Nation In Coronavirus Turmoil:

IS THERE NO WAY OUT?

DOING NOTHING MORE THAN CALM FEARS
MAY HAVE BEEN BETTER

 By Bill Sardi

Fearmongers show the body bags and caskets, display the obituaries; feature news reports of a newborn baby with coronavirus.  News media and government propagandists display a world with virtually no defense against a deadly viral pathogen.  No masks (nearly useless anyway) and a shortage of ventilators (70-90% die if they get to this point). 

Now mayors (not health authorities) mandate masks and really whip up more fear.  Every politician wants to hang his political hat on his handling of the coronavirus outbreak.  Wear a mask or otherwise you won’t be allowed to stand in line to get food at the grocery store, or at least others in line will chase you away, being fearful of transmission of infectious disease themselves. 

With the population feeling defenseless because there is no vaccine, a last gasp measure is to quarantine and socially space (isolate) people, which is obviously not working in Italy (see chart below), didn’t work on an ocean liner, and didn’t work on an aircraft carrier. 

The masses follow instructions/orders by their overseers, with no awareness that lack of sunshine vitamin D is what triggers these seasonal infectious disease outbreaks in the first place.    

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ACTING upon the scientifically questionable assertion that healthy, asymptomatic individuals pose a significant risk of conveying lethal infection, ***some Americans are reporting small businesses, such as bars and golf courses, that have violated shutdown orders. According to the AP:

Naugatuck, Connecticut, resident Gwen Becker said she was “mortified” when she drove by a golf course and saw a crowd gathered around a food truck and eating at tables together. So she took a video that her friend posted on Facebook — prompting the mayor to shut down the course.

“I was angry and upset, and I threw some f-bombs,” said Becker, 54. “You’re not going to consider that what you’re doing could kill somebody?”

Ms. Becker must lead a pretty empty existence to be attracted to this Communist-style citizen policing. Besides group gatherings, especially outside, promote health. Social contact helps healthy people become immune to certain strains of germs, while benefiting from sunlight and the immunity-boosting side-effects of happiness.

This fanatical citizen police force — and the government apparatus that backs it up  — have no business telling people what they can and cannot do. Let people voluntarily restrict their movements in response to public health warnings.

Americans are so darn proud of their love of “freedom,” but it seems that’s basically just a love of fireworks on Fourth of July.

*** The science is unsettled. See articles here and here.

IN JAPAN, they wear face masks all the time. Every human being is a biological weapon. The mask attests to a physical version of original sin.

I don’t envy the Japanese. I wonder how many of them keel over every year from the cumulative ill effects of living in a world without smiles. And noses. And cheeks. And chins.

Better to be unhealthy than live without faces. Beautiful faces, ugly faces, grumpy faces, lumpy faces. The face is the mirror of the soul. Sometimes it is the mask of the soul. There are things more important than survival. Read More »

DR. Joel Kettner, professor of Community Health Sciences and Surgery at Manitoba University, former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba province and Medical Director of the International Centre for Infectious Diseases, stated in an interview on March 17, 2020:.

“We actually do not have that much good evidence for the social distancing methods. It was just a couple of review(s) in the CDC emerging infectious disease journal, which showed that although some of them might work, we really don’t know to what degree and the evidence is pretty weak.

[….]

I worry about the consequences of social distancing. I worry about people who are losing their jobs. I worry about interruptions with the healthcare system itself. There are many doctors in Manitoba in quarantine right now, because they have returned from other countries. I worry about the message to the public, about the fear of coming into contact with people, being in the same space as people, shaking their hands, having meetings with people. I worry about many, many consequences related to that.

If you look at the data for what we are actually dealing with, I want to give this example. In Hubei, in the province of Hubei, where there has been the most cases and deaths by far, the actual number of cases reported is 1 per 1000 people and the actual rate of deaths reported is 1 per 20,000. So maybe that would help to put things into perspective, as to the actual rate and risks of this condition, because it is a lot lower in any other part of the world, including Italy, and certainly in Canada and the United States…

If depression is known to cause illness and isolation is known to cause depression then “social distancing” has negative health effects that may very well offset its benefits.

“OUR main problem is that no one will ever get in trouble for measures that are too draconian. They will only get in trouble if they do too little. So, our politicians and those working with public health do much more than they should do.

“No such draconian measures were applied during the 2009 influenza pandemic, and they obviously cannot be applied every winter, which is all year round, as it is always winter somewhere. We cannot close down the whole world permanently.

“Should it turn out that the epidemic wanes before long, there will be a queue of people wanting to take credit for this. And we can be damned sure draconian measures will be applied again next time. But remember the joke about tigers. ‘Why do you blow the horn?’ ‘To keep the tigers away.’ ‘But there are no tigers here.”There you see!’”

– Dr Peter Goetzsche, Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen;“Corona: an epidemic of mass panic,” blog post on Deadly Medicines, 21st March 2020. [Source]

THE highly-respected journal of infectious diseases published this week its study of COVID-19 in China and 37 other countries. The study is emphatic about the seriousness of the virus. And yet the fatality rate it found is low: 1.4 percent for those infected under 60 (outside China) and 4.5 percent for those over 60:

We collected individual-case data for patients who died from COVID-19 in Hubei, mainland China (reported by national and provincial health commissions to Feb 8, 2020), and for cases outside of mainland China (from government or ministry of health websites and media reports for 37 countries, as well as Hong Kong and Macau, until Feb 25, 2020). Read More »

FROM The Mises Institute:

The shutdown of the American economy by government decree should end. The lasting and far-reaching harms caused by this authoritarian precedent far outweigh those caused by the COVID-19 virus. The American people—individuals, families, businesses—must decide for themselves how and when to reopen society and return to their daily lives.

Neither the Trump administration nor Congress has the legal authority to shut down American life absent at least baseline due process. As Judge Andrew Napolitano recently wrote, business closures, restrictions on assembly and movement, and quarantines are not constitutionally permissible under some magic “emergency” doctrine. At a minimum, the federal government must show potential imminent harm by specific infected individuals at some form of hearing or trial.

These due process requirements are not suspended.

State and local officials may claim, or even possess, lawful police powers to shut down their communities. We offer no analysis of such powers or claims under the myriad of state constitutions and authorizing legislation. But they should resist exercising these powers. The governor of Virginia, in particular, deserves admonition for unilaterally imposing a lengthy period of virtual house arrest. [cont.]

Ron Paul discusses the article in the video below.

MANY videos have been posted here over the past week that were made by citizen journalists looking into the coronavirus situation at their local hospitals. Here are three more. I’m sorry some of the language in one is vulgar. I am posting it anyway. Financial devastation, depression, intense isolation, restriction of basic civil liberties — these issues are far worse and the need for accurate reporting is critical. I also should remind readers that many of the excellent videos I have posted in recent entries are likely to be erased from Youtube soon, just as thousands of videos reporting on mass shootings were censored. I suggest you view them while they are still available. I am very grateful for the people who care enough about their country to do this legwork.

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“WHEN patients concurrently have other illnesses, an infectious agent must not be held solely responsible for a lethal outcome,” says Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D., who lives in Germany and made this interview on March 19, 2020.

Air pollution in China and Northern Italy were probably factors in higher death rates from COVID-19. In terms of air pollution, “Northern Italy is the China of Europe. The lungs of inhabitants there have been chronically injured over decades.”

Most importantly, he says, those who test positive for COVID-19 at time of death have not necessarily died of the virus.

Bhakdi exudes intelligence, sincerity and profound alarm. The isolation and lockdown measures currently being taken are “grotesque, absurd and very dangerous.”

“All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide because of nothing but a spook.”

 GOOD summary of our situation. (I have a few quibbles with what he says. Skip the commercial at the end.)

FROM the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 88, November 2019, Pages 127-134:

•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%.

•More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period.

•Italy showed a higher influenza attributable excess mortality compared to other European countries. especially in the elderly.

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FROM “COVID-19: The Real Truth,” by Shannon Rowan and John Hamer [abridged]:

The COVID-19 outbreak is at its core a Transhumanist agenda serving to influence humanity into viewing itself as a pathogen, a plague upon the earth, in much need of correction and control.

Transhumanists believe that it is inevitable that humans merge with machine and that this transformation is somehow necessary for our own good and survival as well as that of our planet and also part of a ‘natural’ process they call ‘evolution.’ The pandemic scare helps to further this agenda. Read More »

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 »

FROM FOX NEWS:

CBS News admitted to a “mistake” on Monday after airing footage of an overcrowded hospital room that was allegedly in New York City but was actually from a hospital in Italy.

“It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows,” a CBS News spokesperson told Fox News.

Last Wednesday, “CBS This Morning” included a brief clip showing several patients and medical professionals in one room during a report about the rising threat of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City.

However, that same footage aired days prior on Sky News.

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 »

THIS is a brilliant little speech by Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Union.

Her purpose here is to make the case for greater Internet censorship. You see, people are spreading falsehoods about the virus.

Notice how she picks absurdities — such as the idea that bleach can cure the virus — to make her case that untruths are rampant. Let me suggest that Von der Leyen is not at all worried that you might drink bleach. She is worried that you might drink from the wells of truth.

But she does a convincing job of projecting concern. She loves you. They are doing it only for your good.

The Internet as we know it is doomed. Read More »