Coronavirus Pandemic: Apocalypse Now! Or exaggerated scare story?

[Javi]

Well, here is something I certainly wouldn't have thought Lavrov would say as the representative of the russian government, essentially praising the WHO and saying that it is bad to criticize them and that Trumps moves and statements against the WHO are "unfair" and so on. Either they play it very safe and just praise and go along with the WHO for strategic reasons or they really believe it or something else altogether is going on. By the way, today in the mainstream radio it was announced that the numbers in Russia are exploding right now.

He made those statements yesterday. I couldn't find a English source of what he said yet. Here is the only article I could find that talks about it in german (translated via DeepL):

I'm starting to think differently about this:
It's quite possible that the Russians are also aware that the virus can cause mutations in people that make them more likely to contradict and fight for their principles. In the end, even if they are not nefarious as PTB, they are also politicians, and as such may equally interpret this as a threat to them inside their country. In other words, just as the Western powers do not want "yellow jackets" on the streets, Lavrov will not want to see their opposition people in Russia out of control either. Let us remember that the virus would emphasize any tendency of the individual, whether negative or positive, to have beliefs based on truth or lies ...

Last night I went to sleep thinking about this matter, and while I was falling asleep, just that moment of transition before the dream, I had a kind of "revelation" that led me to assemble the following explanation (in fact now it is the one I see more plausible):

In that meditative state I launched the question of why Russia has taken this path. The word "fear" came to mind. Fear "of what" I asked myself again. Then it came to me as an answer "of biological attack", "cover". Ah yes, then the light came to me: there is a great risk that the coronavirus will be used as a cover for a biological attack. It would be the perfect false flag, all the Western media would report it as the fatality of the coronavirus, and even groups of fanatics would see it as "God's punishment for Russian evils".
If this is so, it is clear that Russia is not in the most "carefree" position of Sweden or Belarus, so they used the same WHO measures as a pretext to protect their own population from the possibility of a biological attack, at least while the world hysteria about the coronavirus is still going on.
In this scenario, the loose statements of some Russian military personnel, such as the one mentioned here many pages ago: Strategika 51Alerte: les équipes CBRN russes en Italie confirment une attaque biologique en cours qui n’est pas due au coronavirus
make a little more sense.

This is in addition to the explosive statement in the following video by a Russian military intelligence officer:

He implies that there is something more in the way of "biological warfare" behind the coronavirus, saying that it is not a pandemic, not even an epidemic. So perhaps in very concrete scenarios, such as Northern Italy, the PTB has played at exacerbating a theater of destruction and death (in a manner similar to the staging of the White Helmets in Syria or the terrorist attacks themselves in Europe) by using additional means to the coronavirus itself. Thus, maybe the Russians would have observed it in Italy when they sent their help, and were frightened ??.

 

[liam1310]

@Gaby was sent this from a friend on FB not sure if you have seen it yet.Copy pasted Most of it, full document attached below.

Sequential CQ / HCQ Research Papers and Reports
January to April 20, 2020
Executive Summary Interpretation of the Data In This Report
The HCQ-AZ combination, when started immediately after diagnosis, appears to be a safe and efficient treatment for COVID-19, with a mortality rate of 0.5%, in elderly patients. It avoids worsening and clears virus persistence and contagious infectivity in most cases.

February 18, 2020.
Jianjun Gao, Zhenxue Tian, Xu Yang Breakthrough: Chloroquine phosphate has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of COVID-19 associated pneumonia in clinical studies. BioScience Trends Advance Publication, DOI: 10.5582/bst.2020.0104
Thus far, results from more than 100 patients have demonstrated that chloroquine phosphate is superior to the control treatment in inhibiting the exacerbation of pneumonia, improving lung imaging findings, promoting a virus negative conversion, and shortening the disease course.
Severe adverse reactions to chloroquine phosphate were not noted in the aforementioned patients. Given these findings, a conference was held on February 15, 2020; participants including experts from government and regulatory authorities and organizers of clinical trials reached an agreement that chloroquine phosphate has potent activity against COVID-19.

27 February 2020
Philippe Colson , Jean-Marc Rolain , Jean-Christophe Lagier , Philippe Brouqui , Didier Raoult , Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as available weapons to fight COVID-19, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents Feb (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijantimicag.
2020.105932
following the very recent publication of results showing the in vitro activity of chloroquine against SARS-CoV-2, data have been reported on the efficacy of this drug in patients with SARS-CoV-2-related pneumonia (named COVID-19) at different levels of severity.
Following the in vitro results, 20 clinical studies were launched in several Chinese hospitals.
The first results obtained from more than 100 patients showed the superiority of chloroquine compared with treatment of the control group in terms of reduction of exacerbation of pneumonia, duration of symptoms and delay of viral clearance, all in the absence of severe side effects. This has led in China to include chloroquine in the recommendations regarding the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia.
Chinese teams showed that Chloroquine could reduce the length of hospital stay and improve the evolution of COVID-19 pneumonia, leading to recommend the administration of 500 mg of chloroquine twice a day in patients with mild, moderate and severe forms of COVID-19 pneumonia.

4 March 2929
Philippe Colson,a,b Jean-Marc Rolain,a,b Jean-Christophe Lagier,a,b Philippe Brouqui,a,b and Didier Raoult, Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as available weapons to fight COVID-19. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Mar 4 : 105932. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105932 [Epub ahead of print] PMCID: PMC7135139 IPMID: 32145363
A review of the safety and efficiency of CQ and HCQ reviewing more than 20 clinical studies in several Chinese hospitals.
Although only available in letter form, this data caused China to recommend Chloroquine in the National Guidelines for the Treatment of COVID-19.

9 March 2020
X.Yao, F/ Ye2, M. Zhang, C.Cui, R. Lu, H. Li, W. Tan, D. Liu. In Vitro Antiviral Activity and Projection of Optimized Dosing Design of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). 2020.. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 9. pii: ciaa237. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa237.
Hydroxychloroquine was found to be more potent than chloroquine at inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Hydroxychloroquine sulfate 400 mg given twice daily for 1 day, followed by 200 mg twice daily for 4 more days is recommended to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection.

9 March 2020
Expert Chinese consensus on Chloroquine Phosphate for New Coronavirus Pneumonia. Diagnosis and Treatment Plan. Chinese Journal of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. 2020, 43:
A Multicenter Collaboration Group was formed to guide and standardize the use of Chloroquine in Coronavirus pneumonia, standardizing Chloroquine treatment at 500mg 2x day for 10 days. Use of azithromycin was contraindicated.

20 March 2020
Gautret P, Lagier JC, Parola P, Hoang VT, Meddeb L, Mailhe M, Doudier B, Giordanengo V, Vieira VE, La Scola B, Rolain JM, Brouqui P, Raoult D. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Mar 20:105949. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105949.
Confirmed COVID-19 patients were included in a protocol from early March to March 16th, to receive 600mg of hydroxychloroquine daily and their viral load in nasopharyngeal swabs was tested daily in a hospital setting.
Untreated patients from another center were included as negative controls.
20 cases were treated in this study and showed a significant reduction of the viral levels at D6-post inclusion compared to controls, and much lower average carrying duration than reported of untreated patients in the literature. Azithromycin added to hydroxychloroquine was significantly more efficient for virus elimination.
Despite its small sample size our survey shows that hydroxychloroquine treatment is
significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID-19 patients and its effect is reinforced by azithromycin,

20 March 2020
Mount Sinai health system treatment guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Information | Mount Sinai - New York Last accessed on 20th March 2020.
Mount Sinai Heath System establishes protocols for dosing and treatment of COVID-19 patients using Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine.

27 March 2020
P. Gautret, J.C. Lagier, P. Parola, V.T. Hoang, T. Dupont, S. Honoré, A. Stein, M. Million, B. La Scola, P. Brouqui, Didier Raoul. Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin Treatment for COVID-19 Shown to be Effective in an 80-Patient Study
IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France March 27, 2020
In 80 patients receiving hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin we noted a clinical improvement in all but one 86 year-old patient who died, and one 74 year still in ICU. A rapid fall of nasopharyngeal viral load tested by qPCR was noted, with Virus cultures from patient respiratory samples turning negative in 97.5% patients at Day 5.
This allowed patients to rapidly be discharged from highly contagious wards with a mean length of stay of five days.

24 March 2020
Pagliano P, Piazza O, De Caro F, Ascione T, Filippelli A. Is Hydroxychloroquine a possible post-exposure prophylaxis drug to limit the transmission to health care workers exposed to COVID19? Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Mar 24. Is Hydroxychloroquine a possible post-exposure prophylaxis drug to limit the transmission to health care workers exposed to COVID19? - PubMed - NCBI
PMID: 32211764 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa320
Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine are able to inhibit replication at early stages of viral
infection. No similar effect on early phases of Coronavirus infection has been reported for other drugs proposed for SARS-CoV-2 treatment, which are able to interfere only after cell infection.
We believe that hydroxychloroquine can be effective in preventing respiratory tract invasion in HCW and that hydroxychloroquine administration as prophylactic agent could be particularly useful for HCW attending to high risk procedures on respiratory tract in COVID-19 patients.
Hydroxychloroquine effectiveness profile, its ability to inhibit lung viral replication for a 10-day period after only a 5- day cycle of therapy, and the large amounts of knowledge in term of safety deriving from its use for malaria prophylaxis and rheumatologic diseases permit to recommend its pre-exposure or post-exposure use for those performing procedures at high risk of viral diffusion in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.


26 March 2020
A.K. Singh,, A. Singh, A. Shaikh, R. Singh, and A. Misra. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 with or without diabetes: A systematic search and a narrative review with a special reference to India and other developing countries. Diabetes Metab Syndr. Published online 2020 Mar26. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.03.011
PMCID: PMC7102587 PMID: 32247211
A systematic review of Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19


7 April 2020
Belgium Task Force Interim clinical guidelines for patients suspected of / confirmed with COVID-19 infection.
https://epidemio.wivisp.be/ID/Documents/Covid19/COVID19_InterimGuidelines_Treatment_ENG.pdf
Based on pharmacokinetic simulations, the recommended dosing of hydroxychloroquine sulphate is 400mg BID on day 1, followed by 200mg BID on day 2-5.
Because of the long elimination half-life of the drug (32–50 days), the duration of treatment should not exceed 5 days to avoid accumulation of hydroxychloroquine concentrations in plasma and tissues, and associated increased risk of toxicity, and because there is no in vitro evidence that longer courses improve drug activity on SARS-CoV-2.

10 April 2020
Zhaowei Chen, VJijia Hu, Zongwei Zhang, Shan Jiang, Shoumeng Han, Dandan Yan, Ruhong Zhuang, Ben Hu, Zhan Zhang Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial doi:Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial
Evidence regarding the in-vivo use of Hydroxychloroquine is limited. In COVID-19 infection. This study evaluated the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the treatment of patients with COVID-19. From February 4 to February 28, 2020, 62 patients suffering from COVID-19 were diagnosed and admitted to Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. All participants were randomized in a parallel-group trial, 31 patients were assigned to receive an additional 5-day HCQ (400 mg/d) treatment, Time to clinical recovery (TTCR), clinical characteristics, and radiological results were assessed at baseline and 5 days after treatment to evaluate the effect of HCQ.
For the 62 COVID-19 patients, 46.8% (29 of 62) were male and 53.2% (33 of 62) were female, the mean age was 44.7 (15.3) years. No difference in the age and sex distribution between the control group and the HCQ group. But for TTCR, the body temperature recovery time and the cough remission time were significantly shortened in the HCQ treatment group. Besides, a larger proportion of patients with improved pneumonia in the HCQ treatment group (80.6%, 25 of 31) compared with the control group (54.8%, 17 of 31). Notably, all 4 patients progressed to severe illness that occurred in the control group. However, there were 2 patients with mild adverse reactions in the HCQ treatment group. Significance: Among patients with COVID-19, the use of HCQ could significantly shorten TTCR and promote the absorption of pneumonia.
Clinical Trial ChiCTR2000029559

12 April 2020
Raoult, D. Cohort of 1061 COVID-18 cases treated with HCQ-AZ Combination with 9 day follow-up. IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille. Professor Didier Raoult Releases the Results of a New Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Study on 1061 Patients – COVEXIT.com
A cohort of 1061 COVID-19 patients, treated for at least 3 days with the HCQ-AZ combination and a follow-up of at least 9 days was investigated. Endpoints were death, worsening and viral shedding persistence. From March 3rd to April 9th, 2020, 59,655 specimens from 38,617 patients were tested for COVID-19 by PCR. Of the 3,165 positive patients placed in the care of our institute, 1061 previously unpublished patients met the inclusion criteria for a Hydroxychloroquine –Azithromycin trial.
Mean age was 43.6 years old and 492 were male (46.4%), As in other studies, no cardiac toxicity was observed in this study.
• A good clinical outcome and virological cure was obtained in 973 patients out of a total pf 1061 patients within 10 days (91.7%).
• Mortality was significantly lower in patients who had received > 3 days of HCQ-AZ than in patients treated with other regimens both at IHU and in all Marseille public hospitals (p< 10-2).
A poor outcome was observed for 46 patients (4.3%); -10 were transferred to intensive care units, 5 patients died (0.47%) (74-95 years old), 31 required 10 days of hospitalization or more.
Among this group, 25 patients are now cured and 16 are still hospitalized (98% of patients cured so far).
Table 1. Baseline characteristics according to clinical and virological outcome of 1061 patients treated with HCQ + AZ ≥ 3 days at IHU Méditerranée infection Marseille, France with Day 0 between March 3 and March 31, 2020

13 April 2020
J. Gao, Hu, S., Update on use of Hydroxychloroquine to TREAT coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Increasing evidence from completed clinical studies indicates the prospects for the treatment of COVID-19 by Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine (indications Hydroxychloroquine is more effective).
• Chloroquine has indicated its efficacy in mild and moderate COVID-19 cases.
• Chloroquine is superior to Lopinavir/ritonavir in improving COVID-19 lung lesions.
• Chloroquine has demonstrated significant efficacy in returning body temperature to normal.
• Hydroxychloroquine seems more effective than Chloroquine in a French study on reducing the amount of virus in the body.
• Hydroxychloroquine helps reduce the duration of cough, reduce the amount of virus in the body and improve negative lung lesions on X-ray.
• We have already commented on the single paper involving 15 patients subjected simultaneously to Interferon-Alpha, arbidol, and lopinavir/ritonavir in the control group.
In general, completed clinical studies have yielded promising results regarding the safety and effectiveness of Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine in the TREATMENT of COVID-19


Summary of Bibliography Review
Dependent upon a successful peer review of the data presented in 1,061 COVID-19 patients, treated for at least 3 days with the HCQ-AZ combination in the French Abstract released 12 April 2020, by D. Raoult of the IHU Méditerranée Infection and a successful review of the 10 April 2020 paper by Zhaowei Chen et.al, ……
………….the use of HCQ-AZ combination when started immediately after diagnosis, appears to be a safe an efficient treatment for COVID-19. It appears to halt respiratory disease progression and length of hospital stay in many cases.
Within the context of an expanding COVID-19 pandemic, it is reasonable to propose the EARLY use of Hydroxychloroquine in attempt to reduce the number of COVID patient hospitalization days, and hence provide an increased rate of patient turnover and a more efficient use of limited hospital ventilators.
The finding in the gross data study done on 10 April 2020 showing a slightly prolonged Average Length of Hospital Stay (ALOS) in the population group given HCQ/CQ/Azithromycin, requires further investigation. Azithromycin can show the same cardiac conduction effects as Chloroquine in humans, but there has not been a widespread aversion to its being prescribed. Some 4,000 individuals have now been given what are considered to be COVID doses of Hydroxychloroquine, and not one cardiac conduction problem has been noted.

Opinion
Historical controls are used in many previous studies in medicine. In this respect, the safety of Hydroxychloroquine is well documented. When the safe use of this drug is projected against its apparent effect of decreasing the progression of early cases to ventilator use, it is difficult to understand the reluctance of the authorities in charge of U.S. pandemic management to recommend its use in early COVID-19 cases. The effects of the chloroquines were first outlined 15 years ago by the CDC’s own Special Pathogens Unit.

 

[Laurs]

Now Sweden has officially done a good job with no lockdown. So why was a lockdown anywhere necessary?

Do you have a link?

This may also be construed as a link:
'WHO Hails Lockdown-Free Sweden as 'Model' for 'New Normal' Despite Gloomy COVID-19 Predictions'

'In the words of WHO leading emergencies expert Dr Mike Ryan, there are “lessons to be learned” from the Scandinavian nation, whose model largely rests on mutual confidence between the authorities and citizens.

“What Sweden has done differently is it has very much relied on its relationship with its citizenry and the ability and willingness of its citizens to implement self-distancing and self-regulate”, Ryan said, as quoted by national broadcaster SVT. “In that sense, they have implemented public policy through that partnership with the population”.
Ryan went on to dispel what he described as a misconception that Sweden “refrained from control measures” and “allowed the disease to spread”. According to Ryan, Sweden “put in place a very strong public policy around social distancing, around caring and protecting people in long-term care facilities”.

WHO Hails Lockdown-Free Sweden as 'Model' for 'New Normal' Despite Gloomy COVID-19 Predictions

While Sweden utilised no lockdowns in its battle against the coronavirus and has already seen more fatalities than its Nordic peers combined, a professor has predicted that the death toll could reach 20,000.

sputniknews.com

 

[Agron]

A message to all the SHEEPLE

 

[Agron]

I don't know if it's related, but I've noticed that the weather predictions in the last month or so have been erring more than before. For the most part, I've noticed that in the '10 days ahead' predictions they have estimated much warmer temperatures than what has manifested. Has anyone else noticed anything similar?

I have noticed that MSM weather predictions are basically propaganda almost two years ago. And I even suspect that weather organisations are heavily manipulated so that we can transition to the smart crap much easier. City sheeple will want 100 more weather satellites just so that they know what to wear outside.

 

[aragorn]

Amazing Polly with a new amazing video. I think that she actually is quite amazing with the research and 'dot connecting' she does. Let's hope she doesn't turn out to be controlled opposition! Doesn't look like it, but we've learned our lessons.

 

[LongCloud]

"Programming is complete."

There's going to be many collapses, and it's going to bring HUGE blowback. The CIA has had their skirmishes, and seen this almost every time.

That the World "governments" led by politicians (NOT Leaders, except for a few) complied lock step with a directive, is a massive "let's try" in the CIA model.

Blowback is going to be ugly for them. Not so much for people, despite the (temporary) hardship.

 

[liam1310]

This study was linked in the document I posted...Same as tobacco how it reacts with ACE2 receptor. Full document attached below. Scanning through this caught my eye. Don't think this has been mentioned searched the thread using chloroquine ACE2, no results.

From the document
"Previous experimental studies have also demonstrated that chloroquine has potent anti-SARS-CoV-1 effects in vitro, primarily attributable to a deficit in the glycosylation receptors at the virus cell surface, so that it cannot bind to the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) expressed in lung, heart, kidney and intestine. Since SARS-CoV-2 utilizes the similar surface receptor ACE2, it is believed that chloroquine can also interfere with ACE2 receptor glycosylation thus prevents SARS-CoV-2 attachment to the target cells [[6], [7], [8], [9]]. Chinese researchers who studied the effect of chloroquine in vitro (using Vero E6 cell line infected by SARS-CoV-2) found chloroquine to be highly effective in reducing viral replication that can be easily achievable with standard dosing due to its favorable penetration in tissues including the lung[6,10].:

 

[LongCloud]

Amazing Polly with a new amazing video. I think that she actually is quite amazing with the research and 'dot connecting' she does. Let's hope she doesn't turn out to be controlled opposition! Doesn't look like it, but we've learned our lessons.

NY 'Snitch Line' Scrapped After It's Bombarded with Penis Pics, Hitler Memes

 

[cassandra]

I know how you feel. Wrath is also one of my sins. Something that's been much easier to work on lately. I can just recommend some of the stuff that helped me put things into perspective. Try to remind yourself why you are here, why you are doing the work. Re-read all of the important references to petty tyrants and the way of the warrior from Castaneda. Re-read the Wave, with a special focus on the STS/STO dynamic. It seems to me that having negative emotions in relation to what's happening is decidedly STS. As Don Juan said, if the warrior doesn't have a petty tyrant in his life, he must go and seek one out. Well, happy times then, aren't they? We have an overabundance of those, and they are getting ever more powerful. As he says, the best petty tyrants are the ones with authority. This is the perfect time to work on one's self-importance and to put all of the attributes of the warrior into practice. It's a great time to be in the Work.

For me wrath can also be a problem. I think acceptance of the situation was, for me anyway, key to stop the energy draining. My daughter's school kept sending emails on when they would reopen the school, but would then retract and delay again. I have now accepted the fact that she will not be returning. It's her last year. I would also keep seeing a glimmer of hope that our society must surely see sense at last, but had only set myself up for another drain. I was in denial, angry and shocked.

However, in the last couple of days I have begun to accept the grim reality. We're in Wrong Town and there's no turning back, but my energy has returned, so has a warm, loving spirit, which I can share where it is needed and wanted.
I hope I will continue to accept, not expect anymore.

 

[loreta]

This is absolutely correct. I know I've been feeling that in my life ... a much stronger impetus to push through, a strengthening of the will, a resonance with the stoic advice to accept what comes, for it is the will of nature.

That said....



This is what I struggle with more than anything. Besides sloth, my personal sin is wrath. It's incredibly difficult for me to not get frustrated, and therefore angry at the petty impositions upon and disruptions to my personal life ... and when I look out at all the suffering that this is causing, my sorrow quickly turns to rage.

There's a bit of anxiety, for sure. But really for me it's the anger. And this is not productive. It accomplishes nothing to be angry at the psychopaths causing this, or the AFs and OPs happily going along with it ... as well be angry at crocodiles for being crocodiles.

This was a really important reminder, @Revolucionar. Thank you.

Be creative! Write, paint, draw, read. It is important to be creative in these times. Without creativity we become like zombies, enraged and frustrated. These times are very hard. Desperation, solitude, this breath that sometimes is not there, the only way is creation. Artists created from their difficulties. It is a good way to save ourselves of this nightmare. Transform this anxiety and anger in a poem, a short story, a painting. Forget from a while of the anger reading a good book, that is like to be with a good friend. Anger needs to be express and needs to be care of. My anger sometimes is so strong! When anger and sadness are too present I open a book, a master piece I mean, that is art to confort like two arms around us.

 

[Ruth]

He thinks the mandatory vaccinations - and the refusal of those vaccinations by a significant part of the population, and their consequent excommunication from civil society - is going to lead to the development of parallel societies. On the one hand, the chipped and tracked; on the other hand, free humanity.

It's weird how much this this mirrors "The Matrix".

I'm getting mighty fed up with all the nonsense in this sad excuse for a civilization, and am getting to the point of "Imma take my toys and go play a better game with friends who are more fun to be around."

One has to be 'strategic' about this, as well as very careful. If they see you as a 'threat', they tend to retaliate. But, people can get away with a lot, if they're not seen as a 'threat'. Plenty of room to move there, as well as help other people.

 

[Ruth]

So this is our test of faith.

Actually, I think it is a test of more than that. For all of us, but I'm not sure how much. Or, of what. It's pretty scary!

 

[Javi]

Last night I went to sleep thinking about this matter, and while I was falling asleep, just that moment of transition before the dream, I had a kind of "revelation" that led me to assemble the following explanation (in fact now it is the one I see more plausible):

In that meditative state I launched the question of why Russia has taken this path. The word "fear" came to mind. Fear "of what" I asked myself again. Then it came to me as an answer "of biological attack", "cover". Ah yes, then the light came to me: there is a great risk that the coronavirus will be used as a cover for a biological attack. It would be the perfect false flag, all the Western media would report it as the fatality of the coronavirus, and even groups of fanatics would see it as "God's punishment for Russian evils".
If this is so, it is clear that Russia is not in the most "carefree" position of Sweden or Belarus, so they used the same WHO measures as a pretext to protect their own population from the possibility of a biological attack, at least while the world hysteria about the coronavirus is still going on.
In this scenario, the loose statements of some Russian military personnel, such as the one mentioned here many pages ago: Strategika 51Alerte: les équipes CBRN russes en Italie confirment une attaque biologique en cours qui n’est pas due au coronavirus
make a little more sense.

This is in addition to the explosive statement in the following video by a Russian military intelligence officer:

He implies that there is something more in the way of "biological warfare" behind the coronavirus, saying that it is not a pandemic, not even an epidemic. So perhaps in very concrete scenarios, such as Northern Italy, the PTB has played at exacerbating a theater of destruction and death (in a manner similar to the staging of the White Helmets in Syria or the terrorist attacks themselves in Europe) by using additional means to the coronavirus itself. Thus, maybe the Russians would have observed it in Italy when they sent their help, and were frightened ??.

if we add to this the concern we already know from Russia regarding all the biological laboratories that the U.S. has sponsored in former Soviet republics around Russia (news of 2018)

Russia claims US running secret bio weapons lab in Georgia

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry said Thursday that the United States appeared to be running a clandestine biological weapons lab in the country of Georgia, allegedly flouting international conventions and posing a direct security threat to Russia — allegations the Pentagon angrily rejected.

apnews.com

and the fears reborn by the crisis of covid-1984 in that direction

How karma works: is it possible that COVID-19 is a successful project of the USA?

According to the WHO report on the spread of the new coronavirus pneumonia, as of March 30, 2020, 717 992 infection cases were confirmed worldwide, 150 914 patients recovered, 33 883 cases were fatal. Western European countries such as Italy, Spain and Germany have become main epicenters of the...

en.news-front.info

one can easily realize that Russian leaders may be feeling "chills" today. This leads them to apply the rules of distancing from covid-1984 as if it were a real pandemic, under the fear that it could end up becoming a nightmare for them as a perfect cover for biological attack.

 

[latulipenoire]

Context:
Here in São Paulo, Brazil, the biggest state and the economic center of the country, with just over 45 million people, the alleged pandemic is beginning its "harshest moment", according to the state governor, João "worker" Dória. Supposedly, over 200 people are dying each day, while many others require all of the medical resources available of the richest city (and one of the most unequal in the world) in Latin America.

Little story:
I went to my daughter's school yesterday to get her books because the schools (and the parks, libraries, stores, groceries, etc) are going to be closed until our local politicians decide that we the sheeple are really complying with the social distance stuff, because, you see, the last time they checked they noticed that we are short of the 50% goal of social distance.

I had to wear a mask. First time. The school sent an e-mail "asking" all the parents to do so. I didn't want to cause trouble, so I wore one. Terrible experience, I felt short of breath all the time, emotionally isolated from the others. Adding the fact that we at home are so tired of having to work more and also having to take care of our daughter 24/7 (my parents are scared of all this and really believe that they have to be isolated, her parents live too far), I just wanted to get done with that the fastest. It gave me the chills seeing the huge school without any sound, any children playing.

So when I went back home I was feeling quite depressed. On my way, all stores closed, except the market and the drugstore. Then I passed in front of the hairdresser I use to go to. There he was, without a mask, smoking a cigarette, just in front of the shop with the door closed behind him. I felt such a relief, god, people can smoke in the streets yet, without a mask, for the last 30 minutes I thought there was no hope. And now I'm asking for a hair cut, with my voice down, in case someone hears. You know, he's not supposed to work during this crisis. It's not essential. He laughs and tells me that it's okay, he will do it. I felt elated after that, if I had won a lottery ticket.

More context:

Our governor starts his day swearing and provoking our president Jair Messias Bolsonaro. He tells the media that Bolsonaro was stupid and callous, when he said that this whole pandemic was just a "little flu". People are dying, Mr. President, just come over here or go to Manaus (where corpses are being hoarded in containers for lack of space in morgues, the media repeats ad nauseam) to see your beloved subjects suffering and dying, all because of you being such a despicable character not parroting the usual and correct line of "Stay Home. Save lives".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Bolsonaro (the tropical Trump) fan. But the way the media and the majority of the governors are bashing him all the time is really suspect. They are already giving him for dead. If it were not for the confinement, he'd be impeached now. Or so they say.

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