Dear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, we are very happy to receive and publish a short comment by Don Alberto Strumia to the consecration that took place yesterday in Fatima by the Portuguese and Spanish bishops of their countries to the Virgin, in such a dramatic moment for the world and for 'Europe. And once again we become part of the desire of many Italian faithful that a similar gesture is also made by our bishops. Enjoy the reading.
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The recitation of the Holy Rosary which was held on the day of the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Fatima, ended with the triple act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of Portugal, pronounced by Card. Marto - visibly moved - in union with the Bishops of other Churches scattered throughout the world, was of an absolutely touching religious intensity.
In a moment of emergency like that of the current pandemic triggered by the notorious Covid-19, knowing how to re-cling to the Heart of the Mother of God is the testimony that discriminates against those who still have the true Catholic faith from those who have been overwhelmed by resignation. There are no middle ground, possible compromise roads.
And at the same time it was sad and painful to have to ascertain the total absence of a signal, at least of remote communion, on the part of the Italian ecclesial community. Our Bishops, also solicited by many requests, sent to them by e-mail, starting from the initiative promoted by this blog , signed by dr. Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, have not shown the slightest sensitivity in the face of the request to join, as an Italian Church, to that extraordinary act of renewal of the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I can not even remotely think that this was done out of malice - in case only God will be able to judge - not being able to doubt the sincerity and kindness of several of them that I personally know. Rather, I must think that this is further proof of our still fragile faith that the Lord wanted to ask of us. The thought went to me - and at the beginning of the thought it cannot be commanded - at that passage of the Old Testament that speaks of Moses who cannot convince the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people of Israel leave, enslaved in that country. In that passage it is God himself who says: "I will harden the heart of Pharaoh" (Ex 7,3). But immediately afterwards it is also said: "I will multiply my signs and my wonders".
I await with full confidence that, precisely and also through these and other tests for our faith, the Lord will obtain a true conversion for all our people. The system is jumping at all levels and, even the Church, which up until a few years ago had ruled, is now yielding to us in its public visibility; but not in the most hidden part of the minds and hearts of many lay faithful and clergy.
If you want, there is still time to perform in Italy an act similar to what happened in Fatima, thus renewing what was done by Pius XII in 1942.
In any case, at least individually, if the Italian Bishops are silent, entrenching behind the initials of the CEI - almost as if the episcopal conferences were bodies of divine law, instituted by Christ (!) - the individual lay people will be able to perform, even repeatedly, an act of individual or community consecration, even from a distance. And the priests will be able to consecrate their parishes in their private celebrations behind closed doors, like those of the Upper Room ("while the doors of the place where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came", Jn 20:19) to consecrate their parishes , their religious communities, the groups of faithful entrusted to them. I am sure that many will and will do well to make it known on friends blogs , like this and many others. It will be an example for everyone!Veni Sancte Spiritus, come for Mariam!
Dear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, we are very happy to receive and publish a short comment by Don Alberto Strumia to the consecration that took place yesterday in Fatima by the Portuguese and Spanish bishops of their countries to the Virgin, in such a dramatic moment for the world and for 'Europe. And once again we become part of the desire of many Italian faithful that a similar gesture is also made by our bishops. Enjoy the reading.
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The recitation of the Holy Rosary which was held on the day of the feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Fatima, ended with the triple act of consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of Portugal, pronounced by Card. Marto - visibly moved - in union with the Bishops of other Churches scattered throughout the world, was of an absolutely touching religious intensity.
In a moment of emergency like that of the current pandemic triggered by the notorious Covid-19, knowing how to re-cling to the Heart of the Mother of God is the testimony that discriminates against those who still have the true Catholic faith from those who have been overwhelmed by resignation. There are no middle ground, possible compromise roads.
And at the same time it was sad and painful to have to ascertain the total absence of a signal, at least of remote communion, on the part of the Italian ecclesial community. Our Bishops, also solicited by many requests, sent to them by e-mail, starting from the initiative promoted by this blog , signed by dr. Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, have not shown the slightest sensitivity in the face of the request to join, as an Italian Church, to that extraordinary act of renewal of the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
I can not even remotely think that this was done out of malice - in case only God will be able to judge - not being able to doubt the sincerity and kindness of several of them that I personally know. Rather, I must think that this is further proof of our still fragile faith that the Lord wanted to ask of us. The thought went to me - and at the beginning of the thought it cannot be commanded - at that passage of the Old Testament that speaks of Moses who cannot convince the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the people of Israel leave, enslaved in that country. In that passage it is God himself who says: "I will harden the heart of Pharaoh" (Ex 7,3). But immediately afterwards it is also said: "I will multiply my signs and my wonders".
I await with full confidence that, precisely and also through these and other tests for our faith, the Lord will obtain a true conversion for all our people. The system is jumping at all levels and, even the Church, which up until a few years ago had ruled, is now yielding to us in its public visibility; but not in the most hidden part of the minds and hearts of many lay faithful and clergy.
If you want, there is still time to perform in Italy an act similar to what happened in Fatima, thus renewing what was done by Pius XII in 1942.
In any case, at least individually, if the Italian Bishops are silent, entrenching behind the initials of the CEI - almost as if the episcopal conferences were bodies of divine law, instituted by Christ (!) - the individual lay people will be able to perform, even repeatedly, an act of individual or community consecration, even from a distance. And the priests will be able to consecrate their parishes in their private celebrations behind closed doors, like those of the Upper Room ("while the doors of the place where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came", Jn 20:19) to consecrate their parishes , their religious communities, the groups of faithful entrusted to them. I am sure that many will and will do well to make it known on friends blogs , like this and many others. It will be an example for everyone!Veni Sancte Spiritus, come for Mariam!
Martial law is here, though it’s been given a prettier label. For your own good. All of California, and all of New York are locked down, even though only tiny small areas of each state have had coronavirus cases. Do people not remember how large and (in the old-fashioned usage) diverse these states are? The people in rural areas are being treated to the same level of suspicion of those crammed into cities. Why just California and New York? There are cases in other states. They could spread, too. Why not lock it all down. Indefinitely. Well, that is of course precisely what is happening. Andrew Cuomo, echoing California’s Gavin Newsom’s earlier justification. said, “I want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we could do. And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” There it is. Effeminacy triumphant. We have become a nation of cowardly old women, frightened of everything, sure that our own horrible doom is around every corner. The old joke, so hackneyed I can barely make myself write it, is that a sweater is an article of clothing a child wears when its mother gets cold, has become official policy. Think! Do you understand that If everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy can be used to justify anything? Andrew Cuomo, 2021: “Climate change kills. Thus we must shut down all inessential activity and assert state control over certain industries. I want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we could do. And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.” Insert, “the flu kills”, or “driving kills”, or “uttering unapproved opinions”. Insert anything. How much ruin are we willing to accept to save just one life? The loss of thousand upon thousands of small business? The loss of millions of jobs? The creation of a huge new welfare cohort? Tell me. I’m listening. How much pain should we accept to save just one life. A recession? A depression? Screw the economy. The economy is some abstract, heartless thing. Nobody except effete academics and the greedy care about “the economy”. What about people. Newsom is saying martial law (under its nice name) will last “at least” eight weeks. He gave no indication how and under what conditions it would end. Cuomo was also noncommittal. This does not amaze you? You are willing to accept house arrest for an indefinite and undefined period of time? You are willing to sit and cower as long as the media and your leaders say “Be afraid!” Of course you are willing. Stupid question. I believe it will end, if only because it’s clear that our leaders are making this up as they go along, each looking to other for guidance, a process which guarantees a panic ramp up. But it need not ever end, of course. Because there will always be the necessity of martial law if we must save just one life. We hear routinely how little savings most have. Job losses, which have already begun and will not slow, and going to cause people to lose their homes. How many losses of homes can we take to save just one life? How many suicides from bankruptcy are equal to an 85-year-old emphysema patient succumbing to coronavirus? We accept personal contact even though it spreads killer flu, colds, HIV, a host of other messy STDs, and on and on. We accept people driving and it kills. We let people take walks even though some slip and break their scrawny necks. What exact price is worth it for to semi-sort-of-kinda slow this souped-up cold virus? You must say. You cannot evade the question. Our politicians have not evaded it, and have answered it. They have concluded financial ruin is negligible next to saving just one life. The only people who will survive this madness intact are politicians and oligarchs. “Briggs, what about the numbers? Aren’t all going to get this, and when they do won’t most die or be disfigured for life?” I’ll have another update Tuesday on the numbers. See all the old ones in this link. The best single set of numbers might be that cruise ship, which is likely to be the worst possible case because of the enforced mingling of people. Had 3,770 souls on board, 712 cases or 19% population case rate, with 7 deaths, or 0.18% population death rate, and a 1% case death rate. Did you notice that not everybody got it?
Martial law is here, though it’s been given a prettier label. For
your own good. All of California, and all of New York are locked down,
even though only tiny small areas of each state have had coronavirus
cases.
Do people not remember how large and (in the old-fashioned usage)
diverse these states are? The people in rural areas are being treated to
the same level of suspicion of those crammed into cities.
Why just California and New York? There are cases in other states.
They could spread, too. Why not lock it all down. Indefinitely. Well,
that is of course precisely what is happening.
Andrew Cuomo, echoing California’s Gavin Newsom’s earlier
justification. said, “I want to be able to say to the people of New York
— I did everything we could do. And if everything we do saves just one
life, I’ll be happy.”
There it is. Effeminacy triumphant.
We have become a nation of cowardly old women, frightened of
everything, sure that our own horrible doom is around every corner. The
old joke, so hackneyed I can barely make myself write it, is that a
sweater is an article of clothing a child wears when its mother gets
cold, has become official policy.
Think! Do you understand that If everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy can be used to justify anything?
Andrew Cuomo, 2021: “Climate change kills. Thus we must shut down all
inessential activity and assert state control over certain industries. I
want to be able to say to the people of New York — I did everything we
could do. And if everything we do saves just one life, I’ll be happy.”
Insert, “the flu kills”, or “driving kills”, or “uttering unapproved opinions”. Insert anything.
How much ruin are we willing to accept to save just one life?
The loss of thousand upon thousands of small business? The loss of
millions of jobs? The creation of a huge new welfare cohort? Tell me.
I’m listening. How much pain should we accept to save just one life.
A recession? A depression? Screw the economy. The economy is some
abstract, heartless thing. Nobody except effete academics and the greedy
care about “the economy”. What about people.
Newsom is saying martial law (under its nice name) will last “at
least” eight weeks. He gave no indication how and under what conditions
it would end. Cuomo was also noncommittal.
This does not amaze you? You are willing to accept house
arrest for an indefinite and undefined period of time? You are willing
to sit and cower as long as the media and your leaders say “Be afraid!”
Of course you are willing. Stupid question.
I believe it will end, if only because it’s clear that our leaders
are making this up as they go along, each looking to other for guidance,
a process which guarantees a panic ramp up. But it need not ever end,
of course. Because there will always be the necessity of martial law if
we must save just one life.
We hear routinely how little savings most have. Job losses, which
have already begun and will not slow, and going to cause people to lose
their homes. How many losses of homes can we take to save just one life? How many suicides from bankruptcy are equal to an 85-year-old emphysema patient succumbing to coronavirus?
We accept personal contact even though it spreads killer flu, colds,
HIV, a host of other messy STDs, and on and on. We accept people
driving and it kills. We let people take walks even though some slip and
break their scrawny necks.
What exact price is worth it for to semi-sort-of-kinda slow
this souped-up cold virus? You must say. You cannot evade the question.
Our politicians have not evaded it, and have answered it. They have
concluded financial ruin is negligible next to saving just one life.
The only people who will survive this madness intact are politicians and oligarchs.
“Briggs, what about the numbers? Aren’t all going to get this, and when they do won’t most die or be disfigured for life?”
I’ll have another update Tuesday on the numbers. See all the old ones in this link. The best single set of numbers might be that cruise ship, which is likely to be the worst possible case because of the enforced mingling of people.
Had 3,770 souls on board, 712 cases or 19% population case rate, with
7 deaths, or 0.18% population death rate, and a 1% case death rate. Did
you notice that not everybody got it?
So, this is where we are. Imprisoned by decree due to the Coronavirus pandemic. But look, it's all for a good cause and for your own protection and altruism towards others. Don't leave the house unnecessarily and if you do, keep yourself 2 metres away from others. No hand shaking. Grandparents - keep away from the grand kids. Good, innit? It's for the common good and "Trust us, your government cares about you". I won't argue that such measures are unnecessary because that's a separate issue to the point I am now going to raise. FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN GOING WELL FOR THE LEFT. The blasted alt media couldn't be completely silenced, not even with the phoney "hate speech" laws, with the sanctions imposed on social media posters and pundits, the hosts of blogging sites destroying right wing bloggers work, the doxxers of the left, the threats from Antifa, the ........ well, you get the picture. THE CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVE MET ITS MATCH AND HAS JUST NOT GRABBED THE PUBLIC. THERE IS A RISING TIDE OF OBJECTORS TO BABY MURDER. CONSERVATIVES HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN MEDIA FIGHT-BACK THROUGH VLOGGING. CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE GAINING FOLLOWERS. THE YELLOW VEST REVOLUTION HAS DUG IN AND PERSISTING. HONG KONG AND OTHER POPULIST PROTESTS WERE GAINING MOMENTUM. POPULIST LEADERS WERE COMING TO POWER. AND THAT BLASTED TRUMP!! HE IS DESTROYING THE GLOBALIST UNI-PARTY AND THE FALSE LEFT-RIGHT PARADIGM. HE HAS BROUGHT PATRIOTISM TO THE FORE IF NOT NATIONALISM [ or Nazism as the left are wont to call it]. SO WHAT IS A GOOD, GODLESS, GLOBALIST, LEFTIST POWER BLOC TO DO? ENTER STAGE LEFT [and I mean 'left'] ......... A PANDEMIC!! [By design or by accident does not matter]. BANISH THE PEASANTS TO THEIR HOMES. KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE WATER COOLER AND THE BARS. NO HUMAN BONDING OR SOLIDARITY. RUIN THE ECONOMY SO THAT WE CAN RE-DESIGN IT. GET 'EM CHIPPED. DESTROY CASH. AND, MOST OF ALL, MAKE THEM SIT DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR TELLIES FROM WHERE WE CAN RE-EDUCATE THEM. THOSE GULLIBLE NORMIES MUST BE GIVEN NO CHOICE BUT TO GET OUR MESSAGES, LOUD AND STRONG AND REPETITIOUSLY. So, here we are family. AND WHAT DO WE HAVE ON THE TELLIE TODAY? LET'S SEE ............ 1. NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS [ Your mind programming and daily agenda of what you must think. Mention climate change as often as possible. Scare them. Climate and Corona are gonna kill them]. 2. SPORT [A neutral medium, except for the promo clips hailing the two lesbian footy stars bringing up a transgender child. And the ads. The ads...... always show diversity, at leats 50% of colored actors in this land where there is a black indigenous population of just 2% with the rest being imported]. 3. REALITY SHOWS [ Ensuring that morality is shown to be relative and degeneracy is only in the mind of the beholder because love is love]. 4. PANEL SHOWS [Basic lessons in virtue signaling. Destroy right wing guests by emphasizing their use-by-date and their old-fashionedness. Don't forget to slip in racist labels where possible]. 5. MOVIES [ Jewish dominated agendas. A feminist tool. Soft porn. Anti-family themes]. 6. DRAMAS [Those captivating local productions that run nightly - the source of social engineering, social experimentation, situational ethics and lessons for the youth in morality, moral values and ethics]. AND LAST AND CERTAINLY NOT LEAST ....... 7. PORN [FREE, Yes, Free. Perhaps the cultural Marxists' greatest control vehicle - control by addiction and pleasure to emasculate and deform the male. Subdue, weaken, control]. The Russian Thing backfired. The Impeachment failed. NOW IS THEIR CHANCE FOR A FINAL SHOT TO WIN THE 2020 ELECTION. THE MEDIA IS THEIR VOICE, ALONG WITH HOLLYWEIRD, THE TELEVISION WHERE EVERY PRESENTER MUST BE OPEN-MINDED [valueless]. THE MEDIA IS A NATURAL ALLY OF THE OLIGARCHS - Call them what you will; Plutocracy, the Enlightened Elite, Univeralists, Ecumenists, Fabians, Socialists, Black Hats, The Swamp, Deep State, the Left, etc., etc. AND THE SILICON VALLEY OF THE DOLTS WILL CONTINUE TO SANCTION, RESTRICT and BAN. THE TECHNOCRATS AND OLIGARCHS WERE LOSING. BUT NOW ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY HAS PRESENTED. A PANDEMIC. THEY ARE BACK IN CONTROL.
THERE IS MORE THAT YOU CAN DO THAN WATCHING TELEVISION.
So, this is where we are. Imprisoned by decree due to the Coronavirus pandemic. But look, it's all for a good cause and for your own protection and altruism towards others. Don't leave the house unnecessarily and if you do, keep yourself 2 metres away from others. No hand shaking. Grandparents - keep away from the grand kids. Good, innit? It's for the common good and "Trust us, your government cares about you". I won't argue that such measures are unnecessary because that's a separate issue to the point I am now going to raise. FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN GOING WELL FOR THE LEFT. The blasted alt media couldn't be completely silenced, not even with the phoney "hate speech" laws, with the sanctions imposed on social media posters and pundits, the hosts of blogging sites destroying right wing bloggers work, the doxxers of the left, the threats from Antifa, the ........ well, you get the picture. THE CLIMATE CHANGE NARRATIVE MET ITS MATCH AND HAS JUST NOT GRABBED THE PUBLIC. THERE IS A RISING TIDE OF OBJECTORS TO BABY MURDER. CONSERVATIVES HAVE STARTED THEIR OWN MEDIA FIGHT-BACK THROUGH VLOGGING. CONSPIRACY THEORISTS ARE GAINING FOLLOWERS. THE YELLOW VEST REVOLUTION HAS DUG IN AND PERSISTING. HONG KONG AND OTHER POPULIST PROTESTS WERE GAINING MOMENTUM. POPULIST LEADERS WERE COMING TO POWER. AND THAT BLASTED TRUMP!! HE IS DESTROYING THE GLOBALIST UNI-PARTY AND THE FALSE LEFT-RIGHT PARADIGM. HE HAS BROUGHT PATRIOTISM TO THE FORE IF NOT NATIONALISM [ or Nazism as the left are wont to call it]. SO WHAT IS A GOOD, GODLESS, GLOBALIST, LEFTIST POWER BLOC TO DO? ENTER STAGE LEFT [and I mean 'left'] ......... A PANDEMIC!! [By design or by accident does not matter]. BANISH THE PEASANTS TO THEIR HOMES. KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THE WATER COOLER AND THE BARS. NO HUMAN BONDING OR SOLIDARITY. RUIN THE ECONOMY SO THAT WE CAN RE-DESIGN IT. GET 'EM CHIPPED. DESTROY CASH. AND, MOST OF ALL, MAKE THEM SIT DOWN IN FRONT OF THEIR TELLIES FROM WHERE WE CAN RE-EDUCATE THEM. THOSE GULLIBLE NORMIES MUST BE GIVEN NO CHOICE BUT TO GET OUR MESSAGES, LOUD AND STRONG AND REPETITIOUSLY. So, here we are family. AND WHAT DO WE HAVE ON THE TELLIE TODAY? LET'S SEE ............ 1. NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS [ Your mind programming and daily agenda of what you must think. Mention climate change as often as possible. Scare them. Climate and Corona are gonna kill them]. 2. SPORT [A neutral medium, except for the promo clips hailing the two lesbian footy stars bringing up a transgender child. And the ads. The ads...... always show diversity, at leats 50% of colored actors in this land where there is a black indigenous population of just 2% with the rest being imported]. 3. REALITY SHOWS [ Ensuring that morality is shown to be relative and degeneracy is only in the mind of the beholder because love is love]. 4. PANEL SHOWS [Basic lessons in virtue signaling. Destroy right wing guests by emphasizing their use-by-date and their old-fashionedness. Don't forget to slip in racist labels where possible]. 5. MOVIES [ Jewish dominated agendas. A feminist tool. Soft porn. Anti-family themes]. 6. DRAMAS [Those captivating local productions that run nightly - the source of social engineering, social experimentation, situational ethics and lessons for the youth in morality, moral values and ethics]. AND LAST AND CERTAINLY NOT LEAST ....... 7. PORN [FREE, Yes, Free. Perhaps the cultural Marxists' greatest control vehicle - control by addiction and pleasure to emasculate and deform the male. Subdue, weaken, control]. The Russian Thing backfired. The Impeachment failed. NOW IS THEIR CHANCE FOR A FINAL SHOT TO WIN THE 2020 ELECTION. THE MEDIA IS THEIR VOICE, ALONG WITH HOLLYWEIRD, THE TELEVISION WHERE EVERY PRESENTER MUST BE OPEN-MINDED [valueless]. THE MEDIA IS A NATURAL ALLY OF THE OLIGARCHS - Call them what you will; Plutocracy, the Enlightened Elite, Univeralists, Ecumenists, Fabians, Socialists, Black Hats, The Swamp, Deep State, the Left, etc., etc. AND THE SILICON VALLEY OF THE DOLTS WILL CONTINUE TO SANCTION, RESTRICT and BAN. THE TECHNOCRATS AND OLIGARCHS WERE LOSING. BUT NOW ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY HAS PRESENTED. A PANDEMIC. THEY ARE BACK IN CONTROL.
THERE IS MORE THAT YOU CAN DO THAN WATCHING TELEVISION.
Of late, the bulk of journalists have shown themselves to be left wing SJW's in disguise. This was evident as they called out Trump as a racist for referring to the coronavirus as "the Chinese virus". Historically, many diseases and viruses have been given localised names such as Ebola, Ross River Virus, and so on. There are more but a justification for using a throw-away title is not needed - it's all so petty. This post illustrates just how blatantly hypocritical these leftist progs have become, infected with another virus called Trump Derangement Syndrome. Heads-Up here: . The video below by Dr. Steve Turley is generally a debunking of Racism, but it's the first 3 minutes that drives home the point that media is hypocritical. I challenge you to get through those first 3 minutes without developing a migraine, and you're excused if you tune out after 60 seconds. But, worse is to come !! The next 4 minutes is Dr. Steve giving a sales pitch, however, if you FF, the rest provides some worthwhile thoughts on racism in general.
Of late, the bulk of journalists have shown themselves to be left wing SJW's in disguise. This was evident as they called out Trump as a racist for referring to the coronavirus as "the Chinese virus". Historically, many diseases and viruses have been given localised names such as Ebola, Ross River Virus, and so on. There are more but a justification for using a throw-away title is not needed - it's all so petty. This post illustrates just how blatantly hypocritical these leftist progs have become, infected with another virus called Trump Derangement Syndrome. Heads-Up here: . The video below by Dr. Steve Turley is generally a debunking of Racism, but it's the first 3 minutes that drives home the point that media is hypocritical. I challenge you to get through those first 3 minutes without developing a migraine, and you're excused if you tune out after 60 seconds. But, worse is to come !! The next 4 minutes is Dr. Steve giving a sales pitch, however, if you FF, the rest provides some worthwhile thoughts on racism in general.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A SPOKESMAN FROM STANFORD UNI. MED. SCHOOL HAS JUST HOURS AGO ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAVE TRIALED A DRUG WITH 100% EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST CORONA VIRUS. THE DRUG IS A WELL KNOWN TREATMENT FOR MALARIA CALLED CHLOROQUINE.
THIS MAY, AND I SAY MAY, BE THE REASON THAT AFRICANS ARE LESS AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC, SINCE IT MAY ALREADY BE IN THEIR SYSTEM. IT MAY ALSO BE THE REASON THAT CHINA APPEARS TO HAVE LIMITED THE DEATH RATE FROM THE VIRUS MORE THAN HAVE SOME WESTERN COUNTRIES AS THEY MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN EMPLOYING THE DRUG.
I DID SAY: "OH, WAIT" ! REGARDING THIS BREAKING NEWS. I WILL TELL YOU WHY, AFTER THIS SEGMENT FROM TUCKER CARLSON.
OH, WAIT, BECAUSE THE CHINESE ANNOUNCED THIS TREATMENT OVER A MONTH AGO. Two brief clips follow .....
Do you believe that the West did not know about this development in China? Will you be wondering why, in 2 months time, this drug is not being employed everywhere? CLUE: IT IS CHEAP. NOT MUCH PROFIT THERE FOR THE PHARMA STATE. PROBLEM: The drug derives from a tree native to Peru and my research thus far suggests these trees are becoming scarce. Research ongoing. This is a preliminary post.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, A SPOKESMAN FROM STANFORD UNI. MED. SCHOOL HAS JUST HOURS AGO ANNOUNCED THAT THEY HAVE TRIALED A DRUG WITH 100% EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST CORONA VIRUS. THE DRUG IS A WELL KNOWN TREATMENT FOR MALARIA CALLED CHLOROQUINE.
THIS MAY, AND I SAY MAY, BE THE REASON THAT AFRICANS ARE LESS AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC, SINCE IT MAY ALREADY BE IN THEIR SYSTEM. IT MAY ALSO BE THE REASON THAT CHINA APPEARS TO HAVE LIMITED THE DEATH RATE FROM THE VIRUS MORE THAN HAVE SOME WESTERN COUNTRIES AS THEY MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN EMPLOYING THE DRUG.
I DID SAY: "OH, WAIT" ! REGARDING THIS BREAKING NEWS. I WILL TELL YOU WHY, AFTER THIS SEGMENT FROM TUCKER CARLSON.
OH, WAIT, BECAUSE THE CHINESE ANNOUNCED THIS TREATMENT OVER A MONTH AGO. Two brief clips follow .....
Do you believe that the West did not know about this development in China? Will you be wondering why, in 2 months time, this drug is not being employed everywhere? CLUE: IT IS CHEAP. NOT MUCH PROFIT THERE FOR THE PHARMA STATE. PROBLEM: The drug derives from a tree native to Peru and my research thus far suggests these trees are becoming scarce. Research ongoing. This is a preliminary post.
There are many theories on the origin of Covid-19 and how it was spread. China is blaming the Americans and the US and most of the rest of the world are blaming China.
I am not here going into the "how" of it's transmission, but looking at discussion around its origin or invention, if you like. This is important for pundits opining on the matter because the wrong attribution can see opiners wiped off social media, de-monetized, or have previous research burned.
Some posters have been claiming that the virus originated in the US. Such posters and bloggers have been sanctioned in one way or another. A fact check was recently carried out by USA TODAY which ascertained that the virus originated in China and that it was transmitted by animals to humans in the wet markets in Wuhan - possibly by bats and/or pagolin [scaly ant eater]. DON'T DARE POST ANY OTHER THEORY. Not even the suggestion that it was released from the virology labs in Wuhan either deliberately or accidentally. [The most reasonable cause, excluding nefarious intent which may be likely, is that infected lab animals were sold to traders since it is apparently common knowledge that this occurs for big money]. I am well aware of the many other theories that are considered CT's, and personally I think they ought be free to air and to let people decide, but the tech platforms won't allow it. Here is the [rather flimsy] fact checking article, but my punch-line comes at the end.....
Fact check: Coronavirus originated in China, not elsewhere, researchers and studies say
Matthew Brown
The claim: The coronavirus originated outside China
A piece published by the Centre for Research on Globalization and circulated on social media claims the virus known as COVID-19 originated outside China.
That March 11 posting makes references to a March 4 post on the same site by the same author that claims the virus "may have originated in the U.S." Titled “A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the U.S.?” the earlier post makes several questionable claims about the origins of COVID-19 while misrepresenting cited research and media reports.
The central claim of both the March 4 and 11 posts — that COVID-19 may have been brought to China by the U.S. Army — was recently echoed by a Chinese government official on Twitter. The Chinese official's claims were presented without evidence.
Several of the central statements in the March 4 article misrepresent cited research or make unclear assertions. USA TODAY reached out to Larry Romanoff, author of both posts, for clarification on several of the claims made, but was unable to reach him for comment.
What researchers say: COVID-19 originated in China
The consensus among researchers studying the spread of the virus pinpoints COVID-19’s likely origin to a “wet market,” or live animal market, in Wuhan, China. Though experts have not ruled out the possibility that the pathogen could have been brought to the market by an already infected person, there is no evidence to suggest COVID-19 originated outside the country.
The origin theory for the virus is supplemented by preliminary research into the disease’s genome, as well as the origins of similar diseases. Researchers at the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Centre published the genome of COVID-19 two weeks after cases were reported in late December 2019. Gene sequencing analysis strongly suggests the virus originated in bats and was transferred to humans through a yet-unidentified intermediary species. In early February, Chinese researchers published work suggesting the intermediary species may have been the pangolin (also called a scaly anteater), though this work has not yet undergone a peer-reviewed study.
The conditions for such interspecies pathogen transfer are ripe in wet markets, which are common in parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, resulted from a virus transferring from bats to civet cats and then humans. SARS, discovered in 2003, originated at a wet market similar to the one now suspected to be the origin of COVID-19.
Other claims and theories about the origins of COVID-19, including that the virus was brought to by the U.S. Army during the Military World Games in October in Wuhan, are unsubstantiated and not supported by research into the virus.
An article circulating on social media claims COVID-19 did not originate in China. We rate this claim FALSE because it is not supported by research. The consensus among experts researching the virus places the beginning of its spread at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China.
WHAT I DON'T KNOW IS WHETHER THE ABOVE PATENT IS FOR THIS STRAIN OF VIRUS, IF IT IS THE BASE MODEL FOR THE "NOVEL" CORONA VIRUS, OR IF WHAT WAS PATENTED BEARS NO RELATION TO THE PRESENT VIRUS IN QUESTION. BUT, INTERESTING NO LESS.
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EDIT: ADDITIONAL PURPORTED EVIDENCE [19.3.20] From a web site which the Patriot Right claims is an anti-Western agitprop site. [At the end of this article, I will post this claim from The National Pulse]. Readers can make their own judgement.
COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US
It would be useful to read this prior article for background: China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US? By Larry Romanoff, March 04, 2020 *** As readers will recall from the earlier article (above), Japanese and Taiwanese epidemiologists and pharmacologists have determined that the new coronavirus could have originated in the US since that country is the only one known to have all five types – from which all others must have descended. Wuhan in China has only one of those types, rendering it in analogy as a kind of “branch” which cannot exist by itself but must have grown from a “tree”. The Taiwanese physician noted that in August of 2019 the US had a flurry of lung pneumonias or similar, which the Americans blamed on ‘vaping’ from e-cigarettes, but which, according to the scientist, the symptoms and conditions could not be explained by e-cigarettes. He said he wrote to the US officials telling them he suspected those deaths were likely due to the coronavirus. He claims his warnings were ignored. Immediately prior to that, the CDC totally shut down the US Military’s main bio-lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, due to an absence of safeguards against pathogen leakages, issuing a complete “cease and desist” order to the military. It was immediately after this event that the ‘e-cigarette’ epidemic arose.
We also had the Japanese citizens infected in September of 2019, in Hawaii, people who had never been to China, these infections occurring on US soil long before the outbreak in Wuhan but only shortly after the locking down of Fort Detrick. Then, on Chinese social media, another article appeared, aware of the above but presenting further details. It stated in part that five “foreign” athletes or other personnel visiting Wuhan for the World Military Games (October 18-27, 2019) were hospitalised in Wuhan for an undetermined infection. The article explains more clearly that the Wuhan version of the virus could have come only from the US because it is what they call a “branch” which could not have been created first because it would have no ‘seed’. It would have to have been a new variety spun off the original ‘trunk’, and that trunk exists only in the US. (1) There has been much public speculation that the coronavirus had been deliberately transmitted to China but, according to the Chinese article, a less sinister alternative is possible. If some members of the US team at the World Military Games (18-27 October) had become infected by the virus from an accidental outbreak at Fort Detrick it is possible that, with a long initial incubation period, their symptoms might have been minor, and those individuals could easily have ‘toured’ the city of Wuhan during their stay, infecting potentially thousands of local residents in various locations, many of whom would later travel to the seafood market from which the virus would spread like wildfire (as it did). That would account also for the practical impossibility of locating the legendary “patient zero” – which in this case has never been found since there would have been many of them. Next, Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease expert at Georgetown University in Washington, said in an article in Science magazine that the first human infection has been confirmed as occurring in November 2019, (not in Wuhan), suggesting the virus originated elsewhere and then spread to the seafood markets. “One group put the origin of the outbreak as early as 18 September 2019.” (2) (3)
Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally. Description of earliest cases suggests the outbreak began elsewhere. The article states:
“As confirmed cases of a novel virus surge around the world with worrisome speed, all eyes have so far focused on a seafood market in Wuhan, China, as the origin of the outbreak. But a description of the first clinical cases published in The Lancet on Friday challenges that hypothesis.” (4) (5)
The paper, written by a group of Chinese researchers from several institutions, offers details about the first 41 hospitalized patients who had confirmed infections with what has been dubbed 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). In the earliest case, the patient became ill on 1 December 2019 and had no reported link to the seafood market, the authors report. “No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases”, they state. Their data also show that, in total, 13 of the 41 cases had no link to the marketplace. “That’s a big number, 13, with no link”, says Daniel Lucey . . . (6) Earlier reports from Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization had said the first patient had onset of symptoms on 8 December 2019 – and those reports simply said “most” cases had links to the seafood market, which was closed on 1 January. (7) “Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019 – if not earlier – because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan – and perhaps elsewhere – before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace”, Lucey asserts. “China must have realized the epidemic did not originate in that Wuhan Huanan seafood market”, Lucey told Science Insider. (8) Kristian Andersen is an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin. He said the scenario was “entirely plausible” of infected persons bringing the virus into the seafood market from somewhere outside. According to the Science article,
“Andersen posted his analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research website. It suggests they had a “most recent common ancestor” – meaning a common source – as early as 1 October 2019.” (9)
It was interesting that Lucey also noted that MERS was originally believed to have come from a patient in Saudi Arabia in June of 2012, but later and more thorough studies traced it back to an earlier hospital outbreak of unexplained pneumonia in Jordan in April of that year. Lucey said that from stored samples from people who died in Jordan, medical authorities confirmed they had been infected with the MERS virus. (10) This would provide impetus for caution among the public in accepting the “official standard narrative” that the Western media are always so eager to provide – as they did with SARS, MERS, and ZIKA, all of which ‘official narratives’ were later proven to have been wrong. In this case, the Western media flooded their pages for months about the COVID-19 virus originating in the Wuhan seafood market, caused by people eating bats and wild animals. All of this has been proven wrong. Not only did the virus not originate at the seafood market, it did not originate in Wuhan at all, and it has now been proven that it did not originate in China but was brought to China from another country. Part of the proof of this assertion is that the genome varieties of the virus in Iran and Italy have been sequenced and declared to have no part of the variety that infected China and must, by definition, have originated elsewhere. It would seem the only possibility for origination would be the US because only that country has the “tree trunk” of all the varieties. And it may therefore be true that the original source of the COVID-19 virus was the US military bio-warfare lab at Fort Detrick. This would not be a surprise, given that the CDC completely shut down Fort Detrick, but also because, as I related in an earlier article, between 2005 and 2012 the US had experienced 1,059 events where pathogens had been either stolen or escaped from American bio-labs during the prior ten years. *
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Larry Romanoff is a retired management consultant and businessman. He has held senior executive positions in international consulting firms, and owned an international import-export business. He has been a visiting professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, presenting case studies in international affairs to senior EMBA classes. Mr. Romanoff lives in Shanghai and is currently writing a series of ten books generally related to China and the West. He can be contacted at: 2186604556@qq.com. He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
HERE IS THE OBJECTION TO THE ABOVE "EVIDENCE" FROM THE NATIONAL PULSE..
Chinese bots have flocked to Twitter since the beginning of the coronavirus public relations effort emanating from Beijing.
In the past few days especially, brand new “bot”-like accounts following zero people, and being followed back by no one, have flooded Twitter threads attacking the United States of America, President Trump, and many who believe the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should have to answer tough questions about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Just a few of the bots made in recent months promoting Chinese propaganda (Raheem Kassam/The National Pulse)The accounts appear to be flocking to defend Chinese Communist Party state actors such as Lijian Zhao – China’s “Information Department” Deputy Director General, and Lin Songtian, China’s Ambassador to South Africa. Thousands of new accounts – many the same attacking the President and the United States – were created in March 2020 and have taken to “liking” and “retweeting” CCP propagandists such as Zhao and Songtian, including on stories such as: “COVID-19: Further Evidence that the Virus Originated in the US”.
The article links to a conspiracy theory published in an outlet called GlobalResearch.ca, a Canadian-based site which often disseminates anti-Western propaganda. The Chinese bots also promote the website separately. Other recent articles on ‘Global Research’ include:
Western Anti-Chinese Propaganda Exaggerates Coronavirus Danger, Creates Panic;
Coronavirus Is Becoming a Western Excuse for Sinophobia and “China-Bashing”;
America’s “Hybrid War” against China has Entered a New Phase;
COVID-19 Coronavirus: A Fake Pandemic? Who’s Behind It?;
Coronavirus COVID-19: “Made in China” or “Made in America”?
The accounts have not been suspended and/or limited by Twitter, and neither CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, nor the rest of the political or media establishments in the Western have commented upon the surge in social media agitprop pushed by the CCP. One can’t help but wonder if this would be the same if Russia were behind the disinformation campaign.
Raheem Kassam is the Editor-in-Chief of the National Pulse, and former senior advisor to Brexit leader Nigel Farage. Kassam is the best-selling author of 'No Go Zones' and 'Enoch Was Right', a co-host at the War Room: Impeachment podcast, a Lincoln fellow at the Claremont Institute, and a fellow at the Bow Group think tank. Kassam is an academic advisory board member at the Institut des Sciences Sociales, Economiques et Politiques in Lyon, France. He resides in Washington, D.C
