Tag: Deep State

For many of us long time cynics, Covid 19 is not a true SHTF scenario, but simply a good rehearsal for one. All the frantic, store binging activity is just as we thought the early stages of SHTF would be. This is a good thing as it points out to us weak spots in our preps.

Having said the above, look at Covid 19 through the Bambi-like eyes of the unprepared. No TP in the stores is not an inconvenience, it’s the end of the world. When other staples started going away, it just reinforced their belief the end was here.

I believe that there was never a need for mass hysteria, total lock down, or the attempted destruction of our economy, good cleaning and hygiene habits, masks, and social distancing could well have taken care of this.

We didn’t stop with that because first, the Progressive leadership is desperately trying to bring Trump down and did their level best to make the situation as bad as they could.

Secondly, and more importantly because it describes a major danger to us all, and that is the media. For the same purposes as the Progressives, they whipped up a fear of dying, that I’ve not seen in my lifetime (I’m old!).

Coupled with this last point, we have a generation of Millennials that had fear rubbed in their nose, the fact that they might die someday and they weren’t ready for it. They expected to live forever, bad things would never happen to them, and life is fair.

Suddenly, bad things COULD happen to them, they weren’t going to live forever, and life is not fair and can be very hard.

We should all be aware that this fear mongering is the real issue here, not the flu. The next time they do this, it really could tip us over past the ability to recover.

This media influence is a Clear and Present danger which is FAR worse that Cover 19 because the only cure for it is self education, which many progressive and younger people adamantly refuse to do.

As a Pandemic, Covid 19 only registers 3rd or 4th from the bottom of history’s plagues.

Indeed, many of us lived through the Hong Cong Flu, which killed 1-4 million people around the world from 1956 to 1958- I remember it, but there was no panic or hysteria involved; the Swine flu in 2009, which killed 200K people – no panic then; and the annual flu which we have vaccines for kills over 60,000 per year- every year – neither of these get any special attention by the media or the progressives. Smallpox was the worst, killing 300 to 500 MILLION people the first 75 years of the 20 century.

Still, the media continues to beat the drum over covid 19 and, for the past weeks over the George Floyd case and the attendant riots.

This is not new. A quote here would be appropriate;
“The media’s the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

You might think that quote was from Donald J Trump. You would be wrong. It was said by Malcolm X.

Thinking for yourself is hard, that’s why the “Powers that be” want you to let the State and the media do it for you.

Last month, New York funeral home directors blew the whistle about inflated coronavirus death numbers. Death certificates mark “COVID-19” as the cause of death even when the deceased hadn’t tested positive for coronavirus, much less actually died of the virus. This week, a San Diego county supervisor suggested the numbers are even more inflated.

“We’ve unfortunately had six pure, solely coronavirus deaths — six out of 3.3 million people,” County Supervisor Jim Desmond said on the radio show Armstrong & Getty Extra Large Interviews., The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. San Diego County had reported roughly 190 deaths at the time — the current number is 200.

Desmond went on to criticize California’s lockdown. “I mean, what number are we trying to get to with those odds. I mean, it’s incredible. We want to be safe, and we can do it, but unfortunately, it’s more about control than getting the economy going again and keeping people safe,” he said.

In short, Desmond was suggesting that while COVID-19 may have contributed to the 190 deaths, most of those deaths were due in part to previous, unrelated health concerns.

Indeed, the disease has proven most deadly for people with underlying health conditions, so it stands to reason that “pure, solely coronavirus deaths” would be the minority — perhaps even just 3.2 percent of the total recorded deaths, as Desmond suggested.

As of Friday afternoon, there have been 87,218 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. If Desmond’s claim is accurate and if that 3.2 percent rate holds across the country, and discounting the death certificate inflation, that would mean there are only 2,891 “pure, solely coronavirus deaths” in the U.S.

This is a rough estimate and it would be extremely difficult to confirm. Furthermore, there is little reason to dismiss a death when coronavirus has indeed contributed to it. If someone already had a serious case of asthma, got coronavirus, and died, it would be fair to say coronavirus contributed to the death.

However, the likelihood that “pure, solely coronavirus deaths” are so low does make a difference when analyzing the pandemic in terms of years of life lost, an important measurement. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) applies a principle that “the allocation of health resources must consider not only the number of deaths by cause but also by age.” Therefore, the CDC explains that the “years of potential life lost” is a useful figure — not because the lives of young people are more important than the lives of the elderly, but because humans can only delay death, not prevent it, and beause there is a difference between a disease that kills a 20-year-old in the prime of her life and one that kills a 90-year-old who would have otherwise died a month later.

Taking this figure, James Agresti and Andrew Glen at Just Facts compared the maximum years of life the lockdowns could possibly save and compared it to the years of life lost from the anxiety surrounding the pandemic, including lockdown anxiety. “The anxiety from reactions to Covid-19—such as business shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will extinguish at least seven times more years of life than can possibly be saved by the lockdowns,” they concluded.

Since COVID-19 robs an average of 12 years of life from its victims, the lockdowns could save no more than 7.4 million years of life. Meanwhile, the anxiety and stress of the pandemic will cost 42.9 million Americans an average of 1.3 years of life, thus destroying 55.7 million years of life.

The coronavirus anxiety and stress cost at least 7.5 times more in terms of years of life than the lockdowns could possibly save, according to Just Facts.

If Jim Desmond is correct about the low rate of “pure, solely coronavirus deaths,” then COVID-19 may take even fewer years of life from its victims, thus bolstering the case against the lockdowns even further.

Americans would be wrong to only consider “pure, solely coronavirus deaths” in their analysis of the coronavirus pandemic. Even when COVID-19 only exacerbates a pre-existing condition and causes death that way, that death is tragic and rightly considered part of the pandemic. However, his claim raises two questions about reported deaths. If there are “pure” coronavirus deaths, are there “impure” ones? Did some people who tested positive for the virus nevertheless die of something else entirely?

There may be four types of recorded coronavirus deaths: (1) deaths only caused by COVID-19 (roughly 3 percent), (2) deaths in which COVID-19 ended the life of someone already struggling with health conditions, (3) deaths from other causes but after a patient had tested positive for the virus, and (4) deaths falsely marked “COVID-19” when there was not even a test. Deaths of type 1 and 2 are rightly considered coronavirus deaths, while deaths of type 3 are much harder to distinguish from type 2, and deaths of type 4 are completely inflating the numbers.

Americans cannot claim there have only been 2,891 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, but they should be skeptical about the 87,218 number. The true number of coronavirus deaths is likely to be smaller.

For those who have continued to believe that sooner or later there would be justice done and the swamp drained… guess again peons.

The US attorney general said Monday he did not expect to investigate either former president Barack Obama or former vice president Joe Biden over the 2016 Russia election meddling case, despite President Donald Trump’s call for a probe.

“We cannot allow his process to be hijacked by efforts to drum up criminal investigations of either candidate.”

This, after saying; “original investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election was a “grave injustice” to the president and based on “utterly baseless” suspicions.”

For those who slept through, (or never had), Civics class;”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”

The denizens of the Deeps State, (and, sadly, I would include many of the current Executive Branch, including Atty General Barr), have, most certainly become destructive of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They have perpetuated a two-tier system of jurisprudence, one for the elite, ruling class and another, inferior one for the peasants. The republic, as envisioned and produced by our Founding Fathers is, without further doubt or discussion, one of the walking dead.
It is time to either accept our fate as chattel of the state or withdraw consent and institute new government as is described in the Declaration of Independence.

Is anyone else  wondering what effect the ‘lockdown’ will have on food production and distribution.

It is a fragile and time sensitive system. Crops need to be harvested and moved to market on a steady basis. Warehouses need to rotate stock on a constant basis, to keep it fresh and available.

Consider a major warehouse distribution center, a HUGE place that moves massive amount of produce, meats, dairy, seafood and so on. It is all perishable and needs to be rotated fast. Think of all the produce needed to supply restaurants and major grocery chains in a city.  It comes and goes through only a few major hubs.

Now, think of the supply chain that gets it all there. From farm to market so to speak, only in massive quantities. When one part of the system slows down, it has to back-up another part of it. Food stuffs accumulate and expire all along the chain.

It will find an equilibrium, eventually, as it did when building up. But, it is going to take time for that chain to build back up to the amounts it was at before the lock down. Is this all because of a virus with a mortality rate of less than .10%?

Things are not adding up. They are dumping milk as well; it is claimed because restaurants,, institutions and schools aren’t buying, but they are limiting how much you can buy at the store. Shortages are being created by someone and for some reason and they may succeed in making them real, fatally real.

These are the issues that will come to a head some months down the road. Nobody really thinks of the logistical chain, or the steps in the process. We only think of truckers and distribution most of the time.

What if workers are sick and can’t get into the field to harvest, or aren’t allowed to harvest, sick or well? There won’t be anything to ship. If farmers can’t get into the field to plant there won’t even be anything to harvest. If cattle, hogs and poultry have been destroyed there won’t be anything to process.

As many who follow this blog already know, the virus was the catalyst and not the cause.

When the repo markets started blowing out last September the timer on the bomb started ticking down. The whole world economy was going to come apart at the seams anyway and the elites, (call them The Powers That Be, The Shadow Government or the Deep State), needed a scapegoat to blame and now there is one.

The Fed has already dumped more liquidity into this then they did back in 2008 and it‘s hardly having any effect at all. Unfortunately we are not going back to what was considered as normal before this started. We have to go down this road now which is starting as deflation and goes into a hyperinflationary depression.

We are still on the deflation side of the equation. Sooner or later they will have to go beyond the $1200 stimulus checks and start a universal basic income or direct helicopter money dumps.

From the perspective of economic theory and practice, government spending during World War II demonstrated how massive government spending at a time of severe economic downturn and dislocation can indeed get an economy humming again.

During WW II Government spent money on aircraft, ships, landing-craft, weapons, tanks, trucks, jeeps, food for millions of soldiers, supplies, and so forth. Government spending not only skyrocketed to over 40% of GDP during the war, but it was accompanied by a command and control economy, with Government agencies directing what was to be produced, Soviet style.

When the stock market crashed in 1929, the Dow plummeted from its September peak of 381.17 to a low of 41.22 in July 1932. Unemployment increased, to a peak of about 25 percent in early 1933. Gross domestic product fell steadily, ultimately declining by about 30 percent.

The economic crash caused by the coronavirus, if anything, will be sharper and steeper. If it was the plan of the Deep State to set out to deliberately destroy an economy, requesting most people to stay home has been a very effective way.

Fear of the virus is disrupting production, and the “public health” response to the virus is economically catastrophic. Given the scale and rate of likely economic collapse, we could easily see G.D.P. decline by Great Depression levels, and at a much more rapid rate than in the early 1930s.

It took WW II to stimulate us out of the last depression. I am seeing some very troubling parallels here.

What if I told you …….. we know now in the first two decades of the 21st century that viruses, which had made the jump from animals to humans in the recent past, had mutated and targeted vulnerable human populations on earth. These unsympathetic viruses mounted their attack. No one would ever guess they were being directed from an outside source.

What if I told you….. Human populations were so entranced in their cell phones they didn’t realize they were walking into a future viral pandemic of unimaginable proportion. The world was not prepared for such a calamity.

What if I told you….. Literally a cloud of air pollution that had been gathering over Wuhan, China caused these viruses to deliver aerosolized virus particles into the lungs of unsuspecting individuals. This resulted in a severe form of lower- lobe lung pneumonia where the infected literally succumbed to internal drowning.

What if I told you….. These lung infections coordinated with simultaneous and seemingly unconnected light flashes detected on the surface of the planet Mars, which initially went unreported for fear of panicking the masses in the middle of another panic.

On October 30th. 1938 CBS broadcasting presented Orson Well’s radio drama, “War of the worlds”. Soon, an announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. “Good heavens,” he declared, “something’s wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now here’s another and another one and another one. They look like tentacles to me … I can see the thing’s body now. It’s large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it… it … ladies and gentlemen, it’s indescribable.”

Of course, it was make-believe, a radio drama. There were reports of people panicking to the extent that the Federal Communications Commission investigated the unorthodox program but found no law was broken. Networks did agree to be more cautious in their programming in the future.

In reality, Orson Welles’ radio epic really never panicked many. Retrospectively we find Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds was actually a myth . The newspapers of the day needed readers. News reports said that over one million people ran from their houses. In fact, the supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast.

But it was surely a preview of fake news to come.

And yes, the masses of Americans today may believe they would not be so easily fooled either, but just like yesteryear, the news agencies say otherwise. And it is that fake panic and fear that has gained a hold in a population where people see other people acting like it’s real.

Already uncovered is a physician inside Elmhurst Hospital in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 coronavirus Ameri-demic, foisting false images of dead bodies in refrigerated trucks, recording fake pleas for more ventilators, all emanating from a physician who is a trained “medical simulation specialist.” An infectious disease disaster drill went live. It’s 1938 all over again. (Orson Welles II?)

COVID-19 coronavirus is now being produced as a daily drama by television, newspaper and other online news sources. The entire locked-down American public has nothing else to do but turn on their television sets and get propagandized. Sponsors need viewers.

Americans dutifully follow orders issued by federal officials and state governors, and shame those who don’t. It is so cunning. Religion and paper currency wiped out in a week. I’ll just bet you most Americans have no idea what the definition of demagogue is. (Demagogue: a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. Sound familiar?

Were Americans completely hoodwinked by the frightful but inaccurate mortality figures for COVID-19 in the US and drawn by fear to cooperate with a lockdown of the economy?

At the present time, a trio of dishonest and deceitful virologists who advise the President have taken over the world. Wear a (useless) mask. Stay six-feet away. Stay indoors, at home. Be a good American. But what if it’s all a misdirection, Orson Wells redux?

At another time of crisis, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said; “We have nothing to fear but fear itself. He was only partially right. We also have to fear the stupidity of a populace that acts like sheep.

Some observations well into the self-quarantine, “flatten the curve” narrative.

Notice that nowhere was shutdown meant to save lives.
It was to flatten the curve – not that fewer people would die- it was to space the deaths out so that demand did not overwhelm supply- but that the healthcare system would not be overwhelmed.

It was designed to”prevent jams in the ER”- so that everyone would have the chance to die of corona in the hospital- cause you can’t bill someone that dies at home. Meanwhile, medical personnel were furloughed because elective procedures were prohibited.

Shutdown was an economic solution to a medical problem.

It is Just in Time Supply Chain Management applied to disease.
So, just stand in line and wait your turn – you will get corona, she’ll get corona, he’ll get corona, we’ll all get corona until there is a herd immunity built up.