Stranger than fiction:

“The Ohio Star reported on September 3 that Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Interim Director Lance Himes released an order on August 31 – an order creating Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shelters and legalizing their use for people who “are unable to safely self-quarantine in their place of residence and to isolate those diagnosed with or showing symptoms of COVID-19.”

The non-congregate FEMA sheltering will be utilized throughout the state for people, according to the examples given by Himes, who “test positive for COVID-19 who do not require hospitalization but need isolation (including those exiting from hospitals); those who have been exposed to COVID-19 who do not require hospitalization; and asymptomatic high-risk individuals needing social distancing as a precautionary measure.”

Despite the fact that COVID PCR tests have been proven to have up to a 90% false positive rate, and the fact that fewer than 10,000 US citizens have died of COVID with no other underlying cause, it is apparently just fine to continue pretending that a boogeyman virus is still running rampant out in the wilds. The question is rapidly becoming: how much martial law can be built upon baseless fear? And: how long before enough people realize they’re being duped?

Several Ohio Republicans have initiated the process of impeaching governor Mike DeWine, a Republican, over his authoritarian reaction to COVID-19. Ohioans should hope they succeed.

The phase I/II trials of the ‘Oxford vaccine’ (ChAdOx1) pointed to very high rates of mild side effects (~60%). Now, apparently a serious adverse event has occurred. https://t.co/VbZZRVLufL

— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) September 8, 2020

Eventually we're going to have to discuss the reality that thousands of people in the United States were probably taken from us via ventilators. I'm surprised that there has not been any decent journalism on this front. NYC is the epicenter of the misused ventilator epidemic.

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) September 8, 2020

Malcolm X warned us years ago about the puppetry of interviews like Cardi B and Joe Biden.

He always spoke out against the white liberal game of using entertainers as pawns.

This isn’t really about you, @iamcardib. This is about black America waking up to Democrat racism. pic.twitter.com/Ap7WeZL6B5

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 7, 2020

This article about New Jersey gov. Phil Murphy’s authoritarian behavior is pretty insightful. What’s worrying is that this type of “strongman” autocracy is becoming normalized by the corporate press:

“With immense emergency powers afforded under New Jersey’s constitution, the one-time Goldman Sachs partner has almost unchecked sway over how the state navigates the most complex public health and economic challenge in a century.

Every 30 days for the last six months, Murphy has re-upped a state-of-emergency order that’s allowed him to bypass the Legislature and normal rule making procedures. Businesses were directed to close. Evictions and foreclosures have been suspended. Should it come to it, the state could confiscate privately held medical supplies.“

Doesn’t really sound like the mainstream press minds at all the way that these governors have been ruling over their populations. I even detect a hint of admiration.  A press that fawns over dictators is a very dangerous development. They’ll whitewash their crimes, and witch hunt political enemies and dissidents. They’ll target and smear actual journalists. Much of this is already happening.