Covid 19 crisis

  There was a grand effort, on display in thousands of articles and news broadcasts daily, to normalize the lockdown and all its destruction of the last months. US didn’t lock down almost the entire country in 1968-69, 1957, or 1949-1952, or even during 1918. But terrifying few days in March 2020 caused an avalanche of…
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  Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, unemployment projections already forecast up to 20 million lost jobs due to the tech revolution by 2030. Robots are now replacing humans in response to the virus. Will the unemployed ever return to work? The Financial Time reported in 2016: “Scientists have warned that…
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  On April 6, 2020, the University of Manchester published a paper titled COVID-19 Disinformation: Two Short Reports on the Russian Dimension. That paper focused on highly funded disinformation programs, some funded by the EU and/or UK governments seemingly tasked with censoring or crushing media that strayed from the official…
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  Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment and reflect on what seemed most important to you just a year ago, or even a few months ago. Then, you may have been thinking that Russian interference in western politics…
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  There’s no denying that the mainstream media played a huge role in the destruction of basic civil rights and human dignity over the past few months. Just so we’re clear: the virus isn’t the biggest hoax. The mainstream media’s constant fear-mongering is the biggest hoax in human history.…
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  As governments around the world continue to seek solutions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, companies are eager to sell their technology as a silver bullet to defeating the virus. The public already has seen privacy-invasive proposals for geolocation tracking and face recognition. Some vendors of surveillance…
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  The market is being flooded with blood tests designed to check for coronavirus antibodies. Naturally, many people think it’s a good idea to take an antibody test to determine if they were exposed to the virus (and if they have immunity). Of course, others want the test to know if it’s “safe” to go back…
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  Ben Garrison is an American editorial cartoonist from Montana whose stated goal is “to help raise awareness of the drift towards tyranny” by helpfully labeling everything in his drawings. He is a self-described libertarian, although his cartoons tend to contain a strong paleo-conservative and alt-right streak as…
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  We had the War on Terror. Are we entering a new War on Bioterror? Is everyone a suspected or asymptomatic carrier and thus able to be stripped of their rights? Although officials are not using this exact term, we are now in a War on Bioterror, as government after government has declared war on the new coronavirus…
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  Most countries have cautiously eased quarantine measures introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic, but so far there are still many who impose strict regulations for tourists. As the anti-COVID-19 vaccine is being developed, the idea of introducing immunity passports is increasingly being discussed.These…
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