This is the story of the early days of the outbreak in America. 54 days when Coronavirus was starting to spread. The mistakes that meant the virus spread undetected for weeks. And the scientists who tried to raise the alarm. While the government maintained everything was under control. This World: 54 Days II: America and the Pandemic, captions
Atlanta Centers for Disease Control: responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks – they began to hold phone meetings with the press. ibid.
‘Well, we pretty much shut it down coming from China …’ ibid. Trump
‘Because of all we’ve done the risk to the American people remains very low.’ ibid.
Delays in testing meant that the virus had spread undetected throughout February. ibid.
Now with Coronavirus the colour of my skin seems to be putting me at risk again? As a 55 year old back man I am three times more likely to die from Covid-19 than a white man of my age. I want to find out what’s driving this connection between my race and my health. Why is Covid Killing People of Colour? David Harewood reporting, BBC 2021
Covid-19 is just one part of a scandalous health inequality in Britain. ibid.
‘So there’s something specific about what happens to people of colour in societies like the US and the United Kingdom that’s not related to biology that makes them more at risk of dying of Covid-19 … Deprivation is bad for your health. ibid. expert
Racism and discrimination ... in the health outcomes of black people. ibid.
I am a dental nurse … I’ve been redeployed to work in a ward treating solely Covid-19 patients. There’s been no inductions or courses or mentor to shadow me. 2020: The Story of US, ITV 2021, woman, ITV 2021
The virus was a force that came from completely outside the systems of power. But it has come at a moment when many of the old certainties of this age are already cracking. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBCiplayer 2021
We are the heroes because we have exposed the scamdemic for what it is. Pandemic I 2020: The Shock of the New, evangelist, BBC 2021
As the crisis unfolds, it reveals what unites us and also what keeps us apart. ibid. caption
I still don’t think as a society we really get it still. ibid. doctor
A lot of the stuff we did in the early stages turned out to be wrong, some of the treatments we tried because we didn’t know. ibid.
Rio de Janeiro: Because of my history as an athlete if I were infected by the virus, I wouldn’t need to worry. At the very worst, it would be like a little flu. ibid. Brazilian president
I knew right off the bat that this was propagandism by the mainstream media … More people were dying in the planned parenthood abortion clinics than were ding of the virus. I have never worn a mask nor will I ever wear a mask. The mask doesn’t work. Neither does the social distancing work. Pandemic 2000 III: Brave New World, Tony Spell, convicted minister
By the start of 2020 Britain was deeply divided. We weren’t exactly seeing eye to eye. And then it happened. Contagion that would touch us all. But when disaster came how would we measure up to the greatest crisis of our lives? The Year Britain Stopped, Channel 4 2021
‘There was a slight bit of excitement in it though. It was something completely different in life. Something where we actually could all put our differences to the side for like a big cause, that we could actually do that. And a lot of us would have felt like that would have been impossible.’ ibid. dude
When the Covid vaccine was announced, it promised freedom from lockdowns, economic catastrophe and relatives dying. Who wouldn’t jump at that? Many, it turns out. A powerful movement is exploiting our fears, persuading some to believe the vaccine is designed to control or even kill us. The Anti-Vax Conspiracy, Channel 4 2021
The antivaxxers: one of the UK movement’s chief crusaders is Jeremy Corbin’s elder brother Piers. At the movement’s heart is the core belief that politicians and profit-hungry drug companies exaggerate the dangers of Coronavirus. Even that the pandemic is a lie. It can be a seductive message. In the height of the third lockdown, thousands of people gather closely to denounce the vaccine and rage against the rules. The Global antivax movement is bigger, more organised and better funded than ever before. ibid.
In the UK 90% of people are for vaccinations, far more than other countries. ibid.
In America one in three people say they don’t want to be vaccinated. ibid.
On January 1st Wuhan Police made an announcement: eight people were punished for spreading rumours about an unknown pneumonia. In the Same Breath, caption, Sky Documentaries 2021
People were dying on the streets. Posts like these were deleted from social media by government censors … The government was ordering hospital staff to keep it a secret. ibid. Chinese/American woman
This new coronavirus is not highly contagious. Li gang, director Wuhan Centre of Disease Prevention & Control 19th January 2020
Just like in Wuhan, America’s largest city went from hearing that the virus didn’t pose a threat to finding itself under lockdown. ibid.
Lockdown: Britain’s weapon against Covid-19. But was there another way to beat this disease? Should we have copied South Korea? Unlike here, they raced to get a mass testing programme in place. They tracked the contagion through social media and mass surveillance. And even though their strategy was tested to its limits, as the contagion spread through a religious cult, they still kept the death-toll low. The Country that Beat the Virus: What Can Britain Learn? Channel 4 2020
UK government accused of ‘chumocracy’ in handing out virus contracts. Bangkok Post online article 7 July 2021
What is more dangerous? This virus or the Democrats? Borat Subsequent MovieFilm 2020 starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Maria Bakalova & Dani Popescu & Tom Hanks & Manuel Vieru & Miroslav Tolj & Alin Popa & Ion Gheroghe & Nicolae Gheorghe et al, director Jason Woliner, Borat to rednecks
The world’s pandemic … Its origins remain a mystery. Is Covid-19 a biological weapon leaked from a Chinese lab? Or a natural pathogen that made the leap form bats to humans? Conspiracies Decoded s1e8, Discovery 2022
Right now Covid-19 is on the rise again. And we’re facing a new wave of the pandemic. After almost 200,000 Covid-related deaths there are still around 4 million adults in the UK who remain unvaccinated. I want to know why. Unvaccinated, BBC 2022
In England, men account for 60% of all [Covid-19] deaths. Are Women the Fitter Sex? Channel 4 2021
21st May 2019: Police called to Carrie Symond’s flat. This is England I, Sky Atlantic 2022
Dignity still matters in public life. And Johnson will never have it. ibid. Max Hastings
We want to hire an unusual set of people with different skills and backgrounds to work in Downing Street. ibid. Cummings
People right now are not that focussed on the virus, they’re still pretty pissed off by the floods. This is England I. Focus group online
2006: Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza: Glass & Beyeler et al. The Corbett Report: What No-One is Saying About the Lockdowns, James Corbett online 2020
Those advocating for lockdowns have seen the destruction and death those policies have wrought this year. And we are living through that right now. ibid.
Grinding poverty as a direct result of these lockdowns. ibid.
The more it does seem like a smoking gun … Players who are absolutely crucial to what is going on right now were involved in that exercise. The Corbett Report: Was There Foreknowledge of the Plandemic? 43.03. James Corbett online 2020
Coronavirus: US Senators face call to resign over ‘insider trading’. ibid. headline
The Staggering Collapse of US Intelligence on the Coronavirus. ibid. The American Conservative headline
The very program that was looking for supposedly, trying to identify these novel spreading coronavirus and other types of viral threats just was completely shut down … September 30th 2019. ibid.
Repo market was going haywire in September 2019. ibid.
The Federal Reserve is lying about coronavirus. ibid.
Scientists knew there was going to be an emergence. ibid.
December 2019 in Wuhan, central China: something strange was happening to the residents. People were suddenly falling ill. This mystery flu was in fact a new infection virus and one that threatening to spread rapidly. Esoteric Agenda 2, 1.33.33, 2020,
A bio-weapon … originally found in a meat market within five miles of the only bio-safety level 4 labrotory in China. ibid.
Fauci isn’t a stranger to the Wuhan virology lab, nor is George Soros, or Bill Gates. ibid.
‘5G was rolled out in Wuhan in the autumn of 2019.’ ibid.