The coronavirus panic proves how easily manipulated people are and how the media sensationalizes everything

Your statement that you don't think it is isolated to the Democrat Part or liberal media shows that it is working on you.

Just watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejlbCmRJMW4

According to my investigation, 100% of all people will die eventually.

Hear hear. Believing otherwise, is like saying "I'm an American League fan because the National League uses PEDs". They're all playing the same sport and they all do the same things.

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

I don't think it's isolated to the Democratic party or the liberal media.

All politicians try to manipulate people, and all media is sensational. And it works on a lot of individuals, regardless of their political beliefs.

The fact that you are on here claiming that it's just the Democrats and the liberal media is pretty good evidence that it works on you.

lsdkjf wrote:

According to my investigation, 100% of all people will die eventually.

How do you know this?

7.5 billion people on the planet have never died that we know of

Now Henry Kissinger is joining in on the panic, although it's strange hearing a Republican state that we need to, "safeguard the liberal world order."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8187313/Henry-Kissinger-warns-coronavirus-spell-economic-doom-generations.html

Facts Matter wrote:

Fact:

Since the outbreak began at the beginning of December, 2019, as of January 29, 2020 - 170 people have died from the virus.

Fact:

According to the CDC, during the 21 week long 2018/2019 influenza season, there were 35.5 MILLION people sickened by the flu and 34,200 deaths. That's 232 influenza deaths EVERY * SINGLE * DAY!

The flu is exponentially more contagious than the coronavirus yet no one panics. There is already a vaccine and people refuse to get it. So far for the 2020 flu season, there have been 8,200 deaths and 140,000 hospitalizations. Contrast that with the 6000 cases of the coronavirus and 170 deaths and simply put...

... you all make no sense at all!

Hey Facts Matter, how ya doing? Just found out you've been wrong about this for at least 2 months.

How does it feel to be a complete idiot?

Came across this comment:

We were moved to tears and ready to go to war when they told us about those non-existent “Kuwaiti incubator babies” that Iraqi soldiers were throwing on the cold hard ground to die – but weren’t!

We were filled with anger and fear when they told us about those non-existent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction about to obliterate us at any moment but, uhh, it appears in retrospect they didn’t happen to exist in this particular universe that we currently inhabit! Perhaps in another dimension?

We were revolted and filled with outrage when they told us about Gaddafi’s non-existent “viagra fueled rape camps” – just before we turned Libya into rubble and an open slave market – “in order to save the women” – who weren’t being raped in non-existent viagra fueled rape camps. Many admire Hillary because she valiantly stood with those women, who weren’t being raped, in those non-existent rape camps – and Hillary of course could not contain her glee when publicly discussing the murder of a head of state and the destruction of an entire nation – cackling like the psychopath that she is.

We were repulsed when they told us about Assad’s deranged non-existent gas attacks on his own people done for “kicks” no less – as the valiant White Helmeted jihadist crazies we in the West supported fearlessly slaughtered innocent civilians – well, let’s not talk about that right now – let’s focus on something upbeat, like those film awards the White Helmets got for their feature length – “documentary” – entered in the “complete freaking fantasy” category – always a Hollywood favorite.

And we were no doubt all moved to loathing and contempt and to deranged Cold War deja vu fervor when they told us for three straight years that – “Russia hacked American democracy” – installing in office an orange haired, gonad grabbing, “Putin Puppet!” Surely there is a good reason they then gave said “Putin Puppet” renewed “Patriot Act” powers and more military spending money than he asked for – all in such defiance of rational thought and argument that it should make one’s head hurt. Alas, here in America the ability to experience cognitive dissonance appears to have evaporated among the masses simultaneously with the loss of critical thinking abilities.

So buoyed by this brief trip down memory lane we should quite naturally all credulously believe Western MSM and our political class now as they tell us that “they” – (err, uhh, I mean “the virus”) – crashed the global economy – leading them to then have no choice but to bail out our wealthiest corporations and our biggest banks – “for our own good” – of course, well, it goes without saying doesn’t it?

And unfortunately they now will have to keep us all under house arrest until this all blows over – “for our own good!” I mean it is certainly only “for our own good” that they don’t want to risk another Occupy Wall Street insurrection, or want to take the risk that the Yellow Vests might start building working guillotines in every village and every neighborhood in Paris.

I mean and sure it may kind of look bad that American elites have continued to use amoral sanctions to brutalize, starve and kill the poor in Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Yemen and elsewhere – WHILE they are showing their vast concern for the rest of us by placing us under house arrest, but let’s face it – “it is for those poor people’s own good,” I mean their starvation and dying of course, because we have to regime-change those folks governments “in order to save them.” Or something like that.

I mean think about it, what have our elites ever done to cause us to so much as question their humanitarian values and actions? Ok, ok, that half million dead Iraqi children “are worth it” shtick wasn’t their best PR moment, but hey, they obviously “meant well” by killing a half a million kids— right? I mean I’m sure they had their “reasons.” Just like they have their reasons for killing poor people all around the world every day.

– I must confess that I am absolutely stunned and disheartened by how few people I know who are so much as registering even a faint whiff of skepticism about what is happening globally, and the narratives being spun by MSM and the political class. I know so few who are asking even the most basic and fundamental questions about our so called “pandemic,” our lock down, and our collective loss of liberties – even among those who didn’t swallow the propaganda narratives on Russiagate or Syria. Instead we appear to have a massive segment of the American population simply willing to allow the same amoral always lying war-criminal media and political class – (which ALWAYS serve elite interests) – to “tell them how to think” and “what to think” and “how high” to jump – and now even “when they can leave their own home.” An absolutely stunning level of obedience – to say the least.

The media DO "sensationalize everything." Their primary purpose is to stay in business and they do that by getting looks and clicks.

A poignant example: In 2016 the media gave Donald Trump an estimated $2+ billions' worth of free publicity. Why? Not necessarily because he was "newsworthy" as such, but because his antics sold papers and "sold" TV views.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html

kibitzer wrote:

The media DO "sensationalize everything." Their primary purpose is to stay in business and they do that by getting looks and clicks.

A poignant example: In 2016 the media gave Donald Trump an estimated $2+ billions' worth of free publicity. Why? Not necessarily because he was "newsworthy" as such, but because his antics sold papers and "sold" TV views.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html

This is easy to overlook. I overlooked it as well. It's quite possible that Trump would have indeed just been sort of a joke, if not for the $2B of free publicity. Even if you like Trump and think he's doing a great job, you shouldn't feel great about this.

Allen53 wrote:

Came across this comment:

Excess mortality in Spain:

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the US is the greatest terrorist threat to sovereign countries globally is not only a hypocrite but willfully ignorant

This is an obvious conflict of interest:

Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Global Vaccine Action Plan to guide discovery, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines

NEW YORK -- The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan. This plan will build on the successes of current work to achieve key milestones in the discovery, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines to the most vulnerable populations in the poorest countries over the next decade.

The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines. The Global Vaccine Action Plan will enable greater coordination across all stakeholder groups – national governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, the private sector and philanthropic organizations -- and will identify critical policy, resource, and other gaps that must be addressed to realize the life-saving potential of vaccines.

The structure of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration includes a Leadership Council to provide oversight for the planning effort, a Steering Committee that holds the primary responsibility for developing the action plan, an International Advisory Committee to assist the Leadership Council in evaluating the action plan, and a Secretariat for administrative support.

Prof. Pedro Alonso, Director for the Institute for Global Health of Barcelona and Dr. Christopher Elias, President and CEO of PATH, have been appointed co-chairs of the Steering Committee and the Secretariat.

“Vaccines are miracles,” said Prof. Alonso, “For just a few dollars per child, vaccines prevent disease and disability for a lifetime. We must make sure that people understand that vaccines are one of the best investments in health.”

The Leadership Council is comprised of:

Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO;

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health;

Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director for UNICEF;

Ms. Joy Phumaphi, Chair of the International Advisory Committee and Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance

Dr. Tachi Yamada, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration

And the whole point of eliminating conflicts of interest, is that when you have a conflict of interest, you don't need a conspiracy, you don't need anything premeditated, because you're already in a situation where decision making is compromised. This will be ignored by a bunch of annoying posters who will complain about this being alarmist, naturally.

[quote]rando odnar wrote:

Now Henry Kissinger is joining in on the panic, although it's strange hearing a Republican state that we need to, "safeguard the liberal world order."

It’s not strange at all. The liberal world order was the defining principle for Kissinger throughout his career and it defined the worldviews and policies of both Nixon and Reagan. Kissinger is not referring to US political ideologies held by Democrats and Republicans, but the idea that international relations are based on open markets, multilateral institutions, and the rule of law. In international relations liberal democracy and western democracy are the same thing.

Donald Trump has rejected this worldview and turned traditional Republican ideas upside down. Trump’s worldview has much more in common with that of Bernie Sanders than with Ronald Reagan.

Allen53 and facts matter deserve some kind of journalistic award! They are a great source of relevant info

Allen53 wrote:

Came across this comment:

We were moved to tears and ready to go to war when they told us about those non-existent “Kuwaiti incubator babies” that Iraqi soldiers were throwing on the cold hard ground to die – but weren’t!

That entire quotation is quite good. Do you happen to have the source that it came from?

dunes runner wrote:

Allen53 wrote:

Came across this comment:

We were moved to tears and ready to go to war when they told us about those non-existent “Kuwaiti incubator babies” that Iraqi soldiers were throwing on the cold hard ground to die – but weren’t!

That entire quotation is quite good. Do you happen to have the source that it came from?

It was from a commenter in one of the Off-Guardian more recent pieces. I could likely find it if you like.