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Best of the Web: Belarus President Lukashenko on why he's resisted Coronavirus lockdown: 'People will raise me up on pitchforks'
Comment: Does Lukashenko have even bigger balls than Putin?...
© DesconocidoBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has explained why his government continues to stubbornly refuse the introduction of nation-wide restrictive measures to tackle the coronavirus, a month-and-a-half after most of the rest of the industrialized world has put various 'stay at home' orders in place.
"There are some people pushing us, saying 'come on, Lukashenko you blankety-blank, introduce quarantine'. Listen, people would raise me up on pitchforks if I did so," the Belarusian president said, speaking to residents of a rural area in Gomel region, southern Belarus on Sunday.
© Reuters / Regis DuvignauAn employee eats a cricket at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France, February 24, 2014
In little over two months, governments across the Western world have granted themselves the power to place their entire citizenry under house arrest, all in the name of fighting the coronavirus. From the British constabulary breaking up illegal picnics, to American law enforcement seeking the power to detain indefinitely without trial, civil liberties have been assaulted in every corner of the free world.
Will the trade-off be justified? Only time will tell. However, just as governments have flexed their authoritarian muscles, the media and academia have already decided how they want the post-coronavirus world to look, and it's a hellish dystopia.
Feminize if you want to live
Relatively little is known about the virus, and some of its characteristics - like the AIDS-like attack on the immune system it causes - have baffled scientists. However, the pathogen seems to pose a greater threat to men than women. Armed with this fact, the New York Times decided on Monday that pumping men full of female sex hormones could be a cure.
Even now in some countries, entire populations are being subject to intense surveillance while the medical data of those infected is shared across businesses, governments, and international agencies. The long-term effect of these anti-pandemic measures on personal privacy could be devastating.
With this in mind, we decided to ask people in the US how they feel about the potential of giving up their privacy during the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Even though we expected Americans to be more or less pro-privacy, we were nonetheless pleasantly surprised at the overwhelming support for their personal privacy rights. Even faced with a major global health threat, most people in America would oppose intrusive technological measures such as tracking apps to contain the spread of the virus.
Comment: But interestingly, many seem to get induced to give up their private information anyway:
Web of psychological cues may tempt people to reveal more online
At the same time, Americans are worried that such measures would lead to greater government surveillance in the long term, even after the pandemic has been defeated.
Our commissioned survey took place in April 2020 among a random representative sample of 1255 adults based in the US.
Here are the results.
Comment: And how did Americans poll when it comes to going back to sports events, live entertainment and movies? If the Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll numbers are an accurate reflection of how Americans actually feel, then the COVID1984 hysteria has truly done a mind job on many...
Fewer than half of Americans plan to go to sports events, concerts, movies and amusement parks when they reopen to the public until there is a proven coronavirus vaccine, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday.
That includes those who have attended such events in the past, an ominous sign for the sports and entertainment industries hoping to return to the spotlight after being shut down by the pandemic.
Only about four in 10 who follow sports avidly and go to arts and entertainment venues and amusement parks said they would do so again if they reopened before a vaccine was available, the poll found.
Another four in 10 said they were willing to wait, even if it takes more than a year to develop a vaccine.
The rest said they either "don't know" what to do or may never attend those events again.
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Only 17% of American adults said they would attend professional sporting events when they reopen to the public, while 26% said they would rather wait until there is a vaccine.
Among those who have attended a professional sporting event in the past year, 42% said they would return whenever it reopens to the public and 39% said they would rather wait for a vaccine, even if that means waiting more than a year.
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The poll showed that only 27% of those questioned would go to a movie theater, concert or live theater performance when venues reopen, underscoring the hurdles faced by the entertainment industry as it tries to get back on its feet.
Thirty-two percent said they would wait for a vaccine before going back to the movies, theater or concerts.
In all, 55% of Americans said those events should not resume before a vaccine is available.
Best of the Web: 'FREE AMERICA': Elon Musk divides opinions after calling lockdown 'fascist' and tweeting 'give people their freedom back!'
© AFP / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / WIN MCNAMEEElon Musk
The Tesla and SpaceX founder called on Wednesday for the US to lift the lockdown, tweeting "FREE AMERICA NOW" and "Give people their freedom back!"
He also attached links to a Wall Street Journal article suggesting lockdowns were ineffective and to another praising Texas for announcing more businesses will be allowed to reopen on Friday.
Comment: He also let out an expletive-laden rant during Tesla's Q1 2020 earning phone call, calling the lockdown orders around the country "fascist, " and called shelter-in-place orders "forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights."
Neil Ferguson and his modelling group at Imperial College, in addition to being backed by WHO, receive millions from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Ferguson and his Imperial College modelers have a notorious track record for predicting dire consequences of diseases.
Since late in January the world has undergone staggering changes which in many cases may be irreparable. We have given decisions over every aspect of our lives to the judgment of tests and to the projections of computer models for the coronavirus first claimed to have erupted in Wuhan China, now dubbed SARS-CoV-2. With astonishing lack of transparency or checking, one government after the other has imposed China-model lockdowns on their entire populations. It begins to look as if we are being led like sheep to slaughter for corrupted science.
The Dubious COVID Models
Two major models are being used in the West since the alleged spread of coronavirus to Europe and USA to "predict" and respond to the spread of COVID-19 illness. One was developed at Imperial College of London. The second was developed, with emphasis on USA effects, by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, near the home of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. What few know is that both groups owe their existence to generous funding by a tax exempt foundation that stands to make literally billions on purported vaccines and other drugs to treat coronavirus — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In early March, Prof. Neil Ferguson, head of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis at Imperial College London issued a widely-discussed model that forecast possible COVID-19 deaths in the UK as high as 500,000. Ferguson works closely with the WHO. That report was held responsible for a dramatic u-turn by the UK government from a traditional public health policy of isolating at risk patients while allowing society and the economy to function normally. Days after the UK went on lockdown, Ferguson's institute sheepishly revised downwards his death estimates, several times and dramatically. His dire warnings have not come to pass and the UK economy, like most others around the world, has gone into deep crisis based on inflated estimates.
Planet Biometrics reported that Science Media Partners is planning to hold the world's largest "home" identity webinar from May 4th -May 12th.
Calling the largest home identity webinar in the world a festival, is a misnomer at best. Dictionary.com says the definition of a festival is "unrestrained joy", Your Dictionary calls it a "celebration." When biometric companies show unrestrained joy for finding new ways to identify people staying at home, everyone should take notice."Science Media Partners has announced plans for a groundbreaking online event entitled the Festival of Identity, noting it will be a new, positive, and exciting webinar platform that will serve the whole identity community during these difficult times."
What is the reason Science Media Partners is holding the world's largest home identity webinar during a pandemic? It is to help governments and private corporations identify people staying at home, of course.
Comment:
From the film '1984'
After all, the authorities must somehow convince the dumbed-down public that the "epidemic" is alive and spreading.
Next up: we will see new symptoms added to the list of COVID indicators. In 1987, I watched the shameless manufacture of so-called AIDS-related diseases. The CDC definition of AIDS, which I printed in my book, AIDS INC., took up 15 pages. The only non-AIDS-related disease left after the CDC got through was infection by aliens from the Orion Belt.
So here we go again.
Comment: As more studies emerge showing that infections from the virus are more widespread and thus it is FAR LESS lethal than all the experts have been predicting, people will start to question the totalitarian containment measures taken - and the PTB can't have that happen, can they?
- The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of a 'Universal Lockdown'
- The Data Are In: A Nationwide Lockdown Was Never Necessary
© Reuters / Shannon Stapleton
At least six US studies show the coronavirus is more widespread than expected and that millions and millions of Americans have been infected by the Wuhan virus already without knowing they had the virus.
Two new studies were released earlier this week that show millions of Americans were infected with the coronavirus between March and April 21. The studies also reveal the mortality rate is much less that was reported and similar to seasonal flu.
This also shows that the experts who are behind the draconian lockdowns have been wrong from the beginning.
Comment: Ergo, the mortality rates the media has used to terrify the populace are vastly overstated. And millions upon millions of lives have been upended and in many cases destroyed unnecessarily:
- COVID-19 Hoax Pandemic: Doctors on front-line in California explain why lockdowns are unnecessary: "Millions of cases, tiny number of deaths"
- Corona Casino: Headline-friendly scary death statistics
- Global Madness: The Official Numbers Prove COVID-19 is Benign
© Q13FoxBryan Neyers
Before the COVID-19 outbreak, the man worked as a paraeducator at Glacier Park Elementary School, also in Maple Valley, according to the Tahoma School District.
Bryan Neyers was arrested at his residence Friday on investigation of rape of a child, child molestation and fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation, the probable cause statement and jail records show. He posted $250,000 bail Sunday and was released, according to jail records. Criminal charges are expected to be filed Tuesday.
The child-care center where Neyers was working was set up to look after the children of essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. A voicemail left for Neyers was not immediately returned Monday.
Comment: Lukashenko is acting from common sense, a rare commodity these days.
But what's more, he's acting from the point of view of someone who assumes that the lockdowns measures are to prevent the spread of a virus that threatens to decimate the population. He's not seeing said decimation, so he doesn't understand why the lockdowns were implemented.
Lukashenko is articulating what every halfway sensible leader was thinking... BEFORE they were told SOMETHING that the rest of us (Lukashenko included) were not privy to.
What was it that they were told?
That this virus has 'certain properties' that would make people... change psychologically in some way? Become 'rebellious'??