Or 1.2 million additional under-5 child deaths in just six months among low and middle-income countries.

Do the COVID cultists care about these deaths? Or is this just a dry statistic to them, lost amid their heavy diet of coronavirus propaganda?

And out of over 5,000 deaths, only 246 were people under 60 years of age.

If this were about protecting the vulnerable, nursing homes would’ve been given priority protection. Instead they were forced to accept COVID-positive patients.

This is not about a virus.

I don’t really know what else to call what I see when I go out, or turn on the news, except that a new religious fundamentalism is spreading like a cancer before our eyes. The superstitious fear of an invisible phantom killer moving silently through the masses, the behavioral tenets handed down from On High, the blind worship of ‘Science’, lashing out at non-believers, spreading the gospel of the End of Days, where a Great Flood (in this case, a virus) has been unleashed by an angry god in order to cleanse the Earth of non-believers. The parallels are endless.

As the great Morgan Smith has said, the mask is the new burka, serving a purpose similar to that of the burka. It is a sign of obedience, of submission and allegiance, to the new religion and the new god. Just look how natural it is for us as a species to backpedal straight into the gaping maw of the God State, where religion and authority exist as one. Too many of us are allowing ourselves to be seduced by the easy slavery that this will lead to. Resisting it, though, takes an act of will that not too many possess.

Sure, the acolytes of this reworked fundamentalism speak of Science, but when they do all I hear is God. As I’ve said before, we’re hardwired to seek out a god, and to place it in a position of absolute authority. We’re watching that process play out in broad daylight right in front of us.

And why do most of these people become highly offended when they encounter evidence that the virus may be fading away? Why do they seem not to care about the effects of lockdown on mortality and health? Because it’s a religion they’ve accepted, whether they know it or not.

And really, the news makes much more sense when you realize that millions of people are in thrall to a new religion.

What once appeared insane, now has a pattern, and a logic, however perverse it may be.

From Austen Allred:

70% of the state’s deaths occurred in nursing homes.

Look how easy it is. One thing that virus mania has reminded us of, is that the human race is just as much a primitive, superstitious species as it has always been.  We still have our shamans, priests, and soothsayers, only they’re now part of the class of “experts” that world governments surround themselves with, and whose opinions, while almost universally wrong, seem to always provide the rationale for expanding the power and scope of the government they serve. How is failed statistical modeller Neil Ferguson different from the tea leaf readers from pre-history? He might as well have read our Tarot, it would’ve caused less damage to world economies.

As seen on Twitter.

SF Chronicle.

Evidence that COVID-19 poses virtually no threat to children and young adults continues to pile up, but it’s being completely ignored.  From what I’ve gathered from reading the news, as well as seeing with my own eyes when I go out, hysteria over the virus appears to be increasing in many respects. This is a very dangerous situation, when even facts can’t shake the public from their fear. Almost as if their participation in collective mass hysteria gives them a sense of tribal communion, and a primitive meaning to their lives.

Shelley Luther, the Texas salon owner who reopened her business in defiance of the shut down order, has a strength of character that the drones that comprise larger society rarely encounter. Luther, also a mother of young children, was arrested, and then given the option to either apologize for her actions in return for no jail time, or have the book thrown at her. She refused to apologize without hesitation, and stated the reasons for her refusal to the judge. He tossed her in jail, but the ensuing uproar throughout Texas and the world forced the government’s hand. She was released early, and will now live out her life as a hero. She also has a damn good story to recount for the rest of her life, and there will be many thousands eager to hear it.

Let’s ponder for a moment the character of a person with the courage to stare down the State in the midst of the rapid rise of pandemic totalitarianism, as our fiat liberty, as phony as our money, burns. Government at every level immediately arrogated to itself complete control over the economic and personal lives of its citizens, the greatest coup by the State against its own people in history. There are very few people that could do what she had done, vanishingly so. And yet we owe what liberty we’ve enjoyed up to now thanks to people just like her who refused to yield before galloping authoritarianism. There are endless writers and commentators for liberty: there are very few who put their necks on the line when liberty is actually at stake. Luther is one of those few. This is a significant point, and her defiance of the State is a significant event. A decisive battle, one of many, was fought and won. Luther fought it alone and emerged the victor. Something else is significant here. An apology for her actions was asked of her. Throughout history, the State has always demanded a recantation from its victims. Some type of confession, or conversion, the imprisoned is always compelled to make, under threat of punishment. This is a harbinger of government’s final transformation into the total State; one of its abiding characteristics. In the midst of our confused, morally decayed, and rapidly rotting modern age, Luther faced off against this ancient evil. Few others could do the same.