US Covid19 Cases Underestimated 80-Fold?

Penn State University reports:

... the number of early COVID-19 cases in the U.S. may have been more than 80 times greater and doubled nearly twice as fast as originally believed. In a paper published today (June 22) in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers estimated the detection rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influenza-like illnesses (ILI) surveillance data over a three week period in March 2020. “We analyzed each state’s ILI cases to estimate the number that could not be attributed to influenza and were in excess of seasonal baseline levels,” said Justin Silverman, assistant professor in Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology and Department of Medicine. “When you subtract these out, you’re left with what we're calling excess ILI – cases that can't be explained by either influenza or the typical seasonal variation of respiratory pathogens.” The researchers found that the excess ILI showed a nearly perfect correlation with the spread of COVID-19 around the country. Said Silverman, “This suggests that ILI data is capturing COVID cases, and there appears to be a much greater undiagnosed population than originally thought.” Remarkably, the size of the observed surge of excess ILI corresponds to more than 8.7 million new cases during the last three weeks of March, compared to the roughly 100,000 cases that were officially reported during the same time period.

The report continues:

...the researchers’ model suggested that [in New York] at least 9% of the state’s entire population was infected by the end of March. After the state conducted antibody testing on 3,000 residents, they found a 13.9% infection rate, or 2.7 million New Yorkers.

The authors of the study, which was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine conclude that:

...“Our results suggest that the overwhelming effects of COVID-19 may have less to do with the virus’ lethality and more to do with how quickly it was able to spread through communities initially... A lower fatality rate coupled with a higher prevalence of disease and rapid growth of regional epidemics provides an alternative explanation to the large number of deaths and overcrowding of hospitals we have seen in certain areas of the world.”

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Of Plagues and Lockdowns Past

In his account of the year 1606 in English history, James Shapiro writes of the resurgence of plague in London in July of that year. With plague deaths in excess of 40 a week, the theatres were closed, including that of Shakespeare's company, the Kings Men, who lowered the flag at the Globe and locked the playhouse doors.

Under the applicable regulations, those in a household with an infected person were compelled to remain at home in quarantine. Those caught escaping from a quarantined house

who did not have the marks of plague on them could be whipped and those with visible plague sores were guilty of a felony and subject to execution.

Which makes the practice in Wuhan of enforcing quarantines by nailing up doors with two-by-fours seem mild in comparison.

Recession Social Distancing: Source

By the fall, the Lord Mayor of London, like Covid-encumbered Donald Trump today, faced accusations of failing to take "meet care in repressing the contagion of the plague."

Among those inadequate measures, the City had ordered that doors of infected households be painted with a red cross. However, it was said that too many were washing the paint off, prompting the Lord Mayor to promise the use of oil-based, not water-based, paint in the future.

By October, the death rate was averaging over 150 a week and diplomats, including the Venetian Ambassador, were departing. In response to the growing crisis, the Lord Mayor promised to expel beggars from the city, and to post watchmen outside every infected house, thereby "suffering no person to go more out of the said house."

Meantime, those attending on the sick, which is to say the UberEats and GrubHub of the day, were required to carry a yard-long red stick, thereby to prompt other users of the public space to social distance.

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Covid Conspiracies

Covid 19 may be among the latest in a long line of viruses that have jumped the species barrier from animal to man, in this case from a bat, either directly, or via an intermediate host. There are grounds, however, to suggest that the transition was by way of a virology lab engaged in so-called gain-of-function research, which is to say research aimed at increasing the infectivity or virulence or both of the virus.

If it is the case that Covid19 crossed the species barrier by way of a virology lab, a question that arises is whether the virus was loosed on the world accidentally, as is perfectly possible, or deliberately.

On the assumption that it was released deliberately, a multitude of possibilities arise as to motive. Covid19 is highly infectious, and it kills, yet it lacks the killing power to significantly depopulate either a targeted state or the entire world. What it does effectively, however, when combined with media and political hype, is scare people. Logically, therefore, if the virus was intentionally released from the laboratory, scaring people must have been the reason for its release.

But if the virus was released to scare people, to what end was this done? Several answers have been discussed, including various political and economic theories: for example, to impoverish the workers, by compelling acceptance of an economic shutdown and the resultant sky high unemployment, thereby driving incomes down, while justifying the funneling of trillions of dollars to banksters, speculators and corporate fat cats.

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Another idea is that the Covid Recession is aimed at permanently reducing consumption, in particular energy consumption, thereby moderating human-caused climate change.

Another theory is that the largely innocuous Covid19 was released to better prepare the world to deal with far deadlier viral pathogens to come, the latter arising either spontaneously or lab-created and deployed as warfare agents. To that end, much is being made of the importance of so-called "track and trace" operations to identify and contain outbreaks. Currently, such work depends chiefly on interviews with infected individuals about their past contacts. The future of such operations, however, will be entirely automated and proactive. Tracking software is already available from Apple and Google, and the Government of Canada is offering its own product.

Currently, the use tracking software is voluntary, but one would be naive to assume that it will remain voluntary when there is a virus on the loose with the ability to kill a substantial proportion of those infected. Current voluntary use of the tracking apps will allow their further development. Combined with software capable of handling gigantic quantities of data, the apps will make possible 24/7 monitoring of a person's location and hence their contacts with other persons being tracked. The software will then be able to issue notifications, warnings, and instructions, (e.g., to go into isolation) as the result of contact with those found to be infected. The system would also, presumably, issue notices of penalties for breach of lock-down or quarantine.

In a new and even more frightening epidemic, the use of tracking apps will seem desirable and even necessary to most people. Their use will then be made mandatory. Those without a cell phone will be required to have an implanted tracking chip. Meantime, there will be increased reliance on online payment systems, thus allowing general application of the Chinese method of social control by denial of banking services -- i.e., the means to engage in any financial transaction including the purchase of food, to be imposed for any legal infraction including breaches of lock-down or quarantine.

In due course, the system will be broadened. Contact with, say, known drug dealers, or handlers of stolen goods, or advocates or, depending on which way the political wind is blowing, opponents of Black Lives Matter, will be noted and appropriate police action taken.

Covid19 thus looks like a Trojan horse. Not too dangerous. Something we can experiment with. Until, the real significance of the thing becomes apparent and Western man's brief age of freedom is over.

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Covid19 Was Genetically Engineered For Increased Infectivity

From: Tech Start-Up:

Just after we thought the question about the origin of coronavirus has been settled, a new study from Norwegian virologist Birger Sørensen is now reigniting the debate about the possible origin of the deadly coronavirus. In a new peer-reviewed paper published together with Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George’s Hospital at the University of London, Sorensen claimed the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is not natural in origin. According to the study, which was published in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics, the authors found that the coronavirus’s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted. “The inserted sequences should never have been published. Had it been today, it would never have happened. It was a big mistake the Chinese made. The inserted sequences have a functionality that we describe. We explain why they are essential. But the Chinese pointed to them first,” Sørensen told the NRK.

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Craig Murray, Novichok, British Government Bollocks, and Dog Shit

Craig Murray, the former British diplomat ousted by the Blair Government from his post as UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and indeed from his Foreign Office employment, for obstinate objection to the receipt of intelligence from hideous torture carried out by the then Uzbek regime of Islam Abduganiyevich Karimov, recently updated his evaluation of the Salisbury Novichok poisoning saga:

Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative

In which connection, it may be helpful to explain that the word "Pure" was a term used in Victorian England by collectors of dog shit. This material was apparently gathered from the streets of London and other cities and sold at a shilling a bucket to tanneries where it was rubbed into leather as part of the tanning process. Presumably it is in that sense that Murray uses the term here. 

Today, the tanning industry has dispensed with Pure, instead relying on salts of chromium and other substances, which in a way seems unfortunate since:

Americans have  83 Million pet dogs,
They, the dogs that is, produce 10.6 million tons of shit every year,
One gram of dog shit contains 23 million bacteria,
Studies have attributed 20-30% of the bacteria in urban watersheds to dog shit,
Air samples in Cleveland and Detroit contain bacteria that are 10-50% from dog shit.
Source

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UC Berkeley History Department Confirms It Is Staffed by Anti-White Bigots

Recently, an anonymous letter purporting to be from a colored member of the University of California, Berkeley History faculty began:

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field. In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them. In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions. Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders. Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques. The claim that the difficulties that the black community faces are entirely causally explained by exogenous factors in the form of white systemic racism, white supremacy, and other forms of white discrimination remains a problematic hypothesis that should be vigorously challenged by historians. Instead, it is being treated as an axiomatic and actionable truth without serious consideration of its profound flaws, or its worrying implication of total black impotence. This hypothesis is transforming our institution and our culture, without any space for dissent outside of a tightly policed, narrow discourse. A counternarrative exists... Read more

Absurdly, the University of California, Birkerley History Faculty confirmed the letter writer's thesis by issuing the following statement:

An anonymous letter has been circulating, purportedly written by a @UCBHistory professor. We have no evidence that this letter was written by a History faculty member. We condemn this letter: it goes against our values as a department and our commitment to equity and inclusion.

The implication is that to be an American University professor now requires slavish adherence to the PC narrative and hence a complete rejection of the ideals that underlie scholarship. America's academics are, evidently, no more than either dim-witted dupes of PC propaganda, or gutless conformists clinging to the easy life of a professor whatever the intellectual degradation, moral abandonment, and public ridicule such a position entails.

Time for smart young people to abandon the pursuit of so-called Higher Education, which has become mind-warping process of indoctrination in poisonous lies of political correctness.

Global Capitalism, “World Government” and the Corona Crisis

Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. (President Dwight D. Eisenhower, January 17, 1961)

***

The World is being misled concerning the causes and consequences of the corona crisis.

The COVID-19 crisis is marked by a public health “emergency” under WHO auspices which is being used as a pretext and a  justification to triggering a Worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring. 

Social engineering is being applied. Governments are pressured into extending the lockdown, despite its devastating economic and social consequences.

What is happening is unprecedented in World history. 

Prominent scientists support the lockdown without batting an eyelid, as a “solution” to a global health emergency.

Amply documented, the estimates of the COVID-19 disease including mortality are grossly manipulated. 

In turn, people are obeying their governments. Why? Because they are afraid? 

Causes versus solutions?

The closing down of national economies applied Worldwide will inevitably result in poverty, mass unemployment and an increase in mortality. It’s an act of economic warfare. 

Stage One: Trade War against China

On January  30, 2020 the WHO Director General determined that the coronavirus outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The decision was taken on the basis of 150 confirmed cases outside China, First cases of person to person transmission: 6 cases in the US, 3 cases in Canada, 2 in the UK.

The WHO Director General had the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Big Pharma and the World Economic Forum (WEF). The decision for the WHO to declare a Global Emergency was taken on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland  (January 21-24).

One day later (January 31) following the launch of the WHO Global Emergency, The Trump administration announced that it will deny entry to foreign nationals “who have traveled in China in the last 14 days”. This immediately triggered a crisis in air transportation, China-US trade as well as the tourism industry. Italy followed suit, cancelling all flights to China on January 31.

The first stage was accompanied by the disruption of trade relations with China as well as a partial closedown of export manufacturing sector.

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The Death of the West: The Four Horsemen of America's Apocalypse

By Dennis Prager

Real Clear Politics, June 2020: 

It takes a lot to build a civilization, and though it is much easier to destroy a civilization, it takes a lot to do that, too.

But now we have four roots of evil that are guaranteed to do so.

No. 1: Victimhood

The first is victimhood. The more people who regard themselves as victims -- as individuals or as a group -- the more likely they are to commit evil. People who think of themselves as victims feel that, having been victimized, they are no longer bound by normal moral conventions -- especially the moral conventions of their alleged or real oppressors.

Everyone knows this is true. But few confront this truth. Every parent, for example, knows that the child who thinks of him or herself as a perpetual victim is the child most likely to cause and get into trouble. And criminologists report that nearly every murderer in prison thinks of himself as a victim.

On a societal scale, the same holds true -- and being on such a larger scale, the chances of real evil ensuing are exponentially increased. One of the most obvious examples is Germany after World War I. Most Germans regarded themselves as victims -- of the Treaty of Versailles; of a "stab in the back" German government; of the British, Americans and French; and, of course, of the Jews. This sense of victimhood was one of the most important factors in the popularity of the Nazis, who promised to restore German dignity.

That millions of black Americans regard themselves as victims -- probably more so today than at any time in the past 50 years -- can only lead to disaster for America generally and for blacks specifically. While victims generally feel free to lash out at others, they also go through life angry and unhappy.

No. 2: Demonization

The second of the four ingredients of this civilization-destroying witches' brew is demonization -- demonizing a group as inherently evil.

That is being done now with regard to the white people of America. All -- again, all -- whites are declared racist. The only difference among them is that some admit it and some deny it. The notion that whites are inherently evil has long been associated with Louis Farrakhan. But it has apparently migrated out from his relatively small following to many blacks, even those who might consider Farrakhan a kook. Former President Barack Obama, hardly a Farrakhan follower, described America as having racism in its DNA. That is as close to inherently and irredeemably evil as it gets; you cannot change your DNA.

In that sense, not only are whites demonized, but America is, too. Unlike traditional liberals, the left regards America as a moral cesspool -- not only racist but, according to The New York Times, founded to be so. The New York Times has created a history of America that declares its founding not in 1776 but in 1619, when the first black slaves arrived. The American Revolution was fought, according to this malign narrative, not merely for American independence but in order to preserve slavery, a practice the British would have interfered with. This "history" will now be taught in thousands of American schools.

The combination of victimhood and demonization alone is dangerous enough. But there are still two more horsemen galloping toward the looming apocalypse.

No. 3: A Cause To Believe In

Most Americans throughout American history found great meaning in being American and in being religious -- usually Christian. Since World War II, we have lived in a post-Christian, post-nationalist age. Until very recently, Americans would have found the expression "for God and country" deeply meaningful; that term today, on the left, is risible and execrable.

But people need something to believe in. The need for meaning is the greatest human need after the need for food. Leftism, with all its offshoots -- feminism, environmentalism, Black Lives Matter, antifa -- has filled that vacuum. In Europe, communism, fascism and Nazism filled the hole left by the demise of nationalism and Christianity. Here it is leftism and its offshoots.

No. 4: Lies

The fourth and most important ingredient necessary for evil is lies. Lies are the root of evil. Ironically, slavery itself was made possible only because of the lie that the black was inferior to the white. Nazism was made possible thanks to the lie that Jews were not fully human. And communism was built on lies. Lenin, the father of Soviet Communism, named the Soviet communist newspaper "Truth" ("Pravda") because truth was what the Communist Party said it was.

The New York Times, CNN and the rest of the mainstream "news" media are becoming our version of Pravda.
Objective truth doesn't exist on the left. The universities have already declared "objective truth" as essentially an expression of "white privilege." See what happens to a student who says in class, for example, that "men cannot give birth."

The public self-debasement demanded of anyone who differs with the left -- like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees just did when he said not standing for the national anthem desecrated the flag and those who have died for it -- happens almost daily. The only difference between this and what dissidents underwent during Mao's Cultural Revolution is that the self-debasement here is voluntary -- thus far.

Last week, when this Jew saw a store in Santa Monica with a sign reading "black-owned business" so as to avoid being destroyed, it evoked chilling memories.

That's how bad it is in America today.

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Churchill Was a Racist for Good and Obvious Reasons

The man who defeated the Nazis is a Nazi now?

The Western world is tearing itself apart. Hatred for the dominant racial group, the Europeans, is boiling over as settler immigrants, backed by foolish or corrupt white liberal enablers, seize the opportunity created by an anti-racist hysteria, to enhance their own status, wealth and power over that of the indigenous people.

Churchill understood that if allowed to enter Europe in large numbers the alien settler, whether Muslim, Sikh, Hindu or Confucian, would seek to establish their race, their culture, their religion in place of the native peoples of Europe, their culture and their religion.

Hence, naturally, the hatred of Churchill by the immigrants that depraved or insane politicians and their demented white supporters have allowed to enter Europe's narrow borders in numbers that cannot possibly be assimilated to the native nations of Europe.

Systemic racism is the basis of every nation state. Try insisting otherwise to the Chinese, the Indians, the South Africans, or the people of any other country you care to name, and see how quickly they invite in the teaming masses from the slums of London or Glasgow, New York or Chicago.

Anti-racism is the ideology of the globalists: smash the nation state and the money power will exercise control through the corrupt global and multi-national institutions such as the UN, the WHO, NATO, the EU, and dozens of others.

In Canada, systemic racism is the very basis of the state. The stability and unity of the Canadian confederation, a creation of the British-born Sir John A. MacDonald, depends on the acquiescence of the four-hundred-year-old French colony of Quebec. Hence, respect the nation, i.e., the institutions, the language and the traditions of the French nation in North America, was  the mantra of Canada's founding fathers.

Likewise, Canada's relations with the indigenous peoples, Indian and Innuit, depends on respect for these so-called first nations, their racial integrity as reflected in their right to control who may live on native land, and their right to their own institutions of government.

Without systemic racism, no nation can stand. Anti-racists are dupes or agents of a globalist conspiracy to destroy the European nations:  a conspiracy for the genocide of the European peoples as both racial and cultural entities.

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The Amazing Stupidity of Social Media Censorship

Olga Shirnina, a photo colorist, had her Facebook account suspended for three days — for posting a colorized version of Evgenei Khaldei’s iconic photo of Soviet soldiers raising their flag above the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945.

As Station Gossip reports, "her appeal against the decision was rejected and she was able to use her account with more than 20,000 followers only after waiting three days, then sending a scan of her driver’s license, which Facebook requested to confirm her identity."

But the good news is that none of of the social media companies have yet seen fit to ban this picture of the worst of the Soviet Commie Killers: Josef Stalin, Mikhail Kalinin (wearing glasses), Kliment Voroshilov and Lazar Kaganovich (left to right) responsible for, among other atrocities of the 1940 execution of 22,000 Polish military officers, policemen, and academics (the Katyn massacre).

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Why the Lockdowns?

Why would you shutter much of your economy, create Great Depression unemployment rates, and drive government budget deficits sky high, merely to combat Covid19?

If you've been listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation or just about any other major media outlet in the Western world, you must know the reason: Covid19 is an existential threat on the scale of the Black Death that killed something like half the population of Eurasia during the Fourteenth Century. 

Except that it isn't. 

Covid19 kills almost no one. Well, almost no one compared with most other causes of death. In Canada, for example, about six and a half thousand deaths have been attributed, reliably or otherwise, to Covid 19. However, most of those deaths, 82% as of early May, have been of sick and elderly inmates of so-called care homes. So other than knocking over a few people within days, weeks, or at most, months of death due to other causes, Covid19 has thus far killed about 1200 Canadians, most of whom were old, or suffered other predisposing conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, or respiratory disease. 

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We mourn for the 1200, and indeed for all of the six and a half thousand who's death was hastened, whether only slightly or substantially, by Covid19. But we strive also to keep things in perspective. While 1200 non-care home residents in Canada have been felled by Covid19, in 2018, the most recent year for which Stats Canada provides data, almost four times that many people killed themselves. Alzheimer's disease and diabetes each ended the lives of about five times as many, while the big three, cancer, heart disease and stroke between them carried off about 120 times as many. 

If combating the novel corona virus demands such heroic efforts to suppress it, should we not be devoting most of the national GDP to eliminating cancer?

Or are there sinister forces at work that guide the government of our Castro-loving, Communist dictatorship-admiring, black-face wearing, Mr. Dress-up Trudeau?

The question came to mind in response to a reader's comment:

"We still do not have mass testing or any truly statistically valid handle on the virus."

This fact is quite bizarre. 

Why would a government not monitor the spread of a disease by repeated serological surveys or other means, if it were seriously attempting to stop disease spread?

Image source: South China Morning Post

The challenge of such testing is not insuperable. China just completed 1.4 million tests in Wuhan in a single day, with the objective of testing the entire city -- population 11 million -- within ten days. 

Now Americans, Brits, Canadians, etc. are obviously not as smart, diligent or technically competent as the Chinese.

Still we could surely do a random survey -- you know, like an opinion poll. You select a few hundred people at random and, for a fee or some other inducement, you get them to submit to testing.

You do that every couple of days and then you know what you're dealing with.

However, if the goal is not to end the epidemic but to scare people, real information about the prevalence and lethality of the disease, even if it has been obtained, will naturally be withheld.

But why would governments want to scare people (and there is clear evidence of intent, e.g., here)? 

In order to maintain the lockdown.

And why would governments want to maintain the lockdown?

That, surely, is the essential question. 

What is the answer, I am unsure, but here are what seem the most obvious possibilities:

(1) To kill most of the small business sector, to the benefit of the big boys - Starbucks, MacDonald's, Amazon, etc. The objective, in other words, being to complete the transition in government from any semblance of democracy to a purely plutocratic system organized on a global basis. 

(2) To drive up unemployment and thus depress wages, also to the benefit of the big boys.

(3) To drive down GDP and hence consumption spending leading to reductions in all kinds of pollution, carbon dioxide, plebs at the better beaches and tourist spots, traffic congestion, etc.

(4) To drive down fertility rates and hence population worldwide (despite the fact that fertility rates in Europe, North America, Japan, etc. are already well below replacement).

But perhaps others have better suggestions. Comments welcome. 

Meantime, doctors warn that lockdowns cause more deaths than Covid19. 

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Reuters: New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says
ZH: German Official Leaks Report Denouncing COVID-19 As "A Global False Alarm"
ZH: Two 'Unusual' COVID-19 Features Convincing Scientists It Was Man-Made
Times of Israel: Scientist posits ‘wild’ hypothesis that cross immunity could slow pandemic
Tathasta: Man Dead with 0.55 Blood Alcohol Level, Was Reportedly Listed as a COVID Fatality
Global Research:Were Conditions for High Death Rates at Care Homes Created on Purpose?
DM: The apocalyptic virus that would make corona seem irrelevant: Leading scientist warns of the danger of a pandemic triggered by chicken farms that could kill half the world's population
Mises Institute: Three Ways Lockdowns Are Costing Human Lives
New England J. Medicine: We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection
ZH: South Korea Closes Schools Just Days After Reopening As New Cases Spike, Africa Confirms Another 5.5k Cases: Live Updates

DW: South Korea recorded its biggest daily increase in infections in 53 days
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MH: 1 Out Of Every 3 Americans Suffering Anxiety Or Depression During Lockdowns
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AP: Spike in South Korea virus cases
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OG: Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?
CBC: One of Canada's largest long-term care operators is owned by a federal Crown corporation
ZH: Coronavirus Uses Same Strategy As HIV To Evade, Cripple Immune System: Chinese Study
ZH: Psychiatrists Wrote 86% More Prescriptions For Psychotropic Drugs During Lockdown
Yahoo: Military reports 'shocking' conditions in Ontario nursing homes
OG: Coronavirus Fact-Check #5: Infection-Fatality Ratio Update
ZH: French Intelligence Warned Of 'Catastrophic Leak' From Wuhan Lab

How Most Canadians Used to Handle a Cold

About a fifty years ago, "How Most Canadians Handle a Cold," was the caption to an add for Beyer aspirin. But, wow, how the country has changed. Today, frightened by models devised by mathematicians entirely divorced from reality -- people who would approximate a donkey by a sphere, a triangle or whatever made the mathematics work -- Canada's leaders have trashed the economy to minimize the risk of what appears to be not much more than a cold.

What’s amazing is that neither the modelers nor the politicians nor their medical advisors have yet been dunked in a pond.

What we have done is shutter something like one third of the economy because of a virus that has, supposedly (i.e., based on extremely dodgy statistics), killed about six thousand Canadians of whom, all but 1200 were elderly care-home residents who received a death sentence from the medical establishment that decreed that sick old people with Covid19 should be moved out of hospital into a care home. The result? Patients with Covid19 transferred to care homes infected, and thus cause the death of, multiple other care-home residents.

The twelve hundred Canadian deaths of non-care home residents attributed thus far to Covid19 is less than a third of Canada’s yearly death toll from suicide, one sixth of the annual rate of death due to diabetes (i.e., excess sugar consumption in a diet of which almost one-third of calories come from sugar), and one tenth of the rate of death due to accidents.

But apparently, to suppress a virus that has thus far killed fewer than the seasonal flu, we in Canada opted to wreck the economy, and gave our Communist dictatorship-admiring, Castro-loving, jet-setting environmentalist, Prime Minister Dress Up freedom to piss away about a third of the GDP paying people not to work.

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