That's just the "facts" (formerly sacred), the opinion is even better.
Gabby Hinsliff, the forgettable face of the dystopian future-builders, think's Britain is "too selfish" to properly deal with the coronavirus these days (all 20 victims of it). Rounding on people who haven't had their kids vaccinated, and rambling incoherently about the "greater good".
Meanwhile, Jonathan Freedland talks about the "war on disease", slapping the West on the back for being "open and honest" (unlike China and Iran), whilst taking aim at the only person he ever criticises, now that Jeremy Corbyn is standing down as Labour leader, Donald Trump.
Apparently Trump should be doing more to combat the disease which, thus far, has infected only 60 US citizens, none fatally. More Americans are in danger from high-fructose corn syrup, or Flint's poisoned water (but as those can't be lazily attributed to the political monster of the week, Freedland will never write about them).
But what is all this in aid of? It's hard to say, except that every authoritarian agenda seems to be sticking its oar in.
We have the anti-cash campaign claiming money spreads the disease, we have anti-vaxxers being pilloried by
More generally, we're being encouraged to think of the "big picture", that being curfewed and quarantined and banned from travelling will all be best for the group. There hasn't been much talk of mandatory vaccinations"yet, but you see whispers of it here and there (that Gabby Hinslif piece is very much a straw in the wind for that issue).
There's also the money angle. Not just the vaccine research grants or the tests being sold and shipped out by the case, but also the stock market game. It's all over the headlines that this "pandemic" is causing the biggest crashes in stock prices since 2008, but markets declining are still opportunities to make a lot of money.
Buying stocks low and waiting for the market recovery, shorting currency, or the ridiculous derivatives market (essentially gambling on whether stocks will go up or down). All can make you a fortune if you play the recession right, which is made much easier when you can predict a crash coming"say, by stoking a lot of fear.
Anybody familiar with Event 201, a staged exercise focusing on a zoonotic form of a novel coronavirus, will have known it predicted a complete crash in the financial markets.
When a very similar real-life event started occurring, they would have a motive to start trading some derivatives and stoking up the fear machine. It's easy money, like gambling on a fixed game.
The event was held by the NGO Center for Health Security, and sponsored by Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Medicine and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (The exercise ended with a list of seven recommendations, which you can read here.)
All the while, an important trial is getting no coverage at all, whilst Turkey might actually start a full-fledged war with Syria. Crickets chirp in the media where these stories might appear. Reality has no place in our headlines right now.
This is greatest mass-panic I can remember in a long time, maybe since Y2K. Either the world is truly facing a global instance of mass hysteria, or some powerful hand is about to make a big play.
Stay tuned.
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