Some of my earliest posts mentioned how the CDC botched testing in the pandemic. We’ll look at the history of the current CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, before resuming that discussion.

Both of Redfield’s parents were scientists working at the National Institutes of Health. Graduating from Georgetown University School of Medicine, he did his medical residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C.   

VaxSyn, the AIDS Vaccine

It is surrounding an AIDS vaccine, named VaxSyn, that Redfield’s career has the most controversy. Redfield was working with a private company, MicroGeneSys, in the development of this. He presented data regarding 15 of the 26 patients at an international AIDS conference saying it showed promise.

He stated he didn’t have the other data and so presented what he had available. A different scientist, Maryanne Vahey, said he had all the data.

The Defense Department investigated Redfield as he was accused of misrepresenting this data regarding the vaccine’s efficacy. In 1993 the investigation concluded that Redfield had not committed scientific misconduct but was controversial in doing so. “[S]everal of Redfield’s colleague claim the investigation failed to resolve some of the issues that triggered the inquiry.” https://science.sciencemag.org/content/261/5123/824

The final investigatory report was never released, meaning we can’t know how the conclusions were reached. Though the watchdog group Public Citizen did obtain some of the documents stating, “Col. Dangerfield’s investigation lends new meaning to the term ‘whitewash.’ Massive parts of the testimony of key figures have been whited out in documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act”. https://khn.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03/940607plswtowaxman.pdf

Former Air Force Lt. Col. Craig Hendrix, now a doctor and director at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine stated. “Either he was egregiously sloppy with data or it was fabricated. It was somewhere on that spectrum, both of which were serious and raised questions about his trustworthiness.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aids-researcher-robert-r-redford-selected-as-cdc-director/

Despite absolving him of scientific fraud, the investigation still blasted him for having a “close relationship” with a conservative Christian group, called Americans for a Sound HIV/AIDS Policy (ASAP), sharing scientific information “to a degree that is inappropriate.”

Yet the vaccine research went on, Redfield still pushing it forward. The FDA “was less than impressed with the product and declined to approve continued human testing. Unfazed, MicroGeneSys recruited former Sen. Russell Long to lobby fellow Republicans with the hope of getting Congress to back further testing. In House hearings, Redfield insisted that VaxSyn was within 12 months of being ready for a large-scale human test that would prove the gp160 concoction could stop the disease process. With Smith and ASAP chiming in, Congress was bowled over and approved $20 million for further human experiments. Also in the chorus of VaxSyn backers was then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/23/meet-trumps-new-homophobic-public-health-quack/

Apparently, Dr. Anthony Fauci was involved in the panel that evaluated the appropriation! https://science.sciencemag.org/content/263/5146/463.2

Despite more research, including a phase II trial, the vaccine was never found effective. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10720508/

Also involved in this research is Dr. Deborah Birx, who was at one time Redfield’s assistant. Brix has recently been in the spotlight with the coronavirus pandemic as White House Task Force Chair. Perhaps a deep dive on her later.

Interestingly, Redfield was also considered for CDC Director back in 2002, but these events were deemed too controversial for Bush to appoint him. (Instead we got Julie Gerberding.) https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/cdcdirectorchoices.html

Redfield’s Religious Ties – ASAP and CAFI

As mentioned, some of the controversy surrounded Redfield is due to his religious ties and beliefs.

In a forward to Christians in the Age of AIDS, Redfield wrote: “It is time to reject the temptation of denial of the AIDS/HIV crisis; to reject false prophets who preach the quick-fix strategies of condoms and free needles; to reject those who preach prejudice; and to reject those who try to replace God as judge.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aids-researcher-robert-r-redford-selected-as-cdc-director/

ASAP later became the Children’s AIDS Fund (CAF). Redfield was serving as a board member here when he was appointed CDC director, though he resigned from the board when taking the CDC director position. https://web.archive.org/web/20180330114408/https://childrensaidsfund.org/accountability/

This group has continually come under fire for anti-gay and anti-HIV activities.

This piece may seem irrelevant and confusing but read it and then the following section to find out why I included it.

“In June 2014, CAF Uganda received $1.5 million as part of a multiyear HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program. That brings the total CAF Uganda has received since the start of Obama’s second term to at least $6.6 million. This direct funding isn’t CAF’s only source of federal money. The organization is also a sub-grantee of Catholic Relief Services via the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Response, or PEPFAR, in Zambia. According to Catholic Relief Services’ most recent tax returns, from 2011–12, that subgrant amounted to $2.1 million.” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/anti-gay-anti-choice-childrens-aids-fund-still-raking-taxpayer-money/

AIDS is Big Money

After retiring from the army in 1996, he co-founded the Institute of Human Virology along with fellow HIV researchers Robert Gallo and William Blattner. “His institute has worked on AIDS in Africa, getting $138 million from CDC for its work.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aids-researcher-robert-r-redford-selected-as-cdc-director/

“Gallo, who once claimed to have discovered HIV, lost that moniker after years of dispute with French researchers, two of whom were awarded the Nobel Prize. During the Bush administration, which rolled out the enormous President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in 2003, the Gallo group enjoyed strong funding support.” https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/23/meet-trumps-new-homophobic-public-health-quack/

Lots of money moves around regarding AIDS. Just to give a glimpse of this here’s some funding details provided by Wikipedia to Redfield and Gallo.

“In July 2007, Gallo and his team were awarded a $15 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research into a preventive vaccine for HIV/AIDS. Additionally, in 2011 Gallo and his team received $23.4 million from a consortium of funding sources to support the next phase of research into the Institute of Human Virology’s (IHV) promising HIV/AIDS preventive vaccine candidate. The IHV vaccine program grants included $16.8 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, $2.2 million from the U.S. Army’s Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), and other research funding from a variety of sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gallo

Understand that disease is big business. Again, it doesn’t mean that all people involved have nefarious aims. Far from it. But with this much money moving around, conflicts of interest must be investigated.

In addition, Redfield served as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 2005 to 2009, including chair of the International Subcommittee.

Appointment to CDC Director

Redfield became the director in March 2018, after taking the position from Brenda Fitzgerald.

Peter Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest released a statement prior to Redfield’s appointment to the CDC. “This appointment would be disastrous for at least three reasons.  First, he has no experience running a public health agency… Second…he has been credibly accused of scientific misconduct for exaggerating the benefits of a putative HIV vaccine, for which he was investigated by the military. Third, he has supported a variety of policies related to HIV/AIDS that are anathema to the great majority of public health professionals…What one wants in a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a scientist of impeccable scientific integrity.  What one would get in Robert Redfield is a sloppy scientist with a long history of scientific misconduct and an extreme religious agenda. We urge the administration not to appoint Dr. Redfield.” https://cspinet.org/news/cspi-urges-administration-not-appoint-dr-robert-redfield-history-scientific-misconduct-cdc

There was also controversy regarding his salary at the CDC. Originally, $375,000 annually, which is very high for a government scientist position, he agreed to lower it to $209,700.

What is most interesting about this is how much he was making earlier. Redfield’s “pay last year during a 15-month period at the University of Maryland topped $827,000, with his base salary of $650,000 plus bonuses and consulting fees, according to The Wall Street Journal… It is very hard to understand what accomplishments prompted the University of Maryland to consider Redfield worth $827,000 for 15 months.” https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html

This is much larger than the $131,780 listed here for professors at the University of Maryland. Why and how was he making so much? https://data.chronicle.com/category/state/Maryland/faculty-salaries/

CDC and Coronavirus Response

So it is with all this background information that we look at new information on the CDC’s handling of the pandemic.

Early testing in specific areas could have been helpful in containing the spread or at the very least provide more complete statistics from which to base models off of. The CDC worked to develop their own test of which extremely limited quantities were shipped out around the country. Furthermore, this test proved inaccurate.

“The silence from CDC . . . is deafening,” Joanne Bartkus, the Minnesota health department’s lab director, wrote on February 10^th. https://www.chron.com/news/article/Inside-the-coronavirus-testing-failure-Alarm-and-15178203.php

Meanwhile countries such as South Korea were conducting 1000 tests per day. There were a number of bureaucratic hurdles that further compounded such problems.

Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “The singular egregious failure was the lack of having a test ready, at scale, with all that was happening in China. It was their job to be ready for the worst-case scenario. Ready to do millions of tests throughout the country. Because that didn’t occur, everything that has happened since then is attributable to that failure.” https://www.stripes.com/news/us/what-happened-to-the-cdc-1.625618/cdc-1.625619

Publicly obtained email correspondence from CDC and other public health officials shows the issues. “What comes through clearly is confusion, as the CDC underestimated the threat from the virus and stumbled in communicating to local public health officials what should be done.” https://www.propublica.org/article/internal-emails-show-how-chaos-at-the-cdc-slowed-the-early-response-to-coronavirus

Despite this, Redfield was confident and optimistic. On January 28^th, he wrote, “While we believe the 2019 -nCoV poses a very serious public health threat, the virus is not spreading in the U.S. at this time and CDC believes the immediate health risk from 2019-nCoV to the general American public is low…CDC’s goal is to assure an effective response to this emerging infectious disease.”

On March 3^rd he wrote, “We anticipated and prepared for the possible spread of COVID-19 in communities across the United States…Confronting global outbreaks and protecting Americans is what we do.” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6818456-Redfield-March-3-Email.html

The CDC website points to a National Vital Statistics System document that says, “COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.” https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/coronavirus/Alert-2-New-ICD-code-introduced-for-COVID-19-deaths.pdf

I don’t know about you but making assumptions about causes of death means the numbers will be off. A Minnesota doctor agreed. Dr. Scott Jensen said this was “ridiculous”. He also called into question that Medicare payments could incentivize poor treatment options. “Right now Medicare has determined that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you’ll get paid $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator, you get $39,000; three times as much. Nobody can tell me, after 35 years in the world of medicine, that sometimes those kinds of things [have] impact on what we do.” https://www.foxnews.com/media/physician-blasts-cdc-coronavirus-death-count-guidelines

But, of course, the methods deployed are being given credit for the numbers lower than the models predicted. “If we just social distance, we will see this virus and this outbreak basically decline, decline, decline. And I think that’s what you’re seeing,” said Redfield in an interview. “I think you’re going to see the numbers are, in fact, going to be much less than what would have been predicted by the models.” https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-director-downplays-coronavirus-models-death-toll-lower/story?id=70011918&cid=clicksource_4380645_4_heads_hero_live_hero_hed

Negligent or Criminal?

Remember what Former Air Force Lt. Col. Craig Hendrix, said regarding the AIDS vaccine? “Either he was egregiously sloppy with data or it was fabricated. It was somewhere on that spectrum, both of which were serious and raised questions about his trustworthiness.”

In this case I would say that either the CDC, with Redfield at the helm, was either extremely negligent in how they handled this pandemic, or they were purposefully and criminally culpable. It is somewhere on that spectrum.

Towards the second possibility there I provide the following. Some are saying that the novel coronavirus has been here longer than has been stated.

“It is clear from the CDC data that a number of states in the country experienced an onslaught of [Influenza like illness] beginning in November of 2019, much earlier and much more substantive than the four previous years…The implications of this are many. If many more people than originally thought have already had this virus, and survived, it means that Americans in those areas are likely able to return to normal life. It gives us a broader data set to look at in terms of fatality, length of illness, treatment measures, etc. It also showcases the need for antibody testing to begin in rapid fashion, and begs the question “Why doesn’t the CDC already know this?” UncoverDC used their data.” https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/05/could-cdc-data-prove-covid-19-infections-in-november-2019/

This is interesting information. You can watch this play out week by week on the CDC’s website here. Notice that the map is almost completely red well before any social distancing began. https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/main.html

More deep dives on the other players to come…

Misinformation. Disinformation. Information overwhelm.

Cognitive biases. Blind spots. Narrative fallacies.

With all of these in play and more, how do you possibly get to any TRUTH?

When you venture down the rabbit hole (or down a hundred different ones) it can drive you mad. I don’t think I’m exaggerating there. Literally crazy.

Questioning Your Sanity is a Good Thing

I do question my own sanity. I recognize that some of these writings sound paranoid! Yet, I think that questioning my sanity is a sign of being sane. To not question whether you’re just being crazy likely means that you have a greater chance of being so.

Not to mention, we live in an insane world. To think this is normal to be a part of that insanity.

It is saner to question everything. Yet, at the same time if you’re questioning everything it is really hard to operate in the world! (That’s why most people don’t question much.)

So how do you pin things down? Should you ever commit to something fully? Yes, it is necessary, though you want to as best as possible be open to new evidence.

Throughout this series, we’ve talked about a very wide range of things from conspiracies in economics and medicine, government cover-ups, to fake news and online censorship, to the surveillance state, to the virus itself. And we’re just getting started!

What follows is how I think about such things. I offer this up to you as wrestling with these tough topics is exhausting work. In doing so, I’ve learned a few lessons. Hopefully, they’ll help keep you sane. 

Grasping the Big Picture

I absolutely believe that grasping the bigger picture is important.

Without seeing how widespread corruption is, it’s hard to understand how anyone can get away with anything. Without seeing how what would seem to be disparate elements work together it doesn’t make sense.

And yet, the big picture adds to the overwhelm bigtime!

The big picture does not help you to pin anything down except in how it can help to see a wider frame. And with that wider frame you can see patterns that do allow you to see through propaganda more so.

Understand that the revolving door operates in EVERY industry and you can spot things quicker. Understand that news and online media can be bought and controlled in various ways helps you to sort through propaganda easier.

Specifics and Falsifying

We also need to go the other direction. We need to narrow down to specific details of single areas.

And with this there’s another critical element. It is far, far, far easier to FALSIFY something than to know the TRUTH.

In any “conspiracy theory” topic there may be one thousand or more different theories about how something went down, who was responsible, etc. The TRUTH is very hard to get to. In fact, we may never know the real truth of how everything went down. It might actually be impossible.

But the LIES are easier to spot. What is demonstrably NOT TRUE is easier to nail down.

Pinning Down on the Vaccine Issue

For the reasons already mentioned, I’ve gone super deep into the topic of vaccines.

The party line is that vaccines are completely safe and effective. Any problems are one in a million.

My hypothesis: they are neither as safe, nor as effective as they say. I’m not saying they are the least safe things in the world, or they don’t work at all for the diseases they target. I’m simply saying they have bigger issues than is let on.

For me the safety is the bigger of the two issues, so I’ll briefly mention just a few easily verifiable details that pinned this topic down for me. And notice that I’m linking predominately to government websites showing this is the case from their own data.

1. Look at the VAERS (vaccine adverse event reporting system). It exists, because vaccines have side effects, like any drug, which do injure people. Most of these are mild, but it ranges up to death. https://vaers.hhs.gov/
   
2. “Adverse events from drugs and vaccines are common, but underreported…Fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported,” according to a Harvard study because people, and even doctors, aren’t aware of this system because we’re all taught vaccines are completely safe. While minor side effects are more likely to be those that are unreported, big ones will be too for that very reason. Basically, “vaccines have nothing to do with SIDS so I’m not reporting it.”
   https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf
   
3. Back in 1986 the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act This removed liability from vaccine manufacturers. They claimed that if this wasn’t passed, they would stop producing vaccines as they were hurting too many people and the liability was too high. This made it so that the government was liable instead (funded by taxpayers), which leads us to…
   
4. The vaccine injury court which has awarded over $4.1 billion in damages to parents of vaccine injured children. https://www.hrsa.gov/sites/default/files/hrsa/vaccine-compensation/data/monthly-stats-april-2019.pdf … including even in cases of autism. (Hannah Poole as one example) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-to-receive-15m-plus-in-first-ever-vaccine-autism-court-award/
   
5. As previously covered, the CDC’s mountain of evidence that autism doesn’t cause autism didn’t even look at a majority of the vaccines out there.

6. In most of the safety testing for vaccines, actual placebos are not used. “In place of a placebo, a vaccine against a disease that is not the focus of the trial is given to participants who do not receive the trial vaccine.” – 2013 WHO Expert Consultation on the Use of Placebos in Vaccine Trials. There are some true placebo trials, but these are the minority. This means you won’t be able to see that no vaccine at all would cause significantly less side effects.  https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/94056/9789241506250_eng.pdf;jsessionid=DB4627AD330909C7FD5298C07ACAA8F9?sequence=1

7. Also previously covered, the WHO officials that say the science is settled, yet spoke about needing much better safety science regarding vaccines in a recent conference. Why would they do that if the science was actually settled?

8. The only study I’ve seen of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children shows that the unvaccinated, while getting a bit more of the diseases the vaccines cover, were overall far, far healthier. https://www.rescuepost.com/files/mawson-et-al-2017-vax-unvax-jnl-translational-science.pdf

9. It would make sense that the CDC or WHO would want to definitely disprove the above study. The party line is that we can’t study unvaccinated children because it’s unethical to deprive them of vaccines. Yet, they could easily do a retroactive study of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children, based on the people that are not getting vaccines already for whatever reason (philosophical or religious exemptions). They could control for all the variables. They have had decades to conduct such research but have never done this. The data is there. One of the top vaccine people Stanley Plotkin talks about this when being deposed (unfortunately this is a long video and I don’t have the time stamp for this specific part).

10. The pro-vaccine people have been caught in many lies. Dr. Peter Hotez did an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast. He stated there’s not chemicals, just antigens and saline in vaccines. Yet this is easily falsifiable. Look at the ingredients in vaccines here from the CDC’s website. Why is he lying? If he is actually unaware that this is clearly wrong, isn’t that equally a big problem? (Personally, I wouldn’t want to eat any of those ingredients, let alone have them injected into my body.) https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf

11. Pharmaceutical companies are one of the least trusted industries in the world because they have been found guilty of breaking laws so many times, including racketeering (aka conspiring), falsifying data, bribing officials, etc. And yet somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the vaccines they make are free from all these crimes?

I could keep going, but I think you get the point.

Add to this that right now, my speech (online) is being censored for saying so. And they’re changing the laws so that I cannot make the choice on whether or not to use this drug. Honestly, if it wasn’t for these last two things, I would not be talking about this now. But I’m an American. Silly me for thinking I still had Constitutional rights.

Notice that I listed out eleven things covering a diversity of areas on vaccine safety. This is how you become “sure” about something in your mind. One detail is not enough. It’s your judgement as to how many you need.

(And then it is good to seek to falsify these from the other side. But notice how mostly I’m using their own words, the government documents and cases themselves to prove it out.)

The thing is information comes out over time. Some of my above listed points just got revealed in the last year or so!

What Can We Pin Down About the Pandemic?

With the current pandemic, we’re going to have a lot more information later on. (Excepting that with increasing censorship it may become much more difficult to find.)

What can we pin down right now?

We can pin down that government, business and foundation heads ran through a number of wargame exercises for such pandemics. Event 201 is almost exactly this event. That was just months before it started. But Clade X, Dark Winter and more go back many years. Here’s a list of events from the Center for Health Security going back as far as 1999. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events

My argument from this is that at the very least we should have been much better prepared for such events, then our completely botched testing showed us to be. But in addition we do see the economic events and social media censorship playing out almost exactly as described in Event 201. Again, if they had such clear foresight on those things, why was the response so poor?

We can pin down that the numbers of cases and deaths are off, either from a little bit to a lot. The fact is it could be in both directions, even one up higher and the other less. Data points can easily be manipulated in a variety of ways.

This means any models extrapolated from such numbers are off too, and in fact every model is proving to be wrong.

We can pin down that certain agendas exist, such as mandatory vaccinations, digital ID’s and more surveillance, because these are spoken about publicly, including how these are the solution to this problem.

We can pin down that mass media should not automatically be trusted and there’s already evidence of fake news being spread to inflame panic.

We can pin down that online censorship is increasing…and it will continue to. (No one ever stops censoring things. Once the ball is rolling, it continues to roll.)

We can pin down that massive amounts of money are being transferred around to various businesses, mostly those too-big-to-fail.

We can know that the economy is not bouncing back. People are assuming we may come out of quarantine and that would allow it to flourish again. No. The virus and surrounding lockdown was the pin…but the bubble is popped. It’s not unpopping, if and when, we stop quarantining magically.

The TRUTH of what is going on may be impossible to reach but we absolutely can spot lies and we can spot agendas moving forward.

“The centerpiece of the US Organized Crime Control Act from 1970 is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Racketeering is the act of engaging in a certain type of offence more than once. The list of offences that constitute racketeering include extortion, fraud, federal drug offences, bribery, embezzlement, obstruction of justice, obstruction of law enforcement, tampering with witnesses, and political corruption. Big pharma does so much of this all the time that there can be no doubt that its business model fulfills the criteria for organized crime…There are many decent and honest people in the drug industry, but those who make it to the top have been described as ‘ruthless bastards’ by criminologist John Braithwaite who interviewed many of them. In the United States, big pharma beat all other industries in terms of crimes…Big pharma also has a worse record than other companies for international bribery and corruption and for criminal negligence in the unsafe manufacture of drugs…Almost every type of person who can affect the interests of the industry has been bribed: doctors, hospital administrators, cabinet ministers, health inspectors, customs officers, tax assessors, drug registration officials, factory inspectors, pricing officials and political parties.” – Professor Peter C Gotzche, Master of Science in biology and chemistry, physician, co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration, published in BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, NEJM and others

Gotzche is spot on. Again I point you to my Medical Monopoly writings for example after example, including found guilty of conspiring and racketeering, that this is absolutely true. I just updated that PDF to include all 34 released articles whereas the original only had 26. https://healthsovereign.com/mmm

Yet, in his long list, Gotzche still misses a few of those that can be bribed. Scientists, heads of charities, foundations and government agencies. To there we turn our attention.

Earlier, I shared about a former director of the CDC, Julie Gerberding. You can read that here. https://loganchristopher.com/where-theres-money-to-be-made/

I wanted to dive into the current head of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, but felt like it was worth giving a little timeline of this position and some of the others that filled it. (I apologize for covering so much history BUT those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.)

Julie Gerberding was director from 2002 to 2009, when she went through the revolving door to Merck whom she previously “regulated”. I literally just skimmed the surface of her corruption in my previous post. https://loganchristopher.com/where-theres-money-to-be-made/

I neglected to mention how she silenced a CDC whistleblower who said they falsified data. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Dr_BrianHooker_statement_regarding_Vaccine_Whistleblower_William_Thompson.pdf

In addition to that is a still ongoing court case with Merck and its own scientists turned whistleblower saying they falsified data on another vaccine. https://ahrp.org/former-merck-scientists-sue-merck-alleging-mmr-vaccine-efficacy-fraud/

Gerberding was followed by Dr. Tom Friedan who acted as director from 2009 to 2017. Previous to being CDC director, Friedan was New York City’s health commissioner under then mayor Michael Bloomberg (and recent presidential hopeful).

His appointment was not without controversy. “Throughout his tenure as New York City Health Commissioner, Frieden has simultaneously employed an authoritarian my-way-or-the-highway approach and an unabashed secretiveness undignified of a public servant. He has excluded AIDS groups wherever possible from having input into life and death AIDS funding, testing, and care policymaking decisions,” wrote Housing Works, a major New York City AIDS services provider, President Charles King. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Controversial-Tom-Frieden-Named-to-Lead-CDC/21192.html

During his tenure there were a few mishaps with Anthrax, smallpox and other pathogens which were covered up. “U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich.,…expressed dismay about the kind of “chronic negligence” that’s been revealed in recent years “involving the world’s most terrifying pathogens.” … “We’re not talking one or two incidents, but 139 discoveries of select agents in unregistered locations.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/undisclosed-cdc-lab-incidents/86305700/

After Friedan’s tenure, in 2018, he was arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/24/former-head-of-cdc-tom-frieden-arrested-and-charged-with-forcible-touching-sex-abuse-and-harassment.html  

He was able to plead this down to disorderly conduct, having all the criminal charges drop, and avoided jail time. https://abcnews.go.com/US/cdc-director-pleads-guilty-groping-family-friend-jail/story?id=63478002

Nowadays, he is CEO of Resolve to Save Lives which “is an initiative of the global public health organization Vital Strategies. We received $225 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gates Philanthropy Partners, which is funded with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation.” https://resolvetosavelives.org/about

Note that some of those names will be coming up over and over and over again.

Friedan has also recently been hired by the Council on Foreign Relations. “The Council on Foreign Relations welcomes physician and thought leader Dr. Tom Frieden to its David Rockefeller Studies Program as a senior fellow for global health.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/ex-cdc-director-hired-after-sexual-abuse-charge-tom-frieden_n_5e628b67c5b68d616453f303

Again, some names you might see over and over again. Remember David Rockefeller whom I quoted as saying “working against the best interests of the United States” and “conspiring with others around the world”? He was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970-1985 (and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank from 1969 to 1981). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller

Be careful…watching the revolving door spin round and round can be dizzying!

After Frieden, came Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, in what was probably the shortest run ever as director of the CDC from January 2017 to January 2018.

Fitzgerald resigned after she purchased shares in tobacco companies while serving as director, a clear conflict of interest.

“Fitzgerald’s lingering problem with an ethics recusal — she wouldn’t do work on cancer detection or some aspects of the opioid crisis — posed enough of a problem for the CDC. But the report that she had bought tobacco stock after she started at the CDC appeared to be the last straw.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/31/cdc-director-resigns-fitzgerald-azar-380680

That reminds me of former head of the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, Harold Varmus, who said “You can’t do experiments to see what causes cancer – it’s not an accessible problem, and not the sort of thing scientists can afford to do.” He also allowed massive conflicts of interests throughout his agencies, like Gerberding did. (More details about him in Medical Monopoly Musings.) https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101203005070/en/Cancer-Prevention-Coalition-Varmus-Unqualified-Lead-War

Regarding Fitzgerald, I saw this, which made me think that there was likely some undisclosed stuff going on behind the scenes that may have led to this. “It takes a certain kind of cluelessness for a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to purchase stock in a tobacco company a month after assuming the job as the nation’s top public health official,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, president of the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-director-s-resignation-caps-bad-year-health-agency-n843646

Do you think the people running things are clueless? Incompetent?

Or do you think people that head up government agencies are actually pretty smart…and the truth of such situations is not always what they appear to be?

Speaking of conflicts of interest, in looking at this I found something else interesting from the Politico article. “The public health world has a particularly strong ethic against the use of tobacco. The CDC Foundation, an independent nonprofit created by Congress to support the CDC’s public health work, has a policy against accepting any dollars from the industry.”

So I strolled over to their website and down to their donor list for 2019. Following the money is a useful skill. It’s a large list but here’s a few that stand out to me: https://www.cdcfoundation.org/FY2019/organizations

Bayer. Merck. GlaxoSmithKline. Some of the biggest drug and vaccine manufacturers. They’re indirectly funding the CDC that are regulating them. Tobacco is a conflict of interest, but vaccines aren’t? I like to use this little thing called logic to think through stuff.

And, of course, also funding the CDC Foundation we see some of those same names that just keep popping up: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, GAVI Alliance, WHO, Vital Strategies, John Hopkins.

And then ties to Big Tech as well. There’s Facebook here too and the co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin’s  Family Foundation. Both Facebook and Google censor vaccine “misinformation”.

I also spot Imperial College London, which were responsible for modeling the coronavirus which predicted massive deaths and was used as justification for the shutdown. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/influential-coronavirus-pandemic-report-read-a-summary-of-the-staggering-projections-that-moved-us-government-to-act.html

Interesting. Those are just some of the names I recognize!

Who was behind Event 201, that looked like the trial run for real life events? John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum.

Who was behind Lockstep in Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development which I quoted earlier saying, “Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified”? The Rockefeller Foundation.

Harold Varmus that I mentioned earlier? He sits on Global Health Advisory Board at the Gates Foundation. He worked at the WHO and advised Merck and other pharmaceutical companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_E._Varmus

All this won’t look so bad if you believe their propaganda. Of course, these people are funding each other and working for each other in order to solve global health challenges. No conspiracies to see here, folks! You’re smarter than that.

But when you realize that medicine at the highest levels acts as organized crime, a criminal cartel, you see just how much influence they hold and why there is a stranglehold on the worldview.  

Once again, that doesn’t mean that all the people in these groups are bad. Far from it. Through compartmentalization, just a few people within an organization can be corrupt, which can then act to block the good guys and further nefarious agendas. After all, organized crime, by necessity, operates in the shadows.

Peter Rost, a former Pfizer marketing vice president, explains it like this:

“It is scary how many similarities there are between this industry and the mob. The mob makes obscene amounts of money, as does this industry. The side effects of organized crime are killings and deaths, and the side effects are the same in this industry. The mob bribes politicians and others, and so does the drug industry…. The difference is, all these people in the drug industry look upon themselves—well, I’d say 99 percent, anyway—look upon themselves as law-abiding citizens, not as citizens who would ever rob a bank…. However, when they get together as a group and manage these corporations, something seems to happen… to otherwise good citizens when they are part of a corporation. It’s almost like when you have war atrocities; people do things they don’t think they’re capable of.”
https://peterrost.blogspot.com/2011/09/medical-device-expert-witness.html

Welcome to the world of drug profiteers that choose what is good for your health.

These are the people that are promising a new vaccine soon, have already gotten billions from the government to do so, and telling you that the world cannot return to normal until that happens.

Still so much to cover! I’d like to know what you’re most interested in. So I put together this very short survey together. https://forms.gle/ZVrKQFWEmgVWEk3h6

Take a minute to fill that out so I can best serve you.

We’ve been talking about censorship and the noose keeps getting a little bit smaller!

Youtube has made it so any videos talking about connections between 5G and coronavirus are automatically deleted.

People have been discussing this theory for a while but it got a big surge with David Icke being on London Reel recently.

You can watch the banned video here, as well as some commentary from the man behind the show. https://www.activistpost.com/2020/04/im-worried-about-david-icke-today.html

Do I agree with David Icke on everything he says? Nope. (I’ve not seen any proof about shapeshifting reptilians which is one of his things…but to be honest, I’ve also not seen any proof that could rule them out either. After all, seeing all the white swans in a world doesn’t prove a black swan doesn’t exist…)

Do I think that 5G and coronavirus are connected? Possibly.

Do I think that viruses aren’t contagious? Can’t say I know too much about that…but I do think that Icke raises very legitimate concerns regarding the accuracy of testing.

Do I think that free speech is key? YES! Absolutely. And this ultimately is what it’s about.

The main interview is long but if you watch nothing else, watch this shorter commentary on how the BBC got Youtube to get rid of the video.

Meanwhile, read the propaganda from the BBC themselves. I say propaganda because what they say is patently false. “Conspiracy theories linking 5G signals to the coronavirus pandemic continue to spread despite there being no evidence the mobile phone signals pose a health risk.” (emphasis added) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52198946

There IS scientific evidence. Again, not sure of any connection to the virus but there are problems with this, nonetheless. Here are two overviews of it:

More than 180 scientists and doctors from 35 countries warn of potential serious health effects of 5G. https://loganchristopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Scientist-5G-appeal-2017.pdf

5G: Great risk for EU, U.S. and International Health! Compelling Evidence for Eight Distinct Types of Great Harm Caused by Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Exposures and the Mechanism that Causes Them (this paper is 90 pages with hundreds of references)  https://loganchristopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Martin_Pall_PhD_5G_Great_risk_for_EU_US_and_International_Health-Compelling_Evidence.pdf

What do you think? Should we be allowed to talk about these things even if we might be wrong?

Or should the powers that be, the ones that have financial incentives to cover things up, be allowed to dictate the discourse?

“There has never been a conspiracy in this country.”

Did you know that ex-CIA officer “Dewey” Clarridge actually said this?

Never? Never ever? Because I’m pretty sure I could find hundreds of proven examples.

Yesterday we talked about social engineering in how people need to police each other. A friend of mine following this series wrote after yesterday’s post:

“I’ve had so many people fly off the handle at a statement as basic as “when you add everything up it doesn’t make sense””

Be warned…if you say anything is fishy you risk being labeled a conspiracy theorist! And your opinions deserve to be shut down.

In few places has the social engineering been as pronounced as the use of this derogatory term for an automatic shutdown of conversation.

There was some people discussing the coronavirus in a business group I’m part of on an online forum. Of course, someone threw in this comment so I felt it necessary to write this post.

“I look at the science and don’t waste time and energy on conspiracy theories. There will always be nutters trying to get in the way of common sense.”

Oh vey! Nutters. Tin-foil hat. Whack-jobs. Quacks. Lunatics. But what about…

Big Tobacco looked at science too. They funded their own. (So have plastics, oil, foods, drugs, etc.) https://www.ucsusa.org/

To that I say: Watergate. Iran-Contra. MK-Ultra. CIA overthrowing the leader of Iran.

Or you can get a bit more creative.

COINTELPRO, you know where the FBI illegally spied on people it deemed radical including the Black Panthers, Anti-Vietnam protestors, even environmentalists and engaged in psychological warfare against them. They tried to get Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Operation Sea-Spray, you know where the U.S. Navy spayed bacteria into San Francisco to study germ warfare killing at least one person. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/15/us/judge-s-decision-expected-soon-in-california-germ-warfre-case.html

That’s just one example of many of hidden testing of biological, chemical and radioactive materials on people. Here’s a report of how the US Army did so on Canadians. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-secretly-tested-carcinogen-in-western-canada-during-the-cold-war-researcher-discovers

The Gulf of Tonkin being a false flag event, you know where it led us into the Vietnam War. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2008/february/truth-about-tonkin

Operation Midnight Climax, you know where the CIA paid prostitutes to lure and drug men before having sex with them. This was of course observed and recorded, then used for sexual blackmail.  https://archives.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/operation-midnight-climax-how-the-cia-dosed-sf-citizens-with-lsd/Content?oid=2184385

But come on Logan, this stuff is all so old? We don’t engage in any of that anymore.

How about Snowden?

How about Operation Fast and Furious, you know where the ATF allowed Mexican Cartels to buy guns from the US, which were used to kill Americans and Mexicans, in order to ramp up gun restrictions. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/documents-atf-used-fast-and-furious-to-make-the-case-for-gun-regulations/

How about the the many, many crimes I’ve pointed out in my Medical Monopoly series. https://healthsovereign.com/mmm

And let’s talk about the Rockefellers. Yep, you can’t have a good conspiracy without them being involved!

I’m not going to go into detail about the back story of that here. (Not yet, though probably soon as actions a century ago reveals something extremely important but hard to see today.)

Instead I want David Rockefeller, CEO of Chase -Manhattan Bank to speak for himself.

He wrote in his Memoirs (2003), “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

From the horse’s mouth. Guilty of conspiring.

I’m not saying it’s all part of one grand conspiracy. I’m saying that lots and lots of people are conspiring all the time.

To me, it makes MORE sense that we assume some level of conspiracy and operate from that assumption rather than dismissing ideas as conspiracy nonsense from the get go.

Did the Chinese conspire to hide serious of the pandemic?

Was there conspiring to weaponize a virus?

Did some in the US government know what was coming, but sat on their hands allowing it to happen?

Did some conspire to profit off the market changes coming up?

I’ll let you theorize from here.

P.S. Here’s a fun video from James Corbett. Be warned, he’s a full-blown conspiracy theorist.

How do you gain control over the whole world? It doesn’t matter how big a police force or military you have, it just ain’t going to happen.

Instead it must occur through the spreading of ideas. Of propaganda. One of the biggest ideas is that you must get the people to police themselves. You must engineer society to enforce the rules on each other. It’s the only way it can be done.

As revealed earlier, my wife and I chose not to vaccinate our baby. It is not an easy choice and, in this case, I’m not talking about the health benefits or risks of doing so.

I’m talking about the social pressures of doing so.

Some people will absolutely HATE you for making this choice. They will wish you and your baby dead. I am not exaggerating there. They will tell you you’re risking the health of others.

They will think you are completely stupid. How could you be so ignorant to fall into that anti-vaxxer propaganda. Don’t you know that science is real?

It becomes a risk each time you bring up the matter. In trying to sell our house and move out of California, it was a choice to tell people the real reason why and risk this kind of response, or to give a white lie.

Of course, thankfully, there’s only a few people that react that strongly. Many others believe these things but still stay friendly in telling you you’re wrong.

And occasionally you happen on someone that agrees with you but neither of you had brought up the topic before!

It’s an upside-down and inside-out world. That someone could tell me that the science is settled when they’d never once looked at a study on the topic, simply because that is what the authorities said.

And because theirs is the consensus opinion they feel they can rightfully claim that anything to the contrary is debunked, again without knowing a single fact in the matter. In one case I was literally pointed to a Penn & Teller video about vaccines. It’s a dramatic demonstration…as if that makes it true.

I get it. We are ALL capable of some Olympic-level mental gymnastics to protect our hallowed beliefs. (And yes, I’m aware I am guilty of it too, however much I try to not be.)

I say all that to discuss what we see during this pandemic. While they’re absolutely arresting people for violating quarantine rules and giving $1000 fines for not wearing masks (despite earlier saying don’t wear masks at all!) or sitting in your car at the beach, it is mostly done by social enforcement. https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/04/05/san-diego-sheriff-brags-about-giving-out-1000-fines-to-people-for-sitting-in-their-cars-at-the-beach/

“Quarantine shaming — calling out those not abiding by social distancing rules — is part of a new and startling reality for Americans who must navigate a world of rapidly evolving social norms in the age of COVID-19. As schools close and shelter-in-place orders sweep across the U.S., the divide between those who are stringently practicing self-isolation and those who are still trying to go about some semblance of a normal life has never been more clear.” https://apnews.com/0714c8c609d604579d00ab93cd6df12c

And you and I are being prepared for this social policing for as long as necessary. Social distancing is likely necessary for 18 months…which means we’ll all need to enforce on each other. “It means everyone does everything they can to minimize social contact, and overall, the number of contacts falls by 75%..” https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615370/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing-18-months/

It’s not just about you. It doesn’t matter what you think about your chances with the virus. You must do it in order to protect other people. It is your responsibility for their health.

Because of the gravity of this matter, the authorities will help you to snitch on your neighbors. “Humberside Police has created an online reporting portal where people can send details of those not following social distancing rules.” https://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2020-03-26/humberside-police-creates-online-portal-to-report-people-not-social-distancing/

In Huntington, New York “Please report any observed unsafe behavior, such as groups congregating on basketball courts, skate parks and other areas at Town parks directly to Public Safety’s 24-Hour Emergency Hotline” https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/lupinacci-urges-public-report-social-distancing-violations

And make sure that businesses are saying in line. “If your employer is staying open and not enforcing 6 feet of social distancing, you can report them to Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health division,” says [Oregon] Governor Brown. https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Governor-Brown-gives-method-for-reporting-employers-who-fail-to-follow-social-distancing-569103451.html

New Jersey’s Governor Phil Murphy even said, “Please, God, stay at home.  And even when you are at home, keep your distance between yourself and other family members.” https://www.fox5ny.com/news/gov-murphy-suggests-social-distancing-at-home

This way we can start better thinking about snitching on family members too for not following the rules.

What more can we take away from people? How about hugs and kisses? No joke! That’s what Italy’s deputy health minister, Pierpaolo Sileri, is saying. “A tsunami that struck northern Italy is gradually receding, but hugs and kisses can only return to Italian life after a vaccine is found.” https://summit.news/2020/04/07/italian-health-minister-says-no-hugs-and-kisses-until-theres-a-coronavirus-vaccine/

A question that few are asking is just what are the long-term, subtle and negative effects of social distancing. Charles Eisenstein wrote, “I heard this story last week from a friend. She was in a grocery store and saw a woman sobbing in the aisle. Flouting social distancing rules, she went to the woman and gave her a hug. “Thank you,” the woman said, “that is the first time anyone has hugged me for ten days.”” https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/

But what if that woman hadn’t said thank you? What if she freaks out? The person giving the hugs had to risk that reaction just like I risked a vaccine conversation.

Adults need social interaction. Children even more so. Is a child interacting with his or her parents enough? I don’t think so. What will be the long-term ramifications if they really doesn’t get to play with other kids for the next 6 months at an age where socialization is critical to development?

Some will argue quarantine shaming and social distancing shaming is all okay as long as it’s decent human behavior, just finger waving and words. But some will take this too far. An 86 year old woman was killed after being punched by a woman because she “didn’t stay more than 6 feet away.” https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/elderly-woman-dies-after-being-shoved-for-not-social-distancing-sources/

That’s an extreme, but it is not nor will it remain an isolated case.

This is not an argument for or against whether social distancing is the best tools to fight a viral pandemic. Instead it is to share the little-thought about side of how social engineering is done and community policing is encouraged.

I’m reminded of reading Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. In Communist Russia, the people were taught to tell on each other and they did. And just like that, people would be arrested and shipped off to the camps, enemies of the state.

The problem is all social enforcement so easily gets transferred over to the savior of us all, the vaccine. You must get it to protect yourself. You must get it in order to protect others. If not, (if you even get a choice anymore), you’ll be ostracized.

Never mind, that the vaccine is being rushed. Never mind that never-before-done technologies are being used for some versions of this vaccine such as the Inovio vaccine which entered Phase 1 trials yesterday. “Pablo Tebas, MD, infectious disease specialist and professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Principal Investigator of the study. “There has been tremendous interest in this vaccine among people who want to do what they can to help protect the greater public from this pandemic as soon as possible.”” http://ir.inovio.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/INOVIO-Initiates-Phase-1-Clinical-Trial-Of-Its-COVID-19-Vaccine-and-Plans-First-Dose-Today/default.aspx

Notice the messaging is about the greater good for the public already.

We’ll see if it actually has a placebo-control group. We’ll see if there is manipulation of the data. No matter what, there will not be a long-term study of side effects unless they look at the population as they roll it out.

Personally, I would prefer to take my chances with the coronavirus than with the vaccine.

But the goal is to make it so that I don’t have that choice. And they’ll use every tool including social engineering to accomplish it.

Let me ask. Do you think the venom with which the propaganda machine teaches people to denigrate anti-vaxxers is going to be more or less after this event?

The writing is on the wall. They’ll say, did you see what we all went through? Why would you want that again? Once the vaccine is available this whole event becomes the problems of the anti-vaxxers and those that don’t allow complete surveillance of themselves.

 So what can we do? Have the hard conversations now before it’s too late.

About a year back I started to post more on social media. This was despite the fact that I became aware of the censorship that was ever expanding there.

Were you aware of it? Or was it only those on the fringe who felt the beginnings of the squeeze?  

I saw some evidence that Google was funded by In-Q-Tel, basically the CIA’s venture capital arm. Yep, they have one of those! Even if Google didn’t have backdoor access earlier on, we know they got it at some point through many tech giants from the Snowden leaks. https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/why-google-made-the-nsa-2a80584c9c1

But I decided I didn’t want to stand idly by. After much thought, I posted this…

And I adapted this to what I was seeing online and posted it there.

A friend of mine who jumped into that discussion said that the platforms should be able to whatever they want as long as they spelled it out in their terms of service. That they weren’t really denying free speech.

But I disagree for a couple of reasons. Social media platforms are an instrumental way that speech happens today. While a person may be able to actually speak up in person, to stop them from doing so today online (or what it amounts to in just making it so they can’t be heard) is to deny free speech. Pretty close to how banning a book from Amazon is almost like banning a book outright.

Secondly, these companies have been shown to change their terms of service as it suits them and to do hidden things in the background.

There was Zach Voorhies, a Google whistleblower who showed proof that YouTube (owned by Google) was blacklisting certain terms. These were mostly conspiracy theory stuff, such as surrounding the Las Vegas shooting, but you also see things like cancer cures. This was among many other methods used. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/google-machine-learning-fairness-whistleblower-goes-public-says-burden-lifted-off-of-my-soul/

(Apparently, many people are taught to simply dismiss Project Veritas as right-wingers. This is a long video, but Eric Weinstein had the man behind that group, James O’Keefe on his show discussing this important subject on how our news is fractured. It’s an interesting discussion.) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-portal/id1469999563

Not to mention the de-ranking of any alternative health websites in Google’s search that I personally suffered from. This occurred not for the reasons they said it occurred.

We’re in an advanced age. Free speech is not about actually arresting people for speaking anymore (not yet, but we’ll see how things go since some are being arrested for being outside!) but is now done in technological ways.

The use of shadowbanning, of auto-suggestions, of de-ranking and de-boosting posts. These are all sneaky ways of stopping free speech.

I had been digging into the vaccine topic and saw the censorship playing out there. It was a multi-prong attack. The mass media stopped ever saying a negative thing about vaccines (whereas they use to cover problems). Meanwhile there was pressure on Big Tech to do the same.

Here you can watch Congressman Bill Posey take on Zuckerberg about the vaccine topic in a hearing.

Or read a letter he sent him on the topic. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Rep-Posey-LetterTo-Mark-Zuckerberg-Vaccines-March-4-2019.pdf

If we lose free speech, we’re going to lose much more.

I was going to post these writings on Facebook, but I knew it wouldn’t really be worth it. I saw just how little exposure some of my Medical Monopoly postings had gotten. And as I went into other areas, such as vaccines, I knew it would get worse. In fact, when I did post I was flagged.

And this plan was all laid out earlier. Back to Event 201, the October 2019 war game that saw a coronavirus rip across the world causing…well pretty much exactly what we see playing out. (This was covered inside my post, This is NOT a Black Swan.) https://loganchristopher.com/this-is-not-a-black-swan-event/

I watched all those videos and want to highlight some quotes. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/videos.html

Understand that almost no time is spent on talking about how a pandemic could be prevented or adequately prepared for. Instead time is spent discussing the economic disruption, searching for vaccines, and of course, combating disinformation.

In Video 1 someone states “Conspiracy theories that are around about the potential that pharmaceutical companies or the UN have released this for their own benefit. So as we move forward obviously trust in pharmaceuticals and government is very important.”

Notice the language. Trust is very important. Being worthy of such trust doesn’t enter the equation. It’s all about the optics.

In Video 4 they really dive into this specific subject. Someone states the social media companies “have to be a participant in broadcasting accurate information.” What do we see?

If you saw that video (as it was heavily shared) it’s from a guy saying you can’t catch a virus. Personally, I don’t think that’s true (though I recognize that we all have so much wrong, including scientific assumptions going back over a hundred year, I can’t actually rule out the possibility!).

But is Facebook protecting us? Or am I the only one that sees a problem with their being “A central repository of facts” which was mentioned in the Event 201 exercise.

What we see playing out today is “Facebook is censoring willy nilly, without any regard to content. Apparently, simply the word “coronavirus” is enough to invoke the censor’s red pencil.” https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/facebook-hits-cvirs-articles-with-a-sledgehammer.html

Meanwhile, our director of the CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, Dr. Stephen Redd states, “I think with the social media platforms there’s an opportunity to understand who it is that’s susceptible, in what form, to misinformation. So I think there’s an opportunity to collect data from that that communication mechanism.”

Isn’t that valuable information? Maybe you’ve heard that based on likes and attention Facebook knows you better than your significant other and perhaps even yourself. This pandemic is a great time to learn more about people. Forget preparing for a pandemic by having adequate supplies…look at what we could learn!

And look how the corporatocracy unites…

The MC states in their recommendations, “Governments and the private sector should assign a greater priority to developing methods to combat mis and disinformation related to pandemic response. Governments will need to partner with traditional and social media in order to research and develop nimble approaches to countering this information. For their part, media companies we believe should commit to ensuring that authoritative are prioritized and really false messages are suppressed.”

Again, this all sounds great if we live in a magical world of benevolent kings and kingmakers. But do we live in that world? Not from what I’ve seen.

All of Big Tech is doing it. Facebook, Reddit, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube issue joint statement on misinformation. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/16/facebook-reddit-google-linkedin-microsoft-twitter-and-youtube-issue-joint-statement-on-misinformation/

“During an address at the Munich Security conference on Feb. 15, almost a month before the WHO officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous.””

I’ll be sharing some scary things about Tedros and the WHO soon. But isn’t it interesting that the head guy is discussing the infodemic a month before than it was officially a pandemic? In other words, they were getting ready for the coming social media posts while the CDC was basically not testing anyone. They’ve certainly got their priorities in order!

“Vitamin C also pops up via searches on the largest retailers, including Amazon, because of false reports that it can cure the coronavirus.” https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/facebook-google-amazon-met-with-who-to-talk-coronavirus-misinformation.html

God forbid people take some Vitamin C! Don’t you dare allow the verifiable fact that China is using high dose intravenous vitamin C to spread. Don’t you dare allow people to support their immune system with an absolutely critical nutrient.  https://www.worldhealth.net/news/official-statement-china-recommended-treatment-covid-19/

I also went back in time to the previous virus wargame watching those videos. This was Clade X a parainfluenza virus that was biologically weaponized. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/index.html

Participating in this one was former director of the CDC Julie Gerberding who I wrote about here. https://loganchristopher.com/where-theres-money-to-be-made/

In Clade X, this quote in video 2 stood out to me.  “It has never worked. The moment you force people to do something, they try to get out of it. And, again, if this is the beginning of a larger epidemic, we have to have the credibility with the public and their cooperation. As Sam Nun once said when he was president in a similar exercise, “There is no force on earth that can make over 200 million Americans do anything they think is not in the best interest of themselves and their families.”

That was stated by Tara O’Toole. Guess what we see in her bio? Tara “is Senior Fellow and Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel (IQT).” The revolving door runs deeper than most can possibly imagine.

Social engineering. I’ll be going deeper on this topic soon. She is right. That’s why it’s a slow rollout. Notice how the quarantines are expanding in scope, scale and time. We’ll be done by Easter. Nope. We’ll be done in May. Nope. But most importantly get the people onboard to enforce it on each other. Social media is one of the ultimate places to do this especially now that we can’t go out and see other people. Speech must be controlled to frame the official narrative.

Here’s a few more examples of what is going on:

The financial news website Zero Hedge got permanently banned from Twitter. “In an email to Bloomberg from the author known as Durden, he said he believed the suspension was “unjustified, and likely motivated by reasons other than the stated ones…We are confident that we did not violate any of the stated Twitter terms: we neither incited harassment, nor did we ‘dox’ the public official, whose contact information is as of this moment listed on the Wuhan institute’s website,” he wrote in the email.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-01/zero-hedge-permanently-suspended-from-twitter-for-harassment

Once again, the fact is they’ll make up new rules on the spot or change them in order to do what is desired.

Also on Twitter, Brazil’s president Bolsanaro had tweets removed that questioned quarantine measures. “Twitter explained in a statement that it had recently expanded its global rules on managing content that contradicted public health information from official sources and could put people at greater risk of transmitting COVID-19.” https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-economy-cant-stop-coronavirus-bolsonaro-233240524.html

Youtube is allowing its algorithm to delete more videos. “Machine learning helps detect potentially harmful content and then sends it to human reviewers for assessment. As a result of the new measures we’re taking, we will temporarily start relying more on technology to help with some of the work normally done by reviewers. This means automated systems will start removing some content without human review, so we can continue to act quickly to remove violative content and protect our ecosystem, while we have workplace protections in place.” https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2020/03/protecting-our-extended-workforce-and.html

Ron Paul was Facebook censored for false information. But he was sharing how Dr. Fauci has said different things in a scientific journal compared to what he said in front of Congress. “One reason to question the “scientific basis” of Fauci’s claim is that Fauci contradicted his own statement before Congress in a recent article he co-authored in the New England Journal of Medicine.” http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/18/facebook-censoring-ron-paul-based-on-bogus-politifact-fact-check/

Now, I’m not saying there wouldn’t be problems with allowing anything goes. For instance, “ProPublica’s research tracked how the government-linked influence accounts that had targeted political dissidents and the Hong Kong protests turned their focus to the coronavirus outbreak. During the height of the epidemic in China, many of them became cheerleaders for the government, calling on citizens to unite in support of efforts to fight the epidemic and urging them to “dispel online rumors.” With the epidemic spreading across the world, these accounts have sought to promote the Chinese government’s image abroad and shore up its support at home.” https://www.propublica.org/article/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus

Make no doubts about it. We are in an information war with layers and layers of deception. The only thing I’m absolutely sure of is that the mainstream narrative is incorrect. After that, pretty much anything goes!

Thanks again for trusting my information. I’m not taking that lightly. And I will continue providing a bunch of links so you can verify for yourself the veracity of what I share instead of taking my word for it.

I also got these emails landing in the Spam folder. That could possibly be censorship but my guess is it is  just because of the amount of links involved. To help combat that I’m point you to the blog with short emails instead. It’ll be easier to watch embedded videos anyway.

I really do wonder about some of the things coming out regarding the novel coronavirus.

Is it all good science that is being done? (Knowing the science is very often wrong, not to mention sometimes fraudulent.)

Even if so, let’s add promotion by the media and what do we get? Fear and panic.

Let’s take a look at some of the recent news, mostly just pulled headlines:

“Coronavirus Survives On Surface For 17 Days, CDC Study On COVID-19 Cruise Ship Reveals” https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-survives-surface-17-days-cdc-study-covid-19-cruise-ship-reveals-2945321

Earlier it was all about the surfaces which is why you must wash your hands. But it’s gone airborne. “Experts tell White House coronavirus can spread through talking or even just breathing.” https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/aerosol-coronavirus-spread-white-house-letter/index.html

And it can go far. MIT associate professor Lydia Bourouiba states that “pathogen-bearing droplets of all sizes can travel 23 to 27 feet” and they may “stay suspended in the air for hours.” And a hospital may be the worst place to be. “[V]irus particles could be found in the ventilation systems in hospital rooms of patients with COVID-19.” https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/coronavirus-could-travel-27-feet-stay-in-air-for-hours-mit-researcher/

It seems the two weeks of quarantine isn’t enough. “Researchers looking at cases in China say patients could spread the virus for up to 37 days after they start showing symptoms…On average, survivors still had the virus in their respiratory system for about 20 days and could presumably continue to spread the disease.” https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article241124531.html

But even that isn’t long enough. “Doctors found a coronavirus patient who was contagious for 49 days” https://bgr.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-symptoms-were-gone-but-patient-was-contagious-for-49-days/

In addition, most people are going to incubate the disease long before they have it. “New research finds that people are most contagious early on in their illness, before symptoms fully ramp up.” https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-contagious-coronavirus-n1175071

This of course means that most people are asymptomatic carriers. “[T]he existence of virus carriers with no symptoms is fuelling public concern that people could be spreading it without knowing they are ill.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-toll/china-zeroes-in-on-coronavirus-patients-with-no-symptoms-as-new-infections-rise-idUSKBN21I036

And we can’t even know for sure because “Experts warn as many as 1 in 3 coronavirus test results may be incorrectly negative” https://theweek.com/speedreads/906407/experts-warn-many-1-3-coronavirus-test-results-may-incorrectly-negative

(Yet there aren’t false positives somehow says this article…despite the other research showing there is. The “tests appear to be highly specific: If your test comes back positive, it is almost certain you have the infection.”)

Perhaps the worst form of transmission just came out today…Beware the bathroom! “Why You Should Flush With The Lid Down: Experts Warn Of Fecal-Oral Transmission Of COVID-19” https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/04/02/why-you-should-flush-with-the-lid-down-virologist-warns-of-fecal-oral-transmission-of-covid-19/#3add60026eb8

And even if this dies down it’s probably coming back. “Coronavirus could become seasonal: top US scientist” https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-could-become-seasonal-top-us-scientist-001146451.html

Are you scared yet?

Does this make you want to go into complete isolate for the rest of the year?

I don’t know about you. The more I see this stuff the LESS I am worried about the virus.

Of course, all this “evidence” will be used to expand the quarantines in spread, intensity, and duration.

 Basically, there is no hope…

…until the vaccine is ready of course.

I want to start this video off with a synopsis of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent. It’s only four and a half minutes so it’s a quick watch.

“According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.”

…the common enemy. Looks like we just got a new one added to that list besides communists and terrorists!

But let’s talk ownership. Almost all media is owned by five companies now.

This infographic shows six, but it is out of date, with Disney buying Fox.  https://www.webfx.com/blog/internet/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media-infographic/

A few decades back this would have been illegal. But with companies growing powerful that buys politicians and lobbyists. These then work to dismantle the laws that stand in the way of becoming more powerful.

More and more consolidation brings worse and worse news.

In my last post on Fake News, I showed how the CIA was involved in ALL news services. https://loganchristopher.com/fake-news-is-not-new/

Let’s look at Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and the Washington Post. Yet, here’s a conflict of interest. “The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA…The Washington Post ‘s refusal to provide readers with minimal disclosure in coverage of the CIA is important on its own. But it’s also a marker for an ominous pattern — combining denial with accommodation to raw financial and governmental power — a synergy of media leverage, corporate digital muscle and secretive agencies implementing policies of mass surveillance, covert action and ongoing warfare.”  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-the-washington-posts_b_4587927

Or take HBO. Last month they aired “After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News.” I watched this propaganda film as I like to see things from different perspectives, even though I had a good idea of what was in store.

Nowhere did I see the conflict of interest disclosed. CNN which gets very good play in the film. They’re the victims of fake news of course. It just so happens that CNN have the same owners of HBO. The idea of this film is that only the right uses fake news, while the left is innocent.

Sorry, but no. Everyone lies!

It is interesting to see that trust in media has gone down over time as shown in these Gallup polls. https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-media-edges-down.aspx

But look when we split the liberals and conservatives!

This is hugely problematic (and I would argue that increased polarization is something many of these people want).

This further destroys our information ecology because one side pointing out the lies of the other, tends to get people more polarized and locked into one point of view. It’s gets people wrapped up in their ideology whatever that happens to be.

Again, both sides lie. (I’m not a big fan of Trump…but that is for different reasons than most…because certain things aren’t covered in any of the media.)

Just a few more of the problems behind what masquerades as new today.

This is why many people are seeking better information online. And that is where online censorship comes into play. We’ll dive into that soon…

P.S. In the previous post on Fake News I showed Anderson Cooper in hurricane flood waters in what appear to be a way to make the situation look worse than it was. David sent me this video where he addressed this specifically.

I’ll leave you to make up your own mind on that as it does appear genuine. However, even if this wasn’t a case of exaggeration, I don’t feel like it has an impact on the rest of that post or this one.

The transfer to digital currency appears to be a huge part of the agenda here.

For those brand new to bitcoin, blockchains and cryptocurrencies I present a short history.

It was in the aftermath of the last financial crisis that bitcoin was created. There had been some previous attempts at cryptocurrencies (B-Money and Bit Gold) but those were never fully developed.

In 2008, an unknown person (or group) going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, posted a paper called Bitcoin – A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System.

(This is me conspiracy theorizing. Satoshi Nakamoto to this day is unknown. What if it was bankers and/or intelligence agencies and/or who knows whom else that started the project in the first place? We saw that JPMorgan Chase had the foresight to hoard physical silver while shorting the paper market What if big plans were put in operation even earlier.)

In 2009 Bitcoin became publicly available. Originally it was just mined. But in 2010, someone swapped 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas, the first financial transaction that proved it held value.

In 2011, more cryptocurrencies, also known as altcoins, were created including Namecoin and Litecoin.

Bitcoin ran into some troubles including theft as occurred at Mt. Gox, then the biggest Bitcoin exchange. But despite these problems it continued on.

In 2016, the Ethereum platform came out. This used a cryptocurrency named Ether to facilitate blockchain-based smart contracts. Here was the first ICO or initial coin offering, which then took Silicon Valley by storm. People in fintech, even banks, started to get much more interested.

A big stumbling block in people understanding all this is the difference between cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Think of cryptocurrencies as an asset such as silver, gold, oil or the US dollar. Meanwhile, a blockchain is just a distributed high-tech version of a ledger, as in how you would do bookkeeping. Blocks are the data that is verified and chained together. So blockchains are needed to keep track of cryptocurrency transactions. In addition, there are many uses for blockchain beyond just cryptocurrencies.

Starting in 2017 up until the beginning of 2018 the biggest Bitcoin bubble occurred. This actually beat out the crazy Dutch tulip bubble as Bitcoin shot up to almost $20,000 per coin (making those earlier pizzas worth $100 million each!). It crashed since then but has been worth mostly around $5000 to $10000 for the past two years.

I first started paying attention to Bitcoin in 2015 because I heard lots of different people talking about it and found it intriguing. I bought some around $300 per bitcoin. It was money I could afford to lose but something I was willing to place a small bet on. I did find it was funny when I told people about it to which some would say in disbelief but it’s not worth anything. I would counter how is that different from our current fiat monetary system?

Unfortunately, I had to sell all of my Bitcoin at around $3000 for a down payment on a house. I really can’t complain about a 10X gain, but I wish I could have held on to it longer!

Since then I have bought some Bitcoin (BTC) again, as well as Ether (ETH), Ripple (XRP), and recently, Digibyte (DGB). I am currently long in these positions. Please note that this is not investment advice and I would not consider myself an expert in any of this stuff. I’m simply personally sharing what I’m doing and why. Do your own research.

There still is some potential for these things to become worthless. However, Bitcoin and some of the other cryptocurrencies have now survived several crashes without disappearing. That means they’re likely to stay valuable.

Personally, I don’t think that Bitcoin will be the crypto that is used for everyday transactions. There’s some hurdles in how it is built and transaction costs that prevent that from ever happening. But, like a digital version of gold, it will likely stand as a store of value. (At least, as long as power and the internet still work. It also shouldn’t be going down to zero because if that happened people wouldn’t trust digital money at all.)

In an earlier post, I shared how I invested in silver based on information showing that the banks were doing the same (while simultaneously manipulating the price). That’s a clue. Banks have also been getting interested in cryptocurrencies. This is another clue.

Besides my businesses, these “old money” and “new money” plays are where I’ve invested. So let’s dive in to why this is important now.

Remember that two days ago, I mentioned that China was working on a digital yuan. Based on that there was discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January of this year of the digital dollar.

“China’s progress with its digital yuan has sparked similar conversations in different countries. People are quite concerned that China will pioneer national currencies. Some have even suggested that if the U.S. does not begin to act and ultimately catch up, China could displace the U.S…According to former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Christopher Giancarlo, digital currencies present more utility than traditional fiats…Giancarlo is however not suggesting that the traditional methods available now should be disregarded. He believes what the U.S. needs is “a digital form that would be minted by the central bank.” The digital dollar would also use the current traditional banking system…Using a central bank digital currency (CBDC) will offer a lot more efficiency and speed than is currently available with traditional methods. Cross-border transactions will also enjoy better efficiency.” https://www.coinspeaker.com/davos-wef-digital-dollar-yuan/

The digital dollar almost made it into the $2 Trillion CARES Act. Important to note that while this was in an earlier draft it didn’t make it into the final passed form. (Maybe in the next bailout they’re already working on?)

“The bill establishes a digital dollar, which it defines as ‘a balance expressed as a dollar value consisting of digital ledger entries that are recorded as liabilities in the accounts of any Federal Reserve Bank or … an electronic unit of value, redeemable by an eligible financial institution (as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System).’ Additionally, a digital dollar wallet is identified as ‘a digital wallet or account, maintained by a Federal reserve bank on behalf of any person, that represents holdings in an electronic device or service that is used to store digital dollars that may be tied to a digital or physical identity.’ A mandate also requires all ‘member banks’ establish a ‘pass-through digital dollar wallet’ to all customers eligible for the stimulus. Member banks include those banks that are ‘members’ of the Federal Reserve and regulated by the Fed.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2020/03/23/new-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-introduces-digital-dollar-and-digital-dollar-wallets/#30c001204bea

The promise of blockchain and cryptocurrencies for many was that they were destined to replace government-controlled and centralized money with a distributed and decentralized alternative.

That is one possibility. But do you think the governments and bankers want that? Not in the least. Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is the key phrase to look at.

It’s not just the Fed that is looking at this. Here’s the Bank of England’s take. “CBDC could present a number of opportunities for the way that the Bank of England achieves its objectives of maintaining monetary and financial stability.” https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2020/central-bank-digital-currency-opportunities-challenges-and-design-discussion-paper

(Did you catch the April Fool’s joke…because Central Banks are so great at maintaining financial stability. Ha!)

Notice with this graphic how the bankers control the core ledger. It’s a key difference between decentralized cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and the CBDC’s.

“Any CBDC would be introduced alongside – rather than replacing – cash and bank deposits…A CBDC would not be a cryptoasset or cryptocurrency, nor necessarily based on the technology that powers them (Distributed Ledger Technology).”

“We do not presume any CBDC must be built using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), and there is no inherent reason it could not be built using more conventional centralised technology…Distribution and decentralisation may enhance resilience and availability, but could have a negative impact on aspects such as performance, privacy and security.”

Privacy of how their money works is necessary to keep control. CBDC’s may be the transition step to 100% digital currencies. I’m not sure how it will play out but movement in this direction is moving forward. The majority of monetary transactions are already digital. How would a digital dollar then play out with a hyperinflating dollar? It’s an interesting question, that I do not know the answer to.

Here’s a few more points that show this is coming…

Understand that businesses and people are already ceasing to accept cash because of fear of the coronavirus. “A growing number of businesses and individuals worldwide have stopped using banknotes in fear that physical currency, handled by tens of thousands of people over their useful life, could be a vector for the spreading coronavirus. Public officials and health experts have said that the risk of transferring the virus person-to-person through the use of banknotes is small. But that has not stopped businesses from refusing to accept currency and some countries from urging their citizens to stop using banknotes altogether.” https://apnews.com/167186097f44116220b757abebb49be3

This article, titled, ‘After Coronavirus ‘War,’ Bretton Woods-Style Shakeup Could Dethrone the Dollar’ is quite interesting. If you’re not familiar with it, Bretton Woods in 1944 as WWII was ending, “set the template for the current system and entrenched the dollar’s near-century-long reign as the world’s dominant currency.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-war-bretton-woods-style-130000284.html

“So with officials starting to envision what it might take to rebuild damaged economies and restore society to a semblance of normal, speculation is mounting that seismic shifts might be in the offing for the global monetary system — a phenomenon that historically has occurred in the wake of world wars… Even before the coronavirus hit, questions were percolating among some economists and monetary officials over whether the dollar-based system could last through the 2020s…One concern is that monetary policy in the U.S. – actions by the Fed to maximize domestic employment and keep prices stable – reverberates through countries all over the globe…Bank of England President Mark Carney floated the idea of a “synthetic hegemonic currency,” possibly based on new digital-asset technologies, to reduce the dollar’s “domineering influence” on global trade.”

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Appoints Coinbase Chief Legal Officer to Oversee Banking System. “Brooks’ appointment to oversee the country’s banking system may signal a changing tide at the US Treasury given Mnuchin’s anti-crypto rhetoric and remarks made last year that he sees no need for the US to launch a digital currency. Brooks is an outspoken proponent of making the United States a leader in digital currencies specifically by launching a US digital dollar.” https://dailyhodl.com/2020/03/16/us-treasury-secretary-steven-mnuchin-appoints-coinbase-chief-legal-officer-to-oversee-banking-system/

In Italy, you can buy Bitcoin from a bank. The country’s mobile bank Hype has announced a partnership with fintech startup Conio, enabling customers to buy, sell, and securely store BTC from within their banking app.” https://news.bitcoin.com/1-2-million-italians-can-now-buy-bitcoin-from-their-bank/

Seeing the writing on the wall, people are getting more interested in cryptos. “Exchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop people are looking to buy bitcoin. During the week of the crypto market massacre that started on March 12, Coinbase broke traffic records and witnessed considerable trade volumes. Similarly, the trading platform Kraken saw an 83% increase in account signups during the market calamity as well.” https://news.bitcoin.com/searches-buy-bitcoin-skyrocket-signups-increase/

While silver and gold price, in their physical form, have gone up high, cryptocurrencies are still knocked down from their highs. Again, this is not investment advice. But the writing is on the wall here. Do with it as you will.

I’ll be talking more about this subject in the future, especially as more steps are made, but wanted to give a broad overview.