines for determining a death by “Covid-19.” A key excerpt:

When determining whether COVID–19 played a role in the cause of death, follow the CDC clinical criteria for evaluating a person under investigation for COVID–19 and, where possible, conduct appropriate laboratory testing using guidance provided by CDC or local health authorities. More information on CDC recommendations for reporting, testing, and specimen collection, including postmortem testing, is available from: https://www. cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/hcp/clinical-criteria.html and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/guidancepostmortem-specimens.html. It is important to remember that death certificate reporting may not meet mandatory reporting requirements for reportable diseases; contact the local health department regarding regulations specific to the jurisdiction. In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as “probable” or “presumed.” In these instances, certifiers should use their best clinical judgement in determining if a COVID–19 infection was likely. However, please note that testing for COVID–19 should be conducted whenever possible. (bold added)

Here’s another potentially huge factor in inflating COVID numbers: The federal government has agreed to pay for treatment for all uninsured COVID patients. This could mean tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars for COVID-diagnosed patients that hospitals would otherwise not receive. Hospitals are known to focus on diagnoses that will result in higher insurance payments, which is only understandable in many cases.

Whether testing is even accurate is itself a hotly contested issue not acknowledged in most news stories. Some people maintain there is no test to identify this particular strain of coronaviruses.

Many people dying of other illnesses are being labeled corona cases.

Franklin County sheriff Scott Nichols

A MAINE sheriff publicly refused to threaten residents who are not following stay-at-home orders. “We will not be setting up a Police State. PERIOD,” he wrote.

Who is this guy? Doesn’t he know this is America?

NEW YORK CITY is currently the capital of lies and scheming propaganda.

Don’t trust anything that comes out of that place. And please, keep six feet away from tigers!

By the way, when was the last time you gave your cat or dog the flu? Just askin’.

THE Babylon Bee has this late-breaking scoop:

U.S.—After state governments across the country directed their citizens to shut down their businesses and just kinda hope things worked out, a new order has been issued: everyone is to jump off a bridge immediately.

A government official issued the order to solve our current crisis, and everyone immediately complied.

“Everyone jump off a bridge,” said a representative of the government.

“OK,” said everyone. “If the government says so, it’s probably a good idea. Besides, what can we do? It’s the government. They definitely have the best people working on it.”

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WALKING in a wealthy suburban neighborhood last week, I noticed a few houses looked unusually empty — no lights, no cars. Maybe the owners had gone to vacation homes for the pandemic shutdown? They may have even been able to work remotely from second homes and continued to earn a living.

Meanwhile, thousands of families ten or fifteen miles away face compulsory confinement to their shabby homes. Not only do they not have second homes to escape small apartments or row houses, but even the playgrounds and basketball courts are closed. The extended vacation would be enjoyable even so if not for the constant worries about money and the future.

How many lower class Americans can weather a six-week, unpaid confinement to their homes without drinking too much, fighting too much, viewing porn, and becoming even more addicted to TV?

The COVID lockdown especially punishes the lower class, the people least able to put their grievances into words and effective action.

That’s what infuriating about COVID cops. They are not really compassionate people.

Pueri Hebraeorum, portantes

The Hebrew children
bearing olive branches,
went forth to meet the Lord,
crying out, and saying,
Hosanna in the highest.

Scenes from the Life of Christ, Entry into Jerusalem, Giotto di Bondone; 1304-06

EARLY in the morning of this day, Jesus sets out for Jerusalem, leaving Mary His Mother, and the two sisters Martha and Mary Magdalene, and Lazarus, at Bethania. The Mother of sorrows trembles at seeing her Son thus expose Himself to danger, for His enemies are bent upon His destruction; but it is not death, it is triumph, that Jesus is to receive to-day in Jerusalem. The Messias, before being nailed to the cross, is to be proclaimed King by the people of the great city; the little children are to make her streets echo with their Hosannas to the Son of David; and this in presence of the soldiers of Rome’s emperor, and of the high priests and Pharisees: the first standing under the banner of their eagles; the second, dumb with rage.

The prophet Zachary had foretold this triumph which the Son of Man was to receive a few days before His Passion, and which had been prepared for Him from all eternity. ‘Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion! Shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold thy King will come to thee; the Just and the Saviour. He is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.’ [Zach. ix. 9]. Jesus, knowing that the hour has come for the fulfilment of this prophecy, singles out two from the rest of His disciples, and bids them lead to Him an ass and her colt, which they would find not far off. He has reached Beth phage, on Mount Olivet. The two disciples lose no time in executing the order given them by their divine Master; and the ass and the colt are soon brought to the place where He stands.

— The Liturgical Year, “Palm Sunday,” Dom Prosper Guéranger, Loreto Publications, 2013, p. 192.

Entry into Jerusalem (detail) Giotto di Bondone; 1304-06