thelibertybeacon--2020-03-18--The S*** Is Actually Hitting the Fan But Somehow It Doesn’t Feel Real

The S*** Is Actually Hitting the Fan But Somehow It Doesn ’ t Feel Real So here we are .
Right on the cusp of that SHTF event that we ’ ve been prepping for all these years .
Shoppers who are already becoming agitated and even violent .
We ’ re watching it all unfold in our hometowns and across our nation right now .
Yet , somehow , it still doesn ’ t feel real to me .
Is it just me who finds this hard to fathom ?
Am I the only one who still thinks doubtful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s going to be okay .
You ’ re overreacting .
It ’ s a little scare , just like Ebola and MERS and SARS.
” I ’ ve researched and written about this stuff for years .
I always knew it could happen .
I was whole-heartedly convinced of these possibilities and yet when this situation began to move irrevocably toward disaster , I find myself , somehow , shocked .
I can ’ t be the only one who has prepared for this yet still feels stuck in normalcy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t going to get as bad as you think ” even as I watch the events unfold around us pretty much like we in the survival community always predicted .
There ’ s still that doubtful voice in my head , making me wonder about spending even more money on another “ last ” shopping trip .
Heck , maybe this makes me a bad prepper .
A fake survivalist .
A fraud .
Or maybe it ’ s only natural to think that life will keep moving on pretty much like it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the thing that brings us down ?
Will the nation devolve into chaos ?
I ’ d like to say no with firm conviction .
After all , there have been close calls before .
But the rational part of me won ’ t allow that firm conviction , despite the part that says , don ’ t be silly , everything will be just fine after a brief blip .
I believe it ’ s okay to feel this way as long as you don ’ t allow it to get in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your acceptance of the disaster when it actually unfolds in all its shocking reality .
Maybe I ’ m oversharing here and a whole bunch of folks will unsubscribe .
I don ’ t know .
But if others are feeling the same way , I want you to know that you aren ’ t alone .
I think people have come down on one of two sides since the Covid-19 virus first came onto our radar back in late December or early January .
Some people have thought , “ This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thought , “ So what ?
The flu is more deadly.
” Now that we ’ re down to the wire , we ’ ll soon find out which line of thinking was the most accurate .
A lot of this goes down to a decision .
Are you going to believe your gut or are you going to believe the logical normalcy bias that tells you this isn ’ t how things go in the United States of America ?
My gut has been telling me since mid-January that this thing is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would China have tanked its economy and locked down a city of 20 million people , welding their doors closed in many cases , if this novel coronavirus was no big deal ?
Would Italy have locked down their entire country and begun turning away patients over the age of 65 to funnel resources to those more likely to survive if this was just another common , everyday flu ?
But the logical side of me says , “ This is the US .
We will be just fine.
” Because we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lifetime .
We were bruised and shaken , but bounced back with fierce resolve on 9/11 .
We were fine when Ebola reached our shores back in 2014 .
We recovered after Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy and all the other named storms that have hit .
We ’ re Americans .
We are resilient .
It ’ s who we are .
However , our resilience may not be enough to conquer a crisis that was badly mishandled from the get-go .
It may not be enough to overcome less than a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than 327 million people .
The enemy is a virus we know hardly anything about and we can ’ t even believe the numbers out there from China or our own government .
This afternoon when I heard there was a press conference in the Rose Garden at 3 pm , I had a bad feeling .
I wondered if my calculations were off when I figured that we could begin to see major quarantines in about a week .
I headed to the store with my 19-year-old daughter to get there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be imminent if such an announcement was made .
We picked up extra cat litter , extra pet food , some hardware , and extra frozen vegetables .
When I went to the grocery store , I saw that frozen veggies were on sale 10 for $ 10 .
I grabbed 10 bags of frozen spinach and saw a rotund angry-looking woman glaring at me .
I gave her a “ what ?
” look and she said , “ Aren ’ t you going to leave any for other people ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ m sorry .
Did you want some of the spinach ?
” I picked up 3 bags from my cart and offered them to her .
She said , “ No , I don ’ t want any spinach .
A $ $ hole.
” I replied calmly , “ Okay , well , have a nice day ” and left with my spinach .
I wasn ’ t about to get into an altercation at Kroger over a one-dollar bag of spinach the other woman didn ’ t even want .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paid off because my first instinct was not to be pleasant and disregard her insults .
I saw the tension on people ’ s faces as they pushed their carts quickly up and down the aisles , the tunnel vision obvious .
If someone stopped in an aisle – a common thing to do at the grocery store – the folks behind them would give a loud sigh of annoyance .
I even saw a couple of people bumping into others with their carts – whether it was carelessness or deliberately done , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left the store with my purchases , happy to get out of there and content with what I had .
I know that I ’ m as well-stocked as I can get with the money that I have .
If it ’ s not enough , then we ’ ll move through plans B , C , and the rest of the alphabet .
I can ’ t be the only person who finds the official response to be much too little , far too late .
To be perfectly clear , I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or the Vice President .
They ’ re in a rather impossible situation in which no matter what they do , the outcome is bad .
If they shut everything down completely , there would be panic the likes of which we ’ ve never seen .
And the economic fallout would be exponentially worse than it already is .
This also impairs their ability to be totally forthcoming .
While people in the preparedness community would prefer brutal facts over soothing fiction , most people really don ’ t want to know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ’ ll become .
So the government will continue to dance around the subject until they can dance no more and we reach a point where the truth is obvious to even the most obvious clinger to normalcy .
On the other hand , the press conference at the White House left me feeling even more uneasy than I had felt before .
Parading a bunch of CEOs before us and showing that ridiculous flow chart that looked like something a 4th grader might hand in for a school project certainly did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were “ under control.
” I don ’ t care at all what the head of CVS pharmacies thinks about the outbreak or his ability to keep stores running .
In fact , the main thing I gathered from that is that CVS , Walmart , and Target will be the distribution points that remain open during the crisis .
Mom and Pop stores may not have access to warehouses or supplies .
This way it will be easier for the government to ration things out and enforce rules like “ one bag @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come to that .
I actually posted an article about this topic a few months back .
I thought that President Trump looked and sounded unwell during the press conference .
Whether that is the effect of stress or he ’ s become ill , it ’ s impossible to say .
All in all , I was not reassured by anything in that press conference .
Rationally , I ’ m aware that with the increase in confirmed cases and the exponential spread of this virus , we ’ ve probably passed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York Times explains exponential growth with this chart .
These are the number of cases confirmed on certain dates .
And on the morning of March 14 , we ’ re up to 2175 cases .
As the “ drive-through ” testing facilities open up with free tests , we can expect that number to grow quite a lot .
This is exactly the situation that China , Italy , Iran , and all the other countries with massive outbreaks have found themselves in and the United States is probably next .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ are still at a stage in a shell game and nobody knows which shell the SHTF is hiding under .
Nobody knows if we can reel things in and gain control of the situation .
Nobody knows if we ’ re going to go the way of Italy , where an entire nation is locked down and singing from their balconies to raise morale in a desperate situation .
I wonder if people who have lived through horrible situations ever imagined in their wildest dreams how bad things would get .
I know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SHTF Survival Stories , he wrote about this .
Nobody ever truly expected things to happen the way they did .
There was a period of adjustment and all the rules changed but a lot of folks didn ’ t accept the changes soon enough and they did not survive .
When I silence the part of my mind that says , this can ’ t be happening , I ’ m only left with the realistic part that says , “ Yes .
It is.
” While we don ’ t 100 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out in our country , we have to be ready for things to go badly .
In her book , The Covid-19 Survival Manual , Cat Ellis talked about the inability of our hospitals to handle thousands of patients .
We have less than a million beds in a country of 327 million people .
And most of those beds are not in places equipped to handle highly contagious sick people .
And what about the people with other health issues ?
Our medical system won ’ t be able to handle exponential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or how much they want to help .
When I look at how grocery stores and discount stores across the country look like a horde of locusts went through and decimated the inventory , I know this is a bad sign .
When a friend who manages a large grocery store says to me , “ Our truck was only half full today .
If buying and inventory continue like this , we will be out of food by Monday , ” I can only imagine the havoc that stores out of food @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be like Black Friday times a thousand , something I ’ ve written about for years .
This entire thing is surreal , isn ’ t it ?
If I ’ ve written about and prepared for the SHTF for years and am having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that we ’ re in the early stages of it , what must it feel like for someone who is brand new to the concept ?
It ’ s one thing to watch it happen someplace far away from the screen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another to watch it unfold at home .
However , we have to accept it and we have to act quickly and decisively .
One of the most important things I ’ ve learned from Selco is about accepting the new rules .
One of the most important things he taught me is to adapt quickly ( immediately ) to the “ new rules ” that apply when the SHTF .
And to do that , you need to know what it ’ s like so you won ’ t be shocked…frozen…paralyzed by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of you .
When there is a new set of rules , the old rules no longer apply .
The rules about waiting patiently for the government to save you ?
The rules about how people won ’ t walk up and steal from you in broad daylight because they ’ ll be arrested ?
The rules that you will get paid for your work and then you can go to the store and buy what you need ?
Those rules will be gone .
And when you start seeing these new rules @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has hit the oscillating device and the world as you knew it has changed .
I know this and yet I still think ( hope ) in one part of my mind that it won ’ t happen that way here .
That ’ s the most dangerous misconception in survival .
The other part of my mind knows that it could .
And that ’ s the part which propels me through getting prepared despite what the doubtful side whispers .
It ’ s not just you .
So if you ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re seeing , not quite believing that all hell could break loose in America at any point now , you aren ’ t alone .
If you look at everything heading to hell on a greasy slide and think it doesn ’ t feel real , it ’ s not just you .
I ’ m feeling that way myself .
I ’ m sharing this because I bet a lot of people are feeling the same way .
Second-guessing themselves .
Doubting themselves .
Feeling like they aren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone and I ’ ll bet a whole lot of folks who won ’ t admit it feel this way too .
We don ’ t believe it because we don ’ t want to believe it .
We never actually wanted to be right when we stockpiled and learned skills and bought more supplies that we actually had room to house .
But the thing that puts us ahead in this situation is that we prepared anyway .
We learned anyway .
And when we see the more obvious signs of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accept it a lot faster than those who never even considered it .

The S*** Is Actually Hitting the Fan But Somehow It Doesn’t Feel Real
By: Daisy Luther
So here we are. Right on the cusp of that SHTF event that we’ve been prepping for all these years.
A global pandemic.
A breakdown in the supply chain.
Shoppers who are already becoming agitated and even violent.
We’re watching it all unfold in our hometowns and across our nation right now.
Yet, somehow, it still doesn’t feel real to me. Is it just me who finds this hard to fathom? Am I the only one who still thinks doubtful thoughts? Like “No way. It’s going to be okay. You’re overreacting. It’s a little scare, just like Ebola and MERS and SARS.”
I’ve researched and written about this stuff for years. I always knew it could happen. I was whole-heartedly convinced of these possibilities and yet when this situation began to move irrevocably toward disaster, I find myself, somehow, shocked.
I can’t be the only one who has prepared for this yet still feels stuck in normalcy bias, thinking “this isn’t going to get as bad as you think” even as I watch the events unfold around us pretty much like we in the survival community always predicted. There’s still that doubtful voice in my head, making me wonder about spending even more money on another “last” shopping trip.
Heck, maybe this makes me a bad prepper. A fake survivalist. A fraud.
Or maybe it’s only natural to think that life will keep moving on pretty much like it always has.
Will Covid-19 really be the thing that brings us down? Will the nation devolve into chaos? I’d like to say no with firm conviction. After all, there have been close calls before. But the rational part of me won’t allow that firm conviction, despite the part that says, don’t be silly, everything will be just fine after a brief blip.
I believe it’s okay to feel this way as long as you don’t allow it to get in the way of your preparations or of your acceptance of the disaster when it actually unfolds in all its shocking reality.
Maybe I’m oversharing here and a whole bunch of folks will unsubscribe. I don’t know. But if others are feeling the same way, I want you to know that you aren’t alone.
Instincts vs. Normalcy Bias
I think people have come down on one of two sides since the Covid-19 virus first came onto our radar back in late December or early January. Some people have thought, “This is the next plague” while others have thought, “So what? The flu is more deadly.” Now that we’re down to the wire, we’ll soon find out which line of thinking was the most accurate.
A lot of this goes down to a decision. Are you going to believe your gut or are you going to believe the logical normalcy bias that tells you this isn’t how things go in the United States of America?
My gut has been telling me since mid-January that this thing is a major event. After all, would China have tanked its economy and locked down a city of 20 million people, welding their doors closed in many cases, if this novel coronavirus was no big deal? Would Italy have locked down their entire country and begun turning away patients over the age of 65 to funnel resources to those more likely to survive if this was just another common, everyday flu?
But the logical side of me says, “This is the US. We will be just fine.” Because we’ve always been just fine in my lifetime. We were bruised and shaken, but bounced back with fierce resolve on 9/11. We were fine when Ebola reached our shores back in 2014. We recovered after Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy and all the other named storms that have hit. We’re Americans. We are resilient. It’s who we are.
However, our resilience may not be enough to conquer a crisis that was badly mishandled from the get-go. It may not be enough to overcome less than a million hospital beds in a country with more than 327 million people. The enemy is a virus we know hardly anything about and we can’t even believe the numbers out there from China or our own government.
People are getting tense.
This afternoon when I heard there was a press conference in the Rose Garden at 3 pm, I had a bad feeling. I wondered if my calculations were off when I figured that we could begin to see major quarantines in about a week. I headed to the store with my 19-year-old daughter to get there ahead of the crowds that would certainly be imminent if such an announcement was made. We picked up extra cat litter, extra pet food, some hardware, and extra frozen vegetables.
When I went to the grocery store, I saw that frozen veggies were on sale 10 for $10. I grabbed 10 bags of frozen spinach and saw a rotund angry-looking woman glaring at me. I gave her a “what?” look and she said, “Aren’t you going to leave any for other people?”
I said politely, “I’m sorry. Did you want some of the spinach?” I picked up 3 bags from my cart and offered them to her.
She said, “No, I don’t want any spinach. A$$hole.”
I replied calmly, “Okay, well, have a nice day” and left with my spinach. I wasn’t about to get into an altercation at Kroger over a one-dollar bag of spinach the other woman didn’t even want. It looks like that de-escalation course I took paid off because my first instinct was not to be pleasant and disregard her insults.
I saw the tension on people’s faces as they pushed their carts quickly up and down the aisles, the tunnel vision obvious. If someone stopped in an aisle – a common thing to do at the grocery store – the folks behind them would give a loud sigh of annoyance. I even saw a couple of people bumping into others with their carts – whether it was carelessness or deliberately done, I couldn’t tell.
I left the store with my purchases, happy to get out of there and content with what I had. I know that I’m as well-stocked as I can get with the money that I have. If it’s not enough, then we’ll move through plans B, C, and the rest of the alphabet.
The official response
I can’t be the only person who finds the official response to be much too little, far too late.
To be perfectly clear, I don’t really blame the President or the Vice President. They’re in a rather impossible situation in which no matter what they do, the outcome is bad. If they shut everything down completely, there would be panic the likes of which we’ve never seen. And the economic fallout would be exponentially worse than it already is.
This also impairs their ability to be totally forthcoming. While people in the preparedness community would prefer brutal facts over soothing fiction, most people really don’t want to know how bad things are or how bad they’ll become. So the government will continue to dance around the subject until they can dance no more and we reach a point where the truth is obvious to even the most obvious clinger to normalcy.
On the other hand, the press conference at the White House left me feeling even more uneasy than I had felt before.
Parading a bunch of CEOs before us and showing that ridiculous flow chart that looked like something a 4th grader might hand in for a school project certainly did nothing to make me feel like things were “under control.” I don’t care at all what the head of CVS pharmacies thinks about the outbreak or his ability to keep stores running.
In fact, the main thing I gathered from that is that CVS, Walmart, and Target will be the distribution points that remain open during the crisis. Mom and Pop stores may not have access to warehouses or supplies. This way it will be easier for the government to ration things out and enforce rules like “one bag of rice per household” should it come to that. I actually posted an article about this topic a few months back.
I thought that President Trump looked and sounded unwell during the press conference. Whether that is the effect of stress or he’s become ill, it’s impossible to say.
All in all, I was not reassured by anything in that press conference.
What is exponential growth?
Rationally, I’m aware that with the increase in confirmed cases and the exponential spread of this virus, we’ve probably passed the point of no return. The New York Times explains exponential growth with this chart. These are the number of cases confirmed on certain dates.
Jan. 21 — 1
Jan. 28 — 5
Feb. 4 — 11
Feb. 11 — 14
Feb. 18 — 25
Feb. 25 — 59
Mar. 3 — 125
Mar. 10 — 1,004
And on the morning of March 14, we’re up to 2175 cases. As the “drive-through” testing facilities open up with free tests, we can expect that number to grow quite a lot.
The magnitude of the outbreak creeps up on you; it doesn’t look like things are growing very much, and then suddenly they are. Today, the U.S. is up to at least 1,714 known cases and we’re only a couple of days on from when it was 1,004. It’s going to be 4,000 by Monday, and then it’s going to be 8,000 by next Wednesday, and then it’s…. Exponential growth is staggering when it takes over. Exponential growth is a classic pattern in which numbers stay small initially, but then you end up with very large numbers very quickly. If you start with a certain number, and then multiply that number by a growth factor every day, depending on what that growth rate is, you’ll see the cumulative number doubling over a certain time period. What really matters is how high that growth rate is. In the U.S. right now, according to Our World in Data, confirmed Covid-19 cases are increasing by about 30 to 40 percent per day and the total number is doubling about every two days. (source)
This is exactly the situation that China, Italy, Iran, and all the other countries with massive outbreaks have found themselves in and the United States is probably next.
Is the SHTF really happening?
We are still at a stage in a shell game and nobody knows which shell the SHTF is hiding under. Nobody knows if we can reel things in and gain control of the situation. Nobody knows if we’re going to go the way of Italy, where an entire nation is locked down and singing from their balconies to raise morale in a desperate situation.
I wonder if people who have lived through horrible situations ever imagined in their wildest dreams how bad things would get. I know that in Selco’s book, SHTF Survival Stories, he wrote about this. Nobody ever truly expected things to happen the way they did. There was a period of adjustment and all the rules changed but a lot of folks didn’t accept the changes soon enough and they did not survive.
When I silence the part of my mind that says, this can’t be happening, I’m only left with the realistic part that says, “Yes. It is.”
While we don’t 100% know how this pandemic will play out in our country, we have to be ready for things to go badly. In her book, The Covid-19 Survival Manual, Cat Ellis talked about the inability of our hospitals to handle thousands of patients. We have less than a million beds in a country of 327 million people. And most of those beds are not in places equipped to handle highly contagious sick people. And what about the people with other health issues? Our medical system won’t be able to handle exponential growth no matter how hard they try or how much they want to help.
When I look at how grocery stores and discount stores across the country look like a horde of locusts went through and decimated the inventory, I know this is a bad sign. When a friend who manages a large grocery store says to me, “Our truck was only half full today. If buying and inventory continue like this, we will be out of food by Monday,” I can only imagine the havoc that stores out of food will wreak.
It’s going to be like Black Friday times a thousand, something I’ve written about for years.
This entire thing is surreal, isn’t it?
If I’ve written about and prepared for the SHTF for years and am having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that we’re in the early stages of it, what must it feel like for someone who is brand new to the concept?
It’s one thing to watch it happen someplace far away from the screen of our laptops or televisions but entirely another to watch it unfold at home. However, we have to accept it and we have to act quickly and decisively. One of the most important things I’ve learned from Selco is about accepting the new rules.
One of the most important things he taught me is to adapt quickly (immediately) to the “new rules” that apply when the SHTF. And to do that, you need to know what it’s like so you won’t be shocked…frozen…paralyzed by the things taking place right in front of you. When there is a new set of rules, the old rules no longer apply. The rules about waiting patiently for the government to save you? The rules about how people won’t walk up and steal from you in broad daylight because they’ll be arrested? The rules that you will get paid for your work and then you can go to the store and buy what you need?
Those rules will be gone. And when you start seeing these new rules appear you will know that the sh*t has hit the oscillating device and the world as you knew it has changed.
I know this and yet I still think (hope) in one part of my mind that it won’t happen that way here. That’s the most dangerous misconception in survival.
The other part of my mind knows that it could. And that’s the part which propels me through getting prepared despite what the doubtful side whispers.
It’s not just you.
So if you’ve found yourself not quite believing what you’re seeing, not quite believing that all hell could break loose in America at any point now, you aren’t alone. If you look at everything heading to hell on a greasy slide and think it doesn’t feel real, it’s not just you. I’m feeling that way myself.
I’m sharing this because I bet a lot of people are feeling the same way. Second-guessing themselves. Doubting themselves. Feeling like they aren’t good preppers. You aren’t alone and I’ll bet a whole lot of folks who won’t admit it feel this way too.
We don’t believe it because we don’t want to believe it. We never actually wanted to be right when we stockpiled and learned skills and bought more supplies that we actually had room to house.
But the thing that puts us ahead in this situation is that we prepared anyway. We learned anyway. And when we see the more obvious signs of a societal breakdown we will be able to accept it a lot faster than those who never even considered it.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-18--Corona Bologna Italy: The Truth begins to leak out  [A Jon Rappoport report]

Corona Bologna Italy : The Truth begins to leak out The government of Italy , as everyone knows , has locked down the whole country of 60 million people .
So how many Italians have died from COV ?
Even by the standards of the useless and misleading diagnostic tests ?
As far as the Italian Higher Institute of Health knows , at this point : Try to wrap your mind around that .
Seems the president of the Italian Higher Institute has some smarts .
He understands that people who already have other serious health conditions , which have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and do die from those other conditions , regardless of the fact that they ’ ve tested positive ( on useless tests ) for COV .
He gets it .
I predict a great future for him .
If he keeps shooting his mouth off , he might find himself working as a weed puller in a forest .
Or he might suddenly be diagnosed with the virus and find himself in isolation .
“ There may be only two people who died from coronavirus in Italy , who did not present other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the medical records examined so far by the Higher Institute of Health , according to what was reported by the President of the Institute [ Istituto Superiore di Sanità ( ISS ) , Italian National Institute of Health ] , Silvio Brusaferro , during the press conference held today at the Civil Protection in Rome .
‘ Positive deceased patients have an average of over 80 years – 80.3 to be exact…The majority of these people are carriers of chronic diseases .
Only two people were not presently carriers of [ other non-COV @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these two cases , the examination of the files is not concluded and therefore , causes of death different from Covid-19 could emerge .
The president of the ISS has specified that ‘ little more than a hundred medical records ’ have so far come from hospitals throughout Italy.
” “ …At present , in fact , the authorities are unable to distinguish those who died from the virus , from those who , on the other hand , are communicated daily to the public , but who were mostly carriers of other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would not have died from Covid-19 .
In response to a question from ‘ Agenzia Nova ’ , in fact , Brusaferro was unable to indicate the exact number of coronavirus deaths .
However , the professor clarified that , according to the data analyzed , the vast majority of the victims ‘ had serious [ non-COV ] pathologies and in some cases the onset of an infection of the respiratory tract can lead more easily to death.
’ To clarify this point , and provide real data , ‘ as we acquire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , the populations most at risk are fragile , carriers of multiple diseases ’ .
” So , for those people straining to find a reason for the “ devastation ” overtaking Italy—it ’ s karma for ancient Rome trying to conquer half the known world ; it ’ s the ghost of Martin Luther obtaining revenge against the Vatican ; it ’ s a bioweapon with the power to cut down millions of people overnight ; it ’ s a virus that came in with a small meteor and crashed outside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Marco Polo for stealing the concept of noodles— Take a break , relax , have a plate of pasta , turn on the TV , and because all the stadiums are empty , watch a rerun of a soccer match from 1979 .
PS : For those people who believe this head of the Italian Institute is lying with his facts and figures , stop and think it through .
He ’ s going to announce such devastating news that essentially contradicts everything the Italian government is doing with its lockdowns and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be as if the director of the Centers for Disease Control announced , “ There are a total of nine deaths in the US we think might have been caused by COV , and even there we ’ re not sure , because you see , these nine were elderly people who could barely get out of bed long before COV emerged .
These nine had extremely serious lung disease NOT CAUSED , I repeat , NOT CAUSED by COV…but anyway , don ’ t go outside , work from home , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , watch our website for bargain deals on toilet paper , and oh yes , don ’ t forget to get your regular flu shot if you can slip into a hazmat suit and drive at breakneck speed to your nearest pharmacy , where injection clerks are waiting… ” ( TLB ) published this original article from the blog of Jon Rappoport with our appreciation for his contribution to raise health and freedom awareness .
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections , THE MATRIX REVEALED , EXIT FROM THE MATRIX @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California .
He maintains a consulting practice for private clients , the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power .
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Corona Bologna Italy: The Truth begins to leak out
Jon Rappoport
The government of Italy, as everyone knows, has locked down the whole country of 60 million people. So how many Italians have died from COV? Even by the standards of the useless and misleading diagnostic tests?
Ready?
As far as the Italian Higher Institute of Health knows, at this point:
Maybe two.
Maybe.
Try to wrap your mind around that.
Good luck.
Seems the president of the Italian Higher Institute has some smarts. He understands that people who already have other serious health conditions, which have nothing to do with COV, can and do die from those other conditions, regardless of the fact that they’ve tested positive (on useless tests) for COV. He gets it. I predict a great future for him. If he keeps shooting his mouth off, he might find himself working as a weed puller in a forest. Or he might suddenly be diagnosed with the virus and find himself in isolation.
Grit your teeth and plow through this piece from Rome, 13 March 2020, Agenzia Nova: “Coronavirus: ISS [Italian National Institute of Health]: in Italy there are only two deaths ascertained so far due to Covid-19” (Italian, English)
“There may be only two people who died from coronavirus in Italy, who did not present other pathologies. This is what emerges from the medical records examined so far by the Higher Institute of Health, according to what was reported by the President of the Institute [Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italian National Institute of Health], Silvio Brusaferro, during the press conference held today at the Civil Protection in Rome. ‘Positive deceased patients have an average of over 80 years – 80.3 to be exact…The majority of these people are carriers of chronic diseases. Only two people were not presently carriers of [other non-COV] diseases’, but even in these two cases, the examination of the files is not concluded and therefore, causes of death different from Covid-19 could emerge. The president of the ISS has specified that ‘little more than a hundred medical records’ have so far come from hospitals throughout Italy.”
“…At present, in fact, the authorities are unable to distinguish those who died from the virus, from those who, on the other hand, are communicated daily to the public, but who were mostly carriers of other serious diseases and who, therefore, would not have died from Covid-19. In response to a question from ‘Agenzia Nova’, in fact, Brusaferro was unable to indicate the exact number of coronavirus deaths. However, the professor clarified that, according to the data analyzed, the vast majority of the victims ‘had serious [non-COV] pathologies and in some cases the onset of an infection of the respiratory tract can lead more easily to death.’ To clarify this point, and provide real data, ‘as we acquire the folders we will go further. However, the populations most at risk are fragile, carriers of multiple diseases’.”
Translation into non-medical language: the people dying in Italy have other very serious traditional diseases that have nothing to do with COV, and it’s obvious they could have died, and probably did die, from those other diseases. Nevertheless, we’re locking down the whole country.
So, for those people straining to find a reason for the “devastation” overtaking Italy—it’s karma for ancient Rome trying to conquer half the known world; it’s the ghost of Martin Luther obtaining revenge against the Vatican; it’s a bioweapon with the power to cut down millions of people overnight; it’s a virus that came in with a small meteor and crashed outside Milan; it’s Chinese revenge against Marco Polo for stealing the concept of noodles—
Take a break, relax, have a plate of pasta, turn on the TV, and because all the stadiums are empty, watch a rerun of a soccer match from 1979.
PS: For those people who believe this head of the Italian Institute is lying with his facts and figures, stop and think it through. He’s going to announce such devastating news that essentially contradicts everything the Italian government is doing with its lockdowns and quarantines of the whole country? It would be as if the director of the Centers for Disease Control announced, “There are a total of nine deaths in the US we think might have been caused by COV, and even there we’re not sure, because you see, these nine were elderly people who could barely get out of bed long before COV emerged. These nine had extremely serious lung disease NOT CAUSED, I repeat, NOT CAUSED by COV…but anyway, don’t go outside, work from home, don’t touch another human being, watch our website for bargain deals on toilet paper, and oh yes, don’t forget to get your regular flu shot if you can slip into a hazmat suit and drive at breakneck speed to your nearest pharmacy, where injection clerks are waiting…”
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thelibertybeacon--2020-03-18--Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China? A Veteran Insider Speaks Out

[ The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite . ]
I ’ ll throw my 2 cents in here .
I have zero proof other than my gut feeling that this is a bioweapon .
I do have 40 years of biodefense research experience behind me and worked at Fort Detrich on bacterial vaccines , where I developed my own aerosol infection routes and developed multi-species models of pathogenesis to establish correlates of immunity .
Because I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ animal care , aerosol exposures , sample analysis , necropsy , and histopathology , etc.
, plus I had research programs in endemic areas studying the immunopathological response in human populations to establish immune correlates of protection for candidate vaccines all for the Biological Defense Research Program ( BDRP ) .
I recall the early years when the Department of Homeland Security was stood up ( ER : established ? )
and they got the lion ’ s share of poorly performing civil servants , un-fireable under the then OPMA policies .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we were in dire straits for funding so I ( and others ) was lent out as a research prostitute .
This is a little known problem with civil service employees .
They are impossible to eliminate and generally rise to levels where they can cause the most damage .
However , an opportunity arose whereby agencies in the Federal government had to contribute bodies to the new Department of Homeland Security ( as no new vacancies were created when the agency was stood up ( sic ) , meaning everyone had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if not all , employees sent to DHS were the worst of the worst .
However , the DHS labs ( specifically NBACC ) also tied into some nefarious microbiologists working at the CIA ( ostensibly part of DHS ) , and it is an understatement to say that what I saw being proposed horrified me .
That work , I am certain , was performed at Battle Memorial Institute in West Jefferson , Ohio under a DHS contract doing the work for the CIA under the auspices of NBACC .
As I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I was removed from the secure access at DHS but not DoD to the offensive work which I had pointed out was not only illegal but unethical .
I have since retired now more than 10 years and am far away from all of that .
I won ’ t say more as they will reach out and seek retribution .
But , if you look hard enough , you can find still on the internet some references .
There are some pissed off people out there should anyone care to actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ figure this out .
But , our news people no longer do this work so there is very little possibility of ever learning the truth .
However , that said , I notice some interesting things with COVID-19 , that perked my ears up a bit .
Yes , it could be a natural infection jumping species from bats to humans with a probable intermediate host , under conditions of human encroachment into world habitats .
It is actually most likely to have been that , except for the strain differences being observed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if it is in fact true , and I have no reason to doubt the Chinese on this , that it originated outside of China and it seems likely to have originated in the US .
If , in fact , the US has 5 strains currently and China only one , then it must have been percolating in the US for some time before it arose in China .
Likely , deaths in the US were attributed to other diseases such as influenza and only retrospective sampling will determine this .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GPS-Molecular biology tracking of strains over time and distance .
Also , a definite genetic analysis of strains over time would also be beneficial and can be done easily on every isolated strain .
This would have value in attributing the course of the disease over time as part of a natural history study of the virus .
We would need access to all samples of every lung disease-related death for the past 12 months to be certain to track all potential deaths .
NBACC is the key to figuring out what nefarious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible that this virus has mutated over time to become more virulent .
In particular , engineered strains are generally unstable over multiple passages through multiple hosts .
In my experience when testing strains for pathogenesis and lethality , it is wise to first passage [ sic ] a frozen isolate several times through a susceptible animal host to regain full strength .
If you test a lab isolate ( usually frozen or lyophilized ) , generally it is wimpy unless you passage it at least 3 passages through an animal model .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ from humans who died from the disease and not field-collected strains .
If this was perceived to be a useful agent from the likes of Bolton or Pompeo , who are terrible and evil people , then it is conceivable this was thought to teach the Chinese a lesson in economics .
You have to be a complete idiot to release a virus for which you have no effective countermeasures , but this administration seems to be filled with complete idiots .
So , expecting normal behavior from these people is futile .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7th CISM military games held in Wuhan October 18-27 , 2019 and that fits perfectly into the time scale for the actual infections .
Now interestingly enough , I was a participant in several CISM competitions in Europe for skiing ( I was on active duty for 26 years ) , so I am very well versed in who these athletes are .
In general , the best are Olympic competitors who are ostensibly part of the National Guard of their states who pay for their training by extended military active duty periods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I used to lose every year to one of these guys , and generally I placed a distant second place in cross country skiing .
I also participated in the biathlon competitions , and our soldiers were the very top level because they were in fact Olympic athletes .
Rumor is that the US participants at CISM were atrocious , which is very atypical , so one wonders who these “ athletes ” were .
I am reminded of the US military mission in Brazil to help flood victims which , coincidentally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all the power transmission stations in Venezuela were destroyed .
So , again , a hackle or 2 rise when I heard about that .
However , it is the perfect opportunity to release a virus on a target population .
I will also like to add that not all biological warfare agents are lethal .
In fact , the worst are non-lethal as it consumes vast amounts of resources in treatment and lost productivity .
Deaths are actually cheaper .
So , a high communicability , low lethality disease is perfect for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s administration claims , they are waging war against economic enemies ( currently China heads the list ) using all possible actions .
This fits perfectly into that ; however , it may end up destroying the American economy , which would be ironic .
I believe the Chinese response was exactly what a country would do if they were attacked with a bioweapon , which explains a lot of their actions .
I do not believe it was an accidental release from the BSL-4 labs in Wuhan .
In fact , this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the alleged Novichok release just 8 km away from Porton Down laboratories ( the UK Fort Detrich ) .
Interestingly , the potential release from PDL was never put forward as a logical explanation .
Anyway , it sticks me that the CIA seems to have developed a pattern over time .
As long as I am pushing my gut feelings , I will throw out there the potential for a bioengineered adenovirus with c-fos and c-jun over expression which would cause sarcomas .
That work was all published at the National @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I am certain it is just a coincidence .
I can imagine the cackling going on at the CIA when planning this operation and again the coronavirus operation ( s ) .
I believe there were at least two attacks , with Iran being the second and perhaps North Korea as well .
However , evidence against it being a bioweapon is that Russia , Venezuela , and Cuba are minimally affected .
This could mean effective countermeasures or botched attacks .
It is inconsistent , though , with the way the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar to coronavirus in usage and easily aerosolized .
I have made my own for over expression of medical treatments for wound infections .
Has anyone other than myself noted that so many enemies of the US have died from sarcomas , particularly in South America ?
My point is perhaps this stuff has been ongoing for quite some time and with some fairly good results .
So , familiarity breeds contempt so as they gin more experience and begin to think this is good stuff ; it is not out of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact a bioweapon .
That Iran was hit so hard is another hackle rising .
It is just simply too good ( for the idiots in the US government ) to be a coincidence .
So , we are left with some interesting problems about this virus .
• None Where was patient zero in China ?
• None What will be the results if a natural history study is conducted correlating geolocation , strain identity , severity of disease over time ?
• None Will that work be prevented ?
If so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be suspicious .
• None Will it continue to mutate , and what will be the outcome of that ?
Lots of good stuff to examine here and it will keep a lot of people busy for years .
It is an interesting question .
Under the bioweapons conference treaty , no offensive work can legally be done , and any signatory can demand an onsite inspection of facilities for verification at any time .
To my knowledge that has never been demanded of the US .
It has been done to Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , nor is Israel or North Korea .
We have been caught doing inappropriate biodefense research several times now but only because it became known and there were no consequences .
The slippery slope within DoD is to make a counter measure – you have to try and look forwards and using intelligence-based informatics to design offensive agents .
In my opinion this is fallacious as we can ’ t make countermeasures against the normal 10 agents on the high threat list ( since the program ’ s inception in 1942 ) other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have had effective vaccines for decades .
Since 9/11 , no new effective and/or safe vaccines have been been made for any of the rest of the agents on the list .
This includes several far more likely biothreats like the plague , tularemia , glanders , brucella , Ebola , Marburg , etc .
This was despite pouring billions into biodefense research most of which went to universities .
When things cooled down , the funding dried up as always .
USAMRIID is currently shut down and may never re-open .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ funded using black money so not under the purview of Congress .
So trying to make vaccines against biothreat agents that don ’ t exist seems ridiculous when the real threats , some of which the US has used in warfare , are still out there without effective preventatives .
What happens is when you pour money into an area , as happened after 9/11 , all kinds of ridiculous stuff gets funded with very little oversight .
The goal is to spend the money and no one really cares if any actual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ success means the demise of your program , so the incentive is to drag it out for as long as funding is available .
I had programs managed under DTRA funding that because I got new program managers as often as every 3 months had no clue or even any expertise in the matter and had zero idea of what we were doing .
I got tired of doing a new dog and pony show each time I was assigned a new manager who usually was some very young recent PhD graduate with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were nebutistic appointments and daddy was a Congressman or Under Secretary .
The intelligence based decisions are as usual idiotic as is most intelligence coming out of the CIA and its affiliates .
You get better intelligence reading PUBMED than you get out of any intelligence agencies .
The microbiologists who work at the CIA and its contract companies were all military microbiologists who , because they were essentially incompetent , drifted over to the CIA .
Then you have some IMHO ridiculous events .
I recall when Ken Alibekov “ defected ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BS which the CIA bought lock stock and barrel .
I had working for me at the same time several former Soviet microbiologists ( one of who was a senior researcher at Biopreparat ) who were in fact the real deal and all told me he was a bullshit artist .
One thing he peddled was a chimeric smallpox-Ebola and another a Ebola-anthrax .
So the CIA immediately funded an effort to create chimeric viruses .
To my knowledge , these were unsuccessful ; however , the COVID-19 may be being caused by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason to make a chimeric virus is to develop an attenuated strain for use as a vaccine .
But , as often happens , some attenuated mutants become more lethal as an unintended consequence .
Another event was trying to force photo data from Iraq to prove they had an offensive bioweapons program .
These guys had no clue what laboratory equipment was in actuality and had offered up a cooking truck with pots and pans etc .
as proof .
They were , and I assume still are , idiots .
DoD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Defense Threat Reduction Agency .
Less transparent are the foreign stuff being funded under the Nunn-Lugar Act , which includes the debacle of the “ white elephant ” lab and its satellite labs in the Republic of Georgia .
No one will ever look into any of this but likely will end up blaming Russia or China .
They tend to underestimate their adversaries .
China has an offensive program , and if they get convinced they were attacked , then I believe something nasty will be coming soon to the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and won ’ t release a biothreat agent they have no preventative or treatment for .
I also had several Chinese scientists working for me , and I respect them immensely .
That should be PROMED for current infectious disease reporting around the world .
It is exceptionally good and not funded or controlled by governments .
PUBMED is for online publications which is also good but controlled by the government .
I am fully aware of censorship of research papers by the US .
I recall I wrote a letter to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government decided to stockpile billions of doses of Ciprofloxacin .
I did a quick BLAST search and found that only a single base pair mutation in anthrax made it completely resistant to Cipro .
That letter was published , and after 9/11 never seen again .
There are other examples such as the Canadian paper maybe also in 1999 showing that anthrax delivered in envelopes was not very effective .
That one disappeared as well , and the same as the Canadian paper where they were aerosolizing B. cereus spores out the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using aerial infrared cameras , demonstrated that these streams of aerosolized spores agglomerated into cloudlets which moved along in the wind and would usually avoid detector arrays which sampled airflow for aerosol particles .
That is still the current state of the art for battlefield detection , and that paper showed it to be ineffective at best .
I can think of dozens of papers that were removed .
After 9/11 any research paper that could be used by a foreign actor to develop better biothreat agents was rejected for publication outright .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ after that , except in classified reports which I believe were never read by anyone .
I recall part of the madness in setting up NBACC was to generate very lengthy “ white papers ” that scrubbed through all published articles to assemble the complete picture for the then 10 threat agents .
I wrote or edited two of those and they were immediately buried in some deep classified archive to the researchers who might benefit from this work could never actually use it .
A complete waste of months and a ton @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the US government biothreat programs are a complete shambles , then you are not wrong .
I ’ ll go into that a bit more as well .
It used to be in the military programs we were “ command directed ” .
This means the military made a decision to make a vaccine against a perceived threat agent .
They would assemble a research group , assign them the mission and give 5 years funding to be continued if milestones ( reasonable given the pittance of funding given ) .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5 years of funding .
That funding agency located at MRMC Fort Detrick was a Research area managed usually by a Major and a Captain , both microbiologists and experienced .
Two people .
There were 5 research area Directorates so a total of 10 program managers and a couple of administrative colonels .
This managed the entire DoD biothreat research programs and did it well .
However , someone decided we needed an Agency to manage this stuff and DTRA which was funded by the Nunn-Lugar Act was already involved in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wanted a bigger piece of the pie so absorbed the Research Directorates .
The BDRP program at DTRA ( basically identical as before ) was now managed by over 400 contractors .
The money came out of the research money we were supposed to be allocated .
After DTRA took over , the funding was no longer Command Directed and we were all required to go out and fu-ind whatever funding we could , hence why we made “ deals ” with DHS and the CIA .
We went to an annual funding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ending Gantt charts and reports .
This was the age of 6 Sigma and the end of Management by Objective .
We were also charged rent and had to pay for every service at our Institute including the security and even the library .
Even our higher command MRMC stole 6 % off the top to pay for pet projects unfunded by anyone with a brain .
So , this became the age of entrepreneurial research and the end of productive research .
Our commander , as an example , had no idea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was shocked at all the “ cool ” stuff we were doing .
This is the new breed of commander who manages by committee and never goes out walking the floors to visit labs .
What the old school commanders call management by walking around and poking your nose into everything .
But now these guys sit in their office and are fed whatever the REMFs decide they should hear .
This is management in the US government as a whole , and there are so many hidden agendas and internal conflicts between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how awful it is to try and do research in that environment .
A lot of the worst of those commanders or research Division Directors went on to be current heads of HHS , CDC , and their undersecretaries , etc .
which explains why those agencies are so screwed up and why there is such a horrible response to this virus .

[The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.]
I’ll throw my 2 cents in here. I have zero proof other than my gut feeling that this is a bioweapon.
I do have 40 years of biodefense research experience behind me and worked at Fort Detrich on bacterial vaccines, where I developed my own aerosol infection routes and developed multi-species models of pathogenesis to establish correlates of immunity. Because I was a one-stop shop doing everything including animal care, aerosol exposures, sample analysis, necropsy, and histopathology, etc., plus I had research programs in endemic areas studying the immunopathological response in human populations to establish immune correlates of protection for candidate vaccines all for the Biological Defense Research Program (BDRP).
I recall the early years when the Department of Homeland Security was stood up (ER: established?) and they got the lion’s share of poorly performing civil servants, un-fireable under the then OPMA policies. I was brought in as a technical expert as we were in dire straits for funding so I (and others) was lent out as a research prostitute. This is a little known problem with civil service employees. They are impossible to eliminate and generally rise to levels where they can cause the most damage. However, an opportunity arose whereby agencies in the Federal government had to contribute bodies to the new Department of Homeland Security (as no new vacancies were created when the agency was stood up (sic), meaning everyone had to sacrifice personnel) so most, if not all, employees sent to DHS were the worst of the worst. However, the DHS labs (specifically NBACC) also tied into some nefarious microbiologists working at the CIA (ostensibly part of DHS), and it is an understatement to say that what I saw being proposed horrified me. That work, I am certain, was performed at Battle Memorial Institute in West Jefferson, Ohio under a DHS contract doing the work for the CIA under the auspices of NBACC. As I was very vocally opposed to this stuff, I was removed from the secure access at DHS but not DoD to the offensive work which I had pointed out was not only illegal but unethical. I have since retired now more than 10 years and am far away from all of that. I won’t say more as they will reach out and seek retribution. But, if you look hard enough, you can find still on the internet some references. There are some pissed off people out there should anyone care to actually do some leg work and try and figure this out. But, our news people no longer do this work so there is very little possibility of ever learning the truth.
However, that said, I notice some interesting things with COVID-19, that perked my ears up a bit. Yes, it could be a natural infection jumping species from bats to humans with a probable intermediate host, under conditions of human encroachment into world habitats. It is actually most likely to have been that, except for the strain differences being observed. That leads one to believe, if it is in fact true, and I have no reason to doubt the Chinese on this, that it originated outside of China and it seems likely to have originated in the US. If, in fact, the US has 5 strains currently and China only one, then it must have been percolating in the US for some time before it arose in China. Likely, deaths in the US were attributed to other diseases such as influenza and only retrospective sampling will determine this. It would be interesting to do a combination GPS-Molecular biology tracking of strains over time and distance. Also, a definite genetic analysis of strains over time would also be beneficial and can be done easily on every isolated strain. This would have value in attributing the course of the disease over time as part of a natural history study of the virus. We would need access to all samples of every lung disease-related death for the past 12 months to be certain to track all potential deaths. NBACC is the key to figuring out what nefarious stuff was being funded.
It is possible that this virus has mutated over time to become more virulent. In particular, engineered strains are generally unstable over multiple passages through multiple hosts. In my experience when testing strains for pathogenesis and lethality, it is wise to first passage [sic] a frozen isolate several times through a susceptible animal host to regain full strength. If you test a lab isolate (usually frozen or lyophilized), generally it is wimpy unless you passage it at least 3 passages through an animal model. The worst strains are always those recovered from humans who died from the disease and not field-collected strains. If this was perceived to be a useful agent from the likes of Bolton or Pompeo, who are terrible and evil people, then it is conceivable this was thought to teach the Chinese a lesson in economics. You have to be a complete idiot to release a virus for which you have no effective countermeasures, but this administration seems to be filled with complete idiots. So, expecting normal behavior from these people is futile.
It could have been released during the 7th CISM military games held in Wuhan October 18-27, 2019 and that fits perfectly into the time scale for the actual infections. Now interestingly enough, I was a participant in several CISM competitions in Europe for skiing (I was on active duty for 26 years), so I am very well versed in who these athletes are. In general, the best are Olympic competitors who are ostensibly part of the National Guard of their states who pay for their training by extended military active duty periods where their sole job is sports training. I used to lose every year to one of these guys, and generally I placed a distant second place in cross country skiing. I also participated in the biathlon competitions, and our soldiers were the very top level because they were in fact Olympic athletes. Rumor is that the US participants at CISM were atrocious, which is very atypical, so one wonders who these “athletes” were. I am reminded of the US military mission in Brazil to help flood victims which, coincidentally, was the exact same time that all the power transmission stations in Venezuela were destroyed. So, again, a hackle or 2 rise when I heard about that. However, it is the perfect opportunity to release a virus on a target population.
I will also like to add that not all biological warfare agents are lethal. In fact, the worst are non-lethal as it consumes vast amounts of resources in treatment and lost productivity. Deaths are actually cheaper. So, a high communicability, low lethality disease is perfect for ruining an economy. As Trump’s administration claims, they are waging war against economic enemies (currently China heads the list) using all possible actions. This fits perfectly into that; however, it may end up destroying the American economy, which would be ironic.
I believe the Chinese response was exactly what a country would do if they were attacked with a bioweapon, which explains a lot of their actions. I do not believe it was an accidental release from the BSL-4 labs in Wuhan. In fact, this may have been an irresistible opportunity similar to the alleged Novichok release just 8 km away from Porton Down laboratories (the UK Fort Detrich). Interestingly, the potential release from PDL was never put forward as a logical explanation. Anyway, it sticks me that the CIA seems to have developed a pattern over time. As long as I am pushing my gut feelings, I will throw out there the potential for a bioengineered adenovirus with c-fos and c-jun over expression which would cause sarcomas. That work was all published at the National Cancer Institute located where? Fort Detrich. I am certain it is just a coincidence. I can imagine the cackling going on at the CIA when planning this operation and again the coronavirus operation(s). I believe there were at least two attacks, with Iran being the second and perhaps North Korea as well. However, evidence against it being a bioweapon is that Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba are minimally affected. This could mean effective countermeasures or botched attacks. It is inconsistent, though, with the way the CIA operates.
Adenovirus is another virus similar to coronavirus in usage and easily aerosolized. I have made my own for over expression of medical treatments for wound infections. Has anyone other than myself noted that so many enemies of the US have died from sarcomas, particularly in South America? My point is perhaps this stuff has been ongoing for quite some time and with some fairly good results. So, familiarity breeds contempt so as they gin more experience and begin to think this is good stuff; it is not out of the realm of possibility that this is in fact a bioweapon. That Iran was hit so hard is another hackle rising. It is just simply too good (for the idiots in the US government) to be a coincidence.
So, we are left with some interesting problems about this virus.
Where was patient zero in China?
What will be the results if a natural history study is conducted correlating geolocation, strain identity, severity of disease over time?
Will that work be prevented ? If so, that is yet another reason to be suspicious.
Will it continue to mutate, and what will be the outcome of that?
Lots of good stuff to examine here and it will keep a lot of people busy for years.
Maybe you can explain this:
“Coronavirus have not previously been known to cause severe disease in humans”.
This is excerpt from the patent issued to CDC, US government. Link:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7220852B1/en So the question for me is, why should a harmless virus be patented by the US government and used for research in labs like US army research at Ft. Derick? That makes it military. Why is there then the SARS-CoV, and the latest COVID-19, which is SARS-CoV-2? The swineflu was likewise proven to be lab made at least in sources other than mainstream and WHO, the same was the case with Ebola, and even HIV.
It immediately raises the question of ban of biological weapons labs in my mind, by international treaties, just like a ban on the use of napalm, landmines and so on, since a harmless virus is researched in army labs and suddenly appears as aggressive viruses.
It is an interesting question. Under the bioweapons conference treaty, no offensive work can legally be done, and any signatory can demand an onsite inspection of facilities for verification at any time. To my knowledge that has never been demanded of the US. It has been done to Russia, and China is not a signatory, nor is Israel or North Korea. We have been caught doing inappropriate biodefense research several times now but only because it became known and there were no consequences.
The slippery slope within DoD is to make a counter measure – you have to try and look forwards and using intelligence-based informatics to design offensive agents. In my opinion this is fallacious as we can’t make countermeasures against the normal 10 agents on the high threat list (since the program’s inception in 1942) other than anthrax and smallpox for which we have had effective vaccines for decades. Since 9/11, no new effective and/or safe vaccines have been been made for any of the rest of the agents on the list. This includes several far more likely biothreats like the plague, tularemia, glanders, brucella, Ebola, Marburg, etc. This was despite pouring billions into biodefense research most of which went to universities. When things cooled down, the funding dried up as always. USAMRIID is currently shut down and may never re-open. But contracted services still go on and are funded using black money so not under the purview of Congress. So trying to make vaccines against biothreat agents that don’t exist seems ridiculous when the real threats, some of which the US has used in warfare, are still out there without effective preventatives. What happens is when you pour money into an area, as happened after 9/11, all kinds of ridiculous stuff gets funded with very little oversight. The goal is to spend the money and no one really cares if any actual product is created. In fact, success means the demise of your program, so the incentive is to drag it out for as long as funding is available. I had programs managed under DTRA funding that because I got new program managers as often as every 3 months had no clue or even any expertise in the matter and had zero idea of what we were doing. I got tired of doing a new dog and pony show each time I was assigned a new manager who usually was some very young recent PhD graduate with no experience at all. Often they were nebutistic appointments and daddy was a Congressman or Under Secretary.
The intelligence based decisions are as usual idiotic as is most intelligence coming out of the CIA and its affiliates. You get better intelligence reading PUBMED than you get out of any intelligence agencies. The microbiologists who work at the CIA and its contract companies were all military microbiologists who, because they were essentially incompetent, drifted over to the CIA. Then you have some IMHO ridiculous events. I recall when Ken Alibekov “defected” he spoonfed a bunch of made up BS which the CIA bought lock stock and barrel. I had working for me at the same time several former Soviet microbiologists (one of who was a senior researcher at Biopreparat) who were in fact the real deal and all told me he was a bullshit artist. One thing he peddled was a chimeric smallpox-Ebola and another a Ebola-anthrax. So the CIA immediately funded an effort to create chimeric viruses. To my knowledge, these were unsuccessful; however, the COVID-19 may be being caused by a chimeric virus. The only good reason to make a chimeric virus is to develop an attenuated strain for use as a vaccine. But, as often happens, some attenuated mutants become more lethal as an unintended consequence. Another event was trying to force photo data from Iraq to prove they had an offensive bioweapons program. These guys had no clue what laboratory equipment was in actuality and had offered up a cooking truck with pots and pans etc. as proof. They were, and I assume still are, idiots.
DoD programs are actually transparent and managed by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Less transparent are the foreign stuff being funded under the Nunn-Lugar Act, which includes the debacle of the “white elephant” lab and its satellite labs in the Republic of Georgia. No one will ever look into any of this but likely will end up blaming Russia or China.
They tend to underestimate their adversaries. China has an offensive program, and if they get convinced they were attacked, then I believe something nasty will be coming soon to the US. But, China is not stupid and won’t release a biothreat agent they have no preventative or treatment for. I also had several Chinese scientists working for me, and I respect them immensely.
That should be PROMED for current infectious disease reporting around the world. It is exceptionally good and not funded or controlled by governments. PUBMED is for online publications which is also good but controlled by the government. I am fully aware of censorship of research papers by the US. I recall I wrote a letter to the editor of Science back in 1999 when the government decided to stockpile billions of doses of Ciprofloxacin. I did a quick BLAST search and found that only a single base pair mutation in anthrax made it completely resistant to Cipro. That letter was published, and after 9/11 never seen again. There are other examples such as the Canadian paper maybe also in 1999 showing that anthrax delivered in envelopes was not very effective. That one disappeared as well, and the same as the Canadian paper where they were aerosolizing B. cereus spores out the back of a moving truck and, using aerial infrared cameras, demonstrated that these streams of aerosolized spores agglomerated into cloudlets which moved along in the wind and would usually avoid detector arrays which sampled airflow for aerosol particles. That is still the current state of the art for battlefield detection, and that paper showed it to be ineffective at best. I can think of dozens of papers that were removed. After 9/11 any research paper that could be used by a foreign actor to develop better biothreat agents was rejected for publication outright. Almost none of my work was published after that, except in classified reports which I believe were never read by anyone. I recall part of the madness in setting up NBACC was to generate very lengthy “white papers” that scrubbed through all published articles to assemble the complete picture for the then 10 threat agents. I wrote or edited two of those and they were immediately buried in some deep classified archive to the researchers who might benefit from this work could never actually use it. A complete waste of months and a ton of money. If you are perceiving that the US government biothreat programs are a complete shambles, then you are not wrong.
I’ll go into that a bit more as well. It used to be in the military programs we were “command directed”. This means the military made a decision to make a vaccine against a perceived threat agent. They would assemble a research group, assign them the mission and give 5 years funding to be continued if milestones (reasonable given the pittance of funding given). If you made progress then you got another 5 years of funding. That funding agency located at MRMC Fort Detrick was a Research area managed usually by a Major and a Captain, both microbiologists and experienced. Two people. There were 5 research area Directorates so a total of 10 program managers and a couple of administrative colonels. This managed the entire DoD biothreat research programs and did it well. However, someone decided we needed an Agency to manage this stuff and DTRA which was funded by the Nunn-Lugar Act was already involved in the disassembly of Soviet nuclear capabilities so they wanted a bigger piece of the pie so absorbed the Research Directorates. The BDRP program at DTRA (basically identical as before) was now managed by over 400 contractors. The money came out of the research money we were supposed to be allocated.
After DTRA took over, the funding was no longer Command Directed and we were all required to go out and fu-ind whatever funding we could, hence why we made “deals” with DHS and the CIA. We went to an annual funding cycle instead of 5 years and never ending Gantt charts and reports. This was the age of 6 Sigma and the end of Management by Objective. We were also charged rent and had to pay for every service at our Institute including the security and even the library. Even our higher command MRMC stole 6% off the top to pay for pet projects unfunded by anyone with a brain. So, this became the age of entrepreneurial research and the end of productive research. Our commander, as an example, had no idea what we were doing at all and was shocked at all the “cool” stuff we were doing. This is the new breed of commander who manages by committee and never goes out walking the floors to visit labs. What the old school commanders call management by walking around and poking your nose into everything. But now these guys sit in their office and are fed whatever the REMFs decide they should hear. This is management in the US government as a whole, and there are so many hidden agendas and internal conflicts between programs it is difficult to describe just how awful it is to try and do research in that environment. A lot of the worst of those commanders or research Division Directors went on to be current heads of HHS, CDC, and their undersecretaries, etc. which explains why those agencies are so screwed up and why there is such a horrible response to this virus.


thelibertybeacon--2020-03-18--Greece 2020: Covid Lockout as a Cover for Global Capitalist Collapse, Part One

ER Editor : At ER , we have the Globalists ’ agenda ( however it may be determined or defined ) in view .
Clearly , the COVID-19 alleged outbreak is working to advance other big plays .
In this piece , V.N .
Gelis deals with the prospective changes faced by business and the economy , notably that the virus crisis is advancing the psyop on people to accept limited part-time work from home , government handouts , and even more massive government indebtedness .
Crucially , the business world is preparing for big changes .
The only idea @ @ @ @ @ @ @ piece is the following : “ this is a global crime started in China for their own specific reasons… ” .
There is much dispute – and western media censorship – over the notion that a ) it started in China , or that b ) the Chinese are somehow behind it .
Competing claims are being made that it may have started in the US first , and that China for geopolitical reasons is under attack .
There is simply no smoking gun evidence to decide definitively .
From Stay in Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the public , and the hotel industry closed till 30th April , 2020 For decades , the fake left had maximum 24 hours strikes .
During the arrival of the IMF , they extended it to a whopping 48 hours .
Now we have a government General Strike against its citizens by initially closing down schools , then all shops and now by shutting down all economic activity , bar supermarkets and pharmacies , for 14 days which will be extended , and at the same time with no actual support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have we had so much political unity with all the parties supporting the measures to commit collective economic and social hara-kiri over a 2nd pandemic by the WHO since 2000. .
A 24/7 propaganda started of an alleged virus which originated from China that they have taken war measures against without actually completing any other related issues , like ration cards , emergency payments , emergency hospitals – just one attack after another against the citizens for being outside by the sea , for people opening their businesses .
But at the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in migrant blow ins to various parts of the country .
They also allegedly banned marches , but the Antifa brigades marched in central Lesvos nonetheless .
The US crisis started in 1971 and the transfer of production to China alongside the rise of technology , i.e .
automation in many sectors of the economy , meant a lot of economies in the West became service sector economies , and the expansion of wars in the last two decades during the USA ’ s attempt at becoming the unipolar leader of the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ago , analysing capitalist production , that the rapid development of production and the constant competition that increases the availability of material goods , productive forces would eventually pass into fewer and fewer hands , at the same time as unemployment rising , whilst products produced can not be consumed by the actual market .
One should always remember the alleged dialogue between the Head of the Ford Corporation and the head of the Autoworkers Trade Union , when he showed him a new automated factory and laughed that ‘ we don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whilst the Head of the Autoworkers responded , ensure the robots buy your cars as well .
What can we say about our era ?
Trains drive on their own , buses and cars are being tipped to be driverless , whole sectors of production are automated .
This is now the main blockage for the global economy , and why they started importing migrants for cheap labour to lower all standards and wages .
It appears the microchips have held their necks hostage and blood is no longer flowing to the brain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around us , they are trying to solve the problems they haven ’ t so far been able to , i.e .
have skeleton workforces and computerise everything using the feeble excuse of a fake virus with silly masks on people ’ s faces .
Capitalism in decline has entered clown world , and it ’ s difficult to see how they step back from this after the stock market collapses and the shutdown of cities , i.e .
the general lockdowns that are being imposed .
What measures will they take ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ As days go by , more and more the lies surrounding Corona virus will spread much faster than the actual non-existent virus itself .
Here we are dealing with a crime and the alibi a murderer always requires before he gets the victim , and this is a global crime started in China for their own specific reasons and spread to the EU via Italy and finally to the UK and the USA ( with the lockdown of New York and Los Angeles ) Already many workers are up in the air as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government dictat .
If the individual boss lockdowns the business , then the responsibility falls on the shoulder of the owners to pay the wages , but in the case of it being a government decision , then there are no such obligations .
So what will happen ?
To support all those on wages , they claim they will give Euro 500 , that all obligations to Inland Revenue will be suspended , but in reality all provisional measures taken will become… permanent , like the old ‘ haratsi ’ ( property @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the IMF ) which , a decade later , is still here .
What are they actually preparing ?
To increase home working , which is another step in the direction of part time work they have already introduced .
A lecturer at the Athens Economic and Business school said “ maybe the Corona virus epidemic is something extraordinary in business activities , but the practice will remain intact when the ‘ alarm ’ is over .
As many businesses and govts are losing billions of Euros due to the epidemic , some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be supported significantly in the last years like remote working , which isn ’ t something new but now is being given extra impetus by a virus , which increases its development massively .
Already technological giants like Alphabet , Microsoft , Twitter and Facebook have asked their workers to work from home .
The changes which are coming will lead or stigmatise our society and its structures but especially the economy and its businesses in a more sudden and violent way , processes that came to arrive .
As is noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the Coronavirus , businesses are ‘ prepare [ d ] for a changed world ’ .
Everything is changing , in such a fashion where the change could be characterised as a Darwinian development .
The man is stating it in a veiled form , but for the peoples of the world he is implying the gates of hell have opened .
A lecturer at the University of Athens , George Doukidis , noted that ‘ In Greece , one can discern that we can be influenced negatively by serious pillars of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and various export sectors.
’ At the same time the psychology of consumers is being influenced negatively .
The reduction of markets , of movement and those who take part in meetings/festivals , etc .
for reasons of hygiene are also linked to the feeling of insecurity which dominates , which is in turn ‘ translated ’ into behaviour that we observe in periods of deep economic crisis ’ … Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

ER Editor: At ER, we have the Globalists’ agenda (however it may be determined or defined) in view. Clearly, the COVID-19 alleged outbreak is working to advance other big plays. In this piece, V.N. Gelis deals with the prospective changes faced by business and the economy, notably that the virus crisis is advancing the psyop on people to accept limited part-time work from home, government handouts, and even more massive government indebtedness. Crucially, the business world is preparing for big changes.
The only idea that we take issue with in this piece is the following: “this is a global crime started in China for their own specific reasons…”. There is much dispute – and western media censorship – over the notion that a) it started in China, or that b) the Chinese are somehow behind it. Competing claims are being made that it may have started in the US first, and that China for geopolitical reasons is under attack. There is simply no smoking gun evidence to decide definitively.
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V.N. GELIS
“Our first priority is to save lives. Our interests are humans and public health” – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek PM “We correctly suspended all mass party activities as we have a high concept of social responsibility” – Alexis Tsipras, former Greek PM
From Stay in Europe to Stay at Home…
All beaches closed to the public, and the hotel industry closed till 30th April, 2020
For decades, the fake left had maximum 24 hours strikes. During the arrival of the IMF, they extended it to a whopping 48 hours. Now we have a government General Strike against its citizens by initially closing down schools, then all shops and now by shutting down all economic activity, bar supermarkets and pharmacies, for 14 days which will be extended, and at the same time with no actual support of those sectors closing down. Never before have we had so much political unity with all the parties supporting the measures to commit collective economic and social hara-kiri over a 2nd pandemic by the WHO since 2000.
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A 24/7 propaganda started of an alleged virus which originated from China that they have taken war measures against without actually completing any other related issues, like ration cards, emergency payments, emergency hospitals – just one attack after another against the citizens for being outside by the sea, for people opening their businesses. But at the same time, they are accepting and shipping in migrant blow ins to various parts of the country. They also allegedly banned marches, but the Antifa brigades marched in central Lesvos nonetheless.
The US crisis started in 1971 and the transfer of production to China alongside the rise of technology, i.e. automation in many sectors of the economy, meant a lot of economies in the West became service sector economies, and the expansion of wars in the last two decades during the USA’s attempt at becoming the unipolar leader of the world failed abysmally.
Marx noted over 170 years ago, analysing capitalist production, that the rapid development of production and the constant competition that increases the availability of material goods, productive forces would eventually pass into fewer and fewer hands, at the same time as unemployment rising, whilst products produced cannot be consumed by the actual market. One should always remember the alleged dialogue between the Head of the Ford Corporation and the head of the Autoworkers Trade Union, when he showed him a new automated factory and laughed that ‘we don’t need trade unions’! Whilst the Head of the Autoworkers responded, ensure the robots buy your cars as well.
What can we say about our era? Trains drive on their own, buses and cars are being tipped to be driverless, whole sectors of production are automated. This is now the main blockage for the global economy, and why they started importing migrants for cheap labour to lower all standards and wages. It appears the microchips have held their necks hostage and blood is no longer flowing to the brain. Noticing everything that is going on around us, they are trying to solve the problems they haven’t so far been able to, i.e. have skeleton workforces and computerise everything using the feeble excuse of a fake virus with silly masks on people’s faces. Capitalism in decline has entered clown world, and it’s difficult to see how they step back from this after the stock market collapses and the shutdown of cities, i.e. the general lockdowns that are being imposed.
What measures will they take? The Future is Here in the Present
As days go by, more and more the lies surrounding Corona virus will spread much faster than the actual non-existent virus itself. Here we are dealing with a crime and the alibi a murderer always requires before he gets the victim, and this is a global crime started in China for their own specific reasons and spread to the EU via Italy and finally to the UK and the USA (with the lockdown of New York and Los Angeles)
Already many workers are up in the air as many businesses have been shut down by government dictat. If the individual boss lockdowns the business, then the responsibility falls on the shoulder of the owners to pay the wages, but in the case of it being a government decision, then there are no such obligations. So what will happen?
To support all those on wages, they claim they will give Euro 500, that all obligations to Inland Revenue will be suspended, but in reality all provisional measures taken will become… permanent, like the old ‘haratsi’ (property tax which was a provisional tax by the IMF) which, a decade later, is still here.
What are they actually preparing? To increase home working, which is another step in the direction of part time work they have already introduced. A lecturer at the Athens Economic and Business school said “maybe the Corona virus epidemic is something extraordinary in business activities, but the practice will remain intact when the ‘alarm’ is over. As many businesses and govts are losing billions of Euros due to the epidemic, some actions will become permanent.
Thus what will be supported significantly in the last years like remote working, which isn’t something new but now is being given extra impetus by a virus, which increases its development massively. Already technological giants like Alphabet, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook have asked their workers to work from home.
The changes which are coming will lead or stigmatise our society and its structures but especially the economy and its businesses in a more sudden and violent way, processes that came to arrive. As is noted in Harvard Business Review in an article on the Coronavirus, businesses are ‘prepare[d] for a changed world’. Everything is changing, in such a fashion where the change could be characterised as a Darwinian development. The man is stating it in a veiled form, but for the peoples of the world he is implying the gates of hell have opened.
A lecturer at the University of Athens, George Doukidis, noted that ‘In Greece, one can discern that we can be influenced negatively by serious pillars of the national economy like tourism, transportation and various export sectors.’
At the same time the psychology of consumers is being influenced negatively. The reduction of markets, of movement and those who take part in meetings/festivals, etc. for reasons of hygiene are also linked to the feeling of insecurity which dominates, which is in turn ‘translated’ into behaviour that we observe in periods of deep economic crisis’…
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Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com