THE TAIWANESE are relatively healthy these days, even though the heavily urban island nation is only 81 miles from mainland China. "Millions of people travel back and forth between China and the island each year. Last year, there were more than 5,700 flights per month, on average, between Taiwan and the mainland, according to Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Nearly 11 million passenger journeys were made across the narrow Taiwan Strait by plane," according to NPR. And yet, in a population of 23 million, as of last Friday, there had been only been 50 confirmed cases of coronavirus and one death. And it appears that the outbreak there has passed. How do we explain Taiwan's amazing immunity to these microscopic organisms? The Taiwanese kept them at bay without mass closure of stores, restaurants, courts and other businesses. Taiwan did not order its police to stop arresting criminals as the City of Philadelphia has done. Foreign Policy, and the entire mainstream media, says the Taiwanese are just good at tracking down microbes. Actually, the Taiwanese government did react early on to restrict travel and track down people with the respiratory illness. It distributed millions of face masks. (According to the U.S. surgeon general, they are not effective at preventing contagion.) It extended school winter break for ten days; after that students who were sick were told to stay home. Interestingly, it heavily fined those spreading coronavirus rumors and fined those who…

  FORMER CONGRESSMAN Ron Paul is not just a politician. He's a medical doctor, a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, who was in practice for decades. So he does have some expert knowledge on disease. He seems to be the only public figure making these important points about the promotion of the coronavirus (though the title goes overboard in calling it a hoax). Bravo! As he says, the Orwellian Security State has taken a major leap forward. This virus is making America more and more like Wuhan every day. But then do Americans deserve their famous civil liberties anymore? Don't you have to have some capacity for independent judgement, some tiny shred of skepticism toward things the government and media tell you, in order to deserve reasonable liberty of action and thought?  

ACCORDING to the Italian Institute of Health, only 12 people who did not have other serious illnesses, or "pathologies," have died of the coronavirus in Italy. Two news reports from Italy on the institute's findings can be found here and here. [Update: Links have been removed for security reasons.] A Swiss agency summarizes the report and provides a link: According to the latest data of the Italian National Health Institute ISS, the average age of the positively-tested deceased in Italy is currently about 81 years. 10% of the deceased are over 90 years old. 90% of the deceased are over 70 years old. 80% of the deceased had suffered from two or more chronic diseases. 50% of the deceased had suffered from three or more chronic diseases. The chronic diseases include in particular cardiovascular problems, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. Less than 1% of the deceased were healthy persons, i.e. persons without pre-existing chronic diseases. Only about 25% of the deceased are women. The Italian Institute of Health moreover distinguishes between those who died from the coronavirus and those who died with the coronavirus. In many cases it is not yet clear whether the persons died from the virus or from their pre-existing chronic diseases or from a combination of both. The two Italians deceased under 40 years of age (both 39 years old) were a cancer patient and a diabetes patient with additional complications. In these cases, too, the exact cause of death was not yet…

H. writes from Canada:

Toilet paper is the big fat obvious clue to what is going on here.

In Canada, and around the world, churches, schools, municipal centres, businesses, sports and entertainment events have been cancelled.  People are staying at home, fearful of associating with others and self-isolation is advised.  Yet, to date, in Canada there has been an [alleged] total of only four deaths as a result of the coronavirus. All of these occurred at the Lynn Valley Health Centre in North Vancouver, a senior’s centre.  If these four folks were aged and immune compromised already, and succumbed to the flu, why not tell the public such useful information?  Knowing the status of the dead would allay fears and ensure the common good was advanced.  Each of us could make informed decisions about our goings-on.

Surely, that we were advised to stock up on toilet paper, of all things, is proof enough that the coronavirus is a staged phenomenon and not a widespread health concern. The global elite must be enjoying some chuckles right now. We have been tested on our intelligence and tolerance for manipulation and literally, our tolerance for s–t. (Maybe for the laughs they’ll next tell us to stock up on apocalypse busters such as shampoo and conditioner, pocket combs and kitty litter.) The public’s response to the government and media manipulation is the green light for the globalists’ agenda. They have confirmed we’re ripe for the next stage in their plan. (more…)

  HERE is an article about "bodies piling up" in morgues in Northern Italy. But with a national death toll of 2,100, the vast majority in advanced old age, in a country of 60 million, "piling up" is, at best, a colorful exaggeration and, at worst, pernicious fear-mongering. Strange, how this virus from China bypassed more than a billion people living in Third World conditions in India and showed hardly any interest in Israel to find its way to Italy and other European nations. It has very little interest in Mexico or Canada, but likes the United States. Germs are mysterious. [Update: It's not so mysterious why Italy has been harder hit. Many Chinese have bought up textile businesses in the Lombardy region and travelers from China apparently brought the virus to the area. Read more here: The COVID-19 outbreak in Italy spread mostly from Codogno, a small town in southern Lombardy, at the border with the Emilia-Romagna region, with a second localized outbreak in Veneto. Since Lombardy is one of the wealthiest, most densely populated, and most globalized areas in Europe, the coronavirus circulated very fast and easily, and now all 20 regions in Italy register cases of infected people. It did not help that the Codogno economic district hosts large companies and multinationals – making it a hub for production and international trade. Workers, salesmen, managers, and consultants of all sorts travel daily to their workplace, many of…

A READER writes: My grandson's  80-year-old banjo teacher is going cross-country skiing today. He said it fulfills the social distancing mandate. Speaking of social distancing, I've lost a lot of friends over this "virus".  No one will talk to me in real life. They are afraid I'll spoil their bad mood and give them hope. That might be painful. Its always hard to come out of darkness suddenly when the light comes on. And interesting they buy up toilet paper but the oranges and grapefruit and broccoli, the very thing that will help with a potential virus,  are still piled high in the grocery stores.  

  FIND more about efforts to control "misinformation" and a pandemic drill weeks before the corona outbreak in this article at Lifesite News. Timothy Evans, director and associate dean of the School of Population and Global Health at McGill University in Montreal, spoke of the need to involve global institutions such as the U.N. and the World Health Organization to combat any misinformation coming from national governments, although he noted that when such institutions challenge governments directly, “they often get into this issue of sovereignty.” Evans spoke of the need for “soft” and “stealth” power influences such as religious leaders, business leaders, and influential people capable of contacting heads of state directly. Mr. Lavan Thiru, of the Monetary Authority in Singapore, said there may be a need for governments to step up their “enforcement actions” on fake news. “Maybe this is a time for us to showcase some cases where we are able to bring forward some bad actors and leave it for the courts to decide whether they have actually spread some fake news,” Thiru said. In their official recommendations statement, the group said governments and social media companies will need to partner in order to counter “misinformation.”  

I HAVE only watched the first three minutes of this video by Amazing Polly so I cannot vouch for all of it and I am not endorsing all of it. I have no idea what she says in the rest of the video, but her remarks about adults frightening children with this virus hysteria are so on target. I applaud Polly’s outrage here.

Real adults don’t talk about scary things around children (especially scary things that are not proven to be true.) Real adults in the company of children censor all news that promotes panic and fear. Real adults know that the innocence of children is sacred. Real adults know that the innocence of children must be guarded, just as you would guard a child’s life itself. Real adults project calm and reassurance. Real adults, though they cannot be perfect ever and make mistakes, seek to control their words and emotions out of love of children and out of appreciation for the touching sensitivity and mental vulnerability of the young which they themselves once possessed and have since lost.

A frightened, anxious childhood leads to crippled adulthood. Innocence is also precious in its own right.

Maybe that’s the problem here. Too many Americans never really had a morally protected childhood so they have not reached psychic maturity. And now they are reacting like lemmings to this panic in the news, running to the supermarket for weeks of supplies and obsessively dousing themselves with hand sanitizer, talking and thinking about nothing else even though they have not encountered a single person sick from a deadly virus.

They are engaging in mass child abuse. Shame especially on all those in charge of organizations and government agencies who have totally lost control of themselves with their canceled events and ponderous, foreboding statements. The Mass Manipulator in Chief is loving all this, every single minute of it.

Whatever this virus is, and I believe it is nothing like they are saying, it is an experiment in control too. Even if it were to cause the deaths of tens of thousands, it is psychological warfare at its finest and its worst effects will be mental, not physical. (more…)

BERNARDINE writes:

On the coronavirus issue, I believe it is a hoax with serious economic repercussions.  We would benefit from relearning the skills of our forefathers who lived through the depression, including thrift and home gardening.  (See more on this at Ice Age Farmer.) Coronavirus appears to be a form of the flu (which about 200 people a day die from in the U.S.). We need to remember to use reason; viruses mutate all the time. The elite will likely use fear mongering in our controlled media and politics to take our liberties and push a vaccine on us (and I hope I am wrong).  Since it’s difficult to carry out their evil U.N. agenda to reduce the world’s population with a flu-like virus, they may have people asking for the thing that actually does sicken them. Like geoengineering/cloud seeding/weather modification, the coronavirus vaccine will be a backdoor form of poison, in the guise of doing good. (more…)

FROM “The Propaganda Master Comes to Town,” a tale of virus fakery, by Jon Rappaport:

“Back in his limo, the maestro puts in a call to his contact at the CDC. ‘Listen up,’ he says, ‘you people over there are starting to wobble. I’m talking about the diagnostic test for the virus. First, your test kits were bad, they didn’t work. Now you don’t have enough of them to satisfy needs. Plus the word is starting to leak out that the tests are inherently unreliable and no one should believe them. This crap must stop now. Shore up your troops. Get them in line. I want healthy people and sick people and old people and young people and all people to be diagnosed with corona, and I don’t want any uncertainties. You and I know the test is a joke, it doesn’t work, but nobody else can find that out. Got it? People over there at the CDC can be replaced. They can find themselves out on the street. What’s in charge of this operation is propaganda, not science. YOU back US up. That’s the hierarchy. I want FEAR raging through the population. If you can’t hold up your end, you’re going to find all the quotes about the epidemic in the press are suddenly coming from the World Health Organization, not the CDC. I’ll make sure you’re shoved into the background. The World Health people are professional. They know how to deliver a unified con job. Those two idiots, the governor of New York and the mayor of New York, are doing more to hype this fake epidemic than all the employees of the CDC put together. Get your house in order. Fast.’

“He closes his phone and puts it in his pocket. On the way to the airport, he hums a little tune. He looks out the window. He thinks to himself, if we can stretch this out far enough, we can force a cancelation of the Olympics. Maybe we can even stage a presidential election in America on the Internet. No one votes in a booth. Can’t risk transmission of the virus. He chuckles. His phone vibrates. He takes it out.” (more…)