lewrockwell--2020-05-18--America’s Totalitarian Ruling Class and Its Willing Slaves

If the corona cold virus calamity teaches us anything it is that , with few exceptions , America ’ s political class is overwhelmingly dominated by fascists and totalitarians .
I speak of course of all the governors , mayors , and city and county council members who have taken it upon themselves to declare that their words are law , and to use the heavily-armed police forces at their disposal to enforce their “ laws.
” The Morticia Adams-ish governor of Michigan has become the face of today ’ s fascist totalitarian political class .
Real laws are passed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ signed by chief executives .
NONE of the “ stay-at-home ” orders are laws ; they are the mere words of politicians and bureaucrats .
Nor are they based on “ science.
” In the true spirit of Abraham Lincoln , who arbitrarily redefined “ treason ” from its Article 3 , Section 3 definition of “ levying war upon ” the free and independent states ( which he was guilty of ) to criticizing himself and his policies , the political class has not amended but simply redefined the Constitution to mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of their mouths .
This reminds your author of an old movie , “ The Island of Doctor Moreau , ” in which Burt Lancaster portrays a mad scientist who experiments on animals that he makes part human .
To control the beasts he tells them that he is their father and and “ The Sayer of the Law.
” Whatever he says is “ the law ” by virtue of his having said it .
America has become one big island of Dr. Moreaus hiding behind their titles of “ governor ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Doctor M ... Wells , H. G. Buy New $ 6.25 The Bill of Rights does not say that we have inalienable rights to freedom of speech , assembly , and religion “ unless people get sick , ” after all .
But , alas , the Constitution has essentially been a dead letter for generations .
Americans have long lived under the “ Hamiltonian constitution , ” which is whatever the politicians of the day say it is .
Jeffersonian “ strict constructionism ” was abandoned , essentially , at the end @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact is why almost all who are attracted to politics as a career today are totalitarian-minded thugs .
They get into politics precisely because they want to wield this monopolistic , totalitarian power against their fellow citizens , who they often despise and hate , publicly labeling them with such words as “ deplorable ” and much worse .
There are a few exceptions , of course , the most magnificent of which is former Congressman Ron Paul , but they are the exceptions that prove the rule .
I also speak of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Department of Justice , and virtually the entire judicial system , every member of whom has remained as silent as a church mouse while the rule of law in America was swept away in a mere six weeks .
Think of this the next time a “ conservative Republican ” in Washington pretends to be devoted to the Constitution .
The American public lost control of the federal government when the rights of secession and nullification were abolished in 1865 .
John C. Calhoun was right when he explained in his Disquisition on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be enough to control and restrain legal plunder .
Some mechanism that could be utilized by the people of the free and independent states , organized in political communities , was necessary if the central government was to be the servant rather than the master of the people , he said .
Naturally , Calhoun is one of the most demonized political figures in American history by the American ruling class .
A Disquisition on Gove ... John C. Calhoun Best Price : $ 5.89 Buy New $ 10.00 Then came the deification @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which turned into the deification of the presidency in general and of all its “ executive powers ” ( i.e.
, mostly unconstitutional , dictatorial powers to wage war , enslave citizens through conscription , and everything else ) .
Federalism was destroyed by the “ Civil War , ” after which the states became mere franchises or appendages of the central government in Washington .
The federal government was turned into one giant monopoly of the worst kind : One from which there can be no escape once it acquired the powers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The temptation to be one of the chosen few to yield such totalitarian powers is what causes the worst elements of society to pursue careers in politics , as F.A .
Hayek explained in The Road to Serfdom .
Long gone are the days when public-spirited citizens would serve in Congress for a few years , their behavior constrained by “ the chains of the Constitution , ” as Jefferson once said , and then return to their private lives .
Your author used to have a quotation on his office door from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that said : “ Everything government touches turns to crap.
” No truer words were ever spoken .
The inevitable failures of government ( Did the Centers for Disease Control succeed in controlling the coronavirus disease ? )
elicits a typical response from politicians : ramp up their totalitarian dictates , as so many of today ’ s governors are doing at the moment , after the original dictates proved to be failures .
As Hayek wrote ( p. 135 ) : They “ would soon have to choose between disregard of ordinary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this reason that the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism.
” That latter phrase is a perfect description of what America has become just in the last few months .
Hayek wrote this in his famous chapter 10 , “ Why the Worst Get on Top.
” The Road to Serfdom : T ... F. A. Hayek , Bruce Cal ... Best Price : $ 3.06 Buy New $ 1.99 “ The worst ” do not do it all alone .
The have help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that assists them in making them their own de facto slaves .
This takes a large group , wrote Hayek , in order to present the appearance of legitimacy to the state ’ s totalitarian powers .
The perfect kind of large group , moreover , that is large enough to “ impose their views on the values of life on all the rest ” will be “ those who form the ‘ mass ’ in the derogatory sense of the term , the least original and independent .
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” Thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to acquire the “ support of all the docile and gullible , who have no strong convictions of their own but are prepared to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently and loudly and frequently ” ( i.e.
, “ We ’ re all in this together .
We ’ re all in this together .
We ’ re all in this together .
We ’ re all in this together .
.
.
” ) .
It will be “ those whose vague and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whose passions and emotions are readily aroused who well swell the ranks of the totalitarian party , ” wrote Hayek ( p. 139 ) .
You see these people every day all over America : The man driving alone in his car wearing a face mask .
The couple out walking on a windy day wearing face masks and scurrying off whenever they see another human being ; those who answer opinion polls in the affirmative when asked if the lockdown should last “ until a vaccine is available ; ” the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ store , or complaining to the manger , that you are closer to them than six feet .
Everyone who Judge Napolitano calls “ the sheeple , ” in other words .
The “ skillful demagogue , ” Hayek continued , understands that it is “ easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy , on the envy of those better off [ the essence of Marxism ] – than on any positive task.
” In the Germany of Hayek ’ s youth “ it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come to be regarded as the representative of capitalism .
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.
.
German anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism spring from the same root .
.
.
( pp .
139-140 ) .
Novelty Inc Sheople Sh ... Buy New $ 11.90 The U.S. government is constantly fabricating “ another Hitler , ” whether it is Manuel Noriega , Saddam Hussein , Gaddafi , the Sandinistas , Putin , and myriad others .
Even slicker , however , and a higher level of demagoguery altogether , is to define “ the enemy ” as something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ invisible enemy ” of a virus that no one seems to understand .
Such things can be made to appear to be as common as the air that we breathe ( literally , in the case of viruses ) , so that waging “ war ” against them , and the never-ending grabbing hold of more government power and the abolition of whatever is left of freedom , can go on forever .
The “ docile and gullible ” do not arise spontaneously as supporters of the fascist thugs who now rule over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the political system .
The political ruling class of any country is always a tiny numerical minority that can be swept aside by the masses , who number in the millions .
Therefore , the state has an imperative to make at least a majority of “ the masses ” into docile and gullible serfs .
It does this by monopolizing all aspects of education .
As Murray Rothbard explained in his essay , “ The Nature of the State ” : “ Particularly important .
.
.
is for the State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thereby to mould the minds of its subjects .
In addition to influencing the universities through all manner of financial subventions , and through state-owned universities directly , the State controls education on the lower levels through the universal institutions of the public school , through certification requirements for private schools , and through compulsory attendance laws .
Add to this a virtually total control over radio and television – either through outright State ownership .
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or , as in the United States , by nationalization of the airwaves , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to license the right of stations to use those frequencies and channels.
” Anatomy of the State Murray Rothbard Best Price : $ 5.00 Buy New $ 5.82 No one is born with an affinity toward being a slave ; they have to be conditioned into thinking that way by the state ’ s totalitarian control of all aspects of “ education.
” In return for being an essential part of the state ’ s relentless propaganda apparatus , the state ’ s “ ideological minions , ” by which Rothbard meant primarily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chairs at prestigious universities , government grants , awards , notoriety , fame , and positions as exalted advisors to the government .
All of this is why all of the home schooling spawned by all of the unconstitutional lockdown/stay-at-home orders created a genuine sense of panic among the state ’ s ideological minions .
So much so that they trotted out Harvard University educational “ researchers ” to proclaim that one insidious and harmful effect of the lockdowns has been the increase in independent-minded educational instruction that is not so directly under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be for whom they work .
Their biggest fear , in other words , is that a widespread realization that homeschooling works could be a Trojan horse , or the proverbial camel ’ s nose under the tent that could expose the truth that emperor does not really have a fine set of clothes after all .
The Best of Thomas DiLorenzo

If the corona cold virus calamity teaches us anything it is that, with few exceptions, America’s political class is overwhelmingly dominated by fascists and totalitarians. I speak of course of all the governors, mayors, and city and county council members who have taken it upon themselves to declare that their words are law, and to use the heavily-armed police forces at their disposal to enforce their “laws.” The Morticia Adams-ish governor of Michigan has become the face of today’s fascist totalitarian political class.
Real laws are passed by Congress and state legislatures and are signed by chief executives. NONE of the “stay-at-home” orders are laws; they are the mere words of politicians and bureaucrats. Nor are they based on “science.” In the true spirit of Abraham Lincoln, who arbitrarily redefined “treason” from its Article 3, Section 3 definition of “levying war upon” the free and independent states (which he was guilty of) to criticizing himself and his policies, the political class has not amended but simply redefined the Constitution to mean whatever words come out of either sides of their mouths. This reminds your author of an old movie, “The Island of Doctor Moreau,” in which Burt Lancaster portrays a mad scientist who experiments on animals that he makes part human. To control the beasts he tells them that he is their father and and “The Sayer of the Law.” Whatever he says is “the law” by virtue of his having said it. America has become one big island of Dr. Moreaus hiding behind their titles of “governor” or “mayor.” The Island of Doctor M... Wells, H. G. Buy New $6.25 (as of 05:51 UTC - Details)
The Bill of Rights does not say that we have inalienable rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and religion “unless people get sick,” after all. But, alas, the Constitution has essentially been a dead letter for generations. Americans have long lived under the “Hamiltonian constitution,” which is whatever the politicians of the day say it is. Jeffersonian “strict constructionism” was abandoned, essentially, at the end of the “Civil War.”
This fact is why almost all who are attracted to politics as a career today are totalitarian-minded thugs. They get into politics precisely because they want to wield this monopolistic, totalitarian power against their fellow citizens, who they often despise and hate, publicly labeling them with such words as “deplorable” and much worse. There are a few exceptions, of course, the most magnificent of which is former Congressman Ron Paul, but they are the exceptions that prove the rule.
I also speak of the entire U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice, and virtually the entire judicial system, every member of whom has remained as silent as a church mouse while the rule of law in America was swept away in a mere six weeks. Think of this the next time a “conservative Republican” in Washington pretends to be devoted to the Constitution.
The American public lost control of the federal government when the rights of secession and nullification were abolished in 1865. John C. Calhoun was right when he explained in his Disquisition on Government that a written constitution would never be enough to control and restrain legal plunder. Some mechanism that could be utilized by the people of the free and independent states, organized in political communities, was necessary if the central government was to be the servant rather than the master of the people, he said. Naturally, Calhoun is one of the most demonized political figures in American history by the American ruling class. A Disquisition on Gove... John C. Calhoun Best Price: $5.89 Buy New $10.00 (as of 10:30 UTC - Details)
Then came the deification and glorification of the Lincoln dictatorship, which turned into the deification of the presidency in general and of all its “executive powers” (i.e., mostly unconstitutional, dictatorial powers to wage war, enslave citizens through conscription, and everything else). Federalism was destroyed by the “Civil War,” after which the states became mere franchises or appendages of the central government in Washington. The federal government was turned into one giant monopoly of the worst kind: One from which there can be no escape once it acquired the powers of money printing and income taxation.
The temptation to be one of the chosen few to yield such totalitarian powers is what causes the worst elements of society to pursue careers in politics, as F.A. Hayek explained in The Road to Serfdom. Long gone are the days when public-spirited citizens would serve in Congress for a few years, their behavior constrained by “the chains of the Constitution,” as Jefferson once said, and then return to their private lives.
Your author used to have a quotation on his office door from Ringo Starr, of all people, that said: “Everything government touches turns to crap.” No truer words were ever spoken. The inevitable failures of government (Did the Centers for Disease Control succeed in controlling the coronavirus disease?) elicits a typical response from politicians: ramp up their totalitarian dictates, as so many of today’s governors are doing at the moment, after the original dictates proved to be failures. As Hayek wrote (p. 135): They “would soon have to choose between disregard of ordinary morals and failure. It is for this reason that the unscrupulous and uninhibited are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism.” That latter phrase is a perfect description of what America has become just in the last few months. Hayek wrote this in his famous chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top.”
The Road to Serfdom: T... F. A. Hayek, Bruce Cal... Best Price: $3.06 Buy New $1.99 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details) “The worst” do not do it all alone. The have help from a large segment of the population that assists them in making them their own de facto slaves. This takes a large group, wrote Hayek, in order to present the appearance of legitimacy to the state’s totalitarian powers. The perfect kind of large group, moreover, that is large enough to “impose their views on the values of life on all the rest” will be “those who form the ‘mass’ in the derogatory sense of the term, the least original and independent . . .” Thus, the totalitarian fascist will be able to acquire the “support of all the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own but are prepared to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently and loudly and frequently” (i.e., “We’re all in this together. We’re all in this together. We’re all in this together. We’re all in this together . . .”). It will be “those whose vague and imperfectly formed ideas are easily swayed and whose passions and emotions are readily aroused who well swell the ranks of the totalitarian party,” wrote Hayek (p. 139).
You see these people every day all over America: The man driving alone in his car wearing a face mask. The couple out walking on a windy day wearing face masks and scurrying off whenever they see another human being; those who answer opinion polls in the affirmative when asked if the lockdown should last “until a vaccine is available;” the people giving you dirty looks at the grocery store, or complaining to the manger, that you are closer to them than six feet. Everyone who Judge Napolitano calls “the sheeple,” in other words.
The “skillful demagogue,” Hayek continued, understands that it is “easier for people to agree on a negative program – on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off [the essence of Marxism] – than on any positive task.” In the Germany of Hayek’s youth “it was the Jew” who “had come to be regarded as the representative of capitalism . . . . German anti-Semitism and anti-capitalism spring from the same root . . . (pp. 139-140).
Novelty Inc Sheople Sh... Buy New $11.90 (as of 05:51 UTC - Details) The U.S. government is constantly fabricating “another Hitler,” whether it is Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, the Sandinistas, Putin, and myriad others. Even slicker, however, and a higher level of demagoguery altogether, is to define “the enemy” as something like “terror” or “the invisible enemy” of a virus that no one seems to understand. Such things can be made to appear to be as common as the air that we breathe (literally, in the case of viruses), so that waging “war” against them, and the never-ending grabbing hold of more government power and the abolition of whatever is left of freedom, can go on forever.
The “docile and gullible” do not arise spontaneously as supporters of the fascist thugs who now rule over most of America. They are cultivated by the political system. The political ruling class of any country is always a tiny numerical minority that can be swept aside by the masses, who number in the millions. Therefore, the state has an imperative to make at least a majority of “the masses” into docile and gullible serfs. It does this by monopolizing all aspects of education. As Murray Rothbard explained in his essay, “The Nature of the State”: “Particularly important . . . is for the State to assume control over education, and thereby to mould the minds of its subjects. In addition to influencing the universities through all manner of financial subventions, and through state-owned universities directly, the State controls education on the lower levels through the universal institutions of the public school, through certification requirements for private schools, and through compulsory attendance laws. Add to this a virtually total control over radio and television – either through outright State ownership . . . or, as in the United States, by nationalization of the airwaves, and by the power of a federal commission to license the right of stations to use those frequencies and channels.”
Anatomy of the State Murray Rothbard Best Price: $5.00 Buy New $5.82 (as of 05:45 UTC - Details) No one is born with an affinity toward being a slave; they have to be conditioned into thinking that way by the state’s totalitarian control of all aspects of “education.” In return for being an essential part of the state’s relentless propaganda apparatus, the state’s “ideological minions,” by which Rothbard meant primarily university professors, are rewarded with endowed chairs at prestigious universities, government grants, awards, notoriety, fame, and positions as exalted advisors to the government.
All of this is why all of the home schooling spawned by all of the unconstitutional lockdown/stay-at-home orders created a genuine sense of panic among the state’s ideological minions. So much so that they trotted out Harvard University educational “researchers” to proclaim that one insidious and harmful effect of the lockdowns has been the increase in independent-minded educational instruction that is not so directly under control of them and the powers that be for whom they work. Their biggest fear, in other words, is that a widespread realization that homeschooling works could be a Trojan horse, or the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent that could expose the truth that emperor does not really have a fine set of clothes after all.
The Best of Thomas DiLorenzo


lewrockwell--2020-05-18--COVID-19 Coronavirus & Testosterone

COVID-19 Coronavirus & Testosterone

The critical situation posed by the COVID-19 coronavirus among high-risk individuals and the vulnerability of the earth ’ s 7.9 billion human population to a newly mutated COVID-19 coronavirus without a proven vaccine has prompted Moshe Shifrine PhD to pose a revolutionary therapy based upon his decades of research in the field of olfactory ( smell ) therapy .
Dr. Shifrine holds two patents on the use of odors to tickle the olfactory bulb in the nose to produce hormones like testosterone and insulin .
Dr. Shifrine writes : “ Just a small number of molecules ( in a concentration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the nasal passages are needed to carry scent to the 20,000 nerve receptors in the olfactory bulb that is located on both hemispheres of the forebrain .
When the molecules attach to these receptors their vibratory signature sends an electric signal to the hypothalamus in the brain that results in the production of the smelled substance .
For example , the scent of testosterone or insulin stimulates the body ’ s production of these hormones.
” Dr. Shifrine instructs : The olfactory system is able to distinguish 12,000 different aromas .
Diabetic Cookbook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best Price : $ 4.55 Buy New $ 9.49 Dr. Shifrine holds a patent ( US 8,679,507 B2 ) for the use of truffle extract that contains a very small amount of natural testosterone .
A whiff of same has been demonstrated to double testosterone levels in men in all ten subjects tested .
The truffle extract , available commercially , also elevates testosterone levels in females and was demonstrated to alleviate common symptoms of menopause .
Shifrine , who has spent 15 years investigating olfactory science , suggests , via a natural @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that it may , in a patient with COVID-19 coronavirus-infection , be possible to obtain natural antibodies from saliva via a mouth swab and expose the olfactory bulb to them via the nasal passages .
This in turn would make direct contact with the brain and therefore would purportedly increase antibody response throughout the body .
While this specific effect hasn ’ t been put to the test yet , says Dr. Shifrine , given the present desperate circumstances with no antibody provoking vaccine in place , he asks health practitioners treating COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ olfactory system to COVID-19 coronavirus antibodies when they obtain mouth swabs for antibody testing .
Then conduct before and after tests to see if there is an antibody-boosting effect .
The presumption is that infected patients are already producing antibodies , but maybe just not enough .
It ’ s kind of like a vaccine booster shot .
The Complete Diabetes ... Best Price : $ 13.19 Buy New $ 19.99 More convincingly , Dr. Shifrine ’ s truffle extract has direct application for COVID-19-infected men with severely low testosterone levels who are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mortal risk in the hospital intensive care unit .
Almost 70 % of hospitalized males had a strikingly low testosterone levels that is correlated with a severe and fatal outcome .
More males than females are stricken with COVID-19 infection .
COVID-19 coronavirus infected males exhibit very low testosterone levels , meaning the virus may be the cause for the deficiency .
Dr. Shifrine ’ s olfactory technology is also a proposed remedy for diabetes .
Injected testosterone can result in a significant reduction in the amount of insulin medication required to bring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some cases , the truffle/ testosterone therapy results in complete remission of all symptoms of diabetes , reports Dr. Shifrine .
Smelling insulin itself can also cause the body to produce insulin , he adds .
Diabetics can determine if truffle/odor therapy works by measuring their blood pressure , says Dr. Shifrine .
If blood sugar is under control , blood pressure should normalize , he says .
For reference , young men produce ~6 milligrams of testosterone a day ; healthy women produce 0.3 milligrams/day .
The All-New Diabetes & ... American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pharmacologists immediately recognize the distinct advantage of direct stimulation of the hypothalamus via olfactory stimulation because it does not need to pass through the blood-brain barrier like drugs must do .
Declining testosterone levels in men are not a part of normal aging .
In one study only obese men who were former smokers experienced a significant decline in testosterone levels .
Also men with greater body mass experience a two-fold decline in testosterone compared to men of normal weight .
Unmarried men also experience greater reductions in testosterone than married men .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ advancing age so much as it is a reflection of our health habits and diet .
Testosterone levels in males have been troublesomely in decline over recent decades .
There is considerable evidence that hand grip strength correlates with testosterone levels .
NIYIKOW Grip Strength ... Buy New $ 8.99 In an article written at Forbes.com entitled “ You ’ re Not The Man Your Father Was ” it was noted in a 2016 study that young men age 20-34 years of age could apply only 98 pounds of force with right-handed grip @ @ @ @ @ @ @ man of the same age in 1985 .
Natural decline in hand grip strength usually begins at about age 55 .
Men with stronger hand grip strength have better quality erections .
And it ’ s not just virility and sex drive that goes wanting with a shortage of testosterone .
It ’ s also a strong predictor of future mortality .
Men with low T levels also lose bone and muscle mass and they become frail by the 8th decade of life .
And yes , predictably , men with low T @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Truffle extract is available in a spray bottle and is used much like perfume .
This writer finds it makes a man feel younger .
My grip strength is 160+ .
It is commercially available under the trade name VITAL-T-BOOST .
A more comprehensive report on how men can raise their testosterone levels via truffle olfactory therapy written by his author is available online .

The critical situation posed by the COVID-19 coronavirus among high-risk individuals and the vulnerability of the earth’s 7.9 billion human population to a newly mutated COVID-19 coronavirus without a proven vaccine has prompted Moshe Shifrine PhD to pose a revolutionary therapy based upon his decades of research in the field of olfactory (smell) therapy.
Dr. Shifrine holds two patents on the use of odors to tickle the olfactory bulb in the nose to produce hormones like testosterone and insulin. Dr. Shifrine writes:
“Just a small number of molecules (in a concentration in billionths of a gram) in the nasal passages are needed to carry scent to the 20,000 nerve receptors in the olfactory bulb that is located on both hemispheres of the forebrain. When the molecules attach to these receptors their vibratory signature sends an electric signal to the hypothalamus in the brain that results in the production of the smelled substance. For example, the scent of testosterone or insulin stimulates the body’s production of these hormones.”
Dr. Shifrine instructs: The olfactory system is able to distinguish 12,000 different aromas. Diabetic Cookbook and ... Zanini RD CDE, Lori Best Price: $4.55 Buy New $9.49 (as of 05:53 UTC - Details)
Dr. Shifrine holds a patent (US 8,679,507 B2) for the use of truffle extract that contains a very small amount of natural testosterone. A whiff of same has been demonstrated to double testosterone levels in men in all ten subjects tested. The truffle extract, available commercially, also elevates testosterone levels in females and was demonstrated to alleviate common symptoms of menopause.
Shifrine, who has spent 15 years investigating olfactory science, suggests, via a natural mechanism he calls HARMONIC OLFACTORY IMMUNITY, that it may, in a patient with COVID-19 coronavirus-infection, be possible to obtain natural antibodies from saliva via a mouth swab and expose the olfactory bulb to them via the nasal passages. This in turn would make direct contact with the brain and therefore would purportedly increase antibody response throughout the body.
While this specific effect hasn’t been put to the test yet, says Dr. Shifrine, given the present desperate circumstances with no antibody provoking vaccine in place, he asks health practitioners treating COVID-19 coronavirus infected patients to begin exposing the olfactory system to COVID-19 coronavirus antibodies when they obtain mouth swabs for antibody testing. Then conduct before and after tests to see if there is an antibody-boosting effect. The presumption is that infected patients are already producing antibodies, but maybe just not enough. It’s kind of like a vaccine booster shot. The Complete Diabetes ... Best Price: $13.19 Buy New $19.99 (as of 05:53 UTC - Details)
Truffle therapy potentially helpful for COVID-19-treated men
More convincingly, Dr. Shifrine’s truffle extract has direct application for COVID-19-infected men with severely low testosterone levels who are now reported to be at grave elevated mortal risk in the hospital intensive care unit. Almost 70% of hospitalized males had a strikingly low testosterone levels that is correlated with a severe and fatal outcome. More males than females are stricken with COVID-19 infection.
COVID-19 coronavirus infected males exhibit very low testosterone levels, meaning the virus may be the cause for the deficiency.
Diabetes too
Dr. Shifrine’s olfactory technology is also a proposed remedy for diabetes. Injected testosterone can result in a significant reduction in the amount of insulin medication required to bring blood sugar levels to normal. In some cases, the truffle/ testosterone therapy results in complete remission of all symptoms of diabetes, reports Dr. Shifrine. Smelling insulin itself can also cause the body to produce insulin, he adds.
Diabetics can determine if truffle/odor therapy works by measuring their blood pressure, says Dr. Shifrine. If blood sugar is under control, blood pressure should normalize, he says.
For reference, young men produce ~6 milligrams of testosterone a day; healthy women produce 0.3 milligrams/day. The All-New Diabetes &... American Heart Associa... Buy New $19.95 (as of 05:53 UTC - Details)
Pharmacologists immediately recognize the distinct advantage of direct stimulation of the hypothalamus via olfactory stimulation because it does not need to pass through the blood-brain barrier like drugs must do.
Declining testosterone levels in men are not a part of normal aging. In one study only obese men who were former smokers experienced a significant decline in testosterone levels. Also men with greater body mass experience a two-fold decline in testosterone compared to men of normal weight.
Unmarried men also experience greater reductions in testosterone than married men. So low T is not governed by advancing age so much as it is a reflection of our health habits and diet.
Testosterone levels in males have been troublesomely in decline over recent decades.
There is considerable evidence that hand grip strength correlates with testosterone levels.
NIYIKOW Grip Strength ... Buy New $8.99 (as of 05:53 UTC - Details) In an article written at Forbes.com entitled “You’re Not The Man Your Father Was” it was noted in a 2016 study that young men age 20-34 years of age could apply only 98 pounds of force with right-handed grip, down from 117 pounds by a man of the same age in 1985.
Natural decline in hand grip strength usually begins at about age 55. Men with stronger hand grip strength have better quality erections.
And it’s not just virility and sex drive that goes wanting with a shortage of testosterone. It’s also a strong predictor of future mortality. Men with low T levels also lose bone and muscle mass and they become frail by the 8th decade of life. And yes, predictably, men with low T levels also begin to lose their minds.
Truffle extract is available in a spray bottle and is used much like perfume. This writer finds it makes a man feel younger. My grip strength is 160+. It is commercially available under the trade name VITAL-T-BOOST.
A more comprehensive report on how men can raise their testosterone levels via truffle olfactory therapy written by his author is available online.


lewrockwell--2020-05-18--This Is Why You Can’t Trust the Fact Checkers

For the last eight years I have worked as a writer , researcher , and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets .
I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology , attacks on indigenous communities , and the overall growth of the government and corporate power .
As someone working in this field , writing about topics which are often seen as controversial or “ outside the mainstream ” – censorship and personal attacks are part of the job description .
However , the attacks on independent media have rapidly increased in the last four years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ceasing to exist due to lack of traffic and thus , lack of funds .
We have seen outlets outright branded “ fake news ” or accused of collusion with the Russian government .
Some channels and websites have been unable to apply for advertising or use certain digital products based on these labels .
Some channels and reporters have been deleted off social media and other digital platforms altogether .
And , if the social media managers don ’ t delete you , they might just use the algorithm to hide your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the public .
The Fact Checker & rsquo ... Smith , Sarah Harrison Best Price : $ 2.49 Buy New $ 7.00 Perhaps the most insidious method is the recent use of “ fact checkers ” to limit the reach of an outlet , or simply brand them with the fake news scarlet letter to discourage readers from engaging .
This has been increasing in the last 2 years and I personally know of several remaining indy media outlets who have had to decide whether or not to run certain articles or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be censored or banned .
Of course , with the algorithmic games being played by social media platforms , most outlets are reaching a tiny fraction of what they once were .
Case in point , The Mind Unleashed .
I have been part of the TMU team on and off for the last year or so .
In that time we have been struggling to reach a small fraction of our 9 million Facebook followers .
Part of the reason we are struggling to reach people is because we have the dubious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Facebook and affiliated fact checkers .
In a recent article published in Newsweek Espanol , in partnership with Newsguard , The Mind Unleashed is described as a “ site that promises to ‘ promote and inspire unconventional thinking , ’ but is actually dedicated to publishing falsehoods.
” .
The quote was in reference to a story TMU had written about the origins of COVID-19 and the potential for the virus to have been created as a bio weapon .
HATE : Why We Should Re ... Strossen , Nadine Best Price : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is one of a number of “ fact checker ” services which has proliferated since the election of Donald Trump to U.S. President .
Newsguard is a browser plug-in for Chrome and Microsoft Edge that gives trustworthiness ratings to most of the internet ’ s top-trafficked sites .
It uses a color coded system to warn readers of an article or website ’ s trustworthiness .
In a previous investigation , TLAV writer Whitney Webb exposed the neoconservative roots of the Newsguard team .
Webb wrote : Newsguard started as a partnership between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Crovitz appearing to be the connection to the world of finance , media , and geopolitics .
Crovitz held a number of positions at Dow Jones and at the Wall Street Journal , is a board member of Business Insider , a member of the Council on Foreign Relations , and claims to have been an “ editor or contributor to books published by the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation.
” As Webb noted , “ the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI ) is one of the most influential neoconservative think @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scholars , ’ directors and fellows have included neoconservative figures like Paul Wolfowitz , Richard Perle , John Bolton and Frederick Kagan.
” Springtime for Snowfla ... Michael Rectenwald Best Price : $ 10.51 Buy New $ 14.65 Most recently , Newsguard has created a list of “ Websites Publishing False Coronavirus Information ” and a list “ Super Spreaders ” of false information .
These lists include many well-known and credible independent media outlets .
This is not to say that every website listed is credible and should be supported .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only serve to “ blackball ” certain outlets and schools of thoughts which counter the mainstream version of events .
Newsguard is not the only fact checker service operating in the current “ post-truth era ” .
Social media companies like Facebook have partnered with several organizations with the stated aim of fact checking and debunking disinformation .
Of course , these organizations tend to reinforce the narratives being woven by the mouthpieces in the corporate media and the puppet masters working the politicians .
For a moment Facebook partnered with reviled “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after Snopes was discredited , Facebook has now partnered with companies like Lead Stories .
Lead Stories also “ fact checked ” The Mind Unleashed a couple times , always using arbitrary standards and semantics to make a story appear to be false or misleading .
In one story , Lead Stories relies on data from the aforementioned Newsguard .
So who is Lead Stories ?
The About page states that since January 2019 they have been a part of Facebook fact checker program .
They describe the partnership as follows : Google @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Price : $ 4.99 Buy New $ 8.77 “ Under the terms of this partnership we get access to listings of content that has been flagged as potentially false by Facebook ’ s systems or its users and we can decide independently if we want to fact check it or not .
In addition to this we can enter our fact checks into a tool provided by Facebook and Facebook then uses our data to help slow down the spread of false information on its platform .
Facebook pays us to perform this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say or influence over what we fact check or what our conclusions are , nor do they want to.
” Lead Stories is run by Perry Sanders Jr. , an attorney known for representing the family of rapper Notorious B.I.G .
after his murder , and Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke , who helped create Lead Stories after 26 years with CNN .
Despite Duke ’ s bio stating that he “ did ground-breaking investigative reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal “ , CNN is most known as a “ super spreader ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is CNN , ABC , CBS , the Washington Post and others who actually helped cover up Epstein ’ s crimes .
The entire Lead Stories team is filled with former and current CNN employees , as well as other MSM outlets .
Two other organizations that have partnered with Facebook and fact checked TMU are Science Feedback and Africa Check , both which claim to identify and expose the spread of disinformation .
Science Feedback describes itself as “ a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science based media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ readers know which news to trust ” .
Africa Check says they are a non-profit attempting to “ raise the quality of information available to society across the continent.
” Unfreedom of the Press Levin , Mark R. Buy New $ 13.69 As with Lead Stories and Newsguard , Africa Check uses semantics to label a story false or misleading .
Science Feedback uses a similar strategy , casting The Mind Unleashed ( and other alternative media sites ) in a web of “ disinformation ” related to a report about the potential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Interestingly , Africa Check ’ s list of partners includes The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , yet another example of how the Gates ’ spread their influence and agenda around the world – this time as part of an effort to control the dialogue around hot topics .
Gates also funded the Event 201 pandemic simulation exercise which discussed the potential for censoring the internet or even arresting individuals who spread information that has been deemed false .
Africa Check is also partnered with the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations .

For the last eight years I have worked as a writer, researcher, and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets. I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology, attacks on indigenous communities, and the overall growth of the government and corporate power. As someone working in this field, writing about topics which are often seen as controversial or “outside the mainstream” – censorship and personal attacks are part of the job description.
However, the attacks on independent media have rapidly increased in the last four years, with many formerly active journalistic outlets ceasing to exist due to lack of traffic and thus, lack of funds. We have seen outlets outright branded “fake news” or accused of collusion with the Russian government. Some channels and websites have been unable to apply for advertising or use certain digital products based on these labels. Some channels and reporters have been deleted off social media and other digital platforms altogether. And, if the social media managers don’t delete you, they might just use the algorithm to hide your posts, limiting your ability to interact with the public. The Fact Checker&rsquo... Smith, Sarah Harrison Best Price: $2.49 Buy New $7.00 (as of 05:59 UTC - Details)
ATTACK OF THE “FACT” CHECKERS
Perhaps the most insidious method is the recent use of “fact checkers” to limit the reach of an outlet, or simply brand them with the fake news scarlet letter to discourage readers from engaging. This has been increasing in the last 2 years and I personally know of several remaining indy media outlets who have had to decide whether or not to run certain articles or video reports out of fear they might be censored or banned. Of course, with the algorithmic games being played by social media platforms, most outlets are reaching a tiny fraction of what they once were.
Case in point, The Mind Unleashed. I have been part of the TMU team on and off for the last year or so. In that time we have been struggling to reach a small fraction of our 9 million Facebook followers. Part of the reason we are struggling to reach people is because we have the dubious recognition of being labeled fake news by Facebook and affiliated fact checkers.
In a recent article published in Newsweek Espanol, in partnership with Newsguard, The Mind Unleashed is described as a “site that promises to ‘promote and inspire unconventional thinking,’ but is actually dedicated to publishing falsehoods.”. The quote was in reference to a story TMU had written about the origins of COVID-19 and the potential for the virus to have been created as a bio weapon. HATE: Why We Should Re... Strossen, Nadine Best Price: $9.35 Buy New $11.00 (as of 05:59 UTC - Details)
Newsguard is one of a number of “fact checker” services which has proliferated since the election of Donald Trump to U.S. President. Newsguard is a browser plug-in for Chrome and Microsoft Edge that gives trustworthiness ratings to most of the internet’s top-trafficked sites. It uses a color coded system to warn readers of an article or website’s trustworthiness. In a previous investigation, TLAV writer Whitney Webb exposed the neoconservative roots of the Newsguard team. Webb wrote:
“Newsguard’s advisory board makes it clear that Newsguard was created to serve the interests of American oligarchy. Chief among Newsguard’s advisors are Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security under George W. Bush and Ret. General Michael Hayden, a former CIA director, a former NSA director and principal at the Chertoff Group, a security consultancy seeking to “advise corporate clients and governments, including foreign governments” on security matters that was co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who also currently serves as the board chairman of major weapons manufacturer BAE systems.”
Newsguard started as a partnership between Steven Brill and Louis Gordon Crovitz, with Crovitz appearing to be the connection to the world of finance, media, and geopolitics. Crovitz held a number of positions at Dow Jones and at the Wall Street Journal, is a board member of Business Insider, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and claims to have been an “editor or contributor to books published by the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation.” As Webb noted, “the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is one of the most influential neoconservative think tanks in the country and its ‘scholars,’ directors and fellows have included neoconservative figures like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, John Bolton and Frederick Kagan.” Springtime for Snowfla... Michael Rectenwald Best Price: $10.51 Buy New $14.65 (as of 10:49 UTC - Details)
Most recently, Newsguard has created a list of “Websites Publishing False Coronavirus Information” and a list “Super Spreaders” of false information. These lists include many well-known and credible independent media outlets. This is not to say that every website listed is credible and should be supported. The point is that these types of lists only serve to “blackball” certain outlets and schools of thoughts which counter the mainstream version of events.
Newsguard is not the only fact checker service operating in the current “post-truth era”. Social media companies like Facebook have partnered with several organizations with the stated aim of fact checking and debunking disinformation. Of course, these organizations tend to reinforce the narratives being woven by the mouthpieces in the corporate media and the puppet masters working the politicians. For a moment Facebook partnered with reviled “fact checker” Snopes, but, after Snopes was discredited, Facebook has now partnered with companies like Lead Stories.
Lead Stories also “fact checked” The Mind Unleashed a couple times, always using arbitrary standards and semantics to make a story appear to be false or misleading. In one story, Lead Stories relies on data from the aforementioned Newsguard. So who is Lead Stories? The About page states that since January 2019 they have been a part of Facebook fact checker program. They describe the partnership as follows: Google Archipelago: Th... Michael Rectenwald Best Price: $4.99 Buy New $8.77 (as of 11:20 UTC - Details)
“Under the terms of this partnership we get access to listings of content that has been flagged as potentially false by Facebook’s systems or its users and we can decide independently if we want to fact check it or not. In addition to this we can enter our fact checks into a tool provided by Facebook and Facebook then uses our data to help slow down the spread of false information on its platform. Facebook pays us to perform this service for them but they have no say or influence over what we fact check or what our conclusions are, nor do they want to.”
Lead Stories is run by Perry Sanders Jr., an attorney known for representing the family of rapper Notorious B.I.G. after his murder, and Editor-in-Chief Alan Duke, who helped create Lead Stories after 26 years with CNN. Despite Duke’s bio stating that he “did ground-breaking investigative reporting on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal“, CNN is most known as a “super spreader” of propaganda and fake news. It is CNN, ABC, CBS, the Washington Post and others who actually helped cover up Epstein’s crimes. The entire Lead Stories team is filled with former and current CNN employees, as well as other MSM outlets.
Two other organizations that have partnered with Facebook and fact checked TMU are Science Feedback and Africa Check, both which claim to identify and expose the spread of disinformation. Science Feedback describes itself as “a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science based media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust”. Africa Check says they are a non-profit attempting to “raise the quality of information available to society across the continent.” Unfreedom of the Press Levin, Mark R. Buy New $13.69 (as of 05:59 UTC - Details)
As with Lead Stories and Newsguard, Africa Check uses semantics to label a story false or misleading. Science Feedback uses a similar strategy, casting The Mind Unleashed (and other alternative media sites) in a web of “disinformation” related to a report about the potential for a “mini ice age”.
Interestingly, Africa Check’s list of partners includes The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, yet another example of how the Gates’ spread their influence and agenda around the world – this time as part of an effort to control the dialogue around hot topics. Gates also funded the Event 201 pandemic simulation exercise which discussed the potential for censoring the internet or even arresting individuals who spread information that has been deemed false. Africa Check is also partnered with the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-19--How the CDC Could Prolong the Lockdown for 3 More Years

What if the lockdown is going to cause many millions more deaths from another infectious lung disease ?
And then the deaths from that other lung disease are going to be misclassified as COVID-19 deaths to prolong the lockdown ?
An estimated 1.4 million more deaths are predicted worldwide from another infectious disease caused by the lockdown and quarantine over the COVID-19 coronavirus fiasco .
Yes , that is the alarming increased mortality estimate being issued by STOP TB PARTNERSHIP .
Bottom line , the lockdown and quarantine are going to cause far more deaths from another infectious lung disease @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is disrupting access to care for 1.8 billion people on the planet who have tuberculosis .
Some 10 million TB sufferers worldwide fall ill and convert to the active infectious form of TB each year , and 1.5 million die , numbers that far exceed those of COVID-19 coronavirus infections and deaths .
But unexplainably , no lockdown and quarantine called by health authorities for a more deadly TB epidemic .
I Am Perhaps Dying : Th ... Rasbach MD FACS , Denn ... Best Price : $ 4.26 Buy New $ 10.94 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ majority who are foreign born , who have TB and another 9000 cases detected annually .
Unexpectedly in 2019 TB cases in the U.S. were the lowest ever reported .
Around 80 % of U.S. TB cases are reactivations from prior latent ( dormant ) TB .
This means the U.S. has a huge population of dormant TB patients that could erupt into active infectious TB at any time , particularly after a very cold winter when sunshine vitamin D levels are low .
TB has the same seasonal onset as cold and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ among the same high-risk groups – – blacks/African Americans , nursing home patients .
Now , unable to get to doctors and necessary antibiotics , and their immune systems crashing due to the lack of sunshine vitamin D , and possibly living in closer quarters with family members who have latent ( dormant ) TB , an additional 1,367,300 million TB deaths are expected over the next 5 years .
For every month of the lockdown it is estimated there will be 608,000 more TB cases and 126,100 additional deaths .
The misdirection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus epidemic is that 100 vaccines are under development for an infectious disease that is only 120 days old when TB has been around for thousands of years with no vaccine .
Plagues , Pandemics and ... Quinlan , Heather E. Buy New $ 22.95 Lucica Ditiu , director of the STOP TB Partnership says she is sickened by research that now predicts millions more people are now expected to contract the disease ( TB ) as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions .
Progress has been made in TB eradication in recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death numbers have rolled back to 2013 numbers .
According to a newly released report , 6.3 million additional cases of tuberculosis are predicted to occur due to the premature COVID-19 lockdown and quarantine over the next five years .
These excess TB cases are predicted to result in ~1.4 million more TB deaths over the next 5 years !
( That is in addition to the 1.3 million that typically die of TB annually . )
The predictive study was based upon a 3-month lockdown and 10-months to restore TB care services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an additional 3 months beyond the initial 3-month lockdown .
So , the numbers of TB cases and deaths will rise above these projections .
Currently , TB patients , who are required to report to a TB clinic to monitor their required antibiotic regimen , are in lockdown .
The World Health Organization now says coronavirus is “ going to be with us for a long time.
” They are whispering about a 3-year lockdown .
Nowhere can anyone find current TB death numbers , likely because they are being misclassified as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worth noting that the three hot-spots geographically for COVID-19-related deaths in the world , Wuhan , China ; Modena , Italy and New York City , were fighting outbreaks of tuberculosis before the COVID-19 outbreak drew attention because it was allegedly a new mutation of coronavirus that left the entire world population without protective antibodies .
Tuberculosis and Co-in ... Pranveer Singh Buy New $ 92.37 Tuberculosis generally affects younger adults age 18-44 whereas COVID-19 deaths are concentrated in the very old , particularly adults over age 80 .
It should also be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ development and tested for SARS coronavirus ( inactivated and live-attenuated virus , DNA-based vaccines , recombinant proteins , virus-like particles ) for 8 years now , but none have gained final approval .
Microbiologists say the primary clinical difference between COVID-19 coronavirus and tuberculosis is that TB has a slow onset ( often many years ) whereas COVID-19 erupts within a few days following infection .
But frankly , most COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic and those infected are unaware the infection came and went .
Only now are investigators becoming aware that co-infection @ @ @ @ @ @ @ TB .
Or maybe many cases of COVID-19 are solely TB .
Let ’ s not forget that the Spanish flu of 1918 that reportedly killed 50 million was more recently found to have been caused by tuberculosis by University of California demographers who claim the co-infection of TB plus influenza ( H1N1 ) likely promoted the progression and severity of the pandemic .
Thus , two pandemics , viral and tubercular , may now be colliding .
Little is said about the difficulty distinguishing COVID-10 coronavirus from tuberculosis .
Not the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This wouldn ’ t be the first time the same CDC virologists ( Fauci , Birx and Redfield ) confused TB for a virus .
They did it with AIDS says disease investigator Lawrence Broxmeyer MD .
COVID-19 : The Pandemic ... MacKenzie , Debora Buy New $ 27.00 He notes that TB kept cropping up time and again in AIDS patients as the predominant infection leading to death .
From the onset , notes Broxmeyer , veterinarian Max Myron Essex , the first scientist to propose HIV testing , knew that TB @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost 70 % of cases .
This caused Essex and his protégé Oscar Kashala to warn that tests for HIV “ should be interpreted with caution when screening individuals with tuberculosis or other mycobacterial species.
” Other researchers have also found false-positive HIV tests among patients with leprosy who also had TB .
Thermo-Fischer , a $ 25 billion maker of diagnostic kits for COVID-19 coronavirus , includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis in its list of possible infectious agents that could cross-react in their RT-PCR test for COVID-19 , but refuse to release the actual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dr. Broxmeyer .
So , is the whole world being misled into thinking deaths are being caused by COVID-19 when mortal outcomes are primarily generated by TB or TB+ COVID-19 ?
And will these hidden TB deaths be used prolong the worldwide lockdown indefinitely and result in futile attempts to develop a vaccine ?
The experts claim the reason why 2 million COVID-19 related deaths have not been recorded in the U.S. is because of the lockdown measures .
But even if true , what if the consequences of the lockdown are far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus ?
FIGHT BACK : Beat the C ... Libov , Charlotte Buy New $ 19.99 The false idea millions will die due to the coronavirus has already been exposed as a mathematical lie .
The Bill Gates-funded professor at Imperial College in London , whose 13-year old software predicted millions of COVID-19 related deaths and was used to justify a worldwide lockdown , has been roundly dismissed by other epidemiologists .
The coronavirus mastermind at Imperial College has resigned over his own disregard for lockdown measures .
The Imperial College death predictions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those death numbers as “ unreliable.
” But the death numbers keep being reported on TV .
COVID-19 causes more deaths than the flu ?
You may read false reports the COVID-19 coronavirus is causing more deaths than the normal strains of influenza viruses that are in circulation in winter months .
But the Centers for Disease Control has been misleading Americans for years that , on average , 36,000 American die of the flu each year .
The complicit news media ( fake news reporters bought off by big business ) haven @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government .
So how can the public trust the death numbers being distributed by the CDC for COVID-19 ?
The American Lung Association publishes the true influenza death numbers , as low as 257 , 727 , and 411 in a year .
The CDC combines flu deaths with pneumonia deaths to come up with those numbers in an effort to scare Americans into getting flu shots .
The CDC has become the handmaiden of the vaccine makers .
Death numbers have been buoyed by other factors : • Laboratory confirmation of COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of death .
It may only be nothing more than a companion virus .
Patients may be dying of other causes and die with but not of COVID-19 .
• The CDC estimates how many excess deaths are occurring over and above prior seasons .
For the period March 11-May 2 , 2020 , a total of 32,107 excess deaths were reported .
These excess deaths are presumably caused by COVID-19 coronavirus .
But the fact the CDC has given financial incentive ( $ 13,000 to $ 39,000 ) to hospitals to up-code @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) to COVID-19 causes one to suspect the CDC excess death estimates .
• Hospitals also changed their way they were treating this lung disease , tacitly admitting they were subjecting lungs to ventilator-induced lung trauma that hastened the death of many frail patients .
Treatment , not a virus , may have caused many of these COVID-19 deaths .
• Furthermore , most ( 99 % Italy ; 73 % U.S. ) of the COVID-19 related deaths occur among people who had pre-existing health conditions that rendered them frail and vulnerable to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 7 % of deaths were among patients who were 90 years of age or older .
Therefore , a lockdown of entire populations has been unnecessary .
In other words , many of these patients were on their death-beds and were within days of dying anyway .
The following chart reveals how the CDC and other scaremongers have maligned mortality numbers to frighten the masses into a contrived lockdown and quarantine .
COVID-19 related deaths in Italy have been widely reported .
Most of these deaths are among the very old .
Examine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ number of deaths in Italy ( per 1000 people ) is already on a steep upwards trajectory because of the large numbers of older Italians age 80 and up , not because of COVID-19 .
( Graphic Macrotrends ) The COVID-19 mortality numbers are flawed if for no other reason than proof of causality has yet to be confirmed .
In South Africa , there have been 264 COVID-19-related deaths reported ( May 18 , 2020 ) .
But last year there were 63,000 deaths from tuberculosis in a population of 59 million @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 0.00000366 or 3 in a million in South Africa .
Yet they have been forced into a lockdown with the rest of the world .
Why are microbiologists , public health officials , and the news media , ignoring an ongoing greater epidemic that is already killing millions ?
Why is the order to lockdown and quarantine issued for a far less deadly coronavirus infection ?
Infectious disease experts appear to be leading the world to a literal dead end .

What if the lockdown is going to cause many millions more deaths from another infectious lung disease? And then the deaths from that other lung disease are going to be misclassified as COVID-19 deaths to prolong the lockdown?
An estimated 1.4 million more deaths are predicted worldwide from another infectious disease caused by the lockdown and quarantine over the COVID-19 coronavirus fiasco. Yes, that is the alarming increased mortality estimate being issued by STOP TB PARTNERSHIP.
Bottom line, the lockdown and quarantine are going to cause far more deaths from another infectious lung disease than COVID-19.
The worldwide COVID-19 lockdown is disrupting access to care for 1.8 billion people on the planet who have tuberculosis. Some 10 million TB sufferers worldwide fall ill and convert to the active infectious form of TB each year, and 1.5 million die, numbers that far exceed those of COVID-19 coronavirus infections and deaths. But unexplainably, no lockdown and quarantine called by health authorities for a more deadly TB epidemic. I Am Perhaps Dying: Th... Rasbach MD FACS, Denn... Best Price: $4.26 Buy New $10.94 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
There are ~14 million Americans, the majority who are foreign born, who have TB and another 9000 cases detected annually. Unexpectedly in 2019 TB cases in the U.S. were the lowest ever reported. Around 80% of U.S. TB cases are reactivations from prior latent (dormant) TB. This means the U.S. has a huge population of dormant TB patients that could erupt into active infectious TB at any time, particularly after a very cold winter when sunshine vitamin D levels are low. TB has the same seasonal onset as cold and flu viruses and its prevalence is high among the same high-risk groups – – blacks/African Americans, nursing home patients.
Now, unable to get to doctors and necessary antibiotics, and their immune systems crashing due to the lack of sunshine vitamin D, and possibly living in closer quarters with family members who have latent (dormant) TB, an additional 1,367,300 million TB deaths are expected over the next 5 years.
For every month of the lockdown it is estimated there will be 608,000 more TB cases and 126,100 additional deaths.
The misdirection in the midst of this live COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic is that 100 vaccines are under development for an infectious disease that is only 120 days old when TB has been around for thousands of years with no vaccine. Plagues, Pandemics and... Quinlan, Heather E. Buy New $22.95 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
Lucica Ditiu, director of the STOP TB Partnership says she is sickened by research that now predicts millions more people are now expected to contract the disease (TB) as a result of the COVID-19 restrictions.
Progress has been made in TB eradication in recent years, but now those infection and death numbers have rolled back to 2013 numbers. According to a newly released report, 6.3 million additional cases of tuberculosis are predicted to occur due to the premature COVID-19 lockdown and quarantine over the next five years. These excess TB cases are predicted to result in ~1.4 million more TB deaths over the next 5 years! (That is in addition to the 1.3 million that typically die of TB annually.)
The predictive study was based upon a 3-month lockdown and 10-months to restore TB care services. California has just extended their lockdown an additional 3 months beyond the initial 3-month lockdown. So, the numbers of TB cases and deaths will rise above these projections.
Currently, TB patients, who are required to report to a TB clinic to monitor their required antibiotic regimen, are in lockdown.
The World Health Organization now says coronavirus is “going to be with us for a long time.” They are whispering about a 3-year lockdown.
Nowhere can anyone find current TB death numbers, likely because they are being misclassified as COVID-19 coronavirus-induced deaths. It is also worth noting that the three hot-spots geographically for COVID-19-related deaths in the world, Wuhan, China; Modena, Italy and New York City, were fighting outbreaks of tuberculosis before the COVID-19 outbreak drew attention because it was allegedly a new mutation of coronavirus that left the entire world population without protective antibodies. Tuberculosis and Co-in... Pranveer Singh Buy New $92.37 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
Tuberculosis generally affects younger adults age 18-44 whereas COVID-19 deaths are concentrated in the very old, particularly adults over age 80. It should also be recognized that various vaccines have been under development and tested for SARS coronavirus (inactivated and live-attenuated virus, DNA-based vaccines, recombinant proteins, virus-like particles) for 8 years now, but none have gained final approval.
Microbiologists say the primary clinical difference between COVID-19 coronavirus and tuberculosis is that TB has a slow onset (often many years) whereas COVID-19 erupts within a few days following infection. But frankly, most COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic and those infected are unaware the infection came and went. Only now are investigators becoming aware that co-infection could lead to missing many cases of TB. Or maybe many cases of COVID-19 are solely TB.
Let’s not forget that the Spanish flu of 1918 that reportedly killed 50 million was more recently found to have been caused by tuberculosis by University of California demographers who claim the co-infection of TB plus influenza (H1N1) likely promoted the progression and severity of the pandemic. Thus, two pandemics, viral and tubercular, may now be colliding.
Little is said about the difficulty distinguishing COVID-10 coronavirus from tuberculosis.
Not the first time virologists confused TB for a virus
This wouldn’t be the first time the same CDC virologists (Fauci, Birx and Redfield) confused TB for a virus. They did it with AIDS says disease investigator Lawrence Broxmeyer MD. COVID-19: The Pandemic... MacKenzie, Debora Buy New $27.00 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
He notes that TB kept cropping up time and again in AIDS patients as the predominant infection leading to death. From the onset, notes Broxmeyer, veterinarian Max Myron Essex, the first scientist to propose HIV testing, knew that TB produces false positive testing for HIV in almost 70% of cases. This caused Essex and his protégé Oscar Kashala to warn that tests for HIV “should be interpreted with caution when screening individuals with tuberculosis or other mycobacterial species.” Other researchers have also found false-positive HIV tests among patients with leprosy who also had TB.
Thermo-Fischer, a $25 billion maker of diagnostic kits for COVID-19 coronavirus, includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis in its list of possible infectious agents that could cross-react in their RT-PCR test for COVID-19, but refuse to release the actual data used to determine this, says Dr. Broxmeyer.
So, is the whole world being misled into thinking deaths are being caused by COVID-19 when mortal outcomes are primarily generated by TB or TB+ COVID-19? And will these hidden TB deaths be used prolong the worldwide lockdown indefinitely and result in futile attempts to develop a vaccine?
Lockdown prevents deaths?
The experts claim the reason why 2 million COVID-19 related deaths have not been recorded in the U.S. is because of the lockdown measures. But even if true, what if the consequences of the lockdown are far more destructive and lethal medically than the virus?
Phony death numbers
FIGHT BACK: Beat the C... Libov, Charlotte Buy New $19.99 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details) The false idea millions will die due to the coronavirus has already been exposed as a mathematical lie. The Bill Gates-funded professor at Imperial College in London, whose 13-year old software predicted millions of COVID-19 related deaths and was used to justify a worldwide lockdown, has been roundly dismissed by other epidemiologists. The coronavirus mastermind at Imperial College has resigned over his own disregard for lockdown measures. The Imperial College death predictions were never verified. Independent evaluators brand those death numbers as “unreliable.” But the death numbers keep being reported on TV.
COVID-19 causes more deaths than the flu?
You may read false reports the COVID-19 coronavirus is causing more deaths than the normal strains of influenza viruses that are in circulation in winter months. But the Centers for Disease Control has been misleading Americans for years that, on average, 36,000 American die of the flu each year. The complicit news media (fake news reporters bought off by big business) haven’t been fact checking the federal government. So how can the public trust the death numbers being distributed by the CDC for COVID-19?
The American Lung Association publishes the true influenza death numbers, as low as 257, 727, and 411 in a year. The CDC combines flu deaths with pneumonia deaths to come up with those numbers in an effort to scare Americans into getting flu shots. The CDC has become the handmaiden of the vaccine makers.
Death numbers have been buoyed by other factors:
The following chart reveals how the CDC and other scaremongers have maligned mortality numbers to frighten the masses into a contrived lockdown and quarantine. COVID-19 related deaths in Italy have been widely reported. Most of these deaths are among the very old. Examine the graphic below. It shows the number of deaths in Italy (per 1000 people) is already on a steep upwards trajectory because of the large numbers of older Italians age 80 and up, not because of COVID-19. (Graphic Macrotrends)
The COVID-19 mortality numbers are flawed if for no other reason than proof of causality has yet to be confirmed.
In South Africa, there have been 264 COVID-19-related deaths reported (May 18, 2020). But last year there were 63,000 deaths from tuberculosis in a population of 59 million people. The COVID-19 death rate is 0.00000366 or 3 in a million in South Africa. Yet they have been forced into a lockdown with the rest of the world.
Why are microbiologists, public health officials, and the news media, ignoring an ongoing greater epidemic that is already killing millions? Why is the order to lockdown and quarantine issued for a far less deadly coronavirus infection?
Infectious disease experts appear to be leading the world to a literal dead end.


lewrockwell--2020-05-19--Listening to the Coronavirus ‘Experts’ Has Led to Despair and Death

On April 21st the Washington Post savaged Georgia governor Brian Kemp ’ s decision to begin opening his state after locking down for weeks .
“ Georgia leads the race to become America ’ s No .
1 Death Destination , ” sneered the headline .
The author , liberal pundit Dana Milbank , actually found the possibility of Georgians dying to be hilarious , suggesting that , “ as a promotion , Georgia could offer ventilators to the first 100 hotel guests to register.
” Milbank , who is obviously still getting paid while millions are out of work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mainstream narrative that we must remain in fear and never question what “ experts ” like Dr. Fauci tell us .
False Alarm : The Truth ... Siegel , Marc Best Price : $ 12.95 Buy New $ 12.70 Well it ’ s been three weeks since Milbank ’ s attack on Georgia and its governor , predicting widespread death which he found humorous .
His predictions are about as worthless as his character .
Not only has Georgia not seen “ coronavirus…burn through Georgia like nothing has since William Tecumseh Sherman , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cases , hospitalizations , and deaths have seen a steep decline since the governor began opening the state .
Maybe getting out in the fresh air and sunshine should not have been prohibited in the first place !
In fact , as we now have much more data , it is becoming increasingly clear that the US states and the countries that locked down the tightest also suffered the highest death rates .
Ultra locked-down Italy suffered 495 Covid deaths per million while relatively non-locked down South Korea suffered only five deaths per @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the US , where non lockdown states like South Dakota were relatively untouched by the virus while authoritarian-led Michigan , New York , and California have been hardest hit .
Blind Trust in Doctors ... Mason , Howard Buy New $ 2.99 In those hardest hit states , we are now seeing that most of the deaths occurred in senior care facilities – after the governors ordered patients sick with Covid to leave the hospitals and return to their facilities .
There , they infected their fellow residents who were most likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that turned the virus into a death sentence .
Will these governors be made to answer for this callous disregard for life ?
Yesterday , Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar admitted the obvious : “ We are seeing that in places that are opening , we ’ re not seeing this spike in cases.
” So why not open everything ?
Because these petty tyrants can not stand the idea of losing the ability to push people around .
Shutting down the entire United States over a virus that looks to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ virus – particularly among those under 80 who are not already sick – has resulted in mass unemployment and economic destruction .
More Americans may die from the wrong-headed efforts to fight the virus than from the virus itself .
Americans should pause and reflect on the lies they are being sold .
Masks are just a form of psychological manipulation .
Many reputable physicians and scientists have said they are worthless and potentially harmful .
Lockdowns are meant to condition people to obey without question .
A nation of people who just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ experts ” without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny .
This is no empty warning – it ’ s backed up by history .
Time to stand up to all the petty tyrants from our hometowns to Washington DC .
It is time to reclaim our freedom .
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On April 21st the Washington Post savaged Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s decision to begin opening his state after locking down for weeks. “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination,” sneered the headline.
The author, liberal pundit Dana Milbank, actually found the possibility of Georgians dying to be hilarious, suggesting that, “as a promotion, Georgia could offer ventilators to the first 100 hotel guests to register.”
Milbank, who is obviously still getting paid while millions are out of work, sees his job as pushing the mainstream narrative that we must remain in fear and never question what “experts” like Dr. Fauci tell us.
False Alarm: The Truth... Siegel, Marc Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $12.70 (as of 11:29 UTC - Details) Well it’s been three weeks since Milbank’s attack on Georgia and its governor, predicting widespread death which he found humorous. His predictions are about as worthless as his character. Not only has Georgia not seen “coronavirus…burn through Georgia like nothing has since William Tecumseh Sherman,” as Milbank laughed, but Covid cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have seen a steep decline since the governor began opening the state.
Maybe getting out in the fresh air and sunshine should not have been prohibited in the first place!
In fact, as we now have much more data, it is becoming increasingly clear that the US states and the countries that locked down the tightest also suffered the highest death rates. Ultra locked-down Italy suffered 495 Covid deaths per million while relatively non-locked down South Korea suffered only five deaths per million. The same is true in the US, where non lockdown states like South Dakota were relatively untouched by the virus while authoritarian-led Michigan, New York, and California have been hardest hit.
Blind Trust in Doctors... Mason, Howard Buy New $2.99 (as of 03:03 UTC - Details) In those hardest hit states, we are now seeing that most of the deaths occurred in senior care facilities – after the governors ordered patients sick with Covid to leave the hospitals and return to their facilities. There, they infected their fellow residents who were most likely to have the multiple co-morbidities and advanced age that turned the virus into a death sentence. Will these governors be made to answer for this callous disregard for life?
Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar admitted the obvious: “We are seeing that in places that are opening, we’re not seeing this spike in cases.” So why not open everything? Because these petty tyrants cannot stand the idea of losing the ability to push people around.
Shutting down the entire United States over a virus that looks to be less deadly than an average flu virus – particularly among those under 80 who are not already sick – has resulted in mass unemployment and economic destruction. More Americans may die from the wrong-headed efforts to fight the virus than from the virus itself.
Americans should pause and reflect on the lies they are being sold. Masks are just a form of psychological manipulation. Many reputable physicians and scientists have said they are worthless and potentially harmful. Lockdowns are meant to condition people to obey without question. A nation of people who just do what they are told by the “experts” without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny. This is no empty warning – it’s backed up by history. Time to stand up to all the petty tyrants from our hometowns to Washington DC. It is time to reclaim our freedom.
The Best of Ron Paul, MD