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When COVOID-19 has run its course and proves to be much less of a crisis than you’ve been terrorized into believing, drop each and every news source that pumped you full of panic because they will do it again

The Press Loves a Panic



Let’s face it, the world is in the grip of a full-fledge virus induced panic. It’s all virus, all the time. Whether its called Wuhan, Corona, Covid-19, Chinese, or xenophobic, the world’s latest killer virus has gone viral and is terrorizing populations into believing the deadliest plague in history is knocking on their front door with a battering ram. The Reaper has arrived! Run! Hide! We’re all going to die! Does that sound like a familiar refrain to anyone else?
The panic’s impact is incredible. Governments are banning large public gatherings. Travel to infected areas of the world is shut down. Schools are closed. Restaurants and bars closed or limited to takeout only (though what if the cook or delivery person has… never mind) Popular TV shows are recorded without studio audiences. Retail outlets are running out of toilet paper, sanitizers, and masks as soon as they get them, and shelves are bare as the supply chain struggles with the strain of the crisis. Even the great distractors, professional sports, have been suspended but it feels as if our entire lives are under suspension. Social gatherings and norms, such as handshakes, are being obliterated virtually overnight. Our behaviour is being thoroughly driven, though some might say conditioned, through fear fueled panic, and it is occurring at a rapid pace. Social distancing is the virtuous value of the day. Apparently, we must all stay apart in order to bring the country together. It’s the cancel culture writ large and it may be a wee bit of an overreaction. Is the insane fear and panic warranted, a press induced revenue generator, a globalist plot to test people control mechanisms, or some mixture of the above?

Is The Crisis Truly That Bad?

In a recent interview with @LarryOConner, Dr. Drew Pinsky had some harsh words for panic pushing reporters. His wise words were, “Stop listening to journalists. They don’t know what they’re talking about.” He called their COVID-19 reporting “reprehensible”, and when you consider some additional facts, reprehensible seems like a quaint compliment.

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First, historically, the flu season tails off as the weather warms up, the viruses simply can’t take the heat. This is true of COVID-19 as well. So, the only rational conclusion to make is that politicians who are fighting global warming with carbon taxes are putting us at higher risk, right? They must want us to die now, not eight years from now. Second, the flu has killed over 18,000 people in the US this flu season. As of March 13, the CDC reports that 41,000,000 have fallen to crazy killer COVID-19. Wait, I got that wrong, it’s 41,000. No, sorry, it’s 4,100. Oops, slipped a decimal. The total number of COVID-19 deaths as of March 13, 2020 is 41. According to the CDC then, one is over 400 times more likely to die from the flu than COVID-19.

PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!

The press sure loves a panic, don’t they? Seriously, according to the Calgary Herald, 35 to 70 percent of Canadians are at risk of coming down with COVID-19. Do the math, the Herald’s “experts” are suggesting that 13 to 26 million Canadians could fall prey to COVID-19’s rapidly spreading reach. Why, millions of Canadians could perish! It must be true because the National Post raises the alarm as well. Yes, there are some voices of reason among the panic producers, but considering the massive societal changes being “encouraged”, and reports of store fights between customers over some necessities such as toilet paper, the calm, reassuring messages are being drowned out by the fear monger’s cries of cataclysmic doom.

Future Pandemic Panic

Which brings me to the globalist “people control” agenda as discussed at Event 201, a Global Pandemic Exercise held in New York City in October of 2019. Globalist control isn’t a conspiracy theory; their dreams of total control are freely shared at the link above. Event 201’s purpose was to discuss the dangers of a global pandemic and what could be done to mitigate the damage should one mysteriously occur. Imagine that. The discussion focused on controlling behaviour—yours and mine—through total control of information and on bypassing the sovereign will of free people by co-opting admired private businesses, celebrities, and politicians to demonstrate appropriate behaviour. They lead, the masses follow. Is that not happening right now? The internet has had a massive impact on the media’s capacity to influence and control a free people. Trump is president because of his ability to use social media to bypass the old message controllers and deliver his unfettered thoughts directly to the American people. If the tech giants can gain control of the message to the degree the old main-stream media once enjoyed, then they will have the power to panic people at will, but on a global scale. Our COVOID-19 response is proof of concept that our behaviour can easily be regulated on a massive scale. With total control of information, it is obvious we can quickly be stampeded from one crisis after another whenever society needs to be pushed into accepting a new normal. We are fearful creatures and will do what we’re told, when we’re told. Like good little sheeple. The subsequent shearing will be for our own good as well.


The Problem With Panic

The biggest problem with panic is how the unscrupulous can and will exploit it. From individuals mass purchasing and then reselling supplies online for a huge profit to power hungry politicians who live by the mantra, “never let a good crisis go to waste,” panic heightens our risk of being taken advantage of. Hoarding supplies can lead to a critical shortage for those who need them and further increases societal stress. It’s easy to look at people buying and reselling large quantities of needed goods as immoral scumbags, but they wouldn’t be doing it without the public being primed by panic in the first place. The bigger problem is in the political arena because panic drives poorly thought policy before all the evidence has been weighed and measured. Politicians are always happy to protect us from threats, whether real or imagined. That rushed solutions are often expensive and ineffective is irrelevant, politicians can take credit for doing something, and that is political gold.

Getting a Grip

Just like any flu, some people are at higher risk and precautions should be taken but there is a lot of evidence that our panic is far out of proportion to the threat. Still, once the virus settles, there could be some long-term benefit from the entire episode.

A society practicing better overall hygiene is more likely to reduce not only the threat from the next, and there will be a next, pandemic but also reduce the impact and spread of our common cold and flu bugs. That will help mute the panic producers too. Businesses will likely restructure to allow more people to work from the safety and comfort of their homes. And instead of reacting in terror and knowing we can’t live every day as if the next pandemic is about to burst society’s serenity bubble, maybe we can ensure that we have the protocols and mechanisms in place to quickly address any future threat. We need a system that can ramp up quickly and tackle the needs of the time, which means the rigid, regulation heavy, centralized command and control structure of our nationalized health care system might need to admit its shortcomings. The countries faring best right now are the ones who closed their borders or allowed private industry to get involved. Most importantly, when COVOID-19 has run its course and proves to be much less of a crisis than you’ve been terrorized into believing, drop each and every news source that pumped you full of panic because they will do it again.

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Mark Gray hails from the Kirkland Lake, Ontario area and has spent over 30 years as an Analyst/Developer in Big IT, mostly in Calgary’s Oil-And-Gas Sector. Creator of an non-partisan, analytical methodology that seeks out and identifies Bias and Deceit embedded in weaponized information.


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