Unlock 1.0: “You Can Keep Walking”

Ruchir Sharma in The Times of India:

“After three weeks the government began replacing lockdown 1.0 with looser versions, but rather than relax many upper class Indians were learning to love life under lockdown. They posted odes to recipe sharing, Netflix, Zoom cocktail parties, the clear view of the sky and moon as the smog lifted over an idle nation. They gasped over images of leopards venturing into shuttered cities like Chandigarh, 250 kilometres from Delhi. Ah, nature!

When I looked out of my living room window, I saw dorms for the community staff, and had to wonder how sublime this life could be for them. Does social distancing have any meaning for labourers packed six to a 200 sq ft room? Does a lockdown make any sense in such crowded living conditions?

Meanwhile the crisis was liberating for Indian bureaucrats and the police, self-important in normal times, “essential” during this crisis. Videos posted on WhatsApp showed police beating people caught on the streets without a satisfactory excuse, or forcing them to perform squats while holding their ears – a punishment common in government schools. The commentary was often less horrified than humorous, including one mash-up that went viral with cricket style play-by-play.

By mid-April many rich countries had started to debate reopening their economies. Protests were breaking out against lockdowns in the United States. In India, there was little public debate, much less protest.

[Lila: This is not true. There was plenty of debate, but it doesn’t get into the major English media, which is largely leftist, favor of an expansion of government, and inclined to criticize Modi reflexively from that angle. While, Modi appears to have followed the dictates of the globalists at every turn, he is commonly derided as being too insular. ]

The hardest hit, the poor and unemployed, seem to accept their misery as fate, likely unaware of evidence that the most stringent lockdowns are generating the most severe economic damage.

While the pandemic quickly became the leading cause of deaths in many countries, in India many more still die each week, mostly in rural areas, from diseases like tuberculosis or diarrhea. Still, the urban elite has the political influence and most continued to support a tough lockdown

“If the government lifts restrictions millions of illiterate Indians will pour into the streets and super-spread the disease,” says a friend.

Of estimates showing that each week the lockdown is pushing tens of millions of Indians below the poverty line, the elite’s standard answer is “The government should take care of them, just look how much the United States is spending on displaced workers.” Never mind that India has one-twentieth the average income of the United States, or that no bureaucracy, including those of much wealthier nations, is equipped to handle a sudden exodus of tens of millions of workers.

The irony now is that with India headed for what could be its worst post-Independence recession, economic pressure is forcing a retreat to lockdown lite, even as the virus case count surges.

Lockdown fatigue has set in. Confronted on the street by a police patrol after Delhi’s 7pm curfew last week, a friend pleaded that it was insufferable to go out earlier, with daytime temperatures around 45 degrees. “It is my job to make these announcements,” said the weary officer. “You can keep walking.”

Wuhan Denialism

From Tablet:

“Media sources that claim to refute the lab source hypothesis often refer to the public comments of zoologist Peter Daszak, the flawed correspondence of Andersen et al., or the emotional Lancet letter in which some scientists basically expressed their support and compassion with their Chinese peers. While there are some virus hunters like Peter Daszak who assert zoonotic transfer and discount the possibility of a lab leak, there are also leading microbiologists like professor Richard Ebright who assert that a lab or lab-related accident is a possible cause of the outbreak.

Notably, virus ecologists like Peter Daszak and Jonna Mazet have an inherent conflict of interest as they are involved in similar bat and wildlife sampling activity—and, in Daszak and Mazet’s case, in research with the Wuhan labs. As an example of such activity, Daszak and collaborators sampled 12,333 bats for viruses in a big wildlife surveillance project. A lab-related accident in China involving similar research would likely affect the funding for their work as it would demonstrate the risks involved. As it happens, the NIH recently cut the funding to Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance after realizing the risks involved in that research.

Daszak’s relentless and heavily amplified public assertions that the outbreak must have originated due to a zoonotic jump, and his denial of the possibility of a lab accident involving a natural virus, even long before the SARS-CoV-2 genome was published, would appear to be motivated by the apparent conflict of interest that he has denied. Daszak’s denial of his conflict of interest raised concerns of many scientists and experts, with many explicitly describing that denial as a bold lie. Daszak has presented no direct evidence that the outbreak started as a result of a zoonotic jump outside of a laboratory. In case the outbreak is a result of a natural zoonotic jump, that would underscore the importance of Daszak’s risky wildlife sampling and “early outbreak warning” work and increase their research funding. It is important to consider conflicts of interest when assessing anyone’s claims.”

Genetic-Manipulation Origin For SARS-CoV-2?

Is considering a genetic-manipulation origin for SARS-CoV-2 a conspiracy theory that must be censored?

Here is a new research paper  that considers the lab-origin of the virus the most likely explanation and suggests that it is being censored by scientific journals. The paper includes this telling paragraph on funding:

“In recent years, the field of corona-virology had been focused on pan-coronavirus therapies and vaccines, as evident from research conducted in the past five years,as well as from media reports. Synthetically generating diverse panels of potential pre-emergent coronaviruses was declared as a goal of active grants for EcoHealth Alliance which funded some of such research at WIV.”
Unfortunately, various intelligence/ex-intelligence operatives, some of them China hawks, have ignored the multiple ties the WIV has to Western public health bodies, private foundations, and agencies, and have tried to shift the blame solely to the Chinese government/lab.
Thus, the ex-chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove has raised the possibility of demanding reparations from China.  But Dearlove’s support for the invasion of Iraq and his involvement in the Steele dossier (in the Russiagate hoax) diminish his credibility.
Very likely, some of these public statements are either limited hang-outs or red herrings.
The truth is Zhengli Shi the “Bat Woman” at WIV was not working in isolation. She was a French-trained scientist with research experience in the US; she was at the center of a web of scientific partnerships and networks extending to leading labs in France and the USA. Her research has ties to the entire scientific community and its funders, and to the climate-change-public-health nexus that drives projects like OneHealth and the EcoHealth Alliance.
If this network was not fully implicated in what happened, we would not be seeing the kind of coverage…and coverup…from the global media. This level of media subterfuge  suggests a transnational crime, originating from  the highest levels of money and power. At that level, it is not China, or America, or Russia.
It is the transnational power-elite, driven by the dangerously utopian environmental ideology with which they mask their lust for power.

 

Proof That Wuhan Virus Was A Bioweapon

A fascinating, very technical article at Nerd Has Power that explains why SARS-Co-V-2 has to have been engineered in a lab, and, given the nature and history of communist rule, was most likely a biological weapon.

Here’s the gist:

  1. In structure the Wuhan virus is 95% like 2 bat viruses (ZC45 and ZXC21), except that it has the proteins that allow it to bind to human ACE-2 proteins. The other two don’t and so cannot infect human beings. The binding proteins occur in the front half (S1) of the spike proteins that stud the surface of the coronavirus like a crown and give it its name. This kind of strong dissimilarity from other coronaviruses in only one part of the viral structure is very unusual, because it would normally take a long time for such a mutation, whereas  the similarity of the rest of the structure can only occur if the viruses aren’t far apart in time. This contradiction rules out natural development and suggests that the Wuhan virus is a chimera created in the lab. Furthermore, the sequence of proteins in S1 is exactly the same as the one which occurs in the SARS virus, which is infectious to human beings. Still odder, there is a piece in the spike protein that allows the protein to be cleaved by a host’s protease (protein-cleaving) enzyme, furin. This addition makes the Wuhan virus much more infectious, as the furin helps the virus divide faster.
  2. The only evolutionary event that could create such a striking mutation in only one part of the genome is something called recombination. But it would need a sequence of several highly unlikely-impossible events to occur. And there is not enough time for that to have happened, given that the Wuhan virus cannot have been around for very long, or it would be more markedly different than the other bat viruses (point 1).
  3. The evidence supporting a natural origin of the virus was most likely fabricated by Dr. Zhengli Shi of the WIV, in response to questions like that raised in point 1.  What was this evidence? Nothing physical, but simply the sequence – a string of letters – of a bat virus she claims to have come across years ago – RaTG13. But if she had indeed found such a virus with 95% similarity with the Wuhan virus, even to the spike protein, would she not have published something about it then, given the dangers it posed for human beings? But she didn’t. She didn’t even retain the physical evidence. That fact, as well as the fact that it is very easy to fabricate a sequence, and the fact that she, of all people, has a motivation to fabricate, suggests that indeed, RaTG13 is a fabrication.
  4. If we admit that the virus is a chimera, then it had to have been made by the CCP, because the 2 bat corona viruses ZC45 and ZXC 21 were both found by a military research lab of the Chinese Communist Party which published its findings in 2018. The CCP owns these viruses and no one else.
  5. Zhengli Shi co-authored a paper at the University of North Carolina in 2015 showing that replacing the spike protein so it could bind to ACE2 made coronaviruses infectious to humans. In 2006, there were experiments adding a furin-cleaving site to spike protein since such sites in influenza viruses make for greater infectiousness.

 

German Experts: Covid-19 Panic, Fake News; Lockdown, Real Killer

From Strategic-Culture:

“Germany’s federal government and mainstream media are engaged in damage control after a report that challenges the established Corona narrative leaked from the interior ministry.

Some of the report key passages are:

  • The dangerousness of Covid-19 was overestimated: probably at no point did the danger posed by the new virus go beyond the normal level.
  • The people who die from Corona are essentially those who would statistically die this year, because they have reached the end of their lives and their weakened bodies can no longer cope with any random everyday stress (including the approximately 150 viruses currently in circulation).
  • Worldwide, within a quarter of a year, there has been no more than 250,000 deaths from Covid-19, compared to 1.5 million deaths [25,100 in Germany] during the influenza wave 2017/18.
  • The danger is obviously no greater than that of many other viruses. There is no evidence that this was more than a false alarm.
  • A reproach could go along these lines: During the Corona crisis the State has proved itself as one of the biggest producers of Fake News.

So far, so bad. But it gets worse.

The report focuses on the “manifold and heavy consequences of the Corona measures” and warns that these are “grave”.

More people are dying because of state-imposed Corona-measures than they are being killed by the virus.

The reason is a scandal in the making:

A Corona-focused German healthcare system is postponing life-saving surgery and delaying or reducing treatment for non-Corona patients.

Berlin in Denial Mode. The scientists fight back.

Initially, the government tried to dismiss the report as “the work of one employee”, and its contents as “his own opinion” – while the journalists closed ranks, no questions asked, with the politicians.

But the 93-pages report titled “Analysis of the Crisis Management” has been drafted by a scientific panel appointed by the interior ministry and composed by external medical experts from several German universities.

The report was the initiative of a department of the interior ministry called Unit KM4 and in charge with the “Protection of critical infrastructures”.

This is also where the German official turned whistleblower, Stephen Kohn, work(ed), and from where he leaked it to the media.”

 

India Claims SARS-CoV-2 Came From Lab

In its first official statement about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the Indian government, in the person of Union minister Nitin Gadkari, has called the virus man-made. Gadkari is both the Minister for Road Transport & Highways of India and the Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises He made the claim in an interview with NDTV on May 13, 2020.

Although  the larger number of scientists making public statements claim that SARSCoV-2 is natural, there are several important exceptions. Those exceptions warrant revisiting now that the Chinese government has retracted its original narrative of how the disease originated and is trying to  regulate investigation into that topic.

The first charges of a synthetic virus origin began with a non peer-reviewed preprint paper, “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp 120 and Gag,” written by a group of Indian scientists from IIT, Delhi.

The paper claimed that the virus might have been engineered using the AIDS virus, the HIV virus. Published on January 31 on preprint server bioRxiv, the paper was withdrawn on Feb 2, after vociferous  criticism from a number of scientists around the world.

China Retracts Wuhan Wet-Market Origin of Virus

From The Business-Standard, May 27, 2020:

‘Scientists collected viral genome samples from 326 patients in Shanghai between January 20 and February 25. They identified two major clades, both of which included cases diagnosed in early December 2019. The scientists noticed that genomes of six patients with contact history related to the Huanan seafood market fell into one kind of clade while those of three other patients diagnosed in the same period but without exposure to the market clustered into the other clade, suggesting multiple origins of transmission in Shanghai.’

Earlier the Chinese study into the origin of the novel have suggested that the virus, which caused havoc on the globe, had its origin in the famous Huanan seafood market in Wuhan.”

This news doesn’t mean necessarily refute the theory that the virus was spread from the 7th World Military Games at Wuhan in October 2019. It’s still quite within the range of probability that the Games were the point of dissemination of the virus in China and some clades of the virus stayed in Wuhan, while others were transported to Shanghai.

But it also doesn’t mean that the US was the country behind the dissemination. It could also have been China itself…or some other hitherto unsuspected nation.

Frankly, we just don’t have enough data to do more than speculate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Establishment: Covid-19 Is New Normal

Two establishment mouthpieces, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now and Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Coming Plague” and consultant to the predictive programming movie, “Contagion,” chat up our new Covid-19 normal and a future of vaccinations for all 7.5 billion members of our species:

LAURIE GARRETT: So, at a moment when a massive-scale collaboration is necessary — and let’s be clear, we’re going to have to vaccinate 7.5 billion human beings. It’ll be the largest vaccination effort ever even imagined, much less executed, in the history of our species. When that is being revved up in Europe, and there’s a desperate desire to see Asian countries, European countries, African countries, Latin American countries all collaborating with a common mission, the United States is saying, “Bye, guys.”

AMY GOODMAN: Astounding. You have people like — well, you have countries like Norway who are giving a billion dollars, and, as Juan pointed out, the United States is not giving anything to the vaccine effort. But, Laurie, in an interview you did with The New York Times, headlined “She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?” you said that you see that the pandemic goes on for like 36 months. I think people are cringing all over who are hearing this right now. But if you can say — lay out the scenario. And what exactly does that mean? Do you stay in your home for that amount of time? What would be the most logical, safe reopening, if that can happen, and also dealing with this pandemic? Why do you say 36 months?

LAURIE GARRETT: Well, 36 months is my best-case scenario. Worst case is that it becomes a new permanent feature on the landscape for generations to come.

Note: Amazon reviewers find a major error in “The Coming Plague,” as well as undisguised political propaganda:

She claims, in the chapter “Microbe Magnets” that there were 500,000 deaths from Cholera in NYC in 1832. Wow… that’s a horrifying number. Except it isn’t true. There were about 250,000 people living in NYC that summer, and 3215 of them succumbed to the disease. I was able to check it from multiple sources in mere moments, with the magic of the internet at my fingertips, and although I know she wouldn’t have had that in 1994, it is still an egregious error.”

“It would be more than a year before the Reagan administration’s health leadership would accept the idea that AIDS in Africa was primarily heterosexual. The administration would never fully acknowledge that the virus might also be heterosexually transmitted in the United States. Indeed, disputes over heterosexual transmissibility of the virus and the applicability of the African (read: black) experience to the Euro-American (read: white) context would rage within the upper echelons of the U.S. government throughout the eight-year-long Reagan administration and well into the term of his successor, George Bush.”

Really? The author had to add in “(read: white)” and “(read: black)” to make the issue about whether AIDS was spreading heterosexually a racist issue?

Mossad disinfo on Covid-19 origin?

The story that SARS-CoV-2 first struck in the USA and was later disseminated at the Wuhan military games is being pushed by the Chinese state and related outlets, as well as by anti-NWO activists who see it as a creation of a transnational power-elite, represented in this instance by the Gates Foundation.

However, the identification of patient zero as Army Sergeant I Class Maatje Benassi from Fort Meade, Maryland, comes originally from an internet researcher/youtuber George Webb. Benassi, whom Webb fingers as part of a Benassi family plot extending to Italy, denies the allegation and says she has never had Covid-19 symptoms.

Webb turns out to be a colorful fellow. He claims to have known Julian Assange; has had a spy-versus-spy past, a room-mate with computer records of Trump in bed with two 14-year old girls, and a girl-friend who once accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of gang -raping her. Yes, Julie Swetnick, she of the “creepy porn lawyer.”

Most colorful of all, Webb seems to be a Mossad agent. Or something like it. Or a double agent. Make that triple.

Another Roger Stone type, pointing every way except one.

The Chinese state, like the American, is only another golem of the Kabal. While the two golem fight, Frankenstein laughs.

Wuhan Military Games: Ground Zero?

More and more athletes are claiming that they contracted a Covid-19-like illness at the World Military Games, held in Wuhan in October 2019, from the 18th to the 27th.

9308 military personnel from 103 countries, including India, participated.

The first Corona case was identified on November 17th. But it was only 45 days later, on December 31, that China reported the spread of a pneumonia-like illness to the WHO’s local office.

While the US leadership has implied that a leak in October at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Level 4 lab (only 20 kms from the venue of the Military Games) might have been the origin of the pandemic, Chinese officials have pointed instead to an admission by a top US health official that he found the virus in some deceased pneumonia patients before November 2019. The Chinese have suggested that Fort Detrick in Maryland, a top pathogen research facility, might be the culprit.