On Sun, 3 May 2020 02:05:32 +0200 (CEST), "Bradley K. Sherman"
wrote:

Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they
are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the
government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example,
Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil
liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.

It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach
President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the
Administration grab more power and authority in the name of
fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100
Americans.

60000 now - but who's counting

Declaring a pandemic emergency on Friday, President Trump now
claims the power to quarantine individuals suspected of being
infected by the virus and, as Politico writes, “stop and seize
any plane, train or automobile to stymie the spread of
contagious disease.” He can even call out the military to cordon
off a US city or state.

State and local authoritarians love panic as well. The mayor of
Champaign, Illinois, signed an executive order declaring the
power to ban the sale of guns and alcohol and cut off gas,
water, or electricity to any citizen. The governor of Ohio just
essentially closed his entire state.

The chief fearmonger of the Trump Administration is without a
doubt Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Fauci is all over the media, serving up outright falsehoods to
stir up even more panic. He testified to Congress that the death
rate for the coronavirus is ten times that of the seasonal flu,
a claim without any scientific basis.

On Face the Nation, Fauci did his best to further damage an
already tanking economy by stating, “Right now, personally,
myself, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant.” He has pushed for
closing the entire country down for 14 days.

Over what? A virus that has thus far killed just over 5,000
worldwide and less than 100 in the United States? By contrast,
tuberculosis, an old disease not much discussed these days,
killed nearly 1.6 million people in 2017. Where’s the panic over
this?

If anything, what people like Fauci and the other fearmongers
are demanding will likely make the disease worse. The martial
law they dream about will leave people hunkered down inside
their homes instead of going outdoors or to the beach where the
sunshine and fresh air would help boost immunity. The panic
produced by these fearmongers is likely helping spread the
disease, as massive crowds rush into Walmart and Costco for that
last roll of toilet paper.

The madness over the coronavirus is not limited to politicians
and the medical community. The head of the neoconservative
Atlantic Council wrote an editorial this week urging NATO to
pass an Article 5 declaration of war against the COVID-19 virus!
Are they going to send in tanks and drones to wipe out these
microscopic enemies?

People should ask themselves whether this coronavirus “pandemic”
could be a big hoax, with the actual danger of the disease
massively exaggerated by those who seek to profit – financially
or politically – from the ensuing panic.

That is not to say the disease is harmless. Without question
people will die from coronavirus. Those in vulnerable categories
should take precautions to limit their risk of exposure. But we
have seen this movie before. Government over-hypes a threat as
an excuse to grab more of our freedoms. When the “threat” is
over, however, they never give us our freedoms back.

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-
articles/2020/march/16/the-coronavirus-hoax/
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Big crybaby.