thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-16--Is the global pandemic a product of the elite’s Malthusian agenda and U.S. biowarfare?

On March 11th , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ) to be a global pandemic , the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009 .
Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December , just four months later there are now over 150,000 cases in more than 130 countries which has put many on total lockdown while the world economy has been brought to a virtual standstill .
While the People ’ s Republic of China was the first country to report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presumption that the coronavirus ( SARS-CoV-2 ) must have emerged in the capital of Hubei province that has not been held under sufficient scrutiny by Western corporate media .
The question of whether the COVID-19 coronavirus could have come from the U.S. army was controversially raised by China ’ s Foreign Ministry spokesman , Liljian Zhao , who tweeted an article from the Center for Research on Globalization website which subsequently went viral .
Feigning concern over the spread of “ disinformation ” , Western media coverage uniformly avoided sourcing the article Zhao @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dismissing the claim as a “ conspiracy theory.
” Meanwhile , Iran ’ s Civil Defense Chief also said the coronavirus could be a biological attack on China and Iran , as the Islamic Republic has been the third-most impacted nation with more than 12,000 cases including many at the highest levels of its government with multiple senior officials infected .
Contrary to such mainstream media scaremongering , it is completely reasonable and should be permitted to speculate about the origins of the virus .
That Zhao ’ s posing of the theory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. establishment is telling of how delicate their propaganda echo chamber is .
Although the disease is widely assumed to have been first transmitted through zoonosis because the earliest grouping of cases were linked to a Wuhan seafood market trading exotic wildlife in late December , the actual first known case was traced to the beginning of the month and may not have been originally passed through an animal .
Many on the political right have even suggested the coronavirus is an effect of Chinese biological warfare which unexpectedly leaked from a lab @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pages of propaganda rags like The Washington Times , a newspaper owned by the founder of the right-wing Korean Unification Church cult , Sun Myung Moon , as well as The Epoch Times of the similarly fascistic religious sect of Chinese expatriates , the CIA-linked Falun Gong .
In spite of that , it is true that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has close ties to the Galveston National Laboratory in the University of Texas , one of the Pentagon ’ s largest biological defense lab programs .
Whereas no evidence exists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 , nor does the PRC have a history of engaging in bio-warfare , there is an abundance of proof that the U.S. government has long been involved in the manufacturing and use of biological weapons since the Korean war .
When the accusations were first made by North Korea and China that the U.S. was using biological and germ warfare in the 1950–1953 Korean War , they were rejected outright by Washington as a hoax and rebuffed by the Western-biased WHO .
In the decades since , the U.S. has maintained its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is divided .
However , an unredacted report from 1952 from an investigation sponsored by the World Peace Council and conducted by an International Scientific Commission headed by Sir Joseph Needham , a highly reputable British biochemist of his era , was unearthed in 2018 and presents ample substantiation of the allegations , including eyewitness testimony , photographic evidence and documented confessions by American POWs .
More disturbingly , the investigation indicates direct links between the U.S. biological warfare program and the germ warfare program of Unit 731 , a clandestine bio and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World War II .
During the Cold War , the Japanese researchers were secretly given immunity and recruited by the U.S. in exchange for their knowledge in human experimentation , along with many “ former ” Nazi scientists in Operation Paperclip .
Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army collected data not only through performing deadly experiments on humans but environmentally testing “ plague bombs ” by dropping them on Chinese cities to see whether they could start disease outbreaks .
Many of these tactics were continued by the U.S. in the Korean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalist and author of Poisoner in Chief : Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control , the CIA ’ s Project MK-ULTRA which was coordinated with the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories was : “ …Essentially a continuation of work that began in Japanese and Nazi concentration camps .
Not only was it roughly based on those experiments , but the CIA actually hired the vivisectionists and the torturers who had worked in Japan and in Nazi concentration camps to come and explain what they had found out so that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Olson , one of the biowarfare scientists and CIA employees in the program who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953 , is the subject of the Netflix docu-drama series Wormwood , directed by Errol Morris and featuring renowned journalist Seymour Hersh , which reveals Olson may have been a potential government whistleblower on the CIA ’ s activities and U.S. bio-war crimes .
It is worth noting that the usage of such agents in the Korean War included Chinese targets , the last and only major armed conflict between the U.S. and China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven to be a product of U.S. biowarfare against Beijing , it would not be the first time .
Officially , the U.S. is said to have abandoned its bioweapons program in 1969 , but its installation in Fort Detrick , Maryland , has continued conducting research into deadly pathogens and viruses on the stated purpose of bio-defense , as well as fighting disease outbreaks , developing vaccines , and other public health concerns .
Yet just last year , research into fatal viruses and bioweapons were suspended amid concerns they could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Fort Detrick ’ s germ warfare research was suspended was in 2009 after the Pentagon found discrepancies in the inventory of its infectious agents , the same year as the last pandemic of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak .
Fort Detrick has been under tighter restrictions since the 2001 anthrax attacks were traced to Bruce Ivins , a senior biodefense researcher at the facility .
The suspected perpetrator and army biologist committed suicide in 2008 after learning the FBI was going to charge him with terrorism , which if proven to be true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own biodefense research itself had led to rather than protected the American public from bioterrorism — though there is plenty of evidence suggesting Ivins was framed by the feds .
As journalist Whitney Webb uncovered , the U.S. Army ’ s Medical Research branch headquartered in Maryland has cooperated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology mentioned previously for decades .
Toying around with organisms that can produce disease is a regular practice for the Pentagon .
In 2005 , U.S. scientists announced that they had even successfully recreated the avian influenza flu virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 50 million people worldwide in 1918 , widely known as the ‘ Spanish flu.
’ The name is actually a misnomer , as it was disproportionately attributed to Spain which was neutral in World War I and was not subject to the same wartime censorship of the press to upkeep morale like in Germany , the UK , France and the U.S. whose media initially underreported the pandemic ’ s effects in their respective countries .
The geographic source of the Spanish flu is still the subject of much debate , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a U.S. military installation in Fort Riley , Kansas in 1918 .
Needless to say , the risks involved with resurrecting a disease that wiped out more than a quarter of the world ’ s population are not trivial , but this did not prevent the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from extracting the genetic coding of the Spanish flu from the exhumed corpse of a Native Alaskan woman frozen in the ground who died of the disease in an Inuit town in 1918 .
If such a mandatory vaccination program were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for COVID-19 , the government would have to reassure the public its previous negligence of such side effects would not be repeated , an unlikely scenario after the corporate breach of trust exposed on Wall Street in recent years involving large pharmaceutical firms .
Regardless , Big Pharma is already partnering with the U.S. army to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus which would have to be tested and evaluated before licensing by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and recommended for use by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ partner with the WHO whose largest financial contributor is the U.S. government .
One of the WHO ’ s other largest benefactors is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with whom it has a partnership on vaccinations .
The billionaire Microsoft Corporation founder has used his enormous wealth to dodge paying taxes under the guise of philanthropy and his ‘ charitable ’ private ventures have mostly focused on producing vaccines for developing countries and purportedly tackling global poverty , especially in Africa .
On the surface this may appear to be benevolent work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is a scheme which allows ultra-wealthy plutocrats like Gates to influence global policy and obtain political power with no accountability by investing in “ fixing ” the social problems caused by the very system which made them rich , with the expansion of neoliberalism as their real agenda .
The consequences of this can be seen with charitable projects involving Gates in the Congo which forced its local agribusiness into using GMO seeds which only benefited private companies like Monsanto .
More disturbing is that in regards to environmental concerns about man-made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his views on curbing human population growth as a solution .
At a 2010 TED Conference , Gates stated : To put it another way , one of the world ’ s wealthiest men admitted in public he believes vaccines should be used for depopulation , just as he is financially investing in both developing and delivering them to countries in the global south .
The misanthropic myth of ‘ overpopulation ’ pushed by Gates and the elite not only suggests that depopulation is a solution for slowing the warming of the climate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ component of eugenics with the implicit idea that the quality of life for the human species can be improved by discouraging human reproduction .
Since developing countries have the highest child mortality rates , families are more likely to be larger because children are less likely to survive .
Hence , the inherent racism and classism in such a misconception .
Given that the vast majority of carbon emissions are produced by a short list of fossil fuel companies and the world ’ s largest polluter is the U.S. military , promoting this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ruling elite to shift the responsibility for climate change onto the world ’ s poor .
Unfortunately , this dangerous falsehood has been popularized in the mainstream environmental movement and pseudo-left with examples such as BirthStrike , a group of mostly female activists protesting the lack of regulations on the ecological crisis by refusing to bear children that has been irresponsibly endorsed by popular “ progressive ” politicians such as U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D-NY ) .
‘ AOC ’ is also the face of the Democratic Party ’ s Green @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainable development program that calls for “ achieving a more sustainable population.
” The false notion of “ overpopulation ” became a misguided cornerstone of the modern day environmental movement thanks to the publication of US scientist Paul R. Ehrlich ’ s best-selling book The Population Bomb in 1968 , an alarmist diatribe that has in the years since become famous for its inaccurate doomsday predictions as a result of the mistaken belief which never came to fruition .
Today ’ s doom merchants regarding the climate , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in many respects channeling Ehrlich ’ s false prophecies which are considered a modern rehash of the influential 18th century British economist and philosopher , Thomas Malthus .
No single scholar was more loathed by Karl Marx and and the working class movement than Malthus , whose pseudo-scientific theories about demography were thought to have been intellectually defeated until they found new life in Ehrlich ’ s eco-fascism .
As much as today ’ s ‘ population bombers ’ like Bill Gates may shun the more explicitly racist Malthusian ideas that the global @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries , they still tacitly endorse them by arguing that the size of the population itself is a source a poverty and climate change .
Bill Gates has cited business tycoon John D. Rockefeller , the richest man in American history who had an even greater monopoly on the oil business as Gates had at one time on the computer industry , as an inspiration in using his wealth to invest in medical research as a focus of his philanthropy .
However , Gates has something else in common with the Rockefeller family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Rockefeller Foundation was the single largest donor to the American eugenics movement in the 1920s and 30s and helped establish its German branch , even subsidizing the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology , Human Heredity , and Eugenics that Nazi physician Josef Mengele worked in prior to his wartime experiments .
Despite the fact that a line can be traced from the American eugenics movement to the Nazi regime ’ s programs , which Nuremberg defendants even tried to use as justification for their atrocities in court , Rockefeller ’ s grandson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of interest in demography with the founding of the Population Council NGO which conducts research in “ reproductive health ” ( sterilization ) in developing countries .
The Nazi government was also the first to ever pass legislation safeguarding the environment which they equated with German national identity , another unexpected intersection between brown and green politics.
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> In an astonishing coincidence , the Gates Foundation hosted an event just last October with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum called Event 201 , a pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , business and health expertise to plan for the possibility of a worldwide outbreak .
Gates himself has warned of pandemics for years and ominously wrote that the world should “ prepare for epidemics the way the military prepares for war.
” The Event 201 fictional scenario just so happened to be a coronavirus called CAPS from Brazilian pigs which infected people globally and after a year and half in the exercise caused tens of millions of deaths and set off a worldwide financial crash .
Since the outset of the real COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from Microsoft to focus on his philanthropy while his foundation is busy working on a vaccine .
Many have observed that some characteristics of COVID-19 bear a resemblance to HIV that could not have happened organically .
The recent documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld , which won an award at last year ’ s Sundance film festival , puts forth a chilling theory that a South African white supremacist organization deliberately spread HIV/AIDS among black Africans through vaccines in previous decades .
The film begins as an investigation of the mysterious plane crash in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961 .
In 1998 , a document authored by a shadowy paramilitary organization called the South African Institute for Maritime Research ( SAIMR ) was uncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission justice assembly in post-apartheid South Africa which indicated that Hammarskjöld was the victim of an assassination .
Not only do the filmmakers discover in their inquiry the distinct likelihood that the plane was shot down by a Belgian mercenary employed by SAIMR which was operating under orders from MI6 and the CIA , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confession from a former SAIMR soldier to having deliberately spread HIV/AIDS to black Africans through immunization .
If what is claimed about SAIMR is true and that they were connected with Western intelligence , that the COVID-19 virus could be something deliberately spread is not outside the realm of possibility .
Maybe it will prove to be the case that the yellow press ’ s version of the coronavirus beginning with the zoonotic transfer of the disease after the consumption of a pangolin or wild bat by a ‘ patient zero ’ in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic should be a chilling reminder of the elite ’ s eco-fascist agenda and the continuous danger that the military-industrial complex puts the world ’ s population in by continuing to conduct dangerous research into deadly pathogens where the risk vastly outweighs the benefits .
If the outbreak has led many to be suspicious of the official story , it is exactly because of the history of U.S. biological warfare and the elite ’ s potentially genocidal and pessimistic worldview that the only way to prevent the demise of humanity is by thinning @ @ @

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic, the first since the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Initially reported in the city of Wuhan in Central China in December, just four months later there are now over 150,000 cases in more than 130 countries which has put many on total lockdown while the world economy has been brought to a virtual standstill. While the People’s Republic of China was the first country to report COVID-19, there has been a widespread presumption that the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) must have emerged in the capital of Hubei province that has not been held under sufficient scrutiny by Western corporate media.
The question of whether the COVID-19 coronavirus could have come from the U.S. army was controversially raised by China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Liljian Zhao, who tweeted an article from the Center for Research on Globalization website which subsequently went viral. Feigning concern over the spread of “disinformation”, Western media coverage uniformly avoided sourcing the article Zhao had shared on social media while predictably dismissing the claim as a “conspiracy theory.” Meanwhile, Iran’s Civil Defense Chief also said the coronavirus could be a biological attack on China and Iran, as the Islamic Republic has been the third-most impacted nation with more than 12,000 cases including many at the highest levels of its government with multiple senior officials infected. Contrary to such mainstream media scaremongering, it is completely reasonable and should be permitted to speculate about the origins of the virus. That Zhao’s posing of the theory received such a hostile response from the U.S. establishment is telling of how delicate their propaganda echo chamber is.
Although the disease is widely assumed to have been first transmitted through zoonosis because the earliest grouping of cases were linked to a Wuhan seafood market trading exotic wildlife in late December, the actual first known case was traced to the beginning of the month and may not have been originally passed through an animal. Many on the political right have even suggested the coronavirus is an effect of Chinese biological warfare which unexpectedly leaked from a lab in Wuhan, a theory disseminated in the pages of propaganda rags like The Washington Times, a newspaper owned by the founder of the right-wing Korean Unification Church cult, Sun Myung Moon, as well as The Epoch Times of the similarly fascistic religious sect of Chinese expatriates, the CIA-linked Falun Gong. In spite of that, it is true that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has close ties to the Galveston National Laboratory in the University of Texas, one of the Pentagon’s largest biological defense lab programs. Whereas no evidence exists that the Chinese government is responsible for COVID-19, nor does the PRC have a history of engaging in bio-warfare, there is an abundance of proof that the U.S. government has long been involved in the manufacturing and use of biological weapons since the Korean war.
When the accusations were first made by North Korea and China that the U.S. was using biological and germ warfare in the 1950–1953 Korean War, they were rejected outright by Washington as a hoax and rebuffed by the Western-biased WHO. In the decades since, the U.S. has maintained its denial while scholarly debate on the subject is divided. However, an unredacted report from 1952 from an investigation sponsored by the World Peace Council and conducted by an International Scientific Commission headed by Sir Joseph Needham, a highly reputable British biochemist of his era, was unearthed in 2018 and presents ample substantiation of the allegations, including eyewitness testimony, photographic evidence and documented confessions by American POWs. More disturbingly, the investigation indicates direct links between the U.S. biological warfare program and the germ warfare program of Unit 731, a clandestine bio and chemical warfare unit of Imperial Japan during World War II. During the Cold War, the Japanese researchers were secretly given immunity and recruited by the U.S. in exchange for their knowledge in human experimentation, along with many “former” Nazi scientists in Operation Paperclip.
Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army collected data not only through performing deadly experiments on humans but environmentally testing “plague bombs” by dropping them on Chinese cities to see whether they could start disease outbreaks. Many of these tactics were continued by the U.S. in the Korean War. According to Stephen Kinzer, journalist and author of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control, the CIA’s Project MK-ULTRA which was coordinated with the U.S. Army Biological Warfare Laboratories was:
“…Essentially a continuation of work that began in Japanese and Nazi concentration camps. Not only was it roughly based on those experiments, but the CIA actually hired the vivisectionists and the torturers who had worked in Japan and in Nazi concentration camps to come and explain what they had found out so that we could build on their research.”
Frank Olson, one of the biowarfare scientists and CIA employees in the program who died under mysterious circumstances in 1953, is the subject of the Netflix docu-drama series Wormwood, directed by Errol Morris and featuring renowned journalist Seymour Hersh, which reveals Olson may have been a potential government whistleblower on the CIA’s activities and U.S. bio-war crimes. It is worth noting that the usage of such agents in the Korean War included Chinese targets, the last and only major armed conflict between the U.S. and China, so if the COVID-19 pandemic were proven to be a product of U.S. biowarfare against Beijing, it would not be the first time.
Officially, the U.S. is said to have abandoned its bioweapons program in 1969, but its installation in Fort Detrick, Maryland, has continued conducting research into deadly pathogens and viruses on the stated purpose of bio-defense, as well as fighting disease outbreaks, developing vaccines, and other public health concerns. Yet just last year, research into fatal viruses and bioweapons were suspended amid concerns they could be accidentally be released. The last time Fort Detrick’s germ warfare research was suspended was in 2009 after the Pentagon found discrepancies in the inventory of its infectious agents, the same year as the last pandemic of the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
Fort Detrick has been under tighter restrictions since the 2001 anthrax attacks were traced to Bruce Ivins, a senior biodefense researcher at the facility. The suspected perpetrator and army biologist committed suicide in 2008 after learning the FBI was going to charge him with terrorism, which if proven to be true would mean that the Pentagon’s own biodefense research itself had led to rather than protected the American public from bioterrorism — though there is plenty of evidence suggesting Ivins was framed by the feds. As journalist Whitney Webb uncovered, the U.S. Army’s Medical Research branch headquartered in Maryland has cooperated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology mentioned previously for decades.
Toying around with organisms that can produce disease is a regular practice for the Pentagon. In 2005, U.S. scientists announced that they had even successfully recreated the avian influenza flu virus in a lab which killed at least 50 million people worldwide in 1918, widely known as the ‘Spanish flu.’ The name is actually a misnomer, as it was disproportionately attributed to Spain which was neutral in World War I and was not subject to the same wartime censorship of the press to upkeep morale like in Germany, the UK, France and the U.S. whose media initially underreported the pandemic’s effects in their respective countries. The geographic source of the Spanish flu is still the subject of much debate, but the first observation of the disease was at a U.S. military installation in Fort Riley, Kansas in 1918. Needless to say, the risks involved with resurrecting a disease that wiped out more than a quarter of the world’s population are not trivial, but this did not prevent the U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology from extracting the genetic coding of the Spanish flu from the exhumed corpse of a Native Alaskan woman frozen in the ground who died of the disease in an Inuit town in 1918.
There is no direct evidence showing that the 2009 swine flu said to have originated in Mexico through zoonosis from pigs was any leak of the restored Spanish flu, but the previous swine flu outbreak of 1976 began at a U.S. army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, just like the Spanish flu of 1918. After the Gerald R. Ford administration jumped the gun and announced a flu epidemic was pending following the death of a single soldier, a subsequent mass immunization program without proper testing for side effects was administered to a staggering 45 million people, exactly a quarter of the entire U.S. population at the time, which ended up killing more Americans than the disease itself. The scandal forever sowed the seeds of public distrust regarding inoculation after more than 450 people developed Guillain-Barré Syndrome and 25 died from the immunization before it was halted.
If such a mandatory vaccination program were to be implemented again in the U.S. for COVID-19, the government would have to reassure the public its previous negligence of such side effects would not be repeated, an unlikely scenario after the corporate breach of trust exposed on Wall Street in recent years involving large pharmaceutical firms. Regardless, Big Pharma is already partnering with the U.S. army to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus which would have to be tested and evaluated before licensing by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and recommended for use by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both of which partner with the WHO whose largest financial contributor is the U.S. government.
One of the WHO’s other largest benefactors is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with whom it has a partnership on vaccinations. The billionaire Microsoft Corporation founder has used his enormous wealth to dodge paying taxes under the guise of philanthropy and his ‘charitable’ private ventures have mostly focused on producing vaccines for developing countries and purportedly tackling global poverty, especially in Africa. On the surface this may appear to be benevolent work, but like many so-called altruistic projects it is a scheme which allows ultra-wealthy plutocrats like Gates to influence global policy and obtain political power with no accountability by investing in “fixing” the social problems caused by the very system which made them rich, with the expansion of neoliberalism as their real agenda. The consequences of this can be seen with charitable projects involving Gates in the Congo which forced its local agribusiness into using GMO seeds which only benefited private companies like Monsanto.
More disturbing is that in regards to environmental concerns about man-made climate change, Gates has made public his views on curbing human population growth as a solution. At a 2010 TED Conference, Gates stated:
“First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
To put it another way, one of the world’s wealthiest men admitted in public he believes vaccines should be used for depopulation, just as he is financially investing in both developing and delivering them to countries in the global south. The misanthropic myth of ‘overpopulation’ pushed by Gates and the elite not only suggests that depopulation is a solution for slowing the warming of the climate but retains the logic of an essential component of eugenics with the implicit idea that the quality of life for the human species can be improved by discouraging human reproduction. Since developing countries have the highest child mortality rates, families are more likely to be larger because children are less likely to survive. Hence, the inherent racism and classism in such a misconception.
Given that the vast majority of carbon emissions are produced by a short list of fossil fuel companies and the world’s largest polluter is the U.S. military, promoting this dangerous fallacy is the perfect way for the ruling elite to shift the responsibility for climate change onto the world’s poor. Unfortunately, this dangerous falsehood has been popularized in the mainstream environmental movement and pseudo-left with examples such as BirthStrike, a group of mostly female activists protesting the lack of regulations on the ecological crisis by refusing to bear children that has been irresponsibly endorsed by popular “progressive” politicians such as U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). ‘AOC’ is also the face of the Democratic Party’s Green New Deal which has troubling ties to the United Nations Agenda 21 sustainable development program that calls for “achieving a more sustainable population.”
The false notion of “overpopulation” became a misguided cornerstone of the modern day environmental movement thanks to the publication of US scientist Paul R. Ehrlich’s best-selling book The Population Bomb in 1968, an alarmist diatribe that has in the years since become famous for its inaccurate doomsday predictions as a result of the mistaken belief which never came to fruition. Today’s doom merchants regarding the climate, no doubt a serious issue, are in many respects channeling Ehrlich’s false prophecies which are considered a modern rehash of the influential 18th century British economist and philosopher, Thomas Malthus. No single scholar was more loathed by Karl Marx and and the working class movement than Malthus, whose pseudo-scientific theories about demography were thought to have been intellectually defeated until they found new life in Ehrlich’s eco-fascism. As much as today’s ‘population bombers’ like Bill Gates may shun the more explicitly racist Malthusian ideas that the global north should contain the population of developing countries, they still tacitly endorse them by arguing that the size of the population itself is a source a poverty and climate change.
Bill Gates has cited business tycoon John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in American history who had an even greater monopoly on the oil business as Gates had at one time on the computer industry, as an inspiration in using his wealth to invest in medical research as a focus of his philanthropy. However, Gates has something else in common with the Rockefeller family in his views on population, as the Rockefeller Foundation was the single largest donor to the American eugenics movement in the 1920s and 30s and helped establish its German branch, even subsidizing the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics that Nazi physician Josef Mengele worked in prior to his wartime experiments. Despite the fact that a line can be traced from the American eugenics movement to the Nazi regime’s programs, which Nuremberg defendants even tried to use as justification for their atrocities in court, Rockefeller’s grandson John Rockefeller III continued the family legacy of interest in demography with the founding of the Population Council NGO which conducts research in “reproductive health” (sterilization) in developing countries. The Nazi government was also the first to ever pass legislation safeguarding the environment which they equated with German national identity, another unexpected intersection between brown and green politics.
In an astonishing coincidence, the Gates Foundation hosted an event just last October with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum called Event 201, a pandemic simulation which gathered elite figures in government, business and health expertise to plan for the possibility of a worldwide outbreak. Gates himself has warned of pandemics for years and ominously wrote that the world should “prepare for epidemics the way the military prepares for war.” The Event 201 fictional scenario just so happened to be a coronavirus called CAPS from Brazilian pigs which infected people globally and after a year and half in the exercise caused tens of millions of deaths and set off a worldwide financial crash. Since the outset of the real COVID-19 coronavirus, Gates himself has stepped down from Microsoft to focus on his philanthropy while his foundation is busy working on a vaccine.
Many have observed that some characteristics of COVID-19 bear a resemblance to HIV that could not have happened organically. The recent documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld, which won an award at last year’s Sundance film festival, puts forth a chilling theory that a South African white supremacist organization deliberately spread HIV/AIDS among black Africans through vaccines in previous decades. The film begins as an investigation of the mysterious plane crash in Northern Rhodesia which killed Swedish diplomat and United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961. In 1998, a document authored by a shadowy paramilitary organization called the South African Institute for Maritime Research (SAIMR) was uncovered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission justice assembly in post-apartheid South Africa which indicated that Hammarskjöld was the victim of an assassination. Not only do the filmmakers discover in their inquiry the distinct likelihood that the plane was shot down by a Belgian mercenary employed by SAIMR which was operating under orders from MI6 and the CIA, but the more stunning revelation is a recorded confession from a former SAIMR soldier to having deliberately spread HIV/AIDS to black Africans through immunization. If what is claimed about SAIMR is true and that they were connected with Western intelligence, that the COVID-19 virus could be something deliberately spread is not outside the realm of possibility.
A clip from “Cold Case Hammarskjöld”
Maybe it will prove to be the case that the yellow press’s version of the coronavirus beginning with the zoonotic transfer of the disease after the consumption of a pangolin or wild bat by a ‘patient zero’ in Wuhan is accurate. Nevertheless, the pandemic should be a chilling reminder of the elite’s eco-fascist agenda and the continuous danger that the military-industrial complex puts the world’s population in by continuing to conduct dangerous research into deadly pathogens where the risk vastly outweighs the benefits. If the outbreak has led many to be suspicious of the official story, it is exactly because of the history of U.S. biological warfare and the elite’s potentially genocidal and pessimistic worldview that the only way to prevent the demise of humanity is by thinning the herd.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-17--China Nearly Conquered Coronavirus Epidemic in 50 Days Goldman Sachs Says U.S. Will Do It in 60 Days

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
Be sure to share it widely .
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse That ’ s 0 to 50K in 20 days , and in only 16 more days there was a stable total of 80K cases reached , or 80,000 Chinese who had been hit by the coronavirus-19 infection .
This governmental performance will be compared with that of other countries and show the relative effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the various governments around the world in protecting their people from this sudden and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ security .
This will be the most reliable existing single global statistical indicator of how good and how bad the various countries ’ governments are , regarding the national security , or the protection of the lives and welfare , of their citizens .
This is not a military measure of that , but it might be a more trustworthy measure , because coronavirus-19 is possibly an even bigger threat to the lives and welfare of the world ’ s peoples than a global nuclear war , WW III , would be ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ biggest such threats in the present era of a highly globalized economy .
On Monday , March 16th , Zero Hedge bannered “ ‘ Half Of America Will Get Sick ’ : Here Is What Goldman Told 1,500 Clients In Its Emergency Sunday Conference Call ” and reported that they said “ Peak-virus is expected over the next eight weeks , declining thereafter.
” That ’ s about 60 days to achieve what China achieved in about 50 days .
However , China was able to achieve that only because it is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and society , than exists in the United States .
Perhaps Goldman Sachs simply does not want to panic their client-base .
Of course , by the time those 60 days will have passed , we will have a much clearer idea of what the true situation has been .
Furthermore : “ 50 % of Americans will contract the virus ( 150m people ) .
” So : that “ peak-virus ” occurring in 60 days would be compared to 80,000 cases within 50 days in China .
It would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chinese or .006 % of the Chinese population , but at 50 % of the population , or 165,000,000 out of America ’ s 330,000,000 population .
Really ?
It would be 8,333 times higher a percentage of Americans who will get hit than of Chinese who did ?
And , according to Goldman , communicating to their 1,500 clients , “ S & P 500 will see a negative growth rate of -15 % to -20 % for 2020 overall.
” A very bad year , but the S & P declined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 1931 , -38.64 % in 1937 , and -38.64 % in 1917 — that century ’ s four worst years .
Goldman doesn ’ t expect 2020 to be anywhere near that bad .
( Or , at least , this is what they are telling their clients .
The way they calculated that would be interesting to see . )

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
as of today, March 17th:
WORLD / COUNTRIES / CHINA
Last updated: March 17, 2020, 14:20 GMT
China
Coronavirus Cases: 80,881
Deaths: 3,226
Recovered: 68,715
ACTIVE CASES
8,940 Currently Infected Patients
5,714 (64%) in Mild Condition
3,226 (36%) Serious or Critical
Total Coronavirus Cases in China:
Jan 22 near 0
Feb 11 50K
Feb 12 60K
Feb 15 70K
Feb 27 80K
Mar 13 80K
That’s 0 to 50K in 20 days, and in only 16 more days there was a stable total of 80K cases reached, or 80,000 Chinese who had been hit by the coronavirus-19 infection.
This governmental performance will be compared with that of other countries and show the relative effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the various governments around the world in protecting their people from this sudden and extremely dire threat to their safety and security. This will be the most reliable existing single global statistical indicator of how good and how bad the various countries’ governments are, regarding the national security, or the protection of the lives and welfare, of their citizens. This is not a military measure of that, but it might be a more trustworthy measure, because coronavirus-19 is possibly an even bigger threat to the lives and welfare of the world’s peoples than a global nuclear war, WW III, would be; and it is surely one of the biggest such threats in the present era of a highly globalized economy.
On Monday, March 16th, Zero Hedge bannered “‘Half Of America Will Get Sick’: Here Is What Goldman Told 1,500 Clients In Its Emergency Sunday Conference Call” and reported that they said “Peak-virus is expected over the next eight weeks, declining thereafter.” That’s about 60 days to achieve what China achieved in about 50 days. However, China was able to achieve that only because it is a much more mutually cooperative society, culture, and society, than exists in the United States. Perhaps Goldman Sachs simply does not want to panic their client-base. Of course, by the time those 60 days will have passed, we will have a much clearer idea of what the true situation has been.
Furthermore: “50% of Americans will contract the virus (150m people).” So: that “peak-virus” occurring in 60 days would be compared to 80,000 cases within 50 days in China. It would be maxing-out not at 80,000 out of 1,400,000,000 Chinese or .006% of the Chinese population, but at 50% of the population, or 165,000,000 out of America’s 330,000,000 population. Really? It would be 8,333 times higher a percentage of Americans who will get hit than of Chinese who did?


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-17--China locked in hybrid war with US

China locked in hybrid war with US

The chessboard is changing at breakneck speed .
Once Beijing identified coronavirus as a bio-weapon attack the “ people ’ s war ” was launched with the full force of the state .
Methodically .
On a “ whatever it takes ” basis .
Now we are entering a new stage , which will be used by Beijing to substantially recalibrate the interaction with the West , and under very different frameworks when it comes to the US and the EU .
Soft power is paramount .
Beijing sent an Air China flight to Italy carrying 2,300 big boxes full @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We are waves from the same sea , leaves from the same tree , flowers from the same garden.
” China also sent a hefty humanitarian package to Iran , significantly aboard eight flights from Mahan Air – an airline under illegal , unilateral Trump administration sanctions .
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic could not have been more explicit : “ The only country that can help us is China .
By now , you all understood that European solidarity does not exist .
That was a fairy tale on paper.
” Under harsh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is still able to perform breakthroughs – even on biotechnology .
The anti-viral Heberon – or Interferon Alpha 2b – a therapeutic , not a vaccine , has been used with great success in the treatment of coronavirus .
A joint venture in China is producing an inhalable version , and at least 15 nations are already interested in importing the therapeutic .
Now compare all of the above with the Trump administration offering $ 1 billion to poach German scientists working at biotech firm Curevac , based in Thuringia , on an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it as a vaccine “ only for the United States.
” Sandro Mezzadra , co-author with Brett Neilson of the seminal The Politics of Operations : Excavating Contemporary Capitalism , is already trying to conceptualize where we stand now in terms of fighting Covid-19 .
We are facing a choice between a Malthusian strand – inspired by social Darwinism – “ led by the Johnson-Trump-Bolsonaro axis ” and , on the other side , a strand pointing to the “ requalification of public health as a fundamental tool , ” exemplified by China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are key lessons to be learned from South Korea , Taiwan and Singapore .
The stark option , Mezzadra notes , is between a “ natural population selection , ” with thousands of dead , and “ defending society ” by employing “ variable degrees of authoritarianism and social control.
” It ’ s easy to imagine who stands to benefit from this social re-engineering , a 21st century remix of Poe ’ s The Masque of the Red Death .
Amid so much doom and gloom , count on Italy to offer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chose the Wuhan option , with immensely serious consequences for its already fragile economy .
Quarantined Italians remarkably reacted by singing on their balconies : a true act of metaphysical revolt .
Not to mention the poetic justice of the actual St. Corona ( “ crown ” in Latin ) being buried in the city of Anzu since the 9th century .
St. Corona was a Christian killed under Marcus Aurelius in 165 AD , and has been for centuries one of the patron saints of pandemics .
Not even trillions of dollars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of divine Fed mercy were able to cure Covid-19 .
G-7 “ leaders ” had to resort to a videoconference to realize how clueless they are – even as China ’ s fight against coronavirus gave the West a head start of several weeks .
Shanghai-based Dr. Zhang Wenhong , one of China ’ s top infectious disease experts , whose analyses have been spot on so far , now says China has emerged from the darkest days in the “ people ’ s war ” against Covid-19 .
But he does not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Now extrapolate what he ’ s saying to the Western world .
It ’ s not even spring yet , and we already know it takes a virus to mercilessly shatter the Goddess of the Market .
Last Friday , Goldman Sachs told no fewer than 1,500 corporations that there was no systemic risk .
That was false .
New York banking sources told me the truth : systemic risk became way more severe in 2020 than in 1979 , 1987 or 2008 because of the hugely heightened danger that the $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As the sources put it , history had never before seen anything like the Fed ’ s intervention via its little understood elimination of commercial bank reserve requirements , unleashing a potential unlimited expansion of credit to prevent a derivative implosion stemming from a total commodity and stock market collapse of all stocks around the world .
Those bankers thought it would work , but as we know by now all the sound and fury signified nothing .
The ghost of a derivative implosion – in this case not caused by the previous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Strait of Hormuz – remains .
We are still barely starting to understand the consequences of Covid-19 for the future of neoliberal turbo-capitalism .
What ’ s certain is that the whole global economy has been hit by an insidious , literally invisible circuit breaker .
This may be just a “ coincidence.
” Or this may be , as some are boldly arguing , part of a possible , massive psy-op creating the perfect geopolitlcal and social engineering environment for full-spectrum dominance .
Additionally , along the hard slog down the road @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic sacrifice , with or without a reboot of the world-system , a more pressing question remains : will imperial elites still choose to keep waging full-spectrum-dominance hybrid war against China ?

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Pepe Escobar
Fallout from Covid-19 outbreak puts Beijing and Washington on a collision course
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]mong the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the peak of the fight against coronavirus. Beijing is carefully, incrementally shaping the narrative that, from the beginning of the coronovirus attack, the leadership knew it was under a hybrid war attack. Xi’s terminology is a major clue. He said, on the record, that this was war. And, as a counter-attack, a “people’s war” had to be launched. Moreover, he described the virus as a demon or devil. Xi is a Confucianist. Unlike some other ancient Chinese thinkers, Confucius was loath to discuss supernatural forces and judgment in the afterlife. However, in a Chinese cultural context, devil means “white devils” or “foreign devils”: guailo in Mandarin, gweilo in Cantonese. This was Xi delivering a powerful statement in code. When Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, voiced in an incandescent tweet the possibility that “it might be [the] US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan” – the first blast to this effect to come from a top official – Beijing was sending up a trial balloon signaling that the gloves were finally off. Zhao Lijian made a direct connection with the Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019, which included a delegation of 300 US military. [Which begs the question why Beijing would even allow US soldiers on its soil!— major faux pas in policy.—Ed] He directly quoted US CDC director Robert Redfield who, when asked last week whether some deaths by coronavirus had been discovered posthumously in the US, replied that “some cases have actually been diagnosed this way in the US today.” Zhao’s explosive conclusion is that Covid-19 was already in effect in the US before being identified in Wuhan – due to the by now fully documented inability of US to test and verify differences compared with the flu. Adding all that to the fact that coronavirus genome variations in Iran and Italy were sequenced and it was revealed they do not belong to the variety that infected Wuhan, Chinese media are now openly asking questions and drawing a connection with the shutting down in August last year of the “unsafe” military bioweapon lab at Fort Detrick, the Military Games, and the Wuhan epidemic. Some of these questions had been asked – with no response – inside the US itself. Extra questions linger about the opaque Event 201 in New York on October 18, 2019: a rehearsal for a worldwide pandemic caused by a deadly virus – which happened to be coronavirus. This magnificent coincidence happened one month before the outbreak in Wuhan. Event 201 was sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the CIA, Bloomberg, John Hopkins Foundation and the UN. The World Military Games opened in Wuhan on the exact same day. Irrespective of its origin, which is still not conclusively established, as much as Trump tweets about the “Chinese virus,” Covid-19 already poses immensely serious questions about biopolitics (where’s Foucault when we need him?) and bio-terror. The working hypothesis of coronavirus as a very powerful but not Armageddon-provoking bio-weapon unveils it as a perfect vehicle for widespread social control – on a global scale. Cuba rises as a biotech power Just as a fully masked Xi visiting the Wuhan frontline last week was a graphic demonstration to the whole planet that China, with immense sacrifice, is winning the “people‘s war” against Covid-19, Russia, in a Sun Tzu move on Riyadh whose end result was a much cheaper barrel of oil, helped for all practical purposes to kick-start the inevitable recovery of the Chinese economy. This is how a strategic partnership works.
We are still barely starting to understand the consequences of Covid-19 for the future of neoliberal turbo-capitalism. What’s certain is that the whole global economy has been hit by an insidious, literally invisible circuit breaker.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-17--The wages of Black Misleadership: Black Voters Favor Medicare for All, But Think Biden is “Electable

The wages of Black Misleadership: Black Voters Favor Medicare for All, But Think Biden is “Electable”

^5000The mainstream imperialist media lie CONSTANTLY .
Literally 24/7 .
And it 's getting worse .
All of them do @ @ @ @ @ , the newspapers , the movies .
The internet .
No exceptions .
The corporate @ @ @ @ @ totalitarian .
CBS does it .
NBC does it .
ABC does it .
CNN @ @ @ @ @ it .
NPR does it .
And of course the NYTimes and WaPo do it @ @ @ @ @ '' voices telling you the same lies .
Enough to convince anyone .

Up to You.
^3000US citizens have no real political representation.
We don't live in a democracy. And our freedom is disappearing fast.
I don't want to be ruled by hypocrites, whores, and war criminals.
What about you? Time to push back against the corporate oligarchy.
And its multitude of minions and lackeys.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-17--Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming

his gig is kinda weird at the moment .
I write about what ’ s going on in the world for a living , and there ’ s certainly plenty going on in the world to be written about .
But also there ’ s this acute awareness that anything I write about today is going to look petty and insignificant in the very near future .
I mean , we ’ re in the first moments of an unfolding pandemic which , from what I can tell just looking at the numbers , is about to change the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faceplant after governmental faceplant after missed opportunity after missed opportunity all around the world appears to have set us on a trajectory toward overburdened healthcare systems , severe economic downturns , and , of course , mass deaths .
And maybe chaos .
And maybe healing .
And maybe , when all is said and done , a total restructuring of power and the way we do things .
Standing on the precipice of that , how the hell am I supposed to write about how Bernie didn ’ t go hard enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever ?
So many of the arguments we ’ ve been placing so much importance on lately could easily look irrelevant in a matter of weeks .
Anyway , here are nine thoughts on COVID-19 and what ’ s coming .
1 – Everyone in conspiracy circles has strong opinions about what ’ s going on , so anything I could possibly say about this is going to get a ton of pushback from some faction or another .
That ’ s fine .
In my opinion the fears that the ruling class @ @ @ @ @ @ @ authoritarian agendas are well-founded , and people are right to have suspicions about the official narrative on the origins of the virus , but people who are still saying the whole thing is fake from top to bottom and it ’ s just another flu/no big deal have been proved wrong by facts in evidence .
People should minimize social contact to avoid overburdening healthcare systems and thereby killing people .
No matter how certain you are that this is all fake , you ’ re not certain enough to justify needlessly risking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just announced that they ’ re going to be censoring a lot more videos during the pandemic , citing the need to rely on automated censorship as they scale back workers ’ presence at the office .
No attempt has been made to explain why YouTube staff can ’ t just review the material working from home .
Definitely worth keeping an eye on ; if widespread authoritarian measures are going to be implemented during this time , increasing internet censorship will likely be the first step .
3 – I think this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than other countries , unfortunately .
Combine a literal joke of a healthcare system with a president who up until just today has been dismissive of the threat the virus poses , the fact that the majority of Americans can ’ t afford a $ 1,000 emergency expense at a time of mounting layoffs while being chronically uninsured or underinsured , an inability to make anything happen without massive corporations voluntarily going against their own profit margins , a culture of rugged individualism with a reflexive distaste for collectivist organization for the good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ religious population with many preachers telling their underinsured parishioners to demonstrate their faith by gathering at the megachurch and shaking hands with everyone , and you ’ ve got a recipe for disaster .
Please stay as safe as you can .
4 – Meanwhile China is having success getting the pandemic under control on its end , with its government ’ s ability to build hospitals and crank out brand new tech solutions with astonishing swiftness , and of course to clamp down on the public ’ s free movement as soon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Beijing is moving into a world leadership position in tackling the pandemic , stepping in to aid nations which can ’ t get help elsewhere like Italy and Serbia .
5 – The US became a superpower after being left intact while competing nations were stuck rebuilding themselves from two devastating world wars , allowing it to surge ahead of the competition .
China , as we ’ ve discussed here many times , has been poised to overtake America as the dominant world power , so it ’ s possible we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and America ’ s relative failure on this front dance in a way which gives a significant boost in that direction in the same way the US was given a boost by the world wars .
It ’ s very likely China comes out of this notably further along in its agenda to create a multipolar world than before this all began .
6 – And the US of course realizes this threat , which is why my social media notifications right now are full of propagandized human livestock bleating about China being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ absolutely must believe very bad things about .
A dying empire knows it ’ s going to need to take some drastic , dangerous measures to secure world dominance in the face of a surging contender , and it knows it needs to manufacture consent for those drastic , dangerous measures .
Anti-China propaganda has been pouring into mainstream consciousness with more and more aggression lately , first and foremost within right-wing echo chambers but also within mainstream liberal ones – Joe Biden compared the Chinese government to Jack the Ripper just last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ westerners beginning to lose their minds about China , which has looked exactly like a right-wing mirror of the Russia hysteria we watched unfold throughout late 2016 and early 2017 .
I have been encountering far more hysterical anti-China sentiment online than I was even a week or two ago ; a poll published at the beginning of this month reports US anti-China sentiment is at a 20-year high , and I ’ ll wager if they took it again today it would be significantly worse .
People are now constantly shrieking about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is stupid , because China has always had an authoritarian government .
It hasn ’ t changed ; the only thing that ’ s changed is the narrative management , with glaring adjustments like the mass media reporting on the Hong Kong protests vastly more than the anti-government demonstrations in US empire-aligned nations like France .
All this irrelevant emphasis on where the virus originated isn ’ t there to protect you from the virus , it ’ s there to make China look bad .
China is no more of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years ago ; the only thing that ’ s changed is you ’ re now being hammered with narratives about how threatening it is .
Mass media converging upon a single empire-targeted nation is never a good thing .
7 – It ’ s interesting how the virus which might knock down the most powerful government in the world behaves so much like that government : dominating world affairs and killing the most vulnerable members of the populations it attacks .
Nations which are being smashed with US sanctions have already been watching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ medical care and malnutrition , and now with the coronavirus they ’ re experiencing those same exact effects squared .
Which is why places like Iran are being hit so uniquely hard .
America is like if COVID-19 was a country .
8 – Also interesting is watching people react to the way so many of the corporate and government policies which have been causing ordinary human beings to suffer great pains are now simply being canceled all around the world in response to the pandemic .
This Slate article documents a number @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just in America , like how for people being thrown in jail for minor offenses , “ San Antonio is one of many jurisdictions to announce that , to keep jails from being crowded with sick citizens , they ’ ll stop doing that .
Why were they doing it in the first place ?
” Or how “ Trump has instructed government agencies who administer loans to waive interest accrual for the duration of the crisis .
But why on earth is our government charging its own citizens interest anyway ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from people with an easy “ Oh , that ’ s making the pandemic worse ?
Okay we ’ ll stop that then.
” And we ’ re seeing people react with fully justified indignation with , “ Well why were you doing that to me in the first place ?
?
” And the answer is very simple : because until now , your suffering wasn ’ t exacerbating a virus which does not discriminate on the basis of class .
Politicians and billionaires are just as capable of losing their lives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anyone else , as the CEO of Universal Music Group just learned with his COVID-19 hospitalization .
Simply not causing needless human suffering wasn ’ t enough to get them to stop crushing people ; it had to actually show up on their doorstep to make a difference .
9 – I have long thought that it would be awesome if the world could just take a nap for a minute .
Capitalism is built around the glorification of busyness .
We ’ re going to find out how many jobs we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are only busywork , how many jobs we can comfortably consolidate or do without completely , and how many jobs are actually harmful .
A big chunk of jobs have nothing to do with feeding , housing or caring for us , and everything to do with persuading people that they are deficient in some imaginary way and require this placebo tonic snake-oil to make us better again .
Religion is one such job .
Advertising , marketing , and most media are others .
If we redesign the economy , we could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all that creative effort go toward healthy things .
Primarily though , we all need a big rest from constantly doing such soul-draining things .
Having to do this while under the worry that we won ’ t be able to pay our rent and bills is not ideal , but do as my Mum always says — worry about the things you can change , and for the things you can ’ t change right now , leave them for the birds .
Leave the bills for the birds for now .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ always do .
But for now , you are safe and you have everything you need .
Notice that .
Once you ’ ve established that you ’ re solid in this moment at least , take this time to really dig as deeply in to relaxation as you can .
Watch some stand-up and get yourself laughing , sing to some youtube karaokes , nap often and deeply , take showers and baths , really taste your food and enjoy your breath , yawn and stretch and cuddle and shake it all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cupboards or learning that instrument or reading that book or whatever cute thing you decided you really should do now that you have the time — let your animal body lead the way , and give your brain a rest from all the shoulds and shouldn ’ ts .
You ’ re fine just to do nothing at all .
Sink in to that .

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]his gig is kinda weird at the moment. I write about what’s going on in the world for a living, and there’s certainly plenty going on in the world to be written about. But also there’s this acute awareness that anything I write about today is going to look petty and insignificant in the very near future.
I mean, we’re in the first moments of an unfolding pandemic which, from what I can tell just looking at the numbers, is about to change the world in some pretty significant ways. Governmental faceplant after governmental faceplant after missed opportunity after missed opportunity all around the world appears to have set us on a trajectory toward overburdened healthcare systems, severe economic downturns, and, of course, mass deaths.
And maybe chaos. And maybe healing. And maybe, when all is said and done, a total restructuring of power and the way we do things.
Standing on the precipice of that, how the hell am I supposed to write about how Bernie didn’t go hard enough at Biden in the last debate or whatever? So many of the arguments we’ve been placing so much importance on lately could easily look irrelevant in a matter of weeks.
Anyway, here are nine thoughts on COVID-19 and what’s coming.
My job is literally to monitor and compare global policy responses to coronavirus, and this is categorically untrue.
Countries that are doing it better include: Sth Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, China (after the first month of lies and obfuscation), Austria and Australia https://t.co/4xpS7qodjL — Ryan Heath (@PoliticoRyan) March 16, 2020
1 – Everyone in conspiracy circles has strong opinions about what’s going on, so anything I could possibly say about this is going to get a ton of pushback from some faction or another. That’s fine. In my opinion the fears that the ruling class will seize this opportunity to advance preexisting authoritarian agendas are well-founded, and people are right to have suspicions about the official narrative on the origins of the virus, but people who are still saying the whole thing is fake from top to bottom and it’s just another flu/no big deal have been proved wrong by facts in evidence. People should minimize social contact to avoid overburdening healthcare systems and thereby killing people. No matter how certain you are that this is all fake, you’re not certain enough to justify needlessly risking lives.
2 – Google-owned YouTube has just announced that they’re going to be censoring a lot more videos during the pandemic, citing the need to rely on automated censorship as they scale back workers’ presence at the office. No attempt has been made to explain why YouTube staff can’t just review the material working from home. Definitely worth keeping an eye on; if widespread authoritarian measures are going to be implemented during this time, increasing internet censorship will likely be the first step.
3 – I think this is going to hit America much harder than other countries, unfortunately. Combine a literal joke of a healthcare system with a president who up until just today has been dismissive of the threat the virus poses, the fact that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense at a time of mounting layoffs while being chronically uninsured or underinsured, an inability to make anything happen without massive corporations voluntarily going against their own profit margins, a culture of rugged individualism with a reflexive distaste for collectivist organization for the good of the whole, and a highly religious population with many preachers telling their underinsured parishioners to demonstrate their faith by gathering at the megachurch and shaking hands with everyone, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.
Please stay as safe as you can.
How did China ???????? beat coronavirus⁉
One of China’s creative techniques was the ❝Disinfection Tunnel❞ which was invented & manufactured in days, NOT years. pic.twitter.com/P9sfYimqag — Erik Solheim (@ErikSolheim) March 16, 2020
4 – Meanwhile China is having success getting the pandemic under control on its end, with its government’s ability to build hospitals and crank out brand new tech solutions with astonishing swiftness, and of course to clamp down on the public’s free movement as soon as it was deemed necessary. Now Beijing is moving into a world leadership position in tackling the pandemic, stepping in to aid nations which can’t get help elsewhere like Italy and Serbia.
5 – The US became a superpower after being left intact while competing nations were stuck rebuilding themselves from two devastating world wars, allowing it to surge ahead of the competition. China, as we’ve discussed here many times, has been poised to overtake America as the dominant world power, so it’s possible we’ll see China’s relative success and America’s relative failure on this front dance in a way which gives a significant boost in that direction in the same way the US was given a boost by the world wars. It’s very likely China comes out of this notably further along in its agenda to create a multipolar world than before this all began.
6 – And the US of course realizes this threat, which is why my social media notifications right now are full of propagandized human livestock bleating about China being the Latest Official Bad Guy who I absolutely must believe very bad things about. A dying empire knows it’s going to need to take some drastic, dangerous measures to secure world dominance in the face of a surging contender, and it knows it needs to manufacture consent for those drastic, dangerous measures. Anti-China propaganda has been pouring into mainstream consciousness with more and more aggression lately, first and foremost within right-wing echo chambers but also within mainstream liberal ones – Joe Biden compared the Chinese government to Jack the Ripper just last night.
The result has been rank-and-file westerners beginning to lose their minds about China, which has looked exactly like a right-wing mirror of the Russia hysteria we watched unfold throughout late 2016 and early 2017. I have been encountering far more hysterical anti-China sentiment online than I was even a week or two ago; a poll published at the beginning of this month reports US anti-China sentiment is at a 20-year high, and I’ll wager if they took it again today it would be significantly worse.
People are now constantly shrieking about how authoritarian the Chinese government is, which is stupid, because China has always had an authoritarian government. It hasn’t changed; the only thing that’s changed is the narrative management, with glaring adjustments like the mass media reporting on the Hong Kong protests vastly more than the anti-government demonstrations in US empire-aligned nations like France. All this irrelevant emphasis on where the virus originated isn’t there to protect you from the virus, it’s there to make China look bad. China is no more of a threat to you than it was two years ago; the only thing that’s changed is you’re now being hammered with narratives about how threatening it is. Mass media converging upon a single empire-targeted nation is never a good thing.
7 – It’s interesting how the virus which might knock down the most powerful government in the world behaves so much like that government: dominating world affairs and killing the most vulnerable members of the populations it attacks. Nations which are being smashed with US sanctions have already been watching their frail and elderly die of inadequate medical care and malnutrition, and now with the coronavirus they’re experiencing those same exact effects squared. Which is why places like Iran are being hit so uniquely hard. America is like if COVID-19 was a country.
8 – Also interesting is watching people react to the way so many of the corporate and government policies which have been causing ordinary human beings to suffer great pains are now simply being canceled all around the world in response to the pandemic. This Slate article documents a number of the changes which have been made just in America, like how for people being thrown in jail for minor offenses, “San Antonio is one of many jurisdictions to announce that, to keep jails from being crowded with sick citizens, they’ll stop doing that. Why were they doing it in the first place?” Or how “Trump has instructed government agencies who administer loans to waive interest accrual for the duration of the crisis. But why on earth is our government charging its own citizens interest anyway?”
We’re seeing immense burdens lifted from people with an easy “Oh, that’s making the pandemic worse? Okay we’ll stop that then.” And we’re seeing people react with fully justified indignation with, “Well why were you doing that to me in the first place??”
And the answer is very simple: because until now, your suffering wasn’t exacerbating a virus which does not discriminate on the basis of class. Politicians and billionaires are just as capable of losing their lives and loved ones to this virus as anyone else, as the CEO of Universal Music Group just learned with his COVID-19 hospitalization. Simply not causing needless human suffering wasn’t enough to get them to stop crushing people; it had to actually show up on their doorstep to make a difference.
9 – I have long thought that it would be awesome if the world could just take a nap for a minute. Capitalism is built around the glorification of busyness. We’re going to find out how many jobs we can do from home, how many jobs are only busywork, how many jobs we can comfortably consolidate or do without completely, and how many jobs are actually harmful. A big chunk of jobs have nothing to do with feeding, housing or caring for us, and everything to do with persuading people that they are deficient in some imaginary way and require this placebo tonic snake-oil to make us better again. Religion is one such job. Advertising, marketing, and most media are others. If we redesign the economy, we could do away with those altogether and have all that creative effort go toward healthy things.
Primarily though, we all need a big rest from constantly doing such soul-draining things. Having to do this while under the worry that we won’t be able to pay our rent and bills is not ideal, but do as my Mum always says — worry about the things you can change, and for the things you can’t change right now, leave them for the birds. Leave the bills for the birds for now. We will work out something; we always do. But for now, you are safe and you have everything you need. Notice that. Once you’ve established that you’re solid in this moment at least, take this time to really dig as deeply in to relaxation as you can. Watch some stand-up and get yourself laughing, sing to some youtube karaokes, nap often and deeply, take showers and baths, really taste your food and enjoy your breath, yawn and stretch and cuddle and shake it all out. Forget about cleaning out the cupboards or learning that instrument or reading that book or whatever cute thing you decided you really should do now that you have the time — let your animal body lead the way, and give your brain a rest from all the shoulds and shouldn’ts. You’re fine just to do nothing at all. Sink in to that.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-03-17--Hopes for coronavirus vaccine rise after infected monkeys become immune

But the researchers also found that the animals could become infected through their eyes , which means wearing a face mask may not be enough to protect people from the disease .
Scientists around the world have been racing to develop a vaccine and the first clinical trials could be held in China and the US within a month .
But a number of cases , where people who had tested negative for the disease and were discharged from hospital only to give a positive result a few days later , have cast doubt on the process .
If it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reinfected by the same virus , then vaccines will not prove effective .
But the monkey experiment carried out by a team from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences may help dispel that fear .
Details of the experiment were made available last Saturday on bioRxiv , a website for studies pending peer review .
Professor Qin Chuan wrote that his research team infected four rhesus monkeys with the Covid-19 strain and the animals started to show signs of sickness three days later .
They developed a fever , started struggling to breath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On the seventh day of the experiment , Qin euthanised one of the monkeys and found the virus had spread throughout its body from nose to bladder with visible damage to the lung tissues .
The remaining monkeys , however , recovered gradually and eventually stopped showing symptoms .
About a month later , after tests returned negative results and X-rays showed their internal organs had fully recovered , two monkeys were dosed with the virus through the mouth .
The scientists recorded a temporary temperature rise , but other than that everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ performed on these two monkeys about two weeks later , and the researchers could not find a trace of the virus in their body .
Meanwhile , very high antibody levels were detected after the second weeks , suggesting that the immune system was prepared to fight the disease .
Qin said the results would have “ important implications in evaluating vaccine development ” .
The researchers argued that the positive test on some recovered patients may be down to some other cause rather than the patients becoming reinfected .
“ It may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ … test results before their discharge or the patients not making a full recovery even though they meet the criteria for a discharge , ” they wrote .
The animal experiment supports observations made by some doctors on the front line in the fight against the disease .
Professor Zhong Nanshan , a leading government scientist , said in Guangzhou last week that they had found a strong presence of antibodies in recovered patients , which meant the virus could no longer use them as a carrier again .
“ Now the question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contacts and family members may be infected because [ the patient ] tested positive again .
So far I have not seen any evidence , ” Zhong said .
Nonetheless , the government has taken precautions .
From March 5 , all patients discharged from hospitals need to stay in a quarantine facility for another two weeks .
A doctor , who works at a public hospital in Beijing looking after Covid-19 patients , said the experiment provided valuable information because monkeys are genetically close to humans but “ what happens on monkeys @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The doctor also said that a recent case in Japan has caused “ some concerns in medical circles ” after the health authorities reported that a 70-year-old patient who had recovered was hospitalised again for developing Covid-19 symptoms such as fever and difficulty breathing .
In a separate experiment involving three monkeys , Qin and colleagues also found evidence to suggest people could be infected through the eyes .
Wang Guangfa , a senior medical expert from Beijing , was infected after a trip to Wuhan to investigate the early outbreak despite @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gear .
Wang suspected that the virus entered into his body through the eyes as he wiped sweat from his forehead , but had no evidence to support the theory .
He later recovered at home in Beijing with relatively mild symptoms .
To verify the theory , Qin and colleagues dropped a solution containing the virus into two monkeys ’ eyes .
To their surprise , the researchers did not find the virus on the surface of the monkeys ’ eyes the next day .
But several days later , both animals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the viral strain might have landed on the conjunctiva , a tissue lining the inside of the eyelids and covering the white of the eye , and then travelled through the tear duct before ending up in the upper throat .
However , the infection suffered by the monkeys appear to be less severe than that of another animal that had caught the virus through the throat , according to another paper posted by Qin on bioRxiv last Saturday .
According to several other recent studies , the new coronavirus can survive in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days .
The scientists wrote that their findings suggested that people should be more aware of the need to protect their eyes .
They argued transmission could be cut by “ regular hand-washing in daily life and wearing protective eyewear when in close contact with patients or in crowded places , especially for clinicians ” .

Primates found to have developed antibodies after being infected with Covid-19 – a discovery that suggests the immune system will fight back against the disease. Scientists have been puzzled by instances of patients apparently being reinfected with the disease, but this study suggests that may not be the case.
But the researchers also found that the animals could become infected through their eyes, which means wearing a face mask may not be enough to protect people from the disease.
Scientists around the world have been racing to develop a vaccine and the first clinical trials could be held in China and the US within a month.
But a number of cases, where people who had tested negative for the disease and were discharged from hospital only to give a positive result a few days later, have cast doubt on the process.
If it turns out that these patients had been reinfected by the same virus, then vaccines will not prove effective.
But the monkey experiment carried out by a team from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences may help dispel that fear.
Details of the experiment were made available last Saturday on bioRxiv, a website for studies pending peer review.
Professor Qin Chuan wrote that his research team infected four rhesus monkeys with the Covid-19 strain and the animals started to show signs of sickness three days later.
They developed a fever, started struggling to breath and lost their appetite and weight.
On the seventh day of the experiment, Qin euthanised one of the monkeys and found the virus had spread throughout its body from nose to bladder with visible damage to the lung tissues.
The remaining monkeys, however, recovered gradually and eventually stopped showing symptoms.
About a month later, after tests returned negative results and X-rays showed their internal organs had fully recovered, two monkeys were dosed with the virus through the mouth.
The scientists recorded a temporary temperature rise, but other than that everything appeared to stay normal.
Autopsies were performed on these two monkeys about two weeks later, and the researchers could not find a trace of the virus in their body.
Meanwhile, very high antibody levels were detected after the second weeks, suggesting that the immune system was prepared to fight the disease.
Qin said the results would have “important implications in evaluating vaccine development”.
The researchers argued that the positive test on some recovered patients may be down to some other cause rather than the patients becoming reinfected.
“It may be attributed to ‘false negative’ … test results before their discharge or the patients not making a full recovery even though they meet the criteria for a discharge,” they wrote.
The animal experiment supports observations made by some doctors on the front line in the fight against the disease.
Professor Zhong Nanshan, a leading government scientist, said in Guangzhou last week that they had found a strong presence of antibodies in recovered patients, which meant the virus could no longer use them as a carrier again.
“Now the question everyone cares about is whether the close contacts and family members may be infected because [the patient] tested positive again. So far I have not seen any evidence,” Zhong said.
Nonetheless, the government has taken precautions. From March 5, all patients discharged from hospitals need to stay in a quarantine facility for another two weeks.
A doctor, who works at a public hospital in Beijing looking after Covid-19 patients, said the experiment provided valuable information because monkeys are genetically close to humans but “what happens on monkeys does not always work on us”.
The doctor also said that a recent case in Japan has caused “some concerns in medical circles” after the health authorities reported that a 70-year-old patient who had recovered was hospitalised again for developing Covid-19 symptoms such as fever and difficulty breathing.
In a separate experiment involving three monkeys, Qin and colleagues also found evidence to suggest people could be infected through the eyes.
Wang Guangfa, a senior medical expert from Beijing, was infected after a trip to Wuhan to investigate the early outbreak despite wearing a face mask and other protective gear.
Wang suspected that the virus entered into his body through the eyes as he wiped sweat from his forehead, but had no evidence to support the theory.
He later recovered at home in Beijing with relatively mild symptoms.
To verify the theory, Qin and colleagues dropped a solution containing the virus into two monkeys’ eyes.
To their surprise, the researchers did not find the virus on the surface of the monkeys’ eyes the next day. But several days later, both animals tested positive.
Further investigations showed that the viral strain might have landed on the conjunctiva, a tissue lining the inside of the eyelids and covering the white of the eye, and then travelled through the tear duct before ending up in the upper throat.
However, the infection suffered by the monkeys appear to be less severe than that of another animal that had caught the virus through the throat, according to another paper posted by Qin on bioRxiv last Saturday.
According to several other recent studies, the new coronavirus can survive in the air or on metal surfaces for days.
The scientists wrote that their findings suggested that people should be more aware of the need to protect their eyes.
They argued transmission could be cut by “regular hand-washing in daily life and wearing protective eyewear when in close contact with patients or in crowded places, especially for clinicians”.