What history will record as the great COVID coup of 2020 is based on lies and fear manufactured by America’s ruling class—led by the Democratic Party and aided by the complaisance of most Republican politicians.
In March, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) presented the coronavirus to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague. But China’s experience, which its government obfuscated, had already shown that COVID-19 was much less like the plague and more like the flu. All that has happened since followed from falsifying this basic truth.
Americans were led to believe that the virus was unusually contagious, and that it would kill up to one in 20 persons it infected—a 5 percent infection/fatality rate (IFR). Today, we still lack definitive, direct knowledge of COVID-19’s true lethality. The absence of that knowledge allows bureaucrats to continue fearmongering.
By May, a host of studies in the U.S. and around the world showing that the vast majority of COVID cases cause mild symptoms or none, and showing the IFR to be equal to or lower than that for most flus, forced the CDC to conclude that the lethality rate, far from being 5 percent, was 0.26%––double that of a typical flu. Instead of amending their recommendations in the face of this reality, the CDC and the U.S. government tried to hide it by manipulating the definition and number of COVID “cases.”
Federal officials defined “cases” as people sick enough to be hospitalized who also tested positive for the virus—this represented the “curve” that we were urged to sacrifice so much to “flatten,” lest a wave of hospitalizations overwhelm our health-care system. That wave never came. The CDC and feds began labeling mere infections as “cases” and stopped reporting “cases” together with the number of deaths. They did this to frighten the inattentive public about “spiking COVID cases.” They also inflated the number of deaths attributed to COVID by including illnesses such as pneumonia and influenza and others into the death figures.
In reality, those who died with or of COVID-19 nearly always suffered from other diseases as well, such as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and compromised lungs, in addition to being elderly and infirm. COVID-19’s effect on ordinary healthy persons is considerably milder than those of ordinary respiratory diseases.
COVID-19 is not America’s plague. There was never the slightest evidence that the virus could produce mass casualties; all evidence pointed in the opposite direction. Instead, the ruling class took this opportunity to extort the general public’s compliance with its agendas. Their claim to speak on behalf of “science” is an attempt to avoid being held accountable for the enormous harm that they are doing. They continue doing it because they want to hold on to the power the panic has brought them.
In sum, the lockdowns have been inflicted and perpetuated by people who care more about your subjugation than your health. They want to wreck the U.S. economy and increase the Democratic Party’s chances in the 2020 election. And they might succeed.
To say the technocrats cant be trusted is a severe understatement</
We need true experts outside the big pharma contaminated CDC FDA and NHI.
What history will record is a global pandemic that has thus far killed 760,281 people, over one-quarter of whom resided in the wealthiest nation on the planet, which spends more per capita on medical care than anywhere else.
Clearly something hasn’t been done properly—and the problem isn’t with our hospitals, doctors, or nurses. They know what we should be doing. So do our experts in epidemiology.
Then we’ve got what Angelo Codevilla and his article represent. They’re essentially pitching politically motivated conspiracy theory, as they have been from the start.
The Democrats saw a great opportunity to exploit yet another tragedy for political purposes. First, they denigrated and opposed all the efforts Trump instituted to meet the threat of the CCP virus. They encouraged people to continue ignoring social distancing, to meet in large groups and keep on partying. They opposed the travel ban. They accused Trump of going too far.
Until, that is, until they could actually see the effects of the virus (see, Democrats can’t see tragedy before it hits; it has to slap them upside the head for them to realize it). THEN, they took the course that Trump didn’t act quickly and forcefully enough. They did a 180… because that was the best use of the crisis.
Still… the mortality rate is too low. Just about the lowest in the world.
But people weren’t dying quickly enough… the body count was too small. Not enough misery. So, the data had to be manipulated. EVERYONE that dies with a symptom of COVID was deemed to be a COVID death. But even then there weren’t enough infections. So, they had to find a premise (a cop kills a over-drugged career criminal) to launch massive “protests”, riots and looting and continue them, every night, for months. That should do the trick.
And they blame it all on Trump.
@Deplorable Me:
not democraps but true communists
@Greg:
Sounds like your pitching a “politically motivated conspiracy” of your own.
How many deaths was going to be “good” for you?
I’m pointing out the willful negligence, gross incompetence, and appalling moral vacuum that’s at the heart of the Trump administration. The man is a liar and a cheat, and has been his entire life.
@Greg: And that is exemplified… how? What makes that anything than more of you whiny, crybaby, sore loser lies?
It wasn’t Trump that ignored the virus. It wasn’t Trump that encouraged people to keep partying. It wasn’t Trump that lied about HCQ. It wasn’t Trump that lied about ingesting Lysol. It wasn’t Trump that held up desperately needed aid to spread more pork and play political games.
That was ALL Democrats.
If the Democrats win the White House in November’s election because of COVID fears, it will not be a “coup.” It will be an election.
Every time you guys call another thing a coup, the more clearly you indicate that you have no idea what a coup is.
Not everything is a coup.
@Michael: No, not everything. But Russian collusion and the impeachment were. Democrats are trying to weaponized COVID19.