Episode 92: The Covid Coup with Angelo Codevilla

Episode 92 • August 26, 2020 • 00:47:35
Episode 92: The Covid Coup with Angelo Codevilla
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Episode 92: The Covid Coup with Angelo Codevilla

Aug 26 2020 | 00:47:35

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Show Notes

"From early March 2020 on, the best-known authorities on epidemics—the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control— have presented the COVID-19 respiratory disease to the Western world as a danger equivalent to the plague.

But China's experience, which its government obfuscated, had already shown that the COVID-19 virus is much less like the plague and more like the flu.

All that has happened since followed from falsifying this basic truth."

So writes my guest Angelo Codevilla, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute and professor emeritus of International Relations at Boston University and author of The Covid Coup (hyperlink this).

He continues:

"What history will record as the great COVID scam of 2020 is based on:

1) a set of untruths and baseless assertions—often outright lies—about the novel coronavirus and its effects;

2) the production and maintenance of physical fear through a near-monopoly of communications to forestall challenges to the U.S.. ruling class, led by the Democratic Party,

3) defaulted opposition on the part of most Republicans, thus confirming their status as the ruling class's junior partner.

No default has been greater than that of America's Christian churches—supposedly society's guardians of truth."

But despite the enormous human, social and economic costs imposed by locking down the country, more than 44 percent of Americans are in favor of shutting it down again. (Epoch Times' national survey of likely voters conducted by Big Data Poll.)

And almost 2/3 of Democrats (63.2 percent) support a nationwide shutdown.

Something has to give.

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