The Perfect Virus

Covid-19 is the perfect virus for creating a crisis. If one were trying to create a crisis where the vast majority of people were scared enough to embrace authoritarianism, one could not have done better than the absolute panic this has created. When do people turn to authoritarian solutions? When they are worried about their next meal, when they are sick, when they are scared about foreign invasion. While the last is probably not on anyone's mind, the first two certainly are.

So what happens first? You must scare the begibies out of the people. With an unknown virus that is easy. Within our popular consciousness is a vague awareness of the plagues that killed millions in the middle ages reinforced by current scenarios played out in popular movies and television, the unseen bug striking people down indiscriminately is absolutely frightening. To elevate a virus from a concern to apocalypse just takes media and government hype. Put the words “pandemic”, “highly contagious”, and “deadly” together and put them out there all the time and you can't help but create panic. Everyone thinks this is the big one, the virus from “Contagion” or “I Am Legend” and people will be dropping in the streets, bodies will be burnt in piles outside of town and life as we know it will cease to exist. So when they tell you to “shelter in place” because your neighbors can inadvertently throw the virus at you from less than six feet away just by standing there, you'll do it.

The hype requires a few things. A death count that keeps people scared. A rapidly mounting number of cases to reinforce the idea that it is highly contagious. Daily or hourly reminders that all the experts agree that the course of action taken is the only one that will keep everyone from dying. But before we address the hype, we must consider the whys; why this virus now and why this unprecedented response. The question of why this virus now is an interesting one and perhaps will not be answered for a long time. Is COVID-19 actually new? Was is created in a lab or is it naturally occurring? Does it exist at all? The last question may seem absurd but think about it. How many of us understand the science behind identifying and testing for a new virus? Very, very few. I would say that the vast majority of physicians wouldn't know the first thing about developing a test for such things. That remains in the realm of laboratories and specialized equipment, not the average joe with a microscope. So if the “experts” in the WHO(UN/pro world government) and the CDC(deep state/big pharma funded organization) decided to make up a virus and a test for it, would we know it? 

Then there is the 'why now?' The opposite of authoritarianism is liberty and there is no question that this response, basically requiring house arrest for the people of the world, is an assault on liberty. There can be no question that President Trump, love him or hate him, had taken a wrecking ball to cherished big government institutions. He has little appreciation for the United Nations and the WHO, his fights with the entrenched bureaucracy, i.e. the deep state, are well documented. His attacks on China has been ongoing. After eight years of anti-American rhetoric, diminishing American power and influence, the selling out of vital American interests to China and others, President Trump comes along and tries his best to reverse that trend. He has made a lot of enemies within and without who want to see him gone. But with a roaring economy and an inept field of opponents, his re-election seemed assured. Since Russian collusion and impeachment didn't bring him down, it was time to enact another, much more radical and destructive contingency, the one the great Dr. Fauci himself predicted just before Trump's inauguration. “No doubt” said the good doctor, “Donald J. Trump will be confronted with a surprise infectious disease outbreak during his presidency.” So was a made up or actual virus released purposefully to take down President Trump or are nefarious people just taking advantage of an opportunity? Hard to say right now. The only difference is whether the people involved are part of a premeditated criminal conspiracy or just criminal opportunists. But if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck.....

This virus, if it is real, is perfect for the job. It isn't particularly deadly, no worse than the flu. Oh, but there have been tens of thousands of people dying form Covid-19. Have there? Read the documents. There are two medical codes for Covid-19 reporting, U07.1 and U07.2. U07.1 is for death by coronavirus infection and U07.2 is for “for clinical or epidemiological diagnosis of COVID-19 where a laboratory confirmation is inconclusive or not available.” The CDC guidance further states “The underlying cause depends upon what and where conditions are reported on the death certificate. However, the rules for coding and selection of the underlying cause of death are expected to result in COVID- 19 being the underlying cause more often than not.” And the famous Dr. Brix in her daily briefing has said a Covid death is a death that happened WITH, NOT DUE TO, Covid-19. Fear people! Unless there is enough death and destruction to keep people scared, its not going to be effective. We all have no trouble believing China fudged Covid-19 statistics for their own political benefit, do we really put it past our own deep state people to do the same? Why has the US death count 'skyrocketed' compared to other nations? And look at them, the politicians and bureaucrats. They are not personally behaving like this is as serious as they want us to believe it is. Notice how government drones are still hard at work, they haven't been divided into essential and non-essential as they are during snowstorms and government shutdowns. No, if this virus was really as deadly serious as they say, people might actually be dying horrible deaths in the streets causing real panic, and it might actually kill some of them. Can't have that. And out common sense tells us this. Even if the numbers are right, chances are we don't know someone who has Covid-19 much less someone who has died from it. But we do what we are told, some of us out of real fear but most of us out of our desire to protect our fellow citizens. We don't think its going to kill us but if the 'experts' say this is necessary to keep others from dying, we do it; Americans are that kind of people. 

But its destroying the economy, why would they want to do that if its wasn't really serious? Socialists walk a fine line. They want to steal enough to keep their own power and luxury but not too much that the people rebel or give up. Don't want to run out of other people's money too fast. In this case, if the objective is to get rid of President Trump, you don't want to kill the golden goose, you just want it sick enough so the vet gets fired. On the other hand, there are those who think the United States has been illegitimate from its founding, built on racism and theft, that its wealth and power are immoral and unfair. Or, more recently, the main contributor to the destruction of the planet. Notice all the stories about reduced emissions and cleaner air and water due to the lack of economic activity. These people would love to see the US completely collapse so they could rebuild it in their image. The neanderthal President Trump is just incidental to this restructuring. Shutting down large swaths of the economy, loading us with unsustainable debt and destroying the dollar through massive money printing, a perfect storm to wreak this great nation. And of course you cannot leave out the fact that beside those deep state/one worlders within, there are our enemies without, China and, to a lesser extent Russia, who are contributing to the fear and chaos. China practically owns much of the media who are its apologists and propaganda outlets. And Russia's willingness and ability to influence social media has been well known for years. So we have traitors within and enemies without who have a vested interest in seeing the economic collapse of the United States and its subsequent fall from lone superpower status.

All sound absurd, too much? A conspiracy to take down President Trump and/or America as a whole? Use your common sense. Our response to this supposed pandemic doesn't even make medical sense but this is what we are being told to do by the medical “experts” with constant reinforcement by the media who label people who question such guidelines from foolish to dangerous. We are being told to do everything that is unhealthy in order to combat the virus. We are told to stay indoors, all the parks and open spaces are closed. But the sun itself is an anit-microbial and is necessary for the production of vitamin D, a necessary component of a healthy immune system. We are told this disease is highly contagious yet we are funneling everyone into a limited number of stores with limited hours. Social isolation leads to depression which opens up a whole other can of worms. Think of the losses people have suffered, loses they can do nothing about but sit around and stew over. The celebration of life events that cannot be redone-graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, bar mitzvahs and weddings. People who have spent their lives training for sporting events like the college basketball tournaments or the Olympics. People who have finally taken the huge step and started their own restaurant, investing their entire life's savings only to have it forced closed before it opens. This has destroyed the hopes and dreams of millions, a recipe for mass depression. Finally, add to that all the stress caused by the fear mongering, stress known to lower immune function and increase a whole list of other killers like high blood pressure. Forget the economic cure being worse than the disease, the medical prescription is much more deadly.

Now consider the political prescription. If this isn't proof of a conspiracy, I don't know what is. One death in California and its a state of emergency, same thing in New York except there was a state of emergency and no deaths. Businesses, sporting events, closed; any gatherings of more than a handful of people banned. Two weeks later, total legal lockdown which, with legal ramifications, amounts to house arrest. Banned church services. Restricted gun sales. The list of unconstitutional actions is long and frightening. This has never been done before even in wartime yet every statist democrat and some republican governors jumped on this quickly and without question, knowing the damage it would do to their state's economies and to their own treasuries. What politician in his or her right mind would cut his or her own throat? And then there are the absolutely inane decrees by some politicians. Why are we letting prisoners out in response to a highly contagious disease? They can be easily isolated in prison; after all that's what prisons are for! And in order to 'protect' them you are letting people out that one, are probably going to commit more crimes and two, are unlikely to respect the state's orders to stay home. On top of that some idiots decided they are not going to prosecute 'minor' crimes! Therefore, the only rational reason for these policies is to spread both disease and fear. And then there are the rules some mayors or governors are making that seem to be just seeing what they can get away with, how far they can push before the people push back. 

Now let's consider some other implications for society. By closing down restaurants, sporting events, bars, concerts and prohibiting any gatherings of more than ten people, they are removing all the things that enable us as Americans to enjoy collectively American experiences. Whether its a sporting event where millions can cheer or boo together or an intimate gathering in a restaurant or bar, we are unable to personally connect with other people. We are social creatures, we require it psychologically. Now consider what has taken its place. Social media, our phones. First, this is artificial. We know it and no one really wants to live in a virtual world devoid of actual human contact. Second, now almost all our interactions are available for spying, corporate or government. Third, as a side note, by making people scared to touch others or things they have touched, it makes a cashless society more appealing which means all our economic activity is now subject to observation and control. Then there is the fact that our information, conversations and opinions are going to be subject to the censors at Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other media platforms and our information choices subject to the skewed algorithms of Google. Now that local retailers are closed we are relying more on Amazon which can, and does, pick and choose who may use its platform so our economic choices will become more limited as well.

So what are the results of this pandemic? Maybe a few hundred thousand people in the whole world die. Unfortunate for them and their families, certainly, but most of them were going to meet their Maker soon enough anyway, so the statistics say. We have accepted the fact that the government at any time it chooses can destroy our livelihood and prohibit us from that most basic right, the right to provide what is necessary for our own life. The government can prohibit our right to assemble and travel, and our right to the free exercise of our religion any time it chooses. It can further restrict our right to protect ourselves. By pushing us further into a virtual world it has made spying on and controlling us much easier. It has enabled certain huge businesses to have an inordinate influence and impact on our lives. It has separated us, isolated us and made us wary of one another, making organized resistance to all these actions much more difficult. This pandemic, real or imagined, created or simply used, has, without a doubt, pushed us a long way toward a real, tangible totalitarianism. The question is, will we accept this new normal, become comfortable with the additional weight of our chains or will we stop complying with our own subjugation?