 
The Covid / Lockdown Crisis - Alternative Information & Sources

Roger Golden Brown

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Heading Out

33 Years of Dreams

False Paradigms of the Left

The United States Empire and its Fall

Obama's Pro-War, Pro-Corporate Choices

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The Covid / Lockdown Crisis

Alternative Information & Sources

Roger Golden Brown
A Note About the July Edition

This book was originally published June 22, 2020. It's a month later and there is some new material that has been added; some more topical, like information about the 2nd wave of testing and cases in a new section called The 2nd Wave Is Here, and some that's just more general information.

And there is one new chapter, inserted at the end of the book, just before the Final Thought. It is called The Players and is a summary of the interests, connections, and history of some of the players invested in the crisis.

And I have included an Errata section in the Appendix; with one correction of the first edition.

If this is your first time exploring this book, you can ignore this, but if you have already read it and have downloaded this July edition and are interested to see what's new, all new July entries are marked with an asterisk. You can do a search in your eBook reader for * and it will show all the new entries.

A Note About The August Edition

This August edition does not include as much new material as did the July edition, but I have come across a number of new articles and videos that I think are important enough to add; for example the new first linked article in the Fudged Death Certificates section.

A lot of the aspects of the crisis have developed in the two months since the initial June publication. There is some material which is now, to some extent, obsolete; for example the early speculations and calculations as to the CFR (case fatality rate) before there was as much data as there is now. I will nonetheless leave all of the original material in the book. Every article and every video is dated so the reader can fairly easily see how topical the information or opinions are.

I will mark anything added in August with 2 asterisks. **
Premise / Preface

The premise of this book is that the compliance with a form of martial law dictated by authorities is being on the whole far too easily accepted by the masses. Some people are just prone to be compliant with authority. Others thought originally that the potential danger of a horrific epidemic sweeping across the globe warranted compliance with rules dictated by people in the know, and now, months later, believe in extreme caution as we attempt to get back to normal.

But few seem to question whether these people deserve our trust or question if they have an agenda. These are very dangerous times and it behooves every one of us to put effort into finding out what is really going on. Too many people seem to lack or have lost or have muted the kind of healthy skepticism about those in governmental power, large corporate power, Big Pharma's power, or the agendas of the wealthy elite, that is necessary for a functional society.

The purpose of this book is to take an extensive look at the Covid / Lockdown Crisis. Was / is it simply a case of a naturally caused virus randomly developing at this particular time in history that turns out to be extremely deadly; so much so that it warranted / warrants drastic dramatic changes in our behavior to deal with it? Or was a nefarious plot hatched by a cabal in secret with the plan to release a virus into our midst and to use the crisis to their ends? Or was it somewhere in the middle?

The aim of this book is to make it easy for people who are not familiar with alternative sources to go directly to sources of information via links, offering exposure to people with their own ideas, professionals offering data and their interpretation of it, and to people who are real investigative journalists; as opposed to the stenographers to power that the mainstream media has become.

I have my own ideas (not yet crystallized into certainty) as to what is going on. And although my take on it will probably be able to be gleaned from this book, my prime intent is to comment on and to link to lots of information and many many voices who do **not** believe the following: that it is simply a very unfortunate chance event and that the authorities are doing what they need to and can do; in some cases being effective, in other cases ineffective, but doing it in order to keep us safe.

In trying to learn where the truth lies, there are three things that are extremely important. One is to know as best as possible the histories and relationships of the people involved, be they the corporate movers and shakers, the media, or simply the average Joe or Jane with an opinion. The second is to look at what incentive the players have for putting forward their narrative. And, the third is to, as always, follow the money.

One last thing. In case you've read this far but are thinking that you're not really into reading eBooks, think of this as more a resource depot than a book. And, if you prefer, it is also available in PDF format.
Foreword

The mainstream media and the government spit out the phrase "conspiracy theory" like it's poison. When you hear them say "conspiracy theory" or "conspiracy theorist", it probably means they have something to hide. It means they are lying to you and want to demonize anyone who thinks that there is something else going on other than the party line. They want you to believe something and want you to dismiss dissenting alternative voices.

Conspiracy theories are good things. It is what intelligent people do who are interested in finding out what is really going on and what individuals or groups might have an interest in certain outcomes. There is much in the linked articles and videos in this book that suggest there are people with agendas who hope for certain results related to the Covid / Lockdown crisis. It's up to each person who has an interest in finding out the truth to decide for themselves.

Trying to find out what's really going on in this current crisis is not a whimsical endeavor; something to do just because it would be cool to investigate it. Unlike the Kennedy assassination, which if we finally found out the truth would change really nothing, the Covid / Lockdown crisis is ongoing with lots of future implications. In the 60's when Kennedy was murdered there was little we could do. There were only a very few good alternative outlets (low budget magazines - Ramparts, for example) who did investigative reporting. Now with the internet it's a different story and it behooves us to use it to form more informed opinions.

You may have noticed that people who poo-pah alternative theories will often cite one thing that someone has said that is (or is claimed to be) bogus and boast that that proves they are full of it and not to be believed. People are not black and white. Just because somebody says something you don't believe, they are not to be entirely dismissed. Likewise just because somebody says something you do believe or that resonates with you, doesn't mean they are to be believed about everything they say outright. Use your mind, temper it with your heart, and explore the possibilities.

There are some articles and videos that are linked to in this book by people I know really nothing about; I just found it interesting or revealing. There are others by people I have followed for a long time, often many years. In some cases I may mention that in the lead to the link.

Finally, I have to say that this is soooo not complete. I have been hungry for information and reading and reading and watching video after video to the point that it's really not healthy, but as much as I've learned (or at least been exposed to) there is so much more. And the reader might find other angles to the whole dual crisis more interesting or more important to them. It behooves us to play detective and not just accept the party line of the oligarchy that are making the rules.
What This Book Is / How to Use It

This book is a resource guide for alternative Covid information. What do I mean by alternative? I mean information that is not funneled by official channels. Info that you will not be told by the World Health Organization (usually referred to simply as the WHO in this book) or by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Or by any of the mainstream media or government officials.

It is divided into sections (chapters), each with some comment by me mixed with links to both articles and videos available on the web. And some images (some being screen shots, clippings) are interspersed.

A note about the videos. I cannot guarantee that all of the links to YouTube videos will remain active as YouTube has been censoring lots of information that doesn't agree with the official narrative. I have recently discovered another video site that is open and does not censor material simply because of a different opinion. It is called BitChute. In some cases I will provide links to both, just in case. If you find that a video has been removed, try searching for it on BitChute.

Many of the links, to the videos in particular, are to people who have channels where they publish new material regularly. If someone's video resonates with you, check out their other stuff.

Some of the videos and articles I link to are one person's take on things but many of them are the work of real journalists sharing information and connecting the dots. And many of them have links to their sources either in the article or on the video's page. Question everything, come to your own conclusions.

At the end of the book there is an appendix with links to most of the major sources that have served me well. Most of them I have been using as good sources of alternative information long before the current crisis began and some are new ones I have discovered during this crisis. Check 'em out.

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A Note On The Use Of The Language In The Title: "Covid / Lockdown Crisis"

I use the expression "Covid / Lockdown" because it is important to distinguish between the crisis caused by the virus and the crisis caused by the lockdown. For example, it is quite common and completely wrong that the economic impact is conflated with Covid; it is common to see headlines referring to Covid's devastating effect on the economy. This is smoke and mirrors. They are related but Covid did not cause 40 million Americans to lose their jobs, nor did it cause the inconveniences of the lockdown. One could argue that the lockdown was the best way to go, and that is for each person to decide for themselves, but even if it was the best option, it was a choice that was made by people. Compelled by Covid maybe, but not caused by it.

Further, the Lockdown crisis has far reaching potential of becoming a permanent crisis with restrictions on our freedom and with regulations governing our behavior, long after Covid has gone.
A Note On The Use Of The Word Covid In The Title And Throughout This Book

The virus and the disease caused by the virus have different names. The actual name of the virus is SARS-CoV-2 and the name of the disease is COVID-19. For simplicity I will use "Covid" (avoiding the screaming capital letters) for the phenomenon in general, only using the actual names when necessary (also sometimes without using the screaming caps).
A Note On The Links To Articles And Videos In This Book

Whenever I link to a video I will post how long it is; the idea being that although some are quite long, some are not, so if you see a video is only a few minutes long it might better fit into your schedule at that moment. And I will also give an indication of how long the articles are that I link to.

And for both the articles and videos I will give the date they were published, as the arc of information and disinformation plays a major role in the understanding of what is and has been going on.

All dates mentioned in this book can be assumed to be the year 2020 unless otherwise shown.
A Note On The Images In This Book

There are many images in this book and some may have text that is difficult to read. If the reader is using Mac's iBooks (and perhaps some other eBook readers), you can double click on images to blow them up.
Table of Contents Overview

A Note On The Chapters and Subsections of the Book

CHAPTER TITLES are in all uppercase in the eBook-generated table of contents. The chapter subsections are in Title Case.

Inside the book, Chapter Titles are in title case, and • Subsection Titles are preceded by a bullet point and in a smaller font.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates is at the very center of this crisis. This crisis has many tendrils connected to many money interests and questionable characters, but Bill Gates is kind of the lynch pin. He has his hand in many ventures and schemes and the mainstream media seem to treat him as a god.

The Fear Factor

This chapter will look at Neil Ferguson's model's terrifying apocalyptic predictions, as well as his track record. It will look at the exaggerations and distortions in the mainstream media. It will also look at the censorship of alternative voices that gainsay the fear and panic. There will be some overlap with this chapter and the Data chapter, as false and exaggerated data has been used extensively, clearly with the intent of heightening the panic.

Data

This chapter will include alternative info from doctors and others. It will look at how death certificates are being openly falsified. It will look into statistics and testing. It will become clear that the people in charge either have an agenda or are incredibly stupid. Fauci's changing (ingenuous) opinion on chloroquine will be exposed. Perspective will be given as comparisons to other crises is shown.

Lockdown Consequences and Implications

This chapter looks at the idea that the cure should not be worse than the disease. And of how we are being conditioned to accept the loss of our humanity. Also how they keep moving the goalposts.

Disaster Capitalism

The importance of this chapter is that when one sees what advantage the corporate elite / US government takes of disaster, it gives some insight into their incentive to exaggerate or even create disaster. This chapter will include bits of information about environmental regulations and such being compromised, even though it is in no way warranted by the crisis event itself.

United States' Mismanaged Response?

This chapter looks at the United States' response specifically to the crisis. Was it mismanaged or managed with an agenda that didn't have the people's wellbeing prioritized?

More on Vaccines, WHO, CDC

More on the world of vaccines that aren't specifically tied to Bill Gates. And a look at the WHO and the CDC.

Events and Agendas Preceding the Arrival of Covid

In this chapter there is information about ideas and plans for the future formulated by various groups. You can decide if these agendas are related to the current situation or not and whether they play an influencing role, but it is important to know of the machinations of these powerful people.

The New Normal - What is Already Happening

In this chapter I look at what we are supposed to accept as the new normal; the plans already in motion for a future unlike anything the world has ever seen. Examples of draconian measures already being enacted. Contact tracing and its implications.

The New Normal - What's on the Drawing Board

In this chapter are links to articles and videos about a new level of intimate personal control desired by some of the worst actors on the Earth's stage. Examples of the kinds of top-down shaping of society that are now openly being talked about and suggested.

General Discussions on the Intentionality of the Scam

Here you will find some articles and videos that discuss the situation in general; often not addressing a specific issue like most of the other articles and videos that are linked to. These are articles by those who are quite convinced of the intentionality of the Covid crisis, or at least of the response. In this chapter there is minimal comment from me; usually just their bio from the article.

The Players

This chapter is a list of some of the players invested in the crisis and a summary of their interests, connections, and history. It also includes a section of the players cross referenced by association.

Final Thought

Here I comment briefly on smartphones.

Appendix

Here you will find links to some online sources (websites, video channels) that are heavily Covid focused, a description of what Z-scores are, and an errata section.
Table of Contents

A Note About the July Edition

Premise / Preface

Foreword

What This Book Is / How to Use It

Table of Contents Overview

CHAPTER TITLES ARE IN ALL UPPERCASE

BILL GATES

Robert Kennedy Jr. on Bill Gates, Vaccines, the CDC, the WHO, and Big Pharma

The Corbett Report Bill Gates Documentary

More on Bill Gates

THE FEAR FACTOR

Neil Ferguson's Model and His Track Record

Censorship of Alternative Information and Opinions

Flat Out Fear Mongering

The 2nd Wave

The 2nd Wave Is Here / The Testing Debacle

Face Masks and Social Distancing

DATA

Most Important Fact

Fudged Death Certificates

Covid Compared to Other Outbreaks

Euromomo - Europe's Total Death Count

Doctors Speak

Infection Fatality Rate, Antibody Testing

Countries That Never Locked Down

Alternative Treatments - Chloroquine

LOCKDOWN CONSEQUENCES AND IMPLICATIONS

The Cure Should Not be Worse than the Disease

The Lockdown's Effect on our Humanity

Dave Cullen's Series on the Lockdown's Effect on our Humanity

The US Lockdown, in Particular

DISASTER CAPITALISM

Congress Works to the Advantage of the Wealthy Elite

UNITED STATES' MISMANAGED RESPONSE?

MORE ON VACCINES, WHO, CDC

Vaccines

The WHO, CDC

EVENTS AND AGENDAS PRECEDING THE ARRIVAL OF COVID

Event 201

Rockefeller Foundation's Simulations, "Lock Step"

Fourth Industrial Revolution

ID2020

The Wuhan Bio-Lab

THE NEW NORMAL - WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING

The Covi-Pass

Contact Tracing

The New Language

THE NEW NORMAL - WHAT'S ON THE DRAWING BOARD

Vaccine Tattoos and Time Released Cocktails of Drugs

1984esque Plans Requiring Total Compliance

New World Order / Global Governance / Technocracy

GENERAL DISCUSSIONS ON THE INTENTIONALITY OF THE SCAM

Articles

Videos

THE PLAYERS

FINAL THOUGHT

APPENDIX

Other Short eBooks by the Author

About the Author

Other Books by Roger Brown
BILL GATES

I originally intended to put the Bill Gates chapter more in the middle of the book, but I found myself or articles or videos constantly mentioning him, so I decided to move him up to Chapter 1. He is at the very center of this crisis. There are many tendrils connected to many money interests and questionable characters, but Bill Gates is a focal point.

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At the heart of the whole Covid / Lockdown Crisis is one very powerful man: Bill Gates, the 2nd wealthiest person on the planet. Bill Gates throws his money around in what is erroneously referred to as philanthropy to get results towards ends he desires. The word philanthropy means love of humankind. Using money to achieve one's own agenda is not philanthropy.

As will be seen in the Disaster Capitalism chapter, Bill Gates is a force behind the privatization of schools. He has put money into the idea of making clouds reflective to cool the planet. According to a CNBC article: Thousands of planes would fly at high altitudes, spraying millions of tons of particles around the planet to create a massive chemical cloud that would cool the surface.

And as you will soon see, he has his hands all over the current crisis. Naturally the mainstream media sees him as a god. Which, considering how he seems to feel that his ideas, regardless of how invasive they are, and regardless of the fact that they are essentially forced on society by the leverage of money, are to be manifest, he seems to see himself that way.

Bill Gates is, essentially, the biggest donor to the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2018-2019 the United States was the biggest donor, but the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, together (both Gates related) actually donate more. (From GAVI's website: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged US$ 750 million to set up GAVI in 1999. The Foundation is a key Gavi partner in vaccine market shaping.)

Another of Bill Gates' concerns is overpopulation. He has said that through extensive vaccination programs he could significantly reduce the world population. Throughout Gates' projects runs one main thread: technology and grandiose schemes are the ways we will be saved. And he knows how to do it. (And big corporations will be getting richer off of it.)

Unfortunately regarding vaccines, his track record, as shown in the articles below is not good.

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Before I get to Robert Kennedy Jr. and to James Corbett's outstanding 4 part documentary on Bill Gates, I want to start with a link to an excellent video interview with Vandana Shiva, where she really hits the nail on the head, contrasting a healthy natural world with the corporate techno world vision. This interview was done long before Covid hit the media radar so this is not reacting to the current crisis. Vandana Shiva is always in interviews extremely enthusiastic and passionate about whatever she has to say.

From the video's notes:

Our guest is Vandana Shiva, a world-famous environmental activist from India. Her latest book is entitled "One Earth, One Humanity vs. the 1%". She tells us about more her opposition to big multinationals such as Monsanto for their nefarious influence on agriculture. But Shiva also singles out billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for criticism. "When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he's pushing the failed Green Revolution, he's pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns", she tells FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman.

'Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto', Vandana Shiva tells FRANCE 24 (12:15 long video, October 23, 2019)

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Now I will include links to a number of articles and videos regarding vaccines and also how the CDC and the WHO are in bed with big pharma and influenced by Bill Gates and his agenda.

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• Robert Kennedy Jr. on Bill Gates, Vaccines, the CDC, the WHO, and Big Pharma

Robert Kennedy Jr. has been an active voice against insufficiently tested and dangerous vaccines in general and specifically against Bill Gates. Among other things Kennedy stresses repeatedly that when big pharma puts out a vaccine it is always with no liability; they can never be held accountable.

In this article Kennedy chronicles some history of Gates vaccines and their use in Africa and India and the terrible negative results. He writes that Indian doctors blame a Gates vaccine campaign for a devastating non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP) epidemic.

From the article:

In 2014, Kenya's Catholic Doctors Association accused the WHO of chemically sterilizing millions of unwilling Kenyan women with a "tetanus" vaccine campaign. Independent labs found a sterility formula in every vaccine tested. After denying the charges, the WHO finally admitted it had been developing the sterility vaccines for over a decade.

 Gates' Globalist Vaccine Agenda: A Win-Win for Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination (11 paragraphs article, April 9)

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Next, here is a short article with a number of its own links related to Robert Kennedy Jr.'s work and to Bill Gates' agenda. It is by Peter Koenig.

From the article:

Most of these vaccination campaigns were implemented without the informed-consent of the children, parents, guardians or teachers, nor with the informed-consent, or with forged consent, of the respective government authorities. In the aftermath, The Gates Foundation was sued by governments around the world, Kenya, India, the Philippines – and more.

 Bill Gates and the Depopulation Agenda. Robert F. Kennedy Junior Calls for an Investigation (11 paragraphs article, April 18)

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• The Corbett Report Bill Gates Documentary

James Corbett has a website, and YouTube and BitChute channels, where he publishes the Corbett Report. From his YouTube channel:

The Corbett Report is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues from 9/11 Truth and false flag terror to the Big Brother police state, eugenics, geopolitics, the central banking fraud and more.

His focus recently has been the Covid / Lockdown crisis. (My words, not his.) He just recently finished a 4 part documentary / exposé on Bill Gates. It is a really comprehensive look at Bill Gates. A must see for anyone who wants to understand the personality in the center of the current crisis.

Here are the 4 parts with Corbett's own introduction to each. Note also that below each video there is a link for the transcript and for an MP3 version.

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Part 1: How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health

Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates' unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development. And now that we are presented with the very problem that Gates has been talking about for years, we will soon find that this software developer with no medical training is going to leverage that wealth into control over the fates of billions of people.

Part 1 How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health (23:57 long video, May 1)

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Part 2: Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World

In January of 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates announced a $10 billion pledge to usher in a decade of vaccines. But far from an unalloyed good, the truth is that this attempt to reorient the global health economy was part of a much bigger agenda. An agenda that would ultimately lead to greater profits for big pharma companies, greater control for the Gates Foundation over the field of global health, and greater power for Bill Gates to shape the course of the future for billions of people around the planet.

Part 2 Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World (28:01 long video, May 8)

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Part 3: Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid

The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money. The unimaginable wealth that Gates has accrued is now being used to purchase something much more useful: control. Control not just of the global health bodies that can coordinate a worldwide vaccination program, or the governments that will mandate such an unprecedented campaign, but control over the global population itself.

Part 3 Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid (36:47 long video, May 17)

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Part 4: Meet Bill Gates

There can be no doubt that Bill Gates has worn many hats on his remarkable journey from his early life as the privileged son of a Seattle-area power couple to his current status as one of the richest and most influential people on the planet. But, as we have seen in our exploration of Gates' rise as unelected global health czar and population control advocate, the question of who Bill Gates really is is no mere philosophical pursuit. Today we will attempt to answer that question as we examine the motives, the ideology, and the connections of this man who has been so instrumental in shaping the post-coronavirus world.

Part 4 Meet Bill Gates (38:45 long video, May 24)

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And here are the links for the series on BitChute:

Part 1 How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health (23:57 long video, May 1)

Part 2 Bill Gates' Plan to Vaccinate the World (28:01 long video, May 8)

Part 3 Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid (36:47 long video, May 17)

Part 4 Meet Bill Gates (38:45 long video, May 24)

And here on his website Corbett lists his sources for his videos:

Who is Bill Gates?

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• More on Bill Gates

** The next two articles are kind of sister articles; in each one there is a link to the other one. They are both on a website called Great Game India, which seems to report on opposite sides of issues, sometimes in the same article. For example in one of their articles they seem to report relatively uncritically about one of Bill Gates' projects while including a link to one of their articles about Robert Kennedy Jr. exposing Gates.

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** The first article is about Sara Cunial, the Member of Parliament for Rome, who spoke in front of the Italian parliament and criticized the Italian government for being in bed with Bill Gates. And ultimately she calls for the arrest of Bill Gates, urging the Italian President to hand him over to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

In the article's first paragraph it implies that Sara Cunial may have been inspired by a recent revelation that Bill Gates offered a $10 million bribe for a forced Coronavirus vaccination program in Nigeria. They link to an article about that, which is the next article following this one.

Most of the article is the transcription (translated to English) of her speech, and it includes the video of the speech with subtitles (also linked to below on BitChute).

The start of her speech:

Hobbes said that absolute power does not come from an imposition from above but by the choice of individuals who feel more protected renouncing to their own freedom and granting it to a third party. With this, you are going on anesthetizing the minds with corrupted Mass Media with Amuchina (a brand of disinfectant promoted by Mass Media) and NLP, with words like "regime", "to allow" and "to permit", to the point of allowing you to regulate our emotional ties and feelings and certify our affects.

 Italian Politician Demand Bill Gates Arrest For Crimes Against Humanity (19 paragraphs long article, May 17)

Italian Politician Demand Bill Gates Arrest For Crimes Against Humanity (6:54 long video, May 22)

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** The next article, linked to from the previous article, is about allegations from one of Nigeria's political parties that Bill Gates bribed the Nigerian government to pass a compulsory vaccine bill without subjecting it to the traditions of legislative proceedings.

From the article:

The body in the statement alleged that a sum of $10 million was offered by the American Computer Czar, Bill Gates to influence the speedy passage of the bill without recourse to legislative public hearing, a development they averted as anachronistic, adding that the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila should be impeached if he forces the bill on members.

Whether it's true or not what they allege, it adds to the picture of Bill Gates' intrusive activities in Africa and Asia or at least, to some of the distaste for him in places he has widely impacted.

And check out the third paragraph (titled Update) in this article that has links to three more articles about the WHO being kicked out of two African countries and sharply criticized in a third.

 Bill Gates Offered $10 Million Bribe For Forced Vaccination In Nigeria (24 paragraphs article, May 12)

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This next video I link to, by Spiro Skouras, is not directly related to the Covid / Lockdown crisis but does add to the picture of who Bill Gates is; to what technological / crazy / unhinged ideas he is involved in as part of his megalomania.

From the video's notes:

Just in case 2020 wasn't crazy enough, the Environmental Protection Agency recently announced rolled back regulations for companies due to the coronavirus outbreak paving the way for companies to skirt environmental laws and regulations during this declared crisis.

So it should come as no surprise that Oxitec, a biotech company funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is moving forward with a failed 2018 agenda to release genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida and Texas.

In times of crisis and rolled back regulation, we must ask the question, who is ensuring public safety? This report also explores research funded by the Gates foundation in addition to the DoD and the NIH into mosquito delivered vaccines.

Gates & Military Funded Mosquito Vaccine Delivery + Gates Backed Company To Release GM Mosquitoes (9:07 long video, June 9)

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* And finally, last but not least in the Bill Gates chapter, in this video clip, Bill Gates can barely contain his glee at the possibility that countries who weren't hit that hard so far could get whacked when his predicted next one hits.

The Next One Will Get Attention This Time (27 second long video, June 23)
The Fear Factor

* The campaign of fear is the driving factor of the whole crisis. It has driven people to act completely irrationally. And it is clear that it is being done on purpose. The narrative is one-sided. So I will lead off the Fear Factor chapter with a quote by Celia Farber.

How many of us are "infected" with this novel Corona virus, and how scared should we be?

First, a spiritual law: Anything that tries to frighten you comes from "opposition," in spiritual battle. It's not the Holy Spirit, period. Ignore its threats and keep your wits about you. You don't have to shout, "Stay safe!" to your neighbors. We are safe. We have an immune system that is a miracle like The Sistine Chapel. It withstands toxic, microbial inundation on a grand scale at all times, while operating a super-highway of adaptive life-sustaining genetic information, on cellular bridges, emitting telegrams of vital evolutionary code, slandered as "viruses" or "retroviruses."

People die—yes. But people don't die the way Bill Gates would have you believe, at the mercy of malicious, predatory pathogens, "lurking" on every surface, and especially other humans. That's not "science." That's social engineering. Terrorism.

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• Neil Ferguson's Model and His Track Record

The misinformation that started the whole panic and lockdown rolling and that has continued, whether you believe it is done on purpose towards a desired end or it is simply a case of incompetence or, in the case of the mainstream media, that it's just good profitable business, has been a completely unfounded gross exaggeration.

The obvious intent of the exaggeration has been to instill high levels of fear on the populace. To be sure, SARS-CoV-2 is something to be reckoned with but nowhere near the level that warrants the response.

The first predictions of the horror that was to come came from Neil Ferguson of the Imperial College in England. His model (a computer generated model) predicted 510,000 deaths in the UK and 2.2 million in the US. These predictions on March 16th were instrumental in launching the radical measures that we all are now so familiar with.

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The real question is why did anybody ever listen to Neil Ferguson.. Turns out he has been at this computer modeling for quite some time and his track record is abominable. So the question is: were the WHO and CDC and were others in positions of influence horrified to see his model's predictions or were they happy to see them, greasing the skids.

Following is Ferguson's track record from the article linked below:

In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 150,000 people could die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. In the U.K., there were only 177 deaths from BSE.

In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu. In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the disease between 2003 and 2009.

In 2009, a government estimate, based on Ferguson's advice, said a "reasonable worst-case scenario" was that the swine flu would lead to 65,000 British deaths. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the U.K.

 'Professor Lockdown' Modeler Resigns in Disgrace (14 paragraphs article, May 6)

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As has already been suggested and as seen in the Bill Gates chapter his fingerprints are all over this thing. In March of 2020, the same month (see image below) that Ferguson published his report, Bill Gates (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) gave $79,006,570 to Imperial College where Ferguson did his modeling. Did that money influence the report? Was there a quid pro quo? We many never know but it is something to think about.

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This last entry in the Neil Ferguson section is not an article but a paper published by John P.A. Ioannidis, Sally Cripps, and Martin A. Tanner. (You can find a video interview of John Ioannidis in the Doctors Speak section.) The article references him as:

Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, and Departments of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, California, USA

The other two authors are also statisticians. (Note that the paper references Imperial College only once in the writing and the college and Ferguson each once in the footnotes.)

The paper looks at some failures of the modeling and then looks at some of the reasons. Here's some of the predictions cited in the paper along with the reality:

• New York

Prediction: up to 140,000 hospital beds and 40,000 intensive care units with ventilators would be required.

Reality: 18,569 hospitalizations and 4908 intensive care units required.

• Tennessee

Prediction: 15,500 hospital beds, 2500 ICU beds and 2000 ventilators would be needed to keep people alive.

Reality: 1232 hospital beds, 245 ICU beds and 208 ventilators required, projected loss of $3.5 billion in revenue by Tennessee hospitals by June 30 as a result of cessation of non-COVID patient care.

• California

Projection: up to 1.2 million beds would be required.

Reality: COVID patients occupy less than 5% of California hospital beds, and less than 20% of ICU beds.

• Georgia

Massachusetts General Hospital projected over 23,000 deaths in Georgia within a month of opening the economy and the actual number was only 896.

In the paper they also give examples of what I would call wrongthink regarding failures in the modeling:

Many models assume homogeneity, i.e. all people having equal chances of mixing with each other and infecting each other. This is an untenable assumption and in reality, tremendous heterogeneity of exposures and mixing is likely to be the norm. Unless this heterogeneity is recognized, estimated of the proportion of people eventually infected before reaching herd immunity can be markedly inflated.

Almost all Covid-19 mortality models focused on number of deaths, without considering age structure and comorbidities. This can give very misleading inferences about the burden of disease in terms of quality-adjusted life-years lost, which is far more important than simple death count.

Keep in mind that this grossly flawed modeling was not only used by the authorities to impose a virtual martial law on the citizenry but also lent itself to being flaunted by the mainstream media and quickly became the paradigm of fear.

And keep in mind that this compelled hospitals to shut down most of their normal care giving to make room for Covid patients, with many negative consequences.

 Forecasting for COVID-19 has failed (June 11)

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• Censorship of Alternative Information and Opinions

* This Censorship section is probably as good a place as anywhere in this book to address a related issue that for truth seekers is incredibly vexing. And that is the issue of the "Fact Checkers." So called fact checkers are just another form of propaganda; they have their own agendas. And often are not independent at all.

In this next video James Corbett addresses this issue and digs down, exposing fact checkers and reminding people that no one owns the truth.

From the show's notes:

We've all come across online fact checkers that purport to warn us away from independent media sites under the guise of protecting us from fake news. But who is behind these fact check sites? How do they operate? And if these ham-fisted attempts at soft censorship aren't the solution to online misinformation, what is? Join James for this week's important edition of The Corbett Report podcast, where we explore the murky world of information gatekeeping and ask "Who will fact check the fact checkers?"

Who Will Fact Check the Fact Checkers? (54:18 long video, June 19)

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Adding to the perpetuation of the fear, alternative voices have been squelched. There are many doctors and others who have posted videos that contradict the mainstream narrative and many of them have been taken down by Google. According to Google CEO Susan Wojcicki, Google (YouTube) would be "removing information that is problematic" and that this would include "anything that is medically unsubstantiated." "Anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy."

And if that isn't Big Brotherish enough for you, Google has taken it one step further. They have removed the banned videos from the personal files of users of Google Drive, a cloud storage system.

This from the article (The Plandemic video is linked to in the General Discussions chapter):

Dwoskin also writes that The Washington Post reported 12 videos to YouTube, 61 Facebook posts and Instagram links to Facebook, and 24 videos to TikTok for featuring the Plandemic trailer.

In response, YouTube removed five of the videos, Facebook removed nine of the posts, and TikTok said it removed most of the videos.

The Plandemic trailer isn't the only file that's been censored on Google Drive in recent months. After SpaceX and Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk linked to what Dwoskin describes as a "questionable study" about the efficacy of the drug hydroxychloroquine in March, Google blocked access to the document.

 Google Drive takes down user's personal copy of Judy Mikovits' Plandemic after it was flagged by The Washington Post (17 paragraphs article, May 20)

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There are some, however, who do not agree with the censorship policies of YouTube and Facebook. One of those people would be Nancy Pelosi, a person of some influence. Her disagreement is that they aren't censoring enough. Pelosi commented on the subject of "misinformation negligence" in a forum organized by George Washington University's Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics.

From the article:

Nancy Pelosi made several critical comments over how non-mainstream narrative has become a huge problem in recent times. Pelosi is among a growing group of Democrats that have spoken out against social media platforms in the past few weeks.

More shockingly, Speaker Pelosi has called on advertisers to leverage their power over social media platforms to discourage them from letting misinformation prevail.

"Advertisers are in a position of power... [they] have tremendous leverage," Pelosi said.

 Pelosi calls on advertisers to use their "position of power", get social media to censor more "misinformation" (12 paragraphs article, June 17)

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• Flat Out Fear Mongering

Flat out over the top fear mongering seems to also be perfectly acceptable in the mainstream media these days, with apparently no consequences regarding credibility. This from the New York Times (May 15) is only one of many such attention grabbing headlines:

June 1st has come and gone and this scary headline's exaggeration of the June daily death count was wrong by a factor of more than 10 times.

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And when Georgia opened their state in late April, the media flipped out. Below is an article about the horror that it was going to cause. Spoiler: It didn't.

The image below the link is from the NPR website, June 17. The curves have flattened and there has been no spike. The image shows the curves for cases, not deaths.

From the article:

Kemp's order shocked people across the country. For weeks, Americans have watched the coronavirus sweep from city to city, overwhelming hospitals, traumatizing health-care workers, and leaving tens of thousands of bodies in makeshift morgues.

Public-health officials broadly agree that reopening businesses—especially those that require close physical contact—in places where the virus has already spread will kill people.

 Georgia's Experiment in Human Sacrifice The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy. (19 paragraphs article, April 29)

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I'm not the only one who takes exception to the flat out fear mongering meant to make us docile. Here is an article proclaiming independence from the fear and the consequent required solutions.

From the article:

Wrong, Bill [Gates]. We do have a choice: We can consult history, compare the actual data to your fear-words and pretense that the globe has never seen anything like this virus, and we can ask ourselves whether it's the coronavirus or the panic you and your media partners push that has caused many people to accept the push from the WHO, the CDC, The Clinton Foundation, Jay Inslee, Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo, to name a few, that we become a super surveillance state with a centrally commanded, hobbled economy, dictatorial rules and watchers making sure we wear our masks and stay off the beaches.

Wrong, Bill Gates: We little people do have a choice — we can ignore the fear-mongering (22 paragraphs long article, May 7)

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• The 2nd Wave

This brings us to the 2nd Wave fear. We've been told for months that lockdown had to be very gradually lifted in stages and even so we could expect a 2nd wave of deadliness. It has now been over a month since several states reopened and no such 2nd wave has manifested.

However there is more to say about a 2nd wave. Actually experts, doctors who are of the opinion that the lockdown was not the right approach, do say that a 2nd wave might happen; but that it would not vindicate the lockdown enthusiast. Rather that so many people have been isolated and that means herd immunity may not have been sufficiently developed and there may be a surge in new cases and maybe deaths.

Keep in mind, the fear around cases is ridiculous; it is good that people who will be asymptomatic or barely be affected contract the virus and build antibodies. The cases fear is part of the playbook. It's out there, it's horrible, stay inside until it goes away, except it won't; fortunately we'll come up with a vaccine.

And there are people who believe that the virus was intentionally released (not unimaginable that they would wantonly kill people, if you have paid attention to world politics - 1 million dead in Iraq so the US could take their oil, as just one example). And these people posit that if that were true, then a 2nd wave, maybe even a targeted 2nd wave would be in their playbook.

Time will tell. But stay on your toes.

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What is herd immunity, you say.

It is the idea that if enough people in a populace have immunity, then there aren't enough people in whose bodies the virus can thrive, and chains of infection are more likely to be disrupted, which either stops or slows the spread of disease.

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In this next video James Corbett and 2 guests discuss the endlessly repeated fear of a 2nd wave. It's interesting to note that this video is from late April and they suggest the right wing demonstrations will get blamed for it (as they were blamed in advance for it back when that was happening). Now we're hearing the same thing about the Black Lives Matter protesters.

One of the main themes of their ideas and theories in this video is that the powers-that-be and the top 40 media will play up the divide, making sure that those against the lockdown stay divided.

The intro to the video:

A "second wave" is coming . . . and they're going to blame it on YOU. Today James talks to Monica Perez and Brad Binkley of ThePropReport.com about their analysis of the "second wave" narrative and how it is going to play out in the unfolding Covid crisis.

A "Second Wave" Is Coming . . . And They're Going To Blame It On YOU!! (27:34 long video, April 28)

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• The 2nd Wave Is Here / The Testing Debacle

* After some loosening of restrictions, things have been tightened up again. Masks are again the face of the new normal. The gut of the 2nd wave is a new wave of fear.

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* So let's start by going right to the horse's mouth to see, before we look at statistics, how trustworthy the tests are. Regarding the antibody test, the CDC itself says it is not to be trusted to determine if a person is actually infected with SARS-CoV-2.

This quote directly from the linked CDC web page:

If you test positive:

A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold.

 Test for Past Infection (Antibody Test)

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* The following is an article by Dr. Peter Breggin covering how the frightening news about deaths has shifted to the frightening news about cases. He talks about the issue ranging from the conflating of different tests to the criminality of the intent.

From the article:

Instead, this is what we heard on June 30th from Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "The United States may soon record as many as 100,000 new cases of COVID-19 a day if the current trajectory of the outbreak is not changed."

We ask, "So what?" Was there ever any doubt that tens of millions—not a mere hundred thousand a day—would contract this highly infectious disease that mercifully rarely does serious harm to anyone but the elderly and immune compromised? This is clearly a case of the Deep State against America and our nation's vigorous attempts to quickly recover from the draconian COVID-19 lockdown of the spring of 2020.

Since the beginning of the pandemic in the United States, the CDC has failed to provide statistical clarity. According to ABC News, the initial COVID-19 test kits created by the CDC failed because of a "contaminated component." Those kits were pulled back after giving a large number of false positives.

Then on May 21st The Atlantic reported that the CDC was requiring that positive tests for antibodies (indications that a patient has had COVID-19 at some earlier time) were to be included in the daily count of new COVID-19 cases. As The Atlantic asked, "How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?" Not only was the logic off—antibodies do not indicate a new case, but an old one. The antibody tests, conducted by many different companies with their own concoctions, remained highly suspect.

Dr. Fauci keeps talking about science but as we describe in reports and videos on our Coronavirus Resource Center, Fauci is not science-based. He is politically motivated, and so ignores the worthlessness of most data emerging from the CDC. Science is based on facts while the data on COVID-19 cases is a jumbled mess and useless for informing how we should deal with opening as a nation.

CDC SURGES COVID-19 STATS (21 paragraphs article)

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* Next are 2 articles covering lots of information about the tests and testing that is not being articulated by the media, whose chant is, more cases!, be very afraid, buckle up. Both are from the weekly newsletter from Pam Popper. The first is an excerpt from one titled, But What About New Cases. The second is called, The PCR Testing Debacle.

From the article, But What About New Cases?:

There are several issues concerning "new cases." The first is that tens of millions of people are now being tested, and most are asymptomatic. Regardless of health status at the time of the test, all positives are being reported as "cases." In other words, people who are healthy and have no symptoms are now "cases."

Second, the tests are incredibly inaccurate. Tests for COVID-19 were approved by the FDA under emergency use authorization, which means that they were only required to perform well in test tubes and no real world demonstration of clinical viability was required, according to David Pride MD, associate director of microbiology at the University of California San Diego.[17]

Several issues were never addressed. One is the risk of cross-reactivity with other viruses. Another is that the presence of coronavirus is likely to remain for several months after the infectious period has passed, which means the tests are useless for determining who should be quarantined. Yet another is the risk of cross contamination, particularly when testing large numbers of people in crowded settings. Even the tiniest amount of cross contamination can lead to a false positive result, which means people who are have never been exposed to COVID19 could be subjected to unwarranted quarantines.

But What About New Cases? (11 paragraphs article, June 29)

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* From the article, The PCR Testing Debacle:

One of the most widely used tests is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), which involves examining a sample of mucus from a person's nose or throat to look for COVID-19 genetic material. Biochemist Kary Mullis is the inventor of the PCR test and won the Novel Prize in chemistry for his invention in 1993. Mullis stated in 2013 that PCR was never designed to diagnose disease. The test finds very small segments of a nucleic acid which are components of a virus. According to Mullis, having an actual infection is quite different than testing positive with PCR. According to Mullis, PCR is best used in medical laboratories and for research purposes.

Dr. David Rasnick, also a biochemist and founder of a lab called Viral Forensics, agrees.

"You have to have a whopping amount of any organism to cause symptoms. Huge amounts of it. You don't start with testing; you start with listening to the lungs. I'm skeptical that a PCR test is ever true. It's a great scientific research tool. It's a horrible tool for clinical medicine. 30% of your infected cells have been killed before you show symptoms. By the time you show symptoms...the dead cells are generating the symptoms."

The PCR Testing Debacle (33 paragraphs article, July 6)

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* The previous articles covered the unreliability of the testing and how it is being used to gin up fear. This next article (with a short video report in it) goes into the outright fraud being committed.

Some numbers from the article:

Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the state health agency, said to the Austin American-Statesman: "Since we report confirmed cases on our dashboard, we have removed 3,484 previously reported probable cases from the statewide and Bexar County totals."

A much worse case of statistical fraud was exposed in Florida this week, after it was revealed how Orlando health officials had fraudulently reported a 98% positive rate for their pool of tested persons. At the time, no one questioned this incredible claim, but once exposed, officials were then forced to admit that that positivity rate might really be only 9.4%.

Florida's COVID fraud was unearthed after journalists from one local affiliate, FOX 35 News, who actually checked the data and then reached out to a few of the 50 labs included in the testing batch which was showing a near 100% positivity rate.

 More Statistical Fraud: Florida, Texas, Colorado – All Caught Inflating COVID Cases and Deaths (15 paragraphs article, July 18)

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* And one more video about how the results of tests are not to be trusted; again not because of the tests' fallibility, rather from what is clearly either incredible incompetence or fraud.

This video is from Ben Swann whose work as a journalist I have long appreciated and have only recently discovered the good work he is doing addressing the misleading narratives we are being sold.

From the video's notes:

Hundreds of people across the United States have been complaining that they are receiving calls from clinics and medical offices claiming that they have confirmed positive for C0VlD but those people say they were never tested. Is this just an internet rumor or is it really happening? We're investigating.

Investigation: C0VlD Positive Results for People Who Were Never Given Tests? (12:58 long video, July 28)

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** Turns out that if you are the Governor of a state, let's say Ohio, and you test positive you can get tested a second time and see if you have any more luck. (Or avoid being quarantined for a couple of weeks?) Ohio governor, Mike DeWine was tested in order to meet with President Trump. The bad news is he tested positive. The good news is he was retested a few hours later and tested negative. Good to go.

From the article:

The governor said he felt confident in the results of a negative test that was taken hours after he tested positive while being screened to greet President Trump.

 Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio Tests Positive, Then Negative, for Coronavirus (21 paragraphs article, August 6)

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The image and quote below, thanks to gatesnotes.com.

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• Face Masks and Social Distancing

* Face mask dictates from on high have become the most visible tool for social control, and are worn religiously by many, in spite of the fact that their efficacy is minimal, if at all. They are not being dictated for public safety. That's a lie.

The wearing of face masks has become the symbol of the toxic human. Everyone you pass in public is suspect; all people are considered to be conveyors of death.

And masks are truly a muzzle. People talk less to others when wearing a face mask; intonation, so important in communicating verbally, is compromised. And even more important than words, people communicate more with their faces than in any other way. This has been stifled with face masks.

The face mask requirement is kind of a stroke of genius. Wearers in places where they are required, stores for example, cannot read another person to be able to adjust their behavior. Is that other person friendly, warm, easy to communicate with or are they terrified that I just walked closer than 6 feet from them?

It separates us. It is the classic divide and conquer.

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* I want to start with a video from Ben Swann, where he is responding to a Facebook "Fact Checker" who said a previous video of his about a study on the efficacy of face masks was false, misinformation. He breaks down their bogus claim and one-ups them with information about a study more current than the one they disputed. He really nails it about the whole scam of "fact checkers."

From the video's notes:

FB's so called "fact checkers" have struck again, claiming that my report on the science that proves that wearing facemasks, especially in non-medical settings does almost nothing to prevent the spread of a virus, is false... citing that it was based on old information. Now, I'm reporting on a new study created in conjunction with the World Health Organization and published by the CDC from less than 60 days ago that once again proves that there is no evidence that wearing face masks in public prevents the spread of flu-like viruses. I'm also going to show you why the Facebook fact-checking system cannot be trusted.

Link to the CDC published study. This study was conducted in preparation for the development of guidelines by the World Health Organization on the use of nonpharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza in nonmedical settings.

This study [linked in the video's notes] was supported by the World Health Organization.

New CDC and WHO Study Proves "No Evidence" Face Masks Prevent Virus (14:16 long video, July 23)

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• The next article is by Christopher Hitchens, who has always been a great source for sane information and opinion. The article covers quite a bit about the whole phenomenon including how the World Health Organization definitively stated that face masks are unnecessary until political pressure was brought to bear and they changed their tune.

From the article:

In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence.

It has come between husbands and wives at the ends of their lives. It has forbidden the old to embrace their grandchildren.

It has denied us funerals and weddings, locked the churches, silenced the ancient monastic music of cathedral choirs and prevented the free worship of God for the first time in 800 years, and banned us (unless we are Left-wing) from holding or attending public meetings.

Why is this frenzy taking place?

Here is a clue. On July 12, Deborah Cohen, the medical correspondent of BBC2's Newsnight, revealed an astonishing thing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had reversed its advice on face masks, from 'don't wear them' to 'do wear them'.

But the key fact was that it had not done so because of scientific information – the evidence had not backed the wearing of face coverings – but because of political lobbying.

She revealed on Twitter that: 'We had been told by various sources [that the] WHO committee reviewing the evidence had not backed masks but they recommended them due to political lobbying.' She said the BBC had then put this to the WHO, which did not deny it.

In March, the WHO had said: 'There is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can protect them from infection with respiratory viruses, including Covid-19.'

One has to wonder from whom these people are getting their marching orders. And what is coming next as the screws are turned slowly enough so that people are nudged into the next new normal without resisting.

 PETER HITCHENS: Face masks turn us into voiceless submissives - and it's not science forcing us to wear them, it's politics (57 paragraphs article, July 18)

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Amid the zillions of articles about the need for masks and social distancing and how necessary they are here is an article with someone who has a different opinion; specifically regarding the Massachusetts Department of Education's release of its guidance for opening schools in the fall - masks, 6' distancing, and virtually no moving about. Yes, that's 6 months after the initial panic and lockdown. The author challenges the "science" the governor claims is driving his decisions.

From the article:

These regulations defy common sense and seem to have no basis in human biology.

Children cannot and should not wear a mask covering their nose and mouth all day. Ignoring the fact that such a face covering all day is physically unhealthy (as you are breathing in your own carbon dioxide all day), it is mentally debilitating for all involved. No child should be in a chair all day facing one direction with no physical contact with others. It is not normal and degrades the educational experience for all involved.

 Open Massachusetts schools without masks or social distancing (8 paragraphs article, June 16)

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Fear is contagious. When fear and panic are in the air, it spreads more quickly than the mind's rational assessment of what is really going on. So as a good finish to the Fear Factor chapter, an article about how the fear has turned us into a people who are tattling to the authorities when they see disobedient citizens. Snitching has been elevated to the status of civic duty.

This from the article below.

Snitches are emerging as enthusiastic allies as cities, states and countries work to enforce directives meant to limit person-to-person contact amid the virus pandemic that has claimed tens of thousands of lives worldwide. They're phoning police and municipal hotlines, complaining to elected officials and shaming perceived scofflaws on social media.

 Residents snitch on businesses, neighbors amid COVID-19 shutdowns (21 paragraphs article, April 1)

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* And to wrap up the Fear chapter here are 2 videos. The first is a video interview of Denis Rancourt, who bills himself on his YouTube channel as a physicist and environmental scientist and retired former Full Professor of Physics at University of Ottawa. In a very calm, clear way he walks you through the phenomenon of surges of respiratory illnesses in winter and how the Covid spike fits into this. And he finishes his encapsulation of the Covid mania with his take on masks.

Everything most important about COVID in 15 minutes (18:13 long video, July 2)

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* In this next video Freddie Sayers in another great interview in his Unherd, Lockdown TV series, interviews Matthew Crawford. This video is not as directly related to Covid as most of the articles and videos in this book, but it recognizes the push in narrative and in policy that have nursed us towards a technological future where the imperfection of people is viewed as an encumbrance.

The following is a favorite line of mine from the video that I think speaks to the hypnosis that people seem to be under as they comply with the narrative that draconian measures are necessary in order to save lives. And it speaks to the appreciation of the comfort we have in modern society but without asking where do we draw the line.

"The safer we become, the more intolerable any remaining risk appears."

From the show notes:

Freddie Sayers speaks to Matthew Crawford, a motorcycle mechanic turned philosopher with a unique perspective on the current moment. Instead of talking in terms of partisan politics, he talks in terms of lived experience and what a good life feels like. I've been a fan since his first book, and was delighted to have this wide-ranging conversation about risk, autonomy and the new politics. His is one of the few voices that could appeal equally to a Californian surfer and a midwestern religious conservative. Have a watch.

Matthew Crawford: the dangers of Safetyism (34:58 long video, June 22)
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• Most Important Fact

First, this piece of data for perspective. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that as many as 25,000 people lose their lives every day as a result of hunger.

That means that as of this writing, June 19, in the 160 days since the 1st Covid death was recorded in Wuhan on January 11, somewhere around 4,000,000 people have starved to death on Planet Earth.

And this could be fully prevented by redirecting our priorities and resources.

The argument for masks and social distancing and the logic that you must do this not to protect yourself but to be a good citizen and protect others falls apart. If the United States had done no lockdown and let the virus run its course, and while instead of laying off 40 million people, those people all worked in a concerted prioritize effort to keep people from starving to death, regardless of the severity of Covid-19, the net would be many many more lives saved.

You may say, well, that's a fairy tale to think that we could have simply gotten a block of the populace to focus their work and effort to ending or greatly minimizing starvation. Of course it is, but that doesn't negate the fact that the starvation death toll exists and with much less impact on the lives of millions or billions of people, and with much less deviation from our comfort zones, we could save many more lives than we did by lockdown. (This is assuming that the lockdown is even effective.)

World Hunger Statistics: 23 Thought-Provoking Facts (September 11, 2015)

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• Fudged Death Certificates

** This next article is a late entry (added in August) but seems to have so much of importance in it, that it is a necessary addition of information that the mainstream media and the authorities neglected to tell us. As it precedes the next several articles which were included in the original edition of this book, they now serve as a supplement to this article, which is a definitive explanation of how the fudging was codified.

This article is on the Children's Health Defense website. Using information from the CDC's website, it delves deeply into comparing influenza and pneumonia death statistics with Covid death statistics this year, in various age groups. It has many links to their sources in the article and in the footnotes below it.

This is the intro to the article:

Key Findings For Data Through July 12th

• According to the CDC, 101 children age 0 to 14 have died from influenza, while 31 children have died from COVID-19.

• No evidence exists to support the theory that children pose a threat to educational professionals in a school or classroom setting, but there is a great deal of evidence to support the safety of in-person education.

• According to the CDC, 131,332 Americans have died from pneumonia and 121,374 from COVID-19 as of July 11th, 2020.

• Had the CDC used its industry standard, Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting Revision 2003, as it has for all other causes of death for the last 17 years, the COVID-19 fatality count would be approximately 90.2% lower than it currently is.

I will let the interested reader go to the article for more details about the first three statements in their Key Findings but I want to bring attention to the last point.

It turns out that there has been a standardized protocol that the CDC has been using since 2003 for how to list first the primary and then the other causes of death on a death certificate. This has been the standard in the United States since 2003.

Along comes 2020 and the CDC and the National Vital Statistics System decided that Covid needed its own standard.

This is extremely problematic. By doing that they have created a situation where fair statistical analysis is not really possible. Covid deaths cannot be compared with deaths from any other cause because they have tipped the scales.

In the PDF (National Vital Statistics System COVID-19 Alert No. 2), issued by the NVSS on March 24, 2020, about the new rules, they introduce the new ICD (International Classification of Diseases) code that they want used for Covid.

Some excerpts from the NVSS Alert No. 2:

• Will COVID-19 be the underlying cause?

The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.

• What happens if the terms reported on the death certificate indicate uncertainty?

If the death certificate reports terms such as "probable COVID-19" or "likely COVID-19," these terms would be assigned the new ICD code.

• Should "COVID-19" be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?

COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.

It's a no-brainer that these new rules would make Covid seem much more prevalent and deadly than it is, compared to other causes of death registered under the non-Covid protocol.

And more from the article:

Why does this matter?

This matters because the Part I [on the death certificate] causes of death are statistically recorded for public health reporting, while Part II does not hold nearly the same statistical significance in reporting. This March 24th NVSS guideline essentially allows COVID-19 to be the cause of death when the actual cause of death should be the comorbidity according to the industry-standard 2003 CDC Handbook. It can be a bit confusing, so we will present an example shortly for clarity.

 If COVID Fatalities Were 90.2% Lower, How Would You Feel About Schools Reopening? (many paragraphs long article, July 24)

Note also that in the PDF from the NVSS they say that the WHO has issued internationally the same new code for Covid. In the PDF from the WHO,  International Guidelines For Certification And Classification (Coding) Of Covid-19 as Cause Of Death, they say this:

2. Definition For Deaths Due To Covid-19

A death due to COVID-19 is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). There should be no period of complete recovery from COVID-19 between illness and death.

Clinically compatible? Probable or confirmed? And "There should be no period of complete recovery from COVID-19 between illness and death." That sounds like anyone who ever had Covid could forever qualify as a Covid death. Certainly that could be interpreted as such by those filling out the death certificates.

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We know for a fact that the numbers, at least in the United States and also in Italy and England, according to doctors in those countries, are greatly exaggerated. Certainly this practice is widespread.

Here Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, seems proud that the United States is counting all deaths of people with Covid-19 as deaths from Covid-19.

Dr. Deborah Birx | Recording Covid-19 as Cause of Death No Matter What (39 seconds long video, April 8)

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And here, in a very short article on the Ron Paul Institute's website, the Washington State Department of Health confirmed that the state is counting in its Covid-19 death total the deaths of persons who tested positive for the virus but died from other causes, and even acknowledged knowingly including multiple deaths caused by gunshot wounds in the state's Covid-19 fatality count.

 Gunshot Victims Count As Coronavirus Deaths in Washington State (3 paragraphs article, May 26)

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Malcolm Kendrick, a doctor who works as a GP in the National Health Service in England, says, as preface to his article:

"As an NHS doctor, I've seen people die and be listed as a victim of coronavirus without ever being tested for it. But unless we have accurate data, we won't know which has killed more: the disease or the lockdown?"

The article also goes into the idea that many people are dying because of the lockdown. (More on that in the Lockdown chapter.)

Regarding that, from the article:

What Speigelhalter is saying here is that people may well be dying 'because of' Covid, or rather, because of the lockdown. Because they are not going to hospital to be treated for conditions other than Covid.

 I've Signed Death Certificates During COVID-19. Here's Why You Can't Trust Any of the Statistics on the Number of Victims (19 paragraphs article, May 28)

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In the next article, Professor Walter Ricciardi, scientific advisor to Italy's minister of health, is referred to throughout. In one place he states:

"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... On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three".

 Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? (13 paragraphs article, March 23)

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• Covid Compared to Other Outbreaks

So, how does the current epidemic compare with other epidemics in the past that came and went with minimal fanfare and with virtually no impact on or change in lifestyle for the residents of Earth. Well, in the last 70 years there have been two pandemics of note. They are both noted on the CDC's website under Past Epidemics.

From the CDC website here is information about the 1957-1958 and the 1968 pandemics:

1957-1958 Pandemic (H2N2 virus): The estimated number of deaths was 1.1 million worldwide and 116,000 in the United States.

1968 Pandemic (H3N2 virus): The estimated number of deaths was 1 million worldwide and about 100,000 in the United States. Most excess deaths were in people 65 years and older. The H3N2 virus continues to circulate worldwide as a seasonal influenza A virus.

Remember also that in the years 1958 and 1968 the population of the United States was approximately 180 million and 200 million respectively. That means that figuring similar deaths per population, the 116,000 deaths in the US in 1958 would be equal to 212,000 dying in 2020. Likewise, the 1.1 million worldwide deaths in 1958 would be equal to 2.9 million dying in 2020.

And figuring deaths per population is the most relevant way to look at. If you were to just look at totals you would have to conclude that life on earth is much more dangerous now compared to life in 1972, when the world population was half of what it is today, because now twice as many people are dying every day.

Although the book is not yet closed on Covid, note that compared to the current (August 23) total of approximately 812,527 Covid deaths worldwide, in the 1957-1958 pandemic there were 1.35 times as many total deaths and 3 times as many deaths per population worldwide. And the world did not shut down. Also note that the CDC says the H3N2 from 1968 is still with us. Humanity is getting by even though it is still with us. This in contrast to the dire warnings that Covid could be with us for a long time changing our lives forever.

Note also that in those 2 earlier pandemics, unlike the manufactured phenomenon of the corporate coup now underway, the deaths that were recorded then were probably not artificially inflated and were probably much more accurate. (See the first article in the previous section, Fudged Death Certificates, on the new CDC death certificate protocols.)

 CDC Website: Past Pandemics (CDC statistics on past pandemics)

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For more perspective, here is a video from a Canadian network about the flu outbreak in 2017 - 2018 and how it caught them off guard, and how the hospitals were overwhelmed with patients in the hallways. The tone of the video is very similar to what we hear now. Except what extraordinary measures did governments in Canada, Australia and other countries take in response? None. Nada. People continued going to work, children continued going to school. Eventually it passed.

Bad flu season catches hospitals off guard (3:36 long video, January 11, 2018)

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* To wrap up this section I want to link to the Swiss Policy Research site. A friend sent me the link to this interesting site. He says he likes to go to non-US sites to get information. It is packed with information and lots of charts and graphs.

On their "About" page they have this to say about themselves:

Swiss Policy Research (SPR), founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics and receives no external funding other than reader donations.

Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them Julian Assange, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.

They list 4 articles they have on Covid:

Facts about Covid-19 (2020) A comprehensive analysis of medical aspects

Studies on the lethality of Covid-19 (2020) An overview of Covid-19 studies

On Corona, the Media, and Propaganda (2020) An analysis of media reporting

On the treatment of Covid-19 (2020) A summary of the scientific evidence

I have only perused the Facts about Covid-19 article so far, but the site seems like a good resource. And they have links to and graphs and charts for the information that they present.

Facts about Covid-19 (Updated July, 2020)

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• Euromomo - Europe's Total Death Count

So how about Europe, the first place where the numbers really began to pile up. There is a website called Euromomo which tracks the number of deaths in 24 Western European countries. This site was not created because of Covid; it has data that goes back 4 years. It is updated each week (on Thursday) with new statistics.

What's different about this information is that it bypasses the debating about how many people contracted the disease and whether or not the Covid death count is really only actual deaths caused by Covid-19. It's just the total death count for those 24 countries. And since Europe is clearly the hardest hit place in the world, including 6 of the top 10 most impacted (deaths per population) countries (all shown in the Euromomo graphs), the information is meaningful.

On the Euromomo website page called Graphs and Maps you can see clearly how each winter the death rate increases; presumably because of the flu and generally that people are not out and about breathing fresh air and getting as much exercise and such. The graphs show a baseline which one can see is a curve; higher in the winter and lower in summer.

It can be seen that the winters of 2016-17 and 2017-18 were the cause of big jumps in the number of deaths. The winter of 2018-19 was less so and 2019-20, preceding the spring outbreak of Covid had a very low increase in its death toll.

The graphs shade the most recent 3 weeks with the caveat that the data may not be complete.

On the webpage you can scroll down and see various things. First the "Pooled number of deaths by age group." You can click to look at either the total numbers or the Z-scores. Further down it shows the "Z-scores by country." Essentially, Z-scores represent units of the number of deaths above the mean. (See the Appendix for an explanation of how Z-scores are calculated, if you are interested.)

The first thing one can see if you scroll through the Z-scores of the countries is that most of the countries had no increase at all in their total deaths.

So I decided to crunch the numbers, looking at the Z-scores of the pooled number of deaths in the all ages combined graph.

Using a spreadsheet application I entered all the Z-scores that were above 1.00 for the 2017-18 winter and for the most recent winter up through the Covid era. The 4th column shows the numbers from just the Covid spike, not counting the mid-winter excesses. The results are interesting.

The results: The excess death of this last winter plus Covid is 1.47 times as much as it was 2 winters ago. And if you figure only the spike during Covid, it is 1.24 times as much as 2 winters ago. And this in the hardest hit region in the world.

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One more comment on the situation in Europe that might suggest that the "deadliness" of Covid-19 had as much to do with the health care systems' preparedness as the with the virus itself.

Below is an image of a table of the hospital beds per population in the worst hit countries in Europe and for contrast, in Germany. (Data from 2016) Note also the graph shows all the countries except Germany have significantly reduced their beds per population in the last 10 years.

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• Doctors Speak

** This next video was recorded mid-August at the DDP (Doctors for Disaster Preparedness) 38th Annual Meeting. In it Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic surgeon (her WebMD page), goes through what is wrong with the narrative we are being sold and walks you through the lies, both of commission and omission, that we are being told from on high. She's a good speaker and uses lots of images and charts. She extensively covers the fallacy of the mask.

Finally she goes into the agendas and incentives of the technocrats (the major players) and compares the restrictions now being dictated to  Biderman's Chart of Coercion, a tool designed to demonstrate and explain the coercive methods of stress manipulation used to torture prisoners of war, as well as the coercive techniques used by perpetrators of domestic abuse.

SARS-CoV2 and the Rise of Medical Technocracy. Lee Merritt, M.D. (59:16 long video, August 17)

 SARS-CoV2 and the Rise of Medical Technocracy. Lee Merritt, M.D. (59:16 long video, August 17 - alternate source in case YouTube takes the video down.)

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John P.A. Ioannidis is professor of medicine, of epidemiology and population health, of biomedical data science, and of statistics at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford's Meta-Research Innovation Center. He has caused quite a stir with his articles and video interviews regarding the reality of the virus and the epidemic.

The article linked below is from March 18th, just about time the hysteria and lockdown were ramping up in America. He admits the data at that point is very incomplete but cautions against radical moves taken without adequately assessing the realities. Below that is a link to a video interview, part of Journeyman Pictures' "Perspectives on the Pandemic" series, with him done a month later. It's a long video but he seems so rational and speaks very measuredly about everything.

From the article:

Draconian countermeasures have been adopted in many countries. If the pandemic dissipates — either on its own or because of these measures — short-term extreme social distancing and lockdowns may be bearable. How long, though, should measures like these be continued if the pandemic churns across the globe unabated? How can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm?

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data (25 paragraphs article, March 18)

The video's intro:

In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the worrisome effects of the lockdown; the Swedish approach; the Italian data; the ups and downs of testing; the feasibility of "contact tracing", and much more.

Perspectives on the Pandemic | Dr. John Ioannidis (1:12:58 long video, April 17)

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Another video that is part of the Journeyman Pictures' Perspectives on the Pandemic series, as was the previous video, is a now famous interview with 2 doctors who run an urgent care facility in Bakersfield, California. This video was censored by YouTube but now seems to be back up. I will include the BitChute link, just in case.

From the videos' intro:

When Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi held a press conference on April 22nd about the results of testing they conducted at their urgent care facilities around Bakersfield, California, the video, uploaded by a local ABC news affiliate, went viral. After reaching five million views, YouTube took it down on the grounds that it "violated community standards." We followed up with the doctors to determine what was so dangerous about their message. What we discovered were reasonable and well-meaning professionals whose voices should be heard.

Perspectives on the Pandemic | The Bakersfield Doctors (47:17 long video, April 28)

Perspectives on the Pandemic | The Bakersfield Doctors (47:17 long video, April 28) (BitChute)

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And one last video of a doctor who disagrees with the narrative we are being spoon fed; this time an Irish doctor, Dr. Dolores Cahill, with Dave Cullen. This video is on his Computing Forever channel. I could only find this on his BitChute channel, very probably also censored on YouTube.

Debunking the Narrative (With Prof. Dolores Cahill) (1:06:44 long video, May 11)

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Another person who speaks very sensibly is Professor Knut Wittkowski, whose video that was censored by YouTube can be found now on BitChute. To the best of my knowledge he is not a doctor, but here's some of his bio from LinkedIn: Rockefeller University - 1998 - Jun 2018 - 20 years: • Head, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design, Center for Clinical & Translational Science, • Senior Research Associate, • Biometrician

The intro on BitChute:

Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 5: In this highly-charged follow-up interview, Knut Wittkowski says his initial claim has been vindicated: The lockdowns - always a dubious proposition for a respiratory virus - came too late in the U.S. and elsewhere, and were therefore even worse than useless. By turns emotional and darkly comic, Wittkowski ranges across all the essential topics of the crisis, and gives answers you are unlikely to see in the major media. Not to be missed.

Perspectives on the Pandemic - Professor Knut Wittkowski (1:04:25 long video, May 3)

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The next article is by Beda M Stadler who is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus. He challenges mainstream dogma about Covid.

From the article's opening:

This is not an accusation, but a ruthless taking stock [of the current situation]. I could slap myself, because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologists and epidemiologists. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus.

Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel.

Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus.

Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.

But let's look at this one by one.

 Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong. It is Not a "New Virus". "The Fairy Tale of No Immunity" (31 paragraphs article, July 2)

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And in this Doctors Speak section I will include one nurse speaks.

In this video Erin Marie Olszewski tells stories about her experiences regarding how patients were treated and what the outcomes were from 2 very different venues. This is part of a series on the crisis from Journeyman Pictures.

From the intro:

Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York.

 Perspectives on the Pandemic | The (Undercover) Epicenter Nurse (1:10:34 long video, June 9)

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• Infection Fatality Rate, Antibody Testing

Antibody tests test individuals to find out whether their bodies have developed antibodies fighting Covid-19. A positive test would mean they have already been exposed. It's my understanding that the antibody tests (like all types of tests) are not perfect but do give a good idea of the amount of people who have been infected. As in any sample, the bigger the sample, the more accurately you can extrapolate the results on the population as a whole.

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Remember when the initial panic was being spread, they were talking about Covid having a 4% infection fatality rate (IFR), much higher than the flu.

Well, New York State did a random testing of shoppers around the state. Below is a link to an article about the fact that (on May 1) around 20% of New York City residents and 12.3% of residents state-wide have already been exposed to SARS-CoV-2.

The article is interesting because its (and several others I perused) interpretation of the information is skewed by the ridiculous blinding wall of fear around the spread of the virus and the amount of cases. In the article it is seen as a cause for concern that we now know so many people have been infected. In reality it's good news. Every new case of somebody who didn't die from it (and presumably most of those shoppers never even knew that they had contracted the virus) increased the denominator when calculating the IFR.

So, let's do the math for New York State, which includes NYC, arguably the hottest spot on Earth. If 12.3% of the state's residents have gotten the virus, that's 12.3% X 19,453,561 residents = 2,392,788 people. If you divide the total deaths in the state (30,680 - June 11) by the number infected, you get an infection rate of 1.3%, far lower than the original 4% that was originally suggested; not to mention the tweaked death count.

 Latest antibody study report shows up to 20% of NYC residents had COVID-19 (14 paragraphs article, May 2)

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Other studies have shown much lower infection fatality rates.

The University of Bonn tested a randomized sample of 1,000 residents of the town of Gangelt in the north-west of the country, one of the epicenters of the outbreak in Germany. The study found that two percent of the population currently had the virus and that 14 percent were carrying antibodies suggesting that they had already been infected.

This from the article:

Data from coronavirus deaths in Gangelt suggests an infection mortality rate of 0.37 percent, significantly below the 0.9 percent which Imperial College has estimated, or the 0.66 percent found in a revised study last week.

 COVID antibody test in German town shows 15 percent infection rate (9 paragraphs article, April 10)

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And the results from the Santa Clara testing in the article below are quite a bit lower but there is some question as to whether their sample (recruited through Facebook) was representative.

From the article:

The Santa Clara team estimated an IFR for the county of 0.1 – 0.2%, which would equate to about 100 deaths in 48,000-82,000 infections.

Antibody tests suggest that coronavirus infections vastly exceed official counts (26 paragraphs article, April 17)

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• Countries That Never Locked Down

While much of the world locked down in panic, there were a substantial amount of countries that didn't. The differences in the impact of Covid between those countries should have been an ongoing major news item. And while it seems that the mainstream media often refers to Sweden's (for example) approach as an experiment, truth is the idea of fully locking society down is an extremely radical experiment. The notion that anybody really knew that a dramatic lockdown would prove to be the best option is preposterous.

I have read several articles where, when talking of Sweden, they say how much worse it is compared to Norway and Denmark, like for some magical reason the fact that they are neighboring Scandinavian countries should mean anything. Fact is, Sweden fared better than Belgium, Spain, Italy, and England.

I am basing these statements on the death / 1 million rate for the countries (June 19), not on the case numbers. This obsession with how many cases is absurd. The virus is here and the more cases we know about, the better actually. It helps build herd immunity and when the actual amount of cases is better known, it reduces the denominator in calculating the infection fatality rate (IFR).

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The following image is a screenshot from a video by 21st Century Wire, using data from May 1.

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** In this article Mike Whitney looks at the Swedish approach and how it was demonized by the media in spite of the reality. And he goes into the fact that because they never shut down their economy, their economy was less harmed than any other country in Europe.

He links to an article in the Evening Standard (also linked to below) that quotes a study published in the Lancet online journal EClinicalMedicine, which said: "Government actions such as border closures, full lockdowns, and a high rate of Covid-19 testing were not associated with statistically significant reductions in the number of critical cases or overall mortality."

Mike Whitney's response in his article:

Bottom line: Lockdowns don't work, but the media continues to support them. Why?

Because the media is owned by elites who see lockdowns as an effective way to exert greater control over the population. The real issue is power, not efficacy or saving lives. The Swedish model undermines this effort by providing a viable alternative that challenges lockdowns and leads countries out of crisis. That's why Sweden has been treated with such open hostility, because elites see crisis management as a useful tool for making the structural changes they want to impose on the political and economic systems. Billionaire oligarchs do not see crises as 'periods of intense disorder or distress', but golden opportunities that can be exploited to their advantage.

Sweden: The One Chart that Matters (33 paragraphs long article, July 26)

 Coronavirus lockdown 'made no difference to number of deaths but stopped hospitals being overwhelmed' (14 paragraphs article, July 24)

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While the mainstream media loves to pick on the Swedish model because they are not doing a lot better than some other European countries and are doing worse than most, there are other countries to look at.

In the article below the author is baffled by Japan's success. Among other things he is amazed that they did so little testing. It seems clear to me that the media's obsession with testing and its partner contact tracing (more in the New Normal chapter) has to do with this idea that we are supposed to somehow dodge the virus until "the vaccine" arrives. And, of course, it plays into the mobilization of the state.

This, the first paragraph of the article.

In its battle with the coronavirus, Japan appears to be doing everything wrong. It has tested just 0.185 percent of its population, its social distancing has been halfhearted, and a majority of Japanese are critical of the government's response. Yet with among the lowest death rates in the world, a medical system that has avoided an overloading crisis, and a declining number of cases, everything seems to be going weirdly right.

Note that this article is from mid May. Now, a month later Japan is still doing fine. Compared to the US's 346 deaths per million and even Germany's modest 106 deaths per million, Japan has had only 7 deaths per million.

 Japan's Halfhearted Coronavirus Measures Are Working Anyway (15 paragraphs article, May 15)

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Another article by a man with an English sounding name who is a professor at a Japanese university deals mostly with the false claim that Prime Minister Abe was prohibited by Japan's constitution from enforcing a lockdown.

Aside from the legal stuff, I found the following in the first paragraph very interesting:

Many in Japan's foreign-national (especially anglophone) community remain incredulous or outraged that Japan has not followed certain other states into the allegedly obvious response to the Covid-19 pandemic: criminalizing non-essential excursions and commercial activity. The views of Japanese commentators, meanwhile, seem generally to reflect their degree of interaction with overseas media and proximity to the immigrant community. It is unsurprising that many of those most personally affected by the situation overseas crave the certainty represented by a legally-enforced lockdown. It would vindicate months of voluntary self-isolation and their practical, economic, and emotional challenges - not least, the resentful fear that one's sacrifices might be rendered futile by the 'irresponsible' actions of others.

 COVID-19, Collective Action, and Japan's Constitution (12 paragraphs article, May 13)

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Finally, a short video from the streets of Japan, by James Corbett (see his section in the Bill Gates chapter), a Canadian who lives in Japan.

How is Japan Reacting NOW? - Questions For Corbett (9:38 long video, June 3)

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And finally in the Data chapter, New York Governor Cuomo gave a press conference and said that preliminary data from the state's hospitals (from 100 New York hospitals involving about 1,000 patients) indicates that 66% of new admissions were from people who had largely been sheltering at home. "We thought maybe they were taking public transportation, ... but actually no, because these people were literally at home." Cuomo said nearly 84% of the hospitalized cases were people who were not commuting to work through car services, personal cars, public transit or walking.

Coronavirus: It's 'shocking' most new cases were people who stayed at home, NYC Gov. Cuomo says (3:32 long video, May 6)

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• Alternative Treatments - Chloroquine

Something else that needs to be addressed in the Data chapter is information about potential treatments because there is actually quite a bit of information about treatments that is suppressed or openly scorned.

When you discover the breadth of the misinformation being doled out by the mainstream media and the official channels you can only come to the conclusion that there must be a reason why they would be willing to deny sick people the possibility of relief or survival.

It is criminal what is being perpetrated.

The Cubans (who are famous for their doctors who go all over the world helping people) used the drug called Interferon Alpha-2B Recombinant (IFNrec).

From the article:

Cuban Interferon Alfa-2B has proven effective for viruses with characteristics similar to those of Covid-19. Cuban biotech specialist Dr Luis Herrera Martínez explains that "its use prevents aggravation and complications in patients, reaching that stage that can ultimately result in death."

Cuba first developed and used interferons to arrest a deadly outbreak of the dengue virus in 1981, and that experience catalysed the development of the island's now world-leading biotech industry.

 Cuba and coronavirus: how Cuban biotech came to combat Covid-19 (20 paragraphs article, March 18)

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In this next article, more on Cuba's medical developments. And this article compares the shunned treatments with the drug du jour for big pharma, Remdesivir, made by a company once chaired by Donald Rumsfeld and owned by BlackRock (the subject of an article in the Disaster Capitalism chapter).

From the article:

"We joke in Cuba that if we discovered the remedy for the coronavirus, Donald Trump would choose to let all Americans die before buying it", quipped Ernesto, a young Afro-Cuban waiter at the La Cava restaurant inside the restored Gran Teatro, in the center of Havana.

Cuban biotechnology has indeed developed drugs that have already been effective in fighting the coronavirus in China and other countries. More could come. But the US blockade makes them unavailable in the US.

California based Gilead Sciences – owned by the two mega-investment funds Blackrock and Vanguard – helps illustrate the difference. Gilead – chaired between 1997 and 2001 by Donald Rumsfeld, who left the company to direct the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 – manufactures the antiviral Remdesivir, which has driven spectacular gains on the New York Stock Exchange in recent weeks due to its apparent success in treating Covid-19.

But Gilead's business model does not guarantee that those Americans most vulnerable to the virus – those on the lowest incomes – will benefit from the new product. After all, in 2014 the same company marketed a new antiviral drug for the treatment of hepatitis C under the Harvoni brand. The price: $1,000 a pill.

 US sanctions are hindering the distribution of Cuban drugs combating Covid-19 (19 paragraphs article, May 29)

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Another example is the dustup about Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine. Do you remember when Trump said he was using hydroxychloroquine himself, the mainstream media went bananas and there was horror about how irresponsible he was being. And, in spite of it having been a drug regularly prescribed for ages, there were warnings against taking it.

Thing is, there is no money to be made in prescribing chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. It costs next to nothing.

Anthony Fauci himself said that we shouldn't use it, poo-pahing the idea; seemingly with little interest to step up research into the possibility of it being effective. Well, as it turns out, it's only now in his interest to have that attitude. An article by True Pundit exposes this.

The introduction to the article:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose "expert" advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an effective inhibitor of coronaviruses.

From the article:

The Virology Journal – the official publication of Dr. Fauci's National Institutes of Health – published an article on August 22, 2005, under the heading, "Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread." Write the researchers, "We report...that chloroquine has strong antiviral effects on SARS-CoV infection of primate cells. These inhibitory effects are observed when the cells are treated with the drug either before or after exposure to the virus, suggesting both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage."

Also in the article:

Governor Andrew Cuomo banned the use of HCQ in the entire state of New York on March 6, the Democrat governors of Nevada and Michigan soon followed suit.

(As written about in the Disaster Capitalism chapter, Cuomo is in bed with Bill Gates.)

 Cover Up: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; "Nobody Needed to Die" (16 paragraphs article, May 7)

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And another article on the same theme, by Michel Chossudovsky, digging into the real history of chloroquine and Fauci's suppression of it.

From the article:

An August 2005 report in the peer reviewed Virology Journal was published in 2005. The main conclusion of the article was that: Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread. It was used in the SARS-1 outbreak in 2002. It had the endorsement of the CDC.

 According to Dr. Anthony Fauci the Reopening of the US Economy Would Endanger People's Heath (33 paragraphs article, May 23)

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Next, still on the chloroquine theme, an excellent and interesting article from the weekly newsletter I subscribe to from Pamela Popper, President of Wellness Forum Health. Since the current crisis began she has been publishing short videos 4 days a week on her YouTube channel, chronicling the madness of the lockdown.

The article is about a study done showing that chloroquine is dangerous. The publication of this study resulted in the WHO, as well as the UK and France stopping research into it. But it turns out that the company that did the study, Surgisphere, an Illinois-based company, based their conclusions on data that never could have been collected. It appears that the "study" was faked. The Lancet, one of the world's top medical journals, who had published the it, retracted the study.

Interestingly, just over an hour later, the New England Journal of Medicine retracted a separate study, focused on blood pressure medications in Covid-19, that relied on data from the same company.

From Pam's newsletter article:

In another bizarre twist in the Covid-19 debacle, it appears that false data was published in two prominent medical journals without peer review, and that the World Health Organization relied on the unverified data in one of these articles in making decisions about treatments for Covid-19.

Fauci, ... had repeatedly said negative things about the drug and was much more enthusiastic about remdesivir, a new drug that costs thousands of dollars per patient, and produced results in clinical trials that were barely statistically significant. Even though Fauci has been wrong about just about everything since the Covid nonsense began, he is still adored by members of the media, who seem to wait with baited breath for each new erroneous statement he utters. The Lancet study fits in well with the false but repeated narrative – Trump is always wrong and Fauci is always right.

Another COVID-19 Data Debacle (15 paragraphs article, June 8)

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I like in the title to the next article, also by Michel Chossudovsky, that it refers to the corruption of science. We are told throughout this pandemic to look out for fake news; to look out for people spreading dangerous non scientific information. The powers that be would like to co-opt reality and have you believe only what they deem to be true and scientific - and nothing else.

The article also goes into the faked Surgisphere study written about in the previous article.

From the article:

The campaign to destroy hydroxychloroquine has been waged relentlessly, both by competitor pharmaceutical companies and those who want to destroy the US economy to advance their political agenda. It is shocking that it has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But although the corruption of science for political and / or financial gain has become a defining characteristic of our age, it is not a new story.

 The Corruption of Science. The Hydroxychloroquine Lancet Study Scandal. Who Was Behind It? Anthony Fauci's Intent To Block HCQ on Behalf of Big Pharma (21 paragraphs article, June 10)

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* And finally one more article about hydroxychloroquine, this one by a doctor, Malcolm Kendrick, who works as a GP in the National Health Service in England.

From the article:

One issue has played out over the past few months, stripping away any remaining vestiges of my trust in medical research. It concerns the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine. You may well be aware that Donald Trump endorsed it – which presents a whole series of problems for many people.

However, before the pandemic hit, I was recommending to my local NHS trust that we should look to stock up on hydroxychloroquine. There had been a great deal of research over the years strongly suggesting it could inhibit the entry of viruses into cells, and that it also interfered with viral replication once inside the cell.

This mechanism of action explains why it can help stop the malaria parasite from gaining entry into red blood cells. The science is complex, but many researchers felt there was good reason for thinking hydroxychloroquine may have some real, if not earth-shattering, benefits in Covid-19.

This idea was further reinforced by the knowledge that it has some effects on reducing the so-called 'cytokine storm' that is considered deadly with Covid-19. It's prescribed in rheumatoid arthritis to reduce the immune attack on joints.

I've lost all trust in medical research – the financial muscle of Big Pharma has been busy distorting science during the pandemic (30 paragraphs article, July 4)

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* It was a toss-up whether the next article should appear in this section or in the Disaster Capitalism section but I will finish off the Alternative Treatments section with it.

Since the first edition of this book was published, Remdesivir has been released. Spoiler alert: It's more expensive than Chloroquine. And US taxpayers have funded, at least in part, its development.

From the article:

California-based pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences has announced that a five-day course of its antiviral drug Remdesivir — shown in tests to effectively fight COVID-19 — will cost $3,120 to Americans with health insurance and $2,340 to those on Medicaid. Yet research published in April calculated that the drug could be produced at a profit for as little as $0.93 per day.

News of the decision led to an explosion of public anger. "As Gilead charges $3,120 for its COVID drug, Remdesivir, remember that the drug was developed with a $70,000,000 grant from the federal government paid for by American taxpayers. Once again, Big Pharma is set to profit on the people's dime," wrote former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. "This isn't healthcare. It's extortion," appeared to be the overwhelming sentiment on social media.

 Public Outcry Follows Gilead Decision to Charge $3000 for COVID Drug that Costs Pennies to Produce (12 paragraphs article, July 1)
Lockdown Consequences and Implications

For starters here are two interesting articles about the origins of the idea of lockdown by Jeffrey A. Tucker. The second one, written 11 days after the first one appears to be a follow up on the same theme with some overlap.

From the article:

How did a temporary plan to preserve hospital capacity turn into two-to-three months of near-universal house arrest that ended up causing worker furloughs at 256 hospitals, a stoppage of international travel, a 40% job loss among people earning less than $40K per year, devastation of every economic sector, mass confusion and demoralization, a complete ignoring of all fundamental rights and liberties, not to mention the mass confiscation of private property with forced closures of millions of businesses?

Whatever the answer, it's got to be a bizarre tale.

The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea (40 paragraphs article, May 15)

 The 2007 Origins of Forced School Closings and Mandatory Human Separation (26 paragraphs article, May 26)

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And here is a good video with Sam Vaknin, a couple of weeks into the lockdown, admitting that we have "a dearth of data", but giving you his take on the lockdown and its associated panic.

From the video notes:

As the pandemic proceeds apace, at least in the hysterical media, hospitals are becoming major vectors of transmission. Shockingly, not a single randomized, double blind trial with a control group had been conducted on any population anywhere in the world: a reflexive first step in any pandemic when the authorities wish to reduce panic rather than fan and leverage it for tyrannical power grabs.

COVID-19 Panic Merchants: Lies, Conspiracies, and Statistics (Oh, and Science) (29:24 long video, April 2)

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• The Cure Should Not be Worse than the Disease

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Well, in the case of Donald Trump I don't know if I would go that far but fairly early on in the crisis Trump cautioned against lockdown and said that the cure shouldn't be worse than the disease. He was right.

How ironic is it that a pandemic is the cause of health care workers losing their jobs and the general health of the populous being neglected.

From an article about healthcare workers being laid off:

"All of the so-called elective surgery, hips and knees and cardiac, etcetera, are no longer being done in most institutions around the country."

 As Hospitals Lose Revenue, More Than A Million Health Care Workers Lose Jobs (49 paragraphs article, May 8)

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Recently 600 doctors signed a letter to Trump citing the neglect of health issues due to the lockdown. They use the idea of triage to make the point about how much the health of the populace is being neglected.

This from their letter (which is shown in full in the article):

Millions of Americans are already at triage level red. These include 150,000 Americans per month who would have had a new cancer detected through routine screening that hasn't happened, millions who have missed routine dental care to fix problems strongly linked to heart disease/death, and preventable cases of stroke, heart attack, and child abuse. Suicide hotline phone calls have increased 600%.

Tens of millions are at triage level yellow. Liquor sales have increased 300-600%, cigarettes sales have increased, rent has gone unpaid, family relationships have become frayed, and millions of well-child check-ups have been missed.

 "Mass casualty incident": 600 doctors sign letter to Trump calling for end to lockdowns over health concerns (18 paragraphs article, May 20)

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I recently found a website (the next link) with statistics that has constantly updated information. On the site there are a couple of places where they do some calculations that show some interesting results. They do calculations based on studies regarding the death rate (per year) of unemployed people compared to those employed. First I'll show you their blurb, then I'll unpack it. Here's what they wrote:

Using The Bureau of Labor statistics, there are 158.76 million workers in the U.S. and 1% of this is 1,587,600 (Feb 2019 data). The average death rate for 25-64 year olds = 402.625 per 100,000 (2017 CDC death data). Scaled up to 1,587,600 we get 6392 deaths per 1,587,600 people. Risk of death increases by 63% when you lose your job: Thus, this leads to 10,419.08 deaths or approximately 4,027 additional deaths per year per 1% increase in unemployment for working individuals (aged 25-64 years).

What they are saying is that for every 1% of the workforce that loses their jobs, there will be 4,027 more deaths than had they not lost their jobs. 40 million Americans just lost their jobs. Using his number of 158.76 million workers in the US, then roughly 25% of the workforce just became unemployed. That would translate into an increase of 100,000 deaths this year due to the lockdown.

There's no way to know how conditions may change before the year is out or what other factors are in play, but any way you look at it, lockdown appears to be a cure (assuming it really was) that is worse than the disease.

Calculating Deaths per 1% Increase in Unemployment (updated statistics)

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In the next article a doctor, Dr. Scott W. Atlas, outlines 5 facts that need to be acknowledged and responded to. Here are his 5 facts that he goes on to expand on:

Five key facts are being ignored by those calling for continuing the near-total lockdown.

Fact 1: The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from Covid-19.

Fact 2: Protecting older, at-risk people eliminates hospital overcrowding.

Fact 3: Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem.

Fact 4: People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hypothetical projections.

Fact 5: We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.

 The data is in — stop the panic and end the total isolation (9 paragraphs article, April 22)

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* As the effects of the lockdown continue to reverberate through our society, according to an article on the CNBC website, a housing 'apocalypse' is coming. In the next linked to video, Jimmy Dore and Dylan Ratigan discuss the implications of the information in the article (also linked to below).

"Foreclosure Apocalypse" Is Coming & Way Worse Than '08. w/Dylan Ratigan (18:28 long video)

From the article:

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. was experiencing what housing experts and advocates deemed an eviction crisis. More than 2 million people face eviction each year, far more than the number of people who faced foreclosure at the height of the 2008 mortgage crisis.

In fact, between March 25 and April 10 of this year, nearly half of renters aged 18 to 64 reported that they were having trouble paying their rent or utilities, were food insecure or couldn't afford needed medical care, according to the Urban Institute.

To keep people in their homes, the federal government banned evictions in federally assisted properties through July 25, and some cities and states, including Massachusetts, New York and Michigan, put their own temporary eviction moratoriums in place. But many of those bans begin expiring this month depending on the state, according to Princeton University's Eviction Lab, which tracks evictions across the country.

Plus, the extra $600 per week in federal unemployment benefits is set to expire at the end of July. That extra money is "what has been allowing many people who have lost their jobs to continue paying rent," Solomon Greene, a senior fellow in housing policy at the Urban Institute, tells CNBC Make It. Coupled with the end of eviction moratoriums, the U.S. is likely to experience an uptick in evictions nationwide in the coming weeks.

 A housing 'apocalypse' is coming as coronavirus protections across the country expire (21 paragraphs article, June 10)

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** And there is a ripple effect of the lockdowns. Food supply chains have been interrupted, affecting the most vulnerable. This next link is to a report in the premier medical journal, the Lancet.

Note that they couldn't resist maintaining the narrative, falsely blaming the virus and not conscious choices made by people for the disaster they are reporting on; their opening sentence: "The COVID-19 pandemic is undermining nutrition across the world." Later, however, they do say "trade restrictions, and country lockdowns, are impacting food systems."

From the report:

Malnutrition could exacerbate the effects of COVID-19 in mothers and children. At the same time, more children are becoming malnourished due to the deteriorating quality of their diets, interruptions in nutrition and other essential services, and the socioeconomic shocks created by the pandemic in LMICs [low-middle income countries]. New estimates by Derek Headey and colleagues in an accompanying Comment in The Lancet suggest that without timely action, the global prevalence of child wasting could rise by a shocking 14.3%. With an estimated 47 million children younger than 5 years affected by wasting globally before the COVID-19 pandemic, this would translate to an estimated additional 6.7 million children with wasting during the first 12 months of the pandemic—80% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia—and more than 10,000 additional child deaths per month during this same period.

 Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now31648-2/fulltext) (12 paragraphs report, July 27)

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** And then there's stress. To me, at least, it was kind of a no-brainer when I first heard of the lockdowns being imposed that the cure would be worse than the disease; not only the stress on individuals but that the levels of stress on the interconnectedness of the way people work and play and, well, everything would be mind boggling.

This next article focuses on stress; particularly its affect on the loss of "years of life." In the 2nd paragraph of the article they link to the study itself, which I will also give the link to below.

From the article:

Just Facts compiled mental health studies showing that one-third to one-half of all U.S. adults have been "substantially compromised" by reactions to the pandemic, citing several examples including a survey from the American Psychiatric Association, showing that at least 36% of adults say the coronavirus is "is having a serious impact on their mental health."

After compiling the stress numbers, the study concludes that at least 16.8% of 255,200,373, or 42,873,663 people, have "suffered major mental harm" from coronavirus responses.

Finally, the study compares the projected lives lost and lives saved and determines "the anxiety from reactions to Covid-19 — such as business shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus — will extinguish at least seven times more years of life than can possibly be saved by the lockdowns."

The researchers on the study say that while well documented, it is not so well known that mental health diseases attack the body and not just the mind, which often causes irreversible damage.

 Stress from virus response will destroy 7 times more years of life than lockdowns save: Study (18 paragraphs article, May 5)

 Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns (Just Facts study, May 4)

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• The Lockdown's Effect on our Humanity

The following is an article that drips with sadness and anger about the inhumanity of the Covid world.

This from the article:

Two world views are now clashing, exacerbated by this coronavirus crisis.

On one hand:

A cold, contactless, masked and tyrannical world, the same for all, without thought or common sense, promising enormous power and profit for a minority of people already immensely rich and powerful.

On the other hand:

A world where contact, warmth, looks, smiles remain the inviolable basis of all humanity. A world where touch, (natural) medicine and speech continue to form the unshakeable pillar of human medicine. A world in which not everything is sacrificed, human dignity, human rights (and women's rights), in exchange for life at all costs, because to do so deprives life of its value.

 The Real Coronavirus Victims: Relations between People (77 very short paragraphs article, May 15)

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In a somewhat whimsical article Helen Buyniski writes of the almost cult-like rituals surrounding the lockdown life as it is manifested in many people's behavior.

This introduction to the article:

The novel coronavirus is depicted not as a pedestrian pathogen certain to be beaten into submission by the miracles of modern science any day now, but as an invisible evil lurking everywhere, formidable enough to inspire a respectful terror even in the leading lights of the medical establishment.

And in case Americans had any doubt about how they were supposed to regard this new viral threat, the establishment talking heads many rely upon for the self-assured delivery of their news have swapped their usual swagger for apprehension. Amid this 'confidence vacuum,' the popular response to the pandemic has taken on a religious cast. Protective measures like masks have taken on a talismanic quality, hand-washing has been elevated to a ritual performance, and a cult built on naming and shaming 'heretics' has seized the minds of many – while their rights are quietly stripped away and a paternalistic police state substituted in their place.

 Fear and Uncertainty: The Modern-Day Cult of Corona. "Gotta to Have Faith" (20 paragraphs article, May 18)

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** It was a toss-up whether I would include this next article in the The New Normal - What's on the Drawing Board chapter or here. This article is about something a little tamer than the corporate megalomaniac oriented articles in the later New Normal chapter but perhaps no less insidious.

The article is about the Duke Compact that students returning this fall are expected to sign. It shows how degraded living has become. Probably it's out of fear or maybe they have an agenda; I don't know. In any case, it is packaged as a covenant of social responsibility - for the good of all; you should feel good about this.

It includes your basic Covid "safety" measures and more. "All students and staff will complete daily health checks." It includes agreeing to contact tracing. And, of course: Get the flu shot and other required vaccinations by designated deadlines.

The curious reader could probably do some digital footwork and find more on this subject. I'm sure Duke is not alone in dehumanizing college.

Grim College COVID-19 Rules (19 paragraphs article, August 12)

The Duke Compact (Website)

 The Duke Compact (PDF)

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** This next article responds to how the lockdowns (coupled with the fear and lies) have brought out the worst in people, with many chastising others for things based not on facts, but on the mainstream narratives. The author responds to each of many of the classic complaints aimed at those who don't buy into it.

From the article:

"You're a conspiracy theorist!"

There is nothing crazy about suspecting a conspiracy. Conspiracies happen all the time. Enron, Watergate, Ponzi schemes, Iran Contra, the assassination of Julius Caesar, bank robberies, art heists, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ — all conspiracies. When circumstances do not add up, you can and should consider the possibility of a conspiracy.

"You're not a scientist!"

This sad little statement is often the last resort of a cornered debate opponent. You don't need to be a scientist to interpret data, understand how diseases work, and investigate how pandemics are supposed to be managed. Humans do this little thing called "learning" all the time, every single day. Anyone with the ability to read, a curious mind, and the dedication to understand can decipher the puzzle of COVID19.

 Anti-Lockdowners: Take a Stand (22 paragraphs article, August 11)

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• Dave Cullen's Series on the Lockdown's Effect on our Humanity

Dave Cullen is a young Irish man who has a video channel called Computing Forever on both YouTube and BitChute. He has been publishing lots of videos about the Covid / Lockdown Crisis in recent weeks. He has done several that look at what we've become as we've sacrificed our sovereignty and agency and the implications of a world without touch and closeness. Here's two of them.

The People We Are Becoming (22:33 long video, May 7)

The People We Were (43:36 long video, May 14)

And here are the links for the series on BitChute:

The People We Are Becoming (22:33 long video, May 7)

The People We Were (43:36 long video, May 14)

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• The US Lockdown, in Particular

In a good article about the devastation caused by the lockdown policy, the author of the next article seems to see it as incompetence and not by design. In either case it's the same bad actors and / or bozos who were responsible.

This excerpt from the article by Mike Whitney:

The American people have yet to grasp the magnitude of the devastation caused by the lockdown but, soon, it will be the only topic of conversation. Most people left their jobs thinking they would return to them in a matter of weeks. They never imagined that a policy blunder would put the economy into a vicious death spiral that would terminate their livelihoods, dampen their prospects for the future, and reduce them to hopelessness and destitution. They never thought that such a nightmare was possible, especially since they were just following the orders of their governors and the affable Dr Fauci.

 The "Lockdown" Has Turned America Into a Despotic, Cash-Strapped Basket-Case (33 paragraphs article, May 25)

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Here, a short article looks at the numbers, noting the lowest income earners got hit by far the hardest.

From the article:

One in 5 adults who were working in February reported being laid off or furloughed in March or early April, according to a Fed report published Thursday. (A furlough is a temporary layoff.) However, the economic downturn disproportionately affected lower-income Americans.

 40% of low-income Americans lost their jobs due to the pandemic (15 paragraphs article, May 14)

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I think one of the most insidious things about the lockdown is that even as there is some loosening of restrictions, they keep moving the goalposts; the narrative changes so that components of the lockdown get eased into normality. Maybe I'm overly suspicious but I suspect it's because they knew they couldn't tell us right from the start that we'd be locked down for months.

At first the chant was "flatten the curve" so as to not overwhelm the hospitals. The curve has been virtually flat since mid-April. The overwhelming of the hospitals, such as it was (the Mercy ship that Trump sent to New York was barely used), is certainly over now. Then when we realized it was almost only the elderly and infirm who were impacted, we were shamed into believing we'd be killing grandma if we eased up. Now we still must wear masks and observe social distancing because of the predicted 2nd wave.

What's next?
Disaster Capitalism

In 2007 Naomi Klein wrote her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She wrote of how disasters were used as opportunities by the wealthy to exploit the inherent vulnerability created by the disaster for their own gain.

Here is a video of Naomi Klein, herself, talking as our current crisis was just ramping up, about Disaster Capitalism and what she expects of those who will try and exploit the crisis and of the possibility that this could be the time to seize the moment to make possible, instead, changes for the better.

Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It (8:48 long video, March 16)

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Below is an article that references the Shock Doctrine and looks at how Naomi Klein used the privatization of schools after Katrina as a prime example of disaster capitalism at work.

From the article:

In the Shock Doctrine, she [Naomi Klein] wrote about the New Orleans charter school experiment (sponsored by Bill Gates) as the defining example of what she called The Shock Doctrine: "In sharp contrast to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the electricity grid was brought back online, the auctioning off of New Orleans' school system took place with military speed and precision. Within nineteen months, with most of the city's poor residents still in exile, New Orleans' public school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run charter schools. Before Hurricane Katrina, the school board had run 123 public schools; now it ran just 4... New Orleans teachers used to be represented by a strong union; now the union's contract had been shredded, and its forty-seven hundred members had all been fired... New Orleans was now, according to the New York Times, 'the nation's preeminent laboratory for the widespread use of charter schools'.... I call these orchestrated raids on the public sphere in the wake of catastrophic events, combined with the treatment of disasters as exciting market opportunities, 'disaster capitalism.'"

 Refuting the Myth of the New Orleans School Miracle: Children Lost after Hurricane Katrina (11 paragraphs article, April 8, 2015)

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Here's another article, also from 2015, looking back 10 years after Katrina, appraising the privatization of schools. Charter schools may be a bit off topic regarding the current crisis, but note that Bill Gates is a major player mentioned in both articles. And these articles educate us about the shenanigans of those exploiting disasters, which this current crisis is.

 10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans' All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure (67 paragraphs article, August 28, 2015)

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This third article about the privatization of schools is more current and looks specifically at the exploitation of the current crisis and looks at not just Bill Gates but also other major players. And it appears that funds allocated in the CARES Act (more on the CARES Act in the next section) are helping facilitate the move towards privatization.

From the article:

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has continued her devotion to undermining public schools and the unionized teachers who staff them.

Now, the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is presenting both DeVos and Gates with new ways to divert public dollars to privately managed schools, or perhaps to untested, profit-driven ventures.

The U.S. Department of Education is poised to allow private schools to gain a larger share of the CARES Act funds than public schools. These funds amount to a voucher program where grant money can be directed toward a whole slew of services, including private schools that offer online learning programs.

 Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools (23 paragraphs article, May 15)

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And finally, this last article on the subject is more specifically about New York Governor Cuomo's musing about the senselessness and wastefulness of actually going to the trouble of getting students and teachers together in the same place at the same time.

From the article:

[Cuomo was] ... questioning why school buildings still exist and announcing that he would work with Microsoft founder Bill Gates to "reimagine education," with technology at the forefront.

"The old model of everybody goes and sits in the classroom, and the teacher is in front of that classroom and teaches that class, and you do that all across the city, all across the state, all these buildings, all these physical classrooms - why, with all the technology you have?", Cuomo said at Tuesday's coronavirus response news conference.

 Cuomo questions why school buildings still exist — and says New York will work with Bill Gates to 'reimagine education' (23 paragraphs article, May 6)

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Lee Camp is an excellent satirist who has a show on RT called Redacted Tonight and who also writes articles using satiric humor to make a point. Here he nails how the elite love the current crisis.

From the article:

Many of you may know Naomi Klein's best-selling book "The Shock Doctrine." It was also turned into a hit movie I believe called "Fight Club," but don't quote me on that. The Shock Doctrine basically says that the rich and powerful — our rulers bereft of empathy or moral cores — exploit any crisis such as disasters, natural and otherwise, to force through controversial, draconian, profit-based, or flat-out, offensive policies and laws, while the majority of the populace are too distracted, stressed, and drowning in anxiety to fight back adequately.

To put that another way: When the shit hits the fan, rather than help people, the ruling thieves have a ball!

Because our ruling elite fit in the farthest reaches of the sociopath spectrum, they do not see a horrific crisis as a time to help people. They see it as a time to get what they want.

 Four Reasons the Ruling Elite Love This Crisis (25 paragraphs article, April 8)

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One of the things that disaster capitalism does is that rules and laws completely unrelated to the crisis, Covid in this case, get changed to the advantage of the wealthy elite; it is simply something big corporations want and while everyone is distracted and befuddled and while the mainstream media has no room (or incentive) to deviate from their top dollar Covid extravaganza, the rich get richer and our quality of life gets worse.

Naturally the environment would be a target of disaster capitalism. As seen in the headline below and talked about in the video, environmental rules have been suspended. Most agencies of the federal government that are meant to regulate or check reckless activity for the public good have been weakened in recent decades and Trump has excelled at this. Now, citing Covid as the reason for it, Trump's former coal lobbyist EPA administrator is letting oil, gas, and coal take advantage of the global pandemic.

This video from The Real News about that:

Trump Is Using COVID-19 As An Excuse To Let Polluters Destroy The Earth (14:30 long video, May 12)

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* And a good segue from the previous video and a follow-up on Spiro's video in the Bill Gates section about GMO mosquitoes, it seems the time has come for them to have their day in the United States. Florida is ready to release GMO mosquitoes.

The next article by Whitney Webb and Raul Diego is an extensive look at the project and the players involved.

This ties in with the themes of this book and the Covid crisis for several reasons. First, this is part of the bigger picture of people who look to exotic technologies as solutions and who want to fast track them for profit. Second, as mentioned in the previous video, the EPA, which issued its permit for this project on April 30, has been loosening its regulations amidst the chaos. Third, Bill Gates is involved with the companies profiting off of this.

From the article:

The go-ahead comes on the heels of a decision by Trump's EPA to green-light previously thwarted plans to release these airborne frankensteins in our environment without the slightest regard for the possible consequences. Ignoring the agency's own lukewarm assessments admitting some of the dangers, the EPA nonetheless violated mandated requirements of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to approve the first-ever GE mosquito experiment in the United States.

Despite the EPA's criminal negligence in failing to follow mandated procedures, it was ultimately left to authorities in Florida to give their consent for this plan, which they gave in spades despite overwhelming opposition. A public forum held on this issue returned an incontrovertible verdict of 31,174 comments opposing the release and only 56 supporting it. This, however, seemed not to sway a single state agency when it came time to allow the deliberate invasion of a new, man-made mosquito into what is already one of the nation's most imperiled ecosystems.

Perhaps even more alarming, however, is the fact that many of the most prominent funders and promoters of insect "gene drive" technologies – DARPA and Bill Gates – are also the most ardent backers of the mRNA and DNA vaccine candidates for coronavirus as well as coronavirus "treatments" that directly edit human genes in vivo. Given that Oxitec's longtime owner, Precigen, has become laser focused on gene-editing technologies for use in humans, as opposed to insects, it increasingly seems that the use of these experimental and untested technologies are intended to be much more far-reaching than many realize.

 Eco-genocide and the Genetically Engineered Mosquito Army (40 paragraphs article, June 25)

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• Congress Works to the Advantage of the Wealthy Elite

Let's talk conspiracies for a minute. Question is, theory or fact? Strangely some of the most egregious conspiracies are carried out in plain site. One example would be how the US Congress rushed through the CARES Act with the hype being that something must be done - and fast. Turns out that was smoke and mirrors.

The CARES Act gave the Federal Reserve $454 billion (which is $4.5 trillion after being leveraged times 10 by the Fed) to dole out to the biggest wealthiest corporations in the country. This passed in the Senate by a vote of 96-0 and in the House only one person even asked for votes to be recorded and his request was turned down. This is clearly a conscious decision by almost all of our 535 representatives in Congress to funnel that money to the already filthy rich, while doing nothing to fundamentally change the numerous systematic shortcomings in our society that were already causing such suffering among the populous. How can this be viewed as anything other than a blatant conspiracy.

As we will see in the next few videos and articles, the CARES Act was an historic upward transfer of wealth and consequently, power.

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* Following is an article and a video about this upward transfer of wealth by the CARES Act specifically and by other means generally. The video is very engaging but fairly long, so I will first link to an article on what looks like an interesting website, called Wall Street on Parade, A Citizen Guide to Wall Street.

Their mission from their "About" page:

Wall Street On Parade hopes to level the playing field between Wall Street and the 99 percent. Wall Street is a jungle of devices to effect an institutionalized wealth transfer system. The goal of this web site is to provide the jungle guide to the 99 percent in the hope of bringing about citizen-inspired change.

From the article:

Bloomberg News has an article up today with the headline: "The Fed Loves Main Street as much as Wall Street This Time. Despite the headline, the article by Peter Coy offers not a scintilla of evidence to support the premise that Main Street is getting a fair shake from the Fed. What the article does do is adopt the talking points the Fed has used in every press release it has issued on a new funding facility rollout – that the money will (through some magical and invisible and unexplained hand of the market Gods) make its way to American workers and households.

It's all bunk. Here's what is actually happening. The stimulus bill (CARES Act) stipulates that the U.S. Treasury will provide $454 billion of the $2.2 trillion total to the Federal Reserve. That $454 billion will be the loss absorbing capital to leverage the Fed's purchases of toxic debt from Wall Street to a maximum of 10 times or $4.54 trillion. So, already Main Street is behind. Main Street is getting $2.2 trillion minus $454 billion for Wall Street and $46 billion for airlines and "national security" businesses, likely meaning Boeing. That leaves $1.7 trillion versus the $4.54 trillion that will be offered to Wall Street, or $2.84 trillion more heading to bail out Wall Street.

But the Fed had already created another Wall Street bailout program last year that is not included in that $4.54 trillion. The Fed's repo loan program has already funneled more than $9 trillion to Wall Street in revolving loans since September 17, 2019.

 Here Are the Contracts Showing How $4.5 Trillion in Stimulus Was Outsourced to Wall Street (16 paragraphs long article, April 16)

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Check out this most amazing video on the Moderate Rebels YouTube channel. The interviewers, Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal are 2 of the very best investigative journalists who are part of an amazing team on the Grayzone website.

Here they interview Michael Hudson in what was the most engaging and easiest ever to watch video about economics I've ever seen, a subject that I usually find tedious. He puts the amount of money transferred upward to the wealthiest at $6 million.

The introduction on the video's page:

Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a "bailout" but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the enormous financial scam with Hudson, who reveals how the economy actually works, with the Federal Reserve printing money so rich elites don't lose their investments.

US coronavirus 'bailout' scam is $6 trillion giveaway to Wall St - Economist Michael Hudson explains (44:00 long video, April 20)

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If it wasn't bad enough that big business got $4.5 trillion, those lovely Congress people slipped something else into the CARES Act. It's a huge tax break for millionaires.

From the article:

While wealthy Americans are not eligible for the comparatively measly $1,200 stimulus checks that are now being disbursed to many Americans, they are on pace to do even better. 43,000 taxpayers, who earn more than $1 million annually, are each set to receive a $1.7 million windfall, on average, thanks to a provision buried in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

 How Some Rich Americans Are Getting Stimulus 'Checks' Averaging $1.7 Million (8 paragraphs article, April 14)

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And what about the money in the CARES Act meant to help small business. As usual it went instead to the wealthiest "small" business. Turns out that businesses with sharp bankers were able to empty the fund before those in need could get anything. Again the question of conspiracy comes in, because if Congress didn't conspire to do this, then it is evidence of incredible stupidity and negligence that they would write it such that it allowed the well connected "small" businesses to siphon off the money before it could get to those who were hurting.

From the article:

JPMorgan explained that larger companies may have been served more quickly because its commercial banking unit, which serves larger clients, was able to complete "most of the applications it received" while many more applications poured in from traditional small businesses.

 White House, GOP face heat after hotel and restaurant chains helped run small business program dry (42 paragraphs article, April 20)

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Here Jimmy Dore talks with guest Dylan Ratigan, who knows finance well, about the nightmare that the CARES Act was, right after it was passed in March. Dylan Ratigan was, incidentally, the last person on mainstream news that I watched until he quit his show on MSNBC in June of 2012.

Stimulus Bill: "An Abomination Beyond Comprehension" (48:01 long video, March 26)

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Finally, for those of you who really want to follow the money and are further interested in the machinations of the banking systems of the world, here is another article by Wall Street on Parade.

In the article they explain how BlackRock, an investment manager of $7 trillion in stock and bond funds, rolled out the bailout plan in August 2019 at the G7 summit of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, well ahead of the $454 billion being handed over by Congress.

This from the article:

"The situation also shows how the economic system in both Canada and the U.S. is not classical capitalism but rather state monopoly capitalism, where giant enterprises are regularly backstopped with public funds and the boundaries between the state and the financial oligarchy are virtually non-existent."

 BlackRock Authored the Bailout Plan Before There Was a Crisis – Now It's Been Hired by three Central Banks to Implement the Plan (24 paragraphs article, June 5)
United States' Mismanaged Response?

And how has the United States mismanaged the crisis?

For starters the question is whether it was what you and I would call "mismanaged" or whether it was simply managed with different priorities.

In this first article, by Whitney Webb, we see that true to form, the United States government is first and foremost a secret organization with its own agenda which only aligns with the interests and needs of the populace enough to keep the masses from storming the palace.

From the article:

The classification of coronavirus planning meetings was first covered by Reuters, which noted that the decision to classify was "an unusual step that has restricted information and hampered the U.S. government's response to the contagion." Reuters further noted that the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, and his chief of staff had "resisted" the classification order, which was made in mid-January by the National Security Council (NSC), led by Robert O'Brien — a longtime friend and colleague of his predecessor John Bolton.

Little attention was given to the fact that the response to this apparently imminent jump in cases was being coordinated largely between elements of the national security state (i.e. the NSC, Pentagon, and intelligence), as opposed to civilian agencies or those focused on public health issues, and in a classified manner.

 US Intel Agencies Played Unsettling Role in Classified and "9/11-like" Coronavirus Response Plan (14 paragraphs article, March 13)

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During this crisis Trump has criticized China for not being more forthcoming and letting us know earlier about Covid. In the following article it explains how the US knew in November, 2019 about Covid and intelligence suggested it could be "cataclysmic."

Knowing how the US intelligence agencies see everything in light of how it effects the Empire, I have to wonder if they even tried to get medical people involved in an analysis of the situation.

From the article:

According to ABC News, the report, made up of data intercepts and satellite imagery, determined that the coronavirus was a potential threat to U.S. troops in the region. "Analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event," a source told ABC News.

 Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November (7 paragraphs article, April 8)

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Early on in the crisis the Trump administration hijacked planes on foreign soil, diverting Covid resources intended for other countries to the United States by bribing the locals. In this article Alan Macleod reports on this and more chicanery.

From the article:

Governments have resorted to seizing, diverting, outbidding and outright stealing equipment from each other in a desperate bid to stem the tide of the coronavirus epidemic.

The Trump administrations also tried to compel a German pharmaceutical corporation to move production to the U.S., in order to make sure that America alone had access to and control of any coronavirus vaccine it might produce. He reportedly wished to ensure that it would only be available on a for-profit basis.

 US Leads Global Wave of Nations Stealing, Seizing and Diverting Coronavirus Equipment (8 paragraphs article, April 3)

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You hear over and over again that we're all in this together. Well, as we have seen in the Disaster Capitalism chapter, this is certainly not true. Bloomberg.com reports:

It's a modern quandary for the ultra-wealthy: a yacht awaits at harbor, but how to safely reach it without risking contact with the Covid-exposed masses?

The writer goes on to tell readers how to get to their yachts in Malta.

From another article by Alan Macleod, referencing the Bloomberg article:

Increasingly, journalists at establishment publications come from and represent the one percent that they claim to be holding to account.

The article's tone [Bloomberg.com's], especially twice describing the general public, even of Malta, one of the richest states in the world, as "germ ridden masses," highlights the increasing gap between the world's super wealthy and the rest of us, and the contempt and disgust the haves feel for the have-nots.

 "Germ-Ridden Masses" – How America's Wealthy Elite Describe the Rest of Us (7 paragraphs article, May 27)

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This chapter wouldn't be complete with mention of the disastrous policy in New York State of sending Covid positive patients to nursing homes. We'll never know for sure if the deaths in those nursing homes following the transfer of those patients was because of that, but it is certainly suspect. And seems to be mind bogglingly stupid.

From an article about this:

But the week before, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his health commissioner, Howard Zucker, had all but made such discharges mandatory. If a hospital determined a patient who needed nursing home care was medically stable, the home had to accept them, even if they had been treated for Covid-19. Moreover, the nursing home could not test any such prospective residents — those treated for Covid-19 or those hospitalized for other reasons — to see if they were newly infected or perhaps still contagious despite their treatment. It was all laid out in a formal order, effective March 25. New York was the only state in the nation that barred testing of those being placed or returning to nursing homes.

 "Fire Through Dry Grass": Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19's Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It. (119 paragraphs article, June 16)

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So, in the United States 40 million people lost their jobs and many of them their health insurance at the same time. But the pandemic caused it, right? Well, not really. Policy is everything. Choices were made. Again, we have to ask: mismanagement or management with other priorities?

In Germany where they also had a lockdown they handled the impact on the economy very differently. Below is a linked article about what Germany and other European countries did and a linked video with Jimmy Dore discussing this same article with Dylan Ratigan.

From the article:

Unemployment in the United States is now almost 15%, the highest since the end of the Great Depression.

Governments [in Europe] are spending a lot of their own money in order to keep unemployment down, make sure that paychecks continue to arrive (even if workers often don't get 100% of their normal wages), and ensure that companies can just pick up where they left off as stay-at-home measures end.

The difference in numbers is striking. The IMF expects German unemployment for 2020 to hit around 4%, and in the more volatile U.K., the Bank of England recently warned that unemployment may double — to 9%.

 How Germany Is Saving Jobs During the Pandemic (12 paragraphs article, May 18)

How Germany Is SAVING JOBS During Crisis. w/Dylan Ratigan (18:25 long video, May 20)

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* I offer this next link as an example of what the unhinged approach to Covid lends itself to.

The Atlantic Council has published their own plan for the post-Covid world, called, "A global strategy for shaping the post-COVID-19 world." The Atlantic Council is a think tank with close connections to NATO. They seem to be locked into a cold-war-esque struggle for control paradigm. And US might is their paramount concern.

On the page linked to below they outline 14 themes that they preview, which can be explored in detail in a PDF that can be downloaded. Curiously they chose to head their PDF with a picture titled: The Triumph of Death by the artist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

In the section titled, Securing Our Future, under a picture of a battleship, they make the case for more resources to be sunk into conflict.

With US sailors and soldiers sick and exercises canceled, rivals may mistakenly believe COVID-19 has left the United States weakened. To counteract this notion and strengthen deterrence, the United States must be vocal in its diplomacy and display its military might.

The United States must also look to the future, taking biological threats into account—both man-made weapons and naturally occurring pandemics. More defense spending must go into research and development in these areas, and greater efforts should be made to deter potential bad actors.

Now is also the time for the US military to reassess some of its spending priorities as the economic slowdown is likely to put pressure on defense budgets. Legacy weapons systems, such as aircraft carriers, must take a back seat. Instead, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, unmanned systems, hypersonic missiles, quantum computing, directed energy, advanced manufacturing, space-based sensors, and missile defense interceptors should be given priority.

 A global strategy for shaping the post-COVID-19 world
More on Vaccines, WHO, CDC

• Vaccines

Vaccines is a hot topic. I, as a 70 year old, remember in my youth the polio vaccines and such. Although I think for the most part people can get by just fine without vaccines by taking care of their health, I sometimes wonder how it would have been without those vaccines then.

But there is something we need to be clear about. There was no big pharma in the 50's. I'm sure there was influential pharma that influenced doctors and such, but certainly not with the overarching global reach or with the billions of dollars at stake or that was so in bed with government as big pharma is now.

Also if you are of my generation you may have had good impressions about public service organizations. The good intent of many such organizations has today been co-opted, as has the CDC.

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So I will start the vaccine section with a member of Congress of some influence who wants to tell you where (only from authorized sources, in case you hadn't guessed) you can get your information about vaccines. Below is an article about how Adam Schiff (yes the same one whose raison d'etre is blaming Russia for Trump) wrote to the major social media platforms telling them to censor information about vaccines.

What is particularly interesting about this article is that it appears on the AAPS website. That's the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and they sued Adam Schiff for trying to censor open availability of information or opinions about vaccines.

Interestingly, the article is from January 15, well before the current situation became a crisis, and Adam Schiff's actions were in February and March of 2019. Still, I think it is topical here because it indicates that there are powers-that-be that do not want dissenting opinions about vaccines.

Note in this from the article how Facebook diverted searches from the intended sought after website to the officially sanctioned sources:

On Facebook, a search for an AAPS article on vaccines, which previously would lead directly to the AAPS article, now produces search results containing links to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Visits to the AAPS website have declined significantly since March 2019, both in absolute terms and relative to the decline that would result from a story's losing its recency.

 Rep. Adam Schiff Sued by Physicians for Censoring Vaccine Debate (9 paragraphs article, January 15)

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Now even if you are a person who is all in for vaccines or even just thinks they are a good thing, I would assume you would at least like them to be tested sufficiently first. They are, after all, pumping chemicals into your bloodstream.

But in the rush to come up with a vaccine (whether because it's that important or because of the window of time before people lose their belief in its necessity) testing seems to be being de-prioritized. The chief public health and science officer at Merck Vaccines (whose revenue grew from $39.8 billion in 2016 to $46.8 billion in 2019) believes we need to take "new approaches."

This from the article:

"The traditional vaccine timeline is 15 to 20 years. That would not be acceptable here," said Mark Feinberg, president and CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, whose work as chief public health and science officer at Merck Vaccines was instrumental in the development of the immunization against Ebola. "When you hear predictions about it taking at best a year or a year and a half to have a vaccine available... there's no way to come close to those timelines unless we take new approaches."

He knows that it's important to see how well a new vaccine can stop infection in animals, but to him, given the current emergency, it makes sense to start human safety testing before those studies are finished. "I personally think that's not only appropriate; I think that's the only option we have," Feinberg went on.

Yet ethicists aren't so sure that the eventual benefits of rushing this unproven vaccine into clinical trials will outweigh the risks. "Outbreaks and national emergencies often create pressure to suspend rights, standards and/or normal rules of ethical conduct. Often our decision to do so seems unwise in retrospect," wrote Jonathan Kimmelman, director of McGill University's biomedical ethics unit, in an email to STAT.

 Researchers rush to test coronavirus vaccine in people without knowing how well it works in animals (28 paragraphs article, March 11)

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Next is a conversation with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny interviewed by Spiro Skouras. The video is mostly Dr. Tenpenny talking about vaccines and the un- or barely tested vaccines that will soon be mandatory.

I will give links to the video on both YouTube and on BitChute, as videos of doctors are prone to YouTube censorship.

From the video's notes:

Dr. Tenpenny and Spiro examine and explore, the motives of the global response by governments, global institutions and private interests, as Dr. Tenpenny exposes perhaps the most alarming aspect of the crisis yet!

No, it is not the virus, it is the blank check issued to the vaccine and drug manufacturers, which not only provides unlimited funding, but also provides blanket immunity to Big Pharma for any harm attributed with the treatments produced during the declared emergency, including all drugs and vaccines.

Dr. Tenpenny: This is The Biggest Scam Ever Perpetrated on The Human Race... (1:03:05 long video, May 4)

Dr. Tenpenny: This is The Biggest Scam Ever Perpetrated on The Human Race... (1:03:05 long video, May 4) (BitChute)

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In this next very short 5 minute video, Robert Kennedy Jr., talking about vaccines in an interview with Tucker Carlson, really concisely hits the main points.

Some of his main points, in his words:

CDC is a subsidiary of the vaccine industry. It sells $4.1 billion worth of vaccines a year. It spends $4.6 billion, almost half its budget, promoting vaccines. And it only spends $20 million testing vaccines.

The vaccine schedule was expanded dramatically in 1989. In 1987 Congress passed a law giving blanket immunity from liability to vaccine manufacturers. I [RFK Jr.] got 3 vaccines when I was a kid and I was fully compliant. Today's children get 74 shots of 16 vaccines. And nobody has ever tested what all those vaccines do together.

Most television hosts will not let you on. On the evening news typically 17 out of 24 advertisements are pharmaceutical advertisements. Most hosts are frightened of that.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: My response to John Oliver (5:02 long video, July 10, 2017)

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And here is a bit longer interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. by Dr. Joseph Mercola that is an excellent critical look at the pharmaceutical industry.

From the video's notes:

Dangerous coronavirus experiments led by Dr. Anthony Fauci went on in the U.S. until 2014 when President Obama ordered the work to stop due to safety violations at three biolabs. Fauci then moved the operations to the Wuhan lab in China and continued coronavirus experiments right up until the time that the Covid-19 pandemic occurred.

Coronavirus vaccine development has proven very difficult over the past 30 years, as the vaccines create very robust antibody response, but when the patient encounters the wild virus, they become severely ill and often die — a reaction known as paradoxical immune response or paradoxical immune enhancement.

COVID-19 And Vaccines- Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (24:19 long video, May 8)

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Because of the Covid crisis panic countries all over the world are pledging (tax payers') money to big pharma to find a vaccine or treatments. In this article by Tony Cartalucci he exposes the failures and corruption of big pharma.

His introduction to the article:

Big-Pharma is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 "vaccine." Would you trust your health to these profit driven criminals?

 Big-Pharma Put in Charge of COVID-19 "Vaccine" (39 paragraphs article, May 1)

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I suspect the closer they get to distributing a vaccine, the more we will see media demonization of skepticism of the drugs themselves and of the shady histories of the vax pushers. The Pro- Anti-Vax war is on.

From the article by Derrick Broze:

In a recently published opinion piece, The New York Times all but declared war against Americans who question the safety of vaccines. Of course, the war being waged is – for the moment – a war of words, an Information War.

Yet, according to the NY Times, Americans who question vaccines, or those who simply support freedom of choice and bodily autonomy, are a part of the roadblock to public acceptance of a coming Covid-19 vaccine and they must be stopped. The Times' piece,  Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War, outlines how "social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists." The writer goes on to outline his worst fear – "What if we get a Covid-19 vaccine and half the country refuses to take it?"

 Which Side of the "Vaccine Information War" Are You On? (14 paragraphs article, May 19)

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In this next article and video they talk about a new kind of vaccine that is designed to alter your DNA. Are you ready to become a walking, talking GMO?

This from the article:

Most of the vaccines currently under process by big pharma are mRNA vaccines, a type never before used on humans.

The Gates/Fauci vaccine against covid-19 is no ordinary vaccine. It uses three needles, two of which are electrodes that will alter the DNA of every cell in the body.

Gates and Fauci have bypassed all required phase-one animal testing, normally a 10-year testing requirement, as well as human safety testing. This assault on our bodies will likely be issued as mandatory, since it is being developed under emergency powers. Trump's attorney, Alan Dershowitz, has stated categorically that "you have no constitutional right to refuse a vaccine".

The Gates / Fauci Vaccine Developed by Moderna. Video Featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Andrew Kaufman (19 paragraphs article, with a 4:36 long video, May 29)

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* This next article on the Children's Health Defense website is an extensive look at the history of how infectious diseases have impacted people less and less since 1900, long before vaccines came on the scene.

From the article:

Since 1900, there's been a 74% decline in mortality rates in developed countries, largely due to a marked decrease in deaths from infectious diseases. How much of this decline was due to vaccines? The history and data provide clear answers that matter greatly in today's vitriolic debate about vaccines.

Why did the mortality rate decline so precipitously? If you listen to vaccine promoters, the answer is simple: vaccines saved us. What's crazy about this narrative is how easy it is to disprove, the data is hiding in plain sight. The fact that this easily-proven-false narrative persists, however, tells us a lot about the world we live in, and I hope will encourage parents to reconsider the veracity of many of the narratives they've been fed about vaccines, and do their own primary research.

 The Impact of Vaccines on Mortality Decline Since 1900—According to Published Science (44 paragraphs article, March 12, 2019)

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* The next image is from a page on the CDC website called Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999 and it talks also about the improvement of sanitation and hygiene but also gives much credit to vaccines. Curiously the chart shows virtually no improvement after the introductions of vaccines.

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** I've been paying enough attention over the years to know that there are scientists out there who get off on trying to figure out new ways to diddle with the way things naturally work. Now, amidst the craze to use Covid as a reason to do almost anything, and the perversion of a natural life reaches new heights, they are working on delivering vaccines through your food. Yes, they are genetically modifying tomatoes to produce what they call virus-like-particles (VLPs) to "generate an immunizing and protective response in humans."

This next article is not, like I am, in awe of the perversity of this; rather it is in awe of the wonders of science. They are aware of that little issue with ethics, but... no problem.

From the article:

Regardless of the effectiveness of the GMO vaccine, there is also a problem of legislation as GMOs are banned in many nations. Only 26 nations currently have regulations implemented for the commercial use of GMOs.

"Given the current contingency situation for the COVID-19 we are experiencing, it will undoubtedly make us rethink the legislation of the GMOs that apply not only in Mexico but in Latin America," Garza noted.

"What is currently happening allows us to rethink whether we are really capable as countries of being able to face a pandemic of such magnitude without using the full potential that GMOs offer us for the development of vaccines, especially for developing countries...

The benefits of biotechnology must be shown to society not as an evil, but as an effective solution to many of the problems that we currently have in the region."

Under the push for a GMO vaccine, already the European Union has suspended GMO regulations to fast-track COVID-19 vaccine.

Scientists Are Growing Genetically Modified Tomatoes As Edible Coronavirus Vaccine (17 paragraphs article, July 30)

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** And if you ever had any doubts whether there were psyop elements to this crisis, here I link to a study by Yale University published on the ClinicalTrials website. They say this of themselves: ClinicalTrials.gov is a database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world.

The study is exploring the ways they can make people, through psychological manipulation, more likely to look favorably at getting vaccinated. Here is the first sentence of their summary: "This study tests different messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 once the vaccine becomes available." They have a list of the psychological approaches they can use depending on a person's inclinations.

Here is the list of their 12 "messages" they are testing:

Control message

Baseline message

Personal freedom message

Economic freedom message

Self-interest message

Community interest message

Economic benefit message

Guilt message

Embarrassment message

Anger message

Trust in science message

Not bravery message

It is interesting to observe their approach and to read the language they use for each of these messages. For example, the Personal freedom message is:

... about how COVID-19 is limiting people's personal freedom and by working together to get enough people vaccinated society can preserve its personal freedom.

COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging, Part 1 (clinical study, July 21)

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* Now I'm the last person to believe what the Pentagon says, but why would they lie about this. According to a study done in January, 2020 by the Pentagon on US soldiers, it's shown that getting a flu shot increases the risks from coronavirus by 36%.

The article also includes information from five other studies, including one by the CDC, each with a chart showing a substantial increase in vulnerability to other viruses after getting a flu shot.

From the article:

In searching the literature, the only study we have been able to find assessing flu shots and coronavirus is a 2020 US Pentagon study that found that the flu shot INCREASES the risks from coronavirus by 36%. "Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as "virus interference... 'vaccine derived' virus interference was significantly associated with coronavirus..." Here are the findings:

Examining non-influenza viruses specifically, the odds of coronavirus in vaccinated individuals were significantly higher when compared to unvaccinated individuals with an odds ratio (association between an exposure and an outcome) of 1.36. In other words, the vaccinated were 36% more likely to get coronavirus.

 Pentagon Study: Flu Shot Raises Risk of Coronavirus by 36% (and Other Supporting Studies) (13 paragraphs article with many images, April 16)

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* The next link is to the first part of a four part series by John Rappoport that chiefly goes into deaths in nursing homes. (At the start of each article he links to the next one in the series.)

In Europe and in the United States a huge percentage, often close to half, of the "Covid deaths" happened in nursing homes. Rappoport gets into the issues such as the terror created by the panic and the effects of the isolation, because, as part of the lockdown, no family were allowed to visit. And how without these deaths tallied in the daily death toll, would we even consider this to be an epidemic.

From part one of the article:

There are two con jobs going on here, as huge numbers of these elderly patients have died and are dying.

The first is the COVID-19 diagnosis, which is either made on the absurd basis of simply eyeballing the patient and seeing general signs of illness, such as shortness of breath and flu-like symptoms; or by test, which I've explained is completely unreliable, because it registers positive on all sorts of germs in the body that are irrelevant.

But once the COVID diagnosis is made, then medical authorities claim the deaths of so many patients in nursing homes are occurring because the COVID virus naturally has more impact on the elderly and infirm.

Nonsense. There is no need to invoke the coronavirus to explain why these people in nursing homes are dying.

People all around the world, old people, who have traditional illnesses like flu and pneumonia, are being repackaged as COVID cases. Especially people in nursing homes, who are terrified by COVID propaganda and are intentionally isolated from friends and family...

And in fact are dying of their long-term multiple medical conditions, plus years of treatment with toxic drugs...

Plus the terror of COVID, plus complete isolation, plus filthy conditions in some facilities, plus inattention and outright brutality on the part of nursing home staffs, plus breathing ventilators and sedation in some cases —

Not a virus.

 COVID: Behind the global nursing home disaster, and the case-number scam (long 4 part article, June 24)

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* After reading the article linked to above about the studies that show that flu vaccines make people more susceptible to other viruses including coronavirus, and after reading John Rappoport's article, I got to thinking that there might be a very good chance that compared to the general public an inordinately high amount of nursing home patients had been vaccinated not long before Covid hit, at the start of last winter.

I wondered if maybe it is required by law, and even if not required, I would imagine there would be pressure to comply. I looked around and found a page on the CDC's own website that listed a "Menu of State Long-Term Care Facility Influenza Vaccination Laws".

In a section called, "Flu Vaccination Laws for Patients in Long-Term Care Facilities", they have several categories that they break down and under the category, "Examples by Patient Type" it says, "While many states have vaccination laws that apply to all patients, other states have vaccination laws for patients who are particularly vulnerable to flu."

The first "patient type" that they list is:

All Patients - Thirty-two states have flu vaccination laws for all patients.62

Looking at the bottom of the pages, footnote 62 lists the states:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington.

Without knowing all the details, one can't be sure but it is certainly worthy of speculation and investigation.

 Menu of State Long-Term Care Facility Influenza Vaccination Laws

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* The next link is to a video by a man who calls himself The People's Chemist; he says he has a Masters Degree in Organic Chemistry. He simply lays out his natural view of health, his experience with vaccines and looks at information on the subject.

From the video's notes:

The first lesson in medicinal chemistry is, "one size doesn't fit all." Every medicine is different for all people. To push ALL vaccines as safe and effective breaks this lifesaving rule...

When it comes to a child's health, any and all vaccine talk is healthy and mandatory... as long as it's rooted in logic. Unfortunately, you'll never find this in the media. For almost a hundred years, they've beaten us over the head with marketing speak such as, "vaccines are safe and effective," "vaccines have saved us all from deadly childhood diseases," "vaccines don't cause autism," and of course we can't forget the infamous, "Vaccines saved us from polio."

The headlines have become so common and brazen that any talk against vaccines is assumed abusive and risky to our beloved children. No matter how illogical, this has led to mandated vaccination in California and other states. (If vaccines were so great, why mandate them?)

Medicinal Chemist: Why We Didn't Vaccinate Our 4 Children (13:07 long video, December 17, 2019)

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If these vaccines and Gates' and Fauci's vision of the future doesn't scare you, then I ask you, are you willing to give up your sovereignty and are you not concerned about having any agency in your life.

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• The WHO, CDC

Can we trust the WHO? This article exposes the sordid history of the WHO.

From the article:

When then- WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan officially declared a Phase 6 global Pandemic emergency [for the 2009 swine flu], that triggered national emergency programs including billions of dollars of government purchases of alleged H1N1 vaccines. At the end of the 2009 flu season it turned out the deaths due to H1N1 were tiny relative to the normal seasonal flu.

Many of the other WHO scientific experts who advised Dr Chan to declare pandemic were receiving money directly or indirectly from Big Pharma including GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and other major vaccine-makers.

Can We Trust the WHO? (19 paragraphs article, April 25)

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The next article covers the same WHO corruption as the previous article plus it digs into the corruption of the British General Medical Council.

From the article:

I also refer you to the case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The US and UK governments and the press are exulting in the recent highly public hanging of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, recently found guilty of misconduct by the British General Medical Council. Wakefield, you may recall, is the British gastroenterologist who first raised the alarm bells over the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR).

Despite being exhaustively peer-reviewed and accepted for publication, Wakefield's monkey study was subsequently pulled as 'not suitable' for publication after the GMC delivered its verdict. The more the editors of my publication WDDTY have dug into this issue, the more layers of deceit we have uncovered in the form of censorship, data-massaging and burying of damning data.

We have found dirty tricks at the very heart of medicine that would have made Richard Nixon's Watergate henchmen proud. We have found journalism bought and paid for by drug companies.

Strange Bedfellows? (20 paragraphs article, June 4, 2010)

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Here Michelle Greenstein, an excellent investigative journalist, guest hosting The News with Rick Sanchez show on RT, interviews Robert Kennedy Jr. and he exposes how the CDC is joined at the hip with big pharma.

 'The CDC is actually a vaccine company' – Robert F. Kennedy Jr (12:46 long video, January 31)

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Renegade Inc. is a weekly program on RT where Ross Ashcroft interviews great guests on many topics. This next video is an interview with Gerald Posner, author of Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. Ashcroft always asks great questions and Posner knows what he is talking about.

As he says of his book:

It tells you that as bad as you think things were, it's much worse. Five years of research and interviews that blows the lid off how the pharmaceutical industry really operates.

 The karma of big pharma (26:51 long video, May 11)

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* The next article is from the LawFirms website. It's a nuts and bolts 5 paragraph article simply stating that CDC members make money from vaccine related patents and that they claim there is not conflict of interest.

From the article:

When prompted with questions pertaining to their financial connections with pharmaceutical companies, most ACIP [CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] members claim they are able to remain unbiased despite the rewards they receive every time a new vaccination is recommended to the public. In numerous instances, vaccines released to the market are later removed after serious side effects are documented. The rotavirus vaccine was one such example; it was pulled from the market in 1999, a year after its initial approval. In 2001, the House Government Reform Committee found that four out of the eight ACIP members who voted to approve the vaccine had direct financial ties to one or more of the pharmaceutical companies who produced the vaccine for public use. Similar situations involving many other vaccinations have been independently documented over the course of nearly 20 years.

 CDC Members Own More Than 50 Patents Connected to Vaccinations (5 paragraphs article, undated)

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* As mentioned in the Vaccines section, Robert Kennedy Jr. says, "CDC is a subsidiary of the vaccine industry. It sells $4.1 billion worth of vaccines a year. It spends $4.6 billion, almost half its budget, promoting vaccines. And it only spends $20 million testing vaccines."

I went to the CDC website and tried to track down some corroborating information and could not find anything to confirm that but I did find something interesting.

On the CDC website I found a page titled,  CDC Contract Funding Allocations. To the best of my understanding this is how the CDC spends the money that Congress has authorized them for the year.

Under the title is says this:

In fiscal year (FY) 2019, OFR processed 10,609 contract actions that totaled $5.7 billion. The table below shows how CDC contracts are allocated among CDC's centers, institute, and offices (CIOs). The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) produced the highest number of contract actions; however, the majority of contract spending was through the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), primarily for the purchase of vaccines.

In the list below it shows that, of the $5.7 billion they spend, $4,231,948,177 goes to NCIRD, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. That's 74% of their contract allocations. It does appear that Kennedy's claim that the CDC is a "vaccine company" may be true.

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And in another great video by Spiro Skouras he starts by mentioning an article about the UK's Law Commissioner suggesting making it illegal to post an anti-vax opinion, then he moves on to demonstrate the corruption of the CDC.

This from  the article in the Telegraph:

Posting anti-vaccine propaganda on social media could become a criminal offence - even if those promoting it believe the pseudoscience, the UK's new criminal Law Commissioner has said.

In her first interview since taking up the role, Penney Lewis, revealed she is considering whether laws should be amended to "lower the threshold" of criminality for posting false information online that endangers lives.

The video gets into how, as outlined in a PDF, the CDC suggests ways to use fear in propaganda to increase demand for vaccines. In the PDF they refer to the list shown below as their: "Recipe" that Fosters Influenza Vaccine Interest and Demand.

From the CDC's PDF:

3. Medical experts and public health authorities publicly (e.g., via media) state concern and alarm (and predict dire outcomes) - and urge influenza vaccination.

4. The combination of '2' and '3' result in: A. Significant media interest and attention. B. Framing of the flu season in terms that motivate behavior (e.g., as "very severe," "more severe than last or past years," "deadly").

5. Continued reports (e.g., from health officials and media) that influenza is causing severe illness and/or affecting lots of people - helping foster the perception that many people are susceptible to a bad case of influenza.

6. Visible/tangible examples of the seriousness of the illness (e.g., pictures of children, families of those affected coming forward) and people getting vaccinated (the first to motivate, the latter to reinforce).

New Proposed Law To Jail 'Anti-Vaxxers' & The CDC Fear Based Talking Points To Media Revealed! (6:12 long video, February 3)

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* And to wrap up this chapter a video not about the WHO or the CDC but the NIH, and its connections to Moderna Therapeutics. According to NIH's website, "The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation's medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives."

From the video's notes:

Ben Swann takes a look at the highly unusual timeline by which Moderna Therapeutics is developing its C0-vId 19 virus vaccine. Now, 4 scientists with the NIH claim they hold partial patent rights on that vaccine and stand to make up to $150,000 per year. Meanwhile, as Moderna's stock price continues to soar, 5 top executives have sold off $89 million dollars worth of shares, even as the company continues to bypass standard vaccine protocols in the development of its C0-vId v@ccine.

Is Moderna and NIH Partnership "Rotten To The Core"? (9:03 long video, June 30)
Events and Agendas Preceding the Arrival of Covid

Anybody who has studied the mainstream news knows that there is a lot going on that never breaks into the top 40 news cycle until it triggers an event that finally makes knowledge of its existence unavoidable.

There has always been lots going on in the world of the powerful elite that is untouchable as far as the mainstream news is concerned; in fact it's those powerful players or their agents who shape the narrative and often who are the "expert" guests brought on to explain to the host what is going on; what they want us to believe. Now, in this current crisis, as we've seen in the Disaster Capitalism chapter, we can be certain that people with an agenda will want to leverage it. It behooves us to do our due diligence and be aware of the agendas of these players.

One common theme seems to run through a lot of the visions for the future by the wealthiest, most powerful people and organizations and that is a technological future where needs are met and society is managed through artificial intelligence, electronics including 5G (the internet of things), and biological advancements.

Unfortunately this is not going to be like the fluffy cartoon sitcom that the Jetsons was, but rather a top down controlled future. You're given the illusion of choice and of participation, but in reality all the outcomes have been predetermined by them.

You can decide if you think these events and agendas presented in this chapter are related to the current situation or not, or whether those involved can or might succeed in carrying out their designs, but they are something one should know exists and is in play.

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• Event 201

First, from the horse's mouth, from the Event 201 website:

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.

The Event 201 Website

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The following is an excerpt from an article on the Last American Vagabond website by Derrick Broze about Event 201 (the article is linked to in the General Discussions chapter):

On October 18, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum on a high-level pandemic exercise known as Event 201. Gates is a long time "Agenda Contributor" for the WEF and has donated to John Hopkins. Event 201 simulated how the world would respond to a coronavirus pandemic which swept around the planet. The simulation imagined 65 million people dying, mass lock downs, quarantines, censorship of alternative viewpoints under the guise of fighting "disinformation," and even floated the idea of arresting people who question the pandemic narrative.

Coincidentally, one of the players involved with Event 201 was Dr. Michael Ryan, the head of the World Health Organization's team responsible for the international containment and treatment of Covid-19. Ryan called for looking into families to find potentially sick individuals and isolate them from their families.

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• Rockefeller Foundation's Simulations, "Lock Step"

In 2010, The Rockefeller Foundation, along with the Global Business Network (GBN) published "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development."

As can be seen in the image above, there are 2 parameters, one rating the scenarios low or high, and the other, weak or strong. In each of the scenarios they look at how it would best be managed; the opportunities and the challenges.

Of the four scenarios the rosiest future scenario would be the high, strong one called Clever Together. I won't go into it (read it yourself if you are interested) but suffice to say that scenario had a snowflake's chance in hell of coming true in the next couple of decades, requiring extensive cooperation between nations and "highly coordinated and successful strategies" emerging.

One of the scenarios is of particular interest. That is the Lock Step scenario. This scenario is rated low for "adaptive capacity", but strong for "political and economic alignment." It envisions a dramatic world-wide pandemic and its consequences, how it would play out, and what would be necessary.

They introduce the scenario so:

Lock Step - A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.

And this from the Lock Step scenario simulation:

At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty—and their privacy—to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests.

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Below are 2 articles about the 2010 Rockefeller simulations.

The first article looks at how the simulations "eerily resemble" what is happening now. And it looks a bit at Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network.

From the article:

Lock Step is one of four Scenarios for the future of technology and international development, which the Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network (GBN) came up with in 2010 after a year of work by a large team. GBN is described by its founder, the US-American futurist Peter Schwartz as a "high level networking and corporate research agency." Schwartz has worked for the Pentagon and has ties to the World Economic Council. He sits on the board of the (militaristic) Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and is a member of the 21st Century Council of the Berggruen Institute, which develops ideas to shape political and social institutions.

 Gates Foundation's "Event 201" & Rockefeller Foundation's "Lock Step" Simulations, Eerily Resemble Current Events (19 paragraphs article, May 14)

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And this second article is a broader look at it and its meaning, including how humanity accepts a major shift in parameters.

From the article:

No one should be deceived if the Foundation's technocratic monitoring fantasy is not being implemented in this form, at least not on short term. That is not the point. The point of these advances is to shift and expand the space of discourse, the spectrum of what may be discussed.

Taking advantage of the favourable opportunity of the pandemic to raise such extreme proposals, is a test of whether the public opinion accepts this without getting upset. If it does, the main goal has already been achieved and the space of discourse is shifted.

 Lock Step: How the Rockefeller Foundation wants to implement its autocratic pandemic scenario (23 paragraphs article, May 28)

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The Rockefeller Foundation has repurposed the Lock Step scenario and they published their new version on April 21, 2020, under the title "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan: Pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities."

Find more on the repurposed "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan" in the 1984esque Plans section.

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• Fourth Industrial Revolution

So what is the World Economic Forum (one of the 3 players involved with Event 201) and what are they all about?

From the About section of their  website page about themselves and their Fourth Industrial Revolution:

Policy governing emerging technologies is currently piecemeal: Some areas are regulated heavily, others hardly at all. Often, mechanisms for policy-makers to interact with people at the cutting edge of research simply do not exist.

There is a need for a global and trusted space where leading technology companies, dynamic start-ups, policy-makers, international organizations, regulators, business organizations, academia and civil society can collaborate to develop the agile policy norms and partnerships needed to stimulate the enormous potential of science and technology, deliver rapid growth and generate sustainable, positive impact for all.

Also on that page, scroll down and check out all the companies who are founding partners.

Below is the YouTube link to the video which is also on the page linked to above. The video, What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?, is about the new world and state of humanity they envision.

What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution? (11:30 long video, July 18, 2016)

Creepy much?

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Whitney Webb is an incredible investigative journalist. She connects the dots like no one else. In the article below she talks about the little-known US government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

From a PDF from the NSCAI titled,  Chinese Tech Landscape Overview:

"Adoption" [of AI] happens far more quickly in China due to structural factors. The most significant of these are ...

1. Lack of legacy systems: e.g. lack of credit cards = mobile payment

2. Scale of consumer market: e.g. extreme urban density = on-demand service adoption

3. Explicit government support: and involvement e.g. facial recognition deployment

In an effort to get the upper hand on China in the world of AI they show a kind of envy of China's ability to move ahead with new technology and their doing away with what they call "legacy" systems.

Whitney investigates the NSCAI in depth. And, as always, she provides innumerable links for the information hungry.

From the article:

As previously mentioned, the chairman of the NSCAI is Eric Schmidt, the former head of Alphabet (Google's parent company) who has also invested heavily in Israeli intelligence-linked tech companies including the controversial start-up "incubator" Team8.

Chief among the troublesome "structural factors" highlighted in this presentation are so-called "legacy systems" that are common in the U.S. but much less so in China. The NSCAI document states that examples of "legacy systems" include a financial system that still utilizes cash and card payments, individual car ownership and even receiving medical attention from a human doctor. It states that, while these "legacy systems" in the US are "good enough," too many "good enough" systems "hinder the adoption of new things," specifically AI-driven systems.

 Techno-Tyranny: How the US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision (63 paragraphs article, April 20)

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• ID2020

* What is ID2020 and who is the ID2020 "Alliance" anyway? Looking on the ID2020 website, you can see that three of the founding partners are Microsoft (Bill Gates as shareholder and heart and soul, if no longer owner), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (founded by Bill Gates) and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Also on their website they say their project is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

In September 2015, all United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, including their commitment to "provide legal identity for all, including birth registration" by 2030.

In 2016 the United Nations hosted the ID2020 Summit 2016. On the United Nations Office for Partnerships page about the summit, they confirm this:

ID2020 – a strategic, global initiative launched in response to the Sustainable Development Goal 16.9: "provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030".

** Here are links to two PDFs published by the ID2020 Alliance:

ID2020 At a Glance (PDF)

ID2020 Alliance Manifesto (PDF)

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Here to more fully answer the question, what and who is ID2020?, is a good article by Peter Koenig:

What is the infamous ID2020? It is an alliance of public-private partners, including UN agencies and civil society. It's an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. The program harnesses existing birth registration and vaccination operations to provide newborns with a portable and persistent biometrically-linked digital identity. GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, identifies itself on its website as a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to "immunization for all." GAVI is supported by WHO, and needless to say, its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry.

 The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is "Agenda ID2020" (40 paragraphs article, June 6) (original article, March 11)

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* The next article is about an adviser to the ID2020 Alliance, Elizabeth Renieris, who has resigned over the organization's direction on digital immunity passes and Covid-19. There is a link in the article to her detailed paper titled: The Dangers of Blockchain-Enabled "Immunity Passports" for COVID-19.

From the article:

In her resignation email Friday, Elizabeth Renieris cited ID2020's opacity, "techno-solutionism" and corporate influence along with the risks of applying blockchain to immunity passes.

"At this stage, I can no longer even describe what ID2020's mission is with any confidence," wrote Renieris, who was one of six members of ID2020's technical advisory committee. "All I can perceive is a desire to promote decentralized identity solutions at all costs."

She says the introduction of immunity passes could interfere with people's privacy, freedom of association, assembly, and movement.

"Blockchain-enabled 'immunity certificates' or 'immunity passports' for COVID-19, if implemented by public authorities, would have serious consequences for our fundamental human rights and civil liberties," she writes.

"I cannot be part of an organization overly influenced by commercial interests that that only pays lip service to human rights," she wrote in her resignation. "The stakes are simply too high at this stage."

 'Decentralized ID at All Costs': Adviser Quits ID2020 Over Blockchain Fixation (24 paragraphs article, May 29)

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Here is a video by Syrian Girl giving her take on the dystopian future of digital IDs and, of course, Bill Gates' involvement. (This link has been changed since this book's original publication to the video on BitChute as the YouTube link no longer works.)

The Agenda behind Bill Gates Vaccine & ID2020 : Coronavirus Conspiracies (16:00 long video, April 16)

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• The Wuhan Bio-Lab

In this section are 5 articles about gain-of-function research, the Wuhan lab, the connections to research in the United States and Anthony Fauci. The first article explores what gain-of-function is, the next 3 look at the connection to the US bio research work. And the final one is an article by Whitney Webb; as always, extensive and in depth.

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This first article explains what gain-of-function research is and how crazy it is that researcher are doing it.

From the article:

The Wuhan lab at the center of the controversy had for years been engaged in gain-of-function research. What exactly is it? It's a line of research where scientists take viruses and study how they might be modified to become deadlier or more transmissible. Why would they do this? Scientists who engage in such research say it helps them figure out which viruses threaten people so they can design countermeasures.

 Why some labs work on making viruses deadlier - and why they should stop (44 paragraphs article, May 1)

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The US was itself doing gain-of-function (GOF) research until October 2014, when the US government placed a federal moratorium on it. Not to be daunted by the moratorium, none other than Anthony Fauci outsourced the work (to the tune of $3.7 million - twice). To where... you guessed it.

From the article:

As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses – influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force – outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China's Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.

It is understandable that the Chinese lab likely struggled with safety issues given the fact US labs share similar problems, and indeed in January 2018 the US Embassy in Beijing sent cables warning about the safety of the Wuhan lab and asked for help.

 Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan (22 paragraphs article, April 22)

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An article by Peter R. Breggin, MD cites a paper published by the British journal, Nature Medicine, showing that scientists in Wuhan collaborated to create a novel coronavirus. The article ends with a series of provocative questions, such as: "Who in the US government enabled this research? Why was it allowed when it was enabling the Chinese to develop a military weapon or to accidentally cause an epidemic?"

The very short article includes a video of the author talking about this.

The article's introduction:

In 2015, American researchers and Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers collaborated to transform an animal coronavirus into one that can attack humans. Scientists from prestigious American universities and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) worked directly with the two coauthor researchers from Wuhan Institute of Virology, Xing-Yi Ge and Zhengli-Li Shi. Funding was provided by the Chinese and US governments. The team succeeded in modifying a bat coronavirus to make it capable of infecting humans.

 2015 Scientific Paper Proves US & Chinese Scientists Collaborated to Create Coronavirus that Can Infect Humans (8 paragraphs article, April 15) (14:21 long video)

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From another article on the same theme:

The work entailed risks that worried even seasoned researchers. More than 200 scientists called for the work to be halted. The problem, they said, is that it increased the likelihood that a pandemic would occur through a laboratory accident.

 Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research (21 paragraphs article, April 28)

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And here from Whitney Webb on The Last American Vagabond website, more on the Wuhan lab and the tangled web of bad actors.

This from the article:

While it remains entirely unknown as to what caused the outbreak, the details of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) and the Pentagon's recent experimentation are clearly in the public interest, especially considering that the very companies recently chosen to develop a vaccine to combat the coronavirus outbreak are themselves strategic allies of DARPA. Not only that, but these DARPA-backed companies are developing controversial DNA and mRNA vaccines for this particular coronavirus strain, a category of vaccine that has never previously been approved for human use in the United States.

Yet, as fears of the pandemic potential of coronavirus grow, these vaccines are set to be rushed to market for public use, making it important for the public to be aware of DARPA's recent experiments on coronaviruses, bats and gene editing technologies and their broader implications.

 Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent DARPA Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak (77 paragraphs article, January 30)
The New Normal - What is Already Happening

Now I would be happy if some big event brought about change and afterwards we never went back to the way it was and had a new normal IF... that new normal was a peaceful world beyond war, beyond hunger and poverty, beyond the world being run by a wealthy elite that doesn't give a shit about anyone else, and beyond the dominance of the United States Empire.

However, the new normal that is being suggested that we must get used to is one where the most essential elements of our humanity - touch, closeness, privacy, freedom - are deemed of less value and necessarily sacrificed for a technical state order that will keep us or make us safe.

This chapter is about the dehumanizing things already happening and the draconian measures already being enacted that we are supposed to accept as the new normal.

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• The Covi-Pass

Are you ready to give up your agency in order to simply interact with others and do business with whom you choose? Or to use what used to be public space? Do you remember not so long ago how the West would refer to itself, in contrast with Cuba, China, Iran, etc., as the "free world." Well, no more. You may need a passport for a "safe return to work, life, and safe travel."

From the article:

A British cyber security company, VST Enterprises has signed a contract with international digital health technology firm Circle Pass Enterprises (CPE), owner of 'Covi-Pass', to supply 50 million of its 'digital health passports' to 15 countries.

'A traffic light system confirms their health status as either red or green, red for positive and green for negative,' the company points out. 'The amber colour indicates a countdown timer to when another test would be due and required. The Covi-Pass can be used as an authenticated gateway for public services, businesses and employees to manage a safe return to work, life, and safe travel.'

 Sold: 50 Million Digital Health Passports (7 paragraphs article, May 11)

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And from an article by Derrick Broze, if you are planning to fly be ready for this:

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 299 airlines, recently issued their publication, Biosecurity for Air Transport - A Roadmap for Restarting Aviation, which outlines their strategy to open up air travel as governments begin to lift travel restrictions.

Under a section titled, "The passenger experience" and "Temporary biosecurity measures," the IATA describes their vision of post-Covid-19 flights. The organization calls for contact tracing, a controversial method of tracking the civilian population to track the spread of Covid-19.

"We foresee the need to collect more detailed passenger contact information which can be used for tracing purposes," the report states. "Where possible, the data should be collected in electronic form, and in advance of the passenger arriving at the airport including through eVisa and electronic travel authorization platforms."

 Your "Immunity Passport" Future Begins to Materialize as Airlines Call for Digital ID Tracking Systems (12 paragraphs article, May 29)

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And here's a good video on Digital Immunity Passports from Dave Cullen:

Digital Immunity Passports are Coming (14:48 long video, May 29)

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* In an article by Raul Diego of MintPress, he looks at a digital ID program that is now being rolled out in West Africa. Are these people really doing this because they care or is there money, control, or power in it for them? You decide.

From the article:

A biometric digital identity platform that "evolves just as you evolve" is set to be introduced in "low-income, remote communities" in West Africa thanks to a public-private partnership between the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard and the AI-powered "identity authentication" company, Trust Stamp.

The program, which was first launched in late 2018, will see Trust Stamp's digital identity platform integrated into the GAVI-Mastercard "Wellness Pass," a digital vaccination record and identity system that is also linked to Mastercard's click-to-play system that powered by its AI and machine learning technology called NuData. Mastercard, in addition to professing its commitment to promoting "centralized record keeping of childhood immunization" also describes itself as a leader toward a "World Beyond Cash," and its partnership with GAVI marks a novel approach towards linking a biometric digital identity system, vaccination records, and a payment system into a single cohesive platform. The effort, since its launch nearly two years ago, has been funded via $3.8 million in GAVI donor funds in addition to a matched donation of the same amount by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What is perhaps most alarming about this new "Wellness Pass" initiative, is that it links these "dual use" digital solutions to cashless payment solutions that could soon become mandated, as anything other than touchless, cashless, methods of payment have been treated as potential modes for contagion by GAVI-aligned groups like the World Health Organization, among others, since the pandemic was first declared earlier this year.

 Africa to Become Testing Ground for "Trust Stamp" Vaccine Record and Payment System (13 paragraphs article, July 10)

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• Contact Tracing

Cashing in on fear and on the complete misrepresentation of how the virus spreads or of herd immunity or of the fact that more cases is not a terrifying thing, states are implementing 1984-like contact tracing. If you are one of the fearful people that thinks this is simply a well-intended benign method of inhibiting the further spread of the virus, think again.

In their own words, which you will see in the articles and videos linked below this is already by some intended to be extremely draconian. The fact that they are so openly talking about it shows that it has the potential to be used widely; in one of the videos the Minnesota police department talks openly about using contact tracing to find out everywhere people have been and all of their contacts.

Now this isn't completely new. In New York, during the Occupy Wall Street protests, when a protest was planned and about to take place, the NYPD went to the homes of people they had identified and deemed to be rabble rousers, and arrested them preemptively. But the scope of this now is unprecedented in all of history and terrifying.

But don't worry. We'll adapt according to Gideon Lichfield in his article titled bluntly:  We're not going back to normal. He assures us that:

The intrusive surveillance will be considered a small price to pay for the basic freedom to be with other people.

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In the next video you'll hear from a woman who went through the program to learn to be a contact tracer. An amazing look into our new Brave New World.

She starts the video:

But what is contact tracing? Let me share it with you and... you're gonna be freaked out by the end of this video.

Certified contact tracer EXPOSES all (22:42 long video, May 28)

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So you're walking along, strolling through the park or down the sidewalk and your phone rings. You check it and you are notified that you recently passed less than 6 feet away from someone who has Covid-19. Yep, that's happening all over the world.

This very short video gives some insight into how invasive the already in use apps are in some countries.

Privacy concerns over Coronavirus contact tracing apps (2:07 long video, March 30)

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And an article about India's app. But don't worry; it can't happen here.

From the article:

Meanwhile, an independent analysis of the app by Gizmodo revealed that this increasingly mandatory app didn't only enable federal surveillance on a massive scale, but was a battery-drainer that opened these devices to a buffet of hacks as well.

 India's Mandated Contact Tracing App Is An Invasive, Insecure Mess (7 paragraphs article, May 1)

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In the following article, with the headline seen in the image above, it is clear that the people doing contact tracing have a track record and they do not care about your wellbeing.

Massachusetts has announced its new contact tracing program and this article exposes the really bad company they will be keeping in this "partnership."

This from the article:

In April, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker announced the partnership, called the Covid-19 Community Tracing Collaborative, with Partners in Health (PIH), a non-profit organization with highly questionable patronage and an even more dubious history.

With such an intimate connection revolving around the Clinton Foundation's healthcare projects, it should come as no surprise that PIH's biggest donors and partners feature some of the largest pharmaceutical corporations currently set to profit from the Covid-19 pandemic, including Eli Lilly and Co., Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer among many more.

Also found on the list of foundation partners, both public and private, are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, WHO, GE, IBM and a host of others.

 Massachusetts Contact Tracing Program Handed to Clinton-Linked NGO with Questionable Past (20 paragraphs article, May 15)

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Next, several videos of people (in positions of power) openly saying what they plan to do - nightmarishly draconian measures separating families, even children, assigning them caretakers to shop for them and take care of their needs while they are in quarantine.

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Here direct from the mouth of a top WHO official, executive director of their Health Emergencies Programme, Dr. Michael Ryan, is what they see as the next step.

He doesn't mince his words:

Now we need to go and look in families to find those people who may be sick and remove them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner.

WHO official: 'we may have to enter homes and remove family members' (1:12 long video, April 8)

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In this short video by Spiro Skouras you will see clips of Michael Ryan (the previous video) and also of an official from Ventura County, California methodically outlining their contact tracing program and the subsequent removal of people from their homes in all of its invasive glory.

From the video's notes:

California is building an army of 20k people who will be trained as disease detectives, serving six- to 12-month-long gigs that demand skills ranging from data entry and psychology to project management and crisis intervention." Saying the state is providing a "customer service," while others may see this customer service as the new secret police. California will be the test pilot for this program which they have stated will serve as the template nationwide.

US Begins To Implement WHO "Contact Tracing" To Forcibly Remove People From Their Homes! (11:13 long video, May 7)

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I doubt contact tracing is anything new for the police, at least at some level. But now with the new apps and the levels of compliance, it just got easier. It's the McCarthy era on steroids. Here in a press conference Minnesota Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington proudly explains how they are using contact tracing to identify the associates of the people they have arrested.

John Harrington says they've begun Contact Tracing Protesters (2:03 long video, May 30)

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Washington State's Jay Inslee is all in for contact tracing.

This from the next article:

Inslee's aggressive approach to medical surveillance is similar to that of California governor Gavin Newsom's 20,000 strong "Army of Contact Tracers", and also echoes calls by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who is advocating for large-scale contact tracing as a condition of 'return to normalcy'.

 Washington State: Residents Who Refuse COVID Test to Be Placed Under House Arrest (19 paragraphs article, May 20)

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And this history of Jay Inslee from Jon Rappoport's blog, which was linked to in the above article:

When Inslee ran for a seat in the US Congress, in 2009-10, among his largest campaign donors were pharma companies.

Then there is Inslee's connection to Bill Gates, the dark prince of lockdowns, the man who wants to keep the global population in chains until his Covid vaccine arrives.

A clinical trial of a Covid vaccine has begun in Seattle.

This March, Inslee signed a bill into law, giving Gates' pet project, charter schools, state-aid money. Apparently, Bill himself is short on cash.

Dr. Mary Alice Heuschel, a Gates Foundation deputy director, was formerly chief of staff for Inslee.

During his election campaigns covering 2011-12, Inslee's top donor was Microsoft (employees and families).

 Lockdown insanity in Washington State (23 paragraphs article, May 18)

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Not directly about contact tracing but more about Jay Inslee's history. In this next article on the Seattle Times website, they dig deep into Jay Inslee's ties with big pharma and how biotech interests became his top campaign contributors.

From the article:

In the run-up to passage of the national health-care law in 2010, Congress was fighting over an obscure provision with billions of dollars at stake: how quickly to allow generic versions of costly new biotech drugs.

The biotech industry mounted an intense lobbying effort to delay copycat competitors. And the drugmakers found a champion in the Democratic congressman from Bainbridge Island — Jay Inslee.

Waxman had co-authored the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act, which allowed generic versions of conventional chemical-based drugs to be sold five years after the name-brand version.

The following year, Inslee staked out a far different position: to give biotech drugs 14 years of exclusivity and erect other barriers to make it harder for generics to win FDA approval.

 Biotech industry finds a friend in Jay Inslee (46 paragraphs article, June 23, 2012)

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And just in case you think compliance with all of these measures is all going to be voluntary, think again. Here's a scary ad for a job opening.

(I can't vouch for the authenticity of this. I went back to the page later, when compiling this book, and found only something saying the job openings had been filled.)

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• The New Language

This from American author Roger Kimball about the new language that becomes a part of the new normal:

Crises, even if they are manufactured ones, are great producers of linguistic mutation. Thucydides noticed this. In one of the most famous bits of his History of the Peloponnesian War, the great historian wrote that in a time of civil war certain words changed their usual meanings and took on new ones. For example, "reckless audacity came to be considered the courage of a loyal ally; prudent hesitation, specious cowardice; moderation was held to be a cloak for unmanliness; ability to see all sides of a question inaptness to act on any. It's not only civil war that produces such linguistic deformations. Any crisis will do."

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Social Distancing - keeping the required distance from other humans to stay safe and not spread disease (note that it is not called "physical", rather "social" distancing)

Super-spreader Event - a gathering where disease can spread; essentially any gathering of people

Social Re-integration - what you are allowed to do with proper authorization

Contact Tracing - open information exchange about everywhere you've been and who you've been with

Self Isolation - withdrawing from society, ostensibly to protect yourself or others; done in fear, encouraged by the state

Shelter in Place - fallout shelter mentality for an unseen foe

Infodemic - a plague of information that doesn't agree with the state's narrative
The New Normal - What's on the Drawing Board

Things that have been portrayed in numerous dystopian novels, like 1984 and Brave New World, like state control of citizens are no longer in the realm of fiction.

We had already come to the point where our entire mainstream media has become the mouthpiece for the state and the wealthy, feeding us just what they want us to focus on. Major corporations have consolidated markets and manipulated the economy to the point that average people's actions are greatly minimized in terms of creating and influencing the nature of our economy and society. And, of course, the state's surveillance of all communication and movement of the population is almost absolute.

If it wasn't bad enough, now comes a new level of intimate personal control. Or at least that is what they want. The following are some examples of the kinds of things that are now openly being talked about and suggested.

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Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu says he wants to microchip everybody in the country. He assures us this would be safe and privacy would be maintained. Aside from the insanity of this that goes without saying, a guest in this short video suggests the obvious. That this technology could be hacked and used by the most nefarious people. And also that it's ridiculous to believe that it would not be abused by the state.

Roadmap to disaster? | Israeli gov't wants to microchip kids for 'safety' (2:51 long video, May 12)

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• Vaccine Tattoos and Time Released Cocktails of Drugs

Work at MIT was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to imbed a person's vaccination record directly into the skin.

From the article:

Along with the vaccine, a child would be injected with a bit of dye that is invisible to the naked eye but easily seen with a special cell-phone filter, combined with an app that shines near-infrared light onto the skin.

"There may be other concerns that patients have about being 'tattooed,' carrying around personal medical information on their bodies or other aspects of this unfamiliar approach to storing medical records," Mark Prausnitz says. "Different people and different cultures will probably feel differently about having an invisible medical tattoo."

 Invisible Ink Could Reveal whether Kids Have Been Vaccinated (12 paragraphs article, December 18, 2019)

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From another article about research at MIT:

Langer's lab began working on the new drug delivery particles as part of a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was seeking a way to deliver multiple doses of a vaccine over a specified period of time with just one injection. That could allow babies in developing nations, who might not see a doctor very often, to get one injection after birth that would deliver all of the vaccines they would need during the first one or two years of life.

Langer has previously developed polymer particles with drugs embedded throughout the particle, allowing them to be gradually released over time.

 One Vaccine Injection Could Carry Many Doses. Microparticles created by new 3-D fabrication method could release drugs or vaccines long after injection. (16 paragraphs article, September 14, 2017)

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This brings the idea of "what could possibly go wrong" to new nightmarish levels. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that the vaccines in these time release shots were reasonably well tested for safety. Even so, nothing is perfect and we all have different bodies and sensitivities. What if it turns out that a person or child has a bad or really bad reaction to the vaccine. Now they or their parents must live through a period of horror knowing that sometime down the road the booster will kick in and whack them again.

This is truly madness. It's Bill Gates megalomaniac mind and his money, and like-minded lunatics who get off on playing god.

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• 1984esque Plans Requiring Total Compliance

People with power and money are presenting plans for us that they hope to instigate. These plans are being deemed necessary as "pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities."

The article below is about the Rockefeller Foundation's new plan. You may remember them from their Lock Step Scenario covered in the Agendas chapter.

These excerpts from the article:

The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan".

The plan calls for 3 million US citizens to be Covid-19 tested weekly, and the number should be raised to 30 million per week within six months. The goal is to achieve the ability to Covid-19 test 30 million people a day, which is to be realized within a year.

For each test, "a fair market reimbursement (e.g. $100) for all Covid-19 assays" is expected. Thus, billions of dollars a month of public money will be needed.

According to the Plan, the "Pandemic Control Council" is also authorized to create a "Pandemic Response Corps".

The "pandemic response body" would above all have the task of controlling the population with military-like techniques, through digital tracking and identification systems, in work and study places, in residential areas, in public places and when traveling. Systems of this type – the Rockefeller Foundation recalls – are made by Apple, Google and Facebook.

The Plan – that some of the most prestigious universities have contributed to (Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins and others) – prefigures a real hierarchical and militarized social model.

 USA Plan: Militarized Control of Population. The "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan" (13 paragraphs article, May 24)

If you are interested, you can  download the National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan here.

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Below I link to an article about the "Great Reset" that the World Economic Forum (mentioned in the Agendas chapter) is calling for worldwide in the wake of Covid.

Whenever one reads from the WEC's website (likewise from others on board with a new comprehensive world order) you will see words like "sustainability" and "cooperation" and "better society" and "public good" throughout. It sounds like they really care. Don't believe it.

Reading  on their website about the Great Reset, you will find words that don't sound quite as appealing, such as "stakeholder capitalism." Note also that their "Covid Action Platform" is in collaboration with the WHO.

They also say this on their website:

• We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly, writes Professor Klaus Schwab [WEC founder and executive chairman].

• The changes we have already seen in response to Covid-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible.

• This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism - and here's how it can be achieved.

The Forum's Covid Action Platform is created with the support of the World Health Organization and is open to all businesses and industry groups, as well as other stakeholders, aiming to integrate and inform joint action.

Populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices for the sake of health-care and other essential workers and vulnerable populations, such as the elderly. And many companies have stepped up to support their workers, customers, and local communities, in a shift toward the kind of  stakeholder capitalism to which they had previously paid lip service.

I followed the link for stakeholder capitalism and found this from the article by Klaus Schwab himself, explaining how stakeholder capitalism is the superior model:

But, compared to these two options, the third has the most to recommend it. "Stakeholder capitalism," a model I first proposed a half-century ago, positions private corporations as trustees of society, and is clearly the best response to today's social and environmental challenges.

The article below elaborates much more on the Great Reset and the people who want to be the "trustees of society."

 Elite COVID Action: Now Comes the Davos 'Great Reset' (19 paragraphs article, June 11)

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And here in a really informative video Spiro delves into the Great Reset.

From the video's intro:

For months we have seen our way of life change dramatically. We have been told time and time again things will never be the same and we must accept the new normal. Now the social engineers have revealed their hand and officially launched their solution to this crisis. The proposed solution is the Great Reset. In this report we examine what exactly is the great reset and who is involved. We also explore what the Great Reset means for humanity as face unprecedented times.

The Great Reset Plan Revealed: How COVID Ushers In The New World Order (22:04 long video, June 6)

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It's important to realize that the idea of a reset of our society by the wealthy elite is not new. As Schwab says in Spiro's video, it would have been hard to initiate the reset when economies are strong. Now they are not. He then implies that Covid is the cause of the issues that are evidence of the need for change; and now the world needs their kind of change. Remember, it is not the disease but the lockdown that changed everything. By choice. By design.

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• New World Order / Global Governance / Technocracy

* Much of what is going on and is being leveraged during the Covid / Lockdown crisis is the expansion of the reach and control of corporations and governments. It is pretty obvious that corporations have been increasingly gaining more and more control over our lives over the last century, the economy being their biggest lever. And that control has expanded and accelerated dramatically in the last 2 decades due to digitalization and interconnectedness, the ultimate lever.

This section will be just the most basic primer to what's up with technocrats and their lieutenants and their vision.

But first I would like to comment on the idea of a new world order from a personal perspective. I was a young hippie in the 1970's and I envisioned a time when the world would unite. I saw the countries as something similar to the way states are in the United States. I saw this as a natural evolution with love at its center. I still believe it will happen; it is inevitable. But probably not in my lifetime. There is just too much leverage given to greed by money.

The new world order that certain players now want is not a natural evolution of harmony but rather an opportunity offered by disharmony and chaos.

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* But hey, isn't the crazy idea of global governance just a nutty, wild eyed conspiracy theory? If you think so, well, think again. It may be wild eyed but it is not theory.

The link below is to an article by António Guterres, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations. The reader can decide for themselves whether or not they think the intent is one of benevolence. And whether they think the people in charge will solicit our opinions as equals. In any case, clearly and without equivocation, Guterres calls for "global governance."

These excerpts from his article:

The pandemic, as horrible as it is, must be a wake-up call that prompts all political leaders to understand that our assumptions and approaches have to change, and that division is a danger to everyone.

This understanding could lead people to recognize that the only way to address global fragilities is through much more robust mechanisms of global governance with international cooperation.

We need a networked multilateralism, in which the United Nations and its agencies, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, regional organizations such as the African Union and European Union, trade organizations and others work together more closely and effectively.

This, in turn, will help lead to an effective multilateralism with the mechanisms it needs to make global governance work where it is needed.

Political leaders around the world need to heed this wake-up call and come together to address the world's fragilities, strengthen our capacity for global governance, give teeth to multilateral institutions, and draw from the power of unity and solidarity to overcome the biggest test of our times.

Global Wake-Up Call (24 very short paragraphs, undated)

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* Note that in Guterres' article the already well-known bad actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are being called on to take the lead. Amidst the hopeful words like a "more inclusive multilateralism" including "civil society" there is the known history of the World Bank and the IMF.

In an article by the great investigative journalist, Greg Palast, he explains the modus operandi of the IMF, getting his information from, among other sources, Joseph Stiglitz, who was chief economist of the World Bank in the late 1990's and in Bill Clinton's cabinet, as chairman of the President's council of economic advisers.

From the article:

Step One is privatisation. Stiglitz said that rather than objecting to the sell-offs of state industries, some politicians - using the World Bank's demands to silence local critics - happily flogged their electricity and water companies. 'You could see their eyes widen' at the possibility of commissions for shaving a few billion off the sale price.

After privatisation, Step Two is capital market liberalisation. In theory this allows investment capital to flow in and out. Unfortunately, as in Indonesia and Brazil, the money often simply flows out.

Stiglitz calls this the 'hot money' cycle. Cash comes in for speculation in real estate and currency, then flees at the first whiff of trouble. A nation's reserves can drain in days.

And when that happens, to seduce speculators into returning a nation's own capital funds, the IMF demands these nations raise interest rates to 30%, 50% and 80%.

'The result was predictable,' said Stiglitz. Higher interest rates demolish property values, savage industrial production and drain national treasuries.

IMF's four steps to damnation (7 paragraphs article, April 29, 2001)

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* Throughout the book I have made references to technology; how certain players don't see the world as a collection of souls who are free agents, but rather as actors to be directed in some Machiavellian plan. And throughout these technological solutions runs the thread of being anti-life. It's always heroic "science" saving us. Pesticides to kill the bad guy bugs. Genetically modified seeds because nature isn't good enough. And, of course, pharmaceuticals and vaccines to kill invaders in our body instead of orienting our energy and attention to naturally improving our health. Unfortunately "science" has been king and as people have accepted its solutions, they have unwittingly and unconsciously relinquished their agency.

In this next video, Spiro interviews Patrick Wood, who has occupied himself with studies of technocrats for a long time, having published several books on globalization and technocracy. He looks at the long history of technocracy and what it has come to today. He is really enjoyable to listen to, always pleasant even as he outlines the bleak world these people would like to bring about, and are now pushing hard for.

Something that struck me that he talked about in the video is how in a technocrat shaped future, one won't even know who is responsible for things happening the way do; there will be algorithms in place that orchestrate our lives. We already see this with Facebook and YouTube censorship. It's an artificial intelligence nightmare programmed by agenda driven agents and enforced by algorithm.

The Global Elite & The Coronavirus Coup D'état With Patrick Wood (45:53 long video, July 20)

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* The next article goes into how various aspects of what many still falsely believe to be our democracy have been co-opted by and outsourced to technocrats.

From the article:

But the technocracy's power has long been growing in the United States as well.

This may seem odd in a world where we are told democracy is among the highest political values, but technocrats have nonetheless managed to justify themselves through myths asserting that technocrats make scientific decisions guided only by The Data. These technocrats, we are told, care nothing of politics and only make sound decisions based on where the science leads.

This is the new model of "efficient" government. But in many areas, this is already how the United States is governed. There is no shortage of boards, panels, courts, and agencies that are controlled by experts who function largely without any oversight from the voters, taxpayers, or elected officials.

Unfortunately, this scheme has worked. Voters are inclined to "trust the experts" and polls often show that the public trusts unelected "experts" more than they trust Congress. This is a great victory for the bureaucrats and for those who push for an ever more powerful state.

America Is a Technocracy, Not a Democracy (25 paragraphs article, May 1)

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* The next video is by David Icke and encapsulates the conspiracy of a core elite whose end goal is to turn the world into something like China's current massive surveillance state with its interconnected digital oversight. A technocrat's dream.

As an encapsulation it is short on in-depth follow up to what is being said, but if any reader has followed a number of links in this book and has gotten this far without retreating to the more comfortable world of believing in the "experts", they might find this to be a good overview of the situation, or at least food for thought to help flesh out the bigger picture.

 How They Pulled Off The 'Pandemic' – An Animated Film Explanation By David Icke (16:00 long video)
General Discussions on the Intentionality of the Scam

This chapter will be articles by those who are quite convinced of the intentionality of the Covid crisis, or at least of the response. These articles and videos discuss the situation in general; not addressing a specific issue, like most of the other articles and videos linked to in the book. The articles tend to be lengthier; not for the faint of heart.

Also, they appear with no or minimal comment from me; usually just their bio (or excerpts from their bio) from the article. I won't mention their length like I did throughout most of the book.

There is a section for articles and a section for videos.

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• Articles

Bio: Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of "Why Violence?"

The Psychology of the COVID-19 Coup: The Elite, their Victims and those who Resist (April 28?)

**  Halting Our Descent into Tyranny: Defeating the Global Elite's Covid-19 Coup (119 paragraphs article, August 19)

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Part 1 of Helen Buyniski's article appeared in the Lockdown's Effect on our Humanity section above. Part 2 appears here, it being a more intense look at the scam being perpetuated.

From the article:

Parents in Wales are being warned that conspiracy theorists are a greater threat than pedophiles on the internet. Compounding the seriousness of wrongthink, the WHO has popularized the term "infodemic" – implying ideas are as dangerous to one's health as pathogens – and recommended a "vaccine for misinformation."

Bio: Helen Buyniski is a journalist and photographer based in New York City.

 The Modern-Day Cult of Corona: The Imposition of a "Multilayer Control Grid". The "Lock Step" Future of Humanity? (May 23)

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Bio: Rosemary Frei has an MSc in molecular biology from a faculty of medicine and was a freelance medical writer and journalist for 22 years. She is now an independent investigative journalist in Toronto, Ontario.

The title of the article says it all.

 The Seven-Step Path from Pandemic to Totalitarianism (April 23)

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Andre Vltchek is really one of the best journalists I have encountered. In this article he is more reflective than journalistic; rambling emotionally about the devastation wrought upon us.

Bio: Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries.

 The 'Battle' Against COVID-19 in a Fragmented World, Has Ruined Billions of Lives (May 18)

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Peter Koenig, another great journalist.

Bio: Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America.

 The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A "Universal Lockdown" (May 26)

Coronavirus – The Aftermath. A Coming Mega-Depression... (April 9)

* The Global Reset – Unplugged. "The Deep State" (July 9)

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Bio: David Skripac has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Aerospace Engineering. He served as a Captain in the Canadian Forces for nine years. During his two tours of duty in the Air Force he flew extensively in the former Yugoslavia as well as in Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.

COVID-19 and the Rise of the Police State (April 28)

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Bio: C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced and have toured at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), ...

The War on Death (March 26)

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Bio: Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute.

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers (March 28)

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Bio: Derrick Broze, a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond, is a journalist, author, public speaker, and activist. He is the co-host of Free Thinker Radio on 90.1 Houston, as well as the founder of The Conscious Resistance Network & The Houston Free Thinkers.

 Bill Gates' Web of Dark Money and Influence – Part 3: Health Surveillance, Event 201 and the Rockefeller Connection (May 29)

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Bio: Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research. He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations.

 In the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards A New World Order? The Global Debt Crisis and the Privatization of the State (April 17)

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Bio: Whitney Webb, a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond, has previously written for Mintpress News, Ben Swann's Truth In Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

 Media Ignores Israel Connection to Eric Schmidt's Push For NY "Smart Cities" (May 20)

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• Videos

Bio: Framing the World - A studio dedicated to producing & distributing hard-hitting documentaries that matter and educating the public on the New World Order deception.

Coronavirus: A Brave New World (18:57 long video, April 3)

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Bio: Whitney Webb, a staff writer for The Last American Vagabond, has previously written for Mintpress News, Ben Swann's Truth In Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She currently lives with her family in southern Chile.

Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein & COVID-19 (12:49 long video, May 1)

COVID-19 & the Security State w/ Whitney Webb (1:11:09 long video, April 26)

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The book wouldn't be complete without including this "controversial" video that has really rattled some cages. It was censored from YouTube and there are numerous videos on YouTube contesting her content. But you have to wonder whose toes she was stepping on when YouTube is packed full of garbage that doesn't get censored. She does make some very critical claims about Fauci and Gates.

Plandemic Documentary: The Hidden Agenda Behind Covid-19 (26:08 long video, May 4) (BitChute)

Personally I can't vouch for her but she does seem to have extensive medical credentials.

Searching Judy Mikovits I came across the website linked to below. It is the Scientists for Wired Technology website; they are against the wireless technology revolution, specifically 5G. They have a page about Mikovits.

This is the first 2 paragraphs of her bio on that page:

Dr. Judy Mikovits earned her BA in Chemistry with a specialization in biology from the University of Virginia in 1980 and her PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology from George Washington University in 1992. Upon graduation from the University of Virginia, she went directly to the National Cancer Institute in Frederick Maryland where she developed purification methods for Interferon alpha. It was this interferon, which was used in the first immune therapy treatment for hairy cell leukemia in 1986. In 1986-7, prior to enrolling in graduate school, she went to Upjohn Pharmaceuticals in Kalamazoo Michigan to develop production methods to insure biological materials manufactured using human blood products were free of contamination from HIV-1.

Dr. Mikovits' PhD thesis defense titled "Negative Regulation of HIV Expression in Monocytes" changed the paradigm for therapeutic treatment of HIV. For this work, she was awarded the graduate student of the year in 1991.

Dr. Judy Mikovits Primer
The Players

* This chapter is a list of some of the major players and the various things they are involved with and / or connected to that have been covered in this book or articles or videos that were linked to. (The list is certainly not complete.)

Bill Gates

• Biggest donor to the World Health Organization.

• Founded and supports Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the next biggest donor to the WHO.

• Donated money in March to Imperial College where Neil Ferguson did his modeling.

• Co-hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York.

• Is deeply involved with vaccination; in some cases with disastrous results.

• Launched the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration in 2010.

• Is one of 5 partners in the Global Vaccine Action Plan.

• Funded work at MIT to imbed a person's vaccination record directly into the skin.

• Funded the creation of EarthNow, a project involving 500 satellites equipped with machine learning technology to surveil the entire planet with real-time video; EarthNow hopes to sell its live-video and "intelligent vision" products to governments and others.

• Co-founded and funds the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI).

• Is a force behind privatization of schools.

• Has put money into geo-engineering and genetically modified mosquitoes.

• Has been heavily invested in Monsanto and genetically modified crops.

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Founded by Bill Gates)

• Is one of the largest 2 donors to the World Health Organization

• Is one of the 5 founding partners of ID2020.

• Is one of 5 partners in the Global Vaccine Action Plan.

• Is a founding partner of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

• Is a partner of the World Bank, who was one of its founding members.

• Is rolling out the Wellness Pass in Africa, a digital vaccination record and identity system that is also linked to Mastercard's click-to-play system.

Rockefeller Foundation

• Published "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development."

• Re-implemented the Lock-Step scenario as the "National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan: Pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities."

• Is one of 5 founding partners of ID2020.

• Their President, Rajiv Shah, is the former Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a CIA partner organization.

World Economic Forum

• Co-hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York.

• Champions their Fourth Industrial Revolution.

• Is pushing the Great Reset envisioning "stakeholder capitalism" which "positions private corporations as trustees of society."

• Launched the COVID Action Platform in collaboration with the World Health Organization.

Johns Hopkins University

• Is involved in making vaccines and promoting vaccines.

• Co-hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York.

• Is partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation on their National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan.

• In 1995 Michael R. Bloomberg gave $20 million to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, it later being renamed the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

• Received in 2018 $1.8 billion from Michael Bloomberg, the largest ever contribution to an academic institution in American history.

Mario Cuomo

• Banned the use of hydroxychloroquine in the entire state of New York.

• Is in bed with Bill Gates, rethinking the old model of schooling.

• Had hospitals transfer Covid-19 positive patients into nursing homes.

Jay Inslee

• Has gotten major campaign donations from the biotech industry.

• Has fought in Congress for it to take longer for generic drugs to be available.

• Microsoft is a donor to his campaigns.

Anthony Fauci

• Was involved in gain-of-function research in the US and later in Wuhan, China.

• Came out as a vocal opponent of chloroquine, even though he certainly knew about the 2005 study published in the Virology Journal that concluded: Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread.

• Is one of the 5 people who comprise the Leadership Council of the WHO's Global Vaccine Action Plan.

• Was on the Leadership Council of Gates' Decade of Vaccines Collaboration in 2010.

The CDC

• Published a report outlining how to increase fear of outbreaks to increase use of vaccines.

• 3/4 of their "Contract Funding Allocations" goes to National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) for "the prevention of disease, disability, and death through immunization."

The WHO

• Is deeply involved with vaccination; in some cases with disastrous results.

• Stopped research into chloroquine after the fake Surgisphere report.

• Has declared pandemics in co-ordination with vaccine manufacturers in order to sell vaccines. Changed the definition of "pandemic" to a less stringent one, one month before declaring the Swine Flu (H1N1) a pandemic.

• The WHO's Michael Ryan has advocated going into families and removing "people who may be sick."

• Is in collaboration with the World Economic Forum on their COVID Action Platform.

• Is one of 5 partners in the Global Vaccine Action Plan.

• Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director General in 2010, was at that time on the Leadership Council of Gates' Decade of Vaccines Collaboration.

• Director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus appointed Robert Mugabe as the WHO's goodwill ambassador.

BlackRock

• Owns the company, Gilead Sciences, that makes Remdesivir, the expensive drug being promoted for Covid-19.

Microsoft

• Is one of the 5 founding partners of ID2020.

• Is a founding partner of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The Players Cross Referenced by Association

Event 201, co-hosted by:

• Bill Gates

• World Economic Forum

• Johns Hopkins University

ID2020, among the 5 founding partners:

• Microsoft

• The Rockefeller Foundation

• Gavi

• Facebook

Fourth Industrial Revolution founding partners:

• World Economic Forum

• Gavi

• Microsoft

COVID Action Platform collaborators:

• The World Economic Forum

• The WHO

Global Vaccine Action Plan partners:

• Bill Gates

• GAVI Alliance

• US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Anthony Fauci)

• The WHO

National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan collaborators:

• The Rockefeller Foundation

• Johns Hopkins University
Final Thought

Final thought:

I guess it's easy for me to say because I don't own one and have no need to never be separated from an electronic device, but consider giving up your smartphone. Love your computer at home, then leave the house unfettered by the digital tendrils of your device. It's one giant step people can take towards balance. Not a Luddite future but a life with a techno / natural balance.

The allure of cool new gadgets that marketers exposed us to in the 20th century has evolved into the allure of cool new electronic devices. And while the accumulation of gadgets in the past may have been wasteful and their value questionable, any impact from that obsession only gradually affected society.

But the obsession with devices and interconnectedness electronically coupled with the exponentially increasing upward transfer of wealth has brought us to a dangerous crossroads.

Does your smartphone really make you happier? Do you really need it? It is the portal to your life that is controlled by someone else.

Let it go.
Appendix

Some video channels where lots of Covid alternative information can be found:

The Corbett Report \- James Corbett - BitChute Channel

corbettreport \- James Corbett - YouTube Channel

Spiro \- Spiro Skouras - BitChute Channel

Spiro Skouras \- YouTube Channel

Computing Forever \- Dave Cullen - BitChute Channel

Computing Forever \- Dave Cullen - YouTube Channel

UnHerd \- Interviews by Freddie Sayers - YouTube Channel

Pamela Popper \- YouTube Channel

The Last American Vagabond \- YouTube Channel

The Last American Vagabond \- BitChute Channel

Ben Swann's Truth in Media Project \- YouTube Channel

Some websites where lots of alternative Covid information can be found:

Global Research

MintPress News

Information Clearing House

21st Century Wire

The Last American Vagabond

Technocracy News and Trends

Some websites of individuals dedicated to bringing light against the mainstream Covid deception:

NoFakeNews.net - Your Source for Alternative News

John Rappoport - Investigative Reporter

Miri AF - Wordsmith Extraordinaire & Muckraker

Note: There are many many more great alternative news and information sources who do great work, but the above links are to the ones I know about who are doing a good amount of work focused on Covid.

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So what is a Z-score?

Generally speaking this is the amount that the data (in the case of Euromomo, deaths) deviates from normal. First here is the formula as it is defined, then I will explain it:

Z-score = (number of deaths - baseline) / Standard deviation of the residuals.

The baseline is the average (they call it the "mean") amount of deaths and the deviation is the data points above and below the baseline. The standard deviation is how much it normally deviates up and down. Let's say over a long period of time the standard deviation was 3. If 20 is the average (baseline), a normal week might be 21, 23, 22, 17, 18, 19, 20. Now if there were 26 deaths one week, that would be 26 - 20 = 6 / 3 = 2. The Z-score would be 2, meaning the deviation in the amount of deaths were twice as much as it normally deviates.

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Errata

* In the first edition I wrote:

What they are saying is that for every 1% of the workforce that loses their jobs, there will be 4,027 more deaths than had they not lost their jobs. 40 million Americans just lost their jobs. Using his number of 158.76 million workers in the US, then roughly 40% of the workforce just became unemployed. That would translate into an increase of 160,000 deaths this year due to the lockdown.

What it should have said [corrections **bold** and in brackets]:

Using his number of 158.76 million workers in the US, then roughly [ **25%** ] of the workforce just became unemployed. That would translate into an increase of [ **100,000]** deaths this year due to the lockdown.

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* In earlier publications, in the Congress Works to the Advantage of the Wealthy Elite section, there are two misstatements.

I wrote:

The CARES Act gave the Federal Reserve $4.5 trillion to dole out to the biggest wealthiest corporations in the country.

What it should have said [corrections **bold** and in brackets]:

The CARES Act gave the Federal Reserve **[$454 billion (which is $4.5 trillion after being leveraged times 10 by the Fed)** ] to dole out to the biggest wealthiest corporations in the country.

And I wrote:

If it wasn't bad enough that big business got $4.5 million (before being leveraged by the Fed), those lovely Congress people slipped something else into the CARES Act.

It should have read:

If it wasn't bad enough that big business got $4.5 [ **trillion** ], those lovely Congress people slipped something else into the CARES Act.

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The United States Empire and its Fall

The United State's Empire and its Fall is about how the United States has become the largest empire the world has ever known. Be it by military conquest, blackmail, or intimidation, the United States has extended its influence to every corner of the earth. And as the United States government focuses so much of its resources and energy towards world domination, the needs of the people the government is supposed to represent are being neglected.

Obama's Pro-War, Pro-Corporate Choices

Shortly after Obama's election I began to become disappointed with many of his policies, appointments, and approaches. While there were signs of hope early on, it soon seemed to devolve into business as usual. Early on I began writing down some of the things that disappointed me. Little did I know how far reaching my list was to become. Obama's Pro-War, Pro-Corporate Choices is that compilation, organized in 7 main sections, most with subsections.

The real importance of this compilation is that facts are needed to counter the phenomenon of Obama floating through his presidency while good-hearted Democrats were asleep. With his charisma and message of hope and change, the vast majority of Democrats who were not inclined to take the effort to really see what was happening, relied on the mainstream media for their information, and remained Obama supporters, reality neatly avoided.
About the Author

I was born in Seattle and spent the first 30 years of my life in the Pacific Northwest. Well, except for 4 school years in a private Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, which was a great communal living experience. I think this had a far reaching and profound effect on my life. I have since lived in many different places, mostly favoring the West Coast; Olympia, Bellingham, San Juan Island, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Maui, Kauai and currently Sebastopol, California. Integral in my experience has been a number of trips to Europe, mostly spending my time in the area around Innsbruck, Austria, where I have so many dear friends.

Work has also been varied; most of it being for myself. I have worked as a carpenter and with a partner built 2 houses in the mountains (one in Idaho, one in Washington) using almost exclusively hand tools. In Santa Cruz, I started my own business building and selling portable massage tables of my own design and did that for many years.

I love music; my favorites being classical music of the more sublime nature (Debussy, for one) and psychedelic era rock of which I consider the Beatles to be the ultimate. My favorite instrument is the human voice. Music has been a cornerstone of my life and has carried me through many peaceful and turbulent times.

I love to get out and ramble around on my mountain bike. It keeps me young; not the exercise so much as the playfulness and freedom of it.

And my most recent passion is playing strategic eurogame board games with friends.

Check out my interview and author page on Smashwords here.
Other Books by Roger Brown

I have five paperback books finished at this time that are all also available as eBooks. They are:

The Truth Seeker's Handbook has been published in print and as an eBook. I kept journals for over 20 years, writing almost every day. Much of the philosophy, the struggles leading to learning and the attitudes that helped me get through life appears in this book. It has a section dealing with major life themes, one about our relationship to the Earth, one retelling stories of serendipity, and finally a section of reminders to help along the way.

Excerpt from The Truth Seeker's Handbook:

Delight in truth at all costs. We really must accept everything we experience. Simply say, yes, this is happening to me. We tend to avoid and repress and choose against less pleasant feelings. What a rip-off! They offer powerful information as to what is going on; information as to the reason why we don't at the moment have pleasant feelings. The desirable feelings validate flow and rightness. The unpleasant ones are the ones needing the most attention.

Heading Out is poetry and prose and has been published in print and as an eBook. Cryptic and cosmic might be good words to describe these writings; word adventures. Poetry is an individual thing and I can't say for sure you will like them, but look for it and check out the free eBook sample.

A short poem from Heading Out:

Popsicle process brings freedom ... in heat.

What was ice yields a watery treat.

When we allow ourselves to have what we need

That water fertilizes and brings life to our seed.

Encounters has been published in print and as an eBook. It is about encounters with women in my life that were romantic and sometimes intimate but does not include the girlfriends or lovers of duration. It is all journal entries in real time; usually my initial feelings, the encounter evolving, and finally myself seeking resolution and completion for myself and hopefully us. These encounters took place mostly during my 20's and 30's and are very gutsy and emotional. I have been a very emotional person and it may surprise some people to read a man's feelings essentially unedited.

Excerpt from Encounters:

I approached her during a thunderstorm downpour on the main sunning deck (at Harbin Hot Springs). I was attracted to her and felt an immediate thrill from and affection for her. I wanted her. I spent some time with her and got to know her a little. I slept next to her on the sleeping deck. She let me know she needed space. She removed my hand gently from her body, but didn't let go. She held my hand a few moments more. What a beautiful softening of the space between us that she required. I was hurt and felt rejected, although I appreciated her communication and integrity. I cried. Strange sleep. Dreams. I felt again defeated but fought it, hung in there.

**Insights** has been published in print and as an eBook. This is a compilation of most of the journal entries which didn't appear in any of my other books, but that I felt needed to see the light of day. I organized them into such categories as Cosmic, Philosophy and Attitude, Love, Society, and several more.

Excerpt from Insights:

I heard Earth Angel on the radio today and thought about the American Dream and its surfacing in the 50's and the dreamy songs reflecting it. I was overwhelmed with a rush of rightness. Sure it is distorted. Sure its means are destructive. But the dream - to have comfort and ease and the time and space to relax and expand, time to create, to have comfortable homes is fine. It sparked a spiritual movement which unfortunately was complicated by an awesome opportunity to be corrupted by material and sensory numbing diversions. But the dream itself, it's not only the American Dream but a soul's dream. To mellow a life in a body. To find harmony. I'm all for it.

**33 Years of Dreams** has been published in print and as an eBook **.** Over a period of 33 years I wrote down a ton of dreams. A friend once said to me, why would anybody want to read anyone else's dreams? That got me to thinking but it came to me you could also ask why would anybody want to read anyone else's poetry? They are the same, in a way; kind of cryptic non-linear stories that take images and create something to be interpreted. After trimming out some of the uninteresting and poorly transcribed dreams it is, in its final form, almost 700 pages and is published in 2 volumes. They are for sale individually.

A dream from 33 Years of Dreams:

I was with a pet, female, smiling Buffalo and a group of friends hanging out in the country. And with an alien friend who materialized to be with us. There was a river scene, after going through a gate. Rednecks were hassling us, then we saw three of our women being physically abused down the road a ways, by three men. We headed down in force (with our alien and Buffalo) to deal with it.

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