If you’ve ever seen pictures of a Chinese festival you no doubt recall those huge dragons which can snake for several blocks as they wind through city streets. A closer look reveals hundreds of human feet underneath which propel the paper dragon along its course. (Sure, I know it’s really silk but we live in “virtual” times.) The people belonging to those feet remain hidden and anonymous so that all the spectators and frightened children see only see the dragon’s ferocious features.

The world today is being treated to another kind of paper dragon in the form of a coronavirus pandemic. This dragon is being contorted, manipulated, and directed by an unseen hoard of faceless bureaucrats and journalists whose sole aim seems to be capitalizing on the public’s fear and panic. Accompanying them is an administrative deep state which has by now become so entrenched that political leaders unquestioningly impose whatever draconian measures these mysterious figures may demand. It seems utterly surreal to watch formerly free societies buckle under their arbitrary, and often harmful, diktats like a bunch of new recruits in boot camp. Somehow I must have blinked when we adopted the North Korean rule of law but here we are, six months into a global boot camp with no end in sight.

Like the paper dragon, we the people have no idea who or what is driving this slithery thing. Orders come from on high out of some mysterious ether called the “administrative state.” The ultimate goal seems to be the total and absolute regimintation of society, accomplished through a three pronged approach designed to break any resistance: Misinformation, Intimidation, and Censorship. (If this sounds vaguely like something from the Communist playbook you probably have an overstimulated imagination and need to be sent immediately to the nearest re-education camp.) Let’s quickly examine these three strategies.

1. Misinformation: This is demonstrably a treatable coronavirus. Doctors such as Vladimir Zelensky and Stella Immanuel have been successfully treating hundreds of Covid patients with hydroxychloroquine and zinc since March. In response the deep state paper dragon has branded such treatments as dangerous quackery and convinced state medical boards to ban physicians from prescribing the key drug (despite its 65 year track record of both efficacy and safety in treating malaria, lupus, and other diseases). Our own NIH has known since 2005, during the SARS coronavirus outbreak, that hydroxychloroquine works both to prevent and to heal early stage coronaviruses. That study is now the best kept secret since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
2. Intimidation. Threaten anyone who questions official protocols with fines, closure of businesses, investigation by medical boards, loss of jobs, public shaming, etc. These are all effective tools being used against various “heretics” and other people who insist on walking along beaches. Also tell people that they are going to die if they venture out of doors or attend a church service. Convince children that they will become potential killers if they visit grandpa or give grandma a big hug.
3.  Censorship. Drs. Daniel Erickson, James Todaro, Karol Sikora and many other prominent scientists and physicians have been regularly censored by social media platforms Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc. for having the temerity to point out pertinent inconvenient facts, such as that Austria completely reopened its society last April 14 with no negative consequences, or that shutdowns are causing “profound psychological damage” even as the virus is “getting tired” and showing promise that “the pandemic might burn itself out naturally.” Under the paternal hand of YouTube such “alarming and dangerous comments” are being shielded from the public eye. The same mode of censorship was applied on an informative press conference a week ago by a coalition of physicians calling themselves America’s Frontline Doctors: physicians who are actually treating patients instead of sitting behind a desk at the CDC or NIH.  As one doctor noted, “When was the last time Anthony Fauci pressed a stethyscope against a patient’s chest?

And who might be behind such an agenda of distorting and suppressing information? The traditional investigative tool has always been to follow the money, so let’s first consider “Big Pharma” as one possible suspect. This is an industry that spent some $18 billion on marketing back in 1997. By 2016 that amount had mushroomed to $30 billion annually according to Dr. James Todaro. Who wouldn’t expect, nay demand a healthy return on that kind of investment? This might just explain why a $6.50 hydroxychloroquine prescription might not excite the Big Pharma companies and their lackeys in both Congress and every statehouse in the nation. (Lobbyists for pharmaceuticals are by far the single biggest donors to the Washington swamp, spending double the amount that oil companies provide for lobbying efforts.) The thing about paper dragons is that they are not very transparent. The faces of all the real players remain conveniently hidden from public scrutiny. Meanwhile we are all being held captive to fear so that we will turn to these paladins of medical know how to save us with some brand new “super vaccine.”

Conveniently (for Big Pharma) our health officials have all but banned the off label use of hydroxychloroquine zinc compounds in the U.S. when many European countries have been using it to effectively treat symptoms of the coronavirus. Americans are saddled with a pharmaceutical industry which buys billions of dollars worth of television advertising. That industry is just salivating to sell tens of billions of dollars worth of new, untested, and in many cases worthless, vaccines so a $6.50 prescription drug that would cure the same problem presents a systemic threat to their anticipated profits.

Vaccines are a very questionable panacea, not a cure. In one area at least they have been proven to be effective ─ the further transmission of diseases. In fact the great Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-19 first broke out among vaccinated American soldiers, then spread quickly from there as they were sent overseas to fight in the war. A recent Pentagon study showed that soldiers who had received a common flu shot late in 2019 were 36% more susceptible to the coronavirus than those soldiers who had not been vaccinated! I suggest you view Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “vaccine debate” with star Harvard Law School attorney Alan Dershowitz on YouTube. Those 60 minutes will educate you beyond anything you could ever imagine.

The problem is that the “science” being spouted on the evening TV news is about as worthless as the hyped up data on the number of coronavirus “cases” being reported. Those numbers are a function of massive testing, not of symptomatic illnesses which actually peaked some four months ago and have been declining precipitously ever since. But consider that in April a “case” was defined as someone showing symptoms who required medical intervention and tested positive. That definition was quietly revised downward in May by the CDC (which incidentally receives half of its funding directly from pharmaceutical companies) to include any positive test result, whether or not the person tested showed any symptoms, or even if the same person had been retested several times (four tests – four new cases). The fact is that well over 80% of persons testing positive are asymptomatic (also, according to Dr. Fauci, up to 50% of test results under given conditions will show false positives).