The COVID “Cure” Is More Deadly Than the Disease

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The COVID-19 “cure” is likely to cause millions of deaths from starvation. That’s the alarm that David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Program, has been sounding for the past month. A global famine is bearing down upon us, as a result of the worldwide implementation of lockdowns demanded by the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

“Hunger Pandemic,” Famines of “Biblical Proportions”
“In a worst-case scenario, we could be looking at famine in about three dozen countries,” Beasley has warned. There’s “a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself,” he states, averring that the world could face “multiple famines of biblical proportions within a few short months.”

“We can expect more global deaths due to secondary impacts of COVID-19 than the virus itself,” says Ian Bradbury, CEO of the Canada-based humanitarian organization 1st NAEF. Bradbury notes that the World Food Program “currently estimates that 265 million will be on the brink of starvation by the end of the year.” The shutdowns and lockdowns mandated by WHO, the CDC, and other “health authorities” have disrupted planting, harvesting, processing, and transportation of foodstuffs globally, with the deadliest effects falling on the world’s most vulnerable.

Making matters worse, the wealthier countries that have been providing a lifeline — in food, clothing, shelter, and medical supplies — to the poor countries are now themselves facing unprecedented economic challenges and are unlikely to provide the scale of help needed to avert mass starvation. Going beyond the immediate impact of starvation, there is the inevitable social and political destabilization that will follow, as political and tribal competitors jockey for power. It is a virtual certainty that banditry, riots, civil wars will increase.

U.S. Farmers Face Ruin, Consumers Face Scarcity, Sky-high Prices
The prospects for the average American may not be as dire as for the average African, but the U.S. food picture is far from pretty. With schools, cafeterias, and restaurants closed down and travel restrictions impeding harvests and transport of farm goods, U.S. farmers are being forced to dump billions of pounds of fruits, vegetables, grains, milk, and eggs, and to kill millions of chickens, cows, and pigs.

Americans may not face the same level of hunger that is befalling the developing regions of the world, but food availability and food prices will present challenges unlike anything seen in this country since the Great Depression. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, April saw the sharpest increase in grocery store prices in nearly 50 years.

Canceled, Delayed Surgeries and Medical Care Are Deadly
How many people have died due to the millions of surgeries, medical treatments, and doctors’ visits that have been canceled because of the CDC’s “emergency only” rules? No one knows, but there is a good likelihood that the death toll from the COVID restrictions on hospitals and healthcare providers is higher than that from the virus itself. Cancer, strokes, heart disease, diabetes, emphysema, pneumonia, kidney disease, and other conditions that bedevil the human body have not ceased simply because the WHO/CDC bureaucrats and politicians have decreed a COVID emergency.

“People are still having heart attacks, people are still having strokes,” Dr. Bruce Lowell, an internist in Great Neck, New York, told the New York Times. “I feel as if there is no awareness of anything other than Covid,” he said. Like many other physicians, Dr. Lowell has had patients die due to the Covid lockdowns. “I’m a primary care doctor,” Dr. Lowell said. “I’m totally hogtied trying to take care of people. It’s sad. It brings tears. We’re all on the front line.”

The British Daily Mail reported on April 28: “The coronavirus crisis in the UK could result in 18,000 more cancer deaths in the next year and a further 2 million general NHS operations have also been axed, it was revealed today…. Experts have warned indirect deaths from the pandemic — due to cancer, heart attack, mental health and more — will exceed that of the virus itself, which has killed at least 21,000 in the UK so far.”

The Royal College of Surgeons has warned that Britain’s National Health Service faces a backlog of two million non-coronavirus operations that will take ‘many years’ to clear. Of course, many of the cases will be “cleared” by the untimely deaths of patients who were denied service because of COVID restrictions.

Then too, what about pregnant mothers who need checkups and babies with potentially life-threatening conditions who should be seeing the pediatrician regularly? Tough! Those are not “essential” medical needs. Naturally, many of the avid supporters of COVID shutdowns for moms that want to keep and cherish their babies insist that shutdown exceptions must be made for moms that want to kill and dispose of their babies. Cancer and stroke treatment and well-baby care are not “essential.” But abortion is! See here and here.

Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Depression, Death
Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, notes in a column for the New York Post that a St. Louis Federal Reserve economist is predicting unemployment of 32 percent — worse than during the Great Depression.

“Job losses cause extreme suffering,” McCaughey writes. “Every 1 percent hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3 percent increase in drug-overdose deaths and a 0.99 percent increase in suicides, according to data from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet.”

She continues:

These are facts based on past experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32 percent, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Deaths of despair.

Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. Health economist Michael French from the University of Miami found a “significant association between job loss” and binge drinking and alcoholism.

The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing and drinking, however. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63 percent higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Now do the math: Layoff-related deaths could far outnumber the 60,400 coronavirus deaths predicted by University of Washington researchers.

The “cure” IS proving to be far more deadly than the disease. Thank you WHO. Thank you CDC. Thank you Dr. Fauci. Thank you Bill Gates. Thank you Nancy Pelosi. Thank you Fake News media.

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Senior editor William F. Jasper is an author/journalist/commentator/documentary producer with a well-earned reputation as one of America’s top investigative reporters, most renowned for his in-depth, years-long investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath. For more than three decades he served as an accredited correspondent at the United Nations in New York and at UN summits around the world.