W.H.O. DIDN'T ANNOUNCE THE CORONAVIRUS AS A PANDEMIC UNTIL THE VERY DAY AFTER [BILL] GATES . . . MADE A VERY LARGE DONATION TO A CAUSE THAT BENEFITS W.H.O.

I was reading an article earlier this evening that cited the World Health Organization, WHO, as the authoritative body for disseminating health information to countries tied to a covenant.  

Then I read this from Robert Wenzel, who has done some terrific work to find dissenting reports that if they don't contradict the official COVID-19 narrative, at least question it.  

Check this out from Robert Wenzel: 

[Bill Gates] wrote on Tuesday of this week in the Washington Post:

Through my work with the Gates Foundation, I’ve spoken with experts and leaders in Washington and across the country. It’s become clear to me that we must take three steps.

First, we need a consistent nationwide approach to shutting down. Despite urging from public health experts, some states and counties haven’t shut down completely. In some states, beaches are still open; in others, restaurants still serve sit-down meals.

What a power freak. First, it is questionable as to whether restaurants should be shut down but why would you want to shut down beaches when there are plenty of indications that vitamin D from the sun can help in warding off viruses?

As the Washington Times points out:

This — from the guy who practically controls policy at the World Health Organization...

Gates is one of the largest funders of the World Health Organization, one of the forefront agencies to warn, advise and counsel governments of the globe on matters pertinent to epidemics and pandemics. On matters pertinent to the WHO-declared pandemic.

But WHO didn’t always see the coronavirus as a pandemic.

As a matter of fact, WHO didn’t announce the coronavirus as a pandemic until the very day after Gates — who had wished for some time that WHO would declare the coronavirus a pandemic — well, until the very day after Gates made a very large donation to a cause that benefits WHO.

Take a look at this timeline.

On March 10, Business Insider wrote: “Bill Gates has been sounding the alarm on the COVID-19 coronavirus, calling it a ‘pandemic,’ though the World Health Organization has yet to give it that distinction.”

That was simply an aside to the larger Business Insider article point — which was to announce that “The Gates Foundation, Wellcome and Mastercard are committing $125 million in funding to companies developing treatments for the novel coronavirus” and that “the funding would be used for a COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator” to help speed along coronavirus treatments to the infected.

The Gates Foundation, meanwhile, specified in its own online post that Gates‘ donated portion of the $125 million would be $50 million...

In a 2017 piece titled, “Meet the world’s most powerful doctor: Bill Gates,” Politico wrote: “Some billionaires are satisfied with buying themselves an island. Bill Gates got a United Nations health agency in Geneva. Over the past decade, the world’s richest man has become the World Health Organization’s second-biggest donor, second only to the United States. … This largesse gives him outsized influence over its agenda. … The result, say his critics, is that Gates‘ priorities have become the WHO‘s.”

Have they? Well, let’s see.

Back to the timeline.

On March 11, one day after Business Insider reported how Gates had been pushing for a WHO declaration of pandemic on the coronavirus — one day after Gates announced the infusion of millions of dollars into a WHO-partnered venture called COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, that dangled the prospect of putting more regulatory powers into the hands of the global elitists — one day after that, WHO’s director-general made an interesting announcement.

On March 11, at a press conference on the coronavirus, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this: “We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. 

So what does this mean?  Wenzel offers this point,

So the billionaire has a strange hobby, becoming the world's virus/disease power freak.

Now what is scary about all this is that two weeks ago Gates stepped down from the board of directors of Microsoft and the board of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by his close friend, Warren Buffett.

It sure looks like he wants to spend all his time on his power freak hobbies. [my emphasis]

He said as much when announcing that he was stepping down from the two boards.

“I have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve—Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway— to dedicate more time to philanthropic priorities including global health and development, education, and my increasing engagement in tackling climate change,” Gates wrote in a LinkedIn post.

Yup, the dude wants to spend all his time influencing global governmental agencies to harass us about our health education and "climate change." 

This is the same freak who was trying to pitch intelligent design, the same guy who seeks to reduce the global population.  

"ZICAM--IT'S AMAZING.”

This was interesting.  I'd never heard of Zicam.  Thanks to Lew Rockwell.  

Writes Brian Dunaway: 

Lew,

You’ve posted quite a lot of material with the word “zinc” in it.I noted in one article by Bill Sardi that “zinc inhibits growth and replication of RNA viruses like coronaviruses.” A light went on when I read that.

I’ve been using Zicam to ward off colds for years, and its efficacy is stunning, especially if you use it at the first indication of a cold. I tell everyone about it. The conversation usually runs something like. “You really should use Zicam – it’s amazing.” Typical response: “OK.” To which I reply, “No – dude – it’s like you didn’t even catch a cold.”

Bill Sardi suggests zinc lozenges. Maybe I didn’t take the right kind, but the results after several attempts were: bupkus.  My chemical engineering perspective suggests to me it’s all about the transport mechanism. If taken orally, the transport path (for any substance) is much more slow and inefficient than introducing it directly into the bloodstream. (I note that one COVID-19 treatment is IV Vitamin C.)  Absorption into the mucous membranes is essentially that.

I use the oral mist because I believe the nasal variety no longer contains zinc. (Some users were complaining of loss of olfactory function.) Further chemical engineering instruction: After spraying it under your tongue, take your (clean) finger and wipe it all around the mucous membranes of your mouth (this increases the mass transfer film coefficient – trust me), including the gums (I saw someone in a movie do this with cocaine). Zicam instructions say to swallow it – I spit it out, because it upsets my stomach (they mention that as a possibility), and I don’t believe it’s effective orally anyway. Do follow the other instructions.  Since I live with an 89YO, I take extra caution, and essentially use Zicam as a prophylactic.

INDOOR TRANSMISSION OF THE CORONAVIRUS IS 18.7% LIKELIER, SO LA MAYOR, ERIC GARCETTI, WANTS TO PUT LA HOMELESS POPULATION INSIDE RECREATION CENTERS

I find all of the government interventions into COVID-19 threat absolutely ridiculous.  If as a child, your mother took your temperature and learned that you had the flu, what would she tell you to do?  Stay at home.  But today we've got the government mothering the American citizen, but instead of telling "its children" to stay home, the government commands "Shelter in Place."  The difference is that your mother actually cared for you, whereas the government wants to control you, they want to dictate to you what you can do, how close you can get to someone, what type of protective gear you should be using.  In effect, the government wants to dispossess you of personal sovereignty and executive decision-making of your own life, including your own survival skills.  They don't care for you.  Nor do they have any regard for your private exchange of relevant information with your doctor.  The government wants to override too many aspects of your own survival skills.  Further, the flu has a specific duration: it runs between 3 to 7 days.  Government edicts, on the other hand, can last a lifetime and longer.  

And let's grant the government edicts some level of practicality.  Let's say that wearing a mask works to protect you from airborne viruses, including protects other people; in this sense, then there is some level of ethics being applied by mask-wearers.  It's nice.  Is it urgent?  Is it required, I mean, say beyond what is required for the ordinary seasonal flu that occurs during the flu season?  Not really.  But I like the effort, I like the intention.  I don't like that these American puppets are wearing a mask, keeping 6-feet from you in line at the grocery store, and talking to the cashier behind an Adhoc plexiglass pane hanging above a checkout counter. And no one questions the wisdom of what the government does, whether what they do works or doesn't work, who it effects, how much it costs . . . well, they never count the cost of anything.  Even this latest $2,000,000,000,000 stimulus package where adults are promised $1,200, the government refuses to count the cost because they don't pay the cost.  Tax-payers bear the cost, not the government.  In fact, the government is calculating the next 10 different programs on which to charge the American taxpayer.

Folks have gotten lost.  We used to know that the country was different from the government.  Not today.  Not as far as I can see.  Jacob Hornberger recently wrote 

 Actually, the government and the country are two separate and distinct entities.  That phenomenon is reflected by the Bill of Rights, which expressly protects the country from the government. 

Note the language of the Constitution.  It provides protection from the government; it doesn't say that the United States IS the government.  

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference.

My point in this post is to say that folks have lost their good sense.  Call it overload in the age of information.  Call it being overwhelmed.  Call it illiteracy.  I don't know what I can point to to account for it, but folks have lost their good sense.  Here, Professor Eduardo Allegri comments on the global social discipline governments looking for more power have wrought on the backs of COVID-19, for which any failures occur they can always point to people not following orders.  Here are my highlights of his comments: 

I don’t care about coronavirus. 

I don’t care about the hysteria.

I don’t care about it as a topic of conversation.

I don’t care particularly about it as a cause of death.

I don’t care about it as producing panic and terror. 

He continues . . . 

A COSMIC LABORATORY OF SOCIAL DISCIPLINE

Cowed by hysteria and terror, men move like a shoal, like a flock, in unison, Allegri writes. They have suspended judgment, conscience, and common sense. They are obliterating these on the altar of global discipline. Allegri calls this a cosmic, massive laboratory of social discipline the likes of which has never been seen before. He adds, “I don't care if this is by design or if it was a fluke.”

TOGETHER IN ISOLATION

Everybody has been isolated from each other. Quote, “A sneeze scares, a cough demolishes friendship, a little fever condemns to ostracism.” Allegri stresses that out of 7.7 billion men on the globe 0.0020% have been directly affected by the situation. The rest is moving in packs and shoals, not together but separated, isolated, far from each other. 

What I really wanted to comment on is government incompetence.  I know it's a cliche, there are a million of them.  "Government is the employer of last resort."  Nothing so permanent as a temporary government program."  Then I saw this headline:  

CDC: Japanese Data Show Indoor Coronavirus Transmission 18.7 Times Likelier, as Garcetti Moves L.A. Homeless to Rec Centers 

Tom Woods like to refer to government bureaucrats as our "Overlords," which sure they'd like to be and pretend to be.  But there is nothing about them that we can admire.  We don't like their power, number one.  We don't like their enforcement arm of fines, jail/prison, or worse.  The only wisdom in their plans tends toward evil.  Take the above headline.  Garcetti wants to house the homeless in the backyards of middle-class, suburban residents in recreation centers, a service now that will requisition more tax dollars.  So one government agency, the CDC, publicizes information showing that indoor transmission is 18.7% likelier only to learn that LA Mayor, Eric Garcetti, wants to house the homeless into two places--recreation centers across the San Gabriel Valley and the LA Convention Center downtown.  

Los Angeles Mayor, Eric Garcetti

Here is his order to use the Convention Center as a Federal Medical Station to, according to the tweet, help relieve our nearby hospitals. Really?  There are so many Coronavirus outbreaks that you need to convert the LA Convention Center into a virus relief station?  From the different nurses that I talk to, they see very few, if any, COVID-19 patients come through their doors.  

We are utilizing every resource to confront the COVID-19 crisis: @ConventionLA will now become a federal medical station, led by @HHSGov and @USNationalGuard to help relieve our nearby hospitals.

Thank you to our partners for your support during this national pandemic. pic.twitter.com/RlRWmK6dmT

— Mayor Eric Garcetti (@MayorOfLA) March 30, 2020

Breitbart explains that 

L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti is moving hundreds of homeless people into recreation centers in residential areas—a policy that is receiving increasing scrutiny and criticism from residents and the media. 

I'd like to know where.

If you're at all worried about the flu or the cold or the COVID-19, then take extra vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc.  Problem solved.  These vitamins help directly with your innate immunity.  They make you stronger.  A mask doesn't do that.  A distance of 6-feet doesn't do that.  All that these gestures prove is that you're very obedient to Uncle Sam or Uncle Donald or Uncle Barry, one or the other.

N95 RESPIRATOR MASKS DO WORK TO DETER AIRBORNE RESPIRATORY VIRUSES

Turns out that masks that cover the mouth and nose actually are effective at deterring airborne respiratory diseases. The mask they recommend? The mask in question is the N95 Respirator Mask.

Thanks to Lew Rockwell.

You'll be hard-pressed to find any N95 Respirator Masks on Amazon, but you can and will find them at eBay.

U.S. DEATHS FROM THE SEASONAL FLU: 12,000; U.S. DEATHS FROM COVID-19: 802.

Hopkins Medicine compares the number of deaths from the seasonal flu versus the COVID-19:

COVID-19: Approximately 19,625 deaths reported worldwide; 802 deaths in the U.S., as of Mar. 25, 2020.* 

Flu: 291,000 to 646,000 deaths worldwide; 12,000 to 61,000 deaths in the U.S. per year. 

I don't want to say "Let that sink in," but at least think about this comparison and then tell me what is more dangerous to the U.S.: 802 or 12,000?  If you're reading this at all it does mean that you're not reacting to fear as much as the rest of the population is.  And when a large enough group of folks get scared and start reacting irrationally, like too many at the stores are doing, then we have a problem, and I don't like where it is leading to.  Hopefully, businesses will re-open and get back to business and all governments will get out of the way.  

Scientific American has an article out comparing the Coronavirus, COVID-19 with the seasonal flu.  Its headline reads

The flu has already caused about 12,000 deaths this season in the U.S. alone.

And yet you're not afraid of this.  Huh.  

But tell people that one novel virus, a respiratory flu virus, has killed a few hundred, and you're ready to lay down and hand to the government your complete individual sovereignty?  Huh.

As of today, Wednesday, March 25, 2020, Statist.com shows that the number of deaths worldwide from the coronavirus, or deaths as a cofactor, is 18,906.  

Italy is the country with the most recorded deaths by country with 6,820.  There are a lot of factors as to why so many deaths are occurring in Italy.  Check this out for five of those factors. 

Thanks to Robert Wenzel for this video. 

China has 3,281 deaths.

Spain has 2,991.

Iran has 1,934. 

France has 1,100.

United States has 784. 

United Kingdom has 422. 

Jim Ostrowski breaks down the numbers as a percentage of a population segment:

DAILY REPORT ON US DEATH RATE

March 25

CASES--------DEATHS------DEATHS PER 1000

54,963---------784-------------14.26

March 25---DEATHS PER 1000-----14.26
March 24---DEATHS PER 1000-----12.60

This is a significant increase over yesterday.

The virus as we all know strikes people over 70 hardest--global death rate for over 80 is 14.8%.

For those under 40, it's 0.2% or double the flu (With incomplete data).

The illness hits men harder than women.

The number one problem essentially causing all the others is that the government has artificially reduced the supply of tests below what a free market would have supplied. This is why the government goes to plan B, imprisoning you in your home and wrecking the economy.

In other words, progressivism is murdering us and imprisoning us.

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Over 70 or with health issues, wear a mask in public. It's cool, we get it.
2. Exercise
3. Get 30 minutes of sun per day.
4. Take vitamins--C and D and zinc.
5. Any symptoms, avoid contact with others.

It may be time for all Americans to wear masks in public. (I made sure that we had ONE for each member of the family back in January when the MSM and Democrats were busy impeaching Trump for exercising obvious Article II powers.)

I wore leather gloves outside yesterday. Will that help?

Back to being imprisoned for the crime of living under an incompetent big-government that is killing us.

Will these be my last words, "Where's my test kit?"

The JAMA Network provides us with some valuable numbers.  Whereas most people have been instructed by the government authorities to fear their own shadow--to shelter in place (limit activity and reduce your vitamin D absorption), to wash your hands incessantly, and self-quarantine all out of fear from a virus that has either directly or as a cofactor killed over a span of 6 months less than 20,000 worldwide, the JAMA Network provides us with numbers that puts the deaths, the virus and the panic in perspective, 

Lost in the discussion about COVID-19 is the fact that the US is experiencing a severe influenza season that has already resulted in more than 16 000 deaths. This JAMA Infographic compares prevalence and number of deaths for the 2 diseases.

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