lewrockwell--2020-04-23--The 38-Member Blue Ribbon Committee To Protect Society From Itself Has Met and Determined That This

The 38-Member Blue Ribbon Committee To Protect Society From Itself Has Met and Determined That This Is the Best Way To Lift the Quarantine

The 38-member Blue Ribbon Committee to Protect Society from Itself has met and determined that this is the best way to lift the quarantine .
There are panels of Harvard MDs , Yale PhDs , government economists , and beltway attorneys who today seek a voice in how the quarantines should be lifted .
They are the same people who placed the quarantines on us .
Not only should they not have a say , they should lose their jobs in the very near future , and should be grateful that we live in an era that does not deal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they ’ ve been dealt with for the majority of recorded history .
How to Win America for ... Stevo , Allan J Best Price : $ 23.33 Buy New $ 17.95 From the tyrant Julius Caesar , to Heliogabalus and many in his court , much of recorded history from the ancients and beyond recount an often repeated solution for officials who had betrayed trust .
Murray Rothbard points out “ It was a medieval tradition to justify tyrannicide of unjust rulers who break the divine law.
” The Byzantine minister Nikephoritzes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ harshly was tortured to death after his ruler abdicated .
It continued into the modern period .
In response to a secessionist movement , Abraham Lincoln , in his relatively short time in office provoked civil war and led the decimation of his country , eventually being killed by someone decrying “ Sic semper tyrannis , ” invoking the timeless guidance of how to deal with a person in a position of trust who has proven untrustworthy .
The last example is notable , since the governmental response to corona is worse than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ since the Civil War .
Screwing up when one is in a position of trust has long promised to abbreviate one ’ s life expectancy .
The malfeasant official being allowed to sneak oneself out of the capital city dressed as a veiled lady-of-the-night or a hobbling peasant was a great show of generosity in eras past .
These societal high stakes helped trusted officials with no skin-in-the-game , isolated from the true consequences of their actions , to intimately feel some burden of culpability .
The Present Era Is A More Forgiving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things are done .
We ’ ve learned to forgive societally .
But this one – the 31-day shuttering of an economy and house arrest of hundreds of millions – will be a hard one to forget .
And it ’ s not like there weren ’ t critics of the lockdown from the beginning boldly stating : the data is of too low of quality to make a decision let alone one so drastic , the data is inaccurate , everyone is going bonkers over nothing , or quarantines don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ perhaps thousands , of prominent figures were voicing these objections publicly about the illogical lockdowns .
Most in society would have benefited from these perspectives being amplified in the debate .
The Blue Ribbon Types Didn ’ t Want To Listen The powers that be just didn ’ t want to listen to those critics .
The lockdown played too well into too many people ’ s agendas – just like any government action that makes its way through the slow moving , ineffective machine .
Sometimes that slow bureaucracy protects our liberty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who don ’ t lift a finger for anyone without an agenda , the people who we are supposed to trust with representing our best interests , as if they even know a thing about you or me or anyone else outside of their insulated circle well enough to even be able to repeat an interest , let alone “ represent ” an interest .
You know .
Those people .
Those blue ribbon panel types .
How Much Time Should We Allow For Making A Decision For How To End The Lockdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give them to discuss unwinding the 31 days of tyranny they have imposed on us ?
Perhaps another 31 days will suffice .
How much time should we spend debating their plans ?
Perhaps an additional 62 days would be fair .
No need to be rash with debating these plans .
How many months should we give them to put the matter out there for the public to vote on democratically through referenda or through push polling ?
No need to hurry the public .
Perhaps another 124 days would be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sufficiently up to speed on all the details required for answering this complicated question about how to reopen society .
How Society Closed Down And How Society Will Re-Open How Not To Die With Tr ... Henriques , Tiago Best Price : $ 18.23 Buy New $ 17.97 Society closed down one compliant person at a time .
One compliant business at a time .
One compliant parent at a time .
One compliant doctor , bean counter , dean , nurse , elder , patient , editor , one compliant pastor , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compliant customer , journalist , one compliant neighbor at a time , one compliant formerly brave person at a time , society closed down .
One-by-one , everyone who complied fell for the big farce that was corona communism .
They let themselves be frightened into it , intimidated into it , or just otherwise went along with it .
In fact , to take it further , it is not individual response that matters , as much as it is individual action that matters .
Ludwig von Mises writes in The Ultimate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is purposive conduct .
It is not simply behavior , but behavior begot by judgments of value , aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means .
.
.
.
It is conscious behavior .
It is choosing .
It is volition ; it is a display of the will.
” Henry David Thoreau injects the importance of disobedience in a free society “ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty .
The obedient must be slaves.
” Gary Barnett adds “ Once any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , all that is left is slavery.
” Do you know how to re-open society ?
One person at a time , compliance just comes to an end .
Let the blue ribbon panel meet .
Let the newspapers discuss .
Let the bureaucrats further delude themselves with their visions of messianic grandeur .
I never went into quarantine .
I log 40,000 steps some days .
I have written against the nonsense throughout .
Many of you never went into quarantine , either .
You have been beacons of freedom to those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been examples to those who have seen you purposely act , regardless of the corona bans .
But even if you did go into quarantine , even if you did believe it , that ’ s okay .
It is when you are aware and continue making the same mistake repeatedly that it turns to malice .
And today is the day to stop making that mistake .
Today is the day to come out of quarantine .
This quarantine must not end next month .
It must not end next week .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ must end today .
The Healing Nutrients ... Eric R. Braverman Best Price : $ 2.00 Buy New $ 1.99 It was never about them .
It was never about the government .
Everyone just fell in line .
Barely a pastor even went to Caesar and said “ Oh great Caesar , I fear your left hand does not agree with your right hand , I will obediently take this matter up with the courts to seek resolution , ” or “ Oh Caesar , I believe you have made a mistake @ @ @ @ @ @ @ error of your ways.
” No .
Even the pastors .
All but a few hundred or a few thousand went into quarantine at the slightest suggestion of the word .
They lined up to virtue signal as quickly as possible and as publicly as possible .
How obedient they were to the whims of the secular .
Is it really the oppressor ’ s fault that you are so oppressible ?
No .
It ’ s called dishonesty not to speak up for your own values and your own boundaries in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s time to state your boundaries and to live a life that honors your boundaries .
Don ’ t do that because government will step on you if you don ’ t .
Do it because it ’ s the right thing to do .
One person at a time , the corona ban ends just like it began : with individual acts of individuals respecting their own boundaries .
Is that disobedient ?
It could be , but only in the face of a government that demands obedience .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The default of a free man is disobedience in the face of demands for obedience , non-compliance in the face of demands for compliance .
There better be a darn good reason to comply if someone wants a free person to disrespect his own boundaries .
And for Covid-19 that reason is not there .
Vitamin D3 , Zinc and M ... Jeffers , Nancy Best Price : null Buy New $ 6.98 Not only is it not there .
The opposite is there .
Malfeasance and misfeasance on the part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to call for the immediate dismissal across society of everyone involved is clearly there .
If there is no good reason to let someone traverse your boundaries today , I beg of you to do the honest thing .
Identify your boundaries and hold firm to them , notify others of them when they come close to traversing them .
You may not be able to move government today .
You may not be able to move your neighbor today .
You may not be able to move your dearest friend and love @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can move yourself today .
And I beg you , in your own life , to uphold your boundaries as honestly as you can , as stringently as fidelity to your boundaries calls for , regardless of who thinks you should do otherwise and regardless of what illogical rationale may be given .
In doing so , you will end the corona ban today for one more person .
And who knows where it could go from there .
What we certainly do know is that courage is contagious .
The Best of @ @

The 38-member Blue Ribbon Committee to Protect Society from Itself has met and determined that this is the best way to lift the quarantine.
There are panels of Harvard MDs, Yale PhDs, government economists, and beltway attorneys who today seek a voice in how the quarantines should be lifted.
They are the same people who placed the quarantines on us.
Not only should they not have a say, they should lose their jobs in the very near future, and should be grateful that we live in an era that does not deal with the tyrant and his advisors like they’ve been dealt with for the majority of recorded history.
Historical Betrayals Of Trust Dealt With Harshly
How to Win America for... Stevo, Allan J Best Price: $14.36 Buy New $17.95 (as of 04:37 UTC - Details) From the tyrant Julius Caesar, to Heliogabalus and many in his court, much of recorded history from the ancients and beyond recount an often repeated solution for officials who had betrayed trust.
Murray Rothbard points out “It was a medieval tradition to justify tyrannicide of unjust rulers who break the divine law.”
The Byzantine minister Nikephoritzes, who created food shortages and taxed harshly was tortured to death after his ruler abdicated.
It continued into the modern period. In response to a secessionist movement, Abraham Lincoln, in his relatively short time in office provoked civil war and led the decimation of his country, eventually being killed by someone decrying “Sic semper tyrannis,” invoking the timeless guidance of how to deal with a person in a position of trust who has proven untrustworthy.
The last example is notable, since the governmental response to corona is worse than anything that has taken place in America since the Civil War.
Screwing up when one is in a position of trust has long promised to abbreviate one’s life expectancy. The malfeasant official being allowed to sneak oneself out of the capital city dressed as a veiled lady-of-the-night or a hobbling peasant was a great show of generosity in eras past. These societal high stakes helped trusted officials with no skin-in-the-game, isolated from the true consequences of their actions, to intimately feel some burden of culpability.
The Present Era Is A More Forgiving Era
This is no longer the way things are done. We’ve learned to forgive societally.
But this one – the 31-day shuttering of an economy and house arrest of hundreds of millions – will be a hard one to forget.
And it’s not like there weren’t critics of the lockdown from the beginning boldly stating: the data is of too low of quality to make a decision let alone one so drastic, the data is inaccurate, everyone is going bonkers over nothing, or quarantines don’t even work against coronavirus.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of prominent figures were voicing these objections publicly about the illogical lockdowns. Most in society would have benefited from these perspectives being amplified in the debate.
The Blue Ribbon Types Didn’t Want To Listen
The powers that be just didn’t want to listen to those critics. The lockdown played too well into too many people’s agendas – just like any government action that makes its way through the slow moving, ineffective machine. Sometimes that slow bureaucracy protects our liberty through its very incompetence.
These people who don’t lift a finger for anyone without an agenda, the people who we are supposed to trust with representing our best interests, as if they even know a thing about you or me or anyone else outside of their insulated circle well enough to even be able to repeat an interest, let alone “represent” an interest.
You know. Those people. Those blue ribbon panel types.
How Much Time Should We Allow For Making A Decision For How To End The Lockdown?
How many weeks do we need to give them to discuss unwinding the 31 days of tyranny they have imposed on us? Perhaps another 31 days will suffice.
How much time should we spend debating their plans? Perhaps an additional 62 days would be fair. No need to be rash with debating these plans.
How many months should we give them to put the matter out there for the public to vote on democratically through referenda or through push polling? No need to hurry the public. Perhaps another 124 days would be useful for an educated electorate to get sufficiently up to speed on all the details required for answering this complicated question about how to reopen society.
How Society Closed Down And How Society Will Re-Open
How Not To Die With Tr... Henriques, Tiago Best Price: $18.23 Buy New $17.97 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details) Society closed down one compliant person at a time. One compliant business at a time. One compliant parent at a time. One compliant doctor, bean counter, dean, nurse, elder, patient, editor, one compliant pastor, employee, teacher, nanny, one compliant customer, journalist, one compliant neighbor at a time, one compliant formerly brave person at a time, society closed down.
One-by-one, everyone who complied fell for the big farce that was corona communism. They let themselves be frightened into it, intimidated into it, or just otherwise went along with it.
Government decree is fairly meaningless.
Individual response is what matters.
In fact, to take it further, it is not individual response that matters, as much as it is individual action that matters.
Ludwig von Mises writes in The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science, “Action is purposive conduct. It is not simply behavior, but behavior begot by judgments of value, aiming at a definite end and guided by ideas concerning the suitability or unsuitability of definite means. . . . It is conscious behavior. It is choosing. It is volition; it is a display of the will.”
Henry David Thoreau injects the importance of disobedience in a free society “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Gary Barnett adds “Once any country’s people succumb to obedience, all that is left is slavery.”
Do you know how to re-open society? One person at a time, compliance just comes to an end.
Let the blue ribbon panel meet. Let the newspapers discuss. Let the bureaucrats further delude themselves with their visions of messianic grandeur.
I never went into quarantine. I log 40,000 steps some days. I have written against the nonsense throughout. Many of you never went into quarantine, either. You have been beacons of freedom to those with whom you congregate. You have been examples to those who have seen you purposely act, regardless of the corona bans.
But even if you did go into quarantine, even if you did believe it, that’s okay.
Everyone makes mistakes.
It is when you are aware and continue making the same mistake repeatedly that it turns to malice.
And today is the day to stop making that mistake. Today is the day to come out of quarantine.
This quarantine must not end next month. It must not end next week. It must not end tomorrow. It must end today. The Healing Nutrients ... Eric R. Braverman Best Price: $2.00 Buy New $1.99 (as of 04:25 UTC - Details)
It was never about them.
It was never about the government.
Everyone just fell in line.
Barely a pastor even went to Caesar and said “Oh great Caesar, I fear your left hand does not agree with your right hand, I will obediently take this matter up with the courts to seek resolution,” or “Oh Caesar, I believe you have made a mistake. Let me help you see the error of your ways.” No. Even the pastors. All but a few hundred or a few thousand went into quarantine at the slightest suggestion of the word. They lined up to virtue signal as quickly as possible and as publicly as possible. How obedient they were to the whims of the secular.
Is it really the oppressor’s fault that you are so oppressible? No.
It’s called dishonesty not to speak up for your own values and your own boundaries in the face of those who traverse your boundaries.
It’s time for honesty.
It’s time to state your boundaries and to live a life that honors your boundaries.
Don’t do that because government will step on you if you don’t.
Do it because it’s the right thing to do.
One person at a time, the corona ban ends just like it began: with individual acts of individuals respecting their own boundaries.
Is that disobedient? It could be, but only in the face of a government that demands obedience.
In reality, that is just honesty.
The default of a free man is disobedience in the face of demands for obedience, non-compliance in the face of demands for compliance. There better be a darn good reason to comply if someone wants a free person to disrespect his own boundaries.
And for Covid-19 that reason is not there. Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Not only is it not there. The opposite is there. Malfeasance and misfeasance on the part of trusted authorities is there. Valid reasons to call for the immediate dismissal across society of everyone involved is clearly there.
If there is no good reason to let someone traverse your boundaries today, I beg of you to do the honest thing. Identify your boundaries and hold firm to them, notify others of them when they come close to traversing them.
You may not be able to move government today. You may not be able to move your neighbor today. You may not be able to move your dearest friend and love of your life today.
But you can move yourself today.
And I beg you, in your own life, to uphold your boundaries as honestly as you can, as stringently as fidelity to your boundaries calls for, regardless of who thinks you should do otherwise and regardless of what illogical rationale may be given.
In doing so, you will end the corona ban today for one more person.
And who knows where it could go from there.
What we certainly do know is that courage is contagious.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-04-23--Fauci Backpedals on Vitamin C and D Recommendations

As reported in my April 7 , 2020 , article “ Vitamins C and D Finally Adopted as Coronavirus Treatment , ” the largest hospital system in New York , Northwell Health , has been giving COVID-19 patients admitted into intensive care 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C three to four times a day in conjunction with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin , both of which have shown promise in coronavirus treatment.1 According to Dr. Andrew G. Weber , a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island , “ The patients @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than those who did not get vitamin C. It helps a tremendous amount , but it is not highlighted because it ’ s not a sexy drug.
” 2 NIAID Director Backpedals on Vitamin C and D Recommendations Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 Curiously , Dr. Anthony Fauci , director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ( NIAID ) and the face of the White House coronavirus response team , is now saying life probably will not go back to normal until @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire global population against COVID-19.3 I say “ curiously , ” as just four short years ago , in a Washingtonian article,4 “ How to Avoid Getting Sick When You ’ re Around People All Day , ” Fauci touted vitamins C and D as being good for boosting your immune system and fighting infectious disease .
Vitamin C “ can enhance your body ’ s defense against microbes , ” he said — a statement backed by recent research showing vitamin C supplementation lowers your risk of the common cold.5 At the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1,000 milligrams ( mg ) of vitamin C , himself , every day .
“ Many people also do not get enough vitamin D , which affects a lot of body functions , so that would be helpful , too , ” he added .
Yet , in a March 26 , 2020 , interview with RealClear Politics,6 he changed his tune , saying there was “ no definite proof ” that the vitamins work , even though some studies show they do .
What changed ?
Why did he say vitamins C @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ward off infectious disease four years ago , only to deny it now ?
Is Fauci simply promoting Bill Gates ’ vaccine agenda ?
It ’ s not an implausible idea , considering Fauci is on the Leadership Council board responsible for putting together Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’ s Global Vaccine Action Plan — a collaboration between the Foundation , NIAID , UNICEF and the World Health Organization.7 As explained in a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation press release:8 It ’ s quite feasible that one “ gap ” that would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the life-saving potential of vaccines ” would be the elimination of inexpensive patent-free competition such as nutritional supplements .
Considering the fact that many reports from medical professionals treating COVID-19 patients are showing favorable results using old medicines and supplements such as IV vitamin C and zinc , there ’ s absolutely no reason to announce the end of normalcy unless we vaccinate billions of people .
The Chronic Fatigue Sy ... Ortleb , Charles Best Price : $ 16.55 Buy New $ 17.95 In fact , zinc is currently looking like one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Compelling evidence suggests the reason the antimalarial drug chloroquine appears so useful in the treatment of COVID-19 is because it acts as a zinc ionophore ( zinc transporter ) so it improves zinc uptake into the cell .
Zinc is crucial for healthy immune function9 and a combination of zinc with a zinc ionophore was in 2010 shown to block the replication of SARS coronavirus ( SARS-CoV-1 ) in cell culture within minutes.10 Many of the symptoms of COVID-19 are also near-indistinguishable from those of zinc deficiency.11 In the featured Liberty Report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former GOP congressman , also points out that Fauci ’ s “ doom and gloom predictions ” of 2.2 million deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. alone12 have completely collapsed , “ with the new official prediction coming in under the normal flu numbers for 2018.
” Indeed , April 8 , 2020 , a new model referred to as the Murray Model13 predicts COVID-19 will kill 60,000 in the U.S. by August14 — a far cry from 2.2 million !
“ Was it ‘ social distancing ’ that saved us ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ look at the states and countries that did not lock down — they should have massively higher deaths .
Do they ?
” Listen to his report to find out ( hint : No .
For example , South Carolina , which did not shut down its economy , had only 63 deaths as of April 9 , 2020 , while Colorado , which did shut down , had 193 ) .
Even if a vaccine comes out in a year , which is astoundingly rapid , we will have no proof that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ researchers are foregoing some of the normally required safety testing in order to get a vaccine out as soon as possible.15 What if it turns into a repeat of the fast-tracked H1N1 swine flu vaccine released in Europe during the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010 ?
In July 2009 , the U.S. National Biodefense Safety Board unanimously decided to forgo most safety and efficacy tests to get the vaccine out by September of that year.16,17 Europe also accelerated its approval process , allowing manufacturers to skip large-scale human trials18 — a decision that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an untold number of children and teens across Europe .
The Vitamin D Revoluti ... Soram Khalsa Best Price : $ 1.25 Buy New $ 10.69 Over the next few years , the ASO3-adjuvanted swine flu vaccine Pandemrix ( used in Europe but not in the U.S. during 2009-2010 ) was causally linked20 to childhood narcolepsy , which abruptly skyrocketed in several countries.21,22 Children and teens in Finland,23 the U.K.24 and Sweden25 were among the hardest hit .
Further analyses discerned a rise in narcolepsy among adults who received the vaccine as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as obvious as that in children and adolescents.26 A 2019 study27 reports finding a “ novel association between Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy and the noncoding RNA gene GDNF-AS1 ” — a gene thought to regulate the production of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor or GDNF , a protein that plays an important role in neuronal survival .
They also confirmed a strong association between vaccine-induced narcolepsy and a certain haplotype , suggesting “ variation in genes related to immunity and neuronal survival may interact to increase the susceptibility to Pandemrix-induced narcolepsy in certain individuals.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not Know The fact that health authorities seem to have conveniently forgotten this travesty is shocking , considering it was only a decade ago .
Here we are again , awaiting another fast-tracked vaccine for a virus we still don ’ t even fully understand .
For example , in recent days , some doctors have noted their patients ’ symptoms appear closer to altitude sickness than pneumonia.28 Their blood oxygen levels are devastatingly low , yet they ’ re not gasping for air .
Doctors in the field are also noticing that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher death rate than those who are not ventilated.29,30 Yet standard of care for low blood oxygen calls for ventilation .
This situation really highlights the danger of making medical assumptions .
Fauci and Gates insist a vaccine is the only thing that can open the world back up for business , yet they have no evidence to back up the notion that a vaccine is the best way to protect public health .
How Not To Die With Tr ... Henriques , Tiago Best Price : $ 18.23 Buy New $ 17.97 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gates are both talking about the possibility of rolling out a national tracking system with implantable vaccine certificates .
People who are unwilling to take a gamble with a novel coronavirus vaccine may actually have their social and professional lives restricted indefinitely , should such a plan be implemented .
Remember , the devastating Pandemrix vaccine was found to induce narcolepsy by affecting a noncoding RNA gene .
It wasn ’ t because it contained a toxic substance such as , say , aluminum , which , theoretically , could be chelated out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the main contenders for a COVID-19 vaccine is also using an entirely novel method of manufacturing .
The biotech company Moderna is using synthetic mRNA to instruct DNA to produce the same kind of proteins COVID-19 uses to gain access into our cells .
The idea is that your immune system will learn to recognize and kill the real virus .
What the limited human trials on this vaccine will NOT tell us is whether it might have devastating genetic effects .
No one expected Pandemrix to have genetic effects .
Yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ indisputable that vitamin D plays an important role in human health , and findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing ( TILDA ) 31 and a vitamin D review paper32 published in the journal Nutrients , April 2 , 2020 , both suggest vitamin D deficiency could have serious implications for COVID-19 .
As reported by Medical Xpress , April 6 , 2020:33 The second paper , published in the journal Nutrients , carries the telling title , “ Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the abstract : Premium Liposomal Vita ... Buy New $ 28.95 ( $ 4.82 / Fl Oz ) An opinion36 in The Wall Street Journal by psychiatrist Dr. Vatsal G. Thakkar also points out that “ black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than whites , ” and vitamin D deficiency , which weakens immune function , is far more prevalent among those with darker skin color .
He writes : Thakkar ’ s views are also supported by research38 published in the journal Thorax , in which they show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ARDS ) , resulting from severe respiratory illness such as pneumonia , by and large tend to be deficient in vitamin D , and that vitamin D deficiency contributes directly to ARDS .
The study also found that , for those at risk of developing ARDS after surgery , pre-surgery vitamin D level was the only measure indicative of whether or not a patient would develop lung injury after surgery .
After adjusting for confounding factors , surgical patients with vitamin D levels below 8 ng/ml ( 20 nmol/L ) had a 4.2fold @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with levels at or above 8 ng/ml .
The Best of Joseph Mercola

As reported in my April 7, 2020, article “Vitamins C and D Finally Adopted as Coronavirus Treatment,” the largest hospital system in New York, Northwell Health, has been giving COVID-19 patients admitted into intensive care 1,500 milligrams of intravenous vitamin C three to four times a day in conjunction with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, both of which have shown promise in coronavirus treatment.1
According to Dr. Andrew G. Weber, a pulmonologist and critical-care specialist affiliated with two Northwell Health facilities on Long Island, “The patients who received vitamin C did significantly better than those who did not get vitamin C. It helps a tremendous amount, but it is not highlighted because it’s not a sexy drug.”2
NIAID Director Backpedals on Vitamin C and D Recommendations
Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details) Curiously, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the face of the White House coronavirus response team, is now saying life probably will not go back to normal until we have the ability to vaccinate the entire global population against COVID-19.3
I say “curiously,” as just four short years ago, in a Washingtonian article,4 “How to Avoid Getting Sick When You’re Around People All Day,” Fauci touted vitamins C and D as being good for boosting your immune system and fighting infectious disease.
Vitamin C “can enhance your body’s defense against microbes,” he said — a statement backed by recent research showing vitamin C supplementation lowers your risk of the common cold.5 At the time, Fauci said he was taking 1,000 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C, himself, every day. “Many people also do not get enough vitamin D, which affects a lot of body functions, so that would be helpful, too,” he added.
Yet, in a March 26, 2020, interview with RealClear Politics,6 he changed his tune, saying there was “no definite proof” that the vitamins work, even though some studies show they do. What changed? Why did he say vitamins C and D help boost immune function and ward off infectious disease four years ago, only to deny it now?
Global Vaccine Plan in Action?
Is Fauci simply promoting Bill Gates’ vaccine agenda? It’s not an implausible idea, considering Fauci is on the Leadership Council board responsible for putting together Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Vaccine Action Plan — a collaboration between the Foundation, NIAID, UNICEF and the World Health Organization.7 As explained in a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation press release:8
“The Global Vaccine Action Plan will enable greater coordination across all stakeholder groups — national governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, the private sector and philanthropic organizations — and will identify critical policy, resource, and other gaps that must be addressed to realize the life-saving potential of vaccines.”
It’s quite feasible that one “gap” that would need to be addressed “to realize the life-saving potential of vaccines” would be the elimination of inexpensive patent-free competition such as nutritional supplements.
Considering the fact that many reports from medical professionals treating COVID-19 patients are showing favorable results using old medicines and supplements such as IV vitamin C and zinc, there’s absolutely no reason to announce the end of normalcy unless we vaccinate billions of people. The Chronic Fatigue Sy... Ortleb, Charles Best Price: $16.55 Buy New $17.95 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
In fact, zinc is currently looking like one of the most important remedies against COVID-19. Compelling evidence suggests the reason the antimalarial drug chloroquine appears so useful in the treatment of COVID-19 is because it acts as a zinc ionophore (zinc transporter) so it improves zinc uptake into the cell.
Zinc is crucial for healthy immune function9 and a combination of zinc with a zinc ionophore was in 2010 shown to block the replication of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) in cell culture within minutes.10 Many of the symptoms of COVID-19 are also near-indistinguishable from those of zinc deficiency.11
In the featured Liberty Report video above, Dr. Ron Paul, former GOP congressman, also points out that Fauci’s “doom and gloom predictions” of 2.2 million deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. alone12 have completely collapsed, “with the new official prediction coming in under the normal flu numbers for 2018.”
Indeed, April 8, 2020, a new model referred to as the Murray Model13 predicts COVID-19 will kill 60,000 in the U.S. by August14 — a far cry from 2.2 million! “Was it ‘social distancing’ that saved us?” Paul asks. “Let’s look at the states and countries that did not lock down — they should have massively higher deaths. Do they?”
Listen to his report to find out (hint: No. For example, South Carolina, which did not shut down its economy, had only 63 deaths as of April 9, 2020, while Colorado, which did shut down, had 193).
COVID-19 Vaccine Will Bypass Safety Testing
Even if a vaccine comes out in a year, which is astoundingly rapid, we will have no proof that it’s safe and effective since researchers are foregoing some of the normally required safety testing in order to get a vaccine out as soon as possible.15
What if it turns into a repeat of the fast-tracked H1N1 swine flu vaccine released in Europe during the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010?
In July 2009, the U.S. National Biodefense Safety Board unanimously decided to forgo most safety and efficacy tests to get the vaccine out by September of that year.16,17 Europe also accelerated its approval process, allowing manufacturers to skip large-scale human trials18 — a decision that turned out to have tragic consequences19 for an untold number of children and teens across Europe. The Vitamin D Revoluti... Soram Khalsa Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $10.69 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
Over the next few years, the ASO3-adjuvanted swine flu vaccine Pandemrix (used in Europe but not in the U.S. during 2009-2010) was causally linked20 to childhood narcolepsy, which abruptly skyrocketed in several countries.21,22
Children and teens in Finland,23 the U.K.24 and Sweden25 were among the hardest hit. Further analyses discerned a rise in narcolepsy among adults who received the vaccine as well, although the link wasn’t as obvious as that in children and adolescents.26
A 2019 study27 reports finding a “novel association between Pandemrix-associated narcolepsy and the noncoding RNA gene GDNF-AS1” — a gene thought to regulate the production of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor or GDNF, a protein that plays an important role in neuronal survival.
They also confirmed a strong association between vaccine-induced narcolepsy and a certain haplotype, suggesting “variation in genes related to immunity and neuronal survival may interact to increase the susceptibility to Pandemrix-induced narcolepsy in certain individuals.”
There’s Much We Still Do Not Know
The fact that health authorities seem to have conveniently forgotten this travesty is shocking, considering it was only a decade ago. Here we are again, awaiting another fast-tracked vaccine for a virus we still don’t even fully understand.
For example, in recent days, some doctors have noted their patients’ symptoms appear closer to altitude sickness than pneumonia.28 Their blood oxygen levels are devastatingly low, yet they’re not gasping for air. Doctors in the field are also noticing that patients put on ventilators have a much higher death rate than those who are not ventilated.29,30 Yet standard of care for low blood oxygen calls for ventilation.
This situation really highlights the danger of making medical assumptions. Fauci and Gates insist a vaccine is the only thing that can open the world back up for business, yet they have no evidence to back up the notion that a vaccine is the best way to protect public health. How Not To Die With Tr... Henriques, Tiago Best Price: $18.23 Buy New $17.97 (as of 08:00 UTC - Details)
To top it off, Fauci and Gates are both talking about the possibility of rolling out a national tracking system with implantable vaccine certificates. People who are unwilling to take a gamble with a novel coronavirus vaccine may actually have their social and professional lives restricted indefinitely, should such a plan be implemented.
Remember, the devastating Pandemrix vaccine was found to induce narcolepsy by affecting a noncoding RNA gene. It wasn’t because it contained a toxic substance such as, say, aluminum, which, theoretically, could be chelated out.
As of right now, one of the main contenders for a COVID-19 vaccine is also using an entirely novel method of manufacturing. The biotech company Moderna is using synthetic mRNA to instruct DNA to produce the same kind of proteins COVID-19 uses to gain access into our cells.
The idea is that your immune system will learn to recognize and kill the real virus. What the limited human trials on this vaccine will NOT tell us is whether it might have devastating genetic effects. No one expected Pandemrix to have genetic effects. Yet it did.
Vitamin D in COVID-19 Treatment
It’s scientifically indisputable that vitamin D plays an important role in human health, and findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)31 and a vitamin D review paper32 published in the journal Nutrients, April 2, 2020, both suggest vitamin D deficiency could have serious implications for COVID-19. As reported by Medical Xpress, April 6, 2020:33
“The report,34 ‘Vitamin D deficiency in Ireland — Implications for COVID-19. Results from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA),’ finds that vitamin D plays a critical role in preventing respiratory infections, reducing antibiotic use, and boosting the immune system response to infections.
With one in eight Irish adults under 50 deficient in vitamin D, the report highlights the importance of increasing intake … TILDA researchers recommend that adults over 50 should take supplements — not just in winter, but all year round if they don’t get enough sun …
Professor Rose Anne Kenny, principal investigator of TILDA, said: ‘We have evidence to support a role for vitamin D in the prevention of chest infections, particularly in older adults who have low levels. In one study Vitamin D reduced the risk of chest infections to half in people who took supplements. Vitamin D3, Zinc and M... Jeffers, Nancy Buy New $6.98 (as of 03:40 UTC - Details)
Though we do not know specifically of the role of vitamin D in COVID infections, given its wider implications for improving immune responses … at-risk cohorts should ensure they have an adequate intake of vitamin D.'”
The second paper, published in the journal Nutrients, carries the telling title, “Evidence That Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Death.”35 As reported in the abstract:
“The world is in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health measures that can reduce the risk of infection and death in addition to quarantines are desperately needed.
This article reviews the roles of vitamin D in reducing the risk of respiratory tract infections, knowledge about the epidemiology of influenza and COVID-19, and how vitamin D supplementation might be a useful measure to reduce risk. Through several mechanisms, vitamin D can reduce risk of infections.
Those mechanisms include inducing cathelicidins and defensins that can lower viral replication rates and reducing concentrations of pro-inflammatory cytokines that produce the inflammation that injures the lining of the lungs, leading to pneumonia, as well as increasing concentrations of anti-inflammatory cytokines …
Evidence supporting the role of vitamin D in reducing risk of COVID-19 includes that the outbreak occurred in winter, a time when 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations are lowest; that the number of cases in the Southern Hemisphere near the end of summer are low …
Vitamin D deficiency has been found to contribute to acute respiratory distress syndrome; and … case-fatality rates increase with age and with chronic disease comorbidity, both of which are associated with lower 25(OH)D concentration.
To reduce the risk of infection, it is recommended that people at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D 3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d. The goal should be to raise 25(OH)D concentrations above 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L). For treatment of people who become infected with COVID-19, higher vitamin D 3 doses might be useful.”
Dark-Skinned Individuals at Greater Risk for COVID-19
Premium Liposomal Vita... Buy New $28.95 ($4.82 / Fl Oz) (as of 02:41 UTC - Details) An opinion36 in The Wall Street Journal by psychiatrist Dr. Vatsal G. Thakkar also points out that “black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at a higher rate than whites,” and vitamin D deficiency, which weakens immune function, is far more prevalent among those with darker skin color. He writes:
“Researchers last week released the first data37 supporting this link. They found that the nations with the highest mortality rates — Italy, Spain and France — also had the lowest average vitamin D levels among countries affected by the pandemic …
As an Indian-American, my skin type is Fitzpatrick IV, or “moderate brown.” Compared with my white friends, I need double or triple the sun exposure to synthesize the same amount of vitamin D, so I supplement with 5,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily, which maintains my level in the normal range. Most African-Americans are Fitzpatrick type V or VI, so they would need even more.”
Vitamin D Deficiency Contributes to ARDS
Thakkar’s views are also supported by research38 published in the journal Thorax, in which they show patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), resulting from severe respiratory illness such as pneumonia, by and large tend to be deficient in vitamin D, and that vitamin D deficiency contributes directly to ARDS.
The study also found that, for those at risk of developing ARDS after surgery, pre-surgery vitamin D level was the only measure indicative of whether or not a patient would develop lung injury after surgery. After adjusting for confounding factors, surgical patients with vitamin D levels below 8 ng/ml (20 nmol/L) had a 4.2fold higher risk of developing ARDS than those with levels at or above 8 ng/ml.
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-04-24--The Biological War Against China

The Biological War Against China

The American economy has been shut down by foolish government orders , and the insights of Mises and Rothbard tell us that complete collapse is only a matter of time .
In an earlier column , I warned that the Deep State might seek to start a war with China to divert attention from our domestic mess .
As I warned last month , “ Because the epidemic started in China and spread from there , hostility toward Chinese people living in the US has gone up .
Chinese-owned stores have been threatened , and gun sales to Chinese who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have few takeout customers .
“ The President ’ s talk about the ‘ Chinese virus ’ fans the flame of ill-feelings , and some fear that the government may provoke a war with China in order to distract attention from a tanking US economy .
US government propaganda has spread false claims about predatory Chinese trade practices to get the American people ready for hostile action toward China.
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America continues its policies of naval confrontation in the South China Sea ; there are threats to sue China for damage caused by the coronavirus ; and President Trump has threatened to pursue payment on long-defunct Chinese bonds in order to bankrupt the Chinese economy .
Our disastrous trade war with China continues .
But today I want to focus on something even more sinister .
There is good reason to believe that the coronavirus epidemic is part of an American biological warfare campaign against China and Iran .
The brilliant physicist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time again been proved right by events , makes this case in a scintillating analysis .
Unz notes that “ Shortly before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan , that city had hosted 300 visiting American military officers , who came to participate in the 2019 Military World Games , an absolutely remarkable coincidence of timing .
As I pointed out at the time , how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago , and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly broken out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Scientific investigation of the coronavirus had already pointed to its origins in a bat virus , leading to widespread media speculation that bats sold as food in the Wuhan open markets had been the original disease vector .
Meanwhile , the orchestrated waves of anti-China accusations had emphasized Chinese laboratory research on that same viral source .
But we soon published a lengthy article by investigative journalist Whitney Webb providing copious evidence of America ’ s own enormous biowarfare research efforts , which had similarly focused for years on bat viruses.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Best Price : $ 13.62 Buy New $ 17.28 Unz adds a number of items that lend cogency to his analysis .
First , this is by no means the first suspicious biological attack on China .
“ During the previous two years , the Chinese economy had already suffered serious blows from other mysterious new diseases , although these had targeted farm animals rather than people .
During 2018 a new Avian Flu virus had swept the country , eliminating large portions of China ’ s poultry industry , and during 2019 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China ’ s pig farms , destroying 40 % of the nation ’ s primary domestic source of meat , with widespread claims that the latter disease was being spread by mysterious small drones .
My morning newspapers had hardly ignored these important business stories , noting that the sudden collapse of much of China ’ s domestic food production might prove a huge boon to American farm exports at the height of our trade conflict .
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So for three years in a row , China had been severely impacted by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most recent had been deadly to humans .
This evidence was merely circumstantial , but the pattern seemed highly suspicious.
” In order to deflect attention from its own activities , the US government has hinted the virus came from a biological laboratory in Wuhan , but it is hardly likely that the Chinese government would inflict a damaging disease on its own people .
“ It ’ s a classic propaganda tool for the US government to deflect attention from its own activities by accusing the enemy of ‘ starting it.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s growing economic conflict with China over the last couple of years , I had never considered the possibility that matters might take a military turn .
The Chinese had long ago deployed advanced intermediate range missiles that many believed could easily sink our carriers in the region , and they had also generally improved their conventional military deterrent .
Moreover , China was on quite good terms with Russia , which itself had been the target of intense American hostility for several years ; and Russia ’ s new suite of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American strategic advantage .
Thus , a conventional war against China seemed an absolutely hopeless undertaking , while China ’ s outstanding businessmen and engineers were steadily gaining ground against America ’ s decaying and heavily-financialized economic system .
The Geography of Thoug ... Richard E. Nisbett Best Price : $ 2.99 Buy New $ 10.99 “ Under these difficult circumstances , an American biowarfare attack against China might have seemed the only remaining card to play in hopes of maintaining American supremacy .
Plausible deniability would minimize the risk of any direct @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the terrible blow inflicted to China ’ s economy would set it back for many years , perhaps even destabilizing its social and political system .
Using alternative media to immediately promote theories that the coronavirus outbreak was the result of a leak from a Chinese biowarfare lab was a natural means of preempting any later Chinese accusations along similar lines , thereby allowing America to win the international propaganda war before China had even begun to play.
” Unz points to another significant fact .
After China , the next country to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America ’ s main target in the Middle East .
“ As the coronavirus gradually began to spread beyond China ’ s own borders , another development occurred that greatly multiplied my suspicions .
Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect , among the East Asian countries bordering China .
But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak .
Even more surprisingly , its political elites had been especially hard-hit , with a full 10 % of the entire Iranian parliament soon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its officials and politicians dying of the disease , including some who were quite senior .
Indeed , Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting that their hatred Iranian enemies were now dropping like flies.
” When I read Unz ’ s analysis , it brought to mind an incident in the American bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999 .
The US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade , and I thought at the time that the attack was deliberate .
American military assaults on China go back a long way .
Unz @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Sunday Observer published a remarkable expose in October 1999 , citing several NATO military and intelligence sources who fully confirmed the deliberate nature of the American bombing of the Chinese embassy , with a US colonel even reportedly boasting that their smartbomb had hit the exact room intended.
” Even if the American warmongers don ’ t succeed in provoking a disastrous military conflict in China , we have much to fear .
As Murray Rothbard has taught us , the State has throughout history been the great enemy of liberty .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over our economy are never going to be fully repealed , even if the coronavirus goes away .
The great historian Robert Higgs in Crisis and Leviathan and other works has documented to the hilt the way in which restrictions imposed in emergencies have lingering effects .
This is his famous “ ratchet effect.
” Unz doesn ’ t mention Higgs , but he does call attention to a vital fact that makes it extremely likely that the restrictions will stay put , however bad their impact .
I ’ ll conclude with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we see absolutely demonstrated in our daily news headlines , America ’ s current government is grotesquely and manifestly incompetent , more incompetent than one could almost possibly imagine , with tens of thousands of Americans having now already paid with their lives for such extreme incompetence .
Rationality and competence are obviously nowhere to be found among the Deep State Neocons that President Donald Trump has appointed to so many crucial positions throughout our national security apparatus.
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The American economy has been shut down by foolish government orders, and the insights of Mises and Rothbard tell us that complete collapse is only a matter of time. In an earlier column, I warned that the Deep State might seek to start a war with China to divert attention from our domestic mess. As I warned last month, “Because the epidemic started in China and spread from there, hostility toward Chinese people living in the US has gone up. Chinese-owned stores have been threatened, and gun sales to Chinese who fear attacks have soared. Chinese restaurants have few takeout customers.
“The President’s talk about the ‘Chinese virus’ fans the flame of ill-feelings, and some fear that the government may provoke a war with China in order to distract attention from a tanking US economy. US government propaganda has spread false claims about predatory Chinese trade practices to get the American people ready for hostile action toward China.”
Against the Left: A Ro... Rockwell Jr, Llewellyn H Best Price: $2.85 Buy New $8.00 (as of 07:59 UTC - Details) Unfortunately, things have gotten much worse since last month. America continues its policies of naval confrontation in the South China Sea; there are threats to sue China for damage caused by the coronavirus; and President Trump has threatened to pursue payment on long-defunct Chinese bonds in order to bankrupt the Chinese economy. Our disastrous trade war with China continues.
But today I want to focus on something even more sinister. There is good reason to believe that the coronavirus epidemic is part of an American biological warfare campaign against China and Iran. The brilliant physicist Ron Unz, who has time and time again been proved right by events, makes this case in a scintillating analysis.
Unz notes that “ Shortly before the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, that city had hosted 300 visiting American military officers, who came to participate in the 2019 Military World Games, an absolutely remarkable coincidence of timing. As I pointed out at the time, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly broken out in that city?. . .
“Scientific investigation of the coronavirus had already pointed to its origins in a bat virus, leading to widespread media speculation that bats sold as food in the Wuhan open markets had been the original disease vector. Meanwhile, the orchestrated waves of anti-China accusations had emphasized Chinese laboratory research on that same viral source. But we soon published a lengthy article by investigative journalist Whitney Webb providing copious evidence of America’s own enormous biowarfare research efforts, which had similarly focused for years on bat viruses.”
Anatomy of the State Rothbard, Murray Best Price: $13.62 Buy New $17.28 (as of 03:26 UTC - Details) Unz adds a number of items that lend cogency to his analysis. First, this is by no means the first suspicious biological attack on China. “During the previous two years, the Chinese economy had already suffered serious blows from other mysterious new diseases, although these had targeted farm animals rather than people. During 2018 a new Avian Flu virus had swept the country, eliminating large portions of China’s poultry industry, and during 2019 the Swine Flu viral epidemic had devastated China’s pig farms, destroying 40% of the nation’s primary domestic source of meat, with widespread claims that the latter disease was being spread by mysterious small drones. My morning newspapers had hardly ignored these important business stories, noting that the sudden collapse of much of China’s domestic food production might prove a huge boon to American farm exports at the height of our trade conflict. . . So for three years in a row, China had been severely impacted by strange new viral diseases, though only the most recent had been deadly to humans. This evidence was merely circumstantial, but the pattern seemed highly suspicious.”
In order to deflect attention from its own activities, the US government has hinted the virus came from a biological laboratory in Wuhan, but it is hardly likely that the Chinese government would inflict a damaging disease on its own people. “It’s a classic propaganda tool for the US government to deflect attention from its own activities by accusing the enemy of ‘starting it.” Unz says, “Despite America’s growing economic conflict with China over the last couple of years, I had never considered the possibility that matters might take a military turn. The Chinese had long ago deployed advanced intermediate range missiles that many believed could easily sink our carriers in the region, and they had also generally improved their conventional military deterrent. Moreover, China was on quite good terms with Russia, which itself had been the target of intense American hostility for several years; and Russia’s new suite of revolutionary hypersonic missiles had drastically reduced any American strategic advantage. Thus, a conventional war against China seemed an absolutely hopeless undertaking, while China’s outstanding businessmen and engineers were steadily gaining ground against America’s decaying and heavily-financialized economic system. The Geography of Thoug... Richard E. Nisbett Best Price: $2.99 Buy New $10.99 (as of 03:26 UTC - Details)
“Under these difficult circumstances, an American biowarfare attack against China might have seemed the only remaining card to play in hopes of maintaining American supremacy. Plausible deniability would minimize the risk of any direct Chinese retaliation, and if successful, the terrible blow inflicted to China’s economy would set it back for many years, perhaps even destabilizing its social and political system. Using alternative media to immediately promote theories that the coronavirus outbreak was the result of a leak from a Chinese biowarfare lab was a natural means of preempting any later Chinese accusations along similar lines, thereby allowing America to win the international propaganda war before China had even begun to play.”
Unz points to another significant fact. After China, the next country to suffer from the virus was Iran, America’s main target in the Middle East. “As the coronavirus gradually began to spread beyond China’s own borders, another development occurred that greatly multiplied my suspicions. Most of these early cases had occurred exactly where one might expect, among the East Asian countries bordering China. But by late February Iran had become the second epicenter of the global outbreak. Even more surprisingly, its political elites had been especially hard-hit, with a full 10% of the entire Iranian parliament soon infected and at least a dozen of its officials and politicians dying of the disease, including some who were quite senior. Indeed, Neocon activists on Twitter began gleefully noting that their hatred Iranian enemies were now dropping like flies.”
When I read Unz’s analysis, it brought to mind an incident in the American bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999. The US bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, and I thought at the time that the attack was deliberate. American military assaults on China go back a long way. Unz agrees. “The [British] Sunday Observer published a remarkable expose in October 1999, citing several NATO military and intelligence sources who fully confirmed the deliberate nature of the American bombing of the Chinese embassy, with a US colonel even reportedly boasting that their smartbomb had hit the exact room intended.”
Even if the American warmongers don’t succeed in provoking a disastrous military conflict in China, we have much to fear. As Murray Rothbard has taught us, the State has throughout history been the great enemy of liberty. The monstrous controls over the American people and over our economy are never going to be fully repealed, even if the coronavirus goes away. The great historian Robert Higgs in Crisis and Leviathan and other works has documented to the hilt the way in which restrictions imposed in emergencies have lingering effects. This is his famous “ratchet effect.”
Unz doesn’t mention Higgs, but he does call attention to a vital fact that makes it extremely likely that the restrictions will stay put, however bad their impact. I’ll conclude with his incisive comment: “But as we see absolutely demonstrated in our daily news headlines, America’s current government is grotesquely and manifestly incompetent, more incompetent than one could almost possibly imagine, with tens of thousands of Americans having now already paid with their lives for such extreme incompetence. Rationality and competence are obviously nowhere to be found among the Deep State Neocons that President Donald Trump has appointed to so many crucial positions throughout our national security apparatus.”
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lewrockwell--2020-04-24--According to CDC Data, It’s Not COVID-19 Coronavirus That Is Causing All the Severe Lung Deaths

Examine the maps below .
They show the States where COVID-19 cases occur which correlates with where tuberculosis of the lungs is prevalent .
Either of two conclusions can be made from these maps : 1 ) Either people living in these States have weak immunity and therefore are likely to develop COVID-19 coronavirus or tuberculosis , or both ; and/or 2 ) The fact most cases of lung pathology occur along the southern border and New York City , where immigrants enter the country , typically with dormant or latent cases of TB .
TB may be an uninvestigated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to COVID-19 coronavirus .
In the next graphic ( below ) the top chart indicates mortality from pneumonia and influenza only for 2016-2020 with a dramatic up-spike ( red line ) in early 2020 .
The bottom chart displays data for total deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus in addition to pneumonia and influenza for Oct. 2015-April 2020 with a sharp increase in the third and fourth months of 2020 ( red line ) .
When both charts are compared , it is obvious that the reported increase in deaths is largely due to pneumonia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ next chart compares deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus , deaths due to pneumonia and deaths due to influenza .
By the 11th week of the 2020 pandemic ( late March ) , COVID-19 deaths comprised just 0.1 % ( one tenth of one percent ) .
This was because the CDC issued test kits that were contaminated with COVID-19 that were withdrawn , resulting in delays in estimating the infectiousness of this coronavirus , and hindered others from producing test kits while the FDA withheld imported tests over quality-control issues .
This is how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be an orchestrated effort to let it get out of hand .
A week later COVID-19 ( week 12 in the 2020 flu season ) as a percentage of deaths in the U.S. were 0.9 % , then 4.0 % a week later and finally 6.9 % by the 14th week ( mid-April ) .
These death numbers provided by the CDC are 80 % exaggerated because we later find 8 in 10 deaths involved co-morbidities ( cancer , diabetes , heart disease ) which were the true causes of death .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ they died with but not of COVID-19 .
In weeks 12-14 ( March-April ) of 2020 we see a huge drop off of pneumonia-related deaths from 3,337 to 1,884 and influenza-related deaths from 435 , then 301 and finally 158 deaths into the first week of April 2020 .
The sudden explosion of COVID-19 deaths to 1818 in the 14th week of the flu season appears to be a result of taking death numbers away from pneumonia and influenza and re-classifying them as COVID-19 .
Dancing Naked in the M ... Mullis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New $ 15.17 Pneumonia deaths declined by 1640 and flu deaths by 277 for a total of 1,917 and deaths attributed to COVID-19 suspiciously rose by 1,403 over a 2-week period .
The CDC almost admits this .
Here is their language .
According to the CDC , in very small print , “ the number of hospitalizations ( for influenza ) estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates.
” Suddenly more people were getting COVID-19 and not the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decline in overall deaths in week 14 from 44,532 the prior week to just 26,190 .
Nothing is said about this .
The advocates of quarantine are likely to take credit for this .
But it is more likely this striking decline in overall mortality emanates from doctors and hospitals forgoing elective surgery and almost closing down altogether because healthcare personnel fear the dreaded COVID-19 .
Historically , doctor strikes result in a steep decline in mortality .
One such doctors strike in Israel in 1983 has been widely reported .
During that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from 153 in May of 1999 to 93 deaths in May of 2000 ( a 60 % decline ) .
One of the reasons for mis-coding pneumonia cases to COVID-19 cases may be the financial incentives offered to hospitals and doctors to do so .
Why did the CDC issue billing coding for hospitals to follow for COVID-19 cases which literally bribed doctors and hospitals to up-code normal pneumonia cases to COVID-19 cases which were reimbursed at a 3-fold higher rate ( 13,000 to $ 39,000 ) ; normally Medicare would issue such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The next chart shows that the number of laboratory-confirmed flu hospitalizations began to rise in late 2019 and started to flatten in early March of 2020 .
So , according to the chart below , presumably it must have been influenza that drove the reported increase in hospitalizations and deaths in mid-March into April 2020 .
But given that death rates for the flu are widely overstated by the CDC , even that presumption must be rejected .
What we are left with is are the ~50,000 cases of pneumonia , which largely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been mis-coded into COVID-19 deaths .
According to the CDC a total of 19,845 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported by FluSurv-NET sites between October 1 , 2019 and April 11 , 2020 with a cumulative hospitalization rate of 68.3 per 100,000 population .
Limits to Medicine : Me ... Illich , Ivan Best Price : $ 8.93 Buy New $ 13.03 According to CDC published data , 7,071 hospitalized influenza patients have died so far this flu season .
That would represent a horrific 35.6 % death rate for patients hospitalized for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of giant error ( 7,071 deaths among 19,845 lab-confirmed hospitalizations ) .
And 7,071 flu-related deaths wouldn ’ t even be close to the estimates the CDC issued elsewhere for the period of October 1 , 2019 through April 4 , 2020 ( 24,000 to 62,000 flu deaths ) or the disputed flu-death numbers it issues in its press releases ( 36,000 ) .
In 2018 the CDC said 80,000 people died of the flu in the U.S .
Pick a number : 7,071 , 24,000 , 62,000 , 36,000 , 80,000 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re not just fighting an epidemic , we ’ re fighting an infodemic , ” and “ WHO continues to provide timely and accurate information , in a world where we have an overabundance of information , some accurate , some not , ” the WHO and the CDC are the largest source of misinformation regarding seasonal flu , coronavirus and tuberculosis .
Every flu season the CDC rolls out its frightening claim 36,000 Americans die of the flu in order to frighten the public to vaccinate .
An alternate source , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some years the flu only resulted in a few hundred deaths , with pneumonia and tuberculosis being primary causes of lung-related mortality .
The CDC combines flu deaths with deaths from pneumonia .
But according to the American Lung Association , when pneumonia deaths are removed , no more than 3550 Americans died of the flu in any years for the period 1999-2013 .
During that 15-year period , an average of 1312 Americans died of the flu annually .
While far more people die of tuberculosis ( which is what many of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be caused by ) , a mutated coronavirus that is highly infectious is only highly mortal in the minds of politicians , public health authorities and those that would profit off of the development of vaccines .
Fear Itself : The Cause ... Gordon , Ann Best Price : $ 23.69 Buy New $ 16.90 Public health authorities may have to walk back on their preliminary estimates that ~50 % of the public has been infected with coronavirus .
A recent population study , conducted in Santa Clara County , California , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be 50-85-times higher than previously estimated .
COVID-19 antibodies were found in only 2.49-4.16 % of the population .
Therefore , the death rate is no worse than the over-stated flu death numbers , if you can make sense of that .
Maybe 0.3 % die of COVID-19 by loose definition it caused rather than was only associated with a mortal outcome .
What are COVID-19 deaths attributed to ?
Worldometer reports as of April 14 , 2020 , 75.3 % of COVID-19 deaths were due to underlying conditions ( 5151 of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The seasonal onset of the disease is best explained as an onset of a viral disease due to a deficiency of sunshine vitamin D rather than an unexplained eruption of a coronavirus out of nowhere .
It has not been proven that COVID-19 coronavirus is a cause of severe lung congestion .
In fact , it may be a standby virus .
To repeat , many people die with but not of coronavirus .
No evidence has been presented so far that COVID-19 is causal in any deaths , or now , COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drastic measures taken for a virally-induced infection that is far less deadly than seasonal tuberculosis , a lung disease that largely affects foreign-born immigrants in the U.S .
The fear-based WHO/CDC/Bill Gates “ predictive contagion model ” that forecast millions of deaths has been replaced with real data .
But it was that “ predictive contagion model ” that influenced politicians to lockdown and quarantine the public .
The irony of this epidemic and its mandated lockdown of human populations has resulted in irreversible loss of income and destruction of wealth , enough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States in half , yet ironically there may never be a coronavirus vaccine .
Deadliest Enemy : Our W ... Olshaker , Mark Best Price : $ 21.15 Buy New $ 19.99 If there is no future vaccine , and no approved medicine , this means the public is left to fend for themselves without medical direction .
Why even listen to public health authorities whose numbers simply can ’ t be relied upon .
The news media is irresponsible for buying into the fabricated numbers the CDC issues every year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths in order to scare the public into getting flu shots is one thing , but to frighten the public into a lockdown that destroys family wealth , un-employs millions , increases disease to the extent indoor living results in a decline in vitamin D levels , is something else .
Telling report : maybe it never was the flu virus A telling study of the misdirection of flu vaccination is revealed in a study of elderly nursing home patients , published in the journal Epidemiology & Infection in 1990 .
While flu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ homes , the prevalent respiratory infections were not flu viruses but rather cold viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus and coronaviruses .
In humans , coronaviruses cause 10-35 % of colds .
It is noted that reinfection with coronaviruses is common with infectious outbreaks typically during winter and early spring when influenza is prevalent .
So , coronavirus outbreaks are old news .
The false presumption is many respiratory tract infections are due to influenza .
Given there are studies showing flu shots to be effective at reducing mortality regardless of the predominant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ common mismatch of the virus in the vaccine , this would suggest any exposure to a pathogenic agent as delivered by needle injection may activate the immune system to produce antibodies .
That is how probiotics like Acidophilus work , by introducing non-pathogenic bacteria into the digestive tract to provoke an immune response .
Conclusion : What can be concluded from a pile of misinformation distributed by the CDC ?
Based upon current data issued by the CDC , it is likely the reported COVID-19 deaths emanate from re-classifying pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elderly .
When lung syndrome deaths occur in younger-aged adults , that is probably tuberculosis , which isn ’ t even on the scoreboard despite being widespread , highly prevalent and potentially deadly .

Examine the maps below. They show the States where COVID-19 cases occur which correlates with where tuberculosis of the lungs is prevalent. Either of two conclusions can be made from these maps:
1) Either people living in these States have weak immunity and therefore are likely to develop COVID-19 coronavirus or tuberculosis, or both; and/or
2) The fact most cases of lung pathology occur along the southern border and New York City, where immigrants enter the country, typically with dormant or latent cases of TB. TB may be an uninvestigated co-morbidity that is causing many deaths attributed to COVID-19 coronavirus.
In the next graphic (below) the top chart indicates mortality from pneumonia and influenza only for 2016-2020 with a dramatic up-spike (red line) in early 2020. The bottom chart displays data for total deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus in addition to pneumonia and influenza for Oct. 2015-April 2020 with a sharp increase in the third and fourth months of 2020 (red line). When both charts are compared, it is obvious that the reported increase in deaths is largely due to pneumonia or influenza, not COVID-19.
The next chart compares deaths from COVID-19 coronavirus, deaths due to pneumonia and deaths due to influenza.
By the 11th week of the 2020 pandemic (late March), COVID-19 deaths comprised just 0.1% (one tenth of one percent). This was because the CDC issued test kits that were contaminated with COVID-19 that were withdrawn, resulting in delays in estimating the infectiousness of this coronavirus, and hindered others from producing test kits while the FDA withheld imported tests over quality-control issues. This is how the COVID-19 coronavirus spread in what appears to be an orchestrated effort to let it get out of hand.
A week later COVID-19 (week 12 in the 2020 flu season) as a percentage of deaths in the U.S. were 0.9%, then 4.0% a week later and finally 6.9% by the 14th week (mid-April). These death numbers provided by the CDC are 80% exaggerated because we later find 8 in 10 deaths involved co-morbidities (cancer, diabetes, heart disease) which were the true causes of death. In these patients, it is likely they died with but not of COVID-19.
In weeks 12-14 (March-April) of 2020 we see a huge drop off of pneumonia-related deaths from 3,337 to 1,884 and influenza-related deaths from 435, then 301 and finally 158 deaths into the first week of April 2020. The sudden explosion of COVID-19 deaths to 1818 in the 14th week of the flu season appears to be a result of taking death numbers away from pneumonia and influenza and re-classifying them as COVID-19. Dancing Naked in the M... Mullis, Kary Best Price: $5.52 Buy New $15.17 (as of 02:58 UTC - Details)
Pneumonia deaths declined by 1640 and flu deaths by 277 for a total of 1,917 and deaths attributed to COVID-19 suspiciously rose by 1,403 over a 2-week period.
The CDC almost admits this. Here is their language. According to the CDC, in very small print, “the number of hospitalizations (for influenza) estimated so far this season is lower than end-of-season total hospitalization estimates for any season since CDC began making these estimates.” Suddenly more people were getting COVID-19 and not the flu.
Also look at the dramatic decline in overall deaths in week 14 from 44,532 the prior week to just 26,190. Nothing is said about this. The advocates of quarantine are likely to take credit for this. But it is more likely this striking decline in overall mortality emanates from doctors and hospitals forgoing elective surgery and almost closing down altogether because healthcare personnel fear the dreaded COVID-19. Historically, doctor strikes result in a steep decline in mortality. One such doctors strike in Israel in 1983 has been widely reported. During that 1-month strike funeral directors reported deaths declined from 153 in May of 1999 to 93 deaths in May of 2000 (a 60% decline).
One of the reasons for mis-coding pneumonia cases to COVID-19 cases may be the financial incentives offered to hospitals and doctors to do so. Why did the CDC issue billing coding for hospitals to follow for COVID-19 cases which literally bribed doctors and hospitals to up-code normal pneumonia cases to COVID-19 cases which were reimbursed at a 3-fold higher rate (13,000 to $39,000); normally Medicare would issue such a directive, not the CDC.
The next chart shows that the number of laboratory-confirmed flu hospitalizations began to rise in late 2019 and started to flatten in early March of 2020. So, according to the chart below, presumably it must have been influenza that drove the reported increase in hospitalizations and deaths in mid-March into April 2020. But given that death rates for the flu are widely overstated by the CDC, even that presumption must be rejected. What we are left with is are the ~50,000 cases of pneumonia, which largely occur among elderly adults, that have been mis-coded into COVID-19 deaths.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/#S2
According to the CDC a total of 19,845 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported by FluSurv-NET sites between October 1, 2019 and April 11, 2020 with a cumulative hospitalization rate of 68.3 per 100,000 population. Limits to Medicine: Me... Illich, Ivan Best Price: $8.93 Buy New $13.03 (as of 03:19 UTC - Details)
According to CDC published data, 7,071 hospitalized influenza patients have died so far this flu season. That would represent a horrific 35.6% death rate for patients hospitalized for the flu, which must be some kind of giant error (7,071 deaths among 19,845 lab-confirmed hospitalizations).
And 7,071 flu-related deaths wouldn’t even be close to the estimates the CDC issued elsewhere for the period of October 1, 2019 through April 4, 2020 (24,000 to 62,000 flu deaths) or the disputed flu-death numbers it issues in its press releases (36,000). In 2018 the CDC said 80,000 people died of the flu in the U.S. Pick a number: 7,071, 24,000, 62,000, 36,000, 80,000.
Fighting an infodemic
While the WHO website claims “We’re not just fighting an epidemic, we’re fighting an infodemic,” and “WHO continues to provide timely and accurate information, in a world where we have an overabundance of information, some accurate, some not,” the WHO and the CDC are the largest source of misinformation regarding seasonal flu, coronavirus and tuberculosis.
Every flu season the CDC rolls out its frightening claim 36,000 Americans die of the flu in order to frighten the public to vaccinate. An alternate source, the American Lung Association, reveals in some years the flu only resulted in a few hundred deaths, with pneumonia and tuberculosis being primary causes of lung-related mortality.
The CDC combines flu deaths with deaths from pneumonia. But according to the American Lung Association, when pneumonia deaths are removed, no more than 3550 Americans died of the flu in any years for the period 1999-2013. During that 15-year period, an average of 1312 Americans died of the flu annually.
While far more people die of tuberculosis (which is what many of the reported COVID-19 deaths are more likely to be caused by), a mutated coronavirus that is highly infectious is only highly mortal in the minds of politicians, public health authorities and those that would profit off of the development of vaccines. Fear Itself: The Cause... Gordon, Ann Best Price: $23.69 Buy New $16.90 (as of 04:13 UTC - Details)
How many infected?
Public health authorities may have to walk back on their preliminary estimates that ~50% of the public has been infected with coronavirus. A recent population study, conducted in Santa Clara County, California, reveals the number of reported COVID-19 cases may be 50-85-times higher than previously estimated. COVID-19 antibodies were found in only 2.49-4.16% of the population. Therefore, the death rate is no worse than the over-stated flu death numbers, if you can make sense of that. Maybe 0.3% die of COVID-19 by loose definition it caused rather than was only associated with a mortal outcome.
What are COVID-19 deaths attributed to?
Worldometer reports as of April 14, 2020, 75.3% of COVID-19 deaths were due to underlying conditions (5151 of 6839) in New York City.
The seasonal onset of the disease is best explained as an onset of a viral disease due to a deficiency of sunshine vitamin D rather than an unexplained eruption of a coronavirus out of nowhere. It has not been proven that COVID-19 coronavirus is a cause of severe lung congestion. In fact, it may be a standby virus. To repeat, many people die with but not of coronavirus. No evidence has been presented so far that COVID-19 is causal in any deaths, or now, COVID-19.
It is inexplicable to see such drastic measures taken for a virally-induced infection that is far less deadly than seasonal tuberculosis, a lung disease that largely affects foreign-born immigrants in the U.S.
The fear-based WHO/CDC/Bill Gates “predictive contagion model” that forecast millions of deaths has been replaced with real data. But it was that “predictive contagion model” that influenced politicians to lockdown and quarantine the public.
The irony of this epidemic and its mandated lockdown of human populations has resulted in irreversible loss of income and destruction of wealth, enough to cut the standard of living in the United States in half, yet ironically there may never be a coronavirus vaccine. Deadliest Enemy: Our W... Olshaker, Mark Best Price: $21.15 Buy New $19.99 (as of 04:58 UTC - Details)
If there is no future vaccine, and no approved medicine, this means the public is left to fend for themselves without medical direction. Why even listen to public health authorities whose numbers simply can’t be relied upon. The news media is irresponsible for buying into the fabricated numbers the CDC issues every year.
That the CDC over-states annual flu deaths in order to scare the public into getting flu shots is one thing, but to frighten the public into a lockdown that destroys family wealth, un-employs millions, increases disease to the extent indoor living results in a decline in vitamin D levels, is something else.
Telling report: maybe it never was the flu virus
A telling study of the misdirection of flu vaccination is revealed in a study of elderly nursing home patients, published in the journal Epidemiology & Infection in 1990. While flu vaccination ranged from 15-90% in nursing homes, the prevalent respiratory infections were not flu viruses but rather cold viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus and coronaviruses. In humans, coronaviruses cause 10-35% of colds. It is noted that reinfection with coronaviruses is common with infectious outbreaks typically during winter and early spring when influenza is prevalent. So, coronavirus outbreaks are old news.
The false presumption is many respiratory tract infections are due to influenza. Given there are studies showing flu shots to be effective at reducing mortality regardless of the predominant flu virus strain in circulation and the common mismatch of the virus in the vaccine, this would suggest any exposure to a pathogenic agent as delivered by needle injection may activate the immune system to produce antibodies. That is how probiotics like Acidophilus work, by introducing non-pathogenic bacteria into the digestive tract to provoke an immune response.
Conclusion: What can be concluded from a pile of misinformation distributed by the CDC? Based upon current data issued by the CDC, it is likely the reported COVID-19 deaths emanate from re-classifying pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 deaths. Pneumonia largely occurs among the elderly. When lung syndrome deaths occur in younger-aged adults, that is probably tuberculosis, which isn’t even on the scoreboard despite being widespread, highly prevalent and potentially deadly.