lewrockwell--2020-03-02--The Threat of a Nuclear War Between the US and Russia Is Now at Its Greatest Since 1983

When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia ’ s border , the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real .
US Air Force Gen. Tod D Wolters told the Senate this week he “ is a fan of flexible first strike ” regarding NATO ’ s nuclear weapons , thereby exposing the fatal fallacy of the alliance ’ s embrace of American nuclear deterrence policy .
It was one of the most remarkable yet underreported exchanges in recent Senate history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee of General Tod Wolters , the commander of US European Command and , concurrently , as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe ( SACEUR ) also the military head of all NATO armed forces , General Wolters engaged in a short yet informative exchange with Senator Deb Fischer , a Republican from the state of Nebraska .
War with Russia ?
: From ... Stephen F. Cohen Best Price : $ 5.00 Buy New $ 8.50 Following some initial questions and answers focused on the alignment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the US , which codified what Wolters called “ the malign influence on behalf of Russia ” toward European security , Senator Fischer asked about the growing recognition on the part of NATO of the important role of US nuclear deterrence in keeping the peace .
“ We all understand that our deterrent , the TRIAD , is the bedrock of the security of this country , ” Fischer noted .
“ Can you tell us about what you are hearing…from our NATO partners about this deterrent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deterrence provided to Europe by the US nuclear TRIAD with the peace enjoyed on the European continent over the past seven decades .
Fischer asked if the US nuclear umbrella was “ vital in the freedom of NATO members ” ; Wolters agreed .
Remarkably , Wolters linked the role of nuclear deterrence with the NATO missions in Iraq , Afghanistan and elsewhere outside the European continent .
NATO ’ s mission , he said , was to “ proliferate deterrence to the max extent practical to achieve greater peace.
” Then came @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ What are your views , Sir , ” Senator Fischer asked , “ of adopting a so-called no-first-use policy .
Do you believe that that would strengthen deterrence ?
” General Wolters ’ response was straight to the point .
“ Senator , I ’ m a fan of flexible first use policy.
” Under any circumstance , the public embrace of a “ flexible first strike ” policy regarding nuclear weapons employment by the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe should generate widespread attention .
When seen in the context of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a low-yield nuclear warhead on submarine-launched ballistic missiles carried onboard a Trident submarine , however , Wolters ’ statement is downright explosive .
Add to the mix the fact the US recently carried out a wargame where the US Secretary of Defense practiced the procedures for launching this very same “ low yield ” weapon against a Russian target during simulated combat between Russia and NATO in Europe , and the reaction should be off the charts .
And yet there has been deafening silence from both the European and US press on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one party that paid attention to what General Wolters had to say–Russia .
In a statement to the press on February 25–the same date as General Wolters ’ testimony , Sergey Lavrov , the Russian Foreign Minister stated that “ We note with concern that Washington ’ s new doctrinal guidelines considerably lower the threshold of nuclear weapons use.
” Lavrov added that this doctrine had to be viewed in the light “ of the persistent deployment of US nuclear weapons on the territory of some NATO allies and the continued practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rather than embracing a policy of “ flexible first strike ” , Lavrov suggested that the US work with Russia to re-confirm “ the Gorbachev-Reagan formula , which says that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed.
” This proposal was made 18 months ago , Lavrov noted , and yet the US has failed to respond .
Complicating matters further are the ‘ Defender 2020 ’ NATO military exercises underway in Europe , involving tens of thousands of US troops in one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Cold War .
The fact that these exercises are taking place at a time when the issue of US nuclear weapons and NATO ’ s doctrine regarding their employment against Russia is being actively tracked by senior Russian authorities only highlights the danger posed .
On February 6 , General Valery Gerasimov , the Russian Chief of Staff , met with General Wolters to discuss ‘ Defender 2020 ’ and concurrent Russian military exercises to be held nearby to deconflict their respective operations and avoid any unforeseen incidents .
This meeting , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports about a US/NATO nuclear wargame targeting Russian forces going public , and prior to General Wolters ’ statement about “ flexible first use ” of NATO nuclear weapons .
In light of these events , General Gerasimov met with French General Fançois Lecointre , the Chief of the Defense Staff , to express Russia ’ s concerns over NATO ’ s military moves near the Russian border , especially the Defender 2020 exercise which was , General Gerasimov noted , “ held on the basis of anti-Russian scenarios and envisage training for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ th ... Peter Schweizer Best Price : $ 5.99 Buy New $ 9.58 General Gerasimov ’ s concerns can not be viewed in isolation , but rather must be considered in the overall historical context of NATO-Russian relations .
Back in 1983 , the then-Soviet Union was extremely concerned about a series of realistic NATO exercises , known as ‘ Able Archer ‘ 83 , ’ which in many ways mimicked the modern-day Defender 2020 in both scope and scale .
Like Defender 2020 , Able Archer ‘ 83 saw the deployment of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe , where they assumed an offensive posture , before transitioning into a command post exercise involving the employment of NATO nuclear weapons against a Soviet target .
So concerned was Moscow about these exercises , and the possibility that NATO might use them as a cover for an attack against Soviet forces in East Germany , that the Soviet nuclear forces were placed on high alert .
Historians have since observed that the threat of nuclear war between the US and the USSR was at that time the highest it had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
US and NATO officials would do well to recall the danger to European and world security posed by the “ Able Archer ‘ 83 ” exercise and the potential for Soviet miscalculations when assessing the concerns expressed by General Gerasimov today .
The unprecedented concentration of offensive NATO military power on Russia ’ s border , coupled with the cavalier public embrace by General Wolters of a “ flexible first strike ” nuclear posture by NATO , has more than replicated the threat model presented by Able Archer ’ 83 .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a stretch to conclude that the threat of nuclear war between the US and Russia is the highest it has been since Able Archer ’ 83 .
The statements , views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT .

When the Commander of NATO says he is a fan of flexible first strike at the same time that NATO is flexing its military muscle on Russia’s border, the risk of inadvertent nuclear war is real.
US Air Force Gen. Tod D Wolters told the Senate this week he “is a fan of flexible first strike” regarding NATO’s nuclear weapons, thereby exposing the fatal fallacy of the alliance’s embrace of American nuclear deterrence policy.
It was one of the most remarkable yet underreported exchanges in recent Senate history. Earlier this week, during the testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee of General Tod Wolters, the commander of US European Command and, concurrently, as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR) also the military head of all NATO armed forces, General Wolters engaged in a short yet informative exchange with Senator Deb Fischer, a Republican from the state of Nebraska.
War with Russia?: From... Cohen, Stephen F. Best Price: $8.99 Buy New $8.50 (as of 02:15 UTC - Details) Following some initial questions and answers focused on the alignment of NATO’s military strategy with the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the US, which codified what Wolters called “the malign influence on behalf of Russia” toward European security, Senator Fischer asked about the growing recognition on the part of NATO of the important role of US nuclear deterrence in keeping the peace. “We all understand that our deterrent, the TRIAD, is the bedrock of the security of this country,” Fischer noted. “Can you tell us about what you are hearing…from our NATO partners about this deterrent?”
Wolters responded by linking the deterrence provided to Europe by the US nuclear TRIAD with the peace enjoyed on the European continent over the past seven decades. Fischer asked if the US nuclear umbrella was “vital in the freedom of NATO members”; Wolters agreed. Remarkably, Wolters linked the role of nuclear deterrence with the NATO missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere outside the European continent. NATO’s mission, he said, was to “proliferate deterrence to the max extent practical to achieve greater peace.”
Then came the piece de resistance of the hearing. “What are your views, Sir,” Senator Fischer asked, “of adopting a so-called no-first-use policy. Do you believe that that would strengthen deterrence?”
General Wolters’ response was straight to the point. “Senator, I’m a fan of flexible first use policy.”
Under any circumstance, the public embrace of a “flexible first strike” policy regarding nuclear weapons employment by the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe should generate widespread attention. When seen in the context of the recent deployment by the US of a low-yield nuclear warhead on submarine-launched ballistic missiles carried onboard a Trident submarine, however, Wolters’ statement is downright explosive. Add to the mix the fact the US recently carried out a wargame where the US Secretary of Defense practiced the procedures for launching this very same “low yield” weapon against a Russian target during simulated combat between Russia and NATO in Europe, and the reaction should be off the charts. And yet there has been deafening silence from both the European and US press on this topic.
There is, however, one party that paid attention to what General Wolters had to say–Russia. In a statement to the press on February 25–the same date as General Wolters’ testimony, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated that “We note with concern that Washington’s new doctrinal guidelines considerably lower the threshold of nuclear weapons use.” Lavrov added that this doctrine had to be viewed in the light “of the persistent deployment of US nuclear weapons on the territory of some NATO allies and the continued practice of the so-called joint nuclear missions.”
Rather than embracing a policy of “flexible first strike”, Lavrov suggested that the US work with Russia to re-confirm “the Gorbachev-Reagan formula, which says that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed.” This proposal was made 18 months ago, Lavrov noted, and yet the US has failed to respond.
Complicating matters further are the ‘Defender 2020’ NATO military exercises underway in Europe, involving tens of thousands of US troops in one of the largest training operations since the end of the Cold War. The fact that these exercises are taking place at a time when the issue of US nuclear weapons and NATO’s doctrine regarding their employment against Russia is being actively tracked by senior Russian authorities only highlights the danger posed.
On February 6, General Valery Gerasimov, the Russian Chief of Staff, met with General Wolters to discuss ‘Defender 2020’ and concurrent Russian military exercises to be held nearby to deconflict their respective operations and avoid any unforeseen incidents. This meeting, however, was held prior to the reports about a US/NATO nuclear wargame targeting Russian forces going public, and prior to General Wolters’ statement about “flexible first use” of NATO nuclear weapons.
In light of these events, General Gerasimov met with French General Fançois Lecointre, the Chief of the Defense Staff, to express Russia’s concerns over NATO’s military moves near the Russian border, especially the Defender 2020 exercise which was, General Gerasimov noted, “held on the basis of anti-Russian scenarios and envisage training for offensive operations.” Secret Empires: How th... Schweizer, Peter Best Price: $5.99 Buy New $11.07 (as of 07:25 UTC - Details)
General Gerasimov’s concerns cannot be viewed in isolation, but rather must be considered in the overall historical context of NATO-Russian relations. Back in 1983, the then-Soviet Union was extremely concerned about a series of realistic NATO exercises, known as ‘Able Archer ‘83,’ which in many ways mimicked the modern-day Defender 2020 in both scope and scale. Like Defender 2020, Able Archer ‘83 saw the deployment of tens of thousands of US forces into Europe, where they assumed an offensive posture, before transitioning into a command post exercise involving the employment of NATO nuclear weapons against a Soviet target.
So concerned was Moscow about these exercises, and the possibility that NATO might use them as a cover for an attack against Soviet forces in East Germany, that the Soviet nuclear forces were placed on high alert. Historians have since observed that the threat of nuclear war between the US and the USSR was at that time the highest it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
US and NATO officials would do well to recall the danger to European and world security posed by the “Able Archer ‘83” exercise and the potential for Soviet miscalculations when assessing the concerns expressed by General Gerasimov today. The unprecedented concentration of offensive NATO military power on Russia’s border, coupled with the cavalier public embrace by General Wolters of a “flexible first strike” nuclear posture by NATO, has more than replicated the threat model presented by Able Archer ’83. In this context, it would not be a stretch to conclude that the threat of nuclear war between the US and Russia is the highest it has been since Able Archer ’83.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


lewrockwell--2020-03-02--Trump Halts CDC Fearmongering. But Why Are Antibiotics & Not Anti-Virals Quelling the COVID-19 Coron

Trump Halts CDC Fearmongering. But Why Are Antibiotics & Not Anti-Virals Quelling the COVID-19 Coronavirus? Is It Really a Virus?

Based on an exclusive interview with Lawrence Broxmeyer MD • COVID-19 Coronavirus is as much an ecological disaster as it is a medical one .
Initially it appears to be a unique experience centered in Wuhan , China .
It emanates from an environment of incinerated pig waste , airborne particles , and low vitamin D blood levels in winter , and weakened immune systems , particularly among smokers , drinkers and the elderly .
• It is believed both the Spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID-19 coronavirus began as zoonotic ( animal to human ) infections .
Not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak , but rather from pigs , and pig waste .
• The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic began in the midst of an infectious pig slaughter of undiscovered cause , a few hundred miles from Camp Funston , what is Fort Riley today .
Similarly , the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan , China area in the wake of a massive kill-off of pigs who were dying from African Swine Flu .
• Viral outbreaks arise in winter , but so does tuberculosis .
• Some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ walls and can mimic the appearance of a virus under the microscope .
• Antibiotics can not be used for viruses .
If a virus , then why aren ’ t antiviral drugs working but antibiotics are ?
• COVID-19 coronavirus may just be a “ passenger virus , ” not the primary microbial organism that kills by filling the lower lungs with fluid .
• Both the current Wuhan COVID-19 coronavirus and tubercular mycobacteria do not tend to infect or cause serious disease in young children roughly 5-12 years of age .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be misplaced .
More people are killed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( 1.7 million ) in a year than the few who have been infected ( ~80,000 ) or have died ( less than 2000 ) of the COVID-19 coronavirus .
• It is projected that the “ COVID-19 Coronavirus ” will peak worldwide in March and then return in a second but lesser peak in September , in accordance with Yang ’ s Wuhan study from 2004 to 2013 , describing the annual TB surges in Wuhan , China .
Saying the spread @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a CDC ( Centers for Disease Control ) official to shut down public schools , avoid going to church , and self-quarantine their families .
These onerous measures are for a virus that has ( Feb. 25 ) , mostly among people who traveled recently to China .
Recognizing the possibility that some officials within the CDC are potential handmaidens to the drug and vaccine industry that would benefit from such scare tactics , President Trump decided to issue all governmental statements about COVID-19 from The White House .
After all , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bring down the entire U.S. economy and shutter small businesses that would never recover from even a short quarantine .
Irresponsible and implausible predictions that COVID-19 coronavirus could produce symptomatic viral infection in 60 % of the world ’ s population with 45 million deaths ̶ fueled by sensationalized news reports , were purely unfounded and certainly premature .
Perhaps the only thing that could be considered beneficial about these dire prognostications was when one quick-thinking woman in China used the fear of the virus in a positive way , and feigned she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the beginning of the outbreak , you could have pulled from a widely-known advertising limerick used in Las Vegas : “ Whatever coronavirus starts in China , stays in China.
” Now we know that this is not quite the case .
Airplanes facilitate its geographical spread , but person-to-person transmission remains static .
Immune status may be a controlling factor in person-to-person transmission .
But what is the sense in panicking the world over a coronavirus that is 3 times less deadly than the SARS outbreak of 2003 ( 9.5 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , it has still not been proved that the COVID-19 coronavirus is anything more than a non-symptomatic , non-pathogenic “ passenger virus , ” being picked up diagnostically but not the primary underlying cause responsible for the Pandemic/Epidemic itself .
In fact , there is direct and indirect evidence that COVID-19 is NOT from a virus at all .
The SARS coronavirus , often compared with the new COVID-19 coronavirus , was present only in about half of the SARS cases and antivirals such as ribavirin and oseltamivir ( Tamiflu ) were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nor were they very effective in clinics or hospitals either .
That passenger viruses do exist has been abundantly documented , as when the HTLV-1 virus ( human T-cell leukemia virus Type 1 ) was mistakenly attributed to being causal for AIDS .
And so , the question which never went away looms : are the coronaviruses merely traveler viruses from a yet to be determined primary stealth cause ?
Using bacteriocidals instead of antivirals One recent US news headline said : “ Scientists claim antibiotics already on the market could treat coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Health Organization that antibiotics do nothing against viruses and overusing them fuels resistant microbes .
Fact of the matter is that antiviral medicines were not found to provide benefit in either the SARS or MERS strains of coronavirus either , which broke out in 2002 and 2012 , respectively .
Yet this habit of administering antivirals was stubbornly clung to in the treatment of the 138 Coronavirus-infected patients hospitalized in Wuhan , China described in Wang , et al ’ s recently published JAMA study .
On the other hand , all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 99 patients in Chen et al ’ s current Lancet study received at least one antibiotic , some of which have significant anti-mycobacterial as well as antibacterial activity .
( Mycobacteria are small rod-shaped bacteria , some varieties which have no cell wall and are difficult to distinguish from viruses ; mycobacteria cause leprosy and tuberculosis , the latter usually emanating as lower respiratory tract infection that can mimic classic pneumonia , as observed in the SARS and COVID-19 coronavirus cases . )
Antibiotics have no effect against viruses .
And although @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were simply being used to quell “ secondary ” bacterial infections in the new pandemic , the fact is that antibiotics have proved universally to be of great help worldwide to the vast majority of novel coronavirus COVID-19 victims , with or without secondary infections .
Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it While “ experts ” have been telling us to wash our hands , have they really been doing the factual research needed to compare COVID-19 to say the Great Pandemic of 1918 ?
Dr. Lawrence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published in the highly ranked The Journal of Infectious Diseases , doesn ’ t seem to think so .
And his views , as expressed in an upcoming publication , aren ’ t alone .
During the SARS coronavirus outbreak , Wong et al , writing in the Journal of the Chinese Medical Association warned : “ Preoccupied with the diagnosis of SARS ( Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome ) in a SARS outbreak , doctors tend to overlook other endemic diseases , such as tuberculosis.
” Perhaps Wong ’ s warning should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19- pandemic , did not occur in a vacuum .
By December of 2018 , Liu et al.
, in a large multi-center study , proclaimed tuberculosis to be an epidemic throughout China , which still simmers on in a country with the second largest burden of that disease in the world ̶ a disease which also often begins with flu-like symptoms , and a disease whose bacilli are laden with RNA bacterial viruses called mycobacteriophages .
It was a non-virus in 1918 too Demographers at UC Berkeley ( Noymer and Garenne , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was behind the many deaths in the 1918 Great Influenza Pandemic was specifically based upon the well-known concept that the secondary bacterial infections that cropped up in 1918 were common in TB-infected lungs .
And in Hiroshi Nishiura ’ s study ( 2012 ) not only was TB shown to be associated with influenza death , but there was no influenza death among controls without TB .
Investigator Nishiura later concluded : “ Should a highly fatal influenza pandemic occur in the future , testing the role of TB in characterizing the risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ minimizing the disaster… ” But was Nishiura being listened to and learned from ?
Apparently not .
Fast forward , Wuhan , China ( 2019-2020 ) : The chronological timetable of the present Wuhan “ viral ” pandemic suggests nothing “ new ” or “ novel ” .
The coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019 , first identified in Wuhan , after 41 people presented with pneumonia of no clear cause .
The Wuhan winter is from December to February .
Yang ’ s Wuhan study from 2004 to 2013 , described the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fueled by increased transmission in the winter , peaking in March , with a second smaller peak in September .
Among the conditions Yang attributed to the increased transmission of TB in the winter was indoor crowding , subsequent vitamin D deficiency , and even air pollution .
The increasingly severe air pollution in Wuhan , powered by the influx of foreign companies and the increased use of incineration for waste disposal , resulted in a visible haze so thick that it reduced peripheral vision as far back as June of 2012 ̶ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highest in the winter , which according to Yang , was of a particulate size able to harbor Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related mycobacteria .
Why is this important ?
Wuhan ’ s economy was on fire .
With it came a greatly increased demand for poultry and swine , two staples of the Chinese diet , along with the expansion of farms to raise them and the inevitable tons of waste that this brought .
Even as far back as 2015 , there were five major waste incineration plants in Wuhan , with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That was just the beginning .
By July , 2018 , fourteen large pig breeding farms in Wuhan , with a combined annual pig production of 1.5 million pigs pooled investments with the intent to slaughter 2 million pigs per year .
China alone accounted for more than half of the world ’ s pig population .
That is until another purported virus ( African swine fever ) spread throughout China which had no cure and a near zero survival rate for infected pigs , and which , by August 2019 virtually wiped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire pig population , including those in Wuhan .
Essentially one-quarter of the world ’ s pigs died in one year , and just before the latest coronavirus outbreak .
China then did what it had to do and began to cull thousands of pigs to control the outbreak they claimed to be caused by the African swine fever outbreak in 2018 .
But how many dead animals , including those in Wuhan were buried and how many incinerated are open questions .
Burning pigs and pig excrement was a sure recipe for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ came up with incentive programs for livestock farmers to sell their manure to use as fertilizer , which was only marginally successful .
During a study from 1953 to 1968 ( Tubercle 1970 ) in the UK , an astonishing 81 % of pigs were found to harbor Mycobacterium avium , or fowl tuberculosis .
As reported by some workers , M. avium isolates from swine represent a major threat to human beings .
The similarity pre-programmed ( IS1245 RFLP ) patterns of the human and porcine isolates indicates close genetic relatedness , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is transmitted between pigs and humans .
Similar events occurred at Fort Funston in Kansas circa 1918 , thought by many to be the birthplace of the onset of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 .
It was only with industrial development that the US tuberculosis epidemic traveled to the Midwest and Kansas , the very American Midwest where the 1918-flu pandemic of unknown origin hit , in rural Haskell county , Kansas , in the midst of an infectious pig slaughter of undiscovered cause , a few hundred miles from Camp Funston @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be more than a coincidence that by the autumn of 1918 thousands of Midwest pigs died , seemingly from the same flu-like illness and in the same Haskell County location in which the worst human pandemic in history , which would kill between 50 and 100 million people , was about to begin .
US Inspector and veterinarian J.S .
Koen , for lack of another term , and with no evidence other than a hunch , quickly called this unknown disease in pigs “ swine influenza , ” even as it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dying in 1918 and in 2019-20 That thousands of pigs died in the Autumn of 1918 was problematic in that bird or fowl TB , also called Avian tuberculosis or Mycobacterium avium , routinely infects birds as well as hogs and sometimes cattle –but could , under the right conditions , also infect man .
So , pigs had involuntarily become the living laboratory thru which three of the main types of tuberculosis ( human , cow and fowl ) could mutate through the genetic exchange by their viral mycobacteriophages , much in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the influenza and coronavirus .
( A bacteriophage is a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it . )
But , in so far as 1918 was concerned , the stage was set for disaster .
Unknown at the time , but pertinent since Kansas lies squarely in America ’ s “ dustbowl , ’ ’ were the results of a previous European experiment wherein guinea pigs exposed to organisms like Avian tuberculosis got little or no lung disease .
However , when these mycobacteria were placed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ guinea pigs came down with progressive , fatal lung disease , not unlike what was occurring in the pandemic of 1918 as well as a prominent factor in the present Wuhan air pollution with its particulate matter haze .
Ft. Riley , Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire camp , Camp Funston .
Within that camp , thousands of horses , hogs , mules and chickens produced in excess of a stifling nine tons of manure each month .
And the accepted method for its disposal was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wind .
State Veterinarian W.J .
Butler would report at the 28th Meeting of the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association : “ I consider contaminated manure and stagnant water the most important factors in the spread and propagation of tuberculosis.
” Wang ’ s recent JAMA study suggested that Coronavirus may spread fastest on cruise ships and in hospitals where workers re-use gear contaminated with feces to try to conserve supplies .
And so , on Saturday , the 9th of March , 1918 , a month which just happened to coincide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Wuhan , China , a threatening black sky forecast the coming of a major dust storm .
When this storm combined with the ashes of over 9 tons of burning manure , a stinking , stinging yellow haze resulted .
The sun was said to have gone black in Kansas that day in 1918 .
Two days later , on March 11th , company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the Funston infirmary saying he had “ a bad cold ” with flu-like symptoms .
Among his symptoms were a headache , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and fever .
He also reported cleaning pig pens on March 4th , one week before feeling sick .
Gitchell would never recover from this , his last illness .
And by noon of March 4th , one hundred men joined him at the Army infirmary he had walked into .
Within a month one-thousand men were sick and approximately 50 dead .
Camp Funston was having a deadly epidemic .
These deaths were highly unusual , but nothing like what would return in the fall , when the disease would come back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ strength through human passage .
Camp Funston in March , Camp Devens in September ( a month that coincides with the second annual TB peak surge in Wuhan ) , then across the country and the world , leaving an estimated 50-100 million dead globally , at least 600,000 to a million of them American , in the span of less than a year –the most destructive plague that mankind had ever witnessed .
What are the implications of mistaking a mycobacterial disease for a viral disease ?
While an anxiety-filled world is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has resulted in the deaths of less than 2000 people , a mycobacterium called tuberculosis is encircling the planet that is killing 1.7 million people a year , and is once again , the single largest cause of infectious death on the globe .
And that does not even include morbidity and mortality coming from its closely related Mycobacterium avium or fowl tuberculosis , for which , although there is treatment , we have yet to develop ideal drugs to treat .
Moreover , the preferred form of both of these pathogens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their tiny , hard to diagnose viral-like cell-wall-deficient ( CWD ) mycobacterial forms , which require special stains and special culture media , unavailable at most diagnostic centers .
This leaves a situation , in which Mycobacterium avium and its cell-wall-deficient forms , highly implicated here in the present pandemic , are being picked up , according to Mattman , only 16 % of the time through traditional methods .
If we are not looking or unable to look diagnostically for the underlying Wuhan pathogen , then how can we truly treat it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had first discovered human influenza “ virus .
” So , what was the flu virus of 1918 ?
Historically , in 1892 the flu was originally named Mycobacterium influenzae because it resembled tuberculosis .
In the lab , both of these pathogenic organisms stain similarly on a lab slide .
Staining is one method of identifying types of bacteria .
Also , it was eventually found that Mycobacterium influenzae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have .
What about reports of re-infection from coronavirus ?
Physicians on the ground in China report this COVID-19 coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lethal than the first .
Yet tuberculosis is reported to have such a high rate of reinfection that even after triple antibiotic treatment the reinfection rate is higher than the rate of new tuberculosis .
“ Wuhan Pneumonia.
” The coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019 , first identified in Wuhan after 41 people presented with pneumonia of no clear cause .
Chan and colleagues have characterized the present Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic as at times progressing to an “ atypical ” pneumonia .
Such references to atypical pneumonia were used by Rist in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 50 per cent of 300 consecutive hospital pneumonia admissions were classified as “ atypical ” tubercular pneumonia .
And Farber and Clarke reported 100 cases which were admitted to a general hospital for non-tuberculous pneumonia , which were found to be of a tubercular cause .
The coronavirus kills by way of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ( ARDS ) .
With ARDS , difficulty of breathing results from inflammation with subsequent flooding of the alveolar spaces through fluids gathering at these sites in the lungs , blocking the proper exchange of oxygen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which people in the Orient die of adult respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ) has been on the rise for some time .
Professor Nanshan Chen ( The Lancet , Jan 2020 ) cautiously suggested that the percentage of blood-borne tuberculosis as a potential cause of ARDS “ might not be very low.
” Roger et al , however favor suspecting tuberculosis in all cases of acute respiratory failure of unknown origin .
ARDS caused by blood-borne TB is associated with just as high a fatality rate as ARDS caused by either SARS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appear to be immune Yet perhaps one of the most puzzling features to virologists regarding the new coronavirus as with SARS and MERS ( Mediterranean Respiratory Syndrome ) is that compared with adults and teenagers , it seems to have a less aggressive clinical course in younger children ; that is , puzzling until one reads bacteriologist René Dubos ’ s observation that tuberculosis is rarely severe between the ages of 5 and 12 , the very age span spared by the 2019-nCOV coronavirus .
As an explanation for the precipitous death in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days recorded in some with fatal coronavirus , there was the comparable acute blood-borne miliary form of virulent “ galloping ” tuberculosis ( called “ galloping consumption ” during the 1890 and 1918 flu Pandemics , a disease which , according to McCall Anderson , then Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Glasgow , could kill within hours to a few days even without influenza .
Such galloping consumption also began with high fever and pneumonia in one or both lungs .
Also , that bats came to the forefront , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ novel coronavirus , is no surprise .
Already associated with the outbreaks of the SARS and MERS coronavirus ( Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome or MERS-CoV ) - bats have been recognized as the natural reservoir for over 100 other viruses including MERS , Ebola virus , Marburg virus , Hendra virus , and Nipah virus , to name a few .
But then again , according to three separate reports ( Scott , Griffith and Hamerton ) , bats can also carry mycobacteria from the M. tuberculosis complex and its viral-like cell-wall-deficient forms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from their liver and resist infection and death from TB .
The mammals that don ’ t secrete vitamin C endogenously ( humans , guinea pigs , fruit bats , primate monkeys ) are vulnerable to TB and mortal pneumonia .
Even Linus Pauling realized that TB was extraordinarily sensitive to killing by vitamin C .
Guinea pig research led to the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium , obviously because their liver doesn ’ t secrete vitamin C and .
If wrong diagnosis , how can it be properly treated ?
If modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is causing this disease , how can it effectively treat it ?
It has become an unspoken reality- – that sometimes the medical industry makes more money fostering a disease than curing it .
Here is how modern medicine makes things worse .
A retrospective analysis of a quarantine of elderly vacationers on an ocean liner shows the isolation actually ended up causing 619 coronavirus infections rather than the projected 70 if the quarantine was not mandated .
Quarantines place infected individuals indoors , away from sunshine vitamin D which can be considered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ outbreak , Thomas M. File Jr. , president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America was also concerned that the close proximity of a quarantine could expose people “ to other infections that are even more easily spread than coronavirus , like tuberculosis , which is airborne , and bacterial infections that can spread among dense populations.
” ( New York Times , Feb 6 , 2020 ) Certainly Dr .
File remembered that in 1990 , a new antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital .
Soon similar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ City hospitals from which it spread to city prisons .
Like the origin of SARS , the infection spread in a nosocomial manner ( hospital origin ) – from patient to patient and from patient to staff .
As in Florida multi-drug-resistant strains made the New York TB cases almost impossible to treat and the majority of sufferers died , many within weeks .
By 1992 , resistant tuberculosis had appeared in seventeen US states , with mini-epidemics in Florida , Michigan , New York , California Texas , Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but the international media , as out of control .
Dr. Broxmeyer often refers to this quotation by Albert Einstein : “ The important thing is not to stop questioning.
” With that in mind , Dr. Broxmeyer asks one final question in regard to the COVID-19 coronavirus hysteria :

Based on an exclusive interview with Lawrence Broxmeyer MD
BULLET POINT SUMMARY
COVID-19 Coronavirus is as much an ecological disaster as it is a medical one. Initially it appears to be a unique experience centered in Wuhan, China. It emanates from an environment of incinerated pig waste, airborne particles, and low vitamin D blood levels in winter, and weakened immune systems, particularly among smokers, drinkers and the elderly.
It is believed both the Spanish flu of 1918 and the COVID-19 coronavirus began as zoonotic (animal to human) infections. Not from bats as first reported in the Wuhan COVID-19 outbreak, but rather from pigs, and pig waste.
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic began in the midst of an infectious pig slaughter of undiscovered cause, a few hundred miles from Camp Funston, what is Fort Riley today. Similarly, the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak began in the Wuhan, China area in the wake of a massive kill-off of pigs who were dying from African Swine Flu.
Viral outbreaks arise in winter, but so does tuberculosis.
Some types of mycobacteria do not have cell walls and can mimic the appearance of a virus under the microscope.
Antibiotics cannot be used for viruses. If a virus, then why aren’t antiviral drugs working but antibiotics are?
COVID-19 coronavirus may just be a “passenger virus,” not the primary microbial organism that kills by filling the lower lungs with fluid.
Both the current Wuhan COVID-19 coronavirus and tubercular mycobacteria do not tend to infect or cause serious disease in young children roughly 5-12 years of age.
Fear of the COVID-19 coronavirus may be misplaced. More people are killed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (1.7 million) in a year than the few who have been infected (~80,000) or have died (less than 2000) of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
It is projected that the “COVID-19 Coronavirus” will peak worldwide in March and then return in a second but lesser peak in September, in accordance with Yang’s Wuhan study from 2004 to 2013, describing the annual TB surges in Wuhan, China.
Saying the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus is inevitable, a CDC (Centers for Disease Control) official advised Americans “brace themselves” and prepare to shut down public schools, avoid going to church , and self-quarantine their families. These onerous measures are for a virus that has infected just 53 Americans (Feb. 25), mostly among people who traveled recently to China .
Recognizing the possibility that some officials within the CDC are potential handmaidens to the drug and vaccine industry that would benefit from such scare tactics, President Trump decided to issue all governmental statements about COVID-19 from The White House.
After all, the CDC seemed to be about ready to bring down the entire U.S. economy and shutter small businesses that would never recover from even a short quarantine.
Doomsday virus?
Irresponsible and implausible predictions that COVID-19 coronavirus could produce symptomatic viral infection in 60% of the world’s population with 45 million deaths ̶ fueled by sensationalized news reports, were purely unfounded and certainly premature. Perhaps the only thing that could be considered beneficial about these dire prognostications was when one quick-thinking woman in China used the fear of the virus in a positive way, and feigned she was infected to foil a rapist .
In the beginning of the outbreak, you could have pulled from a widely-known advertising limerick used in Las Vegas: “Whatever coronavirus starts in China, stays in China.” Now we know that this is not quite the case. Airplanes facilitate its geographical spread, but person-to-person transmission remains static. Immune status may be a controlling factor in person-to-person transmission.
Maybe just a passenger virus
But what is the sense in panicking the world over a coronavirus that is 3 times less deadly than the SARS outbreak of 2003 (9.5% vs. 3.4%). And mind you, it has still not been proved that the COVID-19 coronavirus is anything more than a non-symptomatic, non-pathogenic “passenger virus,” being picked up diagnostically but not the primary underlying cause responsible for the Pandemic/Epidemic itself.
In fact, there is direct and indirect evidence that COVID-19 is NOT from a virus at all. The SARS coronavirus, often compared with the new COVID-19 coronavirus, was present only in about half of the SARS cases and antivirals such as ribavirin and oseltamivir (Tamiflu) were not working in SARS culture plates, nor were they very effective in clinics or hospitals either. That passenger viruses do exist has been abundantly documented, as when the HTLV-1 virus (human T-cell leukemia virus Type 1) was mistakenly attributed to being causal for AIDS. And so, the question which never went away looms: are the coronaviruses merely traveler viruses from a yet to be determined primary stealth cause?
Using bacteriocidals instead of antivirals
One recent US news headline said: “ Scientists claim antibiotics already on the market could treat coronavirus – despite warnings from CDC and World Health Organization that antibiotics do nothing against viruses and overusing them fuels resistant microbes.
Fact of the matter is that antiviral medicines were not found to provide benefit in either the SARS or MERS strains of coronavirus either, which broke out in 2002 and 2012, respectively. Yet this habit of administering antivirals was stubbornly clung to in the treatment of the 138 Coronavirus-infected patients hospitalized in Wuhan, China described in Wang, et al’s recently published JAMA study.
On the other hand, all of these 138 patients, and most of the 99 patients in Chen et al’s current Lancet study received at least one antibiotic, some of which have significant anti-mycobacterial as well as antibacterial activity. (Mycobacteria are small rod-shaped bacteria, some varieties which have no cell wall and are difficult to distinguish from viruses; mycobacteria cause leprosy and tuberculosis, the latter usually emanating as lower respiratory tract infection that can mimic classic pneumonia, as observed in the SARS and COVID-19 coronavirus cases.)
Antibiotics have no effect against viruses. And although it is claimed that antibiotics are and were simply being used to quell “secondary” bacterial infections in the new pandemic, the fact is that antibiotics have proved universally to be of great help worldwide to the vast majority of novel coronavirus COVID-19 victims, with or without secondary infections.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
While “experts” have been telling us to wash our hands, have they really been doing the factual research needed to compare COVID-19 to say the Great Pandemic of 1918? Dr. Lawrence Broxmeyer MD, whose writings were previously published in the highly ranked The Journal of Infectious Diseases, doesn’t seem to think so. And his views, as expressed in an upcoming publication, aren’t alone.
During the SARS coronavirus outbreak, Wong et al, writing in the Journal of the Chinese Medical Association warned: “Preoccupied with the diagnosis of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome) in a SARS outbreak, doctors tend to overlook other endemic diseases, such as tuberculosis.”
Perhaps Wong’s warning should be listened to. The present and ongoing COVID-19- pandemic, did not occur in a vacuum. By December of 2018, Liu et al., in a large multi-center study, proclaimed tuberculosis to be an epidemic throughout China, which still simmers on in a country with the second largest burden of that disease in the world ̶ a disease which also often begins with flu-like symptoms, and a disease whose bacilli are laden with RNA bacterial viruses called mycobacteriophages.
It was a non-virus in 1918 too
Demographers at UC Berkeley (Noymer and Garenne, Population Development Review 2000) claim tuberculosis was behind the many deaths in the 1918 Great Influenza Pandemic was specifically based upon the well-known concept that the secondary bacterial infections that cropped up in 1918 were common in TB-infected lungs.
And in Hiroshi Nishiura’s study (2012) not only was TB shown to be associated with influenza death, but there was no influenza death among controls without TB. Investigator Nishiura later concluded: “Should a highly fatal influenza pandemic occur in the future, testing the role of TB in characterizing the risk of death would be extremely useful in minimizing the disaster…”
But was Nishiura being listened to and learned from? Apparently not. Fast forward, Wuhan, China (2019-2020):
The chronological timetable of the present Wuhan “viral” pandemic suggests nothing “new” or “novel”. The coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019, first identified in Wuhan, after 41 people presented with pneumonia of no clear cause. The Wuhan winter is from December to February. Yang’s Wuhan study from 2004 to 2013, described the annual TB surge in Wuhan as being fueled by increased transmission in the winter, peaking in March, with a second smaller peak in September. Among the conditions Yang attributed to the increased transmission of TB in the winter was indoor crowding, subsequent vitamin D deficiency, and even air pollution.
The increasingly severe air pollution in Wuhan, powered by the influx of foreign companies and the increased use of incineration for waste disposal, resulted in a visible haze so thick that it reduced peripheral vision as far back as June of 2012 ̶ a haze with inhalable particulate matter, highest in the winter, which according to Yang, was of a particulate size able to harbor Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related mycobacteria. Why is this important?
Pigs
Wuhan’s economy was on fire. With it came a greatly increased demand for poultry and swine, two staples of the Chinese diet, along with the expansion of farms to raise them and the inevitable tons of waste that this brought. Even as far back as 2015, there were five major waste incineration plants in Wuhan, with many more scheduled to be built.
That was just the beginning. By July, 2018, fourteen large pig breeding farms in Wuhan, with a combined annual pig production of 1.5 million pigs pooled investments with the intent to slaughter 2 million pigs per year. China alone accounted for more than half of the world’s pig population. That is until another purported virus (African swine fever) spread throughout China which had no cure and a near zero survival rate for infected pigs, and which, by August 2019 virtually wiped out 40% of China’s entire pig population, including those in Wuhan.
Essentially one-quarter of the world’s pigs died in one year, and just before the latest coronavirus outbreak. China then did what it had to do and began to cull thousands of pigs to control the outbreak they claimed to be caused by the African swine fever outbreak in 2018.
But how many dead animals, including those in Wuhan were buried and how many incinerated are open questions. Burning pigs and pig excrement was a sure recipe for visible haze.
The Chinese government soon came up with incentive programs for livestock farmers to sell their manure to use as fertilizer, which was only marginally successful.
During a study from 1953 to 1968 (Tubercle 1970) in the UK, an astonishing 81% of pigs were found to harbor Mycobacterium avium, or fowl tuberculosis. As reported by some workers, M. avium isolates from swine represent a major threat to human beings. The similarity pre-programmed (IS1245 RFLP) patterns of the human and porcine isolates indicates close genetic relatedness, suggesting that M. avium or fowl tuberculosis is transmitted between pigs and humans.
Fort Funston 1918, Kansas USA
Similar events occurred at Fort Funston in Kansas circa 1918, thought by many to be the birthplace of the onset of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
It was only with industrial development that the US tuberculosis epidemic traveled to the Midwest and Kansas, the very American Midwest where the 1918-flu pandemic of unknown origin hit, in rural Haskell county, Kansas, in the midst of an infectious pig slaughter of undiscovered cause, a few hundred miles from Camp Funston, today Fort Riley.
It had to be more than a coincidence that by the autumn of 1918 thousands of Midwest pigs died, seemingly from the same flu-like illness and in the same Haskell County location in which the worst human pandemic in history, which would kill between 50 and 100 million people, was about to begin.
US Inspector and veterinarian J.S. Koen, for lack of another term, and with no evidence other than a hunch, quickly called this unknown disease in pigs “swine influenza,” even as it killed pig after pig.
Pigs were dying in 1918 and in 2019-20
That thousands of pigs died in the Autumn of 1918 was problematic in that bird or fowl TB, also called Avian tuberculosis or Mycobacterium avium, routinely infects birds as well as hogs and sometimes cattle –but could, under the right conditions, also infect man. So, pigs had involuntarily become the living laboratory thru which three of the main types of tuberculosis (human, cow and fowl) could mutate through the genetic exchange by their viral mycobacteriophages, much in the same fashion as has been attributed to the influenza and coronavirus. (A bacteriophage is a virus that parasitizes a bacterium by infecting it and reproducing inside it.) But, in so far as 1918 was concerned, the stage was set for disaster.
Airborne TB
Unknown at the time, but pertinent since Kansas lies squarely in America’s “dustbowl,’’ were the results of a previous European experiment wherein guinea pigs exposed to organisms like Avian tuberculosis got little or no lung disease. However, when these mycobacteria were placed in dust aerosols with particulate matter, guinea pigs came down with progressive, fatal lung disease, not unlike what was occurring in the pandemic of 1918 as well as a prominent factor in the present Wuhan air pollution with its particulate matter haze.
Burning animal waste
Ft. Riley, Kansas was a sprawling establishment housing 26,000 men and encompassing an entire camp, Camp Funston. Within that camp, thousands of horses, hogs, mules and chickens produced in excess of a stifling nine tons of manure each month. And the accepted method for its disposal was to burn it, even against driving wind.
State Veterinarian W.J. Butler would report at the 28th Meeting of the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association: “I consider contaminated manure and stagnant water the most important factors in the spread and propagation of tuberculosis.” Wang’s recent JAMA study suggested that Coronavirus may spread fastest on cruise ships and in hospitals where workers re-use gear contaminated with feces to try to conserve supplies.
And so, on Saturday, the 9th of March, 1918, a month which just happened to coincide with the annual peak surge for tuberculosis in Wuhan, China, a threatening black sky forecast the coming of a major dust storm. When this storm combined with the ashes of over 9 tons of burning manure, a stinking, stinging yellow haze resulted.
The sun was said to have gone black in Kansas that day in 1918. Two days later, on March 11th, company cook Albert Gitchell reported to the Funston infirmary saying he had “a bad cold” with flu-like symptoms. Among his symptoms were a headache, a sore throat, muscle aches, chills and fever. He also reported cleaning pig pens on March 4th, one week before feeling sick. Gitchell would never recover from this, his last illness. And by noon of March 4th, one hundred men joined him at the Army infirmary he had walked into. Within a month one-thousand men were sick and approximately 50 dead. Camp Funston was having a deadly epidemic.
These deaths were highly unusual, but nothing like what would return in the fall, when the disease would come back with a vengeance, seeming to gain strength through human passage. Camp Funston in March, Camp Devens in September (a month that coincides with the second annual TB peak surge in Wuhan), then across the country and the world, leaving an estimated 50-100 million dead globally, at least 600,000 to a million of them American, in the span of less than a year –the most destructive plague that mankind had ever witnessed.
Implications of mistaking a mycobacterial disease for a viral disease
What are the implications of mistaking a mycobacterial disease for a viral disease? While an anxiety-filled world is losing sleep over a “coronavirus” that has resulted in the deaths of less than 2000 people, a mycobacterium called tuberculosis is encircling the planet that is killing 1.7 million people a year, and is once again, the single largest cause of infectious death on the globe. And that does not even include morbidity and mortality coming from its closely related Mycobacterium avium or fowl tuberculosis, for which, although there is treatment, we have yet to develop ideal drugs to treat.
Moreover, the preferred form of both of these pathogens, once inside the body, is their tiny, hard to diagnose viral-like cell-wall-deficient (CWD) mycobacterial forms, which require special stains and special culture media, unavailable at most diagnostic centers. This leaves a situation, in which Mycobacterium avium and its cell-wall-deficient forms, highly implicated here in the present pandemic, are being picked up, according to Mattman, only 16% of the time through traditional methods.
If we are not looking or unable to look diagnostically for the underlying Wuhan pathogen, then how can we truly treat it effectively?
In 1933 researchers claimed they had first discovered human influenza “virus .” So, what was the flu virus of 1918?
Historically, in 1892 the flu was originally named Mycobacterium influenzae because it resembled tuberculosis. In the lab, both of these pathogenic organisms stain similarly on a lab slide. Staining is one method of identifying types of bacteria. Also, it was eventually found that Mycobacterium influenzae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis have similar genetic profiles .
What about reports of re-infection from coronavirus?
Physicians on the ground in China report this COVID-19 coronavirus may produce a re-infection that is more lethal than the first . Yet tuberculosis is reported to have such a high rate of reinfection that even after triple antibiotic treatment the reinfection rate is higher than the rate of new tuberculosis .
TB: The great masquerader
“Wuhan Pneumonia.” The coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019, first identified in Wuhan after 41 people presented with pneumonia of no clear cause. Chan and colleagues have characterized the present Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic as at times progressing to an “atypical” pneumonia. Such references to atypical pneumonia were used by Rist in 1929, when he found in almost 50 per cent of 300 consecutive hospital pneumonia admissions were classified as “atypical” tubercular pneumonia.
And Farber and Clarke reported 100 cases which were admitted to a general hospital for non-tuberculous pneumonia, which were found to be of a tubercular cause.
The coronavirus kills by way of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). With ARDS, difficulty of breathing results from inflammation with subsequent flooding of the alveolar spaces through fluids gathering at these sites in the lungs, blocking the proper exchange of oxygen. The number of TB cases in which people in the Orient die of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been on the rise for some time. Professor Nanshan Chen (The Lancet, Jan 2020) cautiously suggested that the percentage of blood-borne tuberculosis as a potential cause of ARDS “might not be very low.”
Roger et al, however favor suspecting tuberculosis in all cases of acute respiratory failure of unknown origin. ARDS caused by blood-borne TB is associated with just as high a fatality rate as ARDS caused by either SARS or the Wuhan coronavirus.
Young children appear to be immune
Yet perhaps one of the most puzzling features to virologists regarding the new coronavirus as with SARS and MERS (Mediterranean Respiratory Syndrome) is that compared with adults and teenagers, it seems to have a less aggressive clinical course in younger children; that is, puzzling until one reads bacteriologist René Dubos’s observation that tuberculosis is rarely severe between the ages of 5 and 12, the very age span spared by the 2019-nCOV coronavirus.
Galloping tuberculosis
As an explanation for the precipitous death in a matter of hours to a few days recorded in some with fatal coronavirus, there was the comparable acute blood-borne miliary form of virulent “galloping” tuberculosis (called “galloping consumption” during the 1890 and 1918 flu Pandemics, a disease which, according to McCall Anderson, then Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Glasgow, could kill within hours to a few days even without influenza. Such galloping consumption also began with high fever and pneumonia in one or both lungs.
Also, that bats came to the forefront, as a possible vehicle of the new novel coronavirus, is no surprise. Already associated with the outbreaks of the SARS and MERS coronavirus (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome or MERS-CoV)- bats have been recognized as the natural reservoir for over 100 other viruses including MERS, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Hendra virus, and Nipah virus, to name a few. But then again, according to three separate reports (Scott, Griffith and Hamerton), bats can also carry mycobacteria from the M. tuberculosis complex and its viral-like cell-wall-deficient forms.
Clear evidence: vitamin C
Most mammals internally secrete vitamin C from their liver and resist infection and death from TB. The mammals that don’t secrete vitamin C endogenously (humans, guinea pigs, fruit bats, primate monkeys) are vulnerable to TB and mortal pneumonia. Even Linus Pauling realized that TB was extraordinarily sensitive to killing by vitamin C . Guinea pig research led to the discovery of the tuberculosis bacterium , obviously because their liver doesn’t secrete vitamin C and makes them prone to TB infections .
If wrong diagnosis, how can it be properly treated?
If modern medicine doesn’t really know what is causing this disease, how can it effectively treat it? It has become an unspoken reality- – that sometimes the medical industry makes more money fostering a disease than curing it. Here is how modern medicine makes things worse.
A retrospective analysis of a quarantine of elderly vacationers on an ocean liner shows the isolation actually ended up causing 619 coronavirus infections rather than the projected 70 if the quarantine was not mandated . Quarantines place infected individuals indoors, away from sunshine vitamin D which can be considered an anti-viral/anti-TB supplement.
Regarding the Wuhan outbreak, Thomas M. File Jr., president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America was also concerned that the close proximity of a quarantine could expose people “to other infections that are even more easily spread than coronavirus, like tuberculosis, which is airborne, and bacterial infections that can spread among dense populations.” (New York Times, Feb 6, 2020)
Certainly Dr. File remembered that in 1990, a new antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis outbreak took place in a large Miami municipal hospital. Soon similar outbreaks broke out in three New York City hospitals from which it spread to city prisons. Like the origin of SARS, the infection spread in a nosocomial manner (hospital origin) – from patient to patient and from patient to staff.
As in Florida multi-drug-resistant strains made the New York TB cases almost impossible to treat and the majority of sufferers died, many within weeks. By 1992, resistant tuberculosis had appeared in seventeen US states, with mini-epidemics in Florida, Michigan, New York, California Texas, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and was reported by not the American, but the international media, as out of control.
Dr. Broxmeyer often refers to this quotation by Albert Einstein: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.” With that in mind, Dr. Broxmeyer asks one final question in regard to the COVID-19 coronavirus hysteria:


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lewrockwell--2020-03-03--More on the Radical Revolution in Virginia…and North Carolina

Back on February 3 I offered an essay on the “ Revolution in Virginia… Foretaste of What is to Come for us All.
” That essay was edited a bit and picked and published by Dr. Clyde Wilson ’ s web site , Reckonin.com , and I pass it along to you today .
Given what has happened in the once-traditional “ Old Dominion State , ” and is now occurring in states like North Carolina and Georgia—with the infusion of millions of Leftwing dollars ( via George Soros , Mike Bloomberg , etc . )
into state politics , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pressure groups ( not to mention the nearly complete domination of the media by extreme Leftist opinion-makers ) —citizens in Red states need to know about—let ’ s call it what it is—the “ subversion ” by dedicated and well-financed radicals to seize power in those states .
I hope to be treating this topic in the future as well .
My friend Al Benson has recently authored a series of short but critical essays chronicling what has happened and is happening in the Old Dominion State after the radicalized “ woke ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ George Soros and Michael Bloomberg—now have taken control of that state ’ s government .
Several columns have addressed the incremental attempts by the new Democratically-dominated Virginia House of Deputies and Senate to place onerous restrictions on gun ownership—attempts which produced a major opposition rally of more than 22,000 citizens against those actions on January 20 .
Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr Best Price : $ 13.57 Buy New $ 8.00 One of his columns , “ The French Revolution Comes To The Old Dominion ” ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what is happening there to the French Revolution and the revolutionaries who instigated it .
Opposition to their designs and actions was swept away by violence and the guillotine .
“ By the time the Illuminists got through with their reign of terror in France , the country was ready for a Napoleon and it got one… .
[ Governor ] Red Ralph Northam and his socialist cohorts in Richmond want to give the Old Dominion an encore.
” Despite the groundswell of rejection , the Virginia legislature is proceeding with an agenda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in what may prove to be comprehensive gun control , but also a panoply of progressivist measures that range from releasing violent criminals from prison ( just as New York state has done , with very bad consequences ) , to essentially abortion on demand , to placing restrictions on free speech ( or , euphemistically , “ banning hate speech , ” as they call it ) .
And there is more assuredly which will come .
If this sounds like something imported from California , you would be correct .
As @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soros , but California leftist hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has pumped millions into Virginia politics , even as far back as 2017 ( “ Red Ralph ?
Then There Are the Gun Nuts , ” January 10 , 2020 ) .
Steyer , of course , is running for president , a long-shot in the upcoming Democratic primaries .
An elitist , archetypical Deep State corporate capitalist insider , Steyer has been using his hedge fund lucre to propagate his vision of a utopian socialist America—and the Old Dominion State is just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ targets—traditionally “ red ” states and constituencies—Virginia is not alone .
Arizona , Texas , Colorado , and , yes , North Carolina all figure in this effort by Leftist billionaires at employing millions of dollars ( ill-gotten or otherwise ) to sway an unobservant and pliant electorate .
Such is , to paraphrase the brilliant essayist Henry Adams a later-day scion of the Adams family , “ the degradation of democratic dogma , ” the final absurdity of “ democracy ” reduced to its ultimate lowest common denominator .
Or , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : “ Democracy , a fuddled wench/Is bought from tousled bed to bed./Bass voices in white vests defile/The echoes of great voices dead.
” ( Davidson , “ The Tall Men ” ) Consider North Carolina : Already initiatives are underway to do in the Tar Heel State what is occurring in neighboring Virginia .
Benson recounts ( “ The Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up In North Carolina , ” January 13 , 2020 ) that gun-rights activists have begun to recognize this and organize in some counties and municipalities .
Also , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the state ( i.e.
, Mecklenburg , Wake , Buncombe , Orange , Durham , and Forsyth ) have declared themselves to be “ sanctuary counties ” when it comes to ICE enforcement , and several Democratic sheriffs ( notably in Wake and Mecklenburg counties ) refuse to recognize Federal illegal immigration detainers .
And just within the past week Judicial Watch documented that “ the Guilford and Mecklenburg county boards of elections are in violation of the National Voter Registration Act ( NVRA ) ” : both counties—both of which are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voting-age citizens : As of January 4 , Mecklenburg County had 736,168 voter registrations while Guilford had 358,960 .
The problem is that the that Mecklenburg County only has about 693,740 voting-age citizens while Guilford County only has about 371,190 .
In other words , Mecklenburg County has more registered voters than they have voting-age citizens and Guilford County has an improbably high voter registration rate of 97 percent .
North Carolina ’ s General Assembly currently has a Republican majority in both the House of Representatives and Senate , but repeated activist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not just on the congressional level but also for state legislative seats , in all likelihood put that in jeopardy in the November 2020 elections .
( See , Ray Nothstine , “ Judicial activism strikes again over voter ID law , NC Capitol Connection , January 2020 , vol .
12 , no .
1 ) .
The import of all this clearly is that the frenzied left continues its unceasing and vigorous efforts to use and mold “ democracy ” and the democratic system in ways that , in effect @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American manifestation it has in reality become .
For the full , desired “ democracy ” of our social justice warriors is incompatible with true liberty , and as Russell Kirk writes in The Conservative Mind , leads to dictatorship .
Al Benson ’ s description , “ The French Revolution Comes To The Old Dominion ” –and to the rest of America–is entirely apposite .

Back on February 3 I offered an essay on the “Revolution in Virginia… Foretaste of What is to Come for us All.” That essay was edited a bit and picked and published by Dr. Clyde Wilson’s web site, Reckonin.com, and I pass it along to you today. Given what has happened in the once-traditional “Old Dominion State,” and is now occurring in states like North Carolina and Georgia—with the infusion of millions of Leftwing dollars (via George Soros, Mike Bloomberg, etc.) into state politics, and the organization of revolutionary cells and pressure groups (not to mention the nearly complete domination of the media by extreme Leftist opinion-makers)—citizens in Red states need to know about—let’s call it what it is—the “subversion” by dedicated and well-financed radicals to seize power in those states.
I hope to be treating this topic in the future as well.
Revolution in Virginia
By Boyd D. Cathey 2/22/2020
My friend Al Benson has recently authored a series of short but critical essays chronicling what has happened and is happening in the Old Dominion State after the radicalized “woke” social justice warriors—flush with campaign cash from George Soros and Michael Bloomberg—now have taken control of that state’s government. Several columns have addressed the incremental attempts by the new Democratically-dominated Virginia House of Deputies and Senate to place onerous restrictions on gun ownership—attempts which produced a major opposition rally of more than 22,000 citizens against those actions on January 20. Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details)
One of his columns, “The French Revolution Comes To The Old Dominion” (February 2, 2020), compares what is happening there to the French Revolution and the revolutionaries who instigated it. Opposition to their designs and actions was swept away by violence and the guillotine. “By the time the Illuminists got through with their reign of terror in France, the country was ready for a Napoleon and it got one…. [Governor] Red Ralph Northam and his socialist cohorts in Richmond want to give the Old Dominion an encore.”
Despite the groundswell of rejection, the Virginia legislature is proceeding with an agenda which not only encompasses the first steps in what may prove to be comprehensive gun control, but also a panoply of progressivist measures that range from releasing violent criminals from prison (just as New York state has done, with very bad consequences), to essentially abortion on demand, to placing restrictions on free speech (or, euphemistically, “banning hate speech,” as they call it). And there is more assuredly which will come.
If this sounds like something imported from California, you would be correct. As Benson details, not only Bloomberg and Soros, but California leftist hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer has pumped millions into Virginia politics, even as far back as 2017 (“Red Ralph? Then There Are the Gun Nuts,” January 10, 2020). Steyer, of course, is running for president, a long-shot in the upcoming Democratic primaries. An elitist, archetypical Deep State corporate capitalist insider, Steyer has been using his hedge fund lucre to propagate his vision of a utopian socialist America—and the Old Dominion State is just his latest target.
But among other targets—traditionally “red” states and constituencies—Virginia is not alone. Arizona, Texas, Colorado, and, yes, North Carolina all figure in this effort by Leftist billionaires at employing millions of dollars (ill-gotten or otherwise) to sway an unobservant and pliant electorate. Such is, to paraphrase the brilliant essayist Henry Adams a later-day scion of the Adams family, “the degradation of democratic dogma,” the final absurdity of “democracy” reduced to its ultimate lowest common denominator. Or, as Southern Regionalist writer Donald Davidson described it: “Democracy, a fuddled wench/Is bought from tousled bed to bed./Bass voices in white vests defile/The echoes of great voices dead.” (Davidson, “The Tall Men”)
Consider North Carolina: Already initiatives are underway to do in the Tar Heel State what is occurring in neighboring Virginia. Benson recounts (“The Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up In North Carolina,” January 13, 2020) that gun-rights activists have begun to recognize this and organize in some counties and municipalities.
Also, in recent months, several progressivist counties in the state (i.e., Mecklenburg, Wake, Buncombe, Orange, Durham, and Forsyth) have declared themselves to be “sanctuary counties” when it comes to ICE enforcement, and several Democratic sheriffs (notably in Wake and Mecklenburg counties) refuse to recognize Federal illegal immigration detainers.
And just within the past week Judicial Watch documented that “the Guilford and Mecklenburg county boards of elections are in violation of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA)”: both counties—both of which are liberal bastions—have far more registered voters than voting-age citizens:
As of January 4, Mecklenburg County had 736,168 voter registrations while Guilford had 358,960. The problem is that the Census Bureau estimates that Mecklenburg County only has about 693,740 voting-age citizens while Guilford County only has about 371,190. In other words, Mecklenburg County has more registered voters than they have voting-age citizens and Guilford County has an improbably high voter registration rate of 97 percent.
North Carolina’s General Assembly currently has a Republican majority in both the House of Representatives and Senate, but repeated activist court decisions regarding voter ID and redistricting, not just on the congressional level but also for state legislative seats, in all likelihood put that in jeopardy in the November 2020 elections. (See, Ray Nothstine, “Judicial activism strikes again over voter ID law, NC Capitol Connection, January 2020, vol. 12, no. 1).
The import of all this clearly is that the frenzied left continues its unceasing and vigorous efforts to use and mold “democracy” and the democratic system in ways that, in effect, destroy it…or demonstrate what in its American manifestation it has in reality become. For the full, desired “democracy” of our social justice warriors is incompatible with true liberty, and as Russell Kirk writes in The Conservative Mind, leads to dictatorship.
Al Benson’s description, “The French Revolution Comes To The Old Dominion”–and to the rest of America–is entirely apposite.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.


lewrockwell--2020-03-03--The Ease of Government-Created Fear and the Inherent Danger of Panic

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups , parties , nations and epochs , it is the rule .
~Friedrich Nietzsche , Beyond Good and Evil Ch .
4 It is deadly obvious that people all over the world now allow the force of government to dictate all thought and behavior .
This is allowed due to the mentality of the herd , for without that dynamic , government fear mongering would be ignored .
But the panic that is present today is astounding , and for what ?
The flu ?
If China is taken out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worldwide have died of this mysterious flu called Covid-19 according to reporting , with only a few cases reported in the U.S .
According to this story in U.S. News as of February 7th of this year : “ Influenza has already taken the lives of 10,000 Americans this season , according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
At least 19 million have caught the flu , and an estimated 180,000 became so ill they landed in the hospital.
” Against the Left : A Ro ... Llewellyn H @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 8.00 So why is panic so widespread ?
If the CDC figures for the common flu are to be taken seriously , there could be 50,000 to 100,000 flu deaths this year in America alone , but as of this writing , only two people have died in this country from what is labeled as the new coronavirus .
In addition , the deaths in China from flu and pneumonia every year are much higher than that of the U.S .
Does the panic associated with Covid-19 make any sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the kind of hysteria being propagated by governments around the world be warranted ?
Is this a purposely-generated hysteria meant to create panic at exceedingly high levels in order to gain more control ?
Something is amiss here , and corruption from high places seems evident .
The CDC has been one of the main drivers of this inflated risk narrative , but it is not only in the vaccine business , but also is deeply in bed with the pharmaceutical companies .
In other words , the worse the panic , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC and its partners .
This should be very troubling to any paying attention , but other than those in the alternative media , this is mostly ignored .
At this stage of the game , opinions vary greatly about what this new virus actually is , if in fact it is a virus at all , and how it came to exist in China .
No one knows for sure regardless of speculation , but there is a substantial amount of evidence that it was man-made , and most likely originated in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at this time , and the exact causes for this outbreak are still uncertain , but the fact that it has been mostly Chinese specific is more than curious .
Entire economies are being devastated due to the Covid-19 panic .
Most all the economic destruction was isolated to China initially , and this fact causes me great concern and suspicion due to the recent political climate antagonism between the U.S. and China .
Was this part of a plan to harm the Chinese economy , or was it just coincidence ?
Could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that got out of hand ?
The U.S. has also blamed the recent outbreak in Iran on its inability to cope due to economic weakness , but the U.S. has been openly attempting to destroy Iran ’ s economy for some time through brutal and immoral sanctions meant to cripple that country .
These are acts of war that harm not only Iran as a whole , but all Iranian citizens as well .
Was the recent coronavirus outbreak there accidental or could it have been purposely planted ?
Many countries around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to this massive panic being spread mostly by governments and so-called “ health organizations.
” Numerous shutdowns of public and private enterprise , quarantines , school closings , mass surveillance , travel restrictions , among many other invasive measures have been taken .
With all the hype and panic in Asia and Europe , as well as in many other parts of the world , little changed in this country .
Travel continued , airlines remained open and little affected , people came and left without much fanfare , and most business @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of panic around the globe , the U.S. remained unscathed and operated normally while much of the rest of the world was in chaos .
This seems curious considering the circumstances .
So what has changed due to the panic-stricken political authorities mandates around the globe ?
Highly increased surveillance , monitoring , and population control exploded .
The large pharmaceutical companies , the WHO and all its donors and partners , and politicians of course , are in line to receive huge amounts of money from the World Bank and governments to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law has been implemented around the world , and restrictive measures abound .
Internet censorship is much more evident , police powers have expanded , economic instability has reached every corner of the planet , and talk of forced vaccination is widespread .
In other words , control over people everywhere has vastly increased , and even if this so-called pandemic were to end suddenly , these tyrannical control measures and the assault on economic activity will remain in place , and the adverse effects of this paranoia will not go away quietly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much ground over the common man due to this viral panic .
Control is the name of the game , and this government created panic has allowed for that control to expand greatly .
This is a globalist ’ s dream , as this is being presented as a global catastrophe , and leaves the door wide open for more global control over all .
The real risk of this so-called pandemic is the tyranny worldwide that will be the result of this idiocy .
The following quote was posted by James Corbett @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Johns Hopkins and the Event 201 participants put out last month just before “ Wuhan ” and “ coronavirus ” became topics of daily conversation : ” “ The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering .
Efforts to prevent such consequences or respond to them as they unfold will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments , international organizations , and the private sector.
” This is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could be the impetus for much more world government and global control in the future .
Every crisis brings more power to the governing systems , and less freedom to the masses .
This one will be no different .
Panic is very dangerous and deadly to liberty , and each and every government created catastrophe moves us one step closer to total tyranny .
The Best of Gary D. Barnett

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4
It is deadly obvious that people all over the world now allow the force of government to dictate all thought and behavior. This is allowed due to the mentality of the herd, for without that dynamic, government fear mongering would be ignored. But the panic that is present today is astounding, and for what? The flu? If China is taken out of the equation, approximately 100 people worldwide have died of this mysterious flu called Covid-19 according to reporting, with only a few cases reported in the U.S.
According to this story in U.S. News as of February 7th of this year:
“Influenza has already taken the lives of 10,000 Americans this season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 19 million have caught the flu, and an estimated 180,000 became so ill they landed in the hospital.”
Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details) So why is panic so widespread? If the CDC figures for the common flu are to be taken seriously, there could be 50,000 to 100,000 flu deaths this year in America alone, but as of this writing, only two people have died in this country from what is labeled as the new coronavirus. In addition, the deaths in China from flu and pneumonia every year are much higher than that of the U.S. Does the panic associated with Covid-19 make any sense whatsoever given these numbers? How can the kind of hysteria being propagated by governments around the world be warranted? Is this a purposely-generated hysteria meant to create panic at exceedingly high levels in order to gain more control?
Something is amiss here, and corruption from high places seems evident. The CDC has been one of the main drivers of this inflated risk narrative, but it is not only in the vaccine business, but also is deeply in bed with the pharmaceutical companies. In other words, the worse the panic, the more money that is made by the CDC and its partners. This should be very troubling to any paying attention, but other than those in the alternative media, this is mostly ignored.
At this stage of the game, opinions vary greatly about what this new virus actually is, if in fact it is a virus at all, and how it came to exist in China. No one knows for sure regardless of speculation, but there is a substantial amount of evidence that it was man-made, and most likely originated in bio-weapons labs. This is not proven at this time, and the exact causes for this outbreak are still uncertain, but the fact that it has been mostly Chinese specific is more than curious.
Entire economies are being devastated due to the Covid-19 panic. Most all the economic destruction was isolated to China initially, and this fact causes me great concern and suspicion due to the recent political climate antagonism between the U.S. and China. Was this part of a plan to harm the Chinese economy, or was it just coincidence? Could this have begun as a planned event that got out of hand?
The U.S. has also blamed the recent outbreak in Iran on its inability to cope due to economic weakness, but the U.S. has been openly attempting to destroy Iran’s economy for some time through brutal and immoral sanctions meant to cripple that country. These are acts of war that harm not only Iran as a whole, but all Iranian citizens as well. Was the recent coronavirus outbreak there accidental or could it have been purposely planted?
Many countries around the world are now facing extreme economic uncertainty due to this massive panic being spread mostly by governments and so-called “health organizations.” Numerous shutdowns of public and private enterprise, quarantines, school closings, mass surveillance, travel restrictions, among many other invasive measures have been taken.
With all the hype and panic in Asia and Europe, as well as in many other parts of the world, little changed in this country. Travel continued, airlines remained open and little affected, people came and left without much fanfare, and most business continued as normal. Considering the scope of panic around the globe, the U.S. remained unscathed and operated normally while much of the rest of the world was in chaos. This seems curious considering the circumstances.
So what has changed due to the panic-stricken political authorities mandates around the globe? Highly increased surveillance, monitoring, and population control exploded. The large pharmaceutical companies, the WHO and all its donors and partners, and politicians of course, are in line to receive huge amounts of money from the World Bank and governments to develop vaccines. Medical and economic martial law has been implemented around the world, and restrictive measures abound. Internet censorship is much more evident, police powers have expanded, economic instability has reached every corner of the planet, and talk of forced vaccination is widespread.
In other words, control over people everywhere has vastly increased, and even if this so-called pandemic were to end suddenly, these tyrannical control measures and the assault on economic activity will remain in place, and the adverse effects of this paranoia will not go away quietly.
The global elites have already gained much ground over the common man due to this viral panic. Control is the name of the game, and this government created panic has allowed for that control to expand greatly. This is a globalist’s dream, as this is being presented as a global catastrophe, and leaves the door wide open for more global control over all.
The real risk of this so-called pandemic is the tyranny worldwide that will be the result of this idiocy. The following quote was posted by James Corbett recently concerning “the press release that Johns Hopkins and the Event 201 participants put out last month just before “Wuhan” and “coronavirus” became topics of daily conversation:”
“The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering. Efforts to prevent such consequences or respond to them as they unfold will require unprecedented levels of collaboration between governments, international organizations, and the private sector.”
This is much bigger than a virus. It could be the impetus for much more world government and global control in the future. Every crisis brings more power to the governing systems, and less freedom to the masses. This one will be no different. Panic is very dangerous and deadly to liberty, and each and every government created catastrophe moves us one step closer to total tyranny.
The Best of Gary D. Barnett