THE social media giant has restricted access to Ron Paul’s recent column on the coronavirus. (Paul was wrong in labeling the illness itself a “hoax” because he certainly was not denying the existence of an infectious strain of coronavirus. I don’t know why he titled this column, and the video counterpart, so misleadingly.)

At issue is Dr. Paul’s statement that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci’s claim that the coronavirus is “ten times more deadly” than the seasonal influenza virus is “without any scientific basis.” Fauci made the claim recently in testimony before the US Congress in a move that significantly ramped up the fear factor in the US over the virus.

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Also, Youtube is using the virus panic to justify more general censorship.

AN INTERESTING comment after a Ron Paul video (unedited):

Pay attention folks, there’s much more going on here than what meets the eye. Is it a coincidence that just when the economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, we are winning the trade wars, school shootings have stopped, our nation is at peace, the Democratic party is a disaster and so is their likely nominee (Biden). He hasn’t a chance in hell & they’re not about to let an outsider (Bernie) destroy their scheme. It looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment, then all the sudden world crisis pandemic.

Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and canceled, CEO’s of giant companies are resigning and indictments are coming. Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn’t win reelection. Read More »

SOME common sense observations from Ramzpaul.

I wonder whether the reason Chinese and Italian men have been harder hit is that many are heavy smokers. Most of the fatalities in Italy were among old people with other chronic health conditions. Heavy smoking causes emphysema in old age. A significant percentage of  those who have died had emphysema.

DID World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cause worldwide panic with flawed math?

If you missed this post on a report by Gateway Pundit, please make sure to read it. Read More »

St Joseph with Infant Christ in his Arms, Guido Reni

[Reposted]

SOME say Christianity has encouraged submissiveness in men — and led to the phenomenon of the weak and emasculated male. This is a familiar theme on men’s rights blogs. A writer on the Internet once told me in the course of conversation that St. Joseph was the perfect example of the emasculated male. Joseph remained in the background of the great drama of the Incarnation. He took a wife who was already pregnant.

On close inspection, this idea does not hold up, not only because Christianity produced great warriors and emperors and the effeminate male has become more common the more Christian social ideals have been rejected, but because of who St. Joseph was. He had authority over God himself. He was the earthly father of the Word Incarnate. Read More »

STEVE MNUCHIN — you know, the Wall Street czar from Trump’s drained swamp — says all Americans are going to get government-issued checks to compensate them for coronavirus losses — and those losses will be considerable for many.

And we get 90 days more to pay our taxes! Wow, break out the toilet paper, honey, we’re gonna have a party!

The truth is, Americans, already awash in both public and private debt, are surely going to be robbed more. They will pay for those cash payments many times over.

Some are beginning to suspect, and I agree with this appraisal, that the coronavirus panic has all been just a cover for an economic downturn that was coming anyway and would otherwise rightfully be blamed on our central banking system of enslavement via public and private debt, fully supported by our elected politicians, every single one of them. The banks create money out of thin air. They lend it to the government at interest. And all of us corona-addled suckers pay the costs in perpetuity and are subjected to cyclical recessions and near-constant inflation. And we routinely pay off personal loans with compound interest, which represent the sort of bondage through usury that the great Christian monarchs strictly forbade. Did you know that? Did you know that the usury virus destroys individual lives and civilization?

These cash payments are just another distraction. Americans have been looking the other way for more than 100 years, so distractions — sex, sports, viruses, you name it — work. Though the information revolution on the Internet has caused many people to get wise, this country has been plundered every single day since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. As Brother Nathanael says, at least we’ll get Cheetos, Coke and lots of toilet paper in our corona quarantine camps. And cash is in the mail!

[Update]

Will the banks be switching to the gold standard to ease the revolt against the Fed? Read speculation by Anthony Migchels. 

For a more sympathetic view of Trump’s actions, and speculation about Bill Gates and China, read here.

Peggy Traeger Tierney writes:

I believe the virus is no more dangerous than the common flu – for healthy people – but has been engineered to be highly infectious and impact the elderly & sick. Thankfully, it is NOT affecting children & young adults like pandemic flu does.

I believe the virus was unleashed by the Communist Party to scare the Chinese people back into their homes and stop the Hong Kong & Taiwanese pro-freedom protests. Read More »

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported in a press conference on March 3rd that the mortality rate for the coronavirus was much more severe than the seasonal flu.

However, as reported by Joe Holt at The Gateway Pundit, Dr. Tedros, a former minister of foreign affairs in Ethiopia, used two different mathematical ratios to arrive at this statement. The comparison was false. In fact, recent seasonal flu outbreaks had been much more severe than the coronavirus.

Holt reports:

The actual data shows that the mortality rate for those who had the flu (10%) is almost twice as high than for those with the coronavirus (3.8%).

The two rates are like comparing apples to oranges. By doing so the coronavirus fatality rate is way overstated when compared to the flu and the WHO and the media has created a worldwide crisis and panic by reporting these rates simultaneously!

The coronavirus is not more fatal than the flu based on current data available. It is much less fatal than the flu based on current data.

Holt accused the media of “lying again,” but news outlets were following statements by Dr. Tedros. The World Health Organization employs top epidemiologists and it is their job to measure the public effects of disease. From Dr. Tedros’s bio:

Born in the city of Asmara, Eritrea, Dr Tedros holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham and a Master of Science (MSc) in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London. Dr Tedros is globally recognised as a health scholar, researcher, and diplomat with first-hand experience in research, operations, and leadership in emergency responses to epidemics.

Is it possible that a world health leader of such experience in epidemiology made an innocent error of this magnitude?

According to a Pew poll, a majority of Americans believe the media has exaggerated the risk of coronavirus and public health officials have been trustworthy. This is not so. The media have been following the lead of government officials.

CALIFORNIA Governor Gavin Newsome said yesterday that he will implement martial law if necessary.

It may be necessary in New Jersey too:

https://twitter.com/WinklerforNJ08/status/1239945603699945481?s=20

On March 15, 2020, the Federal Reserve announced it would revive the QE [Quantitative Easing] program. It would purchase $500 billion in U.S. Treasurys and $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities over the next several months. It wanted to make sure banks had enough liquidity to help businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Read more here. Welcome to the world controlled by a central bank cartel.

[H/t Fitzpatrick Informer]

‘THE men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.’

— H. L. Mencken

Taipei, Taiwan

THE TAIWANESE are relatively healthy these days, even though the heavily urban island nation is only 81 miles from mainland China.

“Millions of people travel back and forth between China and the island each year. Last year, there were more than 5,700 flights per month, on average, between Taiwan and the mainland, according to Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Nearly 11 million passenger journeys were made across the narrow Taiwan Strait by plane,” according to NPR.

And yet, in a population of 23 million, as of last Friday, there had been only been 50 confirmed cases of coronavirus and one death. And it appears that the outbreak there has passed. How do we explain Taiwan’s amazing immunity to these microscopic organisms? The Taiwanese kept them at bay without mass closure of stores, restaurants, courts and other businesses. Taiwan did not order its police to stop arresting criminals as the City of Philadelphia has done.

Foreign Policy, and the entire mainstream media, says the Taiwanese are just good at tracking down microbes. Actually, the Taiwanese government did react early on to restrict travel and track down people with the respiratory illness. It distributed millions of face masks. (According to the U.S. surgeon general, they are not effective at preventing contagion.) It extended school winter break for ten days; after that students who were sick were told to stay home. Interestingly, it heavily fined those spreading coronavirus rumors and fined those who were sick and did not observe quarantines. But it did not shut down all businesses. Ordinary life did not come to a standstill in Taiwan. The burden was on those who were sick to control their movements rather than requiring almost everyone who was healthy to go into lockdown.

The situation in Taiwan is proof this thing is not just an illness, it’s major political propaganda in the West. For the measures taken by the island nation were effective but not as extreme as in the West. Boris Johnson tried to implement similar moderate measures in Britain, telling Britons that they should quarantine themselves if they were sick and that it was not necessary to shut down businesses, but he has been brought to heel. Tellingly, Taiwan is not a member of the World Health Organization. It seems it’s healthier not to belong to this globalist giant.

We should be following the Taiwanese in their amazing corona war. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association:

In addition to daily press briefings by the minister of health and welfare the CECC, the vice president of Taiwan, a prominent epidemiologist, gave regular public service announcements broadcast from the office of the president and made available via the internet. These announcements included when and where to wear a mask, the importance of handwashing, and the danger of hoarding masks to prevent them from becoming unavailable to frontline health workers. The CECC also made plans to assist schools, businesses, and furloughed workers (eTable in the Supplement).

The Taiwanese deserve special credit for trying to stem, not just the virus, but panic. The government announced on January 31 that the spread of fake news about the virus could be fined up to NT$3 million (USD $100,000). And, the Criminal Investigation Bureau aggressively pursued those who were spreading rumors and panic. Would Anthony Fauci, who has said it’s too dangerous for healthy Americans to go to restaurants, have been fined if he lived in Taiwan? Would President Trump be arrested for stating that the country would be facing serious effects until July or August?

Despite measured and effective controls, many people went wild over face masks in Taiwan, leading the government to send out this bulletin:

[This post has been updated]

https://twitter.com/NotMeNotNever/status/1239834215484514304?s=20

FORMER CONGRESSMAN Ron Paul is not just a politician. He’s a medical doctor, a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, who was in practice for decades. So he does have some expert knowledge on disease.

He seems to be the only public figure making these important points about the promotion of the coronavirus (though the title goes overboard in calling it a hoax). Bravo! As he says, the Orwellian Security State has taken a major leap forward. This virus is making America more and more like Wuhan every day.

But then do Americans deserve their famous civil liberties anymore?

Don’t you have to have some capacity for independent judgement, some tiny shred of skepticism toward things the government and media tell you, in order to deserve reasonable liberty of action and thought?

ACCORDING to the Italian Institute of Health, only 12 people who did not have other serious illnesses, or “pathologies,” have died of the coronavirus in Italy. Two news reports from Italy on the institute’s findings can be found here and here.

A Swiss agency summarizes the report and provides a link:

According to the latest data of the Italian National Health Institute ISS, the average age of the positively-tested deceased in Italy is currently about 81 years. 10% of the deceased are over 90 years old. 90% of the deceased are over 70 years old.

80% of the deceased had suffered from two or more chronic diseases. 50% of the deceased had suffered from three or more chronic diseases. The chronic diseases include in particular cardiovascular problems, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer.

Less than 1% of the deceased were healthy persons, i.e. persons without pre-existing chronic diseases. Only about 25% of the deceased are women.

The Italian Institute of Health moreover distinguishes between those who died from the coronavirus and those who died with the coronavirus. In many cases it is not yet clear whether the persons died from the virus or from their pre-existing chronic diseases or from a combination of both.

The two Italians deceased under 40 years of age (both 39 years old) were a cancer patient and a diabetes patient with additional complications. In these cases, too, the exact cause of death was not yet clear (i.e. if from the virus or from their pre-existing diseases).

Precautions are clearly only necessary for those whose health is already seriously compromised.

H. writes from Canada:

Toilet paper is the big fat obvious clue to what is going on here.

In Canada, and around the world, churches, schools, municipal centres, businesses, sports and entertainment events have been cancelled.  People are staying at home, fearful of associating with others and self-isolation is advised.  Yet, to date, in Canada there has been an [alleged] total of only four deaths as a result of the coronavirus. All of these occurred at the Lynn Valley Health Centre in North Vancouver, a senior’s centre.  If these four folks were aged and immune compromised already, and succumbed to the flu, why not tell the public such useful information?  Knowing the status of the dead would allay fears and ensure the common good was advanced.  Each of us could make informed decisions about our goings-on.

Surely, that we were advised to stock up on toilet paper, of all things, is proof enough that the coronavirus is a staged phenomenon and not a widespread health concern. The global elite must be enjoying some chuckles right now. We have been tested on our intelligence and tolerance for manipulation and literally, our tolerance for s–t. (Maybe for the laughs they’ll next tell us to stock up on apocalypse busters such as shampoo and conditioner, pocket combs and kitty litter.) The public’s response to the government and media manipulation is the green light for the globalists’ agenda. They have confirmed we’re ripe for the next stage in their plan. Read More »

HERE is an article about “bodies piling up” in morgues in Northern Italy. But with a national death toll of 2,100, the vast majority in advanced old age, in a country of 60 million, “piling up” is, at best, a colorful exaggeration and, at worst, pernicious fear-mongering.

Strange, how this virus from China bypassed more than a billion people living in Third World conditions in India and showed hardly any interest in Israel to find its way to Italy and other European nations. It has very little interest in Mexico or Canada, but likes the United States. Germs are mysterious. [Update: It’s not so mysterious why Italy has been harder hit. Many Chinese have bought up textile businesses in the Lombardy region and travelers from China apparently brought the virus to the area. Read more here:

The COVID-19 outbreak in Italy spread mostly from Codogno, a small town in southern Lombardy, at the border with the Emilia-Romagna region, with a second localized outbreak in Veneto. Since Lombardy is one of the wealthiest, most densely populated, and most globalized areas in Europe, the coronavirus circulated very fast and easily, and now all 20 regions in Italy register cases of infected people. It did not help that the Codogno economic district hosts large companies and multinationals – making it a hub for production and international trade. Workers, salesmen, managers, and consultants of all sorts travel daily to their workplace, many of them commuting to nearby cities. International partners visit from abroad. And of course, Milan – the sprawling and thriving capital of Lombardy, and a crucial railway node – is a mere 70 kilometer drive from Codogno.]

It is sad that Italy is experiencing such infectious illness. But the illness itself, while serious and causing death in a small minority of those infected, does not appear catastrophic yet despite everything you are being told.

A READER writes:

My grandson’s  80-year-old banjo teacher is going cross-country skiing today. He said it fulfills the social distancing mandate.

Speaking of social distancing, I’ve lost a lot of friends over this “virus”.  No one will talk to me in real life. They are afraid I’ll spoil their bad mood and give them hope. That might be painful. Its always hard to come out of darkness suddenly when the light comes on.

And interesting they buy up toilet paper but the oranges and grapefruit and broccoli, the very thing that will help with a potential virus,  are still piled high in the grocery stores.