Indeed, one of the political reasons that schools remained closed in Democratic party areas and states for as long as they did is because President Trump called for them to be open, and because designated villains, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, were following the data and permitting in-person learning to resume. In an era of negative partisanship, kids were actively and needlessly hurt—with lasting deleterious impact—because politically addicted adults didn't want [to] admit the 'wrong' sort of people were right about something. Just look at the metrics on states that opened schools first versus last. If [White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s] pathetic spin were accurate, the red states would be the holdouts.
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Sunday, September 11, 2022
Covid Fascism was cover for Trump Hatred
Monday, May 02, 2022
EXPERT VIEW ‘Deep State’ Was Working Against Trump on COVID-19 Response: Paul Alexander
According to Paul Alexander, when former President Donald Trump was trying to tackle COVID-19 in 2020, the “swamp” or the “deep state” was working against him, using flawed data to tarnish him, locking down society, and keeping schools closed.
“Can you imagine the president of the United States fighting against the [teachers’] union, fighting against the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)], fighting against his own task force?” Alexander told EpochTV’s “Facts Matter” program in an interview that will air on May 3.
“They’re working against him. So you need to be there to understand when he said ‘the swamp’—and he talked about deep state—it is real. I dealt with them. It is the bureaucracy. The entrenched bureaucracy is real.”
From late March till early September 2020, Alexander served as scientific adviser to Michael Caputo, then-assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
During that time, Alexander was attacked by the media and some health agency officials for trying to “tweak” the COVID-19 death numbers in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
On Aug. 8, 2020, in an email to Caputo (pdf) and other officials, Alexander wrote: “CDC to me appears to be writing hit pieces on the administration and meant at this time to impact school re-openings and they then send it to the media knowing it is deceiving. I ask it be stopped now! … Nothing to go out unless I read and agree with the findings how they CDC, wrote it and I tweak it to ensure it is fair and balanced and ‘complete.’ And not misleading.”
Sunday, June 13, 2021
The fledermaus theory of the WuFlu
Democracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard my serialization of Nineteen Eighty-Four, that was literally Winston Smith's job - to go into the archives and rewrite past editions of the newspapers to conform to the needs of the present. And to ensure that versions of the past less helpful to the regime get, in one of Orwell's many brilliant coinages, "memory-holed".
Our chaps haven't been memory-holing quite as long, so they're not as smooth and assured about it as Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth. Commissar Zuckerberg's Facebook will now permit you to suggest that the ChiCom-19 may have "escaped" from a lab - in contrast to the rules a week or so back, when so much as raising the possibility got your account vaporized. Wikipedia isn't quite so quick on the uptake: as I write, the lab-leak origin of the WuFlu still comes under "Covid-19 misinformation" as a theory used "to stoke anti-China sentiments". But presumably the lads are modifying even as I speak.
Gee, it's almost like they all got the same fax from head office. So what was a fortnight back a conspiracy theory that could not be mentioned is now acceptable in polite Zuck-policed society. Not because any new proof has emerged one way or the other: there has always been more evidence for a Covid lab leak than for the bat theory, not least because the relevant bats live a thousand miles from the Wuhan wet market.
When you boil it right down, the fledermaus theory of the WuFlu rests mainly on "scientist" Peter Daszak. Mr Daszak is this season's omnipresent British subject: He is to bats what Christopher Steele is to Russians; his job is to maintain them as the McGuffin.
So, on the one hand, Peter Daszak is the US government's principal middle-man (via the "non-profit" EcoHealth Alliance, which he heads) for funneling American tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. His principal research activity for the last decade has been coronavirus gain-of-function projects with Shi Zhengli, the lady who heads said institute in Wuhan.
On the other hand, Peter Daszak was also the only "American" member of the team the WHO sent to China to "investigate" the source of the virus. He was the organizer of the letter from twenty-seven virologists to The Lancet saying ChiCom-19 was of natural origin. And he was the "expert" relied on by Zuckerberg to ban lab-leak chit-chat on Facebook.
In none of these activities did he disclose his conflict of interest - that the institution he was absolving was his principal business partner, and run by his closest professional colleague, who has denied, risibly, that any of her employees ever got sick from the WuFlu, and certainly not in the fall of 2019.
So, if you're one of those who appealed to Zuckerberg to let you have your Facebook page back, well, good luck with that: That's like appealing your alimony to a judge who's dating your ex-wife.
Monday, June 07, 2021
The Wuhan virus was released to remove Donald Trump
Ever since the Nixon opening to China, American foreign
policy has been focused on making China a full member of the international community.
Nixon saw China as a counterweight to Russia who was our
primary strategic opponent since the Second World War.
Others saw closer relations with China as an advantage from their
own viewpoint. American corporations originally
saw a billion Chinese as a huge untapped market for their products and
services.
The entertainment industry knew Chinese like movies. The sports industry saw Chinese sports
fans. And both slavered at the opportunity
to sell a billion tickets.
Wall Street saw billions of dollars in fees from the
emerging Chinese interest in publicly traded companies.
Academia saw Chinese students paying full tuition, funding for research and new buildings.
Manufacturers saw cheap Chinese labor as a
way to cut costs, labor being a major part of the cost of manufacturing
products.
Successive American administrations were convinced that opening up China would transform them into a Democracy.
Instead, what happened is that American institutions became dependent on the Chinese market, Chinese manufacturing and the approval of the Chinese Communist Party for their profits.
Moreover,
these profits depended on staying on the good side of the Chinese Communist
Party who could, with the snap of their fingers, stop movie distribution or end
sporting events by teams that failed to toe the Communist Party line.
Donald Trump is the first American President who has actual experience in international trade and was the first to point out that America’s trade with China was a disastrously one-sided proposition.
Trade agreement with China favored China over American interests. These agreements incentivized American companies to close factories in the U.S., open factories in China and destroy American jobs.
Destroying middle class jobs was
not a hardship for government workers who did not have to fear being replaced
by cheap Chinese labor, but Trump saw what was happening and decided to do something
about it. He demanded new trade agreements,
and when China balked, he established tariffs.
These actions began to reverse decades of neglect for Middle
America. But it was a shock to the American
Ruling Class who was getting rich while the working class was being decimated.
They knew the FBI, the CIA and the DOJ were opposed to Trump. They also knew that the CDC and the DOD were implicated in funding research at the Wuhan Virology lab to see how bat viruses can be made deadly to humans.
So they released the virus on an unsuspecting world and issued a cover story. The lie was that it occurred naturally from a market in Wuhan the sold live animals.
Immediately their allies in the sciences echoed their lies, telling us that there was no question that the virus was natural. Any suggestion that the virus may have come from a virology lab in Wuhan was classified as a crackpot conspiracy theory.
The American
press, piled on and not only blamed the deaths
that followed on President Trump but told their audience that to even the mention
of the fact that the virus came from China was racist.
Anthony Fauci, who’s office was the source of some to the funds
that wend to the Wuhan lab worked tirelessly to deny any responsibility and
persuaded President Trump to lock the country down.
The Chinese could not have asked for a better ally. It wasn't the release of the virus, but the shutting the economy down that that transformed the economic miracle that President
Trump has performed into deep recession, deliberately throwing millions out of
work and destroying a large part of the small business community.
The press entered the election uniformly opposed to the President. The press and the major tech giants like
Twitter, Facebook, and Google prevented any discussion of drugs - like Ivermectin - that could get
people well if they became infected by the Wuhan virus.
This led to thousand dying in agony. But to the Left it was worth it. For the first time in American history, an American
president was literally censored and prevented from using the public square. Meanwhile the virulently Andi-Trump
Washington Post was proclaiming that “Democracy Dies in Darkness” even as they –
and our new tech overlords were using their power to silence their political
opponents in ways that dictators will copy faithfully in the future.
The Chinese can say “Mission accomplished.” They didn’t even have to make it that deadly. In purely biological terms, the virus itself
is marginally more deadly than common flu except of people who co-morbidity. It was lies, misinformation and fear that Left used as a weapon. It was
used to reverse the President who put America first, who believed in American
Greatness, and who felt compassion for those who the Ruling Class had discarded.
So the country is now beginning to ask whether this virus was accidentally released. The real question that needs to be answered was whether is was purposeful. And why?
“By the fall of 2019 Donald Trump had achieved the greatest economic boom in American history, had put a serious dent in the Chi-Com economy vis a vis ending suicidal trade and tariff regimes and was effectively confronting them on their imperialist designs on the South China Seas and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and other provinces less well-covered in the media were seriously defying Peking, and the Chinese economy itself had serious problems. Meanwhile the Democrat Party, the PRC's political soul-mates, was parading around an anti-American freak show of 20 candidates vying to see who would draw the short straw to get his/her/xer ass kicked in a landslide by Trump, who looked unstoppable especially after the New Year's present of taking out Iran's #1 terrorist mastermind. And then, as if by magic...”
Here's the problem.
The Left, the Democrats, the media, the tech oligarchs, and the army of government
bureaucrats are in league with China. So
we are in for interesting times. Will
China invade Taiwan? Will riots rock
America’s cities? Will there be another
Reichstag Fire? Will the FBI continue
its manhunt for people who attended Trump rallies? As
Comrade Beria famously said ”show me the man and I will show you the crime;” will
Trump be indicted for littering?
WHY THE SCIENCE POINTS TO A LAB LEAK
Read the whole thing, but here's the bottom line: the way the virus was made virulent was the least likely way that nature would have done it but the common way that virologists who what to make a virus more lethal commonly do it.
All of this didn’t just recently come to light. The authors point out that the CGG connection was noted in published literature by February 2020. So, why is it that only in the last few weeks have the scientific, political and media establishments decided not only that it is acceptable to entertain the idea that covid could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but to point out publicly that this is the most likely explanation of the virus’s origin?
I think the answer lies in the realm of politics, not science. Covid was not a hoax, but it was immediately seen by the Left as the means through which they might oust Donald Trump from the White House. (“God’s gift to the Left,” as Jane Fonda expressed it.) For that strategy to work, the focus needed to be here at home, on the alleged (almost entirely mythical) failures of the Trump administration. Pointing the finger at China would not only reinforce President Trump’s speculation about the virus, it would also validate the tough approach he took toward the CCP throughout his term in office.
So the truth about the origin of covid had to be suppressed. That is how it looks to me, anyway.