Why, through an authoritarian lockdown, is Israel deliberately committing national suicide?

Israel is ten days into a far harsher national lockdown than has been implemented before. Scientists find no evidence that it’s working at all. Unemployment is skyrocketing far above 25%. No demonstrations are allowed at all. Their entire nation is cratering due to this self-inflicted behavior. It defies belief. Why is it happening? Any sane person can see the irreversible devastation being inflicted. Netanyahu is telling the public that the new lockdowns will probably last an entire year. Does he really anticipate a total bailout from U.S. taxpayers?

Something very bad is happening in the world, a psychological contagion is leading to suffering on a scale that we’re only just beginning to understand. Nations are deliberately causing the destruction of their economies, the destruction of all remnants of liberty left to their citizens. It is no longer tethered to reality in the slightest. We now know that COVID-19 poses little to no risk to over 99% of the population. And yet entire nations are inflicting unimaginable pain and suffering on the most vulnerable within their borders.

Madness is in the driver’s seat, an almost anti-natalist ideology has infected the minds of millions.

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We know why.

 

The post-COVID world will be dominated solely by massive corporations

Alarming article in the New York Times:

“The next six months could witness one of the biggest consolidations of corporate power in the United States in almost a century, yet a variety of legal and economic factors may leave the federal government unable to stop it.

The essence of the problem is that during the extended economic crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic, many large companies — and especially their stock market values — have been growing rapidly while their small business competitors have faced something of an apocalypse. More than 400,000 small businesseshave already closed and millions more are at risk.”

The danger inherent in this change extends far beyond the economic impact on ordinary Americans. Independent, small businesses have the freedom to refuse to enforce or implement ridiculous and totalitarian corporate rules as a requirement for employment. Large corporations, such as Walmart, Amazon, and the like, do not have that freedom. They are beholden to power, and will be more than willing to make adherence to authoritarian rules a condition of employment. This nation is fast becoming a corporate serfdom, where multinational, multi-billion dollar employers implement and enforce a fascist conformity far quicker and far more all-encompassing than a government could ever do.

 

Even NPR now admits that COVID illness in children is exceedingly rare

Interesting times:

Twenty-five states and New York City reported hospitalizations by age. “Children were 0.5%-3.7% of total reported hospitalizations, and between 0.2%-7.9% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalization,” the authors wrote.

Forty-two states and New York City reported deaths by age. Of those, 17 states reported no child deaths from COVID-19, and the highest reported percentage of child deaths among total deaths was 0.26%, in Tennessee. Among all child cases of COVID-19 in this subset of states and New York City, the death rate was 0.16%.“

Hot mic moment: Political parasites caught admitting that masks are nothing more than “theater”

Are pro-lockdown governors betting on a Biden bailout?

The only way to explain the suicidal lockdown policies of California, New York, Ohio, Michigan, Hawaii, and other states, is that they’ve been promised billions in bailout cash once Biden is installed in office. If so, they’re betting their citizens’ lives on the gamble. Everything is riding on a Biden win, and if Trump is re-elected, they will have inflicted months of unnecessary suffering on the most vulnerable among their citizens on an insane political ploy. It’s the only explanation I can come up with as to why so many state politicians are sticking with authoritarian lockdowns in the face of everything we’ve learned about COVID-19.

If this is true, how far will they go to ensure that Biden wins?