{"id":204436,"date":"2020-03-25T07:45:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T07:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204436"},"modified":"2020-03-27T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T06:34:08","slug":"covid-19-propaganda-and-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=204436","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: propaganda and manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Voltaire Network \u2013 March 24, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Returning to the Covid-19 epidemic and the way governments are reacting to it, Thierry Meyssan stresses that the authoritarian decisions of Italy and France have no medical justification. They contradict the observations of the best infectiologists and the instructions of the World Health Organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_204437\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Chinese-Prime-Minister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204437\" class=\"size-full wp-image-204437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Chinese-Prime-Minister.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Chinese-Prime-Minister.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Chinese-Prime-Minister-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-204437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chinese Prime Minister, Li Keqiang, came to lead the operations in Wuhan and restore the &#8220;celestial mandate&#8221; on January 27, 2020.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Epidemic outbreak in China<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On November 17, 2019, the first case of a person infected with Covid-19 was diagnosed in Hubei Province, China. Initially, doctors tried to communicate the seriousness of the disease, but clashed with regional authorities. It was only when the number of cases increased and the population saw the seriousness of the disease that the central government intervened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This epidemic is not statistically significant. It kills very few people, although those it does kill experience terrible respiratory distress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Since ancient times, in Chinese culture, Heaven has given a mandate to the Emperor to govern his subjects\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb1\">1<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. When he withdraws it, a disaster strikes the country: epidemic, earthquake, etc. Although we are in modern times, President XI felt threatened by the mismanagement of the Hubei regional government. The Council of State therefore took matters into its own hands. It forced the population of Hubei\u2019s capital, Wuhan, to remain confined to their homes. Within days, it built hospitals; sent teams to each house to take the temperature of each inhabitant; took all potentially infected people to hospitals for testing; treated those infected with chloroquine phosphate and sent others home; and treated the critically ill with recombinant interferon Alfa 2B (IFNrec) for resuscitation. This vast operation had no public health necessity, other than to prove that the Communist Party still has the heavenly mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L400xH300\/209499-2-2-08825.jpg\" alt=\"JPEG - 37.3 kb\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">During a press conference on Covid-19, the Iranian Deputy Minister of Health, Iraj Harirchi, appeared contaminated.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Propagation in Iran<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The epidemic spreads from China to Iran in mid-February 2020. These two countries have been closely linked since ancient times. They share many common cultural elements. However, the Iranian population is the world\u2019s most lung-weakest. Almost all men over the age of sixty suffer from the after-effects of the US combat gases used by the Iraqi army during the First Gulf War (1980-88), as did the Germans and the French after the First World War. Any traveller to Iran has been struck by the number of serious lung ailments. When air pollution in Tehran increased beyond what they could bear, schools and government offices were closed and half of the families moved to the countryside with their grandparents. This has been happening several times a year for thirty-five years and seems normal. The government and parliament are almost exclusively composed of veterans of the Iraq-Iran war, that is, people who are extremely fragile in relation to Covid-19. So when these groups were infected, many personalities developed the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In view of the US sanctions, no Western bank covers the transport of medicines. Iran found itself unable to treat the infected and care for the sick until the UAE broke the embargo and sent two planes of medical equipment. People who would not suffer in the other country died from the first coughs due to the wounds in their lungs. As usual, the government closed schools. In addition, it deprogrammed several cultural and sporting events, but did not ban pilgrimages. Some areas have closed hotels to prevent the movement of sick people who can no longer find hospitals close to their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L400xH223\/209499-3-2-a7998.jpg\" alt=\"JPEG - 64.7 kb\" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Quarantine in Japan<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On February 4, 2020, a passenger on the US cruise ship <em>Diamond Princess<\/em> was diagnosed ill from the Covid-19 and ten passengers were infected. The Japanese Minister of Health, Katsunobu Kato, then imposed a two-week quarantine on the ship in Yokohama in order to prevent the contagion from spreading to his country. In the end, out of the 3,711 people on board, the vast majority of whom are over 70 years old, there would be 7 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The <em>Diamond Princess<\/em> is an Israeli-American ship, owned by Micky Arison, brother of Shari Arison, the richest woman in Israel. The Arisons are turning this incident into a public relations operation. The Trump administration and several other countries airlifted their nationals to be quarantined at home. The international press devoted its headlines to this story. Referring to the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-1919, it asserts that the epidemic could spread throughout the world and potentially threaten the human species with extinction\u00a0[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb2\">2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>]. This apocalyptic hypothesis, not based on any facts, would nevertheless become the word of the Gospel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">We remember that in 1898, William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, in order to increase the sales of their daily newspapers, published false information in order to deliberately provoke a war between the United States and the Spanish colony of Cuba. This was the beginning of &#8220;yellow journalism&#8221; (publishing anything to make money). Today it is called &#8220;fake news&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is not known at this time whether tycoons deliberately spread panic about Covid-19, making this vulgar epidemic seem like the &#8220;end of the world\u201d. However, one distortion after another, governments have become involved. Of course, it is no longer a question of selling advertising screens by frightening people, but of dominating populations by exploiting this fear.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L400xH300\/209499-4-2-7bf5f.jpg\" alt=\"JPEG - 68.2 kb\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">For the WHO Director, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, China and South Korea have set an example by generalising screening tests; a way of saying that the Italian and French methods are medical nonsense.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">WHO intervention<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The World Health Organization (WHO), which monitored the entire operation, noted the spread of the disease outside China. On February 11th and 12th, it organized a global forum on research and innovation on the epidemic in Geneva. At the forum, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called in very measured terms for global collaboration\u00a0[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/span><\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In all of its messages, the WHO stressed : the low demographic impact of the epidemic; the futility of border closures; the ineffectiveness of wearing gloves, masks (except for health care workers) and certain &#8220;barrier measures&#8221; (for example, the distance of one metre only makes sense with infected people, but not with healthy people); the need to raise the level of hygiene, including hand washing, water disinfection and increased ventilation of confined spaces. Finally, use disposable tissues or, failing that, sneeze into your elbow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However, the WHO is not a medical organization, but a United Nations agency dealing with health issues. Its officials, even if they are doctors, are also and above all politicians. It cannot therefore denounce the abuses of certain states. Furthermore, since the controversy over the H1N1 epidemic, the WHO must publicly justify all its recommendations. In 2009, it was accused of having let itself be swayed by the interests of big pharmaceutical companies and of having hastily sounded the alarm in a disproportionate manner\u00a0[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/span><\/a>]. This time it used the word &#8220;pandemic&#8221; only as a last resort, on March 12th, four months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At the Franco-Italian summit in Naples on February 27, the French and Italian presidents, Giuseppe Conte and Emmanuel Macron, announced that they would react together to the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Instrumentation in Italy and France<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Modern propaganda does not limit itself to publishing false news as the United Kingdom did to convince its people to enter the First World War, it drafts them as Germany did to convince its people to fight in the Second World War. The recipe is always the same: to exert psychological pressure to induce subjects to voluntarily practice acts that they know are useless, but which will lead them to believe and repeat falsehoods\u00a0[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/span><\/a>]. For example, in 2001, it was common knowledge that those accused of hijacking planes on 9\/11 were not on the passenger boarding lists. Yet, in shock, most accepted without question the inane accusations made by FBI Director Robert Muller against &#8220;19 hijackers&#8221;. Or, as is well known, President Hussein\u2019s Iraq had only old Soviet Scud launchers with a range of up to 700 kilometers, but many Americans caulked the windows and doors of their homes to protect themselves from the deadly gases with which the evil dictator was going to attack America. This time, in the case of the Covid-19, it is the voluntary confinement in the home that forces the person who accepts it to convince himself of the veracity of the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Let us remember that never in history has the confinement of a healthy population been used to fight a disease. Above all, let us remember that this epidemic has had no significant consequences in terms of mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In Italy, the first step was to isolate the contaminated regions according to the principle of quarantine, and then to isolate all citizens from each other, which follows a different logic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to the President of the Italian Council, Giuseppe Conte, and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, the aim of confining the entire population at home is not to overcome the epidemic, but to spread it out over time so that the sick do not arrive at the same time in hospitals and saturate them. In other words, it is not a medical measure, but an exclusively administrative one. It will not reduce the number of infected people, but will postpone it in time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In order to convince the Italians and the French of the merits of their decision, Presidents Conte and Macron first enlisted the support of committees of scientific experts. While these committees had no objection to people staying at home, they had no objection to people going about their business. Then Chairs Conte and Macron made it mandatory to have an official form to go for a walk. This document on the letterheads of the respective ministries of the interior is drawn up on honour and is not subject to any checks or sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The two governments panic their populations by distributing unnecessary instructions disavowed by infectious diseases doctors: they encourage people to wear gloves and masks in all circumstances and to keep at least one metre away from any other human being.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8L6ehRif-v8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Video from February 25, 2020 censored by the French Ministry of Health<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The French &#8220;reference daily&#8221; (sic) <em>Le Monde<\/em>, Facebook France and the French Ministry of Health undertook to censor a video of Professor Didier Raoult, one of the world\u2019s most renowned infectiologists, because by announcing the existence of a proven drug in China against Covid-19, he highlighted the lack of a medical basis for the measures taken by President Macron\u00a0[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nb6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/span><\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n4J8kydOvbc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Presentation by Professor Didier Raoult to the General Assembly of the University Hospitals of Marseille, March 16, 2020.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It is too early to say what real goal the Conte and Macron governments are pursuing. The only thing that is certain is that it is not a question of fighting Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/auteur29.html?lang=en\">Thierry Meyssan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Translation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/auteur125569.html?lang=en\">Pete Kimberley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh1\">1<\/a>] <em>The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code<\/em>, Jiang Yonglin, University of Washington Press (2011).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh2\">2<\/a>] <em>Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary<\/em>, Christos Lynteris, Routledge (2020).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh3\">3<\/a>] \u00ab<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/fr\/news-room\/commentaries\/detail\/global-solidarity-collaboration-and-urgent-action-needed-to-defeat-the-new-coronavirus-outbreak\">Nouveau coronavirus : solidarit\u00e9, collaboration et mesures d\u2019urgence au niveau mondial s\u2019imposent<\/a>\u00bb, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, <em>Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9<\/em>, 11 f\u00e9vrier 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh4\">4<\/a>] <em>Pandemics, Science and Policy. H1N1 and the World Health Organization<\/em>, Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Plagrave Macmillan (2015).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh5\">5<\/a>] \u201c<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article191813.html\">The techniques of modern military propaganda<\/a>\u201d, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, <em>Voltaire Network<\/em>, 18 May 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">[<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html#nh6\">6<\/a>] \u00ab<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marianne.net\/societe\/la-chloroquine-guerit-le-covid-19-didier-raoult-l-infectiologue-qui-aurait-le-remede-au\">&#8220;La chloroquine gu\u00e9rit le Covid-19&#8221; : Didier Raoult, l\u2019infectiologue qui aurait le rem\u00e8de au coronavirus<\/a>\u00bb, \u00c9tienne Campion, <em>Marianne<\/em>, 19 mars 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voltairenet.org\/article209501.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France and Italy&#8217;s response to the Coronavirus outbreak has been administrative rather than medical, writes Thierry Meyssan. 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