Compassion vs. Compassion

FROM Heather Mac Donald: To ask about the costs and benefits of the spreading economic shutdowns guarantees an accusation of heartlessness. But the issue is not human compassion versus alleged greed. The issue is balancing one target of compassion against another. The millions of people whose lives depend on a functioning economy also deserve compassion. Many of the businesses that are now being shuttered by decree will never come back. They do not have the reserves to survive weeks or months without customers. In New York City, many streets were already blighted by rows of empty storefronts. The virus shutdown could knock out the remaining enterprises, as customers acclimate themselves further to ordering on-line. Lay-offs are piling up in restaurants, hotels, and malls; on Tuesday, unemployment claims in California were 40 times above the daily average, an increase greater than any coronavirus surge. It is low-wage employees who are most being hurt. The knowledge class can shelter in place and work from their home computers. Their employers are not shutting down. Not so people who physically provide goods and services. The employees who have been let off now may not be able to find work again if the economy continues to collapse. While governors and mayors declare some businesses essential and some not, to their employees, they are all essential. A prolonged depression will stunt lives as surely as any viral epidemic, and its toll will not be confined to the…

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Superstitions of Contagion

 

The London Fever Hospital; Nurse Flower, 1891

FROM The Common Nature of Epidemics and Their Relation to Climate and Civilization (Lippincott, 1866) by Thomas Southwood Smith, M.D.:

If indeed the emanations thrown off from the living body formed permanent and powerful poisons, like miasms connected with the products of decomposition, and if they were, like such products, capable of being conveyed unchanged to great distances, we should be able to live only in solitude; we could never meet in society, for we should poison each other; the first symptom of illness would be the signal for the abandonment of the sick, and we should be compelled by a due regard to self-preservation to withhold from persons afflicted with disease every kind and degree of assistance that required personal attendance.

Happily, we are not so constituted, and the evidence that has been adduced of the narrowness of the sphere even of the most virulent contagion, shows the groundlessness of the alarm sometimes entertained respecting this dreaded agent, while it points to the certain means of destroying it. The London Fever Hospital is separated from the Small-Pox Hospital only by the space of between thirty and forty feet, and the windows of the wards of both establishments are immediately opposite each other: yet there is no instance of the communication of small-pox to the typhus patients, nor of typhus to the small-pox patients; nor of either disease to the convalescent, or to the official inmates of the adjoining establishment. There does not appear to be a single instance on record, in any country, of the extension of infection beyond the walls of an hospital, or even of a lazar-house, so as to injure in any manner the nearest inhabitants. (more…)

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An Economic Virus

FROM Gary D. Barnett: "I HAVE watched this take place, and it was structured incrementally, all along testing the gullibility and fear of the populace, and as it progressed, it became obvious to those perpetrating this lie that taking over the entire country was going to be a cakewalk. "What is happening now is exactly as Bill Gates previewed it in his idiocy called Event 201, which seems to have been the initial test and propaganda piece set in place to start this engine. This was no coincidence, regardless of what the mainstream media and globalists’ claim, but was an active exercise for what was to come. And yes, this is real conspiracy, not 'conspiracy theory.' "I will not relent in my efforts to expose the fact that the U.S. economy has been decimated due to spending, debt, and money creation for many years. Considering the situation in 2008, when all markets should have failed, the current economic picture is not only far worse, but has reached the pinnacle of disaster. This economy cannot be saved by money printing, QE, or sending checks out to those that have been forcibly relieved of their jobs by government fiat. I firmly believe that a major factor in why this so-called pandemic was created is to shift blame for the impending economic collapse on this virus, and hide the fact that the Fed and central banks around the world completely destroyed the economy. Had…

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U.S. Flu, 2018-19: 34,200 Deaths

"CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season. This burden was similar to estimated burden during the 2012–2013 influenza season1." --- Centers for Disease Control  

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Virus Basics

  THE CORONA Emperor has no clothes --- and all the scientists pretend that he does. There is serious illness out there, and that is very sad, but it's not the pandemic we are being led to believe it is. Recent flu seasons have been worse. More than 60,000 Americans died in the 2017-2018 flu season. More than 20,000 died in the 2018-19 season, according to the Centers for Disease Control.  

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Your Daily Dose of Common Sense

I LIKE what Chuck Baldwin says in his latest column about adults not showing fear:

My parents lived through the Great Depression (and two World Wars). I grew up listening to their experiences of living in the Depression. For poor people (which my parents were), the Depression was horrific. Today’s Americans know nothing of suffering in the magnitude of that terrible period of U.S. history.

And I can tell you emphatically that at no point did my parents (or grandparents or aunts and uncles) ever show fear. Never! Neither did they demonstrate selfishness nor panic. They spoke repeatedly of deprivation, sickness and want, but never of fear. And selfishness was not in their vocabulary. In the worst of times, they prayed, worked and worshiped together….

Mark this down: When people are consumed with fear, they have already surrendered their hearts and minds to tyranny. [bold added]

It’s worth reading his column in full. Here’s more: (more…)

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Man in the News: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

 

World Health Organization Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

KIM from Canada writes:

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has lived most of his adult life as a “revolutionary” against formal, established systems. His political agenda, as is the case with contemporary Marxists, is to destabilize Western thought and Western civilization. The WHO is a hotbed for such appointed officials, clever at garnering huge funds and stealthy at undermining countries and regions which do not follow their political ideals.

In appointing him, the WHO found the perfect blend of a well-trained and intelligent leader who uses his position to realign the geopolitics of the world.

It is an important post. He has had major influence on the unfolding of the current Covid-19 “pandemic.” His warm relations with China may have been a factor in his response and his overestimation of the death rate.

The following gives some background on Ghebreyesus, who is everywhere identified as an Ethiopian, but is actually from Eritrea. (I refer to him by his first name as Tedros in the following.) He worked in Ethiopia under various regimes, but I think his Eritrean background identifies his world view, his political background, and his politicization of health care. Hence his post in the WHO.

Here are some interesting points: (more…)

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Facebook Censors Ron Paul

THE social media giant has restricted access to Ron Paul's recent column on the coronavirus. (Paul was wrong in labeling the illness itself a "hoax" because he certainly was not denying the existence of an infectious strain of coronavirus. I don't know why he titled this column, and the video counterpart, so misleadingly.) At issue is Dr. Paul's statement that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci's claim that the coronavirus is "ten times more deadly" than the seasonal influenza virus is “without any scientific basis." Fauci made the claim recently in testimony before the US Congress in a move that significantly ramped up the fear factor in the US over the virus. --- Read more here Also, Youtube is using the virus panic to justify more general censorship.  

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Targeting Trump

AN INTERESTING comment after a Ron Paul video (unedited):

Pay attention folks, there’s much more going on here than what meets the eye. Is it a coincidence that just when the economy is booming, the stock market is setting record highs, we are winning the trade wars, school shootings have stopped, our nation is at peace, the Democratic party is a disaster and so is their likely nominee (Biden). He hasn’t a chance in hell & they’re not about to let an outsider (Bernie) destroy their scheme. It looks like Trump is a sure bet for reelection after fending off 3 years of investigations and impeachment, then all the sudden world crisis pandemic.

Stock market tumbles, companies are laying off employees, everything is closed and canceled, CEO’s of giant companies are resigning and indictments are coming. Now they say there are a couple ways a President doesn’t win reelection. (more…)

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More on Italy

  SOME common sense observations from Ramzpaul. I wonder whether the reason Chinese and Italian men have been harder hit is that many are heavy smokers. Most of the fatalities in Italy were among old people with other chronic health conditions. Heavy smoking causes emphysema in old age. A significant percentage of  those who have died had emphysema.  

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Was St. Joseph a Beta Male?

 

St Joseph with Infant Christ in his Arms, Guido Reni

[Reposted]

SOME say Christianity has encouraged submissiveness in men — and led to the phenomenon of the weak and emasculated male. This is a familiar theme on men’s rights blogs. A writer on the Internet once told me in the course of conversation that St. Joseph was the perfect example of the emasculated male. Joseph remained in the background of the great drama of the Incarnation. He took a wife who was already pregnant.

On close inspection, this idea does not hold up, not only because Christianity produced great warriors and emperors and the effeminate male has become more common the more Christian social ideals have been rejected, but because of who St. Joseph was. He had authority over God himself. He was the earthly father of the Word Incarnate. (more…)

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“We’re All Gonna Get Cash!!!”

STEVE MNUCHIN — you know, the Wall Street czar from Trump’s drained swamp — says all Americans are going to get government-issued checks to compensate them for coronavirus losses — and those losses will be considerable for many.

And we get 90 days more to pay our taxes! Wow, break out the toilet paper, honey, we’re gonna have a party!

The truth is, Americans, already awash in both public and private debt, are surely going to be robbed more. They will pay for those cash payments many times over.

Some are beginning to suspect, and I agree with this appraisal, that the coronavirus panic has all been just a cover for an economic downturn that was coming anyway and would otherwise rightfully be blamed on our central banking system of enslavement via public and private debt, fully supported by our elected politicians, every single one of them. The banks create money out of thin air. They lend it to the government at interest. And all of us corona-addled suckers pay the costs in perpetuity and are subjected to cyclical recessions and near-constant inflation. And we routinely pay off personal loans with compound interest, which represent the sort of bondage through usury that the great Christian monarchs strictly forbade. Did you know that? Did you know that the usury virus destroys individual lives and civilization?

These cash payments are just another distraction. Americans have been looking the other way for more than 100 years, so distractions — sex, sports, viruses, you name it — work. Though the information revolution on the Internet has caused many people to get wise, this country has been plundered every single day since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. As Brother Nathanael says, at least we’ll get Cheetos, Coke and lots of toilet paper in our corona quarantine camps. And cash is in the mail!

[Update]

Will the banks be switching to the gold standard to ease the revolt against the Fed? Read speculation by Anthony Migchels

For a more sympathetic view of Trump’s actions, and speculation about Bill Gates and China, read here.

Peggy Traeger Tierney writes:

I believe the virus is no more dangerous than the common flu – for healthy people – but has been engineered to be highly infectious and impact the elderly & sick. Thankfully, it is NOT affecting children & young adults like pandemic flu does.

I believe the virus was unleashed by the Communist Party to scare the Chinese people back into their homes and stop the Hong Kong & Taiwanese pro-freedom protests. (more…)

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WHO Misreported Coronavirus Mortality Rate in Early March

  WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported in a press conference on March 3rd that the mortality rate for the coronavirus was much more severe than the seasonal flu. However, as reported by Joe Holt at The Gateway Pundit, Dr. Tedros, a former minister of foreign affairs in Ethiopia, used two different mathematical ratios to arrive at this statement. The comparison was false. In fact, recent seasonal flu outbreaks had been much more severe than the coronavirus. Holt reports: The actual data shows that the mortality rate for those who had the flu (10%) is almost twice as high than for those with the coronavirus (3.8%). The two rates are like comparing apples to oranges. By doing so the coronavirus fatality rate is way overstated when compared to the flu and the WHO and the media has created a worldwide crisis and panic by reporting these rates simultaneously! The coronavirus is not more fatal than the flu based on current data available. It is much less fatal than the flu based on current data. Holt accused the media of "lying again," but news outlets were following statements by Dr. Tedros. The World Health Organization employs top epidemiologists and it is their job to measure the public effects of disease. From Dr. Tedros's bio: Born in the city of Asmara, Eritrea, Dr Tedros holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham and a Master of Science…

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CA Governor Raises Possibility of Martial Law

CALIFORNIA Governor Gavin Newsome said yesterday that he will implement martial law if necessary. It may be necessary in New Jersey too:   https://twitter.com/WinklerforNJ08/status/1239945603699945481?s=20

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How Banks Profit from a Virus

On March 15, 2020, the Federal Reserve announced it would revive the QE [Quantitative Easing] program. It would purchase $500 billion in U.S. Treasurys and $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities over the next several months. It wanted to make sure banks had enough liquidity to help businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here. Welcome to the world controlled by a central bank cartel. [H/t Fitzpatrick Informer]  

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Quote of the Day

  'THE men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.’ — H. L. Mencken

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