Closedown v No Closedown

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Every country with the exception of Sweden found it necessary to close down at least part of the economy in order to prevent the highly infectious virus from overwhelming their medical care systems. The exponential rate of infection together with a lack of sufficient health resources obviously meant an overwhelmed system that would be unable to provide care for those suffering from other illnesses and deadly conditions, such as heart attacks.
The need to reduce the caseload was also influenced by the uncertainty of treatment.  It has been only through experimentation that health care professionals have found some successful treatments and learned that ventilators were causing deaths.  Knowledge about the virus and its attack on vital organs is still emerging. The long incubation period and the fact that people can spread the virus without themselves having symptoms makes the virus far more challenging than flu, with which it is often mistakenly compared.  The fact that people of all ages and health conditions have died from the virus, or from inappropriate treatment and prior conditions, and the impossibility of knowing in advance the severity of any person’s case produces a situation that can easily explode out of control.
The policy of isolation and social distancing has worked.  It has reduced the infection rate to a manageable one in most places.

Sweden v COVID-19: Why "Herd Immunity" Matters & Why Lockdown Doesn't Really Work

...with typically Swedish bluntness, Giesecke explains flattening of the curve is due to the most vulnerable dying first as much as lockdown, that Covid-19 is a 'mild disease' similar to the flu, & the Imperial College paper was 'not very good'

Is Amnesia A Symptom Of Covid-19?

'In 2017-18 America was subject to an alarming health situation far more dangerous than the current coronavirus. But not many in America knew about it. It wasn’t a news item. It is not that we forgot, we never knew. We lived through it despite the fact that it was far more severe than the current crisis.'

By ex-Jew Gilad Atzmon: I ask because just three years ago the USA experienced one of its most severe influenza outbreaks in recent memory. I am talking about the 2017-18 influenza that according to  The  American Centers of Disease Control and Prevention  (CDC)  was associated with “45 million illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 810,000 hospitalizations.” By September 2018 CNN announced that as many as 80.000 were dead for reasons  associated with the outbreak.

Jewish Land Theft Project 'Israel' Invaded Bethlehem Again Assaulted Gentile Toddlers And Arrested Journalism Student!

Jewish Israel death forces IDF "typically raid [o little town of] Bethlehem multiple times a week and sometimes nightly.”

By Akram al-Wa’ara: When the front door of his family’s house blew open, 25-year-old Tamer Laham couldn’t believe his eyes.
A group of Israeli soldiers, some wearing masks, gloves and personal protective equipment, stormed into his apartment, while dozens of others patrolled the hallway, roof and street outside.
The soldiers went straight into the room of his brother, Ramiz, 23.
“They checked his ID, used a thermal scanner to check if he had a fever, and told him to get dressed,” Tamer told The Electronic Intifada. He was speaking outside his family’s home in Dheisheh, the largest of three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
While some soldiers monitored the family, the rest of the group began ransacking their home, leaving no piece of furniture unturned.

Identity Politics In The Age Of Trump

By Dr. Paul Nathanson: I usually describe myself as “apolitical,” because I reject the notion that all of human history amounts to nothing more, and nothing less, than an enduring struggle for power. It’s true that power is the defining but morally neutral feature of politics per se, a universal feature of human life, but ideologues go further than that by adding profound dualism and cynicism. They care not so much about power in a general philosophical sense but about the sinister power of particular groups, which they define according to innate characteristics. This leads them directly to the conspiracy theory of history, according to which “they” stole power from “us” at the dawn of time and used it to “oppress” this or that “marginalized voice” ever since.
I refuse to make “power” the central word in my philosophical vocabulary, let alone to adopt an ideological one. And yet I do sometimes find it necessary to comment on politics in the narrow sense of that word, party politics, along with its cultural and historical matrix. It is hard to avoid this topic, the manipulation of cultural (and other forms of) power, in this age of perpetual news coverage and ubiquitous “social media.”

Peter Hitchens - COVID-19 lockdown

John Anderson: Peter Hitchens is one of the few public figures who is prepared to raise a dissenting voice in order to question the wisdom and validity of the extreme actions democratic governments are taking around the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Even if you disagree with him, we should nevertheless be grateful that we still (for now) live in a society where he is at relative liberty to raise that voice.

The Morality Of Lockdown

'The lockdown would appear to fail the Categorical Imperative test.'
By MRA-UK: I had not intended to regale you with these off-topic thoughts. But it turns out they are not so very off-topic after all.
Whilst many people seem to believe that the only thing wrong with the UK Government’s response to Covid-19 was failure to implement the lockdown soon enough and rigorously enough, others are beginning to question whether the lockdown is justified at all.
The issue is inescapably a moral one: it is, after all, a question of taking action (or not) to save lives.
I have touched on moral issues before in The Categorical Imperative and in Alinsky for Insiders. The observations I make here are related, especially to the moral infantilism hypothesised in the latter.
Many decisions, both personal and political, involve moral dilemma. Guidance exists for how to go about addressing moral dilemmas. Leaving aside religious authority, the most well-known are,

Churchill’s Bankster War: The Real History Of World War II

'History that cannot be bought.'

All truth-tellers are denounced, and most end up destroyed.  Truth seldom serves the agendas of powerful interests.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: The one historian from whom you can get the unvarnished truth of World War II is David Irving. 
On the bookjackets of Irving’s books, the question is asked: What is real history?
The answer is that real history is history that travels straight from history-maker to the history-maker’s documents and from the document archives to the historian’s book without political input and free of academic and patriotic prejudice.  It is history that cannot be bought.
Irving’s Hitler’s War was published in 1977.  Irving was an archaeologist digging in history who located and dug up previously unknown documents and archives.  He lets the factual record tell the history.

Karens, Rise Up!

"Jess Phillips Assigned Shadow Karen Minister"

Akkad Daily: Is #Karen the N-word for obnoxious, entitled middle-class women? Obnoxious, entitled middle-class women say: yes! Also, the Guardian decided to crown Labour MP for Birmingham-Yardly Queen of the Karens, for some reason.

Dear Sheeple, What Will You Do If They Try To Extend COVID-19 Lockdowns Into Next Year?

...policy makers are going to have some very, very tough decisions in the days ahead, and the truth is that this coronavirus pandemic is just the very beginning of our problems...

Authored by Michael Snyder: We are seeing a massive backlash against the coronavirus lockdowns all over the United States, and it is likely that the protests against these lockdowns will only intensify in the days ahead. 
But some elected officials are doubling down and are insisting that “shelter-in-place” orders will remain in effect in their jurisdictions for quite a few months to come.  I honestly do not know how that is possibly going to work, because after just a few weeks millions upon millions of Americans have become deeply frustrated with these lockdowns.  Trying to confine people to their homes for the foreseeable future is likely to spark tremendous explosions of anger, but that appears to be exactly what authorities intend to do in some of our largest urban areas.
For example, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just told Fox News that he expects his city will be shut down until July or August…

Everything You Want To Know About Covid-19 But Were Afraid To Ask Peter Duesberg

'We see governments desperate to put their hands on ventilators and CV19 tests just to find out that ventilators are actually deadly and the tests do not really work.'

By ex-Jew Gilad Atzmon: In 2002 Arnold S. Relman, a professor of medicine at Harvard University commented that: ‘’The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country [USA] are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.’’
Those who are interested in the notion of truth and its pursuit recognize what led Professor Relman to blow the whistle on his profession and its standards. His observation can be applied to almost every academic and research domain. Rather than seeking the truth, what our universities and research institutes do most often is to bend an ‘image of truthfulness’ and an ‘illusion of scientific discourse’ to fit with the interests of those who are powerful enough to dictate their views. We do it to our past (history) and to physics, chemistry, biology,  political science, legal studies and most other contemporary scholarly domains.

Men's Rights Icon Johnny Depp's First Ever Social Media Post, Covid19, Amber Heard Comments

"Now is the time."