Is from page 14 of the 1994 edition of Albert Jay Nock’s 1935 masterpiece, Our Enemy, the State:

“My purpose in writing is to raise the question whether the enormous depletion of social power which we are witnessing everywhere does not suggest the importance of knowing more than we do about the essential nature of the institution that is so rapidly absorbing this volume of power. One of my friends said to me lately that if the public-utility corporations did not mend their ways, the State would take over their business and operate it. He spoke with a curiously reverent air of finality. Just so, I thought, might a Church-citizen, at the end of the fifteenth century, have spoken of some impending intervention of the Church; and I wondered then whether he had any better-informed and closer-reasoned theory of the State than his prototype had of the Church. Frankly, I am sure he had not. His pseudo-conception was merely an unreasoned acceptance of the State on its own terms and at its own valuation; and in this acceptance he showed himself no more intelligent, and no less, than the whole mass of State-citizenry at large.”

From NY Post:

“On a random basis, the trial participants will receive either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo pill — vitamin C — every day for two weeks.”

A true placebo is inert. Vitamin C, which has already been used to treat COVID-19 patients, is not inert. A true placebo would be a sugar pill, something that has no effect on the body. This seems like an implicit admission of the effectiveness of both chloroquine AND vitamin C in treating coronavirus victims. Is the purpose to discredit chloroquine, which has been used to successfully treat COVID-19 patients, and therefore keep the road clear for the Gates/Fauci miracle vaccine? It certainly appears so.

400 laid off at Clarkesville, Tennessee hospital due to decreased patient load

MUSC lays off 900 Included in this article are nonsense sentences such as, “Some of those front-line health workers have already seen hours reduced due to the coronavirus pandemic.” There are others.

This Chicago hospital just closed its ER

This Kansas City hospital just closed its doors

Austin, Texas hospital is on the verge of going belly up

So apparently COVID-19 is so nefarious that it can induce enormous staff cuts at hospitals, including the shuttering of entire hospitals, while also creating a pandemic that requires a national lock-down. Evil!

You really have to give credit to the power of propaganda, particularly the brand that has been crafted to unleash such economic and political devastation across the country. Almost overnight it has transformed society into a textbook police state. The once-bustling business sectors of major cities are veritable ghost towns, as are mall parking lots, small businesses, churches, schools, et cetera, as everyone cowers in fear of the phantom illness. Superstitious fear has taken root, so much so that many of us are afraid to come anywhere near each other. A true police state has emerged, and local leaders have quickly seized authoritarian power to subject their local communities to any and all lunatic notions of how to handle the virus. The police have been used as the cudgel to enforce these diktats, and so the police state is here.

In response to a politically opportune illness, our Political Class giddily pried open a Pandora’s box. Seeing nothing immediately emerge, they reassured themselves that they had nothing to fear, that no consequences would arise from shutting down society. But something did emerge, what could only be described as an economic nuke, and now its detonated. Invisible, so ignored, yet destroying lives and social fabric nonetheless.

When the smoke clears and the propaganda loses its grasp on the public mind, COVID-19 will have been found to be no more dangerous than seasonal flu, that irresponsible news reporting led to an epidemic of mass panic, and that fudging the number of dead from COVID-19 created a false death toll, and we are going to feel like idiots for falling for the fearmongering again.

Is the virus or the machine doing the killing? Lives depend on a correct answer.