"‘Go big’ on coronavirus stimulus, Trump says, pitching checks for Americans" by Alan Rappeport, Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Fandos New York Times, March 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration called Tuesday for urgent action to speed $1 trillion into the economy, including sending $250 billion worth of checks to millions of Americans at risk of losing their livelihoods, as the United States government prepared to wield its most powerful tools to buttress an economy that faces the threat of a recession as the coronavirus pandemic spreads.
It's already too late for many who were squeezing by on the margins. The large chains will be fine and the real estate interests will buy up all the property on the cheap -- as de$igned.
The Federal Reserve took the rare step of unleashing its emergency lending powers, and President Trump called on Congress to quickly approve the sweeping economic stimulus package, dispatching his Treasury secretary to Capitol Hill to begin hammering it out, as large sections of the economy shut down and companies began laying off workers.
#TrumpCrash2020, and that's where is the turn-in to page A7.
The White House vowed to use every weapon at its disposal to combat the crisis. “We want to go big,” Trump said at a news conference at the White House.
That was yesterday; by what is from today below, I'm not liking him "going big." He loses when he does. That's his whole business career in a nut$hell. Bankruptices.
Is that why he was selected in 2016? To preside over this? Who better, right?
With anxiety over the virus rising around the country and in the Capitol, Trump and his advisers tried to play down fears of a federally mandated nationwide quarantine or speculation that Wall Street could go dark.
“We absolutely believe in keeping the markets open,” said Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. “Americans need to know they have access to their money.”
I must admit, he provides much reassurance. Very calm and measured presentation that $oothes the $oul.
In another extraordinary move, Mnuchin said Trump instructed him to allow for the deferment of income tax payments, interest free and penalty free, for 90 days. People can defer up to $1 million and corporations can defer up to $10 million in payments.
Yup, ju$t a$ I thought. He's helping the rich as he's cutting you chump change. That corporate and richer tax loot is allegedly needed for our urgent health care needs!
See: Administration announces 90-day delay for many tax payments
The Treasury secretary said that would temporarily inject $300 billion into the economy, cushioning the blow of lost wages and customers.
He told reporters it was a "big number because it is a very unique situation and time is of the essence." That's the same hammer Paulson used in 2008 to get the $700 billion back then. Now they want $1 TRILLION!
The aggressive series of actions came on a day when much of the country seemed to grind to a halt, with such daily rituals as commuting and dining out replaced by hunkering down at home. The death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 100 in the United States, with 5,600 cases confirmed and, with the first case reported in West Virginia, the disease present in all 50 states.
The Treasury secretary, while declining to share details of his proposal, said the funds would be targeted so they would not go to the highest earners, such as those making $1 million or more.
Senate Democrats produced their own $750 billion proposal, which includes $400 billion to shore up hospitals and other emergency operations and $350 billion to bolster the safety net with unemployment checks and other aid to Americans.
You know, anytime they rush something through during a crisis when it is urgent, it always turns into some stinky piece of suppression in the fine print.
The administration has been negotiating with lawmakers in the House and Senate over the timeline and contents of a stimulus package. Republicans had been reluctant to embrace a narrower relief package the House passed early Saturday that includes paid leave, unemployment insurance, free coronavirus testing, and additional food and health care aid, which Mnuchin and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have characterized as a first step to provide relief ahead of a broader stimulus plan.
The printing pre$$ speed must be dizzying.
As anxiety mounted over how long Congress would be able to stay in session amid the crisis, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, said the Senate would in fact try to pass the House bill first then move onto another economic package of “much larger proportions.”
Urging the usually deliberative chamber to move at “warp speed for the Senate,” McConnell said he had doled out blunt advice to colleagues unhappy with the House-passed measure: “My counsel to them is to gag and vote for it anyway.”
(Blog editor leans to the side of his chair and pukes on floor)
“What I can tell you is we are not leaving town until we have constructed and passed another bill,” McConnell said.
Among the proposals under discussion was an airline assistance package being helmed by Senators Richard Shelby of Alabama, John Thune of South Dakota, and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, according to a Senate Republican aide unauthorized to disclose details of the discussions publicly. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Finance Committee chairman, is leading a task force on how to best support individuals and businesses.
The White House’s abrupt shift to embrace direct payments to individuals was a clear reaction to sentiment in the Senate, where Republicans and Democrats alike have raced to propose direct payments — and shown little enthusiasm for the payroll tax holiday that was previously the centerpiece of Trump’s stimulus proposal.
Thune, the second-ranking Senate Republican, said his conference was largely supportive of the latest move. Economists on both sides of the aisle have pressured lawmakers to adopt direct payments over payroll tax cuts because they would bolster the economy more quickly and better help workers who lose their jobs or have their hours cut back as economic activity contracts from social-distancing measures meant to slow the spread of the virus.
Conservative proponents of those proposals have included N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, a former adviser to then-President George W. Bush, and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute.
Liberal proponents include Jason Furman, a former adviser to then-President Obama, and Claudia Sahm of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
“Economic events, public health events, have lit a fire under policy makers,” Sahm said. “This is the policy we need to have. We should have had it three weeks ago, but it’s good to see it moving.”
Oh, the e$tabli$hment economists that just weeks ago were telling us how great things were -- like back in 2008 -- are all in agreement on what should come out of Wa$hington. Pardon me for being a bit skeptical. These are the same guys that got us into the 2008 crisis.
The web version added this:
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said it’s time to call out the National Guard to provide security as communities reel from the crisis.....
Chuck WANTS MARTIAL LAW after they just impeached him!
How disingenuous!
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My printed paper carried this photo of Mnuchin "social distancing" from journalists.
Hi, Steve!
Hospitalizations for coronavirus escalate in Greater Boston
Then what hope is there for the rest of us?
Stay away from the health facilities!
"The official tally reported by the state rose to 218 on Tuesday, but that number does not account for large numbers of infected people who have not been tested, particularly those who are not yet symptomatic or have only mild symptoms. Those unconfirmed cases are considered the most dangerous in spreading the virus because people who don’t feel severely ill often continue to go about life, interacting with others and infecting them...... Mass. official coronavirus count is 218, but experts say true number could be as high as 6,500
And there it is. Undetected cases are considered most dangerous in spreading the virus because people are contagious, but the cases are often downplayed as a regular cold and not quarantined, therefore everyone will have to be tested and everyone will have to be vaxxed with the microchip included; otherwise, you will be quarantined in your own home or, more likely, detained in a quarantine camp run by FEMA.
Combine what's above with what Pompeo said about him and you will see what I'm getting at. The only way he can save his presidency is a war with Iran -- or so the psychopaths that rule us think. He's already the second-worst president in American history as far as I am concerned is President Chump; the lying, mass-murdering, torturing, blood-soaked war criminal George W. Bush and his 9/11 false flag atrocity will always occupy another level in my mind (unless Trump makes war on Iran and let's loose the nukes, which he well may do).
The greatest, you may ask?
JFK, and it's not even a close second. Maybe Andrew Jackson.
Students are hungry for more than food on the first day of Boston Public Schools closure
Like what?
"Once we ate together in restaurants. That feels like another era; What makes these spaces so important? We are about to find out" by Devra First Globe Staff, March 17, 2020
This is a postcard from the lost world: the world in which we met friends in public places to eat and drink, in which children went to school and adults went to work, in which independent businesses had a tough but viable path forward, in which we did not FaceTime our parents and command them to stay home, in which we did not FaceTime our children and promise to stay home and then two hours later head to the store for one last what? Roll of toilet paper? Hoarders, you have been doing it wrong: a case of wine, a cache of coffee, the good chocolate, these are the things you need.....
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Such a bittersweet appreciation for the joys of eating out, and now she will have to eat alone.
Biden wins Florida as coronavirus disrupts primary voting
Somehow the pre$$ thinks that the vote was valid. The elections should be cancelled until further notice. I know they have already anointed Biden as president, but he would be illegitimate if he won.
China to expel reporters from Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal
I'm sick of Washington ComPost whining.
California man gets prison for working as agent for China
Yeah, they have infested America almost as much as have Zioni$t Jewry -- so says my Zioni$t-controlled pre$$ anyway.
At least you can still run out to Total Wine and get 15% off, according to the full-page ad on page A3.
Virus dampens St. Patrick’s Day revels around the world
Forecasts by British response team paint a dire picture
Officials in Iran warn that ‘millions’ could die
That's what the US bioweapon was meant to do.
Remember Stuxnet?
Bloc leaders agree to ban most foreign travelers
Europeans hindered by traffic in efforts to get home
EU is done, forget Brexit.
"The British pound fell to its lowest level against the dollar in over three decades as the shocks caused by the coronavirus rippled through global markets. Investors fled from UK assets as the pandemic began spreading through Britain, with many fearing Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s response has fallen short compared to measures taken by other European nations."
No one knows how many virus cases North Korea has. It says zero
What is extremely sad is I believe the North Koreans before I believe my own lying, agenda-pu$hing pre$$ mouthpiece and own government. That's the sorry state of affairs to which we have come -- and, in fact, the North Koreans probably do not have any cases. I'm told it's a hermetically-sealed fiefdom or some such thing. No one gets in there.
In Ohio, a Republican governor has taken aggressive steps to contain coronavirus before becoming an outbreak hotspot
He postponed the primary long enough to cancel it.
We are at DEM CON 4:
"Democratic groups to spend millions hitting Trump over coronavirus response" by Isaac Stanley-Becker Washington Post, March 17, 2020
WASHINGTON — A Democratic super PAC said Tuesday it would spend $5 million on digital advertising flaying President Trump for his response to the novel coronavirus, one of several groups that planned to devote resources to this type of messaging.
Oh, God, the stench of a hoax has become unbearable.
The sickening Democraps going to use a pandemic as a political tool.
Can they sink any lower?
The campaign from Pacronym — a political action committee affiliated with the nonprofit group Acronym — represents the first major pivot to coronavirus-related advertising fewer than 250 days from the election.
(PUKE!!!!)
It is a bet that the pandemic, which is also causing a deep economic downturn, will be the defining issue of the campaign.
‘‘This is a public health issue and a national security issue, but it’s also a public policy issue and thus a political one,’’ said Tara McGowan, the founder and chief executive of Acronym, whose board includes veteran Democratic operatives David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 bid.
Oh, look, it is the shadow government of the former war-criminal regime!
They are the ones behind this sickening ad campaign that makes one even more skeptical regarding this crisis -- as if the wall-to-wall ma$$ media frenzy wasn't enough.
McGowan said it was critical for outside groups like hers to exact a political price on Trump as his possible Democratic opponents, former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, aim to project leadership by staying above the fray.
Excuse me once more, (RAAAAALPH, RAAAAAALPH, RAAAAAAALPH)!!
‘‘Our job is to hold Donald Trump accountable, and we have no plans to let up, particularly with a focus on economic issues as we’ve done to date,’’ said Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge, which announced this month it would begin backing Biden in key swing states as he aims to lock up the Democratic nomination......
Oh, the Deep $tate candidate from the formerly criminal and corrupt regime, yaaaaaay!
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Here are their brothers-in-arms:
Evangelical leader denounces Trump for calling coronavirus the ‘Chinese virus’
He's lost his base, folks.
Trump now claims he always knew the coronavirus would be a pandemic
It's the New York Times complaining about mixed messages, and finally a LAUGH!
If that ain't a pot hollering kettle, I don't know what is, hahahaha.
Well, you got what you want, NYT!
He's a dead man walking.
For first responders, social distancing due to coronavirus is impossible
Don't call them then!
N.Y. may need 18,000 ventilators very soon. It has far short of that
That's Cuomo's beat.
Iraq ex-governor named PM-designate as Baghdad awaits curfew
German military laptop sold on eBay included classified missile information
While they are busy suppressing dissent and investigating the "right-wing."
Government must do more to stanch economic bleeding
The Globe says that Chump "must rise to the occasion and citizens must be confident the federal government can and will ensure that food and pharmaceuticals are easily available, worries that if private-sector supply chains falter or fail, what is now a public health emergency could metastasize into a full-fledged societal panic, [and] to guard against that, the administration must have a plan to employ the National Guard and regular armed forces to support or supplant the supply chains for essential goods."
Yes, you read that right. The Bo$ton Globe, of all people, are arguing for martial law under this president.
Pandemics aren’t partisan
Tell it to the Democraps, Renée.
When demand soars, prices should too
Price gouging is okay.
Be good to each other
Stop lecturing us, you lying, distorting, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, insultingly elitist rag.
We need a Manhattan Project to fight the coronavirus pandemic
Yeah, maybe Chump loosing a few nukes would kill it.
What happens to the homeless in the age of coronavirus?
I guess they get sick and die.
Hmmmm.
More useless eaters gone, like the nursing home patients full of pills.
Oh, I'm sorry, they get a pop-up clinic:
City plans pop-up clinics for treatment of homeless amid coronavirus outbreak
Pardon my impudence, but why not build them homes?
Seattle’s experience with coronavirus may preview what awaits Boston
You have been warned.
Coronavirus restrictions will help protect the public. They may also crater the state budget
It "remains uncertain how long the crisis will last, or when residents will be allowed to return to normalcy."
Once you get your test and shot, duh, and nothing is ever going to be "normal" again!
UMass Amherst, Dartmouth postpone May commencements
Who didn't see that coming?
No refunds yet for passholders as MBTA struggles with loss of riders
(Blog editor is $peechle$$ at the theft, money grab, whatever)
SJC halts trials in state courts
It's an ‘unprecedented order in unprecedented times,’ and justice delayed is justice denied!
They will all be cold cases now.
Actress Vanessa Hudgens comes under fire for remarks about coronavirus
Her remarks stirred outrage among some of her 38.4 million Instagram followers, who called her insensitive and accused the star of not taking the deadly virus and the pandemic seriously.
Judging by the looks of her, she can say whatever she wants.
Indie bookstores around Boston offer curbside pickup and delivery
She must be hurting right about now.
Coronavirus crisis means opportunity for some tech companies
The alarm bells just went off like a Chinese fire drill, as I'm told “colleges and universities will be the big losers,” predicts Helen Greiner, a founder of the robotics company iRobot and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumna. Students will start to wake up to the merits of taking online courses and earning certifications and degrees that way, and “as more people quarantine and reduce exposure to others, robots that help get stuff to their door,” helping warehouses to operate more efficiently, “will continue to be in hot demand,” Greiner expects."
Okay, readers, 2030 has come ten years early, and all those bloggers who said the shit was going to really hit the fan in 2020 have been proved right. What you are looking at above is a massive cull of the population that the genocidal globalists have been planning for a long time. It's here.
Amazon limits shipments to warehouses
That's odd because Fox said they are hiring.
Is the Fed out of ammo?
The short an$wer is ye$, but they will keep doing the same failed thing expecting a different result (looting you all the while).
Here’s what the state can do to alleviate the economic impact of the coronavirus
Chesto means business, but don’t expect piles of money to roll out of the State House.
Every penny counts, right?
Everything to know about refunds after coronavirus canceled all your plans
Tell it to the T!
Sales fell in Febuary, before COVID-19 closed stores
The #TrumpCrash2020 was already coming. The t$unami finally hit.
Job openings rose in January
Another LAUGH!
Iconic Laura Ashley falls victim to the pandemic
The crisis actors are real actors this time, and probably desperate for attention.
Philippine stock exchange first one to close
Duterte made a good move by telling the US to leave.
Steel bars, not gold, a safe haven for Chinese investors
Made from WTC steel Rudy Guliani shipped there.
Everyone, including politicians and celebrities, must follow Facebook rules now
Must be the End Times.
Working from home makes Zoom founder a richer man
I'm going to Zoom right by that.
Elon Musk intends to keep going to the office
In his Tesla?
AMC closes all of its theaters
Wasn't anything worth seeing anyway.
Winklevoss twins launch marketplace for ‘nifties’
They closed shortly after.
10 tips for working from home with kids
FDA gives states an OK to authorize coronavirus tests; more companies race to combat Covid-19
That was located way in the back of the paper, page C11.
IN OTHER "NEWS"(!):
It’s hard to believe, but Tom Brady has played his last game as a Patriot
It was front-page news and above the fold before moving under left tackle(?).
After 20 years and six Super Bowl rings, Tom Brady is leaving the Patriots
You actually think there is going to be a football $ea$on next year? Fanta$y $ports are now fu**ed. Play in empty stadiums while we all watch Red Zone? Ha! They were playing in empty stadiums anyway, right? Ever see some of the "crowds" at games outside New England? Bunch of fans disguised as empty seats. It's the TV money and endless ma$$ media focus that keeps the gladiator contests solvent. ESPN was sickening last night for the 15 minutes I watched it. NFL free agency was such a wonderful distraction.
Brady is also the lead on page B1.
Ex-California representative Duncan Hunter gets 11 months in prison
Look who they are trying to spring:
"A Lebanese military judge Tuesday appealed a verdict by the military tribunal that ordered the release of a Lebanese-American held since September on charges of working for an Israeli-backed militia two decades ago, state-run National News Agency said. Amer Fakhoury, 57, is a former South Lebanon Army militia member who became a US citizen last year, and is now a restaurant owner in Dover, N.H. His case has been closely followed in his home state, where US Senator Jeanne Shaheen and other officials have called for imposing sanctions on Lebanon to pressure Beirut to release him....."
He is accused of torture and the pre$$ photo is one of him holding his granddaughter!
Talk about a virus that makes one sick!
Sexual harassment allegations against professors set off social media frenzy at Berklee College of Music
That was at the bottom of page B1.
Ex-Scottish leader begins defense against sex crimes claims
Claims he is being framed, and maybe he is.
Weinstein to serve sentence in prison outside Buffalo
Manchester bomber’s brother convicted of 22 counts of murder
Should have grabbed a piece of her when you could.
Creators of ‘Toy Story’ animation win industry’s ‘Nobel Prize’
New Protected Areas To Help Rare Whales Off New England
Can't swim to Maine, either.
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As for today, I want to start of by saying how much trouble I am having seeing the "Discover Cute New Bikinis" ad at the top of the page.
Here is the A2 National Lead:
Greenland lost a near-record 600 billion tons of ice last summer, raising sea levels
The Washington Post is saying it is a ‘‘nice stitching together of the two pairs of satellites from different groups that all tell the same story,’’ and too bad none of us will be here to see it. You can shove your goddamn climate change agenda as we are in the thralls of the coronavirus crisis that is wall-to-wall ma$$ media 24/7 (alarm bells there). I'm starting to come down of fake crisis (regular old flu) being used for the most nefarious purposes imaginable, and there are many strands shooting of this convenient crisis that is covering what was an inevitable stock market crash -- now at record speeds; however, if it is real and we are all infected a la The Stand, then there is no doubt in my mind that this came from a US lab. Who has benefited? That 21st-century Silk Road sure has been shut down, huh? Hmmmm. Netanyahu is using it to cling to power? No way! Anyway, there is a whole hell of a lot more of that garbage below.
Oh, yeah, snow on the ground this morning, thank you very much.
Earthquake shakes Utah, rattling frayed coronavirus nerves
God's Judgement on the Evil that is AmeriKa's leaders and ruling cla$$.
Isn't Romney their senator?
Surge in white nationalism ramps up violence threat
It's a Southern Poverty Law Center Report brought to you by Michael Kunzelman, and just another excuse for a "shelter-in-place" martial law in which we are already partially under.
Speaking of supremacists:
"Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank surged ahead in 2019, a watchdog group said in a report Tuesday, maintaining a rapid pace that has drawn strength from the friendly policies of the Trump administration. Peace Now, a monitoring group that opposes the settlements, said that Israel’s average annual construction rate has risen 25 perent since President Trump took office in 2017. Perhaps more significantly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government last year approved plans to build thousands of new homes, laying the groundwork for a sharp spike in construction in the coming years. That included an explosion in plans for new settlement projects approved early this year. “In my opinion, they’re trying to take advantage of the window of opportunity that they have under the Trump administration, knowing that it might change in a few months,” said Hagit Ofran, a researcher for the group. “There was no such supportive administration for the settlements previously, ever.” Most of the world considers the West Bank, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, to be occupied territory and Israeli settlements illegal obstacles to peace. In a break from his Republican and Democratic predecessors, Trump has taken a much softer line toward the settlements. Surrounded by a group of advisers with close ties to the settlement movement, Trump’s administration declared last year that it did not consider the settlements to be illegal under international law. Then, in January, he unveiled a Mideast plan that envisions placing large parts of the West Bank, including all of the settlements, under permanent Israeli control."
A lot of the ma$$ media compare Chump to Hitler, and there may be some validity to that below; however, he's the Zioni$t Jew version of it.
Greek police use tear gas on migrants at Turkish border
At least they weren't shooting them in the head and knees like Israelis at the Gaza fence line.
Suspected Jemaah Islamiyah leader on trial in Indonesia
US naval officer sues over military transgender ban
Not Chelsea Manning, who will soon be under house arrest with all of us.
Man convicted in killings of 2 gay men, transgender woman
He's under house arrest because of coronavirus.
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld ends presidential bid
You mean there actually was one?
I never saw one ad, flier, mailer, door knock, anything -- as opposed to the daily deliverances from Bloomberg.
The Kennedy-Markey fight goes viral and nasty
Have they been tested?
"Long backlogs for coronavirus test results frustrate Mass. doctors; Results can take as long as a week, forcing medical personnel to use up equipment that’s in short supply treating people who may not have COVID-19" by Andrew Ryan and Kay Lazar Globe Staff, March 18, 2020
The wait for coronavirus test results in Massachusetts can last as long as a week, a delay that exacerbates equipment shortages, frustrates worried patients and families, and hamstrings front line health care workers’ efforts to combat the growing pandemic.
Faster test results can help determine which patients need to be treated by medical staff in protective gear. Tests processed in the state lab take a day or two, officials said Wednesday, but according to a review of area hospitals and caregivers, the delay can be much longer, often forcing medical staff to waste already scarce protective gear on patients who are not infected.
State officials attributed the delays to slower processing at private labs just coming online.
Un-fucking-believeable!!
In Southbridge, Harrington Hospital president and CEO Edward Moore said that if the hospital runs out of protective gear, it can’t keep its staff safe. If the staff start getting sick, there’s no one to take care of the patients.
“It’s almost like a doomsday scenario,” Moore said......
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For some reason, the scary photo on page A9 of people in hazmat suits outside a hospital that says do not enter was dispatched down the memory hole.
"A Boston doctor and five friends went to Miami. All six came back sick, at least four with the coronavirus" by Deanna Pan Globe Staff, March 18, 2020
Dr. Joshua Ellis, a medical education fellow and emergency medicine physician at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was excited to celebrate his 30th birthday in Miami with five of his close friends.
They had been planning the trip to Florida since late fall — long before the novel coronavirus was even a blip on anyone’s radar. They rented a house on Ocean Drive, steps away from beautiful South Beach. They bought tickets to the Winter Party Festival, a week-long event that brings thousands of gay men to Miami’s hotels, nightclubs, bars, and beaches to raise money for LGBTQ groups in South Florida.
It's just one agenda after the other with the Globe. I wonder what special rights and exemptions were promised to them. Or ca$h even.
Ellis and his friends traveled to Miami in early March — before the cascade of shutdowns, curfews, and closures that would swiftly upend American life — from all over the country: Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington, D.C.
Since then, all six of them have gotten sick and with the same symptoms: chills, sweats, fatigue, shortness of breath. Four of them, including Ellis, already have tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
“All six have shown the exact same symptoms at different times. So everyone in the household got it for sure — I am 100 percent confident; it’s too coincidental,” Ellis said in an interview this week, his nose running and voice hoarse. “The fear, though, is a lot of them were actively enjoying their social life [before they felt sick] . . . going to bars, going to dinners, going and hanging out at friends’ houses, quarantining with friends.”
Related: A deadly coronavirus mix in Florida
Thanks for doing your part and putting an aging population at risk, you self-centered sickos!!
Ellis’s story illustrates just how quickly the coronavirus spreads between close contacts and how easily an infected person can unwittingly expose others to the virus in the absence of symptoms. New research based on data from China suggests that undetected carriers of the virus are fueling the explosive growth of the outbreak. A study published in the journal Science on Monday found that people with undocumented infections, often with mild or no symptoms, were responsible for 79 percent of confirmed cases in the early stages of China’s epidemic.
So fear your fellow citizen even if they appear healthy, and drive thru to get tested before your shot!
At a White House press briefing Wednesday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the president’s coronavirus response coordinator, warned “there may be a disproportional number of infections” among young adults who, while not as likely to suffer severely, still pose a danger to others, especially the elderly and those with underlying health conditions.
Oh, I see young people and I head in the other direction. Damn Millennials. Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!
Ellis and another friend, Adam Vavrek, interviewed for this story said they felt groggy, but not ill after they returned home from Miami. In the meantime, they lived their lives normally before the onset of symptoms. Ellis didn’t have any shifts at the hospital, but he went out to dinner with a friend on Tuesday, March 10. He attended an event at a local health center on Friday, March 13, just hours before he started feeling sick.
Vavrek, a 35-year-old marketing employee at a large tech company in Seattle, visited his company’s office and played in a dodgeball league, also on Tuesday. He was at work on Wednesday, March 11, when he suddenly got the chills.....
So did I, and why am I now thinking of Stephen King's "The Stand."
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Yeah, “you need to self-quarantine now. I can’t stress it enough. I’ve never been so angry about people not following the rules. There’s just no way to prevent this from getting to every corner of the country unless you self-quarantine," and if you don't they will make you because we are all Typhoon Mary's now.
Escalation of hospitalized patients for coronavirus continue
That is what they are saying while keeping people that have it out of the hospitals and clinics, and there is your tent tyranny on full display.
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Oddly enough, the virus crisis has submerged the market meltdown:
"Negotiations intensify on Capitol Hill over massive stimulus legislation as coronavirus fallout worsens" by Erica Werner, Jeff Stein and Mike DeBonis Washington Post, March 18, 2020
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and congressional leaders rushed on Wednesday to assemble a massive stimulus package aimed at preventing the US economy from plummeting into its worst collapse since the Great Depression, even as the stock market dropped once again.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 1,338 points on Wednesday, or 6.3 percent, virtually wiping out all of the stock market’s gains during President Trump’s entire tenure. Trump told reporters Wednesday that under a ‘‘worst case scenario,’’ the unemployment rate could jump to 20 percent, twice its peak from the financial crisis.
Well, if you take all the credit, you get all the blame, Chump.
The administration’s $1 trillion proposed rescue plan, which forms the basis for fast-moving negotiations on Capitol Hill, includes sending two large checks to many Americans and devoting $300 billion toward helping small businesses avoid mass layoffs. The emerging government stimulus package could be unprecedented in its size and velocity, dwarfing the $800 billion stimulus law passed during the Obama administration and the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program enacted during the Bush administration.
Once again the alarms bells ring.
You can't buy off Doomsday, guys.
All told, between several legislative packages advanced on Capitol Hill and other actions the government has taken, the White House is pushing an economic plan that is ‘‘over $2 trillion and counting’’ to try to arrest the coronavirus’s economic wrecking ball, a senior administration officials said.
A JPMorgan Chase research note predicted the economy would shrink by 14 percent between April and June, the worst contraction in Post-World War II history.
Chump is FINI$HED!
Unless he declares martial law and cancels the elections, and he has already made several strides in that direction without the Democrats bleating a complaint. Remember when they had to impeach him because he was a threat to our national security and Constitution? Too bad they jumped the gun over a phone call, huh?
The global impact of the virus continued to skyrocket. Italy’s coronavirus death toll increased by 475 on Wednesday, the largest daily increase recorded in any country. Iran on Wednesday reported its single biggest jump in fatalities from the coronavirus as another 147 people died, raising the country’s overall death toll to 1,135.
New York state, meanwhile, has roughly 2,500 confirmed cases, more than all but 10 countries in the world. The worldwide total of cases was more than 205,000 Wednesday night.
Describing himself as a “wartime president” fighting an invisible enemy, Trump on Wednesday invoked rarely used emergency powers to marshal critical medical supplies against the coronavirus pandemic.
Invisible enemies? Like Al-CIA-Duh and all those ghosts that keep getting yanked in and out of the grave? Baghdadi! Maybe he can fight them with invisible troops.
Trump tapped his authority under the 70-year-old Defense Production Act to give the government more power to steer production by private companies and try to overcome shortages in masks, ventilators and other supplies.
All that stock is crap because of the war-profiteering corruption in this sectors of our government.
See:
"The US government is rushing protective equipment to states, packing dozens of flights and hundreds of trucks with supplies for medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus fight, but the pandemic has exposed some of the stockpile’s shortcomings: The cache isn’t designed to be a long-term solution to monumental demand, and some state officials are complaining that the deliveries are falling far short of what’s needed or have expired items. The Strategic National Stockpile was created in 1999 to respond to bombings and biological, chemical, and nuclear attacks. It maintains caches of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and vaccines in secret locations around the nation. It has never confronted anything on the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first real use came in the anthrax-by-mail attacks in 2001, but it was the 2009 H1N1 pandemic that prompted the largest use to date, said Christopher McKnight Nichols, associate professor of history at Oregon State University. The system “is designed to help buy time’’ and prioritize areas of greatest need, he explained....."
What is really in those trucks, readers? Coffins?
A medical worker signals as she emerged wearing a full gown, mask and gloves from a tent at a New York State Department of Health COVID-19 testing site at Jones Beach State Park on Long Island, Wednesday (Associated Press/Kathy Willens/Associated Press)
Yeah, hi!
Now I'm convinced the lying, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, comparing it to 9/11 ma$$ media is engaged in full disclosure! Aren't you?
Trump likened the effort to the measures taken during World War II and said it would require national “sacrifice.’’
“It’s a war,’’ he said. ‘‘I view it as a, in a sense, a wartime president. It’s a very tough situation.”
When is he coming for your gold, silver, and rest of your money like Roosevelt?
Not yet, huh?
If not now, when?
No longer able to run for reelection on a healthy economy, he was taking on the mantle of a wartime leader after playing down the severity of the crisis for weeks.
Look at the pre$$ and Democrats fall in line, too!
Oooooh, what a stink this agenda has to it. Like rotten eggs in the vaccines.
This is a president who said he was going to keep us out of wars; now he is going to have to start one to save his presidency.
The president also employed more nativist, us-vs-them rhetoric at the briefing, continuing his recent habit of referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus,” which has been sharply criticized as racist. “It’s not racist at all,’’ Trump said. “It comes from China, that’s all.’’
He's awful defensive about it, and that's called projection, because the entire world knows by now that the US government created the bug -- if that is not a limited hangout, anyway -- and tested it on their own population first (the vape crisis, remember?) before dumping it in China during the World Military Games to which China graciously invited them. Call me a "conspiracy conjecturist" if you want. I'm not in the know with evil; in fact, it appalls me.
‘‘The concentration of this drag at its most intense is far bigger than during the 2008 financial crisis,’’ said Bruce Kasman, managing director and Head of Economic Research at JP Morgan Chase, as the total number of US cases approached 8,000, but attention on Capitol Hill was focused on the next step, as lawmakers faced the need for urgent action to pass a major stimulus bill to stabilize the economy before they, too, are forced to abandon work.
Fox is reporting that the number of cases zoomed to over 24,000 overnight. So they are all in on this (alarm bells), and they want to pa$$ out all the loot before they skedaddle!
Wednesday evening brought news of the first lawmaker to contract the disease: Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida, who said he’d been notified that he had tested positive after developing symptoms Saturday, but was already feeling better.....
Given that politicians lie for a living, the stench of superb crisis actors is in the air. Where are the regular people? Just being quietly culled, or are they just throwing numbers at us in fear?
Btw, if they are forced to abandon Washington that will leave Trump all alone to do as he wishes?
WTF???!!!
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Related: "Maybe never in history have we gone from an economy so hot to an economy that has essentially stopped. It’s like a car rear-ending another without the driver ever touching the brakes. This week, Massachusetts got a glimpse of what the virtual shutdown caused by the coronavirus has wrought: In one day, the state received 19,884 new initial unemployment claims. That was more than the number of claims made for all of February....."
Making what is going on look more and more like a designed plan by the sick globalist psychopaths that rule over us, nothing more, for a variety of different reasons.
Also see:
"On the islands, year-round residents who typically live in semi-isolation into May are noticing a sudden increase in traffic, with an abundance of New York and Connecticut plates....."
But the richers love us as they run to the hills!!!!!?
They want to keep you off the island, but they want illegals and work visa immigrants brought in by the boatload.
"China defends expulsion of journalists, accusing US of prejudice" by Alexandra Stevenson and Austin Ramzy New York Times, March 18, 2020
HONG KONG — An increasingly rancorous rivalry between the United States and China entered a new phase Wednesday as Beijing accused the Trump administration of starting a diplomatic clash that led it to expel almost all American journalists from three newspapers.
The Chinese government cast its expulsion of the journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post as necessary to defend Beijing against what it perceived as an ideological campaign by the United States to impose its values on China. Around a dozen reporters could be required to leave, in a move that Beijing said was reciprocation for the United States’ forcing out of about 60 Chinese reporters, who worked for propaganda outlets, this month.
???
Where was the pre$$ outrage then?
“The United States cannot proceed from ideological prejudice, use its own standards and likes and dislikes to judge the media of other countries, let alone suppress the Chinese media unreasonably,” Geng Shuang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said at a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday.
Beijing has said that the expulsions were a response to the Trump administration’s decision to limit the number of Chinese citizens from five state-controlled media outlets who could work in the United States to 100. On Wednesday, the Chinese government indicated it was prepared to take more measures if needed.
“We urge the United States to immediately change its course, correct mistakes, and stop political suppression and unreasonable restrictions on Chinese media,” Geng said. “If the United States insists on taking its own course, compounding mistakes, China will be forced to take further countermeasures.”
The expulsions, not seen to such an extent in recent history, point to the governing Communist Party’s growing resolve to strike back in all aspects of what is quickly becoming a bare-knuckled competition with the United States. Over the past year, tensions have escalated over issues ranging from trade deficits to technological capacity and military dominance, with bruising effect on US and Chinese companies, business executives, and even university students and academics.
How can we wage war on them when we are sick?
Maybe Chump and Xi could bare-knuckle it as long as they don't cough on each other.
The dispute over media access underlines how this new era of great power rivalry has extended into the marketplace of ideas. It not only signals a more muscular approach to foreign policy in China but also accords with the party’s tightening grip over information under Xi Jinping, the country’s authoritarian leader.
Under Xi, the news media has come under an increasingly tight grip.....
Is it tighter than the Zioni$T one we are under?
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I'm more sick from NYT slop than any bug, and by this time in my printed Globe (the page A3 World lead), l'm ready sick of reading it.
Its coronavirus cases dwindling, China turns focus outward
It's another piece of NYT slop; however, get this: the subheading said "sends needed aid to others, in role once held by US."
The "WAR" has ALREADY BEEN LOST, Chump!
World virus infections hit 200,000; Borders jammed in Europe
Iran reports biggest jump in fatalities as 147 people die
European border crossings being clogged by travelers
Main Serbian hospital struggling to respond
Coronavirus Disrupts Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan
Of course; however, I suppose the silver lining is we won't be sending them anywhere, either, right?
Lawmakers limit governor’s emergency powers
The Resistance comes from KANSAS!
In Texas, Abbott letting mayors decide
Fetal tissue rules thwart virus experiments
They will get you either way!
How to pet dogs during a coronavirus pandemic
Now they are striking at your very heart and soul, your faithful, loving pets. What a mind fuck. These viruses are not supposed to cross these lines, so if it is in fact a US bioweapon they really made an out-of-control whopper to cull, cull, cull!
We know how to confront the coronavirus pandemic
With an alchemy that mixes compassionate fellow feeling with interventions that save the sick and slow down spread?
That sounds so sickeningly elitist and genocidal, it's gross.
Colleges and universities must take a leadership role in relieving the unprecedented stress of COVID-19 on our health care system
Related:
"It is the type of mobilization not seen on campuses since World War II, when the military used some colleges as training centers, or when the 1918 Spanish Flu forced universities to convert some of their dorms into infirmaries....."
So that's why they sent all of you home.
Of course, Globe readers are more worried about losing Tom Brady.
Inmates fearful of virus argue for release
This is a (planned!) RECIPE for SOCIAL DISASTER!
Just what we need, more criminals on the streets with no jobs available and all of us sheltering in place without a gun!
Day care centers ordered closed as coronavirus continues to spread
We are now being told the kids are not as immune as thought, as this has more and the more the feeling of a planned rollout of agenda-pushing propaganda.
How the recovery community is sticking together during the coronavirus shut downs
Virtual meetings — perhaps the most popular at the moment — to stay in touch, because bad things happen when addicts can't get their stuff -- like robberies!
Crisis brings a challenge for open government
As if we had one!!
The coronavirus pandemic is changing how some Mass. authorities process certain crimes
They are now ignoring crimes.
Good luck, fellow citizen.
Before the coronavirus, Bill Gates sounded alarm on pandemic preparedness
Yeah, the genocidal, population reducing, elitist $hitbag with his universal flu vaccine(!!) is a hero, and they are the same people behind the earlier simulation led by Johns Hopkins (who is the official death toll and infection reporter) and which is now being banished from the web.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, point man on coronavirus, is a Holy Cross alum
He is a short little fuck stuck at NAIAD(?!). The situation begs for a Napoleonic complex, another hero, sort of (actually, Napoleon has been demonized as an antichrist for his upending the tranquility of the world and its psychopathic rulers).
Smith College cancels commencement, class reunions
Several families displaced after fire tears through Salem home
About the worst possible time for it, and the fire department just let it burn to the ground so they could keep their social distance.
T trying to balance unhealthy crowding with fewer cars
Service was already shit, but at least the daily derailments are no longer of concern (no refund).
The state’s prison system halted employee discipline, citing coronavirus, but changed course a day later
In place of the "NAMES" page, the Globe now has the "COMFORTZONE":
Coronavirus means canceled playdates, closed-down playgrounds
Mo Willems and the Kennedy Center Teach Kids to Draw During Coronavirus Crisis
We asked people who regularly work from home for advice
Page not found?
That's discomforting.
Here’s some of the classical music you can livestream for free
Here is your daily distraction as recommended by the Globe! Never mind about the martial law enveloping you. Shelter in place, shelter in place!
Back to business:
Surge in patients overwhelms telehealth services amid coronavirus pandemic
No problem:
Yes, the Internet can handle the coronavirus traffic jam, with hiccups
We know who will be shut down and banished! I suspect yours truly for one!
Hotels’ business and staffing may be down as much as 90%
Sanders, Warren push for halt to evictions during coronavirus crisis
You guys lost badly and Bernie is melting down and being an ass by not quitting, according to the Globe (I guess having the nomination brazenly stolen from him for the second time was a bit too much).
Markey, Warren press local banks to waive fees during crisis
The bankers are way ahead of them.
How to apply for unemployment benefits in the era of coronavirus
Gotta read the fine print!
Boston startup Emulate names new CEO, announces new funding
The company signed early partnerships with drug giants Merck & Co. and Johnson & Johnson Innovation, and in 2018, Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and Swiss-based F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG signed on. The company is not disclosing all of its partners.
Time to celebrate:
"Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, but with the coronavirus popping up all over the country, a trip to your favorite tap room isn’t in the offing. So breweries are stepping up, offering curbside growlers to stave off the grumbling. Amid the growing coronavirus pandemic, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order Tuesday closing all restaurants and bars, except for takeout, but instead of grumbling, Tar Heels are growling. A number of other states around the country have put similar measures in place, but where one door shuts, another door may open, and breweries are finding that’s a car door. White Street Brewery in downtown Wake Forest is offering curbside service for people who bring in growler bottles to be filled with their signature tap beers. They also offer two-pint cans called “crowlers.”
Business is booming!
"Hospitals and other medical facilities run by South African mining companies, which have expertise in screening for and treating tuberculosis, are being examined for use to treat coronavirus patients. The hospitals could be made available to both industry employees and the wider public, the Minerals Council, which represents most mining companies operating in the country, said in a statement. The number of people who have tested positive for the disease jumped to 116 on Wednesday, according to the health department. South African mines have large numbers of workers with tuberculosis, a result of the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic and the damage inflicted by silica particles on the lungs of gold miners. Due to the large concentration of workers in often remote locations they have their own health facilities."
"An unexpected twist in the coronavirus chaos that’s roiling global markets and supply chains: Americans are poised to start eating more steaks from New Zealand. Prior to the global health crisis, a bulk of the world’s meat shipments were flowing to China, where deadly African swine fever ravaged the hog herd and had created a significant protein-supply gap. Then the virus hit and China’s surging appetite for imports paused as the economy slowed and port operations were snarled. For Silver Fern Farms, the largest producer of grass-fed red meat in New Zealand, that means the United States probably will become its biggest overseas market in 2020, taking the spot held by China in 2019."
Thought they were vegans down there due to climate.
Home building fell in February
Construction of new homes fell again in February, but not as much as the previous month, and the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak was not apparent in the February numbers.
Apple introduces a new version of iPad Pro
Who is going to make them?
Former Goldman traders close hedge fund that wagered on stock volatility
Stole all they could.
"Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest carmaker, will suspend European production Thursday as the coronavirus outbreak and its economic impact bring an enormous share of the manufacturing sector to a virtual standstill. The German company said late Tuesday that it was responding to the rapid spread of the virus, disruptions to supply chains, and the fast decline in demand. Factories in Germany, Slovakia, Spain, and Portugal will wind down, as will components plants throughout in Europe. Production is expected to stop for two weeks, initially."
The economy is literally $talling.
Then, on page C6, in a full-page ad, I was reassured that this, too, shall pass:
May already cancelled, but I guess things will be back to normal when Bolton speaks in October.
Meanwhile, all that football talk for a season that won't be played, or will be played in empty stadiums. Fuck that.
This will probably my last blog, readers. By tomorrow we will all be under martial law quarantine with a "shelter-in-place" order, but don't cry for me. Even if the site is banished by Blogger, the truth is I'll never leave you. I kept my promise. You kept your distance.
Don't Fear The Reaper, readers. All our times have come, here but now they're gone for seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind, the sun or the rain, we can be like they are, come on baby, don't fear the reaper.....
UPDATE:
Stocks open slightly down on Thursday
They have been seesawing ever since.
WHO walks back warning about ibuprofen and coronavirus, ‘not aware’ of any negative effects
Yeah, make sure you get your information from legitimate new$ sources.
A new norm for funerals in the coronavirus age
All corpses to be cremated.
Also see:
"9/11 Truth, Coronavirus Truth: Zionist Hysteria, MSM Lockdown" by Kevin Barrett, Unz Review March 18, 2020
War on the Horizon?
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor.”… “And advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.” The Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America’s Defenses (September 2000)
I spent most of 2004 through 2006 blaming Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for 9/11. As you can imagine, I got plenty of pushback. Strangely, the loudest, most hysterical shrieks came not from red-white-and-blue Republican patriots, but from seemingly insane Zionists screaming: “Why do you hate the Jews so much, you anti-Semite?”[1]
At first, I could not for the life of me figure out why blaming two non-Jews, Cheney and Rumsfeld, elicited that kind of reaction. It also seemed odd that anyone talking about the explosive demolitions of World Trade Center Towers 1, 2, and 7 was reviled as a Jew-hater.[2] Questioning what happened to the Pentagon, whether there were really any hijackers or cell phone calls, who really sent the anthrax, who bought the put options, who exhibited foreknowledge, and so on elicited the same hysterical reaction from Israel-firsters. It was only after I looked into the ethnic and foreign-loyalist backgrounds of PNAC, Larry Silverstein, and other 9/11 suspects that it began to dawn on me that “the Zionist doth protest too much.”
We are now experiencing 911-2B, the coronavirus black swan. Just as 9/11 terrorized, shocked, and shut down the USA for a few days, it seems that Covid-19 will do the same, only more so. Instead of a few days, we may be shut down for a few months, maybe even a few years, and once again, Zionists are hysterically pushing back against those of us questioning the official story. The Israel-lobby propaganda site The Algemeiner recently published a hit piece headlined Islamists Call Coronavirus a Zionist-American Conspiracy. It featured the following attack on yours truly:
Press TV, meanwhile, published an article by American conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett to back the claim that the coronavirus is a US-Israeli conspiracy using biological warfare to hurt Iran. “US, Israel waging biological warfare on massive scale,” was the March 7 story’s headline.
Barrett, a “9/11 truther,” got crazier in the story:
“The United States waged biological warfare against its own Congress in 2001 with the anthrax component of the 9/11 anthrax false flag operation, which terrorized Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, the leaders of the movement that blocked the Patriot Act, into giving up and allowing the Patriot Act.
“So the United States is run by lunatics, by psychopaths who are entirely capable of launching World War 3 by way of a biological warfare attack on China and Iran, with the Iran component presumably led by Israel. That’s the most likely explanation for what we’re seeing.”
This is the kind of rot Press TV publishes.
The Algemeiner also vilified Muslims reacting negatively to Israel’s announcement that it would have a coronavirus vaccine ready “in a few weeks.” It cited British, Iranian, and Algerian Muslims balking at the prospect of buying vaccines from Israel, and/or questioning how Israel could possibly develop a vaccine for a new rogue virus in such short order, assuming it hadn’t simultaneously developed both the virus and the vaccine.
Might Israel profit from a disastrous black swan that it helped create? It already happened once. Prior to 9/11, the Jewish population of Israel was fleeing, with net emigration outpacing net immigration, while the dotcom bust and suicide bombings collapsed the Jewish State’s economy. The global Islamic movement was picking up steam; it seemed likely that Muslims might soon win back custody of their holy places. (Muslims have administered the holy sites in and around Jerusalem/al-Quds virtually ever since Islam existed, minus a couple of brief and bloody crusader interludes, until the current Zionist genocide began less than a century ago.)
During the run-up to 9/11, as Naomi Klein explains in The Shock Doctrine,[3] Israel put all its chips into anti-terror start-ups—and hit the jackpot on 9/11/2001. An anti-Islam propaganda tidal wave swept the globe, washing away the Islamic Awakening surge and leaving in its place the 27-million-Muslim holocaust that continues today.
The 9/11 black swan was in essence a propaganda operation designed to demonize Islam and Muslims in general, and anti-Zionists ones in particular, in service to changing the arc of history to benefit Israel. But it was sold by PNAC crypto-Zionists to people like Cheney and Rumsfeld as a recipe for prolonging US empire for a New American Century by way of a “New Pearl Harbor.”
Today’s coronavirus black swan, like 9/11, has all the characteristics of a trauma-based mass-mind-control op. It has already been used to demonize China in the same way 9/11 was used to demonize Islam: Just as we were supposed to hate the crazy suicidal Muslims yearning for harems of afterlife virgins, we are now supposed to feel disgust for Chinese slurpers of bat soup. And just as we were supposed to loathe the brutal and incompetent governments of Muslim-majority nations, now we are told to revile the oppressive censorship-addicted regime in Beijing. It may be purely coincidental that this wholesale demonization of the world’s two greatest classical civilizations, based on two fear-inciting black swan events of suspicious origin, just happened to arrive in the wake of the Bernard Lewis-Samuel Huntington pronouncement that the 21st century would be the era of the “clash of civilizations.” After all, even the craziest coincidence theories sometimes turn out to be true.
It also may be a coincidence that the primary US bioweapons lab, Ft. Detrick, was shut down in summer 2019 over fears that weaponized pathogens might escape. It may be a coincidence that absurdly under-performing US military athletes came to Wuhan for the World Military Games in October and have since been accused by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs of being the source of the Covid-19 pandemic. It may be a coincidence that at the same time those “athletes” were in Wuhan, the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and other Establishment titans were hosting a pandemic simulation called Event 201. It may be purely coincidental that the virus appeared in Wuhan, home of China’s biggest biodefense laboratory, and China’s biggest transportation hub, just in time for the Chinese New Year, when most Chinese travel to visit relatives. Likewise, it could be coincidental that the real-life Covid-19 pandemic almost perfectly mimics Lockstep, the Rockefeller Foundation’s recipe for a global police state emerging on the back of a coronavirus-style pandemic.
Then again, it could be that the Chinese government’s suspicions about the US, or others’ suspicions about Israel (especially regarding the coronavirus catastrophe in Iran) are justified. But such possibilities are far outside of the mainstream media’s Overton Window. The whole topic of bioweapons in relation to coronavirus is an MSM no-go zone, just as the evidence and arguments refuting the official story was a no-go zone after 9/11. The very fact that such things are unspeakable in the Mockingbird media suggests that yet another nefarious propaganda operation is underway.
Just as I came to reject the official story of 9/11 by comparing the arguments and evidence cited by proponents and opponents of that thesis, I am currently leaning toward the “Anglo-Zionist bioweapon” interpretation of coronavirus based on what I’ve seen so far by opponents as well as proponents. I recently listened to Peter Myers’ arguments that Covid-19 was made in a lab—”most likely from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).” (Read his sources here.) Myers focuses on a paper trail documenting bat virus research at Wuhan and the University of North Carolina, allegations of Chinese germ warfare espionage, and so forth. While his scenario, an accidental release from WIV, is not impossible, the evidence he cites is also compatible with the deliberate fabrication of a second-level cover story that would be deployed if the first-level legend, “Covid-19 spontaneously jumped from bats to humans,” is conclusively disproven. The same second-level cover story would in the meantime function as a “blame the Chinese” conspiracy theory pushed by Steve Bannon, Tom Cotton, and other neocon and anti-China sources.
The question of whether the virus is naturally evolved or man-made is still open. Mainstream authorities like Nature Magazine are, quite naturally, pushing the “naturally evolved” position as hard as they can… which they would be expected to do whether or not it was true. Other sources claim “The spike glycoprotein of 2019-nCoV contains a cleavage absent in CoV – showing that it was engineered rather than evolved.” Perhaps readers more familiar with the science than I am can arbitrate such disputes in the comments section.
As with 9/11, the scientific evidence on coronavirus may give rise to a long-running debate. Meanwhile the world moves on. With 2020 hindsight I can now see that I should have interpreted 9/11 as a likely false flag immediately, based on cui bono. Today, asking the same question about coronavirus, “who benefits,” yields only slightly less obvious results, but if Covid-19 was a biological attack on China, China’s number one European partner Italy, and China’s close Middle Eastern friend (and Anglo-Zionist arch-enemy) Iran, why is it spreading elsewhere? A skeptic on Pepe Escobar’s email list recently responded: “Hi Pepe, I’m convinced the facts do not support your theory. The damage to the West is greater than to China and it would be suicidal for US to engineer this. Why rule out natural causes like the Spanish flu?”
It is true that most military strategists dislike bioweapons due to their massive blowback potential: There is no guarantee that a mutating virus will stick to the race or geographical area you are attacking. Though Covid-19 hit China first, under highly suspicious circumstances, making it “the Chinese virus” in the words of Donald Trump (and, subliminally, in MSM reporting and global public opinion) it is now cratering the US and European economies. Could any US biowar team, however “rogue”—much less the commanding heights of the National Security State—have been crazy enough to risk that kind of blowback?
They were certainly crazy enough in 2001. Covid-19 is the new 9/11, the new “Transformative Event,” the new “watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security… Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and an after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force.”
That sounds, to most of us, like an unpleasant prospect. Yet one of the authors of “Catastrophic Terrorism: Tackling the New Danger,” Philip Zelikow, is a leading suspect in the orchestration of 9/11, which occurred less than three years after that article was published. Cover-up czar Zelikow, essentially the sole author of the risible work of fiction known as The 9/11 Commission Report, might conceivably have viewed the massage damage to the United States—not just the loss of the condemned-for-asbestos Trade Towers and a few thousand replaceable people, but also the hemorrhage of more than $6 trillion dollars alongside the even greater reputational loss in the 9/11-triggered “forever wars”—as being “worth it,” in the same way Madeleine Albright famously said that murdering half a million Iraqi children was “worth it.”
Might the neocon crazies who thought 9/11 was worth it feel the same way about a coronavirus biowar strike? They might. As Pepe Escobar suggested, the Covid-19 Transformative Event is acting as a “global circuit breaker.” His conclusion: “What’s certain is that the whole global economy has been hit by an insidious, literally invisible circuit breaker. This may be just a ‘coincidence.’ Or this may be, as some are boldly arguing, part of a possible, massive psy-op creating the perfect geopolitical and social engineering environment for full-spectrum dominance.”
How could a circuit-breaker foster full-spectrum dominance? First, the neocons recognize that China’s inexorable rise to #1 world power status,[4] and the concomitant collapse of the Anglo-Zionist Empire, is pretty much a done deal absent some circuit-breaking black swan event. Just as the Zionists needed the 9/11 black swan to get their “Clean Break” with a historical trajectory leading towards the end of the apartheid Jewish State, so too the Anglo-Zionists might realize that something equally “transformative” would be required to forestall the rise of China.
The US cannot win a trade war with China. It cannot win a nuclear war. It cannot win a conventional land war. Yet from the neocon perspective it needs some kind of war ASAP before China grows too strong. So if you were a hardline neocon strategist dedicated to stymieing China at all costs, you might opt for a stealth 5G warfare approach featuring deniable biowar strikes among other tactics. You might be stupid or crazy enough not to consider the possibility of blowback. But more likely you would welcome the blowback as an opportunity to tear down the current US economy, which is totally dependent on Chinese imports, and rebuild a new, more Spartan system geared for a long 5G war on China (and Russia and Iran and Venezuela and anybody else who won’t follow your orders).
Strategic analysts agree that the necessary prelude to ramped up US-vs.-China warfare would be a decoupling of the US and Chinese economies. That decoupling is happening now, thanks to coronavirus. Once it has passed the point of no return, war becomes far more likely.
Hunkering down for a serious war on China and its allies would also require a momentous psychological and cultural shift on the part of the American people. Until now, they have been lazy, undisciplined, addicted to consumption without much production, and unwilling to sacrifice themselves (though quite willing to murder foreigners from the safe distance of a drone base). Only a profound psychic shock, and some serious deprivation, could retool them as potential soldiers and total war participants in a deadly and dangerous struggle to maintain their rulers’ global dominance privileges. Or so the neocons might imagine.[5]
Will the panicked American sheeple, stampeded toward the toilet paper aisles by Coronavirus 911-2B, be redirected into a hyper-militarized mode of life befitting a long war for full spectrum dominance? Will the Great Coronavirus Depression end in World War III just as the first Great Depression ended in World War II, with military Keynesianism once again “rescuing” a dead-in-the-water economy? Will 9/11 and the 9/11 wars seem like small potatoes once we’ve seen the Coronavirus Wars?
Notes
[1] From 2006 through around 2011 my 9/11 truth focused Wikipedia page was defaced by false accusations, sourced to an anonymous blog, that I was a “supporter of Holocaust deniers.” At the time I knew almost nothing about Holocaust revisionism, and did not even recognize the name of the “Holocaust denier” I was accused of supporting. Over a period of several years, countless attempts to correct the dozens of false statements about me on Wikipedia were made, but the false information would immediately reappear within hours, sometimes within minutes.
[2] When I brought Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth to Madison, Wisconsin, the WORT “alternative” radio interviewer’s first question was “why do you hate the Jews?” Gage was nonplussed. He and his organization focus on scientific evidence of controlled demolition, not the question of who did it.
[3] “A slew of new start-ups were launched, specializing in everything from ‘search and nail’ data mining, to surveillance cameras, to terrorist profiling. When the market for these services and devices exploded in the years after September 11, the Israeli state openly embraced a new national economic vision: the growth provided by the dot-com bubble would be replaced with a homeland security boom.” (Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, p.435)
[4] Chinas Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is poised to end Western dominance of world trade in the same way the European sea route to Asia ended Muslim dominance via the Silk Road 500 years ago. For historical perspective, read Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.
[5] “On this perverse (neocon) view of the world, if America fails to achieve her national destiny, and is mired in perpetual war, then all is well. Man’s humanity, defined in terms of struggle to the death, is rescued from extinction… To my mind, this fascistic glorification of death and violence springs from a profound inability to celebrate life, joy, and the sheer thrill of existence.” – Shadia Drury
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Related: COVID-19: All Truth Has Three Stages
EVENING UPDATE:
"Baker activates National Guard as coronavirus crisis grows" by Danny McDonald Globe Staff, March 19, 2020
Governor Charlie Baker called up the Massachusetts National Guard on Thursday, activating up to 2,000 members of the force to help in the response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic, as confirmed cases in the state topped 300.
In obvious preparation for a martial law order.
Members of the guard will be tasked with supporting requests from state agencies for “equipment, logistics, warehousing, and related duties,” according to the Baker administration. Authorities said the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency will coordinate requests for help from communities and individual state agencies.
The number of confirmed cases jumped to 328 Thursday, up from 256 the day before, with more than 3,100 tests having been conducted by state and commercial labs, officials said.
I'm sorry for stating it to be an overreaction, but it is. Something else is going on here, and it is not benevolent.
The jump of 72 new documented cases is the largest increase since the virus began its spread in Massachusetts, and reflects the steady rise of patients coming to hospitals around the state with the virus or with symptoms. Baker promised Thursday that the number of tests will increase significantly, and officials say the number of confirmed cases will inevitably rise as more tests are conducted. Some experts believe that as many as 6,500 people in the state could be infected.
We were told people were being told to stay away from the hospitals for that very reason, so forgive me for being skeptical regarding the mixed messages.
In a taped address Thursday evening, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh spoke to the gravity of the crisis.
“Everything we can do to slow the spread of the virus will prevent our hospitals from getting overwhelmed, and the more seriously we take this situation right now, the sooner life in our city will be back to normal,” he said.
As long as you get your test and shot, and the Amurkn people will line up like the sheeple in V.
Baker’s move mirrors a nationwide trend in recent days, as government officials scramble to fight the pandemic with all the resources at their disposal. More than 2,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen in at least 27 other states have been activated to support response efforts for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.
The head of the US National Guard told reporters on Thursday that that number could double by the weekend and didn’t rule out tens of thousands of guardsmen being activated before the end of the pandemic. “Activating the National Guard will help support our Administration’s efforts to keep residents safe and secure during the COVID-19 outbreak,” said Baker in a statement. “The expertise of the Massachusetts National Guard will benefit our communities with logistical support and other assistance as we continue to respond to this crisis.”
Isn't that what tyranny always says?
It was not clear Thursday if the Guard members who are being activated would be armed or unarmed while they carried out their duties, according to Don Veitch, a spokesman for the Massachusetts National Guard.
What good is an unarmed guardsman, really?
I guess they think fear has made us stupid.
The Guard, which is the oldest state National Guard in the country, dating back to 1636, has about 8,000 members.
So the Mass. National Guard is a mere pittance to the U.S. National Guard, because I was told up above that TENS of thousands could be activated. Is is two different forces, Massachusetts and U.S.? I'm confused, Globe.
State law allows the governor to call upon the National Guard “in the case of public catastrophe or natural disaster,” among other scenarios. Baker’s office said Thursday’s order reflects the governor’s statutory authority to activate the Guard “to provide necessary assistance to state and municipal civilian authorities.” State law also allows for the National Guard to exercise the powers of police officers.
State Senator Eric Lesser, a Longmeadow Democrat, said Thursday it would be prudent to activate the Guard for specific tasks, like assistance at COVID-19 testing sites or help with distributing medical supplies. He said the governor’s call was “absolutely the correct decision,” and added that he has “full confidence in the men and women of the National Guard to do what’s needed in this emergency.”
“It would be better to have and not need them, than need them and not have them,” he said.
Grover Baxley, an attorney for a Cape Cod firm that specializes in military defense cases, said the National Guard can be activated and used in multiple ways involving both state and federal authorities. For state active duty, a governor can activate Guard troops to respond to a “need for governmental services that exceeds local and state civilian capabilities,” he said.
“Typical uses of National Guard personnel in a pandemic response would include base security and limited medical missions,” said Baxley.
Baker has used the Guard before during emergencies. Last summer, he activated up to 500 guardsmen to help recovery efforts in four Cape Cod communities that had been ravaged by a trio of tornadoes and severe weather. The storm damaged property, felled trees and utility poles, and left thousands of residents without power.
In 2015, with a mammoth storm bearing down on the region, Baker called up 500 members of the Guard. Some parts of Massachusetts were buried under 3 feet of snow. There were thousands of power outages and wind gusts on Cape Cod topped 70 miles per hour.
During that response, guardsmen positioned trucks in 40 locations to transport first responders, evacuate civilians, and help conduct wellness-checks.
After gas explosions and fires rocked Merrimack Valley in 2018, Guard members delivered thousands of hot plates to residents who were left without gas service.
The Guard also provides support for annual celebrations like the Fourth of July and First Night in Boston, as well as the Boston Marathon.
None of those apply except for that last one, and remember the armed camp that Bo$Ton looked like during the house-to-house searches?
Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner, said the National Guard was used in the aftermath of the 2013 Marathon bombings. He said that within five hours of the bombings, the Guard was able to move about 1,400 of its members into the city.
“Logistically, it’s an amazing capability to move people,” said Davis, who now works as a security consultant and counts the Globe among his clients.
The guardsmen were initially tasked in a support role for local police and were charged with securing the crime scene, according to Davis. As the week wore on, the Guard helped in other ways, providing other law enforcement authorities with specialized equipment like armored cars and helicopters and assisted with logistics while investigators pursued Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Watertown, said Davis.
Davis thought the Guard should only be activated if there is a specific need, like if local police are overwhelmed with calls or disturbances or if hospitals and clinics need security.
I'm just wondering why local police would be overwhelmed when everyone will be under lockdown and curfew. Oh, right, they are emptying the jails and letting perps walk to protect us from coronavirus.
“It’s important to explain the purpose of why they’re being activated,” he said.
Or the cover story needed to get the public to swallow it, and the virus has been a charm for them. Well done.
The state force has helped mitigate public health emergencies in the past. In 1792, the Massachusetts National Guard helped inoculate people against smallpox, according to a military historian. In 1955, during the wake of Hurricane Diane, guardsmen from another New England state, Connecticut, worked with health officials to administer thousands of typhus immunizations to flood victims, according to the US military.
Can forced vaccinations be far behind?
California Governor Gavin Newsom, meanwhile, has directed that state’s National Guard to “to be prepared to perform humanitarian missions across the state including food distribution, ensuring resiliency of supply lines, as well as supporting public safety as required.”
In Colorado, about 50 National Guard members were mobilized to support a state emergency center and help public health authorities at drive-up COVID-19 testing centers.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said earlier this week that his state will organize the National Guard as part of a plan to find existing buildings like dormitories and former nursing homes that can be converted to medical facilities. The goal is to create an additional 9,000 beds.
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I rarely read the comments, but in this case there was a smattering of hope amidst the the clamor for a complete lockdown and martial law.
Related: Baker says ‘enormous increase’ in coronavirus testing is coming; confirmed case tally rises to 328
The Guard will be useful to enforce this:
After a trial run Thursday, a new FEMA drive-through coronavirus testing clinic at a CVS store began administering tests to health care workers and first responders. (John Tlumacki/Globe Staff).
"Inside the state’s first large-scale drive-through coronavirus testing facility" by Kay Lazar and Andrew Ryan Globe Staff, March 19, 2020
SHREWSBURY — Dozens of CVS nurses, pharmacists, and technicians, and specialists from the US Public Health Service had been scurrying around a massive CVS parking lot since 5 a.m. Wednesday, erecting a series of blue tents and one circus-sized white one. They unpacked boxes of face shields, swabs, and hazardous waste bins. They practiced safely donning and removing gowns and face masks, and collecting nasal swabs from patients.
Finally, shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday, under a bone-chilling drizzle, with a videographer recording every move, the CVS parking lot became ground zero for the state’s first large-scale COVID-19 testing site for those on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic: health care workers and first responders.
Let's hope they don't all come down with cancers like the workers whom were told it was safe to dig through that pile.
The opening of Massachusetts’ first high capacity, drive-through testing facility on Thursday represented a significant and hopeful step in a state response that has been criticized as sluggish and insufficient. The CVS parking lot will be the first mass testing site in a state that had its first confirmed cases of the coronavirus 48 days ago.
The milestone coincides with the advent of new technology in commercial laboratories that should speed the testing of thousands of people a day. As of Thursday morning, state and commercial laboratories have now processed tests for more than 3,100 people for COVID-19, according to the state, a figure far below the number of tests needed to slow the spread of the virus.
“Our ultimate goal here is to protect the vulnerable, and those who protect the vulnerable,” said Captain William Pierce, of the US Public Health Service, as he strode though the lot in Shrewsbury supervising the action.
This is really making sick, this piece of propaganda regarding their cavalierly staged and scripted public relations event as they push fear.
The initiative is a partnership between CVS, Governor Charlie Baker’s administration, and the federal government. CVS officials say they started talks with federal health officials last week, after the Trump administration announced that several retailers had agreed to host large testing sites.
Oh, all of a sudden he isn't opposed to Trump, either.
Hmmm!
As commercial and academic laboratories ramp up, the Baker administration cited the success of South Korea’s mass screening operation and set a benchmark of testing 3,500 people a day in Massachusetts by next week.
Until how many and when?
Everyone?
By 12:30 p.m. in Shrewsbury, CVS workers who volunteered to help out and had been pacing inside the store for hours, headed outside and shivered under the drizzle. Federal and CVS workers donned blue and white splash-proof gowns, goggles, face shields, and purple gloves. Yellow tape cordoned off a path from a drive-up check-in site in front of the store to the large white tent. Four-foot-long poles inside the tent were readied, so workers could push potentially contaminated materials into a bright orange "Hazardous Waste” bin.
Fear for your life! WOW!
Pierce announced that the first car would be pulling up shortly but the people inside were not infected, he assured everyone. This would be a mock test to film for officials in Washington who needed to ensure everything was conducted safely before giving the green light.
C'mon. Stop mocking us with the fakery!
With video rolling at 1:05 p.m., a shiny white Audi, with a federal worker acting as a sick patient, pulled up to the first blue tent. He flashed a smile to the assembled crowd of volunteers watching from about 15 feet away.
A worker, swathed in protective gear, wrote down information on a clipboard and directed the car to the large tent. There, a team of four more workers, all covered from head to toe, surrounded the car, and when Pierce gave the signal, one reached into the window and took a nasal swab of the mock patient.
At 1:20 p.m.,15 minutes from when the car first pulled up, the test was completed. The car rolled out, and the mock patient, now wearing a face mask, flashed a peace sign to the assembled crowd outside the tent.
I want to barf.
The site aims to complete at least 12 cars per hour, to start, but there were some issues, Pierce said, to iron out before Washington would sign off, especially given the windy conditions potentially blowing around bright orange cones and protective gear inside a tent that is open on both ends.
“I’ve corrected for wind,” Pierce said, an hour after the test, as he paced and waited word from Washington.
“The cones blowing around could be a contamination issue,” he said.
(Blog editor throws hands up)
By 2:45 p.m., three out of the required four top officials in Washington had given the go-ahead for testing to start. The first three patients, all Shrewsbury firefighters, were sitting in a car nearby, waiting for word.
Pierce kept pacing.
Finally, at 3:05 p.m., the call came from Washington. Green light, and the Shrewsbury site was good to go.
The testing was about to begin.
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The Globe says hello from the future the coronavirus has created, one in which people are scared and confused.
Goodbye, readers.
