Faith in government is the source of the pandemic

 Tom Woods just published the following observation in his newsletter:

Three reasons why progressives revere lockdowns:

(1) They hold a superstitious belief in the powers of the state -- so if the state says it can wipe out a virus, who is to say it cannot?

(2) It involves "experts" dictating to the stupid rubes, which is their preferred model of governance.

(3) It allows them to ridicule the working-class people they despise -- why, if only these backward hicks would "follow the science," we would be out of this thing already!

Tom's recent speech about the pandemic response can be viewed at this link:

The Fact-Free COVID Dystopia

Good news is used to scare you

"Our current best estimates tell us that about ten percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus." -- Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme, October 5, 2020.

You will hear this statement at 2:57 in the following video:

You will also hear Dr. Ryan say this:

"What it does mean is that the vast majority of the world remains at risk."

Dr. Ryan does not tell you this:

The global population is approximately 7.8 billion, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to COVID-19 infections is 1,061,539.

That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%. Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world.

0.14% is over 24 times LOWER than the WHO’s “provisional figure” of 3.4% back in March. This figure was used in the models which were used to justify lockdowns and other draconian policies.

In fact, given the over-reporting of alleged COVID-19 deaths, the infection fatality rate is likely even lower than 0.14% and could show COVID-19 to be much less dangerous than flu.

More details are available at this link:

WHO admits COVID-19 is no more dangerous than flu

All government health organizations have a vested interest in keeping the pandemic mania alive.  This is a glaring example.  The Executive Director of the World Health Organization does not discuss the good news that his statistics provide he instead says that the vast majority of the world remains at risk.  The media is complicit in this subterfuge.  The following news article is an example:

Daily Mail Article

The second paragraph of the Daily Mail article correctly states that COVID-19’s death rate is comparable to the seasonal flu.  The article then goes on to say:

More than 5,400 people are dying around the world every 24 hours, according to calculations based on averages in September.

That equates to about 226 people an hour, or one person every 16 seconds. It means that, in the time it takes to watch a 90-minute football match, 340 people die on average.

 This news article then reaches the following conclusion:

Until a vaccine - expected for the vulnerable early next year and to be rolled out en masse by the end of 2021 - arrives, draconian social restrictions and increased testing are the only ways to curb the virus's spread.

Economies destroyed worldwide, hundreds of thousands on the brink of starvation, and all of this to combat a virus that is no deadlier than the seasonal flu.