Suffer, Little Children

I ’ ve been an angry man since the age of sixteen .
That was when I read Lloyd deMause ’ s newly-published The History of Childhood , an inquest into the realities of growing up that minced no words about society ’ s ingrained habit of victimizing children to serve the implacable ends of adults .
As I absorbed deMause ’ s relentless account of the cruelty inflicted on children in the world ’ s most “ advanced ” civilizations , I swore an angry oath to myself that I would never acquiesce in the deliberate harm of little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abusers might claim to be .
So I ’ m not going to pull any punches about the systematic child abuse being orchestrated , as I write , by a phalanx of America ’ s most “ respectable ” politicians , pundits and self-styled educators .
Child abuse ?
Yes , that ’ s what I said : and I ’ m talking about the concerted campaign to keep the United States school system shuttered in honor of the Great God Corona – a cynical bid to smother the free instincts in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re even old enough to know how deeply they ’ ve been violated .
As if that weren ’ t ugly enough , the propagandists who want to take away our kids ’ education are using emotional blackmail to do it , terrorizing 74 million American children with the slander that they ’ re as poisonous as Rappaccini ’ s daughter – that the moment they cross the threshold of a school building they will have condemned their teachers , and probably their parents , to an early and painful death .
Child @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mild a name for it .
What is it going to take , I wonder , to make the proverbial Man in the Street as angry as I am about this ?
If I could , I ’ d try to shout into his face some measure of his inconsistency .
Have you been gnashing your teeth over the alleged crimes of Jeffrey Epstein , Mr. Street ?
What do you say to a crew of governors-turned-dictators who hold millions of American children captive in their own homes , polluting their minds with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when the minions of President Donald Trump throw helpless children into the arms of traffickers south of the border as a matter of “ immigration policy ” ?
How do you feel , then , about a “ health ” policy that deprives all our children of a normal education ?
You ’ ve heard tell of irresponsible organizations tainting social media with “ misinformation , ” haven ’ t you ?
Do you mind the idea of your own kids being manipulated 24/7 through a computer screen by the same folks who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” system and have already handed over your private information to political gangsters like Cambridge Analytica ?
Or maybe you ’ re upset with Israeli soldiers who hide stun grenades where they can hurt unsuspecting youngsters in a West Bank village ?
If so , Mr. Street , what about people who hang the calumny of being walking death-traps like a sword of Damocles above the heads of millions of American pre-teens ?
Are you angry yet ?
Mainstream pundits , of course , assure us that all of this is really a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ This is exactly what we ’ ve been warning about , ” a smug Megan Ranney , described as “ the director for the Center for Digital Health at Brown University , ” told the press about a recent rise in COVID19 “ cases ” among schoolchildren .
( Ah , why can ’ t Americans just forget about educating their kids and let the “ experts ” do their thinking for them ? )
“ Coronavirus cases are already surfacing in K-12 schools that have reopened , ” screeched NBC News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but “ the federal government is not tracking these outbreaks , and some states are not publicly reporting them.
” And as if that didn ’ t prove we ’ re all eye-deep in the Black Death , a Florida judge blocked the reopening of his state ’ s public schools by claiming that the decision properly belonged to – you guessed it – “ health experts ” and not its elected representatives ; meanwhile , the Orwellian gloating of a teachers ’ union president about the judge ’ s twin attacks on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a great day for public schools ” ) was topped only by a young middle-school teacher who stood on a Tampa sidewalk with a poster blaring , “ I CAN ’ T TEACH FROM THE GRAVE.
” But there are some cracks in the walls of the propaganda .
The article containing Dr. Ranney ’ s pontifications , for instance , dealt exclusively with the rise in COVID19 “ cases ” ; after all , that ’ s the only way to make an ominous story out of the spread of a dime-a-dozen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if ever harmed by it .
The article mentioned only one child as experiencing any serious consequences at all – and it turned out ( though the article didn ’ t say so ) that he died of a seizure , that there ’ s no evidence his death had anything to do with COVID19 , and that in any case he was apparently infected in church , not at school .
Furthermore , not one of the articles I ’ ve sampled even tried to present evidence of teachers contracting COVID19 from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be central , given so many teachers ’ vehement opposition to doing their jobs .
But you know the drill : the Right Thinkers have already reached their conclusions ; inconvenient facts must be airbrushed .
And oh boy , there are plenty of inconvenient facts .
The coronavirus coup is already crippling a nation even as its jaws open for our kids .
According to a continuing special project of the US Census Bureau : And what about the children ?
By mid-August , the Center for Disease Control and Prevention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all young adults in the United States had contemplated suicide during the “ pandemic.
” A West Los Angeles child and adolescent psychiatrist has publicly testified to a “ rapid and substantial increase ” since March in cases of anxiety , depression , suicidal ideation , bedwetting , self-harming , violence , panic attacks and related symptoms of emotional illness among the children he treats .
Let ’ s be clear about this : none of these horrors resulted from a respiratory virus .
They were and are the products of unilateral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the approval of any legislature and without public debate , by state governors who for over five months have claimed quasi-dictatorial powers on the strength of an “ emergency ” that never existed and certainly doesn ’ t exist today .
Our bleak reality , in a word , is the price we are paying for a sustained attack on the fundamental components of constitutional democracy .
And the chief weapon in that campaign has been panic – panic deployed against civil liberties ( illegal house arrests became “ public safety ” measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ singing was suddenly deadly , theater audiences became Petri dishes for infection ) , and now against the most vulnerable target of all : our children .
Sadly , some of the young themselves seem to have been hypnotized by the fear offensive .
As the University of North Carolina moved to hobble its undergraduate programs barely a week into the fall semester , the editorial board of its student newspaper attacked administrators , not for denying them their right to normal college classes , but for not crippling their education even sooner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weekend come as no surprise , ” wrote the scandalized student editors .
“ [ I ] it was the University ’ s responsibility to disincentivize such gatherings by reconsidering its plans to operate in-person earlier on.
” I pity the young people who could write those words ; freedom , as Dostoevsky ’ s Grand Inquisitor predicted , is a burden to them ; they can ’ t seem to throw it away fast enough .
And just look what paltry “ security ” they ’ re getting in exchange !
Out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a grand total of twenty-odd new cases of COVID19 have allegedly been discovered on campus .
That ’ s right – 20 out of 19,000 ; and given the age of those students , the chance of any serious consequence is about as remote as the danger of being struck by lightning .
Yet this is enough for the student editors to abandon the most precious thing their university ought to be giving them – the education free people deserve – and to pray aloud that their elders will take away even more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ disincentivize ” any semblance of normal student life .
It is a gloomy augury .
Bear in mind that even those lockdown-lovers who are willing to allow that , yes , maybe , sooner or later students ought to be permitted to resume what they call “ in-person schooling ” – that ominous phrase is cropping up everywhere , alongside the even more ominous “ new normal ” – don ’ t intend to let the kids get away unscathed .
Students will be muzzled , will be subjected to repeated temperature @ @ @ @ @ @ @ congregate or to whisper to one another , will be kept rigidly apart in the classrooms , and will not even be able to observe the facial expressions of their friends or acquaintances .
Never mind that there isn ’ t the slightest medical justification for any of this .
( We ’ ve known at least since March that healthy people are more likely to be harmed than helped by wearing masks . )
The Right Thinkers are determined to keep us in fear , and our children are not to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home or in a schoolroom .
But even that kind of torture isn ’ t enough to please Michael Mulgrew , president of New York City ’ s United Federation of Teachers .
He ’ s threatening to impose regular virus testing on students and staff at all New York City schools , plus special school building “ entry and exit procedures ” and a surveillance regime involving mandatory quarantine for anyone who has tested positive in the previous 24 hours .
Otherwise , “ the union is prepared to go to court @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to.
” And what about state law that prohibits such strikes ?
“ Union receiving penalties , I go to jail , all of that , ” says Mr. Mulgrew .
“ We ’ ll do it if we have to.
” If only the teachers ’ union had ever shown as much courage in actually teaching our children as in blackmailing them !
I ’ m angry when people who call themselves educators turn into advocates of child abuse .
I ’ m angry about politicians who claim to care about working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , force those same working people to choose between their children and their jobs .
I ’ m angry at dishonest news media that can watch a 5-year-old child break down in tears in front of a computer screen and call his emotional torture “ distance learning.
” And I ’ m angry , above all , at a cynical intellectual culture that sees nothing wrong with using children as hostages in a campaign to turn my country into a police state .
Abusing children in the hope of gaining political ground would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lockdown-lovers can ’ t even claim the defense of well-meaning fanaticism .
The idea that we can permanently “ contain ” COVID19 by putting much of the population , children included , under house arrest is no longer even remotely credible .
Professor Johan Giesecke , a medical advisor to the Swedish government , posed the obvious question a month ago : suppose strict lockdowns really do slow the spread of COVID19 infections , he asked .
So there it is , folks .
We are shredding the Bill of Rights , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ class , censoring the arts , undermining the educational system , turning our society into a fever swamp of paranoid repression , and betraying our children – and all for what ?
The only answer the Right Thinkers can give us is the answer of all totalitarians : that we are too foolish to make our own decisions , that we need “ experts ” to construct the sort of society the Right Thinkers believe we ought to inhabit but aren ’ t sensible enough to build for ourselves .
Ultimately , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of us in the face when we see a child sitting at home in front of a computer screen when he or she ought to be at school .
This is the democracy-destroyers ’ most ambitious ploy .
If they can train a whole generation of children to live almost entirely through the artificial and isolating medium of cybernetics , they can look forward to a future in which manipulating the population will be easier than ever .
Political life revolves around cooperation and discourse ; what sort of political opposition can you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ learned to form groups ?
Intellectual maturity requires surprise , confrontation , provocation – such experiences come from the unexpected give and take of real social life , not from computerized media where a child finds only what he looks for .
In other words , “ distance learning ” for children is just about perfectly designed to produce mentally and socially stunted adults – the kind of adults the Right Thinkers prefer to deal with .
But remember , that isn ’ t all it will produce .
While our children are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human beings , the master manipulators on the other side of their computer screens will be carefully scrutinizing them , noting every weakness , every foible , every fear to be exploited in the future .
By the time the kids are old enough to begin to live on their own , it will be too late ; they ’ ll be helpless against the elites who control all the pathways of the only sort of life they have ever known .
“ Possibly the heartless treatment of children , ” wrote deMause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of childhood , “ was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature…Children…were the victims of forces over which they had no control , and they were abused…by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders… ” This time around , whether its motives are conscious or not , the purpose of the abuse aimed at our children is perfectly clear .
If the propagandists have their way , society is to be reshaped forever ; freedom as we have known it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an obsolete hindrance to the plans of Silicon Valley billionaires , must be abolished , or at least drastically redefined .
And our children are to be the guinea pigs in this grand social experiment .
Will they get away with it ?
I certainly hope not – but successful resistance will depend upon a lot of people calling this species of child abuse by its proper name , seizing every opportunity to rise up against it with the anger and contempt it deserves .
The stakes are terribly high .
If you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out to delay the opening of public schools a few weeks this year – if you still don ’ t grasp that their goal is nothing less than to snatch away your children ’ s last chance at a normal life – well , you ain ’ t seen nothing yet .
Michael Lesher is an author , poet and lawyer whose legal work is mostly dedicated to issues connected with domestic abuse and child sexual abuse .
His latest nonfiction book is Sexual Abuse , Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; his first collection of poetry , Surfaces , was published by The High Window in 2019 .
A memoir of his discovery of Orthodox Judaism as an adult – Turning Back : The Personal Journey of a “ Born-Again ” Jew – will be published in September 2020 by Lincoln Square Books .

Michael Lesher
I’ve been an angry man since the age of sixteen. That was when I read Lloyd deMause’s newly-published The History of Childhood, an inquest into the realities of growing up that minced no words about society’s ingrained habit of victimizing children to serve the implacable ends of adults.
As I absorbed deMause’s relentless account of the cruelty inflicted on children in the world’s most “advanced” civilizations, I swore an angry oath to myself that I would never acquiesce in the deliberate harm of little kids, no matter how respectable their abusers might claim to be.
So I’m not going to pull any punches about the systematic child abuse being orchestrated, as I write, by a phalanx of America’s most “respectable” politicians, pundits and self-styled educators.
Child abuse? Yes, that’s what I said: and I’m talking about the concerted campaign to keep the United States school system shuttered in honor of the Great God Corona – a cynical bid to smother the free instincts in a whole generation of children before they’re even old enough to know how deeply they’ve been violated.
As if that weren’t ugly enough, the propagandists who want to take away our kids’ education are using emotional blackmail to do it, terrorizing 74 million American children with the slander that they’re as poisonous as Rappaccini’s daughter – that the moment they cross the threshold of a school building they will have condemned their teachers, and probably their parents, to an early and painful death.
Child abuse? That’s almost too mild a name for it.
What is it going to take, I wonder, to make the proverbial Man in the Street as angry as I am about this? If I could, I’d try to shout into his face some measure of his inconsistency. Have you been gnashing your teeth over the alleged crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, Mr. Street? What do you say to a crew of governors-turned-dictators who hold millions of American children captive in their own homes, polluting their minds with fear porn?
Does it bother you when the minions of President Donald Trump throw helpless children into the arms of traffickers south of the border as a matter of “immigration policy”? How do you feel, then, about a “health” policy that deprives all our children of a normal education?
You’ve heard tell of irresponsible organizations tainting social media with “misinformation,” haven’t you? Do you mind the idea of your own kids being manipulated 24/7 through a computer screen by the same folks who planted microphones in a home “security” system and have already handed over your private information to political gangsters like Cambridge Analytica?
Or maybe you’re upset with Israeli soldiers who hide stun grenades where they can hurt unsuspecting youngsters in a West Bank village? If so, Mr. Street, what about people who hang the calumny of being walking death-traps like a sword of Damocles above the heads of millions of American pre-teens?
Are you angry yet?
Mainstream pundits, of course, assure us that all of this is really a saintly effort to protect the young.
“This is exactly what we’ve been warning about,” a smug Megan Ranney, described as “the director for the Center for Digital Health at Brown University,” told the press about a recent rise in COVID19 “cases” among schoolchildren. (Ah, why can’t Americans just forget about educating their kids and let the “experts” do their thinking for them?)
“Coronavirus cases are already surfacing in K-12 schools that have reopened,” screeched NBC News – again citing “experts” – but “the federal government is not tracking these outbreaks, and some states are not publicly reporting them.”
And as if that didn’t prove we’re all eye-deep in the Black Death, a Florida judge blocked the reopening of his state’s public schools by claiming that the decision properly belonged to – you guessed it – “health experts” and not its elected representatives; meanwhile, the Orwellian gloating of a teachers’ union president about the judge’s twin attacks on education and democracy (“This is a great day for public schools”) was topped only by a young middle-school teacher who stood on a Tampa sidewalk with a poster blaring, “I CAN’T TEACH FROM THE GRAVE.”
But there are some cracks in the walls of the propaganda.
The article containing Dr. Ranney’s pontifications, for instance, dealt exclusively with the rise in COVID19 “cases”; after all, that’s the only way to make an ominous story out of the spread of a dime-a-dozen flu virus among people who are seldom if ever harmed by it.
The article mentioned only one child as experiencing any serious consequences at all – and it turned out (though the article didn’t say so) that he died of a seizure, that there’s no evidence his death had anything to do with COVID19, and that in any case he was apparently infected in church, not at school.
Furthermore, not one of the articles I’ve sampled even tried to present evidence of teachers contracting COVID19 from their students – an issue that ought to be central, given so many teachers’ vehement opposition to doing their jobs.
But you know the drill: the Right Thinkers have already reached their conclusions; inconvenient facts must be airbrushed.
And oh boy, there are plenty of inconvenient facts.
The coronavirus coup is already crippling a nation even as its jaws open for our kids. According to a continuing special project of the US Census Bureau:
almost a third of people in some states have little or no confidence they can pay August’s rent or mortgage […] Jobs have been furloughed, businesses closed, hours reduced and salaries cut […] 35% of adults [are] still expecting a loss of employment income in the coming month for themselves or someone in their household.”
And what about the children? By mid-August, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting that more than a quarter of all young adults in the United States had contemplated suicide during the “pandemic.”
A West Los Angeles child and adolescent psychiatrist has publicly testified to a “rapid and substantial increase” since March in cases of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, bedwetting, self-harming, violence, panic attacks and related symptoms of emotional illness among the children he treats.
Let’s be clear about this: none of these horrors resulted from a respiratory virus. They were and are the products of unilateral “executive orders,” issued without the approval of any legislature and without public debate, by state governors who for over five months have claimed quasi-dictatorial powers on the strength of an “emergency” that never existed and certainly doesn’t exist today.
Our bleak reality, in a word, is the price we are paying for a sustained attack on the fundamental components of constitutional democracy. And the chief weapon in that campaign has been panic – panic deployed against civil liberties (illegal house arrests became “public safety” measures), then against the arts (singing was suddenly deadly, theater audiences became Petri dishes for infection), and now against the most vulnerable target of all: our children.
Sadly, some of the young themselves seem to have been hypnotized by the fear offensive.
As the University of North Carolina moved to hobble its undergraduate programs barely a week into the fall semester, the editorial board of its student newspaper attacked administrators, not for denying them their right to normal college classes, but for not crippling their education even sooner.
“Reports of parties throughout the weekend come as no surprise,” wrote the scandalized student editors. “[I]it was the University’s responsibility to disincentivize such gatherings by reconsidering its plans to operate in-person earlier on.”
I pity the young people who could write those words; freedom, as Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor predicted, is a burden to them; they can’t seem to throw it away fast enough.
And just look what paltry “security” they’re getting in exchange!
Out of over 19,000 undergraduates at UNC, a grand total of twenty-odd new cases of COVID19 have allegedly been discovered on campus. That’s right – 20 out of 19,000; and given the age of those students, the chance of any serious consequence is about as remote as the danger of being struck by lightning.
Yet this is enough for the student editors to abandon the most precious thing their university ought to be giving them – the education free people deserve – and to pray aloud that their elders will take away even more of their liberty, so as to “disincentivize” any semblance of normal student life. It is a gloomy augury.
Bear in mind that even those lockdown-lovers who are willing to allow that, yes, maybe, sooner or later students ought to be permitted to resume what they call “in-person schooling” – that ominous phrase is cropping up everywhere, alongside the even more ominous “new normal” – don’t intend to let the kids get away unscathed.
Students will be muzzled, will be subjected to repeated temperature checks, will not be allowed to congregate or to whisper to one another, will be kept rigidly apart in the classrooms, and will not even be able to observe the facial expressions of their friends or acquaintances.
Never mind that there isn’t the slightest medical justification for any of this. (We’ve known at least since March that healthy people are more likely to be harmed than helped by wearing masks.) The Right Thinkers are determined to keep us in fear, and our children are not to be exceptions to this rule, whether at home or in a schoolroom.
But even that kind of torture isn’t enough to please Michael Mulgrew, president of New York City’s United Federation of Teachers. He’s threatening to impose regular virus testing on students and staff at all New York City schools, plus special school building “entry and exit procedures” and a surveillance regime involving mandatory quarantine for anyone who has tested positive in the previous 24 hours.
Otherwise, “the union is prepared to go to court and/or go on strike if we need to.”
And what about state law that prohibits such strikes? “Union receiving penalties, I go to jail, all of that,” says Mr. Mulgrew. “We’ll do it if we have to.” If only the teachers’ union had ever shown as much courage in actually teaching our children as in blackmailing them!
And so I’m angry.
I’m angry when people who call themselves educators turn into advocates of child abuse.
I’m angry about politicians who claim to care about working people and then, by closing schools, force those same working people to choose between their children and their jobs.
I’m angry at dishonest news media that can watch a 5-year-old child break down in tears in front of a computer screen and call his emotional torture “distance learning.”
And I’m angry, above all, at a cynical intellectual culture that sees nothing wrong with using children as hostages in a campaign to turn my country into a police state.
Abusing children in the hope of gaining political ground would be reprehensible in any case. But the lockdown-lovers can’t even claim the defense of well-meaning fanaticism. The idea that we can permanently “contain” COVID19 by putting much of the population, children included, under house arrest is no longer even remotely credible.
Professor Johan Giesecke, a medical advisor to the Swedish government, posed the obvious question a month ago: suppose strict lockdowns really do slow the spread of COVID19 infections, he asked.
But then, what next? No democratic society can remain in lockdown for many months or years. Their economies cannot withstand it, and the public won’t allow it.”
So there it is, folks. We are shredding the Bill of Rights, trashing our economy, destroying our working class, censoring the arts, undermining the educational system, turning our society into a fever swamp of paranoid repression, and betraying our children – and all for what?
The only answer the Right Thinkers can give us is the answer of all totalitarians: that we are too foolish to make our own decisions, that we need “experts” to construct the sort of society the Right Thinkers believe we ought to inhabit but aren’t sensible enough to build for ourselves.
Ultimately, that is the message that stares every one of us in the face when we see a child sitting at home in front of a computer screen when he or she ought to be at school. This is the democracy-destroyers’ most ambitious ploy. If they can train a whole generation of children to live almost entirely through the artificial and isolating medium of cybernetics, they can look forward to a future in which manipulating the population will be easier than ever.
Political life revolves around cooperation and discourse; what sort of political opposition can you expect from people who have never even learned to form groups?
Intellectual maturity requires surprise, confrontation, provocation – such experiences come from the unexpected give and take of real social life, not from computerized media where a child finds only what he looks for.
In other words, “distance learning” for children is just about perfectly designed to produce mentally and socially stunted adults – the kind of adults the Right Thinkers prefer to deal with.
But remember, that isn’t all it will produce. While our children are being shorn of the instincts of free human beings, the master manipulators on the other side of their computer screens will be carefully scrutinizing them, noting every weakness, every foible, every fear to be exploited in the future.
By the time the kids are old enough to begin to live on their own, it will be too late; they’ll be helpless against the elites who control all the pathways of the only sort of life they have ever known.
“Possibly the heartless treatment of children,” wrote deMause in the foreword to his grim history of childhood, “was and is only one aspect of the basic aggressiveness and cruelty of human nature…Children…were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused…by way of expressing conscious or more commonly unconscious motives of their elders…”
This time around, whether its motives are conscious or not, the purpose of the abuse aimed at our children is perfectly clear. If the propagandists have their way, society is to be reshaped forever; freedom as we have known it is to be sharply curtailed; democracy, an obsolete hindrance to the plans of Silicon Valley billionaires, must be abolished, or at least drastically redefined.
And our children are to be the guinea pigs in this grand social experiment.
Will they get away with it? I certainly hope not – but successful resistance will depend upon a lot of people calling this species of child abuse by its proper name, seizing every opportunity to rise up against it with the anger and contempt it deserves.
The stakes are terribly high. If you imagine that the Right Thinkers are just out to delay the opening of public schools a few weeks this year – if you still don’t grasp that their goal is nothing less than to snatch away your children’s last chance at a normal life – well, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Michael Lesher is an author, poet and lawyer whose legal work is mostly dedicated to issues connected with domestic abuse and child sexual abuse. His latest nonfiction book is Sexual Abuse, Shonda and Concealment in Orthodox Jewish Communities (McFarland & Co., 2014); his first collection of poetry, Surfaces, was published by The High Window in 2019. A memoir of his discovery of Orthodox Judaism as an adult – Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a “Born-Again” Jew – will be published in September 2020 by Lincoln Square Books.


offguardian--2020-09-04--Canadian Brainwashing Corporation touts compliance over science

The CBC ( the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation ) published an article about Saturday ’ s lockdown protest in Ottawa .
It heralds with this ironic deck : Ironic , because CBC ’ s website has been one of the most abhorrent purveyor of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 “ pandemic.
” The article demonstrates the CBC ’ s lack of journalistic integrity by describing the protesters as “ venting their frustrations over science-backed measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.
” Notice how they said “ science-backed ” instead of “ evidence-based ” ?
Science-backed could simply mean a scientist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a careful choice of words considering that the evidence shows that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu , and “ safety ” measures are ineffective and far from safe .
Furthermore , why would it make people more safe if we “ slow the spread , ” as they say ?
Clearly , hospitals in Canada are nowhere near maximum capacity .
COVID patients are not overflowing into emergency tent clinics .
According to Health Canada only 2,335 people in a country of 37 million were admitted to ICU .
Which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( apparently ) have had 9,120 deaths from COVID-19 .
That means that 75 % of those who died from COVID never received the coveted care we are being forced to social distance for .
According to a 2015 Critical Care report Canada has 3,170 ICU beds capable of ventilation .
That leaves 700 ventilators that never pumped a lung .
Not that we would have needed that many , since only 466 of ICU patients actually received mechanical ventilation .
Of course , we have no idea how many of those COVID @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or had other pre-existing conditions .
The coronavirus was merely at the “ scene of the crime ” ( if you believe the PCR witness ) .
So how can the CBC claim that COVID-19 containment measures are about “ safety.
” What ’ s safe about driving millions of people into poverty ?
Unless they are talking about saving the reputation of politicians .
And that ’ s why people are protesting .
The rest of their illogical smear piece focused on protestors ’ opposition to being forced to wear mask .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ shown to be a very effective public health measure , ” claims Dr. Craig Jenne , an infectious disease researcher at the University of Alberta .
He was quoted in CBC ’ s latest corona propaganda piece where they belittled Canadians protesting the corona “ safety ” measures being enforced upon them .
So how does Jenne know mask-wearing has been “ a very effective public health measure ” ?
I guess it depends what “ effect ” Health Canada was aiming for .
Mindless servitude or improved health ?
If it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Canada has a control group in some remote corner of Newfoundland where the population observed all the new normal dictates sans the masks ?
Otherwise , is Jenne just guessing ?
Is he possibly confusing personal bias with objective science ?
After all , the government ’ s own documents admit that seven randomized controlled trials ( with verified outcomes ) show masks don ’ t stop primary or secondary infection .
But the CBC article likes to skip pesky facts and stick to the opinions of “ experts ” on the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jenne did share one fact with us : Yes , we know masks stop droplets .
I don ’ t need intravital microscopy and a degree in spitology to see that .
Now , if it ’ s a six-fold reduction , that ’ s well , interesting .
I guess .
More vital is that despite the fact masks do such a wonderful job of collecting spit in front of your mouth…they still do not decrease viral infection in any way .
Jenne then tries to excuse the fact that mandatory masking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sure , if they did protect anyone , which as far as we know , after 20 years of testing , they do not .
So stop suggesting people who don ’ t wear masks are putting people at risk , because you have no proof .
It seems far more likely that those wearing masks are putting people at risk of living in a deranged germaphobic society under a tyrannical regime absent of even the facade of democracy .
Protect ?
Even the most official , optimistic and unscientific rhetoric admits that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a virus , not prevent it .
A good conscience is the last thing they need .
I refuse the mask by claiming an ethical-religious exemption .
And the two times I had to wear one , I wore a Guy Fawkes mask of dissent .
Please , consider doing the same .
Be kind , and do not support this violation of freedom , science and humanity in any way .
John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors , as well as naturopaths , chiropractors and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 84 ) Red Pill Daily Briefs – an email-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom , health , privacy , livelihood and humanity .
He is also writing a novel , COVID-27 : A Dystopian Love Story .
Visit his website at : MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca

John CA Manley
The CBC (the Canadian Brainwashing Corporation) published an article about Saturday’s lockdown protest in Ottawa. It heralds with this ironic deck:
Online misinformation about pandemic safety measures thriving.”
Ironic, because CBC’s website has been one of the most abhorrent purveyor of misinformation regarding the COVID-19 “pandemic.”
The article demonstrates the CBC’s lack of journalistic integrity by describing the protesters as “venting their frustrations over science-backed measures designed to slow the spread of COVID-19.”
Notice how they said “science-backed” instead of “evidence-based”?
Science-backed could simply mean a scientist with a theory. It’s a careful choice of words considering that the evidence shows that COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, and “safety” measures are ineffective and far from safe.
Furthermore, why would it make people more safe if we “slow the spread,” as they say? Clearly, hospitals in Canada are nowhere near maximum capacity. COVID patients are not overflowing into emergency tent clinics.
According to Health Canada only 2,335 people in a country of 37 million were admitted to ICU. Which is an interesting number, considering that we (apparently) have had 9,120 deaths from COVID-19. That means that 75% of those who died from COVID never received the coveted care we are being forced to social distance for.
According to a 2015 Critical Care report Canada has 3,170 ICU beds capable of ventilation. That leaves 700 ventilators that never pumped a lung. Not that we would have needed that many, since only 466 of ICU patients actually received mechanical ventilation.
Of course, we have no idea how many of those COVID cases were also suffering from the flu or had other pre-existing conditions. The coronavirus was merely at the “scene of the crime” (if you believe the PCR witness).
So how can the CBC claim that COVID-19 containment measures are about “safety.” What’s safe about driving millions of people into poverty? Unless they are talking about saving the reputation of politicians. And that’s why people are protesting. The rest of their illogical smear piece focused on protestors’ opposition to being forced to wear mask.
Be kind, don’t support medical tyranny by wearing a mask
“[Mask wearing has] been shown to be a very effective public health measure,” claims Dr. Craig Jenne, an infectious disease researcher at the University of Alberta. He was quoted in CBC’s latest corona propaganda piece where they belittled Canadians protesting the corona “safety” measures being enforced upon them.
So how does Jenne know mask-wearing has been “a very effective public health measure”? I guess it depends what “effect” Health Canada was aiming for. Mindless servitude or improved health?
If it’s the latter then I assume Health Canada has a control group in some remote corner of Newfoundland where the population observed all the new normal dictates sans the masks?
Otherwise, is Jenne just guessing? Is he possibly confusing personal bias with objective science? After all, the government’s own documents admit that seven randomized controlled trials (with verified outcomes) show masks don’t stop primary or secondary infection.
But the CBC article likes to skip pesky facts and stick to the opinions of “experts” on the government’s payroll. Of course, Jenne did share one fact with us:
We know, for example, that masks can reduce the transmission and spread of droplets by more than six-fold.”
Yes, we know masks stop droplets. I don’t need intravital microscopy and a degree in spitology to see that. Now, if it’s a six-fold reduction, that’s well, interesting. I guess. More vital is that despite the fact masks do such a wonderful job of collecting spit in front of your mouth…they still do not decrease viral infection in any way.
Jenne then tries to excuse the fact that mandatory masking violates the Canadian Bill of Rights:
Wearing a mask is not a large ask and [it] is not an arduous process to literally protect the lives of people in your community.”
Sure, if they did protect anyone, which as far as we know, after 20 years of testing, they do not. So stop suggesting people who don’t wear masks are putting people at risk, because you have no proof. It seems far more likely that those wearing masks are putting people at risk of living in a deranged germaphobic society under a tyrannical regime absent of even the facade of democracy.
Jenne’s concludes with another illogical point:
If we can do our part to keep viral numbers down, we can protect [those who cannot wear masks for medical reasons].”
Protect? Even the most official, optimistic and unscientific rhetoric admits that masks would only delay someone from contracting a virus, not prevent it.
As Albert Camus wrote:
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
A good conscience is the last thing they need. I refuse the mask by claiming an ethical-religious exemption. And the two times I had to wear one, I wore a Guy Fawkes mask of dissent.
Please, consider doing the same. Be kind, and do not support this violation of freedom, science and humanity in any way.
John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors, as well as naturopaths, chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians. He publishes the COVID-19(84) Red Pill Daily Briefs – an email-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom, health, privacy, livelihood and humanity. He is also writing a novel, COVID-27: A Dystopian Love Story. Visit his website at: MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca


offguardian--2020-09-05--The Covid-spreading farts of death

The Covid-spreading farts of death

August 18 , 2020 10 am Before the Covid-19 smackdown , coffee was a mid-morning ritual .
Jools and I would drive to our local cafe , order coffee , chat to the server , read the papers , and indulge in mindless banter with acquaintances for half an hour before fleeing when the ravenous lunchtime horde of schoolkids stormed in .
Now the cafe has re-opened , so we decide it ’ s time to slide gently into the New Normal .
Uh , oh , it ’ s like walking into a crime scene .
Most of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yellow hazard tape .
The staff wear masks and plastic face shields , the cashier sheltering behind the additional security of a large plexiglass screen .
Jools attempts small talk as she orders , but it ’ s impossible without shouting , so communication is limited to raised eyebrows and shrugged shoulders .
As we find a space to sit , the floor manager jots Jools ’ s name and telephone number into her notebook .
“ Contact tracing !
In case we need to track you down later… ” Another associate shuffles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away from our path .
“ Bugger this !
” , mutters Jools , scanning the newly-sterile environment .
“ It ’ s a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo ’ s Nest .
Let ’ s get outta here before Nurse Ratched comes in with her bloody needles ” .
She nudges me towards the exit and freedom .
Outside , we sit at the only table not taped off .
There ’ s a large blob of concealed filling from a muffin congealing on the table .
I cover it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cars idle , their exhausts spewing noxious fumes , within touching distance in the adjacent drive-through lane .
A driver stares , unfathomable eyes peering over tightly-fitted mask .
11:30 am We ’ re driving past an old people ’ s retirement warehouse , where eight unfortunates died at the height of the pandemic .
“ Hold your breath ” , I tell Jools , reminding her of how , as kids , we tried not to breathe the germs that might be escaping from the hospital close to our home in England @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those childhood fears refuse to die .
.
.
1 pm I ’ m walking to the shopping mall .
Halfway along the route , detouring down a narrow path , I spot an elderly woman walking , head down , towards me .
A few metres before we meet , she looks up , sees me , and dashes to one side , her back against the fence .
Stunned by her reaction , I spin around .
Zombie attack ?
Big dog with dripping fangs ?
Nope .
Then I realise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s scared of .
Well , perhaps not me – just my breath !
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.
.
1:15 pm The mall is almost deserted .
I nose around a few shops , avoiding the large bottles of sanitiser at every entrance .
Then I spot a sign in the bookstore welcoming back customers .
That ’ s nice , I think , before reading a big poster with seven instructions explaining how to be a considerate shopper .
Rule Number Three advises that , once inside , “ Please do not remain in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I give it a miss .
Instead , I head to the food court for another coffee .
I ’ m not thirsty , but it ’ s the only place I ’ m allowed to sit down , remove my mask , and breathe freely .
There are a dozen or so mainly-unoccupied tables , each separated by a self-isolation chasm , in a space where there used to be 50 .
A guy stands up to leave , whereupon a cleaning lady , masked and visored , swoops in , disinfectant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the other .
She smears gunge on everything , finishing with a vigorous scrub of the seat .
Clearing away the Covid-spreading farts of death , I assume .
We make eye contact .
A small shrug of the shoulders , her mask twitches slightly .
Was that a smile ?
2:15 pm Walking home , there ’ s hardly any traffic , and not a soul in sight .
I wonder what happened to the kids who are on holiday from school and their parents who aren ’ t allowed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Are they all sequestered in their home jails , hiding behind locked doors and tightly-drawn curtains awaiting that fateful Covid attack ?
Turning a corner , there ’ s a family of four ambling in front of me .
Slowing down , I dodge into the lane where I ’ d met the old lady earlier .
Must be careful – perhaps they are the zombies she was so afraid of… 5:00 pm Cameron , our teenage grandson arrives to stay for a couple of days .
After a curry dinner , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his PS4 , and hooks it into a big-screen computer monitor .
The rest of the evening and half the night will reverberate with laughter as he plays Fortnite with his on-line pals .
He ’ ll crawl out of bed at 3 pm tomorrow , ready for breakfast .
We don ’ t judge : What else is a 13-year-old expected to do after months of lockdown , daily scare stories and forced isolation ?
6:00 pm The TV news tells us Ontario has fewer than 100 new cases of Covid-19 and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 40,000 ) has , according to the local paper ’ s website , just three remaining cases , and a total of 11 deaths , including those eight oldies who died at the end of March .
The figures couldn ’ t really be any lower , but fear , not logic , is now the great emotional driver .
The kids are due to go back to school , but terrified parents are adamant that they will stay at home until the government slashes class sizes .
Ontario premier Doug Ford blames @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whom he accuses of “ playing politics ” .
The teachers , whose series of rolling strikes was interrupted by the pandemic , respond by charging Ford ’ s government with “ playing with children ’ s lives ” .
Immovable object meets unstoppable force .
Crashing impasse awaits inevitable compromise .
Old Normal .
New Normal .
Some things just don ’ t change .
Tony Sutton is the editor of ColdType magazine – www.coldtype.net .
He lives in Georgetown , Ontario .

Tony Sutton
August 18, 2020
10 am
Before the Covid-19 smackdown, coffee was a mid-morning ritual. Jools and I would drive to our local cafe, order coffee, chat to the server, read the papers, and indulge in mindless banter with acquaintances for half an hour before fleeing when the ravenous lunchtime horde of schoolkids stormed in. Now the cafe has re-opened, so we decide it’s time to slide gently into the New Normal.
Uh, oh, it’s like walking into a crime scene. Most of the tables are taped off with black and yellow hazard tape. The staff wear masks and plastic face shields, the cashier sheltering behind the additional security of a large plexiglass screen. Jools attempts small talk as she orders, but it’s impossible without shouting, so communication is limited to raised eyebrows and shrugged shoulders.
As we find a space to sit, the floor manager jots Jools’s name and telephone number into her notebook. “Contact tracing! In case we need to track you down later…”
Another associate shuffles past, his broom pushing unseen germs away from our path.
“Bugger this!”, mutters Jools, scanning the newly-sterile environment. “It’s a scene from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Let’s get outta here before Nurse Ratched comes in with her bloody needles”. She nudges me towards the exit and freedom.
Outside, we sit at the only table not taped off. There’s a large blob of concealed filling from a muffin congealing on the table. I cover it with serviettes that keep blowing away. Cars idle, their exhausts spewing noxious fumes, within touching distance in the adjacent drive-through lane. A driver stares, unfathomable eyes peering over tightly-fitted mask.
We drink quickly and leave.
11:30 am
We’re driving past an old people’s retirement warehouse, where eight unfortunates died at the height of the pandemic. “Hold your breath”, I tell Jools, reminding her of how, as kids, we tried not to breathe the germs that might be escaping from the hospital close to our home in England. We laugh as we realise how those childhood fears refuse to die . . .
1 pm
I’m walking to the shopping mall. Halfway along the route, detouring down a narrow path, I spot an elderly woman walking, head down, towards me. A few metres before we meet, she looks up, sees me, and dashes to one side, her back against the fence. Stunned by her reaction, I spin around. Zombie attack? Big dog with dripping fangs? Nope. Then I realise, it’s me she’s scared of. Well, perhaps not me – just my breath! . . .
1:15 pm
The mall is almost deserted. I nose around a few shops, avoiding the large bottles of sanitiser at every entrance. Then I spot a sign in the bookstore welcoming back customers.
That’s nice, I think, before reading a big poster with seven instructions explaining how to be a considerate shopper. Rule Number Three advises that, once inside, “Please do not remain in the store longer than necessary”. I give it a miss.
Instead, I head to the food court for another coffee. I’m not thirsty, but it’s the only place I’m allowed to sit down, remove my mask, and breathe freely. There are a dozen or so mainly-unoccupied tables, each separated by a self-isolation chasm, in a space where there used to be 50.
A guy stands up to leave, whereupon a cleaning lady, masked and visored, swoops in, disinfectant spray in one hand, paper towel in the other. She smears gunge on everything, finishing with a vigorous scrub of the seat. Clearing away the Covid-spreading farts of death, I assume. We make eye contact. A small shrug of the shoulders, her mask twitches slightly. Was that a smile?
2:15 pm
Walking home, there’s hardly any traffic, and not a soul in sight. I wonder what happened to the kids who are on holiday from school and their parents who aren’t allowed to go to work.
Where are they? Are they all sequestered in their home jails, hiding behind locked doors and tightly-drawn curtains awaiting that fateful Covid attack?
Turning a corner, there’s a family of four ambling in front of me. Slowing down, I dodge into the lane where I’d met the old lady earlier. Must be careful – perhaps they are the zombies she was so afraid of…
5:00 pm
Cameron, our teenage grandson arrives to stay for a couple of days. After a curry dinner, he digs into his backpack, retrieves his PS4, and hooks it into a big-screen computer monitor. The rest of the evening and half the night will reverberate with laughter as he plays Fortnite with his on-line pals.
He’ll crawl out of bed at 3 pm tomorrow, ready for breakfast. We don’t judge: What else is a 13-year-old expected to do after months of lockdown, daily scare stories and forced isolation?
6:00 pm
The TV news tells us Ontario has fewer than 100 new cases of Covid-19 and no deaths. Our town (population 40,000) has, according to the local paper’s website, just three remaining cases, and a total of 11 deaths, including those eight oldies who died at the end of March.
The figures couldn’t really be any lower, but fear, not logic, is now the great emotional driver.
The kids are due to go back to school, but terrified parents are adamant that they will stay at home until the government slashes class sizes. Ontario premier Doug Ford blames the leaders of the teachers’ unions, whom he accuses of “playing politics”.
The teachers, whose series of rolling strikes was interrupted by the pandemic, respond by charging Ford’s government with “playing with children’s lives”.
Immovable object meets unstoppable force. Crashing impasse awaits inevitable compromise. Old Normal. New Normal. Some things just don’t change.
Tony Sutton is the editor of ColdType magazine – www.coldtype.net. He lives in Georgetown, Ontario.


offguardian--2020-09-05--Australian Govt’s OWN WEBSITE admits Covid tests are totally unreliable

Imagine going to a doctor suspecting you may have a serious illness and being told that there are 2 tests available .
With the first test , a swab , they do not know , should you record a positive result , whether or not you have the disease .
With the second test , a blood test , they know for certain that the test is of no value in detecting the disease .
Would a patient find that situation satisfactory ?
Obviously not .
Yet that is exactly what the Australian government is admitting is the situation with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Therapeutics Goods Administration web site for “ health professionals ” : [ We also have a screenshot , just in case they take the info down – ed . ]
In other words , what are risibly described as the health ‘ authorities ’ do not know whether , if a person tests positive , they are infected or not .
The TGA also admits that the ‘ reliability of the evidence ’ is uncertain because of the ‘ limited evidence base ’ .
They know their PCR tests are dodgy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are hiding it in plain sight in the hope that no-one picks up on it .
Yet testing positive is what is being called a ‘ case ’ ( a word that usually applies people who are obviously sick ) and the rise in so-called ‘ cases ’ is being used as the rationale for abusive and absurd lockdowns in Melbourne ( where this writer lives ) .
Worse , most of the population has believed the propaganda and is more than willing to turn on any fellow citizens who have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so selfish ’ and cheering when they are subjected to fines of tens of thousands of dollars .
Meanwhile , the number of serious and critical patients ( which should be the real definition of a ‘ case ’ ) has not risen above 70 in Australia since the pandemic scare started – in a population of 24 million .
The per capita deaths are about 26 per million over a six month period , a fraction of the toll in other countries .
Worse , the same dodgy practices about causes of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happened elsewhere .
The chief health officer in Victoria admitted that they were not testing for the virus , just assuming that if there were flu-like symptom it must be COVID-19 .
Deaths by flu in Australia , it should be added , are running unusually low .
The blood tests are even worse .
The Doherty Institute has tested about half a dozen of the serological ( blood ) tests and concluded in each case : This conclusion has been replicated elsewhere .
Beaumont Health in Michigan ran a longitudinal study , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to look at the rates of infection in health workers exposed to the virus .
It was based on large scale serological testing .
So what did the study ’ s conclusion ( which was not easy to locate ) : Same result : the blood tests are useless .
You have to wonder why .
The first explanation that comes to mind is that they don ’ t have the information they need about the virus to reliably test for its existence .
The Doherty Institute in its test of a Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Why are they creating it artificially ?
There are some serious questions to be answered here but the Australian so-called journalists are , with some exceptions , not of a mind to ask any of them .
They are too busy generating traffic by scaring people .
So they mindlessly parrot the politicians ’ and health advisor ’ s reasons for turning Victoria into a medical police state .
In Melbourne there are lockdowns between 8 pm and 5 am , people being sent to jail for not wearing masks , police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officer ’ s dictates are being followed , violently if necessary , and other outrages .
The premier , Daniel Andrews wants to extend the state of emergency for another 12 months so he can hand all decisions over to the Chief Health Officer and claim he is doing the right thing .
Both the politicians and the mainstream media quack endlessly about ‘ evidence-based policy ’ and ‘ following the science ’ .
That is a lie .
They are relying on tests that , by the government ’ s own admission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not conflicting views amongst ‘ experts ’ .
This is the government itself .
It is an extraordinary scandal and if there was a functioning media , the government would be exposed for gross incompetence and political aggression .
Victorian citizens who try to organise peaceful protests are being arrested in their homes and charged with ‘ incitement ’ , whatever that means .
The police have descended into total hypocrisy .
David James has been a business and finance journalist , editor , and satirical columnist for over 30 years .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ web site is bardbitesback.com

David James
Imagine going to a doctor suspecting you may have a serious illness and being told that there are 2 tests available. With the first test, a swab, they do not know, should you record a positive result, whether or not you have the disease. With the second test, a blood test, they know for certain that the test is of no value in detecting the disease.
Would a patient find that situation satisfactory? Obviously not.
Yet that is exactly what the Australian government is admitting is the situation with its coronavirus testing. It is on the Therapeutics Goods Administration web site for “health professionals”:
The extent to which a positive PCR result correlates with the infectious state of an individual is still being determined.”
And:
There is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests.”
[We also have a screenshot, just in case they take the info down – ed.]
In other words, what are risibly described as the health ‘authorities’ do not know whether, if a person tests positive, they are infected or not. The TGA also admits that the ‘reliability of the evidence’ is uncertain because of the ‘limited evidence base’.
They know their PCR tests are dodgy and the serology tests are useless, so they are hiding it in plain sight in the hope that no-one picks up on it.
Yet testing positive is what is being called a ‘case’ (a word that usually applies people who are obviously sick) and the rise in so-called ‘cases’ is being used as the rationale for abusive and absurd lockdowns in Melbourne (where this writer lives).
Worse, most of the population has believed the propaganda and is more than willing to turn on any fellow citizens who have a different view, demonising them as ‘so selfish’ and cheering when they are subjected to fines of tens of thousands of dollars.
Meanwhile, the number of serious and critical patients (which should be the real definition of a ‘case’) has not risen above 70 in Australia since the pandemic scare started – in a population of 24 million. The per capita deaths are about 26 per million over a six month period, a fraction of the toll in other countries.
Worse, the same dodgy practices about causes of death have been followed in Australia as happened elsewhere. The chief health officer in Victoria admitted that they were not testing for the virus, just assuming that if there were flu-like symptom it must be COVID-19. Deaths by flu in Australia, it should be added, are running unusually low.
The blood tests are even worse. The Doherty Institute has tested about half a dozen of the serological (blood) tests and concluded in each case:
Overall, our findings continue to support recent position statements by the Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) and the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia (RCPA) that serological assays have limited, if any, role in the diagnosis of acute COVID-19 infection.”
This conclusion has been replicated elsewhere. Beaumont Health in Michigan ran a longitudinal study, starting in mid-April, which was supposed to look at the rates of infection in health workers exposed to the virus. It was based on large scale serological testing.
So what did the study’s conclusion (which was not easy to locate):
Higher quality clinical studies assessing the diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19 are urgently needed. Currently, available evidence does not support the continued use of existing point-of-care serological tests.”
Same result: the blood tests are useless. You have to wonder why. The first explanation that comes to mind is that they don’t have the information they need about the virus to reliably test for its existence.
The Doherty Institute in its test of a Chinese PCR kit used an artificially created virus. Why are they creating it artificially?
There are some serious questions to be answered here but the Australian so-called journalists are, with some exceptions, not of a mind to ask any of them. They are too busy generating traffic by scaring people. So they mindlessly parrot the politicians’ and health advisor’s reasons for turning Victoria into a medical police state.
In Melbourne there are lockdowns between 8 pm and 5 am, people being sent to jail for not wearing masks, police patrolling public places to ensure the health officer’s dictates are being followed, violently if necessary, and other outrages.
The premier, Daniel Andrews wants to extend the state of emergency for another 12 months so he can hand all decisions over to the Chief Health Officer and claim he is doing the right thing.
Both the politicians and the mainstream media quack endlessly about ‘evidence-based policy’ and ‘following the science’. That is a lie.
They are relying on tests that, by the government’s own admission, are not reliable. This is not conflicting views amongst ‘experts’. This is the government itself. It is an extraordinary scandal and if there was a functioning media, the government would be exposed for gross incompetence and political aggression.
Victorian citizens who try to organise peaceful protests are being arrested in their homes and charged with ‘incitement’, whatever that means. The police have descended into total hypocrisy.
David James has been a business and finance journalist, editor, and satirical columnist for over 30 years. He has PhD in English Literature and his web site is bardbitesback.com