{"id":178908,"date":"2021-02-15T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=178908"},"modified":"2021-02-08T05:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:12:45","slug":"the-corona-pandemic-timeline-what-happened-in-january-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/the-corona-pandemic-timeline-what-happened-in-january-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Corona \u201cPandemic\u201d Timeline: What Happened in January \u2013 March 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Covid-19-2-400x273-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-178909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Covid-19-2-400x273-1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Covid-19-2-400x273-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Covid-19-2-400x273-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>2 Feb 2021 &#8211; <\/em><\/strong><strong>Author\u2019s Introductory Note<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Facts corroborated by official statements reveal that the Covid pandemic which served to justify the Lockdown is deceptive to say the least.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This article (based on Chapter III of my E-Book) will focus on the Corona Timeline starting in January 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These are some of the highlights:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>A Covid Vaccine had already been envisaged several months prior to the \u201cofficial\u201d discovery of the virus in late December 2019<\/strong>. The Covid Vaccine initiative was discussed and debated at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos on January 21-24, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>On January 30, 2020<\/strong>, the WHO confirmed that\u00a0there were <strong>83 positive cases outside China<\/strong> including\u00a05 \u00a0in the US, 3 in Canada, 4 in France, 4 in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Based on\u00a0these ridiculously low numbers\u00a0<strong>the WHO\u00a0launched a Worldwide public health emergency (PHEIC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5726208 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png 1306w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-768x181.png 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-1024x241.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-400x94.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> On the following day<strong>, January 31st, 2020<\/strong>, <strong>President Trump decided to suspend Air Travel with China. The\u00a0<\/strong><strong>five WHO \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d in the US<\/strong>\u00a0were sufficient to \u201cjustify\u201d a far-reaching decision which triggered a crisis in international trade and air travel, which is still ongoing, not to mention the bankruptcies of the airlines and the tourist industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> <strong>On February 20th,<\/strong> the WHO Director General Tedros held a press conference warning that a pandemic was imminent, intimating\u00a0\u201cthat the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak..[is] closing\u201d \u2026:\u00a0<strong>\u201cI believe the window of opportunity is still there,\u00a0but that the window\u00a0is narrowing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5728267 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33.png 511w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33-400x510.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"254\" \/>These shock and awe statements have no scientific basis. On February 20, 2020, the recorded number of covid positive cases was ridiculously low: <strong>confirmed cases outside China was 1073 out of population of 6.4 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tedros\u2019 statements nonetheless served to trigger <strong>the 2020 Corona Financial Crash<\/strong>. The fear campaign went into high gear. The evidence suggests that the stock market crisis was engineered. There was no cause for alarm. (See Chapter IV for details)<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>On March 11, 2020<\/strong> the WHO Director General officially declared a Worldwide \u00a0Pandemic at a time when the number of \u00a0<strong>confirmed cases outside China (6.4 billion population) was of the order of \u00a044,279 and 1440 deaths<\/strong> (recorded by\u00a0WHO for March 11, see table right).<\/p>\n<p>Immediately following the March 11, 2020 WHO announcement, the fear campaign gained impetus. 193 member states of the United Nations were instructed to implement the lockdown and close down their economies as a means to resolving a Worldwide public health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>We can distinguish and identify three important decisions (January 30-31, February 20, 2020, March 11, 2020 which served to set the stage of the ongoing corona crisis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January 30, 31, 2020:<\/strong> Worldwide public health Emergence declared by WHO (<strong>83 cases outside China<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>February 20th, 2020<\/strong>. WHO Warning that a pandemic is imminent, leading to stock market crash (<strong>1073 cases outside China<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 11, 2020,<\/strong> The Lockdown and the recommended Worldwide closure of economic activity as a means to resolving an alleged public health crisis.(44,279 cases outside China). At a time when the covid crisis in China was virtually over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These ridiculously low numbers of estimated positive cases based on the PCR test do not under any circumstances justify the lockdown and closing down of economic activity.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the March 11, 2020 Lockdown (supported by the fear campaign) the process of testing went into high gear.<\/p>\n<p>There is now ample evidence that the estimates resulting from the PCR tests used to justify the \u201cSecond Wave\u201d lockdown measures are flawed and invalid. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >(See Chapter II<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The following text entitled \u00a0<strong>The Corona Time Line<\/strong>\u00a0is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >Chapter III of my E-book<\/a> which consists of nine chapters. To access the full text of the E-book\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" > click here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat and the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE CORONA TIMELINE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Text of Chapter II: To read the E-Book including a detailed analysis pertaining the economic and financial dimensions (Chapters IV, V and IX)\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >click here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 1, 2019:<\/strong> \u00a0<strong>Glaxo -Smith -Kline<\/strong> and <strong>Pfizer<\/strong>\u00a0announce the establishment of a corporate partnership in Consumer Health Products including Vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>September 19, 2019:<\/strong> T<strong>he ID2020 Alliance<\/strong> held their Summit in New York, entitled \u201cRising to the Good ID Challenge\u201d. The \u00a0focus was on the establishment of a vaccine with <strong>an embedded digital passport<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 18, 2019. Event 201. The 201 Pandemic Simulation Exercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus was initially named<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)30419-0\/fulltext\" ><strong> 2019-nCoV<\/strong> by the WHO<\/a>, the same name (with the exception of the placement of the date) as that adopted at<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2019\/11\/06\/event-201-health-security\/\" >the October 18, 2019 201 Simulation exercise<\/a> under the auspices of the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, Centre for Heath Security (an event sponsored by the Gates Foundation and World Economic Forum).(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/about\" >Event 201<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforhealthsecurity.org\/event201\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Event 201<\/a> with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. \u2026 \u00a0For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Instead, the exercise served to highlight preparedness and response challenges that would likely arise in a very severe pandemic. We are not now predicting that the <strong>nCoV-2019<\/strong> outbreak will kill 65 million people. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.\u201cWe are not now predicting that the nCoV-2019 [which was also used as the name of the simulation] outbreak will kill 65 million people. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>.Although our tabletop exercise included a mock novel coronavirus, the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar to nCoV-2019.<\/i><i>\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>December 31, 2019:<\/strong> First cases of pneumonia detected and reported in Wuhan, Hubei Province. China.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 1, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>Chinese health authorities close the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market\u00a0after Western media reports that wild animals sold there may have been the source of the virus. This initial assessment was subsequently refuted by Chinese scientists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 7, 2020: <\/strong>Chinese authorities \u201cidentify a new type of virus\u201d which was isolated \u00a0on 7 January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 11, 2020 \u2013<\/strong> The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission announces the first death caused by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 22, 2020: WHO<\/strong>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/23-01-2020-statement-on-the-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\" >Members of the WHO Emergency Committee<\/a> \u201cexpressed divergent views on whether this event constitutes a PHEIC or not\u201d. The Committee meeting was reconvened on January 23, 2020, overlapping with the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos (January 21-24, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005)\u00a0expressed divergent views on whether this event constitutes a PHEIC or not. At that time, the advice was that the event did not constitute a PHEIC, but the Committee members agreed on the urgency of the situation and suggested that the Committee should be reconvened in a matter of days to examine the situation further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 21-24, 2020:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Consultations at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland<\/strong> under auspices of \u00a0the <strong>Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)<\/strong> for development of a vaccine program. CEPI is a WEF-Gates partnership. With support from CEPI, Seattle based Moderna\u00a0will manufacture an <strong>mRNA vaccine against 2019-nCoV<\/strong>, \u201cThe Vaccine Research Center\u00a0(VRC) of the\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases\u00a0(NIAID), part of NIH, collaborated with\u00a0Moderna\u00a0to design the vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-08-at-20.02.14.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5705844 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-08-at-20.02.14.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-08-at-20.02.14.png 497w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-08-at-20.02.14-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screen-Shot-2020-03-08-at-20.02.14-400x534.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"664\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: The development of <strong>a 2019 nCoV vaccine<\/strong> was announced at Davos, 2 weeks after the January 7, 2020 announcement, and barely a \u00a0week prior to the official launching of the WHO\u2019s\u00a0Worldwide Public Health emergency on January 30. \u00a0The WEF-Gates-CEPI Vaccine Announcement precedes the WHO Public Health Emergency (PHEIC)<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/videos\/the-next-super-bug-davos-2020\" >See WEF video\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dominant financial interests, billionaire foundations and international financial institutions played a key role in launching the WHO Public Health Emergency (PHEIC).<\/p>\n<p>In the week preceding this historic WHO decision.\u00a0The PHEIC was the object of \u201cconsultations\u201d at the World Economic Forum (WEF),\u00a0Davos (January 21-24). The WHO Director General Dr. Tedros was present at Davos. Were these consultations instrumental in influencing the WHO\u2019s historic decision on January 30th.<\/p>\n<p>Was there a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\" >Conflict of Interest as defined by the WHO<\/a>?\u00a0The WHO\u2019s largest donor is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which together with the WEF and CEPI <strong>had already announced in Davos the development of a Covid-19 vaccine prior to the historic January 30th launching of the PHEIC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>January 28, 2020:<\/strong> \u00a0The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/lab\/grows-virus-cell-culture.html\" >confirmed that the novela corona virus had been isolated.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The WHO Director General had the backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Big Pharma and the World Economic Forum (WEF). There are indications that the decision for the\u00a0<strong>WHO to declare a Global Health Emergency <\/strong>was taken on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (January 21-24) overlapping with the Geneva January 22 meeting of the Emergency Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>\u00a0WHO\u2019s Director Tedros<\/strong>\u00a0was present at Davos 2020. At Davos, the Gates Foundation announced\u00a0$10 billion commitment to vaccines over the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-14.25.43.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5730664 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-14.25.43.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-14.25.43.png 724w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-14.25.43-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-29-at-14.25.43-400x164.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pledge was made in Davos, Switzerland, barely a week prior to the WHO decision to launch the PHEIC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 30, 2020:\u00a0The WHO\u2019s Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"yiv4464089652ydp47fa83fcyiv8141371087\">\n<div class=\"yiv4464089652ydp47fa83fcyiv8141371087ydpd347e4acyahoo-style-wrap\">\n<p>The first stage of this crisis was launched by the WHO on<strong> January 30th<\/strong>. While officially it was not designated as a \u201cPandemic\u201d, it nonetheless contributed to spearheading the fear campaign.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>From the very outset, the estimates of \u201cconfirmed positive cases\u201d have been part of a \u201cNumbers Game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases the\u00a0statistics were\u00a0simply not mentioned and in other cases the numbers were selectively inflated with a view to creating panic.<\/p>\n<p>Not mentioned by the media: The number of \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d based on faulty estimates (PCR) used to justify this far reaching decision was ridiculously low.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Worldwide population outside China is of the order of 6.4 billion. On January 30, 2020 outside China there were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>83 cases in 18 countries, and only 7<\/strong> of them had no history of travel in China. (see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/30-01-2020-statement-on-the-second-meeting-of-the-international-health-regulations-(2005)-emergency-committee-regarding-the-outbreak-of-novel-coronavirus-(2019-ncov)\" >WHO<\/a>, January 30, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>On January 29, 2020, the day preceding the launching of the PHEI (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/situation-reports\/20200129-sitrep-9-ncov-v2.pdf?sfvrsn=e2c8915_2\" >recorded by the WHO),<\/a> there were <strong>5 \u00a0cases in the US, 3 in Canada, 4 in France, 4 in Germany.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There was no \u201cscientific basis\u201d to justify the launching of a Worldwide public health emergency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5726208 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31.png 1306w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-768x181.png 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-1024x241.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-14.09.31-400x94.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/situation-reports\/20200129-sitrep-9-ncov-v2.pdf?sfvrsn=e2c8915_2\" >Screenshot of WHO table, January 29, 2020<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Those low numbers \u00a0(not mentioned by the media) did not prevent the launching of a Worldwide fear campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 31, 2020: \u00a0President Trump\u2019s Decision to Suspend Air Travel with China<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the following day (January\u00a031, 2020),\u00a0Trump announced that he would deny entry to the US of both Chinese and foreign nationals\u00a0\u201cwho have traveled in China in the last 14 days\u201d<strong>.<\/strong> This immediately triggered a crisis in air travel, \u00a0transportation, US-China trade relations as well as freight and shipping transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the WHO \u00a0\u201c[did] not recommend any travel or trade restrictions\u201d\u00a0the <strong>five so-called \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d in the US<\/strong>\u00a0were sufficient to \u201cjustify\u201d <strong>President Trump\u2019s January 31st 2020 decision<\/strong> to suspend air travel to China while precipitating a hate campaign against ethnic Chinese throughout the Western World.<\/p>\n<p>This historic January 31st decision paved the way towards the disruption of international commodity trade as well as Worldwide restrictions on air travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFake media\u201d immediately went into high gear. China was held responsible for \u201cspreading infection\u201d Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early February 2020<\/strong>: the acronym of the coronavirus was changed from <strong>nCoV- 2019<\/strong> (its name under the October Event 201 John Hopkins Simulation Exercise before it was identified in early January 2020) to <strong>SARS-nCoV-2. <\/strong>Covid-19 indicates the disease triggered by SARS-CoV-2<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 20-21, 2020. Worldwide Covid Data Outside China: The Diamond Princess Cruise Ship\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While China reported a total of 75,567 cases of COVID-19, (February 20) the confirmed cases outside China were abysmally low and the statistics based in large part on the the PCR test used to confirm the \u201cWorldwide spread of the virus\u201d were questionable to say the least. Moreover, out of the 75,567 cases in China, a large percentage had recovered. And recovery figures were not acknowledged by the media.<\/p>\n<p>O<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5726217 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped.jpg 2598w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped-768x412.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped-1024x549.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Diamond_Princess_ship_2004_-_cropped-400x214.jpg 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"135\" \/>n the day of Dr. Tedros\u2019 historic press conference (February 20, 2020) the recorded number of <strong>confirmed cases outside China was 1073 of which 621 were passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship <\/strong>(stranded in Japanese territorial waters).<\/p>\n<p>From a statistical point of view, the WHO decision pointing to a potential \u201cspread of the virus Worldwide\u201d did not make sense.<\/p>\n<p>On February 20th,\u00a0<strong>57.9\u00a0% of the Worldwide Covid-19 \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d were from the Diamond Princess<\/strong>, hardly representative of \u00a0a Worldwide \u201cstatistical trend\u201d.The official story is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Hong Kong based passenger who had disembarked from the Diamond Princess in Hong Kong on January 25 developed pneumonia and was\u00a0tested positive for the novela coronavirus on January 30.<\/li>\n<li>He was reported to have travelled on January 10, to Shenzhen on mainland China (which borders on Hong Kong\u2019s new territories).<\/li>\n<li>The Diamond Princess arrived at Yokohama on February 3. A quarantine was imposed on the cruiser\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7156812\/\" >See NCBI study<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Many passengers fell sick due to the confinement on the boat.<\/li>\n<li>All the passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess undertook the PCR test.<\/li>\n<li>The number of confirmed cases increased to<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7156812\/\" > 691 on February 23.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5731741 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46.png 1380w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46-1024x800.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-19.28.46-400x312.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"547\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scan Source: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7156812\/\" >NCBI Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read carefully<\/strong>: From the standpoint of assessing Worldwide statistical trends, the data doesn\u2019t stand up.\u00a0<strong>Without the Diamond Princess data, the so-called confirmed cases worldwide<\/strong> outside China on February 20th 2020 were of the order of\u00a0<strong>452, out of a population of 6.4 billion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examine the WHO Graph below. The blue indicates the confirmed cases on the Diamond Princess (international conveyance) (which arrived in Yokohama on February 3, 2020), many of whom were sick, confined to their rooms for more than two weeks (quarantine imposed by Japan). All passengers and crew took the RT-PCR test (which does not detect or identify Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this so-called data was instrumental in spearheading the fear campaign and the collapse of financial markets in the course of the month of February. (see section below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-who.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-who.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-who.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-who-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-who-768x149.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-china.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-178913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-china.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-china-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/covid-china-768x427.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 20th, 2020:\u00a0<\/strong>At a press conference on Thursday the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19-on-20-february-2020\" >20th of February afternoon<\/a> (CET Time) in a\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19-on-20-february-2020\" >briefing in Geneva, the WHO Director General.\u00a0<\/a><strong>Dr Tedros\u00a0Adhanom Ghebreyesus<\/strong>, said that he was<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p>\u201cconcerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was \u201cclosing\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI believe the window of opportunity is still there,\u00a0but that the window\u00a0is narrowing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There were only 1076 cases outside China (including the Diamond Press:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19-on-20-february-2020\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5732002 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50.png 2650w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50-768x214.png 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50-1024x285.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-11-at-17.46.50-400x111.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"582\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19-on-20-february-2020\" >Screenshot, WHO Press Conference, February 20th, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5726211 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-15.16.27.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-15.16.27.png 539w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-15.16.27-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-10-at-15.16.27-400x537.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note: The tabulated data above for February 20, 2020 indicates 1073 cases. 1076 cases in WHO Press Conference)<\/p>\n<p>These \u201cshock and awe\u201d statements contributed to heightening the fear campaign, despite the fact that the number of confirmed cases outside China was exceedingly low.\u00a0<strong>February 20-21, 2020 marks the beginning of the 2020 Financial Crash.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/situation-reports\/20200220-sitrep-31-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=dfd11d24_2\" >Officially 1073 cases Worldwide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excluding the Diamond Princess, 452 so-called \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d\u00a0Worldwide outside China, for a population of 6.4 billion\u00a0<\/strong>recorded by the WHO on February 20th,\u00a0<strong>15 in the US, 8 in Canada, 9 in the UK.<\/strong> (See table right, February 20, 2020). Those are the figures used to justify Dr. Tedros\u2019 warnings: \u201cthe window is narrowing\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>A larger number of cases outside China were recorded in South Korea (153 cases according to WHO) and Italy (recorded by national authorities).<\/p>\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p>WHO data recorded on February 2020 at the outset of the so-called Covid Financial Crash (right)<\/p>\n<p>The statement by Dr. Tedros (based on flawed concepts and statistics), set the stage for \u00a0the February financial collapse. (See Chapter IV).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>February 24: \u00a0Moderna Inc <\/strong>supported by CEPI<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0announced \u00a0that its experimental<strong> mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, <\/strong>known<strong> as mRNA-1273,<\/strong>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/videos\/update-wuhan-coronavirus-covid-19-davos-2020\" >was ready for human testing.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>February 28, 2020:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---28-february-2020\" >A \u00a0WHO vaccination campaign was announced<\/a> by WHO Director General Dr.\u00a0<span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More than 20 vaccines are in development globally, and several therapeutics are in clinical trials. We expect the first results in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign to develop vaccines was initiated prior to decision of the WHO to launch a Global Public Health emergency. It was first announced at the WEF meeting at Davos (21-24 January) by CEPI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early March: China:<\/strong>\u00a0More than 50% of the infected patients recovered and were discharged from the hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <strong>49,856<\/strong> patients have recovered from COVID-19 and were discharged from hospitals in China. (WHO).\u00a0\u00a0What this means is that the total number of <strong>\u00a0\u201cconfirmed infected cases\u201d in China was 30,448.<\/strong> (Namely 80,304 minus 49,856 = 30,448 \u00a0(80,304 is the total number on confirmed cases in China (WHO data, March 3, 2020). These developments concerning \u201crecovery\u201d are not reported by the Western media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 5<\/strong>, <strong>WHO Director General confirms<\/strong> that outside China there are <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---5-march-2020\" >2055 cases reported in 33 countries<\/a>.<\/strong> Around 80% of those cases continue to come from just three countries (South Korea, Iran, Italy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 7: USA<\/strong>: The number of \u201cconfirmed cases\u201d (infected and recovered) in <strong>the United States in early March is of the order of 430, rising to about 600<\/strong>\u00a0(March 8). Rapid rise in the course of March.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to the figures pertaining to the <strong>Influenza B Virus:<\/strong> The CDC estimated for 2019-2020 \u201cat least 15 million virus flu illnesses\u2026 140,000 hospitalizations and 8,200 deaths. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/longevity\/480089-coronavirus-sparks-panic-as-flu-poses-greater-threat-to\" >The Hill<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 7: \u00a0China: The Pandemic is Almost Over<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reported new cases in China fall to double digit<strong>. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-03\/07\/c_138853686.htm\" >99 cases recorded on March 7.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>All of the new cases outside Hubei province are categorized as \u00a0\u201cimported infections\u201d(from foreign countries). The reliability of the data remains to be established:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">99 newly confirmed cases including 74 in Hubei Province, \u2026\u00a0The new cases included 24 imported infections \u2014 17 in Gansu Province, three in Beijing, three in Shanghai and one in Guangdong Province.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p><strong>March 11, 2020: The Historic Covid-19 Pandemic, Lockdown, Closing Down of 190 National Economies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<div class=\"row \">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<p>The WHO Director General had already set the stage in his<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/transcripts\/who-audio-emergencies-coronavirus-full-press-conference-21feb2020-final.pdf?sfvrsn=954f8ec7_2\" > February 21st Press Conference <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cthe world should do more to prepare for a possible coronavirus pandemic\u201d. The WHO had called upon countries to be \u201cin a phase of preparedness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO officially declared a Worldwide pandemic at a time when there were\u00a0<strong>118,000 confirmed cases and 4291 deaths<\/strong>\u00a0Worldwide (including China). (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/director-general\/speeches\/detail\/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing-on-covid-19---11-march-2020\" >March 11, 2020, according to press conference<\/a>). What do these \u201cstatistics\u201d tell you?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/situation-reports\/20200312-sitrep-52-covid-19.pdf\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5728267 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33.png 511w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-23.55.33-400x510.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><strong>The number of confirmed cases outside China (6.4 billion population) were of the order of \u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/docs\/default-source\/coronaviruse\/situation-reports\/20200312-sitrep-52-covid-19.pdf\" >44279 and 1440 death<\/a>s (<\/strong>figures recorded by the WHO for March 11, (on\u00a0March 12) (see table right). (The death figure outside China mentioned in Tedros\u2019s press conference was 4291).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"syndicate\">\n<p>Immediately following the March 11, 2020 WHO announcement, the fear campaign went into high gear. (the economic and financial impacts are reviewed in Chapter IV)<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 16:<\/strong> <strong>Moderna <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>mRNA-1273 <\/strong>is tested in several stages with 45 volunteers in Seattle, Washington State. The vaccine program started in early February:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know whether <strong>this vaccine will induce an immune response, or whether it will be safe.<\/strong>That\u2019s why we\u2019re doing a trial,\u201d Jackson stressed. \u201cIt\u2019s not at the stage where it would be possible or prudent to give it to the general population.\u201d (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/coronavirus-vaccine-1.5499244\" >AP<\/a>, March 16, 2020)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Second Wave <\/strong>Announcements and Press reports Canada and the US.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/06\/12\/second-wave-of-covid-19-what-is-it-coming-first-wave-recede-how-to-prevent-why-no-sars-faq\/\" > Early to Mid-June<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>November, December: \u00a0<\/strong>Ongoing, Partial\u00a0Lockdown, Social Distancing and Social Gathering measures taken by Britain, France, Germany, Canada. Introduction of Covid Vaccine<\/p>\n<p>To read the E-Book including a detailed analysis pertaining the economic and financial dimensions (Chapters IV, V and IX)\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >click here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" >The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d\u2019\u00c9tat and the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Chossudovsky.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-143077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Michel-Chossudovsky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.\u00a0 He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. He has served as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and has acted as a consultant for several international organizations. He is the author of eleven books including\u00a0<\/em>The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order\u00a0(<em>2003<\/em>),\u00a0America\u2019s \u201cWar on Terrorism\u201d\u00a0(<em>2005<\/em>),\u00a0The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the Twenty-first Century\u00a0(<em>2009<\/em>) (<em>Editor<\/em>),\u00a0Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War\u00a0(<em>2011<\/em>), The Globalization of War, America&#8217;s Long War against Humanity (<em>2015<\/em>). <em>He is a contributor to the<\/em> Encyclopaedia Britannica.\u00a0 <em>His writings have been published in more than twenty languages.\u00a0In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO&#8217;s war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:crgeditor@yahoo.com\">crgeditor@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/author\/michel-chossudovsky\" title=\"Posts by Prof Michel Chossudovsky\" >Prof Michel Chossudovsky<\/a>, Global Research, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"jp-relatedposts\" class=\"jp-relatedposts\">\n<p class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Articles:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"jp-relatedposts-items jp-relatedposts-items-visual jp-relatedposts-grid \">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-id=\"5725602\" data-post-format=\"false\"><a class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" title=\"The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction\n\nThe &quot;killer virus&quot; fear campaign coupled with the WHO Director General Dr. Tedros' timely &quot;warnings&quot; of the need to implement a Worldwide pandemic served the interests of Wall Street's institutional speculators and hedge funds. The financial crash led to a major shift in the distribution of money wealth.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-covid-19-roadmap-towards-economic-chaos-and-societal-destruction\/5725602\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-origin=\"5736250\" data-position=\"0\"><em>The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>7 November 2020<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post0 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-id=\"5725602\" data-post-format=\"false\"><em><a class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" title=\"COVID-19 Coronavirus &quot;Fake&quot; Pandemic: Timeline and Analysis\n\nOn January 30, a far-reaching decision was taken by the WHO without the support of expert opinion at a time when the coronavirus outbreak was limited to Mainland China. 150 confirmed cases outside China, when the decision was taken, 6 in the US, 3 in Canada, 2 in the UK,\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/ncov-2019-coronavirus-time-line\/5705776\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-origin=\"5736250\" data-position=\"1\">COVID-19 Coronavirus &#8220;Fake&#8221; Pandemic: Timeline and Analysis &#8211;\u00a0<\/a>15 August 2020<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"jp-relatedposts-post jp-relatedposts-post2 jp-relatedposts-post-thumbs\" data-post-id=\"5730652\" data-post-format=\"false\"><em><a class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-a\" title=\"The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis:  Destroying Civil Society,  Engineered Economic Depression,  Global Coup d'\u00c9tat and the &quot;Great Reset&quot;\n\nWe are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset\/5730652\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-origin=\"5736250\" data-position=\"2\">The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d&#8217;\u00c9tat and the &#8220;Great Reset&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0<\/a>1 February 2021<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/the-corona-pandemic-timeline-what-happened-in-january-march-2020\/5736250\" >Go to Original &#8211; globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Feb 2021 &#8211; Facts corroborated by official statements reveal that the Covid pandemic which served to justify the Lockdown is deceptive to say the least. This article will focus on the Corona Timeline starting in January 2020. 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