ISOLATING 70 YEAR OLDS IS FOR THEIR OWN GOOD, SAYS BRITISH HEALTH SECRETARY, MATT HANCOCK

Though I think that Jimmy Dore is terrific on exposing political hypocrisies, his explanation of how the Federal Reserve creates money seems confused.  Here he and his comedic staff cite MMT, Modern Monetary Theory as the process by which the Fed is creating money.  

Next, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci, sounds like a psychopath, someone who wants to use government fiat to halt human activity across a country 325 million in size.  He wants to mandate that everybody stay home.  First, if people are inside for hours and days they're not getting enough vitamin D that would protect them against viruses.  So off the bat, the head of the NIAI is offering extremely poor health advice, and Trump should fire him immediately.  Second, what right does the government have to tell property owners that they cannot operate their businesses, property that has previously been used in generating their livelihood?  Fauci is an absolute nut.  

Robert Wenzel reviews Fauci's comments on Meet the Press and other Sunday morning news programs.  

 Murray Rothbard regularly pointed out that wars enable governments to get more authoritarian.

He often quoted Randolph Bourne's observation that "war is the health of the state."

But don't think for a minute that bloody wars overseas are the only way states can grow rapidly. We are learning this first hand with the panic over COVID-19.

I have no doubt that this fear will result in legislation that puts more control in the hands of the state. Shady legislation is already starting to move.

Almost any kind of legislation can be passed in this atmosphere of panic.

And if there is one thing that is clear about Trump, it is that he is terrible at picking advisers. The White House is filled with neocon warmongers but his worst adviser may be the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Anthony Fauci.

Trump should have fired the bastard the day he took office. Instead, he has now made Fauci part of the coronavirus task force and praises Fauci publicly.

I can't think of anyone in the administration that is stoking more fear with the general public. Without any foundation, he has testified before congress that COVID-19 has a mortality rate of 10 times the flu. There is no factual basis for this, it is complete fearmongering. 

Fauci is, in effect, lying to Americans. 

He never ever puts things in perspective. He always heightens the panic. And he had plenty of opportunities this morning to do just that and he took full advantage. This morning he went on all the Sunday talk shows and cranked up the fear on each show.

He told "Face the Nation": 

      Right now, personally, myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant. 

Only to get more sadistic on CNN:

             For a while, life is not going to be the way it used to be in the United States. We have to just accept that if we want to do what’s best for the American public.

 And then on CNN pretty close to an outright lie, outside of some extreme outlier:

             There are going to be people who are young who are going to wind up getting seriously ill. 

Then more fearmongering on "Meet The Press":

             I think Americans should be prepared that they are going to have to hunker down significantly more than we as a country are doing.

I mean take a look at what this guy said, he pretty much said he would be in favor of a 14 day shut down of the entire country. The "Meet The Press" transcript:

Notice he didn't push back against the 14-day national shutdown, he went as far as he could in spewing panic that he thought he could get away with.

I really think he is mentally ill.

SurgeonGeneral Jerome Adams almost sounds rational compared to Fauci. At least he said at yesterday's press conference that "Almost all people will recover---98%--99%." 

Though there is plenty of evil in the U.S. government, it isn't the only cesspool for crime.  Take the United Kingdom, for example.  What they're proposing to do with older people, 70 years and older, is absolute criminal.  Isn't this kidnapping?  Russian Times in the UK writes, 

UK’s Health Secretary confirmed plans to isolate people aged over 70 for up to four months amid a coronavirus pandemic. The goal is to protect them, but critics say it may be a really bad idea. 

That wording is absolutely sinister, "We absolutely appreciate that it is a very big ask of the elderly and the vulnerable, and it's for their own self-protection," Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge.  

Matt Hancock, Britain's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care

Oh, I see, it's for their own good.  Well, if it were for their own good, why would they need a government action plan to enforce something that is so good?  Lock Matt up.  Call this what it is: tyranny.  Even 80-year-old Brit, John Pilger is lukewarm in his reaction to the plan to pen British citizens under some kind of wartime measure.  Governments around the world are inventing the seriousness of COVID-19 to usher in new forms of murder.

The Johnson govt is to launch a "wartime" attack on Britain's elderly by forcing people over 70 into isolation for four months. A 2012 study showed isolation killed the elderly. Having destroyed state social care, extremist UK governments are now culling the expendable. Fascism.

— John Pilger (@johnpilger) March 15, 2020

Then Tom DiLorenzo writes in a post, titled "A National Emergency Declaration Is the Health of the State."

“It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups of individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties, the minorities are either intimidated into silence or brought slowly around by a subtle process of persuasion.”

“There is . . . in the feeling toward the State a large element of pure filial mysticism. This sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends one’s desire back to the father and mother, with whom is associated the earliest feeling of protection . . . .  [I]n Uncle Sam we have a symbol of protecting, kindly authority, and in the many Mother-posts of the Red Cross, we see how easily . . . the ruling organization is conceived in family terms.  [People become] obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naïve faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and in whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties.  In this recrudescence of the child, there is great comfort.”

“On most people the strain of being an independent adult weights heavily.”  The State provides a way of eliminating “the psychic burden of adulthood.”

— Randolph Bourne, writing about the effects of the national emergency of war on the population in his famous 1918 essay, “War is the Health of the State.”

This is a must-read:  "COVID-19: Further Evidence That the Virus Originated in the U.S.," Larry Romanoff, March 14, 2020.