Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Lee Cary —— Bio and Archives—May 24, 2020

Review of Part 2 Takeaways

• The official first case of a U.S. SARS-CoV-2 patient treated with Remdesivir reveals big, federal government, health organizations were ill-prepared for a pandemic.
• Those organizations were aware of a virus brewing in China, but underestimated its potential impact on America.
• While government scientists in the U.S. were getting organized, labs in China were aggressively competing to mass produce Remdesivir.
• Before SARS-CoV-2 metastasized in the U.S., the Wizard of SARS, Dr. Tony Fauci, was publicly downplaying its potential impact on the nation.

The Centers for Disease Control admits incorrect numbers

CDC Director Robert R. Redfield (pictured above) has admitted that his agency had over-stated the SARS-CoV-2 mortality rate compared to the 1957-1958 flu pandemic. The agency reported that, “[T]he mortality ratio for the COVID-19 virus is similar to the mortality rate of 1957-1958 flu pandemic.” That 50’s pandemic caused 1-2 million deaths worldwide, and 77,000-116,000 in the U.S.  Nevertheless, it did not lead to a shutdown of the U.S. economy with the loss of millions of jobs.

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

In 1957, the U.S. population was 177 million – about one-half of the current count.  Today, SARS-CoV-2 has killed over 97,000 Americans – heavily targeting senior citizens, many with co-morbidities. Meanwhile, the CDC estimatesthat this year’s seasonal flu left 24,000-62,000 Americans dead.

Recall that, back in early May, it was reported that Dr. Deborah Brix, the White House Coronavirus Task Forceresponse administrator, stated in a meeting of that group, “There is nothing from the CDC that I can trust”.  (Did anyone in the media ask what she meant by that?)

The tendency to over-estimate SARS-CoV-2 numbers began with the Imperial College epidemiologist and advisor to the British Government, Neil Ferguson.  TIME noted that:

“On March 16, Ferguson and colleagues published a paper suggesting that even with some social distancing measures, the U.K. could see 250,000 coronavirus deaths and that the U.S. might have about 1 million deaths. In a worst-case scenario, Ferguson predicted those figures could more than double in both countries.”

Ferguson resigned as an advisor to the British Government when it was revealed he’d received romantic, secret home visits from his paramour, thereby breaking social-distancing rules during the pandemic.

The bad news for Gilead Sciences’ proposed virus drug, Remdesivir, broke on May 23 in a Zerohedge.com articleentitled “The Remdesivir Study Is Finally Out: Drug Only Helped Those On Oxygen, Finds Mortality Too High For Standalone Treatment”. That announcement read in part:

“According to a pivotal study published in the New England Journal of Medicine late on Friday, Remdesivir (May 23), which was authorized to treat Covid-19 in a group of 1063 adults and children (split into two groups, one receiving placebo instead of remdesivir) who need i.) supplemental oxygen, ii) a ventilator or iii) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), only significantly helped those on supplemental oxygen.”

“Meanwhile, and explaining the 6pm release on a Friday, the study also found no marked benefit from remdesivir for those who were healthier and didn’t need oxygen or those who were sicker, requiring a ventilator or a heart-lung bypass machine.” {snip}

“Whereas there was a modest benefit only to patients who were receiving oxygen, the results were statistically insignificant vs placebo for patients not receiving oxygen, while in a surprising twist patient on high-flow oxygen or mechanical ventilator/ECMO did modestly better in the placebo group than those taking remdesivir.” {snip}

“In conclusion, while the “preliminary findings support the use of remdesivir for patients who are hospitalized with Covid-19 and require supplemental oxygen therapy” the study goes on to warn that “given high mortality despite the use of remdesivir, it is clear that treatment with an antiviral drug alone is not likely to be sufficient.” (most highlighting in original article)

This critical judgment on the efficaciousness of Remdesivir came as no surprise. Beginning on April 23, the evidence mounted based on a study of the drug in China reviewed in multiple posts:

bbc.com: “There had been widespread hope that remdesivir could treat Covid-19. But a Chinese trial showed that the drug had not been successful, according to draft documents accidentally published by the World Health Organization. The drug did not improve patients’ condition or reduce the pathogen’s presence in the bloodstream, it said.” (April 23)

statnews.com: “The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying, according to results from a long-awaited clinical trial conducted in China. Gilead, however, said the data suggest a ‘potential benefit.’ A summary of the study results was inadvertently posted to the website of the World Health Organization and seen by STAT on Thursday, but then removed. A draft manuscript was provided by the authors to WHO and inadvertently posted on the website and taken down as soon as the mistake was noticed.” (April 23)

biospace.com: “According to a report in the Financial Times, the data from the study showed remdesivir did not improve patients’ condition or reduce the pathogen’s presence in the bloodstream. There were also concerns about some potential side effects caused by the drug. The study suggests more patients died on remdesivir than those on placebo, 13.9% compared to 12.8%, respectively.” (April 23)

web.md.com: “Disappointing results emerged from the first gold-standard clinical trial for remdesivir, which found that the drug did not help patients in China with severe COVID-19. Those findings were published April 29 in The Lancet medical journal.” {snip}

“‘Unfortunately, our trial found that while safe and adequately tolerated, remdesivir did not provide significant benefits over placebo’, says Professor Bin Cao from China-Japan Friendship Hospital and Capital Medical University in China, who led the research. ‘This is not the outcome we hoped for, but we are mindful that we were only able to enroll 237 of the target 453 patients because the COVID-19 outbreak was brought under control in Wuhan. What’s more, restrictions on bed availability resulted in most patients being enrolled later in the disease course, so we were unable to adequately assess whether earlier treatment with remdesivir might have provided clinical benefit.’” (April 29)

The NEJM may have dropped the final straw that broke the Remdesivir back.

Next in Part 4: The apparent demise of Remdesivir takes it out of competition with Hydroxychloroquine. But another drug company competitor is already in play. Plus, the topic of censorship from YouTube merits more space than what remains in this installment of “Pandemic, Plandemic, or Both?” It, too, is ahead.    

[A personal note from the author:  This article may post on or near May 25, Memorial Day in the United States, when I will again remember a sophomore band member who sat next to me in a Chicago suburban high school band when I was a senior. He was a small, Hispanic kid with an easy smile and a quiet demeanor. I graduated and went to college, never to see him again. Two years later he graduated, joined the United States Marine Corps, and went to Vietnam. He came home in a flag-draped coffin. I salute him every Memorial Day—when no one is looking – and will do so, until I am no long able.]

Hydroxychloroquine | Full Measure

If you’ve watched the news lately, you might be under the impression that a medicine President Trump touted as a possible game changer against coronavirus— has been debunked and discredited. Two divergent views of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, have emerged: the negative one widely reported in the press and another side you’ve probably heard less about. Never has a discussion about choices of medicine been so laced with political overtones. Today, how politics, money and medicine intersect with coronavirus.

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh —— Bio and Archives—May 23, 2020

Social conditioning is defined as the process of training individuals in a society to respond in a manner generally approved by society and various peer groups and their interests.

In a classic textbook method of social conditioning, all commercials and MSM news reports now contain the line “the new normal.” If the idea and concept reflected in a new euphemistic phrase is introduced and repeated it at nauseam, people will accept it eventually as “the new normal.”

The New Normal Represents Fear

The oft-repeated “social distancing” phrase is also played across the country in supermarkets, on radio, and on television until people accept it as part of life. There is nothing social about hiding from people and running scared. It is really “physical distancing” to avoid infection during a pandemic.  Sadly, fear becomes part of everyday life and people begin avoiding each other in all social interactions that are part of being human.

We know from the bad experience of dictator Ceausescu’s orphans raised in state institutions after having been given up by their parents who either could not feed nor want them, that those infants who were never touched, hugged, rocked, and interacted with, became severely autistic and rocked themselves non-stop in order to soothe the inner need and desire for human contact and love.

The “new normal” represents the fear of one’s own shadow, the fear of government, the fear of not wearing masks, the fear of coughing in public, the fear of one’s neighbors, the fear of quarantine, the fear of getting sick, the fear of other people, the fear of being outside without a mask on, and the fear of existing outside of one’s home which has become a prison of sorts in which the owners are both the inmates and the jailers.

Orwell wrote through his “1984” character named Winston, “To a future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone – to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, form the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of double-think – greetings!”  (p. 28)

The dystopian novel described a time when “nothing was your own except a few cubic centimeters inside your skull.” (p. 27) We do not seem to be so shocked anymore by the dark human nature described in Orwell’s novel. Life imitates art and we are getting accustomed daily to this “new normal” indelibly etched into our collective psyche by the powers with a globalist agenda of population control, vaccines, chip implantation, and 24/7 tracking of every move we make.

The ideas described by Orwell have come to pass and currently surround us everywhere, i.e., thought police, technology giants censorship of our freedom of speech and of our thoughts expressed on social media, thoughts packaged as hate crimes or racism, liberals triggered by the existence of divergent thoughts and ideas, doublethink, doublespeak, “Freedom is Slavery,” “Ignorance is strength,” enemies of the Democrat party must be silenced, thought crimes, and the government’s version of the “Ministry of Truth.” Undesirable people are disappearing, professionally “annihilated, abolished, and vaporized.”

United Nations has been peddling 17 sustainable development goals for decades under Agenda 21 now morphed into Agenda 2030, packaging and repackaging them under different euphemisms of global control, until the United States was brought to its economic knees by a virus and forced to accept them under the much-touted aegis of the Green New Deal. The poster child of this Democrat legislation was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the former bartender. We did not take her seriously but, with her powerful backers, she was able to implement most everything in this “deal” which is neither “new” nor “green.”

U.N. Agenda 2030 wanted to reduce our carbon footprint by pushing limited travel by trains, buses, and bikes

The restriction of travel and the generalized panic and fear have reduced air traffic to insignificant amounts. Airlines lost billions in revenue and experienced a severe reduction in travel by 95 percent. Airlines like United mothballed 25 percent of their air fleet. Air traffic may eventually exist just for the rich elites and well-heeled politicians on the taxpayer dole.

U.N. Agenda 2030 wanted to reduce our carbon footprint by pushing limited travel by trains, buses, and bikes, keeping the population stacked in high-rise apartments with no parking, a five-minute walk from work, play, school, shopping, and living.

Traffic on once crowded highways has disappeared. People are not going anywhere out of fear, because places are closed all over, or because of restrictions placed upon them by governors eager to control the masses while they take vacations and trips to places now denied to the average American.

Democrats have been pushing for a universal basic income for their base, and people scoffed and doubted them. But now the Democrats won. Americans who do work, work from home, while the rest are staying hidden and idle at home, waiting for the government paycheck to arrive so they can live and pay their bills.

There is nothing normal about living in fear, hidden, like an animal in a cage

Technocracy News expressed what many of us have been thinking, that we need clarity from our President and a concrete date when the economic lockdown of healthy Americans will end, “not in stages, not in phases.” President Trump’s advisers were wrong:

“They convinced the president to make bad decisions based on faulty science and speculative computer models stocked with false assumptions. They are up to their necks in conflicts of interest, mostly having to do with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and its many global partners pushing mandatory vaccines and global ID system that can used for tracking individual Americans.”

(Technocracy News)

The “new normal” is not normal at all. There is nothing normal about living in fear, hidden, like an animal in a cage, waiting to receive a handout from the government that taxes those who do work.

There is nothing normal about closing schools indefinitely and having to follow one-way lines into and out of grocery stores.

There is nothing normal about having empty hospitals and furloughed medical personnel and doctors while people are dying from cancer, heart disease, and other non-COVID-19 virus related illness, or suffer in severe pain because their medical problems are judged non-essential by all-knowing politicians.

Retail in a physical space as we know it will disappear, replaced by online commerce

Perhaps one unintended consequence of this “pandemic” may be the dismantling of the goal for mega-cities which the environmentalists at the U.N. have been pushing for decades and the dispersion of people into less populated areas.

Retail in a physical space as we know it will disappear, replaced by online commerce.  Shipping methods will explode, and product choices will become scarce. Environmentalists will be happy as less resources will be used to manufacture what they deemed as too many goods and services. The U.S. economy will shrink as two-thirds of our GDP is consumption.

Remote work and schooling will become the new wave of commuting in the U.S. Physical schools and bussing many disappear over time. Office buildings may become obsolete.

Domestic travel will slow down as the middle class will have to deal with the loss of millions of small businesses and a disappearing middle-class disposable income.

Stronger border controls and mandatory quarantines for those with and without fever will result in much less international travel. International travel may morph into travel of the affluent who make the rules. Perhaps this will be the modified normal.