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The Great Madness
Has the world gone mad? It certainly seems that way to some of us. Even the most cynical never imagined the government shutting down the country for fear of a virus, but it has suddenly become the new normal. The cynical, if they thought of it at all, would have thought the opposite. Instead of a great lock down, the response would have been for the beautiful people to insulate themselves from harm, while abandoning the rest of us to the plague. Instead, we have all gone mad together.
Not everyone has got the fever, that is this panic fever, not the one caused by the Chinese coronavirus.
Our world is now firmly divided into two camps.
- There are those fully invested in the great panic over the virus and
- there are those who look at the other camp, gobsmacked by what appears to be a general madness.
Those in panic look at the rest of us the same way preppers look at normal people. They just assume the gods will strike us down for doubting the virus.
Of course, the people in the skeptic camp could be the ones suffering from some form of madness that prevents them from seeing the threat. The trouble is, the great plague is not exactly lighting up the scoreboard. America has tested over 600,000 people suspected of having the virus. Over 500,000 tested negative. Of the positives, 12,000 needed hospital care. In a country of over 320 million people with 200,000 empty hospital beds at any one time, that’s not much of a crisis.
Yet, despite the numbers, formerly sober-minded people continue to carry on as if there are bodies in the streets. Steve Sailer, a man not known for excitability, is calling this virus a great adversary of the human race. Greg Cochran has completely lost his marbles over this thing. Geneticist and HBD enthusiast Razib Khan is in hiding, convinced the end times are upon us. In fact, the whole HBD community is a click away from fleeing to Antarctica to wait out the end of civilization.
Of course, part of the panic, a symptom of that particular virus, is a set of abracadabra phrases that have become so common they seem like something from a secret society, understood only by the initiates. The duller sorts chant about “exponential growth” while others talk about “the hospitals being overwhelmed.” That’s why we have to “flatten the curve” and “slow the spread.” These incantations are to chase away doubt and reinforce the belief that people are dying in the streets.
The dying in the streets bit is not much of an exaggeration. A popular bit of folklore now among the panicked is some version of the anonymous ER doctor or nurse relaying how they are overwhelmed and letting people die in the hallways. This urban legend turned up in China, Washington, Italy, New York and now New Orleans. Formerly sensible people now pass these whoppers around on-line, never bothering to think that maybe they are being fed a just-so story by people seeking attention.
One emerging aspect to the madness is the moral dimension. The Human Biodiversity (HBD) crowd seems to have been hardest hit. They spend a lot of time contemplating nature and their fellow man’s refusal to respect it. Part of what is driving them now is a sense that nature is going to finally exact some revenge. In other words, this panic is part of a strange revenge fantasy, where they are finally vindicated by biological reality. This sudden sense of moral purpose has made them immune to reason.
Another aspect to this general panic, unrelated to the virus itself, is a different type of revenge fantasy. Many people are cheering the collapse of the economy and civil life on the mistaken belief that what emerges from the rubble will have them at the top of the social hierarchy. This is a phenomenon shared across the political spectrum. It seems to be most popular with young people unhappy with the status quo and far too caught up in purge fantasies to be reached with facts and reason.
Probably the most salient aspect to this panic is the role of women. As has been noted too many times to count, the West is now a gynocracy. It is not a matriarchy, as women have stopped bearing children and stopped caring about children. Look around and you see childless women in positions of authority all over the West. In fact, these are women who reached their status by rejecting every aspect of womanhood. The West is now a world run by middle-aged childless women.
Anyone who has been around women in a crisis has observed a strange phenomenon among childless adult females. Some switch gets flipped in a crisis where their protective instincts get misdirected at the adults in the room. This part of their nature was never allowed to mature in the raising of children, so it comes bursting forth in an incoherent desire to help when their help is not needed. They become like mother ducks loudly herding the brood to safety.
For a society run by such women, every crisis is met with demands that everyone shelter in place. Notice how over the last few decades that public officials no longer call for volunteers or tell people to pitch in and work together. Such independent action violates the frightened female’s sense of duty to her brood. Instead, mild weather events now close the schools and force people to work from home. This virus scare is every middle-aged women’s Hunger Games moment.
Mass panics are a known phenomenon.
The general panic that took place in France between July 22 and August 6 1789 is known as The Great Fear. It was a period of rural unrest, driven by both a grain shortage and rumors of an aristocrats’ “famine plot” to starve the peasants. The exact reason for this panic is in dispute. Ergotism is a favorite reason for those with a certain sense of humor, but most historians consider it one of the primary causes of the French Revolution.
At some point, the bloom comes off this lock-down rose once people start to feel the real cost of listening to madmen. People will remember that the same folks who swore Boris and Natasha had used their mind control devise to install Trump in the White House are the many of the same people peddling this panic. Necessity will force a lot of people to stop going along with what they have suspected from the start is nothing more than a mass panic. Soon, this all comes to an end.
Like the Great Fear, the Great Madness will leave a mark, or at least it should leave a mark on our society. You never can be sure about these things, as the West seems to be unusually immune to learning from these events. Two centuries ago The Great Fear meant the end of the feudal order and eventually a revolution. It was not the sole cause of the revolution, maybe not the main cause. It was certainly an example of how the old order was no longer able to maintain order.
It is too soon to know what this panic means for us. Perhaps it further undermines the legitimacy of the system and the people that profit from it. Perhaps it sets off social changes that slowly transform our society in ways we have yet to imagine. Maybe the fever breaks and this event, like the Russian hoax, gets forgotten.
Given what most likely awaits on the other side of the lock-down, it is hard to imagine this great madness being forgotten. There’s always a price to be paid for following madmen.
130 Comments on "The Great Madness"
makati1 on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 9:47 pm
This is only the beginning of the end. Be patient.
DT on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 10:29 pm
Yes it will be interesting times for all of us humans. The biggest issue is food production, processing, transport, storage and distribution. Time is beginning to tell.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 10:50 pm
Donnie backtracks on “US open for business again by Easter”, was “aspiration” (wishful thinking):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165813/Trump-extends-coronavirus-lockdown-April-30-says-pandemic-peak-TWO-WEEKS.html
“Donald Trump extends coronavirus lockdown until April 30 and says the pandemic will peak in TWO WEEKS – but insists he never threatened to quarantine New York and his Easter deadline was just an ‘aspiration’“
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 10:56 pm
Don’t expect to hear the truth from authorities (or the DailyMail), but this seems to be more credible than 3200:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165717/Locals-Wuhan-believe-42-000-people-died-coronavirus.html
“Locals in Wuhan believe 42,000 people may have died in the coronavirus outbreak there not the 3,200 claimed by Chinese authorities“
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 11:12 pm
Not white nationalism but a totally new angle could initiate the breakup of the US:
https://www.infowars.com/west-faces-social-bomb-as-pandemic-sparks-unrest-among-poorest/
WEST FACES “SOCIAL BOMB” AS PANDEMIC SPARKS UNREST AMONG POOREST
Big U.S. cities only have ‘a few weeks’ until social unrest and riots surface, says Red Cross president
Racial homogeneous countries like Korea, China or Italy can be expected to suffer severely from corona, but will not descend into chaos. We have seen touching pictures of Italians singing from balconies to keep spirits high.
Do not expect people to sing from balconies in LA, Baltimore, Detroit, London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam.
Instead people there (US) queue up for a gun shop.
It could very well be that there won’t be a Trump-Biden contest. #CW2
Don’t take it from me, I might a “hateful neo-natzi with an anti-American Euro-supremacist ax to grind”, the ADL has warned you against so much.
Take it from the Red Cross.
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 11:27 pm
Memories of a 1943 concentration camp inmate of a raging typhus epidemic:
https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/typhus-im-konzentrationslager-josef-koenigsberg-95-ueberlebte-die-epidemie-a-cfb86620-40f2-40ee-bcb6-82d7daf73e22
According to the Red Cross that evaluated German data, typhus was the most important cause of death in concentration camps 1942-1944 (373k dead):
https://documents1940.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/bad_arolsen_list.gif?w=740&zoom=2
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 11:39 pm
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/043/883/484/original/b7bc47593f94b73a.jpg
Abraham van Helsing on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 11:44 pm
Message from mobster’s sister:
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/044/107/145/original/b251ce22c1b85199.jpeg
Bloomer on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 12:54 am
I don’t have much faith in politicians no matter what party they represent. Their major objective is reelection or a lobbying job when their career is over.
I do however have interest in what the medical people and scientists have to say. Quite frankly they are scarced shitless. The death count is a lagging indicator. When the bodies start to pile up the Dow Jones will sink like a stone and the real panic will begin. So far essential goods are still moving. That may come to an end when we reach peak death count.
Chrome Mags on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 12:55 am
“America has tested over 600,000 people suspected of having the virus. Over 500,000 tested negative. Of the positives, 12,000 needed hospital care. In a country of over 320 million people with 200,000 empty hospital beds at any one time, that’s not much of a crisis.”
That’s some cherry picking math. How about dividing 12,000 needing hospital care into those testing positive; 12%
Or how about some math to figure out the mortality rate in Italy for closed cases, dead or recovered; 45%
Or how about how even those that have recovered in some cases get it again later, or even if they have recovered they’ve permanently lost some lung capacity, or for those that get hospitalized some can spend 3 weeks on a ventilator, which means the person is put under – no consciousness during that time and when they come out their brains no longer work like they use to and no one knows exactly why.
Now want to run right out and get the virus and take your chances?
DT on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 1:32 am
This shows what is going on in the U$ oil patch and beyond. http://energyskeptic.com/2020/shale-gas-is-only-good-for-plastics-not-transportation-fuels/
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 3:28 am
Pictures from an Italian corona ward:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/corona-intensivstation-in-bergamo-ich-habe-das-gefuehl-selbst-zu-ersticken-a-2c33d37a-771e-41ed-b015-efd6147f4a4b
Picture 6 is the worst: every time he breathes, his lung capacity is barely sufficient to provide the body with oxygen. It is feeling like being suffocated for an entire week.
200,000 dead in the US would be in terms of numbers indeed be just a “bad flu”. It is old people who are dying, who otherwise would have died next year from flu.
The only real difference is the amount of suffering, deprivation, loneliness, the dying alone, lack of dignity and ceremony.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 3:34 am
Italian infection rate more or less stable since 10 days, number of deaths going down for the 2nd day in a row.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 4:09 am
Like all empire media, der Zeit hates Trump and “loves” Dems-candidates. But even they have to admit not to be impressed with Joe Biden’s candidacy:
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/usa-praesidentschaftswahlen-donald-trump-joe-biden-bernie-sanders
In the corona crisis, Biden has become invisible and insignificant. Worse, at the rare occasions that he does appear he gives the impression of being lightly senile. He is not concentrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcD9ghZVuyc
Die Zeit has to admit that corona could work to the advantage of Trump, now that he can act as crisis manager, “war-time president” even.
Die Zeit speculates that other candidates than Biden could jump on the stage. Like Cuomo. And Sanders still has more vigor as well, but the Dems establishment doesn’t want Sanders. Economically too left-wing.
Several primaries had to be postponed because of corona to the Summer and now that Sanders refuses to withdraw will Biden have only a few months to battle Trump.
Biden’s candidacy could be killed by corona.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 4:49 am
Dominic Goings.
The sinister un-elected Rasputin of present-day UKSSR politics Dominic Cummings has “symptoms” and went into self-isolation:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167065/Dominic-Cummings-goes-self-isolation-coronavirus-symptoms.html
“Now No10 chief Dominic Cummings goes into self-isolation with coronavirus symptoms – days after Boris Johnson tested positive”
MPs have warned that Westminster is a ‘hotbed’ of infection. The first politician confirmed as suffering from the virus was health minister Nadine Dorries, who has since recovered and returned to work.
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 4:57 am
This is great, two virus denialist turing 180 degress!! LMFAO. Oh BTW DT is a juanPee. sock
“makati1 on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 9:47 pm This is only the beginning of the end. Be patient.”
“DT on Sun, 29th Mar 2020 10:29 pm Yes it will be interesting times for all of us humans. The biggest issue is food production, processing, transport, storage and distribution. Time is beginning to tell.”
Theedrich on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:02 am
The reason the U.S. can’t function is politics. The Dems, Marxists and oligarchs are obsessed with destroying Trump, while the Republicans seek to keep the White former majority plus some Latino outliers. The ferocity of the power struggle has been unprecendented since 1865 and the Great Whitekiller, Ahab Lincoln. Gigabucks are playing a large role in the contest, but the media-stoked emotions transcend even money. The Lefties (university types, Hollywoodites, affluent educatees, etc.) subconsciously desire to (literally) kill not just the prez, but all Whites who harbor “racist” thoughts. Some of the Jacobins even express these desires openly.
The 2 x $10^12 “stimulus package” to stave off utter collapse for a month or so is a forlorn hope and a delusion. The Democrats included money for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in DC, which will not use the cash to pay its musicians, but only to cover deficits and for other suspiciously unspecified reasons. (Why are we not surprised?) Money is also given for suncreen development, casinos, harbor dredging, and probably many other special interests. Never mind $350 million for migrants and refugees. After all, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Since the Chicom-virus shutdown will eviscerate the economy, the most likely result will be the eventual Big-Brother control of the entire nation. After the U.S. destroyed Germany and enslaved its people in WW II, it convinced the slaves to love their master. (The victor gets to write the history books and control the propaganda spouts.) Now the politicoes are enslaving the populace of America itself.
Of course, ultimately, the energy and other resources to maintain the illusion must fail. After that comes the raw dictatorship.
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:03 am
“Instead people there (US) queue up for a gun shop.”
I am not into guns but I have them and I am trained with them. Gun whiners like the cloggo are going to wish they had guns if things fall apart. Around here in the Ozarks people don’t mess with other people because people know people are armed. If SHTF people will be reluctant to go on crime sprees because of this. Large Mobs and gangs can be dealt with by 1 or 2 well-armed guys with guns. I am in a rural area that takes law enforcement at least 1/2 hour to get here during good times. I m glad I have guns.
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:05 am
“Locals in Wuhan believe 42,000 people may have died in the coronavirus outbreak there not the 3,200 claimed by Chinese authorities“
Obviously, the Chinese authorities are liars. All authorities are liars but for the Chinese it is a matter of policy not moral hazard.
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:11 am
“Now want to run right out and get the virus and take your chances?”
Yea, our board virus deniers don’t say much these days (juanPee and makato1). This virus is serious business and in two human dimensions with the economy and health. In both dimensions there were already risks associated with poor health of many old people whose lives have been extended. On the economic side the baggage of debt and rate repression along with the corruption of a decade of moral hazards.
makati1 on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:41 am
My typical day during the Luzon, Philippines “lock-down”:
About 5:30 AM the roosters start to crow. The sun comes up about 6 AM. Temperature near 80F. The sun shines and there is a slight breeze. We are less than 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean.
As the day progresses, it warms up to around 90F by 1PM. Birds sing. Dogs bark and the neighbor’s chickens stop by to see what they can find to eat in our yard. We feed a local dog that is a semi-watchdog for us. I hear the neighbor’s pig. We live on the outskirts of a small town.
Everything is green. No winter here. Any work is done in the morning or early evening this time of year. Afternoons find me in the air-conditioned room with short forays into the rest of the house for bits of work that needs to be done.
We are prepared so we lack nothing important. A trip to the wet market supplies us with fresh fish, pork, chicken, veggies, fruit and eggs. The local government is supplying all the families with rice. About 10 kilos (20lbs) per family. That makes about 100 servings. We gave our share to my partner’s family. (That 10K of rice is worth about $8US. A day’s wages for a laborer.)
The internet keeps me in touch with family and friends. It takes me around the world for current events. A well-stocked library of paper books keeps me entertained. Not to mention our Siamese cat with a personality like many people I know.
The sun goes down about 6PM this time of year, so the evenings are long but we fill them with cooking and eating and a bit of wine. 10PM is bed time. Can life get any better? I don’t think so. Sigh!
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:49 am
“Can life get any better? I don’t think so. Sigh!”
No sign of any physical activity or hard work which is what I would expect out of the makato. Get a grip makato a worldwide deep recession or depression is coming likely with no recovery. This is now a downward process for all regions with Asia hit particularly hard being overpopulated and reliant on exports. In the P’s this means food shortages. Your days of your cheap club med are over. Retirement is done for you. Hard work of an old man with no health insurance is ahead. Your ” Can life get any better? I don’t think so. Sigh!” is delusional!
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 5:56 am
“British Scientific Advisors: China Covering Up Full Extent Of Virus, Could Be 40 Times Worse Than Reported”
https://tinyurl.com/wgumgy9 summit news
“There is a disgusting disinformation campaign going on and it is unacceptable,” an anonymous government source told The Mail. “They [the Chinese government] know they have got this badly wrong and rather than owning it they are spreading lies.” “It is going to be back to the diplomatic drawing board after this. Rethink is an understatement,” another government source said, with a further source adding that “There has to be a reckoning when this is over…“Experts soon discovered, however, that the tests it purchased from Chinese company Bioeasy were only correctly identifying coronavirus cases 30 percent of the time, according to Spain’s El Pais.” the report notes…A scientific study out of the University of Southampton in the UK found that had China acted sooner to combat their coronavirus, then the further spread could have been almost entirely avoided, and it would not have become a global pandemic. It has become clear that the first cases of the Chinese virus were reported in mid-late November and early December, with scientists even estimating that the first jump of the virus from animals to humans probably occurred in October in the city of Wuhan. Instead of acting immediately, the Chinese government waited until January 23rd before issuing quarantine orders to the 11 million people living in Wuhan. The communist state was also actively working to suppress and punish doctors and scientists who tried to get warnings out, and lied to the world by claiming there was “no evidence” of human-to-human transmission”
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:08 am
The dying EU:
“The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing”
https://tinyurl.com/vdhrty8 the american conservative
“The coronavirus first appeared in Italy on January 31 when two Chinese tourists from the Hubei province tested positive in Rome, eight days after they’d landed at the Milan airport in Lombardy. The two were immediately isolated and quarantined in the Roman Spallanzani hospital, and the situation seemed under control—until February 21. That day, Italy confirmed 16 new coronavirus cases, 14 in Lombardy and two in Veneto. A 38-year-old Italian from Codogno near Milan with acute respiratory symptoms was identified as patient zero. Despite Italy’s attempts to contain the virus by locking down the city of Codogno, coronavirus infections spread…The EU did change its position on the COVID-19 response, but not until the health care crisis had spread to France and Germany, making it their problem, too. By then, the damage done to the Italians’ trust in European institutions was already beyond repair. With few viable options left, Italy’s government is now considering the European “Save the State Funds,” asking the EU to implement the €500 billion emergency bailout program from the European Stability Mechanism designed for EU member states—a risky move that may saddle Italy with long-term debt on a scale similar to Greece. The coronavirus emergency has exposed the failures and flaws of the European Union, while underscoring the importance of nation-states. In Europe, we’ve observed a series of events that have demonstrated the collapse of the supra-national model. First, the borders shut down—Austria and Slovenia acted unilaterally, without asking approval from Italy’s government. The move was also symbolic: Italy was not only isolated, it was abandoned to its own devices…What has the coronavirus in Italy taught us so far? A great nation is doing what it can to become self-sufficient as the crisis proves daily that the propaganda of the prophets of globalization is false. We see that there are strategic sectors, such as health care, transport, energy, defense, and telecommunications, that have to be considered from the perspective of national security and not strictly business. This is a new, unspoken understanding that unites Italy today. We have witnessed a return of patriotism: flags are hanging from windows and Italians are singing the national anthem.”
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:48 am
“The Scope For Pain Is Immense” – China’s Consumer Default Tsunami Has Started”
https://tinyurl.com/r6sr7s3 zero hedge
“One month ago we reported that “China Faces Financial Armageddon With 85% Of Businesses Set To Run Out Of Cash In 3 Months”, in which we explained that while China’s giant state-owned SOEs will likely have enough of a liquidity lifeblood to last them for 2-3 quarters, it is the country’s small businesses that are facing a head on collision with an iceberg, because according to the Nikkei, over 85% of small businesses – which employ 80% of China’s population – expect to run out of cash within three months, and a third expect the cash to be all gone within a month. To be sure, the stakes could not be higher: These smaller employers account for 99.8% of registered companies in China and employ 79.4% of workers. They contribute more than 60% of gross domestic product and, for the government, more than 50% of tax revenue. In short: they are the beating heart of China’s economy. In short, should this default tsunami start, not only will China’s economy collapse, but China’s $40 trillion financial system will disintegrate, as it is suddenly flooded with trillions in bad loans. Well, it is now one month later, and as we feared, and as the SCMP reports, “a global consumer default wave is just getting started in China” as overdue credit-card debt in China has soared by about 50% in February, while researchers at the Peterson Institute warn (as we did in February) t To be sure, the early indicators from China are not pretty. Overdue credit-card debt in February rose by about 50% from a year earlier, according to executives at two banks who asked not to be named. Qudian, a Beijing-based online lender, said its delinquency ratio jumped to a staggering 20% in February, from 13% at the end of last year. For some the shock from the economic slowdown is so big, they have had no choice but to hit pause. China Merchants Bank, one of the country’s biggest providers of consumer credit, said this month that it “pressed the pause button” on its credit-card business after a significant increase in past-due loans as an estimated 8 million people in China lost their jobs in February. “These issues in China are a preview of what we should expect throughout the world,” said Peterson Institute for International Economics research fellow Martin Chorzempa. And while the extent of the squeeze on consumers and their lenders will depend on the effectiveness of government efforts to contain the virus and shore up economies, “the scope for pain is immense” the SCMP warns ominously.hat what is happening now in China is “a preview of what we should expect throughout the world”
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:49 am
I have noticed how this virus first wave has changed people from the “virus ain’t shit” to this is the “beginning of the end”. We have people here who say the BRI is alive and strong. Everything will get back to normal but better because my side will win type thing. They point to the US in glee as the virus takes its toll…on and on. Delusional behavior is everywhere along with madness of panic with health and welfare.
Well the virus is going to wrap around the world in waves. This virus wave will be accompanied by economic fallout that is in effect the end of the world as we know it. We will be in a prolonged period of deep recessionary economics with whole sectors disabled by the required social distancing that will go on for many months ahead. Debt will be crushed and most consumers the world over have a lot of it. This debt crushing will be mitigated by money printing and helicopter money but that is only like an IV to the onset of the illness. Real economic activity as been cut. This will never be made up. It is gone and lost forever. There is nothing on the horizon to take the place of the powerful engine of economic growth called hyper globalism.
The world is still delocalized by a peaking globalism of the last 10 years as China established itself as a powerful force of the manufacturing component of the global value chain system. Europe will also be impacted by this manufacturing export shock losing many markets that will gut its export industries. The US that outsourced so many products and skills will see its consumerism decimated. The population will scramble to “make things at home again”. The great “Wall Street” component of globalism neutered.
Defaults and economic contagions will spread like wild fire along with a situation of a long and deep economic drought. Droughts are worse than floods because they tend to set in for long eriods of decline but many times they are also interspersed with floods. This is wht is likely ahead for our world. This is just getting started but it will not go away. The world has been altered but population have not digested this yet. When they do, they will be so concerned just about survival that we will not see the mass protest some speak of. Sure, there are going to be protests but when people are under great stress, they will look to the authorities to provide for their basic needs.
People will turn to their community to solve problems that are better solved by locals. This can be a good thing because globalism went too far. It will now be a time of a return to less affluence of things but more of community that comes together in economic survival. Of course, not all is gone. A wounded globalism will remain. With such a large global population requiring monocultures and comparative advantage some globalism is inevitable. Trade networks will just shorten up. Global finance will end as we know it because confidence will be shattered by nationalistic policies to combat economic decline. Global capital flows are no risk off. Can you trust China at the moment for a a large investment. Can you trust your own country for that matter? LOL. NO. The global asset markets which are just casinos of the rich will be greatly reduced.
This is a new world and it can be said possibly a better one if you also realize great pain, suffering and at a minimum discomfort is ahead for most people. Dumb luck will of course help out individuals and nations alike but bad luck and irrational behavior will likely predominate. This is the end my friends of all you have been habituated to. It probably not the end of the world unless somebody starts WWIII but it is a new time of lower affluence, hard work, and lack of basics that wakes a global people up to a reality of planetary limits.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:55 am
Our American “friends” at it again: “Did a Vaccine Experiment on U.S. Soldiers Cause the “Spanish Flu”?”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/did-a-vaccine-experiment-on-u-s-soldiers-cause-the-spanish-flu/
Newly analyzed documents reveal that the “Spanish Flu” may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.
“The EU’s Betrayal Of Italy May Be Its Undoing”
Nice all that Anglo wishful thinking about imploding EU’s. The article fails to underpin what that “betrayal” actually consists off. If we had 10,000 spare ventilators lying around, we would have gladly given them to the Italians, but we don’t have them and soon will have shortages for out own patients. There is no healthcare arm within the EU, not yet at least, perhaps after the crisis. Italians make a lot of noise, but what they really want is money from Northern Europe. They won’t get it. Here is why:
Median per capita wealth:
France 103k
Italy 93k
Germany 35k
Germans have slightly higher per capita income than Italians or French btw. But there is no reason why NW-Europa should pay for Italians who are richer than Americans (65k), let alone Germans or Dutch. Italian politicians should get tough with their tax evading citizens and burden them with a 20k mortgage and solve Italian 130% public debt problem once and for all, just like Western Germany had to pay a considerable “Soli tax” for East-Germany for 30 years. Italians live almost all in paid-off real estate, from money that should have been paid for taxes.
Europeans and Anglos should stop pretending to be friends and fight it out in the upcoming WW3…
Eurasia-Anglosphere
…enabled by Putin, the rise of China, Brexit, Trump and spectacular Iranian advances in the ME and terminate two Anglo centuries, an Anglo-supremacy that was based on steam-coal (UK, 19th century) and oil-gas (US, 20th century). These conditions no longer exist.
As we speak is the US shale industry the last convulsion of the US oil and gas age, a “miracle” hammered by low prices from competing conventional oil and gas from Russia and the ME, as well rapidly penetrating renewable energy (Germany 47% electricity in 2019).
Both Europe and China have embraced the Paris accords and together will create the foundations of the coming 100% renewable energy base of the 21st century. China solar, Europe (offshore) wind and hydrogen. That’s the way forward into the future.
The Eurasian strategy must be to develop the New Silk Road as the economic backbone of the planet and erect a new Iron Curtain in the “English” Channel and give China free hand in the western Pacific (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Ps, Australia, New Zealand) and recognize the SCS as Chinese.
North Stream must be completed later this year by Russians vessels to enhance European energy security.
It has been peace for far too long.
VICTORY on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:55 am
EuropeUp, AsiaUp, instead GlobalismDown. A consultation for the hard-core extremist deranged Anglos here is AngloDown too. “Virus ain’t shit” people look ridiculous. So, shut up. Of course, righteous fingers are pointed at 3 people here for their complete failure of their binary agendas. You know who you are. LMFAO. Yea, and you need to be laughed at because what you have done for years is completely wrong!!
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:59 am
“Spain’s COVID-19 Case Total Passes China’s, South Korea Reports Disturbing Rebound In New Cases: Live Updates” ZH
Of course China is one big lie but look at cloggo’s EU as he gleefully vomits bad American virus news. pathetic
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 7:13 am
Global food shortages ahead!
“Coronavirus hits already struggling US farmers: ‘We’ve stopped saying it can’t get worse”
https://tinyurl.com/r497f7p cnbc
U.S. farmers have endured a slew of financial hardships over the past few years. The U.S.-China trade war sent scores of farmers out of business. Record flooding inundated farmland and destroyed harvests. And a blistering heat wave stunted crop growth in the Midwest. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has dealt another blow to a vulnerable farm economy, sending crop and livestock prices tumbling and raising concerns about sudden labor shortages. “We were already under extreme financial pressure. With the virus sending the prices down — it’s getting to be the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Iowa farmer Robb Ewoldt. “We were hoping for something good this year, but this virus has stopped all our markets,” he said. Farmers are worried about labor shortages right before planting season starts in April. In an effort to curb the spread, the Trump administration recently restricted immigration from Mexico — a key source for cheap farm labor in the U.S. Farm trade groups are lobbying the administration to provide financial aid for farmers enduring price drops, as well as temporary work visas for seasonal farm workers from Mexico. But panic is surging as more states shutter businesses and order people to stay mostly indoors. Consumer demand for items like beef, chicken and fish has dropped as restaurants close indefinitely. More people are opting for cheaper, nonperishable goods like pasta and beans at grocery stores. “It’s not looking good. Product can’t be moved. Farmers are very concerned,” said Aubrey Onley, a farmer in Perquimans County, North Carolina. The numbers are grim: Corn futures have declined almost 10%, soybean futures more than 4% and wheat futures nearly 2% in the past several weeks. Futures prices for lean hogs have dropped 12% in the past two weeks and prices for cattle have declined nearly 13%. Dairy prices have also fallen as school cafeterias and fast-food restaurants shutter, though grocery sales have surged. But milk prices are expected to fall by as much as 25% this year, a serious blow to milk makers already grappling with record low prices.”
world grater supremacist muzzies lovin for the sake of supremacist muzzies on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 7:36 am
Paris * Mon 2:31 pm clouds. Chilly. 34 °F
a lot of innernet material on muzzin is bs but it’s refreshing to see a yt doc enttitled
muzzin: the untol story but whitey supertard tom holland. this whitey suoertard said muzzies made up allah the pedofile
this whitey supertard tom holland interviewed others whitey supetards and a muzze sayeed hossein nasser of geo wahing unin why would a muzzie a professor a a moto: god is our trooth by whitey supertard devout anglican geo washington?
god nows
but yeah it’s a good watch. i’m surprise whitey supertard tom holland doesn’t love muzzies like most supertards. he speaks high english exclusively, which is the language for muzzie lovin but he doesnt love muzzies as much
i have to reassess my preconception about high english, this is an interesting anomaly
please haneg ur underwear after 5 days supertard
please love supremacist muzzies more
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:04 am
“coronavirus is emphatically a disease of globalization.”
Says the globalist WSJ:
http://archive.is/WJn3p#selection-2473.166-2473.223
“How Epidemics Change Civilizations”
The flow of goods is not the problem, the flow of people is. Tourists, fake refugees, migrants, seasonal workers.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:10 am
When you got corona, your d*ck falls off.
So, now that I have your attention:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8104477/Doctors-claim-new-coronavirus-cause-damage-mans-TESTICLES.html
“Doctors claim new coronavirus ‘may cause damage to a man’s TESTICLES’ as they urge male patients to take fertility tests upon recovery”
asg70 on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:30 am
Zerohedge and peakoil.com. A dysfunctional marriage that seems to never end.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:37 am
US corporations want more cheap hands, Donnie is going to give it to them:
https://www.infowars.com/as-millions-of-americans-become-unemployed-trump-admin-expands-importation-of-foreign-workers/
S MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BECOME UNEMPLOYED, TRUMP ADMIN EXPANDS IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN WORKERS
“This is just an unspeakable action”
The vast majority are non-white and future Dems voters. So much for “Hail Trump” and DJT’s imagined white nationalist credentials; in reality he’s just another money obsessed servant of the corporate world and oligarchs. Bottom line and share holder value is all that’s important, nation doesn’t exist other than as a tax-farm with economic subjects. Manchester capitalism.
As I have said many times before, Trump is not another Vladimir Putin, but another Mikhail Gorbachev, indeed flirting with change and reform, in reality preparing his tax-farm for the breakup. Gorbachev and Trump: the undertakers of their respective empire’s, with Europe the laughing third.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:42 am
Mortality rate corona merely 0.025%
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/covid-19-case-fatality-rate-may-be-considerably-less-than-1-dr-anthony-fauci/
“COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate “May Be Considerably Less Than 1%” – Dr. Anthony Fauci”
Just a flu, only with a horrible end if it gets you, most likely when you are old and fat, have diabetics, high blood pressure or some other condition.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 8:57 am
In Brooklyn corpses are fork-lifted:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167283/Horrifying-moment-dead-bodies-loaded-refrigerated-truck-forklift.html
“Horrifying moment dead bodies are loaded into a refrigerated truck with a forklift outside a Brooklyn hospital as nurse shares picture of coronavirus victims lined up inside another”
Interesting new corona info:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8166867/How-large-viral-load-make-coronavirus-infection-worse.html
“How the amount of the coronavirus you get infected with could decide whether you suffer mild or severe symptoms”
A small army of invaders you can beat, a large army not. Sounds logical.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167501/Prince-Charles-self-isolation-recovering-coronavirus.html
Prince Charles probably recovered.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8167147/Spain-country-pass-China-85-000-coronavirus-infections.html
“Spain becomes third country to pass China with more than 85,000 coronavirus infections as number of deaths rises 812 to 7,340”
So much for corona being an anti-Asian “racist virus”.
Dredd on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 9:02 am
Mad is as mad does (The Ghost Plumes – 12).
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 9:08 am
More and more I begin to feel for the wisdom of the Dutch “herd immunity and lock-down lite” policy. Yes, we have pretty high numbers, but not nearly as high as Italy and Spain (per capita). Your infection numbers should be as high as possible, but just not high enough that your health system becomes overwhelmed. What you really want is “herd immunity”, that is a lot of healthy people who already had corona and dealt with it. They form a protective shield around weaker people, because healthy herd immune people no longer can infect these weaker people. On top of that they can kick-start the economy again. What you don’t want is an economy held hostage by a few old and obese people. The policy must be a trade-off between health-care capacity and economic damage. I suspect there is currently too much emphasis on health-care.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2020/03/27/caught-between-herd-immunity-and-national-lockdown-holland-hit-hard-by-covid-19/#137bf7f13557
“Caught Between Herd Immunity And National Lockdown, The Netherlands Hit Hard By Covid-19 (Update)”
Again the very revealing corona figures for the Netherlands:
Average age hospitalized corona patient: 63
Average age dead corona patient: 82!
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/de-coronadoden-man-oud-en-meestal-al-ziek~b7e4a192/
Usually a corona dead is an old man, who already was sick.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 9:47 am
“‘We don’t need your protection’: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tell Donald Trump they weren’t going to ask US for LA security and have ‘privately-funded arrangements’ – so who IS paying?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8165481/The-NOT-pay-Harry-Meghans-security-Los-Angeles-says-Donald-Trump.html
Who is paying?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7994491/Prince-Harry-talks-banking-giant-Goldman-Sachs.html
“Royal for rent? Prince Harry WAS in talks with Goldman Sachs – but it was ‘for one of his charities’, insist palace sources after claims about ‘£1bn handshake'”
Meghan and her royal catch and love puppy Harry are ideal First Family material, far better than Joe Biden. Markle has expressed contempt for Trump, what’s not to like. Perhaps Meghan could already be Veep in 2020 in case a Dem like Biden would win.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meghan-markle-may-have-political-ambitions-claims-royal-filmmaker
“Meghan Markle May Have Political Ambitions, Claims Royal Filmmaker”
Meghan-2024 is much more likely than Meghan-2020, but I would rule out nothing at this stage, where an “old sniffing half-senile white guy” his little chance of winning against Donnie the corona-fighter.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 10:15 am
European Commission pushes for freedom of travel for agricultural workers (read: Eastern Europeans):
https://www.nu.nl/economie/6041361/europese-commissie-dringt-aan-op-open-grenzen-voor-seizoensarbeiders.html
It looks like The Dutch, German and French harvests will be safe this year. The pay will be good.
FuelShortageComing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 10:23 am
The harvest are not safe because there will be nothing to harvest in Europe. Global cooling is coming with food shortage. So many thing will make life on earth hell.
Severe Spring Frosts Destroy Crops Across Europe
https://electroverse.net/severe-spring-frosts-destroy-crops-across-europe/
Italian farmers’ group Coldiretti issued a report on March 24, revealing a “difficult situation” throughout a significant part of the Italian peninsula, with frost-damage recorded from Lombardy to Emilia Romagna and from Veneto to Puglia.
Temperatures as low as -6C (21.2F) were recorded in Emilia Romagna.
As reported by iegvu.agribusinessintelligence.informa.com, the Coldiretti statement identified that apple, pear, peach, apricot, and almond trees had begun flowering, while cherry and plum trees were now also in bloom, and that these frosts have already destroyed many a harvest.
FuelShortageComing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 10:31 am
The human race will have to deal with the following :
-peak oil
-natural resources depletion:copper,iron, water
-global cooling meaning food shortage
-overpopulation planet
-genetic entropy: meaning extinction of every life form,trees, humans, animals,fish.
This is an important video to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF1Ha1QLZBo
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 10:35 am
“The harvest are not safe because there will be nothing to harvest in Europe. Global cooling is coming with food shortage. So many thing will make life on earth hell.”
Thanks Fuel for the warning. I’m out now to buy me a warm winter coat, apparently gonna need it.
Oh dang, the shops are all closed.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 11:25 am
Britain put under pressure from EU parliament’s largest party (including Merkel and Varadkar) to extend Brexit with 1 or 2 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/30/extend-brexit-transition-by-years-over-coronavirus-uk-told
There is no way the EU will let put itself under pressure by a defector and future geopolitical adversary. Good move with respect to the blame game if no-deal will be the result.
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 12:48 pm
Daily CO2 Mar. 29, 2020: 415.68 ppm;
Mar. 29, 2019: 412.03 ppm
Any questions campers?
world grater supremacist muzzies lovin for the sake of supremacist muzzies on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 1:20 pm
Jerusalem *Mon 9:16 pm Clear. cool. 59 °F
why is whitey supertard tom holland not loving muzzies, this is supertad who made muzzies: untold story on youtube
this supertard speak high english exclusively but dones’t love muzzies.
i’m frustrated. everytime i come up with solid theory that high english speakers are muzzies lover, came along whitey supertrad tom holland who is exception to the rule. now i have to go back and tweak my theory or come up with new 1
why muzzie in canada not amputated? muzzie said befriend kufar is worse than beervirus
amputate all muzzi imams
world grater supremacist muzzies lovin for the sake of supremacist muzzie on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 1:38 pm
St. Louis Now 64 °F Sunny.
city is named after whitey supertard saint of france a crusading muzie roasting supertard
now we have goat lover and muzzie lover supertard and adherant of permacultism
what a change
supertards pls change ur underware after 5 days
makati1 on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:02 pm
Tons of ‘cut and paste’ bullshit and not one intelligent comment in any of them. Typical Delusional Davy, a waste of space on planet Earth..
Davy on Mon, 30th Mar 2020 6:12 pm
“Tons of ‘cut and paste’ bullshit and not one intelligent comment in any of them. Typical Delusional Davy, a waste of space on planet Earth..”
Old bat, you can’t handle real information. If it diverges from your lies then you whine. Mr. AsiaUp and Virus ain’t shit ridiculousness. No wonder you are completely irrelevant these days.