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Israel Shamir \u2013 The Unz Review May 10, 2020<\/h1>\n

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Some people enjoy isolation and self-seclusion. The Jewish billionaire David Geffen is one of them. He posted the above picture of his yacht onto Social Media saying: \u201cIsolated in the Grenadines avoiding the virus, I\u2019m hoping everybody is staying safe.\u201d It is probably very different from your self-seclusion, and surely different from the seclusion imposed on a slum-dwelling family of five in their two-room tenement. But very rich guys are used to it. They never go to Walmart. Anything they purchase is delivered. They fly in private jets. They have never shaken hands with a stranger. They live in gated compounds. They are naturally self-isolated.<\/h5>\n
For them the lockdown brings new prosperity. If you are down to your last dollar, probably you will be cheered to learn that American billionaires added $280 billion<\/a><\/span> to their accounts thanks to the lockdown, and now they are worth $3.3 trillion. They like the lockdown so much that they consider<\/span><\/a> objectors to be white supremacists and \u2018Nazis\u2019, and that is the worst label they can imagine.<\/h5>\n
The emergency situation is mighty good for people in charge. They rush through regulations; grab lands; form governments; create the \u201cnew normal\u201d, eliminate our rights, all using the virus as justification. Even though the seasonal mortality of many countries fell to below last year\u2019s numbers, they are already threatening us with a second wave. Enough is enough<\/a><\/span>, I wrote a fortnight ago, but it is still not enough for some. The world slowly, too slowly, exits the Lockdown Ice Age, for there are forces that want the fun to continue forever. Medical indications and counter-indications be damned, the objectives are political.<\/h5>\n
The medical part of the Corona crisis is not especially impressive. Now we know that the virus is with us to stay; no country can hide from it forever. Lockdown or not, some people will die, but at least they can die free. Consider the UK. They rushed into their lockdown on Dr Ferguson\u2019s advice. Now they have more deaths than Sweden which had no lockdown at all (UK \u2013 384 deaths per million, Sweden \u2013 244 deaths per million). In addition, Britain is now in the throes of a severe recession, the worst in 300 years says<\/span><\/a> the Bank of England, as the direct result of lockdown.<\/h5>\n
The British government didn\u2019t have to listen to the infamous Dr Ferguson. He was wrong many times before, and he is wrong now. Look at the list of his previous recommendations<\/span><\/a>:<\/h5>\n