You said to “flatten the curve,” which we did. No law exists that forces government to give us back our freedoms. The fact that Americans are still living under government by decree means US has been overthrown. CDC chart, Feb. 1, 2020-August 15, 2020

8/19/20, “Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics,” CDC.gov, 2/1/2020-8/15/2020 

“Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by sex and age group. United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 8/15/2020″
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Commenter: “Funny how draconian measures are rolled out, yet never rescinded once the truth comes out. As well the majority of the population don’t question these measures remaining in place.”
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Added: ““The New Normal” was about beating Covid19, but now it’s about “covid19 and future pandemics”, or the “other colossal challenges facing humanity”…which can mean literally anything they want it to mean.” 

8/18/20, “Bait-&-Switch: How they’ve changed the Covid conversation. It was supposed to be about life and death, but for weeks now we’re only hearing about cases.” Off-Guardian, Kit Knightly 

“Do you remember that it was predicted that covid19 would kill literally millions of people?
 
Do you remember that hospitals were going to be over-run with patients and our struggling medical infrastructure was going to collapse under their weight? 

Do you remember that locking down global society was the only way to prevent this disaster? That we had to do it, regardless of how much damage it did to the livelihoods and security of countless millions of people? 

Final question–do you know how many people in the United Kingdom officially died with (not of) the coronavirus yesterday? It’s 12. 

Twelve people. You probably didn’t hear about that, because sometime in the last five weeks or so the media completely stopped using the word “deaths”, and started talking only about “cases” [and “outbreaks”]. 

A “case” is anyone who tests positive for Sars-Cov-2, using the notoriously unreliable PCR tests which produce huge numbers of false positives.

Even supposing the positive test is real, the vast majority of “cases” are asymptomatic. Between false positives, unreliable tests and asymptomatic infection, a “case” count for sars-cov-2 is borderline meaningless. 

Let’s say there are symptoms AND a positive test, and assume they’re not just a false positive who has a cold or the flu. Well, even the vast majority of the “symptomatic cases” will only ever be mildly ill. In fact of the 6 million active cases in the world, only 1% are considered severely ill. The majority of them will survive. 

The CDC estimates the infection fatality ratio of Sars-Cov-2 to be about 0.26%. A number perfectly in line with severe flu seasons. Virtually every country in Europe is now reporting average, or even below average, mortality. 

Broadly speaking, the vast majority of the world is, and will likely remain, absolutely fine. 

But things aren’t going back to normal, are they? In fact, they are getting worse. The governments have got their foot in the door, and they have no intention of moving it. 

Masks are now mandatory in the UK, and Australia, and New Zealand, and Germany and France. And many others. The Democrat’s nominee for President, Joe Biden, has said they should be mandatory in the US as well.
 
There’s talk of “local lockdown” in Birmingham, because of a “sudden increase in cases”, but we get no details on the numbers are, or if that’s translating into any kind illness, let alone deaths. 

The same for Oldham, which is on the brink of a “catastrophic lockdown” thanks to its infection rate of 83 people per 100,000. (Oldham has a population of about 250,000, so that’s about 200 cases.) 

Actually, over the last week the UK’s covid death count has reduced by over 5000, thanks to a review which removed duplicates and mistakes (which OffG predicted would happen months ago). The case count is bloated by at least 30,000 duplicates too. 

In New Zealand, the patron saint of coronavirus Jacinda Ardern has just postponed next months general election. It’s only a month, for now. But what if there’s a “second wave” in October and they have to postpone it again? Regardless, the precedent is set. 

New Zealand has had 1600 cases, total, in 5 months. They haven’t had a reported death since May. But their country is on lockdown and their democracy on hold. 

Oh, and they’re shipping positive tests (and their families) off to “quarantine centres”, where if you refuse to be tested, you will be detained indefinitely. 

Australia is locking down cities, even imposing curfews, based on 450 deaths. 

Every day there are more and more articles discussing the need for mandatory vaccination, or something even worse. 

And everywhere the language is changing. “The New Normal” was about beating Covid19, but now it’s about “covid19 and future pandemics”, or the “other colossal challenges facing humanity”….which can mean literally anything they want it to mean. 

All this is based on the ever-increasing number of cases, without any reference to the fact deaths are falling….
 
Those of us calling for a measured, proportional response were abused or ignored. The numbers have shown we were right, but that doesn’t matter now. They scared people into giving them the power, then they set the precedent for using that power, and there’s no reason to think they will ever stop. 

It used to be about “deaths”, now it’s about “cases”. It used to be about coronavirus, next time it will be about something else.”
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“Jean Wison, Aug 20, 2020 5:23 AM 

Here in Australia the media is now saying “active cases”, and sometimes “infected cases” or just “infections”.”
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“el Gallinazo, Aug 19, 2020 11:45 PM 

I remember when they started the lockdowns in many states is the USA (not sure about the UK) it was to “flatten the curve,” meaning so that the ICU’s didn’t get overwhelmed. They said it was only for [15 days, then 30 days, then] 6 weeks [“to slow the spread”] That’s a laugh. As to cases, most are built on the rt-PCR test. I am a chemistry major and have studied this intensively.
 

[On April 2, 2020, US said “30 Days to Slow the Spread”] 

1) The insert on all the PCR (and antigen) tests in the USA read “not for diagnostic purposes.” Yet WHO, CDC, and FDA are using them exactly for that. The late inventor of PCR who won the 1993 Novel in chemistry fro that invention, Cari Mullis, stipulated that his invention should never be used for medical diagnosis as it is not suitable for quantitative biological analysis. It is basically a molecular photocopier machine which can rapidly turn a single strand of DNA into billions. 

2)  One might see this as a global coup d’tat by the 0.001% ushering a neofeudal technocratic dystopia. The only solution is for large numbers of people not to comply. One might start by ripping their soiled diapers (nappies) from their mouths and noses. 

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.”
 
--Attributed to Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda” [Whoever said or thought it, it describes how US elites intend to keep the masses marginalized.]

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“richard, Aug 19, 2020 9:32 PM 

There is no PCR “test”. Don’t fall for this misnomer. It is not a test it is a process. According to the inventor of the process – Kary Mullis – ( who got a Nobel prize for his effort), it isn’t a test and shouldn’t be treated as such. Furthermore, the antibody test cannot tell the difference between the common cold and c19 – which they haven’t even isolated yet.”

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Above image: “Ivanka Trump and Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox arrive through the East Gallery during the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, London, Monday, June 3, 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump is on a three-day visit to the United Kingdom. (Victoria Jones/Pool Photo via AP)”]
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Ed. note: All images in this post were added by blog editor, Susan.

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