(If you missed it, you can read Part 1 here)
Counter Measures to COVID-19 Are Worse Than the Virus Itself
One of the most common attacks we’ve heard on those who support reopening our economy and salvaging our liberties is that we care more about the economy than human life. But the truth is that the two are invariably intertwined.
The more damage we do to our society and economy, the higher the death toll will rise. In fact, there will almost certainly be more loss of life from the reaction to coronavirus than the disease itself. Reuters summarized a few of them beautifully:
Domestic Violence
Trapped at home with their abusers, some domestic violence victims are already experiencing more frequent and extreme violence, said Katie Ray-Jones, the chief executive officer of the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Domestic violence programs across the country have cited increases in calls for help, news accounts reported – from Cincinnati to Nashville, Portland, Salt Lake City and statewide in Virginia and Arizona. The YWCA of Northern New Jersey, in another example, told Reuters its domestic violence calls have risen up to 24%.
“There are special populations that are going to have impacts that go way beyond COVID-19,” said Ray-Jones, citing domestic violence victims as one.
Vulnerable Students
Students, parents, and teachers all face challenges adjusting to remote learning, as schools nationwide have been closed and online learning has begun.
Some experts are concerned that students at home, especially those living in unstable environments or poverty, will miss more assignments. High school students who miss at least three days a month are seven times more likely to drop out before graduating and, as a result, live nine years less than their peers, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report.
Among the most vulnerable: the more than 6 million special education students across the United States. Without rigorous schooling and therapy, these students face a lifetime of challenges.
Special needs students “benefit the most from highly structured and customized special education,” said Sharon Vaughn, executive director of the The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas. “This means that they are the group that are most likely to be significantly impacted by not attending school both in the short and long term.”
In New Jersey, Matawan’s Megan Gutierrez has been overwhelmed with teaching and therapy duties for her two nonverbal autistic sons, eight and 10. She’s worried the boys, who normally work with a team of therapists and teachers, will regress. “For me, keeping those communications skills is huge, because if they don’t, that can lead to behavioral issues where they get frustrated because they can’t communicate,” Gutierrez said.
Soaring Suicides
In Europe and the United States, suicide rates rise about 1% for every one percentage point increase in unemployment, according to research published by lead author Aaron Reeves from Oxford University. During the last recession, when the unemployment in the United States peaked at 10%, the suicide rate jumped, resulting in 4,750 more deaths. If the unemployment rate increases to 20%, the toll could well rise.
“Sadly, I think there is a good chance we could see twice as many suicides over the next 24 months than we saw during the early part of the last recession,” Reeves told Reuters. That would be about 20,000 additional dead by suicide in the United States and Europe.
Less than three weeks after extreme suppression measures began in the United States, unemployment claims rose by nearly 10 million. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin warned the rate could reach 20% and Federal Reserve economists predicted as high as 32%. Europe faces similarly dire forecasts.
Some researchers caution that suicide rates might not spike so high. The conventional wisdom is that more people will kill themselves amid skyrocketing unemployment, but communities could rally around a national effort to defeat COVID-19 and the rates may not rise, said Anne Case, who researches health economics at Princeton University. “Suicide is hard to predict even in the absence of a crisis of Biblical proportions,” Case said.
This week, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, relaxed its strict social isolation policies after the apparent suicides of two cadet seniors in late March, The Gazette, a Colorado Springs newspaper, reported. While juniors, sophomores and freshmen had been sent home, the college seniors were kept isolated in dorms, and some had complained of a prison-like setting. Now, the seniors will be able to leave campus for drive-thru food and congregate in small groups per state guidelines.
Public Health Crippled
Local health departments run programs that treat chronic diseases such as diabetes. They also help prevent childhood lead poisoning and stem the spread of the flu, tuberculosis and rabies. A severe loss of property and sales tax revenue following a wave of business failures will likely cripple these health departments, said Adriane Casalotti, chief of government affairs with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, a nonprofit focused on public health.
After the 2008 recession, local health departments in the U.S. lost 23,000 positions as more than half experienced budget cuts. While it’s become popular to warn against placing economic concerns over health, Casalotti said that, on the front lines of public health, the two are inexorably linked. “What are you going to do when you have no tax base to pull from?” she asked.
Carol Moehrle, director of a public health department that serves five counties in northern Idaho, said her office lost about 40 of its 90 employees amid the last recession. The department had to cut a family planning program that provided birth control to women below the poverty line and a program that tested for and treated sexually transmitted diseases. She worries a depression will cause more harm.
“I honestly don’t think we could be much leaner and still be viable, which is a scary thing to think about,” Moehrle said.
Job-loss Mortality
Rises in unemployment during large recessions can set in motion a domino effect of reduced income, additional stress and unhealthy lifestyles. Those setbacks in income and health often mean people die earlier, said Till von Wachter, a University of California Los Angeles professor who researches the impact of job loss. Von Wachter said his research of past surges in unemployment suggests displaced workers could lose, on average, a year and a half of lifespan. If the jobless rate rises to 20%, this could translate into 48 million years of lost human life.
Von Wachter cites measures he believes could mitigate the effects of unemployment. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act approved by the White House last week includes emergency loans to businesses and a short-time compensation program that could encourage employers to keep employees on the payroll.
Young People Suffer
Young adults entering the job market during the coronavirus suppression may pay an especially high price over the long term. First-time job hunters seeking work during periods of high unemployment live shorter and unhealthier lives, research shows. An extended freeze of the economy could shorten the lifespan of 6.4 million Americans entering the job market by an average of about two years, said Hannes Schwandt, a health economics researcher at Northwestern University, who conducted the study with von Wachter. This would be 12.8 million years of life lost.
Thousands of college graduates will enter a job market at a time global business is frozen. Jason Gustave, a senior at William Paterson University in New Jersey who will be the first in his family to graduate from college, had a job in physical therapy lined up. Now his licensure exam is postponed and the earliest he could start work is September.
“It all depends on where the economy goes,” he said. “Is there a position still available?”
Even the U.N., which has vigorously supported the draconian suspension of industry, society, and freedom, says that “hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis”
Every day that our country remains closed, more people around the world will die. And that fatal decision has been made by a few public servants who would fancy themselves omnipotent overlords.
Public Servants Do Not Have the Authority to Suspend Our Rights
On Easter Sunday, police guarded the parking lots of churches to ensure that Americans could not worship. Even drive-in services designed to adhere to social distancing practices were patrolled by police. The National Review has been covering the religious persecution for some time now:
Consider members of the King James Bible Baptist Church of Greenville, Miss. Last Wednesday night the church held a drive-in service using a low-frequency radio-station signal. Everyone in the parking lot kept their windows up. Attendees were quickly surrounded by police cars ordering them to leave. About two minutes into the video you can hear a police officer yelling “Your rights are suspended!”
At least one other local church was also targeted. Lee Gordon of Greenville’s Temple Baptist Church told WREG-TV that “the police started coming up and we said, ‘We think we’re within our rights.’ So, they started issuing tickets, $500 tickets… I don’t know, it may have been 20 to 30 tickets. Everybody got one. It wasn’t per car. Me and my wife were in a car together and both of us got tickets.”
In some places, the police are actually directly entering churches. Last Sunday, a police officer in Chincoteague, Va., entered the Lighthouse Fellowship and was upset they were holding a church service for 16 people spaced far apart in a sanctuary that seats 293. He ordered that, per Governor Ralph Northam’s order, no more than ten people could participate in the service. After it was finished, two police officers entered the service, gave the pastor a criminal summons, and told him that if he dared to conduct an Easter service, everyone attending would be given one.
And there have been other bizarre encounters with the new police state. On April 2nd, a paddleboarder was arrested for failing to obey the California stay-at-home order (despite being completely isolated and out in the ocean). He was booked at a sheriff’s station in Calabasas and released on a promise to appear in court, sheriff’s officials said. The man faces a fine of $1,000 or six months in jail, or both, if convicted of violating the state order.
On April 3rd, a woman in Pennsylvania was stopped and cited for violating the governor’s stay-at-home mandate. She was driving alone in her car in her neighborhood as a way to get some fresh air while still practicing social distancing. Her citation states that she “failed to abide by the order of the governor and secretary of health issued to control the spread of a communicable disease, requiring the closure of all non-life-sustaining businesses… To wit, the defendant states that she was ‘going for a drive’ after this violation was in effect.”
On April 7th, a former Colorado State Patrol officer was surrounded by police and put into handcuffs in front of his six-year-old daughter. His crime? Playing catch with his young daughter in a grassy area near his home. “We’re just having a good time, not near anybody else. The next closest person is at least 15 feet away from me and my daughter at this point,” Mooney told ABC News.
In Philadelphia, a man was dragged off of a public bus for not wearing a face mask in accordance with new rules. Shocking video shows the police wrestling with the man, whose only crime was attempting to go to work. The Southeastern Philadelphia Transportation Authority, after the video went viral, changed their tone, saying that they would no longer enforce the rule. Ironically, video shows a Philadelphia transit worker demanding that riders without masks “get off the bus,” even though the transit worker himself was not wearing one.
For many of those in authority, there has been a “do as I say, not as I do” attitude. Many of our leaders have publicly failed to practice the very rules that they’ve implemented. But all of this is fueled by one thing: fear. People around the world are scared. They’re constantly bombarded with news reports and emergency alerts showing the death toll like some kind of fundraising counter. With so many out of work and life seemingly at a standstill, they’re ready to do anything to get back to normal.
But our rights are endowed by our Creator and enshrined in the Constitution. These men and women are public servants who do NOT have the authority to strip away our liberty or cripple our economy.
The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all circumstances.” – Ex parte Milligan, U.S. Supreme Court (1866)
Today this “coronavirus-panic” gives government fuel and cover for its assaults on freedom and poses a question the government does not want to answer: If liberty can be taken away in times of crisis, then is it really liberty; or is it just a license, via a temporary government permission slip, subject to the whims of politicians in power?
The government has no authority to dictate how many people choose to congregate for any peaceful purpose.
Our First Amendment states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.
Telling people to not attend church is a violation of the constitutional clause, “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Telling people they cannot gather in groups of more than 20 or 30 (or whatever arbitrary number) is a clear violation of the constitutional clause, “no law . . . prohibiting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
The coronavirus or any other “emergency” does not cancel or negate the Constitution and Bill of Rights. These unconstitutional acts have had, and will continue to have, devastating effects on the socio-economic and physical health of U.S. citizens as well as people across the globe.
A 2015 study found that men experience up to an 85% increased risk of mortality following losing their jobs, and a 2020 Lancet study on the “psychobiological effects of quarantine” found that “most of the adverse effects come from the imposition of a restriction of liberty.” The study noted: “Separation from loved ones, the loss of freedom, uncertainty over disease status, and boredom can, on occasion, create dramatic effects. Suicide has been reported, substantial anger generated, and lawsuits brought following the imposition of quarantine in previous outbreaks.”
As a constitutional republic, elected officials have an obligation to uphold the civil liberties and constitutional rights of its citizens, as well as the public’s health. These can not be sacrificed or exchanged for one another.
On 22 March 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly petitioned Congress for the ability to ask chief judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies. A concerning new report published in Rolling Stone entitled, “DOJ Wants to Suspend Certain Constitutional Rights During Coronavirus Emergency,” reveals that the DOJ, under the auspices of “protecting the public health from the threat of COVID-19,” is attempting to suspend some of the most basic protections upon which the United States Constitution and our civil rights are founded.
A recent Politico article entitled “DOJ Seeks New Emergency Powers Amid Coronavirus Pandemic,” states that this request raised eyebrows because of its potential implications for “habeas corpus” (the constitutional right to appear before a judge after arrest and seek release).
“Not only would it be a violation of that, but it says ‘affecting pre-arrest,’” said Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “So that means you could be arrested and never brought before a judge until they decide that the emergency or the civil disobedience is over. I find it absolutely terrifying. Especially in a time of emergency, we should be very careful about granting new powers to the government.”
You are free no matter what the government tells you. And you don’t have to make a single concession to retain that freedom. But believe me when I tell you: they are going to try.
Complacency Permanently Undermines Liberty
The powers that be – billionaires, the tech and pharmaceutical industries, and governments around the world – have used fear as a means to seize the very freedoms that define our society. Many of us are at the mercy of these authorities. Businesses are failing, citizens are hurtling towards financial ruin, and the rights enshrined in the constitution have been stripped.
Practicing safe habits as a virus spreads is important. Supporting your immune system, practicing proper hygiene, and taking care of those most vulnerable among us is of paramount importance. But the oppressive measures taken against us will cause far more damage than this virus ever could.
Yes, there are ways to boost your immune system. Yes, you should absolutely practice proper hygiene and responsible social distancing to protect those most vulnerable to disease. And yes, this is a very real disease that will claim some lives.
But the government has quietly stripped us of our freedoms, and they will start demanding concessions before they return them. Increased taxes. Bailouts for mega-corporations. New vaccine requirements. Medical tracking and registration. Communist-era social surveillance. If we comply with their demands in exchange for our liberty, we are acknowledging that our liberty is subject to the whims of a few self-important government officials and the corrupt corporations that support them.
The inevitable conclusion to this chapter of our history will be a bargain: comply with government orders and they will return to you your freedom. But conditional freedom is no freedom at all. And it’s time we sent that message loud and clear.
Our governments have crossed a line that they cannot uncross. They have taken freedom hostage. And soon, they will offer vaccines and other concessions as the terms for its release. It is of paramount importance that we do not accept their terms.
Read Part 1 here.
Stop medicating ever increasing amounts in the elderly. That will steal methyl groups from their immune system as the body will see the synthetic drugs as poison. Therefor the elderly are more prone to increased suffering if affected.
Also stop vaccinating everybody because amongst others of the nagalase in it.
See this link.
https://livinglovecommunity.com/2017/02/06/nagalase-testing-nagalase-care/
Thank you for your input J.A. deVreede. Unfortunately most elders and adults are naive and cannot fathom the evil inherent in the ones running the show. It’s sad situation. The govt been experimenting on us for long time. Started with giving smallpox laden blankets to the American Indians. In the exchange for the blankets Indians got death. I knew pills kill. But learned today about methyl groups. Thank you.
I am feeling like Hitler has taken over the world. So many of my family members are so taken into this epidemic and believe the only way to save them is a vaccine. They are liberals who no longer think for themselves. It really worries me. I have felt this virus was way overblown from day 1 but kept quiet. Now I speak out, however so many think I am crazy. My son was in the intelligence division of the army and spent 2 tours in the Middle East. He found out the country he was giving his life to was not the country he thought it was and he quit the army. So many things he told me are coming true. We are in dire straights right now and thank you for fighting for us all.
Hi Audrey, my name is Anniek and I live in the Netherlands. My country was taken over by Hitler during WW2. Last night I was in a webinar from a Dutch MD Roy Martina and he explained what is really going on with this Covid19. He also mentioned Hitler and his plan for the world. Do you remember? Well something similar is in the pipeline for us but now it’s a vaccine holocaust. Your son was smart to have left the army! I’m 63 and I have always had questions about all the wars the US was involved in. It didn’t made any sense to me. It wasn’t so that the US was directly under attack…. Although they tried you to believe so with 9/11 and we know now that that also was a hoax. I give you the link to the webinar and you have to decide for yourself if you want to watch it because the news is not very pleasant. https://event.webinarjam.com/t/click/5kw69i3t31t9o6inq99s54kt9ay
BTW I also had that gut feeling from the start of this virus and I don’t keep quiet about my findings. People have to wake up fast! If you want to react my email is aabebingh@msn.com
Many do see what is going on, it’s the organization aspect that is the problem. We all have to organize together and that takes time to establish as the 2nd amendment rallies have shown. There just does not seem to be a concerted effort to organize across America and shut down governments (local, state, federal) until we-the-people bring those to justice that should be brought to justice. So how to do that organizing into the tens of millions? It’s the churches they’re scared of because if the church actually woke up then there would be nothing to stop the people from taking back our land. In any event, reading about all the bodacious atrocities is just causing more stress. Instead of wearing face masks we should be running governors and mayors out of the state/city who advocated forced anything for which they have no authority. Again, if you want to win a war you have to have organization, participation, and execution. All we’re getting is news with a smattering of action items but we don’t see any organization and we all know if you just take matters into your own hands, you’re the only nail to get hammered. When they go door-to-door and get shot thennnnn they will begin to understand they’re losing, but until then we’re all just making a bunch of noise in this low intensity conflict that will soon enough turn into high-intensity conflict as the people take out the domestic enemies of our land masquerading as “leaders” and “elected” officials.
Yes, CORRECT in your statement.
There are a number of organisations etc., such as this one, giving us information, and asking for donations.
But it is only ACTION in large numbers and legal measures, and total exposure of these evils that have been perpetrated long before now by the few on Society and being done while we are in “lock-down”, 5G still being rolled out and so much more, making the billions that these few control freaks had orchestrated long before today.
I can remember my (Aspergers) son – telling me moire than 15 years ago about SOROS and his manipulations.
Unless HUMANITY takes ACTION as groups in every sensible form possible then they just keep on as these Sociopaths are NOW ON THE ULTIMATE “HIGH” and believe they are UNTOUCHABLE!!
EXPOSURE ACROSS the World and legal actions and NOT purchasing their products are the only way to hurt them- read penetrate their absolute sociopathic belief that they are always right and everyone else is to blame. The Sociopaths and their hidden AGENDAs means just that. HIDDEN.
SOCIOPATHS ULTIMATE AIM IS NOT ONLY MANIPULATION and CONTROL, but to WIN is the top of their LIST – at ANY COST!!
the onluy thing they understand is loss of power and control, humiliation and JAIL
This entire group of videos and articles are inspiring I keep sending them out but most of them
hit a blank wall,they just believe that we are the one not awake. I refuse to give up, and wish to thank you all for your faithful support of the truth .
Thank you for these well – written articles. You have spelled out the situation exactly as it is. A dangerous situation that we must stand up against and end before it’s too late! I am sharing this far and wide and continue to defy this attempt at Medical Martial Law!
My DDT facts. I grew up in a small community. Farming. My father had fought in the first world war. He used DDT like one would drink milk. Every single night in the summer I fell asleep with droplets of DDT on my face and lips. I still recall the taste. He said it kept the flies away. Flies spread disease?? Hmm. A man came to research Lake superior island to try and find out why the sea gulls egg shells were not remaining intact so they could hatch. DDT?
Later years I had a very difficult time conceiving lost by natural abortion. All of the girls I grew up with either could never conceive or also had very difficult time. All absorbers of DDT sprayed every night. Also the govt. sprayed the forests with the same thing. Experiment?
Thank you for the Abduction of Liberty. I’ve again been studying the Constitution and feel very concerned for the future of our country and world, and how easily many have given up liberties and unquestioningly believe the media’s narrative. Knowing that people such as you are speaking out, and knowing that many others are aware of what’s happening, and with lots of prayer, gives me hope that it can be turned around.
This article is one of the most clear and compelling dissertations on the connection between CoronaVirus and the steady erosion of our civil liberties. Yes, the virus is real. But it was just the opportunity despots-in-training needed to seize powers they have no intention of relinquishing. COVID-19 has become a lever for autocrats of all stripes. THANK YOU for stating it so expertly and thoroughly.
It happened in Canada too. The police made a guy pay a $700 fine where I live in Ottawa because he took his boy to play ball in the football field and it was just him and his little boy. It also happened somewhere in Ontario that a mother had to pay a $800 fine because she took her five year old daughter in a swing and the police called her an idiot and even assaulted her in front of her little girl.
This is all so true! Not only for your country the USA but also for my country the Netherlands and all other countries over the world! It’s a plandemic, not a pandemic! They (the happy few) want to destroy our pineal gland through vaccines and 5G. Watch this webinar and it’ll become clear: https://event.webinarjam.com/t/click/5kw69i3t31t9o6inq99s54kt9ay
The Rasta Fari community is against the ones who violates another fundamental human rights our human right were given to us by Jah and on one can or will not try to take that away from us i will let these administrators know that we will revolt not even animals we can keep in a cage for too long so we the Rasta Fari nation are saying that the treatment towards I and I people will no longer be accepted cause we are Jah or God chosen people enough is enough we cannot take it no longer this is the voice of the Rasta Fari nation all over the Earth one perfect love to all let unity prevail.
Peace and Love
Ras “Faii” Emanuel Alexander
St Lucia with Love and full support Stay Safe and Bless One and All Jah is our Guide and protection.
One thing that hasn’t been touched on that scares me is all the spraying of disinfectants. I am a dental hygienist, have been for 40 years. In 90’s because of scare of Aids/HIV, we were using Glutaraldehyde to disinfect surfaces after each patient, so were hospitals, a lot of nurses and Dr’s were becoming chemically sensitive so that was then outlawed due to it being a carcinogen.(I haven’t had a cold in 7 years due to changing eating habits and juicing, but this year caught something on flight from Boise to Florida, which probably was Covid dry cough that lasted 6 weeks, but no fever and no tests available at that time yet) I couldn’t get near anyone with perfume and had constant colds, anyway last week my husband and I went to Park City Utah, we went into a ski store, we had to wear gloves and masks, within minutes I had difficulty breathing, they had sprayed some kind of disinfectant all over clothes and in air, I had to get out, The store manager told me it w as required in order to open, Can you imagine the airplanes who are spraying God knows what in cabins between flights! These chemicals will cause a whole host of more respiratory problems.
“One of the most common attacks we’ve heard on those who support reopening our economy and salvaging our liberties is that we care more about the economy than human life.”
Really…. because these f****rs care more about our lives than money. Coming from those who have been pushing harmful drugs for ages, those who are today trying everything to push poisonous vaccines on us; those who are working hard on an agenda to annihilate 90% of the population and turn the rest into robotic slaves.
If you understand their game, they are so predictable that it’s tragically comical.
I love their motto; corrupt, invert, travesty everything around them.