THIS morning, I wrote to the manager of a network of local farmers markets in my area after he informed customers in a long, long letter that the markets would not be reopening for normal business until a vaccine for the coronavirus is available. It was unclear whether he intends to require proof of vaccination for future customers, but I would not be surprised if we reach that point, so deep, so thorough is the mass ignorance of what we are facing. In any event, he justified his decision by saying that “herd immunity” had not yet been achieved.

I offer this letter in the hopes that it will inspire you to speak out as much as possible against the totalitarian shutdowns of commercial activity. Unless you are at risk and have poor health, please act with your wallet and as much as possible boycott those businesses imposing draconian controls, even if you have to drive out of your way or spend a little more. You have some power as a consumer. Use it. Even if it does not change the world, use it. Ethical shopping is a civic duty.

I have not included a copy of his letter here. It read distinctly like a political manifesto and I could not help but think as I was reading it that it was influenced by powerful business people and politicians, not small farmers.

Dear Mr. P__,

Thank you for sharing your update on the farmers markets. I sincerely request that you share this response from one consumer with your vendors.

We enjoyed very much our experiences shopping at ____. We visited the market almost every week for about two years and spent an average of $100 at each visit. We often recommended the market to friends.

It was nice while it lasted. We will never shop there again because of your decision regarding the virus. We will miss the incredible goat cheese, the mushrooms, the raw milk, the arugula, the delicious meat, the outstanding fish, the doughnuts and many other outstanding products. We will miss the smiling, down-to-earth faces of the vendors.

You have revealed your political agenda and regardless of what you do in the future, we will offer no support to these businesses, except to travel possibly to their farms and purchase from them there. We already have a network of other small vendors in the area and we will continue to use them in the future. (more…)

ZENO writes:

In Germany, it was just announced that all religious services will remain banned by government order until August 31st. Also cafes, bars, restaurants, cinemas and music venues, all closed. But large department stores will reopen in May. I guess churches are considered “non-essential”, or less essential than big brand clothes stores.

It’s uncanny. People will be unable to go to mass for months (the rule also applies to mosques and synagogues), or even to have a beer at the pub, in Germany of all places. All that for a disease that killed relatively very few people in the country (about 3,800 at last count – usually between 15,000 and 20,000 people die in Germany every year of regular pneumonia according to the data below). It’s all very strange. (more…)

TAKEN with the author’s permission from the forthcoming book, PLANNEDemic – The Great Pandemic Farce of 2020, by Hugh Akins [Check www.ca-rc.com for availability]:

Catholics, Christians and patriots are well advised to contemplate the heroic and effective action taken by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, who in the Year of Our Lord 591, faced a pestilence that took many lives, even the life of his predecessor on the Chair of Peter a year earlier.

Saint Gregory certainly did not tell his large flock to cease attending public Masses, to stop exercising the virtues of faith, hope and charity, to quarantine themselves in their homes, to avoid all contact with those stricken with the plague, to practice social distancing, to comply with every despotic mandate to come down from godless authorities bent on the destruction of Christianity.  No! The Saint and Vicar of Christ called for the entire city of Rome to assemble for a large public procession to beg God’s protection and healing.    

President Trump, the CDC, Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo of New York, and practically every other governor today would have had the Saint arrested for violating their sinister Police State lockdown orders!

Pope Saint Gregory the Great would still not have budged, as today’s popes and bishops have done, and even many traditional pastors, closing the doors of their churches like so many cowards and traitors. [Editor: St. Gregory also did not reject the Catholic faith.]

 No, not he, the true man of God that he was.  

“On that day the faithful…walked through the streets of the city praying and singing… The plague was so potent at that time that 80 people collapsed and died as they walked…

“Pope Saint Gregory met them upon their arrival [at the church of Saint Mary Major], joining them in prayer as he took his place with them holding aloft the miraculous image of Our Lady painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist.  As the procession neared the Vatican the participants all saw Saint Michael the Archangel standing upon the cupola of Hadrian’s mausoleum as he sheathed his flaming sword.  It was a sign that the chastisement had come to an end, and at once the heaviness in the air abated and the air itself seemed to freshen and clear.

“Indeed, at that moment the plague ended as the faithful rejoiced and lifted up their voices to thank the Mother of God.”

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   AFTER being told for weeks that our hospitals could not handle the coronavirus epidemic, the country now faces thousands of hospital and other healthcare workers being laid off. Another side to this story is that millions of people are not receiving preventative or routine care; many of them will suffer from undiagnosed or untreated conditions.  

    TRUST WHO is a German-made documentary exploring the hidden practices of the World Health Organization (WHO). The 2018 film has been previously banned online but is now available here. From the press release: The World Health Organization (WHO) was founded with the aim of building a healthier future for people all over the world. Whether its the effects of smoking, the Swine flu pandemic or a nuclear disaster, the WHO is the body we rely on to advise on and resolve a public health crisis. But can it be trusted? TrustWho documents filmmaker Lilian Francks quest to discover what lies behind the altruistic façade of the worlds largest public health body. What she uncovers is an alarming picture of corruption and opacity. This powerful investigative doc shines a light on how industry lobbies have infiltrated the WHO and asks whether the organisation can be trusted to keep the public healthy.    

  RON PAUL and Daniel McAdams have produced another excellent discussion about the virus shutdown, which they have consistently said is based on faulty statistics and bad medical advice. (It would be more accurate to say it is based on outright lies.) They say there is growing public opposition to it. I'm not seeing it. I see only abject and mindless submission, but let's hope they are right. Let's also hope paid agitators don't show up at some of these protests to make ordinary protestors appear dangerous and violent. That is a strong possibility. A major protest is scheduled for tomorrow in Michigan. Paul suggests something important in this discussion, He says for each person who has reportedly died of coronavirus, the government should release (without revealing their names of course) all their other serious conditions and the drugs they were taking. This information would help truly calculate how many have died of the virus. Meanwhile Harvard researchers reportedly say people might have to social distance for two more years. I'm not kidding you. Do you believe how unbelievably deceptive these pseudo-scientific quacks and frauds are with their clever nonsense, with their grandiose misuse of statistics that trick the uninformed and that anyone who devotes an hour of patient research to can see for what they are? Evil beyond description.    

  FROM Coronacircus's highly recommended article about Bill Gates and the coronavirus: [M]r. Gates’ involvement in vaccines relates to his Malthusian overpopulation obsession rather than a concern with the welfare of humanity directly; so, why is he so involved in the current crisis, from organizing an eerily coincidental exercise, advocating tyrannical shutdowns, and “finding a vaccine” (archive 1, archive 2)? Most people will answer that his vaccine will ultimately become mandatory, and that his (and his cronies’) agenda is to chip everyone at best, make a large portion of them sterile at worst. For the time being, we do not ascribe to this view, as we find him to be too caricatural and obvious a villain; just look at comments on his Youtube videos, Tweets and Instagram posts to convince you of this. We rather interpret his role in the context of the provocations and agitation propaganda we have already highlighted, and see him as an instrument of the uprisings central planners are looking to foster; his highly-publicized relationship with Jeffrey Epstein adds credence to this (archive). Whether they will need to pretend like they are forcing vaccines or chips on people to get that revolution remains to be seen. It is pretty clear to us most people in the USA and Europe won’t accept it. In other words, Gates is a villain, but not as you might expect.  

FROM Fox News: A 15-year-old male from a remote indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest has tested positive for the coronavirus, Brazilian health officials said. As of Friday, the teen from the Yanomami tribe remains in the ICU at a hospital in Roraima state, Insider.com reported, citing the O Globo newspaper. Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta was quoted saying that the case is “worrying” considering the tribe’s isolation from the outside world. The fact is, coronaviruses are pervasive in nature and there really is no such thing as a completely remote area on earth. But why is this story being trumpeted? The health condition of one person in Brazil doesn't come to the attention of Fox News without orchestration, even under present pandemic conditions. I believe it is meant to ramp on the fear a notch, but also explode the theory that coronavirus is caused by 5G technology. Once it can be proven that people in areas with no wireless technology have the virus, then the 5G theory has been shown to be ridiculous. (See more about 5G and coronavirus here.)

ROGER W. writes from Brasilia, Brazil:

When people I know, and there have been quite a few, try to tell me that there must be something which should seriously worry us about the virus itself – otherwise the authorities and media would not be treating it as such a world-shaking catastrophe – I like to remind them that these are the very same authorities and media who began informing us several months ago that we had to treat the notion that men can menstruate with the utmost seriousness and respect, or risk getting in trouble for defying their version of established orthodoxy.

This observation doesn’t seem to win many immediate converts to the side of proportionality and sanity, but it does tend to shut my interlocutors up faster and with less effort than when I waste my time trying to explain how statistics actually work, and need to be used for results derived from them to be in any way meaningful. (The latter tack can be blithely dismissed via hand-waving appeals to Authority in any case, with the additional bonus for the individual in question that they do not have to exert themselves in the slightest to understand the actual issues at stake.) Who knows, perhaps a small kernel of rational thought is actually being planted in the still-functioning parts of their minds too — I can but hope! (more…)