Wallpaper your house:

Light your stove or start your barbecue:

Let your kids play with it instead of Legos:

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After jail.

After gag orders expired.

After YouTube took down the interview.

Dr. Judy Michowitz.

This is a copy to allow her freedom of speech to be heard

No longer on YouTube, a police officer addressed other police officers:

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The President of Tanzania John Magufuli exposed one part of the worldwide power grab:

The WHO doesn’t like criticism:

“We are convinced that the tests are not contaminated with the virus.”

Nevermind that this isn’t the cause of all false positives!

And there’s no possibility of test results being wrong because:

“Tanzania was using test kits supplied by the Africa CDC in collaboration with the Chinese Jack Ma Foundation.”

WHO rejects Tanzania claim tests faulty

1. I’ve been wrong for over a month about young people becoming the driving force to lead us out of this worldwide lockdown. I’d guess that their lifelong behavioral conditioning was too high of a hurdle to overcome.

I’m disappointed when people can’t accurately see what’s in front of them, and expressed that recently with Wake up, young people!! But I also often misperceive, so I understand.

2. Another recent post – It was known to everybody that the lockdown would cause a catastrophe – presented an epidemiologist’s arguments to support that the worldwide lockdowns’ destructive effects were known to everybody beforehand. I agree, and add that when both economic analysis like 1 above and this epidemiologist’s public health analysis show that political actions couldn’t be more wrong, there’s some other agenda going on.

I don’t fully agree with the interviewee, though, as he didn’t adequately present aspects of human behavior. For example, he cited a CDC chart of a drop in hospital reporting of influenza-like symptoms for his arguments without also citing the media frenzy to scare people away from hospitals for fear that they would catch COVID-19. So of course there were fewer instances of influenza-like symptoms reported by hospitals.

The Professor misunderstood the United States form of government. As a general principle, the federal government doesn’t order the states to do such and such.

The state of Florida, for example, did exactly what the Professor suggested, “protect the elderly.” Other states didn’t, like Washington, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and especially New York. Don’t know why those states’ residents don’t demand responsibility and accountability.

He also said “The virus is gone” but that statement had qualifications. Parts of this interview misplaced their relevant contexts.

3. Let me start this third item by acknowledging that I often make a half-dozen mistakes before lunch every workday. Just ask my coworkers. 🙂

I’ll suggest how to prepare for whatever happens next rather then predict what happens next. This suggestion to economically protect yourself is based on cycles, but may not work if aspects of what’s unfolding worldwide are unprecedented.

Harry Browne and Terry Coxon introduced the Permanent Portfolio concept in 1981. The concept is that there’s a best “investment” for each economic cycle. I quote “investment” because I consider positions in both cash and gold as forms of holding – saving – money, which means opting out of investing.

The economic cycle – “investment” matched pairs are:

• Prosperity – Stocks
• Inflation – Gold
• Deflation – Long-term government bonds
• Recession – Cash

The Permanent Portfolio has four equal 25% positions with periodic rebalancing to those percentages. I suggest investigating the concept, as I’ve always seen it as a way to largely remove one’s own emotions from investing and money.

The most recent search result of “harry browne permanent portfolio” is here from April 8, 2020. That post was fairly informative, and funny in that almost all commentaries on the Permanent Portfolio include similar wording:

“I don’t invest in Harry Browne’s portfolio, but my own asset allocation takes cues from this approach.”

Everybody who talks about the concept thinks they can do better. But who actually does better over the long term?

From 1972

From 1992

From 2012

One continuing aspect of the coronavirus is how it’s being used for economic upheavals that weren’t previously acceptable. A view from a Hong Kong analyst in The COVID-19 Trade-Off:

“Allocating scarce resources to satisfy one need in the present means that these resources will not be available to satisfy another need in the present or the future. [Referenced Frederic Bastiat’s Broken Window parable which illustrated why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, was not actually a net benefit to society].

The trade-off associated with the COVID-19 threat is between [your] lives today and [your] lives in the future. Decision makers are clueless about the long-term costs, in terms of lost lives and lowered living standards, that likely will result from the lockdowns.“

Wake up, young people!! Your future lives are being destroyed by this worldwide political power grab.

Unless you were / are already seriously ill with some other disease, you have had / will have very little chance of becoming a COVID-19 fatality.

Young people have been forced into receiving no benefits to their present lives in order to receive less than nothing in their future lives!

• People who are herding you couldn’t care less about you. They won’t voluntarily understand Frederic Bastiat’s point from 170 years ago.
• Their control over you has no current or future benefit to you. They’ve demonstrated that your present and future lives mean nothing to them.
• Sitting around, doing nothing, is interpreted as you consenting to their actions. They’ll just add more skulls to their collection.

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“The virus itself destroyed virtually no jobs. Those jobs, these families, were destroyed by lockdowns ordered by politicians. The most destructive economic event since the second World War.

Now we’ve been assured repeatedly that all of this was absolutely necessary. After months of incalculable damage to hundreds of millions of families, the WHO is now telling us – almost casually – that actually, our model should be Sweden.

Who is the man you just saw speaking? Just a month ago, that guy’s model was not Sweden. It was the Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia.

We’re glad that the WHO is now admitting that it was insane. But it isn’t much comfort now.

The World Health Organization has always been wrong about coronavirus:

• WHO told us it couldn’t spread from person to person. A lie.
• They said the virus had stopped and couldn’t spread worldwide. A lie.
• They said it was racist to talk about where the virus came from. Okay.
• They said face masks were ineffective – indeed, counterproductive.

Again, those weren’t simply wrong statements. They were lies.

Has there ever been a bigger screw up?

Being wrong on the single most important policy decision in living memory is no reason to abandon a sweeping power grab.

Protecting public health – as it turns out – was just an excuse, a pretext. Rolling back your rights and making you obey was clearly the goal.”

https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/30/tucker-carlson-who-coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-model/

The herding continues. What will it take for people to question why their future has been destroyed?

Recent walks on the beach have been at osprey feeding times:

To follow up Lowering US pneumonia death counts to increase COVID-19 death counts:

“Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota physician and Republican state senator, told a local station he received a 7-page document coaching him to fill out death certificates with a COVID-19 diagnosis without a lab test to confirm the patient actually had the virus.

‘It’s ridiculous. The determination of cause of death is a big deal. The idea that we’re going to allow people to massage and game the numbers is a real issue because we’re going to undermine trust.

I would never put down influenza as the cause of death. Yet that’s what we’re being asked to do here.’

Dr. Jensen also disclosed that hospitals are paid more if they list patients with a COVID-19 diagnosis.

Senator Dr. Scott Jensen: ‘Right now Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much. Nobody can tell me after 35 years in the world of medicine that sometimes those kinds of things impact on what we do.'”

https://thespectator.info/2020/04/09/hospitals-get-paid-more-to-list-patients-as-covid-19-and-three-times-as-much-if-the-patient-goes-on-ventilator-video/

And the public has been told many times with prosecuted examples that Medicaid / Medicare fraud is a crime. On the plus side, COVID-19 must be the ultimate cure for deadly medical conditions, if no one dies of anything else anymore.

Cui bono questions as John Hopkins will be herding the US public toward the cliff April 6-10, 2020 draws to a close for the week:

1. This change in medical reporting has had / will have what effects on the headlines we’ve seen and will see?
2. Who has benefited / will benefit from (medical, economic, social, and political) reports on and actions taken with the change in medical reporting to: “COVID-19 being the underlying cause more often than not.”
3. Who has suffered and will suffer from these reports and actions?

Walked on the beach

remembering the last time I lived here 40+ years ago, experiencing Sea Level in concert back then, still listening to their instrumentals now, along with these:

It’s a lot like being little
And wanting a brand new toy
It’s a lot like being little
And wanting a baby boy
To call brother
And it hurts when you want it so bad

It’s a lot like being a young boy
Cannot make the team
It’s a lot like being a young girl
Cannot help but dream
Of a best friend’s brother
And it hurts when you want it so bad

When it’s love that you have lost
Baby that’s the worst hurt
That you’ll ever hurt
Waiting for a new love to come along
Maybe it’s just as bad

It’s a lot like being a man
With no one to call your own
It’s a lot like being a woman
Wanting a house and a home
To be a mother
And it hurts when you want it so bad

In the dreary world
That we’re living in
It’s fashionable to let nothing faze you

Yeah, you’re above it all
You’re fooling, fooling yourself
You’re living in a dream

So you close the door
You let nothing in
And yet you’re moving and not caring where you’ve been

Yeah, you’re above it all
And you remind me of myself
You’re living in a dream
Living in a dream

Let’s put together a few items:

• Football / soccer is the most popular sport in the world.
• People are passionate about their sports.
• We are connected like never before.
• Very few young people are at risk for COVID-19 complications.
• Suppressing people’s physical movement causes resentment.
• From the 1776 US Declaration of Independence: “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

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Who will be first?

To follow up Waiting to be officially denied, the UK Financial Times published Rushing out untested digital finance fixes for Covid-19 is folly (requires a subscription) on March 31, 2020:

“Due to the protracted nature of the 2008 global financial crisis, the world’s most powerful money-printing institutions were already at the limits of unconventional policy when this crisis struck.

Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed a permanent Treasury-managed digital public currency wallet system. An early version of the alternative $2tn Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security (CARES) act, which passed last week, considered rolling out Fed-managed digital dollar wallets to all US residents, citizens and businesses to facilitate cash distributions.

Government surveillance is a real concern. Apple’s digital dominance already makes it hard for consumers to decline privacy compromises terms in exchange for access to its products.

Imagine how much harder that choice would be if the consumer had to sign up for a data-tracking CBDC [central bank digital currency], or waive her right to a government-funded handout or vaccine?”

We see news stories about Michigan’s congressional representative, other people rushing agendas in the US, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, China, Taiwan, EU, IMF, UK, or any number of people desperate to create panic to grab even more power.

Let’s predict this coming week in the US using the methodology of COVID-19 in Italy Part II:

1. Click Italy on the left menu of the John Hopkins map.
2. Click the Active Cases tab at the bottom center.
3. Click the Daily Increase tab at the bottom right.
4. Hover your mouse over the longest chart bar.
5. Observe that March 20, 2020 – 17 days ago – was the peak of Italy’s daily increases in COVID-19 cases.

Have you seen this reported anywhere or investigated? I heard on the April 5^th coronavirus task force briefing that Italy’s daily deaths had gone down. Even non-health professionals knew that should have happened – with a lag time – since March 20^th.

Can you find daily deaths or daily recoveries on the map? No, John Hopkins has those daily numbers but doesn’t display them. It’s not a difficult programming task to put two more tabs at the bottom right and display daily deaths and daily recoveries.

Let’s find the US numbers using similar steps:

1. Click US on the left menu of the John Hopkins map.
2. Click the Active Cases tab at the bottom center.
3. Click the Daily Increase tab at the bottom right.
4. Hover your mouse over the longest chart bar.
5. Observe that April 3^rd – two days ago – had been the peak of the US daily increases in COVID-19 cases todate.

No daily deaths or daily recoveries to inform us of trends such as daily recoveries compared to new cases. Instead, John Hopkins’ user interface features cumulative deaths that panic the public.

I’ll guess the US public isn’t John Hopkins’ customer, regardless of who pays them. John Hopkins is one of the herders – acting on behalf of their real customer(s) waiting at the bottom of the cliff for the herd’s demise.

All that’s missing to complete the picture is giving John Hopkins horses and torches.

To follow up Using COVID-19 as a cover story, what other previously unacceptable agendas are now in play?

1. The United Nations is using COVID-19 to advocate a global 10% tax. From the March 27, 2020, document at https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sg_report_socio-economic_impact_of_covid19.pdf:

“A large-scale, coordinated and comprehensive multilateral response amounting to at least 10 per cent of global GDP is needed now more than ever.”

Sound familiar? What happened to using climate change as the cover story to take away money and property? That hasn’t gone away – just add another 10% to the price of the power grab.

2. Here’s one report of likely consequences from “nonessential” businesses being shut down in a county where the state hadn’t yet taken that action:

More People Died From Suicide Than Coronavirus In Tennessee This Week

“Knox County, Tennessee saw nine deaths by suicide within 48 hours this week as doomsday predictions over the novel Wuhan coronavirus panics an already anxious public and leaves millions unemployed and isolated. As of this writing, [March 27] more people have died from suicide in Knox County than people have from the virus in the entire state, where there have been 6 fatalities from the disease.

The county’s suicides over the span of two days this week equates to about 10 percent of last year’s total where 83 lives were lost to suicide.”

Have there been other reports comparing suicide numbers with COVID-19 numbers?

3. What are other consequences of taking away people’s livelihoods by “essential” becoming defined by governments?

The place where I live has city jobs for mowing the grass – because only public employees can do that work? I saw a team of them mowing median strips last week while others with “nonessential” livelihoods were forced to stay inside by the state.

Were city and state income taxes, property taxes, food sales taxes, utility, petroleum, and other taxes suspended? No, regardless of whether the state had forced the loss of income. People who had “nonessential” jobs and businesses are still on the hook for state and city spending, and “essential” people’s salaries, benefits, and pensions.

4. Where’s the evidence that COVID-19 poses such a monumental threat that it warrants shutting down businesses and surrendering all our liberties? Is there any historical evidence that governments have completely relinquished powers of this magnitude?

Are these attempts to make most people dependent upon government and accept subjugation? Will Part II be governments granting themselves even more powers with a cover story such as they will restore the order that they destroyed?

How can we swat them away before they infect us with their diseases? Better yet, how can we act like my traveling companion’s picture of a praying mantis protecting her against blood-sucking pests?