lewrockwell--2020-07-28--The Great Corona Con: Exposing Journalistic Malpractice

On July 5th of this year – following weeks of steady decline – the United States recorded 263 deaths from COVID-19 .
This was the lowest daily toll in nearly three and half months .
The July 5th figure represented a 90 percent drop from the peak which occurred April 21st .
On that day there were 2748 deaths from COVID-19 ( see worldometers.info for data ) .
The sharp decrease in COVID deaths was obviously a most welcome development .
One would expect it would have quickly generated a spate of celebratory headlines .
However , this is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a collection of links to some of the news items put forward by US media on July 5 : UVILIZER Flip | Foldab ... Buy New $ 29.95 MORE COVID PEAK : Florida infected rise by record 11,458 on Saturday… 57,683 cases single day in USA… Once lauded , Texas now grapples with one of country ’ s worst outbreaks… Hospitals in at least 2 counties reach full capacity… PHOENIX SICK… MORE RULES IN MIAMI… Governors stress ‘ personal responsibility ’ … Virus floats in air as aerosol… Masks putting people at each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hasn ’ t been solved… ‘ You started the corona !
’ Anti-Asian hate incidents explode… STUDY : DNA Linked to Covid-19 Inherited From Neanderthals… NBA Reopening Is Warning Sign for Economy… MLB and NFL hit by setbacks… Do politicians who pushed for reopening now have regrets ?
It is quite astonishing that among these headlines there is no mention of the 90 percent drop in the daily death toll .
Reading through them , one would have no idea that there has been such a dramatic improvement .
Quite on the contrary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as dire as ever .
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The links above have been copied from Drudge Report , America ’ s leading news aggregator .
Having begun with libertarian and conservative leanings , Drudge Report has gone to the other side and became in many ways the mouthpiece for the left-leaning media .
This is especially true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Donald Trump and the coronavirus are concerned .
You may think that we are being unfair to America ’ s journalists .
Perhaps they just did not have enough time to write their celebratory pieces the same day .
Surely , one would think , the news must have been announced to fanfare in the next news cycle .
Let us , then , look at the Drudge headlines from July 6 , 2020 : U.S. COVID DEATHS PASS 130,000… White House hopes Americans will grow numb to toll… Pandemic Expert Offers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Be Living With Masks For Years ’ … Hospitals Sound Alarm… Miami restaurants , gyms closing AGAIN… Do politicians who pushed for reopening have regrets ?
Atlanta Mayor infected… Governors stress ‘ personal responsibility ’ … President ’ s Support Withering in Hotspots… Testing Employees More Trouble Than Worth… When illness robs sense of smell… Kids suffer mysterious brain damage… Once again , there is no mention of the great improvement on the COVID front .
Looking at the headlines , one would , in fact , get the opposite feeling : the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if not worse .
The journalists writing these stories must have been well aware of the steadily improving state of affairs and the record low daily death tolls .
There can be no question that this is a concerted and deliberate effort by media outlets to make their readers believe that things are diametrically different from the actual situation on the ground .
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Whenever there is bad news they eagerly amplify and exaggerate while completely ignoring any positive news or developments .
To be sure , the shrewd consumer of the news should always be prepared to make allowances for bias and misrepresentation , but the level of cynicism and conniving in this instance is truly remarkable .
There are several reasons for this .
To begin with , for journalists every crisis is a boon .
Crises make for more dramatic reporting and increased readership .
When nothing dramatic is happening , the demand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ words , crises are good news and good business for those in the news business .
Journalists , therefore , suffer from a natural inclination to increase drama and create the impression of a crisis whenever possible .
And the more dire the crisis , the better .
But there is an added political reason why mainstream journalists are so invested in lying about this epidemic .
The more people believe that we are in a life-and-death crisis , the easier it becomes to impose lockdowns and quarantines .
These in turn wreak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our personal and societal life : the economy , commerce , education , finances , family life , interpersonal relationships , etc .
The prolonged doom-mongering and shutdowns have also inflicted psychological damage as people suffer from the loss of employment , interruption of schooling and disruption of everyday activities , routines and interactions .
Increased rates of anxiety , depression , addiction , relationship abuse and other ills are the inevitable consequence .
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The antipathy is due to a host of reasons , one of which is Trump ’ s irritating propensity to occasionally tell the truth .
This poses a serious problem for devoted leftists for whom the truth has always been a grave threat , whether they be the communist totalitarians of the past or the woke snowflakes of today .
It is not difficult to see why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their emphasis and orientation from place to place and from one historical period to another , what they invariably share is their commitment to untruths and wrong assumptions .
Today , for example , the progressives claim with a straight face that someone who is obviously a man – someone who has XY chromosomes and male genitals – is actually a woman .
Then they insist that we affirm this absurdity , which is rather difficult for anyone with a modicum of sanity or common sense .
Pointing out the obvious pulls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which is why committed leftists of all stripes are so set on suppressing the truth and destroying its bearers .
The cancel culture is a present-day incarnation of this tendency .
As someone who is occasionally willing to call them out on their balderdash , Trump is a thorn in their side and the prime target for destruction .
True to form , leftwing journalists have shown themselves more than willing to wreck American society by spreading lies and untruths about the coronavirus ( among other things ) to achieve this goal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there has been a considerable improvement in the corona situation .
Here is a chart taken from worldometers tracing the decline in the daily death rate from the epidemic ’ s peak which occurred in the last third of April .
We have already pointed out the unreported 90 percent drop from April 21 to July 5 .
You will also note that even in the current spike , the death toll for the last day for which data was available at the time of writing – 908 on July 25 – is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the peak .
A headline which would honestly summarize this state of affairs would run something like this : “ Despite a recent spike , the COVID daily death rate remains nearly 70 percent below the spring high.
” But this is not what we get .
Instead Drudge offers the following : VIRUS USA : More than 1,000 deaths for fourth day in row… One every 8 mins !
Pentagon mulls mobile hospitals… Texas ‘ death panel ’ draws outrage… Sent home to die if deemed too sick… Birx warns 11 major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DC orders two-week quarantine for travelers from hotspots… Massachusetts too… Mayors urge residents to wear masks — inside home ?
Virus Jumps 26 Feet… Dogs CAN sniff out infections… ‘ Health anxiety ’ Soars… Notice the death count at the top of the offering .
The media have only resumed reporting this item in the last few days which saw an increase in this metric .
In the weeks prior , when the death count was falling precipitously , they only kept reporting – to maintain the impression of an ever-worsening crisis – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to expanded testing .
Thus , the media corona template runs as follows : Report mounting death toll in the early stages , case numbers in the decline stage , and death toll again at the spikes .
The net result of this selective reporting is that any good news on the ground never makes it to the stories .
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” This , of course , is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coverage of the last four months .
Through their selective and dishonest reporting , the journalists have managed to con people into believing that the virus is far more dangerous than it really is .
The fact remains , however , that the vast majority of those infected exhibit moderate or no symptoms and recover without any great difficulties .
We have recently conducted our own analysis of the data .
The breakdown showed the death rates for various age brackets and the results were eye-opening .
For individuals under the age of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be negligible .
For healthy people aged 40 to 49 the chances of dying are 60 out of 100,000 which is less than one ’ s yearly chances of dying of an injury .
Even though I had suspected at the outset that the numbers would be low , I did not expect them to come out this low .
After obtaining the initial results , I thought that a mistake must have crept into my calculations .
I repeated the process several times and then had the figures checked by a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were , indeed , correct .
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Doctor Ioannidis is a widely-cited expert on evidence-based medicine , epidemiology , and clinical research .
This is what he had to say last month in an interview with a Greek journalist : “ For people younger than 45 , the infection fatality rate is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the statement went largely unreported .
Dr Ioannidis is not the only world class epidemiologist who has been censored from mainstream news for his data-based conclusions .
Rather than consulting these serious scientists , the media ’ s favorite go to person for all questions corona has been the camera-hungry but otherwise hapless Dr. Fauci who has made a number of statements and predictions that have turned out to be spectacularly incorrect .
The failure of major media to report truthfully is inexcusable , since accurate information would enable our society to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reasonable manner .
But this is apparently not something the leftist journalists wish us to do .
Instead they try their best to keep us ignorant and frightened in order to wreak havoc in America , hoping to sink Trump .
And if American society should be ruined in the process , so be it .
It is difficult to recall any period in living memory in which manipulation of information by major news organizations reached such levels of cynicism .
What we are witnessing these days is a most severe case of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kohlmayer

On July 5th of this year – following weeks of steady decline – the United States recorded 263 deaths from COVID-19. This was the lowest daily toll in nearly three and half months. The July 5th figure represented a 90 percent drop from the peak which occurred April 21st. On that day there were 2748 deaths from COVID-19 (see worldometers.info for data).
The sharp decrease in COVID deaths was obviously a most welcome development. One would expect it would have quickly generated a spate of celebratory headlines. However, this is not what happened that day.
Below is a collection of links to some of the news items put forward by US media on July 5: UVILIZER Flip | Foldab... Buy New $29.95 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details)
MORE COVID PEAK: Florida infected rise by record 11,458 on Saturday…
57,683 cases single day in USA…
Once lauded, Texas now grapples with one of country’s worst outbreaks…
Hospitals in at least 2 counties reach full capacity…
PHOENIX SICK… MORE RULES IN MIAMI…
Governors stress ‘personal responsibility’…
Virus floats in air as aerosol…
Masks putting people at each other’s throats…
Why testing crisis hasn’t been solved…
‘You started the corona!’ Anti-Asian hate incidents explode…
STUDY: DNA Linked to Covid-19 Inherited From Neanderthals…
NBA Reopening Is Warning Sign for Economy…
MLB and NFL hit by setbacks…
Do politicians who pushed for reopening now have regrets?
It is quite astonishing that among these headlines there is no mention of the 90 percent drop in the daily death toll. Reading through them, one would have no idea that there has been such a dramatic improvement. Quite on the contrary, the impression is that things are as dire as ever. Vitamin K2 and the Cal... Rheaume-Bleue, Kate Best Price: $6.70 Buy New $11.22 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Neither are these items an inaccurate sampling of the kind of material put out by mainstream media outlets that day. The links above have been copied from Drudge Report, America’s leading news aggregator. Having begun with libertarian and conservative leanings, Drudge Report has gone to the other side and became in many ways the mouthpiece for the left-leaning media. This is especially true as far as Drudge’s coverage of Donald Trump and the coronavirus are concerned.
You may think that we are being unfair to America’s journalists. Perhaps they just did not have enough time to write their celebratory pieces the same day. Surely, one would think, the news must have been announced to fanfare in the next news cycle. Let us, then, look at the Drudge headlines from July 6, 2020:
U.S. COVID DEATHS PASS 130,000…
White House hopes Americans will grow numb to toll…
Pandemic Expert Offers Grim Outlook: ‘We’ll Be Living With Masks For Years’…
Hospitals Sound Alarm…
Miami restaurants, gyms closing AGAIN…
Do politicians who pushed for reopening have regrets?
Atlanta Mayor infected…
Governors stress ‘personal responsibility’…
President’s Support Withering in Hotspots…
Testing Employees More Trouble Than Worth…
When illness robs sense of smell…
Kids suffer mysterious brain damage…
GALLUP: TRUMP APPROVAL 38%
Once again, there is no mention of the great improvement on the COVID front. Looking at the headlines, one would, in fact, get the opposite feeling: the situation is as bad as ever, if not worse. The journalists writing these stories must have been well aware of the steadily improving state of affairs and the record low daily death tolls. There can be no question that this is a concerted and deliberate effort by media outlets to make their readers believe that things are diametrically different from the actual situation on the ground. COSORI Premium Food De... Buy New $159.99 (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
What we are looking at here is nothing other than a gross case of journalistic malfeasance whereby mainstream journalists simply refuse to report the truth about the situation. Whenever there is bad news they eagerly amplify and exaggerate while completely ignoring any positive news or developments. To be sure, the shrewd consumer of the news should always be prepared to make allowances for bias and misrepresentation, but the level of cynicism and conniving in this instance is truly remarkable.
There are several reasons for this. To begin with, for journalists every crisis is a boon. Crises make for more dramatic reporting and increased readership. When nothing dramatic is happening, the demand for news naturally drops. In other words, crises are good news and good business for those in the news business. Journalists, therefore, suffer from a natural inclination to increase drama and create the impression of a crisis whenever possible. And the more dire the crisis, the better.
But there is an added political reason why mainstream journalists are so invested in lying about this epidemic. The more people believe that we are in a life-and-death crisis, the easier it becomes to impose lockdowns and quarantines. These in turn wreak disorder and havoc in almost every aspect of our personal and societal life: the economy, commerce, education, finances, family life, interpersonal relationships, etc. The prolonged doom-mongering and shutdowns have also inflicted psychological damage as people suffer from the loss of employment, interruption of schooling and disruption of everyday activities, routines and interactions. Increased rates of anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship abuse and other ills are the inevitable consequence. The Miraculous Results... Bowles, Jeff T Best Price: $4.25 Buy New $6.99 (as of 01:50 UTC - Details)
The journalists do not seem to mind, since the multiprong mayhem will they helped to unleash will inevitably damage the reelection prospects of Donald Trump for whom the Left harbors a virulent dislike. The antipathy is due to a host of reasons, one of which is Trump’s irritating propensity to occasionally tell the truth. This poses a serious problem for devoted leftists for whom the truth has always been a grave threat, whether they be the communist totalitarians of the past or the woke snowflakes of today. It is not difficult to see why. Even though leftist ideologies may vary in their emphasis and orientation from place to place and from one historical period to another, what they invariably share is their commitment to untruths and wrong assumptions. Today, for example, the progressives claim with a straight face that someone who is obviously a man – someone who has XY chromosomes and male genitals – is actually a woman. Then they insist that we affirm this absurdity, which is rather difficult for anyone with a modicum of sanity or common sense. Pointing out the obvious pulls the rug from under their ideological enterprise, which is why committed leftists of all stripes are so set on suppressing the truth and destroying its bearers. The cancel culture is a present-day incarnation of this tendency. As someone who is occasionally willing to call them out on their balderdash, Trump is a thorn in their side and the prime target for destruction. True to form, leftwing journalists have shown themselves more than willing to wreck American society by spreading lies and untruths about the coronavirus (among other things) to achieve this goal.
But the good news is that there has been a considerable improvement in the corona situation. Here is a chart taken from worldometers tracing the decline in the daily death rate from the epidemic’s peak which occurred in the last third of April.
We have already pointed out the unreported 90 percent drop from April 21 to July 5. You will also note that even in the current spike, the death toll for the last day for which data was available at the time of writing – 908 on July 25 – is 67 percent lower than it was at the peak.
A headline which would honestly summarize this state of affairs would run something like this: “Despite a recent spike, the COVID daily death rate remains nearly 70 percent below the spring high.” But this is not what we get. Instead Drudge offers the following:
VIRUS USA: More than 1,000 deaths for fourth day in row…
One every 8 mins!
Pentagon mulls mobile hospitals…
Texas ‘death panel’ draws outrage…
Sent home to die if deemed too sick…
Birx warns 11 major cities including Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Baltimore…
DC orders two-week quarantine for travelers from hotspots…
Massachusetts too…
Mayors urge residents to wear masks — inside home?
Virus Jumps 26 Feet…
Dogs CAN sniff out infections…
‘Health anxiety’ Soars…
Notice the death count at the top of the offering. The media have only resumed reporting this item in the last few days which saw an increase in this metric. In the weeks prior, when the death count was falling precipitously, they only kept reporting – to maintain the impression of an ever-worsening crisis – the rising case numbers which were largely due to expanded testing. Thus, the media corona template runs as follows: Report mounting death toll in the early stages, case numbers in the decline stage, and death toll again at the spikes. The net result of this selective reporting is that any good news on the ground never makes it to the stories. Curing the Incurable: ... Best Price: $12.95 Buy New $44.02 (as of 03:06 UTC - Details)
Also revealing is the last headline “Health anxiety Soars.” This, of course, is not surprising given all the doom and gloom coverage of the last four months. Through their selective and dishonest reporting, the journalists have managed to con people into believing that the virus is far more dangerous than it really is. The fact remains, however, that the vast majority of those infected exhibit moderate or no symptoms and recover without any great difficulties.
We have recently conducted our own analysis of the data. The breakdown showed the death rates for various age brackets and the results were eye-opening. For individuals under the age of forty the risk is so minuscule as to be negligible. For healthy people aged 40 to 49 the chances of dying are 60 out of 100,000 which is less than one’s yearly chances of dying of an injury.
Even though I had suspected at the outset that the numbers would be low, I did not expect them to come out this low. After obtaining the initial results, I thought that a mistake must have crept into my calculations. I repeated the process several times and then had the figures checked by a math savvy person. The low numbers were, indeed, correct.
The Vitamin Cure for C... Andrew W. Saul Best Price: $9.99 Buy New $13.28 (as of 03:19 UTC - Details) The relatively lows risk that the novel coronavirus poses to most people has been pointed out by Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University. Doctor Ioannidis is a widely-cited expert on evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. This is what he had to say last month in an interview with a Greek journalist: “For people younger than 45, the infection fatality rate is almost 0%.” The interview and the statement went largely unreported. Dr Ioannidis is not the only world class epidemiologist who has been censored from mainstream news for his data-based conclusions. Rather than consulting these serious scientists, the media’s favorite go to person for all questions corona has been the camera-hungry but otherwise hapless Dr. Fauci who has made a number of statements and predictions that have turned out to be spectacularly incorrect.
The failure of major media to report truthfully is inexcusable, since accurate information would enable our society to deal with this crisis in a more reasonable manner. But this is apparently not something the leftist journalists wish us to do. Instead they try their best to keep us ignorant and frightened in order to wreak havoc in America, hoping to sink Trump. And if American society should be ruined in the process, so be it.
It is difficult to recall any period in living memory in which manipulation of information by major news organizations reached such levels of cynicism. What we are witnessing these days is a most severe case of journalistic malpractice.
The Best of Vasko Kohlmayer


lewrockwell--2020-07-28--Fedcoin: a New Scheme for Tyranny and Poverty

If some Congress members get their way , the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies .
This is just one of the problems with the proposed “ digital dollar ” or “ fedcoin.
” Fedcoin was initially included in the first coronavirus spending bill .
While the proposal was dropped from the final version of the bill , there is still great interest in fedcoin on Capitol Hill .
Some progressives have embraced fedcoin as a way to provide Americans with a “ universal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held hearings on fedcoin in June .
This is the first step toward making fedcoin a reality .
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Instead , it would be a special account created and maintained for each American by the Federal Reserve .
Each month , Fed employees could tap a few keys on a computer and — voila — each American would have dollars added to his Federal Reserve account .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ throwing money from helicopters .
Fedcoin could “ crowd out ” private cryptocurrencies .
Also , it would limit the ability of private citizens to protect themselves from the Federal Reserve-caused decline in the dollar ’ s value .
Fedcoin would not magically increase the number of available goods and services .
What it would do is drive up prices .
The damage this would do to middle- and lower-income Americans would dwarf any benefit they receive from their monthly “ gift ” from the Fed .
The rise in prices could lead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans .
These increases would cause prices to keep rising even more until we face hyperinflation and a dollar crisis .
Of course , we are already on the path to an economic crisis thanks to the Fed .
Fedcoin will hasten and worsen the crisis .
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Fedcoin poses a great threat to privacy .
The Federal Reserve could know when fedcoin is used , who is using it , and what they use it for .
This information could be shared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ FBI or IRS .
The government could use the ability to know how Americans are spending fedcoin to limit our ability to purchase goods and services disfavored by politicians and bureaucrats .
Anyone who doubts this should recall the Obama administration ’ s Operation Choke Point .
Operation Choke Point involved financial regulators “ alerting ” banks that dealing with certain businesses , such as gun stores , would put the banks at “ reputational risk ” and could subject them to greater regulation .
Is it so hard to believe that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the future to “ discourage ” individuals from buying guns , fatty foods , or tobacco , or from being customers of corporations whose CEOs are not considered “ woke ” by the thought police ?
Fedcoin could also be used to “ encourage ” individuals to patronize “ green ” business , thus fulfilling Fed Chair Jerome Powell ’ s goal of involving the Fed in the fight against climate change .
Fedcoin will threaten private cryptocurrencies , increase inflation , and give government new powers over our financial transactions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fiat money system .
Whatever gain fedcoin may bring to average Americans will come at terrible cost to liberty and prosperity .
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If some Congress members get their way, the Federal Reserve may soon be able to track many of your purchases in real time and share that information with government agencies. This is just one of the problems with the proposed “digital dollar” or “fedcoin.”
Fedcoin was initially included in the first coronavirus spending bill. While the proposal was dropped from the final version of the bill, there is still great interest in fedcoin on Capitol Hill. Some progressives have embraced fedcoin as a way to provide Americans with a “universal basic income.”
Both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held hearings on fedcoin in June. This is the first step toward making fedcoin a reality. The Last Gold Rushu202... Haynes, Bill Buy New $28.00 (as of 04:04 UTC - Details)
Fedcoin would not be an actual coin. Instead, it would be a special account created and maintained for each American by the Federal Reserve. Each month, Fed employees could tap a few keys on a computer and — voila — each American would have dollars added to his Federal Reserve account. This is the 21st century equivalent of throwing money from helicopters.
Fedcoin could “crowd out” private cryptocurrencies. Also, it would limit the ability of private citizens to protect themselves from the Federal Reserve-caused decline in the dollar’s value.
Fedcoin would not magically increase the number of available goods and services. What it would do is drive up prices. The damage this would do to middle- and lower-income Americans would dwarf any benefit they receive from their monthly “gift” from the Fed. The rise in prices could lead to Congress regularly increasing fedcoin payments to Americans. These increases would cause prices to keep rising even more until we face hyperinflation and a dollar crisis. Of course, we are already on the path to an economic crisis thanks to the Fed. Fedcoin will hasten and worsen the crisis. 2020 1 oz Gold America... Check Amazon for Pricing.
Fedcoin poses a great threat to privacy. The Federal Reserve could know when fedcoin is used, who is using it, and what they use it for. This information could be shared with government agencies, such as the FBI or IRS.
The government could use the ability to know how Americans are spending fedcoin to limit our ability to purchase goods and services disfavored by politicians and bureaucrats. Anyone who doubts this should recall the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point. Operation Choke Point involved financial regulators “alerting” banks that dealing with certain businesses, such as gun stores, would put the banks at “reputational risk” and could subject them to greater regulation.
Is it so hard to believe that the ability to track purchases would be used in the future to “discourage” individuals from buying guns, fatty foods, or tobacco, or from being customers of corporations whose CEOs are not considered “woke” by the thought police? Fedcoin could also be used to “encourage” individuals to patronize “green” business, thus fulfilling Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s goal of involving the Fed in the fight against climate change.
Fedcoin will threaten private cryptocurrencies, increase inflation, and give government new powers over our financial transactions. Fedcoin will also speed up destruction of the fiat money system. Whatever gain fedcoin may bring to average Americans will come at terrible cost to liberty and prosperity.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-28--Why They Despise and Smear Thomas Jefferson

Every few months the American people are treated to new attacks on Thomas Jefferson .
Are these new attacks ?
No , they are just recycled ones that the left , and the establishment in general , continue to exaggerate and use to defame one of the greatest intellectuals who ever lived .
Recently , there have been increasing calls to tear down his statues and rename schools named after him .
Why ?
Well they give a few different reasons , all of them being frivolous and deceitful .
The main charge , of course , is that Thomas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this was at a time when slavery was widely accepted and most of Jefferson ’ s contemporaries also participated in the practice .
You may hear the left trash Washington for owning slaves , but you ’ ll never hear the establishment doing so .
They only target Jefferson .
Why would this be ?
Jefferson actually personally opposed slavery and took more action than Washington did to end its practice .
In Jefferson ’ s original draft of the Declaration of Independence , he condemned King George for enslaving people and violating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when Jefferson was president , he banned the international slave trade .
These actions were far greater anti-slavery steps than George Washington ever took , or any slaveholding founding father for that matter .
Yet , we are constantly barraged with seething statements of hatred of Jefferson calling him the worst names in the English language .
We get articles from the Smithsonian entitled “ The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson ” and Monticello , Jefferson ’ s own estate , calling him a terrible hypocrite .
Thomas Jefferson : The ... Jon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 9.24 Next , in order to worsen the original attack , they tell us that Jefferson actually had many children with one of his slaves .
But this is a lie , and the liars who promote it know this .
An objective look at the evidence would never lead one to accept the conclusion that Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves .
That is why no actual historian took the assertion seriously until very recently ( when the leftist mob began demanding it be stated as historical fact @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why they smear Thomas Jefferson ?
If the charges against him are so clearly fraudulent , there must be a reason why they despise him ( and uphold other founders ) .
When we look at who they promote and praise among the founders , we can see what the answer is .
So , which founder do they consistently promote ?
Anyone living in American society today knows the answer : Alexander Hamilton , who happens to have been Jefferson ’ s enemy .
Hamilton favored a powerful centralized government that he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , enrich the powerful elite , and dominate the states .
If this sounds familiar , it is because that is exactly what the establishment and the left want today .
Jefferson deeply opposed this , favoring decentralization , states ’ rights , and economic freedom .
In fact , in 1798 , Jefferson wrote the Kentucky Resolution , promulgating the idea that states could nullify unconstitutional federal laws .
The thought of this is horrifying to today ’ s establishment , as they would lose a lot of power if it were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessity to demonize the great disciple of liberty becomes clear .
Discredit the man , discredit his ideas .
Finally , one of the great characteristics of Thomas Jefferson was that , unlike many other advocates of liberty , he was radical and combative .
He actually fought for his principles and wasn ’ t afraid to denounce those who promoted statism .
For example , in speaking of Hamilton , he stated that “ if history stoops to notice him ” it will be as “ a person who worked to destroy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ tell the truth about powerful elites and expose them in the public square .
Thus , the great intellectual must be silenced , and the only way to do this is to assassinate his character .
In conclusion , this is a usual case of mediocre men trying to disparage a great man after his death because it brings them more power .
And power is what they crave .
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Every few months the American people are treated to new attacks on Thomas Jefferson. Are these new attacks? No, they are just recycled ones that the left, and the establishment in general, continue to exaggerate and use to defame one of the greatest intellectuals who ever lived. Recently, there have been increasing calls to tear down his statues and rename schools named after him. Why? Well they give a few different reasons, all of them being frivolous and deceitful. The main charge, of course, is that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Of course, this was at a time when slavery was widely accepted and most of Jefferson’s contemporaries also participated in the practice. You may hear the left trash Washington for owning slaves, but you’ll never hear the establishment doing so. They only target Jefferson. Why would this be? Jefferson actually personally opposed slavery and took more action than Washington did to end its practice. In Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence, he condemned King George for enslaving people and violating their “sacred rights.” Further, when Jefferson was president, he banned the international slave trade. These actions were far greater anti-slavery steps than George Washington ever took, or any slaveholding founding father for that matter. Yet, we are constantly barraged with seething statements of hatred of Jefferson calling him the worst names in the English language. We get articles from the Smithsonian entitled “The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson” and Monticello, Jefferson’s own estate, calling him a terrible hypocrite. Thomas Jefferson: The ... Jon Meacham Best Price: $2.53 Buy New $9.24 (as of 06:55 UTC - Details)
Next, in order to worsen the original attack, they tell us that Jefferson actually had many children with one of his slaves. But this is a lie, and the liars who promote it know this. An objective look at the evidence would never lead one to accept the conclusion that Jefferson fathered children with one of his slaves. That is why no actual historian took the assertion seriously until very recently (when the leftist mob began demanding it be stated as historical fact).
Thus, we must ask why they smear Thomas Jefferson? If the charges against him are so clearly fraudulent, there must be a reason why they despise him (and uphold other founders). When we look at who they promote and praise among the founders, we can see what the answer is. So, which founder do they consistently promote? Anyone living in American society today knows the answer: Alexander Hamilton, who happens to have been Jefferson’s enemy. Hamilton favored a powerful centralized government that he believed could and should control the economy, enrich the powerful elite, and dominate the states. If this sounds familiar, it is because that is exactly what the establishment and the left want today. Jefferson deeply opposed this, favoring decentralization, states’ rights, and economic freedom. In fact, in 1798, Jefferson wrote the Kentucky Resolution, promulgating the idea that states could nullify unconstitutional federal laws. The thought of this is horrifying to today’s establishment, as they would lose a lot of power if it were put into practice. Thus, the necessity to demonize the great disciple of liberty becomes clear. Discredit the man, discredit his ideas. Finally, one of the great characteristics of Thomas Jefferson was that, unlike many other advocates of liberty, he was radical and combative. He actually fought for his principles and wasn’t afraid to denounce those who promoted statism. For example, in speaking of Hamilton, he stated that “if history stoops to notice him” it will be as “a person who worked to destroy liberty.” The establishment hates those who tell the truth about powerful elites and expose them in the public square. Thus, the great intellectual must be silenced, and the only way to do this is to assassinate his character.
In conclusion, this is a usual case of mediocre men trying to disparage a great man after his death because it brings them more power. And power is what they crave.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-28--Hanging with the Silenced Majority in Covid Country

Having driven this past month from my home in Kansas City , Missouri , to my summer digs in Chautauqua County , New York , to my annual family reunion in my home state of New Jersey , I can confirm that this is easily the stupidest period in American history and arguably the most oppressive .
That said , I did see some glimmers of hope along the way , more on that in a minute .
As to stupid , on July 21 , while I was in New Jersey , Missouri was added to that state ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means that “ individuals entering New Jersey from states with a significant spread of COVID-19 should quarantine for 14-days after leaving that state.
” The specific formula is too convoluted to understand , let alone explain .
What I do know is that I left a place where no one I know has had the disease and arrived at a place where most of the people I know have had it .
I do not exaggerate .
As of July 25 , there have been 43 deaths in Kansas City , a city @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , New Jersey , where I was staying , has slightly more people—576,000—but 25 times more deaths , 1,014 to be precise .
and I am supposed to quarantine ?
Chautauqua County , on the western edge of New York State , has had only seven deaths but has had to labor under the same Draconian rules as New York City .
Here , as everywhere , conservatives have instinctively rebelled against the imposition of these ever-changing , self-defeating mandates .
One local restaurant posted a huge sign out front : “ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New York.
” I go there regularly .
In New York State , as everywhere , liberals take pride in their submissiveness and in their masks .
As their yard signs insist , “ Science is real.
” But those same signs begin with the menacing “ Black lives matter ” and conclude with the delusional , “ Kindness is everything.
” Neither in Chautauqua County nor in Kansas City have I heard a Covid story .
In New Jersey , I heard tons of them .
I found myself the odd man @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other night , eight of whom have had the disease , and the ninth was married to a guy who did .
The victims ranged in ages from mid-30 ’ s to mid-70 ’ s .
The symptoms ranged from a two-day headache to a two-week fever that topped out at 102 .
No one went to the hospital .
No one wanted to , the consensus being that your chances of dying were greater in the hospital than out .
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Having driven this past month from my home in Kansas City, Missouri, to my summer digs in Chautauqua County, New York, to my annual family reunion in my home state of New Jersey, I can confirm that this is easily the stupidest period in American history and arguably the most oppressive. That said, I did see some glimmers of hope along the way, more on that in a minute.
As to stupid, on July 21, while I was in New Jersey, Missouri was added to that state’s “travel advisory list.” This means that “individuals entering New Jersey from states with a significant spread of COVID-19 should quarantine for 14-days after leaving that state.”
The specific formula is too convoluted to understand, let alone explain. What I do know is that I left a place where no one I know has had the disease and arrived at a place where most of the people I know have had it. I do not exaggerate. As of July 25, there have been 43 deaths in Kansas City, a city of roughly 500,000 people. Ocean County, New Jersey, where I was staying, has slightly more people—576,000—but 25 times more deaths, 1,014 to be precise. and I am supposed to quarantine?
Chautauqua County, on the western edge of New York State, has had only seven deaths but has had to labor under the same Draconian rules as New York City. Here, as everywhere, conservatives have instinctively rebelled against the imposition of these ever-changing, self-defeating mandates. One local restaurant posted a huge sign out front: “We Support the U.S. Constitution. Open Up New York.” I go there regularly.
In New York State, as everywhere, liberals take pride in their submissiveness and in their masks. As their yard signs insist, “Science is real.” But those same signs begin with the menacing “Black lives matter” and conclude with the delusional, “Kindness is everything.”
Neither in Chautauqua County nor in Kansas City have I heard a Covid story. In New Jersey, I heard tons of them. I found myself the odd man out in a group of ten people the other night, eight of whom have had the disease, and the ninth was married to a guy who did.
The victims ranged in ages from mid-30’s to mid-70’s. The symptoms ranged from a two-day headache to a two-week fever that topped out at 102. No one went to the hospital. No one wanted to, the consensus being that your chances of dying were greater in the hospital than out.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-28--Why Marxist Orgs Like BLM Seek To Dismantle the ‘Western Nuclear Family’

One of the most oft-cited and criticized goals of the Black Lives Matter organization is its stated desire to abolish the family as we know it .
Specifically , BLM ’ s official website states : This idea isn ’ t unique to BLM , of course .
“ Disrupting ” the “ nuclear family ” is a commonly stated goal among Maxist organizations .
Given that BLM ’ s founders have specifically claimed to be “ trained Marxists , ” we should not be surprised that the organization ’ s leadership has embraced a Marxian view of the family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Engels , Friedrich Best Price : $ 11.95 Buy New $ 11.08 But where does this hostility toward the family originate ?
Partly , it comes from the theories of Marx and Engels themselves , and their views that an earlier , matriarchal version of the family rejected private property as an organizing principle of society .
It was only later that this older tribal model of the family gave way to the modern “ patriarchal ” family , which promotes and sustains private property .
Clearly , in the Marxian view , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must be opposed , since the destruction of this family model will make it easier to abolish private property as well .
Frederick Engels ’ s 1884 book The Origin of the Family , Private Property and the State provides a historical perspective of the Marxian view of the development of the modern Western family unit and its relation to property rights .
( Engels , of course , was the longtime benefactor of and collaborator with Marx . )
In reconstructing the origins of the family within a Marxian framework , Engels @ @ @ @ @ @ @ primeval stage of humanity that , according to his research , revealed a condition in which “ unrestricted sexual intercourse existed within a tribe , so that every woman belonged to every man , and vice versa.
” Under such conditions , Engels explained , “ it is uncertain who is the father of the child , but certain , who is its mother.
” Only female lineage could be acknowledged .
“ [ B ] eing the only well known parents of younger generations , ” Engels explained , women as mothers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and deference , amounting to a complete women ’ s rule [ gynaicocracy ] .
” Furthermore , Engels wrote , tribes were subdivided into smaller groups called “ gentes , ” a primitive form of an extended family of sorts .
These gens were consanguineous ( i.e.
, included people descended from the same ancestor ) on the mother ’ s side , within which intermarrying was strictly forbidden .
“ The men of certain ‘ gens , ’ therefore , could choose their wives within the tribe , and did so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ choose them outside of their ‘ gens , ’ ” Engels explained .
And “ marriage ” at this stage was a “ communal ” affair , meaning that multiple partnerships between men and women was closer to the rule than the exception .
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This was the state of affairs for thousands of years , according to Engels .
Over time , however , there emerged what Engels referred to as the “ pairing family , ” in which “ A man had his principal wife…among many women , and he was to her the principal husband among others.
” This was in no small part due to the “ gentes ” within tribes developing more and more classes of relatives not allowed to marry one another .
Due to these increasing restrictions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ever more replaced by the pairing family structure .
Under this structure , however , the role of mothers was still dominant .
Quoting Arthur Wright , a missionary among the Seneca Iroquois tribe , Engels notes , “ The female part generally ruled the house….The women were the dominating power in the clans [ gentes ] and everywhere else.
” The fact that women all belonged to the same gens , while husbands came from separate gentes “ was the cause and foundation of the general and widespread supremacy of women in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ In the ancient communistic household comprising many married couples and their children , the administration of the household entrusted to women was just as much a public function , a socially necessary industry , as the procuring of food by men , ” he added .
As society evolved , as Engels described it , from “ savagery ” to “ barbarism , ” an important evolution was man ’ s development of weapons and knowledge that enabled them to better domesticate and breed animals .
Burn This Book : What K @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 9.82 Buy New $ 9.94 Cattle and livestock became a source of wealth , a store of milk and meat .
“ But who was the owner of this new wealth ?
” asked Engels .
“ Doubtless it was originally the gens , ” he answered , referring to a collective , or group ownership over the sources of wealth .
“ However , private ownership of flocks must have had an early beginning.
” “ Procuring the means of existence had always been the man ’ s business .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by him .
The herds were the new tools of production , and their taming and tending was his work .
Hence he owned the cattle and the commodities and slaves obtained in exchange for them , ” Engels explained .
This transition marked an early passage from “ collective ” property to “ private ” ownership over property—particularly property in productive resources .
Such a transformation , Engels noted , “ brought about a revolution in the family.
” Part of that revolution involved a shift in the power dynamics of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resulting from production fell to the share of the man .
The woman shared in its fruition , but she could not claim its ownership , ” wrote Engels .
The domestic status of the woman in the house , which had previously involved control and distribution of the means of sustenance , had been reversed .
“ Man ’ s advent to practical supremacy in the household marked the removal to his universal supremacy , ” and further ushered in “ the gradual transition from the pairing family to the monogamic family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nuclear family ) .
With the superior status acquired , Engels wrote , men were able to overthrow the maternal right to inheritance , a move he described as “ the historic defeat of the female sex.
” The Red Trojan Horse : ... Elder , Alasdair Best Price : $ 14.85 Buy New $ 14.50 The family unit ’ s transition to a male-centered patriarchy was complete , according to Engels .
Much of the blame for this can be attributed to the emergence of private property and men ’ s claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patriarchy ?
In the Marxian view , therefore , the modern nuclear family runs counter to the ancient “ communistic ” household Engels had earlier described .
It is patriarchal and centered on private property .
“ In the great majority of cases the man has to earn a living and to support his family , at least among the possessing classes .
He thereby obtains a superior position that has no need of any legal special privilege .
In the family , he is the bourgeois , the woman represents the proletariat.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the collective tribe , had become the “ industrial unit of society.
” The overthrow of this patriarchic dominance can only come , according to Engels , by abolishing private property in the means of production—which he and those steeped in Marxist ideology blame for the patriarchy .
“ The impending [ communist ] revolution will reduce this whole care of inheritance to a minimum by changing at least the overwhelming part of permanent and inheritable wealth – the means of production – into social property , ” he concluded .
What would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ according to Engels ?
Into the Lion ’ s ... Maltz , Mr Steve Best Price : $ 14.37 Buy New $ 14.00 In this we see early echoes of the modern left ’ s current refrain attacking “ patriarchy ” and the nuclear family as essentially capitalist and private property–based institutions .
In this , BLM is no different from other Marxist groups .
The organization ’ s goals extend far beyond police abuse and police brutality .
The ultimate goal is the abolition of a society based upon private property in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .

One of the most oft-cited and criticized goals of the Black Lives Matter organization is its stated desire to abolish the family as we know it. Specifically, BLM’s official website states:
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
This idea isn’t unique to BLM, of course. “Disrupting” the “nuclear family” is a commonly stated goal among Maxist organizations. Given that BLM’s founders have specifically claimed to be “trained Marxists,” we should not be surprised that the organization’s leadership has embraced a Marxian view of the family.
The Origin of the Fami... Engels, Friedrich Best Price: $11.95 Buy New $11.08 (as of 03:22 UTC - Details) But where does this hostility toward the family originate? Partly, it comes from the theories of Marx and Engels themselves, and their views that an earlier, matriarchal version of the family rejected private property as an organizing principle of society. It was only later that this older tribal model of the family gave way to the modern “patriarchal” family, which promotes and sustains private property.
Clearly, in the Marxian view, this “new” type of family must be opposed, since the destruction of this family model will make it easier to abolish private property as well.
Early Family Units in Tribal Life
Frederick Engels’s 1884 book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State provides a historical perspective of the Marxian view of the development of the modern Western family unit and its relation to property rights. (Engels, of course, was the longtime benefactor of and collaborator with Marx.)
In reconstructing the origins of the family within a Marxian framework, Engels traces back to the “savage” primeval stage of humanity that, according to his research, revealed a condition in which “unrestricted sexual intercourse existed within a tribe, so that every woman belonged to every man, and vice versa.”
Under such conditions, Engels explained, “it is uncertain who is the father of the child, but certain, who is its mother.” Only female lineage could be acknowledged. “[B]eing the only well known parents of younger generations,” Engels explained, women as mothers “received a high tribute of respect and deference, amounting to a complete women’s rule [gynaicocracy].”
Furthermore, Engels wrote, tribes were subdivided into smaller groups called “gentes,” a primitive form of an extended family of sorts.
These gens were consanguineous (i.e., included people descended from the same ancestor) on the mother’s side, within which intermarrying was strictly forbidden. “The men of certain ‘gens,’ therefore, could choose their wives within the tribe, and did so as a rule, but had to choose them outside of their ‘gens,’” Engels explained. And “marriage” at this stage was a “communal” affair, meaning that multiple partnerships between men and women was closer to the rule than the exception. Comrade Obama Unmasked... Simpson, James Buy New $10.00 (as of 04:38 UTC - Details)
Because mothers were the only parents who could be determined with certainty, and the smaller gentes were arranged around the mother’s relatives, early family units were very maternal in nature and maternal law regarding rights and duties for childrearing and inheritance were the custom.
Transition to the “Pairing Family”
This was the state of affairs for thousands of years, according to Engels. Over time, however, there emerged what Engels referred to as the “pairing family,” in which “A man had his principal wife…among many women, and he was to her the principal husband among others.” This was in no small part due to the “gentes” within tribes developing more and more classes of relatives not allowed to marry one another. Due to these increasing restrictions, group marriage became increasingly impossible and ever more replaced by the pairing family structure.
Under this structure, however, the role of mothers was still dominant. Quoting Arthur Wright, a missionary among the Seneca Iroquois tribe, Engels notes, “The female part generally ruled the house….The women were the dominating power in the clans [gentes] and everywhere else.”
The fact that women all belonged to the same gens, while husbands came from separate gentes “was the cause and foundation of the general and widespread supremacy of women in primeval times,” Engels wrote.
“In the ancient communistic household comprising many married couples and their children, the administration of the household entrusted to women was just as much a public function, a socially necessary industry, as the procuring of food by men,” he added.
As society evolved, as Engels described it, from “savagery” to “barbarism,” an important evolution was man’s development of weapons and knowledge that enabled them to better domesticate and breed animals. Burn This Book: What K... Loudon, Trevor Best Price: $9.82 Buy New $9.94 (as of 03:22 UTC - Details)
Cattle and livestock became a source of wealth, a store of milk and meat. “But who was the owner of this new wealth?” asked Engels. “Doubtless it was originally the gens,” he answered, referring to a collective, or group ownership over the sources of wealth. “However, private ownership of flocks must have had an early beginning.”
“Procuring the means of existence had always been the man’s business. The tools of production were manufactured and owned by him. The herds were the new tools of production, and their taming and tending was his work. Hence he owned the cattle and the commodities and slaves obtained in exchange for them,” Engels explained. This transition marked an early passage from “collective” property to “private” ownership over property—particularly property in productive resources.
Such a transformation, Engels noted, “brought about a revolution in the family.”
Part of that revolution involved a shift in the power dynamics of the household.
“All the surplus now resulting from production fell to the share of the man. The woman shared in its fruition, but she could not claim its ownership,” wrote Engels.
The domestic status of the woman in the house, which had previously involved control and distribution of the means of sustenance, had been reversed.
“Man’s advent to practical supremacy in the household marked the removal to his universal supremacy,” and further ushered in “the gradual transition from the pairing family to the monogamic family” (what we would consider the nuclear family).
With the superior status acquired, Engels wrote, men were able to overthrow the maternal right to inheritance, a move he described as “the historic defeat of the female sex.” The Red Trojan Horse: ... Elder, Alasdair Best Price: $14.85 Buy New $14.50 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
The family unit’s transition to a male-centered patriarchy was complete, according to Engels. Much of the blame for this can be attributed to the emergence of private property and men’s claim over it.
How to Overcome the Patriarchy?
In the Marxian view, therefore, the modern nuclear family runs counter to the ancient “communistic” household Engels had earlier described. It is patriarchal and centered on private property.
“In the great majority of cases the man has to earn a living and to support his family, at least among the possessing classes. He thereby obtains a superior position that has no need of any legal special privilege. In the family, he is the bourgeois, the woman represents the proletariat.” The family unit, rather than the collective tribe, had become the “industrial unit of society.”
The overthrow of this patriarchic dominance can only come, according to Engels, by abolishing private property in the means of production—which he and those steeped in Marxist ideology blame for the patriarchy.
“The impending [communist] revolution will reduce this whole care of inheritance to a minimum by changing at least the overwhelming part of permanent and inheritable wealth – the means of production – into social property,” he concluded.
What would this new social arrangement look like, according to Engels? Into the Lion’s ... Maltz, Mr Steve Best Price: $14.37 Buy New $14.00 (as of 03:45 UTC - Details)
The care and education of children becomes a public matter. Society cares equally well for all children, legal or illegal. This removes the care about the “consequences” which now forms the essential social factor – moral and economic – hindering a girl to surrender unconditionally to the beloved man.
In this we see early echoes of the modern left’s current refrain attacking “patriarchy” and the nuclear family as essentially capitalist and private property–based institutions.
In this, BLM is no different from other Marxist groups. The organization’s goals extend far beyond police abuse and police brutality. The ultimate goal is the abolition of a society based upon private property in the means of production.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.


lewrockwell--2020-07-28--What’s Changed To Cause the Gold and Silver Breakout?

Gold and silver had bang up weeks .
Gold closed yesterday afternoon on a cash basis above $ 1900 , at $ 1901.95 just $ 18 shy of the all-time high set in September 2011 at $ 1920 .
Silver , which has famously lagged behind gold for two years now , finally broke through the post-Brexit vote high of $ 21.13 ( again cash basis ) on Monday and never looked back , exploding above $ 23 to close this week at $ 22.77 an ounce .
The weekly prints weren ’ t even completed yet when I start @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are incredibly overbought .
It ’ s an easy position to take into a breakout because of indicators like 200 day moving averages and Bollinger bands , because these this indicators are all about mean reversion strategies .
And , yes , markets always revert to the mean .
But they also stay irrational far longer than you can stay solvent .
This is especially true when central banks around the world pump trillions into the markets to keep them from collapsing .
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They trade on momentum and sentiment .
Instead of piling on some , frankly , superficial technical analysis about how silver is now X % above its 200dma and that means it ’ s overbought , the question one should be asking is , “ What in the holy hell is going on here ?
” I think there are a number of factors at play that have all lined up to answer that question .
The first is the most important , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week ’ s proximate cause was the breakdown of the U.S. dollar index ( USDX ) because of the shift in the political and fiscal structure of the European Union .
The USDX had been plumbing recent lows as the markets bought into a reflation trade surrounding the end of the COVID-19 lockdown around the world .
Gradually , all that money that was stuffed into the hands of the banks , the hedge funds and Blackrock as the U.S. treasury ’ s agent bid asset prices higher , honestly , across the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
U.S. bond yields are at historic lows , stocks historic highs , gold now within $ 20 of its all-time high .
But , what drove the USDX to new lows ?
Why was the U.S. dollar the only thing seemingly on sale ?
The sharp rise in the euro thanks to a successful European budget and COVID-19 crisis summit , the outcome of which , by the way , was never in doubt .
Because currency traders are now betting the farm — or at least signaling that they want to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become a proper political and fiscal entity since the European Commission now has both taxing and spending authority directly .
This has been the thing the markets have been punishing the euro for for years .
And now the process has begun .
The euro blew through the March high when capital flew out of U.S. assets for a short time to quell European bank solvency fears and then promptly rushed right back out the minute the worst of the crisis ended .
You look at this weekly chart of the euro and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s ass about 200 day moving averages in a crisis ( shaded area of extreme volatility ) ?
It ’ s clear from the chart that the March low in the euro was significant and a new weekly closing high is far more important than how far away it is from its historical average .
I was unconvinced in this rally in the euro until last week when the euro close strong for the first time above $ 1.13 ( orange line , see chart ) .
It had failed to convince traders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be long the euro , regardless of where it stood versus the long term .
The Last Gold Rushu202 ... Haynes , Bill Buy New $ 28.00 Why this is important for gold is that gold has been trapped between two opposing forces for nearly a year now .
On the one hand is the safe haven trade that ’ s been in place since last year ’ s seizure of the repo markets in September — moving in concert with a strong dollar .
On the other is the reflation trade , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creating liquidity and positive market sentiment .
This would cause the dollar to drop alongside gold as traders ran with the ‘ happy days are here again ’ trade .
All along gold was slowly grinding higher regardless of the dollar , and that told us there was a sentiment change underway .
But , day-to-day , week-to-week , gold was trapped between these two trades , broadly .
But the spasm in March changed that dynamic as the dollar markets seized up and the world went into ‘ sell everything not dollars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on those days and , in general , that ’ s where the most violent downdrafts in gold occur .
But , as I said , overall gold has been grinding higher as bulls kept supporting the price on pullbacks at higher levels .
Because once gold broke above the post-Brexit high of $ 1375 last summer , it was now officially , technically in a bull market , having broken out of a six-year consolidation pattern on the quarterly chart .
Closing prices matter .
And June ’ s strong close in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changed .
Look at the Q1 bar .
Note how it closed above the Q3 2019 bar despite the markets locking up in early March .
That ’ s a very powerful signal .
And it more than set the stage for the run we ’ ve seen for the past four months .
With the huge move in Q2 gold should have sold off into the close on profit taking and book squaring .
It didn ’ t .
In fact the shorts got killed and still are .
And that signals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gold has been broken , at least for the time being .
Gold is now trading independently of all other currencies , including the dollar .
Moving averages can not capture pent up market energy like simply reading the candlesticks can .
There is more predictive power in understanding the relationship of one bar to another and relating those change through time .
All of the things I just discussed in terms of gold ’ s quarterly performance were setup in the weekly and monthly charts at key moments in time .
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Time and price are far more important than statistics .
All statistics can do is give you pot odds of a move higher or lower .
And right now , for the month of July , is gold overbought ?
So the odds for the rest of July state gold will see it ’ s all-time high at $ 1920 and run back into its burrow for a few weeks .
It ’ s been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from September 2011 is historic and it should be respected by both bulls and bears .
But that ’ s the easy call .
What ’ s far more important now is how gold closes this month .
Because that sets up the probability of what it should do in August .
Because if gold were to close July where it closed this week , $ 1901.15 , versus a high of $ 1906.68 and a low of $ 1757.71 then there is a 90 % chance of gold breaking July ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of gold breaking the July low .
And given that in any single month gold , on average , moves $ 80 and the difference between closing prices is $ 63 , there is a excellent chance that breaking the July high in August will also create a new all-time high .
Those are the odds .
There ’ s no arguing with the numbers .
Being long gold here , despite the apparent frothiness is the right play .
Until I see a weekly close that alters that picture , throwing some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previous low , gold is a buy right now .
Of course , at this level I ’ m looking for that signal to show up this week , the last week of July , to push the price back and alter the odds for August .
It ’ s been the history of both gold and silver to get crushed into the monthly and quarterly closes to keep its momentum muted .
Silver ’ s position is even more interesting because silver is now two years behind gold in terms of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hasn ’ t even had a chance to run before people are calling for it to collapse .
This week was the one where silver finally bested the post-Brexit high of $ 21.25 an ounce .
It was set up by to huge weekly closes which pushed through near-term resistance above $ 18.00 .
Last week ’ s close at $ 19.32 was met with massive follow-through buying which pushed the price through what should have been stronger resistance above $ 20 which literally didn ’ t matter .
Look at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a seven-year consolidation below $ 21 per ounce .
A July close above that level sets up a move to the $ 26 area , the area that was support after the 2011 peak ( see chart ) .
And you can see that silver is way beyond its normal trading behavior but coming off the strong June close there were 9.5:1 odds that silver would break the Q2 high in Q3 and use that as energy to challenge first the Q1 high and then the 2016 high .
That it did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should tell you just how strong bullish sentiment is and how pent up the demand for silver was .
And because silver lagged gold all year , gold could easily flame out alongside stocks well before silver does .
In fact , that ’ s my medium-term call .
Because silver isn ’ t as much a monetary metal nor is it a safe-haven asset like gold .
So it could be telling us something is changing in the strategic metals complex which should scare all the ‘ v-shaped ’ recovery punters on @ @ @ @ @ @ @

Gold and silver had bang up weeks. Gold closed yesterday afternoon on a cash basis above $1900, at $1901.95 just $18 shy of the all-time high set in September 2011 at $1920.
Silver, which has famously lagged behind gold for two years now, finally broke through the post-Brexit vote high of $21.13 (again cash basis) on Monday and never looked back, exploding above $23 to close this week at $22.77 an ounce.
The weekly prints weren’t even completed yet when I start seeing the calls in my inbox saying they are incredibly overbought. It’s an easy position to take into a breakout because of indicators like 200 day moving averages and Bollinger bands, because these this indicators are all about mean reversion strategies.
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Markets don’t trade on fundamentals or statistical regressions of the past.
Markets are forward-looking.
They trade on momentum and sentiment.
Instead of piling on some, frankly, superficial technical analysis about how silver is now X% above its 200dma and that means it’s overbought, the question one should be asking is, “What in the holy hell is going on here?”
I think there are a number of factors at play that have all lined up to answer that question.
The first is the most important, which I’ll focus on. This week’s proximate cause was the breakdown of the U.S. dollar index (USDX) because of the shift in the political and fiscal structure of the European Union. The USDX had been plumbing recent lows as the markets bought into a reflation trade surrounding the end of the COVID-19 lockdown around the world.
Gradually, all that money that was stuffed into the hands of the banks, the hedge funds and Blackrock as the U.S. treasury’s agent bid asset prices higher, honestly, across the board, with the exception of oil.
U.S. bond yields are at historic lows, stocks historic highs, gold now within $20 of its all-time high. But, what drove the USDX to new lows?
Why was the U.S. dollar the only thing seemingly on sale?
The sharp rise in the euro thanks to a successful European budget and COVID-19 crisis summit, the outcome of which, by the way, was never in doubt.
Because currency traders are now betting the farm — or at least signaling that they want to — that the European Union will now become a proper political and fiscal entity since the European Commission now has both taxing and spending authority directly.
This has been the thing the markets have been punishing the euro for for years. And now the process has begun.
The euro blew through the March high when capital flew out of U.S. assets for a short time to quell European bank solvency fears and then promptly rushed right back out the minute the worst of the crisis ended.
You look at this weekly chart of the euro and tell me markets give a rat’s ass about 200 day moving averages in a crisis (shaded area of extreme volatility)?
It’s clear from the chart that the March low in the euro was significant and a new weekly closing high is far more important than how far away it is from its historical average.
I was unconvinced in this rally in the euro until last week when the euro close strong for the first time above $1.13 (orange line, see chart). It had failed to convince traders going into a weekend they wanted to be long the euro, regardless of where it stood versus the long term. The Last Gold Rushu202... Haynes, Bill Buy New $28.00 (as of 04:04 UTC - Details)
Why this is important for gold is that gold has been trapped between two opposing forces for nearly a year now.
On the one hand is the safe haven trade that’s been in place since last year’s seizure of the repo markets in September — moving in concert with a strong dollar.
On the other is the reflation trade, relying on the kindness of central banks creating liquidity and positive market sentiment. This would cause the dollar to drop alongside gold as traders ran with the ‘happy days are here again’ trade.
All along gold was slowly grinding higher regardless of the dollar, and that told us there was a sentiment change underway. But, day-to-day, week-to-week, gold was trapped between these two trades, broadly.
But the spasm in March changed that dynamic as the dollar markets seized up and the world went into ‘sell everything not dollars’ mode. Gold always gets hit on those days and, in general, that’s where the most violent downdrafts in gold occur.
But, as I said, overall gold has been grinding higher as bulls kept supporting the price on pullbacks at higher levels. Because once gold broke above the post-Brexit high of $1375 last summer, it was now officially, technically in a bull market, having broken out of a six-year consolidation pattern on the quarterly chart.
Closing prices matter. And June’s strong close in gold told everyone that something had fundamentally changed. Look at the Q1 bar. Note how it closed above the Q3 2019 bar despite the markets locking up in early March.
That’s a very powerful signal. And it more than set the stage for the run we’ve seen for the past four months. With the huge move in Q2 gold should have sold off into the close on profit taking and book squaring.
It didn’t. In fact the shorts got killed and still are.
And that signals that the dynamic between the USDX and gold has been broken, at least for the time being. Gold is now trading independently of all other currencies, including the dollar.
Moving averages cannot capture pent up market energy like simply reading the candlesticks can. There is more predictive power in understanding the relationship of one bar to another and relating those change through time.
All of the things I just discussed in terms of gold’s quarterly performance were setup in the weekly and monthly charts at key moments in time. This is why I do twice weekly video Market Reports for my Patrons who benefit from seeing these strategic markets evolve on a regular basis.
Time and price are far more important than statistics. All statistics can do is give you pot odds of a move higher or lower. And right now, for the month of July, is gold overbought?
Yes.
So the odds for the rest of July state gold will see it’s all-time high at $1920 and run back into its burrow for a few weeks. It’s been a good run, but that high from September 2011 is historic and it should be respected by both bulls and bears.
But that’s the easy call. What’s far more important now is how gold closes this month. Because that sets up the probability of what it should do in August.
Because if gold were to close July where it closed this week, $1901.15, versus a high of $1906.68 and a low of $1757.71 then there is a 90% chance of gold breaking July’s high and just a 1.2% chance of gold breaking the July low.
And given that in any single month gold, on average, moves $80 and the difference between closing prices is $63, there is a excellent chance that breaking the July high in August will also create a new all-time high.
Those are the odds. There’s no arguing with the numbers. Being long gold here, despite the apparent frothiness is the right play. Until I see a weekly close that alters that picture, throwing some form of reversal signal which violates a previous low, gold is a buy right now.
Of course, at this level I’m looking for that signal to show up this week, the last week of July, to push the price back and alter the odds for August. It’s been the history of both gold and silver to get crushed into the monthly and quarterly closes to keep its momentum muted.
Silver’s position is even more interesting because silver is now two years behind gold in terms of the big picture (quarterly chart breakout) and hasn’t even had a chance to run before people are calling for it to collapse.
This week was the one where silver finally bested the post-Brexit high of $21.25 an ounce. It was set up by to huge weekly closes which pushed through near-term resistance above $18.00. Last week’s close at $19.32 was met with massive follow-through buying which pushed the price through what should have been stronger resistance above $20 which literally didn’t matter.
Look at the shaded area on the chart. That is a seven-year consolidation below $21 per ounce. A July close above that level sets up a move to the $26 area, the area that was support after the 2011 peak (see chart).
And you can see that silver is way beyond its normal trading behavior but coming off the strong June close there were 9.5:1 odds that silver would break the Q2 high in Q3 and use that as energy to challenge first the Q1 high and then the 2016 high. That it did all of these things in three weeks should tell you just how strong bullish sentiment is and how pent up the demand for silver was.
And because silver lagged gold all year, gold could easily flame out alongside stocks well before silver does. In fact, that’s my medium-term call.
Because silver isn’t as much a monetary metal nor is it a safe-haven asset like gold. So it could be telling us something is changing in the strategic metals complex which should scare all the ‘v-shaped’ recovery punters on CNBC.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-28--American ‘Stormtroopers’ — A Bright Shining Lie

With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals , and Portland ’ s police hard-pressed to protect it , President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building .
The reaction from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi : “ The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.
” Majority Whip James Clyburn endorsed the speaker ’ s equating of the U.S. law enforcement officers to Ernst Rohm ’ s SA thugs being deployed to do the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nobody asked the federal government to come into Portland .
Nobody asked them to come to Seattle , ” ranted Clyburn .
“ This is something that ’ s made up of whole cloth by this administration as an excuse for sending in stormtroopers to incite the people.
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Best Price : $ 2.03 Buy New $ 8.50 Clyburn had earlier compared the U.S. officers sent to Portland to Heinrich Himmler ’ s Nazi secret police : “ This president and this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities on local communities , and this is what I ’ ve been warning about for a long time.
” His Gestapo comparison recalls Sen. Abe Ribicoff ’ s denunciation of the Chicago police of Mayor Richard J. Daley during the 1968 Democratic National Convention , after police clashed with radicals in Grant Park : “ With George McGovern , we wouldn ’ t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago !
” What do the men and women of the FBI , DEA , ICE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Marshals Service think of congressional leaders who equate them with Nazi stormtroopers and the Gestapo ?
Outraged that Trump sent in federal agents to protect a building they had under siege for weeks , the Portland mob came out in even greater numbers and rioted through the weekend .
Saturday night , there were solidarity riots with Portland in Seattle , Oakland , Austin , Richmond , and other cities .
The Power of Positive ... Peale , Dr. Norman Vincent Best Price : $ 2.72 Buy New $ 5.95 Consider the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cause leaders of the Democratic Party to compare U.S. law enforcement to Nazis .
Still , to date , no apologies have been heard .
Yet , as police are again being cursed and showered with debris , it is hard to see how this country reunites , and around what , no matter which party prevails in November .
In addition to the reigniting of protests and riots in urban centers there has come , in tandem with demands to “ defund the police , ” a surge in violent crime .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ statistics : “ In New York City , over 300 people were shot in the last month alone , a 277 … percent increase over the same period of a year ago .
Murders this year have spiked 27 percent in Philadelphia and 94 percent in Minneapolis compared to the same period in 2019 .
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More than 1,900 people have been shot .
These are numbers that aren ’ t even to be believed.
” As Black Lives Matter protests revive , ostensibly for greater justice for black folks , a vastly disproportionate number of victims of these urban shootings and killings are black , as are a disproportionate number of the criminals doing the shooting and killing .
The New York Times suggests that a new “ Silent Majority ” of 2020 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Majority of 1969 , backs the protesters and their causes .
A dissent : While the country was disgusted and outraged at George Floyd ’ s death from that cop kneeling on his neck , and supported the protests and the calls for police reform , two months of leftist rampages have taken their toll .
When the protests turned into riots , when the looting and arson began , when the statues began to be pulled down , when the rampages went on and on for weeks and months after Floyd ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And it is dissipating quickly .
The country is not going to sit still for three more months of this .
At some point soon , America is going to say : Enough is enough .
Moreover , Trump has turned a permanent presidential spotlight on a real outrage : The shootings and killings that go on year in and year out , and are now escalating , especially in poor black neighborhoods of major cities , and are accepted as normal by the same liberal Democrats who have misruled those cities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue on the table for the indefinite future .
And the ferocity of the liberal reaction testifies to the validity of the issue and the terror of the left that a consistent stand for law and order — and with the cops who guarantee it against the mobs that threaten it — might turn the tide in Middle America back to where it naturally resides .
The majority of Americans believe , and rightly so , that this is a good country .
And they will eventually tune out radicals who visibly hate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ offer nothing but their own inchoate rage .
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With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland’s police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.
The reaction from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
“The use of stormtroopers under the guise of law and order is a tactic that is not appropriate to our country in any way.”
Majority Whip James Clyburn endorsed the speaker’s equating of the U.S. law enforcement officers to Ernst Rohm’s SA thugs being deployed to do the dirty work of Adolph Hitler.
“Nobody asked the federal government to come into Portland. Nobody asked them to come to Seattle,” ranted Clyburn. “This is something that’s made up of whole cloth by this administration as an excuse for sending in stormtroopers to incite the people.” Nixon’s White Ho... Buchanan, Patrick J. Best Price: $2.03 Buy New $8.50 (as of 12:15 UTC - Details)
Clyburn had earlier compared the U.S. officers sent to Portland to Heinrich Himmler’s Nazi secret police: “This president and this attorney general seem to be doing everything they possibly can to impose Gestapo activities on local communities, and this is what I’ve been warning about for a long time.”
His Gestapo comparison recalls Sen. Abe Ribicoff’s denunciation of the Chicago police of Mayor Richard J. Daley during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, after police clashed with radicals in Grant Park: “With George McGovern, we wouldn’t have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!”
What do the men and women of the FBI, DEA, ICE, DHS, CBP and the U.S. Marshals Service think of congressional leaders who equate them with Nazi stormtroopers and the Gestapo?
Outraged that Trump sent in federal agents to protect a building they had under siege for weeks, the Portland mob came out in even greater numbers and rioted through the weekend. Saturday night, there were solidarity riots with Portland in Seattle, Oakland, Austin, Richmond, and other cities. The Power of Positive ... Peale, Dr. Norman Vincent Best Price: $2.72 Buy New $5.95 (as of 04:30 UTC - Details)
Consider the depth of hatred of Trump that would cause leaders of the Democratic Party to compare U.S. law enforcement to Nazis.
Still, to date, no apologies have been heard.
Yet, as police are again being cursed and showered with debris, it is hard to see how this country reunites, and around what, no matter which party prevails in November.
In addition to the reigniting of protests and riots in urban centers there has come, in tandem with demands to “defund the police,” a surge in violent crime. Last week, Trump offered some staggering statistics:
“In New York City, over 300 people were shot in the last month alone, a 277 … percent increase over the same period of a year ago. Murders this year have spiked 27 percent in Philadelphia and 94 percent in Minneapolis compared to the same period in 2019.
Airborne: How The Libe... Margolis, Matt Best Price: $12.00 Buy New $15.99 (as of 04:20 UTC - Details) ”Perhaps no citizens have suffered more from the menace of violent crime than the wonderful people of Chicago … At least 414 people have been murdered in the city this year, a roughly 50 percent increase over last year. More than 1,900 people have been shot. These are numbers that aren’t even to be believed.”
As Black Lives Matter protests revive, ostensibly for greater justice for black folks, a vastly disproportionate number of victims of these urban shootings and killings are black, as are a disproportionate number of the criminals doing the shooting and killing.
The New York Times suggests that a new “Silent Majority” of 2020, unlike Richard Nixon’s Silent Majority of 1969, backs the protesters and their causes.
A dissent: While the country was disgusted and outraged at George Floyd’s death from that cop kneeling on his neck, and supported the protests and the calls for police reform, two months of leftist rampages have taken their toll.
When the protests turned into riots, when the looting and arson began, when the statues began to be pulled down, when the rampages went on and on for weeks and months after Floyd’s death, support began to wane. And it is dissipating quickly.
The country is not going to sit still for three more months of this. At some point soon, America is going to say: Enough is enough.
Moreover, Trump has turned a permanent presidential spotlight on a real outrage: The shootings and killings that go on year in and year out, and are now escalating, especially in poor black neighborhoods of major cities, and are accepted as normal by the same liberal Democrats who have misruled those cities for decades.
Trump has put this issue on the table for the indefinite future. And the ferocity of the liberal reaction testifies to the validity of the issue and the terror of the left that a consistent stand for law and order — and with the cops who guarantee it against the mobs that threaten it — might turn the tide in Middle America back to where it naturally resides.
The majority of Americans believe, and rightly so, that this is a good country. And they will eventually tune out radicals who visibly hate its heroes and history and have on offer nothing but their own inchoate rage.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-28--Florida Is a Case Study in Media-Induced COVID-19 Panic

What do all these news accounts have in common ?
“ Florida Sets Yet Another Coronavirus Record : 173 Deaths In A Day.
” “ A record 173 Floridians died from the virus Thursday , an average of more than one every eight minutes.
” “ The 134 new confirmed deaths is the second-largest increase on record , coming five days after the largest one-day jump of 156 last week.
” “ COVID-19 has ravaged Florida , with more than 237,000 people testing positive and 2,013 dying from the virus in July alone.
” So what characteristic do all of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ false .
Be Ready for Anything : ... Daisy Luther Best Price : $ 10.45 Buy New $ 9.69 It is not true that 173 people died from COVID-19 “ in a day ” in Florida .
Nor did 134 , or 156 on previous days .
It is also untrue than 2,013 had died in July when that story was published .
All of these scary headlines are based on the number of deaths reported by the state on any given day .
This is not the same as the number of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The difference might seem trivial .
But it ’ s crucial because the press is using the timing of Florida ’ s death reports to whip up a frenzy about COVID-19 running riot in the state .
Take a look at the chart below .
The blue bars are the number of deaths reported in four days last week .
Notice the sharp uphill climb ?
That ’ s the story the press has been telling .
But those deaths didn ’ t occur on those days .
In fact , the vast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even weeks , before .
The actual date of these deaths is indicated by the orange bars .
In fact , as of Sunday , the biggest one-day death toll so far in the state happened back on July 16 , when 114 are known to have died .
And when the press was claiming that 2,013 had died in July , the actual number of known deaths was 1,847 .
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While deaths attributed to coronavirus have increased , the “ surge ” is a fiction because many of those deaths happened earlier .
But almost no news outlet explains this difference clearly to readers .
The Miami Herald is one exception .
In a recent story , it noted — after shouting about hitting a new record for daily deaths — that “ the 173 deaths … .
does not necessarily mean that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hours .
In Florida , the deaths announced on a given day could be from several days earlier because the state information does not include the exact date of death.
” But even the Herald didn ’ t have to leave readers guessing as to how many of those 173 died in the previous 24 hours .
Florida ’ s COVID-19 tracking site had it right on the main page .
Of the 173 reported , the number of people who actually died that day was … 19 .
This is only one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being shouted from the media rooftops .
Here again , Florida serves as a model of how to sow fear .
While 173 deaths reported in a single day sounds like a lot , it pales in comparison to the peak reached in New York and New Jersey earlier this spring .
New York ’ s reported deaths topped 1,000 on more than one day in April .
That ’ s in a state with 9 % fewer people than Florida .
New Jersey ’ s peak was 523 on April 20 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ record ” set in Florida — in a state that has 59 % fewer residents .
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In New York , it ’ s 1,680 and in New Jersey it ’ s 1,785 .
In other words , the current situation in Florida is nothing at all like what happened in the northeast in the spring .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the press .
Another bit of missing context is where these deaths are occurring .
Of the more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths in Florida , 45 % of them involved residents and staff at long-term care facilities .
That ’ s not to say these deaths are less important .
But it does provide a needed backdrop for everyone else in the state .
Their risk is tiny by comparison .
This finding also shows that what ’ s needed most is to protect at-risk populations , something that the generalized lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ doesn ’ t discriminate ” is a dangerous fiction .
Then there ’ s the fact that Florida ’ s death count is almost certainly inflated because the state is counting people who died with the virus , not just those who died because of it .

What do all these news accounts have in common?
“Florida Sets Yet Another Coronavirus Record: 173 Deaths In A Day.”
“A record 173 Floridians died from the virus Thursday, an average of more than one every eight minutes.”
“The 134 new confirmed deaths is the second-largest increase on record, coming five days after the largest one-day jump of 156 last week.”
“COVID-19 has ravaged Florida, with more than 237,000 people testing positive and 2,013 dying from the virus in July alone.”
So what characteristic do all of the reports share? They are all false. Be Ready for Anything:... Daisy Luther Best Price: $10.45 Buy New $9.69 (as of 07:15 UTC - Details)
It is not true that 173 people died from COVID-19 “in a day” in Florida. Nor did 134, or 156 on previous days.
It is also untrue than 2,013 had died in July when that story was published.
All of these scary headlines are based on the number of deaths reported by the state on any given day. This is not the same as the number of deaths that occurred on those days.
The difference might seem trivial. But it’s crucial because the press is using the timing of Florida’s death reports to whip up a frenzy about COVID-19 running riot in the state.
Take a look at the chart below. The blue bars are the number of deaths reported in four days last week. Notice the sharp uphill climb? That’s the story the press has been telling.
But those deaths didn’t occur on those days. In fact, the vast majority of them occurred days, or even weeks, before. The actual date of these deaths is indicated by the orange bars.
In fact, as of Sunday, the biggest one-day death toll so far in the state happened back on July 16, when 114 are known to have died. And when the press was claiming that 2,013 had died in July, the actual number of known deaths was 1,847. Jabbed: How the Vaccin... Wilcox, Brett Best Price: $13.02 Buy New $13.05 (as of 03:50 UTC - Details)
As we noted in this space last week, this distortion is being repeated by the media in state after state that has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases. While deaths attributed to coronavirus have increased, the “surge” is a fiction because many of those deaths happened earlier.
But almost no news outlet explains this difference clearly to readers. The Miami Herald is one exception.
In a recent story, it noted — after shouting about hitting a new record for daily deaths — that “the 173 deaths …. does not necessarily mean that every person died in the past 24 hours. In Florida, the deaths announced on a given day could be from several days earlier because the state information does not include the exact date of death.”
But even the Herald didn’t have to leave readers guessing as to how many of those 173 died in the previous 24 hours. Florida’s COVID-19 tracking site had it right on the main page. Of the 173 reported, the number of people who actually died that day was … 19.
This is only one of the problems with the death counts being shouted from the media rooftops.
Here again, Florida serves as a model of how to sow fear.
First there’s the missing context.
While 173 deaths reported in a single day sounds like a lot, it pales in comparison to the peak reached in New York and New Jersey earlier this spring.
New York’s reported deaths topped 1,000 on more than one day in April. That’s in a state with 9% fewer people than Florida.
New Jersey’s peak was 523 on April 20. That’s three times the current “record” set in Florida — in a state that has 59% fewer residents. Vaccine Epidemic: How ... Best Price: $7.50 Buy New $12.99 (as of 06:30 UTC - Details)
Another way to look at it is that the death rate in Florida at the moment is 273 per million residents. In New York, it’s 1,680 and in New Jersey it’s 1,785.
In other words, the current situation in Florida is nothing at all like what happened in the northeast in the spring. Yet that critical information never gets conveyed by the press.
Another bit of missing context is where these deaths are occurring.
Of the more than 5,000 coronavirus deaths in Florida, 45% of them involved residents and staff at long-term care facilities.
That’s not to say these deaths are less important. But it does provide a needed backdrop for everyone else in the state. Their risk is tiny by comparison.
This finding also shows that what’s needed most is to protect at-risk populations, something that the generalized lockdowns failed to do. Pretending that coronavirus “doesn’t discriminate” is a dangerous fiction.
Then there’s the fact that Florida’s death count is almost certainly inflated because the state is counting people who died with the virus, not just those who died because of it.
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