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WATCH: Is This THE Big Event?

James Corbett talks Covid19, “re-infection”, and how preparation can help preserve calm in the face of panic

As I’ve noted in my recent work, many globalist agenda items are up for grabs as the world continues to freak out about the novel coronavirus and Covid-19. So is this the main event? Is the disease much worse than it’s being portrayed? Are reinfections after “recovery” common? And what should we do to prepare. James tackles these questions in depth in this edition of Questions For Corbett.

You can find links, sources and show notes – as well as an audio-only version – here.

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aspnaz
aspnaz
Apr 13, 2021 10:36 PM

The problem for us with not having a definitive test for Covid and the authorities refusing to test for influenza is that people can attribute all sorts of nonsense to Covid. Nobody self-diagnosed the flu this year, everybody self-diagnosed Covid. People “knew” it was Covid because of the loss of smell, despite the many years of evidence that shows that influenza victims also suffer a loss of smell. But the experts say it is a different loss of smell! Really! How do we know that this years influenza is not the cause of the loss of smell? We don’t. And, watching the government dictats, they don’t want to know: a solution to Covid is not their first priority and neither is the collection of clean data that would enable real scientists and real statisticians (not corporate shills like Ferguson) to identify real solutions. I knew Covid was a scam right… Read more »

redtroika
redtroika
Mar 26, 2020 7:52 PM

All one needs to do is ask for the scientific study that proves a virus causes the illness.

psychoNWO
psychoNWO
Mar 23, 2020 8:51 AM

Dr. Thomas Cowan, M.D. hypothesizes that Coronavirus may be history repeating itself and caused by 5G. Discusses the link between viral epidemics and the development of electro-magnetic technologies going back to 1917; https://youtu.be/RIDIjE6FlEw

Tony
Tony
Mar 15, 2020 8:10 PM

David Icke has recently come out with a statement (11th March) about a vaccine which will be ready in about 90 days for the coronavirus and COVID-19. He also stated that biotechnology was also being tested in connection with this viruses etc and they MIGAL’s technology group – quote: “chose to use coronavirus as the one to test and prove the efficiency of the technology” and then an amazing coincidence the coronavirus they say they were using to test their technology broke out. Icke goes on to say that DR Chen Katz the leader of MIGAL’s biotechnology group said “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.” Then there was an outbreak of the virus and Katz said let’s “call it pure luck”. Icke says “let’s call it not”. https://www.davidicke.com/video/565631/coronavirus-problem-reaction-solution-david-icke Also:- https://noqreport.com/2020/02/28/israeli-researches-plan-to-have-coronavirus-vaccine-in-a-few-weeks/ In my post on ‘silent weapons’… Read more »

Tony
Tony
Mar 16, 2020 10:37 AM
Reply to  Tony

Here’s a summary of some of the possible, unlikely, and also undetermined scenarios connected with coronavirus and COVID-19 to date:- 1. The coronavirus is real and has not been genetically engineered in a lab and is the sole cause of COVID-19 but the virus rapidly mutates. (Unlikely, because no scientist has produced any scientific paper claiming to have ever isolated the virus and proved that it is indeed infections to cause COVID-19, and it can’t be determined whether it mutates rapidly or not). 2. The virus is real and was genetically engineered in a lab somewhere in China (or America or elsewhere!) and is ‘pathogenic’, mutates and is therefore the sole cause of the outbreak of COVID-19 (Unlikely, because it cannot be proven that any virus is the sole cause of disease including COVID-19, and it’s never been isolated to date to prove that it even exists or is infectious… Read more »

Mucho
Mucho
Mar 16, 2020 9:19 PM
Reply to  Tony

Very interesting Tony, thanks

Tony
Tony
Mar 17, 2020 3:55 PM
Reply to  Mucho

Thank you Mucho,

If you are interested there’s more on the other threads that will fill in the gaps to this coronavirus myth – for the virus remains a myth for me until the scientific proof of its physical existence and infectivity can be truly established and it still remains to be a problem for the powers that be to deliver the goods concerning that issue.

Regards,

Tony

Mike Bernard
Mike Bernard
Mar 27, 2020 6:40 PM
Reply to  Tony

I’m sure the doctors and nurses in NY and Italian hospitals would love to hear more about this myth.

Tony
Tony
Mar 27, 2020 11:56 PM
Reply to  Mike Bernard

Hi Mike,

The doctors and nurses are quite welcome to that if they choose to do so, that is, if you can get them to read my posts which I doubt.

The syndrome that has been designated COVID-19 is no myth, but the virus is until scientific proof ever comes to light that it has been isolated, its genome sequenced and its proteins have been determined and then proven to be infectious with the necessary controls according to the criteria for virus isolation / purification that I have specified in my other posts on this website.

Regards,

Tony

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 8:52 AM

1. Antibodies are not the primary response to viral infections: T-cell responses are. Antibodies will still be raised against viral proteins, but they are by no means the sole means by which humans fight viral infections.
2. Antibody responses are an initial primary response against a new infectious agent (to the patient). After that has been fought, antibody-producing cells are switched off but memory cells are retained in the body to combat subsequent infections. So expecting antibodies to hang around long term shows massive ignorance of basic biology.
3. Many viruses mutate sufficiently fast that a new primary response must be raised each time exposure occurs. This is most well known with flu virus. If Covid19 is like that, then antibodies against the first infection may be useless against subsequent infections anyway.

Tony
Tony
Mar 14, 2020 4:15 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Rhys, I agree with what you are saying about antibodies. However, what I don’t agree with because there’s no concrete scientific proof that has seen the light of day, that a mutating virus is pathogenic or that it is the single cause of COVID-19 or of any other infectious disease. This has never been established and can never be established in terms of monocausal germ theory which they have now cottoned on to and are now trying other tactics in a bid to save Louis Pasteur’s already tarnished reputation. Work in lab cell cultures is not the same as work in living human bodies either – as the conditions are completely different. The only way those who advocate the idea of pathogenic viruses and make them appear plausible is by ignoring and excluding all other interfering causal factors (and variables) at work both outside and inside the cells from their… Read more »

Tony
Tony
Mar 14, 2020 6:38 PM
Reply to  Tony

By the way, Dr Lanka does not deny measles exists as a disease -he does deny that it is caused by a virus. Which should now be fairly obvious after the court decision in his favour over the Bardens fiasco.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Apr 13, 2021 10:42 PM
Reply to  Tony

Can you explain this incident: the last recorded death from Smallpox that occurred in Birmingham UK, the result of the victim being exposed to smallpox virus that had been grown in a lab. Do you have any theories about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_United_Kingdom

Portonchok
Portonchok
Mar 14, 2020 5:57 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

What’s your profession?

Tony
Tony
Mar 14, 2020 6:46 PM
Reply to  Portonchok

Scientist, pheasant plucker and seeker after truth.

Jay Khaye
Jay Khaye
Mar 15, 2020 2:45 AM
Reply to  Tony

I take it your main form of income is chicken plucker.

Tony
Tony
Mar 15, 2020 10:47 AM
Reply to  Jay Khaye

No Jay it’s not chickens its pheasants -you got it wrong.

Remember Bird flu? Well it’s now back with a vengeance – this time around they’re blaming the pheasants for incubating a new strain of coroanvirus that mutates faster than light – so fast they can’t even keep pace with it. However, before the virus can be isolated in the lab, (small hope of that), the dead pheasants that have also been blamed for somehow spreading COVID-19 (when they were alive), have to be well-plucked before they can be dissected and tested in the lab for virus.

Have a nice day, and keep clear of pheasants!

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 8:26 AM

There needs to be some basic biology education happening here: an Asian doctor saying that ‘antibodies will not last for long’ is a ridiculously manipulative statement. A naïve human first facing an external pathogen creates an immune response as part of fighting disease and getting well again. Antibodies are not actually the primary response mechanism to viral infections, they are the primary response to bacterial infections. Of course, antibodies can be raised against viral proteins, but I remain to be convinced that the T cell system has nothing to contribute to fighting CoVid19. Be that as it may, normal antibody responses are: 1. Primary response to new pathogen – leads to large immune response and generation of specific immune cells to fight that specific pathogen. 2. After recovery, the immune system goes into ‘memory mode’. It no longer keeps making immune cell capacity that is no longer needed, but it… Read more »

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 15, 2020 9:19 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

There is a known method of ‘expert’ disinformation that comprises stating a common fact as if it were remarkable, dangerous, unusual or noteworthy, without going so far as to make that claim overtly. You can get a doctor or epidemiologist to go on record and say ‘ncovi antibodies don’t persist’ leaving the implication this is unusual, but getting him to overtly lie and state this is unusual would be a lot harder, because he has ethics and training that tell him not to say these things.

supporterofpeace
supporterofpeace
Mar 14, 2020 8:25 AM

Hoax or not test..

MD: Expected total deaths from pneumonia in that region for that time of the year from historic stats.

CD: Total Deaths from Covid-19 over the same period and region.

Formula:
MD – CD = x

If x +- = MD then Hoax

If x > MD + some factor then possibly not a hoax.

(Please factor in I am not a mathematician.)

Are there stats available to test this to calculate x?

supporterofpeace
supporterofpeace
Mar 14, 2020 8:54 AM

Sorry have not had my breakfast yet..
flawed logic correction..

If x > MD + some factor then possibly not a hoax.

Should be

if CD higher (by a certain margin) than MD then not a hoax

CD = ‘claimed confirmed deaths from Covid-19’

supporterofpeace
supporterofpeace
Mar 14, 2020 10:00 AM

Last try..

PD: Non Covid-19 pneumonia related deaths for the same criteria

If CD + PD > MD then not a hoax

paul
paul
Mar 13, 2020 11:56 PM

9/11 was primarily a hoax/ false flag/psyop to justify a series of criminal wars of aggression serving Zionist interests. However, such a large operation was fully exploited to meet many other objectives, a case of killing many birds with one stone. Grabbing the oil. Creating a national security state with blanket surveillance. Shredding civil liberties. Enabling a vast transfer of wealth and power upwards to the 0.1%, the arms merchants and the spook agencies. And others, short selling on the stock exchange, looting the gold bullion from WTC7, closing down investigations into mega financial crimes, the missing trillions from the military budget, to name a few obvious examples. This situation should be viewed in a similar light. The primary purpose of the current “crisis” is to provide an alibi for the long overdue, long delayed, inevitable collapse of the financial system and an economic depression on a scale greater than… Read more »

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 7:24 AM
Reply to  paul

The primary purpose of the current “crisis” is to provide an alibi for the long overdue, long delayed, inevitable collapse of the financial system and an economic depression on a scale greater than 1929.

I think this is almost certainly the fundamental explanation for this alleged crisis. Whether the virus is actually real, and if so, where it came from, and how dangerous it is, are secondary issues.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 14, 2020 8:24 AM
Reply to  paul

It’s far too late to cause regime change in China. The much more likely result will be ‘blowback’ on the Real Evil Empire and its end, as it follows Dmitri Orlov’s stages of collapse.

Kathy
Kathy
Mar 13, 2020 9:59 PM

Just had to post this up. If only for the updated track ghost town

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 8:48 PM

James Corbett – prescient podcast from 2009 on ‘Medical Martial Law’

https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-086-medical-martial-law/

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:15 PM
Reply to  clickkid

The global system CANNOT support seven billion plus-the life-sustaining biosystems are already rapidly and synergistically collapsing. So several billion have to go. Thermo-nuclear war destroys precious property, and pollutes the place, so bio-warfare it must be, and will be. This is probably just a trial run, or maybe not. We’ll soon see.

paul
paul
Mar 13, 2020 10:54 PM

They could use neutron bombs, get rid of the people and leave the property intact.

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:10 AM
Reply to  paul

— and here we have the explanation for the widespread use of “depleted” uranium radiological weapons, during the past two decades of imperial rampage.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 14, 2020 8:25 AM
Reply to  milosevic

Don’t fret-their residue will be harmless in two billion years or so.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 14, 2020 8:25 AM
Reply to  paul

That’s the Zionist preference. There bombs are mostly neutron, for a big Bonfire of the Mitzvot.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 8:54 AM

I thought climate warfare to decimate crop yields was the way the thoughts were going: you know, use the HAARP technology to zap the ionosphere to create wild mood swings in weather.

If you do not believe that the US military has the capability to use weather to destroy any crop they choose to destroy, you are very, very naïve……….

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 9:51 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

if you have non-disinfo references for this hypothetical technology, please cite them.

Tony
Tony
Mar 16, 2020 6:59 PM
Reply to  milosevic

It’s a bit out of date now but ‘”Angels Don’t Play this HAARP” by Dr Nick Begich is probably a good place to start with all the references you’ll need for an intro to this subject.

Zoran Aleksic
Zoran Aleksic
Mar 14, 2020 9:55 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

To claim that the US military has the capacity to use weather to destroy crops of a foreign nation or its own would be as preposterous as claiming that the US military is capable of producing and using viruses as means to attack, maim or destroy those not in line ( various foreign nations or individuals that is ). Preposterous and irresponsible. Akin only to Putin puppetry.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 14, 2020 10:37 AM
Reply to  Zoran Aleksic

as preposterous as claiming that the US military is capable of producing and using viruses as means to attack, maim or destroy those not in line

So it’s perfectly credible then.

Tim Jenkins
Tim Jenkins
Mar 14, 2020 12:20 PM
Reply to  George Mc

In Cyrillic, the double negative is employed daily: liberally … 🙂
Akin to questioning with sarcastic twist or pure rhetoric 🙂 ,
answers, well known.

Ask Agent Orange or search how the birth control pill was tested on Puerto Rican women and deforestation chemical cocktails. Damn pubic hairs…

What’s perfectly credible is the incredible nature of the science of humanities, all academics alike ridiculing critical thinking,
on grand scales of ‘immoral justice’ for the few.

Zoran Aleksic
Zoran Aleksic
Mar 14, 2020 1:44 PM
Reply to  George Mc

My point exactly.

Tony
Tony
Mar 14, 2020 8:41 PM
Reply to  George Mc

George,

If you haven’t already come across this it may be of help in answering a few questions:-

http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm

Portonchok
Portonchok
Mar 13, 2020 6:22 PM

The UK’s chief medical officer mentioned yesterday that there’s no cure, and that we need to gain “herd immunity” from this new strain and its variants over the next few years.

I know tha’ts a common term in scientific circles, but it makes me feel that in fact we ARE being treated as a herd by our owners.

We’ll be exposed to viri, we’ll die or survive, some of us may be deliberately culled, we’ll be experimented upon with new and untested vaccines. Elections will be cancelled, sports events cancelled, schools closed, etc. We shall fear and we shall be therefore controlled by our saviours, our owners have our best interests at heart after all…

Moo, baa, neigh…choose your own favourite animal herd to join.

Portonchok (aka Frank Speaker)

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Admin
Sophie - Admin1
Mar 13, 2020 6:36 PM
Reply to  Portonchok

We have a commenter – ‘Virus Guy’ – in this thread who believes there is no new virus, just an old one given a new name. Make of that what you will.

Did you tell us why you are choosing to use at least two names? Could you possibly select one and stick with that?

Portonchok
Portonchok
Mar 13, 2020 7:50 PM

My name differences are technical…one device was used for the Guardian and Independent during the Salisbury Novichok saga, and a tounge in cheek name was created of Portonchok.

My usual name is Frank Speaker. My usual device clapped out and so I returned to the old one with Portonchok on it.

Now I will stick with Portonchok, it’s easier now. I just wanted to mention the other name, since I wrote an article for OffG using it.

Loverat
Loverat
Mar 13, 2020 8:12 PM

The posts of ‘virus guy’ are interesting. A new coronavirus theory for me. He seems to have explained the science and testing procedures well enough. He seems to talk from a position of experience and authority. My problem with it, is how could such a scenario play out on a global scale. And I’d probably have a few other questions. But the last few years has taught me never to discount anything as often the unthinkable or most shocking finally prevails over the official narrative. I wonder Admin, if he had offered an expanded version of his comments in an article and he and the science checked out or was at least arguable, whether Off G would have published it. I appreciate the ‘make of that what you will’ in your comment could be construed several ways – eg ‘virus guy’ is nuts, or just referring FS to an interesting… Read more »

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 8:58 AM
Reply to  Loverat

The concept of ‘correlation is not causation’ is something propagandists hate having to deal with, it makes story telling so much more difficult to get away with.

I mean: why is it that Italy is suddenly such a centre of disease? Were there uniquely thousands of Italians in Wuhan when the outbreak hit (there are certainly plenty in Hong Kong escaping economic misery in Italy) or did some careless spook just open a vial in northern Italy to get the epidemic going there a bit faster?

I mean, if you want to organise economic terrorism, then choose which countries to hit and release a bit of virus there. Much more military precision than letting folks fly freely around the world.

Stonky
Stonky
Mar 14, 2020 1:05 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

I mean: why is it that Italy is suddenly such a centre of disease? Were there uniquely thousands of Italians in Wuhan when the outbreak hit…

No. But there are very large numbers of Chinese in the north of Italy from a city called Wenzhou in the province of Zhejiang- at least tens of thousands, and possibly in excess of 100,000 – many of them unregistered and clandestine. And Wenzhou has very close links with Wuhan. In fact, after Wuhan it had the highest number of cases in China.

Here’s a Reuters article from 2013 that explains it.

Italanon
Italanon
Mar 14, 2020 5:57 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Why Italy?
Here’s two completely different theories:
Bordering on conspiracy But not beyond possible
https://youtu.be/bIeoSqpbj9Y

Or
More obvious:
https://medium.com/@fcameronlister/coronavirus-is-there-something-in-the-air-45964b2f5b37

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 14, 2020 10:29 AM
Reply to  Loverat

… had the science checked out … But it’s so hard for the layperson to be sure what the science is, isn’t it, Loverat? I agree VirusGuy sounds authoritative and what another commenter who sounds authoritative, Tony, says aligns pretty much with what he says. We certainly can have no faith that anyone with a relevant scientific background who goes along with this pandemic is speaking scientifically. It would be like looking to engineers who go along with fire bringing down the buildings on 9/11. Whatever OffG publish they’re never going to be sure, are they, so why not publish what seems to make the most sense. The thing is though that VirusGuy and Tony obviously don’t want to use their real names and then it might be a question of whether OffG are prepared to use a pseudonym. My opinion is that there is no virus beyond whatever viruses… Read more »

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 14, 2020 10:40 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

Just to add: in an exercise what you want is to control reaction to the event, not any reality of the event itself. The event only needs a sense of reality that can be created using smoke’n’mirrors, virtually no actual element of reality is required for the event itself. On 9/11 the only major reality was the buildings coming down … and that was a reality they actually wanted. The planes and death and injury were all faked. On 9/11 they didn’t want real plane crashes nor real death and injury. Similarly, they don’t want any kind of virus pandemic for this exercise they only want to engineer a humongous reaction to the sense of their being one. And aren’t they so successful at it?

samuel spock
samuel spock
Mar 13, 2020 7:25 PM
Reply to  Portonchok

i am an eu scientist
unique times need unique solutions
forced targeted vaccines multishot are vital for the coming tribulations to be effective.
the shots should most certainly include chemo and hiv medications we need to really do a good job on these virus germs alas washing hands and groin and feet areas has been shown to be inefective in the 5 corona strains test samples sent from fort detrick usa

Portonchok
Portonchok
Mar 13, 2020 9:00 PM
Reply to  samuel spock

I’m interested in your view as to how we can be inoculated against a virus that’s already mutated into at least 16 different variants, some way more potent than others? How does that work from an immunology perspective? Genuinely interested.

JohnB
JohnB
Mar 13, 2020 9:05 PM
Reply to  Portonchok

I think he was using sarcasm, Frank. 🙂

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 14, 2020 10:03 AM
Reply to  samuel spock

I am entirely confident you are not any type of scientist but you may be a sock puppet account with a checklist of talking points that you manifestly do not understand.

There is no prospect of or need for an effective vaccine. If a claimed vaccine is hurried into production it will likely be less effective than most flu vaccines – that is to say not very or at all. But it will be just as profitable.

Tony
Tony
Mar 16, 2020 8:31 PM
Reply to  samuel spock

Hi Samuel, If you are an EU scientist as you claim, then it should be easy for you to give me a reference to a long term detailed scientific study that conclusively proves that a vaccine works and prevents a specific infectious disease. HIV by the way is still an unproven virus as the cause of AIDS – see the Perth Group material for proof of fact. I am trying to get to the truth regarding this issue as vaccines are now underway for a coronavirus which has never been effectively proven to exist, let alone be the cause of COVID-19. Unfortunately, I can’t find any such references in the scientific literature – just as I can’t find any scientific papers that can conclusively prove that the pathogenic viruses that the vaccines are alleged to contain actually exist. My bet is that you can’t deliver on that request, but in… Read more »

JohnB
JohnB
Mar 13, 2020 9:04 PM
Reply to  Portonchok

Yep, never liked the term ‘herd’ when referring to humans.

Sadly, one suspects it was chosen ‘a purpose, by those clever NLP-ing illuminati.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:17 PM
Reply to  JohnB

Agree-it’s an insult to animals.

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:22 AM
Reply to  Portonchok

We shall fear and we shall be therefore controlled by our saviours, our owners have our best interests at heart after all… Moo, baa, neigh… choose your own favourite animal herd to join.

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Nico46
Nico46
Mar 14, 2020 10:57 AM
Reply to  Portonchok

Virus is from Latin; it is neutral, therefore its plural might be VIRA, but it looks like there’s no instance in old literature …

lysias
lysias
Mar 14, 2020 3:41 PM
Reply to  Nico46

It’s a mass word, meaning “slime”. So there’s little or no reason for a plural. We don’t usually say “slimes” either.

Jay Khaye
Jay Khaye
Mar 14, 2020 7:10 PM
Reply to  lysias

I say Slimey sometimes.

Gary Weglarz
Gary Weglarz
Mar 13, 2020 5:57 PM

I’m wondering if anyone has come across information that is similar to what is presented in this brief article below from GlobalResearch. I live in the U.S. and I wasn’t aware that our bio-weapons site Fort Detrick was shut down by the CDC (Center for Disease Control) in August 2019 – which seems a rather unusual event I dare say:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:33 AM
Reply to  Gary Weglarz

from the horse’s assmouth:

New York Times, Aug. 5, 2019 — Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns

lysias
lysias
Mar 14, 2020 3:43 PM
Reply to  Gary Weglarz

It was partially reopened late last year.

Grafter
Grafter
Mar 13, 2020 5:52 PM

Fear death figures all over the place. Don’t see any figures relating to ages of fatalities. Also previous illnesses or medical histories. Can anybody shed a light on this ? Also what are annual flu deaths annually in these countries.??

JudyJ
JudyJ
Mar 13, 2020 6:17 PM
Reply to  Grafter

Also, the fact that some of the mortalities were diagnosed with a coronavirus prior to death doesn’t automatically mean that it either caused the death or even contributed to it. We are talking mainly of elderly, infirm, mortal patients after all. As I have alluded to previously, when Matt Hancock (UK Junior Health Minister) referred to the (then) latest death on BBC Question Time last week, he specifically said that that she had died “with” the coronavirus: far from being the same as saying “from” or “as a result of”.

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 7:39 PM
Reply to  Grafter
Jay Khaye
Jay Khaye
Mar 14, 2020 7:16 PM
Reply to  Grafter

Most recent from South Korea. Very low CFR below 50 years of age.

https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a30402000000&bid=0030

Greg Bacon
Greg Bacon
Mar 13, 2020 5:45 PM

Hey, look at the positive side! People aren’t talking about Horny Harvey Weinstein or claiming that Epstein didn’t kill himself.
And that long overdue DOW crash? Why not hide it behind the Corona scare? That way, us peons won’t wonder what happened to our 401K accounts or our looted pensions of disappearing mutual funds. We’ll be too scared to complain.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 5:56 PM
Reply to  Greg Bacon

Hey, look at the positive side!

As far as I’m concerned the cancellation of sporting events is a positive. All of which makes it fun when they get to the sport section and say, “Now here’s the sport – oh hang on a minute!”

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:38 AM
Reply to  George Mc
lundiel
lundiel
Mar 13, 2020 5:15 PM

My worry at the moment is, if one accepts the virus as credible and is largely reliant on professional/government advice and subsequent regulations/temporary laws. One would also have to take into account the political beliefs/philosophy of those currently holding the reigns of power. And I would be willing to guess/bet a substantial some of money that a Twitter comment alleging that Johnson and especially his advisor Cummins are believers in eugenics is true.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:20 PM
Reply to  lundiel

Just think of the savings to be made by eliminating many aged and disabled ‘useless eaters’. I’m sure BoJo and Cummings are completely in favour of that.

sabina de sturler
sabina de sturler
Mar 13, 2020 5:14 PM

sounds a bit like the measles amnesia that pros are now pushing in response to us ‘’antis’’ talking about real immunity, and other health benefits from a short lived, mild infection.

Greg Bacon
Greg Bacon
Mar 13, 2020 4:56 PM

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research from Nov 2015

An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

After WWII, some Nazis got the rope for experimenting with this kind of madness. But not in the USA, woohoo Wuhan!

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:46 AM
Reply to  Greg Bacon

doth the lady protest too much???

Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research

Lab-made coronavirus related to SARS can infect human cells.

Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:53 AM
Reply to  milosevic

— ladies and germs, I think we have a winner … Although public health measures were able to stop the SARS-CoV outbreak, recent metagenomics studies have identified sequences of closely related SARS-like viruses circulating in Chinese bat populations that may pose a future threat. However, sequence data alone provides minimal insights to identify and prepare for future prepandemic viruses. Therefore, to examine the emergence potential (that is, the potential to infect humans) of circulating bat CoVs, we built a chimeric virus encoding a novel, zoonotic CoV spike protein — from the RsSHC014-CoV sequence that was isolated from Chinese horseshoe bats — in the context of the SARS-CoV mouse-adapted backbone. The hybrid virus allowed us to evaluate the ability of the novel spike protein to cause disease independently of other necessary adaptive mutations in its natural backbone. Using this approach, we characterized CoV infection mediated by the SHC014 spike protein in… Read more »

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 8:59 AM
Reply to  milosevic

note the academic affiliation of two of the authors:

Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

bob
bob
Mar 13, 2020 4:45 PM

What justification is there for the decision to stop football for a month whilst welcoming the Cheltenham festival horse racing where many thousands of people will be gathered? This is surely not a ‘class thing’ is it???

RobG
RobG
Mar 13, 2020 7:00 PM
Reply to  bob

My mother, who’s a keen race horsing fan, keeps saying the same thing. There’s been close to half a million people at the Cheltenham Festival this year. At most sporting events people tend to sit in a seat (or stand) for most of the duration. At race meetings people tend to mill around, and breathe all over each other.

lundiel
lundiel
Mar 13, 2020 8:34 PM
Reply to  bob

Neighhhhh. Bat flue doesn’t affect horses…or their offspring.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:00 AM
Reply to  bob

Probably economic: the festival represents the vast majority of Cheltenham Racecourse income for the entire year in a way that football never experiences (they get season ticket revenue every summer, TV revenues quarterly and retail commissions as they are accounted for).

The Government probably said: ‘big downside and smaller upside’.

I agree with them.

RobG
RobG
Mar 13, 2020 4:29 PM

Some people think that the psychopaths who rule us are using Covid 19 as a short test, to see what they can get away with. My estimate, so far, is that this is much worse than that: the psychopaths seem to be attempting a full roll out of what some call ‘The New World Order’. The Frankenstein flu hysteria has been snowballing by the day; so much so that it’s often hard to keep up with it all. Some developments that struck me today are that Spain is about to declare a state of emergency (thus far Spain has 43 deaths attributed to Covid 19); local elections have been postponed until May next year in England (this one is such an obvious take over of power); France has now limited public gatherings to no more than 100 people (the gilets jaunes will love that one); Austria has announced it is… Read more »

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 4:45 PM
Reply to  RobG

Yes, I also think that something big is going down. The hysteria – not to mention all the measures you mentioned – is being whipped up to such a frenzy, that it very difficult to imagine it all ‘just ‘fading away’. I’m expecting a bang at some point rather than a whimper.

I am expecting that bang to be some kind of international monetary reform, including a wiping clean of the debt slate.

The last few decades have seen the construction of the biggest tower of debt in history, and we have now had the largest financial bubble in history.

Look at all these emergency powers in that light.

That’s why we need the biggest psyop in history.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:23 PM
Reply to  RobG

How will they ‘pay’ for it. A poll tax, perhaps.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 3:38 PM

So – this Corbett report advises us to become “self sufficient” so that we do not submit to Their agenda – unless becoming “self sufficient” IS Their agenda? And how long is this “self sufficiency” supposed to last? How many are dependant on public services? Well let’s be honest: all of us. How long can you hold out in your little survivalist shelter?

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 4:35 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Dependence is ‘their’ agenda. Otherwise preppers would not be so relentlessly mocked in mainstream media.

Corbett also makes clear that absolute individual independence is difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. He stresses that it is a question of degree. He also stresses the importance of like-minded people working together in local groups, at a human level.

I like many of your posts George, but you really do have to be a bit obtuse to think that local independence of individuals and groups could possibly be on ‘their’ agenda.

How can it possibly be in ‘their’ interest to have individuals and small groups arising autonomously, parallel to official structures?

I can’t really follow your argument.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 5:50 PM
Reply to  clickkid

Well let me put it this way: Their agenda is to slash all the public services. Becoming “independent” is what they want us to do. No more NHS, no more disability services etc. survival of the fittest. Or to be more precise: survival of the richest. The little folk can kid themselves on that they are self sufficient till their stocked up supplies inevitably dry up.

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 7:30 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Ok – now I see what you’re getting at. I don’t think that being ‘independent’ in the sense that James Corbett means it, conflicts at all with the justified desire to defend public services, although I can follow that in the Anglo-American context it might be understood that way. I actually think that an independent self-aware citizenry is better able to defend their public services, especially if they form their own autonomous groups. In France, for example,at least years ago when I was there, there were many rural and semi-rural, hunting, shooting and fishing types with allotments, who were very keen on defending public services. I think that, especially in America, the individual aspect of this tends to be overestimated at the expense of the social aspect. We are social beings, and if we are to effectively resist the psychopaths who rule us, then we are much more likely to… Read more »

Mike Ellwood
Mike Ellwood
Mar 13, 2020 7:07 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Yes… Corbett, entertaining though he is, is essentially a libertarian anti-big-government guy. I on the other hand believe in government, as big as it needs to be and suitably devolved and with an effective local component. It should of course not be run by psychopaths, but by a democratically elected government chosen by a well-informed intelligent electorate. (We clearly have some way to go there). I certainly don’t want to be ruled by a bunch of hairy peppers, roaring around in their SUV’s and armed with pump-action shotguns, like extras from some dystopian movie. James Corbett may imagine he is living in some libertarian paradise over there in Japan. In fact he is living under a strongly governed and well-planned state with strictly authoritarian Conservative social norms. If the Japanese PTB thought for one moment that he was any kind of threat, he’d be out on his ear before you… Read more »

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 7:33 PM
Reply to  Mike Ellwood

Psychopaths always gravitate to the top, because it is they who are always most motivated to seek power.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:04 AM
Reply to  Mike Ellwood

Believing in it is one thing. Having the ability to make it actually work in a worthwhile manner quite another.

The best government shuns limelight, does the boring things really well and does not waste money on vanity projects. You will find several local authorities who do this rather well, rather fewer Central Departments.

The real question about ‘governments’ is whether they actually serve their electors or truly serve wealthy paymasters whilst spouting claptrap for the masses.

My opinion is that unless you hold their noses to the grindstone, professional politicians will always chase the money, the limelight and the sinecures.

Tutisicecream
Tutisicecream
Mar 13, 2020 1:55 PM

To put this in perspective we are now being told hyped up guff about bat flu -especially at the Guardian [panic-stations anything can happen in the next half hour!].

This is an interesting info graphcomment image

Also read “The Swine Flu ‘Pandemic’ Was Officially a Hoax, Corona Virus Probably is Too. Big Pharma Stands to Profit, Again” By Joe Quin at SOTT net. https://www.sott.net/article/430642-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Was-Officially-a-Hoax-Corona-Virus-Probably-is-Too-Big-Pharma-Stands-to-Profit-Again

Here in Russia everyone is aware of the “pandemic” but no one is panicking – no shortages of toilet roll etc. We understand fake news in Russia when we see it.

As Joe Quinn points out the definition of “pandemic” has been changed. And as Catte pointed out recently there has been some gerrymandering of the edits on Spanish Flu vis-à-vis Wikipedia.

RobG
RobG
Mar 13, 2020 3:25 PM
Reply to  Tutisicecream

Chinese scientists are saying that almost half of the tests for Covid-19 return false positives:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32133832?fbclid=IwAR3KtTRFTp9eb0aA-8ThVONEMGeGhecOnjMJtIblbClp8ufahx71HOFSWdg

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:10 AM
Reply to  RobG

If they are PCR-based, then you need to be really careful about sample collection, processing and general laboratory procedures not to generate false positives.

Rushing things, being slapdash under time pressure is the quickest way to generate false positive PCR results known to humankind.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:08 AM
Reply to  Tutisicecream

Want to add the following:

1. Heart disease due to smoking and alcohol.
2. Class A drug abuses.
3. Road Traffic accidents.
4. Deaths from fire.
5. Deaths in war like Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan etc etc etc
6. Deaths from lack of clean drinking water.
7. Deaths in the first five years of life.
8. Deaths due to cancer.

Then maybe add lists of:
1. Sexual abuse of adults and children.
2. Continual harassment and bullying leading to depression, suicidal thoughts etc.
3. The effects of poor diet.
4. The effects of living in damp homes, inadequately heated in winter.

You will soon find far more pressures from a multitude of other sources.

But CoVid19 is THE ONE!

Yeah right………

harvey golan
harvey golan
Mar 13, 2020 1:39 PM

it is impotent that all goy take the vaccines it does not matter which one taking everything that going will be the safest option. bear in minds 2 week old babies have had 10 shots not including the shots mom had while baby was in the belly. bill gates is correct we really do need to do a good job with vaccines. remember is you are khazar ashkanazim please insist on a kosher mercury monkey virus free vaccine this is the sum of all are fears believe compliance is critical. in other news buildimg and construction works are ongoing at london bridge and other entry points into the city of london including london bridge works will be ongoing until october a castle keep so to speak security for the money changers is essential. if visiting the little old church in temple you will find the resting place of lord blah… Read more »

sabina de sturler
sabina de sturler
Mar 14, 2020 11:57 AM
Reply to  harvey golan

WTF?

Greg Bacon
Greg Bacon
Mar 13, 2020 1:34 PM

I’ll stick to my daily dosing of 2-3 garlic cloves and massive amounts of Vit C. Maybe that weaponized Corona that the US Army dumped into China to tank their economy will actually come back to tank the US economy and bring about some of the grief, despair, destruction and death we’ve visited on the world numerous times since 1945. Don’t think Americans will like tasting their own medicine.

Steve Jack
Steve Jack
Mar 13, 2020 12:44 PM

Any thoughts on this, which claims to have had 17,000,000 views within 48hrs, and which has also been shared, in part, by Moon of Alabama? I’d be happy to be convinced that it’s bunkum (as it goes against some of my better – and more cynical – instincts), but it does read fairly convincingly to me:

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 1:35 PM
Reply to  Steve Jack

That article is being widely promoted and is an attempt, in my view, to confuse ordinary people who are not scientists or epidemiologists into believing they are being given alarming new information when they are not. I believe it to be a well-crafted and cynical effort. If you break down the actual information provided therein it is basically a very long elucidation of the self-evident fact that in any viral cluster there will be newly emerging clinical and subclinical cases, particularly in the emergent phase, that are not yet incorporated into the stats. In other words there is a time lag between cases developing and being officially recognised. This is the situation with everything, every pathogen, every minor or major contagion cluster. Every cold outbreak, every viral gastroenteritis outbreak. It is absolutely and perfectly normal. As cases peak and begin to dwindle this lag also becomes less, until eventually new… Read more »

Steve Jack
Steve Jack
Mar 13, 2020 2:47 PM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Thanks. That’s helpful.

RobG
RobG
Mar 13, 2020 3:46 PM
Reply to  VirusGuy

I’m with you VirusGuy on your final sentence.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 2:09 PM
Reply to  Steve Jack

This comment I am typing in right now has had 19,000,000,000,000 viewers already. See- I can talk shite too!

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 9:20 AM
Reply to  crank

— very iffy numbers.

the denominator of the mortality rate should be the total number of patients infected at the same time as those who died. Notably, the full denominator remains unknown because asymptomatic cases or patients with very mild symptoms might not be tested and will not be identified. Such cases therefore cannot be included in the estimation of actual mortality rates, since actual estimates pertain to clinically apparent COVID-19 cases.

crank
crank
Mar 15, 2020 10:20 AM
Reply to  milosevic

— very iffy numbers.

Arguably so, but at least the Lancet flag that up themselves.
In the interest of some balance, there is this interview with Amesh Adalja from John Hopkins that puts the mortality rate significantly lower (0.1-0.6%) based on the Korean data. He thinks that the shutdown measures could be disproportionate and damaging:
https://samharris.org/podcasts/191-early-thoughts-pandemic/

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 13, 2020 12:03 PM

Appreciate the James Corbett video. Witnessed another day of panic buying frenzy here in Melbourne. I suppose its the same everywhere now. All throughout the West.
A number of people have actually run out of money, and are trying to get refunds on things like the mountain of toilet paper they’ve bought in the last few weeks.
Have started telling people: don’t watch the news, don’t read the papers, they’re pushing all this fear.
A few actually agreed, and said they’d already done that.
A number of others here are openly expressing their anger at all the ‘greedy and selfish people in Australia’.
But most, however, are reacting just exactly how the 0.01% psychopaths want them to react.

lundiel
lundiel
Mar 13, 2020 12:47 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

What is a tragedy for some is an opportunity for others: overheard a woman boasting about buying-up all the hand-sanitiser in the Pound Shop and selling it online for £5 a bottle. Claimed she’d made £400 so far…….that’s “entrepreneurs” for you.

JohnB
JohnB
Mar 13, 2020 2:34 PM
Reply to  lundiel

They should punish the people who bought it …

sabina de sturler
sabina de sturler
Mar 14, 2020 11:58 AM
Reply to  JohnB

why, it’s just essence of capitalism.

Capricornia Man
Capricornia Man
Mar 13, 2020 12:56 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Hi GP. Four decades of neo-liberalism have created hoards of ‘me-firsters’, heedless of the deprivation their panic-buying is inflicting on others. My local supermarket has not only been without toilet rolls, but also spaghetti, many lines of tinned fish, non-lite oats (porridge); vitamin C is in short supply, didn’t notice any paper towels. Both local pharmacies were out of anti-bacterial hand wash (one of them had new stocks yesterday).

All totally pathetic, but a sombre lesson in how saturation media coverage of a problem can result in part of a population acting irrationally. There are obvious parallels with media propaganda during election campaigns.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 13, 2020 8:49 PM

I fully agree with you about the psychological effects that 40 years of Neoliberalism has had on people CM.
I’ve seen that every single day since I began selling the mag.
My observations is, by and large, its those under 35; particularly the hipster and yuppie crowd who are the most cold hearted and selfish, especially towards those they deem losers or bludgers.
The corporate suit types are also in that bracket. Pretty obvious tho.
Good luck with navigating the supermarket mate. It’s dog eat dog out there.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:30 PM

It’s very evident in Australia-the greedy rule, not OK. The situation, however, is self-limiting.

JudyJ
JudyJ
Mar 13, 2020 1:56 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 13, 2020 8:55 PM
Reply to  JudyJ

I’m surprised there wasn’t a security guard guarding it! Thanks J.

JudyJ
JudyJ
Mar 13, 2020 10:39 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Somebody commented BTL on the Mail article that the lorry had probably started out on its journey with a full trailer load!

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 2:20 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

In NL, the same. The ‘funny’ thing is, they all stay at home for (self) quarantine and then all go to the supermarket to infect one another?

Not that it matters, the whole thing is a hoax, but the logic behind the panic is very dubious.

Ramdan
Ramdan
Mar 13, 2020 3:59 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

I wonder…what the heck with the toillet paper!!!???? Does it hace anti-viral properties???!!…or is it just that they re all shitting in their pants?? 🤔😷🤧

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 13, 2020 11:00 PM
Reply to  Ramdan

I suggest it’s the second one Ramdan, not the first! Supermarkets here in Aussie now rationing quite a few things.
It’s like war time…

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 9:33 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 14, 2020 12:33 PM
Reply to  milosevic

It’s just bonkers M. Many people in this country have flipped. I read earlier someone on a Facebook group I’m on overheard someone in a gym boasting that their spare room was full of toilet paper. There are increasing numbers of people here in Australia expressing their disgust and anger at all those panic buying and hoarding. Plenty of reports also that elderly pensioners can’t get toilet paper and some are even too scared to go into a supermarket. This is what Neoliberalism has turned people into. Gordon Gecko on steroids. And allegedly, Australia is ‘The land of the fair go and mateship’. Total mythological Bullshit. Well, a lot of these people are about to experience one hell of a nasty shock. The entire economic ponzi scheme known as Neoliberalism is about to come crashing down on all of us. In fact, it’s already begun. Good luck Milosevic, buckle up,… Read more »

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 14, 2020 3:25 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

— likewise for you.

paul
paul
Mar 14, 2020 11:00 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Just got back from the supermarket.
No baked beans, corned beef, spam, tinned peas, all the fruit and veg gone.
Shelves stripped bare like a plague of locusts.
Cashier said they were getting a daily delivery now instead of every few days.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Mar 15, 2020 1:02 AM
Reply to  paul

It’s like a snowball rolling down the hill…. turning into an avalanche.
In a different suburb of Melbourne today, standing near 2 supermarkets, and it’s complete bedlam. People and cars everywhere.
Shelves being emptied here also. Yesterday went to an Asian supermarket, and there was tons of food in there – rice, noodles, tinned food, sauces of every type.
What you say is where we’re heading.
The big economic reset is coming, and the Coronavirus fear mongering is a distraction. Thanks for your words Paul.

tonyopmoc
tonyopmoc
Mar 13, 2020 11:53 AM

It’s a serious mental illness inflicted on almost everyone who reads newspapepers, watches TV or goes on the internet. It also affects anyone who doesn’t who normally buys toilet paper.

The real world is more like this, which makes even grimmer reading – with people dropping dead as flies every day, and have been forever, of far more deadly diseases, so worry about that too.

https://www.sott.net/article/430633-Breathe-Dont-Succumb-to-the-Pathological-Hysteria-from-the-Coronavirus-Madness

Extract

“Regardless of how many people on the planet are actively aware of it, the truth is that tens of millions of people drop like flies from illness, depression and self-destruction every single day. And that’s a trend that has been ongoing for, well, a very long time. ”

Tony

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:33 PM
Reply to  tonyopmoc

About 150,000 people die every day on Earth, not ‘tens of millions’.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Apr 13, 2021 10:46 PM

Closer to 200,000 given variations in mean age at death (life expectancy) and the age of the population.

sabelmouse
sabelmouse
Mar 14, 2020 12:25 PM
Reply to  tonyopmoc

also famine!

bob
bob
Mar 13, 2020 10:34 AM

Coronavirus has obviously made an impact but nobody has discovered the antidote to the Hysteria-20 virus

name
name
Mar 13, 2020 12:24 PM
Reply to  bob

the antidote is knowledge.. everyone should be fully educated into how the virus works. what is meant by virus.. infection, host and the science of membrane invasion, lytic stage and the like.. and so on.. the entire narrative should be shifted (not hidden) from how many died, to what is the nature of the risk.. how does infection happen and will it be the thing that kills you.. ..cause as you say , something will. But corona virus have been around since when but the technology to understand it is present day knowledge.. that knowledge allows people to understand how to deal with it.including even the mental state of the persons dying from it. . accurate, complete, full and current Knowledge makes it easier for health care professionals to work with those impacted by it.. Closing down is necessary because the powers that be have not taken the precautions necessary… Read more »

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 2:08 PM
Reply to  name

Please don’t be offended but you have no idea what you are talking about and are merely parroting the media gibberish on this issue. Even if you are prepared to accept the reality of COVI19, which I do not, there is nothing in the epidemiology we are being presented with to justify any quarantine measures let alone the utterly insane measures we are seeing. Even if you don’t know anything about epidemiology can you not comprehend some basic statistics? We don’t quarantine flu with an r0 about the same as this supposed novel covi and numbers of clinical cases hugely surpassing it. We accept that more than half a million deaths will happen from flu but need to shield people from a few thousand covi deaths to the point of shutting down the whole of society. Why would this be the case? Are you less dead if the flu kills… Read more »

aspnaz
aspnaz
Apr 13, 2021 10:53 PM
Reply to  bob

The first step to combatting the hysteria is to focus on infections rather than cases. This is the first “pandemic” to focus on cases and it is proving to be a complete distraction that just goes to scare the shit out of people. I’m sure this is no accident!

People should only be tested when feeling ill: identify the cause, implement the remedy as required.

Testing healthy people is just a way to frighten people, especially when the authorities know that the tests will return a certain number of false positives. It is also of zero value in determining anything: it is designed to scare people.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 10:31 AM

I cannot believe the belligerence of this corra coverage. I am looking at the MSN homepage and every fucking news item is the virus.

“Mount Everest closes because of coronavirus pandemic”

See it’s even on mountain tops!

“Dr Christian claims Italians are using Covid-19 as excuse to siesta”

See even the”cutesy” story is the corralorra!

The whole world had been reconfigured to the corralorra show.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:16 AM
Reply to  George Mc

I have simply stopped reading the MSM because it IS just blanket ‘Coronavirus’ stuff.

You can see who the spook journalists are though by the articles they have assigned their names to.

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 14, 2020 9:32 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

I started to wake up as far back as the mid-80s when, for the first time, I lived alone and gradually watched less and less TV. It was like coming off a drug. I could see for the first time. And the first thing I saw was how self-referential TV was i.e. a lot of programmes related to other programmes rather than the outside world.

But the problem is that when something as monomaniacal as this virus topic hits – and considering how fast the news bullshit is going – then even when you don’t watch (hell even when you’re in bed trying to sleep!) you are wondering what new bullshit is being pumped out.

sabina de sturler
sabina de sturler
Mar 14, 2020 12:30 PM
Reply to  George Mc

st patrick’s day in IRELAND!!!!!!!

different frank
different frank
Mar 13, 2020 10:09 AM

Just found this amusing vid on twitter.
https://twitter.com/JoshuaGarfield/status/1238254879807885314

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 9:54 AM

Some notes on those test kits I saw you asking about on Twitter yesterday. They don’t do antibody tests. They do a thing called PCR testing, which basically takes a sample of your cells and amplifies any DNA to look for ‘viral sequences’, i.e. bits of non-human DNA that seem to match parts of a known viral genome. The problem is the test is known to be bullshit. It uses ‘amplification’ which means taking a very very tiny amount of DNA and growing it exponentially until it can be analysed. Obviously any minute contaminations in the sample will also be amplified leading to potentially gross errors of discovery. Secondly, it’s only looking for partial viral sequences, not whole genomes, so identifying a single pathogen is next to impossible even if you ignore the other issues. All these Mickey Mouse test kits being sent out to hospitals do at best is… Read more »

Mike Ellwood
Mike Ellwood
Mar 13, 2020 10:52 AM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Wait! You are using actual science to cast doubt on an official story?

How dare you!

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 11:52 AM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Well said. Your comment deserves to be mentioned above the line.

One quibble: they do viral load testing for HIV with PCR (if I am informed correctly). Why does that work for HIV while not for Corona?

JohnB
JohnB
Mar 13, 2020 12:04 PM
Reply to  Willem

You might have answered your own question, Willem. Maybe it doesn’t.

If you’re interested, I’d go through some of Jon Rappoport’s older stuff.

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 2:25 PM
Reply to  JohnB

Ok I’ll do that. Thanks.

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 4:00 PM
Reply to  Willem

The official answer is PCR can measure viral load if you do all the necessary and time-consuming analysis which they will not have time or money to do for this covi. The answer everyone knows but won’t say in public is this is not true, not for covi or HIV. You can run the tests for sure but with this kind of amplification you are as likely to be measuring contamination or by products of normal metabolic processes. You will get different results from the same sample in different labs due to differently calibrated equipment, different methodologies and other immeasurable variables. You will get different results on different runs in the same lab. Effectively and brutally you can’t get any real measure of viral load with PCR. It does not work. You may be able to identify viral DNA if you are flawless in your procedures. Assessing loads is virtually… Read more »

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 5:16 PM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Thanks for answering that question for me. Very helpful, thanks.

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 13, 2020 12:32 PM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Thank you for that VirusGuy. Very helpful in gleaning an understanding of viruses, virus testing and how they can bodgy the story up.

lundiel
lundiel
Mar 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Can you please answer a question that has been plaguing (pun intended) me? How do you really test for the bat flue coronavirus? Would the only certain method be a blood test?

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Mar 14, 2020 9:23 AM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Well, if you think that the airheads on the BBC are going to think for themselves for their £100k a year salaries, think again. All they will do is read teleprompters like parrots. What does Fiona Bruce know about science, other than nothing? The Asian hosts of London news? Nothing. But they are spreading this propaganda unthinkingly, uncritically and with zero knowledge of what they are talking about. Football commentators are now preaching to fans in the papers about something they know nothing, when on phone ins they claim their professional knowledge trumps legitimate questioning by members of the public. I say to football commentators: ‘you know nothing about science, so SHUT UP! I know a lot about science, worked in the field for 20 years. Biter bit, eh?’ The elite have the herd where they want them: clueless, panicky, brainless and trusting absolute codswallop. They will be shorting stock… Read more »

Dungroanin
Dungroanin
Mar 14, 2020 9:42 AM
Reply to  VirusGuy

Fabulous thanks VG.

It has been reported in Chinese media Global Times :

‘Chinese team has developed a rapid antibody test that can diagnose coronavirus within 15 minutes by testing a drop of blood. It can be used for the rapid screening of SARS‐CoV‐2 carriers, symptomatic or asymptomatic, in hospitals, clinics, and test labs’

What do you make of that – is it useful/usable?

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 9:05 AM

I caught one headline today: “Many more will lose loved ones” and it occurred to me that this has been the big giveaway all along: the breathless pronouncements of doom delivered with absolute certainty. They are not telling you what MIGHT happen. They are telling you what WILL happen i.e. something they cannot possibly know unless they are following a script.

JudyJ
JudyJ
Mar 13, 2020 12:42 PM
Reply to  George Mc

It’s been apparent for a long time that hospitals work to an active agenda of ‘seeing off’ elderly patients who make the mistake, willingly or otherwise, of entering their hallowed premises. Add to that the significant number of elderly bed blockers. Well, coronavirus can now help resolve these problems, with no questions asked.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:40 PM
Reply to  JudyJ

Many old people have no real quality of life. They are kept alive for their relatives, or some of them, while often seeking a surcease of suffering. The medical industry opposes euthanasia mostly on economic terms, as great sums are to be made from useless interventions in the last weeks of life. Others are religious zealots.

samuel spock
samuel spock
Mar 13, 2020 1:47 PM
Reply to  George Mc

it is a fact that many dissenters blog commenters non believers in the status quo will contract and pass.
luckily because of data base harvesting gchq and target all the infected and holocause them as has happened in china
for the safety of the hive the trouble makes criticull thinkers must be sanitised
already

Francis Lee
Francis Lee
Mar 13, 2020 6:57 AM

Francis Lee
Francis Lee
Mar 13, 2020 6:57 AM

Corona crisis economic crisis – listen to David Stockman

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 6:11 AM

Haven’t watched the vid yet, but just to want to comment that I haven’t seen any evidence that solidly proofs that Covid 19 is the deadly virus that it is supposed to be, and since extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence I remain sceptical.

MLS
MLS
Mar 13, 2020 8:30 AM
Reply to  Willem

But Willem, staying rational and demanding evidence is “irresponsible”! Citing data is just inviting more deaths.

It’s like fairies. Every time you say you don’t believe in the corona virus another victim dies! Why are you letting people die, Willem? What’s wrong with you? Be afraid! By a mask that doesn’t work! And trust the men from the government no matter what they say!

It doesn’t matter how staged some of the ‘hospital’ photos look or how many inordinate numbers of celebs test positive, or how dodgy the kits might sound, or how much agenda is tied up in the fear porn, I intend to keep believing – because it saves lives!!!

Oh and also, if I stop now I have to admit I’d been conned and that will make me feel silly. So I ain’t doing that!

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 9:22 AM
Reply to  MLS

I intend to keep believing – because it saves capitalism!!!

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 12:02 PM
Reply to  MLS

All true, but especially problematic is this part

‘ Oh and also, if I stop now I have to admit I’d been conned and that will make me feel silly. So I ain’t doing that!’

People who have been fooled should no that there is no shame in being fooled. The shame lies completely in those who deliberately fool others. But perhaps if you believe the story enough you will fool others since you think the story is true.

Perhaps that happened with MoA, of whom I find it difficult to believe that he is a sheep dog. The same MoA was BTW also fooled by the Kashoggi murder, which was also a jumping to conclusion meme as in

Observation: none
Conclusion murder

Or as with Covid 19

Observation: none
Conclusion: we are going to die from bat flu

Willem
Willem
Mar 13, 2020 12:07 PM
Reply to  Willem

Or as the lovely Carl Sagan explains as how you can make dinosaurs out of no observation

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj5A0rKI0Ag

Jumping to conclusions is a very prevalent fallacy and does explain in full the current scare on Covid 19

Charlotte Russe
Charlotte Russe
Mar 13, 2020 2:46 AM

After purchasing a fluffy ivory colored winter coat I noticed a small label sewn into its seam describing the fabrics contents. The label said 97 percent wool, with three percent “unknown fibers.” I wondered how fibers could be unknown. Did this mysterious substance come from a strange and mystical source, a distant exotic land, or acquired from an exploratory space mission–whatever….. COVID-19 is like the mysterious unknown fibers on that Ivory winter coat. Its origin is unknown. We’re told it surfaced from a wet market in Wuhan transmitted by culprit bats. Those testy placental mammals responsible for sars, rabies, and Ebola. However, that’s just one theory, other opinions have been posited. Some say it was harvested in a lab and it cleverly escaped, others say it was escorted out of the lab with the door held wideopen. In China, the government blames the US Army Labs for birthing this contagion,… Read more »

MLS
MLS
Mar 13, 2020 8:37 AM

All very true except for two things

1. Trump isn’t going anywhere. The US isn’t a democracy. Presidents are appointed and elections are rigged for show. Trump was picked over Hillary last time, probably because someone realised last minute she was just too insane to control. If the Establishment wanted Trump gone thus time they wouldn’t be putting Biden up against him. They think he has another four years in him.

2. You don’t need a virus to do all that stuff. You just need the story of a virus, and that’s what we have.

Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Mar 13, 2020 10:17 AM

The voting machines are primed and ready for every contingency…….

Mike Ellwood
Mike Ellwood
Mar 13, 2020 11:09 AM

But baby boomers can’t die!
They eat brown rice!

(I suppose a modern version of that old gag would be “…. they’re vegans!”)

Seriously, perhaps the global ptb took one look at how Brexit had dominated and paralysed British politic for 3 1/2 years and realised that a global deadly virus would be equally effective everywhere.

JohnB
JohnB
Mar 13, 2020 12:08 PM

Here’s another supposition, Charlotte –

5. It’s all a diabolical plot to prevent Liverpool FC winning the title and having a big parade. After one of the greatest seasons ever …

Charlotte Ruse
Charlotte Ruse
Mar 13, 2020 6:05 PM
Reply to  JohnB

In the US they did cancel all major professional sporting event’s, or they’re conducting them without an audience.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:42 PM
Reply to  JohnB

Exactly!!!!

milosevic
milosevic
Mar 13, 2020 12:09 PM

In China, the government blames the US Army Labs for birthing this contagion

do you have a reference for that?

if true, it should be widely publicized.

lundiel
lundiel
Mar 13, 2020 1:06 PM
Reply to  milosevic

I’ve had people tell me the Chinese made it in order to control their population. They may not have bat flue yet, but they’re certainly bat shit crazy.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 10:11 PM

One need only read of the activities of Shiro Ishii and Unit 731 in China, during the Japanese aggression (the descriptions of live dissection, ie vivisection, of human victims, illustrate that they surpassed in barbarity anything Mengele et al got up to)and the total impunity to prosecution granted them by the USA, in exchange for their ‘research findings’ into bio-warfare, in China, to know that the USA is quite capable of anything. That they used that research in Korea, in the Korean War, in the bio-warfare campaign that they still mendaciously deny to today, only confirms it.

Richard Le Sarc
Richard Le Sarc
Mar 13, 2020 9:47 PM
Reply to  lundiel

The reaction of the racist and Sinophobic hard Right here in Australia has been rabid. I listened to two well brainwashed bogans on the bus yesterday, one an alcoholic long gone towards Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, I would say, and the sheer viciousness of the hatred of China was breath-taking. Decades of ruthless hate-mongering are bearing their fruit.

Watt
Watt
Mar 13, 2020 1:16 PM

‘baby boomers’ indeed. Here is the news…. This and other faintly pejorative sobriquets i.e. slackers, generation x, millenials etc. ad infinitum, are deployed as a divide and rule tactic. Best used sparingly, if ever.
cheers!
Watt.

MASTER OF UNIVE
MASTER OF UNIVE
Mar 13, 2020 1:26 AM

Can we still manufacture Soylent Green out of walking dead Zombies infected with COVID-19, or what?

MOU

Doctortrinate
Doctortrinate
Mar 13, 2020 3:43 AM

good question – I was just recently (and unfortunately) in conversation with one of these “things” – an arrogant, overbearing and bitter ego that at every other time, i’d not be within any contagious distance of whatsoever – it was during this brief and painful exchange that I began to envision a Virus – how it straddles somewhere between life and death – unconscious – it feels nothing until woken by sapping the goodness from others, replacing it with its own deathly, limitless contamination…..”How funny” I thought, I didn’t even need a microscope.

Fair dinkum
Fair dinkum
Mar 13, 2020 1:18 AM

“Daddy? Is the world gonna end?”
“Shut up. Can’t you see I’m taking a selfie”

Amarka
Amarka
Mar 13, 2020 12:54 AM

President Trump restricts travel from Europe due to coronavirus pandemic
US scaling up its response to coronavirus certain to cause further shockwaves around the world

https://theduran.com/president-trump-restricts-travel-from-europe-due-to-coronavirus-pandemic/

In a Europe Closed Down by the Coronavirus the EU Opens its Doors to the US Army. Could the Defender become the Invader of Europe?

30, 000 soldiers arrive in Europe without masks

https://www.voltairenet.org/article209437.html

A Pandemic – and 30,000 US Troops to Europe (Without Masks)

Mike Ellwood
Mike Ellwood
Mar 13, 2020 11:14 AM
Reply to  Amarka

History repeating itself.

“We’re coming over
We’re coming over
And we won’t come back
Till it’s over over there!”

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 13, 2020 12:25 PM
Reply to  Amarka

That really takes the cake.

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 13, 2020 12:54 AM

The coronavirus pandemic is, in reality, a “pandemic live exercise” following Event 201, a “pandemic tabletop exercise” in October. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ COVID-19 couldn’t be isolated even if it existed. What is the gold standard if it isn’t antibody testing, PCR or clinical diagnosis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard_(test) From commenter Tony: The ‘gold standard’ is laboratory isolated/purified coronavirus particles free from any contaminants and particles that look like viruses but are not, that have been proven to be the cause of the syndrome known as COVID-19 and obtained by using proper viral isolation methods and controls (not PCR or Serology /antibody tests which do not detect virus as such). This will never happen (short of a miracle!) because of the various constraints imposed on mainstream virologists and microbiologists. So yes, no isolated virus = no gold standard of comparison for any genetic material found, therefore no coronavirus and no COVID-19 per se apart from opportunistic… Read more »

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 13, 2020 3:09 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

Should’ve read beyond the headline. They’re going to release Chelsea and make her supporters pay her $250,000 worth of fines. Doncha love it? What a chortle they’ll have over that.

MLS
MLS
Mar 13, 2020 8:40 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

You’re correct on this one Petra. I 100% agree with you and you’re one of only a few talking real sense

covid-19
covid-19
Mar 13, 2020 3:54 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

Is the test for COVID-19 a test for antibodies?
The purpose of a vaccination is to cause your body to develop antibodies so that if you come in contact with the pathogen your body is already protected by antibodies to it. Thus if a vaccine is developed that causes your body to develop antibodies to COVID-19, then when you are tested after showing symptoms it will be concluded that you have the disease COVID-19. It seems I have heard a similar story somewhere before, HIV anyone?

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 10:01 AM
Reply to  covid-19

It’s not an antibody test, it’s a PCR test. I made a lengthy post about it just now. The PCR is less reliable than an antibody test. In fact it’s pretty much useless for diagnostics and wasn’t developed for such

Petra Liverani
Petra Liverani
Mar 28, 2020 5:20 AM
Reply to  VirusGuy

VirusGuy, I’m just wondering about your use of “osteogenesis” in another comment which I can’t find now. Can you please explain how it relates to viruses. My impression is that the word relates to bone formation but even if it does it may still be relevant or there may be some other explanation for it. Can you please elucidate.

“And that’s the only question that really matters when it comes to diagnosing illness. Everyone will have a few virus kicking round in their system at any time, and most will not cause illness because their quantities are too small. For a virus to sicken you you need a lot of it, a massive amount of it. But PCR does not test viral load and therefore can’t determine if a osteogenesis is present in sufficient quantities to sicken you.”

George Mc
George Mc
Mar 13, 2020 8:26 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

COVID-19 couldn’t be isolated even if it existed.

That’s the impression I get. We are given instructions on how to wash our hands that are so ludicrously intricate that I don’t see how anyone (far less everyone) can keep washing that way. We are also being told not to touch our faces. And we are being advised to “self-isolate” at the hint of a cough or shortness of breath i.e. pretty common experiences. It seems to me that these instructions are designed to have us leaping through hoops that are impossibly high to avoid an illness that cannot possibly be contained if it truly is as it is described. In short: a perfect way to terrify the populace into submission.

VirusGuy
VirusGuy
Mar 13, 2020 10:44 AM
Reply to  Petra Liverani

Your observation on the fraud of PCR testing is correct. See my comment made earlier. It’s long but needs to be read in entirety. No one in the system will admit to the level of fraud being perpetrated as of now, but many are aware and concerned.

clickkid
clickkid
Mar 13, 2020 12:15 AM

Very sane analysis from James Corbett.