Crisis Update - Media Covers Its Tracks

Covid turncoats try to distance themselves from madness and crimes

Back-pedaling on the Covid narrative is reaching Peloton levels of dangerous mania.
What began as corruption turned into political group think and then neurosis.
Now supporters of “lock down, mask up” blame incompetence and overreaction.
The mea culpa is coordinated. The totalitarian agenda is not over — it’s barely begun.
Doctors, bankers, pharma and digital surveillance plan a re-boot of history.
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Black Hawk Medevac, Photo 1st Lt. Henry Chan CC

Jan 24, 2022

As the helicopter gained height, the patient’s face began to bloat. The pressure of the air pumped into his body expanded rapidly as the cabin pressure fell. Soon his eyes were barely visible.

The medical evacuation had begun at 7,000 feet or just over 2,100 meters in Taos, New Mexico. The patient was to make the short trip to another hospital, in Albuquerque, about 130 miles away. With the ventilator set to maximum pressure, it was enough to rupture the lung’s tiny air sacs, the alveoli, as the craft gained another 3,000 feet. The result: dead on arrival.

Then the pilot went back, collected another Covid patient, and repeated the trip. According to former hospital administrator Bobby Bounds of New Mexico, this happened repeatedly, with a 100 per cent death rate. [1]

Less dramatic than the helicopter is the garbage bag, and just as jaw dropping: hospital staff were putting plastic laundry bags over the heads of any patient who arrived with breathing difficulties.

The bags were pulled down beside the arms. They could be left in place for tens of minutes as staff wheeled patients from the waiting area to a physician and then to a ward. [2]

It was a regular procedure at Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, Texas, from where a video went viral. In Britain, doctors were reported as tying bin bags to cover the sides and back of colleagues’ heads as early as Apr 2020, in a BBC report. [3]

A Pennsylvania school teacher faces calls to resign after a video circulated of her taping a mask to the face of a middle school pupil. The school district insists it was a one-off incident.

These are not the worst abuses but they illustrate a psychosis across whole sectors of society: hospital staff, bureaucrats, elected officials and media.

It is not madness. It is money and position, or power, according to research by Bounds in Texas and New Mexico and by AJ Depriest in Tennessee.

Money

Central banks flooded hospitals, schools and the media with millions of dollars. To access the lucre they had to follow protocols:

• Hospitals: tag patients as Covid, avoid early treatments such as Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, give them Remdesivir and ventilate.

• Schools: mask children, distance and isolate, help to vaccinate.

• Media: accept government advertising in return for uniform Covid propaganda.

Some of these numbers are familiar, yet still mind boggling. Hospitals are rewarded for finding Covid and following protocols that either don’t help — like sending people home — or are invasively harmful. The money is printed/created by central banks and distributed by the bureaucracy with strings attached.

The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare provided Tennessee hospitals with $166,000 for every Covid patient, $39,000 to put them on ventilators, plus a 20 per cent bonus payment for using Remdesivir. There were payments for every Covid test, and again if the test was positive.

In Dec 2021 the Centers for Disease Control said it would cost $25 billion to keep schools open during the pandemic. To date the supplemental Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER III has unleashed almost $200 billion.

Shelby County, which includes Memphis, gets almost $750,000,0000, or three-quarters of a billion dollars in Covid relief funds, just for schools. Nashville public schools get $1/2 billion.

See Moneycircus, Jan 13, 2022 - Crisis Update: Bankers bribe schools with billions to take dose that the military called 'too dangerous'

Governments globally poured millions of dollars into advertising. The UK’s News Media Association — a a £4 billion sector of national and local news organisations with 49 million readers — announced in Apr 2020, the very essence of propaganda:

The Government and the newspaper industry have formed a three-month advertising partnership to help keep the public safe and the nation united throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cash shoveled to the media is harder to track because some advertising contracts were signed before the pandemic was announced. While money bought health professionals and journalists, the prospect of power beguiled politicians. [4]

Apologists

The media for two years has blared fear from dawn to dusk with telltale uniformity. Now, just as uniformly, the narrative is changing. They tell us that Covid is in retreat, that politicians got the call right on Covid, and lugubrious scientists were simply a touch pessimistic in their estimate of fatalities.

“Beware the Covid turncoats crawling out of the woodwork,” writes James Delingpole. He cites a couple of UK journalists whose Tweets betray hypocrisy. In the U.S., a Washington Post opinion writer said it's time to stop obsessing about cases — as if the metric that's driven the response for two years suddenly doesn't matter. “Long Covid” has been a fixture of The Guardian from the beginning.

“Coronavirus may never go away, even with a vaccine,” opines the press. That’s right. We share coronaviruses with animals, so there’s always new variants. That’s why we have lived with common colds forever and there has never been a vaccine.

Common sense could be about to return but there are reasons to be skeptical.

Comments to the Delingpole article are perplexing: an urge to forgive the politicians, big pharma, bankers and military-security professionals. We need them and thus should not be vindictive. Such comments likely reflect the view of precisely those professions. [5]

This is wrong, wrong and wrong. There is much evidence that the pandemic is still seized upon as “a great opportunity.” [6] Whatever history you choose of the pandemic’s origin: the response was prepared in advance and remains in place.

The enabling acts by which governments rule by diktat have not been repealed. The military industrial complex has expanded, joined by the digital financial complex. Surveillance capitalism, an economic system centred around the commodification of personal data, has combined with government to develop new agencies and ministries gathering data, share it with the state-corporatist sector.

Restrictions whisked away privacy in the name of pandemic emergency — while seeking new ways to market private data for control. According to the COVID-19 Civic Freedom Tracker, the countries with restrictions on liberties include:

• Declarations of emergency, 110

• Limits on freedom of assembly, 153

• Limits on privacy, 61

• Limits on freedom of expression, 59

Oxford University’s faculty of law found that Britain’s Coronavirus Act 2000 was a wholly-unnecessary power grab. Health measures were already provided by the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The new law requires less parliamentary oversight and is more vague — for example its provisions for detaining “potentially infections persons” are much more grey. [7]

Letting police decide matters of medical judgment is classic fusion doctrine: the blurring of lines between health, social, psychological and police work. This is the very definition of medical tyranny. It recalls what was done in the name of public health and safety between 1933 and 1945.

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