I have been thinking that we could perhaps in a small way make a positive contribution. The thought was partly inspired by hearing that Pornhub was giving free access to Italy, Spain and France as they are in quarantine. Being appalled how Pornhub uses the situation to distract people even more and dragging them even more into the lower, I came up with the following:

As many now have a lot more time on their hands as they are laid off, forced to work from home or in quarantine, then they have a lot of time on their hands. Why don't we put a permanent banner up on the Front page of Sott with links to key articles on Sott in different topics which have helped us a lot. I am thinking of:
  • Links to articles on psychopathy. 10+ years ago, that was a hot topic on Sott with articles about "The psychopaths who rule us". This subject is very topical I think and for people to understand how psychopaths think and act.
  • Tied to the above is of course articles on Political Ponerology.
  • Links to articles on Evolution. That could be the Behe articles and videos, the articles by Intellectomy, episodes from Mindmatters.
  • Key articles about finding meaning, growing up, taking responsibility. Links to Sott articles about Jordan Peterson comes to mind.
  • Links to Articles on Stoicism such as what the MindMatters crew have discussed and links to articles bringing hope like selected ones from the category "Science of the Spirit".
  • Links to articles on dying, the afterlife, in between life, Near Death Experiences etc.
This is just a few items that comes to mind. As I am currently at work until late tonight, I prefer to just throw the "ball" out there. This crisis might also be a little opportunity before the initial Shock that is currently happening in people get filled up with porn and the normalcy bias sets in. Some new people are asking and looking and whereas before they didn't have time to read, now suddenly there is a gap!

So much good work has been done over the years in the weekly broadcasts by the Sott team and by the various writers of Sott Focus or BOW, many of which have not been read or listened to by many due to time restraints. With a little ordering and prefacing perhaps these could be on permanent display.
As the C's said recently:

I think that in re-ordering a lot of the past material in the Sott treasure trove of articles, many quotes and extracts will also be found by Forumites, which can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, VK etc.

What do you think? A way to make lemonade from the lemons handed to us?

I like this!

I think it’s a super idea.
 
Added:
EUROPE December 2009: Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and others sign a petitition where they call the swine flu a "fake pandemic" —because the virus isn't very different from existing strains—and suggested that big pharma coaxed WHO into declaring a pandemic so that it could produce and sell vaccine. "WHO in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm-threshold"



Corona timeline


CHINA November, 2002: After its experience with the SARS outbreak in Guangdong Province in 2002, China implemented a rapid response protocol for infectious diseases. The protocol empowered the Health Ministry to assemble professional and managerial help from across the country, established an emergency response coordinating team, prepared funding and authorization for supplies, equipment and emergency health care facilities, anticipating that existing hospitals would be overwhelmed.

USA September 2008: Though the first cases of H1N1 swine flu were reported in California and Texas in late March, 2009, subsequent genetic analysis suggests that it began six months before it was first detected, in September, 2008, at the start of the ‘flu season. The CDC admits, below, that earlier Covid-19 cases went undetected, too

EUROPE December 2009: Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg and others sign a petitition where they call the swine flu a "fake pandemic" —because the virus isn't very different from existing strains—and suggested that big pharma coaxed WHO into declaring a pandemic so that it could produce and sell vaccine. "WHO in cooperation with some big pharmaceutical companies and their re-defined pandemics and lowered the alarm-threshold"

SIX YEAR GAP

USA JULY, 2015:
Patent application lodged for attenuated coronavirus by The Pirbright Institute (UK), application granted November 2018.

USA June, 2017: World Bank issues Pandemic Bonds for emergency pandemic financing and pandemic insurance.

USA May, 2018: The President Fires the entire US Pandemic Response Team and does not replace it.

USA November 2018: Patent application for attenuated coronavirus (see July 2015) granted.

USA April, 2019: An outbreak of severe vaping-associated lung illness is exclusively confined to the United States, despite the fact that the majority of vapers live outside the US.

USA July 3, 2019: The CDC halts research at Fort Detrick, citing “national security reasons” for not releasing information about its decision.

USA Jul 14, 2019: Chinese researcher escorted from infectious disease lab amid RCMP investigation. Public Health Agency of Canada describes it as a possible ‘policy breach,’ no risk to Canadian public. The first Chinese to discover or warn about the Covid-19 outbreak?

AUSTRALIA August, 2019: Australia Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza released.

USA August, 2019: First Vaping Death Reported by Health Officials “Amid the lack of information, investigators scrambled to find shared links to the respiratory problems. Officials said earlier this week that many patients, most of whom were adolescents or young adults, had described difficulty breathing, chest pain, vomiting and fatigue,” the precise symptoms of Covid-19 infection.

USA October 18, 2019: The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. Event 201 simulated an "outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic that leaves 65 million dead.

USA/CHINA October 27, 2019 At a peak of international tension and the ‘flu season in the northern hemisphere, on the eve of China’s biggest travel season, 300 American military servicemen visit Wuhan for the International Military Games.

USA December, 2019. A Chinese medical researcher is arrested in Boston trying to take biological samples back to China. Zheng Zaosong, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, confessed to taking material from a lab in Boston. FBI Special Agent Kara Spice found 21 wrapped vials containing a “brown liquid” that appeared to be “biological material” (samples of post-mortem lung tissue look like ‘brown liquid’). Zheng’s roommate, also a researcher, told FBI agents that two labmates of Zheng had succeeded in getting specimens to China. China, presumably, now went on high alert.

USA/CHINA December 2019: Chinese researchers in the USA informed China’s Health Ministry of a novel Coronavirus outbreak there, triggering a readiness alert nationwide. The WHO describes what happened next, “In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile, and aggressive disease containment effort in history…China’s bold approach to contain the rapid spread of this new respiratory pathogen has changed the course of a rapidly escalating and deadly epidemic.”

CHINA Dec 26, 2019: Jixian Zhang detects four anomalous pneumonia infections in Wuhan and reports them to the provincial CDC the next day. The provincial authorities immediately inform the national CDC which prepares to implement the pandemic response protocols.

GERMANY December 25-December 31, 2019: Charité (clinic in Berlin) starts developing test for the new Corona virus after first informal information reaches them. Later sends prototype to China, "unnamed colleagues" in China confirm that it works. WHO then publishes the test on its website as the first test. China develops own test, but demand is high elsewhere - even in Southeast Asia.

CHINA December 30, 2019: China’s national CDC notifies the WHO

CHINA December 31, 2019: WHO reports Zhang’s discovery to the world.


MALAYSIA January 5, 2020: Malaysia’s Assistant to the Prime Minister, Matthias Chang, speculates that the US is waging biological warfare on China.

USA Jan 6, 2020 Infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees, “We are on track to have a season like the 2017-2018 season,” when 80,000 Americans died of flu complications.

CHINA January 7, 2020: China identifies the virus as 2019-nCov and confirms it five days later. President Xi tells officials that the country is on a ‘war footing’

CHINA January 13, 2020: China makes the first 2019-nCov test kits available.

USA January 19, 2020:
A 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever. He disclosed that he had returned to Washington State on January 15 after traveling to visit family in Wuhan, China.
Apart from a history of hypertriglyceridemia, the patient was an otherwise healthy nonsmoker. On January 20, 2020, the CDC confirmed that the patient’s nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swabs tested positive for 2019-nCoV. By Jan. 30, the patient’s symptoms had resolved, according to a New England Journal of Medicine paper. Snohomish County officials allowed him to leave home isolation three weeks later.

CHINA January 25, 2020: Construction begins on a 1,000 bed intensive care hospital in Wuhan.

CHINA January 26, 2020: China extends Spring Festival holiday to contain the outbreak.

USA January 28, 2020: Harvard Chemistry Professor Arrested, Handcuffed, And Accused Of Lying About Ties To China. Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemical Biology, led a Chinese research group focusing on the use of nanotechnology to identify viruses.

CHINA February 5, 2020: First patients moved into new 1,000 bed intensive care hospital.

CHINA February 23, 2020. Chinese scientists found genomic evidence that the seafood market in Wuhan was not the source of the novel coronavirus. Their genetic data suggests the virus was introduced from elsewhere and had already circulated widely among humans in Wuhan before December 2019, probably beginning in mid- to late November.

CHINA February 27, 2020: On Taiwan TV a prominent virologist explained flow charts suggesting that the coronavirus originated in the US.

USA March 3, 2020: The Director General of the WHO announced: "While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease. Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected." This was patently false. The coronavirus mortality rate reported by the media as stated by Dr. Ghebreyesus is completely inaccurate as all subsequent numbers show.

CHINA March 4, 2020
: February rail freight loadings rise 4.5% YOY.

CHINA March 5, 2020: Shipments to foreign JIT customers upgraded: government subsidizes upgrades from sea to rail delivery and from rail to air delivery.

USA March 6, 2020: Question: How did the virus come to the United States? Answer:The first known patients in the U.S. contracted the virus while traveling in other countries or after exposure to someone who had been to China or one of the other affected areas. But now, a few cases here cannot be traced to these risk factors. This is concerning because it suggests the illness may be spreading across communities for which the source of infection is unknown, which we call community spread/transmission. Dr. Emily Landon, spokesperson, U Chicago School of Medicine.

USA March 9, 2020: HHS staffers often weren’t informed about coronavirus developments because they didn’t have adequate clearance. He said he was told that the matters were classified “because it had to do with China.”

USA March 11, 2020: White House classifies coronavirus deliberations. The meetings at HHS were held in a secure area called a “Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility,” or SCIF, usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. HHS has SCIFs because theoretically it would play a major role in biowarfare or chemical attacks.

CHINA March 10, 2020: Government organizes and subsidizes bus, rail and air transport for two hundred million migrant workers to return to urban jobs.

USA March 12, 2020: CDC director Robert Redfield admits to a House Oversight Committee that some Americans who were diagnosed as dying from influenza tested positive for Covid-19 posthumously.

USA Mar 13, 2020: Chinese FM’s Lijian Zhao demands US authorities reveal what they’re hiding about the origins of Covid-19. “When did patient zero begin in the US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be the US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make your data public! The US owes us an explanation!”

CHINA March 16, 2020: Ninety percent of businesses expected to resume full operations. All Apple stores open.

CHINA March 19, 2020: No new corona virus cases.

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Postscript: Researchers have greatly advanced their understanding of viral evolution since H1N1 a decade ago and finding patient zero is now more science than art. Recently, a team of Chinese researchers claimed to demonstrate that Covid-19 was born in September, 2019. The British researchers who had discovered the earlier H1N1 date are not convinced.
 
Just for the info: the official reason they are locking down countries is based on the idea that even though 80% or more of people who contract the virus won't have any problems with it, some won't even know they have it, we all need to be 'quarantined' to prevent those who do become infected (upwards of 40% supposedly) will not by chance infect the vulnerable elderly who would then become very sick and need to be hospitalized, thereby overwhelming the health care system and creating unnecessary deaths.

That said, there is the problem of why such measures are not taken for the seasonal flu which poses a very serious risk to vulnerable elderly people every year and therefore the same risk of overwhelming health care systems. In fact, the number of people who die from the common flu every winter season (the large majority of them elderly with serious health conditions) is at least 10 times the number of deaths from covid-19. So why have these deaths not caused the same health care crisis every year?

Any explanations?

Whatever the case, there is the unfortunate coincidence (I suppose) that hundreds of millions of people in Western nations are being conditioned to accept very draconian restrictions on their basic civil freedoms..."for the greater good". While that may not be intended, it is still the objective end result. And obviously, everyone with any sense should be disturbed by that.

The bolded bit, I say this to people, the response is the same, this is different. It spreads very fast etc. Experts on the news said so. Government wouldn't shut the country down for nothing it must serious. Blah blah

From the conspiracy theory files:

what if there is an effort underway to 'get rid of' the elderly under cover of trying to save them? After all, there has been much talk in recent years of the 'problem' of the increasing number of old people who are exerting a serious financial burden on the state. The yellow vest protests in France over the past year+ have been largely focused on French govt. attempts at 'pension reform' whereby people would be forced to keep working for longer, thereby alleviating some of this burden of the state having to pay pensions to more and more people who do not contribute to tax revenues.

I know it's a bit far out there, but just thought I throw it into the mix.

Not that far out, the thought had crossed my mind. Take home care for example, 445 million paid out to home care companies here last year for 53,000 people. 7500 people waiting for homecare it's not getting any better, health system in dire straits. Along with what you say about pensions. Probably not the plan from the start but the opportunity presented itself so let's use it to wipe out the useless eaters. What about addicts and homeless on the streets. Was thinking today they might get rid of them aswell. Lots of possibilities, time will tell which way things will go, anything is possible at this point..

Right back to reading the thread..
 
No panic attacks or any real agitating effects for me lately, but FWIW, this last couple of weeks, I've experienced quite a few synchronicities wrt clocks, checking the time and seeing different 'mirror hours' (18:18, 11:11 etc.). I don't usually pay attention to that sort of thing, but it became recurrent enough for me to pay attention. It's been less frequent these past few days, with only one occurrence yesterday. Could mean something, could mean nothing (an acquaintance told me a few months ago that he was seeing mirror hours all the time, which might have influenced me and prompted me to notice it more when it happens).

I see mirror hours every days, sometimes, several times a day... Not that I often look at the time FWIW.
As for panic attacks, as I said in the earlier pages of this thread, I felt at that time that something was wrong with this one (Coronavirus thing). Maybe I was feeling something behind it, but I was unable to detail what was struggling me at the time:

Frankly, I cannot explain why, and in a very unusual manner, I feel bad about this one. I have a weight on the chest for four days now, up and down depending on what I'm reading/writing/translating. This "mass hysteria" coming a few weeks after having translated the last Pierre's Focus, and my current reading might have some weight on my feelings. What I do feel is something coming from my guts, and I ever feel something like that before regarding the previous "pandemic" events in 2003, 2009 and 2012 for SARS in China and Saudi Arabia nor the Ebola in Africa. It's like something completely irrational.

For now, it's up and down, more or less. Despite that today, and compare to the previous comment posted on Jan 29, 2020, I DO know that I'm not afraid of virus, but that I am astounded, sad and angry about all this messed up globalized hysteria that is freaking out people all over the world (or at least for the parts of it that we know of), not to mention all the Power That Be which don't seem acting for our good as restrictions are blazing.

Today, I'm afraid that things are going to badly ending, in a way or another. And I can relate to those here who seem have agitations at night, as I have for several weeks, up and down. The last one: the last night: Not able to sleep before 4:00 am. And of course as we accumulate this (even if not every nights), we become more nervous as lack of sleeping, as we know, is a very bad thing to experiment in such turmoil. Take good care everyone.:flowers:

I went to the butcher today, and there was even less people outside than yesterday, despite the beautiful weather. Nobody is smiling, closed faces everywhere. :shock:

For now, I have to :scooter: from the message number #2,547 , because there are 11 pages of messages already shared from here that I have not read, yet. Maybe, one day, I will be not so late. :knitting:
 
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But rather than catch the depressing mind virus I was actually feeling the opposite. I found myself walking (kind of 80's dancing actually) down the pasta aisle with mostly empty shelves (the rest were full) as the store music played the 80s song 'I'm so excited'

Who would've thought that the Force Awakens... to the sound of the Pointer Sisters!? :lol:
 
Here's some math:

Found statistics from 2015: 57M people died that year out of say, around 7B is 0.8% of population.

0.8% of Bergamo's 122k is about a thousand people per year, or about 20 per week.
2.5 weeks into March, but that math, would be 50 people. I don't know if more people die or less on average in Bergamo per year than the rest of the world. I also don't know if more people die in March than a typical month in Bergamo. The thing to look at will be end-of-year statistics.
Checking the math using other figures (pretty sure I'm doing this right, so if I'm not, someone let me know!): Italy's annual death rate is 10.7/1000. Bergamo province's death rate is around 8.4/1000 (population 1,112,187). That's around 9342 deaths per year for the province, or 26/day. For Bergamo city, assuming the same death rate, that would be 1025 per year or 3 per day, 20 per week. So that matches your figure.

Eyeballing the sismg data (supposed to be representative for Italy overall), it looks like seasonal death fluctuates up and down around 15% either way on average (peaks in February, troughs around September/October). Bigger spikes happen, which average out to give the 15% curve. Looks like the biggest spike in the last few years was Feb 2017, around 60% higher than average. So, if those figures are representative, the average weekly death rate in Bergamo province probably fluctuates between around 154 to 210 per week, with spikes of up to 294/week during February/March. For Bergamo city, it would be 17-23/week, peaks of up to 32 on the worst week of the year.

So basically, without coronavirus, over 3 weeks (the time since people started dying of covid in Italy), Bergamo city would ordinarily expect to see around 70 people die of all causes - possibly up to 96 or more during a bad flu season. Using the ISTAT figures I quoted previously, total deaths from respiratory illness in Italy in 2017 were about 8% of total deaths. So of the 70 people who died in those hypothetical 3 weeks, around 6 would've died from any respiratory illness (including flu, pneumonia, asthma, etc.). There's guesswork in those figures (particularly trying to account for season shifts in death rates), but it should at least be in the ballpark if I didn't totally mess up one of the math steps.

They don't say it's total, they just say 93. I checked the news in my country and they say that it is 93 deaths for one day, and 533 in total.
I think that 533 might be for Bergamo province. I can't find a site keeping statistics for deaths per province (just by region), but several articles quote the 93 figure as the total figure so far.
 
I've begun growing food (these recent shortages kicked my butt into gear) but then I saw a C's comment after being asked whether we should move and store food and they said that was just 3D thinking. So should I keep doing this? (I don't plan on moving, just using the space that I have to produce food and I've also been storing some, without going nuts and hoarding).
I interpret that comment from C's as follows.

No need to panic about preserving a 3D existence. Instead build up strength that is of a higher order than 3D and it will come along. 3D stuff? Can't take it with you.
 
FWIW - We are collectively being tested on our Love/ Faith... These 2 qualities of nature are not just words, and anyone feeling it knows. Many of us are ready and willing to walk to their crosses knowing full well that all is well.
To me that is what the April drop dead quote means?! Even though many feel that their life's work is unfinished: But who are we to decide?
Interesting that the events of Christ's Passion were in April (or thereabouts?) At least now in the West it's celebrated in April. Is that when heroes will take up their crosses?
 
There's an easy remedy for that; they can just wear gloves. The hysteria knows no bounds?
Gloves protect the hands. if there is no open wound in the hand, the glove is useless unless you remove and replace them every time a new person hands you cash. Eventually an infected glove will touch the face.

But as they say, you will have to take the cash from my cold, dead hands ;-)
 
I have been experiencing something similar. Waking up in the night, with a feeling of dread, almost a suffocating feeling. And it is difficult to go back to sleep.
I do think it's part of change. If you've read enough of lives of saints from various traditions, there are descriptions of suffering that occurs along the way of the hero. It seems it has to be that way. Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, I recall that Gautama Buddha described feeling like his bones were breaking. Yogis, mystics, etc. experiencing all manner of ill effects. The stigmata of certain Catholic mystics.

When karma unwinds, it can hurt just as much on the way out as it did on the way in.
 
Isn't it almost what the German Dr said in this famous video ? Reposting it, it's good to have it "not so far" in the thread :

Look the number of views !!! 1 188 208 in 5 days !
I sent it to many people, including some re-information sites - we should have soon a french traduced version (I mean, I hope, from Kla TV, or they would speak about in one of their reportage)

I was also wondering : how youtube reacts vs such video ? do they hack the number of views to reduce it ? how do they position in this story ?

French SOTT team published an article about it just today, FWIW.
 
Regarding the timeline vs that lady astrologer's videos.




Interesting part starts at ~2:50

Also, in a later video she gave a wider picture of how 2020 was going to be like. I'm not into astrology at all but her readings kind of confirm my gut sensation that we have a cosmic factor affecting people's minds in disruptive manner right now, creating confusion, amplifying reactions and polarizing mindsets. (


Posting these 2 older videos as they came out months before the coronavirus affair came into public knowledge.
Thanks for posting this @lostinself
I was a disbeliever in horoscopes for a ling time. I guess it was because I was reading daily horoscopes in newspapers. Before that, as a teen and a bit later I was always attracted to astrology but I didnt took it that seriously.
But recently I found some incredible "readings" and it didnt take me a long time to add astrology to my perspective.

This lady you recommended seemed to have a good reading and feel for the pulse of our civilization and our planet so I subscribed.
And she uploaded this today and I would suggest it to everyone here, regardless of what they think about astrology. She offers some incredible insights based on Vedic astrology. In my opinion it is a MUST WATCH!

March 2020 Update: Shocking Events Coming

Her insights resonate very much with what is being said by the Cs, or atleast thats my humble impression. I certainly think she has a message that needs to be heard.

Regards

Agron
 
The pandemic reached the critical number today in my country. It's now a triple digit number - 103 people are infected so far. Our president says that this changes everything. 55 are in hospital, 6 in critical condition. We already had 400 respirators, and we bought 352 more. Our goal is to have 1000.

The strengthening of preventive measures is continuing. The border is completely blocked for all passengers. Nobody can come in or get out, except with special permit. Intercity traffic is stopped. The city traffic will function for now. In the next couple of days the curfew hours will be prolonged (for now it's 20-05h). People who came from other countries are monitored through their cell phones, but they can also be monitored in other ways, it's not disclosed how.
 
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