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    Niall Ferguson: Covid-19 is China’s Chernobyl moment


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    Quote Posted by shaberon (here)
    This is a non-update which is a bit of a rewind that may help us see what happened.

    There was no new coronavirus until Dec. 27th, and this is the perspective of November 16.

    government, if it was just silently running its natural course, I wonder if we would notice at all....

    ...Here, we notice nothing, hundreds of confirmed cases all around, a few people get sick from it. But you never noticed a few "out with a cold or something". I never checked anybody's doctor note to see exactly what germ they were carrying and whether there was anything I had to do about it.

    Good 'non-update' Shaberon.
    I agree with you.

    Basically what you are saying is that if this 'new' corona virus was not named 'new', but simply another virus, it would have still played out exactly as we are seeing now; that is, behaving exactly the same as the seasonal flu pandemic which hits the world every year, come rain or shine.

    The seasonal flu usually kills 375,000 - 650,000 people each year, right in line with what we are seeing now with CV.

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    Very dis-heartening


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    Basically what you are saying is that if this 'new' corona virus was not named 'new', but simply another virus, it would have still played out exactly as we are seeing now; that is, behaving exactly the same as the seasonal flu pandemic which hits the world every year, come rain or shine.
    Yes. Although this is "my" point of view, I can find the same around the world, and so it probably could be given a name. Something like Ignore. You know, just like an iggy button on a chat messenger, turn off the channel.

    Moderna is trializing a vaccine and it can be found rife with stock market shenanigans. I suppose this is a big part of "the agenda".

    I rarely quote a whole article but this is Andre Vilchek who is Russian and was not subjugated to the "Western response", but had a clear view in the early days when they thought it was Plague or Pneumonia:

    "How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the latest outbreak of the novel coronavirus?

    You think this is an absolutely insane question?

    However, before you dismiss it, think twice. There are similarities how they are being portrayed. There is a dangerous, even deadly pattern.

    The storylines of both monumental events have been shamelessly kidnapped, and perverted by Western propaganda!

    Those people and countries that fought hard and heroically, have lost the narrative. At the same time, those who negotiated, to twist and to delay their involvement, have managed to re-write history and to even give themselves the credit for ‘saving the world’.

    The greatest sacrifice in human history, that made by the Soviet people who fought for the survival of mankind, defeated Nazism, and later helped to de-colonize the world, has been belittled by the professional masters of disinformation in London, Paris and New York. The Soviet Union itself was first smeared, its history rewritten in hostile foreign countries (to the extent that even the Soviet people themselves began doubting their own past), its internationalist duty discounted and dragged through mud. In the end and mostly as a result of such intellectual aggressions, a tremendous country and the bulwark of anti-imperialism, suddenly collapsed.

    No shots were fired, except in Afghanistan, which was virtually sacrificed by the West. It has been converted into a playground of radicals and religious fundamentalists. In the end it broke the spine of the Soviet Union, the country that had been skillfully maneuvered into the conflict by Washington, and which, against all practical sense, decided to rush to the rescue of the Afghan people.

    This, last chapter of Soviet history, has been twisted and perverted, too, in Washington and London.

    In fact, everything pure, heroic and positive that the Soviet Union represented, was spat on.

    The anti-Soviet, and even anti-Russian narrative has become absolutely bulletproof.

    Manipulative documentary films, books, school curriculums in Europe and North America; they all pass off as facts in simple propaganda gigs, without offering any evidence. Very often, they take historic events and data, twist them, turn them around, and repeat the consequent fabrications again, again and again.

    There are thousands of mass media outlets participating in the project. It definitely works. Such an approach is effective. Deadly effective.

    ***

    China is now being beaten with the same stick as the Soviet Union, and Russia.

    The most populous, successful, and enthusiastic Socialist country still does not fully comprehend, what is being done to it. China is trying to be a good world citizen. It does its best to show kindness and solidarity. And yet, the more positive its deeds, the more it gets antagonized, accused of selfishness and malignancy.

    The Western propaganda apparatus is now determinedly smearing the Chinese revolution, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Chinese system. Tiananmen Square ‘events’, which were invented by thoroughly hostile Western mass media outlets, are used as proof of China’s “evilness”. Present-day Hong Kong events, a direct attack on China and interference in its internal affairs, are turned upside down. Beijing is being portrayed as the aggressor, not as the victim!

    Newspapers like The New York Times or The Independent have absolutely nothing good to say about the socially most successful country on Earth.

    That is quite an impressive show of one-sidedness.

    Then comes COVID-19.

    Before Western propaganda got involved, kicking into top gear, people in all corners of the world were tremendously impressed with the rapid and determined response of the Chinese system. China isolated one province, quarantined it, and defeated the pandemic within a few weeks. Almost immediately, it began helping the rest of the world.

    The Chinese government, Chinese scientists, and the Chinese population in general, had no idea what were they up against. They were all alone, facing the new virus. Intuitively, in a socialist way, they mobilized, won the battle and defeated the pandemic with minimum losses and in the shortest possible time.

    While several Chinese officials and scientists believed that the virus was injected into China by the United States, Beijing decided to adopt a conciliatory tone, suggesting there should be cooperation, instead of confrontation.

    That is the Chinese, but not Western way.

    The Western approach towards the COVID-19; from Italy, UK, Spain to the United States across the Atlantic Ocean, has been grotesque, inconsistent, disorganized and for the common people, deadly. In short, it has been a total fiasco.

    Therefore, using its traditional methods, Western propaganda system began doing what it does the best: attacking those who are fighting for the survival of the world. Attacking relentlessly, aggressively and often, vulgarly.

    If the numbers were to be compared, the entire affair would look ridiculous, even grotesque. The West would soon run out of arguments. The same, if the Chinese and Western general approaches were placed next to each other and analyzed.

    But they are not. What is done in Europe and North America is not really reporting or comparing facts. Instead, it is a constant flow of an ideological, propagandist narrative, of disinformation, full of sarcasm, double speak and mud.

    The discourses of the U.S. politicians are increasingly racist, perverse and full of spite. When it comes to China, Western leaders lie, they present no proof, but in this ‘game’, all the above is obviously allowed. One after another, they get on the proverbial podium and spit at China: all of them do – Trump, Pompeo, Navarro, Rubio, and others.

    The better China does, the more they shout and spit.

    The better the Soviet Union did, the louder the accusations against it were, the more brutal the insults.

    Now China says loudly and clearly: “We have pulled almost everyone out of poverty. We are a real Socialist country with Chinese characteristics, governed by the Communist Party of China. We are helping the struggling part of the world through the BRI (Belt and Road Initiative). We fought hard and defeated the new and terrible pandemic.”

    Western ideologues shout back: “No you are not helping anyone. You are selfish. You are not even socialist. You misinformed us about the pandemic.”

    The problem is, the Western regime owns and controls incomparably more media outlets than do China and Russia combined. And both the Russian and Chinese media outlets, including this magazine – New Eastern Outlook – are constantly censored and blocked in the Western countries, on-line and otherwise. It goes without saying, that the Western propaganda is the biggest, and the mightiest disinformation system on the planet.

    In the meantime, tens of thousands are dying from the COVID-19, but now especially from the economic and social manipulation, in Europe, North America and their client states in the poor parts of the world.

    The contrast is tremendous, if one is allowed to the see that contrast.

    It is obvious which system is better for humanity, but the more obvious it gets, the more disinformation blurs the picture; the compliments of the Western media outlets and ‘educational’ institutions.

    While all this is going on, people in the West are increasingly complacent, sheepish, and indifferent.

    In his recent interview for the RT, the legendary German film director, Werner Herzog, brought up some essential and relevant philosophical points:

    “The atrocities carried out by the Nazis were the result of a lockstep narrative of “demonization” which replaced facts.”

    “‘Industrialized mass murder’ only possible when people stop questioning narratives.”

    “It is not so much what is factually happening, it’s who owns the narrative. And we have to be very, very careful and watchful about looking at the media. What are the media doing? Is there some sort of almost collective brainwashing going on or not? … [W]e have to be quite vigilant and we should think on our own.”

    What we are witnessing or participating in, is a horrific, ideological battle. Not just for China, not just for Russia and for the memory of those who gave their lives for the survival of our human race.

    Right now, everything is at stake. Perhaps the very essence of mankind.

    It is still possible to win. Partially, because Western propaganda, while effective, is not necessarily innovative. It is relatively primitive. It can be exposed. While it repeats its lies, relentlessly and religiously, we have to repeat that the lies are lies, and offer proof.

    Let us do it with determination, and in full voice.

    Therefore:

    “75 years ago, it was the Soviet Union which defeated Nazi Germany, and saved the world, at an unimaginably high cost!”

    And:

    “It was China, which was first hit by the novel coronavirus. And it was China, which defeated it rapidly and with tremendous socialist determination!”


    So I think if we look at it clearly, in the first couple of months, nobody new what was going on, it was discovered that something new and contagious had happened, and they shut down a province. I don't think they tossed the future of their country into greedy private hands. But it was handled and it's relatively ok.

    Then the timing was just a really convenient handoff to the Western system, which, it appears, has done another intentional Great Depression measure, totally crushed things into tiny pieces so businesses and properties get devalued, and the rich--don't miss this for a minute--get richer. I don't like looking at the list, but there is one. According to Ron Paul and HHS Sec. Azar, Georgia and other places that have re-opened are seeing death rates go down:

    "In those hardest hit states, we are now seeing that most of the deaths occurred in senior care facilities – after the governors ordered patients sick with Covid to leave the hospitals and return to their facilities. There, they infected their fellow residents who were most likely to have the multiple co-morbidities and advanced age that turned the virus into a death sentence. Will these governors be made to answer for this callous disregard for life?

    Americans should pause and reflect on the lies they are being sold. Masks are just a form of psychological manipulation. Many reputable physicians and scientists have said they are worthless and potentially harmful. Lockdowns are meant to condition people to obey without question. A nation of people who just do what they are told by the “experts” without question is a nation ripe for a descent into total tyranny. This is no empty warning – it’s backed up by history."

    Why would I enact someone else's psy-war against myself?

    Meanwhile, we find the most brazen Capitalist swindles being approved by the U. S., the U. K., and Canada, if not others. Are we going mad or just stark raving mad?

    If you put yourself in a rhetorical debate with them, you may become snagged. That is why I never really listen to whatever points they are trying to make.

    Again, I am not really trying to say there should not be any response to diseases whatsoever--just not to listen to them about it. That is almost like a basic rule of health is just don't listen to them. This experience is something like a big cue to go after legalized corruption like a swarm of arrows.

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    Who Is Running the WHO?
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    May 20, 2020
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    "Part 1: Why is Trump Investigating the WHO and Why Should We Care?
    Over the decades, the World Health Organization has become the main “go-to” source for global health information, statistics, and advice. However, during the COVID 19 crisis, the WHO has been in the news for a different reason. On April 7, 2020, President Donald J. Trump announced that he will suspend funding for the WHO pending an investigation into the UN-connected organization. In this series, we will begin to scratch the surface of some of the issues surrounding the investigation.

    Basis of the WHO Investigation

    “The WHO…they called it wrong,” said President Trump in his April 7th Coronavirus briefing regarding the WHO’s inactions in the early months of COVID-19. “They missed the call. They should have called it months earlier. They would have known. They should have known. And they probably did know. So we will be looking into that very carefully, and we are going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO.”

    The following week, Trump explained more.

    “America and the world have chosen to rely on the WHO for accurate, timely, and independent information to make important public health recommendations and decisions,” Trump said at an April 14, 2020 press conference. “If we cannot trust that this is what we will receive from the WHO, our country will be forced to find other ways to work with other nations to achieve public health goals.”

    At a May 1, 2020 briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany clarified the administration’s stance towards both the WHO and China.

    “It is no secret that China mishandled the situation,” said McEnany. “Just a few examples for you: they did not share the genetic sequence until a professor in Shanghai did so on his own the very next day. China shut down this lab for ‘rectification.’ They slow-walked information on human-to-human transmission alongside the World Health Organization and did not let U.S. investigators in at a very important time.”

    Even media sources who are normally critical of Trump admit that the WHO’s stance in line with China is investigation-worthy.

    “Institutions of international governance, like institutions of national governance, are prone to a particular form of corruption: they’re inclined to serve powerful interests at the expense of their mission,” wrote journalist Robert Wright in an April 10 article for Wired magazine.

    The WHO and China in the Early Days of COVID-19

    The first official reports of a “mysterious outbreak” came out of Wuhan, China, on December 30, 2019, when authorities there confirmed 27 cases of “viral pneumonia.” At the time, these officials connected it to exposure at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and insisted that it was not transmissible by human-to-human contact.

    According to a report in The Lancet, however, human-to-human transmission occurred as early as December 1, 2020. By the third week of December, doctors in Wuhan began noticing clusters of illness. Medical staff were getting sick, and hospital admissions were increasing by the end of December. All of this was adding up to a strong likelihood that, whatever the illness was, it could be transmitted through human-to-human contact.

    Finally, on December 31, the Chinese government informed the WHO of the “viral pneumonia,” yet the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission still concluded that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

    On January 1, the Wuhan Public Security Borough put eight doctors into custody for spreading “rumors” about a “SARS-like condition.” One of the doctors was the now-deceased ophthalmologist Li Wenliang, the first Chinese doctor to bring attention to the seriousness of the illness on social media.

    Despite the obvious contradictions between the official Chinese narrative and mounting evidence to the contrary, the WHO did not investigate further. This is odd considering that the WHO had toughened its rules regarding cover-ups in 2005. Since the SARS outbreak of 2002-2003, the WHO has had broader power “to investigate threats using non-state sources of information such as civil society groups.”

    Apparently, WHO leadership did not feel that there was a good reason to use this power in the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic.

    An official WHO statement put out on January 8th says that: “Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short period of time is a notable achievement and demonstrates China’s increased capacity to manage new outbreaks.”

    The WHO also condemned countries who chose to enforce travel bans from China early on. The United States began restricting travel to the United States from the Hubei province in late January.

    “… the WHO advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on China based on the information currently available,” the January 8th statement said.

    Then, on January 18th, over a month after the first Coronavirus patient was discovered in Wuhan, the WHO tweeted that “[p]reliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China.”

    It would come out later that the WHO also ignored communication from Taiwan in late December, which urged them to look into a rash of illnesses connected to individuals traveling from Wuhan to their country.

    Why Should We Care About the WHO?

    Even if one comes to the conclusion that there was (and potentially still is) some kind of collusion between the WHO and China regarding Coronavirus, the question can still be posed: Why should we care?

    Putting aside political ideology and even economic and military threats coming from the superpower to the east, we can answer this question simply by considering the significant role that this supposedly-neutral organization plays in global health policy. The standards and recommendations it puts out to the world often form the basis for public health policies and programs. In the United States, these recommendations influence federal health policy. They also trickle down to the state, county, and local level. Ultimately, these recommendations affect hospital staff, doctors, and patients.

    The WHO constitution defines the WHO as “the directing and coordinating authority on international health work.”

    According to a report conducted by Yale University in 2009, “The World Health Organization (WHO) plays an essential role in the global governance of health and disease; due to its core global functions of establishing, monitoring and enforcing international norms and standards, and coordinating multiple actors toward common goals.”

    When it comes to establishing needed perimeters by which to negotiate the tricky terrain of global health emergencies, the WHO’s power comes into sharp focus. For example, the WHO is the organization responsible for issuing Phase 1-6 warnings for local, regional, and global communicable disease outbreaks.

    Without a WHO pandemic declaration, emergency services, supply production, and assessment worldwide cannot occur. The WHO officially announced that Coronavirus was a “pandemic” (Phase 6) in mid-March, nearly three months and half months after the very first Coronavirus case was discovered in Wuhan.

    The WHO is also the body responsible for developing and implementing the coding systems, known as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), that hospitals and health centers all over the world use to determine course of treatment, insurance reimbursement thresholds, worldwide statistical information, and cause of death for patients.

    PART 2 – Coming Soon…"

    (Hopefully part 2 will include an explanation as to why Trump has, from recent reports, decided to reinstate funding to the WHO. T

    However, the following report from yesterday 2/19/20 says Trump IS or IS STILL (?) considering defunding the WHO, and that's the most recent update I could find.)
    )


    Trump threatens to defund & leave WHO if they fail to prove independence from China
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    "Donald Trump last night threatened to defund the World Health Organisation permanently and promised he would reconsider America’s membership of the organisation.

    In a letter to the Director-General of the WHO Tedros Adhanom, the US President blasted the WHO for their close relationship with China and failing to challenge repeated errors made by the Chinese government during the initial outbreak of COVID-19.

    Previously Donald Trump had defunded America’s $893 million contributions to the Health Body temporarily in reaction to their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. However, in a four-page letter to the Director-General, Trump has demanded the WHO makes it clear that they are independent of China after listing a series of concerns relating to China’s lack of transparency around the pandemic and the WHO’s actions in supporting China.

    Read more: Donald Trump threatens to pull US out of WHO over concerns about coronavirus handling and because it’s ‘puppet of China - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1165475...

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    CDC reverses stance, says coronavirus ‘does not spread easily’ on surfaces
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    Who is running the WHO⁉️” (part 2) + “The Abduction of Liberty”
    From an email update today from info@thetruthaboutvaccines.com
    5/21/20

    "When it comes to COVID-19, one of the most common attacks we’ve heard on those who support reopening our economy and salvaging our liberties is that we care more about the economy than human life. But the truth is that the two are invariably intertwined.

    The more damage we do to our society and economy, the higher the death toll will rise. In fact, there will almost certainly be more loss of life from the reaction to coronavirus than the disease itself. We’ve outlined some of these negative reactions in our latest article.

    >> Click here to read “The Abduction of Liberty” (part 2) https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/abdu...=5903de82cac79

    Much of the coronavirus “guidelines” have been provided by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to their website, the mission of the WHO is to “promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.” Did you know that the WHO is a sub-organization of the United Nations? The UN was created in 1945, and its charter describes its purpose as striving to “maintain international peace and security,” to “develop friendly relations among nations,” to “achieve international cooperation” and to “be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.”

    On paper, this all sounds pretty good — great even! Ultimately, however, these altruistic aims are just a cover story. The UN was created as a vehicle for big business interests first and foremost, as well as for the puppet governments and nation-state leaders that big business has controlled throughout the years.

    These are exciting days we live in!

    Remember Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”

    Yours in health and liberty,

    P.S. What do you really know about polio? Was the polio vaccine effective at eradicating polio? And what exactly is polio? Is it possible that many cases of “polio” were actually DDT poisoning? Is it possible that the decrease in DDT was a contributing factor in the reduction of polio cases? Is it possible that it only appeared that polio was eradicated because they changed the criteria for diagnosing polio?

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    "One of the most common attacks we’ve heard on those who support reopening our economy and salvaging our liberties is that we care more about the economy than human life. But the truth is that the two are invariably intertwined.

    The more damage we do to our society and economy, the higher the death toll will rise. In fact, there will almost certainly be more loss of life from the reaction to coronavirus than the disease itself. Reuters summarized a few of them beautifully:

    Domestic Violence
    Trapped at home with their abusers, some domestic violence victims are already experiencing more frequent and extreme violence, said Katie Ray-Jones, the chief executive officer of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.

    Domestic violence programs across the country have cited increases in calls for help, news accounts reported – from Cincinnati to Nashville, Portland, Salt Lake City and statewide in Virginia and Arizona. The YWCA of Northern New Jersey, in another example, told Reuters its domestic violence calls have risen up to 24%.

    “There are special populations that are going to have impacts that go way beyond COVID-19,” said Ray-Jones, citing domestic violence victims as one.

    Vulnerable Students
    Students, parents, and teachers all face challenges adjusting to remote learning, as schools nationwide have been closed and online learning has begun.

    Some experts are concerned that students at home, especially those living in unstable environments or poverty, will miss more assignments. High school students who miss at least three days a month are seven times more likely to drop out before graduating and, as a result, live nine years less than their peers, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report.

    Among the most vulnerable: the more than 6 million special education students across the United States. Without rigorous schooling and therapy, these students face a lifetime of challenges.

    Special needs students “benefit the most from highly structured and customized special education,” said Sharon Vaughn, executive director of the The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas. “This means that they are the group that are most likely to be significantly impacted by not attending school both in the short and long term.”

    In New Jersey, Matawan’s Megan Gutierrez has been overwhelmed with teaching and therapy duties for her two nonverbal autistic sons, eight and 10. She’s worried the boys, who normally work with a team of therapists and teachers, will regress. “For me, keeping those communications skills is huge, because if they don’t, that can lead to behavioral issues where they get frustrated because they can’t communicate,” Gutierrez said.

    Soaring Suicides
    In Europe and the United States, suicide rates rise about 1% for every one percentage point increase in unemployment, according to research published by lead author Aaron Reeves from Oxford University. During the last recession, when the unemployment in the United States peaked at 10%, the suicide rate jumped, resulting in 4,750 more deaths. If the unemployment rate increases to 20%, the toll could well rise.

    “Sadly, I think there is a good chance we could see twice as many suicides over the next 24 months than we saw during the early part of the last recession,” Reeves told Reuters. That would be about 20,000 additional dead by suicide in the United States and Europe.

    Less than three weeks after extreme suppression measures began in the United States, unemployment claims rose by nearly 10 million. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned the rate could reach 20% and Federal Reserve economists predicted as high as 32%. Europe faces similarly dire forecasts.

    Some researchers caution that suicide rates might not spike so high. The conventional wisdom is that more people will kill themselves amid skyrocketing unemployment, but communities could rally around a national effort to defeat COVID-19 and the rates may not rise, said Anne Case, who researches health economics at Princeton University. “Suicide is hard to predict even in the absence of a crisis of Biblical proportions,” Case said.

    This week, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, relaxed its strict social isolation policies after the apparent suicides of two cadet seniors in late March, The Gazette, a Colorado Springs newspaper, reported. While juniors, sophomores and freshmen had been sent home, the college seniors were kept isolated in dorms, and some had complained of a prison-like setting. Now, the seniors will be able to leave campus for drive-thru food and congregate in small groups per state guidelines.

    Public Health Crippled
    Local health departments run programs that treat chronic diseases such as diabetes. They also help prevent childhood lead poisoning and stem the spread of the flu, tuberculosis and rabies. A severe loss of property and sales tax revenue following a wave of business failures will likely cripple these health departments, said Adriane Casalotti, chief of government affairs with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, a nonprofit focused on public health.

    After the 2008 recession, local health departments in the U.S. lost 23,000 positions as more than half experienced budget cuts. While it’s become popular to warn against placing economic concerns over health, Casalotti said that, on the front lines of public health, the two are inexorably linked. “What are you going to do when you have no tax base to pull from?” she asked.

    Carol Moehrle, director of a public health department that serves five counties in northern Idaho, said her office lost about 40 of its 90 employees amid the last recession. The department had to cut a family planning program that provided birth control to women below the poverty line and a program that tested for and treated sexually transmitted diseases. She worries a depression will cause more harm.

    “I honestly don’t think we could be much leaner and still be viable, which is a scary thing to think about,” Moehrle said.

    Job-loss Mortality
    Rises in unemployment during large recessions can set in motion a domino effect of reduced income, additional stress and unhealthy lifestyles. Those setbacks in income and health often mean people die earlier, said Till von Wachter, a University of California Los Angeles professor who researches the impact of job loss. Von Wachter said his research of past surges in unemployment suggests displaced workers could lose, on average, a year and a half of lifespan. If the jobless rate rises to 20%, this could translate into 48 million years of lost human life.

    Von Wachter cites measures he believes could mitigate the effects of unemployment. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act approved by the White House last week includes emergency loans to businesses and a short-time compensation program that could encourage employers to keep employees on the payroll.

    Young People Suffer
    Young adults entering the job market during the coronavirus suppression may pay an especially high price over the long term. First-time job hunters seeking work during periods of high unemployment live shorter and unhealthier lives, research shows. An extended freeze of the economy could shorten the lifespan of 6.4 million Americans entering the job market by an average of about two years, said Hannes Schwandt, a health economics researcher at Northwestern University, who conducted the study with von Wachter. This would be 12.8 million years of life lost.

    Thousands of college graduates will enter a job market at a time global business is frozen. Jason Gustave, a senior at William Paterson University in New Jersey who will be the first in his family to graduate from college, had a job in physical therapy lined up. Now his licensure exam is postponed and the earliest he could start work is September.

    “It all depends on where the economy goes,” he said. “Is there a position still available?”

    Even the U.N., which has vigorously supported the draconian suspension of industry, society, and freedom, says that “hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis”

    Every day that our country remains closed, more people around the world will die. And that fatal decision has been made by a few public servants who would fancy themselves omnipotent overlords.

    Public Servants Do Not Have the Authority to Suspend Our Rights
    On Easter Sunday, police guarded the parking lots of churches to ensure that Americans could not worship. Even drive-in services designed to adhere to social distancing practices were patrolled by police. The National Review has been covering the religious persecution for some time now:

    Consider members of the King James Bible Baptist Church of Greenville, Miss. Last Wednesday night the church held a drive-in service using a low-frequency radio-station signal. Everyone in the parking lot kept their windows up. Attendees were quickly surrounded by police cars ordering them to leave. About two minutes into the video you can hear a police officer yelling “Your rights are suspended!”

    At least one other local church was also targeted. Lee Gordon of Greenville’s Temple Baptist Church told WREG-TV that “the police started coming up and we said, ‘We think we’re within our rights.’ So, they started issuing tickets, $500 tickets… I don’t know, it may have been 20 to 30 tickets. Everybody got one. It wasn’t per car. Me and my wife were in a car together and both of us got tickets.”

    In some places, the police are actually directly entering churches. Last Sunday, a police officer in Chincoteague, Va., entered the Lighthouse Fellowship and was upset they were holding a church service for 16 people spaced far apart in a sanctuary that seats 293. He ordered that, per Governor Ralph Northam’s order, no more than ten people could participate in the service. After it was finished, two police officers entered the service, gave the pastor a criminal summons, and told him that if he dared to conduct an Easter service, everyone attending would be given one.

    And there have been other bizarre encounters with the new police state. On April 2nd, a paddleboarder was arrested for failing to obey the California stay-at-home order (despite being completely isolated and out in the ocean). He was booked at a sheriff’s station in Calabasas and released on a promise to appear in court, sheriff’s officials said. The man faces a fine of $1,000 or six months in jail, or both, if convicted of violating the state order.

    On April 3rd, a woman in Pennsylvania was stopped and cited for violating the governor’s stay-at-home mandate. She was driving alone in her car in her neighborhood as a way to get some fresh air while still practicing social distancing. Her citation states that she “failed to abide by the order of the governor and secretary of health issued to control the spread of a communicable disease, requiring the closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses… To wit, the defendant states that she was ‘going for a drive’ after this violation was in effect.”

    On April 7th, a former Colorado State Patrol officer was surrounded by police and put into handcuffs in front of his six-year-old daughter. His crime? Playing catch with his young daughter in a grassy area near his home. “We’re just having a good time, not near anybody else. The next closest person is at least 15 feet away from me and my daughter at this point,” Mooney told ABC News.

    In Philadelphia, a man was dragged off of a public bus for not wearing a face mask in accordance with new rules. Shocking video shows the police wrestling with the man, whose only crime was attempting to go to work. The Southeastern Philadelphia Transportation Authority, after the video went viral, changed their tone, saying that they would no longer enforce the rule. Ironically, video shows a Philadelphia transit worker demanding that riders without masks “get off the bus,” even though the transit worker himself was not wearing one.

    For many of those in authority, there has been a “do as I say, not as I do” attitude. Many of our leaders have publicly failed to practice the very rules that they’ve implemented. But all of this is fueled by one thing: fear. People around the world are scared. They’re constantly bombarded with news reports and emergency alerts showing the death toll like some kind of fundraising counter. With so many out of work and life seemingly at a standstill, they’re ready to do anything to get back to normal.

    But our rights are endowed by our Creator and enshrined in the Constitution. These men and women are public servants who do NOT have the authority to strip away our liberty or cripple our economy.

    The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances.” – Ex parte Milligan, U.S. Supreme Court (1866)

    Today this “coronavirus-panic” gives government fuel and cover for its assaults on freedom and poses a question the government does not want to answer: If liberty can be taken away in times of crisis, then is it really liberty; or is it just a license, via a temporary government permission slip, subject to the whims of politicians in power?

    The government has no authority to dictate how many people choose to congregate for any peaceful purpose.

    Our First Amendment states:

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.

    Telling people to not attend church is a violation of the constitutional clause, “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

    Telling people they cannot gather in groups of more than 20 or 30 (or whatever arbitrary number) is a clear violation of the constitutional clause, “no law . . . prohibiting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”

    The coronavirus or any other “emergency” does not cancel or negate the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These unconstitutional acts have had, and will continue to have, devastating effects on the socio-economic and physical health of U.S. citizens as well as people across the globe.

    A 2015 study found that men experience up to an 85% increased risk of mortality following losing their jobs, and a 2020 Lancet study on the “psychobiological effects of quarantine” found that “most of the adverse effects come from the imposition of a restriction of liberty.” The study noted: “Separation from loved ones, the loss of freedom, uncertainty over disease status, and boredom can, on occasion, create dramatic effects. Suicide has been reported, substantial anger generated, and lawsuits brought following the imposition of quarantine in previous outbreaks.”

    As a constitutional republic, elected officials have an obligation to uphold the civil liberties and constitutional rights of its citizens, as well as the public’s health. These can not be sacrificed or exchanged for one another.

    On 22 March 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly petitioned Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies. A concerning new report published in Rolling Stone entitled, “DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency,” reveals that the DOJ, under the auspices of “protecting the public health from the threat of COVID-19,” is attempting to suspend some of the most basic protections upon which the United States Constitution and our civil rights are founded.

    A recent Politico article entitled “DOJ Seeks New Emergency Powers Amid Coronavirus Pandemic,” states that this request raised eyebrows because of its potential implications for “habeas corpus” (the constitutional right to appear before a judge after arrest and seek release).

    “Not only would it be a violation of that, but it says ‘affecting pre-arrest,’” said Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “So that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. I find it absolutely terrifying. Especially in a time of emergency, we should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.”

    You are free no matter what the government tells you. And you don’t have to make a single concession to retain that freedom. But believe me when I tell you: they are going to try.

    Complacency Permanently Undermines Liberty
    The powers that be – billionaires, the tech and pharmaceutical industries, and governments around the world – have used fear as a means to seize the very freedoms that define our society. Many of us are at the mercy of these authorities. Businesses are failing, citizens are hurtling towards financial ruin, and the rights enshrined in the constitution have been stripped.

    Practicing safe habits as a virus spreads is important. Supporting your immune system, practicing proper hygiene, and taking care of those most vulnerable among us is of paramount importance. But the oppressive measures taken against us will cause far more damage than this virus ever could.

    Yes, there are ways to boost your immune system. Yes, you should absolutely practice proper hygiene and responsible social distancing to protect those most vulnerable to disease. And yes, this is a very real disease that will claim some lives.

    But the government has quietly stripped us of our freedoms, and they will start demanding concessions before they return them. Increased taxes. Bailouts for mega-corporations. New vaccine requirements. Medical tracking and registration. Communist-era social surveillance. If we comply with their demands in exchange for our liberty, we are acknowledging that our liberty is subject to the whims of a few self-important government officials and the corrupt corporations that support them.

    The inevitable conclusion to this chapter of our history will be a bargain: comply with government orders and they will return to you your freedom. But conditional freedom is no freedom at all. And it’s time we sent that message loud and clear.

    Our governments have crossed a line that they cannot uncross. They have taken freedom hostage. And soon, they will offer vaccines and other concessions as the terms for its release. It is of paramount importance that we do not accept their terms."
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    Here we go--handshake across the pond. U. S. is giving over $1 billion to English Astra Zeneca for 300 million of their new vaccine.

    Fast track indeed! That makes at least three companies being handsomely rewarded for new experiments on the human race.

    Meanwhile, Trump did sack Inspector Linnick, according to Pompeo's dictation, and the House plans to continue its investigation by some other means.


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    The UN was created as a vehicle for big business interests first and foremost, as well as for the puppet governments and nation-state leaders that big business has controlled throughout the years.
    Yes, I am afraid that although it has some things that sound good on paper, its real function is exactly this, which is more or less a continuation of previous attempts that did not gel as strongly, or as world-wide. Germany was demanded of another World War Two payment just last year. This old "war reparations" scheme is about played out, and now we have a single heist almost as large--or perhaps larger--happening in the U. S. Fed, on top of its hundred years of drainage.

    As to how WHO should have known "months earlier"--eh, they didn't figure this out in New York or France, where they had an equal opportunity. I cannot see much wrong in the Chinese timeline of discovery, but, there is a lot to question in the timing of "measures taken" by others when the information emerged.

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    Trump Lays Groundwork To Ban Mandatory Vaccinations Across U.S.
    by Editor Friday, November 16 2018 @ 07:38 AM MST


    ExplainLife.com

    President Trump has created a new division within the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, with the express purpose of banning mandatory vaccinations across the country, and ensuring citizens have a right to choose their own healthcare.

    http://kickthemallout.com/article.ph...5uORNqjPv32Zic
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    Sounds great, but the article is from 2018. Is there anything more recent about this?
    If it's for real, I wonder why have Gates and Fauci and company have continued to go on and on about vaccines for all and tracking devices, snitching, etc without challenge from anyone at HHS?
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    Trump Lays Groundwork To Ban Mandatory Vaccinations Across U.S.
    by Editor Friday, November 16 2018 @ 07:38 AM MST
    ExplainLife.com

    President Trump has created a new division within the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, with the express purpose of banning mandatory vaccinations across the country, and ensuring citizens have a right to choose their own healthcare.

    http://kickthemallout.com/article.ph...5uORNqjPv32Zic
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    Wow, just when I thought there was no hope...I really hope this is true!
    https://youtu.be/h3cUVnMeaTs

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    Zublick has a very bad track record as far as credibility and truth. That video sounds exactly like a bogus Q "Trust the Plan" report.
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    Quote DOCTOR'S COVID-19 ROUNDTABLE

    The Most Controversial Voices In The World
    Dr. Rashid Buttar is the osteopathic physician and author best known for his views on Coronavirus and its management.

    His first book, “The 9 Steps to Keep the Doctor Away” became a Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Amazon INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER and has now been translated into multiple languages.

    Launching the DIGITAL FREEDOM PLATFORM
    With a recent video of Dr. Rashid Buttar discussing the global crisis we are currently facing generating over 9 MILLION VIEWS before being BANNED by YouTube, he became the first person to be streamed live by London Real through the DIGITAL FREEDOM PLATFORM.
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    A Timeline—Pandemic and Erosion of Freedoms Have Been Decades in the Making
    By the Children’s Health Defense Team
    MAY 21, 2020
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    "From the moment of “COVID-19’s” naming—and particularly since the imposition of unprecedented restrictions on “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”—some people have smelled a rat. And with each passing week, the smell becomes worse. A growing chorus of ordinary citizens and world-renowned medical and scientific experts is raising questions about matters ranging from the coronavirus’s origins to the rationale for continued lockdowns (see here, here and here).

    The mainstream media have shown themselves only too ready to lob ad hominem attacks against any and all such non-conformists. However, one does not have to be insensitive to the illness and deaths associated with COVID-19 to recognize that powerful agendas are riding on the coattails of SARS-CoV-2. Citizens are waking up to the fact that the countries, officials and public figures who embrace draconian interventions such as immunity certificates, microchipping, forced vaccination and the removal of children from their homes also approve of making our sovereign rights—whether to earn a living, maintain bodily integrity, congregate to practice our spirituality, enjoy the arts or protect and educate our children—contingent upon our acceptance of these Big Brother measures and technologies.

    To make it easier for the public to assess what is happening and what is at stake, Children’s Health Defense has put together the following timeline of selected events. We invite readers to consider how these events—some of them seemingly unrelated—and the network of partnerships and relationships that they illustrate have contributed to the unfolding set of circumstances in which we now find ourselves.

    While the lockdown is a cataclysm for the world economy, it is an opportunity for Gates” and his billionaire brotherhood…
    Notes/Explanatory Context
    Gain-of-function research: COVID-19 has prompted renewed questioning about a long-debated branch of virology that, around 2012, scientists benignly rebranded as “gain-of-function” (GOF) research. GOF experiments seek to generate viruses “with properties that do not exist in nature” or, stated another way, “alter a pathogen to make it more transmissible or deadly.” One of the leading proponents of GOF work is Dr. Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC), a “legend in coronavirology” and “trailblazer of synthetic genomic manipulation techniques” who specializes in engineering lethal coronaviruses from “mail-order DNA.” Baric and other GOF enthusiasts argue that this type of viral tinkering is “critical to the development of broad-based vaccines and therapeutics,” but critics, such as Dr. Thomas Inglesby (director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security), dispute this putative benefit.

    Big Data and Big Telecom: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dafna Tachover (director of CHD’s “Stop 5G and Wireless Harms Project”) wrote on May 8: “5G has almost nothing to do with improving your lives; it’s all about controlling your life, marketing products, and harvesting your data for Artificial Intelligence purposes. The 21st century’s ‘black gold’ is data.” They note that Bill Gates, along with a number of other players and companies, is helping set up a “microwave radiation-emitting spider web [that] will allow Big Data/Big Telecom and Big Brother to capture what happens inside and outside every person at every moment of life” using a sinister brain-machine interface and other technologies, many financed by Gates. In short, “While the lockdown is a cataclysm for the world economy, it is an opportunity for Gates” and his billionaire brotherhood, ably assisted by an unadmirable fleet of medical and scientist yes-men.

    Timeline of selected events
    1998
    May 18: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and 20 states file antitrust charges against Microsoft.

    2000
    2000: Bill Gates steps down from his position as Microsoft CEO, and Bill and Melinda Gates launch their eponymous foundation.

    2000: The Gates Foundation (along with other partners) launches the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI), known today as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The foundation has given $4.1 billion to Gavi over the past 20 years.

    2001
    November: After initially losing the antitrust lawsuit and appealing the decision, Microsoft settles its case with the DOJ out of court.

    2002
    November 2002: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) researcher Ralph Baric publishes a “breakthrough work” in gain-of-function research (studies that alter pathogens to make them more transmissible or deadly, see Notes above), describing the creation of a synthetic clone of a natural mouse coronavirus.

    November 2002: China’s Guangdong province reports the first case of “atypical pneumonia” (later labeled as SARS).

    The speed of the Baric group illustrates how quickly a qualified team of virologists can create a synthetic clone from a natural virus, and therefore make genetic modifications to it.
    2003
    October 28: A paper by the Baric research group at UNC describes their synthetic recreation of the “previously undescribed” SARS coronavirus. (Writing in 2020, a scientist states, “The speed of the Baric group illustrates how quickly a qualified team of virologists can create a synthetic clone from a natural virus, and therefore make genetic modifications to it. Moreover, that was back in 2003. Today, a qualified laboratory can repeat those steps in a matter of weeks.”)

    2005
    December: Congress approves the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, which authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “to issue a PREP Act Declaration . . . that provides immunity from liability for any loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or use of countermeasures to diseases, threats, and conditions determined in the Declaration to constitute a present or credible risk of a future public health emergency.”

    2009
    2009-present (and earlier): The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards millions of dollars in global health funding to Imperial College London; funding covers areas such as polio, HIV, family planning, malaria, health care delivery, agricultural development, information technology and “public awareness and analysis.”

    2009: The Gates Foundation funds human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trials in India, administering the vaccine to 23,000 young girls in remote provinces. Seven die and approximately 1,200 suffer autoimmune conditions, fertility disorders or other severe reactions. Ethical violations include forged consent forms and refusal of medical treatment for the injured girls.

    October 2009: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), goes on YouTube to declare that serious adverse events for the H1N1 influenza vaccine are “very, very, very rare.” Months later, serious adverse events such as miscarriages, narcolepsy and febrile convulsions explode in multiple countries.

    2010
    January: Bill Gates pledges $10 billion in funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) and announces “the Decade of Vaccines.”

    May 18: Senator and physician Tom Coburn calls out Dr. Fauci for misleadingly touting “significant progress in HIV vaccine research”—research that has ushered millions into NIAID’s coffers. Dr. Coburn stated, “Most scientists involved in AIDS research believe that an HIV vaccine is further away than ever.”

    2011
    December 30: Dr. Fauci promotes gain-of-function research on bird flu viruses, arguing that the research is worth the risk. The risks worry other “seasoned researchers.”

    2012
    April 20: Baylor College researchers publish their evaluation of four vaccine candidates for SARS, concluding that “Caution in proceeding to application of a SARS-CoV vaccine in humans is indicated.”

    May: The 194 Member States of the World Health Assembly endorse the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with NIAID, WHO, Gavi, UNICEF and others. Dr. Fauci is one of five members on the GVAP’s Leadership Council.

    2014
    2014: Dr. Deborah Birx takes the helm of PEPFAR (the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), which Dr. Fauci helped launch (in 2003) and which benefits from generous Gates Foundation support. Birx and Fauci are long-time allies, having worked together during the early years of AIDS and sharing overlapping career paths.

    October 7: National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins announces a “new phase of cooperation” between NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, including partnering for vaccine development.

    October 17: Under President Obama, the NIH halts federal funding for gain-of-function (GOF) research (see Notes) and asks federally funded GOF researchers to “agree to a voluntary moratorium.” The funding hiatus applies to 21 studies “reasonably anticipated to confer attributes to influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses such that the virus would have enhanced pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in mammals via the respiratory route.” NIH later allows 10 of the studies to resume.

    [T]hese data and restrictions represent a crossroads of [gain-of-function] research concerns; the potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens.
    2015
    2015: NIAID, under Fauci, awards a five-year, $3.7 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance (whose director gets credit on subsequent publications for “funding acquisition” rather than scientific work) to conduct gain-of-function studies on the “risk of bat coronavirus emergence.” Ten percent of the award goes to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which does “the bulk of the on-the-ground sample collection and analysis.”

    September 24: UNC’s Ralph Baric is granted a patent for the creation of chimeric coronavirus spike proteins.

    November 9: Baric and the Wuhan Institute’s Shi Zheng-Li (the leading GOF coronavirus researcher in China) publish what some refer to as “the most famous gain-of-function virology paper” (in Nature Medicine), describing their creation of a synthetic chimeric coronavirus. The authors state: “[T]hese data and restrictions represent a crossroads of GOF research concerns; the potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of creating more dangerous pathogens [emphasis added]. In developing policies moving forward, it is important to consider the value of the data generated by these studies and whether these types of chimeric virus studies warrant further investigation versus the inherent risks involved.”

    2016
    2016: The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity states that “very few government-funded gain-of-function experiments [pose] a significant threat to public health.”

    …researchers blame the Gates-funded polio vaccination campaign for almost half a million cases of childhood paralysis.
    2017
    February 8: The Modi administration in India severs ties with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, after researchers blame the Gates-funded polio vaccination campaign for almost half a million cases of childhood paralysis.

    November 30: Shi Zheng-Li and coauthors publish a paper in PLoS Pathogens describing the creation of eight new synthetic coronaviruses.

    December 19: The NIH and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID restore federal funding for gain-of-function research, ending the moratorium that began in October 2014.

    December 19: Dr. Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard School of Public Health tells the New York Times that the type of gain-of-function experiments endorsed by Dr. Fauci’s NIAID have “done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, and yet risked creating an accidental pandemic.”

    NIAID awards a six-year renewal grant of $3.7 million to EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology to continue their gain-of-function studies on bat coronaviruses.
    2019
    2019: NIAID awards a six-year renewal grant of $3.7 million to EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology to continue their gain-of-function studies on bat coronaviruses. The renewal is approved “unusually quickly,” receiving a “really extremely high priority for funding.”

    August 14: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) records show that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation owns 5.3 million shares of Crown Castle International Corp., representing the Foundation’s second largest tech holding after Microsoft. Crown Castle dominates ownership of 5G infrastructure throughout the U.S., including cell towers, small cell nodes and fiber.

    October: A report released by NBC News in May, 2020 declares, “The analysis of commercial telemetry data in Wuhan suggests the COVID-19 pandemic began earlier than initially reported” and “supports the release of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” NBC’s May 8 summary states, “there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a ‘hazardous event’ sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11.”

    October 6: On May 5, 2020, British and French researchers publish a study estimating that COVID-19 could have started as early as October 6, 2019.

    October 18: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security convene an invitation-only “tabletop exercise” called Event 201 to map out the response to a hypothetical global coronavirus pandemic.

    November-December: General practitioners in northern Italy start noticing a “strange pneumonia.”

    December 2-3: Vaccine scientists attending the WHO’s Global Vaccine Safety Summit confirm major problems with vaccine safety around the world.

    December 18: Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report the development of a “novel way to record a patient’s vaccination history,” using smartphone-readable nanocrystals called “quantum dots” embedded in the skin using microneedles—this work is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

    December 31: Chinese officials inform the WHO about a cluster of “mysterious pneumonia” cases. Later, the South China Morning Post reports that it can trace the first case back to November 17.

    Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College … tells a Congressional Committee that coronavirus vaccines have always had a “unique potential safety problem”
    2020
    January 7: Chinese authorities formally identify a “novel” coronavirus.

    January 10: China makes the genome sequence of the new coronavirus publicly available.

    January 11: China records its first death attributed to the new coronavirus.

    January 20: The first U.S. coronavirus case is reported in Washington State.

    January 23: Shi Zheng-Li releases a paper reporting that the new coronavirus is 96% identical to a strain that her lab isolated from bats in 2013 but never publicized.

    January 30: The WHO declares the new coronavirus a “global health emergency.”

    Jan. 31, 2020: A group of Indian scientists publishes a study finding HIV sequences in the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. The scientists withdraw the study withdrew the study within 24 hours, presumably under some pressure.

    February 4: With just 11 people in the U.S. who are confirmed to have COVID-19, HHS issues a Declaration, published on March 17 in the Federal Register, that places the new coronavirus under the umbrella of the 2005 PREP Act, making medical countermeasures (including vaccines) immune from liability.

    February 5: Bill and Melinda Gates announce $100 million in funding for coronavirus vaccine research and treatment efforts.

    February 10: French and Canadian scientists publish a paper about the new coronavirus describing an “important” anomaly—12 additional nucleotides—not observed in previous coronaviruses. They suggest that the distinct feature “may provide a gain-of-function . . . for efficient spreading in the human population.”

    February 11: The WHO gives the disease thought to be caused by the new coronavirus a name: “COVID-19.” WHO’s Director-General explains, “We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual or group of people, and which is also pronounceable and related to the disease.”

    February 24: Moderna, Inc. sends the first batch of its experimental coronavirus vaccine, mRNA-1273, to its research partner, NIAID.

    February 25: Moderna stock shares trade 15% higher.

    February 29: The U.S. reports its first COVID-19 death.

    March 5: Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College (who has previously tried to develop a SARS vaccine) tells a Congressional Committee that coronavirus vaccines have always had a “unique potential safety problem”—a “kind of paradoxical immune enhancement phenomenon.”

    March 6: President Trump signs an $8.3 billion emergency coronavirus spending package, much of which “directly benefit[s] the drug industry.”

    March 10: Dr. Paul Offit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia expresses concerns about the push to “rush [a vaccine] through,” particularly in the absence of “any history of making a coronavirus vaccine.”

    March 10: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard commit $125 million to identify, assess, develop and scale up COVID-19 treatments, forming the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. The $50 million in Gates Foundation funding is part of the $100 million in COVID-19 funding announced by Gates on February 5.

    March 11: The WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic.

    March 13: Bill Gates steps down from the Boards of Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to “dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities.”

    March 16: Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, scientific advisor to the UK government, publishes his computer simulations warning that there will be over two million COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. unless the country adopts “intensive and socially disruptive measures.”

    March 16: Dr. Fauci tells Americans that they must be prepared to “take more drastic steps” and “hunker down significantly” to slow the coronavirus’s spread.

    March 16: NIAID launches a Phase 1 trial in 45 healthy adults of the mRNA-1273 coronavirus vaccine co-developed by NIAID and Moderna, Inc. The trial skips the customary step of testing the vaccine in animal models prior to proceeding to human trials.

    March 17: The Nation publishes an analysis covering conflicts of interest in the Gates Foundation’s charitable giving, describing “close to $2 billion in tax-deductible charitable donations to private companies,” including GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and “close to $250 million in charitable grants . . . to companies in which the foundation holds corporate stocks and bonds,” including Merck, GSK, Sanofi and other pharmaceutical corporations. A critic states that the foundation has “created one of the most problematic precedents in the history of foundation giving by essentially opening the door for corporations to see themselves as deserving charity claimants at a time when corporate profits are at an all-time high.”

    March 22: U.S. bioweapons expert Dr. Francis Boyle repeats earlier statements that the purpose of Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology “is the research, development, testing and stockpiling of offensive biological weapons” and that the new virus is a “weaponized” SARS coronavirus that leaked out of the Wuhan BSL-4 lab.

    Bill Gates announces significant funding for a company, EarthNow, that will blanket Earth with $1 billion in video surveillance satellites.
    March 24: Bill Gates announces significant funding for a company, EarthNow, that will blanket Earth with $1 billion in video surveillance satellites.

    March 26: Microsoft announces that it is acquiring Affirmed Networks, a company focused on 5G and “edge computing.”

    March 26: Dr. Fauci publishes an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine (with senior NIAID official H. Clifford Lane and CDC director Robert Redfield), stating that “the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza,” with a case fatality rate of perhaps 0.1%.

    March 27: President Trump signs the $2 trillion CARES Act into law.

    March 27: Children’s Health Defense publishes its video and article, “Dr. Fauci and COVID-19 priorities: therapeutics now or vaccines later?” Shortly thereafter, Mailchimp deactivates CHD’s account with no advance notice and no violation of Mailchimp’s rules.

    March 29: President Trump extends nationwide social distancing guidelines until April 30.

    March 31: White House coronavirus advisors Dr. Deborah Birx and Dr. Fauci cite models showing a potential 100,000 to 240,000 coronavirus deaths “even if the country keeps stringent social distancing guidelines in place.” Fauci describes social distancing and lockdowns as “inconvenient” but “the answer to our problems.”

    April 2: Bill Gates states that a coronavirus vaccine “is the only thing that will allow us to return to normal.”

    April 3: Forbes reports that Moderna’s CEO has become an overnight billionaire after the company ended 2019 with a net loss.

    April 6: Dr. Fauci describes a COVID-19 vaccine as a “showstopper” and states, “I hope we don’t have so many people infected that we actually have . . . herd immunity.”

    April 9: Dr. Fauci states that the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus “looks more like the 60,000 [range],” adding the “models are really only as good as the assumptions that you put into the model.”

    April 9: The Gates-funded Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) reports that 115 COVID-19 vaccines are in the pipeline.

    April 9: Children’s Health Defense publishes “Gates’ globalist vaccine agenda: a win-win for pharma and mandatory vaccination.”

    April 11: Children’s Health Defense publishes “Here’s why Bill Gates wants indemnity… Are you willing to take the risk?”

    April 15: Bill Gates pledges another $150 million to coronavirus vaccine development and other measures. He states, “There are seven billion people on the planet. We are going to need to vaccinate nearly every one.”

    April 16: Moderna announces up to $483 million in funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to speed up the mRNA-1273 vaccine’s development.

    April 18: Professor Luc Montagnier, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of HIV, appears on French television and states that SARS-CoV-2 has been “manipulated” to include “added sequences” from HIV. Professor Montagnier asserts that this “meticulous” insertion could only have been carried out in a laboratory. Others raise similar questions about the origins of SARS-CoV-2.

    April 18: News outlets report that the country’s first coronavirus tests are ineffective due to CDC lab contamination and the CDC’s violation of its manufacturing standards.

    April 21: Washington State announces plans to have a 1,500-person contact tracing team in place by mid-May.

    April 23: Researchers issue a preprint reporting “direct evidence” of at least 30 different SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants.

    April 23: News outlets report that American billionaires’ wealth increased by 10% during the first few months of COVID-19.

    April 23: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. publishes “The Bill Gates effect: WHO’s DTP vaccine killed more children in Africa than the diseases it targeted.”

    April 24: The NIH cancels the funding awarded to EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain-of-function research on coronaviruses (funding awarded continuously since 2015). The NIH and Dr. Fauci decline to comment.

    April 27: Former FDA head Scott Gottlieb (now with Pfizer) and former Medicare/Medicaid official Andy Slavitt urge the Trump administration to dedicate $46 billion to contact tracing and isolation.

    April 28: A Newsweek article reports, “Dr. Fauci backed controversial Wuhan lab with U.S. dollars for risky coronavirus research.” Fauci does not respond to requests for comments.

    April 29: Bloomberg publishes a story about President Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a planned pharmaceutical-government-military collaboration to shrink the development time for a coronavirus vaccine.

    April 30: Bill Gates writes that “the world will be able to go back to the way things were . . . when almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus.” Gates also states that “Governments will need to expedite their usual drug approval processes in order to deliver the vaccine to over 7 billion people quickly.”

    April 30: Dr. Fauci states that it is “doable” to have hundreds of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine available by January 2021.

    May 1: Dr. Thomas Inglesby (director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security), discussing gain-of-function research, states that “laboratory systems are not infallible, and even in the greatest laboratories of the world, there are mistakes.”

    May 1: Democratic Representative Bobby Rush of Illinois introduces the TRACE Act (“HR 6666: COVID-19 Testing, Reaching, and Contacting Everyone”). The conspicuously vague Act would allocate $100 billion to CDC-hired entities for contact tracing and “other purposes,” including family separation. (See also May 15.)

    May 4: Bill Gates pledges another $50 million toward COVID-19, for a total of $300 million in commitments.

    May 4: President Trump states that the U.S. will have a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020.

    May 5: British and French researchers publish “Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2,” suggesting that the recurrent mutations detected “may indicate ongoing adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to its novel human host.”

    May 5: Neil Ferguson resigns from the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) after flouting his own social distancing rules. The married lover with whom Ferguson has his trysts works for an organization “loosely connected with Bill Gates, through the World Economic Forum.”

    May 5: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. publishes “Redfield and Birx: can they be trusted with COVID?”

    May 6: An anonymous software engineer (ex-Google) pronounces Neil Ferguson’s COVID-19 computer model “unusable for scientific purposes.”

    May 7: Business Insider reports that over 33 million Americans have filed for unemployment over the seven-week period since COVID-19 restrictions began.

    May 7: NPR reports that 44 states and the District of Columbia have plans to deploy a contact tracing workforce of over 66,000 workers.

    May 8: NBC News releases a private report describing an unconfirmed shutdown of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in October 2019.

    May 8: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dafna Tachover (director of CHD’s “Stop 5G and Wireless Harms Project”) publish “The brave new world of Bill Gates and Big Telecom.”

    May 11: UK chief medical officer Dr. Chris Whitty (an insider who has received millions in malaria research funding from the Gates Foundation and who endorses stigma as a useful public health intervention) states that COVID-19 is “harmless to [the] vast majority.”

    May 13: Australian researchers report that “SARS-CoV-2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising important questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins might lie elsewhere.”

    May 14: Microsoft announces that it is acquiring UK-based Metaswitch Networks “to expand its Azure 5G strategy.”

    May 15: The House passes the 1,815-page, $3 trillion HEROES Act (“Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act”), sneaking in portions of the TRACE ACT that would funnel $75 billion to the CDC for “coronavirus testing, contact tracing and isolation measures.”

    May 18: Moderna announces interim results from the Phase 1 trial of its mRNA-1273 coronavirus vaccine. The company reports that three out of 15 healthy participants (20%) experienced Grade 3 systemic adverse events following a second dose. (The Merck Manual defines Grade 3 as “severe or medically significant but not immediately life-threatening; hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization indicated; disabling; limiting self care.”)

    May 18: Discussing the interim results from Moderna’s Phase 1 trial of its mRNA-1273 vaccine—co-developed with NIAID—Dr. Fauci states: “I must warn that there’s also the possibility of negative consequences, where certain vaccines can actually enhance the negative effect of the infection.”

    May 18: After describing its interim Phase 1 results as “promising,” shares of Moderna stock soar 25%, closing at a “record high.” The company’s stock has gained 241% since the beginning of 2020.

    May 19: Children’s Health Defense Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. publishes “How Bill Gates controls global messaging and censorship.”

    May 20: Microsoft announces its new supercomputer intended to create “human-like” artificial intelligence.

    Stop the conveyor belt
    Around the world, many people are understandably reeling in shock at the rapid economic, social and cultural changes that have followed in the wake of the phenomenon called “COVID-19.” Many of these changes involve ever-tighter restrictions on our rights and freedoms, accompanied by inexorable messaging—both public and subliminal—that a “vaccine for all” and 24/7 tracking and surveillance are the only way out. Increasingly, however, there are hopeful signs that more members of the public are recognizing the duplicity and self-interest of those offering false salvation. Each of us needs to do our part to expose these issues, standing up for individual sovereignty and working to halt the transition “to a totalitarian singularity more despotic than Orwell ever imagined.”
    Each breath a gift...
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    ‘Bill Gates Wants Us to Get It’: The Deranged Scene at Trump’s Ford Factory Tour

    Lot more on the link
    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates...211053475.html


    But some of the Trump supporters on hand had more fringe concerns. Miriani, for one, said he had no interest in being vaccinated against the disease that has killed over 90,000 Americans.

    “One primary reason why—Bill Gates wants us to get it,” he told The Daily Beast, referring to the conspiracy theory that the Microsoft founder is somehow behind the coronavirus. “That’s going to make him a ton of money.”


    Microsoft founder is somehow behind the coronavirus.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumpi...nt-brain-chips

    Trumpists Believe Bill Gates Is Using Coronavirus to Implant Brain Chips
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    Coronavirus: Anders Tegnell, State Epidemiologist of Sweden, on herd immunity - BBC HARDtalk

    Much of the world responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with a lockdown strategy… now the focus is on finding a sustainable post lockdown strategy that doesn’t prompt a second wave of infection. Could Sweden be the model? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Sweden’s chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, the architect of a controversial no lockdown strategy that continues to stir interest across the world. Has it worked?

    Be kind to all life, including your own, no matter what!!

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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    Sounds great, but the article is from 2018. Is there anything more recent about this?
    If it's for real, I wonder why have Gates and Fauci and company have continued to go on and on about vaccines for all and tracking devices, snitching, etc without challenge from anyone at HHS?
    Quote Posted by wavydome (here)
    Trump Lays Groundwork To Ban Mandatory Vaccinations Across U.S.
    by Editor Friday, November 16 2018 @ 07:38 AM MST
    ExplainLife.com

    President Trump has created a new division within the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, with the express purpose of banning mandatory vaccinations across the country, and ensuring citizens have a right to choose their own healthcare.

    http://kickthemallout.com/article.ph...5uORNqjPv32Zic


    Like everythinq, um, becoming normal qouble speak?
    Statements to appease all sides at different speeches?
    No vax by name, but rather just by test?
    Hot mandates fizzle out like bama care did?
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    We spoke to Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford and head of the team that released a study in March which speculated that as much as 50% of the population may already have been infected and the true Infection Fatality Rate could be as low as 0.1%.

    In her first major interview since the Oxford study was published, she goes further by arguing that Covid-19 has already passed through the population and is now on its way out. She said:

    On antibodies:
    • Many of the antibody tests are “extremely unreliable”
    • They do not indicate the true level of exposure or level of immunity
    • “Different countries have had different lockdown policies, and yet what we’ve observed is almost a uniform pattern of behaviour”
    • “Much of the driving force was due to the build-up of immunity”

    On IFR:
    • “Infection Fatality Rate is less than 1 in 1000 and probably closer to 1 in 10,000.”
    • That would be somewhere between 0.1% and 0.01%

    On lockdown policy:
    • Referring to the Imperial model: “Should we act on a possible worst case scenario, given the costs of lockdown? It seems to me that given that the costs of lockdown are mounting that case is becoming more and more fragile”
    • Recommends “a more rapid exit from lockdown based more on certain heuristics, like who is dying and what is happening to the death rates”

    On the UK Government response:
    • “We might have done better by doing nothing at all, or at least by doing something different, which would have been to pay attention to protecting the vulnerable”

    On the R rate:
    • It is “principally dependent on how many people are immune” and we don’t have that information.
    • Deaths are the only reliable measure.

    On New York:
    • “When you have pockets of vulnerable people it might rip through those pockets in a way that it wouldn’t if the vulnerable people were more scattered within the general population.”

    On social distancing:
    • “Remaining in a state of lockdown is extremely dangerous”
    • “We used to live in a state approximating lockdown 100 years ago, and that was what created the conditions for the Spanish Flu to come in and kill 50m people.”

    On next steps:
    • “It is very dangerous to talk about lockdown without recognising the enormous costs that it has on other vulnerable sectors in the population”
    • It is a “strong possibility” that if we return to full normal tomorrow — pubs, nightclubs, festivals — we would be fine.

    On the politics of Covid:
    • “There is a sort of libertarian argument for the release of lockdown, and I think it is unfortunate that those of us who feel we should think differently about lockdown"
    • “The truth is that lockdown is a luxury, and it’s a luxury that the middle classes are enjoying and higher income countries are enjoying at the expense of the poor, the vulnerable and less developed countries.”

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    Who Is Running the WHO? (part 3)
    By Charlene Bollinger
    May 21, 2020
    https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/running-part-3/


    "Part 3: WHO Current Situation— Censorship, China and the Bill Gates Vaccine Machine
    Prior to the suspension of funding, the United States was the biggest donor to the WHO. Bill Gates (acting through both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, another Gates organization) was the second largest financial contributor. Absent the U.S., he is now the biggest one. Given what we know about the WHO from Parts I and II of this series, how does this fact affect what may be coming down the pipeline regarding COVID-19 and the possibility of mandatory vaccines for everyday folks like you and me?

    Gates and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    First, let’s take a look at Gates and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Gates has maintained close ties to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for many years now.

    Many in recent months have called for Ghebreyesus to step down, not only because of his closeness to the Communist Party of China, or CPC (he worked closely with Beijing for years when he was part of the Ethiopian government), but also because of his ties to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a known terrorist organization.

    Still, others criticize the potentially genocidal actions he promoted in his own country when he was Minister of Health. For example, Ghebreyesus promoted the widespread use of the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera to certain populations in Ethiopia while not providing basic medical services nor information about the risks of the drug. Depo-Provera has been connected to increased risk for both osteoporosis and breast cancer in numerous studies.

    Gates and Ghebreyesus have also maintained a working relationship over the years. Ghebreyesus was the director of the Global Fund from 2009 to 2011, a $4 billion a year organization designed to “fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as epidemics” initiated, again, by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has been closely associated with the Clinton Foundation and its numerous health-related “charitable organizations” for a number of years as well.

    Gates and China
    Gates also has close ties to China, which are varied and significant. His investments in that country are diverse and cover everything from computer technologies to health and nuclear energy. In the early 2000s, he actively began sharing source code for his Microsoft Windows operating system with the Chinese government. On the surface, this was described as an act of goodwill and transparency on the part of Gates. Some wonder, however, if Microsoft (as well as other US-based tech companies) did not have a hand in the creation of the technological system that the Communist Party of China (CPC) now uses to monitor, censor, and control its 1.4 billion citizens.

    “China has a great opportunity to be a global leader in health innovation,” Gates said during a speech at the Beijing University Public Policy Forum International in 2017. “With its rich pool of talented scientists and its capacity to develop new drugs and vaccines, China was a clear choice for us to locate a new Global Health Drug Discovery Institute. This institute—a collaboration between our foundation, the Beijing Municipal Government, and Tsinghua University—will help speed the discovery and development of new lifesaving medicines.”

    Another institute that Gates has a vested interest in is the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It is now believed that Coronavirus didn’t originate from the Huanan market, as the story originally went. The current scenario, as confirmed by multiple intelligence agencies, is that COVID-19 actually emanated in some way from experiments being conducted at the Wuhan Institute, which is located less than a mile away from the Huanan “wet” market.

    According to research conducted by Dr. Rashid A. Buttar and others, an entity known as the Pirbright Institute currently owns several patents on genetically-manipulated virus forms labeled as “Coronavirus.” Unsurprisingly, the Pirbright Institute is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

    Gates and Corona Virus Vaccines
    Soon after Trump made his announcement, China wasted no time in lending a hand by donating $30 million to the WHO. Still, at this moment, Bill Gates remains the largest donor to the most influential health organization on the planet.

    As such, Gates has made it no secret that he intends to be a major player in the upcoming roll-out of the new Coronavirus vaccine and the push for mandatory vaccines in general. Recently he pledged to donate $100 million for “Coronavirus relief efforts.”

    What Gates didn’t mention was how this “generosity” would eventually come back around to him. Not only does Gates own the patents for the Coronavirus itself, his foundation is also funding current research on fast-tracking the new Coronavirus vaccine, potentially one of the most medically dangerous, untested vaccines ever.

    Censorship and the WHO
    Connecting the dots between Gates (and other Big Tech leaders), Big Pharma, the WHO, and the vaccination agenda can really help in understanding what is currently going on in the US with censorship.

    In mid-April, Facebook announced that it will begin to steer users who interact with coronavirus ‘misinformation’ to the WHO,” including those people who like or share such information. YouTube is enacting similar censorship restrictions, in a policy that they call “raising authoritative information.” Facebook is the owner of Instagram and WhatsApp. Google (Alphabet Inc.) owns YouTube.

    At the time of this writing, Twitter is taking even harsher measures and is currently removing thousands of tweets and hundreds of accounts that contain “recommendations that go against health authority guidance…” The vast majority of the posts and channels that are currently being taken down contain legitimate natural health and vaccine-safety related content.

    On May 7, Twitter permanently suspended the accounts for The Truth About Cancer and The Truth About Vaccines, as well our own personal accounts. We were given no warning – we were simply purged from Twitter without a trace. To date, we have been given no reason or explanation by Twitter for these draconian actions. (Thanks to so many of our followers’ amazing support, all of our twitter accounts have been reinstated.)

    Censorship on social media platforms and on Google has been happening for a while now, of course. However, the recent tightening is being spurred on by the Big Pharma-sympathizing members of Congress. On April 20, 2020, Rep. Adam Schiff wrote a letter to Google, YouTube and Twitter, urging them to be more like Facebook when it comes to “misinformation.”

    “Among the harmful misinformation currently on YouTube, recent reporting has shown that it is easy to find videos spreading false and dangerous statements about the coronavirus or treatments, including conspiracy theories linking the virus to 5G towers, anti-vaccine messages suggesting the virus was engineered, and videos suggesting that drinking or consuming bleach may cure the disease,” Schiff wrote in a letter that he also shared on Twitter.

    Suddenly it all starts to make sense. The mainstream media, again using language and recommendations coming from the WHO, paints those putting out information that consumers need to know as “the enemy.”

    Perhaps this is more to the point: Whatever topics these Big Pharma-backed platforms decide to censor is really what they fear the most.

    No one is downplaying the reality of COVID-19 and that it is an intense flu strain which can be potentially dangerous to immune-compromised individuals. But are there really people in authority right now who are wanting us to believe that wearing a mask, social distancing, accepting Constitution-defying rules, and accepting mandatory vaccines is simply the “new normal?”

    The People Decide: Free Will Is Our God-Given Right!
    Will the WHO investigation by the current administration lead to significant findings that will somehow shed light on what is really going on? Will these investigations come in time to help prevent wide-scale, massive mandatory vaccinations?

    Only time will tell. One thing is for certain, however. Our society stands at a decision point.

    Will we choose to take a stand for a healthy planet and healthy people? Or will we allow our God-given rights to be stripped from us by special interests that do not care about our well-being?

    The choice really is ours to make. It is not an easy one. There are strong forces at work who do not want us to succeed.

    There is also a LOT to look forward to! More people than ever want to know the truth, and more and more of us are willing to stand up for health freedom on behalf of ourselves, our families, and future generations.

    In addition, more eyes than ever are focused on organizations like the WHO. Ultimately, it will be through the brave actions of everyday people that the WHO can perhaps one day live up to what its own Mission Statement proclaims: to “promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable.”

    (If you missed them, here is part 1 https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/who-is-running-the-who/ and part 2 https://thetruthaboutcancer.com/running-part-2/)
    Each breath a gift...
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