lewrockwell--2020-04-02--New App Requires Reporting of People Sneezing or Coughing

The new Google app “ Corona Waze ” asks users to “ tag ” individuals who sneeze , cough , are sweating or have a runny nose .
You can also tag people who do not use soap or wash their hands for at least 20 seconds , or for other social distancing violations .
People can also be tagged for not wearing gloves or masks , or hoarding toilet paper and cleaning supplies .
Facial recognition systems deployed through nationwide security cameras will be used to identify offenders who are not carrying cell phones while Google ’ s Fitbit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency services .
Google ’ s Android phone camera will utilize thermographic temperature fluctuations while taking selfies or pictures of others to alert medical marshals of potential fevers .
Surveillance companies like Google have become essential tools to properly enforce pandemic protocols .
An accelerated nationwide 5G rollout has been mandated to support biometric feedback sensors to instantly alert the medical establishment of potential threats to others .
Now Supplements , L-Opt ... Best Price : null Buy New $ 6.32 ( $ 0.06 / Count ) Google ’ s parent company , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government ’ s health department and launched an online portal for COVID-19 testing that will be under the auspices of Verily , its health care and life sciences arm.1 To apply for a test , you have to fill out a symptoms checklist and provide your travel history , health status and information about contact with individuals known to be infected .
You must also provide a valid Google account2 — which requests a cellphone number as part of its account creation process — so your health data can be merged and you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ phone .
For now , only those with high risk scores will be allowed to get tested.3 As reported by The Seattle Times:4 According to The Seattle Times,5 “ dozens of engineers , executives and epidemiologists ” are also urging Apple and Google to use their data-gathering expertise to “ help doctors determine people who were in contact with a patient that later tested positive for coronavirus.
” All of this will be rather easy with Verily ’ s COVID-19 testing portal up and running , as having access to infection and health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ track in great detail the exact whereabouts of a majority of Americans ( anyone who uses the online portal ) .
As noted by Slate magazine , “ Verily ’ s portal may constitute the largest acquisition of U.S. health data by private companies to date.
” The Corona Waze will tie into and further add to all that data by relying on real-time reports from the real world .
The future of infectious disease control will outweigh any potential privacy rights you may have thought existed .
Will Health Trump Privacy From @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be launched in the U.S. is eerily similar to that already being used in China , where residents are required to enroll in a health condition registry .
Gloves Latex Free , Glo ... Buy New $ 14.89 ( $ 14.89 / Count ) Once enrolled , they get a personal QR code , which they must then enter in order to gain access to grocery stores and other facilities .
As reported by Berggruen Institute in its March 6 , 2020 article , “ Tracking the Coronavirus Shows Health Will Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it , the idea for Corona Waze appears to have been ripped straight from Ant Financial ’ s pages .
The article continues:9 In China , this monitoring includes the deployment of 5G-equipped , internet-of-things sensors that measure people ’ s body temperature .
“ Anyone with a temperature above 37.3 degrees Celsius ( 99.14 F ) could be ill , ” China Xinhua News says in a February 15 , 2020 Twitter post , adding:10 “ Check out this 5G robot that can now be found at many train stations and airports @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Guess that means you can ’ t run when you ’ re late anymore , since physical exertion will raise your temperature , leading to quarantine .
Crosstex GCAPTPK Le Pe ... Buy New $ 13.00 ( $ 0.26 / Mask ) The current coronavirus pandemic stands poised to dismantle personal privacy rights in a dramatic way .
As reported by The New York Times , March 23 , 2020:11 Google Is Not Bound by Health Care Privacy Laws Already , concerns about Google having access to people ’ s health information through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ problem isn ’ t just that the monopoly will be able to know who ’ s suffering from what ailment .
It ’ s that it makes its profits from selling that data to unscrupulous third parties , and takes no responsibility for how those third parties use that data .
As noted in Slate magazine:13 The least harmful of these may appear to be advertisers , but while personalized targeted advertising is typically regarded as harmless , perhaps even desirable , the fact is that advertisers will be able to take advantage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their weakest — when they ’ re ill .
This data can also be used by insurance companies and employers to secretly discriminate against individuals for any number of reasons .
DIY HOMEMADE MEDICAL F ... Berg , Noah L. Buy New $ 3.55 That China ’ s draconian tracking measures are headed west is also evidenced in a March 21 , 2020 , Politico article14 titled “ DOJ Seeks New Emergency Powers Amid Coronavirus Epidemic.
” In a nutshell , the Justice Department is asking for the power to “ detain people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including health pandemics .
Politico reports:15 Evidence that we ’ re moving into a new paradigm where personal freedom is obliterated is also presented in a March 19 , 2020 , Newspunch article,16 which notes : “ The world as we know it will change forever in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic , according to Bill Gates , who declared that we will soon have ‘ digital certificates ’ to display our health and vaccination status.
” Gates also says we need a national tracking system , and that positive tests for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that people will know to maintain social distance to infectious individuals .
The digital certificate Gates refers to could be a tattoo made with invisible ink17,18 on a person ’ s body , likely the forearm .
Economic Collapse Will Likely Lead to Suicide Spike 3M Cavilon Liquid Anti ... Buy New $ 9.45 ( $ 9.45 / Count ) In the wake of the economic recession that began in 2008 , researchers detected a “ dramatic spike in suicides , ” Forbes20 and Science Daily21 reported in 2014 .
The findings were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 12 , 2014.22 By comparing suicide data from years before 2007 with data from 2008 until 2010 , they concluded the recession had caused more than 10,000 people across the U.S. , Canada and Europe to commit suicide .
As noted by the authors , “ Job loss , debt and foreclosure increase risks of suicidal thinking.
” In the first week starting March 16 , 2020 , 281,000 Americans filed initial unemployment claims at the highest increase since 1992 , according to CNN Business.23 For the week of March 23 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will file for unemployment.24 March 23 , U.S. News reported25 that “ James Bullard , president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis … believes unemployment could hit 30 % during the second quarter of the year.
” That ’ s an unemployment rate exceeding even that during the Great Depression , which peaked at 24.9 % in 1933.26 It seems foolish to believe the U.S. ( and indeed global ) suicide rate is not going to skyrocket as a result .
Is Minimizing Death Toll the Real Reason for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reach over 30 % , higher than the unemployment rates during the Great Depression that might result in a far greater loss of life than the virus ever could .
Just 10 years ago , the World Health Organization came under great pressure for ‘ faking ’ a pandemic because of significant influence of the pharmaceutical companies .
The stock market has plunged and basic household necessities vanished from store shelves across the country , revealing a surprising shortage of toilet paper supply .
Naturally , every life has value and every death @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kill more than 1,205 Americans PER DAY , or around 440,000 each year .
Opioid overdoses claim more than 130 people per day,30 and the pain reliever Vioxx — a single dangerous drug — killed about 60,000 patients in the five years it was on the market ( 1999 to 2004 ) , as many as died in the Vietnam War , according to David Graham , associate director for science and medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.31 Even if the coronavirus death toll mounts into the tens of thousands by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it still doesn ’ t compare to the death toll occurring from avoidable medical errors and frequently prescribed dangerous drugs , year in and year out .
Surely , if minimizing the annual death toll were a driving factor for radical government intervention , government and health officials would have acted to put a stop to these catastrophically high yet entirely preventable death tolls by now .
Yet they never did , which suggests that minimizing mortality isn ’ t really a determinant factor .
C-Clear Hygienic Clean ... Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Why would several thousand deaths from a contagious disease be more important than the hundreds of thousands killed by government and Big Pharma every year ?
Why are they more important than the thousands that will commit suicide due to economic recession ?
It ’ s not a matter of not caring about those who die .
It ’ s a question of why are some deaths perfectly acceptable and others justify complete removal of your rights & privacy ?
If curtailing the number of deaths is not the determining factor driving this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Is it a test to see whether we will voluntarily surrender all of our last remaining freedoms in exchange for government , Big Pharma and the Big Tech Surveillance Capitalists “ saving ” us from one of many infectious diseases ?
While this is our annual April Fool ’ s edition , 99 % of it is true .
The only detail that is made up is the “ Corona Waze ” app by Google .
The World Health Organization , however , is indeed developing an app that has been described as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appears that app would primarily be concerned with disseminating timely information and updates about COVID-19 though , although some user interactivity might be possible .
Aside from that detail , everything else is actually happening .
I strongly recommend you read our April Fool ’ s predictions from 2015 , “ US Government Rolls Out Mandatory Adult Vaccination and Tracking Program , ” and 2019 , “ Federal Government Mandates Vaccine Reeducation Camps — The Dystopian Future Has Arrived , ” to see how they ’ ve held up .
Is the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ control ?
Every decade or so , economic collapse , taxpayer bailouts and mass consolidation occurs .
It took place in 1987 , 1999 , 2008 and , now , 2020 .
Like a good gambler , the global elitists build economic confidence by letting someone win a few rounds with a growing stock market — then take it all away , primarily through 401k and other investment accounts .
The thing is , you need a fearful populace in order to be able to take rights and freedoms away .
War no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in more recent years , the focus seems to have shifted to viral pandemics where people have at least a little bit of personal skin in the game .
MERS , SARS , bird flu , swine flu , Ebola , Zika and , now , COVID-19 — each outbreak has brought us deeper into the controlled chaos that only fear and panic can provide — the kind of chaos that will require a total surrendering of personal rights to protect society at large ; to protect ourselves from ourselves .
For those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ research this coincidental coronavirus pandemic exercise led by Bill Gates Foundation in October , 2019 .
The reality is the virus has been here with us for longer than we have been told , and this virus will move from northern to southern hemisphere and be a part of our regular ‘ cold and flu ’ season .
Censorship and controlled talking points are suddenly the norm .
It started with banning online discussions about vaccine harms , and the same obnoxious justification — protecting public health — is now being used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has marked all Mercola.com links as ‘ Unsafe ’ .
Increasingly , we ’ re seeing more and more governments partnering to “ fight misinformation.
” This , despite the fact that much of what ’ s being censored is factual truth and published science .
Government , Big Pharma and Big Tech are big enough to take everything you have to “ give you everything you need.
” Or so they claim .
Yet , none of them can actually help you , as an individual , from getting sick , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ questions worth asking at this time .
If you can even temporarily suspend human rights , are there really any rights at all ?
If the common flu kills 40,000 people in the U.S. every year , as they claim , what will prevent every fall from requiring a pandemic emergency response ?
Is there ever an end ?
The Theft and Sale of Human Experience Every time you use Google search , they are really searching you — mining and extracting everything about you to turn your day-to-day , minute-by-minute experiences into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are stealing the Human Experience itself .
Your face , facial expression , location , your health , your family , your private conversations , your internet browsing — even walking down the street — you ’ re tracked and monitored through your electronic devices and facial recognition systems connected through cameras throughout the global grid .
Surveillance Monopolies have taken power by filling the voids left by the fear and panic in the world .
At one time , these deceptive intrusions of privacy never would have been accepted .
They are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with nearly complete access to everything in your life .
Now , all face to face events and meetings have been essentially cancelled .
All meetings and correspondences are communicated through ‘ the web ’ .
Kids are working from home on their Google Chromebooks , which requires a Google Gmail account – how did we let this happen ?
We are about to see the largest loss of jobs and destruction of small and medium businesses since the Great Recession of the 1930s .
But while crashing stock markets may spell disaster @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sure that “ someone ” is frantically buying up assets , now available for pennies to the dollar .
The consolidation of resources into the hands of the already unimaginably rich and powerful is happening right before our eyes , all while we ’ re giving up everything — our assets , our livelihoods , our rights , our businesses , all while every single human experience is turned into data points for profit .
Artificial intelligence is looking into the eyes of you and your children , analyzing your emotions , tracking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and an unknowable number of other daily data points in order to predict every single move you ’ re about to make .
Children nowadays have no privacy to form an identity , no space to explore without being scrutinized physically , mentally and emotionally in order for every detail of their inner and outer lives to be sold to companies that have the tools to prey on their weaknesses and manipulate their thoughts and actions for profit .
Could artificial intelligence have predicted the scenario we currently find ourselves in ?
You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Without a doubt .
Will we ever know the truth about it ?
Probably not .
If you don ’ t think artificial intelligence has the capacity to shepherd a global population into a panic , triggering a worldwide shutdown and subsequent reallocation of wealth , you really need to review “ Harvard Professor Exposes Google and Facebook.
” My interview with Robert Epstein , Ph.D. , senior research psychologist for the American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology is also highly instructive .
For the past decade he has also helped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practices .
As noted by Russ Greene in his July 20 , 2019 , Medium article:34 Are You Ready to Give Up EVERYTHING Over a Virus ?
We are beginning to see the clear partnership of surveillance and control , praying on fears to assume rights and property .
Government agencies are working for global corporations , they know the biggest fear that sells is infectious disease .
The CDC has gone so far as making the comparison of infectious disease to the Zombie apocalypse .
I ’ ll end here with a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is our annual April Fool ’ s article .
Unfortunately , nearly everything in it is true .
While Google is NOT releasing an app called “ Corona Waze , ” the World Health Organization is indeed developing a COVID-19 app that has been described as “ Waze for COVID-19.
” 36 All other details are true , and describe a rapidly-approaching reality in which personal freedoms are decimated to “ protect ” us all from an infectious disease .
To avoid this dystopian future , it is imperative that we fight to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — be it medically related or not — both online and offline .
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The new Google app “Corona Waze” asks users to “tag” individuals who sneeze, cough, are sweating or have a runny nose. You can also tag people who do not use soap or wash their hands for at least 20 seconds, or for other social distancing violations. People can also be tagged for not wearing gloves or masks, or hoarding toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
Facial recognition systems deployed through nationwide security cameras will be used to identify offenders who are not carrying cell phones while Google’s Fitbit will automatically report unfavorable biometrics to alert emergency services. Google’s Android phone camera will utilize thermographic temperature fluctuations while taking selfies or pictures of others to alert medical marshals of potential fevers.
Surveillance companies like Google have become essential tools to properly enforce pandemic protocols. An accelerated nationwide 5G rollout has been mandated to support biometric feedback sensors to instantly alert the medical establishment of potential threats to others.
Medical Surveillance Is Key for Controlling Outbreaks
Now Supplements, L-Opt... Buy New $6.32 ($0.06 / Count) (as of 07:55 UTC - Details) Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has partnered with the federal government’s health department and launched an online portal for COVID-19 testing that will be under the auspices of Verily, its health care and life sciences arm.1
To apply for a test, you have to fill out a symptoms checklist and provide your travel history, health status and information about contact with individuals known to be infected. You must also provide a valid Google account2 — which requests a cellphone number as part of its account creation process — so your health data can be merged and you can be properly tracked through your cell phone.
For now, only those with high risk scores will be allowed to get tested.3 As reported by The Seattle Times:4
“The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak …
The early, unprecedented collaboration between Washington and Silicon Valley reflects the urgent, nationwide scramble to stop a deadly malady that has shuttered businesses, skewered the stock market, sent students home from school and now threatens to overwhelm the U.S. medical system with patients in need of critical care.”
According to The Seattle Times,5 “dozens of engineers, executives and epidemiologists” are also urging Apple and Google to use their data-gathering expertise to “help doctors determine people who were in contact with a patient that later tested positive for coronavirus.”
All of this will be rather easy with Verily’s COVID-19 testing portal up and running, as having access to infection and health data, combined with the ability to track in great detail the exact whereabouts of a majority of Americans (anyone who uses the online portal).
As noted by Slate magazine, “Verily’s portal may constitute the largest acquisition of U.S. health data by private companies to date.” The Corona Waze will tie into and further add to all that data by relying on real-time reports from the real world. The future of infectious disease control will outweigh any potential privacy rights you may have thought existed.
Will Health Trump Privacy From Here On?
The tracking system about to be launched in the U.S. is eerily similar to that already being used in China, where residents are required to enroll in a health condition registry.
Gloves Latex Free, Glo... Buy New $14.89 ($14.89 / Count) (as of 11:56 UTC - Details) Once enrolled, they get a personal QR code, which they must then enter in order to gain access to grocery stores and other facilities. As reported by Berggruen Institute in its March 6, 2020 article, “Tracking the Coronavirus Shows Health Will Trump Privacy”:6
“‘China has an edge in the ability to combine strong, top-down government directive with vibrant grassroots-level innovation,’ says Shanghai-based management guru Edward Tse. ‘Beyond this, China has an abundance of data to train AI-learning algorithms because of its huge population of internet users — more than 700 million.
China’s thriving mobile internet ecosystem also provides a test bed for AI researchers to collect and analyze valuable demographics and transactional and behavioral big data and to conduct large-scale experiments at a much higher level than foreign counterparts’ …
China’s extant social monitoring systems complete the picture of what is possible … Ant Financial has developed software that color codes7,8 a person’s infectious status in green (clean), yellow (caution, report to health authorities) and red (quarantine) based on responses to a questionnaire about your location, where you have been, who you have seen, if you have a cough, and so on.”
On the face of it, the idea for Corona Waze appears to have been ripped straight from Ant Financial’s pages. The article continues:9
“To anyone concerned with civil liberties, it is a bit scary that all this tracking information on people’s location and movements is shared with the authorities and could well be used for other reasons of social control.
That is certainly an issue within the context of China’s surveillance state. Yet those of us in the West should not be naïve that, when it comes to health issues, even open societies will invite these new surveillance technologies.
‘The big battle in this regard in the 21st century will be between privacy and health. And health will win,’ ‘Homo Deus’ author Yuval Harari told me in a conversation last year. ‘Most people will be willing to give up their privacy in exchange for much better health care, based on 24-hour monitoring …”
In China, this monitoring includes the deployment of 5G-equipped, internet-of-things sensors that measure people’s body temperature. “Anyone with a temperature above 37.3 degrees Celsius (99.14 F) could be ill,” China Xinhua News says in a February 15, 2020 Twitter post, adding:10
“Check out this 5G robot that can now be found at many train stations and airports across China amid the coronavirus outbreak.” Guess that means you can’t run when you’re late anymore, since physical exertion will raise your temperature, leading to quarantine.
Pandemic Measures Are Rapidly Eroding Privacy
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“In South Korea, government agencies are harnessing surveillance-camera footage, smartphone location data and credit card purchase records to help trace the recent movements of coronavirus patients and establish virus transmission chains.
In Lombardy, Italy, the authorities are analyzing location data transmitted by citizens’ mobile phones to determine how many people are obeying a government lockdown order and the typical distances they move every day. About 40 percent are moving around “too much,” an official recently said.
In Israel, the country’s internal security agency is poised to start using a cache of mobile phone location data — originally intended for counterterrorism operations — to try to pinpoint citizens who may have been exposed to the virus.
As countries around the world race to contain the pandemic, many are deploying digital surveillance tools as a means to exert social control, even turning security agency technologies on their own civilians …
Yet ratcheting up surveillance to combat the pandemic now could permanently open the doors to more invasive forms of snooping later. It is a lesson Americans learned after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, civil liberties experts say.
Nearly two decades later, law enforcement agencies have access to higher-powered surveillance systems, like fine-grained location tracking and facial recognition — technologies that may be repurposed to further political agendas …
‘We could so easily end up in a situation where we empower local, state or federal government to take measures in response to this pandemic that fundamentally change the scope of American civil rights,’ said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a nonprofit organization in Manhattan.”
Google Is Not Bound by Health Care Privacy Laws
Already, concerns about Google having access to people’s health information through partnerships with hospitals have been raised.12 The problem isn’t just that the monopoly will be able to know who’s suffering from what ailment. It’s that it makes its profits from selling that data to unscrupulous third parties, and takes no responsibility for how those third parties use that data. As noted in Slate magazine:13
“Neither Google nor Verily is a health care provider. They owe users none of the duties that doctors owe to patients, and federal privacy laws, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, do not apply.
That’s a serious problem because companies can exploit people’s data in surreptitious ways that violate their expectations and jeopardize their rights. Data might be shared with advertisers, sold to insurance companies, or used to calculate consumer credit scores that control access to resources.”
The least harmful of these may appear to be advertisers, but while personalized targeted advertising is typically regarded as harmless, perhaps even desirable, the fact is that advertisers will be able to take advantage of people when they’re at their weakest — when they’re ill. This data can also be used by insurance companies and employers to secretly discriminate against individuals for any number of reasons. DIY HOMEMADE MEDICAL F... Berg, Noah L. Buy New $3.55 (as of 09:59 UTC - Details)
China’s Draconian Tracking Measures Head West
That China’s draconian tracking measures are headed west is also evidenced in a March 21, 2020, Politico article14 titled “DOJ Seeks New Emergency Powers Amid Coronavirus Epidemic.” In a nutshell, the Justice Department is asking for the power to “detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies” — including health pandemics. Politico reports:15
“The request raised eyebrows because of its potential implications for habeas corpus — the constitutional right to appear before a judge after arrest and seek release. ‘Not only would it be a violation of that, but it says ‘affecting pre-arrest,” said Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
‘So that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. I find it absolutely terrifying. Especially in a time of emergency, we should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.’
Reimer said the possibility of chief judges suspending all court rules during an emergency without a clear end in sight was deeply disturbing. ‘That is something that should not happen in a democracy,’ he said.”
Pandemic Necessitates Proof of Vaccination, Bill Gates Says
Evidence that we’re moving into a new paradigm where personal freedom is obliterated is also presented in a March 19, 2020, Newspunch article,16 which notes: “The world as we know it will change forever in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bill Gates, who declared that we will soon have ‘digital certificates’ to display our health and vaccination status.”
Gates also says we need a national tracking system, and that positive tests for infectious disease must be publicly identifiable so that people will know to maintain social distance to infectious individuals. The digital certificate Gates refers to could be a tattoo made with invisible ink17,18 on a person’s body, likely the forearm.
“The only catch is that you won’t know exactly what is being put into your digital certificate. You also won’t know who will have access to the data,” Newspunch notes.19 “If history repeats, it will go from being technology adopted for its ‘convenience and safety’ and then overnight will become mandatory for you and your family — or else.”
Economic Collapse Will Likely Lead to Suicide Spike
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By comparing suicide data from years before 2007 with data from 2008 until 2010, they concluded the recession had caused more than 10,000 people across the U.S., Canada and Europe to commit suicide. As noted by the authors, “Job loss, debt and foreclosure increase risks of suicidal thinking.”
In the first week starting March 16, 2020, 281,000 Americans filed initial unemployment claims at the highest increase since 1992, according to CNN Business.23 For the week of March 23, Goldman Sachs economists predict another 2.25 million will file for unemployment.24
March 23, U.S. News reported25 that “James Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis … believes unemployment could hit 30% during the second quarter of the year.” That’s an unemployment rate exceeding even that during the Great Depression, which peaked at 24.9% in 1933.26 It seems foolish to believe the U.S. (and indeed global) suicide rate is not going to skyrocket as a result.
Is Minimizing Death Toll the Real Reason for the Shutdown?
Unemployment is predicted to reach over 30%, higher than the unemployment rates during the Great Depression that might result in a far greater loss of life than the virus ever could. Just 10 years ago, the World Health Organization came under great pressure for ‘faking’ a pandemic because of significant influence of the pharmaceutical companies.
The stock market has plunged and basic household necessities vanished from store shelves across the country, revealing a surprising shortage of toilet paper supply.
Naturally, every life has value and every death is tragic, but preventable medical errors kill more than 1,205 Americans PER DAY, or around 440,000 each year.
Opioid overdoses claim more than 130 people per day,30 and the pain reliever Vioxx — a single dangerous drug — killed about 60,000 patients in the five years it was on the market (1999 to 2004), as many as died in the Vietnam War, according to David Graham, associate director for science and medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.31
Even if the coronavirus death toll mounts into the tens of thousands by the time all is said and done, it still doesn’t compare to the death toll occurring from avoidable medical errors and frequently prescribed dangerous drugs, year in and year out.
Surely, if minimizing the annual death toll were a driving factor for radical government intervention, government and health officials would have acted to put a stop to these catastrophically high yet entirely preventable death tolls by now. Yet they never did, which suggests that minimizing mortality isn’t really a determinant factor. C-Clear Hygienic Clean... Buy New $16.28 ($0.16 / Wipes) (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
Why would several thousand deaths from a contagious disease be more important than the hundreds of thousands killed by government and Big Pharma every year? Why are they more important than the thousands that will commit suicide due to economic recession? It’s not a matter of not caring about those who die. It’s a question of why are some deaths perfectly acceptable and others justify complete removal of your rights & privacy?
If curtailing the number of deaths is not the determining factor driving this manufactured recession, then what is? Is it a test to see whether we will voluntarily surrender all of our last remaining freedoms in exchange for government, Big Pharma and the Big Tech Surveillance Capitalists “saving” us from one of many infectious diseases?
A Not So Funny April Fool’s
While this is our annual April Fool’s edition, 99% of it is true. The only detail that is made up is the “Corona Waze” app by Google. The World Health Organization, however, is indeed developing an app that has been described as “Waze for COVID-19.”32
It appears that app would primarily be concerned with disseminating timely information and updates about COVID-19 though, although some user interactivity might be possible. Aside from that detail, everything else is actually happening.
I strongly recommend you read our April Fool’s predictions from 2015, “US Government Rolls Out Mandatory Adult Vaccination and Tracking Program,” and 2019, “Federal Government Mandates Vaccine Reeducation Camps — The Dystopian Future Has Arrived,” to see how they’ve held up.
Is the current pandemic just an opportunity for consolidation and control? Every decade or so, economic collapse, taxpayer bailouts and mass consolidation occurs. It took place in 1987, 1999, 2008 and, now, 2020.
Like a good gambler, the global elitists build economic confidence by letting someone win a few rounds with a growing stock market — then take it all away, primarily through 401k and other investment accounts.
The thing is, you need a fearful populace in order to be able to take rights and freedoms away. War no longer has the desired effect, so in more recent years, the focus seems to have shifted to viral pandemics where people have at least a little bit of personal skin in the game.
MERS, SARS, bird flu, swine flu, Ebola, Zika and, now, COVID-19 — each outbreak has brought us deeper into the controlled chaos that only fear and panic can provide — the kind of chaos that will require a total surrendering of personal rights to protect society at large; to protect ourselves from ourselves.
For those unfamiliar with Event 201, you can research this coincidental coronavirus pandemic exercise led by Bill Gates Foundation in October, 2019. The reality is the virus has been here with us for longer than we have been told, and this virus will move from northern to southern hemisphere and be a part of our regular ‘cold and flu’ season.
Censorship and controlled talking points are suddenly the norm. It started with banning online discussions about vaccine harms, and the same obnoxious justification — protecting public health — is now being used to censor information about coronavirus.33
Recently, Twitter has marked all Mercola.com links as ‘Unsafe’. Increasingly, we’re seeing more and more governments partnering to “fight misinformation.” This, despite the fact that much of what’s being censored is factual truth and published science. Government, Big Pharma and Big Tech are big enough to take everything you have to “give you everything you need.” Or so they claim. Yet, none of them can actually help you, as an individual, from getting sick, or aid your recovery.
There are many questions worth asking at this time. If you can even temporarily suspend human rights, are there really any rights at all? If the common flu kills 40,000 people in the U.S. every year, as they claim, what will prevent every fall from requiring a pandemic emergency response? Is there ever an end?

The Theft and Sale of Human Experience
Every time you use Google search, they are really searching you — mining and extracting everything about you to turn your day-to-day, minute-by-minute experiences into profitable assets. Current day surveillance tools are stealing the Human Experience itself.
Your face, facial expression, location, your health, your family, your private conversations, your internet browsing — even walking down the street — you’re tracked and monitored through your electronic devices and facial recognition systems connected through cameras throughout the global grid.
Surveillance Monopolies have taken power by filling the voids left by the fear and panic in the world. At one time, these deceptive intrusions of privacy never would have been accepted. They are partners with global powers and governments, with nearly complete access to everything in your life.
Now, all face to face events and meetings have been essentially cancelled. All meetings and correspondences are communicated through ‘the web’. Kids are working from home on their Google Chromebooks, which requires a Google Gmail account – how did we let this happen?
We are about to see the largest loss of jobs and destruction of small and medium businesses since the Great Recession of the 1930s. But while crashing stock markets may spell disaster for regular folk, you can be sure that “someone” is frantically buying up assets, now available for pennies to the dollar.
The consolidation of resources into the hands of the already unimaginably rich and powerful is happening right before our eyes, all while we’re giving up everything — our assets, our livelihoods, our rights, our businesses, all while every single human experience is turned into data points for profit.
Artificial intelligence is looking into the eyes of you and your children, analyzing your emotions, tracking your heartbeat, steps, sleep patterns and an unknowable number of other daily data points in order to predict every single move you’re about to make.
Children nowadays have no privacy to form an identity, no space to explore without being scrutinized physically, mentally and emotionally in order for every detail of their inner and outer lives to be sold to companies that have the tools to prey on their weaknesses and manipulate their thoughts and actions for profit.
Could artificial intelligence have predicted the scenario we currently find ourselves in? You bet. Could it have created it? Without a doubt. Will we ever know the truth about it? Probably not.
If you don’t think artificial intelligence has the capacity to shepherd a global population into a panic, triggering a worldwide shutdown and subsequent reallocation of wealth, you really need to review “Harvard Professor Exposes Google and Facebook.”
My interview with Robert Epstein, Ph.D., senior research psychologist for the American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology is also highly instructive. For the past decade he has also helped expose Google’s manipulative and deceptive practices. As noted by Russ Greene in his July 20, 2019, Medium article:34
“Three trends in health and fitness are converging, leading to an Orwellian future that few may anticipate: 1) The medicalization of daily life (food, movement, sleep, etc), 2) Wearable surveillance devices, 3) Government control of health care and its data.
In combination, these trends threaten values their proponents must hold dear and believe themselves to be protecting: an individual’s dignity and right to a freely-chosen private life.
If “health care” include everyone’s daily life activities, and health care monitors and controls those activities through wearable devices, and the federal government controls healthcare, then the federal government will monitor and control everyone’s behavior at all times. No longer will we retain a sphere of private life separate from political control. The government will be in charge. In charge, that is, of everything.”
Are You Ready to Give Up EVERYTHING Over a Virus?
We are beginning to see the clear partnership of surveillance and control, praying on fears to assume rights and property. Government agencies are working for global corporations, they know the biggest fear that sells is infectious disease. The CDC has gone so far as making the comparison of infectious disease to the Zombie apocalypse. I’ll end here with a pertinent excerpt from Slate magazine:35
“Should we be willing to give up some privacy for the sake of public health? Of course. It is expected that some liberties may be curtailed during national emergencies … But we cannot allow companies to use our urgent need for testing, and the distraction provided by the pandemic, to extract more data than is necessary to promote public health.
Unless we act now, such systems will become normalized. It is urgent that we set clear limitations on how Google, Verily, and participating retailers can use COVID-19 screening data …
I offer the following recommendations. The companies facilitating COVID-19 testing must make their data use practices completely transparent. They should be developing safe and reliable public health infrastructure, not proprietary trade secrets. Verily should not require people to log in to a Google account or provide a phone number in order to be screened. This information is not essential for testing.
The screening portal should not collect device, location, or IP address data, and information collected must solely be used for screening and only be shared with public health officials. Under no circumstances should it be joined with data collected by Google’s many other services or shared with business partners and sister companies.
Retailers offering drive-thru testing should suspend electronic surveillance including video, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and other technologies. In response to these suggestions, some might say it’s rude to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Google and Verily are volunteering time and resources to combat a pandemic. But it is not too much to ask for a government-run system. Canada’s Alberta Health Services offers a screening portal that requires no login or personal information.
In general, private companies should not perform functions that are best reserved for scientists and public health agencies. Since we are in dire need of COVID-19 screening, perhaps Google and Verily can play a role in providing it, but the loss of our privacy should not be the cost.”
NOTICE
This piece is our annual April Fool’s article. Unfortunately, nearly everything in it is true. While Google is NOT releasing an app called “Corona Waze,” the World Health Organization is indeed developing a COVID-19 app that has been described as “Waze for COVID-19.”36
All other details are true, and describe a rapidly-approaching reality in which personal freedoms are decimated to “protect” us all from an infectious disease. To avoid this dystopian future, it is imperative that we fight to protect and preserve our right to privacy — be it medically related or not — both online and offline.
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-04-03--What Will The History Books Say Of This Coronavirus Plannedemic?

Which version will the history books say of our current times ?
A. Mutated coronavirus that no one on the planet had immunity towards suddenly erupted on an unprepared world ; or B .
The coronavirus epidemic was pre-planned as cover for an imminent worldwide financial collapse .
While a few investigators and online commentators claim the US economy may crash and all wealth may be vanquished and destroyed by a prolonged coronavirus lockdown and quarantine , few Americans catch on that the current COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic and quarantine is a cover for an already collapsed economy with the viral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sudden and unprecedented economic collapse unfolds .
A report at MSN.com says : “ If the virus hadn ’ t caused the crash , something else would have.
” 3m Avagard Surgical Sc ... Buy New $ 68.46 ( $ 68.46 / Count ) A central bank spokesperson says : “ This is a planned , organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter .
The overall goal is to keep everyone , households and businesses , whole… It is a huge shock and we are trying to cope with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The FED spokesperson said he “ expects an unprecedented 50 % plunge in gross domestic product.
” That would be -50 % of $ 21.427 trillion GDP or a real GDP of $ 10.713 trillion .
It becomes apparent the real GDP that has been kept hidden by the federal government .
Economist John Williams ( ShadowStats.com ) has revealed for the past 64 quarters or 16 years the US GDP has been in negative growth .
Translation : the standard of living in the US is ready to decline by 50 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reached the limit of its ability to live off our future income ( credit ) .
Living on credit cards has been fun , but that era is over .
As evidence , around 52 % of Americans report they have reached their credit card limit .
ShadowStats.com describes it this way : John Williams goes on to say : The unfolding crisis has its roots in recent decades , now laid open by the Pandemic Crisis , which has stripped away the veneer from an the effectively bankrupt U.S. Government and Federal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer backed by Gold , but rather by Global Confidence in U.S. Economy ( now in a tumble ) , U.S. Fiscal Stability ( at extreme levels of unstable deterioration ) , and by the soundness of the U.S. banking-system owned U.S. Central Bank ( Federal Reserve ) , which just has opted to provide effectively unlimited cash/liquidity to the system .
The economic collapse largely is due to the artificial constrictions imposed on economic activity by the government ’ s response to the Pandemic .
The system can not recover/restore normal human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no real recovery until people can resume their regular life styles .
( ShadowStats.com Special Commentary Issue # 1429 & 1430 ) What kind of world will we return to when the lockdown and quarantine is over ?
50 Disposable Face Mas ... Buy New $ 18.87 ( $ 171.55 / Fl Oz ) A report at GreenMedInfo says there are two plans that outline requirements to end the lockdown .
One is to mandate all citizens be vaccinated .
The other is to track the movement of people by their cell phone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health authorities , making these suggestions .
The world we return to after this lockdown may detestable and abhorrent : • The Centers for Disease Control has taken over America , tapping into cell phones to track movements of citizens and is holding the President of the United States accountable for any deaths arising from early withdrawal of the lockdown and quarantine .
• High-tech helmets could be worn by law enforcement or even newly-created health enforcement officers , helmets that detect a temperature rise ( fever ) in unsuspecting individuals , like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is even technology that can identify people via face recognition who are wearing masks .
• Philanthropist/vaccine advocate Bill Gates talks about digital certificates ( tattoos , like what were placed on holocaust inmates in German concentration camps ? )
, what he says in his own words : “ Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.
” “ Comrade , your digital certificate please !
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Which version will the history books say of our current times?
A. Mutated coronavirus that no one on the planet had immunity towards suddenly erupted on an unprepared world; or
B. The coronavirus epidemic was pre-planned as cover for an imminent worldwide financial collapse.
While a few investigators and online commentators claim the US economy may crash and all wealth may be vanquished and destroyed by a prolonged coronavirus lockdown and quarantine, few Americans catch on that the current COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic and quarantine is a cover for an already collapsed economy with the viral epidemic serving as fearful distraction as a sudden and unprecedented economic collapse unfolds.
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A central bank spokesperson says: “This is a planned, organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The overall goal is to keep everyone, households and businesses, whole… It is a huge shock and we are trying to cope with it and keep it under control.”
The FED spokesperson said he “expects an unprecedented 50% plunge in gross domestic product.” That would be -50% of $21.427 trillion GDP or a real GDP of $10.713 trillion. It becomes apparent the real GDP that has been kept hidden by the federal government.
Economist John Williams (ShadowStats.com) has revealed for the past 64 quarters or 16 years the US GDP has been in negative growth. Translation: the standard of living in the US is ready to decline by 50% as its citizens learn the country has reached the limit of its ability to live off our future income (credit). Living on credit cards has been fun, but that era is over.
As evidence, around 52% of Americans report they have reached their credit card limit.
ShadowStats.com describes it this way:
“Financial-system insolvency laid bare by the pandemic.”
John Williams goes on to say:
The unfolding crisis has its roots in recent decades, now laid open by the Pandemic Crisis, which has stripped away the veneer from an the effectively bankrupt U.S. Government and Federal Reserve, with the U.S. dollar no longer backed by Gold, but rather by Global Confidence in U.S. Economy (now in a tumble), U.S. Fiscal Stability (at extreme levels of unstable deterioration), and by the soundness of the U.S. banking-system owned U.S. Central Bank (Federal Reserve), which just has opted to provide effectively unlimited cash/liquidity to the system. The economic collapse largely is due to the artificial constrictions imposed on economic activity by the government’s response to the Pandemic. The system cannot recover/restore normal human and business transactions. There can be no real recovery until people can resume their regular life styles. (ShadowStats.com Special Commentary Issue #1429 & 1430)
What kind of world will we return to when the lockdown and quarantine is over? 50 Disposable Face Mas... Buy New $18.87 ($171.55 / Fl Oz) (as of 04:55 UTC - Details)
A report at GreenMedInfo says there are two plans that outline requirements to end the lockdown. One is to mandate all citizens be vaccinated. The other is to track the movement of people by their cell phone location. These are politicians, not health authorities, making these suggestions.
The world we return to after this lockdown may detestable and abhorrent:
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lewrockwell--2020-04-03--What Are ‘Essential Services’?

What Are ‘Essential Services’?

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey recently issued an Executive Order requiring residents to “ stay home.
” The Governor said that only businesses providing “ essential services ” could remain open .
When hit with a barrage of questions , he told Arizonans to not worry because “ grocery stores and pharmacies ” would remain open and their employees would be allowed to leave their homes and go to work .
As I considered what an “ essential service ” is in the free market , I was reminded of Leonard Read ’ s brilliant essay “ I , Pencil.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the production of a “ simple ” pencil is beyond the capabilities of one person or one firm to plan and implement .
It requires an incredibly complex market coordination of land , labor , and capital .
A pencil requires graphite and iron miners , trucks , rubber for the tires for the trucks , rubber plantations , workers at the rubber plantations , paint producers , lumberjacks , sawmills , employees for the operation of the sawmills and for all the associated factories , tool manufactures to make the tools used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ maintenance personnel to keep all the facilities running .
There is also a myriad of ancillary industries that produce and provide a huge number of items used in the various businesses that produce components in the higher orders of production to make the pencil ; things like ink , paper , clothing for the workers , and oil pumping and refinery equipment to keep fuel flowing to all the associated vehicles and industries .
The interconnected web of cooperating firms and individuals is almost infinite .
Economics in One Lesso ... Hazlitt , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 7.43 If producing a pencil is complicated and requires the complex coordination and invisible hand of the free market that is well beyond the planning capabilities of any person or any firm , we can only imagine the exponential level of complexity needed to keep a Wal-Mart store open .
If a Wal-Mart store is considered to be providing an “ essential service ” and is allowed to stay open in a “ stay at home ” state , how can it possibly do so without the invisible market cooperation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being influenced individually by price signals ?
Can a Wal-Mart store stay open without wholesalers and producers ?
Can the producers stay in business without other producers of sub-components ?
Can the sub-components be produced without raw material producers ?
Can meat make it to a Wal-Mart store if the rancher and farmer have to stay home and can ’ t drive around to various properties and check on water and feed sources for his animals ?
Can the farmer take care of his farm if his tractor is broken and needs maintenance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been deemed essential ?
Does the farmer or the mechanic need a special waiver from the Governor ?
What about the roving livestock wranglers , fruit pickers , well and pump maintenance workers that are needed by the farmer or rancher on irregular schedules ?
What if the farmer or the truck driver has broken his glasses ?
Can he go to his eye doctor ?
If the eye doctor can stay open , can the glasses producer go to work to make the glasses for the truck driver or the farmer ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ breaks and he can ’ t communicate with the meat buyer or feed producer , will the cell phone store be designated an “ essential service ” and remain open to sell him a new one ?
Can billboard companies operate so that the public can know which facilities are open and providing services in the midst of the closure order ?
Can graphics designers produce the signs for the billboard companies ?
Can newspaper employees drive to work and drive around town to take pictures so that the public stays informed ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ provide physical cash to those that want it and need it ?
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What about the contractor that keeps the freezers and refrigerators running at Wal-Mart – is he essential ?
What about the producer and supplier that provides refrigerant to the freezer maintenance contractor – is he essential ?
I was told by a police officer that people would be pulled over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ weren ’ t on their way to buy groceries .
I don ’ t know what the charge would be if the driver refused to go home since the legislature hasn ’ t defined a law that is being broken .
Current political actions definitely run contrary to the trite John Adams quote , “ We are a government of laws not of men.
” Besides Mr. Read ’ s great essay , this situation brings to mind Henry Hazlitt ’ s little book “ Economics in One Lesson ; ” the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause harm when they make mandates because they can only consider the effects on a small part of the overall economy .
There will be broad ramifications and unintended consequences throughout the economy whenever an activity is expanded or restricted through political action .
In short , central planning can never work because it can never consider the full interrelation of all aspects of the economy .
Central planners can only consider specific hoped-for outcomes on limited segments of the economy when making decisions .
I don ’ t see how this magical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by executive branch authoritarians is going to be managed through central planning .
Next thing , prices will go up , gouging will be alleged and more central planning will “ be needed to control prices.
” We are also all being told to “ work at home.
” Wow , what a deal .
We will stay home and produce nothing except for internet data shooting back and forth and all the stuff will magically get produced and the shelves will get stocked .
Why didn ’ t we think of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nifty idea .
Let ’ s all take a vacation , or better yet , retire .
The government has got this under control .
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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey recently issued an Executive Order requiring residents to “stay home.” The Governor said that only businesses providing “essential services” could remain open. When hit with a barrage of questions, he told Arizonans to not worry because “grocery stores and pharmacies” would remain open and their employees would be allowed to leave their homes and go to work. As I considered what an “essential service” is in the free market, I was reminded of Leonard Read’s brilliant essay “I, Pencil.”
As Mr. Read pointed out, even the production of a “simple” pencil is beyond the capabilities of one person or one firm to plan and implement. It requires an incredibly complex market coordination of land, labor, and capital. A pencil requires graphite and iron miners, trucks, rubber for the tires for the trucks, rubber plantations, workers at the rubber plantations, paint producers, lumberjacks, sawmills, employees for the operation of the sawmills and for all the associated factories, tool manufactures to make the tools used in the various associated industries, and maintenance personnel to keep all the facilities running. There is also a myriad of ancillary industries that produce and provide a huge number of items used in the various businesses that produce components in the higher orders of production to make the pencil; things like ink, paper, clothing for the workers, and oil pumping and refinery equipment to keep fuel flowing to all the associated vehicles and industries. The interconnected web of cooperating firms and individuals is almost infinite. Economics in One Lesso... Hazlitt, Henry Best Price: $2.43 Buy New $7.43 (as of 12:35 UTC - Details)
If producing a pencil is complicated and requires the complex coordination and invisible hand of the free market that is well beyond the planning capabilities of any person or any firm, we can only imagine the exponential level of complexity needed to keep a Wal-Mart store open. If a Wal-Mart store is considered to be providing an “essential service” and is allowed to stay open in a “stay at home” state, how can it possibly do so without the invisible market cooperation of an unfathomable number of actors, each being influenced individually by price signals?
Can a Wal-Mart store stay open without wholesalers and producers? Can the producers stay in business without other producers of sub-components? Can the sub-components be produced without raw material producers? Can meat make it to a Wal-Mart store if the rancher and farmer have to stay home and can’t drive around to various properties and check on water and feed sources for his animals? Can the farmer take care of his farm if his tractor is broken and needs maintenance from the mechanic? Has the mechanic been deemed essential? Does the farmer or the mechanic need a special waiver from the Governor? What about the roving livestock wranglers, fruit pickers, well and pump maintenance workers that are needed by the farmer or rancher on irregular schedules?
What if the farmer or the truck driver has broken his glasses? Can he go to his eye doctor? If the eye doctor can stay open, can the glasses producer go to work to make the glasses for the truck driver or the farmer? If the farmer’s cell phone breaks and he can’t communicate with the meat buyer or feed producer, will the cell phone store be designated an “essential service” and remain open to sell him a new one? Can billboard companies operate so that the public can know which facilities are open and providing services in the midst of the closure order? Can graphics designers produce the signs for the billboard companies? Can newspaper employees drive to work and drive around town to take pictures so that the public stays informed? Are the banks an essential service to provide physical cash to those that want it and need it? Deadly Medicines and O... Peter Gotzsche Best Price: $38.43 Buy New $33.29 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
Can a Wal-Mart store arrange for its garbage and waste to be hauled off? What about the contractor that keeps the freezers and refrigerators running at Wal-Mart – is he essential? What about the producer and supplier that provides refrigerant to the freezer maintenance contractor – is he essential? I was told by a police officer that people would be pulled over and told to go home if they weren’t on their way to buy groceries. I don’t know what the charge would be if the driver refused to go home since the legislature hasn’t defined a law that is being broken. Current political actions definitely run contrary to the trite John Adams quote, “We are a government of laws not of men.”
Besides Mr. Read’s great essay, this situation brings to mind Henry Hazlitt’s little book “Economics in One Lesson;” the “one lesson” being that politicians will cause harm when they make mandates because they can only consider the effects on a small part of the overall economy. There will be broad ramifications and unintended consequences throughout the economy whenever an activity is expanded or restricted through political action. In short, central planning can never work because it can never consider the full interrelation of all aspects of the economy. Central planners can only consider specific hoped-for outcomes on limited segments of the economy when making decisions.
I don’t see how this magical candy-land enabled by court intellectuals and run by executive branch authoritarians is going to be managed through central planning. Next thing, prices will go up, gouging will be alleged and more central planning will “be needed to control prices.” We are also all being told to “work at home.” Wow, what a deal. We will stay home and produce nothing except for internet data shooting back and forth and all the stuff will magically get produced and the shelves will get stocked. Why didn’t we think of this sooner? “Essential services.” What a nifty idea. Let’s all take a vacation, or better yet, retire. The government has got this under control.
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lewrockwell--2020-04-03--The Creed of Slaves

The Creed of Slaves

With the arrests of preachers in Florida and Louisiana , the rotten fruit of Christendom ’ s genuflecting to the State drops and splatters .
American clergy couldn ’ t close their doors fast enough when bureaucrats and politicians “ suggested ” they do so—but such kowtowing has only emboldened Leviathan .
The beast no longer contents itself with urging parishioners to stay home : it now forbids them to convene .
And it ’ s persecuting dissidents .
In Florida , Rev .
Rodney Howard-Browne “ was arrested Monday at his home one day after his church was packed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tony Spell in Louisiana “ fac [ es ] misdemeanor charges for holding services… ” that attracted 1,265 attendees .
No wonder crowds crammed both churches : if Southern ecclesiastics are as biddable as their counterparts elsewhere , none but our heroes defied the demonic decrees against assembling .
That left Christians with one venue alone for corporate worship in their respective states last Sunday .
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Why aren ’ t the faithful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rev .
Spell opened the Life Tabernacle Church ’ s doors again Tuesday evening , while The River at Tampa Bay Church “ held two Sunday services with hundreds of people… ” Cops “ reportedly became furious ” that Rev .
Howard-Browne , “ was encouraging his large congregation to meet at his church.
’ ” One day , that charge will be engraved on the crown Dr. Howard-Browne throws at his Savior ’ s feet .
In exercising their rights under the First Amendment , all these assemblages violated the unconstitutional “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spread of the coronavirus.
” Allow me to amend that last bit of propaganda : the “ safer-at-home ( what infuriating , focus-grouped jargon ! )
order ” is “ in place ” to eviscerate the remainders of our shredded liberty ; C-virus is the excuse , as 9/11 was before it .
And just as federal perverts continue groping passengers in airports nineteen years after controlled demolition pulverized the World Trade Center , so alleged pandemics will justify “ lockdowns ” —i.e.
, martial law—decades hence .
COVID-19 is the new 9/11 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Our Rulers .
Dr. Howard-Browne previously mocked the hysteria over this flu ; that may account for Leviathan ’ s hounding him now .
Self-important officials hate ridicule as much as they do such fans of limited government as Dr. Howard-Browne .
Rev .
Spell likewise dismisses the furor over flu as “ politically motivated ” and insists that “ no ‘ dictator law ’ should keep people from worshiping God.
” Going for broke , he added , “ We hold our religious rights dear , and we are going to assemble @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a chorus of Founding Fathers I hear shouting , “ AMEN !
” ?
Meanwhile , the persecution of these saints resembles that of martyrs overseas .
China hounds its Christians and their churches when it isn ’ t outright torturing them ; it , too , justifies its oppression as “ protecting ” citizens , in this case from Westernization .
Abducting Arnold -- A No ... Akers , Becky Best Price : null Buy New $ 2.99 And so Florida pesters Dr. Howard-Browne and his flock : “ Hillsborough County @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were in direct violation of the order that was issued by Hillsborough County officials and went into effect Friday.
” Then ol ’ Chad and “ his command staff met with The River at Tampa Bay Church leaders about the danger they are putting themselves — and their congregation — in by not maintaining appropriate social distancing , but Howard-Browne held the services.
” Oh , the gall !
Finally , “ The Sheriff ’ s Office also placed a digital sign on the road near the church driveway that said ‘ practice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chad didn ’ t placard the roads near Leviathan ’ s bureaucracies ?
Regardless , his intimidation couldn ’ t sway our brave brothers from their duty .
Rather than tormenting Christians itself , India ’ s government sometimes entrusts the task to their Hindu neighbors while turning a blind eye to the abuse .
Louisiana ’ s rulers pulled a similar trick as protestors and the media disrupted the Life Tabernacle ’ s services .
Then “ Chief Roger Corcoran with Central Police Department ” slandered the pastor : “ Mr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ his own self-promotion .
Mr .
Spell will have his day in court where he will be held responsible for his reckless and irresponsible decisions that endangered the health of his congregation and our community … ” The governor also piled on : “ ‘ I ’ m a person of faith , ’ Governor [ John Bel ] Edwards said , ” apparently under the impression that claims of piety atone for despotism .
“ ‘ I happen to believe very much in the awesome power of prayer .
I also believe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] science , and the scientists at the CDC say that the measures we are taking will minimize the spread .
The law enforcement authorities … have been extremely patient .
There have been numerous conversations with the pastor and they have done everything that they could to try and get him to become compliant before they took this step today .
… ” Corcoran echoed these sentiments while emphatically denying reality : “ This is not an issue over religious liberty , and it ’ s not about politics .
We are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our community ’ s leaders to set a positive example and follow the law.
” Ah , yes , The Law .
Which brings us to Caesar ’ s age-old war against Jehovah .
The State dismisses Christianity as a variant of the local stuffed-animal factory : its product pleases innocents too dumb to know better and provides some jobs—but it ’ s “ non-essential.
” Temporal authorities thereby mistake their puny , passing power for the Church ’ s eternal might .
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And they briefly triumphed in America : a free people recognized government for the needless , impoverishing , and utterly wicked racket it is , disdained it , and strove to confine it .
But a Progressive tsunami swamped them .
And now , irony of ironies , Christians bow to one of Progressivism ’ s first and most anti-constitutional successes : departments of public health with their unelected bureaucrats .
Those pencil-pushers are savaging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we supinely watch from the sidelines , knowing that we ’ re next however much our pastors comply with godless diktats ?
Or will we stand with our victimized family ?
Especially since the latter involves no strident , tacky marching in the streets .
All it requires is opening our churches for Easter !
Imagine millions of us across the country , throwing off the chains of deceit and fear Our Rulers have fashioned and thronging our churches for that most radical of Christian celebrations , the resurrection of our Lord Jesus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is risen , indeed !
Alleluia !
Let us rise as well against the Satanic State .
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With the arrests of preachers in Florida and Louisiana, the rotten fruit of Christendom’s genuflecting to the State drops and splatters. American clergy couldn’t close their doors fast enough when bureaucrats and politicians “suggested” they do so—but such kowtowing has only emboldened Leviathan. The beast no longer contents itself with urging parishioners to stay home: it now forbids them to convene.
And it’s persecuting dissidents. In Florida, Rev. Rodney Howard-Browne “was arrested Monday at his home one day after his church was packed with worshippers…,” while Rev. Tony Spell in Louisiana “fac[es] misdemeanor charges for holding services…” that attracted 1,265 attendees.
No wonder crowds crammed both churches: if Southern ecclesiastics are as biddable as their counterparts elsewhere, none but our heroes defied the demonic decrees against assembling. That left Christians with one venue alone for corporate worship in their respective states last Sunday.
Halestorm Akers, Becky Buy New $8.57 (as of 10:30 UTC - Details) Praise God for bold believers rebelling against tyrants! Why aren’t the faithful throughout America following suit? Indeed, Rev. Spell opened the Life Tabernacle Church’s doors again Tuesday evening, while The River at Tampa Bay Church “held two Sunday services with hundreds of people…” Cops “reportedly became furious” that Rev. Howard-Browne, “was encouraging his large congregation to meet at his church.’” One day, that charge will be engraved on the crown Dr. Howard-Browne throws at his Savior’s feet.
In exercising their rights under the First Amendment, all these assemblages violated the unconstitutional “safer-at-home order in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus.” Allow me to amend that last bit of propaganda: the “safer-at-home (what infuriating, focus-grouped jargon!) order” is “in place” to eviscerate the remainders of our shredded liberty; C-virus is the excuse, as 9/11 was before it. And just as federal perverts continue groping passengers in airports nineteen years after controlled demolition pulverized the World Trade Center, so alleged pandemics will justify “lockdowns”—i.e., martial law—decades hence. COVID-19 is the new 9/11.
But not if courageous Christians defy Our Rulers. Dr. Howard-Browne previously mocked the hysteria over this flu; that may account for Leviathan’s hounding him now. Self-important officials hate ridicule as much as they do such fans of limited government as Dr. Howard-Browne. Rev. Spell likewise dismisses the furor over flu as “politically motivated” and insists that “no ‘dictator law’ should keep people from worshiping God.” Going for broke, he added, “We hold our religious rights dear, and we are going to assemble no matter what someone says.” Is that a chorus of Founding Fathers I hear shouting, “AMEN!”?
Meanwhile, the persecution of these saints resembles that of martyrs overseas. China hounds its Christians and their churches when it isn’t outright torturing them; it, too, justifies its oppression as “protecting” citizens, in this case from Westernization.
Abducting Arnold--A No... Akers, Becky Buy New $2.99 (as of 10:30 UTC - Details) And so Florida pesters Dr. Howard-Browne and his flock: “Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister told church leaders they were in direct violation of the order that was issued by Hillsborough County officials and went into effect Friday.” Then ol’ Chad and “his command staff met with The River at Tampa Bay Church leaders about the danger they are putting themselves — and their congregation — in by not maintaining appropriate social distancing, but Howard-Browne held the services.” Oh, the gall! Finally, “The Sheriff’s Office also placed a digital sign on the road near the church driveway that said ‘practice social distancing.’” Wanna bet Chad didn’t placard the roads near Leviathan’s bureaucracies? Regardless, his intimidation couldn’t sway our brave brothers from their duty.
Rather than tormenting Christians itself, India’s government sometimes entrusts the task to their Hindu neighbors while turning a blind eye to the abuse. Louisiana’s rulers pulled a similar trick as protestors and the media disrupted the Life Tabernacle’s services. Then “Chief Roger Corcoran with Central Police Department” slandered the pastor: “Mr. Spell has chosen to embarrass us for his own self-promotion. Mr. Spell will have his day in court where he will be held responsible for his reckless and irresponsible decisions that endangered the health of his congregation and our community …”
The governor also piled on: “‘I’m a person of faith,’ Governor [John Bel] Edwards said,” apparently under the impression that claims of piety atone for despotism. “‘I happen to believe very much in the awesome power of prayer. I also believe in [sic for ‘idolize’] science, and the scientists at the CDC say that the measures we are taking will minimize the spread. The law enforcement authorities … have been extremely patient. There have been numerous conversations with the pastor and they have done everything that they could to try and get him to become compliant before they took this step today. …”
Corcoran echoed these sentiments while emphatically denying reality: “This is not an issue over religious liberty, and it’s not about politics. We are facing a public health crisis and expect our community’s leaders to set a positive example and follow the law.”
Ah, yes, The Law. Which brings us to Caesar’s age-old war against Jehovah. The State dismisses Christianity as a variant of the local stuffed-animal factory: its product pleases innocents too dumb to know better and provides some jobs—but it’s “non-essential.” Temporal authorities thereby mistake their puny, passing power for the Church’s eternal might. And they demand that Christians embrace this delusion with instant, unquestioning obedience. The Hunt Jack Cashill, Mike McM... Buy New $16.99 (as of 10:56 UTC - Details)
Believers through the millennia have challenged this arrogance. And they briefly triumphed in America: a free people recognized government for the needless, impoverishing, and utterly wicked racket it is, disdained it, and strove to confine it. But a Progressive tsunami swamped them. And now, irony of ironies, Christians bow to one of Progressivism’s first and most anti-constitutional successes: departments of public health with their unelected bureaucrats.
Those pencil-pushers are savaging our siblings in the Lord. Will we supinely watch from the sidelines, knowing that we’re next however much our pastors comply with godless diktats? Or will we stand with our victimized family?
Especially since the latter involves no strident, tacky marching in the streets. All it requires is opening our churches for Easter! Imagine millions of us across the country, throwing off the chains of deceit and fear Our Rulers have fashioned and thronging our churches for that most radical of Christian celebrations, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ!
He is risen! He is risen, indeed! Alleluia!
Let us rise as well against the Satanic State.
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