Coronavirus has long been known to virologists. It’s a seasonal virus that mutates somewhat each year. In the past, it’s routinely been dealt with through treatments that are both cheap and plentiful.
And yet, somehow, the release of corona in its latest mutation has been co-opted to justify a social and economic shutdown in over one hundred countries.
The knock-on effects of this shutdown have included, in the US alone:
- A stock market crash
- Closures of major food producers, breaking down the food supply chain
- Depleted supermarket shelves, similar to Venezuela in some locations
- 26 million people filing for unemployment benefits within a five-week period
- Long-proven coronavirus treatments being described as risky and untested, with the insistence that only a vaccine that may take eighteen months to produce may be considered viable for treatment
- The economy in free-fall
- The ramping-up of economic threats against China, as punishment for the presumed Wuhan origin of the virus
- The two political parties disagreeing dramatically over the handling of the emergency, but both agreeing that any recovery must begin with greater powers for the government and a dramatic loss of freedoms for the populace.
And all because of a common seasonal virus that has been known to researchers for years......read more.......
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