The month of April sees a dramatic acceleration of the covid fear campaign and a parallel increase in the number of dissenters who object to the prevailing covid credo.
New Yorkers are ordered to wear masks or to stay apart. Authorities in Italy order citizens in the Lombardy region to wear masks.
The CDC recommends face masks for everyone.
Anthony Fauci says Americans should stop shaking hands; public gatherings are discouraged or outlawed; and compulsory “social distancing” becomes “the new normal” until a vaccine is developed.
Covid-19 “immunity passports” and biometric ID along with “pandemic drones” and phone-tracking data, both of which monitor social distancing, become part of the conversation on how to “control the spread” and manage social behavior.
Covid task forces are formed as highly coordinated lockdown measures take on an increasingly militarized “look and feel.”
Around the world new guidance for certifying “deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019” is issued. These guidelines encourage a liberal interpretation of a “covid death.”
The backlash from such incongruities is evident when numerous doctors assert that the “Covid-19 death” figures are being manipulated.
The head of Hamburg’s Institute of Forensic Medicine claims that “no one in Hamburg has died of Covid-19 without a previous illness.”
The Director of the Illinois Department of Health admits that not everyone listed as a “covid death” necessarily died from covid.
Physicians say hospitals are using economic incentives to pressure ER doctors to add “COVID-19” to diagnostic lists and death certificates. A Minnesota State Senator asserts that hospitals are getting three times as much money if so-called covid patients are put on a ventilator. Meanwhile, some doctors begin to question the “overly aggressive” use of ventilators.
The reports of empty hospital ERs, the shutting down of “coronavirus surge hospitals,” and the departure from harbors of scarcely used emergency hospital ships reflect the hysteria surrounding this alleged pandemic being hyped to biblical proportions.
Patients stop seeking help for life-threatening conditions, including heart attacks, because they are worried about catching coronavirus while in the hospital.
The collateral damage of the lockdowns is acknowledged by some public figures. Simultaneously protests against lockdowns and other draconian measures become more visible.
Reports of mass deaths in nursing homes emerge. Most of this happens behind closed doors as families are turned away under the guise of disease control.
Deaths spike but seemingly only in “care” homes and hospitals.
The criticism is voiced that the corona crisis might be a drastic exaggeration designed to intentionally induce panic.
Through all the chaos and confusion we are repeatedly told that an mRNA or DNA vaccine for the entire world is the only solution to get us back to pre-pandemic normal.
April 1, 2020 — CDC releases Vital Statistics Reporting Guidance Report No. 3: “Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)”
“In cases where a definite diagnosis of COVID–19 cannot be made, but it is suspected or likely (e.g., the circumstances are compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty), it is acceptable to report COVID–19 on a death certificate as ‘probable’ or ‘presumed,’” the agency advises. [Emphasis added.]
April 1, 2020 — New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says a “new normal” will emerge after coronavirus.
“When do we get back to normal? I don't think we get back to normal. I think we get to a new normal,” Cuomo says.
April 1, 2020 — President Trump says he will not issue a national stay-at-home order, according to the AP newswire.
“Trump said Wednesday he wants to give governors’ ‘flexibility’ on whether a stay-at-home policy is the best option for their constituents but acknowledged that he’s looking at limiting air and rail travel between hot spots within the United States. The Republican President remains hesitant to press a unified policy even after the White House released ‘sobering’ new projections on Tuesday that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans will likely succumb to the coronavirus even if current social distancing guidelines are maintained.”
April 1, 2020 — “Perspectives on the Pandemic: A Conversation with Dr. Knut Wittkowski.”
Interviewed and filmed by John Kirby, Libby Handros, and Lee Davis of “The Press & The Public Project.” Transcript published on Ratical.org.
Excerpts from a conversation between Dr. Wittkowski and John Kirby on “the first three months of the COVID-19 epidemic”:
JOHN: You were speaking to my producer the other day on the phone, and you said, “The pandemic is over.” What do you mean by that?
WITTKOWSKI: There are no more new cases in China and in South Korea. The number of new cases in Europe is already beginning to decline. The virus came later to the US, so here we see a bit of an incline, maybe, and leveling off within the next couple of days. And if we see that the cases are not increasing dramatically, that means that the number of new infections has already declined substantially and peaked about a week ago.
LIBBY: Do you believe the Chinese statistics? Do you think they’ve lied to us? Do you believe the stats that have come out of China?
WITTKOWSKI: The epidemic has ended there, yes. Because otherwise, we would see people emerging—and even in China, it’s today very difficult to keep information under the hood. If there were lots of cases in hospitals, if the hospitals that they built, the temporary hospitals, were still full, we would hear that. This could not be suppressed.
JOHN: During the press briefing yesterday, Fauci, and the President, and the rest of the people assembled, were saying that, had they not done the containment strategy that they have done, that upwards of 2 million people would have died in the United States. What do you think of that figure?
WITTKOWSKI: Well, I'm not paid by the government, so I’m entitled to actually do science. If [. . .] there had been no [government] intervention, the epidemic would have been over, like every other respiratory disease epidemic. [Emphasis added.]
April 1, 2020 — The ABC TV program “Good Morning America” features the dancing nurses of Tik Tok.
“One nurse found a fun way to spread joy beyond the walls of the hospital, using TikTok to share upbeat dance videos amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Kala Baker, a nurse at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri, joined ‘GMA’ via FaceTime on Wednesday along with her colleagues to talk about those videos that quickly gained millions of views on the social media platform.”
April 2, 2020 — The BBC reports: “People across the UK [take] part in a second 'Clap for Carers' tribute, saluting NHS staff and other key workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.”
“Delivery drivers, supermarket staff, care workers and bin collectors were among those honoured by the nation.
“Households banged pots and pans, while others played the bagpipes to show their support.
“The event is now expected to happen every Thursday at 20:00 BST.”
Similar events in honor of healthcare workers and essential staff were organized in many countries around the world.
“Videos of Italians singing opera, waving flags, and clapping for doctors and nurses quickly went viral, inspiring similar acts in Spain, France, and other parts of Europe. In Spain, people leaned out of their windows every evening at 8 pm to applaud medical workers, creating an emotional ritual.”
“In the United States, the ‘Clap Because We Care’ initiative began in New York City.”
“Across Canada and Australia, organised clapping sessions, musical performances, and neighbourhood light shows were staged.”
“Similar acts of recognition were seen in countries like India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi encouraged citizens to stand on balconies and clap.”
NOTE: Was all of this truly spontaneous or another in a series of organized, choreographed PR stunts?
April 2, 2020 — An OffGuardian headline: “Coronavirus Fact-Check #1: Covid19 is having an unprecedented impact on ICUs.”
The subhead: “The media claim this pandemic's effect on hospitals around the world has never been seen before, but is that true?”
“Coronavirus is nothing like the flu, the seasonal flu doesn't overwhelm health services like this.
“But is this true? We've done some research.
“In 2018 hospitals all across the United States were full to capacity with flu patients. Alabama declared a state of emergency. Elective surgeries were cancelled, patients were turned away.
“California hospitals were ‘war zones’ where people were treated in hastily erected tents.
“The same year ICUs in Milan were ‘totally overrun’ with flu cases.”
RELATED: In the March 7, 2020, New York State Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report, 7,166 laboratory-confirmed influenza reports were noted. A month later, in the April 11, 2020, report, only 143 laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu were reported in the entire state of New York during a statistically high-activity time of the year.
April 2, 2020 — CNN: “Officials keep calling the coronavirus pandemic a ‘war.’ Here’s why.”
“Donald Trump has called himself a ‘wartime president’ and said coronavirus is an ‘invisible enemy.’ The former CDC director Tom Frieden has warned of a ‘long war ahead.’ New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called on the public to support our ‘troops,’ otherwise known as health care workers.”
April 2, 2020 — Al Jazeera writes the startling headline: “‘Shoot them dead’: Duterte warns against violating lockdown.”
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned he would order the country’s police and military to shoot dead anyone ‘who creates trouble’ during a month-long lockdown of the island of Luzon enforced to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
“‘Let this be a warning to all. Follow the government at this time because it is critical that we have order,’ he said in a late-night televised national address on Wednesday.”
“‘And do not harm the health workers, the doctors [. . .] because that is a serious crime. My orders to the police and the military, if anyone creates trouble, and their lives are in danger: shoot them dead.’”
“Duterte’s warning came after residents of a slum in Manila’s Quezon City staged a protest along a highway near their shanty houses, claiming they had not received any food packs and other relief supplies since the lockdown began more than two weeks ago.”
April 3, 2020 — NATO’s Allied Command Operations COVID Task Force is formed as part of the highly coordinated lockdown “fight” against “the invisible enemy.”
“At the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on April 2nd, the North Atlantic Council directed General Tod D. Wolters to coordinate the necessary military support to combat the coronavirus crisis.”
“‘The men and women of Allied Command Operations focus day in and day out on deterrence and defense of the Euro-Atlantic Area. We will further leverage our expertise and our command-and-control capabilities to facilitate efforts in the fight against COVID-19, delivering results for NATO Allies,’ said Wolters.”
As part of NATO’s response in the fight against coronavirus, “German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer advocates improving NATO’s military capabilities to render it better at ‘combating less traditional security challenges’ such as climate change or disinformation campaigns.”
According to a European Parliament briefing, armed forces in almost all the EU member states have, coordination with NATO, “have provided vital assistance” as governments respond to the need to contain and vanquish the coronavirus.
April 3, 2020 — Henry Kissinger publishes “The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order” in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
“Drawing lessons from the development of the Marshall Plan and the Manhattan Project, the U.S. is obliged to undertake a major effort in three domains.
“First, shore up global resilience to infectious disease. [. . .] We need to develop new techniques and technologies for infection control and commensurate vaccines across large populations.”
“Second, strive to heal the wounds to the world economy. Global leaders have learned important lessons from the 2008 financial crisis. The current economic crisis is more complex: The contraction unleashed by the coronavirus is, in its speed and global scale, unlike anything ever known in history.”
“Third, safeguard the principles of the liberal world order.”
April 3, 2020 — CDC recommends face masks for everyone, NPR points out. The CDC has updated its website to recommend that everyone, including children, wear “cloth face coverings” in public spaces, and stay 6 feet apart to avoid potentially “spreading the infection to others.”
April 3, 2020 — People magazine cites a New York Times article that says approximately 4.4 billion people—or half the world’s population—are under lockdown restrictions and guidelines, which vary from country to country.
April 3, 2020 — “13 Studies Reveal How Social Distancing (i.e., Social Isolation) Can Increase Mortality,” reads a GreenMedInfo headline.
“Hundreds of millions of adults and children are now either in quarantine in their homes or engaged in ‘essential’ travel in the public sphere, while maintaining an unnatural distance from one another, because they have been told this is the best way to protect their individual and the public's health from a deadly virus. But what are the consequences of the social isolation caused by this mass social distancing experiment?”
“In the 13th study listed above, titled ‘Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors,’ researchers found that social isolation predicted mortality for both genders, and social isolation was as strong a factor in their mortality risk as smoking, and even higher than having high blood pressure. [Emphasis added.]
“Recently, another article worth reading, titled ‘The Pandemic America Forgot About,’ echoed these health concerns:
“Loneliness and social isolation have the same cardiovascular effects as smoking 15 cigarettes per day, but these factors also increase the risk of ‘all-cause morbidity,’ in other words, dying from any cause. Loneliness increases the risk of developing dementia by 50% and stroke by 32% while increasing the morbidity risk of cancer by 25%.”
April 3, 2020 — “Coronavirus upends global food supply chains in latest economic shock,” Reuters reports.
“In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows.
“It’s not a treat. They can either feed their crops to animals or let them spoil. And other farmers are doing just that — dumping truckloads of fresh grapes to rot on compost heaps.
“The farmers cannot get their produce to consumers because of lockdowns that aim to stop the spread of coronavirus. In India, as in many parts of the world, restrictions on population movement are wreaking havoc on farming and food supply chains and raising concern of more widespread shortages and price spikes to come.
“Across the globe, millions of laborers cannot get to the fields for harvesting and planting. There are too few truckers to keep goods moving. Air freight capacity for fresh produce has plummeted as planes are grounded. And there is a shortage of food containers for shipping because of a drop in voyages from China.”
April 4, 2020 — Authorities in Italy’s Lombardy region order all citizens to wear masks when outside, recounts CNN.
“According to a statement issued by the region’s president, Attilio Fontana, members of the public are now obligated to cover ‘their nose and mouth with masks, or even through simple scarves’ when leaving the house, until the April 13.
“‘The already authorized retail businesses also have the obligation to provide their customers with disposable gloves and hydro-alcoholic solutions for hand hygiene,’ Fontana added.”
April 4, 2020 — In other coronavirus news reported by CNN, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announces that the country’s state of alarm, which demands strict limits on people's movements and continues the closure of schools and most businesses, will continue for yet another two weeks.
“We are facing the great crisis of our lives,” Sanchez said in a nationwide address.
April 4, 2020 — “Google wielding its vast troves of phone-tracking data in virus fight,” declares a headline in Politico.
“Google will use its mammoth collection of mobile location data to measure whether people across the globe are following government directives to remain at home during the coronavirus pandemic — or are venturing out to locations such as stores, parks and offices.”
April 5, 2020 — What would serve as an immunity “badge” is proposed by James Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, on CBS News show “Face the Nation”:
“[T]here is a solution using available technology today to fix the economic part of this problem. The solution is universal testing. What you want is every single person to get tested every day. And then they would wear a badge like they would after they voted or something like that to show that they’ve been tested.”
April 5, 2020 — OffGuardian reveals that “Covid19 Death Figures [are] ‘a Substantial Over-Estimate.’”
“Bizarre guidelines from health authorities around the world are potentially including thousands of deceased patients who were never even tested,” notes the OffGuardian article’s subhead.
“The government is telling doctors it is OK to list ‘Covid-19’ as a cause of death when there is literally no evidence the deceased was infected. That means there are potentially huge numbers of ‘Covid19 deaths’ that were never even tested for the disease.
“Further, any possible mistakes will never be noticed or rectified, thanks to recent changes to the law.
“Usually, any death attributed to a ‘notifiable disease’ had to be referred to a coroner for a jury hearing.
“Under UK law Covid19 is a ‘notifiable disease’ but the new Coronavirus Bill alters the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 to specifically exempt alleged Covid19 deaths from jury inquests.”
April 6, 2020— The head of Hamburg’s Institute of Forensic Medicine, Professor Klaus Püschel, tells a German paper that “no one in Hamburg has died of Covid-19 without a previous illness.”
“This virus is affecting our lives in a completely exaggerated way. This is completely disproportionate to the danger posed by the virus,” Prof. Püschel is quoted as saying in this interview.
In another interview, Prof. Püschel notes:
“In quite a few cases, we have also found that the current corona infection has nothing whatsoever to do with the fatal outcome, because other causes of death are present — for example, a brain hemorrhage or a heart attack.
“[COVID-19 is] not particularly dangerous viral disease. [. . .] All speculation about individual deaths that have not been expertly examined only fuels anxiety.”
April 6, 2020 — Montana Physician Dr. Annie Bukacek Discusses How COVID-19 Death Certificates Are Being Manipulated in a speech whose transcript Global Research publishes.
“History-changing decisions are being made due to these figures despite the fact that they are flat-out wrong based on data that is insufficient and often inaccurate.”
“We need to understand how the CDC and the National Vital Statistics System are instructing physicians to fill out death certificates related to COVID-19. Brace yourselves, and please pay attention and let what I'm about to tell you sink in. The assumption of COVID-19 death could be made even without testing. Based on assumption alone, the death can be reported to the public as another COVID-19 casualty.”
“If a patient is positive for COVID-19 and dies from another cause such as pneumococcal sepsis, it may be considered accurate to say that person died with COVID-19, not from COVID-19. Yet the CDC guideline lists this case as one more COVID-19 death. [T]hey go to the next questionable death, they label that as COVID-19, and it goes on and on. You could see how these statistics have been made to look scary, when it is so easy to add false numbers to the official database.”
“The real number of COVID-19 deaths [is] not what most people are told and what they then think. How many people actually died from COVID-19 is anyone's guess. [. . .] Based on inaccurate, incomplete data, people are being terrorized by fear-mongers into relinquishing freedoms.”
April 6, 2020 — An article in The Hospitalist asks: “Is protocol-driven COVID-19 respiratory therapy doing more harm than good?“
The question surrounds the use of induced comas and ventilation of “covid” patients, most of whom walked into the hospital under their own power. Later statistics reveal that more than 90% of vented patients die under treatment.
“Physicians in the COVID-19 trenches are beginning to question whether standard respiratory therapy protocols for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are the best approach for treating patients with COVID-19 pneumonia,” reads the subhead.
“In a Letter to the Editor published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine on March 30 and in an editorial accepted for publication in Intensive Care Medicine, Luciano Gattinoni, MD, of the Medical University of Göttingen in Germany and colleagues make the case that protocol-driven ventilator use for patients with COVID-19 could be doing more harm than good.”
April 6, 2020 — The New York Times publishes a long letter from Yale Professor of Medicine Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, who asks, “Where Have All the Heart Attacks Gone?“
“Except for treating Covid-19, many hospitals seem to be eerily quiet.”
“Our hospital is usually so full that patients wait in gurneys along the walls of the emergency department for a bed to become available on the general wards or even in the intensive care unit.”
“What is striking is that many of the emergencies have disappeared. Heart attack and stroke teams, always poised to rush in and save lives, are mostly idle. This is not just at my hospital. My fellow cardiologists have shared with me that their cardiology consultations have shrunk.”
“The most concerning possible explanation is that people stay home and suffer rather than risk coming to the hospital and getting infected with coronavirus.”
April 7, 2020 — According to this Gothamist headline, a “Staggering Surge Of NYers Dying In Their Homes Suggests City is Undercounting Coronavirus Fatalities.”
“The FDNY says it responded to 2,192 cases of deaths at home between March 20th and April 5th, or about 130 a day, an almost 400 percent increase from the same time period last year.”
Monday, April 6th, the city reported 266 new at-home deaths.
People are afraid to go to the hospitals—a point The New York Times says cardiologists are confirming—lest they get infected with the “killer virus.” This means that, when they are in the early stages of cardiac arrest, for example, they stay at home, and some don’t make it.
NYC officials said they will not be conducting tests on these at-home deaths nor will they be doing any diagnostics on the cadavers. NYC officials confirmed that they will begin to count these as “suspected” COVID-19 deaths.
April 7, 2020 — Celia Farber at Undercover DC publishes an article that asks the question: “Was the COVID-19 test meant to detect a virus?“
In it, Farber introduces us to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) inventor Kary Mullis and to Infectious Myth host David Crowe.
She asked David Crowe what he thought Kary Mullis would say about this explosion of PCR insanity.
“I’m sad that he isn’t here to defend his manufacturing technique,” Crowe replied. “Kary did not invent a test. He invented a very powerful manufacturing technique that is being abused. He knew that, and he always said that.”
“PCR for diagnosis is a big problem,” Crowe continues. “When you have to amplify it these huge numbers of time, it’s going to generate massive amounts of false positives. Again, I’m skeptical that a PCR test is ever true.”
April 7, 2020 — Newsweek announces: “California County Fining Residents $1,000 For Not Wearing Face Masks in Public.”
“Residents in Riverside County, California, are now required to wear face coverings and could face a fine of $1,000 per violation per day if the mandate, which went into effect Sunday, is ignored.”
“‘While more and more Riverside County residents are getting COVID-19, not everybody’s getting the message,’ said Riverside County public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser in a statement Saturday. ‘It started with staying home, social distance and covering your face. But now we change from saying that you “should” to saying that you “must.”’
“‘This is a valid order and enforceable by fine, imprisonment or both,’ said Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco in a Monday video statement. ‘However, I need to make it perfectly clear to all residents of Riverside County we will not be setting up a police state and this is not a declaration of martial law in Riverside County.’”
April 8, 2020 — Stephanie Buhle, a spokeswoman for the New York City’s Health Department, confirms changes in how Covid deaths will be recorded, according to Gothamist.
“‘The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) and the NYC Health Department are working together to include into their reports deaths that may be linked to COVID but not lab confirmed that occur at home,’ [Buhle] said.”
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio suggests that the vast majority of deaths taking place at home are due to COVID-19, despite their being no tests or diagnosis to certify the cause of death.
“We do want to know the truth about every death at home, but it’s safe to assume that the vast majority are coronavirus related,” de Blasio said.
The article notes that the “covid” death count is “expected to soar” due to this change in attribution.
April 8, 2020 — Investigative reporter Jon Rappoport publishes a blog post entitled “Corona: creating the illusion of a pandemic through diagnostic tests.”
Rappoport quotes from “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel”: “Detection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms.”
He then does his own “translation” of the quote:
“A positive test doesn’t guarantee that the COVID virus is causing infection at all. And, ahem, reading between the lines, maybe the COVID virus might not be in the patient's body at all, either.”
April 8, 2020 — Sen. Scott Jensen (R-MN), a physician in Minnesota, is interviewed by “The Ingraham Angle” host Laura Ingraham on Fox News. He makes the claim that hospitals are getting paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and that they get three times as much money if COVID patients are put on a ventilator.
Jensen tells Ingraham:
“Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why? Because if it’s a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for—if they’re Medicare—typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000, but if it’s COVID-19 pneumonia, then it’s $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.”
The coronavirus relief legislation also created a 20% premium, or add-on, for COVID-19 Medicare patients.
Jensen’s claim was fact-checked by USA Today and found to be true.
PolitiFact reporter Tom Kertscher writes:
“The dollar amounts Jensen cited are roughly what we found in an analysis published April 7 by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a leading source of health information.”
April 8, 2020 — CEPI publishes an analysis of the COVID-19 vaccine development landscape.
Research by CEPI’s vaccine R&D team, published in Nature magazine under a section called “Nature Reviews Drug Discovery,” has identified 115 COVID-19 vaccines in development.
CEPI says its team members have been “continuously maintaining an overview of the global landscape of COVID-19 vaccine development activity.”
“From February 2020, onwards, the CEPI team will study the landscape of COVID-19 vaccine candidates by using internal and external data sources, including vaccine development programmes reported through the WHO’s authoritative and continually updated list; information from calls for proposals and direct communications with vaccine developers and partners; clinical trial and funders databases, publicly available literature; and media and press releases.”
“Most of the active projects are in exploratory or preclinical stages. However, five candidates have recently moved into clinical development, including mRNA-1273 (Moderna), Ad5-nCoV (CanSino Biologicals), INO-4800 (Inovio), LV-SMENP-DC and pathogen-specific aAPC (Shenzhen Geno-Immune Medical Institute). Notably, Moderna was able to start clinical testing of its mRNA-based vaccine just 63 days after sequence identification.”
A striking feature of the vaccine development landscape for COVID-19 is the range of technology platforms being evaluated. Many of these platforms are not currently the basis for licensed vaccines, but experience in fields such as oncology is encouraging developers to exploit the opportunities that next-generation approaches offer for increased speed of development and manufacture. [Emphasis added.]
Considering the candidates, the novel platforms based on DNA or mRNA offer great flexibility in terms of antigen manipulation and potential for speed.
Indeed, Moderna started clinical testing of its mRNA-based vaccine mRNA-1273 just two months after sequence identification.
April 9, 2020 — WHO releases its Solidarity Vaccine Trialprotocol: “An international randomized trial of candidate vaccines against COVID-19.”
“Recognizing the critical importance to world health of the rapid availability and deployment of effective vaccines against COVID-19, this large, international, multi-site, individually randomized controlled clinical trial will enable the concurrent evaluation of the benefits and risks of each promising candidate vaccine within 3-6 months of it being made available for the trial.”
April 9, 2020 — Fauci says: “In a perfect world Americans would stop shaking hands.”
“I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,” Fauci said during a Wall Street Journal podcast. “Not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease—it probably would decrease instances of influenza dramatically in this country.”
April 9, 2020 — In an NPR interview, Bill Gates gives high marks for social distancing efforts and says he thinks large public gatherings may have to wait until there’s a vaccine.
“What I’m saying, what Dr. [Anthony] Fauci is saying, what some other experts are saying, there’s a great deal of consistency. We’re not sure yet which activities should be resumed, because until we get a vaccine that almost everybody’s had, the risk of a rebound will be there.”
April 9, 2020 — “Italian law decree ‘Decreto Liquidità’” goes into full effect in Italy, including temporary measures to facilitate access to loans, to support business continuity and corporate liquidity, and to support export, internationalization, and business investment.
“On 9 April 2020, following regular publication on the Italian Official Gazette, Italian law decree No. 23/2020 (the “Decree”) came into force with immediate effect. The Decree's provisions aim at facing, by means of different measures, the crisis generated by the current COVID-19 health emergency.”
April 9, 2020 — The Guardian reports that “NHS staff performing TikTok dance routines to keep morale high.”
“NHS staff around the country are performing popular TikTok dance routines to boost team morale and encourage the public to stay at home.
“A number of viral videos have triggered the trend, with staff at multiple hospitals joining in with synchronised dance routines in their uniforms.
“The staff, working on ward J19 at St James’ Hospital, performed a synchronised dance to The Weekend’s Blinding Lights, a dance challenge that has taken the internet by storm over the past few weeks.”
QUESTION: How did the presumably busy-with-covid-cases nurses have time to practice these synchronized routines?
April 9, 2020 — “Intensive care doctors question ‘overly aggressive’ use of ventilators in coronavirus crisis,” we learn from The Telegraph in the UK.
The subhead reads: “Doctors seeing patients with blood oxygen levels so low they are surprised they are conscious — yet they are sitting up and talking.”
“British and American intensive care doctors at the front line of the coronavirus crisis are starting to question the aggressive use of ventilators for the treatment of patients.
“In many cases, they say the machines — which are highly invasive and require the patient to be rendered unconscious — are being used too early and may cause more harm than good.”
“At the heart of the issue was the ‘bizarre’ and ‘frankly baffling’ phenomenon of Covid-19 patients presenting with catastrophically low blood oxygen levels but few other ill effects.”
NOTE: An elderly patient comes into the hospital with severe shortness of breath. He is a lifelong smoker, and tests reveal he has “the virus.” It is decided, due to his respiratory distress and low oxygen count, to intubate and put him on a ventilator. However, during the intubation the patient suffers a massive heart attack and dies on the table. How would you label the death certificate?
April 9, 2020 — “LabCorp and Ciox Health Enter Collaboration to Create Comprehensive Patient Data Registry,” according to Datavant.
“LabCorp, a leading global life sciences company that is deeply integrated in guiding patient care, and Ciox Health, the leader in health information management for more than 30 years, today announced an agreement to collaborate on a comprehensive U.S.-based COVID-19 patient data registry. This registry will house curated, HIPAA-compliant de-identified data sets to expedite clinical research and analyses related to COVID-19. This patient data registry is expected to enable researchers to better understand and characterize COVID-19 diagnoses and treatments and generate insights that will aid ongoing and future pandemic preparedness and prevention efforts.
“LabCorp and Ciox Health's Real World Data division will work closely to expedite this first-of-its-kind patient data registry. LabCorp has performed approximately 500,000 tests since first making its COVID-19 test available March 5.”
April 10, 2020 — Reports from France speak of mass deaths in nursing homes, Reuters reports.
“All of France’s care homes are locked down, their 1 million residents in isolation on government orders and cut off from their families.
“High levels of absenteeism left workers overstretched before reinforcements arrived, including student nurses.”
April 10, 2020 — The New York Times reports that “Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total.”
“Over the 31 days ending April 4, more than twice the typical number of New Yorkers died.
“That total for the city includes deaths directly linked to the novel coronavirus as well as those from other causes, like heart attacks and cancer. Even though this is only a partial count, we expect this number to rise as more deaths are counted.”
“The overall rise in deaths suggests that the combination of crowded hospitals, an overtaxed ambulance system and a fearful population could have resulted in more deaths among people with heart attacks, strokes or other ailments who might have survived in normal circumstances.”
April 10, 2020 — “Coronavirus: Could biometric ID cards offer the UK a lockdown exit strategy?” asks the headline of a Sky News piece by its technology reporter.
“Identity cards have been mandatory only twice in British history — during the two world wars — moments of enormous national emergency.
“Should they be brought in again to deal with the COVID-19 crisis?”
“The UK's health secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested 'something like an immunity certificate or a wristband' in the future.”
April 11, 2020 — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces a ban on mass gatherings at houses of worship, reveals a press release from the Office of the Governor.
“Of the 39 states that have implemented stay-at-home orders, only 11 now have exceptions for religious gatherings, and most of those require social distancing at services.”
April 11, 2020 — New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza send a letter to parents announcing the closure of the city's schools.
“Dear Families:
“The battle against COVID-19 left us no choice but to close school buildings to students and staff, transition to remote teaching and learning from home, and adjust to distancing from each other to remain safe.”
“[W]e have decided that New York City school buildings will not reopen during the 2019-2020 school year. Teachers and students will finish the school year in remote learning.”
NOTE: The NYC school system is the largest in the U.S. with over 900,000 students with over half considered economically disadvantaged. What are these kids to do throughout each day? How many rely on schools for meals? How many live in pressure-packed households? What will be the long-term consequences of this?
April 11, 2020 — The Mayor of Miami-Dade County becomes the latest official to require public transit and ride share drivers to wear masks, according to CNN.
“'All passengers and drivers on public transit, buses and vehicles for hire also must wear a covering,' Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in a video update[.]”
“The ride share company Uber said this week it began 'distributing millions of ear-loop face masks to active drivers and delivery people around the world.”
April 11, 2020 — Denis Rancourt publishes “Masks Don’t Work — A review of science relevant to COVID-19 social policy.“
Summary:
“Masks and respirators do not work.”
“There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol particles.”
“The present paper about masks illustrates the degree to which governments, the mainstream media, and institutional propagandists can decide to operate in a science vacuum or select only incomplete science that serves their interests. Such recklessness is also certainly the case with the current global lockdown of over 1 billion people, an unprecedented experiment in medical and political history.”
April 11, 2020 — For the first time in US history, every state is under a disaster declaration simultaneously.
“President Trump approves a disaster declaration for Wyoming in response to coronavirus, making the current pandemic the first time in history that every state in the country is under a federal disaster declaration simultaneously.”
April 12, 2020 — Self-proclaimed health expert and “global health“ philanthropist Bill Gates is interviewed on BBC Breakfast.
“The thing that will get us back to the world that we had before coronavirus is the vaccine and getting that out to all 7 billion people.” [Emphasis added.]
“[S]o we’re going to have to take something that usually takes 5 to 6 years [to develop] and get it done in 18 months. There is an approach called an RNA vaccine [. . .] that looks quite promising. [. . .] [U]nfortunately, the schedule for the [conventional vaccine approach] will probably not be as quick as the RNA platform, that we've been funding directly and through CEPI over the last decade.”
“[T]his is such an unprecedented, very tough thing to deal with. The people like myself and Tony Fauci are saying 18 months [to develop a vaccine]. If everything went perfectly, we can do slightly better than that, but there will be a trade-off. We'll have less safety testing than we typically would have, and so governments would have to decide—do they indemnify the companies? [. . .] [W]e just don’t have the time to do what we would normally do.”
“[W]e should be able to have a vaccine in less than a year if we’re on standby with the right factories and the right science[.]“
“[A] big missing piece is funding the research for these type of vaccines[.]“
“[I]t’s shocking [. . .] how hard it’s going to be to get back to [the] normal life that we had before[.]“
QUESTION: Do you think things will go back to normal?
“Once you have a safe and effective vaccine and get that out to most all of the people on the planet and build the preparatory systems for the next pandemic [. . .] we will go back to normal and economies will recover[.] [I]nnovation will help us not be at such a risk in the years after that.“
April 13, 2020 — “Berlin police bust 16th birthday party,“ a DW headline announces.
“Police in Berlin broke up a large birthday gathering in the early hours of Monday that violated Germany’s social distancing restrictions.
“A 16-year-old girl was celebrating with 31 other people at an apartment in the German capital’s central Mitte neighborhood. The girl’s mother had apparently rented the property especially for the occasion.
“The police added that all 32 party attendees were being investigated for criminal offenses and violating social distancing rules put in place to curb the spread of coronavirus. The mother who rented the apartment, along with the landlord, will also be investigated, they said.”
April 13, 2020 —The Federalist writes a hard-hitting headline: “The Coronavirus Is Exposing Little Tyrants All Over The Country.”
“We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good.“
“In Michigan, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has taken it upon herself to declare what items are and are not ‘essential,’ dictating to grocery stores what they can and cannot sell as part of a sweeping order issued Friday.“
April 13, 2020 — COVID-19 ‘Immunity Passport’ Unites 60 Firms on Self-Sovereign ID Project, reports CoinDesk.
“The COVID-19 Credentials Initiative (CCI) is working on a digital certificate to help stop the spread of the virus without compromising user privacy.“
“Technologists building blockchain-based self-sovereign identity (SSI) tools are collaborating on an ‘immunity passport’ to help stop the spread of COVID-19 without compromising the privacy of users. Proving some level of immunity would help individuals return to everyday life.“
“The tech world agrees on the need for some kind of digital certificate. Self-sovereign identity mavens were buoyed by former Microsoft boss Bill Gates asking for digital test certificates during a Reddit AMA last month: ‘Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or, when we have a vaccine, who has received it,’ said Gates.“
April 13, 2020 — All patients coming to Seattle’s largest hospitals will be tested for coronavirus as they are admitted, according to The Seattle Times.
“The policy was announced by University of Washington Medicine — which operates Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake and University of Washington Medical Center-Northwest. Previously, Covid-19 tests were only administered to patients experiencing known coronavirus symptoms.”
April 13, 2020 — Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees says that social distancing will be “the new normal“ until a vaccine is developed.
“Floridians will be keeping their distance and wearing face masks for up to a year until a COVID-19 vaccine exists, Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees said Monday before being whisked away by the governor’s spokeswoman. Rivkees told reporters that Floridians needed to get used to current precautions, such as avoiding crowds of 10 or more and wearing face masks in public. ‘Until we get a vaccine, which is a while off, this is going to be our new normal and we need to adapt and protect ourselves,’ he said.“
NOTE: The surgeon general’s comments appear to conflict with what Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump have said about returning to pre-coronavirus life.
April 14, 2020 — “NYC Adds 3,800 Probable Virus Victims to Death Toll,” reports Bloomberg News.
“New York City added thousands of people to its coronavirus death toll to account for victims who died in recent weeks without a confirmed diagnosis.“ [Emphasis added.]
“Almost 60% of [the] unconfirmed virus patients died inside hospitals.“ [Emphasis added.]
“New York Cityreports 3,778 additional deaths that have occurred since March 11 and have been classified as ‘probable,’ defined as follows: ‘decedent [. . .] had no known positive laboratory test for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) but the death certificate lists as a cause of death COVID-19 or an equivalent.’”
“The data, according to Mayor Bill De Blasio’s administration titled Confirmed and Probable COVID-19 Deaths Weekly Report, defines probable as ‘A death is classified as probable if the decedent was a New York City resident (NYC resident or residency pending) who had no known positive laboratory test for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) but the death certificate lists as a cause of death “COVID-19“ or an equivalent.’”
“The press secretary to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Freddi Goldstein said: ‘[T]he data include at-home deaths of people suspected of having Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That judgment is based on reported symptoms including cough, fever and shortness of breath.’”
“Mayor De Blasio said that there was an increase in ‘unexplained at-home deaths’ and that he ‘suspected many of them were caused by Covid-19.’”
April 14, 2020 — New CDC guidelines are issued.
“As of April 14, 2020, CDC case counts and death counts include both confirmed and probable cases and deaths.
“This change was made to reflect an interim COVID-19 position statement issued by the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) on April 5, 2020. The position statement included a case definition and made COVID-19 a nationally notifiable disease.”
April 14, 2020 — German lawyer detained for opposition to lockdown, UK Column reports.
“A large number of well-established doctors and lawyers in the German-speaking countries have questioned the constitutionality of their governments' stringent confinement measures, which are commonly being referred to by the English loan-word der Shutdown (as there is no precedent for what to call the situation in German). These measures have begun to be challenged openly on the streets of Berlin. The medical and legal dissidents number in the dozens. None, however, has paid such a price for that freedom of speech as the German medical lawyer Beate Bahner, who has been committed to a psychiatric institution for publicly disagreeing with the measures and policies followed by the German government.”
“On Friday 3 April 2020, Ms Bahner issued a press release decrying the German government's Coronavirus measures as 'flagrantly unconstitutional, infringing to an unprecedented extent many of the fundamental rights of German citizens.' The statement argued that the small minority of the public that was at risk of serious harm in the event of contracting Covid–19 could be far more suitably protected by means of targeted measures based on the principle of adult responsibility for safeguarding one's own health.”
April 14, 2020 — From The Guardian in the UK: Growth in surveillance may be hard to scale back after pandemic, experts say.
“The coronavirus pandemic has led to an unprecedented global surge in digital surveillance, researchers and privacy advocates around the world have said, with billions of people facing enhanced monitoring that may prove difficult to roll back.
“Governments in at least 25 countries are employing vast programmes for mobile data tracking, apps to record personal contact with others, CCTV networks equipped with facial recognition, permission schemes to go outside and drones to enforce social isolation regimes.”
April 15, 2020 — “Protesters rally for NC to reopen. One woman arrested for violating governor's order,” reads a headline in The News & Observer.
“More than 100 protesters rallied in downtown Raleigh to reopen N.C. on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, describing Gov. Roy Cooper's stay-home order as an unconstitutional overreach that will kill the state's small businesses. One protester was arrested.
“The protest was organized by ReopenNC, a private Facebook group organized last week that wants people to make their own stay-at-home decisions to avoid exposure to COVID-19 as the worldwide pandemic continues. The group surpassed 28,000 members on Tuesday afternoon.
“'You are in violation of the executive order,' said a police captain. 'You are posing a risk to public health. If you do not disperse, you will be taken and processed at Wake County jail.’”
“You should be ashamed of yourself,“ said one protester. “Are you goons of Cooper or servants of the people?“ said another.
April 15, 2020 — Global Research publishes an article with the lengthy headline: “The Number of Covid Deaths Are Being Padded: US Hospitals Getting Paid More to Label Cause of Death as ‘Coronavirus.’ The CDC’s ‘Probable,’ ‘Likely’ or ‘Presumed’ Causes of Covid Death.”
“Are these figures the result of the so-called deadly pandemic? Or are they the result of the Ministry of Health's “guidelines“ based on erroneous criteria?
• “presumed” case pertaining to COVID
• “with or without a positive test”
• “probable” cause of death
• “autopsy should be avoided” in the case of COVID-19
• “deaths of which the probable cause is COVID-19 are considered natural, and are not the object of a notice to the coroner”
“Our analysis confirms that there never was a pandemic resulting in significant rates of mortality.
“The fake figures on mortality resulted in a fear campaign[.] they were used to provide legitimacy to the mRNA vaccine[,] which was introduced in early November 2020.”
April 15, 2020 — The Times of London reports that patients are not seeking help for life-threatening conditions, including heart attacks, because they are worried about catching coronavirus in hospital.
“England and Wales have experienced a record number of deaths in a single week, with 6,000 more than average for this time of year.
“Only half of those extra numbers were attributed to the coronavirus. Experts said they were shocked by the rise, particularly in non-Covid-19 deaths, and expressed concern that the lockdown might be having unintended consequences for people's health.
“There are fears that patients are not seeking help for life-threatening conditions, including heart attacks, because they are worried about catching coronavirus in hospital.”
“Martin Hibberd, professor of emerging infectious disease at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said, [. . .] ‘We know that for some situations, we may be overplaying the role of Covid-19, for example where [it] was mentioned in a death but where it may have played only a minor role.’”
“Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: [. . .] ‘Covid-19 can be recorded as the cause of death based on a reasoned clinical assessment, whether or not they have been tested for the virus.’”
April 15, 2020 — New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo issues Executive Order 202.17., saying New Yorkers must wear masks when unable to socially distance.
“Effective at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2020, any individual who is over age two and able to medically tolerate a face-covering shall be required to cover their nose and mouth with a mask or cloth face-covering when in a public place and unable to maintain, or when not maintaining, social distance.”
Cuomo adds that there will be “a phased reopening of New York until a vaccine is available.”
April 15, 2020 — Sir Andrew Witty, former head of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), steps away from his duties at UnitedHealth Group to co-lead a World Health Organization (WHO) effort to combat COVID-19, reports BioSpace.
“Witty will work with WHO and other stakeholders to accelerate the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. He will take a leave of absence from UnitedHealth Group while leading the initiative and will return to the company at approximately the end of 2020, the company said in its announcement.” [Emphasis Added.]
April 16, 2020 —The Gates Foundation’s Vaccination Activism, Multipolar’s headline reads.
“In the Corona crisis, it is striking that institutions that currently play an important role are also supported by the BMGF [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]. For example, Johns Hopkins University, which maintains the worldwide corona statistics that are disseminated in all media, regularly receives large donations. In the last ten years only, more than $200 million have been transferred to the university by the Gates Foundation. The purpose of the donations was family planning programs.
“In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute as the responsible national epidemiological agency received $250,000 in November 2019. The Charité in Berlin (employer of Prof. Christian Drosten, one of the most important government advisors during the crisis) received a total of more than $300,000 in 2019 and 2020.”
“The Foundation’s activities in Germany are not limited to health aspects. It also provides financial support to established media. For example, Germany’s leading news magazine DER SPIEGEL received $2.5 million in December 2018 and the leading weekly newspaper Die ZEIT received $300,000 in December 2019. One may assume that this is not happening for nothing and that as a result critical research by these media regarding the activities of the Gates Foundation is not necessarily more likely.”
April 16, 2020 —Facebook works with “fact-checkers” to combat coronavirus “misinformation.”
“‘One of Facebook’s most important functions during the pandemic is to connect users with “authoritative health information and experts,”’ the social media giant’s founder Mark Zuckerberg told CNN’s coronavirus town hall.”
April 16, 2020 — Letter to the editor published in the Douglas County Herald in Ava, Missouri, asks the question, “What if?”
The author of the article, Kimberly Brady, MD, asks:
“What if the number of Coronavirus cases is not accurate and is actually exaggerated by many times? What if the estimates are based on a flawed computer model? What if the death certificates are being modified to show more Coronavirus related deaths than actually exist? What if people who were already dying of serious conditions like heart disease or diabetes or COPD are now being counted as Coronavirus deaths because of the supposed presence of Coronavirus at the time of death?
“What if the CDC is as wrong about this virus as they were about Swine flu in 1976, or since then the Bird flu, or HIV or SARS or MERS? What if you found out that Fauci had very large financial ties to the Pharma agenda to provide vaccines, and that is why he is not mentioning any possible way to treat the flu except vaccines? What if Fauci has close financial connections to Bill (the computer and vaccine salesman) Gates? [. . .] What if the alleged COVID-19 deaths were mostly people who were already dying?”
“What if the virus is simply a seasonal flu, just like every other year, and the crisis is a drastic exaggeration, to intentionally create a panic? What if there really is nothing to fear but fear itself?”
April 16, 2020 — Dr. Leana Wen, former health commissioner for the City of Baltimore, tells CNN’s “Coronavirus: Facts and Fears” global town hall that “three things need to happen before economies and society can reopen safely. They are:
- Widespread testing capacity.
- Infrastructure for contact tracing and surveillance.
- A stabilized health care system.”
April 16, 2020 — 33 residents at a New Jersey nursing home allegedly die from Covid-19.
“Thirty-three people died from coronavirus at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center II, one of New Jersey’s largest nursing homes, the state Department of Health told CNN in a statement.”
“Andover Police on Monday evening received a tip that led them to the facility’s makeshift morgue, where they found 17 bodies, one of the responding officers told CNN.“
“‘The staff was clearly overwhelmed and probably short-staffed,’ Andover Police Chief Eric Danielson, one of the responding officers, told CNN. ‘The residents were expiring. Why? We’re not sure if it’s from Covid-19 or from other diseases, but we tried our best to ease the burden.’”
Later reports would speak to ongoing, known problems at the facility preceding 2020.
“In some ways, the disaster at Andover may have begun long before COVID-19 entered its halls. The facility, which consists of two buildings, is the largest long-term care facility in New Jersey with a total of 702 beds.”
“‘The common perception has been, for years, that it’s never been a great facility. That it’s really—it’s always been loaded with problems,’ said Jennifer Jean Miller, who covered the Andover incident as a reporter for The New Jersey Herald. ‘There was already trouble in that facility in that they already had citations [. . .] and they just really started to snowball as the pandemic got worse.’”
Eighty-three of the home’s 539 residents, or almost 1 out of every 6, would die within the first four months of the pandemic.
NOTE: Yet another report of sub-standard care at a nursing home run by owners (who ran a chain of nursing homes) with a long record of documented violations. The already fragile and often disabled elderly patients were subjected to even more severe conditions caused by harsh protocols and neglect.
Are we to believe these are “covid deaths” even as we are told it’s, “impossible to know who had Covid and who did not because of a lack of testing capability?”
April 17, 2020 — “Coronavirus: San Clemente Fills Skatepark With 37 Tons Of Sand After Skaters Ignore ‘No Trespassing’ Signs,” reports KCAL News in Los Angeles, a CBS News affiliate.
“San Clemente had shut down all its parks and facilities on April 1 under the state's stay-at-home orders, but skaters ignored signs warning against trespassing at the Ralphs Skate Court, 241 Avenida La Pata.
“Since park facilities have been closed city officials say they routinely saw people visit the skatepark, even by some children accompanied with their parents, according to the San Clemente Times. City officials told the newspaper they followed in the footsteps of other cities and filled the skatepark with 37 tons of sand.”
April 17, 2020 — “Americans’ Reported Use of Face Masks Surges in Past Week,” reveals a Gallup Poll study.
NOTE: The percentage of Americans who say they have worn a mask outside of their homes increases sharply from 38% to 62% in just one week.
April 17, 2020 — In an article Politico publishes titled “Is the Coronavirus Killing Off Cash?” and subtitles “Tech firms see the opportunity they’ve been waiting for as shoppers and business recoil from paper money,” it pushes the idea of digital payment systems.
“‘Do I want to grab the thing that you were just holding in your hand? No,’ says Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, who has advocated for a less-cash society, and predicts the crisis ‘is absolutely going to drive people to prefer credit and debit to cash.’”
April 17, 2020 — “8 MORE Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic,” says the headline from OffGuardian, which describes the article as “our third batch of medical experts dissenting from the media/political ‘consensus.’”
Among the eight featured experts is:
“Dr Klaus Püschel, German forensic pathologist and former professor of forensics at Essen University and current director of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf,” who says:
“‘This virus influences our lives in a completely excessive way. This is disproportionate to the danger posed by the virus. And the astronomical economic damage now being caused is not commensurate with the danger posed by the virus. I am convinced that the Corona mortality rate will not even show up as a peak in annual mortality.
“‘All those we have examined so far had cancer, a chronic lung disease, were heavy smokers or severely obese, suffered from diabetes or had a cardiovascular disease.’”
April 18, 2020 — The Orwellian-named “One World: Together At Home” global virtual concert raises a total of $127.9 million, providing $55.1 million to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund and $72.8 million to local and regional responders, announces Global Citizen.
“Following One World: Together At Home, a historic global broadcasting event, Global Citizen together with Lady Gaga, announced $127 million in commitments to date in support of health care workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“The historic broadcast was hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert, alongside friends from Sesame Street to help unify and inspire people around the world.”
“Two of the world’s most influential philanthropists, and strong supporters of vaccine development, Bill and Melinda Gates, expressed hope that a vaccine will soon be ready for everyone in the world, highlighting that “our response to this won’t be effective unless it’s equitable.”
“Actors Connie Britton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Henry Golding applauded the impressive work Gavi is doing during this crisis, highlighting that the organization will be instrumental in distributing an eventual COVID-19 vaccine to anyone who needs it.”
The funds have been designated to buy lab diagnostics and personal protective equipment. Through the Solidarity Response Fund donations also support the vaccine development alliance Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
April 18, 2020 — “Hundreds gather in California to protest stay-at-home orders,” ABC News reports.
The demonstration by “more than 200 protesters gathered in Huntington Beach, California,” was one of a handful to take place in the US this week. (See the next day's entry, for example.)
April 19, 2020 — Residents gather to protest stay-at-home orders in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee and Washington, reports ABC News.
“In Washington state, a gathering in Olympia dubbed “Hazardous Liberty! Defend the Constitution!” called on Gov. Jay Inslee to rescind the state's stay-at-home order. Washington, which had the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. in January.”
“In Illinois, protesters shouting “Open Illinois!” took to the steps of the Lincoln Statue in Springfield as part of the national “Operation Gridlock” movement.”
“The Nashville Freedom Rally in front of Tennessee’s capitol called for the right to assemble and an end to social distancing in the state.”
April 19, 2020 — At the Illinois Governor’s health briefing, Director of the Illinois Department of Health Dr. Ngozi Ezike explains how the department determines if a death is related to coronavirus:
“I just want to be clear in terms of the definition of people dying of COVID. The case definition is very simplistic. It means at the time of death it was a COVID positive diagnosis. So that means if you were in hospice and had already been given a few weeks to live, and then you also were found to have COVID, that would be counted as a COVID death. It means technically even if you died of a clear alternate cause, but you had COVID at the same time, it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone who’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of the death.” [Emphasis added.]
NOTE: It seems Dr. Ezike inadvertently pulls the curtain back.
April 19, 2020 — “'Just the Flu' Vindicated by the Data; Or, Why to End the Shutdowns Now” is the headline of blogger “E. H. Hail,” who selects two important quotes to highlight then makes his own observations in this post.
“‘As we have learned now, over and over again, this flu is a flu.’ — Dr. Knut Wittkowski, internationally recognized expert in epidemiology, writing [on] April 16, commenting on the coronavirus pandemic”
“‘Our data suggests that COVID-19 has an infection fatality rate that is in the same ballpark as seasonal influenza.’ — Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford [University], [writing on] April 17”
“It really was Just The Flu after all, maybe slightly worse than the usual strain but not alarmingly so. It is not now, and never was, a mass-killer apocalypse virus. It was never a reason for nuclear-war-like measures, the weeks-long mass shutdowns. And I believe we can now demonstrate that the response, quantitatively measured, is at the least hundreds of times more damaging than the virus threat itself, and perhaps even thousands of times worse by some measures, a policy disaster. This is what the data says.
This is also not an ‘academic’ question. In immediate terms, it means the shutdowns should end immediately, a full re-opening should begin immediately, and soul-searching should be done. Those responsible for this should be identified.”[Emphasis added.]
April 20, 2020 — The World Health Organization issues a guidance memo titled “International Guidelines for Certification and Classification (Coding) as Cause of Death.”
Similar to the US CDC guidance of March 24, 2020. this new WHO guidance allows for a liberal interpretation of a “covid death.” [Emphasis Added.]
“A death due to COVID-19 is defined for surveillance purposes as a death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death that cannot be related to COVID disease (e.g. trauma). There should be no period of complete recovery from COVID-19 between illness and death.
“A death due to COVID-19 may not be attributed to another disease (e.g. cancer) and should be counted independently of preexisting conditions that are suspected of triggering a severe course of COVID-19.”
“COVID-19 should be recorded on the medical certificate of cause of death for ALL decedents where the disease caused, or is assumed to have caused, or contributed to death.”
April 20, 2020 — Dr Marcus De Brun resigns from the Irish Medical Council in protest at what he’s witnessing in Irish nursing homes.
“A DOCTOR HAS resigned from the Irish Medical Council after levelling strong criticism at the government’s response to the Covid-19 outbreak, particularly in relation to the protection of nursing home residents.
Dr Marcus de Brun, a GP based in Rush, Co Dublin, was appointed by Health Minister Simon Harris to the Irish Medical Council in 2018.”
De Brun would spell out the advice given to doctors by the Health Service Executive.
“All we were given or instructed to give patients was end-of-life care, Midazolam, sedate them and let them die. Encouraged in paper, in black and white, encouraged doctors to get family members in to sign Do Not Resuscitate orders. You know, all of this, was disgusting.”
Researcher Denise Kelly would discover via data obtained under Freedom of Information from the HSE Primary Care Reimbursement Service a strong correlation between “Covid-19 deaths” and prescriptions for Midazolam under the General Medical Services scheme. Hypnovel is another name for Midazolam.
April 20, 2020 — The world’s #1 men’s tennis player, Novak Djokovic, expresses resistance to the coronavirus vaccine, according to The New York Times.
“Personally I am opposed to vaccination and I wouldn’t want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine in order to be able to travel,” Djokovic is quoted as saying.
April 21, 2020 — “US Coronavirus ‘Bailout’ Scam Is $6 Trillion Giveaway To Wall Street,” economist Michael Hudson explains.
“Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a “bailout” but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders.”
April 21, 2020 — UK updates death certificate guidelines for COVID-19, according to an editorial in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
The British Medical Association (BMA) changed its guidance to doctors in England and Wales “on verification and certification of death and cremation for a temporary period during which emergency measures are in place to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.”
NOTE: As a result of the Coronavirus Act 2020, this guidance also indemnifies doctors. Doctors no longer have to be sure a patient died from COVID-19 to write “COVID-19” on a death certificate. UK doctors can now “legally” write “COVID-19” on the Medical Certificates of Cause of Death (MCCD) where it is assumed to be from COVID-19.
The Independent Healthcare Providers Network’s Guide to Certification and Notification of Deaths notes:
“For example, if before death the patient had symptoms typical of COVID19 infection, but the test result has not been received, it would be satisfactory to give ‘COVID-19’ as the cause of death, tick Box B and then share the test result when it becomes available. In the circumstances of there being no swab, it is satisfactory to apply clinical judgement.”
IHPN guidance states:
“In those cases where the doctor is confident on medical grounds that a particular cause of death is likely[,] then that should be entered on the MCCD (Medical Certificates of Cause of Death).”
National Health Service (NHS) England’s guidance regarding a medical certificate of the causes of death stipulates:
“Covid-19 is an acceptable direct or underlying cause of death for the purposes of completing the MCCD”—even without the results of a positive test—and it is important that likely Covid-19 deaths are reported as such via the registrar. [Emphasis added.]
April 21, 2020 — “Expert panel develops NIH treatment guidelines for COVID-19,” reads the headline from the US National Institute of Health (NIH), which publishes its first set of treatment guidelines intended to inform clinicians how to care for patients with COVID-19.
The financial disclosure document associated with the Panel on COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines includes nine panel members affiliated with Gilead Sciences, the manufacturer of remdesivir.
Among the panel’s Summary Recommendations:
- The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) does not recommend the use of any agents for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outside of the setting of a clinical trial.
- The Panel does not recommend the use of any agents for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against SARS-CoV-2 infection outside of the setting of a clinical trial.
- The Panel recommends no additional laboratory testing and no specific treatment for persons with suspected or confirmed asymptomatic or presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
- At present, no drug has been proven to be safe and effective for treating COVID-19. There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with COVID-19 who have mild, moderate, severe, or critical illness.
NOTE: The NIH guidelines for Management of Persons with COVID-19 are obscure. They include the following recommendations:
“The Panel recommends no additional laboratory testing and no specific treatment for persons with suspected or confirmed asymptomatic or presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
“Patients infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can experience a range of clinical manifestations, from no symptoms to critical illness. This section discusses the clinical management of patients according to the severity of their illness. Currently, no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drugs exist to specifically treat patients with COVID-19.”
“The Panel recommends no additional laboratory testing and no specific treatment for persons with suspected or confirmed asymptomatic or presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.”
“There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with COVID-19 with mild illness.”
“There are insufficient data for the Panel to recommend either for or against any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with COVID-19 with moderate illness.”
“There are insufficient data for the Panel to recommend either for or against any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in patients with COVID-19 with severe illness.”
“There are insufficient data for the Panel to recommend either for or against any antiviral or immunomodulatory therapy in critically ill patients with COVID-19.”
April 21, 2020 — Africa CDC and the African Union launch the Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing (PACT) to support testing, tracing, and treatment (CDC-T3) across the continent.
“Africa CDC, with the mandate of the African Union Commission, shall embark on multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance this and other subsidiary initiatives, to ensure broad endorsement and support across Africa, among institutions, and among the African people.”
April 21, 2020 — “Closing borders is ridiculous,” says the epidemiologist behind Sweden’s controversial coronavirus strategy.
Anders Tegnell talks to Nature magazine about the nation’s “trust-based” approach to tackling the pandemic.
“Lockdown, closing borders — nothing has a historical scientific basis, in my view. As a society, we are more into nudging: continuously reminding people to use measures. Closing down everything would be counterproductive.”
April 21, 2020 — “Onondaga County, NY: Another death; testing spikes as sites open to more people,” reports a Syracuse, New York, newspaper.
“‘Unfortunately, we’ve had another death in this community due to the coronavirus,’ County Executive Ryan McMahon said.
“The latest victim was a man in his 50s with underlying health issues, McMahon said. [Emphasis added.]
“Onondaga County sent a whopping 348 tests for analysis in the past day, the largest number since the height of the illness on April 1.
“McMahon had warned that testing numbers would go up dramatically, now that staffers at nursing homes and other senior care facilities are getting swabbed, whether they show symptoms or not. In addition, the county is rolling out a plan to proactively test seniors at certain illness-stricken facilities, whether those seniors have symptoms or not.”
April 22, 2020 — The Ontario provincial government and the Canadian federal government, along with the Canadian Medical Association, introduced health care rationing policies (“death panels”), using COVID-19 as the justification.
A Government of Canada document titled “COVID-19 pandemic guidance for the health care sector” contains policies that refer to “resource allocation” and “Ethical Considerations” when making decisions over which patients to prioritize for treatment. The policies state that elderly long-term care patients should not be admitted to hospitals and that many hospital patients should be transferred to long-term care facilities. [Emphasis added.]
Under sections titled “Role of the Health Care System in the Pandemic Response,” “Understanding Canada’s Diversity,” “Ethical Considerations,” and “Allocation of Scarce Resources,” policies include:
- “Long term care (LTC) facilities and home care services will be encouraged to care for COVID-19 patients in place and may be asked to take on additional non-COVID-19 patients[.]”
- “LTC facilities may also be asked to provide surge capacity for hospitals through admission of non-COVID-19 hospital patients[.] [. . .] If COVID-19 does develop in LTC facility residents, they should be cared for within the facility if at all possible, to preserve hospital capacity.”
- “Ethical issues will inevitably arise during the COVID-19 response.”
- “As our health care system is already strained, the influx of COVID-19 patients may overwhelm health care resources[.] [. . .] This will require resource allocation decisions including prioritization of patient access to scarce resources including acute care, critical care, oxygen support, ventilator support, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support. If patients are not eligible for critical care resources, they should be provided with palliative care and/or pain management.” [Emphasis added.]
- “If hospitals are in danger of becoming overwhelmed, they may need to implement systems for fair allocation of scarce resources including admission to hospital, and access to an ICU bed or ventilator. These resource allocation decisions determine who may or may not get life-sustaining treatment.”
April 22, 2020 — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki declares: “We’ll delete anything that contradicts World Health Organization on COVID-19,” according to a LifeSite News headline.
“Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, announced that all content contradicting the Word Health Organization (WHO) on the coronavirus pandemic will be removed from the video platform.
“During a CNN interview last Sunday, Wojcicki explained there was ‘a 75 percent increase in the news coming from authoritative sources since the beginning of 2020. So, we have seen a lot of demand there.
“‘But then we also talk about removing information that is problematic,’ she continued. ‘Of course, anything that is medically unsubstantiated. So people saying, like, take vitamin C, you know, take turmeric, like, those are — will cure you. Those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy.’”
April 22, 2020 — “Who controls the British Government response to Covid–19?,” asks a UK Column headline.
Part of the UK Column article discusses the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (VIMC), which is based at Imperial College London and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (now called the Gates Foundation) and by "Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance" (the latest iteration of that group’s name). The Gates Foundation began funding Imperial College London in 2006, four years before it initiated the Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration (GHLLDVC).
According to UK Column:
"The Gates Foundation established the GHLLDVC in collaboration with the WHO, UNICEF, and the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)."
"A glance at the partner page of the Gavi website reveals that not only is Gavi heavily invested in immunization campaigns, it is also closely connected to the Gates, Microsoft and Rockefeller Foundation seed-funded ID2020 project (Digital Identity Alliance), which incorporates Accenture, Microsoft (Gates), Ideo-Org and Rockefeller Foundation into the Gavi alliance, all with ties to the ID2020 initiative.”
April 22, 2020 — Accelerated Urgent Care doctors recommend lifting shelter-in-place order, according to 23ABC Bakersfield News.
“Doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi said their facilities have tested over 5,200 patients for the coronavirus throughout the county, making up for over half of all testing in Kern. According to their data, the death rate of the coronavirus is similar in prevalence to the flu.
“‘Now that we have the facts,’ said Dr. Erickson, ‘it’s time to get back to work.’”
NOTE: Here is a 12-minute clip from the viral video of the press conference held by Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi. Here is the full 68-minute press briefing.
(See update on April 29, 2020.)
April 22, 2020 — “BioNTech and Pfizer announce regulatory approval from German authority Paul-Ehrlich-Institut to commence first clinical trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidates,” says a Pfizer press release.
“The trial is the first clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate to start in Germany and is part of a global development program. Pfizer and BioNTech will also conduct trials for BNT162 in the United States upon regulatory approval, which is expected shortly.
“The four vaccine candidates are the first candidates from BioNTech's COVID-19-focused project ‘Lightspeed,’ each representing different mRNA formats and target antigens.”
April 22, 2020 — “US Police Testing ‘Pandemic Drones’ That Monitor Social Distancing,” according to a press released published in Neoscope.
“In collaboration with drone manufacturer Draganfly, the police department in Westport, Connecticut, is testing ‘pandemic drones’ designed to monitor whether people are adhering to social distancing rules, as first spotted by CNET.
“According to a press release, the drones’ advertised capabilities are extensive. They feature ‘a specialized sensor and computer vision systems that can display fever/temperature, heart and respiratory rates, as well as detect people sneezing and coughing in crowds, and wherever groups of people may work or congregate.’”
April 23, 2020 — “CDC Director Redfield warns second coronavirus wave could be 'more difficult,' hit same time as flu,” notes USA Today.
“The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that a second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in the fall could be worse than the one hitting the U.S. now because it would come at the opening of the flu season.”
April 23, 2020 — “President Donald Trump says he disagrees with Dr. Anthony Fauci's assessment that the US needs more coronavirus testing,” according to a CNN news report.
“We absolutely need to significantly ramp up, not only the number of tests but the capacity to actually perform them,” Fauci said during a Time 100 Talks interview earlier in the day.
“I don’t agree with him on that, no, I think we're doing a great job on testing,” Trump said.
April 23, 2020 — Oxford COVID-19 vaccine begins human trial stage.
University of Oxford researchers begin testing a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers. “Around 1,110 people will take part in the trial, half receiving the vaccine and the other half (the control group) receiving a widely available meningitis vaccine.”
Seven days later, Oxford University announces landmark partnership with AstraZeneca for the development and potential large-scale distribution of COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
April 23, 2020 — Johnson & Johnson Announces Collaboration to Expand Manufacturing Capabilities For its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate.
The collaboration between the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson and Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. is “in Support of the Company's Goal to Supply More Than One Billion Vaccine Doses Globally.”
“Emergent will provide drug substance manufacturing services with its molecule-to-market CDMO offering, beginning in 2020[.]”
April 23, 2020 — Georgetown University releases a white paper, “COVID-19: A Global Pandemic Demands a Global Response.”
Its principal author, Professor Peter Piot, was co-discoverer of the alleged Ebola virus, served as director of the Gates-funded London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and is a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among his many other posts and accolades.
Piot was also a prominent member of The EU Health Security Committee (HSC) and would become the source of much of the corona policy that member states implemented.
In Science magazine, Piot tells his personal story of battling “the virus” and concludes:
“Let’s be clear: Without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again. The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide.”
Georgetown’s white paper calls for “aggressive RNA testing throughout the world,” contact tracing, quarantines, social distancing, and masking, and it recommends “sustaining the response for the future.”
NOTE: All of this in preparation for global “vaccine efforts.”
April 23, 2020 — Bill Gates publishes “The first modern pandemic: The scientific advances we need to stop COVID-19.”
In this widely distributed essay promoted as a blueprint for a “way out of the pandemic,” Gates states, “Every additional month that it takes to get the vaccine is a month when the economy cannot return to normal.
“Short of a miracle treatment, which we can’t count on, the only way to return the world to where it was before COVID-19 showed up is a highly effective vaccine that prevents the disease.
“One step that was taken after the foundation and others called for investments in pandemic preparedness in 2015 was the creation of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). [. . .] CEPI added resources to work on an approach called RNA vaccines, which our foundation had been supporting for some time. Three companies are pursuing this approach. The first vaccine to start human trials is an RNA vaccine from Moderna.
“The goal is to pick the one or two best vaccine constructs and vaccinate the entire world—that’s 7 billion doses if it is a single-dose vaccine, and 14 billion if it is a two-dose vaccine.” [Emphasis added.]
April 23, 2020 —The New York Post announces: “Nearly all coronavirus patients on ventilators at Northwell Health died: study.”
“Almost 90 percent of COVID-19 patients who were placed on ventilators in New York’s largest hospital system have died from the coronavirus, according to a study.
“Overall, 88 percent of the patients treated at Northwell Health died after receiving mechanical ventilation, Dr. Safiya Richardson at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and her colleagues found.
“Of the 2,634 patients whose outcomes were known, 14 percent were treated in the intensive care unit, 12 percent were placed on ventilators, and 3 percent received kidney replacement therapy, the study said.
“Twenty-one percent of the total group died, according to the findings, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The findings supported doctors’ conclusions that people who become severely ill with COVID-19 frequently have underlying medical issues.”
April 24, 2020 — The asymptomatic transmission mode of infection is being pushed. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) calls asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 the “Achilles’ heel” of Covid-19 pandemic control.
April 24, 2020 — JTF-CS supports COVID-19 operations in New York and New Jersey.
“Joint Task Force-Civil Support on Fort Eustis sent approximately 30 people to New York and New Jersey to conduct command and control operations of the task force providing Title-10 medical support in the COVID-19 pandemic response.”
April 24, 2020 — Global health organisations collaborate to accelerate access to COVID-19 tools, announces a World Health Organization news release.
“[L]eaders came together at a virtual event, co-hosted by the World Health Organization, the President of France, the President of the European Commission, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The event was joined by the UN Secretary General, the AU Commission Chairperson, the G20 President, heads of state of France, South Africa, Germany, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Italy, Rwanda, Norway, Spain, Malaysia and the UK (represented by the First Secretary of State).
“Health leaders from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), GAVI—the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund, UNITAID, the Wellcome Trust, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (IFRC), the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA), the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers' Network (DCVMN), and the International Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (IGBA) committed to come together [. . .] to launch this groundbreaking collaboration.”
NOTE: In August 2020, COVAX, directed by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance and by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), will become the vaccine arm of the WHO's Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator initiative.
NOTE: In September 2020, there will be an inaugural meeting of the ACT Accelerator initiative, which the WHO calls “global collaboration accelerating the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines.”
April 24, 2020 — FDA warns hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) could cause serious heart problems in COVID-19 patients.
“FDA is concerned that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are being used inappropriately to treat non-hospitalized patients for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or to prevent that disease. We authorized their temporary use only in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 when clinical trials are not available, or participation is not feasible, through an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). These medicines have a number of side effects, including serious heart rhythm problems that can be life-threatening.”
April 24, 2020 — The World Health Organization releases a Scientific Brief that warns, “There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.”
“At this point in the pandemic, there is not enough evidence about the effectiveness of antibody-mediated immunity to guarantee the accuracy of an ‘immunity passport’ or ‘risk-free certificate.’ People who assume that they are immune to a second infection because they have received a positive test result may ignore public health advice. The use of such certificates may therefore increase the risks of continued transmission.”
April 24, 2020 — A headline in the UK’s Health Service Journal (HSJ) reads: “‘Unprecedented’ number of DNR orders for learning disabilities patients.” The information comes from Turning Point, which provides supported living and residential care for people with learning disabilities.
“Hospitals and GPs were told earlier this month learning disabilities should not be used as a reason to apply [do-not-resuscitate orders] (DNR) orders. However, provider says it has received further orders it suspects to be unlawful.”
In a statement to HSJ, Julie Bass, chief executive of Turning Point, said:
“We are seeing DNR orders that have not been discussed with the person themselves, the staff who support and care for them, or their families. This is very concerning as it may potentially lead to people being denied life-saving treatment that other patients would be granted.”
April 25, 2020 — Reuters reports: “In four U.S. state prisons, nearly 3,300 inmates test positive for coronavirus — 96% without symptoms.”
“As mass coronavirus testing expands in prisons, large numbers of inmates are showing no symptoms. In four state prison systems — Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia — 96% of 3,277 inmates who tested positive for the coronavirus were asymptomatic, according to interviews with officials[.]”
“‘It’s what makes the pandemic more difficult to manage,’ said Marc Stern, former medical director for the Washington State Department of Corrections and a faculty member at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health. ‘There are a whole lot of people who are asymptomatic.’”
April 26, 2020 — In Sweden, a country that didn’t lock down, data shows that 98–99% of cases are a very mild infection, according to Sweden’s former chief epidemiologist Johan Giesecke in an interview with Sky News Australia.
“Most people will become infected by this and most people won’t even notice. We have data now from Sweden that shows that between 98 and 99% of the cases have had a very mild infection or didn’t even realise they were infected.” [Emphasis added.]
NOTE: From U.S. prisons to Sweden to points all around and between a symptom-less disease has mysteriously surfaced. How is this possible?
April 27, 2020 — A paper published by French doctor Didier Raoult et al in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases shows that a PCR test resulting from amplifying 34 cycles or more does not have “viable virus.”
“On the basis of this data, we can deduce that with our system, patients with Ct values equal or above 34 do not excrete infectious viral particles.”
“It is of paramount importance to define when a treated patient can be considered as no longer contagious. Correlation between successful isolation of virus in cell culture and Ct value of quantitative RT-PCR targeting E gene suggests that patients with Ct above 33–34 using our RT-PCR system are not contagious and thus can be discharged from hospital care or strict confinement for non-hospitalized patients.”
April 27, 2020 — From 23 ABC News in Bakersfield, California: “YouTube issues statement on removal of controversial video interview with Bakersfield doctors.”
“YouTube issued a statement Tuesday regarding the removal of a video press briefing with Accelerated Urgent Care doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi. The video was the first of two videos playing the entire briefing from a press conference last week. Reports of the video being taken down suggest YouTube pulled it for violating community guidelines.
“‘We quickly remove flagged content that violate our Community Guidelines, including content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local healthy authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance,’ said the statement.”
April 28, 2020 — A headline at Anti-Empire is based on a retrospective study conducted by the European Heart Journal: “Cardiologists Conclude More Austrians Died From Untreated Heart Attacks Than From Covid-19.” The subtitle: “Collateral damage of lockdown panic.”
“We conducted a nationwide retrospective survey on the impact of COVID-19 on the diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) from 2 to 29 March in Austria.
“Of the 19 public primary percutaneous coronary (PCI) centres contacted, 17 (90%) provided the number of admitted patients. During the study period, we observed a significant decline in the number of patients admitted to hospital due to ACS . . . .”
“Based on data showing that the cardiovascular mortality of untreated ACS patients might be as high as 40% (as it was in the 1950s), we can theoretically estimate 110 ACS deaths during this time frame. The number of deaths associated with this unintentional undersupply of guideline-directed ACS management is very alarming, particularly when considering that the official number of COVID-related deaths in Austria was 86 on 29 March.”
April 28, 2020 — Kevin Corbett, Ph.D., reports on official public records request concerning SARS-CoV-2 and the RT-PCR assay.
“In April 2020, and based on my doctoral and post-doctoral research, I raised concerns about the isolation (purification) / diagnosis of 'SARS-CoV-2' in an e-mail dialogue with Public Health England's Professor Maria Zambon (Virology: Imperial College London). Zambon was SAGE member and lead UK scientist for ‘covid testing.’ Zambon received two sets of my questions in April and May 2020, respectively. The outcomes from this dialogue revealed that there had been no isolation (purification) of ‘SARS-CoV-2,’ and that the PCR used had been designed not just without such but without any viral isolates (‘fieldwork samples’); so there is no diagnostic gold standard using actual ‘virus.’”
“Based on the above, I collaborated on efforts to have the PCR test and the PCR paper Zambon had collaborated on with Christian Drosten retracted e.g., the Corman Drosten Review Report.”
April 29, 2020 — Real GDP falls 4.8% in first quarter of 2020 on expectations of a 3.5% decline, finds an analysis of data by the Associated Builders and Contractors.
“The U.S. economy contracted at an annualized 4.8% rate during the first quarter of 2020 as a result of the ongoing global pandemic, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The decline in GDP is largely a reflection of the final three weeks of March, which devastated the economy.”
And from another news release by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
“Though this report shows a significant impact on our economy already, most of the effects of the pandemic and economic shutdown will be reflected in the second quarter (April through June) of this year.”
April 29, 2020 — “Physicians Say Hospitals Are Pressuring ER Docs to List COVID-19 on Death Certificates. Here’s Why,” reports the headline of an article written by John Miltimore for the Foundation for Economic Freedom.
“The economic incentive to add COVID-19 to diagnostic lists and death certificates is clear and does not require any conspiracy,” the subhead reads.
Drs. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care hold a press conference, during which they note that numerous physicians say they are being pressured to add COVID-19 to death certificates and diagnostic lists—even when the novel coronavirus appears to have no relation to the victim’s cause of death.
“They say, ‘You know, it’s interesting. When I’m writing up my death report I’m being pressured to add Covid,’” Erickson said. ‘Why is that? Why are we being pressured to add Covid? To maybe increase the numbers, and make it look a little bit worse than it is?’”
(See April 22, 2020, entry on the two doctors.)
NOTE: After their video of the press conference aired on YouTube, the two longtime ER doctors say it was removed by that social media site.
April 29, 2020 — The paranoid style in COVID-19 America, reports Ruthfully Yours blogger Ruth King, referencing a Spectator article.
“The public health establishment is desperate to maintain hysteria in the populace.”[Emphasis added.]
“To grasp the urgency of lifting the ubiquitous economic shutdowns, visit New York City's Central Park, ideally in the morning. At 5:45 am, it is occupied by maybe 100 runners and cyclists, spread over 843 acres. A large portion of these early-bird exercisers wear masks. Are they trying to protect anyone they might encounter from their own unsuspected coronavirus infection? Perhaps. But if you yourself run towards an oncoming runner on a vector that will keep you at least three yards away when you pass each other, he is likely to lunge sideways in terror if your face is not covered. The masked cyclists, who speed around the park's inner road, apparently think that there are enough virus particles suspended in the billions of square feet of fresh air circulating across the park to enter their mucous membranes and to sicken them.
“These are delusional beliefs, yet they demonstrate the degree of paranoia that has infected the population. Every day the lockdown continues, its implicit message that we are all going to die if we engage in normal life is reinforced. Polls show an increasing number of Americans opting to continue the economic quarantine indefinitely lest they be ‘unsafe.’ The longer that belief is reinforced, the less likely it will be that consumers will patronize reopened restaurants or board airplanes in sufficient numbers to bring the economy back to life.”
April 29, 2020 — Canada’s CTV News reports: “‘All of our rooms are empty’: Hospital ERs vacant during pandemic.”
“The Emergency Department is usually one of the busiest areas of any hospital, but now many ERs are full of empty beds, as patients with ailments and injuries unrelated to coronavirus are avoiding hospitals due to pandemic fears.
“‘It’s so strange to walk through an emergency room with so many empty beds,’ Dr. Gaurav Puri of Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket told CTV News.
“There has been a 30- to 40-per-cent drop in patients in many ERs in Canada.
“‘Patients who may need to be coming in to get care . . . are choosing not (to) because of their fear of getting COVID in hospital,’ Puri said.
“The lights have literally been turned off in some hospital corridors that used to be bustling with activity.
“‘They’re not even staffing it with nurses because there’s no patients,’ Puri said. ‘It’s eerie. It’s definitely eerie.’
Those that do come into the ER despite their fear of COVID-19 are often coming in almost too late, Puri said.
“‘We’re seeing patients who have abdominal pain for a week and they come in and they’ve got a ruptured appendicitis,’ Puri explained.
“A woman who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an inflammatory lung disease, waited for two weeks to come in. When she arrived, she was in such dire straits that she almost needed to be put on a ventilator.”
April 29, 2020 —A blogpost guest poster named Allen asks: “Where has the ‘regular flu’ gone? The CDC reports unprecedented crash in influenza-positives, raising questions . . .”
“Even as an unprecedented health event has taken over our lives and taken hold of the early days of 2020 another quiet but related health event has unfolded over at the CDC. While the world has been tracking every twist and turn of the ‘killer COVID virus’ another familiar virus has been disappeared not only from the CDC’s conversation but also from its meticulous monitoring system. Seems our long-standing old friend ‘the flu’ has altogether left the stage over at the CDC and in a fashion that might raise a few eyebrows for those who pay attention to such things.”
“It’s important to note that while the 22,324 tests done in Week 14 represent a significant drop in tests done compared to earlier weeks in 2020 those numbers still represented the 2nd highest overall Week 14 test numbers in the history of the CDC. Yet only 0.8% ‘flu positives’ this season when the average for the preceding 7 years was 12.5% for Week 14. This is a statistical anomaly that begs many questions. To consider just a few:
- How did such a terrible flu season suddenly disappear?
- In what column have those ‘flu positives’ been placed?
“This means we have, effectively, lots and lots of ‘missing’ influenza-positives to explain,” concludes the blogpost host.
April 29, 2020 — BioNTech and Pfizer announce completion of dosing for first cohort of Phase 1/2 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidates in Germany, according to a BioNTech press release.
“BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. have announced that the first cohort of BioNTech's Phase 1/2 clinical trial has been dosed. Twelve study participants were dosed with vaccine candidate BNT162 in Germany since dosing began on April 23, 2020. The trial is the first clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Germany. Pfizer and BioNTech plan to initiate trials for BNT162 in the United States upon regulatory approval, which is expected shortly.
“The dose escalation portion of the Phase 1/2 trial will include approximately 200 healthy subjects between the ages of 18 to 55 and will target a dose range of 1 µg to 100 µg, aiming to determine the optimal dose for further studies as well as to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of the vaccine. The study will also assess the effects of repeated vaccination following a prime injection for the three vaccine candidates that contain uridine containing mRNA (uRNA) or nucleoside modified mRNA (modRNA). A fourth vaccine candidate, which contains self-amplifying mRNA (saRNA) will be evaluated after a single dose of vaccine. Subjects with a higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease will be included in the second part of the study.”
April 29, 2020 —Philadelphia shuts down its ‘coronavirus surge hospital’ after spending $5 million on it and admitting 14 patients.
“At Temple University's Liacouras Center, most of the 200 hospital beds sat empty for the facility's two weeks in operation.
“The surge of coronavirus patients never came.”
April 30, 2020 — UPMC doctor argues COVID-19 not as deadly as feared, says its hospitals will shift back to normal.
A UPMC doctor on Thursday made a case the death rate for people infected with the new coronavirus may be as low as 0.25% — far lower than the mortality rates of 2-4% or even higher cited in the early days of the pandemic.
Dr. Donald Yealy based it partly on studies of levels of coronavirus antibodies detected in people in New York and California, and partly on COVID-19 deaths in the Pittsburgh region. The studies found that 5–20% of people had been exposed to the coronavirus, with many noticing only mild illness or none at all, he said.
Yealy further said the majority of the deaths among UPMC patients involved people over 80, with many being nursing home residents.
Yealy has been one of the main public voices of UPMC during the coronavirus pandemic. He spoke Thursday during a 40-minute online discussion with reporters.
Yealy said only 2% percent of the UPMC system’s 5,500 beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients and the number of new COVID-19 patients is declining.
April 30, 2020 — Reuters reports: Little-used USNS Comfort leaves New York Harbor.
“The 1,000-bed Navy vessel, headed back to its home base in Norfolk, Virginia, never nearing its capacity. By the time of Comfort's departure, the approximately 1,200-person crew and 1,000-bed hospital had treated just 182 patients despite NYC being the supposed 'epicenter' of the pandemic.”
April 30, 2020 — The WHO initiates the Solidarity Trial of COVID19 potential treatment options and seeks “expressions of interest from vaccine trial sites around the world.”
“WHO has initiated the Solidarity Trial of COVID19 potential treatment options, with interest expressed from over 100 countries.
“Recognizing the critical importance to world health of the rapid evaluation and deployment of high quality, safe and effective candidate COVID19 vaccines, WHO has developed the Solidarity Vaccine Trial protocol.
“WHO is now seeking expressions of interest from vaccine trial sites around the world to take part in this protocol which will include several candidate COVID19 candidates that meet WHO prioritization criteria.”
April 30, 2020 — In a lengthy Gates Notes blogpost, Bill Gates asserts that an mRNA or DNA vaccine for the entire world is the only solution to get us back to pre-pandemic normal. He adds that vaccine factories must be built around the world.
“One of the questions I get asked the most these days is when the world will be able to go back to the way things were in December before the coronavirus pandemic. My answer is always the same: when we have an almost perfect drug to treat COVID-19, or when almost every person on the planet has been vaccinated against coronavirus. [Emphasis added.]
“The former is unlikely to happen anytime soon.
“Which leaves us with a vaccine.”
“What we can do now is build different kinds of vaccine factories to prepare. Each vaccine type requires a different kind of factory. We need to be ready with facilities that can make each type, so that we can start manufacturing the final vaccine (or vaccines) as soon as we can. This will cost billions of dollars. Governments need to quickly find a mechanism for making the funding for this available. Our foundation is currently working with CEPI, the WHO, and governments to figure out the financing.”
One way governments are able to convince people that the covid emergency is real is by making the effects real: closing schools, preventing people from gathering together and working, forcing people to move through their lives in masks, and convincing healthy people that they are carriers of a symptom-less illness.
As we have seen from April’s unfolding events, the full weight of the Establishment—the media, the government, medical and scientific “experts,” and the entire administrative state—comes down on one side: namely, that a virus is threatening the life of every person on the planet. Anyone who questions these authorities is said to be committing thought crimes.
Despite the group-think and the fear causing widespread mental paralysis, a bunch of brave folks boldly voice their skepticism of the official story.
From this, two competing and diametrically opposed narratives materialize.
One is fueled by hysteria and is fraught with contradictions. It claims to be the only “allowable” truth and insists that it alone serves the “public good.”
The other, which is suppressed by the mainstream news, nonetheless finds ways to be heard. It demands evidence and asks difficult questions, such as:
- What would happen if we all stopped watching television and started critically questioning the mainstream reports?
- Why are no healthy people impacted by this “killer virus”?
- Why is a loaded needle being held to our heads?
- What if we are being lied to?
- What if the lies are intentional?
The month of April sees a dramatic acceleration of the covid fear campaign and a parallel increase in the number of dissenters who object to the prevailing covid credo.
New Yorkers are ordered to wear masks or to stay apart. Authorities in Italy order citizens in the Lombardy region to wear masks.
The CDC recommends face masks for everyone.
Anthony Fauci says Americans should stop shaking hands; public gatherings are discouraged or outlawed; and compulsory “social distancing” becomes “the new normal” until a vaccine is developed.
Covid-19 “immunity passports” and biometric ID along with “pandemic drones” and phone-tracking data, both of which monitor social distancing, become part of the conversation on how to “control the spread” and manage social behavior.
Covid task forces are formed as highly coordinated lockdown measures take on an increasingly militarized “look and feel.”
Around the world new guidance for certifying “deaths due to coronavirus disease 2019” is issued. These guidelines encourage a liberal interpretation of a “covid death.”
The backlash from such incongruities is evident when numerous doctors assert that the “Covid-19 death” figures are being manipulated.
The head of Hamburg’s Institute of Forensic Medicine claims that “no one in Hamburg has died of Covid-19 without a previous illness.”
The Director of the Illinois Department of Health admits that not everyone listed as a “covid death” necessarily died from covid.
Physicians say hospitals are using economic incentives to pressure ER doctors to add “COVID-19” to diagnostic lists and death certificates. A Minnesota State Senator asserts that hospitals are getting three times as much money if so-called covid patients are put on a ventilator. Meanwhile, some doctors begin to question the “overly aggressive” use of ventilators.
The reports of empty hospital ERs, the shutting down of “coronavirus surge hospitals,” and the departure from harbors of scarcely used emergency hospital ships reflect the hysteria surrounding this alleged pandemic being hyped to biblical proportions.
Patients stop seeking help for life-threatening conditions, including heart attacks, because they are worried about catching coronavirus while in the hospital.
The collateral damage of the lockdowns is acknowledged by some public figures. Simultaneously protests against lockdowns and other draconian measures become more visible.
Reports of mass deaths in nursing homes emerge. Most of this happens behind closed doors as families are turned away under the guise of disease control.
Deaths spike but seemingly only in “care” homes and hospitals.
The criticism is voiced that the corona crisis might be a drastic exaggeration designed to intentionally induce panic.
Through all the chaos and confusion we are repeatedly told that an mRNA or DNA vaccine for the entire world is the only solution to get us back to pre-pandemic normal.
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