This article was originally published by Ron Paul at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
For many millions of Christians, Easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Others may celebrate the arrival of spring and the promise of new life. Whatever one’s beliefs, after several weeks of mandatory “stay at home” orders and the complete shutdown of the US economy over the coronavirus, this self-destructive hysteria must end and we must reclaim the freedom and liberty that has provided us so much opportunity as Americans.
To do that we should first understand that much of the hysteria is being generated by a mainstream media that has long prioritized sensationalism over investigating and reporting the truth. Government bureaucrats are also exaggerating the threat of this virus and appear to be enjoying the power and control that fearful people are willingly handing over to them. One “coronavirus” bureaucrat even told us that we can no longer go to the grocery store! So we should just starve?
It is certainly possible to believe that this virus can be dangerous while at the same time pointing out that radical steps are being taken in our society – stay-at-home orders, the introduction of de facto martial law, etc. – with very little knowledge of just how deadly is this disease.
On March 24th, the CDC issued an alert stating that doctors should classify “probable COVID-19” or “likely COVID-19” as COVID-19 deaths. Perhaps that explains the seeming drop-off of pneumonia deaths this year and the simultaneous spike in COVID-19 deaths as some researchers have reported.
The BBC reported last week that, “At present in the US, any death of a COVID-19 patient, no matter what the physician believes to be the direct cause, is counted for public reporting as a COVID-19 death.”
Does that sound like a scientifically sound way of determining how deadly COVID-19 really is?
What is most dangerous is that although this virus will eventually disappear, the assault on our civil liberties is not likely to be reversed. From this point on, whenever local officials, county officials, state governors, or federal bureaucrats decide there is sufficient reason to suspend the Constitution they will not hesitate to do so. Anyone who challenges the suspension of the Constitution “for our own good” will be labeled “unpatriotic” and perhaps even reported to the authorities. We have already seen hotlines springing up across the country for Americans to report other Americans who dare venture outside to enjoy the sun and build up their vitamin D protection against the coronavirus.
The government is justified in canceling the Constitution, we are told because we are in an emergency situation caused by the COVID-19 virus. But do people forget that the Constitution itself was written and adopted while we were in an “emergency situation”?
Did the framers of the Constitution fail to add an 11th Amendment to the Bill of Rights saying, “oh, by the way, none of this counts if we get sick”? Of course not! Those who wrote our Constitution understood that these rights are not granted by the government, but rather by our Creator. Thus it was never a question as to when or under what conditions they could be suspended: the government had no authority to suspend them at all because it did not grant them in the first place.
Our country is far less at risk from the coronavirus than it is from the thousands of small and large authoritarians who have suddenly flexed their muscles across the country. President Trump would do well to end this ridiculous shutdown so that Americans can get on with their lives and get back to work.
Americans should remember the tyrants who locked them down next time they go to the ballot box. Let’s demand an end to the shutdown so we can resurrect our economy, our lives, and our liberties!
“Americans should remember the tyrants who locked them down next time they go to the ballot box.”
That’s essentially every politician from the local mayor all the way up to Trump.
There isn’t anything that can be done about it.
They won, we lost, get over it.
Anonymous,
No. They did not win. They will find out how severely they lost very soon. They are insane and mentally incompetent and are in a state of denial and are totally delusional. In case you haven’t noticed, they have been wrong about everything.
Your exactly right. The willfully ignorant people who go about thinking everything is fine will sadly pay a price by getting infected and/or infecting others. Doctor’s are also just now discovering that those asymptomatic patients walking around infecting others because they show no signs of being sick have some form of what is believed to be long term lung damage themselves! So you see no one gets a free pass!
Long term lung damage from something that has been around for a few months only?
Maybe you should consider what definition of “long term” is being used when they tell you this.
Your ignorance is typical. Here’s a thought, maybe actually reading the research on covid19 before opening your pie hole??? Just a thought…
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Cannabis shops are deemed essential but churches and gyms are non-essential? Fat hippos can fight in a crowded Walmart but a paddleboarder on the Pacific Coast can get arrested? Homeless are exempt from the travel and shelter-in-place laws. Look at the inner cities in CA, with gangbangers still selling drugs.
The governor of Kali is calling on this epidemic to reshape and reimpose wealth redistribution and bureaucracies on the taxpayers.
Police are afraid of the gangs and predators in the projects and barrios. But they send multiple units to small businesses and threaten them with permanent closure. We ARE NOT IN THIS TOGETHER!!!
vincent pox, exactly right! Not a coincidence that the DNC losers that backed Hillary and needed safe spaces over an election for the first time in U.S. history, are issuing “safer at home” house arrest orders for the nation. The teachers unions backed Hillary in 2016 and Sanders in 2020. Why? Collectivist sausage! Wall Street and Unions first battle Russia for their mental incompetency, now Wall Street and unions both battle the coronavirus for their mental incmpetency. Politics makes strange bed-fellows, but Wall Street failed bigger than ever before, so Sanders was a solution for them to unload even more toxic debt on to the federal government through nationalization, which the unions also supported.
These people are terrorists, to resort to these tactics. America will never be great in my life time because there are just way too many people that have a by any means necessary and ends justify the means mentality that have allied with too many people that have an afflunenza greed is good mentality and are willing to murder, steal, cheat, and lie to get what they want.
AnnonII
Just keep actimg stupid and contagious. You are one of the liars and deniers. You are making a complete ass out of yourself.
Now they are caving, a few months late, and $640 trillion in derivatives short, plus $6.5 trillion in bailouts to the psychopaths that were responsible for the fear and rumor mongering using the Spider eggs in bubble yum psychology of peer pressure into hysteria to destroy the entire global economy, particularly small businesses, that the incompetent, greedy,npsychopaths didn’t already own, to increase indebtedness and use this hoax as a fall guy for their own financial fraud scheme which everyone knew was the only reason for this conspiracy of organized crime involving violations of Federal RICO laws. These psychopaths from the tech sector and financial sector as well as the media and governments must be held accountable!
So they just say, “whatever nevermind here we are now entertainers” after all of this?!
Here is the most comprehensive global report on the coronavirus, proving that is is milder than a typical flu season by a physician:
https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
I didn’t realize you were that insightful as to make a character judgement on others based upon some words….
ANON11
Speaking of words, your statement saying “I didn’t realize you were that insightful to make a character judgement of others based on some words” is an extremely unusual choice of words, IMPLYING that you know me personally, or that you just made a very poor choice of words. What do you gain by making such insinuations? You provided no information in your statement. You seem really sick in the head to me. Very creepy.
Look I need to say that all the comments as anonymous and other names I use are all troll based!
Firstly, a free people cannot be taxed or subject to forced labor.
You are responsible for streets and toilet paper.
Secondly, WASP’s have been resigned to genocidal conditions, as defined by the UN.
At which point in time, did you believe the Constitution had been suspended?
While everyone is acting stupid and contagious, we cannot deny that what is taking place is a pre-meditated Jew Coup for fascist control and theft. The facts prove it, just as the facts once proved that the Nazis implemented milder tactics on the Jews. Everyone knows how ridiculous it would have sounded if the Nazis attempted to claim that the Jews were anti-Nazi.
Well troll of a thousand names you are out here now doing your Jew hating and telling Amrericans we are stupid when you live in some third world Sh#thole. You were banned on allot of sites go back to your basement.
How ironic that it was in fact the liberal jews that allied with and instructed minorities to attack and censor white Christians now think that hating the jews responsible for that is unfair and racist. Judaism is racism and blood and soil. Nothing more. Hypocrite!
How ironic that it was in fact the liberal jews that allied with and instructed minorities to attack and censor white Christians now think that hating the jews responsible for that is unfair and racist. Judaism is racism and blood and soil. Nothing more. Hypocrite! Why not hold the psychopaths have have insisted that Christians go to war against Muslims for them, and blacks and Hispanics go to war against white Christians for them accountable?
Why would I take orders from an intellectually inferior Anonymous coward ?
How ironic that it was in fact the liberal jews that allied with and instructed minorities to attack and censor white Christians now think that hating the jews responsible for that is unfair and racist. Judaism is racism and blood and soil. Nothing more. Hypocrite! Why not hold the psychopaths have have insisted that Christians go to war against Muslims for them, and blacks and Hispanics go to war against white Christians for them accountable?
Oh, and then there are the jews in the 5 eyes that just blame America in general.
Why would I take orders from an intellectually inferior Anonymous coward ?
How ironic that it was in fact the liberal jews that allied with and instructed minorities to attack and censor white Christians now think that hating the jews responsible for that is unfair and racist. Judaism is racism and blood and soil. Nothing more. Hypocrite! Why not hold the psychopaths have have insisted that Christians go to war against Muslims for them, and blacks and Hispanics go to war against white Christians for them accountable?
Oh, and then there are the jews in the 5 eyes that just blame America in general.
Even Bibi Netenazi warned the state department of Kosher Nostra organized crime involving stock market rigging, illegal gambling, casinos, prostitution, hacking, illegal weapons and drug dealing, black market organ sales, human trafficking, and ilkegal enslavement. So maybe you should take your beef up with the Mossad and Netanazi for sending the cable to the State Department, which is on Wikileaks. Yeah, I’m just a racist, just like the FBI that prosecuted the Gambinos were anti-Itallian, or anti-Catholic.
Why would I take orders from an intellectually inferior Anonymous coward ?
Even Bibi Netenazi warned the state department of Kosher Nostra organized crime involving terrorism, stock market rigging, illegal gambling, casinos, prostitution, hacking, illegal weapons and drug dealing, black market organ sales, human trafficking, and illegal enslavement. So maybe you should take your beef up with the Mossad and Netanazi for sending the cable to the State Department, which is on Wikileaks. Yeah, I’m just a racist, just like the FBI that prosecuted the Gambinos were anti-Itallian.
We need to face facts. Most people are stupid. Most people vote for Democrats. America is lost. Best thing you can do is “every man for himself”. The Shit has hit the fan.
I’m an older man, I have most of what I need. I really have no patience for people too stupid to take care of themselves.
I pray for their well being, but I’m in no position nor do I have the disposition to save them.
relik, hey man, I’ll give you 100 oz. of silver for that cow lol. Errr wait…. maybe 75oz. Or an oz. for a 24 pack of TP! I love ya man hang in there!
As a shadow lurker from way back…..
Good to see your still up and at it Rellik and Genius.
After 25 Years of prepping I never thought of a virus being the cause. I expected a Solar Flare/EMP and or Financial collapse.
Like minded friends since passed lived for this moment…
Take car out there .
In late March, Trump signed into law the 5G rollout to take place within the next 180 days.
The quick rollout plan flies in the face of the measly amount of time the public has to comment which means public comment amounts to nothing. THEY have already decided.
The tech firms (ATT, Sprint, Verizon, et nauseum) admitted at a Congressional hearing that NOT ONE DOLLAR has been spent on any study to determine 5G effects on living creatures including us humans. But by golly by gee, you know that the military has tested extensively. This is a weapons grade technology.
Meanwhile, in the sad state of California, the so-called leader of the state is rolling out 5G into K12 classrooms right as I am writing this.
Anyone make the connection? Do this fast, while people are in lockdown and not paying attention. Couple that with the required vaccine for corona-sars2-wuhan-whatever virus, which is also forecast to be about 18 months ready and mandatory, and we have a big slice of the game plan of the tptb.
First global currency
Second global rule
Third global religion
Luke 21:28
Yeah!!!
Apr 7, 2029 Look Who’s Coming to the Rescue!
https://youtu.be/H6rMKAIj9f8
Apr 6, 2020 Henry Kissinger & Bill Gates Call For Mass Vaccination & Global Governance
The global population living in western countries have been taught for more than a generation to live in a constant state of fear ever since 9/11.
https://youtu.be/c4Aps2NPe54
We have been hearing many people blaming capitalism for the financial crisis that precipitated the corona hoax. This argument is ridiculous because the problem is financial fraud, which is not capitalism.
The only remaing capitalist element to any of the large businesses and financial institutions seeking the 4th bailout since 1987 is repaying bond holders.
These individuals are not capable of efficiently running an organization under any economic system. They are running corrupt and bloated inefficient democracies, which would be an extreme crime to place on the burdens of society. If they are this inefficient under capitalism, ( which this is not capitalism) they will run even more inefficient and more bloated bureaucracies if their corporations were nationalized.
Even a socialist would not deny that the government is the least efficient sector in the economy. It is the hubris, entitlement, and unaccountability that will increase inefficiency and corruption in those corporations.
Until the guilty parties are prosecuted and imprisoned for financial fraud, racketeering, theft, and abuse of consumers nothing can possibly improve in this country. It is not just the CEOs of those companies that are corrupt. Their culture is corrupt. The material assets must be liquidated, bought by a competent individual, and a new airline industry, or whatever else would replace the existing failing ones. Years of stock buy backs when they knew with certainty that they were required to repay the bond holders, or bank customers was the financial fraud that took place.
Having a corrupt corporation transferred over to a corrupt government ( which we have ) will only increase corruption!
We have been hearing many people blaming capitalism for the financial crisis that precipitated the corona hoax. This argument is ridiculous because the problem is financial fraud, which is not capitalism.
The only remaing capitalist element to any of the large businesses and financial institutions seeking the 4th bailout since 1987 is repaying bond holders.
These individuals are not capable of efficiently running an organization under any economic system. They are running corrupt and bloated inefficient bureacracies which would be an extreme crime to place on the burdens of society. If they are this inefficient under capitalism, ( which this is not capitalism) they will run even more inefficient and more bloated bureaucracies if their corporations were nationalized.
Even a socialist would not deny that the government is the least efficient sector in the economy. It is the hubris, entitlement, and unaccountability that will increase inefficiency and corruption in those corporations.
Until the guilty parties are prosecuted and imprisoned for financial fraud, racketeering, theft, and abuse of consumers nothing can possibly improve in this country. It is not just the CEOs of those companies that are corrupt. Their culture is corrupt. The material assets must be liquidated, bought by a competent individual, and a new airline industry, or whatever else would replace the existing failing ones. Years of stock buy backs when they knew with certainty that they were required to repay the bond holders, or bank customers was the financial fraud that took place.
Having a corrupt corporation transferred over to a corrupt government ( which we have ) will only increase corruption!
everyone here is working for the most part. just schools closed and retail. even restaurants are selling take out only. they are probably making more $ than before with everyone home turning to food for comfort. businesses have found the way to be considered essential. dont see what the problem is. if your employer closed on you leave and get a better job. your free to choose your slave master.
More corona hysteria propaganda from Sputnik, in print creating an illusion that Sweden has so many people dying of coronavirus, that they must store extra bodies in places other than morgues, omitting that the reason for the bodies being stored is because families have delayed funerals. Sputnik failed to report that the likely reason for the delays is because gathetings have been limited to 50 people, Easter is approaching, and many may have relatives in other countries who have been barred from traveling by those countries.
Sweden has not over-reacted the way that other countries have, but as you can see, even limiting gatherings of 50 people does bottle neck things. It is unclear how many Swedes would have done that voluntariily. Considering that the majority of deaths are of the elderly between the ages of 80-90 years old in nursing homes, relatives may have chosen to do this since many attendees may be in a high risk category, since the elderly, know a larger segment of the elderly population.
Although fewer deaths have occured this year than a normal flu season, with it being in the head-lines 24/7, it is bound to affect some people’s decisions.