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POLITICS 6 Coronavirus: Freedom Is the Cure by Dennis Behreandt — Governments around the world are trying to stop the coronavirus by curbing the market and stopping the lives of hundreds of millions of people. They shouldn’t.

13 Your Papers Please by Dennis Behreandt — The West has been locked down and liberty destroyed in the name of fighting the current pestilence.

17 The Viral Assault on Our Rights St_Aurora72/iStock/GettyImagesPlus by Luis Miguel — Fear and panic have pushed individualistic Americans to practically beg government to take away their rights.

SCIENCE 19 SARS-CoV-2: What Does Science Tell Us? by Dennis Behreandt — The virus causing COVID-19 is a serious threat, but it appears less deadly than previously thought.

24 Plagued by Bad Data 13 17 AP Images by William F. Jasper — Experts are simply guessing at coronavirus AP Images death rates, and past pandemics were likely much worse. 24 MEDIA 25 Fanning Wuhan Virus Hysteria: Media’s Latest Anti-Trump Weapon by William F. Jasper — The fearmongering Fake News is truly the “enemy of the American people,” pushing a totalitarian agenda that is making us more and more like Communist China. 19 ECONOMY AP Images 28 Coronavirus: Deep State 25 28 Assault on Economic Freedom by Alex Newman — Under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, globalists are instituting policies that will bring about global government, total surveillance, and unending personal controls.

33 Price Controls and Hoarding During a Pandemic AP Images by Steve Byas — In major public emergencies, government makes AP Images raising prices a crime, though such laws hurt more than they help.

GLOBALISM 36 Coronavirus Gateway to “Global Health Governance” by William F. Jasper — To the globalist choir, China’s Xi Jinping is the coronavirus hero; Trump is the villain.

THE LAST WORD 33 36 AP Images 44 Coronavirus Silver Lining? AP Images by Alex Newman COVER Design by Katie Bradley TrailWinds p l a z a

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In fact, perhaps even most mem- That enemy is, of course, the Wuhan Alex Newman bers of the World War II generation would coronavirus. And to wage war against it, agree with this assessment. those entrusted with political power are Contributors The “Greatest Generation” endured not only restricting fundamental freedoms Bob Adelmann • Dennis Behreandt the Great Depression, wage and price but are also powering down the economy. Steve Byas • Raven Clabough controls, rationing, and a world war Of course, we are told that the controls Selwyn Duke • Brian Farmer fought on multiple continents outside are temporary. “But how temporary?” it is Christian Gomez • Larry Greenley the continental United States. But were reasonable to ask. And even when the cur- Gregory A. Hession, J.D. they ordered to stay in their homes ex- rent round of controls is lifted, how long Ed Hiserodt • William P. Hoar cept for necessary travel? Were they laid will it be before such controls are once R. 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Governments around the world are trying to stop the coronavirus by curbing the market and stopping the lives of hundreds of millions of people. To stop the pandemic, the opposite approach is desperately needed. by Dennis Behreandt Around the world, with a very few notable exceptions, s this is being written (the end of March), important nations of the the response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the A world are on lockdown. Important SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, has been to abandon any states in America are on lockdown. Nearly pretense of freedom and free markets and to institute 100 million Americans have been ordered not to leave their homes. Politicians in Is- thoroughly socialist police states. rael have openly debated the possibility of eliminating all personal freedoms. Police and National Guard troops are going door- to-door in Rhode Island searching for con- traband visitors (especially New Yorkers), raising the specter of martial law. It sounds impossibly apocalyptic, like something out of a bad sci-fi movie featuring the im- minent arrival of inscrutable, implacable, and hostile aliens, but it’s true. And, it’s poised at this writing to get even worse. According to Haaretz, Sigal Sadetsky, the head of Israel’s public health services, made reference to the Chinese approach to handling the coronavirus pandemic in remarks to the Knesset Sub- committee on Intelligence and Secret Ser- vices. She told them, the paper reported, “that she believes ‘everyone will do the same thing.’” Questioned about whether she was advocating a lockdown or curfew, her answer was chilling. “A lockdown and AP Images personal monitoring of people, and a total State response: National Guard troops in formation at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. halt to personal freedom,” she answered. In addition to calling out the Guard, states and cities have implemented many authoritarian She may as well have been speaking for measures in response to the coronavirus crisis. statists everywhere, including in America. As of this writing, the National Guard has been called out in 28 states, and many tense of freedom and free markets and to By contrast, wherever massive govern- state governors have issued edicts forcing institute thoroughly socialist police states. ment interventions have been tried, they people to stay indoors. Across the coun- This is both ethically questionable and have always ended in poverty, scarcity, and, try, businesses deemed not essential have morally detestable. It certainly makes a all too often, mass death and genocide. been closed. Alarmingly, with the urging mockery of the American Constitution, In trying to cure the COVID-19 with of Democrats in state governments and in laughs in the face of the Declaration of In- authoritarian socialism, our policymakers Congress, the president activated the De- dependence, and is a jackboot stepping on and politicians, and those like them around fense Production Act, the 1950s Korean the face of the Founding Fathers. the world, are putting in place a course of War-era law that empowers the execu- Moreover, these moves to a socialist treatment that will kill the patient. The dis- tive branch of the federal government to police state are going to fail. They are not ease may be eradicated, sure, but what’s take over some or all of the economy as it going to produce a cure for COVID-19. the point if the civilization is destroyed? deems necessary to fight a crisis. More importantly still, they will destroy It is, without question, important that we Around the world, with a very few no- the economy, if not civilization as a whole. stop the pandemic. But if we want to stop table exceptions, the response to COVID- The entire span of history, especially the this pandemic and the next, the answer is 19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 experience of the last 100 years, has prov- more freedom and more of the prosperity coronavirus, has been to abandon any pre- en that the flourishing of art, the advance that results from freedom. Using police- of science, the decline in poverty and the state tactics to shutter the economy and Dennis Behreandt is a research professional and writ- growth in abundance, and, yes, the cure control the movement and activity of peo- er, frequently covering subjects in history, theology, for disease, have been phenomena of the ple creates a multitude of conditions that and science and technology. He has worked as an edi- free and undirected activity of individuals put lives at risk, including increased pov- tor and publisher, and is a former managing editor of in the market unencumbered by bureau- erty, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, The New American. cratic red tape and dictatorial meddling. suicide, and more, all of which compound

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of two neighbors. When expanded to the Wherever massive government interventions have been size of an entire nation, the possibility of tried, they have always ended in poverty, scarcity, and, successful planning drops to zero. This is because central planning does all too often, mass death and genocide. away with supply and demand in the mar- ket, and with that eliminates price. Prices are the means by which those in need of goods and services signal how much they need, and prices are used by producers to determine what to supply. When some product or service works well or is badly needed or desired, demand for that item rises. If the demand rises relative to sup- ply, then the price increases for that item accordingly. This information is noted by suppliers who then, seeing an opportunity, bring to market either additional supply or new products that will also meet that demand. The information conveyed by prices about potential opportunities in the market also provides incentive for inno- vation in the pursuit of better means of production, more effective products, or even more efficient means of storage and delivery of products. The result of all this activity, mediated by equilibrium-seeking between supply and demand and signaled by prices in the market, is a growth in availability of goods and services, along

AP Images with a rich and growing prosperity to be Scarcity, not abundance: Central planning and government management of the economy were enjoyed by all. supposed to create a workers’ paradise in the old Soviet Union. But the opposite occurred, None of this happens, or it happens very including long lines for bread, as shown here outside a Moscow state-owned bakery shortly poorly, in a socialist command economy. before the USSR formally dissolved in 1991. The result is always scarcity, poverty, hun- ger, and, all too often, death. the dangers represented by disease. In ty to supply even the basic needs of society. The greatest example of this is the ex- contrast, an unencumbered society avoids That inability comes from the very nature perience of the Soviet Union. From 1918 these follow-on impacts while allowing of economic planning. Consider this on a to 1992, the Soviet Union was the world’s need and opportunity, represented by de- small scale wherein you must decide what leading socialist state. Contrary to Soviet mand for treatments and solutions, to pro- goods and services your neighbor needs propaganda, it suffered regular shortages of mote entrepreneurship and innovation. In and should have over the next 12 months. goods and services. The 1970s, economi- essence, freedom is the cure. How much fuel should he have? How much cally, were the best of times for the Soviet food? What kind of food? How often should people. And yet the system of socialized Socialist Scarcity he have access to that food? What about ed- planning regularly resulted in shortages. If socialist economies promote advanced ucation? Or entertainment? What technolo- Former New York Times reporter Hen- innovative solutions and economic out- gy should he have access to? As the planner drick Smith witnessed the situation for comes, including those needed to fight dis- for just one neighbor, these are the questions himself while living in Moscow, the ease, we should see evidence of this from you need to answer. Then there is the matter wealthiest of Soviet cities. In his book past experiments with socialist systems. of bias and emotion. What if your neighbor The Russians, he described the shortages In fact, socialist regimented economies curses at you, or throws rocks or otherwise Muscovites lived with at the time. have been tried before, and several times resists your plans? Might you take punitive Smith noted that in the mid-1970s, there at that. In fact, they have been tried and action against your neighbor to teach him existed an “enormous gulf between the found wanting even under optimal natural a lesson? daily ordeal of the Russian shopper and the and economic conditions. Now, expand this to a nation and put easy life-style of Americans. My Russian The truth is, a socialist command econo- bureaucrats in charge. There is no way friends were amused to hear about Ameri- my cannot work. It generates graft and cor- central economic planning could work can suburban housewives getting into the ruption while having a fundamental inabili- adequately, even for just one year for a set station wagon and dashing off to the super-

8 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 market or shopping center for groceries a centrally planned economy, the country’s settlement. One man said he was taken by couple of times a week. For they usually communist leaders “evacuated” the cities, the army while he was selling mangoes he walked to the stores every day for food, killing anyone who resisted, and forced had grown on his irrigated farm; another often quite a long way, and had to go to formerly urban residents into hard labor claimed to have been taken from his farm several shops — one for bread, another for on collective farms. Millions of innocent while he was threshing grain.” milk products, a third for meat and so on.” people died as a result. The reason for the difficulty in procur- Famine and mass death caused by so- Fight Pandemics With Prosperity ing groceries and other products, Smith cialistic government intervention is a re- In contrast to socialist interventions that explained, was because of the planned curring theme of the 20th century. It hap- return civilization to the stone age, respect economy. pened again in the mid-1980s in Ethiopia, for natural freedoms and liberties, and the “In spite of the various tinkering re- when the government forcibly moved farm- economic activity of a bureaucratically forms,” Smith wrote, “the Soviet economy ers from areas of the north to areas of the unencumbered free people, results in the still operates by Plan from above rather south of the nation, disrupting harvests and rapid improvement of health and welfare, than in response to consumer demand worsening the effects of army worms and as further experience over the last 200 from below and this produces a lopsided drought. Victims were interviewed for Cul- years demonstrates. assortment of goods. Goods are produced tural Survival Quarterly in 1985. In his book The Mainspring of Human to fill the Plan, not to sell. Sometimes the “Ninety-five percent of the famine vic- Progress, Henry Grady Weaver, who was anomalies are baffling. Leningrad can be tims who fled to the Sudan before the end of head of customer research for General overstocked with cross-country skis and 1984 reported that in their villages the Ethi- Motors in the years immediately after the yet go several months without soap for opian army had burned crops in the fields cataclysm of World War II, described the washing dishes. In the Armenian capital and grain they had harvested. The army, massive change brought about by econom- of Yerevan, I found an ample supply of they said, never stole the grain, it simply ic freedom in the West over the preceding accordions but local people complained destroyed it,” Cultural Survival reported. century and a half: they had gone for weeks without ordinary The journal also reported, “The major- kitchen spoons.” ity of those interviewed who had fled the For thousands of years under the Old Worse than being unable to provide a resettlement camps claimed that they had World concept of a static economy, normal selection of basic goods and ser- not personally been hard hit by the fam- operating under bureaucratic control, vices even during periods of relative peace ine. On average, those from Tigre who human beings lived in hunger, filth, and prosperity is the outcome of socialist were interviewed claimed that they had and disease. They worked ceaselessly planning when it goes aggressively off the produced 80% of their subsistence, cereal at back-breaking drudgery to keep rails for ideological purposes. needs in 1984. In addition, on average, life in wretched bodies. They died The Khmer Rouge of Cambodia offers these ‘famine’ victims had had more than young. For thousands of years, when one such example. To create a thoroughly 22 head of livestock at the time of their re- not fighting wars, they managed to build pigsty shelters, to sow grain, cook meat, yoke oxen, and chain slaves to mills and oars. Then in this New World, in a brief period of 160 years, Americans creat- ed an entirely different mode of life, with improvements and advances in the scale of living beyond the utmost imaginings of all preceding ages. Americans have disproved the pagan superstition of a static universe and have given new meaning to the word progress. If our progress is to continue, it is important that we do not forget the things which have brought us thus far.

In fact, we can see the productive power of the free market at work even under the current pandemic lockdown conditions im-

AP Images posed by government bureaucrats today. Total government danger: Khmer Rouge prisoners escorted by a South Vietnamese soldier. At Because there is such an obvious de- its worst, total government planning and control has led to mass death and destruction like that mand for products and services to fight caused by the Khmer Rouge and other communist governments. the coronavirus, many of the remaining

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 9 POLITICS companies that have been allowed to con- pursuing a blood plasma-based treatment have a human immune system. Regeneron tinue operating under despotic govern- for those suffering from COVID-19. In a has also isolated antibodies from humans ment lockdown orders have devoted their press release, the company announced that who have recovered from COVID-19, in productive capacity and research and de- it would “share with members of the United order to maximize the pool of potentially velopment teams to developing solutions States Congress that it is initiating the devel- potent antibodies. From this large pool of and providing needed supplies: opment of an anti-SARS-CoV-2 polyclonal candidates, Regeneron will select the top • American tissue paper producers are hyperimmune globulin (H-IG) to treat high- two antibodies for a ‘cocktail’ treatment operating mills at full capacity to supply risk individuals with COVID-19.” based on potency and binding ability to the heightened demand for toilet paper due • Gilead Sciences is moving forward the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, as well to fear of shortages caused by government with COVID-19-related trials for its anti- as other desirable qualities. Using a multi- quarantines, curfews, and lockdowns. “We viral drug remdesivir. The drug has shown antibody approach allows for targeting of try to make as much as we can right now,” promise, according to the company, against different parts of the virus and may help Patty Prats, senior communications man- MERS and SARS that are similar to SARS- protect against multiple viral variants.” The ager at Georgia Pacific, told WAFB 9 in CoV-2, the cause of the current COVID-19 company used similar technology earlier to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to the pandemic. The company notes that it “has develop a successful treatment for Ebola. channel, the company’s mill in Zachary, initiated two Phase 3 clinical studies to • Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has an- Louisiana, has “stepped up production on evaluate the safety and efficacy of remde- nounced that it is working with Regeneron the toilet paper side by 120% just to keep sivir in adults diagnosed with COVID-19 on another treatment for COVID-19. Ac- up with demand.” following the U.S. Food and Drug Admin- cording to a Sanofi press release, the two • Canon USA, the American branch istration’s (FDA) rapid review and accep- companies have “started a clinical program of Japanese imaging and industrial giant tance of Gilead’s investigational new drug evaluating Kevzara® (sarilumab) in pa- Canon, has begun work on a rapid test for (IND) filing.” tients hospitalized with severe COVID-19. COVID-19. On March 19, the company • Regeneron, a U.S. biotechnology firm, Kevzara is a fully-human monoclonal anti- “announced the start of development of a announced on March 17, 2020 that it had body that inhibits the interleukin-6 (IL-6) rapid genetic testing system for the novel made important advances in developing pathway by binding and blocking the IL-6 coronavirus (COVID-19).” Canon has ex- an antibody treatment for COVID-19. receptor. IL-6 may play a role in driving tensive experience in developing similar According to the company, “Regeneron the overactive inflammatory response in rapid test technologies for use in testing scientists have now isolated hundreds of the lungs of patients who are severely or for both Ebola virus and Zika virus. virus-neutralizing, fully human antibodies critically ill with COVID-19 infection.” • On March 4, Japanese biopharmaceu- from the company’s VelocImmune® mice, These are just a few of the actions being tical giant Takeda announced that it was which have been genetically-modified to taken by private companies and their dedi- cated scientists, engineers, and production workers to bring needed resources to bear on the problems posed by the novel coronavi- rus. That they have not needed government direction, oversight, or control to undertake these efforts demonstrates that government is not the solution to the pandemic. It’s worth noting that in several of these examples, the companies noted that trials and efforts now under way were made possible by efforts to cut through govern- ment regulations that would otherwise prove to be roadblocks to rapid innova- tion. George D. Yancopoulos, co-founder and chief scientific officer for Regeneron, for example, noted that his company and Sanofi “have worked closely with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Biomedical Advanced Research and De- velopment Authority, otherwise known as the FDA and BARDA,” to get trials under way quickly. AP Images Basic economics: There’s been a run on toilet paper, leading to shortages around the nation. Even doctors have needed to get reg- Producers, responding to demand for the product, have ramped up production. They have done ulation out of the way to save patients. so without needing direction from government, demonstrating that the stimulus of demand In an interview with former New York generates incentive for producers to create and deliver supply. City Mayor Rudy Giuliani posted to the

10 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 COVID-19 is dangerous to some, sends many to hospitals, and causes only mild symptoms in most people. Yet au- thorities have taken drastic, civilization- altering steps to counter it, putting at risk millions of lives and livelihoods, taking away the “tools of production,” and threatening indeed to send the world back to the stone age. This is not the way to cure the pandem- ic, but is a way only to multiply the force of its impact. The idea has been set up by propaganda in the press and by demagogic politicians, and accepted by a frightened population, that we face a deadly dichotomy: We can save people by shutting down and putting “essential” businesses under the control of

AP Images government, or we can reopen with busi- Stepping up: Regeneron CEO Leonard Schleifer speaks at a meeting with President Trump. As with ness as usual and cause the deaths of mil- toilet paper production, private enterprise is leading the way in developing treatments and solutions lions. This is an oversimplification at best, for COVID-19. Regeneron is one such company working on potential treatments for the disease. and a pernicious lie at worst. A free people, engaged in economic operations in a free market, has proven, without question and over centuries, to be mayor’s YouTube channel on March 28, all of human society if so many millions the greatest engine of innovation and pros- Dr. Vladimir Zelenko of the Jewish com- were not locked down by government au- perity possible. By contrast, government munity of Kiryas Yoel just outside of thorities? And the corollary question: How control stifles production and squelches New York City described his success in much damage will be done by these gov- innovation. Even safety is risked by gov- treating COVID-19 patients with a drug ernment actions? ernments in ways that private enterprise cocktail of hydroxychloroquine, azithro- This question was asked by John P.A. would never consider. Here in the United mycin, and zinc. Using this combination, Ioannidis, professor of medicine, of epide- States, for example, government pro- he told Mayor Giuliani, “I’ve had zero miology and population health, of biomedi- grams have purposely infected men with patients die, zero patients intubated, and cal data science, and of statistics at Stan- syphilis as part of the Tuskegee syphilis I have currently three patients admitted ford University. In an essay for the medical experiment (without informed consent, the to the hospital with pneumonia, but they news website Stat, Ioannidis noted: “One of CDC has admitted), injected people with are not intubated and I think they’ll be the bottom lines is that we don’t know how radioactive isotopes to study the effect of fine.” Asked by Giuliani how many pa- long social distancing measures and lock- radiation (as documented in the book The tients with COVID-19 he’d treated so far, downs can be maintained without major Plutonium Files by Pulitzer Prize-winning he replied, “I think 450-500.” Moreover, consequences to the economy, society, and author Eileen Welsome), and conducted he noted, “Many doctors are coming on mental health,” he wrote. “Unpredictable the now notorious MK-ULTRA mind-con- board, they’re having similar results.” He evolutions may ensue, including financial trol experiments with LSD. It is unlikely also noted: “This treatment costs $20.” crisis, unrest, civil strife, war, and a melt- in the extreme that any private enterprise But to make it available required getting down of the social fabric.” would have done these things, or gotten government out of the way, something He concluded with an ominous warn- away with them had they tried. Govern- Dr. Zelenko in his comments credited ing. With “lockdowns of months, if not ment, meanwhile, carried out these experi- President Trump with doing. The FDA years, life largely stops, short-term and ments for years, decades in one case, and was asked in March by President Trump long-term consequences are entirely un- tried to keep them covered up. to “take a closer look at as to whether known, and billions, not just millions, of In facing the coronavirus crisis, it is an expanded use approach … could be lives may be eventually at stake.” important not to underestimate the value done,” said FDA Commissioner Stephen This, too, was the warning decades of freedom and overestimate the efficacy Hahn. The FDA subsequently approved ago from Henry Grady Weaver. “We of government action. In fact, if we really the use of hydroxychloroquine and chlo- have moved a long away from the Stone want a cure, get government out of the roquine for COVID-19 treatment. Age,” he noted while pointing out that way and let the world’s billions get back These and other examples raise an im- “without the tools of production, human to their lives and work. portant question: How much more work beings would sink back into a state of In the end, it will be freedom that pro- and innovation might be done to benefit barbarism.” vides the cure. n www.TheNewAmerican.com 11 QuickQuotes

President Fights a Classic Example of Fake News “It’s very clear that there are people in your profession that write fake news. You do.” At a coronavirus briefing, President Donald Trump responded to an insult- ing question posed by CBS News reporter Paula Reid. She asked the presi- dent if he wanted to reopen the economy by Easter solely to help his chances for reelection “even if it means letting people die.” The president displayed a high degree of calmness in his response to such an enormous slur.

Princeton Professor and MSNBC Commentator Donald Trump

Hopes COVID-19 Will Be “Donald Trump’s [Hurricane] Katrina” GageSkidmore “I should mention this with a little trepidation but this may be Donald Trump’s Katrina.” Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, a virulent anti-Trumper on MSNBC, joins a chorus of media voices rejoicing in the coronavirus as President Trump’s “Katrina” or “Chernobyl.”

Yes to Hospital Ships; No to Cruise Ships “The Navy hospital ships were purposefully altered to be floating hospitals. Carnival cruise ships are built for a very different purpose. I suspect a bit of gimmick here in using them for this purpose in order to justify providing economic relief to the cruise ship industry.” A national security consultant and managing director of the Ferry-Bridge Group, Bryan McGrath readily supports the plan to have Navy hospital ships help in treating coronavirus patients. But he sees no similar benefit in trying to make ships built for pleasure cruises accomplish the same goal.

Bill Gates Calls for a Nationwide Shutdown, Citing Communist China as the Model to Follow “Cases will be exponentially growing anywhere you don’t have a serious shutdown…. The sooner you engage in the shutdown the easier it is to get to the peak. We have not peaked. The parts of the country that are in Bill Gates shutdown, by late April we will start to see the numbers peak.” Kuhlmann /MSC Bill Gates avidly supports coercive government and population control.

Researchers Suggest Using Blood From Recovered Patients to Fight the Disease “Four to six weeks after infection, the blood of survivors should be full of antibodies that will neutralize the virus and that will theoretically limit the infection.” A virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Vineet Menachery is far from alone in sug- gesting such a way of possibly combating the coronavirus disease.

PBS Reporter Admits She and Fellow Reporters See Themselves as Opponents of President Trump “We know now that covering President Trump sometimes is like a team sport. We have to have each other’s back in the press corps.” PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor confirmed the media-vs.-Trump reality during an interview with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi in which she thanks CNN’s Jeremy Diamond for helping her double-team President Trump at a White House coronavirus presser.

Doctor Says He Has Treated Hundreds of COVID-19 Patients With a 100-percent Success Rate “I read studies in the Far East that found hydroxychloroquine effective in fighting the virus and studies in France that found that this drug combined with azithromycin work in combating the virus. I decided to combine these two with zinc sulfate and so far, I have treated hundreds of patients and did not have to send a single patient to the hospital.” Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko, a board-certified family practitioner in New York, explained his COVID-19 protocols in a March 25 interview with ChabadInfo.com reporter Sholem Traurig. n Vladimir — Compiled by John F. McManus Zelenko Facebook

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YOUR PAPERS PLEASE The Enslavement of the Free World

The West, once defined as “The Free World,” has been “What we have is the shutting off and locked down and liberty destroyed in the name of fighting shutting down of a city, plain and simple. A quarantine that means 11 million people the current pestilence. are trapped within their city. No one seems to have considered how public order will be maintained, and how our lives here in Wuhan will be supported,” Da Shji wrote. Critics, meanwhile, were silenced. One writer, Zhang Ouya of the Hubei Daily newspaper, expressed frustration online, demanding, “Wuhan must immediately change out its commanders.” For a time, according to Da Shji, this became a rally- ing cry for the newly oppressed. “But such a story cannot have a happy ending in China’s stability-obsessed po- litical environment — where anything can be stopped. Zhang Ouya’s post was quickly expunged. The Party leadership of the Hubei Daily Media Group, Zhang’s employer, wrote a letter of apology to the Municipal Party Committee expressing its ‘deepest apologies’ for Zhang Ouya’s ‘incorrect remarks.’ The group also made clear that it was starting ‘relevant proce- dures’ to hold Zhang accountable.” AP Images Communist lockdown: A woman walks on a deserted street in Wuhan, China, during the As Da Shji noted, this is normal behav- lockdown there. Throughout the West, governments have followed the lockdown pattern ior in China where “society [is] closely established by Communist China in response to the coronavirus. monitored by the government, and the shadow of Big Brother is everywhere.” There, tyranny is an ever-present latent by Dennis Behreandt the then-shocking development. Soon the force, ready always to show its fangs. lockdown would extend beyond Wuhan. But latent tyranny, it turns out, is en- t 2AM on January 23, au- “In less than two days, up to noon on Janu- demic in the West. Like an unseen geolog- thorities in Wuhan suddenly ary 24, a total of 14 cities in Hubei prov- ical fault, it was just waiting for a tremor “Aissued the order to close off ince would be brought into the quarantine to let slip the dogs of oppression. And so, the city.” Chinese journalist Da Shji lives zone.” He concluded, “This was no longer since the lockdown in Hubei province — in Wuhan and documented the abrupt a city under lockdown, but effectively an now being lifted according to reports — lockdown of the city, and shortly after entire province under quarantine.” the only things spreading faster than the that many more Chinese cities, in a report The results were predictable. Those coronavirus are fear, panic, propaganda, he filed with the China Media Project, an who could, having heard of the coming and tyranny. independent program operated in partner- lockdown, fled the city, with up to an esti- ship with the Journalism & Media Studies mated million Wuhan residents leaving in The Situation in Europe Centre at the University of Hong Kong. the hours before the lockdown. Many car- Europe has become an epicenter in the “All public buses, subways, ferries, long- ried the virus to their destinations, exacer- COVID-19 outbreak, and at the same distance buses and other transport services bating the epidemic. In Wuhan and other time, several European nations have ad- would be suspended; the airport and train locked-down areas, the captive population opted strict authoritarian approaches to stations would be shuttered,” he wrote of was left with an uncertain future, at best. stopping the spread of the virus:

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More people are going to die as a result of the economic crisis that this lockdown is In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he will go so going to cause than the virus itself.” far as to permanently close churches and synagogues if Elsewhere in Europe: Spain and France have moved to enforce restric- they don’t voluntarily shut their doors. tions that are similar to those in Italy. In both countries, citizens have occasionally challenged their captivity. In Spain, one United Kingdom: The regime of U.K. Italy: On March 9, Italian Prime Minis- woman was apprehended by police after Prime Minister Boris Johnson has put in ter Giuseppe Conte put the whole of Italy “she was caught visiting the home of a place highly restrictive regulations on on lockdown in what Reuters described as man she had met on a dating app,” ac- the movement and activity of the British “the most severe controls on a Western na- cording to Newsweek. In another example people. Under current rules, people are al- tion since World War Two.” Those restric- of the absurdity of totalitarian govern- lowed to leave their homes to shop for ne- tions, which at the time included forcing ment, a person walking on the street while cessities, to perform one form of exercise restaurants to close at 6 p.m., were made wearing a dinosaur costume was stopped per day, for medical needs, to help a vul- more stringent starting on March 24 when by police. By March 18, Spanish police nerable person, or to travel to work in the every business other than grocery stores, had arrested 88 people for violating the event that working from home is not pos- pharmacies, post offices, and banks were lockdown. In France, as in Italy, official sible. “You should not be meeting friends. forced to close their doors for two weeks. documents are required for those step- If your friends ask you to meet, you should Additionally, according to Reuters, of- ping outside. Of the French lockdown, say no. You should not be meeting fam- ficials “banned travel within the country Ira Katz, a great American writer living ily members who do not live in your … to slow the spread of the coronavirus.” and working in France, observed in a dis- home. You should not be going shopping Anyone venturing outside must carry of- patch for LewRockwell.com: “We are not except for essentials like food and medi- ficial paperwork stating the reason for really allowed to leave our domiciles so cine — and you should do this as little as travel, and that will be checked by author- it really feels like the [Nazi] Occupation you can,” Johnson said, according to The ities. Some Italian citizens have chafed around here, and we must always carry Guardian. “If you don’t follow the rules, under the tyrannical rules. “It looks like our paper when we leave the apartment.” the police will have the powers to enforce an apocalypse has struck, there is no one them, including through fines and dispers- around,” restaurant owner Mario Monfre- Locking Down the Land of the Free ing gatherings.” Among activities banned da said, according to Reuters. “It is a total So far, in the formerly free United States of in the U.K. are weddings and baptisms. disaster. This will reduce us to nothing. America, several states have imposed re- strictions on what government has deemed “nonessential work.” Some of these states have violated the U.S. Constitution even more severely by, in effect, putting their citizens under house arrest. So far the states that have abolished freedom in the most egregious fashion include New York, California, Rhode Island, Michigan, and Illinois. More than 20 states, so far, have followed a similar path and the trend seems likely to continue. Most of these states have followed the general plan as implemented in Europe, though in slightly milder form. Some gov- ernors, though, are taking harsher steps. In Rhode Island, Democratic governor Gina Raimondo ordered police to stop cars first with New York plates and then from all other states, and used the National Guard to conduct house-to-house searches for out-of-staters to be quarantined. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Bla-

AP Images sio has said he will go so far as to per- Italian outbreak: Northern Italy, the economic heart of the Mediterranean nation, has been manently close churches and synagogues especially hard hit by COVID-19. In response, the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte if they don’t voluntarily shut their doors. instituted the most severe restrictions on liberty seen in Europe since the end of World War II. Speaking to religious leaders during his

14 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 March 27 press conference, he said: “If you go to your synagogue, if you go to your church and attempt to hold services ... our enforcement agents will have no choice but to shut down those services.” Continuing, he warned: “The NYPD, Fire Department, Buildings Department, ev- eryone has been instructed that if they see worship services going on they will go to the officials of that congregation, they’ll inform them they need to stop the services and disperse. If that does not happen, they will take additional action up to the point of fines and potentially closing the build- ing permanently.” “You have been warned,” he concluded. In North Carolina, far-left governor Ralph Northam warned his captive citi- zens that “public and private in-person gatherings of 10 or more individuals are AP Images prohibited.” Anyone convicted of break- California nightmare: Like many states, the Golden State has restricted the activities of citizens ing this edict faces “confinement in jail for and businesses. In Los Angeles, mayor Eric Garcetti has threatened to shut off utilities to businesses not complying with shut-down orders. not more than twelve months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both.” In Wisconsin, shuttered by Democratic Governor Tony Evers, Dane County and the city of Madison — the state capital — for the ability to ask chief judges to detain every fitness tracker that can get some- put up a website that allowed busybodies people indefinitely without trial during thing like pulse or heart rate” demanding to report other citizens for gathering in emergencies.” access to that information. “Five years groups and violating stay-at-home direc- Meanwhile, in Congress, Democrats later the coronavirus is gone, this data’s tives. In a bit of good news, according to are using the pandemic to pile-drive their still available to them — they start look- the Madison-based newspaper Wisconsin agenda forward. In the spirit of never let- ing for new things,” he said, according State Journal, authorities took the site off­ ting a crisis go to waste, as former Obama to Business Insider. “They already know line “after the website was flooded with administration official Rahm Emanuel what you’re looking at on the internet, spam, according to health department once advised, Democratic Majority Whip they already know where your phone is spokeswoman Sarah Mattes, including James Clyburn offered: “The COVID19 moving, now they know what your heart ‘people calling us names’ and complaining bill is a tremendous opportunity to restruc- rate is. What happens when they start to that the effort constituted Big Brother-like ture things to fit our vision.” intermix these and apply artificial intelli- government overreach.” In addition, federal government tech- gence to them?” In Los Angeles, businesses not com- nocrats want to use this crisis as an op- Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates plying with orders to close were threat- portunity to further spy on citizens. This wants to go even further, with a fright- ened with punitive action by Democratic would rely on invasive tracking enabled ening proposal that takes the concept of Mayor Eric Garcetti. “If we see contin- by mobile technology. The Washington “Your Papers Please” totalitarianism to a ued noncompliance [we] will step in and Post reported on March 17: “The U.S. whole new level. Asked during an “ask shut off their water and power. You know government is in active talks with Face- me anything” session on Reddit how the who you are, you need to stop it. This is book, Google and a wide array of tech economy can function in a future of “so- your chance to step up and shut it down companies and health experts about how cial distancing,” Gates responded that — because if you don’t, we will shut you they can use location data gleaned from people would need to get some sort of down,” warned the mayor. Americans’ phones to combat the novel digital verification of their health status. At least at this point, most of the states coronavirus, including tracking whether “Eventually we will have some digital under lockdown were Sovietized by Dem- people are keeping one another at safe certificates to show who has recovered ocrats who generally prefer Karl Marx to distances to stem the outbreak.” As NSA or been tested recently or when we have Adam Smith and Vladimir Lenin to Thom- whistleblower Edward Snowden has a vaccine who has received it,” Gates an- as Jefferson. But even at the national level, warned, such invasive approaches would swered. the zeal for tyranny seems to grow daily. probably not be temporary. This ties in nicely with Gates’ involve- The Justice Department, according to a re- Because of the virus, Snowden said, ment in developing a biometric ID for port by Politico, “quietly asked Congress governments might “send an order to vaccine compliance, along with a host of www.TheNewAmerican.com 15 POLITICS related left-wing schemes to manage and gram that includes a program called “Elec- to our current real pandemic, by the way, control people. tionGuard” that “will make voting secure, featured a runaway coronavirus as its pan- Gates’ favored biometric ID is tied to more accessible, and more efficient any- demic of choice. (For more on Event 201, the United Nations and called ID 2020, where it’s used in the United States or in see “Coronavirus as Gateway to ‘Global according to Biometric Update, a news democratic nations around the world,” Health Governance’” on page 36.) site published by industry market re- according to Microsoft. The system was search firm Biometrics Research Group, tested for the first time in an election envi- Is There an Alternative to Tyranny? Inc. ID 2020 will “leverage immuniza- ronment in February in Wisconsin with the Anyone doubting these and other statist tion as an opportunity to establish digi- help of state election officials, according approaches to COVID-19 is denounced tal identity.” The site explains, “Digital to Microsoft, and San Francisco company and ridiculed. But despite rampant prop­ identity is a computerized record of who VotingWorks. Supposedly non-partisan, aganda on behalf of totalitarianism, it is a person is, stored in a registry. It is used, the latter outfit is run by Ben Adida, who possible to stop the outbreak without re- in this case, to keep track of who has re- on his blog has written favorably of “strict sorting to tyranny. This is the experience ceived vaccination.” gun regulation” and “mandatory gun li- of South Korea. Also involved with building ID 2020 censing,” said it was “heartbreaking that In The Week, Peter Weber noted that the are corporate giants such as Microsoft Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college,” United States and South Korea had their and consulting firm Accenture, as well as and admitted his support for President first cases at the same time, but that “South the nongovernmental organization Gavi, Obama, saying, “I enthusiastically voted Korea’s epidemic seems to have already which bills itself as “the vaccine alliance.” for you three times.” peaked” after beginning an extensive test- Note that Microsoft is a leading player All these things are bundled together ing campaign. “This testing-backed offen- in business-centric social media as owner in a disturbing cluster of incipient tech- sive helped South Korea reduce the num- of LinkedIn and provider of the Office365 nocratic authoritarianism and control, ber of new cases over a matter of weeks,” Teams platform, and is the provider also tied to vaccine authentication and ID in Reuters reported. Essentially, South Korea of user-management software Active Di- a time of a pandemic that just happened determined that the solution to the spread rectory, used for user authentication and to be modeled in October 2019 at Event of the virus was to find and quarantine domain management by almost every 201 by “the Johns Hopkins Center for only those people who had been infected company, large and small, throughout the Health Security in partnership with the with the virus, rather than to employ wide- world. Note also that under current Micro- World Economic Forum and the Bill and spread, damaging, and detrimental police- soft CEO Satya Nadella, the company has Melinda Gates Foundation.” Event 201, a state lockdowns. launched its “defending democracy” pro- pandemic simulation with eerie similarity In an interview with the BBC, South Korean Foreign Minister Kong Kyung- wha described the country’s strategy. “In mid-January, our health authorities quickly conferred with the research insti- tutions here [to develop a test],” she said. “And then they shared that result with the pharmaceutical companies, who then produced the reagent and the equipment needed for the testing.” That testing, she said, was critical. “Testing is central be- cause that leads to early detection,” she noted. “It minimizes further spread.” Vietnamese-American poet Linh Dinh has chronicled his time in South Korea during the outbreak, describing life in Seoul. The nation, he notes, “has man- aged to maintain, nationwide, an impres- sive semblance of normalcy. People go to work. All stores are open and well stocked.” The lesson of South Korea is that the breathless hyperventilations of statists and their enablers in the fear-mongering

AP Images mainstream media should be ignored. The Singling out religion: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signs rules shutting down businesses. solution to the pandemic is targeted inter- As part of efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus, he also warned religious leaders to stop vention based on proper testing, not the holding services or he would go so far as to permanently shut down churches and synagogues. wholesale liquidation of liberty. n

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The masses are literally begging the government to take their rights away in ex- change for protection from the virus. Gov- ernments are happy to oblige, even when their actions are in violation of the law.

Unconstitutional Usurpations That the federal government lacks author- ity to shut America down, whether over the coronavirus scare or any other reason, is clear to anyone who takes time to read the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Law of the Land does not grant the legislature or the executive power to stop citizens

AP Images from leaving their homes or to tell busi- nesses what products to make — even for well-intentioned purposes such as produc- ing more medical supplies. Yet the mainstream media acknowledg- THE VIRAL ASSAULT es the president’s limited authority over the economy, albeit unwittingly. In an effort to kick back against President Trump’s desire to bring America back to business as usual ON OUR RIGHTS as soon as possible, Reuters­ columnist Jan Wolfe wrote that the commander-in-chief Panicked Americans are begging for their rights to be taken in reality has “little power to restart the U.S. economy.” away. They are giving up the Constitution for little in return. Wolfe omitted the logical extension of that argument: If the president has little power to restart the economy, he has little by Luis Miguel erty, have the people risen up in indigna- power to shut it down in the first place. tion against the deterioration of constitu- Of course, much of the shutdown has he right to peaceably assemble in tionally protected freedoms taking place come by way of state governments, typi- large groups suspended. Police right before our eyes? cally governors flexing their executive T cars patrolling neighborhoods to On the contrary, many Americans can’t muscles. Yet even here, some are guilty ensure citizens remain locked away in seem to get enough authoritarianism. The of violating their own state constitutions. their homes and obey curfews. Churches mainstream media’s push for stricter con- Take Wisconsin, which has enacted shutting down their worship services out trols over the populace amid the COVID- a stay-at-home order, banning all “pub- of fear of government reprisal. The state 19 outbreak is to be expected. The ruling lic and private gatherings,” prohibiting picking and choosing which businesses class’s attempt to take advantage of the crowds larger than 10, and mandating are deemed acceptable and which must panic — as seen in the Justice Depart- that Wisconsinites at all times keep a dis- close their doors, as people form into long ment’s recent request to suspend habeas tance of six feet from one another. “Non- lines outside grocery stores, fighting each corpus — comes as no surprise. essential” businesses are closed, and any- other over essential items. But it isn’t just the elites in government one who violates the order by illegally Is this Venezuela? Is this Soviet Russia? and the media. Take even a casual scan working could face a $250 fine and up to Or some other communist regime? on social media, and you’ll find everyday 30 days in jail. No. It’s the United States of America. Americans from both sides of the political But Article 1, Section 4 of the Wisconsin The year is 2020 — in the era of the coro- spectrum calling on federal and state offi- Constitution leaves no doubt about citizens’ navirus. cials to impose further restrictions — calls to right to assemble: “The right of the people How have Americans responded to the close “non-essential” businesses, to close the peaceably to assemble, to consult for the near-overnight arrival of this 21st-century beaches, to nationalize this or that industry. common good, and to petition the gov- police state? In the world’s bastion of lib- Once or twice a week, you’re sure to see ernment, or any department thereof, shall among Twitter’s trending hashtags #Lock- never be abridged.” (Emphasis added.) Luis Miguel is a regular contributor to The New DownFlorida or another variant demand- For politicians who want to expand and American whose journalistic endeavors shed light ing that one of the states thus far refraining centralize power, the coronavirus is a mil- on the Deep State, the immigration crisis, and the from a statewide quarantine jump on the lion-dollar lottery ticket. It provides them enemies of freedom. bandwagon. with a pretext to cancel all legislative ses-

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 17 POLITICS sions, commission and city council meet- attempts to avoid contact with the In all of this, at no point is it necessary to ings, public hearings, town halls, rallies, healthcare system. place restrictions on everybody, regardless protests, and demonstrations — all under of whether they’re susceptible to the virus the guise of keeping us healthy. “Voluntary” is the key word. or not. Such broad actions are the equivalent If anyone dares to question the coro- Those of us who want to preserve our of using an axe when what’s needed is a sur- navirus response — its costs both to our freedom amid this panic believe in the gical scalpel. The cure should be tailored to wallets and our freedom — they face im- principle of personal responsibility. Amer- every person’s or group’s particular needs. mense censure from a rabid media and ica’s history has shown that the combina- a hysterical public whom the media has tion of rational self-interest and personal A Common Sense Solution effectively induced to believe is facing morality will motivate the majority to act Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, a systems scientist the end times. Intellectual dissidents are responsibly in situations such as this, as- and pioneer in the field of systems biology, panned as insensitive, scientifically igno- suming the public is equipped with the has repudiated the current approach to the rant, and conspiracy theorists — the fall- right information. coronavirus, claiming it “at best” is based back ad hominem for whoever refuses to If you inform Americans that those on a 1950s outdated ‘one-size-fits-all,’ toe the establishment line. with weakened immune systems, such as non-personalized approach to medicine Considering the tyrannical trajectory of the elderly and people with certain medi- and public health; and at worst, is derived the COVID-19 response, how long will it cal conditions, are the ones who are really from a ‘fake science’ understanding of the be before opposition to lockdowns, cur- at risk, then those individuals will gener- immune system.” Dr. Ayyadurai holds four fews, and the other heavy-handed poli- ally, of their own will, self-isolate out of degrees from MIT, to which he returned in cies is labeled “hate speech” and outlawed self-interest: They don’t want to wind up 2003 to complete doctoral work within the outright, or at least banned on platforms of hospitalized. Their family and friends will Department of Biological Engineering — public discourse such as newspapers, radio, voluntarily refrain from visiting them out work that led him to develop CytoSolve, and social media? of a desire to not infect their loved ones. a “scalable computational platform for And nursing homes will voluntarily sus- modeling the cell by dynamic integration Freedom Is the Answer pend visits out of self-interest to not kill of molecular pathways models.” But locking down America is not only un- off their paying residents. In a letter to the president, Dr. Ayya- constitutional, it is also the wrong durai rejects the response model way to fight the virus, according pushed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who to a group of over 800 health of- is seen as the guiding force behind ficials from the country’s most re- the Trump administration’s corona- nowned institutions, including the virus policy. Yale School of Public Health and Arguing that there is no need to the Stanford University School shut down the entire country or to of Medicine, who published an quarantine all citizens, Dr. Ayyadu- open letter to Vice President Mike rai proposes a common-sense pro- Pence and all federal, state, and gram driven by personal choice and local leaders involved in shaping guided by the scientific principle COVID-19 policy. These experts that it is a compromised immune strongly oppose the lockdowns system that really puts people at risk being imposed on Americans, — therefore, the focus should be on writing: encouraging citizens to strengthen their own immune systems. Mandatory quarantine, regional The MIT alumnus says only lockdowns, and travel bans have those who test positive for COVID- been used to address the risk of 19 should self-quarantine until they COVID-19 in the US and abroad. test negative. Everyone should But they are difficult to imple- regularly take high dosages of vi- ment, can undermine public trust, tamins A, D, and C, as these nu- have large societal costs and, im- trients play indispensable roles in portantly, disproportionately af- immune-system functions. fect the most vulnerable segments Freedom. Responsibility. Choice. in our communities.… These are the bedrock principles on Voluntary self-isolation mea- which our Republic was founded, DarleneDeVita sures are more likely to induce Counterpoint: Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, a pioneer in systems and they are needed now more than cooperation and protect public biology, says the answer is not to quarantine all Americans, ever to safeguard our public health trust than coercive measures, but to help the vulnerable while the healthy keep the country while also safeguarding our consti- and are more likely to prevent running. tutionally enshrined rights. n

18 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 SCIENCE SARS-CoV-2 What Does Science Tell Us?

SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the disease COVID- 19, is a serious threat. If there is good news, though, it is that it may not be as deadly as previously thought.

by Dennis Behreandt

t’s a bioweapon: That was the first reaction from many when word of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus started

I AP Images reaching people from China. Even a U.S. senator wondered about the origin of the virus, given that the outbreak reportedly over, as Nature noted already in 2017, Testing: A Chinese scientist works on a started in a “wet market” that was not far “Future plans include studying the patho- coronavirus test in a “pop-up” laboratory in from what Nature described in 2017 as gen that causes SARS.” the city of Wuhan. Shortly after the outbreak, “China’s pathogen lab,” the “maximum- Of course, there is legitimate worry Chinese scientists sequenced the genome security biosafety facility” in Wuhan. that BSL-4 labs may be “dual-use,” hav- of the novel coronavirus and published their “We … know that just a few miles away ing a role to play in bioweapons research. results for other researchers around the world to examine. from that food market is China’s only … Ebright, according to Nature, “is not con- laboratory that researches human infectious vinced for the need for more than one diseases,” Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) BSL-4 lab in mainland China. He suspects mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone” — said, according to Fox Business. “Now we that the expansion there is a reaction to the work that, to the casual observer, seems to don’t have evidence that this disease origi- networks [of similar labs] in the United have a disquieting similarity to the novel nated there, but because of China’s duplic- States and Europe, which he says are also coronavirus now afflicting the world. With ity and dishonesty from the beginning we unwarranted. He adds that governments this type of knowledge in Wuhan and the need to at least ask the question.” will assume that such excess capacity is for emergence of SARS-CoV-2 locally, near Indeed, as Nature reported just a few the potential development of bioweapons.” the environs of the BSL-4 lab, it is rea- years earlier, “Some scientists outside China An additional reason to worry is the sonable to worry that the new pestilence worry about pathogens escaping” from Wu- history of experimental gain-of-function escaped the lab. han’s biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) lab. research that included a pair of research- Whether natural or not, it is conceiv- “Worries surround the Chinese lab,” ers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology able, however unlikely, that the virus Nature said. “The SARS virus has escaped working with U.S.-based and international escaped from the lab. But if it is an en- from high-level containment facilities in researchers on a study that created a dan- gineered virus, it would be possible to dis- Beijing multiple times, notes Richard gerous, chimeric SARS virus. Reporting cover the evidence of it within the SARS- Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers in 2015 in Nature Medicine, the research CoV-2 genome. Though there is much yet University in Piscataway, New Jersey.” team noted that they “generated and char- to learn about the virus, evidence indicates The dark implication: It, or something acterized a chimeric virus expressing the that rather than the new virus being an en- else, might escape the Wuhan lab. More- spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a gineered pathogen, it is most likely the re- www.TheNewAmerican.com 19 SCIENCE

readily, and a complicating factor is that This also doesn’t take into account the high degree of those infected with the virus can spread it before experiencing symptoms. Thus, probability that death rates from the virus are probably many people in a region can be infected much lower than originally estimated and that in most before anyone knows there is an infection. A key factor in understanding the threat cases of the disease, symptoms are mild. a viral disease such as COVID-19 poses is the time between when illness starts in an original case and then starts in a new case. In results reported in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, a research team from Hokkaido’s Graduate School of Medicine “estimated the median serial interval at 4.1 days” for SARS-CoV-2. Ac- cording to the researchers, this means that the virus may cause the number of disease cases to increase quickly enough “to ex- ceed what available healthcare and public health workers are able to handle.” They also noted that this interval is shorter than the incubation period for the virus, mean- ing asymptomatic transmission is probable. This explains, but doesn’t condone, the panic now afflicting most Western na- tions, including the United States, where it is feared that cases of COVID-19 will rise so quickly that medical institutions will not be able to handle the influx of patients. But this also doesn’t take into account the high degree of probability that death rates from the virus are probably much lower than originally estimated and that in most cases of the disease, symptoms are mild.

AP Images John P.A. Ioannidis, professor of medi- Bats: Health officials in Indonesia, wary of bats as a repository of coronaviruses, inspect the cine, epidemiology, and population health animals at a live animal market in central Java. Other coronaviruses, similar to SARS-CoV-2, the at Stanford University, examined the cases virus causing COVID-19, are known to circulate in Chinese bat populations. of COVID-19 that occurred aboard the Di- amond Princess cruise ship and concluded that death rates are much lower than previ- sult of zoonotic transmission, a pathogen “COVID-19 appears to constitute a ously thought. He estimated a mid-range that mutated in another animal species and major threat to human health,” writes mi- death rate from the cruise ship data to be jumped to humans. crobiologist Jason Tetro in a special issue 0.3 percent of the general population and of the journal Microbes and Infection about noted, as a result, that “this would translate The Health Crisis the coronavirus. “Yet, examining the situ- into about 10,000 deaths” if one percent Even though evidence points to SARS- ation outside of Hubei Province provides of the U.S. population contracted the dis- CoV-2 originating from a natural zoonotic a very different perspective. Most infected ease. “This sounds like a huge number,” event, that doesn’t mean it is not a serious individuals have a mild disease and do he wrote, “but it is buried within the noise problem. In fact, the potential for RNA not progress into severe stages of infec- of the estimate of deaths from ‘influenza- viruses to mutate themselves into human tion. Moreover, patients appear to be able like illnesses” that occur every year. pathogens is an ever-present danger. The to recover with little to no medical inter- “If we had not known about a new virus new coronavirus neither is the first to vention. Based on this evidence, the virus out there, and had not checked individuals make this jump, nor will it be the last — a would not be considered a major threat to with PCR tests, the number of total deaths frightening problem. public health. Instead, it appears to be no due to ‘influenza-like illness’ would not Just how bad is COVID-19, the disease more concerning than the influenza virus.” seem unusual this year,” Ioannidis conclud- caused by SARS-CoV-2? The answer is, The chief problem with SARS-CoV-2 is ed. “At most, we might have casually noted not very — in most cases. its propensity to spread. The virus spreads that flu this season seems to be a bit worse

20 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 than average. The media coverage would was the black death of the 14th century. CoV-2, upwards of 98-99 percent or more have been less than for an NBA game be- This plague killed people in from two to will survive the disease. At least in its cur- tween the two most indifferent teams.” seven days after infection and it depopu- rent form, COVID-19 is not going to be Even Anthony Fauci, a key member of lated Europe, killing perhaps as many as the disease that removes the human spe- President Trump’s coronavirus task force 200 million people. The population of Eu- cies from the planet. and head of the National Institute of Al- rope may have been reduced by as much The bad news is that halting the spread lergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as 50 percent. of the disease will continue to be very ex- recently concluded, along with his co- Similarly, the Spanish Flu of 1918 in- pensive and disruptive, especially if the authors, much the same. In an editorial fected an estimated 500 million worldwide current approach of blanket lockdowns for the New England Journal of Medicine and caused 50 million deaths, with 675,000 used by many states and nations continues. published online on February 28 and in of those deaths in the United States. Under such measures, disease and death the March 26 print issue, Fauci and co- Thankfully, COVID-19 appears far less from SARS-CoV-2 will be compounded authors Dr. H. Clifford Lane and Dr. Rob- deadly, at least so far, by comparison. by deaths brought on from damaging be- ert R. Redfield wrote, “If one assumes that Other extant diseases, too, present a haviors such as drug and alcohol abuse the number of asymptomatic or minimally greater threat than COVID-19, most no- and even suicides induced by isolation symptomatic cases is several times as high tably malaria. According to the CDC, “In policies. Already, indicators of a signifi- as the number of reported cases, the case 2018, an estimated 405,000 people died cant uptick in suicides have been noted. fatality rate may be considerably less than of malaria,” mostly in sub-Saharan Af- “FirstLink, a local company that answers 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical rica, with about 2,000 cases in the U.S. the 211 helplines and National Suicide Pre- consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately each year. Another disease that continues vention Hotline, says call volume to some be more akin to those of a severe seasonal to extract a heavy toll is cholera, caused call centers are up 300% nationally,” re- influenza.” by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Accord- ported Valley News Live in Fargo, North Da- ing to the CDC there are up to 2.9 million kota, on March 24. This aligns with research Many Frightening Diseases cases of cholera annually around the world published in the journal Crisis in 2010 that The deaths from COVID-19 are indeed and 95,000 people die from the disease. looked at suicide rates in Hong Kong dur- tragic. The prospect of catching the virus Frighteningly, V. cholerae “has emerged ing the original SARS outbreak in 2003. In is frightening, and the potential impact of a as a notorious multi drug resistant (MDR) that case, researchers noted, “Social disen- rapid spread of the disease on medical facil- enteric pathogen,” notes recent research gagement, mental stress, and anxiety at the ities is alarming. That said, to prevent panic, published in the journal Vaccine. time of the SARS epidemic among a certain the disease should be put into perspective. group of older adults resulted in an excep- There have been many deadly pandem- How Does the Pandemic End? tionally high rate of suicide deaths.” ics throughout history. The most famous, The good news is, even if tens of millions Is there any hope, then, of a happy end- and perhaps most dreadful and damaging, of people become infected with SARS- ing? Unfortunately, it remains difficult to know. The virus may mutate during the course of the pandemic and the mutated form may become less dangerous. Or, it may, in fact, be the case that warm weather coming with spring in the northern hemi- sphere will shut the virus down, as it seems that SARS-CoV-2 is most virulent at a tem- perature of 46.5 degrees Fahrenheit. This was the conclusion reached by a team of researchers in a study they made available on medRxiv, the preprint server for health sciences. The Chinese research- ers reported that their study “suggests sig- nificant impact of daily mean temperature on the daily confirmed new case counts 14 days later.” They also noted that “there is an optimal temperature for SARS- CoV2 at 8.07 °C [46.5 °F] and most cit- ies with high epidemic transmission of COVID-19 locate in the humidity range

NationalMuseumofHealthandMedicine of 60%~90%.” Past pandemics: Medical workers tend to sick patients at Camp Funston in Kansas during the If this is true, with any luck a long, hot 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak that killed as many as 675,000 Americans. As in the past, viruses that summer will exterminate the virus and life pose health threats will continue to emerge. can go on. n

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THE PROBLEM WITH RNA VIRUS MUTATION

by Dennis Behreandt to known human-infecting coronavi- ruses, including the virus that caused ike all coronaviruses, and many the SARS outbreak of 2003.” others besides, SARS-CoV-2 is By publishing their work in The Lan- L an RNA virus, meaning that its cet, the researchers made the rest of the instruction set is encoded in a strand world’s scientific establishment take of ribonucleic acid rather than in the note. And with the proliferation of the double helix of deoxyribonucleic acid virus around the world, it would be pos- (DNA). As a result, RNA viruses have sible to compare samples of the virus a propensity for mutation. with the genome results from China. If Unlike DNA viruses that have more the virus was an engineered bioweapon, robust “proofreading” processes that that fact couldn’t stay hidden for long. limit mutation during replication, this is In fact, researchers with The Scripps largely absent in RNA virus replication. Research Institute, along with researchers The difference between RNA and DNA at Columbia University, the University virus mutation was described by science Microscopic mayhem: An image from a scanning of Edinburgh, the University of Sydney, journalist David Quammen in his 2012 electron microscope shows SARS-CoV-2 viruses and Tulane University, have concluded book Spillover. DNA, he notes, is resis- emerging from a cell. that the virus was not man-made. They tant to mutation by its double-stranded found that both certain mutations to the nature and because its chemical structure plant crop diseases will appear at inter- receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the virus only bonds in specific ways. Additionally, vals, and that many or most will be due to and its basic structural makeup prove that during replication, DNA is “proofread” and evolving RNA genomes.” the virus developed from a natural, rather repaired by the enzyme DNA polymerase. Based on the propensity and likelihood than laboratory-made, source. If a mistake is made during replication, of RNA virus mutation, it is likely, and In a press release, Scripps reported the Quammen notes, “the polymerase recog- certainly not surprising, that SARS-CoV-2 researchers’ findings: “If someone were nizes that mistake, backtracks … fixes the mutated within another species in such a seeking to engineer a new coronavirus as mismatch, and then moves on. So the rate way that it was able to jump to humans. And a pathogen, they would have constructed of mutation in most DNA viruses is rela- while it may or may not have happened in it from the backbone of a virus known tively low. RNA viruses, coded by a single- the Wuhan wet market, the potential ex- to cause illness. But the scientists found strand molecule with no such corrective ar- posure of a relatively large population of that the SARS-CoV-2 backbone differed rangement … sustain rates of mutation that humans to concentrated potential animal substantially from those of already known may be thousands of times higher.” source populations that were reportedly coronaviruses and mostly resembled re- This property of RNA viruses has been available in that market makes it a likely lated viruses found in bats and pangolins.” known — and has worried scientists — for location for the jump to have occurred. And As for the receptor-binding domain — a decades, with recognition of viral muta- no release from the city’s biosafety level-4 part of a protein that can bind, or attach to, tions coming as early as the 1940s. In lab would have been necessary. other molecules — the researchers found 1987, D.A. Steinhauer and J.J. Holland of that while it had a high affinity for a certain the Department of Biology at the Univer- SARS-CoV-2 Genome human receptor (ACE2), it wasn’t perfect sity of California, San Diego, observed of In the case of the novel SARS virus, re- and that the SARS-Cov-2 “RBD sequence RNA viruses, “Rates of evolution of con- searchers in China were very quick in is different from those shown in SARS- tinuously replicating RNA viruses may sequencing the new viral genome and in CoV to be optimal for receptor binding.” exceed by a million fold the rates of evo- reporting the results of their research to the SARS-CoV is the coronavirus that sparked lution of their DNA-based hosts.” international scientific community. They a disease outbreak from 2002-2004 begin- As a result of this rapid change, in 1988 published their findings in The Lancet. ning in China’s Guangdong province. James and Ellen Strauss from the Division They found that the new virus was most “These two features of the virus, the of Biology at the California Institute of similar to coronaviruses known to be en- mutations in the RBD portion of the spike Technology noted that “RNA viruses will demic to bat populations. protein and its distinct backbone, rule out continue to evolve rapidly” and that “new Published online at the end of Janu- laboratory manipulation as a potential ori- pathogens can and will arise.” ary, the Chinese researchers noted that gin for SARS-CoV-2,” concluded Kristian Indeed, Steinhauer and Holland warned: SARS-CoV-2 “was more similar to two G. Anderson of the Department of Immu- “It should not be surprising that previously bat-derived coronavirus strains, bat-SL- nology and Microbiology at The Scripps unknown human, domestic-animal, and CoVZC45 and bat-SL-CoVZXC21, than Research Institute. n

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Third Plague Hong Kong flu (bubonic) (H3N2 virus) Seasonal Flu Seasonal Flu (H1N1) 12 million deaths globally, 1-4 million (H1N1) Seasonal Flu (H1N1) (ongoing) mostly in India and China deaths globally 12,000 deaths 61,000 deaths 29,000-59,000 deaths

Swine Flu Spanish Flu (H1N1 virus) Black Plague (H1N1 virus) Infected 700 million-1.4 (bubonic) 500 million infected globally billion globally 75 million-200 million (27% of world population) 151,700 to 575,400 deaths in Eurasia 40 million-50 million deaths Seasonal Flu deaths globally 30%-60% of Europe’s (with some estimates as high (H1N1) Seasonal Flu (H1N1) population was killed as 100 million deaths) mortality rate 0.02% 32,000 deaths 34,000 deaths

Mid-14th 1855-1912 1918-1920 1968-1969 2009-2010 2011-2012 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 Century

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The fearmongering Fake News is truly the “enemy of the American people,” pushing a totalitarian agenda that is making us more and more like Communist China.

expand and concentrate government con- trol globally; and 3) to destroy President Donald Trump, destroy the beginnings of the Trump economic recovery, and de- stroy the efforts that Trump has initiated to reverse decades of globalist programs, including our build-up of, and dependence on, China. The “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” meters are running wild as the hate-Trump media alternately blast the president for not going “full-Wuhan” fast enough, while at the same time ac- cusing him of tyrannical designs and in- tending to make himself king when he implements the lockdowns and spend- thrift programs they have demanded. Leading “journalists” of the major

AP Images media have gleefully called COVID-19 “We are at war!” WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is leading a global “crisis choir” “Trump’s Chernobyl” and “Trump’s Ka- that insists Communist China has provided the model that all the world should follow in dealing trina,” hoping to associate the president with COVID-19. in the public mind with those deadly di- sasters. Media so-called legal experts are by William F. Jasper address to the G20 Extraordinary Lead- accusing President Trump of homicide ers’ Summit on COVID-19, he defined and calling for his prosecution over his “We are at war with a virus that threatens the issue as a “war” and “a global crisis supposed “criminal” mishandling of the to tear us apart…. Without aggressive ac- that demands a global response.” He told virus response. tion in all countries, millions could die…. world leaders to “repurpose the industrial Average citizens and dissenting medi- First, fight. Fight hard. Fight like hell. might of your nations for this effort.” His cal/scientific experts who are against dra- Fight like your lives depend on it — be- prescription for world political leaders to conian measures by government are also cause they do.” impose command-and-control schemes being threatened as “virus deniers” and — Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, di- over their entire economies is a prescrip- “conspiracy theorists” who pose a serious rector-general of the UN’s World Health tion to emulate Communist China and “public danger.” Big Tech social-media Organization (WHO), March 26, 2020 other dictatorships. Not surprisingly, the platforms are being urged to censor and same media that have been pushing the deplatform dissenting views — even more HO chief Dr. Tedros, the panic button since the initial outbreak of than they were already doing. ubiquitous media face of all the virus were quick to jump on this lat- Attempts by renowned immunologist W things authoritative concern- est dire pronouncement from the WHO Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the ing “global health,” has warned that the fear factory. White House Coronavirus Task Force, COVID-19 pandemic is “the defining For the globalists and the media leftists, to calm the hysteria and debunk the dis- health crisis of our time.” In his March 26 the new coronavirus epidemic offers the credited scare scenarios of the bureau- perfect opportunity to weaponize fear for crats and computer modelers have been William F. Jasper is senior editor of multiple gains: 1) to expand and concen- met with media fury. Notwithstanding The New American. trate government control nationally; 2) to the fact that she is a world-recognized

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 25 MEDIA expert on communicable disease and was nal exposure for some level of negligent leading question to Trump’s Democratic appointed by President Barack Obama as homicide or voluntary/involuntary man- opponent Joe Biden the U.S. global AIDS coordinator, she has slaughter for the way he’s mishandled the • “These lies can cause immediate and become a media target, denounced as a Coronavirus crisis…. The homicide liabil- tangible harm to people, and the plat- Trump shill. Ditto for other medical and ity issue MUST be addressed.” — MSNBC forms must act to stop them from spread- scientific experts who have been attacked legal analyst Glenn Kirchner ing. It’s critical that Americans receive by the media elites and/or censored into • “Let’s Call It Trumpvirus. If you’re verified, trustworthy information about media oblivion for daring to challenge feeling awful, you know who to blame.” the coronavirus and heed the advice of and contradict the gospel declarations — New York Times columnist Gail Col- our country’s public health officials as from globalist bureaucrats at CDC and lins we learn more about its potential impact WHO. We have included statements by • “I’ve been saying Coronavirus may be here at home.” — Democrat House Ener- these genuine, credible experts below to Trump’s Katrina; but this makes the case gy and Commerce Committee Chairman counter the flood of disinformation and that it’s more like his WMD [Weapon of Frank Pallone, Jr., advocating censor- fearmongering. But first, we begin with Mass Destruction].” — New York Times ship and condemning those who question a brief recap, citing a small fraction of columnist Paul Krugman the “official” pronouncements of CDC/ the panic-feeding statements and head- • “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Ka- WHO authorities lines that are being used to stampede us trina?” — CNN editor-at-large Chris Cil- • “It’s time for facts, not fear. We appre- lemming-like into accepting total govern- lizza ciate Google, Facebook, TencentGlobal, ment as the solution to a “crisis.” • “[Donald Trump] is unqualified and TikTok and Twitter’s efforts to combat mis- unfit to be president of the United States. information and rumors on #2019nCoV & Voices of Hysteria And unfit at one of the most dangerous direct users to reliable sources.” — tweet • “‘We Are At War,’ WHO Head Says, times this country has seen in, well, I’ll from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Warning Millions Could Die From say it, since 9/11.” — Richard Haass, director-general of WHO COVID-19” — National Public Radio president of the Council on Foreign Rela- (NPR) tions, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Voices of Reason and Sanity • “We would predict approximately • “You know, your campaign put out Then there are those who are merely try- 510,000 deaths in GB [Great Britain] and a critique of President Trump that says if ing to discern the truth and communicate 2.2 million in the US, not accounting for he doesn’t [do] these things, you know, he what is happening, as far as the coronavi- the potential negative effects of health sys- could cost lives. Do you think there’s al- rus goes: tems being overwhelmed on mortality.” — ready — do you think there is blood on the • “When people start talking about 20 study by Neil Ferguson and the British Im- President’s hands, considering the slow percent of a population getting infected, perial College COVID-19 Response Team, response?” — NBC’s Chuck Todd gives a it is very scary but we don’t have data that cited in numerous fevered media reports • “The coronavirus could kill millions of Americans: ‘Do the math,’ immuniza- tion specialist says.” — CNBC story head- line • “Coronavirus could kill 45,000,000 and infect 60 per cent of global popula- tion.” — Metro News (U.K.) reporter Eliza Menendez • “Experts Simulated a Coronavirus Pandemic Last Year and It Killed 65 Mil- lion.” — New York Magazine’s Adam K. Raymond • “Coronavirus Trend: One in 10 of Those Hospitalized Die.” — FXStreet. com headline • “The coronavirus is Trump’s Cherno­ byl — a growing catastrophe in which the government response is deadly because Trump is more worried about protecting the myths that define his alternative real-

ity than protecting vulnerable people who AP Images will die.” — Washington Post columnist Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, a noted virologist (who was Brian Klaas previously an Obama HIV/AIDS task force appointee), has, like President Trump, come under • “Donald Trump may have crimi- media attack for refusing to push the panic buttons.

26 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 matches that based on the experience…. cause horror — and are meaningless.” — ended, not by the virus, but by the panic…. The predictions of the models don’t John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., epidemiolo- The panic must stop. And the press, they re- match the reality on the ground in either gist and co-director of Stanford’s Meta- ally somehow need to be held accountable China, South Korea or Italy…. There’s no Research Innovation Center because they are hurting people.” — David … reality on the ground where we can see • “As an MIT PhD in Biological En- Drew Pinsky, M.D., author and radio-tele- that 60 to 70 percent of Americans are gineering who studies & does research vision celebrity known as “Dr. Drew” going to get infected in the next eight to nearly every day on the Immune System, • “The panic over the coronavirus is 12 weeks.” — Dr. Deborah Birx, White the #coronavirus fear mongering by the more damaging than the actual coronavi- House Coronavirus Task Force coordina- Deep State will go down in history as rus.” Professor Leonid Eidelman, outgo- tor, at a March 26 White House briefing one of the biggest fraud[s] to manipu- ing president of the Israeli Medical Asso- • “I just want to echo again that the late economies, suppress dissent, & push ciation risk is low — the risk is low. I encourage MANDATED Medicine!” — Dr. Shiva • “There’s unnecessary, exaggerated Americans to go about their life.” — CDC Ayyadurai, holder of four Ph.D.s, inven- panic. We have to calm people down…. director Dr. Robert Redfield, at a Febru- tor of e-mail, founder of several success- Everybody is whipping everybody else up ary 29 White House press briefing con- ful companies, and a leading biological into panic — the leaders, via the media, cerning airline travel and viral contagion. engineering researcher and the wider public…. We’ve entered • “Three months after the outbreak • “Physicians Thank Trump, Say More some kind of vicious cycle.” — Professor emerged, most countries, including the Freedom Needed to Fight COVID-19” — Jihad Bishara, director of the Infectious U.S., lack the ability to test a large num- The Association of American Physicians Disease Unit at Petah Tikva’s Beilinson ber of people and no countries have reli- and Surgeons (AAPS) thanked President Hospital in Israel able data on the prevalence of the virus Trump in a letter for his “calm, rational • “I’ve been handling these emerging in a representative random sample of the approach” to the coronavirus and, un- contagions for about 20 years now, and I general population. This evidence fiasco like WHO/CDC, urged him to allow more have to tell you, I’ve never seen one han- creates tremendous uncertainty about the medical/health freedom dled better.” — Marc Siegel, M.D., profes- risk of dying from Covid-19. Reported • “What I have a problem with is the sor of medicine at New York University, case fatality rates, like the official 3.4% panic and the fact that businesses are getting responding to media criticism of President rate from the World Health Organization, destroyed, that people’s lives are being up- Trump n

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Economic apocalypse: By government decree in response to the Chinese virus, many American cities such as New York look like a ghost towns, with the economy grinding to a halt.

so huge that it crashed unemployment web- sites nationwide. St. Louis Fed projections estimate some 47 million Americans could lose their jobs. Because surveys show most Americans still live paycheck to paycheck, those job losses are going to continue rever- berating through the economy as payments are missed for cars, rent, credit cards, and more. Countless small businesses — and potentially even major companies — may

AP Images shut forever, even with federal bailouts. Just look at car sales: down about 36 percent just from February to March. In response to the economic chaos un- leashed by the government-ordered shut- CORONAVIRUS down of the economy, Congress and the Deep State Assault on Economic Freedom Federal Reserve System sprang into action to make the problems worse. While ostensi- bly aiming to prop up markets and provide $6 trillion or more of “stimulus,” or about Under the guise of fighting the coronavirus, globalists are $70,000 per American family of four, the goals are obviously much broader. Law- instituting policies that will bring about global government, makers in Washington, D.C., for instance, total surveillance, and unending personal controls. immediately launched plans for a $2 tril- lion spending bill that would shower funny money on companies, individuals, and by Alex Newman into overdrive. The risks are enormous. practically everybody — at least those with The economic devastation unleashed large- lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Senate Majority sing the panic over the coronavi- ly by government decree — mostly at the Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) described rus as a pretext, the Deep State state level — has already been catastrophic. it as a “wartime level of investment.” U and its propagandists have been Stocks lost almost 30 percent in less than a Naturally, Democrats advanced propos- working overtime to fundamentally trans- month, wiping out all the gains made under als to tie the “stimulus” funding to man- form society — especially on the economic President Trump over three years. Every- dates that would fundamentally transform front. Virtually every Deep State objective day Americans were fleeced. According America. They tried to sneak in everything is being peddled as a supposed solution to the Wall Street Journal, though, top ex- from “climate” regulations on air travel to or treatment for the Chinese virus. From ecutives at U.S.-traded companies dumped “diversity” mandates for corporate boards going “cashless” with digital currency, to almost $10 billion in shares of their own to big bucks for abortion giant Planned Par- endless money printing by the Federal Re- firms between early February and the mar- enthood and other Democratic cronies. “All serve, to buying up real assets, to crashing ket collapse, saving them billions. A num- private hospitals should be made public for the economy with “stay-at-home” orders, ber of lawmakers also had amazing timing, the duration of the virus,” U.S. Representa- to getting everyone dependent on govern- including Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca- tive Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) wrote on Twit- ment with so-called stimulus payments lif.) and others with access to inside infor- ter, in one of many Democratic proposals to as the productive economy grinds to a mation, selling millions of dollars worth of further empower Big Government. Demo- halt, to globalizing the monetary system, stock before the collapse. crats also pushed for more “collective bar- the danger is very real. The push to crush But the stock market collapse and the gaining” for federal employees. Many of privacy, the middle class, and what re- pain felt by Wall Street may be overshad- those schemes, though not all, were killed mains of the free market system has gone owed by the devastation of main street. by GOP lawmakers, who were more inter- Millions of Americans are losing their jobs ested in peddling corporate welfare. Still, Alex Newman is a journalist, economics educator, amid the crisis, and more probably will the devastating consequences of this bailout author, and consultant. soon. The wave of firings and furloughs was bonanza will be felt for decades to come.

28 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 The “Stimulus” Scam In the end, the package included a $500 Where that money was supposed to come from was billion “corporate liquidity” welfare slush hardly discussed — especially odd considering the $23 fund that will bail out big corporations such as airlines, hotels (not President Trump’s), trillion national debt, not counting the new spending for and others impacted by the coronavirus the stimulus. hysteria — all of it with “strings” attached, of course, such as no stock buybacks al- lowed for at least a year, and no arguing with Big Labor. Small businesses got a $350 billion fund. The bailout bill also pro- vides $100 billion for hospitals as part of what was described as a “Marshall Plan.” Lobbyists for bloated state and local governments, which have trillions in out- landish pension liabilities, managed to convince Congress to include an uncon- stitutional $150 billion bailout not only for pensions, but for state/local bonds and debts, and government spending. There are also smaller amounts to bail out every- thing from tribal governments and farm- ers to the government propaganda scheme known as the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The IRS, refugee resettle- ment agencies, museums, universities, and more all got bailouts too. Government schools at the K-12 level will be receiving almost $15 billion to start as the education establishment scrambles to keep children trapped in “failing government schools,” as President Trump put it in his 2020 State

of the Union address. AP Images Individual Americans below certain in- Trillions in new debt: President Trump signs the $2 trillion “stimulus” bill, which promises to come thresholds, meanwhile, were slated shower taxpayer cash on big businesses, small businesses, state and local governments, and to receive a $1,200 check each, plus an even individuals. additional $500 per child, in addition to massive infusions of cash for state unem- $2 trillion when they are guaranteed to lose and will, however, saddle future genera- ployment systems to pay out 100 percent of money on the spread between inflation and tions of Americans with more debt misery lost wages. Congressman Thomas Massie the interest. Experts say Congress will like- and entrench a standard of moral hazard called that the cheese in the mousetrap. ly just “print” the money by issuing more for corporations from which free markets More than a few socialists are pushing Treasury bonds and then expecting the pri- may never recover.” the narrative that it is time to consider a vately owned Federal Reserve System to government-provided “Universal Basic In- “monetize” that debt by creating currency Federal Reserve come” that would get everyone dependent out of nothing. Aside from the enormous congressional on the feds. Critics blasted the scheme. “This prof- spending spree, the Federal Reserve has Where that money was supposed to ligate spending will do little to help the once again decided that opening the flood- come from was hardly discussed — espe- American economy or average citizens gates with “unlimited” trillions in new cur- cially odd considering the $23 trillion na- in the long run,” explained Jeff Deist, rency is the way to go as well. The infusion tional debt, not counting the new spending president of the pro-market Ludwig von of trillions of newly created dollars into the for the stimulus. Instead, Republicans and Mises Institute. “But the additional debt economy will further erode the purchasing Democrats squabbled about who would added to an already whopping $1 trillion power of the money in circulation, result- get it, what strings would be attached, and 2020 federal deficit will plague taxpay- ing in rising prices. But the Fed will not what sort of other unconstitutional poli- ers for years.... More money and more only be firing up the printing presses, it will cies could be hidden inside the gargantuan cheap credit can’t stimulate anything in also be buying everything in sight, ranging package. In reality, it would be hard to find such an environment, because money and from U.S. Treasury debt and municipal enough suckers to lend Uncle Sam another credit aren’t goods and services. It can bonds to mortgage-backed securities and

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 29 ECONOMY even corporate bonds. The Fed is now lit- This is the crisis Schiff has been warn- demolition of the economy, globalists and erally loaning money it creates out of thin ing about for many years, he said. “This is mega-bankers will step in and scoop up air directly to businesses, both large and the beginning of the end,” warned Schiff, real-estate, businesses, and more for pen- small, at interest. Early estimates suggest touting gold as a safe haven amid the nies on the dollar. Americans will be left the Fed may create as much as $4 trillion chaos. “This is how it starts. And believe holding the bag in the form of higher taxes for “stimulus” and bailouts. Despite almost me, when you see how this finishes, this and ever-greater debt levels. a decade of outrageously low interest rates, is going to be unlike anything we have the central bank also slashed interest rates experienced. I think we have passed that Globalist Currency down to zero in the largest single-day inter- point of no return. It’s like we’ve already The push to globalize the monetary sys- est rate cut in U.S. history. jumped off the top of the building, off the tem in response to coronavirus is also on. The new schemes, which will amount top of the Empire State Building. There’s As regular readers of this magazine know to trillions of new dollars injected into no way to change our minds now. We’re well, the Deep State has been grooming Fed-backed sectors of the economy, may going to hit that pavement. I can’t see any the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to go beyond even the unprecedented poli- way we can avoid that. All we can do is become a global central bank for decades. cies from the 2008 crisis. By the time that brace for impact ourselves.” And during this crisis, there has been fiasco was all over, the special inspector While Schiff and other analysts have quite a bit of chatter about transforming general for the Troubled Asset Relief Pro- touted gold and precious metals ahead of the IMF’s proto-global currency, known gram (SIGTARP) estimated the potential the expected destruction of the currency, as “Special Drawing Rights” (SDRs), total cost of the combined crisis bailouts some experts are sounding the alarm on into a full-blown global currency. There is at $23.7 trillion — more than $75,000 per that as well. Trends forecaster Gerald also talk by top IMF leaders of “boosting person in the United States. The Fed also Celente, for instance, echoed President global liquidity” by creating SDRs. Less ended up owning such prize assets as the Trump about the cure being worse than than a year ago, top globalists at the World Red Roof Inn, a national hotel chain that the disease, and warned of coming gold Economic Forum, including José Antonio the banking cartel purchased with fiat cur- confiscation by government. “They are Ocampo, a Columbia University profes- rency that it created from nothing. destroying the global economy. They are sor, were openly calling for turning the Even establishment analysts expressed destroying people’s lives,” he said. “When SDR into “a true global currency.” Many surprise at the enormity of the current Fed people lose everything and have nothing top officials from around the world have machinations compared with those from the left to lose, they lose it. You are going to said the same thing. last crisis. “The actions taken are breath-tak- see gangs like never before.” In her response to the virus, IMF boss ing in their scope. Indeed, these steps sur- Just as during the Great Depression Kristalina Georgieva of Bulgaria sounded pass in breadth and depth the measures that and other economic crises, the poor and ready to push globalism full speed. “How the Fed created in the midst of the financial middle-class in America are being looted. deep the contraction and how fast the crisis a decade ago,” explained Wells Far- As asset prices collapse in this controlled recovery depends on the speed of con- go’s Jay Bryson, comparing the new poli- cies to the relatively less gigantic interven- tions under former Fed boss Ben Bernanke. “If the Fed pulled out a monetary policy ‘bazooka’ during that crisis, then the steps it announced this morning are the central bank equivalent of ‘going nuclear.’” The consequences of this, of course, may prove cataclysmic to the economy and the currency, as more than a few ex- perts pointed out. “None of this is work- ing — none of this can work,” fumed Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital, noting that the coronavirus was just the “pin” and that a dollar crisis was inevitable even without the viral hysteria. “Nothing is going to stop the bottom from falling out from under the dollar.” Pointing to Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and the Weimar Republic before them, Schiff said the same money-printing poli- cies pursued in America will produce the same consequences as they did in those AP Images nations: hyperinflation and economic ca- Hyperinflation coming? Euro Pacific Capital’s Peter Schiff said the out-of-control bailouts and tastrophe. Federal Reserve money printing will lead to massive inflation and a catastrophic economic crisis.

30 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 “stimulus” payments as “digital dollars” via a “digital dollar wallet.” Proponents of the scheme were thrilled. “It is worth ex- ploring, testing, and piloting a true USD CBDC [Central Bank Digital Currency] and broader digital infrastructure in order to improve our future capabilities and re- siliency,” founding director of the Digital Dollar Project Daniel Gorfine told Forbes. The two Democratic bills defined a digital dollar as “a balance expressed as a dollar value consisting of digital ledger entries that are recorded as liabilities in the accounts of any Federal Reserve Bank or ... an electronic unit of value, redeem- able by an eligible financial institution (as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).” The digi- tal wallets, also defined in the legislation, Flickr/FriendsofEurope Becoming an international “Fed”: IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva vowed she would be “boosting would be tied to a “digital identity” and global liquidity” using Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the proto-global currency issued by the would be maintained by the Federal Re- would-be planetary central bank. serve, according to the original bills. In short, globalists and central bankers and their allies and dupes in legislatures are hoping to exploit this crisis to advance a tainment of the pandemic and on how is doing, on a global scale. “Together we cashless society — something that would strong and coordinated our monetary and will lay the ground for a faster and stron- enable total surveillance, and, incidentally, fiscal policy actions are,” she said dur- ger recovery,” she concluded, saying this the negative interest rates they have been ing a March 26 G20 meeting. (Emphasis is “a global problem calling for a global pushing for so long, making people pay added.) “We must act at par with the mag- response.” for the privilege of having their money in nitude of the challenge. For us at the IMF a bank, rather than simply keeping their it means working with you to make our Digital Dollars: War cash at home. crisis response even stronger. For this we on Cash and Privacy Communist China seems to be the ask your backing to double our emergency Making sure that the crisis created by gov- model for shifting away from cash and financing capacity and boost global liquid- ernment and the Fed does not go to waste, toward electronic payment systems and ity through a sizeable SDR (Special Draw- totalitarians have been pushing the Deep digital currency. In fact, the dictatorship ing Right) allocation, as we successfully State’s cashless-society agenda like there appears to be the preferred Deep State did during the 2009 global crisis and by is no tomorrow. The accelerating war on model when it comes to “fighting viruses.” expanding the use of swap type facilities cash is now being justified by the estab- Consider a 2010 report by the Rockefeller at the Fund.” lishment’s propagandists because cash is Foundation titled “Scenarios for the Fu- Georgieva also boasted that the IMF supposedly transmitting coronavirus. And ture of Technology and International De- could “quickly disburse $50 billion the propaganda is having the desired effect. velopment.” The document envisions a through its emergency financing facili- According to Fox News, many businesses future pandemic scenario, dubbed “Lock ties” to “help” poorer nations “dealing nationwide are discouraging or outright Step” in the report, in which the United with COVID-19.” Those governments declining to accept cash. In South Korea, States suffers due to a lack of tyranny, have already “asked the IMF to make an authorities removed all currency from cir- while China fares much better. SDR allocation” for them, she said. The culation for two weeks while encouraging “The Chinese government’s quick impo- IMF boss vowed to make up to $1 trillion everyone to use cards and mobile phones. sition and enforcement of mandatory quar- in lending capacity, too. In short, global Other governments are joining in. antine for all citizens … saved millions of “quantitative easing” with the global wan- Seeking to exploit the fear to advance lives, stopping the spread of the virus far nabe currency SDR, made up of a basket the war on cash (and privacy), American earlier than in other countries and enabling of national currencies including the dol- Democrats twice tried to sneak language a swifter post-pandemic recovery,” the re- lar, is setting the stage for even “bolder” creating a “digital dollar” and a “digital port says, touting the imagined responses actions during the next crisis. They are wallet” controlled by the Federal Reserve of other authoritarian regimes, too. The laying the groundwork for turning the into coronavirus legislation. Under the document then goes on to outline the cit- SDR into a true global currency, so that scheme, which was removed before pas- izen-demanded “top-down direction and eventually, the IMF can do what the Fed sage, Americans would have received their oversight” over nations and economies. It www.TheNewAmerican.com 31 ECONOMY mentions, among other policies, “biomet- skin at the same time as the vaccine.” — just wait until the next “pandemic” or ric ID for all citizens,” “tighter regulation In a press release about the scheme re- “crisis” to see how far they will go. of key industries,” “a suite of new regula- leased right around the time COVID-19 tions and agreements,” and more to “restore was identified in Wuhan, MIT said the Real Solutions order and, importantly, economic growth.” technology “consists of nanocrystals The only real solution to the economic ca- Not surprisingly, these are exactly the called quantum dots.” This tattoo-type lamity afflicting the American economy is sort of schemes that Deep State global- scheme would “remain under the skin to get the people back to work, and the gov- ists are pushing for coronavirus. The where it emits near-infrared light that ernment out of the way. It was government, “ID2020” scheme backed by billionaire can be detected by a specially equipped the Deep State’s propaganda machine, and population-control zealot Bill Gates of smartphone.” the Fed that caused this crisis — period. And Microsoft and the Rockefeller Founda- As far as new regulation, the establish- they know very well that a collapsed econ- tion, for example, falls right in line. Ac- ment’s propaganda organs have gone into omy would kill and maim far more people cording to the effort’s website, the plot overdrive peddling new and “improved” than the Chinese virus ever could. Transfer- seeks to give everyone on Earth a “digi- controls over the economy. As previously ring America’s wealth to the elites connected tal identity” that would follow them from mentioned, Democrats tried to stuff the to the Federal Reserve and the political class birth to death. And it would also keep “stimulus” bill with all sorts of new man- via this engineered destruction of the econo- track of all sorts of data, including health dates, including large parts of the “Green my is a crime of epic proportions. and vaccine information, enabling gov- New Deal” agenda. Climate alarmists ev- To prevent an even greater economic di- ernments and globalists to keep people erywhere, meanwhile, are publicly work- saster going forward, Americans must first everywhere under control. ing to ensure that America and the world go back to work, followed by a drastic cut Separately, Gates, who backed the Or- will never go back to the pre-coronavirus in the size and scope of government. Hold- wellian Event 201 (see page 39), part- economy with its heavy reliance on petro- ing Communist China and the global elites nered with other globalists to fund re- leum and other fuels by trying to make the accountable is important, too. Finally, the search at MIT on “a novel way to record new regime permanent. How much they Federal Reserve must be dismantled so that a patient’s vaccination history: storing will be able to get away with considering an honest, sound monetary system can take the data in a pattern of dye, invisible to President Trump is in office remains to be root and unleash genuine prosperity. Free- the naked eye, that is delivered under the seen. But the precedent has now been set dom is literally the cure! n

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Price Controls and Hoarding DURING A PANDEMIC

In major public emergencies, government makes raising prices a crime, though such laws always end up hurting more than they help.

by Steve Byas

e often divide the nation into “Red,” or Republican, and “Blue,” or Democratic states, presuming that the W former are more likely to uphold the virtues of the free market than those run by demagogic and left-leaning politi- cians in the latter. But the truth is that when disasters, pandemics, and other events occur, most politicians react in much the same way — and it isn’t pretty. In my home state of Oklahoma, where no Democrat has carried a single county in the presidential race since 2000, the Republi- can attorney general, Mike Hunter, announced his response to the rising shortages (brought on by panic buying) of certain items. He said that the state’s “price-gouging” statute is now in effect, with the announcement by President Donald Trump of a national emergency in reaction to the coronavirus. The Oklahoma statute prohibits “an increase of more than 10 percent for the price of goods or services after a declared emergency.” This declaration could be from either the governor or the president. Hunter, of course, did not make the law — it was enacted several years ago when the Democrats ran the Legislature. But AP Images it is Hunter’s job to enforce the law. At the same time, if he un- Failure: Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter could have responded derstood and believed in the power and the morality of the free to calls for price controls by defending the marvel of the free market and market, Hunter could use this time as a teaching opportunity. its morality. Instead, he upheld the idea that government-imposed price He could say something like, “As your attorney general, I am controls — which create shortages — are a good thing. required to enforce this law, but the fact is we would be better off to leave the free market to work its magic.” Instead, Hunter spoke as if the free market itself is the enemy. Notice that Hunter placed “price gouging” in with “fraudulent “Scam artists routinely prey on individuals’ emotions during times charities” as a “crime.” In effect, Hunter is calling free market of fear and crisis. I encourage Oklahomans to remain calm but cau- pricing a “crime” in Oklahoma and in America, a crime that de- tious during the ongoing coronavirus epidemic. Don’t pay inflated serves prosecution so as to “protect our citizens.” prices for things like hand sanitizer, paper towels or other products What Hunter should have done was advocate the repeal of the and services that are becoming sparse.” law and allow price controls be lifted. Prices are the language of Then, Hunter unsheathed the sword of potential government the marketplace. They communicate to buyers and sellers alike that retribution. “If anyone encounters price gouging, fraudulent a new normal has arrived. In the case of the coronavirus, concerns charities or other crimes related to deceptive business practices, exacerbated by government impositions have caused an increase in contact my office where we will not hesitate to prosecute in order demand for items such as hand sanitizer, surgical masks, and toilet to protect our citizens.” paper. This means that the price should rise. And when the price is not allowed to rise, by these popular but ill-advised laws, a tempo- Steve Byas is a university instructor of history and government, and author of rary acute shortage is quickly transformed into a chronic shortage. History’s Greatest Libels. Price controls are a lie, whether they control prices by keep-

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more suppliers will enter the market, in- creasing the supply of a good or service. As Dennis Behreandt wrote in this issue, “The BBC has reported that Japanese elec- tronics giant Sharp is to use a TV factory to make surgical masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.” By switching production from LCD panels to mask production, it is ex- pected that they will be turning out as may as 500,000 masks per day. What happens when prices are not al- lowed to rise because of government edict? In the present crisis, many in the general population anticipated the gov- ernment (either at the state, local, or fed- eral level) was going to restrict people’s movement to their homes in quarantines. Expecting the need for certain items (such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer), citizens

AP Images rushed to their local Walmart, Target, Hoarding: Empty shelves at this Walmart in Pennsylvania illustrate vividly what happens when Costco, etc., and bought up enough to people anticipate that government policies will curtail supplies: shortages. Price controls tide them over during the time they can’t exacerbate the panic because people oversupply when prices are low. Allowing prices to rise leave their homes. Others began to notice would actually discourage hoarding. the higher-than-usual purchasing of these items, so they logically followed suit. This scarcity could have been moder- ated if the stores had been allowed to raise ing them below the market price, or above in Babylon, to the Emperor Diocletian their prices accordingly. This would have the market price. If sellers are ordered in the days of the Roman Empire, to the done two things: 1) Customers would have to sell below the market price, they will days of the Civil War, to modern times, purchased less at the higher price; and 2) produce less of the product, and may even wage and price controls have always pro- The stores would have had an incentive exit the market completely. In the case of duced chronic shortages. In their book, to get more of the items on the shelves. hand sanitizer and toilet paper, buyers are Schuettinger and Butler explain, “It ap- More items on the shelves, rather than less hoarding (meaning there is high demand) pears that the very people who were sup- or none, would have calmed the fears of because prices are too low to discourage posed to benefit from the Hammurabi most of the population, and would have led them from stocking up. It is common wage and price restrictions were driven quickly to a stabilization of the situation. sense to predict that hoarding will only out of the market by those and other stat- Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy exacerbate the shortage. utes.” Government cannot repeal the law offered an explanation for what happens if Some respond to the situation by argu- of supply and demand any more than it can the free enterprise system is allowed to op- ing for rationing, as is done in socialist repeal the law of gravity, or of mathemat- erate without the shackles so often placed countries such as Venezuela. Rationing ics. Two plus two cannot become five, in- upon it by either well-meaning or demagog- produces anger from those who get less stead of four, simply by government edict. ic governments. “The fact is there’s no bet- than they wanted, but it does not produce But that is what price controls propose. ter means of slowing the rising demand — any more goods and services. Without an They are saying an item is worth X amount and especially, reducing excessive hoarding incentive to bring more items to the mar- of dollars, when it is really worth X + 2, for — than allowing the very price hikes that ket, sellers won’t. Historical examples are example. More people will buy an item if governments are trying to prevent.” plenty. During the Civil War, for example, it is priced too cheaply, and fewer people Yet, government officials pat them- the Confederate government imposed will produce it. In essence, price controls selves on the back and accept the acco- price controls on high-priced fruits and below the market price are telling sellers lades of an appreciative public when they vegetables in the Richmond market. Near- they should subsidize consumers. Price prevent these needed price hikes. They can by farmers responded by not bringing any controls above the market price are saying tell the public that they have saved them fruits and vegetables into the capital city. that consumers should subsidize sellers. from a price increase from a so-called Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler The solution today, during the dark days price gouger. Of course, you might not wrote an entire book on the dismal history of the COVID-19 outbreak, as it has been have any hand sanitizer, toilet paper, or of price controls, entitled Forty Centuries throughout 40 centuries of wage and price other items you need or want, either. of Wage and Price Controls. controls, is the same: Allow the price to That is their idea of “protecting the From the ancient days of Hammurabi rise to its natural level. When this happens, public.” n

34 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 “... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” EXERCISING THE RIGHT

Binge-buying Gun and Ammunition and the reaction by patriotic news sources to publicize these encroachments on our Hits Firearm Industry Shortage on the Horizon? Second Amendment rights. USA Today As the nation struggles to cope with All of this binge-buying is beginning to took great pains to stress that bans have not coronavirus and the government’s re- take its toll, Fox News warned on March yet occurred and that these provisions may sponse, people have responded by engag- 18. As sales continue to outpace what only be exercised in the future if political ing in “binge-buying”: buying excessive was anticipated, experts familiar with the leaders decide it’s necessary to maintain amounts of goods to prepare for possible firearms industry feel it’s only a matter of public safety. USA Today also shot down shortages. But people aren’t buying vans time before the supply of guns and ammo a strawman by pointing out that the order full of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and dries up. Eric Poole, editor of Guns and does not provide for the confiscation of pre-packaged foods because of their fear Ammo magazine, told Fox News that gun guns already owned by lawful owners. of the coronavirus and the desire to lock “retailers and manufacturers were not So what was the outcome of USA To- themselves in their residences to ride out prepared to meet the surge or a sustained day’s “fact check”? “Our ruling: True — the viral storm. No, they fear government long-term demand, so firearms and ammu- New Orleans now has the power to suspend will so interfere with commerce and their nition will seem to be largely absent from the sale and transportation of firearms as personal freedoms that they won’t be able dealer shelves for weeks to come.” Poole allowed in the Louisiana Disaster Act.” to access goods should they need them. also explained that measures meant to The Chicago Tribune took a similar And that binge-buying has now extend- contain the coronavirus might inadvertent- tack, running cover for Mayor Feinen, ed to include ammunition and firearms. ly make the firearm shortage even worse. reporting that she is “not banning gun or The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on “If firearm and ammunition manufacturers alcohol sales, or seizing property after March 23 that firearm dealers across the re- throughout the U.S. are required to keep several conservative media outlets high- gion are experiencing a surge in sales that is their workforce at home, this will have a lighted the mayor’s ability to take those leaving their store shelves practically bare. more profound effect and drive up prices.” actions as part of an emergency declared AO Sword Firearms owner and CEO David On that note, some governors have taken to deal with COVID-19.” You see, you Chong told the San Diego Union-Tribune steps to exempt gun manufacturers and fire- nervous worry-warts? She hasn’t done it that his gun sales had increased “tenfold” arm dealers from mandatory shutdowns for yet, although she has the power to do it and that he expects that his store will be out the stated purpose of containing the virus. when she feels like it. of guns to sell very soon, adding, “It’s never Both Connecticut Governor Ned But these measures might not go unan- been this busy.” Lamont and Indiana Governor Eric Hol- swered, as both the Second Amendment Though the gun stores have been trying comb were praised by the National Rifle Foundation (SAF) and the NRA have made to comply with social-distancing rules by Association (NRA) for “protecting the public statements criticizing the measures limiting the number of customers in the Second Amendment.” On the flip side, and hinted that legal challenges might be store at one time, the resulting business the NRA criticized New Jersey Governor mounted if these localities ever act on these doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Phil Murphy for not exempting firearm orders. Alan Gottlieb, founder and execu- As with runs on grocery stores, people dealers. tive vice president of SAF, stated that after are buying because they fear the con- “Hurricane Katrina, we sued the city when sequences of the government’s actions, then-Mayor Ray Nagin’s administration afraid the government’s actions will lead Exploiting the Pandemic began confiscating firearms from law- to greatly expanded crime, as criminals New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell abiding citizens for no good reason. The try to take what they can’t buy. Fifty-two- and Champaign, Illinois, Mayor Deborah federal court ordered the city to cease con- year-old Kelly Morgan, a customer at AO Frank Feinen, both Democrats, made na- fiscations…. We sued New Orleans then, Sword Firearms who was looking to buy tional news this past week for all the wrong and we’ll do it again…. While we certainly ammunition, expressed his concerns about reasons, when they each signed emergen- recognize the seriousness of this virus what might happen. “You know, Rome fell cy orders in response to the coronavirus and its ability to spread rapidly … treat- overnight…. It didn’t fall at night, but it that allow their local municipalities to ban ing Covid-19 and taking steps to prevent fell overnight…. When that happens, I just the sale or transportation of firearms. it from infecting more people has nothing want to be safe…. If you’re ready, you Their actions were reported on by patri- at all to do with the exercise of the right don’t have to get ready.” otic news sources, and so the left-leaning to keep and bear arms under the Second His fears and those of other consumers establishment media quickly rushed into Amendment…. People legally licensed to highlight the reality that most people in- damage-control mode. USA Today posted carry should not have their right to do so stinctively know, that, despite years of con- on March 21 an entry entitled “Fact check: suddenly curtailed because some politician stant anti-gun propaganda from gun-control Did New Orleans mayor’s order allow ban panicked…. We didn’t allow it before, and lobbies, you can’t always rely on law en- on gun sales?” which featured a long and we’re not going to allow it now.” n forcement to protect you or your family. meandering recitation of the original order — Patrick Krey www.TheNewAmerican.com 35 GLOBALISM

Coronavirus as Gateway to “Global Health Governance”

To the globalist choir — Bill Gates, WHO, PRC, CFR, Big Media, etc. — China’s Xi Jinping is the coronavirus hero; Trump is the villain.

by William F. Jasper the China Daily rhapsody to the great Paramount Leader: he Wuhan corona- virus (now dubbed WUHAN — Standing T COVID-19) origi- in a hospital hall, a man nated in the People’s Re- wearing a face mask public of China. Thanks to waved to a big screen. Xi Jinping’s secret police On the screen, a patient and the Chinese Communist seen lying in bed, flanked Party censors, the Wuhan by two medical workers, doctors who tried to warn waved back. about the emerging epi- “What you should do demic were rounded up and now is stay confident. We gagged, allowing the virus all should be confident to spread throughout China that we will win this war,” and around the world. Dr. Li the man said through a Wenliang, one of the original video link at Huoshen- COVID-19 whistleblowers, shan Hospital in Wuhan, was forced by Xi’s police to epicenter of the novel sign a confession saying he coronavirus pneumonia spread “untrue speech” for outbreak and capital of warning colleagues about Hubei province. the virus. Dr. Li died soon “Victory for Wuhan, thereafter, allegedly from AP Images victory for Hubei and the virus. Warm embrace: The UN’s World Health Organization Director General victory for China!” the Xi’s regime not only sup- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake man declared with a pressed news of the virus hands in Beijing. Dr. Tedros and WHO have become super cheerleaders and clenched fist. and failed to protect the propagandists for Xi and his communist regime. The man of the hour Chinese people, but it ex- was President Xi Jin- pelled foreign journalists, refused to share information with for- ping, commander-in-chief of China’s war against COVID- eign medical authorities, and is most responsible for the deaths 19, who flew into Wuhan on Tuesday to inspect epidemic now attributed to what is being called a global pandemic. Yet, prevention and control work on the ground. astoundingly, Xi and his communist regime are now being her- alded as the heroes of the coronavirus outbreak. The Chinese “There is no doubt that the Chinese people, under the strong leader- Communist Party’s (CCP) propagandists have been in overdrive ship of the Communist Party of China with Xi Jinping as the core, for weeks, changing the coronavirus narrative to praise Xi and have made remarkable contributions to the global fight against the condemn President Donald Trump. What’s more, they claim epidemic,” declares another China Daily article on March 16. that China’s “excellent” response to the virus is a model for Hundreds of similar articles have belched forth from the Chinese “global health governance,” which is code for global socialized media since the coronavirus outbreak. That China Daily, People’s medicine. The CCP’s ham-fisted propaganda is beyond ludi- Daily, Xinhua News, and other official propaganda outlets would crous, but that hasn’t stopped the World Health Organization, dispense such cartoonish, over-the-top drivel glorifying Xi Jinping the United Nations, U.S. Democrats, and the usual suspects in is hardly surprising. That’s what propaganda outlets for totalitar- the Fake News media from repeating the CCP’s propaganda ian governments do; that’s their job. Disseminating propaganda, lines and adopting them as their own. lies, and disinformation is the very reason for their existence. All “Xi leads people’s war on epidemic,” blared the headline for a totalitarian dictators — Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, et al. — March 12 story in China Daily, a primary propaganda fount for the have been masters of the Big Lie. And since Xi has climbed to the Communist Party of China (CPC). Here are the opening stanzas of top of the Beijing dogpile of the Communist Party he has assumed

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even more coercive control over the press va, Switzerland, as stating that “the world when describing China’s action be- than was previously being exerted. As we needs stronger and more resilient global cause shutting down a city or prov- reported in detail in 2013 (“China’s ‘Jour- governance to deal with outbreaks, adding ince bears serious consequences for nalists’ Ordered to Take New Propaganda that as a major global player, China has the economy and other areas. Training”), the CCP’s Central Propaganda both the potential and the capacity to play Department announced, on October 10, a larger role in global governance proc­ For those who may have missed it in the 2013, a mandatory three-month training esses affecting health.” Moon’s Global media’s coronavirus avalanche, as in the program for all journalists to curb devia- Health Centre is one of many similar out- China Daily article above, “global health tion from the Party line in “news” report- fits that serve as adjuncts of the Geneva- governance” has become the new daily ing. Since that time, the Chinese media based World Health Organization (WHO), meme from globalist policy “experts.” have built a cult of personality around Xi the bureaucracy slated to lead the UN’s WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom to rival that of infamous mass-murderer long-planned global socialized medicine. Ghebreyesus (more commonly known as Chairman Mao. And there were more, many more. In a Dr. Tedros) has led the pack in proclaiming China Daily article entitled “China’s ac- the need for “global health governance,” Xi and China: A Model for the World? tion draws praise from WHO,” we read of with China serving as the model. Since According to the Chinese propagandists, not the Chinese leader’s “heroic” efforts: the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, only is Xi Jinping a heroic leader for China, Tedros has been a nonstop media machine, but the leadership provided by him and the “Beijing’s massive response is ‘mak- with daily praise for China’s communist Communist Party of China is an exemplar ing us safer’, head of the world health regime — helmed by the Great Leader Xi for global imitation. Here is yet another body says” Jinping — along with appeals for more bouquet to Xi from China Daily: “China’s Leaders of the World Health Or- funding and more power for the UN’s response to novel coronavirus pneumonia ganization have applauded China’s WHO bureaucratas. Ditto for other WHO has set an example for the world in coping massive response to the outbreak of and United Nations officials. That is hardly with the contagion and offered experience the novel coronavirus multiple times unexpected, as the UN and WHO have be- in advancing global public health gover- in recent weeks.... come increasingly dominated by Chinese nance, officials and experts said.” The board members were all say- nationals, along with European, American, The same article quoted Suerie Moon, ing that China’s action “is making and African toadies for the Beijing regime, director of research at the Global Health us safer”, Tedros said. He quoted a as The New American’s Alex Newman Centre of the Graduate Institute of Interna- board member from the United King- has repeatedly pointed out. tional and Development Studies in Gene- dom as saying that “this is heroic” On March 8, China Daily trumpeted Dr. Tedros’ expression of appreciation to China with a $20 million contribution to WHO. Never were hundreds of billions of dol- lars’ worth of global propaganda services so cheaply bought. Not only do Xi and Communist China receive accolades from UN/WHO officialdom, but the communist objective of restructuring the world along the lines advocated by China receives an immeasurable boost. The term “global gov- ernance” came to the fore in the 1990s with the UN-appointed Commission on Global Governance. As The New American re- ported in 1996, the push for global gov- ernance, as promoted in the commission’s 1995 report Our Global Neighborhood, was (and is) a push for a socialist world government. The WHO-Beijing love affair didn’t begin with Dr. Tedros. Neither is the China-as-leader of “global health gov- ernance” meme a new, post-COVID-19 invention. Dr. Tedros’ predecessor, Dr.

AP Images Margaret Chan, another Beijing shill, led Responding to fears: In his March 25 White House briefing to the nation — flanked by Vice the way. In Beijing in January 2017, Dr. President Mike Pence (left) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin — President Donald Trump Chan signed an agreement between WHO spoke about the coronavirus threat and the measures he was taking. and China to jointly implement a health

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served as an echo chamber for Xi’s pro- Xi’s regime not only suppressed news of the virus and pagandists. failed to protect the Chinese people, but it expelled Never-Trumper Max Boot, a senior fel- low on national security at the Council on foreign journalists, refused to share information with Foreign Relations (CFR) and one of the foreign medical authorities, and is most responsible for Deep State Washington Post’s window- dressing “conservatives,” has used his the deaths now attributed to what is being called a Post column and his Twitter feed to pound global pandemic. President Trump relentlessly for his alleged leadership failures regarding the virus epi- demic. In his February 26 column, which has been cited and echoed by the Big Media Trump haters, Boot attempted to exploit the coronavirus outbreak against the presi- dent. “Diseases, far more than any human enemy, ruthlessly expose and exploit the weaknesses of their victims,” Boot warned. “Now, the coronavirus outbreak is laying bare the pathologies of the Trump Admin- istration, which include compulsive lying, pandering to dictators, ideological aversion to ‘globalism,’ inveterate hostility toward experts and expertise, and — in a related development — sheer incompetence.” Richard Haass, president of the world- government-promoting Council on For- eign Relations, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough to weaponize the virus against President Trump. Haass asserted that Trump “is un- qualified and unfit to be president of the United States. And unfit at one of the most dangerous times this country has seen in, well, I’ll say it, since 9/11.” Continuing with the 9/11 comparison, Haass averred that Trump is responsible for putting “or- ders of more magnitude of Americans” in “Crisis” bonanza for globalists: The Council on Foreign Relations is capitalizing on the danger. Scarborough, the host of the show “coronavirus crisis” to push its world-government agenda; its ThinkGlobalHealth website is but one of its many propaganda outlets exploiting — and assisting — the media-fed panic. and one of MSNBC’s most virulent anti- Trumpers, is a CFR member, as is his co- host (and current wife) Mika Brzezinski project based on Xi’s “Belt and Road Ini- matized term ‘Chinese virus’ to describe (daughter of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, tiative.” “Chan spoke highly of China’s COVID-19, something the WHO has re- a notorious globalist and CFR director). contributions to the work of the WHO and peatedly warned against.” As the most influential globalist think the country’s role in global health gover- Here are a few additional examples of ar- tank and the main incubator for Deep State nance,” China Daily reported at the time. ticles from China Daily showing the CCP- operatives who have run the U.S. govern- WHO team-up to push the line that China is ment throughout Democratic and Repub- U.S. Media Propagandists a victim of vicious racist slurs by President lican administrations for much of the past In addition to its unabashed exaltation of Trump and members of his administration: century, the CFR has played a major role Xi and the CCP, China Daily and the rest of • “WHO warns against using virus slurs”; in pushing the “global health governance” the Beijing choir have repeatedly bashed • “Pompeo faces ire for stigmatizing line, along with the anti-Trump/pro-China the United States and President Trump, COVID-19”; narrative. Here are a few of the recent CFR calling his references to the “China virus” • “US spin on virus’s name condemned.” offerings regarding those subjects from the and “Wuhan virus” explicitly racist and It should serve as an eye-opener to organization’s website (cfr.org): xenophobic. those whose eyes have been wide shut • “Why Global Governance of Disease China Daily condemned Trump for that the global press — and especially the Matters for the Emergence of a Novel using “the widely regarded racist and stig- U.S. and European media — have gladly Coronavirus”;

38 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 • “Examining the Coronavirus Out- organizer and éminence grise of the club. Lagarde — at the Boao Forum for Asia, break: China, Markets, and Global Health Gates, Soros, and the rest of their global- where Xi Jinping delivered the keynote Governance”; ist ilk hate President Trump but love com- address. Soros has fulsomely praised Xi • “China and Coronavirus: From Home- munist Supreme Leader Xi Jinping. China Jinping and has said China should “own” Made Disaster to Global Mega-Opportu- Daily proudly notes that Microsoft billion- the new world order. nity.” aire Gates has donated millions to China’s The CFR has even launched its own web- coronavirus efforts. “Chinese President Xi Event 201: “Simulation”? site, thinkglobalhealth.org, to promote the Jinping has written back to Bill Gates, co- Bill Gates, his foundation, and his sprawl- idea of “global health governance.” chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun- ing global “health” empire have become The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dation, after receiving a letter from the US the “go to” authorities on COVID-19. As it at the very center of the matrix of organi- business leader on the novel coronavirus happens, only a few weeks before the virus zations and institutions pushing for “global disease,” it reported. China Daily contin- outbreak in China, the Gates Foundation, health governance,” “reproductive health,” ues, “In his letter dated Feb 20, the Chinese along with the World Economic Forum and and population control. The Gates Founda- president wrote: ‘I deeply appreciate the act the Bloomberg School of Public Health tion is a big financial backer of WHO, the of generosity of the Bill & Melinda Gates at Johns Hopkins University, sponsored a National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Foundation and your letter of solidarity to “pandemic exercise” known as “Event 201.” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Chinese people at such an important The “players” in this high-powered “simu- and was a big backer of the Global Health moment…. We are resolute in protecting lation” included key individuals from the Initiative of President Obama and Secretary the life and health of the people of China, government, corporate, and NGO worlds. of State Hillary Clinton. The Gates Founda- and of all countries around the world. We A deputy director of the CDC and the chief tion has also showered millions of dollars are determined to do our part to uphold of China’s CDC also participated in this on the planet’s premier abortion providers: global public health security,’ Xi added.” October 2019 pandemic simulation that in- International Planned Parenthood Federa- Bill Gates and his Bill & Melinda volved a novel coronavirus. The entire ex- tion, Marie Stopes International, and the Gates Foundation are leading forces in ercise was spookily similar to the COVID- UN Population Fund. Bill Gates is also a the moves to bring about socialist-commu- 19 outbreak that occurred only weeks later. founding member of the ultra-exclusive nist-capitalist “convergence” under a sys- Were Bill Gates and his fellow Event 201 group of billionaire population-control tem of elite “global governance.” In 2017, players far-sighted planners, the “wisemen” advocates that calls itself The Good Club, Gates was honored by China’s communist who should be looked to for direction? Were which names among its handful of mem- regime by being inducted into the Chinese these globalists merely “lucky” that the real bers George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Academy of Engineering. virus has provided them an opportunity to Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey. The late In 2013, Gates was an honored guest be the saviors of humanity? At the very David Rockefeller, storied banker and — along with George Soros and the In- least, they have parlayed this frightening longtime chairman of the CFR, was the ternational Monetary Fund’s Christine epidemic into a concerted effort to promote the “global health governance” they have been championing for years. A full report on Event 201 is beyond the scope of this arti- cle. We will be reporting on it in more depth in a future issue. Gates, Soros, Bloomberg, Turner, Rockefeller, and other globalists of our ruling classes seem to be far more com- fortable with totalitarian thugs such as Xi than with the nationalist-minded, freedom- oriented “deplorables” who elected Presi- dent Trump. Like the pigmen in the final scene of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, who are neither pig nor man, but some kind of freakish morphed creatures, the globalist elites are neither communist nor capitalist, but some kind of creepy and detestable mix- ture of the two. They are odious quislings — traitors to God, country, and humanity — who are fomenting and using the current coronavi-

AP Images rus panic to build the “global governance” Funding death: Billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates have built an image of themselves as world-government scheme that the CFR philanthropists who promote global health, but they fund organizations, including the and its globalist allies have been pushing International Planned Parenthood Federation, that are the planet’s leading providers of abortion. for the past century. n www.TheNewAmerican.com 39 Virus Spread Exposes Risks of Relying on Drugs, Medical Supplies From China Item: An article in the Atlantic dated March 11 warned that the “global out- break” of the Chinese coronavirus “has served as a stark reminder that the human race is all in this together and that collabo- ration among countries is the only way out of this nightmare. But rather than focus on the demands of interdependence, a number of prominent figures in the Trump administration and Congress are seizing the moment to highlight the dangers of America’s dependence on other nations GageSkidmore in general and China in particular.” The He believes it’s worth a try to lie: Joe Biden has been trying to tear down Donald Trump by lying author worries that “could upend global and saying that Trump dismantled a critical pandemic-response team and cut spending to the supply chains and renew a push to unwind CDC. Since few media bother to correct the claims, the lies have taken on life. economic integration between the world’s two largest economies, which could sig- President Barack Obama “created an of- Gibson, a senior advisor on healthcare nificantly reverse globalization.” fice of preparedness in the White House. issues at the Hastings Center and co- Item: Leading Democratic presidential And what does this president do? He author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks candidate Joe Biden and others on the eliminates it.” (That, too, is wrong; more of America’s Dependence on China for Left, such as former New York City Mayor below.) Medicine, also warned lawmakers last Mike Bloomberg, made disparaging claims Item: Xinhua, the official state-run press November about the susceptibility of the about the Trump administration. During agency of Communist China, maintained United States to disruptions in the supply the late February debate, for example, on March 4 that the world should thank of such drugs. As she notes, “Medicines Bloomberg claimed that the president “de- Beijing, not blame it for spreading the virus, can be used as a weapon of war against the funded Centers for Disease Control, CDC, adding a not-so-veiled threat that if China United States.” so we don’t have the organization we need. should ban the export of pharmaceutical And last September, Gibson told This is a very serious thing.” drugs, “the United States would sink into The New American’s Rebecca Terrell, Similarly, former Vice President Biden the hell of a novel coronavirus epidemic.” “Think about how China devastated our mistakenly told the nation that Trump had Correction: Every once in a while, you steel industry, dumping its product here reversed the Obama-Biden administra- catch the communists in China telling the at below-market price and destroying our tion’s budget increases to those agencies. truth. In the case cited above, a state prop­ manufacturing base,” Gibson points out. Said Biden: “We increased the budget of aganda outlet acknowledges that Beijing “They want to do the same thing with the CDC. We increased the NIH [National could put the United States into a world of medicine. They’ve already done it with Institutes of Health] budget.... He’s wiped hurt by exercising its stranglehold on the penicillin.” The final U.S.-based penicil- all that out.... He cut the funding for the pharmaceutical drugs depended upon by lin production facility closed in 2004. (The entire effort.” (These assertions were too millions of Americans. thorough summary, “China: Making Your much for even the fact-checkers of the left- The Pentagon, some members of Con- Medicine,” appeared in the print edition leaning Associated Press, which called gress, and several prescient experts are of this magazine for September 16, 2019.) them “wrong.” More details follow.) also among those who have recognized At issue are many drugs used in this In an early March interview, Biden this vulnerability. Last fall, for example, country and elsewhere. The Hong Kong- also said that Trump had “eliminated” Rosemary Gibson told the U.S.-China based South China Morning Post took the pandemic-response team. Variations Economic and Security Review Com- note of this a few months ago, saying of that erroneous claim appeared widely mission in Washington, “If China shut that as of 2018, the People’s Republic of in the echo chambers in the leftist mass the door on exports, our hospitals would China accounted for 95 percent of U.S. media. For one example, DNC chairman cease to function, so this has tremendous imports of ibuprofen; 91 percent of U.S. Tom Perez said on CNN on March 15 that urgency.” imports of hydrocortisone; 70 percent of

40 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 20, 2020 U.S. imports of acetaminophen; 40 to 45 tors have been in very short supply — re- phone with China making it clear we are percent of U.S. imports of penicillin; and portedly being hoarded by China for its going to need to be in your country. You 40 percent of U.S. imports of heparin, cit- own people. As Tom Nickels, executive have to be open. You have to be clear.” ing Commerce Department data. In addi- vice president of the American Hospital As we alluded to above, the AP showed tion, “Chinese pharmaceutical firms have Association, told Wired: “Because China that Biden and Mike Bloomberg were captured 97 percent of the U.S. market for produces such a large proportion of the “both wrong” when they alleged that criti- antibiotics and more than 90 percent of the U.S. drugs and medical supplies — espe- cal health agencies here were not prepared market for vitamin C,” writes Yanzhong cially personal protective equipment (like for the virus because of Trump funding Huang, an expert at the Council on For- masks, gowns and gloves) that are used by cuts. In fact, Congress paid no attention eign Relations. hospital caregivers to protect themselves to anything in the president’s proposed This is not a new development, but it is and their patients from infection — our budget. (This is not unusual. As the Wash- one that has additional import when our members have expressed concern that the ington Post explained in 2018: “It’s an country is beset with the deadly virus that already fragile supply chain will break American political tradition for Congress emerged from Wuhan, China. Not long with the worsening conditions in China.” to consider every president’s budget as thereafter, the Chinese government began Meanwhile, political enemies of Presi- ‘dead on arrival.’”) In the case of the most a disinformation operation suggesting dent Trump were busy lying about what recent health agency budgets, as the AP that U.S. Army soldiers were the original his administration did or did not do. Some pointed out, financing actually increased. source of the coronavirus. of the comments of the leading Democrat- Whatever Trump does is considered It should go without saying that the ic candidate for president, Joe Biden, are wrong by his hypocritical political and communist bosses in Beijing are not our cited above. In the same vein, in February, media opponents. Consider New York buddies. And Gibson was hardly exagger- Biden blasted Trump’s early and percep- Mayor Bill de Blasio’s comments to ating when she said in March, “If China tive decision to stop flights from China MSNBC. The outbreak of the coronavirus, shut the door on exports of core com- as a way to control the virus — with the in his view, demands the nationalization ponents to make our medicines, within former vice president charging, “This is of crucial factories and industries. That’s months our pharmacy shelves would no time for Donald Trump’s record of a dedicated statist: The radical mayor de- become bare and our health care system hysteria and xenophobia — hysterical xe- tests Trump, but insists that the president would cease to function.” nophobia — and fearmongering.” Biden take over entire industries. Our supply-chain vulnerabilities are not later changed his accusations into claims And Democrats (including Joe Biden) restricted to drugs made in China. While that the president was not doing enough lied about Trump’s supposed elimina- the American private sector is gearing up with Beijing, and speculated that if he had tion of the pandemic-response team. As as we write, surgical masks and respira- been in the Oval Office, “I would be on the confirmed by the man who previously headed the directorate, Tim Morrison, it was merged as part of an effort to trim the swollen National Security Council — with the directorate of global health and biodefense being combined with two other positions. “If anything, the com- bined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled,” Morrison has written. Morrison, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, testified in mid-March before the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship. Indeed, said Morrison, the “team, despite un- informed rhetoric to the contrary, was never dismantled and continues to serve today as the United States responds to COVID-19.”

AP Images In his testimony, Morrison also pointed Warning taken? China implied that it might withhold pharmaceutical products from the United out “the simple fact that the Chinese Com- States. Since it supplies most U.S. drugs and ingredients, a cut-off could mean our medical munist Party initially concealed the fact system virtually shuts down. of the viral outbreak” from the Chinese

Call 1-800-727-TRUE to subscribe today! 41 people, international healthcare authori- most recent annual DoD review to Con- recognized that “reliance wasn’t some ties (including the World Health Organi- gress on Communist China (known within accidental byproduct of globalization zation), the United States, and other coun- the Pentagon as the “China Military Power but the outcome of a deliberate strategy tries. According to WHO, said Morrison, Report”) observes: by the Chinese Communist Party, which “the National Health Commission of the made biomedicine and high-end medi- PRC initially knew of the ‘Wuhan virus’ China continues to implement long- cal equipment a priority of its ‘Made in as early as December 8, 2019. Yet, initial term state-directed planning, such China 2025’ plan.” substantive disclosures to the WHO did as “Made in China 2025” and other The fact that China has become the not take place until approximately Janu- industrial development plans, which world’s largest supplier of active phar- ary 11, 2020.” stress the need to replace imported maceutical ingredients (API), providing The Sunday Times in London (citing technology with domestically pro- key components to drug-makers around Chinese business news site Caixin Glob- duced technology. These plans pre­ the globe, fits this picture as well. An ac- al) also revealed that Chinese authorities sent an economic challenge to na- count published in Stars and Stripes last knew of the virus in early December, tions that export high-tech products. August quoted recent remarks by Chris- but ordered labs to stop testing, destroy topher Priest, the acting deputy assistant samples, and suppress that news. China, Morrison also alluded to “Made in China director for healthcare operations and reported the Sunday Times for March 1, 2025” in his Senate testimony. As he put Tricare for the Defense Health Agency. “did not report there was human-to-hu- it: “China’s state sponsored capitalism As Priest told the U.S.-China Economic man transmission until more than three — has destroyed the free market in many and Security Review Commission, “The weeks later.” sectors, from 5G to Active Pharmaceu- national security risks of increased Chi- Such censorship and predatory eco- tical Ingredients. Just look at the PRC’s nese dominance of the global API market nomic policies are consistent with Bei- Made in China 2025 plan for the road- cannot be overstated.” jing’s “Made in China 2025” plan. This is map. The CCP has not been shy about this Such facts are among the reasons why a state-led industrial policy that seeks to — it does not think we will respond to its the president has talked about “bringing make China dominant in global high-tech predations.” home” supply chains, jobs, and produc- manufacturing by rapidly developing 10 Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who tion. That does not, however, mean na- high-tech industries. One of these sectors chairs the Small Business Committee, tionalization of industry. in the 10-year plan is emerging biomedi- has introduced legislation that would When it comes to the U.S. response to cine. As you can imagine, the U.S. Depart- address U.S. dependence on China for the Chinese virus, many politicians and ment of Defense has been closely tracking drugs; he says America has become “dan- much of the mass media are short-sighted this policy of our strategic adversary. The gerously reliant.” The senator has also and long-winded. As usual, regardless of the question, the preferred answer is to mandate additional and more-centralized powers for the federal government. Yet while the “federal and state gov- ernments are playing crucial roles” in coordinating efforts against the virus, the “single biggest mistake so far came from the government,” as columnist Kimberley Strassel pointed out in mid-March:

The feds maintained exclusive con- trol over early test development — and blew it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failure de- layed an effective U.S. response, and the private sector is now riding to the rescue.

AP Images When this crisis ends, here’s hoping there The healthcare market: China has been cornering the world market in such things as face is still a relatively free government and a masks, drugs, and medical equipment. However, the danger this presents to world supplies has viable private sector. n been highlighted by the coronavirus, as China has shipped faulty products or not shipped at all. — William P. Hoar

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Proof That Kindness supply company in Needham. Neighbors “In these situations, when the commu- than bagged up the food she purchased and nity steps up, you really lessen the pres- Spreads as Fast as Viruses dropped it at schools to be served to area sure on first responders and medical per- Regardless of how unwarranted the gov- residents in need. sonnel,” she told WNCN. “If you’re able ernment’s extra-constitutional response “Food insecurity is real in our city and to decrease, even by a little bit, the number to the coronavirus may be, one thing is this crisis is going to exacerbate that ex- of patients that have to seek care because certain: This pandemic has proved to be ponentially,” Graustein said in a telephone they’ve been exposed to something, it’s yet another opportunity for Americans to interview. “Everyone is feeling anxiety good for the community as a whole.” showcase their goodness. and uncertainty, and besides avoiding so- University of Nevada pre-med student Jesse Farren-James of Hyde Park, Mas- cial contact and washing our hands there’s Jayde Powell created “Shopping Angels,” sachusetts, for example, posted a Face- not a lot to do. But here’s something we a network of shoppers to provide free gro- book recruitment page for area residents can do that directly addresses the hard out- cery delivery to the sick and elderly, CNN to organize trips to the grocery store for comes of this disease.” reported. supplies for those who were unable to MSN reported that Graustein’s good The group started with 20 members, but venture outside, according to the Boston deed inspired several of her friends in grew exponentially as need grew. Before Globe. Farren-James even offered her other states to launch similar campaigns. long, and after national news coverage, Costco membership for those who were In Ohio, in response to Governor Mike Powell said she received calls from peo- hoping to buy in bulk. DeWine’s decision to limit all restaurants ple in California, Arizona, Connecticut, In Milwaukee, Fox News told about and bars to delivery and carryout op- and New York who wanted to volunteer. landlord John Zutz, who owns a three- tions, a regular customer at Coaches Bar Powell was able to connect volunteers to family residence and slashed his April and Grill — who insisted on remaining people in need through social media. rent from $1,100 to $100 so his tenants anonymous — surprised staff by leaving Powell even started a GoFundMe ac- were not in dire financial straits. When a $2,500 tip on a $30 bill and asked that count so that people who had a tight bud- Zutz made the decision to cut the rent, he the gratuity be divided equally among the get could still get supplies. “We don’t want did not know whether his tenants needed restaurant’s five servers, WBNS Local 10 money to be a deterrent,” she explained. “If it or not, but had hoped that even if they News reported. you cannot afford toilet paper or something didn’t need the extra money, they would Coaches’ owner Benny Leonard said like that, you’re still to reach out to us.” use it for good. the tip prompted “tears of joy,” adding the Even young children are helping out, “I see what’s happening inside the customer’s kindness was a wonderful jux- and children have found unique ways to do world, in the country, and I realize there’s taposition to the hoarding highlighted on good deeds during the crisis. Sisters Taran going to be a lot of people out of work, and the news. “We’ve got people fighting over and Calliope of Columbus, Ohio, threw a they need help,” Zutz said. I’m not sure toilet paper and so on and so forth, and to small concert for their homebound neigh- if [my tenants] need it or not. That’s the have a guy show up and care enough about bor Helena Schlam, 78. point. They may not need it, but I encour- people that give him a beer and a ham- The girls’ mother, Rebecca, told the age them, if they don’t need it, to spend the burger once in awhile, that means a lot,” Columbus Dispatch she called Helena to money in the neighborhood.” Leonard said. “It’s humanity at its best.” see if she needed any groceries during As it turns out, however, at least one of Across the country, college students her self-imposed quarantine. Helena did his tenants desperately needed the break. have been making grocery runs for at-risk not, but Rebecca wanted to do something, Cai Logan told WISN-TV the reduced seniors. Becky Hoeffler of Duke Univer- aware that Helena must have been lonely. rent was an enormous blessing, as his in- sity is one such student. She told WNCN She enlisted the help of her daughters. come has been cut in half as a result of the News she was inspired by her own fears Aware that Helena is an enormous fan coronavirus response. about her grandfather going grocery shop- of classical music, Taran and Calliope Zutz says he will wait and see what hap- ping and decided she would make grocery came up with the idea of putting on a small pens in the next few weeks before he de- runs for her senior neighbors. show for her on her porch. For more than cides what to do for May’s rent. Hoeffler reached out to a nearby hous- half an hour on March 16, the girls played In Dorchester, Massachusetts, parents ing community for senior living and re- the cello for their neighbor. started a fundraiser to raise money for ceived permission to post a sign near the “It was so delightful. It was a little cold food and supplies for students and their mailbox station that featured a photo of but I just put on an extra coat,” Helena re- families in response to the closure of Bos- herself at a supermarket with a note that called. “The kids are really quite talented ton Public Schools. MSN reported that read, “Need someone to do your shop- and it was so much fun.” Lisa Graustein, a mother and former Bos- ping? I would be able to go to the store so These are just a handful of the many ton Public School teacher who led the ef- you can avoid crowds due to coronavirus.” amazing stories that have come out of the fort, took $2,000 raised by neighbors and She also posted her offer on a local nation’s coronavirus crisis. n used it to purchase items from a restaurant Facebook group, Bull City Shares. — Raven Clabough www.TheNewAmerican.com 43 THE LAST WORD by Alex Newman Coronavirus Silver Lining?

ith all the doom exposed to every day under and gloom about the guise of “education.” W coronavirus, it is Interest in homeschooling easy to miss the potential sil- and online programs such as ver lining that is emerging. FreedomProject Academy is It’s true that the economy is in soaring as a result, as count- chaos; the Deep State is ped- less news reports have point- dling its dangerous agenda; ed out in recent weeks. With and the panic is real. But if some effort, Americans can Americans play their cards ensure that when the govern- right, the response to coronavi- ment schools re-open, they rus could produce a number of will have millions fewer vic- extremely positive outcomes tims to indoctrinate, sexual- for faith, family, and freedom. ize, and dumb down. Start with faith. For too The benefit to the freedom long, Americans have turned fight of ensuring a real educa- sports and government into tion for millions of additional

idols. Now, though, with monkeybusinessimages/iStock/GettyImagesPlus children would be hard to sports canceled and govern- overstate. Families will be- ment flailing around barking idiotic orders, it is becoming clear come closer, morals will improve, faith will grow, knowledge of that faith in these idols was deeply misplaced. Government is true history and the Constitution will spread, and a love for liberty not going to save anyone, and this is something that more and might be rekindled across America. Indeed, if a serious exodus more Americans are realizing. Across the nation, everyday peo- from government schools results from this crisis, it may prove to ple are turning back to God. be the single most devastating blow to the Deep State’s agenda in Some anecdotes indicate that the hysteria is already having generations. The time to strike is now. an effect. A few weeks before this special issue went to press, a Another benefit of the recent hysteria is a growing under- relative called and said that seven people at a drug-rehab facility standing among Americans of the need to prepare, not rely on had decided to get baptized there amid the crisis. This was the government. While the establishment regularly mocked and first time something such as that had happened. Amid the terror demonized “preppers” for keeping some extra food and ammu- and panic, faithful people who trust in God are helping their nition (and toilet paper!) at home, those who were prepared now neighbors and exuding a sense of peace. suddenly look sensible, not foolish, while the mockers look silly. On the education front — something that touches on each Everybody should have contingency plans, and this crisis will element of faith, family, and freedom — the Chinese virus mean Americans will be far better prepared the next time the pandemic has created an unprecedented opportunity. As this is Deep State creates or exploits one. being written, most American public-school students are learn- From the standpoint of America’s national security and pub- ing at home, and millions of parents are now learning they are lic health, one tremendous potential development is the Trump capable of homeschooling, as well as getting a much closer look administration’s move to reduce and even eliminate the nation’s at the indoctrination their kids are subjected to. This is amazing. outrageous and potentially deadly dependence on the mass-mur- The tide is already shifting on this in a major way. In 2019, dering Communist Party regime ruling mainland China. From after The New American’s Special Report “Rescuing Our Chil- rare minerals and pharmaceuticals to military supplies, the days dren,” nationwide celebrities ranging from talk-show titan Rush of depending on Beijing are probably going to wane. Limbaugh to evangelist Franklin Graham urged parents to re- Some prominent analysts have even suggested that the glob­ move their children from public schools. And in his 2020 State alist New World Order agenda itself may become a casualty of the Union speech, even President Trump blasted the fact that of this pandemic. In his widely distributed column, pundit Pat so many children are “trapped” in “failing government schools.” Buchanan sounded elated. “It may one day be said that the coro- As millions of American parents try homeschooling for the navirus delivered the deathblow to the New World Order, to a first time amid coronavirus lockdowns, they are realizing that half-century of globalization, and to the era of interdependence they can do it — and also that it is fun. This is among the of the world’s great nations,” he argued, pointing out that Ameri- best things parents could do for their children. With “online” cans were now ready to put “America and Americans first!” government-school classes, millions of parents are also seeing Despite the Deep State ramping up its attacks on freedom like — many of them for the first time — the perverted filth and never before, there is a real chance that this engineered madness outlandish dumbed-down material that their children are being could blow up in the faces of globalist schemers. n

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