I want to make a vital distinction that clears up confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n When people\u2014for example, medical researchers\u2014are playing a game to further their purpose, and the game is a fraud, you have two ways to go.<\/span><\/p>\n You can ENTER THEIR GAME, temporarily, to show how, in their own terms, by their own standards, they are contradicting themselves and committing fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n Or you can STAND OUTSIDE THEIR GAME, and show how the very structure and rules and assumptions of the game, to begin with, are riddled with lies.<\/span><\/p>\n In this article, I\u2019ll do both. And I\u2019ll make it clear when I\u2019m INSIDE and when I\u2019m OUTSIDE.<\/span><\/p>\n Why bother? Because it clarifies the mind. That\u2019s always a good thing. It\u2019s especially good during this wall-to-wall criminal event called COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n And readers deserve to know whether a writer is actually accepting the game the bad guys are playing; or whether he\u2019s just momentarily dipping into the game, in order to reveal its absurdities.<\/span><\/p>\n OK, here we go. Let\u2019s look at CASE NUMBERS.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, I\u2019m inside their game. I\u2019m assuming, as they do, that a case of COVID-19 is real. It means something. It denotes disease, infection, as a result of a virus. Ditto for a case of the flu, or what is called ILI, influenza-like illness. These cases are also real, they denote infection and illness as a result of a virus.<\/span><\/p>\n Start with Europe and just plain seasonal flu. Not COVID. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Europe, \u201cDuring the winter months, influenza may infect up to 20% of the population\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The population of Europe is 741 million people. This works out to 148 million cases of ordinary flu. Not once. Every year. EVERY YEAR.<\/span><\/p>\n As of May 2, 2020, the number of COVID cases in Europe is 1,361,853, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Suppose we multiply that number by 2, or 4, or 20, to arrive a yearly figure for COVID cases in Europe. Does it approach, even vaguely, 148 million cases of flu\u2014year after year after year?<\/span><\/p>\n According to the European Centre, the number of COVID cases in Italy is 209,328.<\/span><\/p>\n According to sciencedirect.com, \u201cIn the winter seasons from 2013\/14 to 2016\/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI [influenza-like illness] cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%.\u201d That\u2019s 5 million plus each year. Not just once.<\/span><\/p>\n Multiply the number of COVID cases in Italy by whatever number you choose, and see what it takes to arrive at the flu-case level for a year. Year after year.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, let\u2019s look at figures for ordinary flu, for the whole planet. A study published in the journal, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, states, \u201cInfluenza is a highly contagious respiratory illness that is responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Approximately 9% of the world\u2019s population is affected annually, with up to 1 billion infections, 3 to 5 million severe cases, and 300,000 to 500,000 deaths each year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n However, WHO Europe pegs the death figure higher: \u201cA recent study found that worldwide up to 650,000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal influenza each year\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Right now, the COVID global death toll stands at 245,000. For roughly half a year. So, for 2020, COVID could approach the number of seasonal flu deaths. What about the next 10 or 20 years? Flu deaths are astronomically high every year.<\/span><\/p>\n All in all, on what basis\u2014comparing seasonal flu and COVID\u2014do we now have a COVID planetary lockdown, versus no lockdowns for seasonal flu at any time? It makes no sense.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the long-term track record of the flu, and the official response, meaning no lockdowns, it makes absolutely zero sense to have a lockdown now. The official numbers don\u2019t support it.<\/span><\/p>\n Given the game of official case numbers, and accepting those numbers\u2014for example, one BILLION flu infections year after year\u2014the refusal to administer widespread lockdowns for flu MEANS there should be no COVID lockdown now.<\/span><\/p>\n The numbers game traps and contradicts and implicates itself. It yields up: NO LOCKDOWN NOW.<\/span><\/p>\n But there IS a lockdown now.<\/span><\/p>\n All right. Let me step outside the numbers game. I\u2019ll take up a position far enough away to analyze its basis.<\/span><\/p>\n And I\u2019ll simply say: ALL COVID-19 case numbers are meaningless.<\/span><\/p>\n Why?<\/span><\/p>\n ONE: Researchers never properly discovered a new virus in China in the first place. Their claim of having done so is false.<\/span><\/p>\n TWO: The widespread diagnostic test for the virus in a patient, the PCR, is riddled with irreparable flaws. It spits out false-positives, because the test reacts to the presence of irrelevant germs that have nothing to do with a purported COVID. Most importantly the test has never been vetted, in the real world, for its claimed ability to detect whether a patient is ill or is going to become ill.<\/span><\/p>\n THREE: Many diagnoses of COVID in patients are based on no tests at all, but rather eyeball assessment, guesswork, unproven assumptions, outright lying, or, in China, CT scans of the lungs, which prove nothing about the presence of COVID or any other supposedly causative virus.<\/span><\/p>\n To explore the particulars of my reasons ONE and TWO, you need to read my prior articles on the fake COVID pandemic. The link to my COVID articles is below. In particular, I suggest reading, \u201cTwo vital experiments that have never been done,\u201d<\/em> for my refutation of both the discovery of a new virus and the validity of the PCR test. (link also below)<\/span><\/p>\n Therefore, again, ALL case numbers of COVID are meaningless.<\/span><\/p>\n Likewise, all seasonal flu or flu-like numbers are meaningless. As just one illustration of this fact, I have published, many times, Peter Doshi\u2019s shocking investigation of US flu deaths. Doshi reported in the online BMJ, on December 10, 2005, \u201c\u2026CDC claims 36,000 Americans annually die from flu\u2026Meanwhile, according to the CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), \u201cinfluenza and pneumonia\u201d took 62,034 lives in 2001\u201461 777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was flu virus positively identified\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n After both stepping outside the numbers game, and momentarily stepping into it, what are we left with? We know that people have been falling ill, for a long, long time, with respiratory problems of various kinds. The human race has survived, without a lockdown on the scale we have now, and without the deaths caused by economic devastation. If you wanted to enable general immunity (aka health), regardless of how you define and describe it, you would now promote people being in close contact with one another. If you wanted to postpone immunity\/health, you would lock people up and separate them.<\/span><\/p>\n As for the true causes of illness and disease, I have commented on that subject in other places. It\u2019s not the purpose of this article. I will say this: In modern times, we must never ignore poisonous vaccination campaigns; other toxic medical treatments, including many drugs; the insults delivered by pesticides, GMOs, industrial pollutants, and electromagnetic technologies; and the promotion of fear. Germ theory is not king. It never was.<\/span><\/p>\n SOURCES:<\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/www.ecdc.europa.eu\/en\/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1201971219303285<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3278149\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/health-topics\/communicable-diseases\/influenza\/seasonal-influenza\/burden-of-influenza<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/blog.nomorefakenews.com\/2020\/04\/30\/the-british-corona-middle-man\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/blog.nomorefakenews.com\/category\/covid\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * http:\/\/thinktwice.com\/BMJ_Flu.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/blog.nomorefakenews.com\/2020\/04\/29\/covid-two-vital-experiments-have-never-been-done\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n * https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1046\/j.1440-1843.2003.00518.x<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Jon Rappoport<\/span><\/p>\n The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, EXIT FROM<\/span> THE MATRIX<\/span><\/a><\/strong>, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th<\/sup> District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free<\/strong> NoMoreFakeNews emails here<\/span><\/strong><\/a> or his free<\/strong> OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n