thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-30--Corona is More Than a Health Disaster – It’s a Human Calamity

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
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Covid-19 has divided world opinion in multiple ways , just as much if not more than the events of 911 .
Those endorsing the suppression route to conquering the virus , as implemented in China and Korea , and a bit belatedly Italy and Spain , include voices such as Tomas Pueyo ( The Hammer & the Dance ) , and many leaders of the global medical community .
CEOs of industries associated with the medical effort to stop Covid-19 , from pharmaceuticals to equipment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves hesitant about which approach to take , no doubt sensing as usual opportunities for massive enrichment but also fearing the possible blowback from a near universal panic which might end up eroding their capitalist privileges .
Business as usual has been enormously profitable , why tinker with that ?
Trump himself , ( whatever his actual personal beliefs or power in the US governmental apparatus ) , has characteristically done one of his famous flip-flops on the issue .
At the outset of the epidemic , Trump was more than dismissive of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force vast human retrenchments ; he was a major poo-pooer , not to mention a repulsive ( nothing new there either ) exploiter of the occasion to pile insults on China .
He kept saying that the regular flu kills every year many more people than this novel coronavirus—a brute fact that remains true to this day—and that there was no need to shut down the economy .
Now he has begun traveling in the opposite direction , albeit still confusingly : suggesting statewide lockdowns one day and a “ reopening of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rather ludicrous assumption .
Either way , his squandering of precious time in a crisis of this magnitude , and clearly anemic or non-existent interest in the fate of the working class , matched by his thinly veiled maneuvers to further enrich his class cronies ( the much ballyhooed “ 2 trillion rescue package ” —approved with the help of complicit Democrats and the usually economically illiterate presstitutes—is a scandalous gift to the 0.0001 % , as even a superficial examination reveals .
This is typical Trump , of course , but also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intended-is that this unexpected coronavirus curse is also a huge bonanza for the tiny global oligarchy running the capitalist show behind a multitude of masks .
Sounding the alarm about the largely unspoken dimensions of the Covid-19 emergency are skeptic voices like that of Peter Koenig .
Koenig is unconvinced about the severity of this medical challenge .
He points out that while the cost in human suffering might indeed prove colossal , this will not be not so much a product of viral agency as human chicanery .
So those are the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and , personally , I believe they are not as mutually cancelling as some could infer .
There ’ s certainly ineptitude and malignant opportunism in top capitalist circles ; and probably long-term sordid agendas , such as those advanced by the likes of Bill Gates and his coterie .
And , under no circumstance is capitalism properly designed to cope efficiently and humanely with problems of this nature .
But none of this totally denies the health threat that posed by Covid-19 .
For if I am quite ready to believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elites , I am not so sure China ’ s leaders would be thinking or acting along the same lines .
( They did not , as explained by the author below ) .
Indeed , China , after a brief moment of hesitation , went for the suppression strategy — ” the hammer ” —and did put under strict quarantine a region ( Hubei province , with epicenter Wuhan ) with more than 50 million people .
This , it should be stressed , was the prudent way to act at a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ available to project a more precise response but when Chinese scientists were already on te track of an infection wth suspicious vectors .
My option therefore is to move on both tracks .
Perfectly aware and ready to denounce and push back against the West ’ s brand of perfidious and inherently dishonest leadership but also careful with what is still a largely unpredictable and probably formidable foe .
Peter Koenig has done us all a big favor by injecting balance and caution and truth in what is already a chaotic situation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
-P. Greanville The New York Times of March 20 , asks rhetorically – “ Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease ?
” The coronavirus , known as COVID-19 – was declared a pandemic by WHO ’ s Director General , Dr. Tedros , on 30 January 2020 , when outside of China there were only 150 WHO-registered infections .
This declaration as a pandemic – nowhere justified – has devastating effects on the entire world population and the world ’ s socioeconomic fabric .
The globe is literally on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but the latest date put forward by President Trump is 12 April 2020 .
It can almost be taken for granted that the date will have global validity .
The world at large dances to the tune of the United States .
Some ten days ago , Mr. Trump declared that this “ situation ” is enough and that it is time to get the economy working again .
He is a businessman and knows best .
He suggested March 30 for going back to work .
He then must have gotten instructions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was needed – this is just my guess – to prepare whatever sinister plan is in the making .
So , he postponed by two weeks the “ back-to-normal ” day .
The coronavirus , COVID-19 , has a catastrophic impact on the world , on the population , on the economy , and most importantly on the livelihoods of about a quarter of the world population , who are at the margin or below the level of vulnerability and precariousness .
Without work , even occasional , hourly or daily work to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these people are doomed – doomed to die from disease , famine or sheer neglect .
Their disappearance will be unnoticed .
They are the non-people .
This fake pandemic is imposed on almost every country of the 193 UN members .
It is “ fake ” , because when the pandemic was declared , as said before , there were only 150 cases outside of China , in a population of 6.4 billion people .
This is by no stretch of imagination a pandemic .
Equally noteworthy , this decision was taken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) in Davos ( 21 – 24 January 2020 ) , behind closed doors , by an entirely non-medical , but political body .
Dr. Tedros , WHO ’ s DG , who for the first time in WHO ’ s history , is not a medical doctor , was present .
The short- medium- and long-term impact of this decision will be of a dimension that nobody can fathom at this time .
It may bring a paradigm shift in our lives and society that mankind has never experienced in the last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , scientists with integrity have started moving , standing up against authority , telling them the facts .
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi , Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , sent an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel , calling for urgent re-evaluation of the response to Covid-19 , asking the Chancellor five crucial questions .
This is the letter , dated 26 March 2020 https : //swprs.org/open-letter-from-professor-sucharit-bhakdi-to-german-chancellor-dr-angela-merkel/ ( Please see Appendix also ) .
What about China ?
You may ask .
China is different .
Virologists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what was originally called 2019-nCoV ( renamed by WHO to COVID-19 ) , was nothing else but a stronger mutation of the SARS virus that hit Hong Kong and China in 2002 / 2003 and which killed worldwide 774 people .
Since the SARS virus was tailor-made for the Chinese genome , Chinese scientists knew that its new and stronger mutation was also focused on the Chinese DNA .
China also knew , since it was a lab-made virus , that it came from outside , probably from the US which is waging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deadly virus may be an ideal -and invisible – tool to weaken China and her economy .
Therefore , without a moment of hesitation , China declared as quarantine large areas of the country , and later proceeded to a complete lock-down .
Thanks to this fast reaction by President Xi and the people ’ s discipline , China is now in control of COVID-19 – and her economy is rapidly recovering .
It is like a global coup d ’ état , carried out by an invisible Deep Dark State – in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ house arrest on everyone – not by guns or bombs , not by rolling tanks in the streets and an oppressive police force , but – by an invisible tiny-tiny enemy , a microscopic virus .
Can you imagine !
It ’ s sheer genius .
Controlling the world by – a virus .
You have to give it them .
The 0.001 % has brought the 99.99 % to their knees – and begging , begging for mercy .
Begging for vaccinations , ignorant of the cocktail of substances that this malignant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your body .
Please , please bring us vaccines .
People will run into the streets – when it is allowed again – offering their arms and bodies to anyone who comes with a syringe .
The injections may prove nefarious agents that sterilize , that may bring long-term neurological damage – damages that may be passed on to future generations , DNA-manipulating proteins – life-reducing agents ?
Injections may also comprise an electronic nano-chip that keeps track of all personal data , from health records to bank accounts .
At the stage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interested .
They want to get rid of fear and sleep again in peace at night .
This man-made outbreak of a pandemic is not new .
Of course , it ’ s never mentioned in the mainstream media , that the corona virus COVID-19 is laboratory-made ( and so are SARS , MERS , H1N1 Swine Flu , Ebola , Zika and many more ) , and that outbreaks can be and are being targeted on specific populations .
In fact , the infamous Plan for a New American Century ( PNAC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alive , in its update of 2000 , mentions on p.60 – that future wars may not be fought with conventional or nuclear weapons , but with invisible agents , biological weapons , viruses which are more effective than conventional weapons and don ’ t destroy infrastructure .
The new corona is the making of a bonanza for Big Pharma .
It was planned for years , and patterned on the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak , or the H1N1 virus .
It lasted for about a year – April 2009 to April 2010 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ) , the Swine flu killed about 12,500 people in the US , and caused worldwide about 300,000 deaths .
Contrary to COVID-19 , the vast majority , about 80 % , of H1N1 infected people were under 65 .
Then , like today , WHO declared a pandemic – green light for the pharma industry to race for the production of a vaccine .
The Big Pharma promised they could produce 4.9 billion H1N1 vaccines – they delivered millions to governments – which by the time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because the flu was over .
The taxpayers paid billions in vain .
Since the annual flu mutates from year to year , there was no use to keep the vaccines .
What some governments did , though – listen to this !
– they sent them to Africa as development assistance , where the vaccines , of course , were equally useless .
Today , we are again confronted with a tireless 24 x 7 propaganda machine , dishing out fear and anxiety –because of an invisible virus .
An enemy that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
An enemy that can not be followed , for example , how it spreads , or doesn ’ t spread .
An enemy that the people just have to believe the authorities exists .
How clever !
Propaganda and fear are enough to dominate within a few weeks the entire world population .
For example , a new Oxford University Study concluded that COVID-19 most likely exists in the UK since January 2020 , and that in the meantime about half of the British population has been infected , and is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Most people have none or only mild symptoms .
This would mean that only about 1 out of 1,000 infected people needs to be hospitalized , this corresponds to the common flu or less .
Here ’ s the study https : //www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042291v1 .
An American physician and the founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center , Dr. David Katz , says : Nobody of those who hyped-up the pandemic-panic seems to have a clear view of the Big Picture .
Government officials around the world are co-opted .
They follow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Or else .
This is an important step to bring about this gigantic societal paradigm change for the New World Order ( NOW ) to reign .
It involves a shift or enormous sums of resources over time , in the quadrillions , perhaps quintillions – are being moved from the common people to a small elite , or “ Dark Deep State ” , for lack of another term .
—– Key Organization Implementing the Dark State ’ s Destructive Endeavor There is a little-known agency , called Agenda ID2020 which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s agenda .
– The infamous Agenda ID2020 is a public-private partnership , including UN agencies and civil society .
Key partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( co-founder ) , the Rockefeller Foundation ( co-founder ) , Gavi , the Vaccine Alliance that “ brings together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world ’ s poorest countries ” ; Accenture , A global management consulting and professional services firm ; and IDEO.Org , an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ products , services , and experiences to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities.
” Agenda ID2020 ’ s principal objective is implementing an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity .
In May 2016 , at the impulse of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , the United Nations Office for Partnership ( UNOFP ) organized an international Summit in New York to create Agenda ID2020 .
According to the Summit ’ s own website , Agenda ID2020 is a strategic , global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Development Goal 16.9 : “ Provide legal identity to all , including birth registration , by 2030 … .
harnessing Digital Identity for the Global Community… .
Around one-fifth of the world ’ s population ( 1.8 billion people ) is without legal identity , which deprives them of access to healthcare , schools , shelter.
” The Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG ) 16 is to “ Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development , provide access to justice for all and build effective , accountable and inclusive institutions at all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ objective , the vaccination king , Bill Gates , needed a special sub-goal , No.16.9 – see above .
Agenda ID2020 is closely linked to GAVI , the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization – also a Bill Gates creation .
Gavi identifies itself on its website as a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to “ immunization for all ” .
GAVI is supported by WHO , and needless to say , its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry .
The ID2020 Alliance at their 2019 Summit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ID Challenge ” , in September 2019 in New York , decided to roll out their program in 2020 , a decision confirmed by the WEF in January 2020 in Davos .
Curiously , on October 18 , 2020 , The Gates Foundation , WEF and the john Hopkins Institute for Public Health sponsored Event 201in New York City .
Essentially , Event 201 focused on simulating a worldwide epidemic , which was coincidentally based on the SARS outbreak and called 2019-nCoV , the name first given to the outbreak in China , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ generic form , COVID-19 .
The simulation resulted over an 18-month period in 65 million deaths worldwide , a stock market dive of 15 % -plus and countless bankruptcies and unemployment .
Just a few weeks later , the first 2019-nCoV infected person was identified in Wuhan .
Coincidence ?
Is it also just a coincidence that ID2020 is being rolled out at the onset of what WHO calls a Pandemic ?
– Or is a pandemic needed to ‘ roll out ’ the multiple devastating programs of ID2020 ?
– See also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the outbreak , and only two weeks of complete world lock-down , we can already see signs of disastrous obliteration as the stock market dove at least 30 % , wiping out savings of small investors , bringing about bankruptcies of millions and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises around the globe , creating unemployment of biblical proportions , untold misery , poverty famine – and deaths – by starvation , rooflessness , despair , absence of health care – and ultimately suicide .
The New York Times reports on 27 March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for unemployment benefits , in an economy that is coming apart .
President Trump on 27 March signed a bill for US $ 2 billion as a rescue package .
Nobody really knows whom and how this money should benefit the desperate and jobless , the hungry and homeless .
This money is peanuts , as compared to the overall damage to the US economy alone .
Now , at the beginning of the crisis it is estimated at between US $ 3 and US $ 5 trillion , about a fourth of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 to US $ 20 trillion ?
And , we are far from the end if the calamity .
In developing countries , or the Global South , where poverty for a large proportion of the population is already rampant , the impact of this man-made disaster is even worse- and potentially irreversible .
The NYT reports that an estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide are in an acute precariousness .
Developing countries , especially big cities , have a large “ informal ” sector – often 30 % or higher of the so-called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people from age 15 to 35 , who have no fix jobs , who find occasional work on a daily or hourly basis on meekly wages that allow them just barely to survive .
With small enterprises or construction sites coming to a halt – going broke in most cases , these people have no longer not even a minimal income .
Their numbers will grow , as the economy is spiraling further into recession , the magnitude of which is uncertain , but most likely gigantic – and possibly irrecoverable .
These @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and often sick and desperate , they may turn to crime , or to suicide .
In Greece , for example , according to the Lancet , the suicide rate increased almost exponentially after the 2008 / 2009 also man-made debt-driven depression ( by Greece ’ s European traitors ) .
Crime rates may explode .
Hungry people have nothing to lose .
Looting supermarkets for food and other shops for cash – is nothing new .
Shanty towns in Europe and North America may rapidly proliferate .
Migration to rich or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be offered “ rescue ” type loans by the sorts of the World Bank and the IMF .
The WB has already offered at least US $ 12 billion to alleviate the adversities of the COVID-19 crisis .
The IMF started out with US $ 50 billion , and now following demand – from an estimated already 60 countries , upped the ante to a trillion .
Some IMF board members call for the creation of a special fund of up to 4 trillion SDRs ( Special Drawing Rights ) .
The “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sheer debt bondage – even at low interest – debt has to be repaid and the collateral is privatization of social services , infrastructure , concessions to foreign corporations to exploit their natural resources , oil , gas , forests , water , minerals , all what the rich oligarchs who stand behind this criminal Agenda ID2020 covet .
And so , another shuffling of funds from the grassroots to the top will take place – and further dependence and enslavement of people and entire nations is in the books .
Conspiracy theory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s what they always say .
Those who are attempting to wake people up , to tell them how corrupt the western system functions , are not only “ fake news ” conspiracy theorists , but they are linked to the Kremlin or to Beijing , as Russian or Chinese assets .
That ’ s standard .
—- The next step in this paradigm shift is uncertain ; it may not follow immediately after this corona-crisis .
That would be too obvious .
Instead there may be a respite – where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yes , forget .
Because that is an important tool of those who manage and manipulate humanity , our forgetfulness .
We may ask ourselves , what makes very-very rich and powerful people so pathologically inhumane for wanting to dominate not only mankind , but the entire Mother Earth with all her rich resources ?
What is it that brings about so much evil ?
– I don ’ t have the answer .
On a positive note… After Dark follows Light .
That ’ s a universal law of nature .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ dark cloud has a silver lining .
Might it be that this low-intensity ticking of the world may have an earth rejuvenating effect ?
Big portions of industrial pollutions have been wiped out , and healthier , oxygenated air moves in .
Air and water are in constant transition .
They move fast and endlessly .
Even a short break in the lambasting of nature may bring bright results – which in turn , may inspire changes in human behavior .
And a whole new ecological ball game may emerge .
Trees are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regenerate her constantly moving marine life , heavy industrial chimneys spewing out carbon dioxide have stopped – the skies got bluer , the grass greener , insects return and are happily chirping away – and the birds start singing again ?
– A dream ?
Some of it may have begun – there may be some humans who awakened to this new potentially cleaner , healthier and safer environment , a world of smiles that reflects the light that is gradually replacing the dark .
New , clean and safe life-sustaining activities may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We don ’ t know .
But we hope .
Dynamics are unpredictable , but endless .
We , mankind , do have the spiritual capacity to abandon the disaster path of western neoliberal capitalism , and instead espouse solidarity , compassion and love for each other , for our society and for Mother Earth , nourishing the emerging new era of Light .
An Open Letter from Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi , Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , to the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel .
Professor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the response to Covid-19 and asks the Chancellor five crucial questions .
The letter is dated March 26 .
This is an inofficial translation ; see the original letter in German as a PDF .
As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology , I feel obliged to critically question the far-reaching restrictions on public life that we are currently taking on ourselves in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus .
It is expressly not my intention to play down the dangers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political message .
However , I feel it is my duty to make a scientific contribution to putting the current data and facts into perspective – and , in addition , to ask questions that are in danger of being lost in the heated debate .
The reason for my concern lies above all in the truly unforeseeable socio-economic consequences of the drastic containment measures which are currently being applied in large parts of Europe and which are also already being practiced on a large scale in Germany .
My wish is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ foresight – the advantages and disadvantages of restricting public life and the resulting long-term effects .
To this end , I am confronted with five questions which have not been answered sufficiently so far , but which are indispensable for a balanced analysis .
I would like to ask you to comment quickly and , at the same time , appeal to the Federal Government to develop strategies that effectively protect risk groups without restricting public life across the board and sow the seeds for an even more intensive polarization of society than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – founded by Robert Koch himself – a traditional distinction is made between infection and disease .
An illness requires a clinical manifestation .
[ 1 ] Therefore , only patients with symptoms such as fever or cough should be included in the statistics as new cases .
In other words , a new infection – as measured by the COVID-19 test – does not necessarily mean that we are dealing with a newly ill patient who needs a hospital bed .
However , it is currently assumed that five percent of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ventilation .
Projections based on this estimate suggest that the healthcare system could be overburdened .
My question : Did the projections make a distinction between symptom-free infected people and actual , sick patients – i.e .
people who develop symptoms ?
A number of coronaviruses have been circulating for a long time – largely unnoticed by the media .
[ 2 ] If it should turn out that the COVID-19 virus should not be ascribed a significantly higher risk potential than the already circulating corona viruses , all countermeasures would obviously become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Antimicrobial Agents will soon publish a paper that addresses exactly this question .
Preliminary results of the study can already be seen today and lead to the conclusion that the new virus is NOT different from traditional corona viruses in terms of dangerousness .
The authors express this in the title of their paper „ SARS-CoV-2 : Fear versus Data “ .
[ 3 ] My question : How does the current workload of intensive care units with patients with diagnosed COVID-19 compare to other coronavirus infections , and to what extent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in further decision-making by the federal government ?
In addition : Has the above study been taken into account in the planning so far ?
Here too , of course , „ diagnosed “ means that the virus plays a decisive role in the patient ’ s state of illness , and not that previous illnesses play a greater role .
According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , not even the much-cited Robert Koch Institute knows exactly how much is tested for COVID-19 .
It is a fact , however , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of cases has recently been observed in Germany as the volume of tests increases .
[ 4 ] It is therefore reasonable to suspect that the virus has already spread unnoticed in the healthy population .
This would have two consequences : firstly , it would mean that the official death rate – on 26 March 2020 , for example , there were 206 deaths from around 37,300 infections , or 0.55 percent [ 5 ] – is too high ; and secondly , it would mean that it would hardly be possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the healthy population .
My question : Has there already been a random sample of the healthy general population to validate the real spread of the virus , or is this planned in the near future ?
The fear of a rise in the death rate in Germany ( currently 0.55 percent ) is currently the subject of particularly intense media attention .
Many people are worried that it could shoot up like in Italy ( 10 percent ) and Spain ( 7 percent ) if action is not taken in time .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being made worldwide to report virus-related deaths as soon as it is established that the virus was present at the time of death – regardless of other factors .
This violates a basic principle of infectiology : only when it is certain that an agent has played a significant role in the disease or death may a diagnosis be made .
The Association of the Scientific Medical Societies of Germany expressly writes in its guidelines : „ In addition to the cause of death , a causal chain must be stated , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ place on the death certificate .
Occasionally , four-linked causal chains must also be stated.
“ [ 6 ] At present there is no official information on whether , at least in retrospect , more critical analyses of medical records have been undertaken to determine how many deaths were actually caused by the virus .
My question : Has Germany simply followed this trend of a COVID-19 general suspicion ?
And : is it intended to continue this categorisation uncritically as in other countries ?
How , then , is a distinction to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ accidental virus presence at the time of death ?
The appalling situation in Italy is repeatedly used as a reference scenario .
However , the true role of the virus in that country is completely unclear for many reasons – not only because points 3 and 4 above also apply here , but also because exceptional external factors exist which make these regions particularly vulnerable .
One of these factors is the increased air pollution in the north of Italy .
According to WHO estimates , this situation , even without the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ per year in 2006 in the 13 largest cities in Italy alone .
[ 7 ] The situation has not changed significantly since then .
[ 8 ] Finally , it has also been shown that air pollution greatly increases the risk of viral lung diseases in very young and elderly people .
[ 9 ] Moreover , 27.4 percent of the particularly vulnerable population in this country live with young people , and in Spain as many as 33.5 percent .
In Germany , the figure is only seven percent [ 10 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prof. Dr. Reinhard Busse , head of the Department of Management in Health Care at the TU Berlin , Germany is significantly better equipped than Italy in terms of intensive care units – by a factor of about 2.5 [ 11 ] .
My question : What efforts are being made to make the population aware of these elementary differences and to make people understand that scenarios like those in Italy or Spain are not realistic here ?
[ 1 ] Fachwörterbuch Infektionsschutz und Infektionsepidemiologie .
[ 1 ] Fachwörterbuch Infektionsschutz und Infektionsepidemiologie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Robert Koch-Institut , Berlin 2015 .
( abgerufen am 26.3.2020 ) [ 2 ] Killerby et al.
, Human Coronavirus Circulation in the United States 2014–2017 .
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2018 , 101 , 52-56 [ 3 ] Roussel et al .
SARS-CoV-2 : Fear Versus Data .
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( abgerufen am 27.3.2020 ) [ 5 ] Johns Hopkins University , Coronavirus Resource Center .
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( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ S1-Leitlinie 054-001 , Regeln zur Durchführung der ärztlichen Leichenschau .
AWMF Online ( abgerufen am 26.3.2020 ) [ 7 ] Martuzzi et al .
Health Impact of PM10 and Ozone in 13 Italian Cities .
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WHOLIS number E88700 2006 [ 8 ] European Environment Agency , Air Pollution Country Fact Sheets 2019 , ( abgerufen am 26.3.2020 ) [ 9 ] Croft et al .
The Association between Respiratory Infection and Air Pollution in the Setting of Air Quality Policy and Economic Change .
Ann @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2019 , 16 , 321–330 .
[ 10 ] United Nations , Department of Economic and Social Affairs , Population Division .
Living Arrangements of Older Persons : A Report on an Expanded International Dataset ( ST/ESA/SER.A/407 ) .
2017 [ 11 ] Deutsches Ärzteblatt , Überlastung deutscher Krankenhäuser durch COVID-19 laut Experten unwahrscheinlich , ( abgerufen am 26.3.2020 ) Please note : Professor Bhakdi has no relation and no contact to SPR .
This is an article by senior contributing editor Peter Koenig

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Covid-19 has divided world opinion in multiple ways, just as much if not more than the events of 911. Those endorsing the suppression route to conquering the virus, as implemented in China and Korea, and a bit belatedly Italy and Spain, include voices such as Tomas Pueyo (The Hammer & the Dance) , and many leaders of the global medical community. CEOs of industries associated with the medical effort to stop Covid-19, from pharmaceuticals to equipment manufacturers—especially in the capitalist-dominated West— have shown themselves hesitant about which approach to take, no doubt sensing as usual opportunities for massive enrichment but also fearing the possible blowback from a near universal panic which might end up eroding their capitalist privileges. Business as usual has been enormously profitable, why tinker with that? Trump himself, (whatever his actual personal beliefs or power in the US governmental apparatus), has characteristically done one of his famous flip-flops on the issue. At the outset of the epidemic, Trump was more than dismissive of Covid-19's lethality and ability to force vast human retrenchments; he was a major poo-pooer, not to mention a repulsive (nothing new there either) exploiter of the occasion to pile insults on China. He kept saying that the regular flu kills every year many more people than this novel coronavirus—a brute fact that remains true to this day—and that there was no need to shut down the economy. Now he has begun traveling in the opposite direction, albeit still confusingly: suggesting statewide lockdowns one day and a "reopening of the economy" by mid April, a rather ludicrous assumption. Either way, his squandering of precious time in a crisis of this magnitude, and clearly anemic or non-existent interest in the fate of the working class, matched by his thinly veiled maneuvers to further enrich his class cronies (the much ballyhooed "2 trillion rescue package"—approved with the help of complicit Democrats and the usually economically illiterate presstitutes—is a scandalous gift to the 0.0001%, as even a superficial examination reveals. This is typical Trump, of course, but also typical US politics. The bottom line—pun intended-is that this unexpected coronavirus curse is also a huge bonanza for the tiny global oligarchy running the capitalist show behind a multitude of masks. Sounding the alarm about the largely unspoken dimensions of the Covid-19 emergency are skeptic voices like that of Peter Koenig. Koenig is unconvinced about the severity of this medical challenge. He points out that while the cost in human suffering might indeed prove colossal, this will not be not so much a product of viral agency as human chicanery. So those are the two poles of opinion we deal with, and, personally, I believe they are not as mutually cancelling as some could infer. There's certainly ineptitude and malignant opportunism in top capitalist circles; and probably long-term sordid agendas, such as those advanced by the likes of Bill Gates and his coterie. And, under no circumstance is capitalism properly designed to cope efficiently and humanely with problems of this nature. But none of this totally denies the health threat that posed by Covid-19. For if I am quite ready to believe the criminality of the West's elites, I am not so sure China's leaders would be thinking or acting along the same lines. (They did not, as explained by the author below). Indeed, China, after a brief moment of hesitation, went for the suppression strategy —"the hammer"—and did put under strict quarantine a region (Hubei province, with epicenter Wuhan) with more than 50 million people. This, it should be stressed, was the prudent way to act at a moment when medical data was still not available to project a more precise response but when Chinese scientists were already on te track of an infection wth suspicious vectors. My option therefore is to move on both tracks. Perfectly aware and ready to denounce and push back against the West's brand of perfidious and inherently dishonest leadership but also careful with what is still a largely unpredictable and probably formidable foe. Peter Koenig has done us all a big favor by injecting balance and caution and truth in what is already a chaotic situation, a con man's natural turf. -P. Greanville
By Peter Koenig
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he New York Times of March 20, asks rhetorically – “Is Our Fight Against Coronavirus Worse Than the Disease?”
The coronavirus, known as COVID-19 – was declared a pandemic by WHO’s Director General, Dr. Tedros, on 30 January 2020, when outside of China there were only 150 WHO-registered infections. This declaration as a pandemic – nowhere justified – has devastating effects on the entire world population and the world’s socioeconomic fabric. The globe is literally on lock-down, until – who knows – but the latest date put forward by President Trump is 12 April 2020. It can almost be taken for granted that the date will have global validity. The world at large dances to the tune of the United States.
Some ten days ago, Mr. Trump declared that this “situation” is enough and that it is time to get the economy working again. He is a businessman and knows best. He suggested March 30 for going back to work. He then must have gotten instructions from his higher-ups, that more time was needed – this is just my guess – to prepare whatever sinister plan is in the making. So, he postponed by two weeks the “back-to-normal” day.
The coronavirus, COVID-19, has a catastrophic impact on the world, on the population, on the economy, and most importantly on the livelihoods of about a quarter of the world population, who are at the margin or below the level of vulnerability and precariousness. Without work, even occasional, hourly or daily work to make some money to buy food, these people are doomed – doomed to die from disease, famine or sheer neglect. Their disappearance will be unnoticed. They are the non-people.
This fake pandemic is imposed on almost every country of the 193 UN members. It is “fake”, because when the pandemic was declared, as said before, there were only 150 cases outside of China, in a population of 6.4 billion people. This is by no stretch of imagination a pandemic. Equally noteworthy, this decision was taken by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (21 – 24 January 2020), behind closed doors, by an entirely non-medical, but political body. Dr. Tedros, WHO’s DG, who for the first time in WHO’s history, is not a medical doctor, was present.
The short- medium- and long-term impact of this decision will be of a dimension that nobody can fathom at this time. It may bring a paradigm shift in our lives and society that mankind has never experienced in the last 200 years and beyond.
In Germany, scientists with integrity have started moving, standing up against authority, telling them the facts. Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, sent an open letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, calling for urgent re-evaluation of the response to Covid-19, asking the Chancellor five crucial questions. This is the letter, dated 26 March 2020 https://swprs.org/open-letter-from-professor-sucharit-bhakdi-to-german-chancellor-dr-angela-merkel/ (Please see Appendix also).
What about China? You may ask. China is different. Virologists in Wuhan found out very early that what was originally called 2019-nCoV (renamed by WHO to COVID-19), was nothing else but a stronger mutation of the SARS virus that hit Hong Kong and China in 2002 / 2003 and which killed worldwide 774 people. Since the SARS virus was tailor-made for the Chinese genome, Chinese scientists knew that its new and stronger mutation was also focused on the Chinese DNA.
China also knew, since it was a lab-made virus, that it came from outside, probably from the US which is waging an economic war against China. A deadly virus may be an ideal -and invisible – tool to weaken China and her economy. Therefore, without a moment of hesitation, China declared as quarantine large areas of the country, and later proceeded to a complete lock-down. Thanks to this fast reaction by President Xi and the people’s discipline, China is now in control of COVID-19 – and her economy is rapidly recovering.
It is like a global coup d’état, carried out by an invisible Deep Dark State – in certain select countries imposing curfew and even house arrest on everyone – not by guns or bombs, not by rolling tanks in the streets and an oppressive police force, but – by an invisible tiny-tiny enemy, a microscopic virus. Can you imagine! It's sheer genius. Controlling the world by – a virus. You have to give it them. The 0.001% has brought the 99.99 % to their knees – and begging, begging for mercy. Begging for vaccinations, ignorant of the cocktail of substances that this malignant dark force may want to inject into your body. Please, please bring us vaccines. People will run into the streets – when it is allowed again – offering their arms and bodies to anyone who comes with a syringe.
The injections may prove nefarious agents that sterilize, that may bring long-term neurological damage – damages that may be passed on to future generations, DNA-manipulating proteins – life-reducing agents? Injections may also comprise an electronic nano-chip that keeps track of all personal data, from health records to bank accounts. At the stage of total despair, people are not interested. They want to get rid of fear and sleep again in peace at night.
This man-made outbreak of a pandemic is not new. Of course, it’s never mentioned in the mainstream media, that the corona virus COVID-19 is laboratory-made (and so are SARS, MERS, H1N1 Swine Flu, Ebola, Zika and many more), and that outbreaks can be and are being targeted on specific populations. In fact, the infamous Plan for a New American Century (PNAC), which is still very much alive, in its update of 2000, mentions on p.60 – that future wars may not be fought with conventional or nuclear weapons, but with invisible agents, biological weapons, viruses which are more effective than conventional weapons and don’t destroy infrastructure.
The new corona is the making of a bonanza for Big Pharma. It was planned for years, and patterned on the 2009 Swine Flu outbreak, or the H1N1 virus. It lasted for about a year – April 2009 to April 2010. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Swine flu killed about 12,500 people in the US, and caused worldwide about 300,000 deaths. Contrary to COVID-19, the vast majority, about 80%, of H1N1 infected people were under 65.
Then, like today, WHO declared a pandemic – green light for the pharma industry to race for the production of a vaccine. The Big Pharma promised they could produce 4.9 billion H1N1 vaccines – they delivered millions to governments – which by the time they arrived were no longer used, because the flu was over. The taxpayers paid billions in vain. Since the annual flu mutates from year to year, there was no use to keep the vaccines. What some governments did, though – listen to this! – they sent them to Africa as development assistance, where the vaccines, of course, were equally useless.
Today, we are again confronted with a tireless 24 x 7 propaganda machine, dishing out fear and anxiety --because of an invisible virus. An enemy that cannot be seen by the population. An enemy that cannot be followed, for example, how it spreads, or doesn’t spread. An enemy that the people just have to believe the authorities exists. How clever! Propaganda and fear are enough to dominate within a few weeks the entire world population.
For example, a new Oxford University Study concluded that COVID-19 most likely exists in the UK since January 2020, and that in the meantime about half of the British population has been infected, and is, thereby, immunized against the virus. Most people have none or only mild symptoms. This would mean that only about 1 out of 1,000 infected people needs to be hospitalized, this corresponds to the common flu or less. Here's the study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.24.20042291v1 .
An American physician and the founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, Dr. David Katz, says:
“I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health consequences of this near-total meltdown of normal life — schools and businesses closed, gatherings banned — will be long-lasting and calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself. The stock market will bounce back in time, but many businesses never will. The unemployment, impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health scourges of the first order.”
Nobody of those who hyped-up the pandemic-panic seems to have a clear view of the Big Picture. Government officials around the world are co-opted. They follow orders. They know they must. Or else. This is an important step to bring about this gigantic societal paradigm change for the New World Order (NOW) to reign. It involves a shift or enormous sums of resources over time, in the quadrillions, perhaps quintillions – are being moved from the common people to a small elite, or “Dark Deep State”, for lack of another term.
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Key Organization Implementing the Dark State’s Destructive Endeavor
There is a little-known agency, called Agenda ID2020 which is behind implementing the Dark Deep State’s agenda. – The infamous Agenda ID2020 is a public-private partnership, including UN agencies and civil society. Key partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (co-founder), the Rockefeller Foundation (co-founder), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance that “brings together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries”; Accenture, A global management consulting and professional services firm; and IDEO.Org, an international consulting firm, “to design products, services, and experiences to improve the lives of people in poor and vulnerable communities.”
Agenda ID2020’s principal objective is implementing an electronic ID program that uses generalized vaccination as a platform for digital identity. In May 2016, at the impulse of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Office for Partnership (UNOFP) organized an international Summit in New York to create Agenda ID2020. According to the Summit’s own website, Agenda ID2020 is a strategic, global initiative launched in response to the Sustainable Development Goal 16.9: “Provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030 …. harnessing Digital Identity for the Global Community…. Around one-fifth of the world’s population (1.8 billion people) is without legal identity, which deprives them of access to healthcare, schools, shelter.”
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 16 is to “Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.” To implement and justify this objective, the vaccination king, Bill Gates, needed a special sub-goal, No.16.9 – see above.
Agenda ID2020 is closely linked to GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization – also a Bill Gates creation. Gavi identifies itself on its website as a global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to “immunization for all”. GAVI is supported by WHO, and needless to say, its main partners and sponsors are the pharma-industry.
The ID2020 Alliance at their 2019 Summit, entitled “Rising to the Good ID Challenge”, in September 2019 in New York, decided to roll out their program in 2020, a decision confirmed by the WEF in January 2020 in Davos.
Curiously, on October 18, 2020, The Gates Foundation, WEF and the john Hopkins Institute for Public Health sponsored Event 201in New York City. Essentially, Event 201 focused on simulating a worldwide epidemic, which was coincidentally based on the SARS outbreak and called 2019-nCoV, the name first given to the outbreak in China, before WHO changed it to a more generic form, COVID-19.
The simulation resulted over an 18-month period in 65 million deaths worldwide, a stock market dive of 15%-plus and countless bankruptcies and unemployment. Just a few weeks later, the first 2019-nCoV infected person was identified in Wuhan. Coincidence?
Is it also just a coincidence that ID2020 is being rolled out at the onset of what WHO calls a Pandemic? – Or is a pandemic needed to ‘roll out’ the multiple devastating programs of ID2020? – See also https://www.globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-effects-real-danger-agenda-id2020/5706153 .
After three months of the outbreak, and only two weeks of complete world lock-down, we can already see signs of disastrous obliteration as the stock market dove at least 30%, wiping out savings of small investors, bringing about bankruptcies of millions and millions of small and medium-sized enterprises around the globe, creating unemployment of biblical proportions, untold misery, poverty famine - and deaths – by starvation, rooflessness, despair, absence of health care – and ultimately suicide.
The New York Times reports on 27 March, more than 3.3 million new claims for unemployment benefits, in an economy that is coming apart. President Trump on 27 March signed a bill for US$ 2 billion as a rescue package. Nobody really knows whom and how this money should benefit the desperate and jobless, the hungry and homeless. This money is peanuts, as compared to the overall damage to the US economy alone. Now, at the beginning of the crisis it is estimated at between US$ 3 and US$ 5 trillion, about a fourth of US GDP. Worldwide – US$ 10 to US$ 20 trillion? And, we are far from the end if the calamity.
In developing countries, or the Global South, where poverty for a large proportion of the population is already rampant, the impact of this man-made disaster is even worse- and potentially irreversible. The NYT reports that an estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide are in an acute precariousness.
Developing countries, especially big cities, have a large “informal” sector – often 30% or higher of the so-called work-force – which consists mostly of younger people from age 15 to 35, who have no fix jobs, who find occasional work on a daily or hourly basis on meekly wages that allow them just barely to survive. With small enterprises or construction sites coming to a halt – going broke in most cases, these people have no longer not even a minimal income. Their numbers will grow, as the economy is spiraling further into recession, the magnitude of which is uncertain, but most likely gigantic – and possibly irrecoverable.
These people, moneyless, roofless, hungry, and often sick and desperate, they may turn to crime, or to suicide. In Greece, for example, according to the Lancet, the suicide rate increased almost exponentially after the 2008 / 2009 also man-made debt-driven depression (by Greece’s European traitors). Crime rates may explode. Hungry people have nothing to lose. Looting supermarkets for food and other shops for cash – is nothing new. Shanty towns in Europe and North America may rapidly proliferate. Migration to rich or richer countries my explode.
Countries will be offered “rescue” type loans by the sorts of the World Bank and the IMF. The WB has already offered at least US$ 12 billion to alleviate the adversities of the COVID-19 crisis. The IMF started out with US$ 50 billion, and now following demand – from an estimated already 60 countries, upped the ante to a trillion. Some IMF board members call for the creation of a special fund of up to 4 trillion SDRs (Special Drawing Rights).
The “rescue” of these countries will be sheer debt bondage – even at low interest – debt has to be repaid and the collateral is privatization of social services, infrastructure, concessions to foreign corporations to exploit their natural resources, oil, gas, forests, water, minerals, all what the rich oligarchs who stand behind this criminal Agenda ID2020 covet. And so, another shuffling of funds from the grassroots to the top will take place – and further dependence and enslavement of people and entire nations is in the books.
Conspiracy theory? - Yes, of course, that’s what they always say. Those who are attempting to wake people up, to tell them how corrupt the western system functions, are not only “fake news” conspiracy theorists, but they are linked to the Kremlin or to Beijing, as Russian or Chinese assets. That’s standard.
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The next step in this paradigm shift is uncertain; it may not follow immediately after this corona-crisis. That would be too obvious. Instead there may be a respite – where the people may breathe – and forget. Yes, forget. Because that is an important tool of those who manage and manipulate humanity, our forgetfulness. We may ask ourselves, what makes very-very rich and powerful people so pathologically inhumane for wanting to dominate not only mankind, but the entire Mother Earth with all her rich resources? What is it that brings about so much evil? – I don’t have the answer.
On a positive note…
After Dark follows Light. That’s a universal law of nature. And as the saying goes, every dark cloud has a silver lining. Might it be that this low-intensity ticking of the world may have an earth rejuvenating effect? Big portions of industrial pollutions have been wiped out, and healthier, oxygenated air moves in. Air and water are in constant transition. They move fast and endlessly. Even a short break in the lambasting of nature may bring bright results – which in turn, may inspire changes in human behavior. And a whole new ecological ball game may emerge.
Trees are breathing again, the sea starting to regenerate her constantly moving marine life, heavy industrial chimneys spewing out carbon dioxide have stopped – the skies got bluer, the grass greener, insects return and are happily chirping away – and the birds start singing again? – A dream? Some of it may have begun – there may be some humans who awakened to this new potentially cleaner, healthier and safer environment, a world of smiles that reflects the light that is gradually replacing the dark. New, clean and safe life-sustaining activities may be born and coming to light. We don’t know. But we hope. Dynamics are unpredictable, but endless.
We, mankind, do have the spiritual capacity to abandon the disaster path of western neoliberal capitalism, and instead espouse solidarity, compassion and love for each other, for our society and for Mother Earth, nourishing the emerging new era of Light.
Appendix
Open Letter from Professor Sucharit Bhakdi to German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
An Open Letter from Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, to the German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel. Professor Bhakdi calls for an urgent reassessment of the response to Covid-19 and asks the Chancellor five crucial questions. The letter is dated March 26. This is an inofficial translation; see the original letter in German as a PDF. Open Letter Dear Chancellor, As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, I feel obliged to critically question the far-reaching restrictions on public life that we are currently taking on ourselves in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It is expressly not my intention to play down the dangers of the virus or to spread a political message. However, I feel it is my duty to make a scientific contribution to putting the current data and facts into perspective – and, in addition, to ask questions that are in danger of being lost in the heated debate. The reason for my concern lies above all in the truly unforeseeable socio-economic consequences of the drastic containment measures which are currently being applied in large parts of Europe and which are also already being practiced on a large scale in Germany. My wish is to discuss critically – and with the necessary foresight – the advantages and disadvantages of restricting public life and the resulting long-term effects. To this end, I am confronted with five questions which have not been answered sufficiently so far, but which are indispensable for a balanced analysis. I would like to ask you to comment quickly and, at the same time, appeal to the Federal Government to develop strategies that effectively protect risk groups without restricting public life across the board and sow the seeds for an even more intensive polarization of society than is already taking place. With the utmost respect, Prof. em. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi 1. Statistics In infectiology – founded by Robert Koch himself – a traditional distinction is made between infection and disease. An illness requires a clinical manifestation. [1] Therefore, only patients with symptoms such as fever or cough should be included in the statistics as new cases. In other words, a new infection – as measured by the COVID-19 test – does not necessarily mean that we are dealing with a newly ill patient who needs a hospital bed. However, it is currently assumed that five percent of all infected people become seriously ill and require ventilation. Projections based on this estimate suggest that the healthcare system could be overburdened. My question: Did the projections make a distinction between symptom-free infected people and actual, sick patients – i.e. people who develop symptoms? 2. Dangerousness A number of coronaviruses have been circulating for a long time – largely unnoticed by the media. [2] If it should turn out that the COVID-19 virus should not be ascribed a significantly higher risk potential than the already circulating corona viruses, all countermeasures would obviously become unnecessary. The internationally recognized International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents will soon publish a paper that addresses exactly this question. Preliminary results of the study can already be seen today and lead to the conclusion that the new virus is NOT different from traditional corona viruses in terms of dangerousness. The authors express this in the title of their paper „SARS-CoV-2: Fear versus Data“. [3] My question: How does the current workload of intensive care units with patients with diagnosed COVID-19 compare to other coronavirus infections, and to what extent will this data be taken into account in further decision-making by the federal government? In addition: Has the above study been taken into account in the planning so far? Here too, of course, „diagnosed“ means that the virus plays a decisive role in the patient’s state of illness, and not that previous illnesses play a greater role. 3. Dissemination According to a report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, not even the much-cited Robert Koch Institute knows exactly how much is tested for COVID-19. It is a fact, however, that a rapid increase in the number of cases has recently been observed in Germany as the volume of tests increases. [4] It is therefore reasonable to suspect that the virus has already spread unnoticed in the healthy population. This would have two consequences: firstly, it would mean that the official death rate – on 26 March 2020, for example, there were 206 deaths from around 37,300 infections, or 0.55 percent [5] – is too high; and secondly, it would mean that it would hardly be possible to prevent the virus from spreading in the healthy population. My question: Has there already been a random sample of the healthy general population to validate the real spread of the virus, or is this planned in the near future? 4. Mortality The fear of a rise in the death rate in Germany (currently 0.55 percent) is currently the subject of particularly intense media attention. Many people are worried that it could shoot up like in Italy (10 percent) and Spain (7 percent) if action is not taken in time. At the same time, the mistake is being made worldwide to report virus-related deaths as soon as it is established that the virus was present at the time of death – regardless of other factors. This violates a basic principle of infectiology: only when it is certain that an agent has played a significant role in the disease or death may a diagnosis be made. The Association of the Scientific Medical Societies of Germany expressly writes in its guidelines: „In addition to the cause of death, a causal chain must be stated, with the corresponding underlying disease in third place on the death certificate. Occasionally, four-linked causal chains must also be stated.“ [6] At present there is no official information on whether, at least in retrospect, more critical analyses of medical records have been undertaken to determine how many deaths were actually caused by the virus. My question: Has Germany simply followed this trend of a COVID-19 general suspicion? And: is it intended to continue this categorisation uncritically as in other countries? How, then, is a distinction to be made between genuine corona-related deaths and accidental virus presence at the time of death? 5. Comparability The appalling situation in Italy is repeatedly used as a reference scenario. However, the true role of the virus in that country is completely unclear for many reasons – not only because points 3 and 4 above also apply here, but also because exceptional external factors exist which make these regions particularly vulnerable. One of these factors is the increased air pollution in the north of Italy. According to WHO estimates, this situation, even without the virus, led to over 8,000 additional deaths per year in 2006 in the 13 largest cities in Italy alone. [7] The situation has not changed significantly since then. [8] Finally, it has also been shown that air pollution greatly increases the risk of viral lung diseases in very young and elderly people. [9] Moreover, 27.4 percent of the particularly vulnerable population in this country live with young people, and in Spain as many as 33.5 percent. In Germany, the figure is only seven percent [10]. In addition, according to Prof. Dr. Reinhard Busse, head of the Department of Management in Health Care at the TU Berlin, Germany is significantly better equipped than Italy in terms of intensive care units – by a factor of about 2.5 [11]. My question: What efforts are being made to make the population aware of these elementary differences and to make people understand that scenarios like those in Italy or Spain are not realistic here? References: [1] Fachwörterbuch Infektionsschutz und Infektionsepidemiologie. [1] Fachwörterbuch Infektionsschutz und Infektionsepidemiologie. Fachwörter – Definitionen – Interpretationen . Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin 2015. (abgerufen am 26.3.2020) [2] Killerby et al., Human Coronavirus Circulation in the United States 2014–2017. J Clin Virol. 2018, 101, 52-56 [3] Roussel et al. SARS-CoV-2: Fear Versus Data. Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents 2020, 105947 [4] Charisius, H. Covid-19: Wie gut testet Deutschland? Süddeutsche Zeitung. (abgerufen am 27.3.2020) [5] Johns Hopkins University, Coronavirus Resource Center . 2020. (abgerufen am 26.3.2020) [6] S1-Leitlinie 054-001, Regeln zur Durchführung der ärztlichen Leichenschau . AWMF Online (abgerufen am 26.3.2020) [7] Martuzzi et al. Health Impact of PM10 and Ozone in 13 Italian Cities. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. WHOLIS number E88700 2006 [8] European Environment Agency, Air Pollution Country Fact Sheets 2019 , (abgerufen am 26.3.2020) [9] Croft et al. The Association between Respiratory Infection and Air Pollution in the Setting of Air Quality Policy and Economic Change. Ann. Am. Thorac. Soc. 2019, 16, 321–330. [10] United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Living Arrangements of Older Persons: A Report on an Expanded International Dataset (ST/ESA/SER.A/407). 2017 [11] Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Überlastung deutscher Krankenhäuser durch COVID-19 laut Experten unwahrscheinlich , (abgerufen am 26.3.2020) Professor Sucharit Bhakdi explaining his Open Letter: Please note: Professor Bhakdi has no relation and no contact to SPR. Share this letter on: Twitter / Facebook Back to main article: A Swiss Doctor on Covid-19
This is an article by senior contributing editor Peter Koenig


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DISPATCHES FROM MOON OF ALABAMA , BY “ B ” This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches from Moon of Alabama Three weeks ago , when the Russian and Saudi war on U.S. shale oil started , we wrote : In the first week of January crude oil reached $ 69/bl but it has since dropped to $ 45/bl as the coronavirus crisis destroyed the global demand .
The Saudis tried @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the second largest exporter after Saudi Arabia , to together cut oil production to keep the price up .
But Russia rejected a new OPEC cut .
It wants to keep its production up and it will use the crisis to further undermine U.S. oil fracking production .
As the whole fracking boom in the U.S. is build on fraud the move might well be successful .
Russia does not have a budget deficit and is well positioned to survive lower crude oil prices without much damage .
Saudi Arabia is not .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ at $ 30/barrel and we predicted that it would go down to $ 20/bl .
On Monday the U.S. WTI oil price index reached that mark .
Oil prices in other places are falling even further : The corona virus crisis has led to drop in global demand by some 20 % .
The world production and consumption in normal times was at about 100 million barrel per day .
Consumption is now below 80 million bl/d .
But after the OPEC+ agreement failed Saudi and Russia both started to pump as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Together they are increasing their production by some 3-4 million barrels per day .
All that oil has to go somewhere .
Trump announced that he would use the cheap prices to fill the U.S. strategic oil reserve .
But the spare room in the reserve storage at that time was only some 150 million barrels .
As it can only be filled at a rate of 2 million barrels per day the topping off of the reserve is insignificant in the current market .
The oil producers at first pumped their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later .
When those filled up they rented supertankers to store the oil at sea .
But empty supertankers are now also getting rare and the price for them is increasing : The only solution will be a shut down of the more expensive oil fields .
Canada and Brazil are already doing it .
U.S. shale producers who are bleeding cash will now have to follow .
That is clearly what Russia wants : The Trump administration has asked the Saudis to produce less oil but as the Saudi tourist industry is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ needs every dollar he can get .
The Saudis will continue to pump and they will sell their oil at any price .
The White House is now concerned that it will completely lose its beloved shale oil industry and all the jobs connected to it .
Russia of cause knows this and a few days ago it made an interesting offer : A new OPEC+ deal to balance oil markets might be possible if other countries join in , Kirill Dmitriev , head of Russia ’ s sovereign wealth fund said , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cushion the economic fallout from coronavirus .
… “ Joint actions by countries are needed to restore the ( global ) economy… They ( joint actions ) are also possible in OPEC+ deal ’ s framework , ” Dmitriev , head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund ( RDIF ) , told Reuters in a phone interview .
… “ We are in contact with Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries .
Based on these contacts we see that if the number of OPEC+ members will increase and other countries will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ joint agreement to balance oil markets.
” Dmitriev declined to say who the new deal ’ s members should or could be .
U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would get involved in the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia at the appropriate time .
A logical new member of an expanded crude oil cartel would be one of the biggest global producers that so far was not a member of that club – the U.S. of A .
We now learn that Trump is ready to talk about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who sanctioned the Russian-German Nord-Stream II pipeline while telling Germany to buy U.S. shale gas , is now in a quite bad negotiation position .
Russia does not need a new OPEC deal right now .
It has many financial reserves and can live with low oil prices for much longer than the Saudis and other oil producing countries .
Trump would have to make a strategic offer that Russia could not resist to get some cooperation on oil prices .
But what offer could Trump make that would move Putin to agree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia is not interested in that unrulable , bankrupt and fascist infested entity .
Syria ?
The Zionist billionaires would stop their donations to Trump if he would give up on destroying it .
Joining an OPEC++ deal and limit U.S. oil production ?
That would be an anti-American intervention in free markets and Congress would never agree to it .
And what reason has Russia to believe that Trump or his successor would stick to any deal ?
As the U.S. is non-agreement-capable it has none .
The outcome of the phone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The carnage in the oil markets will continue and will ravage those producer countries that need every penny while the corona virus is ravaging their people .
Meanwhile the U.S. shale market will go bust .
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Three weeks ago, when the Russian and Saudi war on U.S. shale oil started, we wrote:
In the first week of January crude oil reached $69/bl but it has since dropped to $45/bl as the coronavirus crisis destroyed the global demand. The Saudis tried to make a deal with Russia, the second largest exporter after Saudi Arabia, to together cut oil production to keep the price up. But Russia rejected a new OPEC cut. It wants to keep its production up and it will use the crisis to further undermine U.S. oil fracking production. As the whole fracking boom in the U.S. is build on fraud the move might well be successful. Russia does not have a budget deficit and is well positioned to survive lower crude oil prices without much damage. Saudi Arabia is not.
Only a week later oil was already at $30/barrel and we predicted that it would go down to $20/bl.
On Monday the U.S. WTI oil price index reached that mark. Oil prices in other places are falling even further:
Canadian heavy crude has become so cheap that the cost of shipping it to refineries exceeds the value of the oil itself, a situation that may result in even more oil-sands producers shutting operations. Western Canadian Select crude in Alberta dropped to a record-low close of $5.06 a barrel on Friday, according to Bloomberg data going back to 2008 ...
The corona virus crisis has led to drop in global demand by some 20%. The world production and consumption in normal times was at about 100 million barrel per day. Consumption is now below 80 million bl/d. But after the OPEC+ agreement failed Saudi and Russia both started to pump as much as they could to regain market shares. Together they are increasing their production by some 3-4 million barrels per day. All that oil has to go somewhere.
Trump announced that he would use the cheap prices to fill the U.S. strategic oil reserve. But the spare room in the reserve storage at that time was only some 150 million barrels. As it can only be filled at a rate of 2 million barrels per day the topping off of the reserve is insignificant in the current market.
The oil producers at first pumped their oil into storage tanks to be sold later. When those filled up they rented supertankers to store the oil at sea. But empty supertankers are now also getting rare and the price for them is increasing:
The CEO of the world’s largest tanker owner, Frontline Ltd., said on Friday that he’d never known such demand to hire ships for long-term storage. Traders could book ships to put 100 million barrels at sea this week alone, he estimated, but even that could accounts for less than a week’s oversupply.
The only solution will be a shut down of the more expensive oil fields. Canada and Brazil are already doing it. U.S. shale producers who are bleeding cash will now have to follow.
That is clearly what Russia wants:
As soon as U.S. shale leaves the market, prices will rebound and could reach $60 a barrel, Rosneft’s Igor Sechin said recently. As fate would have it, in what many would have until recently considered an impossible scenario, a lot of U.S. shale might do just that. Breakeven prices for U.S. shale basins range between $39 and $48 a barrel, according to data compiled by Reuters. Meanwhile, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is trading below $25 a barrel and has been for over a week now.
The Trump administration has asked the Saudis to produce less oil but as the Saudi tourist industry is currently also dead the Saudi clown prince needs every dollar he can get. The Saudis will continue to pump and they will sell their oil at any price.
The White House is now concerned that it will completely lose its beloved shale oil industry and all the jobs connected to it.
Russia of cause knows this and a few days ago it made an interesting offer:
A new OPEC+ deal to balance oil markets might be possible if other countries join in, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said, adding that countries should also cooperate to cushion the economic fallout from coronavirus.
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“Joint actions by countries are needed to restore the(global) economy... They (joint actions) are also possible in OPEC+ deal’s framework,” Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), told Reuters in a phone interview.
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“We are in contact with Saudi Arabia and a number of other countries. Based on these contacts we see that if the number of OPEC+ members will increase and other countries will join there is a possibility of a joint agreement to balance oil markets.” Dmitriev declined to say who the new deal’s members should or could be. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would get involved in the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia at the appropriate time.
A logical new member of an expanded crude oil cartel would be one of the biggest global producers that so far was not a member of that club - the U.S. of A.
We now learn that Trump is ready to talk about that or other concepts:
As Ria reports (in Russian) the topics of upcoming phone call [between Putin and Trump] will be Covid-19, trade (???) and, you guessed it, oil prices.
Trump, who sanctioned the Russian-German Nord-Stream II pipeline while telling Germany to buy U.S. shale gas, is now in a quite bad negotiation position. Russia does not need a new OPEC deal right now. It has many financial reserves and can live with low oil prices for much longer than the Saudis and other oil producing countries. Trump would have to make a strategic offer that Russia could not resist to get some cooperation on oil prices.
But what strategic offer could Trump make that would move Putin to agree to some new deal?
Ukraine? Russia is not interested in that unrulable, bankrupt and fascist infested entity.
Syria? The Zionist billionaires would stop their donations to Trump if he would give up on destroying it.
Joining an OPEC++ deal and limit U.S. oil production? That would be an anti-American intervention in free markets and Congress would never agree to it.
And what reason has Russia to believe that Trump or his successor would stick to any deal? As the U.S. is non-agreement-capable it has none.
The outcome of the phone call will therefore likely be nothing.
The carnage in the oil markets will continue and will ravage those producer countries that need every penny while the corona virus is ravaging their people. Meanwhile the U.S. shale market will go bust.
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NOTE ^1000Careerist lackeys serving the elites control the American press. Ever pushing for war and inequality, covering up the oligarchy's crimes... They are in reality shameless disinformers. No wonder the world is in such terrible disarray.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-30--’CHINESE VIRUS’ RHETORIC SHOWS INEPTNESS OF U.S. POLITICIANS

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he Western mass media is extremely busy frightening its own citizens and the entire world with statements like : “ A leaked government document has suggested up to 500,000 people could die from coronavirus if the disease is able to infect up to 80 per cent of the country.
” That ’ s what The Independent wrote on 26 February 2020 .
And that horrifying number of the fatalities ‘ could occur ’ according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United Kingdom .
It all feels bizarre .
As if the Western regime were preparing its citizens and the world ‘ for the most awful scenario.
’ As if there were no solution to this dire global crisis .
“ Chinese Virus ” , says the U.S. President Donald Trump .
He pronounces it with spite , and naturally , China feels deeply insulted .
Some citizens and the government officials had enough of the continuous , racist abuses , and they are openly protesting .
Well , first of all , do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has originated from ?
In Wuhan ?
But how did it get to Wuhan , and what triggered the epidemic ?
We don ’ t know .
Nobody really knows .
Without pointing fingers or drawing conclusions , what we do know is that the U.S. has been engaged in various chemical and biological warfare , in several parts of the world , including Latin America .
It also does all it can to provoke and to even damage the People ’ s Republic of China : psychologically , politically , economically and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facts .
No need to draw conclusions , yet .
In the meantime , China is helping more than 80 countries worldwide to combat the epidemic .
The White House obviously does not like what China is doing .
It is petrified that the most obvious facts would be detected by the people in the United States , in Europe and the rest of the Planet : that North America failed , that the European Union failed , and that most of the allies of the West failed , squarely and patently .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ save humanity , the more punches it is receiving .
And not only China , but also Cuba , and several other socialist nations , which are defending their people instead of business interests .
On 21 March 2020 , The Daily Beast wrote in its report ‘ White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘ Cover-Up ’ : “ As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow at a rapid pace in the U.S. , the White House is launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ cover-up ” and creating a global pandemic , according to two U.S. officials and a government cable obtained by The Daily Beast.
” And that ’ s not all .
The report continued : “ The cable was disseminated to officials at a time when the administration is engrossed in a communications battle around how to disseminate the flow of crucial health information to the American public while at the same time deflecting criticism that the White House was unprepared for the pandemic and that President Trump is at odds with members @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington has passed off blame to Beijing for its own failures in addressing the Covid-19 outbreak , China ’ s Foreign Ministry said , hitting back at the ‘ Chinese virus ’ rhetoric with the ironic term ‘ Trumpandemic.
’ “ Some people in the United States attempt to stigmatize China ’ s fight against the epidemic and shirk its responsibility to China , ” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told reporters on Friday , referring to the finger-pointing adopted by President Trump and other top officials ( after weeks of US media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and ‘ Wuhan ’ virus ) .
This practice ignores the huge sacrifices made by the Chinese people to safeguard human health and safety , and denigrates China ’ s major public health security contributions.
” The bottom-line is clear : China defeated the coronavirus in an incredibly short time .
It shared its experience , then began helping many countries , including those in the West .
( Italy and Serbia have been visibly and vocally grateful , among other nations assisted by Chinese teams . )
Chinese airplanes and even trains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ helping to save lives on all continents , in some 80+ countries .
Russia is doing its best , too , and so is Cuba .
What is difficult to comprehend is why the Western countries refused to follow the Chinese example ?
The approach of London , Washington and Rome is sporadic , schizophrenic , deadly .
Compared to what the West is doing now to its people , China , even at the height of the virus outbreak , was using relatively a mild approach .
Most of the major Chinese @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the battle of COVID-19 was raging , China continued to function .
Every step of Beijing was logical and determined .
Millions of lives were spared as a result .
So , why , despite the extreme measures applied , are hundreds of Italians dying every day , as well as hundreds of other Europeans and North Americans ?
Italy is one of the richest countries on Earth .
Is it just a sloppiness of the Western medical system ?
Is it simply bad planning ?
Or is it something much , much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analyze , and find out soon .
But whatever it is , it is damaging the world , already ruining , directly and indirectly , millions of lives , perhaps irreversibly .
President Trump may be insulting those brave countries which are defending their citizens , as well as the countries that are fighting for the survival of men , women and children , regardless of their age , race and nationality .
But it is China , Russia and Cuba , which are now clearing the mess created by Washington , Rome @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is finally paying attention !
And it is Beijing , Moscow and other capitals , which are now asking questions !

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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Western mass media is extremely busy frightening its own citizens and the entire world with statements like:
“A leaked government document has suggested up to 500,000 people could die from coronavirus if the disease is able to infect up to 80 per cent of the country.”
That’s what The Independent wrote on 26 February 2020. And that horrifying number of the fatalities ‘could occur’ according to the ‘documents’ in the United Kingdom.
It all feels bizarre. As if the Western regime were preparing its citizens and the world ‘for the most awful scenario.’
As if there were no solution to this dire global crisis.
“Chinese Virus”, says the U.S. President Donald Trump. He pronounces it with spite, and naturally, China feels deeply insulted. Some citizens and the government officials had enough of the continuous, racist abuses, and they are openly protesting.
Well, first of all, do we even really know where the virus has originated from? In Wuhan? But how did it get to Wuhan, and what triggered the epidemic? We don’t know. Nobody really knows.
Without pointing fingers or drawing conclusions, what we do know is that the U.S. has been engaged in various chemical and biological warfare, in several parts of the world, including Latin America. It also does all it can to provoke and to even damage the People’s Republic of China: psychologically, politically, economically and, perhaps, physically.
These are facts. No need to draw conclusions, yet.
In the meantime, China is helping more than 80 countries worldwide to combat the epidemic.
The White House obviously does not like what China is doing. It is petrified that the most obvious facts would be detected by the people in the United States, in Europe and the rest of the Planet: that North America failed, that the European Union failed, and that most of the allies of the West failed, squarely and patently.
And the more China is doing to save humanity, the more punches it is receiving. And not only China, but also Cuba, and several other socialist nations, which are defending their people instead of business interests.
On 21 March 2020, The Daily Beast wrote in its report ‘White House Pushes U.S. Officials to Criticize China For Coronavirus ‘Cover-Up’:
“As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow at a rapid pace in the U.S., the White House is launching a communications plan across multiple federal agencies that focuses on accusing Beijing of orchestrating a “cover-up” and creating a global pandemic, according to two U.S. officials and a government cable obtained by The Daily Beast.”
And that’s not all. The report continued:
“The cable was disseminated to officials at a time when the administration is engrossed in a communications battle around how to disseminate the flow of crucial health information to the American public while at the same time deflecting criticism that the White House was unprepared for the pandemic and that President Trump is at odds with members of his coronavirus task force.”
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On 20 March2020, RT wrote:
‘Washington has passed off blame to Beijing for its own failures in addressing the Covid-19 outbreak, China’s Foreign Ministry said, hitting back at the ‘Chinese virus’ rhetoric with the ironic term ‘Trumpandemic.’
“Some people in the United States attempt to stigmatize China's fight against the epidemic and shirk its responsibility to China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang told reporters on Friday, referring to the finger-pointing adopted by President Trump and other top officials (after weeks of US media outlets calling it the 'Chinese' and 'Wuhan' virus).
This practice ignores the huge sacrifices made by the Chinese people to safeguard human health and safety, and denigrates China's major public health security contributions.”
The bottom-line is clear: China defeated the coronavirus in an incredibly short time. It shared its experience, then began helping many countries, including those in the West. (Italy and Serbia have been visibly and vocally grateful, among other nations assisted by Chinese teams.)
Chinese airplanes and even trains packed with equipment and medical staff are helping to save lives on all continents, in some 80+ countries. Russia is doing its best, too, and so is Cuba.
What is difficult to comprehend is why the Western countries refused to follow the Chinese example? The approach of London, Washington and Rome is sporadic, schizophrenic, deadly.
Compared to what the West is doing now to its people, China, even at the height of the virus outbreak, was using relatively a mild approach. Most of the major Chinese cities were never fully locked-down. While the battle of COVID-19 was raging, China continued to function. Every step of Beijing was logical and determined. Millions of lives were spared as a result.
So, why, despite the extreme measures applied, are hundreds of Italians dying every day, as well as hundreds of other Europeans and North Americans?
Italy is one of the richest countries on Earth.
Is it just a sloppiness of the Western medical system? Is it simply bad planning? Or is it something much, much more sinister?
We will investigate, analyze, and find out soon.
But whatever it is, it is damaging the world, already ruining, directly and indirectly, millions of lives, perhaps irreversibly.
President Trump may be insulting those brave countries which are defending their citizens, as well as the countries that are fighting for the survival of men, women and children, regardless of their age, race and nationality. But it is China, Russia and Cuba, which are now clearing the mess created by Washington, Rome, Paris and London. The world is finally paying attention! And it is Beijing, Moscow and other capitals, which are now asking questions!
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[Shorter version first published by China Daily Hong Kong]