YESTERDAY was the seventh anniversary of the death of the writer Lawrence Auster, who died of cancer on March 29, 2013, leaving behind many devoted followers of his blog View from the Right.

At Vdare.com, I reflect on his views of the future of America in light of our current crisis.

May God grant eternal rest to Lawrence Auster and protect and keep his many friends. Read More »

SEE the earlier post here about World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who blatantly misrepresented the coronavirus death rate and touched off a worldwide panic.

 

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“The Real History Channel surveyed 1,257 respondents (mostly Americans but also Europeans, Canadians and Australians)– who in turn each know at least 30 people (conservative estimate) who in turn know at least another 25 other people. That gives a random representative sample of almost 1 MILLION people within 2 degrees of separation of the original 1,257 survey respondents.

“It asked just two questions:

“1. Do you PERSONALLY know anyone who has died due to CV?

“2. Do you PERSONALLY know anyone who PERSONALLY knows someone that has died due to CV?”

March 28 – March 29 / Final

A – Number of Survey Respondents: 1,257

B – Est. of  acquaintances (1,257 x 30): 37,710

C -Number of Deaths Personally Known: 3

D -2nd Level Contacts (37,710 x 25): 942,750

E- Deaths believed by 3rd Party Hearsay: 15

* Final Tally (B+D):

“Out of  980,460 estimated extended contacts, only 18  (15 of which reported to us as hearsay!) — know of  (or think they know of ) a CV-related death — with most comments indicating the deceased had other health problems or was over 70 years of age.” [Source]

CONCLUSION: This virus is real, the government’s over-reaction is a hoax.

A READER from Michigan writes:

I have been following your posts about coronavirus with interest. It is clear that there is an unbelievable power grab and wealth transfer happening right before our eyes. About that you and I are in agreement.  Thank you for continuing to write about it and bring awareness to this issue.

However, you have been rightly questioning how it is that hospitals could be overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic when so many more people die annually of influenza. I had the same question, so I asked my husband, who is a nurse at University of Michigan hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan is one of the hardest hit states for COVID-19 infections at present. Read More »

Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management

HE’S made billions on investments while urging Trump to keep Americans out of their jobs for 30 days. From Barron’s:

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman announced earlier this month that he had been hedging his portfolio against market volatility spurred by the coronavirus. The bet paid off handsomely.

Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund laid out $27 million to buy credit protection on global investment-grade and high-yield credit indexes. The purchases, which were made late last month when credit spreads were tighter, carried limited downside risk but the potential for significant upside. Ackman said Wednesday that he finished unwinding the hedges on Monday, reaping $2.6 billion in proceeds.

The hedge fund honcho has been making the media rounds recently, demanding that President Donald Trump institute a 30-day national shutdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. He even warned that failing to act could take hotel stocks to zero. Nevertheless, he has been buying up stocks. [bold added]

Here’s interesting background on Ackman from Wikipedia:

At a panel meeting discussing Bernie Madoff in January 2009, Ackman defended his longtime friend Ezra Merkin, saying, “Has Ezra committed a crime? I don’t think so,” and “I think [Merkin] is an honest person, an intelligent person, an interesting person, a smart investor.”[15][16][17] In April 2009, Merkin was charged with civil fraud by the State of New York for “secretly steering $2.4 billion in client money into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi fraud without their permission.”[18] A settlement was reached on June 2012 requiring Merkin to pay $405 million to victims including the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.[19]

Source

https://twitter.com/AlanHibbard/status/1244472500836335619?s=20
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CHRIS PIRNAK at Know Your Adversary introduces his latest podcast:

It doesn’t matter whether this crisis is legitimate or not. This manufactured pandemic has the potential for formulating the largest transfer of wealth in human history. A discussion of how we can successfully navigate these waters. This isn’t a bailout, because that would imply moral hazard behavior at the top. This is a well orchestrated plan.

-I am observing that there has not been any let up in the media’s fear campaign. This tells me that the elites intend to maximize their asset grab. Perhaps we may see even more manufactured horror.

-There is a complete lockdown on the crisis narrative. Fox fires Trish Regan for minimizing the circumstances. There is a total blackout regarding the objective discussion of effective treatments and cures. The elites want to maximize this story line and political correctness rules.

-Many of the +30 million unemployed will never find gainful employment after the crisis concludes. [cont.]

“ACCORDING to statista.com [3], “Italy has the highest amount of confirmed [COV] cases in Europe with 59,138…” That’s as of March 23. If you multiply by six, to get the annual figure, you arrive at 360,000 cases. You want to blow that up, because of acceleration? Go ahead. How about a million cases for the year? Two million. Three million.

“Now let’s look at ordinary flu cases for Italy in a given year. According to sciencedirect.com [4], “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%.” That’s 5 million plus each year. Not just once. Was a seasonal flu pandemic declared in Italy? Ever? Was the whole country ever locked down as a result? No.”

— Jon Rappaport, “Corona, The Case Number Game“

THIS RECORDING OF Spanish composer’s Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasía para un Gentilhombre (Fantasia for a Gentleman), a concerto for guitar and orchestra, may brighten your day.
 

AN Imperial College doctor who predicted 500,000 deaths in U.K. now says there will be less than 6,000.  Read more here.

FROM “An Epidemic of Irrationality,” by C. Griffin Trotter MD, PhD :

Today (March 27, 2020) is kind of a landmark day. The front-page headline in the Seattle Times screams “U.S. has most virus cases: With 1,000-plus deaths, more grim milestones ahead.” But the real milestone is that the stark irrationality of our public response to COVID-19 has become manifest as never before. Today the Times has three front-page articles featuring three radically incompatible claims.

The first article makes the same old claim that has been featured on the front page every day for the last month. It is the claim that Coronavirus is a nearly unprecedented medical catastrophe, destined for “grim milestones” of almost unthinkable proportion.

The second article correctly claims that it is very difficult for patients to get tested for Coronavirus. The policy in Washington state is still to test only sick patients. In fact, even sick patients are still often turned away if they are not sick enough, as several examples cited in this article document.

The third article reports that the death toll from Coronavirus, according to a model from University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, could reach 1,430 by July (at which time the model estimates the seasonal epidemic will be over).

Do these three articles hold together logically? Not even close. Washington’s population of 7.5 million persons makes up about 2.5% of the population of the United States. Even in the extremely unlikely event that every other state eventually gets hit as hard as Washington, the death rate referenced in the third article would translate to 57,000 deaths nationwide. That is substantially less than the death toll from influenza in 2017-18, which the media almost entirely ignored. So if the third article is correct, then the first article is radically incorrect. If the third article is correct, then this is not an unprecedented catastrophe, and in fact it will not even be as bad, mortality wise, as a bad flu season. Read More »

PITTSBURGH’S top medical center is braced for a surge in coronavirus cases — and finds virtually nothing.

Of 2,000 people reporting to the hospital with symptoms only nine have tested positive, according to KDKA Radio. Doctors are now saying the surge may never come.

Meanwhile, the state’s economy continues to be ravaged by a near-total shut down of businesses in ten of the most heavily populous counties.

ACCORDING to The Telegraph:

The country’s high death toll is due to an ageing population, overstretched health system and the way fatalities are reported.

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“The way in which we code deaths in our country is very generous in the sense that all the people who die in hospitals with the coronavirus are deemed to be dying of the coronavirus.

“On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity – many had two or three,” he says. 

FROM The Gateway Pundit:

The MSM and Democrats claim there are not enough hospital beds for the current 85,000 people identified with the coronavirus, many of whom will never even enter a hospital due to their relatively minor condition.  Also, in 2018-19 there were plenty of beds for the nearly 500,000 patients that spent time in hospitals, due to the flu.

Via the CDC – there were 490,000 hospitalizations during the 2018-2019 flu season. [cont.]