FROM C.J. Hopkins at OffGuardian: Plastic barriers are going up everywhere. Arrows on the floor show you which way to walk. Boxes show you where to stand. Paranoid Blockwarts are putting up signs threatening anyone not wearing a mask. Hysterical little fascist creeps are reporting their neighbors to the police for letting their children play with other children. Millions of people are voluntarily downloading “contact tracing applications” so that governments and global corporations can monitor their every movement. In Spain, they bleached an entire beach, killing everything, down to the insects, in order to protect the public from “infection.” The Internet has become an Orwellian chorus of shrieking, sanctimonious voices bullying everyone into conformity with charts, graphs, and desperate guilt-trips, few of which have much connection to reality. Corporations and governments are censoring dissent. We’re approaching a level of manufactured mass hysteria and herd mentality that not even Goebbels could have imagined. Meanwhile, they’re striking the mostly empty “field hospitals,” and the theatrical “hospital ship” is now gone, and despite their attempts to inflate the Covid-19 death count as much as humanly possible, the projected hundreds of millions of deaths have not materialized (not even close), and Sweden is fine, as is most of humanity, and … just like there were no WMDs, there is no Virus of Mass Destruction. What there is, is a new official narrative, the brave new, paranoid, pathologized “normal.” Like the War on Terror, it’s a global narrative. A global, post-ideological narrative.  

  THE California doctors who created a sensation by reporting on their experience with Covid and condemning the economic shutdowns are interviewed here by John Kirby with OffGuardian. Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Antin Massihi are emergency medicine physicians who run seven clinics in Bakersfield. Their original press conference before ditzy, disbelieving reporters with an NBC affiliate received more than five million views on Youtube, which then deleted it. Massihi says they have encountered a lot of "anger and hatred" in response to their statements. "It doesn't make much sense to us." Both these doctors remain calm, composed and unwavering in the face of intense opposition. They are rarities in a world where everyone seems fearful of taking an independent stand. They seem to have genuine compassion for the people suffering crippling anxiety because of the shutdown and with those who are not receiving medical care because they are too afraid to get treatment. I assume one of the reasons they have been able to go public is that they run their clinics themselves and are not afraid of getting fired. "Is the collateral damage of Covid worse than the virus itself," Erickson asks. He believes it is. Erickson and Massihi make some statements that they don't back up with data or that they contradict. For instance, they say the shutdown made sense at the beginning and then say the Swedish model, with no shutdown, seemed best.  

  OFF Guardian does a second interview with Knut Wittkowski, who was head of The Rockefeller University’s Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design for 20 years and currently is CEO of a biostatistics company. (The first interview is here.) He talks about the criticism of him since he spoke publicly on Covid-19 and he examines the course of the virus. This elderly scientist tears up a couple of times, upset at the consequences of the lockdowns and the harm he believes was done by not protecting the elderly in nursing homes adequately. The interview includes some scenes in a restaurant. (I'm not sure where they found an open restaurant.) But the scenes are not the best and make him look a little tipsy.  

  PROTESTORS faced off with police blocking entry to the legislative chamber in the Michigan State House in Lansing yesterday. The Republican-led legislature voted to deny extension of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home order, which was scheduled to expire today. They also authorized legal action against Whitmer. In response, Whitmer, who plays a leading role in the gubernatorial cast of Covid Crooks, extended the shutdown until May 15 by emergency decree with continued restrictions until May 28th. The continued shutdown, as many doctors have said, will almost certainly make the virus worse in Michigan, as people suffer from weakened immunities from staying inside and avoiding contact with germs. The chillingly plastic-looking Whitmer seems unmoved by the ruin her policies have caused.  

TONY S. writes:

In the comments to your recent post, Air Force and Navy Fly “Operation Desperate”, Zeno mentions that “dancing doctors” and the need of doctors and nurses for “applause” as being unprofessional.

As a physician, I can tell you that this is extremely upsetting to witness. Zeno is exactly on the mark; this is over-the-top unprofessional. When I attended medical school 25 years ago at a prestigious Ivy League medical college (meaning left-wing) one of the required seminars for all 1st year students was how one is to conduct oneself professionally. Ostentatious dress, abundant jewelry, the use of slang in speech or discussing one’s lifestyle (this meant one’s socio-economic status, not what the word implies today, i.e. sexual orientation) around patients was strictly off limits. I would guess this seminar has been removed from the curriculum.

My take is that this is another manifestation of the push of moving our culture downward, to the lowest common denominator. Doctors and nurses were always held to a higher standard with regards to behavior. If they are successful in having people give up restraint in how they conduct themselves, even in the workplace, they have achieved another level in the psychological warfare being conducted for the last 50 years to demoralize the descendants of those who built Western civilization.

And I would also predict that this Covid-19 panic-demic will lead to a hard push in the next 1-2 years to unionize all hospital nurses (and maybe even physicians). (more…)

  IF you are having trouble viewing these videos, go here and here. In the first video by Project Veritas, funeral directors in New York City say many deaths are being falsely labeled as Covid-related.  We already knew that of course, but this is important corroboration. "They're padding the numbers," said one director. He also said deaths were definitely higher than normal. Another funeral director says a family who believed a family member died of neglect in a nursing home demanded an autopsy after she was diagnosed with Covid and it showed she did not have it. The researchers at Project Veritas were at the top of their game with this video. Funeral directors are not getting kickbacks from the government and unlike hospital officials, who are getting kickbacks, and politically-appointed medical examiners, they have no personal stake in the numbers so they are a good source of information. I predict this video will go viral and be banned by Youtube, just as the video interviews of two California doctors who say the same thing about the deaths has been banned. In the second video made earlier this month and posted here before, the head of a trauma center in King's County is interviewed on the street and says the same thing about the false labeling of deaths. Regarding all deaths at this time, people in nursing homes and hospitals are being denied all visits from family. So we can assume…