Former Goldman Sachs trader Jim Cramer says pandemic policies have led to "one of the greatest wealth transfers in history." Meanwhile, millions of Americans’ lives are being disrupted by unemployment levels not seen since the Great Depression.
The month of June 2020 sees the net worth of seven billionaires in the US skyrocket more than 50% since the start of the corona pandemic.
BlackRock publishes a "Policy Revolution" that details its "going direct" initiative. The paper provides guidance that is directly relevant to the corona pandemic sweeping through Western nations. Indeed, governments' response to this worldwide event has been faster—and the scale greater—than at any moment in peacetime history. As a result, core tenets of global policy frameworks and of financial markets have been fundamentally transformed.
After a sharp and steep decline, Wall Street astonishingly erases all its losses in a mere two months, and by June the stock market returns to where it was at the beginning of the year.
The World Economic Forum declares that it's time for "The Great Reset"—that is, a reset of economic and social foundations, with the COVID-19 "emergency" serving as the catalyst.
Canadian researcher and scientist Denis G. Rancourt publishes his groundbreaking paper, "All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response." The lengthy paper concludes that not contagion but localized medical interventions and institutional actions are what has led to an accelerated mass homicide of immune, vulnerable individuals.
An analysis by The Wall Street Journal shows that the fatality count in nursing homes represents about 43% of "covid deaths" in the US.
State-by-state percentages of "covid deaths" are also coming out.
For instance, in Illinois, 53% of the state's "Covid-19 deaths" are linked to nursing homes.
In California, one article asks, "'Pandemic within a pandemic': What's fueling LA County’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes?" The answer is provided by data found in Los Angeles County records. It shows that half of the county's total "covid deaths" come from nursing home residents and account for nearly 60% of all "covid deaths" in California.
An analysis done by MinnPost reports that 80% of "Covid deaths" in the state are residents of long-term care.
Statistics from the government of Canada show there have been only a few hundred confirmed deaths from "coronavirus" in the entire country of 33 million-plus people, the vast majority of whom are over the age of 85.
An analysis from Montreal finds strong correlations linking higher rates of covid infections with low-income neighborhoods and neighborhoods with higher percentages of Black residents.
The Washington Post reports that income and race are major predictors of coronavirus infections.
A coronavirus model that is published by an outfit primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation projects more than 200,000 deaths in the US by October.
The US Department of Defense announces that Operation Warp Speed will accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development and that the federal government—not private companies—will assume the risk.
The Trump administration selects five coronavirus vaccine candidates as finalists.
Just 50% of Americans plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine at a time when the CDC is working on a plan to boost "vaccine confidence" as part of the federal effort to develop a vaccine.
Del Bigtree calls the covid vaccines among the most dangerous ever used for a virus that poses little risk to most people.
June 1, 2020 — CDC: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 from Patient with Coronavirus Disease, United States
"The etiologic agent of an outbreak of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, was identified as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in January 2020. A patient in the United States was given a diagnosis of infection with this virus by the state of Washington and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on January 20, 2020. We isolated virus from nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal specimens from this patient and characterized the viral sequence, replication properties, and cell culture tropism. We found that the virus replicates to high titer in Vero-CCL81 cells and Vero E6 cells in the absence of trypsin."
Retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova offers this "REMINDER":
"The genome for SARS-CoV-2 is a "consensus sequence." Anybody who says the gene sequence for SARS2 is confirmed is *confused or lying.*
"[The reality is that] nobody has the code of the pathogen . . . ."
"What they set for the control [for the PCR 'test'] is a consensus sequence, which [means] they took AI, they averaged out a section of the genome that they want as that test, and they set it for that. So it doesn't even exist in nature anywhere."
Latypova and former medical coder-turned-whistleblower Zowe Smith discuss the many shortcomings of PCR "tests" as well as the fact that no genome for SARS-CoV-2 has ever been characterized—only a "consensus sequence," which, Smith notes, is developed when AI "average[s] out . . . a section of the genome that they want as a test." She adds, "[I]t doesn't even exist in nature anywhere."
Confirms Latypova:
"[W]hen they're saying, 'Oh, we have the COVID virus, the full genome . . . it's been sequenced. Look at all these papers,' [the reality is that] nobody has the code of the pathogen . . . . Ralph Baric also wrote about it in his work all the time. So nobody has the pathogenic sequence."
"What they upload to GenBank is . . . averaged. . . . And once it's averaged, it's no longer pathogenic anything. It's just a model. And then for PCR, [it] doesn't test the full genome. They do these, like, snippets, and then whatever snippet you wanna set it to, you will find it, and that's how they find . . . positive COVID. So all of this is total BS."
Smith says that when she worked with PCR in a lab at the Oregon Health and Science University she "realized that everything was controlled through EUA [Emergency Use Authorization] and the CDC, so there was no way to independently verify [the controls that were used]."
June 1, 2020 — BlackRock Investment Institute publishes a paper titled "Policy Revolution," which fleshes out the "going direct" initiative that BlackRock proposed to the Federal Reserve the previous year.
Its summary reads, in part:
"Macroeconomic policy has gone through nothing short of a revolution in just three months. The policy response is on a completely different scale compared with the global financial crisis (GFC). Not only has the response been faster and the scale greater than at any moment in peacetime history, but core tenets of global policy frameworks and financial markets have been fundamentally transformed."
"There are three main aspects to this revolution. First, the new set of policies are explicitly attempting to “go direct” – bypassing financial sector transmission and instead finding more direct pipes to deliver liquidity to households and businesses. Second, there is an explicit blurring of fiscal and monetary policies. Third, government support for companies comes with stringent conditions, opening the door to unprecedented government intervention in the functioning of financial markets and in corporate governance."
The paper "Policy Revolution" provides express guidance that is directly relevant to the pandemic response seen throughout Western governments.
"This announcement builds on the previous actions CMS has taken to ensure the safety and security of America’s nursing homes as the nation battles coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is a key step in the Trump Administration’s Guidelines for Opening Up America Again."
Since April 19, 2020, CMS required nursing homes to inform residents, their families, and representatives of COVID-19 cases in their facilities. For the first time, nursing homes are now required to report COVID-19 cases and deaths directly to the CDC on an ongoing basis as the result of an unprecedented CMS regulatory requirement issued on May 1, 2020.
June 1, 2020 — Bloomberg: Zoloft Falls Into Shortage as Virus Anxiety Strains Supplies
According to a report from Bloomberg, the US is experiencing a shortage of a commonly prescribed antidepressant. As the need for mental health services has grown in response to the effects of the pandemic, so too has the rate that Zoloft—which treats depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorders, among other things—is being prescribed.
June 2, 2020 — Canadian researcher Denis G. Rancourt publishes landmark study "All-cause mortality during COVID-19: No plague and a likely signature of mass homicide by government response"
Correlation: Research in the Public Interest republishes Rancourt's June 2 ResearchGate article, including his Summary:
"The latest data of all-cause mortality by week does not show a winter-burden mortality that is statistically larger than for past winters. There was no plague. However, a sharp 'COVID peak' is present in the data, for several jurisdictions in Europe and the USA.
"This all-cause-mortality 'COVID peak' has unique characteristics:
• Its sharpness, with a full-width at half-maximum of only approximately 4 weeks;
• Its lateness in the infectious-season cycle, surging after week-11 of 2020, which is unprecedented for any large sharp-peak feature;
• The synchronicity of the onset of its surge, across continents, and immediately following the WHO declaration of the pandemic; and
• Its USA state-to-state absence or presence for the same viral ecology on the same territory, being correlated with nursing home events and government actions rather than any known viral strain discernment.
"These 'COVID peak' characteristics, and a review of the epidemiological history, and of relevant knowledge about viral respiratory diseases, lead me to postulate that the 'COVID peak' results from an accelerated mass homicide of immune-vulnerable individuals, and individuals made more immune-vulnerable, by government and institutional actions, rather than being an epidemiological signature of a novel virus, irrespective of the degree to which the virus is novel from the perspective of viral speciation."
June 2, 2020 — CNBC: Dr. Anthony Fauci says there's a chance coronavirus vaccine may not provide immunity for very long
"If Covid-19 acts like other coronaviruses, 'it likely isn't going to be a long duration of immunity,' Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told JAMA Editor Howard Bauchner."
June 3, 2020 — The World Economic Forum declares it's time for "The Great Reset" of capitalism
WEF's announcement is made a month ahead of the release of a book by the same name co-authored by Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab. The book makes the following points:
- "We can emerge from this crisis a better world, if we act quickly and jointly.
- "The changes we have already seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible.
- "This is our best chance to instigate stakeholder capitalism—and here's how it can be achieved."
June 3, 2020 — The Los Angeles Times: The Southern California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents about 1,500 doctors, issues a statement pointing to research that suggests the risks of "COVID-19 transmission" among children are lower than for adults. The statement warns that keeping children away from in-person instruction for a long stretch of time could have negative consequences.
"The damage done by keeping children out of school might outweigh the risks of COVID-19 transmission, a regional organization of pediatricians said Tuesday, pushing back against educators who have cautioned against reopening campuses too soon."
June 4, 2020 — CNBC: Former Goldman Sachs trader Jim Cramer: "The pandemic led to 'one of the greatest wealth transfers in history'"
"The coronavirus pandemic has produced 'one of the greatest wealth transfers in history,' CNBC's Jim Cramer said. 'The bigger the business, the more it moves the major averages, and that matters because this is the first recession where big business . . . is coming through virtually unscathed, if not going for the gold,' he added."
June 4, 2020 — SBS: "Italy's government urges caution after leading doctor claims 'virus no longer exists'"
"'In reality, the virus clinically no longer exists in Italy,' said Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy's alleged coronavirus contagion.
"'The swabs performed over the past 10 days have shown a viral load that is absolutely infinitesimal in quantitative terms compared to those carried out a month or two months ago,' he said in an interview on RAI television on Sunday.
"'Someone has to take responsibility for terrorising the country.'"
June 4, 2020 — UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hosts the Global Vaccine Summit, which brings together leaders from around the world at a virtual event to pledge their support for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
The Global Vaccine Summit launches a new Gavi fund, the COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), whose purpose is to accelerate access to coronavirus vaccines in the poorest countries—an "investment opportunity" and first building block of the COVAX Facility.
"The goal is by the end of 2021 to deliver two billion doses of safe, effective vaccines to all participating countries including the 92 AMC-eligible economies."
June 4, 2020 — The Atlantic publishes the first article about COVID "long-haulers": COVID-19 Can Last for Several Months
The article notes that COVID-19 has existed for less than six months and that little is known about the disease—and yet it refers to long-lasting symptoms.
"The disease's 'long-haulers' have endured relentless waves of debilitating symptoms—and disbelief from doctors and friends."
June 5, 2020 — MedPage Today: The CDC launches its Covid-19 "COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: CMS Names Names — Agency rolls out data reports for individual facilities"
According to an article in the UK's Off-Guardian:
"Early this month the US CDC launched their Covid19 'care home tracker' website, which claims to list all the care homes in the US which receive government aid, along with the numbers of Covid19 cases and deaths for each.
"The trouble was, as an article for MedPage Today pointed out, at least some of the recorded numbers were 'insanely inaccurate.' Here are some notable examples:
- The Saugus Rehab and Nursing Center in Saugus, Massachusetts, was listed as having 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents and 281 cases in staff. The facility only has room for 80 patients, maximum, of which 45 tested positive along with 19 staff.
- Southern Pointe Living Center in Colbert, Oklahoma, is listed as having 339 residents die of COVID-19 despite only having a 95-bed capacity and officially reporting not one single case of covid19, let alone a death.
- Dellridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Paramus, New Jersey, is listed as the worst-affected care home in the US, with 753 deaths. The reality, according to their marketing director, is they have a 90-patient capacity and have had only 20 deaths.
The blogger New Levellers did some independent digging by calling the nursing homes. The blogger quotes a Southern Pointe Living Center spokesperson:
"'We have not lost anyone nor have we had a [COVID-19] case in the building,' said a woman identifying herself as an assistant at Southern Pointe but who declined to give her full name. The day after CMS released the data, on Friday, she said someone from the CDC called the facility to ask if their numbers were correct as reported, 'and we told them no.'
"She added, 'I don't know how that happened but that is an error on their end.'"
The New Levellers blogger also quotes a Dellridge spokesman:
"The CMS data indicated Dellridge Health and Rehabilitation Center in Paramus, New Jersey, had the most COVID-19 deaths of any nursing home in the country at 753.
"That number is 'insanely wrong,' Jonathan Mechaly, Dellridge's marketing director, wrote in a frantic email. 'We are a 90-bed center and have had less than 20 deaths!! How do you report such inaccurate numbers?'"
NOTE: Some legitimate questions must be asked: If all these false death statistics and nursing home deaths are subtracted from official COVID statistics, would we have a completely different picture of the so-called pandemic? Why so many died from nursing homes in such a short period of time? Would we have the same concentrated death ratio from nursing homes nearly every season if the policies put in place this year were implemented permanently?
June 5, 2020 — World Health Organization (WHO) endorses the use of face masks—a reversal of its previous stance—even though it admits that the use of masks is "not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence."
"Even in its latest guidance, the W.H.O. made its reluctance abundantly clear, saying the usefulness of face masks is 'not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence,' but that governments should encourage mask wearing because of 'a growing compendium of observational evidence.'"
June 5, 2020 — The New York Times: Trump Administration Selects Five Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates as Finalists
"The five companies are Moderna, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm, which Dr. Fauci said he expected would enter into the final phase of clinical trials next month; the combination of Oxford University and AstraZeneca, on a similar schedule; and three large pharmaceutical companies: Johnson & Johnson, Merck and Pfizer. Each is taking a somewhat different approach."
June 5, 2020 — PJ Media: Nobel Scientist Says Lockdown 'Saved No Lives' and 'May Have Cost Lives'
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof. Michael Levitt from Stanford University believes that the nationwide three-month lockdown that devastated the American economy actually cost more lives than it saved.
June 5, 2020 — Politico Europe: European Commission wants social media to report monthly on COVID-19 misinformation
Similar to the scenario laid out in Event 201, the European Commission introduces proposals that will require social media companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter to "provide monthly updates on how they're tackling misinformation connected to COVID-19."
June 6, 2020 — Politico: 'Enough is enough': Thousands descend on D.C. for largest George Floyd protest yet
"Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for its largest demonstration yet over George Floyd’s death in police custody, a capstone on a defining week for a city — and nation — that has grappled with widespread outrage over racial injustice, police brutality and the politics accompanying them."
June 6, 2020 — David Crowe publishes "Flaws in Coronavirus Pandemic Theory"
"The world is suffering from a massive delusion based on the belief that a test for RNA is a test for a deadly new virus, a virus that has emerged from wild bats or other animals in China, supported by the western assumption that Chinese people will eat anything that moves."
"Definitions of important diseases are surprisingly loose, perhaps embarrassingly so. A couple of symptoms, maybe contact with a previous patient, and a test of unknown accuracy, is all you often need. While the definition of SARS, an earlier coronavirus panic, was self-limiting, the definition of COVID-19 disease is open ended, allowing the imaginary epidemic to grow.
"This strange new disease, officially named COVID-19, has none of its own symptoms. Fever and cough, previously blamed on uncountable viruses and bacteria, as well as environmental contaminants, are most common, as well as abnormal lung images, despite those being found in healthy people. Yet, despite the fact that only a minority of people tested will test positive (often less than 5%), it is assumed that this disease is easily recognized. If that were truly the case, the majority of people selected for testing by doctors should be positive."
June 7, 2020 — Scientific American: "Why Would Anyone Distrust Anthony Fauci?"
The co-authors of this opinion piece in Scientific American answer the question posed in its title with this subtitle:
"It's because Americans tend to believe in science, but they don’t always think scientists share their values."
NOTE: The op-ed makes no mention of Fauci's past track record—from AZT to remdesivir.
June 8, 2020 — The Australian government's Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN) puts out guidance on Nucleic Acid Test Result Interpretation for SARS-CoV-2 in the laboratory. It observes that with PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2, "usually 35-45 cycles are undertaken" and notes that over 40 cycles can risk a false positive result.
June 8, 2020 — CNN: "The US government's supply of Covid-19 drug remdesivir runs out at the end of the month"
The news in this headline was given by Dr. Robert Kadlec, a US Department of Health and Human Services official, to CNN reporters.
NOTE: Remdesivir, the deadly "covid treatment" from Gilead Sciences, received Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA despite the lack of a control group during its efficacy trial, despite no advisory meetings, and despite the European Union having signed a contract for its use without knowing of the failed trial. A related article in Science magazine refers to the "very, very bad look" of remdesivir and reports that both the FDA's decision and the EU deal came about under unusual circumstances that gave Gilead important advantages.
June 8, 2020 — After a short-lived but deep free fall followed by a gradual two-month recovery, the stock market returns to where it was at the beginning of the year.
According to this New York Times' article:
"Stocks on Wall Street erased their losses for the year, a remarkable milestone for a market that was reeling just a few months ago as investors feared the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic."
June 8, 2020 — The World Health Organization's Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead for COVID-19, makes a controversial statement at a press conference, saying that the asymptomatic spread of the coronavirus appears to be "very rare," a TIME article relates.
NOTE: According to a previous TIME piece published in January, researchers had been warning that people without any COVID-19 symptoms could still be silent carriers of the disease, making the coronavirus difficult to detect and deter. The rationale for lockdowns and for terrifying people into thinking they could "kill grandma" is based on the notion of asymptomatic spread. Hence the controversy that Dr. Van Kerkhove's statement has sparked.
A New York Times article published on the same day reads:
"'Comprehensive studies on transmission from asymptomatic individuals are difficult to conduct, but the available evidence from contact tracing reported by Member States suggests that asymptomatically-infected individuals are much less likely to transmit the virus than those who develop symptoms,' according to Maria Van Kerkhove."
Then the next day, reports Slashdot, Van Kerkhove "walks back" her "earlier assertion," saying that it was based on just two or three studies and that it was a "misunderstanding" to say asymptomatic transmission is rare globally.
"I was just responding to a question, I wasn't stating a policy of W.H.O. or anything like that."
June 9, 2020 — MedPage Today, following up on its June 5th article, notes: "Nursing Homes Shocked at 'Insanely Wrong' CMS Data on COVID-19"
One facility, MedPage Today reveals, supposedly had eight coronavirus deaths for each bed.
"Paula Sanders, an attorney in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who represents some 200 skilled nursing facilities, said many of her clients 'can't figure out where these numbers are coming from' and have been 'frustrated' in trying to get them corrected since Thursday."
"'This has destroyed the trust between the facilities and the families, because they've been reporting and telling the families, these are our numbers,' Sanders said. 'Then these numbers come out and don't make any sense at all. Unfortunately, some families are going to believe the government over the facilities.'"
June 10, 2020 — CNBC: A housing 'apocalypse' is predicted as coronavirus protections expire and renters face eviction
"The Covid-19 economic recession has hit renters especially hard. They make up a disproportionate share of service sector jobs, an industry that has been decimated as a result of the coronavirus."
June 11, 2020 — Two hairstylists who had coronavirus saw 140 clients. No new infections have been linked to the salon, officials say
“No cases of coronavirus have been linked to two Missouri hairstylists who saw 140 clients last month while symptomatic, county health officials said.
"Both stylists worked at the same Great Clips location in Springfield. The clients and the stylists all wore face coverings, and the salon had set up other measures such as social distancing of chairs and staggered appointments, the Springfield-Greene County Health Department said this week.
"Of the 140 clients and seven co-workers potentially exposed, 46 took tests that came back negative. All the others were quarantined for the duration of the coronavirus incubation period. The 14-day incubation period has now passed with no coronavirus cases linked to the salon beyond the two stylists, county health officials said.”
NOTE: Another deviation from the official narrative that there was an extraordinarily transmissible contagion swirling through the air.
June 12, 2020 — The Seattle Times reports that a "covid" patient was sent a $1.1 million medical bill for his treatment
"Remember Michael Flor, the longest-hospitalized COVID-19 patient who, when he unexpectedly did not die, was jokingly dubbed 'the miracle child'? Now they can also call him the million-dollar baby."
"The bill is technically an explanation of charges, and because Flor has insurance including Medicare, he won't have to pay the vast majority of it. In fact because he had COVID-19, and not a different disease, he might not have to pay anything. . . ."
Flor's 181-page bill included almost 3,000 itemized charges.
June 12, 2020 — SEIU HCII: In Illinois, "53% of State’s Covid-19 Deaths Linked to Nursing Homes; 3,433 Nursing Home Residents Have Died as Demands to Hold the Industry Accountable Grow"
June 12, 2020 — CNBC: "CDC warns U.S. may reimplement strict coronavirus measures if cases go up 'dramatically'"
"'Right now, communities are experiencing different levels of transmission occurring, as they gradually ease up onto the community mitigation efforts and gradually reopen,' the CDC's deputy director for infectious diseases, Jay Butler, told reporters during a press briefing."
June 13, 2020 — CBC: "One country, two pandemics: what COVID-19 reveals about inequality in Canada"
"A new analysis conducted by CBC News of cases in Montreal finds strong correlations linking higher rates of COVID-19 infections with low-income neighbourhoods and neighbourhoods with higher percentages of Black residents."
". . . [A] similar analysis conducted by Global News of neighbourhoods in Toronto found "a strong association between high coronavirus rates and low income, conditions of work, visible minority status and low levels of education."
"Earlier data from Toronto Public Health — looking at cases reported through April 27 — showed COVID-19 was disproportionately affecting low-income residents."
June 14, 2020 — CNN: "New York has received 25,000 complaints of noncompliance with reopening rules, governor says"
"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said they have received reports from across the state that there are large gatherings, social distancing is being violated, and people aren’t wearing masks."
"[The governor] said 'there is a very real possibility' that reopening would be rolled back if there are a high number of violations of the policy, tantamount to a high likelihood of the spread the virus."
June 14, 2020 — CNN: US Surgeon General Jerome Adams channels Big Brother, saying face coverings bring "MORE freedom," not less
Adams tweets:
"Some feel face coverings infringe on their freedom of choice — but if more wear them, we'll have MORE freedom to go out."
June 14, 2020 — CNN: "GOP official says there is no plan for social distancing at Trump rally"
"Trump campaign and Tulsa GOP officials say more than 300,000 people have expressed interest in attending President Trump’s rally in Tulsa. Since the rally site, the Bank of Oklahoma Center, only holds around 20,000 people, there are currently discussions about whether they will add a second event, the campaign and one official said."
June 15, 2020 — CNN: "Coronavirus model projects 201,129 deaths in US by October"
The model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, IHME, was launched in June 2007 with a core grant of $105 million, which was primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"As of today, the model projects that 201,129 people will die from Covid-19 in the US by October 1, with a possible range of 171,551 to 269,395 deaths. Ali Mokdad, one of the model’s creators, said they’ve raised the number of projected deaths for two reasons."
"'Increased mobility and premature relaxation of social distancing led to more infections and we see it in Florida, Arizona, and other states. This means more projected deaths,' Mokdad told CNN in an email. 'The second part is that we are now projecting to October 1st, which means that an increase in this wave will results in our starting point for the second wave (more seeding), so the second wave will be higher and we are capturing parts of that. Remember second wave starts at the end of August early September.'"
June 15, 2020 — Business Insider: "Fauci says US government held off promoting face masks because it knew shortages were so bad that even doctors couldn't get enough"
- In an interview with the financial news site TheStreet, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the public was initially told not to wear masks to stop COVID-19 because of shortages of PPE for doctors.
- He said the government's shift in advice was because of "changing circumstances" and new research.
- He denied that earlier advice against wearing a mask was a contradiction of the new policy.
- Fauci now advocates masks "unequivocally" as a complementary measure to social distancing.
June 16, 2020 — CNN: FDA warns that pet owners can infect their pets
"Pets might not infect people with coronavirus, but pet owners need to protect cats, dogs and other companion animals, the US Food and Drug Administration cautioned in a new YouTube video."
"'Though it doesn't seem like animals can give you the virus, it appears you can give it to them. So if you’re sick, avoid direct contact with your pets. If possible, have someone else care for them until you're well again,' the FDA says in the video."
June 16, 2020 — ABC News: "Government to sink billions into a vaccine, prioritize vulnerable populations"
"When asked about cost, administration officials said Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccine doses developed with taxpayer money would be given to the U.S. government and then distributed — either for free to vulnerable populations or through private insurance."
June 16, 2020 — US Department of Defense announces "Operation Warp Speed Accelerates COVID-19 Vaccine Development"
"The national effort to accelerate the development, manufacturing and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine, called 'Operation Warp Speed,' will hasten the delivery of that vaccine by conducting steps concurrently that normally would be conducted sequentially, senior administration officials said."
"Speaking on background during a conference call today, officials said that when creating a vaccine, things such as development, clinical trials and manufacturing typically would occur one after the other. In some cases, officials said, Operation Warp Speed will do them at the same time."
"Private-sector drug companies would not develop a drug in such a fashion, the first official said, due to the financial risk. But for a COVID-19 vaccine, the official added, Operation Warp Speed and the federal government — not private companies — will be assuming the risk."
June 16, 2020 — CNBC: "These 7 billionaires' net worth is up more than 50% since start of the Covid-19 pandemic"
"As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in across the country and the world, millions of Americans' lives were disrupted as they faced illness, unemployment levels not seen the Great Depression, and whiplash-inducing market volatility.
"But some billionaires . . . have recovered and even surpassed their previous levels of wealth. . . . [S]even of the world’s 50 richest people increased their net worth by more than 50% between March 18 . . . and June 4. . . ."
Topping that list, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk increased his wealth 55% to more than $38 billion during that time.
Another billionaire who has seen his net worth skyrocket is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. From March 18 to June 4, Zuckerberg increased his wealth 52% to more than $83 billion.
June 16, 2020 — An analysis done by The Wall Street Journal shows that the fatality count in nursing homes represents about 43% of "covid deaths" tracked in the US
The WSJ study found that patients are often isolated and shut off from family and friends in facilities where gross neglect is all too often the standard of care.
June 16, 2020 — Secret NYC: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announces that the renowned U.S. Open tennis tournament will be held without spectators at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens.
Says Gov. Cuomo:
"The U.S. Open will be held in Queens, NY, without fans from August 31 to September 13.
"The USTA will take extraordinary precautions to protect players and staff, including robust testing, additional cleaning, extra locker room space, and dedicated housing & transportation."
June 17, 2020 — France 24: "New Zealand military to oversee borders after new Covid-19 cases"
"New Zealand on Wednesday said the defence force will now oversee the country's quarantine facilities and strengthen border requirements, after a slip-up allowed two people with coronavirus to move around the country."
"Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was appointing the Assistant Chief of Defence, Air Commodore Digby Webb, to oversee all quarantine and to manage isolation facilities, including the processes of exiting people from these facilities."
June 17, 2020 — ICAN: Saline Placebo Control Group is demanded for COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in US
Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) submits a Citizen Petition to the FDA requesting that all Phase II and Phase III COVID-19 vaccine trials include a placebo control group, that the placebo be a saline injection without anything added, and that the placebo control group be at least equivalent in size to the experimental group.
ICAN's petition and follow-up correspondence also requests that the FDA confirm the placebo control group will be maintained through the conclusion of the trial in order to maintain the integrity of the clinical trial and the validity of the safety data produced by the clinical trial.
The petition also requests:
"All systemic adverse reactions, adverse events, serious adverse events, medically-attended adverse events, new onset medical conditions, and any other health issue arising or exacerbated post-vaccination shall be documented for each subject post-vaccination for a period of at least twelve months for adults, thirty-six months for children and teenagers, and sixty months for infants and toddlers."
NOTE: The FDA failed to meet this request. The placebo arm was unblinded on December 14, 2020, for Pfizer/BioNTech and on January 14, 2021, for Moderna so that no long-term safety signals could ever be determined to be "causative."
June 18, 2020 — Senate.gov: "The Second Report of the Congressional Oversight Commission" (COC) is released
More than eleven weeks after the CARES Act became law, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve are announcing how they plan to use $195 billion of the $454 billion specifically allocated.
The Second Report of the COC states:
"In some areas of the economy, such as the ability of larger companies to issue debt to continue operations, the agencies' actions have had a clear and powerful impact. But there is less evidence that the actions of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have been as beneficial for small and mid-sized businesses and state and local governments."
June 18, 2020 — The Economic Times: "EU in advanced talks with Johnson & Johnson on COVID-19 vaccine deal"
"The move would be the first arranged by the European Union executive since it was mandated last week by the 27 EU national governments to use an emergency fund with more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion) available to reach advance purchase or call-option deals with up to six vaccine makers."
NOTE: Johnson & Johnson played a role in fueling the opioid crisis in the United States.
June 19, 2020 — The New York Times: "W.H.O. Warns of 'Dangerous Phase' of Pandemic as Outbreaks Widen"
"The world has entered a 'new and dangerous phase' of the coronavirus pandemic, a top official from the World Health Organization said on Friday, a stark warning that came as the United States struggled to control spiraling outbreaks and as business leaders signaled growing unease with the country's ability to effectively contend with the virus."
"Coronavirus cases spiked sharply across the American South and West, particularly in states that loosened restrictions on businesses several weeks ago."
"'Many people are understandably fed up with being at home,' Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the W.H.O., said in a news conference in which he described the new phase of the virus. 'Countries are understandably eager to open up their societies and their economies. But the virus is still spreading fast. It is still deadly and most people are still susceptible.'"
June 19, 2020 — FDA releases "Development and Licensure of Vaccines to Prevent COVID-19 (Guidance for Industry)"
The FDA determined that given the declared COVID-19 public health emergency it was neither "feasible" nor "appropriate" for any prior public comment on this COVID-19 vaccine guidance document.
In the Introduction, the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) wrote:
"This guidance is intended to remain in effect for the duration of the public health emergency related to COVID-19 declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, effective January 27, 2020, including any renewals made by the HHS Secretary. . . ."
The guidance document allows for multiple, brand-new technology products to enter a regulatory system, for which there was/is no recognized or established regulatory pathway. Under the guise of an emergency, new technology such as mRNA/LNP, DNA vectors enter into vaccine regulatory pathway under the EUA.
If the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine proven to be safe and effective precludes ethical inclusion of a placebo control group, that vaccine can serve as the control treatment in a study designed to evaluate efficacy.
In the event that a safe and effective vaccine becomes available they can break the blind study and offer the COVID-19 vaccine to placebo recipients.
June 19, 2020 — CBC News: "New StatsCan data reveals hundreds of 'excess' deaths in Canada amid pandemic"
Statistics Canada of the government of Canada has shown there have been only a few hundred confirmed deaths from 'coronavirus' in the whole country of more than 33 million people, with the vast majority of deaths over the age of 85.
"Between March 15 and April 25, British Columbia recorded 372 more deaths than in any of the previous five years for those same weeks — but just 99 of those were confirmed COVID-19 cases.
"A similar trend was observed in Alberta. For seven weeks, death counts were consistently higher than the historical baseline — but only 40 out of the 402 additional deaths are connected to the coronavirus.
"The excess deaths applied to both sexes and appeared to 'disproportionately affect those over the age of 85,' said the report."
Most of the excess deaths were attributed to other causes, such as the elderly getting heart attacks at home.
Prabhat Jha, professor of epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto asked:
"Are those missing COVID deaths? Are they heart attacks that went untreated and therefore died at home?"
He noted preliminary studies that suggest patients are not getting essential care or going to the emergency room out of fear of contracting COVID-19.
June 20, 2020 — Los Angeles Daily News: "'Pandemic within a pandemic': What's fueling LA County's coronavirus death toll in nursing homes?"
The article is Part 3 in an "Eye of the Storm" series. Its subtitle reads:
"While L.A. County is not unique in having close to half of its total COVID-19 deaths from nursing home residents, certain traits may be helping to fuel the problem in the most populous county in the nation."
According to its opening paragraphs:
"Despite comprising about a quarter of the state’s population, Los Angeles County makes up 64% of all the reported novel coronavirus deaths from skilled nursing residents in California and about 56% of the overall coronavirus-related deaths in the state, according to state data.
"Residents in these facilities have proven especially vulnerable: About 46% of the county’s more than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths are from residents in skilled nursing homes, compared to 41% statewide.
"But the figures based on Thursday’s data are likely off, partly because of under-reporting by facilities, and the data will shift for some time, experts said. Ultimately, nursing home deaths in the United States are expected to fall somewhere around 50% of the total coronavirus deaths, which is consistent with data from other nations."
The article goes on to say:
"Michael Connors of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform argues the pandemic's 'horrific death toll' is because Los Angeles County has 'some of the worst nursing homes in the nation' attributable to 'dreadful oversight and unscrupulous operators.'
"'Many if not most L.A. County nursing homes have long histories of understaffing and poor infection control practices,' Connors said."
"An early analysis by the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services of thousands of nursing homes across the country found facilities with a one-star quality rating on Medicare's Nursing Home Compare 'were more likely to have large numbers of COVID-19 cases' than those with a five-star rating."
June 21, 2020 — AP: "Dutch police try to break up virus protest in The Hague"
"Dutch police arrested about 400 protesters and used a water cannon Sunday after violence erupted around a demonstration in The Hague against measures put in place by the government to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
"A peaceful protest turned violent when dozens of what police said were soccer fans arrived and clashed with riot police near the city's central railway station."
June 22, 2020 — USA Today: "In person, online classes or a mix: Colleges' fall 2020 coronavirus reopening plans, detailed"
"Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley says he knows the coronavirus will spread if students come back to campus in the fall.
"While safety is 'paramount,' managing the risk is a chance worth taking for MSU, he said.
"'The one thing that's going to be really important, then, is confidence in our students, faculty and staff and their willingness to abide by a number of the things we're going to be asking them to do on campus,' Stanley said."
June 22, 2020 — The Washington Post: "Income emerges as a major predictor of coronavirus infections, along with race"
"Income is a potent force along with race in determining who among the nation's vulnerable, older population has been infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a federal analysis that lays bare stark disparities in the pandemic's toll.
"The findings released Monday are based on billing records for people on Medicare who have contracted the virus. They echo the commonly understood pattern that black Americans are more likely to test positive for the virus and to be hospitalized for covid-19, the disease it causes, than other racial and ethnic groups. But they also point to the role of poverty as the pandemic has sped through U.S. communities in the winter and spring."
NOTE: A virus that targets the poor?
June 23, 2020 — The MinnPost reports, "Of the 1,393 COVID-19 deaths reported in Minnesota, 1,101 have been among residents of long-term care."
June 24, 2020 — Newsweek: "Washington [State] Makes Not Wearing a Face Mask a Misdemeanor Crime"
"Starting Friday, every Washingtonian must wear a facial covering when in a public space, as mandated by the public health order signed by [Secretary of Health John Wiesman]. This includes both indoor and outdoor public spaces," Governor Jay Inslee stated in a Medium post."
June 24, 2020 — TimeOut: The New York City Marathon, established in 1970, is canceled for the first time in its history
New York Road Runners announces it has canceled the 2020 NYC Marathon "over health and safety concerns." The massive event, which attracted almost 54,000 runners in 2019, was slated for November 1, 2020, but with social distancing and mask rules in place, it just isn't possible to hold the marathon this year.
June 25, 2020 — NPR: The US government sent coronavirus stimulus payments totaling nearly $1.4 billion to more than 1 million dead people, according to a new report by an independent watchdog agency.
"The Government Accountability Office said the error involved almost 1.1 million checks and direct deposits sent to ineligible Americans. The payments were part of the coronavirus aid package passed in March known as the CARES Act."
June 26, 2020 — The Daily Mail: A WHO official claims millions more people could die "if there is a second wave of coronavirus infections."
But now for the good news:
"Dr Ranieri Guerra, an assistant director-general for strategic initiatives at the WHO, said the pandemic had so far spread as health officials had anticipated."
June 26, 2020 — The Hill: Joe Biden says that as president he would mandate face coverings
Speaking with CBS affiliate KBKA on Thursday, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that if he were president he would use federal authority mandate wearing masks in public.
June 26, 2020 — Global Research: A British cybersecurity company, in partnership with several tech firms, is set to roll out the COVI-PASS in 15 countries across the world.
The COVI-PASS is a "digital health passport" that will contain COVID-19 test history and other "relevant health information." The COVI-PASS objectives "mirror those that Bill Gates has been promoting since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown."
June 27, 2020 — AP: "Brazil signs deal to produce experimental virus vaccine"
"The Brazilian government announced on Saturday an agreement with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca to produce a promising coronavirus vaccine that is undergoing tests.
"Brazilian Health Ministry authorities said at a news conference that the country will pay $127 million and receive material to produce 30.4 million doses in two batches in December and January, which would allow it to quickly start inoculation efforts if the vaccine is certified to be safe and effective.
"They said the total deal is for 100 million vaccines for a country of about 210 million residents. It will be produced by local vaccine maker Fiocruz."
June 27, 2020 — NPR: "Black Doctors Say Pandemic Reveals Enduring Racial Inequity Medicine Alone Cannot Fix"
"These doctors see in their wards some of the African American patients who make up the vast majority of the city's COVID-19 fatalities. For Dr. [William] Strudwick [at Howard University Hospital], Dr. Janice Blanchard at George Washington University Hospital, and Dr. Marcee Wilder at United Medical Center, working amid the pandemic inspires a sense of duty — and sometimes despair.
"[The] Black middle class has been relatively insulated from the pandemic, Strudwick observed. So he was baffled when a friend suddenly passed away. They were the same age and they raised their kids together, two African American men appearing to lead parallel lives. But the friend died alone at home. His family blamed COVID19. Dr. Strudwick wondered if his friend quietly struggled to afford healthcare.
"'He should have had access. He could have called me,' he said."
June 28, 2020 — The Hill: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calls for mandating face coverings to prevent the spread of coronavirus, saying they are 'definitely long overdue'
June 29, 2020 — The WHO holds its first Infodemiology Conference
Objectives
- Understand the multidisciplinary nature of infodemic management;
- Identify current examples and tools to understand, measure and control infodemics;
- Build a public health research agenda to direct focus and investment in this emerging scientific field; and
- Establish a community of practice and research.
Participants
- Experts from the fields of Epidemiology and Public Health; Applied Math and Data Science; Digital Health and Technology Applications; Social & Behavioral Science; Media Studies & Journalism; Marketing, UX and Design; Risk Communication and Community Engagement; Ethics and Governance and other relevant scientific disciplines and practices
- UN agencies
- Public health authorities
June 30, 2020 — David Sirota reports that Gilead is charging $3,000 for remdesivir treatments that cost less than $10 to produce
Sirota is founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, an investigative news outlet. He writes:
"This story begins 25 years ago, when the Clinton administration rescinded a rule that required pharmaceutical companies to charge Americans reasonable prices for medicines developed at government expense. Some progressive lawmakers tried to reinstate the rule, but Republicans and Democrats joined together to halt those initiatives.
"In the ensuing years, the Obama administration refused Democratic lawmakers’ demand to invoke existing federal laws to force down the price of critical medicines. Meanwhile, the GOP also blocked legislation to let Medicare use its purchasing power to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs.
"All of that reflected the lobbying, campaign contributions and indomitable bipartisan power of the pharmaceutical industry in Washington. And it led to a result that this newsletter has been warning about, as Gilead just announced that it will charge privately insured Americans more than $3,000 each for a 5-day COVID treatment that was developed with financial support from the government.
"That's a $3,000 price tag for a government-sponsored drug treatment that experts say the company could offer at $10 and still make a profit."
June 30, 2020 — Science: "Just 50% of Americans plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Here's how to win over the rest"
"To stop the pandemic, the world’s public health experts must win the coming 'story war' over vaccine misinformation."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is now working on a plan to boost 'vaccine confidence' as part of the federal effort to develop a vaccine, Director Robert Redfield told a Senate committee this week."
"Del Bigtree, a U.S.-based vaccine critic, claims scientists are pursuing one of 'the most dangerous vaccines ever attempted' for a virus that poses little risk to most people."
June 30, 2020 — Fierce Pharma: FDA sets a low efficacy requirement of 50% for COVID-19 vaccines
"An efficacy figure of 50% would compare somewhat favorably to flu vaccine efficacy in the last decade, which has ranged from 19% to 60% since 2010, according to the CDC."
"For its part, the WHO has set its own success benchmarks for COVID-19 vaccines at 70% efficacy and a duration of protection for one year, while the lower threshold calls for 50% efficacy for 6 months."
There appear to be so few healthy people impacted by this mysterious and seemingly discriminating “covid” contagion that their numbers are considered statistically insignificant.
Instead, this putatively selective virus impacts only those individuals already in poor health. The vast majority of them are elderly and disabled, and they generally live in institutional settings.
The fact that 50 percent of the "covid deaths" in Europe were residents of nursing homes is an obvious giveaway that this is decidedly NOT an issue of contagion but IS an issue of the conditions in which these people live. That's common sense 101. Thus, the facts point to a social problem, not to a global pandemic.
Such obvious incongruities give rise to problems inherent in the official narrative and cause us to ask:
If a lethal virus of the magnitude that public officials are hyping truly exists, would we not see a sizable bloc of young and healthy people dying?
If the state-run mainstream media weren’t blasting out their 24/7 fearmongering propaganda campaign, would anyone have even noticed anything unusual about the now nowhere-to-be-found 2020 flu season?
Why the coordinated frenzy of instructions, new guidelines, and financial incentives designed to push doctors and bureaucrats into declaring that all deaths under the sun in 2020 are “covid-19 deaths”?
Why the overwhelming need to exacerbate the death toll?
Why the carousel of media appearances by newly anointed world disease emperors Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates? Are these two heralded stars so revered that no challenges to their authority are allowed and all questions about their conclusions are forbidden?
Would a global pandemic of biblical proportions really need non-stop PR campaigns and a series of unique administrative decrees to prove to the public just how serious and deadly it is?
One theory that attempts to make sense of these otherwise-unanswerable questions suggests that the covid crisis is a smokescreen set up to get us to look away from the 2019 financial implosion, the pending system-destroying recession, and the subsequent massive bailouts to the banking system that led to one of the largest upward transfers of wealth in history.
This theory postulates that the “corona crisis” was a mass psychological terror campaign and that the global response to this alleged medical emergency was not a spontaneous reaction to a viral threat but rather the systematic deployment of a governance model that had been assembled well ahead of this structural event.
Does a rigorous analysis of the evidence point toward the “corona crisis” genuinely being a biomedical emergency?
Or is the “corona crisis” a controlled demolition of the disintegrating global economy that is intended to overhaul and catalyze already-in-place governing systems, get ahead of the inevitable social unrest, and restructure the current social and economic world by creating a form of technocratic global governance?
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