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.

“WHILE St. Augustine lived in sin and evil, he was not aware of anything by which he was tempted. He believed himself to be at peace, as he tells us himself. But from the moment that he desired to turn his back upon the Devil, he had to struggle with him, even to the point of losing his breath in the fight. And that lasted for five years. He wept the most bitter of tears and employed the most austere of penances: ‘I argued with him,’ he says, ‘in my chains. One day I thought myself victorious, the next I was prostrate on the earth again. This cruel and stubborn war went on for five years. However, God gave me the grace to be victorious over my enemy.'”

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FIND more about efforts to control “misinformation” and a pandemic drill weeks before the corona outbreak in this article at Lifesite News.

Timothy Evans, director and associate dean of the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University in Montreal, spoke of the need to involve global institutions such as the U.N. and the World Health Organization to combat any misinformation coming from national governments, although he noted that when such institutions challenge governments directly, “they often get into this issue of sovereignty.” Evans spoke of the need for “soft” and “stealth” power influences such as religious leaders, business leaders, and influential people capable of contacting heads of state directly.

Mr. Lavan Thiru, of the Monetary Authority in Singapore, said there may be a need for governments to step up their “enforcement actions” on fake news.

“Maybe this is a time for us to showcase some cases where we are able to bring forward some bad actors and leave it for the courts to decide whether they have actually spread some fake news,” Thiru said.

In their official recommendations statement, the group said governments and social media companies will need to partner in order to counter “misinformation.”

IF YOU HAVE never had the opportunity to see great opera, perhaps because you can’t afford it, now’s your chance.

The Metropolitan Opera, temporarily shut down because of the virus apocalypse, will be offering free nightly livestreaming from March 17 to March 22. You can see some of their biggest hits, including La Traviata (above), Il Trovatore, Carmen and others.

By the way, though this scene from Giuseppi Verdi’s La Traviata trumpets the idea that nothing is more important than pleasure, the opera delivers reality to hedonists. Like other 19th-century Italian operas, it’s an experience in emotional excess and musical bliss. If you find that you have grown arid and unable to feel, Verdi or Puccini will cure you. You’ll be drenched in tears before you know it. The Metropolitan Opera, like all modern arts institutions, has fallen victim to anti-nature multiculturalism, bare-breasted immodesty, ugliness, freakishness, sexual depravity, nihilism and the cult of celebrities, but it still delivers beauty and great music if you choose wisely from its productions.

[It’s best to save these corona freebies until Lent is over.]

Violetta’s costume in 1853 production of La Traviata

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ASK YOURSELF why the media did not raise panic and alarm, why schools did not close for weeks or even days, why public institutions did not go into lockdown and why the financial industry did not react during the flu season of 2017-18, when more than 60,000 Americans died after contracting the flu.

Notice in the chart below that even young children died (reportedly no children have died with coronavirus), but the overwhelming majority of deaths were among the elderly, presumably those who were already ailing which is sadly common with viruses which can cause pneumonia.

March, 2020 may turn out to be a watershed moment in the history of mass manipulation.

The public, in America and Europe especially, has demonstrated more than ever that when the controlled media says something, no matter how exaggerated and contrary to common sense, it will react with unthinking acceptance and slavish obedience. Not that there isn’t a serious virus or that people shouldn’t exercise caution, especially with the elderly. But this is madness, with a totalitarian atmosphere.

Cosme Beccar Varela writes at Tradition in Action:

All the governments of the world have surrendered to the demands of an anonymous power that directs universal public opinion and issues tyrannical orders with the excuse of preventing the spread of the execrating virus.

[….]

But no one seems to suspect that there is something “rotten” behind this collective dementia. That is why I am forced to write these lines to alert readers that it is almost certain that we are being manipulated by a powerful world force (the same one that has imposed the “agenda” of the feminist, homosexual, abortion and free-love moral revolution). Being thus duped by it is a way to show that humanity is on the verge of falling into a culpable credulity that will be the psychological and moral climate in which the antichrist will be accepted without any protest.

Figures are provided by the Centers for Disease Control:

[This post has been updated.]

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“DELICATE and excessive attention to health nourishes self-love and immortification, and often destroys that health which it studied anxiously to preserve. ”

—- Rev. Alban Butler, Lives of the Saints

THE trial opened this week of a man who repeatedly admitted killing four men in Fresno in 2017 for no other reason than that they were white.

Coverage in The New York Times is muted with one online report by the Associated Press. Most Americans will never recognize the name of Kori Ali Muhammad, an American who dabbled in Islam and voodoo, and reportedly had not been to a mosque in 25 years.

“When I walked up to the truck, I saw a Mexican driver and a white guy,” he said. “I didn’t want to target the driver because he was Mexican so I shot the white dude.”

Christians for Truth reports.

I HAVE only watched the first three minutes of this video by Amazing Polly so I cannot vouch for all of it and I am not endorsing all of it. I have no idea what she says in the rest of the video, but her remarks about adults frightening children with this virus hysteria are so on target. I applaud Polly’s outrage here.

Real adults don’t talk about scary things around children (especially scary things that are not proven to be true.) Real adults in the company of children censor all news that promotes panic and fear. Real adults know that the innocence of children is sacred. Real adults know that the innocence of children must be guarded, just as you would guard a child’s life itself. Real adults project calm and reassurance. Real adults, though they cannot be perfect ever and make mistakes, seek to control their words and emotions out of love of children and out of appreciation for the touching sensitivity and mental vulnerability of the young which they themselves once possessed and have since lost.

A frightened, anxious childhood leads to crippled adulthood. Innocence is also precious in its own right.

Maybe that’s the problem here. Too many Americans never really had a morally protected childhood so they have not reached psychic maturity. And now they are reacting like lemmings to this panic in the news, running to the supermarket for weeks of supplies and obsessively dousing themselves with hand sanitizer, talking and thinking about nothing else even though they have not encountered a single person sick from a deadly virus.

They are engaging in mass child abuse. Shame especially on all those in charge of organizations and government agencies who have totally lost control of themselves with their canceled events and ponderous, foreboding statements. The Mass Manipulator in Chief is loving all this, every single minute of it.

Whatever this virus is, and I believe it is nothing like they are saying, it is an experiment in control too. Even if it were to cause the deaths of tens of thousands, it is psychological warfare at its finest and its worst effects will be mental, not physical. Read More »

BERNARDINE writes:

On the coronavirus issue, I believe it is a hoax with serious economic repercussions.  We would benefit from relearning the skills of our forefathers who lived through the depression, including thrift and home gardening.  (See more on this at Ice Age Farmer.) Coronavirus appears to be a form of the flu (which about 200 people a day die from in the U.S.). We need to remember to use reason; viruses mutate all the time. The elite will likely use fear mongering in our controlled media and politics to take our liberties and push a vaccine on us (and I hope I am wrong).  Since it’s difficult to carry out their evil U.N. agenda to reduce the world’s population with a flu-like virus, they may have people asking for the thing that actually does sicken them. Like geoengineering/cloud seeding/weather modification, the coronavirus vaccine will be a backdoor form of poison, in the guise of doing good. Read More »

Fraktur, Philadelphia Library

“IF the goodness, beauty, and sweetness of creatures are alluring to the minds of men, the fountain-head of the goodness of God Himself, in comparison with the rivulets of goodness which we find in creatures, will set on fire the minds of men and draw them wholly to itself.”

—- St. Thomas Aquinas

FROM “The Propaganda Master Comes to Town,” a tale of virus fakery, by Jon Rappaport:

“Back in his limo, the maestro puts in a call to his contact at the CDC. ‘Listen up,’ he says, ‘you people over there are starting to wobble. I’m talking about the diagnostic test for the virus. First, your test kits were bad, they didn’t work. Now you don’t have enough of them to satisfy needs. Plus the word is starting to leak out that the tests are inherently unreliable and no one should believe them. This crap must stop now. Shore up your troops. Get them in line. I want healthy people and sick people and old people and young people and all people to be diagnosed with corona, and I don’t want any uncertainties. You and I know the test is a joke, it doesn’t work, but nobody else can find that out. Got it? People over there at the CDC can be replaced. They can find themselves out on the street. What’s in charge of this operation is propaganda, not science. YOU back US up. That’s the hierarchy. I want FEAR raging through the population. If you can’t hold up your end, you’re going to find all the quotes about the epidemic in the press are suddenly coming from the World Health Organization, not the CDC. I’ll make sure you’re shoved into the background. The World Health people are professional. They know how to deliver a unified con job. Those two idiots, the governor of New York and the mayor of New York, are doing more to hype this fake epidemic than all the employees of the CDC put together. Get your house in order. Fast.’

“He closes his phone and puts it in his pocket. On the way to the airport, he hums a little tune. He looks out the window. He thinks to himself, if we can stretch this out far enough, we can force a cancelation of the Olympics. Maybe we can even stage a presidential election in America on the Internet. No one votes in a booth. Can’t risk transmission of the virus. He chuckles. His phone vibrates. He takes it out.” Read More »

SOME reflections on the movie Avengers: Endgame and “Feminism, Mediocrity and Abandonment of the Fight.”

AS THE media and governmental agencies continue to bombard the public with the coronavirus and as the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic despite the very low global death rate (about 4,000 alleged dead out of a world population of 7.7 billion), here are some questions you should be asking as you read the news. Let me also say, I am sincerely sorry for those who are sick and the relatives of the deceased or stricken. On their behalf, let us ask more:

What percentage of the 31 deaths that have occurred in the U.S. involved people over the age of 80 and those who had other serious health problems? In China?

Why if the virus has not been disastrous in China, with a very small percentage of the population having died, and why if the virus is receding there, do public officials keep suggesting that it will be disastrous in the U.S.?

Why has Angela Merkel said that two-thirds of the German population will be sickened?

Why has Italy been more affected than other countries?

Is the coronavirus more lethal overall than the average flu?

Why are quarantines being imposed now and not during the average flu season?

Why have India, Japan (more than half of the 1,200 confirmed cases there were from a cruise ship), Russia, Australia — all of which are closer to China than the U.S. and have many travelers from China — been less affected than the U.S.? Why has Canada, with much travel back and forth to China, had very few cases?

Why are experts forecasting a recession when so far relatively few people have been affected?

Are the government and the financial industry extending our obligations unnecessarily under the cover of induced panic?

Have you met a single person with confirmed coronavirus? Is that person seriously ill?

Please note the alarmist rhetoric in news reports. One headline declared, “the globe shudders.” This is psychological warfare. Even if the virus becomes a worldwide calamity, this alarmism does not seem justified so far. It is reasonable to suspect that we are being deliberately demoralized and further acclimated to a loss of national sovereignty, world government and intrusive laws restricting movement and individual decision-making.

WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, observed in March, puts a spotlight on female achievement. We encounter women composers, artists, authors, activists and politicians whose accomplishments range from propaganda to the truly impressive. There is nothing wrong with celebrating those who have excelled.

But can’t we do that during the course of the year instead of having a month devoted to it? Isn’t it patronizing to have a month?

There’s another problem. In general we do not encounter achievements equal to those of the great male geniuses. Women’s History Month cannot help but highlight the areas in which the most brilliant women are inferior to the most brilliant men while neglecting the areas in which women are so often superior to men.

That’s why I don’t like Women’s History Month, which truthfully comes across as a celebration of female inferiority and vanity. This political grandstanding really misses the mark when it comes to recognizing women. So many of the important contributions of women to society are hidden and not very lucrative. There is every reason why they should be hidden and not very lucrative. Selflessness, nurturance, tenderness, aid to the poor and suffering will never win Nobel Prizes or Pulitzers and rarely show up in history books.

The 19th-century Irish Whig historian William Lecky, whose wife, by the way, was an author in her own right, made interesting comments about the differences between men and women in his 1869 book A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne, Vol II.

Lecky helps explain the problem with Women’s History Month:

There are few more curious subjects of enquiry than the distinctive differences between the sexes, and the manner in which those differences have affected the ideal types of different ages, nations, philosophies, and religions. Physically, men have the indisputable superiority in strength, and women in beauty. Intellectually, a certain inferiority of the female sex can hardly be denied when we remember how almost exclusively the foremost places in every department of science, literature, and art have been occupied by men, how infinitesimally small is the number of women who have shown in any form the very highest order of genius, how many of the greatest men have achieved their greatness in defiance of the most adverse circumstances, and how completely women have failed in obtaining the first position, even in music or painting, for the cultivation of which their circumstances would appear most propitious. It is as impossible to find a female Raphael, or a female Handel, as a female Shakespeare or Newton. Women are intellectually more desultory and volatile than men; they are more occupied with particular instances than with general principles, they judge rather by intuitive perceptions than by deliberate reasoning or past experience. They are, however, usually superior to men in nimbleness and rapidity of thought, and in the gift of tact or the power of seizing speedily and faithfully the finer inflexions of feeling, and they have therefore often attained very great eminence in conversation, as letter writers, as actresses, and as novelists.

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