Medical Marxism

If we have learned nothing else from COVID19 , we finally understand the outrageous authority that “ Public Health ’ s ” quacks wield .
Though these bureaucrats now hog the limelight while destroying our country and liberty , they formerly scurried on the fringes of government .
There they spewed advice ( “ Quit smoking : it causes cancer !
” “ Seat belts save lives , so buckle up !
” ) that we were free to reject until they could persuade legislatures to codify their opinions as law .
That itch to control , to force everyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us of “ Public Health ’ s ” threat .
Most Americans are subject to three or four “ Public Health ” bureaus : a “ Department of Public Health ” often infests cities and counties , and one curses each state as well as the Feds .
The latter ’ s Department of Health and Human Services harbors such agencies as the CDC , the FDA , the Indian Health Service , and the Surgeon General as well as “ an elite group of over 6,000 uniformed officers who are public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a cop : temperature-guns .
The Red Trojan Horse : ... Elder , Alasdair Best Price : $ 14.85 Buy New $ 14.50 At whatever level of government they lurk , each outpost of “ Public Health ” boasts an atomic bomb ’ s power : they can and will raze everything in their path , as they ’ ve proved since March .
Collaborating with politicians , they crushed life as we knew it .
They bankrupted companies and kicked employees off payrolls with the ruthless abandon of Mr. Potter ; the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroyed is too lengthy and notorious to recite here .
As if such crimes weren ’ t enough , they ordered us to imperil ourselves with masks and “ anti-social distancing.
” No wonder rates of suicide and addiction have skyrocketed .
And we haven ’ t even mentioned their enthusiasm for the rioting that ’ s ravaged American streets .
These authoritarians obligingly declared “ racism ” a “ public health ” crisis when BLM threw its tantrum .
Unfortunately , most victims of “ public health ” don ’ t realize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only a dim idea of its evil ( “ They issue birth certificates , don ’ t they ?
” ) or because they buy “ public health ’ s ” lie , that its “ mission is to protect , promote , and advance the health of our nation.
” Actually , its mission is to protect , promote and advance Marxism .
That hellish philosophy permeates “ public health ” : it weaves itself into not only its warp and woof but its foundation and all its biases , too .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( genocide , mass murder , torture ) , “ public health ” allows its perpetrators to feel good about themselves .
They are “ professionals ” trying to save us germy , diseased subjects from ourselves ( though only “ public health doctors ” have medical degrees .
The rest are mere bureaucrats—and dishonest ones at that ) .
Unlike the Cheka , these hygienic busybodies go home at night without their prey ’ s screams ringing in their ears .
Rather , they congratulate themselves on their compassion , foresight , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such relentless despotism : “ Of all tyrannies , a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive .
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies .
The robber baron ’ s cruelty may sometimes sleep , his cupidity may at some point be satiated ; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
” Who would dispute that after the last five @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Walsh , Michael Best Price : $ 7.99 Buy New $ 10.46 “ Public health ’ s ” Marxism—and logical fallacies—begin with the term itself .
There is no “ Public , ” healthy or otherwise , but only individuals .
These folks may share a neighborhood , true .
But from that innocent fact “ Public Health ” leaps to many conclusions , none of them good .
Which brings us to “ Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health , ” a brochure the “ Public Health Leadership Society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Key Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health ” as well as the “ Values and Beliefs Underlying the Code.
” The latter begins , “ Humans have a right to the resources necessary for health .
The Public Health Code of Ethics affirms Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , which states in part ‘ Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family… ’ ” Any document that quotes from the Orwellian “ Universal Declaration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our hackles .
And yep , the “ right to resources ” is a positive one that all lovers of liberty excoriate .
You have no right to “ resources ” of any kind , even those “ necessary for health.
” You do have the right to earn those resources without masks and anti-social distancing and all of COVIDiocy ’ s other nonsense–in short , free from “ public health ’ s ” coercion .
The second “ Value and Belief ” prates , “ Humans are inherently social and interdependent .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ in friendships , families , and community ; and rely upon one another for safety and survival .
Positive relationships among individuals and positive collaborations among institutions are signs of a healthy community.
” Not as frontal an assault as No .
1 , though that word “ community ” is suspect… “ The rightful concern for the physical individuality of humans and one ’ s right to make decisions for oneself must be balanced against the fact that each person ’ s actions affect other people.
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And nooooo , most emphatically .
We never “ balance ” the fundamental and essential right “ to make decisions for oneself ” against anything else—and those who suggest such an atrocity are almost always totalitarians .
I ’ ll spare you a blow-by-blow of the ten additional “ principles.
” Suffice to say that each degrades personal autonomy on behalf of the collective , some more blatantly than others .
Underlying the whole of “ public health ” is another supremely offensive premise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ structure ” rather than an organic web of relationships arising spontaneously from our interactions with one another .
And that edifice must be managed : after all , these are Marxists .
“ Managing ” necessarily involves decisions .
Someone must determine all issues , large or small , for our controlled “ society.
” Will that “ society ” permit smoking indoors—or at all ?
Will it require seat belts in cars ?
And , in COVIDiocy , will it compel the wearing of masks and anti-social distancing ?
“ Public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are too bestial to settle these questions ourselves , so they do it for us .
Their literature and training reek of this arrogance .
I browsed a cache of “ Public Health ’ s ” texts on an empty stomach one day ; I suggest that if you brave this library , you , too , delay lunch or keep a barf-bag handy .
Departments of “ Public Health ” first plagued cities in the nineteenth century .
Their coercion and cruelty completely broke with the mores of private , voluntary medicine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government as prisons and taxation are .
For example , when Sam Serf falls ill , he solicits a doctor ’ s services .
And he expects to pay for them .
The doctor advises his patient based on Sam ’ s peculiar history , physical idiosyncrasies and circumstances .
He addresses the problem that brought Sam to him without intruding into other areas of Sam ’ s life .
Cultural Cancer : Treat ... Kane , Daryl Best Price : $ 20.00 Buy New $ 9.95 But “ Public Health ” doesn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ find it .
Rather , its busybodies inflict themselves on everyone within a specified area—even those who are healthy .
Nor does it even pretend to understand every person as an individual .
Via data , it “ examines ” the group as a whole and prescribes for it that way , too—regardless of whether Sam ’ s situation renders its commands harmful or irrelevant to him : witness the “ mandates ” for masks .
Because our taxes pay them regardless of results , the bureaucrats blithely pry into the neighborhood ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ knowledge or consent , for as long and as deeply as they please .
“ Public Health ’ s ” diktats ( exercise more , avoid eggs , wear masks , etc . )
weren ’ t as overwhelming a problem when Americans could ignore them .
But COVIDiocy has obliterated that freedom .
These bullies have imposed their values on us , declaring life and health to be the supreme goods and ordering us to sacrifice everything to them .
Now certainly , life and health are blessings everyone prizes—but more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or freedom ?
Some folks would rather die than lose their autonomy ; others prize a beloved spouse or child above their own well-being ; many choose to spend their health and lives on a career .
Those of us who cherish liberty consider existence worthless without it .
And Christians should love the Lord their God with all their minds and souls and strength—far more than they love health or even life itself .
Ergo , when bureaucrats command us to stay home from worship for our health ’ s sake , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if we obey .
Speaking of Jezebel , Shrillary Clinton once warned , “ We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign dangers of any kind.
” Especially when the danger is “ Public Health ” itself .
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If we have learned nothing else from COVID19, we finally understand the outrageous authority that “Public Health’s” quacks wield.
Though these bureaucrats now hog the limelight while destroying our country and liberty, they formerly scurried on the fringes of government. There they spewed advice (“Quit smoking: it causes cancer!” “Seat belts save lives, so buckle up!”) that we were free to reject until they could persuade legislatures to codify their opinions as law. That itch to control, to force everyone to heed them, should have warned us of “Public Health’s” threat.
Most Americans are subject to three or four “Public Health” bureaus: a “Department of Public Health” often infests cities and counties, and one curses each state as well as the Feds. The latter’s Department of Health and Human Services harbors such agencies as the CDC, the FDA, the Indian Health Service, and the Surgeon General as well as “an elite group of over 6,000 uniformed officers who are public health professionals.” Just what criminals want in a cop: temperature-guns.
The Red Trojan Horse: ... Elder, Alasdair Best Price: $14.85 Buy New $14.50 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details) At whatever level of government they lurk, each outpost of “Public Health” boasts an atomic bomb’s power: they can and will raze everything in their path, as they’ve proved since March. Collaborating with politicians, they crushed life as we knew it. They bankrupted companies and kicked employees off payrolls with the ruthless abandon of Mr. Potter; the list of institutions and businesses they thereby destroyed is too lengthy and notorious to recite here. As if such crimes weren’t enough, they ordered us to imperil ourselves with masks and “anti-social distancing.” No wonder rates of suicide and addiction have skyrocketed.
And we haven’t even mentioned their enthusiasm for the rioting that’s ravaged American streets. These authoritarians obligingly declared “racism” a “public health” crisis when BLM threw its tantrum.
Unfortunately, most victims of “public health” don’t realize its menace, either because they have only a dim idea of its evil (“They issue birth certificates, don’t they?”) or because they buy “public health’s” lie, that its “mission is to protect, promote, and advance the health of our nation.” Actually, its mission is to protect, promote and advance Marxism.
That hellish philosophy permeates “public health”: it weaves itself into not only its warp and woof but its foundation and all its biases, too. Unlike communism’s more dramatic barbarities (genocide, mass murder, torture), “public health” allows its perpetrators to feel good about themselves. They are “professionals” trying to save us germy, diseased subjects from ourselves (though only “public health doctors” have medical degrees. The rest are mere bureaucrats—and dishonest ones at that). Unlike the Cheka, these hygienic busybodies go home at night without their prey’s screams ringing in their ears. Rather, they congratulate themselves on their compassion, foresight, and superiority. C.S. Lewis damned such relentless despotism: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Who would dispute that after the last five months? The Devil’s Plea... Walsh, Michael Best Price: $7.99 Buy New $10.46 (as of 04:40 UTC - Details)
“Public health’s” Marxism—and logical fallacies—begin with the term itself. There is no “Public,” healthy or otherwise, but only individuals. These folks may share a neighborhood, true. But from that innocent fact “Public Health” leaps to many conclusions, none of them good.
Which brings us to “Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health,” a brochure the “Public Health Leadership Society” published in 2002. It lists “Key Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health” as well as the “Values and Beliefs Underlying the Code.” The latter begins, “Humans have a right to the resources necessary for health. The Public Health Code of Ethics affirms Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states in part ‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family…’”
Any document that quotes from the Orwellian “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” should automatically raise our hackles. And yep, the “right to resources” is a positive one that all lovers of liberty excoriate. You have no right to “resources” of any kind, even those “necessary for health.” You do have the right to earn those resources without masks and anti-social distancing and all of COVIDiocy’s other nonsense–in short, free from “public health’s” coercion.
The second “Value and Belief” prates, “Humans are inherently social and interdependent. Humans look to each other for companionship in friendships, families, and community; and rely upon one another for safety and survival. Positive relationships among individuals and positive collaborations among institutions are signs of a healthy community.”
Not as frontal an assault as No. 1, though that word “community” is suspect…
“The rightful concern for the physical individuality of humans and one’s right to make decisions for oneself must be balanced against the fact that each person’s actions affect other people.” Into the Lion’s ... Maltz, Mr Steve Best Price: $14.37 Buy New $14.00 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
Whoa! And nooooo, most emphatically. We never “balance” the fundamental and essential right “to make decisions for oneself” against anything else—and those who suggest such an atrocity are almost always totalitarians.
I’ll spare you a blow-by-blow of the ten additional “principles.” Suffice to say that each degrades personal autonomy on behalf of the collective, some more blatantly than others.
Underlying the whole of “public health” is another supremely offensive premise: that human society is an organized “structure” rather than an organic web of relationships arising spontaneously from our interactions with one another. And that edifice must be managed: after all, these are Marxists. “Managing” necessarily involves decisions. Someone must determine all issues, large or small, for our controlled “society.” Will that “society” permit smoking indoors—or at all? Will it require seat belts in cars? And, in COVIDiocy, will it compel the wearing of masks and anti-social distancing? “Public health’s” bureaucrats assume we are too bestial to settle these questions ourselves, so they do it for us. Their literature and training reek of this arrogance. I browsed a cache of “Public Health’s” texts on an empty stomach one day; I suggest that if you brave this library, you, too, delay lunch or keep a barf-bag handy.
Departments of “Public Health” first plagued cities in the nineteenth century. Their coercion and cruelty completely broke with the mores of private, voluntary medicine. They are as much creatures of government as prisons and taxation are.
For example, when Sam Serf falls ill, he solicits a doctor’s services. And he expects to pay for them. The doctor advises his patient based on Sam’s peculiar history, physical idiosyncrasies and circumstances. He addresses the problem that brought Sam to him without intruding into other areas of Sam’s life.
Cultural Cancer: Treat... Kane, Daryl Best Price: $20.00 Buy New $9.95 (as of 04:04 UTC - Details) But “Public Health” doesn’t wait for the sick to find it. Rather, its busybodies inflict themselves on everyone within a specified area—even those who are healthy. Nor does it even pretend to understand every person as an individual. Via data, it “examines” the group as a whole and prescribes for it that way, too—regardless of whether Sam’s situation renders its commands harmful or irrelevant to him: witness the “mandates” for masks. Because our taxes pay them regardless of results, the bureaucrats blithely pry into the neighborhood’s affairs, without their guinea pigs’ knowledge or consent, for as long and as deeply as they please.
“Public Health’s” diktats (exercise more, avoid eggs, wear masks, etc.) weren’t as overwhelming a problem when Americans could ignore them. But COVIDiocy has obliterated that freedom. These bullies have imposed their values on us, declaring life and health to be the supreme goods and ordering us to sacrifice everything to them.
Now certainly, life and health are blessings everyone prizes—but more than satisfying work or family or travel or freedom? Some folks would rather die than lose their autonomy; others prize a beloved spouse or child above their own well-being; many choose to spend their health and lives on a career. Those of us who cherish liberty consider existence worthless without it. And Christians should love the Lord their God with all their minds and souls and strength—far more than they love health or even life itself. Ergo, when bureaucrats command us to stay home from worship for our health’s sake, we inexcusably bow the knee to Baal if we obey.
Speaking of Jezebel, Shrillary Clinton once warned, “We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign dangers of any kind.”
Especially when the danger is “Public Health” itself.
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Trump Agonistes

Can Donald Trump , against all odds , still win in November ?
It would be a remarkable political feat , on par with his stunning upset in 2016 .
A global pandemic ( however statistically dubious ) ravages the country , while riots ravage major US cities .
The US economy produces a third less than it did a year ago , 40 million people are out of work and dependent on federal benefits , and 60 percent of all restaurants may go under .
Millions of Americans will not pay rent , mortgages , or credit card bills @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their kids will not go to school at all , or will simply stare at their teachers on Zoom .
Others wear face shields and sit behind plastic screens at their desks .
College football , a religion in America , may well be canceled altogether .
Trump ’ s own Manhattan is a ghost town .
And the media is intensely aligned against him .
Yet amid all this mayhem Trump ’ s poll numbers are no worse , and perhaps better , than they were heading into his contest with Hillary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Cooper , Horace Best Price : $ 20.06 Buy New $ 19.96 Is Trump feeling it ?
Since holding a series of desultory afternoon press conferences concerning covid earlier this spring , accompanied by the awful ( and inexplicably still employed ) Dr. Anthony Fauci , he has shrunk from the public eye .
He surfaced in South Dakota over the Fourth of July for a rally in front of Mount Rushmore , and continues to spar with reporters , but his political buoyancy is not the same .
America is exhausted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scripts .
Those scripts now issue from Fox News host Tucker Carlson : with 4.3 million viewers and searing monologues every night , he is the de facto populist voice Trump once was .
Surrounded by bad advisers and hamstrung by his own administration working at cross purposes , Trump is less than ninety days from the election with no clear message or direction .
He appears particularly unfocused and seeking flattery from unaccountable insiders like Jared Kushner instead of serious counsel .
Many people , including Donald Trump himself , seem to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2016 election .
His mandate , such as it was and thin as it was , looked something like this : .
Injure the vested interests that dominate and leech off Beltway tax largesse ; deny them their permanent sinecure .
More than anything , his campaign represented a rebuke to the Uniparty , and a stark expression of populist contempt for technocratic elites .
That contempt was and is entirely justified : the political class in America spent the last many decades screwing up education , medicine , foreign policy , diplomacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dollar , the federal budget , families , and social cohesion generally .
The Bush/Clinton/Obama axis represented the worst profligacies of the managerial state , every bit as illiberal as Trump could ever pretend to be .
That axis needed to be repudiated .
It was never about Trump or his advisors or his policies ; it was about an opportunity for 60 million Americans to go off-script and vote against the coronation of Clinton Part II .
That opportunity appears squandered .
Forget Fauci and Kushner ; what about Bolton , Mattis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ McMaster , Haley , and all the rest ?
What Trump policy , however much bluster accompanies it , is qualitatively different than those of his predecessors ?
What federal department or agency is less powerful today than he found it ?
Where are the budget cuts to accompany what amount only to cuts in the growth rates of regulations ?
Single-year deficits are in the trillions .
And what has he done to bring the damnable Federal Reserve Bank to heel , the one institution more responsible for government bloat and war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not appear to have answers .
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This meant , in the eyes of voters , nothing less than the significant withdrawal of US troops from intractable and horrifically expensive wars in Iraq , Afghanistan , and Syria .
The trillions of dollars spent in the post-9-11 period , the lives lost , the limbs severed and maimed , the PTSD , the suicides , none of it made sense anymore to the America public .
How much will we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades , given the sheer number of damaged US soldiers , broken down by endless deployments ?
We blew up Iraq , really three countries held together by a thread , and don ’ t know how to fix it .
We got bogged down in Afghanistan , learning nothing from the British or Soviet experiences .
America wants and needs to get out of the Middle East .
The sheer futility of post–Cold War US foreign policy is tailor-made for Trump ’ s messaging , and not deeply partisan .
He capitalized @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but has failed to produce significant troop withdrawals anywhere or touch a penny of “ defense ” spending .
Worse , he has allowed the Bolton wing of the Uniparty ready access to the White House , and has been willing to entertain bellicose nonsense about Iran and China .
Trump deserves credit for not taking the neoconservative bait to appear tough on Putin in an effort to deflect from the ludicrous Russiagate .
But beyond that he has failed to fundamentally change even the rhetoric surrounding foreign policy , which remains @ @ @ @ @ @ @ policy requires humility , not hubris .
Third , act as a bodyguard for Middle America against the worst excesses of the American left .
Some Americans just wanted a bodyguard against left academia , left media , and the secularist rout .
They didn ’ t care if that bodyguard came with a graceless demeanor and rap sheet ; in fact , they preferred it .
Cultural and social issues were a mainstay of Trump ’ s 2016 coalition , but not in the sense they were for Pat Buchanan in 1996 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not animated by religion or abortion ; he is comfortable in cosmopolitan and diverse New York circles , and has little interest in relitigating gay marriage or similar battles .
But he did promise to stand against campus radicalism , cancel culture , and the general perception of hostility toward flyover country emanating from the Left , particularly the media .
Yet all of these things have become worse , not better , since Trump took office .
In fact , the reaction to Trump has emboldened open socialists and Marxists to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America , right here and now .
Antifa and Black Lives Matter , with open support from media , politicians , and corporate America , condone if not engineer riots and looting in cities .
In sum , Christian Middle America feels less secure after four years of Trump , not more .
All of this has happened under Trump ’ s watch .
Trump and the American ... Gingrich , Newt Best Price : $ 15.19 Buy New $ 18.52 What about the vaunted “ alt-right , ” supposedly the populist shock @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was , and is , mostly a media creation .
It needed to be created as an explanation for the rise of Trump in the first place .
Journalists wanted to believe , fiercely , that a racist and fascist right was the only explanation for Trump , and especially for Clinton ’ s loss .
So they defined a mass of people who ( i ) were not on the left and ( ii ) did not think Mitt Romney , Jeb Bush , and John Kasich represented vital opposition to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact , the moniker never applied to more than a few thousand angry outsized voices loosely connected on social media .
They had no money , no political power or party , no platforms or donors .
The alt-right certainly did not elect Donald Trump in 2016 : the red states voted red , the blue states voted blue , and a few hundred thousand unhappy Baby Boomers in six swing states—many of whom earlier voted for Barack Obama—gave Trump razor-thin margins .
Those margins , and whether a real “ silent majority @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decide 2020 .
So can Trump win in November ?
Certainly .
He recently issued dubious executive orders which are sure to be popular , including an extension of $ 400 weekly federal unemployment benefits and a continued moratorium on evictions for federally subsidized housing .
Biden and Harris are an uninspiring duo , and not likely to drive or inspire new voter turnout not already energized by standard Trump hatred .
And sustained street violence continues to plague American cities , even smaller cities like Portland ( Oregon ) and Richmond , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and has not been able to project a “ law and order ” image onto his campaign like Nixon did in 1968 .
Still , the Left ’ s silence on riots—if not outright support—plays in Trump ’ s favor .
Things may be bad in America , but pointing to scenes of burning and looting merely to say “ I ’ m against that ” is an opening even the most inept campaign can exploit .
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler finally said as much recently , lamenting how rioters were creating “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But populists need a status quo to oppose , and Trump now faces a new normal of incumbency .
Airborne : How The Libe ... Margolis , Matt Best Price : $ 12.00 Buy New $ 15.99 Average voters do not blame him for covid ; it would be preposterous to think the Left would not attack him equally had he ordered some kind of draconian ( and unconstitutional ) federal mandates and quarantines .
He showed decent instincts with respect to the pandemic , preferring to leave matters largely up to states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politics ; top-down approaches to public health generally produce worse outcomes .
And a less biased media would have savaged rather than lionized Trump critic Andrew Cuomo for his horrific bungling of nursing homes .
But Trump has not articulated a strong alternative approach to dealing with covid , instead allowing Fauci to ramble publicly about far-off vaccines .
Similarly , average voters do not blame him for the George Floyd murder , nor do they blame him for the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots .
Police malfeasance is a local matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities burning plays to Trump ’ s advantage to an extent .
But this advantage vanishes if the country still feels deeply unsettled come November .
We are nearly three months removed from the George Floyd killing , and still the unrest in Seattle , Portland , Chicago , and even smaller cities like Richmond continue .
Outrage benefits Trump , but fatigue does not .
Similarly , blue state covid lockdowns and mask mandates advantage Trump if in fact deaths and hospitalizations from the virus plummet before election day .
If covid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , go back to school , and play college football as usual will look bold in hindsight—somewhat shielding him from voter wrath over the economic depression precipitated if not caused by the virus response .
But the Chinese water torture style of media reporting on covid is designed to make the virus seem worse than it is .
These steep conditions—that covid is under control , that he is seen as the law-and-order candidate , and that anger over the economy focuses on lockdown governors rather than him—matter more to the president ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ticket says or does .
Yet he appears poised to adopt the Biden strategy of running out the clock , imagining himself the front-runner .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .
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Can Donald Trump, against all odds, still win in November?
It would be a remarkable political feat, on par with his stunning upset in 2016. A global pandemic (however statistically dubious) ravages the country, while riots ravage major US cities. The US economy produces a third less than it did a year ago, 40 million people are out of work and dependent on federal benefits, and 60 percent of all restaurants may go under. Millions of Americans will not pay rent, mortgages, or credit card bills for the foreseeable future. Millions of their kids will not go to school at all, or will simply stare at their teachers on Zoom. Others wear face shields and sit behind plastic screens at their desks. College football, a religion in America, may well be canceled altogether. Trump’s own Manhattan is a ghost town. And the media is intensely aligned against him.
Yet amid all this mayhem Trump’s poll numbers are no worse, and perhaps better, than they were heading into his contest with Hillary Clinton.
How Trump is Making Bl... Cooper, Horace Best Price: $20.06 Buy New $19.96 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details) Is Trump feeling it? Since holding a series of desultory afternoon press conferences concerning covid earlier this spring, accompanied by the awful (and inexplicably still employed) Dr. Anthony Fauci, he has shrunk from the public eye. He surfaced in South Dakota over the Fourth of July for a rally in front of Mount Rushmore, and continues to spar with reporters, but his political buoyancy is not the same. America is exhausted, and the Trump Show lacks new scripts. Those scripts now issue from Fox News host Tucker Carlson: with 4.3 million viewers and searing monologues every night, he is the de facto populist voice Trump once was.
Surrounded by bad advisers and hamstrung by his own administration working at cross purposes, Trump is less than ninety days from the election with no clear message or direction. He appears particularly unfocused and seeking flattery from unaccountable insiders like Jared Kushner instead of serious counsel. Many people, including Donald Trump himself, seem to forget how and why he won the 2016 election.
His mandate, such as it was and thin as it was, looked something like this:
First, drain the Swamp . Injure the vested interests that dominate and leech off Beltway tax largesse; deny them their permanent sinecure. More than anything, his campaign represented a rebuke to the Uniparty, and a stark expression of populist contempt for technocratic elites. That contempt was and is entirely justified: the political class in America spent the last many decades screwing up education, medicine, foreign policy, diplomacy, money, banking, the US dollar, the federal budget, families, and social cohesion generally. The Bush/Clinton/Obama axis represented the worst profligacies of the managerial state, every bit as illiberal as Trump could ever pretend to be. That axis needed to be repudiated. It was never about Trump or his advisors or his policies; it was about an opportunity for 60 million Americans to go off-script and vote against the coronation of Clinton Part II.
That opportunity appears squandered. Forget Fauci and Kushner; what about Bolton, Mattis, Kelly, Tillerson, Scaramucci, McMaster, Haley, and all the rest? What Trump policy, however much bluster accompanies it, is qualitatively different than those of his predecessors? What federal department or agency is less powerful today than he found it? Where are the budget cuts to accompany what amount only to cuts in the growth rates of regulations? Single-year deficits are in the trillions. And what has he done to bring the damnable Federal Reserve Bank to heel, the one institution more responsible for government bloat and war finance than all others? Trump does not appear to have answers. Defender in Chief: Don... Yoo, John Buy New $25.99 (as of 04:22 UTC - Details)
Second, pursue a meaningful America First foreign policy . This meant, in the eyes of voters, nothing less than the significant withdrawal of US troops from intractable and horrifically expensive wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. The trillions of dollars spent in the post-9-11 period, the lives lost, the limbs severed and maimed, the PTSD, the suicides, none of it made sense anymore to the America public. How much will we spend on VA care over the coming decades, given the sheer number of damaged US soldiers, broken down by endless deployments? We blew up Iraq, really three countries held together by a thread, and don’t know how to fix it. We got bogged down in Afghanistan, learning nothing from the British or Soviet experiences. America wants and needs to get out of the Middle East.
The sheer futility of post–Cold War US foreign policy is tailor-made for Trump’s messaging, and not deeply partisan. He capitalized on this sentiment skillfully during his campaign, but has failed to produce significant troop withdrawals anywhere or touch a penny of “defense” spending. Worse, he has allowed the Bolton wing of the Uniparty ready access to the White House, and has been willing to entertain bellicose nonsense about Iran and China. Trump deserves credit for not taking the neoconservative bait to appear tough on Putin in an effort to deflect from the ludicrous Russiagate. But beyond that he has failed to fundamentally change even the rhetoric surrounding foreign policy, which remains hegemonic in tenor. A populist foreign policy requires humility, not hubris.
Third, act as a bodyguard for Middle America against the worst excesses of the American left . Some Americans just wanted a bodyguard against left academia, left media, and the secularist rout. They didn’t care if that bodyguard came with a graceless demeanor and rap sheet; in fact, they preferred it. Cultural and social issues were a mainstay of Trump’s 2016 coalition, but not in the sense they were for Pat Buchanan in 1996 or for social conservatives generally. Trump is not animated by religion or abortion; he is comfortable in cosmopolitan and diverse New York circles, and has little interest in relitigating gay marriage or similar battles. But he did promise to stand against campus radicalism, cancel culture, and the general perception of hostility toward flyover country emanating from the Left, particularly the media. Yet all of these things have become worse, not better, since Trump took office. In fact, the reaction to Trump has emboldened open socialists and Marxists to abandon incrementalism and demand wholesale revolution in America, right here and now. Antifa and Black Lives Matter, with open support from media, politicians, and corporate America, condone if not engineer riots and looting in cities. In sum, Christian Middle America feels less secure after four years of Trump, not more. All of this has happened under Trump’s watch. Trump and the American... Gingrich, Newt Best Price: $15.19 Buy New $18.52 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details)
What about the vaunted “alt-right,” supposedly the populist shock troops of the Trump movement? It was, and is, mostly a media creation. It needed to be created as an explanation for the rise of Trump in the first place. Journalists wanted to believe, fiercely, that a racist and fascist right was the only explanation for Trump, and especially for Clinton’s loss. So they defined a mass of people who (i) were not on the left and (ii) did not think Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich represented vital opposition to the Clinton dynasty as the alt-right. In fact, the moniker never applied to more than a few thousand angry outsized voices loosely connected on social media. They had no money, no political power or party, no platforms or donors. The alt-right certainly did not elect Donald Trump in 2016: the red states voted red, the blue states voted blue, and a few hundred thousand unhappy Baby Boomers in six swing states—many of whom earlier voted for Barack Obama—gave Trump razor-thin margins.
Those margins, and whether a real “silent majority” exists—as opposed to a mythical alt-right—will decide 2020.
So can Trump win in November? Certainly. He recently issued dubious executive orders which are sure to be popular, including an extension of $400 weekly federal unemployment benefits and a continued moratorium on evictions for federally subsidized housing. Biden and Harris are an uninspiring duo, and not likely to drive or inspire new voter turnout not already energized by standard Trump hatred. And sustained street violence continues to plague American cities, even smaller cities like Portland (Oregon) and Richmond, Virginia. Trump is not Nixon, and has not been able to project a “law and order” image onto his campaign like Nixon did in 1968. Still, the Left’s silence on riots—if not outright support—plays in Trump’s favor. Things may be bad in America, but pointing to scenes of burning and looting merely to say “I’m against that” is an opening even the most inept campaign can exploit. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler finally said as much recently, lamenting how rioters were creating “B-roll film” for Trump ads.
But populists need a status quo to oppose, and Trump now faces a new normal of incumbency.
Airborne: How The Libe... Margolis, Matt Best Price: $12.00 Buy New $15.99 (as of 04:20 UTC - Details) Average voters do not blame him for covid; it would be preposterous to think the Left would not attack him equally had he ordered some kind of draconian (and unconstitutional) federal mandates and quarantines. He showed decent instincts with respect to the pandemic, preferring to leave matters largely up to states. This was good policy and good politics; top-down approaches to public health generally produce worse outcomes. And a less biased media would have savaged rather than lionized Trump critic Andrew Cuomo for his horrific bungling of nursing homes. But Trump has not articulated a strong alternative approach to dealing with covid, instead allowing Fauci to ramble publicly about far-off vaccines.
Similarly, average voters do not blame him for the George Floyd murder, nor do they blame him for the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. Police malfeasance is a local matter, and the optics of progressive blue cities burning plays to Trump’s advantage to an extent. But this advantage vanishes if the country still feels deeply unsettled come November. We are nearly three months removed from the George Floyd killing, and still the unrest in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, and even smaller cities like Richmond continue. Outrage benefits Trump, but fatigue does not.
Similarly, blue state covid lockdowns and mask mandates advantage Trump if in fact deaths and hospitalizations from the virus plummet before election day. If covid ebbs, his exhortations to reopen businesses, go back to school, and play college football as usual will look bold in hindsight—somewhat shielding him from voter wrath over the economic depression precipitated if not caused by the virus response. But the Chinese water torture style of media reporting on covid is designed to make the virus seem worse than it is.
These steep conditions—that covid is under control, that he is seen as the law-and-order candidate, and that anger over the economy focuses on lockdown governors rather than him—matter more to the president’s reelection chances than anything the Democratic ticket says or does. Yet he appears poised to adopt the Biden strategy of running out the clock, imagining himself the front-runner.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.
The Best of Jeff Deist


lewrockwell--2020-08-18--Biden’s Face Mask Dog Whistle

Biden’s Face Mask Dog Whistle

On Thursday , August 13 , 2020 , Joe Biden and Kamala Harris appeared together at a press conference at which they called for three months of mandatory face masks orders .
Biden said the following : “ Every single American should be wearing a mask when they ’ re outside for the next three months at a minimum .
Every governor should mandate , every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing .
The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months — 40,000 lives — if people act responsibly .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s about your responsibilities as an American .
So let ’ s institute a mask mandate , nationwide , starting immediately and we will save lives .
The estimates are we ’ ll save over 40,000 lives in the next three months if that is done.
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We just witnessed real leadership , which is Joe Biden said that as a nation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the next three months because it will save lives .
And the thing about Joe that the American people know is that his role of leadership in our country has always been about doing what ’ s best for the people of our country.
” Their brief , carefully crafted , prepared statements overlapped on one topic — all governors should institute face mask orders for the next three months .
If I may rely on the “ toxic ” “ ethno-mathematics ” of my youth in which 2+2=4 , three months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s right in the middle of flu season .
That ’ s when Joe Biden curiously says it will be acceptable to drop the masking orders .
If the masking order is a sensible way to save lives in August 2020 , then any consistent person will find it a sensible way to save lives at least until April or May 2021 , when flu season is likely to conclude .
Little Happens In DC Without The Agreement Of Many Little happens in Washington , D.C. without many competing interests coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
There are many factions that are benefited by the continuation of this corona communism we have .
If that were not the case , it would come to a quick halt or a slow death , but would not continue on with renewed vigor seemingly daily .
There are many examples of this tendency from DC .
The perpetual “ War on Terror ” has turned into an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink style government program .
It focuses on everything but the 15 Saudi hijackers and their accomplices that we are told committed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using box cutters .
The War on Terror continues because there ’ s enough overlapping interest among special interest groups to see it continue .
It continues with renewed vigor , pushed along by the allies of those special interest groups in the media .
I can think of no moment in American history in which so large a number were more terrified and terrorized than today .
GEER Head Mask Full Fa ... Buy New $ 79.99 The average American surveyed in July believes 30 million Americans have died from Covid , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid or the 100,000+ or so that was the official count at the time .
That ’ s a 10^3 miscalculation , hardly a rounding error .
The trillion dollar propaganda machine seems to be in no hurry correcting that perception among the terrified public .
You Are Looking At The Greatest American Terrorists They are in no hurry to say that 1969 was a particularly deadly flu year in America , but life still went on , and the iconic Woodstock happened .
Nearly every media conversation that I have seen in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with reality as it blows the illness out of proportion and encourages fear-based disruptions to life .
A true War on Terror would involve the dismantling of the government public health bureaucracy , the corporate interests that have captured them , and the media that acts as their arm of manipulation .
In contrast to the perpetual War on Terror is another notable government attack on human freedom that has come to an end .
Alcohol Prohibition — A Contrary Example That Lasted “ Only ” Thirteen Tyrannical Years , Rather Than Perpetually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there was enough overlapping interest among special interest groups to see it not continued .
Both of these wars — on terrorism and alcohol — are attacks on freedom and civilization .
The awful , supremely destructive war on Covid-19 will continue until it becomes inconvenient or undesirable to continue it .
As of right now , few seek to make that discontinuation a reality , few people seek to push government to reconsider the errors of their ways .
Biden Says What Many Know : Politicians Can ’ t Be Trusted Because @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Their Gain Acme Silent Dog Whistle Best Price : $ 18.59 Buy New $ 21.91 Aside from it being the middle of flu season , three months from now marks another important period in time .
Election Day is scheduled for Tuesday , November 3 , 2020 .
Joe Biden is clearly telling those listening carefully what the face mask is to him : an election year maneuver .
Give us three more months of crippling your population and suppressing your economy and this will all be over soon .
Just three more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asks of the governors .
The many friendly governors to his campaign , Democrat and Republican alike , can make sense of that dog whistle and might appreciate the reassurance that things will return to the pre-Trump business as usual in three months after a Biden victory .
Joe Biden finally confirmed what so many were thinking .
Ludwig Von Mises & How To Know When You ’ re Being A Useful Idiot Ludwig Von Mises described a concept — useful innocent — in his 1947 essay “ Planned Chaos.
” “ Marx @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assumed that the masses long for a revolutionary overthrow of the ‘ bourgeois ’ order of society .
The militant communists are to be found only in the ranks of those who make a living from their communism or expect that a revolution would further their personal ambitions .
The subversive activities of these professional plotters are dangerous precisely on account of the naivety of those who are merely flirting with the revolutionary idea .
Those confused and misguided sympathizers who call themselves ‘ liberals ’ and whom the communists call ‘ useful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the majority of the officially registered party members , would be terribly frightened if they were to discover one day that their chiefs mean business when preaching sedition .
But then it may be too late to avert disaster.
” Mises was a kind man with a brutally effective way of describing evil .
Seventy years ago , those who aided the most despicable evil were useful innocents .
The more commonly used “ useful idiots , ” is more in line with the harshly worded sensibilities of this day .
Stop Defending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Read The Research & Read It Many people are angry and scared .
They turn to the media for certainty , and they fully defend sensationalism in the media .
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In that situation you ’ d have to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Ignore the media , turn to peer reviewed studies that address the topic not just of droplet spread , but of effectiveness in preventing respiratory disease transmission .
To those who believe the official Covid numbers , assess your role as useful innocent .
Turn away from the media .
Look at peer reviewed research on the shifting definition of Covid-19 from country to country .
If Covid is defined broadly , you get more Covid deaths .
If Covid is defined narrowly , you get fewer Covid deaths .
Compare today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ similar pandemics in the past , by turning to peer reviews .
To not do so is to assure yourself a role as useful innocent .
To those who believe a single thing in the media on Covid , assess your role as useful innocent .
Go to the peer reviewed research .
If you feel any fear around Covid , then go read some peer reviewed studies instead of media or governmental sources and let that fear subside by reading facts , and then contextualize them against other risks and approaches .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ playing useful idiot .
It is being manufactured by the controlled corporate media and government , two of the greatest enemies to human freedom .
My favorite starting place on searching peer reviewed research is a so far un-compromised corner of Google ( as far as I know ) , Google Scholar .
The Anti-Science Westerners Are Those Who Scream “ Science ” And “ Denier ” Most Loudly Science has always had factions .
Even in the peer reviewed literature you will find rubbish .
The West is quickly moving away from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ correctness in its place , but for the time being you are assured so much more quality in that reading than in anything in the media .
And until you do that homework and figure that out , I ’ d like to ask you to quiet down and live your life as close to the old normal as possible , instead of claiming the sky is falling .
Quieting down and questioning my own premises is the only way I know of to reliably avoid being the useful idiot .
This approach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many others , preceding even Socrates .
Rothbard On Vocal Intellectual Dishonesty & The Importance Of Listening I will borrow a wonderful Murray Rothbard quote that speaks to all matters of intellectual honesty : “ It is no crime to be ignorant of economics , which is , after all , a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘ dismal science.
’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
” So much ill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know better are committed to naively trusting government and hoping it all turns out for the best .
Too many are being vocal about topics that deserve little more than their greatest skepticism and disinterest .
Anything Is Fair Game Among Politicians During An Election Year , Including The Destruction Of Millions Of Lives At least one man , the man who may become president , and the woman who will succeed him , are telling you clearly what face mask orders mean to them : a way to get elected in an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in incentivizes that .
They didn ’ t create it , but you better believe these hacks will use it unscrupulously to seize even an iota more power for themselves .
Covid is a non-issue as a disease .
There are far greater threats to human life .
We are still trying to make sense of SARS two decades later and MERS one decade later , so there may never be consensus on some of this , but the number of cases may become knowable and agreed upon one day .
Covid is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heavy-handed governmental approach .
Anyone who says otherwise is looking in places beyond the peer reviewed data or is looking myopically at the grand cost of this imposition on life .
Are You As Angry As I Am About The Destruction Of Innocent Lives That Has Taken Place At The Hands Of These Domestic Terrorists ?
Realizing the wanton destructiveness that has been done in this era , seething anger should imbue every thought of any reasonable person about this period of American history .
Even greater ill-will should be focused on cynical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an election year maneuver .
It would be unrealistic to imagine that only Biden sees it as such .
There is clear reason for the greatest level of resistance to every single order being sociopathically and paternalistically levied against grown adults “ for the good of all.
” Instead , what we have is lots of people saying “ everything is just fine , let ’ s get comfy with the new normal.
” The onus to prove that a new normal makes sense is on the person advocating for the new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proven .
The amount of censorship that has taken place in 2020 rather than open debate demonstrates the clear lack of consensus .
No one has to censor videos that encourage me not to tie my shoes in the morning or to not look both ways when crossing the street , because the argument favoring my continuation of that behavior is so evident .
You only need to censor a debate that you know you will lose , because the validity of your point is so weak .
Throughout history , that is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been .
Sociopaths have brainwashed large segments of society .
They have medicated and educated common sense out of so many children .
Sociopaths have instigated the burning of cities .
They have cancelled thousands , they have left our economy in ruins and set the stage for the most brutal and repressive communism in the United States .
With your inaction you enable them .
And perhaps inaction could even suffice if you didn ’ t also close your business , wear their mask , believe their numbers , and contemplate their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all .
This is cooperating in the gravest ills .
If you can ’ t get mad about what has happened , I can ’ t imagine what you would possibly get mad about .
Tell me about your stories from the corona compliance checkpoints .
Tell me your vows not to put up with any of this anymore .
Help me put an end to this tyranny .
The Best of Allan Stevo

On Thursday, August 13, 2020, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris appeared together at a press conference at which they called for three months of mandatory face masks orders.
Biden said the following:
“Every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate, every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives in the next three months — 40,000 lives — if people act responsibly. And it’s not about your rights. It’s about your responsibilities as an American. So let’s institute a mask mandate, nationwide, starting immediately and we will save lives. The estimates are we’ll save over 40,000 lives in the next three months if that is done.”
Harris said the following: The Case Against Masks... Heckenlively, Kent Buy New $12.99 (as of 04:52 UTC - Details)
“That’s what real leadership looks like. We just witnessed real leadership, which is Joe Biden said that as a nation, we should all be wearing a mask for the next three months because it will save lives. And the thing about Joe that the American people know is that his role of leadership in our country has always been about doing what’s best for the people of our country.”
Their brief, carefully crafted, prepared statements overlapped on one topic — all governors should institute face mask orders for the next three months.
Biden & Harris: Force Face Masks Until November 13, 2020
If I may rely on the “toxic” “ethno-mathematics” of my youth in which 2+2=4, three months after August 13 is November 13. That’s right in the middle of flu season. That’s when Joe Biden curiously says it will be acceptable to drop the masking orders. If the masking order is a sensible way to save lives in August 2020, then any consistent person will find it a sensible way to save lives at least until April or May 2021, when flu season is likely to conclude.
Little Happens In DC Without The Agreement Of Many
Little happens in Washington, D.C. without many competing interests coming together both supporting action and not opposing it. There are many factions that are benefited by the continuation of this corona communism we have. If that were not the case, it would come to a quick halt or a slow death, but would not continue on with renewed vigor seemingly daily.
There are many examples of this tendency from DC. The perpetual “War on Terror” has turned into an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink style government program. It focuses on everything but the 15 Saudi hijackers and their accomplices that we are told committed the atrocities on September 11, 2001, using box cutters.
The War on Terror continues because there’s enough overlapping interest among special interest groups to see it continue. It continues with renewed vigor, pushed along by the allies of those special interest groups in the media. I can think of no moment in American history in which so large a number were more terrified and terrorized than today. GEER Head Mask Full Fa... Buy New $79.99 (as of 04:45 UTC - Details)
The average American surveyed in July believes 30 million Americans have died from Covid, not the thousands that actually died from Covid or the 100,000+ or so that was the official count at the time. That’s a 10^3 miscalculation, hardly a rounding error. The trillion dollar propaganda machine seems to be in no hurry correcting that perception among the terrified public.
You Are Looking At The Greatest American Terrorists
They are in no hurry to say that 1969 was a particularly deadly flu year in America, but life still went on, and the iconic Woodstock happened. Nearly every media conversation that I have seen in months on Covid is out of line with reality as it blows the illness out of proportion and encourages fear-based disruptions to life.
A true War on Terror would involve the dismantling of the government public health bureaucracy, the corporate interests that have captured them, and the media that acts as their arm of manipulation.
In contrast to the perpetual War on Terror is another notable government attack on human freedom that has come to an end.
Alcohol Prohibition — A Contrary Example That Lasted “Only” Thirteen Tyrannical Years, Rather Than Perpetually
Alcohol prohibition does not continue precisely because there was enough overlapping interest among special interest groups to see it not continued. Both of these wars — on terrorism and alcohol — are attacks on freedom and civilization. The awful, supremely destructive war on Covid-19 will continue until it becomes inconvenient or undesirable to continue it. As of right now, few seek to make that discontinuation a reality, few people seek to push government to reconsider the errors of their ways.
Biden Says What Many Know: Politicians Can’t Be Trusted Because They Are Cynically Exploiting Covid Fear For Their Gain
Acme Silent Dog Whistle Best Price: $18.59 Buy New $21.91 (as of 04:43 UTC - Details) Aside from it being the middle of flu season, three months from now marks another important period in time. Election Day is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020.
Joe Biden is clearly telling those listening carefully what the face mask is to him: an election year maneuver. Give us three more months of crippling your population and suppressing your economy and this will all be over soon. Just three more months. That’s what he asks of the governors. The many friendly governors to his campaign, Democrat and Republican alike, can make sense of that dog whistle and might appreciate the reassurance that things will return to the pre-Trump business as usual in three months after a Biden victory.
Joe Biden finally confirmed what so many were thinking.
Ludwig Von Mises & How To Know When You’re Being A Useful Idiot
Ludwig Von Mises described a concept — useful innocent — in his 1947 essay “Planned Chaos.”
“Marx and the Marxians erred lamentably when they assumed that the masses long for a revolutionary overthrow of the ‘bourgeois’ order of society. The militant communists are to be found only in the ranks of those who make a living from their communism or expect that a revolution would further their personal ambitions. The subversive activities of these professional plotters are dangerous precisely on account of the naivety of those who are merely flirting with the revolutionary idea. Those confused and misguided sympathizers who call themselves ‘liberals’ and whom the communists call ‘useful innocents,’ the fellow-travellers and even the majority of the officially registered party members, would be terribly frightened if they were to discover one day that their chiefs mean business when preaching sedition. But then it may be too late to avert disaster.”
Mises was a kind man with a brutally effective way of describing evil. Seventy years ago, those who aided the most despicable evil were useful innocents. The more commonly used “useful idiots,” is more in line with the harshly worded sensibilities of this day.
Stop Defending Media Sensationalism: Vow To Learn To Read The Research & Read It
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To those who believe face masks work, you could be right, but that’s not likely to be the case if your understanding comes from media sources, or from the comforting tradition of seeing dentists in masks. In that situation you’d have to assess your possible role as useful idiot. Ignore the media, turn to peer reviewed studies that address the topic not just of droplet spread, but of effectiveness in preventing respiratory disease transmission.
To those who believe the official Covid numbers, assess your role as useful innocent. Turn away from the media. Look at peer reviewed research on the shifting definition of Covid-19 from country to country. If Covid is defined broadly, you get more Covid deaths. If Covid is defined narrowly, you get fewer Covid deaths. Compare today’s Covid definition to definitions of similar pandemics in the past, by turning to peer reviews. To not do so is to assure yourself a role as useful innocent.
To those who believe a single thing in the media on Covid, assess your role as useful innocent. Go to the peer reviewed research.
If you feel any fear around Covid, then go read some peer reviewed studies instead of media or governmental sources and let that fear subside by reading facts, and then contextualize them against other risks and approaches. Those who subscribe to this fear are playing useful idiot. It is being manufactured by the controlled corporate media and government, two of the greatest enemies to human freedom.
My favorite starting place on searching peer reviewed research is a so far un-compromised corner of Google (as far as I know), Google Scholar.
The Anti-Science Westerners Are Those Who Scream “Science” And “Denier” Most Loudly
Science has always had factions. Even in the peer reviewed literature you will find rubbish. The West is quickly moving away from hard science and toward Mathematx and political correctness in its place, but for the time being you are assured so much more quality in that reading than in anything in the media.
And until you do that homework and figure that out, I’d like to ask you to quiet down and live your life as close to the old normal as possible, instead of claiming the sky is falling. Quieting down and questioning my own premises is the only way I know of to reliably avoid being the useful idiot. This approach has a long history of working for many others, preceding even Socrates.
Rothbard On Vocal Intellectual Dishonesty & The Importance Of Listening
I will borrow a wonderful Murray Rothbard quote that speaks to all matters of intellectual honesty:
“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”
So much ill is happening, because people who should know better are committed to naively trusting government and hoping it all turns out for the best. Too many are being vocal about topics that deserve little more than their greatest skepticism and disinterest.
Anything Is Fair Game Among Politicians During An Election Year, Including The Destruction Of Millions Of Lives
At least one man, the man who may become president, and the woman who will succeed him, are telling you clearly what face mask orders mean to them: a way to get elected in an election year.
The system they operate in incentivizes that. They didn’t create it, but you better believe these hacks will use it unscrupulously to seize even an iota more power for themselves.
Covid is a non-issue as a disease. There are far greater threats to human life. We are still trying to make sense of SARS two decades later and MERS one decade later, so there may never be consensus on some of this, but the number of cases may become knowable and agreed upon one day. Covid is a major issue, because of the heavy-handed governmental approach.
Anyone who says otherwise is looking in places beyond the peer reviewed data or is looking myopically at the grand cost of this imposition on life.
Are You As Angry As I Am About The Destruction Of Innocent Lives That Has Taken Place At The Hands Of These Domestic Terrorists?
Realizing the wanton destructiveness that has been done in this era, seething anger should imbue every thought of any reasonable person about this period of American history. Even greater ill-will should be focused on cynical politicians like Joe Biden who recognize this as an election year maneuver. It would be unrealistic to imagine that only Biden sees it as such. There is clear reason for the greatest level of resistance to every single order being sociopathically and paternalistically levied against grown adults “for the good of all.” Instead, what we have is lots of people saying “everything is just fine, let’s get comfy with the new normal.”
The onus to prove that a new normal makes sense is on the person advocating for the new normal. This has unquestionably not been proven. The amount of censorship that has taken place in 2020 rather than open debate demonstrates the clear lack of consensus.
No one has to censor videos that encourage me not to tie my shoes in the morning or to not look both ways when crossing the street, because the argument favoring my continuation of that behavior is so evident. You only need to censor a debate that you know you will lose, because the validity of your point is so weak. Throughout history, that is what the story of censorship has reliably been.
Sociopaths have brainwashed large segments of society. They have medicated and educated common sense out of so many children. Sociopaths have instigated the burning of cities. They have cancelled thousands, they have left our economy in ruins and set the stage for the most brutal and repressive communism in the United States. With your inaction you enable them.
And perhaps inaction could even suffice if you didn’t also close your business, wear their mask, believe their numbers, and contemplate their vaccine. This is no inaction at all. This is cooperating in the gravest ills.
If you can’t get mad about what has happened, I can’t imagine what you would possibly get mad about.
If you’re mad, write me.
Tell me about your stories from the corona compliance checkpoints.
Tell me your vows not to put up with any of this anymore.
Help me put an end to this tyranny.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-08-18--YouTube Censorship Is Ridiculous

YouTube Censorship Is Ridiculous

I downloaded the 82-minute Millie Weaver video from YouTube before YouTube removed it .
The blank YouTube screen now says “ This video has been removed for violating YouTube ’ s policy on hate speech .
Learn more about combating hate speech in your country.
” I watched this video , and while I can ’ t say I caught every word , I caught nearly all of it .
There were some revelations in it from two whistleblowers that were new to me , and they are of some importance in understanding where data collection has gone and where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grave dangers for liberty .
The video is still available in other places if you hunt for it .
Here is one source that ’ s currently up and running .
Here is another source .
HATE : Why We Should Re ... Strossen , Nadine Best Price : $ 9.35 Buy New $ 11.00 My main reason for this blog is what the title says : “ YouTube censorship is ridiculous.
” This company is full of it .
I didn ’ t see any hate speech whatsoever in any part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ saying it ’ s an A-1 production or that it ’ s worth 82 minutes of your life .
I ’ m just saying that YouTube is coming from some very strange and very weird place to say that this video needs to be removed because it contains hate speech .
Their idea of “ hate ” must be really far out , really crazy , because all we have here are two people explaining what their jobs were relating to government , data collection , and how these data are being used @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being used in ways that are corrupt and threaten liberty .
This case of this documentary is just one case .
There are now hundreds of cases like it in which YouTube selectively removes content for reasons that appear to be political and to involve censorship of political-related views that their censors disagree with .
YouTube is like a newspaper that has a definite political slant and publishes only material in accordance with that slant .
However , what sort of outfit does YouTube pretend to be ?
You will find their mission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that we ’ re entitled to conclude that they are lying to us about “ hate speech ” in this instance .
YouTube claims “ Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.
” Well , obviously NOT .
There are 3 voices being silenced at a minimum , the two whistleblowers and the host , Millie Weaver .
YouTube claims “ We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice , and that the world is a better place when we listen , share and build community @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not everyone deserves a voice , according to their eliminating this video .
And the world is NOT a better place , YouTube is saying , if our minds are exposed to Millie Weaver and her guests , who , I remind you , are not spewing hatred whatsoever .
YouTube advocates an INCLUSIVE policy , and then turns around and actuates an EXCLUSION policy .
What a bunch of clowns and hypocrites the people doing this inside YouTube must be .
The Coddling of the Am ... Haidt , Jonathan Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 13.39 The gigantic hypocrisy of these cowards gets worse .
Their mission page goes on to tout “ four essential freedoms that define who we are.
” And these include “ freedom of expression ” and freedom of information ” .
What sort of idiots in a major company like this can profess these ideals and then turn around and do the very opposite ?
It makes no sense unless we understand that they are paying no attention to their mission .
Instead they ’ re simply censoring whatever they feel like censoring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What a rotten way to behave , to act as if you ’ re nobly providing the world with a forum for freedom of expression , and then to turn around and delete what you please .
But that ’ s YouTube for you .
And I ’ m afraid that they are far from being alone .
Hypocrisy is a sign of our times .
At a debate , a Kamala Harris can slice and dice Joe Biden for being a segregationist .
She can look , act and sound as if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But then she can turn right around this week and laugh it all off , suggesting that it was just a “ debate ” .
So , how is anyone supposed to know when Kamala Harris means what she says or does not ?
And when she talks with others , be they foreign leaders or fellow senators , how does she expect to know what they mean and what they do not mean if she views truth as being dependent on the situation at hand ?
How can anyone operate where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of sand being shifted here and there by the winds of voices jabbering away ?
What else does it all mean , except the rejection of truth and one ’ s word of honor , when YouTube strongly proclaims its basic beliefs and then does the opposite ?
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I downloaded the 82-minute Millie Weaver video from YouTube before YouTube removed it. The blank YouTube screen now says “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech. Learn more about combating hate speech in your country.”
I watched this video, and while I can’t say I caught every word, I caught nearly all of it. There were some revelations in it from two whistleblowers that were new to me, and they are of some importance in understanding where data collection has gone and where it’s going, and the grave dangers for liberty.
The video is still available in other places if you hunt for it. Here is one source that’s currently up and running. Here is another source.
HATE: Why We Should Re... Strossen, Nadine Best Price: $9.35 Buy New $11.00 (as of 05:59 UTC - Details) My main reason for this blog is what the title says: “YouTube censorship is ridiculous.” This company is full of it. I didn’t see any hate speech whatsoever in any part of this video. I’m not saying it’s an A-1 production or that it’s worth 82 minutes of your life. I’m just saying that YouTube is coming from some very strange and very weird place to say that this video needs to be removed because it contains hate speech. Their idea of “hate” must be really far out, really crazy, because all we have here are two people explaining what their jobs were relating to government, data collection, and how these data are being used by certain companies for profit, and being used in ways that are corrupt and threaten liberty.
This case of this documentary is just one case. There are now hundreds of cases like it in which YouTube selectively removes content for reasons that appear to be political and to involve censorship of political-related views that their censors disagree with. YouTube is like a newspaper that has a definite political slant and publishes only material in accordance with that slant.
However, what sort of outfit does YouTube pretend to be? You will find their mission here. This is where we see that we’re entitled to conclude that they are lying to us about “hate speech” in this instance.
YouTube claims “Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.” Well, obviously NOT. There are 3 voices being silenced at a minimum, the two whistleblowers and the host, Millie Weaver.
YouTube claims “We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories.” Well, UNTRUE. Not everyone deserves a voice, according to their eliminating this video. And the world is NOT a better place, YouTube is saying, if our minds are exposed to Millie Weaver and her guests, who, I remind you, are not spewing hatred whatsoever. YouTube advocates an INCLUSIVE policy, and then turns around and actuates an EXCLUSION policy. What a bunch of clowns and hypocrites the people doing this inside YouTube must be. The Coddling of the Am... Haidt, Jonathan Best Price: $12.68 Buy New $13.39 (as of 02:43 UTC - Details)
The gigantic hypocrisy of these cowards gets worse. Their mission page goes on to tout “four essential freedoms that define who we are.” And these include “freedom of expression” and freedom of information”. What sort of idiots in a major company like this can profess these ideals and then turn around and do the very opposite? It makes no sense unless we understand that they are paying no attention to their mission. Instead they’re simply censoring whatever they feel like censoring according to their own political preferences. What a rotten way to behave, to act as if you’re nobly providing the world with a forum for freedom of expression, and then to turn around and delete what you please. But that’s YouTube for you.
And I’m afraid that they are far from being alone. Hypocrisy is a sign of our times. At a debate, a Kamala Harris can slice and dice Joe Biden for being a segregationist. She can look, act and sound as if this is truth and she means it. But then she can turn right around this week and laugh it all off, suggesting that it was just a “debate”. So, how is anyone supposed to know when Kamala Harris means what she says or does not? And when she talks with others, be they foreign leaders or fellow senators, how does she expect to know what they mean and what they do not mean if she views truth as being dependent on the situation at hand? How can anyone operate where trust and truth are reduced to grains of sand being shifted here and there by the winds of voices jabbering away? What else does it all mean, except the rejection of truth and one’s word of honor, when YouTube strongly proclaims its basic beliefs and then does the opposite?
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lewrockwell--2020-08-18--COVID: Did They Actually Discover a New Coronavirus? The Question Won’t Go Away

Recently , I ’ ve offered important evidence AGAINST the claim that researchers have discovered SARS-CoV-2 , the new COVID-19 pandemic virus .
No large-scale electron microscope study has been done with , say , 1000 pandemic patients lined up ; with tissue samples taken from all of them ; with those samples carefully handled ; with relevant material photographed under an electron microscope ; with the particles in the photos examined to see if all of them are of the same unique virus , and have never been seen before .
Of course , researchers would argue against such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it .
They don ’ t want to .
They ’ re afraid the results would make it clear they ’ re involved in enormous fraud .
“ Well , we thought we had a new virus , but it turns out the particles in the photos are of all sorts of material .
Different viruses , genetic fragments , cellular debris , exosomes , and so on .
Back to the drawing board… ” If there existed a truly honest editor at a prestigious medical journal , this is what he would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the TRUTH .
You know , the supposed goal of science— Plagues , Pandemics and ... Quinlan , Heather E. Buy New $ 22.95 “ I must confess , after reflection and conversation , we here at the Journal don ’ t know how researchers discover a new virus .
They make pronouncements , but what are they actually DOING in their labs ?
” “ You see , the steps they take , the procedures they engage in , are never captured on film , step by step .
No truly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s as if the lab is a holy of holies , and only loyal initiates are allowed in .
This is an intolerable situation.
” “ This mystery must be penetrated .
For example , official researchers say they are working out the genetic sequence of a new virus , but what does that mean ?
What sample are they are starting out with and using ?
Do they already have a truly purified specimen of the new virus ?
If so , where did they get it , and how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of cells ?
Really ?
And they purified it from that culture ?
We refuse to accept these unexamined claims at face value.
” “ Therefore , we ’ re opening our pages to an ongoing discussion and debate on the questions , HOW ARE RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY DISCOVERING A NEW VIRUS ?
HOW SHOULD THEY ?
We will accept submissions from many quarters .
Not just the usual experts .
We aim to break up the chokehold and monopoly of opinion on this vital subject.
” In the realm of so-called science , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experts in charge , who say , “ Of course we know what we ’ re doing when we discover a new virus.
” And that , they think , is enough .
It isn ’ t .
AIDS Inc. Rappoport , Jon Best Price : $ 33.29 Buy New $ 18.89 It especially isn ’ t , when the issue is a claim of a global viral pandemic ; and repressive containment measures are being imposed , which are destroying countless jobs and businesses and lives .
All because of a story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ve heard the phrase , “ the science is settled.
” But settled for whom ?
Time and again , it turns out the purveyors of pseudoscience have a political or commercial agenda that is driving their assertions .
They posture , they scoff at critics .
They refuse to step forward and engage in honest and prolonged debate .
They censor counter-arguments .
In the past 35 years , during the purported epidemics called AIDS , West Nile , SARS , bird flu , Mad Cow , Swine Flu , Zika , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the cause , there has never been a truly PROPER large-scale study launched to confirm or deny those hypotheses about causation .
Over the past six months , a few readers have contacted me with references to COVID studies that show an electron microscope photo here , a photo there , along with the researchers ’ statements that the new coronavirus has , in fact , been isolated and proven to exist .
That ’ s not proof .
That ’ s not what I ’ m talking about AT ALL .
If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , who had taken a new drug , showed major improvement in their illness-condition , would that constitute proof of anything ?
Would that be sufficient evidence for licensing the drug , as safe and effective , for widespread public use ?
When I say LARGE-SCALE STUDY , that ’ s exactly what I mean .
And one such study isn ’ t enough .
Other studies must be done as well , to verify or disprove the finding of the first set of researchers .
All the researchers must be free of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Olszewski , Erin Marie Buy New $ 24.29 This is called the scientific method .
Let me break it down a little further , since nobody in the conventional scientific community will .
Let ’ s say you do the large-scale electron microscope study I outlined above .
And you find that , in 80 of the 1000 photos , you do see many , many particles of the same unique coronavirus , and you ’ ve never seen that virus before .
What conclusions would you draw ?
You would say @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we don ’ t have PROOF of anything resembling a pandemic .
Looks like a dud .
Maybe…could be…eight percent of the 1000 people who have this list of GENERAL FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS might be suffering from a new viral condition .
MAYBE .
If we ’ ve already made projections of how many people will contract this new disease , we ’ ll need to provisionally cut down those numbers by 92 percent .
Hmm , no , that doesn ’ t sound at all like a global pandemic .
Now we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who also have these flu-like symptoms , but show no signs of having a new virus , and compare them with the 80 people and see what we can discover .
Let ’ s dig into this .
Is it possible the 80 people have a new virus , but it isn ’ t actually causing any illness ?
How many of the 80 are already suffering from serious health conditions that have nothing to do with this purported virus ?
How many have been treated for years with toxic drugs ?
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polluted air ?
We need to make a list of possible reasons these 80 people are sick and look at those causes .
Let ’ s go back and examine the electron microscope photos again .
Are we actually seeing many particles of the same new virus from all 80 of the patients… ?
Do we have any CDC or WHO researchers on board ?
They always find a new virus… ” An approach like that would start to make some sense .
More large studies would definitely be needed .
Plagues , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 22.95 Of course , there wouldn ’ t be any MONEY in this .
There wouldn ’ t be an opportunity for massive top-down CONTROL in this .
You couldn ’ t wreck a global economy on this basis and try to usher in a new political system for planet Earth .
You couldn ’ t convince seven billion people to take a destructive vaccine .
But you would be putting your feet on a road that resembles something called science .
And yet , in an era which is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you would be , guess what ?
An extreme outlier .
That seems to be a contradiction .
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Recently, I’ve offered important evidence AGAINST the claim that researchers have discovered SARS-CoV-2, the new COVID-19 pandemic virus.
No large-scale electron microscope study has been done with, say, 1000 pandemic patients lined up; with tissue samples taken from all of them; with those samples carefully handled; with relevant material photographed under an electron microscope; with the particles in the photos examined to see if all of them are of the same unique virus, and have never been seen before.
Of course, researchers would argue against such a study, because they never perform it. They don’t want to. They’re afraid the results would make it clear they’re involved in enormous fraud.
“Well, we thought we had a new virus, but it turns out the particles in the photos are of all sorts of material. Different viruses, genetic fragments, cellular debris, exosomes, and so on. Back to the drawing board…”
If there existed a truly honest editor at a prestigious medical journal, this is what he would write, in an effort to get at the TRUTH. You know, the supposed goal of science— Plagues, Pandemics and... Quinlan, Heather E. Buy New $22.95 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
“I must confess, after reflection and conversation, we here at the Journal don’t know how researchers discover a new virus. They make pronouncements, but what are they actually DOING in their labs?”
“You see, the steps they take, the procedures they engage in, are never captured on film, step by step. No truly independent observers are there as witnesses. It’s as if the lab is a holy of holies, and only loyal initiates are allowed in. This is an intolerable situation.”
“This mystery must be penetrated. For example, official researchers say they are working out the genetic sequence of a new virus, but what does that mean? What sample are they are starting out with and using? Do they already have a truly purified specimen of the new virus? If so, where did they get it, and how? They grew it in a culture of cells? Really? And they purified it from that culture? We refuse to accept these unexamined claims at face value.”
“Therefore, we’re opening our pages to an ongoing discussion and debate on the questions, HOW ARE RESEARCHERS ACTUALLY DISCOVERING A NEW VIRUS? HOW SHOULD THEY? We will accept submissions from many quarters. Not just the usual experts. We aim to break up the chokehold and monopoly of opinion on this vital subject.”
In the realm of so-called science, there is a veritable army of self-styled experts in charge, who say, “Of course we know what we’re doing when we discover a new virus.” And that, they think, is enough.
It isn’t. AIDS Inc. Rappoport, Jon Best Price: $33.29 Buy New $18.89 (as of 03:34 UTC - Details)
It especially isn’t, when the issue is a claim of a global viral pandemic; and repressive containment measures are being imposed, which are destroying countless jobs and businesses and lives. All because of a story about a new virus.
We’ve heard the phrase, “the science is settled.” But settled for whom? Time and again, it turns out the purveyors of pseudoscience have a political or commercial agenda that is driving their assertions. They posture, they scoff at critics. They refuse to step forward and engage in honest and prolonged debate. They censor counter-arguments.
In the past 35 years, during the purported epidemics called AIDS, West Nile, SARS, bird flu, Mad Cow, Swine Flu, Zika, once official researchers announced they had found the cause, there has never been a truly PROPER large-scale study launched to confirm or deny those hypotheses about causation.
Over the past six months, a few readers have contacted me with references to COVID studies that show an electron microscope photo here, a photo there, along with the researchers’ statements that the new coronavirus has, in fact, been isolated and proven to exist. That’s not proof. That’s not what I’m talking about AT ALL.
If a drug company announced that six people, who had taken a new drug, showed major improvement in their illness-condition, would that constitute proof of anything? Would that be sufficient evidence for licensing the drug, as safe and effective, for widespread public use?
When I say LARGE-SCALE STUDY, that’s exactly what I mean. And one such study isn’t enough. Other studies must be done as well, to verify or disprove the finding of the first set of researchers. All the researchers must be free of conflicts of interest. Undercover Epicenter N... Olszewski, Erin Marie Buy New $24.29 (as of 02:20 UTC - Details)
This is called the scientific method.
Let me break it down a little further, since nobody in the conventional scientific community will. Let’s say you do the large-scale electron microscope study I outlined above. And you find that, in 80 of the 1000 photos, you do see many, many particles of the same unique coronavirus, and you’ve never seen that virus before.
What conclusions would you draw? You would say, “Well, first of all, we don’t have PROOF of anything resembling a pandemic. Looks like a dud. Maybe…could be…eight percent of the 1000 people who have this list of GENERAL FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS might be suffering from a new viral condition. MAYBE. If we’ve already made projections of how many people will contract this new disease, we’ll need to provisionally cut down those numbers by 92 percent. Hmm, no, that doesn’t sound at all like a global pandemic. Now we need to look at the 920 people who also have these flu-like symptoms, but show no signs of having a new virus, and compare them with the 80 people and see what we can discover. Let’s dig into this. Is it possible the 80 people have a new virus, but it isn’t actually causing any illness? How many of the 80 are already suffering from serious health conditions that have nothing to do with this purported virus? How many have been treated for years with toxic drugs? How many have lung conditions stemming from heavily polluted air? We need to make a list of possible reasons these 80 people are sick and look at those causes. Let’s go back and examine the electron microscope photos again. Are we actually seeing many particles of the same new virus from all 80 of the patients…? Do we have any CDC or WHO researchers on board? They always find a new virus…”
An approach like that would start to make some sense. More large studies would definitely be needed. Plagues, Pandemics and... Quinlan, Heather E. Buy New $22.95 (as of 03:02 UTC - Details)
Of course, there wouldn’t be any MONEY in this. There wouldn’t be an opportunity for massive top-down CONTROL in this. You couldn’t wreck a global economy on this basis and try to usher in a new political system for planet Earth. You couldn’t convince seven billion people to take a destructive vaccine.
But you would be putting your feet on a road that resembles something called science.
And yet, in an era which is said to be characterized by science, you would be, guess what? An extreme outlier.
Odd.
That seems to be a contradiction.
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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