Turdeau to Blow another $1 BILLION on "Study" of Already-Sequenced, Patented Virus!

From The Ottawa Citizen/National Post, Friday April 24, 2020, P.#A8; and here and here:

Federal government commits $1 billion to research COVID-19

Ryan Tumilty April 23, 2020 9:02 PM EDT

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government committed more than $1 billion to COVID-19 research Thursday, including a proposal for widespread testing to better understand the coronavirus that led to the pandemic and to chart a recovery course for the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada needs research to respond to the pandemic in the best way possible.

“The better we understand this virus, its spread and its impact on different people, the better we can fight it and eventually defeat it,” he said.

The funding includes:

$40 million to do viral sequencing to track the virus and its different strains, 

JUST ASK BILL GATES, YOU FLAMING LITTLE FAGGOT! HE LITERALLY OWNS THE PATENT ON THE CORONA VIRUS, WITHOUT WHICH HE COULDN'T ALSO PATENT THE VACCINE! AND IF YOU WANT A SECOND OPINION, TRY THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WHO DISCOVERED THE AIDS VIRUS - HE HAS ALSO SEQUENCED COVID-19! (below*)

$23 million for vaccine research, 

WHAT FOR, YOU BLITHERING MORON?! EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS HOW TO MAKE VACCINES: YOU GET SOME DEAD VIRUS FROM SOME DEAD BLOOD IN DEAD BODIES, AND YOU INJECT IT INTO LIVING PEOPLE SO THEIR OWN IMMUNE SYSTEMS WILL LEARN TO REACT TO IT AND CREATE THEIR OWN ANTIBODIES BEFORE THEY HAVE TO ENCOUNTER THE LIVING VIRUS IN THE REAL WORLD.

$600 million for private sector trials of drug treatments and vaccines, 

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO LOOK AT THE SUCCESSES OF OTHER COUNTRIES' ATTEMPTS, INCLUDING THE REAL CURE, HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE?! IT'S FREE!

$114 million to the Canadian Institutes of Health research for research into measures that could reduce the spread, and a host of smaller initiatives.

GIVING AWAY OUR TAX MONEY TO HIS FRIENDS AND SPONSORS. GUESS WHO'S CORPORATE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS HE AND HIS CABINET WILL RETIRE TO?

The government is also setting up a “immunity task force” that will do widespread blood testing to determine just how far the virus has spread.

Unlike the current testing using nose and throat swabs, this wider testing using blood samples will be able to track people who may have had the virus, but had little or no symptoms and have now 
recovered.

SO THE LITTLE SHIT WANTS TO USE THIS AS AN EXCUSE TO TAKE BLOOD FROM EVERY CANADIAN CITIZEN, "JUST IN CASE!"

Dr. David Naylor, a former dean of medicine and president of the University of Toronto, with an extensive background in epidemiology, who also chaired the national advisory committee on SARS, is on the task force.

He said there are likely many people walking around who have fought off the virus without even knowing they had it. Those people are believed to be immune and knowing how many there are can help the government make decisions on easing restrictions following the national lockdown that’s been in effect to fight the pandemic.

“The level of background immunity gives us some sense of how fast we can move on easing some of these restrictions,” he said. “If a lot of people are immune then this will be an easier lockdown to lift. If they aren’t we have to be a lot more careful.”

Widespread blood testing will be required to determine the prevalence of the virus. While it’s expected to take months to get a full picture, early results should give a sense of the scale of the disease, Naylor said.

“I would not be surprised if there is going to be a bit of a range within Canada. We can’t test every Canadian. We can’t test everyone everywhere, but we will test a sample across the country.”

Naylor said even when the immunity testing is completed, there will still be a need to quickly test and trace people who get sick. He said once people are out of social distancing it will be harder to test outbreaks of the virus, which is why Canada has to be prepared to move quickly.

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“Immunity testing alone is not the answer, you still have to have the firefighting,” he said. “As soon as we get very active intermingling again then it is going to be much harder to fight the flare-ups and we have to have our ‘A’ game in testing and tracing.”

WHEN WE'RE ALREADY ALL IMMUNE ("HERD IMMUNITY") THERE WON'T BE ANY "FLARE-UPS," YOU PANDERING PARASITE!

As of Thursday, Canada had tested 620,000 people for the virus and reported more than 41,500 cases, including 2,141 deaths.

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said the country is doing nose and throat swabs on 20,000 people per day, but she hopes to ramp that up to 60,000, which would be a good position to deal future outbreaks.

The final stage in dealing with the virus will be a vaccine and multiple possible vaccines are under development. Also included in Trudeau’s announcement was $29 million to a National Research Council facility in Montreal that could be used to produce large quantities of the vaccine.

Trudeau said Canada needs the ability — inside our borders — to mass produce vaccine.

“We will see the same kinds of pressures that we’re seeing around obtaining [personal protective equipment] around the world to obtain vaccines, which is why part of the investments we’re making today.”

The government works with provinces to produce millions of flu vaccines every year, but the most recent public health data shows only 40 per cent of Canadians bother to get a flu shot. Demand for a COVID-19 vaccine will likely be much higher.

Trudeau also announced the Canadian military would respond to calls from both Quebec and Ontario for help dealing with staff shortages and other issues in long-term care homes that have been particularly hit by the virus, but he cautioned more needed to be done.

“This is not a long-term solution. In Canada we should not have soldiers taking care of seniors,” he said. “We will all have to ask tough questions about how it came to this. We will all have to do more to get through this terrible situation.”

https://www.gilmorehealth.com/chinese-coronavirus-is-a-man-made-virus-according-to-luc-montagnier-the-man-who-discovered-hiv/

The Chinese Virus Is Man Made According to Luc Montagnier the Man Who Discovered HIV

By Robert Miller | Published on April 16, 2020
Reviewed By Gilmore Health | On: April 23, 2020

Contrary to the narrative that is being pushed by the mainstream that the COVID 19 virus was the result of a natural mutation and that it was transmitted to humans from bats via pangolins, Dr Luc Montagnier - the man who discovered the HIV virus back in 1983 - disagrees and is saying that the virus was man made.

Professor Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, claims that SARS-CoV-2 is a manipulated virus that was accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. Chinese researchers are said to have used coronaviruses in their work to develop an AIDS vaccine. HIV RNA fragments are believed to have been found in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

We knew that the Chinese version of how the coronavirus emerged was increasingly under attack, but here’s a thesis that tells a completely different story about the Covid-19 pandemic, which is already responsible for more than 110,000 deaths worldwide:

According to Professor Luc Montagnier, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for “discovering” HIV as the cause of the AIDS epidemic together with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that was manipulated and accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in the last quarter of 2019.

According to Professor Montagnier, this laboratory, known for its work on coronaviruses, tried to use one of these viruses as a vector for HIV in the search for an AIDS vaccine!

“With my colleague, bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, we carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus,” explains Luc Montagnier, interviewed by Dr Jean-François Lemoine for the daily podcast at Pourquoi Docteur, adding that others have already explored this avenue: Indian researchers have already tried to publish the results of the analyses that showed that this coronavirus genome contained sequences of another virus, … the HIV virus (AIDS virus), but they were forced to withdraw their findings as the pressure from the mainstream was too great.

To insert an HIV sequence into this genome requires molecular tools

In a challenging question Dr Jean-François Lemoine inferred that the coronavirus under investigation may have come from a patient who is otherwise infected with HIV. 

"No," says Luc Montagnier, "in order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory."

According to the 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for Medicine, a plausible explanation would be an accident in the Wuhan laboratory. He also added that the purpose of this work was the search for an AIDS vaccine.

The truth will eventually come out

In any case, this thesis, defended by Professor Luc Montagnier, has a positive turn. According to him, the altered elements of this virus are eliminated as it spreads: 

“Nature does not accept any molecular tinkering, it will eliminate these unnatural changes and even if nothing is done, things will get better, but unfortunately after many deaths.”

This is enough to feed some heated debates! So much so that Professor Montagnier’s statements could also place him in the category of “conspiracy theorists”: “Conspirators are the opposite camp, hiding the truth,” he replies, without wanting to accuse anyone, but hoping that the Chinese will admit to what he believes happened in their laboratory.

To entice a confession from the Chinese he used the example of Iran which after taking full responsibility for accidentally hitting a Ukrainian plane was able to earn the respect of the global community. Hopefully the Chinese will do the right thing he adds. “In any case, the truth always comes out, it is up to the Chinese government to take responsibility.”

Reference

https://www.pourquoidocteur.fr/Articles/Question-d-actu/32184-EXCLUSIF-Pour-Pr-Montagnier-SARS-CoV-2-serait-virus-manipule-Chinois-l-ADN-de-VIH-podcast

COVID: At Best, Just Another $10T Fraud - At Worst, Mass Murder For Money

First, the "Good" News:

Another rough day in the markets. And another “great victory for the American people.”

The Dow fell yesterday. Driving stocks down was the unprecedented carnage in the oil market. West Texas Intermediate oil was selling for MINUS $39 a barrel. Experts at Bloomberg say the price could fall to MINUS $100.

In theory, if your swimming pool were empty, you might buy a couple truckloads of oil. The average pool will take about 20,000 gallons. That’s nearly 500 barrels of oil.

So if you filled your pool, you’d get paid $19,500. Then you could wait until things get back to “normal”… and sell your oil, say, for $20 a barrel… and pocket another $10,000.

Or you could just learn to like swimming in black goo.

Swamp Stimulus

It’s deflation now… inflation later.

Oil is below zero. Money too. Like oil, in some places you have to pay someone to store it for you.

And as things get crazier and crazier, you may soon be able to buy a house for less than nothing (a negative rent). Then, it is only a matter of time until stocks trade below zero, too.

Yesterday, they were headed in that direction.

Then came the news that the feds had agreed on another bi-partisan SwampFiller program. Bloomberg:

Senate Passes $484 Billion Interim Economic Stimulus Package 

At the rate things are going, the money will be gone by the end of next week… comfortably ensconced in the pockets of insiders, chiselers, and cronies coast to coast.

But don’t worry. There’s more where that came from.

There are too many oil companies producing far too much oil. But Donald Trump proposes to lend them more money. The idea is to pay them NOT to produce:

I have instructed the Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Treasury to formulate a plan which will make funds available so that these very important companies and jobs will be secured long into the future!

And even though the latest bailout has not yet been passed, there’s another already on the way. Here’s Bloomberg again this morning:

The Senate sent a $484 billion package of new pandemic relief funds to the House for likely approval Thursday, as lawmakers and the Trump administration began turning their attention to the next round of stimulus for a stalled U.S. economy.

“We have a great victory for the American people,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the Senate acted. “But we certainly need to do more.”

The “more” is where the inflation comes in.

It’s one thing to fake out investors with quantitative easing (QE) and fraudulent interest rates. It’s another to dump trillions in helicopter money on what’s left of the Main Street economy.

In the former case, you get higher stock prices. Everybody’s happy. In the latter, you get higher consumer prices. Who’s happy then?

But for now… we’re still in the deflation phase. And yesterday’s news of coming inflation did little to lift stocks. The Dow still settled down 631 points. Only 23,018 left to go!

$10 Trillion Blunder

Meanwhile, research and statistics continue to pile up… hinting that the Trump Administration has made a $10 trillion blunder in its handling of the C-virus.

New studies show that the virus moves faster than expected… infects more people than expected… and kills fewer of them than expected. It acts, well, like a regular virus… not like The Plague.

Typically, a virus gets passed around the schools in winter. Children come home with runny noses. Parents soon have colds, too. Then, when they visit grandparents… the old folks are doomed.

The “old man’s friend” is how they used to describe pneumonia. It came along, just in time, before the old fellow’s condition – mental or physical – became too embarrassing.

In the case of the C-virus, the most reasonable course of action is merely to warn people… and let them take precautions. That is about what Sweden has done.

The U.S. took the more heavy-handed approach – it imposed curfews, shut-downs, and economic stoppages on everybody.

In closing the schools, it prevented children from learning (assuming the schools serve any useful function at all), but it also prevented the children from building up the immunity that will prevent the disease from spreading.

In closing the economy, it prevented people from earning a living, which means it prevented them from earning the “wealth” that we all need to live on.

The result is a man-made economic catastrophe. No one knows how much it will cost – in real output only. But current estimates are running around $10 trillion.

And that’s not counting the economic damage done by the feds’ bailouts and money-printing… or the losses in the asset markets. U.S. stocks alone are down about $5 trillion since early February.         

Great American Fraud

Had only the vulnerable old people been locked down, the damage would have been minimal. Old people are mostly retired… or can work from home… It is no great loss if a few Walmart greeters have to stay home.

But the U.S. has lost more young workers than older ones. Here’s a tweet from Ezra Klein:

52% of Americans under the age of 45 have either lost their job, been put on leave, or had their hours dramatically cut as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, compared to 26% of people over the age of 45.

Almost all young people… and the huge majority of people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s… live by the “sweat of their brows.”

That is, they earn money by selling their time.

They make no money when they’re not working. They add no wealth. They learn no skills. Time – their most important asset – has been stolen away. Their lives have been impaired.

Along come the feds and tell them, “No sweat… we’ll give you money.” The Paycheck Protection Program pretends to make them whole by replacing real time with fake money.

A great victory? Nope. Just another fraud.

Regards,

- Bill Bonner -

Now, for the Bad News:

This lockdown is destroying far more lives than it's saving, and the main reason they want to shelter people from this virus is so the masses can't develop immunity before they can sell you the vaccine for it. 

And of course they already have the vaccine, even as they pretend to be expending money and working hard at "developing" it, to justify the price they will charge to gullible and complicit Governments, based on the alleged costs they have already "altruistically" paid out to do so. 

Bill Gates patented the virus itself back in 2015. A vaccine is simply an injection of dead virus so your body's immune system has time to recognize it and build up its OWN defenses before encountering the real, live version.

Meanwhile, they keep insisting that the hydrochloroquine cure is a myth while confining people to ventilators instead, and letting them die. That's beyond criminal negligence - it's mass murder for money.

And on top of that, it's giving "our leaders" a taste of Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fascism, too.

(Anyone else getting "policed" by security guards at grocery stores?)!

It's not their job, nor the obligation of the store manager or the corporate owners or their lawyers, to protect me from the other shoppers, nor they from me, and more that it is the job of the police to "pre-emptively, defensively" police and arrest everyone else in advance, just in case we might eventually commit some crimes. 

It's a form of criminal negligence to try to "err on the side of caution" just "Because, SINCE something COULD go wrong, so it WILL go wrong, and, 'probably' IS in fact already going wrong, SO WE HAVE TO STOP YOU by attacking you first, so you can't commit the crimes you have yet to even think about trying to commit!" That's reversing the onus and burden of proof to: "GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY/NEVER PROVEN INNOCENT!"

So You've Got The Flu? It's An Opportunity For More "YAY FREE STUFF!"

Vive la Révolution?

By Bill Bonner This world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaucrats. Einstein didn’t discover his theory of relativity on an order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases the masses have escaped the grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history are where they’ve had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, it is exactly the kinds of societies that depart from that. So the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lives of ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Economist Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue Show, 1979

We’re all sitting on the edge of our seats… eagerly awaiting a glorious future led by bureaucrats.

Yes, the apparatchiks and funcionariat are creating a Brave New World… Or so they claim.

They aim to prove Friedman wrong… as almost the entire world tries to replace capitalism and real money with government-managed economies and fake money.

Japan says it will pump in $1 trillion. And it declared a state of emergency.

Nancy Pelosi says she’ll match that with “at least” another $1 trillion from the U.S.

Germany promised “limitless” support for small businesses.

The European Union is talking about a $540 billion program.

And the Federal Reserve is ready to pitch in $2.3 trillion in new money.

Old-fashioned getting and spending is out of date… démodé… behind the times. Now we can replace real earnings, real wealth and real money with… fake money!

Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports that there are fewer and fewer people making any money at all:

A second wave of job loss is hitting those who thought they were safe. Businesses that set up employees to work from home are laying them off as sales plummet. Corporate lawyers are seeing jobs dry up. Government workers are being furloughed as state and city budgets are squeezed. And health-care workers not involved in fighting the pandemic are suffering.

Goldman Sachs says the downturn will be “four times worse than 2008.”

And demand for oil is so weak, the black goo is selling for less than $20 a barrel. There’s so much of it sitting around that oil tankers are now being used for storage, with rental rates as high as $300,000 per day (usually only about $15,000).

But don’t despair. Aux barricades! Ils ne passeront pas! The fake money is on its way. 

Heroes of the Revolution

As of yesterday, 1.1 million small business loans had already been approved, totaling $253 billion in bailout money. The feds’ $350 billion small-business relief fund is almost exhausted.

Wow! These Small Business Administration bureaucrats should be designated “first responders”… or “heroes of the revolution.” They’re processing the giveaways at a fantastic rate.

Apparently, they carefully examined 6,547 applications each hour for the last three weeks. That’s 109 every minute.

At the rate of one every half a second, they had to check out the facts… verify the value of collateral… and assure themselves that everything was on the level – after all, they were giving out as much as $2 million per application!

Who gets the money? We don’t know, but like subprime mortgages in 2007, all you need is a pulse. Even hedge funds are eligible.

They may be reckless gamblers and inveterate speculators… run by people making millions of dollars. But they qualify as small businesses!

Many of them must have forgotten to hedge. Now they need a bailout!

Here’s The Intelligencer with details:

If you are a company, nonprofit, veterans organization, or tribal concern with 500 or fewer employees – or else, a self-employed individual or independent contractor – the government will provide you with a loan equivalent to eight weeks of your prior average payroll (or, for the self-employed, earnings), plus an additional 25 percent of that sum (unless that grand total adds up to more than $10 million, which is the cap for any individual firm).

You do not need to make any payments on that loan for six months. And if you maintain your workforce, then the government will entirely forgive the portion of the loan spent on payroll, benefits, utilities, rent, mortgage payments, or other debts. In other words, it will forgive more or less all of it.

Yet the authorities – governments all over the planet – have a fatal flaw. They always want more power… and more control.

They (and their media toads) scare the bejeezus out of the public… and rouse the country to self-mutilation… making war against enemies, real and imaginary.

Drugs, poverty, the Koreans, the Vietnamese, Iraqis, terrorists, a virus… and the market economy itself!

When COVID-19 showed up, the feds got out the bazookas. The president’s chief economic advisor, Larry Kudlow, even proposed selling “war bonds” to pay for it.

The lockdown forced people to stop “pursuing their separate interests,” to borrow Milton Friedman’s words. Instead, Americans join the revolution – sheltering at home as they wait for their bailout checks to arrive in the mail.

And there, leading the charge are the feds – bureaucrats, politicians, cronies, swamp critters and Deep Staters – with trillions in fake new money.

We don’t know whether their approach to fighting the virus saves lives or not. But their revolt against old-fashioned market capitalism is certain to be a failure.

Regards,

Bill

No, we are not 'all in this together!'

The latest article from Uber-Prepper Brandon Smith, by way of Bob Livingston's Personal Liberty:

A common phrase I have heard lately all around the internet as well as all around the area I live whenever the pandemic situation is broached is that "we are all in this together, and we will get through this together." The sentiment is repeated like a religious mantra and I believe it is rooted in a collectivist reaction in the minds of many. The idea is that if we all comfort each other by repeating the lie that we're all in the same boat, and if everyone believes it, then the threat of the outbreak along with the economic collapse will somehow simply "disappear".

The notion that "we are going to get through this together" seems to be based on the assumption that the crisis is going to move quickly, and if we hold tight, our sacrifice will be minimal and all will go back to the way things were before. This is simply not so.

I highly respect the ideal of giving hope to others, while keeping none for yourself. However, hope has to come from a legitimate place. It has to be based in some reality. There are too many lies driving public psychology right now to give concrete hope to anyone. The lies have to end, and the facts have to hit people hard before we can then come to an understanding of what we have to do to survive this event. In the meantime, the majority of people are going to be trapped in fantasy land, hypnotized by delusions of magical cures and economic silver bullets.

On top of all that, the American public has never been more divided than it is right now. Sure, we can soak in a bathtub of brain-dead dreams with elitist celebrities like Madonna, telling us that the virus "makes us all equal," but does it really? I'm sorry, but the truth that not all people are equal is about to become more apparent than ever before.

The pandemic along with the economic collapse is going to separate people into clearly definable categories, and many of these groups will be in direct conflict with each other:

The Prepared

These are the people that saw this event coming ahead of time and spent many months if not many years stocking supplies and training to survive it. The Prepared were smarter and had more insight into the reality of the situation than most people. If we were to apply evolutionary standards then The Prepared would be at the top of the food chain, the alpha species, but let's not let this go to our heads; there are many downsides to being a member of The Prepared.


In a just world, the masses would be going to The Prepared for answers to the crisis, and some do, but overall I think The Prepared will be more hated for their predictive capabilities than admired. This is why prepared people have to stick together, organize and protect one another; because the day is coming when they will be targeted by The Unprepared as enemies of the collective.

The Unprepared

The Unprepared are not all alike. There are people who are arrogant and ignored all evidence of collapse presented to them ahead of time, and now they are going to suffer for that. These are the people I call "grasshoppers," as in the fable of 'The Ant And The Grasshopper.' They danced and played all summer and laughed at all the warnings of impending winter. These are the people who will act indignant and vicious when they are deprived of comfort, and they will demand that the ants give up their preps to save them (which is not going to happen).

There are other people who were merely oblivious to the situation and are mostly innocent in their lack of preparation. They just weren't exposed to the available information for whatever reason. They live decent hard-working lives and they are mostly innocent in all of this. They too will be faced with hard decisions in the near future — some of them will try to prepare as best they can while the crisis is still in its early stages. Others will join the grasshoppers out of fear and demand a draconian government response.

The Independents

The independents are people that will seek to solve the problems surrounding the crisis with their own ingenuity. They won't demand help from the government, nor will they demand that other people "share" their resources with them out of a sense of entitlement. They will ask for help where needed, but they will try to do the best they can to endure the crisis without trying to force others to make things easier for them.

The independents will understand the difference between collectivism and voluntary organization. The first strategy requires force and fear, the second strategy does not. The collectivists will try to interfere or even destroy The Independents, because if they are successful in organizing voluntarily and becoming prosperous through free market innovation it will prove that the collectivist ideology is unnecessary and outdated. The collectivists would rather "win" than be right in their thinking.

The Collectivists

Collectivist people will applaud the vast expansion of government power and control because within their cult religion government is god. To them, the pandemic is not a curse but a blessing because it gives them a rationale to take part in a grand subjugation of other people and feel the power they have always wanted to feel. These are the people with inherent narcissistic and sociopathic traits within our culture. They represent only 1 to 5 percent of the total population, but they are predatory and single-minded in their goal to control others and feed off the world like parasites.

These people are not always elites. In fact, most of them are just like you and me in terms of status and income. But, they do tend to work together in groups as long as there is mutual gain to be had, and they have all character qualities of global elites including a complete lack of empathy, a penchant for self-worship and idolization, zero belief in anything greater than themselves, a propensity towards deceit and violence to get what they want, and using disasters to their advantage.

The Sheeple

Sheeple are people that have no capacity for self-leadership. They will follow whoever they think has the best chance of securing their survival, even if those people have evil intentions. Sheeple are not necessarily nefarious minded, they just don't care about the bigger picture and they only see what is right in front of them. This is a different mindset from those that look for leadership in people that display integrity, experience and competence; Sheeple don't care about any of that. They just want to feel protected and secure no matter what, even if they have to sacrifice their freedoms in exchange for that feeling. They are a prime target for The Collectivists.

Trying to talk sense to sheeple is almost impossible. They will not listen. You probably know a few Sheeple in your life who even now in the midst of a global collapse still think this crisis will be over in a matter of weeks and that the government will save them. Attempting to convince them otherwise is a waste of time.

All you can do is provide a better solution than the collectivists and hope The Sheeple follow you instead of the evil empire when the crash hits hardest.

Irreconcilable Differences

These different types of people are mostly at odds with each other. There is no "we," there is no "us" and there is no "getting through this thing together." I will say that the vast majority of people do have a conscience, unlike the globalists that created this calamity in the first place, but that does not mean we will all end up on the same team. The dark magic of chaos is that it can be used to convince otherwise good people to support horrifying tyranny in the name of the "greater good."

Beware anyone promoting the notion that we are "all in this together;" this is the gateway to collectivism and it is a blatant lie. There are establishment elites that plan to gain from this event while the rest of us suffer; they are not on our side or in our boat. They will use the pandemic and the simultaneous economic collapse (which they have engineered) to maneuver the public into abandoning their freedoms in the name of collective safety.

There are also useful idiots and narcopaths out there that thrive in these types of unstable environments. They too are vampires seeking to bleed people dry while using the disaster as cover. These are the people screaming at strangers walking down the street that they need to "go back home" and "flatten the curve." These are the people calling the cops on their neighbors for talking in a group bigger than two or three. These are the local government officials calling for bans on church services even when they are held outside and follow the "guidelines" of social distancing. These are the people calling preppers "hoarders" and demanding that their supplies be redistributed. These are the people that revel in authoritarianism.


Understand that there are many sides to this conflict and very few of them are honorable. Listen to your conscience, listen to evidence truth and reason, and choose your side wisely.

To truth and knowledge,

Brandon Smith                                                                                                                                                         

The Trump/Rothschild Connection

From here (June 21 - before the election - in  2016 and here and here:

How Rothschild Inc Saved Donald Trump - A Multi-Decade Strategy to Transform America:

Considering the time and labor which has gone into building the Donald Trump character it is difficult to imagine that he will not become the next president.  The case can be made that an equal amount of effort has gone into the Hillary Clinton public image, and the feminist trend towards symbolic androgyny would surely support the rise of a female leader.

But there is something about the Trump brand which is suggestive of a longer and more strategized approach.  This multi-decade tailoring started in the 1980’s with the initial cultural injection of Donald Trump.  There has been much written about this time period but little attention is provided to the obvious manufactured aspects of the Trump image.

In the early 1980’s Donald Trump was an up and coming real estate developer in New York.  There was no connection between the Trump name and casinos or gambling.  The obvious nature of the name Trump and its definition related to gambling and card games foretold of the massive empire which would develop in the coming years.

In 1987 Donald Trump purchased his first casino interests when he acquired 93% of the shares in Resorts International.  Resorts International has a sordid history which began in the early 1950’s when it evolved from a CIA and Mossad front company which had been established for the purpose of money laundering the profits from drug trafficking, gambling, and other illegal activities.

The socioeconomic engineering benefits of mass population manipulation through means of drug addiction, gambling, and other vices, far outweigh those provided by money laundering alone. It can be assumed that money laundering acted as a secondary advantage in much the same way that the subjugation of the Chinese population through the spread of opium financially benefited the East India Trading Company centuries before.

On October 30, 1978, The Spotlight newspaper reported that the principle investors of Resorts International were Meyer Lansky, Tibor Rosenbaum, William Mellon Hitchcock, David Rockefeller, and one Baron Edmond de Rothschild.

Michael Collins Piper, in his book The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America has done an excellent job of describing the relationship between Donald Trump and Resorts International.  The following excerpt sums up the relationship:

“In 1987, upon the death of longtime CIA front man James Crosby, the nominal head of Resorts International, up-and-coming young New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped into the picture and bought Crosby’s interest in the gambling empire.”

“Trump soon became a household name, with his colorful personality and his insistence upon naming a variety of luxury hotels, apartment houses and other commercial ventures after himself. But while the name “Trump” appeared in the headlines, the names of the real movers behind Resorts International remained hidden from public view.”

The support of the Rothschild’s would become even more apparent.

After quickly expanding the reach of Resorts International to Atlantic City in the final years of the 1980’s, Donald Trump found himself in financial trouble as the real estate market in New York tanked. The three casinos in Atlantic City, like other Trump assets, were under threat from lenders.  It was only with the assistance and assurance of Wilbur L. Ross Jr., senior managing director of Rothschild Inc. that Trump was allowed to keep the casinos and rebuild his threatened empire.

This was detailed in a Bloomberg article from March 22, 1992.

The connection between Baron Edmond de Rothschild, being one of the original principle investors of Resorts International, and Rothschild Inc. allowing Donald Trump to retain “ownership” over the Atlantic City casinos, which saved him from bankruptcy, should not be considered a coincidence.

Great wealth can both create and destroy men of perceived consequence.

Donald Trump landed on his feet when ironically the real estate market in New York turned and his wealth increased dramatically once more. From there the Trump Empire continued to roll forward and eventually expanded its brand into the realm of reality television, the newest method of socioeconomic and cultural engineering.

For those wondering, Wilbur L. Ross Jr. spent 24 years at the New York office of Rothschild Inc. In the late 1990’s he started a $200 million fund at Rothschild Inc. to invest in distressed assets.  In 2000, on April Fool’s day, Ross raised an additional $450 million to invest in troubled companies. The timing of this strategy could not have been better, as this report from New York Magazine stated:

“The 2000–1 rolling stock-market crash, 9/11, and a globally synchronous recession pushed scores of companies into bankruptcy. New Economy highfliers like Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing went bust. But so did Old Economy stalwarts in industries like steel and textiles—victims of excess capacity, global competition, and generous union contracts.”

So it’s of course no surprise that billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross Jr. would support the nomination of Donald Trump for president in this Bloomberg article dated March 9, 2016.

It would appear that Rothschild supported front men like Ross and Trump do extremely well in the worlds of finance and politics.  Trump’s proclamations to bring jobs back to America will help “….industries like steel and textiles-…” and will support both domestic growth and an increase in wealth for those like Ross who have invested in distressed American assets.

Donald Trump, “…a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage…” is in fact the establishment candidate for president - and that establishment is one based on the international banking interests.

At no time in the history of the modern world and politics has an anti-establishment candidate been given so much media attention and free airtime. The negative reporting of Donald Trump by most media is scripted as such.  The cognitive dissonance which is developing surrounding the Trump mandate and transformation of America is a strategy which began decades ago in the 1980’s when Donald Trump first began to canvas our television screens.

One merely need watch the Donald Trump of the past talk about running for president to witness the script in its pure form.  All of the talking points about trade deals and bringing jobs back, as well as the United Nations, NATO, and the national debt, all fit within the methodology of the multilateral monetary transition.

ENTER "PRESIDENT BIFF:"

This has been building up for years - so: here it is, in Chronological order:

Weird Economics - Are we witnessing the weirdest moment in economic history?
https://personalliberty.com/witnessing-weirdest-moment-economic-history/

The real purpose behind the Russian/Trump connection propaganda
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-real-purpose-behind-russiantrump.html

How the Globalist Banksters Destroy America
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-globalist-banksters-destroy-america.html

The promise of a 'multipolar world' is a globalist con
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-promise-of-multipolar-world-is.html

UH-OH! Trade war distraction: Huawei and linchpin theory
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2018/12/uh-oh.html

The Federal Reserve is a suicide bomber with a deeper agenda
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-federal-reserve-is-suicide-bomber.html

Trump is a pied piper for the new world order agenda
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/01/trump-is-pied-piper-for-new-world-order.html

Globalist disinformation spotlight on — Mohamed El-Erian
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/01/globalist-disinformation-spotlight-on.html

Globalists WILL Sacrifice the Dollar to Get their 'New World Order'
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/01/globalists-will-sacrifice-dollar-to-get.html

The next stage of the engineered global economic reset has arrived
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-next-stage-of-engineered-global.html

The Leftist Religious Cult of Diverse Conformity
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-leftist-religious-cult-of-diverse.html

TRUMP IS OWNED BY THE ROTHSCHILDS!
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-is-owned-by-rothschilds.html

It's obvious who will replace Trump after the controlled demolition of the economy
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/07/its-obvious-who-will-replace-trump.html

How Real Mind-Control Works - by Brandon Smith
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/08/how-real-mind-control-works-by-brandon.html

Trump is Still About To Crash World Economy For His Globalist Masters
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/08/trump-is-still-about-to-crash-world.html

Why is the mainstream media suddenly admitting to the recession threat? Scary!
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/08/why-is-mainstream-media-suddenly.html

Conservatives Are Being Targeted By Simple Reverse Psychology After All
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/08/conservatives-are-being-targeted-by.html

Red Flag gun laws are rooted in communist methods of oppression
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/09/red-flag-gun-laws-are-rooted-in.html

MORE PROOF TRUMP IS THE "CONTROLLED OPPOSITION" AFTER ALL
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/10/more-proof-trump-is-controlled.html

One UN To Rule Them All...! (Why is the elitist establishment so obsessed with meat?)!
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/10/one-un-to-rule-them-all.html

The globalists are openly admitting to their population control agenda... and that's a bad sign
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-globalists-are-openly-admitting-to.html

Here's How And Why CRYPTO Is Really The Globalist Banksters' Wet Dream
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/11/heres-how-and-why-crypto-is-really.html

Formerly Secretive Globalist Traitors Now Openly Brag About It All
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/12/formerly-secretive-globalist-traitors.html

Global Crash Still On Course as of Wednesday, December 18, 2019
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2019/12/global-crash-still-on-course.html

Viral pandemic a convenient linchpin for economic collapse - as of Wednesday, January 29, 2020, BEFORE the economic lock-down!
https://unclevladdi.blogspot.com/2020/01/viral-pandemic-convenient-linchpin-for.html

A Short History of American Imperial Aggression

On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth slipped into a private box at Ford's Theater and fired a shot into President Abraham Lincoln's head just behind the left ear.

After slashing an army officer who tried to grab him, Booth jumped from the box and onto the stage — a stage on which he had performed as an actor many times — and shouted "Sic semper tyrannis (thus always to tyrants) — the South is avenged." He then hobbled out of the theater on a broken leg (he broke it in his jump), mounted a horse and made his getaway.

Lincoln died the next morning, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated.

The South was anything but avenged by Booth's actions. Lincoln, through his generals, had waged total war on the South. There was apparently little concern over the killing of women and children, and the South was plundered for its resources and its homes and farmland were torched and livestock slaughtered and fed to Northern soldiers, leaving Southerners destitute.

Some 850,000 people died as a result of the war, the equivalent of close to 9 million people in today's population.

Lincoln made war on the South not to free the slaves, as the Lincoln cultists continue to proclaim. He stated in his inaugural address that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." He also wrote in a letter to Horace Greeley:

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause."

What Lincoln wanted to save was the system of protectionism and the inflow to the federal treasury of tariff money imposed on the South. He was a former Whig, bankster lobbyist and crony capitalist who pushed for the reprisal of a national (central) bank.

In addition to asserting that he would not interfere with slavery, in his inaugural address he threatened the Southern states with invasion if they did not comply with terms of the Morrill tariff, passed by Congress and signed by President James Buchanan two days before Lincoln's inauguration. The bill raised the tariff rate from 15 percent to 37.5 percent and expanded the list of items, essentially tripling the tax burden. The South was paying about 80 percent of the tariff and most of the money collected was spent on Northern projects and interests.

"The power confided in me," he said, "will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property, and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion — no using force against, or among the people anywhere."

As Lincoln historian Thomas J. DiLorenzo writes, Lincoln was essentially telling the Southern states, "‘We are going to make tax slaves out of you and if you resist, there will be an invasion.' That was on March 4. Five weeks later, on April 12, Fort Sumter, a tariff collection point in Charleston Harbor, was bombarded by the Confederates. No one was hurt or killed, and Lincoln later revealed that he manipulated the Confederates into firing the first shot, which helped generate war fever in the North."
Because Lincoln died days after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, signifying the de facto end of the war of Northern Aggression, there was at the time an ongoing Lincoln hero-worship in the North. He was at the height of his popularity. This, combined with the fact that the Radical Republicans controlled government and were able to, as the victors, write the history of the war, a cult of Lincoln as the "Great Emancipator" and saver of the Union took root and grew and continues to dominate today — thanks in no small part to the U.S. (non)education system.

But what Lincoln did during the war with his unconstitutional invasion of the Southern states, the suspension of habeas corpus, the suspension of elections, and the interference with state politics was to create the ridiculous notion that anything the U.S. does is justified so long as it is couched in the term of spreading "freedom" around the globe, even if that freedom must be installed at gunpoint.

THANKS TO LINCOLN, GOVERNMENT COULD FROM THEN ON DO WHATEVER IT WANTS, TO WHOMEVER IT WANTS, WHEREVER
 AND WHENEVER IT WANTS TO, AS LONG AS IT PRETENDS IT'S DOING IT FOR THEM - AKA: "FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!"

Lincoln's conquering of the south effectively destroyed the 9th and 10th Amendments and any power the states had to check the federal government. 

In doing so it paved the road for the imperial presidency under which we suffer today.

In dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, President Trump has invoked the Defense Production Act to nationalize industries in order to coerce them into producing needed materials. In addition to granting the president this power, the DPA — passed in 1950 as the U.S. was ramping up to fight the Korean War — empowers the president to impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials towards national defense.

Even though the U.S. is not involved in a major war, this is the second time Trump has invoked the DPA. He first used it in 2017 to classify two sets of products as "critical to national defense." President Obama invoked it in 2011 to force U.S. telecommunications firms to disclose what Chinese-manufactured hardware and software they were using.

This indicates how eager presidents are to use any and all powers granted to them and why the Founders created an executive presidency with little power to begin with beyond executive power and be commander in chief of the armed forces.

Even as most governors have complied with Trump's suggestion that they destroy their economies and shut down all production and travel over the coronavirus, some reporters have queried the president over why he hasn't ordered a nationwide shutdown. Trump claims he has the power to do so, but would rather not because he "cherishes the Constitution."

But nothing in the Constitution gives him that authority any more than the Constitution granted Lincoln the power to do what he did.


The Constitution has essentially been meaningless for 155 years since Lincoln, and subsequent presidents have continued ripping it to ever-smaller shreds... Trump included.

Yours for the truth,

Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter^®

"TRUMP HAS ABANDONED RESPONSIBILITY!"

From here:

Just in case some of you were still willing to give the bankster-owned globalist enemedia presstitutes the benefit of the doubt, and thought the MSM was naively re-distributing CHI-COM PROPAGANDA ... this article alone should dispel such childish notions forever.

From the Ottawa Citizen/National Post today, Tuesday April 7, 2020, P.# NP6:

"WHEN THIS IS ALL OVER, 100 COUNTRIES WILL THINK BETTER OF CHINA AND WORSE OF THE U.S. - INCLUDING, PERHAPS, CANADA."

- JOHN IVISON

John Ivison: Trump has abandoned America's leadership role during the COVID-19 crisis

The announcement by the Liberal government that it will contribute $159 million to fight COVID-19 in poorer countries was couched in its usual hipster social justice blarney – the aid will be in line with its “feminist international assistance approach,” it said.

Sending money overseas will be unpopular in some quarters for more nativist reasons. When the first tranche of assistance was announced last month, Conservative leadership candidate Erin O’Toole tweeted “foreign aid can wait.”

But opponents of an international response are wrong. This is a global pandemic and to subdue it will take global action.

Unfortunately, that is not the conclusion that has been reached by the president of the world’s only indispensable country in a global crisis.

Donald Trump paid lip service to a united front in a G20 leaders’ communique late last month. But every action – from blocking the export of face masks to Canada to trying to buy exclusive access to a German-made vaccine – have belied his professed multilateralism. An order of 200,000 masks bound for Germany was allegedly “confiscated” in Bangkok by the Americans, on the grounds they were produced by a U.S. company – 3M – in China. A German official called it “an act of modern piracy”.

Trump’s supporters will cheer his America First response. But this inward-looking approach is antithetical to the values that have made the United States successful – in Harry S. Truman’s words, a country “built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”
Truman was president when the Marshall Plan was introduced to kick-start Western European prosperity and stop the spread of communism.

After the 2008/09 financial crisis, both the Bush and Obama administrations recognized the need for American leadership on the world stage.

But Trump has relinquished that role, even as he talks about making America great again.

While Trump has slept, China has been busy – donating face masks, test kits, protective suits and expertise to 100 or so countries. At the height of the crisis in Italy, a delegation of Chinese medical experts and 31 tonnes of supplies arrived to help.

According to the Xinhua news agency, there is no geopolitical component to this largesse. Western politicians “gauge the heart of a gentleman by their own standards…. The paranoid should stop politicizing and distorting Chinese assistance,” the state-run propaganda agency said.

However, just because we in the West are paranoid, it doesn’t mean the Chinese aren’t intent on becoming the biggest geopolitical force in the world.

Trump’s abdication of responsibility means that when this is all over, 100 countries will think better of China and worse of the U.S. – including, perhaps, Canada.

As Trump was directing 3M to stop exporting respirators to Canada, the Trudeau government was chartering a cargo flight to China to pick up millions of masks.

(BUT PROBABLY NOT THE SAME MILLIONS OF MASKS HE

HAD ALREADY GIVEN AWAY TO THEM FOR FREE. NO DOUBT THESE NEW ONES

WILL COME PRE-INFECTED WITH COVID-19, COURTESY OF BILL GATES HIMSELF)!

It’s not too late for the U.S. to change tack. COVID-19 has not yet taken hold in developing countries. There are more cases on the Isle of Man than there are in Bangladesh; more in Ireland than in India.

But, until there is a vaccine, the virus will spread and it will be devastating in countries that are so crowded people are unable to social distance, or so backward there is no running water for hand-washing.

THE WUHAN VACCINE WAS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED BY A CADRE OF GLOBALIST EUGENICISTS LIKE BILL GATES TO DEPOPULATE THE WORLD BY SHRINKING MALE TESTES - A GENOCIDAL FATE WHICH WILL NO DOUBT BE 

BLAMED ON THE VIRUS ITSELF, NOT THE VACCINE.

No wonder India issued a total ban on leaving home for 21 days – the legacy of the Spanish flu that killed 18 million Indians a century ago, more than all the casualties in World War One.

When it does hit, health systems will be unable to cope. Economies are already crashing, as demand for exports dries up and investors withdraw capital at record rates. Emerging market stocks are trading at far below historic valuations, as uncertainties about disease preparedness, debt sustainability, economic recovery and tourism revenues linger.

Canada has, by international standards, responded remarkably. Stories are still emerging about the biggest peacetime mobilization of industrial capacity, as suppliers switched from auto parts to making ventilators, face shields and gowns.

i.e: "YAY FOR COMMUNISM AND THE STALINIST COMMAND-ECONOMY MODEL!"

The federal employment department has processed 2.24 million Employment Insurance claims since March 16, close to a whole year’s work, thanks to the administrative innovation – hitherto believed to be an oxymoron.

But countries without a robust industrial base or those unable to afford generous welfare provisions will be swamped.

The G20 statement on international coordination is a start – it highlighted the need to maintain dollar liquidity, retain open markets and target action by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

NAKED GLOBALIST BANKSTER PROPAGANDA SPEW!

But the prospects for action without U.S. leadership are modest. G7 foreign ministers couldn’t even agree on a joint statement after the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted the document refer to the disease as the “Wuhan virus”.

i.e: "EVIL AMERICAN RACISTS SAID THE VIRUS WAS CHINESE SO NOW WE CAN'T FIX IT!"

Songwriter Tom Lehrer contended that satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But Richard Nixon’s former security advisor knows a wildfire when he sees one, having ignited a few.

In last Friday’s Wall Street Journal, he suggested the COVID-19 crisis will alter the world order. “The pandemic has prompted an anachronism, a revival of the walled city in an age when prospects depend on global trade and the movement of people,” he wrote.

The implication is that Trump’s America First rhetoric has weakened the U.S. led liberal world order, creating a vacuum that China is filling.

WHAT AN EVIL LITTLE FAGGOT. NEITHER TRUMP NOR AMERICA ITSELF HAVE ANY MORAL OBLIGATIONS OR ECONOMIC RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY NOT TO CHINA. AND CHINA'S "LARGESSE" IN SEEKING TO LIMIT THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC DEVASTATION THE VIRUS IT CREATED IS CURRENTLY WREAKING ON THE WORLD OBVIOUSLY REALLY ONLY SUPPORTS ITS OWN INTERESTS.

The Canadian government has an obligation to do what it can to safeguard what Kissinger called “Enlightenment values”

LIKE GLOBAL GENOCIDE? KISSINGER IS A GLOBALIST WAR-CRIMINAL
WHO ACTUALLY COINED MY FAVOURITE PHRASE:
"THERE'S NO MONEY IN SOLUTIONS!"

 – the right of people to pursue lives protected from the violence of anarchy or tyranny.

Meanwhile, the American president risks becoming an Ozymandias-like figure, the “King of Kings” who was subject of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem about the fragility of even the greatest of empires. “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Shelley wrote. Indeed.

RELATED:

From here:

Want some more proof that the globalist bankster-owned enemedia want you and your descendants DEAD? They all want genocidal eugenicist Bill Gates' patented Coronavirus VACCINE to shrink the male testes of 90% of the world population, which is what the Coronavirus can only occasionally do, while blaming it on the virus itself. An obvious cheap and easy cure will scuttle their plans. Now, just think (those of you who actually want and like your own families) - these little punks are trying to rob you of thousands if not millions of potential descendants! For that scale of crime, they can't be tortured to death slowly enough!

I think that now reporters are even lower than lawyers and politicians! The media are actually complaining that too many doctors are prescribing it for them selves and their own families. If that isn't evidence it works, I don't know what is!

Canadian prescriptions for malaria drug with COVID-19 potential surge, some for doctors' own use

By Tom Blackwell


Hydroxychloroquine has long been a standard treatment for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But many of them have reported having trouble obtaining it. 

Some Canadian doctors appear to have been snapping up a malaria drug for their own possible use against COVID-19, part of a surge in prescriptions for the medicine that has health-care regulators across the country concerned.

Professional organizations in several provinces have issued statements in recent days discouraging the practice, noting there’s no solid evidence yet that hydroxychloroquine and a related medicine work against the coronavirus.

“As evidence-based clinicians, we must be diligent in our efforts to not let blind hope drive our decisions,” said a joint statement from the associations representing Ontario pharmacists, doctors and registered nurses.

We must be diligent in our efforts to not let blind hope drive our decisions

The Quebec Order of Pharmacists, which regulates that province’s druggists, recently urged its members not to fill prescriptions meant for COVID-19 prevention or treatment, calling them “inappropriate.”

The Alberta College of Pharmacists, another regulator, said it has received reports of physicians prescribing hydroxychloroquine for ” ‘office use’ to themselves, to family members and when there is no accepted indication (i.e., treatment of COVID-19 infection).”

Pharmacists in Ontario also received prescriptions “for office use.” It was unclear whether those physicians wanted a supply to dispense to patients — when many clinics were closed — or for themselves and family, said Allan Malek, chief pharmacy officer with the Ontario Pharmacists Association.

“Our message is that we have to exercise a little bit of control here and rational thinking,” he said Monday. “We’re asking for calm in this, and to let the studies unfold.”

Meanwhile, the increased prescription of the malaria medication as a coronavirus therapy is already creating shortages for patients with a proven need to take it, say their advocates.

Hydroxychloroquine has long been a standard treatment for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But many of them have reported having trouble obtaining it, said Leanne Mielczarek, executive director of Lupus Canada.

“They are experiencing difficulty,” she said. “In some cases, patients have to go to multiple pharmacies to fill their prescriptions.”

The Canadian Rheumatology Association has heard from patients unable to fill prescriptions at all, or told they could only get a 30-day supply, after COVID-19-related prescribing “increased dramatically,” said Ahmad Zbib, the group’s CEO.

That scarcity could ironically affect coronavirus patients, too, should the large trials now in the works conclude that hydroxychloroquine is, in fact, useful in treating COVID-19.

Malek said his research indicates that three of the four approved producers of the medicine in Canada have no supply and the fourth has “very limited” stocks.

Health Canada is currently trying to find manufacturers in other countries who could add to this country’s reserves, he said.

The controversy is unfolding as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to promote the drug — in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin — as a potential COVID-19 “game changer.” On Sunday, Trump stopped Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s chief infectious-disease expert, from answering a reporter’s question about the issue. Fauci has cautioned that more evidence is needed on hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness against the coronavirus.

Interest in the malaria drug’s potential was first triggered by a small study from France that found it reduced the viral load in some patients, and a larger trial involving 80 patients that lacked a control group — patients who did not receive the hydroxychloroquine/azithromycin combination.

A small Chinese study found some benefit, and another saw no difference between the patients who received the drugs and those who didn’t.

A number of fast-tracked, randomized controlled trials are now testing the medication on much larger groups of patients in Canada and elsewhere. Many experts argue the medicines should not be routinely used for COVID-19 until those studies issue findings in the coming weeks and months.

Echoing a similar phenomenon in the U.S., regulators and professional associations here say they started hearing about a spike in prescriptions late last month.

The only was to do this responsibly is to get good evidence, not to speculate

Demand grew significantly for hydroxychloroquine “in odd doses and quantities, with an off-label and unsubstantiated indication of ‘COVID-19 prophylaxis or treatment,’ ” said the Ontario associations in their joint statement. The result, they said, is a “very serious shortage.”

The regulators for Manitoba nurses, doctors and pharmacists reported a “significant increase” in prescriptions and resulting shortages because of “yet-to-be-proven claims.”

Similar warnings were issued in Alberta.

“We have to do this responsibly and the only was to do this responsibly is to get good evidence, not to speculate,” Greg Eberhart, registrar of the Alberta College of Pharmacy, said in an interview Monday.

B.C.’s regulators predicted that prescribers will face even more pressure from “patients, fellow health care workers and even friends and family” to help them access the drugs.


“Health professionals all have a responsibility … to focus only on evidence-based care and not yield to patient pressure around unproven and potentially dangerous uses of existing medications,” the groups said.

BUT NOW, FOR SOME REALITY:


Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective’ coronavirus treatment, 
poll of doctors finds

By Natalie O’Neill, NY Post, April 2, 2020 |

An international poll of thousands of doctors rated the Trump-touted anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine the best treatment for the novel coronavirus.

Of the 6,227 physicians surveyed in 30 countries, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine the “most effective therapy” for combating the potentially deadly illness, according to the results released Thursday.

The survey, conducted by the global health care polling company Sermo, also found that 23 percent of medical professionals had prescribed the drug in the US — far less than other countries.

“Outside the US, hydroxychloroquine was equally used for diagnosed patients with mild to severe symptoms whereas in the US it was most commonly used for high risk diagnosed patients,” the survey found.

The medicine was most widely used in Spain, where 72 percent of physicians said they had prescribed it.

A debate about hydroxychloroquine was sparked two weeks ago after President Trump touted the drug as a possible “game-changer” in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting critics to accuse him of peddling unproven, untested remedies.
To date, “there is no evidence” that any medicine “can prevent or cure the disease,” according to the World Health Organization.

But Sermo CEO Peter Kirk called the polling results a “treasure trove of global insights for policymakers.”

“Physicians should have more of a voice in how we deal with this pandemic and be able to quickly share information with one another and the world,” he said in a press release.

The 30 countries where doctors were surveyed included Europe, South America and Australia — and no incentives were provided to participate, the company said.

AND THEN YET EVEN MORE, FROM HERE: 

Federal agencies buy massive supply of hydroxychloroquine

By Amanda Woods

April 7, 2020 | 10:25am | Updated

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Two federal agencies have placed orders for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine — using taxpayer money — even as debate rages over its effectiveness in fighting the coronavirus, according to a new report.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons have both reported purchases of the drug — which is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus — since March 26, according to procurement records obtained by The Daily Beast.

Veterans Affairs purchased $168,000 in hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets from the Colorado-based generic drug distributor Golden State Medical Supply, and an additional $40,000 from the pharmaceutical company McKesson, according to the report.

Procurement records list both as “emergency” purchase orders to combat the coronavirus crisis.
The Bureau of Prisons bought $60,000 in hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets from the company Premium Rx National on March 31 — and did not mention the deadly virus in its order, but the purchase comes as federal correctional facilities saw a surge in COVID-19 cases, according to the report.

It appears to be the first time the agency has purchased the drug, the outlet reported.
Neither agency responded to questions from the outlet about whether or how their purchases would be used, either immediately or in the future, to treat coronavirus patients.

President Trump has touted the drug as a potential life-saver and promoted its use on an experimental basis, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has agreed to provide it to thousands of seriously ill patients in New York hospitals in combination with Zithromax.

But critics have balked at the idea of promoting the drug — citing limited or anecdotal evidence about its success.

And they warn the promotion of the drug could lead to a shortage of the medication for those who use it for other illnesses.