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This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market.
America is in a haze right now. It seems like half the country is in denial of the danger while the other half is awaking from apathy and frantically trying to prepare. This is creating a fog of confusion as one side screams “it’s nothing but the flu, stop buying up the grocery store…!”, and the other side just keeps stocking goods, though in an inexperienced way that prioritizes comfort over practicality.
The other day I went by the grocery store to grab a few peripheral items while they still exist on sale, and this was the first time since the Covid-19 situation began that people in my area actually seemed…different. The usual carefree obliviousness was gone from their faces and they all had a deer-in-the-headlights look, their eyes wide as saucers as they nervously scrambled around the store. None of them were absorbed into their cell phones. All of them were alert as many people huddled over their cart, quickly snatching items from the shelves as if protecting themselves from potential thieves. It seems that reality is finally hitting the masses square in the face like a sucker punch.
Suddenly, the prepper movement doesn’t look so “crazy” after all, and average people are now turning to prepper forums and websites to ask us for information on how to plan more effectively. Instead of stacking piles of toilet paper for psychological comfort, they are now buying food supplies. The people who used to accuse us of being “chicken littles” and “doom-mongers” are eerily silent. I almost miss them. At the very least, everyone is now concerned about the situation, if not for different reasons.
This is a far cry from the past two months when governments around the world as well as the UN’s WHO continually downplayed the pandemic threat and offered the public nothing in terms of usable advice. The establishment consistently kept the public in the dark, not just on the virus and its capabilities but also on the vast weaknesses in the global economy. Abruptly in the past week, they suggest that a threat is ahead and now millions of people are scrambling to prepare however they can.
As I have noted in previous articles, there is a reason why the establishment refused to inform the citizenry of the instabilities inherent in the pandemic scenario; the more unknowns there are for the public the more panic will set it, chaos ensues, and it is chaos that can be exploited to push forward numerous agendas. These agendas include global centralization as well as the erasure of constitutional liberties.
Now that a national collapse event is slowly being accepted by many as a legitimate possibility, there is a debate rising as to what measures the government should take or should be allowed to take. Those of us in the prepper and liberty movements always knew this day was coming; a day when the public would start considering trading away an array of freedoms in exchange for promises of security.
Even now, government officials are still trying to tell people that this event will be “short-lived”.
“Don’t worry”, they say, “It will only last a couple of weeks.” Oh, and “Don’t concern yourselves with food shortages, that’s not going to happen…” You can look at these lies in two different ways:
1) The government is trying to stave off a “panic” by slowly easing people into the reality that the system is breaking.
2) The government is trying to keep people passive to the danger so that when the system breaks completely they will be unprepared, desperate and easier to manipulate.
I believe the second option is the most likely given the evidence at hand, but in either case, the government is crippling the public response time to the disaster. They did this for months and they are still trying to do it now.
So, my argument is, why should we suddenly take their advice or take orders from them when the manure hits the fan? They have FAILED in their responsibilities to inform and protect the citizenry, and they are about to violate their prime mandate, which is to protect the personal liberties that make our society worth living in. Without these freedoms, there is no point in keeping our system intact anyway.
The establishment and its defenders will claim that we all “have to make sacrifices” today in order to have freedoms tomorrow, but that’s not how the constitution was designed to work. Our rights are MORE important during times of distress and crisis, for it is in these times that we need to know what we are fighting for, and what we are struggling for. Survival is meaningless if we have to accept tyranny to achieve it.
Once governments see a chance to usurp freedoms from the people, they DO NOT tend to give those freedoms back later unless the people become a viable opponent that could bring the establishment down.
There are some who will say that a forced quarantine is necessary to protect the “greater good” of the greater number. It is true that the Covid-19 virus is a danger, and I think the people who claim it’s “no worse than the flu” are fighting a losing battle as the death rate is clearly much higher than the average flu virus. They will look extremely foolish a few months from now as the virus continues to cycle through the population and the dead continue to increase. That said, I think I understand why they cling to this crumbling argument.
They think that by arguing that the pandemic is “all hype” they can morally justify resistance to the inevitable totalitarian response from governments. They think it has to be one or the other: Either the virus is hyped and resistance is acceptable, or the virus is real and resistance is unacceptable. I ask – Why can’t it be both? The virus is dangerous to many, but a totalitarian response is still unacceptable.
The virus is in fact more destructive than any flu in recent memory – It’s not a plague on the level of the Black Death, but if it continues to kill at a rate of 3% to 5% at it has been then this puts a large number of human beings at risk. It is not something to be taken lightly, and those people that are actively trying to discourage others from preparing for it are truly narcissistic in their ideology. If you don’t think it’s a threat, then don’t prepare, but don’t scream at others for taking precautions just because you desperately want to be right, and don’t come around demanding food and supplies from those same people when the ceiling comes crashing down on your head.
Also, understand that Covid-19 is only part of the problem. The bigger crisis is in the economy itself; a collapse has been baked into this cake for years now, and the virus has little to do with it. Leftist kids are going around calling this pandemic the “boomer remover”, almost cheering the assumption that mostly older and conservative Americans will die from this. I have to break it to them that during the economic collapse that is inevitably coming they will have to wipe the snot from their noses and put on their big-boy diapers otherwise they aren’t going to survive either; most of them have no discernible skills and no preparations to speak of. They are essentially useless.
If Covid-19 is a “boomer remover”, then the economic crisis is a “snowflake bake”, and they are about to get roasted.
As I have noted time and time again over the past few years, the Everything Bubble only needed one major trigger event to fully implode, but the international banks and central banks created that precarious bubble in the first place, and they set up all the conditions which made it so dangerous. The virus is not the cause of the crash, it is just a very good cover for the banks who are the real perpetrators.
Ignore the virus if you want, but the economic collapse is undeniable. Accept that the national and global emergency is real (even if it has been financially engineered), and let’s move on to a more meaningful debate: Should governments be allowed to implement martial law measures in response?
In my view, there is no excuse for tyranny, even during a pandemic event. The majority of the public is more than capable of voluntary quarantine without government enforcement. Add government intervention into the mix and it will only make people want to do the opposite. And beyond that, Covid-19 has such a long incubation period that ultimately most people will probably contract it anyway. Total containment is not achievable (as we have just seen in South Korea). Quarantines might slow the spread, which is good, but do not expect to avoid this virus indefinitely. Why sacrifice your freedoms for safety that is an illusion?
Then there is the argument of “herd immunity”, which is utter nonsense and always has been. Either a person or group is immune, or they are not, and people who are not immune do not put immune people at risk. Period. The claim that the virus might “mutate” within non-vaccinated or non-immune people and put vaccinated people at risk is a propaganda argument that ignores science. Generally, when a virus does mutate, it mutates into a less deadly or infectious strain, not a more deadly strain. Viruses are programmed to survive, too. If they evolved to kill ALL potential hosts then that would be counter to their survival imperative, which is why they usually evolve in the other direction.
In terms of Covid-19, there is no “herd immunity” by the establishment definition anyway, because it is a brand new virus. There is no vaccine and the vast majority of people have no antibodies. No one can make the argument that people need to be forcefully locked down in order to maintain a herd immunity that doesn’t exist.
Finally, there is a question of agenda and motive behind the rising call for martial law-like measures over the pandemic. For example, Champaign, Illinois mayor Deborah Frank Feinen has given herself executive powers in response to the coronavirus infection that are outright dictatorial and Soviet in their violations. Among other things, she demands the power to enforce curfews, ban public gatherings, ban alcohol, ban or confiscate firearms, as well as confiscate supplies from any citizen if those supplies are “needed for emergency response”.
Is this really about protecting the public? How does it protect the public to confiscate their only means of defense, or confiscate their food and supplies? This type of thing is usually done in communist countries, and it is done to protect government power, not protect the people.
Understand also that the Champaign mayor is not the only official calling for these types of actions. From New York to LA and beyond, those of us who are paying attention have noticed a swift and quiet implementation of orders that are whittling down American freedoms. Do not expect Donald Trump to operate differently, either. Expect him to initiate martial law measures (though he may not call in “martial law”) in the next few months. Expect him to activate Executive Order 13603, which was created by Barack Obama in 2012 and allows the federal government to appropriate everything from land to food to firearms in the event of a national emergency. This is going to happen. Count on it.
The pandemic is not an excuse for tyranny, and I for one will not comply. I and many I know will self-quarantine for a time with the expectation that we will eventually contract the virus, and hopefully, our immune systems are strong enough to fight it. In the meantime, I will not be allowing any government officials to confiscate my supplies or my firearms “for my own safety” or “for the greater good”.
I will not be cooperating with census takers asking questions about how much supplies I have stocked and whether or not I am ill. I will not sit idle while checkpoints are set up in my county to enforce travel restrictions or demand people test for symptoms. I will not be signing up for government rations in exchange for my biometric data. I will not be visiting the local FEMA center for government aid. And, I will fight anyone that tries to assert martial law tactics in my area.
A message to the government: I know you won’t, but I suggest you leave people alone and let them self isolate in peace. Your brand of “help” is not the kind of help we need. You and the financial elites that reside over you created this mess, and we do not trust you to clean it up. At the bottom, this disaster should result in your removal from power. You should be held accountable and replaced.
The system itself needs to be rebuilt from the ground up and principles of liberty need to return to the forefront of our society. Centralization and globalization have caused untold grief and terror to humanity; this collapse only reinforces the argument that we need to try something different. They will say that the world was “not centralized enough” and that a more global (totalitarian) framework is the solution. But, of course, who really benefits from that in the end? The common man, or the elites?
They can offer any rationalization they want in the name of public safety, but we know what the real play is here. If the line is crossed into martial law, I plan to fight. Not just for me, but for the next generation. Because if I do not, those children may grow up in the world never knowing what freedom truly is. There are fates worse than death, and a life of tyranny and slavery is one of them.
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Bullcrap you aint gonna fight anything. If you were youd have been fighting and eliminated long ago.
Well said again Brandon Smith. The multiple levels of govt. rarely consider the infringement on Liberty when faced with a perceived need to protect the populace. There are many stupid people in the world and too many politicians think it is their duty to protect the cretins from self-induced destruction with one-size-fits-all laws. That’s incorrect thinking, thanks for pointing out that life in a FREE country is necessarily risky. “Those that would trade essential natural rights for perceived security, deserve neither” the gist of a statement by one of the Founding Fathers.
Expect him to activate Executive Order 13603, which was created by Barack Obama in 2012 and allows the federal government to appropriate everything from land to food to firearms in the event of a national emergency.
READ IT ! – This does not mean your stuff will be taken away in that Executive order. It says that the agencies can BY contract can contract by whatever sector public or private to fulfill their need. Does not even talk about firearms either. It does not say they are going door to door to take your house nor your stuff …… That would be domestic physical war at that time. Heck look at what they have done in the past in America during the Civil war they only took what they needed for shelter and food and such they did not take everyone’s stuff.
More disinformation put out by panicked people?
Another example of paranoia and misinformation –
“I will not be cooperating with census takers asking questions about how much supplies I have stocked and whether or not I am ill”.
Why was this statement above even in this article??? Seems to be spreading some type of resistance to everything government and such tones overlay the whole article. Yet this person would be one who would blame the government for not doing anything. Oh boy!
The Census workers do NOT ask those questions and will NOT it has nothing to do with the Census. Also, you can easily go online and fill out the Census and with no intrusive asking of questions. Saves money it is faster and no one knocks at your door and no mailings.
At least you’re not still making those ridiculous predictions saying how the Fed will never cut rates because they are crashing the economy on purpose. You must have moved the goalposts on that three or four times in the past year and a half before you gave it up.
Population is the problem. We can no longer allow (and the planet will not allow) uncontrolled population growth. This is what is causing outbreaks, system fragility and environmental destruction. We need to drop the hammer to get control of population. Once that is done we can re-boot with better people and better ways.
you are an idiot
The 200 million unneeded persons in the USA won’t be missed – they are social scum disease that hold America back from achieving perfection.
But I fear the 125 million Americans that will die, those being the ones that follow the laws, earn a living, save money, buy homes, pay the taxes so the bottom 60% of “hyphenated amifcants” has to do nothing but call 911 cause there is a pickle on their hamburger and burn down the street.
“but if it continues to kill at a rate of 3% to 5% at it has been then this puts a large number of human beings at risk”. More proof that Brandon is a now spreader of government propaganda. The mortality rate is nowhere near 3% to 5%. The mortality rate may be 3-5% of diagnosed cases, but there are most likely tens of thousands of people around the world who have contracted the virus, were never tested and recovered. Most estimates I have seen place the mortality rate at 1% or less. This is especially true if you figure the numbers in the same manner they calculate the mortality rate for the flu.
The STATISTICAL ANALYSIS of the Covid-19 scare is flawed. Garbage in = Garbage out. The selective sample (only people thought to have the virus) was the only group initially tested due to limited test kits. This jump to confusion stated as an over-abundance of caution had no CONTROL GROUP SAMPLE. Healthy individuals were excluded from the sample. A Stanford professor brought up these flaws recently and I’m unhappy that the cretins in governance have used this excuse to infringe on the RIGHTS of AMERICAN CITIZENS. Your willingness to stomp on the natural rights of American Citizens should be avoided until you have correct information for making this drastic decision. The death rate from Covid-19 is much lower than early reports – when the sample group is correct, it will be even lower. A jump-to-a-confusion does not qualify as correct governance.
As an old Prepper. This is just another day.
If it comes to rebellion so be it. I just don’t think it will. What it might come down to is protecting what you have.
Sgt.
can someone tell angry beaver and plan that i’m doing well? i can’t seem to post here or even find posts anymore…trying a new computer.
Just a little heads up My wife works at a chicken processing plant tyson for 3 weeks now they have been working full time doing orders for the military this is a new thing never did military before
All you who are skeptics can deny what is happening, but—if you look back for the last 10 years, Alex jones has been saying this. And these things in the article will happen. A lot of you will give your freedoms up easily, not even without a whimper. But for the people who have been preparing for this day, it will be war. For we will not live under the boot of tyranny. Now for all you snowflakes who hate guns and violence, i suggest you move out of the south now. Because the war will come to your door steps. you will see it, your children will learn of it. The carnage will last for the next century.