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| DATE | 2021-01-03 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] researched facts wrapped in a ball of paranoia
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George will like this - the editor is an left wing educated crackprot
with a touch of anti-semetism - French Canadian
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/fake-covid-19-pandemic-refuting-the-conspiracy-theory-gone-global/
counterpunch.org
"Fake Covid-19 Pandemic:" Refuting the Conspiracy Theory Gone Global -
CounterPunch.org
The idea of a ‘fake pandemic to create economic chaos’ is not just an
‘extreme Right’ cry of militant anti-staters, libertarians, Trump
rallies and malcontents. It is proclaimed from the Left by a
world-renowned critical economist and the usually ahead-of the curve
website of which he is founding editor – now called Global Research News.
I responded with concern to the suspect claims being made on the site.
“The extreme right are running the anti-Covid-19 movement from the start
so far as I have seen”, I wrote my admired colleagued Michel
Chossudovsky, “and GR appears to join them from the left, especially
since its expertise too does not come from infectious disease knowledge”.
I then wrote the text of the following communication to follow up his
call for ‘a debate’ on the issue. Since the logical fallacies at the
heart of the ‘fake pandemic’ argument contribute to the deaths mounting
from dismissal of pre-cautionary practises against its virulent spread,
it is a life-and-death matter to expose their invalidity.
Isolation of the False Conclusions
All well-informed people can agree on these facts of the Covid-19
crisis. The leading corporate rich have vastly profited from it, and the
most vulnerable populations in the tens of millions have been stripped
of their very livelihoods and prospects of secure life. This is the
nature of the ruling disorder – to capitalize on any crisis to deepen
its bleeding of the public even more than before. It happens again and
again, as ‘shock doctrine’ has long recognized.
Certainly a Covid-19 Excess Profits Tax should be imposed to help pay
for its astronomical costs. Canada’s New Democratic Party is already
rightfully demanding this.
Yet the facts of system-wide exploitation of the Covid-19 crisis do not
show that the disease itself is fraudulent. No public infectious disease
expert anywhere in the world substantiates it. It is a fatal as well as
fallacious claim because its consequence is to repudiate the only
preventative measures that are known to work against the disease that
disables, hospitalizes and kills ever more vulnerable people. More
deeply, the Covid-19 deaths themselves – now more than 213,000 in the US
leading the world and still climbing – are in effect denied.
The Core of the Fake Pandemic Argument
The argument Michel Chossudovsky presents – simplified in his terms – is
that Covid-19 is a “fake pandemic to create economic chaos”. Yet this
amply documented case only shows the spiked disastrous effects of the
capitalist disorder for the poorer majority of the world, and payoffs
and power for the elites. All can agree on these consequences. But this
does not provide evidence of a ‘fake pandemic.’
Only one infectious-disease fact is provided from which to infer this
conclusion – namely, that “the standard PCR Test applied in relation to
Covid-19 does not detect or identify the virus. What it detects are
fragments of several viruses”. This fact also cores the argument for the
‘fake virus’ elsewhere.
We can all accept this fact, too. The research knowledge is clear that
there is ‘no gold standard’ test for the new Covid-19 Virus, including
the PCR (polymerase chain reaction testing). The most advanced
infectious-disease knowledge seems to be that if “PCR and anti-body
tests are combined at point of care, their reliability can be hugely
increased.”
Yet to conclude from the inadequacy of the PCR that ‘Covid-19 is a ‘fake
pandemic’ is a deadly non-sequitur. Just because this test for the
disease is so far inadequate alone does not remotely mean the widely
fatal disease does not exist.
Understanding Cause and Effect
What is fatally overlooked are the most basic facts of far more deaths
than in previous years from viruses, only one of which viruses is new –
Covid 19. This excess death rate in the US is graphed over five weeks
from the beginning.
When there is abnormal and very significant deviation of deaths from the
seasonal average, a cause is properly sought. If we define cause as a
non-redundant member of a set of jointly sufficient conditions, the
non-redundant or norm-deviant cause is Covid 19.
Whether or not the tests detect it accurately does not change the fact
that there are tens of thousands excess deaths occurring in varying
exponential rates across the world unless social prevention reduces or
eliminates them.
Moreover, no other causal hypothesis for all these excess deaths has
been defined. Nor has any explanation of why societies following or not
following the prevention techniques correspondingly reduce or increase
this abnormal death rate.
All of this relevant reality is left or selected out of the ‘fake
pandemic argument’ – the tell-tale operation of propaganda. In further
established fact, the death-rate declines or rises in correlation to
social masks, hygiene and distancing or not. Yes ‘economic chaos’ can
result from interventions such as ‘economic lockdown’ to ensure against
disease transmission. This lockdown method itself is certainly open to
question, and less total and socially targeted methods like Sweden’s may
work better in the end. The evidence is still unfolding. But nowhere has
it been shown that Covid-19 is a ‘fake disease’, nor does this claim
logically follow from any evidence that exists.
Community Solidarity in Response Alone Works
One can completely agree with the gross system injustice of all. It
remorselessly selects for the ruin of millions of lives of the poorer
majority. But despite this ‘covid-19 injustice’ virulently harming the
least most, rises and falls of the excess death rate nonetheless follow
in accordance with social response to the virus as real, not fake. For
example, the death in Canada has been 1/20th that of the US per capita,
and the Northern Saskatchewan Cree 1/4th of that, and Cuba more
effective – all of them treating Covid-19 as real and deadly if not
stopped in transmission.
Community solidarity in ensuring cooperation in the rules of masking,
distancing and quarantine is the common feature of lives being saved
rather than lost across the world – including societies not run by the
corporate rich profiting from the pandemic.
None of this is explained by the hypothesis of a ‘fake pandemic to
create economic chaos’. It refutes it. In simple logical terms. the
counter-hypothesis of a ‘fake pandemic to create economic chaos’ does
not follow from the facts, even those selected by the argument itself.
The Logic of Scientific Method
Any hypothesis is scientific only if there is evidence that can count
against it (the falsifiability criterion). What evidence can count
against this hypothesis of ‘fake pandemic’ to show it is not a closed
circle?
None has been presented anywhere.
The unseen consequences of the ‘fake epidemic’ claim being believed and
the known ways to stop it being dismissed are that the excess death toll
keeps rising with the vulnerable suffering and dying most.
In one sentence: The false conspiracy theory proclaimed right and left
as ‘freedom from the deep state’ drives the very death and suffering
spiral it claims to stand against.
John McMurtry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada whose work is
translated from Latin America to Japan. He is the author of the
three-volume Philosophy and World Problems published by UNESCO’s
Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), and his most recent book
is The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: from Crisis to Cure.
On 1/3/21 5:58 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> Anyone see this?
>
> https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652
>
>
>
> It is well researched and seemingly touches all the check marks. But
> there are some significant cracks, not the least is the overall
> reasoning. It deserves critique but much of its points are valid
>
>
>
> globalresearch.ca
> The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered
> Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset" - Global
> Research
> By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
> 151-192 minutes
>
> Preface
>
> The fear campaign has served as an instrument of disinformation.
>
> In the course of the last eleven months starting in early January, I
> have analyzed almost on a daily basis the timeline and evolution of the
> Covid crisis. From the very outset in January 2020, people were led to
> believe and accept the existence of a rapidly progressing and dangerous
> epidemic.
>
> Media lies sustained the image of a killer virus which initially
> contributed to destabilizing US-China trade and disrupting air travel.
> And then in February “V- the Virus†(which incidentally is similar to
> seasonal influenza) was held responsible for triggering the most serious
> financial crisis in World history.
>
> And then on March 11, a lockdown was imposed on 193 member states on the
> United Nations, leading to the “closure†of national economies Worldwide.
>
> Starting in October, a “second wave†was announced. “The pandemic is
> not overâ€.
>
> The fear campaign prevails. And people are now led to believe that the
> corona vaccine sponsored by their governments is the “solutionâ€. And
> that “normality†will be restored once the entire population of the
> planet has been vaccinated.
>
> The SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
>
> How is it that a vaccine for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which under normal
> conditions would take years to develop, was promptly launched in early
> November 2020? The mRNA vaccine announced by Pfizer is based on an
> experimental gene editing mRNA technology which has a bearing on the
> human genome.
>
> Were the standard animal lab tests using mice or ferrets conducted?
>
> Or did Pfizer “go straight to human “guinea pigs.� Human tests began in
> late July and early August. “Three months is unheard of for testing a
> new vaccine. Several years is the norm.â€
>
> Our thanks to Large and JIPÉM
>
> This caricature by Large + JIPÉM explains our predicament:
>
> Mouse No 1: “Are You Going to get Vaccinatedâ€,
>
> Mouse No. 2: Are You Crazy, They Haven’t finished the Tests on Humansâ€
>
> And why do we need a vaccine for Covid-19 when both the WHO and the US
> Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed
> unequivocally that Covid-19 is “similar to seasonal influenzaâ€.
>
> The plan to develop a vaccine is profit driven. It is supported by
> corrupt governments serving the interests of Big Pharma. The US
> government had already ordered 100 million doses back in July and the EU
> is to purchase 300 million doses. It’s Big Money for Big Pharma,
> generous payoffs to corrupt politicians, at the expense of tax payers.
>
> In the following chapters, we define the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the
> controversial RT-PCR test which is being used to “identify the virus†as
> well establish the “estimates†of the so-called “positive
> casesâ€.(Chapter II)
>
> In Chapter III, we examine in detail the timeline of events since
> October 2019 leading up to the historic March 11, 2020 lockdown.
>
> We assess the broad economic and social consequences of this crisis
> including the process of Worldwide impoverishment and redistribution of
> wealth in favour of the Super Rich billionaires.(Chapter IV and V)
>
> Big Pharma’s vaccination programme which is slated to be imposed on
> millions of people Worldwide is reviewed in Chapter VII.
>
> Chapter IX concludes with an analysis of the World Economic Forum’s
> proposed “Great Reset†which if adopted would consist in scrapping the
> Welfare State and imposing massive austerity measures on an impoverished
> population.
>
> This E-Book is preliminary. There is a sense of urgency. People
> Worldwide are being lied to by their governments.
>
> A word on the methodology: our objective is to refute the “Big Lieâ€
> through careful analysis consisting of:
>
> A historical overview of the Covid crisis,
> Scientific analysis and detailed review of “official†data,
> estimates and definitions,
> Analysis of the impacts of WHO “guidelines†and government policies
> on economic, social and public health variables.
>
> Our objective is to inform people Worldwide and refute the official
> narrative which has been used as a pretext and justification to
> destabilize the economic and social fabric of entire countries.
>
> This crisis affects humanity in its entirety: 7.8 billion people. We
> stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings Worldwide. Truth is a
> powerful instrument.
>
> I remain indebted to our readers and to the Global Research team.
>
> Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, December 11, 2020
>
> (revised on December 15, December 21, January 2, 2021)
>
> Spread the word. Please forward this text to friends and colleagues
>
> Copyright: Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). December 2020.
>
> The preface and Introductory chapter can be crossposted with a link to
> the complete E-book. If you wish to use or reproduce the text of the
> E-Book or sections thereof, kindly contact Michel Chossudovsky at
> crgeditor-at-yahoo.com
>
> About the Author
>
> Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics
> (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the
> Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global
> Research.
>
> He has undertaken field research in Latin America, Asia, the Middle
> East, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific and has written extensively on
> the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social
> inequality. He has also undertaken research in Health Economics (UN
> Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), UNFPA,
> CIDA, WHO, Government of Venezuela, John Hopkins International Journal
> of Health Services (1979, 1983)
>
> He is the author of eleven books including The Globalization of Poverty
> and The New World Order (2003), America’s “War on Terrorism†(2005),
> The Globalization of War, America’s Long War against Humanity (2015).
>
> He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have
> been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded
> the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on
> NATO’s war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at
> crgeditor-at-yahoo.com
>
> See Michel Chossudovsky, Biographical Note
>
> Michel Chossudovsky’s Articles on Global Research
>
> Chapter I.
>
> Introduction. Destroying Civil Society. The Fear Campaign
>
> Chapter II
>
> What Is Covid-19, SARS-2 : How Is It Tested? How Is It Measured?
>
> Chapter III
>
> The Corona Timeline
>
> Chapter IV
>
> Engineered Economic Depression
>
> Chapter V
>
> The Enrichment of the Super Rich. The Appropriation and Redistribution
> of Wealth
>
> Chapter VI
>
> “There Is No Cureâ€. Suppression of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), A Cheap
> and Effective Drug
>
> Chapter VII
>
> Big Pharma’s Covid Vaccine
>
> Chapter VIII
>
> Freedom of Expression. Categorizing The Protest Movement as “Anti-Socialâ€
>
> Chapter IX
>
> “Global Coup d’État†and the “Great Resetâ€. Global Debt and Neoliberal
> “Shock Treatmentâ€
>
> .
>
> .
>
> “It is time for everyone to come out of this negative trance, this
> collective hysteria, because famine, poverty, mass unemployment will
> kill and destroy the lives of many more people than SARS-CoV-2! †(Dr.
> Pascal Sacré)
>
> “I’m seeing patients that have facial rashes, fungal infections,
> bacterial infections. … In February and March we were told not to wear
> masks. What changed? The science didn’t change. The politics did. This
> is about compliance. It’s not about science… (Dr. James Meehan)
>
> “Once the Lie Becomes the Truth, there is No Moving Backwards. Insanity
> prevails. The world is turned upside down.†(Michel Chossudovsky)
>
> ***
>
> We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in World
> history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the sequence of
> events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been
> misled both by their governments and the media as to the causes and
> devastating consequences of the Covid-19 “pandemicâ€.
>
> The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext and
> a justification to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians
> to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment,
> bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.
>
> This is the true picture of what is happening. It is the result of a
> complex decision-making process.
>
> “Planet Lockdown†is an encroachment on civil liberties and the “Right
> to Lifeâ€.
>
> Entire national economies are in jeopardy. In some countries martial
> law has been declared.
>
> Small and medium sized capital are slated to be eliminated. Big capital
> prevails.
>
> A massive concentration of corporate wealth is ongoing.
>
> Its a diabolical “New World Order†in the making.
>
> Red Zones, the facemask, social distancing, the closing down of schools,
> colleges and universities, no more family gatherings, no birthday
> celebrations, music, the arts: no more cultural events, sport events are
> suspended, no more weddings, “love and life†is banned outright.
>
> And in several countries, Christmas reunions are illegal.
>
> Closing down the Global Economy is presented to us as a means to
> combating the Virus. That’s what they want us to believe. If the public
> had been informed that Covid-19 is “similar to seasonal Influenzaâ€, the
> fear campaign would have fallen flat…
>
> Image Pakistan Daily Times: Trainee Santas in UK
>
> The Pandemic was officially launched by the WHO on March 11, 2020
> leading to the Lockdown and closure of the national economies of 190
> (out of 193) countries, member states of the United Nations. The
> instructions came from above, from Wall Street, the World Economic Forum
> (WEF), the billionaire foundations.
>
> The March 11, 2020 pandemic was preceded by a WHO Public Health
> Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) on January 30th, 2020 which
> was followed in February by the destabilization of financial markets. On
> January 30th there were 83 cases outside China out of a total population
> of 6.4 billion. In the days preceding the February Financial Crash there
> were 453 cases outside China. (See our analysis in Chapter II)
>
> This diabolical project based on scanty and flawed estimates is casually
> described by the corporate media as a “humanitarian†endeavour. The
> “international community†has a “Responsibility to Protect†(R2P).
>
> In the words of Diana Johnstone, it’s “The Global Pretextâ€. An unelected
> “public-private partnership†under the auspices of the World Economic
> Forum (WEF), has come to the rescue of Planet Earth’s 7.8 billion
> people. The closure of the global economy is presented as a means to
> “killing the virusâ€.
>
> Sounds absurd. Closing down the real economy of Planet Earth is not the
> “solution†but rather the “cause†of a diabolical process of Worldwide
> destabilization and impoverishment.
>
> The national economy combined with political, social and cultural
> institutions is the basis for the “reproduction of real lifeâ€: income,
> employment, production, trade, infrastructure, social services.
>
> Destabilizing the economy of Planet Earth cannot constitute a “solutionâ€
> to combating the virus. But that is the imposed “solution†which they
> want us to believe in. And that is what they are doing.
>
> It’s the destruction of people’s lives. It is the destabilization of
> civil society.
>
> The Lies are sustained by a massive media disinformation campaign. 24/7,
> Incessant and Repetitive “Covid alerts†for the last eleven months. … It
> is a process of social engineering.
>
> What they want is to hike up the numbers so as to justify the Lockdown.
>
> And now there is a so-called “Second Waveâ€. Millions of covid-Positive
> Tests are now being tabulated.
>
> Covid-19 is portrayed as the “killer Virusâ€.
> Destroying Civil Society
>
> People are frightened and puzzled. “Why would they do this?â€
>
> Empty schools, Empty airports, bankrupt grocery stores.
>
> In France “Churches are threatened with Kalashnikovs over Covid-19
> outbreak†(April 2020)
>
> The entire urban services economy is in crisis. Shops, bars and
> restaurants are driven into bankruptcy. International travel and
> holidays are suspended. Streets are empty. In several countries, bars
> and restaurants are required to take names and contact information to
> support effective contact tracing if necessary.
>
> .
> Free Speech is Suppressed
>
> The lockdown narrative is supported by media disinformation, online
> censorship, social engineering and the fear campaign.
>
> Medical doctors who question the official narrative are threatened. They
> loose their jobs. Their careers are destroyed. Those who oppose the
> government lockdown are categorized as “anti-social psychopathsâ€:
>
> Peer reviewed psychological “studies†are currently being carried in
> several countries using sample surveys.
>
> Accept the “big Lie†and you are tagged as a “good person†with
> “empathy†who understands the feelings of others.
>
> …[E]xpress reservations regarding … social distancing and the wearing
> of the face mask, and you will be tagged (according to “scientific
> opinionâ€) as a “callous and deceitful psychopathâ€.
>
> In colleges and universities, the teaching staff is pressured to conform
> and endorse the official covid narrative. Questioning the legitimacy of
> the lockdown in online “classrooms†could lead to dismissal.
>
> Several medical doctors who oppose the COVID consensus or the vaccine
> have been arrested. In December, “Jean-Bernard Fourtillan, a retired
> university professor known for his opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine
> was arrested “by law enforcement officers under military command, and
> forcibly placed in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of
> Uzès.†Fourtillan is known as “longtime critic of vaccines that use
> dangerous adjuvantsâ€.
>
> Screen Shot: NTD, December 16, 2020
>
> Google and Twitter Marketing the Big Lie
>
> The opinions of prominent scientists who question the lockdown, the
> face-mask or social distancing are “taken down†by Google:
>
> “YouTube doesn’t allow content that spreads medical misinformation that
> contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health
> authorities‘ medical information about COVID-19, including on methods to
> prevent, treat or diagnose COVID-19, and means of transmission of
> COVID-19.†(emphasis added) They call it “fact checkingâ€, without
> acknowledging that both the WHO and local health authorities contradict
> their own data and concepts.
>
> .
>
> Similarly, Twitter has confirmed that “it will remove all posts that
> suggest there are ‘adverse impacts or effects of receiving
> vaccinations’… Twitter will: “memory-hole any posts that “invoke a
> deliberate conspiracy†or “advance harmful, false, or misleading
> narratives’ about vaccines.â€
>
> March 11, 2020: Engineered Economic Depression. Global Coup d’Etat?
>
> Destabilizing in one fell swoop the national economies of more 190
> countries is an act of “economic warfareâ€. This diabolical agenda
> undermines the sovereignty of nation states. It impoverishes people
> Worldwide. It leads to a spiralling dollar denominated global debt.
>
> The powerful structures of global capitalism, Big Money coupled with its
> intelligence and military apparatus are the driving force. Using
> advanced digital and communications technologies, the Lockdown and
> Economic Closure of the global economy is unprecedented in World history.
>
> This simultaneous intervention in 190 countries derogates democracy. It
> undermines the sovereignty of nation states Worldwide, without the need
> for military intervention. It is an advanced system of economic
> warfare which overshadows other forms of warfare including conventional
> (Iraq-style) theater wars. (See Chapters IV, IX)
> “Global Governance†Scenarios. World Government in the Post-Covid Era?
>
> The March 11 2020 Lockdown project uses lies and deception to ultimately
> impose a Worldwide totalitarian regime, entitled “Global Governance†(by
> unelected officials). In the words of David Rockefeller:
>
> “…The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
> world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
> and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
> auto-determination practiced in past centuries.†(quoted by Aspen Times,
> August 15, 2011, emphasis added)
>
> The Global Governance scenario imposes an agenda of social engineering
> and economic compliance:
>
> “It constitutes an extension of the neoliberal policy framework imposed
> on both developing and developed countries. It consists in scrapping
> “national auto-determination†and constructing a Worldwide nexus of
> pro-US proxy regimes controlled by a “supranational sovereignty†(World
> Government) composed of leading financial institutions, billionaires and
> their philanthropic foundations.â€(See Michel Chossudovsky, Global
> Capitalism, “World Government†and the Corona Crisis, May 1, 2020).
>
> Simulating Pandemics
>
> The Rockefeller Foundation proposes the use of “scenario planning†as a
> means to carry out “global governanceâ€. (For further details, see Michel
> Chossudovsky, May 1, 2020). In the Rockefeller’s 2010 Report entitled
> “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development
> Area†scenarios of Global Governance and the actions to be taken in the
> case of a Worldwide pandemic are contemplated.
>
> More specifically, the report envisaged (p 18) the simulation of a Lock
> Step scenario including a global virulent influenza strain. The 2010
> Rockefeller report was published in the immediate wake of the 2009 H1N1
> swine flu pandemic.
>
> Another important simulation was carried out on October 18, 2019, less
> than 3 months before SARS-2 was “officially†identified in early January
> 2020.
>
> Event 201 was held under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins Center for
> Health Security, sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and
> the World Economic Forum. (For details see Michel Chossudovsky, March 1,
> 2020)
>
> Intelligence and “The Art of Deceptionâ€
>
> The Covid crisis is a sophisticated instrument of the power elites. It
> has all the features of a carefully planned intelligence op. using
> “deception and counter-deceptionâ€. Leo Strauss: “viewed intelligence as
> a means for policymakers to attain and justify policy goals, not to
> describe the realities of the world.†And that is precisely what they
> are doing in relation to Covid-19.
>
> Video: The Event 201 Pandemic Exercise. October 18, 2019. Focusses on
> the extent of the pandemic. Also addresses within the simulation how to
> deal with online social media and so-called “misinformationâ€. (Listen
> carefully)
>
> Confirmed by prominent scientists as well as by official public health
> bodies including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Center
> for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Covid-19 is a public health
> concern but it is NOT a dangerous virus.
>
> .
>
> “The Global Pretextâ€
>
> .
>
> The COVID-19 crisis is marked by a public health “emergency†under WHO
> auspices which is being used as a pretext and a justification to
> trigger a Worldwide process of economic, social and political
> restructuring. The tendency is towards the imposition of a totalitarian
> State.
>
> Social engineering is being applied. Governments are pressured into
> extending the lockdown, despite its devastating economic and social
> consequences.
>
> There is no scientific basis for implementing the closing down of the
> global economy as a means to resolving a public health crisis. Both the
> media and the governments are involved in spreading disinformation.
>
> The fear campaign has no scientific basis. Your governments are LYING.
> In fact they are lying to themselves.
>
> .
>
> .
> Chapter II
> What Is Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2
> How Is It Tested? How Is It Measured?
>
> Are we dealing with a dangerous virus. Is it a pandemic?
>
> The fear campaign is relentlessly spearheaded by political statements
> and media disinformation. A closer examination of official reports from
> national health authorities as well as peer reviewed articles provides a
> totally different picture.
>
> SARS-CoV-2 is not a Killer Virus.
>
> According to an early report by the WHO pertaining to China’s epidemic:
>
> The most commonly reported symptoms [of COVID-19] included fever,
> dry cough, and shortness of breath, and most patients (80%) experienced
> mild illness. Approximately 14% experienced severe disease and 5% were
> critically ill. Early reports suggest that illness severity is
> associated with age (>60 years old) and co-morbid disease. (largely
> basing on WHO’s assessment of COVID-19 in China)
>
> Screenshot The Hill, March 19, 2020
> What is Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2.
>
> Lies through omission: the media has failed to reassure the broader
> public. Below is the official WHO definition of Covid-19:
>
> Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in
> animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause
> respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe
> diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe
> Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered
> coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19.
>
> The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are fever, dry cough, and
> tiredness. … These symptoms are usually mild and begin gradually. Some
> people become infected but only have very mild symptoms. Most people
> (about 80%) recover from the disease without needing hospital treatment.
> Around 1 out of every 5 people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill
> and develops difficulty breathing.
>
> “COVID-19 is similar to SARS-1″: According to Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg,
> pneumonia is “regularly caused or accompanied by corona virusesâ€.
> Immunologists broadly confirm the CDC definition. COVID-19 has similar
> features to a seasonal influenza coupled with pneumonia.
>
> According to Anthony Fauci (Head of NIAID), H. Clifford Lane and Robert
> R. Redfield (Head of CDC) in the New England Journal of Medicine
>
> …the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more
> akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality
> rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in
> 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have
> had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
>
> Dr. Anthony Fauci is lying to himself. In his public statements he says
> that Covid is “Ten Times Worse than Seasonal Fluâ€.
>
> He refutes his peer reviewed report quoted above. From the outset, Fauci
> has been instrumental in waging the fear and panic campaign across America:
>
> Screenshot The Hill, March 19, 2020
>
> Covid-19 versus Influenza (Flu) Virus A and Virus B (and subtypes) (Bear
> in mind seasonal influenza is not a coronavirus)
>
> Rarely mentioned by the media or by politicians: The CDC (which is an
> agency of the US government) confirms that Covid-19 is similar to Influenza
>
> “Influenza (Flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses,
> but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by
> infection with a new coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2) and flu is caused
> by infection with influenza viruses. Because some of the symptoms of flu
> and COVID-19 are similar, it may be hard to tell the difference between
> them based on symptoms alone, and testing may be needed to help confirm
> a diagnosis. Flu and COVID-19 share many characteristics, but there are
> some key differences between the two.â€
>
> If the public had been informed and reassured that Covid is “similar to
> Influenzaâ€, the fear campaign would have fallen flat.
>
> The lockdown and closure of the national economy would have been
> rejected outright.
> Detecting the Virus. Estimating and Tabulating the Numbers. The Reverse
> Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test (RT-PCR)
>
> The standard test used to “detect / identify†SARS-2 around the World is
> The Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test (RT-PCR).
>
> The PCR-RT test has been used to estimate and tabulate the number of
> so-called “confirmed†positive Covid-19 cases. (This is not the only
> test used. Observations below pertain solely to the standard PCR test).
>
> According to Nobel Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis who invented the RT-PCR
> test. (Dr. Mullis wrote, on May 7, 2013):
>
> PCR detects a very small segment of the nucleic acid which is part of a
> virus itself. The specific fragment detected is determined by the
> somewhat arbitrary choice of DNA primers used which become the ends of
> the amplified fragment.â€
>
> The PCR-RT developed by Dr. Kary Mullis has been applied in an
> erroneous way with a view to “estimating†SARS-2 positive cases, in most
> cases without a medical diagnosis of the patient.
>
> (See our observations below on the Drosten RT-PCR Study. As emphasized
> by Dr. Mullis and confirmed by prominent medical doctors, the PCR test
> does not “identify the virusâ€).
>
> Below are the concepts developed by the CDC.
>
> The Test for Covid-19 “Confirmed Casesâ€
>
> Below are the official definitions and procedures which are contradictory:
>
> “The COVID-19 RT-PCR test is a real-time reverse transcription
> polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) test for the qualitative detection
> of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in upper and lower respiratory specimens
> … collected from individuals suspected of COVID 19 … [as well as] from
> individuals without symptoms or other reasons to suspect COVID-19
> infection. …
>
> This test is also for use with individual nasal swab specimens that are
> self-collected using the Pixel by LabCorp COVID-19 test home collection
> kit … The COVID-19 RT-PCR test is also for the qualitative detection of
> nucleic acid from the SARS-CoV-2 in pooled samples, using a matrix
> pooling strategy (FDA, LabCorp Laboratory Test Number: 139900)
>
> This test is based on upper and lower respiratory specimens.
>
> The criteria and guidelines confirmed by the CDC pertaining to “The
> CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Diagnostic Panel†are as follows
> (Read carefully):
>
> Results are for the identification of 2019-nCoV RNA. The 2019-nCoV RNA
> is generally detectable in upper and lower respiratory specimens during
> infection. Positive results are indicative of active infection with
> 2019-nCoV but do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with
> other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of
> disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are
> required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health
> authorities.
>
> Negative results do not preclude 2019-nCoV infection and should not be
> used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management
> decisions. Negative results must be combined with clinical observations,
> patient history, and epidemiological information.
>
> What this suggests is that a positive infection could be the result of
> co-infection with other viruses. According to the CDC it “does not rule
> out “bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent
> detected may not be the definite cause of disease.†(CDC)
>
> The following diagram summarizes the process of identifying positive and
> negative cases: All that is required is the presence of “viral genetic
> material†for it to be categorized as “positiveâ€. The procedure does not
> identity or isolate Covid-19. What appears in the tests are fragments of
> the virus.
>
> A positive test does not mean that you have the virus and/or that you
> could transmit the virus.
>
> .
>
> A negative test does not mean that you do not have it.
>
> .
>
> The CDC concepts cited above suggest that the PCR as applied to estimate
> the spread of the virus– is dysfunctional. Moreover, amplification in
> excess of 25 cycles will inevitably result in misleading estimates.
>
> .
>
> What the governments want is to inflate the number of positive cases.
>
> Presumptive vs. Confirmed Cases
>
> .
>
> In the US, the CDC data include both “confirmed†and “presumptiveâ€
> positive cases of COVID-19 reported to CDC or tested under the
> jurisdiction by CDC since January 21, 2020.
>
> The presumptive positive data does not confirm coronavirus infection:
> Presumptive testing involves “chemical analysis of a sample that
> establishes the possibility that a substance is present“ (emphasis
> added). The presumptive test must then be sent for confirmation to an
> accredited government health lab. (For further details see: Michel
> Chossudovsky, Spinning Fear and Panic Across America. Analysis of
> COVID-19 Data, March 20, 2020)
>
> Similarly in Canada, “A point-of-care test†is a “rapid test done at the
> time and place of care, such as a hospital or doctor’s officeâ€. It
> consists in collecting “samples from the nose or throat using swabsâ€,
> which are then tested on site, with almost immediate results (in 30 to
> 60 minutes). But it does not confirm the presence of SARS-CoV-2.
>
> Serological testing or Antibody Tests for COVID-19
>
> According to the CDC, Serological tests do not detect the virus itself,
> “they detect the antibodies produced in response to an infection.â€
> Serological tests are not used for “early diagnosis of COVID-19.â€
> “False Positives†and the Identification of the Virus. The PCR Test does
> not Identify SAR-CoV-2
>
> While SARS-CoV-2 –namely the the virus which is said to cause COVID-19
> (categorized as a disease), was isolated in a laboratory test in January
> 2020, the RT-PCR test does not identify/ detect the virus. What it
> detects are fragments of viri. According to renowned Swiss immunologist
> Dr B. Stadler
>
> So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person, it is not a virus
> that is detected, but a small shattered part of the viral genome. The
> test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts
> of the virus left. Even if the infectious viri are long dead, a corona
> test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a
> tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected].
>
> The Question is Positive for What?? The PCR test does not detect the
> identity of the virus, According to Dr. Pascal Sacré,
>
> these tests detect viral particles, genetic sequences, not the whole virus.
>
> In an attempt to quantify the viral load, these sequences are then
> amplified several times through numerous complex steps that are subject
> to errors, sterility errors and contamination.
>
> Positive RT-PCR is not synonymous with COVID-19 disease! PCR specialists
> make it clear that a test must always be compared with the clinical
> record of the patient being tested, with the patient’s state of health
> to confirm its value [reliability]
>
> The media frighten everyone with new positive PCR tests, without any
> nuance or context, wrongly assimilating this information with a second
> wave of COVID-19.
>
> While the RT-PCR test was never intended to identify the virus, it
> nonetheless constitutes from the very outset the cornerstone of the
> official estimates of Covid-19 “positivesâ€.
>
> WHY then was it adopted??
>
> The Controversial Drosten RT-PCR Study
>
> F. William Engdahl in a recent article documents how the RT-PCR Test was
> instated by the WHO at the outset, despite its obvious shortcomings in
> identifying the 2019-nCoV. The scandal takes its roots in Germany
> involving “a professor at the heart of Angela Merkel’s corona advisory
> groupâ€:
>
> On January 23, 2020, in the scientific journal Eurosurveillance, of the
> EU Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Dr. Christian Drosten,
> along with several colleagues from the Berlin Virology Institute at
> Charité Hospital, [together] with the head of a small Berlin biotech
> company, TIB Molbiol Syntheselabor GmbH, published a study entitled,
> “Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCRâ€
> (Eurosurveillance January 23, 2020).
>
> While Drosten et al’s Eurosurveillance article (undertaken in liaison
> with the WHO) confirmed that “several viral genome sequences had been
> releasedâ€, in the case of 2019-nCoV, however, “virus isolates or samples
> from infected patients were not available … “:
>
> “The genome sequences suggest presence of a virus closely related to the
> members of a viral species termed severe acute respiratory syndrome
> (SARS)-related CoV, a species defined by the agent of the 2002/03
> outbreak of SARS in humans [3,4].
>
> We report on the the establishment and validation of a diagnostic
> workflow for 2019-nCoV screening and specific confirmation [using the
> RT-PCR test], designed in absence of available virus isolates or
> original patient specimens. Design and validation were enabled by the
> close genetic relatedness to the 2003 SARS-CoV, and aided by the use of
> synthetic nucleic acid technology.†(Eurosurveillance, January 23,
> 2020, emphasis added).
>
> What this (erroneous) statement suggests is that the identity of
> 2019-nCoV was not required and that “validation†would be enabled by
> “the close genetic relatedness to the 2003-SARS-CoV.â€
>
> The recommendations of the Drosten study (supported by the Gates
> Foundation) pertaining to the use of the RT-PCR test applied to
> 2019-nCoV were then transmitted to the WHO. They were subsequently
> endorsed by the Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom. The
> identity of the virus was not required.
>
> The above also explains the subsequent renaming by the WHO of the
> 2019-nCoV to SARS-CoV-2.
>
> The Drosten et al article pertaining to the use of the RT-PCR test
> Worldwide (under WHO guidance) was challenged in a November 27, 2020
> study by a group of 23 international virologists, microbiologists et
> al. “Their careful analysis of the original [Drosten] piece is damning.
> …They accuse Drosten and cohorts of “fatal†scientific incompetence and
> flaws in promoting their test†(Engdahl, December, 2020):
>
> In light of all the consequences resulting from this very publication
> for societies worldwide, a group of independent researchers performed a
> point-by-point review of the aforesaid publication [Drosten] in which 1)
> all components of the presented test design were cross checked, 2) the
> RT-qPCR protocol-recommendations were assessed w.r.t. good laboratory
> practice, and 3) parameters examined against relevant scientific
> literature covering the field.
>
> The published RT-qPCR protocol for detection and diagnostics of
> 2019-nCoV and the manuscript suffer from numerous technical and
> scientific errors, including insufficient primer design, a problematic
> and insufficient RT-qPCR protocol, and the absence of an accurate test
> validation. Neither the presented test nor the manuscript itself fulfils
> the requirements for an acceptable scientific publication. Further,
> serious conflicts of interest of the authors are not mentioned. Finally,
> the very short timescale between submission and acceptance of the
> publication (24 hours) signifies that a systematic peer review process
> was either not performed here, or of problematic poor quality. We
> provide compelling evidence of several scientific inadequacies, errors
> and flaws. (November 27, 2020 Critique of Drosten article, emphasis added)
>
> The results of the PCR Test applied to SARS-2 are blatantly flawed. At
> the time of writing (Second Wave) the test is being used extensively to
> hike up the numbers with a view to justifying a partial lockdown with
> devastating social and economic impacts including the engineered
> bankruptcy of tourism, air travel and the urban services economy. (See
> Chapters IV and V)
>
> The RT-PCR Test. CDC “Estimates†of So-called Covid-19 “Positive Casesâ€.
> How is the Data Tabulated?
>
> Below is a screen shot of the CDC form entitled Human Infection with
> 2019 Novel Coronavirus Case Report Form to be filled in by authorized
> medical/ health personnel
>
> Note the categorization, bearing in mind that neither the “Probable
> Case†nor the (RT-PCR) “Lab-confirmed case†are “confirmedâ€. Moreover,
> there is no way to identify the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a PCR lab test (as
> stated above).
>
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