21stcenturywire--2020-04-15--Lockdown Protest in North Carolina Called ‘non-essential activity’ by Raleigh Police

More coronavirus lockdown backlash today , this time in Raleigh , North Carolina , as protesters from the group “ @ @ @ @ @ to Governor Roy Cooper ’ s stay-home order calling it “ an unconstitutional overreach that @ @ @ @ @ s small businesses , ” according to The News & Observer .
At least one @ @ @ @ @ the order – a 51-year-old woman , seen in the video below , who told @ @ @ @ @ right to peacefully assemble , ” as she was taken away .
Watch : Raleigh @ @ @ @ @ is a “ non-essential activity ” : At the time of North Carolina ’ s @ @ @ @ @ took effect in late March , it had already received more than 200,000 unemployment claims @

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More coronavirus lockdown backlash today, this time in Raleigh, North Carolina, as protesters from the group “ReopenNC” rallied in opposition to Governor Roy Cooper’s stay-home order calling it “an unconstitutional overreach that will kill the state’s small businesses,” according to The News & Observer.
At least one protester was charged with violating the order – a 51-year-old woman, seen in the video below, who told police “I have a right to peacefully assemble,” as she was taken away. Watch:
Raleigh police later tweeted that protesting is a “non-essential activity”:
Protesting is a non-essential activity. — Raleigh Police (@raleighpolice) April 14, 2020
ReopenNC’s Facebook group is now approaching 40,000 members.
At the time of North Carolina’s state lockdown order, which took effect in late March, it had already received more than 200,000 unemployment claims.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-15--COVID-19 By Design: Ushering in Automation, A.I. and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

“ The largest economic transformation in the history of mankind.
” The arrogance and brutality of the ruling class – is nothing less than breathtaking .
April 9 2020 , Business Insider : “ Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends , according to former US presidential candidate Andrew Yang ” : “ Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends… ” “ We ’ re going to see something like 10 years of change in 10 weeks… ” “ The fact is right now this virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ get rid of people , bring in robots and machines , and figure out how they can operate more efficiently.
” “ Universal basic income is going to become the topic , not just here in the United States , but Spain ’ s adopting a version of a minimum income .
Legislatures around Europe are all very , very much focused on this.
” “ We ’ re going to see the progressive Amazonification of our economy as Amazon ’ s one of the only businesses out there that ’ s hiring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seeing more robots are in grocery store aisles cleaning after we all supposedly go home… ” “ One thing I ’ ve been saying is that we ’ re going to see something like 10 years of change in 10 weeks , because businesses are being put in a position where it makes sense to speed up a lot of the automation that they were considering investing in.
” “ The fact is right now this virus is the perfect environment for companies to get rid of people , bring in robots and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can operate more efficiently.
” “ My kids are at home just like everyone else ’ s kids and they ’ re getting taught online…they ’ re going to be many , many families that actually make a different determination where they actually say , “ Hey , this online thing is working well.
” “ If you can find a way to , frankly , make yourself useful from afar , that ’ s going to be something that unfortunately we all have to think about more and more.
” “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ actually going to need to be a bit higher than that , because the $ 1,000 a month is enough for baseline needs for at least most of us , but the economy is going to become even more inhuman and punishing , both during this crisis and afterwards.
” “ … I ’ d be looking at something higher than $ 1,000 a month that would be more robust & helping people not just be able to meet their needs , but also have a real path forward.
” “ we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consequences of this crisis for years to come , and we need a Marshal Plan style initiative to rebuild the country… helping create that vision for what America in 2022 , 2023 , is going to look like after we have a vaccine in place.
” March 31 2020 , Business Insider : “ RESTAURANT APOCALYPSE : More than 110,000 restaurants expect to close up forever in the coming weeks , with millions out of work and the industry ’ s future uncertain.
” And while the Amazonification of our economy ploughs full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are pounded into dust , while public services are shut down , opening the door for further privatization .
While prepping the citizenry for coming and required “ certifications ” , the deliberate and violent contraction of the economy continues .
The decimation of small enterprise with monetary wealth directed , again , upward .
McDonald ’ s , Starbucks and Walmart ( “ essential services ” ) remain open while small business is forced to remain closed .
On April 13 2020 , Amazon announced they would hire Amazon will hire an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its soaring volume of online sales .
.
A brilliant idea : We all live on $ 1,000 a month – when Klaus Schwab , Andrew Yang , Bill Gates , Mark Zuckerberg , Elon Musk , Bezos , et al .
– live on $ 1,000 a month .
The rich are dangerous , calculating , insane hypocrites .
April 12 2020 , Business Insider : “ Pope Francis says it might be ‘ time to consider a universal basic wage ’ in Easter letter ” : The Pope ’ s collaboration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bank is deep into social impact investing .
Citizens are on UBI will still require privatized public services – a massive impact market .
[ Source ] Impact investing is predicated on turning people into investments as human capital .
[ Further reading ] Oct 18 2019 , Slate MoneyBox , Andrew Yang Keeps Talking About the Fourth Industrial Revolution .
What the Heck Is That ?
: Jan 31 2019 , Wrench in the Gears , “ Good Guy in Davos ?
Not So Fast ” : March 26 2020 , The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but universal basic income is coming ” : July 31 , 2017 , World Economic Forum , “ We should let the robots take our jobs – and then pay us all a basic income ” : “ As developments in artificial intelligence and robotics advance , there is going to be a severe and swift disruption of many working classes.
” “ UBI , an economic proposition in which a sum of money is regularly paid to a population , could be a vital bulwark against the unintended consequences of automation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profit significantly from workforce automation , so the private sector will be able to afford shouldering this burden , while at the same time still making greater profits.
” “ After all , a full-time human has needs : 30 minutes for lunch each day , vacation and sick time , toilet breaks , and health benefits , to name a few .
Meanwhile , an automated worker would only require an initial installation and the occasional repair or upgrade.
” “ The BCG report stated that a human welder today is paid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ benefits ) versus the equivalent operating cost of around $ 8 for a robot.
” “ In 15 years , that gap will widen even more dramatically , ” the report states .
“ The operating cost per hour for a robot doing similar welding tasks could plunge to as little as $ 2 when performance improvements are factored in.
” “ This trend will only continue to accelerate .
McDonald ’ s , an early pioneer of automation , is already replacing human workers with automated kiosks .
They expect a 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in just the first year ; in 2019 they expect this return to balloon to double digits.
” “ And this is only one sector : PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that 38 % of US jobs will be in danger of being replaced by automation by 2030.
” “ Companies that automate their workforces should be taxed on these new massive profits , and some of the resulting capital given back to workers by the government in the form of UBI.
” “ While the idea of a UBI is popular—Mark Zuckerberg , Elon Musk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it—how exactly would a universal basic income be engineered ?
“ Large swaths of laborers are going to lose their jobs , leading to unprecedented levels of unemployment.
” .
McKinsey places the number of jobs to be replaced by automation at close to 50 % by 2030 .
The COVID-19 virus provides an opportune moment to push the envelope of automation forward .
April 9 2020 : “ Global statistics reported by UNESCO reveal that since the last week of March roughly 1.7 billion students from pre-primary to tertiary education levels are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all enrolled learners and including every student in 188 countries that have mandated nationwide closures .
With most schools set to remain closed through the rest of the current academic year , the scale of these closures is unprecedented in the history of world capitalism.
” April 4 , 2020 : “ This pandemic has optimized the “ testing ” of robots and drones in broad daylight …Zoom ’ s video conferencing platform has detonated in popularity as stay-at-home commands have cleared the globe and some of the credit for having the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to automation… ’ We have automation set up so we can rapidly scale our foundation , the network as well as the compute infrastructure with next to no human intercession ’ … the organization is getting enthusiasm for purchasing robots to clean office spaces , production floors , retail locations , grocery stores , airports , lodgings and cafés.
” [ Source ] March 23 2020 , CNBC , “ Inside the hospital in China where coronavirus patients were treated by robots ” April 7 , 2020 : Morningstar : “ Spain to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Basic Income ” Here it is important to note that also on March 11 , 2020 , the World Economic Forum announced a partnership with the WHO ( a UN agency ) to form the COVID-19 Action Platform – a task-force comprised of over 200 corporations at launch , which as has “ soared to 726 “ , as of March 28 , 2020 .
This is in addition to the World Economic Forum partnership with the United Nations on June 13 , 2019 .
This is the consolidation of global power , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , CNN : “ Grocery stores turn to robots during the coronavirus ” : March 25 2020 , CNN : “ Robots could help us combat future pandemics .
Here ’ s how experts wish they could help us now ” : In addition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 reset , we have the coming “ New Deal For Nature ” to be implemented at years end , or perhaps sooner under the pretext of emergency measures .
The feigned concern for climate and biodiversity by those that serve them , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bullshit .
There is nothing to be found within the Fourth Industrial Revolution dystopia in regard to nature – other than her financialization and objectification .
She too will be placed on the blockchain .
Here , man ’ s arrogance is on full display – with plans to cover the Earth ’ s surface with artificial forests and drone bees , while cordoning off what they have not yet plundered – for their own personal leisure .
“ Coronavirus hysteria provides cover for introducing UBI , a grand theft from the working @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now touting the UBI scam as an “ anti-depressant.
” [ @ cordeliers on Twitter ] April 3 , 2020 , The Wall Street Journal : “ Henry Kissinger – The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order ” : “ While a progressive Basic Income is not on the cards , its free market evil twin is a real and very dangerous possibility .
Under this neoliberal model , an inadequate and dwindling BI payment is provided that absolves low wage employers from the obligation of paying living wages and becomes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in place .
You become a customer shopping in a market place of privatized services .
Who could really deny that this right wing version is much closer to presently unfolding reality than the hopes and dreams of left BI enthusiasts ?
” “ Basic Income , when all is said and done , is a vision for nothing more than the means to be a customer in an unjust society that decides what is for sale.
” “ It ’ s really about the commodification of social provision .
Your payment may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but , as you shop through the privatized remains of the social infrastructure , with inadequate means and very few rights , you are dramatically worse off… … it is sometimes asserted that an adequate system of provision must be put in place simply because we are moving toward a “ workless future.
” In such a society , it is suggested , masses of people who have been displaced will have to be provided for and the capitalists will have to think like Elon Musk , of Tesla Motors and support BI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rational solution .
To imagine such responsible provision for the future is to place undue faith in a system based on the making of profit .
If they won ’ t stop building pipelines in the face of environmental catastrophe , there ’ s little reason to expect them to worry too much about sensible solutions to technological displacement .
There simply is no post-capitalist capitalism and no social policy innovation that is going to bring it about… I am suggesting that our movements need to challenge , rather than come to terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ capitalist system that has produced it .
For all its claims to be a sweeping measure , the notion of progressive BI is a futile attempt to make peace with that system .
In reality , even that compromise is not available .
The model of BI that governments are working on in their social policy laboratories will not ‘ end the tyranny of the labour market ’ but render it more dreadful .
The agenda of austerity and privatization requires a system of income support that renders people as powerless and desperate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and that won ’ t change if it is relabelled as “ Basic Income ” .
” When we all start to literally starve ( some already have , and many more have been for decades ) , perhaps then – we will eat the rich .
The question is this ?
Do you still believe that these people actually give a flying fuck about your health ?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution can not come into fruition without the 5G infrastructure that will run the Internet of Things .
“ Smart ” cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ global policing and the military industrial complex .
Cybersecurity will be the battle space of the twenty-first century .
The future , is now on our doorstep : All “ human capital ” is to be controlled “ via digital identity systems tied to cashless benefit payments within the context of a militarized 5G / IoT [ Internet of Things ] / AR [ augmented reality ] environment .
The billionaire class has built & is rapidly putting the finishing touches on infrastructure to run human capital social impact markets that will securitize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ streams .
The tech that underlies this 4IR automation will hasten the death of the planet .
World Economic Forum is advancing a technocratic system of control & domination of humanity & the planet… Why should we agree to this ?
It is a profound sickness of Western culture .
Hubris .
Sick .
And totally ignoring the impact our actions have on the natural world around us.
” – Independent researcher Alison Hawver McDowell , Wrench in the Gears Q : What does Imperial College , the World Economic Forum ( WEF @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese technology venture capital ) , ABB ( automation technology ) , global artificial intelligence ( AI ) , all have in common ?
Global capital intends to turn our children ( & all life ) into data commodities .
The intent is portfolios of human capital – children as human capital data .
All life will be commodified on blockchain , linking behaviour to benefits : https : //www.facebook.com/cory.morningstar.5/posts/10163687281020554 [ Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist , writer and environmental activist , focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Canada .
Her recent writings , including the above article can be found on Wrong Kind of Green , The Art of Annihilation and Counterpunch .
Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio , the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia .
You can support her independent journalism via Patreon . ]

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“The largest economic transformation in the history of mankind.”
Cory Morningstar
21st Century Wire
The arrogance and brutality of the ruling class – is nothing less than breathtaking.
Let’s begin…
April 9 2020, Business Insider: “Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends, according to former US presidential candidate Andrew Yang”:
“Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends…” “We’re going to see something like 10 years of change in 10 weeks…” “The fact is right now this virus is the perfect environment for companies to get rid of people, bring in robots and machines, and figure out how they can operate more efficiently.” “Universal basic income is going to become the topic, not just here in the United States, but Spain’s adopting a version of a minimum income. Legislatures around Europe are all very, very much focused on this.” “We’re going to see the progressive Amazonification of our economy as Amazon’s one of the only businesses out there that’s hiring more and more. You’re seeing more robots are in grocery store aisles cleaning after we all supposedly go home…” “One thing I’ve been saying is that we’re going to see something like 10 years of change in 10 weeks, because businesses are being put in a position where it makes sense to speed up a lot of the automation that they were considering investing in.” “The fact is right now this virus is the perfect environment for companies to get rid of people, bring in robots and machines, and figure out how they can operate more efficiently.” “My kids are at home just like everyone else’s kids and they’re getting taught online…they’re going to be many, many families that actually make a different determination where they actually say, “Hey, this online thing is working well.” “If you can find a way to, frankly, make yourself useful from afar, that’s going to be something that unfortunately we all have to think about more and more.” “I think at this point it’s actually going to need to be a bit higher than that, because the $1,000 a month is enough for baseline needs for at least most of us, but the economy is going to become even more inhuman and punishing, both during this crisis and afterwards.” “… I’d be looking at something higher than $1,000 a month that would be more robust & helping people not just be able to meet their needs, but also have a real path forward.” “we’re going to be dealing with the consequences of this crisis for years to come, and we need a Marshal Plan style initiative to rebuild the country… helping create that vision for what America in 2022, 2023, is going to look like after we have a vaccine in place.”
March 31 2020, Business Insider: “RESTAURANT APOCALYPSE: More than 110,000 restaurants expect to close up forever in the coming weeks, with millions out of work and the industry’s future uncertain.”
And while the Amazonification of our economy ploughs full steam ahead, independent shops and services are pounded into dust, while public services are shut down, opening the door for further privatization. While prepping the citizenry for coming and required “certifications”, the deliberate and violent contraction of the economy continues. The decimation of small enterprise with monetary wealth directed, again, upward. McDonald’s, Starbucks and Walmart (“essential services”) remain open while small business is forced to remain closed.
On April 13 2020, Amazon announced they would hire Amazon will hire an additional 75,000 workers to keep up with its soaring volume of online sales.
.
A brilliant idea: We all live on $1,000 a month – when Klaus Schwab, Andrew Yang, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Bezos, et al. – live on $1,000 a month. The rich are dangerous, calculating, insane hypocrites.
April 12 2020, Business Insider: “Pope Francis says it might be ‘time to consider a universal basic wage’ in Easter letter”:
“In an Easter letter to leaders of prominent social movements, Pope Francis suggested that it might be time for countries to consider a universal basic wage. “This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage which would acknowledge and dignify the noble, essential tasks you carry out,” The Pope wrote in his letter. Over a dozen countries are implementing or experimenting with some form of temporary or permanent universal basic income in response to the current economic devastation and massive unemployment.”
Feb 28 2020, Business Insider:
“The pope has joined forces with Microsoft and IBM to create a doctrine for ethical AI and facial recognition. Here’s how the Vatican wants to shape AI.”
The Pope’s collaboration with corporate giant Microsoft and the Vatican Bank is deep into social impact investing. Citizens are on UBI will still require privatized public services – a massive impact market. [Source]
Impact investing is predicated on turning people into investments as human capital. [Further reading]
Oct 18 2019, Slate MoneyBox, Andrew Yang Keeps Talking About the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What the Heck Is That?:
“Yang likes branding. He calls his marquee policy idea—a UBI of $1,000 a month—a “freedom dividend.” …And lately, he can’t stop talking about “the fourth industrial revolution.” “The fourth industrial revolution is the shorthand Yang now uses to describe the wave of massive technological change that he believes has decimated manufacturing employment and will soon automate away millions of American jobs.” “The fourth industrial revolution is now migrating from manufacturing workers to retail, call centers, transportation, as well as to white-collar workers like attorneys, pharmacists, and radiologists…” “In a World Economic Forum video from 2016, experts offered up predictions such as ‘Our bodies will be so high-tech we won’t really be able to distinguish between what’s natural and what’s artificial…'” “It’s self-serious, Star Trek–style sci-fi for people who wear expensive suits and maybe have an endowed lab at Harvard. These are the intellectual waters Yang swims in, and that’s disconcerting. Aside from the fact that these conferences tend to be pretty intellectually bankrupt”—even JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has joked that “Davos is where billionaires tell millionaires about what the middle class feels”—they by definition reflect the interests and values of the global capitalist class.”
June 20 2019, World Economic Forum: “Can UBI survive financialization?”:
“Following this pattern, by providing a stable income stream and thus a reliable form of collateral, paid by the state, UBI would strengthen and even create financial markets, particularly for consumer credit, mortgages, and pensions. Far from serving as a revolutionary route to freedom from the whip of the market, UBI may end up yoking all citizens to rentier capital through indebtedness.”
Jan 31 2019, Wrench in the Gears, “Good Guy in Davos? Not So Fast”:
” This panel and the viral video clips flying around the internet are a brand-building exercise for Bergman’s neoliberal snake oil. If UBI is implemented in the current climate of austerity, economic precarity, and social entrepreneurship, you can be sure payments will be linked to digital identity to track “impact.” That $1,000 a month distribution will be just enough to scrape by. But hey, you’ll be able to sell personal data if you want more than gruel for dinner. Check out the Netherlands’ foray into personal data curation via the DecodeProject.eu here. It’s being run in partnership with NESTA, the global impact innovation unit out of the UK.”
March 26 2020, The London Freepress: “Keep it quiet, but universal basic income is coming”:
“You think that after six months or a year of this we will just go back tamely to the old economic rules? I rather doubt it.” The rise of fascism & the 2nd World War required the creation of the full welfare state… The current emergency may be fostering the rise of ideas previously seen as too radical to contemplate…”
July 31, 2017, World Economic Forum, “We should let the robots take our jobs – and then pay us all a basic income”:
“As developments in artificial intelligence and robotics advance, there is going to be a severe and swift disruption of many working classes.” “UBI, an economic proposition in which a sum of money is regularly paid to a population, could be a vital bulwark against the unintended consequences of automation in the workforce.” “Companies will profit significantly from workforce automation, so the private sector will be able to afford shouldering this burden, while at the same time still making greater profits.” “After all, a full-time human has needs: 30 minutes for lunch each day, vacation and sick time, toilet breaks, and health benefits, to name a few. Meanwhile, an automated worker would only require an initial installation and the occasional repair or upgrade.” “The BCG report stated that a human welder today is paid around $25 an hour (including benefits) versus the equivalent operating cost of around $8 for a robot.” “In 15 years, that gap will widen even more dramatically,” the report states. “The operating cost per hour for a robot doing similar welding tasks could plunge to as little as $2 when performance improvements are factored in.” “This trend will only continue to accelerate. McDonald’s, an early pioneer of automation, is already replacing human workers with automated kiosks. They expect a 5% to 9% return on investment in just the first year; in 2019 they expect this return to balloon to double digits.” “And this is only one sector: PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that 38% of US jobs will be in danger of being replaced by automation by 2030.” “Companies that automate their workforces should be taxed on these new massive profits, and some of the resulting capital given back to workers by the government in the form of UBI.” “While the idea of a UBI is popular—Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates have all championed it—how exactly would a universal basic income be engineered? “Large swaths of laborers are going to lose their jobs, leading to unprecedented levels of unemployment.”
That moment has arrived.
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McKinsey places the number of jobs to be replaced by automation at close to 50% by 2030. The COVID-19 virus provides an opportune moment to push the envelope of automation forward.
April 9 2020: “Global statistics reported by UNESCO reveal that since the last week of March roughly 1.7 billion students from pre-primary to tertiary education levels are out of school, affecting 91.3 percent of all enrolled learners and including every student in 188 countries that have mandated nationwide closures. With most schools set to remain closed through the rest of the current academic year, the scale of these closures is unprecedented in the history of world capitalism.”
. , World Economic Forum: “The notion of an educator as the knowledge-holder who imparts wisdom to their pupils is no longer fit for the purpose of a 21st-century education.”
January 2020 , World Economic Forum: “The notion of an educator as the knowledge-holder who imparts wisdom to their pupils is no longer fit for the purpose of a 21st-century education.” . “Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal”: March 2020 , McKinsey & Co:
“The crisis will reveal not just vulnerabilities but opportunities to improve the performance of businesses. Leaders will need to reconsider which costs are truly fixed versus variable, as the shutting down of huge swaths of production sheds light on what is ultimately required versus nice to have. Decisions about how far to flex operations without loss of efficiency will likewise be informed by the experience of closing down much of global production. Opportunities to push the envelope of technology adoption will be accelerated by rapid learning about what it takes to drive productivity when labor is unavailable. The result: a stronger sense of what makes business more resilient to shocks, more productive, and better able to deliver to customers.”
April 4, 2020: “This pandemic has optimized the “testing” of robots and drones in broad daylight …Zoom’s video conferencing platform has detonated in popularity as stay-at-home commands have cleared the globe and some of the credit for having the option to keep up with demand goes to automation…’We have automation set up so we can rapidly scale our foundation, the network as well as the compute infrastructure with next to no human intercession’… the organization is getting enthusiasm for purchasing robots to clean office spaces, production floors, retail locations, grocery stores, airports, lodgings and cafés.” [Source]
March 23 2020, CNBC, “Inside the hospital in China where coronavirus patients were treated by robots”
“The idea of humanoid robots taking jobs previously done by humans may feel dystopian, but in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, robots can free up human hospital medical staff and limit the possibility virus spread… For a time in March, “a previously human-run field hospital located inside Hong Shan Sports Center located in Wuhan was converted … into a robot-led field hospital staffed entirely by robots and other smart [Internet of Things] devices,” CloudMinds CEO and founder Bill Huang tells CNBC Make It, in a statement… Called HARIX (Human Augmented Robot Intelligence with eXtreme Reality), “this AI platform, synced with smart bracelets and rings worn by patients, was able to monitor patient vital signs (including temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen levels), allowing doctors and nurses outside the facility to monitor all patient vital information remotely on one interface…”
April 7, 2020: Morningstar: “Spain to become first European country to introduce Universal Basic Income”
Jan 26 2018, World Economic Forum, “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World Global Agenda
“… with some economists suggesting that automation could potentially replace over half of all jobs by 2055… the disruption to workers’ lives will be significant.”
Sep 24 2019, António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations, UN Agenda 2030:
“And we must look at the 2030 Agenda not through the prism of the economy of the last decade, but the economy of the next decade, seizing the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and safeguarding against its dangers.”
Here it is important to note that also on March 11, 2020, the World Economic Forum announced a partnership with the WHO (a UN agency) to form the COVID-19 Action Platform – a task-force comprised of over 200 corporations at launch, which as has “soared to 726“, as of March 28, 2020. This is in addition to the World Economic Forum partnership with the United Nations on June 13, 2019. This is the consolidation of global power, happening in real time.
April 7 2020, CNN: “Grocery stores turn to robots during the coronavirus”:
“Walmart, the country’s largest retailer & private employer, will have Brain Corp’s self-driving robots in 1,860 of its more than 4,700 US stores by the end of the year.” “Workers manually picking, bagging and delivering is costly for grocers, and employees picking orders can clog up aisles.” “Takeoff Technologies… has seen a double-digit increase in orders since the crisis began. “Robots handle a majority of the leg-work when fulfilling orders, meaning there is limited contact with grocery items… The process is “well suited” for social distancing.” “In the retail industry, “margin pressure has made automation a requirement, not a choice,” according to McKinsey. ‘Automation will disproportionately disrupt retail.'”
March 25 2020, CNN: “Robots could help us combat future pandemics. Here’s how experts wish they could help us now”:
“Experts agree that robots could take over the “dull, dirty and dangerous” jobs humans are currently fulfilling. Countries such as China have already deployed robots to assist with certain tasks during the pandemic, like taking people’s temperatures… Robots currently used for other applications could be repurposed to handle dangerous tasks that involve a risk of infection. And the coronavirus pandemic serves as a teachable moment… “Robots have the potential to be deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food, measuring vital signs, and assisting border controls,” … They can be used to take temperatures of people in public areas or at ports of entry, collect nasal and throat samples for testing, act as telemedicine assistants, handle contaminated waste and even monitor compliance with voluntary quarantines. The editorial also addresses remote operations that allow work and socioeconomic functions to continue. The authors call for robotics that could assist with manufacturing or operating power and waste treatment plants, doing the hands-on work and allowing people to remotely operate them. Remote presence robots could also stand in the place of someone in a meeting, basically providing their presence through a video screen. “COVID-19 may become the tipping point of how future organizations operate,” the researchers wrote. “Rather than cancelling large international exhibitions and conferences, new forms of gathering — virtual rather than in-person attendance — may increase. Virtual attendees may become accustomed to remote engagement via a variety of local robotic avatars and controls.” The pandemic is also highlighting a need for assistance and social robots to help those at home, especially the elderly. Social robots can not only monitor patients and make sure they adhere to treatments, but provide much-needed social interactions as well.”
In addition to the Fourth Industrial Revolution 2020 reset, we have the coming “New Deal For Nature” to be implemented at years end, or perhaps sooner under the pretext of emergency measures.
The feigned concern for climate and biodiversity by those that serve them, is, to be blunt, complete bullshit. There is nothing to be found within the Fourth Industrial Revolution dystopia in regard to nature – other than her financialization and objectification. She too will be placed on the blockchain. Here, man’s arrogance is on full display – with plans to cover the Earth’s surface with artificial forests and drone bees, while cordoning off what they have not yet plundered – for their own personal leisure.
. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the monetization of nature, is being rolled out in lockstep with the deployment of central bank digital currency (CBDC). This is a global transformation of the economic system. Consider nature “valued” at 125 trillion vs. GDP at 85.9 trillion (2018). “Natural Capital” accounting will replace GDP.
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“Coronavirus hysteria provides cover for introducing UBI, a grand theft from the working class…. Notorious fraudster Johann Hari is now touting the UBI scam as an “anti-depressant.”[@cordeliers on Twitter]
April 10, 2020, Newsday: “Pandemic strengthens the case for universal basic income”:
“Subsidizing low-wage work depresses wages by essentially allowing employers to pay less than a livable wage, so EITC-type benefits are at least in part a transfer to employers, rather than workers.”
April 3, 2020, The Wall Street Journal: “Henry Kissinger – The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order”:
“Democracies need to sustain their Enlightenment values. Without balancing power with legitimacy, social contract will disintegrate. Yet the issue of legitimacy can’t be settled at same time as this “plague”….Priorities must be established.”
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Nov 15 2016, Socialist Project: “Ontario’s Austerity Government Sets Basic Income Trap”:
“While a progressive Basic Income is not on the cards, its free market evil twin is a real and very dangerous possibility. Under this neoliberal model, an inadequate and dwindling BI payment is provided that absolves low wage employers from the obligation of paying living wages and becomes the only element of social provision left in place. You become a customer shopping in a market place of privatized services. Who could really deny that this right wing version is much closer to presently unfolding reality than the hopes and dreams of left BI enthusiasts?”
Jan 2 2017, Socialist Project: “Basic Income -Progressive Dreams Meet Neoliberal Realities”:
“Basic Income, when all is said and done, is a vision for nothing more than the means to be a customer in an unjust society that decides what is for sale.” “It’s really about the commodification of social provision. Your payment may actually be less conditional and somewhat larger but, as you shop through the privatized remains of the social infrastructure, with inadequate means and very few rights, you are dramatically worse off… … it is sometimes asserted that an adequate system of provision must be put in place simply because we are moving toward a “workless future.” In such a society, it is suggested, masses of people who have been displaced will have to be provided for and the capitalists will have to think like Elon Musk, of Tesla Motors and support BI because it is the only sensible and rational solution. To imagine such responsible provision for the future is to place undue faith in a system based on the making of profit. If they won’t stop building pipelines in the face of environmental catastrophe, there’s little reason to expect them to worry too much about sensible solutions to technological displacement. There simply is no post-capitalist capitalism and no social policy innovation that is going to bring it about… I am suggesting that our movements need to challenge, rather than come to terms with, the neoliberal order and the capitalist system that has produced it. For all its claims to be a sweeping measure, the notion of progressive BI is a futile attempt to make peace with that system. In reality, even that compromise is not available. The model of BI that governments are working on in their social policy laboratories will not ‘end the tyranny of the labour market’ but render it more dreadful. The agenda of austerity and privatization requires a system of income support that renders people as powerless and desperate as possible in the face of exploitation and that won’t change if it is relabelled as “Basic Income”.”
When we all start to literally starve (some already have, and many more have been for decades), perhaps then – we will eat the rich.
The question is this? Do you still believe that these people actually give a flying fuck about your health?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution cannot come into fruition without the 5G infrastructure that will run the Internet of Things. “Smart” cities must be understood within the context of global policing and the military industrial complex. Cybersecurity will be the battle space of the twenty-first century.
This is class war.
In closing:
The future, is now on our doorstep: All “human capital” is to be controlled “via digital identity systems tied to cashless benefit payments within the context of a militarized 5G / IoT [Internet of Things]/ AR [augmented reality] environment. The billionaire class has built & is rapidly putting the finishing touches on infrastructure to run human capital social impact markets that will securitize the lives of most people as data streams. The tech that underlies this 4IR automation will hasten the death of the planet. World Economic Forum is advancing a technocratic system of control & domination of humanity & the planet… Why should we agree to this? It is a profound sickness of Western culture. Hubris. Sick. And totally ignoring the impact our actions have on the natural world around us.”
– Independent researcher Alison Hawver McDowell, Wrench in the Gears
Further reading:
Q: What does Imperial College, the World Economic Forum (WEF), Salesforce, Sinovation Ventures (Chinese technology venture capital), ABB (automation technology), global artificial intelligence (AI), all have in common?
A: Vaccines, emerging markets, gene editing – via the Fourth Industrial Revolution:
https://www.facebook.com/cory.morningstar.5/posts/10163663016445554
Global capital intends to turn our children (& all life) into data commodities. The intent is portfolios of human capital – children as human capital data. All life will be commodified on blockchain, linking behaviour to benefits:
https://www.facebook.com/cory.morningstar.5/posts/10163687281020554
[Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings, including the above article can be found on Wrong Kind of Green, The Art of Annihilation and Counterpunch. Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. You can support her independent journalism via Patreon.]
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-15--Under COVID cover, ‘green’ Gavin Newsom gives go-ahead for more Fracking in California

It ’ s often been said that in the United States you have one party ( Big Government ) with two branches ( Democrats and Republicans ) .
While Democrats talk a big game about being America ’ s ‘ green ’ guardians of the environment , in the end both parties will bow to transnational corporations if the price is right .
A perfect example is the highly dirty and loss-leading unconventional oil and gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing , commonly known as fracking .
It seems that California ’ s governor Gavin Newson has just given the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wells located in some of the state ’ s most beautiful areas .
With the state under shutdown orders because of COVID-19 , the state ’ s Democratic governor has seized the opportunity to push through even more permits for the highly controversial energy extraction process .
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Gavin Newsom , left , touring the Chevron oilfield in McKittrick , CA ( Photo Credit : Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP , Pool ) California regulators on Friday issued fracking permits for the first time in nine months , saying federal scientists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Aera Energy for oil well stimulation in Kern County .
Another 282 applications remain on hold pending individual review , until a comprehensive audit of the state ’ s drill permitting practices is completed .
“ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experts are continuing evaluation on a permit-by-permit basis and conducting a rigorous technical review to verify geological claims made by well operators in the application process , ” said Teresa Schilling , spokeswoman for the California Geologic Energy Management division , or CalGEM .
“ Permit-by-permit review will continue until the Department of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( … ) In November , after reports by The Desert Sun about illegal oil spills across the state , and empty “ dummy ” project folders for risky cyclic steam permits issued without required upfront approvals , Newsom announced a moratorium on all new fracking and cyclic steam permits .
While environmentalists and consumer advocates were delighted with the halt , Newsom and other state officials faced immediate , fierce backlash from oil executives and employees , and from Kern County officials , where most of the state ’ s petroleum @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the southern part of the Central Valley .
On Friday , new Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk notified Aera Energy that he had signed off on two dozen permits for fracking wells in its North and South Belridge oil field operations .
He did so after Aera provided additional , detailed field descriptions and other technical data and guarantees requested by the Lawrence Livermore reviewers .
The federal lab also evaluated CalGEM ’ s engineering and geologic analyses .
( … ) But opponents were not happy that the state has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a risky drilling technique , particularly in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic .
“ With the entire state shut down and kids out of school , what purpose could approving these fracking permits have now , other than to do a solid for the oil industry when no one is watching ?
This is like a Pearl Harbor attack for the environment , ” said Jamie Court , executive director of Consumer Watchdog , which unearthed the data about conflicts of interest among senior oil regulators .
“ As if California @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fracking is now back .
… What pebble-minded bureaucrat decided that as we hunker in our homes trying to avoid a plague that it was time to bring fracking back ?
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It’s often been said that in the United States you have one party (Big Government) with two branches (Democrats and Republicans). While Democrats talk a big game about being America’s ‘green’ guardians of the environment, in the end both parties will bow to transnational corporations if the price is right.
A perfect example is the highly dirty and loss-leading unconventional oil and gas drilling practice of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. It seems that California’s governor Gavin Newson has just given the ‘green’ light to more fracking wells located in some of the state’s most beautiful areas.
With the state under shutdown orders because of COVID-19, the state’s Democratic governor has seized the opportunity to push through even more permits for the highly controversial energy extraction process.
Desert Sun reports…
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, touring the Chevron oilfield in McKittrick, CA (Photo Credit: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)
California regulators on Friday issued fracking permits for the first time in nine months, saying federal scientists had given clearance for 24 permits to Aera Energy for oil well stimulation in Kern County.
Another 282 applications remain on hold pending individual review, until a comprehensive audit of the state’s drill permitting practices is completed.
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory experts are continuing evaluation on a permit-by-permit basis and conducting a rigorous technical review to verify geological claims made by well operators in the application process,” said Teresa Schilling, spokeswoman for the California Geologic Energy Management division, or CalGEM. “Permit-by-permit review will continue until the Department of Finance Audit is complete later this year.”
(…) In November, after reports by The Desert Sun about illegal oil spills across the state, and empty “dummy” project folders for risky cyclic steam permits issued without required upfront approvals, Newsom announced a moratorium on all new fracking and cyclic steam permits.
While environmentalists and consumer advocates were delighted with the halt, Newsom and other state officials faced immediate, fierce backlash from oil executives and employees, and from Kern County officials, where most of the state’s petroleum production is located. Kern County is in the southern part of the Central Valley.
On Friday, new Oil and Gas Supervisor Uduak-Joe Ntuk notified Aera Energy that he had signed off on two dozen permits for fracking wells in its North and South Belridge oil field operations. He did so after Aera provided additional, detailed field descriptions and other technical data and guarantees requested by the Lawrence Livermore reviewers. The federal lab also evaluated CalGEM’s engineering and geologic analyses.
(…) But opponents were not happy that the state has resumed issuing permits for what they say is a risky drilling technique, particularly in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“With the entire state shut down and kids out of school, what purpose could approving these fracking permits have now, other than to do a solid for the oil industry when no one is watching? This is like a Pearl Harbor attack for the environment,” said Jamie Court, executive director of Consumer Watchdog, which unearthed the data about conflicts of interest among senior oil regulators. “As if California has not had enough bad news, fracking is now back. … What pebble-minded bureaucrat decided that as we hunker in our homes trying to avoid a plague that it was time to bring fracking back?”
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-15--Herd Immunity: Expert Explains Why COVID-19 Lockdown, Social Distancing Doesn’t Actually Work

[00:10.04] JOHN: If you could just tell us your name and a little bit about your background?
[00:14.00] WITTKOWSKI: My name is Knut Wittkowski. I was at the Rockefeller University for 20 years, Head of the Department of Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design, and before that, I worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, one of the leading epidemiologists in the world in the German town of Tubingen in the Eberhard Karls University.
[00:36.03] JOHN: You gave recommendations for how best to deal with COVID-19. Could you just describe what you wrote?
[00:44.20] WITTKOWSKI: As with every respiratory disease, we should protect the elderly and fragile because when they get pneumonia, they have a high risk of dying of the pneumonia. So that is one of the key issues that we should keep in mind. On the other hand, children do very well with these diseases. They’re evolutionarily designed to be exposed to all sorts of viruses during their lifetime, and so they should keep going to school and infecting each other. Then, that contributes to herd immunity, which means after about four weeks at the most, the elderly people could start joining their family because then the virus would have been extinguished.
[01:36.02] JOHN: You mention in the piece that in fact you think containment would prolong the duration of the virus. Can you talk about that?
[01:45.00] WITTKOWSKI: With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.
[02:33.24] JOHN: And so, what do you make of the policy that was enacted in the United States and England and most places throughout the world, this policy of containment, shelter-in-place, etc.? What’s your opinion of it?
[02:47.05] WITTKOWSKI: Well, what people are trying to do is flatten the curve. I don’t really know why. But, what happens is if you flatten the curve, you also prolong, to widen it, and it takes more time. And I don’t see a good reason for a respiratory disease to stay in the population longer than necessary.
[03:06.17] JOHN: And what do you say to people who just say, “We just didn’t know about the lethality of this virus and it was the smartest thing to do, to do what we did, and contain everybody, because we just didn’t have the data.”
[03:23.16] WITTKOWSKI: We had two other SARS viruses before. Or, coronaviruses. It’s not the first coronavirus that comes out, and it won’t be the last. And for all respiratory diseases, we have the same type of an epidemic. If you leave it alone, it comes for two weeks, it peaks, and it goes for two weeks and it’s gone.
[03:46.07] JOHN: You were speaking to my producer the other day on the phone, and you said, “The pandemic is over.” What do you mean by that?
[03:56.04] WITTKOWSKI: There are no more new cases in China and in South Korea. The number of new cases in Europe is already beginning to decline. The virus came later to the US, so here we see a bit of an incline, maybe, and leveling off within the next couple of days. And if we see that the cases are not increasing dramatically, that means that the number of new infections has already declined substantially and peaked about a week ago.
[04:27.09] LIBBY: Do you believe the Chinese statistics? Do you think they’ve lied to us? Do you believe the stats that have come out of China?
[04:36.09] WITTKOWSKI: The epidemic has ended there, yes. Because otherwise, we would see people emerging—and even in China, it’s today very difficult to keep information under the hood. If there were lots of cases in hospitals, if the hospitals that they built, the temporary hospitals, were still full, we would hear that. This could not be suppressed.
[05:03.25] JOHN: During the press briefing yesterday, Fauci, and the President, and the rest of the people assembled, were saying that, had they not done the containment strategy that they have done, that upwards of 2 million people would have died in the United States. What do you think of that figure?
[05:22.27] WITTKOWSKI: Well, I’m not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science. If the government, if there had been no intervention, the epidemic would have been over, like every other respiratory disease epidemic.
[05:44.05] JOHN: And how many, in your estimation, would have died? Would it have been that much?
[05:48.25] WITTKOWSKI: Okay. We have, right now, let’s take realistic numbers in the United Sates: we have about 25,000 cases every day, that is probably the upper limit—make it 30,000—who knows? But let’s talk about 25,000. 2% of them will actually have symptoms—that is 500 cases a day. Maybe a third or a fifth—let’s say half of them—will need to be hospitalized. That’s 250 patients a day. If they have been hospitalized for about 10 days, that means that we will have—our hospital system will have to deal with 2,500 patients every day for a certain period of time—that could be 3 or 4 weeks, and then the number will dramatically decrease again and the whole epidemic will be over.
[06:51.20] JOHN: And of those hospitalized cases, what, in your estimation, how many would die?
[06:59.15] WITTKOWSKI: 2% will die—
[07:03.00] JOHN: Of the hospitalized cases?
[07:05.19] WITTKOWSKI: Of all cases.
[07:06.26] JOHN: Of all symptomatic cases.
[07:06.26] WITTKOWSKI: Of all symptomatic cases. 2% of all symptomatic cases will die. That is 2% of the 25,000 a day. So that is 500 people a day, and that will happen over 4 weeks. So, that could be as high as 10,000 people. Now, that compares to the normal numbers of flus during the flu season, and we have in the United States about 35,000 deaths due to flu every year during the flu season. So, it would be part of the normal situation during the flu season.
[07:52.13] LIBBY: Are they reporting flu deaths this year or is everything just corona? Is there any statistic for flu death?
[08:01.19] WITTKOWSKI: Yeah, there is a statistic for flu. It’s currently at about 10,000-12,000. So, together with the Corona deaths, it’s about regular flu season.
[08:12.09] JOHN: You’re basing your estimate now on the latest available numbers?
[08:16.07] WITTKOWSKI: Yes.
[08:16.20] LIBBY: So, what accounts, then, for the fact that the hospitals are suddenly more overrun than they have been in a previous flu season, and for world leaders and the news media just going crazy?
[08:29.26] WITTKOWSKI: Funding for hospitals has, as everybody knows, not increased recently. So, hospitals had to cut down, and, therefore, they now have to run their emergency plans, which is not terrible. That’s what they have been planning for, for decades, so if they have to put up some tents in Central Park, that’s not the end of the world. The tents are there, they’re maintained very well, and they will be there for a few weeks—three, four, maybe, and then the crisis will be over. This is not a situation nobody has ever thought about.
[09:16.07] JOHN: Do you really think that there’s a major shortage of masks, and things like this?
[09:21.13] WITTKOWSKI: Of what?
[09:21.13] JOHN: Masks and PPE and all this? What do you think about all that? Why should there be a shortage of those things?
[09:28.00] WITTKOWSKI: Because people are getting crazy now and it’s almost like the toilet paper […].
[09:36.02] JOHN: I knew someone at a NICU who suddenly—two weeks ago, in New York, at NYU, suddenly all the masks and all the hand sanitizer was gone. So….what do you think happened there?
[09:51.18] WITTKOWSKI: Like the toilet paper. Shortages happen now and then, all the time.
[09:57.05] JOHN: Right, sure.
[10:01.02] WITTKOWSKI: And if you have somebody reporting what’s happening that day, in that hospital, possible.
[10:09.23] JOHN: Yeah. Sure.
[10:13.05] WITTKOWSKI: Does it reflect the state of the whole hospital system in New York? Not necessarily.
[10:19.14] JOHN: Right. What do you think about their latest figure that because of, they claim that because of social distancing, that we’ve saved ourselves from the 2 million dead, but that we are probably looking at 150-200,000 dead, though they’ve said that it’s possible that it could be lower, if we are really, really good about social distancing, etc. What do you think about their new estimate of death?
[10:52.12] WITTKOWSKI: Social distancing definitely is good. It prevented the sky from falling down.
[11:00.04] JOHN: Are you being ironic?
[11:01.19] WITTKOWSKI: Of course! I don’t know where these numbers are coming from—they’re totally unrealistic. There are no indications that this flu is fundamentally different from every other flu. We know what happened in China, we know what happened in South Korea, we know what happened, or is happening, in Europe. There are no indications that anything is different from a regular flu. Maybe it’s a bit worse than other flus—could be?
[11:32.02] For a respiratory disease, the flu ends during springtime, that people spend more time outdoors because outdoors, the viruses cannot easily spread. That is a form of containment, spending more time outdoors.
[11:55.00] JOHN: So, we’re now spending more time indoors. We’ve been told to go indoors. Isn’t that—doesn’t that help keep the virus going?
[12:03.17] WITTKOWSKI: It keeps the virus healthy, yeah.
[12:08.19] LIBBY: So we should be told to go outdoors?
[12:10.18] WITTKOWSKI: Yeah. Going outdoors is what stops every respiratory disease.
[12:25.15] JOHN: People will say that the reason why China came out of this okay in the end is because they went into such severe lockdown. What do you say to that?
[12:37.18] WITTKOWSKI: They had an advantage that in the beginning, they didn’t know what they were dealing with. So, it took them a long time to start the containment or social distancing, which, in the course of the epidemic is good, because there was enough time for the virus to reach herd immunity before the social distancing started.
[13:00.14] JOHN: Now, it’s interesting that you say that, because at Imperial College, you know Neil Ferguson has changed his estimate of the number of dead in England from 500,000 to 20,000 or less, and he says that that is because of social distancing. Now, we also know that the way in which social distancing was implemented in England was not very severe, or extreme, or efficient, so this was after one day of lockdown, he announced that in fact, it would be 20,000 or less. Is there any possibility that that number would have changed that way because of the social distancing?
[13:46.14] WITTKOWSKI: No. Actually, we have data for that.
[13:53.23] I looked into the claim that people make that, in China and South Korea, the social distancing had successfully helped to control the epidemic. I looked at the dates when people actually started social distancing. In China, the epidemic peaked on February 1st to February 5th, in that period. But the schools were not closed until February the 20th—that was 2 weeks later. In South Korea, we have a similar pattern. In Daegu, or however that city is being pronounced, where the Church of Shincheonji had that outbreak. The self-quarantine was ordered only on February the 23rd, but the peak in that city happened; the national distancing was not advised until February the 29th, so that’s a week later, when the national peak happened. So, both in China and in South Korea, social distancing started only long after the number of infections had already started to decline, and therefore had very little impact on the epidemic. That means they had already reached herd immunity or were about to reach herd immunity. They were very close. But by installing the social distancing, they prevented it to actually getting to the final point, and this is why we are still seeing new cases in South Korea, several weeks after the peak.
[16:02.18] JOHN: You said that this is the sort of contagion, because it’s airborne, that you can’t deal with by doing tracing or by social distancing. Explain why that is.
[16:16.20] WITTKOWSKI: One thing is tracing with an airborne disease is even more difficult than tracing with a sexually transmitted disease which is difficult enough, as we know from AIDS. Most people know who they had contact with, sexual contact with, over the last two weeks. As a human being travelling the subway in New York and doing other things in New York that we just have to do in New York, I couldn’t tell you who the two three four hundred thousand people are I came in contact with over the last two weeks. So, contrast tracing for a respiratory disease is impossible.
[17:02.23] JOHN: Why doesn’t containment work for an airborne disease?
[17:06.07] WITTKOWSKI: You cannot stop the spread of a respiratory disease within a family, and you cannot stop it from spreading with neighbors, with people who are delivering, who are physicians—anybody. People are social, and even in times of social distancing, they have contacts, and any of those contacts could spread the disease. It will go slowly, and so it will not build up herd immunity, but it will happen. And it will go on forever unless we let it go.
[17:41.23] JOHN: Let me ask you, you don’t feel this requires a vaccine?
[17:49.20] WITTKOWSKI: We don’t have a vaccine against the common cold. We don’t have—we have some vaccines against flu, but they are not that effective. Would it be nice to have a vaccine against SARS? Yeah. It would be nice. But it would help to create herd immunity a bit faster, because those who have the vaccine are already immune, and those who don’t, they just need to be exposed to become immune.
[18:31.06] JOHN: You could get this immunity naturally?
[18:34.04] WITTKOWSKI: For some reason that we haven’t fully understood yet, humankind has survived all sorts of respiratory diseases. Nature has a way of making sure that we survive.
[18:55.08] LIBBY: This morning all the TV doctors were on, saying that, because, obviously, they’re starting to read some of these pieces about the statistics being off, etc., and so there you had Doctor Jennifer Ashton on ABC, and I forget the others, saying, “This is more contagious than any seasonal flu or the H1N1, and this is why we have to take it so seriously because it’s so much more contagious.” Is that just ridiculous?
[19:22.03] WITTKOWSKI: I don’t know where that opinion comes from. We have no—the data that we have speaks against it.
[19:31.22] JOHN: And what data do we have and where are you getting your—
[19:35.05] WITTKOWSKI: We have seen—well. You can download the data from the European CDC every day, the data, all over the world, and you can analyze it. And that’s what I have done, and probably other people also have done.
All data were downloaded on 2020-04-04 from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Web site at
—Editor] [Note: from Knut M. Wittkowski: Two epidemics of COVID-19 All data were downloaded on 2020-04-04 from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) Web site at https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide , where data are collected daily between 6:00 and 10:00 CET. Updates were collected from the Johns Hopkins online tracker available at https://systems.jhu.edu/research/public-health/ncov/ . New York City data was downloaded from https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-daily-data-summary.pdf . Population data were accessed from https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/ on 2020-03-12. Data on ages by country were accessed from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.65UP.TO.ZS
[19:53.05] JOHN: Okay, so, what does this graph tell you, in general?
[19:57.21] WITTKOWSKI: It tells us that there are no—the numbers in Europe are not increasing anymore, of cases. The deaths follow it by about a week, and that’s normal because people die after they develop the disease. But the important thing is that the numbers of infections peaked around a week ago and is already on the decline. The European data includes the data in France where suddenly the number of cases doubled from one day to the next. This is somebody finding a box of reports in an office and sending them in and said, “Oops! We forgot to report that over the last month!” So, this, the epidemic in France is not increasing anymore, even though somebody found a couple of reports in a shoebox.
[21:04.14] JOHN: And why—when they—won’t governments just say, “that’s because we practiced social distancing?”
[21:11.00] WITTKOWSKI: I’m not a psychiatrist. I don’t know what other people think. I’m a scientist.
[21:16.02] WITTKOWSKI: We can see that in China, in Korea, the epidemic went down, and the epidemic did exactly what every other epidemic did, and it’s not that 400% of all people died. Maybe it’s 3 rather than 1%—maybe! But nothing is fundamentally different from the flus that we have seen before. Every couple of years there is a flu that is a bit worse than the other flus were, and it goes away in exactly the way the other flus went away, and this one behaves exactly the same way. The epidemic has ended in China, at least, in the provinces where it was. It has ended in South Korea. In Europe, it’s declining and will be ending anytime soon. Could be a bit longer than typically, because of the containment, which flattened and prolonged the epidemic. And so, if we really—that’s really good if we want to be affected by it as long as it gets. And in the United States we are doing the same thing. We are prolonging the epidemic to flatten the curve. But eventually, it will end.
[22:43.04] LIBBY: Speaking of the numbers, I noticed in your paper, you said that in mid-March there was a change in the reporting system. What was that all about?
[22:50.18] WITTKOWSKI: This is not the first time it happens. On March 20th, Germany changed its reporting system and suddenly, a lot of cases that had not been reported before were reported. But this is not a sudden increase in cases. Over all, this had no impact on the dynamic of the German epidemic. It increased until about March 27th or so, and has been stable or declining since. The problem in this disease is that reporting and diagnosing are not separated and recorded differently. In the AIDS epidemic, every case was reported with a day of diagnosis and a day of reporting. For whatever reason, this standard developed during the AIDS epidemic is not being employed here. So, we cannot deconvolute this data.
[24:25.22] In Italy there was a spike on one day, there was a spike on one day in Norway. But we have seen now so many of these spikes, they last for one day and then the numbers go back to where it was before. So, we are not really scared anymore if we see something changing very fast. Nature doesn’t jump. As people have known for a long time. The course of an epidemic is always smooth. There is never a ten-fold increase in number of cases from one day to the other.
[25:08.17] There is nothing to be scared about. This is a flu epidemic like every other flu. Maybe a bit more severe, but nothing that is fundamentally different from the flus that we see in other years.
[25:33.23] JOHN: What do you think accounts for the difference in response this time than say to the Swine Flu in 2009? Why are we suddenly so much more panicked and having shut the world down? What do you think is going on?
[25:50.10] WITTKOWSKI: I think at least one factor is the internet. People are using the internet now much more often, and so news, wrong or false, is spreading the globe within hours, if not minutes. And so, let’s say 50 years ago, we would read in the paper that about a week ago there was an epidemic of flu in the United States or in China or somewhere else, and at that time, it was already over. So, people would say, “Okay, that happens all the time.” Now, what we read is, “Oh! There were 785 cases in the Vatican for two days” Eh, maybe not. And even if it was a reporting error, these stories are circulating the world and contributing to chaos and people being afraid of things they shouldn’t be afraid of.
[27:05.04] JOHN: And what do you think are the possible health risks of the policy that we are following now, the shelter in place?
[27:14.01] WITTKOWSKI: Well, we will see maybe a total of fewer cases—that is possible. However, we will see more cases among the elderly, because we have prevented the school children from creating herd immunity. And so, in the end, we will see more death because the school children don’t die, it’s the elderly people who die, we will see more death because of this social distancing.
[27:43.23] JOHN: So, we keep being told now about the second wave that will come in the fall. Now, tell us what your thoughts about the second wave are and how—it seems like from everything you’re saying is that we’ll have a second wave because of social distancing—
[28:03.18] WITTKOWSKI: Yes.
[28:04.10] JOHN: Okay, so, could you say that in a sentence for me?
[28:06.21] WITTKOWSKI: Okay. If we had herd immunity now, there couldn’t be a second wave in autumn. Herd immunity lasts for a couple of years, typically, and that’s why the last SARS epidemic we had in 2003, it lasted 15 years for enough people to become susceptible again so that a new epidemic could spread of a related virus. Because typically, there is something that requires cross-immunity, so if you were exposed to one of the SARS viruses, you are less likely to fall ill with another SARS virus. So, if we had herd immunity, we wouldn’t have a second wave. However, if we are preventing herd immunity from developing, it is almost guaranteed that we have a second wave as soon as either we stop the social distancing or the climate changes with winter coming or something like that.
[29:19.10] JOHN: But, because this is an airborne illness, it sounds to me as though social distancing wouldn’t even have prevented more people from getting it, right? I mean, it already spread, because it’s airborne, because it lives on surfaces. By the time England or the US shut down, it had probably already gotten all around, right?
[29:44.16] WITTKOWSKI: Unfortunately, it seems that in western countries where the story of China was already known, people started with social distancing, as imperfect as it is, before the epidemic could reach the level that is needed to develop herd immunity.
[30:10.16] JOHN: I see. And so, to summarize, you are saying that’s going to flatten and extend the epidemic and create the second wave that we are being told to fear?
[30:21.00] WITTKOWSKI: Yes. The second wave is a direct consequence of social distancing.
[30:28.16] JOHN: That’s wonderful to hear.
[30:29.13] WITTKOWSKI: We already know that the social distancing cost the US taxpayer 2 trillion dollars, in addition to everything else that it costs, but it also has severe consequences for our social life, and depression is definitely something that we will be researching. I can say for myself, walking through New York City right now is depressing.
[31:10.17] JOHN: So, what do you think? Should we tolerate this? Should we stand for staying sheltered in house arrest till … what is it? April 30th they want?
[31:23.02] LIBBY: April 30th now.
[31:24.20] JOHN: I mean, is that what we ought to do or should we, perhaps, be resisting?
[31:31.00] WITTKOWSKI: We should be resisting, and we should, at least, hold our politicians responsible. We should have a discussion with our politicians. One thing we definitely need to do, and that would be safe and effective, is opening schools. Let the children spread the virus among themselves, which is a necessity to get herd immunity. That was probably one of the most destructive actions the government has done. We should focus on the elderly and separating them from the population where the virus is circulating. We should not prevent the virus from circulating among school children, which is the fastest way to create herd immunity.
[32:24.09] JOHN: And can you explain, just one more time, as clearly as you can, what’s the concept with natural herd immunity? What happens to the virus when it’s gone through the population in the way you’re describing?
[32:39.07] WITTKOWSKI: If 80% of people have had contact with the virus and are therefore immune, and that, typically, that contact is just a form of immunization. So, there is no disease, there’s nothing happening, and still there is immunity. If 80% of people are immune and somebody has a virus and is infectious, it will be very difficult for that infectious person to find somebody who is still susceptible, not immune. And therefore, this person will not infect anybody else and therefore we won’t have the disease spreading. That is herd immunity.
[33:29.12] JOHN: And what happens to the virus? What happens to the virus, at that point?
[33:33.23] WITTKOWSKI: Well, viruses don’t live, technically, but the virus will eventually be destroyed.
[33:41.15] JOHN: I see.
[33:44.03] WITTKOWSKI: Unless, right now, it is at the drycleaners. My drycleaner closed down because of COVID, so I can’t get my clothes cleaned. And so, if there should be viruses on my clothes, which is possible, I cannot get them cleaned at the drycleaner because the drycleaner is a non-essential service and therefore closed down. We are experiencing all sorts of counterproductive consequences of not well-thought-through policy.
[34:17.17] JOHN: Should there be a major testing regime in place where the whole population is tested, and should that be a prerequisite for us coming out?
[34:28.17] WITTKOWSKI: Any answer with two letters will do. No.
[34:36.02] JOHN: So, just describe why testing is not productive.
[34:40.18] WITTKOWSKI: Testing doesn’t stop anything by itself. Testing could give us, if we do antibody testing, not testing for the actual virus. If we do antibody testing, we would actually get an estimate of how close we are to herd immunity. That could be useful. But, testing for people who are infectious means they probably have already been, for two or three days, been in for half of their infectious period. Now, they are being tested positive what are they supposed to do? We are already having social distancing. They can’t do much more than they are already doing. Testing for respiratory disease is neither necessary nor effective.
[35:35.14] JOHN: Now, you said, you mentioned earlier that you have asthma. And I’m guessing you’re over 40?
[35:43.02] WITTKOWSKI: Yes.
[35:45.01] JOHN: Are you at all nervous about—
[35:47.15] WITTKOWSKI: No.
[35:48.09] JOHN: Why aren’t you nervous?
[35:50.05] WITTKOWSKI: We don’t die of the virus. We die of pneumonia. So, if we have a virus respiratory disease, the disease—once the body has created antibodies, the immune system has created antibodies, the antibodies, or the immune system is killing all infected cells which destroys much of the mucosa. And bacteria can easily settle on that destroyed mucosa, and then cause pneumonia. And it is the pneumonia that is killing people, if it’s not treated. I had a virus, whatever it was, maybe it was—who knows—about three weeks ago, and my physician gave me the antibiotics I should take if the disease gets better and then gets worse, because that is a sign of pneumonia and then we have to treat the pneumonia.
[36:56.06] JOHN: And pneumonia is what is treated with antibiotics—
[36:59.10] WITTKOWSKI: Pneumonia is what’s treated with antibiotics. Not the virus.
[37:04.08] JOHN: Okay. So, you feel that it’s—you may have already had COVID-19?
[37:10.06] WITTKOWSKI: Okay. At the end of that experience which reminds me of Camus’s Plague, if you ever read it, you will see lots of parallels, unfortunately. So, no, I am not scared. I may have had it, like many other people, who had a mild flu like I had, or had no symptoms whatsoever. That is the normal thing happening to 70% of the people in the end, or even 75%, and it is the remaining that get ill and need treatment. And they should seek treatment as early as possible—you shouldn’t wait. And it’s definitely helpful if you have health insurance.
[38:05.11] WITTKOWSKI: The problem in cities like New York is there are too many people who don’t have health insurance. And if you don’t have health insurance, you are hesitant to see your doctor. And if you are hesitant, you see the doctor too late, and if pneumonia has already progressed, and you see your doctor, it’s too late for antibiotics to be effective and you may die. The best way is isolate if you are old and fragile, and if you get the disease, see your doctor as soon as possible.
[38:53.07] JOHN: 75% you say won’t get any symptoms, maybe even 80%, right? Or is it more? I mean, do we know what that rate is right now?
[39:04.00] WITTKOWSKI: We don’t know what it is right now. For that, we would need to do antibody testing, and very wide antibody testing. However, we already see the epidemic declining and that is a sign that we have at least a substantial proportion of people who are immune. It may not be enough for herd immunity yet. We may not have reached the 80% that we need. But we may have 50%.
[39:34.12] JOHN: And so, what do you think we should do at this point? Should we pivot to what you suggested earlier or is it too late for what you suggested?
[39:45.18] WITTKOWSKI: It’s difficult to tell. It may be too late. It may not be too late. The problem is, if we are artificially keeping the number of infections low among low-risk people like schoolchildren and their parents, we may not have reached herd immunity yet, so if we are stopping, we may have an increase in the number of new infections. That is the downside of starting containment. We should not believe that we are more intelligent than Mother Nature was when we were evolving. Mother Nature was pretty good at making sure that we’re a good match for the disease that we happen to see virtually every year.
[40:40.09] LEE: But is this a pandemic? That’s the big question.
[40:44.07] WITTKOWSKI: It is a pandemic like every flu every year is.
[40:47.06] LEE: A pandemic, yeah?
[40:50.21] JOHN: So, is there anything else you want to say about this that—what’s been aggravating you the most? Or what would you like people to know?


21stcenturywire--2020-04-15--US Physician: ‘CDC and US Government Are Inflating COVID-19 Death Count’

Are the official death statistics for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 being manipulated to show a higher ‘ death count ’ than is actually the case ?
This appears to be happening , as evidenced by new medical guidelines issued by United States Center for Disease Control ( CDC ) specifically for COVID-19 .
It seems that arbitrary assumptions are being made which are feeding into the US government ’ s national statistics data bank .
Indeed , any person dying ‘ with ’ COVID-19 , or ‘ suspected symptoms of COVID-19 ’ concomitant with multiple long-term chronic medical conditions – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cause of death in the same way as a definitive diagnosis and determination of mortality of someone actually dying ‘ from ’ COVID-19 .
The result of this institutional distortion in numbers may have led to a massive inflation of COVD-19 fatalities , which in turn , is being use to justify oppressive ‘ lockdown ’ policies and economic and social devastation across the United States of America , and the world .
When confronted on this very issue , Dr Anthony Fauci , director of the US National Institute of Allergy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any queries on the matter as conspiracy theories .
“ There is absolutely no evidence that that ’ s the case at all … .
I think it falls under the category of something that ’ s very unfortunate – these conspiracy theories that we hear about .
Any time we have a crisis of any sort there is always this popping up of conspiracy theories , ” stated Fauci just last week .
However , the evidence strongly suggests his is not a theory , but rather an inconvenient truth of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( see her full video presentation below ) : “ At a time where telling the truth is considered a threat to the national security , we ’ re very blessed to have a pastor who tells us the truth .
We are blessed beyond measure .
… ” “ The decision for unprecedented government-mandated lockdown has been based on the alleged death rate of COVID-19 .
Is this death rate based on truth ?
… ” “ Are the reported deaths from COVID-19 truly deaths from COVID-19 ?
To address this question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since death certificates are the basic source of information about mortality .
… ” “ History-changing decisions are being made due to these figures despite the fact that they are flat-out wrong based on data that is insufficient and often inaccurate .
People know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician coroner or medical examiner signing the death certificate .
How do I know this ?
I ’ ve been filling out death certificates for over 30 years .
More often than we want to admit , we don @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of death when we fill out death certificates .
… ” “ Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form then that listed cause of death , whatever we list , is entered into a vital records databank to use for statistical analysis which then gives out inaccurate numbers as you can imagine .
Those inaccurate numbers are then accepted as factual information even though much of it is false .
So even before we heard of COVID-19 , death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there ’ s the additional data skewer that there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death.
” “ The Center for Disease Control , updated from yesterday April 4th , still states that “ mortality ” data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 .
… The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same , they call it death by COVID-19 .
They automatically overestimate the real death numbers by their own admission .
… ” “ We need to understand how the CDC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instructing physicians to fill out death certificates related to COVID-19 .
Brace yourselves , and please pay attention and let what I ’ m about to tell you sink in .
The assumption of COVID-19 death could be made even without testing .
Based on assumption alone , the death can be reported to the public as another COVID-19 casualty .
The March 24 , 2020 NVSS memo states “ Stephen Schwartz , national director of the division of vital statistics , says an answer to the question as stated in the organization @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test ?
” Check out his answer , “ If a patient is positive for COVID-19 and dies from another cause such as pneumococcal sepsis , it may be considered accurate to say that person died with COVID-19 not from COVID-19 .
Yet the CDC guideline lists this case as one more COVID-19 death and they go to the next questionable death , they label that as COVID-19 and it goes on and on .
You could see how these statistics have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is so easy to add false numbers to the official database .
Those false numbers are sanctioned by the CDC as of their memo yesterday , April 4th .
… ” “ The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think .
How many people actually died from COVID-19 is anyone ’ s guess .
… ” “ Based on inaccurate , incomplete data , people are being terrorized by fear-mongers into relinquishing freedoms.
” Watch this full video presentation from Dr. Annie Bukacek @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Many thanks to Global Research for providing the above part draft transcript of this video presentation .

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Are the official death statistics for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 being manipulated to show a higher ‘death count’ than is actually the case? This appears to be happening, as evidenced by new medical guidelines issued by United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) specifically for COVID-19. It seems that arbitrary assumptions are being made which are feeding into the US government’s national statistics data bank. Indeed, any person dying ‘with’ COVID-19, or ‘suspected symptoms of COVID-19’ concomitant with multiple long-term chronic medical conditions – cannot rightly be said to be the cause of death in the same way as a definitive diagnosis and determination of mortality of someone actually dying ‘from’ COVID-19. The result of this institutional distortion in numbers may have led to a massive inflation of COVD-19 fatalities, which in turn, is being use to justify oppressive ‘lockdown’ policies and economic and social devastation across the United States of America, and the world.
When confronted on this very issue, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, dismissed any queries on the matter as conspiracy theories. “There is absolutely no evidence that that’s the case at all …. I think it falls under the category of something that’s very unfortunate – these conspiracy theories that we hear about. Any time we have a crisis of any sort there is always this popping up of conspiracy theories,” stated Fauci just last week.
However, the evidence strongly suggests his is not a theory, but rather an inconvenient truth of this international crisis.
Dr. Annie Bukacek states (see her full video presentation below):
“At a time where telling the truth is considered a threat to the national security, we’re very blessed to have a pastor who tells us the truth. We are blessed beyond measure. …”
“The decision for unprecedented government-mandated lockdown has been based on the alleged death rate of COVID-19. Is this death rate based on truth? …”
“Are the reported deaths from COVID-19 truly deaths from COVID-19?
To address this question, we need to discuss death certificates since death certificates are the basic source of information about mortality. …”
“History-changing decisions are being made due to these figures despite the fact that they are flat-out wrong based on data that is insufficient and often inaccurate. People know how much individual power and leeway is given to the physician coroner or medical examiner signing the death certificate. How do I know this? I’ve been filling out death certificates for over 30 years. More often than we want to admit, we don’t know with certainty the cause of death when we fill out death certificates. …”
“Physicians make their best guesstimate and fill out the form then that listed cause of death, whatever we list, is entered into a vital records databank to use for statistical analysis which then gives out inaccurate numbers as you can imagine. Those inaccurate numbers are then accepted as factual information even though much of it is false. So even before we heard of COVID-19, death certificates were based on assumptions and educated guesses that go unquestioned.”
“When it comes to COVID-19, there’s the additional data skewer that there is no universal definition of COVID-19 death.”
“The Center for Disease Control, updated from yesterday April 4th, still states that “mortality” data includes both confirmed and presumptive positive cases of COVID-19. … The CDC counts both true COVID-19 cases and speculative guesses of COVID-19 the same, they call it death by COVID-19. They automatically overestimate the real death numbers by their own admission. …”
“We need to understand how the CDC and the National Vital Statistics System are instructing physicians to fill out death certificates related to COVID-19. Brace yourselves, and please pay attention and let what I’m about to tell you sink in. The assumption of COVID-19 death could be made even without testing. Based on assumption alone, the death can be reported to the public as another COVID-19 casualty. The March 24, 2020 NVSS memo states
“The rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.” …
“Stephen Schwartz, national director of the division of vital statistics, says an answer to the question as stated in the organization’s COVID-19 alert, “Should COVID-19 be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test?” Check out his answer,
“COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc.” …
“If a patient is positive for COVID-19 and dies from another cause such as pneumococcal sepsis, it may be considered accurate to say that person died with COVID-19 not from COVID-19. Yet the CDC guideline lists this case as one more COVID-19 death and they go to the next questionable death, they label that as COVID-19 and it goes on and on. You could see how these statistics have been made to look scary when it is so easy to add false numbers to the official database. Those false numbers are sanctioned by the CDC as of their memo yesterday, April 4th. …”
“The real number of COVID-19 deaths are not what most people are told and what they then think. How many people actually died from COVID-19 is anyone’s guess. …”
“Based on inaccurate, incomplete data, people are being terrorized by fear-mongers into relinquishing freedoms.”
Watch this full video presentation from Dr. Annie Bukacek based in Montana, USA:
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Many thanks to Global Research for providing the above part draft transcript of this video presentation.
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-14--Lockdown Backlash: Ohio Residents Protest

Ohio residents assembled at the State Capitol in Columbus on Monday to protest the ‘ Stay at Home ’ order @ @ @ @ @ on March 23rd .
The order was recently extended and remains in place until at @ @ @ @ @ video was captured on live stream as the protest happened .
Watch : Ohioans are @ @ @ @ @ , including Governor Mike DeWine and Director of Ohio Department of Health , Dr. Amy @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus outbreak in their state .
Acton , who is managing the state ’ s @ @ @ @ @ , told the public last month on lockdown day that “ Today is the day @ @ @ @ @ ” Protesters are calling for Acton to resign and want to ‘ reopen ’ Ohio @ @ @ @ @ North Carolina have also begun to mount protests in response to their own state-ordered lockdowns @

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Ohio residents assembled at the State Capitol in Columbus on Monday to protest the ‘Stay at Home’ order that was put in place on March 23rd. The order was recently extended and remains in place until at least May 1st.
This video was captured on live stream as the protest happened. Watch:
https://youtu.be/xhrzisFfuEE
Ohioans are protesting the way state officials, including Governor Mike DeWine and Director of Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton, have handled the coronavirus outbreak in their state.
Acton, who is managing the state’s health response to the crisis, told the public last month on lockdown day that “Today is the day we batten down the hatches.”
Protesters are calling for Acton to resign and want to ‘reopen’ Ohio.
Residents of Michigan and North Carolina have also begun to mount protests in response to their own state-ordered lockdowns.
The protestors are in violation of the Governor’s Executive Order and have been asked to leave. #ReopenNC pic.twitter.com/AIEetS42NE — Raleigh Police (@raleighpolice) April 14, 2020
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-14--Dr Shiva Blasts Lockdown, ‘Medieval Medicine’ of Fauci, Bill Gates and W.H.O.

Scientist and health freedom advocate , Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai , MIT PhD and biological systems expert , is now challenging @ @ @ @ @ medicine ” decisions being made by America ’ s self-appointed technocratic medical elite , namely @ @ @ @ @ billionaire oligarch and vaccine developer , Bill Gates .
Is the pharmaceutical industrial complex using @ @ @ @ @ crisis in order to leverage government policy and seize power over decision making ?
In @ @ @ @ @ speaks with indy news outlet , America ’ s Daily Report .
Watch :

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Scientist and health freedom advocate, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD and biological systems expert, is now challenging the authority and “medieval medicine” decisions being made by America’s self-appointed technocratic medical elite, namely Dr Anthony Fauci and colleague billionaire oligarch and vaccine developer, Bill Gates. Is the pharmaceutical industrial complex using the fear surrounding the COVID-19 crisis in order to leverage government policy and seize power over decision making?
In this powerful segment Dr. Shiva speaks with indy news outlet, America’s Daily Report. Watch:
https://youtu.be/NjjybyJ59Lw
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21stcenturywire--2020-04-14--Short Film: No It’s Not God (It’s Just Bill Gates)

If you haven ’ t yet noticed , Microsoft founder and billionaire oligarch Bill Gates is everywhere right now , @ @ @ @ @ chaos to advance his life ’ s work to vaccinate every man woman and child @ @ @ @ @ The closer you look at this globalist billionaire and transnational corporate network , the more @ @ @ @ @ .

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If you haven’t yet noticed, Microsoft founder and billionaire oligarch Bill Gates is everywhere right now, hoping to leverage the current chaos to advance his life’s work to vaccinate every man woman and child on the planet earth. The closer you look at this globalist billionaire and transnational corporate network, the more bizarre and frightening it becomes.
Truthstream Media presents “Look Who’s Coming to the Rescue!”
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