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April 12, 2020<\/div>
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By The Gold Report<\/b><\/p>\n

Source: Bob Moriarty for Streetwise Reports<\/em> \u00a0\u00a004\/12\/2020<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Bob Moriarty of 321gold shares his thoughts on the coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there was ever a time for real leaders to step forward and lead, the
\nlast four months would have been the time to do so. If there was an issue
\nthat demanded cooperation from all the nations of the world, we have seen
\nit. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of disinformation and outright
\nlies from almost every government at most levels. If these are the leaders,
\nwe ought to fire the whole lot and start anew. Instead of “women and
\nchildren first,” we are seeing “every man for himself.”<\/p>\n

I’ve been fairly quiet for the last ten days or so and a lot of people have
\nbeen bugging me to write more. Certainly this is an important issue so I’ll
\ngive you my thoughts.<\/p>\n

It seems pretty obvious to me that the Chinese government was lying about
\nthe number of deaths right from the first. And it continues. They are
\nunderstating the size of the issue and have been all along.<\/p>

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On the other hand, the US government is also lying through their teeth but
\nappear to be overstating the deaths from the coronavirus. All of a sudden
\nevery victim in the U.S. qualifies as a coronavirus death. In San Antonio
\nthe officials called a
\npreemie born at 22 weeks a coronavirus victim<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Guys, don’t be stupid. Normal gestation in humans is 40 weeks. A 22-week
\npreemie stands virtually no chance of survival. But it didn’t die of the
\nvirus.<\/p>\n

Much is made of the number of Italians who have died. The Italians have the
\noldest average age in Europe. Of course they are dying. Old people die all
\nthe time. Yes, the old age homes in Washington had high rates of mortality.<\/p>\n

But think about that for a moment. No one goes into an old folks home for a
\nvacation. They all know they are going to die there or in a hospital.
\nThat’s why they went in the first place. Signing up for an old age home is
\neventually a bit of a death sentence, not necessarily from the coronavirus. Many people in old age homes in the US die every year just from the
\nflu. But today they are all being written off as the coronavirus, not
\nheart attacks or flu or just old age.<\/p>\n

How can it possibly be that four months after it became obvious that the
\nworld has a big problem that so little real information has come out? Did
\nyou know that the number of deaths in
\n
\nBeijing and Shanghai
\n<\/a>
\nis tiny? How come the country managed to export the virus to the entire
\nworld but skipped the two most important cities in China?<\/p>\n

You have to love the Germans. They just love data and reports.
\n
\nThey tested all 1,000 people in a tiny village
\n<\/a>
\nand realized that a lot more people showed positive to the virus
\nantibodies than they realized, some 15% of the total. According to the
\nGerman numbers the death rate was more like 0.37 or four times as dangerous
\nas the ordinary flu. That’s tiny compared to what has been quoted
\nelsewhere.<\/p>\n

Iceland tested 36,000 of their citizens, about 10% of the total for the
\ntiny country. They found
\n
\nhalf the people tested showed positive for the virus<\/a>,
\nhowever there had only been seven deaths out of 1,600 cases of the virus.
\nAs a matter of interest, Iceland tested twenty times as many of their
\ncitizens as the UK on a percentage basis. The death rate shown by the UK is
\nstated as 30 times higher than that of Iceland.<\/p>\n

We should have
\n
\na lot of good, tested and valid information about the virus
\n<\/a>
\nand just how dangerous it is but because of this chronic “every man for
\nhimself” attitude, we pretty much have to guess. I’m not a doctor or any
\nsort of expert but I have to go through dozens of articles a day about
\neverything so I have a tiny bit of a feel for the issue.<\/p>\n

Almost all people dying of the virus have other issues but here are the
\nmost important. The virus is most deadly when it invades the lungs and
\noften causes double pneumonia. It’s an ugly death. The patient literally
\ndrowns.<\/p>\n

The virus is most dangerous to those with asthma, hypertension or simply
\nold age. Weight seems to be a factor and obesity could put you in the
\nhigh-risk category. Blacks and minorities seem to have a higher chance of
\ndying than whites. Few children develop serious cases but do on occasion.<\/p>\n

Watching the daily briefing on the virus is like a free ticket to a circus
\nrun by the clowns. The official head of the federal government’s Corona
\nTask Force is supposed to be Vice President Mike Pence but he stands near
\nTrump looking like a cross between a wooden store clothing dummy and an
\norgan grinder’s monkey holding a tin can out for donations.<\/p>\n

President Trump immediately goes into his opera scales routine that he is
\nso good at. In bass, “ME, ME, ME” and switching over to soprano, “ME, ME,
\nME” and down to tenor to finish, “ME, ME, ME.” His latest brilliance was to
\ncredit lovely Ivanka with the creation of the last fifteen million jobs
\ncreated out of the six point seven million new jobs since he took office.<\/p>\n

Not to be outdone, we have the media, all in makeup, eager to feast on
\nevery stupid comment out of the mouth of the president. If Trump came out
\nin favor of peace in the universe, Santa Claus and free kittens for little
\ngirls, the media would immediately find fault with all three.<\/p>\n

But where we begin to bring light to the real issues of the coronavirus is
\nby looking at the positions taken by Dr. Anthony Fauci. At first he claimed
\ntwo million Americans would die. That number dropped to two hundred and
\nforty thousand and now it seems to be about sixty thousand. That’s lower
\nthan the deaths from ordinary flu in a typical winter. Is it possible that
\nhe has an agenda that is just now being exposed?<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci is presented as the Federal Government’s leading expert on
\nimmunology and infectious diseases. But is he really or should he be?<\/p>\n

When President Trump learned of a small French trial by a doctor of an
\nanti-malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine (Let’s call it HCQ) Dr. Fauci
\nwas the first but hardly the last to point out that the HCQ while in common
\nuse, hadn’t been through a vigorous double blind study for use with the
\ncoronavirus.<\/p>\n

That is both true and utterly meaningless at the same time. What if the
\ndrug that some doctor believed would save lives of patients with the virus
\nwas simple aspirin? Certainly aspirin hasn’t been through any sort of
\nprofessional and vigorous test against the virus. But who cares?<\/p>\n

If it works, it works. If it doesn’t work, you don’t use it. We have a good
\nidea of what dosage of aspirin is safe and when it becomes dangerous.<\/p>\n

How long would it take to test? Well, not being a doctor but having some
\nability to think for myself, you have a bunch of doctors hand out a handful
\nof aspirin and
\n
\nin a couple of days
\n<\/a>
\nhave a pretty good feel for success or failure. If everybody dies given
\naspirin, it might be a good idea to stop. If everyone lives that you gave
\naspirin to, go buy some stock in Bayer and do a professional write up of
\nhow great aspirin is to cure the virus.<\/p>\n

In
\n
\none of the most bizarre comments I have ever read
\n<\/a>
\nfrom a government organization talking about testing HCQ, “NIH scientists
\nsaid urgent clinical evidence is needed. Even so, the study is not
\nestimated to be completed until July 2021.”<\/p>\n

OK, Dr. Fauci and the NIH, we will do it the most professional way. Fifteen
\nmonths from now we will know if it should be used or not. What a brilliant
\nidea. Why didn’t I think of that?
\n<\/p’<\/p>\n

By the way Dr. Fauci, just how many people in the world will die of the
\nCorona Virus between now and July 2021 because you wouldn’t recommend HCQ
\nbecause it hadn’t been tested in the most professional way?<\/p>\n

But it gets even worse. Now this really is anecdotal and we know how Dr.
\nFauci hates that. He seems to love the idea of a vaccine and some sort of
\n
\nsocial credit system
\n<\/a>
\nsimilar to that of the Chinese. But we should ease into it by
\n
\nfirst generating a national database of those who test positive for
\nantibodies
\n<\/a>
\nand we can ease into total control of everyone by the government as time
\npasses.<\/p>\n

I’m going to point out something here that I learned from Quinton Hennigh.
\nThis coronavirus does not contain DNA. It contains RNA<\/a>, which is different. It
\nis entirely possible that you can catch the virus multiple times.<\/p>\n

So put everyone on some sort of government database but it doesn’t matter
\nto his or her health because it’s possible they can catch it again and
\nagain. We don’t know yet. The most important thing is to get them on that
\nlist so we can have total control of them the way China does over their
\npeople.<\/p>\n


\nBill Gates
\n<\/a>
\nand Dr. Fauci agree on one thing.
\n
\nThey want the national database<\/a>. When someone comes up with a vaccine hopefully from Bill Gates, at that
\npoint we add credit to their entry in the database for having been
\nvaccinated. They can then travel or buy food or work in certain industries.
\nThe idea of a massive government database is just wonderful. You can
\ncontrol every aspect of a person’s life once on the list.<\/p>\n

I’m going to shock my readers now by telling you something no one has ever
\ntold you before. Sit down, make yourself comfortable and don’t collapse at
\nthe news.<\/p>\n

There is no Santa Claus.<\/p>\n

Take a deep breath and relax. I know it’s a shock.<\/p>\n

There is no Santa Claus. Your mommy and daddy should have briefed you but
\nthe cookies and milk, it was all a waste of time. There isn’t a
\nSanta.<\/p>\n

There also isn’t a vaccine for HIV and
\n
\nHIV has killed 32 million people<\/a>. There may never be a vaccine for HIV.<\/p>\n

So why are so many people convinced we are going to have a vaccine for the
\ncoronavirus? HIV has been a problem for forty plus years and we have no
\nvaccine.<\/p>\n

MONEY!!!<\/p>\n

It’s all about money no matter what Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci tell you.
\nScare hell out of people and then
\n
\ndemand they prove they have been vaccinated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can make a bundle with a good vaccine. Or even a poor vaccine that
\nreally doesn’t do much of anything.<\/p>\n

Why would you want a simple off the shelf drug to cure the virus when you
\ncan cash in big time by forcing people to be vaccinated? And by the way
\nvaccines kill a lot of people and often don’t prevent the diseases they
\nclaim to.<\/p>\n

In my opinion the coronavirus scare is more a function of government
\ncontrol than a real threat. That is not to say that it’s not dangerous. It
\nis dangerous and it will kill tens of thousands of people in the US alone.<\/p>\n

But you want to worry about people dying before their time and lives
\ndestroyed, you might want to consider the effects of the Greatest
\nDepression that I have been warning about for years. In January I said it
\nwas
\n
\nhere<\/a>. In February I said it was
\n
\nhere<\/a>. Do you get it yet?<\/p>\n

It is here.<\/p>\n

The damage done from the coronavirus is tiny
\n
\ncompared to the damage done by the economic depression<\/a>, all brought to you thanks to Washington and Wall Street. The coronavirus
\ndid not cause the depression. Wall Street and Washington caused the
\ndepression and I was one of many predicting it well in advance.<\/p>\n

The overreaction to the virus based on lies and little information out of
\nChina and an utterly dysfunctional group of clowns running the US have
\nshattered supply chains around the world leaving tens of millions of
\nAmericans with no jobs, no money and no future.<\/p>\n

In the movie “The Big Short,” one of the characters predicted that for every
\n1% increase in unemployment, some 40,000 people would die and early death.
\nIt could be suicide, drugs, alcohol, spousal abuse, heart attacks, but
\nbeing out of work and poor kills a lot of people. So
\n
\nif we go to 32% unemployment as the Federal Reserve predicts<\/a>, how many people must die?<\/p>\n

The over reaction to the virus broke the supply chains but the depression
\nwill destroy demand. It wasn’t due to the virus but the disease put the
\nnegative effects of the depression into hyper drive.<\/p>\n

Governments always want more and more control over their citizens. Never
\nlet a crisis go to waste. But at some point the divide between the 1% and
\nthe 99% gets so great that the great unwashed become the great armed and
\npissed. Am I the only person to hear the sound of pitchforks being
\nsharpened?<\/p>\n

Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates may need to be reminded of the old saying, “Be
\ncareful of what you wish for.\u0094”<\/p>\n

Bob Moriarty
\nPresident: 321gold
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