Welcome to Sott.net
Wed, 03 Nov 2021
The World for People who Think

Society's Child
Map

People

Woodstock occurred in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey A. Tucker
American Institute of Economic Research
Fri, 01 May 2020 06:50 UTC
Woodstock Music Festival
© Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty Images
Woman running through the mud at the Woodstock Music Festival, New York, US, 17th August 1969.
In my lifetime, there was another deadly flu epidemic in the United States. The flu spread from Hong Kong to the United States, arriving December 1968 and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.

Lifespan in the US in those days was 70 whereas it is 78 today. Population was 200 million as compared with 328 million today. It was also a healthier population with low obesity. If it would be possible to extrapolate the death data based on population and demographics, we might be looking at a quarter million deaths today from this virus. So in terms of lethality, it was as deadly and scary as COVID-19 if not more so, though we shall have to wait to see.

"In 1968," says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, "the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars."

And this happened in the lifetimes of every American over 52 years of age.

I was 5 years old and have no memory of this at all. My mother vaguely remembers being careful and washing surfaces, and encouraging her mom and dad to be careful. Otherwise, it's mostly forgotten today. Why is that?
      Read More...
Light Saber

Why Sweden has already won the debate on COVID 'lockdown' policy

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Sat, 02 May 2020 06:17 UTC
sweden no lockdown
As Europe and North America continue suffering their steady economic and social decline as a direct result of imposing 'lockdown' on their populations, other countries have taken a different approach to dealing with the coronavirus threat. You wouldn't know it by listening to western politicians or mainstream media stenographers, there are also nonlockdown countries. They are led by Sweden, Iceland, Belarus, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Surprisingly to some, their results have been as good or better than the lockdown countries, but without having to endure the socio-economic chaos we are now witnessing across the world. For this reason alone, Sweden and others like them, have already won the policy debate, as well as the scientific one too.

Unlike much of the rest of the world who saw fit to unquestioningly follow China's lead on everything from quarantining, to economic shutdowns, to contact tracing, and PCR mass testing, nonlockdown countries have instead opted for a somewhat lighter touch - preserving their economies and societies, and in doing so avoiding an endless daisy chain of new problems and obstacles deriving directly from the imposition of brutal lockdown policy.

On the European front, the Scandinavian country of Sweden is now garnering more attention than before, and has become an object of both criticism and fascination for those against or in favor of lockdown policy. While countries like the United States and Great Britain continue to top the global tables in terms of COVID-19 death tolls, Sweden has only suffered marginal casualties in comparison, while avoiding the intense strain on society and loss in public confidence which lockdown governments are now grappling with as they continue to push their populations to the limits of social stress and economic tolerance. You could say those governments are already careening over the edge by looking at the latest jobless figures coming out the US with 30 million new people filing for unemployment in the last few weeks.

Comment: See also:

      Read More...
Chalkboard

Z-Scores are misleading & create panic: Or, how not to compare pandemics

William M. Briggs
wmbriggs.com
Mon, 04 May 2020 05:49 UTC
pandemic chart
© afludiary.blogspot.com
A number of people panicked to the point their minds have turned to quivering jelly, angry at my calmness, have been emailing and tweeting me the equivalent of "Oh yeah, smart guy? If it wasn't so bad, then explain to me why the z-scores are so high!"

This proves propaganda works. (Did you know our State Department boasts of its propagandistic abilities?) Not one of these people touting them could define what a z-score is, even if you threatened to take away their Netflix.

What has these folks frightened are scary graphs with big bumps issued by our official propaganda organs. People are told to shiver when gazing at them, and so they do shiver. We have become a very obedient people.

Yet z-scores can cause harmful misinterpretations in judging the severity of pandemics.

Let's go through a simplified example to show this.

Comment: See also:

      Read More...
Biohazard

Virus of Mass Destruction

CJ Hopkins
OffGuardian
Tue, 05 May 2020 05:31 UTC
anti-lockdown protesters

German Police protecting public health by detaining an anti-lockdown protester who was not observing social distancing
There comes a point in the introduction of every new official narrative when people no longer remember how it started.

Or, rather, they remember how it started, but not the propaganda that started it.

Or, rather, they remember all that (or are able to, if you press them on it), but it doesn't make any difference anymore, because the official narrative has supplanted reality.

You'll remember this point from the War on Terror, and specifically the occupation of Iraq. By the latter half of 2004, most Westerners had completely forgotten the propaganda that launched the invasion, and thus regarded the Iraqi resistance as "terrorists," despite the fact that the United States had invaded and was occupying their country for no legitimate reason whatsoever.

By that time, it was abundantly clear that there were no "weapons of mass destruction," and that the U.S.A. had invaded a nation that had not attacked it, and posed no threat to it, and so was perpetrating a textbook war of aggression.

These facts did not matter, not in the slightest. By that time, Westerners were totally immersed in the official War on Terror narrative, which had superseded objective reality. Herd mentality had taken over. It's difficult to describe how this works; it's a state of functional dissociation. It wasn't that people didn't know the facts, or that they didn't understand the facts.
      Read More...
Light Saber

The post-human world is emerging, will free humans resist?

Daniel Taylor
Old-Thinker News
Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00 UTC
post-human
Mainstream news says human resistance to losing jobs to automation "could dissipate" in response to pandemic.

Institutional anti-humanism has taken hold of the western world. Coronavirus could lock in a system of high tech tyranny.

A post-human world is emerging. AI systems are activating. The future needs real humans with a conscience and the ability to question authority.

Social distancing by it's very nature is anti-human. Coronavirus has altered our society dramatically. Some of these changes were already under way, and anti-human forces were planning to implement them ahead of the AI robot tech revolution.

Social media was already distorting social norms well before the pandemic. Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya stated in 2018 that:
"It literally is at a point now we've created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is literally where we are. I would encourage all of you how to internalize this is - if you feed the beast, the beast will destroy you."
Hollywood predictive programming seeded the idea of virtual reality as an "oasis" in a crumbling world with the 2018 film Ready Player One:


Comment: See also:

      Read More...
Heart - Black

Horrific revelation: NYC hospitals are grossly negligent in treatment of patients to increase Covid-19 mortalities

Joaquin Flores
Fort Russ News
Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Nurse Nicole Sirotek
Nurse Nicole Sirotek comes forward

NYC nurse Nicole Sirotek comes forward with a shocking first-hand account of 'holocaust-like' treatment of Covid-19 patients. In this must-see video, below, Ms. Sirotek explains how the NYC hospital she has been assigned to appears to be intentionally mismanaging the care given, particularly (we are to infer) to patients of color (black and latino patients) in the ICU and in relation to Covid-19 diagnosis. Or it may be the case that the hospital, in pushing up Covid mortalities, does so without particular regard for race but as a matter of location would have more patients of color.

A shattered and demoralized ICU nurse, Ms. Sirotek explains clearly that these patients are not in fact dying of Covid-19, but of criminal degrees of mismanagement and professionalism to such an extent that it cannot be a mistake.


Comment: See the videos below. Taken with the video above one could be excused for wondering just how wide-spread this horrible negligence is in New York City. And just what's going to be done about it.


There was also this in NYC of only a few weeks ago:




      Read More...
Violin

Busted! 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson resigns after violating quarantine to meet married lover


RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 20:42 UTC

Comment: Do as we say, not as we do!


antonia staats neil ferguson
Professor Neil Ferguson, author of apocalyptic coronavirus models, has resigned from his position as adviser to 10 Downing Street after revelations that he violated quarantine himself to meet with a married lover.

Following Ferguson's resignation on Tuesday night, the Daily Telegraph made it public that the man known as 'Professor Lockdown' had allowed a married mother with whom he was having an affair to visit him at least twice during the quarantine. The woman was identified as Antonia Staats, 38.

The first visit was reportedly on March 30, as Ferguson warned the British public that lockdown measures - in effect for a week at that time - would have to remain in place until June. Her second visit was on April 8.

"I accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action," Ferguson told the Telegraph, confirming that he has resigned from the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). He maintained the need for the continued lockdown, however.

Comment: Ferguson didn't believe in his own hysterical advice enough to actually follow it. Maybe people should take a lesson from him and do the same.

It's hardly news that the elites swap wives. In fact, the high-profile way in which this has been 'leaked' suggests it was was done to shield Ferguson from the avalanche of questions coming his way over his pseudo-science and connections to Fauci and Gates.

See also: The British Corona Middle Man And The Bill Gates Connection

      Read More...
Flashlight

A closer look at the interviews of David Icke by 'London Real' producer Brian Rose


Rebel Wisdom
Sat, 02 May 2020 20:13 UTC
david icke

Take back the power! Smash the man! Get off your knees! Easy-peasy!
On 6th April, London Real broadcast an interview with 'conspiracy researcher' David Icke. In it he claimed that Covid-19 was "a hoax" and that 5G was designed for a "mass cull". YouTube took it down.

In the wake of this the owner of London Real, Brian Rose launched a crowdfunding campaign for what he called the "Digital Freedom Platform". This has raced to nearly $1m in just over a week.

However, lots of the claims about the platform don't appear to add up. This is an investigation into the platform, the wider issue of free speech and the censorship of the big tech platforms.


Comment: London Real always struck us as being a bit of a penny-stock venture, but Icke's the interesting story here.

From his books being front and center in major bookstores on high streets to his worldwide sell-out tours and now his online mega-star status as 'the conspiracy guy', his success always struck us as 'having a helping hand'.

In terms of this Covid-19 nonsense, it's telling that the BBC and other MSM outlets smacked down Icke's version of 'Covid-as-hoax' (that whole '5G is the virus' BS, by the way - a heavily-promoted limited hangout) as if that's the final word on the subject.

Anyone thereafter criticizing the very basis of the 'pandemic' is tarnished-by-media-association...

      Read More...
Fire

Massive fire engulfs 48-story apartment building in Sharjah, UAE


RT
Tue, 05 May 2020 20:13 UTC
Fire at Abbco building in UAE
© Via Twitter/TodayElite
A huge blaze has turned a 48-storey apartment building in UAE into a giant column of fire, providing for some apocalyptic videos on social media.

The fire broke out at the Abbco Tower in Sharjah, UAE's third largest emirate bordering Dubai, late on Tuesday.

      Read More...
Evil Rays

290 journalists killed, 23 media institutions damaged in Saudi-led war: Yemeni Media Union


PressTV
Tue, 05 May 2020 19:39 UTC
Suadi bomb yemen
© Reuters
Dust rises from the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Sana’a, Yemen, on March 30, 2020.
The Yemeni Media Union says the ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against the war-ravaged Arab country has resulted in the death of approximately 300 journalists and damaged nearly two dozen media institutions.

The union, in a statement issued on Sunday on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day, announced that the Saudi-led acts of aggression have claimed the lives of more than 290 journalists, and led to the demolition of 23 media institutions over the past five years.

The statement noted that the Saudi-led military coalition's strikes "have killed about 90 war journalists during the fifth year [of the war]," bringing the total number of journalists killed in Yemen to 290 within the past five years.

Comment:

      Read More...
Amazon Smile
Revolt! T-shirts