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The Coronavirus Hoax

By Ron Paul

Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.

It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.

Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, “stop and seize any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of contagious disease.” He can even call out the military to cordon off a US city or state.

State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas, water, or electricity to any citizen. The governor of Ohio just essentially closed his entire state.

The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu, a claim without any scientific basis.

On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an already tanking economy by stating, “Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant.” He has pushed for closing the entire country down for 14 days.

Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000 worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast, tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days, killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over this?

Read the entire article HERE.

Why the remedy may be worse than the disease

By Dennis Prager

The current consensus favors near total social isolation, or “social distancing,” as it is now called. The thinking is that we must shut down the Western world to prevent the exponential growth of the virus. If we don’t, our hospital systems will be overwhelmed. Many thousands, maybe more, would die, as doctors have to make grisly triage decisions as to who gets care and who doesn’t. This latter scenario is reported to have already happened in Italy.

Though there is no longer an exponential growth in the United States, they may otherwise be right.

Is this thinking correct? The truth is we don’t know.

We have no idea how many people carry the COVID-19 coronavirus. Therefore, the rates of either critical illness or death are completely unknown. Perhaps millions of people have the virus and nothing serious develops, in which case we would have rates of death similar to (or even below) the flu virus. On the other hand, perhaps not many people carry the virus, but the rates of illness demanding intensive care and of death are much greater than those of the flu.

We can only be certain that shutting down virtually every part of society will result in a large number of people economically ruined, life savings depleted, decades of work building a restaurant or some other small business destroyed. As if that were not bad enough, the ancillary effects would include increased depression and divorce and other personal tragedies. The effects of closing schools for weeks or months will include family chaos, vast numbers of bored young people, health care providers who will have to stay home and more. Yet young people are the least likely people to become ill from the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this statement regarding closing schools:

“Available modeling data indicate … that other mitigation efforts (e.g., handwashing, home isolation) have more impact on both spread of disease and health care measures. In other countries, those places who (sic) closed school (e.g., Hong Kong) have not had more success in reducing spread than those that did not (e.g., Singapore).”

But the longer-term ripple effects are potentially far worse. Economic disasters rarely remain only economic disasters. To give a particularly dramatic example, the Nazis came to power because of economics more than any other single reason, including Germany’s defeat in World War I, the Versailles Treaty or anti-Semitism. Nazi success at the polls was almost entirely related to the Weimar economy. Communist parties don’t fare well in robust economies, but they’re very tempting when people are in dire economic straits. Only God knows what economic dislocation the shutting down of American and other Western economies will lead to. I am not predicting a Nazi or communist ascendancy, but economic and political disaster may be as likely, or even more likely, than a health disaster.

But here is a prediction: If the government can order society to cease functioning, from restaurants and other businesses to schools, due to a possible health disaster, it is highly likely that a Democratic president and Congress will similarly declare emergency and assert authoritarian rule in order to prevent what they consider the even greater “existential threat” to human life posed by global warming.

The dam has been broken. Maybe it was necessary. But when dams break, flooding follows.

Read the entire article HERE.

The left-wing media has LIED for so long that now Trump supporters don’t believe anything reported about the coronavirus

Via Natural News

A new survey has found that a majority of those convinced that news coverage about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is exaggerated identify as Republicans, while less than one in three Democrats is questioning the media’s narrative about the pandemic.

An Axios / SurveyMonkey poll of 4,512 American adults surveyed between March 5-9 found that 62 percent of Republicans and those who “lean Republican” aren’t buying mainstream media reporting about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), presumably because many of these news outlets have been lying and spreading fake news about other things for years.

The pandemic has become a partisan affair, in other words, with self-identifying conservatives believing that the whole thing will eventually just blow over with little impact, and life will return to normal. Democrats, on the other hand, are much more in favor of taking government-advised precautions, including social distancing, self-isolation, and even mandatory quarantines.

The question they were all asked stated, “Thinking about what is said in the news, in your view is the seriousness of coronavirus generally exaggerated, generally correct, or is it generally underestimated?”

A mere three out of 10 Republicans believes that news coverage pertaining to the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is “generally correct,” while nearly half of all Democrats believe what they’re being told. And about 20 percent of Democrats believe that media reporting about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is “generally underestimated,” while only seven percent of Republicans feel this way.

As for the independents, 35 percent believe that media coverage of the pandemic is exaggerated, while 45 percent think it’s correct. Only 16 percent of independents believe that the media is underestimating the severity of this burgeoning global crisis.

The vast majority of people in all political camps who believe media coverage about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) is exaggerated fall between the ages of 18 to 64, while most of those in the 65-plus age category believe the media is telling them the truth.

Interestingly, most people who make less than $50,000 per year also believe the media, while most of those who make more than this believe that the media is stretching the truth to make the crisis worse than it needs to be.

Read the entire article HERE.

Andrew Gillum To Check Into Rehab, Withdraw From Public Life Over Scandal

Via Trending Politics

Disgraced former Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum has announced that he is checking into alcohol rehab after an ugly scandal effectively ended his political career.

The rising Democrat star came frighteningly close to winning the Florida governorship in 2018 and had a bright future in the party until he was caught in a Miami hotel room with a gay male escort who had overdosed on meth.

Three bags of the drug were discovered by police although Gillum denied that he ever used them instead claiming that he was drunk.

The details were so lurid that there was little hope that Dems and their media allies could contain the story about a man who had as a CNN political analyst was a valuable foot soldier in the war on President Trump.

Now he is going away and withdrawing from public life.

Via Politico, “Gillum withdraws from politics after link to suspected drug overdose”:

Andrew Gillum said he would withdraw from public life, closing a chapter in his career that took him from the peak of Florida power to a Miami Beach hotel room where he was found inebriated with a man suspected of overdosing on crystal meth.

“This has been a wake-up call for me,” the former Tallahassee mayor said in a written statement Sunday. “Since my race for governor ended, I fell into a depression that has led to alcohol abuse. I witnessed my father suffer from alcoholism and I know the damaging effects it can have when untreated. I also know that alcoholism is often a symptom of deeper struggles.“

“I will be stepping down from all public facing roles for the foreseeable future,” he wrote.

Gillum said he would enter a rehabilitation facility. He apologized and asked for privacy.

The one-time gubernatorial candidate will give up the reins of Forward Florida, a political committee he founded to register and motivate voters to defeat President Donald Trump in the battleground state.

He also is stepping back from CNN, where he was paid commentator, a gig that made him a familiar face in the living rooms of voters.

Gillum who is married with three young children had portrayed himself as a beacon of morality and this particular tweet hasn’t aged very well.

Even worse than the suspected drug usage was the man who Gillum was in the room with, an openly homosexual male escort and self-described “pornstar performer” who is a “friend” of Gillum’s.

Read the entire article HERE.

Just Like Socialism, Bernie’s Campaign Collapsed Under Its Own Contradictions

Via The Federalist

In a single interview, Sanders may’ve forever demolished the effort to convince the American electorate he is a perfectly benign ‘democratic socialist.’

If Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential bid isn’t dead, it’s definitely on life support. As of March 11, Sanders possesses 681 Democratic Party delegates versus Joe Biden’s 823. Key states like Michigan and those of the South have gone rather easily to Biden, proving that, for all his flaws, the establishment candidate may be whom Democrats prefer to take on President Donald Trump in November.

A week in politics is a long time, but, in 2020, 72 hours became the new time horizon. How did Sanders, who the Friday prior to Super Tuesday seemed unstoppable, suddenly crash?

Looks Like a Socialist, Talks Like a Socialist

Despite decades of documented history proving Sanders to be an avowed socialist, there’s been a concerted effort from his avid followership and segments of the media to prove he isn’t what he says and does. It’s an effort that goes back at least to his 2016 campaign, but more recent examples include such headlines as:

• Bernie Sanders Is a Democratic Socialist Not a Communist, Here’s the Difference
• Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Socialist
• Here’s the difference between a ‘socialist’ and a ‘democratic socialist’

What can only be characterized, at best, as an election-year makeover campaign began to fall apart on Feb. 23 in an interview Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes.” Among other things, Sanders stated: “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”

Right afterward, Sanders doubled down, which was really his only play, lest he come off as a flip-flopper. Despite his proclamation “Truth is truth,” his point wasn’t clear. Does improved literacy that occurred in the context of indoctrinating the population in communist ideology redeem Cuba in any way? Should the United States become more like such countries? Ultimately, these remarks went nowhere, perhaps because there wasn’t anywhere to go but down.

Read the entire article HERE.

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