offguardian--2020-04-20--Coronavirus Lockdown and What You Are Not Being Told – Part 2

In Part 1 we looked at the reasons why questioning the coronavirus lockdown , despite the ever present allegation , does not demonstrate a callous disregard for human life .
We are going to expand on why it doesn ’ t in this article .
I am based in the UK so much of this discussion relates to the decisions of the British State , but this is a global policy agenda and similar policies are found across the developed world .
Effectively a small group of policy decision makers have placed an estimated 3.5 billion people under house arrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do so with our consent .
Consent is carefully cultivated by controlling the information we are given .
For the vast majority their only source of information is the corporate mainstream media ( MSM ) and the public announcements of the State .
This article is written , as ever , in the hope people will do their own research and make up their own minds .
We are going to look at the evidence which strongly suggests the State and the MSM , adhering to a globalist agenda , have colluded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID 19 ( C19 ) threat is far greater than it actually is .
C19 can be fatal for those with pre-existing comorbidities , and possibly even some without , as can other forms of pneumonia and influenza-like respiratory illness .
However , while every C19 death has been reported , none of the far greater number of people who have died in the UK this year from other respiratory infections have even been mentioned .
Systems have been created to ensure the C19 statistics are as terrifying as possible .
Their statistical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meaningless .
It seems we have been inculcated with misplaced fear to justify the lockdown regime , to convince us to accept it and prepare us for what is to come .
I apologise for the article ’ s length but I hope you will read it in its entirety .
There ’ s a lot of ground to cover , so please grab a coffee before we begin .
The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) is financed through a combination of assessed and voluntary contributions .
Assessed contributions are paid by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are released quarterly .
Voluntary contributions are additional contributions from member states and “ other partners.
” For some reason these figures haven ’ t been reported for more than three years .
About 80 % of the WHO ’ s finances come from voluntary contributions .
In its most recent 2017 voluntary contribution report the WHO accounted for the $ 2.1 billion it received from private foundations and global corporations .
This compared to just over $ 1 billion voluntarily provided by governments .
Contributors included GlaxoSmithKline , Bayer AG , Sanofi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remdesivir is currently being trialled , along side the off patent hydroxychloroquine , as a possible preventative treatment for COVID 19 .
The remdesivir trial is part of the WHO ’ s SOLIDARITY trials .
The third-largest single contributor in 2017 was GAVI .
Formerly called the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization , they contributed nearly $ 134 million .
GAVI are partnered with the WHO , UNICEF , the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank to sell vaccines globally .
The World Bank contributed nearly $ 146 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by some margin , at nearly $ 325 million came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF ) .
Though like many other foundations and corporations , through their various networks of interlinked partnerships , their overall contribution was much higher .
Among other beneficiaries of the BMGF ’ s generosity are the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium ( VIMC ) led by Professor Neil Ferguson .
They are based at Imperial College London and are directly funded by the BMGF and GAVI .
Their objective is to provide statistical data analysis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for them to sell more vaccines .
Prof. Ferguson not only led the team who created the hopelessly inaccurate prediction which the U.S and UK governments based their lockdown regimes upon , he also co-founded the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling who worked with the WHO in 2009 to create ridiculous computer models predicting the H1N1 pandemic .
In 2009 the world went crazy after the WHO declared the H1N1 influenza pandemic .
This resulted in billions being spent on very expensive H1N1 vaccines and antiviral treatments although it turned out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The only people who benefited from pointless vaccines and unnecessary medication were the manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline , Roche and Novartis .
Each of these pharmaceutical corporations were among the largest voluntary contributors to the WHO in 2008/2009 financial year .
With an $ 84 million investment , the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche were the largest single contributor into the WHO ’ s coffers that year .
Luckily , as it turned out , they could afford it because sales of their unnecessary Tamiflu H1N1 medication rocketed to more than £3 billion following the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Which was just a coincidence .
The whole debacle resulted in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe ( PACE ) launching an investigation into the WHO to look into the issue of a “ falsified pandemic.
” During the subsequent hearing the epidemiologist Dr Wolfgang Wodarg said : At the same hearing Professor Dr Ulrich Keil , Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology at the University of Munster , said : Of course nothing came of it because PACE were making allegations against the World Health Organisation .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they make the rules .
Amazingly , probably because no one ever learns anything from history , we all believed the WHO this time .
To imagine these huge investments made by pharmaceutical corporations and private foundations don ’ t buy influence is so naive it barely warrants mention .
The WHO is essentially a policy lobby group for the powerful globalists who own it .
Why an organisation with such significant and clear conflicts of financial interests should be considered a global health authority is anyone ’ s guess .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic .
On 15th March 2020 UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated that vulnerable people would be required to quarantine themselves or self isolate .
The State issued a set of guidelines for avoiding the spread of infection .
On the 16th March UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a statement advising people to practice social distancing , avoid non essential travel and warned that drastic measures may be needed to protect the NHS and the most vulnerable .
On the 18th of March the Director General of the BMGF funded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virtual press conference .
He stated : We are about to discuss why COVID 19 is not an unprecedented threat .
On the 20th of March Boris Johnson ordered the closure of all venues for social gathering , such as pubs , cafes and restaurants .
On March 23rd the UK State legislated for the Coronavirus Act and placed the UK in lockdown .
Just as the WHO and their other partners called on them to do .
The NHS was created to protect us , that ’ s why we pay for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exactly when this relationship flipped on its head .
After years of chronic underfunding by successive governments of all persuasions , interminable mismanagement , savage ideologically driven austerity cuts , crippling Private Finance Initiative debts and increasing privatisation for corporate profit , there is absolutely no reason to believe the State cares about either our health or the NHS .
Every single major health policy and legislative decision , made over the last few decades , clearly demonstrates that it doesn ’ t .
The basic premise , apparently believed by so many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to act to keep us safe is tragically comical .
For us to swallow this tripe we need to be sufficiently terrified to willingly accept the imagined protection of the State .
The MSM has been doing its best to make sure we are and that we do .
The 24 hour fear-porn cycle is a wonder to behold .
Most of this is based upon claims about deaths and stories about desperately overloaded hospitals struggling to cope with the pressure .
Meanwhile , as millions of British people remain under house arrest @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and fondle pads , the data that has been released by official sources doesn ’ t back up any of the tales we have been spun .
This inconvenient truth has been reported by very few in the MSM print media and has been met with deafening silence on our TV ’ s .
Rather , the data has been convincingly spun to tell a story that doesn ’ t stand up to scrutiny .
Evidence of NHS overload is entirely absent .
The State will claim this is thanks to the lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with other serious conditions haven ’ t been treated has alleviated pressure on the NHS .
Unfortunately , the evidence also indicates the lockdown regime is probably killing them in increasing numbers .
Though it seems unlikely the State will claim responsibility for that .
The Financial Times reported that close to half of the UK ’ s hospital beds were empty .
With just 60 % of acute beds occupied this is 30 % less than this time last year .
In the same period last year the NHS was creaking under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prime Minister Theresa May to suggest scrapping NHS targets .
Once again , the State was only concerned with how the figures looked not about people dying on trolleys in corridors .
This year it cares , honest !
During a supposed global pandemic we ’ ve had the lowest ever national A & E attendance .
Manchester hospitals report a 57 % bed occupation rate compared to their average of 94 % .
Most concerning is the huge drop in cardiology patients .
With Heart disease killing more than 40,000 people under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the UK , and with a reported rise in fatalities last year , this prompted Professor John Howarth from North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust to express grave concern .
Indeed , if your world view is supplied by the MSM , deaths from anything other than C19 seem to have become practically irrelevant in the space of a few weeks .
The Health Service journal ( HSJ ) reports that the NHS has four times as many empty beds as normal .
Confirming that more than 40 % of acute beds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the alleged epicentre of the C19 pandemic , that figure is still nearly 29 % .
The much publicised Nightingale temporary hospitals , a mobilisation the MSM were keen to portray as putting the nation on a war footing , which were allegedly required to cope with the surge of C19 patients , aren ’ t necessary .
Of the 1,555 Intensive Care Unit ( ICU ) beds available in London 1,245 are occupied .
So questions must be asked why 19 patients , who presumably needed intensive care , were seemingly moved @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over the Easter weekend .
Contrary to the claimed justification for the lockdown , as many have repeatedly warned , the health consequences of the lockdown regime could far outweigh the risks presented by C19 .
Excess mortality this year is higher than average but reported coronavirus deaths form a smaller part of that bigger picture .
The deputy director of research at the Nuffield Trust Sarah Scobie echoed this concern : Not only is there no evidence that the NHS is even close to struggling to cope with a non-existent surge , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State ’ s lockdown policy are starting to emerge .
When we look at the data on claimed COVID 19 deaths the picture only becomes more alarming .
Everyday , for weeks , the MSM has reported every single UK death which was supposedly due to COVID 19 .
This has been central to their effort to convince us of the severity of the pandemic .
The reporting always supports the State ’ s narrative that the lockdown is necessary .
Under normal circumstances , when someone dies , a person who knows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ member , or someone who was physically close to the person at the time of death , is the qualified informant who can notify the registrar of the circumstances and non medical details of the death .
That is not true for suspected C19 patients .
For them a funeral director , who has almost certainly never met the deceased , can be the qualified informant .
This places far more emphasis on the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death ( MCCD ) as registration can take place without any input from family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the death .
Prior to the Coronavirus Act , the last attending doctor to the deceased had the responsibility to register the death .
However , in the case of suspected C19 deaths , that duty can be discharged by a doctor who has never met the patient .
When an MCCD is completed the medical causes are listed sequentially with the immediate cause of death at the top and the underlying cause of death at the bottom of the list .
For example , heart failure caused by pneumonia stemming from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death as a heart attack and the underlying cause as influenza .
That underlying cause is usually diagnosed through positive test results .
It is crucial to understand that for C19 to be recorded on the MCCD , as the underlying cause of death , there does not need to be any test based diagnosis of the syndrome .
Diagnosis can simply be from observation of symptoms or CT scans .
The guidance to medical practitioners states : Given this seeming lack of clarity , guidance from the Royal College of Pathologists ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ circumstances where C19 is merely believed to be a factor they advise that there is no need for a post mortem .
Post-mortems are not standard procedure and are normally required only where the cause of death is unknown or where the circumstances appear suspicious .
However , the recommendation of the RCP is another part of a systemic approach to C19 deaths which is inexplicably opaque .
Even when a sample test is undertaken to identify C19 , questions remain .
The RT-PCR test commonly used to test for C19 does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is it designed as a diagnostic tool for identifying viruses .
A study from the Department of Microbiology , Queen Mary Hospital , University of Hong Kong found wild variations in RT-PCR accuracy .
It was found to be between 22 % – 80 % reliable depending on how it was applied .
This general unreliability has been confirmed by other studies .
Further studies show clear discrepancies between RT-PCR test results and clinical indication from CT scans .
Most of these studies indicate RT-PCR failure to detect C19 in symptomatic patients , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ When Chinese researchers from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health conducted data analysis of the RT-PCR tests of asymptomatic patients they also found an 80 % false positive rate .
Having passed peer review and publication the paper was subsequently withdrawn for what seem quite bizarre reasons .
It was removed from the scientific literature because it “ depended on theoretical deduction.
” The paper was not testing an experimental hypothesis , it was an epidemiological analysis of the available statistical data .
All such statistical analysis relies upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ withdrawal suggests that all data analysis is now considered to be completely useless .
It seems scientific claims that C19 numbers are underestimated are fine , claims they are overestimated are not .
Either way , whether false negative or false positive , there is plenty of evidence to question the reliability of the RT-PCR test for diagnosing COVID 19 .
The MSM has suggested that enhanced RT-PCR testing can detect the virus SARS-CoV-2 and , in particular , the amount of it in the patient ’ s system , the viral load @ @ @ @ @ @ @ winning scientist who devised PCR , Karry Mullis , speaking about the use of PCR to detect HIV stated : Reported C19 deaths can be registered without a test clearly diagnosing any coronavirus , let alone C19 .
The death can be signed off by a doctor who has never seen the patient and can then be registered by someone who has never met the deceased and was nowhere near them when they died .
Further provision in the Coronavirus Act then allows for the body to be cremated , potentially against the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirmatory autopsy is impossible , though it is unlikely one will be conducted anyway .
To say this raises questions about the official reported statistics is an understatement .
Questions in no way allege either medical malpractice or negligence .
Neither are required for significant confusion to occur because the potential for widespread misreporting of causes of death seems to be a core element of the C19 MCCD process the State has constructed .
At the time of writing The UK is said to have 93,873 cases with 12,107 deaths attributed to C19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are showing a declining trend .
Given the apparent haphazard reliability of tests , strange reporting procedures and oddly relaxed registration requirements , the claimed attribution is pretty weak .
Coupled with the data which shows unusually low hospital admissions , with little to no evidence of the widely anticipated “ surge , ” justification for the State ’ s lockdown of society and the economy appears painfully thin .
The evidence base does not improve when we look at the official data .
The Office of National Statistics ( ONS ) have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ occurred during March 2020 .
In total 3,912 deaths were recorded of which 3,372 ( 86 % ) listed C19 as the underlying cause of death .
Of these , 38 ( 1 % ) were cases where C19 was only suspected as the underlying cause , meaning neither a test nor any clear clinical presentation was observed .
The problem is that the RT-PCR test , supposedly confirming C19 , doesn ’ t tell us much either .
Of the 3,372 deaths recorded with underlying C19 , approximately 3,068 had at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than two .
Not only does the RT-PCR test fail to provide any reliable proof that these people even had C19 the existence of other comorbidities provides further reason to question if the C19 was a contributory factor .
Of the 3,912 people who died , 540 of them merely mentioned C19 on the MCCG with no indication that it contributed to the deaths .
With at least 91 % of patients having comorbidities , there is very little evidence that the people who died with a C19 infection wouldn ’ t have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the deceased is practically identical to standard all cause mortality in the UK .
If C19 is a viral pandemic it is one that behaves like normal mortality .
And yet , despite all this , the MSM reported every one of them to the public as confirmed C19 deaths .
Another , perhaps even more alarming possibility has arisen .
While heart disease accounts for 14 % of C19 comorbidities , reported deaths from heart disease have mysteriously dropped by the corresponding amount during the same period .
This clearly indicates that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as heart failure , are being recorded , and certainly reported by the MSM , as dying from C19 .
This illustrates a far more complex picture than we have been given to believe .
Why have the State and the MSM made so many alarming claims about people dying from C19 when the evidence supporting those claims is , at best , questionable ?
None of this is the fault of medical practitioners or bodies like the Office Of National Statistics ( ONS ) .
The ONS system has been both reliable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ once again , in the case of C19 deaths , the State felt it was necessary to make some changes .
On the March 30th the MSM reported that the UK State had instructed the ONS to change the way they record C19 deaths .
Explaining the change to recording “ mentions ” of COVID 19 an unnamed spokesperson for the ONS said : This habit of states deciding to change the C19 mortality data , by adding in people who are assumed to have died from it , appears to be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same and the U.S have just added a significant number to their statistics .
In every case the revision increases and never decreases the fatality statistics .
Why do states around the world feel the need to do this ?
Is it because they are concerned about statistical rigour or are they more concerned about justifying their lockdown regimes ?
The ONS reported all cause mortality for week 14 ending April 3rd .
They recorded 16,387 deaths which was 6,082 higher than the ONS 5 year average .
They stated that 21.2 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid 19 .
The MSM immediately pounced on this claiming this meant COVID 19 had pushed up the death toll to unprecedented levels .
This was outrageous disinformation .
That is not what the data showed .
The ONS stated that of the 6,082 excess deaths 3,475 “ mentioned ” coronavirus .
Of those 1,466 also mentioned influenza and pneumonia .
Consequently , while registered deaths are 6,082 above the 5 year average , only 2009 of those solely mentioned C19 with 4,073 mentioning other underlying causes .
It is worth remembering only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a clear positive test result .
Therefore , at least 67 % of that excess mortality is being caused by other unknown factors that no one seems to care about .
The MSM have absolutely no interests at all in this more severe health crisis .
Why not ?
Once again they have completely misled the public and deny the existence of another , more significant reason for concern .
Perhaps anticipating this the ONS stated : “ Influenza and Pneumonia ” has been included for comparison , as a well-understood cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ likely to have somewhat similar risk factors to COVID-19.
” Short of openly stating that C19 is no more deadly than any other pneumonia like illnesses , the ONS appear to be trying to get a message across .
Perhaps they can ’ t say it directly .
As the so called pandemic has progressed more in depth studies have begun to emerge .
Initial findings from Chinese scientists indicate that SARS-CoV-2 has an infection fatality rate ( IFR ) of between 0.04 % and 0.12 % .
which is comparable to flu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % .
None of these have required a lockdown regime .
Further studies have highlighted the overestimated risk allegedly presented by SARS-CoV-2 .
[ Including a new study released just yesterday – ed . ]
For the year to date , the ONS showed a comparison of the deaths mentioning C19 and deaths mentioning pneumonia and Influenza .
Deaths this year from pneumonia and influenza appear to stand at around 30,000 .
Quite clearly , according to the ONS , other respiratory infections , like pneumonia and influenza , currently pose a significantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Something is certainly pushing up mortality in the UK but , at the very most , only 33 % of that increase is vaguely attributable to C19 .
The MSM have recently started floating the idea that the lockdown regime could become the new normal .
According to the State it may be necessary to go in an out of various levels of the regime from time to time , depending on the State ’ s threat assessment .
This is based on scientific research bought and paid for by pharmaceutical corporations @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trust ) .
Seeing as it is increasingly evident that the C19 threat has been massively over-hyped , why would the State and its globalist partners want the economic destruction to continue ?
Firstly it delivers on a number of long held globalist objectives .
A cashless society , mandatory vaccination , universal basic income , a surveillance state , restricted freedom of movement and a complete restructuring of the global economy have already been touted as necessary following the “ pandemic.
” All of these ambitions and economic realities existed before the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State has already moved towards censoring anyone who questions vaccines .
It is vital to understand that the canard of the antivaxxer is a meaningless trope .
It is entirely possible to accept that vaccines can contribute towards effective preventative public health programs while , at the same time , questioning the efficacy and purpose of some vaccines .
Vaccines are not all the same .
The State ’ s and the MSM ’ s insistence that anyone who question any vaccines is some sort of whacked out , new age , science @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be permitted to question vaccines , and that fact alone should be sufficient to raise anyone ’ s suspicion .
From GAVI to the WHO and from the BMGF to Imperial College the response to the C19 pandemic has been driven by foundations and pharmaceutical corporations with considerable investments in vaccine development .
Of course they would like to see global mandatory vaccination .
To just ignore this , because you ’ ve been told by the MSM that questioning any vaccine is a “ conspiracy theory ” , not only evidences @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a degree of brainwashing .
Global financial institutions , such as the IMF , have been advocating the cashless society for years .
A cashless society will allow central banks to control every aspect of your life .
Everything you buy can be tracked and your purchases could easily be limited to exclude certain items .
Although there is very little evidence that handling cash presents any increased threat of infection that hasn ’ t stopped the MSM from selling the idea .
The impact of the lockdown regime across the globe has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ All the indicators are that the regime will throw the global economy into a deep depression .
The longer it continues the worse it will get .
The tendency of some to claim this doesn ’ t matter because saving life is the only concern is hopelessly myopic .
The link between poverty and significantly increased mortality is beyond dispute .
The cure will definitely be far worse than the disease .
As millions are forced into unemployment the outlook isn ’ t good .
However , while the State will undoubtedly claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ C19 crisis , in truth the imminent economic collapse was already driving up unemployment before the crisis began .
This has led to increasing calls for the State to provide a Universal Basic Income .
This will create mass dependency upon the State for huge swathes of the population .
Affording the State immeasurable control over people ’ s lives .
In a cashless society , people who don ’ t behave in accordance with State regulations , could be punished financially .
Instant fines will be commonplace .
We are already seeing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a surveillance society as the State and its compliant MSM put the idea of immunity passports into the public imagination .
The link between this and mandatory vaccination is obvious .
This proposed policy comes straight from the heart of the globalist think tanks .
ID2020 is a globalist initiative which intends to provide everyone on earth with an authorised identity .
GAVI , Microsoft , BMGF and the Rockerfeller Foundation are among the happy ID2020 alliance who will decide who you are allowed to be .
Comically they claim that proving who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a human right .
This is utter bilge .
I don ’ t know about you , but I know who I am and so do the people I care about .
I couldn ’ t care less who the State thinks I am .
Like everyone else on Earth you were born with inalienable human rights .
The State doesn ’ t define what they are , they just choose to ignore them .
ID2020 is in no way objective .
Your digital biometric ID can be “ good ” which means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bill Gates and Rockerfellers are among those who state : Which means you can ’ t if its “ bad.
” As longs as you are a good citizen , do as you are told , get your mandatory vaccinations and don ’ t step out of line , you can have your rights because megalomaniacs think they are gods who have the power to allow or deny them .
Your digital ID will control the information you are allowed to access and your immunity passport will almost certainly be part of your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something indistinguishable from China ’ s social credit system .
It will be used to monitor your behaviour .
Your immunity passport status will depend upon where you go and who with .
The State has decided that we all need contact tracing apps to regulate who we meet and limit our freedom of movement .
If you meet the wrong person or go to the wrong area , or perhaps fail to produce your authorisation Q-code on demand , then you will be locked down .
Perhaps the biggest deception of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manoeuvres to blame the C19 for the economic collapse .
Firstly , it isn ’ t C19 but rather the lockdown regime that has sped up destruction of the economy , but that destruction was inevitable anyway .
The 2008 credit crunch was a failure of the banks .
They speculated in the markets and lost .
As a result we have endured a decade of austerity to bail them out .
Socialism only applies to those who can afford it .
Austerity has reduced essential public services to rubble , and now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we ’ ve all been placed under house arrest to stop us using them while many of the most vulnerable have been ignored .
The irony is laughable .
While we ’ ve all suffered austerity , the central banks have been printing funny money , blowing up the debt bubble to unimaginable proportions .
The result has been increasing consumer debt , staggering levels of corporate borrowing and , though government deficits have reduced , government debt is off the charts , even in comparison to 2010 levels .
This kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global financiers have known it for years .
What the globalists needed was a reason to reset the economy without losing power .
Perhaps it is another coincidence that the C19 lockdown regime just happens to deliver both the mechanism and the excuse to press that global reset button .
That it also ushers in all the globalist ’ s desires is just another in a very long line of remarkable coincidences .
Now that global terrorism is no longer a daily threat and global warming has been put on the back burner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shifting threat from pandemic seems to be the novel war on terror .
Training , funding and equipping terrorist groups has served the State well in the first two decades of the 21st century but now it is ready to move on to the next phase by exploiting a terror closer to the heart of every home .
Disease .
In their totality , for those willing to look , it is transparent that these response measures have coalesced to create the framework for a totalitarian dictatorship .
One rolling out at pace @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have sprung up across the globe .
A coordinated global effort like this doesn ’ t just happen .
It takes years of training and planning .
The only people who can ’ t see it are those who , for whatever reason , choose not to .

In Part 1 we looked at the reasons why questioning the coronavirus lockdown, despite the ever present allegation, does not demonstrate a callous disregard for human life. We are going to expand on why it doesn’t in this article.
I am based in the UK so much of this discussion relates to the decisions of the British State, but this is a global policy agenda and similar policies are found across the developed world. Effectively a small group of policy decision makers have placed an estimated 3.5 billion people under house arrest. It is only possible for them to do so with our consent. Consent is carefully cultivated by controlling the information we are given.
For the vast majority their only source of information is the corporate mainstream media (MSM) and the public announcements of the State. This article is written, as ever, in the hope people will do their own research and make up their own minds.
We are going to look at the evidence which strongly suggests the State and the MSM, adhering to a globalist agenda, have colluded to mislead the public into believing the COVID 19 (C19) threat is far greater than it actually is.
C19 can be fatal for those with pre-existing comorbidities, and possibly even some without, as can other forms of pneumonia and influenza-like respiratory illness. However, while every C19 death has been reported, none of the far greater number of people who have died in the UK this year from other respiratory infections have even been mentioned.
Systems have been created to ensure the C19 statistics are as terrifying as possible. Their statistical product is so vague it borders upon meaningless. It seems we have been inculcated with misplaced fear to justify the lockdown regime, to convince us to accept it and prepare us for what is to come.
I apologise for the article’s length but I hope you will read it in its entirety. There’s a lot of ground to cover, so please grab a coffee before we begin.
Lockdown Advised By WHO?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is financed through a combination of assessed and voluntary contributions.
Assessed contributions are paid by nation states for WHO membership and figures are released quarterly.
Voluntary contributions are additional contributions from member states and “other partners.” For some reason these figures haven’t been reported for more than three years.
About 80% of the WHO’s finances come from voluntary contributions.
In its most recent 2017 voluntary contribution report the WHO accounted for the $2.1 billion it received from private foundations and global corporations.
This compared to just over $1 billion voluntarily provided by governments.
Contributors included GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer AG, Sanofi, Merck and Gilead Sciences whose drug remdesivir is currently being trialled, along side the off patent hydroxychloroquine, as a possible preventative treatment for COVID 19.
The remdesivir trial is part of the WHO’s SOLIDARITY trials.
The third-largest single contributor in 2017 was GAVI. Formerly called the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, they contributed nearly $134 million. GAVI are partnered with the WHO, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank to sell vaccines globally.
The World Bank contributed nearly $146 million themselves and the largest individual payment, by some margin, at nearly $325 million came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Though like many other foundations and corporations, through their various networks of interlinked partnerships, their overall contribution was much higher.
Among other beneficiaries of the BMGF’s generosity are the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC) led by Professor Neil Ferguson. They are based at Imperial College London and are directly funded by the BMGF and GAVI. Their objective is to provide statistical data analysis for the BMGF and GAVI in order for them to sell more vaccines.
Prof. Ferguson not only led the team who created the hopelessly inaccurate prediction which the U.S and UK governments based their lockdown regimes upon, he also co-founded the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling who worked with the WHO in 2009 to create ridiculous computer models predicting the H1N1 pandemic.
In 2009 the world went crazy after the WHO declared the H1N1 influenza pandemic. This resulted in billions being spent on very expensive H1N1 vaccines and antiviral treatments although it turned out the pandemic was indistinguishable from seasonal flu.
The only people who benefited from pointless vaccines and unnecessary medication were the manufacturers GlaxoSmithKline, Roche and Novartis. Each of these pharmaceutical corporations were among the largest voluntary contributors to the WHO in 2008/2009 financial year.
With an $84 million investment, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche were the largest single contributor into the WHO’s coffers that year. Luckily, as it turned out, they could afford it because sales of their unnecessary Tamiflu H1N1 medication rocketed to more than £3 billion following the WHO’s declared H1N1 pandemic. Which was just a coincidence.
The whole debacle resulted in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) launching an investigation into the WHO to look into the issue of a “falsified pandemic.” During the subsequent hearing the epidemiologist Dr Wolfgang Wodarg said:
The WHO basically held the trigger for the pandemic preparedness plans, they had a key role to play in deciding on the pandemic. Around 18 billion dollars was spent on this pandemic worldwide. Millions were vaccinated for no good reason. It is not even clear that the vaccine had a positive effect, because it was not clinically tested.”
At the same hearing Professor Dr Ulrich Keil, Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Epidemiology at the University of Munster, said:
A number of scientists and others are questioning the decision of the WHO to declare an international pandemic. The H1N1 virus is not a new virus, but has been known to us for decades […] In Germany, about 10,000 deaths are attributed to seasonal ‘flu, especially among older and frail people. Only a very small number of deaths, namely 187, can be attributed to the H1N1 virus in Germany – and many of those are dubious.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Of course nothing came of it because PACE were making allegations against the World Health Organisation. The WHO don’t break the rules, they make the rules. Amazingly, probably because no one ever learns anything from history, we all believed the WHO this time.
To imagine these huge investments made by pharmaceutical corporations and private foundations don’t buy influence is so naive it barely warrants mention. The WHO is essentially a policy lobby group for the powerful globalists who own it. Why an organisation with such significant and clear conflicts of financial interests should be considered a global health authority is anyone’s guess.
On the 11th March the WHO declared the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. On 15th March 2020 UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated that vulnerable people would be required to quarantine themselves or self isolate.
The State issued a set of guidelines for avoiding the spread of infection. On the 16th March UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued a statement advising people to practice social distancing, avoid non essential travel and warned that drastic measures may be needed to protect the NHS and the most vulnerable.
On the 18th of March the Director General of the BMGF funded WHO Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave a virtual press conference. He stated:
WHO continues to call on all countries to implement a comprehensive approach with the aim of slowing down transmission and flattening the curve. This approach is saving lives and buying time for the development of vaccines and treatments. As you know, the first vaccine trial has begun……This virus is presenting us with an unprecedented threat”
We are about to discuss why COVID 19 is not an unprecedented threat. On the 20th of March Boris Johnson ordered the closure of all venues for social gathering, such as pubs, cafes and restaurants. On March 23rd the UK State legislated for the Coronavirus Act and placed the UK in lockdown. Just as the WHO and their other partners called on them to do.
Lockdown To Protect the NHS
The NHS was created to protect us, that’s why we pay for it. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when this relationship flipped on its head.
After years of chronic underfunding by successive governments of all persuasions, interminable mismanagement, savage ideologically driven austerity cuts, crippling Private Finance Initiative debts and increasing privatisation for corporate profit, there is absolutely no reason to believe the State cares about either our health or the NHS.
Every single major health policy and legislative decision, made over the last few decades, clearly demonstrates that it doesn’t.
The basic premise, apparently believed by so many, that the State has now decided to act to keep us safe is tragically comical. For us to swallow this tripe we need to be sufficiently terrified to willingly accept the imagined protection of the State. The MSM has been doing its best to make sure we are and that we do. The 24 hour fear-porn cycle is a wonder to behold.
NHS dance routines are a sensation
Most of this is based upon claims about deaths and stories about desperately overloaded hospitals struggling to cope with the pressure. Meanwhile, as millions of British people remain under house arrest, glued to their TV’s and fondle pads, the data that has been released by official sources doesn’t back up any of the tales we have been spun.
This inconvenient truth has been reported by very few in the MSM print media and has been met with deafening silence on our TV’s. Rather, the data has been convincingly spun to tell a story that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Evidence of NHS overload is entirely absent. The State will claim this is thanks to the lockdown regime. Certainly the fact that people with other serious conditions haven’t been treated has alleviated pressure on the NHS. Unfortunately, the evidence also indicates the lockdown regime is probably killing them in increasing numbers. Though it seems unlikely the State will claim responsibility for that.
The Financial Times reported that close to half of the UK’s hospital beds were empty. With just 60% of acute beds occupied this is 30% less than this time last year.
In the same period last year the NHS was creaking under the pressure of demand, prompting then Prime Minister Theresa May to suggest scrapping NHS targets. Once again, the State was only concerned with how the figures looked not about people dying on trolleys in corridors. This year it cares, honest!
During a supposed global pandemic we’ve had the lowest ever national A&E attendance. Manchester hospitals report a 57% bed occupation rate compared to their average of 94%.
Most concerning is the huge drop in cardiology patients. With Heart disease killing more than 40,000 people under the age of 75 every year in the UK, and with a reported rise in fatalities last year, this prompted Professor John Howarth from North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust to express grave concern.
“I am really worried that people are not seeking the help they need for important conditions other than Covid-19.”
Nightingales – empty!
Indeed, if your world view is supplied by the MSM, deaths from anything other than C19 seem to have become practically irrelevant in the space of a few weeks. The Health Service journal (HSJ) reports that the NHS has four times as many empty beds as normal. Confirming that more than 40% of acute beds are unoccupied.
Even in London, the alleged epicentre of the C19 pandemic, that figure is still nearly 29%.
The much publicised Nightingale temporary hospitals, a mobilisation the MSM were keen to portray as putting the nation on a war footing, which were allegedly required to cope with the surge of C19 patients, aren’t necessary.
Of the 1,555 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds available in London 1,245 are occupied. So questions must be asked why 19 patients, who presumably needed intensive care, were seemingly moved unnecessarily into the 4,000 bed London Nightingale over the Easter weekend.
Contrary to the claimed justification for the lockdown, as many have repeatedly warned, the health consequences of the lockdown regime could far outweigh the risks presented by C19.
Excess mortality this year is higher than average but reported coronavirus deaths form a smaller part of that bigger picture.
The HSJ reported a senior NHS sources who stated:
There could be some very serious unintended consequences. While there will be a lot of covid-19 fatalities, we could end up losing more ‘years of life’ because of fatalities relating to non-covid-19 health complications.”
The deputy director of research at the Nuffield Trust Sarah Scobie echoed this concern:
The PHE [Public Health England] data suggests there could be significant problems already developing for heart disease related conditions patients, for example. Attendances relating to myocardial infarction at emergency departments have dropped right down, whereas ambulance calls in relation to chest pain have gone right up.”
Not only is there no evidence that the NHS is even close to struggling to cope with a non-existent surge, the likely severe health consequences of the State’s lockdown policy are starting to emerge. When we look at the data on claimed COVID 19 deaths the picture only becomes more alarming.
Lockdown & Reported Deaths
Everyday, for weeks, the MSM has reported every single UK death which was supposedly due to COVID 19. This has been central to their effort to convince us of the severity of the pandemic. The reporting always supports the State’s narrative that the lockdown is necessary.
Under normal circumstances, when someone dies, a person who knows them well, such as a family member, or someone who was physically close to the person at the time of death, is the qualified informant who can notify the registrar of the circumstances and non medical details of the death.
That is not true for suspected C19 patients. For them a funeral director, who has almost certainly never met the deceased, can be the qualified informant. This places far more emphasis on the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death (MCCD) as registration can take place without any input from family or anyone else familiar with the circumstances of the death.
Prior to the Coronavirus Act, the last attending doctor to the deceased had the responsibility to register the death. However, in the case of suspected C19 deaths, that duty can be discharged by a doctor who has never met the patient.
The UK State guidance for C19 patients states:
A doctor who attended the deceased during their last illness has a legal responsibility to complete a MCCD….. this duty may be discharged through another doctor who may complete an MCCD in an emergency period….In an emergency period, any doctor can complete the MCCD….For the purposes of the emergency period, the attendance may be in person, via video/visual consultation, but not audio (e.g. via telephone)….Where the certifying doctor has not seen the deceased before death they should delete the words last seen alive by me on.
When an MCCD is completed the medical causes are listed sequentially with the immediate cause of death at the top and the underlying cause of death at the bottom of the list. For example, heart failure caused by pneumonia stemming from influenza would list the immediate cause of death as a heart attack and the underlying cause as influenza. That underlying cause is usually diagnosed through positive test results.
It is crucial to understand that for C19 to be recorded on the MCCD, as the underlying cause of death, there does not need to be any test based diagnosis of the syndrome. Diagnosis can simply be from observation of symptoms or CT scans. The guidance to medical practitioners states:
if before death the patient had symptoms typical of COVID 19 infection, but the test result has not been received, it would be satisfactory to give ‘COVID-19’ as the cause of death, tick Box B and then share the test result when it becomes available. In the circumstances of there being no swab, it is satisfactory to apply clinical judgement.
Given this seeming lack of clarity, guidance from the Royal College of Pathologists (RCP) is also concerning.
In circumstances where C19 is merely believed to be a factor they advise that there is no need for a post mortem.
If a death is believed to be due to confirmed COVID-19 infection, there is unlikely to be any need for a post-mortem examination to be conducted and the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death should be issued.”
Karry Mullis
Post-mortems are not standard procedure and are normally required only where the cause of death is unknown or where the circumstances appear suspicious. However, the recommendation of the RCP is another part of a systemic approach to C19 deaths which is inexplicably opaque.
Even when a sample test is undertaken to identify C19, questions remain. The RT-PCR test commonly used to test for C19 does not appear to be very reliable, nor is it designed as a diagnostic tool for identifying viruses.
A study from the Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong found wild variations in RT-PCR accuracy. It was found to be between 22% – 80% reliable depending on how it was applied. This general unreliability has been confirmed by other studies. Further studies show clear discrepancies between RT-PCR test results and clinical indication from CT scans.
Most of these studies indicate RT-PCR failure to detect C19 in symptomatic patients, so-called “false negative” tests. When Chinese researchers from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health conducted data analysis of the RT-PCR tests of asymptomatic patients they also found an 80% false positive rate.
Having passed peer review and publication the paper was subsequently withdrawn for what seem quite bizarre reasons. It was removed from the scientific literature because it “depended on theoretical deduction.” The paper was not testing an experimental hypothesis, it was an epidemiological analysis of the available statistical data. All such statistical analysis relies upon theoretical deduction. The claimed reason for withdrawal suggests that all data analysis is now considered to be completely useless.
It seems scientific claims that C19 numbers are underestimated are fine, claims they are overestimated are not. Either way, whether false negative or false positive, there is plenty of evidence to question the reliability of the RT-PCR test for diagnosing COVID 19.
The MSM has suggested that enhanced RT-PCR testing can detect the virus SARS-CoV-2 and, in particular, the amount of it in the patient’s system, the viral load. This is disinformation.
The Nobel winning scientist who devised PCR, Karry Mullis, speaking about the use of PCR to detect HIV stated:
Quantitative PCR is an oxymoron. PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers [viral load]…These tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all…The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.”
Reported C19 deaths can be registered without a test clearly diagnosing any coronavirus, let alone C19. The death can be signed off by a doctor who has never seen the patient and can then be registered by someone who has never met the deceased and was nowhere near them when they died.
Further provision in the Coronavirus Act then allows for the body to be cremated, potentially against the family’s wishes, ensuring a confirmatory autopsy is impossible, though it is unlikely one will be conducted anyway.
To say this raises questions about the official reported statistics is an understatement. Questions in no way allege either medical malpractice or negligence. Neither are required for significant confusion to occur because the potential for widespread misreporting of causes of death seems to be a core element of the C19 MCCD process the State has constructed.
Lockdown the Data
At the time of writing The UK is said to have 93,873 cases with 12,107 deaths attributed to C19. Both the infection and mortality rates are showing a declining trend.
Given the apparent haphazard reliability of tests, strange reporting procedures and oddly relaxed registration requirements, the claimed attribution is pretty weak.
Coupled with the data which shows unusually low hospital admissions, with little to no evidence of the widely anticipated “surge,” justification for the State’s lockdown of society and the economy appears painfully thin. The evidence base does not improve when we look at the official data.
ONS Data
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have released analysis of the C19 deaths that occurred during March 2020.
In total 3,912 deaths were recorded of which 3,372 (86%) listed C19 as the underlying cause of death. Of these, 38 (1%) were cases where C19 was only suspected as the underlying cause, meaning neither a test nor any clear clinical presentation was observed. The problem is that the RT-PCR test, supposedly confirming C19, doesn’t tell us much either.
Of the 3,372 deaths recorded with underlying C19, approximately 3,068 had at least one comorbidity with the majority having more than two. Not only does the RT-PCR test fail to provide any reliable proof that these people even had C19 the existence of other comorbidities provides further reason to question if the C19 was a contributory factor.
Of the 3,912 people who died, 540 of them merely mentioned C19 on the MCCG with no indication that it contributed to the deaths. With at least 91% of patients having comorbidities, there is very little evidence that the people who died with a C19 infection wouldn’t have died without.
The age profile of the deceased is practically identical to standard all cause mortality in the UK. If C19 is a viral pandemic it is one that behaves like normal mortality.
And yet, despite all this, the MSM reported every one of them to the public as confirmed C19 deaths.
Another, perhaps even more alarming possibility has arisen. While heart disease accounts for 14% of C19 comorbidities, reported deaths from heart disease have mysteriously dropped by the corresponding amount during the same period. This clearly indicates that patients dying from other causes, such as heart failure, are being recorded, and certainly reported by the MSM, as dying from C19.
This illustrates a far more complex picture than we have been given to believe. Why have the State and the MSM made so many alarming claims about people dying from C19 when the evidence supporting those claims is, at best, questionable?
None of this is the fault of medical practitioners or bodies like the Office Of National Statistics (ONS). The ONS system has been both reliable and informative for many years. Yet once again, in the case of C19 deaths, the State felt it was necessary to make some changes.
On the March 30th the MSM reported that the UK State had instructed the ONS to change the way they record C19 deaths. Explaining the change to recording “mentions” of COVID 19 an unnamed spokesperson for the ONS said:
It will be based on mentions of Covid-19 on death certificates. It will include suspected cases of Covid-19 where someone has not been tested positive for Covid-19.”
This habit of states deciding to change the C19 mortality data, by adding in people who are assumed to have died from it, appears to be a global policy. The China CDC did the same and the U.S have just added a significant number to their statistics.
In every case the revision increases and never decreases the fatality statistics. Why do states around the world feel the need to do this? Is it because they are concerned about statistical rigour or are they more concerned about justifying their lockdown regimes?
The ONS reported all cause mortality for week 14 ending April 3rd. They recorded 16,387 deaths which was 6,082 higher than the ONS 5 year average. They stated that 21.2% of total deaths “mentioned” Covid 19. The MSM immediately pounced on this claiming this meant COVID 19 had pushed up the death toll to unprecedented levels. This was outrageous disinformation. That is not what the data showed.
The ONS stated that of the 6,082 excess deaths 3,475 “mentioned” coronavirus. Of those 1,466 also mentioned influenza and pneumonia. Consequently, while registered deaths are 6,082 above the 5 year average, only 2009 of those solely mentioned C19 with 4,073 mentioning other underlying causes. It is worth remembering only C19 deaths can be “mentioned” without a clear positive test result.
Therefore, at least 67% of that excess mortality is being caused by other unknown factors that no one seems to care about. The MSM have absolutely no interests at all in this more severe health crisis. Why not? Once again they have completely misled the public and deny the existence of another, more significant reason for concern. Perhaps anticipating this the ONS stated:
“Influenza and Pneumonia” has been included for comparison, as a well-understood cause of death involving respiratory infection that is likely to have somewhat similar risk factors to COVID-19.”
Short of openly stating that C19 is no more deadly than any other pneumonia like illnesses, the ONS appear to be trying to get a message across. Perhaps they can’t say it directly.
ONS data showing mortality in 2020 comparing C19 to other respiratory illness
As the so called pandemic has progressed more in depth studies have begun to emerge. Initial findings from Chinese scientists indicate that SARS-CoV-2 has an infection fatality rate (IFR) of between 0.04% and 0.12%. which is comparable to flu pandemics with an estimated IFR of 0.1%. None of these have required a lockdown regime.
Further studies have highlighted the overestimated risk allegedly presented by SARS-CoV-2. [Including a new study released just yesterday – ed.]
For the year to date, the ONS showed a comparison of the deaths mentioning C19 and deaths mentioning pneumonia and Influenza. Deaths this year from pneumonia and influenza appear to stand at around 30,000.
Quite clearly, according to the ONS, other respiratory infections, like pneumonia and influenza, currently pose a significantly greater threat to life than COVID 19. Something is certainly pushing up mortality in the UK but, at the very most, only 33% of that increase is vaguely attributable to C19.
Lockdown To Cover A Myriad Of Sins
The MSM have recently started floating the idea that the lockdown regime could become the new normal.
According to the State it may be necessary to go in an out of various levels of the regime from time to time, depending on the State’s threat assessment. This is based on scientific research bought and paid for by pharmaceutical corporations and private foundations including GlaxoSmithKline (Wellcome Trust).
Immunity control citizen
Seeing as it is increasingly evident that the C19 threat has been massively over-hyped, why would the State and its globalist partners want the economic destruction to continue?
Firstly it delivers on a number of long held globalist objectives.
A cashless society, mandatory vaccination, universal basic income, a surveillance state, restricted freedom of movement and a complete restructuring of the global economy have already been touted as necessary following the “pandemic.” All of these ambitions and economic realities existed before the pandemic first emerged in China.
The State has already moved towards censoring anyone who questions vaccines. It is vital to understand that the canard of the antivaxxer is a meaningless trope.
It is entirely possible to accept that vaccines can contribute towards effective preventative public health programs while, at the same time, questioning the efficacy and purpose of some vaccines. Vaccines are not all the same.
The State’s and the MSM’s insistence that anyone who question any vaccines is some sort of whacked out, new age, science Luddite is total nonsense. No one will be permitted to question vaccines, and that fact alone should be sufficient to raise anyone’s suspicion.
From GAVI to the WHO and from the BMGF to Imperial College the response to the C19 pandemic has been driven by foundations and pharmaceutical corporations with considerable investments in vaccine development. Of course they would like to see global mandatory vaccination.
To just ignore this, because you’ve been told by the MSM that questioning any vaccine is a “conspiracy theory”, not only evidences a lack of critical thinking it demonstrates a degree of brainwashing.
Global financial institutions, such as the IMF, have been advocating the cashless society for years. A cashless society will allow central banks to control every aspect of your life.
Everything you buy can be tracked and your purchases could easily be limited to exclude certain items.
Although there is very little evidence that handling cash presents any increased threat of infection that hasn’t stopped the MSM from selling the idea.
The impact of the lockdown regime across the globe has already had a devastating economic impact. All the indicators are that the regime will throw the global economy into a deep depression. The longer it continues the worse it will get.
The tendency of some to claim this doesn’t matter because saving life is the only concern is hopelessly myopic. The link between poverty and significantly increased mortality is beyond dispute. The cure will definitely be far worse than the disease.
As millions are forced into unemployment the outlook isn’t good. However, while the State will undoubtedly claim that unemployment has been caused by the C19 crisis, in truth the imminent economic collapse was already driving up unemployment before the crisis began.
This has led to increasing calls for the State to provide a Universal Basic Income.
This will create mass dependency upon the State for huge swathes of the population. Affording the State immeasurable control over people’s lives. In a cashless society, people who don’t behave in accordance with State regulations, could be punished financially. Instant fines will be commonplace.
We are already seeing how that control can be deployed within a surveillance society as the State and its compliant MSM put the idea of immunity passports into the public imagination.
The link between this and mandatory vaccination is obvious. This proposed policy comes straight from the heart of the globalist think tanks.
ID2020 is a globalist initiative which intends to provide everyone on earth with an authorised identity. GAVI, Microsoft, BMGF and the Rockerfeller Foundation are among the happy ID2020 alliance who will decide who you are allowed to be.
Biometric ID controlled by your friendly ID2020 globalists – Because they care!
Comically they claim that proving who you are to the State is somehow a human right. This is utter bilge. I don’t know about you, but I know who I am and so do the people I care about. I couldn’t care less who the State thinks I am. Like everyone else on Earth you were born with inalienable human rights. The State doesn’t define what they are, they just choose to ignore them.
ID2020 is in no way objective. Your digital biometric ID can be “good” which means it can also be “bad.” Bill Gates and Rockerfellers are among those who state:
With a “good” digital identity you can enjoy your rights to privacy, security, and choice.”
Which means you can’t if its “bad.” As longs as you are a good citizen, do as you are told, get your mandatory vaccinations and don’t step out of line, you can have your rights because megalomaniacs think they are gods who have the power to allow or deny them.
Your digital ID will control the information you are allowed to access and your immunity passport will almost certainly be part of your State authorised identity as we move towards something indistinguishable from China’s social credit system.
It will be used to monitor your behaviour.
Your immunity passport status will depend upon where you go and who with. The State has decided that we all need contact tracing apps to regulate who we meet and limit our freedom of movement.
If you meet the wrong person or go to the wrong area, or perhaps fail to produce your authorisation Q-code on demand, then you will be locked down.
Perhaps the biggest deception of all is yet to come as the State manoeuvres to blame the C19 for the economic collapse.
Firstly, it isn’t C19 but rather the lockdown regime that has sped up destruction of the economy, but that destruction was inevitable anyway. The 2008 credit crunch was a failure of the banks. They speculated in the markets and lost.
As a result we have endured a decade of austerity to bail them out. Socialism only applies to those who can afford it. Austerity has reduced essential public services to rubble, and now, when we supposedly need them most, we’ve all been placed under house arrest to stop us using them while many of the most vulnerable have been ignored. The irony is laughable.
While we’ve all suffered austerity, the central banks have been printing funny money, blowing up the debt bubble to unimaginable proportions.
The result has been increasing consumer debt, staggering levels of corporate borrowing and, though government deficits have reduced, government debt is off the charts, even in comparison to 2010 levels.
This kind of debt-based economy was never sustainable and global financiers have known it for years.
What the globalists needed was a reason to reset the economy without losing power. Perhaps it is another coincidence that the C19 lockdown regime just happens to deliver both the mechanism and the excuse to press that global reset button. That it also ushers in all the globalist’s desires is just another in a very long line of remarkable coincidences.
Now that global terrorism is no longer a daily threat and global warming has been put on the back burner, the new normal of the ever shifting threat from pandemic seems to be the novel war on terror. Training, funding and equipping terrorist groups has served the State well in the first two decades of the 21st century but now it is ready to move on to the next phase by exploiting a terror closer to the heart of every home. Disease.
In their totality, for those willing to look, it is transparent that these response measures have coalesced to create the framework for a totalitarian dictatorship. One rolling out at pace in the UK. Similar draconian diktats have sprung up across the globe.
A coordinated global effort like this doesn’t just happen. It takes years of training and planning. The only people who can’t see it are those who, for whatever reason, choose not to.


offguardian--2020-04-21--WATCH: Kit Knightly on the Corbett  Report; Covid19 & speaking truth to power

Kit Knightly joins James Corbett to discuss the site ’ s ongoing coverage of the corona crisis .
From experts @ @ @ @ @ figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal , today we highlight the work of @ @ @ @ @ to power on the defining event of our age .
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Kit Knightly joins James Corbett to discuss the site’s ongoing coverage of the corona crisis. From experts questioning the panic to death figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal, today we highlight the work of those who are speaking truth to power on the defining event of our age . . . and point out those who are cheering on the out-of-control police state.
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offguardian--2020-04-21--WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #4

WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #4

Dr Ioannidis updates the results of his studies , as well as discussing testing methods and Sweden ’ s approach to the pandemic In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March , Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies , ( including his latest , which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate ) ; the worrisome effects of the lockdown ; the Swedish approach ; the Italian data ; the ups and downs of testing ; the feasibility of “ contact tracing ” , and much more .
The Interviewer : John Kirby is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a feature documentary and series on the major assassinations of the 1960 ’ s and their calamitous impact on the country .
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The Interviewee : Dr Ioannidis is a professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health , as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine , professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences , and co-director of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ METRICS ) at Stanford University .
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Dr Ioannidis updates the results of his studies, as well as discussing testing methods and Sweden’s approach to the pandemic
In this long-awaited follow-up to his interview in late March, Dr. John Ioannidis discusses the results of three preliminary studies, (including his latest, which shows a drastically reduced infection fatality rate); the worrisome effects of the lockdown; the Swedish approach; the Italian data; the ups and downs of testing; the feasibility of “contact tracing”, and much more.
The Interviewer: John Kirby is the director of FOUR DIED TRYING, a feature documentary and series on the major assassinations of the 1960’s and their calamitous impact on the country. To join the struggle for justice for Dr. King, Malcolm X, and John and Robert Kennedy.
The Interviewee: Dr Ioannidis is a professor of medicine and professor of epidemiology and population health, as well as professor by courtesy of biomedical data science at Stanford University School of Medicine, professor by courtesy of statistics at Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, and co-director of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) at Stanford University.
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offguardian--2020-04-22--Six Feet Apart in the Sunshine

Six Feet Apart in the Sunshine

We are in lockdown in Virginia after Governor Ralph Northam closed beaches , book stores , libraries , restaurants , coffees shops , cancelled live music concerts , and ordered churches closed .
He said to not have gatherings of more than 10 people and to practice “ social distancing , ” which I think in this strange world of invisible enemies , threatening us at all times , means staying away from people mostly and staying about 6 feet apart when you are with people .
I am not totally sure , though .
The governor ’ s edict @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s – qualified the 6-feet distance , or “ socially distancing ” recommendation to say that spouses and children and their parents did not have to stay 6 feet apart .
I am a public-school teacher , not in school now , because they are closed , of course .
I love my church , my libraries , bookstores , musicians I go to hear , and getting together with my friends .
Two friends in the last few days have declined walking outside together , even though I said , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if you want to.
” I am not sure why .
Quarantine ?
Just stay home ?
Will walking outside endanger me or others ?
I thought we could gather as long as it ’ s less than 10 people .
Isn ’ t two OK ?
Keeping clarity and a sense of humor is a challenge , while trying to make sense of a morass of fear and language around this virus , which I know may be serious , but which I also think has been surrounded by a lot of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ few anchoring facts that seem reliable – people with the virus have a recovery rate in the high 90 percents , and infection , or testing positive for it , does not mean you will get the disease .
Also , most people who die , who have tested positive , die of other serious causes , though the CDC has misled the public by forcing doctors to say the deaths were caused by the virus rather than saying the truth , which often is that the person died of heart disease , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while they had also had tested positive for Coronavirus .
They died with the virus but not from it .
Some doctors have reminded us that outside in the sunshine is one of the safest places we can be when an illness like this is a worry .
Fear and misinformation have convinced people that inside their homes , in closed rooms , they are safer from this invisible enemy that we are “ at war with , ” according President Trump .
The War on Terror , the War on Drugs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ someone or something .
I am not buying this war any more than I have bought the others .
“ Somewhere behind all wars are a few founding lies , ” wrote Mark Kurlansky in Non-Violence : Twenty-Five Lessons in the History of a Dangerous Idea .
I do not think this “ war ” is much different than others with its early lying and distortions that take hold , take on lives of their own , and manipulate us into group-think and rash actions , like forcing all businesses to close , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lose what they have spent their lives building .
Isolation and loneliness , especially loneliness of the elderly , who can ’ t see their friends , go to the symphony , to book groups , to church – all activities that give life sustenance and meaning ; economic despair , unemployment , exacerbated addictions without the social supports that keep people alive and healthy – all these kill many more people that any virus , I believe .
This is not a “ lockdown , ” as it really is , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or the government ’ s taking our civil liberties , such as practicing our religion at our churches or exercising our right to peaceably assemble .
I do not think the writers of the Constitution wrote that we have the right to peaceably assemble , unless there is a sickness around .
No , this is not lockdown .
As people comply with hardly a word of protest , they are not calling it lockdown ; instead they are not only doing as they are told , they are speaking as they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” or “ staying home ” or “ social distancing.
” These are creepy terms , meant to make government-enforced lockdown sound cozy and good for us .
We are also told that this is the “ new normal.
” Words and phrases like this distort realities , and not for the better , I believe .
This is not normal at all .
Human beings are meant to live in communities .
Research supports that human touch , emotional and physical connection , strengthens immunities and prevents disease .
There are viruses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and some to die , but so much of this so-called pandemic is not adding up .
We are not seeing the deaths from this virus in the context of deaths from other causes , such as cancer , heart disease , obesity , car accidents , domestic violence .
I remain skeptical that the government knows what is good for us after studying other wars and calamities and their precipitating and enabling language and lies .
Lies around the Gulf of Tonkin incident ignited the U.S. war against Viet Nam .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to tell a false story of babies yanked from incubators to whip the U.S. government into the war frenzy of the first Iraq War .
The Weapons of Mass Destruction and “ mushroom cloud ” nonsense , touted by politicians and bureaucrats , sent thousands of Americans to their deaths , destroyed a whole country , and scattered millions as war refugees .
I have mistrusted the media , while continuing to seek alternative , independent-thinking information sources , after almost every major U.S. media outlet championed war against Iraq .
US media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devastation and after the lies were made plain .
I remain skeptical of the government and health bureaucrats when they approved harmful drugs , such as high dosages of estrogen from mare ’ s urine , which scientists knew caused cancer in women , and they approved it anyway .
Women died .
The examples of government deceptions that cause death are numerous .
We must read and talk and listen , and keep thinking .
Now , because the government and its highly paid health and disease bureaucrats told them to , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at Home ” or “ I am Saving Lives by Staying at Home ” signs or even the stronger “ Stay the F Home ” admonition to others and shared them on the Internet .
Language changes have been fascinating and frightening when friends now are scared to walk outside , even in pairs .
My teenage son , whom his dad and I wheeled in a stroller in demonstrations against the U.S. war in Iraq when he was a toddler while a gauntlet of counter-protestors screamed in our faces , today tells @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do farm chores on my friend ’ s farm to help with food production because the government said , “ We have to stay home , ” my son said .
Death has done it this time .
Death and fear and language .
Insidious death .
Unseen .
Phantom death on the TV or computer screens – or even rumored to be there .
We don ’ t even have cable TV in our home , but this fear has infected our home .
The red numbers are out there flashing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people with super white teeth and expensive haircuts talk nonstop .
Bureaucrats and politicians wield language of fear and death – death , like the greenish smoke , snaking by each door in the Charlton Heston movie , The Ten Commandments , my brothers and I watched on TV when we were children .
Maybe our “ Stay at Home ” hashtags will save us like the blood painted in the shape of the cross on the doors in the Charlton Heston movie .
Today a “ news ” station showed a cartoon-colored @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aisle to the cartoon people on the other side .
Over weeks , we have had to look at lines of bright stick people in diagrams multiplying and stacking up , dead presumably , if we did not “ social distance ” because the deaths will rise exponentially .
But even the exponential part is being called into question by health professionals .
On social media today a New York writer , I somehow ended up “ friends ” with , posted an obscure study saying that 6-feet distance is not enough to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was complete with cartoon figures and bright colored virus sprays , clouding the air and making their way to a cartoon runner many feet away .
Oh , brother .
Tell people , like the politicians and bureaucrats are doing , that they may have it , not know it , may not even know how long they have had or will have it .
You could not even be sick and still have it , give it to others .
Reading and listening to so-called news , I could not get a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it and not know it – some said five days , someone else said two weeks or more .
It may be me .
It may be you .
Paranoia abounds .
But , guess what ?
We all have it .
We are all going to die .
This virus , however , has a recovery rate in the high 90 percents .
Most people recover – not in the hospital but at home , I read today contracting it and recovering may build immunity and make us stronger .
Our bodies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are miracles .
How can we miss this in this season of resurrection ?
Because I miss my friends , and I love getting outside in the sunshine , especially before the government closed the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive , even to motorists , I still wanted to better understand Governor ’ s Northam ’ s rules after he closed the beaches and businesses too .
My teenage son is worried I am not following the rules or taking them seriously enough .
I am .
Nothing is open .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I have been making the best of it .
We have planted flowers , moved mulch , cleared brush , had a fire on the deck and made Smores .
I taught him how to thread a needle , how to sew on a button , how to mend a tear , with two different kinds of stitches , as my mother taught me , I taught him to make French toast .
We played Jenga and listened to my 60s and 70s Pandora station .
I do not like lockdown , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sorrow and grief I feel as I hear of friends and acquaintances losing their beloved businesses they have spent their lives building .
And many others do not have the economic privilege to “ work at home ” or not work at all .
I like being free to come and go as I chose while being responsible for my health and caring for the health of others .
When I learned we will likely have to endure this government-mandated lockdown until the end of April at least , I wanted to understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar questions , and I could help .
I called the CDC press line , planning to tell them I was a freelance journalist doing a story on safe practices for outdoors .
I thought I would be able to talk to someone and ask my questions right then , take notes .
Write my story .
I was trying to get a handle on how the 6 feet rule ( or is it guidance ?
, surely not a law ? )
worked with gatherings of 10 people or less – and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Maybe I should call Northam ’ s office with my questions .
I decided to start with the CDC .
I also wanted to tell my son , whom I told him he could walk to a nearby friend ’ s house , and they could walk or play in the neighborhood ( stay apart if they wanted to ) and that the CDC and the governor said that was OK .
I was worried about this health , staying inside so much , and know he misses his friends and is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ my son said no , he didn ’ t want to go outside to meet his friend .
I said , “ Why not ?
” He said , “ You know , quarantine.
” So , I planned to ask the CDC and the governor if it was OK to walk outside with my friend – if one friend was OK , and should we walk 6 feet apart ?
I see people walking in my neighborhood , in pairs and small groups .
I knew people in Walmart were not always @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tape marks on the floor now because maybe because the governor told them to do that .
Surely , outside is healthier than Walmart with all the hands that have touched the bread bags and housewares from China ?
I planned to ask how the 6 feet rule worked with gatherings of less than 10 , which I thought were OK. And how did it work with family members , which the governor and the CDC said were not required to stay 6 feet apart ?
What if you had a cook-out in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , eight people , five family members and three close friends , middle-aged , healthy , not sick ?
Would we have to stay 6 feet apart ?
And what about beaches ?
They are closed , but the governor said not for fishing , and that the beaches could still be used for exercise .
So , can you fish with your spouse or child or friend and not get in trouble ?
Can you walk on the beach with your boyfriend , for exercise , or would you have to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notes ready and planned to start by asking the CDC press office these questions .
But things are different now than they were when I was a reporter 20 years ago and got people on the phone quickly then wrote my story .
The woman who answered the CDC phone said that I would have to complete an online form , listing my name and my questions , and then a press officer would get back to me .
I haven ’ t done that yet .
Maybe I will take a walk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s work has been published in The American Journal of Poetry , New Millennium Writings , Nimrod International , The Virginia Journal of Education , Friends Journal , Sojourners Magazine , English Journal , Amethyst Review , and other publications .
Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Pablo Neruda Prize .

Christine E. Black
We are in lockdown in Virginia after Governor Ralph Northam closed beaches, book stores, libraries, restaurants, coffees shops, cancelled live music concerts, and ordered churches closed.
He said to not have gatherings of more than 10 people and to practice “social distancing,” which I think in this strange world of invisible enemies, threatening us at all times, means staying away from people mostly and staying about 6 feet apart when you are with people. I am not totally sure, though.
The governor’s edict – or maybe it was the CDC’s – qualified the 6-feet distance, or “socially distancing” recommendation to say that spouses and children and their parents did not have to stay 6 feet apart.
I am a public-school teacher, not in school now, because they are closed, of course. I love my church, my libraries, bookstores, musicians I go to hear, and getting together with my friends.
Two friends in the last few days have declined walking outside together, even though I said, “We can walk apart from each other if you want to.” I am not sure why. Quarantine? Just stay home? Will walking outside endanger me or others? I thought we could gather as long as it’s less than 10 people. Isn’t two OK?
Keeping clarity and a sense of humor is a challenge, while trying to make sense of a morass of fear and language around this virus, which I know may be serious, but which I also think has been surrounded by a lot of panic and misinformation. I found a few anchoring facts that seem reliable – people with the virus have a recovery rate in the high 90 percents, and infection, or testing positive for it, does not mean you will get the disease.
Also, most people who die, who have tested positive, die of other serious causes, though the CDC has misled the public by forcing doctors to say the deaths were caused by the virus rather than saying the truth, which often is that the person died of heart disease, diabetes, old age, pneumonia, while they had also had tested positive for Coronavirus. They died with the virus but not from it.
Some doctors have reminded us that outside in the sunshine is one of the safest places we can be when an illness like this is a worry. Fear and misinformation have convinced people that inside their homes, in closed rooms, they are safer from this invisible enemy that we are “at war with,” according President Trump.
The War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the U.S. is always at war with someone or something. I am not buying this war any more than I have bought the others.
“Somewhere behind all wars are a few founding lies,” wrote Mark Kurlansky in Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons in the History of a Dangerous Idea. I do not think this “war” is much different than others with its early lying and distortions that take hold, take on lives of their own, and manipulate us into group-think and rash actions, like forcing all businesses to close, probably causing many small business owners to lose what they have spent their lives building.
Isolation and loneliness, especially loneliness of the elderly, who can’t see their friends, go to the symphony, to book groups, to church – all activities that give life sustenance and meaning; economic despair, unemployment, exacerbated addictions without the social supports that keep people alive and healthy – all these kill many more people that any virus, I believe.
Language viruses infect our culture this spring.
This is not a “lockdown,” as it really is, not government control, as it really is, or the government’s taking our civil liberties, such as practicing our religion at our churches or exercising our right to peaceably assemble.
I do not think the writers of the Constitution wrote that we have the right to peaceably assemble, unless there is a sickness around.
No, this is not lockdown.
As people comply with hardly a word of protest, they are not calling it lockdown; instead they are not only doing as they are told, they are speaking as they are told — “sheltering in place” or “staying home” or “social distancing.” These are creepy terms, meant to make government-enforced lockdown sound cozy and good for us.
We are also told that this is the “new normal.” Words and phrases like this distort realities, and not for the better, I believe. This is not normal at all.
Human beings are meant to live in communities. Research supports that human touch, emotional and physical connection, strengthens immunities and prevents disease. There are viruses that cause people to get sick, and some to die, but so much of this so-called pandemic is not adding up. We are not seeing the deaths from this virus in the context of deaths from other causes, such as cancer, heart disease, obesity, car accidents, domestic violence.
I remain skeptical that the government knows what is good for us after studying other wars and calamities and their precipitating and enabling language and lies. Lies around the Gulf of Tonkin incident ignited the U.S. war against Viet Nam.
The Kuwaiti ambassador’s daughter was told to tell a false story of babies yanked from incubators to whip the U.S. government into the war frenzy of the first Iraq War. The Weapons of Mass Destruction and “mushroom cloud” nonsense, touted by politicians and bureaucrats, sent thousands of Americans to their deaths, destroyed a whole country, and scattered millions as war refugees.
I have mistrusted the media, while continuing to seek alternative, independent-thinking information sources, after almost every major U.S. media outlet championed war against Iraq.
US media outlets never issued formal retractions after that devastation and after the lies were made plain. I remain skeptical of the government and health bureaucrats when they approved harmful drugs, such as high dosages of estrogen from mare’s urine, which scientists knew caused cancer in women, and they approved it anyway. Women died.
The examples of government deceptions that cause death are numerous. We must read and talk and listen, and keep thinking.
Now, because the government and its highly paid health and disease bureaucrats told them to, people put their pictures inside “Stay at Home” or “I am Saving Lives by Staying at Home” signs or even the stronger “Stay the F Home” admonition to others and shared them on the Internet.
Language changes have been fascinating and frightening when friends now are scared to walk outside, even in pairs. My teenage son, whom his dad and I wheeled in a stroller in demonstrations against the U.S. war in Iraq when he was a toddler while a gauntlet of counter-protestors screamed in our faces, today tells me that I shouldn’t drive to do farm chores on my friend’s farm to help with food production because the government said, “We have to stay home,” my son said.
Death has done it this time. Death and fear and language. Insidious death. Unseen. Phantom death on the TV or computer screens – or even rumored to be there. We don’t even have cable TV in our home, but this fear has infected our home.
The red numbers are out there flashing, digits rising, blinking. Attractive people with super white teeth and expensive haircuts talk nonstop. Bureaucrats and politicians wield language of fear and death – death, like the greenish smoke, snaking by each door in the Charlton Heston movie, The Ten Commandments, my brothers and I watched on TV when we were children.
Maybe our “Stay at Home” hashtags will save us like the blood painted in the shape of the cross on the doors in the Charlton Heston movie.
Today a “news” station showed a cartoon-colored virus spray cascading over a barricaded grocery aisle to the cartoon people on the other side. Over weeks, we have had to look at lines of bright stick people in diagrams multiplying and stacking up, dead presumably, if we did not “social distance” because the deaths will rise exponentially. But even the exponential part is being called into question by health professionals.
On social media today a New York writer, I somehow ended up “friends” with, posted an obscure study saying that 6-feet distance is not enough to stay safe while running outside. It was complete with cartoon figures and bright colored virus sprays, clouding the air and making their way to a cartoon runner many feet away. Oh, brother.
Tell people, like the politicians and bureaucrats are doing, that they may have it, not know it, may not even know how long they have had or will have it. You could not even be sick and still have it, give it to others. Reading and listening to so-called news, I could not get a handle on how long you could have it and not know it – some said five days, someone else said two weeks or more. It may be me. It may be you. Paranoia abounds.
But, guess what? We all have it. We are all going to die. This virus, however, has a recovery rate in the high 90 percents. Most people recover – not in the hospital but at home, I read today contracting it and recovering may build immunity and make us stronger. Our bodies – and our lives – are amazing, are miracles. How can we miss this in this season of resurrection?
Because I miss my friends, and I love getting outside in the sunshine, especially before the government closed the Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive, even to motorists, I still wanted to better understand Governor’s Northam’s rules after he closed the beaches and businesses too. My teenage son is worried I am not following the rules or taking them seriously enough. I am. Nothing is open. I only go to the grocery store. I have been making the best of it.
We have planted flowers, moved mulch, cleared brush, had a fire on the deck and made Smores. I taught him how to thread a needle, how to sew on a button, how to mend a tear, with two different kinds of stitches, as my mother taught me, I taught him to make French toast. We played Jenga and listened to my 60s and 70s Pandora station.
I do not like lockdown, however. I do not like the sorrow and grief I feel as I hear of friends and acquaintances losing their beloved businesses they have spent their lives building. And many others do not have the economic privilege to “work at home” or not work at all. I like being free to come and go as I chose while being responsible for my health and caring for the health of others.
When I learned we will likely have to endure this government-mandated lockdown until the end of April at least, I wanted to understand it better. Maybe others were having similar questions, and I could help.
I called the CDC press line, planning to tell them I was a freelance journalist doing a story on safe practices for outdoors.
I thought I would be able to talk to someone and ask my questions right then, take notes. Write my story. I was trying to get a handle on how the 6 feet rule (or is it guidance?, surely not a law?) worked with gatherings of 10 people or less – and how did that work with being outdoors?
Maybe I should call Northam’s office with my questions. I decided to start with the CDC. I also wanted to tell my son, whom I told him he could walk to a nearby friend’s house, and they could walk or play in the neighborhood (stay apart if they wanted to) and that the CDC and the governor said that was OK. I was worried about this health, staying inside so much, and know he misses his friends and is out of the school routine. But my son said no, he didn’t want to go outside to meet his friend. I said, “Why not?” He said, “You know, quarantine.”
So, I planned to ask the CDC and the governor if it was OK to walk outside with my friend – if one friend was OK, and should we walk 6 feet apart? I see people walking in my neighborhood, in pairs and small groups.
I knew people in Walmart were not always 6 feet apart though they have little tape marks on the floor now because maybe because the governor told them to do that.
Surely, outside is healthier than Walmart with all the hands that have touched the bread bags and housewares from China?
I planned to ask how the 6 feet rule worked with gatherings of less than 10, which I thought were OK. And how did it work with family members, which the governor and the CDC said were not required to stay 6 feet apart? What if you had a cook-out in this glorious spring weather with, say, eight people, five family members and three close friends, middle-aged, healthy, not sick?
Would we have to stay 6 feet apart? And what about beaches? They are closed, but the governor said not for fishing, and that the beaches could still be used for exercise. So, can you fish with your spouse or child or friend and not get in trouble? Can you walk on the beach with your boyfriend, for exercise, or would you have to be six feet apart?
I had my notes ready and planned to start by asking the CDC press office these questions. But things are different now than they were when I was a reporter 20 years ago and got people on the phone quickly then wrote my story.
The woman who answered the CDC phone said that I would have to complete an online form, listing my name and my questions, and then a press officer would get back to me.
I haven’t done that yet. Maybe I will take a walk outside instead.
Christine E. Black’s work has been published in The American Journal of Poetry, New Millennium Writings, Nimrod International, The Virginia Journal of Education, Friends Journal, Sojourners Magazine, English Journal, Amethyst Review, and other publications. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Pablo Neruda Prize.