The surgeon general has recently described this upcoming week as our “Pearl Harbor moment” in regards to the coronavirus infections in the United States. 9/11 has also been invoked to stoke the fear, and it’s a pathetic display.

Why isn’t the plague of annual medical error deaths not spoken of in this hyperbolic fashion? At an average of 250,000 avoidable error deaths each year, if we want to compare it to 9/11 it’s the equivalent of 83. But it’s meaningless to compare these tragedies. Over 600,000 Americans die of heart disease each year, why aren’t their deaths valorized in the same way? It’s because those deaths aren’t politically exploitable in the same way that deaths linked to COVID-19 are. The use of war rhetoric is designed to provoke a specific response from the public, who become much more docile and compliant than they would otherwise be. When the public believes “we’re at war!”, they will accept all manner of government intrusion into their lives. They’ll accept almost anything their government tells them.

If 2,000,000 Americans eventually die as a direct result of the authoritarian lock-downs, how many 911’s will that amount to? What memorial will be built to honor these entirely avoidable deaths? Who will count them, who will know their names? They’ll of course be lost to history, while elementary schools will screech endlessly about the “Pandemic” for centuries.

It’s pretty clear from the events of the past month, that fear itself, not some virus, will be the thing to kill us all in the end. With over half the globe in lock-down, the corporate media outlets daily broadcasting their overwrought apocalypse fantasies, the recrudescence of primal superstitious fear among the public of invisible, malevolent spirits moving through the air, more than a few us surely are experiencing whiplash as we are dragged back down into a demon-haunted world, from which total, authoritarian government is our only salvation. Or so we are told. What’s that oft-quoted line? This is why the aliens won’t talk to us.

From economist Toby Rogers’ editorial at Children’s Health Defense, if the U.S. economy hits 30% unemployment or greater, we will see up to 2 million “deaths of despair”. Remember, the initial prediction for coronavirus fatalities was 2.2 million. That prediction has now been downgraded multiple times. But the deaths due to lock-down are now unavoidable. The damage to the economy has been done, and is irreversible. And so, irony of ironies, to avoid 2.2 million theoretical COVID-19 deaths, our government locks down the economy, ensuring the deaths of 2 million Americans.

If the apocalypse is indeed upon us, it is entirely of our own making.

“No, that’s a dead end. That would be a bad thing. Don’t do that.”

COVID-19: Four-fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate:

“A total of 130 of 166 new infections (78%) identified in the 24 hours to the afternoon of Wednesday 1 April were asymptomatic, said China’s National Health Commission. And most of the 36 cases in which patients showed symptoms involved arrivals from overseas, down from 48 the previous day, the commission said.”

H/t People for Informed Consent