As much as Covid-19 is a
circuit breaker, a time bomb and an actual weapon of mass destruction (WMD), a
fierce debate is raging worldwide on the wisdom of mass quarantine applied to
entire cities, states and nations.
Those against it argue Planet Lockdown not only is not stopping
the spread of Covid-19 but also has landed the global economy into a cryogenic
state – with unforeseen, dire consequences. Thus quarantine should apply
essentially to the population with the greatest risk of death: the elderly.
With Planet Lockdown transfixed by heart-breaking reports from
the Covid-19 frontline, there’s no question this is an incendiary assertion.
In parallel, a total corporate media takeover is implying that
if the numbers do not substantially go down, Planet Lockdown – an euphemism for
house arrest – remains, indefinitely.
Michael Levitt, 2013
Nobel Prize in chemistry and Stanford biophysicist, was spot on when he
calculated that China would get through the worst of Covid-19 way before
throngs of health experts believed, and that “What we need is to control the
panic”.
Let’s cross this over
with some facts and dissident opinion, in the interest of fostering an informed
debate.
The report Covid-19 – Navigating the Uncharted was
co-authored by Dr. Anthony Fauci – the White House face of the fight –, H.
Clifford Lane, and CDC director Robert R. Redfield. So it comes from the heart
of the U.S. healthcare establishment.
The report explicitly states, “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.”
On March 19, four days before Downing Street ordered the British
lockdown, Covid-19 was downgraded from the
status of “High Consequence Infectious Disease.”
John Lee, recently retired professor of pathology and former NHS
consultant pathologist, has recently argued that,
“the world’s 18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of the total.
These figures might shoot up but they are, right now, lower than other
infectious diseases that we live with (such as flu).”
He recommends, “a degree of social distancing should be
maintained for a while, especially for the elderly and the immune-suppressed.
But when drastic measures are introduced, they should be based on clear
evidence. In the case of Covid-19, the evidence is not clear.”
That’s essentially the same point developed by a Russian military intel analyst.
No less than 22
scientists – see here and here – have
expanded on their doubts about the Western strategy.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology
at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, has provoked immense controversy
with his open letter to Chancellor Merkel,
stressing the “truly unforeseeable consequences of the drastic containment
measures which are currently being applied in large parts of Europe.”
Even New York governor Andrew Cuomo admitted on the record about
the error of quarantining elderly people with illnesses alongside the fit young
population.
The absolutely key issue is how the West was caught completely
unprepared for the spread of Covid-19 – even after being provided a head start
of two months by China, and having the time to study different successful
strategies applied across Asia.
There are no secrets for the success of the South Korean model.
South Korea was producing test kits already in early January,
and by March was testing 100,000 people a day, after establishing strict
control of the whole population – to Western cries of “no protection of private
life”. That was before the West embarked on Planet Lockdown mode.
South Korea was all about testing early, often and safely – in
tandem with quick, thorough contact tracing, isolation and surveillance.
Covid-19 carriers are monitored with the help of
video-surveillance cameras, credit card purchases, smartphone records. Add to
it SMS sent to everyone when a new case is detected near them or their place of
work. Those in self-isolation need an app to be constantly monitored;
non-compliance means a fine to the equivalent of $2,800.
Controlled demolition in effect
In early March, the
Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases, hosted by the Shanghai Medical
Association, pre-published an Expert Consensus on Comprehensive Treatment of
Coronavirus in Shanghai. Treatment recommendations included, “large
doses of vitamin C…injected intravenously at a dose of 100 to 200 mg / kg per
day. The duration of continuous use is to significantly improve the oxygenation
index.”
That’s the reason why 50
tons of Vitamin C was shipped to Hubei province in early February. It’s a stark
example of a simple “mitigation” solution capable of minimizing economic
catastrophe.
In contrast, it’s as if the
brutally fast Chinese “people’s war” counterpunch against Covid-19 had caught
Washington totally unprepared. Steady intel rumbles on the Chinese net
point to Beijing having already studied all plausible leads towards the origin
of the Sars-Cov-2 virus – vital information that will be certainly weaponized,
Sun Tzu style, at the right time.
As it stands, the sustainability of the complex Eurasian
integration project has not been substantially compromised. As the EU has
provided the whole planet with a graphic demonstration of its cluelessness and
helplessness, everyday the Russia-China strategic partnership gets stronger –
increasingly investing in soft power and advancing a pan-Eurasia dialogue which
includes, crucially, medical help.
Facing this process, the EU’s top diplomat, Joseph Borrell,
sounds indeed so helpless: “There is a
global battle of narratives going on in which timing is a crucial factor. […]
China has brought down local new infections to single figures – and it is now
sending equipment and doctors to Europe, as others do as well. China is
aggressively pushing the message that, unlike the U.S., it is a responsible and
reliable partner. In the battle of narratives we have also seen attempts to
discredit the EU (…) We must be aware there is a geo-political component
including a struggle for influence through spinning and the ‘politics of
generosity’. Armed with facts, we need to defend Europe against its
detractors.”
That takes us to really explosive territory. A critique of the
Planet Lockdown strategy inevitably raises serious questions pointing to a
controlled demolition of the global economy. What is already in stark effect
are myriad declinations of martial law, severe social media policing in
Ministry of Truth mode, and the return of strict border controls.
These are unequivocal
markings of a massive social re-engineering project, complete with inbuilt full
monitoring, population control and social distancing promoted as the new
normal.
That would be taking to the limit Secretary of State Mike “we
lie, we cheat, we steal” Pompeo’s assertion, on the record, that Covid-19 is a
live military exercise: “This matter is going forward — we are in a live
exercise here to get this right.”
All hail BlackRock
So as we face a New Great Depression, steps leading to a Brave
New World are already discernable. It goes way beyond a mere Bretton Woods 2.0,
in the manner that Pam and Russ Martens superbly deconstruct the
recent $2 trillion, Capitol Hill-approved stimulus to the U.S. economy.
Essentially, the Fed will “leverage the
bill’s $454 million bailout slush fund into $4.5 trillion”. And no questions
are allowed on who gets the money, because the bill simply cancels the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) for the Fed.
The privileged private contractor for the slush fund is none
other than BlackRock. Here’s the extremely short version of the whole,
astonishing scheme, masterfully detailed here.
Wall Street has turned the Fed into a hedge fund. The Fed is
going to own at least two thirds of all U.S. Treasury bills wallowing in the
market before the end of the year.
The U.S. Treasury will be buying every security and loan in
sight while the Fed will be the banker – financing the whole scheme.
So essentially this is a Fed/
Treasury merger. A behemoth dispensing loads of helicopter money – with
BlackRock as the undisputable winner.
BlackRock is widely known as the biggest money manager on the
planet. Their tentacles are everywhere. They own 5% of Apple, 5% of Exxon
Mobil, 6% of Google, second largest shareholder of AT&T (Turner, HBO, CNN,
Warner Brothers) – these are just a few examples.
They will buy all these securities and manage those dodgy
special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) on behalf of the Treasury.
BlackRock not only is the top investor in Goldman Sachs. Better
yet: Blackrock is bigger than Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank
combined. BlackRock is a serious Trump donor. Now, for all practical purposes,
it will be the operating system – the Chrome, Firefox, Safari – of
Fed/Treasury.
This represents the definitive Wall Street-ization of the Fed – with
no evidence whatsoever it will lead to any improvement in the lives of the
average American.
Western corporate media, en
masse, have virtually ignored the myriad, devastating economic consequences of
Planet Lockdown. Wall to wall coverage barely mentions the astonishing economic
human wreckage already in effect – especially for the masses barely surviving,
so far, in the informal economy.
For all practical purposes,
the Global War on Terror (GWOT) has been replaced by the Global War on Virus
(GWOV). But what is not being seriously analyzed is the Perfect Toxic Storm: a
totally shattered economy; The Mother of All Financial Crashes – barely masked by the
trillions in helicopter money from the Fed and the ECB; the tens of millions of
unemployed engendered by the New Great Depression; the millions of small
businesses that will simply disappear; a widespread, global mental health
crisis. Not to mention the masses of elderly, especially in the U.S., that will
be issued an unspoken “drop dead” notice.
Beyond any rhetoric about
“decoupling”, the global economy is already, de facto, split in two. On one
side, we have Eurasia, Africa and swathes of Latin America – what China will be
painstakingly connecting and reconnecting via the New Silk Roads. On the other side, we have North
America and selected Western vassals. A puzzled Europe lies in the middle.
A cryogenically induced global economy certainly facilitates a
reboot. Trumpism is the New Exceptionalism – so that means an isolationist MAGA
on steroids. In contrast, China will painstakingly reboot its market base along
the New Silk Roads – Africa and Latin America included – to replace the 20% of
trade/exports to be lost with the U.S.
The meager $1,200 checks promised to Americans are a de facto
precursor of the much touted Universal Basic Income (UBI). They may become
permanent as tens of millions of people will be permanently unemployed. That
will facilitate the transition towards a totally automated, 24/7 economy run by
AI – thus the importance of 5G.
And that’s where ID2020 comes in.
AI and ID2020
The European Commission is involved in a crucial but virtually
unknown project, CREMA (Cloud Based
Rapid Elastic Manufacturing) which aims to facilitate the widest possible
implementation of AI in conjunction to the advent of a cashless One-World
system.
The end of cash necessarily implies a One-World government
capable of dispensing – and controlling – UBI; a de facto full accomplishment
of Foucault’s studies on biopolitics. Anyone is liable to be erased from the
system if an algorithm equals this individual with dissent.
It gets even sexier when
absolute social control is promoted as an innocent vaccine.
ID2020 is
self-described as a benign alliance of “public-private partners”. Essentially,
it is an electronic ID platform based on generalized vaccination. And its
starts at birth; newborns will be provided with a “portable and persistent
biometrically-linked digital identity.”
GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccines
and Immunization, pledges to “protect people’s health “ and provide
“immunization for all”. Top partners and sponsors, apart from the WHO, include,
predictably, Big Pharma.
At the ID2020 Alliance summit last September in New York, it was
decided that the “Rising to the Good ID Challenge” program would be launched in
2020. That was confirmed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) this past January in
Davos. The digital identity will be tested with the government of
Bangladesh.
That poses a serious question: was ID2020 timed to coincide with
what a crucial sponsor, the WHO, qualified as a pandemic? Or was a pandemic
absolutely crucial to justify the launch of ID2020?
As game-changing trial runs go, nothing of course beats Event 201, which took place less than a month
after ID2020.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership
with, once again, the WEF, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
described Event 201 as “a high-level pandemic exercise”. The exercise
“illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during
the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and
societal consequences.”
With Covid-19 in effect as a pandemic, the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health was forced to issue a statement basically
saying they just “modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly
stated that it was not a prediction”.
There’s no question “a severe pandemic, which becomes ‘Event
201’ would require reliable cooperation among several industries, national
governments, and key international institutions”, as spun by the sponsors.
Covid-19 is eliciting exactly this kind of “cooperation”. Whether it’s
“reliable” is open to endless debate.
The fact is that, all over
Planet Lockdown, a groundswell of public opinion is leaning towards defining
the current state of affairs as a global psyop: a deliberate global meltdown –
the New Great Depression – imposed on unsuspecting citizens by design.
The powers that be,
taking their cue from the tried and tested, decades-old CIA playbook, of course
are breathlessly calling it a “conspiracy theory”. Yet what vast swathes of
global public opinion observe is a – dangerous – virus being used as cover for
the advent of a new, digital financial system, complete with a forced vaccine
cum nanochip creating a full, individual, digital identity.
The most plausible
scenario for our immediate future reads like clusters of smart cities linked by
AI, with people monitored full time and duly micro-chipped doing what they need
with a unified digital currency, in an atmosphere of Bentham’s and Foucault’s
Panopticum on overdrive.
So if this is really our
future, the existing world-system has to go. This is a test, this is only a
test.
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