The Corona Pandemic Conspiracy

By early next week, the U.S. will hit a terrible milestone: 200,000 officially dead from Covid-19. (The actual number of deaths is likely considerably higher). Those deaths lie squarely in the hands of President Trump, as the Woodward tapes prove. But he did not act alone. Republican and Democratic members of Congress knew of the threat to American lives and either kept silent or actively lied to suppress the truth, as did much of the liberal press.

 

January, 2020, covid 19 cases skyrocketed in Hubei province, China. Trump confered with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who divulged all relevant data, with at least as much transparency as he provided his own press and citizens, clarifying how the disease spread, its mortality rate, and how best to contain it.

 

We now know that community transmission was already happening in the U.S. by early January, 2020, and there was an effective Covid-19 test available from the WHO, yet no tests were done in the U.S. at all during January.

 

January 24, the Senate Health Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee had a briefing, attended by Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and Senator Kelly Loeffler. After the meeting, Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters, “I don't think this is something that the United States public should be worried or frightened about.” He added, “I think the risk is very low right now for the United States.” Yet almost immediately after the meeting Loeffler and Burr started dumping stocks they thought would decline when word eventually leaked out that Fauci was lying and that this was indeed something the public should be worried about. Senator Feinstein also dumped similar stocks (worth $1.5-6 million), though it is not clear if she was at that meeting. Furthermore, Loeffler started purchasing shares in the online meeting firm Citrix, whose profits skyrocketed during the pandemic.

 

As these Senators were dumping stocks and raking in millions of dollars, there was still no testing going on. Indeed, no U.S. testing occurred until the end of February, despite the growing number of infections and at least 1 death. On February 27, Burr told affluent Washington insiders at a private club known as the Tar Heel Circle, “There’s one thing that I can tell you about this: It is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history.” Yet 3 days earlier, he wrote an op-ed stating that the US was “better prepared than ever before” to respond to a pandemic.

 

Through the entire months of January and February, Democratic members of Congress said virtually nothing about the pandemic or its threat to American lives and livelihood. The NYT had virtually no op-eds about it.

 

No lockdowns of any American cities occurred until mid-March, despite the fact that Democratic and Republican members of Congress knew of the mortal threat back in January. According to researchers at Columbia University, if those lockdowns had started just 2 weeks earlier, which would have been totally feasible considering how many politicians already knew of the danger, 83% of the U.S. Covid deaths could have been avoided.

 

Trump should be removed from office and tried for mass murder. But don’t count on Biden to be much better at protecting American lives or livelihoods. He jumped on the Trump bandwagon early with respect to blaming China for the pandemic, tweeting, “If I were president, I would not be taking China’s word when it comes to the coronavirus.” That lie has been completely debunked by scientists and the press. The evidence is overwhelming that Covid19 was not created in a lab and press reports show that China was completely candid with the world very early on, much more candid than the U.S. government has been with its own citizens.

 

Just this week, Biden spoke to UAW officials and Democratic politicians at UAW headquarters in Warren, Michigan. Most of the highest-ranking UAW members weren’t there because they are all in prison for corruption and accepting bribes from the auto industry. Yet Biden said nothing at this meeting about the murderous role of the UAW in forcing its members back to work during the pandemic, under dangerous conditions, to an industry that produces nothing remotely close to an “essential service.”

 

Biden is just as concerned with protecting the profits of U.S. corporations and U.S. hegemony as Trump, and just as willing to sacrifice American lives to do so. He has flatly refused to consider Medicare for All or a Green New Deal. Last year, he was caught on tape reassuring wealthy donors that their standard of living would not decline, that “nothing would fundamentally change” if he became president.

 

Yet again, the American public is being asked to choose for the lesser evil. Each election cycle, the Democrats move further to the right, hoping to outflank the Republicans, as we’ve seen with Biden’s tough-on-crime ad campaign. And each cycle, the Republican move even more to the right. Consequently, the Democrats today look like Regan Republicans, while Trump looks like a fascist.