I know this is long and you're all trying to catch up on this epi(demi)c thread (pun overload), but I had to get some ideas out of my head and on 'paper'. You can take this as another 'article' of sorts.
So I've been thinking about what to do about all this stuff. This stupidemic is a 9/11-level event with potentially even more massive consequences, depending on how it unfolds. And how it unfolds depends a lot on how the 'normal' people will react. So far they've mostly bought into it, but many are starting to see the problems with the narrative, and the longer this continues, the more of the problems they will see.
The initial shock is what the PTB have going for them, and that's going to be wearing off. As the hysteria subsides, we can expect two things to happen. People will see the negative consequences of the lockdown (many already are), and they will be more open to looking at the whole situation more rationally. So the longer this madness continues, the more people will have an issue with it. After all, the pandemic is fake, and the lockdown consequences are real, and what people will experience in their daily lives is the real.
The masses that buy this nonsense are simple in their thinking and reactions, but that also means some things that will not be in the favour of the PTB. For example, you can only scare people with the same thing for so long until they get bored. A pandemic can't be shocking and scary forever, especially since the numbers of the infected and dead have to go down at some point. The PTB can fake the numbers, but then there will be real statistics showing no excessive deaths compared to previous years, so the room for faking is limited.
In a way, the more the PTB overshoot with their measures, the better. Because the obvious result will be that more people will realise that this is wrong. I think some of the things the talking heads have been talking about aren't really planned just yet. A part of the show is scaring people with really extreme measures, then introducing less extreme ones (which was the goal in the first place), and having people think "well at least they didn't do
those things" and accept the measures more easily. So they're trying to throw all kinds of things out there to see how far they can push. But scaring people with really extreme and stupid stuff might also shake some of them out of their slumber. In this sense, it may be good if the PTB
try to go too far.
The difference that I see between 9/11 and this is that most people had no chance to figure out what really happened back in 2001. It was too sudden and traumatic, too unclear, too chaotic, and evidence was easily being hidden. Here the evidence is in plain sight, and people are being hypnotised basically by claims that thousands are really millions. So once the shock wears off, it shouldn't be that hard to explain to them that thousands are really only thousands. And in 2001, the whole world wasn't ordered to stay home, and millions of people worldwide weren't losing jobs because of 9/11.
And I think another point is that 9/11 was mostly an American problem (that really had no observable consequences for me here, for example), while this is global, so there are that many more people available to push back. 9/11 affected mostly lives in the middle east and freedoms in the US. This pandemonium affects everyone, and the effects are only negative.
We know more or less what the PTB are trying to do and why, so the plan is fairly clear. What is not clear is whether it will work, or to what extent. And while this could potentially be much worse than the fallout of 9/11, I think it also has a far greater potential for backfiring. Unlike what happened on 9/11, what happened now is pretty simple.
The world was forcibly stopped because people are dying of an ordinary virus in ordinary numbers while we are being told that this is really bad, even though it's perfectly normal. Which, of course, doesn't make any sense.
So as I see it, our situation is something like this:
1. The fraud is easy to see. (We saw through this immediately.)
2. Many people aren't seeing it, though, so why?
3. The reason is a massive propaganda campaign and manipulation of numbers. (Though people's view of the numbers is being manipulated much more than the numbers themselves - there's no emergency even if the numbers were real.)
4. We want as many people as possible to see this is a fraud.
5. How can we make them see that?
And the last point is what I've been thinking about. Not so much because I decided to, but rather because it's just playing in my head and my mind keeps analysing it, and it probably won't stop until I write it down, so that's what I'm doing. So how to best convey the information we have so that people who don't get it start getting it?
Of course this is what we've been doing here all along, collecting and spreading information. But there are many layers or levels of that, and I'm focused on a more specific area. We've had just about anything we could on Sott, and that's great for Sotters, but most Sotters saw through this bullshit on their own anyway. I've seen very few comments on Sott that seemed even remotely fooled by the MSM narrative.
I'm more concerned with the people who
don't get it. Without them, it's just the usual small group of people that doesn't have sufficient impact to stop the elite's madness. As we've discussed in this thread, any proper awakening is not likely, but I think what's needed is fairly little.
People just need to understand that all this bullshit with staying home, keeping a distance, wearing masks, and suffering economic losses was completely unnecessary.
Once they get that much, they'll act on their own. There were protests everywhere last year, and that needs to come back, but people need to have a clue about what the real problems are. They need to fight this bullshit about the "new normal", because this new normal is their enslavement. There's nothing normal about that.
One significant factor that I see in deciding what to tell people is actually what
not to tell them. Because there are so many things that just switch people off (or trigger them?) and then you can't get through to them at all. We can easily lose track of what the typical person knows or believes. You have to realise that all of you reading this post and this thread are super-informed compared to most people. So you're sharing information that's totally obvious to you, but it's not to other people.
I can even see the difference between me and my brother. He reads the sessions and he reads Sott, but he has a much more normal life than me, three kids and all that. So while he understands everything he needs to understand, I'm still seeing some differences. He's exposed to the mainstream media, I am not. He's much more exposed to the general population. And he of course doesn't have time to read things like this thread. So when we compare news, he tells me some things he's heard that I know are bullshit or I see what exactly is distorted about them, and I tell him things that I find obvious that he wasn't aware off. Also his information is much more local while I don't look at my country any more than at all other countries. (Actually I usually know a lot more about global events than about anything that goes on in my little country.)
Now, my brother knows that I do a lot of research and that my information is pretty reliable even if he hasn't heard about any of it, but the point is that most people don't have the same attitude and can be much more disconnected from reality than we can even imagine. I remember when I started reading this thread, after the lockdown started (not enough time before that), I had a pretty good idea in general about what was going on and that it was nonsense and lies. But after just two days of reading this thread, I felt like I hadn't known anything before that. The difference was just huge. Not that I had anything particularly wrong before, but simply the level of awareness went off the charts rather quickly. And that was some 150 pages ago.
What I'm getting at is that if we try to talk to normal people on a similar level we talk to one another here, we may not even realise how far that is from their level of understanding. So getting through to them may be more about how much we
don't tell them than about how much we
do tell them.
For example, the moment you mention something like 'a push for mandatory vaccination', most people immediately switch to 'oh, a crazy anti-vaxxer' and then they don't listen to anything else you say. The issue for
us is whether there will be push for mandatory vaccination (well, we know there will, as always when they get a chance), but the issue for 'normal' people is whether mandatory vaccination is bad, which many of them think it isn't. So if you need to convey to them they're being enslaved on false premises and you mention mandatory vaccination, you fail to convey even the basic information about this lockdown being unnecessary, because once they put you in a certain category, all your information falls on deaf ears.
So I think when you post on social media for the ordinary people, the information needs to be kinda simplified and dumbed down and filtered so that they don't get triggered by some minor details into rejecting the whole thing. After all, we've seen plenty of examples of stupid reactions from FB posted here.
So I was trying to filter out what's really the essential information that's important, easy to prove, and non-controversial. I ended up with these three points:
1. COVID-19 is no worse than the flu.
2. People aren't dying any more than usual.
3. The lockdown does not 'save lives' like we've been told and isn't necessary at all.
The first two points are completely obvious even by looking at mainstream information with a clear head. The clear head is what people are lacking due to the media hysteria, but the facts are there. The two points are closely related, but I think separating them can simplify things if we focus on one at a time.
The third point is not that simple, but it's important, because "we have to do this to save lives" is an emotional argument that many people understandably fell for, and it needs to be dealt with delicately. If people feel like this is what it's about, then it's about care for other people and helping those who need it, and they need to understand that while that thought is good and right and important,
it's not what's actually happening.
I will break down the points one by one.
COVID-19 is no worse than the flu
This viruscare couldn't work with just the ordinary flu. We've always had the flu and never turned the world into Palestine because of it. So the media must convince people that COVID-19 is much more dangerous. Fortunately for us, this is clearly not the case. So people need to be repeatedly faced with the facts and statistics. Here are some points that can be presented either together or each on its own:
• There are still more deaths from flu this year than from COVID-19 (though the gap is closing), even if we believe the official numbers for COVID-19. Why isn't anyone worried about the flu? What's so special about COVID-19?
• The reporting of COVID-19 deaths is being distorted by counting anyone
with the virus as dying
from it, no matter what other diseases they had. This has been admitted by government officials, and doctors in the US are being instructed by the CDC to list COVID-19 as the cause of death even when it is only
assumed that it
contributed, and we see the same going on in many other countries. This inflates the case fatality rate many times. It is not standard practice. It doesn't happen with the flu. It's only done with COVID-19. Cancer + flu = death from cancer. Cancer + COVID-19 = death from COVID-19. Why?
• It has been reported than in Italy only 12 per cent of death certificates of people counted in the COVID-19 death statistics have shown a direct causality from coronavirus. [
link] This gives us some idea about how much the death rate is being inflated. The real death rate could be 8-10 times lower, which brings the CFR down in Italy to 1.2-1.6%, in the US to 0.3-0.4%, and in Germany to 0.2-0.25%. This is absolutely not a reason to lock down any country, much less almost all of them.
• Aside from inflating the death count, one thing we know for sure is that there are more cases of COVID-19 than just the confirmed ones from people who were tested. The CDC estimates that as much as 100 times more people have the flu every year than there are confirmed cases. That's a huge difference, and that's how the 0.1% CFR for the flu is calculated. The CFR for the flu from only
confirmed cases (like it's done for COVID-19) is actually 10%, according to CDC's own data. If it's 10% for the flu and 4% for COVID-19 globally, there's a good reason to believe the death rate for COVID-19 is actually lower than for the flu, and that's not even considering the 8-10 times increased death rate reporting for COVID-19. We can't be sure how many times more cases of COVID-19 there are compared to the confirmed number, but it's extremely likely to be
at least 2-3 times as much, and if the estimates are 100 times more for the flu, it's not unreasonable to expect it to be 10 times more for COVID-19, if not more. If that were the case, then we have a reported CFR of about 4% globally, which goes down to let's say 0.5% when considering how the counting of deaths is done, and that goes down to 0.05% if there are 10 times more infected than we know of. We don't know the exact numbers, but even 1% would definitely not be a reason for keeping everyone at home, and the reasonable estimate is that the real CFR is well under that 1%.
• As has been reported, the vast majority of people infected with COVID-19 experience mild or no symptoms. This shows that the virus isn't particularly dangerous or aggressive.
• As has been reported, 99% of the people who died in Italy had at least one underlying disease, 80% had at least two, and over 50% had three or more. Additionally, the average age of the deceased was over 80. These people would have died just as easily from the flu or any other infection, and most of them would have died soon even
without any infection. There are almost no young and healthy victims of COVID-19, so again, this virus isn't any more dangerous than the flu, and there is no reason for the extreme measures that have been taken.
• We also know of at least two reasons why Italy, and Northern Italy in particular, has been affected more than other countries. One, Italy has the second oldest population in the world, so more people are vulnerable to a virus infection, and two, Northern Italy has lower air quality than most places, which is a significant factor for a disease that involves difficulty breathing. This is also the case for Wuhan. There is no reason to expect the same numbers to manifest everywhere. (And we have seen that only a fragment of
these people actually died from COVID-19.)
• If you hear of a particular case of COVID-19 that sounds unusually bad, know that unusual cases also exist for the flu and everything else. There are always a few people who seem healthy and die from something that didn't look too deadly.
Summary:
People aren't dying any more than usual
The death rate of COVID-19 only seems high to people who have no idea about usual death rates.
• Even if we were to believe the numbers for COVID-19 deaths, these are still nothing special. Currently, 110,000 people have died with COVID-19 this year (though only a fragment of that died
from it). 136,000 people have died from the flu this year. We also have 470,000 deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, 275,000 deaths caused by malaria, 700,000 deaths caused by alcohol, 2,300,000 deaths caused by cancer, and 300,000 suicides, as of April 12. COVID-19, even if we were to believe the numbers we are getting, is nothing special. You can check these numbers at
Worldometer - real time world statistics
• People die every day. In fact, about 150,000-160,000 of them. COVID-19 hasn't globally killed that many in three months, even with the numbers being significantly inflated. All the deaths from COVID-19 so far are less that one day's worth of deaths on planet Earth. 27,000 people die only in China every day. That's some 1,125 every hour. So the 3,300 people who died with COVID-19 in China, that's how many people normally die in China in 3 hours. Is this a good enough reason to turn the whole planet into a police state with restricted movement and limited rights for all people?
• Long term statistics for total deaths in any particular region show that there are no more deaths this year than in previous years in any country. For the most affected countries, a rise in mortality can be seen for 2-3 particular weeks, but there are also other weeks when there were much fewer deaths than previous years, and when we look at a period of 2-3 months, there is no significant increase in deaths compared to previous years anywhere. You can check euromomo.eu for statistics for European countries. Comparisons with the Black Death are absurd. If the media weren't doing what they're doing, nobody would have noticed this 'pandemic'. (Also, if the media followed for example suicides the way they follow COVID-19, it could very well look like we're all about to commit suicide by the end of next month. Media focus completely distorts reality, since most people have incredibly poor awareness of things that are
not in the media.)
• Since Italy is constantly being shown as the worst case, we may look at the statistics there. It's been reported that 167,000 people died in Italy during January-March 2020. Is that a lot? What do statistics for previous years show? According to demo.istat.it, 186,000 people died in that same period in 2019, 185,000 in 2018, and 192,000 in 2017. So Italy needs 20,000 more deaths to compare to previous years. Again, euromomo.eu shows that while there's a clear uptick in a period of a few weeks, overall the death rate is comparable to previous years. Statistics from around the world show similar trends.
• It may also be noted that while we have death rates for COVID-19 that we never had before due to this particular virus being 'new', death rates for other diseases, especially ones similar in symptoms to COVID-19, appear to be unusually low in various places. This is unsurprising when people dying with for example pneumonia, who would normally be counted in the pneumonia statistics, are almost exclusively counted in COVID-19 statistics this year. Sadly, even people with heart-attacks are being counted in the COVID-19 statistics, which is illogical, only serves to increase fear, and distorts our understanding of the situation we're dealing with. There's no increase in overall deaths. There is only a shift in ascribing a portion of them to COVID-19, often quite illogically.
Summary:
The lockdown does not 'save lives' like we've been told and isn't necessary at all
We've been told that we must close schools and all non-essential businesses, stay at home, and avoid one another in order to 'save lives'. But is this really true? Does it make any sense? Are we saving any lives?
• People who are old and sick are dying during the lockdown anyway, so it doesn't seem like
they're being saved.
• People who are not old or sick are clearly in no more danger from COVID-19 than from the flu, so they don't need saving from anything.
• Countries like Sweden and Belarus show that without quarantine and without lockdown, their rates of infection and fatality rates aren't any different from other countries. This shows that the lockdown and quarantine are doing nothing to prevent the virus from spreading and nothing to save anybody's life.
• Measures introduced by governments vary from country to country, and according to many experts, aren't particularly helpful anyway. The 2m distance is completely arbitrary and does a lot more in terms of harassing people than protecting anybody. Wearing masks when people aren't trained in how to do it properly is not only pretty pointless, but can actually make things worse.
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The strategy taken isn't even aimed at 'saving lives'. It's aimed at slowing the virus down so that hospitals don't get overloaded. But we've seen that almost all hospitals everywhere have fewer patients than usual and less work. Most of the population will get infected sooner or later anyway - nobody who's even remotely honest is denying that. So the people who are weak enough to succumb to COVID-19 now, will be just as vulnerable later. Their lives are not being saved. Their deaths are just being slightly postponed at massive costs.
• Due to complete focus on COVID-19, patients with all other health problems are being relegated to lower priority, even though most hospitals are empty. This inevitably results in deaths due to lack of medical attention. So whether or not the lockdown is saving anyone, it is also killing people. It is also clear by now that many COVID-19 patients are being given the wrong treatment and die as a result of that. This is partly because doctors are being given guidelines to follow instead of using their own judgement, and the guidelines were written with incomplete understanding of what we're dealing with and pushed onto everyone.
• The lockdown has resulted in many deaths due to increased alcoholism, domestic violence, homicides by people who are losing their mind being locked at home, suicides of people who have lost their jobs or businesses, and so on. And this is only the beginning. It is unclear whether the lockdown is saving any lives at all, but it is clear it's taking many.
• We all know the economy will suffer massive damage. But people say, "Who cares about money? Lives are more important!" But the economy is not just about money. As has been written,
economies are actually made of real people. The quality of their lives will decrease in many ways, children will suffer, and people
will die because of this. Thinking that failing economy is only about money and not people's lives is like thinking that decreasing quality of roads is only about damage to cars and not people's lives. And while a virus is killing the old and sick, i.e. those who were at great risk of dying by any cause in the first place, the economic destruction will kill the young and healthy just as much as the old and sick. Why are people so convinced this is a trade we 'have to' make?
Summary:
Do not accept the 'new normal'
One extra point I would make is about this insidious 'new normal' crap.
OK, I think that's it. Rather than writing an article and preaching to the choir on Sott, I wanted to break things down to simple, easily understandable points that can be shared one at a time or a few together, whatever any opportunity calls for, with people who don't quite 'get it'. I have zero presence on social media, so this is for those of you here who do and who may not be able to put the things they feel into words as well as they would like, or just don't have the time to dedicate to that.
I tried to identify key points that I think we can focus on and make people understand without getting into anything too controversial. The summaries are supposed to provide a short text for each point that can be used when you don't expect the people you're talking to to read anything longer. You can modify any of this any way you want. These are just my ideas from my limited perspective and could certainly be improved and expanded upon. Particularly I think there's much more to point 3 than I was able to put together right now.
The bullet points may be useful on their own, or they may serve you as reminders of all the information that's available to you. Just do with this whatever you want. If you find that something I've written is not quite accurate, feel free to correct it and post it here for others.
Sorry to make this thread longer than it already is. I know well how hard it is to catch up with it every day. I can barely manage myself. Then again, this is kind of what we've all been waiting for. This is our war, and we all have out roles to play. Things are finally starting to get really interesting, so enjoy the madness.
www.independent.co.uk
(thinking of the sinking Titanic scene, after they didn't see IT soon enough) Doesn't look like we're gonna get advanced notice of that incoming comet cluster from the sky watchers. Enough advanced notice to get a bowl of popcorn popped would be nice.
