STARBUCKS IS SERVING ROBUSTA BEANS, A LOWER-GRADE THAN THEIR USUAL ARABICA. IT IS ESSENTIALLY INSTANT COFFEE.

Thank you, Lew Rockwell.  

Well, here I go again, coffee, my favorite subject.  This time ZeroHedge has the skinny on Starbucks using lower-quality beans.  Ugh!!  I should have known.  I knew I felt an extra jolt from the java.  Is Starbucks merely serving up hot cups of instant coffee?  It appears so.  

An unintended consequence of the virus-induced recession, lockdowns, and people working from home is a massive demand shift from expensive coffee beans, commonly found at Starbucks, and called Arabica, to cheap beans, found in instant coffee, called Robusta. 

The chart below, a ratio between Arabica/Robusta prices, shows how Robusta demand surged at the start of the lockdowns. And this makes perfect sense, mainly because Starbucks, the world's largest coffeehouse chain, uses only "high-quality arabica coffee grown at high altitudes." So when tens of millions of people were locked down, and many coffeehouses closed, people were forced to buy instant robusta coffee from grocery stores. 

But even after the lockdowns ease, the economy is stuck in a deep recession where millions of jobs have been eliminated, people are working at home, and millions of vehicles are off the road. 

The shift in coffee demand is bad news for Starbucks, that's why it announced, last month, over 400 stores will be closing in the next 18 months. The world's largest coffeehouse must shrink its corporate footprint as the economy evolves to where workers are staying home and are reducing costs to weather the economic storm. 

The shift in demand is being seen in surging Robusta coffee prices on ICE. In the last 19 sessions, September contracts have gone parabolic, up 19%, hitting 1,363 on Thursday morning, or a six month high. 

The latest upswing in prices is because the virus-induced recession is "prompting a shift in consumption toward cheaper, instant coffee blends," reported Reuters.

​"I'm hearing demand is quite strong; there's been a switch in consumption from Arabica to Robusta. Home consumption is more Robusta intensive," one coffee trader told Reuters.

Another coffee trader said despite the switch, Arabica prices were rising too, mainly because of sharp gains in the Brazilian currency.

​The virus is having profound changes in the economy - one major shift are consumers gravitating towards cheap coffee beans. This is bad news for Starbucks and a reflection of consumers who can no longer afford an expensive cup of Joe. 

"The reason for [the compulsory masks] is they need visible evidence of terror"

This man understands the mask lie at a level most can't comprehend.

Retweet this everywhere. pic.twitter.com/CpIuhWY8sX

— TheHuBLife (@GeneralDilley) July 23, 2020

Thanks to Bill Sardi for the link to this tweet. 

The speaker's name is John Waters, an Irish columnist.  His insights are compelling but can they persuade individuals to recapture their souls from this government takeover? 

At the very height of this alleged pandemic back in April there was no talk of compulsory masks.  In all of May, when figures were dying away to nothing, there was no talk of compulsory masks.  In June, when there were no cases virtually at all, there was no talk of compulsory masks.  Now, when it has all but disappeared . . . it’s gone . . . it’s gone, they’re now bringing in compulsory masks.  And the reason for that is they need visible evidence of terror.  They need visibility of terror that they want to inculcate in the people, and that’s why this is so important to them.  These are really sinister people that we’re dealing with now.  These are people that we’ve previously talked about who are our own kind.  What we have to start thinking of them now as alien beings, as hostile beings to the Irish people.  They are the enemies of the Irish people.  Because clearly, their intent is to the mask is a way of denying the very human face of the person.  It’s a way of taking away the very unique humanity of each person and turning yourself into zombies and restoring us into a kind of animal state.  So that we no longer look at each other coming down the street as Tom or Mick or Mary, my sister, my friend, my brother, but instead as a festering mess of bacteria and viruses which is a danger to my health, Ooh!  Ooh! You know, I have to get out of the way.  This is what they’re turning persons into.  I’m not saying that our people are responsible for thinking this up . . . they don’t have the brains for that or anything.  But this is what they’re implementing.  This is the thinking behind it—to destroy the spirit of the human person, the individuality, the personality, the conscience, the character of the human person.  That is what this project is about.   

"I have a breathing disorder. I like breathing fresh air."

First, I want to thank Robert Wenzel for keeping on top of all issues surrounding the COVID-lockdown-riot nonsense.  The way that the local mini-Maos, not Mini-Mouse, are dictating how to behave to taxpayers and how they've got people scared to death in fear of their neighbor if they get sick, sneeze or cough is an abomination and needs to be fought against.  That's where Wenzel comes in.  He posts these videos from a few shoppers who've gained entrance into different WalMarts in Missouri and Mississippi.  And even though the mask-monitors reminded him that he must wear a mask, the shopper was able to get through on an exemption.  You need to do the same.  Check these out.

Here's video #1.  The guy says, "I was talking to your corporate, and he said that exemptions were allowed."  

"Yes, sir.  Of course."  Notice that no question about the specifics on the exemptions was raised.  That's our advantage.  That's where you want to be.

Here's video #2.  I loved this one.  Both customers loathe wearing a mask and complying with the stupid mandate.

Here's video #3.  

Here's video #4.  

The videos are courtesy NoMask.Info.

So what's the answer in any store that you go into, or what's the answer for getting your employer to bend to your will or exemption?  Stand strong on your beliefs.  Stick to what you believe.  If we give up, we'll never get back our freedoms again."

Zinc is the premiere anti-viral compound as is vitamin D.  Take them in conjunction.  Though I have yet to try this particular zinc product, the price looks pretty good.  You get 90 lozenges of zinc acetate that is powerful medicine to regrow your thymus gland for $30.  That's less than $10 per bottle and about $.33 per lozenge.  Not bad.  I want to try this brand because I trust the producer, Bill Sardi.  There are, however, other brands. 

But whatever brand of zinc you take, try it with magnesium.  Magnesium enhances the effects of almost any nutritional compound you consume.  

TWO BOYS DROP DEAD IN CHINA WHILE WEARING MASKS DURING GYM CLASS

Two boys drop dead in China while wearing masks during gym class https://t.co/mRu5Ntn134 via @nypost

— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) July 20, 2020

And yet Trump's fearless NIH leader, Dr. A. Fauci, argues that we all should be wearing masks even though their efficacy has not been demonstrated in a controlled study.  Check out Fauci's answer to a college student's question

But Fauci balked at the idea.

I would not want to do a randomized controlled study because that would mean having people not wear masks and see if they do better, he said.

Fauci suggested he would never ask an individual to participate in a study that would involve not wearing a mask.

I think that to do the study would be kind of difficult to do because then you’d have to tell people not to wear masks, and I’m not about to tell them that, he said. 

Tom DiLorenzo points out that 

So announced Fuhrer Fauci a few days ago.  After all, the study would inevitably find that the whole mask business is one big stinking pile of horse manure (to use “scientific” language).

UPDATE:  Paddy H. writes to inform me that Fauci’s CDC has already done controlled studies of the effectiveness of masks and concluded that they are ineffective.  Fauci most certainly knows this, and so is once again lying through his teeth and deceiving the public on international television. 

Check out this CDC report on the efficacy of face masks in reducing the spread of influenza.  Go to the section on face masks, and you'll see their findings in the first couple of sentences.  Here is how the CDC report puts it

In a pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks (RR 0.78, 95% CI 0.51–1.20; I2 = 30%, p = 0.25). 

The report continues

Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on the transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.  

And yet Fauci says that he doesn't want to conduct a controlled study despite the fact that a controlled study HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE AND REPORTED ON BY THE CDC and found masks to be ineffective.  

Two boys die from wearing masks during gym.  Cuomo sends thousands of ailing octogenarians to the nursing homes where infection rates are highest.  I'll let you reach your own conclusions.

Ben Swann reviews the data on wearing masks. These masks put the wearer at greater risk and pose no protection for the population.

Ben Swann reviews the data on wearing masks. 

Thanks to Lew Rockwell.  

Improper use of face mask might increase the risk of transmission.  Not only does wearing a cloth mask not prevent the spread of a virus, it actually can put you at greater risk for catching the virus.  The studies show that masks retain moisture and put the wearer at greater risk of infection.  So these masks do not protect the population but only put you, the wearer, at risk.