{"id":169862,"date":"2020-10-05T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=169862"},"modified":"2020-10-03T07:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T06:23:19","slug":"the-pandemic-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/10\/the-pandemic-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic That Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>1 Oct 2020 &#8211; <em>On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. When I think of this scary word it conjures up heartbreaking images of vast numbers of people suffering, precipitated into abysmal poverty. The WHO used to agree with me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For years the WHO on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/bulletin\/volumes\/89\/7\/11-086173\/en\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cPandemic Preparedness\u201d <\/a>homepage defined a pandemic as \u201cseveral simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.\u201d In 2009, however, the part about \u201cenormous numbers of death and illness\u201d was removed. Since 2010, the WHO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/csr\/disease\/swineflu\/frequently_asked_questions\/pandemic\/en\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cEmergencies preparedness, response\u201d<\/a> page now has the following definition: \u201cA pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a May 4, 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/05\/04\/swine.flu.pandemic\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">article,<\/a> David Ozonoff, professor of environmental health at the Boston University School of Public Health told CNN: \u201cThe word pandemic refers to how widely dispersed a disease is, not to how severe the disease is\u2026you can have a pandemic without a large number of deaths.\u201d This is exactly what we have in the case of the flu.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/11-03-2019-who-launches-new-global-influenza-strategy\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">WHO:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cInfluenza remains one of the world\u2019s greatest public health challenges. Every year across the globe, there are an estimated 1 billion cases, of which 3 to 5 million are severe cases, resulting in 290,000 to 650,000 influenza-related respiratory deaths.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the case of COVID-19, officially, <a href=\"https:\/\/virusncov.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">worldwide,<\/a> there are 33,916,696 cases and 1,013,879 deaths. Out of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">global population<\/a> of 7,815,358,156, this amounts to a death count of almost 1\/100th of one percent. In the U.S., the <a href=\"https:\/\/virusncov.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">tally<\/a> is 7,407,201 cases and 210,814 deaths out of a population of 334,742,314 which amounts to a death count of around 2\/3 of 1\/10th of 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Since on average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medindia.net\/patients\/calculators\/world-death-clock.asp\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">56 million<\/a> people worldwide die every year from all causes and on average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/clocks\/indicator\/deaths\/united-states\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2,830,688<\/a> in the U.S., the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 and the flu are \u00a0small. Certainly no reason to lock down the global economy and force people to wear masks. However, there is one very important difference between COVID-19 and the flu. So, detach from the COVID-19 fear narrative, fasten your seat belts, and look at the hard facts.<\/p>\n<p>All COVID-19 tests are faulty.<\/p>\n<p>May 26 CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/05\/26\/health\/antibody-tests-cdc-coronavirus-wrong\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">article:<\/a> \u201cAntibody tests used to determine if people have been infected in the past with COVID-19 might be wrong up to half the time\u2026\u201d They got this from the CDC\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/lab\/resources\/antibody-tests-guidelines.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> which also states that antibody tests are not accurate enough to determine who should go back to work. Yet, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/wysk\/what-you-should-know-about-covid-19-and-ada-rehabilitation-act-and-other-eeo-laws\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">EEOC<\/a> (Equal Employment opportunity commission) is allowing employers to force employees to be tested for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>May 22 Science Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-antigen-tests-quick-and-cheap-too-often-wrong\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">article:<\/a> \u201cCoronavirus antigen tests: quick and cheap, but too often wrong?\u201d reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAntigen tests don\u2019t amplify their protein signal, so they are inherently less sensitive. To make matters worse, that signal gets diluted when samples are mixed with the liquid needed to enable the material to flow across test strips. As a result, most antigen tests have a sensitivity of anywhere between 50% and 90%\u2026Last month, Spanish health authorities returned thousands of SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests to the Chinese firm Shengzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology after finding the tests correctly identified infected people only 30% of the time\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/134922\/download\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FDA website<\/a> on PCR tests, Page 38:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDetection of viral RNA may not indicate the presence of infectious virus or that 2019-nCoV is the causative agent for clinical symptoms\u2026The performance of this test has not been established for monitoring treatment of 2019-nCoV infection\u2026This test cannot rule out diseases caused by other bacterial or viral pathogens.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Bottom line:<\/strong> none of these tests can determine how much, if any, active infectious virus is in a person\u2019s body because they don\u2019t look for a virus. <strong>Instead, the virus is assumed to be present based on the detection of antibodies, antigens and fragments of nucleic acid. These tests aren\u2019t discovering new COVID-19 cases\u2014they are creating them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 case and death numbers are grossly inflated. <strong>There is no reason to believe any of the statistics provided by any government anywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Example: Virginia, May 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc12.com\/2020\/05\/01\/virginia-is-seeing-jump-covid-testing\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NBC 12<\/a> report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDuring a COVID-19 briefing, the State Department of Health announced it will now count the number of positive virus tests instead of the number of people who test positive. That means if one person is tested three times, and all three tests come back positive, it counts as three instead of how the numbers were being counted before which would only have been one because it was a single patient\u2026Other states, including North Carolina, have been reporting testing numbers that way for quite some time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Example: Texas, May 18, Collin County Government <a href=\"https:\/\/collincountytx.new.swagit.com\/videos\/62477\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">meeting<\/a>, 15 min. 28 sec. mark \u2013 1hr 5 min mark, a Health Department representative explains to the Council that a new definition of COVID-19 cases is being introduced whereby a single confirmed case (someone who tested positive) can be counted up to seventeen times by including members of their household (not tested with no symptoms) friends, neighbors, and coworkers with symptoms (not tested), and a coworker\u2019s family with no symptoms (not tested). The charts used at the meeting are available <a href=\"https:\/\/eagenda.collincountytx.gov\/docs\/2020\/CC\/20200518_2481\/48410_Explanation.pdf\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a>\u00a0At the 58 min. mark they admit that they always knew that the lockdowns and social distancing would never stop COVID-19 from spreading.The County Council Judge called the lockdowns \u201cirresponsible\u201d and \u201cirrational.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Example: ABC News, July 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/news\/coronavirus\/desantis-concerned-after-people-who-werent-tested-for-covid-19-received-positive-results?fbclid=lwAR0d4Gimtf_GN6ZCWzHSkjkcb66pQtOnLBMBP_TF\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Florida report:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGovernor DeSantis says he\u2019s concerned about the accuracy of COVID-19 test results\u2026People have said they submitted their contact information at a COVID-19 testing site, but after seeing how long the line was, they decided not to wait an hour or more to get the test. Nevertheless, a few days later, they got an email or a phone call telling them that they tested positive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Example: on September 1, ABC7 News <a href=\"https:\/\/abc-7.com\/news\/2020\/08\/31\/cdc-report-shows-94-of-covid-19-deaths-in-u-s-had-contributing-conditions\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that 94% of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. had other chronic diseases according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/covid_weekly\/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR3-wrg3tTKK5-9tOHPGAHWFVO3DfslkJ0KsDEPQpWmPbKtp6EsoVV2Qs1Q\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">CDC report<\/a> (see Comorbidities): \u201cFor 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.\u201dAmong those additional conditions listed on the CDC website are: \u201cInfluenza and pneumonia,\u201d \u201cRespiratory failure,\u201d \u201cHypertensive disease,\u201d \u201cDiabetes,\u201d \u201cHeart failure,\u201d \u201cRenal failure,\u201d \u201cCardiac arrest,\u201d \u201cObesity,\u201d \u201cSepsis,\u201d \u201cAlzheimer disease,\u201d \u201cIntentional and unintentional injury, poisoning and other adverse events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Example: USA News, July 19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/news\/fox-35-investigates-questions-raised-after-fatal-motorcycle-crash-listed-as-covid-19-death\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">article:<\/a> \u201cFlorida officials admit counting MOTORCYCLE death as COVID-19 fatality, remove it from list after media scrutiny.\u201d It was Fox35, a subsidiary of Fox News, that initially broke the story. The article includes the following idiotic statement from Orange County Health Officer Dr Raul Pino: \u201cBut you could actually argue that it could have been COVID-19 that caused him to crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t this just fill you with confidence in public health authorities? So much for the Florida Health Department\u2019s official policy that accidents don\u2019t count as COVID-19 deaths. And this young guy in his 20s would have remained a COVID-19 fatality if Fox35 had not caught them. How many more cases like this are there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s time to face the truth:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 isn\u2019t a disease just as sporting goods isn\u2019t a hunting rifle. COVID-19 is a new category that a percentage of sick people, along with a percentage of healthy people, are herded into.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COVID-19 is a label<\/strong>, a classification, a designation, a figment of the imagination\u2014a complete and utter fraud. There is no reason to wear a mask. There is no reason to do any kind of social distancing. <strong>There was never any reason to lock down the economy<\/strong>. There is no deadly virus\u2014only inaccurate tests and corrupt politicians controlled by global elitists who want to rob and exploit us. Face it folks, you\u2019ve been had, hoodwinked, bamboozled, lied to, conned, duped. The world is the same this year as it was last year and every year before. There is nothing to be afraid of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selling a Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of this COVID-19 propaganda that we are constantly being bombarded with is a sales pitch. I ought to know. I\u2019ve been in sales for over 40 years. As a sales professional, I was taught to sell the sizzle, not the steak. I was taught that what we are really doing is selling a story. It doesn\u2019t matter what the product or service is. The bosses give us a script to memorize and regurgitate. We don\u2019t have to know what we\u2019re talking about or even if it\u2019s true. All we have to do is mouth the words and go through the motions. Don\u2019t worry about truth\u2014just follow the script, we were told, and you will make lots of money. Just follow the yellow brick road and it will lead to Emerald City in the merry old land of Oz. Just wear masks, constantly wash your hands, socially distance, stay home, and wait for the magic vaccine to arrive and you will be saved. Hallelujah! Praise Jesus! Enough already!<\/p>\n<p>Want to get rid of COVID-19 and go back to a normal life? Then stop testing for it and it will go away. It\u2019s that simple. And while you\u2019re at it, stop thinking about it and stop worrying about it\u2014pay it no mind.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on a second. That\u2019s stupid! Will pregnancy go away if we stop testing for it? Answer: of course not! That\u2019s absurd because pregnancy is real. Pregnant women are real. You can deny reality, you can ignore it, but you can\u2019t make it go away because reality is real. You can deny there is a brick wall in front of you, but try walking through it and reality will bash you in the face every time. But COVID-19 isn\u2019t real so if you don\u2019t test for it and ignore it, it will go away. Think of it as waking up from a bad dream. COVID-19 will go away when you wake up.<\/p>\n<p>While dreaming, we get so caught up in an illusion that we don\u2019t realize that what we are experiencing isn\u2019t real so we play by the rules of the false reality. We might even be living a different life, think we know people we never met, and forget about our true life and who we really are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With COVID-19, too many of us have accepted a false reality in the real world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If this artificial existence goes on long enough we may never be able to face reality ever again. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fear will keep us trapped: afraid of germs, afraid of human contact, afraid to take off the mask and breathe the air of the planet on which we were born. The late spiritual teacher Carlos Castaneda said that a sign of enlightenment, or being able to see clearly and truthfully, is to be able to realize you\u2019re dreaming while you\u2019re dreaming and to alter its reality. The only way to alter this COVID-19 nightmare is to wake up to what\u2019s really going on.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that all governments around the world with few exceptions adopted the same oppressive policies in response to COVID-19 at the same time clearly shows that their strings are being pulled by some outside cabal. This cabal consists of multinational pharmaceutical companies, and billionaire philanthropists along with their foundations. These entities have become an unelected shadow government that has corrupted medical science, public health institutions, and politicians. And their plans for us peons are devastating.<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, 2020, the Rockefeller Foundation put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockefellerfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/TheRockefellerFoundation_WhitePaper_Covid19_4_22_2020.pdf\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> entitled: \u201cNational Covid-19 Testing Action Plan\u201d \u201cPragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities\u201d It talks about carrying out \u201cthe largest public health testing program in American history\u201d and refers to treating it \u201cas a wartime effort.\u201d It calls for hiring 100,000 to 300,000 people nationwide to test 20 to 30 million people per day in order to allow just about everyone to return to work. This would result in not only testing and contact tracing in every community, but also a \u201cpublic health workforce\u201d that could sanitize public spaces, spray sanitizers on people\u2019s hands, and enforce social distancing rules.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling nauseous yet? Wait, it gets better.<\/p>\n<p>On pages 17-18, the report decrees that \u201cprivacy concerns must be set aside\u201d in order to access people\u2019s \u201cinfection status.\u201d It further sates: \u201cThe loss of privacy engendered by such a system would come at too high a price if the arrival of a vaccine early next year was a certainty. But vaccine development and manufacture could take years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this crap is never going to end. Now, pay attention because here it comes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A depiction of our future vaccine I.D. card can be found on page 18 of the report.<\/strong> It will provide everyone with<\/p>\n<p>\u201ca unique patient identification number that would link to a patient\u2019s viral antibody and eventual vaccine status under a system that could easily handshake with other systems to speed the return to normal societal functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This could potentially stop unvacinated and supposedly infected people from getting a job, traveling, or from going to sports events, concerts, etc. The report even talks about installing tracking apps on our smart phones. Naturally, the public should be \u201cnudged\u201d into using these apps. But forcing people to use them isn\u2019t out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockefeller Foundation report states that they are working with the governments in Maryland and California to implement these diabolical medical gestapos that will eventually include the entire nation. We must oppose this brand of tyranny. We cannot allow state, federal, and local governments to take us down a path that will lead to economic devastation, despotism, shattered lives, despair, and death.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on all of us if we stand by and do nothing.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Michael J. Talmo has been a professional writer for over 40 years and is strongly committed to the protection of civil liberties. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:michaeltalmo@aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">michaeltalmo@aol.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"copyright\"><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michael-j-talmo\" title=\"Posts by Michael J. Talmo\" >Michael J. Talmo<\/a>, Global Research, 2020<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/pandemic-never-was\/5725344\" >Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Oct 2020 &#8211; COVID-19 is a label, a classification, a designation, a figment of the imagination\u2014a complete and utter fraud. There is no reason to wear a mask. There is no reason to do any kind of social distancing. There was never any reason to lock down the economy. There is no deadly virus\u2014only inaccurate tests and corrupt politicians controlled by global elitists who want to rob and exploit us. Face it folks, you\u2019ve been had, hoodwinked, bamboozled, lied to, conned, duped. The world is the same this year as it was last year and every year before. There is nothing to be afraid of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":160432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2124],"tags":[1913,1385,1829,1868,289,555,401,710,1937,613,1864,1102,723,1447,888,1836,75],"class_list":["post-169862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debates-on-covid-vaccines","tag-bill-gates","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-economy","tag-elites","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-lockdown","tag-new-world-order","tag-pandemic","tag-public-health","tag-research","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-vaccines","tag-who","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}