The 2020 “Coronavirus PLANdemic – Arrival And Initial Impact” (PART 1 @ COVID EMPIRE)

Publisher’s Note: In late March 2020, as most of the world entered “lockdown,” we published this essay, which became Part 1 of COVID EMPIRE, entitled The 2020 “Coronavirus PLANdemic – Cui Bono/Who Benefits? And What Now?” Published in late April, Part 2: The 2020 “Coronavirus PLANdemic – Origins And Impacts” explores what we are learning about the historical origins and biological debates about the “coronavirus.” This article is not meant to be exhaustive or conclusive, but rather, provocative. We are asking questions here. Part 3: The 2020 “Coronavirus PLANdemic – Future Scenarios And #TeamHuman Strategies will be published in May. Fittingly, we began planning this COVID EMPIRE trilogy while trekking to the top of Camel’s Hump, Vermont’s third highest peak, days before our popular and publicly owned trekking trail was “COVID closed.”

To business…

Cui Bono?

“Who Benefits” under the current COVID “global virus pandemic,” with half of the world under quarantine, enmeshed in a government and media-enforced lockdown framed with shiny happy language – #socialdistancing and #shelterinplace?

Before we answer this question, we know who LOSES in the United States under COVID. Beyond the COVID compromised (the elderly, the sick, the fragile, the immunochallenged, and those who are “co-morbid”), who loses is any American who finds herself socially and economically vulnerable after four decades of wealth-transferring neoliberalism, anyone who finds himself relying on part-time or seasonal wage earning work or is already living on the margins, which is to say the majority of Americans out there. On April 3, 2020 the New York Times estimated the US unemployment rate at around 13%, the highest it has been since the Great Depression of the 1930s. And all of us lose under an US corporate commercial “news” and information culture that continually pumps #COVIDaganda – fear, uncertainty, anxiety, and data devoid of context that does nothing but reinforce the official “lockstep” narrative – into the US “news” media bloodstream 24/7.

Here in the Green Mountains of Vermont, we are not immune. Our governor, Republican Phil Scott, has issued daily calls for #socialdistancing, urged everyone to ‘shelter in place” for the foreseeable future, closed Vermont’s public schools for the remainder of the year, shut down Vermont parks, trails, ski areas (no uphill skinning, even!) and all other “nonessential services,” imposed fines of up to $1,000 for “scofflaws” who violate imposed #socialdistancing guidelines, and with no new evidence provided, extended the “stay home, stay safe” lockdown for all Vermonters until May 15th, 2020.

So isn’t all of this justified in the name of “fighting the COVID global virus pandemic”?

We’ve had a number of bright colleagues around the world skeptical of the official COVID narrative suggest that most people are ‘sheeple,” easily herded into compliance by the power of collective COVID suggestion. Some believe that the COVID story is a hoax, others that the COVID story is a Global PSYOPS operation, and still others, a stealth rollout of a novel bioweapon to usher in a “New World Order.” Many, meanwhile, pooh-pooh these hypotheses as “conspiracy theory,” the now-cliched phrase used to dismiss the askers of pesky questions on ANY provocative topic – JFK, 9/11, geoengineering, etc. – deemed to stray beyond the boundaries of “acceptable discourse.” Thinking geopolitically, federal insider turned whistleblower and independent financial investment analyst Catherine Austin Fitts, whose work we’ve regularly featured here at Vermont Independent, suggests that COVID is cover for the “deDollarization” of the global economy, and advises that Americans’ biggest investment asset in the short term is farms and local food production. Watch her analysis here.

Where is the truth?

Time will tell.

We suggest here, however, a much deeper and more evolutionarily grounded reality explaining why half of us are voluntarily participating in #PlanetLockdown. As historian, futurist, and SAPIENS author Yoval Noah Harari persuasively argues, what makes we homo sapiens successful as a species is our unique ability to collaborate flexibly in large groups around shared beliefs in collectively imagined “fictions” (by which Harari means “stories”).

For the moment, the COVID official narrative is such a shared fiction/story, and most of our #TeamHuman species seem willing to trade short term liberty (not to mention the sudden economic shock of collective Great Depression’like unemployment) for longer term security, trusting in the efficacy of this shared narrative: we humans MUST quarantine ourselves to stop the spread of the global pandemic virus known as COVID, a story that is endlessly and uncritically repeated on every major corporate commercial outlet 24/7 without ceasing (curiously, every COVID-related YouTube video, millions of ’em, now provide a helpful link to the COVID-19 page at the Center for Disease Control. Hey, thanks, Alphabet/Google/ YouTube, for steering us to a single source for research?!) In the face of a global pandemic, vigorous public dialogue and debate is VITAL, yet finding said dialogue seems oddly hard to do. One example: watch environmental lawyer and true American hero Robert F. Kennedy’s analysis of both the CDC and the WHO and their massive conflicts of interest re: COVID, brought to you by, um, RT America? (We won’t steal RFK’s thunder here.) Meanwhile, the “Lords of the Cloud” announced mid-April their collective plan to team up and crack down on “COVID virus misinformation” (which is code for censoring and deplatforming ANY news stories or independent analysis that does not conform to the official COVID narrative.) This is the OPPOSITE of what should be happening.

So let’s ask the question again.

Isn’t #PlanetLockdown justified in the name of “fighting the COVID global virus pandemic”?

To answer this question, recognize a few basic truisms about this PLANdemic.

1) What we DO NOT know about COVID (and all influenza viruses – which are among the most exhaustively studied AND most mysterious and unpredictable of micro-organisms) dwarfs what we DO know. Is COVID a single “disease” or a multifaceted phenomenon?

Here’s just one mind-expanding resource and reading recommendation. Scientist and journalist Arthur Firstenberg’s brilliantly researched and written new book THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW: A HISTORY OF ELECTRICITY AND LIFE (published by Vermont’s Chelsea Green Press) explores the global environmental consequences for all planetary life that accompany the deployment of powerful electro-magnetic communications technologies, from the telegraph (1870s) to 5G (today). Firstenberg’s book is a beautiful melding of environmental analysis, natural science, and communications history – and is perhaps THE book to read in this strange and unprecedented moment in which we find ourselves as a species.

“Germ theory” aside, professional MDs are urging us as a species to look much more closely at the connections between the historical relationship between electromagnetic technologies and influenza viruses (or exosomes?) – see Dr. Thomas Cowan and Dr. Andrew Kaufman, for example. And here’s a NYC doctor on the front lines treating COVID who argues for rethinking the official story. These are not “fringe” folks. They are licensed professionals who are sounding the alarm.

2) Whither the phrase #PLANdemic? Global economic and political elites with vested financial interests and top-of-mind globe-bending intentions have run “global pandemic” simulations for years to determine “best outcome” options and scenarios, most recently with “EVENT 201” last fall – October 2019 – in New York City – see “cui bono” list below.

3) We as a #TeamHuman species have been confronted with plagues and pandemics for millennia (environmental historian William H. McNeill’s seminal book Plagues And Peoples is a good starting place – FREE download here) and we’ve also seen how in the very recent past, governments, corporations and media outlets have all overhyped what may be legitimate reasonable public health concerns in the name of power, profit and social control. See helpful “60 Minutes” story from 1976 below.

4) More and more epidemiologists are going on record questioning both the COVID pandemic prognostications and the COVID “lockdown” response, perhaps because…

5) The COVID modeling scenario adopted by the world, the computer-generated model that put us all on lockdown, turns out to be based on a 13-year-old influenza-focused proprietary algorithm designed by researcher Neal Ferguson at the Imperial College London -with data that appears dramatically overinflated. (i.e. – from 500,000 predicted dead UK’ers revised down to 20,000 only one day after the UK’s official adoption of a #socialdistancing policy).

Even US COVID czar Anthony Fauci is walking back the COVID numbers surrounding these overinflated modeling scenarios, as in this late March New England Journal of Medicine article with the telling title “COVID-19: Navigating The Uncharted.” Here’s Nobel Prize winning scientist Michael Levitt making a simple but now vital observation: “the COVID-19 epidemic was never exponential.”

And here’s the money shot, in the words of Dr. Fauci:

And…

7) Why are all US hospitals explicitly being asked as of March 24th, 2020 to “COVID code” all US hospital patient deaths as exclusively COVID-related, even when it is clear that the deceased suffered from other ailments, as well (a phenomenon called “co morbidity”). Consider US ” death data” from 2018 (the latest year we have the official numbers):

2018 Heart Disease deaths: 655,000

2018 Chronic lower respiratory deaths: 160,000 (slightly rounded up)

2018 Diabetes deaths: 85,000

2018 Influenza deaths: 59,000

= 959,000 total.

To summarize and make a larger civilizationally relevant observation – the United States lost almost ONE MILLION of its citizens in 2018 to a combination of the above diseases.

ONE MILLION. Approximately 2,740 Americans daily.

May 2 UPDATE: Since our mid-March “lockdown,” over a six week period, we’ve lost, at official count, 60,000 Americans to COVID-19 (more Americans that died in Vietnam, intones CBS, National Public Radio, and other MSM news sources.)

Multiplying 6 weeks – 42 days – times 2,740 daily American deaths = 115,600 – almost DOUBLE the number of Americans allegedly lost to COVID-19 since the “lockdown.”

So – why the panic around COVID-19?

Del Bigtree walks us through the context for COVID coding in hospitals here.

Independent news sources and critical thinkers? They seem to be connecting the dots and asking hard questions.

My British favorite? The incorrigibly if maybe accurate Peter Hitchens.

Much more to say here, but onward – to the “cui bono” question.

Who benefits from the COVID #PLANdemic?

Here’s a TOP TEN list.

1.The US Political and Economic Status Quo: COVID has worked its will on an already passive, cynical and deeply polarized US political electorate, with Mr. Trump and the Republicans squaring off against the Democratic Party Establishment’s newly annointed presidential candidate – none other than Joe Biden, an increasingly demented DNC Lifer who now stands accused of raping one of his interns. (Yes, even Barack Obama appears to have worked the phones on Biden’s behalf hours before Super Tuesday 2020) After four years of fundraising and campaigning in the wake of having the 2016 DEM election primaries stolen from him, Vermont junior Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign is on life support at a moment when US could MOST use his progressive policies and platform, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party (BS, OAC and the whole posse) has “bent the knee” to the DNC leadership, supporting every single domestic and foreign policy position and policy advocated by DNC corporatists, including the disastrous CARES “stimulus/bailout” bill (Orwell would be pleased), the single largest upward transfer of wealth in US history.

2. The Deep State/US Empire: Thanks to Reuters and Mint Press for breaking this story of US “pandemic preparedness” being “outsourced” from US federal civilian agencies to “Deep State” players, which promptly classified their conversations (i.e. the CIA and the Pentagon) and focused on developing a “9/11’like response” to what is now COVID. Eyebrows raised yet?! Now, the COVID has legitimized increased “Deep State” saber rattling against Russia, China, Iran (witness the ratcheting up of economic sanctions against modern Persia even as the COVID wreaks havoc in the Middle East), Venezuela, and all other so-called “rogue nations” who challenge the US Pentagon’s stated policy of “full spectrum dominance” around the world and in outer space. In fact, the Pentagon has known for years about the LACK of pandemic preparation – see The Nation’s Ken Klppenstein here – and allegedly warned federal policymakers about this potentially pandemically dire situation. This begs the Deep State question – who is really in charge of running the show in DC? Talk of COVID “immunity cards” before Americans can return to work, ever-more-increased surveillance, and the oft-repeated threat of a fall 2020 COVID “reemergence” all presages dark days for freedom, liberty, and economic security for millions.

3. Central Banks: See #1 above, and now the Central Banksters and their political minions are using COVID to call for a “digital cashless currency,” floating trial balloon after trial ballon. In the US, this may likely be tied to “bailout” payments to cash-strapped and desperate out-of-work Americans who won’t be given the option to say no. Meanwhile, the World Bank, King of so-called “structural adjustment programs” with its IMF and WTO partners, is now baking in “pandemics” to its global loan programs to already-indebted nations. German financial analyst analyzes here what’s going on in global financial terms. Watch closely. Take notes.

4. Transnational Corporations: Especially those involved in what might be called, riffing on Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, the “military industrial COVID complex” – or what we have taken to calling the “Technocratic Transhumanist Industrial Complex” (TTIC). More on the TIC’s leveraging of the COVID in a future post.

5. “Surveillance Capitalism”: We’ve written extensively about this emerging phenomenon, a phrase first coined by Harvard University Emeritus Business Professor Shoshana Zuboff in her ground-breaking book The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight For A Human Future At the New Frontier Of Power. COVID dramatically amplifies the AOSC in a thousand different ways just now emerging, from tracking every citizen on earth with a mandatory “vaccine certificate” and digital “nano tag” injected into our bloodstream (thanks, Bill Gates!) to drones policing our skies overhead 24/7 for monitoring #socialdistancing scofflaws, a term Vermont’s own governor Phil Scott seems to have embraced.

6. Amazon.com: Under COVID lockdown, online shopping is blowing up, and the West’s most predatory corporation, helmed by the world’s richest man who also owns The Washington Post and works closely with the CIA and the Pentagon, will accelerate the collapse of small businesses and Main Streets from coast to coast. Wage earning workers on on the front lines here, and are literally fighting for their lives. Case in point – here is comedian Jimmy Dore interviewing striking Amazon worker Christian Smalls, who the ‘Zon fired after he urged fellow Amazon workers to clear out of a New York Amazon warehouse due to COVID related health and safety concerns. Amazon’s BS PR response here. Meanwhile, we are witnessing this here in Vermont, as business after business are shuttering doors. Heartbreaking.

7. The Pharmaceuticals Industry: Begin with this analysis of the United Nations WHO by longtime US investigative journalist William Engdahl. Then consider this – 2020 began with Big Pharma (which underwrites through advertising $$ almost every US corporate commercial US TV “news” show) up against the ropes, as more and more Americans seem to be asking more questions of the efficacy of untested vaccines and the historically unprecedented aggressive vaccine schedule championed by Big Pharma and the Center For Disease Control. Now, COVID’aganda promises a COVID vaccine and is referenced in every US news program as THE most important solution to the “coronavirus pandemic,” (pay no mind to the dozens of other options at hand – #NoVaccineNeeded – begin with doctor-surveyed and recommended anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, field tested for decades), and the Godfather of Vaccines (Bill Gates) has quit both the Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway boards to champion mandatory COVID vaccines for all, backed up by a “digital certificate” and possible nano-injection to “track” everyone’s whereabouts and movements. NOTE: The “PRO versus ANTI vaxxer” is a simplistic false framing around a very powerful technology that, like any other, is capable of being used for tremendous public health goods or public health disaster. Treat any conversation about vaccines as such. And enjoy watching Bill Gates get “pied” in his face in Brussels in 1998, in this useful if troubling expose from the folks at Truthstream Media.

8. The Telecom Industry/US Space Force: The Internet is abuzz with theorizing about COVID’s sudden appearance in geopolitical regions – China, Italy, US cities – which are piloting 5G telecommunications technology, the so-called ‘smart grid” or “The Internet of Things”. We’ve tracked the 5G discussion for years, and THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW is an authoritative source on the historical and environmental relationship between electromagnetic technologies and global pandemics. #Socialdistancing (lockdown) policies dramatically make the TELCO’s case for a “more robust” Internet (how convenient! See Beltway DJT take on 5G here), but, it seems, at the expense of all life on earth (as Firstenberg’s well-researched book makes clear, all living creatures are bioelectric beings of frequency, and are influenced by changes in the planet’s electromagnetic makeup. This includes us as homo sapiens). And then there’s 5G satellites in space.

Perhaps this is why, even as corporate commercial “news” outlets like the New York Times, the big telecommunications companies, and the “Lords of The Cloud,” (Alphabet/ Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp, and Microsoft/LinkedIn/BillGates to name but 3 – all of whom have a vested financial interest in a quick 5G rollout) try and suppress COVID + 5G dot connecting by independent analysts and concerned citizens, doctors and health groups, through algorithmic censorship and “conspiracy theory” labeling, ordinary citizens are taking matters into their own hands, burning cell towers to protect the health consequences that may very well accompany the rollout of this powerful new electromagnetically networked technology.

The New York Times and the Lords of the Cloud desperately try to reign in global public concerns about the 5G rollout. Meanwhile, the US Empire indicates “full speed ahead” for 5G. Above and Below.

9. Authoritarianism Everywhere: How many governments/states around the world have used COVID as a pretext for suspending democratic elections, expanding police powers, and cracking down on dissent? The list grows longer by the week, including here in the United States, where both major national political parties are talking about moving their national political conventions online, or cancelling them entirely.

10. The mainstream “news” media: 24/7 COVID’aganda. Fear. Panic. To bring us full circle. Eyeballs. Clicks. Shares. Attention. Natch. And did we mention that most of the MSM “news” channels ate heavily funded by the pharmecueticals industry? Just watch the TeeVee advertisements in between “news” segments. This stark conflict of interest, rarely commented on, should be obvious.

Zoinks. Seems like lots of dot to connect, and plenty of people trying to do so. One well-researched and calmly credible example from one researcher stitching together one possible future here.

So what must we do?

First, consider this collective request.

“Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) This COVID Situation.”

And now, a short list:

1. Ask critical COVID questions and challenge those we most love to do the same.

2. Strategically take daily care of spiritual, mental and physical health. Turn off your TeeVee and GO OUTSIDE. Embrace daily meditation and time in the company of Nature. Seek out immune-strengthening daily protocols like the Wim Hof Method (Full Disclosure: I am a practicing Wim Hoffer, in the midst of WHM instructor certification.)

3. Enthusiastically work with family, neighbors and friends to build communities of resilience and resistance.

4. Joyfully embrace “The Great Reskilling” – go outside, breathe deeply, grow food and harvest energy closer to home, and daily cultivate the mind, body and spirit in the company of those two and four leggeds we most care about.

5. Gird ourselves for the #TeamHuman long haul. The “Transhumanist Technocratic Industrial Complex” (TTIC) is a powerfully networked, emerging, and persuasive techno’ cultural force, and the TTIC is knocking at our #TeamHuman civilizational door.

And to ALL Vermonters – a special invitation.

Let’s embrace our collective “Freedom and Unity” spirit in the months and years ahead. We need each other and our Green Mountain communities more than ever.

See you out there on the mountain tops, in the hills, woods, and valleys, and on the streams, rivers and lakes of our once and future Vermont republic as we work together to recover from this PLANdemic.

Vermonters! Will you VOLUNTEER to recapture our essential #TeamHuman spirit?

We end with an image of this place, one of Vermont’s many quiet, hidden natural gems.

A sanctuary.

Find yours.

Defend it.

“The Gods of Vermont are not the Gods of the (COVID) Empire!”

Vive #TeamHuman, free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States!

Read Part 2 and Part 3 of COVID EMPIRE here.