The sickest, most Hamiltonian, uninformed, undiagnosed and CNNd fakeries in the week’s fake news.
By Jay Baker
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The corporate media complex fearmongers coronavirus
The corporate media complex is doing all it can to generate a mass panic around the latest “Chinese flu,” also known as Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan pneumonia and COVID-19. It’s also simultaneously telling you not to panic.
Just this week it’s been called President Donald Trump’s Chernobyl (by The Washington Post) and his Katrina (The New York Times’ Paul Krugman and CNN’s Chris Cillizza). For the millennials out there who know nothing of history that didn’t happen within the last four years, Chernobyl was the worst nuclear disaster in history. The Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine went into meltdown in April 1986, killing some 30 people initially and untold more from radiation exposure in the years to follow. The Soviet Government tried to cover up the incident but the widespread damage and radiation cloud made that impossible. There remains a radioactive exclusion zone of 19 miles in all directions of the plant.
Katrina was a hurricane that hit New Orleans in 2005 that caused the city’s levies to fail resulting in massive flooding. It was blamed on George W. Bush, and caused $125 billion in damages and killed as many as 1,600 in Louisiana.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said we’re in “one of the most dangerous times this country has seen in, well, I’ll say it, since 9/11,” an attack that killed 2,977 people initially and has claimed another 2,000 first responders who died from cancer that developed after the clean-up. And we’re not even going to count the number of military dead and maimed in the wars against “terror” since.
A virologist named Joseph Fair who sidelines as MSNBC’s science contributor gave the “rosy” prediction to the network’s Kasie Hunt that “80 percent of the population is going to survive” coronavirus, which alternatively indicates that coronavirus is going to kill 6.52 million people, give or take. It was only later that he clarified that the 15 percent to 20 percent mortality rate applied to a specific demographic: elderly and those with underlying health conditions.
“This is not to fear monger,” Fair continued, noting that increasing testing availability nationwide was key to getting things under control.
On March 9 Politico sent out an email to subscribers with the subject line: America held hostage by coronavirus.
Well here’s some truth for you: There are 1,010 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. (as of March 11) out of 330.4 million Americans. Of those cases, 31 people died, 15 recovered and 964 remain active. Only two cases are critical.
But thanks to media reports, we’ve learned that “Governments are working to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the US, as federal officials say more testing will likely see the number of known cases continue to increase.” Well, duh.
The LA Times published an article Wednesday cautioning people to quit obsessing about coronavirus news and recommended doing so by limiting “coronavirus media consumption to 10 minutes a day, not 10 minutes an hour.” That would mean limiting media consumption to just 10 minutes a day given that even local news is almost nonstop with coronavirus scaremongering.
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You’re better off just turning off the news from the MSM altogether. And certainly don’t panic, even though it seems everyone around you has as everything that includes a gathering of people is being postponed or canceled.
According to official numbers, the flu kills 36,000 people per year. And iatrogenic deaths (deaths caused by medical mistakes) total somewhere between 200,000 and 800,000 per year, depending upon whose statistics you use, and close to 1 million babies will be aborted this year. And no one’s panicking over that. We survived the H1-N1 flu pandemic, which CDC claims killed hundreds of thousands even though its testing early in the pandemic showed it was vastly overstating cases so that by June it had quit testing people altogether.
Wednesday evening President Trump announced he was halting flights from certain afflicted countries. The MSM and the #NeverTrump politicians, which first said Trump was being xenophobic and overreacting when he banned travel from China and have for the weeks since been saying Trump’s a doofus who was doing nothing to try and contain the outbreak, on Thursday flipped again to say he was overreacting.
University professor of propaganda blames federalism for America’s problems
If you wonder how the younger generations can graduate college and still be so ignorant, look no further than Donald F. Kettl, a political science professor at the University of Texas at Austin LBJ School specializing in public management and public policy.
Kettl, who happens to be peddling a book, wrote an inane screed that published on MarketWatch.com in which he blames America’s divided electorate on the failure of federalism. “The result is that the United States of America are now more like the Divided States of America,” he claims.
According to Kettl:…James Madison, the primary author of the U.S. Constitution, wanted to avoid forcing a national consensus on reluctant states. His grand federalist vision led to our teetering between crises for most of our years, but now the pressures have boiled over. Because Washington can’t put together a consens…
Kettl focuses on the failing Obamacare experiment to buck up his argument, noting that because different states have responded to Obamacare’s mandates differently some places get health insurance at prices not quite as exorbitant as others. He also gripes that some states don’t just fall in line with California on trying to run fossil fuels and car companies out of business in the name of fighting the fictitious boogerbear of “climate change.”
Kettl couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s almost as if he purposefully wrote a pro-statist propaganda piece, and we suspect that’s the case. In other words, it’s just big government-worshipping Marxist propaganda, also known as fake news.
Under the Founder’s Constitution, federalism limited the federal government to certain enumerated powers (Article I, Section 8) and gave all other powers to the states (Amendments 9 and 10). Obamacare stood that on its head.
Of course, federalism was slaughtered by Abraham Lincoln, but that’s another story for another day. We haven’t operated under Madisonian federalism for 160 years.
Unsurprisingly, Kettl supports Alexander Hamilton’s vision of America that was all but rejected by the Constitution’s framers and not reborn until Lincoln and the Republican Party came along. Hamilton supported a monarch rather than a president, a senate based on privilege and station and appointed by the king, a national bank and a British mercantilism-style economy that depended on federal debt. He continued to work for a national bank and against Madisonian and Jeffersonian federalism until Aaron Burr put him out of the nation’s misery with a bullet to his midsection. That’s what we currently labor under, for all intents and purposes. Hamilton’s vision actually finally won out, killing Madison’s.
Under Madison’s vision, the federal government wouldn’t have the authority to force a national insurance program on America or environmental laws or much of anything else. The states and the free market would determine how the health insurance — and health care — market functions. And people would have more say over it because those decision would be made at the local level where politicians are more accountable and easier to access.
Kettl is concerned with “unequal results” that federalism creates. But unequal results are precisely why federalism is good. That’s because each state serves as an incubator for different ideas. And people in different parts of the country — and even in neighboring states — have different values, needs and desires than people of another part or state.
There is literally nothing in Kettl’s column that is the truth. And he’s teaching this tripe to today’s kids.
Don’t turn to The Atlantic for coronavirus news
In an article titled “What will you do if you start coughing?” published Wednesday, The Atlantic doesn’t beat around the bush. It jumps directly into fake news. Here are the opening paragraphs:…Covid-19 is not the flu. We have a vaccine for the flu. We have anti-viral medications designed to treat the flu. We have a sense of what to expect when we catch the flu, and when it’s necessary to seek medical attention. Doctors have experience treating the flu, and tests to help diagnose the flu, …
Aside from the first sentence, none of that is true. While there is “a vaccine for the flu,” its efficacy is pathetic. Research from The Cochran Library reveals that for the average vaccine 100 people must be vaccinated against the flu to prevent one case. If the flu vaccine manages to exactly match the most prevalent strain of flu — a rarity — then 33 adults must be vaccinated to prevent one case of the flu.
The anti-virals “designed to treat the flu” don’t really do anything more than maybe reduce the flu’s length, and they carry a host of side effects. But the sentences about coronavirus being a “new disease” that “is unknown to our species” are either preposterous propagandic fabrications or downright ignorance.
Corona is a type of virus and dozens of coronaviruses have been identified, including SARS and MERS. The older coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s, but researchers believe they’ve been around for centuries. Most infect animals, but there are several that have been known to infect humans. Patents for anti-coronavirus drugs were issued in 2004 and 2005.
The world health community has long known a coronavirus outbreak was possible. Bill Gates predicted a coronavirus-like pandemic in a 2019 Netflix documentary, down to its beginning in a Chinese market. Conveniently, one of the patent-holders of a coronavirus vaccine is funded by the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation.
Surprise! Yale psychiatrist who ‘diagnosed’ Trump won’t diagnose Biden
You likely recall that upon Trump’s inauguration a number of people began claiming Trump was mentally unfit for the office of president. Members of the deep state — FBI weasels Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, etc. — even discussed wearing a wire to try get Trump on recording saying something that could prompt a 25th Amendment removal.
One of the most prominent “experts” to comment on Trump’s mental state has been Yale Psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee who appeared often on #NeverTrump media and even met with congressional Democrats to discuss Trump’s mental state.
“The president’s condition has been visibly deteriorating to the point where there’s a lot of talk right now about his mental state beyond mental health professionals,” Lee said in 2018. “It no longer takes a mental health professional to recognize the seriousness of the current presidency.”
But when similar “experts” discuss the mental acuity of Joe Biden — who is showing serious signs of mental decline — Lee suddenly finds that inappropriate and not in keeping with professional standards.
“I do not diagnose without examination and do not speak about public figures in general, unless there is evidence of such profound danger to public health and well-being because of serious signs of mental instability in a public servant, that it would be a public disservice not to share the knowledge and training that I have. Biden has not risen to this threshold,” she said.
CNN’s Acosta never disappoints
Following Trump’s address to the nation Wednesday evening, CNN’s #NeverTrump prima donna Jim Acosta accused Trump of “xenophobia” for pointing out that the coronavirus that has sent the world into an all-out panic has its origins in China.
According to Acosta, “Now why the president would go as far as to describe it as a foreign virus, that is something we’ll also be asking questions about… and I think it is going to come across to a lot of Americans as smacking of xenophobia to use that kind of term in this speech.”
So in Acosta’s #NeverTrump world, pointing out that a virus originated in China is xenophobic. But on January 23, Acosta tweeted:
CNN International: Authorities in Beijing have cancelled all large-scale Chinese New Year celebrations in an effort to contain the growing spread of Wuhan Coronavirus.
Wuhan is the Chinese province in which the virus is said to have originated.
Acosta’s a xenophobe… and fake news.
