humansarefree--2020-03-29--Escobar: Why France is Hiding a Cheap and Tested Virus Cure

The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic What ’ s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19 .
Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it .
My initial question to a serious , unimpeachable Paris source , jurist Valerie Bugault , was about the liaisons dangereuses between Macronism and Big Pharma and especially about the mysterious “ disappearance ” – more likely outright theft – of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the French government .
Respected Professor Christian Perronne talked about the theft live in one of France ’ s 24/7 info channels : “ The central pharmacy for the hospitals announced today that they were facing a total rupture of stocks , that they were pillaged.
” With input from another , anonymous source , it ’ s now possible to establish a timeline that puts in much-needed perspective the recent actions of the French government .
Let ’ s start with Yves Levy , who was the head of INSERM – the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Research – from 2014 to 2018 , when he was appointed as extraordinary state councilor for the Macron administration .
Only 12 people in France have reached this status .
Levy is married to Agnes Buzy , who until recently was minister of health under Macron .
Buzy was essentially presented with an “ offer you can ’ t refuse ” by Macron ’ s party to leave the ministry – in the middle of the coronavirus crisis – and run for Mayor of Paris , where she was mercilessly trounced in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has a vicious running feud with Professor Didier Raoult – prolific and often-cited Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases .
Levy withheld the INSERM label from the world-renowned IHU ( Hospital-University Institute ) research center directed by Raoult .
In practice , in October 2019 , Levy revoked the status of “ foundation ” of the different IHUs so he could take over their research .
Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed 90 % of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very early .
( Early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the successful South Korean strategy . )
Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible carriers – which he considers “ medieval , ” in an anachronistic sense .
[ it ’ s also going to probably destroy the world ’ s economies , which is likely to be part of the agenda ] He ’ s in favor of massive testing ( which , besides South Korea , was successful in Singapore , Taiwan and Vietnam ) and a fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine .
Only contaminated individuals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ euro for ten pills .
And there ’ s the rub : Big Pharma – which , crucially , finances INSERM , and includes “ national champion ” Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution .
Sanofi for the moment says it is “ actively preparing ” to produce chloroquine , but that may take “ weeks , ” and there ’ s no mention about pricing .
Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed 90 % of Covid-19 cases if they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , massive testing is at the heart of the successful South Korean strategy . )
Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible carriers – which he considers “ medieval , ” in an anachronistic sense .
He ’ s in favor of massive testing ( which , besides South Korea , was successful in Singapore , Taiwan and Vietnam ) and a fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine .
Only contaminated individuals should be confined .
Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills .
And there ’ s the rub @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , finances INSERM , and includes “ national champion ” Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution .
Sanofi for the moment says it is “ actively preparing ” to produce chloroquine , but that may take “ weeks , ” and there ’ s no mention about pricing .
On January 13 , Agnes Buzyn , still France ’ s Health Minister , classifies chloroquine as a “ poisonous substance , ” from now on only available by prescription .
An astonishing move , considering that it has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for half a century .
On March 16 , the Macron government orders a partial lockdown .
There ’ s not a peep about chloroquine .
Police initially are not required to wear masks ; most have been stolen anyway , and there are not enough masks even for health workers .
In 2011 France had nearly 1.5 billion masks : 800 million surgical masks and 600 million masks for health professionals generally .
But then , over the years , the strategic stocks were not renewed , to please the EU and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limited membership in the Growth and Stability Pact to countries whose budget deficits did not exceed 3 % of GDP .
One of those in charge at the time was Jerome Salomon , now a scientific counselor to the Macron government .
On March 17 , Agnes Buzyn says she has learned the spread of Covid-19 will be a major tsunami , for which the French health system has no solution .
She also says it had been her understanding that the Paris mayoral election “ would not take place ” and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masquerade.
” What she does not say is that she didn ’ t go public at the time she was running because the whole political focus by the Macron political machine was on winning the “ masquerade.
” The first round of the election meant nothing , as Covid-19 was advancing .
The second round was postponed indefinitely .
She had to know about the impending healthcare disaster .
But as a candidate of the Macron machine she did not go public in timely fashion .
• The Macron government refuses to apply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in South Korea and Germany .
• Le Monde and the French state health agency characterize Raoult ’ s research as fake news , before issuing a retraction .
• Professor Perrone reveals on the 24/7 LCI news channel that the stock of chloroquine at the French central pharmacy has been stolen .
• Thanks to a tweet by Elon Musk , President Trump says chloroquine should be available to all Americans .
Sufferers of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis , who already have supply problems with the only drug that offers them relief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ panic .
• US doctors and other medical professionals take to hoarding the medicine for the use of themselves and those close to them , faking prescriptions to indicate they are for patients with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis .
• Morocco buys the stock of chloroquine from Sanofi in Casablanca .
• Pakistan decides to increase its production of chloroquine to be sent to China .
• Switzerland discards the total lockdown of its population ; goes for mass testing and fast treatment ; and accuses France of practicing “ spectacle politics.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nice , having had himself treated with chloroquine , without any government input , directly calls Sanofi so they may deliver chloroquine to Nice hospitals .
• Because of Raoult ’ s research , a large-scale chloroquine test finally starts in France , under the – predictable – direction of INSERM , which wants to “ remake the experiments in other independent medical centers.
” This will take at least an extra six weeks – as the Elysee Palace ’ s scientific council now mulls the extension of France ’ s total lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ joint use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin proves definitely effective among the most gravely ill , quarantines may be reduced in select clusters .
• The only French company that still manufactures chloroquine is under judicial intervention .
That puts the chloroquine hoarding and theft into full perspective .
It will take time for these stocks to be replenished , thus allowing Big Pharma the leeway to have what it wants : a costly solution .
• It appears the perpetrators of the chloroquine theft were very well informed .
This chain of events @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nation proud of its health service , is part of a long , painful process embedded in neoliberal dogma .
EU-driven austerity mixed with the profit motive resulted in a very lax attitude towards the health system .
As Bugault told me , “ test kits – very few in number – were always available but mostly for a small group connected to the French government [ former officials of the Ministry of Finance , CEOs of large corporations , oligarchs , media and entertainment moguls ] .
Same for chloroquine , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the population .
They did not make life easy for Professor Raoult – he received death threats and was intimidated by ‘ journalists.
’ And they did not protect vital stocks .
Still under the Hollande government , there was a conscious liquidation of the stock of masks – which had existed in large quantities in all hospitals .
Not to mention that the suppression of hospital beds and hospital means accelerated under Sarkozy.
” This ties in with anguished reports by French citizens of nurses now having to use trash bags @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gear .
At the same time , in another astonishing development , the French state refuses to requisition private hospitals and clinics – which are practically empty at this stage – even as the president of their own association , Lamine Garbi , has pleaded for such a public service initiative : “ I solemnly demand that we are requisitioned to help public hospitals .
Our facilities are prepared .
The wave that surprised the east of France must teach us a lesson.
” Bugault reconfirms the health situation in France “ is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to these political decisions – absence of masks , political refusal to massively test people , refusal of free access to chloroquine – in a context of supreme distress at the hospitals .
This will last and destitution will be the norm.
” In an explosive development on Tuesday , Raoult said he ’ s not participating in Macron ’ s scientific council anymore , even though he ’ s not quitting it altogether .
Raoult once again insists on massive testing on a national scale to detect suspected cases , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positive .
In a nutshell : the South Korean model .
That ’ s exactly what is expected from the IHU in Marseille , where hundreds of residents continue to queue up for testing .
And that ties in with the conclusions by a top Chinese expert on Covid-19 , Zhang Nanshan , who says that treatment with chloroquine phospate had a “ positive impact , ” with patients testing negative after around four days .
The key point has been stressed by Raoult : Use chloroquine in very special circumstances , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease is not advanced yet , and only in these cases .
He ’ s not advocating chloroquine for everyone .
It ’ s exactly what the Chinese did , along with their use of Interferon .
For years , Raoult has been pleading for a drastic revision of health economic models , so the treatments , cure and therapies created mostly during the 20th century , are considered a patrimony in the service of all humanity .
“ That ’ s not the case ” , he says , “ because we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even if it ’ s effective .
That ’ s why almost no antibiotics are manufactured in the West.
” On Tuesday , the French Health Ministry officially prohibited the utilization of treatment based on chloroquine recommended by Raoult .
In fact the treatment is only allowed for terminal Covid-19 patients , with no other possibility of healing .
This can not but expose the Macron government to more accusations of at least inefficiency – added to the absence of masks , tests , contact tracing and ventilators .
On Wednesday , commenting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said : “ When damage to the lungs is too important , and patients arrive for reanimation , they practically do not harbor viruses in their bodies any more .
It ’ s too late to treat them with chloroquine .
Are these the only cases – the very serious cases – that will be treated with chloroquine under the new directive by [ French Health Minister ] Veran ?
” If so , he added ironically , “ then they will be able to say with scientific certainty that chloroquine does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Western news media articles citing Chinese test results that would suggest he is wrong about the efficacy of chloroquine in dealing with mild cases of Covid-19 .
Staffers pointed instead to his comments in the IHU bulletin .
There Raoult says it ’ s “ insulting ” to ask if we can trust the Chinese on the use of chloroquine .
“ If this was an American disease , and the president of the United States said , ‘ We need to treat patients with that , ’ nobody would discuss it.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ there were “ enough elements so the Chinese government and all Chinese experts who know coronaviruses took an official position that ‘ we must treat with chloroquine.
’ Between the moment when we have the first results and an accepted international publication , there is no credible alternative among people who are the most knowledgeable in the world .
They took this measure in the interest of public health.
” Crucially : if he had coronavirus , Raoult says he would take chloroquine .
Since Raoult is rated by his peers as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , way above Dr. Anthony Fauci in the US , I would say the new reports represent Big Pharma talking .
Raoult has been mercilessly savaged and demonized by French corporate media that are controlled by a few oligarchs closely linked to Macronism .
Not by accident the demonization has reached gilets jaunes ( yellow vest ) levels , especially because of the extremely popular hashtag # IlsSavaient ( “ They knew ” ) , with which the yellow vests stress that French elites have “ managed ” the Covid-19 crisis by protecting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the virus .
That ties in with the controversial analysis by crack philosopher Giorgio Agamben in a column published a month ago , where he was already arguing that Covid-19 clearly shows that the state of exception – similar to a state of emergency but with differences important to philosophers – has become fully normalized in the West .
Agamben was speaking not as a doctor or a virologist but as a master thinker , following in the steps of Foucault , Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt .
Noting how a latent state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of collective panic , for which Covid-19 “ offers once again the ideal pretext , ” he described how , “ in a perverse vicious circle , the limitation of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of a desire for security that was induced by the same governments that now intervene to satisfy it.
” There was no state of collective panic in South Korea , Singapore , Taiwan and Vietnam – to mention four Asian examples outside of China .
A dogged combination of mass testing and contact tracing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked .
In the Chinese case , with the help of chloroquine .
And in all Asian cases , without a murky profit motive to the benefit of Big Pharma .
There hasn ’ t yet appeared the smoking gun that proves the Macron system not only is incompetent to deal with Covid-19 but also is dragging the process so Big Pharma can come up with a “ miracle ” vaccine , fast .
But the pattern to discourage chloroquine is more than laid out above – in parallel to the demonization of @ @

The French government is arguably helping Big Pharma profit from the Covid-19 pandemic
by Pepe Escobar, guest writer
What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it.
My initial question to a serious, unimpeachable Paris source, jurist Valerie Bugault, was about the liaisons dangereuses between Macronism and Big Pharma and especially about the mysterious “disappearance” – more likely outright theft – of all the stocks of chloroquine in possession of the French government.
Respected Professor Christian Perronne talked about the theft live in one of France’s 24/7 info channels:
“The central pharmacy for the hospitals announced today that they were facing a total rupture of stocks, that they were pillaged.”
With input from another, anonymous source, it’s now possible to establish a timeline that puts in much-needed perspective the recent actions of the French government.
Let’s start with Yves Levy, who was the head of INSERM – the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research – from 2014 to 2018, when he was appointed as extraordinary state councilor for the Macron administration. Only 12 people in France have reached this status.
Levy is married to Agnes Buzy, who until recently was minister of health under Macron. Buzy was essentially presented with an “offer you can’t refuse” by Macron’s party to leave the ministry – in the middle of the coronavirus crisis – and run for Mayor of Paris, where she was mercilessly trounced in the first round on March 16.
Levy has a vicious running feud with Professor Didier Raoult – prolific and often-cited Marseille-based specialist in communicable diseases. Levy withheld the INSERM label from the world-renowned IHU (Hospital-University Institute) research center directed by Raoult.
In practice, in October 2019, Levy revoked the status of “foundation” of the different IHUs so he could take over their research.
Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed 90% of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very early. (Early, massive testing is at the heart of the successful South Korean strategy.)
Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible carriers – which he considers “medieval,” in an anachronistic sense. [it’s also going to probably destroy the world’s economies, which is likely to be part of the agenda]
He’s in favor of massive testing (which, besides South Korea, was successful in Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and a fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine. Only contaminated individuals should be confined.
Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills. And there’s the rub: Big Pharma – which, crucially, finances INSERM, and includes “national champion” Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution.
Sanofi for the moment says it is “actively preparing” to produce chloroquine, but that may take “weeks,” and there’s no mention about pricing.
Raoult was part of a clinical trial that in which hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin healed 90% of Covid-19 cases if they were tested very early. (Early, massive testing is at the heart of the successful South Korean strategy.)
Raoult is opposed to the total lockdown of sane individuals and possible carriers – which he considers “medieval,” in an anachronistic sense.
He’s in favor of massive testing (which, besides South Korea, was successful in Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam) and a fast treatment with hydroxychloroquine. Only contaminated individuals should be confined.
Chloroquine costs one euro for ten pills. And there’s the rub: Big Pharma – which, crucially, finances INSERM, and includes “national champion” Sanofi – would rather go for a way more profitable solution.
Sanofi for the moment says it is “actively preparing” to produce chloroquine, but that may take “weeks,” and there’s no mention about pricing.
A minister fleeing a tsunami
Here’s the timeline:
On January 13, Agnes Buzyn, still France’s Health Minister, classifies chloroquine as a “poisonous substance,” from now on only available by prescription. An astonishing move, considering that it has been sold off the shelf in France for half a century.
On March 16, the Macron government orders a partial lockdown. There’s not a peep about chloroquine. Police initially are not required to wear masks; most have been stolen anyway, and there are not enough masks even for health workers. In 2011 France had nearly 1.5 billion masks: 800 million surgical masks and 600 million masks for health professionals generally.
But then, over the years, the strategic stocks were not renewed, to please the EU and to apply the Maastricht criteria, which limited membership in the Growth and Stability Pact to countries whose budget deficits did not exceed 3% of GDP. One of those in charge at the time was Jerome Salomon, now a scientific counselor to the Macron government.
On March 17, Agnes Buzyn says she has learned the spread of Covid-19 will be a major tsunami, for which the French health system has no solution. She also says it had been her understanding that the Paris mayoral election “would not take place” and that it was, ultimately, “a masquerade.”
What she does not say is that she didn’t go public at the time she was running because the whole political focus by the Macron political machine was on winning the “masquerade.” The first round of the election meant nothing, as Covid-19 was advancing. The second round was postponed indefinitely. She had to know about the impending healthcare disaster. But as a candidate of the Macron machine she did not go public in timely fashion.
In quick succession:
• The Macron government refuses to apply mass testing, as practiced with success in South Korea and Germany.
• Le Monde and the French state health agency characterize Raoult’s research as fake news, before issuing a retraction.
• Professor Perrone reveals on the 24/7 LCI news channel that the stock of chloroquine at the French central pharmacy has been stolen.
• Thanks to a tweet by Elon Musk, President Trump says chloroquine should be available to all Americans. Sufferers of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, who already have supply problems with the only drug that offers them relief, set social media afire with their panic.
• US doctors and other medical professionals take to hoarding the medicine for the use of themselves and those close to them, faking prescriptions to indicate they are for patients with lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.
• Morocco buys the stock of chloroquine from Sanofi in Casablanca.
• Pakistan decides to increase its production of chloroquine to be sent to China.
• Switzerland discards the total lockdown of its population; goes for mass testing and fast treatment; and accuses France of practicing “spectacle politics.”
• Christian Estrosi, the mayor of Nice, having had himself treated with chloroquine, without any government input, directly calls Sanofi so they may deliver chloroquine to Nice hospitals.
• Because of Raoult’s research, a large-scale chloroquine test finally starts in France, under the – predictable – direction of INSERM, which wants to “remake the experiments in other independent medical centers.” This will take at least an extra six weeks – as the Elysee Palace’s scientific council now mulls the extension of France’s total lockdown to … six weeks.
• If joint use of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin proves definitely effective among the most gravely ill, quarantines may be reduced in select clusters.
• The only French company that still manufactures chloroquine is under judicial intervention. That puts the chloroquine hoarding and theft into full perspective. It will take time for these stocks to be replenished, thus allowing Big Pharma the leeway to have what it wants: a costly solution.
• It appears the perpetrators of the chloroquine theft were very well informed.
Bagged nurses
This chain of events, astonishing for a highly developed G-7 nation proud of its health service, is part of a long, painful process embedded in neoliberal dogma. EU-driven austerity mixed with the profit motive resulted in a very lax attitude towards the health system.
As Bugault told me, “test kits – very few in number – were always available but mostly for a small group connected to the French government [ former officials of the Ministry of Finance, CEOs of large corporations, oligarchs, media and entertainment moguls]. Same for chloroquine, which this government did everything to make inaccessible for the population.
They did not make life easy for Professor Raoult – he received death threats and was intimidated by ‘journalists.’
And they did not protect vital stocks. Still under the Hollande government, there was a conscious liquidation of the stock of masks – which had existed in large quantities in all hospitals. Not to mention that the suppression of hospital beds and hospital means accelerated under Sarkozy.”
This ties in with anguished reports by French citizens of nurses now having to use trash bags due to the lack of proper medical gear.
At the same time, in another astonishing development, the French state refuses to requisition private hospitals and clinics – which are practically empty at this stage – even as the president of their own association, Lamine Garbi, has pleaded for such a public service initiative: “I solemnly demand that we are requisitioned to help public hospitals. Our facilities are prepared. The wave that surprised the east of France must teach us a lesson.”
Bugault reconfirms the health situation in France “is very serious and will become even worse due to these political decisions – absence of masks, political refusal to massively test people, refusal of free access to chloroquine – in a context of supreme distress at the hospitals. This will last and destitution will be the norm.”
Professor vs president
In an explosive development on Tuesday, Raoult said he’s not participating in Macron’s scientific council anymore, even though he’s not quitting it altogether. Raoult once again insists on massive testing on a national scale to detect suspected cases, and then isolate and treat patients who tested positive. In a nutshell: the South Korean model.
That’s exactly what is expected from the IHU in Marseille, where hundreds of residents continue to queue up for testing. And that ties in with the conclusions by a top Chinese expert on Covid-19, Zhang Nanshan, who says that treatment with chloroquine phospate had a “positive impact,” with patients testing negative after around four days.
The key point has been stressed by Raoult: Use chloroquine in very special circumstances, for people tested very early, when the disease is not advanced yet, and only in these cases. He’s not advocating chloroquine for everyone. It’s exactly what the Chinese did, along with their use of Interferon.
For years, Raoult has been pleading for a drastic revision of health economic models, so the treatments, cure and therapies created mostly during the 20th century, are considered a patrimony in the service of all humanity.
“That’s not the case”, he says, “because we abandon medicine that is not profitable, even if it’s effective. That’s why almost no antibiotics are manufactured in the West.”
On Tuesday, the French Health Ministry officially prohibited the utilization of treatment based on chloroquine recommended by Raoult.
In fact the treatment is only allowed for terminal Covid-19 patients, with no other possibility of healing. This cannot but expose the Macron government to more accusations of at least inefficiency – added to the absence of masks, tests, contact tracing and ventilators.
On Wednesday, commenting on the new government guidelines, Raoult said:
“When damage to the lungs is too important, and patients arrive for reanimation, they practically do not harbor viruses in their bodies any more. It’s too late to treat them with chloroquine. Are these the only cases – the very serious cases – that will be treated with chloroquine under the new directive by [French Health Minister] Veran?” If so, he added ironically, “then they will be able to say with scientific certainty that chloroquine does not work.”
Raoult was unavailable for comment on Western news media articles citing Chinese test results that would suggest he is wrong about the efficacy of chloroquine in dealing with mild cases of Covid-19.
Staffers pointed instead to his comments in the IHU bulletin. There Raoult says it’s “insulting” to ask if we can trust the Chinese on the use of chloroquine. “If this was an American disease, and the president of the United States said, ‘We need to treat patients with that,’ nobody would discuss it.”
In China, he adds, there were “enough elements so the Chinese government and all Chinese experts who know coronaviruses took an official position that ‘we must treat with chloroquine.’ Between the moment when we have the first results and an accepted international publication, there is no credible alternative among people who are the most knowledgeable in the world. They took this measure in the interest of public health.”
Crucially: if he had coronavirus, Raoult says he would take chloroquine. Since Raoult is rated by his peers as the number one world expert in communicable diseases, way above Dr. Anthony Fauci in the US, I would say the new reports represent Big Pharma talking.
Raoult has been mercilessly savaged and demonized by French corporate media that are controlled by a few oligarchs closely linked to Macronism. Not by accident the demonization has reached gilets jaunes (yellow vest) levels, especially because of the extremely popular hashtag #IlsSavaient (“They knew”), with which the yellow vests stress that French elites have “managed” the Covid-19 crisis by protecting themselves while leaving the population defenseless against the virus.
That ties in with the controversial analysis by crack philosopher Giorgio Agamben in a column published a month ago, where he was already arguing that Covid-19 clearly shows that the state of exception – similar to a state of emergency but with differences important to philosophers – has become fully normalized in the West.
Agamben was speaking not as a doctor or a virologist but as a master thinker, following in the steps of Foucault, Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt.
Noting how a latent state of fear has metastasized into a state of collective panic, for which Covid-19 “offers once again the ideal pretext,” he described how, “in a perverse vicious circle, the limitation of freedom imposed by governments is accepted in the name of a desire for security that was induced by the same governments that now intervene to satisfy it.”
There was no state of collective panic in South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam – to mention four Asian examples outside of China. A dogged combination of mass testing and contact tracing was applied with immense professionalism. It worked. In the Chinese case, with the help of chloroquine. And in all Asian cases, without a murky profit motive to the benefit of Big Pharma.
There hasn’t yet appeared the smoking gun that proves the Macron system not only is incompetent to deal with Covid-19 but also is dragging the process so Big Pharma can come up with a “miracle” jjab, fast. But the pattern to discourage chloroquine is more than laid out above – in parallel to the demonization of Raoult.


humansarefree--2020-03-29--Stop the Fear-Mongering! 12 Medical Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic

Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM , and the memes so prevalent on social media .
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is a specialist in microbiology .
He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history .
What he says : We are afraid that 1 million infections with the new virus will lead to 30 deaths per day over the next 100 days @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 20 , 30 , 40 or 100 patients positive for normal coronaviruses are already dying every day .
[ The government ’ s anti-COVID19 measures ] are grotesque , absurd and very dangerous [ … ] The life expectancy of millions is being shortened .
The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people .
The consequences on medical care are profound .
Already services to patients in need are reduced , operations cancelled , practices empty , hospital personnel dwindling .
All this will impact profoundly on our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a spook .
Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician specialising in Pulmonology , politician and former chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .
In 2009 he called for an inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest surrounding the EU response to the Swine Flu pandemic .
What he says : Politicians are being courted by scientists… scientists who want to be important to get money for their institutions .
Scientists who just swim along in the mainstream and want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And what is missing right now is a rational way of looking at things .
We should be asking questions like “ How did you find out this virus was dangerous ?
” , “ How was it before ?
” , “ Didn ’ t we have the same thing last year ?
” , “ Is it even something new ?
” Dr Joel Kettner is professor of Community Health Sciences and Surgery at Manitoba University , former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba province and Medical Director of the International @ @ @ @ @ @ @ says : I have never seen anything like this , anything anywhere near like this .
I ’ m not talking about the pandemic , because I ’ ve seen 30 of them , one every year .
It is called influenza .
And other respiratory illness viruses , we don ’ t always know what they are .
But I ’ ve never seen this reaction , and I ’ m trying to understand why .
I worry about the message to the public , about the fear of coming into contact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space as people , shaking their hands , having meetings with people .
I worry about many , many consequences related to that .
In Hubei , in the province of Hubei , where there has been the most cases and deaths by far , the actual number of cases reported is 1 per 1000 people and the actual rate of deaths reported is 1 per 20,000 .
So maybe that would help to put things into perspective .
Dr John Ioannidis Professor of Medicine , of Health Research and Policy and of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ School of Medicine and a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences .
He is director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center , and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford ( METRICS ) .
He is also the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation .
He was chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology , University of Ioannina School of Medicine as well as adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Medicine .
As a physician , scientist and author he has made contributions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science and clinical research .
In addition , he pioneered the field of meta-research .
He has shown that much of the published research does not meet good scientific standards of evidence .
What he says : Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes .
As most health systems have limited testing capacity , selection bias may even worsen in the near future .
The one situation where an entire , closed population was tested was the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was 1.0 % , but this was a largely elderly population , in which the death rate from Covid-19 is much higher .
Could the Covid-19 case fatality rate be that low ?
No , some say , pointing to the high rate in elderly people .
However , even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8 % when they infect elderly people in nursing homes .
If we had not known about a new virus out there , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tests , the number of total deaths due to “ influenza-like illness ” would not seem unusual this year .
At most , we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average .
– “ A fiasco in the making ?
As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold , we are making decisions without reliable data ” , Stat News , 17th March 2020 Dr Yoram Lass is an Israeli physician , politician and former Director General of the Health Ministry .
He also worked as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Medical School and during the 1980s presented the science-based television show Tatzpit .
What he says : Italy is known for its enormous morbidity in respiratory problems , more than three times any other European country .
In the US about 40,000 people die in a regular flu season and so far 40-50 people have died of the coronavirus , most of them in a nursing home in Kirkland , Washington .
In every country , more people die from regular flu compared with those who die from the coronavirus .
…there is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forget : the swine flu in 2009 .
That was a virus that reached the world from Mexico and until today there is no vaccination against it .
But what ?
At that time there was no Facebook or there maybe was but it was still in its infancy .
The coronavirus , in contrast , is a virus with public relations .
Whoever thinks that governments end viruses is wrong .
Dr Pietro Vernazza is a Swiss physician specialising Infectious Diseases at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen and Professor of Health Policy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reliable figures from Italy and a work by epidemiologists , which has been published in the renowned science journal ‹Science› , which examined the spread in China .
This makes it clear that around 85 percent of all infections have occurred without anyone noticing the infection .
90 percent of the deceased patients are verifiably over 70 years old , 50 percent over 80 years .
In Italy , one in ten people diagnosed die , according to the findings of the Science publication , that is statistically one of every 1,000 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but often – similar to the flu season – it affects people who are at the end of their lives .
If we close the schools , we will prevent the children from quickly becoming immune .
We should better integrate the scientific facts into the political decisions .
Frank Ulrich Montgomery is German radiologist , former President of the German Medical Association and Deputy Chairman of the World Medical Association .
What he says : I ’ m not a fan of lockdown .
Anyone who imposes something like this must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it up again .
Since we have to assume that the virus will be with us for a long time , I wonder when we will return to normal ?
You can ’ t keep schools and daycare centers closed until the end of the year .
Because it will take at least that long until we have a vaccine .
Italy has imposed a lockdown and has the opposite effect .
They quickly reached their capacity limits , but did not slow down the virus spread within the lockdown .
Prof. Hendrik @ @ @ @ @ @ @ epidemiologist and clinical trialist .
He is professor of virology , and the director of the Institute of Virology and HIV Research , at Bonn University .
What he says : The new pathogen is not that dangerous , it is even less dangerous than Sars-1 .
The special thing is that Sars-CoV-2 replicates in the upper throat area and is therefore much more infectious because the virus jumps from throat to throat , so to speak .
But that is also an advantage : Because Sars-1 replicates in the deep lungs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it definitely gets on the lungs , which makes it more dangerous .
You also have to take into account that the Sars-CoV-2 deaths in Germany were exclusively old people .
In Heinsberg , for example , a 78-year-old man with previous illnesses died of heart failure , and that without Sars-2 lung involvement .
Since he was infected , he naturally appears in the Covid 19 statistics .
But the question is whether he would not have died anyway , even without Sars-2 .
Dr Yanis Roussel et .
al .
– @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée Infection , Marseille and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement , Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille , conducting a peer-reviewed study on Coronavirus mortality for the government of France under the ‘ Investments for the Future ’ programme .
What they say : The problem of SARS-CoV-2 is probably overestimated , as 2.6 million people die of respiratory infections each year compared with less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing .
This study compared the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries ( 1.3 % ) with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in AP-HM patients ( 0.8 % ) from 1 January 2013 to 2 March 2020 .
Chi-squared test was performed , and the P-value was 0.11 ( not significant ) .
…it should be noted that systematic studies of other coronaviruses ( but not yet for SARS-CoV-2 ) have found that the percentage of asymptomatic carriers is equal to or even higher than the percentage of symptomatic patients .
The same data for SARS-CoV-2 may soon be available , which will further reduce the relative risk associated with this specific pathology .
Dr. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center What he says : I am deeply concerned that the social , economic and public health consequences of this near-total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed , gatherings banned — will be long-lasting and calamitous , possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself .
The stock market will bounce back in time , but many businesses never will .
The unemployment , impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Worse Than the Disease ?
” , New York Times 20th March 2020 Michael T. Osterholm is regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota .
What he says : Consider the effect of shutting down offices , schools , transportation systems , restaurants , hotels , stores , theaters , concert halls , sporting events and other venues indefinitely and leaving all of their workers unemployed and on the public dole .
The likely result would be not just a depression but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ permanently lost jobs , long before a vaccine is ready or natural immunity takes hold .
[ T ] he best alternative will probably entail letting those at low risk for serious disease continue to work , keep business and manufacturing operating , and “ run ” society , while at the same time advising higher-risk individuals to protect themselves through physical distancing and ramping up our health-care capacity as aggressively as possible .
With this battle plan , we could gradually build up immunity without destroying the financial structure on which our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen and founder of the Cochrane Medical Collaboration .
He has written several books on corruption in the field of medicine and the power of big pharmaceutical companies .
What he says : Our main problem is that no one will ever get in trouble for measures that are too draconian .
They will only get in trouble if they do too little .
So , our politicians and those working with public health do much more than they should do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the 2009 influenza pandemic , and they obviously can not be applied every winter , which is all year round , as it is always winter somewhere .
We can not close down the whole world permanently .
Should it turn out that the epidemic wanes before long , there will be a queue of people wanting to take credit for this .
And we can be damned sure draconian measures will be applied again next time .
But remember the joke about tigers .
“ Why do you blow the horn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away.
” “ But there are no tigers here.
” “ There you see !
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Below is our list of twelve medical experts whose opinions on the Coronavirus outbreak contradict the official narratives of the MSM, and the memes so prevalent on social media.
Dr Sucharit Bhakdi is a specialist in microbiology. He was a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and head of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene and one of the most cited research scientists in German history.
What he says:
We are afraid that 1 million infections with the new virus will lead to 30 deaths per day over the next 100 days. But we do not realise that 20, 30, 40 or 100 patients positive for normal coronaviruses are already dying every day.
[The government’s anti-COVID19 measures] are grotesque, absurd and very dangerous […] The life expectancy of millions is being shortened. The horrifying impact on the world economy threatens the existence of countless people.
The consequences on medical care are profound. Already services to patients in need are reduced, operations cancelled, practices empty, hospital personnel dwindling. All this will impact profoundly on our whole society.
All these measures are leading to self-destruction and collective suicide based on nothing but a spook.
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Dr Wolfgang Wodarg is a German physician specialising in Pulmonology, politician and former chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
In 2009 he called for an inquiry into alleged conflicts of interest surrounding the EU response to the Swine Flu pandemic.
What he says:
Politicians are being courted by scientists… scientists who want to be important to get money for their institutions. Scientists who just swim along in the mainstream and want their part of it […] And what is missing right now is a rational way of looking at things.
We should be asking questions like “How did you find out this virus was dangerous?”, “How was it before?”, “Didn’t we have the same thing last year?”, “Is it even something new?”
That’s missing.
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Dr Joel Kettner is professor of Community Health Sciences and Surgery at Manitoba University, former Chief Public Health Officer for Manitoba province and Medical Director of the International Centre for Infectious Diseases.
What he says:
I have never seen anything like this, anything anywhere near like this. I’m not talking about the pandemic, because I’ve seen 30 of them, one every year. It is called influenza. And other respiratory illness viruses, we don’t always know what they are. But I’ve never seen this reaction, and I’m trying to understand why.
[…]
I worry about the message to the public, about the fear of coming into contact with people, being in the same space as people, shaking their hands, having meetings with people. I worry about many, many consequences related to that.
[…]
In Hubei, in the province of Hubei, where there has been the most cases and deaths by far, the actual number of cases reported is 1 per 1000 people and the actual rate of deaths reported is 1 per 20,000. So maybe that would help to put things into perspective.
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Dr John Ioannidis Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy and of Biomedical Data Science, at Stanford University School of Medicine and a Professor of Statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences.
He is director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).
He is also the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Clinical Investigation. He was chairman at the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine as well as adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Medicine.
As a physician, scientist and author he has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, data science and clinical research.
In addition, he pioneered the field of meta-research. He has shown that much of the published research does not meet good scientific standards of evidence.
What he says:
Patients who have been tested for SARS-CoV-2 are disproportionately those with severe symptoms and bad outcomes. As most health systems have limited testing capacity, selection bias may even worsen in the near future.
The one situation where an entire, closed population was tested was the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. The case fatality rate there was 1.0%, but this was a largely elderly population, in which the death rate from Covid-19 is much higher.
[…]
Could the Covid-19 case fatality rate be that low? No, some say, pointing to the high rate in elderly people.
However, even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes.
[…]
If we had not known about a new virus out there, and had not checked individuals with PCR tests, the number of total deaths due to “influenza-like illness” would not seem unusual this year. At most, we might have casually noted that flu this season seems to be a bit worse than average.
– “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data”, Stat News, 17th March 2020
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Dr Yoram Lass is an Israeli physician, politician and former Director General of the Health Ministry. He also worked as Associate Dean of the Tel Aviv University Medical School and during the 1980s presented the science-based television show Tatzpit.
What he says:
Italy is known for its enormous morbidity in respiratory problems, more than three times any other European country. In the US about 40,000 people die in a regular flu season and so far 40-50 people have died of the coronavirus, most of them in a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington.
[…]
In every country, more people die from regular flu compared with those who die from the coronavirus.
[…]
…there is a very good example that we all forget: the swine flu in 2009. That was a virus that reached the world from Mexico and until today there is no vaccination against it.
But what? At that time there was no Facebook or there maybe was but it was still in its infancy. The coronavirus, in contrast, is a virus with public relations.
Whoever thinks that governments end viruses is wrong.
– Interview in Globes, March 22nd 2020
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Dr Pietro Vernazza is a Swiss physician specialising Infectious Diseases at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen and Professor of Health Policy.
What he says:
We have reliable figures from Italy and a work by epidemiologists, which has been published in the renowned science journal ‹Science›, which examined the spread in China.
This makes it clear that around 85 percent of all infections have occurred without anyone noticing the infection. 90 percent of the deceased patients are verifiably over 70 years old, 50 percent over 80 years.
[…]
In Italy, one in ten people diagnosed die, according to the findings of the Science publication, that is statistically one of every 1,000 people infected. Each individual case is tragic, but often – similar to the flu season – it affects people who are at the end of their lives.
[…]
If we close the schools, we will prevent the children from quickly becoming immune.
[…]
We should better integrate the scientific facts into the political decisions.
– Interview in St. Galler Tagblatt, 22nd March 2020
*
Frank Ulrich Montgomery is German radiologist, former President of the German Medical Association and Deputy Chairman of the World Medical Association.
What he says:
I’m not a fan of lockdown. Anyone who imposes something like this must also say when and how to pick it up again. Since we have to assume that the virus will be with us for a long time, I wonder when we will return to normal?
You can’t keep schools and daycare centers closed until the end of the year. Because it will take at least that long until we have a jjab. Italy has imposed a lockdown and has the opposite effect. They quickly reached their capacity limits, but did not slow down the virus spread within the lockdown.
– Interview in General Anzeiger, 18th March 2020
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Prof. Hendrik Streeck is a German HIV researcher, epidemiologist and clinical trialist. He is professor of virology, and the director of the Institute of Virology and HIV Research, at Bonn University.
What he says:
The new pathogen is not that dangerous, it is even less dangerous than Sars-1. The special thing is that Sars-CoV-2 replicates in the upper throat area and is therefore much more infectious because the virus jumps from throat to throat, so to speak.
But that is also an advantage: Because Sars-1 replicates in the deep lungs, it is not so infectious, but it definitely gets on the lungs, which makes it more dangerous.
[…]
You also have to take into account that the Sars-CoV-2 deaths in Germany were exclusively old people. In Heinsberg, for example, a 78-year-old man with previous illnesses died of heart failure, and that without Sars-2 lung involvement.
Since he was infected, he naturally appears in the Covid 19 statistics. But the question is whether he would not have died anyway, even without Sars-2.
– Interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine, 16th March 2020
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Dr Yanis Roussel et. al. – A team of researchers from the Institut Hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée Infection, Marseille and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, conducting a peer-reviewed study on Coronavirus mortality for the government of France under the ‘Investments for the Future’ programme.
What they say:
The problem of SARS-CoV-2 is probably overestimated, as 2.6 million people die of respiratory infections each year compared with less than 4000 deaths for SARS-CoV-2 at the time of writing.
[…]
This study compared the mortality rate of SARS-CoV-2 in OECD countries (1.3%) with the mortality rate of common coronaviruses identified in AP-HM patients (0.8%) from 1 January 2013 to 2 March 2020. Chi-squared test was performed, and the P-value was 0.11 (not significant).
[…]
…it should be noted that systematic studies of other coronaviruses (but not yet for SARS-CoV-2) have found that the percentage of asymptomatic carriers is equal to or even higher than the percentage of symptomatic patients.
The same data for SARS-CoV-2 may soon be available, which will further reduce the relative risk associated with this specific pathology.
– “SARS-CoV-2: fear versus data”, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 19th March 2020
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Dr. David Katz is an American physician and founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center
What he says:
I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near-total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long-lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself.
The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.
– “Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?”, New York Times 20th March 2020
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Michael T. Osterholm is regents professor and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
What he says:
Consider the effect of shutting down offices, schools, transportation systems, restaurants, hotels, stores, theaters, concert halls, sporting events and other venues indefinitely and leaving all of their workers unemployed and on the public dole.
The likely result would be not just a depression but a complete economic breakdown, with countless permanently lost jobs, long before a jjab is ready or natural immunity takes hold.
[…]
[T]he best alternative will probably entail letting those at low risk for serious disease continue to work, keep business and manufacturing operating, and “run” society, while at the same time advising higher-risk individuals to protect themselves through physical distancing and ramping up our health-care capacity as aggressively as possible.
With this battle plan, we could gradually build up immunity without destroying the financial structure on which our lives are based.
– “Facing covid-19 reality: A national lockdown is no cure”, Washington Post 21st March 2020
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Dr Peter Goetzsche is Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis at the University of Copenhagen and founder of the Cochrane Medical Collaboration. He has written several books on corruption in the field of medicine and the power of big pharmaceutical companies.
What he says:
Our main problem is that no one will ever get in trouble for measures that are too draconian. They will only get in trouble if they do too little. So, our politicians and those working with public health do much more than they should do.
No such draconian measures were applied during the 2009 influenza pandemic, and they obviously cannot be applied every winter, which is all year round, as it is always winter somewhere. We cannot close down the whole world permanently.
Should it turn out that the epidemic wanes before long, there will be a queue of people wanting to take credit for this. And we can be damned sure draconian measures will be applied again next time.
But remember the joke about tigers. “Why do you blow the horn?” “To keep the tigers away.” “But there are no tigers here.” “There you see!”
– “Corona: an epidemic of mass panic”, blog post on Deadly Medicines 21st March 2020
*
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Source: Off-guardian.org


humansarefree--2020-03-29--Breaking News: Russia Presents Covid-19 TREATMENT Based on Existing Anti-malaria Drug

Russian specialists said they ’ ve come up with an effective way to treat Covid-19 using an anti-malarial drug .
This type of medication is now widely researched around the globe as a possible remedy from the pandemic .
While experts around the world have been trying to create a specific vaccine against the virus behind the global outbreak , there have also been active attempts to re-purpose existing medicines to help the scores of patients that badly need treatment .
After anti-malarial drugs were used in China , which managed to curb the coronavirus outbreak on its soil , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many countries , including the US , Canada , France and others .
US President , Donald Trump , has been actively promoting hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as “ biggest game-changers ” in the fight against the highly contagious disease , which already killed more than 1,900 in America and almost 30,000 worldwide .
The Russian pharmacists also believe in the effectiveness of malaria medication against the virus , but suggested that another drug — Mefloquine — should be employed .
They said their treatment was developed taking Chinese and French experience into account @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around since the 1970s , blocks the degenerative effect Covid-19 has on cells and doesn ’ t allow the virus to replicate further , the Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency ( FMBA ) said in a statement .
They added that Mefloquine ’ s immuno-suppressive effect prevents the inflammatory response caused by the disease .
The Russian medics have been working on “ an effective and safe scheme to prevent coronavirus infection on the basis of mefloquine , which not only would overcome the peak of incidence but would also effectively control it in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
There have been 228 new coronavirus cases registered in Russia in the last 24 hours , bringing the overall number of infected to 1,264 .
Up to seven people , who had tested positive for Covid-19 , have died .

Russian specialists said they’ve come up with an effective way to treat Covid-19 using an anti-malarial drug. This type of medication is now widely researched around the globe as a possible remedy from the pandemic.
While experts around the world have been trying to create a specific jjab against the virus behind the global outbreak, there have also been active attempts to re-purpose existing medicines to help the scores of patients that badly need treatment.
After anti-malarial drugs were used in China, which managed to curb the coronavirus outbreak on its soil, they became the subject of research in many countries, including the US, Canada, France and others.
US President, Donald Trump, has been actively promoting hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as “biggest game-changers” in the fight against the highly contagious disease, which already killed more than 1,900 in America and almost 30,000 worldwide.
The Russian pharmacists also believe in the effectiveness of malaria medication against the virus, but suggested that another drug — Mefloquine — should be employed.
They said their treatment was developed taking Chinese and French experience into account.
The drug, which has been around since the 1970s, blocks the degenerative effect Covid-19 has on cells and doesn’t allow the virus to replicate further, the Russian Federal Medical-Biological Agency (FMBA) said in a statement.
They added that Mefloquine’s immuno-suppressive effect prevents the inflammatory response caused by the disease.
The Russian medics have been working on “an effective and safe scheme to prevent coronavirus infection on the basis of mefloquine, which not only would overcome the peak of incidence but would also effectively control it in the future,” the FMBA said.
There have been 228 new coronavirus cases registered in Russia in the last 24 hours, bringing the overall number of infected to 1,264. Up to seven people, who had tested positive for Covid-19, have died.
Source: RT.com


humansarefree--2020-03-28--Digital Dollar A-Coming: Draft Bills Mention New US Central Bank Digital Currency

The Digital Dollar is no longer just a concept that alternative reporters and conspiracy researchers have been warning about .
It has taken a big step to becoming a reality .
This is just more proof that the coronavirus crisis is being exploited to push forward all sorts of NWO ( New World Order ) agendas that have been waiting in the wings for the right moment to be rolled out .
The US Congress floated a stimulus bill on Sunday March 22nd 2020 that specifically mentions the term digital dollar in reference to a new currency the USG wants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planned for a long time ; recently , it has been referred to as a CBDC ( Central Bank Digital Currency ) .
Although the provision for a digital dollar has been removed from the bill , the rulers have shown there hand .
Is this another step to the elimination of cash and to a One World Currency where every single financial transaction will recorded and monitored ?
House Stimulus Bills Contain Proposal of Digital Dollar – But Then Taken Out of One Bill In an article last week Creating and Exploiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how the US authorities were preparing to possibly crash the economy ( and blame it on the coronovirus ) while feverishly preparing to launch an official digital currency .
Right after this , there were 2 draft bills proposed , which were called the “ Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act ” and the “ Financial Protections and Assistance for America ’ s Consumers , States , Businesses , and Vulnerable Populations Ac.
” These 2 bills contained provisions for the Federal Reserve – the privately owned US central bank which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reserve ” of anything – to use a digital dollar and digital wallets to send payments to qualified individuals consisting of $ 2000 to adults and $ 1000 to minors .
Both bills employed identical language around the digital dollar suggestion .
Yesterday ( Monday March 23rd 2020 ) , the digital dollar provision was taken out of the first bill ( Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act ) , however this clearly goes to show where things are headed .
In a crisis , with people in fear , anything is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consolidating and centralizing power .
“ “ The term ‘ digital dollar ’ shall mean a balance expressed as a dollar value consisting of digital ledger entries that are recorded as liabilities in the accounts of any Federal Reserve bank ; or an electronic unit of value , redeemable by an eligible financial institution ( as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ) , ” the bills read .
“ In the long term , the card infrastructure should be converted into a permanent , Treasury – administered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ serve as a privacy – respecting ‘ eCash ’ complement to universal Fed Accounts and/or Postal Bank Accounts for All , ” the bill reads.
” USG Digital Currency Spells the End of Financial Privacy The proposed digital dollar is a continuation of the cashless agenda which seeks to eliminate cash completely .
The coronavirus crisis has been used all over the world to promote this agenda .
Both Chinese authorities and the WHO ( World Health Organization ) director claimed that using cash could spread the virus , a largely evidence – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quite transparent .
Although a digital dollar may sound appealing to many people , it is crucial to understand the power this would give to government .
In a society where cash were gone and every single transaction were digitized , it would mean that every single economic act by each person would be automatically recorded by the technocratic rulers , who would be able to inspect , monitor and analyze these transactions .
This would make financial privacy impossible .
Such a system could easily be tied to pre-crime systems and social @ @ @ @ @ @ @ done in China ) , where authorities could study what you are buying etc .
and arrest or imprison you on the suspicion that your financial behavior was indicative that you were about to commit a crime .
Alternatively , you could be excluded from buying things you want by a centralized authority that would have the power to turn your account on or off if it believed that it would serve ‘ the public good ’ for you to be prevented from certain purchases .
Or , you could be excluded from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by train or plane ( again , as had already been done in China ) because the authorities decided that was appropriate punishment for some ‘ crime ’ you may have committed .
Tax evasion or avoidance would become impossible regardless of if you were doing it for principled reasons .
The NWO manipulators have planned this ‘ crisis response ’ out .
They ’ ve been practicing it for a long time .
People are being conditioned to engage in social distancing , to socially isolate and to accept the shutdown of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as to force everyone to do interact and trade via the internet .
Then , from that mentality and condition , a digital dollar or currency will seem more acceptable , since ‘ we ’ re all just trying to get through this crisis ’ as best we can and ‘ at least it still allows us to do business.
’ And if you don ’ t go along with the program , you ’ ll get a dose of public shaming : you ’ re a heartless individual who doesn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and safety .
The Real Threat is not the Virus But the Loss of Freedom Now is time to keep on your feet .
Stay alert and informed .
There is a LOT going on during this engineered ’ emergency ’ , things which the NWO controllers would usually not be able to easily get changed , but which now can be changed , because people have become so distracted , hysterical , panicked or afraid .
The US DOJ wants broad sweeping powers to detain people indefinitely and stop court proceedings “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster , civil disobedience , or other emergency situation.
” The Israeli Government is debating the total suspension of individual freedom .
Whether it ’ s new digital currencies , censorsing alternative viewpoints on the coronavirus , increased surveillance of people , mandatory vaccinations , giving government emergency powers , human microchipping or more , we need to focus on the really important matters at hand here and refuse to be distracted or intimidated by a ‘ virus ’ that has so far killed around 16,000 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in a world where over 150,000 people die every day .

The Digital Dollar is no longer just a concept that alternative reporters and conspiracy researchers have been warning about. It has taken a big step to becoming a reality.
This is just more proof that the coronavirus crisis is being exploited to push forward all sorts of NWO (New World Order) agendas that have been waiting in the wings for the right moment to be rolled out.
The US Congress floated a stimulus bill on Sunday March 22nd 2020 that specifically mentions the term digital dollar in reference to a new currency the USG wants launched.
This new currency has been planned for a long time; recently, it has been referred to as a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). Although the provision for a digital dollar has been removed from the bill, the rulers have shown there hand.
Is this another step to the elimination of cash and to a One World Currency where every single financial transaction will recorded and monitored?
House Stimulus Bills Contain Proposal of Digital Dollar – But Then Taken Out of One Bill
In an article last week Creating and Exploiting the Coronavirus Crisis, I talked about how the US authorities were preparing to possibly crash the economy (and blame it on the coronovirus) while feverishly preparing to launch an official digital currency.
Right after this, there were 2 draft bills proposed, which were called the “Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act” and the “Financial Protections and Assistance for America’s Consumers, States, Businesses, and Vulnerable Populations Ac.”
These 2 bills contained provisions for the Federal Reserve – the privately owned US central bank which is neither “federal” nor a “reserve” of anything – to use a digital dollar and digital wallets to send payments to qualified individuals consisting of $2000 to adults and $1000 to minors.
Both bills employed identical language around the digital dollar suggestion. Yesterday (Monday March 23rd 2020), the digital dollar provision was taken out of the first bill (Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act), however this clearly goes to show where things are headed.
In a crisis, with people in fear, anything is possible for a ruling class bent on consolidating and centralizing power.
Coindesk reports:
““The term ‘digital dollar’ shall mean a balance expressed as a dollar value consisting of digital ledger entries that are recorded as liabilities in the accounts of any Federal Reserve bank; or an electronic unit of value, redeemable by an eligible financial institution (as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System),” the bills read.
“In the long term, the card infrastructure should be converted into a permanent, Treasury – administered digital public currency wallet system, to serve as a privacy – respecting ‘eCash’ complement to universal Fed Accounts and/or Postal Bank Accounts for All,” the bill reads.”
USG Digital Currency Spells the End of Financial Privacy
The proposed digital dollar is a continuation of the cashless agenda which seeks to eliminate cash completely. The coronavirus crisis has been used all over the world to promote this agenda.
Both Chinese authorities and the WHO (World Health Organization) director claimed that using cash could spread the virus, a largely evidence – free and flimsy assertion whose motive is quite transparent.
Although a digital dollar may sound appealing to many people, it is crucial to understand the power this would give to government.
In a society where cash were gone and every single transaction were digitized, it would mean that every single economic act by each person would be automatically recorded by the technocratic rulers, who would be able to inspect, monitor and analyze these transactions.
This would make financial privacy impossible. Such a system could easily be tied to pre-crime systems and social credit systems (as has already been done in China), where authorities could study what you are buying etc. and arrest or imprison you on the suspicion that your financial behavior was indicative that you were about to commit a crime.
Alternatively, you could be excluded from buying things you want by a centralized authority that would have the power to turn your account on or off if it believed that it would serve ‘the public good’ for you to be prevented from certain purchases.
Or, you could be excluded from participating fully in the economy or traveling by train or plane (again, as had already been done in China) because the authorities decided that was appropriate punishment for some ‘crime’ you may have committed.
Tax evasion or avoidance would become impossible regardless of if you were doing it for principled reasons.
The NWO manipulators have planned this ‘crisis response’ out. They’ve been practicing it for a long time.
People are being conditioned to engage in social distancing, to socially isolate and to accept the shutdown of normal business services like banks, so as to force everyone to do interact and trade via the internet.
Then, from that mentality and condition, a digital dollar or currency will seem more acceptable, since ‘we’re all just trying to get through this crisis’ as best we can and ‘at least it still allows us to do business.’
And if you don’t go along with the program, you’ll get a dose of public shaming: you’re a heartless individual who doesn’t care about the elderly or public health and safety.
The Real Threat is not the Virus But the Loss of Freedom
Now is time to keep on your feet. Stay alert and informed. There is a LOT going on during this engineered ’emergency’, things which the NWO controllers would usually not be able to easily get changed, but which now can be changed, because people have become so distracted, hysterical, panicked or afraid.
The US DOJ wants broad sweeping powers to detain people indefinitely and stop court proceedings “whenever the district court is fully or partially closed by virtue of any natural disaster, civil disobedience, or other emergency situation.”
The Israeli Government is debating the total suspension of individual freedom.
Whether it’s new digital currencies, censorsing alternative viewpoints on the coronavirus, increased surveillance of people, mandatory vaccinations, giving government emergency powers, human microchipping or more, we need to focus on the really important matters at hand here and refuse to be distracted or intimidated by a ‘virus’ that has so far killed around 16,000 people worldwide after months and months – in a world where over 150,000 people die every day.
By Makia Freeman, Guest writer, HumansAreFree.com


humansarefree--2020-03-28--Country Singer Kills Himself After Child Sex Arrest

A country singer facing child sex charges in two states killed himself after missing a court appearance Friday .
Daniel Lee Martin , once considered one of country music ’ s rising stars , was first arrested in 2018 in Tennessee , where he was accused of abusing three victims under 13 , the Tennessean reports .
He was arrested on similar charges in Florida last month , which prompted authorities in Tennessee to order him to appear at a hearing on revoking his pre-trial release .
When he failed to show up for that hearing Friday , Tennessee authorities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fla. , who found the 54-year-old dead in his New Port Richey home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound .
Police say Martin had made threats to harm himself and others before officers arrived at his home , where a SWAT team broke in after he failed to answer the door , reports the Tampa Bay Times .
He had been due to stand trial in Tennessee , where he is accused of abusing the three children between 2014 and 2018 , in March .
Martin achieved modest success after moving from Florida to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his country music ambitions .
He also starred in the reality shows Brotherhood Outdoors and Backstage and Backroads on the Sportsman Channel , and Till Death Do Us Part on CarbonTV .

A country singer facing child sex charges in two states killed himself after missing a court appearance Friday.
Daniel Lee Martin, once considered one of country music’s rising stars, was first arrested in 2018 in Tennessee, where he was accused of abusing three victims under 13, the Tennessean reports.
He was arrested on similar charges in Florida last month, which prompted authorities in Tennessee to order him to appear at a hearing on revoking his pre-trial release.
When he failed to show up for that hearing Friday, Tennessee authorities notified their counterparts in Pasco County, Fla., who found the 54-year-old dead in his New Port Richey home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Police say Martin had made threats to harm himself and others before officers arrived at his home, where a SWAT team broke in after he failed to answer the door, reports the Tampa Bay Times.
He had been due to stand trial in Tennessee, where he is accused of abusing the three children between 2014 and 2018, in March. Martin achieved modest success after moving from Florida to Nashville in the late 1990s to pursue his country music ambitions.
He also starred in the reality shows Brotherhood Outdoors and Backstage and Backroads on the Sportsman Channel, and Till Death Do Us Part on CarbonTV.
Source: Newser.com


humansarefree--2020-03-28--Trump Signs “Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020” Despite Security, Health, and Environmental Warnings

So this happened on Monday : Today , I have signed into law S. 893 , the “ Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020 ” ( the “ Act ” ) .
The Act requires the President to develop and implement a strategy for the adoption of secure wireless communications technology in the United States and abroad .
The strategy will protect the American people from security threats to telecommunications networks and 5G technology .
As part of the strategy , section 4 of the Act purports to require the President to engage in international diplomacy in order to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Congress .
Consistent with longstanding constitutional practice , my Administration will treat the relevant provisions of this section in a manner that does not interfere with the President ’ s exclusive constitutional authorities with respect to foreign relations , including the President ’ s role as the sole representative of the Nation in foreign affairs .
Section 5 of the Act further purports to condition the President ’ s authority to implement parts of the strategy upon the approval of the Federal Communications Commission .
My understanding is that this provision @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from exercising our constitutional authorities as the “ sole organ ” of the Nation in foreign relations and as the head of the unitary Executive Branch to ensure proper implementation of the entire strategy .
OMG and Holy Crap !
Warnings about 5G have come from a variety of credible sources including Department of Defense Secretary , Mark Esper .
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has asked the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) to deny a Virginia wireless company ’ s license to provide 5G mobile broadband service out of “ national security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefit of the nation ” concerns .
“ There are too many unknowns and the risks are far too great to federal operations to allow Ligado ’ s proposed system to proceed , ” Esper said in a letter Monday to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai , .
“ This could have a significant negative impact on military operations , both in peacetime and war .
“ I , therefore , strongly oppose , ” Esper said , adding that the proposed service had “ the potential for widespread disruption and degradation of GPS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ space .
Esper ’ s letter was released Wednesday by the Pentagon , Bloomberg reports , and the FCC is not bound by the recommendation .
In April 2019 , Brig .
Gen. Robert S. Spalding III was interviewed by The New Yorker for an article titled , “ The Terrifying Potential of 5G ” and again in November by Patrick Bet-David about cybersecurity risks and increased surveillance drastically affecting the American way-of-life : Esper and Spalding are two of many security experts who have warned about cybersecurity risks from 5G ( see @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Things ( IoT ) technology .
Other highly respected individuals and organizations ( including the U.S. Navy , NOAA and NASA ) have also issued opposition for other safety issues ( see 1 , 2 , 3 ) .
American opposition to 5G has been ongoing .
Since 2018 people and animals have been getting sick where 5G has been turned on ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
In February 2019 the telecom industry gave U.S. congressional testimony that they have NO scientific evidence that it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineers , scientists , and public advocates asked President Trump for a moratorium due to biological , environmental and safety risks .
Lawsuits have been filed ( see 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ) .
A growing number of Congress members have also expressed grave concerns and objections .

So this happened on Monday:
Statement by the President
Today, I have signed into law S. 893, the “Secure 5G and Beyond Act of 2020” (the “Act”). The Act requires the President to develop and implement a strategy for the adoption of secure wireless communications technology in the United States and abroad. The strategy will protect the American people from security threats to telecommunications networks and 5G technology.
As part of the strategy, section 4 of the Act purports to require the President to engage in international diplomacy in order to share information and pursue policy goals specified by the Congress. Consistent with longstanding constitutional practice, my Administration will treat the relevant provisions of this section in a manner that does not interfere with the President’s exclusive constitutional authorities with respect to foreign relations, including the President’s role as the sole representative of the Nation in foreign affairs.
Section 5 of the Act further purports to condition the President’s authority to implement parts of the strategy upon the approval of the Federal Communications Commission. My understanding is that this provision does not preclude me or future Presidents from exercising our constitutional authorities as the “sole organ” of the Nation in foreign relations and as the head of the unitary Executive Branch to ensure proper implementation of the entire strategy.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 23, 2020.
OMG and Holy Crap! Warnings about 5G have come from a variety of credible sources including Department of Defense Secretary, Mark Esper.
From Newsmax, November 22, 2019:
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a Virginia wireless company’s license to provide 5G mobile broadband service out of “national security, civil service, and the economic benefit of the nation” concerns.
“There are too many unknowns and the risks are far too great to federal operations to allow Ligado’s proposed system to proceed,” Esper said in a letter Monday to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Bloomberg News reports .
“This could have a significant negative impact on military operations, both in peacetime and war.
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“I, therefore, strongly oppose,” Esper said, adding that the proposed service had “the potential for widespread disruption and degradation of GPS services” that rely on signals from space.
Esper’s letter was released Wednesday by the Pentagon, Bloomberg reports, and the FCC is not bound by the recommendation.
In April 2019, Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding III was interviewed by The New Yorker for an article titled, “The Terrifying Potential of 5G” and again in November by Patrick Bet-David about cybersecurity risks and increased surveillance drastically affecting the American way-of-life:
Esper and Spalding are two of many security experts who have warned about cybersecurity risks from 5G (see 1, 2) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Other highly respected individuals and organizations (including the U.S. Navy, NOAA and NASA) have also issued opposition for other safety issues (see 1, 2, 3).
American opposition to 5G has been ongoing. Since 2018 people and animals have been getting sick where 5G has been turned on (see 1, 2, 3, 4). In February 2019 the telecom industry gave U.S. congressional testimony that they have NO scientific evidence that it’s safe. Last December – doctors, engineers, scientists, and public advocates asked President Trump for a moratorium due to biological, environmental and safety risks. Lawsuits have been filed (see 1, 2, 3, 4). A growing number of Congress members have also expressed grave concerns and objections.
By B.N. Frank, Guest writer


humansarefree--2020-03-31--Run for the Hills! Pentagon Sends Teams into MOUNTAIN BUNKERS as Pandemic Preparations Go into Full

Run for the Hills! Pentagon Sends Teams into MOUNTAIN BUNKERS as Pandemic Preparations Go into Full Swing

The US ’ Northern Command has sent teams of essential staff deep underground to wait out the Covid-19 pandemic .
On the surface , more than a million grunts won ’ t be quite as cocooned .
Air Force General Terrence O ’ Shaughnessy heads up the US ’ Northern Command , as well as the North American Aerospace Defense Command – a joint US/Canadian operation that monitors the skies over North America for missile and airborne threats .
Earlier this week , O ’ Shaughnessy told reporters via Facebook that some of his watch teams would be moved from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Force Base in Colorado to a number of hardened underground bunkers .
One of these facilities is the Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex , a warren of tunnels buried under 2,000 feet ( 610m ) of granite , and sealed behind blast doors designed to withstand a 30 megaton nuclear explosion .
“ Our dedicated professionals of the NORAD and NORTHCOM command and control watch have left their homes , said goodbye to their families , and are isolated from everyone to ensure they can stand the watch each and every day to defend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said .
He also said that personnel sent underground will share the bunker with other members of the military , but he is “ not at liberty to discuss who ’ s moving in there.
” Another team has been sent to an undisclosed location , O ’ Shaughnessy added .
Installations like Cheyenne Mountain are integral to the US government ’ s plan to survive a doomsday scenario .
In the event of an existential threat to the US , a nuclear attack for instance , the president and his officials , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , military and civilian leaders would be immediately evacuated to four secure facilities to run the country from deep underground .
These facilities are Cheyenne Mountain , the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House , Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania , and Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Pennsylvania .
While the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has not triggered a mass exodus from Washington , it has prompted military leaders to take steps to ensure they remain combat ready .
After admitting that the US military ’ s readiness could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mark Esper stated on Thursday that the Pentagon would stop publishing precise details of Covid-19 cases within its ranks , to avoid revealing weaknesses to America ’ s adversaries .
As some of O ’ Shaughnessy ’ s forces head for the hills to wait out the pandemic in hermetic isolation , millions more on the surface will not have the same luxury .
Army engineers have already been deployed to New York to scout locations for field hospitals , as the Empire State accounts for more than a third of the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
With the crisis deepening , the US military appears to be adopting an ‘ all hands on deck ’ approach , both on the ground and under .
Though the US military is forbidden from carrying out law enforcement duties on American soil , President Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the call-up of up to a million reserve and retired Army , Navy , Air Force and Coast Guard personnel .
These reservists could be called upon to assist civilian authorities in responding to the pandemic , as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been doing .
On Saturday , Esper announced a modified law that would provide federal funding for states looking to deploy more of these troops .
On top of this , two hospital ships have been sent to assist with treating patients in New York and Los Angeles .

The US’ Northern Command has sent teams of essential staff deep underground to wait out the Covid-19 pandemic. On the surface, more than a million grunts won’t be quite as cocooned.
Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy heads up the US’ Northern Command, as well as the North American Aerospace Defense Command – a joint US/Canadian operation that monitors the skies over North America for missile and airborne threats.
Earlier this week, O’Shaughnessy told reporters via Facebook that some of his watch teams would be moved from their usual command center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to a number of hardened underground bunkers.
One of these facilities is the Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex, a warren of tunnels buried under 2,000 feet (610m) of granite, and sealed behind blast doors designed to withstand a 30 megaton nuclear explosion.
“Our dedicated professionals of the NORAD and NORTHCOM command and control watch have left their homes, said goodbye to their families, and are isolated from everyone to ensure they can stand the watch each and every day to defend our homeland,” O’Shaughnessy said.
He also said that personnel sent underground will share the bunker with other members of the military, but he is “not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there.”
Another team has been sent to an undisclosed location, O’Shaughnessy added.
Installations like Cheyenne Mountain are integral to the US government’s plan to survive a doomsday scenario.
In the event of an existential threat to the US, a nuclear attack for instance, the president and his officials, as well as a contingent of political, military and civilian leaders would be immediately evacuated to four secure facilities to run the country from deep underground.
These facilities are Cheyenne Mountain, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House, Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania, and Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Pennsylvania.
While the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has not triggered a mass exodus from Washington, it has prompted military leaders to take steps to ensure they remain combat ready.
After admitting that the US military’s readiness could be affected by the pandemic, Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated on Thursday that the Pentagon would stop publishing precise details of Covid-19 cases within its ranks, to avoid revealing weaknesses to America’s adversaries.
As some of O’Shaughnessy’s forces head for the hills to wait out the pandemic in hermetic isolation, millions more on the surface will not have the same luxury.
Army engineers have already been deployed to New York to scout locations for field hospitals, as the Empire State accounts for more than a third of the country’s 112,000 cases of the illness.
With the crisis deepening, the US military appears to be adopting an ‘all hands on deck’ approach, both on the ground and under.
Though the US military is forbidden from carrying out law enforcement duties on American soil, President Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the call-up of up to a million reserve and retired Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard personnel.
These reservists could be called upon to assist civilian authorities in responding to the pandemic, as the nearly 10,000 National Guard troops already deployed have been doing.
On Saturday, Esper announced a modified law that would provide federal funding for states looking to deploy more of these troops.
On top of this, two hospital ships have been sent to assist with treating patients in New York and Los Angeles.
Source: RT.com