COVID 9-11: A ‘controlled demolition’?

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards. 

- Soren Kierkegaard.

The difficulty in trying to write about the COVID-19 pandemic is there are so many threads to untangle, and when approached with even the slightest skepticism, it seems impossible to form a clear picture. But the choice to sit patiently and wait for understanding in the middle of an event which has already changed history is no choice at all. Amid the lock downs we see businesses closing, many of which will never reopen. Schools are being shut down as we switch to online learning. With all that lucrative real estate now sitting vacant for the taking, how many of those schools will also never reopen? How many teachers will lose their jobs? What about the pubs and restaurants? What of all the small independent grocers? Surely the big supermarket chains will be salivating right now. When looked at through a cynical lens it starts to look like a radical restructuring of the economy, a massive transfer of wealth to the 1%, perhaps the biggest heist in history.

We are right now staring down the barrel of 30% unemployment, the worst since the Great Depression and maybe even worse than that. The global economy was already due for a massive correction, but instead of letting the 2008 recession run its course, liquidity was pumped into markets in the form of banker bailouts and Quantitative Easing, and the bubble allowed to get bigger. The reaction we are currently seeing will break the global economy. There is simply no way it can survive a deliberate shutdown lasting 6 months, let alone 12 or 18 as some are predicting.

At the risk of sounding like a prophet of doom, things are never going back to normal. The world will not be the same after this. The measures being taken to stop this pandemic are destroying small business, casual workers, arts and entertainment, the cash economy, the gig economy, and probably cash itself. Not to mention social cohesion. In the absence of a better theory I begin to suspect that this may be intentional.

More than ever it is important to proceed from a position of skepticism, and I make no apologies for the values and assumptions which shape my views and which I bring to this analysis. Capitalism is the exploitation of labour and is morally reprehensible. It is also untenable as it creates crises which ultimately lead to its own undoing. Finally it is a system which literally rewards psychopathy. Those at the top of the pyramid are unscrupulous. That is how they got there. Make no mistake, the Bill Gates', Richard Bransons, Elon Musks and Jeff Bezoses of this world would sell there own grandmothers for profit, and they wouldn't think twice about unleashing a deadly virus on the world if it benefited their bottom line.

Has a deadly virus been unleashed? And if so, is it by design or by accident? Given all of the above it seems like a legitimate question to ask.

The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen has been the subject of hot debate among the online commmunity since this pandemic began, and now a consensus seems to be forming. The view, supported reports from independent virologists in China, Japan, India and Taiwan is that this virus could not have originated in a wet market in Wuhan as we have been told by the Western mainstream media.

An alternative theory which has gained some traction is that the disease was brought to China by a contingent of 300 US military troops taking part in the city’s World Military Games last October 18-27. The group stayed meters from the Huanan Seafood Market where China’s outbreak began, at the Wuhan Oriental Hotel. Five of the US troops developed a fever on Oct. 25 and were taken to an infectious-diseases hospital for treatment. Following this 42 employees of the Oriental Hotel were diagnosed with COVID-19, becoming the first cluster in Wuhan. Of the seven cases attributed the seafood market all are known to have had contact with the hotel staff.

The American Military Games team trained at a location near Fort Detrick, a United States Army Medical Command installation located in Frederick, Maryland which was closed down by the CDC in July for failing to meet safety and security standards. Shortly thereafter a spike of new pneumonia cases appeared, which was initially blamed on e-cigarettes. If this narrative comes even close to the truth, and with the CDC now admitting that many deaths previously attributed to pneumonia may have in fact been due to COVID-19, then it can be assumed that the US already has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of unreported cases.

Adding to the confusion we now have a gaggle of social media pundits assuring that it's is “just the flu”. If so, then the state and media reaction would seem to be a major gaslighting operation. But is it really something akin to a seasonal flu, or is it something far more deadly? Already we have a huge problem of selection bias in case reporting. The problem is that those presenting are already symptomatic, which accounts for only 50% of those infected. Of those who require hospitalisation, the overwhelming majority have underlying health conditions. Comorbidity is skewing the data, while nobody is reporting the numbers which really matter – i.e., excess morbidity. With so many deaths attributed to the virus which could be equally attributed to other conditions, the question which needs to be answered is not how many deaths has the virus caused, but rather what has been the increase in OVERALL deaths.

The mixed signals coming from the health technocracy and government bureaucracy at this time are especially confusing. After reviewing the most up to date information about COVID-19 the 4 Nations Public Health HCID advisory group and the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (UK) no longer consider it to be a high consequence infectious disease as of Friday March 20^th. At the same time we see video showing Chinese 'spray trucks' disinfecting entire cities and hear stories of the doors of apartment buildings being welded shut. The two simply do not add up. Meanwhile many are blaming their governments for failure to take even more draconian measures than we are currently seeing. 

The problem is history shows that such draconian measures are never temporary.  Rights and freedoms are hard won, and equally hard to take back. 20 years after 9-11 Guantanamo Bay remains open and the Patriot Act still in force. Airport scans have become de rigeur - another feature of the modern surveillance state, along with cashless welfare and income management.

It seems reasonable to assume that COVID19 is a new disease with the potential to spread and kill, particularly among the sick and elderly. But is this why we suddenly find ourselves unemployed and under house arrest? Is the response proportional to the threat? What about the economic impacts? How did governments respond to the 2009 H1N1 swine flu? Did countries close their borders and go into lock down? Were all non essential services shut down? Were parliaments prorogued?

The IMF is already talking about the 'coronavirus recession'. Is this just a convenient scapegoat for an economic meltdown which was already inevitable? Or is it the planned demolition of the global economy? Have you noticed that armies are still being moved around? Are they not affected by the pandemic? Wouldn't they be considered a transmission vector? Remember the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic? And speaking of  transmission vectors, how about cash? We’ve all seen this coming for years now, so it should come as no surprise that the stimulus bill offered by the US House Financial Services Committee includes the creation of a digital dollar. 

With digital currency and blockchain technology comes digital certificates, and Microsoft and MIT are said to be already trialing subcutaneous electronic transponders (RFID chips) which will carry, among other things, your complete health record. With a vaccine on its way within months so we are told, perhaps the panic and anxiety will soon be over for many. Maybe soon we'll be able to go anywhere we like, shop where we like, travel wherever we like (including overseas), attend whatever meetings we like involving any number of people, and use our credit cards wherever and whenever we like, provided our shots are up to date. This would not only give the state unprecedented control over our daily lives, but would also be an obvious boon for Big Pharma. After all, who's going to complain about massive overreach when we are dealing with a deadly pandemic?

As I said at the outset, there is too much to unpack here, and that's not the half of it. Why has COVID19 taken such an extreme toll in Iran? Both Iran and Venezuela have been refused IMF loans to help combat the pandemic. Is this not in itself biological warfare? What is the connection to the oil price war? How does Brexit play into it? And why do all world leaders now appear to be reading from the same script? Could it be an attempt to collapse the post war economic order and end the privileged status of the US dollar? If so then why is the USD still maintaining its upward trajectory?

Lastly we have Event 201, a "high-level pandemic exercise" hosted in New York on October 18 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; an exercise which "illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences." Is this also just a coincidence? Or could it be a training exercise gone live?

So far this analysis raises many more questions than answers, for which I can only apologise. Maybe I am being overly alarmist, but without even a sketch of what is really going on how do we begin to plot a way forward? What is interesting to me is that in this crisis even conservative governments seem to have unlimited amounts of cash to splash around. There are even moves toward re-nationalising essential services. Perhaps they have learned from history after all - but don't make the mistake of confusing this with socialism. Sinclair Lewis is quoted as saying that when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. I doubt anyone could have predicted that it would come wearing a nurses uniform.