It's been evident for some time that anyone not buying the government approved covid narrative is automatically dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist" in our corporate media.
The official view is that we should all huddle in our hovels and wait for Gates and friends to come up with a vaccine. Killing the global economy is a small price to pay.
While there may be much about the global economy that deserves to die, it's helpful to remember that it's still the economy where-from the vast majority of the populace draws their bread and butter. Killing it is serious business, very serious.
I don't have a horse in this race. Thanks to a lifetime spent in heavily unionized workplaces, and living in a country that has had single-payer public health care all my adult life, my income hasn't skipped a beat. That makes me very lucky and also very grateful.
The first time I was moved to comment on the corona crisis was at the end of January, when the CBC had already been hyping it as the top story on its hourly newscasts for a week. That was six weeks before Canada had its first corona casualty. I found that odd.
From the beginning it struck me that the hype was deliberately orchestrated. Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.
I watched the video of the two doctors in California, the video that YouTube removed to protect us from disinformation and the subsequent impure thoughts. I found their presentation highly logical.
I've read numerous articles debunking them. Much of the debunking was along the lines of "they're Trump supporters, so they're obviously full of shit." I don't know whether they are Trump supporters or not, but that shouldn't be the point here.
The Off-Guardian website has been featuring various corona-skeptics for a few weeks now. After former Rockefeller University biostatistician Dr. Knut Wittkowski came out challenging the official corona narrative, they didn't waste any time doing their best to disavow him.
That's a little late and a little lame. Rockefeller University is a serious place. On a per capita basis it's got more Nobel laureates associated with it than any university in the world. You don't get to be the boss biostatistician in the joint for twenty years unless you really know your shit.
It's interesting to see what's happening in Canada right now. The federal government is more or less staying the course on the original script. We're hunkering down and waiting for the vaccine. The provinces on the other hand, which are arguably closer to the populace, are front-running the feds all over the place. At least four of them are mooting the partial lifting of lockdowns in the next week.
Same in the US. The federal government (and no, that's not the president) is waiting for the magic bullet, while state governors both Dem and GOP are chomping at the bit to open things up.
Meanwhile, both countries have exponentially increased their deficits in corona bailouts. That's something the little people get to pay off via austerity budgets for the next several generations.
As I've said from the beginning, this pandemic has always been about a lot more than a virus.
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