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Irish Savant – March 12, 2020

‘Elderly Woman Dies Of Flu In Dublin’

Said no headline ever. However, the following headline blared from today’s  edition of Journal.ie

‘First Death In Ireland Confirmed As Coronavirus Declared Pandemic’

The latter headline referred to an elderly patient, already sick, who had passed away. What the hell is going on with COVID-19? Seems like an officially organised panic.  Worse than zika, ebola, SARS….remember them? We were all supposed to die from them as well. But we’re on a different level altogether with the latest. Again, why? According to LiveScience “So far, the new coronavirus has led to more than 100,000 illnesses and more than 3,000 deaths worldwide. But that’s nothing compared with the flu. In the U.S. alone, the flu has caused an estimated 34 million illnesses, 350,000 hospitalizations and 20,000 deaths this season,” The Hong Kong flu was very similar to the current outbreak in being extremely contagious but with a fairly low mortality rate. While 30% of the UK population is estimated to have been infected the death rate was about 0.5%, mostly elderly or those with underlying health conditions.
To what extent does this differ from COVID-19? Well as they say, experts differ and patients die. Suffice to say that the impact of COVID-19 is little different to that of a typical flu pandemic. The Diamond Princess liner (the ‘Bug Boat’) marooned in San Francisco represents the perfect incubation centre for the spread of the virus. Thousands of people jammed in a small place serviced by a single ventilation system…..it’s virus heaven. Surely all on board are dead by now? Well no. Several people got the decease, but only two, both aged over 80, have died. No children on the boat became sick. As Trump tweeted ‘So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!’
A fair point Donald. The reaction seems to be utterly and totally disproportionate to the risk. And as I’ve said on many an occasion, when all official information sources march in lock-step you can reasonably assume some sort of mind-fuck is underway. But if so what kind could COVID-19 represent?  I can only speculate but a few possibilities present themselves. (Remember I’m referring to the reaction here, not the virus itself). For a start the economic impact of the panic will be considerable. Stocks and bonds will crash precipitously. Millions of investors will be ruined. Nobody knows how far the drop can go. Well that might not be true. Because there are always a small number of people, Special People you could call them I suppose, who do know the story. Such people could end up buying assets for a fraction of their true worth. It’s happened before on multiple occasions. Then there’s Big Pharma which is sitting on a potential gold mine should a miracle cure be discovered leading to a bountiful future pf mass mandatory inoculations. (Can’t have a repeat of COVID, can we?’)  Or maybe it could be a social control experiment given that it’s perfect Hegelian Dialectic (problem/reaction/solution) material for getting citizens to cede still more of their freedoms. Is it part of the War On Cash, or could it be a dry run for a massive nation-wide lock-down? Or could it be a bio-weapon to wipe out those pesky old folk hogging so many medial resources?
Who knows? (‘WHO’ knows?). But there are some upsides as well, most notably that the development strikes at the heart of globalism. People are becoming more home-oriented, suspicious of immigration and outsiders, more economically self-sufficient.  They’ll also become less accepting of the bogus equality agenda being rammed down their throats as they respond to the scare-mongering. All of which I acknowledge runs counter to my suspicions of TPTB fanning the flames of panic.
I don’t know. But I’ll leave you with this factlet. The Eyes Of Darkness, a 1981 novel by Dean Koontz told the story of a lethal virus developed as a bio-weapon in the city of Wuhan. That’s extraordinary. What I find more extraordinary is the lock-step reaction by the media to undermine the book’s significance.
There’s just one thing of which I’m absolutely certain amid all the uncertainty: That we’re not getting the full story.

 

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