{"id":208575,"date":"2020-06-10T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T11:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208575"},"modified":"2020-06-15T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:38:22","slug":"lukashenko-laughs-at-fake-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208575","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko Laughs at Fake Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Walsh \u2013 The Ethnic European June 8, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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President Lukashenko. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the only countries in Europe not to institute strict lockdown measures amid the coronavirus crisis, Central Europe\u2019s Belarus has so far managed to keep virus-related fatalities impressively low.<\/h5>\n
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has taken a shot at the world\u2019s elites, accusing them of taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to put \u2018trillions of dollars in their pockets\u2019 while the global economy burns.<\/h5>\n
\u2018The coronavirus has put the whole planet into a state of psychosis. I call it a psychosis because someone clearly needs this. And you\u2019ve probably noticed yourself who. It\u2019s the same as always: after the swine flu, the bird flu, SARS, today we\u2019re facing another pandemic, another pneumonia, only in a new form. And you remember who took advantage of these situations in the past, who put billions in their pockets,\u2019 Lukashenko\u00a0said<\/a><\/span>, speaking to officials in Mogilev region on Saturday.<\/h5>\n

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\u2018The whole world today has stopped; the global economy has not just stalled, but been demolished. But leading companies, leading billionaires and states have put trillions of dollars in their pockets,\u2019 the president added, referring to the current crisis.<\/h5>\n
\u2018That\u2019s why I have always asked the question, going back\u00a0three months ago<\/span><\/a>, as you may remember: Who needs this? Is this a man-made event, this health pandemic? So far I do not have an answer to this question, and hope that you don\u2019t either,\u2019 Lukashenko noted.<\/h5>\n
The Belarusian president also went after his critics, recalling how media and the internet\u00a0joked<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>about his advice to treat coronavirus with vodka, sauna, and tractors and work in the field.<\/h5>\n
\u2018I said this as a joke, and it became a kind of a \u2018Lukashenko brand\u2019, used to say \u2018see, he\u2019s crazy, he doesn\u2019t know how to treat people,\u2019 even though behind these comments were very serious ideas,\u2019 Lukashenko said, recommending that people take up sports and engage in outdoor exercise to build up their immune systems and prepare for any possible \u2018second wave\u2019 of infections.<\/h5>\n
\u2018I emphasize again: everything that people say criticising me is a bluff: nobody knows what\u2019s going to happen tomorrow,\u2019 the president concluded.<\/h5>\n
Belarus faced the wrath of on-message liberal media and medical experts around the world after refusing to institute mandatory lockdown measures, with the country\u2019s factories, farms, schools, shops, restaurants and other amenities remaining open throughout the past several months even as its neighbours closed down.<\/h5>\n
However, recently published data have shown that while the country\u2019s per capita infection rates are comparable to other European nations and the US, its mortality rates have been among the lowest in the world,\u00a0ranking 45th among 49 countries<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>with 10,000 or more cases where sufficient data is available.<\/h5>\n
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This week, the Institute for Policy Studies, a Washington-based think tank, concluded that in the US alone, billionaires have\u00a0added $565 billion to their fortunes<\/a><\/span> since mid-March, with their total wealth up by 19 percent since the pandemic began. The figures were published amid reports that close to\u00a039 million Americans filed for unemployment\u00a0benefits amid the crisis.\u00a0Similar trends\u00a0have been observed in countries across the world, from\u00a0Europe\u00a0to\u00a0Asia.<\/h5>\n
MICHAEL WALSH is a worldwide journalist, broadcaster and author of 64 book titles with 36 years experience. Like other journalists of integrity, he no longer writes for corporate media, opting instead for true journalism.<\/h5>\n

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President of Belarus: COVID Wildly Exaggerated, ‘World Is Going Nuts’<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n