Coronavirus (COVID-19) General News Collection & Resources

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New study supports remdesivir as COVID-19 treatment

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Senator Scott Jensen targeted by Minnesota Medical Board for speaking out about COVID-19
 Jul 6, 2020

 

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mixing political wishes and misleading the public should be a death penalty when it cost lives to be lost...this man has no morals and forgot  just what the Hippocratic oath was about when how took it just what  that oath should have required him to do

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Physicians give first comprehensive review of COVID-19's effects outside the lung

 

[...] review—the first extensive review of COVID-19's effects on all affected organs outside the lungs—was published today in Nature Medicine.

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Does UV light kill the new coronavirus?

 

Ultraviolet light has been used to stop pathogens in their tracks for decades. But does it work against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic?

 

The short answer is yes. But it takes the right kind of UV in the right dosage, a complex operation that is best administered by trained professionals. In other words, many at-home UV-light devices claiming to kill SARS-CoV-2 likely aren't a safe bet....

 

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‘Mindspace’ – Influencing behaviour through public policy‘.   2010       uk government

 

 

 

 

 

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Donald Trump wears a face mask for the first time in public

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Edited July 12, 2020 by dufus

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3 hours ago, aum said:

Does UV light kill the new coronavirus?

 

Ultraviolet light has been used to stop pathogens in their tracks for decades. But does it work against SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the pandemic?

 

The short answer is yes. But it takes the right kind of UV in the right dosage, a complex operation that is best administered by trained professionals. In other words, many at-home UV-light devices claiming to kill SARS-CoV-2 likely aren't a safe bet....

 

 Many of those available right now may not contain UVC lamps but merely coloured LEDs miss-sold as ultraviolet lamps i.e. as per Aliexpress listings . Its even likely given some countries are in mid summer with bright sunshine ergo high levels of ultraviolet, that this may not actually kill all of the virus spores.

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Pathologist found blood clots in 'almost every organ' during autopsies on Covid-19 patients

(CNN)Autopsies on people who died of the coronavirus are helping doctors understand how the disease affects the body -- and one of the most remarkable findings concerned blood clotting, a pathologist says.

 

Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, the chairman of the department of pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, spoke to Erin Burnett on OutFront Thursday night.

 

Some Covid-19 patients are known to develop blood clotting issues, but the degree and the extent to which that occurs was described as "dramatic" by Rapkiewicz.

 

In the early stages of the pandemic, bedside clinicians noticed a lot of blood clotting "in lines and various large vessels," she said.

"What we saw at autopsy was sort of an extension of that," she said. "The clotting was not only in the large vessels but also in the smaller vessels.

 

"And this was dramatic, because though we might have expected it in the lungs, we found it in almost every organ that we looked at in our autopsy study," she said. Rapkiewicz's study outlining her findings was published at the end of June in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine.

 

The autopsies also showed something unusual about megakaryocytes, or large bone marrow cells. They usually don't circulate outside the bones and lungs, Rapkiewicz said.

 

"We found them in the heart and the kidneys and the liver and other organs," she said. "Notably in the heart, megakaryocytes produce something called platelets that are intimately involved in blood clotting."
Researchers hope to discover how these cells influence small vessel clotting in Covid-19, she said.

 

Pathologists have been surprised by something they didn't find.

 

During early stages of the pandemic, doctors thought the virus would provoke inflammation in the heart with myocarditis, she said.

But autopsies have found a very low incidents of myocarditis, Rapkiewicz said.

 

She said that one of the "opportunities -- if there is one to count in the virus" is that pathologists have had a chance to examine the organs of many Covid-19 victims and investigate the disease processes that take place. She said that opportunity really wasn't available with H1N1 or the original SARS outbreak.

 

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Scans Reveal Heart Damage in Over Half of COVID-19 Patients in Study

 

A study on heart scans of COVID-19 patients has revealed more than half had some form of damage.

 

The study involved 1,216 patients, of whom 813 had been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 298 were deemed probable cases. The participants were from 69 countries across six continents. They each had an echocardiogram, a type of ultrasound scan for the heart, between April 3 and 20.

 

Of the total 1,216 patients, 667 (55 percent) had abnormalities in their scan and one in seven participants had what researchers described as "severe abnormalities," according to the paper published in the journal European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging.

 

On average, the participants were aged 62, and 70 percent were male. Sixty percent of the scans were performed in a critical care setting, such as an ICU unit or emergency room, while the others were carried out in general medicine settings, cardiology, respiratory, or COVID-19 wards. Some 54 percent of the patients had severe COVID-19....

 

 

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Hallmark of severe COVID-19 patients identified

 

A large team of researchers with members affiliated with a host of institutions in France has identified what they believe is a hallmark of severe COVID-19 patients. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of 50 COVID-19 patients in France and what they learned from them.

 

The global pandemic has led medical scientists around the world to study the SARS-CoV-2 virus and associated infections. One characteristic of such infections is the difference in degree of symptoms: some people are asymptomatic, while others find themselves unable to breathe. Researchers are hoping that if the reason for different reactions to infection can be found, a means of treating people with severe infections may soon follow. In this new effort, the researchers studied 50 patients in French hospitals with varying symptoms—from those with a minor cough to those on ventilators. Their goal was to find a common factor in the patients with severe symptoms.

 

In analyzing blood, tissue, immune cells and other samples from the patients, the researchers came upon what they believe is a signature for people with severe infections—a combination of an interferon response deficiency and exacerbated inflammation. They suggest the signature may represent a hallmark for severely ill COVID-19 patients. The researchers suggest their findings could lead to therapies that boost interferon response to an infection while also reducing inflammation.

 

More specifically, the researchers found that critically ill patients had a deficiency in the response of type I interferons—a kind of protein that is used by the immune system to fight infections. In addition, there were higher than normal levels of proinflammatory signaling. Together, the two responses left patients with little ammunition to fight their infections. The work builds on studies by other researchers finding that interferon signaling in infected areas may play a role in mitigating disease progression. Such work has shown that duration, timing and location of interferon exposure to the virus are critical factors that appear to underlie the degree of success with current therapies.

 

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IL Public Health officer Ngozi O. Ezike, MD., explained how state determines coronavirus numbers 

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Over half of coronavirus patients in Spain have developed neurological problems, studies show

 

New research indicates that Covid-19 is causing a wide range of disorders in the nervous system and may be directly attacking the brain

 

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus attacks the respiratory system, but there is growing evidence that it also affects the nervous system. Several studies based on thousands of Spanish patients show that most of these individuals developed at least one neurological problem. This manifested itself in a wide range of symptoms, ranging from headaches to comatose states. In a percentage of cases, neurological conditions were even the principal cause of death. Although these symptoms have been attributed to the body’s excessive immune response to Covid-19, some research indicates that the virus is directly attacking the brain.

The Spanish Neurology Association (SEN) has collated the most recent studies carried out in Spain on the connection between the coronavirus, the brain and the entire nervous system. The research is varied; it includes investigations on how the virus changes a person’s sense of smell and taste, research on headaches in infected healthcare workers, and a study into strokes in 1,600 patients with Covid-19.

But the most significant piece of research is a registry called Albacovid, which studies the neurological conditions observed in 841 coronavirus patients in two hospitals in Albacete in the Spanish region of Castilla-La Mancha during the peak of the crisis in March. The results, published in the specialist journal Neurology a few weeks ago, show that 57% of these patients developed one or several neurological symptoms.

“The neurological spectrum is very wide,” says Tomás Segura, the head of neurology at the University Hospital of Albacete, which was one of the two medical centers to participate in the paper. According to Segura, who co-authored the study, the most common symptoms experienced by coronavirus patients were myalgia, headaches and dizziness. He points out that nearly 20% also presented disorders of consciousness, although these symptoms were concentrated among elderly patients. Another 20% of patients (they are not exclusive groups) developed neuropsychiatric problems such as insomnia, anxiety and psychosis. “Some of the symptoms, like myalgia, insomnia and headaches, had not been observed in previous studies,” adds Segura, who also teaches at the University of Castilla-La Mancha.

The range of symptoms does not end there. In a small but significant percentage of cases (between 1% and 5%), neurologists also detected myopathy (neuromuscular disease), dysautonomia (a dysfunction that affects the autonomic nervous system) and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke. In less than 1% of cases, the researchers also observed convulsions, movement disorders and encephalitis in patients. In a dozen cases, the patient went into a coma. What’s more, neurological complications were the main cause of death in 4% of coronavirus victims, according to the study.

“The Albacovid registry indicates that neurological symptoms are more common in coronavirus hospital patients than was once thought,” says doctor José Miguel Lainez, the president of SEN. “Additionally, the fact that this registry has been made with the largest number of patients, compared with other studies carried out in other countries, leads us to believe that the data in this register are more accurate, at least in relation to the Spanish population.”

    The most common symptoms experienced by coronavirus patients were myalgia, headaches and dizziness

Another large-scale study, this one with 909 coronavirus patients in Madrid, showed that 90% of cases simultaneously experienced changes to, or the loss of, the sense of smell and taste. In most of these cases, these changes were the only clinical expression of coronavirus or were accompanied by other minor symptoms. Other viral infections, like those caused by the flu, rhinovirus and human parainfluenza viruses, also cause these disorders, but this is attributed to the nasal condition caused by the infection. In the Madrid study, more than half of the patients did not experience any congestion. This means that the coronavirus may be directly acting against the central nervous system.

The most recent study was published last week in the prestigious journal Brain. This investigation, which featured the largest number of patients (1,683) and longest duration (50 days), was aimed at detecting and analyzing cerebrovascular disease in patients with Covid-19. According to the research, 23 of these patients (1.4% of cases) suffered a brain attack or stroke. What is relevant in this case is not the number of cases, which is also significant, but the quality of the data, which is based on neuroimaging and an analysis of the affected brain tissue. The evidence of these small episodes of generalized strokes is of concern to neurologists, because it could indicate that the coronavirus can enter the brain.

“The brain is characterized for being isolated from the bustle of the world. If there is a pathogen in the rest of the body, the blood-brain barrier stops it from entering,” explains Segura. This defense system allows oxygen-filled blood to reach the capillaries and even the neurons, but filters out toxins, bacteria and viruses that travel in the bloodstream. “The rupture of this barrier is an effect that we have not seen before,” he adds. For Segura, finding the endothelial cells (the thin layer of cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels) in the samples of analyzed blood tissue could indicate that the coronavirus has overcome the blood-brain barrier, and that the neurological problems have not been caused by weakness from the immune system’s response to Covid-19. According to Segura, the world is facing “a respiratory virus that is also neurotoxic.”

 

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And yet SOME POLITICIANS in one major country and a few other places in the world refuse take his virus as anything but catching a common cold and all for political and false economic reasons.  Not to mention they WILL NEVER  re-stat their economy UNTIL they get COVID19  under control.

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Media Mask-Mania, or Covid19 Groupthink

 

I never thought I’d see the day when publicly wearing a muzzle would constitute a proof of virtue in the same country whose government, less than twenty years ago, rationalized the bloody invasion of Afghanistan as a way of saving women from veiling their faces.

 

But then, I never thought I’d hear American liberals proudly denounce supporters of the US Constitution as a “death cult,” nor that I’d actually start to find Donald Trump sounding almost reasonable.

 

But at least there’s one thing we can all be sure about: “mainstream” news media, busily cheerleading for the death of freedom, will continue to gush with absurdities, self-contradictions and victim-shaming memes in their propaganda war to Keep America Gagged. The Bill of Rights (in case you haven’t noticed) is history; today, we demonstrate our patriotism by creeping around hiding our faces. Dissenters need not apply.

 

If you think I’m exaggerating, I suspect you haven’t been paying attention. Recently I had the poor judgment to turn on National Public Radio for about an hour, under the impression that I was going to learn something about the day’s news.

 

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Edited July 19, 2020 by dufus

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Govt mulling over compulsory use of face masks in public areas, says PM (updated)

 

 

PETALING JAYA: The government is considering making it compulsory for people to use face masks in public places, with details to be announced soon once they are finalised, says the Prime Minister.

 

Showing clear concern that some have begun to throw caution to the wind, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said the battle with Covid-19 is far from over and reminded Malaysians to follow safety measures such as using face masks, practising good hand hygiene and social distancing.

 

“The government is considering making it compulsory to wear face masks in public places.

 

“Details on this will be announced when the relevant rules have been finalised by the government, ” he said during a special address on Monday (July 20).

 

He expressed concern over the rise of new clusters, saying that 13 new clusters have emerged during the recovery movement control order (MCO).

 

“For example, the Kuala Lumpur restaurant cluster among workers which were reported since July 6 and the Stutong cluster which started since July 18.

 

“Besides that, since July 7, there were four new clusters detected from those who returned from abroad which include a cluster in Sarawak (three cases), Melaka (five cases), Terengganu (three cases) and Kuala Lumpur (two cases).

 

“What worries me more is that Covid-19 positive cases have returned to double digits since a few days ago, ” he said.

 

Muhyiddin added that if necessary, the government will place Malaysians who had just returned from overseas at quarantine centres in order to control imported cases more effectively.

 

Law enforcement will also be beefed up with heavier penalties imposed on those found to be flouting the laws and regulations, he said.

 

Muhyiddin warned that if cases spiked and Malaysia had to go back into a stricter MCO, the country stood to lose RM2bil daily and millions of Malaysians would lose their source of income.

 

“We had just witnessed the positive impact from the government’s strict measures and the people’s high discipline throughout the enforcement of the MCO.

 

“Our national economy has also started to pick up and we are getting to enjoy our lives by practising the new normal.

 

“However, let us not be careless and negligent. I want to again remind all of you that the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over.

 

“So let us all persevere in our efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, ” he said.

 

Source: Govt mulling over compulsory use of face masks in public areas, says PM (updated) (via TheStar Online)

Edited July 20, 2020 by zanderthunder

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New study identifies 21 existing drugs that could treat COVID-19

 

A Nature study authored by a global team of scientists and led by Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, has identified 21 existing drugs that stop the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

 

The scientists analyzed one of the world's largest collections of known drugs for their ability to block the replication of SARS-CoV-2, and reported 100 molecules with confirmed antiviral activity in laboratory tests. Of these, 21 drugs were determined to be effective at concentrations that could be safely achieved in patients. Notably, four of these compounds were found to work synergistically with remdesivir, a current standard-of-care treatment for COVID-19.

 

"Remdesivir has proven successful at shortening the recovery time for patients in the hospital, but the drug doesn't work for everyone who receives it. That's not good enough," says Chanda, director of the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at Sanford Burnham Prebys and senior author of the study. "As infection rates continue to rise in America and around the world, the urgency remains to find affordable, effective, and readily available drugs that can complement the use of remdesivir, as well as drugs that could be given prophylactically or at the first sign of infection on an outpatient basis."

 

Extensive testing conducted

 

In the study, the research team performed extensive testing and validation studies, including evaluating the drugs on human lung biopsies that were infected with the virus, evaluating the drugs for synergies with remdesivir, and establishing dose-response relationships between the drugs and antiviral activity.

 

Of the 21 drugs that were effective at blocking viral replication, the scientists found:

• 13 have previously entered clinical trials for other indications and are effective at concentrations, or doses, that could potentially be safely achieved in COVID-19 patients.
• Two are already FDA approved: astemizole (allergies), clofazamine (leprosy), and remdesivir has received Emergency Use Authorization from the agency (COVID-19).
• Four worked synergistically with remdesivir, including the chloroquine derivative hanfangchin A (tetrandrine), an antimalarial drug that has reached Phase 3 clinical trials.

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Meet the scientists on the front lines of the race to find a treatment for COVID-19: Laura Riva, Ph.D., and Laura Martin-Sancho, Ph.D., two postdoctoral researchers in the Chanda lab at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute. Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

 

"This study significantly expands the possible therapeutic options for COVID-19 patients, especially since many of the molecules already have clinical safety data in humans," says Chanda. "This report provides the scientific community with a larger arsenal of potential weapons that may help bring the ongoing global pandemic to heel."

 

The researchers are currently testing all 21 compounds in small animal models and "mini lungs," or lung organoids, that mimic human tissue. If these studies are favorable, the team will approach the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss a clinical trial(s) evaluating the drugs as treatments for COVID-19.

 

"Based on our current analysis, clofazimine, hanfangchin A, apilimod and ONO 5334 represent the best near-term options for an effective COVID-19 treatment," says Chanda. "While some of these drugs are currently in clinical trials for COVID-19, we believe it's important to pursue additional drug candidates so we have multiple therapeutic options if SARS-CoV-2 becomes drug resistant."

 

Screening one of the world's largest drug libraries

 

The drugs were first identified by high-throughput screening of more than 12,000 drugs from the ReFRAME drug repurposing collection—the most comprehensive drug repurposing collection of compounds that have been approved by the FDA for other diseases or that have been tested extensively for human safety.

 

Arnab Chatterjee, Ph.D., vice president of medicinal chemistry at Calibr and co-author on the paper, says ReFRAME was established to tackle areas of urgent unmet medical need, especially neglected tropical diseases. "We realized early in the COVID-19 pandemic that ReFRAME would be an invaluable resource for screening for drugs to repurpose against the novel coronavirus," says Chatterjee.

 

The drug screen was completed as rapidly as possible due to Chanda's partnership with the scientist who discovered the first SARS virus, Kwok-Yung Yuen, M.D., chair of Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong; and Shuofeng Yuan, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, who had access to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in February 2020.

 

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Edited July 24, 2020 by aum

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there is a lot of great work out there, some being suppressed because of politicians with stupid dumbass attitudes or them simply wrong minded political expedient policies OVER  scientific fact.

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Belarus president unwilling to accept additional terms to get foreign loans

 

MINSK, 19 June (BelTA) – Additional conditions which do nto apply to the financial part are unacceptable for Belarus, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko said when speaking about external lending during a meeting to discuss support measures for the real economic sector on the part of the banking system, BelTA has learned.

 

Aleksandr Lukashenko asked the participants of the meeting how things were with the provision of foreign credit assistance to Belarus. “What are our partners' requirements? It was announced that they can provide Belarus with $940 million in so-called rapid financing. How are things here?” the head of state inquired.

 

At the same time, he stressed that additional conditions which do not apply to the financial part are unacceptable for the country. “We hear the demands, for example, to model our coronavirus response on that of Italy. I do not want to see the Italian situation to repeat in Belarus. We have our own country and our own situation,” the president said.

 

According to the president, the World Bank has showed interest in Belarus' coronavirus response practices. “It is ready to fund us ten times more than it offered initially as a token of commendation for our efficient fight against this virus. The World Bank has even asked the Healthcare Ministry to share the experience. Meanwhile, the IMF continues to demand from us quarantine measures, isolation, a curfew. This is nonsense. We will not dance to anyone's tune,” said the president.

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The Ultimate Divide and Conquer

 

Western civilization, led by the US government and media, has embarked upon a campaign of mass psychological terrorism designed to cover for the collapsing economy, set up a new pretext for Wall Street’s ongoing plunder expedition, radically escalate the police state, deeply traumatize people into submission to total social conformity, and radically aggravate the anti-social, anti-human atomization of the people.

 

The pretext for this abomination is an epidemic which objectively is comparable to the seasonal flu and is caused by the same kind of Coronavirus we’ve endured so long without totalitarian rampages and mass insanity.

 

The global evidence is converging on the facts: This flu is somewhat more contagious than the norm and is especially dangerous for those who are aged and already in poor health from pre-existing maladies. It is not especially dangerous for the rest of the population.

 

The whole concept of “lockdowns” is exactly upside down, exactly the wrong way any sane society would respond to this circumstance.

 

It’s the vulnerable who should be shielded while nature takes its course among the general population, who should go about life as usual. Dominionist-technocratic rigidity can’t prevent an epidemic from cycling through the population in spite of the delusions of that religion, especially since Western societies began their measures far too late anyway.

 

So it’s best to let herd immunity develop as fast as it naturally will, at which time the virus recedes from lack of hosts (and is likely to mutate in a milder direction along the way). This is the only way to bring a safer environment for all including the most vulnerable.

 

The fact that most societies have rejected the sane, scientific route in favor of doomed-to-fail attempts at a forcible violent segregation and sterilization is proof that governments aren’t concerned with the public health (as if we didn’t know that already from a thousand policies of poisoning the environment while gutting the health care system), but are very ardent to use this crisis they artificially generated in order radically to escalate their police state power toward totalitarian goals.

 

The whole concept of self-isolation and anti-social “distancing” is radically anti-human. We evolved over millions of years to be social creatures living in tight-knit groups. Although modern societies ideologically and socioeconomically work to massify and atomize people, nevertheless almost all of us still seek close human companionship in our lives.

 

(I suspect most of the internet police-state-mongers are not only fascists at heart but are confirmed misanthropic loners who couldn’t care less about human closeness.)

 

This terror campaign seeks to blast to pieces any remaining human closeness, which means any remaining humanity as such, the better to isolate individual atoms for subjection to total domination. Arendt wrote profoundly on this goal of totalitarian governments, though even she didn’t envision a state-driven cult of the literal physical repulsion of every atom from every other atom.

 

So far the people are submitting completely to a terror campaign dedicated to the total eradication of whatever community was left in the world, and especially whatever community was starting to be rebuilt.

 

Some dream of this terror campaign somehow bringing about a magical collective transformation. They don’t explain how that is supposed to happen when everyone’s so terrorized they’re desperate to detach physically from their own shadows, let alone physically come together with other people. But any kind of political or social action, any kind of movement-building, requires close person-to-person contact.

 

It seems that for most erstwhile self-alleged dissidents, the fact that social media is no substitute for face-to-face organizing and group action, a fact hitherto universally acknowledged by these dissidents, is another truth suddenly to be jettisoned replaced by its complete antithesis.

 

Thus the terror campaign is a virus causing those it infects to abdicate all activism and all prospect for all future activism, for as long as they remain insane with the fever of this propaganda terror.

 

Far more profoundly and evoking despair, the terror campaign is a virus causing those it infects to fear and loathe all human contact, all companionship, all closeness, all things which ever made us human in the first place. Prior totalitarian regimes sought this lack of contact and trust through networks of informers.

 

These networks are part of today’s terror campaign as well, encouraged from above and spontaneously arising from below as a result of the feeling of terror as well as the exercise of prior petty-evil intentions on the part of petty-evil individuals.

 

But today’s totalitarian potential is far worse than this. Now the regimes aspiring to total domination have terrorized and brainwashed the vast majority of people into an automatic physical distrust of all other people. One no longer fears that someone is an informer, but fears the very existence of another human being.

 

Any kind of human relations, from personal friendship and romance to friendly social gatherings and clubs to social and cultural movements become impossible under such circumstances. This threatens to be the end of the very concept of shared humanity, to be replaced by an anthill of slave atoms with no consciousness beyond fear and the most animal concern for food and shelter, which already is allowed or denied in the same way experimenters do with lab rats.

 

And the more people fear and loathe the literal physical existence of all other people, the more the situation becomes ripe for every epidemic of murder, from the spiking rate of domestic violence and killings to incipient lynch mobs to pogroms to Nazi-style extermination campaigns.

 

This is the system’s end goal. It’s the logical end where every trend of today leads. All of it is trumped up over an epidemic which objectively is a flu season somewhat rougher than average.

 

Why do the people want to surrender and throw away all reality and future prospect of shared humanity, happiness, freedom, well-being, over so little? Is this really a terminal totalitarian death cult, the globe as one massive Jonestown?

 

So far it seems this is what the majority wants. If they don’t really want this consummation of universal death in spirit, emotion and body, they’d better snap out of their terror-induced mental delirium fast, before it’s too late.

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The USA currently may be TRYING to lead, but not many major democracies in the world are following the current crop of idiocy inspired people in power in that country.

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"With numbers diminishing very quickly in Sweden, we see no point in wearing a face mask in Sweden, not even on public transport."

 Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/sweden-unveils-promising-covid-19-data-as-new-cases-plunge