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May 27 2020

When Will Democrat Governors Set The Masses Free From Lockdown?


Meanwhile, don’t anybody expect to be let out of Lockdown until after Nov. 3, 2020—the real date when desperado Dems will set world masses free

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 26, 2020

When Will Democrat Governors Set The Masses Free From Lockdown?
The question most prominent on most people’s minds: When will the blankety-blank Lockdown end?

No secret.  It will be when manipulative governments ‘fess up not only that the pandemic has ended—but already ended some time ago.

You don’t have to own the wisdom of a Solomon to come up with the right answer, but only to mark off annual holidays as they come up on the calendar.  The last holiday society got through in the sadly missed Days of Freedom was Christmas 2019—which the braggadocio left had long promised to steal—but couldn’t.  Resurrected in defiant intent, the globalist Left-which many state governors are—swiped Holy Week and Easter from the unsuspecting masses and then considered themselves to be on an unstoppable roll.

The rot of Liberal governors has unfortunately spread to other lands, including to the country next door where Canada Day celebrations have already been cancelled by the Justin Trudeau-led feds.  Government ‘leaders’ like Ontario Premier Doug Ford rushed off into CYA territory where small business owners have already been evicted by landlords when they couldn’t—having already been cut off from their businesses—come up with the rent.

Infuriatingly to the left,  government edict could not stop uncountable millions from respectfully honoring their war dead during yesterday’s Memorial Day ceremonies.

Leftist governors are undoubtedly now working on the proverbial monkey wrench to ruin upcoming July 4th celebrations. Only time will tell how successful they might be.

We keep reading in the Media how depression has hit the masses kept on lockdown.  Humans suffer psychological damage when kept from being with their families, believers left in a state of yearning when locked out of their houses of worship.  In this era of Clinical Depression, suicides are on the rise.

The only thing that can be taken for granted is that the Left will do whatever possible to keep the Lockdown in place until after November’s presidential election.  It’s the only thing left for them in stealing the election from President Donald Trump.

That will give them time for Mrs. Barack Obama to succeed with her bogus “When We All Vote’ initiative to turn Election 2020 into a total mail-in vote one—an initiative she deceitfully claims is: “NON-PARTISAN!

Surely of interest to note that it was her co-chair Tom Hanks was one of the first to come down with COVID-19, among other ‘firsters’ Pope Francis, and high-ranking members of the Iranian Government.

Talking about swipers, it was deceitful doctors Tony Fauci and Deborah Birx who took full credit for ‘social distancing’ when they really swiped the idea from a then 14-year-old New Mexico high school student who never got to shout: “Stop thief!”

“A 15-year-old New Mexico high school sophomore says she’s discovered closing schools would be the best way to halt a bird flu pandemic. (Medical XPress, May 9, 2006)

“Laura Glass of Albuquerque, N.M., is one of nearly 1,500 students taking part in this week’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair being held in Indianapolis. The students compete for $1.5 million in scholarships and prizes based on their work.

“Glass created a virtual town of 10,000 people to simulate a bird flu pandemic, the Albuquerque Journal reported. She then computed how many people each person came into close contact with daily.

“She found most teenagers came into close contact with about 140 people daily, the most of any group, with middle and high school students having the greatest potential of spreading the disease.

“In her simulation, adults bring the disease into the community and infect their children. “From there,” she told the Journal, “it spreads like crazy once it gets (into) … the schools.”

“In one simulation in her virtual city of 10,000 people, about half the population became infected. But Glass found closing schools reduced that number to 500.”

In order to see clearly through what the Media and Hollywood-supported Left are up to, look into their poisonous symbol called ‘The Mask’.

Black-masked Joe and Jill Biden display it best:

As savvy Noah Pollck Tweeted yesterday:

“In this outdoor setting where he was only physically close to his wife, masks were completely unnecessary. But masks have become a form of political signaling for the left, an expression of virtuous obedience to the lockdown and hostility to Trump. So the Bidens wore them.”

Before the Bidens it was Hollywood groupie Dr. Fauci wearing a ginormous mask in every frame standing behind President Trump at the last President’s Task Force in the White House Rose Garden.

Meanwhile, don’t anybody expect to be let out of Lockdown until after Nov. 3, 2020—the real date when desperado Dems will set world masses free.

May 27 2020

In my opinion, Gov. Cooper is saying to Republicans, not in my state


If Gov. Cooper refuses to completely reopen the state, drop his draconian restrictions, before August, then I can say with certainty that he kept restrictions in place to force the convention to move to another state

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 26, 2020

Gov. Cooper is saying to Republicans, not in my state

Back in March, Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina announced a statewide stay-at-home lock down order that was supposed to last for only 30 days. According to Cooper, restricting freedom of movement was necessary to curtail the spread of coronavirus and prevent hospitals from being overrun with patients. Cooper ordered people to stay in their homes, and businesses to close, and I reiterate, for only 30 days.

Moreover, Cooper had already ordered all schools to close through mid-May, banned gatherings of more than 10 people, ordered hair salons, gyms and movie theaters to close, and ordered restaurants to stop dine-in service. Cooper shut down all businesses that he didn’t deem essential, and required individuals outdoors to stay 6 feet apart.

I suspect Cooper, a partisan Democrat

Cooper’s stay at home order should have ended before May, and if it had, he could have claimed complete success. As a matter of fact, far too many hospitals and medical facilities had to layoff staff. Hospitals were not overwhelmed with patients. In fact, some hospitals were operating with a skeleton staff, no doctors to speak of, or patients either. But that didn’t ease Cooper’s restrictions on freedom and self determination.

So far, Cooper has only agreed to allow restaurants and other service oriented businesses to open with restrictions on capacity. Bars, nightclubs, gyms and fitness facilities, playgrounds, bowling alleys and entertainment facilities, such as movie theaters, were ordered to remain closed.Cooper placed restrictions on religious services, but they were shot down by a Federal Judge, so there’s no restrictions on religious services.

All other gatherings are restricted to a maximum of 10 people indoors and no more than 25 outdoors, and that’s concerning to the President and Republican Convention planners. Cooper’s restrictions make it impossible to hold the Republican Convention in North Carolina.

Moreover, Cooper knows the convention can not take place in North Carolina with the restrictions he has in place. If he continues to refuse to commit to drop his arbitrary restrictions on gatherings before August, the Republican Convention will have to move to another state, and that seems to be what Cooper really wants. In my opinion, Gov. Cooper is saying to Republicans, ‘Not in my state’.

In fact, if Cooper had kept his word in the beginning, the state would already be open for business. I suspect Cooper, a partisan Democrat, will try to justify extending his arbitrary restrictions on gatherings through August, when the Republican convention is scheduled to take place in Charlotte.

Cooper’s extended shutdown has already caused massive damage to the economy

If the convention has to move to another state, it will be detrimental to the welfare of the people of North Carolina. Cooper’s extended shutdown has already caused massive damage to the economy and the well-being of the people of North Carolina. North Carolina desperately needs the economic boost and return of jobs that the convention will bring to the state.

As a matter of fact, the Republican Convention will bring an infusion of desperately needed cash to hotels, restaurants, airlines and car rental companies that employ North Carolinians. The convention will bring jobs and desperately needed business to North Carolina.

If Gov. Cooper refuses to completely reopen the state, drop his draconian restrictions, before August, then I can say with certainty that he kept restrictions in place to force the convention to move to another state. I say that because we all know that viruses do not spread during the summer months.

May 27 2020

Is Gates Stupid or Very Clever with Vaccines?


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Re-Posted May 27, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong
I was in a discussion with a friend about current affairs – me, against Bill Gates and the likes and him, taking a more neutral stance. He asked if I watched some or anything he actually said. I said yes, well at least what you have posted I have watched in its entirety. I remember when you wrote about how to consider the position of the other side, even (or especially) when one it is opposed as to being the perceived enemy, be it Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump or Kim Jong Un. Now for me it Bill Gates these days. So my friend challenged me when he said that Bill’s view is that „a certain health standard (e.g. Through vaccination) would help less developed countries having to rely on large families for existential (= security) reason, therefore it would solve overpopulation…”. That certainly is way that I could not really argue against, was I to remember my Polish grandmother and siblings and how they had to essentially survive those days making their number count and work hard today to even make ends meet the next.

So I looked into this, what Bill Gates said about this (and luckily found a short video) where says precisely what I got to hear from my friend:
What is your view about this – would a certain level (albeit not reached via the almighty Socialism) of health and wealth globally make an end to the debate of overpopulation (which I anyway think is absurd for that matter, basing on that book by Malthus) and would that actually constitute a viable/true „thing” Bill Gates is pursuing (Here he comes, the savior of the poor and overpopulating)?

I am just trying to figure out how would I behave in such a position….
Thank you for all your work that driven NOT by profit and personal gain!

JL

ANSWER: Either Bill Gates is amazingly ignorant, or he is engaging in sophistry to sell his population-climate change agenda. The mistake people are making here is they are judging the third world on our own. What he is saying is that vaccinating everyone will mean they have a healthier child so they will need fewer children, which is absolutely a joke. The population naturally declines ONLY with economic advancement.

This has been the case from ancient times when the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) passed family laws to force men to marry because the Latin population was declining. The birth rates have declined substantially in Japan, Europe, and America with the rise in the economy. Russia was paying $9,000 for women to have children because the population declines only with economic advancement.

The reason is very simple. In an agrarian society, you have more children for they are your retirement and they take care of you in your old age and allow the farm to keep producing. You would typically have several children because also the mortality rate was high. The man was typically twice the age of his bride before 1800 because he had to FIRST prove himself by getting the farm, chickens, and house to show he could afford a family.

The age difference declined with the industrial revolution to the point it was only 50% older by 1900, dropping to perhaps 10-15 years older by 1930. It was after the Great Depression with the introduction of socialism that the age difference fell to near zero because the boy no longer needed to prove himself – we just love each other became the justification.

Postwar (1945), the government was there, not just for social benefits, but the introduction of Social Security also relieved the children of the burden of having to take care of their parents — that became the government’s job. This changed the very structure of families in the United States as was the case in Europe.

Where Gates’ proposition falls apart is that these third world countries are still in the agrarian stage and they lack the economic development that reduces the population. They need the children to run the farm and they need them for retirement for they lack such pension schemes. Just look at what happened in China with the one-child rule. The boy left for the economic lure of the big city, leaving the parents alone without support. Back in 2013, China had to pass a law that the children must visittheir parents. Elderly couples began importing girls from Southeast Asia to take care of them and they would leave them the property.

Sorry, I cannot believe Gates is that stupid. I believe it is merely his excuse for the depopulation of the earth and his father was a member of Eugenics which believed in the superiority of the Nordic-Anglo-Saxon Race genetically and were actively seeking to reduce the population of darker skinned people where Gates has focuses – India & Africa.

There is absolutely no support whatsoever for his claim that vaccinating children will make them healthier so they will have less. Donate food if that is really the issue – but there is no profit in that.

Their economic conditions in the third world do not support that conclusion. If he was really serious about that, then help them become industrialized and provide free food. Or wait, let me see, that would impact his climate change.

May 27 2020

Thuringia in Germany Abandons Virus Restrictions


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Posted May 27, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

The free state of Thuringia in Germany, which has 2.15 million inhabitants, has declared that it will abolish all national corona protection regulations as of June 6. This means that the previous rules on minimum social distances, wearing masks, and contact restrictions will no longer apply. The socialists in the SPD have criticized the planned relaxation of the corona requirements. The SPD thinks the people are stupid and just still need clarity. Meanwhile, Bavaria’s state government said it is “horrified that elementary protective measures should now be abandoned,” according to Florian Herrmann, who is the head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, according to the German Press Agency (dpa). The Greens have also come out against any relaxation.

We can see that it is the environmentalists and the Socialists banning together to try to keep society divided and the economy in a downward spiral to achieve their end goals — a New Green World Order where paper money is eliminated and taxes can then be imposed arbitrarily. They fail to understand that most revolutions take place over tax increases. They are insane with their objectives and we see the federal government claiming it is willing to only help environmentally directed companies.

RUMOR

We have reliable rumors behind the curtain coming from Europe that beginning in 2021, all foreign citizens will be required to undergo a pre-screening and registration process, which will be known as the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) before entering European Schengen-zone countries. Not all EU members are part of this Schengen agreement – notably Britain, Scotland, and Ireland. While this system was on schedule before the coronavirus, what is being suggested is that this should now include a health certificate to prove you have been vaccinated to visit Europe by Bill Gates.

If there is one way to kill tourism in Europe, they seem to have discovered that perfect law. Instead of the old Berlin Wall, it will become the European Wall.

Imposing this type of health clearance on top of a pre-clearance to travel will most likely only accelerate the breakup of the EU as Southern Europe is thrown into an economic depression killing all tourism as other member states are already telling their people not to leave their home state for fear of the virus.

May 27 2020

Navarro Hints President Trump Likely to Lower Hammer on China…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on May 26, 2020 by 

White House Trade and Manufacturing Advisor Peter Navarro has a good discussion with Martha MacCallum about the economy, White House economic policy and the focus in the aftermath of the COVID crisis to reemphasize an industrial resurgence in the U.S.

As Navarro outlines the focus of the administration policy is on Main Street and driving the main street economy that overwhelmingly benefits middle-class workers.

That said, when questioned about President Trump’s recent tone toward China, Navarro hints toward what many expect… President Trump is going to deliver a very deliberate, very strategic, very focused and very painful economic blow to Beijing.  WATCH:

May 27 2020

Joe Biden Tells Supporters “Wear a Mask”…


Posted originally on The Conservative tree House on May 26, 2020 by 

The circle of virtue signaling is now complete.   It became apparent during Memorial Day weekend the resistance allies, democrats and media, were going to use the wearing of “masks” as the hot new 2020 virtue signal.  All of the Blue-bot governors quickly fell into line with their own demands for compliant mask wearing in their states.

As with most modern left-wing extremes, influencing the behavior is an issue of control, a compliant community, it takes a village etc.  The issue is not medical benefit.  Toward that end, Joe Biden gets the command signal and joins the movement:

This provides the media with a social narrative to push hard and exploit for political division; a very Alinsky strategy.  Mask wearers become virtuous doers of goodness and virtue; non-mask wearers become visible enemies, targets for the drones.

Thus the politicization of masks is complete.

How do you defeat them? Easy, use their own playbook (Alinsky) and have fun (Breitbart).  Make them live up to their own rules.  Every time they are spotted without a mask, laugh at them and call them out on their hypocrisy.  They hate that.

Their communal tribe members cannot survive the ridicule when their inherent individualism does not want to adhere to the social demand.  Members don’t want to wear masks and the ridicule hits harder and has greater damage because of it.  Freedom is fun, the tribe mindset can only survive in an echo-chamber.

May 27 2020

Twitter Intervenes to Control Speech of The President…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on May 26, 2020 by 

Many people foresaw this likely happening and today it begins. Twitter has intervened in the tweets and speech of the President of the United States to review, censor and use their own perspectives to countermand the opinions of President Donald Trump.

By taking this position Twitter has put themselves into the position of arbitrating the opinions of general speech. This is a remarkable shift in the control mechanism of the platform which will likely have ramifications.

However, beyond the intervention, it is worth pointing to the specific issue that has triggered their decision. Note the issue of greatest concern to the command authority of Twitter is specifically mail-in ballots; this is not accidental.

There has been a general likelihood, a very predictable strategy, that mail-in ballots, and the ability to control them was the primary goal of Democrats and the far-left in this election cycle.  As all previous efforts to remove President Trump have failed, the control of the 2020 election became even more important.

There are trillions at stake.

Mail-in ballots are the goal.  A 2020 election outcome based on mail-in ballots is the overarching objective for democrats this year.  2018 was a test run in the process.  2020 was always the goal.

Sending two ballots to democrats, and one to registered republicans is one method.  Controlling the mail carrying system is another.  Selecting ballots for counting based on zip code political registration is yet another still.  Ballot harvesting continues the overall process.  The list of ways to manipulate voter mail-in election outcomes is very long.

This strategy ties in with the Blue state governors destroying their economy, holding shut their regional economies, and yet not worrying about any election outcome is a downstream result of this plan-of-action.

Nationally democrats plan to use federal bailouts to replace lost revenues in the Blue states that are in a zero-sum position financially.  States like New York, Rhode Island, Illinois and California were already on the cusp of financial collapse; they have nothing to lose from going all-in for the bailout approach.

If the blue states get the bailout they win, if they don’t they are in trouble; however, they were already in trouble prior to the COVID-19 economic contraction, so they have nothing to lose by positioning everything contingent on a federal bailout.

That bailout then allows the state officials to pick winners and losers on a state basis.  The same approach used by President Obama in the trillion dollar prior bail-out known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 2009.   The same purpose was achieved in thee earlier construct.

A federal bailout protects their prior overspending.  Then, full control over the mail-in ballots provides them the security they need for the 2020 election.  Do not expect UniParty Republicans to oppose this effort.

Just like when the DC republicans supported the attacks against the Tea Party groups (protect their own incumbency), the DC decepticons will offer only weak verbal opposition to this effort; nothing of substance.   In reality the Democrats and Republicans both benefit from the removal of President Trump and a return to the status-quo.

The plan has been visible for quite some time.  Hence CTH earlier warning:

 

Why did we make that suggestion two weeks ago?

…. Because once you see the strings on the marionettes, it’s impossible to watch the DC pantomime and not see them

May 26 2020

THE UNITED STATES OF CHINA


The Chinese communist party wants to immediately enact a new “national security” law in Hong Kong. The law would effectively end Hong Kong’s independence as well as their civil liberties. Freedom is a dire threat to the Chicoms’ so-called ’security.’

President Xi, like the rest of his comrades in power, is an atheist and as such they only worship their own power. Ethics and conscience are superfluous. The Chicoms do not hesitate to arrest and imprison those who don’t obey completely. There is no real freedom in China—especially religious freedom. The communists want complete control of their citizenry. Through mass tracking and a social credit system, they have achieved that objective.

The Chinese are used to getting their way. Until Trump came to the White House, presidents caved in to China at every turn. Clinton even gave them missile technology. Biden engaged in nepotistic corruption with Beijing. The Democrats seem to love China. So does social media–especially Google and Facebook. Mark Zukerberg, the CEO of Facebook, admires China and their form of censorship. He even asked President Xi to name his baby. Silicon Valley wants globalism and each human tracked, chipped, and controlled. They prefer censorship over our First Amendment.

A Chinese general once declared an intention to eventually wipe out Americans and invade our country. China is a crowded country and the general considered America to be the new ‘lebensraum.’ But a future threat from China is not what this cartoon is about. China has already been busy conquering us by stealing intellectual property, then using slave labor to crank out derivative products at a lower cost. They have spies everywhere all over the world. They pressure the media to cave into their demands. For example, we’re not allowed to say a virus emerged from China. Oh no—that’s ‘racist.’

Chicom operatives also make sure Hollywood does not produce anything that puts their country in a bad light. Hollywood always caves. After all, China is a big market for their films. Same with the NBA. They caved to evil, communist thugs without a second thought.

America won’t become China due to military defeat, but rather from within. People such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and the Democrat socialists would love to emulate communist China right here in the USA. It’s unfortunate that so many citizens will obey them in lockstep and without question when they should be emulating the freedom fighters in Hong Kong.

—Ben Garrison

May 26 2020

Why Has Bill Gates Been Pushing the “Virus” Problem so Hard?


The story starts with Bill Gates wanting to remove all Carbon Dioxide emissions!

Sometime after 9/11 Bill Gates got involved with Al Gore and the Climate Change movement. Gates took this very seriously and decided to try and stop the destruction of the planet; not realizing that it wasn’t a real threat.  The Reason I can say that is I have been studying the problem for well over 20 years now and although the climate does change, it always has so there is nothing new here.  The problem is that some of the changes that are in the range of a few degrees up or down are related to decade long movements driven primarily by the 11 year solar cycle.  If the reader is interested in that subject check out my monthly climate update posted here in  MY Climate research.

Gates lacking a college education doesn’t have the proper background in economics, math, statistics, physics and Climate so he was unduly influenced by others that had a different agenda.  The group I am referring to are those that have embraced a version of Marxism that has morphed into a version of Marxism where the leaders of the government are the very educated  one’s in society.  Those are the ones that have graduated from the best schools like Harvard, MI,T Sanford, Yale, etc. etc.  Read the book Technology Rising written by Patrick M. Wood for all the details. These are the “Best and the Brightest” and the want to change the system of government in the United States so that they can save us from ourselves.

This group was infiltrated by the Progressives (just another name for a Marxist) in the country in the early 90’s after the collapse of the old USSR and they got into the Green movement at the same time.  The bottom line is that the following groups and organizations are all in bed together and they are being controlled by Bill Gates!

The Democrat party

The Green movement

The Major news organizations

The Open Boarders movement

The Social Justice Movement

The Bill and Missal Gates Foundation

In 20010 Bill Gates did a TED presentation that started the ball rolling.

Roger More we need more carbon

May 26 2020

Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both? (Part 4)


The debate surrounding Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)

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Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 25, 2020

The LancetReview of Part 3 Takeaways
  • Dr. Deborah Birx said the CDC math on SARS-CoV-2 deaths was, at least, 25% exaggerated, and no one blinked.
  • Remdesivir was eventually judged not only to be a “nothing burger,” but a no-taste vegan patty that didn’t satisfy hunger, as it failed field tests with patients.
  • The New England Journal of Medicine delivered a knockout blow to Gilead Sciences’ attempt to breathe life into one of its failed drugs from the past.
  • Don’t be surprised when the government scientists push a new candidate offering a symptom-mitigating drug for virus suffers.

The debate surrounding Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)

The debate of Remdesivir v. HCQ started on, or about, Friday, March 20, when Dr. Fauci stepped to the podium during a virus briefing to correct a favorable comment Trump made about HCQ. Fauci said: “You’ve got to be careful when you say ‘fairly effective’. It (HCQ) was never done in a clinical trial…It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it worked.”

The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003

Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both? (Part 4)
Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both? (Part 3)
Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both? (Part 2)
Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both? (Part 1)

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons(AAPS, founded 1943), is one of several physician groups who engaged the debate. It released a report (April 28) stating:

“To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.”

“The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.”

Their report didn’t conform with the approved narrative. At the time, Fauci was touting the positive impact of Remdesivir on SARS-CoV-2 patients. The Gilead Sciences’ drug was, obviously, his drug of choice.

The Center for Infectious disease Research and Policy, a group within the University of Minnesota that addresses public health preparedness and the response to emerging infectious diseases, reported Fauci’s opinion:

“At the White House, Fauci told reporters that the data presented by an independent data and safety monitoring board showed patients on remdesivir recovered in 11 days, compared with 15 days for patients receiving a placebo. Fauci said the data show that the antiviral, which is not yet licensed or approved, ‘has a clear-cut and significant positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. ‘Although a 31% improvement doesn’t seem like a knockout 100%, it is a very important proof of concept,’ Fauci said. ‘because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus.’”

Yet, back in August 22, 2005, in an article in Virology Today, a publication of the National Institute of Health where Dr. Fauci heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), there appeared a more positive opinion concerning a more toxic form of HCQ:

“Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection. In addition, the indirect immunofluorescence assay described herein represents a simple and rapid method for screening SARS-CoV antiviral compounds.” (HCQ is a less toxic derivative of chloroquine.)

AAPS, representing the HCQ side of the debate, wrote the following to Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona in the context of a long and detailed defense of HCQ:

“To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.”

“The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.”

“Additional benefits shown in some studies, AAPS states, is to decrease the number of days when a patient is contagious, reduce the need for ventilators, and shorten the time to clinical recovery.”

“Peer-reviewed studies published from January through April 20, 2020, provide clear and convincing evidence that HCQ may be beneficial in COVID-19, especially when used early, states AAPS. Unfortunately, although it is perfectly legal to prescribe drugs for new indications not on the label, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said that CQ and HCQ should be used for COVID-19 only in hospitalized patients in the setting of a clinical study if available. Most states are making it difficult for physicians to prescribe or pharmacists to dispense these medications.”

“…Many nations, including Turkey and India, are protecting medical workers and contacts of infected persons prophylactically. According to worldometers.info, deaths per million persons from COVID-19 as of Apr 27 are 167 in the U.S., 33 in Turkey, and 0.6 in India.”

So, HCQ has a proven track record of working. Unfortunately, though, the most serious attention to HCQ came from New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the governors of Michigan and Nevada. They all banned HCQ use in their states.

Trump shifted the debate on May 18

CNN was one of several sites to break this story—but they couldn’t do it without spinning a bias against HCQ.

“President Donald Trump claimed Monday he is taking daily doses of hydroxychloroquine, a drug he’s long touted as a potential coronavirus cure even as medical experts and the US Food and Drug Administration question its efficacy and warn of potentially harmful side effects.” {snip}

“‘A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it,’ Trump said. He later said he’d been taking it every day for a week and a half. The admission was a dramatic development in Trump’s attempts to promote hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus, which began earlier in the outbreak and has been met with resistance from medical professionals. Because the drug is prescribed to treat malaria and other conditions, Trump has cast it as safe and suggested coronavirus patients have little to lose by trying it. But at least one study has shown the drug does not work against Covid-19 and could cause heart problems.”

That last anecdotal comment by CNN sniped HCQ claiming it causes heart attacks. Unproven accusation, as in Fake News.

Much of the media treated Trump’s use of HCQ as breaking news, implying that he’d done something not authorized by his physician. But, back on March 30, National Public Radio had announced that:

“Over the weekend [March 28-29] the Food and Drug Administration granted two malaria drugs ‘emergency use authorization’ for the treatment of COVID-19. The move makes it easier to add the medicines to the strategic stockpile, which can be drawn upon in the current public health emergency. The drugs — chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — have been identified as potential COVID-19 treatments based on lab tests and small, limited studies in humans.”

How can all this not be seen, so far, as an abysmal failure on the part of the highly-touted, multi-degreed, lab-coated denizens of the halls of big government medical institutions?

Perhaps not all reporters listen to NPR.

On May 14, in a long and detailed National Institute of Health press release entitled “NIH begins clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to treat COVID-19, Study enrolling adults with mild to moderate COVID-19 in the United States,” after tens of thousands of Americans had died from SARS-CoV-2, the NIH department run by Dr. Fauci announced that:

“A clinical trial has begun to evaluate whether the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, given together with the antibiotic azithromycin, can prevent hospitalization and death from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, is sponsoring the trial, which is being conducted by the NIAID-funded AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG). Teva Pharmaceuticals is donating medications for the study.”

Here was the purpose of the new NIH study that came too late for thousands of virus victims.

“The main objective of the study is to determine whether hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin can prevent hospitalization and death due to COVID-19.”

It’s time to consider the opinion of one of the world’s oldest (founded 1823) and best-known peer-reviewed general medical journals concerning the search for an antiviral drug for SARS-CoD-2.  On April 29, after four months of life with the virus, The Lancet declared that:

“No specific antiviral drug has been proven effective for treatment of patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)”.

So much for all the Remdesivir happy-talk from Fauci and Gilead Sciences.

Here’s a question: How can all this not be seen, so far, as an abysmal failure on the part of the highly-touted, multi-degreed, lab-coated denizens of the halls of big government medical institutions?

In Part 5, the YouTube Thought Police work to suppress dissention from the state-approved science of combating SARS-CoV-2.