Jared Kushner and the Mystery of the First US Lockdown

epoch times ^ | 25 August A.D. 2022 | Jeffrey Tucker

[lightman]

This decision, which wrecked life in the United States and all over the world, and eventually caused the loss of the presidency and the Congress, was made by a handful of well-connected tech entrepreneurs with ZERO experience in infectious disease, epidemiology, immunology, pandemic history, or anything other than management and business classes at the Wharton School

[Erik Latranyi]

Everyone needs to understand that Trump trusts Jared 100%.

Jared spearheaded the Abraham Accords and convinced Trump to not listen to the State Department about the embassy move and the peace deals.

Trump did get lots of bad advice from many people. Fauci and Birx were responsible and they were pushing for lockdowns.

Don’t blame Jared. This is just a means to drive a wedge between Trump and his trusted family members.

[McGavin999]

It was 15 days to slow the spread.

[gloryblaze]

Yes! The book’s authors wanted to indict President Trump with a book and they did.

What we know now is that relying too much on the “disease specialists” was the problem. Peripheral issues be damned. See, when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nil.

[SaveFerris]

(the Abraham Accords)

This will end badly. I’m sorry to say.

Now truth be told, Carter, Hillary, Obama et al were also pushing for this.

It’s following a scenario I’ve expected for more than two decades re: the name.

I expect it to come to complete fruition. How that shall eventually happen remains to be seen.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

One notices that lockdowns of whole ecnomies has wreaked havoc around the world, and the continued effort by the Chinese Communists abd their allies to play “monkey see monkey do” games with their repeated lockdowns — none nationwide, it should be noted — has been an effort to get the West to eviscerate itself ecnomically. The first one worked. Never before had people without an illness been quarantined, since the last few attempts which were during the second world war against “vermin.” The scam worked once, and made billionaires in its wake.

[rlmorel]

I couldn’t be more in agreement. Trump is not an expert on everything, no Chief Executive ever is. They have to take advice from “Experts”.

In this case, like it or not, those “Experts” were Fauci and Birx, two unethical people who have shown themselves to not only be professionally and ideologically flawed, but personally flawed as well, and highly so.

And both Fauci and Birx eyed Trump with malevolence from day one.

[piasa]

An open ed in the guise of a news article?

[Signalman]

“Trump agreed to the guidelines”.

I’ll bet Ron DeSantis would not have.

[piasa]

Had to wade through alk the speculation to get to this nugget:

For one thing, even as these birds were deliberating, the Department of Health and Human Services had already issued on March 13 a lockdown order marked as classified.

[Obadiah]

I had to stand outside in January to visit my dying M-I-L through a window, while talking to her on my cell phone.

Having said that, this is a bit of Monday morning quarterbacking. Look, Fauci and Birx scared the crap out of everyone by using a completely bogus and half-baked paper from England stating 2 million people could die rapidly. No one, except perhaps Fauci from his gain-of-function study, knew what the country or the world was dealing with. Add to this that Democrats and the corrupt MSM were already trying to “Katrina” Trump, mocking him and calling him a racist for shutting down flights from China.

So, in a small way, these guys really moved the needle quickly, and I would like to think, they did so from altruistic motives. The problem came the minute Fauci began working with Democrats, the media, and big tech, to bludgeon Trump and kill off his roaring economy. Just go back and read AOC’s text at the time where she says its worth keeping things closed and destroying the economy if it results in Trumps defeat.

The problem is that once the shutdown began all the blue state tyrants began to quickly exploit the situation and implement voting law changes and a host of other matters. Petty health care officials in local counties suddenly wielded a lot of power. Nobody was willing to dial it down. The public was in a near frenzied panic, hanging on the word of every two-bit health director. And it just spiraled from two weeks to well over 18 months.

So yeah, Kushner deserves some blame for his hubris here, but Fauci and Birx could have been the voice of reason at any time, but they became wholly intoxicated with their own newfound attention. They willingly offered themselves up to their partisan Democrat brethren to help get Trump.

[piasa]

Fact is, if they had not ordered some kind of lockdown then Trump would have been blamed for doing nothing, and every death laid on him. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

[BitWielder1]

I can understand how people were confused in the beginning, while the nature of the beast was still poorly understood, but then authorities kept clinging to the initial panic driven original recipe (masks, distancing, self-quaranteening) for the next two years while ignoring or outright dismissing new information or new and better expert advice.
They implemented a bad solution by force on the entire world and outlawed alternate remedies and dissenting voices.
I will not forgive CDC, FDA and Fauci for that.
Fauci said he did not force anyone but somehow his words became law for all practical purposes.
There were way too many people in positions of authority who enjoyed inventing and imposing new restrictions on millions, without any scientific basis.

[piasa]

Here is what else happened on March 13, 2020 :

....As outlined in National Security Presidential Memorandum-11 of May 8, 2018 (Ceasing United States Participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and Taking Additional Action to Counter Iran’s Malign Influence and Deny Iran All Paths to a Nuclear Weapon), the actions and policies of the Government of Iran — including its proliferation and development of missiles and other asymmetric and conventional weapons capabilities, its network and campaign of regional aggression, its support for terrorist groups, and the malign activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its surrogates — continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

For these reasons, the national emergency declared on March 15, 1995, must continue in effect beyond March 15, 2020. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to Iran declared in Executive Order 12957. The emergency declared by Executive Order 12957 constitutes an emergency separate from that declared on November 14, 1979, by Executive Order 12170, in connection with the hostage crisis. This renewal, therefore, is distinct from the emergency renewal of November 2019.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 12, 2020.

[lightman]

DO NOT FORGET what they’ve done to you.
Do not let their sudden realization they are in bad shape politically excuse the last two-plus years of abuses.
They shut down your job.
Called many of you “non-essential.”
Closed your kids’ schools.
Expected you to live off $1200 for months while they got richer and richer.
Denied you the ability to be with your dying loved ones.
Then denied you the ability to give those loved ones a proper funeral.
While they let George Floyd have three.
While they went on vacation.
Visited family.
The hair salon.
They arrested you for paddle boarding by yourself.
They shut down the parks and the playgrounds.
They called you a grandma killer if you questioned them.
Suspended you from social media if you didn’t obey the narrative.

They called you domestic terrorists when you demanded your kids get the education your tax dollars paid for.
They mocked you when you demanded a return to normalcy for children.
They sneer at your concern over empty shelves and exploding grocery and utility bills.
They messed with supply chains and emptied store shelves, while the elites partied on yachts and Martha’s Vineyard.
They queered women’s sports and the military, and made the citizenry pay for it.
They sexualized schoolchildren, and persecuted parents at school board meetings.
They denied you the chance to try alternative treatments for COVID.
Then they fired you for not getting the vaccine.
When you stand up for your freedom, they call you Nazis and bigots.

Do not forget what they have done.
Do not forgive them.
They are hoping that, by November, you have forgotten the nightmareof the last 2+ years.
YOU struggle to make ends meet and the best the Biden administration can do is free crack pipes for “racial equity.”
This is on top of the woke, cancel culture bull they shove down our throats, the 2020 riots, being accused of racism and bigotry because we oppose their agenda.
As the election draws closer, they’ll pretend they didn’t do any of this.
They’ll gaslight us.
Project.
Blame the GOP (like they tried to when defunding the police went south).

DO NOT give them power.
They haven’t learned a damn thing from this.
You re-elect them, and you can expect masks and lockdowns and nonsense in perpetuity.
Not just for COVID, but for whatever else they deem a “public health emergency” (guns, climate change).
(Remember, they are the very same people who ignore a pubic health emergency aka AIDS.)
They will trample your rights.
VOTE THEM OUT.

NEVER FORGET.

REMEMBER…..in NOVEMBER!

[piasa]

EO to Order the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | 03/27/20 | Pres Trump
Posted on 3/27/2020, 9:09:59 PM by blueyon

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and in furtherance of Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020 (Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak), which declared a national emergency by reason of the threat that the novel (new) coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 poses to our Nation’s healthcare systems, I hereby order as follows:

(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.gov

[SaveFerris]

Yes, the original blame lies with Fauci and co.

[piasa]

The other thing that happened on March 12, 2020 is a Chinese official started a rumor :

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Chinese Regime Ramps Up Global Propaganda on Coronavirus Pandemic
epoch times ^ | 3/13/2020 | BY BOWEN XIAO
Posted on 3/15/2020, 11:34:58 PM by bitt

The Chinese Communist Party has ramped up its propaganda efforts to control the narrative surrounding the novel coronavirus—by rejecting criticism and painting a picture that Beijing is effectively handling the outbreak.

The regime’s propaganda has gone through several phases: first ignoring the severity of the outbreak, then creating positive coverage, and now, blaming the United States.

Internal government documents obtained by The Epoch Times have highlighted how the regime bungled its data tracking and censored discussions of the outbreak, fueling the virus’s spread.

High-ranking communist authorities have pushed a handful of talking points to deflect blame, including that the origin of the virus isn’t clear and may have come from the United States—a conspiracy recently pushed by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

The virus first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019.

Zhao wrote on Twitter on March 12, “When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals? It might be US army [sic] who brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! US owe [sic] us an explanation!”

A February opinion article by state-run Global Times claimed that “so far, even the scientific world has no conclusion where the virus came from.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...

[gloryblaze]

Had to wade through alk the speculation to get to this nugget:

For one thing, even as these birds were deliberating, the Department of Health and Human Services had already issued on March 13 a lockdown order marked as classified.

No kidding. Pretty telling.

[piasa]

First ‘Silk Road’ Train Arrives in Tehran From China
AFP via Yahoo News ^ | February 15, 2016 2:07 PM
Posted on 2/24/2016, 12:55:58 AM by Olog-hai

The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road, the Iranian railway company said.

The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products from eastern Zhejiang province, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometer (5,900-mile) journey through Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. [...]

According to Iranian media, more than a third of Iran’s foreign trade is with China, which is Tehran’s top customer for oil exports.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed last month to build economic ties worth up to $600 billion within the next 10 years.

It came during a visit to Iran by Xi, the first by a Chinese president in 14 years, and just days after sanctions against Tehran were lifted under a historic nuclear deal with world powers. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com