Sunday, May 24, 2020

Sunday snippets

It's a lazy late-May Sunday, more summerish than springish, and as such, it's one of those daze when I don't feel like cooking up a whole blog post from scratch. So I'll just serve up a few tidbits.

TrumPyramid scheme lawsuit: full speed ahead
As reported last week (though understandably, the news got a bit buried amid reports of more pressing issues surrounding #NotMyPresident
Donald J. Trump), a federal Judge in New York, Lorna G. Schofield, has refused to halt an anonymous class action suit against Trump and his three most notorious adult kiddos, Don Junior, Eric, and Ivanka. The lawsuit alleges that DJ the Elder, DJ the Younger, Eric, Ivanka, and the Trump Corporation committed "various business torts" that included an illegal pyramid scheme. Matt Naham and Aaron Keller at the Law & Crime blog report:
The lawsuit, originally filed in Oct. 2018 as an anti-“racketeering enterprise” action, was later streamlined. The class sued on various state and federal charges–including “racketeering and conspiracy to racketeer” claims. The two federal claims were dismissed by the court after the Trump family filed for a broad dismissal in January 2019. But the case is yet living.

The class action plaintiffs allege that the Trump family business promoted a multi-level marketing, or pyramid, scheme known as ACN Opportunity, LLC. ACN, the plaintiffs said, was a “get-rich-quick scheme” that relied on Trump and his family “conn[ing] each of these victims into giving up hundreds or thousands of dollars,” in violation of various state laws...

...The plaintiffs claimed that the Trump family falsely endorsed and promoted ACN by insisting that the enterprise “offered a reasonable probability of commercial success”—even using
The Celebrity Apprentice to draw them in...

...According to the lawsuit, ACN was paying the Trumps for the above-described exposure but this was not public knowledge.

The Trump Corporation legal team was able to get racketeering charges dismissed, but not the entire case, and they weren't even successful in getting a stay. And just last month, as also reported on the Law & Crime blog, Judge Schofield nipped a Trump family effort to force the matter into private arbitration. So it appears that the entire saga is likely to unfold in public. (No doubt Trump and the Trumpettes and assorted Trumpanzees will whine that this is all politically motivated, since Judge Schofield was an Obama appointee.)

As uploaded to Scribd by Law & Crime,
here's a link to Judge Schofield's order giving the green light for the action to proceed.

I've mentioned this numerous times before on this Whirled, but since I'm nothing if not redundant (and I know I've said that before too), I'll mention again that I first learned about the Drumpf Scamworld connections years ago from the blogger who was ahead of his time, Jason "Salty Droid" Jones.
This is from September 2013, and among other things (e.g., Trump University, The Trump Network), Jason mentions the ACN scam.

As Jason has pointed out numerous times --
and as I noted too during the 2016 US presidential campaign -- the Trump scampire's playbook wasn't and isn't unique. But since the Trumps are in a position to do a lot more damage than most Scamworld hucksters, it's especially important that their misdeeds continue to be publicized and litigated to the fullest extent possible.

Deadly cults
Speaking of Jason/Salty, for the past couple of years he has been far more occupied with lawyering for a good cause than with blogging, but he does pop in on occasion with an update,
such as this one posted on May 7. Like Trump has often done, though ulike Trump he does it for legitimate reasons, Jason leads with a gripe about the news media.
...the news media is absolutely horrible. Horrible. The worst. Worse than lawyers… or, at least, co-worst.

On that one thing myself and DJT can agree.

Case in point: Donald Trump is the fucking President. That bollox doesn’t happen without an absolutely rotten, hollowed out, conglomerated media (and the complicity of enough lawyers to fill a cargo ship from China). Trump is an obvious idiot… and an even more obvious conman. The only reason he’s anything other than a bankrupt former rich boy is that the media got played… over and over and over and over. Not because he’s good at it — he’s not — but because media organizations are lazy, selfish, and too easily identify with his pathological narcissism.

Celebrity as credibility is our national affliction.

What brought us Donald John Trump also brought us
James Arthur Ray… and countless other dumbdumb world destroyers; faking it until they make it at faking it.
Indeed. But once in a while, Jason says, the news media get it right, a case in point being a recent episode of The Oxygen Network's Deadly Cults series covering the aforementioned and atrocious James Arthur "Death" Ray, who was responsible for the deaths of three people in a phony sweat lodge back in October 2009. Jason was interviewed for this episode. If you want to watch it, here are some ways to do it:
You're quite likely to be shocked," writes Jason, "even if you already know the story."

Meanwhile in Sportsworld, Tom Brady is still huckstering too
Six-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady appears to have joined the ranks of the
corona-crapitalists, although he is apparently not making direct claims that his overpriced, non-FDA approved, homeopathic medley of vitamins -- called "Protect" -- are specifically a COVID-19 preventive. But unless you're looking at it from a crapitalistic perspective, the timing couldn't be worse, for COVID-19 cases continue to climb in Florida and in numerous other places throughout the US and the world. And as reported in the Orlando Weekly on May 18, 2020:
If you make it to the supplement's website, you'll find a lengthy pitch, aimed at athletes whose bodies may now be susceptible to "bacteria, viruses and outside threats."

“Tough workouts, long days, and too much stress can leave you—and your immune system — burnt out. Research shows that everyday stress can limit the production of white blood cells while high-intensity training can reduce levels of key antibodies — leaving your body susceptible to bacteria, viruses, and outside threats,” reads
the TB12 website, which seems to be going out of it’s way to say everything excerpt “Hey, take these while working out during the coronavirus outbreak.”
But promoting overpriced health frauducts and schemes is nothing new for Brady, as noted on this very Whirled back in May of 2016. That post centered around a $200.00 cookbook -- with a wooden cover, no less -- that Tom was pushing. And as also mentioned in the Whirled post, as well as by numerous others earlier than that (here, for instance), Brady also once promoted a drink called NeuroSafe that supposedly offered protection from concussions.

Napoleon Hell
I've had a half-written post about every selfish-help huckster's idol,
Napoleon Hill, on the back burner for years. My post mentioned some though not all of the stuff that's in the article I'm about to share -- an article that itself is several years old but which a friend just alerted me to recently. Because I have repeatedly gotten sidetracked with other more timely topics, and will most likely continue to get sidetracked, I'll just take the snippet route for now.

Over the years I have argued on some selfish-help hucksters' forums that Hill is far from the hero he is made out to be, but I would invariably be met with snooty remarks about how nobody's perfect, and it's Hill's body of work that counts, and that perhaps separating the message from the messenger is the way to go (a point that
I disputed here back in 2009), and if critics like me who are out to hurt people would focus on trying to help people the world would be a better place. Yet so many of those who look up to Hill (and/or his work) are equally if not more sleazy than he was. And so it goes.

Anyway,
here's that link. Enjoy.

Sunday, May 17, 2020

Scamdemic: Kevin Trudeau's enablers continue to push COVID-19 conspiracy tales along with KT hero/martyr/Guru narrative


At some point soon I really will blog again about something besides COVID-19 and the various hucksters, scam artists, and cynics (inside and outside of politix) who continue to push wacko conspiracy narratives about, and dubious or dangerous "cures" for, the coronavirus plague sweeping the planet. But for now, let's pop in and see what imprisoned serial scammer Kevin Trudeau, aka KT, aka Katie on this Whirled, is up to regarding the virus saga.

Or, more accurately, let's look at what his water carriers are up to, since it seems that rumors of his impending freedom have once again been exaggerated, and that continued lockdowns at Camp Cupcake are apparently restricting his ability to provide valuable COVID-19 upchucks... I mean, updates. To date, there have been 13 of these "updates," which are essentially overcooked sales letters for the Trudeau-founded GIN (Global Information Network), mixed well with stale whines about Katie being "censored," and well-seasoned with recaps of conspiranoid and right-wing talking points.

But what Katie can't do for himself, his enablers continue to do for him. On May 12, 2020, the admins of the Official Kevin Trudeau Fan Club page on Facebook posted this endorsement of the conspiracy-porn "documentary," Plandemic:

FROM TONYA AND RAHELIOS:Kevin has not viewed this, as he can not view any internet content from prison, but we have reviewed it. We have no documentation or substantiation about the facts being true in this video, but it does resonate with us. We suggest you view it, as it is in agreement with what Kevin has been saying in his books, "Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About", "More Natural Cures Revealed" and "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About". It also is in agreement with what Kevin has said in his Covid-19 updates.The mainstream media and all social media are censoring this video. It is banned from YouTube. It is banned from Facebook. They don’t want you to see this. Many people are downloading it and sharing it, so that it remains available to the public. After you watch it, you might want to do the same.Currently, it is still available at the website PlandemicMovie.com. Watch it now, while you still can...

By the way, I just now followed the link that was embedded in the Facebook post. Apparently some wag co-opted the URL after the movie was (once again) taken down. [Update on May 21: The content I referenced has now been removed as well, but never fear; I copied and pasted the content and took a screen shot; see the end of this post. ~ CC] At any rate, although I hadn't participated very much on Katie's Facebook fan page in a while, I felt moved to respond to this particular post. I wrote:

Connie Schmidt I imagine Kevin would indeed like "Plandemic," since he apparently never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. Conspiracy theories and forbidden knowledge form the foundation of his marketing strategies. I don't know how long this comment will be allowed to stay, but I am taking the liberty of sharing an article that offers some perspective on the virologist, Judy Mikovits, whose work is at the heart of "Plandemic." BTW, there's nothing "healing" about the beach when the water is full of flesh-eating bacteria, as has been the case numerous times over the years in some US waters (e.g., the Gulf coast of Texas). The proliferation of these bacteria is apparently a direct result of global warming (climate change), but if I'm not mistaken, Kevin doesn't believe in that either.

This is the link I shared following my comment on the Katie fan page. It's a basic fact-checking piece that does indeed give some salient perspective about virologist Mikovits, and that I thought might be useful for those who are willing to entertain something besides the conspiracy narrative du jour. (One point the article addresses is Mikovits's questioning why public beaches should be closed, with her question framed around her claim that the beach is a healing place because of "sequences" in the sand and "healing microbes in the ocean in the salt water." That's why I mentioned the flesh-eating bacteria that have increasingly been popping up in salt water, and the probability that climate change is only making the threat worse.)

But my comment, link and all, now seems to be disappeared. I can only speculate that this is because the admins either thought that Kevin wouldn't like it, or that it might possibly shake the faith of the faithful, or both.

The admins of the page did, however, leave another comment of mine up there, though it's possible, since it was a reply that's nested under someone else's comment, that they just haven't seen it yet. My comment was in response to one by a long-time fan of Katie's, David Krueger,
whom you may have met briefly on this blog back in 2012. Back in the day, David was thrilled right down to his toes to be on the same plane as Kevin Trudeau. More recently, he wrote this about the conspiracy vid Plandemic:

David Krueger Facebook and YouTube themselves have confirmed the truth of it for us with their censorship campaign.

To which I replied:

Connie Schmidt Facebook and YouTube are privately owned companies and they have a right to decide which content they want or do not want to host. But Facebook also allows pages like this one that push Kevin Trudeau's "information," so there's not really too much cause to complain, is there? BTW, many of my own comments have been removed from this page, presumably because Kevin would not like them. But I'm cool with that because the site admins have a right to remove anything they want to remove. However, using the same logic you used, it could be said that my offending posts have been removed because they were too truthful.

And I am actually cool with having my comments removed from a Facebook forum; it is the admins' right to determine, at least up to a certain point, what goes on their page and what doesn't -- the point at which their rights end being when Facebook gatekeepers determine that content violates Facebook's terms of service or "community standards" or what have you. But as I noted in my response to David Krueger, it is, after all, Facebook that is allowing those admins to push Kevin Trudeau's propaganda, despite all insinuations about Facebook and YouTube being involved in sinister censorship efforts.

GIN is still doing a lot of the heavy lifting for Trudeau as well
Meanwhile, in neighboring parts of Scamworld, some of Katie's other cronies continue to enable and promote him in various ways. For instance,
on May 15, 2020, current GIN co-owner Tom Morter, aka "Dr. Tom" -- one of the "GIN fat cats" I wrote about earlier this year -- spent quite a few minutes on his weekly "GIN update" telling folks how they can send money to Kevin in the clink and to the lawyers who failed to keep him from going to the clink. According to "Dr. Tom," money sent to the KT Legal Defense Fund goes directly to Winston and Strawn, one of the main law firms behind Katie's failed attempts to stay out of prison. But then again, Kevin himself wrote, in a letter to Judge Robert Gettleman in January of this year, that his lawyers are no longer even speaking to him, so who knows what's really going on? Maybe the plan is to get the gullibles to send enough money to the lawyers so that they'll start speaking to Katie again, and will resume their futile efforts to get him sprung.

As I've also 'splained on this blog, there is a cozy symbiotic relationship between Kevin and the Morter bros and the other GIN co-owner, Blaine Athorn -- at least for now. But they probably need Katie more than he needs them, which is why they've been pushing so hard on various online forums for people to join GIN and pay up
in order to possibly get a chance to see Katie in person some time in 2022 (maybe).

Watching "Dr. Tom's" tiresome performance on the latest GIN update reminded me once again that no matter how jovial and enthusiastic he or his brother Ted or their fellow co-owner Blaine Athorn are, it's a pretty safe bet that they will never come within spitting distance of inspiring the abject worship accorded to Kevin Trudeau, or
"GuruKev" as he has fairly recently begun branding himself (with a little help from the above-mentioned water carriers).

I think it's also a pretty safe bet that Kevin is very well aware of that hero worship, and that he gleefully exploits it, sometimes employing false modesty, which seems to make the faithful love him even more. On April 15, 2020, there appeared on the KT fan page
this somewhat puzzling post about the death of Nelson Mandela (who had actually passed away in 2013):

GURUKEV:
Nelson Mandela passed away… One of my heroes.

He was convicted of being a TERRORIST!

And spent 20 years in a jail cell!

A hero. A person I admired and respected. If I had only 1% of his character.

I mention to you many of my heroes....such as Jesus, Gandhi, Chavez etc. All people that were convicted of crimes in court and were sentenced to prison time.

I am not even in their league.

They are my heroes. They give me strength. Always look at people who walk the walk, not just talk the talk. And gain strength from what they had to go through. You will be inspired by those who went through much more than you or I have ever endured.

I look at my life and current situation and see that I have it so easy compared to others who went before me. You can always put things in perspective. Focus on the good things and what you want…and be happy right now!

I am!

Much love!
GuruKev

My blogging colleague Bernie at GINtruth and I are well aware of Kevin's history of comparing himself, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, to Mandela and Gandhi and Christ and others. We made quite a few comments about that topic on this thread, but the faithful insisted that Katie was definitely not comparing himself to these heroes of history. "Kevin even clarified it on the post," said one fan who had clearly been fooled by Kevin's faux-humility. Another fan wrote, "No point to argue and waste time, people. Because Kevin IS very similar to Mandela, Gandhi, and Jesus."

Oh, dear.

In any case, both Bernie's and my comments were subsequently wiped away, leaving only the worship.

But Kevin is still his own best promoter
While the Facebook admins and the GIN owners are diligently propping Kevin up and polishing his brand, he still remains his own most effective shill. Also on April 15,
Kevin's 12th COVID-19 "Update" appeared on the Facebook fan page. In this post he doubled down on his claims that he and he alone has access to the real info about the coronavirus, "unlike the mainstream media." And once again he played on his GuruKev persona.

You may have noticed that all the predictions I have made in those updates and other communications have come true or are in the process of coming true. All I have stated has proven to be correct and true (unlike the mainstream media).

I have gotten thousands of communications from people all over the world who have been so amazed by the uncanny accuracy of my predictions about this "pandemic". Many are asking if I am some sort of "mystic" or "psychic" or have powers to see the future. Many ask if I am "channeling" some "higher entities" or "ascended masters" or "tapping into the Ether, Universal Field, Akashic Records or Universal Consciousness".

Others ask if my former membership in certain "societies" still gives me access to people that have direct first-hand knowledge of what really goes on in the power circles around the world, and things that are hidden "behind the curtain".

People ask me if certain current "insiders" actually "leak" secret information to me so that I can disseminate it.

The answers to the above questions are two fold.

1.) First, I do have first-hand insiders as some of my "sources". I have mentioned in previous updates who some of my "sources" are, and that I almost always use exclusively "first-hand" sources.

A first-hand source is the person who actually said the thing or did the thing. If I do not have a first-hand source, I always use a person who was actually there and witnessed the thing being done with their own eyes or heard a thing said with their own ears.

I still must have at least 2 other independent sources before I will report something. Second and third-hand sources are only used to verify, document and substantiate something. I authenticate everything before reporting it. I do not spread "rumors" or speculation or theories.

2.) Next, I do also "tap or plug into the Field". Some call this channeling.

You may hear of someone who channels "entities" or "frequencies" such as Esther Hicks who channels the group of entities called "Abraham", or Paul Selig who channels a different frequency thus a different group of "non-physical entities". But I do not tap into a specific frequency or group of entities. Rather I tap into the "entire Field" all at once. This "one Field" is the "one SELF".

One of my closest friends is an Enlightened Perfected Being, a "Guru", and is called a "Saint". We were talking about this as we both do the same thing when it comes to "plugging into the Ether". We discussed that the highest "frequency" is the ONE SELF. All frequencies are contained in the ONE SELF. Thus, when we "channel", we channel "our SELVES". We are not on a "lower frequency" or a "single band" of frequency. We are getting all frequencies ALL simultaneously. Therefore, I channel my "SELF".

This is important to understand. When someone "channels" a particular frequency, it is like getting a report from a person who is up on a mountainside. They have a much better view than you because they are higher up the mountain. They see more.

But a person high on one side of the mountain can only see the view from that side. Another person higher up on the same side will have a slightly different report, as they can see more and have a more complete view. Yet another person on the other side of the same mountain might have a very different report, because they are looking in a different direction.

This is why authentic "channellers" sometimes deliver different or conflicting messages from each other.

But the person on the very top of the mountain or in a helicopter hovering over the mountain has ALL views, of ALL sides and a COMPLETE and TOTAL perspective. They can see that all the "channelers" are giving accurate information from their limited perspective, but do not see the "Big Picture". They do not have a totally integrated view of EVERYTHING at the same time.

This total, all-encompassing "knowing" is the ONE SELF. This is what I "channel". I channel my SELF, not someone or something else.

So with both of these "Sources", 1 and 2 above, you can now see why the data being reported here and in the other trainings I have produced are so accurate.

"I channel my SELF?" Sounds a lot like #NotMyPresident Donald John Trump's past claims that his chief consultant on foreign policy and other matters was "myself, because I have a very good brain, and I've said a lot of things."

Next Kevin uses his own very good brain to spew some of the same "facts" about the COVID-19 pandemic that we've seen in his previous missives, and then, predictably, he segues into (yet another) sales pitch for GIN.

As I predicted, the worldwide numbers for this "created" horrific, global pandemic are a big nothing burger.

And the numbers for the USA are worse than other countries for the reasons I outlined previously, but still a big nothing burger.

Compare the number of "deaths" caused by this virus to the number of deaths caused by other health issues and viruses, and you will see that the media and governments around the world have misrepresented the facts and totally mislead
[sic] everyone.

To get the real death numbers of other viruses and health issues to compare and see for yourself, go to these websites:

World Life Expectancy Website
https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/world-rankings-total-deaths#WORLD%20RANKINGS

World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Data Repository
https://www.who.int/gho/database/en/

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) FastStats (USA Data)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm

Our World In Data - Causes of Death

https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

And of course, to get the “official” data on Covid-19 deaths, all you have to do is search online for “Covid-19 Deaths”.

You can also see that several countries such as Mexico, Brazil and others did not do ANY social distancing and did NOT shut down their countries. They stayed "business as usual". Their countries operated completely normally without changing anything. They did not buy into the big lie.

What happened? NOTHING! No "mass deaths" as the "experts" predicted. The funeral homes and morgues were NOT filled with dead people from Covid-19. Hospitals were NOT filled. Everything was exactly the same as it always is. Every day people die from a variety of things. Nothing changed. NO spike in deaths.

Covid-19 was nothing more than a “bad-flu-year” in those countries, and in most areas, Covid-19 was not even as bad as a normal flu. This shows that all the mass hysteria about "if we don't shut everything down, millions will die" was simply a BIG LIE. IT DID NOT HAPPEN in those countries that did not shut anything down and everyone went on living their lives as normal.

As I stated previously in other updates, I am being severely restricted now. My "voice" and Free Speech expression is being suppressed once again. I cannot say certain things on this public forum. This is one of the reasons why a "private club" is so vital and important now and in the future.Only through a private club, like GIN, will people be able to share information without censorship or fear of retaliation from powerful organizations, internet monopolies, and government. That is why the Global Information Network (GIN) is so important, and why it has "Information" in its name....

There are several problems with the above statements. A major problem is that one of the countries Trudeau specifically mentioned as having "stayed 'business as usual,'" Brazil, has, in fact, become not just the Latin American but also the global epicenter of COVID-19 -- while its fascist "leader" (and Trump bromantic partner) Jair Bolsonaro has continually played down the threat, joking about the "neurosis" of Brazilians who are actually worried about the virus. From Time, May 9, 2020:

Even by the standards of other right-wing populists who have sought to downplay the COVID-19 pandemic, Bolsonaro’s defiance of reality was shocking. From the favelas of densely packed cities like Rio de Janeiro to the remote indigenous communities of the Amazon rain forest, Brazil has emerged as the new global epicenter of the pandemic, with the world’s highest rate of transmission and a health system now teetering on the brink of collapse.

Unlike the previous global hot spots –
Italy, Spain and the U.S. – Brazil is an emerging economy, with a weaker social safety net that makes it harder for local authorities to persuade people to stay home, and an underfunded health care system. When a particularly severe outbreak struck the city of Manaus, in the Amazon, in late April, hospitals were quickly overrun, leading to a shortage of coffins. On May 17, the mayor of São Paulo, Latin America’s largest city, warned that hospitals there would collapse within two weeks if the infection rate continued to rise. The country has confirmed almost 18,000 deaths as of May 19, with a record 1,179 people dying in the preceding 24 hours–the world’s second highest daily fatality rate. Epidemiologists say the peak is still weeks away.

And another country Trudeau mentioned, Mexico, is now among the top 10 countries for COVID-19 deaths.

On May 13, 2020, The Guardian reported that
both Brazil and Mexico recorded their deadliest days from COVID-19.

And on May 19, the LA Times reported that COVID-19 is rapidly spreading past the hot spots of Brazil and Mexico, and threatening to overwhelm other Latin American countries. Chile and Peru and Ecuador are not doing well at all.

Even though the articles I linked to above were published weeks after Trudeau's "Update #12," at the time he posted it there had already been numerous published reports that things were not looking good in Brazil and Mexico. The point is that Kevin's "secret sources" and "self-channeling" and other exclusive tools have failed him and his readers.

But Kevin's fans aren't big on fact-checking his screeds, so it's not surprising that this one was met with the usual round of enthusiastic support. (I posted a comment that pointed out the inaccuracy of his statements about Brazil and Mexico, but it was wiped away.) Among numerous worshipful responses to Kevin's Update # 12 was this:

You are One And ONLY KING on this planet Earth !!!
Thank You Thank You Thank You ... For Everything You Are Givinig [sic] to us !!!!!!!
Thank You Thank You Thank You !!!!

Eat your hearts out, Morters and Athorn!

But seriously. If Katie's spiritual shtick, with its attendant responses, some of which are truly disturbing, isn't an example of
"toxic spirituality" (to evoke the beat and book title of guru/cult scambuster Be Scofield), I don't know what is. (And this of course assumes that the worshipful comments are in fact sincere and aren't just a moderately clever form of trolling.) Kevin Trudeau may not be a sex predator like some of the "gurus" Scofield writes about, but for much of his career he has been a financial predator, as well as a conduit of other forms of exploitation that, for some followers, may be as harmful as sexual abuse.

Plandemic is a crock of shite
And bringing it back to the conspiracy-porn vid that kicked off this post, regardless of whether he ever sees or endorses Plandemic, I don't think one can go wrong by betting on Kevin Trudeau continuing to embrace and exploit conspiracy narratives and forbidden-info themes, no matter how wildly wrong, all in the service of lining his own pockets. People love that stuff because it's exciting and it makes them feel really special to be privy to information that "they" won't tell you -- and Kevin knows it.


But I'm thinking that all you really need to know about Plandemic can currently could, for a few days, be found on the link embedded in that May 12 post on the KT Facebook fan page. Just below the graphic is the actual text, in the event that you can't read it on the pic (Blogger seems to have forcibly scaled it down to the point of unreadability, and try as I might, I couldn't fix the problem).

FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

  • Judy Mikovitz [sic] is bat shit crazy (COVID pun intended)
  • Bill Gates is not patenting any of these drugs ... and what the fuck do you think he would do with >$100 millon more anyway?
  • Masks aren't going to kill you
  • The world is scary now. Believing that this is all part of a global conspiracy is more comforting than the truth. If we give into fear and ignore *actual* science things will only get worse

Amen.

This post has been revised since its original publication, most notably, to add information contradictory to Trudeau's COVID-19 "updates" (specifically, about COVID-19 in Latin America). ~ CC