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May 5 2020

Five Epicentres of Official “Covid-19 Deaths” Exaggeration


Lombardy, Italy, Madrid, Spain, Bavaria, Germany, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Quebec, Canada

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 4, 2020

Five Epicentres of Official Covid-19 Deaths Exaggeration

Eight countries (USA, UK, Canada, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, and Germany), harbouring 9% of humanity, report 67% of COVID-19 (C-19) fatalities. Are these countries pandemic dead-zones; or, are they jurisdictions wherein medico-legal bureaucrats systematically manipulate and misrepresent “cause of death” designations on official death certificates?

The eight break into two categories:

  1. Three countries where the engineering of C-19 fatality data is done mainly on a national scale (Belgium, France and UK); and, the more intriguing,
  2. Five countries where medical statistics are compiled mainly at provincial/state level; AND, wherein one region leads and outstrips the rest of the country with high C-19 death tallies. Said regions being:
    1. Lombardy, Italy;
    2. Madrid, Spain;
    3. Bavaria, Germany;
    4. The New Jersey-New York-Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island group of states; and,
    5. Quebec, Canada.

Lombardy occupies a landlocked 23,800 square kilometres of northern Italy. Of Lombardy’s 10 million inhabitants 85% call Milan home.

On February 21, Lombardy became the first polity outside China to report a cluster of C-19 cases. Organized scribbling of “COVID-19” onto death certificates commenced three days thereafter.

Lombardy, with 15% of Italy’s population, has rung-up 50% of Italy’s C-19 deaths. Lombardy’s certifiers of death have signed-off on 14,189 C-19 fatalities. For comparison:

North Carolina (pop 10 million) reports 420 C-19 deaths.

United Arab Emirates (pop 10 million), which leads the world in C-19 testing, reports 126 deaths.

Lombardy, we are to believe, suffered more fatalities than Asia.

Spain performed the same pandemic tragicomedy as Italy, albeit two weeks later. Community of Madrid assumed the protagonist role in Spain that Lombardy plays in Italy.

Community of Madrid (one of 17 regional governments) has a population of 6.7 million. Territorially, it overlaps Metropolitan Madrid.

During the ramp-up of Spain’s C-19 death certification initiative (March 3-12) Madrid posted half Spain’s C-19 deaths. Currently, Madrid with 13% of Spain’s population, reports 33% of Spain’s C-19 deaths.

Madrid has allegedly suffered 8,376 C-19 fatalities. For contrast:

Canada’s west-coast province of British Columbia, home to 5.1 million people with vastly greater contact with China than the Madrilenians have, reports just 112 C-19 fatalities.

Bavaria is nowhere near Milan or Madrid in body-count but remains noteworthy because of its outlier status within the German Federation. As well, Bavaria was the first area to copy northern Italy’s imposition of martial law.

The Free State of Bavaria occupies a landlocked 70,500 square kilometres of Germany’s south-eastern corner. Half its 13 million inhabitants live in or around Munich.

Bavaria, with 15% of Germany’s population, has recorded 29% of Germany’s C-19 deaths. It is the only significant Federation member reporting over the national average. Bavaria’s 1,926 deaths dwarf those of Berlin (pop 3.7 million) which has recorded a mere 154.

Five contiguous, integrated US states: New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, boast a combined population of 39.7 million. C-19 cases were reported there in early March; deaths followed two weeks later.

These five northeastern states’ C-19 death toll accounts for 59% of the US total despite these states comprising barely 12% of the US population. Their collective 39,353 C-19 death toll is greater than the toll from the rest of America combined and it exceeds that of any country other than the USA!

California (pop 39.9 million) has more contact with China than the US northeast. California’s C-19 death toll is 2,215.
Canada (pop 37.7 million) has listed 3,682 official C-19 fatalities.

Quebec (pop 8.5 million) has registered 2,205 C-19 deaths. Thus with 22% of Canada’s population, Quebec reports 60% of Canada’s C-19 fatalities.

Canada’s four western provinces (pop 12.1 million) have incurred only 221 C-19 fatalities. The east-coast provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick (combined pop: 1 million) have yet to mourn a C-19 death.

The Munich-Milan-Madrid-Manhattan-Montreal nexus generates C-19 death data starkly at odds with data from the rest of the world. Compare the deaths-per-million tallies of New York City (2,251), Milan (1,418) and Madrid (1,250) with the global average: 32.

From Tel Aviv to Seoul to Moscow major metropolitan areas with modern medical facilities, (and having undertaken extensive C-19 testing) are posting deaths-per-million counts in the 5 to 25 range.

The five profiled regions are laughable statistical outliers. Their data must be excluded from the larger set. Instruments giving completely out-of-whack readings typically get replaced.

Sources
How does mortality differ across countries?
Worldometer
WHO: Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports

May 5 2020

The Con Called The “New Normal” A Return To “Abnormal” 2.0


Democrat lawmakers working to take down America pretend to work, citizens in every state want to work

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 4, 2020

 
Alicia Cruz, center, of Elk Grove, Calif., takes part in a protest at the state Capitol on Friday. She said she was there to protect civil liberties, her children’s future and future livelihoods.(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

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There’s absolutely nothing at all “new” in the coming “New Normal” that Democrats and media are pushing on the masses currently held in lockdown during the ongoing coronavirus scare, because when all is said and done, society, in effect, will be returned to the same old abnormal world that preceded the virus.

It’s a return to a Democrat-created ‘Abnormal World’ where public school educators are getting away with confusing children about the genders with which they were born; where people will continue to lose their livelihoods just for using the pronouns ‘he’ and ‘she’.

The purveyors of the “New Normal” make their corrosive hatred of President Donald Trump their main reason for being

The so-called “New Normal” is a return to the Abnormal where millions of babies a year—some only seconds after their birth—are brutally aborted.

The purveyors of the “New Normal” make their corrosive hatred of President Donald Trump their main reason for being rather than serving the people who elected them.

All that they have proven during the pandemic is that they can bring the entire lifestyles of the little people they were elected to serve to a sudden standstill—the only surprise being wobbly conservatives like Ontario Premier Doug Ford into their battleground by driving millions of all of those considered “non-essential” into the despair of certain bankruptcy.

In explaining “Stage 4”  of “Normalization” as the end game and the goal of the New World Order, Canada Free Press columnist Cherie Zaslawsky wrote:

“This is the end game. This is the goal. This is the New World Order with its One World Government. Call it Worldwide Communism, Technocracy, Global Feudalism, or what you will, it is slavery and misery—for all but the psychopathic elites who engineered it.

“What is to be feared and resisted at all costs is this “normalization”

“What is to be feared and resisted at all costs is this “normalization.”

“Alarmingly, we’re already hearing the telltale phrase “new normal” bandied about by the talking heads in the corporate media. In fact, I’ve been receiving emails from corporations I’ve dealt with in the past: banks, airlines, etc., announcing the “new normal.” United Airlines began its email this way, “As we all adjust to this new normal….”. This “adjusting” should frighten us far more than an eensy weensy virus from which 99% of people easily recover. And ask yourself why a bizarre, overhyped, presumably unique occurrence of a flu epidemic that is sure to end, as all flu epidemics/pandemics always have, should suddenly, drastically and permanently change the way we live?”

Ms. Zaslawsky gleaned over 10,000 shares for her column ‘Beware the New Normal’.  People are waking up.

Some of the strategies of the “New Normal” purveyors have backfired.

The closing of churches has made the way for untold millions of at-home churches, whose attendees have now come to realize while it’s comforting to have churches in which to worship, Almighty God Who is Everywhere, hears prayers from EVERYWHERE.

Democrat lawmakers working to take down America pretend to work, citizens in every state want to work.

How many of the faithful will remember when churches finally reopen, how quickly bishops and ministers caved to the government order of shutting them down?

How many will now contribute to the collection baskets passed ‘round every Sunday?

The same Stay-At-Home orders that have turned once bustling small towns into ‘Sad Town Canada’ and ‘Sad Town America’ went on to highlight how pandemics bring out the worst of people in authority, all the way from Walmart cashiers shouting “Get back in line,  “I’m not ready to serve you yet” as they spray sanitizer on conveyor belts, to police showing up at protests in riot gear.

This weekend Sacramento sent police dressed in full riot gear out to face off people holding American flags and expressing their opinion peacefully, triggering former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to ask: “Does Newsom know there’s a Bill of Rights that he swore to uphold?”

The answer is Newsom knows, he just doesn’t care.

Aren’t all protests “raucous”, or just the ones the media does not agree with?

The main difference between Democrat lawmakers and Americans protesting to get back to work couldn’t possibly be more telling:

Democrat lawmakers working to take down America pretend to work, citizens in every state want to work.

Democrats, by and large, do not want people to work, they want them on government handouts, making them so much easier to control.

Some industries have soared during the pandemic.  Pornography has reached an all-time high, and courtesy of Barack and Michelle Obama over at Netflix, propaganda is being streamed out.

This is how the media reported on the Stay-at-Home protests:

“Raucous protests erupted around California this week as demonstrators demanded that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order be lifted.” (LA Times, May 2, 2020)

Aren’t all protests “raucous”, or just the ones the media does not agree with?

“What has been will be again, What has been done will be done again; There is nothing new under the sun”

The same media who give ANTIFA and other anarchist protests a pass, had this to say about the Stay-at-Home protests:

“Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the closed state Capitol building in Sacramento on Friday. Scores more circled the block, protesting from their cars.

“Horns blared. Cow bells rang. Nary a mask was in sight, though there was plenty of “Trump 2020” gear. Overhead a plane circled trailing a banner with Newsom’s photo and the words, “End His Tyranny.”

“In Southern California, more than 500 people crowded an intersection in Huntington Beach to protest beach closures and demand that stay-at-home orders be lifted. Similar demonstrations were held in downtown Los Angeles and in Hermosa Beach.”

As for the “New Normal” supposedly making its way to a small town near you?

Ecclesiastes 1:9:

“What has been will be again,
What has been done will be done again;
There is nothing new under the sun.”

 

May 5 2020

Control Has Always Been The Central Core of Tyranny


With the level of corruption that is now being exposed within our own government

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Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By  —— Bio and Archives—May 4, 2020

Control Has Always Been The Central Core of Tyranny

The rule of law—and our attendant US Constitution—has now been suspended by Democrat governors (in Maine the governor is dictating new laws supplanting our founding legal document) in multiple Democrat-run States and the process is increasing.  It’s almost as if they had merely been awaiting some crisis that they “would not put to waste.”

As the governors began to suck in more and more power almost immediately after the “COVID-19” flu was characterized by the Left as the “deadliest pandemic in our lifetime,” States were shut down from conducting any and all business that these gubernatorial potentates deemed “unessential.”  Citizens of these States (think Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer-D) are being told that driving to one’s vacation home, the purchase of gardening supplies and seeds for growing vegetables are not essential— but now walks back her ban on garden supplies and seeds.  But, keeping “essential” liquor stores open and lottery ticket sales are allowed.  And, to add insult to injury, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont-D is even strongly considering raising gas taxes in his State and mandatory monetary “give-backs” to his government from State employees.  Wouldn’t take-backs be a more appropriate term?  And, as these governors seem to be following instructions from the same playbook, doesn’t all of this seemed pre-planned?

These latest events are about who will control we-the-humans, my friends…as it has always been.

Hmmm.  Maybe it’s just my suspicious nature but…considering it seemed to happen almost overnight…doesn’t it seem as if these States were just waiting for the order to shut down?  Wasn’t it as if they had already been coached?

It was only a few years ago that many Americans were beginning to see the light at the end of their tunnel which turned into our nation becoming more prosperous and healthy than it had been—under the arguable “rule” of several New World Order leaders—for many years.  President Donald J. Trump had started a populist liberty movement in the USA designed to return the power of its government back to the people…and it was a concept that was spreading quickly to other countries.  But, the New World Order aka the Luciferian Left aka the Globalist Movement were not to be cowed or delayed or stopped just when they believed that their dominance over—and crushing of—the human spirit was at hand.

Therefore, something different pertaining to a ‘pandemic’ form of some new and twisted form of a ‘novel’ game theory needed to evolve and be brought forth.  At the very least it might slow things down, so that the globalist bands of brothers could regain their footing and destroy at least some of the gains for the humans on the planet that the Trump machine had begun.  Therefore, it appears that a program known as Event 201—supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the World Economic Forum—was born.  Based upon the premise that it was developed to help the world cope with some future unknown pandemic, it is also a detailed and very fine blueprint as to how to effectively bring one about.  The link is below.  Please read it at your leisure.  Oh and…by the way…Event 201 was not developed after this recent COVID-19 panic.  It was a fully developed plan well prior to joint meetings were hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2019.

Control has always been the central tenet of those who would enslave humanity for their own prurient and dark purposes.  In fact, until the USA was born, virtually every society and civilization on Earth was in some measure of bondage.  And, ever since the United States of America was created, one group of tyrants after another have tried to usurp our country for their own selfish purposes.  With the level of corruption that is now being exposed within our own government, this may well be the one that ends the noble experiment that has served us so well for so long.  Prepare to fight and fight long and hard if you want it to survive.  And, you/we may be required to give it all.

We have entered what may very well and very soon be the darkest days of human history.  And, if recent events are any indication, they are moving quickly to overtake us…and the rest of the world.  Be strong and be safe.  And may the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob be with you and guide you to Him.

“Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction”—2 Thessalonians 2: 1-3

May 5 2020

Food Shortages Set in Motion by Politicians


Armstrong Economics Blog/Economics

Re-Posted May 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

COMMENT:  Dear Martin,
it is amazing what your computer is picking in advance. In Germany we now have the French fries crisis. (Reported now by N-TV) Doe to the fact, that all restaurants are shut down, the Farmers cannot sell most of their potatoes. So we will see a lot of farmers get in financial troubles. Welcome to the beginning food crisis which Socrates is telling us.
Keep up the fantastic work
MG
TH

REPLY: Absolutely everything is connected. Governments always function linearly and never understand that cycle exists. I got along with Margaret Thatcher because she kept an open mind. This is her address from our World Economic Conference. Here, she admits that governments think in trend, but perhaps they should think in cycles.

Once you see that everything is connected, it becomes so easy to grasp the fact that a single decision will set off a chain reaction that becomes unstoppable. Because politicians think in a linear manner, they do not comprehend the basic principle from physics which allies to everything. Newton’s third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

They cannot shut down the economy in the manner that they have done, for the damage to the entire supply chain is tremendous. You already have brick & mortar stores filing for bankruptcy. This is having a profound economic impact that will not simply rebound. The damage will take two years to work its way through and only then will see fully grasp the complete damage this stupidity has caused. We will see food shortages because they have destroyed farmers who sold in bulk to distributors who supplied the restaurants. Retail food stores typically did not deal with farmers directly. That was a different supply chain.

We are cursed with politicians who take absurd actions without any understanding of even how everything functions.

 

May 5 2020

Fraud in New York Overstating COVID Deaths to Get More Money


Armstrong Economics Blog/Disease

Re-Posted May 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong
May 5 2020

WHY is Nobody Investigating Bill Gates?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Conspiracy

Re-Posted May 5, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

 

QUESTION: Marty; Do you think Gates can be stopped?

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ANSWER: I believe based upon his conduct, Bill Gates is such an elitist he lacks wisdom. He sees the world only through the lens of his climate change philosophy which was instilled in him by his father who obviously was a believer in Malthus. He is no scientist, knows nothing about economics no less history, and even admits that in his interview with the London FT. Politicians are attracted to money like bugs to pretty blue lights. They lack any comprehension of economics or history, so our fate has been handed to the most unqualified group of people probably in recorded history. That said, Gates will find his ideas of pressing the people to forge his new world order of ZERO CO2 will lead to massive violence. He may go down in history for killing more people than the ideas from Karl Marx.

I know so many people will hate what I am about to say, but here it goes anyway. Our greatest hope remains Donald Trump. Why? Make no mistake about it, Bill Gates meets would world leaders around the globe. They are impressed by his money and hope to hit him up. Money will not buy Trump and that is why he does not get along with Trump — he cannot be bought. What is interesting is that Gates has not met with Trump since he became president. He did meet with him at Trump Tower when he was president-elect. The meeting was claimed to have been about technology, but in fact, it was Gates trying to manipulate Trump into promoting his climate change agenda which failed. Ever since that meeting, Gates has been opposed to Trump and works to undermine him whenever possible.

Gates meets world leaders around the globe. He is there for only two possible reasons: (1) pitch his vaccine, and/or (2) offer political donations/favors.

Gates openly meets with many other world leaders who are willing to help him in his climate change/virus agenda. He was even given a residency in Estonia. He has met with just about every European leader including Portugal’s leader.

Bill Gates gives more money to the World Health Organization than every other government except the United States, which Trump has suspended and should TERMINATE.

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Exactly what is Gate’s agenda? He is not a medical doctor, an economist, and even admits he has no idea about economic history. He is not a scientist on climate, and he never wrote the program DOS that made Microsoft — he bought it for peanuts. He has basically shut down meat production but conveniently has investments in meat substitutes. In fact, Bill Gates and Leonardo DiCaprio joined forces, not just in climate change, but in promoting meat substitutes because cattle eat grass and emit CO2.

Gates has huge investments in vaccine companies. If he vaccinates the entire world and made just $1 from each person, that is $7.5 billion. This is a huge violation of the Securities Exchange Act as he has major conflicts of interests. If I did that without disclosing my conflicts, I would go to jail for 20 years.

Gates obviously has scared the hell out of people running around TV worldwide, advocating lockdowns, and then justifies his actions by saying people do not want to leave their homes. He has destroyed more jobs than any invader in history, has set in motion massive food shortages which may help his reduction in population for rebuilding a ZERO CO2 environment. He has no respect for democracy nor how he has destroyed people’s pensions.

You cannot vaccinate the entire world. The CDC’s data shows that the very best vaccines are only 60% effective. There will NEVER be 100% guarantees. Then the formula has to change every year. So this is something he intends to use to rule the world and sell his vaccines yearly. For what? Around $15 to $50 billion annually? Vaccines are NOT 100% safe and they are endless for every new virus mutation would require another vaccine.

God help us. Will some government PLEASE investigate? If he really believes what he is saying, how many people will starve and how many domestic violence cases will there be? How much sexual abuse against children will take place? He takes no responsibility for any of this. Then we have city and states who intend to raise property taxes more than 30% to compensate for their lost revenue already. What about more than 50 million people losing their jobs in the USA alone? Less than 1 million people were diagnosed with this virus. That does not warrant guaranteeing the world. Never in human history has that EVER been done! More than 30% of Americans will lose their homes who have mortgages. Does he care about any of this?

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The press asks nothing about all of this. Nothing! Just maybe they should stop hating Trump so damn much and look at someone who is impacting the entire world and changing everyone’s future.
May 5 2020

Why Lock-downs are Unconstitutional


Armstrong Economics Blog/Gov’t Incompetence

Re-Posted May 4, 2020 by Martin Armstrong

I believe Republican Governor of Massachusetts is unqualified for public office. He has no idea about the Constitution nor does he really seem to even care. The First Amendment is the Freedom of Religion and there is NO exception in there that allows for a lock-down anywhere including in the Commerce Clause. He imposed a law without justification that there cannot even be religious practices with gatherings of more than 10 people. The average age of people who have died in his state is 82. He licks the ground Bill Gates walks on and that is a very sad statement.

In Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s executive order of March 23 limiting most gatherings to 10 people which included what the order calls “faith-based” events. The also imposed a $300 fine for not wearing a mask. Baptist Pastor Casey first held an in-person service exceeding 10 people on Sunday, April 26. On that day, the church encouraged people to stay six feet apart, offered masks and gloves to attendees, and required that they pass a temperature check to enter. None of that was sufficient for the governor.

This is the entire problem with the way laws are carried out in the United States and I STRONGLYurge people to write to Congress and to the White House to demand change! Congress can actually pass a law that say you MUST kill your first born on Friday the 13th whenever that occurs first regardless of the month. Nobody has any right to stop that law UNLESS they try to enforce it. Then you have to have the money to hire lawyers and go all the way to the Supreme Court. You are looking at way over $1 million for that exercise.

This is all ass-backwards. There should be a Constitutional Court set up where any law they pass MUST go to court BEFORE they try to enforce it. The burden should not fall to the individual to have to prove government is violating the Constitution. Until that takes place, there will only be injustice for those in power know that they can do whatever they want to you and will NEVER be held accountable.

May 5 2020

Tom Cotton Discusses COVID-19 as a Pandemic Virus That Escaped a Laboratory in Communist Wuhan, China…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on May 4, 2020 by 

Senator Tom Cotton appears on Fox News to discuss the latest revelations that COVID-19 came out of a laboratory in Wuhan, China.  Martha MacCallum attempts to push the Beijing propaganda of wounded panda as a victim; Senator Cotton outlines the importance of accepting that China is a communist totalitarian state.

May 5 2020

White House Advisor Peter Navarro Discusses ‘America-First’ Manufacturing Realignment…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on May 4, 2020 by 

White House Manufacturing Policy Advisor and lead on execution of the Defense Production Act, Peter Navarro, appears on Fox News to discuss the ongoing initiatives to secure, produce and/or manufacture critical healthcare products in the U.S.

There are multiple reports in media today about the White House assembling a variety of new policies and regulations to go full wolverine on ‘America-First’.  USTR Lighthizer, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross are leading the effort.

Additionally, Navarro notes FEMA, HHS and DoD will soon have rules requiring USA manufactured purchases for their government contracts.

May 5 2020

Wall Street Multinationals Exploit Coronavirus Pandemic To Demand Tariff Removal…


Posted originally on The Conservative Tree House on May 4, 2020 by 

Wall Street’s U.S. multinationals moved the majority of U.S. apparel manufacturing to southeast Asia for the past several decades; as a result they virtually wiped out major apparel hubs in the United States.  Now those same multinationals are claiming their production shift to making masks and PPE in China means the tariffs on imports should be lifted; and they are sending their corporate lobbyists into DC to pitch that message.

Nonsense.

There are no tariffs on U.S. healthcare products made in the USA.  If the apparel industry wants to avoid tariffs, then bring the manufacturing back home.  Critical manufacturing in the United States is what U.S. consumers of those and other goods want.

President Trump should not lower tariffs on imported PPE, he should actually raise those tariffs as high as needed to shift that manufacturing back to the U.S.

The time is now to wage battle against the Wall Street manufacturers & K-St lobbyists.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is “turbocharging” an initiative to remove global industrial supply chains from China as it weighs new tariffs to punish Beijing for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, according to officials familiar with U.S. planning.

[…] “We’ve been working on [reducing the reliance of our supply chains in China] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative,” Keith Krach, undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the U.S. State Department told Reuters.

“I think it is essential to understand where the critical areas are and where critical bottlenecks exist,” Krach said, adding that the matter was key to U.S. security and one the government could announce new action on soon.

The U.S. Commerce Department, State and other agencies are looking for ways to push companies to move both sourcing and manufacturing out of China. Tax incentives and potential re-shoring subsidies are among measures being considered to spur changes, the current and former officials told Reuters.

“There is a whole of government push on this,” said one. Agencies are probing which manufacturing should be deemed “essential” and how to produce these goods outside of China.

[…]  “This moment is a perfect storm; the pandemic has crystallized all the worries that people have had about doing business with China,” said another senior U.S. official.

“All the money that people think they made by making deals with China before, now they’ve been eclipsed many fold by the economic damage” from the coronavirus, the official said.  (read more)

This is not only good policy, it’s good politics.  The vast majority of Americans now realize how important it is for critical manufacturing to return to the United States.

Considering the position of the new USMCA trade agreement, this is the perfect moment to put additional punitive pressure on China, increase tariffs on imported goods, and support an entire government approach to incentivize a resurgence in American manufacturing independence.