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Who Wanted Pandemic Lockdowns?
American Institute for Economic Research ^ | February 9, 2021 | Jeffrey A. Tucker

Posted on 02/12/2021 5:46:34 PM PST by CheshireTheCat

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I prefer to think it's a conspiracy, but I get this guy's point.
1 posted on 02/12/2021 5:46:34 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

“It only requires that the right confluence of events”

1. Chinese release virus at beginning of Trump re-election year.
2. Dem-run organizations and states everywhere institute lockdowns.
3. Mail-in voting is needed. It is WAY too dangerous to vote in person.
4. Trump’s fault. Trump’s fault. Trump’s fault. Trump’s fault. REPEAT! Trump’s fault!
5. Checkmate.


2 posted on 02/12/2021 5:53:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Life is short, and work long, opportunity fleeting, experiments dangerous, and judgment hard)
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To: CheshireTheCat
 
 
The drive keeping it alive is it's a new revenue stream that a lot of interested parties don't want to go away. There are even efforts at lobbying elected officials all the way down to the local level to keep the lockdowns going, to keep the money pouring in.
 
 

3 posted on 02/12/2021 6:04:35 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Only democrats.


4 posted on 02/12/2021 6:20:17 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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5 posted on 02/12/2021 7:10:16 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And don’t forget. In summer of 2019 Wuhan had some mass demonstrations over air quality. Then Hong Kong started up because of the extradition law. The Hong Kong Protests got worse and worse and were threatening to spread into red China. They had a bad problem and no good answers.

The Tienanmen square solution was going to cost them dearly this time as intertwined as they are with the EU and USA economically compared to 1989.

Trump and his economy was a runaway freight train and he was cruising to reelection. China had a bad problem.

They released the Fauci Frankenvirus. That allowed Red China to freely exercise tyrannical lockdowns with no repercussions from the west. They let it spread to the west and America as cover and to take down the US economy. Their American friends in the Democrat party were thrilled to play along and hype the panic.


6 posted on 02/12/2021 7:11:31 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: CheshireTheCat

Who?

All beneficiaries of OBodyMortgagers banking-insurance hospital associations. The first to get bailed.
Scammers all of them.

Trump banned the Mandate.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 7:14:14 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

1. Trump banned the Mandate.


8 posted on 02/12/2021 7:15:44 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Control Freaks, always scheming to gain power (because they are mentally ill), saw a golden opportunity and took it. And they will never, ever, ever, willingly give it back.

Control Freaks rely on fearful people to support their power grabs, so they played up the fear factor, and our “leaders” stood by and let it happen.

It didn’t help that Trump is a germ freak, that hates shaking hands. They played him, played on his fears, too.

And here we are, massive losses of Freedom, killed middle class of Deplorables, damaged generation of kids, ruined economy, and a senile china puppet ruling by decree.


9 posted on 02/12/2021 7:22:33 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now!)
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To: lapsus calami

What’s the revenue stream?


10 posted on 02/12/2021 7:38:10 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie
 
 
Uh - rather obvious, isn't it.
 
 

11 posted on 02/12/2021 7:41:02 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

No, it isn’t that’s why I asked. If you can’t explain that’s fine.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 8:02:28 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: CheshireTheCat

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.


13 posted on 02/12/2021 8:55:47 PM PST by tbw2
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To: DesertRhino

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.


14 posted on 02/12/2021 8:56:06 PM PST by tbw2
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To: lapsus calami

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.


15 posted on 02/12/2021 8:56:17 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2
 
 
Yeah - saw that in various threads around here last year. People should dangling from nooses for all the mayhem that has supported.
 
 

16 posted on 02/12/2021 9:12:49 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: lapsus calami

Yeah - saw that in various threads around here last year. People should dangling from nooses for all the mayhem that has supported.

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Surprisingly, many Freepers were pro-lockdown, yet very anti-government handout with stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment.

Often rubbing it in and admonishing us that we should have had a 6 to 12-month cash reserve on hand like they did (or claimed to have). They have been mostly quiet lately. Considering most Americans don’t even have $1000 saved for emergencies...

Been almost a year with solid 750,000 per week job losses. Career level jobs being replaced by mind-numbing manual labor minimum wage starter jobs when there was jobs recovery. Many American companies took this opportunity to outsource entire white-collar operations to India and back to Communist China with the blue-collar manufacturing jobs. But hey, stocks are still high.


17 posted on 02/12/2021 9:48:21 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: CheshireTheCat

I always thought the release of wuflu was timed to push for mail in fraudulent voting. The DNC coordinated with China and Fauci was the connection.


18 posted on 02/13/2021 12:57:37 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: CheshireTheCat

‘Public health intellectuals who for at least a decade and a half had fallen for the romance of computer modelling and were itching to try out a new method for disease mitigation.’

this needs to be screamed from the rooftops; the medical community in in this scamdemic up to their eyeballs...from young, mostly female nurses harrassing people on FB and youtube for questioning masks, to doctors and administrators who did nothing but nod their heads in sage agreement when slavering power mad governors doled out economy killing diktats which acheived nothing other than turning the citizenry against itself (I now find mysef detesting former acquaintances), to state health officials and hospital bosses who sanctioned the return of sick patients to nursing homes, knowing full well they would infect the vulnerable...


19 posted on 02/13/2021 8:23:01 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

‘Mail-in voting is needed. It is WAY too dangerous to vote in person.’

there’s nothing pricipally wrong with mail in voting; five states have been doing so for several election cycles...and you might as well get used to it, as it is now here to stay...

there was nothing, nothing whatsoever keeping pubbies from using mail in voting; since you all think it’s such an advantage for the dems, next time go in big for it, beat them at their own game...


20 posted on 02/13/2021 8:29:39 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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