“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them…”  ~ Frederick Douglass

I want to expand on a couple of things from my last post.

I have no expertise in the coronavirus other than what I have digested from articles and television stories.  However, I do have expertise in recognizing power grabbing and people control.

Many people who are hyping the coronavirus and telling us we need to submit to government orders are the same people who told us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.  They told us that Assad gassed his own people. They told us we need the Patriot Act to keep us safe in the wake of 9/11.  They told us that Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election.

Even when it comes to so-called experts, I often believe the opposite of what they say when it comes to a national agenda.  It’s one thing to listen to your car mechanic about needing new brakes, or to trust a plumber about your leaky toilet.  But I am talking about a widespread agenda to get people to change their behavior.

We are told that almost all of the so-called experts believe in significant man-made climate change. This in itself isn’t true, and the “experts” usually have an incentive behind them in the form of government money.

Even when it comes to doctors, there has been a lot of bad information pushed.  We were told for a long time to eat carbohydrates while avoiding fat (not just trans fat).  Now this is being completely turned on its head.  In many cases, it would have been better to do the exact opposite of what “mainstream” doctors were recommending.

I know vaccines are a controversial topic, but there are many doctors who won’t even admit that there can be severe adverse side effects from vaccines, especially for certain vulnerable individuals.

What I am trying to say is that we are surrounded by fake news.  I don’t trust anything that CNN or NBC or any of the other major networks tell me when it comes to anything remotely political.  I am almost at a point of assuming the opposite until I can verify it.

Statistics

The statistics with the coronavirus are a joke.  Entire countries are being shut down from a few hundred deaths.

In many ways, it reminds me of the reaction to 9/11.  Almost 3,000 people died in the terror attacks that day, but it is still out of a country of more than 300 million people.  About that many people die every month on the roads in the U.S. More than that die every month from a heart attack.  But the people got behind a war in Afghanistan and many other wars that were tied to the fear of terrorism.  There are thousands of Americans dead from these wars with many more suffering mental and physical issues.  There are hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, dead in foreign countries from these wars.

Even from a financial standpoint, the U.S. has spent probably a couple of trillion dollars because almost 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001.  This is so incredibly irrational.

There have barely been over 100 people who have died from the coronavirus in the U.S., or at least those are the documented cases.  Some of these people were elderly who were probably on their last legs anyway. But we are going to shut down a country of 330 million people.

I know people make the argument that we have to shut almost everything down so that we keep the numbers low.  Some people have said that if we don’t take action, there could be over a million people dying. But I also heard that if we don’t go to war in Iraq, it could end with a nuclear cloud over a major city in the United States.  In other words, there is no basis to this claim.

The flu supposedly kills tens of thousands of people every year, yet we don’t shut down our society. The mortality rate is determined by projecting the number of people who had the flu.  It is based on statistics.  They don’t actually know how many people had the flu.

With the coronavirus, they are taking the number of people who tested positive for the virus against the number of people who have died from it.  Therefore, the mortality rate seems higher, but it isn’t a valid comparison.  They are largely testing people who are the worst off.  There will be many people who had the coronavirus who never got tested.

It’s always possible that this is a situation of the boy who cried wolf.  Maybe there really is a wolf this time.  But it isn’t because the establishment media and the politicians actually see a wolf.  They are lying like they always do.

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut every now and then.  Even a broken clock (not digital) is right twice a day.  But these people aren’t broken or just wrong. They are liars who seek power.

Totalitarianism and Public Opinion

I don’t think it is any coincidence that there is almost a direct correlation between the level of government controls coming down amid the virus with the authoritarian nature of the politics.

Look at the places that have been locked down with tight government controls on the people. You can start with China. You can look at Italy and France. But I think the best case for this is just looking within the United States.

Look at the places that have shut almost everything down and prohibited people from freely traveling. There is New York City, California, Illinois, and many of the states in the northeast.  These are the places I wouldn’t want to live, and I would have said this before any of the lockdowns.

I have been using the Frederick Douglass quote to illustrate the situation.  Here it is again to digest.

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them…”

I know the governor of California is a totalitarian.  The same could be said for the mayor of New York City and the mayor of San Francisco.  But they are in that position because the people put them there.  The people who praise Fidel Castro and socialism put them in power.

There are certainly controls by government going on throughout the country, but the worst of the controls are happening in places where the populations tolerate and seek big government.  They fall right in line and say, “Whatever you need to do to keep us safe.”

Most politicians are authoritarians.  Politicians are politicians because they love power.  They want to control people.  I’m sure that governors and mayors in many southern and midwestern states would enact these same controls, but they know they can’t get away with that much. 

The governor of California can lock down the entire state because there aren’t enough people willing to stand up and say “no”.

This is why I am 99% confident that this virus hype is a hoax.  I am not saying the virus itself is a hoax.  I am saying the hype is a hoax.