by Amarynth, drawing together a braintrust from The Movable Feast Cafe
We set up a ‘brain trust’ in the Cafe in order to write a combined sitrep for The Saker Blog about the Coronavirus. The new name in the taxonomy is COVID-19 but let’s stick to Novel Coronavirus for now. It is of course too early to come to any conclusions, but we can start isolating the discernible high level trends and perhaps get an early glimpse as to what effect the outbreak may have geopolitically and economically, although it is very early days.
We will not attempt to look at the technical picture here – the numbers of recoveries, the death rates and the infection rates, rates of transmission, life of virus on surfaces and so on because the technical picture is not yet clear and all data is in a state of flux with opposing and inconsistent reports from all sides. One cannot expect otherwise as the world is still shooting at a rapidly moving target in terms of statistical ground and epidemiological analysis.
In addition, we have professional organizations like the WHO and the CDC not really in lockstep and giving different pronouncements on a professional level. It is too early to draw conclusions.
What people are saying:
– Let us look for a moment as to what ‘people are saying’. (If you want to end up deeply into conspiracies, I would suggest you go to subReddits /r/Coronavirus and /r/China_Flu )
– What ‘people are saying’ runs the gamut from messages received in meditation, prayer, even channeling, and this information is being put out there as valid for everyone else in the face of no definitive information you can hang your hat on.
– Every talking head on youtube has suddenly turned into an expert, both on China and on the Novel Coronavirus. Every uninformed blockhead has now turned into a specialist. Every Twitter feed out there now considers itself an insta-influencer.
– Most of the western alternative news medias have suddenly decided to follow their governmental lead on China, and the message is overwhelmingly that Brutal China is indeed very Brutal and very Bad. Note this curse, and the spat is still continuing:
– It is a bioweapon because of how the Chinese are reacting. This was a conspiracy theory just a week ago, but now it is reaching mainstream. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/tom-cotton-demands-beijing-prove-ncov-isnt-bioweapon-another-conspiracy-theory-goes
– It is bioengineered because some Indian researchers have found strands of HIV in the analysis of the virus, but then had to retract their studies.
– The Chinese stole it from Canada.
– The US has a patent on Coronavirus.
– Just a short time before the outbreak became public, Bill Gates et al did some kind of a scenario planning on the corona virii becoming a global pandemic – http://10.16.86.131/moveable-feast-cafe-2020-02-17/#comment-762067
– China is attacking her own people to reduce population
– Lab Accidents happen. (this is of course a pragmatic view, but usually Level 4 laboratories are situated very far away from the center of busy cities).
– Chinese dissidents spread the virus
– So, China is killing its dissidents and carrying out genocide against its own people. Here is an example of this thinking: https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=140446
– Wuhan was on the point of massive riots, Hong Kong Style against their government
– The Chinese government is lying and not reporting correctly. The death rate is much higher.
– The Chinese Defense Forces are riddled with virus infected soldiers, and they are being contained somewhere else. There is no information on this excepting wild speculation.
– Every non-flattering video from China is being passed along salaciously; usually grainy and one cannot really figure out where it is from – no markings, road signs, store names or anything where anything can be identified. The scuttlebut is that these mostly security camera videos and actively distributed by Falun Gong. Your guess on this is as good as mine.
As you can see from this list, and it is by no means exhaustive, all over the show, and there are literally 10’s more of these
What the timing indicates
The timing is suspicious no matter how you look at it.
Manufacturing usually shuts down or goes slow over Chinese New Year / Spring Festival which can last as much as 15 days. So, economically, this was a good time for a virus (if China ‘did it’).
On the other hand, this holiday gives rise to the greatest migration of people on our planet which also makes it an ideal time to infect a population (if someone outside of China ‘did it’).
The timing so close to the signing of the of the US/China Phase I Trade Agreement, which the Chinese referred to as only a ‘cease fire’ in the trade war, and the US referred to as a great breakthrough, is suspicious. The Chinese were indicating that they are very hesitant to even go to a phase II negotiation. And of course, there is a black part of the actual agreement that we do not know about.
The Main Tropes
1. The main trope out there is that this is a bioengineered bioweapon. But right at that point opinions diverge so widely that one can only ask questions, and not conclude anything.
2. The second trope is that people are being arrested widely. We’ve seen reports of arrests in Canada and in the US, and out of Harvard. Here is but one: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
Not only are people being arrested, some are most probably being taken out. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/canadian-scientist-center-chinese-bio-espionage-probe-found-dead-africa
3. The third trope is that China is “The Sick Man”, and we hate them for dumping this virus on the rest of us. Let me just say that the level of invective against China is not only unprecedented, it is also suspicious. Rebranding of the Coronoa Virus to the Chinese Virus is proceeding apace, even though it has a formal name now – COVID-19. In my life I have never seen such an overt manipulation of the common headspace such as this, since ‘weapons of mass destruction’.
4. The fourth trope is that the US, on a public and governmental basis has decided to vilify China, correctly or incorrectly. Note Mr Pompeo. Is he only taking an opportunity that is presented to him, or does he know more than what we think?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pompeo-warns-governors-of-china-infiltration
5. The fifth trope is that the civilizational fear against China is suddenly out in the open for everyone to see. It is almost a morphic resonance of fear expressed against China and that China is the culprit. However, we don’t really know who the culprit is actually. We don’t even know if there is a culprit.
Is China the culprit, or is China the victim, or is this a virus that spread from animal to human or has it escaped from some or other lab by accident (or on purpose)? We do not know any of this and this trope just creates more FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt).
6. The sixth trope is that China is wrong no matter what she does. Quarantine and even forced quarantine is expressed by the blockheads of Brutal China Cracking Down on Their People, without thinking what is actually necessary to do for this kind of outbreak, no matter where it comes from. One after the other video supposedly from China showing the so-called Brutal Chinese government is distributed with relish, with nary a thought that you and I are actually being protected by these heavy handed tactics. The snoflakes are out in force talking about human rights, yet, by the looks of things, China is going all out protecting the many.
Because there is a strange consistency in what the State (used generally) says, and what the alternative media says, this is more worrying than anything else. On the one hand nobody can believe the State, and on the other hand alternative media is reproducing and disseminating the message of the State.
7. The seventh trope is that the few voices, even here on The Saker Blog, that try to look at this realistically are drowned out in the general societal willingness to believe the worst. Viva free speech!?!
The formal state, and the western alternative media are generally in lockstep on this issue.
China is now attempting to go back to work. We do not know how successful this is, but some are trying to measure the actual air pollution to try and figure out if China has gone back to work, or not. Economically China has also given guidance to business, saying that this event is a force majeure, known colloquially in contractual terms as ‘an act of God’, and therefore they can renegotiate contracts, delivery dates and completion.
Let us look at what is clear.
1. China is fighting for its life. The death-toll or even containment is not truly visible in any numbers as yet. This will have tremendous impact on supply lines and not only on China’s economy, but all parts of the international supply chain, upstream and downstream. China is acting on expressed unhappiness of their people. They are firing those who do not perform, who put red-tape in the path of directly fighting this virus. It may look brutal to lock people into their homes, but how many do they save by this action? Where do these get food? It is in the Chinese media that food gets delivered. This is something that the western youtube pundits (and their a-hole brothers) forget to report, although this is open and publicized in the Chinese media.
2. This is a catastrophe. It is not a flu, it is not a common cold, it is not something that 5G brought onto China, it is not God punishing the Godless red commies. Whatever it is, it is a catastrophe with world-wide consequences. We do not know enough to come to any meaningful conclusions except to say that considering the timeline, we are right to be suspicious and we may be right to prepare with the basic masks, gloves and limited public exposure, i.e., not visiting large gatherings, for a period of time.
3. If this virus continues, it will have societal impact that may be severe – we won’t shake hands, we won’t hug babies, social interaction will be vastly compromised, and a few more common contact methods like music concerts or sporting activies for humans will be left by the wayside.
4. If it continues much beyond the current level, the extensive economic fallout cannot be estimated. You and I and no analyst in the world can truly get their arms around the economic fallout and the breakdown of worldwide supply chains. Who knows, we may be out of a specific little part for a normal service of a vehicle, we may be out of medicines (the idea of the many people that are taking anti-depressants and such types of medicines having to go cold-turkey is quite scary, and there may be a severe shortage of simple medical equipment, like masks and gloves that are even now getting hard to source – just try buying masks on Amazon).
5. In the current analysis and according to what we have available, we do not yet know enough to be meaningful. Much more than that is pure speculation and gives rise to other agendas being seeded into the public narrative.
What is clear, is that people are scared and terrified.
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“Coronavirus likely a biological attack against China and Iran”.
Head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali said on Tuesday that the outcomes of the coronavirus epidemics and the western states’ media propaganda suggest that COVID-19 virus could be a biological attack against China and Iran.
He added that proofs and analysis and certain news reports indicate that the origin of coronavirus is a hostile state but proving this assumption requires laboratorial investigations and comparing the genome of the primary virus and the new genomes.
http://en.farsnews.ir/newstext.aspx?nn=13981213000410
https://www.viprbrc.org/brc/home.spg?decorator=corona_ncov
The coronavirus itself, named SARS-CoV-2, is reported to be spherical and diameter 60-140 nm ,which should correspond to 0.06-0.14 micron and has spikes, so there is a good change the virus is restricted in the outer mechanical layer of a RZ filter, 0.1 micron specification. In addition there is an inner carbon active layer filter, which would be not specifically targeting viruses of course. It was tested by Nelson Labs. F1 filter tested with non-neutralized aerosol. 0.1 micron (100nm).
https://rzmask.com/pages/technical-information
I am not qualified in this field so It would be interesting to learn more about use and selection of filter (masks) against such viruses or any other comments.
The pretext is a pathogen or malevolent disease agent.
As this belief is already established and deeply embedded by reaction, it is invisibly structured consciousness that defines reality in such filter and framing.
If you have already reacted by emotional investment, then you will identity to protect your investment.
Questioning germ theory doesn’t occur to anyone seeking answer within its beliefs and will seem insane or dissonant to the socially reinforced identity seeking personal protection or herd immunity.
One way of finding willingness to question a fear-directed narrative is from noticing the shriek of its hysteria, the manipulative strategy of its persuasion, and resort to the communication as both weapon and as possession – as the ‘narrative control’. These signs are immediately obvious to anyone not already in reactive identification. (Phished). This noticing is a basis to pause, centre and allow the rising movement of a real question – rather than the shaping of consciousness to a pre-set agenda.
Fear generates boundary conditions that may be protective to the developing sense of self, but can become systemic blinders, compartmentalisations, no-go areas – of a split mind that knows not what its does – because it does not know who you are.
Moving past the boundaries of a feared aspect of our human experience is a matter of readiness – else one merely reinforces the need for boundary and defence – or initiates traumatic experience. To feel fear and yet persist in a movement of the desire and willingness to know, is to stay present with what is being met, and this is awakened self-responsibility instead of subservience to systems, methods and modes of keeping fear out of the focus of awareness we call our consciousness.
Willingness to learn doesn’t wait long to find new perspectives and paths of discovery. But expectation of entitlement to be fed in our terms and conditions is the way of always looking somewhere else than aligning the timing of our lives.
Fear of the Invisible (a worthy book title to consider in terms of ‘germ theory’) is fear of the unknown – which always trumps the seeming lesser evils of ‘the devil we know’ or current adaptation of established sense of ‘control’. This is because the mind projects its denied fear (trauma) onto the unknown (future) because it is held as a pattern OF broken communication that has been frozen or thrown off rather than finding resolution.
And from within the framing of the attempt to eradicate or deny aspects of self, is a split of mind that seeks to be protected from communication as threat to its very existence, as a sense of control set over and against chaos or fear of pain of loss.
This is then driven BY chaos as perception of a world to be controlled, so as to redefine its world as a way of redistributing psychic energy. These surface changes reiterate the toxic debt in complex packages of apparent assets of power or protection for a shape-shifting attempt to sustain the unsustainable – because it is not founded or grounded in the heart – which is the capacity to discern within wholeness.
Abiding ‘chaos’ as the willingness to discern the truth here – in this situation – may take any form for different patterns of sensitivity, but is nonetheless choosin life as awakened responsibility rather than defaulting to old habit patterns of reaction – that operate automatically as programs of defence that actually persist the conditions that they claim or present to be saving from.
So in the larger sense of rising chaos of change, synchronous to the attempt to ramp up or bolster ‘control, every kind of false premise or false profit can call the mind to persist against the knowing of the heart – as if such sacrifice is either giving value to the worthless, or the demand of necessity and dictate of power – and therefore the moral imperative of attempt to justify a hateful existence – hence narrative identity and control.
What actually underlies the cover story is an entanglement that is no less active for being covered over or falsely given hysterical (imperative) coverage. But the first responsibility is to our own sanity – else we act or react from false premise such that even the best of intentions results in ‘garbage out’.
It is not true that one has to undergo specialist initiatory training to become qualified to judge over ‘mysteries’ beyond the ordinary man’s comprehension or ability to access. But deference to experts, and external powers is the characteristic of a sense of self-lack given power.
Fascination with the ‘dynamic’ of conflict and indeed of horror can effectively capture attention (cast a spell) by which to become addicted. The ability to question is the willingness to communicate. It is also making room or receptivity to answer – rather than weaponising questions as if to gain more impact! Most of our questions are statements of mind-reinforcement operating in our name.
Fear works contagion under the attempt to escape it, divert it, repackage or redefine it, and hide it or make a covering mask by which to persist in its causes while seeming to escape consequence.
Responsibility for beliefs is unto ourself – and what we give acceptance to and align in, becomes real for us until we meet experience that raises its status to question. The Model or the theory or the map or the symbol is never the Reality – so much as a working framework. Workability is the honesty of the heart’s discernment of practical balance – but may not support the mind’s casting of itself as in possession of control.
Heart and mind are two facets of a unity. But finding and living that balance cannot be done for you – though we are all part of co-creating conditions of support according to the values we accept by investing in.
My different opinion:
China joined to the “Event 201” world game by Gates,OMS et al, all globalists. Maybe in exchange to enter the pharma global market, to adhere to some sanity standard. Previous a big spray all over. OMS just picked some known spots where they developed zoo vaccines to locals and epidemy existed. Chicken and turkeys are never mentioned. Bats, camels, lizards… POTUS said OMS numbers are “false”, not wrong. Created. There’s the internal US fight. Germany is with China. Iran virus a different team.
Thi is whta’s happening in Italy. OMS tends to terrorize, first places infected had a long story of viral flus due to intensive poultry growing. Labs need the deadly viruses to fast develop vaccines which are given out to growers out of law. Dunno if polutry farms are driven by chinese (a lot of chinese entepreneurs since decades in Veneto), sure someone trafficked virus for zootech.
Iran. Coronavirus percentage resulting in death from COVID-19 ( SARS-CoV-2 ) is 3 % according to latest figures. https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/03/08/620396/Iran-coronavirus-Tehran
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911 was a pretext for vast economic change, Coronavirus the current pretext for mega economic change.
Remember the “pandemic” of 2009 swine fever everybody and his garden gnome were gonna die? Big Pharma really scored with that one.
The reason for the cause is the result of the cause.
I’m worried about what “my government” will do with the opportunities presented by the “crisis” we’ve been shown on TV. The hype will actually help my older relatives and loved ones avoid ordinary flu.My personal “crank” theory was that a virus of middling virulence was modified to look like a bioweapon, and set in motion the forces to pursue a pre-planned agenda. A lot of moves are now on the table for our “masters” in the current political environment.
If the virus is as contaigous and lethal as feared, where are the deaths?
So far no country has reported more then a blip on the screen. For example
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/death-rate
states a bit over 11 per 1000 deaths in a year for Germany without Coronavirus.
Even a few thousand people dying of the virus would not really show in the death rate.
compare corona to yearly flu deaths and it is nothing.
In that sense this is absolutely blown out of proportion.
A former MP and medical doctor makes a similar argument (in German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk8wqJbNhq0
Here’s a link to the patent. Think whatever you want, do whatever you will with it.
Attenuation and Restoration of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Mutant Lacking 2′-O-Methyltransferase Activity,” JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY, vol. 88, no. 8, 29 January 2014.
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/1d/4e/4a/ac8914e765d645/EP3172319B1.pdf
Thank you for the TRUTH! My daughter and friend are early in their pregnancies. If the mom has the virus, will it transfer to the baby or is there data for this position?
Thank you,
Amy
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