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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,1 son of Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy , both of whom were tragically murdered , has continued in the footsteps of these famously courageous men by standing up for the truth .
He co-founded Waterkeeper Alliance — the world ’ s largest clean water advocacy group — and provides legal counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council , which help protect organic producers .
He has also fought legal battles on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network , founded by Del Bigtree , and chairs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Health Defense.2 Kennedy wrote a brilliant foreword to Judy Mikovits ’ book “ Plague of Corruption , ” in which he quotes his father saying , “ Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery … rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence.
” His father believed “ moral courage was one of the most vital qualities required to change the world , ” Kennedy says .
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This includes children who are being harmed by vaccines that have yet to be tested for safety , especially when given in combination with other vaccines .
In September 2018 , Kennedy proved the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) violated its mandate for safer childhood vaccines as stipulated in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.3 When President Trump was elected , he contacted Kennedy and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Commission .
Unfortunately , the Safety Commission never got off the ground : Kennedy goes on to share some of his insights and take on what Judy discusses in her book , the potential relationship between the flu vaccine and COVID-19 , and his views on the COVID-19 vaccines currently being fast-tracked .
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Next , the grown viruses are placed on feral monkey kidney cells , followed by mouse brain tissue .
Each time you transfer the virus to another animal tissue , you increase the risk of zoonotic animal virus contamination in addition to mutations .
According to Kennedy , six years of evolution can be accomplished in a matter of days using this accelerated evolution process .
Through this process , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be rapidly created .
Typically , milder forms are used to create a vaccine .
As explained by Kennedy : Kennedy continues telling the story of how the COVID-19 epidemic may have been generated — by releasing the virus — to ensure that dangerous coronavirus research would continue and receive fresh funding : Most Journalists Now Act as Pharmaceutical Reps Plague : One Scientist & ... Mikovits , Judy Best Price : $ 29.55 Buy New $ 17.99 An even broader agenda appears to be the introduction of a far more authoritarian regime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from average people to the richest through a planned economic collapse .
Coronavirus Vaccine May Be a Disaster Waiting to Happen Kennedy goes on to summarize the history of coronavirus vaccine development , which began after three SARS epidemics had broken out , starting in early 2002 .
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“ They knew from the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with paradoxical immune response , ” Kennedy says , but they gave it to several hundred thousand Filipino kids anyway .
They got a great immune response from the vaccine , but those exposed to wild dengue got horribly sick and 600 of the children died .
“ Today , the Philippine government is prosecuting criminally a bunch of the people locally who were involved in that decision , ” Kennedy says .
Another problem with coronavirus vaccines is that coronaviruses mutate very rapidly .
Kennedy cites a recent Chinese study4 — “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ — which was also reported in the New York Post5 April 21 , 2020 , in which they looked at the coronavirus strains found in hundreds of patients .
They identified more than 30 different strains , 19 of which had previously not been seen .
According to the authors:6 As noted by Kennedy , the question is , if you vaccinate against one of those strains , will it protect against the rest ?
Or might the coronavirus act more like the influenza virus , where the vaccine will only give you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might actually enhance injury from other strains ?
Mikovits has strong beliefs on this issue , as she doesn ’ t believe COVID-19 is due to SARS-CoV-2 alone but , rather , that the virus may serve to activate latent XMRV retroviral infection .
She points out that retroviruses , not coronaviruses , are what cause the characteristic cytokine storm signature observed in COVID-19 .
Mikovits suspects that in people who do not have retroviral infections , SARS-CoV-2 causes no or only mild symptoms .
Like Mikovits , Kennedy cites a Pentagon study7 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , issue of the Vaccine journal , which found you ’ re 36 % more likely to get coronavirus infection if you got the influenza vaccine in 2017 or 2018 .
As noted in this study , titled “ Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season ” : Results were mixed .
Interestingly enough , while seasonal influenza vaccination did not raise the risk of all respiratory infections , it was in fact “ significantly associated with unspecified coronavirus ( meaning it did not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” ( hMPV ) .
Those who had received a seasonal flu shot were 36 % more likely to contract coronavirus infection and 51 % more likely to contract hMPV infection than unvaccinated individuals.8 Looking at the symptoms list for hMPV9 is also telling , as the main symptoms include fever , sore throat and cough .
The elderly and immunocompromised are at heightened risk for severe hMPV illness , the symptoms of which include difficulty breathing and pneumonia .
All of these symptoms also apply for COVID-19 .
Again , while this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it did look at coronaviruses , so “ It ’ s a red flag , ” Kennedy says , adding : Mikovits believes one of the reasons older Italians got hit so hard in northern Italy is because the vaccine given there was grown in dog kidney cells , which she claims are contaminated with coronaviruses .
What ’ s more , Mikovits claims that anyone who has received a flu vaccine is likely to register as positive for SARS-Co-V-2 using a PCR test , for the fact that most flu vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cells or dog kidney cells , which her research shows are contaminated with coronaviruses .
In our interview , she explained : Mikovits ’ research showed that the contamination occurred during the original creation of the cultured cell lines used to then grow the vaccine in .
In other words , the cells in which many vaccines are grown are already infected .
That ’ s how the retroviruses get into the vaccine , and is then spread via injection .
She doesn ’ t believe the contamination of vaccines with retroviruses was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certainly is .
Could Type 1 Interferon Be Used Against SARS-CoV-2 ?
According to Mikovits , the existence and function of XMRVs is highly relevant as it pertains to COVID-19 .
There are many coronaviruses in the natural world , but according to Mikovits , they ’ re not highly pathogenic because they don ’ t cause this inflammatory signature of disease that suggests the immune system is out of control and causing massive cytokine storms .
One of Mikovits ’ primary treatment recommendations is interferon 1 alpha , sold under brand names @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shut down the replication of RNA viruses , including retroviruses and coronaviruses .
She believes it might be beneficial to take twice a day for the duration of known exposure .
Although a bottle costs around $ 600 , one only needs small amounts and a bottle can treat 1,000 people for a week .
Interferon alpha Type 110,11 is a type of beneficial cytokine released by your body as one of its first line of defense against viral infections .
In a nutshell , it interferes with viral replication .
It ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ types of tumors .
As part of your immune system , it stimulates the infected cells and those nearby to produce proteins that prevent the virus from replicating within them .
Interferon alpha and beta also help regulate your immune response .
As noted in a 2018 paper12 on the dual nature of Type 1 and Type 2 interferons , “ both antiviral and immunomodulatory functions are critical during virus infection to not only limit virus replication and initiate an appropriate antiviral immune response , but to also negatively regulate this response to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dominic Chan , a Doctor of Pharmacy who recently updated an article on interferon on Medicinenet.com.
, proposes using interferons against COVID-19 .
The earlier article , written by Eni Williams , Pharm.D .
and Ph.D. , before she died in 2017,13 says:14 She goes on to list a number of interferons that are commercially available , including Intron-A ( interferon alfa-2b ) , Betaseron ( interferon beta-1b ) and many more .
In April 2020 , Chan added : It ’ s worth noting the warnings , however .
According to Chan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and take interferons , the symptoms are likely to get worse before they get better , as your immune system ramps up .
“ If someone is already on a ventilator and symptoms are about to overwhelm them , giving them an interferon-based medicine could be catastrophic , ” he says .
Mikovits also proposes a novel vaccine for weaponized viruses like this that involves the alpha interferon , small amounts of the virus and peptide T , which will block the interaction of the virus and keep your T cells from getting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are mostly injected , this would be oral and would only stimulate antibody humoral responses .
Her version would also cause innate cellular immunity from the T cells .
To learn more about Mikovits ’ research and conclusions , see “ Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19 ?
” You ’ ll find the full interview with her at the bottom of that article .
To summarize some of the key take-home messages Mikovits delivers in that interview : •She believes COVID-19 — the disease — is not caused by SARS-CoV-2 alone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the result of a combination of SARS-CoV-2 ( which appears to have been manipulated to include components of HIV that destroys immune function ) .
Previous XMRV ( human gammaretroviruses ) infection may facilitate SARS-CoV-2 to express the COVID-19 illness .
Put another way , COVID-19 may be initiated by SARS-CoV-2 , but dependent upon a preexisting infection with and awakening of other viruses such as XMRV , gamma retroviruses , possibly Lyme and other coinfections , including parasites , and this is why antiparasitic medications like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin help .
•Blood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that can damage your immune system and cause CFS , cancer and other chronic diseases .
The viruses spread within laboratories as they have adapted to become aerosolized , and contaminate cell lines used in vaccine production and other viral research , including research on coronaviruses .
•Flu vaccines have spread a host of dangerous viruses around the world , which can then interact with SARS COV-2 .
•It is possible to develop safer oral vaccines , and interferon alpha could be a valuable treatment alternative against COVID-19 .
Aside from interferons , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ include hyperbaric oxygen therapy , cannabinoids ( CBD ) , peptide T and antioxidant support .
•SARS-CoV-2 is more dangerous and virulent than typical coronaviruses because it includes sequences of HIV , SARS and another virus , which enable it to infect more than just your respiratory epithelium .
It can also infect blood cells and hematopoeitic organs such as the spleen .
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,1 son of Sen. and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, both of whom were tragically murdered, has continued in the footsteps of these famously courageous men by standing up for the truth.
He co-founded Waterkeeper Alliance — the world’s largest clean water advocacy group — and provides legal counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council, which help protect organic producers. He has also fought legal battles on behalf of the Informed Consent Action Network, founded by Del Bigtree, and chairs the board of directors of the Children’s Health Defense.2
Kennedy wrote a brilliant foreword to Judy Mikovits’ book “Plague of Corruption,” in which he quotes his father saying, “Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery … rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence.” His father believed “moral courage was one of the most vital qualities required to change the world,” Kennedy says.
Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $16.51 (as of 02:59 UTC - Details) While Kennedy was referring to Mikovits’ moral courage, the same can be said for Kennedy himself, whose career as an environmental attorney and activist is built on defending those who cannot defend themselves.
This includes children who are being harmed by vaccines that have yet to be tested for safety, especially when given in combination with other vaccines. In September 2018, Kennedy proved the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) violated its mandate for safer childhood vaccines as stipulated in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.3
What Happened to Trump’s Vaccine Safety Commission?
When President Trump was elected, he contacted Kennedy and asked him to run his Vaccine Safety Commission. Unfortunately, the Safety Commission never got off the ground:
“I agreed to do it, but immediately after that, Pfizer wrote a $1 million check to his inauguration committee. He then appointed a Pfizer lobbyist, Alex Azar, to run the HHS, and he handpicked a Pfizer insider, Scott Gottlieb, to run the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As soon as they got in there, they shut down the Vaccine Safety Commission and any other questioning of vaccines,” Kennedy says.
“I think a lot of people were telling him, ‘You shouldn’t be doing this,’ and [Bill] Gates was one of them. But I think once he took the money from Pfizer and put in their guys, [the commission] was dead in the water.”
Coronavirus Vaccine Development Has Failed for Decades
Kennedy goes on to share some of his insights and take on what Judy discusses in her book, the potential relationship between the flu vaccine and COVID-19, and his views on the COVID-19 vaccines currently being fast-tracked. With regard to the COVID-19 vaccine, he says:
“We’re all waiting for a vaccine, and if they come up with a vaccine and they’ve actually done real safety testing on it, and the vaccine works, I would be happy to have the vaccine. But the problem is they’re not [safety] testing it at this point …
People have tried for many years — for three decades — to create a coronavirus vaccine. The coronavirus can be super virulent, super deadly and super transmissible, or it can be mild, like a cold. The Chinese have been trying to [develop a vaccine] … and when you try to create a vaccine, what you do is you accelerate evolution.”
How to Accelerate the Evolution of a Virus
Virus Mania: How the M... Kennedy, Robert Best Price: $23.32 Buy New $18.31 (as of 03:58 UTC - Details) As explained by Kennedy, the way they accelerate evolution is by taking the coronavirus from the anus of the bat and replicate it in animal tissue such as pangolin kidney tissue. Next, the grown viruses are placed on feral monkey kidney cells, followed by mouse brain tissue.
Each time you transfer the virus to another animal tissue, you increase the risk of zoonotic animal virus contamination in addition to mutations. According to Kennedy, six years of evolution can be accomplished in a matter of days using this accelerated evolution process. Through this process, extremely viral forms of the virus can be rapidly created. Typically, milder forms are used to create a vaccine. As explained by Kennedy:
“You can take a mild form and give a person that mild form, and they don’t really get sick. They develop the antibodies, and that’s the theory [behind vaccination]. But there are reasons that they like to create those super viral forms. One is, most of the labs where they do it, like Fort Detrick in [the U.S.] and Wuhan lab in China, are not only vaccine labs but they’re also military labs.
So, they want to mess around and look at these viruses that they may be able to weaponize. Not only that, the people who are creating vaccines like to create super viral forms. They give them to mice who have been genetically engineered to have a human immune system, essentially. Then they try to cure them.
Those experiments were going on in the United States until 2014. They were Dr. Anthony Fauci’s projects. President Obama ordered that to stop because they had a lot of lab escape problems in 2014 from three different labs …
Instead of stopping as he was ordered, Fauci moved those operations to the Wuhan lab in China and continued to do those experiments right up until the time that the coronavirus [pandemic occurred]. In fact, [infectious disease expert] Ian Lipkin was doing those experiments over there when [COVID-19] exploded. And I’ll tell you exactly what happened because it’s very suspicious.”
Was SARS-CoV-2 Released to Safeguard Continued Research?
Kennedy continues telling the story of how the COVID-19 epidemic may have been generated — by releasing the virus — to ensure that dangerous coronavirus research would continue and receive fresh funding:
“When President Trump came in, Obama had an office in the White House for pandemic defense, for pandemic security. They were involved in funding [coronavirus research projects in Wuhan] through Fauci. President Trump ended all funding for that office September 20, 2019. So that was the last paycheck any of those scientists got.
On September 30 [2019], a whole lot of scientists were laid off in Wuhan. October 1 is when the first case of [COVID-19 was reported]. So, it’s suspicious because it looks like there’s a possibility — and I’m speculating here; I want to make that clear — but there’s a possibility that somebody who lost their job in that lab … could have released the virus.
Because, immediately, it created an instantaneous market for people with that particular skillset, which is to study how to make a coronavirus vaccine. So, you could go from unemployed to highly employed almost overnight if you released one of those microorganisms they were creating in that lab. I don’t know if that happened, but that’s something that needs to be [investigated].”
Most Journalists Now Act as Pharmaceutical Reps
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“Of course, that’s speculation,” Kennedy says, “and it’s stuff that if we were living in a true democracy where there was a free press that was actually permitted to ask those questions and speculate on that, then we would be doing an investigation of those questions. We have a right to know and we all ought to know the answer.
Unfortunately, journalists today are no longer journalists, they’re pharmaceutical reps … You’re a huge threat to them because you are not part of the pharmaceutical [establishment].
You’re telling people the truth, which is that there are problems with germ theory, and that the [first line of defense] we have against illness of all kinds, including infectious disease, is a really strong immune system. And that our immune system functions in an evolution-intended [way], which is to fend off billions, hundreds of billions of infectious viruses every single day.”
Coronavirus Vaccine May Be a Disaster Waiting to Happen
Kennedy goes on to summarize the history of coronavirus vaccine development, which began after three SARS epidemics had broken out, starting in early 2002.
“The first one was a natural epidemic that had moved from bats to human beings. The second two were lab-created organisms where people were experimenting with the coronavirus … That’s noncontroversial. Everybody accepts that.
The Chinese, the Americans, the Europeans all got together and said, ‘We need to develop a vaccine against coronavirus.’ Around 2012, they had about 30 vaccines that looked promising. They took the four best of those and … manufactured the vaccines. They gave those vaccines to ferrets, which are the closest analogy when you’re looking at lung infections in human beings.
The ferrets had an extraordinarily good antibody response, and that is the metric by which FDA licenses vaccines. Vaccines, as you know, are never tested in the field. They never give 5,000 people the vaccine, 5,000 people a placebo vaccine, and then tell them to go out and live life and watch what happens to those people. That never happens.
The way that vaccines get licensed is that FDA gives people a vaccine or the industry gives them the vaccines, and then they do a serological response [test to] see ‘Did you develop in your blood antibodies to that target virus?’ The ferrets developed very strong antibodies, so they thought, ‘We hit the jackpot.’ All four of these vaccines … worked like a charm.
Then something terrible happened. Those ferrets were then exposed to the wild virus, and they all died. [They developed] inflammation in all their organs, their lungs stopped functioning and they died.
Then those scientists remembered that the same thing had happened in the 1960s when they tried to develop an RSV vaccine, which is an upper respiratory illness very similar to coronavirus.
At the time, they did not test it on animals. They went right to human testing. They tested it on I think about 35 children, and the same thing happened. The children developed a champion antibody response, robust, durable. It looked perfect, and then the children were exposed to the wild virus and they all became sick. Two of them died. They abandoned the vaccine. It was a big embarrassment to FDA and NIH …
Those scientists in 2012 remembered that, and they said, ‘This is the same thing that happened [back then].’ So, they look closer and they realize that there are two kinds of antibodies that were being produced by the coronavirus. There are neutralizing antibodies, which are the kind you want, which fight the disease, and then there are binding antibodies.
The binding antibodies actually create a pathway for the disease in your body, and they trigger something called … a paradoxical immune response or paradoxical immune enhancement. What that means is that it looks good until you get the disease, and then it makes the disease much, much worse …
Coronavirus vaccines can be very dangerous, and that’s why even our enemies, people who hate you and me — Peter Hotez, Paul Offit, Ian Lipkin — are all saying, ‘You got to be really, really careful with this vaccine.’”
Dengue Vaccine Led to Criminal Prosecution
The Curmudgeon’s... Murray, Charles Best Price: $3.62 Buy New $11.68 (as of 03:24 UTC - Details) According to Kennedy, the same thing happened in 2014 with the dengue vaccine DENVax, which Fauci owns the patent on. “They knew from the clinical trials that there was a problem with paradoxical immune response,” Kennedy says, but they gave it to several hundred thousand Filipino kids anyway.
They got a great immune response from the vaccine, but those exposed to wild dengue got horribly sick and 600 of the children died. “Today, the Philippine government is prosecuting criminally a bunch of the people locally who were involved in that decision,” Kennedy says.
Coronavirus Mutates Rapidly
Another problem with coronavirus vaccines is that coronaviruses mutate very rapidly. Kennedy cites a recent Chinese study4 — “Patent-Derived Mutations Impact Pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2” — which was also reported in the New York Post5 April 21, 2020, in which they looked at the coronavirus strains found in hundreds of patients. They identified more than 30 different strains, 19 of which had previously not been seen. According to the authors:6
“Current genomic survey data suggest that single nucleotide variants (SNVs) are abundant … Here we report functional characterizations of 11 patient-derived viral isolates, all of which have at least one mutation. Importantly, these viral isolates show significant variation in cytopathic effects and viral load, up to 270-fold differences, when infecting Vero-E6 cells.
We observed intrapersonal variation and 6 different mutations in the spike glycoprotein (S protein), including 2 different SNVs that led to the same missense mutation. Therefore, we provide direct evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 has acquired mutations capable of substantially changing its pathogenicity.”
As noted by Kennedy, the question is, if you vaccinate against one of those strains, will it protect against the rest? Or might the coronavirus act more like the influenza virus, where the vaccine will only give you a narrow band of immune response and/or might actually enhance injury from other strains?
“The World Health Organization and the British Medical Services are now saying there is no evidence that even getting an infection from the coronavirus equips you with antibodies that will protect you in the future.
They’re seeing a lot of reinfection of people who got COVID-19, got better, and then got [sick from] coronavirus again. If that’s true, then it’s unlikely that any vaccine will work because natural infection always [gives you] a wider band immune response than a vaccine.”
Flu Vaccination Increases Risk of Coronavirus Infection
Mikovits has strong beliefs on this issue, as she doesn’t believe COVID-19 is due to SARS-CoV-2 alone but, rather, that the virus may serve to activate latent XMRV retroviral infection. She points out that retroviruses, not coronaviruses, are what cause the characteristic cytokine storm signature observed in COVID-19. Mikovits suspects that in people who do not have retroviral infections, SARS-CoV-2 causes no or only mild symptoms.
Like Mikovits, Kennedy cites a Pentagon study7 published in the January 10, 2020, issue of the Vaccine journal, which found you’re 36% more likely to get coronavirus infection if you got the influenza vaccine in 2017 or 2018. As noted in this study, titled “Influenza Vaccination and Respiratory Virus Interference Among Department of Defense Personnel During the 2017-2018 Influenza Season”:
“Receiving influenza vaccination may increase the risk of other respiratory viruses, a phenomenon known as virus interference. Test-negative study designs are often utilized to calculate influenza vaccine effectiveness.
The virus interference phenomenon goes against the basic assumption of the test-negative vaccine effectiveness study that vaccination does not change the risk of infection with other respiratory illness, thus potentially biasing vaccine effectiveness results in the positive direction.
This study aimed to investigate virus interference by comparing respiratory virus status among Department of Defense personnel based on their influenza vaccination status. Furthermore, individual respiratory viruses and their association with influenza vaccination were examined.”
Results were mixed. Interestingly enough, while seasonal influenza vaccination did not raise the risk of all respiratory infections, it was in fact “significantly associated with unspecified coronavirus (meaning it did not specifically mention SARS-CoV-2) and human metapneumovirus” (hMPV).
Those who had received a seasonal flu shot were 36% more likely to contract coronavirus infection and 51% more likely to contract hMPV infection than unvaccinated individuals.8
Looking at the symptoms list for hMPV9 is also telling, as the main symptoms include fever, sore throat and cough. The elderly and immunocompromised are at heightened risk for severe hMPV illness, the symptoms of which include difficulty breathing and pneumonia. All of these symptoms also apply for COVID-19. Again, while this study did not look at SARS-CoV-2 specifically, it did look at coronaviruses, so “It’s a red flag,” Kennedy says, adding:
“That study is not alone. We’ve found — and I’ve posted these on my Instagram — at least 10 other studies that say, ‘If you get the flu vaccine, you’re much more likely to get a non-flu respiratory viral infection.’ The risk goes up, in some of those studies, about 600%. In some other of those studies, less than that — 200%, 300%, 400%.
But virtually all of these studies show that the flu vaccine actually makes you more susceptible to coronavirus, and there may be reasons for that. It’s been speculated that there may be coronavirus contamination in the flu vaccines … [or] it could be the XMRV.
You’re getting that paradoxical immune response because you’ve been inadvertently inoculated with the coronavirus when you get the flu vaccine. So, we don’t know, but the observed effect is very well documented …
In Northern Italy, right before the outbreak of [COVID-19], there was a mass vaccination [using] a very powerful flu vaccine … But it’s anecdotal. There’s no proof of [a correlation].”
Mikovits believes one of the reasons older Italians got hit so hard in northern Italy is because the vaccine given there was grown in dog kidney cells, which she claims are contaminated with coronaviruses.
Can Flu Vaccination Trigger a Positive SARS-CoV-2 Test?
What’s more, Mikovits claims that anyone who has received a flu vaccine is likely to register as positive for SARS-Co-V-2 using a PCR test, for the fact that most flu vaccines in the U.S. are made in chicken cells or dog kidney cells, which her research shows are contaminated with coronaviruses. In our interview, she explained:
“[The vaccines] are grown in animal cells and … have some of the same host viral proteins and lock and keys. As they’re floating through the laboratory where they’re growing large stocks of these cells, aerosolizing them, it contaminates and cross contaminates through the air …
This is what we found in 2011. The big ‘Oh my God,’ was, we can’t afford to retrofit our laboratories and manufacturing facilities toward biosafety level 3 and 4 to protect the lab workers who are spreading these viruses and getting infected. And now the [retroviruses] are aerosolized … All the cell lines are contaminated …”
Mikovits’ research showed that the contamination occurred during the original creation of the cultured cell lines used to then grow the vaccine in. In other words, the cells in which many vaccines are grown are already infected. That’s how the retroviruses get into the vaccine, and is then spread via injection. She doesn’t believe the contamination of vaccines with retroviruses was an intentional act. But the cover-up certainly is.
“The message of ‘Plague of Corruption’ is that we cannot mix animal and human tissues. Not just coronaviruses, but the infectious retroviruses [are spread this way]. We are injecting lots of animal tissue, fetal tissue, into humans, and we’re creating novel viruses all the time, even within the individual or family,” she says.
Could Type 1 Interferon Be Used Against SARS-CoV-2?
According to Mikovits, the existence and function of XMRVs is highly relevant as it pertains to COVID-19. There are many coronaviruses in the natural world, but according to Mikovits, they’re not highly pathogenic because they don’t cause this inflammatory signature of disease that suggests the immune system is out of control and causing massive cytokine storms.
“This was our work for the last four decades … We were led down a path where we learned in 1991 that you could have HIV and never get AIDS.
If you employ the right treatment at the right time, then you stop the replication of the virus, you stop the reservoirs, you stop the immune destruction, and that could easily have been done in the case of SARS-CoV-2 with simple Type 1 interferon at a very low dose, which has 40 years of research [behind it].
I was part of the team that first used the immune therapy, a purified Type 1 interferon alpha, as a curative therapy for a leukemia. That research has proceeded for decades, [yet] the Food and Drug Administration said, ‘You can’t use that in preventing coronaviruses from jumping from animals [to humans].’
[Type 1 interferon] is a simple food. It’s a simple spray. We have it on the shelf now, made by Merck, [yet] Merck discontinued its use. Why would you do that if that was the frontline … prevention? Interferon alpha is your body’s own best antiviral against coronaviruses and retroviruses.”
Understanding Interferons
One of Mikovits’ primary treatment recommendations is interferon 1 alpha, sold under brand names such as Alferon and Roferon, to shut down the replication of RNA viruses, including retroviruses and coronaviruses. She believes it might be beneficial to take twice a day for the duration of known exposure. Although a bottle costs around $600, one only needs small amounts and a bottle can treat 1,000 people for a week.
Interferon alpha Type 110,11 is a type of beneficial cytokine released by your body as one of its first line of defense against viral infections. In a nutshell, it interferes with viral replication. It’s also been shown to suppress certain types of tumors. As part of your immune system, it stimulates the infected cells and those nearby to produce proteins that prevent the virus from replicating within them.
Interferon alpha and beta also help regulate your immune response. As noted in a 2018 paper12 on the dual nature of Type 1 and Type 2 interferons, “both antiviral and immunomodulatory functions are critical during virus infection to not only limit virus replication and initiate an appropriate antiviral immune response, but to also negatively regulate this response to minimize tissue damage.”
Like Mikovits, Dominic Chan, a Doctor of Pharmacy who recently updated an article on interferon on Medicinenet.com., proposes using interferons against COVID-19. The earlier article, written by Eni Williams, Pharm.D. and Ph.D., before she died in 2017,13 says:14
“Interferons modulate the response of the immune system to viruses, bacteria, cancer, and other foreign substances that invade the body. Interferons do not directly kill viral or cancerous cells; they boost the immune system response and reduce the growth of cancer cells by regulating the action of several genes that control the secretion of numerous cellular proteins that affect growth …”
She goes on to list a number of interferons that are commercially available, including Intron-A (interferon alfa-2b), Betaseron (interferon beta-1b) and many more. In April 2020, Chan added:
“Interferon beta-1a, currently in use to treat multiple sclerosis, and interferon alfa-2b are both under investigation as potential treatments for people with COVID-19 coronavirus disease …
Interferon Beta 1a, specifically, activates macrophages that engulf antigens and natural killer cells (NK cells), a type of immune T-Cell … The theory is, interferon may be able to make the immune system stronger by turning on dormant parts and directing them toward the defense against SARS-CoV-2’s assault.”
It’s worth noting the warnings, however. According to Chan, if you already have flu-like symptoms and take interferons, the symptoms are likely to get worse before they get better, as your immune system ramps up. “If someone is already on a ventilator and symptoms are about to overwhelm them, giving them an interferon-based medicine could be catastrophic,” he says.
How to Make a Safe Vaccine
Mikovits also proposes a novel vaccine for weaponized viruses like this that involves the alpha interferon, small amounts of the virus and peptide T, which will block the interaction of the virus and keep your T cells from getting infected.
Unlike conventional vaccines, which are mostly injected, this would be oral and would only stimulate antibody humoral responses. Her version would also cause innate cellular immunity from the T cells.
To learn more about Mikovits’ research and conclusions, see “Could Retroviruses Play a Role in COVID-19?” You’ll find the full interview with her at the bottom of that article. To summarize some of the key take-home messages Mikovits delivers in that interview:
•She believes COVID-19 — the disease — is not caused by SARS-CoV-2 alone, but rather that it’s the result of a combination of SARS-CoV-2 (which appears to have been manipulated to include components of HIV that destroys immune function). Previous XMRV (human gammaretroviruses) infection may facilitate SARS-CoV-2 to express the COVID-19 illness. Put another way, COVID-19 may be initiated by SARS-CoV-2, but dependent upon a preexisting infection with and awakening of other viruses such as XMRV, gamma retroviruses, possibly Lyme and other coinfections, including parasites, and this is why antiparasitic medications like hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin help. •Blood products and vaccines are contaminated with XMRVs that can damage your immune system and cause CFS, cancer and other chronic diseases. The viruses spread within laboratories as they have adapted to become aerosolized, and contaminate cell lines used in vaccine production and other viral research, including research on coronaviruses. •Flu vaccines have spread a host of dangerous viruses around the world, which can then interact with SARS COV-2. •It is possible to develop safer oral vaccines, and interferon alpha could be a valuable treatment alternative against COVID-19. Aside from interferons, other treatment strategies discussed in our interview include hyperbaric oxygen therapy, cannabinoids (CBD), peptide T and antioxidant support. •SARS-CoV-2 is more dangerous and virulent than typical coronaviruses because it includes sequences of HIV, SARS and another virus, which enable it to infect more than just your respiratory epithelium. It can also infect blood cells and hematopoeitic organs such as the spleen.
Sources and References
The Best of Dr. Joseph Mercola


lewrockwell--2020-05-12--Authoritarians Using Coronavirus Fear To Destroy America

A Fresno , California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers , who waited up to two hours for the “ privilege ” of willingly spending their money in a business happy to serve them breakfast on Mother ’ s Day .
This freedom of voluntary transaction is the core of what we used to call our free society .
But in an America paralyzed by fear – ramped up by a mainstream media that churns out propaganda at a level unparalleled in history – no one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everyone carries a smartphone these days and can record and upload the frequent violations of our Constitutional liberties .
In the case of the waffle restaurant , thanks to a cell phone video we saw the police show up in force and try to push through the crowd waiting outside .
An elderly man who was next in line to enter was indignant , complaining that he had been waiting two hours to eat at the restaurant and was not about to step aside while the police shut down the place .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the man , dragging him off while his wife followed sadly behind him to the police car .
Thomas Paine Collectio ... Paine , Thomas Buy New $ 18.98 It is hard not to be disgusted by government enforcers who would brutally drag an elderly man away from a restaurant for the “ crime ” of wanting to take his wife out for breakfast on Mother ’ s Day .
A virus far more deadly than the coronavirus is spreading from Washington down to the local city hall .
Tin pot dictators are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and local legislators largely stand by and watch as the US Constitution they swore to protect goes up in smoke .
Politicians with perfect haircuts issue “ executive orders ” that anyone cutting hair for mere private citizens must be arrested .
In Texas a brave salon owner willingly went to jail for the “ crime ” of re-opening her business in defiance of “ executive orders.
” To add insult to injury , Governor Greg Abbott very quickly condemned the one week jail sentence of salon owner Shelley Luther – but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ carrying out Abbott ’ s own orders !
First we were told we had to shut down the country to “ flatten the curve ” so that hospitals were not overwhelmed by coronavirus patients .
When most hospitals were nowhere near overwhelmed , and in fact were laying off thousands of healthcare workers because there were no patients , they moved the goalposts and said we can not have our freedom back until a vaccine was available to force on us or the virus completely disappeared – neither of which is likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see the creeping totalitarianism but lack the courage to speak out .
Thankfully , patriots like Shelley Luther are demonstrating the courage our political leaders lack .
When Patrick Henry famously said “ give me liberty or give me death ” in 1775 , he didn ’ t add under his breath “ unless a virus shows up.
” If we wish to reclaim our freedoms we will have to fight – peacefully – for them .
As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776 , “ These are the times that try men ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sunshine patriot will , in this crisis , shrink from the service of their country ; but he that stands by it now , deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
” The Best of Ron Paul

A Fresno, California waffle restaurant dared to open its doors for business this weekend to the delight of a long line of customers, who waited up to two hours for the “privilege” of willingly spending their money in a business happy to serve them breakfast on Mother’s Day. This freedom of voluntary transaction is the core of what we used to call our free society. But in an America paralyzed by fear – ramped up by a mainstream media that churns out propaganda at a level unparalleled in history – no one is allowed to enjoy themselves.
Thankfully everyone carries a smartphone these days and can record and upload the frequent violations of our Constitutional liberties. In the case of the waffle restaurant, thanks to a cell phone video we saw the police show up in force and try to push through the crowd waiting outside. An elderly man who was next in line to enter was indignant, complaining that he had been waiting two hours to eat at the restaurant and was not about to step aside while the police shut down the place. The police proceeded to violently handcuff and arrest the man, dragging him off while his wife followed sadly behind him to the police car.
Thomas Paine Collectio... Paine, Thomas Buy New $18.98 (as of 04:51 UTC - Details) It is hard not to be disgusted by government enforcers who would brutally drag an elderly man away from a restaurant for the “crime” of wanting to take his wife out for breakfast on Mother’s Day. A virus far more deadly than the coronavirus is spreading from Washington down to the local city hall. Tin pot dictators are ruling by decree while federal, state, and local legislators largely stand by and watch as the US Constitution they swore to protect goes up in smoke.
Politicians with perfect haircuts issue “executive orders” that anyone cutting hair for mere private citizens must be arrested. In Texas a brave salon owner willingly went to jail for the “crime” of re-opening her business in defiance of “executive orders.” To add insult to injury, Governor Greg Abbott very quickly condemned the one week jail sentence of salon owner Shelley Luther – but the officers who arrested her were only carrying out Abbott’s own orders!
First we were told we had to shut down the country to “flatten the curve” so that hospitals were not overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. When most hospitals were nowhere near overwhelmed, and in fact were laying off thousands of healthcare workers because there were no patients, they moved the goalposts and said we cannot have our freedom back until a vaccine was available to force on us or the virus completely disappeared – neither of which is likely to happen anytime soon.
Many politicians clearly see the creeping totalitarianism but lack the courage to speak out. Thankfully, patriots like Shelley Luther are demonstrating the courage our political leaders lack.
When Patrick Henry famously said “give me liberty or give me death” in 1775, he didn’t add under his breath “unless a virus shows up.” If we wish to reclaim our freedoms we will have to fight – peacefully – for them. As Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
The Best of Ron Paul, MD


lewrockwell--2020-05-12--Will We Become a Nation of Sycophants When Government Hands Everybody a Check?

The Bureau of Labor Standards reports an error in its calculation of 7.5 million unemployed Americans , with a “ corrected estimate ” of 27.7 % unemployment .
ShadowStats.com says the real numbers are 39.6 % unemployed .
Notice that ShadowStats.com estimated 21.1 % unemployment in February ’ 20 and has been reporting a similar number for a few years now .
The “ unemployment problem ” was hidden from view .
Now it can ’ t be hidden .
Socialism : An Economic ... Ludwig von Mises Best Price : $ 6.00 Buy New $ 1.99 Economist Martin Armstrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unemployment rate to get to 25 % in the Great Depression of the 1930s .
That was exceeded in one month in the COVID-19 crisis .
Led by give-away artist Kamala Harris , the Democrats now want everybody below $ 120,000 annual income to get $ 2000/month .
Doesn ’ t this make the US a socialist country ?
Once dependent on this money , how do you ever wean laborers back to work ?
( I can ’ t even imagine how government is going to collect income taxes out of that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how does a country go on supplying checks to the unemployed ?
How do you cut this off without causing riots in the streets ?
This is just electronic money being created into existence out of thin air .
Government gains more power when everyone becomes dependent on a government paycheck .
The Nazis burned books to prevent people from disagreeing with their philosophy .
Nobody reads books anymore ; the internet and particularly YouTube have replaced books .
This is why the current online censorship of what is politically correct needs to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ active in what the public learns about the COVID-19 coronavirus .
Economist Martin Armstrong says it is not TRUMP who is fascist , it is CNN and YouTube via suppression of free speech .
You can read Martin Armstrong ’ s analysis .
Fortunately , CNN plays the polarization game , pandering to anti-Trump sentiment .
CNN ’ s future is short .
Once Trump is out of office , its audience evaporates .
The masses will predictably become sycophants ( defined as a person who acts servile toward someone of wealth or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ aka “ yes-man , ” bootlicker , brown-noser , flatterer ) or by example , every Vice-President of the United States .
It was Richard Steele who once said : “ When you commend , add your reasons for doing so ; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man a sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
” In other words , the person being flattered needs to ask “ Why do you say that ?
” In that manner the sycophant is flushed out .
Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaders can do no wrong .
Think Mussolini .
The Cult of the Presid ... Healy , Gene Best Price : $ 1.65 Buy New $ 9.99 The sycophant problem was captured in a political cartoon .
It ’ s not that there shouldn ’ t be chain of command .
It is not that the office of the President shouldn ’ t be respected .
It is that we create false idols when we see everything a leader does as good .
This was captured in the book The Cult Of The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ m hinting at being a Trump cult member .
That is one problem , but our leaders are also sycophants to others who pay them off .
The billionaires can buy politicians .
Public now realizing we are being played for fools Martin Armstrong says “ the people are starting to wake up they are being played for fools.
” If anything would arouse the American public , the manufactured COVID-19 crisis would be it .
In 1994 Congress received more mail regarding opposition to the government ’ s effort to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue crossed all political lines .
But how will 30-50 million Americans even think of opposing government when it is handing them a check ?
And where do votes shift with this giveaway ?
A servile population is likely to thank Kamala Harris for ushering in socialism without recognizing private enterprise and personal achievement would vanish .
Every employer in the US would have to pay more than $ 2000/month to lure the masses off of government checks .
The $ 2000/month check would only make unemployment permanent .
To have Kamala Harris @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a government-dependent population is something Kamala Harris has no awareness of .
She is a nurturing female who promised free money to black audiences in her recent Presidential campaign .
She only thinks of infants who need to be fed with no regard for the insolvent predicament the country faces .
American Values : Lesso ... Kennedy Jr. , Robert F. Best Price : $ 6.75 Buy New $ 11.64 The problem for Kamala Harris is that those on welfare already receive a government check .
Social Security recipients too .
Government workers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ etc . )
receive government checks .
The only people who have a stake in the game with something to lose are the independent private enterprise business owners .
Two-thousand dollars a month is a giant pay cut for them .
A problem is that the poor ask , why do the financial classes get bailed out but main street gets pennies in comparison ?
That sore point flushes out what America has become – – a fascist big-corporation , big banker run country .
The Federal Reserve , that has exclusive distributorship @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money to financial institutions now .
The financial classes can fail and just get government to bail them out – no risk , big gain .
So , the financial classes are just as much anti-American/ anti-competitive as the poor are willing to exchange freedom for security .
This American theatre is getting to be quite a drama .
Will its people see where America is headed and mount opposition to oligarch control ?
A $ 90-billionaire is scheming in the background with Big Pharma to force a vaccine on the world and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Will the people allow him to get away with it ?
Not if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has anything to do with it .
Kennedy is calling on Americans to exercise moral courage .
Kennedy says : “ Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery … rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence.
” He captures this in his recent book AMERICAN VALUES .
But as I said , the world doesn ’ t read books these days and YouTube is censoring Kennedy .
The forced vaccination @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the world and America is headed .
God help us all .

John Williams SHADOWSTATS.com commentary #1435
The Bureau of Labor Standards reports an error in its calculation of 7.5 million unemployed Americans, with a “corrected estimate” of 27.7% unemployment. ShadowStats.com says the real numbers are 39.6% unemployed. Notice that ShadowStats.com estimated 21.1% unemployment in February ’20 and has been reporting a similar number for a few years now. The “unemployment problem” was hidden from view. Now it can’t be hidden. Socialism: An Economic... Ludwig von Mises Best Price: $6.00 Buy New $1.99 (as of 06:20 UTC - Details)
Economist Martin Armstrong says it took two years for the unemployment rate to get to 25% in the Great Depression of the 1930s. That was exceeded in one month in the COVID-19 crisis.
Overnight socialism
Led by give-away artist Kamala Harris, the Democrats now want everybody below $120,000 annual income to get $2000/month. Doesn’t this make the US a socialist country? Once dependent on this money, how do you ever wean laborers back to work? (I can’t even imagine how government is going to collect income taxes out of that money.)
The problem is, how does a country go on supplying checks to the unemployed? How do you cut this off without causing riots in the streets? This is just electronic money being created into existence out of thin air.
Government gains more power when everyone becomes dependent on a government paycheck. The Nazis burned books to prevent people from disagreeing with their philosophy. Nobody reads books anymore; the internet and particularly YouTube have replaced books. This is why the current online censorship of what is politically correct needs to be condemned. The censors are now active in what the public learns about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Economist Martin Armstrong says it is not TRUMP who is fascist, it is CNN and YouTube via suppression of free speech. You can read Martin Armstrong’s analysis. Fortunately, CNN plays the polarization game, pandering to anti-Trump sentiment. CNN’s future is short. Once Trump is out of office, its audience evaporates.
The sycophant class
The masses will predictably become sycophants (defined as a person who acts servile toward someone of wealth or power in order to retain favor; aka “yes-man,” bootlicker, brown-noser, flatterer) or by example, every Vice-President of the United States.
It was Richard Steele who once said: “When you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man a sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” In other words, the person being flattered needs to ask “Why do you say that?” In that manner the sycophant is flushed out. Will we become sycophants all? Then our leaders can do no wrong. Think Mussolini. The Cult of the Presid... Healy, Gene Best Price: $1.65 Buy New $9.99 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
The sycophant problem was captured in a political cartoon. It’s not that there shouldn’t be chain of command. It is not that the office of the President shouldn’t be respected. It is that we create false idols when we see everything a leader does as good. This was captured in the book The Cult Of The Presidency.
Oh, you may think I’m hinting at being a Trump cult member. That is one problem, but our leaders are also sycophants to others who pay them off. The billionaires can buy politicians.
Public now realizing we are being played for fools
Martin Armstrong says “the people are starting to wake up they are being played for fools.” If anything would arouse the American public, the manufactured COVID-19 crisis would be it.
In 1994 Congress received more mail regarding opposition to the government’s effort to classify dietary supplements as drugs. That issue crossed all political lines. But how will 30-50 million Americans even think of opposing government when it is handing them a check? And where do votes shift with this giveaway?
A servile population is likely to thank Kamala Harris for ushering in socialism without recognizing private enterprise and personal achievement would vanish. Every employer in the US would have to pay more than $2000/month to lure the masses off of government checks. The $2000/month check would only make unemployment permanent.
To have Kamala Harris change the fundamental private enterprise America to a government-dependent population is something Kamala Harris has no awareness of. She is a nurturing female who promised free money to black audiences in her recent Presidential campaign. She only thinks of infants who need to be fed with no regard for the insolvent predicament the country faces. American Values: Lesso... Kennedy Jr., Robert F. Best Price: $6.75 Buy New $11.64 (as of 04:53 UTC - Details)
The problem for Kamala Harris is that those on welfare already receive a government check. Social Security recipients too. Government workers (police, fire, teachers, etc.) receive government checks. The only people who have a stake in the game with something to lose are the independent private enterprise business owners. Two-thousand dollars a month is a giant pay cut for them.
A problem is that the poor ask, why do the financial classes get bailed out but main street gets pennies in comparison? That sore point flushes out what America has become – – a fascist big-corporation, big banker run country. The Federal Reserve, that has exclusive distributorship for money, offers 0% interest money to financial institutions now. The financial classes can fail and just get government to bail them out – no risk, big gain. So, the financial classes are just as much anti-American/ anti-competitive as the poor are willing to exchange freedom for security.
This American theatre is getting to be quite a drama. Will its people see where America is headed and mount opposition to oligarch control? A $90-billionaire is scheming in the background with Big Pharma to force a vaccine on the world and cull the population in the process.
Will the people allow him to get away with it? Not if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has anything to do with it. Kennedy is calling on Americans to exercise moral courage. Kennedy says: “Moral courage is the rarest species of bravery … rarer than the physical courage of soldiers in battle or great intelligence.” He captures this in his recent book AMERICAN VALUES. But as I said, the world doesn’t read books these days and YouTube is censoring Kennedy.
The forced vaccination issue is the proving ground for where the world and America is headed. God help us all.


lewrockwell--2020-05-12--The Perceived Threat of This Coronavirus Fraud Has Driven This Country to the Brink of Insanity

“ Fear is the main source of superstition , and one of the main sources of cruelty .
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
” ~ Bertrand Russell–Unpopular Essays ( 1950 ) “ Outline of Intellectual Rubbish ” If conquering fear is the beginning of wisdom , then allowing fear to control one ’ s behavior is ignorance .
At this point in time , the entire country is consumed by a false fear of a government-manufactured pandemic , and this fear has led to a mass reaction based on ignorance .
Instead of facing fear and seeking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to flee and hide as ordered by their masters , without enough courage to first question or understand the threat .
That reaction has pushed this society to the brink of insanity , because the real threat has nothing to do with this so-called virus , but has everything to do with the planned reaction to it , which can only lead to total servitude .
Unpopular Essays : 12 ... Russell , Bertrand Best Price : $ 10.11 Everything that has happened has been long-planned , and none of this was due @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The real pandemic is simply fear , and those perpetrating this fraud understand that any society that has been dumbed down to this level , and has become dependent and weak would be an easy target for this false flag coronavirus event .
The plan was brilliant in that understanding the pathetic nature of the average American citizen was the key element in being able to not only achieve the goal of having an entire country ’ s population voluntarily place themselves in home prisons without resistance , but to destroy their own @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family and society , and to distance and wear masks .
They are now expected to accept long-term isolation , mandatory vaccination with poisons , complete restriction of travel , constant surveillance and tracing , and forcible removal and imprisonment of so-called infected family members , including children by agents of the state .
H.R.6666 is the COVID-19 Testing , Reaching , and Contacting Everyone ( TRACE ) Act now in Congress .
This is a fascist public/private partnership to trace everyone by what is referred to as “ contact-tracing , ” something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not only mass surveillance of the entire population , but allows for any member of any household to be forcibly removed based on government criteria including the number of bathrooms in the home .
Draconian does not even begin to describe what is going on , as with implementation of these policies , government agents can come into any home and remove and imprison any they deem necessary .
State governments are already prepared to implement these strategies , and New York has begun the largest “ contact tracing ” surveillance effort @ @ @ @ @ @ @ addition , the Trump Whitehouse economic advisor , Kevin Hassett , stated that “ there is no downside ” to implementing those measures on a national level to stop the spread of the coronavirus .
Many cities , including Chicago , already have acquired syringes for mass forced Covid vaccinations , as all these plans were put into place long ago .
None of this is in response to what has happened , as planning for this fake pandemic has been going on for many years .
That is why these efforts to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so quickly , because all of this was done far in advance of this staged crisis .
It is vital to understand that not only was this virus crisis purposely manufactured in my opinion , but every aspect of the response was manufactured in advance as well .
None of this is accidental , as every response by government was long-planned , and structured to take effect once the pandemic was announced .
In addition , these government lockdown mandates actually perpetuate the risk and spread of this and other viruses .
Since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infected , continuation of isolation , mask-wearing , distancing , and over-sanitizing will cause more sickness .
With more sickness , the lies by government about it all being Covid-19 will continue , and therefore , the mandates will continue to remain in place .
It is a prepared circular pattern that will guarantee continued sickness and continued response .
Plague of Corruption : ... Mikovits , Judy Buy New $ 16.51 There is another aspect of this that is little talked about , but has been discussed by the brilliant Dr. Judy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that many viruses are already in our bodies , and can be activated and will replicate if our immune systems are compromised .
This is a perfect scenario for spreading this virus and others from within , not from exterior contamination .
Therefore , as mentioned earlier , isolation and masks cause undue stress , and with stress , the body ’ s immune system will become compromised .
That will allow for viruses already in the body to attack cells and begin replication due to a weak immune system that is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mandating isolation , and the wearing of masks , any viruses already inside the body will be able to replicate at lightening speed in every host that has had a flu shot , and in addition , now that those people ’ s systems are compromised , internal viruses are able to sicken the hosts , and then spread is enhanced .
Stress causes the weakening or non-function of immune systems , and isolation and fear cause massive stress .
Wearing a mask is at once dangerous because it restricts airflow , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In addition , this stress caused by wearing a mask , also causes the internal viruses to expand because it causes more secretions and allows cells to become vulnerable to attacks by viruses already inside the body .
Any that had a flu shot in the past would be vulnerable to those viruses injected into their systems that could become active due to wearing a mask , and stressing the immune system .
Replication would be aggressive and could cause sickness under these conditions.
” Those that had flu shots in 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus due to the makeup of those shots as I mention below .
Virus Mania : How the M ... Kennedy , Robert Best Price : $ 23.32 Buy New $ 18.31 “ All those that received flu shots in 2017 and 2018 got coronaviruses introduced into their body , and the most aggressive of these shots were those done in Italy .
They were supercharged you might say , but all these shots had coronviruses because they were made by using animal cells , including chicken cells in the U.S. version , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grown inside dog kidney cells containing coronavirus.
” Our risk is increasing every day this goes on , but it is false fear that is driving this entire fiasco that is threatening all of mankind .
The conversation should not be about any virus , but should concentrate only on the government ’ s tyrannical reaction to what has been propagated as a virus pandemic .
This is a setup , and one that has the potential to destroy the economy , individual health , freedom and liberty , and set the stage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an atmosphere of seclusion , slavery , and terror .
I am often asked to supply the solution to these problems , and that indicates a complete lack of confidence and strength of character of all those that want someone else to fix the problem facing them .
That is why we are here today .
There is no simple answer , and no one can do this alone .
Each person has to improve himself first , and decide not to bow down and obey the state , and instead to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over him .
If large numbers of people do this , this takeover of society can be stopped , but if continued mass cowardice is evident , we face the end of freedom .
The Best of Gary D. Barnett

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
~ Bertrand Russell–Unpopular Essays (1950) “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
If conquering fear is the beginning of wisdom, then allowing fear to control one’s behavior is ignorance. At this point in time, the entire country is consumed by a false fear of a government-manufactured pandemic, and this fear has led to a mass reaction based on ignorance. Instead of facing fear and seeking the truth, the masses have chosen to flee and hide as ordered by their masters, without enough courage to first question or understand the threat. That reaction has pushed this society to the brink of insanity, because the real threat has nothing to do with this so-called virus, but has everything to do with the planned reaction to it, which can only lead to total servitude.
Unpopular Essays: 12 ... Russell, Bertrand Best Price: $10.11 (as of 04:56 UTC - Details) Everything that has happened has been long-planned, and none of this was due to any natural occurrence of disease. The real pandemic is simply fear, and those perpetrating this fraud understand that any society that has been dumbed down to this level, and has become dependent and weak would be an easy target for this false flag coronavirus event. The plan was brilliant in that understanding the pathetic nature of the average American citizen was the key element in being able to not only achieve the goal of having an entire country’s population voluntarily place themselves in home prisons without resistance, but to destroy their own livelihoods, eliminate travel, isolate from family and society, and to distance and wear masks. They are now expected to accept long-term isolation, mandatory vaccination with poisons, complete restriction of travel, constant surveillance and tracing, and forcible removal and imprisonment of so-called infected family members, including children by agents of the state.
H.R.6666 is the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act now in Congress. This is a fascist public/private partnership to trace everyone by what is referred to as “contact-tracing,” something right out of the Gestapo. This is not only mass surveillance of the entire population, but allows for any member of any household to be forcibly removed based on government criteria including the number of bathrooms in the home. Draconian does not even begin to describe what is going on, as with implementation of these policies, government agents can come into any home and remove and imprison any they deem necessary. State governments are already prepared to implement these strategies, and New York has begun the largest “contact tracing” surveillance effort in the United States already. In addition, the Trump Whitehouse economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, stated that “there is no downside” to implementing those measures on a national level to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Many cities, including Chicago, already have acquired syringes for mass forced Covid vaccinations, as all these plans were put into place long ago. None of this is in response to what has happened, as planning for this fake pandemic has been going on for many years. That is why these efforts to build infrastructure for tyrannical measures are happening so quickly, because all of this was done far in advance of this staged crisis.
It is vital to understand that not only was this virus crisis purposely manufactured in my opinion, but every aspect of the response was manufactured in advance as well. None of this is accidental, as every response by government was long-planned, and structured to take effect once the pandemic was announced. In addition, these government lockdown mandates actually perpetuate the risk and spread of this and other viruses. Since most everyone is considered to eventually become infected, continuation of isolation, mask-wearing, distancing, and over-sanitizing will cause more sickness. With more sickness, the lies by government about it all being Covid-19 will continue, and therefore, the mandates will continue to remain in place. It is a prepared circular pattern that will guarantee continued sickness and continued response.
Plague of Corruption: ... Mikovits, Judy Buy New $16.51 (as of 02:59 UTC - Details) There is another aspect of this that is little talked about, but has been discussed by the brilliant Dr. Judy Mikovits. That is concerning the probability that many viruses are already in our bodies, and can be activated and will replicate if our immune systems are compromised. This is a perfect scenario for spreading this virus and others from within, not from exterior contamination. Therefore, as mentioned earlier, isolation and masks cause undue stress, and with stress, the body’s immune system will become compromised. That will allow for viruses already in the body to attack cells and begin replication due to a weak immune system that is not prepared to fight back.
As I said recently:
“By mandating isolation, and the wearing of masks, any viruses already inside the body will be able to replicate at lightening speed in every host that has had a flu shot, and in addition, now that those people’s systems are compromised, internal viruses are able to sicken the hosts, and then spread is enhanced.
Stress causes the weakening or non-function of immune systems, and isolation and fear cause massive stress. Wearing a mask is at once dangerous because it restricts airflow, and can increase the intake of carbon dioxide. In addition, this stress caused by wearing a mask, also causes the internal viruses to expand because it causes more secretions and allows cells to become vulnerable to attacks by viruses already inside the body. Any that had a flu shot in the past would be vulnerable to those viruses injected into their systems that could become active due to wearing a mask, and stressing the immune system. Replication would be aggressive and could cause sickness under these conditions.”
Those that had flu shots in 2017 and 2018 are more likely to get coronavirus due to the makeup of those shots as I mention below. Virus Mania: How the M... Kennedy, Robert Best Price: $23.32 Buy New $18.31 (as of 03:58 UTC - Details)
“All those that received flu shots in 2017 and 2018 got coronaviruses introduced into their body, and the most aggressive of these shots were those done in Italy. They were supercharged you might say, but all these shots had coronviruses because they were made by using animal cells, including chicken cells in the U.S. version, and H1N1 strains in Italy that were grown inside dog kidney cells containing coronavirus.”
Our risk is increasing every day this goes on, but it is false fear that is driving this entire fiasco that is threatening all of mankind. The conversation should not be about any virus, but should concentrate only on the government’s tyrannical reaction to what has been propagated as a virus pandemic. This is a setup, and one that has the potential to destroy the economy, individual health, freedom and liberty, and set the stage for a world ruled by the few in an atmosphere of seclusion, slavery, and terror.
I am often asked to supply the solution to these problems, and that indicates a complete lack of confidence and strength of character of all those that want someone else to fix the problem facing them. That is why we are here today. There is no simple answer, and no one can do this alone. Each person has to improve himself first, and decide not to bow down and obey the state, and instead to stand up against those attempting to rule over him. If large numbers of people do this, this takeover of society can be stopped, but if continued mass cowardice is evident, we face the end of freedom.
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lewrockwell--2020-05-12--And They’re Gone! The Obscenity of Dr. Fauci’s Jobs-Mageddon

We are referring , of course , to all of the jobs created not only since the Great Recession bottom , but during the entire 21st century to date !
That ’ s right .
The 20.5 million jobs plunge reported for April essentially wiped out the “ strong labor market ” brouhaha of the 244 “ Jobs Friday ” reports since January 2000 .
In fact , the 131.072 million nonfarm payroll jobs reported for April 2020 were actually below the 131.124 million jobs reported way back in February 2000 when Bill Clinton was still scurrying around the White @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the blue dress .
Needless to say , embedded in the above disastrous chart is the boot heel of Lockdown Nation at its most vicious .
That is , it has brutally monkey-hammered those channels of daily economic life that are based on social congregation – bars , restaurants , hotels , malls , salons , gyms , movies , concerts etc .
Peak Trump : The Undrai ... David A. Stockman Best Price : $ 12.72 Buy New $ 43.07 In the case of the leisure and hospitality sector , for example @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million or 48 % drop from the record level of 16.87 million jobs reported by the BLS just two months ago in February .
Yet that isn ’ t even the half of it .
The 8.715 million leisure and hospitality jobs reported for April represented the lowest level since , well , January 1988 when the BLS recorded 8.66 million jobs in this sector .
So the foolish politicians in Washington can drop all the PPP money on the small business sector they can possibly compute with or without a Cray machine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drop-in-the-bucket compared to wiping out 32 years of jobs growth in the most labor-intensive sectors of the entire US economy .
Total Jobs in the Leisure and Hospitality Sector , 1988-2020 Well , actually , we are talking about the weakest employment report in the leisure and hospitality sector in 41 years .
As we regularly remind , what counts for economic activity and paychecks is hours on the clock , not the head counts which make the headlines .
Due to tumbling average weekly hours in this sector , the hours index @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two months .
At a level of 58.5 in April 2020 , the hours worked index thus stands at the same level first crossed in November 1979 .
And if you don ’ t think that ’ s ancient history , the 51 % of Americans who weren ’ t even born on that date most assuredly do .
Moreover , it ’ s not as if the leisure and hospitality sector is some marginal back-street of the US economy .
Just 60 days ago some 17 million workers were pulling paychecks from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establishments which comprise the sector .
The fact is , in these labor intensive businesses , the index of hours worked is about as close to a proxy for total activity or GDP in the sector as you can get .
So did any of the Donald ’ s economic policy geniuses tell him the Dr. Fauci ’ s insane plan to lockdown the economy and put most workers and customers in these businesses under house arrest would actually wipeout 41 years of economic advance in hardly a fortnight ?
Indeed , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and many like and similar ones from other sectors which we display later – and call Lockdown Nation the economic crime of the century .
And that would be no exaggeration whatsoever .
Index of Aggregate Hours for Leisure and Hospitality Workers , 1979-2020 In the case of social congregation up close and personal , which is to say the restaurant and bar sub-sector , the wipeout was even more complete .
Except in a few months during the Great Recession , there has never been a down month in this category since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in January 1990 .
Apparently , the BLS started too late , however .
Given the average young age of the workforce in these venues , the 12.301 million jobs in that sector reported for February instantly became a true case of “ honey , I shrunk the kids ” .
That ’ s because in April only 6.384million bar and restaurant jobs were left standing .
And that figure – wait for it – was the lowest ever recorded , including the initial 6.54 million tabulation back in January 1990 .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire state-orchestrated prohibitionist campaign against the invisible coronavirus .
If you really want to stop the spread of an infectious pathogen , or even stretch-out its migration through the general population , you have to stop social congregation cold and on a dime .
The Great Deformation : ... David A. Stockman Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 9.95 That is , you have to deliberately and brutally crush commerce , business activity and paychecks to the heretofore unimaginable depth shown in the charts above and below .
And you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ channel were workers and businesses alike function in a hand-to-mouth modality without rainy days funds or cash reserves and beneath the mill stones of prodigious debt , rents , leases and other inflexible obligations .
But why mount such a brutal assault on these brittle sectors in the first place ?
The overwhelming share of both employees and customers in the socially congregating sectors – led by leisure and hospitality venues – consists of people under 65 years of age .
Yet these people are no more in harm ’ s way than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illness , accident and self-inflicted harm in modern society .
To reprise the CDC ’ s own expansively defined WITH Covid-death numbers ( 63,469 ) through May 2nd , the share of total deaths and the mortality rates for the three Nations of Covid were are follows : • Kid Nation under 15 years : 60.9 million persons and 13 deaths ( 0.02 % of total ) or 0.02 per 100,000 ; • Parents & Workers Nation 15-64 : 214.5 million persons , 12,637 deaths ( 19.9 % of total ) and 5.9 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Grandparents Nation 65 and older : 52.4 million persons , 50,819 deaths ( 80 % of total ) and 97.0 per 100,000 .
In short , if you are thinking straight , you do not stop social congregation in the leisure , hospitality , personal services and retail sectors to protect the 276 million persons in the Kids Nation and Parent & Workers Nation , who comprise the overwhelming share of congregants there .
Their risk of death is tiny .
Indeed , the Covid-mortality rate of 5.9 per 100,000 for the Parents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mortality rate for suicide among that age group and less than 1 % of the cohort ’ s total annual mortality rate of more than 600 per 100,000 .
Likewise , the overwhelming share who do become infected with the Covid-19 either remain asymptomatic or experience spells of influenza-like illness or discomfort that are par for the course during the winter flu season .
So if the Fauci/CDC/IHME/Gates Foundation ’ s dragnet of house arrest is not really being done for their own good , what ’ s the purpose ?
As we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Social Science Experiment of Brobdingnagian aspect .
Apparently , these social planners think they can stop the spread of the kind of virus variation that has been circulating in the human population from time immemorial .
But such sweeping state intervention has never been tried or needed in the past , and has already failed this time around .
That is , the antibody studies cropping up around the nation and world indicate that 5-20 % of the population has already been infected , which amounts to 15-65 million people in the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is already out the barn door .
Continuing the misbegotten Social Science Experiment of an unelected camarilla of mad scientists , do-gooders , numbers geeks and media scolds even a day longer is tantamount to criminal .
For crying out loud , the places were Grandparents and Great Grandparents Nation congregates are not mainly the bars , gyms , hair salons , restaurants , malls , movie houses and Home Depots , anyway .
They could have easily been warned to stay away from said venues – especially if they also had serious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were they do typically congregate – retirement villages , cruise ships , tour buses , assisted living places , nursing homes , bingo parlors , shuffleboard courts etc .
could have been targeted with enhanced measures of hygiene , testing , personal protection gear , isolation , treatment and generous financial assistance at a fraction of the trillions that are being destroyed by Lockdown Nation .
In fact , fully 19,800 or 31 % of all the WITH Covid deaths reported by the CDC through May 2 were among the population 85 years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 6.5 million persons in this category , meaning that their Covid-mortality rate has been 305 per 100,000 .
That ’ s 52X higher than for Parents & Workers Nation , and 15,000 times higher than for Kids Nation .
The utter irrationality of locking down the heart of social congregation venues , therefore , fairly screams out from the CDC ’ s own data .
You almost have to believe that if someone had given Dr. Fauci a boot full of piss with a nursing home drown on the bottom , he still @ @ @ @ @ @ @ locale of the corona problem .
Needless to say , the ultimate point of social congregation would be the airline business , and in that instance you could ask a simple question per the above Covid-19 mortality data .
To wit , what would be the risk of death to anyone on a B-737 load of healthy under 65-year olds ?
The answer , of course , is tantamount to none .
Well , unless it was a Boeing Max !
Yet , here ’ s the nosedive of employment in the air @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s just the warm-up .
By the end of the month virtually 90 % of commercial air travel had stopped , meaning that the 27 % jobs plunge last month will be drastically eclipsed in May .
Moreover , the level of perhaps 100,000 jobs likely for May will be the lowest not only since the BLS started collecting the data separately in January 1990 , but also since the airlines stopped serving lunch with silver and china and at no charge in the economy section .
For want of doubt , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data that came out of today ’ s jobs report , where the decades of accumulated economic activity wiped-out in less than 60 days has been equally stupendous .
In one fell swoop , all the retail jobs created during the 26 years since May 1994 evaporated in the last two months .
That ’ s right .
What had been recently called a retail-apocalypse has been turned into an outright economic Armageddon .
We dare say that within six months the only retail chains which will not have filed for bankruptcy will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And that ’ s to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of remaining moms and pops who were hanging on for dear life from the Amazon juggernaut .
Thanks to Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates , their euthanasia will soon be complete .
For instance , one remaining redoubt of small chains and independent retailers has been the furniture and home furnishings store sector .
Yet in the last 60 days , 46 % of the jobs that were reported in the February count have vanished , meaning that what is left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ level recorded way back in 1990 , when this sector was first tabulated .
The point is , the plunging blue line below is not merely a measure of jobs ; it ’ s an index of what has happened to the tens of thousands of small businesses and local and regional chains which still offer consumers an alternative to Walmart , Amazon and the giant furniture warehouses .
And speaking of a coup d ’ grace for small businesses , you have the same story with specialty stores for sporting goods , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ April figure of 351,000 jobs was down by 36 % from the 550,000 jobs reported in February , and by 45 % from the peak reached on the eve of the Great Recession .
Needless to say , in an honest capitalist market there is nothing sacred about the number of jobs or the number , size and modality of businesses which compete in any given sector of the economy .
They are meant to rise and fall as competitive forces , consumer preferences and technological changes work their will .
But what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has nothing to do with capitalism at work or the beneficent force of the Unseen Hand and its propensity for what Schumpeter called “ creative destruction ” .
By contrast , the virtual jobs obscenity reported for April was the work of the Very Seen Hand of the State , and comprised the pointless destruction caused by a camarilla of arrogant fanatics gone off the deep-end .
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Yes, they are…..gone.
We are referring, of course, to all of the jobs created not only since the Great Recession bottom, but during the entire 21st century to date!
That’s right. The 20.5 million jobs plunge reported for April essentially wiped out the “strong labor market” brouhaha of the 244 “Jobs Friday” reports since January 2000.
In fact, the 131.072 million nonfarm payroll jobs reported for April 2020 were actually below the 131.124 million jobs reported way back in February 2000 when Bill Clinton was still scurrying around the White House looking for some place to hide the blue dress.
Total Nonfarm Payrolls, 2000-2020
Needless to say, embedded in the above disastrous chart is the boot heel of Lockdown Nation at its most vicious. That is, it has brutally monkey-hammered those channels of daily economic life that are based on social congregation – bars, restaurants, hotels, malls, salons, gyms, movies, concerts etc. Peak Trump: The Undrai... David A. Stockman Best Price: $12.72 Buy New $43.07 (as of 11:40 UTC - Details)
In the case of the leisure and hospitality sector, for example, the lockdowns have caused an 8.2 million or 48% drop from the record level of 16.87 million jobs reported by the BLS just two months ago in February.
Yet that isn’t even the half of it. The 8.715 million leisure and hospitality jobs reported for April represented the lowest level since, well, January 1988 when the BLS recorded 8.66 million jobs in this sector.
So the foolish politicians in Washington can drop all the PPP money on the small business sector they can possibly compute with or without a Cray machine, but that’s still a drop-in-the-bucket compared to wiping out 32 years of jobs growth in the most labor-intensive sectors of the entire US economy.
Total Jobs in the Leisure and Hospitality Sector, 1988-2020
Well, actually, we are talking about the weakest employment report in the leisure and hospitality sector in 41 years. As we regularly remind, what counts for economic activity and paychecks is hours on the clock, not the head counts which make the headlines.
Due to tumbling average weekly hours in this sector, the hours index has plunged 56% during the last two months. At a level of 58.5 in April 2020, the hours worked index thus stands at the same level first crossed in November 1979.
And if you don’t think that’s ancient history, the 51% of Americans who weren’t even born on that date most assuredly do.
Moreover, it’s not as if the leisure and hospitality sector is some marginal back-street of the US economy. Just 60 days ago some 17 million workers were pulling paychecks from the tens of millions of firms and establishments which comprise the sector.
The fact is, in these labor intensive businesses, the index of hours worked is about as close to a proxy for total activity or GDP in the sector as you can get.
So did any of the Donald’s economic policy geniuses tell him the Dr. Fauci’s insane plan to lockdown the economy and put most workers and customers in these businesses under house arrest would actually wipeout 41 years of economic advance in hardly a fortnight?
Indeed, you can look at the chart below – and many like and similar ones from other sectors which we display later – and call Lockdown Nation the economic crime of the century. And that would be no exaggeration whatsoever.
Index of Aggregate Hours for Leisure and Hospitality Workers, 1979-2020
In the case of social congregation up close and personal, which is to say the restaurant and bar sub-sector, the wipeout was even more complete. Except in a few months during the Great Recession, there has never been a down month in this category since the BLS started tabulating the sector separately in January 1990.
Apparently, the BLS started too late, however. Given the average young age of the workforce in these venues, the 12.301 million jobs in that sector reported for February instantly became a true case of “honey, I shrunk the kids”.
That’s because in April only 6.384million bar and restaurant jobs were left standing. And that figure – wait for it – was the lowest ever recorded, including the initial 6.54 million tabulation back in January 1990.
So here is joined the central issue of the entire state-orchestrated prohibitionist campaign against the invisible coronavirus. If you really want to stop the spread of an infectious pathogen, or even stretch-out its migration through the general population, you have to stop social congregation cold and on a dime. The Great Deformation:... David A. Stockman Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $9.95 (as of 09:55 UTC - Details)
That is, you have to deliberately and brutally crush commerce, business activity and paychecks to the heretofore unimaginable depth shown in the charts above and below.
And you have to do so in an economic channel were workers and businesses alike function in a hand-to-mouth modality without rainy days funds or cash reserves and beneath the mill stones of prodigious debt, rents, leases and other inflexible obligations.
But why mount such a brutal assault on these brittle sectors in the first place?
The overwhelming share of both employees and customers in the socially congregating sectors – led by leisure and hospitality venues – consists of people under 65 years of age. Yet these people are no more in harm’s way than the day-in and day-out risks posed by illness, accident and self-inflicted harm in modern society.
To reprise the CDC’s own expansively defined WITH Covid-death numbers (63,469) through May 2nd, the share of total deaths and the mortality rates for the three Nations of Covid were are follows:
Kid Nation under 15 years : 60.9 million persons and 13 deaths (0.02% of total) or 0.02 per 100,000;
: 60.9 million persons and 13 deaths (0.02% of total) or 0.02 per 100,000; Parents & Workers Nation 15-64 : 214.5 million persons, 12,637 deaths (19.9% of total) and 5.9 per 100,000;
: 214.5 million persons, 12,637 deaths (19.9% of total) and 5.9 per 100,000; Grandparents & Great Grandparents Nation 65 and older: 52.4 million persons, 50,819 deaths (80% of total) and 97.0 per 100,000.
In short, if you are thinking straight, you do not stop social congregation in the leisure, hospitality, personal services and retail sectors to protect the 276 million persons in the Kids Nation and Parent & Workers Nation, who comprise the overwhelming share of congregants there.
Their risk of death is tiny. Indeed, the Covid-mortality rate of 5.9 per 100,000 for the Parents & Workers Nation is barely above the mortality rate for suicide among that age group and less than 1% of the cohort’s total annual mortality rate of more than 600 per 100,000.
Likewise, the overwhelming share who do become infected with the Covid-19 either remain asymptomatic or experience spells of influenza-like illness or discomfort that are par for the course during the winter flu season.
So if the Fauci/CDC/IHME/Gates Foundation’s dragnet of house arrest is not really being done for their own good, what’s the purpose?
As we said, it’s a capricious Social Science Experiment of Brobdingnagian aspect. Apparently, these social planners think they can stop the spread of the kind of virus variation that has been circulating in the human population from time immemorial.
But such sweeping state intervention has never been tried or needed in the past, and has already failed this time around.
That is, the antibody studies cropping up around the nation and world indicate that 5-20% of the population has already been infected, which amounts to 15-65 million people in the US alone.
Stated differently, the horse-of-Covid is already out the barn door. Continuing the misbegotten Social Science Experiment of an unelected camarilla of mad scientists, do-gooders, numbers geeks and media scolds even a day longer is tantamount to criminal.
That’s the true meaning of today’s shocking jobs report.
For crying out loud, the places were Grandparents and Great Grandparents Nation congregates are not mainly the bars, gyms, hair salons, restaurants, malls, movie houses and Home Depots, anyway.
They could have easily been warned to stay away from said venues – especially if they also had serious medical afflictions already.
And the places were they do typically congregate – retirement villages, cruise ships, tour buses, assisted living places, nursing homes, bingo parlors, shuffleboard courts etc. could have been targeted with enhanced measures of hygiene, testing, personal protection gear, isolation, treatment and generous financial assistance at a fraction of the trillions that are being destroyed by Lockdown Nation.
In fact, fully 19,800 or 31% of all the WITH Covid deaths reported by the CDC through May 2 were among the population 85 years old or older!
There are just 6.5 million persons in this category, meaning that their Covid-mortality rate has been 305 per 100,000. That’s 52X higher than for Parents & Workers Nation, and 15,000 times higher than for Kids Nation.
The utter irrationality of locking down the heart of social congregation venues, therefore, fairly screams out from the CDC’s own data.
You almost have to believe that if someone had given Dr. Fauci a boot full of piss with a nursing home drown on the bottom, he still wouldn’t have recognized the real locale of the corona problem.
Total Jobs in Bars and Restaurants Sector, 1990-2020
Needless to say, the ultimate point of social congregation would be the airline business, and in that instance you could ask a simple question per the above Covid-19 mortality data. To wit, what would be the risk of death to anyone on a B-737 load of healthy under 65-year olds?
The answer, of course, is tantamount to none. Well, unless it was a Boeing Max!
Yet, here’s the nosedive of employment in the air transportation sector for April, and that’s just the warm-up. By the end of the month virtually 90% of commercial air travel had stopped, meaning that the 27% jobs plunge last month will be drastically eclipsed in May.
Moreover, the level of perhaps 100,000 jobs likely for May will be the lowest not only since the BLS started collecting the data separately in January 1990, but also since the airlines stopped serving lunch with silver and china and at no charge in the economy section.
Total Jobs in Air Transportation Industry, 1990-2020
For want of doubt, consider also some of the retail sector data that came out of today’s jobs report, where the decades of accumulated economic activity wiped-out in less than 60 days has been equally stupendous.
In one fell swoop, all the retail jobs created during the 26 years since May 1994 evaporated in the last two months.
That’s right. What had been recently called a retail-apocalypse has been turned into an outright economic Armageddon. We dare say that within six months the only retail chains which will not have filed for bankruptcy will be Walmart, Target and Nordstrom.
And that’s to say nothing of the hundreds of thousands of remaining moms and pops who were hanging on for dear life from the Amazon juggernaut. Thanks to Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates, their euthanasia will soon be complete.
Total Jobs in Retail Sector, 1994-2020
For instance, one remaining redoubt of small chains and independent retailers has been the furniture and home furnishings store sector. Yet in the last 60 days, 46% of the jobs that were reported in the February count have vanished, meaning that what is left is only a fraction of the activity level recorded way back in 1990, when this sector was first tabulated.
The point is, the plunging blue line below is not merely a measure of jobs; it’s an index of what has happened to the tens of thousands of small businesses and local and regional chains which still offer consumers an alternative to Walmart, Amazon and the giant furniture warehouses.
Total Jobs in Retail Furniture and Home Furnishings Sector, 1990-2020
And speaking of a coup d’grace for small businesses, you have the same story with specialty stores for sporting goods, hobbies, books and music. The April figure of 351,000 jobs was down by 36% from the 550,000 jobs reported in February, and by 45% from the peak reached on the eve of the Great Recession.
Needless to say, in an honest capitalist market there is nothing sacred about the number of jobs or the number, size and modality of businesses which compete in any given sector of the economy. They are meant to rise and fall as competitive forces, consumer preferences and technological changes work their will.
But what you see in all of these charts has nothing to do with capitalism at work or the beneficent force of the Unseen Hand and its propensity for what Schumpeter called “creative destruction”.
By contrast, the virtual jobs obscenity reported for April was the work of the Very Seen Hand of the State, and comprised the pointless destruction caused by a camarilla of arrogant fanatics gone off the deep-end.
Total Jobs in Retail Sporting Goods, Hobby, Books, and Music Stores Sector, 1990-2020
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Reprinted with permission from David Stockman’s Contra Corner.
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