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NewsReal: The Terrible Toll of Lockdowns

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Sun, 04 Jul 2021 11:30 UTC

The Covid-19 pandemic, they told us, required that governments enforce unprecedented lockdowns and the effective shutting down of many aspects of normal life. But as things reopen and life returns to something like normal, what has the single greatest government intervention in people's lives cost society?

On this NewsReal podcast, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discuss some of the effects of lockdowns and their tremendous toll on people's lives.

Running Time: 01:37:20

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Show notes & sources

Biggest Mistake in History?

The Telegraph, 10 June 2021 - Lockdowns are 'the single biggest public health mistake in history', says top scientist

The Telegraph, 14 May 2021 - Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was 'totalitarian', admit scientists

Lockdown Effects on Society

Vox, 25 March 2021 - 2020's historic surge in murders, explained

NPR, 28 May 2021 - The FAA Has Seen A 'Significantly Higher' Number Of Unruly Passenger Reports In 2021

Medical News Today, 19 September 2020 - US cases of depression have tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nature, 3 February 2021 - COVID's mental-health toll: how scientists are tracking a surge in depression

Financial Times, 9 February 2021 - Japan suffers rise in female suicides during Covid-19 pandemic

The Hill, 11 June 2021 - Suicide hospital visits rose among adolescent girls during pandemic, ER data suggest

The Wire, 9 December 2020 - 67% Increase in Reports of Suicidal Behaviour During Lockdown

France24, 25 November 2021 - Global Covid-19 lockdowns inflame violence against women

Fortune, 28 September 2020 - Nearly 100,000 establishments that temporarily shut down due to the pandemic are now out of business

CNBC, 4 June 2020 - Jim Cramer: The pandemic led to 'one of the greatest wealth transfers in history'

The New Yorker, 16 October 2021 - The Great Coronavirus Divide: Wall Street Profits Surge as Poverty Rises

Euronews, 9 April 2020 - Coronavirus: Half a billion people could be pushed into poverty, says UN study Access to the comments

The Spectator, 10 April 2021 - The hidden death toll of lockdown

Fundamental Flaws in Rationale for Lockdowns

American Institute for Economic Research, 19 March 2021 - The Disease Models Were Tested and Failed, Massively

MSN, 1 September 2021 - CDC: 94% of Covid-19 deaths had underlying medical conditions

Bloomberg, 18 March 2020 - 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says

National Institutes of Health, 19 February 2021 - Causes of death and comorbidities in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Reuters, 16 November 2020 - COVID has been in Italy since Sept. 2019: study

National Geographic, 22 January 2020 - How did coronavirus spread so far, so fast?

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'Illegal' fireworks across LA County, 4 July 2020

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Reader Comments

lilies · 2021-07-04T22:00:47Z

The real meaning of:

"STAY HOME! SAVE LIVES"

might be a plea coming straight from the Government High Position Untouchable Cult Bosses:

- Dear People! Please be the gullible little wussies you always have been and believe our Pandemic Lie and stay home! Stay home, so you don't jump at out throats and wring our politically immune necks! We need you to not rise up against us, but take our Sewage Jab ehhrmrm.. "Savior Vaccine" and please die quietly. We in the Forever Government Thank You with all our demonic hearts!

ReRan · 2021-07-04T23:23:53Z

lilies I haven't even watched it yet, and I know I agree with your comment!

LindaMay · 2021-07-05T01:49:03Z

THEY did IT. they DID it.

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JTF Truth · 2021-07-05T14:55:03Z

LindaMay A martyr for the cause. She ddn't die of covid, the headline should have read.

LindaMay · 2021-07-05T14:59:02Z

JTF Truth i know.

What a load!

More loads ...

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Coyne1959 · 2021-07-05T22:14:12Z

LindaMay $20 millions? Somebody is happy.

LindaMay · 2021-07-05T22:56:07Z

Coyne1959 It's so typical. No wonder we're going bankrupt. To top it off, it DON'T work.🤺

Heosphorus · 2021-07-05T02:47:43Z

I ran into some great commentary today which fits neatly with this theme. First, a red-pilled scientist named Luigi Warren, the "inventor" of mRNA tech. The vid is slow (unless you like a lot of scientific stuff) until ~37:00. [Link]
Next, his co-interviewer was Nick Hudson, a co-founder of an organization called PANDA--new to me. Gave a great keynote address at BizNews Conference 3/21. [Link]

parzival · 2021-07-05T06:17:49Z

Lockdowns, Biden/MSM Lie About Vaccine FDA-Approval, AZ Clot Risk 2x Higher Than COVID Risk & Variant Theater [Link]

parzival · 2021-07-05T07:56:52Z

THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET REAL [Link]

JTF Truth ·

parzival

· 2021-07-05T15:00:12Z

parzival · 2021-07-05T10:11:37Z

Spain's Proposed 'National Security Law' Would Allow Seizure Of Citizens' Property During Health "Crisis" [Link]
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'French Government Considers Making COVID Vaccine Mandatory for Everyone Aged 24-59Doctors could also be given lists of unvaccinated people.' [Link]

just thinking · 2021-07-05T17:08:00Z

Brilliant and Educational: What's Up with the Great Reset? Part 1 of 2 [Link]

parzival · 2021-07-06T02:13:52Z

just thinking An interesting essay parts 1 & 2 is. But a far more comprehensive view by James Corbett [Link]

Heosphorus · 2021-07-06T04:02:39Z

parzival Hadn't clued into Corbett until very recently. I had seen his presentations previously but just wasn't interested to view beyond a few minutes. His last one (evidently before his vacation) was a "Wow" for me. Luckily Forbidden TV ran the program. "A Brief History of Hopium" [Link] I'm a definite fan now.

just thinking · 2021-07-05T17:20:35Z

The Retirement Apocalypse Approaching: Baby Boomers vs. Millennials [Link]

LindaMay · 2021-07-05T21:42:50Z

English translation has arrived.

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parzival · 2021-07-06T01:50:25Z

LindaMay 16 millions went into the pockets of media giants who produced an app, not used, for about 10K.. This is the real reason behind the plandemic, to steal from taxpayers around the world and to redistribute wealth to the corporations who wish to control every aspect of the lives left after the toxic jab...

LindaMay · 2021-07-06T02:49:57Z

parzival i know🙈

I shated a link in french yesterday.. hold on. BRB

Here... made it on time

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parzival · 2021-07-06T02:57:05Z

'The Delta Variant, the unvaccinated, the two Americas, and other propaganda fabrications' by Jon Rappoport [Link]
There is no Delta Variant.

Because there is nothing to vary FROM. In other words, as I’ve been proving for more than a year, SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t exist.

But the vaccine establishment and public health officials are pumping up the Delta hoax in order to convince more people to take the highly dangerous RNA COVID vaccines (genetic treatments).

Their narrative is a threat: in unvaccinated pockets, the Delta percolates and then breaks out, infecting many…followed by a further spread into communities of the vaccinated, where…

It can infect even those people.

Gibberish.

Every covert op starts out with a goal, an objective. Then an action-plan for achieving the goal. Then, the story that will be told to make it seem as if the unfolding actions are “responses to actual events in real time.”

The story about the Delta Variant, for example---from the beginning of the fake pandemic, tales of Variants were always part of the plan, in order to move closer to the goal of universal vaccination.

“When we see the scale of the resistance against vaccination, we’ll give them a Variant narrative, to induce more people to take the shot.”

“Right. We’ll say the Variant is more deadly and contagious than the original form of the virus.”

Another current element of propaganda: “we now have two Americas; the states with high rates of vaccination and those with low rates; this divide is intolerable; we can’t allow it.”

Why not? If millions of ignorant people insist on taking the destructive injection, and a smaller number refuse, and you have bordering states with vastly different vaccination policies and rates, then people have a choice. Live in state A or B.

But choice is not what the establishment wants. THAT’s why they whine and moan and warn about two Americas.

And from the beginning of the op, they knew there would be states with very different vaccination rates---and they knew they would be warning against it.

But wait. There’s more. The propaganda describes people/areas where the vaccination rates are low as: uneducated and Republican, or “people of color.”

All along, the planning involved special targeting of these groups. Demonizing the “uneducated Republicans,” and sympathizing with “people of color” as victims of disinformation.

“You blacks and Hispanics, it’s not your fault you believe the vaccine is dangerous. White anti-vaxxer Devils have been telling you lies.”

The total sum of all this propaganda? “We don’t want to, but in order to save the nation, we may have to institute mandated vaccination.”

The technical term is “layers of bullshit.”

In case you’ve missed the last 10,000 years of human history, political leaders have always called for Unity. It’s been their basic con.

Dissent and freedom of speech have always been afterthoughts, as far as these elitists are concerned.

Therefore, “some people vaccinated and some people unvaccinated” has nothing to do with science (especially since, as I’ve described in dozens of articles, the whole immunization hypothesis is a rank fake). Rather, it has to do with disunity.

“We can’t have division. It would destroy the foundation of this great nation. We must censor dissent from the artificial consensus.”

“Science” is a basic weapon for canceling and burning the 1st Amendment:

“We know what is true. So we don’t need to permit debate. It’s time-consuming, useless, distracting, and harmful. To be generous, we could say people have a right to be wrong, but why bother?”

Phalanxes of overgrown children emerging from colleges without a clue about logic or investigation have a special need to assert the value of their education. They fulfill this need by demanding everyone must follow the (unthinking) science they’ve mastered.

A minor obstacle like the 1st Amendment can be brushed aside as out of date.

“People used to have a right to argue in the old days, before the truth was established.”

The COVID narrative, from 2019 up to this moment, was planned. The art of propaganda involves making that narrative seem as if it’s composed of in-the-moment responses to unanticipated reactions of the public.

And the plan doesn’t require genius or even extensive data collection and profiling. Any reasonably intelligent person could sketch it out on a napkin during lunch. Why?

Because a hundred years of Rockefeller Germ Theory and vaccination lies have tuned up the population to respond to words like “outbreak” and “epidemic” in predictable ways.

ReRan · 2021-07-06T13:16:19Z

parzival "People used to have a right to argue." Perfect! Very well said, thanks.

parzival ·

ReRan

· 2021-07-07T00:16:28Z

Joyly · 2021-07-06T03:16:16Z

A very ambitious show and an impressive list of references Thanks for all your efforts. It just leaves the big questions still unanswered: who and why? 90% + of governments world wide followed suit, bought into the fake science and penalised the people they are supposed to be looking after, specifically supposed to be protecting their rights. Why?

DeliciousTears · 2021-07-06T05:11:35Z

One of my theories recently was some sort of mass hypnotic effect. If you've ever been to a large venue where they 'hypnotize' large groups of people it's fascinating. And it's not fake, which is the oddest thing to me....

Here's a Scottish hypnotist (stage hypnotist) covering exactly that with regards to this Covid scam: [Link]

parzival · 2021-07-06T06:15:51Z

DR. REINER FUELLMICH INTERVIEWING WHITNEY WEBB - CORONA COMMITTEE [Link]

DeliciousTears · 2021-07-06T15:46:17Z

parzival I like listening to the guy but it would seem to be more Q-level type distraction. I mean, nothing ever comes from any of these cases. He just talks and talks. There were plenty of court rulings in the US that seemed benefical against various lockdown details... But nothing every changed.

All power flows from the barrel of a rifle. You either have the preponderance of violence on your side or you do not.

parzival · 2021-07-07T00:25:01Z

DeliciousTears Yeah, it certainly seems that time is not on our side... even if the lawyers have to build a case. They'll just document until there's nothing and nobody left...

dean · 2021-07-06T10:22:14Z

In Australia they are preparing the army to vaccinate everyone, they have totally gone insane

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DeliciousTears · 2021-07-06T15:43:21Z

dean People need to fight as if their lives depended on it.... since they do.

I have zero faith in the bulk of humanity resisting anything after these last 15 months.

Even idiots here in the US being "forced" to get shanked for a job can easily make a shanking card as proof. Most do not even when given the tools and a sample of valid lot #'s. Compliant sheep.

JTF Truth · 2021-07-06T15:48:57Z

dean Last chance for the Auzzies to make a stand against their evil leaders or pay the piper.

Heosphorus · 2021-07-07T00:49:26Z

dean I have very few words. Gun assembly kits. Ghost gun production via 3D printing.

Today, in America, as the Stew Peters Show points out, Henry Ford Healthy Systems in Michigan has mandated that their 33,000 employees be vaccinated. But wait!! Not just their employees...if you are an independent contractor...perhaps you're installing lighting...perhaps you move the garbage...etc., you may not enter their premises toward the end of the year without proof of vaccination. [Link]
Project Looking Glass tells how the timeline coalesced around December 21, 2012, into one timeline. The winning timeline, for up to that point Globalists had been able to manipulate timelines, was not favorable for the Elite, and they have since abandoned the time-glitching device. The last whistleblower is now in federal prison for breaking his military contract not to divulge secrets. They saw a huge Awakening...awakening to the truth which became The Timeline. Of course, as Deagel has pointed out and tries to hide now by "disappearing" the U.S. page, America will lose ~200,000 people by 2025. Which is why the Globalists are pulling no punches and showing their hands in bullish fashion. Resist. [Link]

KRNABRNY · 2021-07-06T15:54:19Z

Do you see that!?!:-)

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hobnob · 2021-07-06T18:42:59Z

KRNABRNY That is freaky. Full interview:

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hobnob · 2021-07-06T19:23:23Z

hobnyeba I do assume it is loose skin, for the record.

DeliciousTears · 2021-07-06T20:22:47Z

KRNABRNY Nah.... He's an 80 year old man with a shit ton of loose neck skin but not much fat. So he's got a little roll of skin around the collar.... like a...... foreskin for his stupid head.

The artificial lighting creates a shadow cast underneath it.

Heosphorus · 2021-07-07T01:04:22Z

KRNABRNY Agree with comments below. A lot...a lot...of flim flam on the web. The man who alleges his vein "lighting up" under black light did another vid about magnetism or EMF readings not long ago a poster on another forum pointed out.

ПКостов · 2021-07-07T07:06:18Z

Dr Reiner Fuellmich begins Legal Litigation on the Covid-19 Fraud- The Greatest Crime Against Humanity

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ПКостов · 2021-07-07T07:55:30Z

The POWER GRID Collapse | What the Media ISN'T Telling You!! [Link]

JTF Truth · 2021-07-07T17:11:14Z

NewsReal: The Terrible Toll of Lockdowns

Everytime I read this headline I see " The Terrible Troll of Lockdowns".

Does anyone see this too?

Chester · 2021-07-09T11:46:41Z

Living here in Australia, you are considered crazy if you believe in something other than mainstream media that lockdowns are a necessary reaction to covid. We had 35 cases today and the whole of Sydney (4-milion) can't leave their homes except for certain situations.

DeliciousTears · 2021-07-09T13:07:06Z

Chester It's a madness.... pure insanity. There are people like us though, just a very tiny %. Anyone you know locally who wasn't affected by the crazy?

JTF Truth · 2021-07-09T15:33:10Z

Chester I hear ya! The commonwealth countries are all doing something slightly different from each other, we are all being tested to see which control mechanism works the best. It's black magic how they find cases. Want cases to go down, then stand up for yourself and tell them, I'm healthy, you don't need to test me, go test some sick people. Any kind of resistance is a step in the right direction. Unfortunately we are literally living in a movie, like the Body Snatchers or any Zombie movie. CD is powerful and it's unfortunately rampent.