Lies are a powerful form of magic; they can mislead large groups of people into making terrible errors, as well as cause them to be blind to the obvious. Lies make people hurt themselves while thinking they are helping themselves. It is a truly dark and horrific act of sorcery.
As the world stands at the edge of a global pandemic event, the people who are immune to the effects of lies have an opportunity to take action should the virus continue to expand beyond the borders of China. We have a small window of time, perhaps a couple of months, in which we can prepare ourselves for the fallout and ensure we are as protected as we can be. This means taking precautions to prevent viral transmission, increasing the strength of our own immune systems, prepping for the loss of supply lines and freight shipments to retailers, organizing the family, friends and neighbors for mutual aid and security, as well as prepare for the inevitable government attempts at martial law.
Of course, a person cannot or will not take any of these measures as long as they believe that the virus is not a threat, or they think that the pandemic will have little effect on their daily lives. I have recently seen a discomforting level of disinformation and disinformation agents invading the media and discussion boards related to this issue. Whenever I see such an intense disinformation campaign surrounding an event, this tells me a couple of things:
If they are trying to overtly downplay the seriousness of the event while lying about the facts involved, it tells me that the event is a legitimate threat and it will probably get worse as time passes.
If they are all pushing the same false narrative and talking points it tells me that this is an organized effort paid for by a larger party with extensive resources.
If the narrative glosses over or hides recently revealed evidence by claiming that the event is “all hype”, then it is designed to create inaction in the public — it is designed to make us apathetic, which means there is a concerted conspiracy to harm us. It is not just an attempt to hide the guilt of the people involved in creating the crisis.
So what are some of the most insidious lies being spread right now on the virus threat? Lets go through a quick list of those I’ve identified so far:
Lie #1: Deaths caused by the coronavirus are nothing compared to the death rate of the average flu…
This lie seems to be the most common being used to plant seeds of apathy in the public consciousness right now. Firstly, there is a big difference between “number of deaths” and the actual “death rate” of a virus. The flu infects tens of millions of people annually around the world with deaths numbering usually under 10,000. In the U..S in 2019, the flu infected over 9 million people resulting in 4800 deaths; meaning the death rate of the flu is minor compared to the number of sick. Also, flu deaths are usually counted over the course of a year.
The coronavirus has been active for about a month in China, it has a hibernation of around two weeks, and, China has been lying extensively about the number of deaths associated with the disease.
We truly have no idea what the potential death rate of this illness is. What we do know is that it behaves much like SARS, which had a death rate of around 11 percent, except that according to official numbers the coronavirus transmits faster and has already killed more people in a few weeks than SARS did in over a year.
No country in modern times has ever quarantined over 50 million people and 16 cities or more because of the average flu. The comparison between the coronavirus and the flu is patently ridiculous. There is no comparison. The coronavirus is on another level entirely.
Lie #2: The claim that the coronavirus is engineered is a “conspiracy theory”…
The phrase “conspiracy theory” is usually exploited as a way to dismiss facts and evidence without consideration on the basis that the official story is the only story that has any validity. In other words, the official story requires no justification because the authorities are infallible and always have our best interests at heart.
The problem is, governments and the mainstream media have been caught lying over and over again about issues far less important than a global pandemic. I’m not sure why we should trust anything they say ever. There is considerable evidence that China has been lying incessantly about the number of sick and dead due to the coronavirus, including leaked accounts from medics and other people at ground zero in Wuhan.
So, when “fact checking” websites start throwing around accusations of “conspiracy theory” when the alternative media published evidence of foul play or an engineered virus, I have to say, they only expose their own bias even further. One starts to wonder if they are being paid to lie and keep the public in the dark.
The facts are the facts, and if the facts suggest a conspiracy, then so be it. The coronavirus outbreak centered in Wuhan was blamed on a live animal and food market and the transmission of the virus from animal to human contact. Yet, only 20 miles away from that market stand multiple Level 4 biohazard labs that study directly into the world’s deadliest pathogens including coronavirus. In 2017, experts warned that a virus could escape these labs because of lax containment standards.
According to a paper published by virologists in India, the coronavirus genetic code also contains proteins that are exactly like those found in HIV. Interesting, through official pressure the paper has now been retracted and the authors have said they will “revise” it. But the whole point of peer reviewed papers is for the data to be reviewed by others in the field. If the data can be reproduced, then it needs to be taken seriously. But this is not what much of the scientific community wants to do. They seem intent on dismissing any studies outright that suggest the coronavirus might have been made in a lab rather than in nature.
If true, the chances of coronavirus containing protein combinations identical to HIV in nature are astronomical, meaning, the virus was engineered.
What we know right now is that Wuhan is a hub for China’s largest biohazard labs and these labs are suspected by intelligence agencies around the world of being involved in bioweapons testing.
Until there is more independent examination of the virus (the original strain before mutation), no one knows for certain what the source is. The mainstream media has been very aggressive in denying any links to bioweaponry, claiming that there “is no evidence” linking Wuhan’s labs to the virus; yet, there are is also no evidence proving that the virus originated in the animal market either. They have simply decided that the animal market story is the story they prefer, and so it has become the official story.
Lie #3: The virus won’t have any effect on America
Certainly, there are a lot of people out there that would like to keep us ignorant of the depth of the situation, and they will give all sorts of half-assed rationales as to why they lie.
For the Chinese authorities, the pandemic is an undeniable fact of life, but they will say their economy and global image required the truth to be “tempered” to prevent civil unrest and to stop investors pulling their money out of Chinese markets en masse.
For U.S. authorities who waited far too long to start shutting down flights from China carrying multiple infected, the claim will be that they had to lie to prevent general panic and market panic.
For the UN’s World Health Organization that lied about China “containment” and actually downplayed the danger of travel to China for a time while the virus was raging and human-to-human transmission was confirmed, I see no excuse really. Their behavior, and the behavior of the U.S. and Chinese governments makes me suspect that they want the pandemic to spread.
As I write this the 11th confirmed case of coronavirus has been identified in the U.S. with many more suspected cases still under observation. Obviously, the virus is here already, but the issue of how much it will affect Americans is being diminished or buried in an endless stream of propaganda.
Given enough time, a viral outbreak with a death rate of 5 percent or more is going to cause negative effects in every facet of the U.S. economy. This is assuming the coronavirus will spread as it has in China. But in our current window of the progression of the pandemic, I think it’s important to point out that even if the death rate is low in the U.S., there is no escaping the economic consequences attached to a pandemic.
The U.S. economy is interdependent with multiple nations, and is tightly connected to China. The greatest danger of globalism in terms of economics is that it forces national economic into losing the redundancies that protect them from systemic collapse. When one major economy goes down, it brings down all other economies with it.
Not only that, but the U.S. financial structure is precariously unstable anyway, with record levels of national debt, consumer debt and corporate debt, not to mention steep declines in manufacturing and demand. The U.S. sits atop one of the most massive economic bubbles of all time — the Everything Bubble, created by the Federal Reserve over 10 years of stimulus measures, barely keeping the system alive in a state of zombification.
The bubble was always going to collapse. In fact, recent events in Fed repo markets suggest it was already collapsing. The coronavirus outbreak is a perfect cover event for this implosion.
As I have argued for the past couple of years, all that is needed to bring down the U.S. economy is one major trigger event. The idea that a global pandemic would not damage the American system already teetering on the edge of the abyss is simply absurd. This event has the capacity to cause crisis around the world, not just in China.
The disinformation campaign seems designed to hide the true source of the virus, but also to keep the masses lethargic and inactive. We are meant to sit and wait while the virus and the resulting economic catastrophe runs us over. Do not fall for the con; prepare accordingly, and never accept what lying governments and media outlets tell you as the whole truth.
