Posts by Jeff Berwick

Citizens, taxpayers, serfs… There is a new virus in our proud state.  More than 99.9% of you will survive.  Those who realize you’re sick will have mild symptoms, and 80% of you won’t even know you had it.  Even among those who are 90-years old or older who get this virus, 90% will survive.  Like…

In the 1800s Catholic philosopher Orestes Brownson once claimed that Satan’s “favorite guise in modern times is that of philanthropy”. He wrote that, during the French Revolution, it was “under the influence of philanthropy [that] Europe became one vast slaughterhouse; kings and nobles, bishops, priests and nuns, old men and young women, were dragged to…

Trump has said that he now views himself as a wartime president: “We had the best economy we’ve ever had. And then, one day, you have to close it down in order to defeat this enemy (Covid-19).” Ok, let’s assume it is war – but it’s a civil war being fought AGAINST the citizens of…

If you only do one thing today, read this: Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Recently, the Center for Health Security has received…