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#Stayathome is murder. Herd immunity is the only way out of this - precisely what they're keeping us from

Marko Marjanović
Anit-Empire
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:51 UTC
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Since there is abundant hospital capacity to spare why aren’t we allowed to inoculate ourselves naturally? Is it so that Bill Gates has enough time to come up with a vaccine 18 months from now and posture as our savior (at a high price, and on the smoldering ruins of our civilization)?
The Covid Rouge are shifting goalposts. We were told the shutdowns and lockdowns were necessary to "flatten the curve". The danger we were told, was not that COVID would kill millions outright, but that because so many of those infected would require hospitalization and ventilators that hospitals would become overwhelmed and could not offer help to those who could have otherwise been saved.

So — we were told — what we needed to do was sacrifice by staying inside to reduce the rate of transmission. If we did so maybe, just maybe we would be able to "flatten the curve" just enough that most of those who needed professional help in care centers would receive it.

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In reality, all of these already included the effect of lockdowns
This approach was thought up on the basis of a few key presumptions which have since proven extraordinarily outrageously wrong such as that COVID-19 hospitalization range was in the neighborhood of 5 or 15 percent. In fact, data now shows fewer than 1 percent of those infected require any professional medical attention at all. (Another assumption was that ventilators made a huge difference in whether patients would be saved which may be exactly the other way around.)

Nonetheless, on the face of it — when one disregards the faulty data that went into it — the "flatten the curve" approach at least made sense in principle.
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Planned Parenthood, abortion providers take Texas coronavirus abortion ban to Supreme Court

Mary Margaret Olohan
Daily Caller
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
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Planned Parenthood and Texas abortion providers announced plans Saturday to the state's coronavirus abortion ban to the Supreme Court.

Planned Parenthood announced in a Saturday press release that abortion providers in Texas, represented by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Lawyering Project, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, are asking the Supreme Court to take emergency action and restore medication abortion services in Texas.

Comment: Seems someone is mad that their income stream has dried up.

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Don't be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Mitchell Feierstein
RT
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:58 UTC
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Silicon Valley's algorithms are controlling your cognitive map, and Congress is letting it happen. Covid-19 is providing the perfect cover to bolster that control — just in time for the 2020 election.

Neoliberalism was the perfect cover for oligarchs to unleash ideological warfare to protect the billions they've plundered from taxpayers.Trillions of dollars flowed into Silicon Valley, the birthplace of digital censorship — censorship that in many ways is more dangerous and insidious than the failed coup d'état of a sitting US president with the farcical Russiagate and impeachment hoax. Over the past two decades, democratic societies have been manipulated by Silicon Valley's unregulated big-tech behemoths, which now control the news flow and have weaponized Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Netflix, PayPal, Reddit, TikTok, Microsoft, Apple and the very dangerous Internet Of Things (sped along by 5G).

Hard proof is difficult to come by since you can never catch the tech giants red-handed. The way they purposefully conceal all their data and trademark algorithms only serves to reinforce the suspicions and the scattered evidence. But their motives have long been transparent in their own public statements and actions.

Covid-19 is the perfect diversion. While Congress busily passes more trillion-dollar bailouts for billionaires, big-tech stealthily ensures future generations become digital addicts who blindly accept and embrace, like sheep, the emergence of digital tyranny. Today's college students stumble around like zombies in a trance, eyes glued to their mobile phones, afraid to "miss out" on real-time Instagram updates or TikTok's latest memes. The development of 5G may result in a silent WWIII that ensures a quick demise of a zombified Western society without a single shot ever being fired.

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In social distancing frenzy, Little Rock suburb takes little girl's basketball hoop

Laura Vandercook
The Federalist
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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My family lives on a small mountain in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas, and behind our home is a city green space with a small basketball court and walking trail. Throughout our city are several of these basketball courts and trails.

The court by our house is fairly ignored. Because it is at the base of a hill, it floods during rainstorms, so my husband took it upon himself to dig a drainage canal to divert the water off the court into the creek that runs beside it.

We also called the city last year and asked them to put a net on the rim because there was none. They said that as time and money allowed they would get to it, so we bought one and put it on the rim ourselves.

Comment: You know you are living in a police state when the decisions being made have little logical connection to the supposed reasons they're being instituted. What these bureaucrats are essentially doing is banning fun. It has nothing to do with the spread of a deadly virus. They just don't want anyone enjoying themselves.

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Colorado baker sued again, this time for refusing 'gender transition' cake

Penny Starr
Breitbart
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
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© AP Photo/Brennan LinsleyJack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop
Jack Phillips, the baker who was sued for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding because of his religious conscience, was back in court on Thursday, this time for turning down a request for a "gender transition" cake.

The first lawsuit against Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, worked its way up to the United States Supreme Court, which in 2018, reached a 7-2 decision that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission acted with hostility toward religion when it ordered Phillips to make cakes for same-sex weddings as well as conduct so-called sensitivity training for his employees.

Comment: This is an obvious case of targeted harassment. There are obviously many bakers in Colorado who would be willing to make the requested cake. It's just another example of 'cancel culture' trying to punish people for wrong-think (with a healthy dose of virtue signaling).

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SOTT Focus: Why Are Some Respected Alt-media Embracing a Police State?

Catte Black
OffGuardian
Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:01 UTC
riot cops
It should be obvious by now to anyone that the covid19 pandemic, whatever its origins, is being used to fast forward a "new normal" world of unparalleled government power, surveillance and curtailment of individual liberty.

We are looking already at:
  • Compulsory DNRs for some elderly.
  • Biometric chips or bracelets to monitor whether or not you have permission to be outside your home or engage in work
  • Drone surveillance as normal.
  • Apps on your phone that can detect any breach of the self-isolation policy.
  • Huge new police powers of arrest and detention for anyone suspected of carrying the virus.
  • Suspension of elections for indefinite periods at government discretion
And this is only the starter course. We can be pretty sure they are currently just easing us in. The real stuff will be rolling along in the next months or maybe years (depending on how quickly they feel able to get this on).

This is the fabric of nightmare. A worst-case horror story that is the absolute quintessence of everything the alt-media is supposed to oppose.

Comment: One silver lining to this whole police state lockdown is that it has certainly helped to separate the wheat from the chaff. It has forced us all to really show where we stand in the face of tyranny - do we call it out for what it is or shrink back and join the oppressors? For those of us still willing to stand, at least now we know who our true allies are.

It's been an eye-opener hasn't it? Jordan Peterson warned that, when it came down to a crisis situation like this, almost anyone could 'become the Nazi prison guard'. But maybe that's too wide a net to cast. Let's assume it's more like 50% could or would 'go there'.

That's quantity; what about quality? 'Fascists' is also perhaps too strong a term. Many are just 'going along to get along', but certainly some of them are thriving on it.

Authoritarian Followers comprise a substantial portion of any given population, perhaps as much as 50%. What we're finding with the 'pandemic' is that many who have fashioned themselves as 'skeptics of officialdom' were just talking. Literally, to them it was just words.

The academic who coined the term - Bob Altemeyer - has published a number of informative books on 'Right-Wing Authoritarianism', but we have found that it's NOT a simple Left-Right divide. On COVID-19, Tucker Carlson doesn't get it, yet Candace Owens does. Infowars/Prison Planet and ZeroHedge were highly active in catapulting the lies that spread hysteria and panic, yet rational articles and government decisions appeared in unexpected milieus like the Financial Times and Sweden.

While it can take study to figure out exactly which 'authority' it is that people are following in any given context, the main point you arrive at is that they are constitutionally incapable of following their OWN authority, instead transferring most of it onto the state - or whatever supranational version of it seems to rule the planet from the shadows.

Sure, they'll SAY they're 'anti-govt' or 'anti-statist' or 'anti-communist' or 'against the deep state', but it's just words. When it came down to it, the 'world government' said 'boo' and they fell right into line.

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Snowden: Governments using Covid-19 to build "architecture of oppression" and mass surveillance

John Vibes
The Mind Unleashed
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 01:02 UTC
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Snowden fears that world leaders will hold onto new emergency powers well after the pandemic ends.

In addition to quarantines and lockdowns, some governments like those in China, Taiwan, and South Korea have been using a surveillance strategy called "contact tracing" to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus.

While each country's contact tracing program has slight variations, all of them are essentially using cell phone apps that keep a running record of the user's heath and the health records of all the people they come into contact with.

If a cell phone comes in close contact with someone who might have the virus, the user receives a text message informing them and then instructing them to self-quarantine for 14 days.

However, the quarantine is not necessarily voluntary, depending on where you live. In some countries, phones have been used as a sort of house arrest ankle-bracelet that will notify authorities if the person being monitored leaves the house for any reason.

These apps are being touted as the way to end the shut down in both Italy and the UK and it appears that officials are going to be taking things in that direction.
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Suicides in England soar to record levels with 1,400 recorded in three months

Drago Bosnic
Fort Russ
Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:49 UTC
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The number of people taking their own lives in England has jumped more than a quarter in two years, according to provisional figures collated by the Office of National Statistics. The data compares the final three months of 2019 with the same period of 2017. It shows that there were 1,413 deaths attributed to suicide recorded during that time, Daily Mail reported.

According to statisticians, the suicide level reached 11.4 deaths per 100,000 people in late 2019 - which is a 19-year high. The figures, which are yet to be finalized found that the men accounted for 74 percent of suicides with the most common age between 50 and 54.

There was also a significant regional breakdown across England with the northeast of the country having the highest number - resulting in 12.8 deaths per 100,000 people. The corresponding figure in London is 8.4 per 100,000 and 8.5 per 100,000 in the northwest.
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Economists see unstable jobs recovery, high U.S. unemployment through 2021

Howard Schneider
Reuters
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:49 UTC
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The trillions of dollars in cash and loans unleashed by the Federal Reserve and U.S. political leaders in recent weeks is meant to build a financial bridge for the country to get beyond the coronavirus pandemic and restart the economy with little or no long-term damage.

But that mammoth effort is still likely to leave millions of additional Americans unemployed for an extended time, according to new economic forecasts that see the U.S. unemployment rate not just spiking to Depression-era levels in coming weeks, but remaining above a relatively high rate of 6% through the end of 2021.

That would represent around 4 million people added to the unemployment rolls for the foreseeable future - dousing hopes of a quick return to the pre-pandemic normal where the unemployment rate dipped as low as 3.5% and pay gains were accelerating for lower-wage workers.

Comment: Economists are already expecting the unemployment rate to be 10% at the end of April, and that's using manufactured numbers adopted for well over a decade to hide the instability of the American economy. Anyone who thinks 6% is an accurate figure needs their head checked. Shadowstats show the adjusted unemployment rate approaching 25%. We haven't seen anything yet.

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UK press 'names & shames' prominent professors for promoting 'conspiracy theories' about COVID-19

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:40 UTC
Coronavirus 911
One of the most effective tools in the arsenal of any MSM hack is to brand information questioning or contradicting the official narrative as a dangerous 'conspiracy theory'. Keep in mind, many of the same writers who accused Zero Hedge of promoting 'conspiracy theories' about a possible connection between the novel coronavirus and a nearby bioweapons lab - contributing to a permanent suspension from Twitter, a social media org which purports to be a 'marketplace of ideas' free of political bias - shamelessly promoted the false 'Trump-Russia' conspiracy for years.

Buzzfeed was one of the most notorious publishers of Trump 'Piss Tape' fictions in a transparent play for clicks. But was that a 'conspiracy theory', too? We've yet to hear an answer.

But by far the most sensitive topic for contemporary 'conspiracy theories' is the novel coronavirus and its origins. As researchers and scientists bandy about ideas and test out different theories, many in the British press apparently now see these activities as threats to the public welfare, and are now moving to 'name and shame' academics accused of promoting 'conspiracy theories' - lest they poison the minds of the next generation of Britons.
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