I ASKED my husband where's the nearest place we could get a decent cup of coffee and maybe a sandwich. He did a little research. "Tennessee," he said. That's a 14-hour drive from our domestic prison in Pennsylvania. We better hurry. There may be a 97-year-old about to die down there too. They can't let 'em get away with it for long.
IN A real pandemic, police would be busy helping people get medical treatment, clearing bodies away, and quarantining the sick. When a virus that overwhelmingly affects the very old and those with compromised immunities is turned into a fake pandemic, they imprison the healthy in their homes, close down playgrounds and enforce draconian "social distancing," an unproven measure for controlling contagion among those with no signs of sickness. America is a prison without bars. (And without bars.) Prisoners in maximum security facilities get to play basketball, but not the inmates of New York: In New York City, they’ve started dismantling basketball hoops to prevent people from gathering in parks and playing. In Lakewood, New Jersey, police broke up a wedding being held in violation of a ban on large gatherings. And in Austin, Texas, officers are encouraging people to call a hotline to snitch on violators of the city’s orders for people to stay home. Police departments are taking a lead role in enforcing social distancing guidelines that health officials say are critical to containing COVID-19. Along with park rangers, fire inspectors and other public servants, officers more accustomed to chasing suspects and solving crimes are spending these troubled days cajoling people to stay at least 6 feet apart. Things are especially bad it seems in New York City, an example for propaganda purposes to the rest of the nation. The city is not an epicenter of disease at this moment;…
FROM The Guardian: Gordon Brown has urged world leaders to create a temporary form of global government to tackle the twin medical and economic crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The former Labour prime minister, who was at the centre of the international efforts to tackle the impact of the near-meltdown of the banks in 2008, said there was a need for a taskforce involving world leaders, health experts and the heads of the international organisations that would have executive powers to coordinate the response. A virtual meeting of the G20 group of developed and developing countries, chaired by Saudi Arabia, will be held on Thursday, but Brown said it would have been preferable to have also included the UN security council.
THE UNITED STATES government has moved closer to requiring all women to register for the military draft. A national commission has released its findings and they are in favor of compulsory service for women in wartime. There's no surprise here at all. This has been brewing for many years and the gender-neutral draft is only a matter of time, though there are many ways in which the military could selectively apply the draft once instituted. The most interesting thing about this is that more men apparently favor extending the draft than women do. Public support for such a change has divided sharply along gender lines. In a 2016 Rasmussen poll, 61% of men favored extending draft registration to everyone in the 18-to-25 age cohort, while only 38% of women supported doing so. (Source) What does this discrepancy tell us? First, it tells us that many women are not consistent in their support for the principles of feminism. Only those who have rejected these principles can justifiably reject this application of them. For it is clearly unfair for women to claim equality in rights, but not in duties. Secondly, it tells us feminism has damaged the spirit of masculine protection and deference toward women. But then feminists hated that anyway, and now they have what they wanted. Thirdly, it tells us that men are not, as feminists have often claimed, inherently against the equality of women. Here we have more men supporting…
IT'S SHOCKING that bioweapons labs exist, but they do -- in the United States, China, Israel, and Soviet Russia.** The fact that Taiwan has had two deaths from the coronavirus, South Korea less than 150, Japan just 45, Israel only five, while Italy has had more than 7,000, Spain more than 4,000, and Iran more than 2,000, lends support to theories of a biological weapon. That evidence is more significant when combined with what appears to be a highly coordinated campaign to shut down the economies of these countries and create social unrest. South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore (two deaths) have not engaged in generalized shutdowns. They have quarantined those who are sick. Taiwan, only 81 miles off the coast of mainland China and densely urban, has had a staggeringly low total of only 252 cases of the illness. (See figures here.) Perhaps weather is a factor, as Taipei is warmer than northern Italy, but the temperature in Tokyo now (54° F) is close to recent conditions in Lombardy, Italy. And about 2,000 people have been diagnosed in Florida, which has temperatures close to those in Taiwan. There are many mysteries here. Interestingly, in 1998, Israel was accused of developing an "ethnic bio-weapon," designed to target a specific ethnic group. Whether coronavirus is a biological weapon is secondary to the issue of how the virus is being used to implement social and financial engineering. ** Of these three, Russia and…
THE EAGLE TAKES FLIGHT
Harper Eliot,
March 25, 2020
Asheville, NC
The majestic bald eagle has taken flight
Chasing the fading sun
Beyond the bloody battlefields of mortal strife
When day is finally done.
Day is done!
Withdrawn from the beautiful Ridges Blue
Gone the sun!
As love keeps changing hue.
For Lady Liberty is alas dead
As we run for the exits
A nation strangled by creeping dread
Conducting our own Star Spangled brexit.
Our dear land of the free is no more
A Nation in name only
Orphans of ancient parchment paper lore
Home of only the lonely. (more…)
FROM “Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say?” By Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya , professors of medicine at Stanford University, in The Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2020:
If it’s true that the novel coronavirus would kill millions without shelter-in-place orders and quarantines, then the extraordinary measures being carried out in cities and states around the country are surely justified. But there’s little evidence to confirm that premise—and projections of the death toll could plausibly be orders of magnitude too high.
Fear of Covid-19 is based on its high estimated case fatality rate—2% to 4% of people with confirmed Covid-19 have died, according to the World Health Organization and others. So if 100 million Americans ultimately get the disease, two million to four million could die. We believe that estimate is deeply flawed. The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases.
The latter rate is misleading because of selection bias in testing. The degree of bias is uncertain because available data are limited. But it could make the difference between an epidemic that kills 20,000 and one that kills two million. If the number of actual infections is much larger than the number of cases—orders of magnitude larger—then the true fatality rate is much lower as well. That’s not only plausible but likely based on what we know so far.
Population samples from China, Italy, Iceland and the U.S. provide relevant evidence. (more…)
“IN THE beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” --- Mark Twain
Source TERRY MORRIS writes: Ha! I knew those boxes of "Pocket Constitutions" supplied me by our intrepid "leaders" in Congress some years back would come in handy one of these days. And here we have arrived at that day. See here.
THE GOVERNMENT, if it were honest and not benefiting from engineered hysteria, would deploy an army of statisticians to go into communities and actually teach people how to interpret the deceptive numbers being thrown at them about coronavirus. That’s not to say there isn’t serious illness out there and we shouldn’t take reasonable sanitary measures, far short of closing everything down. But we don’t need the National Guard, we need mathematicians!
Here is William Briggs, “statistician to the stars,” giving free counseling to those who will listen:
How accurate are the numbers in reflecting Reality? It wouldn’t surprise anybody who has worked with medical data over a long period of time to say “not very”. Take Italian reports of deaths caused by coronavirus. It’s become clear that what they are reporting and the true caused numbers of dead bodies are at variance.
One professor said “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.” (more…)
DO YOU NEED further proof that this is psychological warfare at its finest?
AN estimated 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States. --- The National Instititute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
THE coronavirus is not nearly as deadly as the flu. The Centers for Disease Control, the government agency which monitors health events nationwide, estimates that between 23,000 and 59,000 people in the United States died of the flu between October 1, 2019 and March 14, 2020. Most flu deaths, as is the case with the coronavirus, involve people suffering from other serious health conditions or in advanced old age. It's not much of a consolation perhaps to look at this high number of flu deaths, but the flu is just one way that people who are weak die and we have lived with this reality for many years. The population of the United States is 327 million, so these numbers of flu deaths are relatively low. I mean, people do die. Beware of the figures in the media! They are not counting the undiagnosed people with coronavirus when comparing mortality rates of the flu and coronavirus.
I DON’T agree with all of the political conclusions of Mike King of The Anti-New York Times. Among other things, he promotes the Q-Anon psy-op and has been ludicrously forecasting Trump’s take-down of the “deep state” for many months, against all evidence. But his observations are often spot-on and hilarious.
Here is a letter he wrote to his local bank yesterday:
To whom it may concern,
On Monday, March 23, after making a deposit at the teller window (timed 12:36 PM) — at the branch located at xxxxxxxxxxxx, NJ, I returned the pen which the rude and overly aggressive pen-policewoman/virus-fighter on the floor had given to me. This woman — an imported crisis manager of some sort and NOT a regular employee at that branch — barked back at me: “take it with you!” — as if the free pens she just handed out were suddenly infected with the Black Death.
As a long-time client and as a gentleman, I did not appreciate her rude and condescending tone; and the demeaning manner in which she loudly directed all customers to comply with the “social distancing” policy amidst this concocted crisis reminded me of one of those TSA beasts at the airport. For that reason, I politely and quietly told her that she was over-reacting as I left the pen on her platform and calmly walked out. (more…)
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