Some have felt a tickle in the back of their throats and many are walking around with a heightened sense of anxiety and arms filled with toilet roll(apparently this is the most important thing you’ll need if you want to survive COVID-19🧐) On the other hand, there are many folk like myself where the only thing that’s tingling is our Spidey-sense...
Now this isn’t going to be a post about how to avoid this new strain, how to treat it naturally, or even how it came about. No, I’m not going there. This post is just about a curious observation I’ve had and hopefully it is just a coincidence. Nevertheless, I want to share this thought with you and see what you think.
Whatever country you’re from you will be experiencing your own government's response to the current pandemic. In the UK the response has been quite reasonable compared with our Foreign counterparts. So far no schools have been closed and it’s pretty much business as usual, relatively speaking.
However, we are beginning to don our Lemming suits and accelerate towards the cliff, with talk of “social distancing” and the apparent lack of goods to be found at the supermarkets. Compared to what’s going on in countries like Italy, the UK is as laid back as a Jamaican hammock salesman. And speaking of Italy, this brings me to the 1st of my observations...
As most will know, Italy has been hit hard by the Coronavirus. The reason for this specific outbreak is, to my knowledge, quite unknown and as far as I'm aware they don't serve Bat carbonara... Maybe the high infection rate is because Italy is a tourist hotspot, but then why have France or Spain not seen the same amounts falling victim to the virus? My Italian girlfriend, who is a practicing nurse and has held positions in the medical field, such as head of clinical research, explains that the high numbers in Italy are simply down to the fact that Italy have been more proactive when it comes to testing citizens for the virus. Whatever the reason is for this, it seems that Italy has drawn the majority of media attention and for now they are Europe's guinea pigs. This is evident in their government's approach to tackling the problem, which has seen the whole of the country placed into lockdown. While the sound of placing an entire country into quarantine sounds drastic, my girlfriends has pointed out that the population aren't exactly under house arrest and are still free to walk around in public. Much like in the UK, the Italians have been advised to practice "Social distancing" and "self Quarantine", which seems rational. But due to the high numbers being infected, Italian citizens are facing something much scarier than the fear of isolation...and no, it isn't the fear of running out of pasta and wine..
If you've been paying close enough attention to what's happening in Italy, you'd have heard how their healthcare system is way past breaking point. The number of patients far outways the capacity of their medical infrastructure and reports are coming out from medical professionals that make for pretty grim reading.
The situation in northern hospitals is becoming heavy due to the workload on health workers. About 150 family doctors forced to stay home,
Silvestro Scotti: the family doctors are missing because there are about 150 in quarantine, isolation or hospitalization." And we have a great need for masks, many of we work unprotected, "adds Claudio Cricelli, president of the Simg company.
Today, Italy has 10,149 cases of the coronavirus. There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care. Doctors and nurses are unable to tend to everybody. They lack machines to ventilate all those gasping for air...
Now the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI) has published guidelines for the criteria that doctors and nurses should follow as these already extraordinary circumstances worsen. The document begins by likening the moral choices Italian doctors may face to the forms of wartime triage that are required in the field of “catastrophe medicine.” Instead of providing intensive care to all patients who need it, the authors suggest, it may become necessary to follow “the most widely shared criteria regarding distributive justice and the appropriate allocation of limited health resources.”
Those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, would be left to die. This sounds cruel, but the alternative, the document argues, is no better. “In case of a total saturation of resources, maintaining the criterion of ‘first come, first served’ would amount to a decision to exclude late-arriving patients from access to intensive care.”
Personally, I find this situation staggering and coming from a developed nation, such as Italy, I'm horrified that they are being forced to decide who lives and who dies. Some folk, and certainly the Italian government, would say that this is an unprecedented event and that there is no way they could have prepared for this, but I must disagree...
Over the last 20-years we have been plagued(pun intended) with possible pandemics. Whether it was Swine flu, Bird flu or Zika virus, they were all supposed to "go viral" and, more importantly, they all managed to suck millions of $'s/£'s from the taxpayers pocket. The vast majority of this cash only benefited the banksters who borrowed it(at interest, of course) and the pharmaceutical companies who received it. Even the most wolly of sheeple have to become suspicious when the WHO's board members declared one pandemic in 2009, which released billions of $'s in emergency funding to pharmaceutical companies that the very same board members worked for.
Conflicts of interest aside, with all these practice-runs you would think that our governments would have prepared for similar events in the future, especially when they keep telling us "It's not a case of 'if' but 'when' it will happen next". So, with this in mind, how does a 1st world country in the 21st century find itself using 3rd world medicare from the dark-ages? It just doesn't add up and I for one do not think that this has come about through complacency. If there is one thing governments do well, it's plan ahead.
So what better way than a codger-killing-virus to solve this wrinkly dilemma. It is perfect really and, seemingly, it leaves no person or persons to blame.
And as an added bonus, the establishment get to pull the trigger on allsorts of other things that have been on the "green agenda", things like too many holidays abroad.
Britons should limit themselves to one flight a year, says Green Party leader
The recent restrictions on air travel are bound to have a knock-on effect, probably crippling most airlines and the tourist industry along with it. But it seems that even after this latest pandemic has fizzled out, we'll be much less able to travel abroad, either due to monopolised high cost flights or our sense of "social responsibility", which will be made up from the guilt of our carbon footprint and galvanised by our new found fear of causing another pandemic(because it's all our fault, of course, you bat-eating snot spreading plebs).
Now this isn't something the Green Party are pushing for, but why would the Gov waste a perfectly good crisis and not get in on the act.
It's been a tough fight to try convince everyone that vaccines are safe and I'm not too sure the Gov are actually winning. The fact that they've had to use social media giants, such as Facebook and Youtube, and have them ban anyone spreading information about the dangers of vaccines says alot about the current perception. I mean if it were a small minority I think they'd just ignore the noise and push through legislation to make vaccines mandatory. So it now seems that extreme measures call for extreme circumstances and, again, this current pandemic creates that very circumstance...
As of yet, the UK's Health secretary, Matt Hancock, has only dipped his toe in the waters of mandatory vaccinations, but after this is all over I get the feeling he'll be back for more.
The last of my three suspicious coincidences is the constant thread of viruses being linked with our food chain. Whether it be bird, swine, or bat, the virus of the day always seems to have some kind of association with animals. So, if we are to believe that pandemics are inevitably going to become a regular part of our lives, then we must also except that there needs to be conclusive solution(s) if we're to survive.
Now, if I were to put my conspiracy cap on, I would say that cutting out meat from our diets is something that"they" would suggest, or insist, we do. This may be considered a longshot, to link our diet to how we contract viruses, but cutting out animals food sources has other benefits besides.
Not only are animals linked to viruses but they are also linked with producing "the dreaded" CO2. On their own, neither of the two reasons for cutting out meat seem to tip the balance, but working together they might just turn the tide. Governments have always wanted control of our food-chain and by cutting out animal products that becomes even more likely to happen.
"Going Vegan" is the new buzz-word and it's being rammed down our throats with some force. I'm all for people opting to eat a vegan diet, but what I care more about is people having free will, especially when it comes to what we eat. For those who are more insistent on eating meat, the establishment has you covered...
Fake meat is on the agenda and it's being produced in a Laboratory near you. So get your taste buds ready for a genetically modified treat because it looks to be coming our way.
I believe the Green Party have some good intentions and part of me understands that our food industry is cruel. But do not get things twisted, the government do not give a damn about anything except money and power. If they can disguise their intentions under a good cause then that's what they'll do. So if appealing to your conscience won't work, then scaring you to death might do the trick.
I have no problem believing the ruling elite would purposely create a pandemic to take control of our food chain and I can believe it even more if it means they get control of population numbers, vaccines, and movement. The more I consider this theory the more it seems probable and maybe we are witnessing the establishments grab for everything...
...If so, I hope they have over extended themselves and doing so left themselves exposed.
