A week ago, I didn’t know what a ‘Karen’ was. Today I can’t stop seeing Karens everywhere I look. It’s like that moment in They Live! when Nada puts on the glasses for the first time.
The problem now is I can’t take the glasses off.
And I’m not the only one. In recent weeks the failed Karen meme of a few years ago has returned with a vengeance as people realize just how much damage Karens have done to our society.
A Karen is a person, usually a woman, who is never satisfied with the service she’s receiving and demands to talk to the manager. It doesn’t matter if Karen’s complaints are valid or not.
This is because Karen has been incentivized by cowardly corporate officers and government officials (but, I repeat myself) to get something she doesn’t deserve simply because they want her to shut up and not disturb everyone else.
It was one thing to indulge Karen her entitled behavior when she was getting a free order of fries or month of cable. It’s quite another when Karens become the State’s target audience for public policy.
One of the more acutely-asked questions since the covid-19 pandemic broke out has been: Is the virus man-made?
Debate on the matter has been wild and furious. After much investigation, Chris is now chiming in on the heels of an explosive Newsweek report.
Newsweek reveals that as recently as last year, the US funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in ‘gain of function’ research on bat coronaviruses. The source of that funding? The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, headed by…..(drumroll please)….Dr Anthony Fauci, lead medical expert for America’s Covid-19 task force.
Now, this doesn’t mean the virus was lab-engineered as a bio-weapon. But it does suggest a naturally-occuring bat virus could have been artificially accelerated along certain vectors.
Of course, this raises an awfully lot of urgent and important questions. So far, Fauci has not commented on the Newsweek report. But we will be keeping close tabs on developments from here…
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Update: Demonstrators were gathering in Huntington Beach after the city vowed legal action against California’s order to close all Orange County beaches.
CDC Extends Social Distancing Guidelines To Apply To Pets
Now that the first domesticated dog has tested positive for for the novel coronavirus, joining at least one tiger at the Bronx Zoo, it’s probably worth noting that the CDC earlier this month extended America’s social distancing guidelines to include pets.
To be clear: there’s no evidence of pets infecting humans, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen. So far, tests suggested that the viral strains found in animals weren’t concentrated enough to cause infection in humans, but nobody can say for certain.
We’re still learning about how #COVID19 affects animals, but it appears that people can spread the virus to animals in some situations. Until we know more, limit contact with pets if you are sick or feeling sick. For more info, see: https://t.co/H8NS2GTd4x. pic.twitter.com/uGEbo1su2O— CDC (@CDCgov) April 23, 2020
Instead of allowing your dog to run around the neighborhood without a leash, sniffing the anus of every fellow canine, the new guidelines advise Americans to “treat pets as you would other human family members.”
Following yesterday’s pimping of Gilead Science’s antiviral drug remdesivir on scant and suspect results, it’s hard not to start asking the question: Are we being played?
We’ve argued in several past videos that there is ample enough evidence that hydroxychloroquine shows enough promise in reducing/treating covid-19 that further research is merited. Instead, the drug is being demonized in the media. That doesn’t make a lot of sense to us.
But, hey, maybe there’s a good reason that a cheap widely-available treatment that has been administered hundreds of millions of times over the past 70 years, making it one of the most medically-delivered drugs in history, is suddenly being labelled “unsafe”? But much more maddening is that remdesivir has suddenly been promoted to “standard of care” status despite its spotty and unproven track record.
Could that have anything to do with the fact that 9 of the 50 doctors on the NIH panel setting its covid-19 treatment guidelines work for Gilead Sciences? The conflicts of interest and profit motives rampant among our policymakers are extremely concerning.
To be an American, one of the soil, of the land, whose grandfathers and great-great grandfathers fought to defend it from invaders or attackers, is not the same as being a citizen of the United States. America existed before even Europeans and Native Americans are just that native Americans, here before any of us European interlopers. But, they existed in one of the most pure forms of communism and did not technologically advance, because communism is a means of remaining stagnant, incapable of growth, subsistence existence at best and starvation existence at worst.
The rest of the world traded and built commercial enterprises, organized themselves into massive societies, exploited the land and resources to create an evolution of technology that simply bowled the native Americans over. It is the same that had taken place throughout the then known-world. It is the same that ultimately doomed the Soviet Union.
Freedom is necessary to growth. Nothing could be simpler to understand. Restraint is imposed by governments who, like every communist, must take from those who build, create, produce or they have nothing. They mark it up as maintaining order, but go quickly to excess and impose rule, which is a much different thing, something more akin to occupation forces within a free land and that’s how they treat the average citizen, as the conquered people who must be directed and forced to comply. It’s hard to see the 18th Century world through 21st Century eyes, a lot has changed about the world, but this nation was designed in the 18th Century with the idea of sacrificing the least freedom to gain the most freedom. That understanding has been obliterated and in trading some freedom for greater freedom, it became a competition of force, not cooperation, leaving only something to be sacrificed and nothing gained except the ability to proceed.
In the Covid 19 communist experiment, it was determined that force is the only resource of a communist hierarchy. Now, one might resist the label of communist while exhibiting every tendency of the communist, but protesting against the label while defining it perfectly by one’s actions merely provides a moment of levity for the observer. The problem is, most citizens of the United States (not necessarily Americans) have been communist for a long time and sing about the land of the free, but understand nothing of it. When the word communist is used, they feel it is foreign and unwarranted, but they live and breathe communist propaganda with every breath. The minute they seek guidance from government rather than their own common sense, they betray that fact. We’ve all done it, this is not a lecture.
As Governors like Greg Abbott of Texas begin to lift stay-at-home orders and we start to re-open business and go back to work, how can we tell if it’s going well…or not. Since many don’t trust the media, or politicians, and assume they’ll continue to focus on catastrophe, how can you make a prudent decision about the health of your own family?
The following is actual text of a speech delivered in December, 2005 by CCP Comrade General Chi Haotian, Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission to top officers and generals.
“Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio-weapons have been invented one after another. Of course, we have not been idle…. We are capable of achieving our purpose of ‘cleaning up’ America all of a sudden”
GENERAL CHI HAOTIAN
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It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century, a century in which the CCP leads the world. We, as revolutionary humanitarians, do not want deaths. But if history confronts us with a choice between deaths of Chinese and those of Americans, we’d have to pick the latter, as, for us, it is more important to safeguard the lives of the Chinese people and the life of our Party. That is because, after all, we are Chinese and members of the CCP. Since the day we joined the CCP, the Party’s life has always been above all else! History will prove that we made the right choice.
In the first week of February I published an article titled ‘The Lies We Are Being Told About The Coronavirus’. I focused primarily on the disinformation coming out of China, and for those with short memories there was a flood of it being spread on various web forums by what I believe was a army of paid disinformation agents. The lies seemed to revolve around keeping the rest of the world passive to the potential threat by promoting a set of assumptions:
1) The disinfo suppressed the information on human-to-human spread and the level of infections, suggesting that the virus was not very transmissible or that it “only infects Asians” (anyone who actually believed this nonsense at the time was truly gullible).
2) The disinfo suppressed the actual number of deaths in China to minimize the response time of people in other countries. The assumption was “it’s nothing, why worry”. Well, as we now know, there is no way China has only suffered 4600 deaths. All the evidence leaked by health officials on the ground in China suggested a much higher number of deaths, but the disinfo was enough to keep many people from taking the threat seriously.
3) The disinfo hid the source of the virus, claiming it came from an animal/food market in Wuhan even though many of the initial patients infected by the coronavirus never had any contact with the market. This was openly admitted by scientists within China as far back as January. Remember the “bat soup” rumors? All lies. And perhaps not coincidentally, the only Level 4 Biohazard lab in Asia, which studies specifically in SARS-like viruses, is right down the road from that same market.
4) The disinformation was not only coming from China. The World Health Organization consistently tried to downplay the spread of the virus, refusing to call it a pandemic for months even though it fit all their criteria. They also lavished China with praise, taking all data the Chinese government reported as if it were verified fact and defended China against any and all detractors.
5) The level of disinformation coming from US government sources, the White House and social media companies was almost enough to match China’s lies. The US government and the WHO have been working closely with social media corporations to disrupt any analysis that runs contrary to the Chinese narrative as well as the WHO narrative.
While Donald Trump and the DoD are suddenly interested in the possibility that Covid-19 is a bioweapon (something that those of us in the alternative media tried to report months ago), at the end of January Trump was also offering China praise, saying that their data was accurate and everything was “under control”.
“This is not a major threat to the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States should be worried about right now…”
Fauci would later go on to change his tune completely, calling for strict government controls of social behavior in order to stop the spread of the virus.
